Sunday, January 27, 2008

Articles of interest -- Morning Star, January 27, 2008.











Click on these articles from the Morning Star and enjoy them. Note the problems facing our politicians: increasing taxes and more wishes for facilities.

They reduce the size of some sport facilities, at the same time they want new ones (bike skill park, college site).

They are trying to convince our citizens to take advantage of public transportation and at the same time making it more difficult to access it.

Coldstream and NORD appear to be in competition
as to who can increase taxes higher. So far Coldstream is the clear winner.

Perhaps the most interesting fact is that the "less important" issue (water treatment for most of Coldstream and the residents of NORD) is getting further and further away. I wonder how much extra
the new Duteau Creek treatment plant will cost with the additional cost of environmental assessment and time delay! Our "experts" should have been aware of this environmental study long before now but they ignored it.

Remember the rhetoric: "The risk of a waterborne-illness outbreak is a serious one...." (click on article on right)? To date the only improvement realized is in the City of Vernon yet we all have been paying higher and higher rates for water since 2002. I guess our politicians recognize what is important and what can be put on the back-burners.

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I have been a resident of Coldstream since 1976. I have had 15 years of experience on Council, 3 years as Mayor. As a current Councillor I am working to achieve fair water and sewer rates and to ensure that taxpayers get fair treatment. The current direction regarding water supply is unsustainable and I am doing all I can to get the most cost effective water supply possible.