Photo Gallery - Fall - Debbie

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Coldstream Media Release - Natural Gas Leak updatet

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Coldstream Media Release - Natural Gas Leak update

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Coldstream Media Release - Natural Gas Leak

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Gas leak in Lavington

There is a fairly significant gas leak in Lavington that will result in the highway being closed, traffic being re-directed and residents being evacuated.  A reception center will be established at the WI Hall shortly. 

For further information contact the Municipal Hall at 245 545-5304

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Landrieu's Keystone XL Hail Mary Falls Short

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WASHINGTON – After six days of political wrangling and vote-whipping, the Senate failed to pass a bill on Tuesday forcing authorization of the Keystone XL pipeline, dashing hopes of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) to add the vote to her list of accomplishments heading into a tough runoff election.

Fifty-nine senators voted for the bill, one short of the 60 needed to clear a filibuster. Fourteen Democrats joined all the Senate Republicans in voting for the bill, which was cosponsored by Landrieu and John Hoeven (R-N.D.). The House passed companion legislation on Friday from Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Landrieu's opponent in the runoff election.

Landrieu said going into Tuesday's debate that it was "one of the first debates I've been in in eight years where the outcome is uncertain." She added, however, that she went into the debate "knowing in my heart we have 60 votes. I hope we've got the courage that supports that."(more)

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Morning Star Newsclips - The Eagle's comments!

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Thank You, Coldstream Electors!

Thank you for the trust you extended to me by allowing to serve you for another term! I will do my utmost to justify your trust but I will need your help. We'll have a lot of work to do to develop a Master Water Plan that will be a long term investment instead of a band aid short term solution.

Here is the preliminary  press release on the referendum results:

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Unofficial 2014 Coldstream Election and Referendum Results

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News clip from the Morning Star - November 14, 2014.

 

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Advace poll results to date - District of Coldstream.

There were 130 voters at today’s advance poll.

November 5th –   188
November 12th – 219
November 13th - 130

TOTAL                  537

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Water focus of session.

by  Staff Writer - Vernon Morning Star
posted Nov 12, 2014 at 1:00 AM

There’s one more chance to find out details for a multi-million-dollar water plan in Greater Vernon.

The Regional District of North Okanagan will hold a public session Thursday at 5-7 p.m. at the Schubert Centre.

“This will provide information on the borrowing referendum and the master water plan priority projects,” said Zee Marcolin, Greater Vernon Water manager.

The lead consultant of the master water plan and Greater Vernon Water staff will provide an information presentation starting at 5:30 p.m., followed by a question and answer session.

On Saturday, residents will be asked if they support borrowing up to $70 million for six projects outlined in the master water plan.

For more information, go to www.rdno.ca/water.

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This is the last opportunity for residents to listen to the sales pitch by the consultant, staff and Director Macnabb for the support of the $70 million MWP referendum.

Just for additional information: Director Macnabb is unbiased as he is not connected to the Greater Vernon Water utility so he is not subject to paying the costs. He is just asking the rest of us to pay!

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Advace poll results to date - District of Coldstream.

There were 219 voters at today’s advance poll.
November 5th – 188
Total advance voting to date is 407.

Tomorrow, Thursday is the last advance voting day, followed by General Voting on Saturday. Voting is from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM each day.

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Attention Coldstream Residents: Advance voting today and tomorrow (November 12 & 13)

November 12, 2014    8:00 am to 8:00 pm Advance voting at Coldstream Municipal Hall, 9901 Kalamalka Road


November 13, 2014    8:00 am to 8:00 pm Advance voting at Coldstream Municipal Hall, 9901 Kalamalka Road

General Election and Water Referendum for $70 million.

Exercise your right to vote!

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Final Coldstream Council Meeting before the Election

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Councillor Besso's water presentation at the College

Also available is my Power Point presentation following that of Maria's. It can be accessed as a PDF version as well.

PPP:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Oebqfj6X-LN0F2ek9WbUtrVzQ/view

or

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Oebqfj6X-LOGxsektrUjNDeWc/view?usp=sharing

Comparing GVWU and Kelowna water rates.

In addition to the consumption rates shown above Kelowna residential water customers pay a parcel tax of $50 and a base fee of $141.60 annually.

A customer using 175 cubic meter per year (GVWU's average consumption figure) equally distributed at 43.75 cubic meters per quarter pays an annual water bill of  $262 per year in Kelowna.

For the same consumption GVWU charges $580 per year. The GVWU customer pays 220% more.

GVWU's annual cost for the same volume of water is expected to rise to $754 ($4.30 per cubic meter) during the next 5 years if there are no other increases in costs such as annual cost of living increases. Those additional costs would add to the annual rate increases.

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Election 2014: Coldstream candidates gather

• by  Staff Writer - Vernon Morning Star
• posted Nov 5, 2014 at 1:00 AM

The Coldstream Ratepayers’ Association is giving residents an opportunity to get to know their candidates prior to the election.

There will be an informal gathering at the Women’s Institute Hall Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Candidates will each say a few words about themselves and their priorities for Coldstream in the upcoming term, followed by a limited question/answer period.

Afterwards, refreshments will be available and the audience will have a chance to mingle and meet the candidates.

There are seven candidates, each seeking one of the six seats on council.

The candidates are newcomer Shane Hillman, former councillor Glen Taylor and incumbents Pat Cochrane, Doug Dirk, Richard Enns, Gyula Kiss and Peter McClean.

Mayor Jim Garlick has been acclaimed.

This is the final forum for Coldstream candidates prior to the Nov. 15 election.

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Note: today (Wednesday) is the first Advance Poll at the Coldstream Municipal Office!

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Reminder - Notice to water customers!

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 This Information Bulletin must have used George Orwell's novel: 1984 as the model for information dissemination.

To my knowledge there was life and there were Master Water Plan projects prior to 2012. Otherwise it would be hard explain the expenditure of $66 million from 2002 to today. 

It is relatively easy to justify the current plan if we ignore the past 11 years. However, in 2002 a different team of the three privet engineering firms presented an entirely different approach, in my opinion significantly less expensive and more sensible than the current proposal that the staff and politicians of the time embraced wholeheartedly. Yet there is no reference to it by the author of the Bulletin. In fact, staff keeps referring to this plan as Phase 1 yet we have all sorts of infrastructure components that were constructed using money from the previous Phase 1.

While there are many developments that may resemble the world of 1984 we should try to be more respectful of our current taxpayers when it comes to accurate presentation of facts.

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Godfrey Bloom's speech at the European Parliament.

From Wikipedia:

Godfrey William Bloom TD (born 22 November 1949) is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2004 to 2014. He was elected for the UK Independence Party in the European elections of 2004 and 2009, representing UKIP until September 2013, when UKIP withdrew the party whip from him. He then sat as an Independent until the end of his term of office in May 2014. Bloom subsequently rescinded his UKIP party membership on 13 October 2014.^[4]

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Coldstream Finance Committee Meeting

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All-candidates' forum for Coldstream Candidates

The Coldstream council candidates will be the focus of a forum at the Greater Vernon Performing Arts Centre tonight.

It starts at 7 pm. 

There is no mayor's race in Coldstream with Jim Garlick acclaimed to a new four year term, but there are seven candidates running for the six council positions.

Meantime, a forum for the Vernon and Coldstream school trustee candidates will be held next Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 pm in the Vernon Secondary School Theatre.

It's being put on by the Vernon Teachers Association and the District Parent Advisory Council

Lisa LaBoucane, First Vice President from the VTA, says the forum will provide the opportunity for the candidates to share their priorities and positions on issues facing Vernon and Coldstream schools.

It will also give the public the chance to ask questions of the candidates through a moderator.

"Change starts at the ballot box," says LaBoucane. "If parents, teachers, and informed citizens and their families vote, we can have a significant impact on our schools and our community."

The two Lumby area trustees on the District 22 board were acclaimed.

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Notice to water customers!

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Winter hours at Recycling and Disposal facilities

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The Russians Prove Small Scale Organic CAN Feed the World

 by Christina Sarich
May 29th, 2013
Updated 05/07/2014

If you’ve already been through an economic collapse, you might know a thing or two about how to feed your family with little money. More importantly, you might know how to do it without pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and GMO seed. On a total of about 20 million acres managed by over 35 million Russian families, Russians are carrying on an old-world technique, which we Americans might learn from. They are growing their own organic crops - and it’s working.

According to some statistics, they grow 92% of the entire countries’ potatoes, 77% of its vegetables, 87% of its fruit, and feed 71% of the entire population from privately owned, organic farms or house gardens all across the country. These aren’t huge Agro-farms run by pharmaceutical companies; these are small family farms and less-than-an-acre gardens.

A recent report from Agro-ecology and the Right to Food says that organic and sustainable small-scale farming could double food production in the parts of the world where hunger is the biggest issue. Within five to 10 years we could see a big jump in crop cultivation. It could also take the teeth out of GMO business in the US. Read more: Small scale organic

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