Media Up Dates … for last week – Reminder on this Thursdays Power Outage, Flooding & RDCO Parks Caretaker Issue

I was at the SILGA Conference in Sun Peaks last week and missed some local events. I thought I would put them all together.

First off remember the Power Outage this coming Thursday from 6am till 6 pm. Here is the media account “Outage cuts North Westside power

North Westside flooding tackled Was in the Morning Star on Apr 25 with the Story on Flooding.

And again the next day with North Westside flooding continues

I thought that in an emergency with flooding and the fire department deployed to assist that I would at least get the news and a briefing from the Regional District but … it was the media and residents that alerted me as usual. Again I question the 100’s of thousands of tax dollars every year to this organization and they can’t even give me a call on the phone they issued me!

Then there is the RDCO Regional Parks Caretaker Issue, something we don’t general hear about due to the more Vernon oriented media market we exist in. Here is the Kelowna Media with some history. I find myself sympathetic to the Caretakers and a little offended that the Board is the goat here and this was actually determined by the CAO his staff and the Board Chair to be strictly operational and therefore not the Boards or it seems the residents business. Just like the power pole on Killiney Beach, strictly operational. Not my kind of government.

These are all I could find from the Kelowna Capital News on the RDCO Regional Parks Caretaker Issue:

Central Okanagan regional parks to lose live-in caretakers Sep 20, 2016

Residents call on Central Okanagan regional district to keep park caretakers Oct 4, 2016

Advocates for Kelowna’s park caretakers to host community event Oct 20, 2016

Central Okanagan park caretakers are seeing the end to a way of life Nov 4, 2016

Letter: Precious parks need 24-hour caretaking Nov 18, 2016

Dishing up political conversation to keep park caretakers Feb 2, 2017

Last ditch effort to save park caretakers Apr 21, 2017

Facebook readers respond on park caretakers Apr 27th, 2017

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