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Increased bus costs put towns on alert Cache Creek has written to its BC Transit partners, Ashcroft and Clinton, telling them that it will drop out of the service at the end of 2012 unless more funding partners can be found. Council made the decision at its May 14 meeting after finding out that replacements for the two buses will double the cost of the service, which is already approximately $15,000 annually. When the service began in 2008, it was to cost each of the three municipalities just under $10,000 per year. “It’s not slamming the door shut,” said Councillor Wyatt McMurray, “it’s highlighting the need to find other funding partners or getting the government to step up to the plate.” Ashcroft, as well, has been considering whether the service is worth more money. Ashcroft Coun. Helen Kormendy told Council at its last meeting that she and Coun. Jackie Tegart would be meeting with Ashcroft stakeholders “to find out what they want, keeping in mind that costs are going up.” Last week they met with local service providers who told them the bus service was crucial for their clients, but that there was still much confusion about the bus schedule.
A day of arts and entertainment (Above) Jasmine Anderson ponders one of the Plein Air paintings last week - the trappers cabin in Heritage Place Park by Robert Bambrick of Barriere, (Below Right) Guarangi Benner and friends entertained themselves with hoola hoops before the Music in the Park began. (Left) Winners of the cash prizes: artists Desire Bond and John H. Burrow. For more on the Plein Air, see p. 4 and p. 6.
AIB membership list ordered revised Ashcroft Indian Band’s June 8 election has been put on hold after a federal judged ordered Chief and Council to review and revise the membership list and process in the next six months. On May 16, Justice Richard Mosley found that the Band had not followed proper procedures to maintain the membership list, and that the Dept. if Indian and Northern Affairs Canada refused to stop the 2010 elections even though it knew about the problem.
Band member Ray Cameron, who initiated the legal action against Chief and Council and INAC, said Chief Greg Blain will have to remove his own name from the membership list, and he will be looking into criminal charges against Chief and Council from issues affected by the problematic list. Blain was not available for comment, and phones rang unanswered Friday afternoon at the AIB Band office.
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