Eagle Valley News, October 03, 2012

EAGLE VALLEY

NEWS

Western legends returning to Red Barn Arts Centre Page 6

Eagles maintain winning streak with 6-1 victory Page 8

Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 PM40008236

Vol. 53 No. 40 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (HST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com

Aww shucks: Courtney Wilby and Angela Foster race to peel their cobs of corn during Parkview Elementary’s Terry Fox Run/Corn Husking Relay event held Thursday. Principal Joan Chafe challenged students to raise $400 for the Terry Fox Foundation, or else she would kiss a cow. The students were successful, and Chafe had a date with one of the Dewitt’s holsteins this morning at the school. Photo by Lachlan Labere

Premier committed to fixing Sicamous’ water supply UBCM: Council lobbies B.C. ministers for support of proposed $4.5 million treatment facility. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News

Christy Clark has given her word that the province will help fix Sicamous’ water supply. The premier, in her speech last Friday to some 1,500 delegates attending this year’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, assured the District of Sicamous and Mayor Darrell Trouton that the province would help set right the damage caused to the community’s water system in this year’s flooding. “Darrell Trouton, who I met with recently when I was up to visit, has been dealing with some very challenging floods in his community, and now his water supply is under threat. Darrell, I want you to know this, because Bill (Bennett, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development) has asked me to make sure we set this right. I know

you need that watreatment facilter supply fixed, ity that’s needed and we are going in Sicamous, to help you do it,” because it was It’s a matter of sitting down said Clark. wiped out during and figuring out how much the Trouton, counthe flood and we district would have to come up cillors Charlotte haven’t had water with, if any, and then how fast Hutchinson, Fred since,” says Trouwe can get started. Busch, Don Richton, referring to a Darrell Trouton ardson and Joan new water treatMayor, District of Sicamous Thomson, as well ment facility beas district ading sought by the ministrator Heidi district, expected Frank, attended UBCM with a “hit list” of to cost between $4- and $4.5-million. “The concerns they’d hoped to have addressed by plan was to get a shelf-ready plan available the province. At the top of that list was the and presented, so we did that this week at district’s water treatment facility, which was UBCM, and lobbied hard with different minseverely compromised as a result of the June isters, George Abbott, our MLA, and also 23 debris flow at Two Mile Creek. with Bill Bennett and various staff about “We proposed to them our new water our situation in Sicamous. We were quite

surprised she made a speech that Sicamous would be getting a water treatment facility – they’ll make it right.” Apart from Clark’s speech, and what the district presented, there are no further details as to what’s going to happen. But Trouton thinks Sicamous’ water needs will be met by the province sooner than later. “It’s a matter of sitting down and figuring out how much the district would have to come up with, if any, and then how fast we can get started,” says Trouton. “But I alluded to them that it needed to start immediately because of winter coming, and we’re trucking water right now. So they’re aware of all that. They’re also aware of our district finances.” Regarding funding, it is the mayor’s hope See Mayor hopes on page 2