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Volume 66, No. 23
Thursday, June 5, 2014
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Council updated on water, power issues BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
Creston town council got the Columbia Basin royal treatment on May 27 when a travelling roadshow arrived to deliver an annual update on water and power issues that affect local communities. Representatives from BC Hydro, Fortis BC, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US Fish and Wildlife Service crowded into the gallery to deliver an operational update on anticipated water levels and other topics to council and other local officials. While water levels remain above average, forecasts indicate that the Kootenay River and dams will be high, but floods are not predicted. Weather forecasts being what they are, one presenter noted, anything is possible. Snow packs are also above average in the Kootenays, but in other areas of the Columbia Basin in the U.S., they are low to very low. See COUNCIL, page 3
(From left) Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall, NDP leader John Horgan and Randy Meyer at Meyer’s Lister farm on Sunday.
NDP leader wants to renew interest BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
New provincial NDP Leader John Horgan admits there is a sense of “profound disap-
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pointment about the election” among New Democratic Party supporters. “But that’s in the past,” he said on Sunday during a visit to R&S Meyer Farms in Lister. Horgan is on a mission to talk to indi-
Footlighters wins theatre competition Page 8
Darius Plessis, Erickson Elementary School
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viduals and small groups about their political concerns and to deliver his own message. See HORGAN, page 5
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