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November 19, 2020 the Valley Voice 1 November 19, 2020 The Valley Voice 1 Volume 29, Number 23 November 19, 2020 Delivered to every home between Edgewood, Kaslo & South Slocan. Published bi-weekly. Your independently owned regional community newspaper serving the Arrow Lakes, Slocan & North Kootenay Lake Valleys. Village of Slocan takes strategic approach to old mill site by Barbara Curry Mulcahy staff to take three actions: to work with Community Plan bylaw calls for the land waterfront development within the will be determined how the land can Now that the $1.5 million sale the consultant to draft a subdivision to be redeveloped for non-industrial use. foreshore and riparian areas. be developed. Council agreed to waive of the former mill site to the Village plan where non-contaminated areas The goal is to ultimately designate the Staff were directed to prepare an subdivision and rezone fees for these of Slocan has closed, the Village has and contaminated areas of the mill land as a ‘special development zone.’ amendment to the zoning and Official changes. started preparing the way for long-term site would be in separate parcels; to This would allow future redevelopment Community Plan bylaws. CAO Michelle Council scheduled a special meeting redevelopment of the property. At investigate ways to rezone the property to include a combination of residential, Gordon said this amendment would on Thursday, November 19 at 4 pm Slocan’s November 9 council meeting, so that future development would not park, and possible limited commercial remove the site’s designation as a mill to consider these amendments. CAO details from in camera meetings held be restricted; and to procure a survey and/ or non-industrial land uses. A zone and would “start the rezoning Gordon said a lot more information October 13 and 19 were made public. estimate for the mill site, based on the public planning process and rezoning process.” The northern portion would on the amendments and future plans On October 13, council passed proposed subdivision plan provided application would be required prior be rezoned as ‘parks.’ The bulk of will be made available at the meeting. a resolution to advise the Minister of by the environmental consultant. The to designating the site a special the mill site would be designated as a During public participation at the Environment and Climate Change estimate will be considered during 2021 development zone. ‘special waterfront development area.’ November 9 council meeting, Mayor Strategy that the Village wishes to opt budget deliberations. In the meantime, council plans CAO Gordon said the new designation Lunn invited people interested in the out of administering the provincial The mill site is currently zoned to rezone the northern portion of the “will not have any use attached to it.” mill site redevelopment to attend this contaminated sites site profile system. ‘mill industrial.’ The Village’s Official site as ‘parks’ to accommodate future After the public planning process, it special meeting. Mayor Jessica Lunn emphasized that opting out does not reduce the Village’s responsibilities. The Village will still be obliged under the Contaminated Sites Regulation to follow all regulations for remediation and restoration. Lunn said that opting out “allows the Village to take a strategic approach… Areas of the site are less contaminated or not contaminated.” Without opting out, the whole site is “frozen” until every part is remediated. Opting out will allow the Village to take actions on cleaner areas of the site without being held up by the remediation of the contaminated areas. Mayor Lunn said that the Village acted quickly as there was “a short window to move on this.” Regulations are changing and the opt-out option for local governments will be eliminated on February 1, 2021. Forty-three other local governments in BC have already opted out of the site profile system. On October 19, council met with its environmental consultant and directed John Drebet is presented with his 75th year service pin for Branch 20, Royal Canadian legion by Harvey Truax, President. Mr, Drebet, 94, was born at Summit lake. He is the oldest remaining WW II Veteran in Nakusp. 100% Locally Owned & Operated 2 NEWS The Valley Voice November 19, 2020 Mail-in votes make little difference to BC election results by Jan McMurray West Vancouver - Sea to Sky tallied votes cast in Nelson-Creston out of two independent candidates were has 28 seats (33.77% of the popular The mail-in votes have been 9,216 votes for the Liberals and 29,389 registered voters – a turnout Ed Varney with 224 votes (1.24%) vote) and the Green Party two seats counted, and the final count for 9,175 votes for the Greens, with the of 59%. Provincially, voter turnout and Fletcher Quince with 189 votes (15.08% of the popular vote), but BC’s 2020 election was announced NDP candidate trailing behind with was 54%. (1.07%). Voter turnout was slightly that could change depending on the November 8. The end result was 6,174 votes. In Kootenay West, NDP incumbent less than the provincial average in judicial recount in the West Vancouver much the same as announced on It was close in Nelson-Creston on Katrine Conroy’s landslide win got Kootenay West this election at 53% - Sea to Sky riding. The Libertarian election night. election night, but in the final count, even bigger in the final count. She (provincial average was 54%) – with Party received 8,360 votes (0.44%) The record number of mail-in the NDP’s Brittny Anderson pulled garnered 61.15% of the vote (10,822 17,697 votes cast out of 33,192 province-wide, and all others (BC ballots – approximately 595,000, ahead with 1,685 more votes than votes). Trailing way behind was the registered voters. Vision, Christian Heritage Party according to Elections BC – made the Green Party’s Nicole Charlwood. Green Party’s Andrew Duncan with In the 2020 BC election, John of BC, Communist Party of BC, only one major difference, in the West Anderson garnered 7,296 votes 3,040 votes (17.18%). Corbin Kelly, Horgan and the BC NDP handily Conservative, Rural BC Party, Wexit Vancouver - Sea to Sky riding. On (41.78%) and Charlwood received Liberal, got 1,975 votes (11.16%) and won their majority with 57 members BC, independent candidates and election night, the seat was declared 5,611 (32.13%). Liberal candidate Glen Byle, Conservative candidate, elected and 47.70% of the popular candidates with no ballot affiliation) Green but in the final count, it went Tanya Finley came third with 4,171 received 1,447 votes (8.18%). The vote. The BC Liberal Party currently received 56,592 votes or 3%. Liberal by 41 votes. The race was so votes (23.89%). Terry Tiessen, close that there will be an automatic Libertarian Party candidate got 384 Nakusp caribou pen gets provisional go-ahead from Province judicial recount. The final count in votes (2.20%). There were 17,462 by John Boivin, Local Journalism “We hope that support increases to pay for operating the pen starting next Initiative reporter over time as we get started on the spring. The Arrow Lakes Caribou Society project and results can be seen,” says The first caribou will be captured in (ALCS) has been given the green light to Watt. “I think we are developing a good late March or early April of 2021 subject proceed with its project to build a birthing working relationship with government to good conditions, Watt says. They’ll pen for an endangered local caribou herd. and others.” give birth and will reside in the pen until “The Province has decided to A crew is now working on getting the mid-July, when they will be released. conditionally support the project,” says pen built before winter sets in, and Watt The project was launched after a ALCS head Hugh Watt. “To gain full says it is about 75% complete. ALCS is well-attended community meeting about support we have a few criteria to satisfy also now applying for operational grants the herd in 2019. – including completing our full project plan, First Nations consultation, and pen construction in order to get Wildlife Act permits to operate.” The project will see about nine females taken from the near-extinct Nakusp herd of the Central Selkirk sub-population. They’ll be captured next spring, taken to the enclosure on a bench above the Nakusp hot springs, and kept safe there to give birth and raise their young. Watt says the Province will pay for some of the construction costs, and will support the project with staff time and expertise. The provincial endorsement will also help with grant writing for the effort, which is expected to cost up to $300,000 a year to operate. Arrow Lakes Caribou Society volunteers are building a caribou maternity pen on the bench above Hot Springs Road. November 19, 2020 The Valley Voice NEWS 3 Public consulted as 100% renewable energy plan enters next phase by John Boivin, Local Journalism economic resiliency to climate fruit that’s on the ground, and and where we are at, and without the project runs out in December. Initiative reporter change. picking that low-hanging fruit, that, this [plan] has very little “We’ll be presenting our plan Residents of the West Kootenay “The more we can accelerate while thinking about the ladders meaning in our communities.” back to local government, with have had their chance to weigh our transition to 100% renewable we need to build to get to the fruit She asked the planners to look tweaks and customizations we in on plans to make their local energy, the safer our communities at the top.” at the reality on the ground and the heard from community members, governments a lot greener in the will be in the long term,” co- The greenhouse gas savings kind of challenges real people face.
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