Hey Area A! Let's help Area C/Black Creek win a $100,000 playground for kids! They are currently sitting second in a Provincial contest. All you need to do is click on the below and vote, and maybe share....let's do it! www.bcaaplayhere.com/
With your help, great play spaces can pop up anywhere!
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Help make BC a better place to play. Vote for a play space and it could win a revitalization worth up to $100,000.As we all know, we have a very dry spring and summer so far. The Province has declared level 3 drought conditions this week for our area (last year level 3 was reached in late July). So try to conserve water and be fire-conscious ~ governmentofbc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=838d533d8062411c820eef50b08f7ebc
British Columbia Drought Information Portal
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A geographic drought level information system for the Province of British Columbia.The Comox Valley, like many other places, has started to put in regulations to limit single-use plastics. This article does a good job of describing the dilemma of moving off plastics nation-wide: vancouversun.com/news/local-news/we-hate-single-use-plastics-but-dont-want-to-pay-for-compostable...
We hate single-use plastics but don't want to pay for compostable packaging
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More than 65 per cent of British Columbians actively seek non-plastic packaging, the highest in Canada.
I'm so down with a ban on single-use plastics - the stuff should be illegal. I purchased expensive "backyard compostable" cups for my market chai. They cost $.50 more than the standard plastic-lined paper cups, so now chai costs $.50 more, unless you bring your own cup. I take hot water and soap to market so that people can wash their travel mugs, if they need to. We eat out of dishes we wash ourselves every day - I think the fears around reusable dishes are strange. Less litigiousness, more common sense, please. I did like the take-out approach of Islabd Sodaworks in Qualicum Beach (highly recommended). They gave me my meal in a pyrex glass dish with lid, and metal cutlery, and charged me a $10 deposit. Great!
This will be welcomed support for oysters growers from the Province: www.mycomoxvalleynow.com/55264/province-helping-oyster-farmers-keep-shucking/
Province helping oyster farmers keep shucking
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VICTORIA, B.C. – The province is giving B.C. oyster growers a financial ‘shuck’ in the arm. The B.C. government announ...
While I welcome this support for the farmers, I also wish they would address the industry's plastics pollution problem.
Why not address all the plastic garbage (trays, floats, etc.) that we pick up off the beach from them. If that was from me I would receive a hefty fine.
Pipeline and climate politics was ever present at the FCM Conference this weekend. With all federal leaders here, our Alberta colleagues donned “Supporting Canadian Energy” t-shirts - which set the tone for great conversations. 8 elected Comox Valley officials, including I, took part in founding a national municipal climate caucus, where we exchanged on the best municipal initiatives for green energy and public infrastructure planning. A resolution was later passed for the federal government to help all communities invest to move transit systems to electric across the nation.
Go team Comox Valley! Wish I could have been there. Good work!
Go team Comox Valley! Wish I could have been there. Good work!
Let’s make Hornby at the forefront of this electrifying movement