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November 30, 2012 The Columbia Valley Pioneer • 3
Valley NeWS
Jumbo Glacier governance taking shape
By Greg Amos, Pioneer Staff
With a new municipality set to launch in the
mountains 55 kilometres west of Invermere in less
than three months, a flurry of planning activity is now
underway across the valley.
The 15-member Regional District of east Kootenay
board is preparing to welcome a sixteenth, non-voting
member early next year: the Jumbo Glacier mountain
resort municipality, which itself is holding an incorporation
and first council meeting on February 19th, 2013.
“We are actually meeting staff-to-staff this afternoon
with the interim corporate officer of Jumbo,” regional district
chief administrative officer lee-ann Crane told The
Pioneer on November 28th. “It is the same with any municipality;
it takes time to figure out the technical details.”
a copy of the letters patent — the paperwork behind
Invermere Thrift Shop targeted twice by thieves
By Kristian Rasmussen
Pioneer Staff
A beacon of charity and goodwill in the Invermere
community has found itself victim of dual acts of theft
and vandalism within a 10 day period.
Workers at the Invermere Health Care Auxiliary
Thrift Shop arrived on the morning of Thursday,
November 22nd to find two large holes cut into the
chain link fence at the rear loading dock of the building.
Bags of clothing were torn into with items scattered on
the ground. Three young adults were filmed in the act
by the store’s surveillance camera.
“I get so frustrated,” said Evelyn Baertschi, Thrift
Shop vice president. “It is more damage than anything
else. It could be another $2,000 to fix the fence and the
camera because I don’t know if it has been damaged.”
Opening
Dec 14
180cm total snowfall
80cm summit base
the provincial order-in-council that created the Jumbo
Glacier municipality — obtained by The Pioneer lays out
the details of how the new municipality will be set up.
The Jumbo Glacier regional district board
member could be any one of appointed Jumbo mayor
Greg Deck, or councillors Steve Ostrander and Nancy
Huganin. That board member will gain a vote at the
regional table either on January 1, 2017, or on the first
day of the year after the new municipality’s property
assessment roll reaches a value of $30 million.
The area of the municipality consists of 6,131 hectares
(61 square kilometres), with the ski resort’s value
pegged at anywhere between $400 and $900 million
once fully built.
The municipality is launching with $200,000 from
the province to assist with the setup and organization
of the local government, as well as $60,000 to fund
Ripping apart the rear fence was the second
of two acts of theft and vandalism at the facility.
On the morning of Tuesday, November 13th,
volunteers were greeted by a mess of donation
clothing bags torn into with donated items spread everywhere
around the drop off site at the rear parking lot
behind the building.
“I was surprised and not surprised,” said Debi
Nichol, a Thrift Shop volunteer. “We have been vandalized
before, but not to this extent.”
Volunteers at the Invermere Health Care Thrift
Shop have donated over 10,000 hours of their personal
time to raise money for equipment to improve
patient care at the Invermere and District Hospital,
added Jo Anne Myers in a letter to The Pioneer.
“There is no reason for this vandalism and theft
to occur. We need the public’s help to stop this.”
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the salary of interim corporate officer Phil Taylor. The
municipality won’t initially be allowed any long term or
capital borrowing that would require elector approval,
such as an alternative approval process or a referendum.
like all other towns and cities in B.C., Jumbo
Glacier will be required to have an official community
plan (OCP) – but unlike other municipalities, the
Jumbo Glacier master development agreement will take
precedence over the community plan. The letters patent
dictate the plan must be in place by February 28, 2015.
Three advisory councils will be set up for the
municipality: a resort advisory council, an environmental
advisory body, and a First Nations advisory body
including a member of the Shuswap Indian Band or
the Ktunaxa Nation. all the advisory bodies must be in
place by June 18, 2013, and stay in place until the first
election, or until 15 years after the date of incorporation.
BRAZEN BANDITS — Pictured, left, a female shoplifter
is caught on camera. Right: a Trespasser is observed rifling
through donations while an accomplice stands watch
at the Invermere Thrift Shop during the morning hours
of November 13th. Anyone with any information on the
Thrift Shop thefts and vandalism is asked to contact the
Columbia Valley RCMP detachment at 250-342-9292.