Schedules boat-launch meeting
Powell River Regional District (PRRD) Electoral Area C director Colin Palmer reported at the board’s regular meeting on Thursday, January 28, that he met with Powell River Regional Cabin Owners Association. A meeting has been set up between Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations and a select group of stakeholders to discuss reopening the Lois Lake boat launch. The unsanctioned, long-standing boat launch was closed off to the public last month due to the ministry’s concern about environmental damage to Crown land.
Opens public purse
PRRD board approved $71,000 worth of financial-assistance requests. The regional district will provide $39,000 to Powell River Historical Museum and Archives to assist its ongoing 2016 operation, $15,000 to Tourism Powell River for staffing the bureau’s mobile kiosk and roaming-ambassador program this summer, $12,500 to Powell River Academy of Music as 2016 is a Kathaumixw year, $3,000 to support securing a Powell River coordinator for WildSafeBC, formerly Bear Aware, and $1,500 to Powell River Action Centre Food Bank.
Scraps bike path plans
After results of a community survey were released and showed a majority of Texada Island residents were opposed to the construction of a cycle and walking path along Gillies Bay Road, the regional board resolved to discontinue the project. Community-works funding originally committed to the development in the amount of $150,000 will be returned to the community-works fund for other projects.
