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Summer looks like it is finally arriving and the comments I get on how
good the community looks tells me we are ready for a great year of
visitors. With the lineup of events planned for this year we are sure to
entertain, educate and bring lots of visitors to our community. The
season started this past weekend with the Mountain Beats and Blues
festival as well as the Big Bear Classic Soccer Tournament. Both have
been around for quite awhile and their numbers keep increasing. In
addition to Canada Day celebrations, there will also be the Cougars
baseball tournament and following that on July 10th and 11th is the
Revelstoke Timber Days. This year will have 8 Canadian Championship
events, including novice and ladies power sawing events and choker races
that we hope local competitors, both men and women, will have a try at.
July 24th weekend will see the biggest event of this year, Revelstoke’s
Homecoming. Make sure your out of town family and friends come back for
this great weekend. I guarantee you this will be the event of the year
you won’t want to miss. Rounding out the rest of the summer will be the
17th Annual Kokanee Glacier Challenge, which is almost sold out at 140
teams and two weeks later is the Railway Days. Grizzly Plaza this year
will see nightly entertainment in the band shell with farmers markets
every Saturday and what would the plaza be without Denito’s who is back
cooking hotdogs and schmoozing tourists.
Loan Authorization Bylaws
– The new debt for 2004 consists of $1.35 Million for the Arrow Heights
Reservoir and Water System Upgrade Project and $650,000 for road
improvements, most of which will be dedicated to the aquatic centre
access roads and additional parking.
The City is proceeding
with a process wherein the electors (of those areas for which the bylaws
refer to) can indicate their opposition to Councils’ intended adoption
of the loan authorization bylaw(s). Please attend City Hall to review
the files.
Angle parking is stirring
up a lot of interest, both in the extra parking created and also with a
few problems of extra long vehicles sticking out into traffic. This is
on a trial basis and if you have concerns let City Hall know how you
feel.
The public works report
that came to Council made mention of approximately $4,000.00 worth of
trees in the downtown core having been vandalized in the last six
months, as well as an increase in graffiti, especially in the dugouts
and Queen Elizabeth Park washrooms. This is unacceptable in our
community and anyone with any information about this should contact the
RCMP.
Mark McKee
Mayor
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