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The Village of Gold River and the Council of Chiefs for the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations would like to invite our two communities to a ceremonial flag raising at the Village office on Saturday November 19, 2011 at 11:00 am. The Village will now be flying the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations flag as well as our community flag as a sign of unity between our two communities. Email This Post
Course: Marine Radio Operator’s License – ROC(M) When: Wednesday, November 23rd – All day Where: Gold River Secondary School Cost: $ 85.00 (includes manual) To Register: Contact Philip Parkes, 250-283-2538, pparkes@viw.sd84.bc.ca Description of Course The ROC(M) is a Canadian Federal government issued certificate that allows you to operate a marine VHF radio. The ROC(M) is required by anyone using a marine VHF radio or other marine radios (each person on the boat who will use the radio needs their own card). There are significant fines if you are found using a VHF or marine radio without your card. All new VHF radios are now being sold with a DSC function that will greatly enhance rescue personnel’s ability to assist you in an emergency. Understanding this technology and how to operate it can, in some circumstances, mean the difference between life and death. Email This Post
Effective November 23rd Donovan’s Bistro is excited to announce that they have expanded their Pizza Line to include many new tasty combinations. In addition, they will be featuring Dine in Appetizers and Entrees every Friday Night. Check Out the new menu on Facebook or call us at 250-283-9025 for more information. (Please click graphics below to enlarge in a new window)
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Time Division Home (Room #) Visitor (Room #) Saturday, November 19th 10:00 – 11:30 Novice Game (1) Campbell River (3) Sunday, November 20th 10:30 – 12:00 Peewee Game (1) Comox (3) Via Doug Arcus How Do We Fight For Our Freedom? Just go to Local Government 2008 Elections and take a look at how many people take part in elections!
Please everyone, lets have the hightest turn out on November 19th! Just remember when we request funds and grants from our officials both Provincial & Federal, those individuals look at how many votes we can provide for them in return! I know we can do better this year Gold River. Let’s all take part and make our dreams of the future come true. Doug Arcus Email This Post
My name is Craig Anderson and I am running for re-election for Mayor of Gold River. I have lived in this community for 32 years and as a single Dad, chose to raise my three kids here. My kids have graduated, moved on and I’m so proud of the adults they have become. I since have remarried and now have two step children. My goal as Mayor has been for a sustainable and livable community. Sustainable, so that our taxes can pay for our village services that we all use on a daily basis like our chlorine free clean water. Livable in that I have had many residents, young and old, tell me how important our recreation facilities are to their good health. Everyone that has the good fortune to live in our Village is proud to say what we offer for a population base of our size. But how does it keep going fiscally with our tax base? Prudent spending and most of all carefully thought out decisions. I have been Mayor for the last 6 years and I am proud to say that we have maintained and improved all of our facilities. We have a new arena ice plant to make sure our kids can continue to enjoy hockey and figure skating on home ice. We are currently renewing the curling rink ice plant and in the spring we are revamping the community centre lobby to allow expanded access for mobility challenged residents. In the past 6 years we’ve rebuilt all our Village’s water wells to allow more capacity, and installed auxiliary power to allow us to move water throughout the community should a power outage occur. Our sewage lift stations have also been rebuilt and have auxiliary power as well, should a power outage occur we will still be able to move the sewage without any chance of it overflowing into the Gold River. Our Village is 45 years old and these repairs were made with proactive, responsible decisions. I will not sacrifice our environment under any circumstances. All these projects were made achievable through government grant funding. During the past 6 years our village has received 1.3 million dollars in grants from various levels of government. To access this money the Village had to spend $600,000 of our money. Not a bad deal, eh? Thanks to our wise investments our village has a bank account that any other village our size or larger envies. It is mandatory that we continue to be fiscally responsible to ensure the village services are sustainable. In the last year two businesses have re-opened with new ownership and three key businesses have changed ownership in Gold River. I am eager to work with the new Chamber of Commerce to see how we can bring more businesses to our town together. Our lifeblood has always been the working forest. We can finally say the forest industry has been revitalized. With this new forestry economy young families have started to move back to town! I have been working hard representing our Village at numerous meetings at the request of Covanta and Green Island Energy to help get their power project through the bureaucratic maze of government permits. The ball is now back in Metro Vancouver’s court but with the municipal election happening we will not hear anything until at least January. If you have any questions, please contact me on the Gold River Buzz at “Ask the Mayor” or my email grcanderson@cablerocket.com or my home phone #250-283-7100 or I will be at the Clayworks Café for coffee and questions with the Mayor on November 17, 2011 from 10am to noon. |
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