Land and Water BC – dissolved
In July 2005, the Government announced that its Crown corporation, Land and Water BC was dissolved. We should not consider that the end of LWBC means the end of the project. We still need to be focused on continuing our opposition to this development proposal. We will update our web site with new information as it known.
Development Update
Chairman Barry Reid, calls the TNRD planning office weekly for a status on the rezoning application. No application has been received.
Local Lakekeepers
Thank you Gordon Marshall, Al & Marie Wallewein, Hiedi Ruegg and Ralph Watson, for monitoring the lake quality on Lac des Roches, Little Lac des Roches and Birch Lake.
Lake Stewardship Workshop held
On July 11, we held a workshop at the Bridge Lake School. Evidently, groups that monitor their lakes will be heard when voicing issues related to their lake. We also established a supportive contact with a member of Kamloops Ministry of Environment who has volunteered to lead our executive on a fish habitat survey of the development site this fall.
Administrative Reports
Fees and cash donations total $2612.56 to date. We have 118 members
… worth a thousand words
On a very cold and rainy July 2, members and their guests, huddled for warmth and for the cameras at the Lac des Roches Rest Stop. This photo will be submitted to 100 Mile Free Press and posted on our website.
New Contacts – Charlie Wyse
Since the BC cabinet restructuring, we have updated the contact list for the letter-writing campaign. Please write our newly elected (NDP) South Cariboo MLA with your concerns;
Charlie Wyse
Room 201 Parliament Buildings
Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4
charlie.wyse.mla@leg.bc.ca
2005 Executive
Executive positions will be for a two-year term, as agreed at the 2005 AGM. We have expanded the size of the executive in 2005 to include volunteers wishing to be on the executive and to ensure there will be continuance of executive members when terms are up in August 2006. The 2005 executive and the year their term ends are:
| Chairman | Barry Reid | 2006 |
| Vice Chairman | Bryson Kerr | 2006 |
| Media Relations | Bill Jollymore | 2006 |
| Membership | Gordon Marshall | 2006 |
| Secretary-Treasurer | Sharron Woloshyn | 2006 |
| Members at Large: | Madeline Kerr | 2006 |
| Wendy Marshall | 2006 | |
| (new) | Lorraine Jollymore | 2007 |
| (new) | Al Wallewein | 2007 |
| (new) | Marie Wallewein | 2007 |
| (new) | Ralph Watson | 2007 |
| (new) | Heidi Ruegg | 2007 |
Annual General Meeting
Our annual review report listed our activities as they related to our stated objectives. A copy will be sent to members and posted on our website.
Regional Boundary Change
The executive spent July comparing the Shoreline Guidelines of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) and the Cariboo Regional District (CRD). To sum up our findings, the CRD stated objectives are environmentally focused whereas the TNRD document seems to be developmentfocused. For this reason, the executive is acting on the offer of the CRD to put forth an application to the BC Government to alter the Regional Boundary line from through Lac des Roches. We are asking for property owner input into this idea as the impact extends beyond our membership. By September 14, our CRD representative will have our letter, asking that the CRD include all of Lac des Roches, Birch Lake and Phinetta Lake as these three lakes all share the same sensitive watershed.