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Witnessing
A Bovine TB outbreak shows us how fragile our food security really is.
Insecurity
An MVS special report about the Bovine TB occurrence in Cherryville including an exclusive interview with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Examine emerging risks and issues as food security - or insecurity, plays out in real time in the Okanagan.
SPECIAL REPORT
Hiding the Truth from Ourselves
We are now living in a cashless society – and it’s a mess.
We’re told that it will cost us a great deal of money to bail ourselves out of a tanked economy. Governments talk “cuts” and threaten tax increases on ordinary people, but in reality there are alternatives. We can raise money by taxing stock transactions and perhaps electronic transfers between banks and big corporations – who are really the one’s that got us into this mess in the first place.
honey
money
When will we stop missing our chance to reinvent reality?
By Don Elzer
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Will
Smartmeters
crashour
economy?
Grow-ops have been an anchoring force for rural economies struggling in the wake of natural resources being removed from local communities by big governments.
Now Smartmeters - what could they be thinking?
By Don Elzer
February 10, 2012
Forget the health risks
This story is not about the health issues that smart meters might cause – it’s about smart meters and the economy - and weed.
Will a proposed Ecovillage in Area D remind us all why we came here in the first place?
returnin
basics...
to
to
Urban professionals are seeking the solitude of rural BC and it should be no surprise that the Monashee excites imaginations.
Surprisingly, we are ready for them.
An MVS Feature Report by Don Elzer
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Re-creating Community
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Perhaps it's time for Area D to embark on its own path by creating a rural municipality.
But what might
this look like?
Foothills
A Countryside Formerly Known as Lumby
After 150 years of settlement,
perhaps its time for another change?
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GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT
A new study suggests that ignoring the needs of local small business in small communities is seriously impacting our health.
By Don Elzer
February 5, 2012
There is nearly enough “fuel tax” revenue available for Area’s D and E to pay for the shortfall needed to have Broadband internet access delivered to 95% of rural residents. The reason that the funding cannot be applied is that Broadband is not considered a “green” investment by government.
Are government policies making us sick?
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robotic
pollination
An MVS Exclusive Discovery
Coming to a
If you’re concerned about pesticides or genetically engineered foods, then you will find this story quite disturbing. Get Bugged
garden near you?
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tourism
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In the Monashee, small and micro-tourism businesses continue to be under threat where eco and adventure tourism should thrive.
By Don Elzer
concept
Factory Village
The Lumby
Live, Work & Play
A Made in the Okanagan solution for industrial development in the village that meets the demands of small manufacturers in the new greener economy.
Factory Village
The Old Indian Map
X Marks the Spot
The Road Plan to the Monashee was registered August, 8th 1862
In the summer of 1862 Governor James Douglas sent W.G. Cox, Magistrate and Gold Commissioner at Rock Creek, to explore the territory between the head of Okanagan Lake and the Columbia River with a view to establishing a "horse road" (a pack-horse trail). An “x” on an old Indian Map was the end of the road, 150 years later we know the road as Highway 6, and the "x" as Cherryville.
getting from pond A to pond B
Compare British Columbia gas prices & gas stations. GO…
making ripples
in the pond
The print and online version of the Monashee 150 Year Almanac represents a portal into the stories and history of this very special part of British Columbia.
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GOLD
The Truth Revealed! 1862 Cherry Creek Gold Strike
He took four handfuls of sand from the creek and washed it in his frying pan.
In July 1986, a previously unknown linen tracing of a map was found in the Surveyors General’s office in Victoria. The linen map had been lost for nearly a century. The map reveals a detailed account of the journey W.G. Cox made to Cherry Creek in 1862. It also tells us in detail who discovered gold and how the gold rush began.
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PAY-DIRT
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By 1862 the new colony of British Columbia was in chaos, miners continued to flood into the remote parts of the colony including Cherry Creek....
There was an extreme shortage of coined money and the miners had great difficulty exchanging their gold for coins.
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Get Tough on Local Forests
Does SquarePant's know something we don't?
Booo!
cockadoodle...
It is a scary proposition when town councils begin to grapple with delivery of agriculture within municipal boundaries.
The MVS publisher weighs in on the complicated issue of avian eggonomics.
money
A conflict of interest
taxes and the economy...
Dr. Ross Hickey vs. Dennis Milligan
ABOUT DEAD
A new discovery about how bees are harmed by common crop pesticides...
The Monashee Celebrates 150 Years
2
A tragic event now reveals a difficult journey that will now challenge the very soul of our community as this story unfolds.
26 year old Matthew Stephen Foerster, a former resident of Cherryville, BC has been charged with one count of 2nd degree murder for the October 31st death of Taylor Van Diest. He has also been charged with one count of sexual assault and unlawful confinement in connection with the April 12, 2005 sexual assault of a Kelowna woman. RCMP would like to hear from anyone who has not already spoken to investigators that now, with the release of today’s information on his arrest may have information about any contact they had with him on Halloween night.
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“Locals”
Our best kept secret…
Denison-Bonneau
April 9, 2012 - By Don Elzer
Provincial Park
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Aspenware: Lumby's loss, turns to Vernon's gain
May 18, 2012
Lumby’s loss has become Vernon’s gain as Aspenware moves from rural Lumby to Vernon. Since 2009, Aspenware had begun to make noises that it needed to expand operations. Last year MVS did a chronology of events linked to Aspenware and the possibility of it moving from Lumby. The warning drew no response from Lumby Mayor and Council, the RDNO Directors, the MLA, nor the Chamber of Commerce. For Lumby area residents, Aspenware’s success should serve as a constant reminder of lost opportunity, and how not to engage in economic development.
2012:
village of lumby
a sign odyssey
Did the system of sign bylaw enforcement go rogue?
An epic drama of adventure and exploration...
coyote
A long, long, time ago, when the world was young and fresh, before hatred, greed and strife entered, and all was peace and happiness, and all the animals lived harmoniously together, the Bear, Elk, Fox, Coyote and all animals were ancestors of human beings.
A rare phenomenon exists at Shuswap Falls so mysterious that geologists remain puzzled to this day. Pot-holes are rather rare geographical features found in hard-rock riverbeds.
The Kettle Shapes
of Shuswap Falls
Flushing out the truth about all kinds of
History has exposed that there is much that can go wrong with a 40 year old sewage system. “Why wasn’t it upgraded or replaced before it became an environmental hazard?”
The release of these Salmon fry were supported by prayers and ceremony led by the Okanagan Nation Alliance and a collective hope that a passage way around the Wilsey Dam will be built by the time these Chinook return in 2-3 years.
The
ofa
beginning
journey
Upper Shuswap North of Cherryville
