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LAST UPDATE July 25, 2010
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Dave Robertson who is a retired North Westside Road Fire Dept senior member has made a NEW FIRE/RESCUE BOAT PRESENTATION (.pdf) 1.3 MB July 25, 2010 for the North Westside Road BC area. Please have a look. Dave makes a lot of sense.
For more information please see the Fireboat Gossip page on OkanaganLakeBC.com or Dave Robertson's website. Dave welcome's all ideas, input and inquiries.
DAVE ROBERTSON: “trench” or "curtain" burner, in my mind it is not cost effective.
Dave Robertson who ran for Central Okanagan West Director a few years back, and has been a long time fire dept member before retiring, and who was recently elected as a North Westside Communities Association director in 2010, has a website if you didn't already know. He has some good information about wildfire protecting your property. Dave Robertson on his own initiative has drawn up a wildfire protection plan 2010, and submitted it to the Regional District of Central Okanagan for consideration. Dave explains his wildfire plan in laymans terms we can all understand. To find out more about Dave Robertson's wildfire protection plan please visit Dave's website.
Dave also has some sound information to share about the possible purchase of a fire/rescue boat for the North Westside Road area. Please visit Dave Robertson's website for more information.
Make a comment and read others comments about a trench or air-curtain burner. There are photos of an air-curtain burner here too.
Watch these two video's of a fireboat in action on the Seclusion Bay fire.
Live video (Global BC News video July 13, 2010 "Wildfire Update").
In this video you can see that the fireboat is only able to fight a fire that is immediately next to the shore and not any further. As you can see a helicopter had to bucket the home that was on fire beside the home that the fireboat was fighting probably because the fireboat could not reach that far. Live Video Global BC News - Wildfire Contained
Here is a photo of the same house on fire and no fireboat to be seen.
More video posted on the fireboat page here.
Regional District of Central
Okanagan Audio Jokes and
RDCO Audio Jokes Comments
Audio clip extractions of the Regional District of Central Okanagan Regular Board meeting of June 28, 2010
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with the audio files
NEW
June 28, 2010
entire Regional District of Central Okanagan Regional Board Audio of
the WFN gravel pit application (.wma) 36.5 MB ... right click link to download
this audio file of the gravel pit meeting with all other subjects removed.
If you want to hear the entire Regional Board Meeting then
right click here to download entire
(.mp3) 177 MB audio file from the Regional District of Central Okanagan's
website containing all the subjects.
June 28, 2010 audio clip of just the deferral of the WFN gravel pit by the Regional Board
(.wma) 197 KB - June 28, 2010
right click to download this file to your desktop and then click the file on
your desktop.
COW Director Jim Edgson "moves" WFN gravel pit audio clip (.wma) 604 KB - June 28,
2010
Chair Robert Hobson and COW Director Jim Edgson
COW Director Jim Edgson saying the gravel pit won't affect the residents from North Westside Road - (.wma) 566 KB June 28, 2010
Grant for a $738.76 water meter?
June 28, 2010 Fire Boat proposal response by Kelowna City
Councilor Graeme James
Kelowna Councilor Graeme James had the best comment about the Fire Boat proposal at the June 28, 2010 Regional District of Central Okanagan Regular Board meeting. Hear what Kelowna City Councilor Graeme James had to say about the North Westside Road Fire Boat proposal by right clicking and downloading the (.wma) 1.15 MB audio file and listening to it play on your computer.
Wouldn't you like to know the answer to the
(.wma audio 417 KB) question City of Kelowna councilor
Graeme James asked about not seeing a professional report or study that dictates
a Fire Boat is needed, and then just when the Fire Services Co-ordinator Rod
Miller started speaking and replying to Councilor James question, the audio tape
of the Regional Board meeting mysteriously went silent. So we
don't know what the answer is to this question. It sounded like Rod Miller
was going to explain what dictates a Fire Boat is needed?
June 2, 2010 info about
grants for water systems
Development Permit for 37 homes at Valley of the Sun
Latest updates about the
garbage,
VOS water system,
Lower Fintry Delta water system, and septic April 14, 2010 meeting at Killiney Beach Hall.
If you want 24/7 garbage service please email and let RDCO, or RDCO Solid Waste Manager Peter Rotheisler know. Here is how you can contact Peter.
Peter said he is willing to look at smaller bins being closer to subdivisions and not having to be monitored. He said some other cities are not monitoring their garbage. We mentioned compacting the garbage so that the truck does not have to make so many trips which may help cut down the hauling costs. Those small bins that they lift with forks into the back of the truck like this one would be perfect.
North Westside Ratepayers petition opposing Gravel Pit south of La Casa.
Diane Baldwin who is President of the North Westside Road Ratepayers Association said she would be at Sugar Loaf transfer station and at Westshore Estates if you wish to sign the HST petition of Bill Vanderzalm's Fight the HST Campaign.
Collection of signatures began April 6th, 2010, and will continue for only 90 days.
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Sugar Loaf users will be helping to subsidize $48 of Traders Cove
garbage disposal 2. Electoral area residents will pay the same user fee and parcel tax for basic waste management related services whether they are on curbside collection or transfer station service. 3. Due to the $48 difference in projected user fees between transfer stations, fees were going to have to be blended to prevent residents from the Traders Cove transfer station (more expensive) changing to the NOWESI Transfer Station (less expensive), which would have further increased the difference in cost. March 11, 2010 Regional Board Agenda |
TRANSFER STATION FEES INCREASING FROM $40 PER YEAR TO $167.06
March 24, 2010 this poster was put up on the local bulletin boards at the North
Westside Road
subdivisions by the North Westside Road Ratepayers Association.
click letter to read larger print
For more info.
NEW JAN 2010 Informative Presentation about the Fire Boat by Dave Robertson
Want to know why the
cost of garbage is going to rise from $40 per year to $131
now $167 per year
New
Developments
going in around here.
Old
laws in regards to subdivision approval for Valley of the Sun without a
water system
okanaganlakebc.com picked up some of the old laws from the Kelowna Law Courts that were in effect back in the era when Valley of the Sun was first being developed.
NEW!!! Photos of water found between Valley of the Sun and Shalal Road.
The figures are in!
Upper Fintry / Valley of the Sun Water System Petition $17,500
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Includes: Aspen Shores, Ceasars Landing, Desert Cove, Estamont Beach, Ewings Landing, Fintry Delta, Killiney Beach, LaCasa Resort, Lake Okanagan Resort, Muir Subdivision, OKIB, Parker Cove, Shalal Road, Summer Sands, Valley of the Sun, Wainman Cove, Westshore Estates, Wilson's Landing. From Hwy 97 North to Hwy 97 South along Westside Road.
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