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Creston town council endorses International Walk to School Week

Donation to Cops for Kids, ALR removal request, request for rezoning, and more briefs from Sept. 10 regular council meeting...
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Creston Town Hall is located on 10th Avenue North.

At last night's regular meeting, Creston town council members endorsed International Walk to School Week, a program designed to raise awareness about child fitness and involve parents in encouraging their children to walk more.

From Oct. 4-7, parents will be encouraged to drop their children off three blocks from school so they can walk the remaining distance. School bus drivers will do the same. Some councillors will participate by walking with students and the town will co-operate in helping set up traffic cones in a three-block radius around participating schools.

•A request from an Arrowsmith Road property owner for support in getting his land removed from the Agricultural Land Reserve was referred to staff for a report, which will be completed by the Sept. 24 meeting.

•Council approved a $250 donation from the discretionary fund to the Cops for Kids in conjunction with the group’s annual ride through southern B.C. Mayor Ron Toyota reported that he was personally matching the donation and also collecting donations from others.

•Toyota and Couns. Tanya Ducharme and Wesly Graham were appointed to a select committee, along with some staff members, which is planning for the 2014 Association of Kootenay Boundary Local Governments annual conference, which will be held in Creston.

•Creston is joining other Kootenay communities in a study that will examine the possibility to create a mobile business licence for the region. Such a licence would allow businesses to operate throughout the region without purchasing business licences in each community.

•Council voted to support Nelson Mayor John Dooley in his attempt to get the Union of BC Municipalities to pressure the provincial government to increase funding for community colleges.

•A request from Columbia Brewery to rezone a neighboring property was approved so that it could advance to a public hearing stage, in which property owners in the vicinity will be notified of the intent and be given the opportunity to respond. The property is designated as industrial in the Official Community Plan but rezoning from residential status has never been requested by the owners, who reside on the property.