Not surprisingly, we received many Facebook comments about our pit bull attack story. See the comments in this edition.
The question is do we blame the breed or the owner?
It wasn’t a proven fact that the offending canine was a pit bull, but the victims are certain of it.
One thing is for sure, the owner of the suspect dog did not do the right thing.
MMBC fines
We weren’t crazy about the letter that Multi-Material BC sent to the Town regarding potential fines for not being perfect recyclers.
The Town can only do so much in educating the public about proper recycling habits, and as was mentioned, some people will never change.
You will always get a small percentage of wrong material mixed in with targeted recyclables. Some people will never get it, and some frankly don’t care despite the importance of saving the environment.
The RDOS says there is a direct correlation between average age and recycling rates. For example, young families produce more recycling per home.
We believe there should be more incentive to recycle because it takes a lot of residents’ time and money to divert all of this waste from the landfill. On top of that, we are faced with a whopping garbage and blue bag pickup fee every year.
Not only do we have to separate plastic bags, Styrofoam and glass, we have to take these and other items to the recycling depot.
They tell us that tipping fees are going up because they don’t make enough money at the landfill . . . because residents are recycling so well. Go figure.
Yes, we do it for the environment, but why not establish a credit system or give tokens every time you put out a blue bag at the curb. These tokens could be used to purchase fuel for our next trip to the depot.
Light the way
Unlike the Ministry of Transportation’s reasoning, let’s not wait for a tragedy before installing a couple of street lights along Highway 97 north of town.
It can be hard to see coming from Tumbleweed mobile home park at night, so let’s cost-share in lighting the way.
Food action plan
Thumbs up to the Okanagan Similkameen Healthy Living Coalition for pushing for a community food action plan.
We need a strategy that gives everyone access to nutritious food year-round.
The idea of establishing food lockers in the community is brilliant and should be one of the first ideas to be implemented.
We also think there should be more of a push to get grocery stores to sell more local products. The South Okanagan is a major agricultural area, so why don’t we see more of our farmers’ goods on the shelf?
