Posted:
June 14, 2021
By Sgt. Darren Kakuno
This past week, June 7 through June 13, Columbia Valley RCMP responded to 47 calls for service. The following is a summary of some of the files our officers responded to.
Battery stolen from RV trailer in Invermere
On Wednesday, June 9, a resident on Laurier Street in Invermere discovered someone had stolen the battery out of his RV trailer, which had been parked on his property. The theft was believed to have occurred sometime between June 7 and 9.
Windermere gas station broken into
On Saturday, June 12, Columbia Valley RCMP received a report of a break and enter at the Centex gas station on Highway 93/95 in Windermere. Staff arrived in the morning to discover someone had broken a window to gain entry. Video surveillance showed two individuals wearing hoodies, gloves and masks break the glass in order to unlock the door then proceed to take several packages of cigarettes before departing northbound in a small car. The investigation
Posted:
April 6, 2021
Communities look ahead to create places people can enjoy
As days grow warmer, people in the Columbia Basin are looking forward to enjoying outdoor spaces those in nature, and those in our communities. Looking ahead to times when restrictions ease, many communities are wondering how they can make the gathering places within their limits more welcoming and useable, or how they can add new ones altogether.
To realize their ideas, some communities have turned to Columbia Basin Trust’s Community Outdoor Revitalization Grants. Currently, this program is providing over $1.3 million to help 10 communities undertake such projects.
Will Nixon
Public notices
Parking in part of Palace Gates Road is set to be affected by the changes. Photo: Google Street View Plans to introduce changes to the payment methods to park in a number of roads in Haringey have been published. A notice from Haringey Council in this week’s edition of the Enfield Independent outlines a proposal to convert shared some permit holders and ‘pay by phone’ parking places in eight controlled parking zones into ‘pay by phone’ only. The order is scheduled to come into effect from March 27 and it will affect the following parking zones and locations: