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Osoyoos Desert Centre is replacing the 22-year-old boardwalk thanks to provincial grant funding announced this week.
Image Credit: Times-Chronicle File Photo February 26, 2021 - 8:00 PM The Osoyoos Desert Centre is getting a new boardwalk and the Nk’Mip Cultural Centre is getting new programming and funds to construct a pit house, all thanks to economic recovery funding for tourism. A Community Economic Recovery Infrastructure Program (CERIP) grant from the province to the tune of $834,789 announced recently will go towards replacing the 1.5-kilometre boardwalk at the Desert Centre. “We are absolutely thrilled about this. It is just incredibly great news for us and really, really will have a significant impact on the Osoyoos Desert Centre of course,” said Jayme Friedt, managing director with the Osoyoos Desert Society.
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Louie, a 10-term chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band and winner of every election but one since first being elected chief at the age of 24 in the mid-80s, says his First Nation’s claim to fame is the success it’s had creating and operating its own businesses. “I like creating jobs,” he says. “That’s what I like doing. I like focusing on job development, job creation. Like any town or city or any band, you’ve got to have an economy or else you have a ghost town. If you want people to stay and you want the schools, and the hospitals and everything else that goes with that, you need a decent standard of living. Your living comes from your wage from your job. That’s why I focus on jobs.”