WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.740 That need management. And I think the problem here is that they've been ignored for 2 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:10.780 too long. Like, everybody wants something, but they don't 3 00:00:10.780 --> 00:00:15.960 want to put money into it. Not you guys. The government wants, you know, they want agriculture. 4 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:21.400 They want beef. They want hay. They want those things. But they don't want to support 5 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:26.420 a lot of the times monetarily some of the things that are required in order to 6 00:00:26.420 --> 00:00:27.500 make those things happen. 7 00:00:28.118 --> 00:00:33.438 So, it's been put off too long, and now, because 8 00:00:33.438 --> 00:00:39.018 we've had these successive drought years, it's really come to light how poorly 9 00:00:39.018 --> 00:00:43.358 prepared we are for these kinds of situations. 10 00:00:45.278 --> 00:00:50.518 So, I think with time, in the next four 11 00:00:50.518 --> 00:00:55.638 years, there could be a lot of things done, and a lot of organizations. 12 00:00:56.237 --> 00:01:01.777 that are already doing the work supported because so 13 00:01:01.777 --> 00:01:04.437 one of the things that i've recognized since i 14 00:01:04.437 --> 00:01:09.517 started running for the area director is that so many of the communities are already 15 00:01:09.517 --> 00:01:10.417 doing the work 16 00:01:11.517 --> 00:01:16.897 like people are already putting the time in they're on the committees they have 17 00:01:16.897 --> 00:01:17.457 people some 18 00:01:17.457 --> 00:01:22.517 people are doing research for free surveying doing all kinds of stuff so 19 00:01:22.517 --> 00:01:23.917 that we can protect the water 20 00:01:24.355 --> 00:01:25.815 And I think that's incredible. 21 00:01:26.475 --> 00:01:31.315 So why are we not supporting these people that are already working so hard? 22 00:01:33.095 --> 00:01:38.135 Because the last guy who ran left us high in July, we 23 00:01:38.135 --> 00:01:39.255 had no support. 24 00:01:40.755 --> 00:01:41.255 Oh, great. 25 00:01:41.735 --> 00:01:44.935 Next question. 26 00:01:46.675 --> 00:01:48.675 This is for all the candidates. 27 00:01:49.275 --> 00:01:52.375 Where do you each stand on... 28 00:01:52.474 --> 00:01:57.694 Big or small government, I'm thinking of things like more bylaws, more regulations. 29 00:01:58.514 --> 00:02:02.714 Do you feel, personally, I have a lot of other people here, 30 00:02:03.034 --> 00:02:05.854 we're happy with as little government as possible. 31 00:02:06.174 --> 00:02:09.134 So my question is, where do you stand on that, all the three of you? 32 00:02:15.034 --> 00:02:17.134 I generally share your views. 33 00:02:18.094 --> 00:02:20.434 I have no interest in bringing in. 34 00:02:20.593 --> 00:02:25.973 more requirements for building permits or any additional bylaws 35 00:02:25.973 --> 00:02:27.953 like the whole thing for me 36 00:02:27.953 --> 00:02:33.053 is if if as a community you know everybody came to me and said we 37 00:02:33.053 --> 00:02:34.293 need a bylaw for this 38 00:02:34.293 --> 00:02:39.393 then that might be something that we would look at but i have no ulterior motives of 39 00:02:39.393 --> 00:02:40.073 bringing in 40 00:02:40.073 --> 00:02:42.533 bylaws that nobody wants 41 00:02:49.831 --> 00:02:55.051 I agree with you. Building inspection is not something this 42 00:02:55.051 --> 00:03:00.171 community supports, so that's off the radar. That's been off the radar for a long 43 00:03:00.171 --> 00:03:00.451 time. 44 00:03:00.651 --> 00:03:01.831 That got shot down already. 45 00:03:02.231 --> 00:03:09.151 Oh, it got shot down a long time ago. Yeah. As far as more 46 00:03:09.151 --> 00:03:14.931 rules, well, you only establish rules when you need them. And there 47 00:03:14.931 --> 00:03:16.411 has to be a strong rationale. 48 00:03:16.830 --> 00:03:20.590 for establishing those rules and regulations. 49 00:03:22.010 --> 00:03:26.370 That takes an awful lot of discussion, and those things don't occur overnight either. 50 00:03:26.530 --> 00:03:29.550 Those things take a long, long, long time to establish. 51 00:03:29.710 --> 00:03:34.570 Local government is very careful about not imposing new rules on the community 52 00:03:34.570 --> 00:03:35.890 if they're unnecessary. 53 00:03:37.410 --> 00:03:41.630 I wouldn't be imposing new rules on the community for any reason. 54 00:03:43.190 --> 00:03:44.870 I like less than... 55 00:03:44.949 --> 00:03:50.069 government too. That's why I live here. I think 56 00:03:50.069 --> 00:03:52.689 the best answer is a shorter answer. Area D doesn't 57 00:03:52.689 --> 00:03:57.949 need to be saved. It just needs to be left alone. That's the bottom line. We don't need big city 58 00:03:57.949 --> 00:04:02.389 improvements here. Period. End of conversation. No bylaws. It's not necessary. 59 00:04:13.067 --> 00:04:19.167 Um, I'm just wondering, um, if 60 00:04:19.167 --> 00:04:24.507 any of you belong to any associations or organizations 61 00:04:24.507 --> 00:04:30.947 within the community, and if you get elected, how do 62 00:04:30.947 --> 00:04:33.447 you plan to be available for people 63 00:04:33.447 --> 00:04:34.467 to approach you? 64 00:04:37.047 --> 00:04:39.067 So I'll start with that one. 65 00:04:39.067 --> 00:04:40.827 Um, I, I was. 66 00:04:41.186 --> 00:04:46.246 president for the Falkland Heritage and Museum. I was also vice 67 00:04:46.246 --> 00:04:48.526 president for the Haunting Falkland 68 00:04:48.526 --> 00:04:53.546 and now I'm back at the museum. So I'm just a sitting board 69 00:04:53.546 --> 00:04:56.486 member pitching in. I like flooding 70 00:04:56.486 --> 00:05:01.326 the rink here too so I kind of do that. So I make time. At the end of the day I make time. I make 71 00:05:01.326 --> 00:05:06.446 time for people. I'm one of those people where I'm never too busy to say hey you got a sec. I'm 72 00:05:06.446 --> 00:05:06.546 the 73 00:05:06.546 --> 00:05:08.026 first guy that's going to go yep absolutely. 74 00:05:09.305 --> 00:05:14.445 slam on the brakes and so that's that's the best answer is there's no 75 00:05:14.445 --> 00:05:15.385 such thing as i don't have 76 00:05:15.385 --> 00:05:20.505 enough time for everything yeah 77 00:05:20.505 --> 00:05:22.805 me too i'm pretty much retired so i'm available 78 00:05:24.165 --> 00:05:29.785 i'll answer to a phone call an invitation to go somewhere by a community association 79 00:05:29.785 --> 00:05:30.405 or by a 80 00:05:30.405 --> 00:05:35.645 community group and i have the one group that 81 00:05:35.645 --> 00:05:37.225 we are my wife and i are 82 00:05:37.423 --> 00:05:40.383 by our active members are Issa Falkland Seniors, 83 00:05:40.603 --> 00:05:44.063 and it's a good group of folks that I like to attend 84 00:05:44.063 --> 00:05:45.523 those regular meetings. 85 00:05:46.823 --> 00:05:50.903 But yes, just like John says, you just have to pick up the phone 86 00:05:50.903 --> 00:05:54.543 and give us a call, and we'll be available. 87 00:05:57.843 --> 00:06:00.043 I'm going to have the longest answer to this question. 88 00:06:01.083 --> 00:06:04.643 So, partly to clarify something that I said in Silver Creek, 89 00:06:04.863 --> 00:06:05.463 because I... 90 00:06:05.542 --> 00:06:10.722 several questions about it so currently I am the controller for 91 00:06:10.722 --> 00:06:12.222 a company I do 92 00:06:12.222 --> 00:06:16.082 their finances this is actually probably the biggest thing that I bring to the 93 00:06:16.082 --> 00:06:21.722 table is the fact that I understand reading monetary reports very well and 94 00:06:21.722 --> 00:06:21.822 I 95 00:06:21.822 --> 00:06:26.982 feel like I'm going to be doing a lot of that however what I said in 96 00:06:26.982 --> 00:06:27.262 silver 97 00:06:27.262 --> 00:06:32.362 Greek is that I would quit that job and I would take this as my new job 98 00:06:33.661 --> 00:06:39.021 to clarify that i am currently i am putting in place systems 99 00:06:39.021 --> 00:06:41.321 to not leave that company 100 00:06:42.581 --> 00:06:47.741 without somebody to do that job because i feel like 101 00:06:47.741 --> 00:06:50.161 that's my responsibility as an employee 102 00:06:52.021 --> 00:06:57.341 so i currently have a i'm going to say i 103 00:06:57.341 --> 00:07:01.241 have two part -time jobs and uh 104 00:07:01.779 --> 00:07:08.299 My plan is to change that to two different part -time jobs, and 105 00:07:08.299 --> 00:07:13.319 one of my part -time jobs is also teaching hubbu and tai chi, which is more flexible 106 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:14.139 than one might think. 107 00:07:14.379 --> 00:07:19.639 Anyways, my point was that I wanted to just say that 108 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:25.059 my plan is that I would be in 109 00:07:25.059 --> 00:07:28.919 the communities available, participating. 110 00:07:29.898 --> 00:07:35.318 as well as representing my 111 00:07:35.318 --> 00:07:41.138 favorite thing that I do is teach those classes and 112 00:07:41.138 --> 00:07:41.858 it's not because 113 00:07:41.858 --> 00:07:47.038 I teach Tai Chi and I'm like woo it's because I love getting to know people out 114 00:07:47.038 --> 00:07:48.298 here and it gives 115 00:07:48.298 --> 00:07:53.518 me such a great bridge to meet new people so whether that's 116 00:07:53.518 --> 00:07:56.198 parents I have some seniors I have 117 00:07:56.198 --> 00:07:57.878 kids I have all my 118 00:07:58.017 --> 00:08:03.117 stuff and again since running for this i've actually made so many new 119 00:08:03.117 --> 00:08:04.077 friends in different 120 00:08:04.077 --> 00:08:09.277 districts and it's something that i would love to continue to do so whether or not i 121 00:08:09.277 --> 00:08:10.137 end up as the 122 00:08:10.137 --> 00:08:15.257 electoral area director i hope to continue to participate in all those 123 00:08:15.257 --> 00:08:15.597 things 124 00:08:24.617 --> 00:08:26.017 so this is on it 125 00:08:26.135 --> 00:08:27.395 kind of different subject. 126 00:08:29.855 --> 00:08:32.375 Logan Lake, a small community, 127 00:08:33.215 --> 00:08:33.895 has 128 00:08:33.895 --> 00:08:36.055 a medical bus that actually 129 00:08:36.055 --> 00:08:38.015 goes to Logan Lake and takes you to 130 00:08:38.015 --> 00:08:39.535 Cameras, takes you to Kelowna, 131 00:08:40.115 --> 00:08:41.375 takes you to Vern, wherever. 132 00:08:42.175 --> 00:08:43.155 What is your, 133 00:08:44.175 --> 00:08:46.155 would you push to have 134 00:08:46.155 --> 00:08:48.195 it be able to stop? It passes 135 00:08:48.195 --> 00:08:50.235 right by us. Stop 136 00:08:50.235 --> 00:08:51.555 and look after 137 00:08:51.555 --> 00:08:54.115 our communities, West 138 00:08:54.254 --> 00:09:01.134 us, Area D actually, to make 139 00:09:01.134 --> 00:09:06.354 it more accessible. Not everybody drives to the hospital and 140 00:09:06.354 --> 00:09:06.654 lots 141 00:09:06.654 --> 00:09:12.934 of people have appointments in either Kelowna, Vernon, Camelot, 142 00:09:13.734 --> 00:09:16.294 Salmon Arm even. Would you 143 00:09:17.094 --> 00:09:22.214 support and push for the medical bus to actually stop? 144 00:09:25.073 --> 00:09:30.113 so i actually also had this conversation with some seniors recently at that senior's 145 00:09:30.113 --> 00:09:30.353 lunch 146 00:09:30.353 --> 00:09:36.413 because i found out that the bus does stop here on request the 147 00:09:36.413 --> 00:09:38.633 bus stops between campus and 148 00:09:38.633 --> 00:09:43.873 on request however that doesn't leave a lot of options 149 00:09:43.873 --> 00:09:45.893 for many people i do think that it would 150 00:09:45.893 --> 00:09:50.353 be something that would be firstly who here 151 00:09:50.491 --> 00:09:55.271 even knew that, because I didn't know that, and many people have asked me about it. So 152 00:09:55.271 --> 00:10:01.051 until I had that conversation, another thing that I feel like people in Fallen aren't 153 00:10:01.051 --> 00:10:01.291 even 154 00:10:01.291 --> 00:10:06.351 aware exists. A lot of the problems that people have 155 00:10:06.351 --> 00:10:09.871 brought to me, I've recognized it's just 156 00:10:09.871 --> 00:10:15.051 because they don't have the information. So, 157 00:10:15.171 --> 00:10:17.871 but yes, I think that more buses would be 158 00:10:18.610 --> 00:10:23.990 I don't know how to make that happen, but if they're willing to stop here, there's no reason that we couldn't facilitate 159 00:10:23.990 --> 00:10:24.630 that somehow. 160 00:10:25.530 --> 00:10:27.230 I don't know if you have anything to add to that. 161 00:10:29.690 --> 00:10:32.650 Many years ago, there was actually a dentist in Falkland. 162 00:10:32.730 --> 00:10:37.950 He was a young dentist just starting out, and then he switched to establishing his 163 00:10:37.950 --> 00:10:39.630 own practice in Armstrong. 164 00:10:40.330 --> 00:10:45.370 But he performed dental services in Falkland for a while, 165 00:10:45.430 --> 00:10:46.650 and that was well appreciated. 166 00:10:50.869 --> 00:10:57.489 And when Greyhound still ran, they would shop in Falkland too, so you could get 167 00:10:57.489 --> 00:11:02.609 picked up in Falkland and drop off in vergon or salmon art or camels or whatever. 168 00:11:03.029 --> 00:11:08.109 Why Greyhound shut the service down, I really don't know. That's a sad 169 00:11:08.109 --> 00:11:13.209 thing to happen, but yes, there needs to be services, 170 00:11:13.829 --> 00:11:14.689 medical services. 171 00:11:14.847 --> 00:11:19.867 or transportation services so people can get to their doctors 172 00:11:19.867 --> 00:11:21.927 wherever they are in time. 173 00:11:22.047 --> 00:11:26.367 And I think neighbors are really good about helping each other do that sort of thing. 174 00:11:30.087 --> 00:11:34.067 Yeah, I mean, I think the whole medical aspect is pretty important. 175 00:11:34.167 --> 00:11:36.947 People do need rides. That's absolutely for certain. 176 00:11:38.387 --> 00:11:42.787 You know, having a conversation with a company doing it, it's a super easy phone call. 177 00:11:42.966 --> 00:11:49.126 you know minimum seven numbers on the telephone and you're talking to somebody so 178 00:11:49.126 --> 00:11:50.106 i look by the 179 00:11:50.106 --> 00:11:55.626 theory there's no such thing as stupid questions just stupid answers so if 180 00:11:55.626 --> 00:11:56.606 you go and call them 181 00:11:56.606 --> 00:12:00.146 i'd be willing to entertain something like that to push to get something like that here absolutely 182 00:12:00.786 --> 00:12:02.306 especially if it's going to help residents out 183 00:12:09.606 --> 00:12:10.886 we've touched on the 184 00:12:11.085 --> 00:12:16.885 of this a couple of times, and I want to speak up gay for Renee. He 185 00:12:16.885 --> 00:12:18.425 used to sit at the pizza 186 00:12:18.425 --> 00:12:23.605 ranch every Tuesday afternoon. So if you wanted to get a hold of him, 187 00:12:23.865 --> 00:12:25.145 to tell him something 188 00:12:25.145 --> 00:12:30.265 or to ask him something or to get him to stir up something and sell an arm, he was there. 189 00:12:30.505 --> 00:12:36.145 It was regular. And it was predictable. And I'm 190 00:12:36.145 --> 00:12:38.165 not saying that he was the greatest at 191 00:12:38.165 --> 00:12:39.125 it, but he was the president. 192 00:12:39.203 --> 00:12:45.403 in the community we didn't have to phone them or find them and 193 00:12:45.403 --> 00:12:47.043 I also want to 194 00:12:47.043 --> 00:12:52.863 mention the difference between leadership and representation 195 00:12:52.863 --> 00:12:54.983 so my 196 00:12:54.983 --> 00:13:00.263 question to you is what are you going to do to make yourself accessible and 197 00:13:00.263 --> 00:13:00.443 do 198 00:13:00.443 --> 00:13:05.903 you think that a director is a representative or 199 00:13:05.903 --> 00:13:06.743 a leader 200 00:13:07.322 --> 00:13:10.722 We had a leader, most recently, and it didn't go well. 201 00:13:16.982 --> 00:13:19.762 Well, I can tell you that when I was an Equal Area Director, 202 00:13:20.642 --> 00:13:23.142 my peers got enough of me to elect to be chair. 203 00:13:23.662 --> 00:13:25.882 So that is a leadership position. 204 00:13:26.782 --> 00:13:29.702 I also chaired the Salmon River Watershed Roundtable. 205 00:13:30.462 --> 00:13:34.142 I chair currently, I've been chairing for about the last five years, 206 00:13:34.142 --> 00:13:35.242 to the committee. 207 00:13:35.441 --> 00:13:40.441 of the Board of North O'Kanagan Regional District, an advisory committee, 208 00:13:41.061 --> 00:13:43.521 fairly as a volunteer thing on my behalf, 209 00:13:45.341 --> 00:13:50.421 because the general manager asked me if I'd be willing to chair. 210 00:13:53.461 --> 00:13:56.301 If you chair things, you're exercising leadership. 211 00:13:56.801 --> 00:14:01.961 So that's a few leadership examples where I've 212 00:14:01.961 --> 00:14:03.181 exercised leadership. 213 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:04.659 As a director? 214 00:14:05.139 --> 00:14:07.619 As a director on the board? 215 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:10.459 Are you a leader or are you a representative? 216 00:14:12.939 --> 00:14:16.779 Well, both. I have to listen to the voice of the community. 217 00:14:16.959 --> 00:14:19.919 That's what the job of Electoral Area Director is, 218 00:14:20.179 --> 00:14:25.259 is to carry the voice of the community forward to the peers 219 00:14:25.259 --> 00:14:26.939 on the regional district board. 220 00:14:27.579 --> 00:14:29.659 That is a show of leadership. 221 00:14:29.659 --> 00:14:30.499 You're carrying... 222 00:14:31.678 --> 00:14:36.938 information forward in a leading way and then if you're able to 223 00:14:36.938 --> 00:14:38.578 pursue if on 224 00:14:38.578 --> 00:14:43.138 matters of concern if you're able to persuade the board to back you up that's 225 00:14:43.138 --> 00:14:44.658 an example of leadership 226 00:14:53.238 --> 00:14:58.278 accessible what will you do to make yourself accessible to that 227 00:14:58.278 --> 00:14:58.538 area 228 00:15:09.217 --> 00:15:14.337 I don't know how available I would be to come and sit in the coffee shop on Saturday afternoons 229 00:15:14.337 --> 00:15:15.297 and hold off this. 230 00:15:15.297 --> 00:15:16.117 This was 20 years ago. 231 00:15:16.417 --> 00:15:17.897 Yeah, that's a long time ago. 232 00:15:19.677 --> 00:15:24.997 But years ago, when we established the Fulton and District Community 233 00:15:24.997 --> 00:15:27.677 Learning Centre, there was a little white belt down there. 234 00:15:27.915 --> 00:15:33.115 I sat there a lot, and when we moved it over to where Fabian Cracken's gift store 235 00:15:33.115 --> 00:15:33.555 is now, 236 00:15:34.195 --> 00:15:39.475 I was in there a lot too, helping, brought internet services into the community 237 00:15:39.475 --> 00:15:40.955 for free for people to use. 238 00:15:43.415 --> 00:15:48.535 I was accessible, and I put in 239 00:15:48.535 --> 00:15:49.815 a lot of hours there for nothing, 240 00:15:50.095 --> 00:15:55.315 just to provide the service, because I enjoyed providing the service for the community. 241 00:16:02.514 --> 00:16:07.994 um well i've actually in the past several 242 00:16:07.994 --> 00:16:11.874 weeks had the opportunity to meet many people 243 00:16:11.874 --> 00:16:16.974 who have reached out to me either on facebook or via 244 00:16:16.974 --> 00:16:22.154 telephone or any of the above um for them 245 00:16:22.154 --> 00:16:22.574 to 246 00:16:22.574 --> 00:16:23.894 just ask me 247 00:16:24.152 --> 00:16:29.732 coffee and tell me their concerns. And I 248 00:16:29.732 --> 00:16:32.872 made time for those things, and I think that those 249 00:16:32.872 --> 00:16:38.332 things are important. The thing of being 250 00:16:38.332 --> 00:16:43.232 an area director, I do think there is a lot of 251 00:16:43.232 --> 00:16:49.372 it that is representation. You're there to represent the community. But 252 00:16:49.372 --> 00:16:50.152 when you go into 253 00:16:50.152 --> 00:16:52.152 a meeting, if you don't want to go into a meeting, if you don't want to go into a meeting, if 254 00:16:52.271 --> 00:16:57.591 If you can't bring your ideas and your thoughts to the committee with 255 00:16:57.591 --> 00:16:59.551 a certain amount of gumption, 256 00:17:00.211 --> 00:17:02.151 I don't think you're going to get very far. 257 00:17:03.051 --> 00:17:06.811 I do think that it requires both skills. 258 00:17:07.691 --> 00:17:13.271 You have to be able to put yourself out there and lead a conversation, 259 00:17:14.691 --> 00:17:17.451 and also be willing to step back and listen. 260 00:17:19.011 --> 00:17:20.311 And I think that I can... 261 00:17:20.390 --> 00:17:26.130 both of those things very well. So 262 00:17:26.130 --> 00:17:30.110 the first part, I will say, I definitely be available. 263 00:17:30.730 --> 00:17:35.770 I'm always out in the community, whether I'm walking or anything. I am 264 00:17:35.770 --> 00:17:36.870 so easy to find. 265 00:17:37.310 --> 00:17:42.790 In fact, I've tried hiding and I really sucked at it. So yeah, 266 00:17:43.030 --> 00:17:44.830 it didn't work out. So I'm 267 00:17:44.830 --> 00:17:48.290 good that way. I don't like the word leader. 268 00:17:48.508 --> 00:17:50.348 I really don't like that word. 269 00:17:50.608 --> 00:17:52.228 It sounds so entitled. 270 00:17:52.488 --> 00:17:53.868 I would be a voice. 271 00:17:54.388 --> 00:17:55.508 That is what I mean. 272 00:17:55.848 --> 00:18:00.948 I would be acting on the faith of the people that voted me in and being their 273 00:18:00.948 --> 00:18:03.168 voice at a table of 13 people. 274 00:18:03.928 --> 00:18:05.248 That's my take on it. 275 00:18:05.368 --> 00:18:07.868 I hope that answers yours, but that was the best I could give you. 276 00:18:08.608 --> 00:18:13.608 Thank you. 277 00:18:16.627 --> 00:18:21.707 job as time consuming. We lived here 50 278 00:18:21.707 --> 00:18:27.127 years now and this community has grown huge. And 279 00:18:27.127 --> 00:18:32.687 groups have come and gone and they've all been attributed, 280 00:18:33.047 --> 00:18:34.447 you know, doing really cool 281 00:18:34.447 --> 00:18:39.567 things to this community. They don't have so much anymore 282 00:18:39.567 --> 00:18:42.927 as far as baseball, as far 283 00:18:42.927 --> 00:18:44.667 as baseball tournaments, as far as 284 00:18:44.746 --> 00:18:50.326 as a Toastmasters group, as far as a fitness group, things like we 285 00:18:50.326 --> 00:18:52.066 deteriorated with size 286 00:18:52.066 --> 00:18:57.206 as far as I'm concerned. And I do see this junk behind me that 287 00:18:57.206 --> 00:18:59.426 said, light it up. For 288 00:18:59.426 --> 00:19:04.506 one example, Vernon just made an announcement that they're 289 00:19:04.506 --> 00:19:05.626 not going to renew the lease 290 00:19:05.626 --> 00:19:10.726 on O 'Keeffe Ranch. Vernon has lit it up and I will 291 00:19:10.726 --> 00:19:12.666 sign the petition they've got out there. 292 00:19:13.604 --> 00:19:18.684 Would any of you put the time in to make yourself available to say, 293 00:19:18.884 --> 00:19:24.444 this day, at this time, I'm going to be sitting with a petition to be signed for the RCMP? 294 00:19:25.804 --> 00:19:30.984 That kind of light up. It doesn't have to be everybody from Falkland. It can be 295 00:19:30.984 --> 00:19:33.244 people from everywhere that are concerned. 296 00:19:33.724 --> 00:19:36.604 Our school was a concern, and that goes far in line. 297 00:19:37.744 --> 00:19:39.724 So it's good to take time. 298 00:19:41.803 --> 00:19:46.963 put in to light us up and this guy's right behind me we need to get 299 00:19:46.963 --> 00:19:49.443 lit up we need a big voice 300 00:19:49.443 --> 00:19:55.123 a loud voice but being an area director you 301 00:19:55.123 --> 00:19:58.763 know do you have the time it's going to take 302 00:19:58.763 --> 00:20:04.043 to light us up john start with 303 00:20:04.043 --> 00:20:07.883 you i definitely have the time 304 00:20:09.102 --> 00:20:15.402 I definitely have the energy. I am so ready to get out there. I'm 305 00:20:15.402 --> 00:20:16.242 a Norwegian boy and 306 00:20:16.242 --> 00:20:20.662 this is going to be my fallback and if anybody holds it against me, it's the Norwegian side, 307 00:20:20.762 --> 00:20:24.542 but I like to pick a fight. So I'm definitely going to be there. 308 00:20:33.942 --> 00:20:37.142 Yeah, I think my community help and I can do all of it. 309 00:20:37.220 --> 00:20:41.540 that you're asking for. You heard my pitch, and you know the depth of my 310 00:20:41.540 --> 00:20:46.840 experience in various venues, various organizations. I'm retired 311 00:20:46.840 --> 00:20:47.440 now, but I 312 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:52.800 can still, I still have the energy to employ all 313 00:20:52.800 --> 00:20:53.980 of that training, all that 314 00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:58.060 knowledge, all that education, all that skill, to employ it in the community. 315 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:02.420 That's what I want to do for the next four years, is do that instead of any of 316 00:21:02.420 --> 00:21:04.540 this other stuff that I had been doing. 317 00:21:05.339 --> 00:21:10.559 probably still could be doing if i really wanted to but no i was needed at home i 318 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:11.179 want to stay in 319 00:21:11.179 --> 00:21:16.299 the community and i want to put all my energy towards this community you know 320 00:21:16.299 --> 00:21:17.039 like delirium 321 00:21:20.239 --> 00:21:25.479 i've been asked this question lots of times because i'm a i'm 322 00:21:25.479 --> 00:21:26.939 going to say half single parent 323 00:21:28.819 --> 00:21:33.179 i have a super supportive family and in saying that i 324 00:21:33.458 --> 00:21:38.598 look at this as a really great opportunity to show my daughter 325 00:21:38.598 --> 00:21:40.078 what it's 326 00:21:40.078 --> 00:21:45.838 like to be part of the community this isn't just about me and 327 00:21:45.838 --> 00:21:46.398 it's not just 328 00:21:46.398 --> 00:21:51.718 about me doing this job it's also a really great way for me to show her that 329 00:21:51.718 --> 00:21:56.818 you know I can be a mom and I can also be part 330 00:21:56.818 --> 00:21:58.738 of this big community and 331 00:21:58.738 --> 00:22:01.278 hopefully again really 332 00:22:01.576 --> 00:22:08.696 present people and try to bring the community even closer than it is that's 333 00:22:08.696 --> 00:22:09.556 that's my goal 334 00:22:48.135 --> 00:22:51.835 Well, just living through this summer, I can tell you that I didn't go anywhere. 335 00:22:53.055 --> 00:22:53.795 I didn't. 336 00:22:53.875 --> 00:22:57.735 My mom was at home for most of the time, and I was like, I'm not leaving you here. 337 00:22:57.814 --> 00:23:08.674 yourself to deal with stuff if there's a fire i would 338 00:23:08.674 --> 00:23:14.074 be happy to do that yeah because in 2021 339 00:23:14.074 --> 00:23:18.934 that was my first year here was that year that we got evacuated and that was 340 00:23:20.934 --> 00:23:25.754 it was a disaster like the organization that 341 00:23:25.932 --> 00:23:30.052 happened, trying to get people back in to get their lives gone. 342 00:23:33.032 --> 00:23:38.472 We want to know what you guys are going to actually step up and do in the 343 00:23:38.472 --> 00:23:39.212 role when the 344 00:23:39.212 --> 00:23:44.352 fires come for whatever area your area is, what your goals 345 00:23:44.352 --> 00:23:46.212 are going to be and how you 346 00:23:46.212 --> 00:23:51.412 plan on stepping forward to work with the people to get into access 347 00:23:51.412 --> 00:23:52.432 to the properties 348 00:23:52.432 --> 00:23:53.972 and to... 349 00:23:54.051 --> 00:23:59.971 provide making sure our gas stations are open so that we can get fuel and 350 00:23:59.971 --> 00:24:01.191 to step back and 351 00:24:01.191 --> 00:24:06.631 actually be part of the community and with that it could be also the media aspect 352 00:24:06.631 --> 00:24:07.771 reaching out 353 00:24:07.771 --> 00:24:12.911 to people not depending on silver creek or some other area to deal with 354 00:24:12.911 --> 00:24:14.651 falsing or deep creek or 355 00:24:14.651 --> 00:24:19.851 something else much like how this meeting came about i think that 356 00:24:19.851 --> 00:24:21.291 we need to make sure we have 357 00:24:21.291 --> 00:24:21.891 our presentation 358 00:24:22.170 --> 00:24:27.210 for each area, and that you guys are willing to step up to the plate, 359 00:24:27.330 --> 00:24:28.570 and that's what we 360 00:24:28.570 --> 00:24:31.170 want to know as many of your guys as a game plan. 361 00:24:32.050 --> 00:24:33.190 I hear you. 362 00:24:33.510 --> 00:24:34.290 I hear you. 363 00:24:36.130 --> 00:24:41.350 A lot of the decisions that are made during those fires are 364 00:24:41.350 --> 00:24:43.790 reactive, and there's not 365 00:24:43.790 --> 00:24:45.510 a lot of thought that goes into them. 366 00:24:46.770 --> 00:24:50.070 I would absolutely, in general. 367 00:24:50.288 --> 00:24:54.208 I think the biggest problems that we have in our community is communication. 368 00:24:56.248 --> 00:24:59.908 I don't think that people know what's going on early enough. 369 00:25:00.188 --> 00:25:02.428 I don't think that they have time to react. 370 00:25:02.728 --> 00:25:06.468 And I think that a lot of it is left in your neighbor telling you what's happening. 371 00:25:07.188 --> 00:25:09.948 And I can 100% say that that would not be me. 372 00:25:10.288 --> 00:25:15.448 I would not be the person that's leaving it for my neighbor to tell somebody else what's going on around town. 373 00:25:16.888 --> 00:25:17.968 What would you be? 374 00:25:18.407 --> 00:25:23.407 Would you be willing to step forward to, for instance, who looks after the fires? 375 00:25:26.187 --> 00:25:31.507 Would you be willing to step forward to BC firefighters and say, our 376 00:25:31.507 --> 00:25:36.627 farmers have the water there, we have the sprinklers there, and a 377 00:25:36.627 --> 00:25:41.667 lot of them have the equipment there, and we would like you to let 378 00:25:41.667 --> 00:25:42.427 us go in. 379 00:25:42.587 --> 00:25:44.867 Yes, I agree with you. 380 00:25:46.526 --> 00:25:51.946 the corner was walking with your foreigners those were the people that fought yeah 381 00:25:51.946 --> 00:25:53.106 i agree 382 00:25:53.706 --> 00:25:58.786 and i can tell you we're going to tell them how that was immense like during the 383 00:25:58.786 --> 00:25:59.206 white rock 384 00:25:59.206 --> 00:26:04.726 light fire when we were chasing our house up in the range that was on fire for 35 days 385 00:26:04.726 --> 00:26:09.906 if it wasn't for him standing up and working with us we would have been in a lot of trouble 386 00:26:09.906 --> 00:26:14.506 see we went through the fire last summer when our fire was on 387 00:26:14.644 --> 00:26:20.424 to the bradley creek fire we got absolutely no help whatsoever from 388 00:26:20.424 --> 00:26:22.104 dean trompley or this 389 00:26:22.104 --> 00:26:27.164 yet we worked with the dc cattlemen association and truce so 390 00:26:27.164 --> 00:26:30.264 this is where i'm saying you guys 391 00:26:30.264 --> 00:26:35.284 need to step up and actually take a stand and start fighting for us in this 392 00:26:35.284 --> 00:26:37.204 i agree with you 393 00:26:42.763 --> 00:26:48.203 Well, we can certainly stand up and speak, but, you 394 00:26:48.203 --> 00:26:53.383 know, CSRD has kind of helped us when 395 00:26:53.383 --> 00:26:54.523 it comes to wildfire. 396 00:26:55.403 --> 00:27:00.603 It's out of our hands. You can ask Troy Ricard what the Faulkner Fire Department is 397 00:27:00.603 --> 00:27:01.523 able to do. 398 00:27:01.943 --> 00:27:03.863 When there's a wildfire... 399 00:27:03.863 --> 00:27:08.983 Wildfires are just like wildfires, and I asked him one of you guys, who's wild students and everything, 400 00:27:09.163 --> 00:27:10.523 so he can explain it to you. 401 00:27:10.882 --> 00:27:15.002 I'm talking about getting the permits, when they put the load down. 402 00:27:15.082 --> 00:27:16.822 We're not talking about anything about it. 403 00:27:16.882 --> 00:27:20.642 They're talking about permits, they say, okay, we've loaded down and get the price, 404 00:27:20.762 --> 00:27:23.642 this day, that day, you're going to go and get the permit. 405 00:27:23.902 --> 00:27:26.002 Are you going to make those phone calls for us? 406 00:27:26.162 --> 00:27:27.882 Well, of course. Of course. 407 00:27:28.042 --> 00:27:33.262 The other job is to help in whatever way possible under 408 00:27:33.262 --> 00:27:35.402 extreme circumstances. 409 00:27:36.202 --> 00:27:38.722 I mean, any one of us would do that. 410 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:42.620 But that's that's the nature of the task that we're given 411 00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:54.620 Well, I don't 412 00:27:54.620 --> 00:27:55.720 know what the last thing they did 413 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:30.299 We're going to 414 00:28:30.299 --> 00:28:32.339 kind of pass the fire topic. 415 00:28:32.499 --> 00:28:34.419 I mean, it's obviously a hot topic. 416 00:28:35.238 --> 00:28:37.458 Yes, John will answer that question. 417 00:28:37.778 --> 00:28:39.758 It's a simple, quick answer, I promise, Sabrina. 418 00:28:40.898 --> 00:28:42.538 You asked what steps I'd take. 419 00:28:42.658 --> 00:28:46.278 The first one I would be is calling Renee Talbot to find out what had happened, 420 00:28:46.418 --> 00:28:49.258 to find out exactly what the L.A. did, and Rob gave it back. 421 00:28:49.818 --> 00:28:50.318 All right. 422 00:29:02.658 --> 00:29:03.278 Just a quick answer. 423 00:29:03.356 --> 00:29:08.616 clarify on the RCMP. First of all, Silver Creek 424 00:29:08.616 --> 00:29:12.856 is, half is policed by Salmon Arm, the other half 425 00:29:12.856 --> 00:29:18.256 and Falkland are policed by Vernon. Part of Ranchero D. Creek is 426 00:29:18.256 --> 00:29:20.996 policed by Enderby, the other part 427 00:29:20.996 --> 00:29:26.536 by Salmon Arm. Now, Falkland, there are three dedicated 428 00:29:26.536 --> 00:29:29.836 police officers on paper that are Falkland 429 00:29:29.836 --> 00:29:30.436 members. 430 00:29:31.475 --> 00:29:36.575 Unfortunately, I spent all their time in Henderby, but as an 431 00:29:36.575 --> 00:29:41.915 elected official, whichever one of you gets elected, you will have quarterly meetings 432 00:29:41.915 --> 00:29:47.355 with the RCMP, and you can demand more presence in this community, 433 00:29:47.695 --> 00:29:49.075 as well as Silver Creek. 434 00:29:50.095 --> 00:29:55.715 Unfortunately, Salmon Arm doesn't seem to play very well, but Vernon 435 00:29:55.715 --> 00:29:59.455 has always been pretty good at listening when you attend. 436 00:29:59.594 --> 00:30:05.354 those quarterly meetings. So I just want to clarify on policing because you're two 437 00:30:05.354 --> 00:30:05.654 different 438 00:30:05.654 --> 00:30:12.334 areas. Soundarm, burning. Thank you. All 439 00:30:12.334 --> 00:30:14.034 right. Any other questions anyone else? 440 00:30:19.894 --> 00:30:22.974 I think your mic's a transformer. It's making weird sounds. 441 00:30:37.072 --> 00:30:41.012 All right, if no one else has any more questions, we're going to wrap it up.