Mayor’s Report

I’m sitting at my desk in the beautiful Chetwynd Centre that the good people of Chetwynd built in their wisdom to represent some of the community values we cherish. I’m doing a mind exercise, attempting to capture some ideas in print. It’s not ever easy to roll out my weekly column. Some weeks I just…

March 28, 2018   Education. Training. Skills development. Preparation for satisfying employment. What is it that we need, want, can’t live without here in the North East? What do we need in Chetwynd? What have we had here in Chetwynd in decades past? What has disappeared in the last twenty years? In trying to remember,…

March 21, 2018   Recent days have spoken to us of coming spring. Snow is (or was) melting; claims of sightings of robins have stirred our urges to pour over the seed catalogues and do a quick survey of our summer gear. Although the cold months seemed to drag, winter has almost passed us by,…

March 14, 2018   It will have been about three years by the time you read this column – for those who can remember. Way back then (it almost seems like prehistory) Chetwynd was going through a sort of crisis. The District of Chetwynd had just completed the building of the Clinic and staffing the…

March 7, 2018   Congratulations, Chetwynd, we’ve just received the Open for Business Award for communities in our category. This means that this Most Charming Community (another award we have recently received) is also friendly and welcoming to business. It’s a commendable accomplishment to balance liveability and business and I want all you business owners…

February 28, 2018   The old dog soon will run no more. It will be a sad day when we look in eager expectation of the regular appearance of the big grey dog, sure that he is coming, but he doesn’t come. We will call and wait and call again, but he does not appear….

February 21, 2018   I was driving about town today, didn’t seem to have a care in the world, and noticed the enormous piles of snow in just about every blank space. Can’t remember the last time the snow came so energetically, so utterly beautifully, for so long, to pile up so deep and wide….

February 14, 2018   How many young Chetwynd men in grade seven aspire to a career in nursing? I mean the nursing in which, as time goes on you mature and grow confident in your profession and become skilled and knowledgeable to the extent that other health professionals actually will turn to you for advice…

February 7, 2018   Are we a literate tribe or not? Literate or not literate, that is the question. Let’s say, for the sake of friendly debate, that we are not a fully literate tribe. Let’s say that the folks over in the Dawson Creek tribe are more literate than we are. Are we okay…

January 31, 2017   The fifteenth annual Premier’s Natural Resources Conference did not fail to entertain as well as inform. Be assured that I am not referring to entertainment that might have come with the gala dinner on Tuesday evening – or was it on Wednesday evening? I didn’t attend. My patience for that type…