Local Stuff (January)
Winter Farmers’ Markets:
Vernon: Fridays, 11 – 3 pm, indoors at Kal Tire Place.
Armstrong: Saturdays, 10 – 2 pm, Odd Fellows Hall on Bridge Street.
Lumby: Mon – Thurs, 10 – 5 pm & Sat. - Friday, 10 – 7 pm, indoors at Monashee Co-op.
For more, visit www.monasheecommunitycoop.ca!
Grant Writing Possibility: Use the B.C. Community Climate Funding Guide to initiate, then write proposals for grants that would add heat pumps/improved insulation to a community building such as Vernon’s Seniors Schubert Centre! Let SENS know!
Sponge City Status for Vernon? Ask our leaders to set up infrastructure as part of our OCP to mitigate flood damage and more. Check out this article!
Watersheds: The 16-member Sustainable Funding Work Group has just released a new Strategic Directions Paper, B.C. Watershed Security Fund: A Collaborative Vision, which builds on 5 years of work! 10 strategic directions targeted towards the provincial government are included.