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From the meeting of April 12, 2021
Update from the Mayor
Mayor Pranger along with Councillor Spaeti volunteered at the mass COVID-19 Vaccination clinics held at Agricultural Hall.
“Agassiz is really stepping up to make sure this vaccination clinic is successful.”
“Be kind, be safe and shop local!”
Special Thank You to Clinic Volunteers
In her report, Councillor Spaeti sent a special thank you to Ed Arndt from the Agassiz Legion and Bonnie Breckenridge of the Kent Harrison Senior Social Society for gathering their members to volunteer at the COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics. The volunteers greeted people, disinfected chairs, and helped to make the clinics run smoothly.
At the clinics held on April 1st and 7th at Agricultural Hall, 350 people were vaccinated at each clinic. Agassiz is fortunate to have the Wednesday mass vaccination clinics for the general age-based vaccinations as well as both Shoppers Drug Mart and Remedy’s Rx Pharmacy providing vaccinations to the 55- to 65-year-old population.
Welcome to PowerWood
Mayor Pranger was joined by Councillor Spaeti in welcoming the owners of PowerWood.
The company will be re-locating from Surrey, while some of their employees will be re-locating, they will also be looking to hire additional workers. The raw cedar wood processing plant will produce kiln dried wood products and operate on the property located on Tower Road, historically operated as Britco and Metric Modular.
Interested in learning more, visit: powerwood.com.
“Welcome to Mr. J. Powers and his family, we are happy to welcome a new business to our community.”
Stronger BC Invasive Plant Training
Council approved the manual treatment of invasive plants along District dikes as part of a training program for StongerBC invasive plant crews.
The Province has allocated some of the StrongerBC funding to the Invasive Species Council of BC (ISCBC). A portion of that funding will go towards a jobs training program. The ISCBC will be hiring a team of 4 crew members for 4 months and training them to learn how to conduct invasive species management. There is expected to be one team placed in the Fraser Valley. As the crews will be new to the world of invasive species control, these sites need to be in safe locations but also provide learning opportunities. The locations must be on public land and cannot replicate work that is being done already.
The District of Kent dikes have some invasive species such as tansy ragwort and blueweed which are not typically treated as part of our invasive plant program, which is heavily focused on the more aggressive and difficult to control knotweed species. This will be an opportunity to treat some of the less noxious but still undesirable weed species along our dikes. Training is estimated to start in late April or early May and is expected to last a couple of weeks.
To learn more about the Invasive Species Council of BC, please visit their website at bcinvasives.ca.
If you would like to know more about invasive species in the District of Kent, please visit: kentbc.ca/en/living-here/invasive-plants.aspx.
Discount Days Are Here!
Registration opened on April 12th for the Spring & Summer 2021 Recreation Activities Guide. Discount Days will run from April 12 through 15th, 2021 where participants registering early for youth recreation programs at the Community Recreation and Cultural Centre will receive a 10% discount.
The first two Discount Days (April 12 – 13) will be offered to Kent residents and our Indigenous communities. The final two days (April 14 – 15) will also be available to non-residents.
Visit our website to view the Spring & Summer Activities Guide at kentbc.ca/
BC Hydro Community ReGreening Grant
The District of Kent was awarded $900 for Tree Replacement Program. The grant funds will be used to replace trees damaged during a windstorm earlier in the year in Centennial Park.
The District has been a past recipient of the Community ReGreening Program which saw the ongoing beautification of the Valley View Cemetery with the planting of 9 Crimson Maples and 4 Autumn Blaze Maples along the cemetery pathways.
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