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additional RCMP members have been requested LOOKING AHEAD
for the Lake Country detachment. “It is vital to have
a proper facility within our growing community to As Mayor Baker looks toward Lake Country’s
accommodate the needs of our first responders,” future over the next 3-5 years, he sees attracting
Baker says. “Our paid-on-call firefighters respond to commercial and light industrial businesses to the
fires, medical emergencies, motor vehicle accidents, area as key to its long-term development.
ice rescue and marine rescue.”
According to Baker, municipalities like Lake Country
The siting of the new Multi-Generational have a limited tax base and rely on residential
Activity Facility will allow for inter-generational property tax increases each year to keep up with
programming between youth and seniors. infrastructure projects and other community
According to Mayor Baker, the facility will provide needs. “Council recently approved rezoning
a permanent home for the Lake Country Boys properties within the community as a key step
and Girls Club in a centrally located, accessible towards attracting commercial and light industrial
location. “The increase in community space overall businesses to the community,” Baker says, which
will provide a place for complementary activities provides more jobs and contributes up to five-times
and groups, build on the offerings of the recreation more tax dollars when compared to residential
complex and ensure families in Lake Country have taxation.
the support they need,” Baker says. www.lakecountry.bc.ca
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