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Lake Country, BC – The Canadian Award for Financial Reporting has been awarded to the District of Lake Country by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for its 2017 annual financial report.  Mayor James Baker presented the Award to Chief Financial Officer Tanya Garost at the Regular Council Meeting February 19, 2019. 
As the individual primarily responsible for preparing the award-winning report, Tanya Garost...
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Lake Country, BC – The Lake Country Film Committee has started offering movies at the Creekside Theatre for 2019. 
The new film group is a committee of the Lake Country Arts Council. They would like to bring more film festival variety of pop culture and documentary films to audiences in Lake Country. The aim is to schedule movies on the second Tuesday of each month through the winter, spring and fall.
Shut Up and Say Something was shown to movie-goers...
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Parks crews and a specialist contractor are pruning trees and removing ladder fuels in Jack Seaton Park during February as part of a wildfire fuel reduction strategy in the urban interface zone -- part of the next steps after inspections completed following the 2017 Okanagan Centre Fire.
The work is scheduled during a window of time for tree removal with the least impact to nesting raptors. Every burnt tree from the fire affected area will NOT be removed. Yearly inspections...
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Hot on the heels of a record-setting building and development year in Lake Country ($94,944,517 in Building Permit values in 2018), the District of Lake Country hosted a “ Breakfast with the Building Inspector ” event Thursday morning, January 10 th for the local building and construction community. 
The Community Development department has been seeking input from builders and industry partners throughout the process of drafting the new Building Regulation...
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It's not always convenient for citizens to attend scheduled Budget discussion meetings of Council at Municipal Hall but everyone wants to know more and understand how their tax dollars are being used in the community.
An online Citizen Budget simulator tool has been launched to make it easy and convenient for Lake Country citizens to provide some feedback and input on their priorities and how they would reduce or increase the budget in certain areas of the services provided...
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