BLOG #3 My Community Group

   The Community I chose to talk about in this blog is my home town, Coldstream BC. It is a community connected to Vernon in the Okanagan. Although most don't realize it, Coldstream is considered a complete separate town from Vernon, we have our own Mayor and are classified as our own municipality. It is a pretty cool community; besides the obvious nice weather and famous lakes, it is a place that is different from the average town. It is somewhat of a rural community with most residents having at least an acre of land and are able to have big gardens and animals of all sorts; often you will see people riding their horses down the roads.
  

    I am obviously not in Coldstream and didn't phone the mayor or anything to discuss this, but after talking to family and friends that are also part of Coldstream, I have gathered a couple ideas that we believe would better the Community. Possible opportunities include  more strict rules with people and there horses; often what happens is the horses take dumps on the road and it just sits there until it's washed away by rain, ran over by a car tire or stepped in by a jogger. If there was something passed saying that the horses have to have bags on their butts when walking or the owner has to clean it up after the horse it would make things much cleaner, residents much happier, and shoes much cleaner.


    The main thing that was brought up was the idea of an indoor leisure centre for all ages. The biggest reason for this is that residents of Coldstream have to go to Vernon for an indoor pool and indoor ice rink. If Coldstream was able to get a facility like this it would for sure help the community become more independent not having to rely on Vernon as much, in return I think would Develop Coldstream and its residents. If we could add other aspects to the indoor centre such as a skateboard park as well would also be beneficial to the community because this allows for the younger kids that are into stuff like skate boarding to have a year round facility to utilize. This would also decrease the issues such as smoking and drugs that go on in the outdoor skate parks.

    I think these things are two of the biggest opportunities to improve the community, the first idea would obviously clean things up and make people happier to be part of the Coldstream community, and the second idea would allow us to be more independent and in return allow for residents to become closer. I think there is always room for improvement in all communities and if Coldtream was to accomplish the two main things I mentioned it would be great for our development as a community.