Grand Forks

So I made that decision.

I had a little bit of connections out Grand Forks, British Columbia, and, uh, I loaded up and I went.

With that, I decided that I had to start my own electrical contracting company.

This was also another big leap for me because previously I was working with CU- USW.

They gave me the ability to purchase my first home through the RSP contributions throughout those years working.

So I wanted to stay involved somehow.

I arrived in Grand Forks and a couple months later, Tom McLean gave me a call and he said, "Hey, Ben, I hear you moved out west.

How are you liking that?" I'm like, "Hey, it's, it's great, Tom.

Her spare time is spent exploring the edges of the wild for solace, connection, and the challenge of physical endurance.

Sarah resides in Grand Forks, BC with her family, and we are going to dive into her book today called Trauma as Medicine.

Sarah, what a pleasure having you on the show today.

Thank you very much for having me.

i think it's going to be a pretty fun division to watch

no i i completely agree um moving over to the kootenays i mean we got two teams at the bottom here columbia valley i think realistically most of us expected them to finish either fifth or sixth in this division grand forks though a lot of people were concerned in preseason i didn't buy into the concern but is it time to panic yet in grand forks in your opinion

um i mean with what little over 10 percent of the season and i don't really want to start you know panicking yeah um and i mean especially considering that their win did come over bv like you know bv's you know, pretty reputable team in this league.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

But I wonder, whatever devil magic they had to get all good recently just kind of broke down when they had that fire or something like that.

Is that the secret to Grand Forks' success, that one corner in the rink?

Well, hopefully it's all patched up soon there.

And the, the thing was they felt that if they presented their towns as big, giant commercial hubs, they would in fact become big.

And if you look at, if you ever looked at the, the city plan or the town plan for some of the towns in the Kootenays, like Grand Forks always comes to my mind in this regard.

You look at the Grand Forks city plan that they published around the turn of the century, [laughs] it's, it's huge.

Like they, they'd laid out streets way out into the 120th Avenue, kind of gigantic layout, surveyed and everything.

And to this day, most of those streets have never been built.

Right

... come from? Or was it all philanthropic, you know, for centuries?

But the, but, but in, like Rossland and Grand Forks, there was potential for a big population, right?

It's sort of like that.

I mean, obviously, Evie, whether he's in Summerland or Grand Forks or Nelson or Vernon or Comox, will say a few words at the beginning of how great this candidate is or how great this local councillor is, and he's fighting for you and he's fighting and standing up for all the things that we believe in.

But no, I mean, the thing about a provincial election campaign is despite the fact that you have 93 different electoral districts, there is one message, right? People are trying to make you think wholeheartedly about the NDP or the Conservatives or Green or 1BC or Centre BC.

And so it's a very central message that gets tweaked a little bit depending on where you are.

But I heard the same stump speeches in Nelson as I did in Grand Forks, as I did in Okanagan Falls.

You know, this is a campaign that's focused on trying to talk about standing up on positioning themselves as working to take on the big oil and gas companies and big grocers and how you can't trust the Conservatives to do that.

And the more that you talk and get in the weeds about local issues and their particular crime and safety or housing affordability things happening there, the harder it is for that message to resonate in front of cameras and for their social media feeds for the rest of the province.

In a statement, Jamie Nelson, president of Pattison Food Group, says, as a proud BC-based company for more than 111 years, we are a cornerstone in our communities and employ more than 30,000 team members across Western Canada, the majority of whom live and work in British Columbia.

Saturday, while in Grand Forks, EB doubled down.

One, it's true that Jimmy Patterson has done good things.

But it is also true that the big grocery giants in the province, the five big chains, they can actually reduce their price on the basics for British Columbians and still be just fine.

Campaign Director Jennifer Houghton presented the framework to the ministers and senior staff on September 9th and says they were receptive, asking questions rather than nodding along.

The Act was built in Grand Forks and the Boundary Region with scientists, Indigenous communities, retired foresters and residents, and it inverts the government's priority.

Ecology first, timber second.

Houghton calls the sequence Protect, Restore, Harvest.

Play Twister on your 24-hour stream.

What's wrong with you? Is that what you want? Coach Rob will be driving to Penticton tomorrow from Grand Forks.

Nice.

You will get a good laugh.

You got nine teams.

I guess you include Grand Forks.

And maybe even that one's debatable in terms of where the West Kootenays begin.

But you got nine teams that are in the Kootenays.