It was a week to remember - the Chilcotin River slide, health care rally, Olympics, more wildfires, etcetera. One news story caught me off guard, farmers giving away ugly potatoes because people won’t buy them. I don’t know any ugly potatoes. Or handsome ones.
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Even with all our modern technology, Mother Nature can best us any time she chooses with wildfires, floods, droughts - whatever.
Even when we humans have a hand in starting a problem (such as fires), she usually butts in and we’re left with the mess. She took a whack at us last week with a massive landslide in the Chilcotin River at Farwell Canyon. Some blame logging, some blame wildfire, some blame Trudeau for the slide, but the area is known for slides. The Tsilhqot’in name for the place is Nagwentled – the place of landslides. There have been two slides there in recent history.
After several anxious days with everyone fearing the worst, the river breached the slide, and as I write this on Monday, water and debris reached the Fraser River but so far no catastrophes. Everyone is keeping their fingers crossed.
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According to reports, some 250 people attended the health rally Friday hosted by MLA Lorne Doerkson. BC Conservative leader John Rustad was among the politicians and dignitaries who were on hand to discuss the health service issues in our community. (I wasn’t there, not for lack of interest, but my wheelchair limits my mobility.)
The rally is Step #1. Gordon Campbell created the system in 2001. It has been rejigged a few times since but times and needs change. We need to find out why the system isn’t managing the delivery of health services in a satisfactory manner. Can’t solve a problem until you know what’s causing it.
