North Cariboo resident, Heloise Dixon-Warren, has decided to drop her name into the bucket and let her name stand for the elected position of Cariboo Regional District Area B Director. After living and working in the Bouchie Lake / Milburn Lake area for the last 9 ½ years, Dixon-Warren feels she is sufficiently aware of the local and regional issues to act upon them and make a difference.
Since relocating to the North Cariboo from Houston, British Columbia, with her husband, Ted, and their two school aged girls, Dixon-Warren, a Register Professional Forester, has focused her efforts on raising their girls and building a strong and viable farm based business (www.moosemeadowsfarm.ca), while serving the community in many ways through volunteer based not-for-profit groups. Dixon-Warren is a founding member of FARMED (North Cariboo Agricultural Marketing Association / www.farmed.ca) which now has a membership of 26 individuals and agri-based businesses and organizations. Dixon-Warren has also been actively involved with the British Columbia Agritourism Alliance, Quesnel Agricultural & Exhibition Association, Quesnel Pony Club, District H Farmers Institute, the Bouchie Lake Recreation Commission, Baker to Bouchie Network, and most recently is a founding member of the Due West Dancers. Although Dixon-Warren continues to practice forestry, her primary interest now lies in non-timber forest products, agro-forestry and agricultural diversification. She has recently been a guest speaker at several workshops and conferences focused on sustainability and diversification. In 2008, she was appointed to the BC Assessment Farm Assessment Review Panel to review how farm land in classified in BC. This panel met regularly and provided recommendations to the province as to how the farm land classification system could be revised. She has recently been a guest speaker at several
Dixon-Warren is a strong advocate of creating a economic and environmental climate whereby communities become increasingly sustainable, food security issues are addressed, populations become healthier and services provided by government which we, as taxpayers pay for, are easily and readily available. Dixon-Warren believes in having access to resources and services close to home so that we reduce our carbon footprint, become more “green”, not have to travel so much on roads, and create strong local communities whereby we know our neighbours.
If elected to the position of CRD Area B Director, Dixon-Warren will commit to working hard in hopes of achieving the following goals:
(i) To work closely with the residents of Area B and to listen closely to their concerns, hopes, and values;
(ii) To liaise with Area B groups to facilitate actions and goals within the mandate set by the CRD;
(iii) To inform myself of the issues affecting Area B residents so as to fully understand any concerns and to work diligently with them and for them so together issues can be resolved and solutions set forth;
(iv) To work closely with both the other Directors of the CRD and City of Quesnel in terms of how bylaws and policies affect Area B residents including those which are impacted by the Quesnel Fringe Official Community Plan;
(v) To undertake respectful dialogue and debate at all times and lobby appropriate levels of government, when applicable;
(vi) To be part of a community, both urban and rural, which works towards being sustainable, green, community based which results in an area which is successful and a wonderful place to work, live and recreate.
Area B is referred to as “Quesnel West / Bouchie Lake” and encompasses an area of 1,419 km2 and has a population of approximately 4,338. Communities located within this area are as follows: Bouchie Lake, Milburn Lake, parts of Baker Creek, Parkland, Moose Heights, and Cinema. CRD Services provided in this area include the following: Local Services (Bouchie Lake Fire, Ten Mile Lake Fire Protection, Pacific Rd. Street Lighting), Sub-Regional Services (Quesnel Sub-Regional Recreation, North Cariboo Cemetaries, North Cariboo Economic Development), and Regional Services (Land Use Planning, Weed Control, Waste Management, Building Inspection, Bylaw Enforcement, Library System, Corporate Administration, and Electoral Area Administration)
Heloise Dixon-Warren, Candidate for Area B CRD Director
Home: 250.249.5329 / email: mmfarm@goldcity.net
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