Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
It’s been a busy couple of months for the Osoyoos Lake Water Quality Board (OLWQB) with a shift to a new moorage, changing board composition and the annual yellow fish stencilling around town. The best news of all was the granting of a complementary berth at the Sunrise Marina for OLWQB’s 5.8 metre water quality monitoring pontoon boat by the Town of Osoyoos.
