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.
A Bashaw property owner wants the Town of Bashaw to do more with a serious drainage problem on her property. Hazel Brooks, 82, who’s lived at her current property since 2011, told the ECA Review in a July 15 phone interview that she owns two adjacent lots which had no serious drainage issues before the construction of a major new building in town. “Before this new school was built, there was no problem,” said Brooks, who added she never noticed water problems on her property until 2016.
