photo by Olga Standidge
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Happiness is walking out your front door on a sunny winter day, putting on skis, and skiing with a friend, enjoying companionship and the beautiful mountain scenery right in our own neighbourhood. Life at Grandview Heights is truly "Grand". ~ Helga ~
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United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year 2012 the International Year of Co-operatives
Co-operatives in Canada: Facts and figures
Co-operatives have more than a billion members around the world and more than 18 million members in Canada.
There are more than 9,000 co-operatives in Canada, with more than 155,000 employees and more than $370 billion in assets (2011).
Co-ops operate in virtually every sector of the Canadian economy, including financial services (credit unions), retail, agriculture, housing, health care and energy.
Co-operatives have existed in Canada for about 150 years. Agricultural and consumer co-operatives were created in the 19th century, and Canada's first credit union was established by Alphonse Desjardins in Lévis, Quebec in 1900.
In 2008, the most recent year figures are available, the world's 300 largest co-operatives generated revenues of USD 1.6 trillion - equivalent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the world's ninth largest economy. Eight of the world's 300 largest co-operatives are Canadian.
The Canadian co-operative movement works closely with partners in developing countries to help reduce poverty through the creation and strengthening of co-operatives. There are four Canadian organizations which focus on international co-operative development: the Canadian Co-operative Association, SOCODEVI, Développement international Desjardins and Rooftops Canada.
Kootenay Columbia Seniors Housing Cooperative (KCSHC) was represented at the regional launch in Nelson on Jan 12th, Kootenay Co-op Radio hosted a breakfast gathering of the cooperatives from UCCC. A video of our October 2011 celebration in Nelson was shown and will be presented at a future General Meeting of KCSHC.
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Radon Remediation
Radon, an invisible gas, poses a health hazard in many areas and here at Grandview we take the risk very seriously. The recently built duplexes and bungalows have been built to control this risk but the buildings constructed previously in Phase One do not. This is now being rectified.
A program was initiated in the Summer of 2011 to lower the detectable levels of radon and the work has continued in spite of the snow.
The workers are venting radon from the crawl space out through the roof for dispersal. The remediation is progressing from unit to unit.
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