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In the story “Trails of Mount Harry Davis temporarily closed,” published in the Houston Today June 7 issue, the Houston Mountain Bike Association (HMBA) and Recreation Sites and Trails B.C. announced on May 17 that the trails were temporarily closed due to saturated soils for the heavy rain fall.

On June 7 at the Jamie Baxter Park baseball diamond, around 10 six to eight year olds practice their baseball “break” position where they have the baseball in their mitt and their elbow raised properly to throw. The kids tried to distract and convince their coaches to let them as they pleased, asking why they had to do this, and trying to run off on their own. But the coaches kept them in line saying, “If you don’t listen, you don’t get to bat.”

Alumni Houston secondary girl’s rugby game at Houston Secondary School on June 5. Former rugby players of Houston Secondary School (HSS) came out to the HSS pitch to play a friendly game against the current fifth place AA provincial rugby champions. A total of 21 girls played a mixed game consisting of alumni and current athletes of HSS to form two teams. Smiles and laughs were across every face as the girls raced across the field and tackled one another onto the ground.

Looking through the power sharing agreement between B.C.’s two ambitious opposition parties, it’s difficult to see what the three-member B.C. Greens gain in supporting the 41-member B.C. NDP.Bridge tolls are one example. Green leader Andrew Weaver campaigned to keep them, and proposed expanding the user-pay principle to other big infrastructure, such as a second crossing of Okanagan Lake at Kelowna. Tolls are also way to get more people onto public transit.

Several concerns to construction

NDP leader John Horgan says he’s willing to meet with Premier Christy Clark on the transition to a new minority government, which he said is being “delayed unduly” while the B.C. Liberals reconvene the legislature.

On June 6 at the District of Houston council meeting, an update about the Hwy. 16 revitalization project was presented.

The Houston Link to Learning will be running a second Bond to Literacy course this summer after the success and positive feedback they received running the program the first time this year.

Houston resident, Simon Jeffery, while working on his travel trailer at the Silverthorne Trailer Park when he spotted this doe with an antler and snapped a photo of it on June 6. This is a very rare sight, normally doe deer do not grow antlers. An article by Geroge Wislocki published by the American Society of Mammalogists said, “Antlered does usually bear small, poorly developed irregular “freak” antlers which can remain in the most part permanently in the velvet without being shed.

Avery Bell, a former Houston resident, won first place at the College of New Caledonia (CNC) Regional Skills Competition in the secondary level of the national championships for cabinetmaking in Winnipeg, Manitoba.