Penticton seeks to be a more inclusive community
RAINBOW CROSSWALKS?
PENTICTON – Penticton City Council wants to be an inclusive community, and they are seeking ways to demonstrate that idea.
Noting the recent installation of rainbow crosswalks in nearby communities such as Princeton, Summerland and Kelowna to demonstrate inclusivity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning community, council recently asked city staff to develop a list of options the city could implement to demonstrate inclusivity throughout the city.
Penticton Mayor Andrew Jakubeit says council hopes to have some strategies within the next month on how to become a more engaging and welcoming community.
“In general, council supports making ourselves more inclusive. We just hadn’t defined what that looked like, Maybe it’s not rainbow sidewalks, maybe it’s something else, maybe it’s a program with youth esteem, maybe it’s working multiculturally, or maybe it’s something else,” he says, adding if the ideas come with a cost attached they will be put forward in the 2016 budget.Rainbow crosswalks would be a relatively inexpensive thing to do, he says.
The city has not been approached by anyone or any organization requesting such an initiative.
To contact the reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
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Mayor Jakubeit and Council – – Please give your heads a ‘shake’ or get them out of the ‘sand’. We lived in Penticton for many years and Penticton welcomed “everyone” regardless of creed, beliefs, etc. Now, to single out a “distinct group” of people only adds to separate/ divide and alienate other groups. Is this another example (poor one at best) of what has been going on South of the 49th – – Left wing. Socialist, Adjenda??? This is/will be a Bad, Bad decision.
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