NDP leader and Official Opposition Leader Adrian Dix made several stops in the East Kootenay last weekend, beginning with a fundraising reception at the Prestige Rocky Mountain Resort in Cranbrook Nov. 9.

Later, 250 party backers from around the Kootenay East and Columbia River-Revelstoke ridings paid $20 a ticket for ‘An Evening With Adrian Dix,’ to hear him deliver a state of the province oratory and to get to know the amicable and approachable Vancouver-Kingsway MLA better.

The next day, Dix was off to Fernie and Sparwood with Kootenay East candidate Norma Blissett for gatherings at The Art Station and USW Local 9346.

That evening  he attended the Kootenay ICE game with Blissett.

City of Fernie Mayor Mary Giuliano told e-KNOW she was impressed by both Dix and Blissett, who she admitted she didn’t know much about.

Giuliano said she was duty-bound to attend the Fernie gathering as Dix could become the next premier of the province.

“It’s always good to make contacts,” she said.

Dix spoke about a variety of subjects while in the region but pressed home the need for the provincial government to try and address municipal infrastructure funding, echoing concerns expressed by the Union of B.C. Municipalities earlier this autumn, that a new formula must be established to help the ever-more hard-pressed municipalities tackle mounting infrastructure requirements.

Top photo: Mary Giuliano with Adrian Dix and Norma Blissett.

Ian Cobb/e-KNOW

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