Vernon-Monashee MLA Eric Foster meets with Public Safety Minister Shirley Bond Wednesday to discuss the province's timeline for a provincial correctional centre in the Okanagan. Foster says he's spoken with Lumby Mayor Kevin Acton since last weekend's referendum and is aware council plans to pursue the proposal. Foster says word from the minister might allay some of the uncertainty in communities, like Lumby, split over the jail issue. ``I'm just hoping we can move to the next step in a fairly reasonable time frame,'' says Foster. ``In any of the communities there's going to be those for and those against and for those that are not going to be successful, put that behind them and move on to something else.'' Only 56 percent of Lumby residents voted in favour of a jail in their community while a majority of Area D residents opposed it.
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