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Not forgottenBarney Bernard, representing Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #137, salutes before laying a wreath at the downtown cenotaph during Mondays Remembrance Day services. See page 3 for more pictures and www.campbellrivermirror.com for a video review of the event.

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Its all going underground.Thats the word from BC Hydro

and contractor SNC-Lavalin Inc. regarding the $1 billion project to replace the John Hart Generating Station.

The replacement facility will improve power reliability and seis-mic safety, and make it easier for BC Hydro to protect fish habitat in an area of the world renowned for its salmon, said BC Hydro spokesman Stephen Watson in a news release.

On Tuesday morning, BC Hydro announced that Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin had been selected as the preferred contractor following a 19-month-long bidding process.

The biggest surprise though was news the generating station would also go underground. Hydro had already planned to build a 2.1-kilo-metre tunnel to replace the wood-stave pipelines that bring water from John Hart Lake to the generating sta-tion.

But when everythings complete by 2018, the ugly concrete generat-ing station that now sits at the head of the river will be gone for good.

According to the plan, the new generating station and turbines will be built 70-100 metres underground and about 500 metres up General Hill from the existing power plant.

Once the water passes through

the station it will continue through the remaining section of the tunnel at low velocity and discharge into the river at the entrance to Elk Falls Canyon, said Watson.

Two of the three big surge tow-ers currently in place will have to come down. The third one will be left because it supports communi-cations equipment and will act as a landmark for pilots approaching Campbell River Airport.

The announcement also comes at a good time for SNC-Lavalin, one of the worlds leading engineering and construction groups. In the third quarter of 2013, the company reported losses of $72.7 million.

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n Work will begin in 2014 and will be complete by the end of 2018.n The project is budgeted at $940

million.n It will create an average of about

400 jobs per year over the five years of construction. BC Hydro will be working with the contractor on their construction plan and the forecasted job projections.n You can check out construc-

tion progress at BC Hydros project interpretive centre which opened this week at the new parking lot by Elk Falls. The centre is open Tues-days and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The days and hours of opera-

New hydro station goes underground tooMontreal-based SNC-Lavalin selected as contractor for $1 billion project

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Not forgottenBarney Bernard, representing Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #137, salutes before laying a wreath at the downtown cenotaph during Mondays Remembrance Day services. See page 3 for more pictures and www.campbellrivermirror.com for a video review of the event.


Its all going underground.Thats the word from BC Hydro

and contractor SNC-Lavalin Inc. regarding the $1 billion project to replace the John Hart Generating Station.

The replacement facility will improve power reliability and seis-mic safety, and make it easier for BC Hydro to protect fish habitat in an area of the world renowned for its salmon, said BC Hydro spokesman Stephen Watson in a news release.

On Tuesday morning, BC Hydro announced that Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin had been selected as the preferred contractor following a 19-month-long bidding process.

The biggest surprise though was news the generating station would also go underground. Hydro had already planned to build a 2.1-kilo-metre tunnel to replace the wood-stave pipelines that bring water from John Hart Lake to the generating sta-tion.

But when everythings complete by 2018, the ugly concrete generat-ing station that now sits at the head of the river will be gone for good.

According to the plan, the new generating station and turbines will be built 70-100 metres underground and about 500 metres up General Hill from the existing power plant.

Once the water passes through

the station it will continue through the remaining section of the tunnel at low velocity and discharge into the river at the entrance to Elk Falls Canyon, said Watson.

Two of the three big surge tow-ers currently in place will have to come down. The third one will be left because it supports communi-cations equipment and will act as a landmark for pilots approaching Campbell River Airport.

The announcement also comes at a good time for SNC-Lavalin, one of the worlds leading engineering and construction groups. In the third quarter of 2013, the company reported losses of $72.7 million.

Fast Facts

n Work will begin in 2014 and will be complete by the end of 2018.n The project is budgeted at $940

million.n It will create an average of about

400 jobs per year over the five years of construction. BC Hydro will be working with the contractor on their construction plan and the forecasted job projections.n You can check out construc-

tion progress at BC Hydros project interpretive centre which opened this week at the new parking lot by Elk Falls. The centre is open Tues-days and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The days and hours of opera-

New hydro station goes underground tooMontreal-based SNC-Lavalin selected as contractor for $1 billion project

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As hundreds of people gathered around the cenotaph Monday morning to pay their respects, brand-new street signs not far away were honouring our vet-erans too.

The street blades, which proclaim a por-tion of 11th Avenue as Veterans Way, were put up by the city on Friday,

just in time for Remem-brance Day.

They are installed on the light standards at the intersection of 11th and Cedar and the corner of Shoppers Row and 11th Ave., said Drew Had-field, the citys transpor-tation manager.

While the new street blades are up, Veterans Way does not replace the name 11th Avenue. Rather, Veterans Way is an honourary, or co-

name, for the portion of 11th Avenue from Cedar Street to the four-way stop at Shoppers Row.

The intent was to have the name on the same street as the Royal Canadian Legion and on the road that leads up to the cenotaph in Spirit Square.

The suggestion was first brought to council by Mayor Walter Jake-way shortly after last years Remembrance

Day ceremony.Council had consid-

ered legally changing the name from 11th Avenue to Veterans Way but city staff suggested council go with the honourary name to avoid change of address costs for the Legion, Uptown Willies, Britches and Hose Vin-tage Clothing, and the Community Centre.

Legally changing the name would have also required the city create a new legal plan for the block and would have presented mapping issues for emergency responders, utility com-panies, and GPS devices.

Hadfield told coun-cil last month that the honourary name change would be far simpler.

The process of making an honourary name change would be limited to the cost of the signage; and would not create a small seg-ment of an existing road being legally known under a different name, Hadfield said. Sign blades could be custom designed to provide the prominence of this hon-ourary section of 11th Avenue.

The name blades cost the city approximately $500.

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One bridge will lead to another.

Thats the plan at Elk Falls Provincial Park where a new BC Hydro-funded br idge just opened and that will lead to the building of a suspension bridge by the Campbell River Rotary Club.

Hydro does listen. They pulled all the peo-ple together and collabo-rated over the last five to six year, said city coun-cillor Andy Adams.

Adams and Coun. Ron Kerr joined members of the BC Hydro commu-nity liaison committee, BC Parks and contrac-tors last Wednesday for a first walk across the 120-foot bridge that spans the woodstave pipelines.

But first some back-ground:

Starting next year, BC Hydro will begin a nearly $1 billion project to replace the woodstave pipelines that transfer water from John Hart Lake to the generating station with a 2.1-kilo-metre tunnel that will run down General Hill to a brand new generat-

ing station.Thats required some

rerouting of two popular hiking trails, the Canyon View and the one leading to the falls itself.

In September, the Sta-tion View bypass trail opened on the Canyon View. It takes hikers up and around the generat-ing station construction site, and will be open for the five-year project period.

Also this fall, BC Hydro built a new and improved parking lot for Elk Falls sightseers, and that sits beside a new interpretive centre. The parking lot replaces the current parking lot which will no longer be accessible when Brews-ter Lake closes by John Hart Dam. And the cen-tre features the history of power generation and includes current project updates.

On Tuesday, another key component to the new Elk Falls route offi-cially opened. A short

trail leads from the parking area to the new bridge which spans the three pipelines, and that connects with the cur-rent trail system.

As well, BC Hydro and Parks have decided to permanently keep the new parking area because of the new sus-pension bridge.

This parking area was key for us in getting approval for the suspen-sion bridge, said Rotar-ian Lorrie Bewza, chair of the Elk Falls Suspen-sion Bridge Project.

The 90-metre bridge is expected to open in June 2014.

It will hang 60 metres above the canyon floor and provide spectacular views of the 25-metre falls.

This project wil l showcase one of Camp-bell Rivers most spec-tacular natural wonders, Bewza said during a pre-vious interview.

The bridge spanning the pipelines was built

in Ontario for Caliber Bridge and Design Ltd. of Campbell River.

We wanted three B.C. firms to bid on the bridge, but they were all too busy so we had to go elsewhere. I guess that means the economy is doing well, said Mark McCarthy, a Caliber engineer.

There were several challenges in getting the bridge in place. First and foremost was to shore up both sides so that a potential disaster wouldnt allow the bridge to damage the pipelines. There were also consid-erations given to fibre optics, power lines, roads and more.

Finally, two cranes were brought in to lower the bridge into place.

The bridge went were it was supposed to go! said BC Hydro spokes-man Stephen Watson, who added that the trail leading to the new bridge is wheelchair accessible with no more than a five per cent grade.

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tion will depend on pub-lic interest, the season, and the various stages of the project. The centre features wall panels and an interpretive touch screen that covers John Harts history, present operation, construction activities and future look. The centre is located off Brewster Lake Road.n BC Hydro, on behalf

of SNC-Lavalin, is pro-viding general contact information for people or companies looking for subcontracting opportu-nities, jobs, supplies and accommodation support. E-mail [email protected] or fax 604-331-4644.

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Bridging efforts in Elk Falls Provincial Park

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Two cranes hoist a new 120-foot-long bridge into place near Elk Falls. The bridge spans BC Hydros woodstave pipelines and is part of the project to replace the generating station.


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The city says it will make changes to the corner at St. Anns and Shoppers Row after wit-nessing bus drivers try-ing to navigate the nar-row turn.

In early October, shortly after St. Anns was re-opened to traffic, the Mirror reported that transit drivers often have to turn into the oncom-ing traffics left turn lane on St. Anns in order to make the right-hand turn onto St. Anns from Shoppers Row.

At the t ime, Ron Neufeld, the citys gen-eral manager of opera-tions, said the city was interested to hear con-cerns and feedback and that the St. Anns inter-section was still under construction. Nearly a month later, Neufeld said he sees that changes could be made.

In response to some of the comments we were hearing about the intersection of Shop-pers Row and St. Anns, we did some field test-ing with our city transit buses to determine if

minor adjustments to the curbing could be made to improve turning move-ments, Neufeld said. This process helped identify a few simple adjustments that we will be making to the curb at the intersection while the project is still under con-struction.

Construction crews are still looking at how best to improve the corner but options include shav-ing or reducing the curb angle where it juts out at the bottom of St. Anns.

St. Anns was closed to traffic from July to early October while the city dug up the road to make improvements to underground infrastruc-ture such as storm pipes,

water mains, and sewer pipes.

During construction, Mayor Walter Jakeway sent an e-mail to council on Sept. 11 suggesting the layout of the curbs and islands may need to be adjusted before paving began.

But Jakeway said noth-ing was done, paving went ahead and the road was subsequently re-opened.

It wasnt long before Jakeway started receiv-ing complaints from the public.

Council needs to make a big noise and the public needs to make a big noise, Jakeway stressed in early October. Its foolishness. So they should yell and scream and maybe theyll make the roads wider.

Now it seems Jakeway is getting his wish.

But while improve-ments appear to be on the horizon, Neufeld said it will still be awhile.

We have asked the contractor to include these adjustments in their work plan, but of course, we are still giv-ing priority to getting the roadwork completed

on Alder, Beech and Dubeau, Neufeld said. Once these roads are re-opened to traffic, we will have the opportunity to go back to the intersec-tion of Shoppers Row and St. Anns to make the adjustments to the curb.

Alder Street is cur-rently closed to traffic between St. Anns and 10th Avenue while Beech and Dubeau also remain closed. Paving, however, is mostly complete on the Dubeau alley behind CIBC. The $4.05 million project is expected to last into the New Year.


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Out of all the underwater clean-ups that have taken place across the country, guess where the most

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Candles, plants, small figurines and rocks adorn many of the graves in the citys two cemeteries.But those mementos will have to be removed following a decision by the city to enforce a bylaw which restricts any items other than flow-ers from being placed at grave sites.Those who have such items on graves have nine months to remove them.Ross Milnthorp, the citys general manager of parks, recreation and culture, said concerns from cem-etery crews, funeral directors and other plot owners are forcing the citys hand.

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Out of all the underwater clean-ups that have taken place across the country, guess where the most

garbage was found?If you picked Campbell Rivers McIvor Lake, you win an old beer can!Over the last four months, Canadive has organized shoreline

and underwater cleanups across Canada.Saturday was Campbell Rivers turn as the national organization turned to a local business, Beaver Aquatics, to organize the clean-up.

A dozen people in wetsuits and dive gear took the plunge in the picturesque lake which isnt so pretty in certain areas below the surface.

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Candles, plants, small figurines and rocks adorn many of the graves in the citys two cemeteries.But those mementos will have to be removed following a decision by the city to enforce a bylaw which restricts any items other than flow-ers from being placed at grave sites.Those who have such items on graves have nine months to remove them.Ross Milnthorp, the citys general manager of parks, recreation and culture, said concerns from cem-etery crews, funeral directors and other plot owners are forcing the citys hand.

While the citys cemetery bylaw stipulates that only floral arrange-ments may be placed at a grave site, we recognize that people have dif-ferent ways to mark the passing of a loved one, and over the last several decades, the bylaw has not been con-sistently enforced, said Milnthorp. As a result, extensive adornment of graves at both city cemeteries has

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Our municipalities and province likely wont be using Internet voting to help determine election results anytime soon. That doesnt mean we wont eventually be using

such a method to cast our ballots in future.

An independent panel tasked by Elections B.C. to study Internet voting recommended that any such system not be implemented in time for the upcoming municipal election, nor the next B.C. vote.

But it did suggest that a technical committee be struck to look into the matter further and that the legislature

should support jurisdictions that wish to pursue the option in future.

The preliminary report offered less than lukewarm support for the idea. It confirmed that making voting easier for people in this way those who are incapacitated, cant work a trip to their local polling station into their schedule, or are too lazy to do so come to mind has not been shown in other jurisdictions to significantly increase voter turnout.

Increasing voter turnout at any level still comes down to individuals and parties doing the legwork and convincing non-voters of the importance of getting engaged in their communities, and potentially making a

difference through casting their ballot.That said, the world is fast becoming an all-digital

environment, where computers and cellphones can be used for virtually any transaction.

While the report states the current system of voting is trusted by those who vote, that factor will become less meaningful as time goes on and generations that have grown up with technology become our communities core voters. We may not have the most efficient or system-improving Internet voting experiences to draw from yet, but now is the best time to begin investigating this option, to be ready for when it is the best alternative.

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Did you know, falls account for 85 per cent of all injuries among seniors in B.C. and are the main reason why older adults lose their independence?

When seniors fall, the consequences can be serious. In fact, falls were the leading cause of injury deaths among B.C. seniors in 2010. Increased fall risk can occur for a vari-ety of reasons, usually from a lack of balance or inability to recover balance due to age-related physical or mental health problems, impaired mobility or vision, a reaction to medication(s), or slip and trip hazards. Falls usually happen at home, and women over 65 years are 2.3 times more likely to be hospitalized for a fall-related injury then menmany of these involve hip fractures. Nearly 1-in-10 hospitalizations among B.C. seniors were due to a fall last year and 40 percent of fall-related hospitalizations involved a hip fracture.Approximately one quarter of older adults who live independently prior to a hip fracture may need to live in a facility for a period of time following a fall-related fracture. A contributing factor is that seniors may become afraid of falling, so they restrict their activities and this can lead to weak muscles, stiff joints and poor balance, resulting in more falls.

The good news is that most falls are predictable and can be prevented by taking simple steps to reduce fall risk. To raise awareness about the importance of reducing falls and related injuries among B.C.s aging population and to encourage leadership and collaboration across the province, BC supports seniors fall prevention by proclaiming the first week in November as Seniors Fall Prevention Awareness Week.

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Untangling the mess of oil pipeline politicsReaction was swift and scattered after

the framework agreement on new oil pipelines announced last week by B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Pre-mier Alison Redford.

First, heres what it doesnt mean.B.C. blinked, according to one

Toronto commentator, based on the popular notion that B.C. gave up its claim to a share of Albertas resource royalties from heavy oil. Clark never made such a claim, so it would be dif-ficult to give it up.

Her often-repeated condition of a fair share of revenues from any new oil pipelines is purposely vague, but after repeated protests from Alberta, Clark clarified as far back as last June that provincial royalties are not on the table. There is no constitutional way to

make such a demand, a point Redford has made several times.

NDP leader Adrian Dix and the usual chorus of professional protesters claimed that Clark flip-flopped, oppos-ing the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal before the election and then embracing it once she was re-elected.

This is also inaccurate. Clarks five conditionswere set out before the May election, demanding approval byafed-eral environmental review, world-leading spill prevention and response capability on land and at sea, meeting legal requirements to consult and share benefits with aboriginal communities, and the undefined fair share for B.C.

Clark said numerous times during the campaign that the conditions have not been met, and made pessimistic noises

about Northern Gateway, but she very carefully did not campaign against it. The B.C. Liberal platform also endorsed a Kitimat-area oil refinery proposed by this newspapers owner, and Clark repeatedly referred to that sort of indus-trial expansion as one of the potential fair share components for B.C.

The B.C. Liberal government made its opposition to Northern Gateway as currently proposed official on May 31, two weeks after the election, in its final submission to the federal review panel. If Clark had wanted to jump on the anti-pipeline bandwagon for political gain, that move could have been made earlier.

NDP environment critic Spencer Chandra Herbert said the B.C. govern-ment has taken the position that more oil will reach the West Coast, by rail if

not by pipeline. Im not sure if or when that claim was made, but its true that rail shipments are already permitted.

Heres what Redford and Clark agreed on. Redford accepts B.C.s five condi-tions, provincial royalties excluded, and Clark endorsed Redfords proposed Canadian Energy Strategy, which B.C. rejected last year.

A draft of the strategy released last summer contains no specifics on how it would facilitate a pipeline project from Alberta to B.C. It talks about developing Canadas energy reserves and at the same time somehow reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and promises a final version next spring. Oh, and Quebec refuses to participate.

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An organic compost facility in Campbell River could save the city millions of dollars in improvement costs, says the citys general man-ager of operations.

A compost centre could accommodate the citys biosolids, which are digested at the citys Norm Wood Environ-mental Centre.

If the city continues with its current practise, however, the centres biosolids treatment plant will need to be expanded long-term.

A solution is to process the biosolids at the pro-posed compost centre.

If we put the compost facility here it would allow us to alter or elimi-nate the expansion of the waste treatment plant, said Ron Neufeld on

Thursday afternoon dur-ing a tour of the Norm Wood Environmental Centre grounds.

Neufeld said an organ-ics facility could save the city $2.5 million in capital costs to upgrade the biosolids treatment plant.

The city is looking to site the treatment plant on 10 hectares of land available at the Norm Wood Environmental Centre.

The plan is to build the facility large enough to accommodate organics from the entire region including the Comox Valley, Gold River, Tahsis and Zeballos.

The initiative is part of the Comox Strathcona Solid Waste Management Plan. Campbell River was chosen as the best location for the regional-wide centre for efficiency reasons.

With waste to be trucked from the Camp-bell River dumps trans-fer station to the Comox Valley landfill, it wouldnt make sense to have empty trucks return-ing to Campbell River, according to Neufeld.

With the compost cen-tre here, trucks could take their load of waste from the Campbell River transfer station to the Cumberland landfill, pick-up organics in the Comox Valley and truck them back to Campbell River for drop-off at the compost centre.

Wit h t he C amp -bell River landfill near capacity, the compost facility will play a role in expanding its life span.

Amber Zirnhelt, the citys sustainability man-ager, estimates organics make up 35 per cent of our household waste.

If we divert it all,

it would make a huge impact with the landfill near capacity, Zirnhelt said.

Waste that would be accommodated by the compost centre would include food scraps from households and restau-rants, yard waste and possibly some industrial organic waste.

The city estimates the amount of material going into the compost facility could be up to 11,000 tonnes per year, depend-ing on regional participa-tion.

The city is preparing to issue a Request for Pro-posals in early 2014 to seek out a company to build the facility.

The city is looking for a public-private partner-ship and has not ruled out allowing a private company to not only build, but finance, oper-ate and own the facility.

Neufeld said once the Request for Proposals is issued and answered, the city will have a bet-ter idea as to the size and logistics of the proposed facility.

We have not pre-scribed a particular model, Neufeld said. What role the private partner will play is still to be determined. They could be the operator, they could be the opera-tor and financer.

Neufeld said the City of Campbell River could enter into an agreement similar to the Com-munity Centre, which was privately built and financed and then leased to the city for 10 years after which time the city took ownership.

The city expects to select a company to take on the compost facility sometime in the first few months of 2014.


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Those arent totem poles lined up at Sto-ries Beach.

Rather, theyll become bird houses and natural storm breaks as part of an innovative pilot proj-ect by the Ministry of Transportation.

Were not building a big, high wall to keep the ocean in this is definitely more of a green shore, said Sean Wong, a senior biologist with the ministry.

Wong, along with a team of three people and one equipment operator, began work last week

to stabilize about 200 metres of beachfront that borders the Island Highway.

The original plan was to spend about $100,000 to put in riprap and cre-ate a more level beach which could help miti-gate storm damage to the highway.

But as Wong points out, that usually means the effects of damag-ing storms are pushed further along the beach, typically in the direction of the prevailing wind and tide. In this case, that would be north theres a stream, prop-erty and homes.

The rip-rap look is also so 1970s when

the engineering rule of thumb was controlling nature with as much concrete as possible.

But Stories Beach will be different, says Wong, who adds the project has the approval of Fisher-ies and Oceans Canada. With a budget of approximately $25,000 one-quarter of the origi-nal plan hes brought in logs and stumps from forestry burn piles, and has used existing drift-wood, to stabilize the beach while maintaing a far more natural look.

Our goal is to mimic the natural beachfront were trying to avoid a sterile, non-natural look, he says.

The process is rela-tively simple: They first drill through large rocks; loop steel cable through the holes; use the exca-vator to embed the rocks as much as possible in the beach; and then secure the stumps and woody debris to the cables. After that, nature takes over. Waves will drive smaller debris and gravel up behind the secured wood, to create backfill and a far more stable beach.

Wong is also paying

attention to aesthet-ics. Natural plants and grasses have been planted throughout the work zone along with some trees.

As for the standing timber, not only will they help block flying driftwood during the big winter storms, they also have cutouts to provide homes for nesting birds. Another contractor, from the Oyster River Enhancement Society, is also making bird houses for purple mar-

tins whose numbers are rebounding on the coast thanks to conservation efforts.

In the 1980s they were down to like five breeding pairs. Now theyre up to 950! Wong points out as he surveys the beach work. We want to mimic the natural features and pro-mote stability. Artificial solutions typically trans-fer the problem down the line and harder treatments, like concrete walls and riprap, have

more impact on the environment and native species.

This is a pilot project for the ministry on Van-couver Island, and Wong hopes there are more opportunities to do the same type of work else-where. He does have one request though for wood stove owners: Please do not cut any more logs or driftwood on Stories Beach.

That would just destabilize things, he says.

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The Ministry of Highways has used a green approach pilot project to stabilize Stories Beach. The work will help protect the Island Highway from winter storm damage.

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Sean Wong, a biologist with the Ministry of Transportation, shows were cavities have been in the poles for bird nests.


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Think of what youd like your dog to do instead of jumping up..we suggest having your dog sit instead. Dogs will typically jump up to solicit attention, in the form of touch or verbal contact, and the more people try to push them away or scold them, the more the dog thinks his jumping up is working.Catch your dog before he leaps by taking a step towards him, effectively taking away the space he needs to jump, asking him for a Sit, rewarding with a treat to stop him in his tracks. Ask your other family members to do the same, and when you have company over be sure to have your dog on a leash to prevent him from practicing the bad behavior. Ask your friends to help train him by having them give your dog the treat when he sits instead of leaping up.Having your dog learn to sit for everything he wants will speed up the process, hell quickly learn that in order to get attention, hell have to sit. You can also have him sit every time before you open the door to let him out, or put on his collar and leash for a walk. Pretty much everything he wants will come to him, if he sits rst.

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I have a Buysell agreement with my business partner. Shouldnt that take care of everything if something happens to either of us?A basic Buy-Sell Agreement should dictate what would happen if either partner was to die, become disabled, or seriously ill. However, often the agreement will just say one party will buy out the other (or his/her estate)if the other dies. Agreements rarely say how the continuing partner will nance the buy-out. It is unlikely that half of the companys market value will be sitting around in cash, and credit under these situations is very hard to get, so the alternative may be a new partner you may not want (as the shares typically pass to a spouse or family members). You can avoid these issues by funding your Buy-Sell with cross-cross life insurance including disability contracts with buy-out provisions. A well-crafted insurance strategy will give you the cash you need when you need it by funding your business Buy-Sell Agreement.

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A Campbell River man is taking aim at the citys nonsensical cemetery rules.

Brien Dolan disagrees with the citys prohibi-tion of upright mark-ers on grave sites and warned council that its policy may violate free-dom of expression.

Not allowing griev-ing relatives the right to erect a tombstone to honour and remember their loved ones is short sighted, cruel and non-sensical, Dolan wrote in a letter to city council. There is a reason why no other village, town or city anywhere in Can-ada has enacted similar legislation. Its because the policy doesnt make sense.

Dolan pointed out that banning tombstones may conflict with some reli-gions which prescribe above ground memori-als.

Many of the five major religions also mandate their members to place tombstones on the graves of their relatives, Dolan wrote. Alarmingly, it just might be that this bylaw violates citizens religious beliefs and their rights of religious expression.

Beyond that, Dolan said he believes upright markers provide an emotional and reflec-tive reminder of who we are and where we come from.

At Tuesdays coun-cil meeting, Coun. Ron Kerr thanked Dolan for his letter and attempted to get council to take another look at cemeter-ies.

I think its appropri-ate in light of some of the decisions weve made on the cemeteries recently and as some of the things that Mr. Dolan brings to our attention in his letter, that the communityenter into some conver-sation on how we can expect to see our ceme-teries and memorial loca-tions in the future, Kerr said. I think by doing this it may alleviate some

of the pain and frustra-tion that I see occurring over some of these deci-sions we made.

Last month council implemented a clean-up plan to remove all mementos, other than flowers, from the graves in both cityy cemeter-ies. The citys reasoning is some of the objects blow off the graves and become tripping hazards. Upright markers were already banned from the cemetery because they make it difficult for maintenance workers to cut grass around graves.

Coun. Kerr wanted council to direct the citys Community Services, Recreation and Culture Commission to set up a sub-committee with members of the public to discuss opening a new cemetery and the feasi-bility of creating alterna-tive memorial options.

City Manager Andy Laidlaw, however, told council that it went against policy to direct the commission to set up a sub-committee and that it is up to the commission to form its own sub-committees if it sees fit. Mayor Walter Jakeway suggested that council instead forward Dolans letter to the com-mission and that council-lors Larry Samson, Mary Storry, and Kerr, who sit on the Community Services Commission, explain councils interest.


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Adding more beds to the new Campbell River Hospital will pro-vide better health care and would be more cost effective, according to the local MLA and three doctors who spoke out last Thursday.

Lets get this right and not build a hospital where, two years later down the road, we wish we had done it right, said North Island MLA Claire Trevena.

The NDP MLA was joined by a trio of vet-

eran local doctors: Dr. Bob Gordon, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Deke Bots-ford, and former chief of staff Dr. Peter Olesen.

They gathered in Bots-fords Willow Point office to publicly express their concern that the new $266-million, 95-bed hospital will not pro-vide adequate space to meet current or future patients needs. Con-struction on the new hospital is slated to begin next year.

Just two weeks ago, Campbell River Hospi-tal had 103 patients and over-crowding is a con-

stant issue.We compromise care

every day by not admit-ting patients we should be admitting, said Dr. Oleson.

He added that health professionals due their best to keep people out of hospital and to provide quality home care, but some patients, do better in hospital from an acute care perspective.

Another issue doctors see is Campbell Rivers aging population.

Were quickly turning from a resource com-munity into a retirement community, said Dr.

Botsford, whos doing far more hip replacement surgeries that hes ever done before.

According to Dr. Gor-don, the official health care term for too many patients is over-census, which he calls a euphe-mism for bed shortage. This leads, he said, to sur-gery cancellations which arent quickly resched-uled because everything is over-booked. Just as worse, said Dr. Botsford, is when surgeries are cancelled because there arent enough beds avail-able.

The other aspect of

over-crowding is where to put the extra patients? They need somewhere safe, where they can be monitored and have access to other amenities, such as bathrooms.

Its not like were not going to care for sick people, but they need to be safe, said Dr. Oleson. A lot of credit goes to the staff and nurses for going above and beyond their duty.

The doctors said 10-15 more beds in the new hospital would make a significant difference and the time to include these new beds in the plans is now, before construc-tion begins. Too build or renovate later, or to find other safe places to house patients, is far more costly, they said.

And the number of beds for the new hospi-

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