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another in April when the story of missing 26-year-old Trevor Lyttle ended with his body being found by fishermen near West Thurlow Island. Lyttle had been missing since December 2014 when he was last seen leaving his parents’ home on Steelhead Road to feed some deer he saw in the nearby woods. In May, Campbell River Search and Rescue (SAR) issues a reminder to the public to stay away from the edge of Elk Falls after photos and videos of people putting their lives at risk by venturing close to the edge began surfacing yet again. “There is no surviving that fall,” SAR manager Grant Cromer told the public, also pointing out that recovering a body from the canyon endangers SAR members, as well. In June, the public raved about the generous donation of a $2.2-million MRI machine for the new
Campbell River Hospital by the Mailman family, owners of Broadstreet Properties and Seymour Pacific Developments and longtime Campbell Riverites with a history of giving back. Then in July, the focus turned to the wildfire situation in the province. While many places around B.C. were battling blazes, the Campbell River area was seemingly spared. When one fire, later determined to be human-caused, sparked near Echo Lake west of town, it was knocked down quickly by fire crews, but still caused a significant spike in activity on the Mirror’s Facebook page. The biggest social media spike in August was on Aug. 12 and 13 when the RCMP and coroner’s service were investigating the discovery of two bodies in a Toyota SUV beside the Old Island Highway at Engels Road. The coroner later identified the deceased as Roy Richard Stotz, 54, and
Elvira Tagieva, 24, of Campbell River. Foul play was ruled out, but a cause of death was never released. On Sept. 8, another spike in social media traffic can be attributed to the photos we received from the scene of a logging truck that had rolled over on the Inland Island Highway between Hamm Road and Dove Creek Road, spilling its load and making a terrible mess, but, thankfully, no injuries were reported from the event. In mid-October, Mirror editor Alistair Taylor attended another heartwarming event which caused a stir online upon its publication. “OPERATION: Get Grannie to the Bridge” celebrated the efforts of Dorothy Goodwin’s friends and family, along with members of
Campbell River SAR, to get the 94-year-old to the Elk Falls Suspension Bridge for her birthday. Our Facebook page went nuts again, as it always seems to do, in early December, when the rains moved in and flooded downtown during high tide. The combination of the pictures from our own staff and the community at large made Dec. 3 a big day of activity online. A video by Kristen Douglas of the carollers who came to our office got people talking that day, as well, along with the news that the Knights of Columbus Christmas Hamper Fund was having trouble acquiring donations. What’s going to cause an online stir in 2016? Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter (@CRMirror) to find out.
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City council is trying to work out the kinks of a grant program, started earlier this year, that has had its complications. The $10,000 grants are available to each of the city’s four business improvement groups to help beautify and cleanup the community. Those groups include the Downtown Heart of the City Business Improve m e nt A re a Association (BIA), the Campbellton Neighbourhood Association, the Pier Street Association and the Willow Point Improvement Area Society. But as evidenced by the request from the Pier Street Association at the Dec. 14 council meeting for its grant, it wasn’t
clear to all the groups that council intended the money to be used for improvements completed by year’s end. Mayor Andy Adams said the city will be speaking with the associations to make that clear for the 2016 round of funding. “We will endeavour to correspond with the associations and ask them to try and have their projects going earlier in the year and if at all possible, for the projects to be completed prior to the end of the calendar year,” Adams said. “That’s just a direction we’ll undertake so that they’re not coming late in the year like this one. “It is our first year, so I think we’ll give them a little bit of leeway.” The request from Pier “One call, and we’ll do it all”
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Well New Year’s Eve is just about upon us and it is time for the ritual – and literal – turning of the calendar. As with every year, 2015 saw its share of good times and bad times. Guess what? You can expect the same in 2016. It would be nice to say that it’s all going to be wine and roses in 2016 but we all know that’s not going to be the case. Tragedy will strike again but so will triumph. We can feel comforted knowing that many good things will happen to good people in the coming year. They won’t always make the news pages or get circulated like wildfire on social media, but they’ll happen and some of them will make the news agenda. Our economy will go through it’s usual machinations – ups and downs, expansions and contractions. In the end, we just hope that we will be better off at the end of they year than when we started. Changes will happen but one thing that you can depend on: you will continue to read about most of these things in the pages of your local newspaper – the Campbell River Mirror. It was a year of big change for us as well and we tried our best to adapt to it. We hope to roll into the coming year with the support of our readers and advertisers. Together we’ll make the news and watch it unfurl. Meanwhile, allow us to thank you, dear readers and advertisers, for your ongoing support.
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utopia. The blitz of restraint legislation reasserted government’s authority to control the size and wages of provincial staff, reinstated the province’s ability to pay, eliminated various boards, and the B.C. increased provincial sales tax to seven per cent to pay the bills. Another Bill Bennett legacy was dismantling the monopoly chokehold of big international unions on public heavy construction. Growing up in northeastern B.C., I had seen the impressive pay for jobs on highway construction, about twice what I earned labouring for a non-union contractor doing city work. This struggle over public construction continues today, with BC Hydro’s decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. The main contract was
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vious years. A hamper was loaded onto a vehicle every twenty seconds. By 12:30 p.m. the last of the hampers were loaded onto waiting vehicles and brought to their designated homes. There were 74 undelivered hampers returned to the depot. The intended recipients were contacted by phone as were some people who had filled out late applications. At the end of Sunday afternoon only 10 hampers remained in the depot (less than one per cent) to be distributed to local organizations who aid the less fortunate on a year round basis. Judging by the comments of those who participated, it was an enjoyable and rewarding experience. Many a “See you next year!” was heard as they finally exited the depot. And so, once again, we thank the people of our incredible city for their spirit of compassion and sleeves-rolled-up attitude. You did it again. You made a difference to many by bringing Christmas to them and you did it cheerfully and selflessly. The Knights of Columbus wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year. Kevin Gearey Knights of Columbus
The death of former B.C. premier Bill Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the traditional round of polite tributes. He was the man from Kelowna who remade Vanc ouve r, w it h SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo 86 to put the city on the world map. He won three majority governments before handing over the steering wheel of a smoothly running Social C re d it Par t y to Bill Vander Zalm. Outside B.C., the wire service obituaries ran to a few paragraphs, defining Bennett first as the “architect of financial restraint in the province.” It seems an ordinary notion today, but when Bennett unleashed his “restraint program” on the B.C. government in 1983, it was presented as a right-wing coup on a socialist
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awarded to a consortium working with the Christian Labour Association of Canada, an alternative union known by more colourful names among old-line building trades. After graduating from journalism school, I landed my first full-time job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly before Bennett announced his retirement from the premier’s office to finish his term as a backbench MLA. Bennett and I would sometimes arrive for work together, parking our rusty 1976 Chevrolets on Bernard Avenue, where he kept an office above the family furniture store. I found out later that Bennett’s modest old sedan was the government-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier. The party bought it for him as a humourous retirement gift, and he continued to drive it to work. No frills. That was Bill Bennett. tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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What will Campbellton look like at this time next year?
just driving straight through town without considering what Campbell River has to offer in terms of amenities, attractions and commercial services.
Perhaps a better question would be "what could it be like if we worked harder at improving it?" The point is that Campbellton can become whatever the neighbourhood's residents and businesses choose to make of it within City zoning rules of course. Or with Council permission to vary those rules . . . . As we've mentioned several times before in this space, there are moves afoot to make many changes in Campbellton in months and years ahead, from major structural ones such as improving public access to the river front to small but still important changes such as improving the appearances of the dozen or so old community flower boxes scattered around the commercial core of Campbellton. One of the latest changes is confirmation from city officials that the swing sets in the park on 15th Avenue near Petersen will be removed in coming weeks and be replaced nearby with a new set of swings of a type yet to be selected but which when installed next spring will leave room for the new Campbellton Community Garden to install a second
set of garden plots. That change may not deserve to be Page 1 news but it is important insofar as it's another step towards improved food security for Campbell River, a community that now produces less than one per cent of the food its residents and visitors now consume. Plus it will increase opportunities for more gardeners to participate and thereby strengthen community relationships. Three key projects The improved access to the river at several locations will be the subject of a public policy process in 2016, especially regarding proposed improvements to the Myrt Thompson Trail, notably adding a viewing tower, and they have potential to be a boon to tourism and recreation in the area. A similar process will begin next year on Nunns Creek Park, with the city's new budget including
provisions to begin upgrading the playing fields and logger-sports venues there and do environment and ecology studies of the bush areas along the creek - which again will tend to boost tourism. And third but not least will be a major push to raise funds and other supports for the development of an "entrance feature" on 14th Avenue between the north and south-bound lanes of the new Island Highway; it will include a restored Beaver float plane mounted on a pedestal near a yet-to-be built parking and rest area intended to get tourists and other travellers to stop for a break rather than
All three of those initiatives involve boosting the City's appeal to tourists, first as a destination in its own right but if not that then at least become better known as a good place for travellers to stop and visit for a range of purposes, not only for gas and snacks but also for culture and entertainment and a very wide range of supplies and services.
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Registration is now open for the 34th annual Members’ Exhibition at the Art Gallery, being held this coming March. The Annual Members’ Exhibition is a popular benefit of being a member of the Campbell River Arts Council and Campbell River Art Gallery. The exhibition features local artists in the Campbell River Art Gallery’s Main Exhibition Hall. The show is an un-juried exhibition with three Peer Awards to be given at the end of the exhibition. Members are encour-
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some experience at this championship,” Davidson says. “We’ve seen the players’ growth and development from selection camp, against the United States with their club teams, and most recently at nationals; we believe they’ll be ready to compete for a gold medal in St. Catharines.” Canada’s fist match of the tournament will be against Russia at 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Jan. 8, followed by games against the Czech Republic and the U.S. in the preliminary round. The gold medal game is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. PT on Jan. 15., just nine days before Knowles’ 17th birthday.
Riptide U15 Girls head into winter break in top spot in VIPL standings Thirteen games into the VIPL season, the Marine Harvest Riptide U15 Girls soccer team remains firmly placed in top spot amongst the five teams in its age group on the island. In what was another battle in the cold, wind and rain that players have had to get accustomed to over the last month, Riptide played Storm at home turf on Saturday to
wrap up their final game of 2015 with a 1-1 tie. Both teams fought hard with Riptide ahead until the final minutes, when Storm claimed a late goal to even things up. That was the second tie game for Riptide. Combined with the team’s eleven wins to date, Riptide relaxes into their well-earned and much needed two week winter break with a total of
35 points, 7 clean sheets, and a goal differential of 23. Riptide is the only team to have no losses at this point in the season. Coaches Matt Laver and Lisa Wigard credit the team’s success to the players and their hard work. Additionally, to implement the team’s top-notch season plan designed by the Riptide technical staff, ongoing training support
from Geoff Hackett and Ken Garraway has been invaluable. After the team returns from break, the focus will be on reaching peak performance. With only three regular league games remaining in 2016, Riptide will prepare for tournament play. VIPL A-Cup Play downs begin late February, followed by Coastal Cup in April and, hope-
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Grassy meadow no replacement for a wetland, says Campbell River environmental organization Kristen Douglas CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
A city environmental organization is unimpressed with a remediation plan for the Jubilee wetlands, damaged during construction near the Maryland subdivision. A report from McElhanney consultants, hired by Parkway Properties Joint Venture, which has taken responsibility for the damage,
reveals a remediation plan that involves turning the altered wetlands into a grassy meadow. That plan was submitted to the city on Nov. 30 – the deadline that council had given Parkway to provide a remediation report after extending the original deadline from Oct. 23. Dan Samson, president of Parkway Properties, told council that consultants previously
hired by Parkway had missed several deadlines and requested the extension from council in September. Samson also told council that none of the parties involved had any ill intentions and thought that where they were dumping soil was simply a depression with poor drainage, similar to a wetland in the Maryland subdivision that the city had approved for elimination during the
first phase of subdivision construction. Problems begin The movement of soil began in 2007 and ended in early 2014 and resulted in the disturbance of the habitat in 2.2 hectares of fen – a marshy area of land that frequently floods – within the Parkways property, roughly 150 metres south of Jubilee
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completed to provide a broad shallow depression leading drainage to the remaining fen,” Murray writes. “Grading will include infilling any remaining ditches and grading all previously ditched areas.” The plan further calls for a 30-metre vegetation buffer to protect the remaining fen – a buffer stabilized by planting native grass and sedge seed mix prior to tree
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particularly common in the Campbell River area and a meadow habitat supporting small mammals would provide a beneficial hunting ground for raptors.” But Greenways Land Trust, an environmental stewardship organization, said a remedial action requirement ordered by the city on July 21, 2015 clearly states that Parkway needs to remediate the damage and McElhanney’s plan does not cut it. “This report does not constitute a plan for
remediation and restoration of the Jubilee Parkway fen,” writes Sandra Milligan, president of Greenways Land Trust in a letter to city council and shared with the Mirror. “While the report does provide some mitigation of the damage caused by Parkway by buffering, but not legally protecting the remaining wetland, no restoration of the fen is proposed. The plan recommends creation of a grassy meadow where a rare fen wetland existed. Grassy meadows are not native habitats in the Camp-
bell River area, they are not rare, and they do not contain rare wetland species, which is what was lost from the site.”
writes. “Based on these considerations, it is very unlikely that an effort to re-develop the fen within the disturbed area on the property would succeed.” Milligan disagrees, writing that fen restoration has been successful throughout North America, as documented by Thomas Biebighauser, a wetland restoration specialist, in his Wetland Restoration and Construction – a Technical Guide. “Restoring a fen on a site where one used to exist, and is contiguous to remnant wetland
Recovery unlikely Murray, in his report, said it would be difficult to recover the wetland. “Vegetative communities that could be targeted for restoration are slow growing and may be vulnerable to being overtaken by faster growing invasive plant species that were absent during the natural development of this fen,” Murray
habitat, is…likely to be successful,” Milligan writes. “We urge the City of Campbell River to continue to pursue an ecologically appropriate remediation of the Jubilee wetland site. “We would also like to urge council to ensure that the remaining wetland is protected as soon as possible,” Milligan continues. “It is necessary to proceed as soon as possible to fill the ditches and to monitor whether this is having the intended effects so that the hydrology of the site can start to be
re-established and the remaining wetland protected.” The city, meanwhile, has again extended the deadline for a remediation proposal until March 15, 2016. That proposal will then be reviewed by the city, as well as the province which has since gotten involved, and must include a timeline for remedial action. In addition to the remediation plan, Parkway has also been in discussion with the city to provide some form of compensation. Options
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HOLIDAY HOURS The Strathcona Regional District office will be closed to the public between Friday December 25, 2015 and Friday January 1, 2016. Normal office hours will resume on Monday January 4, 2016. Seasons greetings from the directors and staff of the Strathcona Regional District!
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3x7 COMMUNITY UPDATE CityDECEMBER 30, 2015 CHRISTMAS TREE CHIPPING EVENT Hosted by the Campbell River firefighters. All proceeds support the Burn Fund (minimum $5 donation). Located at the Sportsplex on Saturday, January 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Yard Waste Drop-Off Centre (located at the end of Willis Road) will also accept trees cut in half free of charge.
HOLIDAY WASTE COLLECTION CHANGES Residents who receive garbage and recycling collection on Fridays, are reminded that pick-up on December 25 and January 1 will be moved to the following Monday. No other days are affected. Regular Friday collection will resume after the holidays. From December 26 to January 8, no tags will be required for extra containers. Container weight limit still applies (20 kg / 44 lbs). For questions please contact Emterra at 250-286-0211. Also visit www.campbellriver.ca 301 St. Ann’s Road, Campbell River, BC V9W 4C7 Telephone: 250-286-5700 info@campbellriver.ca www.campbellriver.ca
Time is running out for the little bookstore on Shoppers Row Pirkko Anderson, owner of Coho Books, in front of her store.
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he “for sale” sign has been in the front window for almost a year, but Coho Books on Shoppers Row has been unable to find a buyer. Store owner Pirkko Anderson wants to retire, and she had hoped a buyer would be found so that she wouldn’t have to close the store down. Her
lease ends in February and she has decided not to renew it, so after February Campbell River will be without a book store that carries new books. “I am saddened that the store will have to close,” says Anderson, “but the fact is that I am ready to retire.” Coho Books opened in 2007, filling the void
that was created when Page 11 Books, a longtime Campbell River institution, closed down. Despite challenging economic times in recent years, the readers in Campbell River kept coming through the doors, surprising many people who thought the days of people buying print books were over. “We have done well,”
explains Anderson. “Campbell River has really supported Coho Books. I think people value having an independent book store in their community.” Coho Books is still open and ordering books until February. For more information call (250) 287-2336 or e-mail info@cohobooks. com
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A LKT crew is shown conducting daily servicing, from earlier this year, of the rotary screw trap that was installed in Elk Falls Canyon to count downstream migrating juvenile salmon.
Hydro, First Nations partner on watershed monitoring A partnership between BC Hydro and local First Nations is providing opportunities for environmental and engineering work in fisheries, recreation, vegetation, wildlife and erosion. BC Hydro has been working with the LaichKwil-Tach Environmental Assessments Limited Partnership (LKT) on their capacity to deliver these important water use plan monitoring studies and some capital works. LKT consists of the We Wai Kai Nation and the Campbell River Indian Band. The water use planning program is providing opportunities for environmental and engineering work that covers off fisheries, recreation, vegetation, wildlife and erosion. “For BC Hydro we spent three-and-a-half years in consulting and working with the Campbell River community on how we could change our water flow regimes in the reservoirs and the
Thankfully, there are many convenient and environmentally friendly ways to dispose of your tree. There are a number of tree chipping events in the region. City of Campbell River
Sportsplex, 1800 S Alder St. January 2, 10am - 4pm
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Courtenay fire hall, 650 Cumberland Rd. January 2 and 3, 10am - 4pm
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Cumberland fire department, 2679 Dunsmuir Rd. January 3, 4pm - 8pm contact 250-336-2531 for event information.
You can also take your Christmas tree to the CSWM waste management centres. Open seven days a week from 8:30am – 5:30pm. Closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Comox Valley 2400 Pidgeon Lake Rd. Cumberland Campbell River 6700 Argonaut Rd. Note: Christmas trees that are cut in half with each half no longer than three feet in length will also be picked up on regular waste pick up days in the Town of Comox and City of Courtenay. Curbside pick up of Christmas trees for Royston residents is Monday, Jan 4, 2016. For more holiday waste reduction tips and resources visit: www.cswm.ca/greenholidays
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lower Campbell River to better benefit all the various water use interests,” says BC Hydro’s Stephen Watson. “We’ve been operating to that new regime for a few years now and a key element is monitoring those changes to hopefully confirm the various improvements we are all hoping for. “Things like improved fish productivity. It’s great that First Nations are leading these studies, through a partnership, so we can be even more informed about the watershed.” For the Campbell River First Nation, the advanced discussions and collaboration with BC Hydro have allowed them to establish a capable team. “As part of A’Tlegay Fisheries, we had a good team of people that were involved in various projects, including some previous BC Hydro initiatives, but the water use planning work required an expansion to those
skillsets,” says Chief Bob Pollard. “It’s a whole new level so we’ve worked well with partnering companies to assist us and provide LKT with the ability to hire the expertise required to carry out this work. Our people are part of this learning process.” There are 13 monitoring projects taking place over 10 years, with eight of them already underway and being conducted by LKT. There are six physical works projects that will also be completed over 10 years. One of those projects, a replacement of the Salmon River Diversion fish screen, has been rolled into the Salmon River Diversion Canal Refurbishment & Fish Passage Improvement Project, while the other five are in preliminary stages of scoping and development. The skillsets LKT staff continue to develop include field safety management, lake acous-
tic surveys, specialized sampling of fish (scales, otoliths, fin rays, tissues) for ageing, DNA and SIA analysis, to fish snorkel surveys. These skillsets are not just about fish. Other components include vegetation and habitat surveys and terrestrial sampling, hydrometric gauge/remote sensing installation and maintenance, and public impression surveys. “We are continuing to build and refine our relationship with BC Hydro and this is another example of how we are working together,” says Acting Chief, Brian Assu, of the We Wai Kai Nation. “This is a good story all the way around, whether about our people learning new skills and working with other companies, to the water use planning program and through this research, we will be developing more comprehensive information about fish and wildlife in the Campbell River watershed.”
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