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Friday, December 12, 2014
Man killed at Crofton mill KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
She was replaced in that position by Eden Haythornthwaite in 2011 when the composition of the board changed to a group that decided to challenge the education ministry by sending in a deficit budget, a move that saw them all fired July 1, 2012. Spilsbury is back, elected as one of the members of a team that promised balanced budgets.
An investigation at the Catalyst Paper mill in Crofton continues after the body of a truck driver who went missing at the site on Tuesday was recovered on Wednesday. WorkSafe BC has been at the mill since late Tuesday afternoon, when the man, who was making a delivery of wood chips to the site, was first reported missing. “Our job is to determine the cause, what happened, why it happened, how it happened, and how to prevent it from happening in the future,” said WorkSafe BC spokesperson Scott McCloy. Assisting WorkSafe BC with the investigation were the RCMP and the BC Coroners Service. Preliminary investigations had suggested that the truck driver, an employee of Bobell Express making the delivery on behalf of Marpole Transport, had been caught on a conveyor belt and taken into a chip silo. “Officers attended to the scene,” said Cpl. Jon Stuart of the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP.
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Southbound lanes of the Trans Canada Highway were backed up from the Chemainus River Bridge to Henry Road and beyond on Wednesday morning as RCMP, Crofton volunteer firefighters and BC Ambulance personnel attended to a two-car incident just south of the bridge. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
School board has first session in 2 years LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN
School trustees elected veteran Candace Spilsbury as chair of the Cowichan Valley Board of Education at the first meeting of the new board on Dec. 10, with Barb de Groot to assist her as vice-chair. It was the first time an elected board has met since the previous board was fired in 2012. Spilsbury was chosen by acclam-
ation with de Groot emerging as the winner in a run-off against Randy Doman. It was back to the future for Spilsbury, who has served as chair before. Experience is a helpful thing at this stage of the game, she agreed. “As we come back to create a new board after a two-year gap in elected trustees, it is helpful to have someone who has the experi-
ence particularly around things like governance and Robert’s Rules of Order and facilitation, with a background of knowledge of the district.” Spilsbury certainly has that. She worked for the school district as a principal and then as director of elementary education before retiring and then was elected as a school trustee where she was chosen as board chair by her colleagues.
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