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One killed in crash KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
A 64-year-old Victoria man died after his motorcycle was involved in a two-vehicle crash on the Malahat on Monday afternoon. The collision occurred at the intersection of South Shawnigan Lake Road and the Trans Canada Highway just after 4 p.m. Gerald Ernest Loiselle, identified Tuesday by the BC Coroners Service, was traveling in the highway’s northbound lane on his motorcycle when he was struck by an SUV turning into the same lane from South Shawnigan Lake Road. The motorcyclist sustained severe injuries. Loiselle was treated at the scene and en route to the hospital by emergency personnel, but was pronounced dead. The 41year-old Victoria woman driving the SUV was not injured. “Our thoughts are with this man’s family and friends,” Shawnigan Lake RCMP Detachment Commander Sgt. Scott Stephen said. “We’d like to extend our appreciation to those who rendered assistance at the scene, and for the patience shown by everyone who was delayed as we completed our investigation.” The highway was closed for an hour and a half as an RCMP collision analyst/reconstructionist conducted their investigation.
First responders attend a collision on the Malahat, Monday, July 7. The crash occurred at the accident-prone intersection with Shawnigan Lake Road. One man was killed in the collision between a motorcycle and an SUV. [KOSTA KOSTADINOV PHOTO]
Challenge issued as water lows loom ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN
The Cowichan Watershed Board is challenging everyone in the Cowichan Valley to reduce their water consumption as the area stares down water levels that are already at lows usually seen in late summer. “We’re starting what looks like late August conditions at the lake [Cowichan Lake] so this is pretty worrying,” Watershed Board member Rodger Hunter told the Cowichan Valley Regional District’s regional services committee late
last month. He was there, along with the Watershed Board’s David Slade, to introduce CVRD directors to the Cowichan Water Conservation Challenge. The challenge, Slade said, is to meet or beat Ladysmith’s conservations efforts, which have seen a successful reduction is use to 246 litres per person per day. This represents a 25 per cent reduction in consumption, a number that is even more impressive when a population increase of 20 per cent is taken into account.
To put the achievement into perspective, Slade compared it to other areas of the Valley. In Dogwood Ridge, for example, people are using 294 litres per day, in Douglas Hill that number jumps to 345 litres per day, and in Cherry Point usage skyrockets to 423 litres per person, per day. “Not really that close to Ladysmith,” Slade said. Ladysmith’s 246 litres per day compares favourably with the Canadian average usage which is 325 litres per person per day. But the Canadian average is not very
impressive next to other nations such as Germany, which uses as little as 120 litres per person per day. The United Nations, Slade pointed out, says that people require 50 litres per day. “Why conserve?” Slade asked. “Because we can. Because other people can do it better than we’re doing it now and because we don’t know what’s coming,” he said, referring to the effects of climate change, which he said are here, and getting worse. See CONSERVATION, Page 4
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