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The man was trapped in the vehicle and suffered injuries consistent with hitting a rock wall officials said, including some from the deployment of the airbags.
Passionate pleading by business backers didn’t budge the majority of North Cowichan council from the choice they made last week: to give homeowners a tax break in 2015, shifting more of a planned tax increase onto business and industrial. Councillors Al Siebring, Tom Walker, Joyce Behnsen and Rob Douglas persisted in approving that option with Mayor Jon Lefebure and Councillors Kate Marsh and Maeve Maguire wishing to see every class getting a 3.22 per cent increase. Marsh, in her final argument, pointed out that North Cowichan’s staff had come to council with a budget proposal that saw every class looking at an increase of only 2.89 per cent. “We chose to move it up to 3.22 per cent. We don’t want to hide that we did this,” she reminded her colleagues. Siebring, although on the other side of the vote, agreed.
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Duncan volunteer firefighters Wray Watson (left) and Ron Olaussen (right) flank Chief Mike McKinlay after receiving long-service medals on April 25. Watson was presented with the provincial medal for 25 years of service, while Olaussen was awarded the federal medal honouring 20 years with the department. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
Man hits rock wall on Malahat across the southbound lane and struck the rock near the area A 43-year-old Duncan man was known as Split Rock, a few kilotaken to hospital after his car hit metres north of the intersecthe rock wall beside the Malahat tion of South Shawnigan Lake Road and the Trans-Canada highway on Tuesday. The man was travelling north Highway. South SouthCowichan Cowichan Echo EchoBanner Banner AdAd10.5x2.pdf 10.5x2.pdf 1 1 03-24-15 03-24-15 1:15 1:15 The driver told police hePMPM had a in a Honda CRV when he went
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coughing fit and lost consciousness before the accident. “The male individual indicated he had blacked out, and when he came to, he had already hit the rock face adjacent to the highway,” Shawnigan Lake RCMP officer Cpl. Greg Pask said.
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