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40-year-old dairy barn where it was tightly packed. Trucks from the Duncan, Cowichan Bay and South End fire departments responded after the call for help came in shortly before 1 p.m. Dayne’s mother, Anita, called him home from Victoria with news of the blaze. “It was a shocking phone call to get,” said Dayne.
North Cowichan’s election, like the municipality itself, was big and many-faceted, but at the end of the night Saturday, Nov. 15, Jon Lefebure again emerged victorious from a tight mayoral race. His 3,234 votes edged past challenger John Koury’s 3,018 with third candidate Damir Wallener receiving 1,411. Lefebure said he was excited and happy to be continuing as mayor. “I especially like the fact that we have some bright new faces coming both at the council table and the CVRD,” he said. The campaign itself he called “challenging” but added he was grateful for all the support he received. “We took the high road and stayed on track with having a progressive approach to local government,” he said. Lefebure said he’s also looking forward to working with the new council. “It’s a balanced council across all viewpoints. I think that’s a very good formula because you really don’t want everybody singing from exactly the same songsheet,” he said.
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Firefighters work to stifle flames that razed a barn full of hay, a house trailer and antique farm equipment on a farm in Glenora last Friday. A community fundraiser is underway to help the family that was hit hard by the fire. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
Glenora barn destroyed in blaze KATHERINE DEDYNA TIMES COLONIST
A Glenora farm family is reeling from a huge fire Friday that claimed the family dog and destroyed 6,000 bales of hay, a large dairy barn, house trailer and many pieces of historic farm equipment. Friends and family, meanwhile, have set up relief efforts to get the family through the next steps. No one was injured and flames did not reach the two homes on
the 63-acre McLay Road property, including one under construction by Colten Ellison, 25, great grandson of original owner Andy Ellison, who arrived from Alberta in 1947. “It’s something I never believed would happen to us,” said Colten’s father, Ken Ellison, 54, who grew up on Ellison Farm. “I’m shaking now,” said Ellison, who on Friday evening was able to see the hay still burning from inside his home. “The fire-
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men believe they’ll be there all night.” His son, Dayne, 20, said his sister-in-law’s friend was in a trailer at the farm early Friday afternoon when she heard a huge bang. “All of a sudden it was just woof, the flames went right up.” Made of cedar, fir and creosote, the 100-by-100-foot barn, including lean-tos, “just went boom and it was gone,” Ken said. The hay — which sells for $8 to $9 a bale — was insured, but not the
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