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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Soil dumping halted pending appeals SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN
At least it wasn’t eggs? Staff and students arrived to find toilet paper strewn about the front grounds of Cowichan Secondary School Monday morning. The 2014 grad class has taken responsibility and volunteers cleaned up the mess. For more photos, scan this image with the Layar app on your smart phone or go to www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com [SARAH SIMPSON/CITIZEN]
TP festoons school in ‘overboard’ grad prank SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN
Island Savings Centre staffers noticed it as early at 4:30 a.m. when they began arriving at work. It’s not known exactly when it happened but sometime overnight between Sunday and Monday the
front grounds of Cowichan Secondary School were given the ol’ TP treatment. Toilet paper covered trees, grass, shrubbery, hung from the roof and the bus stop and pretty much anywhere the culprits could get it to stick — which wasn’t too hard given the wet and soggy condi-
tions outside. Later in the morning Principal Charlie Coleman confirmed it was a grad prank. “We have several Grade 12 volunteers cleaning it up now,” Coleman said about 10:15 a.m. “For the most part, it is a very small group of kids who go over-
board and a large group step up to fix it.” Coleman said staff at the school reminds grads that pranks should be harmless fun. “Any costs associated with repairs or clean-up come out of the Grad Class Fund,” he warned.
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A significant battle has been won in the war against trucking contaminated soil from Greater Victoria into the Shawnigan watershed. The Environmental Appeal Board has granted a request by the CVRD and Shawnigan Residents Association to stay a permit issued to Cobble Hill Holdings (South Island Aggregates) to truck 100,000 tonnes of dirty dirt north over the Malahat. The determination was made public on Friday. “We received a copy of the ruling on Friday morning,” CVRD board chair Rob Hutchins confirmed. While calling it a good news story, Hutchins said it’s still just a temporary fix. “This is an interim measure. To my knowledge as of [Tuesday morning] we have not received notification of when the actual appeal will be heard,” he said. Nevertheless, Hutchins said it’s a positive step. “They’re applying the precautionary principle because of See Risks outweigh • page 9