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Wednesday.April 5.2017

Vol.22 No.24

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Get the Peak to Go iPhone app now MINISTER VISITS: BC minister of transportation and infrastructure Todd Stone [centre] is given a tour of Catalyst Paper Corporation’s Powell River mill by operations/utilities available in the specialist Angelo App Store orCONTRIBUTED iTunes Porchetta. Stone answered transportation-related questions from Powell River-Sunshine Coast provincial election candidates during a recent chamber of commerce event. PHOTO

Transportation and infrastructure minister addresses local ferries Powell River-Sunshine Coast candidates use opportunity to raise concerns with Todd Stone CHRIS BOLSTER reporter@prpeak.com

Coastal ferry service has not been a part of the upcoming provincial election debate so far, but that did not stop Powell

River-Sunshine Coast candidates from raising ferry-related issues during BC minister of transportation and infrastructure Todd Stone’s visit last week. Stone spoke to attendees of a Powell River Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting on Wednesday, March 29, at Town Centre Hotel. He reiterated highlights from the BC Liberals’ recent balanced budget, its fifth consecutive, according to the minister. Stone also announced close to $1.5 million in provincial grant funds for enhancements in city transportation infrastructure, as well as funds for tourism promotion and $479,000 LOT OCEAN-VIEW

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trades-related education equipment purchases. He told the crowd of approximately 80 members of Powell River’s business community the government would continue to be prudent fiscal managers of the provincial economy. After Stone concluded his general remarks, chamber president and emcee Jack Barr gave the audience an opportunity to ask questions. BC Green Party candidate Kim Darwin asked Stone about federal funding to pay off BC Ferries’ debt and how that would affect the current ferry system. “Would your ministry be interested in having the ferries re»2 $479,000 LOT OCEAN-VIEW

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