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Remembering those lost on the streetsA crowd of 50 or more community members gathered to pay their respects at a candlelight vigil held at Spirit Square Dec. 21. The celebration of life was held on the longest night of the year to recognize those we've lost from our streets and the struggles of those who remain behind. "This time of year is the time to be with friends, to be with family and find the warmth and comfort in each other. Tonight I would like to pay my respects to those who have left us, and especially give thanks to those who are helping," Mayor Andy Adams said, addressing the crowd. Organizers are hoping the vigil will become an annual event.

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In this day and age, looking back on the year that was 2015 wouldn’t be complete without

an examination of what people were talking about online.

In our community, based on our own numbers from our social media platforms, here’s what got people talking over the course of the year:

In early February, Campbell River RCMP investigated the theft of a City of Campbell River Fire and Rescue vehicle that was stolen while it was blocking Simms Road with its emergency lights flashing to keep traffic out of the area while crews battled a house fire. The vehicle was later found by RCMP in the Comox Valley, undamaged.

In March, the Campbell River Storm brought home the VIJHL championship for the first time in 11 years with a four-game sweep of the Victoria Cougars. The team was a dominant force during the 2014-15 season, amassing a 51-5-1-4 record, losing only once during regulation in front of their home crowd.

Unfortunately, the celebratory tone on the Mirror’s social media platforms was short-lived, as 18-year-old Cole Anderson was killed on March 21 after slipping off a seven-metre cliff on Blackcomb Mountain, landing on an area with very little snow. Anderson had been a member of the Mt. Washington Ski Club for more than 10 years, and his tragic passing was grieved throughout the community.

That tragedy was followed by

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Remembering those lost on the streetsA crowd of 50 or more community members gathered to pay their respects at a candlelight vigil held at Spirit Square Dec. 21. The celebration of life was held on the longest night of the year to recognize those we've lost from our streets and the struggles of those who remain behind. "This time of year is the time to be with friends, to be with family and find the warmth and comfort in each other. Tonight I would like to pay my respects to those who have left us, and especially give thanks to those who are helping," Mayor Andy Adams said, addressing the crowd. Organizers are hoping the vigil will become an annual event.

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In this day and age, looking back on the year that was 2015 wouldn’t be complete without

an examination of what people were talking about online.

In our community, based on our own numbers from our social media platforms, here’s what got people talking over the course of the year:

In early February, Campbell River RCMP investigated the theft of a City of Campbell River Fire and Rescue vehicle that was stolen while it was blocking Simms Road with its emergency lights flashing to keep traffic out of the area while crews battled a house fire. The vehicle was later found by RCMP in the Comox Valley, undamaged.

In March, the Campbell River Storm brought home the VIJHL championship for the first time in 11 years with a four-game sweep of the Victoria Cougars. The team was a dominant force during the 2014-15 season, amassing a 51-5-1-4 record, losing only once during regulation in front of their home crowd.

Unfortunately, the celebratory tone on the Mirror’s social media platforms was short-lived, as 18-year-old Cole Anderson was killed on March 21 after slipping off a seven-metre cliff on Blackcomb Mountain, landing on an area with very little snow. Anderson had been a member of the Mt. Washington Ski Club for more than 10 years, and his tragic passing was grieved throughout the community.

That tragedy was followed by

Looking at the Mirror’s year on social media

Continued on Pg. 3

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another in April when the story of missing 26-year-old Trevor Lyttle ended with his body being found by fishermen near West Thurlow Island. Lyttle had been missing since December 2014 when he was last seen leaving his parents’ home on Steelhead Road to feed some deer he saw in the nearby woods.

In May, Campbell River Search and Rescue (SAR) issues a reminder to the public to stay away from the edge of Elk Falls after photos and videos of people putting their lives at risk by venturing close to the edge began surfacing yet again. “There is no surviving that fall,” SAR manager Grant Cromer told the public, also pointing out that recov-ering a body from the canyon endangers SAR members, as well.

In June, the pub-lic raved about the generous donation of a $2.2-million MRI machine for the new

Campbell River Hospital by the Mailman family, owners of Broadstreet Properties and Seymour Pacific Developments and longtime Campbell Riverites with a history of giving back.

Then in July, the focus turned to the wildfire situation in the province. While many places around B.C. were battling blazes, the Campbell River area was seemingly spared. When one fire, later determined to be human-caused, sparked near Echo Lake west of town, it was knocked down quickly by fire crews, but still caused a significant spike in activity on the Mirror’s Facebook page.

The biggest social media spike in August was on Aug. 12 and 13 when the RCMP and coroner’s service were investigating the dis-covery of two bodies in a Toyota SUV beside the Old Island Highway at Engels Road. The coroner later identified the deceased as Roy Richard Stotz, 54, and

Elvira Tagieva, 24, of Campbell River. Foul play was ruled out, but a cause of death was never released.

On Sept. 8, another spike in social media traffic can be attrib-uted to the photos we received from the scene of a logging truck that had rolled over on the Inland Island Highway between Hamm Road and Dove Creek Road, spilling its load and making a terrible mess, but, thankfully, no inju-ries were reported from the event.

In mid-October, Mir-ror editor Alistair Taylor attended another heart-warming event which caused a stir online upon its publication. “OPERATION: Get Grannie to the Bridge” celebrated the efforts of Dorothy Goodwin’s friends and family, along with members of

Campbell River SAR, to get the 94-year-old to the Elk Falls Suspension Bridge for her birthday.

Our Facebook page went nuts again, as it always seems to do, in early December, when the rains moved in and flooded downtown dur-ing high tide.

The combination of the pictures from our own staff and the com-munity at large made Dec. 3 a big day of activ-ity online. A video by Kristen Douglas of the carollers who came to our office got people talking that day, as well, along with the news that the Knights of Colum-bus Christmas Hamper Fund was having trouble acquiring donations.

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Getting granny to the bridge was one of the more heartwarming – and popular – stories on the Mirror’s social media platforms in 2015. It involved the family of Dorothy Goodwin, 94, arranging to see the new Elk Falls Suspension Bridge with the help of Campbell River Search and Rescue.

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City council is trying to work out the kinks of a grant program, started earlier this year, that has had its complications.

The $10,000 grants are available to each of the city’s four business improvement groups to help beautify and clean-up the community.

Those groups include the Downtown Heart of the City Business Improvement Are a Association (BIA), the Campbellton Neigh-bourhood Association, the Pier Street Asso-ciation and the Willow Point Improvement Area Society.

But as evidenced by the request from the Pier Street Association at the Dec. 14 council meet-ing for its grant, it wasn’t

clear to all the groups that council intended the money to be used for improvements com-pleted by year’s end.

Mayor Andy Adams said the city will be speaking with the asso-ciations to make that clear for the 2016 round of funding.

“We will endeavour to correspond with the associations and ask them to try and have their projects going ear-lier in the year and if at all possible, for the projects to be completed prior to the end of the calendar year,” Adams said. “That’s just a direc-tion we’ll undertake so that they’re not coming late in the year like this one.

“It is our first year, so I think we’ll give them a little bit of leeway.”

The request from Pier

Street, via Phyllis Titus, a member of the BIA, asks for the $10,000 grant for “lighting of the three large murals in the Pier Street area, replacement of the flower barrels, and if there are left over funds – recycling cans throughout the area.”

Coun. Larry Samson, who said he was the councillor who brought the request forward, said it was partly his fault the request came in so late in the year.

He said he wasn’t originally aware that the city had to go through a partnering agreement in order to legally give the grants to the different associations.

“It was new to me. I didn’t realize we were going to have to go through this partner-ing agreement,” Samson said. “I thought the city

had latitude for grants so I definitely take some of the blame on this late-ness.”

The partnering agree-ment was the first speed bump for the city in awarding the grants.

Council learned in May that before any money could be distrib-uted, the city (via coun-cil’s approval) and the association asking for the money, would have to both enter into a legal agreement.

City Clerk Peter Wip-per said the city had sought legal advice and the only way to legally financially assist the groups in their beautifi-cation efforts is through a partnering agreement which allows the groups to carry out work on city property.

Samson said now that all parties have a clearer

understanding of the process, next year’s allo-cation process should be a lot smoother.

“They’re all aware now,” Samson said. “I’m sure they’ll be right on it the first of the year.”

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Well New Year’s Eve is just about upon us and it is time for the ritual – and literal – turning of the calendar.

As with every year, 2015 saw its share of good times and bad times. Guess what? You can expect the same in 2016. It would be nice to say that it’s all going to be wine and roses in 2016 but we all know that’s not going to be the case. Tragedy will strike again but so will triumph. We can feel comforted knowing that many good things will happen to good people in the coming year. They won’t always make the news pages or get circulated like wildfire on social media, but they’ll happen and some of them will make the news agenda.

Our economy will go through it’s usual machina-tions – ups and downs, expansions and contractions. In the end, we just hope that we will be better off at the end of they year than when we started.

Changes will happen but one thing that you can depend on: you will continue to read about most of these things in the pages of your local newspaper – the Campbell River Mirror.

It was a year of big change for us as well and we tried our best to adapt to it. We hope to roll into the coming year with the support of our readers and advertisers. Together we’ll make the news and watch it unfurl.

Meanwhile, allow us to thank you, dear readers and advertisers, for your ongoing support.

Another year goes by

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Passages of 2015: Bill BennettThe death of former B.C.

premier Bill Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the traditional round of polite tributes.

He was the man from Kelowna who remade Van-couver, w it h SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo 86 to put the city on the world map. He won three majority gov-ernments before handing over the steering wheel of a smoothly running Social Cre dit Par t y to Bill Vander Zalm.

Outside B.C., the wire ser-vice obituaries ran to a few paragraphs, defining Bennett first as the “architect of finan-cial restraint in the province.”

It seems an ordinary notion today, but when Bennett unleashed his “restraint pro-gram” on the B.C. government in 1983, it was presented as a right-wing coup on a socialist

utopia. The blitz of restraint legislation reasserted govern-ment’s authority to control the size and wages of provincial staff, reinstated the province’s ability to pay, eliminated vari-

ous boards, and increased the provincial sales tax to seven per cent to pay the bills.

Another Bill Bennett legacy was dismantling the monopoly chokehold of big international unions on public heavy construc-tion.

Growing up in northeastern B.C., I had seen the impressive pay for jobs on highway construction, about twice what I earned labouring for a non-union contractor doing city work.

This struggle over public construction continues today, with BC Hydro’s decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. The main contract was

awarded to a consortium working with the Chris-tian Labour Association of Canada, an alternative union known by more colourful names among old-line build-ing trades.

After graduating from jour-nalism school, I landed my first full-time job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly before Bennett announced his retirement from the premier’s office to finish his term as a backbench MLA.

Bennett and I would some-times arrive for work together, parking our rusty 1976 Chev-rolets on Bernard Avenue, where he kept an office above the family furniture store.

I found out later that Ben-nett’s modest old sedan was the government-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier.

The party bought it for him as a humourous retirement gift, and he continued to drive it to work. No frills. That was Bill Bennett.

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has found its place in history and, as is the usual case, the people of Campbell River responded beyond expectations in every aspect of the task. When the final bell tolled we had filled 1190 hampers.

This year the response from our schools at every level was absolutely incredible. The children were enthusiastic and responded to our request with generous donations of food, toys and money.

The Mirror and 2Day FM were invaluable in getting information about THE HAM-PER out to the general public.

The adult individuals, groups, organiza-tions, clubs and businesses showed their Christmas Spirit as well. This was largely in the form of monetary donations in addition to gift cards, toys and non-perishable food items. This has allowed us to meet our obli-gations to our suppliers.

An army of volunteers appeared on the Friday and Saturday of Hamper Week to help assemble the hampers and then suc-cessfully deliver them.

It is testimony to their desire to get the job done that it was accomplished in record time, a good two hours faster than in pre-

vious years. A hamper was loaded onto a vehicle every twenty seconds. By 12:30 p.m. the last of the hampers were loaded onto waiting vehicles and brought to their des-ignated homes.

There were 74 undelivered hampers returned to the depot. The intended recipi-ents were contacted by phone as were some people who had filled out late applications. At the end of Sunday afternoon only 10 hampers remained in the depot (less than one per cent) to be distributed to local orga-nizations who aid the less fortunate on a year round basis.

Judging by the comments of those who participated, it was an enjoyable and reward-ing experience. Many a “See you next year!” was heard as they finally exited the depot.

And so, once again, we thank the people of our incredible city for their spirit of compas-sion and sleeves-rolled-up attitude. You did it again. You made a difference to many by bringing Christmas to them and you did it cheerfully and selflessly.

The Knights of Columbus wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year.

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What will Campbellton look like at this time next year?

Perhaps a better question would be "what could it be like if we worked harder at improving it?"

The point is that Camp-bellton can become what-ever the neighbourhood's residents and businesses choose to make of it - within City zoning rules of course. Or with Council permission to vary those rules . . . .

As we've mentioned sev-eral times before in this space, there are moves afoot to make many changes in Campbellton in months and years ahead, from major structural ones such as improving public access to the river front to small but still important changes such as improv-ing the appearances of the dozen or so old communi-ty flower boxes scattered around the commercial core of Campbellton.

One of the latest changes is confirmation from city officials that the swing sets in the park on 15th Avenue near Petersen will be removed in coming weeks and be replaced nearby with a new set of swings of a type yet to be selected but which when installed next spring will leave room for the new Campbellton Community Garden to install a second

set of garden plots.

That change may not de-serve to be Page 1 news but it is important inso-far as it's another step towards improved food security for Campbell River, a community that now produces less than one per cent of the food its residents and visitors now consume. Plus it will increase opportunities for more gardeners to partici-pate and thereby strength-en community relation-ships.

Three key projects

The improved access to the river at several loca-tions will be the subject of a public policy process in 2016, especially regarding proposed improvements to the Myrt Thompson Trail, notably adding a viewing tower, and they have potential to be a boon to tourism and recreation in the area.

A similar process will be-gin next year on Nunns Creek Park, with the city's new budget including

provisions to begin up-grading the playing fields and logger-sports venues there and do environment and ecology studies of the bush areas along the creek - which again will tend to boost tourism.

And third but not least will be a major push to raise funds and other supports for the development of an "entrance feature" on 14th Avenue between the north and south-bound lanes of the new Island Highway; it will include a restored Bea-ver float plane mounted on a pedestal near a yet-to-be built parking and rest area intended to get tourists and other travellers to stop for a break rather than

just driving straight through town with-out considering what Campbell River has to offer in terms of amenities, attrac-tions and commer-cial services.

All three of those initiatives involve boosting the City's appeal to tourists, first as a destination in its own right but if not that then at least become better known as a good place for travel-lers to stop and visit for a range of purposes, not only for gas and snacks but also for culture and entertainment and a very wide range of supplies and services.

The past summer was one of the best tourist seasons in many years for local at-tractions, aided especially by the low exchange rate of the Canadian dollar as well as by other factors such as the opening of the

new Elk Falls Suspension Bridge, and 2016 looks sure to become an even better year for tourism with the C$ down even more, thus attracting both more Americans coming for bargains and more Ca-nadians who can't afford to go to the States.

That means businesses in Campbellton in par-ticular and in Campbell River generally should be planning now to do more

to promote themselves to tourists if they have not al-ready done so.

The Campbellton Neigh-bourhood Association will have some new looks too in the new year, starting with a website now under construction that soon will feature a link to the CNA's recently-completed documentary film on the making of the community garden.

CNA AGM Jan. 13

It will be a new start for the CNA's executive too, with the CNA's annual general meeting set for Jan. 13 evening at the Eagles Hall, which appropriately is ad-jacent to the proposed en-trance feature.

The meeting is open to any and all interested persons and will begin with doors open around 5 p.m.

Further information from CNA chair Brian Shaw at 250-287-8807 or [email protected].

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Registration is now open for the 34th annual Members’ Exhibition at the Art Gallery, being held this coming March.

The Annual Members’ Exhibition is a popular benefit of being a mem-ber of the Campbell River Arts Council and Campbell River Art Gal-lery.

The exhibition features local artists in the Camp-bell River Art Gallery’s Main Exhibition Hall.

The show is an un-jur-ied exhibition with three Peer Awards to be given at the end of the exhibi-tion.

Members are encour-

aged to submit an art-work that will go on display for the full dura-tion of the exhibition in celebration of our artistic community.

In addition to the exhi-bition, the gallery will also be holding a fun-draising component in the Discovery Gallery. The fundraiser, called TRACE, will feature small original works on paper by exhibiting art-ists, for sale at $50 each. All proceeds will go to the Members’ Exhibition costs.

How to participate: Artists

Sign up or renew your Campbell River Arts Council and Camp-bell River Art Gallery

memberships. If your membership to either of these organization lapses soon, or during the dura-tion of the exhibition, they ask that you renew your application prior to applying to be part of the exhibition.

Register for the show by Thursday, Feb. 18. Registration forms are available online at crar-tgallery.ca or at the gal-lery, and can be submit-ted by email to [email protected], mailed to the gallery or deliv-ered in person. Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted.

There is also a $10 entry fee for adults. Youth (aged 12-19) entries have no entry fee.

Label and drop off your work at the gallery on March 5 from noon to 5 p.m. Page four of the registration form is your identification for your work and must be included at the time of drop off.

Works must be origi-nal, created within the last three years and must not have been previously shown at the gallery.

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C amp b e l l R ive r ’s Olivia Knowles has been named to another national team roster.

A product of the Campbell River Minor Hockey Association, Knowles grew up playing with local Tyees teams until Bantam, at which point she moved to Pent-icton to join the Okana-gan Hockey Academy, where she has played since 2014.

The 16 year-old 5’9” defenceman was a mem-ber of Team BC during the 2014-15 season, play-ing for the squad during both the Canada Winter Games in Prince George

and helping tim earn a fourth place finish at the 2015 National Women’s U18 Championships in Huntsville, Ont.

She went on to be named to Team Canada this past August, when the team went to Lake Placid, N.Y. to take on Team USA for a three-game exhibition series.

Knowles wil l now rejoin her Team Canada U18 teammates for the 2016 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship in St. Catharines, Ont. from Jan. 8 to 15. Team Can-ada has won four gold medals at the tourna-ment since 2010 – cap-turing silver last year in Buffalo – and melody Davidson, general man-

ager of national women’s teams programs, says she expects this year’s squad to compete for another.

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evaluation process for the coaches and scouting staff as well as the play-ers, but we have assem-bled a team that has

some experience at this championship,” David-son says. “We’ve seen the players’ growth and development from selec-tion camp, against the United States with their club teams, and most recently at nationals; we believe they’ll be ready to compete for a gold medal in St. Catharines.”

Canada’s fist match of the tournament will be against Russia at 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Jan. 8, followed by games against the Czech Republic and the U.S. in the preliminary round.

The gold medal game is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. PT on Jan. 15., just nine days before Knowles’ 17th birthday.

Olivia Knowles has been named to Team Can-ada again for the 2016 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championships.

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Thirteen games into the VIPL season, the Marine Harvest Riptide U15 Girls soccer team remains firmly placed in top spot amongst the five teams in its age group on the island.

In what was another battle in the cold, wind and rain that players have had to get accustomed to over the last month, Riptide played Storm at home turf on Saturday to

wrap up their final game of 2015 with a 1-1 tie. Both teams fought hard with Riptide ahead until the final minutes, when Storm claimed a late goal to even things up.

That was the second tie game for Riptide. Com-bined with the team’s eleven wins to date, Rip-tide relaxes into their well-earned and much needed two week win-ter break with a total of

35 points, 7 clean sheets, and a goal differential of 23. Riptide is the only team to have no losses at this point in the season.

Coaches Matt Laver and Lisa Wigard credit the team’s success to the players and their hard work. Additionally, to implement the team’s top-notch season plan designed by the Riptide technical staff, ongo-ing training support

from Geoff Hackett and Ken Garraway has been invaluable.

After the team returns from break, the focus will be on reaching peak performance. With only three regular league games remaining in 2016, Riptide will pre-pare for tournament play. VIPL A-Cup Play downs begin late Febru-ary, followed by Coastal Cup in April and, hope-

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The team will also head to the mainland in March to compete in the annual Surrey Mayor’s Cup tournament.

Beyond the standings, Marine Harvest Rip-tide U15 Girls have had to overcome some set-backs this season which has contributed to their growth, on and off the pitch.

Riptide U15 Girls head into winter break in top spot in VIPL standings

Pee Wee B Tyees hold on for tie against Cowichan

The Legion Ladies Auxiliary Peewee B Tyees wrapped up their pre-Christmas schedule at

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Both teams gave the fans in attendance an early Christmas present with an entertaining game. The fearless fish went up 2-0 early with goals from Nathan

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A city environmental organization is unim-pressed with a remedia-tion plan for the Jubilee wetlands, damaged dur-ing construction near the Maryland subdivision.

A report from McEl-hanney consultants, hired by Parkway Prop-erties Joint Venture, which has taken respon-sibility for the damage,

reveals a remediation plan that involves turn-ing the altered wetlands into a grassy meadow.

That plan was submit-ted to the city on Nov. 30 – the deadline that coun-cil had given Parkway to provide a remediation report after extending the original deadline from Oct. 23.

Dan Samson, presi-dent of Parkway Prop-erties, told council that consultants previously

hired by Parkway had missed several deadlines and requested the exten-sion from council in September. Samson also told council that none of the parties involved had any ill intentions and thought that where they were dumping soil was simply a depression with poor drainage, similar to a wetland in the Mary-land subdivision that the city had approved for elimination during the

first phase of subdivision construction.

Problems begin

The movement of soil began in 2007 and ended in early 2014 and resulted in the dis-turbance of the habitat in 2.2 hectares of fen – a marshy area of land that frequently floods – within the Parkways property, roughly 150 metres south of Jubilee

Parkway. That distur-bance altered the local hydrology, including lowering the water table.

T h e Mc E l h a n n e y report, authored by biologist Ross Murray, suggests restoring the hydrology – in order to support remaining fen on a neighbouring prop-erty – by infilling the ditches and regrading and stabilizing the area where soil was deposited.

“Grading wi l l be

completed to provide a broad shallow depres-sion leading drainage to the remaining fen,” Murray writes. “Grading will include infilling any remaining ditches and grading all previously ditched areas.”

The plan further calls for a 30-metre vegeta-tion buffer to protect the remaining fen – a buffer stabilized by planting native grass and sedge seed mix prior to tree

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“Open meadows or grasslands are uncom-mon around Campbell River,” Murray writes in his report. “Raptors are

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particularly common in the Campbell River area and a meadow habitat supporting small mam-mals would provide a beneficial hunting ground for raptors.”

But Greenways Land Trust, an environmen-tal stewardship organi-zation, said a remedial ac t ion requirement ordered by the city on July 21, 2015 clearly states that Parkway needs to remediate the damage and McElhanney’s plan does not cut it.

“This report does not constitute a plan for

remediation and restora-tion of the Jubilee Park-way fen,” writes Sandra Milligan, president of Greenways Land Trust in a letter to city council and shared with the Mir-ror. “While the report does provide some miti-gation of the damage caused by Parkway by buffering, but not legally protecting the remaining wetland, no restoration of the fen is proposed. The plan recommends creation of a grassy meadow where a rare fen wetland existed. Grassy meadows are not native habitats in the Camp-

bell River area, they are not rare, and they do not contain rare wetland species, which is what was lost from the site.”

Recovery unlikely

Murray, in his report, said it would be difficult to recover the wetland.

“Vegetative commu-nities that could be tar-geted for restoration are slow growing and may be vulnerable to being over-taken by faster growing invasive plant species that were absent dur-ing the natural develop-ment of this fen,” Murray

writes. “Based on these considerations, it is very unlikely that an effort to re-develop the fen within the disturbed area on the property would succeed.”

Milligan disagrees, writing that fen restora-tion has been success-ful throughout North America, as documented by Thomas Biebighauser, a wetland restoration specialist, in his Wetland Restoration and Con-struction – a Technical Guide.

“Restoring a fen on a site where one used to exist, and is contigu-ous to remnant wetland

habitat, is…likely to be successful,” Milligan writes. “We urge the City of Campbell River to continue to pursue an ecologically appropriate remediation of the Jubi-lee wetland site.

“We would also like to urge council to ensure that the remaining wet-land is protected as soon as possible,” Milligan continues. “It is neces-sary to proceed as soon as possible to fill the ditches and to monitor whether this is having the intended effects so that the hydrology of the site can start to be

re-established and the remaining wetland pro-tected.”

The city, meanwhile, has again extended the deadline for a reme-diation proposal until March 15, 2016. That proposal will then be reviewed by the city, as well as the province which has since got-ten involved, and must include a timeline for remedial action.

In addition to the remediation plan, Park-way has also been in discussion with the city to provide some form of compensation. Options

f o r c o m p e n s a t i o n include the following:n Remediating a for-

mer wetland, east of the bridge over Willow Creek, that was adversely impacted by construc-tion of Jubilee Parkway.n Enhancing lands

located at the south-west corner of Parkway’s property, which would enhance the water flow and habitat of Woods Creek.n Dedicating addi-

tional lands adjacent to Willow Creek in order to enhance the park network and protect the creek.

From Pg. 12

Wetland: group believes area can be restored fully

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May 31, 1964 – December 26, 2014

Gone is the face we loved so dear,Silent is the voice we loved to hear,

Too far away for sight or speech,But not too far for thought to reach,

Sweet to remember you who once was here,And who, though absent, is just as dear.

Your weary hours and days of pain,Your troubled nights are past;

And in our aching hearts we knowYou have found sweet rest at last.

Always in our hearts, Mam, Pa, Thyra, Arnud, Aglaia, Mark, Dennis, Rechelle, Arjen, Beja, Malcolm & Natasha

Bill HallJanuary 3, 1944 - December 14, 2015

We are sad to announce that Bill passed away suddenly at his home on Quadra Island, of a heart attack. He leaves behind his loving wife of 49 years, Carmen, his daughter Vickie-Marie, his son Bill (Katherine) his grandchildren Amy, Chase, and Dustin. His sister Bette (Arnold) and his son-in-law Derek. Bill requested no service. We will never forget you Dad...

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The “for sale” sign has been in the front

window for almost a year, but Coho Books on Shoppers Row has been unable to find a buyer.

Store owner Pirkko Anderson wants to retire, and she had hoped a buyer would be found so that she wouldn’t have to close the store down. Her

lease ends in February and she has decided not to renew it, so after Feb-ruary Campbell River will be without a book store that carries new books.

“I am saddened that the store will have to close,” says Anderson, “but the fact is that I am ready to retire.”

Coho Books opened in 2007, filling the void

that was created when Page 11 Books, a long-time Campbell River institution, closed down. Despite challenging eco-nomic times in recent years, the readers in Campbell River kept coming through the doors, surprising many people who thought the days of people buying print books were over.

“We have done well,”

explains Anderson. “Campbell River has really supported Coho Books. I think people value having an inde-pendent book store in their community.”

Coho Books is still open and ordering books until February. For more information call (250) 287-2336 or e-mail [email protected]

Time is running out for the little bookstore on Shoppers Row

Pirkko Anderson, owner of Coho Books, in front of her store.


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City of Courtenay Courtenay fire hall, 650 Cumberland Rd. January 2 and 3, 10am - 4pm

Town of Comox Comox fire hall, 1870 Noel Ave. January 2 and 3, 10am - 4pm

Village of Cumberland Cumberland fire department, 2679 Dunsmuir Rd. January 3, 4pm - 8pm contact 250-336-2531 for event information. You can also take your Christmas tree to the CSWM waste management centres. Open seven days a week from 8:30am – 5:30pm. Closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Comox Valley 2400 Pidgeon Lake Rd. CumberlandCampbell River 6700 Argonaut Rd.

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A partnership between BC Hydro and local First Nations is providing opportunities for envi-ronmental and engineer-ing work in fisheries, recreation, vegetation, wildlife and erosion.

BC Hydro has been working with the Laich-Kwil-Tach Environmen-tal Assessments Limited Partnership (LKT) on their capacity to deliver these important water use plan monitoring studies and some capital works. LKT consists of the We Wai Kai Nation and the Campbell River Indian Band.

The water use plan-ning program is provid-ing opportunities for environmental and engi-neering work that covers off fisheries, recreation, vegetation, wildlife and erosion.

“For BC Hydro we spent three-and-a-half years in consulting and working with the Camp-bell River community on how we could change our water flow regimes in the reservoirs and the

lower Campbell River to better benefit all the various water use inter-ests,” says BC Hydro’s Stephen Watson. “We’ve been operating to that new regime for a few years now and a key element is monitoring those changes to hope-fully confirm the various improvements we are all hoping for.

“Things like improved fish productivity. It’s great that First Nations are leading these stud-ies, through a partner-ship, so we can be even more informed about the watershed.”

For the Campbell River First Nation, the advanced discussions and collaboration with BC Hydro have allowed them to establish a capa-ble team.

“As part of A’Tlegay Fisheries, we had a good team of people that were involved in various proj-ects, including some pre-vious BC Hydro initia-tives, but the water use planning work required an expansion to those

skillsets,” says Chief Bob Pollard. “It’s a whole new level so we’ve worked well with partnering companies to assist us and provide LKT with the ability to hire the expertise required to carry out this work. Our people are part of this learning process.”

There are 13 monitor-ing projects taking place over 10 years, with eight of them already under-way and being con-ducted by LKT.

There are six physical works projects that will also be completed over 10 years.

One of those projects, a replacement of the Salmon River Diversion fish screen, has been rolled into the Salmon River Diversion Canal Refurbishment & Fish Passage Improvement Project, while the other five are in preliminary stages of scoping and development.

The skillsets LKT staff continue to develop include field safety man-agement, lake acous-

tic surveys, specialized sampling of fish (scales, otoliths, fin rays, tissues) for ageing, DNA and SIA analysis, to fish snorkel surveys.

These skillsets are not just about fish. Other components include vegetation and habitat surveys and terrestrial sampling, hydrometric gauge/remote sensing installation and main-tenance, and public impression surveys.

“We are continuing to build and refine our rela-tionship with BC Hydro and this is another exam-ple of how we are work-ing together,” says Act-ing Chief, Brian Assu, of the We Wai Kai Nation. “This is a good story all the way around, whether about our people learn-ing new skills and work-ing with other compa-nies, to the water use planning program and through this research, we will be developing more comprehensive infor-mation about fish and wildlife in the Campbell River watershed.”

Hydro, First Nations partner on watershed monitoring

A LKT crew is shown conducting daily servicing, from earlier this year, of the rotary screw trap that was installed in Elk Falls Canyon to count downstream migrating juvenile salmon.

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