FRIDAY MARCH 2, 2012
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LIFE SAVERS HONOURED
GENERALS STILL ALIVE
Arena workers awarded for their quick actions
Playoff hopes still alive for Junior B hockey team
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Teachers to strike Monday B.C. teachers set to walk out on Monday; province working on cool-off legislation BRENDA GOUGH
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Parents are scrambling to make child care plans after BC teachers announced they will start a three day strike on Monday after they voted in favor of ramping up their job action. After 87 per cent of the 32,000 teachers in the province voted yes to a strike, B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Susan Lambert announced the strike plans on Thursday morning. Acknowledging parents’ concerns relating to costs and inconvenience, Lambert said she hoped parents would support teachers DEBBIE MORRAN in taking a stand against what she described as bullying legislation. “Teachers are determined and united in their opposition to Bill 22 and to the bullying tactics of a provincial government that has deliberately underfunded public education for a decade,” said Lambert. See TEACHERS, page A5
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ANTI-BULLYING DAY: Estee Marquis a Grade 4 French Immersion student at Parksville Elementary School checks her anti-bullying message written in English with vice-principal Bobbi Coleman to make sure she got it right. See page A17.
Dog survives bullet during walk Intentional shooting of pet near Little Qualicum Fish Hatchery has police concerned NEIL HORNER
crying and howling and screaming.” Ogilvie, who is five months pregnant, raced to her strickA Qualicum Beach woman is thankful her dog is alive en dog, but couldn’t find him. after it was shot in the neck near the Little Qualicum Fish “I couldn’t run as fast as I would have liked to, but I Hatchery Monday evening. couldn’t locate him. I could hear him, but I couldn’t see him. Niki Ogilvie was walking her two I was calling and calling his name, tryAdd your COMMENTS at dogs, Shoon, a wolf-malamute cross, ing not to be too panicked ... because of www.pqbnews.com and Ocea, a German shepherd-malathe baby, but I couldn’t find him. I went mute cross, at 4:45 p.m. when she heard a gunshot. up the hill and drove up around on the logging road to see “We were just finishing our walk and Shoon was walking if someone was up there. When I drove back and was dropacross the field when I heard a shot. There were a bunch of ping back down the hill he met me at the second gate.” birds that took off with it and then all I could hear was him See SHOOTING INTENTIONAL, page A4 news@pqbnews.com
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