TUESDAY APRIL 3, 2012
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Old timers hockey tournament held on the weekend
Parksville couple travel above the Arctic Circle
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Marina mistake
DFO working to fix open marina with log booms after $3.9 million spent on new breakwater NEIL HORNER
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Phil Burgess stands at the end of the dock at French Creek Harbour and looks out to sea. He shouldn’t be able to do that, he says, and his ability to do so has him deeply concerned. “You can go almost anywhere in the harbour and look out on the water,” he said. “You couldn’t do that before and you shouldn’t be able to, if you’re in a safe harbour. You should be able to look anywhere and not see any water unless it’s protected by rock.” That new openness, NEIL HORNER PHOTO he fears, could result Fisherman Phil in serious damage to Burgess. both the harbour itself and the boats that tie up there. “A nor’ easter would take it all out of here,” he said, shaking his head. “A wind from the northeast would just come straight into the harbour. It would wipe us out.” Burgess is a fisherman and the owner of Summer’s Retreat and two other boats tied up to the dock at French Creek. He said the changes made to expand the harbour have led to waves rolling into the formerly sheltered facility. See EXTRA WORK, page A6
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MAKING HER DAY: St. John Ambulance therapy dog Mr. Twee always brings a smile to the faces of residents in care. Recently at Trillium Lodge he made the day of 75 year old resident Dorothy Keen. See page B2 for the community profile.
More communication needed
Lack of discussion biggest obstacle to success at health centre, say docs BRENDA GOUGH
March 31 about the challenges they face when it comes to delivering health care in District 69. Concern continues to be expressed that when the The Talk to the Doctor workshops at the Parksville ComOceanside Health Centre opens its doors in the summer of munity and Conference Centre drew large crowds and shed 2013, there may not be enough doctors some light on what the doctors are up Add your COMMENTS at to provide the services that have been against as they navigate the health care www.pqbnews.com promised in the new facility now under system. construction in Parksville. Biglow had both positive and negaLocal doctors Clair Biglow and Hugh Fletcher — prac- tive comments when he was asked about the state of health titioners with the Oceanside Division of Family Practice care in our community. — spoke to the public at the Health and Wellness Fair on See DOCTORS FAILED, page A7 reporter@pqbnews.com
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