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City proposes eliminating offleash dog area near Centennial Park
A sunny Sunday Easter egg hunt
AARON ORLANDO
editor@revelstoketimesreview.com
It was a beautiful, bluebird closing day at Revelstoke Mountain Resort on Sunday. Amongst several closing weekend events was the Sunday Easter Egg hunt enjoyed by participants (l-r) Maia Journeau, Thea Peasgood, Zakiya Journeau, Erika Peasgood, Alena Hamilton and Tasia Hamilton. After this picture was taken near the top of the Stoke chairlift, the girls were off to hunt for an Easter bunny on a monoski. Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Times
The City of Revelstoke is proposing to eliminate the off-leash dog walking area that runs from Centennial Park and extends through the Downie Marsh all the way to the new Illecillewaet River footbridge. The proposed change is the biggest reduction proposed in an overhaul of the designated off-leash areas in the city. The plan also proposes minor tweaking of boundaries to some existing offleash areas and significantly expanded new areas in the Big Eddy and on the south shore of the Illecillewaet River. City planning director John Guenther is scheduled to present a report on the proposed changes to city council at their April 10 meeting. “We’ll be doing public outreach on this. This isn’t settled,” Guenther told the Times Review. “We’re laying [it] out right now for people to look at and we’re proposing more restrictions on off-leash areas,” he said. Guenther’s report says the city has received complaints over the existing Off-leash, page 5
Revelstoke Grizzlies Society working to keep team here
The Revelstoke Grizzlies Society’s outgoing board of directors leads an emotional annual general meeting at the Revelstoke Forum last Tuesday. From left: Cheryl Fry, Diana Watt, Bob Loepkky, Courtney Kaler and president Tammy Kaler. Alex Cooper/Revelstoke Times Review ALEX COOPER reporter@revelstoketimesreview.com
The Revelstoke Grizzlies Society is making a push to keep the team in Revelstoke, following an
emotional annual general meeting at the Revelstoke Forum last Tuesday, Apr. 3. The society, which was meeting for the first time since the team’s sale to 100 Mile House, voted in
a new executive and formed two committees to solicit community and corporate support for the team. By the end of the week, a Facebook page, Save the Revelstoke
Grizzlies, was launched and a petition was started online. The society owned the team until it was sold to Ronald Kolman, Joe Dauenhauer and Michael Jodoin for $15,000 in 2006. The current owners took over the team before the 2009-10 season. When the society sold the team, a clause was put into the contract giving the society the right to buy back the team for $1 if the new owners planned on moving or folding the team before May 31, 2016. On Apr. 2, the Times Review learned the ownership group Grizzly Sports Entertainment (GSE), which is led by Michael Roberts and also includes Lou Hendrickson and Joe Kozek, filed an application with the KIJHL on Sunday to sell the team to a group in 100 Mile House. *** Roberts cited declining atten-
dance and corporate support, as well as mounting financial losses as the reasons for the sale. “The corporate sponsorship has gone down dramatically over the last three years,” he said last Tuesday before the AGM. “The attendance has dropped over the last three years to the point where it’s just not financially viable to keep operating. The expenses to run the team are rising and we just don’t have the full support.” He said attendance had been declining since he purchased the team three years ago. “We’ve done everything we can,” he said. “We kept the ticket prices the same for three years. We put out a product that was strong and to recruit that product takes money, you have to sell kids on the community.” see KIJHL page 3
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