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Critics of the pole peeling plant made a lot of noise at a city council meeting Tuesday night. Gordon Road residents fed up with a pole peeler operation in their neighbourhood came to the meeting armed with stereos and sound recordings of the noisy debarker. “We figured we’d let people hear it and let people know exactly where we’re coming from,” said Glenn Mills, who played a recording of the pole peeler’s high-pitch screech on his car stereo in the parking lot of city hall. “If the general public knew what we’re going through, I’m sure we’d have a lot more people on our side but we’re out in the boonies and no one knows about us.” While the pole peeler sounds wailed, a contingent of about 11 protested for the third time, waving signs condemning the city for allowing the peeler to move into their neighbour. Continued on A3
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Smoke and machines Heavy machines build a fire break at a terrain fire in the Uplands Construction property near the Argonaut Road and Gold River Highway intersection around noon Wednesday. Campbell River Fire Chief Dean Spry said a deep seated fire in a pile of stumps, logs and dirt may have been smouldering for weeks before being fanned to life by the wind. The fire spread to surrounding grasses and there was concern it would make its way into a stand of mature timber on the perimeter of the property. The fire department responded at 11:47 a.m. with five pieces of equipment and 25 firefighters. The Oyster River Fire Department also contributed a tanker truck and the B.C. Forest Service responded with a helicopter and water bucket that dropped water on the fire. The fire was extinguished within two hours but mop up and hot spot control continued for another hour. In a related development, the Coastal Fire Centre has instituted a Category 2 fire ban on the coast. This applies to burning of any material, piled or unpiled, smaller than two metres in height and three metres in width, including burning barrels.
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