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Dropping in for a party The Quality Foods Festival of Lights got underway at Robert Ostler Park on Canada Day with the landing of parachutists amongst the crowd on the foreshore. With that, the bands began and the evening festivities got underway, ending with a bang – the fireworks show. See more Canada Day pictures pages A3 and A5. PAUL RUDAN/THE MIRROR
Where have all the flowers gone? KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
The city is at a loss to explain how vegetation planted during the Highway 19A upgrade is already dead. A 200-foot long stretch of landscaping along the Old Island Highway near the Simms Creek Lift Station and Forberg Road has withered away “for completely unknown reasons,” said councillor Larry Samson. “It’s in very sad shape,” he said. “I went down and looked at it and it’s an eyesore. We have one of the most beautiful stretches along the ocean there and we have this vegetation...that’s completely died away.” The landscaping is part of the city’s $13.5 million Highway 19A upgrade project from Hilchey to Rockland road aimed at enhancing the area and creating an atmosphere similar to Willow Point. The project began in 2009 and wrapped up in May of last year. Continued on A7