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THURSDAY August 30, 2012 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
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Dog attacks revive calls for pit bull ban Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR
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UBCO thinks inside the (bike) box Wade Paterson STAFF REPORTER
UBC Okanagan is combining its security technology with a Saskatchewan inventor’s bike locker to create safe, secure and keyless parking spots for staff members’ bicycles. For four years UBCO has used the SALTO security system on its campus. SALTO Systems utilize keyless locks, which can be opened by an electronic card. According to Tina Dolan, UBCO’s administrator of SALTO Systems, the Okanagan university is SALTO’s biggest user site in Canada.
“We’re trying to become a keyless campus,” said Dolan. So it was only natural the university would try to adapt that technology to work with their newest set of bicycle lockers. “The manufacturer worked with our locksmith and has adapted some of the mechanics of the locker to be modified to accept our keyless entry,” Dolan said. Bikebox Canada utilizes post consumer materials to create triangular sets of five lockers, which can fit easily into corners. Its creator, Dean Gibson, said he invented the product because he was tired of his bicycles being vandalized or stolen.
According to him, so far Bikebox lockers have kept many bikes safe and “prevented over 20,000 pounds of plastic from entering the landfill.” The product’s environmentally-friendly nature is one of the reasons UBCO has purchased 10 Bikeboxes to date—with plans to buy more as demand increases. The five Bikeboxes currently on campus are located at the northeast corner of the Administration building. The other five will be placed outside the Health Sciences Centre once they are shipped to the university. “We’re trying to locate them strategically—near a building,
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preferably under cover,” said Dolan. Dolan noted the lockers are temporarily for staff use only. “In the University Centre, students have the ability to arrange to have their bike locked up in a secure area within the building— they’ve already had that option for a couple of years. “And in our new Engineering Management building, in one of the foyers in the back of the building, they set up an (enclosed) bike rack…so students have a few good options already.”
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PAUL MARCK takes his bicycle out of a Bikebox locker at UBCO. The five Bikebox lockers currently on campus are being rented out, but the
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Two separate attacks by pit bulls on four-year-old children in B.C. in the last week—including one in Kelowna last weekend—have prompted another call for a ban on the breed. Hayden Bush was camping with his family Saturday night when the pit bull he was looking at, a dog that belonged to a family friend, lunged at him, biting his face in two places. After being rushed to hospital, doctors had to use 32 stitches to close the wounds to the little boy’s face. Hayden’s mother Jayme Bush said Wednesday her son was traumatized by the attack but she does not want it to ruin his love of animals. But she, along with the mother of a four-year-old White Rock girl who was attacked last week by a pit bull and also required stitches to repair wounds to her face, said it’s time vicious breeds like put bulls are banned in B.C. Currently, there is a ban on the breed in Ontario and while people who already had a pit bull when the ban came into effect are allowed to keep their animals, they must be muzzled when out in public. Emma-Leigh Cranford was attacked by a pit bull belonging to her uncle’s girlfriend at a family backyard barbecue Aug. 23 in White Rock. Her mother, Elizabeth Cranford, said her daughter, who had been playing with the dog just a few days earlier, walked past the dog at the barbecue when it pinned her between a bench and a fence as it bit her on the lower part of her face. The White Rock mom called in to a Kelowna radio show Wednesday morning to echo Jayme Bush’s call for a ban on pit bulls. Cranford said she used to feel it was the fault of the owner when she heard about pit bull attacks, but she does not feel that way in light of the attack on her daughter. Cranford said she knows the owner of the dog that bit her daughter is a good, caring and vigilant owner who looks after her dog and treats it very well. Cranford
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