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Panthers extend home win streak
Community and health care building opens
Peninsula’s junior B hockey team holds off Nanaimo in a nail-biter, page A15
A traditional blessing ceremony highlights the opening of the new Tsartlip First Nation health centre, page A8 Watch for breaking news at www.peninsulanewsreview.com
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Complex care facility has a future Town to see private care facility open in former Bethel Baptist Church building Devon MacKenzie News staff
Sidney may soon be the new home of a care facility that will offer beds to senior patients who require complex care.
All Care Canada, a company partly formed by local Peninsula resident Blake Mooney, has purchased the former Bethel Centre (Mills Road) and are looking to get the 85-bed facility operating in the near future. “I’ve been in the long term care industry for over 15 years and one of my goals has always been to return
to my hometown and provide something locally,” said Mooney, the facility administrator. “I’ve always dreamt of being an owner operator of a long term care facility.” PLEASE SEE: Facility was never occupied, page A3
North Saanich residents group to discuss density Steven Heywood News Staff
The North Saanich Residents Association wants people who live on the Peninsula to know what’s on the table when it comes to development issues in their community. To that end, they will host a community meeting on Thursday, Oct. 4 in the Powell Room at St. John’s United Church on West Saanich Road from 7 to 8:30 p.m. “Basically, it’s an information-sharing session with our members and others in the
community,” said the association’s vicepresident Heather Gartshore. “It’s to help people learn what’s in the works with the District of North Saanich council.” Issues of development and density are hot topics among residents and Gartshore said the association wants people to have as much information as possible. “The North Saanich Residents Association exists to promote interest in the affairs of the district,” she said. “We want the communtiy to be aware of what’s going on.” She added the NSRA isn’t taking sides,
but is aware that the district council is faced with a large number of development applications calling for increased density and zoing amendments, which does not exactly fit in with the district’s current official community plan. With arguments on both sides of an ongoing development versus maintaining the OCP debate, Gartshore said meetings like theirs will help people better understand the issues facing the community and its elected leaders. “It’s a complcated process,” she contin-
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ued. “For the average Joe to find out what’s going on in just a few articles, it’s hard to know. So this will be an information session and a discussion.” Gartshore added the mayor and council from the District of North Saanich have also been invited to Thursday’s meeting, where it is expected the topics will range from workplace and affordable housing issues, to growth and how it impacts on local infrastructre. To leanr more, visit www.northsaanichresidentsassociation.ca. editor@peninsulanewsreview.com
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