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Seniors society may finally have found a home Kristen DouglAs Campbell RiveR miRRoR
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Paddling at ease
A participant in Saturday’s Discovery Passage Passage takes a casual approach to the start of the annual event that sees hundreds of canoes, kayaks and paddle boards cross Discovery Passage for a reception at Cape Mudge before returning to Campbell River. See page 20 for more.
Trevena’s victory cost $5.90 a vote AlistAir tAylor Campbell RiveR miRRoR
Claire Trevena’s successful bid to retain her seat as North Island MLA cost her $70,087, according to Elections BC. But Trevena’s victory cost her $9,477.65 less than her closest opponent, Nick Facey of the BC Liberals,
whose total election expenditures were $79,564.65. Trevena also had more money to play with. Her total election income was $97,333. Facey’s was $62,211.48, leaving his war chest with a deficit of $17,353.17, according to Elections BC’s 2013 General Election Financing Report which is available online at http://contri-
butions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca/pcs/ Options.aspx Finishing third in the May 14 general election on the North Island was BC Conservative Party candidate Bob Bray who also spent the least – a total of $7,380.38. He received $7,120.11 in income. Trevena won the election with 11,885 votes compared to Fac-
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ey’s 9,883 and Bray’s 1,675. That amounts to $5.90 a vote. Facey spent $8 a vote. Bray’s votes cost him $4.40 each. There are “lies, damned lies and statistics,” the saying goes, but what election expense data might tell you could well be as interpretive. However, information in the Continued on Pg. 5
Campbell River seniors may have finally found the perfect home – at least for now. The Seniors Society is proposing to set up a seniors’ centre split between two locations – the Sportsplex and the Community Centre. Both are city-owned buildings and representatives from the society were at the Aug. 13 council meeting to ask permission to use the facilities. “The Campbell River Seniors’ Centre Society would like to request that the council allow the society to use space in city-owned buildings rent free to facilitate the establishment of a seniors’ centre in Campbell River with the partnership of the city,” said Bruno Fornika, chair of the building committee which has spent several months trying to find a place for the seniors’ centre. The centre was operating out of the Continued on Pg. 9
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