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Colwood seeks DND land
Kids cash out
Foundations last remains of historic building Kyle Wells News staff
Bottle return program rewards Dunsmuir students in myriad ways Charla Huber News staff
Lifeskills students at Dunsmuir middle school are getting a double dose of winning. The class is receiving a second $1,000 prize from Victoria Bottle Depot on Glanford Avenue. It’s the first time the school has won the prize. “It’s absolutely exciting. It motivates our students and teaches them the importance of recycling,” said principal Yushi Wallace. “This gives them purpose, responsibility and ownership of the school.” For the 2012-2013 school year the school won first place in the Encorp B.C. High School Recycling Program. Throughout the year the school sent its bottle depot receipts and reports on the recycling efforts of the school as part of the contest’s stipulations. At the end of the school year Encorp gave the school a $1,000 cheque and now the Victoria Bottle Depot is matching the donation. Students voted to use the winnings to help
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Grade 8 students Ben Sivertson, left, Gabrielle Lindsay-Dickson, and Roman Daldaz are some of the top recyclers in the province along with their other Dunsmuir middle school Lifeskills classmates. They have won $2,000 for their recycling efforts. build Christmas food hampers for West Shore families, purchase more recycling bins for the school and still have a few hundred dollars left. “The kids will vote on what they want to spend it on. It might be to go on a special field trip,” said Lifeskills teacher Erin Larson, adding they may also want to donate some of it to another charity. The Lifeskills students spend two days a
week collecting recyclable beverage containers from all the classrooms and then one day of sorting. The bottle refunds help cover the cost of the Lifeskills students weekly field trips. “Our goal is to have the students be comfortable in the community after they graduate,” said Larson. charla@goldstreamgazette.com
The City of Colwood is looking to buy the land where a landmark department of national defence building once stood. The 1930s-era building near the bridge on Ocean Boulevard sat unused since 2006 and was torn down last week. Department of National Defence says the building had to be demolished because it was in poor condition and was no longer of any use. The cost to repair the building was too much to justify restoring it, as opposed to the cost of tearing it down. The land the building sat on is also eroding, making the building a liability, said Cpt. Jenn Jackson. “It’s in poor condition, it’s expensive to repair,” she said. The building foundations were left, said Colwood CAO Chris Pease, because removal could destabilize the land. Any underground tanks will also be removed or filled. Please see: DND tears down ‘landmark’ building, Page A6
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