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Weds., October 2, 2013 www.revelstoketimesreview.com Vol. 116, No. 40
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Huge treated water loss through aging Revelstoke pipes Anywhere from 23 to 79 per cent of Revelstoke treated water leaks away through aging pipes before it reaches users’ taps. City targets five per cent water use reduction by 2015. Completed Greeley water source protection plan urges several immediate water protection steps. AARON ORLANDO
editor@revelstoketimesreview.com
Revelstoke’s Rory Luxmoore is followed by Scott Legere race to the top of a snowy Idaho Peak during Saturday’s Kaslo Sufferfest summit race that covered 46 kilometres and 2,200 metres of elevation gain. The two runners finished tied for first in a time of 4:54:19. As if that wasn’t enough, on Sunday Luxmoore went and finished second in the 50-kilometre trail run in a time of 4:56:45 – 51 seconds back of winner Jordan McTaggart (who didn’t race Saturday). Other great performances from Revelstokians include Richard Hamilton, who won the 45-kilometre mountain bike race on Saturday and the 25-kilometre trail run on Sunday; Anne-Marie Gill and Sarah Newton, who finished first and second respectively in the women’s 50-kilometre run; and Brendan McIntosh, who came fourth in the 100-kilometre mountain bike race on Saturday. — Alex Cooper Photo by Jesse Schpakowski
Two new City of Revelstoke water reports were made public last week. One shows it’s likely about half of the drinking water processed at the Greeley Water Treatment Plant leaks out through old pipes and infrastructure before it reaches users. Surprisingly, the report concedes
Water report, page 3
Dog attack victims shocked by lack of city action Victims of identical 2010 pit bull attack said nothing was done despite vociferous complaining, and say city has failed to maintain records, deal with warnings and multiple attacks from vicious dog AARON ORLANDO
editor@revelstoketimesreview.com
Two dog attack victims are angry the City of Revelstoke hasn’t taken action to deal with a pit bullcross that attacked their small dogs. They claim that the same dog has viciously attacked over half a dozen dogs over several years, and are gathering incident reports and plan to take the issue to a city council meeting. They’re calling into question an animal control system that can’t deal with repeat, violent-offender dogs. Vittoria van Leur’s Pomeranian Shiloh is recovering after the pit bull rushed her and her leashed dog near Wilson Street on Sept. 8. The
dog violently “rag-dolled” Shiloh twice before she could snatch her pet back. After reading about that recent attack in the Revelstoke Times Review, another incensed dog owner contacted van Leur and the Times Review, showing proof of her complaint to the City of Revelstoke in February of 2011 from a late-2010 attack. In almost identical circumstances, Beatrice Adjoury was walking her two pugs Paris and Chicho on Wilson Street when the same dog rushed from a home and attacked Paris, causing puncture wounds and an expensive vet bill. In a Feb. 2, 2011 email to City of Revelstoke bylaw enforcement
officer Tim Luini, Adjoury used the exact same terminology to describe the attack, saying the pit bull “ragdolled” her smaller dog. In the email, Adjoury complained that the dog was still roaming the neighbourhood off-leash and unmuzzled over two months later. She complained about the lack of professionalism from animal control officers, and offered up the names and telephone numbers of several other dog owners whose animals had been attacked. “I think it is ridiculous that nothing has been done about this dog and the owner is not being held responsible for their lack of control of their dog,” Adjoury wrote in the February, 2011 email. “Many fear that the
next attack could be on a small child as their dog only seems to bite small dogs. “I would like to know if anything can and will be done by the city regarding this dog,” Adjoury wrote. Fast forward to 2013, and Adjoury is angry the situation has been allowed to continue. She contacted the animal control officer again, but was told there was no record of that attack on their files. Adjoury points to her email correspondence with the city. “I go, ‘Really?’” she questioned. “I go, ‘You guys are so incompetent. Shame on you.’ I talked with the city. I talked to everybody. The fact that they’re trying to tell me there’s no record of this at animal control is absolutely ludicrous. “What is going on in this town?” she asked. “How many more dogs have to be attacked?” Vittoria van Leur is working
alongside Adjoury to contact all the previous dog owners whose animals have been attacked by the dog. Van Leur believes the dog should be put down, and plans to take the ongoing issue to an upcoming city council meeting, hoping to shine a light on an apparent systemic failure. City of Revelstoke bylaw control officer Tim Luini acknowledged the two attacks, and said animal control officers are now doing frequent patrols of the Wilson Street residence, making sure the dog is always muzzled and not roaming free. He said city officials have declared the dog vicious, and it could be impounded if it’s found in violation of the city’s animal control bylaw. It states the dog must be muzzled and leashed when out with the owner. When at home, vicious
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