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Volume 58 No. 42
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Shooting Range wants expansion
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
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Cameron Orr Ask and ye shall receive, as the Fire Mountain Shooting Club learned when they sought and received $7,500 from the District last week. Club president John Kennedy presented their plans at the outset of the meeting, which is to expand the firing range to complete a project which is already 90 per cent done. The group had already used the majority of the $36,900 the District granted them in the last budget cycle to expand the shooting enclosures. They were given guidance when they were granted the money to first attempt to reduce costs as much as possible. The club and various users did come together and do just that, and helped put in a new concrete slab, and free engineering work was even done to the range itself. The new building cost $26,000 and the slab was $12,000. Kennedy said they have $3,200 leftover from the District’s grant, but still needed the $7,500 to clear material so they can take advantage of the larger building. “I can get behind those kinds of things when the community comes together...it’s a good project,” said Mario Feldhoff speaking to the motion to grant the money, moved by Mary Murphy. The only other thing brought up was from Phil Germuth who just told Kennedy that in the future he’d like to discuss ideas relating to noise pollution from the range, after hearing comments from Cablcar residents, but he noted that his research indicated the range is designed well.
Jed Stumps residents separate fact from fiction Cameron Orr The residents of the Jed Stumps trailer court in Kitimat can breath a little easier now that rumours have been put to rest about the future of their home. Residents had been working off hearsay and rumours following the sale of the property, with many worried they were quickly going to be kicked out, and left with no place to go. If it turned out they had to leave, many weren’t sure where they would go. Even the trailer court next door to them could only take on four from Jed Stumps, said Avalene Turner at a gathering of concerned residents at the Northwest Community College on October 8. Turner and Kitimat’s Housing Resource Worker Anne Moyls put together the meeting, which was intended to also include the new owners of the property but, while they couldn’t be there, Mayor Joanne Monaghan and District of Kitimat planner Daniel Martin were to hear
“The rumours are gone, the gossip is gone.” concerns and to provide information as needed. Monaghan was able to relay information she had received from the owners, which was that nothing is happening to the trailer court for at least a year, if even at all. She said the new owner is planning a meeting with residents in the not-to-distant future. “I think a lot of people relaxed,” said Turner. “The rumours are gone, the gossip is gone.” She said there’s still a lingering fear of it being shut down after a year but everyone now knows the eventual process of how that would happen, if it were to happen. “We heard rumours it’s going to be bulldozed, and we’re out of here in a month,” said about the residents prior to their meeting. So now it’s wait and see what happens after a year.
Brett Vilness tends to the net during the Kitimat Ice Demons’ home opener against the Terrace River Kings. The Demons won that match, and the next day’s battle against the Quesnel Kangaroos.
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