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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
League creditor process extended Capital City Centre project remains stalled Charla Huber News staff
After a week in court League Group is seeing a few changes but will remain in creditor protection until June. During a B.C. Supreme Court hearing John Parkinson was appointed the interim chief executive officer of League Financial Partners, the group behind Colwood’s Capital City Centre project. The $1 billion development project at Goldstream Avenue and Sooke Road was marketed as the largest development on Vancouver Island. The ground broke on the project in 2012 and shoring and other ground work was completed. Now the development is at a standstill. Between struggles with gaining financing for the Colwood project and one in Duncan along with challenges creating two public companies last year, League felt filing for CCAA was the only option, said Adam Gant, League group CEO, in a previous interview with the News Gazette. Please see: Colwood project, Page A4
Kettle Creek resident Kim Rackcliff and fouryear-old Asher Percival celebrate the spoils of a late trick-or-treating experience. Charla Huber/News staff
Kettle Creek delights young knight Community recreates Halloween for Asher, 4, after hospital stay Charla Huber News staff
Just a few hours before little goblins and ghouls set out in search of candy, four-yearold Asher Percival found himself spending Oct. 31 in the emergency room at Victoria General Hospital. “It was pretty bad,” said his father, Gord Percival. “He was pretty lethargic and so dehydrated. That was the breaking point when we decided to take him in.”
Asher had a severe case of flu but his parents had hoped he’d be able to go trick-ortreating to even just a couple homes in their Langford neighbourhood. “He’d picked out his costume since August,” Gord said. The knight in shining armour costume sat unused and shortly before 7 p.m. Asher’s father made a post on the Residents of Kettle Creek Facebook group announcing Asher was in the hospital and would not be trick-ortreating. Within minutes 75 residents commented, offering to save candy for the little boy when he was better. Neighbour Kim Rackcliff felt bad for Asher even though she’d never met the boy. She asked on the Facebook page if residents could
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all be home at the same time to allow Asher to trick-or-treat when he was well. On Nov. 2, Asher and his family visited about 30 homes, some still decked for Halloween or sporting pumpkins at the end of the driveway to signal they were participating. “I dressed up in a witch outfit so Asher wouldn’t have been the only one dressed up,” Rackcliff said. “As an individual it’s just a small thing, but collectively it’s an amazing thing. No kid should go without Halloween.” Some of the residents left notes with bowls of candy outside and most of residents had never even met him. “It was heart-warming that all of these people did this for my son,” said Asher’s mom Crystal Percival. charla@goldstreamgazette.com
Some are easy.
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