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Friday, January 17, 2014
Working out the bugs Sidney’s new garbage deal now in effect; kitchen scraps being shipped to Richmond facility Steven Heywood News staff
Working through some growing pains of a new garbage collection contract was fully expected, says Sidney’s manager of engineering and environmental services. Mike van der Linden said the Town’s new garbage contract with Emterra Environmental went into effect at the beginning of January and has been going well, with a few challenges along the way. Not only is a new contractor getting to know the community (previous contractor, Alpine, held the contract for nearly 20 years), van der Linden said residents are being asked to separate their kitchen scraps from the regular garbage. “There are some learning “The previous curves,” he said. contractor took it upon The Capital Regional District plans to stop taking themselves to collect kitchen scraps and comgarbage right from postable organic material these stratas.” at its Hartland landfill as of 2015. As a result, munici– Mike van der linden palities in the region have adjusted their waste collection contracts and bylaws to ensure people don’t mix up the waste. In Sidney, van der Linden said the Town handed out new kitchen scrap bins to local households in December — a larger one for outside and a smaller, kitchen-catcher-style bin for inside. Emterra collects material from those, as well as people’s existing garbage cans. A snag was hit early on, he continued, between the new contract and local strata neighbourhoods. “The previous contractor took it upon themselves to collect garbage right from these stratas,” said van der Linden, noting the Town itself does not require Emterra to do the same. Van der Linden added, however, Emterra is working with some of the strata groups to arrange for similar pickups. Please see: Refuse rules set out, page 5
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Daniel Cammiade holds his new cycling map for the Saanich Peninsula. The maps are available at bike shops and guide companies throughout Greater Victoria. For more, see page 7.
TV series to be filmed in Sidney Remake of Broadchurch sets up in a morgue on the waterfront Steven Heywood News staff
A Sidney waterfront building has been chosen to act as a morgue and police station as crews plan to film portions of the North American remake of the U.K. crime series Broadchurch. The production is expected to bring to town upwards of 200 people working on the production between now an the end of May. The former site of the Captain’s Table
and Mineral World next to the Sidney Pier Hotel is being used to house the two sets in the filming of what is being called Gracepoint. The 10-episode Fox TV remake stars David Tennant from the original series (he’s also a former Doctor Who), Nick Nolte (48 Hours, Warrior), Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) and Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook), among others. Michael Cronquist, vice-president of business development for the Marker Group which owns the building, says
the site was chosen by a locations manager with Gracepoint Productions, based in Victoria. First contact was made through the Vancouver Island South Film Commission. “They liked the waterfront location of the building,” he said, adding he was told it fits in with the setting of the TV series. Already, crews are at the site building the sets.
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Please see: Waterfront filming, page 3