PENINSULA Hearts in photos
Climbing the walls
Hearts of the Community volunteer awards were handed out on Tuesday, page 3 Black Press C O M M U N I T Y
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Central Saanich’s Boulders Climbing Gym athletes set records on the weekend, page 17 Watch for breaking news at www.vicnews.com
Friday, February 28, 2014
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The annual Hearts of the Community volunteer awards were handed out Tuesday.Today, the News Review presents the final three people and groups who work to make the Peninsula a better place. Stories start on page 3.
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Assistant Fire Chief Mike Harman (from left), Lt. Aaron Kary, Firefighter Kory Coward and Sidney Fire 100 Year Committee President Darrin Blinko. Pry bars and the Jaws of Life are only some of the tools these volunteers use on the job.
Sidney says no to traffic change on Beacon Beacon Avenue will remain a mixed-direction street after survey results revealed little support for change Steven Heywood News staff
Traffic along Sidney’s Beacon Avenue is not going to change. Ending a long public consultation process, town council voted
Monday to maintain the current mixed traffic direction on the downtown street. Approximately a year ago, a study of local streets and traffic patterns contracted by the municipality, suggested more work be
put into whether Beacon should maintain its mixed one-and-twoway flows or be made into a full two-way street as it was prior to 1997. Beacon Avenue is two-way from the highway to Fifth Street.
It becomes one-way heading east from Fifth to Second streets before returning to a two-way route again to the east of First Street. A group of business owners, led by Denis Paquette, formed the Sidney Traffic (later changed to Tour-
ism) Improvement Group (STIG) and started the conversation on changing the street back to a twoway pattern. PLEASE SEE: Beacon process set, page 4
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