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Connector Vol. 8 No. 24
• free distribution throughout The South Cariboo • March 28, 2014
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Lambing season is underway in the South Cariboo. It’s an extremely busy time for area ranchers and farmers and they have be on watch 24 hours a day seven days a week in case their help is needed. This little lamb, born recently near Canim Lake, rested atop its mother.
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Cadbury Easter Creme Eggs 3’s or
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Prices in effect March 28 - April 3, 2014 Limits may be in effect. While quantities last. See store for details.
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Fired society bosses get severance pay By Tom Fletcher Black Press
Four Vancouver anti-poverty charity executives fired for a tax-funded spending spree that included luxury foreign trips, limousines, restaurant meals and booze will receive severance pay of up to eight weeks plus accumulated vacation pay. On March 24, Housing Minister Rich Coleman said the severance is required under British Columbia labour law for four top executives of the Portland Hotel Society, which operates low-income housing, addiction services and a string of non-profit
businesses in Vancouver’s downtown east side. Directors of the society resigned after terminating the four executives – Mark Townsend, his wife Liz Evans, Dan Small and Kersten Stuerzbecher. Coleman said a new “professional” board will continue to examine society expenses, and if any potential fraud is discovered, information will be sent to Vancouver Police. An audit by KMPG Forensic Inc. covered three years of expenses – 2010 through 2012. It found managers and directors expensed nearly $70,000 over three years on restaurants and more than $300,000 on travel.
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Trips were to Vienna, Paris, Bristol, Istanbul, New York City, Los Angeles, Banff and Ottawa. In addition to hotel rooms, some costing more than $800 a night, there were charges for spa services, alcohol, fresh flowers, a cruise for a society manager and other questionable expenditures. NDP Leader Adrian Dix said the same day he has requested an unpaid leave of absence for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA Jenny Kwan, who repaid $35,000 in travel expenses to the society on March 21. In a tearful news conference, Kwan said she had been told by her husband, Dan Small, that he was personally pay-
ing expenses that were actually billed to the society. Kwan accompanied Small and their two children on a trip to Disneyland, and on another trip to Vienna and Bristol, England. The Portland Hotel Society operates the supervised injection site for street drug users and a network of businesses including a coffee shop and a pest control service, in addition to managing multiple single-room occupancy hotels in the downtown east side. The society receives more than $28 million a year from the B.C. government, the vast majority of its revenues.
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