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Cowichan Water Challenge: Water Woman visits the lake PAGE 10
Council told town could improve on disability access front PAGE 2
Golf action: Update from March Meadows PAGE 12
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Hometown singer Mary Egan, alongside friend Ron Ingram, performs for the crowd and young fans Melissa Bell, Megan Bell, Savanna Virosh and Esabelle Virosh at Central Park Saturday evening.
Sportsplex funding to go to referendum decided that the sportsplex funding would “We’re excited about it going to come off grant-in-aid,” said Coun. Bob referendum, and optimistic too, but we OUTSTANDING CANADIAN VALUE Day. “It will go to a referendum and the recognize there’s a risk,” she said. “We need PRICING! municipalitiesALL-IN either have a choice of AWARD-RECOGNIZED people, if they believe inCARS! the sportsplex, to handling it at the council table or going to get out and vote, we hope they don’t get a referendum in town too. I believe North complacent.” Cowichan and Duncan will be doing their’s Last year, the complex recorded 200,000 at the table. If it’s a ‘No’ we don’t have to visits. pay.” The facility’s funding, “just shy,” of Lake Cowichan’s chief administrator Joe $400,000 comes from a mix of revenue, Fernandez said the town would need to donations and local government decide by August whether the issue would go contributions. This year, the CVRD to a referendum orOUTSTANDING be a council decision. contributed CANADIAN VALUEmore than one-third of that: ALL-IN AWARD-RECOGNIZED CARS! “We are still waiting forPRICING! some more $145,111, down from last year’s $146,500. information from the CVRD,” he said. Another third of the budget, about Catherine Brandon, the sportsplex’s $130,000, comes from sportsplex executive director, said her society has fundraising, through events, advertising, been trying for the past four years to get its rentals and proceeds from concessions. funding added as a line item on the CVRD “Fundraising is a fickle thing, the longer budget, instead of having to go cap-in-hand you’re around, the less excitement there is every year looking for grants-in-aid. about the project, that makes it harder to
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Lake Funding for the Cowichan Sportsplex in North Cowichan will go to a referendum this fall after the Cowichan Valley Regional District decided to go that route instead of the typical grant-in-aid process and allocation. All nine CVRD electoral areas, including F (Cowichan Lake South/Skutz Falls and I (Youbou/Meade Creek) will go to the polls on the funding and decide whether or not they want to put any money into it at all. The four municipalities of the CVRD, including the Town of Lake Cowichan, will decide whether or not to go to a referendum individually or decide on the matter at the respective council tables alone. “At the last CVRD meeting, the board
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fundraise,” Brandon said. “But we still have the community’s support.” The remainder comes from the Municipality of North Cowichan, the City of Duncan and School District No. 79. Brandon said none of that funding is a line item in any organization’s budget. The society has to approach them every year. “I can see why they started that way (dispersing grants), people were tentative about us, they thought, we’ll see how they do,” the executive director said. “But we’ve been here for a long time now and doing a fabulous job.” The facility, she said, brings millions into the region, through events like 2005’s B.C. Seniors’ Games and 2008’s North American Indigenous Games. The B.C. Summer Games are coming in 2018.
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