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Suspicious vehicle fire puts forest in danger A suspicious vehicle fire on a local logging road threatened to ignited a forest fire on Thursday. Campbell River Fire Rescue responded to the report of a vehicle fire off the Duncan Bay Main Logging Road at 2:39 p.m. in the same area as a brush fire two months ago. On arrival, crews discovered an abandoned pick-up truck that was completely destroyed by fire. The fire had extended to the grass adjacent to the truck. Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Doherty says, “Campbell River Fire Rescue worked with the Wildfire Management Branch to contain and extinguish the fire which appears to be suspicious, and is under investigation.” Doherty also adds that crews were fortunate winds were light and that the area had an old access road which served as a natural fire guard, preventing the fire from spreading into the standing timber. A pickup truck burns off the Duncan Bay Main logging road on Thursday. City of Campbell RiveR photo
Mountain bike park one jump closer to development Mike Davies Campbell RiveR miRRoR
The goal of developing a mountain bike training facility and skills park in Campbell River has cleared another hurdle, or gap, or rail, or
(insert your favourite mountain biking reference). At the Aug. 12 meeting of Campbell River City Council, a site was officially proposed and approved for the development of the facility. The site chosen, after extensive con-
sultation with various community groups, is a 3.2-acre parcel of land adjacent to the Beaver Lodge Forest Lands at 1100 Dogwood St. South, between Dogwood Street and the houses on the west side of Springbok Road.
“Three years ago this summer, my eldest son was diagnosed with dyslexia,” said Wendy Ravai, the driving force behind the project. Shortly after her son’s diagnosis, she said they took a family vacation, and he fell in love with mountain biking at a
training park and told her, “We need one of these in Campbell River.” “I told him, ‘if you don’t give up on trying to read, I won’t give up on getting a bike park.’” And she hasn’t. Continued on Pg. 2
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