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Colwood lays out economic dev plan Angela Cowan News Gazette staff
The City of Colwood has released its draft of the Economic Development Strategic Plan, designed to bring about some big and bold changes to the area. And now they’re taking feedback. The plan’s first priority is to create a full-time economic development manager position, and make economic development a core service to the municipality. “Right now economic development is sort of off the side of our desks,” says Iain Bourhill, director of planning for the City of Colwood. “Having a dedicated staff person would be a huge help.” Also high on the list is the development of a single resource guide for businesses coming into the city and exploring tax exemptions for non-residential development, as well as improving what Bourhill calls “quality of place,” improving public spaces and ‘streetscapes.’ In total, the economic development strategic plan details 24 specific actions that will “support economic development, and enhance the City’s competitive advantage. Continue on page B13
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Susan Simmons embarks from the south end of Cowichan Lake on Friday, Aug. 22, the first few strokes of her 70-kilometre open, double-length swim of the lake. She hallucinated, fell asleep twice and spent two hours trying to eat during the 31-hour swim.
Swimmers conquer Cowichan double Thetis prepped swimmers for 31 hours straight Travis Paterson News staff
There were hallucinations, the scare of falling asleep mid-stroke and of course, hypothermia. But amid it all, there was no quit as marathon swimmers Alex Cape and Susan Simmons accomplished the 70-kilometre Cowichan Lake double, a non-stop, 31-hour adventure from
Friday, Aug. 22 to Saturday, Aug. 23. “The both of us are beat up, we’re tired,” said Simmons, whose neck was so chafed, it was still cushioned under a heap of fresh gauze and bandages five days later. The Victoria duo started and ended the epic swim on the beach of the Lake Cowichan community. They launched at 2:45 p.m. on Friday. Cape, 34, reached the turnaround point of Heather Campground at about 5:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. Simmons, 49, reached Heather shortly after. It was about two hours longer than the time it took them to do the same 34
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km stretch in July of 2013, and Cape was worried. “The support and safety crew were comforting. I was wondering what’s wrong. But they were calm. There were a lot of mental challenges and it definitely dragged on at points, but I’m so glad we did it,” Cape said. While the two are awaiting confirmation that the swim is among the top 15 per cent of open water distances ever completed, there was no waiting to confirm they had joined an exclusive group of 120 people to swim 24 hours straight. See Hallucinations on B15
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