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Marine Harvest’s Isaac Desprez presents a cheque Monday morning to an SPCA alumni dog while Stephanie Arkwright, branch manager of the Campbell River SPCA’s animal adoption and education centre, looks on. Marine Harvest raised $650 through a salmon barbecue during Paws for a Cause on Sept. 7 plus the company donated an additional $1,500 to go towards the city’s new SPCA centre (see story on page 5). Campbell River’s Paws for a Cause raised a total of $12,000 this year.
Shots fired, neighbourhood evacuated Three people were arrested after shots were fired and a neighbourhood was evacuated in Campbell River Sunday night.
At 11:28 p.m. Sunday, Campbell River RCMP responded to a complaint of shots fired in the 3700 block of the South Island Highway
between Jubilee Parkway and Colorado Drive. Neighbours who heard the shots made multiple 911 calls and guided officers to a specific
residence, Cpl. Poppy Hallam said in a press release. All available police resources
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Lisa Ringland of Oyster River is tired of taking her children to school. According to Ringland, her two children should be busing to school from their home in Oyster River, but there’s no room on the bus, nor is there room for a good number of the kids who do board it. “It’s three to a seat in there,” Ringland said. “We’ve tried to go through the proper channels (to address the situation) for years. We’ve called, emailed, called, emailed, gone in to speak with people directly, and nothing’s changed.” A photograph taken by Ringland’s daughter, which Ringland says was taken on the morning of Sept. 29, clearly shows the children on her bus hanging out into the aisle, and that there are, in fact, three children on many of the benches on the bus. Division 11.13 (3) of the B.C. Motor Vehicle Act (MVA) states that, “The driver of a school bus shall not (a) allow any person to ride on the school bus unless the person is comfortably and securely seated on a passenger seat or (b) move the bus or cause it to move unless he is reasonably certain that every passenger on the bus is comfortably and
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