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Mayor-elect and new councillors set initial priorities Carol Aun MISSION RECORD
Even before he takes office, mayor-elect Randy Hawes is meeting with the rest of the newly elected council members to discuss the work that has to be done to move Mission forward. “Everyone had a bit of a platform, and I appreciate it, “ said Hawes, who will be identifying priorities with fellow council members before presenting them at the inauguration ceremony on Dec. 1. One of the first things on Hawes’ list is to meet with district staff and repair relationships. “We have a staff morale problem,” said Hawes. “It has to be
way will benefit downtown. fixed. They are the face of our community. Council is “Moving the highway now is not an option,” said there to provide governance, but staff do the work.” Hawes, who would like to look at other ways to move Hawes is also not forging ahead with the current heavy traffic out of downtown, like a bypass near the plan to revitalize downtown. He suspects there are waterfront, or a route to the north that was talked “serious infrastructure problems” downtown with about many years ago. drainage and sanitary sewer lines and would like to “I don’t know what the city has now… or what right find out what is underneath the pavement before of ways are in place.” building on top of it. The development of the Welton Plaza will also be Hawes is worried that the system cannot accomHAWES put on hold. Hawes would like the city to acquire the modate the growth taking place above Seventh Avepost office building at the corner of First Avenue and nue. “In a severe storm, there could be flooding here,” said Welton Street when Canada Post moves out. He would like to see it designated as a historic building with a civic use. Hawes. “We have to know if the infrastructure is solid.” Continued on 3 Hawes is also not convinced re-routing the Lougheed High-
Theft foils fundraiser Money was to pay for a trip to Japan Carol Aun
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Japanese language students at Heritage Park Secondary School were deeply disappointed to find thousands of dollars worth of scrap metal they had been collecting was stolen from their school over the weekend. Their fundraising efforts were supposed to help offset the cost of a two-week trip to Japan at the end of the school year in June. “I feel annoyed,” said Owen Hildebrant, a Grade 10 student, who still plans to participate in the trip. “I didn’t think people would stoop that low,” said another student Amber Langley. “We’re high school students fundraising for a trip.” The students had been collecting scrap metal in the community for almost six months now, said teacher Linda Dickinson, who takes a group of students to Japan every
three years. “Japan is an expensive country. It’s not something the kids can work a couple of months for. They have to fundraise.” Students and their chaperones will visit several cities in Japan, including Mission’s sister, Oyama, where they will stay with local families. The trip will cost each student $4,000. The class rented two bins for the scrap metal last Friday and filled them up on Saturday. The material had been sorted and the bins were supposed to be picked up Monday. There were car batteries, copper wire, and even an aluminum boat in the mix. “It was six hours of work out in the cold,” explained Grade 10 student Devon Johnston. “Now it was all for nothing.” “Their enthusiasm has been dampened,” said Dickinson. “But this is a pretty determined
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Thousands of dollars worth of scrap metal was taken from Japanese language students at Heritage Park Secondary School who have been fundraising for their trip to Japan in 2015. SUBMITTED PHOTO
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