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Looking to 2015:
Area mayors weigh in on key issues Sewage, transportation top the list for three largest West Shore municipalities Don Descoteau News Gazette staff
Sewage treatment has been a major issue for some years around Greater Victoria. West Shore municipalities will continue to play key roles in 2015 in determining a solution to the challenge, but to varying degrees, depending on where you stand. Colwood was the first municipality in the Capital Region to consider going with its own treatment system and had that decision approved by the CRD board back in March. But with the location of a regional treatment plant up in the air after the Town of Esquimalt rejected the use of McLoughlin Point as a main site, the conversations have seen the West Shore figure in a potential west side solution. Colwood Mayor Carol Hamilton, whose municipality only has about 25 per cent of its residents on sewer, expects the game may change somewhat with the region’s largest municipalities still without a treatment plant site. “Wastewater management is going to take up a considerable amount of the priorities this year,” she said. “We have deadlines to meet.” PlEASE SEE: Traffic flow, Page A5
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Spencer middle school is collecting scrap metal of various kinds as a fundraiser for a student trip during spring break. In 2015 the students are off to Australia and New Zealand. Among the students making the trek next year, along with school librarian Christine DoSouto (front, second from left) are (in bin, from left) Tanner Brown, Jenna Mayburry, Jordan Oatman, Tyler Hardy; (front, left) Micheal Patrick, Miranda Cyr and Esteban Bermudez.
Scrap metal to help foot travel bill Angela Cowan News Gazette staff
This spring break, 40 students and parents are travelling to Australia and New Zealand with Spencer middle school teachers Christine DoSouto and Yvonne Clark. They’re hoping scrap metal will help foot the bill. To fundraise for the 15-day trip, the
school is collecting everything from household appliances and stainless steel to copper and aluminum. Items can be dropped off anytime at the bin located outside the school, 1026 Goldstream Ave., until the end of February. DoSouto and Clark have been taking students from Spencer and Belmont High on trips around the world for the last six years, “to provide students with a better understanding of the world
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and to see different cultures firsthand,” DoSouto says. Past trips have included sojourns through Egypt, China, Costa Rica, Japan, Peru and Europe. A drop-off bottle drive at Spencer will also take place Saturday, Jan. 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, email DoSouto at cdosouto@sd62.bc.ca. acowan@goldstreamgazette.com
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