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Youth Services co-ordinator Kristine Klupsas and her crew officially opened the doors to the LINC Youth Centre on Tuesday afternoon to host their tween night. The youth drop-in facility was closed for more than two months to clean up from damage from December's flood. Inside, lots of kids enjoy Vancouver Island’s only indoor skate park, which was opened in 2006. For more information on drop-in times, visit the City of Courtenay’s website or search for the LINC’s Facebook page.
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Family keepsake found via social media ... Page 6 The power of social media was demonstrated in the Comox Valley over the weekend, as Dianne Murray was reunited with a family keepsake.
The anti-spam legislation is seven months old and we still get 100 mass emails a day.
Raven Coal Mine application withdrawn Compliance president says public is being misinformed Scott Stanfield Record Staff
For the time being, Compliance Coal Corporation has withdrawn its Raven Coal Mine application from a provincial screening process while it attempts to clear up some misconceptions about the project.
But the company still plans to forge ahead with its contentious proposal near Baynes Sound. “We decided that it would be appropriate to withdraw at this time, but we still want to (develop) and we haven’t gone away,” Compliance president Stephen Ellis said. Monday marked the end of a 30-day period for evaluating Compliance’s application for an environmental certificate. The company's latest application was to address deficiencies in its first application, which the Environmental Assessment
Office (EAO) rejected in May of 2013. “In my view, these two failed attempts at getting an application through to the next review stage raises serious questions about Compliance’s competency,” John Snyder, president of the CoalWatch Comox Valley Society, said in a news release. “I suppose that after addressing the issues raised by the EAO, Compliance may wish to re-submit another application. However, they’ll still be facing the fact that there’s no social licence for their project, and the reality of moving
this ill-advised project forward faces an ever-increasing headwind.” Ellis says public misinformation has been circulating about the project. For instance, some are saying that shellfish are dying in Baynes Sound. “We haven’t even got a mine yet,” he said. “We’ve got nothing to do with that. Then they're linking it with us, saying the last thing we need now is a mine. But our application states that we wouldn’t have any impact on Baynes Sound.”
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