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Critics pan ferry rate hikes of ‘only’ 1.9 per cent J.r. rarDon Campbell RiveR miRRoR
Transportation Minister Todd Stone said Wednesday he was encouraged by the BC Ferries commissioner’s recommendation to cap fare rate increases at 1.9 per cent in each of the next four years. But critics of continued price hikes in the wake of recent service cuts had a different reaction. “People are saying it’s good news, but we’ve been so battered by fare increases for the last three years that it makes 1.9 per cent look good,” said North Island MLA Claire Trevena, the NDP’s transportation critic. “We get another four per cent increase in April (2014), so that’s compounded to six per cent on what we’re already paying over the next 12 months.” The 1.9 per cent increases would be implemented beginning in April 2016 and continue each year through 2019 as part of BC Ferries’ fourth performance term (PT4). The recommendation by BC Ferries Commissioner Gord Macatee does not affect the 3.9 per cent rate increase scheduled for next month, the last of a series of fare increases
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Adin Teufel, left, and Nilay Carlson put the finishing touches on one of two toy wooden cars at Christian Life Childcare Centre Tuesday afternoon.
Surplus logs converted to kiddie cars for daycare Well it may not be trash, per se, but leftover logs that went unused in last year’s annual wood carving competition have been put to good use. They’ve been hand-carved and carefully crafted into two play cars
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by Adin Teufel and his girlfriend Nilay Carlson. The cars, which are large enough to seat at least two children, were sculpted over the course of two weeks and will be part of a natural play area at the back of Christian
Life Children’s Centre on Merecroft Road. For Teufel, a visual artist, it was his first carving with a chain saw. Nilay, an arts student from Turkey, has done a few carvings in the
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