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THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015
VOL. 25, NO. 92
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Pauline Ashton, left, and her husband Ed Greskow get help celebrating the presentation of a cheque for $100,000 from Maeve O’Byrne, Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation president, at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Wednesday. The couple are the grandprize winners of this year’s Lotto for Life and say the money will be used for roof repairs, family considerations and a possible donation to the foundation. CHRIS BUSH THE NEWS BULLETIN
Budget talks delay intersection fix I PROVINCE AIMS to partner on Northfield crossing.
BY TAMARA CUNNINGHAM THE NEWS BULLETIN
Nanaimo’s budget process has put the brakes on a provincial funding announcement to address one of the top crash intersections on Vancouver Island, according to Mayor SCRAP JEWELLERY Bill McKay. GOLD SCRAP McKay said Todd Stone, Minister of TransportaUSED JEWELLERY BROKEN Infrastructure, GOLD tion &and was prepared to announce safety improvements for
the three-way intersection estimated $2-million bill, at the Old Island Highway, but designs showed costs Boundar y Avenue and would likely soar $900,000 Northfield Road last week above that amount, thanks as part of a joint-initiative to the railroad crossing, with the City of Nanaimo. scope of the storm system, But the municipality hasn’t earthworks and paving. yet approved its share of ICBC indicated it would the project expenses in this chip in $95,000 and the city year’s budget and upgrades asked for time to investican’t get started until that gate potential rail crossing happens. grants and an increased Intersection improve- share from the province. ments were put on hold in There’s been no word GOLD & SILVER PRICES HIT RECORD 2014 as the city searched from theHIGHS province about TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY SELL NOW WHILE PRICES ARE HIGH! for ways to cover a &fundwhether it will bump up ingSCRAP shortfall for the site, project dollars, but in an SCRAP GOLD GOLD & SILVER We pay Cash for all items of gold, named the third-highest e-mail to the News Bulletin silver & platinum, regardless of age or condition. crash intersection on the the transportation minisIsland by ICBC in 2013. try said it’s committed to Originally the city and undertaking the project SCRAP SILVER province agreed to split the and is working with the
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Mayor meets minister to talk Colliery dams BY TAMARA CUNNINGHAM THE NEWS BULLETIN
The Dam Safety Section hasn’t offered an extension for the Colliery dams and B.C. Natural Resource Minister Steve Thomson won’t usurp the authority of his staff. That’s according to Mayor Bill McKay, who met with the minister and other provincial representatives Monday evening, just four days ahead of the provincial deadline for a Colliery dams remediation plan. McKay called for a meeting in early March as city officials and the Colliery Dam Park Preservation Society remained deadlocked over next steps to address safety hazards at the centuryold structures. City council has since decided to swap remediation of the dams for a revised emergency preparedness, surveillance and action plans to route flood water, and to revive the technical committee, which will meet today (March 26) or Friday. The mayor says there has been no word from provincial representatives whether politicians’ recent decision will satisfy requirements and nothing new came out of the “information” meeting, which included Glen Davidson, director and comptroller of water rights; Tom Ethier, assistant deputy minister for Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations; and Toby Seward, the city’s acting general manager of social and protective services. No city councillors were present. “What’s encouraging is that the minster seems to be taking an ... active role,” said McKay, who brought Thomson up to speed on the positions of different parties and where the city stands with the dams. “When you are at the mercy of a higher authority, you simply hope that if you have conversations and ongoing dialogue with them that they will realize your position and realize the situation you find yourself in and perhaps grant some leeway.” The city will now reassemble the disbanded technical committee to review council’s latest directive around three plans for the Colliery dams, although not all members are expected to return. See ‘GROUP’ /4
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City of Nanaimo on a costsharing agreement. McKay said the fear is the province could redistribute money for the project, despite assurances otherwise, adding it’s time for council to get on with the budget and “get it done.” Coun. Wendy Pratt also heard the provincial government would have made an announcement had the city passed its budget, but doesn’t believe that means the province will not do so. “It means we don’t have the budget for that particular task yet,” she said. “I believe the budget will be passed and it will be fine.”
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