THURSDAY April 16, 2015 Vol. 30 • No. 31 ••• $1.25 inc. G.S.T.
COMOX VALLEY
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New art show opens at Pearl Ellis next week page 21
Raiders football season begins in the gym page 29
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At home on the Island Cooking up a Dawn to Dawn fundraiser ... 3
Capt. Matthew Hart, who hails from Parksville, is entering his first year as a pilot flying Snowbird 5 for the team.
Foot bridge design presented to council ... 3
Capt. Matthew Hart, Snowbird 5, hails from Parksville Erin Haluschak Record Staff
CG Centre closures concern candidates ... 7
The forecast for the Comox Valley Community Clean-up looks fantastic; warmest day of the year Saturday.
Returning to Comox for nearly month-long training makes homecoming that much sweeter for Capt. Matthew Hart for the Canadian Forces Snowbirds. Hart, who flies Snowbird 5, is
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Capt. Matthew Hart Hart left Vancouver Island at age 17 to pursue a career in aviation. He said it became quite clear to him that the military/air force had plenty of opportunities for travel, training and career advancement. “I realized that with all the
different roles that the air force carries out in terms of domestic sovereignty patrols, search and rescue - as in Comox here - that it was a career I was interested in taking on.”
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Hornby Islanders go to the polls Saturday for fire hall referendum Scott Stanfield Record Staff
Many people feel the English Bay oil spill was a sign of things to come.
from Parksville, and having his family nearby to watch him practise in the sky over the Comox Valley is “a dream come true. “To be honest, the last six months since I officially joined the team has gone by very quickly. It’s been by far the most challenging thing I’ve done, but by far the most rewarding thing I’ve done, and it’s been an absolute honour,” he said Monday. “I’m just so excited to be able to have the opportunity to do that for the next two years.”
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Saturday is referendum day on Hornby Island, where residents will have their say as to whether or not they want a new fire hall. An alternate approval process in January garnered 212
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Right now, with the estimates we have in, we’re still within that ($1.9 million) budget. Ian Smith
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response forms — more than a 10 per cent threshold — preventing the regional district board from adopting a bylaw to borrow
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money to construct the hall. A select committee has capped the project at $1.9 million. “We have to be within those
confines of that budget,” said Ian Smith, the CVRD’s general manager of community services. Pending voter approval, the project would be funded by $1.6 million in debt financing, $200,000 in federal gas tax funds and $100,000 from reserves.
... see FIRE HALL ■ 6