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JULY 9, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 82
Emterra strike into third week ANDREA KLASSEN
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Y Dream Home Lottery marketing manager Bryce Herman welcomes 2015 Y Dream Home winner Marge Lane to her new home in Juniper West on Tuesday. Her son purchased the winning ticket as a Mother’s Day present and her family joined her in her inaugural visit to the home as its owner. Pictured second from left: Halle Barfoot, granddaughters Dani and Jamie Lane and daughter-in-law Tammy Lane. JESSICA KLYMCHUK
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Marge Lane’s son isn’t sure he’ll ever be able to top his latest Mother’s Day gift. Sitting in her new Juniper West home on Tuesday, Marge, the winner of the 2015 Y Dream Home, was feeling overwhelmed and grateful. “It’s beautiful,” she said. “I never thought in a million years something like this would happen. It was such a surprise.”
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Brent and Tammy Lane bought two tickets for the Y Dream Home Lottery — one for themselves and one for Marge. Knowing the draw was on Tuesday, Marge took her ticket out of her jewelry box and stayed within earshot of the phone, just in case. “I was a little worried when she called me because I wasn’t sure if it was a good excited or a bad excited,” Brent said. “She couldn’t get any words out.”
Steven Ahn wants the people of Kamloops to know he isn’t on strike. The owner of the Lorne Street Bottle Depot on Halston Avenue is concerned many members of the public don’t realize they still have a place to drop their recycling as a strike at Emterra Environmental, the company that processes recyclables collected curbside by the city, moves into its third week. The city suspended curbside collection when the strike began on June 22, directing residents to recycling depots. Soon after, the owner of the General Grants Recycling centres on the North Shore and in Sahali said his business would not have the capacity to take the additional materials. Since then, Ahn has had multiple calls about whether he’s still taking recycling — he is — and whether his workers are on strike — they’re not. “I want to make it clear we are open for the customers to take recycling the city government has stopped picking up,” Ahn said. Emterra’s 10 unionized workers went on strike over wage issues. They say many employees make $12 an hour or less. While United Steelworkers Local 1-417 president Marty Gibbons had indicated a meeting between the company and the union to review Emterra’s financials could take place last week, he told KTW the process has stalled. Gibbons said the union has drafted a non-disclosure agreement, which both sides need to sign in order to go over the company’s financial information. He sent it to Emterra, but hasn’t had a response.
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