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Leon Davis, B.C. SPCA’s Nanaimo Branch manager, poses for photos during the ground breaking ceremony for the Nanaimo branch’s new building under construction on Westwood Road. The $3.4-million project could be completed by mid-summer.
The centre is designed to include multipurpose space for SPCA youth camps, workshops and other community events. The Nanaimo branch cares for about 1,300 abused and homeless animals annually and since the early 1970s has helped more than 50,000 animals. “We have an amazing group of staff, volunteers and supporters in this region and we know that having this
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B.C. SPCA’s Nanaimo branch could be pulling up stakes and moving to its new facility in just a few months. On Tuesday, about 200 SPCA supporters and their pets turned out for the official groundbreaking ceremony for the Nanaimo shelter’s new facility at 154 Westwood Rd. where construction is already underway. The community animal centre, which is projected to cost $3.4 million with $1.3 million of that from the province, $150,000 from the city and the remainder from SPCA supporter donations, is expected to open by early to mid summer 2016. The 700-square metre facility being built on 4.8 hectares of land will enhance or allow features and programs that are either cramped or can’t be done at the Nanaimo branch’s current Labieux Road site. “We are really focusing on community, so we’re going to have dog walking trails and dog parks, a shop and a patio to drink coffee with your friends,” said Leon Davis, Nanaimo branch manager. “We’re going to be able to expand on all our social welfare programs that we have.” The new facility will expand its operating hours. The grounds, which will also include dog washing stations, will be open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week and the adoption centre will be open on Sundays and two nights a week until 9 p.m., Davis said. The new opening schedule also means dogs in the shelter can get out for walks with volunteers several times a day and the shelter can accommodate more volunteers.
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new facility will enable them to make even more of this life-saving difference in this particular community,” said Craig Daniell, B.C. SPCA chief executive officer, during his address at the ceremony. A fundraising campaign has been launched to support the new facility. Please visit spca.bc.ca/together wecare. photos@nanaimobulletin.com
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A city council meeting to award a work contract for the Colliery Dam spillway project broke up over protest signs in the gallery on Monday. Protest signs in the gallery have been a bone of contention at previous council meetings, but about 25 people, some bearing signs protesting work in Colliery Dams Park, attended the meeting, which started at 6 p.m. Nanaimo mayor Bill McKay opened proceedings by stating signs must be kept from view and if the audience failed to do so or disrupted the meeting he would adjourn and reconvene after having the gallery cleared. Coun. Gord Fuller challenged McKay, arguing the audience should be allowed to remain if they did not obstruct the proceedings. McKay adjourned the meeting several minutes later when protesters shouted at and jeered McKay and refused to lower protest signs. Councillors Fuller, Bill Bestwick, Jim Kipp and Jerry Hong left the building and did not return, leaving council one councillor short of quorum to reconvene and award the contract. McKay, Ian Thorpe, Diane Brennan and Wendy Pratt stayed in hopes the meeting could reconvene. Coun. Bill Yoachim did not attend. “I felt the mayor had abused the process and disregarded sections of the community charter in favour of sections he believed were right without any debate and I did not feel it was appropriate to return to the meeting, especially in the event that people were removed by the RCMP,” Fuller said. Council held a second meeting Wednesday on the motion to award the cost-plus contract to Copcan Civil Ltd., but before the vote on the question could be called, Bestwick introduced an amendment that would allow council to re-examine whether the spillway route was the least expensive and least invasive route possible and to make further recommendations to alter the spillway route to save trees. City staff said such a requirement could cause work delays of up to six weeks. See ‘COUNCIL’ /4
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