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LibrAry pLAN dusted Off fOr ANOther LOOk Officials will examine proposal for new facility at VIRL meeting this weekend Octavian Lacatusu Sooke News Mirror
Discussions of a new Sooke library will return to the Vancouver Island Regional Library board this weekend in hopes the project will finally gain traction. Both VIRL and Sooke council have been looking for a suitable location in Sooke to accommodate the proposed 10,000-square-foot facility for several years, but nothing happened. It doesn’t mean it fell out of sight, either. Last October, Capital Regional District approved $6 million in funding for the new library, the first major step forward in years. Between VIRL, Sooke council and the CRD, now it comes down to making a final decision of where in Sooke the new library will land, said VIRL board chair Bruce Jollife, calling it a “three body
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problem.” “We have it in our long-term planning to get a nice and refreshed library [in Sooke], but it’s only a matter of getting through some of these little details,” he said. Jollife, who was appointed to the library board in 2009 by the Comox Valley Regional District, said a big part of that decision to find a place for the new library is contingent on what the Sooke community and council wants to do. “The regional library will act accordingly once we know what they want to do.” A final decision is not as straight forward as it would appear, however. To date, there have been no successful applicants due to either high cost, space constraints or unsuitable location. Last March, Sooke council nearly approved John Phillips Memorial Park as a final new library site, but the idea was rejected by the community and the project again hit a dusty shelf. Don Denton/Black Press
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Basketball hustle Edward Milne Community School’s Ryan Fuhr and Vic High’s Garrett Beattie chase the ball during a junior boys basketball game at Vic High last Wednesday. EMCS won the match 39-32.
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