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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016
VOL. 27, NO. 74
Fire damages neighbourhood book exchange
Walkers find body in water near marina
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Vivian Maltesen, owner of New York Style Pizza North, and Rev. Theo Machinski, of St. Michael The Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church, pick out ingredients for a friendly competition to find out which restaurant makes the best borscht in the city. Borscht Fest 2016, a fundraiser for the parish hall, at 4017 Victoria Ave., will feature recipes from nine Nanaimo restaurants at the hall Sunday (Jan. 31) noon to 3 p.m. For tickets and information, please contact Machinski at theomac@lycos.com.
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Carolynne Sacht and Cheryl Ward are frightened and bewildered by a fire that left an outdoor community bookcase as a burned-out shell and its books in a pile of soggy black ashes Wednesday. The sisters, who built the outdoor book exchange in October 2014 at the corner of Campbell and Pine streets from their father’s old gun cabinet as a gift to their neighbourhood and to promote literacy, said they were alerted to the blaze by someone driving by at about 9 p.m. “This is terrible,” Ward said. “We went to a lot of work. I mean, that was our father’s gun cabinet. It was 40 years old, leaded glass, unbelievable.” Several people a day would come by
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Nanaimo RCMP are investigating after a body was discovered in the water at Stones Marina Saturday morning. Two men taking a walk discovered the body at 8:30 a.m. and called 911, said Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman. “B.C. paramedics, City of Nanaimo fire crews and the Nanaimo RCMP responded,” O’Brien said. “The male was pronounced dead at the scene. B.C. Coroners Service was then notified and attended to the scene.” O’Brien said the Nanaimo RCMP Serious Crime Unit is conducting the investigation, with assistance from the coroner. “While the investigation is in the preliminary stages, his death does not appear suspicious. Investigators are attempting to determine how the deceased entered the water and establish a timeline of his movements prior to the discovery of his body,” said O’Brien. The deceased has been identified, but next of kin has not been notified, and until that occurs, the name will not be released, O’Brien said.
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This is terrible. We went to a lot of work. to pick up, exchange books or sometimes just sit and read on a wooden bench the women set next to the cabinet, among decorative plants, community notices and colourful little b i rd h o u s e s t h a t made a shady reading oasis under a chestnut tree next to Sacht’s home. The bookcase was part of a network of community outdoor book exchanges created across Nanaimo around that time. “I looked out the window and there were flames 10 feet high,” Sacht said. See ‘RESIDENTS’ /5
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