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Jensen presses pause on McLoughlin site Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
A pair of deferred motions for second-looks mean more delayed discussion at the core area liquid waste management committee. Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen’s motion to have a second look at McLoughlin Point for a wastewater treatment plant and Victoria Coun. Jeff Young’s motion to have a look at cost allocations for the project were deferred to the next meeting, slated for Feb. 10. Jensen pressed pause on his plan to have the Technical Oversight Panel look at the testability of McLoughlin Point as a site n Eastside Wastewater for wastewater treatment Workshops: Feb. 10 from plant. “There’s obviously 5 to 7 p.m. at the Victoria a growing interest in that Conference Centre and as an issue that people Feb. 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. are just awakening to in Cadboro Commons at now because they’ve only UVic. Provide input about recently learned of the where to build treatment costs of the new options,” facilities, what technology Jensen said. is used, what the costs “It’s to allow the public will be and how we can discussion to take place, make use of the water also for the directors and energy produced. around the table to take a Visit CoreAreawastewater. look at it themselves and ca for details and the find out how their constitmost recent public survey. uents feel about it.” He feels it’s a significant conversation required region-wide with options on the table between two and three times as much as the McLoughlin alternative. “There no doubt would be a slight increase in the cost but not when you compare it to the costs for the current new options, it’s a very significant difference,” Jensen said. “What other ways would we want to consider spending the money? $250 million could buy three new public assisted living facilities. … There are a lot of other needs in the region that we hear a lot about so it is a matter of having a public discussion.”
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Artist en pointe Ballerina Sasha Beardmore balances a passion for dance with top school marks. She heads back to New York this spring for the Youth America Grand Prix finals in New York. Here she models the handmade creations of Pamela Martin of Matryoshka Rehearsal Tutus. David Cooper photo
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