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Foot ferry proponent wants new lease for City of Nanaimo land BY TAMARA CUNNINGHAM THE NEWS BULLETIN
Island Ferries wants to renew a lease with the City of Nanaimo, claiming it now has the financial commitment to start passenger ferry service between downtown Nanaimo and downtown Vancouver. But civic politicians aren’t willing to sink their search for other potential passenger ferry operators before it begins. The City of Nanaimo and the Nanaimo Port Authority are currently drafting terms for a request for proposals to take a look at what operators exist to start up a new foot ferry serCITY OF Nanaimo and vice. Nanaimo Port Authority However, Island are drafting terms for a Ferries says it is request for proposals now in a position for a foot ferry between to start up serNanaimo and the Lower vice in six months Mainland. with its final investor. That investor wants to enter into talks with the city about renewing an expired lease for the south industrial waterfront, albeit with different terms if that is what the city wants, according to Island Ferries spokesman David Marshall. He says there have been two written requests for the city to meet with its investor and both went unanswered. It was only after Island Ferries requested to appear as a delegation at an open meeting that the company received a letter from the city reasserting it was going ahead with an RFP process. Marshall said he doesn’t understand why the city is committed to the process when the company is ready to go. He said the city entered into a lease agreement when the company didn’t have any money and acknowledges the company didn’t get the service started in time. He said now that it has the financial commitment the city doesn’t seem to be interested.
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Police walk past a car bearing holes from several bullet strikes while investigating the scene of a drive-by shooting on Wakesiah Avenue Tuesday.
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NANAIMO RCMP officers injured in pursuit. BY CHRIS BUSH THE NEWS BULLETIN
Two men are in custody on suspicion of attempted murder and weapons offences as police continue their investigation into a drive-by shooting in Nanaimo Tuesday. Police responded to calls about shots fired on Wake-
siah Avenue near Second Street shortly before 4 p.m. The incident happened in a residential area near a children’s daycare, where multiple shots were fired into a vehicle occupied by one man. “They fired multiple rounds into the vehicle, struck another vehicle and also struck a house,” said Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman. The man in the car who was targeted was not injured, O’Brien said.
Police were still at the scene Wednesday morning as forensics investigators continued their work. Darryl Burma, who lives near the scene, said he heard five “really loud bangs” at the time of the shooting. “I was outside having a smoke at the back of the building, not on the front that’s facing the road, and then out of the blue I heard five really loud gunshots, like really loud bangs,” Burma said. “It was extremely loud and my
neighbours came downstairs and they asked me if me or somebody was knocking on their door. That’s how loud it was.” Burma didn’t see anything, but other witnesses did and gave a description of the car the shots came from to police. “That vehicle was seen south of town,” O’Brien said. “It failed to stop for police. It carried on into Ladysmith and into Duncan where Duncan [RCMP] picked up the pursuit.” See ‘POLICE’ /4
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