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Vicki and George Blogg, members of the Portage Inlet Sanctuary Colquitz Esturary Society, are fighting to have the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure improve the safety of the Admirals Road and Esson Road intersection. (Devon Bidal/News Staff)

A dog-gone adventure

Yorkshire terrier survives for days on isolated island after fleeing Gyro Beach Page A3

Volunteer honoured

Hampton Little League names ball diamond after longtime volunteer Page A8

Ministry rejects recommendation for safety changes at intersection Devon Bidal News Staff

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI) is ignoring a safety report that they commissioned regarding a non-conforming intersection affected by the McKenzie Interchange project, say local residents. The report says the intersection at Admirals Road and Esson Road is dangerous. George and Vicki Blogg have lived in the area bordered by Highway 1 and Admirals Road for 30 years and were involved in previous McKenzie Interchange designs. They were on the 1996 committee and have stayed engaged ever since.

The main access road to their community, Portage Road, has been blocked off for the new pedestrian walk-way as part of the new interchange design. This forces residents to use Esson Road which requires a hairpin right turn off Admirals Road. The intersection is also at the base of a 12 per cent grade on Esson Road and Admirals Road is at a nine per cent grade, says George, the president of the Portage Inlet Sanctuary Colquitz Estuary Society (PISCES). He and his wife refer to Esson Road as a “toboggan path” and feel that a tragedy is going to unfold at the intersection. Esson Road is not only at a sharp

angle with Admirals Road, it’s also compounded by two residential driveways and poor sight lines, says Vicki, PISCES secretary and treasurer. School children also frequently use the intersection when crossing the road while walking to Marigold, Spectrum and St. Joseph schools. Some 200 residents are afraid that they’ll be rear-ended turning off Admirals Walk onto Esson Road because there is no right turn lane, George explains. “People behind you get angry when you slow down, but if you don’t, your turn is too wide and you end up in oncoming traffic,” he says. Continued A4

Tai Caverhill is being remembered as a hero following a tragic accident last week that took his life and left another student in critical condition while on a school field trip to Camp Barnard west of Sooke. Otter Point Fire Rescue, B.C. Ambulance and RC M P m e m bers were called to the scene at a ro u n d 3:30 p.m. Tai Caverhill June 19, responding to reports of a boy being trapped under a fallen tree near the Jack Brooks Hatchery. Caverhill was the first to spot the tree falling towards where he and his friends were walking, quickly alerting the group to run away. “Sadly, he saved his friends’ lives but couldn’t save his own,” reads a GoFundMe description set up by the Thai Kids Club of Victoria — where he was one of the first students — to help assist the family in their time of need. Continued A4


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