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Join the runners in orange this Friday outside the Merecroft Village Pub for the 21st annual Pub Run. The group jogs from pub to pub and raises money for the Campbell River Hospital Foundation.
Pub Runners lace up for the 21st year Quinsam Coal, Sportfit and the Campbell River Hospital Foundation are sponsoring the 21st annual Pub Run on Friday to raise funds for the hospital. Over the past 20 years, the Pub Run (consisting of a keen group of 20 to 30 runners) has raised
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Then they will make their way back to the MVP to celebrate and re-fuel. Keep your eyes out for this dedicated enthusiastic group at your favourite pub. If you would like to run, call Linda Nagle at 250-923-7911 or the Hospital Foundation at 250-850-2418.
begin and end at the Merecroft Village Pub. Registration will commence at 5:30 p.m. Runners will leave the MVP at 6 p.m., running pub to pub, selling merchandise and generally making spectacles of themselves.
more than $112,000 to help purchase important medical equipment for the hospital. The 2011 Pub Run is a total of 16 km, with the Hospital Foundation providing pilot vehicles to assist anyone who needs a rest or a ride. This year the pub runners will
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Expanding the city dump may be an alter native to closing the landfill, which is nearly full. Increasing the size of the landfill is one of two options recommended by a consultant in a report to the regional district’s Solid Waste Management Plan Advisory Committee. The report, which the committee has been waiting on for a year, looked at seven different scenarios for dealing with the region’s waste. Options ranged from closing the Campbell River landfill and expanding the Cumberland facility, to closing all existing landfills and building one new facility somewhere in between Campbell River and Courtenay. “The preliminary report indicates the most effective option is either expansion of the Cumberland site (Pigeon Lake) or expansion of the Campbell River site, in terms of waste energy, cost and production of greenhouse gas emissions,” Coun. Claire Moglove, who also sits on the Continued on Page 2
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