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WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2011
THE LAKE COWICHAN GAZETTE
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Smiles of the week (Answers left to right) What is your age? Eight, across the board Favourite sport? Baseball; Baseball and curling; Baseball and soccer Favourite hobby? Ride bikes; Ride Bikes; Play video games Favourite movie? Cats and Dogs; Transformers; Cats and Dogs
From left, Nick Hill, Jake Walters, and Roy Thiesen, hang out at a baseball game Tyler Clarke photo in Lake Cowichan earlier this summer.
Smart Meter update
More partners join the Smart Meter debate In addition to the Town of Lake Cowichan’s recent decision to back a moratorium request on BC Hydro’s Smart Meters, three other municipalities have sent moratorium requests. “We’re getting new people on board every day, and the number is now in the thousands,” local health advocate Mary Lowther said. Those to sign moratorium requests thus far are Colwood, Salt Spring, New Denver, and Lake Cowichan.
Lowther’s also met with the Cowichan Valley Regional District, which has yet to make a decision. The underlying concern with the Smart Meters is with their radiation, in the form of radio waves that transmit information, rather than having meter readers check them. “These meters will be set up so that each house communicates with a central house in the neighbourhood, and this central house communicates with other central houses and
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the signal travels to the destination this way, effectively blanketing the neighbourhood,” Lowther said. “The radiation travels through walls, across the yard to the neighbour’s meter so there’s no getting away from the radiation. “Where the meters have been installed already, there have been problems with the signals not getting through properly so the signal transmissions have been boosted!”
A loader, seen last week off of North Shore Road with its windows all Tyler Clarke photo smashed.
Loader vandalized in Lake Cowichan
Some time over the Canada Day weekend, a loader parked at a North Shore Road property was vandalized. Its windows now all shattered, property owner Joseph Vasko said that he’s uncertain as to how much it will cost to get it fixed. Having owned the secluded property since 1981, he said that this is only the second incident, – Tyler Clarke thanks to a neighbour that keeps
an eye on the property. Vasko lives in Victoria. “Someone knows something,” he said, urging anyone with information to contact the Lake Cowichan RCMP, who have toured the property. The Lake Cowichan RCMP can be contacted at 250-7496668. Tips can also be made anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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