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COMMENTS OF THE WEEK PEAK WEBSITE USER LAURAL HARRIS EACOTT Well, it sounds like the knowledge she has about our community was what she read from a point-form info paper typed up by her buttkissing employees. I did like that you asked the questions; at least we know she is just a parrot.
PEAK WEBSITE USER JOYCE CARLSON When I read the article, she sounded like she actually was aware of issues in our community. She mentioned support for Catalyst Paper, a desire that the Texada mine situation be resolved, our potential for increased tourism, a new ferry, housing affordability, an emergency shelter, community-based health care, fixed link and jobs so families can live and work in Powell River. Not bad for a 20-minute interview.
FACEBOOK USER DAVID SEPKOWSKI The usual political doublespeak. Taking credit for events she had no part in and denying responsibility for unpopular decisions. So anyone who doesn’t agree with her is in the minority? I believe “thick skin” is synonymous with “arrogance” in her case. FACEBOOK USER TATIANA KOSTIAK Great questions and especially your follow-through on Site C topic. She’s a pro at rhetoric and speaking points, but I don’t see much innovation from the BC Liberals. The innovation is coming from individuals.
Editorial: Fair election PEAK WEBSITE USER TRACEY ELLIS Best compliment I ever received as a journalist on a highly controversial topic was a reader ranting at me: “now I don’t know who is right,” because the balance was just right. In today’s group ownership of papers and corporate decrees telling journalists what to write or not write...I wish you luck, it’s not a fun tightrope to walk.
Ferry advisory committee asks for schedule changes FACEBOOK USER COLLEEN BUTLER How about putting a bridge there! Keep the Westview ferry and put the ferry workers from the Saltery Bay run on the island run, and keep the ferry in Powell River. The island ferry was put there for us. If Powell River wasn’t here, the ferry wouldn’t be!
Cribbage bridges generations at Kiwanis Garden Manor FACEBOOK USER JAKE CORBETT What a great idea, blending young and old!
FACEBOOK USER GEOFF N ANG GOWANS I wonder if the smaller Queen of Cumberland can keep to the proposed schedule on Jervis Inlet, or if BC Ferries will give an absolute answer to dispel the persistent rumour about changing the ferries around, and commit to the Island Sky staying on the route.
COUNCIL BRIEFS Receives Inn at Westview update City of Powell River chief administrative officer Mac Fraser provided a brief update at the city’s committee of the whole meeting on Tuesday, January 31, on Inn at Westview property manager Jack Barr’s work to take the dilapidated building down. Last fall, WorkSafe BC ordered the building, with its roof in slow collapse, sealed until a qualified engineer could assess it. Fraser said either a structural engineer will be brought in to draw up plans to secure the building and allow asbestosremoval crews safe access, or a demolition firm will be contracted to treat the whole building as hazardous and take it down with containment. City council
asked staff late last year to prepare a report outlining options should it pursue a remediation order for the building. That report is expected on February 28, said Fraser.
tered the mosque and began shooting.
Honours Quebec mosque victims
City of Powell River council approved two Powell River Youth Council recommendations at its February 2 meeting. Youth council recommended that the city create safer pedestrian and cycling connections with improved signage through Millennium Park for trails that connect Brooks Secondary School, Willingdon Beach and Powell River Recreation Complex. Youth council also recommended the city add more recycling bins for beverage containers at the recreation complex, particularly in hockey
City of Powell River council observed a minute of silence at its meeting on Thursday, February 2, and flags on city buildings flew at half mast last week to honour the memory of six Canadians killed in a Quebec City mass shooting on Sunday, January 29. The men, Abdelkrim Hassane, Khaled Belkacemi, Aboubaker Thabti, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Ibrahima Barry and Azzeddine Soufiane, had been in prayer at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre when a masked gunman en-
change rooms.
Approves fuel Approves contract youth council City of Powell River council approved a three-year recommendations
contract with Parkland Industries, also known as Columbia Fuels, to provide gasoline and diesel for cityowned vehicles and equipment, including firetrucks, buses and heavy equipment. The city’s estimated fuel cost for 2017 is $324,115. City vehicles use approximately 85,000 litres of diesel and 230,000 litres of gasoline per year. The contract does not include the supply of aviation fuel at the airport, as the city does not currently own any means of dispensing fuel there. According to a staff report, the issue of providing fuel at the airport will be revisited in the spring.
ACROSS 1. Not well 4. Does sums 8. Arrive 12. Doll, e.g. 13. Flake 14. Designated space 15. Mother of Cain and Abel 16. Wires 18. Net 20. Marina sight 21. House locale 22. Song of praise 24. Gerbil, e.g. 26. Take place 29. Weekly TV show 33. Burst forth 34. Hint 35. Gauges 37. Garnished 38. Natural 39. Tick off 40. Meek 43. Jail chamber 45. Thanksgiving dish 49. Polite 52. Circuit 53. Up to it 54. Ballerina’s skirt 55. Sight organ 56. Like some stockings 57. Walk 58. Lay turf DOWN 1. Bit of news 2. Adore
3. Soap-making substances 4. Appropriate 5. Intensify 6. Snack place 7. Snoozes 8. Jalopy 9. Unwritten 10. Office note 11. Toward the rising sun 17. Welcoming person 19. Storage bin 23. Divert 25. Cunning 26. Border 27. Live 28. Set (down) 30. Printing fluid 31. 18 or 30 32. Blazed the trail 36. Confections 37. Weaken 40. Begone, cat! 41. Drifter 42. Holiday season 44. Oaf 46. Pub beverages 47. BLT dressing 48. Accelerated 50. Embarrassed 51. Eat late
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION:
One on one: BC premier Christy Clark and Peak publisher Jason Schreurs
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