LOCAL NEWS: ARTS AND CULTURE WEEK W A2 Monday, April 2, 2012 W Volume 47 No. 14 W www.clearwatertimes.com W $1.40 HST Included at Newsstands
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District uncovers four parks Keith McNeill
Clearwater is even greener than we thought. A recent search through Thompson-Nicola Regional District records uncovered four newly identified parks within the municipal boundaries that District staff had not been aware of, chief administrative officer Leslie Groulx told town council during its Mar. 20 meeting. Clearwater now has 18 community parks with a total of 34.6 acres. The four newly identified parks are Lake Summit Road (next to Dutch Lake), 2.52 acres; Ogden Road, .51 acres; Taren Drive, 1.24 acres; and Wildwood Road, .35 acres. Developers are usually required to set aside land for parks whenever land is subdivided into three or more parcels. The newly identified parks were created before Clearwater became a municipality and did not have title - which meant they were not included in the paper transfers to the District during incorporation. Other parks in the Clearwater system include Dutch Lake Community Park, 1.72 acres, Bampton Park (next to Dutch Lake Park), 4.0 acres, and Weyerhaeuser Pioneer Park, 2.02 acres.
Helping hand for birds Local birdwatcher Dennis Leonard (l) holds as Jason Turner, Kinder Morgan’s environmental health and safety coordinator from Kamloops, operates a drill. They were setting up about 50 birdhouses and bathouses on the MacLennan ranch next to Raft River last Tuesday. The woodworking students at Clearwater Secondary School made the houses with funding from the pipeline company. For more photos, see page A10 inside. Photo by Keith McNeill
Negotiations ongoing for Field store purchase KEITH MCNEILL It appears that the takeover of Clearwater’s Fields store is not yet a done deal. According to Rebecca Johnston, an account director with PR Associates in Vancouver, Clearwater is included in a tentative agreement
that a new company, FHC Enterprises Ltd., has with Hudson’s Bay Company to purchase the assets of 59 Fields stores in western Canada. However, as of press-time late last week the local operation was not on the list of confirmed properties. Instead it was one of 22 locations still being negotiated as part of the transaction.
Johnston said the goal was to complete the negotiations by the end of last week. Target for the handover would be May 1. HBC announced last February that it planned to close all 167 Fields stores in Canada. Jason MacDougall, the founder of Bargain Wholesale in Delta, heads FHC Enterprises.
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