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Mayor keeps up war of words on staff KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
Mayor Walter Jakeway says city hall is wasting taxpayers’ money. Jakeway, the keynote speaker at the noon hour Rotary Club’s weekly luncheon, had some tough words for senior city staff. “City hall is an example of how they’re doing it in the least effective way,” Jakeway told Rotarians gathered at the Discovery Inn Wednesday afternoon. “City staff say how hard they’re working; do I care how hard they’re working? No, I don’t, if the results aren’t there. “Wasting hard-earned taxpayers’ money is not acceptable to me,” Jakeway continued. “I didn’t run to leave things how they are, I ran to shake it up.” Jakeway, who was elected mayor last November, ran his election campaign on a zero per cent tax increase platform. After council chose last month to increase residential property taxes by 13.6 per cent, Jakeway advocated for a public tax revolt. Continued on A4
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Local contractors watch and learn during an oil clean-up training exercise on Wednesday at Menzies Bay. Here, a boom and skimmer are deployed.
Oil spill responders train in fast-moving waters funnel through the Narrows creating huge whirlpools and several other hazards. “You can just imagine how difficult it would be to clean up oil off the beaches in Seymour Narrows,” says Donovan who works for Sea Romer Marine Services. It’s not hard to imagine the devastation an oil spill could wreak on the whales, seal lions, seals, dolphins, sea birds and other wildlife that feed in the Narrows.
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tanding on the deck of a landing craft in Menzies Bay, during an oil spill clean-up training session, Troy Donovan glances over at Seymour Narrows. Described by Captain George Vancouver as “one of the vilest stretches of water in the world,” tides reach up to 15 knots and
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On the night of May 11, a cruise ship heading through Seymour Narrows ran across a long towline of aluminum containers used for fish farms. Several of the containers were damaged, but the accident could have potentially sunk the small tugboat resulting in leaks of oil, diesel fuel and environmentally-hazardous materials. Fortunately disaster was averted, but Continued on A3
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