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Black Creek hero Cam Levins (centre) receives a roaring reception at the Black Creek Community Hall on Friday night as he came out with his family for a fundraiser and to sign autographs for local fans. Levins is heading to the Olympics. Read more on Pages 29-30 and visit www.campbellrivermirror.com to see the video of the big night in Black Creek.
Mayor takes a philosophical approach to change ALISTAIR TAYLOR CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
Mayor Walter Jakeway took a different approach to initiating change in the City of Campbell River last Thursday. “Today is about the future,” Jakeway told a Chamber of Commerce luncheon. “It’s about our future here in Campbell River. It’s about our bright future.”
The mayor was in a philosophical mood, expressing a theme of his mayoralty through a quote by Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago and former White House chief of staff, who said, “No city today can function as in the past and as if the past responsibilities are going to hold true today.” There was none of the city bureaucrat bashing the mayor employed at a Rotary Club speech
on May 23 for which he was either roasted or applauded by the public and which led to city counillor Mary Storry calling for a confidential review of the mayor’s role as spokesperson for the city. The review was held but no report or statement about what went on came out of it. At the May 23 Rotary meeting, Jakeway said, “City hall is an example of how they’re doing
it in the least effective way. 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.” The mayor approached last Thursday’s Chamber of Com-
merce meeting as an exchange of ideas. He delivered a speech in which city staff were not mentioned, although he did say he thought there would have been more people at this meeting after the speech he delivered to the Rotary Club. Continuing his penchant for quotes, he told the chamber meeting that the former marketing Continued on A3
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