CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
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47th Year No. 35 THURS., AUGUST 30, 2012
GAZETTE NORTH ISLAND
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Wave if you love Salmon (Days) Carmen Burrows, aka “Lidia the Canning Queen”, waves at the crowd in a dress and hat made of canning jar lids from the front of the annual Salmon J.R. Rardon Days Parade in Sointula Saturday. See more on page 11 and online at www.northislandgazette.com
Council approves Alice Lake subdivision A O’Toole Gazette staff PORT ALICE— After a series of negotiations, the Village of Port Alice has passed a motion to enter into an agreement with Brookfield Residential. The developer is proposing to build a subdivision on
Alice Lake close to the Link River Regional Campsite. At the Council’s previous meeting Doug Leighton, Brookfield’s Director of Planning for Vancouver Island, presented a proposal that would see Brookfield undertake the funding of improvements to Link
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River Campgrounds to address Council’s concerns with the project. At last week’s meeting Councillors received a written offer from Brookfield to fund Council’s requests and an offer to donate a parcel of land adjacent to the existing campground,
which would expand and open access to the currently unused southern part of the park. The property at Link River is owned by the Village of Port Alice and managed by the Regional District of Mt. Waddington. Brookfield has received
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pre-approval on a plan to divide an almost 85-hectare site surrounding the park into seventeen property lots, which would then be sold to housing developers. The pre-approval was contingent on approval from the Village of Port Alice, which was given
after council reviewed the updated offer last week. In his letter of proposal, Leighton described the arrangement as a “win-win” situation for both parties. The offer addressed four
See page 4 ‘Issues addressed’
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