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About $40K stolen from United Church Nick Bekolay
went into the credit union to find out more. It turned out, once they THE CHRONICLE started looking into it, that money Parishioners of Ladysmith First had been transferred out of several United Church (LFUC) were robbed accounts.” Some of the church’s accounts are of more than their holiday spirit when they discovered shortly after rarely if ever used and have restricChristmas that someone had stolen tions placed on them requiring two people to sign authorization for $40,000 from the church’s coffers. Brian Saunders, chairman of the transactions, Saunders said. These board for LFUC, said the church’s restrictions don’t apply to online treasurer signed in to online bank- banking, however, because all of ing on Dec. 27 to check the LFUC’s the church’s accounts were accesaccount balances while preparing sible through a single username and password. end-of-year financial reports. What they discovered was that “We have several accounts with the [Ladysmith and District Credit someone had gained access to the Union],” Saunders said, “one of church’s online account and used it to them used for the day-to-day paying transfer funds on six separate occaof salaries and bills. The balance sions to Bank of Montreal (BMO) didn’t match what she knew there pre-paid credit cards. The fraudulent should be, so she looked further and transactions took place between Dec. found that there had been money 12 and Dec. 27, Saunders said, and transferred out of the account. She See Loss Page 5
Pamela Anderson owes $31K in taxes Lindsay Chung THE CHRONICLE
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John Sherry will be the first BC Conservatives candidate for Nanaimo-North Cowichan in the party’s history during the next provincial election. Here, Sherry is pictured with his wife Hayley and their daughters Romy, 4, and Luca, 7, following the party’s nomination meeting Jan. 12 in Ladysmith. For more, please see page 4.
O n e o f L a d y s m i t h ’s m o s t well-known daughters, Pamela Anderson, has recently been in the news not for her acting, modelling or her activism, but for owing property taxes in her hometown. A tax certificate from the Town of Ladysmith shows that, as of Jan. 14, the balance due for Anderson’s Chemainus Road property is just over $31,000.
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Property taxes in Ladysmith were due July 2, and Erin Anderson, the town’s director of financial services (no relation), says about 92 per cent of taxes were unpaid at the due date. Property owners who do not pay by July 2 are assessed a penalty, and it sits like that until the end of the year, explained Anderson. Starting Jan. 1, those properties began to accumulate interest, and starting in September 2014, they See Property Page 3
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