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PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN HEALEY
Ken Healey took this photo of Orcas in the Ladysmith Harbour Thursday, May 9. Debbie Williams, who was on a boat with Healey when this photo was taken, had spotted the whales around 7 a.m. from the kitchen at the Ladysmith Maritime Society Marine Reception Centre. She says there were probably six to eight Orcas, and from the LMS Community Marina, they followed the whales for a while. After turning around at Page Point, the Orcas came around Slack Point and to Transfer Beach, and she believes they were pushing herring into the beach.
Spectre of sprawl upsets Area H residents Nick Bekolay THE CHRONICLE
Ongoing negotiations between Couverdon — TimberWest’s real estate business — and the Town of Ladysmith over the incorporation of 700-plus acres of forested Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) land has residents of North Oyster and the Diamond in a huff.
North Oyster resident Chris of Ladysmith involving 700- TimberWest land adjacent to Gerrand and Diamond resi- plus acres of TimberWest land Stocking and Holland lakes. dent Doug Copp voiced several zoned primarily as forestry CVRD Area G Director Mel Docomplaints relating to both the land. Couverdon and Ladysmith rey told the Saltair District Ratenegotiating process currently are brokering a deal whereby payers Association at its April 4 underway and the potential im- Ladysmith would expand city annual meeting that a 140-acre pact of a land transfer on resi- limits to include a 710-acre (57-hectare) portion of the land dents of both districts of Area H. (287-hectare) parcel of land in question is located within The land deal Gerrand and west of the Diamond — stretch- Electoral Area G; the remainder Copp are referencing is a pro- ing from north of Grouhel Road is located within Area H. posed boundary expansion to Malone road — in exchange Gerrand and Copp said the on the northwest outskirts for Ladysmith gaining title to majority of Area H residents are
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unaware of what’s happening, and those who are familiar with the proposal are opposed to it. “We feel that it’s not in our interests,” Gerrand added. “We like a quiet lifestyle and we’d like to see the town stay within their own boundaries.” Ladysmith has incorporated land from Area H on multiple occasions over the last 15 years,
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