My little Deuce Coupe
More than 850 hotrods motor their way to the Inner Harbour, July 19-21 for Northwest Deuce Days – a celebration of the Deuce Coupe. See our 12-page section on the event. Pages B1-B12
OAK BAYNEWS Friday, July 12, 2013
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District diverts its green waste Oak Bay expands kitchen scraps program to 6,100 homes Danielle Pope News staff
Kitchen scraps in the landfill will soon be a thing of the past, thanks to the District of Oak Bay’s mission to launch a full-scale collection program by 2014. While Oak Bay has participated in a voluntary pilot kitchen scrap program for about 900 homes since 2006, the new program will expand to cover roughly 6,100 homes in the community and is anticipated to divert more than 1,200 tonnes of waste from the Hartland landfill, which will instead be converted to compost. “Not only did we see a significant drop in the amount “Our main waste dumped at the landfill goal is education of from the pilot area, the pilot program taught us how best to at this point, expand the environmentallyand we don’t friendly service to the entire anticipate community,” said mayor Nils Jensen. having any The expansion came in trouble with any response to the Capital Regional District’s decision to impose communities.” penalties for communities that - Tom Watkins continue to dump kitchen scraps after Dec. 31 this year. While the CRD currently offers a $20-per-tonne credit incentive to communities that adhere to the separation program, Tom Watkins, manager of environmental resource management with the CRD, says starting in January there will be a 20 per cent surcharge on the disposal of refuse not separated. At the current dumping fee of $107 perFINE tonne, those charges could CUSTOM JEWELLERS start at $21.40 per tonne. Kitchen scrap dumping will be banned from the landfill entirely by Dec. 31, 2014. While penalties at that point have yet to be officially determined, Watkins suggests tickets could range in the $100 per infraction region, or even a loss of dumping privileges.
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Breakfast for three Jerry Wong feeds the seal at the Oak Bay Marina while Julian Jiang takes a photo. The two, visiting from China, made a stop at the marina while touring Greater Victoria.
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