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Centre designed to establish new paddling district
Foundation aims to end workplace violence BY KARL YU THE NEWS BULLETIN
Friends and family of the late Michael Lunn are establishing the Red Shirt Foundation, a non-profit society whose goal is to stop workplace violence. Lunn, who loved red T-shirts, and fellow Western Forest Products employee Fred McEachern were killed at a shooting at the Nanaimo mill on April 30. Lynn Jacques, longtime Lunn family friend and chairwoman of the newly formed foundation, said the idea was conceived when she and other family friends were discussing the tragedy. They decided to put the plan into action immediately. She said a rudimentary website – redshirtfoundation. com – has been set up where people can make donations. Proceeds will go toward education and research for workplace violence awareness and prevention, giving purpose to the family’s pain. See ‘SHOOTING’ /4
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PROPOSED $5.1-MILLION boathouse would house dragon boaters, canoeists and kayakers in central location. home from which to organize its event and during the Nanaimo Canoe and Kayak Club’s annual Crazy 8 races, people change behind towels in the parking lot because there’s nowhere else for them to go, she said. The new facility, wedged between the Brechin boat ramp and the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue station, would offer washrooms, training space, retail and an adventure tourism office. It’s being called the gateway for paddling and adventure tourism and a community meeting place, where people could potentially experience Snuneymuxw cultural tours, fitness programs and guiding certifications. It could also turn the Brechin area into a new paddling district that would revitalize the area, according to the society.
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Rob Lawrance, city environmental planner, left, and Peter McCaffery, president of the Mid Island Velo Association, are first across the finish line at Diana Krall Plaza for the Bike to Work Week Commuter Challenge Friday. Cycling teams raced their car-driving commuter counterparts from Brooks Landing and Vancouver Island University. Both cycling teams trounced the car commuters who had to find parking spots before they were allowed to cross the finish line. Cyclists who cheered on the contestants went for a 10-kilometre community ride afterward.
A Nanaimo not-forprofit organization is looking to transform the Newcastle Channel into a “paddling district” with construction of a proposed $5.1-million boathouse and paddling centre. The Nanaimo Boathouse Society will float concepts for a new civic paddling centre to the city’s Parks, Recreation and Culture Commission this week, with hopes of getting early support to move the project ahead. The proposed twostorey building is overdue for the community’s water sport enthusiasts, according to society president Camela Tang, who says there is currently no place for more than 2,000 registered paddlers to train, socialize and store boats. The Nanaimo Dragon Boat Festival, for example, has no central
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