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Mayor tries to stop Petersen traffic lights Kristen Douglas Campbell RiveR miRRoR
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The mayor tried Tuesday to put a stop to council’s plans to put in a traffic light at the 14th Avenue and Petersen Road intersection. Mayor Walter Jakeway put forward a motion to rescind council’s decision to spend $250,000 on the lights but was unsuccessful. Jakeway vacated the mayor’s chair in order to put forward the motion which was defeated by the rest of council. Jakeway’s reasoning for trying to scrap the traffic light is he doesn’t believe the amount of traffic travelling through the area warrants a light. “The intersection does not look Paul Rudan/The MiRRoR
Campbell River Christian School principal Christian Klaue gets a wet sponge in the face during Saturday’s spring fair held in conjunction with the Baptist Church. Kids enjoyed games, pony rides and a salmon barbecue.
Bear necessitates Beaver Lodge trail closure alistair taylor Campbell RiveR miRRoR
Conservation Officers and Ministry of Forest officials reopened the Beaver Lodge Forest trails on Thursday to public use after a bear
acted aggressively toward a jogger on Tuesday, prompting the trail closure. “He came up on to a rise in the trail and heard a snap in the bushes and saw a medium-sized black bear,” Conservation Officer Mike
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Newton said. The jogger immediately turned and ran, which is what they tell you not to do, Newton said, and hightailed it out to Dogwood Street. The jogger then called the Conservation Officer (CO) service.
In consultation with the Ministry of Forests, the CO service decided it would be best to close the trails at the Rockland end of the Beaver Lodge Forest Lands and set up a trap and a trail camera beside it. Continued on Pg. 3
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