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Fir Street, the city will enter into an agreement with the Campbell River Family Services Society to establish a sobering assessment centre at this location in the downtown area to provide enhanced treatment services for addictions and homelessness.
Mayor Walter Jakeway wants to keep his job. Though it’s been no secret over the past year that Jakeway would be running for mayor again, he officially announced his intentions to the Mirror this week. He’s up against Coun. Andy Adams and his predecessor and former mayor Charlie Cornfield. Jakeway, with a background in engineering and business administration, said his experience makes him an ideal candidate. “Working with a leadership team like council and overseeing a physical plant like the city is a natural role for me, similar to the duties that I handled successfully for most of the last few decades in the private sector,” Jakeway, 62, said. “A functioning infrastructure is more than concrete, garbage, and water – it is people; taxpayers and customers, managers and workers. It is decision making, serious money management, awareness, and grasping the future.” Jakeway, who has been a Campbell River taxpayer since June 1976 and maintains he’s not a politician, said
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It was the cyclists who kicked off last Sunday’s Terry Fox Run from Frank James Park. Children waited in anticipation to roll off the starting line as a volunteer counts them down. For more photos of the Terry Fox Run, see page 35.
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A property exchange that provides a site for a downtown sobering assessment centre puts Campbell River in the forefront of service to the homeless. “This community is way ahead of
so many other communities,” said Camille Lagueux, executive director of the Campbell River Family Services Society. A downtown land exchange will help fill a vacant site near the fire hall and provide a home for the sobering assessment centre. The City of Campbell River will
exchange its property at 1241 Dogwood Street for property at 1180 Fir Street, currently owned by Discovery Chiropractic. Discovery Chiropractic will also pay the city the difference in the value of the lots (estimated at $86,000) as part of the land swap. Upon taking possession of 1180
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