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Volume 67, No. 4 | Thursday, January 22, 2015
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The use of steel shipping containers has grown dramatically in recent years, but they can be a hazard that Creston town council is trying to identify and eliminate. “It doesn’t really have to do with what they look like,” town planner Jamai Schile told Coun. Kevin Boehmer at the Jan. 13 regular council meeting. “There have actually been two incidents where an explosion occurred and endangered people.” Both incidents, she said, happened when fires on nearby structures heated the containers, which are typically used for storage. In one, a Creston Fire Rescue member narrowly escaped injury when a
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container door blew off, the result of heat and flammable contents. Schile was making a presentation to council about proposed amendments to town zoning bylaw No. 1808. The amendment discussed at the meeting (and given first and second readings, paving the way for a public notice process) would include “intermodal shipping containers” in the “accessory building” category, excluding them from residential zones except for use as temporary storage for construction projects. For all other zones, the structures would be required to have adequate ventilation. That requirement will also require a building code amendment. See CoUNCIL, page 5
Court rules Bountiful can’t use ‘Mormon’ Advance Staff
“Latter-day Saints” and “Mormon” are no longer to be used by the polygamous community of Bountiful, following a ban issued Monday by the B.C. Supreme Court. According to an Associated Press report, the group run by Winston Blackmore is prohibited from using those, “any other name that creates
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