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Embattled Storm owner expresses his regrets ments. “I was never charged with assault. I don’t even have a criminal record. Campbell River Storm owner “I feel unjust(ly treated), I guess.” Kevin Spooner says he hopes peoSpooner said there never was an ple judge him on the good he’s done assault and the case was based on with his hockey team and his young allegations. Judge Gouge did say players and not on a judge’s com- in his judgement that the contact ments that he feels are unfair. between Spooner and Dave Webb “I regret the whole was “trifling” and incit h i n g h a p p e n e d ,” dental. Spooner said. “Am I Spooner said there was sorry? I am super sorry a heated argument by the whole thing hapboth sides and he felt the pened. I shouldn’t have matter had been dealt gotten that angry.” with. But then he was Spooner gained proshocked when the police vincial notoriety when showed up at his door media outlets reported and issued the peace the Dec. 17 reasons for Kevin Spooner bond. The case went judgement by Provincial to court when Spooner Court Judge Ted Gouge in slapping sought to have the bond lifted. If it a peace bond on the team owner. hadn’t been for that, the case would Spooner was ordered to avoid con- never have come to public light. tact with Comox Valley Glacier But be that as it may, Spooner said Kings owners Dave and Marsha he is a passionate person who cares Webb for a year after incidents in deeply about the kids on his team. 2014 where the Vancouver Island He has had issues with the way the Junior Hockey League owners got Webbs treat their players in the past. into a dispute over compensation for “My pure passion is for my kids,” a player. The judge took Spooner to he said. task for what he called physical and The picture of Spooner painted by verbal intimidation of the Webbs the judge is “not who I am,” he said. and applying the supposed hockey A peace bond is a preventatradition of intimidation in an argu- tive remedy and does not entail a ment. criminal conviction or a finding of “I was appalled, mortified,” criminal behaviour. It also does not Spooner said of the judge’s comContinued on Pg. 3 AlistAir tAylor
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The BC Ferry Powell River Queen departs Campbell River en route to Quadra Island Wednesday afternoon. BC Ferries has announced changes to the schedules for the Campbell River-Quadra Island and Quadra Island-Cortes Island routes effective Feb. 9.
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Commuters from Campbell River to Quadra Island will soon have their evening sailing back. But a change of schedules announced this week by BC Ferries falls short of addressing the larger problems facing the service, said Jim Abram, chair of the Strathcona Regional District. And it does not restore ferry runs cut last April in a cost-saving move by BC Ferries. “We’re going to have another re-jig after this schedule goes into place,” Abram said. “I’m sure there will be lots of input from the pub-
lic; then we’re going to have to go back to BC Ferries and say, ‘Now what are you going to do?’” Citing feeback from customers and from the Quadra-Cortes Ferry Advisory Committee, BC Ferries will restore one early evening sailing and adjust several other schedules for the Quadra IslandCampbell River and Cortes IslandQuadra Island routes. The changes take effect Monday, Feb. 9. The cornerstone of the new schedule is a shift in the last evening sailing from Campbell River with a Quadra-Cortes connector. That sailing will move from 5:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., the same time
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slot it held before that route was cut in April of 2014. The corresponding connector ferry from Quadra to Cortes Island will continue to depart at 6:45 p.m., except on weekends, where it shifts forward 20 minutes to 6:25 p.m. Several other sailings will be adjusted by periods ranging from five to 20 minutes, while others are unchanged. The total number of sailings each way does not change. “We’ll go back to a similar schedule to what we had, where we’ll have a lot of the ferries leaving on the half-hour from Campbell River and some leaving on the hour Continued on Pg. 3
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