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Candidates for North Island-Powell River address the all-candidates meeting at the Tidemark Theatre Thursday. From left: Rachel Blaney (NDP), Brenda Sayers (Green Party), Peter Schwarzhoff (Liberal Party, and Laura Smith (Conservative Party).
High interest in all-candidates forum ALISTAIR TAYLOR CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
The Tidemark Theatre was filled to overflowing for the all-candidates meeting put on by the Chamber of Commerce Thursday. The inability for later arrivals to get into the theatre – even the lobby was full – generated some frustra-
tion, one caller to the Campbell River Mirror suggesting a contingency plan for the overflow should have been prepared. The person felt that perhaps speakers could have been put into Spirit Square. Those who did get there early enough to get a seat in the theatre heard the four candidates give five minute opening speeches, answer
25 questions with one-minute answers and then close with fiveminute final remarks. The meeting was attended by all four candidates, none choosing to bow out from this one. Attending were NDP candidate Rachel Blaney, Green Party candidate Brenda Sayers, Liberal Party candidate Peter Schwarzhoff and Conservative
Party candidate Laura Smith. The evening was civil and organized, perhaps even a little tame, with the candidates rarely taking the available time to offer a rebuttal to any of the comments made on any question. “We’ve been doing this for a while now so we’re getting to know each
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Island Health will charge for parking at the new Campbell River Hospital facility despite pleas from the public, various elected officials and the region’s own hospital board for it to be free. Just how much it will cost, who will be in charge of collecting it, and what that money will be spent on are yet to be determined. “Fees will be determined by Island Health Parking Services based on St. Joseph’s General Hospital and Nanaimo Regional General Hospital parking rates,” according to the recent announcement by Island Health. St. Joseph’s parking rates are $1.50 for one hour, $2.25 for two hours, $7 daily and $25 for a weekly permit. Nanaimo Regional’s rates are $2.25 for the first two hours, $1.25 per hour thereafter with a weekly permit costing $26.75. “Island Health recognizes that pay parking in hospitals is not popular,” says Dan Maclennan of Island Health Communications, “however pay parking is standard practice in the vast majority of care facilities in urban areas.” Unpopular might be an understatement. Letters have been flowing in to Island Health and the Ministry of Health condemning the concept of pay parking for months.
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