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City taxpayers hit with tax increase to pay for Strathcona Regional District wellness centre KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
Campbell River taxpayers will likely be on the hook for a new wellness centre at Strathcona Gardens for the next several years. The 2016 budget for the Strathcona Regional District, which operates Strathcona Gardens, contains a five-year plan to raise $7 million for a wellness centre with a therapy pool, fitness and exercise room. That means Campbell River taxpayers would be taxed $90.94 each year for the next five years. That didn’t sit well with Campbell River directors on the regional district board. Director Charlie Cornfield said it was just too much to put onto taxpayers. “To say I was shocked at the increase to Campbell River is an understatement,” Cornfield said. Area D also pays a chunk into Strathcona Gardens (both Campbell River and Area D residents are taxed $0.86 per $100,000 of assessed property value). “Myself and a good number of the constituents I represent look at the bottom line on their tax bill, they don’t care whether it’s city, regional district, hospital, or school, it’s the bottom line and this is getting up there,” Cornfield said noting the regional solid waste function will be
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Volunteers Mark Pearston, left, and Jme Andrew drag an illegally dumped carpet out of a ditch along Duncan Bay Main logging road.
Volunteers muck out illegal dumping ground KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
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he power of social media was on display Saturday as a large group of volunteers – many who didn’t know one another – came out to clean up one of the city’s worst illegal dumping grounds.
With a group of around 25 people, organizer Jme Andrew said it was the biggest crew she’s had yet. Andrew organized the clean up through the Shame the Logging Road Dumpers Facebook page, a site which maps out where people tend to illegally dump their refuse and encourages others to join in the cleanup. The page was started
more than three years ago by Bud Logan and Kathleen Sharpe and has evolved into a gathering place for those in the community who have had enough. Last Saturday, volunteers gave their time to clean up the mess along Duncan Bay Main and Iron River logging roads, up above the Canyon View Trail.
Volunteers, armed with gloves, garbage bags, trailers and high spirits, hauled items such as window frames, old car parts, mattresses, sofas, yard waste and piles of household garbage out of the ditches. The waste was taken to the landfill which waived the tipping fees for the volunteers.
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