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Section V of the May 31, 2012 edition of the Nanaimo News Bulletin
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Port Authority embarks on
10-year voyage
Maffeo Maffeo Sutton Sutton
upgradedupgraded
Looking Looking aheadahead
An annual update on economic progress
2012
Nanaimo to reap rewards from infl ux of junior hockey teams, coaches, parents and fans
City hosts City hosts new Western new Western tournamenttournament
COVER STORY++
City’s spectacular waterfront park gets
a few tweaks
Nanaimo Homeowners’ Nanaimo Homeowners’
Resource Resource DirectoryDirectory
Who’s Who In Construction
and Home Renovations!
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ContentsVisionNANAIMONANAIMO
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COVER STORY
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Port looks adecade ahead
Construction crews optimistic
Park getsupgrades
Cyclists push to save trails
Bowen Road upgrades hitfi nal stretch
ER nearing completionMill creates clean power for homesCity drivers energized by electric cars
If Nanaimo comes down with a case of playoff fever next spring, well, that can only be a good thing.
The Harbour City will host its biggesthockey tournament in 15 years when the Nanaimo Clippers and four other juniorA teams take the ice for the 2013 Western Canada Cup.
6 One millionthfl yer eyed
Rail service to see revivalon Island
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Construction on Bowen Road and theQuarterway Bridge is in the final stagesfiafter a winter hiatus.
The $11.1-million project began inMarch 2011 and is expected to wrap up atthe end of October.
The 12-metre bridge, the trigger forthe entire project, is being replaced withan 18-metre span that will sit more than a metre higher than its predecessor to accommodate for a 200-year flood plain flover the Millstone River.
An 800-metre stretch of Bowen Road isbeing converted to four lanes to better handle an estimated 16,000 vehicles that travel through the corridor daily, on par with pre-Nanaimo Parkway traffic conges-ffition.
Much of the utility work, including sewerand storm drain improvements, relocatinghydro, cable and phone components has already been completed at a cost of $2.2million.
It’s the city’s most expensive and expan-sive road works project to date, and will provide better access for motorists andpedestrians travelling to or from down-town.
Jan Morgard, project manager, said themeat of the work is replacement of the 65-year-old Quarterway Bridge, which isscheduled for mid-summer.
Paving kicked off earlier this spring, ffwith bridge demolition from May to June. Sidewalks and streetlights will be installedin September with final paving of the new firoad to end the project by Oct. 31.
Portlooks a decade ahead
Bowen Roadupgrades hitfi nal stretch
Nanaimo Port Authority is embarking on a decade-long voyage to diversify and attract more business to the city.
Bernie Dumas, NPA president and CEO, said theorganization has key assets that make it an appealing destination for businesses, especially those looking to connect to markets in the Pacifi c Rim.fi
The port created the Path 2025 strategic plan to address the need for infrastructure upgrades andmodernization over the next decade.
For several years, the port authority focused itsefforts on the creation and construction of the cruiseship terminal. With that project’s completion, it is setting its sights on other opportunities to expand,while continuing to market the terminal to attract
vessels, said Dumas.“For the port authority to thrive into the next
decade, we need to diversify,” he said. “Predominantly the economy is doing quite well and a lot of compa-nies are looking at developing a distribution centrefor products to ship to Asia.”
Space in Vancouver is at a premium and somebusinesses might be looking to relocate to Nanaimo to take advantage of unused portions of the port authority’s Duke Point industrial terminal area or assembly wharf area.
A key component many businesses are looking at isdeep water to accommodate larger shipping vessels,which is available at the Duke Point industrial termi-nal, said Dumas.
The 28-hectare terminal has 22 hectares of leas-able storage area, a 40-tonne container crane and a 100-metre barge ramp. The 15-hectare assembly wharf is home to the port’s cruise ship terminal, ad-ministration offi ces and three deep sea berths.fi
Dumas is optimistic that over the next few years,new businesses will be looking to relocate toNanaimo.
As part of the expansion, the port authority also hopes to develop a downtown waterfront transporta-tion hub that incorporates ferries, buses, float planes,fltrains and cruise ships that will connect to a commu-nity-wide transportation network.
It’s also eyeing upgrades to the Boat Basin.The port authority is redesigning its website at
www.npa.ca, but people can get more information on the strategy by clicking on the Path 2025 icon.
Transportation under microscope
There’s a good chance your movementthrough the city was tracked this spring, as increasingly complex transportation issues prompted Nanaimo to embark on its firstfitransportation master plan.
As the city’s population moves toward100,000 people and roadways become morecongested, the city’s transportation depart-ment wants to ensure that objectives of
planNanaimo are met and that people who live here or visit are able to move as effi cient-ffily as possible.
“It’s about sustainability, and that meanslivability – how easy it is to get to work, where you shop or where you want to play,” said Susan Clift, the city’s director of engi-neering and public works. “It also meanswhat kind of impact people’s transportationchoices are having on the environment, aswell as what is the ability to pay, as a com-munity, for changes [we] might want to seek in transportation infrastructure.”
As the city follows its offi cial community ffiplan to densify corridors, alternatives to thesingle occupancy automobile such as cy-cling, walking or taking transit could become increasingly popular choices.
By collecting data now, city staff will have ffthe information needed to help define how fiNanaimo moves, looks and grows over thenext fi ve, 10 and 20 years, said Gordon Foy, fitransportation engineer for the city.
The first data collection took place fromfimid-march to May, with various other sur-veys planned.
Conference eyes transitPublic transportation took a front seat at the
Vancouver Island Conference Centre recently at B.C. Transit’s annual conference.
More than 160 delegates from 81 transit systems around the province attended work-shops on fleet management, increasing revenue flstreams, labour relations and safety.
Joe Stanhope, Regional District of Nanaimochairman, said the four-day conference was an ideal time to discuss issues and concerns,especially since the government announced anindependent review of B.C. Transit.
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The massive fi r beams fiin the entranceway are in place andpainters are hard at work inside thenew, state-of-the-art
emergency department at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
In about 18 months, the $36.9-mil-lion project went from a hole in theground to a two-storey building thatnow resembles the artists’ renderings.
Construction is on track for an August or September opening, saidJim Morris, project manager with the Vancouver Island Health Authority.
“It’s going to be an exciting place,” he said. “It’s bright, it’s open, it’s got state-of-the-art equipment.”
The $36.9-million project will triple the size of the department, which was designed to serve 15,000 patients per year but now serves about 54,000.
The new facility boosts the number of treatment rooms from 24 to 39 and also includes a psychiatric emergency services unit, which replaces the current department’s single room reserved for mental health patients, and a six-bed psychiatric intensive care unit. The hospital doesnot currently have a psychiatric intensive care unit andthese types of patients are currently sent to Courtenay orVictoria, said Morris.
Six internal courtyards stretch the length of both topand bottom floors, including three daylight wells in the flstretcher/bay area, flooding the building with plenty of flnatural light – a feature that Morris said is proven to reduce medication errors, staff sick time and stress.
“It creates a more healing environment,” said Morris.“The big difference is that these daylight wells are right in the centre of the treatment spaces.”
Having individual treatment rooms throughout instead of a curtain separating patients will allow for more pri-vacy, he added, and each room will have a glass door that turns opaque at the push of a button and is easy to clean.
Architects spent a great deal of time consulting with emergency staff when designing the facility and layout of the new ER is superior to the existing department, saidMorris.
The ambulance entrance is separated from patiententrance by fencing, and the trauma section backs ontothe ambulance entrance. There are two separate waitingareas for patients who do not need to lie on a stretcherand patients will be placed in each based on the severity of their situations.
The new facility is designed to achieve Leadership inEnergy and Environmental Design Gold certification.fi
ABOVE: Jim Morris, senior project manager with the Vancouver Island Health Authority, uses artists’ rendi-tions to describe interior and exterior features of thenew emergency department at NRGH.
Thousands of homes will be pow-ered using clean energy produced at Nanaimo’s Harmac pulp mill.
B.C. Hydro signed a 15-year agree-ment with the mill to buy green ener-gy from a new 25-megawatt turbo-generation unit that will be installed at Harmac.
“This is a big thing for our company,”said Levi Sampson, Nanaimo Forest Products president. “It’s another verygood revenue stream. It really allows us to ride out the lows in the market.”
The turbine will produce enoughenergy to power 17,000 homes annu-ally and the company is investing $45 million to build the unit, which isexpected to create 85 full-time jobs inconstruction, engineering and techni-cal work.
Ryan Prontack, Harmac’s engineering superintendent, said a green energyproject was a goal for the mill’s employ-ees, who partially own the mill, since itreopened in 2008.
The mill already has one turbine, installed in the 1960s, that generates30 megawatts of power, said Prontack.
The existing turbine enabled Harmac to internally produce three-quarters of its energy needs and with the new tur-bine, all of the mill’s needs will be me.The remaining 15 megawatts will besent on to B.C. Hydro’s grid.
The turbine create energy using steam produced from hog fuel burnedin the power boiler. To create the extra energy for the power grid, Harmac willburn about 40 per cent more hog fuel,but the fuel, which is basically bark, is considered carbon neutral.
And as part of the agreement withHydro, Harmac committed to imple-menting various energy-efficiencyprojects that will result in 11 gigawatthours per year of electricity savings.
The agreement is under B.C. Hydro’sIntegrated Power Offer, which was developed to complement NaturalResources Canada’s Pulp and PaperGreen Transformation program,through which Harmac received $27 million to make the mill more efficient and environmentally friendly.
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City drivers energized by electric cars
Nanaimo drivers are beginning to warm up to the idea of electricvehicles, so the city is stayingahead of the curve by introduc-ing public charging stations.
Electric vehicle owners can plug-in free of charge (as it were)at three city-owned locations –two charging stalls will be avail-able at the Beban Park Complex, one at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre parkade and
another a short distance away at the Port parkade.
It cost the city $13,500 to installthe two outlets at Beban Park and $8,400 total at VICC and Port parkades.
The city has three Nissan Leaf electric vehicles and one con-verted electric Ford Ranger aspart of its fleet, powered by two flcharging stations near city hall on Franklyn Street and two more at the public works yard on LabieuxRoad.
Bruce Labell, Nanaimo’s fleetflmanager, said over time the city estimates about $25,000 insavings per EV over a 10-year
period compared to traditionalvehicles while helping to achieve city goals to reduce its carbon footprint. For personal use, theaverage EV costs an estimated $300 annually to keep charged.
Car buyers were given addition-al incentive to consider electric cars late last year. Beginning Dec.1 the Ministry of Environment,LiveSmart B.C. and New Car Deal-ers Association of B.C. introduced the $7.5 million Clean EnergyVehicle incentive program.
Clean energy vehicles includeelectric, fuel cell, plug-in hybridor compressed natural gas cars orlight trucks.
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One-millionth fl yer eyedWith passenger numbers continu-
ing to take off, Nanaimo Airport is ffffpoised to welcome its one-millionthcustomer since a $26.6 million ex-pansion project began six years ago.
More than 913,000 people trav-elled through the airport’s terminalbetween 2006 and 2011 and the push is on to reach the million mark.
“Over the last two years we haveseen a 13-per cent growth in pas-senger numbers and last August wasour busiest month ever with 18,574 people coming through,” said Mike Hooper, airport CEO. “In 2012 we areissuing a challenge to residents to use it and they will come. Carriers look at the marketplace and pas-senger numbers, so the more we use our local airport, the more interestcarriers have.”
The two-phase airport expansionincluded extending the runway, an instrument landing system, high intensity runway and lead-in lights, expanding the terminal and newpassenger screening and baggage
handling systems.Hooper said the upgrades are
been a big part in the increase of passengers.
“In 2011, we were 99-per cent reli-able during weather issues,” he said.“That, and being in the middle of the biggest population centre on the Is-land north of Victoria, means peopleare choosing Nanaimo Airport.”
The one-millionth customer isexpected this summer and celebra-tions will be held throughout theyear, culminating with the targetedmonth and day.
“It will be diffi cult to target exactly ffiwho is the one millionth customer, so we’ll be handing out prizes toeveryone on the aircraft carryingthat one millionth passenger,” saidHooper.
The airport now has the infra-structure to handle jets capable of non-stop flights to Hawaii, Mexico fland Toronto and Hooper said thenext step is to improve the parking situation.
Rail serviceto see revival on the Island
Passenger rail service on Van-couver Island will be revived after the federal government committedto its portion of the $15 millionneeded to repair the E&N Rail line.
The Island Corridor Foundation,owner of the tracks, was waiting months for word that $7.5 million in provincial funding, announced last June, would be matched by Ottawa.
Now that the money has arrived,people could be using the passen-ger rail service as early as spring2013, after more than 104,000rail ties and ballast are repairedalong the 234 kilometres of track between Courtenay and Victoria.
The ties alone will cost about$12.5 million to replace, and anadditional $500,000 was already spent on a bridge and trestle study,
the results of which are expected to be made public next week.
Renovated, smoother cars with amenities like bike and ski storage will be supplied by VIA Rail and an increase in freight investment is expected to go along with track improvements through Southern Rail, the track’s operator.
A new schedule will result in anearly morning southbound trainfrom Nanaimo to Victoria to en-courage commuting and tourism.
Bruce and the ICF board of directors received criticism from some groups for not asking for the full $100-plus million originally estimated to renovate the line more substantially.
“We’ve already got so many other pieces of this plan ready to go, this new funding allows us to push those green buttons and start some serious approaches withoutalways having some doubt aboutfunding in the back of our minds,” said Graham Bruce, the founda-tion’s CEO.
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If Nanaimo comes down with acase of playoff fever next spring,well, that can only be a goodthing.
The Harbour City will host itsbiggest hockey tournament in
15 years when the Nanaimo Clippers andfour other junior A teams take the ice for the 2013 Western Canada Cup.
“The hockey fans in the mid-Islandarea are in for a treat next spring,” said Graham Calder, chairman of the tourna-ment’s organizing committee.
It’s the fi rst-ever Western Canada Cup,fias the Canadian Junior Hockey League is changing its playoff format for nextseason. The B.C. Hockey League champi-ons used to take on the Alberta champsfor the right to advance to nationals, but now those teams, plus representatives from Saskatchewan and Manitoba and the host Clippers are all in the mix for one big 10-day showdown.
Calder recently travelled to Humboldt, Sask. to study the 2012 national junior A hockey champi-onships there, and it made him even more excitedabout what’s in store for Nanaimo.
“The town of Humboldt really got behind its teamand behind the tournament itself,” he said. “Hardly a store you went by or went into didn’t have someacknowledgement of the fact that there was anevent of this magnitude going on in the city.”
He said businesses there snapped up 600 tourna-ment ticket packages.
“And they had great corporate support in otherways; they had major sponsors step up to the table,” Calder said. “And that’s where we’re at right now interms of our planning. We’ve been out meeting with potential partners.”
The Clippers have sold more than 100 ticket pack-ages for the WCC so far, and their target is some-where in the 500-750 range.
“I guess my blue-sky objective would be 1,000 tournament packages sold,” Calder said. “That
would put us on reasonably sound fi nancial footing, ficoupled with the support of the partners.”
Whether they have their tickets in hand already,hockey fans will be coming to Nanaimo for those10 days. At the 2010 nationals in Dauphin, Man., for example, 2,500 visitors attended games, book-ing 2,250 hotel rooms and spending upwards of $1 million on accommodations, game tickets, food anddrinks.
Calder was impressed with Humboldt’snightly entertainment during its tour-nament, and he has been meeting withthe City of Nanaimo to book venues for similar social gatherings.
“We’re hoping that not only the busi-ness community but the citizens, thehockey fans of Nanaimo will get behindthis event and support it by their pres-ence at not only hockey games but someof these other events,” he said.
As for the main event, the hockey; it will be some of the best ever played in Nanaimo. Calder said the atmospherein Humboldt’s 1,900-seat arena was incredible for the host Broncos’ games. A capacity crowd of 3,000 in Frank Crane Arena could be louder still.
Kelly Hrudey, part owner of the Clippers, said all the top junior A teams from Western Canada,playing for their playoff lives, will make for intensehockey.
“I think it’s going to attract so many people from around the Island, and they are going to be blownaway by the hockey they are going to see,” he said.
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Jr. B Buccaneersinvading ice centre
The Nanaimo Buccaneers won’t win every game, but they plan to take their unfair shareof them, they say. The city’s new junior B hockey team swashbuckled into VancouverIsland Junior Hockey League in time for the2012-13 season.
“It’ll be great,” said Brenda Levesque, who owns the team along with her husband Phil.“Our fi rst goal is to fifi ll the rink on opening fi
night and the rest will come from that. If we provide good entertainment, they’ll come back and that’s what we’re looking to do.”
The Levesques, who formerly owned the Kerry Park Islanders of the VIJHL, have beenworking for more than a year to bring junior Bhockey to their hometown of Nanaimo.
The Nanaimo Buccaneers will play their home games Thursday nights at the Nanaimo IceCentre. The team will play in the VIJHL’s North Division along with the Oceanside Generals, Comox Valley Glacier Kings and Campbell River Storm.
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Construction crews optimisticThere’s reason for quiet optimism in the
central Island area, despite lingering effects of economic downturn.
That’s the message heard at the CanadianHome Builders’ Association – Central Van-couver Island’s construction industry forumearlier this year.
From the debt crisis in Europe and trade withChina, to interest rates and investment oppor-tunities in Nanaimo, speakers talked of a stable B.C. economy with slow growth in a number of sectors expected in 2012.
Toby Seward, city director of development,said there are people who want to invest here.
“2011 was a bit of a tough year, but it lookslike 2012 is going to be a steady year,” he said. “We review the stats, review what’s going forward and the signs are looking good in our one- to five-year forecast.”fi
Bill Corsan, city manager of real estate, said investment opportunities are being driven by low interest rates, flattened land values, low flvacancy rates and lack of rental products.
Travis Archibald, Vancouver Island mar-ket analyst with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, said housing starts inNanaimo fell in 2011, but remain relatively
stable and a slight increase is forecast this year.“We also saw roughly 1,500 MLS transactions
in 2011 and expect a slight increase to that in2012, but nowhere near past levels,” he said.“Supply is relatively stable and there should be a bit of an increase in demand this year, but itis still a buyer’s market.”
Mark Lovick of RBC said Vancouver Island seems to be filtered from the sweeping eco-finomic challenges the rest of the world faces and continued low interest rates are good news.
“We don’t see the huge swings up or down,” he said. “On the Island, we’ve had virtually thesame sales activity for the last four years.”
Doug Wittal, CHBA provincial president, de-tects a sense of optimism among homebuilders in the central Island and likes what he sees in terms of people stepping outside the box.
“We drive the market, we drive the economy and if you’re not willing to change yourproduct and get into the new world, you’re not going to have a market and you’re not going tobe working,” he said.
Wittal pointed to the Greenrock industrial park between Bowen and Boxwood roads andthe Village at Summerhill townhouse projecton Dufferin Crescent as two examples.
Groupsmaking gardensavailable
Accessing land can be a challenge for people incities who want to growtheir own food.
But Nanaimo Food-share and organizationslike the Young Profes-sionals of Nanaimo are trying to change that byproviding access to land and growing opportuni-ties in the community.
Foodshare is partner-ing with four schools, John Barsby, Park Avenue, Fairview and Georgia Avenue, toteach students about horticulture, healthyeating, food security and
more. It also has more schools looking to takepart in the program.
Anna Dodds, NanaimoFoodshare schoolgarden coordinator,said there is increasingawareness of farmers’ markets and urban agri-culture as more people become interested in issues such as food secu-rity and sustainability.
The YPN also saw an untapped resource in idle gas station sites.
The organization created two commu-nity gardens, one in the north and another in thesouth end of Nanaimo, by reclaiming the vacantproperties. Members built raised beds, sepa-rating and protectingthe growing soil from the contaminated soil on the properties.
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If a person requires a bit more support, our Assisted/IndependentLiving building is the hub of our community, providing our residentswith two meals per day in our elegantdining room.
Also included are refreshments inthe morning and afternoon, served in the Bistro, weekly housekeeping(including a flat linen service) and a large selection of activities.
In this community, althoughresidents maintain their independence, supportive services are available to those that requireassistance with the activities of daily living, in addition to 24 hour emergency response.
Residential care is available for residents that require 24 hour nursing
care. Our 150 bed multi level carefacility offers one of the highest levels of care in the Nanaimo andsurrounding area. Here residentsreceive the care they require by professionally trained nursing staff.Continuing education programs ensure our staff keep their knowledge andskills up-to-date and appropriate tothe complex and specialized needs of the residents.
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Park gets upgrades Cyclists pushto preserve mountain bike trails in city
RDN working onagricultural plan
Agriculture was an important economic con-tributor to the region’s economy for the last 200years, but farmers are facing challenges seri-ously affecting food production.ffff
Pressure to develop property in the Agricul-tural Land Reserve, labour shortages, risingtransportation costs, climate change and moreare issues area food producers are tackling.
Concerns about food sustainability and security were brought to the attention of theRegional District of Nanaimo and in 2010, the
RDN board directed staff to go after funding to ffhelp develop and Agricultural Area Plan.
The draft plan outlines seven main goals: protecting and enhancing the agricultural land base, strengthening the local agriculture andaquaculture economy, improving training, skills and labour opportunities, improving opportuni-ties for on-farm water resource management, addressing environmental sustainability, wildlifeand climate challenges, promoting agricul-ture and aquaculture through education and celebration and supporting agriculture andaquaculture in land use regulations and poli-cies. These goals are broken down into smaller actions and given priority levels.
Maffeo Sutton Park, the city’s mostpopular events location, is gettingmore improvements.
The fi rst upgrade is $30,000 in firenovations to the park’s wash-rooms, which includes the instal-lation of fl oor and wall tiles, new flconcrete countertops and sinks, new toilets and urinals, new partitionsand doors, accessible grab bars and improved heating and ventilation systems.
“It didn’t make sense to spend allof that money on the Spirit Square, then have the washrooms in thepoor condition they’re in,” said IanBlackwood, the city’s manager of facilities maintenance and construc-tion. “We think any money investedin the washroom facility right now ismoney well spent.”
The money comes from capitalfunds put aside by the city for a new park-planning process.
When council took back a por-tion of land at Maffeo Sutton Park originally intended to be given toMillenium Suro for a condo devel-opment – part of the failed deal for a conference centre hotel – it had torevise its park plan to include thatland.
That new plan could include anentirely new washroom facility atMaffeo Sutton Park, which is why everything but thenew floor tiles can be removed and installed else-flwhere.
The second improvement includes lowering the blue Spirit Square covering by 1.4 metres and wind-shields to the side of the structure.
Trucks will still be able to pass under the cover-
ing, but the lower top and retractable shields willimprove protection from the elements, ultimately providing more options for performances and spe-cial events. The cost is estimated at $60,000.
The Spirit Square renovation is expected to becompleted by June. The city received a $500,000 pro-vincial grant in 2008 to create the Spirit Square.
The Nanaimo Mountain Bike Clubagreed earlier this year to pursue formal land use agreements with private land owners in an eff ort preserve riding terrainffffand improve trail access for local trails.
Mark Perdue, club spokesman, said themountain bike community rallied for acommon goal that could put Nanaimo onthe map as a mountain bike destination.
“There was a lot of enthusiasm that came out of the meeting from both insidethe club and from outside the club,” said Purdue. “The change in focus from the club now is going from a group that just organizes rides to one that has a clear mandate for organizing this sport.”
Until now, private forest companies,which own an estimated 75 per cent of the land mountain bike trails are builton in Nanaimo, have tolerated access by mountain bikers and other user groups in absence of liability insurance.
Morgan Kennah, spokeswoman forIsland Timberlands, said the company is willing to meet with the club to discuss the future of trail access, building and maintenance. By purchasing a non-ex-clusive licence at an annual cost of $500,Kennah said the club can formally accessIsland Timberland property.
Nanaimo is home to some of the best riding in the Pacifi c Northwest, according fito the Nanaimo club, and could become a destination like Whistler, Squamish and Cumberland, all of which have benefittedfieconomically from the global explosion inthe sport’s popularity.
In recent years, Nanaimo’s trails have been praised by B.C. Bike Race partici-pants and organizers, one of the world’s most popular mountain bike races, andfeatured in international mountain bike publications.
“We’re really excited about what’s aheadand who’s involved and it’s really going to help the cause,” Perdue said.
The club intends to hold discussionswith the city, land owners and other stakeholders to discuss the role mountain biking might play in future economicdevelopment.
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Over the last several decades, thevisual aesthetics, basic infrastructureand general ambiance of DowntownNanaimo can best be described as a creative work in progress; the result of a collective vision of our community’s hopes, dreams and aspirations for the heart of our city.
This vision has manifesteditself into refurbished heritagebuildings, new construction, altered streetscapes and improved public spaces.
Business Improvement Area (BIA)legislation in British Columbia is inits 24th year and Nanaimo, throughthe vision of the Nanaimo City CentreAssociation (NCCA), was the first city in B.C. to establish a BIA in 1988.
Today, after many changes andchallenges and because of the hard work of organizations suchas the NCCA, the Old City Quarter Association (OCQA) and the
Downtown Nanaimo Partnership Society (DNPS), the DowntownNanaimo BIA exists today.
Thanks to all of the hard working crusaders championing a revitalizedand prosperous downtown, there have
been countless improvements to what are generally considered eclecticbusiness areas and residential neighborhoods.
From the recently renovated, 157-year-old Nanaimo Bastion to
the very modern Vancouver Island Conference Centre, Downtown Nanaimo covers the gamut from historical icons to new, state of the art facilities and everything inbetween. There have been many exciting changes and many more areon the horizon.
Working in collaboration with our community partners, the Downtown Nanaimo Business ImprovementAssociation (DNBIA) is now workingon projects that will further improve the visual aesthetic downtown (providing façade grants, Terminal/Nicol Street Redevelopment, and tree lights) to creating a downtown that is accessible and convenient to all visitors (wayfinding signage, bikeparking, and family friendly events).
The DNBIA is proud of where we’vecome from and the work done beforeus, and we are looking forward to the challenges ahead.
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Business longevity and sustainability are based on factors that range from management and leadership skills through to fl exibility in servicing our rapidly changing marketplace. Today global sevices are not unique even in the smallest fi rms and creativity is essential in all companies, even the largest of corporations. Attracting and maintaining customers was once the greatest priority, now it partners with the need to attract and retain skilled and loyal employees.
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