The Peninsula Times
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-01-09
issued: 1977-09-14
description: Serving the Sunshine Coast.
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note: A local citizens group is demanding the resignation of Sechelt Alderman Frank Leitner on both "moral and ethical grounds," charging Leitner deliberately lied to them when they questioned him on the airport lease about to be finalized between the Elphinstone Aero Club and the villages of Gibsons and Sechelt. Citizens Against the Rape of the Environment (CARE), who have been campaigning against noisy aircraft overflying the peninsula, say they will seek a government inquiry of the incident, which occured at the September 7 Sechelt council meeting, if Leitner does not voluntarily resign. During the meeting, at which CARE asked the aldermen to reconsider the terms of the lease, Leitner, who is the Sechelt representative on the joint village airport committee, told the group no further changes could be made to the agreement as the document had aready been signed. Mayor Harold Nelson, who will sign the lease for the village, was not at the Wednesday council meeting, and Leitner's Storm dumps hail and rain on Peninsula A late summer storm last Wednesday afternoon howled through Gibsons with wind gusting to 50 m.p.h. (80 km), dumped hail and % inch of rain on Sechelt and left the Pender Harbour area virtually untouched. According to CBC weatherman John Paschold, the unexpected tempest may have been partially caused by the fierce heat from Nanaimo's oil refinery fire, directly across the Strait of Georgia from the peninsula. In Sechelt, which took the, brunt of the weatherman's, wrath, a brief wind preceeded % inch (19 mm) of rain and large hailstones that turned the ground white. Flooded village streets forced pedestrians to take cover as thunder and lightening moved in overhead. Vehicle traffic came to a halt several times during the hour-long storm as visibility was reduced to near-zero. Overflowing drains turned Cowrie, Wharf and Dolphin streets into lagoons. Power was out in West Sechelt for 20 minutes due to transferrer damage. A large tv*>a. fell onto.teleph��<i(ft<:.…
note: Frequency: Weekly Titled "The Sechelt Peninsula Times" from 1963-12-04 to 1967-03-01. Titled "The Peninsula Times" from 1967-03-08 to 1979-12-26. Published by Sechelt Peninsula Times Ltd. from 1963-12-04 to 1968-12-24 and from 1970-11-04 to 1971-03-10; by The Peninsula Times Ltd. from 1969-01-08 to 1970-10-28; by Powell River News Town Crier Sechelt Times Ltd. from 1971-03-17 to 1975-11-05; and by Westpres Publications Ltd. from 1975-11-12 to 1979-12-26. Dates of Publication: 1963 to 1980.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sechelt (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0186443
language: English
lat: 49.4716667
long: -123.763333
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sechelt, B.C : Westpres Publications Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Sechelt Community Archives.
type: Text