Entries categorized as ‘Around town’
Peninsula Speedway has been resurfaced with new, high-speed asphalt, just in time for the hordes of mini-vans carrying overweight kids to school to save them the ten-minute walk.
The district has talked about paving this stretch of road since about the year 12 BW (Before Wyndansea), but has only now found the funding and the will to push it through.
Some say the paving was prompted by developer complaints that the potholes were damaging the suspensions of the 30 or 40 fully-loaded dump trucks per day that roar past the schools. Others claim that a high-end road was necessary now that the whole end of the peninsula is stuffed with high-end development.
Whatever the reason, the new surface (and its new lack of speed bumps) is being well utilized by all the pick-up trucks around town, which on average now arrive at their destinations 2.4 seconds quicker.
Ukee’s hard-core skateboarders are also praising the upgrade. The smooth pavement should reduce vibration injuries to the feet and legs caused by the extremely rough pavement around town, for which several skaters have been eagerly undergoing treatment at Bubbles’ Massage Hutte.
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‘We may be local but we ain’t yokel’
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‘Pumpin’ the wattage to the West Coaster’s cottage’
Categories: Around town · Culture · Loco colour
A Ucluelet body of water has achieved such a degree of permanence that it has now been gazetted as an official geographical feature by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.
“We don’t gazette unless a feature has been present for years, is of sufficient size, and is of noteworthy significance to local people. Our evaluation shows this body of water easily meets those criteria,” said Brian Fumbelwort, executive cartographer at the GNB.
Once perceived as a troublesome drainage problem, the lake’s new designation allows the district works yard to see the mid-sidewalk body of water as a village highlight and ignore it. The money saved from the district maintenance budget has been reallocated to fund a plaque displaying the lake’s new name.
District council, which has authority to recommend a name for the feature, has decided to call it Lake St. Jacques. This is in keeping with the recent trend of naming village landmarks after longtime local politicians — for example, the planned St. Jacques Community Centre, the nearly completed Royal Dianne Athletic Park, the DSJ Hall (formerly the UAC Hall), and the Dianne St. Jacques Sunset Senior’s Residence, located on the corner of St. Jacques Boulevard and Dianne Street.
The value of residential properties bordering on Lake St. Jacques is soaring as a result of their new lakefront status. Educators at UES were also pleased to adopt the lake as the school’s new swimming facility.
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