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Additional cost split between city and rural areas

Council waits for contract

Kings present Don Smisko award

PST returns BC’s sales tax regime returns to a combination of GST plus PST on April 1, when the HST is officially eliminated. Here’s a list of taxes on some common items.

Loans to corporations secure the foundations for partnerships with Tlaamin Sliammon First Nation

Improvement districts have responsibility to meet standards but no funding is available

Centre will care for hundreds of animals per year

Week of March 19 to 25, 2013 Total calls for service = 79 Impaired driving = 2 Assaults = 3 Break and enters = 0 Thefts = 8 Mischief = 6 1. March 21 5000 block Ash Avenue Police responded to a report of a theft from a vehicle.

Power down Powell River residents managed to increase their efforts to save energy during Earth Hour on Saturday, March 23. Powell River had a 4.9 per cent reduction in energy use, compared to 3.6 per cent in 2012.

Carbon neutral funding School District 47 is one of 43 around the province that received almost $10,000 to help identify possible carbon neutral projects. Twenty-five school districts were granted funds to upgrade boilers, heat pumps or lighting.