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Category Archives: Environment
Rally to Stop SD61 Proposed Sale of 2 acres of Natural Area on Bowker Creek
Please attend our community’s family friendly rally to loudly and visibly tell School District 61 trustees that they should stop the proposed sale of almost 2 acres of the Lansdowne School South Campus that today is a natural area alongside … Continue reading
Posted in Association, Development, Environment, Events, Municipality, Shelbourne Valley
Tagged bowker creek, bowker creek initiative, FoBC, Lansdowne Middle School, rezoning, richmond elementary, school land sale, SD61
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Local community to SD61: do NOT sell school land!
Residents of the neighbourhood and community near to the Lansdowne school south campus have started a petition to reinforce what we’ve heard from many people at SD61 board meetings: Please do NOT sell this school land. From the petitioners: Dear … Continue reading
Posted in Association, Development, Environment, Events, Municipality, Shelbourne Valley
Tagged bowker creek, bowker creek initiative, FoBC, Lansdowne Middle School, rezoning, richmond elementary, SD61
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SD61 Board Meeting Feb. 23 re: south campus Lansdowne Middle School proposed land sale
A recent email from SD61 contained a media release, as shown below. This is your chance to speak to the SD61 Trustees regarding this land disposal! To speak at this meeting, you must register (please see details below). Wednesday, February … Continue reading
Posted in Association, Development, Environment, Events, Municipality, Shelbourne Valley
Tagged BCI, bowker creek, bowker creek initiative, flood plain, FoBC, Lansdowne Middle School, rezoning, richmond elementary, SD61, Victoria Hospice Society
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Community Members: Keep up to Date on the Proposed Land Disposal of 1.9 Acres at Lansdowne South Campus SD 61 Board Meeting Feb 14, 2022
View and listen to speaker Jody Watson of the Bowker Creek Initiative at the 30 Minute Mark. Community Feedback at the 2 hour 22 minute mark and beyond Replay of meeting here SD61 – Operations Policy and Planning Committee Meeting, … Continue reading
Posted in Association, Development, Environment, Municipality
Tagged BCI, bowker creek, bowker creek initiative, Lansdowne Middle School, richmond elementary, SD61
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FoBC: Petition to stop sale of south campus LMS land
The Friends of Bowker Creek have launched a petition asking School District 61 to stop the sale of the southwest portion of the land that makes up the south campus of Lansdowne Middle School. … Lansdowne South site is unsuited … Continue reading
Posted in Association, Development, Environment, Events, Municipality, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Shelbourne Valley
Tagged bowker creek, Lansdowne Middle School, richmond elementary, SD61, Shelbourne Valley Action Plan, Victoria Hospice Society
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Friends of Bowker Creek: Save Thaywun – Bowker Creek!
The Friends of Bowker Creek Society have requested the Minister of Education, the Honourable Jennifer Whiteside, to encourage Greater Victoria School District 61 follow the prescribed process should they wish to dispose of the 1.9 acre south-west portion of the … Continue reading
Posted in Association, Development, Environment, Events, Municipality, Shelbourne Valley
Tagged Lansdowne Middle School, Minister of Education, richmond elementary, school property disposal, SD61, south campus, Thaywun
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Bowker Creek: more than just a creek!
We’ve posted about Bowker Creek several times in the past decade on our CCA website. The recent rains here have shown the important role this waterway plays within Saanich, the Shelbourne valley watershed, and our community area. We ignore the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Shelbourne Valley
Tagged bowker creek, bowker creek initiative, Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique, Lansdowne Middle School, richmond elementary, Victoria Hospice Society
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Help to Save Kings Road Park!
You.leadnow.ca has posted an online petition for you to sign and a plea to our Saanich Mayor and Council, Directors of the CRD and the MLAs of British Columbia to preserve the BC Hydro property known locally as Kings Road Park … Continue reading
Posted in Association, Development, Environment, Municipality
Tagged BC Hydro, Kings Road Green Space, Kings Road Nature Space, SD61
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Lansdowne Middle School south campus giving up land to Hospice
The Times Colonist newspaper has reported that the Greater Victoria School District has agreed to sell a portion of the Lansdowne Middle School south campus – formerly Richmond Elementary School – to the Victoria Hospice Society. Although the TC states … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Environment, Royal Jubilee Hospital
Tagged Lansdowne Middle School, richmond elementary, school district, SD61, south campus, Victoria Hospice Society
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Grooming Bowker Creek for Salmon
The local Times Colonist newspaper has a recent article on the efforts being made to have salmon return to Bowker Creek. This initial effort won’t directly affect Bowker Creek within the CCA area of Saanich. But if the chum salmon … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Shelbourne Valley
Tagged bowker creek, chum salmon, restoration, Shlebourne Valley
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