October 4, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Check podcasts. This is an abbreviated version of check News.
Watch full Check newscasts week days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime on Check Plus or check news dot Ca.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
He's making his way down the hill when a cyclist
struck him.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Two weeks after he was hit on a sidewalk, a
twenty four year old Courtney man dies from his injuries.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Up to this point, we have been planning for transportation
largely in silence.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
A deadly crash on the Trans Canada Highway that snarled
traffic throughout the CRD for hours leads to calls for change.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
And you're so lucky because that's it on the sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Not on the road.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Because he's on the road the trunk and can come over.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The Namo's past makes itself known in the form of
a massive sinkhole that literally swallows a sidewalk. Check News
starts now, Good evening, Thanks very much for having with
us tonight. A twenty four year old Courtney man has
(01:12):
succumbed to his injuries two weeks after being hit while
walking on a sidewalk. The man had just left North
Island College and was walking down a steep hill nearby
when he was struck by someone on a bicycle. Deanstalls reports.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Just outside North Island College, Ryan Roade is a steep
hill with an eight percent grade heading into the lower
part of Courtney. It's where twenty four year old Max
Poley was walking just after eight thirty pm September sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And it was about closer to nine as he's making
his way down the hill when a cyclist struck him
and he landed pretty hard with primarily just a head injury.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
He was a student here at North Island College and
also worked the student union in the Nissu Eats cafeteria.
He had just left work and was walking home.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
He had been staff member of the students union for
about a year and really caring. He actually ended at
eight pm that night, but he lingered for another half
an hour, like doing a deeper clean and just doing
a good job so that the next day it was
going to be a great opening for us.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
There was a shoulder that cyclists were using today beside
a sidewalk, but friends and families say they were told
the cyclist was riding downhill on the sidewalk when the
bike hit Polly from behind. He was taken to Victoria General,
where he spent five days in intensive care before being
moved to the trauma unit. Wilson says Polly had been
(02:43):
drifting in and out of consciousness in hospital, but that
it'd even cracked a joke once when he woke up,
so they thought he might just be able to recover,
but then he developed an inoperable brain bleed and he
died on Monday.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
This has hit our little staff team really hard. It's
hard to be at work right now.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
The cyclist was taken to hospital as well. Police say
they're still investigating and not saying yet if it was
an e bike or how fast it was going.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's unsafe to ride on sidewalks, and I understand why
cyclists make that decision. It feels unsafe to also travel
on our roads at times, you know, And I absolutely
understand why the cyclist made the decision that day. But
that mixed use in areas where people aren't expecting it
comes with big dangers.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Holly's organs have now been used to improve other lives.
A GoFundMe was set up to help his mother with
expenses to visit her son in hospital. It will now
be used instead to cover his end of life expenses.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
If he were caught in traffic gridlock yesterday afternoon, you
were not alone. One person died in a two vehicle
collision that closed the northbound lanes of the Trans Canada
Highway near Victoria that resulted in traffic for hours. As
Mary Griffin reports, it's one traffic jam too many for
local politicians working on solutions.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
It happened at two pm Thursday afternoon, just before afternoon
rush hour, a crash involving two vehicles in the northbound
lanes of the Trans Canada Highway near Helmkin Road.
Speaker 9 (04:19):
Yesterday, our Traffic Safety Unit and patrol officers responded to
a serious collision on the Trans Canada Highway and the
northbound lanes. Our preliminary information and findings have indicated that
the collision was a result of a medical event. One
of the occupants has died and the other received a
serious injury but is expected to make a full recovery.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Immediately, police investigators closed all northbound lanes, effectively cutting off
the main route out of the region and leading to
traffic gridlock that did not let up for hours.
Speaker 10 (04:53):
I was actually going to drop my daughter off. Normally,
typically a five minute ride which actually turned into a
fifty five minut drive going for for city blocks.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Avery Zuko found herself ensnared in traffic for a simple
errand she was frustrated at the lack of information.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
There was no real communication as to what was happening
or what routes to take, and we weren't moving and
then everybody's panicking and trying to u turn.
Speaker 8 (05:18):
This is what drivers faced on this map. Every road
is red inked, blocked.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
It really highlights how stock we are. I do worry
in the case of an emergency about having a lack
of options, and it's all the more reason that we
need to be building complete networks that really look to
empower people to make their own choices.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I know a lot of people who did get stuck,
people who reported hours long wait for what would otherwise
be a half hour or forty five minute trip. That's
a significant impact of people's day.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Sana chist Mayer says the creation of a new Capital
Regional District transportation service could lead in the near future
to better options for alleviating congestion throughout the entire region.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I think it demonstrates the need for full network planning
that as a region we exist as thirteen different municipalities
that up to this point we have been planning for
transportation largely in silos. We now have a regional transportation
service that allows us to set regional priorities to come
together to ensure that we're appropriately planning to get people
(06:27):
around across the region.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
The TransCanada Highway reopened to traffic after five o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
A twenty three year old man is facing an impaired
driving charge after a vehicle slammed into a telephone poll
on Gabriela Island earlier this summer. Our CMP releasing this
photo showing the mangled aftermath of the crash. It happened
back in July to about three in the morning on
South Road. Police said the vehicle was traveling at a
high rate of speed when it lost control. The driver
had non life threatening injuries, but showed signs of impairment
(07:00):
showed a level of alcohol twice the legal limit. A
woman out for an evening walk and Nanaimo got a
big surprise last night when she stumbled upon a sinkhole
that was big enough to swallow a car. She called
nine one one as the whole consumed the sidewalk before
her and part of Westwood Road. As sky Rhine reports,
it's being connected to the city's past. I think.
Speaker 12 (07:25):
Michael Gerard is trying to get a closer look at
the gaping sinkhole that has opened up in his Nanaimo
neighborhood on earthed a piece of his own family history.
Speaker 13 (07:35):
And I'm from like fourth generation Naimal mom, My grand
great parents and grandparents were minders.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So it's just interesting to see.
Speaker 12 (07:42):
You layers of dirt and concrete. Let go into the
cavernous space on Westwood Road on Thursday night after days
of heavy rain and revealed a long buried mine shaft
from this city's coal mining past, complete with timbers still
intact inside of it.
Speaker 13 (07:58):
The city of n as old historic coal mines spread
across it. So this is just one more of those instances.
We've actually had some previous instances similar to this in
this local area.
Speaker 12 (08:10):
According to neighbor cay Dian, a woman literally stumbled upon
it while she was out for a walk around eight
thirty pm Thursday and quickly called nine one one for
help after the hole swallowed up the sidewalk before her
and soon after parts of the road.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
It's very dangerous and that the thing is so lucky
because that's it's on the sidewalk, not on the road.
Because APIs on the road, the truck and car come over,
you know, they cannot man said it and then they
drop it off.
Speaker 13 (08:38):
You know, based on our records, we think this is
one of the entrances to the old mine shaft.
Speaker 12 (08:43):
Historic maps, so it would be an entrance to the
East Wellington Mine, a six hundred and fifty acre underground
of industry. The flooded enclosed in eighteen ninety three, but
its shafts remain as tunnels running from Westwood Road outward.
Speaker 14 (08:57):
As some time progressive city grow and you know, the
mining industry was a big part of this.
Speaker 15 (09:04):
Detours are now in place this crew's attempt to fill
the hole and make this area safe and warned that
it could be days before the one hundred block of
Westwood Road is reopened again.
Speaker 13 (09:14):
The next step is to identify where the hole is.
If we start putting material in and it just keeps
disappearing into the mine, that doesn't help anybody. So that's
what we're working on right now, is trying to identify
where the hole is and get that closed off and
then we can start building up from there.
Speaker 12 (09:29):
After, Nanaimo's past reopened before people's eyes, reminding everyone of
what this city is built on.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
The town of Kualakam Beach says it's received a generous
two million dollar donation to help buy the Eagle Crest
golf Course lands, though the town has still not made
a final decision on if they will buy the property
or not. This summer, the municipality is said it had
reached a conditional deal with the owners of the fifty
year old golf course to buy the more than one
hundred acre property the price tag of eight point five
(10:02):
million dollars. In order to fund the purchase, the town
plans to sell off about ten acres to develop into housing.
The town says this new donation improves its financial flexibility.
A public hearing on the potential land purchase is planned
for October the sixth. Good news for a future u
VIC students looking for on campus housing, the province announcing
five hundred new beds for upper year, undergraduate and graduate students.
(10:26):
According to uvik's online plans, the project includes a seventeen
story high rise with a seven story adjacent building, as
well as amenities like a student lounge, multipurpose space is
a community kitchen and secure storage for sports equipment and bikes.
The estimated price tag for the project is one hundred
and seventy eight million dollars. Construction is expected to start
in the spring. While the Tour Drac team are cycling
(10:49):
their final kilometers on this year's journey, and before the
team finishes the tour at the BC Legislature, the eighteen
riders pay a visit to us here at Check.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
Check.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Selan McKenzie read leading the team into the check parking
lot this afternoon with an ovation waiting for them along
with the bouquete flowers for McKenzie, who has been an
amazing representative for Check throughout this year's Tour de Rock.
We had quite a large group photo before the eighteen
writers set off again en route to the end of
their ride. And you two both know what an emotional
(11:29):
day this final day of the tour is. Guys, you're
joining us tonight for the big finale at the MC Legislature.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah, it never leaves you that feeling. Yeah, as funny
as they were coming in, we all just got kind
of chilled up a little bit. And it's emotional. It
is it has been a long time for both you
and me to ride the tour to rock, but it
is very emotional. Tomorrow is a bit of a weird
day for the writers because you feel a little bit lost.
But congratulations to all eighteen of them, the support crew.
(11:59):
Every per donated any amount of money to this year's
campaign because it is vital for the kids fighting cancer.
Have the kids at a ten camp good times?
Speaker 14 (12:07):
Yeah, Tony, our eighteen riders has mentioned, So they just
made their way about ten minutes ago in front of
the legs. They're getting introduced, getting to see their loved ones,
a lot of them for the first time in a
couple of weeks. Of saw a couple of little boys
waiting for their dad to arrive, which was pretty cool.
And you mentioned Mackenzie Reid who's just been a great
ambassador for Czech television and so her mom's here, gram
(12:32):
and gramp are here, her aunts here. And what's really
cool is two of her friends that she went to
broadcasting school with surprised her and they've got big signs
and they just arrived here as well. So McKenzie looked
out to see her friends out here, so yeah, extra yeah,
extra emotional.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
So that's good.
Speaker 14 (12:49):
And you know what, it's every single dime as mentioned
twenty eighth, you're going he had a total hopefully live
at about five forty. It's every single dime that counts.
And our friends Randy and Anita came through again this
year from Cuckoos.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Did they ever? How about that eighteen hundred dollars for
a mackenzie's campaign and of course will go into the
grand total here tonight. Actually this is surprise money, so
this will be over and above whatever the total is tonight.
So we thank Anita and Randy and all their great
sponsors and there is great.
Speaker 14 (13:18):
Supporters for a lot of years. Great thanks thanks to
everyone up and down Vancouver Island that's supported, you know
from lost poor hard all Alis always comes up huge
say words, you know, the small community is up north
Ladysmith with a huge total and a huge total last
night up at Bear Mountains. So everyone that's contributed, thank
(13:39):
you so much, and we're gonna get that total coming
up in a bit and talk to our own McKenzie ran.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
All right, guys, looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Thanks so much for see soon we will have more
from the Tour Direct Finale a little bit later in
the program, and.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
This and the way the world is right now, there's
no better time for Canada to have a team to
bring the country together.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Toronto Blue Jays are set to make their Playoff debut,
and from coast to coast to coast, the country is
watching or on that story, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The Road Report is brought to you by BC's leader
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Speaker 6 (14:17):
Here's a look at the current Vancouver Island road conditions
from the Drive BC webcams
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Watchful Check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten, or
anytime on Check plus or checknews dot Ca.
Check podcasts. This is an abbreviated version of check News.
Watch full Check newscasts week days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime on Check Plus or check news dot Ca.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
He's making his way down the hill when a cyclist
struck him.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Two weeks after he was hit on a sidewalk, a
twenty four year old Courtney man dies from his injuries.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Up to this point, we have been planning for transportation
largely in silence.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
A deadly crash on the Trans Canada Highway that snarled
traffic throughout the CRD for hours leads to calls for change.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
And you're so lucky because that's it on the sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Not on the road.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Because he's on the road the trunk and can come over.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The Namo's past makes itself known in the form of
a massive sinkhole that literally swallows a sidewalk. Check News
starts now, Good evening, Thanks very much for having with
us tonight. A twenty four year old Courtney man has
(01:12):
succumbed to his injuries two weeks after being hit while
walking on a sidewalk. The man had just left North
Island College and was walking down a steep hill nearby
when he was struck by someone on a bicycle. Deanstalls reports.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Just outside North Island College, Ryan Roade is a steep
hill with an eight percent grade heading into the lower
part of Courtney. It's where twenty four year old Max
Poley was walking just after eight thirty pm September sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And it was about closer to nine as he's making
his way down the hill when a cyclist struck him
and he landed pretty hard with primarily just a head injury.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
He was a student here at North Island College and
also worked the student union in the Nissu Eats cafeteria.
He had just left work and was walking home.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
He had been staff member of the students union for
about a year and really caring. He actually ended at
eight pm that night, but he lingered for another half
an hour, like doing a deeper clean and just doing
a good job so that the next day it was
going to be a great opening for us.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
There was a shoulder that cyclists were using today beside
a sidewalk, but friends and families say they were told
the cyclist was riding downhill on the sidewalk when the
bike hit Polly from behind. He was taken to Victoria General,
where he spent five days in intensive care before being
moved to the trauma unit. Wilson says Polly had been
(02:43):
drifting in and out of consciousness in hospital, but that
it'd even cracked a joke once when he woke up,
so they thought he might just be able to recover,
but then he developed an inoperable brain bleed and he
died on Monday.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
This has hit our little staff team really hard. It's
hard to be at work right now.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
The cyclist was taken to hospital as well. Police say
they're still investigating and not saying yet if it was
an e bike or how fast it was going.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's unsafe to ride on sidewalks, and I understand why
cyclists make that decision. It feels unsafe to also travel
on our roads at times, you know, And I absolutely
understand why the cyclist made the decision that day. But
that mixed use in areas where people aren't expecting it
comes with big dangers.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Holly's organs have now been used to improve other lives.
A GoFundMe was set up to help his mother with
expenses to visit her son in hospital. It will now
be used instead to cover his end of life expenses.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
If he were caught in traffic gridlock yesterday afternoon, you
were not alone. One person died in a two vehicle
collision that closed the northbound lanes of the Trans Canada
Highway near Victoria that resulted in traffic for hours. As
Mary Griffin reports, it's one traffic jam too many for
local politicians working on solutions.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
It happened at two pm Thursday afternoon, just before afternoon
rush hour, a crash involving two vehicles in the northbound
lanes of the Trans Canada Highway near Helmkin Road.
Speaker 9 (04:19):
Yesterday, our Traffic Safety Unit and patrol officers responded to
a serious collision on the Trans Canada Highway and the
northbound lanes. Our preliminary information and findings have indicated that
the collision was a result of a medical event. One
of the occupants has died and the other received a
serious injury but is expected to make a full recovery.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Immediately, police investigators closed all northbound lanes, effectively cutting off
the main route out of the region and leading to
traffic gridlock that did not let up for hours.
Speaker 10 (04:53):
I was actually going to drop my daughter off. Normally,
typically a five minute ride which actually turned into a
fifty five minut drive going for for city blocks.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Avery Zuko found herself ensnared in traffic for a simple
errand she was frustrated at the lack of information.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
There was no real communication as to what was happening
or what routes to take, and we weren't moving and
then everybody's panicking and trying to u turn.
Speaker 8 (05:18):
This is what drivers faced on this map. Every road
is red inked, blocked.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
It really highlights how stock we are. I do worry
in the case of an emergency about having a lack
of options, and it's all the more reason that we
need to be building complete networks that really look to
empower people to make their own choices.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I know a lot of people who did get stuck,
people who reported hours long wait for what would otherwise
be a half hour or forty five minute trip. That's
a significant impact of people's day.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Sana chist Mayer says the creation of a new Capital
Regional District transportation service could lead in the near future
to better options for alleviating congestion throughout the entire region.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I think it demonstrates the need for full network planning
that as a region we exist as thirteen different municipalities
that up to this point we have been planning for
transportation largely in silos. We now have a regional transportation
service that allows us to set regional priorities to come
together to ensure that we're appropriately planning to get people
(06:27):
around across the region.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
The TransCanada Highway reopened to traffic after five o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
A twenty three year old man is facing an impaired
driving charge after a vehicle slammed into a telephone poll
on Gabriela Island earlier this summer. Our CMP releasing this
photo showing the mangled aftermath of the crash. It happened
back in July to about three in the morning on
South Road. Police said the vehicle was traveling at a
high rate of speed when it lost control. The driver
had non life threatening injuries, but showed signs of impairment
(07:00):
showed a level of alcohol twice the legal limit. A
woman out for an evening walk and Nanaimo got a
big surprise last night when she stumbled upon a sinkhole
that was big enough to swallow a car. She called
nine one one as the whole consumed the sidewalk before
her and part of Westwood Road. As sky Rhine reports,
it's being connected to the city's past. I think.
Speaker 12 (07:25):
Michael Gerard is trying to get a closer look at
the gaping sinkhole that has opened up in his Nanaimo
neighborhood on earthed a piece of his own family history.
Speaker 13 (07:35):
And I'm from like fourth generation Naimal mom, My grand
great parents and grandparents were minders.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So it's just interesting to see.
Speaker 12 (07:42):
You layers of dirt and concrete. Let go into the
cavernous space on Westwood Road on Thursday night after days
of heavy rain and revealed a long buried mine shaft
from this city's coal mining past, complete with timbers still
intact inside of it.
Speaker 13 (07:58):
The city of n as old historic coal mines spread
across it. So this is just one more of those instances.
We've actually had some previous instances similar to this in
this local area.
Speaker 12 (08:10):
According to neighbor cay Dian, a woman literally stumbled upon
it while she was out for a walk around eight
thirty pm Thursday and quickly called nine one one for
help after the hole swallowed up the sidewalk before her
and soon after parts of the road.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
It's very dangerous and that the thing is so lucky
because that's it's on the sidewalk, not on the road.
Because APIs on the road, the truck and car come over,
you know, they cannot man said it and then they
drop it off.
Speaker 13 (08:38):
You know, based on our records, we think this is
one of the entrances to the old mine shaft.
Speaker 12 (08:43):
Historic maps, so it would be an entrance to the
East Wellington Mine, a six hundred and fifty acre underground
of industry. The flooded enclosed in eighteen ninety three, but
its shafts remain as tunnels running from Westwood Road outward.
Speaker 14 (08:57):
As some time progressive city grow and you know, the
mining industry was a big part of this.
Speaker 15 (09:04):
Detours are now in place this crew's attempt to fill
the hole and make this area safe and warned that
it could be days before the one hundred block of
Westwood Road is reopened again.
Speaker 13 (09:14):
The next step is to identify where the hole is.
If we start putting material in and it just keeps
disappearing into the mine, that doesn't help anybody. So that's
what we're working on right now, is trying to identify
where the hole is and get that closed off and
then we can start building up from there.
Speaker 12 (09:29):
After, Nanaimo's past reopened before people's eyes, reminding everyone of
what this city is built on.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
The town of Kualakam Beach says it's received a generous
two million dollar donation to help buy the Eagle Crest
golf Course lands, though the town has still not made
a final decision on if they will buy the property
or not. This summer, the municipality is said it had
reached a conditional deal with the owners of the fifty
year old golf course to buy the more than one
hundred acre property the price tag of eight point five
(10:02):
million dollars. In order to fund the purchase, the town
plans to sell off about ten acres to develop into housing.
The town says this new donation improves its financial flexibility.
A public hearing on the potential land purchase is planned
for October the sixth. Good news for a future u
VIC students looking for on campus housing, the province announcing
five hundred new beds for upper year, undergraduate and graduate students.
(10:26):
According to uvik's online plans, the project includes a seventeen
story high rise with a seven story adjacent building, as
well as amenities like a student lounge, multipurpose space is
a community kitchen and secure storage for sports equipment and bikes.
The estimated price tag for the project is one hundred
and seventy eight million dollars. Construction is expected to start
in the spring. While the Tour Drac team are cycling
(10:49):
their final kilometers on this year's journey, and before the
team finishes the tour at the BC Legislature, the eighteen
riders pay a visit to us here at Check.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
Check.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Selan McKenzie read leading the team into the check parking
lot this afternoon with an ovation waiting for them along
with the bouquete flowers for McKenzie, who has been an
amazing representative for Check throughout this year's Tour de Rock.
We had quite a large group photo before the eighteen
writers set off again en route to the end of
their ride. And you two both know what an emotional
(11:29):
day this final day of the tour is. Guys, you're
joining us tonight for the big finale at the MC Legislature.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah, it never leaves you that feeling. Yeah, as funny
as they were coming in, we all just got kind
of chilled up a little bit. And it's emotional. It
is it has been a long time for both you
and me to ride the tour to rock, but it
is very emotional. Tomorrow is a bit of a weird
day for the writers because you feel a little bit lost.
But congratulations to all eighteen of them, the support crew.
(11:59):
Every per donated any amount of money to this year's
campaign because it is vital for the kids fighting cancer.
Have the kids at a ten camp good times?
Speaker 14 (12:07):
Yeah, Tony, our eighteen riders has mentioned, So they just
made their way about ten minutes ago in front of
the legs. They're getting introduced, getting to see their loved ones,
a lot of them for the first time in a
couple of weeks. Of saw a couple of little boys
waiting for their dad to arrive, which was pretty cool.
And you mentioned Mackenzie Reid who's just been a great
ambassador for Czech television and so her mom's here, gram
(12:32):
and gramp are here, her aunts here. And what's really
cool is two of her friends that she went to
broadcasting school with surprised her and they've got big signs
and they just arrived here as well. So McKenzie looked
out to see her friends out here, so yeah, extra yeah,
extra emotional.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
So that's good.
Speaker 14 (12:49):
And you know what, it's every single dime as mentioned
twenty eighth, you're going he had a total hopefully live
at about five forty. It's every single dime that counts.
And our friends Randy and Anita came through again this
year from Cuckoos.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Did they ever? How about that eighteen hundred dollars for
a mackenzie's campaign and of course will go into the
grand total here tonight. Actually this is surprise money, so
this will be over and above whatever the total is tonight.
So we thank Anita and Randy and all their great
sponsors and there is great.
Speaker 14 (13:18):
Supporters for a lot of years. Great thanks thanks to
everyone up and down Vancouver Island that's supported, you know
from lost poor hard all Alis always comes up huge
say words, you know, the small community is up north
Ladysmith with a huge total and a huge total last
night up at Bear Mountains. So everyone that's contributed, thank
(13:39):
you so much, and we're gonna get that total coming
up in a bit and talk to our own McKenzie ran.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
All right, guys, looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Thanks so much for see soon we will have more
from the Tour Direct Finale a little bit later in
the program, and.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
This and the way the world is right now, there's
no better time for Canada to have a team to
bring the country together.
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Toronto Blue Jays are set to make their Playoff debut,
and from coast to coast to coast, the country is
watching or on that story, I'm not.
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