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Battleford will soon be the home of another Oil Can Charlie’s location. At their May 17 meeting at Town Hall, Battleford council members heard from Jay Bottomley, owner of Oil Can Charlie’s in . . .
“Several years ago, and even as of last year, we have been approached by several residents requesting asphalt in the area,” Peter Bergquist, the City of Humboldt’s public works director, told council at their Feb. 22 meeting. The cost, estimated at $114,700 plus PST, would be paid 100 per cent by the property owners that would benefit from the paving through a process known as a local improvement. The city is proposing that those living on Landmark Place would benefit 100 per cent from the paving, while the properties that use Landmark Place as a back alley would benefit 50 per cent. The cost would be split among the property owners on that basis, with the city estimating those using the road as a primary access would pay around $7,600 each, while those using it as a back alley would pay around $3,800 each.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED / BCLC December 09, 2020 - 2:31 PM Coffee is great, but a Salmon Arm lottery winner now knows that you can t beat a coffee and $75,000. Nicholas Sayers went through his usual routine of picking up coffee and a few Scratch & Win tickets, but little did he know that he d just gotten a whole lot richer. Sayers bought the ticket from the Co-op Gas Bar on 10th Ave, NE, and was at home when he decided to scratch it, according to a BCLC media release. “I was on my last letter and I had three words,” Sayers said in the release. “I started to uncover more words and realized I had won. I checked it on the BCLC Lotto! app and thought ‘wow.’ It was all pretty exciting.”
Routine coffee run leads to lottery win for BC Interior man
A Salmon Arm man is eyeing a new car and golf clubs after a recent lottery win.
The life-changing win came after Nicholas Sayers went for his routine coffee run at the Co-op Gas Bar on 10th Ave NE in Salmon Arm. He got his coffee, but Sayers also decided to buy a Deluxe Crossword scratch & win ticket.
Once home, Sayers scratched the ticket and discovered that he had won a whopping $75,000.
“I was on my last letter and I had three words,” he explained. “I started to uncover more words and realized I had won.”