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Pole problem causes East Shore outage

By Greg Nesteroff

June 8, 2018

Power should be restored to the east shore of Kootenay Lake around 3 p.m. today.

Fortis BC spokesman Sean Beardow says there was a problem with one of the poles.

Beardow says they don’t know what damaged the pole.

About 500 customers are without power from Oliver Road in Gray Creek to Hall Road south of Destiny Bay.

Greg Nesteroff

Greg has been working in West Kootenay news media off and on since 1998. When he's not on the air, he's busy writing about local history. He'll soon publish a book about the man who founded the ghost town of Sandon.

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