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CAROLLYNE HAYNES: WRITER

by Linda Tenney

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our years in the writing, "A Matter of Issue" is Carollyne Haynes' second novel published on the heels of her award-winning autobiography, "Raised by Committee".

Set in British Columbia, "A Matter of Issue" weaves a complex tale of greed and manipulation within a troubled Canadian family. Death, remarriage and a questionable birth add intrigue to the tangled generations of their family tree, with characters and interwoven back stories that will keep you reading from start to finish.

In our modern age of dynamic family relations that seem to change with the season, Carollyne puts to paper a fictional scenario that could quite conceivably be found in reality. I won't give away the family secrets from "A Matter of Issue", instead, I offer a slice of fractured family life to illustrate the dilemma. Say, for instance, your rich old Uncle Rocco dies with no direct heirs except you and your brother, and then a drug-addicted step-sister from your father's brief marital dalliance four decades ago turns up and wants her share. Imagine the complications. Carollyne's "A Matter of Issue" is even more intriguing than my fictional take on the scenario and throws light on a situation that's not very far from reality in many families today.

I admire the many local writers I've met recently, Carollyne among them. Our lively discussions generally gravitate to an all too common disquiet about idea generation, the need for muses, painful first drafts, hours and hours of editing and re-editing, and finally, publishing.

All writers have angst and all writers agree: writing is not a simple matter of sitting down in front of your computer and letting the words flow from your fingers as fast as they pop into your head. It just doesn't happen that way. Writing is a job. Writing is difficult.

Above all, to get a book written, writers persevere with uncommon resolve. Carollyne had some advice on the matter.

"I don't write everyday, and I write in blocks. When I'm writing, I'll clear my calendar for a minimum of six weeks. I don't want company coming, and I don't want to have to go anywhere," Carollyne tells me.

Writing is a solitary experience, and like any determined writer, Carollyne chipped out time and space for her novel to take shape. "I set up in my office at 9am and told my husband, Jim, unless the house is on fire, don't bother me, and he understood. "From nine until noon, I wrote and if I was on a roll, I'd keep

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"A Matter of Issue" by Carollyne Haynes. From the back cover: "When Charles, recently widowed, has a second chance at love, his son, Kirk, sees trouble on the horizon. Meanwhile, Charles's grandson Michael, learns of a family secret which threatens to undermine his very existence." Carollyne lives in Qualicum Beach and is currently working on her third novel. going. But as a minimum, I'd force myself to sit there and write for at least those first three hours."

"With A Matter of Issue, I just kept writing until I could finally say, yes, this is it. Then I handed it over to a girlfriend who teaches at Vancouver Island University to read. I said okay, read this and tell me if I should burn it or keep working on it."

Carollyne's 'editor' had some ideas, and while I won't give away any secrets, I will tell you that after the first read-though, Carollyne agreed she had "put a bow on it" and the ending was a little too tidy for the story's antagonist. "Life's not like that," she reminded me.

But you'll have to read the book to discover whether the proverbial bad guy skims through or whether he gets his comeuppance in the end. ~

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Look out world! Fiery Mars is in your sign this month boosting your energy and keeping lots of activity in your life. This is your chance to show the world what you can do. You will be much more of a fighter for your rights. This will be obvious to others because people notice you more than usual now. Note: They will also endorse what you want.

It will be easy to get the support of others. Because you look so good in the eyes of others, this is your hour!

Strike while the iron is hot!

This heightened appreciation will even apply to your surroundings. Admittedly, Mercury retrograde will be vicious with transportation delays, flat tires, breakdowns with cars and trucks, confused communications and late mail deliveries.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Time to review your spending habits and earnings after an extravagant, fun-loving summer!

Lucky Jupiter has favoured you in terms of money, especially earning money. Those born after Aug. 7 will a boost your earnings well into 2017. Retrograde Mercury means cheques in the mail will be late along with other payments due you. Grrrr. Whatever ideas you have recently hatched to boost your income will now be reinvigorated with energy. Time to finish this and move on!

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The Sun is in your sign along with Mercury, Venus and lucky Jupiter. Make the most of this good fortune! With the Sun in your sign, it will enhance even further the opportunities that the other planets attract your way. This is a great time to buy wardrobe goodies. You want to look good when you run into ex-partners and old friends from your past. Continue to cope with increased activity on the home front because you have no choice. This is a fortunate month for you!

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your style of communicating is aggressive this month because of the placement of fiery Mars in your chart. This means you are direct and forthright. You will say what you mean and mean what you say. This is empowering to those of you who write, edit, act, teach, sell and market. Ironically, four other planets are hiding in your chart, waiting to make their debut in your sign. Until then, maintain a low profile and work alone or behind the scenes.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Get ready for a popular month!

Four planets will energize your ability to schmooze, make new friends, enjoy existing friends and run into old friends you haven’t heard from in ages. You will also benefit through clubs and groups. In particular, you will hang out with younger people as well as creative, artistic types. So much to look forward to! Could this be why you are spending money more than usual? Maybe. Ka-ching!

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You need to blow town and get a change of scenery. This back-to-school syndrome makes you restless. You want one more kick at the can to do something exciting and adventurous. “I’m not done yet!” Therefore, grab travel opportunities and chances for further schooling or training. Explore avenues in publishing, the media, medicine and the law. You will appreciate anything that expands your experience of life this month. “Hello world!”

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) This back-to-school syndrome suits you perfectly because you want to clean up loose details in your life, especially unfinished business regarding taxes, debt, inheritances and shared property. Maybe it’s time to write a will? All those redtape details that we often ignore can be easily dealt with addressed in the next month. Let your motto be “Finish old business!” Think of how good you will feel knowing you have completed some of these tasks.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) This month you need more sleep. Nevertheless, during this time, you will focus on partnerships and friendships more than usual as well.

In fact, you have a chance to learn more about yourself through your one-to-one encounters with others. This is also be a good time to form working units with others.

It’s not a time to go it alone. Consult experts or get other people’s opinions. Fiery Mars is at the top of your chart arousing your ambition. Join forces with someone to be really productive! ~

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TO FRAME AND TO REFRAME… AND THE DIFFERENCE THAT MAKES

by Joanne Sales

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n a novel by Anne Lamott, Crooked Little Heart, a strange, unkempt man keeps showing up at a 14-year-old girl’s tennis matches, and it spooks the family out. He just watches.

The girl was not supposed to talk to this man, but she does. At a critical moment, when her life is really falling apart, the strange man at the tennis match tells her, “Frame it. Frame the ball on your side as it comes over the net, then frame it on hers. Slow it down. Track it through a frame as it comes back to you.” Click on it like a camera. It worked.

When the girl tells her mother that she had talked to the man, the mother was distraught. The daughter protested.

“Can’t you even hear how great what he said was? How much it changes everything for me?”

I don’t play tennis but I was able to get the feeling for the positive change it could bring about - consciously putting edges around the ball as it comes, like a movie camera frame.

The frame separates us just enough from it to give us some control. Time slows down just a little. The ball that is flying at us has a context and edges.

We can place it in space.

“Frame it.” I liked the idea.

Frame and Reframe. They are similar but not the same thing. With framing, we put a frame around something as we see it. When we are reframing, we change the frame.

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Reframing is a term of cognitive psychology. Quite simply, to reframe is to look again from a different perspective. To shift the lens. It’s a creative process, something we do all the time, but also a skill we can develop.

The first time I grasped the significance of reframing was in relation to a pregnant woman. A document said, “The growing fetus robs calcium from the mother’s bones.” That was certainly a menacing way to look at it. The reframing suggestion was something like this: “The mother gives calcium to her developing child, even at the expense of her own bones.” Reframing is just changing the lens, not the facts. Which feels better?

The ability to reframe is one of the miracles of being human. We can stand outside the frame, and move it around. Reframing refers to a change of perspective on our part that can make things feel better more positive, hopeful, forgivable or interesting.

We are creating frames for what we see, hear, and experience all day long, and most of the time, we don’t even think about it. The problem is when we assume we are looking at the world with the only proper set of lenses. Then we get stuck. The truth is, most of the time, the way we view

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most things is quite arbitrary, and we have countless choices available to us.

We know from photography that our photos change when we zoom in closer, shift to the left, stand on a chair, kneel down, shake or turn on the lights. The same thing happens when we change our point of view.

It is up to our imagination to see the alternatives.

I took a group of young women to the ocean in Parksville one afternoon during a really low tide in midAugust. Tessa put her backpack down on the “dry” beach and went out into the water. She had no idea how quickly the tide would come in.

When she looked back a few minutes later, her backpack and new iPhone 6 were floating in the rising tide.

Disaster! She put her cell phone in rice in the refrigerator. The good news was that her photos and contacts had automatically saved to another device.

The bad news was the phone was dead.

A few hours later, however, we got to see a bigger picture. “I have a black cloud following me around about cell phones,” Tessa said. “The first time,” she said, “my uncle pushed up on the hatch of a boat and my backpack and cell phone went flying into the ocean.”

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“You mean this happened before?” we asked. “Oh yes. And another time, my phone fell into the toilet, just after I flushed it. I keep drowning cell phones!” she laughed.

an average of 85% of the time! When “flock sourcing” the group accuracy climbed to 99 percent, which is what would be expected from a pathologist.

That’s amazing!

Laughing didn’t bring back the phone, but it changed her experience.

She reframed her losses, laughed, and moved on. It is unlikely that she will drown more phones. More than any of the rest of us, she will be on the lookout for rising tides.

It turns out that those rats with wings are amazingly gifted with skills of pattern recognition. What else do pigeons know about us? I will never enter my granddaughter’s pigeon house with my previous indifference.

I’ve been re-framed!

How we frame the world is influenced by our culture and circumstances, by the ideologies we have adopted, and by practices and habits. We’re always framing, mostly unconsciously. Coffee drinkers will tell us that there is a big difference between their “before coffee” and “after coffee” world view.

And the now popular word “hangry” expresses so clearly something that parents have known for ages: hungry & angry = hangry. Look for food quick!

ust as the young tennis player did, we can put a frame around a piece of our lives, and change it as we wish.

I decided to frame dinner.

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Every household I visited as a child said some kind of grace before their meal - some kind of thank you for the food miracle. It’s rare now. We did a bad reframe. We forgot the ritual.

Aspects of it became uncomfortable, so we did what the old cliche warns us against - we threw out the baby with the bathwater.

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ometimes our frame changes because of new information. Are you ready for a reframe?

A young German woman said that it was sad that we don’t have a phrase like Guten Appetit, which means “enjoy your meal.” To wish well to those who share your meal is a good practice, but it still doesn’t take the place of thank you.

I took a photography class in University. I shared bunches of photos of the old, rather rundown farmhouse where I lived with my mother. “It looks like nobody lives there,” the teacher commented. “You mean because of the pigeons that live on the air conditioner and the pigeon droppings on the pet tomb stone beneath?” I asked. Pigeons are often called rats with wings. As a society, we don’t like them.

Stopping before a meal and saying thank you reframes the whole experience of eating. A salad or potato is a gift of many people (farmers, truck drivers, plumbers, store clerks, and more), as well as a patch of earth, microbes, seeds, sun rays and rain. We are recipients of hard work, rhythms of nature and miracles, every time we take a bite. Once there was nothing and then there was a bowl of vegetable soup with fresh green beans from the garden. That certainly deserves some recognition. Reframing that changes us, at least 3 times a day.

But listen to this. Scientific American reported on a study of 16 pigeons who were trained to detect cancer. When the pigeons were presented with magnified biopsies of possible breast cancer, the trained pigeons were able to correctly identify a growth as benign or malignant by pecking on a touchscreen. They were correct

In Japan, they say “itadakimasu” before eating, a polite phrase meaning “I humbly receive” which implies gratitude and humility.

In the same spirit, we would be justified in adopting a ritual of some equivalent of this statement, “I don’t know where I came from, or where I’m going. There is a Great Mystery.

Amen.” That certainly reframes the whole story.

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e all know people who have lost the art of reframing. They hold fast to their opinions, come hell or high water. It makes it difficult to live, or live with that person. But in sympathy for all of us, these are difficult times, and we’re called on to change faster than we want to, or know how to.

Even still, we have a choice of frames.

Most of us have tried out a few, including many frames that bring little happiness - such views as “It’s hopeless, it’s their fault, it’s my fault; someone else will fix it; I’m suppose to fix it.”

So I liked the reframe I heard recently, “I’m just here to be helpful.” It removes the angst of trying to fix it all but also gives us something useful to do. It slows down the tennis ball that is racing towards us, just enough to let us ground ourselves and figure out our response.

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ne of the great things about drama is that we get used to the idea of characters being “played” by someone else. We watch the arbitrary, imaginary characters, and we know that there are lots of ways to play the part. Characters come on and off stage. We can say that about ourselves as well. We weren’t on stage, and then we were, and there are lots of ways to play our part.

That freedom is a good way to enter this new “school” year. ~

Joanne Sales is a freelance writer, blueberry farmer, and offers workshops in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), and the fine art of brewing Kombucha. Comments and questions about her articles and/or upcoming workshops can be directed to joanne@glasswing.com.

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The image in this particular illustration drawn by Yvonne Maximchuk includes Billy’s Museum in the Broughton Archipeligo. The artist says: “Billy Proctor’s fishing boat, Ocean Dance, and his speedboat and mine are tied to the floating dock. The boat sheds, gas cans, pike pole, crab trap and rowboat are the norm on a dock like this. Uncommon though is the neatness of Billy’s dock!”

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Regarding “Artist’s licence,” Maximchuk says: “Claim your right to be expressive when you no longer seek the approval of others.”

Besides “hours of colouring fun,” as the book cover proclaims, there is wisdom and support from a talented teacher.

The illustrations are printed with perforated pages on highquality paper which is a receptive foundation for various media from pencil crayons and pastels to felt markers. On the back cover, you’ll find a colour wheel that offers inspiration for colouring choices.

As well as “unwinding,” readers can discover British Columbia’s coast: the floathouses and boats, grizzlies and whales, wildflower gardens and totems, misty vistas and undersea creatures. One illustration is of “Grizzlies of Knight Inlet” where thousands of visitors watch them eat their fill of pink salmon spawning in the channel.

Undersea photography inspired Maximchuk’s drawing called “Undersea Garden.” She reminds readers of the “vivid red, green and purple sea urchins, orange sea stars and turquoise anemones” found there.

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Yvonne Maximchuk has had various occupations as painter, potter, teacher, fisher and author as well as pioneer, living off the grid, in Echo Bay, BC. She is most happy at the drawing board.

She says these drawings may be “a starting point on your creative pathway.” If she missed a line where readers think one belongs, “just draw it in,” she says.

This colouring book is a wonderful way to learn about the BC coast. It’s full of delightful illustrations and stories in celebration of the place and its inhabitants of all kinds. It encourages creative expression without judgment as well as a shared family activity.

Colour the British Columbia Coast

by Yvonne Maximchuk (Harbour Publishing, 2016) Ask for it at your local bookseller!

Mary Ann Moore is a poet, writer and writing mentor based in Nanaimo. She writes a blog at www.apoetsnanaimo.ca

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A MURAL FOR VILLAGE THEATRE IN QUALICUM BEACH

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n 2010 Village Theatre in Qualicum Beach was designated as a Heritage Building by the Town of Qualicum Beach. To preserve and continue improvements and maintenance on the building an Arts Fund was formed last spring. One of the first recommendations made was to have a full-colour mural painted on the large west wall of the building. The mural will creatively depict local actors in

theatrical settings. This is to be painted by the celebrated artist David Goatley.

It is anticipated that we will have an official unveiling on July 1st, 2017 – the 150th Celebration of Confederation. For more information on the ECHO Arts Fund and the mural check www.echoplayers.ca.

Based at the Village Theatre in Qualicum Beach, ECHO Players is a community theatre society which has served Oceanside and beyond for over 40 years. ~ submitted

ECHO Players opens it’s 2016/17 season with The Cocktail Hour by A. R. Gurney. John, an aspiring playwright comes home from New York to seek his family’s blessing for a play he has written, based on their lives. John’s parents and his sister, have quite different views of themselves and a lively discussion ensues during the family’s customary cocktail hour. Old coals are raked over, and old scores settled, but with Gurney’s usual wit and humour, family ties and warmth prevail.

The Cocktail Hour opens on October 13th and runs till October 30th. The ECHO box office opens on Tuesday, September 27th. For tickets or further information call 250-752-3522 or e-mail info@echoplayers.ca.

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SERVICES OFFERED / NEEDED THE FIX-IT SHOP – Repairs to all makes and models of lawnmowers and ride on lawn tractors, including John Deere. Pick-up and delivery available. Used equipment for sale. Call (250) 702-2191 or email fixitshop009@gmail.com

WORKSHOPS / CLASSES

MIKE COCHRANE Renovations & Maintenance Inside or Outside – Big or Small Give us a call 250-240-4120 (cell) 250-248-2789 (home) mikecochrane@shaw.ca mikesrenos.com

LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS GROUP Needs your volunteer help! FMI Call: Val Weismiller: (250) 757-9667.

CAREGIVER NEEDED - Looking for a caregiver for our 2 children (2 & 6 yrs old) - $11.50/hr, 40 hrs/week, optional free accommodation.

Large dog at house. 250-240-8119

Loving & reliable care of your kitties while you’re away. Specializing in spoiling felines! Fully insured, bonded & experienced. Servicing Dashwood to Fanny Bay. Excellent references. www.thecatsmeowcatsitting.com (250) 457-0998.

FIRST 25 WORDS $10+GST

Mapping Your Spiritual Journey

circles of writing, connection and renewal Honour your spiritual journey through journaling & visual exploration, with poet, writer and writing mentor Mary Ann Moore.

VICTORIA Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nourish Café NANAIMO Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bethlehem Centre

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$125 each (lunch is included in Nanaimo) For further information and to register, please contact Mary Ann at: creativity@maryannmoore.ca 250-729-2630

Email: classified@eyesonbc.com

Visit www.maryannmoore.ca

Phone: 250-757-9914

storyteller.marva@shaw.ca OR 250-594-3221 OR www.wordweaver.info/workshops

EFT - EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE WORKSHOPS - Learn how this effective technique can help you find your way to better emotional health.

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Don’t delay. The last workshop sold out.

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KOMBUCHA - Make Your Own Kombucha Workshops offered in Coombs by Joanne Sales who has been making Kombucha for over 20 years. Contact Joanne for more information about both these workshops. joanne@glasswing. com www.islandhealing.ca

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ELEMENTARY EDUCATION This poem comes from a winter day when I was fly-fishing for cutthroat trout at Grice Bay near Tofino. A sea-otter kept popping up and looking at me. I wasn't doing too well--after missing a take, I knew I should modify my fly, but I was too cold and lazy to do so. When I missed another, I sensed the otter's disdain.

About this Poem ...

This poem has four stanzas each consisting of four fivebeat (pentameter) lines and a two-beat (dimeter) closing line. The basic meter is da-DA (iambic), e.g. it's COLD. wind SWEEPS these ISlands, SEA to PEAK, The first four lines have an abab rhyme-scheme. The closing line repeats for three stanzas then changes slightly for a fitting conclusion.

It's cold. Wind sweeps these islands, sea to peak, across their stiffened fur of frosted trees; as chill seeps down my leg—my waders leak— my upwind, ungloved hand begins to freeze.

And there's the otter.

He disappears. A pluck! The fish has fled.

At last my smolt-like fly aroused attack, a snap that hit behind the hook. Instead of blaming karma I should clip it back.

And there's the otter.

He takes a breather, flips, and slips beneath the chop, whose whitecaps scrabble at my waist yip-yapping that, with lethal claws and teeth, he’s captured almost every fish he's chased.

Again the otter.

A splash. A school of cutthroat trout? A pull.

My line goes slack. I knew that fly would fail.

The master glares: Attend your inner school, duck-dives, and ends the lesson with his tail.

And there's the water.

John Beaton lives in Qualicum Beach. His poetry has been widely published. He served for four years as moderator of one of the Internet’s most reputable poetry workshops and is a Spoken Word performer, a member of the band Celtic Chaos, and a co-organizer of local events, including a community showcase for musicians and Spoken Word performers, the Qualicum Acoustic Café (QUAC). You can find samples of John’s work by searching online for “John Beaton poetry”. To receive a monthly newsletter about local community events organized by John and his family and friends, email him at jabeaton@gmail.com. ~ 1 8

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by Patricia Banks, Artist/Writer

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Educators and scientists agree: Allan Bloom said that "education is the movement from darkness to light". I recently heard David Suzuki lament that the environmental movement, so fervently embraced in the 1960's and 70's, had failed. Randy White, articulately wrote that due to a myriad of both real and imagined fears, our "society has become so estranged from its natural origins, it has failed to recognize our species' basic dependence on nature as a condition of growth and development.” His numerous well documented references show "the natural environment has positive effects on the well-being of adults (and children), including better psychological wellbeing, superior cognitive functioning, fewer physical ailments and speedier recovery from illness." If children are allowed time to play, explore and learn first-hand about the natural world, they will develop their love for it.

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$3.25 for youth. Free entry to children 12 and under accompanied by an adult, Milner Gardens members and current VIU students with card. Milner Gardens members only early access from 5 to 7pm Friday Sep 23rd. Membership card required for entry to the early access sale.

Lighthouse Country & beyond LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE (LCC) 240 Lions Way, Qualicum Bay. SECOND SUNDAY MARKET at the Lighthouse Community Centre in Qualicum Bay – Sunday September 11th - 8am-1pm, Pancake Breakfast - $6 or $8. Enjoy live music, breakfast, shopping for a treasure, or even a few chickens for your coop!

Members of the Qualicum Bay Lions Club will be serving up breakfast this month.

SECOND SUNDAY MARKET- would you like to be a vendor? We encourage artisans, farmers and crafters. We supply tables and chairs FMI: visit https://sites.google.com/ site/lighthousecommunityhall/pancakebreakfast, leave a message at 778-424-9900 or email king7will@yahoo.com At the Lighthouse Community Centre LIGHTHOUSE BADMINTON, PICKLEBALL, AND TABLE TENNIS on Mondays at 7pm, starting Monday Sept 19th. PICKLEBALL and TABLE TENNIS on Thursdays at 7pm, starting Thursday Sept. 22nd. Times may change. $4 drop-in fee. Beginners welcome. Equipment provided. Players 15+ years. Info-ph. 250757-8307 steelehunt@shaw.ca

BRIDGE – Nordin Room 1-4pm Fridays at the LCC. FMI Sheila Steele 250-757-8307.

FOR MORE ACTIVITIES AT THE LCC, VISIT WWW.COMMUNITYHALL.CA

LIONS RECREATION HALL (LRH) 280 Lions Way, Qualicum Bay. QUALICUM BAY LIONS CLUB – Meet at 7pm, every second and fourth Tuesday in the Lions Den at the Lions’ Rec Hall.

Let's FLOOR CURL! Join our floor curling club for winter fun and friendship! We play September to May on Mondays and Fridays, 1-3pm at the Lions Rec Hall in lovely Qualicum Bay. No equipment is needed, curling rocks are supplied, and floor curling is affordable, easy to play and great for all ages and capabilities. Our Club is "55+ Seniors Games" eligible. FMI call Fred or Lorraine at 250-752-0216.

AT MAGNOLIA COURT, BOWSER

LIGHTHOUSE SENIORS – Branch 152 – meet at 11:30am in the Seniors Room at the Lighthouse Community Centre on the first Monday of every month. For more information, please call Joan at 250-7579536.

BOWSER'S MAGNOLIA COURT SUMMER MARKET - Wednesdays 5:30-7pm until September 14 - Food, Music and fantastic vendors.

TAOIST™ TAI CHI - Mondays 9:30-noon at the Lighthouse Community Centre in Qualicum Bay. Wednesdays to May 2017, 10:45-12:15, at the OAP Hall in Fanny Bay. Contact: Richard 250-752-1231.

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LIGHTHOUSE SPINNERS – Bring your Spinning Wheels and fibre and meet the Lighthouse Spinners at the LCC, Tuesdays at 10:30am. FMI Call 778-424-1001.

CARPET BOWLING – 12:45 to 3pm at the LCC. FMI Call Layne (250) 757-8217.

AA LIGHTKEEPERS - Fridays at 7pm at the LCC. FMI contact (250) 757-2300.

VIU’S MILNER GARDENS & WOODLAND FALL PLANT SALE - 10am to 4pm. Take home a piece of this Heritage Garden, choosing from a variety of propagated specimens. Great discounts; come early for best selection! Master Gardeners will be on hand to offer advice. Enjoy tea, soup and scones in the Tea Room.

Garden admission is $5.25 for adults and CONTINUED...

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QUALICUM BEACH FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 7pm at the Qualicum Legion. Guest speaker will be Steve Cowan, with Heraldry; symbols of History and Heritage, the history and development of coats of arms and their use in Canada. Guests welcome.

The QUALICUM BEACH FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY presents: “Family Connections – Finding Your Ancestors”, providing one-on-one sessions to members of the general public, to assist them in finding information about their ancestors. If you are starting a Family History search, this is a way to gain more knowledge and information through professional help, and perhaps discover some new ancestors. Location is the Parksville Library, September 24, from 1pm to 4pm.

Qualicum Beach Senior's Centre is holding their 3RD ANNUAL MEMBERS GARAGE SALE. When: September 10, 2016 - Time: 8AM to 12:30PM. Where: Qualicum Beach Senior's Activities Centre 701 Memorial Ave. What's There: more than 15 tables, silent auction and other draws and refreshments. Something For Everyone.

More information call 250-752-0420 or 250-752-5586 The PARKSVILLE & DISTRICT COMMUNITY CHOIR registration and first rehearsal: Tuesday September 6th, 7 pm - 9 pm at Knox United Church, 345 Pym St. Parksville. We will be preparing "Bach's Christmas Oratorio" for our December Concert. New members welcome. No auditons .Annual fee $ 90.

FMI call 250-752-8130.

HAPPY WANDERERS’ TRAVEL CLUB meets at the Shelley Road Hall (Parksville) on Wednesday, September 28/16. Travel desk opens at 1:30; regular meeting begins at 2:00. New members welcome. Please bring your own coffee mug or tea cup.

The EAGLECREST GARDEN CLUB meets on Wednesday, September 21st, 2016, at 7:00pm. Qualicum Beach Civic Centre. All welcome. Non-members: $3.

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WHAT’S ON — AUGUST 2016

250-757-9222 • website: www.rcl211.ca • email: rcl211@shaw.ca Hall Rentals 250-757-9222 • Tue and Fri 9am - 12 noon Saturday September 3 Lighthouse Country Fall Fair: Ladies Auxiliary Pie Sale and the 211 Branch membership drive.

Saturday September 17 Giant Meat Draw and LA supper - 4:30 pm Sunday September 18 Branch and Ladies Auxiliary Honours and Awards Branch open at 12:00 noon and the ceremony starts at 1pm. Years of Service pins and Executive Medals being presented, come and enjoy the event with those being honored. LA serving a light snack.

TEXAS HOLD’EM Thursday............................................................. 7:00pm DARTS Friday.................................................................. 7:00pm HORSESHOES Sunday................................................................ 1:00pm

Meat Draws - Every Friday at 5:00 p.m. & Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ** MEMBERS, GUESTS & PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS ALWAYS WELCOME ** Closed Sunday & Monday (unless an Event is scheduled) S E P T E M B E R

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JENN WILLIAMSON JENN WILLIAMSON is an abstract, impressionist painter. Rather than creating a literal image she seeks to capture a feeling or experience, allowing the viewer to discover something personal and meaningful to them. Her work has been described as distinct, serene and subtle to bold and compelling. Recent exhibits at Artexpo New York, Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby and Hycroft Gallery, Vancouver. Jenn is also pleased to conduct a two-day workshop, “Intuitive Painting – Finding Your Voice” on September 11 & 12, 2016 – please visit our MAC website for more information.

DEBRA KUZBIK DEBRA KUZBIK presents “A New York State of Mind” – mixed media photography. “Since 1999, I have travelled to New York City every year or two. The energy, vibrancy, art and diversity of the city resonate deeply with me. I also like the grit, the grunge and the edgy street life. Like plugging into a giant socket, New York recharges my creative batteries every time I visit.

For this exhibition, I decided to combine photographic transfer with abstract acrylic painted backgrounds in an attempt to portray the contemporary urban experience that is New York City.”

For more information on these and other actitivies at the MAC (133 McMillan Street, Parksville), visit our website @ www.mcmillanartscentre.com

NANCY DAY GROUP NANCY DAY GROUP SHOW: “Tertiary Colours”, A Celebration of Summer – exhibit is blooming with colour and energy that is summer.

OPENING EXHIBIT RECEPTION: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1-3PM

DISCOVER LIGHTHOUSE COUNTRY Deep Bay - Bowser - Qualicum Bay Horne Lake - Spider Lake

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