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June 2015 vol 11 issue 06

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ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT, OUTDOORS Cycletopia: Denman Island Home & Garden Show Tide Table Poet’s Corner: John Beaton’s “Westcoast Paintbrush” Qualicum Beach Day

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15 From the Desk of Area H RDN Director, Bill Veenhof 21 Inspired by Community

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In the Stars: Georgia Nicols Horoscope Classifieds Community Events At Your Service - Local Services & Trades

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Showcasing our community since 2004 Main Email: info@eyesonbc.com Phone: 250-757-9914 Mailing Address EyesOnBC Magazine, Box 182, Bowser, BC V0R 1G0 Hours: Mon - Thu 10-4 Our Contributors this month: David Morrison, Georgia Nicols, Joanne Sales, Bill Veenhof, Linda Tenney, John Beaton On the Internet www.eyesonbc.com & www.facebook.com/eyesonbc

y Dad always said, "When you choose your life's work, choose something you love to do, and make sure it involves food. No matter what, people have to eat!"

Great advice. Words of wisdom.

Kicking off our growing season, we celebrate two Vancouver Island farmers and the food they grow.

Writer David Morrison digs into the lives of Barbara and Lorne Ebell of Nanoose Edibles; two farmers dedicated to supplying the best certified organic vegetables, fruits and eggs they possibly can. That precious bounty is found at their own on-site farm market, often at one or two of our weekly farmers' markets, and some of it even makes its way into the kitchens of savvy restaurants featuring organic and locally grown food. Forks up! The feast starts on pg. 7.

Then we take a peek into the lives of a few young people travelling the world as World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms volunteers. This spring, a few international WWOOF'ers spent time working with Joanne Sales at Good Nature Farms in Coombs.

Follow along as she teaches them a bit about farming, spirituality and why stepping back to look at the big picture is an important part of meaningful living.

Joanne's insightful article starts on pg. 10.

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Continuing with our 'green' and 'good-living' theme, you may want to tune up your bicycle and mark "Cycletopia" on your calendar. What's that? It's the Denman Island Home & Garden Show's special event for cyclists touring the Island during the Show on June 13 and 14. Stop and smell the roses ... event information starts on page 13.

Cover Shot: `Market Fresh`- Linda Tenney

Flip through and savour this month's edition. We don't only grow food here, we grow community!

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NANOOSE EDIBLES FARM:

by David Morrison

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t the tail-end of my high school years with the world of work looming on the horizon, I remember a lad named Mervyn voicing a strong desire to become a farmer.

Mervyn’s professional ambition saw him mercilessly mocked, because rather than aim to be a soccer player, guitar hero or fighter pilot, he wanted to grow vegetables and tend livestock.

A distinctly un-rock ‘n’ roll, ridiculous way for a man to make a living, we superior mockers thought!

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been attempting to grow my own vegetables in a modest plot occupying 75 sq. ft. At the end of a day turning over the earth, weeding or sowing seeds, every muscle aches like billy-o, and my thoughts unavoidably turn to those that do this, or similar, for a living. As I soothe away my aches in a steaming tub of bath salts, I have often wondered if Mervyn fulfilled his dreams, envisaging his days if he did, and I ponder how easy it is to give little thought to how food ends up on our dinner table.

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dusk days are – to say the very least – hugely physically demanding, rife with challenges from the unpredictability of the weather to the frustrations of machinery malfunctions, and much more. I am certain such a life would do me in, so imagine how rugged a person must be to continue farming deep into their ninth decade on earth!

To this end, meet Lorne and Barbara Ebell, the extraordinary octogenarians at the helm of Nanoose Edibles Farm.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Siblings and relatives from your past have been coming out of the woodwork lately, which is one reason the tempo of your life is moving fast this month.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) Your focus on money and possessions is strong this month. Meanwhile, retrograde Mercury will still create glitches, delays and late payments. For example, cheques in the mail will be late. However, this same Mercury retrograde will help you finish old business related to financial matters that have been lingering. You will also feel passionately about something now, perhaps connected with siblings and relatives. Continue to look for ways to benefit from real estate or to improve your home.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) The Sun is in your sign this month boosting your energy and attracting important people and favourable circumstances to you. Yes! It’s your turn to do your thing! However, retrograde Mercury draws ex-partners back into your life or old business related to ex-partners. You have strong feelings about some kind of financial issue. Fortunately, optimism and hope come easily to you. Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) This month you’re keeping everything on the low low because both the Sun and retrograde Mercury are “hiding” in your chart. This will help you with research of any kind. However, this is a great time to buy wardrobe goodies because you like what you see in the mirror.

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) This is a popular month. Enjoy seeing others, especially younger people, some of whom are from your past. This is a good month to think about goals. Where do you want to be a year from now? What should you do to begin to go in that direction? You are creative sign but many of you are so caught up in the demands of life, you forget how to express your creative talents. In the next two years, you will make more money. Think about how you want to do that, so that you are steering this process. Ideas?

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) This month the Sun is at the top of your chart casting a flattering spotlight on you. This is why others are impressed with you, asking you to take on increased responsibilities or do something special. Say yes because you don’t have to do anything to dazzle them. (Good lighting is everything.) Enjoy this high viz. month, which is really a subtle preparation for something wonderful to come. Get ready for one of the luckiest years of your life which will begin in August!

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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) This month, you want to travel because you’re eager for adventure and a chance to learn something new. Unfortunately, retrograde Mercury will play havoc with your travel plans. You can travel somewhere new and expect delays, snafus, cancellations and errors – but hey, you’re someplace new and exciting! Or you can travel someplace you’ve already been before. Traditionally, this works easier with a Mercury retrograde situation. The open road is yours. Of course, sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) This is an intense month because the Sun is in the “home” of Scorpio, which means every issue you deal with will be intense and black-and-white. Retrograde Mercury is in your “home” as well, causing confusion and delays. Fortunately, it will also help you finish details regarding inheritances, taxes, debt and shared property. Use this energy to swiftly facilitate this. You might feel obsessed about travelling somewhere. Hmmm, no halfway measures here.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The Sun is opposite your sign this month, which means it’s as far away from you as it ever gets. Since the Sun is your source of energy – you will need more sleep. (Go to bed.) Retrograde Mercury will still stir up contact with ex-partners and old friends. This could be useful for closure or clarification about old issues, especially inheritances or shared property. Continue to look for opportunities to travel or explore publishing, the media, medicine the law and higher education.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) This month you will do everything in your power to get better organized both at home and at work. However, your desire to get better organized will be hampered by retrograde Mercury, which will trigger misplaced papers, confused communications, transportation delays and silly, goofy mistakes. Maddening, yes – but no job is too small to botch. Meanwhile, look for ways to improve your health. Examine your diet. What about exercise? (To me, outdoors is where the car is.)

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Lucky you! A lovely, playful month ahead awaits. Admittedly, many of you will encounter old flames from the past; and you will be forced to deal with glitches and cancellations regarding social occasions. Nevertheless, this is still a great time for vacations, parties, the arts, movies, sports events, playful times with children and yes, romance, romance, romance.

Grab every chance to express your artistic talents. Just the doing of it is what will please you because we are verbs not nouns.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Home, family and your domestic world are your top priority this month. And to add further to this, relatives and family you haven’t seen for a while are camped on your doorstep. (Always put your mother-in-law in a good hotel.) Or perhaps, you will visit your parents or a childhood home? Many of you will focus on home repairs now as well. Nevertheless, there is always room for dreamy romance in the life of a Pisces, isn’t there?

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into this problem before. Sometimes I say, “This job is worth 15 minutes.

I’m not telling you that to make you go faster, but to give you a sense of how much detail makes sense at this point.”

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earning to work on the farm is not so much about learning to use the tools - although jumping on the shovel is an art! It is more about figuring out focus and depth. You can never finish everything, so you need to make choices. You can’t perfect everything, so you start with broad strokes and see where you end up.

The young woman from Canada is about to enter a fine arts masters program. “When you have a canvas, first you do the broad strokes. Right? That is what we need to do in this field first. The broad strokes. And use the big brush – the shovel!” They got it.

We have young international visitors on our farm. The group in May was from Germany, England, Spain, Australia and Canada. One morning, there we stood: six young people who hadn’t farmed before and a 20’ x 20’ patch of ground covered with clumps of grass, buttercup, and nameless weeds. I gave them tools, basic instructions and went away for an hour. When I came back, I saw that they were sitting on their butts and working in one small corner with hand tools. The six of them combined had worked their way no more than 6 inches into the field.

It is a life skill to know when to zoom in on the details, and when to zoom back out to see the big picture. That’s true in farming, and certainly true in the art of meaningful living!

That evening, we sat around a table outside with the young travelers. We said grace as a form of thank you before we ate, as we always do.

In response to that practice, unfamiliar to most of them, a young man from Australia said that most young people in his generation were not interested in religion. But in his next breath, he added something else. “We’re also frustrated because everything is so superficial.”

I tried to explain the importance of focusing on the big picture. Look at the whole field, and figure out your strategy.

First do the rough work, dig up the big clumps, shake out the top soil. Use your tools! Don’t get lost in the minutia – not yet.

I realized that we were still working on the same topic we had dealt with in the garden – depth of focus. Shall I zoom in or zoom out?

One young woman from Germany was annoyed with me. It seemed that I was asking them to do a bad job. I’ve run

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It is not an accident that these young people find the world to be “superficial.”

Very intelligent people are spending their lives, and making lots of money, contriving ways to keep us on the surface of life. If we wake up, we won’t be very good shoppers.

But we can’t just blame our superficiality solely on advertising geniuses. Getting stuck on the surface of life has been a problem since the beginning of time.

I remember looking into my newborn granddaughter’s eyes. She was staring right at me, but her eyes were totally unfocused. Maybe she was seeing everything at once – maybe she was seeing nothing.

Slowly a newborn develops the ability to focus. As she does, the unified world is broken down into pieces and the pieces are named. Particulars are born.

Differences are noted and emphasized.

In seven years, my granddaughter, like all children, has learned thousands of words. We are each like Adam in the Garden of Eden (minus the bliss), looking upon the material world and giving everything a name. Humans are namers. We name things.

It’s good. It’s necessary. Words are awesome! But after the world becomes a carnival of particulars, how do we get back to the Garden of Eden, or at least CONTINUED NEXT PAGE

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to the remembrance of the Oneness that we broke up into pieces?

angered and depressed these young people.

In our education system, the person who knows the most names wins. The system is designed for differentiation. In recent years, the curriculum has become much more vocationally focused than the liberal arts education of years past.

Traditionally arts, drama and music could point to realms of experience for which there are not words, but in recent decades, the arts have been deemphasized and underfunded. Even literature, history and philosophy have taken a back seat to learning skills that lead to jobs. These young people had been raised to be better producers.

The young man from England mentioned the massive protests against fracking – and England’s recent first earthquake. “The people who do these things - maybe they really ARE aliens!”

We laughed. But it revealed a sincere question. How can a real human being be willing to do so much damage to their only planet?

But there they sit at dinner wondering – Why? Where’s the meaning? What did we miss? They obviously know that a life of deeper experience is possible; they just don’t know how to get there.

My husband and I shared stories and experiences from decades of our lives on a number of spiritual paths, none of which we abandoned, but which merged over time. Their proclaimed lack of interest shifted. Turns out, it wasn’t a sincere rejection; it was a pop culture, Trivial Pursuit level rejection.

An uninvestigated reaction. The more we talked about what explorations into the inner worlds could look like for them, and all the avenues of experience available, the more interested and excited they became. Maybe their life did not need to be an eight decade long game of Trivial Pursuit!

Our dominant society is definitely having a meaninglessness crisis. Our culture is a carnival of superficiality. But the taste of cake wears out quickly; we bore of pleasure. But just because the lens of our dominant culture society is stuck on the surface, we are not. We are in control of the lens.

These particular young people will find their way. That’s why they are traveling.

Young people are not stupid. They see what is going on in the world they will inherit. The Harper government reduced the number of protected waterways in Canada from over 2.5 million to 159. That is just one small but perfect model of the kind of superficial, short-term thinking that has confused,

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How? By superficial thinking. By breaking the whole down into pieces, and only caring about your piece. But if we zoom out, pull back, and look at the bigger picture, we remember the context, we remember our connection, we remember the other beings who will be impacted by our behavior – for 7 generations. If we pull back far enough, we can even remember our connection to the Creative Force which brought it all into being. The bigger picture. The larger field.

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The spiritual path begins when a human gets curious. Or dumbstruck. Or inspired. Or shaken. Or dissatisfied. Or when they see a road untraveled.

Our tiny minds cannot wrap themselves around the level of mystery that surrounds us, and that’s fine, because that’s not what tiny minds are supposed to do! That’s why we have higher levels of mind. And that is what we experience when we are shocked out of the carnival chaos into the stillness, through extreme miracle or loss, or years of discipline and practice, or curiosity and passion.

Vocabulary tests are for the tiny mind; the higher mind has few words if any, and no reasons to fight over them.

When we encounter another person or creature or situation, how deep is our perception? How wide is our vision? If we only see their surface, it is our fault, not theirs. Again, we have control of our lens.

Zoom in, zoom out…

Oh Brother. Why Bother? Because a superficial life is a waste of time. A waste of a life. Who knows how many we get!

“Be not content with littleness.”* May your garden bring you abundance this summer. And may we all get the right amount of rain. Rain is good. ____________ *A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford) Joanne Sales is a freelance writer, blueberry farmer living in rural Qualicum Beach, and Director of Vancouver Island’s Broombusters Invasive Plant Society. Questions about her articles should be directed to joanne@ glasswing.com. For information or questions regarding Broombusters Invasive Plant Society - www. broombusters.org. Ph: 250-752-4816, Email: info@broombusters.org

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“We want to turn Denman Island into Cycletopia for the weekend – it's already a garden utopia,” says Laura Busheikin, Cyclists' Draw Coordinator. “This is a way of lowering the greenhouse gas emissions of our event, and encouraging people to be physically active.

“Cycling around Denman adds a fun element to what is already a great experience, and as an added bonus, you get chance to win a basket full of gift

CYCLETOPIA ON DENMAN ISLAND: DENMAN HOME AND GARDEN TOUR WELCOMES CYCLISTS WITH A FREE DRAW cards, beautiful hand-made objects from local artisans, and yummy things to eat and drink.”

108 cyclists entered the draw when it was launched at the 2013 Tour. Busheikin says she is hoping to exceed that amount this year. “We want lots and lots of bikes so we really make an visual impact that tells people about the joys of green transportation.” As a further attraction, this year the Island has a new all-purpose trail set apart from the main road which offers cyclists a safer, more tranquil option that weaves through trees and parkland. continued on page 21

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• Everyone seemed to want comprehensive Area H trail maps (and which are dog-friendly)

BILL VEENHOF

Regional Director, Area H billveenhof.com - ph: 778-424-2810 ■ bill.veenhof@shaw.ca

• Road-side safety in Bowser and Qualicum Bay was very important: we need wider (safer) shoulders in both areas.

Arlene and I hope that you've been enjoying the fine weather we've be blessed with this spring, and wish you a wonderful summer! The following is an update about several important issues in Area H.

Community Centre, coincident with the Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast on May 10, 2015. The goal of this session was to solicit public comment on where the POSAC should focus its efforts in the future.

• Beautify the Bowser Town Centre with planters

NOISE BYLAW You should be aware that on my last update, I asked you if you were interested in pursuing dialogue on a noise bylaw in Area H. I asked this to get a sense of community support before we wasted your and staff time on formal discussions if there wasn’t support for this.

You should be proud of our local POSAC volunteers who are to be commended for their support and interest. They ensured that this was a very successful event.

• We need the stairs to the beach off Shoreline Drive repaired

Approximately, 100 people reviewed and commented on the information presented.

• The trail signs near McColl Rd need to be fixed

From the responses, I sense that there isn’t community support for entering into dialogue on a noise bylaw.

Therefore, I will not ask the Board to move forward on this. Many thanks to those who commented.

Many of the responses I received indicated that, “we live in a quiet rural area and do not need more regulation”.

For the most part, this is intuitively true.

I also think that these responses were shaped by residents not wanting further government oversight. This is right and proper. This said, there are some residents that are plagued by noise, their quality of life is affected by this and a bylaw is very important to them.

I suspect that many of the responses would have been different if I asked you to consider what your view of a noise bylaw would be if you were affected by noise that you could do nothing about.

I will ask you this question again next year, shaped a little differently.

AREA H - PARKS AND OPEN SPACE COMMITTEE (POSAC) - OUTREACH EVENT

There were no negative comments about what the POSAC had done or was planning to do. This is a strong community affirmation that the POSAC is doing the right thing. The POSAC received a great many positive and constructive comments.

Subsequently, the POSAC reviewed their 5-year plan and are making changes to this plan based on the recommendations below. Once this is finalized, I will send it out to you. The POSAC felt that discussion about Dunsmuir Park had stalled and we intend on holding a public discussion forum at the park in early September. From that, we will determine a way forward. Comments received from the public follow: • There was a great deal of discussion about the train and the sense that, the corridor would be better used as a hiking/cycling route. This said, there were some people who would like to continue to see the train.

• Everyone liked our work on beach access.

• A great many people want to see the Lighthouse Community Trail connected to Bowser/Deep Bay

The Area H POSAC held a Public Outreach session at the Lighthouse

• We need street lights in our village centres (Bowser/Qualicum Bay) • Repaint the road lines

• We need a path from Bowser Elementary to Thompson Clarke Drive

• We need a set of stairs down to the beach in Qualicum Bay • A boat launch at Sunny Beach Road Henry Morgan Park: • Fix the swing • Put in a better BB backstop • When are the washrooms coming in?

• We need more playground stuff • Pickle Ball Court(s)?

DOGS Arising from a complaint in another area, RDN Staff clarified dogwalking on our trails and parks in the RDN. The majority of RDN Parks (Regional and Community) are designated "dog in control" parks. The expression of that is that the dog is expected to be on-leash or have a level of training that ensures a dog will return to its owner when called. There are some specific exceptions where the Park Plan for a particular park, developed with and by the Community, has specifically set out that dogs must be on-leash only.

The exceptions at this time are Moorecroft Regional Park (RP), the camping areas at Descanso RP and Horne Lake RP, Coats RP and the Little Qualicum River conservation area. ~

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couple recently gave my wife and I a fascinating tour of their farm. As we wandered around sections of its fertile twenty-three acres with the Golden, BC-born Barbara – Lorne joining us later - I could not help but wonder at their advanced ages how hands-on the Ebells are these days: “Well, we’re always trying to stand back, but because we don’t have a market that’s big enough, that doesn’t return the farm enough money, it’s difficult to keep the long-term staff,” explains Barbara, seemingly more from a pragmatic perspective than out of resignation. “So, you’re always taking up that role again…having given it away, you get it back!”

After a lifetime of nose to the grindstone, popular retirement pursuits might include golf, a little cruising, pottering about in the garden, or generally taking life at a leisurely pace, finally finding the time to get those things on the to-do list done. Not the Ebells: they purchased a farm as a retirement enterprise in 1982, and have continued to work like Trojans ever since. “We totally knew what we were planning to do,” says Barbara. “Buying the farm just seemed like a good idea!

We were living very peacefully in Victoria, and somehow or other we ended up farming, but it has been grand! It’s wonderful working with all these young folk, and it’s a lovely kind of life.” Lorne concurs, especially enjoying the fact that there never seems to be a typical day. “Every day is completely different,” he chuckles, “and you can rarely accomplish what you plan to do. There are other things that come up, always.”

Our family has proudly served the Oceanside communities since 1998.

We believe in providing the highest level of service in a professional and affordable manner, without compromising our commitment to reliable and respectful service to our families.

I liked Lorne a lot. He did not speak much, quietly observing as Barbara led us around with an informative narrative, but on the few occasions he did speak it was either fascinating or simply killer-funny. For example, when I inquired as to his age, he dryly quipped, “When people ask how old I am I say I’m old enough not to know better.” When the tour was briefly interrupted by an employee voicing concern over some apparently minor technical issue, Lorne quietly ushered the fellow away with a gently dismissive, “Well, that shouldn’t be insurmountable.” Hilarious.

Although not your average retirement plan, moving into farming was a natural step for the Ebells, who both have farming in their blood. Lorne grew up on a mixed grain and cattle farm in Manitoba, helping his father steer it through the latter years of the Great Depression. Generations of Barbara’s father’s family had farmed in Sweden, and her English mother grew up on a farm in Derbyshire.

Certified organic in 1997, Nanoose Edibles’ produce is locally revered, and rightly so. At the end of our tour we picked up bags of mixed salad greens, spinach, broccolini, and a delicious plant I had somehow not encountered before. One common name for my new find is Miner’s Lettuce (officially Claytonia perfoliata), which one of the Ebells’ staff informed continued on page 23

Westcoast Paintbrush Eagle Aerie Gallery, Tofino

It captures the steelhead and pictures the loon, congeals the sun’s blood on the sky, makes the moon with the face of an eagle seem stunned in mid-stare, and freezes the snowflakes to stars in mid-air.

About this Poem ...

June is a fine month for visiting Tofino. On visits there, I love to visit the Eagle Aerie Gallery. There, bathed in soft music and low light in a building of adzed cedar, the paintings of westcoast artist, Roy Henry Vickers, transport viewers to a natural world made mystical by his craft and vision. In legend, paintbrushes given by spirits to a young artist took root and became the vividly red flower known as the Indian Paintbrush. In this poem, I depict the gallery's artwork as creations of one of those mythical paintbrushes.

It catches the crests of the mountains, those waves we hope will not break till we’re safe in our graves, arrests slanting rain wires and shows through their grille old spirits in costumes of scale, fur, and quill.

It stills the high passes in winterkill’s grip, clasps rivers in canyons, immerses its tip in a mist and enravels gray horses and men who encircle their campfire like wolves round a den.

It writes in faint letters We paddle with you as a watermark under a waking canoe which it draws to a standstill, reflected, for we are all likewise afloat in the shell of one tree.

In myth, fallen paintbrushes flowered and spread till they rendered the meadows and mountainsides red and inspired local artists to trap what they see but their scenes, like the paintbrushes, always break free.

Notes ...

The poem has nine stanzas. The first four describe the paintings. The middle one, the fifth, refers to the paintbrushes in the legend, which came alive. The last four are mirror images of the first four but, like the paintbrushes, the paintings have now come alive. It's what happens when you stare at the pictures in the atmosphere of this gallery.

Indian Paintbrush

So the steelhead tail-swishes and swims, and the loon spears the sunset, which bleeds on the sky as the moon uncages its eagle, and snowflakes in flight spread over the canvas like flowers of light.

The mountains change colors and rockfalls resume as the rain lashes down and the waterfalls spume and the spirits of elders dissolve from the trees and escape through the walls to the wild's galleries.

And the mountain men climb on their horses and ride on the high trails, traversing the steep mountainside as their fire gutters down to a single low flame and the snowmelt makes icewater drip from the frame.

The stanza form is four lines with aabb single-syllable rhymes. Each line has four beats embedded mainly in groups of three syllables ("anapestic meter"). For instance, the beats in the first line are as follows: It CAPtures the STEELhead and PICtures the LOON,

And the paddles stroke steadily till they are gone but the waves of their wake will go rippling on in the minds of the audience standing before these still-lifes the eye and the ermine hair bore. ~

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. ~ •

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Friday Nights at the Lighthouse Ball Fields, off Lioness Way in Qualicum Bay, four community teams play ball!

First batter up swings at 6:30pm.

A Two-Day Group Cycle Fundraiser

Popcorn, refreshments and hot dogs are available from the Lions Concession.

July 25-26, 2015

Keeping Vancouver Island Hospice Care in Motion LIGHTHOUSE SLO PITCH

Support Team Oceanside Hospice by donating online.

See our website for details.

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Come on out ... bring the kids, cheer on the teams, support the players and the Lions Club throughout the summer!

For more information visit us at www.oceansidehospice.com or call 250-752-6227 210 Crescent Road W., Qualicum Beach

QUALICUM BEACH DAY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2015 NOON TO 5:00 PM “Life’s a Beach” & we are having our 4th annual Beach Day event in Qualicum Beach on Sunday, July 5th. Kwali seagull is back to celebrate this family fun & informative event on our beautiful waterfront & beach. Events run from noon to 5:00 pm with a hearty Shriner’s pancake breakfast at 9:00 am for the early birds. Qualicum Beach Day offers plenty of hands-on activities for both children & adults alike.

This event is strongly supported by the Town of Qualicum Beach & the local business community plus many local volunteer organizations. Shuttles will be provided from the downtown parkade to the waterfront. This year’s activities & displays include: Seine Netting for Sea Creatures, VIU Shellfish Research Centre Touch Tank, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre, Vintage Fashion Show, Kite Building & Nanaimo Boat Modellers, Tug-of-War, Beach Golf & Soccer, Giant Bubbles, Sandcastle Building, Parachute Game, Fish Pond, Face Painting & Tattoos, Seaweed, Shore Birds, Sea Mammals, WaterSmart, Qualicum Beach Pipe Band, Qualicum Beach Fire & Rescue, Beach Art plus Clowns, the Rainbow Stew Cloggers, Shark Dissection, Food, Music & more! ~ 1 9

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Retaining walls and pavers. Chimney construction, cleaning and repairs.

FMI Call Jason Buxton (250) 802-5515.

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

NELSON'S MUSIC STUDIO Piano/Theory Lessons Parksville/Qualicum Area Beginners to Advanced Your Home or Ours John/Margaret 250-954-5895

Parksville / Qualicum / Bowser PICK-UP, TUNE-UP AND CLEAN-UP FOR SMALL ENGINE POWERED EQUIPMENT. Riding mowers, garden tractors, etc. Call Ron at (250) 937-0044 or email ronmorrison100@gmail.com

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FIREWOOD If you have trees that are dead or dying or need to be cut down. If you use wood to heat your home and cannot do the heavy work. Please call me and there could be a benefit both to you and me. Leave a message for Albert 250-240-3274

CAREGIVER NEEDED - Looking for a caregiver for our 2 children (1 & 5 yrs old) - $10.50/hr, 40 hrs/week, room and board available. Large dog at house. 250-240-8119

Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 am 757-8136

KOMBUCHA - Make Your Own Kombucha Workshops offered in Coombs by Joanne Sales who has been making Kombucha for over 20 years. joanne@glasswing. com, www. islandhealing.ca

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Community Event Calendar June 2015 LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE (LCC) - 240 Lions Way, Qualicum Bay. FMI Hall rentals Call Sheena McCorquodale: (250) 757-9991. FMI on Events at the LCC visit www. communityhall.ca.

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RDN RECREATION PROGRAMS - View recreation programs online at www.rdn.bc.ca/recreation. FMI call Chrissie at (250) 757-8118, email at cfinnie@rdn.bc.ca or call Oceanside Place at (250) 248-3252. Pre-register for all programs to avoid program cancellation.

BOWSER’S MAGNOLIA COURT SUMMER MARKET (6996 Island Hwy West)– Wednesdays from 5:30-8:00 p.m. starts June 10-August 26th, 2015 – Contact Corinne 250-947-5231 or Sarah 250-937-1879 for info.

LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE PANCAKE BREAKFAST & FLEA MARKET – Sunday Jun 14th - 8amNoon, PANCAKE BREAKFAST - $5 or $7. Enjoy live music, breakfast, shopping for a treasure. The Bow Horn Bay Volunteer Fire Department will be serving breakfast.

The FAT OYSTER AUTHOR READING SERIES will feature two prize winning Vancouver Lighthouse Seniors Group – OAP #152. Join us on authors plus two local mystery authors on June 10 at Monday June 1st for a summer BBQ! We look forward to the Fanny Bay Hall, 7793 Island Highway. seeing you there. FMI, call Shirley 250-757-2384.

7-9pm. Doors open at 6:30. $5 suggested donation at TAOIST™ TAI CHI Every Monday 9:30-noon Susan Finlayson the door. Cynthia Flood, a prolific short story writer, was identified by the CBC as "One of ten Canadian 250-757-2097 women writers you need to read now." Her most LIGHTHOUSE SPINNERS – Bring your Spinning Wheels and recent book is Red Girl Rat Boy. Renée Saklikar fibre and meet the Lighthouse Spinners at the LCC, Tuesdays writes the CanadaProject out of which came Children of Air India, winner of the 2014 Canadian at 10:30am. FMI Call 778-424-1001.

Author's Literary Award for poetry.

CARPET BOWLING – 12:45 to 3:00pm at the LCC. FMI Call Layne (250) 757-8217.

Thursday, June 4th 2015 7:00 PM - The OCEANSIDE BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets at The Gardens, 650 Berwick North, Qualicum Beach. Ladies living with breast cancer are welcome. 250-752-8066 or amen@shaw.ca.

AA LIGHTKEEPERS - Fridays at 7:00pm at the LCC. FMI contact (250) 757-2300.

BRIDGE – Nordin Room 1:00 to 4:00pm Friday afternoons at the LCC. FMI Call: Sheila Steele (250) 757-8307.

Tuesday, June 2nd 2015, 7:00 PM - The OCEANSIDE PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets at The Gardens, 650 Berwick North, Qualicum Beach. Those newly diagnosed or affected, their family & friends are welcome. Contact 250-752-7489 or brook@shaw. ca.

LIONS REC HALL – 280 Lions Way, Qualicum Bay. FMI on Hall rentals Call Bert Carter: (250) 240-4538.

QUALICUM BAY LIONS CLUB – Meet at 7pm, every second and fourth Tuesday in the Lions Den.

Corcan Meadowood Residents' Assoc. (CMRA) Canada Day Celebration. Clowns, face painting, balloon twisting & a Bouncy Castle for the kids. Karaoke, live music, Beverage Garden, food concession, vendor's market & FIREWORKS to end the evening. Join the fun and festivities 6pm.-10pm.

At Meadowood Community Park, 1800 Galvin Place across from the Meadowood Fire Hall.

LIGHTHOUSE COUNTRY SCRAPBOOKERS – Meet 3rd Saturday monthly at the Lions’ Rec Hall, 9:30am- 4:30pm. $10. Door prizes. FMI Call Jorgie 250-757-8358 or Shirley (250) 757-8384.

FLOOR CURLING. Be active this summer. Join us on Mondays starting June 1st until August 31st, 1-3 pm at the LIONS RECRECREATION HALL, in lovely Qualicum Bay. No equipment required. A game of fun and challenges. For all ages, a mixed group.

Only $2.00 drop-in fee. FMI call Fred or Lorraine: 250-752-0216.

Saturday July 4 - 7pm. DANCE! REGGAE SUNSPLASH at the Lighthouse Community Centre in Qualicum Bay. Featuring FREDLOCKS ASHER and the ULTRA FLEX CREW. $20 advance/$25 at the door. Tix avail: Salish Sea Market and Georgia Park Store in Bowser, Mulberry Bush Books in Qualicum Beach, and Cranky Dog in Parksville.

BOWSER TENNIS CLUB, Annual General Meeting.

Mon. May 4, 3:30 pm, at the Bean Counter. public is welcome. info:steelehunt@shaw.ca, or ph 250-757-8307

LIGHTHOUSE SLO PITCH - Fridays at 6:30pm at the Lighthouse Community Ball Field off Lioness Way in Qualicum Bay. Popcorn, treats and refreshments available from the Lions Concession. A fun, familyoriented event. Bring the kids. See pg 18.

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

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COMMUNITY BRIEFS: • The Soupy Cafe at the Lighthouse Community Centre was a great success this past season and is now closed until the fall.

Watch for re-opening dates to be announced later this summer.

• The monthly Pancake Breakfast and Flea Market at the Lighthouse Community Centre in Qualicum Bay has taken on a new name and focus. Renamed the "Second Sunday Market", this popular monthly Market on the second Sunday of each and every month is growing this season to include additional artists, crafters, farmers and entertainers. Interested in becoming a vendor? Call 778-424-9900 to book your spot!

NEW HOURS FOR THE BOWSER LIBRARY

Once a month on the Second Sunday of every month from 8am ‘til noon, it’s been a long-standing Qualicum Bay tradition to check out the Market and have breakfast with neighbours and community!

YOU’RE INVITED! Lighthouse Community Centre, 240 Lions Way in Qualicum Bay Artisans, Crafters and Farmers Wanted! Join the Market Rent your table & chair for $10/month pre-paid secondsundaymarket@gmail.com • www.communityhall.ca

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Prizes include passes for the Pacific Mist Hydropath at the Kingfisher Resort & Spa, a $100 gift card from Mountain Equipment Co-op, a Denman Island Chocolate gift pack, a bicycle helmet from Mountain City Cycles in Courtenay, earrings (from used bicycle parts!) from Rose Pedal Jewelry, a gift certificate for a night's stay at Cumberland's Riding Fool Hostel, gift certificates to the Broken Spoke Cafe and Bicycle Shop, organic coffee from the Denman Island General Store, organic tea from the Denman Island Guest House, a ceramic tea-bowl from master potter Gordon Hutchens, and a three-hour electric bike rental for two from Qualicum Beach Pedego.

“We are really thrilled by the generosity of the local business community,” says Busheikin. “Quite a few of these gifts weren't even solicited – people came forward and asked if they could donate something.”

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Rentals of electric bike rentals for the Tour are available from Qualicum Beach Pedego (250-218-9333); they will meet you at the Buckley Bay ferry terminal to set you up with the bike in time for morning ferries.

This year's Tour, which takes place June 13 and 14, includes a spectacular rose garden, a permaculture farm, Denman's first commercial vineyard, soaring views, cozy hollows, and the Denman Island Chocolate Factory which boasts a new green roof. Delicious home-made lunches are offered at the Community Hall. All proceeds support land conservation on Denman.

Tickets for the Tour are available on-line or at Salish Sea Market, Art Knapp's, Home & Garden Gate, Blue Heron Books, and the Rusty Rooster. To enter the draw, once you're on the Island drop by the porch of the Community Hall (follow the signs). More info: www.denmanconservancy.org/home-and-garden-tour find us on Facebook, or call 250-335-2089.

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Currently boasting approximately ten cultivable acres, Nanoose Edibles Farm grows an amazing range of vegetables, herbs and fruits. Full advantage of this cornucopia of fresh produce can be taken by subscription to the 'box program' with an option of one, two, or three seasons of eight weeks each. This takes subscribers from spring through fall, offering a seasonal variation of produce according to availability. The program is certainly a budget-conscious way to purchase fresh organic produce, obviously supporting a local independent farm in the process: win-win. Barbara estimates that around a third of their produce goes out via the box program and farmers' markets, whereas “a third goes to local restaurants and so forth, and the other third we sell on the farm.”

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While they may have been retiree farmers for the past thirty-three years, Barbara and Lorne have led an adventurous, fun life since first meeting on a tennis court in Duncan! “We were engaged for just sixteen days!” laughs Barbara. “We fished, and hiked, and traveled around, and as both of us are outdoors people we’ve never been at a loss for things to do with our time.”

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us grew wild all over the farm. Intrigued, especially as to its name, I was interested to discover after the fact that it was eaten by the miners of the California Gold Rush as a source of Vitamin C. It seems you learn something every day, but I actually learned two things this day with an introduction to marionberries, a ‘super blackberry’ that had also somehow passed me by all these years.

Barbara used to work for the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, while Lorne has worked for Federal and Provincial Forest Services, and for eight years as an employee of the Firestone Plantations Company.

His research work for Firestone took the couple to Brazil, and Liberia in West Africa, where – at 185 square miles - the largest rubber plantation in the world housed, Barbara estimates of their time there, in the region of 15,000 people in the company’s village.

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And Barbara could have become a professional singer! “I studied at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, she tells me, “but because I had small children and an interesting life I didn’t work as hard at it as I could have, but it was sufficient to give me a whole other life of my own. For many years I sang in Victoria, mostly classical, oratorio. I’m pretty sure I could have pursued a career as a singer if I’d have wanted to.”

Barbara, Lorne, Mervyn if he made it, and the farmers of the world, I salute you. Your efforts are perhaps generally taken for granted in the grand scheme, but certainly not in our household. As a Nanoose Edibles Farm leaflet states, ‘everyone deserves quality food,’ and it does not get any higher quality than that grown by Barbara and Lorne Ebell and their crew.

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