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Teachers will skip exam supervision due to ongoing job action. Derek DeGear, president of the Nanaimo District Teachers’ Association, said similar to playground supervision duties, teachers will not supervise provincially mandated exams. Above average temperatures and below average rainfall in December has a number of people wondering where winter went. Predictions of a La Niña system pounding the coast with cold, wet weather have yet to materialize. Speed and alcohol likely contributed to a crash that sent two people to hospital Wednesday. The crash happened in a quiet residential neighbourhood on the 6000 block of Icarus Drive in north Nanaimo at about 12:45 p.m. Nearly 180 workers at Malaspina Gardens greeted the new year with layoff notices and the unfortunate news their jobs will be contracted out. Two men are the victims of what appears to be a driveby pepper spraying in Nanaimo. The

incident happened at about 9:45 p.m. as two men, ages 24 and 21, were waiting at a bus stop near the Hammond Bay and Applecross roads intersection. Thousands of homes will be powered using clean energy produced at Nanaimo’s Harmac pulp mill. B.C. Hydro has signed a 15-year agreement with the mill to buy green energy from a new 25-megawatt turbogeneration unit that will be installed at Harmac over the next 18 months. Nanaimo Mounties unleashed the newly formed White Team on drug dealers who trade specifically in powdered drugs. The team is a specialized enforcement unit created to tackle the distribution and sale of heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine. Workers at the Coast Bastion Inn are under the gun to complete a $280,000 renovation to the hotel’s ballroom in time for its first event. The Canadian Home Builders’ Association – Central Vancouver Island is holding its annual industry construction forum dinner in the ballroom. Continued /3

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The Vancouver Island Health Authority has reopened the pediatric unit at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital to adult patients, despite protests from pediatricians. Freezing temperatures combined with mixed snow and rain has drawn Nanaimo’s homeless to the Unitarian Weather Shelter. The first deficit in its 14-year history is pushing the Port Theatre to ask for more money from the City of Nanaimo. Nanaimo’s reputation for hosting major sporting events will provide a much-needed economic windfall for the city as the Canadian Junior A Hockey League’s Western Canadian Championship comes to town in the spring of 2013. Residents of Pacific

cuss the issue again. Donna Allen nearly didn’t take her seat after being elected

for a third term last November because she wanted to campaign for legislative changes

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A Nanaimo man will serve a community sentence for sexually assaulting four girls. Gary Alan McIntyre pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual assault and received a conditional sentence of two years less a day and three years probation. City council has decided an internal auditor to ensure taxpayers’ dollars are spent efficiently would cost too much. An intense lowpressure weather system effectively cut Vancouver Island off from the rest of the province Sunday, cancelling ferry and float plane service to and from the Lower Mainland. Two children are dead after a fire tore through a house on the Snaw’Naw’As (Nanoose First Nation) reserve. Damage cost estimates are still being tallied, but First Capital Realty will have to foot the bill for a flood that closed Front Street for three hours after a water main broke. Nanaimo’s Ballroom Dance Society is back in step after learning that the parquet floor at Beban Park won’t be replaced with a vinyl.

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Someone was playing with fire at Uplands Park Elementary School. Firefighters were called to the school twice in about a sixhour period.

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The decision to shut the door on the Vancouver Island Exhibition’s plan for a new barn on the Beban Park fairgrounds left the group shocked and disappointed, but not ready to put the issue to pasture.

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Uplands Park Elementary School in north Nanaimo suffered more than $5,000 damage when vandals struck. A four-year-old civil lawsuit between former mayor Gary Korpan and downtown merchant Angela Negrin is settled. Details of the settlement were not disclosed. Continued /5

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It’s the end of the line for the penny. The federal budget included an announcement that Canada is joining the U.K. and Australia in dropping the penny from production. One reason – it costs 1.6 cents to produce. Nanaimo was one of 91 British Columbia communities that took part in Earth Hour in a symbolic effort to reduce energy consumption.

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School is again the top public school in Nanaimo, according to the Fraser Institute’s annual secondary school report.

mark donated by Nanaimo’s Italian community 50 years ago will get a facelift. After three years and what seemed like a monumental fundraising task, the Gabriola Health Centre nears completion. Passenger rail service on Vancouver Island will be revived after the federal government committed to its portion of the $15 million needed to repair the E&N Rail line. For sale: Aging former warehouse, used most recently as city annex. Needs work. Good development potential. Excellent location. Price to be determined. A new agricultural complex to replace aging barns at Beban Park could be part of a revisioning process for the 51-hectare recreational property. In January, the city

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More youth in crisis will have a safe place to stay thanks to the new Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre’s youth safe house.

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Pudge Pinker, an East Wellington Volunteer Fire Department firefighter, slogs through layers of mud and foam in April after battling a barn fire at a farm on Munroe Road. Firefighters at the scene said the blaze had already collapsed the structure by the time they arrived. No one was injured.

will embark on a master plan update for Beban Park to reassess community needs, with a June target for completion. Ferry service between Nanaimo’s Duke Point terminal and Tsawwassen resumes May 1. Duke Point was knocked out of commission Dec. 20 when the Coastal Inspiration crashed while docking. The Great Canadian

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Citizens engage city to protect parks, dams, harbour designate this area, located at May Bennett Pioneer Park, from parks and open space to neighbourhood, a designation that could BY JENN M C GARRIGLE ing at John Barsby pave the way for develTHE NEWS BULLETIN Community School in opment of the 3.2-hectthe hopes of convinc- are piece of land. Nanaimo residents ing city council to conThe group found evidemonstrated how sider other options. dence that the park much they love their “This park, in its was wrongly relieved parks and green spaces present for m, is a of its park designation this year. huge reason why peo- in 1997 when the city Nature-loving groups ple have chosen to live sold the parcel of land formed all over the city here,” said event orga- to the school board for to protect green areas nizer Jeff Solomon $800,000 and it chalthey feel strongly during the meeting. lenged the city and about, from school board Colliery Dam in an effort Park in the to provide south to what long-term is known to p ro t e c t i o n the commufor what it nity as Pioconsidered neer Forest a park. in the north I n e a rl y and east into D e c e m b e r, Nanaimo’s the city and harbour. school board The bigannounced gest hullabaa land swap TOBY GORMAN/THE NEWS BULLETIN loo occurred that gives at the end From left, Terri Parker, Adrian Parker, Courtthe city of October ney Wylie and Jeff Solomon are some of the ow n e r s h i p when the city Harewood residents who want further discus- of Pioneer announced a sion with the city on its plans to remove two Forest. plan to spend dams at Colliery Dam Park. Friends $7 million to of Pioneer remove two 100-year- “If you take it away, Forest is now advoold dams at Colliery there will be a gaping cating for the city to Dam Park because of wound where the park dedicate the land as the potential threat to used to be.” a park under a bylaw human life. Last week, after that requires a public Studies performed hearing again from referendum prior to by the provincial Dam this group, city coun- removal. Safety Branch over cil directed city staff In the early spring, the past two years engineers to explore Team Linley Valley suggested that, in the options for dam reha- West, a group that event of an earthquake bilitation, repair or formed last year to or extreme rainfall, replacement. The dams protect western porthe dams could fail, are not scheduled to tions of Linley Valley, causing water from be torn down until the began collecting sigtwo lakes to rush into summer when water natures for a petition parts of Harewood. flow is at its lowest, so to give to the mayor But the dams are council agreed to look after Nanaimo council popular with residents, at alternatives in the flip-flopped on its own who use the lakes for meantime. commitment to seek swimming and fishIn the north end of funding. ing, and an outpour- the city, Friends of In late February, ing of support to keep Pioneer Forest formed c o u n c i l p a s s e d a them soon followed – in July in response to motion to explore fundin November, about 500 a request by Nanaimo ing mechanisms to people attended a meet- school district to re- possibly purchase the

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dents this year. After the Nanaimo Port Au t h o r i t y announced a proposed 30-year lease of the Nanaimo Boat Basin to Pacific Northwest Marina Group, some marina users concerned about privatization and a lack of public access to moor-

age organized a blockade of the harbour in August in protest. And a mid-Island environmental group continued the push to have the Nanaimo Estuary included in a National Marine Conservation Area. T he federal and provincial gover n-

ments hope to create the Southern Strait of Georgia National Marine Conservation Area. The proposed boundary stretches from the southern tip of Gabriola Island to the Saanich Inlet and Cordova Bay. reporter@nanaimobulletin.com

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Inquiry wastes an opportunity pp y The Missing Women Inquiry, chaired by former judge and attorney-general Wally Oppal, was an exercise in wasted opportunities. The inquiry report tells the public almost nothing new about the sad case of the dozens of missing women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – many of them were murdered by Robert Pickton. It became quickly bogged down with far too many lawyers representing police officers, current and retired, at taxpayers’ expense. The police officers had nothing to fear from any testimony. None of them have been disciplined in any way. The actual victims received minimal attention throughout much of the inquiry. Lawyers went on to take control of the proceedings and bill to their heart’s content. They slowed it to such a degree that Oppal needed time extensions and had to rush some testimony. One recommendation of Oppal’s receiving some attention is one he’s pushed before – a regional police force. Unfortunately, there is little concrete evidence that, had a regional police force been in place, Pickton would have been caught any sooner. Police let him from their grasp once, and he returned to his killing spree. The women of the Downtown Eastside were of little worth in the eyes of police and most members of society, and police didn’t overly concern themselves with those who went missing. If there was a regional police force at the time, how would that have been different? Oppal assumes there would be no turf wars within a regional force, which is naive in the extreme. All the families of the missing women are left with are the memories of their loved ones and how they suffered and disappeared at the hands of Pickton – and how that was made possible by the indifference of police and society at large. The Nanaimo News Bulletin is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org

Dix seeks a balance with business NDP leader Adrian Dix has It would have been desirable for completed year-end interviews everyone had they chosen a true with members of the legislative joint review, as they have in Site press gallery. C (dam proposed for Peace River), Here are highlights from my as they did with Kemess North discussion with him. (rejected mine expansion proposal) TF: On the Kinder Morgan oil and other cases. pipeline expansion proposal, TF: You don’t want duplicated federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair review processes here, you just says the federal environmental want a provincial cabinet say in process would have to the decision? be strengthened before AD: That’s right. B.C. a project like that could TF: On your VIEWS get a thorough enough relationship with the hearing. Do you agree? B.C. Federation of Tom Fletcher AD: The B.C. Liberal Labour, your caucus is Black Press government has considering a proposal signed an equivalency that B.C. should once agreement that says again do away with the federal decision is secret ballots for union the provincial decision certification. on these projects. If AD: The B.C. Fed it applies to Enbridge makes a case to the Northern Gateway, government on a presumably the B.C. series of issues on Liberals would apply it to Kinder employment standards every Morgan. year. Labour law, every year. They could have done a joint WorkSafeB.C., every year. Trades process, where [the final decision] and training, every year. would have gone to both cabinets. With respect to [accepting signed They chose instead to give up union cards for certification], jurisdiction. They were so afraid it is a democratic process that of making any decision on the Newfoundland Conservative Northern Gateway that they sent it government just put into place a over to the federal government. few months ago. So it’s a proposal So what we’ve said is within a from the labour movement and week of coming to office, we would we’re looking at it. For most end that equivalency agreement, of B.C.’s modern history, since and B.C. would make decisions [the Second World War], we’ve about both Enbridge Northern had that card-check system in Gateway, which applied in May place. The question would be 2010, and any other pipeline, whether [returning to that system] including the Kinder Morgan is a priority for this term in proposal. government.

TF: So those kinds of things will be made clear in your platform? AD: Absolutely. TF: You picked up some serious money from the business community at a fundraiser in October. Is that some kind of a record for the NDP? AD: [Laughs.] It might be a record, I don’t know. I think the business fundraiser we did at the Hotel Vancouver netted $350,000. I think what it reflects is, this year I’ve had about 230 meetings with the business community. The purpose of it has been principally to build understanding, particularly on issues of skills training. With the priority I give to skills training, I think I’m much more attuned to their concerns than the government has been. TF: I suppose that kind of success in fundraising might make it more difficult to follow through with your pledge to ban corporate and union donations. AD: I don’t think so. The B.C. Liberal Party has a very high level of corporate donations as a percentage of its total. We’re overwhelmingly dependent on individual donations. We get support from unions, but it’s not even close to what people would think. TF: So you’ll campaign for that, as you have before? AD: Yes. ◆ Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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Efficient operations can withstand core review To the Editor, Re: Motion to review city’s core services fails in close council vote, Dec. 20. In addition to constant monitoring of operations to ensure efficient responsiveness and incorporation of innovation, a major core review is useful and necessary every 10 to 15 years. New opportunities, techniques, and resource changes require alteration to better adapt to new circumstances, changing needs, and updated demands. Only poor ideas, operations and processes are fearful of core reviews.

Good, effective, and efficient operations can stand up to any close objective scrutiny. If current systems cannot fully answer to detailed questioning or match and surpass alternative methods, then they should fall to the ‘new’ better ideas. The goal should always be to answer in the affirmative the question that should be constantly asked: “Is this the best use of our limited resources?” It is often the case that opposition to core reviews is either defensiveness from vested interests protecting the benefits they incur from the status quo, or fear of ridicule if the

detailed scrutiny reveals failure to adapt or worse, incompetence. Perhaps this is human nature, but it is no excuse to ensuring the highest and best use of tax money. Objective analysis only harms those who deserve to be exposed and changed. Of course, truly objective reviews guard against change for the sake of change. Or the equally detestable ping-pong effect of cyclically changing administrations. We must always stand vigilant against the ridiculous alternating “centralization” versus “decentralization”

craziness that plague far too many institutions. Taxpayers have long suffered from such bureaucratic machinations of new administrations desperate to prove they are different from their predecessors. This is simply ego gratification at enormous, wasteful expense. Paid, of course, by the taxpayer. Remember ‘new’ does not, in itself, equate to better. I expect the vast majority of City of Nanaimo systems, staffing, and methods will easily weather close inspection. Needless to say, all of the totally inappropriate in cam-

era decision-making these last few years, the hiring of totally unnecessary communication flacks, abandonment of good relations with Snuneymuxw First Nation, dismissal of talented and dedicated staff, wasteful spending, etc., will generate criticism. City operations deserve a core review every 10 to 15 years. Although Nanaimo is notorious for talking about doing something longer than the actual doing of it, it is clearly time to get on with it. What have we to lose … or to hide? Gary Korpan Nanaimo

Health authority, university need control of parking revenues To the Editor, At the end of the year, the city will be looking after the parking in the downtown area. Has either the Vancouver Island Hospital Authority or Vancouver Island University considered doing this? If not, why not? It could be well worth considering for many reasons. Each year the taxpayers of the Nanaimo area pay millions of dollars in parking fees in the downtown area, at the hospital and at the university. At the same time both of these institutions are constantly soliciting donations as they are always in need of more funds. It would take the sting out of paying these fees on publiclyowned properties if we knew these large sums would be

going to pay for equipment, etc., at the hospital and providing bursaries and grants to students instead of going to private firms. Elin Ross Nanaimo

Public servants rule over their employers To the Editor, How long will the people of Nanaimo continue to stick their heads in the sand when it comes to getting rid of Nanaimo city council? Why would anyone elect a politician who ignores them? As an employer, if I had an employee who chose to ignore the one who pays him, he would cease to be my employee, quickly. In the last couple of years,

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Mayor John Ruttan and council have ignored the very people to whom they’re supposed to be accountable. Take a look at the fiascoes including the Nanaimo harbour, low-barrier housing and now Colliery Dam Park. If, instead of allowing developers who wanted to

Hockey costs foisted on back of taxpayers To the Editor, As I understand the National Hockey League lockout, the problem is that there is a large pot of money that is available for distribution. The players believe the owners do not require that money and the owners believe the players do not require that money.

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After seven months on the job, Susan Cudahy is no longer Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation CEO. Cudahy arrived in Nanaimo last October to take over the new corporation, designed to streamline Nanaimo’s economic development efforts using $1.3 million in taxpayers’ money. The Citizenship and Immigration Canada offices in Nanaimo will close permanently, leaving immigrants with only a toll-free line or e-mail to Vancouver or Ottawa to rely upon for technical questions relating to their paperwork. Tammy Reynolds began working as a teacher-librarian three years ago, but she’s already become a leader among her peers. Her efforts to help colleagues use technology effectively in the classroom earned her the

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JUNE A weekend bomb scare aboard a B.C. Ferries vessel forced passengers to abandon ship Saturday. B.C. Ferries received a call from an anonymous caller shortly after 3 p.m. saying there was a bomb aboard the M.V. Queen of Coquitlam. The mid-Island’s economic forecast for the next year is about as bleak as the recent weather – mostly grey with some sunny spots. First we weren’t, then we were. Then we weren’t again, and now we are. Sort of. That’s the path city council took over recent weeks to designate Nanaimo a Blue Community. Coastal Fire Centre crews have spent

June hauling sandbags instead of fighting wildfires. Marg Drysdale, fire information officer, said there have been no wildfires the entire month thanks to the wet, coolerthan-normal weather. Remuneration for Nanaimo’s firefighters dominate the city’s recently released list of municipal employees making more than $75,000 annually during 2011. While the list grew to 176 municipal employees making that amount or more – that’s up from 112 employees in 2008 – firefighters account for 76 of those positions.

An early morning fire destroyed an old farmhouse off Westwood Road Friday. Rick Kwasnecha, fire investigator with Nanaimo Fire Rescue, said when crews were called to the scene around 3:30 a.m., the blaze in the two-sto-

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More than 600 VIU students received degrees at three separate convocation ceremonies, and an additional 189 graduates of health and human services programs

received diplomas and certificates as well. Ferry Advisory Committee chairs say they are less optimistic than B.C. Ferries after the corporation announced in its 2012

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Garry Froese joins the Malaspina Choir as the new choral director, bringing with him extensive experience in choral music in both the U.S. and Canada. He took over from Wade Noble.

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Deryk Houston unveiled his exhibit Illuminating Peace, Seeking Peace, with Amy Loewan, at the campus Nanaimo Art Gallery in January.

Gabriola-raised singer Eliza Smith, who grew up with gospel music, releases her first album, Born Knowing. She was also featured in a Best of B.C. segment on Virgin radio and opened for Canadian singer Jully Black and Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon. Deryk Houston unveils

his exhibit, Illuminating Peace, Seeking Peace, with Amy Loewan, at the Nanaimo Art Gallery’s campus location. The exhibit is a direct result of his experience touring Ameriyha, Iraq.

Nature, launches at the Nanaimo Museum.

Nanaimo Conservatory of Music hosted its second annual Vancouver Island Chamber Music Festival.

Timothy Huntsman, a Nanaimo lawyer and member of the city’s coast guard auxillary, wins the right to conduct a piece for the Vancouver Island Symphony during the Symphony Sizzle.

Alabama-born musician David Vest performs his danceable blues music at Diners Rendezvous. Our Feathered Friends, a travelling exhibit from Ottawa’s Canadian Museum of

John Forrest, who died at 58 on Jan. 10, is remembered for his incredible talent and love of crows and ravens.

Mark Leiren-Young develops, Greener Than Thou a one-man theatre show directed by TJ Dawe, presented by Western Edge Theatre at Diners Rendezvous.

Trevor Gear, who performs as Clever Trever, organized a weekendlong festival on Gabriola Island, by creating the inaugural Winterfest Circus and Juggling Arts Festival.

FEBRUARY Brett Bourcier, 17, is one of dozens of students performing in JazzFest, a fundraising concert for Nanaimo music programs. Nanaimo Theatre Group pokes fun at an odd aspect of the art world – paintings are worth more if the artist is dead, in the production off Is He Dead? Continued /17

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COMMERCIAL OR residential 1800 sq ft building and level lot on busy Johnston Road/Highway 4 intersection. OfďŹ ce, personal service, craft or residential use offers revenue and excellent holding opportunity. Corner shared with McDonalds, Macs and Co-op. Call 250-720-7453

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4 VOLUME set â&#x20AC;&#x153;Louis Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Amourâ&#x20AC;? short stories collection, $80 obo. (250)756-9492.

COOKING WOODSTOVE, Good for Cabin or home antique. Must see, SacriďŹ ce $500. Also Regular wood stove, glass door, $250.00. Call 250-248-2747 A-ONE PAINTING and Wallpapering. Serving Nanaimo for 28 years . Senior Discount. Free estimates. 250-741-0451

SHOPRIDER MEDICAL Scooter, only 7 hours use, like new, $3700 obo. 3 piece recliner sofa set, high quality, $500 obo. Very large sofa, reclines, good condition, $125. Call (250)954-0049.

DOWNTOWN PARKSVILLE Condo: 2bdrm, 2bath, underground parking, 55+ bldg. (250)248-4818

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CLOCK & WATCH REPAIRS 3rd generation watch maker. Antique & grandfather clock specialist. Call (250)618-2962.

PERFECT SET of 15â&#x20AC;? XL winter tires on aluminum rims, used last winter for only 150 km. Bought $650. Selling $350. - ďŹ ts Taurus or similar (sold car, kept spare wheels). Call (250)753-0014.

DUNCAN, 55+ park, no pets. 2 bdrm, single wide, large deck, heat pump, woodstove, landscaped yard, 4 applâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. $29,900. (250)748-2863

GREENHOUSE FOR XMAS Also garden sheds, gazebos, pergolas, studios & storage solutions. Call 250-951-0855

CENTRAL NANAIMO. 2 bdrm, 1 bath, level entry, ďŹ replace, greenspace, pet on approval. Many updates, low strata fees in small complex. Asking $153,900. Please call (250)753-8141 or visit: www.strata954.ca

MINTON CHINA- set of 8 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Laurentian pinkâ&#x20AC;?, mint condition. $995 obo. Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plate silverware â&#x20AC;&#x153;MayďŹ&#x201A;owerâ&#x20AC;?, set of 12. (250)723-8215 leave msg.

MOBILE- 2130 Errington Rd, 3 bdrms, 2 bath, own land, $80.mo/strata, totally renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. May take back mortgage, $150,000. 250-738-0221.

Incredible 5 acre treed PARK-LIKE PROPERTY with Well-Maintained Furnished Home 1500 sq.ft, 3-bdrm, 2 bath. Extremely close to Pristine Cowichan Lake, in the town of Caycuse. Perfect for recreational property or full time living. Motivated seller $378,800. Exceptionally low yearly cost. Not leased land. Call 250-745-3387 smartytwo@hotmail.com

231-99 Chapel St- Bachelor, $595. Call Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881. www.ardentproperties.com 301-1600 DUFFERIN Cres- 2 bdrms, $850. Call Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881. www.ardentproperties.com #304 - 4720 UPLANDS- 1 bdrm, $700. Call Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881. www.ardentproperties.com 3-1691 & 3-1695 Boundary Ave- 2 bdrms, $675. Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881. www.ardentproperties.com 412 BRUCE Ave- 2 bdrms, $750. Call Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881. www.ardentproperties.com

STONE MANOR Brand new Rancher! Open house every Sat & Sun noon-4pm. 5942 Tower Place, Duncan. No Strata, open concept, no steps, 3-bdrm, 2-bath. 1406 sq.ft., 4 SS applâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s., fully landscaped, dbl garage. Only $365,000. inclds hst. BEST VALUE! Gord 250-710-1947

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CENTRALLY LOCATED- Immaculate, just renovated sunny 1 Bdrm w/garden patio. New appliances, bathroom, ďŹ&#x201A;ooring, paint and drapes. Insuite laundry & secure parking. Near bus and seawall. NS/NP. $725. 250-756-2717. GORGEOUS DOWNTOWN condo. Upscale building. 1 B/R + Lge. den. 5 app, F.P., Wi-ďŹ N/P, N/S. $900. 1 (250)7542207

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www.nanaimobulletin.com RENTALS APARTMENT/CONDO HAWTHORNE CORNER- upscale boutique style townhouse living, new, 6 appls, walk to VIU, on bus route, $1000 mo and up + utils. Call 250-713-1025.

HOSPITAL AREA 1 Bdrm, FREE Heat & H/W. Adult building, wheelchair access, security cameras. New carpet, windows and paint. From $675 plus mo. Call 250-753-6656. NANAIMO: 1275 Dufferin Cres Across Gen Hospital. Renovated 2 Bdrms from $775/mo. Call Carman 250-740-1002

NANAIMO downtown- 2 bdrm, 2 bath, patio home, 4appls, $995. Sm pet? 250-668-7462. NANAIMO. SPOTLESS, quiet 1 bdrms with views from $695. Jan 1 or Jan 15. Close to ferry & seawalk. Intercom, elevator. Free hot water, N/S, N/P. Refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Call Mark 250-753-8633 N. NANAIMO, 2 bdrm Condo, ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor, 5 appls, small pet ok, close to Country Club Mall, N/S, refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, $900 + D/D, avail Jan. 1st. Call (250)740-7402.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES BRAND NEW 3bdrm, 1.5 bath home. Gorgeous kitchen, garage. $1100. (250)710-1947. N. NANAIMO, beautiful 2 bdrm/2 bath + den/dining area, W/D, gas ďŹ replace, $1115 mo, N/P. Avail immed. Call 250729-8081 or 250-956-2239. QUARTERWAY AREA- quiet, clean 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath, fresh paint, 4 appls, hrdwood ďŹ&#x201A;rs, near golf course & schools, sundeck, fenced yrd, storage. NS/NP. Refs reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. $1100 mo. Avail now. 250-758-9548. RUTHERFORD AREA- beautiful sxs Duplex, 3 bdrms, 2 bath, F/S, D/W, F/P, garage, W/D hookup, big fenced yard, mountain views, NP/NS. Dec or Jan 1. $1075 mo. Call 250741-1383, 1-250-727-5687.

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HAREWOOD: AVAIL. Feb. 1st, lrg bdrm & private bath, sep ent., share kitchen/laundry, prkng. 2 blks to VIU, Aquatic Centre & mall. Suites student or young 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working person. Refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, damage/cleaning deposit, $425/mo. Call 1 (250)754-8150.

SUITES, LOWER 1091 SILVER Mountain Drive1 bdrm, $695 inclds hydro. Call Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881. www.ardentproperties.com

2BDRM NEAR Park Ave, schools/bus. Heat/hydro incl. Ref & DD required. N/P, N/S. (250)591-8092 (250)618-6062 855 HOWARD- 2 bdrms, $795. Call Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881. www.ardentproperties.com

CINNIBAR VALLEY 2-bdrm, 4 appls. N/S, small pet. Parking. Refs. $900. inclds utils/internet Avail. Jan. 15th. (250)7400045 or (250)713-1314 HAMMOND BAY area- new, level entry large 1 bdrm suite, own entry. NP/NS. 4 appls, laundry & hydro inclâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Avail Jan 1. $700. 250-729-0313. NANAIMO- 1 BDRM Suite, self-contained. $650./mo inclds utils. 250-716-6811 or 250-245-4546, 250-753-4749. NANAIMO- ON the ocean, 2 bdrm walk-out, W/D, laminate ďŹ&#x201A;rs+ carpet, satellite, $950+ 1/2utils.NS/NP.(250)754-3446.

UNIVERSITY AREA: 2bdrm ground level, private entry, insuite laundry, DW, 7x11 storage area, garage, fenced yard. Near schools/bus. $900, util & heat incl. N/S, N/P, Avail immed. Bob 250-618-4775

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931 SPRING- 3 bdrms, 2 bath, $1095 inclds hydro. Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881. www.ardentproperties.com

LONG LAKE area, beautiful lake view, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 2 prkg, gym, balcony, A/C, F/P, W/D, avail immed, $1200 mo incls utils. 250-618-6800. VIU AREA, 4 bdrm house, 2 baths up & down, separate entrances. W/D, N/S. $1600 mo + utils. Refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. (250)754-9774.

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Saturday â&#x2014;&#x2020; BASTION CITY Wanderers Volkssport Club hosts a six- or 10-km Nanaimo. Registration at 9:45 a.m. in the back gravel parking lot at Westwood Lake and the walk starts at 10 a.m. For more information call 250756-9796.

Wednesday â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;06 Chrysler Sebring Touring Sedan. Just inspected; passed all categories. Ready for winter on the Malahat. 2.7L V6, power windows/locks, sunroof, fog lamps, A/C, snow tires all around on the original alloy wheels, Satin jade colour 173,000 km. $4500. Call (250)715-1236.

2003 Rexair CLASS A, 29 ft motor home. Bright, cheery and in excellent condition. Low mileage. Must be seen to be appreciated. Garage kept. $44,900. N/P, N/S. Phone (250) 746-7808

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â&#x2014;&#x2020; BASTION CITY Wanderers Volkssport Club hosts a six- or 12-km Nanaimo walk. Registration at 10:45 a.m. in the front lobby of the Howard Johnson hotel and the walk starts at 11 a.m. For more information call 250-756-9796.

Ongoing 2000 BUICK Regal LS 3800, Silver, V6, Auto, loaded, almost new tires, Very clean. $2,500 obo. 1-250-751-0645

931 SPRING- 1 bdrm, $650 inclds hydro. Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881. www.ardentproperties.com

1624 BLACKSTONE Way- 3 bdrms, 2 bath, $1395. Call Ardent Properties, (250)7530881. www.ardentproperties.com

3-BDRM SPLIT level, West Nanaimo. Country setting, close to town. Large 2-car garage with shop area. New kitchen & appls. Self-contained sub-letable 1-bdrm suite. Apply now and receive 1/2 mo. rent free. NP/NS. Refs. $1650. 250-716-6811 or 250-2454546, 250-753-4749.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;08 SANTA FE GL 3.3 FWD 88,000 km, 12,000 km remaining on B to B warranty. Serviced by the book. New tires at 80,000 km. N/S. $17,900. Call 250-954-2364

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2001 PONTIAC SUNFIRE: 4/Door. standard. Great on gas. Lots of extras. 2nd owner. $2800 obo. 250-618-3147 1989 NISSAN Pick-Up $3,300. 4-cyl, standard, great on gas, great cond. Full spare and cab, 177,000km. Maintenance records. (250)713-5264

2003 MONTE Carlo SS, P/B, P/S, Sun roof, Low Mileage: 77,000 kms. New tires, $7500.00 Call 250-757-8907

1991 Chev Silverado 2500, 4x4, 140 km. Drives ok. $1050 OBO. (250)748-0814 1991 PLYMOUTH Voyager, runs well, $800. ďŹ rm. Please call (250)710-6568 or (250)743-6543. 2006 DODGE Caravan, 7 passenger, runs well, 41,000 kms, $3950 obo. Call (250)618-6800.

2005 CHEVY Trail Blazer LS Exc cond. 103,000kmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 6cyl auto, air, cruise, privacy glass, many extras. $10,500. Call after 5pm or leave msg. 1 (250)754-0725 2007 CUSTOM Chev HHR. Excellent condition. Loaded. White. 119,000 km, mostly hwy driven. On-Star. $11,900 ďŹ rm. 250-755-5191.

2008 Pontiac G5 great shape 63,900k. Power windows, locks, air. $6,900 new set of snow tires incld. 250-792-2620 LOOKING FOR A DEAL ON A NEW VEHICLE? Save up to 40% OFF your next new vehicle... No games or gimmicks, deal direct with local dealerships. www.newcarselloff.com No qr code reader? Text info: 778.786.8271

2009 CHEV Silverado 4x4, ext. Cab, auto, 48,000km, ex. cond. $19,995. (250)710-4573

FORD 150XLT & 5th WHEEL â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;04 Ford 150 XLT, heavy duty, eng 5.4 l, 100k, boxliner, supercab $12,500. 04â&#x20AC;&#x2122; - 24â&#x20AC;&#x2122;6â&#x20AC;? Westwind 5th wheel. Best of towable & liveable, new queen mattress, hardly used, rear kitchen great layout & great condition. $15,500. 250-5864716

â&#x2014;&#x2020; MID-ISLAND ALANON group meets every Thursday from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the Nanaimo Youth Services Building, 290 Bastion St. Details at www.bcyukon-al-anon. org. â&#x2014;&#x2020; NANAIMO BUDDHIST Group meets Saturdays 10-11:30 a.m. 587 Seventh St., Nanaimo. 250-7562127 or e-mail susanjwilson@shaw.ca. â&#x2014;&#x2020; SONS OF F Norway Lodge meets first Wednesday of each month, 7 p.m., Bowen Park Activity Room 1. For information please call 250-756-2406 or 250-751-1435.

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â&#x2014;&#x2020; NANAIMO BOAT Modellers meet every Sunday at the north dock of Inn on Long Lake from 9-10 a.m. with radio controlled sail and power boats. 250-753-2594 or visit www.nanaimoboatmodellers.com for details. â&#x2014;&#x2020; HARBOUR CITY Senior Quilters meet Tuesdays from noon to 3 p.m. at Bowen Park. No experience necessary, all supplies provided. Please call Lucy at 250-756-9149 for information. â&#x2014;&#x2020; THURSDAY NIGHT cribbage at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 256 on East Wellington. Starts at 7 p.m. Everyone welcome. â&#x2014;&#x2020; TROUBLE HEARING? Canadian Hard of Hearing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Nanaimo meets third Monday of each month at Christ Community Church, corner of Bowen and Northfield roads, at 1:30 p.m. 250-591-6206 for more details. â&#x2014;&#x2020; NANAIMO WIDOWS Support Group meets Wednesdays. All widows welcome. 250722-3353 for time and location.

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â&#x2014;&#x2020; NANAIMO STROKE Recovery Group meets every Friday at Bowen Park Social Centre at 10:45 a.m. Bring a bag lunch. Contact 250-753-5328. â&#x2014;&#x2020; NANAIMO GREEN Patrol is accepting individuals or groups to adopt local streets to keep them clean. Contact 250-751-2397. â&#x2014;&#x2020; STOP CHASING Your Mind Group, hosted by Island Counselling. Worries, fears, depression, anger? Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. in a safe, confidential environment. By donation. Register at 250-7549988. â&#x2014;&#x2020; VANISLE FIDDLERS is a weekly gathering that welcomes fiddlers and all acoustic musicians. Learn traditional music in a fun multi-age group. Every Thursday at Scout Hut. Groups run at 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Call 250-591-3913.

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Achievement Awards. Runners Thomas Oxland and Marita DeSchiffart win Junior Athlete of the Year.

The Nanaimo Clippers play their first game of 2012, losing 3-2 in overtime to the Surrey Eagles on the Lower Mainland. Dan Correale scores the team’s first goal of the new year.

The Nanaimo Coastal Windows Timbermen senior A lacrosse team chooses Cody Bremner in the first round, seventh overall at the Western Lacrosse Association draft in Burnaby.

The Wellington Wildcats senior boys’ and senior girls’ basketball teams both place first at the Superball tournament in their home gym. The boys’ final is particularly exciting, with the ’Cats defeating D.W. Poppy 87-85 in triple overtime. Elijah Thornton makes a game-saving steal.

Dover Bay Secondary School hosts Island championships for wrestling. Dover’s Nathan Valsangkar, Avery Gibson, Kimberly van Hest and Cameron Liptrot and NDSS’s Kyle Clare win Island titles.

The Clippers make a handful of trade-deadline moves, acquiring forwards Brenden Forbes and Clayton Chessa and defenceman Taylor Carmola while trading away forward Colton Cyr. Wheelchair racer Michelle Stilwell breaks the world record in her division for the 400-metre distance at a series race in Canberra, Australia. The Legendary Hockey Heroes team extends its win streak at the Old-timers’ Hockey Challenge at Frank Crane Arena, defeating the Nanaimo Law Enforcement team 15-8.

Nanaimo United’s Div. 1 men’s soccer team defeats Juan de Fuca 15-1 in the final regularseason game of the Vancouver Island Soccer League schedule at Merle Logan Field.

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Baseball player Adam Paulencu, volleyball player Lindsay McLoughlin, swimmer Adam Rahier and bowler Jennifer Park are the Athlete of the Year winners at the Nanaimo Sport

Twenty-one youths from Nanaimo and Nanoose Bay compete at the B.C. Winter Games in Vernon. Karate athlete Sage Thomas wins gold in sparring. Curling skip Penny Shantz and her teammates Debbie Jones-Walker, Debbie Pulak and Shirley Wong win Curl B.C.’s senior women’s championship in Kelowna. ◆ Continued /26

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