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Nanaimo RCMP are looking for two suspects who robbed six teens at knifepoint in north Nanaimo New Year’s Day. The group of males, all 18 years old, were walking on Uplands Drive, between Oliver and Turner roads early Tuesday morning, when two men approached and threatened them with knives. “They were approached by two Caucasian males who robbed them,” said Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman. “They took their cash and cellphones.” Because the cellphones were taken, the teens had to wait until they could get to one of their homes to call police shortly after 6:30 a.m. The victims were also threatened with physical harm if they called police, O’Brien said. One of the suspects is described at about 6’1” tall with dark hair. He stood and revealed a knife while the robbery took place. The second suspect, who actually committed the robbery, is described as 5’10” tall with red hair who allegedly brandished an eight-centimetre folding knife. “Based on their descriptions we’re narrowing down our list,” O’Brien said. Anyone with information is asked to call Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345 or Crime Stoppers at 1-888-222-8477 or online at www. crimestoppers.com. photos@nanaimobulletin.com

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TRAVELLERS LODGE and health authority agree to build 130-bed seniors facility. BY NIOMI PEARSON THE NEWS BULLETIN

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My, what big teeth you have... Wyatt Blackman, Quarterway Elementary School student, dives in for a close inspection of a cougar’s sharp teeth as Steve Gordon, biologist, holds a cougar skin and head to show Blackman’s Grade 1 classmates. Gordon was at the school in December using skulls and skins to demonstrate wild animals’ physical adaptations to their environments and food sources. The show-and-tell visit was part of Science World’s program Scientists and Innovators in the Schools.

Dementia care will have a new home in Nanaimo in 2015. The Nanaimo Travellers Lodge Society and Vancouver Island Health Authority announced an agreement that will see the construction of a $35.8-million 130-bed seniors’ care facility at 1917 Northfield Rd. “Enhancing bed capacity on central Vancouver Island, and in Nanaimo specifically, is a top priority as this area has a rapidly growing and aging population,” said VIHA board chairman Don Hubbard, in a news release. “We are very pleased to be expanding our partnership with Nanaimo Travellers Lodge.” The new facility, to be called Eden Gardens, will be built by Travellers Lodge, and annual operating costs, in the range of $11 million, will be provided by VIHA. Ninety care beds from the Nelson Street location will be relocated to the new facility, and 40 additional licensed dementia care beds will be added, resulting in approximately 35-40 new jobs, said Janeane Coutu, director with the Nanaimo Travellers Lodge Society. “The building project alone is going to be quite an economic driver for the 18-24 months of the build,” she added. The society will launch a fundraising campaign in the new year to raise $1.5 million toward the cost of the facility. The remainder will be financed by selling off the old property, and by mortgage. ◆ See ‘NEW’ ‘ /5

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said Stilwell, of her foray into politics. “I know I am a hard worker and determined and when I set a goal I do my best to achieve it.” Chénier holds a master’s degree in education but has worked in the financial services industry. He served as an appointed trustee on the Greater Victoria Public Library board, president of a local resident association and a board member of Sport B.C. Chénier was also a municipal candidate for Saanich council and Capital Regional District director, although unsuccessful, in 2005 and 2008. “These experiences have enabled

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Two candidates have emerged the challenge of a good race. in the nomination race for the After returning from the London Parkville-Qualicum LibParalympic games with eral constituency since a gold and silver medal current MLA Ron Cantefrom the 200-metre and lon announced he would 100-metre wheelchair not pursue a third term sprints earlier this year, in May’s provincial electhe City of Parksville tion. dedicated Sept. 23 as Paralympic champion Michelle Stilwell day. Michelle Stilwell, of Stilwell is also the first Nanoose Bay, has offiperson in Parksville’s cially made the nominahistory to be awarded a tion list, as has Patrick key to the city. Chénier, of Errington. “It’s something I have While a newcomer to MICHELLE STILWELL been thinking about for the world of politics, several years but athletStilwell is no stranger to rising to ics has always taken precedence,”

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from those members of the community who are interested in saving these structures has been heard clearly by council,” said Mayor John Ruttan in a release. “I am confident the twoBY TOBY GORMAN stage plan staff has outlined will THE NEWS BULLETIN effectively address the questions around rehabilitation or replaceThe city is embarking on a con- ment costs and what these costs current two-stage plan to deter- will equate to in terms of meetmine cost estimates for rehabili- ing public life safety objectives.” tating or rebuilding two Colliery The firm Klohn Crippen Berger Dam Park dams slated has been retained to for demolition while perform the concepcontinuing work to tual level cost estiremove the dams and mate. It is the same re-naturalize the Chase company retained by River. the city to perform the At its Dec. 17 meetremoval of the dams. ing, city council, after The city will issue listening to community a request for proposmembers concer ned als in early January with the removal of the for an engineering consultant to do a dams, agreed to underJOHN RUTTAN peer review of KCB’s take a conceptual cost work. estimate to find alternaTom Hickey, Nanaimo’s gentives to removing the dams. The study is expected to take eral manager of community about three months and cost services, said the work will have $60,000. The dams have been to be done soon as the timeline slated for removal in the summer grows tighter with the tendering process for the dams’ removal when water flow is at its lowest. Council originally voted in expected to be issued around October to remove the dams at a April or May. reporter2@nanaimobulletin.com cost of $7 million because of an inherent risk to life in the event What do you think? Give us your of an earthquake or extreme comments by fax at 250-753-0788, rainfall event. “The desire to see cost esti- or by e-mail editor@nanaimobulmates for the rehabilitation or letin.com. Be sure to spell out your rebuilding of the Colliery Dams first and last names.

A body was found in the ashes of an earlymorning house fire in Nanoose Sunday. Firefighters with Nanoose Volunteer Fire Department discovered the body in the remains of the house on Higginson Road shortly after 9:30 a.m. The blaze broke out around 4 a.m., completely destroying the residence. Oceanside RCMP said family members confirmed that Beatrice Sharock, 85, lived alone in the house and had been home the evening prior to the fire. The B.C. Coroners Service has not confirmed the identity of the victim. Police said Wednesday the fire was not considered suspicious and that the investigation had been turned over to the coroners service.

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The people of Nanaimo came through in support of local children this Christmas. During the News Bulletin’s annual Pennies for Presents campaign, people dropped off thousands and thousands of coins and even bills, resulting in a heavy load for delighted volunteer drivers Pete MacDonald and Ian Thorpe. MacDonald and Thorpe spent hours in December picking up pennies from the News Bulletin office and school and business partners and dropping them off for the volunteers at Berwick on the Lake to roll, then depositing them at the TD Canada Trust branch in Terminal Park. MacDonald’s parents, Tom and Wig, rolled all of the silver. Total numbers are not yet in, as coins were still coming in to be rolled as of last week, but MacDonald estimates that the campaign

raised between $8,000 and $9,000 – up from the $5,500 raised last year. “It’s better than I thought it would be,” he said. “It’s good news for all of us – it gave kids presents who otherwise wouldn’t have one.” The money goes to three charities that support local families – the Great Nanaimo Toy Drive, the Salvation Army and the Nanaimo Boys and Girls Club – and the campaign ensures no child is empty-handed at C h r i s t m a s and that families have all the fixings they need to celebrate together over the holidays. MacDonald, who made regular trips to Berwick on the Lake, said the volunteer rollers there handled the extra volume of pennies well. “They’ve got arthritis and their fingers are sore, but they keep doing it, they keep up and they’ve done a really good job,” he said. Also to be commended are the efforts of the community drop-off locations: InPrint downtown, John’s Bedroom Barn, Northridge

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Melissa Fryer, second from left, managing editor of the Nanaimo News Bulletin, hands out cheques to envoy Dawne Anderson, Salvation Army fundraising coordinator, Carolyn Iles, publicity director with the Great Nanaimo Toy Drive, and Linda Janes with the Nanaimo Boys and Girls Club. The money was raised through the News Bulletin’s annual Pennies for Presents campaign, which aims to ensure no child in Nanaimo is left empty-handed at Christmas time.

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While Health Canada hopes proposed marijuana regulations criminalizing home production of the plant for medical purposes will nip issues like safety and abuse in the bud, the news has local licensed growers concerned the rules could make it harder for patients to afford the medicine they need. On Dec. 16, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced that the government will no longer produce and distribute marijuana for medical purposes – instead delegating the task to licensed producers who meet strict security requirements. The cur rent Marijuana Medical Access Pro g ram (MMAP), which has grown from 500 users to 26,000 in the last decade, will be axed in favour of Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR). Under the old program, participants are able to access medical

marijuana through Health Canada at a heavily subsidized cost of $5 per gram, or become licensed to grow their prescribed allotment from home. “The way the [current] system works essentially costs taxpayers millions of dollars each year,” said Stephane Shank, Health Canada spokesman. “The gover nment’s concerned that the program is open to abuse and has led to some illicit activity, and due to that, while the courts have said that there must be reasonable access to marijuana for medical purposes, we believe this must be done in a controlled fashion in order to protect public safety. “Essentially, the goal is to treat marijuana as much as possible like other narcotics used for medical purposes by creating conditions for a commercial industry that would be responsible for its production and distribution.” He added that the

new regulations will address concerns with fire hazards that have been a consequence of allowing individuals to grow at home. Under the new regulations, health-care practitioners will be able to sign a medical document similar to a prescription, and then patients can purchase the appropriate amount from an authorized vendor. Shank said it will be up to the licensed producers to set the price. “From that, there is the possibility of an increase,” he said. The target date to fully implement the new system is March 31, 2014, at which point all authorizations to possess and licenses to produce under the old program will expire. “It’s a sad day for Canadians,” said Bob Estes, a licensed medicinal marijuana user who operates Organic Matters Compassionate Access Centre in Nanaimo. “Most people can’t afford it and apparently the prices are going to double. I don’t know how I’m going to afford $600 a day. “It’s going to mean that a lot of people are going to be without

their medicine.” E s t e s, wh o u s e s approximately 60 g rams of medical marijuana a day for a broken back, topically and through ingestion, says the safety issues re garding g rowing have been blown out of proportion. “Christmas trees b u r n d ow n m o r e houses than grow-ops,” he said. Estes is concerned that medicinal users rights are being taken away and that criminalizing licensed users’ growing from home will force their activities underground. “Terry Parker won the right in 1999 for us to grow our own medicine in the Supreme Court, and that’s why the system is in place now,” he said. “We’ve already won the right. To do this is double jeopardy, it’s brutal.”

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Pam Edgar says she has concerns about the quality of commercially produced marijuana. “If I’m going to have to purchase my medicinal-use cannabis from a government regulated source, are they going to be able to provide me with what I need as opposed to me growing the strains that treat my symp-

toms?” she asked. “Are they going to be that educated? Are they going to grow more than one strain?” Edgar, a licensed grower who has used medicinal marijuana for the past 20 years to treat MS and a nerve injury resulting from a motorcycle accident, said education is key when it comes to marijuana use. She said the majority of people do not know that there are different strains of the plant that treat different symptoms. Choosing the wrong s t r a i n c a n h av e adverse affects on the body, which makes buying off the street a dangerous proposition. Among other benefits, growing from home allows the user the relief of knowing what they’re putting into their bodies.

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Taxman’s hand out for more It’s a new year, and that means all levels of government have their hands in our pockets a little more deeply than in 2012. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation sent out a press release outlining just how much additional pocket picking is coming our way in 2013. The list is substantial. The most substantial, and perhaps the most unfair, is the boost in Medical Services Plan premiums. These premiums increased $60 per family this year, and have now risen 24 per cent ($300 per family) in three years – far more than the rate of inflation. This boost in MSP fees was first brought in by the provincial government to help deal with its deficit, and it appears this premium will keep rising until enough members of the public start to pay full attention to just how much it is costing them. The federal government doesn’t get off scot-free. As of Jan. 1, premiums for employment insurance are up, and so are contributions to the Canada Pension Plan. While contributors will get their CPP contributions back eventually if they retire and collect CPP P, the same cannot be said for EI. A small portion of the population collects it, but all working people and their employers pay for the program. Municipal governments, in the midst of employee contractual obligations, will boost property taxes by two to five per cent this year. Exact rates for Nanaimo, the RDN, school board, hospital and library haven’t been set yet. In the meantime, B.C. Hydro is raising rates by almost four per cent on April 1. One thing is certain – governments have an insatiable appetite for our money. While much of the money they take goes to useful services, there is plenty of room for better management and for minimal tax increases. 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

Enviro-groups switch targets to gas They’re well on the way to stopwith B.C. cabinet minister Pat Bell, ping the expansion of oil exports Coastal First Nations and forest to Asia. companies, the Sierra Club, ForNow, will B.C.’s American estEthics and Greenpeace muscled branch-plant environmental their way to the table. machine turn on natural gas? How they did so became clear A couple of weeks ago I described in early 2007. Behind these big the dispute between the Haisla three eco-propaganda groups was Nation and the rest of the Coastal a $60-million war chest from an First Nations group over the pioobscure outfit called Tides Canada. neering of liquefied natAnother front group, ural gas development on as it turns out. The B.C. Haisla territory at Kitiactual source of the VIEWS mat. Powerful chiefs of money was the William the Heiltsuk, Gitga’at, and Flora Hewlett FounTom Fletcher Haida and others in the the David and dation, Black Press so-called Great Bear Lucille Packard FounRainforest oppose the dation, the Wilberforce idea of kicking off a Foundation, the Gordon new LNG export indusand Betty Moore Fountry without extending dation and the Rockthe hydro grid to supefeller Brothers Fund. port renewable power Most made their bilfor the region. lions in computers and Liquefied natural gas software and funded is shaping up as B.C.’s largest-ever scientifically suspect campaigns industrial project, if it gets built. such as ‘Yellowstone to Yukon’ and And there are signs the American‘boreal forest’ aimed at turning directed environmental attack is more than one third of Canada into swinging to our gas boom. parks. Increasingly, they are partSome in the Canadian media nering with aboriginal people in insist no such U.S. influence B.C. and across Canada. exists, or that it is trivial and Some in B.C.’s media have grudgbenign. They mock federal Natural ingly credited independent B.C. Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s researcher Vivian Krause with filldescription of “foreign radicals,” ing in the blanks. She showed that pretending this applies to everyone starting in 2002, these foundations opposed to oil pipelines. began formally organizing against There weren’t many reporters Canadian fossil fuel production. with me when I covered the negoWhen the B.C. and Canadian tiations for the Great Bear Raingovernments matched the $60-milforest in 2006. To the Vancouver lion Great Bear Rainforest fund for media it was just a big forest deal “ecosystem-based” forest manageup in the middle of nowhere. Along ment, they didn’t realize they were

reinforcing a blockade against oil exports. Tides and its backers have continued to fund and create new protest groups, which are quoted by credulous B.C. media. Their argument against oil exports centres on the sexy but false premise that Alberta’s ‘tar sands’ somehow uniquely threaten the global climate. Lately, as B.C.’s gas development has become clearer, the protests has refocused. Now, we hear dire claims about the decades-old technique of “fracking” in gas development, and previously obscure groups are springing up to protest gas projects. Hollywood is about to gas us with an anti-fracking movie starring Matt Damon. Previews suggest that Promised Land d works the usual evil-greedy-capitalist themes, in the Avatarr tradition. ForestEthics, Sierra Club and Greenpeace, meanwhile, are campaigning against their original forest preservation deal on B.C.’s Central and North Coast. Sustainable development solutions aren’t good for their business model. If people think a problem is solved, they stop sending money. Meanwhile, the U.S. is surging ahead with its own shale oil and gas boom. Plans are underway for LNG exports from the U.S. to Asia. I think 2013 would be a good year for Canada to start making its own decisions on energy development. ◆ Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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Property purchase will prove costly

To the Editor, Re: City purchases waterfront rail yard downtown, Dec. 15. I was surprised to hear the city bought 10.8 hectares of one of the risky pieces of property in Nanaimo. The environmental liability could cost the taxpayers of Nanaimo millions of dollars. That does not include repairing the aging trestle and all the encumbrances, rightof-ways and leases that come along with it. This is the same city staff and council who had to build a new annex and has plans to destroy the Colliery dams over fears of liability if there was an earthquake. The same city staff and council who inked an agreement to sell the old annex for $1 so they would not have any liability for that building in case of an earthquake. It’s funny how the city will spend millions of taxpayers’ dol-

lars to prevent liability for an earthquake that no one knows when, or if, it will happen and then spends millions to buy a liability. There is no question that those 10.8 hectares could in time cost us far more that the Vancouver Island Conference Centre has. All they bought was a coal slag dump next to the harbour that had industrial equipment leaking oils and other environmental wastes on the ground for 100 years. Cleaning up dump sites is not cheap. That’s the reason old mill sites and service stations sit empty. Terrance Wagstaff Nanaimo

Review advice a touch ironic To the Editor, Re: Efficient operations can withstand core review, Letters, Dec. 27. How ironic that in his letter, Gary Korpan

shares some of what he learned as mayor and gives advice to city council for being good stewards with our tax dollars. He wants council to always ask ‘is this the best use of our limited resources?’ He wishes for regular core reviews, less ego gratification and more transparency at city hall. I couldn’t agree more. Korpan’s wisdom over the Vancouver Island Conference Centre only cost Nanaimo taxpayers about $75 million … and counting. Steve Quinn Nanaimo

Council rant solves nothing To the Editor, Re: Core review a good call, Letters, Dec. 25. May I put in a plea for a new year’s resolution to ban from the letters page ideological rhetoric, exag-

geration and just plain falsehood as exhibited by Randy O’Donnell? To back up his biases, maybe he could give an example of anyone whose retirement plans have been “crippled” by increasing property taxes which at most amount to $20 or $30 per year – about the cost of four or five large coffees. Rising costs for food, gas, dental care, drugs, entertainment, auto repairs, veterinary care etc., all attributable to private sector profits/costs and are much more likely to “cripple” individual retirement savings. Perhaps O’Donnell could also give an example of any city employee earning a 40 per cent premium over private sector employees with the same qualifications, performing equivalent work? He forgets that the so-called “generous retirement plans” of

public servants are cooperatively paid for. It is well documented that a majority of workers are unable to save adequately for retirement. Unless we become willing to tolerate seniors living under bridges and eating out of garbage pails, who is most likely to have to help them survive economically when they are too old to work if not future governments? Eradicating adequate pension plans merely shifts the burden generally to future generations of taxpayers from current employers and actual beneficiaries. Regardless of whether city council should or should not have voted for a core review, thoughtless, knee-jerk anti-tax, anti-government ranting solves nothing and is becoming a real bore. Liz Fox Lantzville

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Time to stop years of spinning our wheels In 1988, hundreds of sci2005. Had we heeded that entists and policy-makers warning and embarked on a met in Toronto for a major campaign to meet the target, international conference on Canadians would now be climate change. healthier (because They were sufof reduced air SCIENCE ficiently alarmed pollution), have MATTERS by the accumugreater reserves of lated evidence for energy and more David Suzuki human-caused jobs. We’d also be global warming a world leader in that they issued renewable energy a release statand could have ing, “Humanity saved tens of bilis conducting lions of dollars. an unintended, In 1988, the enviuncontrolled, ronment was a top globally perpublic concern, vasive experiment whose scientists spoke out and poliultimate consequences could ticians said the right things. be second only to a global Global warming was a pressnuclear war.” ing and present issue. They urged world leaders Now, 25 years later, carbon to reduce greenhouse gas dioxide emissions continue emissions by 20 per cent by to rise, and we’re already see-

ing the consequences – more extreme weather events, melting glaciers and Arctic ice, rising sea levels, reduced water flows in rivers and climate-related illness and death, among others. It’s driven in part by rapid economic growth in countries like China, India and Brazil. At the same time, most industrialized nations, whose use of fossil fuels created the problem of excess greenhouse gases, have done little to reduce emissions. The sooner we act, the easier it will be to overcome these difficult challenges. Every year that we stall makes it more costly and challenging, with increasing negative impacts on humans and our environment. There are signs of hope.

Many countries – as well as cities, states and provinces – are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources. Some world leaders are even questioning our current paradigm, where the economy is made a priority above all else. This is crucial. Over and over, the economy has determined the extent of our response. But how much value does it place on breathable air, drinkable water, edible food and stable weather and climate? Surely the economy is the means to a better future, not an end in itself. Let’s hope this year ushers in a new way of living on and caring for our planet.

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Circus entertainers brighten lives of refugee children Ve s t a F i re E n t e rtainment has been delighting Vancouver Island audiences with striking circus performances since the group formed two years ago.

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Rivers inspire Nanaimo dancer’s tale BY RACHEL STERN THE NEWS BULLETIN

ater has a voice. It whispers. It roars. Like people’s lives it flows, weaves and pushes over the earth, connecting and mingling with others. The water of the river inspired dancer and choreographer Holly Bright, artistic director of the Crimson Coast Dance Society, to create Rivers: What the Water Whispers. The seeds for the dance were first planted when Bright watched the U.K. film, A Guide to Yorkshire Rivers by Simon Warner. It is a tale of three rivers and follows the course of each simultaneously until they meet at the Humber estuary. “It really struck me, as I watched it, each river has its own personality,” said Bright. “It reflects the sense of regardless of what is happing in individual lives, at the end of the day, life goes on.” Water speaks to the deep level of connection, said Bright. She said communities are built around bodies of water and there are stories built around them as well. “Life, like a river, runs slow, easy or turbulently and at times with facades that hide or reveal,” she said. She began to expand on the idea and weave stories from the Nanaimo community and issues around the Nanaimo River and estuary into her dance. She collaborated with performer Genevieve Johnson. Johnson is dancing Butoh. It is a dance based

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Avatar: I Post Therefore I Am, created by Freya Olafson, is a contemporary dance that explores identity and how people communicate online. The dance is part of the Rivers to Avatars performance at Malaspina Theatre Friday (Jan. 4) 8 p.m. presented by Crimson Coast Dance Society.

on images, while western dancing techniques are based more on vocabulary and choreographed steps, Johnson explained. “The dance is always personal interpretation. It’s a moving poem,” said Johnson, adding that each individual watching could have a different view of the piece. During the first part of the dance Johnson is a

glacier. “It’s hard. It’s breaking,” said Johnson. “They don’t have to know I am losing a piece of arm and it is floating away.” Bright said the dance produces a piece of poetry that is “very profound.” Rivers has been perfor med previously at dance festivals on Vancouver Island, but Bright has continued to change it.

She’s bringing Rivers to Malaspina Theatre Friday (Jan. 4) with the help of Mike Taugher and Andrew Pyre who are designing the set along with Robert Seaton and Bright. Pyre is also working as lighting designer and was recently awarded the Larisa Fayad Memorial Scholarship to help support his participation in the project.

The evening, Rivers to Avatars, features two dance performances. Rivers: What the Water Whispers and Avatar: I Post Therefore I am. Avatar, created by Freya Olafson, is a piece about how technology distances people from each other and it explores identity and how people communicate in cyberspace. Olafson, from Winnipeg,

is a dance artist who works with video, audio, painting and performances. She has presented her work nationally and internationally at festivals and galleries. The perfor mances begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20/$15 students/$10 groups and are available by calling 250-716-3230 or www.crimsoncoastdance. org. arts@nanaimobulletin.com

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Dancer reaches top seven Voters helped Nanaimo’s Kiana Smith win both her musical theatre and tap categories in the Dance Upon A Dream Contest. Despite the highest number of votes Smith didn’t win the ultimate prize package, a trip to New York and three months training at the Broadway Dance Centre. The winner was determined by Tyce Diorio, from So You Think You Can Dance. Smith’s mother Trish, said

in an e-mail, that even though Kiana didn’t win she was “ecstatic” to have made it to the top seven. “It was an incredible experience to have two of her routines judged by 36 world class successful industry judges,” said Trish. “Being exposed to the best in the industry, some of whom might even employ her one day … was a very worthwhile experience.” Kiana has been dancing since she was three and taking clas-

sical voice for nine years. She hopes to pursue a career in musical theatre. She attends Vibe Dance Studio and trains in ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, hip hop and gymnastics. She also teaches jazz, tap and hip hop at the studio. The competition was created by Joshua Horner. The next Dance Upon A Dream contest begins Jan. 31. For more information please go to www.danceuponadream.com.

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Charity on hunt for singing sensation Variety’s Got Talent is on the hunt for the province’s newest singing sensation. The talent search is seeking B.C. youth between the ages of 13-29 to audition for the contest. The winner, of the third annual competition presented by Coast Capital Savings, will receive a Rising Star music package and appear on the Variety

Show of Hearts Telethon Feb. 16-17. The Rising Star package includes a $600 gift certificate to Tom Lee, a songwriting lesson with Colin Wiebe and more. The contest was created in 2011. Ten individuals will be chosen to compete in the finals on Feb. 9 at the River Rock Show Theatre. Nine of the performers will

be chosen by music industry representatives and the tenth will vie for a spot through an online voting contest. Competitors must submit their audition video to the Variety’s Got Talent website before Jan.16. For more information or contest guidelines please go to www.varietysgottal ent.ca.

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AN EVENING OF SONG with Crystal and Samantha Cashmore and special guest Donna Falconer at St. Paul's Anglican Church Jan. 19 and Jan. 26, 7 p.m. Tickets $15. Call 250-585-6174 or e-mail nscashmore@ gmail.com.

DANCE RIVERS AND AVATARS presented by Crimson Coast Dance Friday (Jan. 4) at Malaspina Theatre. Tickets $20/$15 students or $25 at the door. Call 250-716-3230.

SHANE PHILIP and Emma Plant play the Queen's Jan. 25, 7 p.m. Tickets $15 at Lucid, Tranceformations, Harbour City Music, the Dog's Ear, the Queen's or www. ticketzone.com.

ONGOING INDUSTRY NIGHT Mondays at the Cambie with Deep Space Burnout. Free cover. 10 p.m. OPEN MIC every Wednesday at the Cambie with Anatol Sessions. Free cover. 9 p.m. Bring your instruments.

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DYNOMITE SOUL with DJ at Acme Food Co. on Sunday, 7 p.m. to midnight. OPEN JAM at the Queen’s Monday. FEMME FATALES play Tuesday nights at the Queen’s. OPEN JAM at the Courts Pub Thursdays 9 p.m. to midnight.

ART COAST an exhibit portraying Canada's raincoast at the Nanaimo Art Gallery’s downtown location until Sunday (Jan. 5).

ACOUSTIC OPEN MIKE blues friendly at Tabu Lounge Thursday 7-10 p.m. All-ages. OPEN MIKE COMEDY at the Courts Pub first Friday of the month 9-11 p.m.

SYNERGY an exhibit by Vancouver Island University Art and Design department members. Jan. 10-Feb. 16 at Nanaimo Art Gallery campus location. Opening reception Jan. 10, 5-7 p.m.

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July 13, 1949 December 21, 2012 The angel amongst us has gone to heaven to watch over us! Len passed away peacefully from his short battle with cancer. He was predeceased by his parents, T. Donald Sale and Alice Sale and his sister, Wendy Higgins. He is survived and will be greatly missed by his wife, Francine Sale; daughter, Alisha Sale and her mother, Noella Sale (Steve); his brother, Barry Sale (Vicky); his sister, Donna Brown (Ken), and many more unbelievably close family and friends. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, January 5, 2013, at 1:00p.m. at Sands Funeral Home, 1 Newcastle Avenue, Nanaimo, B.C.

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for guys to assess their own games. “Not even just at the break – all season you’re looking at things that you’ve done wrong. We have lots of one-on-one meetings with [coach Mike Vandekamp], talking about things that we need to work on and areas where we might be struggling, and things that we’re doing right, as well,” he said. “You’re constantly judging your own game and striving to be better.”

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Basketball is in session, even if classes aren’t. Vancouver Island University’s men’s and women’s hoops teams tip off their winter semesters on Friday (Jan. 4) with Pacific Wester n Athletic Association games against the Camosun Chargers. It’s a strange scheduling quirk to have league games starting before students are even back at classes. The Mariners coaches don’t necessarily like it, but they’ll try to make the best of things and hope for some fan support. The VIU Mariners players will, at least, be in b-ball mode as both had exhibition action at the end of December. The women’s team participated in Camosun’s tournament in Victoria, while the M’s men travelled across the border to face Washington’s Whatcom College Orcas on Saturday. “Ideally we would have been able to play a few games, but with such a quick turnaround, the one game was all we could sneak in,” said Matt Kuzminski, VIU coach. GAME ON … VIU’s women’s basketball team plays Camosun at 6 p.m. Friday at the Vancouver Island University gym. The men will follow at 8 p.m. It’s the start of a homestand for the Mariners, who will also play at VIU next weekend (Jan. 11-12) and the weekend after that.

The new year brings a fresh sheet of ice and it also brings a whole bunch of possibilities for the Nanaimo Clippers. The city’s B.C. Hockey League team skates into 2013 this weekend with a full slate of games – three in three days. The Clips take on the Victoria Grizzlies on the road Friday (Jan. 4), then host the Powell River Kings Saturday and the Prince George Spruce Kings on Sunday. It’s a lot of hockey, but the Clips had plenty of opportunities to get rested and refreshed over the holidays. “It’s always good to have a break like that to get away from hockey, kind of regroup and come back ready to go again, come back excited,” said Trevor Fitzgerald, team captain. “At the same time, everyone’s got the same advantage, every team had a break. We’re going to come back and come out hard.” The Clippers (17-13-0-2) did that in their return to BCHL action Friday in Victoria, outscoring the Grizz 6-4. It helped them close the books on 2012 with a positive as they look to reach higher in 2013. “We have to have a better second half than the

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The Nanaimo Buccaneers had a first-place fall, and now they’ll try for a winning winter. The city’s Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League team resumes the regular season tonight (Jan. 3) with a home game against the Comox Valley Glacier Kings. It’s a chance for the Bucs (18-13-2), the North Island Division leaders, to create further separation from the second-placed Kings (15-15-2). The Buccaneers had a chance over the holidays to look back on their first half, in which they arguably overachieved for an expansion team. “We’ re definitely proud of it, especially in the first season; it’s a complete new team, everything’s brand new,” said Quentin McShane, team captain. “It’s a good feeling; we’ve just got to keep it going.” He said the strong start doesn’t necessarily make the Bucs reassess their goals. They’ll just continue

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