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A tragedy on Yellow Point Road last week has left two young children without their father. Gavin McConville, a 51-year-old English professor at Vancouver Island University died in a car accident May 4 on Yellow Point Road. Regional coroner Matt Brown said Monday investigators are still trying to determine whether McConville died as a result of the crash or some form of medical condition that may have contributed to the crash. The Ladysmith man was southbound with his two children in the area near De Courcy Drive when the vehicle left the road, striking a power pole and then a tree before coming to rest. He was declared dead on the scene by the B.C. Coroner’s office. “We’re still waiting for the traffic analyst’s report,” Brown said. According to Brown, the crash occurred on an s-curve. “He negotiated the first turn, he didn’t negotiate the second. There’s no indication that weather was a factor, but that’s still to be determined.” see Children page 7

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A Crofton fire truck will find new life in retirement serving a needy community in South America. North Cowichan has donated a 1984 Mack Pumper Truck, retired last year, to Firefighters Without Borders Canada. “When David Hitchcock, a North Cowichan firefighter and the Central Vancouver Island representative for Firefighters Without Borders Canada, made the recommendation, Council didn’t hesitate to approve the donation,” said Mayor Jon Lefebure. “Thanks to Crofton fire hall’s commitment to maintenance and upkeep, this truck will likely be in service for another 20 years.” In Canada, a combination of safety standards and insurance requirements only allow fire trucks to be in service for around 25 years. “The mission of Firefighters Without Borders Canada is to assist the emergency service agencies in developing countries to improve their ability to effectively offer a higher level of emergency services to their communities,” said Bob Dubbert, President of Firefighters Without Borders Canada.

Dangerous man wanted

North Cowichan/ Duncan RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 35-year-old Nathan Myles, a resident of the Cowichan Valley. Myles, left, is wanted in connection with a series of violent offences, including the serious assault of an 18-yearold Duncan woman who was known to him. He is about 6’1”, 166 pounds and recently cut his long hair short. Anyone with information should call the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP at 250-748-5522, or anonymously through Crimestoppers at 1-800222-TIPS (8477).

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Ladysmith approves fenced dog park for the centre of town John McKinley THE CHRONICLE

A new fenced dog park is coming to Ladysmith in a central location. A late recommendation from staff to build the park on undeveloped town land west of the turf field failed to trump similar existing proposals at Brown Drive Park, Davis Road School and the corner of Sixth Avenue and Methuen. Instead, council has decide to move forward with the Methuen site, near one of the entrances to the Holland Creek Trail. The proximity to that popular dog walk and the fact that it is in the middle of town overcome any concerns about site size. “It’s a central location and there is enough space,” Mayor Aaron Stone said. “I think council thought it was a better location.” Stirling and Audrey Beeston are the owners of a pair of the town’s 1,000 licensed dogs. They are OK with the idea of a fenced off-leash dog park being added in town. Shrinking and fencing in the current off-leash area at Transfer Beach Park? Not so much. The couple has been taking their pets to Transfer Beach Park for 40 years on an almost daily basis. They see lots of space, pets and people interacting in an healthy way and no threat to public safety or people’s enjoyment of

Dusty inspects a photographer while Rascal trots off to explore other areas of the Transfer Beach off-leash dog area. Owners Stirling and Audrey Beeston have been taking their dogs to the park for 40 years. JOHN MCKINLEY the park. equation,” he said. “There They don’t see anything are people that don’t want broken, and they wonder a dog park there at all. We why council feels the need don’t want that.” to start fixing. Instead, the goal is to “Why are they wasting continue providing opporour tax dollars?” Audrey tunities for dog owners asked. while minimizing impact The answer, according on other park uses. to the town, is part safety Council has already and part being neighbour- approved reducing the ly. Stone said there have Transfer Beach off-leash been incidents of dogs zone to the area below the running out on to the road. horseshoe pitch. In the And there have been com- other half of the current plaints from other users of area, they will be permitthe beach area who don’t ted on-leash only. want to have to interact Stone said some people with canines. are misunderstanding “There’s been feedback what the beach area will from the other side of the look like. It’s less a fence

and more of a way of mark- Estimated cost of develing out the new territory. oping the park is $27,000 — “The intent is not to en- $3,000 less than the Forrest close it. It’s providing a Field option, and $14,000 soft barrier,” he said. “It’s more than Brown Drive. still a very large area. It’s Plans still need to be all about finding a com- drawn up and a lease mon good.” agreement negotiated Split-wood fencing, land- with BC Hydro. scaping and new signage The Brown Drive Park has been approved to location was deemed by mark the new off-leash staff to lack parking and area in this year’s bud- be too close to the playget. Work is expected to ground. Council also felt get underway at a cost of both it and Forrest Field about $14,000, once coun- could be better utilized cil has approved the final for other purposes. The design. school was rejected as an It’s less clear when work option partly due to unon the Methuen site is certainty about school disexpected to get started. trict plans for the property.

Study says all our schools below average Fraser Institute report says every local school registered foundation skills testing results below B.C. average John McKinley

the Ladysmith-Chemainus area is below the provincial average. THE CHRONICLE The report ranked 978 elementary If you find the annual Fraser In- schools from across the province stitute school rankings a waste of based on the results of foundation your time, flip ahead to the next skills assessment testing done in the 2013-14 school year. The FSAs story. Otherwise, be prepared for a are given annually to Grade 4 and little bit of good and a little bit of Grade 7 students to test their proficiency in math, reading and writbad. The good news in rankings re- ing. The average provincial score leased last week is Ladysmith from 2013-14 was 6.0. • The now-closed Ecole Davis Road Intermediate School continued a recent trend of improvement and topped all local schools this year Ecole Davis Road bounced back with a ranking of 557th and a score of 5.7. The total was up considerably strongly after a down year. The bad news is every school in from a 4.2 the previous year.

• LIS maintained the sizable jump ally an indication that not enough it had made in the rankings from students wrote the tests to make the previous year, finishing in 647th them statistically relevant. place. Its score of 5.3 was well Ecole Davis Road was closed above its five-year average of 4.5. after the last school year and its • Crofton Elementary scored French immersion program transthird-best results among local ferred to North Oyster. schools, finished in 692nd place, Eighteen of the top 21 schools although its 5.1 score was well be- in this year’s overall rankings low its five-year average of 6.2. were private institutions. Private • North Cedar declined for the schools Aspengrove in Lantzville third consecutive year, dropping and Queen Margaret’s in Duncan to 844th spot. Its score of 4.1 topped all schools within the two down from its five-year average local districts, ranking 24th and of 4.6. 53rd, respectively. • St. Joseph’s, which was not part The second best public school of the report last year, also ranked score (after Hammond Bay) in the 844th, with the same score of 4.1. Nanaimo and Cowichan districts • North Oyster and Chemainus was Nanaimo’s learn@home proElementary Schools were not in- gram, finishing 121st overall with cluded in the Fraser Institute rank- a score of 7.9. ings released last week — ususee Ranking page 7

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The vignette, captured on Ron Dale washes his car after taping a toonie to the machine for the video and posted on a public next person to use — an example of the types of simple, yet meanforum, is hard to watch without ingful actions being encouraged by the Ladysmith Random Acts of cracking a smile: five women Kindness movement. JOHN MCKINLEY packing flower baskets, knocking on doors at a local seniors in life is to put a smile on some- second in the series, members of body’s face every day,” Ron Dale the Ladysmith Dragon Boat team complex. The doors open. Eyebrows said.”It’s being aware of some prepared flower baskets and deraise under white and gray and of the needs around you and re- livered them to random seniors. It is the second of nine clips dyed coifs. Hands reach to ac- membering why Ladysmith is a that will be posted to the cept the gift as uncertain smiles wonderful place to live.” Dale and Kim Judson Random Acts of Kindness crack lined faces. It’s just another random act launched the local movement Ladysmith page in the comof kindness mission accom- last June after a presentation ing weeks in order to inspire to town council. Marketed with people into similar acts. In the plished in Ladysmith. Launched last summer, the stickers posted in a variety of lo- first; Jesse Winter and his famLadysmith Random Act of cations, organizers also pushed ily hand out balloons to strangKindness movement is kicking the campaign at schools and ers along First Avenue. The suggestions are endless: into high gear again this spring churches through tip sheets with a series of videos on its and bulletin board forms where from the effortless old staple of people could make note of the holding a door open, to buying Facebook page. Random Acts of Kindness random acts of kindness expe- someone an ice cream cone, to writing a letter of appreciation Ladysmith promotes the prac- rienced in their personal lives. Dale said the initiative has for a favourite service worker tice of paying it forward: buying a coffee for the car behind caught on simply because peo- and sending it to his or her boss. Dale’s message is simple: try it, you at the drive-through; telling ple like it and it makes sense. the restaurant server scrubbing He just wants to remind them you’ll like it. “It also makes the day of the someone else’s table she is do- of how easy it can be to make person who did it,” he said. ing a good job; complimenting a difference. “It’s happening. I just want to Post any random acts of kindthe stranger beside you at the refresh your memories,” he ness you’ve received to the cash register on his nice coat. These are the unexpected, said. “There are so many ben- movement’s facebook site, or thoughtful actions that make a efits to it. We just want to keep email them to the Chronicle at editor@ladysmithchronicle. surprising amount of difference it front-and-centre.” Thus the new video series. In com. in people’s lives. We’ll publish our favourites. “One of my personal missions the video described above, the

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ness Association and Ladysmith Chamber the chronicle of Commerce went The large “Welcome to work. Consultant Associates to Ladysmith” sign at Golder the north end of town was hired to help at a in Bob Stuart Park cost of $25,000. The resulting sigwill be replaced soon as part of a $280,000 nature pieces are a signage overhaul pair of large welcome designed to make signs on either end of Ladysmith look more town. They will mirror the existing Bob welcoming. The money — most Stuart Park sign in of it expected to size and scope. Initial come from a govern- designs show a more ment grant — is being modern look and a targeted to build 13 script-style font, hownew signs, including a ever staff state the pair of signature wel- look may be revised. The draft new Bob coming signs at either Stuart sign is blue end of town. The plan began as on white. The south a discussion on how end sign (opposite to regulate the use the south Davis Road of sandwich boards turnoff) will have a codowntown. Then blue-and-green evolved into some- lour scheme that will be echoed in a series thing larger. “How can we pro- of smaller “heritage direcvide opportunities for downtown” people to learn about tional signs aimed at our great downtown?” drawing people in off Ladysmith develop- the highway. New will be a handment services manager Felicity Adams said. ful of street-sign-style signs “We want to get peo- directional ple off the highway along First Avenue, and into downtown. designed to point Then, once they are out businesses off into downtown, we the main drag and want to entice them eliminate the need for by showing them sandwich boards. These will be comwhat is available.” A committee includ- plemented by a kiosk ing representatives sign featuring a map from the Ladysmith and a business direcDowntown Busi- tory. Businesses are

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his year’s Ladysmith and North Cowichan budgets involved a lot of serious debate about how to slice up the property tax pie. How much of the load should be shouldered by residents and how much by businesses? And it left us wondering: why is there is any difference at all? We all share in the benefits of living and working in Ladysmith. Why don’t we all pay the same rate? By what rationale have we determined that businesses must shoulder a larger share of the burden? An argument can be made that businesses, particularly heavy industry, cause a greater strain on the town’s infrastructure. The counterargument would be that there are other ways to make heavy industry pay. They use more water? They should pay higher water rates. Heavy trucks wearing out town streets? Hit them with a business licensing fee to pay for maintenance. An argument can be made that they are in a better position to pay than the average citizen. That may be true, but has somebody actually demonstrated that as fact? Certainly they generate more income, but just as obviously they carry more costs. Maybe communities have traditionally taxed businesses at a higher rate simply because they can. And maybe they have been doing it for so long no one has ever really thought to wonder if it was fair or effective. We are not suggesting a flat rate is necessarily the way to go. We are asking what would happen if one was in place. Would a resulting growth in businesses and jobs make up for the lost tax revenue? We’re interested in the answer. The Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle 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, PO Box 1356, Ladysmith, B.C. V9G 1A9. For information phone 1-888-6872213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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by Tom Fletcher Albertans have always laughed about their longstanding reputation as a reckless, immature society. The classic bumper sticker, now available as a T-shirt or coffee cup in several variations, states: “Please God, give us one more oil boom, we promise not to p--- it away this time.” Now they’ve thrown out the government that finally tried to stop blowing money like a roughneck fresh out of the bush. Jim Prentice had the gall to propose raising income taxes for high wage earners, doing away with former Alberta treasurer Stockwell Day’s signature flat tax. In response, voters have abruptly replaced the 44-year Progressive Conservative dynasty with an upstart NDP

that wants to tax the rich and corporations even more. Facing an oil slump, layoffs and a huge structural deficit in Alberta’s lavish public service, NDP premier-elect Rachel Notley is committed to a 50-per-cent increase in the minimum wage and another “review” of resource royalties. One headline in a national paper summed it up: “Go home, Alberta. You’re drunk.” In the sober days after the election, a few truths emerge. Alberta hasn’t been a fiscally conservative, small-government place for a long time. Among other things, it has ratcheted up teacher and nurse wages across the country. Alberta is broke, again, and even the NDP is afraid to resort to a sales tax. The minimum wage hike is a pet policy of Canada’s labour federations, which somehow remain convinced that poverty can be eliminated by state order. On the positive side, Notley has promised to end corporate and union donations to political parties, as has already been done federally. B.C.

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his party base devoutly believes. Besides, they’re only branch offices of multinational oil companies like Shell, Horgan said. He used his favourite Tommy Douglas quote, about the bad news of a big oil company leaving. “The good news is, the oil is staying here.” B.C.’s natural gas might be staying here too. Horgan insists he supports a natural gas export industry, but his party seems more concerned with an ascending Green Party, and an urban base that believes you can run a resource economy on windmills and solar panels. Notley supports twinning the TransMountain pipeline, while Horgan continues to insist he has no opinion on the project Adrian Dix so memorably opposed. The Alberta NDP has a steep learning curve ahead. The B.C. NDP has a couple of years to see if the appearance of a likeminded Alberta government is a boost for them, or a cautionary tale for voters. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers.

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Rankings continue to be controversial in education from page 3 The B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils has spoken out in support of the FSA tests, saying they provide important information about the effectiveness of a school’s programs. But B.C.’s teachers have been campaigning to boycott FSA testing for years, claiming they intrude on teaching time and are unfairly used to rank schools. Officials in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district share some of their concerns. The previous school board indicated it was concerned about the “misuse” of the data to rank schools and its belief the FSA results also serve to discount the quality teaching and learning that occurs in classrooms. The Fraser Institute has long maintained the rankings help parents and teachers compare schools by showing which schools have shown improvement, and which schools have fallen behind. — with file from Robert Barron

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ness backers didn’t budge the majority of North Cowichan council from their 2015 budget choice: shifting more of a planned tax increase onto business and industrial. Rejecting an option that called for a 3.22% tax increase across the board, council narrowly approved a budget that will result in a 2.98% jump for residential property owners and a 3.7% hike for commercial and industrial properties. The votes of Councillors Al Siebring, Tom Walker, Joyce Behnsen and Rob Douglas carried the day, with Mayor Jon Lefebure and Councillors Kate Marsh and Maeve Maguire preferring the across-theboard increase. “We’re one of the lower business rates on the island compared to other municipalities. The lion’s share of this will fall on a handful of properties. It’s not ideal, but it’s quite a small amount for most businesses,” Douglas said. “We need to show we care about homeowners,” Councillor Tom Walker said. “Many homeowners are now struggling. We keep talking about the average house but I have trouble finding it.” Cam Drew of Thermoproof Windows in the Chemainus industrial park led the charge at North Cowichan’s May 6 council meeting as business owners packed the council chambers trying to change that mindset. “If it is the goal of council to download the burden to light industry, congratulations, you’ve already done it,” he said, explaining that his light industrial operation, which employees 27 people and has a payroll of more than $1 million per year is already paying five times the rate paid by the residential class. He was backed by Brad Grigor of the Chemainus Chamber

George Gates was one of several Chemainus business owners lobbying to no avail against North Cowichan’s new budget. File Photo of Commerce saying profitable with a budget proposal that local businesses spend money saw every class looking at an locally and are also local home- increase of only 2.89 per cent. owners so they get hit twice by “We chose to move it up to North Cowichan taxes. 3.22 per cent. We don’t want “A tax increase for a business to hide that we did this,” she is not a write-off. It erodes reminded her colleagues. profitability and that profit Siebring, although on the is the only take-home pay for other side of the vote, agreed. the owner.” “Councillor Marsh is right. We George Gates, another all have to wear this,” he said, Chemainus business own- explaining he thought a three er, questioned the message per cent ceiling was an imporcouncil was sending. He said tant psychological threshold council was backtracking on for the residential class and a progressive message sent by that if the municipality had previous councils to anyone been able to keep the evenlylooking to open a business. distributed rate at under that “I may not be able to trust you level, he would have been able after this vote,” he said. “This to consider supporting it. shows you’re not on board Mayor Jon Lefebure noted in with that plan. I’m concerned.” his comments that one thing He certainly had the support council must remember as it of Marsh. looks at future budgeting is “I feel this is a defining mo- that it is the residential sector ment for council. We’re in that is growing and that any the first year of our term. It’s more attempts to shift the tax all about messaging. Who we burden away from homeownare as council. We can set the ers would see diminishing retable for business,” she said. turns. Marsh also pointed out that Total taxes on a $300,000 North Cowichan’s staff had home in this year’s budget will originally come to council amount to about $1,370.

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Input wanted on watershed management John McKinley the chronicle

It’s your watershed. How do you want to see it managed? That question is the reason for a community meeting scheduled for Ladysmith next week. A proposal to create a watershed management roundtable designed to help give stakeholders a place to regularly meet and share watershed activity and shape watershed policy is starting to gather steam in the community. Consider this May 20 meeting square one. “In an analogy, the bus is just getting fueled up. The public meeting on May 20 will be the first stop for an empty bus, and then the passengers that get on will have to decide on the destination and sights to be taken in on the way,” Greg Roberts said.

A former member of the town’s now- “There should be an opportunity for fordormant environment commission, Rob- est companies to communicate with the erts has been attempting to better con- public on its plans and have discussion to nect TimberWest, the forestry company ensure that forest practices protect qualwhich owns much of the land in the wa- ity and quantity of water,” Roberts said. tershed, with a variety of groups who use “The town has a responsibility to deliver those lands and depend on what it offers. quality water to our homes and business. The Stz’uminus First Nation, the Town The responsibility carries costs.” of Ladysmith, the Ladysmith Sportsmen’s Next week’s meeting will feature Club, Advocates for Holland Creek, Otter speakers from other communities sharPoint Timber and TimberWest are just ing their experience, followed by a quessome interests he hopes will join the gen- tion-and-answer session. eral public at the meeting and help shape “It is hoped the meeting will provide a the roundtable’s form and direction. wealth of information that can then be “This watershed effectively provides us used to draft terms of reference and with quality water with enough capacity agenda for a made-in-Ladysmith apto support our current needs. But the proach,” Roberts said. future is not so clear,” Roberts said. “These are important questions that The questions that need to be ad- need to be addressed; we need to put in dressed cover many areas: climate place a new model for collaboration and change; fish habitat; wildlife conserva- communication.” tion; public access; water quality and The meeting is scheduled for Wednesquantity; forestry; and hydrology. day, May 20, 7 p.m. at Aggie Hall.

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The Ladysmith Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel will convene on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall, 410 Esplanade, Ladysmith, B.C. to hear any complaints and review the water and sewer parcel tax assessments for 2015. A complaint will not be heard by the Review Panel unless notice of the complaint has been made in writing to the Town of Ladysmith by 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. For further details please contact City Hall at 250.245.6414, ext. 6206

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Share your VE-Day memory here Ladysmith Legion asking the community to share its memories of what you did when the war ended John McKinley the chronicle

We all have them, those days you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing. Days like when the twin towers fell, when Diana’s car rolled or when Neil Armstrong made his historic first steps. But these days pale in comparison to May 7 and Aug. 15, 1945. Everyone older than 80 remembers them vividly, the days the Second World War ended in Europe and in Japan. The issue is how to make sure those memories are preserved when that generation passes. The Ladysmith branch of the Royal This shot from the Ray Knight collection shows Mayor Ernie Jameson gathering the community for a Canadian Legion is VE-Day ceremony downtown at the corner of High Street and First Avenue, in front of the original CIBC marking the 70th an- building. Anyone with period photos they are interested in adding to the community archive is invited to niversary of the end contact the Ladysmith Historical Society at ldhsarch@shaw.ca. courtesy Ladysmith Archive of the war with a special project designed The project arose as a com- so many memories and if we ect by asking their elders the to keep those memo- plement to a special ceremony don’t get them they’re lost,” question themselves and passries alive. being hosted at the branch on Georgina Lorette, another vol- ing along their responses. Quite simply, the May 14, where local Second unteer added. The deadline is mid-June branch is posing the World War vets will be honParticipation is simple. Just and the pair hopes they will question “What were oured with a special com- jot your story down in an be able to republish some of you doing the day memorative lapel pin and cer- email and send it to the Le- the stories in Legion publicathe war ended?” to tificate. gion at rcl171@shaw.ca. Or if tions and the Chronicle. the entire community “We got a memo from B.C./ you aren’t comfortable doing Lorette said she hopes the and recording the an- Yukon Command and we just that yourself, call the office project will put a real face on swers for posterity. though it should be marked at 250-245-2273 and they will how the momentous news afsomehow,” Allyson Wagner, connect you with a volunteer fected our community. one of the volunteers working who will do an interview. “You don’t get stories in the 18th Annual on the project, said. Children and grandchildren history books,” she said. “You “So many people who have are urged to help the proj- just get history.”

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All in good Faith

Ladysmith-Chemainus Orca competing against the best adult swimmers in the country at the tender age of 13 John McKinley THE CHRONICLE

In the world of community sports reporting, it’s sometimes hard to give a story its proper weight. So read the following statement with care. According to last month’s Team Canada swimming trials, Faith Knelson is very close to joining the ranks of the best swimmers in all of Canada. Not the best in her age group. Not the best from a small swim club. Not the best among those living on the north island — although she is certainly all those things too. When Knelson dove into Toronto’s Pan Am Sports Centre last month, she was Faith Knelson is serving notice she can swim with the best in the country — not just in her age group, but at any age. JOHN MCKINLEY competing against the best swimmers our country has to offer, period, full-stop: stroke, finishing 23rd in the country. And superstars that have never did anything teams and swim in an Olympic final,” she women up to 10 years her senior; women she finished a respectable 47th in the later,” he said. “She’s not burned out. She said. “When I was six or seven, I said to still has a lot left in her.” my mom, I’m going to be an Olympian.” who would eventually be named to Cana- 50-metre butterfly. A Ladysmith resident and Grade 8 stuIn order to make the Junior National Big dreams like that are shared by many da’s Pan Am Games team. She finished 17th in the 50-metre wom- dent at Queen of Angels school in Duncan, team, Knelson will have to carve some youngsters. Unlike most of her peers, Knelson is starting to show signs those en’s breaststroke final, where she shared Knelson qualified for this same event last time off her personal best clockings. the pool with Breeja Larson, a 23-year-old year, but attended mostly for the experi- “I need two seconds,” she said. “I don’t dreams actually may have a chance of know if I can do that so I think I have to coming true. American who finished sixth in the 2012 ence. This time, it felt like the stakes were push myself even harder than this year.” Eight medals at last year’s age group London Olympics. higher. She will work toward that goal this sum- nationals and the fact she set three proKnelson is only 13. Ultimately, the shining light of the Lady- “I was totally nervous. I flew into Toronto mer while competing at the age-group vincial records for three different swim smith-Chemainus Orca swim club didn’t at 2 a.m. My flight was delayed and I only islands, provincials and nationals. Last strokes — freestyle, butterfly and breastmake the Pan Am team, or even our coun- got two hours sleep,” she said. “My heart year at nationals, she made the finals in stroke — put her on the radar of the nawas pounding. Then I raced all four disciplines — breaststroke, but- tional swimming program. try’s squad for the upcoming my first race.” terfly, backstroke and freestyle — a rare The organization is helping her with a Junior Worlds in Singapore — The venue was world-class occurence. nutritionist, a sports psychologist and a the world’s marquee event for — brand-new, sleek, huge and Continuing that success means a huge physiologist. swimmers 16 and under. glistening, built to host this commitment, not only from Faith, but Mom is starting to realize this has the But she served notice she is summer’s Pan-Am Games. The from her family as well. That kind of trav- potential to be more than a hobby. But knocking on the door, perhaps competitors were mostly from el involves time and money. what she thinks is most important is that as soon as next year. large, monied clubs. The family has always valued sports in her daughter is doing what she loves. “To qualify you have to make One could see how it would general, so it’s a commitment they have “My hope is that she continues to love a certain time and finish in be pretty tough for a small- been happy to make. the sport and have a passion for the the top two,” her coach Dusan town kid barely into her teens “She’s had incredible opportunities be- sport,” she said. Toth-Szabo said. “She didn’t to feel entirely comfortable. cause she’s had the gift of swimming,” “She definitely has the times and the make the team, but she has But she did a good job chan- Faith’s mom, Shelley Anderson, said. drive. It’s all her. We’re definitely there to three more years to make it. She is number one out of all Dusan Toth-Szabo neling her discomfort into the “She’s had several oportunities to meet support her. pool. Olympians at a very young age and I think “Whatever she sets her mind to she can 13-year-old girls in Canada.” “Swimming in a small club they inspired her.” do. It’s her goal and her love and she’s my To put her finish in the and a small town swimming Anderson said her daughter has always love.” 50-metre breaststroke final against the best swimmers in had a love affair with the water. One of Toth-Szabo is reluctant to put his young in perspective, this precoCanada is quite intimidating,” her earliest swimming instructors dubbed charge on a pedestal yet. You can see him cious Ladysmith torpedo finshe said. “At the end it is who her Ms. Fish. weigh his words carefully to determine ished one spot below the next Already the fastest Ladysmith-Che- what will have the best effect. youngest qualifier, a girl three years older. wants it most.” At home, she swims six times a week, 90 mainus Orca ever, Knelson has been He emphasizes years of work and perA 17-year-old finished 6th overall. Everyone else she was chasing was at least six minutes at a time. Toth-Szabo has tried to swimming with the club since she was sonal growth are still needed, but acmanage her training in such a way to en- seven and loving it. But her goals are fo- knowledges the potential is there. years her senior. cused far beyond the cement-and-tile tank “She knows what she’s doing and knows In addition to qualifying for final in the courage steady, long-term progress. “What I am trying to make sure is not hapat Frank Jameson Community Centre. where she wants to be,” he said. “Any50-metre breaststroke, Knelson also just “(My goal) is to eventually make national thing’s possible.” missed the cut in the 100-metre breast- pening is that we see so many age-group

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A pair of Ladysmith soccer players are finishing their high school careers on a high. Katelyn Horsley and Aliyah Griffin are members of the VIPL Storm U18 girls team that won the Coastal A Cup, May 3 in Aldergrove. Horsley scored the Storm’s lone goal in 1-0 win over the North Vancouver Renegades. The team — comprised

The LSS junior girls soccer team that defeated Dover Bay 2-1 in shootout to win the North Islands: (back) Mary Nicholls, Carmela Toscano, Haven Bouma, Georgia Nicholls, Shea Battie, Amber Swithin, Mya Fleming, Emma Wallace-Tarry, Coach Kathleen Nicholls; (middle) Olivia Rettig, Andrea Stachow, Addison Graves, Emma Graves, Olivia Mazurenko, Quinn Tompkins, Cyairra Higginson; (front) Meryssa Joyce; (missing) Nina Charley, Ruby McAuliffe, Mahala Grubac, Anna Fleming. The team followed that up with a second-place finish last week at Islands Submitted

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mostly of players from Parksville and Nanaimo — made it to the final by winning the Islands, then beating out two Lower Mainland teams. The team has played most of its 2014-2015 season with only one spare and no designated goalie due to injuries. The girls will end years of playing together with a trip to the Provincials in mid July in Surrey.

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• Has the devastation in Nepal inspired you to want to help out? Here’s your chance, Saturday May 16, 6 p.m. at the Chemainus Legion Hall. Luv Train performs and the Master of Ceremonies is Michael Pickard. The event also features Nepalese speakers and musicians, a Personal treasures silent auction, and sweet and savory snacks. Donations will support Care Canada. Advance tickets available at Chemainus Health Food Store (250-246-9838) and Seaside Yoga Studio, Chemainus (250-246-3797). Can’t make the event? Dee Kinnee tells us advance donations gratefully accepted • On the movers and shakers front, meet yor new Ladysmith Cham-

ber of Commerce executive: Alana Newton (Alana Newton Coaching), Dave Nicolson (Fortis BC, Mt Hayes LNG), David Stalker (David Stalker Excavating), Jennifer Ostle (Jennifer Ostle Notary Public), John de Leeuw (Ladysmith & District Credit Union), Mike Hooper (Nanaimo Airport), Rob Waters (Ladysmith Marina), Sean Dunlop (Ladysmith Home Hardware Building Centre) Tammy Swidrowich (WestJet) and Trent Kaese (Cottonwood Golf Course). Outgoing directors included Aaron Stone, Cyndi Beaulieu, Michael Furlot and Rick Morencie. • Tamara Przada is spreading the word about the Atlas Marine Spring Fishing Derby. Anyone catching a fish out of Ladysmith’s waters can bring it in to Atlas Marine Monday- to Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. by June 21, 2015. The guy or gal with the largest fish will win.

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The store is at 1260 Rocky Creek Rd. • Linda Brown of the Rotary Club tells us things are coming together nicely for the annual Ladysmith Rotary Club Garden Tour, May 30. We’re looking forward to an upcoming tour of one of the gardens in advance of our annual preview article. Look for that piece sometime in late May. • May 21 marks your chance to get down and dirty in the Ladysmith Public Works yard. Displays, demonstrations, food and fun for the whole family are being hosted up at the Sixth Avenue site from 1 to 3:30 p.m. • Have you had a chance yet to check out the Ladysmith Spring Farmers Market at the 49th Parallel? New this year, it sets up in the grocery store parking lot Tuesday mornings from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., until May 26. After that comes the Ladysmith Farmers Market at Transfer Beach, Tuesday’s from June 2 to Sept. 8.

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