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Parents, students and staff at Ladysmith Secondary school have questions they want answered after hearing news that former principal David Street has been charged with theft, but the Board will not be able to respond while the matter is before the courts. Street was charged May 22 with theft under $5,000, and is scheduled to appear in Nanaimo Provincial Court on June 16. The charges relate to money he is alleged to have stolen from Woodlands Secondary School, where he had been principal since last fall. Previous to that he was principal at Ladysmith Secondary for five years. The offences are alleged to have been comAn accident on Highway 1 in the southbound lane at Grouhel Road had traffic backed up Friday evening at about 6 p.m. No one was mitted between Nov. 15, 2014 and March 26, seriously injured in the crash, involving a white Pontiac car with one occupant and a red Pontiac van with four people on board. RCMP 2015. report the white car was turning onto the highway when it was struck by the van. Asked what money was missing, School District 68 Superintendent John Blain said he could not address that matter because it was before the courts, but added, “Any money that has gone missing through schools and etcetThe Cowichan Valley Regional DisThe CVRD has made an application The USW Local 1-1937 conducted a era, we’ll ensure there is the ability to, that trict has been served 72 hours’ strike to the Labour Relations Board to de- strike vote May 8, with 97 percent of its it doesn’t come out of student’s pockets and notice by the United Steel Workers termine essential service levels related members voting in favour of job action. those types of things.” (USW) Local 1-1937. to this labour dispute and was expect- “Contract talks failed after prolonged Director of Communications Dale Burgos The USW represents 50 CVRD em- ing a response from the LRB on Mon- negotiations,” states a release from said later that Nanaimo-Ladysmith School Disployees at Cowichan Lake Recreation, day. the union. “The union offered a much- trict has cooperated with police in their invesas well as solid waste employees at The parties have had five bargaining reduced bargaining package in hopes tigation, but added that until after court proBings Creek, Meade Creek and Peer- sessions but remain apart on wage and of gaining a new agreement, but came ceedings have concluded there is little that can less Road transfer stations and 34 wa- benefit issues. to an impasse, with no movement from be said. He confirmed the assurance given by ter and sewer services. “The CVRD has made a comprehen- the CVRD negotiating committee.” Superintendent Blain included LSS, but added The earliest possible job action could sive offer of settlement to the USW on At issue are: seniority language; ben- the facts of the case will not be known before have occurred was as of 1:14 p.m. on terms consistent with recent contract efits for casual workers; wages; and court proceedings conclude. Monday June 1st. “At this time, it is not settlements with its Canadian Union premiums for certification tickets. Blain said that as of last Friday Street, who known what, if any, job action may be of Public Employees and International “It is our sincere hope that job ac- has been on paid leave since Spring Break, was planned by the USW,” said Chief Ad- Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employ- tion can be avoided,” states the USW no longer an employee of the school district ministrative Officer Brian Carruthers ees local unions but this offer was re- release, “ but clearly the ball is in the and added that Street will not receive any sevin a May 29 release. jected by the USW,” Carruthers said. CVRD’s court.” erance from the District.
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Federal party leaders asked to live up to environment Sunhame Electric wheels fast, efficient and fun Stone says promises CEDAR – “We’d like to see the goals and promises of Canada’s former Environment Minister honoured and furthered,” said Laurie Gourlay, referring to the May 26th, 1986 opening statement of the Honourable Tom MacMillan to the World Commission on Environment and Development. The president of the Vancouver Island and Coast Conservation Society has just sent a letter to Federal Party Leaders, requesting their support for a ‘Five Point Conservation Plan for Canada’ – one that reflects the ambitions of Canadians and their government some twenty-nine years ago today.
CVRD wants to expand heritage register The CVRD is embarking on a mission to expand its Community Heritage Register – an official list of heritage resources in the region’s electoral areas. The Register includes the Kinsol Trestle, the highest and largest surviving timber rail trestle in Canada, also recorded on the Canadian Register of Historic Places; the Mill Bay Church, a Gothic Revival style building constructed in 1898; and the Old Koksilah School, built in the early 1900s in the historic village of Koksilah. According to CVRD Board Chair, Jon Lefebure, “These are the treasured places in Cowichan that mean so much to us. Stewardship of our heritage and cultural assets will support and encourage tourism”. The CVRD Board established heritage conservation as a service for electoral areas in 1999 and subsequently created the Community Heritage Register in 2009. To find out more about the CVRD Heritage program or to nominate a historic place to the CVRD Community Heritage Register, visit www.cvrd. bc.ca/heritage
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Ladysmith Mayor Aaron Stone has taken a bit of razzing over his use of a skookum electric bike as his mode during Bike to Work Week, but he’s been able to leave all that behind him on a two wheeler capable of zipping along at near highway speeds. Stone said ‘it was a blast’ riding around town on a Sunhame Bikes electric, which can travel up to 400 km on one charge, is capable of highway speeds, and can rocket up even the steepest grades Ladysmith has to offer. “My service calls this week, all my mayoral appointments, I did on that bike, except for one, where I had too much gear to carry,” Stone reported in a meeting at Uforik Computers, his business in downtown Ladysmith. “I parked my electric car here and almost made excuses to make extra trips on the bike.” The Sunhame is the brainchild of Don Suhan, who decided to build his own version of the electric bike with a ‘go big or go home’ attitude. “It took a year of research and design but I did come up with something that worked,” says his web site, something that “could climb a 30 percent grade with ease.” Bike to Work Week May 25 to 29 is an initiative to encourage cycling, both as an environmentally sustainable means of getting around, and as a mode that keeps people fit. Ladysmith has special obstacles when it comes to cycling, though – it’s hills. For his Sunhame ride that was no problem, Stone reported. “When you go up Roberts Street, or you go up Symonds, there was no way I could pedal any bike up those streets even as a kid,” he said, remembering zigzagging up the steep grades. The Sunhame made the climbing easy. “In a town like Ladysmith you can’t ask for anything more,” Stone said. “You can actually enjoy being on a bike. “It encourages you to bike more because you have that flexibility you don’t have with a regular bike.”
Ladysmith Mayor Aaron Stone test rode a Sunhame electric during Bike to Work Week May 25 to 29. Don Suhan, left in the photo, has been developing a line of battery powered bikes, which he believes are better than anything else available on the road. He wants to start manufacturing them in Ladysmith. It’s fun with some serious potential globally and locally. Suhan said his bikes – which aren’t cheap at $10,000 and more – have taken at least 10 cars off the road, their drivers switching entirely from four-wheeled gas driven mode to two-wheel electric. The environmental footprint of a Sunhame compared to a car is miniscule. And if saving the environment isn’t your thing, maybe saving money is. “When I first started riding these things about three years ago, I was burning about a tank a week in my diesel pick up truck,” Suhan said. “Now we’re down to a tank every two or three months.” He figures he’s saving $300 or more a month in fuel costs. He builds his bikes from the ground up, and they’re like nothing else on the market, Suhan says. “Every piece on this bike is built for an electric vehicle, nothing on this bike is retrofitted, so that makes this bike special.” Price is an obstacle, he knows, but he thinks
he can get within competitive range. “We’re hoping to get that down, we’re working really hard,” Suhan said. “I feel at $7,000 we can sell a couple of hundred thousand of these a year.” And that’s where the local angle kicks in. If Suhan can get the investors, and if he can make it happen in Ladysmith, he’d like to make his dream come true right here. To stay in the game he reckons he’s got to go big. “I want market share,” he said, “because if I don’t somebody else will, then I’m just going to be a little guy in a closet building bicycles that are way more expensive than what the market can afford. I have to go big.” Both he and Stone want that to happen right here in Ladysmith, and Stone is happy to take a few gibes as a Bike to Work Day ‘cheater’ if he can help make that happen. “I’m so proud of these guys, I’m really glad they’re here,” he said. As for the taunts, he’s left all that behind in the slipstream.
A healthy start can last a lifetime for children Family service providers connect with parents Craig Spence
troduce families to the service providers they may need during their children’s early years; and to introA kids’ carnival atmosphere pre- duce 20 or so family oriented servailed at Aggie Hall May 27 as so- vice providers to the families and cial service providers and families other agencies in their community. “This is a great opportunity for got together to share information and learn a bit about each other them to come and connect with during the eighth annual Healthy families, and to network and understand who’s doing what in our Start to Learning event. The annual gathering of family community to serve families,” said social service providers, and par- Jacqueline Neligan, executive dients of kids aged up to 6 years, rector of LaFF. It’s also an opportunity for famiis hosted for the LadysmithChemainus School District by lies to meet directly with providLadysmith Families and Friends ers, gain supports, and realize (LaFF). And as you would hope, what services are available here. “We all do struggle with issues the toddlers have a great time with face painting, music and healthy down the road,” she said, “and so pizza snacks all round, provided it’s normalizing those issues, realizing there is amazing, tremenby the Lion’s Club. Blended in with the fun and dous community support here in games, is a serious initiative to in- Ladysmith for families, and it’s THE CHRONICLE
Chelsea Blanchard and Tania Stretch take a break with Gemma and William during the Healthy Start To Learning event at Aggie Hall May 27. connecting those families to that support.” An early start can make a big difference down the road. “It’s all about early intervention and prevention, so what a family can do now, in these early years, they can just build upon as their child grows,”Neligan said. Families are often surprised by the services available to them in the region. “If you connect with a
family that has just moved to town, they are overwhelmed by the amount of services that are available to them. The services that are available here are fantastic.” It’s getting the word out that’s key. “The area that we could work on as a community is making sure that everyone knows what those services are, and how to access them,” Neligan said. “That’s exactly what this event is all about.”
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Students in Mandy Jones class celebrate their top rated performance in the May 27 Spuptitul. Below, an LSS student addresses panel member Penny Seward.
LSS earns Spuptitul honours Ladysmith students take the prize Hul’qumi’num’ competition Craig Spence THE CHRONICLE
The Ladysmith Secondary School team may have taken the award for their efforts in the Spuptitul held at their home school May 27, but everyone came away a winner in an event that saw First Nations students from throughout the region come and demonstrate their skills speaking Hul’qumi’num’ Spuptitul means a ‘competition’ and students participating in the event are eager to show their skills at speaking a language that has been used by the Stz’uminus and other coastal First Nations from time immemorial. Reviving that language is key to the future wellbeing of the community said speakers at the opening ceremony. “Language is so important to building and adding to our
culture, to making sure we But his best wishes went to thrive into the future with the student competitors, who our children,” Stz’uminus were about to stand up before First Nation Chief John El- panels of judges and demonliott said. “So I want to thank strate their skills at speaking all the educators who are their ancestral tongue. supporting our students and “I also want to thank the childoing what they do to ensure dren for being here, not only that that continues to hap- representing their communipen from generation to gen- ties, but the future too.” Elliott eration.” said.
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West Coast Dreamscapes Sherry Bezanson Ladysmith arts council
Bill Tilland and Nairne Culver with soon to be fruits of their – and other gardeners labours at the Kiwi Cove Community Garden.
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Community garden a growing concern. Ask Bill Tilland or Nairne Culver how their garden is growing these days, and they’ll say very well in all kinds of ways. Tilland oversees operations at the Kiwi Cove Community Garden, although he modestly refers to himself as “basically a schlepper and manure hauler”; Culver is the menu planner and purchaser at the Ladysmith Food Bank, which helps up to 350 people per week, who would otherwise not have enough to eat. Together, they and the volunteers who come down twice a week to plant, water, weed and harvest a cornucopia of vegetables off a three-quarter acre plot made available to them by the Kiwi Cove Lodge, supplement the resources of the food bank - in fact, they are providing the items at the top of the food bank’s in-demand list:
fresh garden produce. Potatoes, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, beans – from June through September they work the land and gather their crops. “For the last couple of years we’ve just concentrated on getting as much to the food bank as we can,” Tilland said. On average the community garden produces about 3,000 lbs of vegetables for the food bank each year. “It means a huge amount to the food bank,” Culver said. “It means we don’t have to buy vegetables over the summer.” The money that would have gone to buy produce can be used for other things. Community garden volunteers get a boost doing good for their community. They also get to engage in an activity that nourishes body and soul. “Most of us are probably seniors,” Culver pointed out, “and it’s just terrific for our health – the exercise and the social camaraderie.”
“Anybody who likes nature is going to enjoy being down here because it’s just an incredible place,” Tilland said. “In terms of community involvement there’s nothing more gratifying than doing something tangible for the community.” He’s thankful to Kiwi Cove Lodge owners Doug and Peggy Kolosoff, not only for the land they provide, but for their contributions to the community garden operations. Doug tills the land every year, gets a load of manure brought in for enriching the soil, and installs and maintains the irrigation system. The Kiwi Cove Community Garden is on the look out for volunteers who want get their hands in the soil and their hearts in the right place. If you can put in three hours, one or two days a week (Monday’s and Wednesdays are their designated days), contact Bill Tilland at tillandb@gmail.com or phone 250-924-5269.
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Dorothy will share her artful and soulful journey into her art on opening night. Please join us for an opening night worthy of the west coast spirit that islanders all call home. Festivities start at 7 pm on June 6 at the Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery. All are welcome.
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pair of boats continue to sit halfsubmerged in the waters offshore from Oak Bay’s Beach Avenue. The vessels – which represent both a navigational and environmental hazard – were first reported to Transport Canada in March. Word arrived from Ottawa last week that help is definitely not on its way.The Conservative government voted to kill a private member’s bill that would at least get something on the books regarding derelict vessels that threaten coastal environments. Nanaimo-Cowichan MP Jean Crowder put a bill on the floor earlier this year that, if passed, would have made the Canadian Coast Guard the sole receiver of wrecks, taking responsibility for aging, abandoned boats in the country. But Crowder is a member of the NDP, and the Harper government has shown time and again that it places partisan gain above the best interests of the Canadian people. Cristopher Porter of WildVision Edutainment invested his own time, expertise and resources to remove some of the environmental hazards from the sunken boats in Oak Bay. The diver removed propane tanks and about eight bags of garbage from the pair of sunken boats. Porter said the boats are still leaking fuel and oil, and there’s a big skim on the water. He also took off the ropes so animals couldn’t become tangled. “There’s so much life out there, it’s sad to see.” What is truly sad to see is a federal government content to see private citizens take on the responsibility of protecting Canada’s natural habitat. The Conservative government could have sent the bill to committee where it could have undergone substantial change to avoid the unthinkable consequences of giving credit to the NDP. As evidenced by the systematic dismantling of Coast Guard operations on the West Coast, the protection of the environment, and potentially human lives, is simply not on the federal government’s radar. And it is this disregard of seemingly commonsense solutions that could have voters looking for a change of course when they head to the polls this fall. Oak Bay News
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by Tom Fletcher VICTORIA – We might call ourselves Super, Natural or even The Best Place on Earth, but how is B.C. viewed around the world? Ever since U.S. billionaires and their environmental clients decided more than a decade ago to supervise our society, the impression that British Columbia is a primitive colonial backwater in need of “saving” has only been reinforced. In late April, the province and coastal aboriginal leaders announced completion of marine planning areas for Haida Gwaii and the North and Central Coast. U.S. activists knew about the announcement weeks before the legislature press gallery did, and a documentary crew was sent up to advance the narrative of the saving of the “Great Bear Rainforest.”
Within minutes of the announcement, the World Wildlife Fund website trumpeted the creation of the “Great Bear Sea,” continuing the penchant of outsiders for renaming large parts of B.C. to fit their marketing strategies. Unlike the “Great Bear Rainforest” land use deal of 2007, the Sierra Club, ForestEthics and Greenpeace were not represented. Instead, Tides Canada CEO Ross McMillan sat beaming in the audience. McMillan’s role in directing U.S. foundation money to B.C. has prompted him to declare himself “a principal architect of the Great Bear Rainforest project,” although in the early years he and his staff (currently 24 people) stayed behind the scenes while Sierra, Greenpeace et al took the credit. At the event, two aboriginal leaders gave a nod to the real funder of the ongoing effort to “save” the B.C. coast, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Gordon Moore is a co-founder of Intel Corp., maker of most of the world’s computer processor chips, now spending his vast fortune on the Amazon basin, B.C. and other “threatened” places.
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“saved” from destruction by benevolent foreign interests! Back to reality. B.C.’s Auditor General issued a report last week calling on the province to do more to prevent the “cumulative effects” of industrial development. A familiar example of this is the struggle to maintain caribou herds in northern B.C. The B.C. government mustered a response from the multiple ministries that have worked on this since 2010. Among other things, they noted that 90 per cent of B.C.’s vast area is now covered by regional land use plans created to manage cumulative impacts. A whopping 37 per cent of B.C. is designated as parks and protected areas for environmental and cultural values. Maybe that’s still not good enough, but it’s better than anything I can find in Europe or the U.S. That’s particularly true of California, home of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, a pipeline spill, heavy oil refining and gridlocked freeways. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers.
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Other Silicon Valley and Seattle billionaires helped finance the original effort, and a strategy document surfaced in 2008 describing their plan to de-market the Alberta oilsands by creating a blockade against energy exports on our Pacific coast. That campaign has featured a fake cancer study and grossly exaggerated greenhouse gas claims compared to U.S. coal and oil production. The effort has since expanded to natural gas, with false horror stories about “fracking” finding a receptive global audience. Last week I wrote about the plan by British manufacturing conglomerate Reckitt Benckiser to buy up farms in the B.C. Interior and replant them with trees. Contrary to my description, “RB Trees for Change” isn’t participating in the dodgy European carbon credit market. They’re just doing it for global marketing purposes, covering pioneer-cleared farms of our colonial backwater with forest for 100 years so they can advertise their soaps and cold pills as carbon neutral. Another 10,000 hectares of B.C.
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The Ladysmith Maritime Society’s ship came in, but just in time for the unveiling of the Long Wharf diorama project this weekend. Seven years in the making, the diorama unveiling was the centerpiece of the Maritime Festival, which ran from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. last weekend at the Ladysmith Community Marina. It depicts in minute detail the Long Wharf, where coal from Ladysmith’s Extension Mine was loaded onto ships for export. The long awaited unveiling was tinged with sadness as LMS members remembered model maker Guy Brooke, who researched, designed and started the work on the project in 2009 before he succumbed to illness in 2010. He would have been proud of the finished work. In 2013, with the project stalled, Maritime Heritage Centre curator Shirley Blackstaff approached a group of Duncan model railroaders, headed up by Dave Ames, and asked if they would complete the diorama. They contributed hundreds of hours, sculpting the landscape, then replicating: buildings, the wharf, railway cars and engines, and hun-
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Arson investigated in May 31 night fire Police are investigating a suspicious fire, which caused severe damage to the Coast Salish Development Corporation, located on Stz’uminus First Nations lands just North of Ladysmith BC. Police and Oyster Bay fire fighters responded to the alarm Sunday, May 31 at 2:45 a.m. and discovered the building on fire. The structure itself was saved but sustained undetermined inte-
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COLOUR VISION I have recently had several patients asking about colour vision and the definition of “colour blindness”. As the days of summer approach, grass is growing, gardens are thriving, and there are so many colours surrounding us, this seemed an appropriate time to talk about colour perception. How we perceive colour is determined by the functioning of a particular type of photoreceptor in the eye. There are two types of photoreceptors in the eye: the rods, which function in low illumination, and the cones which serve vision at levels of illumination. It is estimated that there are Dr. Carla Clarke high 120 million rods distributed throughout the retina, outside the central 5 degrees, and approximately 7 million cones located primarily in the central 2 degrees. It is the functioning of the cones that provides us with our ability (or inability) to see varying colours. Each cone has a light sensitive pigment that is sensitive to and registers wavelengths of either red, green or blue light. The reduction in or lack of one or more of these light sensitive pigments results in an alteration of colour perception.
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Thanks to the Ladysmith Resources Centre, and the Dads Drop-in, for successfully raising funds, one hot dog at a time, to help bring the Transfer Beach Playground closer to reality for the children of Ladysmith.
Students helping seniors The LRCA Students Helping Seniors Coordinator, Sophia Elliott, is working hard to get the program up and running again. Students assist seniors complete odd jobs through the summer, while learning entry level employment skills. Students who want to be part of the program this year, should attend the Orientation on June 5th at 1:30 pm upstairs at the LRCA. Seniors can register by calling the LRCA at 250-245-3079.
Chemainus Business locator sign renewal You may remember the large map sign that used to be in Waterwheel Park, until it blew down a year ago. Its twin is still located down by the ferry dock. If you would like to be added to these signs, now is the time to sign up. If you are already on the sign, and want changes, we can do that, too. For changes or a new listing, please fill out a form and along with your payment. More information is available at 250-246-3944.
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Dale Gisborne, LRCA Dads Drop-in coordinator presented a cheque to the folks at the Kinsmen Club recently as a donation toward the New Playground equipment at Transfer Beach. The dads in the program had a hot dog sale, and raised over $800, as the LRCA contribution toward the healthy development of children in Ladysmith.
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President Steve Dinsmore, Ladysmith Kinsmen, presented Kinsmen National Bursary Award winner, Melissa Mrus with her $1,000 certificate. Melissa was one of only 50 recipients of the bursary from across Canada. She is enrolled in V.I. University this fall.
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This Fathers’ Day weekend, firefighters from across the South and Central Island will descend on the Mesachie Lake Skydome for the 36th consecutive year. The annual slo-pitch softball tournament will see the Mesachie Group, which includes firefighters from Mesachie Lake, Lake Cowichan, Honeymoon Bay, Youbou, Caycuse, Duncan, Cowichan Bay, Langford and Ladysmith, come together to raise as much money as possible for Muscular Dystrophy Canada. It’s a huge fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy Canada, raising over $700,000 for the group over the years, according to a press release from Cowichan Bay’s deputy fire chief Cam ‘Firefighters Fathers’ Day slo-pitch tournament, a Ferguson. This year’s softball tournament will begin on huge fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Friday, June 19. The Mesachie Lake Skydome is located at 9315 South Shore Road. Gill Road is the first street in Ladysmith to officially be a Block Watch Neighbourhood. They were already applying some of the principals so it was a natural to go the next step. The RCMP held an informative public meeting April 31 and their street had a healthy representation. The first step was for someone on the street to take the initiative. There is a Block Watch Captain at one end of the street and a Co-Captain at the other on the opposite side. The two of them had to have a criminal check and then proceed on asking neighbors if Gill Road neighbours with Constable Wanner and they were interested in the program. Block Watch sign.
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FISHER, Mary (nee Attack) With great sorrow the family of Mary Fisher regrets to announce her peaceful passing on May 29th, 2015 in Chemainus B.C. Mary is lovingly remembered by her daughters, Hilary (Ray) Bates and Anne Ellison; grandson Derek Bates and granddaughters, Ashley Bates and Kimberly Ellison. Mary was predeceased by her husband, Kenneth James Fisher, parents James and Mary Ellen Attack, and brothers; John and Edward Attack. Mary was born on January 6, 1922 in Toronto, Ontario. At the age of two she moved with her parents and baby brother John (Jack) to Penetanguishene, Ontario, where another brother Edward was born. There she completed her elementary and secondary school years. In 1942 Mary entered the R.N. nursing program at St Andrew’s Hospital in Midland, Ontario, with afďŹ liation at both The Hospital for Sick Children and Toronto Western Hospitals. After graduation, she nursed at several hospitals in Ontario in Fort Erie and Toronto, before coming west in 1948. Mary was nursing at the Chemainus Hospital on Vancouver Island when she met her future husband, Ken Fisher. They were married at St. John’s Anglican Church in Duncan, B.C. on September 9, 1950 and had two daughters; Hilary and Anne. The family moved to Seacloud Rd. in Saltair in 1954 and contentedly remained in the same home for 50 years, until Ken passed away in October of 2004. In 2005, Mary moved to Duncan to be closer to her younger daughter Anne and her family. Although it was difďŹ cult to leave her home after so many years, Mary made many new friends and acquaintances at the Silver Park Senior’s residences in Duncan, B.C. which she treasured until the end. In 2012, Mary became a resident of the Chemainus Health Care Centre, reminding her of her days living upstairs in the Nurse’s Residence On the same site where she began her life in B.C. in 1948. A Memorial Service will be held at St. Michael & All Angels Church, Chemainus, B.C. on June 3, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. followed by a reception in the Church Hall. Reverend Sheila Flynn ofďŹ ciating. Condolences maybe offered at telfordn@shaw.ca Telford’s of Ladysmith 250-245-5553
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September 16, 1963 - May 5, 2015 Gavin McConville died this past month in a car accident on May 5th near his home in Cedar, B.C. Gavin was in the fullness of his life, living almost larger than life: more enthusiastic, more present, more loving than most of us...he will be missed deeply as he was loved by many. Gavin used his love of language, appreciation for diversity of culture and his gregarious and creative skills in instruction of ESL in colleges and most recently VIU university. His passion and enthusiasm was touching and inspiring. He was a talented musician and great sailor, forever reaching out to music and the ocean. Gavin leaves behind his great love Melissa and their young children Jade and Cayle, as well as his father James, stepmother Jo, sisters Nicola and Charmian. Let your memories of Gavin, his laughter, his spirit and his love flourish, and may you send blessings for his spirit and for his young family. A service for Gavin was held at St Philips Cedar Church on Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 10 a.m. and a burial at Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens, followed by a reception at VIU. In lieu of flowers, send donations toward Nepalese Relief fund in his name.
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Black Forest Cake
& Assorted 12-15 paks or
AquaFina 12 x 500 ml
2/ 7 $
8 inch, regular 9.99
3
5
Congratulations
to all our 2015 Graduates and especially to our 49ers Grads!
Kassandra Webber Meaghan Huneault Chanel Dwinnell Daniel Kelly Jessica Knelson Justine Cockrane Jennifer Lambie Bailey Dill Walker Gisborne
Joshiah Nadon Josiah Dingman Marley Oldfield Carla Kukler Gaby Knute Alyssa Burrows Jordy Frost Olivia Aarsen Gabrielle Soucy
Clayton Smith Haley Yoon Jordan Peterson Taylor Harrison Liam Craig Aiden Trudeau Carlie Deeble
98
Delmonte Assorted Fruit
398 ml tins, limit 6 total
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Day Sale
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LADYSMITH CHEMAINUS Your Island Community Grocers since 1977
Day Sale
CEDAR
DUNCAN
1020 1st Avenue
3055 Oak Street
1824 Cedar Road
550 Cairnsmore Street
250-245-3221
250-246-3551
250-722-7010
250-748-2412
Open Daily from 7:30 am - 9:00 pm 100% Locally Owned & Operated • We deliver! (See store for details) We reserve the right to limit quantities • Pictures for illustrative purposes only
Visit us on the web www.the49th.com