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Province bans fishing in most streams as drought level rises

A Convair CV580 air tanker from Conair Aerial Firefighting drops fire retardant on a stand of trees to slow the progress of a wildfire in North Oyster, south of Nanaimo, Thursday afternoon. CHRIS BUSH/THE NEWS BULLETIN

BY CHRIS BUSH

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until a fire crew responded to fully extinguish it. Mond said in many cases it’s obvious smokers aren’t even bothering to try and extinguish cigarettes and are just tossing lit smokes on the ground. Near areas where wildland fire have started, he has found numerous cigarette butts on the ground. Dozens of firefighters from North Oyster, North Cedar and Cranberry volunteer fire departments continue to work on a wildfire in North Oyster that broke out Thursday, possibly due to a spark from farm equipment, that consumed more than 10 hectares of land and required drops of fire retardant from air tankers to bring under control.

Hot, dry, windy conditions prompted the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources to announce a Level 4 drought rating for the Island on Friday. The province also suspended angling in streams and rivers across southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands to protect fish already stressed by dwindling and warming water flows. Level 4 is the highest drought-level rating, meaning further declines in stream, lake and aquifer levels could lead to water shortages affecting people, agriculture, wildlife and fish stocks. Julie Pisani, Regional District of Nanaimo drinking water and watershed protection program coordinator, said the regional district expected the announcement and is taking it seriously. “For now we’re going to remain at Level 3 watering restrictions and monitor the situation over the next week,” Pisani said, adding that if residents don’t dramatically reduce water consumption the regional district could enforce a Level 4 watering ban. Bill Sims, city manager of water resources, said so far, people have responded to municipal Level 2 water restrictions. Nanaimo’s Jump Lake reservoir is at 90 per cent capacity and if residents continue to conserve, water supplies should last until October. “We want to respond appropriately with our main focus to be preserving our water supply and also the environmental health of the Nanaimo River,” Sims said. The regional district also closed the Trans Canada Trail between the Timberlands Road trailhead near the Haslam Creek Suspension Bridge and the Harewood Mines Road trailhead in Nanaimo due to extreme fire hazards. All logging road gates on Timberwest and Island Timberlands private forestry lands on the east side of the Island are also closed to the public.

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CREWS BUSY this weekend putting out brush fires. BY CHRIS BUSH THE NEWS BULLETIN

Careless discarding of cigarettes attributed to the majority of wildland, landscape and bark mulch fires on the weekend. Two structures suffered damage, including a house on Howard Avenue where a brush fire burned a fence and melted soffits Friday night and a funeral chapel on Bowen Road where a improperly butted cigarette caught a cedar hedge on fire Saturday and caused minor damage to the building’s exterior.

Capt. Ennis Mond, Nanaimo Fire Rescue fire prevention officer, said all fires over the weekend were likely caused by smoking, including a brush fire that consumed about one hectare of land near Mary Ellen Drive and signalled the start of the blazes. The largest fires, including one near Jingle Pot Road that tied up units from four fire stations and burned a portion of Hawthorne Park Saturday, grew to about one hectare in size each before they were brought under control. Cappy Yates Park at Fitzwilliam and Wallace streets Friday and a brushy area on Skinner Street Sunday also burned due to human carelessness. Firefighters also had to snuff out a campfire

lit by homeless people living in the bush near Caledonia Park. A half-hectare-sized fire behind student housing at Vancouver Island University at about 2 a.m. Monday was also likely sparked by a cigarette. “Practically all of them have been human-caused,” Mond said. Assistant fire chief Greg Norman had to grab a fire extinguisher to snuff out a landscape fire while picking up sandwiches from the Subway restaurant on Bowen Road Saturday. “He was out getting nourishment for the crews on the Jingle Pot fire and lo and behold the plants are on fire,” Mond said. Norman knocked the fire down with an extinguisher

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Island Health and the Ministry of Environment have issued a wildfire smoke advisory communities from Campbell River to Victoria currently under a thick pall of smoke. Nanaimo residents woke up to orange skies Saturday morning when smoke and ash generated by wildfires in the B.C. interior and from a fire in Sechelt settled in over the Island. A wildfire smoke advisory issued

Sunday cautioned people to avoid strenuous activities outdoors. Smoke and ash particles can be particularly concerning for infants and the elderly who might already have underlying medical issues. Nanaimo’s air quality was rated as a moderate health risk Monday, according to B.C. Air Quality, a division of the provincial Ministry of Environment. Environment Canada predicted sunny skies and only locally generated smoke in the air today (July 7) as wind patterns were expected to shift overnight. For more information, please visit www.bcairquality.ca. photos@nanaimobulletin.com

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Council faces deadline on dams

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FullEr SayS issue is about standing up for what’s right.

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As Colliery dam advocates rally to attend a city committee of the whole meeting and the Environmental Appeal Board denies a stay, Nanaimo’s mayor voices concern his council could flout provincial law. “We have to remember we’re a product of the province under the Community Charter,” said Mayor Bill McKay. “We don’t have the right to ignore provincial law.” Nanaimo is two years and close to $3-million deep into the Colliery dams issue and was on the verge Monday of deciding whether to abide by a provincial government decree or defy it. The dam spillways aren’t

up to standard, according to the B.C. comptroller of water rights, which has issued an order for council to mostly complete remediation on structures this November. With the city’s petition for a stay to pause that requirement now rejected by the Environmental Appeal Board, there’s nothing standing in the way of the city doing the work. The comptroller has given the city until July 24 to pick a remediation option acceptable to the province and is now considering enforcement and compliance options. McKay believes the comptroller will use his powers to enforce the Water Act and that to defy the order would be “absolutely reckless.” He says council has to make a decision to remediate the dams and fast, but he’s also concerned council will ignore provincial law. “I’m concerned and we should be cautioning council that should they disobey the

order that’s been given to us that we’re putting the community at significant risk of liability,” he said. City staff members proposed the an auxiliary spillway, estimated at between $2.8 million to $5.5 million to fix the lower dam, during an open meeting after press time Monday. Coun. Gord Fuller, however, wants to continue to move ahead with a motion that would see the city work on the middle dam first while it creates a select committee and studies the lower structure. It was an alternative dismissed by the province, but to do work on the lower dam without first knowing the flow capacity of the spillway is “ludicrous,” said Fuller, who is prepared to flout the order. “I am concerned about them coming down on the city. It’s not that I’m not concerned,” he said. “But I think sometimes, you have to stand up for what’s right.” news@nanaimobulletin.com

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Be ambitious in water conservation goals Vancouver Island is at Level footprints are now being 4 in the province’s drought calculated which are inclusive water measurement system, the of water chains of use from Regional District of Nanaimo is extraction to end use. at Level 3 of water restrictions The global average water and Nanaimo and surrounding footprint per person comes in municipalities at Level 2. at 1,385 cubic metres per year, Given the seriousness of the while the Canadian average is Island’s drought, it is hard 2,384, slightly less than the U.S. to understand why it is still The Canadian Water Network permissible to water lawns. is calling for a ‘water lens’ to be A recent National applied to economy, Aeronautics and ecosystems and FOOD Space Administration public health. Its 2015 MATTERS report notes that report sets priorities Marjorie Stewart 21 of the world’s of risk management, largest underground full cost recovery, aquifers are past use of biosolids and their sustainable resiliency to extreme tipping points. This weather conditions. means aquifers are The network has not recovering. formed the Canadian The ultra-rich Municipal Water residents of the Consortium to drive community of progress on these Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who goals, including “rise of grey upped their water consumption and green approaches to storm by nine per cent after the water management” and the governor called for a 25-per need for innovation. These are cent reduction, are about to ambitious but heroic goals. experience flow restrictors. The water cycle demonstrates Intransigent water hogs there that there is a relatively fixed stand to be cut off. amount of water, mostly Water use statistics ocean, constantly driven by contributing to our lifestyle are solar power through various hard to compare. Municipal stages. It has been around figures only measure municipal a long time and extra water water use. So figures for water will not be created. Ground

water for drinking is not a renewable resource in the short term and if we overdraw, let alone over-pollute the world’s water, shortages will not be replenished in sync with everincreasing use. So we have to conserve and yesterday is not soon enough. More than individual action is required, partly because some water hogs are incorrigible and partly because this is a job that obviously has to be undertaken collectively. However, increasing individual actions to conserve will lead to the political will for regulations to meet conservation goals. California is the awful warning and politicians there are beginning to demonstrate leadership. Since industrial agriculture (ab)uses 70 per cent of the world’s water, as well as conserving tap water, eat local and reduce food waste as well as water waste. Support permaculture methods of growing food and managing water as our legacy to future generations. ◆ Marjorie Stewart is past chairwoman of the Nanaimo Foodshare Society.

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Plan first, then fix dams

Signs shouldn’t intimidate politicians how can we expect that person to stand up for the taxpayers against 20 or 30 people wanting millions of tax dollars for their special interests? Or how will that person be able to stand tall when dealing with international companies or senior government or even our own city staff? If the fear of intimidation is that great, the person should resign and allow someone who is not easily intimidated to take their place. Guiding the future of Nanaimo is too important to be left in the hands of a person or persons that admit that signs intimidated them so much they cannot do their job for which they were elected.

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I find it unbelievable that people would run for public office who are intimidated by a sign saying ‘professional trough feeder’ or ‘stop the madness.’ Not only that, but being so intimidated it forced that person to call in the RCMP. If signs intimidated them that much, Letters PoLiCy: Letters should be no longer than 250 words and will be edited. Include a first name or two initials, and a surname. MaiL: Letters, Nanaimo News Bulletin, 777 Poplar St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9S 2H7 Fax: 250-753-0788 e-MaiL: editor@nanaimobulletin. com

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Re: City’s grounds for appeal on dam called ‘frivolous,’ June 23. I am certain that most people do not understand the latest developments in this drawn-out saga. Most recently, the provincial authority has placed an order directing the city to choose an option for remediation of the lower dam this year. Considering the Dam Safety Section accepted studies that were obviously and seriously flawed and are now insisting work be done without proper investigation, we are skeptical. The majority of council supported a stay and appeal of

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this order. They put forward a proposal that should satisfy the province and comply with the necessary standards. The proposal is to have work completed at the middle dam this year, with further investigation of the lower dam to assess what is needed. As rash decisions made under duress with inadequate or incorrect information has cost our city dearly, I question why there remains such an urgent push to spend millions before determining a proper understanding of the problem.

Jeff Solomon Nanaimo

To the Editor,

Mayor Bill McKay’s VANCOUVER ISLAND – LOWER MAINLAND continual negative Ferry schedules are subject to change without notice. October 13 – December 15, 2004comments regarding DUKE POINT (Nanaimo) NANAIMO (DEPARTURE BAY)how councillors vote VANCOUVER – LOWER HORSESHOE BAY MAINLAND toISLAND TSAWWASSEN Leave Departure Bay regarding the Colliery June 24,subject 2015 - Sept. 7,7:00 2015 Ferry schedules are change without pm notice. 12:30topm 6:30 am dams is clearly a pub9:00 pm 3:00 pm 8:30 am Leave Duke Point 5:00 pm 10:30 am lic campaign to try to 5:15am Westhill Pharmasave has a wide selection Leave12:45pm Horseshoe Bay8:15pm shame them into votNANAIMO (DEPARTURE BAY)7:00 pm 12:30 pm 6:30 am 7:45am 3:15pm 10:45pm of summer fashion and from the customer 9:00 pm 3:00 pm 8:30 am ing against what they 10:15am 5:45pm HORSESHOE 5:00 pm BAY 10:30 am comments we are hearing it is the nicest believe in. LeaveDeparture Tsawwassen Leave Bay selection we have had in the four years we have The majority on NANAIMO (DUKE POINT)5:15am 12:45pm 8:15pm TSAWWASSEN 7:00 pmcouncil have stated 12:30 pm 10:45pm 6:30 am been selling fashions. 7:45amLeave3:15pm Duke Point BERYL FESER 9:00 pmthey will not vote 3:00 pm 8:30 am We have a selection of bamboo items including 8:15 pm pm 5:15 am 12:45 10:15am 5:45pm Cosmetic Manager 3:15 pm 10:45 pm 7:45 am for either of the two 5:00 pm 10:30 am bamboo fibre capris. These capris are so 5:45 pm 10:15 am DEPARTURE BAY(Nanaimo) options on the table Beryl has been serving Leave Tsawwassen comfortable you won’t want to take them off! to5:15 HORSESHOE BAY Leave this community for 8:15 pm 12:45 pm Bay am Horseshoe for Colliery dams as 3:15 pm 10:45 pm 7:45 am Our super soft bamboo diabetic socks control over 35 years in the 6:30 10:15 June am 24,12:30 2015 7, 2015 5:45- Sept. pm there is incomplete 7:00 pm pm am field. She is a Daily except Sundays. moisture, have a stretch top, padded sole, cosmetics data available due to 9:00 pm 3:00 pm 8:30 am certified beauty advisor, Leave Horseshoe Bay limitations on budget seamless toe, and a soothing arch support. specializing in skin care 5:00 pm 10:30 am 6:20am 7:30pm 2:30pm Brought to you by: 8:30am 3:10pm 9:30pm and time constraints. For the month of July we have a special and hair colour needs. 9:55am 4:20pm 11:05pm What McKay and on the ladies fashion where you buy one 10:40am 5:20pm the Dam Safety Sec12:50pm For schedule6:55pm and fare information product at regular retail and receive a second piece for 50% off or to make a reservation: NANAIMO (DUKE POINT)- tion are doing is try*BCF regular retail. Leave Departure Bay ing to force taxpayers 1-888-BC FERRY • www.bcferries.com TSAWWASSEN 6:20am 12:50pm 7:30pm Spring and summer fashion purses have the same special as the to spend millions 7:45am 2:10pm 9:05pm Leave Duke Point on something that clothing; bring a girlfriend and share the special value. 8:30am 3:10pm 9:30pm ● 8:15 pmmight not need fixpm am 12:45 4:40pm Another special in effect till the end of August is our purse extravaganza. 5:15 10:40am ● 5:20pm 12:15pm 3:15 pm 10:45 pming and threatening Get rid of that purse in your closet that you never use and trade it in on 7:45 am Mon., Thu., Fri., pm Sat. & Aug. 4 a $1-million fine to 5:45 10:15 am only, excluding Sept. 5. Daily exa new purse valued up to $30.00 and receive $5.00 off. If the new purse councillors who say cept Jun 24, 30, Jul 1, 7 & 8. Jun LeaveMon., Tsawwassen 24 only. Thu., Fri., Sun. is valued over $30.00 you will receive $10.00 off. they will not vote for and Aug. 4 only. Jul 26, Aug 3, 9, 16, 23 & 12:45 30 only pm There is always something happening at Pharmasave at Westhill ●5:15 am 8:15 pmone of these invasive, 10:45 pmexpensive options. 3:15 pmto change: am Centre. Our friendly staff would be happy to help you with your needs. ●7:45 schedules subject 5:45 pm 10:15 am1-888-BC-FERRY I am glad to see Check out our website at www.pharmasave.com for weekly flyers www.bcferries.com councillors are stand● Daily except Sundays. ing by their campaign This spot proudly sponsored by: FREE Delivery of Mon-Fri 9-8 Prescriptions & HHC promises. I wish our Saturday 9 6 Products mayor would do the Sunday 10 - 5 Brought to you by: same. To have your business featured October 13 – December 15, 2004

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To the Editor,

Several new city councillors have so quickly forgotten how they stood in their places on the campaign trail, vowing not to mess up the park and not to waste millions of taxes. The provincial government is a bully. Having gotten its ‘facts’ so wrong in regards to the stability of the dams in case of earthquake, it now claims the likelihood of a great deluge. This is a very expensive and totally foolish face-saving gesture. May I suggest that council girds its collective loins and shows some grit. With a provincial election in a couple of years, the government is unlikely to stamp on the good citizens of Nanaimo.

Dave Cutts Nanaimo

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Of late, I’ve run into a few city officials who believe that political support for preserving Colliery Dam Park and its dams is running dry and that political momentum is swinging toward resolving the issues quickly. I

have two objections to this. First, political support for preserving the park and dams has never wavered. While this support is based on a few core beliefs, it is also supported by sound reasoning, hard facts and observation. Second, the issues surrounding the dams were manufactured by a few city staff manipulating a previous council. While one can argue that the city staff was well intentioned, this road was paved with misinformation, distraction, scare tactics and stonewalling. If we have politicians who are irresponsible and careless over city assets, then we have a problem. But the bigger problem is that we have a few on staff who are underserving the citizens and abusing the political system. Proceeding with any alternative to mitigating the dams solves neither of those problems and leaves the city exposed to far greater risk than is represented by those dams.

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“It is a really fun show,” Brett said. “There is some dance movement based on some of the contact dance movement principals that we’ve BY NICHOLAS PESCOD been doing with the THE NEWS BULLETIN youth over the last two weeks.” hen NanaimoThe show is one of a area high school handful of performances student Fionna taking place at the Gomien walked Infringing Dance Festival, into Kirkwood Academy which runs from Thursmore than two weeks day to Sunday (July 9-12) ago, she was surrounded at the Port Theatre, Mafby new faces. feo Sutton Park “I was and the Vanreally uncomcouver Island fortable,” Conference Gomien said. Centre. Two weeks “I am excited later, Gomien to get this has not only [Prox:imity I feel like learned new Re:Mix] out I can trust things, but here,” peralso become former Lily everyone friends with Morice said. many of “We are showhere. those unfaing who we are miliar faces. to everyone. “I love working with We are showing that we everyone here,” Gomien are queer and we are persaid. “Everyone here is formers. It is going to be so open and accepting.” really fun.” Gomien is just one of According to Brett, the a handful of high school two-week dance workstudents who have been shop and performance participating in a twoexplores LGBTQ identity week dance performance and expression – one of workshop project called the main reasons why Prox:imity Re:Mix. many students signed up. Conceived by Vancou“There isn’t a lot ver-based contemporary of stuff like this in dance company Machine- Nanaimo,” Morice said. Noisy, Prox:imity Re:Mix “It is all about identity features nine queer and and queerness and there two non-queer performisn’t much like that ers, who are between here.” the ages of 14-18. The Prox:imity Re:Mix will production, which is coincorporate traditional directed by Delia Brett, dance mediums with new Daelik Hackenbrook and technologies such as Sammy Chien, will run at Xbox Kinect. the Port Theatre on Sat“There are is a lot of urday (July 11) at 6 p.m. really cutting edge new and on Sunday (July 12) media technology being at 2 p.m. utilized during the show

PRO:IMITY RE:MIX runs at the Port Theatre.

INFRINGING DANCE FESTIVAL ANNUAL EVENT runs from July 9-12 at the Port Theatre, Vancouver Island Conference Centre and Maffeo Sutton Park. For a complete list performances, along with ticket prices, please visit www.crimsoncoast. org.

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SALSA STARS & HOT SALSA NIGHTS takes place at the V.I. Conference Centre on Thursday (July 9) at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $15$20. CARNATION CEREMONY and fire and dance show at Maffeo Sutton Park on Friday (July 10) at 9 p.m. Event is free. FIRST NATIONS DANCE at Maffeo Sutton Park on Saturday (July 11) at 12:30 p.m. Free event. PROX:IMITY RE:MIX runs the Port Theatre on Saturday (July 11) at 6 p.m. and on Sunday (July 12) at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door.

with things like Xbox Kinect, [Nintendo] Wii controllers and iPads,” Brett said. “They will see a whole gamut of things that they might not have ever seen before in terms of new media.” Performer Ben Lange says he and his classmates have learned more

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Fionna Tyler Gomien, left, engages with Ben Lange in a movement game called Ninja at Kirkwood Academy. Gomien and Lange will be performing in Prox:imity Re:Mix this weekend at the Port Theatre.

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than just a few dance moves. “We have learned about ourselves and how to interact with each other and how to pay attention to each other’s movements and how to pay attention to our surroundings,” Lange said. Regardless of how the

said. “I feel like I can trust everyone here.” Prox:imity Re:Mix runs at the Port Theatre on Saturday at 6 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance at www.porttheatre.com or $20 at the door.

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Lord Willing and the creek don’t rise… Jack MacDonald would be there with a warm smile, helpful hand, a giving heart and always something interesting to talk about. It saddens us to share the news that John Donald MacDonald (given name) passed away at his home in the early hours of June 25, 2015. Proud to be born in Yorkton SK he carried through his life deep roots and strong connections to friends and family from his growing years. He set out West to work as a Telegraph operator for the Railroad on Vancouver Island working for many years in the Duncan/Ladysmith area. The demand for operators decreased and he went to work for the WCB Communications department in Vancouver. Upon Retiring he moved to Nanaimo, where he set about creating an amazing social network. Long time member of the Brechin United Church he volunteered his time and talents to committees and the loaves & fishes food bank. He was known in the boater’s community on the waterfront, Newcastle Channel, owning a sailboat, and had some great adventures, setting out on trips to meet up with friends he had made into his own family. Jack was an avid clock collector of all eras, which put extra heartbeats in his home. He played golf, and to this day had clubs in his car at the ready. A supporter of local artists, the Museum, CBC Radio all fed into his plethora of local and world history… and filled the remaining walls of his home with paintings. He boasted a wonderful trip to Paris a few years back just before his health started to slow him down. It was a blessing that he had reached 80 years of age, we would have loved to share with him more. Jack was predeceased by his only sister Margaret (Ruth) Kuch and her husband Ed Kuch, and leaves behind his Nephew John and his partner Deborah Kruks of Port Alberni; Niece Andrea Kuch of Toronto; and Niece Louise McKean and her Husband Kent of Winnipeg. All of whom were as dear to him as they were his own. The remaining cousins, relatives and close friends will also find an empty space where there once was a fine caring man who filled their lives with love and friendship. A service/celebration of life will be held in honor of John (Jack) MacDonald at the Brechin United Church in the Fall. There will be a brief announcement in the local paper but if you wish to be contacted when the date is set, please call 250-754-3106 or email fjcosta@telus.net and leave your name with Joan or Fernando Costa.

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Notice of a Special General Meeting of the Milner Gardens and Woodland Society (the Society). To be held at 7:00 p.m., on Wednesday July 22, 2015, in the Milner House at Milner Gardens & Woodland, 2179 W Island Hwy, Qualicum Beach BC. All members of the Society are invited to attend for the purpose of voting on a special resolution to alter the wording of Bylaw #11 of the Society’s Constitution and Bylaws. The proposed changes will permit the Society to have a Review Engagement vs an Audit of the annual financial statements. The proposed changes are being put forward by the Board after receiving recommendations from qualified accountants. The special resolution to be voted on is: “In Bylaw 11 of the Milner Gardens and Woodland Society’s Constitution and Bylaws, change the words: ‘Audit’ to ‘Review Engagement’; ‘Auditor’ to ‘accountant’; ‘audited’ to ‘reviewed’; and ‘Auditor’s report’ to ‘Review Engagement Report’.�

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PIRATES TEAM wraps up busy weekend.

The Nanaimo Pirates have been playing some big ball games as the playoffs get closer. The most noteworthy game of late was a barnburner on Canada Day. The Hub City Paving Pirates swept the Victoria Mariners last Wednesday at Serauxmen Stadium, winning 14-13 in extra innings, then hanging on for a 6-5 win in the rematch. “It was Canada Day fireworks, there’s no question. It was one of the wildest games I’ve been involved with in a long time,” said Doug Rogers, Pirates manager. “Even though it’s a coach’s nightmare to watch a 14-13 game, I bet the fans loved it,” Rogers said. “They probably thought that was the best game they’ve ever watched.” The M’s built a 4-0 lead in the top of the first inning, the Pirates replied with six runs of their own in the bottom half, and that set the tone. Vic actually led 12-6 at one point but couldn’t make the lead stand. In the eighth inning, North Rainey was inserted as a pinch runner at first, Garrett Goodall doubled to the wall in left, and Rainey sprinted around the bases so fast that the M’s didn’t even attempt a throw to the plate. “We really battled back in the first one,” s a i d G o o d a l l . “ We started off down, but we stuck together and

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The throw to Victoria Mariners catcher Nick Seginowich comes too late as Nanaimo Pirates baserunner Shane Rogers slides safely home during Wednesday’s B.C. Premier Baseball League game. Nanaimo won 6-5.

got our bats going like we do and it worked out.” Josh Burgmann made his season debut for Nanaimo in the early game and was the winning pitcher, allowing one run over three innings while striking out four. Goodall and Cole Warken hit two doubles each and Kevin Sengara, Josh CarlessJones and Aaron Page had two hits apiece. In the second game, Page was the winning pitcher, giving up no earned runs over four innings. Shane Rogers hit two doubles and scored two runs and Chris Vlaj had a pair of hits.

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Nanaimo Pirates pitcher Garrett Goodall throws a strike during last Wednesday’s game against the Victoria Mariners.

O n S a t u rd a y, t h e Pirates lost 10-3 to the North Shore Twins at Serauxmen Stadium. Pitcher Robert Busch took the loss in that game, who pitched two innings before six runs off five hits saw him replaced with Garrett Goodall, who saw another four runs scored off seven hits. The Twins’ Robert Hemer took the win with two runs in six innings of play. James Bradwell recorded the save. Pirates’ first baseman Matt Skingle had two hits and one RBI in the loss, which only went seven innings. Things didn’t go much better Sunday when the Pirates faced the North

Delta Blue Jays, dropping that game 7-1 in seven innings. Pirates’ pitcher Sam Baker took the loss, allowing four runs off four hits in 3.2 innings. He was relieved by Aaron Page who allowed another three runs off three hits before Bryce Stomquist pitched the final scoreless inning. Blue Jays Daniel Gosselin took the win in the game, allowing one run in seven innings. North Rainey had the sole run for the Pirates. GAME ON … The Pirates have a break in league play until July 17, when they host the Coquitlam Reds at Serauxmen Stadium at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Timbermen play rematch with Thunder The losing streak continued for the Nanaimo Timbermen when the We s t e r n L a c ro s s e Team dropped a 7-6 decision to the Langley Thunder. The Timbermen increased its losing skid to eight games with the loss at Frank Crane Arena Saturday. Nanaimo led by a goal after the first period, scoring three goals to Langley’s two. In the second, Langley evened the score with three goals to Nanaimo’s two. The visiting team pulled out the win in the third period, scoring two goals to Nanaimo’s one, leaving the final at 7-6 for the visiting squad. Nanaimo goalie Peter Dubenski earned the first star in the game, however, facing 48 shots in the loss. Timbermen forward Jake Emms earned the third star, scoring two goals in the game. Mitch Parker and Cayle Ratcliff each had three points in the game, with Parker scoring one goal and two assists, while Ratcliff scored two and helped on one. Timbermen sit in last place in the standings. GAME ON … The Timbermen and Thunder play a rematch this Wednesday (July 8) at the Langley Events Centre. The T-men visit the Coquitlam Adanacs on Saturday, and Nanaimo’s next home game is July 14, when the Victoria Shamrocks visit Frank Crane Arena for a 7 p.m. faceoff.

Buccaneers bring back veterans to junior B hockey team

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SNIPER, D-MAN return to play for city’s junior B squad.

The Nanaimo Buccaneers are bringing back a couple of established vets to add to a rebuilt roster. The city’s junior B hockey club announced that sniper

Will McNamara and Jake Calverley, both of Nanaimo, have been re-acquired. McNamara spent the second half of last season with the Campbell River Storm where he won the Cyclone Taylor Cup and Keystone Cup, but wanted to come back home for his 20-year-old season. He was third in the league in scoring last year with 80 points in 46

games. Calverley played most of last year with Saskatchewan’s Battleford North Stars. The Bucs also announced some of its recruits for the coming Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League season. Joining the team will be goalies Cole Manns and Alex Orth, defencemen Tyler Graham and Aiden Tegart and forwards Conner Mowatt, Jayden

Schubert, Jesse Strangward and Billy Walters. Manns played Tier 1 midget in Nanaimo last year and according to a press release the goalie impressed Bucs ownership and coaches with his performance and attitude. Mowatt is another Nanaimo product who was acquired from the Peninsula Panthers. He is a physical presence at

6-foot-3, 200 pounds. Walters, a fast-skater, was an affiliate player with the Bucs last year. The Buccaneers, with their all-new coaching staff headed by Dan Lemmon, will hold main camp Aug. 14-16 and the VIJHL season starts Sept. 4. For more information, please visit www.buccaneers.vijhl. com.


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