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Police in the Cowichan Valley are alerting residents after a suspicious man approached a 15year-old Duncan girl on May 12. The girl was walking along Gibbins Road at approximately 1:30 p.m. that day when she was approached by a man in his 30s or 40s driving a silver minivan. He asked the girl her age and if she was into modelling. When she replied that she wasn’t, he told her to get into his van if she wanted to learn more. “Our lady did the right thing by continuing to walk away,” North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Krista Hobday said. The man drove away before the girl was able to get a licence plate number. The driver is described as a Caucasian man between the ages of 30 and 40, bald with wirerimmed glasses. Anyone who has experienced or is aware of a similar situation should contact their local police detachment. “If you are the victim or witness to this or any other type of criminal offence we urge you to call the police immediately to report the incident,” Hobday said. “A quick response by police enhances our chances of locating people and vehicles suspected of criminal offences.”

Police and North Cowichan South End volunteer firefighters were quick to the scene on Wednesday afternoon after a car flipped on the Trans-Canada Highway across from the North Cowichan Municipal Hall just after 2 p.m. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

Soil fight goes to Supreme Court ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Just days after a rally at the Victoria Legislature to protest the importation of contaminated soil into the Shawnigan Lake watershed, the Shawnigan Residents Association and the Cowichan Valley Regional District announced that they are petitioning the B.C. Supreme Court to halt dirty dirt being dumped onto a local property.

The SRA has filed an application for judicial review, and is seeking to have the court set aside the decision of the Environmental Appeal Board, which reinforced the legitimacy of a Ministry of Environment permit to allow South Island Aggregates/Cobble Hill Holdings to import millions of tonnes of contaminated soil to gradually fill a quarry they are mining on their Stebbings Road property.

The site is within the Shawni- fight to the next level,” he said. gan Lake watershed and sits “The safety of our water and above the lake, with feeder our environment is paramount. The SRA simply cannot stand waterways nearby. The SRA wants the permit by in these circumstances and allow five million tonnes of conrevoked. “We believe that the issuance taminated soil to be trucked in of this permit and the decision from elsewhere and dumped in of the Environmental Appeal our watershed. The community Board were based on significant is overwhelmingly against this errors,” said Calvin Cook, pres- landfill. ident of the SRA. “As a result, we will carry this See CVRD ARGUING, Page 14

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The Cowichan Valley Regional District is balking at the possibility of having the provincial government download new fire inspection requirements onto their shoulders, at what would be a considerable extra cost. The issue came to the board’s attention at their May meeting when a report from a recent meeting of regional district chairs and chief administrative officers sounded the alarm about the province moving to require regional districts to begin to enforce the Fire Services Act and its regulations in unincorporated areas, including the obligation to provide a regular system of inspection for hotels and public buildings. The CVRD has nine unincorporated areas that range from Mill Bay to Youbou to North Oyster. Currently, there is no system in place to do any such thing, and to put one in place would mean manpower and bureaucracy. “It is an additional cost,” said Duncan Mayor Phil Kent. “It was collectively agreed on that the scale and scope of downloading onto local governments from the provincial governments far outweighs a regional district’s capacity to support such a significant undertaking,” the report to the board said. “Transfer of responsibilities without funding or revenue streams to local governments, along with growth and urban-

Duncan Mayor Phil Kent ization, are the main drivers of increased local government expenditures,” it continued. “To exacerbate things further, underinvestment in infrastructure and pressures associated with climate change are likely to worsen this problem, unless local governments are provided with more resources or revenue generating capacity by senior levels of government. The CVRD simply does not have the capacity to take on this provincial responsibility.” The board agreed to send a resolution to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities opposing the downloading.

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A little stress a good thing: superintendent issue in the Valley. Using adaptable programs has shown that students can catch up quickly, if they are given the right kind of situation, Allen said. “The Strong Start program is a piece of the answer. But what is the ecosystem the family lives in? And are there families we are missing with programs like Strong Start? A solution takes everyone in the community,” he said.

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apply that learning,” he said. While districts are moving towards offering trades and academies, that can still be just part of adding to the menu, he said. “We have to look at that new ways. That apprenticeship model can be applied to all kinds of learning, getting young people working with motivated, interested experts. That comes down to the community coming into the schools, the kids going out into the community. No school has all those experts in place. “We want to see hands-on learning earlier. Kindergarten has it, that exploring the environment. But we lose that very quickly in schools.” He said that the province’s First Nations Principles of Learning are being seen as an acknowledgement that the holistic, environment-based way of looking at acquiring learning, prevalent in aboriginal cultures, is the way all education should be moving. Dealing with the many young children who are not ready to start school is a challenge facing many districts but it has been identified as a significant

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learning, smaller secondary schools can offer programs that are tailored almost to individual students.” Students can spend mornings following a fairly traditional academic timetable but afternoons are around project-based learning, which means getting out into the community and really applying their learning in different ways. “It’s far easier to do in a smaller community where everybody knows everybody than it is if you’re Burnaby South with 3,000 kids,” he said. Big schools are starting to divide into pods, acknowledging that “students can’t interact well, teachers can’t interact well in communities much larger than a hundred.” The closeness of a small community can become an asset, Allen said. “We know learning and relationships go hand in hand. You can’t do one without the other.” The skills students learn are different, too. “The periodic table? You can print that off your phone now. That’s not the game. It’s being able to use that knowledge, to

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Rod Allen’s wide background in education has seen him working in everything from rural classrooms to the Ministry of Education. Now, he’s taken up the job of superintendent of schools at the Cowichan Valley School District, replacing Joe Rhodes, who retired last week. Starting his career in rural Saskatchewan, Allen went to Lesotho in southern Africa and then returned to Canada to spend 20 years teaching in Smithers, B.C. He finally left rural B.C. for what he thought was a shortterm job at the Ministry of Education. He stayed seven years. “In government, I found that, while I loved the job, I wanted to get back. I really miss the kids, I miss the action, I miss the schools,” he said. “Cowichan has intrigued me for a while. This district is poised on the edge of doing amazing things,” he said. Having served so long in northern B.C., he is well up on such problems as an increasing call for trades training, how to increase offerings at small secondary schools, how to improve aboriginal student success, how to fit everything into ever-tightening budgets and more. Small secondary schools, academies and trades training can all be looked at under the same microscope. There’s a need for new ideas in all of them, he said. “What I’ve seen around the province is that some of the greatest innovation is coming out of small rural secondary schools,” he said. “We used to believe that rural secondary schools had to be helped and compensated for because of their small size. What we see now is that the literature on optimum school sizes is shifting around and the ability of these small schools to be nimble is an asset,” he said. Traditional wisdom said the larger the school, the greater the menu selection of courses, the better the situation for students. That is changing. “As we look into personalized

Tight budgets have been challenging school districts for years and solving problems often means taking a new vantage point, he said. “You have to be constantly looking at what you are doing. When there were bags of money around we thought we could just buy success. Ontario tried to do that, but it didn’t work. And a little stress on the system can be a good thing,” Allen said.

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t is a little odd that we have so few roads that run eastwest on Vancouver Island. But we think it’s only a matter of time before that changes and we’d like to see Cowichan reap the benefits of any new routes. We’re not sure how the status quo came about — early settlers travelled more frequently by boat, perhaps, and didn’t want to go to the work of clearing the heavy forest for a public highway in a pre-car era? Trains, of course, were also a much more prevalent mode of travel, for both passengers and industry.

Right now, it’s very inconvenient to have to travel to Qualicum before you can head west to Port Alberni and beyond to Tofino and Ucluelet. But that’s the only really feasible way to get there. There are logging and industrial roads that head into the very rugged territory between the Lake Cowichan area and Port Alberni, but they are impassible in some weather to all, and not a drive many would choose to take at any time of year. It’s a bit of a mystery why these passes have not been

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opened more thoroughly before now. Perhaps it’s because, also rather oddly, there has been comparatively little development on the west coast of Vancouver Island. There are the communities of Port Renfrew, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet, but measured against the development of the east coast of the Island, the west is still a little-settled wilderness. That could also change. But even if it doesn’t, we see huge potential in having a route pass through the Cowichan Lake area to the west.

Even without the big industrial projects the Huu-ay-aht are championing, the route is worth opening up. Many of the communities around Cowichan Lake have been hit hard in the last 20 to 30 years with the closure of mills and the evaporation of many forestry jobs. But consider the possibilities if they were not the end of the line, so to speak, but rather a gateway to the west. Support to upgrade the road to a public highway is the right move. We join the Huu-ay-aht in hoping the “when” is soon.

I am in total agreement with K. Beaumont of Duncan that gas prices should be an election issue (Citizen, May 15, 2015). At $1.22 a litre now, this is a travesty. The price should be at least $5 a litre, in order to encourage conservation, foster innovative ways of weaning ourselves off our addiction to carbon-based fuels, and avert a future planetary disaster. This is already a disaster for many of the species that we have driven to extinction in various ways. The increased tax portion of such a price should be reserved solely for research and development into sustainable energy, creating solar farms, etc., and to provide excellent public transit — sorry, Mr. Harper, no stealing it to falsely balance the budget. This would have the beneficial unintended consequence of getting millions of people out there walking and bicycling, therefore reducing health care costs, decreasing road congestion, and improving quality of life for all.

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This conservative disillusioned by law change to duck problem It has been said that we deserve the government we get. When my federal government makes a new law retroactive in order to legalize the illegal activities of a federal agency, I feel compelled to review what I have done to deserve such a government. I am a small “p”, small “c” progressive conservative. I have been an active member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance Party and the Conservative Party of Canada, serving on political committees, commissions

and boards of directors. I have felt good about my participation in Canadian democracy. But when my government is put into power by only 24 per cent of the registered electorate and passes laws like the one above, it makes me realize that I have been deceiving myself. These factors show that Canada’s “democracy” does not include government by and for a majority of Canadians. I feel compelled to refocus my efforts on creating a true Canadian democracy. I plan to work only for political parties that allow their MLAs and MPs to represent their constituents, instead of working for parties which make their representatives do what they are told to do by their party leaders. I plan to

work toward having the premier of my province and the prime minister of my country elected by a majority of the publiclyelected representatives, instead of being selected from an elite group of the supporters of one political party. I plan to induce Canadians of all political persuasions (especially those who disdain politics) to help to make Canada a true democracy at all levels of government. “Try it! You’ll like it!” Robert Radford Duncan

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Pursuit questionable Re: May 13 CVRD meeting At this meeting, Mayor Stone of Ladysmith sought advice from the CVRD board as to how to pursue a proposal if it had been rejected by referendum. In the private sector nothing prevents running roughshod over public opinion, but I wonder how his employers would have viewed his apparent disregard for instructions from his governing body? Election to public office does not raise one to the status of the gods. Pat Mulcahy Saltair

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while the CVRD, behind the scenes, used regional tax dollars to tilt at provincial laws. CVRD board members can protect our water (see Bylaw 2202 passed Nov. 24, 2004). Why aren’t they doing this? Lavonne Huneck Area B, Shawnigan Lake

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system whereby governments from there on in would have to borrow monies from private sector banks (e.g. Royal, TD etc) including international banks and if a government got us into truly dire straits, the World Bank. Another question is to wonder why none of this has been reported in the media? Can we liken it to that old aphorism, “If a tree falls in the middle of the forest, who will hear it?” Again I ask the question why and wonder how this passed by the eyes of the public without notice. So began an era of surplus and deficits and downsizing. By 2012, the government had paid C$1 trillion in interest — twice its present day national debt. In fact, interest on the debt is now the government’s largest budget expenditure. William Lyon Mackenzie King, prime minister of Canada, 1935 said; “Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation.” And so it is. This is serious folks. Our wonderful country is being fleeced while those on the top become richer. The good news today is that lawyer Rocco Galati (of Supreme Court fame in the Nadon case) of the Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER), a small and low-budget Toronto think-tank has launched a lawsuit which seeks to restore the use of the Bank of Canada to its original purposes remembering that the government amended the Bank Act in 1938 and turned the bank into a public institution. No such amendment took place in 1974, thus the crux of the lawsuit. Milton Friedman’s radical free-market ideas, putting the creation of credit into private hands and creating debt burdens which would restrict the potential for democratic governments, was one of the first to garner support for this infamous (remember 2008) plot. Gloria Cope Chemainus

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The Cowichan Valley Regional District board said goodbye to longtime member and former chair Rob Hutchins last Wednesday night. Hutchins moved to become alternate director for the Town of Ladysmith, while Mayor Aaron Stone stepped into the fulltime director’s chair. Hutchins has been on the board for over 20 years and has made an impact fellow directors and alternate directors said. “He always brought a regional perspective to the table,” said former director Gerry Giles, putting regional interests first, though he considered his own community at all times. “He championed the pursuit of a collective goal,” she said. “What Rob did over the years benefited us all.” Hutchins was always considerate and compassionate, Giles said, while at the same time never shying away from making the hard decisions, which could, at times, be unpopular.

One of his greatest strengths was in mentoring those new to public office, giving them the benefit of his experience. “Rob would make sure that he gave us a sounding board,” Giles said. “Anytime I needed help Rob was there,” from serving as chair to helping to serve a community turkey dinner.” Former chief administrative officer Frank Raimondo also had high praise for the longtime director. Raimondo said that over the years he worked with 13 chairs of the board, and Hutchins was in his top five or six best. Hutchins came to the board “knowing virtually nothing,” he reminisced, but quickly grew into his role. “I never worried about his commitment” to serve the Valley, Raimondo said. “Rob, it was great working with you.” Hutchins said his more than two decades on the board went extremely fast, and he leaves the body optimistic about the future of regional government in Cowichan. “Thank you very much for the kind words,” he concluded.

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he gap between the one per cent and the 99 per cent is widening, as the gains made by our parents’ and grandparents’ generations are slowly chiseled away by senior levels of government pursuing questionable economic policies and global corporations intent on increasing the bottom line. This is the story in much of the advanced industrialized world, and Canada is no exception. The wealthiest 86 Canadian families now hold the same amount of wealth as the poorest 11.4 million Canadians combined. Is this a problem? The evidence demonstrates conclusively that societies with higher levels of income inequality suffer in the long run, with more severe health and social problems. Sadly, we are seeing signs of such prob-

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CVRD arguing that soil landfill facility against provisions of zoning bylaw SOIL FIGHT, From Page 1 “The science is on our side; the site has not been shown to be suitable. That the government still supports this facility is deeply troubling,” said Cook. The CVRD petition to the court asks that CVRD Zoning Bylaw No. 985 be enforced in relation to the SIA property, which would shut down any dumping of contaminated soil on the site. Contaminated soil treatment and landfill facilities are not a permitted use of the property within the F1-For-

estry zone under the bylaw. “Local governments have the legislated authority to regulate land use through official community plans and zoning bylaws which ensures the uses of land are consistent with the desires and interests of the community,” said Shawnigan Lake Electoral Area Director Sonia Fursentau. “A contaminated soil treatment and landfill facility is clearly not the desire or interest of the Shawnigan Lake community.” Furstenau has long been opposed to the permit, as has a

majority of the Shawnigan Lake community she represents. South Island Aggregates and Cobble Hill Holdings President Mike Kelly disagrees that the science is against the permit, and says the new actions by the SRA and the CVRD are clearly politically motivated. The business is disappointed with the continuing legal action. “This application follows one of the longest and most extensive Environmental Appeal Board hearings to date, which upheld the decision of the Ministry of

Environment,” he said. “This next legal challenge will only ensure that CVRD residents continue to pay millions more in outside legal fees, while much needed infrastructure projects go unfunded, and the issue of unregulated dumping continues to be unaddressed.” Kelly said that the real threats to the watershed don’t come from his project, but instead come from failing and non-existent septic systems on the lakeshore, motorized vessel use on the lake and the struggling economy.

The company’s legal team is reviewing the matter, he said. Action could include civil litigation against “individuals and organizations found to be interfering with our operating business.” The company is also continuing the construction of the facilities required to accept and store the contaminated soil. The SRA has planned a peaceful demonstration on Sunday, May 24 from 1-4 p.m. at the Trans Canada Highway and Deloume Road in Mill Bay.

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Cowichan woman ‘stupefied’ when earthquake struck Nepal ANNA KOSA SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN

They told us to watch the birds. It might be animal sense or pure superstition, but somehow the birds could sense the earthquake. A swarm of birds would darken the already ominous sky a moment before the shaking started. I watched the birds. In unison, they flew up from the trees and formed a big black cloud. The aftershock hit. pril 25, Saturday, 11:56 a.m. I remember when the earth started shaking. At first, it was a low rumble, like there was a very large plane flying low and close to the ground. But as I looked out the window I saw the buildings outside swaying like grass in the wind. Then, the earth erupted. Think of how it feels to be on a boat, rolling in the waves. I was on a boat about to capsize. That’s what it felt like. All my earthquake training — drop! cover! and hold! — was erased from my mind as I watched people stampede from the restaurant. I was stupefied and I certainly did not drop, cover and hold, but merely went to the wall away from people, pots and chandeliers. You never know how you’ll react in a situation like this. You can prepare, you can know exactly what to do; yet, when you’re thrust headfirst into the moment of truth you have no idea how you’ll react. The funny thing is, my office had an earthquake drill five days before the real one. Of course, everybody treats it as a fire drill and never thinks it will happen any time soon. I was aware that Nepal was expecting the “big one”, and it was always at the back of my mind, but I never thought it would happen while I was there for my six-month placement. But that’s the scary thing; you never know when it’s going to happen. Even now when I am no longer in Nepal, it still feels like the earth is shaking. I know it’s not shaking; however, after having experiencing aftershocks for days on end it’s difficult to adjust to solid, unmoving ground. It has taken me a while to write down my

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There were more sparks at the inquest than at the fire an excited Mrs. AkenOn Christmas Day, head as he returned although by then from church, broke said to be seriously in through a window, ill, George Milne was only to be turned back charged with incendiby thick black smoke. arism and placed He recalled a strong under house arrest. smell of kerosene. n an age of woodMary Ann Akenhead en buildings, open CHRONICLES who, with her husfireplaces and poor band and two sons, firefighting capabilT.W. Paterson shared occupancy of ities, fire was every the building, couldn’t recall any frontier community’s worst unusual smells. nightmare. Neither could Walter Jr. who’d That which destroyed Walter helped Thompson try to locate Akenhead’s two-storey frame the seat of the fire. building on Victoria Crescent, Store owner George Milne said Nanaimo, Sunday evening, Dec. he’d been at Webb’s hotel when 5, 1886, created further sparks he heard the fire bell and he for its tenant, curios importer, helped volunteers rescue some dry goods merchant, grocer and of his merchandise. architect(!), George Milne. He’d worked in the store that At an inquest before Stipendiday, with a small fire in the ary Magistrate J.P. Planta, stage stove, and left about three hours driver Henry Thompson testibefore the fire was detected. He fied that he and Akenhead’s son were among the first to respond. said he had two cans of kerosene for his own use, stored in Upon forcing entry to Milne’s the room behind the stairwell living quarters, they searched cupboard, that his business and each room without finding household insurance totalled the smoke’s source until they $1,680. Most of his stock was opened a cupboard beneath the paid for, some of his ledgers stairs and “the fire burst out were saved and were in the in my face”. He threw a can of hands of the underwriters. water at it and retreated. Mary Akenhead said outright Thompson said the fire seemed what others were thinking: to “come from the floor — it “Mr. Milne, what a job you was burning all over. The flame have done — you have left us in appeared to be in the middle of the street without a hat to our the stairs.” head or a bed to lay on — you Salesman J. Young, hailed by

have ruined us.” Milne, who said he was not well, after being questioned about his whereabouts immediately prior to the fire, and the general state of his premises, was repeatedly grilled about his inventory and its insured value. A competitor whose adjacent store was also consumed bitterly estimated the full value of Milne’s merchandise to have been $80! Teamsters and freight clerks testified that Milne had never ordered anything near the inventory that he claimed to have lost. Only firefighter John Scales offered slight supporting evidence with his observation that the store’s shelves “seemed pretty well filled up with tins of stuff”. It did Milne no good. On Christmas Day, although by then said to be seriously ill, he was charged with incendiarism and placed under house arrest. Six months later, on the very day he was to go to trial, he died of consumption. His wasn’t the only death in the affair, landlord Akenhead having predeceased him as had George Montgomery whose store was also consumed. Did Milne burn down his own store for the insurance money? At the Spring Assizes the Hon. H.P.P. Crease said that he owed it to Milne’s memory to state that, “After a careful perusal of the depositions, [I] consider...

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Speaker to talk public ownership of natural resources The Cowichan Jacobin Reading Group in cooperation with The Joseph Mairs Memorial Committee is inviting everyone to attend a public event entitled Our Wood Our Oil: The Case For Public Democratic Ownership on Saturday, May 23. Starting at 1 p.m. at the Mercury Theatre, 331 Brae Rd. in Duncan Mitchell Anderson, an author and journalist, will take a look at how we manage our natural resources. Anderson is a Vancouver-based freelance writer and frequent contributor to the Tyee. In 2002, the newspaper sent him on assignment to Norway to learn more about their oil fund which currently has more than $900 billion in assets. He wrote a 10-part series comparing petroleum policy in Norway and Canada which shed light on the question of why Canada, with our vast natural resources, has adopted an austerity stance and failed to sustain services for all Canadians. In addition to his expertise in the realm of oil, he has also cultivated a knowledge and point of view on the question of forestry practices in B.C. which will also be addressed in his presentation. “As long as we are cleverly diverted from talking about Canada’s vast wealth and who gets to keep it, we will remain the second richest country in the world

that for some reason cannot afford postal delivery,” he wrote recently. After Anderson speaks there will be a discussion and question period.

Yoga teachers band together for Nepal aid fundraiser A group of yoga teachers in the Cowichan Valley have teamed up for a fundraiser for Nepal, which recently suffered its second devastating earthquake in as many months. The fundraiser will take the form of a morning of gentle yoga hosted by the Forest Yogini Collective on Sunday, May 24 starting at 10 a.m. at the Hub at Cowichan Station. Donations will go to Glasswaters (www. glasswatersnepal.ca). You can donate on the website if you can’t attend the fundraiser. Attendees are asked to bring a yoga mat and water and to dress in layers. A suggested donation is $20. There will also be a raffle for two woven willow chairs, and four wellness packages. Tickets are $5 each or five for $20. The draw date is May 24.

May 27 Bike Expo new draw for Bike to Work Week Cycle Cowichan is adding a new event to Bike To Work Week this year with Bike Expo, on May 27 at the Aquatic

The Nepal fundraiser is also raffling off two woven willow chairs. [SUBMITTED] Centre on James Street in Duncan. Along with Celebration Stations throughout the week, Bike Expo will feature numerous exhibitors including bike shops, bicycle manufacturers, cycling clubs, the RCMP Bike Patrol and other groups that promote cycling in the Valley. “Cycle Cowichan is excited to promote what the Valley has to offer,” said Alex Haddad from Cycle Cowichan. “Whether it’s commuting, mountain biking, road racing or recreational riding, Cowichan has it all.” Prizes, mechanical support and refreshments will be available for all who come

Join Us to Learn More! Liquid Waste Management Planning – Amending the Central Sector Plan The Cowichan Valley Regional District, working with partners the City of Duncan, Municipality of North Cowichan and Cowichan Tribes, is in the process of amending the current Central Sector Liquid Waste Management Plan (CSLWMP) to relocate an existing treated wastewater outfall from the Cowichan River. As part of this review, the CVRD and partners are consulting with community members, stakeholder groups and partners about environmental, technical and cost considerations.

The Cowichan Regional Anglican Youth Connection will be planting gardens at churches in the Cowichan Valley as a legacy to the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Such gardens are being planted across the country by former students of Indian Residential schools and their families, the TRC, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, KAIROS and Project of Heart. “To prepare their hearts and minds the youth are hosting an evening where we can honour the journey to reconciliation and symbolize that children will lead us towards a future of reconciliation,” said Alison Stephen in a press release. The evening event is scheduled for Tuesday, May 26 at 6 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Anglican Church in Duncan. On Feb. 18 the Namgis First Nation band council hosted an event that acknowledged the planned demolition of St. Michael’s Residential School in Alert Bay. This was a gathering of chiefs, residential school survivors, and invited guests. The Duncan evening will feature speakers who were at that event who will share their reflections and experiences. They include Reverend Lincoln McKeon from Alert Bay, Tanya McKeon from Alert Bay and Terry Shepherd from Nanoose Bay. Cowichan Tribes members and elders have also been invited to attend. The event is free, but reserve as seat by calling the St. John’s Church office at 250-748-9712 or email stjohnschurch@shaw.ca

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Senior players’ dedication keeps Cowichan Secondary rugby alive and thriving

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t first glance, it may not seem remarkable that the Cowichan Secondary School Thunderbirds have qualified for the provincial AAA boys rugby championships this year. After all, the squad makes regular appearances at the tournament, and this is the fourth year in a row that they have made the cut. When you consider, however, that if not for the efforts of a group of senior players there wouldn’t have been a team this year at all, it becomes much more impressive. Earlier in the school year, it looked possible that the Thunderbirds might not be fielding a boys rugby team this year. After their previous coaches opted not to run the program again this season after many years at the helm, the players themselves pressed on. Grade 12s Nathan Yu, Amish Dobson, Josh Jones and Ben Iwasyk headed up the effort to hold weekly training sessions, and put up posters in the school to summon players to the team, hoping someone would step up. “We were pretty devastated that we weren’t going to have a season,” Iwasyk, a flanker, recalls. “For many of us, it basically made our high school experience.” Especially in their last seasons of high school, the seniors weren’t going to let it slip away easily. “It was hard to see something so great die,” inside centre Yu says. “It’s our senior year playing Cowichan rugby,” Dobson, a fullback, adds. “It was so much fun the other years, we hated to see it happen.” From the general camaraderie and teamwork to the atmosphere on the bus and being out in the springtime sun, there are many reasons the players were anxious to play rugby again this year. “It’s something you don’t get with any other sport or in school,” scrum-half Jones relates. Even as it appeared they might not have a coach to lead the program, the players prepared as if there would be a season. “We talked to our friends, put up posters everywhere, but we still didn’t have coaches yet,” Dobson says. “We wanted to show that we did have players if we could find one.” “Most of the seniors were trying to organize practices,” Jones says. “We were running them for a while. Then one of the juniors said his coach from the rugby club might be interested. He came down for a practice and said he was interested, and it just snowballed from there.” Former T-Bird stars Robin MacDowell

Senior Thunderbirds rugby players Ben Iwasyk, Amish Dobson and Nathan Yu, as well as Josh Jones (not pictured) were instrumental in keeping the boys rugby program alive at their school this year. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]