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A Christmas Story Wilfred the Cat

Story by Craig Spence / Illustrations by Diana Durrand

hen I was a boy, we had a cat named Wilfred. I don’t know how he got the name. I suppose someone in his past must have looked at him – at his round, intelligent face; those gazing, Buddhist eyes; his everso-gentle cat’s paws; and decided he looked like a Wilfred. Wherever the name came from, it stuck, or rather I should say it grew on him, as much a part of his personality as his sleek grey and white fur, his mincing gait and his twitching tail. Of course, when you say something has grown on someone, or that they’ve ‘grown into it’, you’re really saying it’s grown on you – that you’ve got used to it, come to like it so much, that you won’t let them be anything else. Whether or not Wilfred ever really liked his name, I can’t honestly say. I do know he responded well when it was accompanied by the sound of tinned chicken liver being pried open in the kitchen - a summons enticing enough to actually make him break out of his leisurely, sashaying stride into something approaching a trot. We knew what Wilfred’s name was, because when he arrived at our doorstep that Christmas but they also hang on a good Eve, he had a medallion on his enough; Wilfred was ours… if ny passed away. Funny phrase, that! “Passed script – one that lets the procollar with WILFRED stamped nobody answered the ad in the into it, and an address below newspaper, or the wanted post- away.” An excuse of a phrase, tagonist exit stage left at the absolute peak of his dramatic that: 28 Buller Street. We natu- ers tacked onto bulletin boards really. So you can imagine how Wil- trajectory. Precisely one Christrally went there, to see if we around town. When I say ours, could reunite Wilfred with his of course, I mean Nonny’s. That fred fit into the scheme of mas after Wilfred’s entrance owner. That was a sad trek, be- was clear from the get-go. We things after that. This is going to into our lives, he made his exit, cause Nonny fell in love with heard Wilfred’s plaintive me- sound awful, but sometimes the wrapped in one of my mother’s Willie (or Willy-nilly as we owing at the door, watched in truth’s messy, confused, brutal – most precious silk scarves and called him in his more boister- astonishment as he darted be- having Wilfred with us was like packed into a pine box Dad ous moods) the moment she set tween our legs the moment it having Nonny die a second time, made for the occasion. We bureyes on him; and Willie returned was opened, then caught up to because our Christmas Cat was ied him in the back yard, under the favour, purring on her blan- him in Nonny’s room, already old when we got him, and I hon- the apple tree Mom and Nonny ket like a car left running in the on the bed and snuggling up to estly think if he’d had the choice, had planted before my sister’s drive, waiting for someone to my sister. “He’s the best pres- he would have gone wherever cancer really took hold. None ent,” Nonny smiled, and I could Nonny went. But he still loved of us can eat the fruit of that take him somewhere. Of course we all fell in love see that look in Mom and Dad’s and was loved and carried on magical tree; one bite and we’d with Willie as quickly as cocoa eyes, that anguished look of sashaying through our lives as be crying for an eternity. So it lays on the ground, food for the added to hot milk dissolves two hearts breaking at the same best he could. There are moments you can deer, and the crows, and the – not only because he was lov- time. If it had been up to me, I able, but because he loved wouldn’t even have looked for feel yourself growing in this raccoons, and whatever other Nonny best of all. So we weren’t Wilfred’s owners. The finders- life; moments you realize how wild critters happen to have an too disappointed when we keepers rule would have been small and immature you were appetite in passing. We knew Wilfred was teeterbundled Willie and Nonny into invoked without qualm. But the moment before. Not long the car and drove down the hill hey, I was just a kid, and Nonny after Nonny’s passing, I came ing on the brink, so I’d insisted to 28 Buller, only to discover needed Wilfred like one phone home to find Mother sitting he sleep with me the night bein the armchair in our living fore he went. Weak and disorithere was no such address – un- needs another. Not that he didn’t like our af- room, Wilfred in her lap. She ented as he was, Wilfred lived less Willie had lived in a gravel parking lot past the last house fection. He’d rub up against our was hunched over, hugging him up to his aristocrat’s name right on the block, which was num- legs, sit in our laps, play with awkwardly, and Wilfred didn’t to the end. He climbed up on bered 26. Of course Willie might the fabric mouse, at the end of protest or try to squirm free. my chest and settled in, watchhave lived on the Buller Street a string, attached to a willowy He sat patiently absorbing my ing me with those mystic eyes in Port Moody, or the one in plastic pole. But he loved Nonny mother’s tears and her inconsol- of his, those philosopher’s eyes. Grandview Manitoba, or… We most of all, and it seemed to me able, unfathomable sobs… as Watching me intently, as I fell into the trance of asleep. never checked. We knocked at he wanted to absorb as much of he was meant to do. But hey! This is a Christmas Who knows what stuff dreams the house next door, and the her as he could while she was are made of, what hallucinatory neighbour, who didn’t appre- still with us. I think they had story. Time to move on. Wilfred’s ‘sixth sense’ can only juices spike the blood when ciate being disturbed at 9 a.m. a secret pact, the two of them, Christmas Day, said he’d never that he would soak up her spirit be described as impeccable; his the muscles are relaxed in the seen ‘a cat like that’ in his life, like a sponge so she could stay stage presence intuitive as a paralysis of sleep. Wilfred’s faand ‘who would name a stupid with us a while longer – not her, cruise missile. In my view the vorite place, when he wasn’t by really, but her memory. That’s most memorable performances Nonny’s side, was on the table cat Wilfred anyway?’ And that seemed confirmation what Wilfred became after Non- require good acting, of course, next to her aquarium. You can

think of this as a predatory urge if you wish; I honestly think he was such an enlightened cat that he loved sitting there, watching those languid fish shimmy and shimmer past, fully aware that he was resisting his primal urges. You wouldn’t be the first person to call me a idealist and a dreamer; you won’t be the last. Anyway, those fish were swept into the whirlpool of my dream, along with our Christmas tree, and the ornamental angels hung from the chintzy chandelier above our dining room table. It all got concocted into a magnificent tree with swirling, fish shaped ornaments, topped by Wilfred, with his angel’s wings flapping for glory, and his meows transformed somehow into the most magnificent hosannas, even though they were still just scratchy old meows. I awoke from that dream just in time to stumble through the dark into our living room. The tree was lit up, its soft glow filling the room. And there underneath, lay Wilfred, watching me through his mystic eyes, a fallen globe cradled in his paws. I was with him when he departed; he left me with an emptiness so profound, I knew beyond knowing I would only be able to fill it if I could believe in something much, much greater than myself - something that encompassed Wilfred, and Nonny, and me, and Mum, and Dad, and more than words can say.

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French Immersion plan for LSS to be phased in over two years Craig Spence

School District super- mine the level of supintendent John Blain port for a program. told the Chronicle A Dec. 8 letter gave A Grade 8 - 9 French Wednesday, Dec. 16. them until Dec. 17 to Immersion program And the program will indicate their interest. “If your child is enat Ladysmith Second- be implemented over tering French Immerary School will need two years. The school district sion Grade 8 or 9 in between 30 and 40 students to be viable has surveyed parents September 2016, and/ Nanaimo-Ladysmith and students to deter- or currently in Grade 8 at LSS and attended French Immersion in Grade 7, he/she may indicate interest for Grade 8 or 9 French Immersion at LSS,” the letter said. The letter said that in “response to a number of expressions of interest from parents” Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District “is looking at the and if Santa is Really Good to You, possibility of offering come see us for all your French Immersion for extra storage needs students in Grades 8 and 9 at Ladysmith Secondary School in September of 2016.” Blain clarified, however, that the intention of the district is to offer only Grade email –junction1@shaw.ca 8 French Immersion 13136 Thomas Road, Ladysmith in 2016 and Grades 8 Junction of Trans Canada Hwy. & South Cedar Road and 9 in 2017. There won’t be a Grade 9 FI

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Former LSS Principal David Street, who resigned as principal of Woodlands Secondary in May, issued a tearful apology in provincial court Monday, Dec. 14. Street has admitted to stealing approximately $2,320 from the school between November 2014 and March of this year. The money came from graduation fees, donations for school programs, events and fees for school sports over several weeks. According to infor-

mation read out in secretly install a mocourt, Street had a tion sensor camera safe installed in one in the office where of the school’s admin- the safe was stored. istration offices and Video footage gathtold his staff to store ered later showed school money there, Street entering the ofinstead of locking it fice and taking money in a filing cabinet as from the safe and had been done in the filing cabinet seven past. times between Feb. Street told his staff 25 and March 11. he did not want acSentencing has been cess to the safe. But put off until the new three of his office year. Street read out administrators began an emotional apolnoticing that money ogy to the court, inwas missing. dicating he had been RCMP began an in- dealing with alcohol vestigation, but Street abuse and a pattern said only his staff had of “self-destructive” access to the safe. behaviour. Two of Street’s staff, “I am so very sorry who were questioned for all I have done. by police, decided to I’m so sorry.”

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T’is the season to set aside our differences, and celebrate the blessings we share. In the Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada it is easier than most other places in the world to do that. We’re not perfect, but we are tolerant, reasonable, caring people. As important, we know our shortcomings, although we can’t always find ways of overcoming them. So the presents we give one another, although we wish we could be so generous all year long; and the meals we provide for those less fortunate, though we’re sometimes grudging at other times of year; and the songs we sing, although we may be grumpy in other seasons; are all heartfelt and genuine. If we think of the brother and sisterhood we feel toward one another on Christmas Day as a token of the better world we hope to achieve, and if we dream of expanding those feelings of kindness and caring to every season, and every place on earth, we are celebrating in the true spirit of Christmas.

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by Tom Fletcher The B.C. government’s new training and employment program for single parents has enrolled more than 1,300 people since it began Sept. 1.

The program covers tuition, daycare and transportation costs for up to a year of onthe-job training or education towards in-demand jobs for single parents on social assistance or disability payments. The benefits can continue for up to the first year of employment, including extension of government-paid dental and other health benefits. It replaces the previous system, often referred to as the welfare trap, where single parents would lose their assistance payments and benefits

if they went back to school to train for a job. Social Development Minister Michelle Stilwell called the results of the program’s first four months “a very good sign,” particularly since about 400 of the voluntary participants are not in the ministry’s “expected to work” category because their children are under the age of three. Of the 1,330 people signed up to the program as of midDecember, 50 are already on the job in construction, retail, health and community service

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vidually map the supports that are needed for that person. It’s a very flexible program.” When the single parent program was launched, Stilwell described it as “one of the most significant social program shifts this government has ever introduced.” It came with a financial commitment of $24.5 million over five years. The ministry cites research showing children who grow up in an income-assistance family are up to three times more likely to become dependent on income assistance themselves later in life. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers.

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definitely an advan- tom of the issue will tage.” take more than meets Mayor Aaron stone the eye, though. The said Friday, Dec. 18, new cans, as well as that he believes the being wider, are deepprogram will get back er. They are sunken on track in the New up to four or five feet Year, once councillors below pavement level have had a chance to so they can accomget used to the new modate more refuse. cans. The bags that go “They just didn’t into them are so big grasp what the new that civic crews need ones were going to a back hoe or truck look like,” he said. with a hoist to lift “They wanted to see if them out. Even so, the there were other op- reduced frequency of tions.” collections, results in Getting to the bot- a significant savings.

Jennifer Fernandes deposits some trash into one of the new, larger garbage cans, being installed in downtown Ladysmith. Stone noted that the new cans are also proof against crows, people dumping household garbage and odors. “After I thought about it for a bit, and looked at them a bit more, I think it wasn’t so shocking,” he said.

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Kneslon makes Junior National Team

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Ladysmith swimmer Faith Knelson has done another turn in her career as an athlete, making the Canadian Junior National Team at the age of 14. But she’s not breaking stroke to celebrate what others might see as a marker, she’s just doing what she loves to do best, and swimming as fast as she can to get as far as she can in an increasingly competitive pool. “Right now I’m one of the younger kids on the team, so I’m trying to get up there in the rankings so I will be eligible to go to most of the meets,” Knelson said Wednesday, Dec. 16. “For me there wouldn’t be any markers for where I am in my career – maybe to other coaches there would be a marker, I don’t know – but for me I just try and progress better and better to make myself happy, and to make my coach happy, and to make my club and town proud.” Most of all, though Knelson is just living her passion. “I don’t do swimming for any other reason than my passion,” she said. “I love being in the water. There’s really no place I’d rather be at six o’clock on a Saturday than swimming in a pool. “I just love swimming. I couldn’t stop if I wanted, even if I’m 80 years old, it’s probably still what I’ll want to do.” Knelson has been swimming since she was seven years old. For five of those years she has been with Coach Dusan Toth-Szabo of the Orcas Swim Club in Ladysmith. For a girl her age to be competing at the level Knelson’s at is remarkable; to be turning heads from a town the size of Ladysmith adds to the accomplishment. In her age group there is only one other swimmer in all of Canada, who is a ‘tiny bit faster’

than Knelson, TothSzabo said. And in the breast stroke there is no-one as fast. She has definitely been noticed by National Junior Coach Ken McKinnon. “At the national agegroup championships she won events in freestyle, breast stroke, butterfly and IM (individual medley) as well – so overall, a well rounded swimmer, and they really like that,” Toth-Szabo said. But both coach and swimmer are careful not to push too hard. Knelson puts in ‘only’ six hours per week at the pool. To many that would seem like a lot, but it’s just enough as far as they are concerned. Sometimes coaches and swimmers push too hard in the drive to achieve a competitive edge. “Sometimes being a National Team member at the age-group is misleading, because there are coaches that are pushing the young kids at the young age so hard, that’s why they’re so good, but after a certain level – age 14 or 15 – they can’t get any better,” Toth-Szabo explained. “The situation with Faith is she trains probably half as much as other girls at her age, and she’s still keeping up, and is even better at breast stroke, than others.” Knelson and TothSzabo may come from a small pond, but they are both avoiding the big fish syndrome. It’s

about balance and commitment, and they both think there’s room to improve. “I think that I can progress from this point forward, and that I can get faster, even though I am at a high performance level,” Knelson said. The next major event for them could be the Canadian Olympic and Junior Pan Pacific Game trials to be held in Toronto in April. The Junior Pan Pacific Games take place in Hawaii in August. “Even though that’s a meet for 18 and unders, we are really hoping that she’s going to make it in,” Toth-Szabo said. Those kinds of aspirations are something Knelson has grown into during her seven years of development as a competitive swimmer. “When I was little, I never really thought I could go anywhere with swimming. I just liked being in the pool, being in the water, the feel of water – I never really thought of it as something I could take on when I was a teenager or older,” she said. “I thought it would just be a recreational thing. As I progressed I figured out I loved to race, and that I really enjoyed winning, so I pushed myself a lot harder.” And she’s still learning to push just a little harder every time she dives off the block.

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Points to Ponder It’s A Wonderful Life – but is the movie really a Christian story? Most people love Frank Capra’s classic with glory and honour and put everything unChristmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life and der their feet.” I’m certainly one of them. You finish a viewSo what ideas or themes don’t line up with ing with a deeply satisfying sense that your life true Christian faith? The movie conveys that it really does matter. As a pastor it intrigues me is entirely up to George Bailey alone to choose to ask, “Is this story Christian or not?” The an- the right thing and follow through. If George swer turns out to be both ‘yes’ and ‘no’. hadn’t corrected the mistake in the medicaThe strongest Christian idea is the central tions when he worked as an assistant, old Mr. theme that Your life has purpose. “Each Gower would have died. man’s life touches so many other lives, and Jesus, in contrast, says “I am the vine; you are when he isn’t around he leaves an awful the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, hole, doesn’t he?” says the angel Clarence he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me to George Bailey. Without George around, so you can do nothing.” The great news to every Santa did the rounds of Ladysmith Dec. 20, with stops at Brown Drive Park, many things would have been different. We one of us who is exhausted from trying hard to 4th Avenue and French Street; 4th Avenue and Methuen; Diamond Hall; the learn that Bedford Falls, for example, would do the right thing on our own is that Jesus offers Wigwam Restaurant downtown and finishing up at Davis Road School. Joining have been Pottersville. George saved his to give us the power to follow through. Mr. and Ms. Claus at the first stop were Isaac, Olivia, Finlay, Harrison and Ethan. brother’s life when Harry fell through the ice. I can’t perfectly follow through on every Harry, in turn would become a war hero, sav- promise, can’t serve every opportunity with ing the lives of others. enthusiasm on my own - I need the power that Building on this idea of purpose our lives Christ offers. When you watch this classic this should also be viewed as a gift. The angel year I hope you rejoice with George Bailey as The Town of Ladysmith munic- gency responders. Clarence notes, “At exactly 10:45 p.m. tonight, he finds that his life really did have purpose ipal hall was evacuated ‘as a preThe odor was widely reported on Earth time, that man will be seriously think- and consider what would be possible in your caution’ Friday morning, Dec. Facebook, along with speculation ing of throwing away God’s greatest gift.” The own life with the power of Christ working 18, when a strong odor, which as to what may have caused it. Bible says in Hebrews 2:7,8 “What is mankind through you. may have been natural gas, blanIt was noted that FortisBC has that you are mindful of them, a son of man All the best, keted the downtown area. equipment for detecting and identhat you care for him? You made them a little Pastor Darin Phillips Ladysmith Fire and Rescue was tifying odors, but that no report lower than the angels; you crowned them Oceanview Community Church called and FortisBC, but as of had been issued indicating what press time the source of the odor may have caused the smell. had not been identified. “We were wondering if the smell EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available monthly, space permitting, to faith and philosophical The evacuation of municipal hall could have been emanating from commentators who wish to share their beliefs with the larger community. Views expressed here are was brief, and an advisory was is- someone having fertilizer or manot those of the Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle, and we reserve the unqualified right not to publish sued letting people know there nure dumped in their yard,” one any submission. If you wish to submit an item, please query the editor@ladysmithchronicle.com or had been no evacuation of the person suggested. phone 250-245-2277. downtown area ordered by emer-

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If you’ve never bit into one of Fred Durrand’s Christmas rum balls, well, you might have a hard time understanding why he’s busier than a whole team of Santa’s elves manufacturing them from late October through to mid-December, getting them ready for shipment to his appreciative connoisseurs all over B.C. and Canada. Made from a recipe he first learned from his beloved, late wife Josie, Fred has been perfecting his ingredients and techniques ever since, and expanding the list of lucky recipients, which now includes: family; former colleagues at Central Saanich, where Fred was Municipal Adminstrator; friends and neighbours in Victoria’s Cook Street Village, where he was an honoured resident up until this summer, when he moved with family

to Chemainus. The photos to the left, right and below the recipe (in the grey box) show the process of making rum balls – in peak years Fred makes more than a thousand of them.

Rum balls are symbolic of the ‘good will’ that makes Christmas such a special time of year. Top left, the main, and namesake, ingredient, rum, is poured into the bowl full of dry ingredients. After that, the melted chocolate is folded in, and the mixture is put in the fridge overnight to set. Then, below left and top right, things get rolling, as Fred scoops out portions of the rum ball mixture to shape into 1.5” to 2” balls.

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These are rolled in chocolate hail, crushed nuts or coconut to give them a tasty coating, then placed in their paper cups, ready for packing and delivery. The recipe yields batches of eight to 10 dozen rum balls, so for most families even a single batch will probably be enough. A few tips for newbie rum ball rollers: • Most dollar-stores carry tins that make excellent rum ball containers for storage and shipping. As well as protecting the rum balls they are often decorated in seasonal motifs. • If you run out of room in your fridge, you can store rum balls you are going to be keeping for a while on your balcony or deck during the winter months (in milder areas of B.C.). • When storing your rum balls on the balcony or deck, be sure the locations aren’t frequented by the little masked bandits known as raccoons. Raccoons are not fond of rum balls, but they don’t seem to know it. One year they ripped open the top of a plastic bin, where Fred had his rum balls stored, opened the tins, and took bites out of all the rum balls without finishing a single one. • If you feel you must hide a stash of rum balls, rather than sharing and eating them the moment your tin is opened, be sure to find a secure location, away from heat registers and snoopy pets. And don’t forget where you’ve hidden them. • If you develop a ‘secret recipe’ for making better rum balls, share it. Rum balls are symbolic of the ‘good will’ that makes Christmas such a special time of year. • If someone makes a batch of rum balls based on the recipe you have shared, and asks you how they taste, say “Wonderful!’ Fred mentored several neighbours, but no-one ever made rum balls quite as good has his; still, they put their hearts into it, and that’s what really counts.

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Santa has a whole new group of elves, but they don’t live at the North Pole, they call the 49th Parallel their home turf, and they are Lions one and all. Three members of the Ladysmith Lions Club have been hard at work since the summer building about 50 wooden toys, which were distributed Dec. 11 to children attending the Ladysmith Family and Frieds (LAFF) Morning Program at Aggie Hall. President John Shepherd, Secretary Jim Masyk and member Al Bayes have been busy at their workshop benches since the sum-

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John Maurice Bouthillier Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, June 2, 1930, passed away in Duncan Hospital December 9, 2015 John was predeceased by his grandson Stephen Bouthillier in 2008. He is survived by his loving wife Dianne, his three children Denise Bouthillier, Paul Bouthillier (Irene) and Maurice Bouthillier (Jayne); grandchildren Elaine Bouthillier and Denise Cnossen (Travis); and great grandchildren Nicholas & Myah Cnossen. He will be remembered for his years of dedicated service with the Credit union in Assiniboia, SK, Estevan SK and Ladysmith, BC as manager. After his retirement he was active with the Chemainus Hospital Auxiliary as volunteer in the gift shop and coordinator for Meals on Wheels. He enjoyed music and played the organ for patients at Chemainus Hospital. He had a heart of gold and a great sense of humour. He is gone - but not forgotten. Private family service will be held at a later date. Special thanks to Dr. Manhas, Hugh, Dale & Jen from Daycare.

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On December 17, heaven got an amazing angel - Michael David Alexander. Mike leaves a huge legacy and wonderful memories for his wife Carrie, sons Eric and William, his dad Dave (Virginia), sister Tami (Jason), niece Taelin and nephew Robert along with many extended family and friends. Mike has now reunited with his mom Linda after 15 years. Mike was born in Ladysmith on March 16, 1970. Mike graduated from Ladysmith Secondary School in 1988. Throughout the years Mike spent a lot of time on the water as a commercial fisherman and apprenticing under his dad for the family business Alexander Construction. In 2006 Mike got hired on at the Town of Ladysmith where you would have seen him along 1st Avenue painting lines or putting up festival lights, a job he very much enjoyed. Mike was a dedicated member of Ladysmith Fire Rescue where he attended countless emergencies and many fires, again a job he loved. He retired as captain after 15 years of service. Mike loved the outdoors and his real love and passion was hunting and fishing. Please join us in a Celebration of Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Life on January 9, 2016 from 2 to 5 pm at the Aggie hall. In lieu of flowers, please use that gift to celebrate your family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When they built you brother, they broke the mold.â&#x20AC;?

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Siborne, Trudy March 20, 1950 - December 8, 2015 Trudy Trudy passed passed away away quite suddenly denlyon onDecember December 88 at Bevan Lodge Lodge from from complications complications attributed tributed toto aa long, long, cruel battle with with Alzheimers, Alzheimers, at at the very young 65. 65. She She was preyoungage ageof of was deceased by her Howpredeceased byparents, her parents, ard & Joyce Dalby, Dalby, and leaves Howard & Joyce and behind husband Brian, sons leaves her behind her husband BriByron (Lisa) and Brettand (Terry), an, sons Byron (Lisa) Brett two beautiful grandchildren, (Terry), two beautiful grandSamara and Brennen, and an extended family. family. children, Samara and Brennen, and an extended Trudy was born on March 20, 1950 in Ladysmith, BC, where she was raised, schooled and graduated. In 1970, she married Brian, a banker, and thus began a 45-year journey living in places throughout the Province as well as internationally, including Grand Cayman, Singapore and Hong Kong. Abbotsford has been home for 24 years, but whenever meeting someone for the first time, she always told them she was from Ladysmith, a great Ambassador for the Town that hosts the annual Festival of Lights parade. Trudy loved the sun, so numerous Princess cruises with Brett, lying on Waikiki or poolside in Palm Springs were her favourite activities. She will be forever remembered for her smiles and vibrant personality, which included pinching men and leaving lipstick on cheeks or foreheads. Her greatest joy though was her love for friends and family, especially being â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gransâ&#x20AC;? to Samara & Brennen. She will be missed by all who knew her. The family would like to extend our appreciation to the staff at Bevan Lodge for their professional car, compassion and kindness over the last 8 months. A Celebration of Life was held on Monday, December 21st at 2 pm at The Phoenix located at 33780 King Road, in Abbotsford. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Alzheimer Society of B.C. would be greatly appreciated.

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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

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