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News Briefs Credit union accepting donations for Fort McMurray

Anyone wishing to donate funds to the Red Cross’s relief efforts in Fort McMurray can do so at any Coastal Community Credit Union location across Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, it was announced Friday, May 6.

Coastal Community branches and insurance offices are accepting cash or cheque donations from members, clients or the general public.

Cheque donations should be made payable to Coastal Community – Alberta Fires. For those interested, tax receipts will be issued by the Canadian Red Cross for donations of $20 or more.

The Federal Government has also stated that it will match individual donations made to the Canadian Red Cross. For more information on the Red Cross’s relief efforts, please visit their website.

Chemainus woman helps Mexican girls’ with education A Chemainus woman is raising funds to help two Mexican girls go to school.

“Mom is single and can’t afford to put them through school,” said Lynn Kenyon in an email to the Chronicle.

Kenyon is collecting bottles, cans, juice boxes and spirit bottles, hoping to raise the 4,000 pesos it will take to put Edeline, 15, and Melani, 5, through school.

Edeline is in secondary school, and wants to become a beautician. But before she can even begin her training, she has to complete school.

Melani has 14 plus years to complete her education, and says she wants to become a doctor.

“Both girls are extremely bright and want so much to be in school,” Kenyon says.

People can drop returnables off at Kenyon’s home at 105-3042 River Road, or they can email kenyonla@yahoo.ca or phone 250-210-2725 and she will pick them up.

Families, volunteers and staff joined Jacqueline Neligan, executive director (second from left), and 16 month-old Davis Ward, along with other supporters of Ladysmith Families and Friends (LaFF) at Transfer Beach Park for a celebration of 20 years since the organization began serving families in Ladysmith and area.

LaFF celebrates 20 years connecting families

Craig Spence THE CHRONICLE

Executive Director Jacqueline Neligan knows LaFF from the outside in.

When she arrived in Ladysmith 18 years ago, pregnant with her third child, and with no connections in the community, Ladysmith Family & Friends was a place that would make her new town feel like home.

“For six months I lived here and I didn’t have a friend,” Neligan recalls. “I would go to the parks and hope someone would show up to play with, and I never met anyone.”

Those who know Neligan would find it hard to believe she could have been in such a predicament, but it doesn’t matter who you are, sometimes circumstances conspire to put you in a spot where you’re feeling isolated, disconnected.

She heard through Ladysmith Parks and Recreation about a group called LaFF Place for Family and Friends, which was meeting in the Boys and Girls Club portable. She thought she’d give it a try.

“Before long I had a group front a newcomer with, of super-close friends,” she or a new mother, Neligan recalled. Her entry into knows how important it is the world of LaFF was a for organizations like LaFF hand written poster that to be there when someone announced: “Thinking of calls. starting a book club. Who “I always say, ‘I’ll meet wants to join?” you at the door,’ so they Neligan did. “There were don’t have to feel like ten of us that put our they’re coming into a place names down, and those that they don’t know,” she ten people are still my said. It isn’t long before closest friends,” she said. newcomers get to know Since that ‘game chang- that the folks in the blue ing’ intro, Neligan has sat shirts at LaFF really live on the board, opened the up to Ladysmith Family & doors as a volunteer, then Friends’ cheerful acronym.

– about 13 years ago – she But LaFF is serious became LaFF’s first staff business. It’s mission is person, shortly after its to ‘wrap a blanket of supmove into Aggie Hall on port around families.’ That First Ave. As coordinator means bringing resources she worked to expand the from many organizations range of services offered, and agencies together. while keeping LaFF’s ac- “For the past 20 years we cessible, friendly profile. have been able to draw on LaFF has grown from different organizations to 17 families accessing pro- come together to act as grams two days a week, resource providers within to 400 plus accessing pro- the community.” grams five mornings and LaFF has been the ‘hub’ one evening a week; but it for families looking for serhasn’t outgrown its roots vices and support. as a community organizaA State of the Child Retion that takes time to lis- port being put together by ten.

Ladysmith’s Early ChildHaving experienced the hood Partnership will kind of isolation even a likely confirm informawelcoming community tion released last year that like Ladysmith can con- showed Ladysmith chil-

A Healthy Start to Learning brings families, service providers together Each spring Ladysmith Family & Friends and the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District bring parents, kids and service providers together in the Healthy Start to Schools program. This year’s event took place at Aggie Hall in Ladysmith the morning of Friday, May 6. Nine month old Landin Gisborne enjoyed some music provided by Ben Ziakin, who lives in Nanaimo now, but used to bring his son Henry to LaFF when he lived here. A Healthy Start to Learning is still his ‘favourite gig’ Ziakin said. Toddler Robert and mother Madgalene Bourodemos enjoyed the activities, especially meeting the chicks outside Aggie Hall. “It’s good for him to get out, and it’s good for the mums to get out,” Madgalene said of LaFF’s programs.

dren at a higher degree of risk than most children in B.C. An Early Development Index that measures children’s readiness for entering school, showed that 42 per cent of kids in Ladysmith were ‘vulnerable in one or more of five areas; the provincial average is 28 per cent.

“That’s quite alarming,” Neligan said.

Encouraging networking between families and service providers through events like the Healthy Start to Learning, which took place at Aggie Hall Friday, May 6, is an important initiative where issues like that can be addressed.

It’s a venue where families and support workers get on the same page and “create those pathways for families to gather the support that they need.”

At 20 years LaFF still has lots to do. It always will, because in a changing world families always need help adjusting. “That’s how things got going, looking at what was available in the community and then starting to build from there,” Neligan said.

Founder recalls LaFF’s start-up When Ladysmith Family & Friends founder Monica Stieda, who is now on staff as a facilitator, arrived from Vancouver 21 years ago, she had been on the board of a family centre, and she wanted to see something similar here.

“I really wanted that support. I didn’t know anybody, I didn’t have any friends here, so I really wanted that support of a family centre.”

So she got the word out and pulled together the first core group of women who founded LaFF. “There was a handful, probably six women, that decided, yes, they’d like to do this, and that’s how it started.”

The ‘humble beginning’ of LaFF were in a portable at Ladysmith Primary School.

From that start, two decades ago, LaFF has grown to serve more than 400 families.

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Search & Rescue puts out fundraising call

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New boathouse needs fitting out for service Craig Spence THE CHRONICLE

When you’re in trouble on – or even worse in – the stormy Strait of Georgia, and the wind’s howling, and the waves are frothing, who ya gon’na call?

Well, you’ll send a Mayday to anyone within hailing distance by voice or radio, but the people most likely to respond are the 24 Royal Canadian Marine Search & Rescue volunteers stationed in Ladysmith and in other stations up and down the coast.

So when RCMSAR puts out their own call for help, it’s only fitting the community, and especially the community of boaters and recreational paddlers, should respond.

RCMSAR Ladysmith is putting out a call.

Recently they acquired a new search and rescue rigid hulled zodiac. She’s a 10 metre, state of the art wonder, capable of zipping SAR crew to an incident scene almost anywhere in their Gulf Islands coverage area – south halfway down Galiano Island and north toward Dodd Narrows – in about half an hour.

Problem is, she’s too long for the boat house in Ladysmith

Marina, which is RCMSAR Ladysmith’s home base. So they’re raising funds to fit out a new boathouse a couple of doors down, which they acquired at a ‘great price.’

“The Boathouse Renewal Project is aimed at replacing our old boathouse, which is aging and cannot accommodate the new boat,” said John Davis, president of the Ladysmith & District Marine Rescue Society.

They’ve got the floating roof President of the Ladysmith & District Search and Rescue Society John Davis and Coxswain Ian Kelly in the ready and walls, but there’s lots of CRAIG SPENCE work to do on the interior of room of the SAR boathouse in Ladysmith Marina their new station, and they something like that, that would experiencing difficulty breath- equipment; the other an auxiling back to shore for treatment. iary to the Coast Guard, which are keen to get underway. “We be huge.”

The Oak Bay Marine Group, “Right after that we were part only receives partial funding for need to fit that boathouse out now to accommodate a class- which owns Ladysmith Marina, of a search for an overdue ves- equipment and operations, and room, proper berthage for the will be helping Ladysmith SAR sel, that included Coast Guard is manned almost entirely by new boat, and a ready room, out with some of the ‘structural and helicopters,” said Ian Kelly, volunteers.

That’s where the fund raiswhich is the dispatch room elements of the work,’ and Da- Coxswain.

That’s a particularly busy ing comes in. “We can’t survive where all the gear is stored for vis said the boating commuwhen we go out on a rescue nity has been supportive of RC- night, but responding to 40 or without fundraising,” Davis said.

MSAR Station 29 - Ladysmith, 50 missions a year, plus training So the next time you hear the mission.”

Davis said the society needs but an extra push is needed if and maintaining the boat and call, respond.

And if you’re looking for a re$10,000 to $15,000 to complete the new boathouse is going to equipment to be mission-ready, requires a major commitment ally interesting volunteer opthe project, on top of some be in service this summer.

It has to be ‘mission ready,’ on the part of volunteers. portunity, think of signing on. money they already have availMost people aren’t aware of “We’re always looking for crew, able. “It doesn’t necessarily before the move can be made. the distinction between the we run training programs a couneed to be in cash,” he said of Davis said.

It’s a busy station. Take Friday, Canadian Coast Guard and the ple of times a year,” Davis said. the assistance they’re looking for. “If we could find some April 29 for example. That night Royal Canadian Marine Search “We’re looking for people who people in the community who RCMSAR - Ladysmith respond- & Rescue; the one is a branch of are interested in receiving some can do things like wiring or fin- ed to a medical emergency, the Canadian government, with fantastic training and in saving ishing or provide materials or helping get a woman who was paid staff and full funding for lives, being out on the water.”

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Ladysmith financial plan approved Craig Spence THE CHRONICLE

It’s customary for property owners to grumble come tax time, and a first glance at the figures for Ladysmith’s financial plan for the next five years might make property owners think they really have something to gripe about… but not so fast, say the number crunchers at city hall.

On Monday, May 2 Ladysmith council approved its five year financial plan, which sees it through the coming year and tallies up expected revenues and expenditures each year until 2020.

Included in the fiveyear figures is a 21.64 per cent increase in revenues from property taxes, which are expected to climb from $7.69 million to $9.35 million; and a 67.71 per cent increase in parcel taxes from $1.78 million to $2.98 million.

That’s on total revenues of $25.68 million.

Those figures compare to an increase in revenues from property taxes of 9.86 per cent projected in the five years between 2011 and 2015; and an 8.24 per cent estimated increase in parcel taxes over the same five-year time frame.

Turns out the projections made back in 2011 were off. In 2015 Ladysmith actually budgeted for property tax revenues of $7.46 million, about $1.45 million more than projected in 2011, and a 24.11 per cent increase over the fiveyear planning period instead of the 9.86 per cent projected.

As for parcel taxes, they ended up being $1.54 million in the 2015 budget, $586,710 more than projected in 2011 and a 74.90 per cent increase, instead of the 8.24 per cent estimated in the five-year financial plan.

But the numbers for overall revenue from property taxes don’t translate into an accurate picture of what individual property owners are likely to see on their tax notices over the a five year planning period, says Ladysmith’s Chief Ad-

ministrative Officer Ruth Malli.

You have to factor growth into your calculations – more property owners paying taxes equals lower property taxes for each individual owner. You also have to remember council’s ability to vary future budgets if that mitigating growth doesn’t materialize.

“To suggest that ‘property taxes’ (to the average homeowner) are going up by that same percentage amount (as total revenues from property taxes) is simply inaccurate,” Malli said, in response to a query

from the Chronicle.

“The projected property tax revenue includes this new growth, if for some reason it does not occur, then Council will review the impact on the homeowner – annually – and most often reduce the expenditure side of the budget.”

To illustrate the point the town produced a chart showing the year over year property tax increases the owner of a standard family dwelling in Ladysmith faced between 2012 and 2016 (see below).

The ‘Average SFD tax increase’ was about:

$63 in 2012; $50 in 2013; $65 in 2014; $90 in 2015 and will be almost $50 in 2016.

A typical family dwelling, valued at $285,400 in 2015 is worth approximately $294,100 in 2016 and will be assessed $1,616 in property taxes.

As for the increases in the water parcel tax, which goes up from $160 to $225 for all homeowners, Malli notes that this will go toward ‘required infrastructure’: an $11 million to $14 million water filtration plant needed to meet water quality standards regulated by the Vancouver Is-

land Health Authority.

“The investment in this infrastructure supports the economic development as well as the health and wellbeing of the citizens,” Malli said.

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Is ShantyTown our new normal?

Many of us have watched with a growing sense of uneasiness and disbelief as the tent city on the courthouse lawn in Victoria has taken on an aura of permanence. Many have wondered: Is this Canada in the 21st Century?

Apparently so.

There’s another word for the haphazard collection of wood, plastic, cardboard and fabric that has taken root in the heart of one of Canada’s major cities and B.C.’s capital: it’s a shanty-town.

The term shanty-town has been more usually associated with ‘third-world’ countries, places where the standard of living is so low people can’t afford a proper roof over their heads, running water, enough food to meet their nutritional needs, help with health and mental issues.

That a shanty-town has sprung up amidst some of the most affluent real estate in Canada, in a city consistently judged one of the most beautiful in the world, is a puzzle. What’s going on? What can be done to dismantle the pallet sidewalks and reclaim the public space for all citizens?

The answer is simple: provide a modicum of shelter, food, clothing and services for the people who find themselves squatting on the court-house lawn, and most of them will soon be gone.

Don’t offer them temporary housing in a cynical ruse to disperse them, then send them out into the street again a few months later; these are street people – they’ll see through that kind of gambit in an instant.

And don’t ask municipal levels of government to cope with the issues of poverty and homelessness – unless you’re going to give them adequate, sustained funding to provide the facilities, programs and services homeless people need.

And don’t blame the homeless themselves. Shanty-towns don’t just happen.

They spring up when we as a society create the conditions that make a jumbled collection of thrown together habitations the best a group of our citizens can do for themselves, and if we bulldoze one tent city, another will spring up to take its place until we go to the root of the problem and offer real solutions.

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YOUR WORDS “I always say, ‘I’ll meet you at the door,’ so they don’t have to feel like they’re coming into a place that they don’t know.”

Jacqueline Neligan, Exeutive Director, LaFF, Page 3 / LaFF Celebrates 20 years

Climate change column ups temperature letters Editor: I read with great interest the Climate Change editorial by Tom Fletcher. For balance, informed insight and solutions he is right up there, nearly on a par with Donald Trump.

Just imagine those silly climate scientists making predictions and being wrong.

May I refer Mr. Fletcher to a dictionary - he will find that a prediction and a certainty are quite different. Just possibly predictions are indicative of an open not a closed mind.

Global climate change has been of increasing scientific concern since the mid1950s and became a public, global concern after the UN Hague Conference in 2000.

How upsetting it must be for the UN, scores of national governments, universities and other institutions to know they have squandered untold billions of dollars. How disappointing for the tens of thousands of sci-

entists of many disciplines to know they have squandered their careers.

In their defense, no scientist would claim to have all the answers or even that all the problems have been recognized.

Tom Fletcher had the answer all the time. If only they had known!

I’m not a regular reader of your editorials so I can only hope that Mr. Fletcher’s legislative reporting is many orders of magnitude better than his views on climate change.

John Anderson Ladysmith

Premier’s salary raising questions Editor: Those who argue that Christy Clark’s $195,000 salary is inadequate make a reasonable point.

For services rendered, she should receive at least as much as any top-level CEO employed in British Columbia’s energy industry, and all her wages and benefits

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St. John’s farewell Editor: We want to say a heart-felt thank you to our Ladysmith friends and neighbours for your support these past many years. Our church opened in 1901 so St. John’s has been a part of this community for a very long time.

The parish will disband and the church building close on June 30, but its members will continue to be a part of the Ladysmith Community. Happily we are being invited to join other local faith communities in the area.

Thank you Ladysmith.

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“Welcome to the Bronze Age,” my good friend Glenda Bartosh quipped after the BC & Yukon Newspaper Community Association Awards hardware had been handed out.

Her’s was a wry reference to the fact that we’d made it to the foot of the podium, only to watch the competition climb the steps and grasp the shiny metal: Glenda took Bronze in the Feature Writing under 25,000 circulation category; the Chronicle Bronze in the B Category as a B.C. Newspaper of Excellence.

I am honoured, and like everyone else in the room, clapped enthusiastically for the Oliver Chronicle, which took the Gold, and the Revelstoke Review, which took Silver.

But I was disappointed I wouldn’t get to deliver the few words I’d been polishing as I watched community journalists from throughout the province accept awards for the work they do – the important work they do, it was emphasized by many of my colleagues.

What I wanted to say, in those few seconds when the spotlight would have been on me, was thanks to Publisher Teresa McKinley, for believing in the editorial

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Photographer captures translucence up close Erika Nadon captured the February Photo of the Month for the Ladysmith Camera Club.

The Translucent Fly was captured (digitally) at Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, where Nadon spotted a May fly and was fascinated with the way its translucent wings reflected the colour of the surrounding flowers.

The next meeting of the Ladysmith Camera Club takes place Tuesday, May 24, 7 p.m. at Hardwick Hall, Third Avenue and High Street.

Acclaimed Nanaimo photographer Brad Powell will talk about The Art of Composition in Landscape Photography.

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“We reached our millionth passenger just 3.5 short years ago,” said Hooper.

“To grow by another one million travellers in such a short period of time shows that the people of Central Vancouver Island trust us to deliver convenience, affordability and safety while connecting them to the rest of the world.”

To mark the occasion Nanaimo Airport is launching its You’re One in 2 Million campaign.

The two-millionth passenger will receive prizes, including free parking for a year at YCD. Everyone else on the flight will receive prizes too.

“And that’s just the beginning of the rewards,” the YCD release says.

An online contest will be launched May 9, offering Central Island residents a chance to win two tickets for a trip in North America, while people flying out of Nanaimo Airport will also be eligible for a separate prize of return airfare for two to Calgary.

Winners will fly with Air Canada, which in addition to their Vancouver service, offers a daily Nanaimo-to-Calgary flight and will add a second flight to that route starting June 20.

Through the month, passengers on randomly-chosen inbound and outbound flights will receive a gift starting this week. Other in-terminal activities are planned to celebrate the passenger milestone.

“Really what the You’re One in 2 Million program is about is saying thank you to the community for supporting the Nanaimo Airport,” Hooper says.

The campaign wraps up in early June.

The airport’s rapid growth has had significant impact on the entire Central Island, says Hooper.

“A thriving airport gives residents more travel options, and airport operations injected nearly $100 million into the regional economy last year,” he says. More than 1,300 direct and indirect jobs were generated.

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The 2016 - 2020 Financial Plan was adopted by council, as well as the Tax Rates Bylaw.

Overall the net increase in General Municipal Taxes was 2.30 per cent. In the Tax Rate Bylaw council decided to provide a 15 per cent reduction in the Class 5 - Light Industry tax rate “to make North Cowichan more competitive with other local governments in this job supporting sector of our economy.”

For the average residential homeowners, this will mean a 2.95 per cent tax increase in the General Municipal Tax, which amounts to $56 for the average $320,000 home in North Cowichan.

Life rings at Chemainus Lake Council supported a plan to install public access life rings at both Chemainus Lake and Maple Bay Docks.

This initiative is being supported by the Gale family in the hope that these life rings might prevent the kind of tragedy that took the life of Brayden Gale, who drowned last winter in Chemainus Lake.

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Harvey breaks our polite rules Craig Spence THE CHRONICLE

Harvey is a play that mystifies and amuses at the same time. When I left the Chemainus Theatre, I found myself asking: What was that all about?

Of course, you can accept Harvey – Elwood P. Dowd’s six foot ‘imaginary’ rabbit – and the trouble he causes as farce, and leave the theatre with a chuckle and head-shake as you step back into your real world.

Or you can look at it as a commentary on social convention, and the risks we run when we reveal too much about ourselves, as Elwood (Mark Dumez) perpetually does, much to the embarrassment, delight and consternation of those around him.

Elwood’s flaw, looked at from the eyes of sister Veta Louise Simmons (Erin Ormond), is his embarrassing honesty and forthrightness.

If he meets someone he likes – particularly someone of the opposite sex – he says so.

What most of us would consider flattery is, in Elwood’s case, sincere flirtation with a decidedly humanist twist.

If he’s going to the bar

for a drink – something he does frequently – he says so straight up, without any distracting social allusion.

But the biggest sin of all is Elwood’s having a giant white rabbit as his best friend and confidant, and his insistence on introducing Harvey to everyone he meets. Elwood’s condition drives the other characters in the play to distraction.

His sister Veta Louise Simmons tries to hide the secret of her family’s mental instability written by Mary Chase, formance is marvelous, through various foiled and despite the various costumes impeccable, avoidance strategies; and sundry liberating as you would expect revolutions from the Chemainus his niece, Myrtle Mae cultural (Ella Simon), sees El- we’ve gone through Theatre Festival. The under wood’s fantasy as a since, we still live in performance, weakness she can ex- our portable closets the direction of Julie ploit to get her hands on with our rattling skele- McIsaac, is convincing the family fortune; the tons, and he reminds us and enjoyable. I particularly liked Ella Simon famed psychiatrist Dr. of that persistent fact?

Truth is, I could never as Myrtle Mae SimChumley (Bernard Cuffling) sees Elwood as be an Elwood, but I’m mons, Bernard Cuffling an interesting case to be not sure if my annoy- as Dr. Chumley, and cured, further elevating ance is a muted form of Erin Ormond as Veta his own inflated stature. jealousy, or genuine re- Louise Simmons.

Mark Dumez portrays What’s really telling coil at a character who though, are our own goes too far breaking the unflappable Elreactions to Elwood down legitimate and wood well, but I have as an audience. I found necessary social con- to think it’s not an easy role – rather, it’s one of myself annoyed at his ventions.

As a journalist, espe- those characters that easygoing innocence. I don’t think I could put cially, that kowtowing requires an actor to up with a guy like El- to social norms has to subdue any crescenraise questions for me, does of flamboyance or wood for very long.

The question is, why? and that’s what perpet- surprise with all the asCould it be that, 70 uates the relevance of siduity of a Zen monk in a New York subway years after the Pulitzer Harvey.

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Museum opens summer hours The Ladysmith Museum reopened for the 2016 season on May 6, and Ladysmith & District Historical Society volunteers will be on hand to share interesting facts and tidbits about the town they love.

“Displays at the museum focus on aspects of the local life,” says in LDHS release, announcing the opening. “From the early beginnings around 1900, when houses and hotels were moved here to make Ladysmith an ‘instant town’, where workers in the Extension Mine and their families would live, and where societies and businesses would flourish.”

In its fifth year, Ladysmith Museum has been fostered and developed by Maureen Martin as President and Director of the LDHS. This year Shanon McKibben is joining Maureen and bringing fresh ideas for promotion as Co-ordinator.

“Keep an eye out for some special events planned for this season,” the release says.

Ecole North Oyster students Maisie and Groups can organize tours of the museum any Jorie had a great time decorating shells time of the year. Opening hours are noon to 4 p.m. Until May 20 the museum will be opened on a recent field trip to the Ladysmith Fridays and Saturdays; after the May long- Harbour Heritage Centre. The students weekend, Tuesday to Saturday. Find out more also learned how to harvest oysters and explored the history of the Harbour. at ladysmithhistoricalsociety.ca.

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Evelyn was predeceased by her son Jimmy, husband Walter, brothers Ed (Anita), Jim, David (Thelma), Roy (Bernice), Lenard (Doreen) and sister Ethel Whibley (Albert).

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Marjorie Moeskau Marjorie Moeskau, 87 of Victoria, died peacefully at her home on May 3, 2016 surrounded by her family.

Marjorie is survived by her loving husband of 62 years, Knut Moeskau; her daughters Mary Ella (Doug) Gamblin of Victoria; Maureen (Francis) Fillion of Ottawa; Ingrid Moeskau of Vancouver and was predeceased by her son Keith Moeskau. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and one great granddaughter.

Marjorie resided in Victoria West for over 35 years where she raised her four children. In the early 1970’s she was instrumental in the campaign to raise funds to build both the elementary school and the community center. After retiring from her nursing career in 1989, she relocated to Ladysmith where she took great pride in her garden and flowers until finally returning to Victoria in 2012.

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LAST WORD FOR MAY 11, 2016 • May 6-28, Harvey, The Chemainus Theatre Festival, The Chemainus Theatre Festival presents Broadway’s charming comedy of errors, Harvey, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Mary Chase. The 1940s story is a terrific work of imagination that asks the audience “what is normal, really?”. Reserve a seat by calling the box office at 1-800-565-7738, or online at chemainustheatre.ca.

• May 15, Pablo Cardenas, The Crofton Jazz series, 2 - 5 p.m. Cuban-born pianist Pablo Cardenas has picked up a huge following among south Island fans of Afro-Cuban jazz since he moved to Victoria six years ago. He will perform a Latin-infused repertoire of jazz from the Great American Songbook with bassist Rob Johnson and drummer Kelby MacNayr. Crofton Hotel Pub, 1534 Joan Ave. Admission is $10. For information, call 250-324-2245 or visit croftonhotel. ca.

• May 14, Tour de Rock 5km Fun Run, Starts from the Am• May 29, The LaFF Third Annual Golf Tournament, Cotphitheatre at Transfer Breach Park. An untimed colour run tonwood Golf Course, 3 p.m. An afternoon of fun on the for the whole family. Be prepared to be covered in neon by greens and after for a delicious Bar-B-Que at the Cottonthe end. Race starts at 10 a.m. Registration includes a t-shirt, wood Golf Course….all supporting children and families in bottle of water, pair of sunglasses and one bag of colour. Regthe community.

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Hidden gems for your summer holidays John McKinley BLACK PRESS

Everybody’s heard of Long Beach, Cathedral Grove and Butchart Gardens.

And if you’ve lived for any length of time on Vancouver Island, you’ve probably visited them too.

But with 32,000 square kilometres to play in, chances are good you’ve yet to experience everything the Island has to offer.

With writers on the ground in nearly every community, Black Press may know Vancouver Island better than any other publisher. Tourism Vancouver Island is in the business of connecting people with our Island’s best experiences.

We’ve asked them to share some of the Island’s underpublicized gems.

Here are five Vancouver Island destinations that you may not have considered Port Renfrew: One tends to look north when thinking of remote, unspoiled Vancouver Island communities, but one of Vancouver Island’s most overlooked spots is less than two hours out of Victoria, greeting the open Pacific from our southwest corner. A bridge between the West Coast Trail and the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, Port Renfrew offers the ecological wonders of Botanical Beach and Avatar Grove, buoyed recently with the developed of the Wild Renfrew waterfront cottages and its revamped fresh and funky pub. Visitors from the north can get there via Lake Cowichan and the Pacific Marine Circle route.

Tree Hammocks and the fallen bomber: Amidst the natural splendour of the Tofino area are two man-made oddities that you can reach by hiking an hour or so through some relatively difficult wilderness.

Seventy-one years ago an RCAF scouting mission pancaked into the side of a hill. Twelve men survived and the wreckage is more or less intact. The location is not exactly a secret but it’s not obvious either. Even more obscure are the Treetop Hammocks, a series of arboreal nets

ranking from the size of a small field to a one-person crow’s nest rigged high in the trees, offering a great view of the Tofino/Clayoquot area. Neither attraction is easy to hike to, or well-marked.

People turn back. People get lost. The appeal of this one is in the adventure. We’ll leave it to you to scour the internet and the brains of people around the community for clues on how to get there.

The Cowichan Valley Teafarm: Some time this year, Victor Vesely and Margit Nellemann will harvest the first crop of homegrown tea in Canadian history.

But their neat little farm nestled Kaylie McKinley at the Tree Top Hammocks in Tofino. in the pastoral countryside between Duncan and Chemainus Discovery Passage which on seum features a great slice of is doing more than proving Agri- a really low tide is like a win- logging history including the legculture Canada wrong. It’s been dow into the undersea world. endary Wilmer Gold collection delighting visitors for a decade Beachcombers can explore the of old logging photographs.

Duncan: The Raptors offers now with a charming mixture of nooks and crannies and see pottery, farming and high-quality starfish, sea urchins, and even visitors a chance to get up-close octopuses. and personal with owls, eagles, teas.

Comox: the Comox Air Force hawks and other birds of prey Grizzly bear tours: Everybody Brentwood Bay: Next to the knows about the excellent Museum has a variety of vintage whale watching tours that run aircraft in an outdoor setting legendary Butchart Gardens, out of a variety of Island locales, and the museum has a lot inter- the Tod Creek Trail takes walkbut grizzly bears? Aren’t they a esting memorabilia, including a ers down to the remnants of the mainland animal? Well, yes, but POW diary and drawings from former cement plant owned by the Butchart Family. one of the best ways to see them ‘The Great Escape’ camp.

Fanny Bay: The Wacky Woods Saanich: Big, in the middle of in the wild is by hopping a grizzly tour from Campbell River are a forested property full of town, and offering a variety of or Island communities further artist George Sawchuk’s unusu- hikes, Mount Douglas Park goes from seashore to mountaintop north to the mainland inlets be- al scattered musings on life Parksville/Qualicum: a 10-ki- and offers amazing views of the yond. Multiple boat and even seaplane tours are available. lometre round trip, Top Bridge Greater Victoria area.

Victoria: Here’s one the tourAnd yes, chances are you will Regional Park features a bicyclefriendly trail connecting Ratht- ists know better than most upsee whales too.

Snorkelling with seals: Have revor Beach Provincial Park a Island residents. Ghostly Walks you ever been kissed by a seal? It magnificent suspension bridge is a creepy 90-minute city tour exploring some of the most might happen on this excursion spanning the Englishmen River Port Alberni: Hole in the Wall gruesome slices of the capital’s staged regularly out of Nanaimo.

More than 250 harbour seals is a short hiking destination history Metchosin: Matheson Lake is live on Snake Island, a narrow where a small, pretty waterfall sliver of rock about 15 minutes pours through a unique round almost in East Sooke, and easily by boat from Departure Bay. hole punched through an im- accessible from the Galloping Goose Trail if one wants to ride Sundown Diving offers regular posing wall of shale Nanaimo: A favourite area out from the city. It’s got a beautours where you can bump flippers with this crowd of seals as hike is Ammonite Falls, featur- tiful old-time swimming hole, they bustle along through their ing fossils and a gorgeous little and is a gorgeous place to walk waterfall you can get to the base around the lake, or sit and conday-to-day activities. template one’s navel in nature in Not every cool experience is of with a rope-assisted climb.

Ladysmith: another destina- relative quiet. necessarily a destination. Here Sooke: In the mid-1800s, are 14 other experiences that tion hike, Heart Lake is accessed may not be worth a day trip in by a relatively steep 20-minute Leechtown exploded in Vanand of themselves, but might be climb that features two look- couver Island’s first gold rush. well worth checking out if you outs with spectacular views of Now few signs remain at the the Gulf Islands. site north of Sooke, but you can are in the neighbourhood.

Lake Cowichan: Most visitors get there walking the Galloping Campbell River: Willow Point Reef, a finger of rock that come for the water sports, but Goose Trail. extends into the entrance of the town’s Kaatza Station Mu- — with files from Black Press

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