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Golf at Sechelt continues Mayor’s Message John Henderson Mayor, District of Sechelt

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o you want to get noticed? In last week’s edition of The Local, I was inadvertently described as Mayor John “Ferguson”. It’s a testament to the loyal readers of The Local that I’ve had so many comments, from “Why did you change your name?” to “You look a little young for Fergie (John Ferguson, the hockey player) – and not nearly as tough!”

Turning to another ‘noticeable’ topic, in the five weeks since the District took possession of the golf course, I’ve been approached by many people with questions and suggestions.

These have ranged from “Great – it’s about time!” to “What’s going to happen to the dues I prepaid?” to “Is the course open?”

Dealing with the last question first – YES, the golf course is open! (8:30 to 5 pm, at present.) At only $25 for 18 holes, it’s a bargain.

Also, annual golf passes are currently for sale for $1,850 (including HST and $200 of food vouchers.)

I’m pleased to advise that the restaurant is now open (Wednesday’s to Sunday’s, Noon to 4 pm). Come in and enjoy a hamburger or hotdog!

It’s great to hear that most people that prepaid their 2012 golf dues to the former operator have received refunds from their credit card companies.

However, there are still a few folks who are out of pocket. The Golf Course Advisory Committee and Council will be addressing how to deal with this situation in the next few weeks.

Also, as part of our plan to ensure the long term success of this “jewel”, the District will be issuing a Request for Proposals, seeking to identify an operator for the golf course facilities over the long term. While we want to issue the RFP soon, the timing depends on various legal matters, so it is difficult to be specific about the timing.

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Editorial

The many faces of depression

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hile most people view seniors as fancy free, some seniors battle with a barrage of problems. Among these are health problems – hips, knees and backs are the most common sources of unrelenting pain – while high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes rate up there, too. Other problems are financial, with many seniors living at or below the poverty line. Still others involve family and sometimes those problems can lead to severe distress and anxiety. Anxiety, depression and even suicidal thoughts are not the exclusive domain of younger people.

According to statistics, about seven per cent of people over 65 show symptoms of depression. Around two per cent experience moderate or severe depression and around five per cent experience mild depression. The moderate or severe forms are much more common among elderly people living in care homes or those who have dementia. Depression in people over 65 seems to be less common than it is in younger groups, but researchers aren’t sure if this is a real difference or an issue with the research questions used on the questionnaires.

In BC about 22 per cent of suicides are committed by people over the age of 60. About five times as many older men commit suicide than women, but of all the age groups, men over the age of 85 have the highest number of successful suicides. Yet mental illness among the elderly is seriously under-diagnosed by physicians; this sometimes happens because doctors may view symptoms as a normal part of aging. Also, elderly people have physical problems, which may be viewed as mental illness.

Depression is a very real illness and probably affects a larger percentage of the population than is really known, because many people suffering from depression either won’t acknowledge it or are too ashamed to tell anyone. Depression has long been stigmatized; people suffering from the illness are told to ‘buck up’ or ‘quit feeling sorry for themselves’ which is like telling someone with the flu to stop running a fever.

Symptoms of depression may take different forms for men, women and teens. Men complain about fatigue, lose interest in hobbies or work, may become unusually irritable, reckless or even violent. Women suffer from pronounced feelings of guilt, feel exhausted and sleep excessively, overeat, gain weight or feel unable to make decisions. Depression in teens, however, is a bit different: some teens appear sad, others don’t.

Irritability rather than depression is, in fact, the predominant symptom in depressed adolescents and teens. A depressed teen may be grumpy, irritable or lose their tempers easily; unexplained aches or pains may also be symptomatic. Left untreated, depression can lead to problems at home and at school and may even lead to extreme violence or suicide.

It’s only now that depression is being publicly recognized as an illness that people are beginning to realize there is help. The first step is admitting there’s a problem – the second step is to ask for help from someone qualified to diagnose depression.

If you or anyone you know has been suffering from depression for more than a couple of weeks, don’t wait to see if it will get better by itself. Get help now.

Letters to the Editor

Tell us what issues spark debate

While The Local is to be congratulated for offering space to SCRD Board and Municipal representatives, who really wants to read simplistic lessons on civics or self-congratulatory expostulations suggesting how well the Boards and Coun-

cils are getting along with one another?

What I want to know is: What are you debating, what do you disagree on, what options in what areas of your responsibility are you considering? That’s how you can engage us, educate us effectively and, coincidentally, access community knowledge and reasoning power.

Letters to the Editor Want us to pick up on how local government works, on what its areas of responsibility are? Do it in the context of issues. Don’t just give us nice, comfy, meaningless assurances that you are working hard to pick the best option for sewage treatment in Sechelt (which serves the adjacent regions on a userpay basis and affects ocean water quality for all of us).

Tell us what those options are. Direct us to web pages describing them. There is tons of new technology out there. It actually is interesting. Interest us.

Surely some SCRD directors have reservations about the efficacy of expenditures on picking up recyclables in relatively sparsely zoned rural areas as compared to much more densely-populated municipalities.

Surely some of our representatives have the smarts and integrity to know that the tough problem of ongoing water supply is critical to the constituencies they were elected to serve.

The fact that the SCRD has no direct control in areas of highways or subdivision decisions surely doesn’t mean they don’t have perspectives on those matters.

Share them with us. Citizens can exercise influence, don’t you know. Give us some e-dresses or addresses or phone numbers.

I spent six years on the

SCRD Board. It was anything but boring. Don’t waste the opportunity to engage us. Don’t bore us.

Don’t feed us this touchyfeely nonsense about teamwork. I don’t care about that. I want to know that decisions on expenditure of our money run the gauntlet of real debate and I want to read about those debates.

John Marian, Halfmoon Bay

Who’s on first?

My letter, published in The Local on February 2, 2012 re: Trail Bay beach wall, was written to the mayor and council April 5, 2010 and signed by me, Arthur Whistler and did not represent my wife, Barbara Whistler, or the Sechelt Village Residents Association.

The letter published was one of several recommendations contained in an email of January 30, 2012 that I sent to Mr. Jim Lafferty on revitalization of the Village area, District of Sechelt.

Please note this correction in your next publication.

Arthur Whistler, Sechelt

A vision for the Coast The Sunshine Coast is one of the few communities with a winter population size of about thirty thousand people that does not have a large Cultural Complex to serve that Community. A recent Cultural Complex

Task Force looked at four areas: 1. A Performance Centre, seating around 600 people. 2. A larger library.

3. A Heritage Museum 4. A Public Art Gallery & Museum. This complex would be of the highest standards and size to meet the needs of the whole Sunshine Coast centralized (like our hospital) to meet the professional level of excellence needed to attract not only local creative performances, learning, the arts and culture but also meet the highest international standards. You can now see the Cultural Complex talk given by Graham Argyle with photos of what would be an excellent model for the Sunshine Coast by putting in Youtube search > Sechelt Cultural Complex <.

The Youtube film is in three parts: 1. Sechelt Cultural Complex Part One; 2. Sechelt Cultural Complex Part Two, and 3. Sechelt Cultural Complex Part 3 of 3.

Bob Evermon, Sechelt

When does human become inhuman?

I stood at the kitchen counter a few days ago, cutting onions and listening to CBC radio. The news came on and as I listened to one of the lead stories, I realized my tears were no longer just from the onion.

Canada has opted into association with worldwide

torture as a means for political ends.

My life’s experiences have convinced me that the means are the end, that inhumane actions produce inhumane results.

I stood there, imagining my son, a granddaughter or my husband in unimaginable agony, daily and indefinitely, and felt the despair of complete helplessness to alter the situation. I felt ill.

When does human become inhuman? Has Canada taken a giant step away from her role as a generous, kind nation of peacekeepers, friends of world efforts for justice and peace? If we can’t advocate for the torture of our own people, how can we justify the torture of others and not feel the current of inhumanity flowing into Canadian homes, Canadian lives?

Express your humanity – please let your government know that Canadians don’t want to be a party to torture.

Nina Haedrich, Sechelt The Local received a copy of this letter for publication:

Re: Revitalization of District of Sechelt The new Mayor and Council have indicated they wish to revitalize Downtown Sechelt. I present these recommendations for your consideration for the (Letters continued on page 5)

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Letters to the Editor (Continued from page 4) improvement of Sechelt’s Boulevard St. for the enjoyment of the residents and visiting tourists: Correction of drainage problems along the Boulevard between Inlet & Ocean Avenue: at two locations by providing drainage where water accumulates, to direct surface water south of the concrete walkway to the beach. Between Trail Ave. and Ocean Avenue in front of residential homes on Boulevard St. (similar drainage corrections proposed for locations between Inlet & Trail Ave.) Pedestrians and people on electric scooters do not like to be splashed by water from cars going through the puddles.

Properly anchoring of the steel bench seat (in front of the Driftwood Inn) to an existing concrete pad - third bench east of Trail Avenue, to prevent bench seat being thrown onto beach below.

This is the only bench seat that has not been anchored.

(I informed the Administrator several months ago).

Replacement of Boulevard St. asphalt road: There are many depressions in the existing asphalt roadway due to heavy delivery trucks that deliver supplies to businesses.

Local residents and tourists who walk, use their electric wheelchairs or push walkers along this rough roadway are being splashed by cars that drive through the puddles.

I recommend that instead of resurfacing Boulevard St. with asphalt, it be replaced with a Green Way Road Design. They are built with permeable materials that provide superior watershed-driven storm water management.

Remove fenced area on the Boulevard: About two years ago, the District of Sechelt spent a lot of money for expensive nursery shrubs and deleted stairs to the beach. Last year the District contracted to have a wooden fence installed because of safety concerns.

The fenced area has now grown up with weeds and people walk around the fence to gain access to the beach. Some dogs run inside the fenced area and their droppings are not being picked up. There is also a drainage problem along the roadway because water cannot drain to the beach.

This area requires regular maintenance and removal of the fence. Local residents and tourists used to park their cars and enjoyed access to the beach for swimming.

They can’t easily do this now with the installed fence, and no stairs to the beach. In 1990, the head gardener

arranged for a sprinkler system to be installed between Inlet Ave and Boulevard.

(Sprinklers are not operated now.) Lawns were raked frequently. This is no longer done and there are pebbles scattered on the grass areas now. If the area isn’t maintained, people will not enjoy the use of the boulevard lawn. Please review this area and talk to the local property owners, pedestrians and those affected.

Arthur Whistler, Sechelt The Local received a copy of this letter for publication:

Sale of cutblock unacceptable Tom Jensen, Assistant Deputy Minister Forest, Lands and Resource Operations, Timber Operations and Pricing Division Dear Mr Jensen; We are writing to express our extreme concern regarding the possible sale of BC Timber Sales Cutblock #A87124 in the Wilson Creek watershed. This block may be sold for logging before March 31 2012, the end of the fiscal year. It is located on the southern edge of the 2007 CNI clearcut and if logging is allowed to proceed, it will be one of the largest clear-cuts in the region. We find that completely unacceptable.

BCTS A87124 is an important part of the proposed 1500ha Mount Elphinstone Park. This area contains some of the last low elevation natural forest on the

Sunshine Coast. BC Parks describes the existing small park, which is similar to these blocks, as “mixed old growth and second growth forest with very diverse and rich fungi populations associated with the forest”.

They also note that “All three of the park sites are relatively small and could be impacted by adjacent development or forest activities”. In other words the park needs to be bigger.

While block A87124 may not be age class 9, it has many old-growth-like characteristics regenerating after selective hand logging in the late 1800s – similar to the forests in the three small Parks.

BCTS manages 6000ha of forested public lands across the face of Mount

Elphinstone and “harvests” an average of 27ha annually. We have complete faith that BCTS staff can find 27ha of previously logged forest in the approximately 4,500ha remaining if a moratorium is placed on sales in the proposed 1500ha park area.

The Roberts Creek Community Association urgently requests an immediate deferral of the sale of block A87124 and a moratorium of any further logging within the proposed expanded Mount Elphinstone Park.

We need this forest as a living part of our neighbourhood now and – even more so – in our future.

Steve Henry, President Roberts Creek Community Association

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harlotte Gill of Powell River is the winner of the 2012 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, announced British Columbia Achievement chair Feb.February 16, 201213. Gill was Keith Mitchell, presented Monday with the $40,000 prize by Premier Christy Clark.

In her seventeen seasons as a tree planter Charlotte worked on the Oak Tree 1007 Canadian Shield, in foothills of the Albertan Rockies and in many parts of British Columbia. She commuted to work in floatplanes, offshore tugboats, diesel trucks, helicopters, rowboats, all-terrain vehicles, inflatable dinghies, and amphibious military vehicles. She has crossed paths with Feb. dolphins, 16, 2012 weasels, whales, eagles, flocks of migrating cranes, moose, newborn fawns, and grizzlies. She has

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The jury cited ‘Eating Dirt’ as “...an insider’s perspective on the grueling, remote and largely ignored world of that uniquely modern-day ‘tribe’, the tree planter.” Gill’s description of the forest “brings it vividly to life in all its mystic grandeur with striking details and evocative analogies, using intelligence, verve and humour to illuminate the dangers that live within, and threaten from without.”

Other finalists were Brian Fawcett for Human Happiness, Andrew Westoll for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery and Joel Yanofsky for Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism.

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1800 EMPLOYMENT

1600 LEGAL AND PUBLIC NOTICES Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land

Local GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Take notice that Terence and Linda Holland of 4055 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V6N 2W6 intend to make application to the Province of British Columbia, for a Specific Permission for Residential/Private Moorage purposes covering Lot 2, District Lot 1485, Group 1, New Westminster District Plan BCP 48574, situated on Provincial Crown land located at Wood Bay, Sunshine Coast.

The Land File Number is 2410710.

The Local requires a talented, on-call Graphic Designer to work in our busy Production Department. The right person must have previous experience in designing display advertisements for a newspaper and should be familiar with the protocol of working with the Sales DepartmentFeb. and16, our2012 Acting Production Manager on deadline schedules.

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Linda The Holland 1007

Comments on this application may be submitted in two ways: 1) Online via the Applications and Reasons for Decision Database website at: www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp where details of this application, including maps can also be found.

2) By mail to the Senior Land Officer at 200-10428 153rd Street, Surrey, BC V3R 1E1.

Comments will be received by the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations until March 28, 2012.

Comments received after this date may not be considered.

Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be provided to the public upon request. For information, contact the FOI Advisor at the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations regional office.

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1704 HOMES FOR RENT

#322 – 5780 Trail Ave., Sechelt.

Condo, like new, one bdrm. & den with 1.5 baths, 985 sq.ft., top floor in the “Bluff ” Northwind bldg., lge. skylight, spectacular view of mountains and ocean. New carpets in LR/DR & den. W/D incl.

Bldg has no age restrictions, small pets allowed. Covered parking, strata fee includes gas FP, immed. occupancy. Mins. to downtown Sechelt. $240,000. Please phone Christa, 604-885-3729 for apt. No agents, please. p9

Gibsons: Spacious 3 bdrm, 2 bath duplex in lower Gibsons with a harbour view, decks and wood burning FP. $1300/mo. NS, sm. pet nego. Avail now. Call at 604-886-6618 for viewing or visit www.keypropertymanagement.ca b7

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1705 APARTMENTS & SUITES FOR RENT

We have several one and two bdrm apts. and suites available from $750 - $1250/mo. NS. Call Key Property Management Feb. 9, 2012at 604-886-6618 for viewing or visit www.keypropertymanagement.ca b7

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Feb. 16, 2012

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Thursday, February 16 Pier 17 Market, Davis Bay Seawall. Free and all are •3:00pm-6:00pm. Farm Gate Market at Roberts welcome.

Creek Hall (indoors).

Saturday, February 18 •7:00pm. New Rules in BC about Who Makes •1:00pm-3:30pm. Heritage Play Day Event: your Health Decisions! Public meeting sponsored Storytelling, Crafts, and Games. Presented by SC

by Gibsons Rotary. Featuring Dr. Sam Simpson. Museum and Archives. The Museum. 716 Winn Gibsons Rec. Centre.

Rd. Gibsons. More information at 604-886•8:00pm-10:00pm. Writer’s Cafe. This is an 8232, scma_manager@dccnet.com or www. opportunity for you to read your work in public. sunshinecoastmuseum.ca.

Arts Building at 464 South Fletcher, Gibsons. •7:00pm-9:30pm. Valentine Partner Yoga.

Tickets at the door. More information call 604- Presented by Yoga by the Sea. 604-740-2382 or 740-7790. www.yogabythesea.ca.

Friday, February 17 •8:00pm. George Fetherling, Vancouver poet, •1:00pm-3:30pm. Heritage Play Day Event: Pro-D novelist, and travel writer reads at the Sunshine Day Puppet Making Workshop with Sandy Coast Arts Centre. Courtesy of The Canada Buck. Presented by SC Museum and Archives. Council for the Arts and the SC Arts Council. Trail The Arts Building. More information: 604-886- and Medusa, Sechelt.

June 2011 8232, scma_manager@dccnet.com www. 30, Sunday, February 19 Issue Date:or____________________ sunshinecoastmuseum.ca.

•11:00am-4:00pm. Fat Quarters Quilters. Fibre •5:30pm. Egmont Movie Deadline Night. Kids moviefor approval Expressions Quilt Shop Classroom. #2-5679 6:00pm, adult movie 8:00pm. Egmont Cowrie St. Sechelt. or changes is Coast Recital Society presents Community Hall, free.

•2:30pm.

•8:30pm. Astro Cafe. Telescope chat and viewing. Vancouver Chamber Choir with Conductor Jon Monday by 3:00 p.m.

Washburn at Raven’s Cry Theatre. Tickets 604740-2051. www.coastrecitalsociety.ca If we do not hear from you by thisMusic Makers Gospel Night.

•7:00pm-9:00pm.

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Tuesday, Pleaseinlet us know how February we 21 buyer activity and •7:00pm. Suncoast Woodcrafters Guild Meeting. can serve you best.Vijay Narayan. Furniture Restoration and Speaker some cases there have Your business is important to us! High Woodworking Shop.

Finishing.

Chatelech been competing offers.

Wednesday, February 22 Most of my fellow real•7:00pm. “Dyslexia Demystified” with speaker tors I checked with are Wayne Aadelstone-Hassel of Davis Dyslexia Assoc. International. Seaside Centre, Sechelt. working with a number Free admission but seating is limited. For of buyers and report an more information 604-741-0605 or www. increase in showing acdyslexiadoor.com. tivity. So I believe my •7:00pm-9:00pm. Sharon Rubuliak: Opening Reception. Doris Crowston Galley, SC Centre, next report on the marSechelt. 604-885-5412. ket will show a signifi•7:30pm. Roberts Creek Community Association cant difference! are holding a “Conversation Cafe” at Roberts Reviewing the year-toCreek Hall. Explore local issues in an informal setting. date sales I found most of Thursday, February 23 the sale prices occurred •3:00pm-6:00pm. Farm Gate Market at Roberts within 5 per cent of their Creek Hall (indoors). current listing price. The Friday, February 24 •7:00pm. Artesia Coffeehouse. Sunshine Coast listings that were on the Arts Centre. Trail and Medusa, Sechelt. Tickets at market the least amount the door. 604-740-5825. of time sold within a few •7:30pm. Classical Guitar Concert with the Pinsonnault Trio, Dan Richter, Anthony Willmer, thousand dollars of their Axel Loitz, Connor Lindsay, and special guest list price. The home with Julie Rutter. Sunshine Coast Music Society 2012 the largest difference beFestival of Strings, Gibsons Heritage Playhouse. tween the original asking Saturday, February 25 •9:30am-4:00pm. Sunshine Coast Museum price was on the market & Archives 11th Annual Antiques Roadshow. for 17 months. That’s Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons. why it’s important to •1:00pm-6:00pm. Writing the Inner Way with price it right!

SoulCollage®. Presented by Yoga by the Sea. 604740-2382 or www.yogabythesea.ca.

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Gibsons: 2 bedroom, 2 bath adult-oriented condo with inhouse laundry $1100 per mo. Call 778-839-0219. b7

1707 COMMERCIAL FOR RENT Strata • rental ProPertieS CommerCial • reSidential • FinanCial

Gibsons: Partly furnished rm for rent in lg home on acreage.

Shared kit. 2 bath & ldry. Suit working gal. Views/QUIET hm.

Must luv dogs. $500/mo, incls heat/cable/WiFi. Also lger room w/deck in mid March. Lower Pratt Rd. Emma 604-989-4583. p8

Roberts Creek: 1 bdrm bsmt suite, $800/mo. + utils. Priv. ent. & Malaspina yard. W/D incl.Realty N/P, N/S.1006 Avail immed. Email Shirley at Real Estate Tips gemmell7@gmail.com or 1-604240-1999 p8

Gibsons: Avail. immed. 1 bdrm apt.

Ocean view balcony. Heat, H/W and one parking space incl. 711 Gibsons Way. 604-886-7151. b7

With Personal Focus

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LOCAL EVENTS

We thank all those who submit applications, but only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

1701 HOMES FOR SALE

ThankYou

and have a browse and a chit-chat.

Phone: 604-885-9455

Deadline for applications is March 16, 2012.

Temporary, P/T (3.5 hrs/day, Mon–Thurs) position available at our Recycling Facility. Submit applications to Direct Disposal @ 6041 Sechelt Inlet Rd. or fax 604885-4247. b7

The Local_Graphic Designer Wanted 1007

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The Local Carol Gardarsson, Publisher P.O. Box 494, 5758 Cowrie Street Sechelt, BC V0N 3A0

1800 EMPLOYMENT

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Sunshine Coast Real Estate News

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et’s talk about detached listings: There are 464 current detached listings and 28 sales yearto-date. The hot price range of the market is between $300,000 and $400,000 with 50 per cent of the sales occurring in this price range.

With the current pace of sales, this represents a 17-month supply of listings. Comparing the previous year’s detached sales, in 2011 for the same time period, we had 50 sales!

Now, about attached listings: Attached listings represent strata units,

apartments, condos and townhouses. There are 146 current attached listings and 2 sales year-todate. With the current pace of sales, this represents a 73-month supply of listings.

Let’s talk about listing: There are 367 bare land listings and 3 sales year-to-date. With the current pace of sales this represents a 122-month supply. Comparing the previous year’s bare land sales, in 2011 for the same time period we had 50 sales.

This is typically a slower time of the year, so I would not be overly alarmed by these stats.

I have been checking around at some of the other real estate offices this week and most are showing an increase in

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Sunshine Coast

Salmonid Enhancement Society 15th Annual

Salmon Dinner & Auction Saturday, March 24, 2012

Help us celebrate 25 fantastic years as a Society and 20 great years at the Chapman Creek Hatchery. Join us for a delicious salmon dinner, the opportunity to bid on some terrific auction items and a chance to win great prizes.

Host: Sunshine Coast Salmonid Enhancement Society Where: Sechelt Seniors Centre when: Saturday, March 24, 2012 Cocktails at 6pm, Dinner at 7pm Cost: $100 per ticket TICKETS INCLUDE: • A catered salmon dinner (alternate meals available by prior order only) • A $50 tax receipt issued following the event • Entry into a Reverse Draw where up to $3,000 will be awarded, with a top prize of $2,000.

• The opportunity to bid on auction merchandise and services ranging from the unique (original artwork, a Predator Charters fishing adventure, a ride on a fire truck, etc.) to the practical (free passes to the Vancouver Aquarium, free oil changes, delivered load of gravel, etc.)

on your mind. At deeper levels, this is a time of clearing the way and could well include tending to unfinished Astrologer business to prepare for important and exciting projects www.sunstarastrology.com to come.

Gemini (May 21 – Jun 21) 1.888.352.2936 Bringing your dreams into Horoscope for the Week: sharper focus is featured in Feb. 17, 9, 2012 your current reality. ExchangFebruary 2012 ing ideas with someone you Tip of the Week: What if the Mayan proph- can trust and who supports esies are true? They speak of you will probably help a lot the activation of heightened now. You may feel somewhat levels of consciousness yet confused about your place also of climate change and and purpose. Accessing guidcataclysms. Are massive or- ance from both within and ganized networks of hidden without is ideal. Even though power cabals conspiring to the outer pace is fast these create a massive hoax with days aim to be patient, yet de2012, as some assert? Or is liberate and sure.

Gibsons Legion Cancer (Jun 21 – Jul 22) there actually some truth to 1007 Your world is changing all this 2012 ‘mumbo jumbo’ as some dismissively call steadily and so too are your it. Either way, our world has feelings, intuitions, philosoreached something of a cri- phies and/or beliefs about it sis point. Greed, corruption all. Attempting to return to and crimes against nature the way it was is not a good and humanity have become idea and will not work anyso much the norm that way. It is time to advance.

What this more precisely 16, 2012 many have simply Feb. tuned them out in futility, disgust means and implies depends and/or despair. If cataclysm on your situation. It could does not occur, we still face be a good idea to seek guidmany other social, economic ance and counsel, yet adand environmental challeng- vance you must!

Leo (Jul 22 – Aug 23) es. Assisting us to tune in to Some rather deep shifts our deeper destiny, living authentically and thereby and changes are rumbling contributing to the solutions in you. These may not be we seek, is one of the ways so apparent to others but Astrology can and does help. you can sure feel them. You sense that you have to elimiAries (Mar 21 – Apr 20) After what has quite possi- nate certain things in order bly been a busy few months, to improve. Cleaning closclearing debts, replacing Creek 1007 you SC maySalmon_Chapman feel the need for a ets, slower pace. This will be- limiting beliefs, attitudes and come increasingly evident behaviour patterns with betthis week. With the acceler- ter ones, leaving unfulfilling ated pace of spring not far relationships that do more off it might be wise to re- harm than good and so on charge your batteries. Save are examples.

Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22) any industrious projects for The spotlight is shifting later. If you can travel to a quiet place, do itFeb. now16and to your relationships now.

Sharing thoughts, feelings, leave the gadgets behind.

Taurus (Apr 20 – May 21) affections and quality time Sharing your dreams and feels right. Giving more will ideals with others is in the likely play into the mix, yet spotlight. This could mani- you may also feel it is your fest as simply the desire for turn to receive. This could be quality time with friends. the source of confusion and Yet inspirational visions and conflict so aim to communiplans for future prospects are cate clearly. Acknowledging

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your worth and value is part of the plot.

Libra (Sep 22 – Oct 22) Clearing within in order to manifest and achieve without is in focus. This is what Feng Shui and Vastu is all about - organizing and arranging your environment in alignment with natural principles.

Clearing the clutter is the most basic feature and could imply literal stuff and/or limiting beliefs and self-concepts.

Do the work and you could get a lot more than just a clean and beautiful home.

Scorpio (Oct 22 – Nov 21) A creative and imaginative cycle is on the rise. Yet you should be prepared to give more than usual to achieve your goals. In fact, it may be necessary to break through any lines of resistance. Consider that whatever we perceive and experience without is ever a reflection of who we are and/or what is going on within. Work to receive a stream of creative ideas flowing your way now.

Sagittarius (Nov 21 – Dec 21) Dreaming a new dream close to home is a current theme. Any opportunity to escape into the cozy warmth of your own home stands to be extra inviting now. Yet a frisky mood is also on the rise and you yearn for some fun, excitement and adventure. A family adventure away could hit the mark. How can you escape, feel safe and close, play and take your own space all at the same time?

Capricorn (Dec 21 – Jan 19) A wave of inspiring ideas is scheduled to wash in on your shores this week. You will want to collect all the treasures that come with it for practical use. Meanwhile desires for increased levels of freedom are featured. This may be the source of some disruption at home and/or at work. Circumstances probably require that you focus and stay the course even if you want to run.

Aquarius (Jan 19 – Feb 19) A review of what is truly important and practically necessary is underway in your mind. This process GPAG Amelia of prioritization may1007 also be coloured by notions of what would be most ideal.

Dreams of increasing your power somehow are playing a role, too. Getting more knowledge and/or training is a likely answer. Now is a good time to review the prospects. Feb. 16, 2012 Pisces (Feb 19 – Mar 20) A busy cycle continues.

You will feel even more deliberate and determined starting this week. Expect to take some key initiatives. Desires to activate a more satisfying flow and to increase returns are motivating you.

Your willingness to engage with others in cooperative exchanges is extra ideal now and this trend will continue.

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Bridges that snap, crackle and pop EMERGENCY PUBLIC MEETING T MT. ELPHINSTONE PARK EXPANSION he Second Annual Sunshine Coast Popsicle Stick Bridge Building contest is a great introduction to the engineering profession with hands-on experience.

Saturday, February 4, Donald Burkholder, an engineer from Buckland and Taylor of North Vancouver, hosted a workshop. Among the many important points he gave was that the glue should dry for at least one week before testing. Longer is stronger! In addition, new this year is the addition of dental floss to build cablesupported bridges. There’s still time to purchase your kit ($5 refundable with your entry) at GBS Sechelt and Gibsons, or at Rona in Pender Harbour and build your bridges.

If you live within 30 minutes of Sechelt, please bring your bridges and models to pre-register at the Sechelt Senior Center on March 9 from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm. People outside this area can register on March 10 (main event day) between 10 am to 11 am. Testing will start at 10 am with pre-registered bridges, and then bridges registered that morning,

followed by awards and three educational videos.

Perhaps we’ll crown a future world-class engineer!

Prizes for the strongest bridges: Traditional bridges and Bridges with “cables”. Elementary school division: Two - $70 and four $50 store gift cards, and one $70 and two $50

store gift cards. Secondary school division: Four $100 store gift cards and four $100 store gift cards. Family/Team builders: Two $70 and two $50 store gift cards, and two $70 and two $50 store gift cards.

Open Category: Two prizes of two bottles of wine and bragging rights.

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THREATENED BY NEW LOGGING WHERE: ROBERTS CREEK COMMUNITY HALL WHEN: TUESDAY, FEB. 21 • 7:30PM

This Spring & Summer 2012 could see intense logging on the Mt. Elphinstone slopes not seen in years. The meeting will provide details on proposed logging by both Island Timberlands, and BC Timber Sales. We will also share some good news on the protection of a key forest area that we’ve been working on.

The TrailFest-Wagon Forest (BCTS Cutblock A87124 at 29.7Ha) is the most pressing issue right now as it could be sold to a logging contractor February 29th.

The Block sits within the proposed 1,500Ha Mt. Elphinstone This is your ad proof Provincial Park expansion which is supported by community in the next issuegroups of and many residents. They have stated that this public asset is better left intact to achieve long term gains. We will The discuss options to see these areas protected. The BCTS block should not be logged for many reasons, including their own assessment for high wind-throw, high soil erosion and loss of Oct 13, 2011a high-value trail network. The cutblock increases the size of Issue Date: ____________________ the bordering CNI cutblock (note: the largest clearcut on the Deadline for approval Sunshine Coast) from 160Ha to 189Ha! More logs to China or or changes is an addition to a new park? Our call, if we organize together.

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Monday by 3:00 p.m.

If you value our local, intact forests, then mark Feb. 21 on your calendar.

If we do not hear from you by this time, we can assume all is correct.

Please let us know howNew we campaign material on hand to distribute. can serve you best.

Your business is important to us!

loggingfocus@gmail.com

Can’t make it to the meeting?

Then go to: loggingfocus.org Look for: TrailFest-Wagon Forest, and Take Action.

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