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Sunshine Coast, British Columbia • www.thelocalweekly.ca • Thursday, February 20, 2020 Why Marlene Paints “Blind”

Gas Price Protest

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Shíshálh Chief Re-elected Page 2

How $5 = $10K Page 3

Tax Increase For Housing?

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Film: 85 Mins Of Tension Page 8

A Decade Of Sacred Music Page 8

SCRD Tax Increase Page 11

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Police ask for civilian crime prevention coordinator Staff Sergeant Poppy Hallam made a pitch to add a community crime prevention coordinator position to the Coast’s RCMP detachment at Sechelt’s committee of the whole meeting Feb. 12. Her ask was part of her 2020 budget presentation, which was one of three departmental spending plans reviewed at that meeting.

S/Sgt. Hallam would like to see a municipal support staff position created to assist with police public education and outreach in areas like fraud and scam awareness, as well as youth programming. This position would also be used to coordinate community volun-

teer efforts like Speed Watch, Block Watch and Citizens on Patrol. S/Sgt. Hallam noted that she receives inquiries from citizens and community groups asking how they can support the work of the police in their area. She noted that these types of programs and their volunteers need a point of contact at the detachment to function effectively.

“Over the past years our detachment has not had the capacity to coordinate community volunteers and ensure that community programs are functioning and supported.

The need is there, but the capacity is not,” she said.

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This amount includes the costs for 11 officers and four support staff that work at the detachment, as well as annual grant funding for Sechelt’s share for the Coast Victims Services program.

S/Sgt. Hallam estimated the annual cost to add the new position at $72,000.

Sechelt’s director of finance, David Douglas, noted that this request was not included in the 2020 draft budget amount. He also stated that

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Shíshálh Nation Chief Warren Paull was re-elected with a six-vote margin over Lenora Joe in a band election Feb. 15. The results were: Warren Paull, 132; Lenora Joe, 126; Randy Joe, 48; Nievelina Carmona, 31.

The four councillors were elected by acclamation: Corey August, Selina August, Barbara Joe and Alvina Paul.

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Rodney Rissanen manned a one-person information picket in support of the Wet’suwet’en anti-pipeline protests, on Feb. 15 in Sechelt. Standing at the intersection of Hwy 101, Wharf Ave. and Dolphin St., he displayed placards with messages in solidarity with the position held by a number of hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation against the Coastal Gaslink project in northwestern BC. CONNIE JORDISON PHOTO

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if council endorsed funding for the position in this year’s budget, it would not be filled until mid-year, lowering the first year’s cost impacts.

Committee member Mayor Darnelda Siegers asked why the position funding request was focused on Sechelt rather than the entire Coast. “The need for this is in Sechelt,” said S/Sgt. Hallam, noting that calls for police services are higher in the district than in other areas of the detachment’s jurisdiction.

The meeting also featured a 2020 budget request from the municipal parks department.

Parks manager Jayme Anderson reviewed a draft departmental budget that included a request for a $10,000 increase to pay for daily contracted cleaning of public washrooms at Davis Bay, Hackett Park and Friendship Park during the summer months. The current budget allows for full cleaning of all district public washrooms once a week.

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When a $5 bill is worth $10,000 Area residents had an opportunity to learn about the background and potential value of prized possessions at an Antiques and Collectibles Roadshow hosted on Feb. 15 at Sechelt’s Trail Bay Mall. Sponsored by the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives Society (SCMAS), this was the 18th rendition of this annual event.

SCMAS board director and volunteer Ian Thomson estimated that between 80 and a 100 people attended the event and received appraisals on over 250 items. “Most people participating found that the things that they brought in were worth more than they thought, so we had many happy customers,” said Thomson.

Thomson remarked that the stories behind the articles are often as intriguing as the items themselves. Collectables of significant local interest that were seen at this year’s event included a lemonade jug and drinking glasses that had been inherited by a local woman. This glassware set had been won as a prize at the 1953 Sechelt summer carnival. While the assessed monetary value was in the $60 range, Thomson commented that they have a much higher sentimental value to the owner and are “cool pieces of Sechelt memorabilia.”

Local resident Cat Ulrich

brought a number of items to the event, including a hand-woven Navaho saddle blanket. She won this item as a competition prize while she was training for the U.S. Olympic team tryouts. Appraiser David Harris estimated its value at about $300. He also advised her to place the item in a freezer for two to three days every six months, to help preserve it and kill any insects that may attack the fibres.

Another Coast resident came to the Roadshow with several caricatures drawn

by U.S. artist Peter Parker.

Parker was an associate of the 1960’s Las Vegas-based group of entertainers known as the “Rat Pack”, whose members included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and

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Sammy Davis Jr. The local man purchased the artist’s former home and found the drawings there. Included was a caricature of actor Bob Hope, which an event appraiser valued at $1,000.

Items with some of the higher monetary values seen at this year’s Roadshow included a painting by Canadian “Group of Seven” artist Frank Johnston. This item’s appraisal was in the range of $25,000. Other paintings brought in for appraisal were a work by a Washington State artist, valued at $100,000, and one from the early 1900’s

by Frederick Challenger. Also appraised was a rare 1923 Canadian five-dollar bank note, which was valued at about $10,000.

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Cat Ulrich had a hand-woven Navaho saddle blanket appraised by David Harris at the Antiques and Collectibles Roadshow Feb. 15. Harris told her it was worth about $300.

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The coronavirus and you With five cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) being reported in BC, it’s important to remember the advice that has been recommended by our public health officials.

“Remember that the most important thing you can do is wash your hands regularly and avoid touching your face.

This basic action can help prevent getting not just the new coronavirus, but more common infections going around like the cold and flu,” says Bryce Wong, of the BC Pharmacy Association.

Symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to symptoms of more common respiratory illnesses, such as fever, cough, sore throat, headache, difficulty breathing and pneumonia.

While the risk to the general public continues to be declared as low in BC, here are some other tips to help you stay healthy: • Wash your hands frequently. Coronavirus is transmitted via larger liquid droplets when a person coughs or sneezes.

The virus can enter through the eyes, nose or throat if you are in close contact with these droplets. Because it can be spread by touch if a person has used their hands to cover their mouth or nose when they cough it’s recommended you cough or sneeze into your arm and wash your hands with soap and water regularly. Even if you were to somehow touch something, like a doorknob, that has droplets with coronavirus in it, washing your hands before touching your face or mouth will reduce the risk of that virus getting into your body.

• Avoid contact with people who are ill and don’t visit others when you are ill. Help stop the spread of illness, if you are feeling unwell stay at home and where possible, avoid those who are unwell. Recently, our provincial health authorities are also asking people who have recently visited, or who have been in close contact with someone who has recently visited the Hubei province in China, to call public health officials and self-isolate for 14 days.

• Consider wearing a face mask if you are sick. We’re seeing a lot of demand for face masks, but remember that while mask can help prevent transmission of illness from a sick person to others, their use is likely less effective in the community in preventing someone from getting sick.

• If you are worried you have been exposed to the COVID-19, contact your primary care provider. Anyone concerned that they may have been exposed to, or are experiencing symptoms of the novel coronavirus, should contact their primary care provider, local public health office, or call 8-1-1.

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When the BC Government found, through a report by the BC Utilities Commission, that BC gasoline customers were being gouged at the pumps by 13 cents per litre on the price of gas in southern BC compared to the rest of the Pacific Northwest, the Sunshine Coast Labour Council believed that change was coming.

Unfortunately, this government did not have the will to stand up to the oil companies and regulate gas prices as is done in the Maritimes.

They, instead, decided to do nothing.

During the short time that gas gouging was in the news our local gas stations kept their prices below those in the Lower Mainland. That changed as soon as the news did and now our stations have kept their prices well above those in Vancouver, even though the taxes are lower here. On Feb. 10, gasoline was readily available in Vancouver for $1.35 per litre. In Gibsons it has been steady for weeks now at $1.40.

The Sunshine Coast Labour Council continues to object to the high price of gasoline and has the will to

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stand up for citizens. We are asking the public to stand with us and not buy gasoline on the Coast if they can avoid it.

Even when gasoline prices are higher in the Lower Mainland, it is better to buy it there, and have seven cents go toward the transit tax (because most of us use it at least occasionally) rather than into the pockets of the greedy oil and gas companies. (The Lower Mainland pays an extra 12.5 cents per litre in transit tax, but after the cost of shipping gasoline to the Coast, we estimate that the gas com-

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On Saturday, Feb. 22, members of Scouting on the Sunshine Coast will honour the birthdays of the Scouting movement’s founder, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, and his wife, Lady Olave Soames Baden-Powell, the Chief Girl Guide, with a torchlight parade along Gibsons Way. (Above, Scouts pose with their torches.) Scouts and their leaders will rally at Sunshine Coast Self-Storage on

Venture Way at 5:30pm, and start marching at 6pm to their end destination, at Gibsons Way and North Road. Along the way, the Scouts will collect donations of food or cash for the St. Bartholomew’s food bank.

Food donations can also be dropped off ahead of the torchlight parade at IGA Gibsons and outside SuperValu until Feb. 22.

Anyone interested in

Scouting, or wishing to help celebrate this anniversary, is invited to watch the parade as it travels along Gibsons Way, or join the Scouts at St. Bart’s at about 6:30 pm for the “indoor campfire” (spoiler alert: it’s not a real fire) and hot chocolate. Look to www.6robertscreekscouts. ca for more information on the torchlight parade, or call Katharine at 604-885-2282.

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panies are making an extra seven cents per litre from us here – even if the price was the same as the Lower Mainland, which it is not.)

We recently protested at all three gas stations in Gibsons. There was lots of community support. We will continue to object and protest the high price of gas on the Sunshine Coast for the foreseeable future.

Ed Erickson, Sunshine Coast Labour Council

Assistance, please (Re “BC Ferries’ error”, letters, the Local, Jan. 30) I would like to thank Mr. Johns for his observations and assure him that, since my retina surgeries over 10 years ago and the need for monthly treatments, I have utilized all the options he recommends. As these treatments now involve two to three hours of tests and injections into my eyes, followed by two to five hours of severely impaired vision for which an escort is required, the scheduling of these appointments and driver assistance is complicated.

As an 80-year old cancer survivor and active community volunteer, for many years I have received and appreciated the co-operation and assistance of BC Ferries, and I am asking that this be resumed.

John Roper, Gibsons

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Sechelt tax increase for housing fund?

Councillor Tom Lamb wants Sechelt to explore how it could raise more funds for the community’s affordable housing efforts through an additional property tax. The Feb. 12 committee of the whole meeting asked staff to bring information on this subject forward for consideration during upcoming committee meetings discussing the 2020 budget.

Lamb stated he was interested in seeing if the municipality could collect funds via taxation to add to the community amenity contributions that are made by developers to the affordable housing reserve. With an assessment-based tax applied to properties in all classifications, he said that the district could have a regular and predictable influx of money into the reserve. He stated that a second source of revenue would build the reserve level faster than the current situa-

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Tony Browton RE/MAX City Realty

Now you have a pre-approval in hand and have selected the realtor you want to use as your buyer’s agent, it’s time to start looking at homes.

At this stage, you should have been set-up on what is generally referred to as a “drip feed”. The drip feed will automatically email you properties that meet your criteria as they come on the market and you can keep a list of the ones you are interested in. Once you have selected some properties to view, your realtor will set up a tour for you and you will go and visit the homes of interest. This is an important stage in the process for the buyer’s agent. They will learn a lot about your taste, be able to refine your criteria and ultimately have a much better understanding of what you are looking for after spending a few hours looking at properties with you.

I recommend not looking at more than five homes in one session as they will start to blend together if you do more than five. Your buyer’s agent should supply you with info on the properties you are seeing along with a tour sheet. Remember to bring

tion of total reliance on developer contributions.

The current balance in the district’s affordable housing reserve is about $63,000.

Based on developer contributions that are anticipated in 2020, the fund is not predicted to grow significantly this year.

In discussion of Lamb’s idea, Mayor Darnelda Siegers said that she was in favour of investigating the options.

She also would like to see funds from any enhanced affordable housing reserve used to buy land. With more municipally-owned property available, she feels the community would be in a better position to attract affordable housing projects or contributions from provincial and federal programs as well as locally-based initiatives like those being proposed by the Sunshine Coast Workforce Housing group. She backed up this logic by citing a recent

example where BC Housing offered to build a project featuring three-bedroom units for the rental market in Sechelt. The district could not accept the offer, as it did not own land to locate the project on.

“We are looking to have economic development in our community. We want businesses to come here but their employees have difficulty finding places to live,” said Siegers.

Earlier in the meeting, the committee received an update on the 2019 tourism season from Paul Kamon, executive director of Sunshine Coast Tourism. He noted that one of the primary challenges facing the area’s tourism operators is difficulty securing staff. He attributed part of this problem to the Coast’s limited rental housing market.

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a pen and paper so you can take notes during each walkthrough. Being able to refer back to these notes can be also helpful once you decide to make an offer on a property. Pack a drink and snacks on tour and its best to ride in the same car as your buyer’s agent rather than following behind. Talking to you in the car about neighborhoods and getting feedback on the different properties you view is valuable insight for your realtor.

Once you find the home you want to purchase, it’s time to write an offer. Normally, an offer will have subjects or conditions on it.

Common subjects include financing, building inspection, septic inspection, review of title, review of the property disclosure statement and the ability to get insurance.

Ten days is the usual time for

these subjects but that can vary depending on the situation.

Removing your subjects is the last step in committing to the purchase. It means you have completed your due diligence and are ready to pay your deposit. The sold sign can go up and you can start planning your packing and coordinating your move.

If you don’t already have a lawyer or a notary public lined up, your realtor should be able to give you some options. A lawyer or notary is required to transfer the title from the buyer to seller and look after other parts of the conveyance process.

Tony Browton is an award-winning Realtor who lives and works on BC’s Sunshine Coast.

His weekly blog can be found here http://www.truebluerealty.ca/blog

Property owner’s survey The District of Sechelt housing advisory committee is conducting a survey to better understand the needs of property owners wishing to build rental housing on their properties.

This survey is intended for property owners who may be able to build freestanding rental suites on their property. (A more-broad survey for renters and others in need

of housing will be released in March as part of a housing needs assessment by the town of Gibsons in cooperation with the Sunshine Coast Regional District and the District of Sechelt.)

The survey is available at www.surveymonkey.com/r/ GardenSuite or by completing a paper copy at the District of Sechelt municipal hall.

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It will take some time to reopen Lower Rd. in Roberts Creek. On Feb. 13, nearly two weeks after the washout near the cemetery, shut-off valves had been installed on the exposed water main but Fortis was still working to move its natural gas line. Then the ministry of transport has to stabilize the area that washed away and replace the culvert before repairing the road.

Roberts Creek SCRD director Andreas Tize has told constituents he thinks it could take “several months”. JOHN GIBBS PHOTO

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Art Review Anna Nobile Freelance Creative Writer, Arts & Culture

Painter Marlene Lowden is exhibiting her Blind Contour Homage Series at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery until March 8. The Langdale-based artist grew up on the Sunshine Coast and traces her lineage back to the Armours family of Armours Beach fame. Lowden spent many hours as a teen painting with her father watching the Bob Ross television show, The Joy of Painting. “Dad and I would videotape his show because it was too fast for us and we’d stop and start,” recalls Lowden. “That feeling of being able to turn blobs of colour into a mountain, adding light, giving things depth, it’s just such magic.”

Known for her abstract paintings, Lowden’s new work fuses her interest in

drawing, painting and art history. She began researching women artists, finding works of theirs that she admired and created blind contour drawings of those works. In contour drawings, the drawer focuses on the outside of the subject, drawing what they see without removing their pencil or pen from the paper. The “blind” part comes in because this is also done without looking down at the paper while drawing.

“You get to really study the work bit by bit as you follow along with your eyes,” says Lowden. “You really slow down and see how the artist created the piece.” During her research, Lowden noticed that women artists were grossly under-represented in books and source materials, so she started a blog where she would write a short bio of the artist and post the original painting along with her blind contour drawing.

The response to her blog was overwhelmingly positive, encouraging Lowden to con-

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tinue. She started focussing on Canadian women artists.

“I’m a Canadian female artist,” says Lowden. “And I’m standing on these women’s shoulders and I don’t know who they are.” She did her first blind contour drawing in 2017 and soon after started doing the drawings on canvass in order to paint her homage, a practice that has a long tradition in the arts where one artist shows respect to another by creating works that allude to the original. She used the contour lines and a strict palette of 11 colours to tie her works together. She’s now painted 32 homage of Canadian women artists, a project with its own website, herartstory.com, highlighting women artists that come from across Canada, who worked in a diversity of mediums, styles and subjects, and who did not get the recognition they deserved during their lifetime.

The story of Mary Riter Hamilton is one that stands out for Lowden. “She petitioned

“The Guilty”: 85 minutes of tension As Denmark’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2018, “The Guilty” is one of the more ingenious minimalist thrillers to hit the big screen in a long time and a huge achievement for director Gustav Möller in his debut feature.

Demoted to emergency dispatch duties while awaiting a disciplinary hearing, a Danish police officer, Asger (Jakob Cedergren) answers a panicked phone call from a kidnapped woman. Filmed with claustrophobic intensity and impressive sound design, “The Guilty” progresses in real time with the officer speaking into his headset, desperately trying to prevent a tragedy. The search to find the woman and her assailant takes every bit of Asger’s skill and intuition. With the clock ticking, he takes matters into his own hands, tensions ramp up; also, personal de-

Books & Beyond Andrea Routley

Community Outreach Coordinator, Gibsons and District Public Library

Many people have told me the Gibsons & District Public Library is special. They comment on the amazing view, the dynamic events and the friendly staff. But I would like to point out that a library is a reflection of the communities it serves. For example, although I coordinated many adult or all-ages events here, most are only made possible by committed volunteers who want to share their cultures through language groups and cultural events, their expertise through lectures and slideshows, or

Marlene Lowden poses with her painting Blind Contour Homage: Hamilton, based on Mary Riter Hamilton’s painting The Kemmel Road, Flanders. Lowden will be at a meet the artists session Feb. 22 at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery. ANNA NOBILE PHOTO the government to be a [First World] war artist but wasn’t allowed because she was female,” recounts Lowden. In 1919, under dangerous and difficult conditions, Hamilton went to Europe anyway and is now celebrated as one of the most important artists of her time. Mary Pratt is another painter who faced sexism during the 1960s and who went on to be named to the Order of Canada in 1996 for

her contributions to the visual arts.

Lowden will be showing 16 of the homage series at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery while the other 16 will be at Place des Arts in Coquitlam until March 12. She will be giving a talk on her series at the Gibsons gallery on Feb. 22. “I hope [viewers] discover someone new or re-discover someone,” says Lowden. “I want that awe and

inspiration for these incredible women and their lives and their work.”

Blind Contour Homage Series by Marlene Lowden runs at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery until March 8 along with sculptures by Lujca Barker and pastel works by Louise Valentine. All three artists will be present at the Meet the Artists event on Feb. 22 from 2-4pm. More information at gpag.ca

The MOTET project 10 years later The entire length of the movie, “The Guilty” is focussed on Danish actor Jakob Cedergren. NIKOLAJ MÖLLER PHOTO, COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES

mons conspire against him.

Like the gripping Tom Hardy film, “Locke”, “The Guilty” is confined to a single location and is anchored by a brilliant performance from the lead actor, Jakob Cedergren, a tinderbox of an actor, who keeps the audience riveted throughout the film’s unrelenting 85 minutes. Garnering multiple awards, Möller’s film also has a few things to say about how the best of in-

tentions can lead to disturbing consequences.

The Sunshine Coast Film Society presents “The Guilty” Saturday, Feb. 29, 2pm at the Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt and Monday, Mar. 2 and Tuesday, Mar. 3, 7:30pm at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. (The film society’s AGM follows the Mar. 2 screening.) Members $5, others $9.

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their passion for learning and teaching with bridge club, repair cafe, death cafe, writing groups and more. All of these programs rely on the creativity and generosity of community volunteers; because our community is blessed with so many highly engaged, informed and talented individuals, our library is blessed with engaging, informative and inspiring programs.

I’ll be leaving my role as the Gibsons & District Public Library’s Community Outreach Coordinator at the end of this month in order to pursue other projects. Working at this library among such dedicated, intelligent and thoughtful colleagues has been an enormous privilege.

In staff meetings or around the communal treat table

in the office, this dynamic group of individuals discusses everything from our rights and responsibilities around intellectual freedom and the library’s role in upholding democracy to enabling community conversations about climate change and many other topics, big and small.

Regardless of the task at hand, the role of the library in enriching our lives and connecting our communities is never far from anyone’s mind. How many jobs can offer such a humbling sense of purpose? I will soon have the privilege of enjoying the library simply as a patron, watching all the amazing things the community, board and staff do to nurture this special place.

See you at the library.

On Feb. 22, 2010 the four founding members of MOTET launched an ambitious project: to share the vast treasures of church music across the Lower Mainland.

They lamented that such music was sadly absent from many concerts and – more surprisingly – most churches in the area. Seeking a renewal of the sacred, their inaugural concert juxtaposed the music of Maurice Duruflé with renaissance polyphony, tied together with Gregorian chant – a program now being reimagined 10 years later.

On Feb. 21-22, 2020 MOTET Chamber Choir (now 12 voices strong) presents a program for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter. On this day, we celebrate the role of St. Peter and his successors as the

“Vicar of Christ” to the church.

The concert features music drawn from the First Vespers and Mass liturgies of the feast, including works by English polyphonic master William Byrd, French perfectionist Maurice Duruflé, and their respective contemporaries.

William Byrd is a particularly iconic figure in the history of church music, being employed by the Church of England while secretly writing troves of music for the Catholic Church. The excellence with which Byrd composed permitted his career in the Protestant courts to flourish despite his known Catholic faith.

Maurice Duruflé was a perfectionist, leaving us with an incredibly small oeuvre of intricately composed choral

and instrumental works. Duruflé eschewed contemporary idiom, and sought rather to root his work in tradition: his choral works all draw from medieval Gregorian chant – often quoted verbatim – making them innately Catholic.

You can hear MOTET weave the music of these two composers amongst works

by Lassus, Batten, Morales, and Howells on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2:30pm at St. Mary’s Church, 956 Gibsons Way, in Gibsons. Admission is by donation, and all ages are warmly welcomed. (The concert will also be performed Friday, Feb. 21, 8pm, at St. Augustine’s Church, 2028 W. 7th Ave, Vancouver.) www.

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Some of the members of MOTET, who are working to popularize church music. This weekend, MOTET is presenting a version of its first concert 10 years ago. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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I have the privilege of taking part in two budget processes, the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) and the District of Sechelt (DOS).

DOS provides us with parks, trails, roads, storm sewer, sanitary sewer, wastewater treatment, garbage and recycling pick-up, RCMP, animal control, development planning, permitting, and community and cultural events.

The SCRD provides District of Sechelt residents with: emergency preparedness, recreation facilities, solid waste (the landfill, drop off recycling facilities and green waste drop off), water, and transit. The DOS and some of the Electoral Areas contribute to the Sechelt Public Library.

Of your total property tax bill last year approximately 45 per cent went to the DOS and 20 per cent to the SCRD. On top of that you pay parcel taxes and user fees to the District of Sechelt for solid waste and sewer fees. The rest goes to a variety of provincial bodies.

According to a 2019 report, only 10 cents of every tax dollar paid goes to local government. And yet local government has the largest direct impact on your daily life. The work we do touches your lives every single day.

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Over the years, Canada’s infrastructure responsibilities have shifted from the federal government to the local government. From 1955 to 2003, federal government investment in capital declined from 34 per cent to 13 per cent while the municipal share increased from 27 per cent to 48 per cent. We also have many social service responsibilities downloaded to us from other levels of government. To deal with this additional responsibility local government employees have increased by 30 per cent since 2001, while federal and provincial staffing has decreased.

Each year we examine our services and our one-time projects, figure out what it costs, and announce a property tax increase. Then citizens complain the increase is too high. Just in the past few weeks, I received complaints regarding road work, water runoff, playgrounds, and snow removal services. So, let’s talk about our services and municipal infrastructure.

To provide the services you request, we require the funding for them. Taxes are

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“We recognize that this is an ambitious work plan – a number of projects have been recommended that represent a significant level of investment in both capital and service delivery,” says Tina Perreault, chief financial officer.

To carry out these largescale projects, new staff positions have been proposed.

Overall, it has been estimated that the average resident will see an increase of ap-

proximately $200 per year for SCRD services – that is about $16 per month. This figure will vary from $50 per year to $300 per year depending in which electoral area individuals reside.

Once the 2020 Budget is adopted at the Feb. 27 board meeting, the SCRD will be rolling out more communication to provide details with respect to work plans, projects and timelines for completion.

“The community has asked for strong action on key services such as water and the Board is delivering that through this budget,” says Lori Pratt, board chair.

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Scorpio (Oct 23 – Nov 21) You are in a creative cycle.

It may be that the activity is more in your mind as you dream and scheme about what is possible and the best ways to achieve your goals.

However, this is probably not the best time to take full action. You are may still be in the preparation stages.

The start date is probably after the next New Moon in Aries, in later March.

Sagittarius (Nov 22–Dec 21) You have entered an interesting cycle. On one hand, you may feel more peaceful within. On the other hand, you may be contending with your confidence levels of vacillating especially due to unsettled emotions. This is actually a good time to quiet your mind and to be receptive to guidance coming both from within and out.

Capricorn (Dec 22–Jan 19) Mercury is now deep into its retrograde cycle in Pisces. For you, it is possible that it is proving to stimulate your imagination to see things with a whole new quality of clarity, actually.

However, this will not be the case if you find yourself feeling sorry for yourself. If so, you may be dealing with depression. An attitude of gratitude is the key to liberate you from that prison.

Aquarius (Jan 20–Feb 19) Your focus is strong, yet your confidence may be wavering. This complex influence will continue for about another week. Then you should experience a break in the clouds and see the blue sky through it.

This peek of inspiration and hope may not last long, just enough to restore your confidence. So, be on the watch for it and any other such synchronicities.

Pisces (Feb 20 – Mar 20) Although you may still be in the early stages, you have begun to take some initiatives towards activating a healthier flow. This could pertain to your energy levels and lifestyle rhythms as well as to stimulating new streams of income. This trend will continue and will increase throughout March.

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The two fish apparently swimming in opposite directions is the lower, linear interpretation, can be better understood as one following the other in circular, rhythmic unity. This symbol reveals the essence of fish in a school united and moving as one, sharing in the same field of consciousness. As is true of all signs in duality, there is also the other side of the story. Negatively, Pisces can prove too otherworldly, escapist, hopelessly addicted, irresponsible, self-pitying, self-deceptive, over-imaginative, overly-idealistic and delusional. It should be noted, that we are each a unique synthesis of all the 12 signs and the characteristics of a sign can be prominent in any other sign, and even dominant, at times. So, deciphering who is strongly influenced by any of the 12 signs is not simply a matter of knowing the sun sign.

Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 19) Sometimes the urge is to go big, while at others it is to go home and then at others yet we feel pulled in both directions. It is this latter complex that produces the inner conflict seeking resolution. How you go about it is relative to you and your situation, yet it is there now and for you to reconcile. With awareness and strategy, you can probably have it all.

Taurus (Apr 20 – May 20) Okay, so some dreams are… dreamier than others. You may be having this experience now. However, having a dream at all is already wonderful, if you can simply allow for it to exist without attachment or feeling pressured to take immediate action. This is not to say you will not take action at all. Take your time and enjoy the dream as an end in itself.

Gemini (May 21 – Jun 21) It’s okay to be an idealist.

Yet, it can prove especially helpful to be a realistic idealist. This means that you are fully aware of what aspects of your perspectives lean towards the ideal, towards that ‘should’ word.

You can feel proud that you see it at all and inspired by it too and even inspire others with it. Just make extra efforts to realize what leans toward the ideal and what towards reality.

Cancer (Jun 22 – Jul 22) Sometimes the circumstances of our experiences lead us into the wilderness, into feeling a little lost within it all, even though the setting is familiar. At such times, it is good to keep an open mind and to play along, more than try to assert a strong lead. This can also amount to simply observing without judgment or reaction. Such are paths to feeling peaceful despite the drama.

Leo (Jul 23 – Aug 23) Some rather deep changes are brewing within. The implications of these may be quite evident, all a part of the larger flow. Perhaps your perceptions and/or your interpretation or your attitude is changing. Maybe you are doing renovations of some kind. In any case, the time is right for such feelings and actions.

Virgo (Aug 24 – Sep 22) Yearning for peace and harmony in your relationship life is extra strong now.

The challenge, however, may not so much be how you are engaging others but how they are engaging you.

As eager as you are to bring about peace which may include attempts to pacify the situation with lovely words and even noble actions, you are challenging to adhere firmly to what you deem to be true and wise.

Libra (Sep 23 – Oct 22) Feeling as whole and healthy as you would like is in the spotlight. Whole healthy includes a weave of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance and flow. How you define these terms is the bigger question. Each must be translated into the reality of your life. Making efforts to clarify each will help you to know more precisely how to proceed.

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