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Women’s Housing Project Page 2

SCRD Moves On Reservoir

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Women’s housing project The provincial government has announced it will fund “up to 30 units” of longterm housing for women in Sechelt in partnership with the Sunshine Coast Community Services Society (SCCSS).

The announcement was made Nov. 25 by Selina Robinson, minister of municipal affairs and housing, as one of a series of projects “to kick off 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence”.

The Sechelt housing is to be part of a redevelopment of SCCSS property at 5638 Inlet Ave. Following the society’s AGM in July it was described this way: “The proposed development will embrace a mix of women including single women, women and children, single women who are older, and young women who are aging out of care; creating a community of women and

families who have similar life experiences such as struggles with homelessness, poverty and experiences of violence/ abuse.

“Priority will be given to women and children who currently live on the Sunshine Coast and to those who were forced to leave the Sunshine Coast in search of safe, affordable housing, but who still have family and support networks on the Coast.”

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Gibsons council welcomed its second set of youth representatives at its Nov. 19 meeting – Elphinstone Secondary students Ellis Mackenzie, grade 12, third from the left, and Gravity Guignard, grade 11. With them, from the left, are Councillors David Croal and Aleria Ladwig, Mayor Bill Beamish and Councillor Stafford Lumley. CONNIE JORIDISON PHOTO

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Councillor Matt McLean made several comments about rural area contribution levels for Coast-wide programs at the Nov. 20 Sechelt council meeting.

He proposed, and council endorsed, a motion on regional funding for the Sechelt Public Library.

This will see Sechelt’s SCRD board directors lobby to have Area A, Pender Harbour, fund the library based on its full population. The SCRD board has recommended that Pender’s cost share for this service be at one third of that level.

The regional funding formula for the Sechelt library is to be debated at the Nov. 28 SCRD corporate and administrative services committee meeting. Along with changes that Sechelt council will be looking for, the level of funding from the Sechelt Indian Government District is yet to be determined.

“I’m against Area A not paying a fair share. I understand they are further away, but that does not justify paying less for the library. The library benefits everyone and everyone should be paying,”

said McLean. He suggested that the SCRD be asked to explore how services to the Pender area could be improved so that its residents recognize and can make use of the services the Sechelt library provides. He stated that programing for areas located further away from the library’s location could be enhanced by making better use of digital technologies.

While supporting the motion, Mayor Darnelda Siegers pointed out that in addition to contributing to Sechelt library, Area A is also the sole SCRD funder of a reading room located in Madeira Park.

McLean also expressed concerns at the meeting about the lack of regular funding from other Coast areas for the local police-based victim services program. These services, including outreach and support for residents who have been impacted by crime, are delivered Coast-wide by Sunshine Coast Community Services (SCCS) through cooperation with the RCMP. All victims of crime in BC have a

legal right to these services under BC’s Victims of Crime Act Council heard from its staff and SCCS’s Denise Woodley that the province expects local governments to provide at least 50 per cent of local program costs. On the Coast, this has not been happening. In the 2018/19 fiscal year, Sechelt funded just over $43,000 of SCCS’s $119,000 budget for the service through a Community Investment Program grant. Gibsons provided a grant of $400 and the SCRD contributed $500 through the rural areas grant in aid program for that period. This lower level of local funding has resulted in a smaller staff contingent and fewer hours of program services being delivered in this area.

In response McLean said, “This is a regional service.

Why should everything be put on the District of Sechelt?

What we need is a new SCRD service for police-based victim services. Sechelt will pay our fair share and all the other areas should pay as well.”

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Sunshine Coast Tourism is pleased to announce its board of directors for 2019/20.

The following directors have been elected to serve a 2-year term: • Large accommodation north - Jack Barr • Large accommodation south - Shangxuan Ma, Gibsons Garden Hotel • Member at large north John Hermsen • Arts & culture & heritage - Linda Williams, Coast Cultural Alliance • Recreation - Theressa

Logan, Sunshine Coast Air The following directors will continue another for another year: • Member at large north Christine Hollmann • Member at large south Chris Greenfield, The 101 Brewhouse + Distillery • Member at large south - Jamie Mani, Alpha Adventures • Large accommodation north - Chris Tait • Large accommodation south - Heather Newman, Pointhouse Suites on Sargeant Bay

“We’re grateful for the commitment and participation, and look forward to renewed collaboration on our common goals – particularly with a view to broadening our peak season beyond the traditional summer months,” said Paul Kamon, executive director, Sunshine Coast Tourism.

The elections were conducted at the 2019 annual general meeting held on Nov. 13 at the Sunshine Coast Golf and Country Club in Roberts Creek.

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SCRD will look at reservoir and wells To help address its water storage problems, the SCRD board will review recommendations for ground water explorations and the potential for a multi-million-dollar reservoir in the Chapman Creek area at its Nov. 28 meeting. The board’s infrastructure committee, on Nov. 21, supported budgeting $225,000 in 2020 for a further feasibility study on a reservoir site north of Sechelt Airport. It also supported proceeding with that work early next year. This next study is slated to include preliminary geotechnical work, updating of design and costing, as well as exploring partnerships that could help pay for what is currently estimated to be a $53 million project.

Those recommendations followed committee consideration of Integrated Sustainability Consultants (ISC) phase three “raw water reservoir feasibility study”.

ISC’s over-700-page report revealed that four water retention sites have the potential to be developed. With a perfect site rated at 100, the identified sites were rated between 60 and 53. A phase four study is being recommended on the highest-ranking option, identified as Site B. If the further study and budget are approved, staff estimate the report on that work will come to the board in mid to late 2020. At that point, the board would have the option to move forward with planning for a reservoir at Site B, to abandon that site

and go through phase four analysis on an alternate site, or to consider other actions to address water supply issues.

Committee chair, Area E Director Donna McMahon expressed disappointment that the 113-page phase three analysis summary did not mention climate change or the greenhouse gas emission impacts of the reservoir options. She and Area D Director Andreas Tize stated they would prefer to see diversification of the area’s reliance on the Chapman watershed through use of wells over any reservoir project.

To that end, the committee also recommended budgeting for efforts to support development of wells in the Gray Creek and Church Road areas in 2020. Tize stated he would favour drilling promising well areas to increase

water supply over investing in and waiting for four to five years for a reservoir project to be completed.

On the water conservation side, the committee recommended the board expand rebate programs in 2020.

The SCRD will be considering adding rebates for residents on the purchase of efficient washing machines and irrigation systems. Expansion of the rainwater harvesting rebate program to encourage the installation of cisterns with storage capacity over 9,000 liters is being proposed.

The committee noted that with the deluge of water and other projects on the desks of SCRD infrastructure services personnel, a call for more staff resources for this department is anticipated in the 2020 budget.

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Sechelt can’t ban fishing from the pier Sechelt council will visit the Davis Bay pier as well as have staff investigate solutions to reported conflicts at the site between people harvesting seafood and those looking to enjoy the pier for other uses. This was committed to at the Nov. 20 council meeting in response to the Davis Bay Wilson Creek Community Association’s request for a ban on fishing and crabbing from the pier.

In considering the request, Mayor Darnelda Siegers explained that the district leases the pier from the province.

As it does not own the pier, she said that Sechelt does not have the jurisdiction to implement a harvesting ban through a bylaw. She stated the pier is zoned M-1 for marine uses that include activities related to boating and fishing. Although the district’s website recognizes the pier as a popular swimming and sightseeing point, she pointed out that the site’s zoning does not actually permit those uses. In addition, Siegers noted that improving seafood harvesting opportunities was a key factor in the award of Island Coastal Economic Trust funding which was added to district and

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No council action was approved on alternatives to a bylaw which were raised in discussion at the meeting.

One suggestion was to add more signage at the site encouraging users to respect each other and seafood harvesting regulations. Council referred the matter to its harbour development and expansion select committee.

A group of people interested in the Davis Bay Wilson Creek Association’s request, which was endorsed at an association meeting on Nov.

13, were at the council meeting. They shared photos of reported recent illegal fishing activities with council members after the meeting adjourned. An association representative requested the opportunity to present material as a delegation before council or the appropriate committee. The representative stated that group members have been documenting incidents related to over-harvesting of fish and crabs, as well as other concerns at the pier, over the past two years.

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You, me and Greta Many people, including me, expected Greta Thunberg to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was deservedly awarded for ending more than 20 years of conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.

Greta and the young people worldwide urging adults to care about their future don’t need a Nobel. They need grownups to take them seriously and heed the scientific evidence about global warming.

From her solitary school strike in Sweden last year to massive worldwide climate strikes in late September, Thunberg has rallied millions of young people and adults to demand change. She and the youth who have joined her cause understand the world offers all we need, if we don’t destroy the natural systems that make our health and well-being possible. They also know it isn’t a lack of solutions holding us back, but a lack of political will.

Most of them understand, too, that it’s about more than protecting humanity from climate chaos; it’s also about human rights and justice, about changing systems that have spawned massive inequality and a greedy race to rapidly exploit Earth’s resources, simply to earn money for shareholders and CEOs. Sioux youth Tokata Iron Eyes invited Greta to Standing Rock, North Dakota, where the Sioux and their allies tried for years to block construction of a pipeline that now carries fracked Bakken shale oil to an Illinois refinery, saying it puts water, rights and climate at risk. She said she and Greta shouldn’t have to do this.

Fossil fuel executives say they’re reducing emissions from their operations but ignore emissions from burning their products. They also fund campaigns to sow doubt about the scientific evidence for global warming and its consequences.

Some people feel so threatened by a young woman’s truth that they stoop to vicious personal attacks, logical fallacies and insults rather than addressing the science she speaks so clearly about.

But Greta’s message is indisputable – if we fail to reduce emissions quickly, we face increasing consequences: extreme weather events; droughts and floods leading to food insecurity; health impacts including insect-spread diseases, respiratory issues and heat-related deaths and illness; damage to oceans, which supply food and half the world’s oxygen; massive refugee movements as parts of the world become unsuitable for agriculture or human life; extinction crises; growing global conflict; and more.

Young people like Greta are drawing attention to an issue that has too long been downplayed or ignored for political or economic reasons. The best prize we can give them is recognition of our need to live within our means on this small, blue planet. This is not a left-right issue. We’re all in this together. David Suzuki

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The lack of sufficient long term care facilities on the Coast has caused, and continues to cause, unacceptable utilization of acute care beds at Sechelt Hospital for patients who could be cared for at much lower cost in nursing homes.

Long term care facilities in Canada represent 11 per cent of total health expenditures with public sources accounting for 70 per cent of that. Nationally, private for-profit care homes represent 44 per cent of the facilties, not-for-profits 30 per cent and public 27 per cent of facilities. Yet, here we are on the Sunshine Coast, some four years later, still debating private versus public funding like it was some holy grail.

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have been put forward that the facility must be publically financed. This seems to center around union versus non-union jobs, which to me is a non-issue. Potential employees are free to accept a job offer at the salary and benefits offered, once employed to unionize if the majority of employees wish to do so, and to seek alternate employment if they so wish. As long as the patient is well-cared for, do you care whether the care giver is unionized or not?

We rarely if ever hear that privately-funded homes might be more efficiently run because of better management, and provide better care. We certainly do hear the anecdotal stories of the 92-year-old patient with improper, private care.

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health care as the best in the world. It is not. We spend 11 per cent of our GDP on health, eight per cent from public funds. Yet of the 27 countries in the OECD, we are around 10th in health care outcomes although we are second as a percentage of our GDP. Something must change.

We might start with considering public versus private hospitals. Over 50 per cent of hospitals in Switzerland are private, 42 per cent in Germany, and 35 per cent in Australia. Even that bastion of socialism, Sweden, has begun to have private hospitals. Germany allows doctors to practice in both public and private hospitals but we are warned against the perils of such in Canada.

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Hope for the world I’d like to highlight a random act of kindness last week. I was sitting at the bus stop at Pratt and Hwy 101 in Gibsons on Friday, Nov. 22 when a young boy walked past and smiled at me. I smiled back. Then a few minutes later he came back with a pastry from the nearby More Bakery and handed it to me. I asked what that was for, and he said, “that’s for you”. I thanked him, and then he left. I have no idea who he was but he was about the same age as my grandson, 14.

It made me ecstatically happy and I will carry that feeling for a long time.

It gives you hope for the world.

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The Roberts Creek Community Association received, on Nov. 12, a very generous donation from the Roberts Creek branch of the Sunshine Coast Healthcare Auxiliary of an Automatic External Defibrillator for the Roberts Creek Hall. The funds to purchase the AED were willed to the branch from the estate of Ellen Knott. This AED will be mounted in the kitchen area of the hall, and the Roberts Creek Fire Department will also have access to it (they have one on each truck as well). An AED can be used to help someone who is in cardiac arrest or having a heart attack. Turn it on and follow the step-by-step audio instructions. The AED will automatically read and analyze the heart’s electrical rhythm, and will determine if a shock is required. From the left, Arnie Grant (Ellen Knott’s husband), Karen Spicer (RCCA vice-president), Corylyne Cassidy (RCCA director), Jeanie Parker and Marion Jolicoeur (co-chairs, Roberts Creek branch of the SCHA). PHOTO SUBMITTED

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Gibsons council approves housing Gibsons council gave third reading to enabling bylaws for BC Housing’s proposed 40-unit School Road supportive housing complex on Nov. 19. The decisions were endorsed in a four to one vote. Councillor Aleria Ladwig was the lone voice in opposition of redeveloping the former RCMP detachment site to house people at risk of homelessness. Council’s vote moves the required OCP and zoning amendments to their final approval stages.

While recognizing the need to create housing for these residents, Ladwig said the Town has not explored locating supportive housing in other locations. “I think if we were talking about a different location for this project, the conversation would be much different,” said Ladwig.

She went on to state that she believes adequate funds exist in BC Housings’ $14 million project budget to purchase rather than use Town land for the proposed facility. She said she would like to see the School Road site, which was transferred to Gibsons by the

federal government earlier this year, developed as affordable housing for families or seniors.

In opening debate on the issue, Mayor Bill Beamish stated that should third readings pass, he would be asking BC Housing to start actively communicating about and involving the community in project decisions. This would include establishing the promised community liaison committee.

Councillors Staffofrd Lumley, David Croal and Annemarie De Andrade spoke and voted in support of third reading along with moving the bylaws to the ministry of transportation and infrastructure for review of highway impacts. They stated that they appreciated the community’s input and that the opportunity that the proposal provides is a good one for the town. De Andrade and town staff struggled to maintain the telephone connection that allowed the councillor, who was out of the country on the meeting date, to participate in discussions

and vote on meeting agenda items.

Opportunities for public comment on the proposal and the draft bylaws included community information meetings and a public hearing. The hearing on Oct. 17 was attended by more than 200 people and lasted over three hours. In the hearing summary presented at the council meeting, Director of Planning Lesley-Anne Staats reported that 72 per cent of the written and verbal submissions received supported the proposal and 28 per cent were opposed.

In the inquiry session that followed the vote, an audience member who opposes the project, and one who stated that he was in favour, verbally sparred over their views on council’s actions.

Mayor Beamish shut down the exchange as inappropriate for the inquiries section of the meeting.

Once ministry approval is received, the draft bylaws will be returned to Council for final reading.

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Gibsons council approved leasing the space to RainCity Housing for the purposes of operating a temporary winter shelter on Nov. 5.

“Originally, staff and council contemplated using the Marine Room as a daytime supplement to Gibsons’ overnight shelter, which was to be operated by the Salvation Army,” said Mayor Bill Beamish. “But when a recent fire at the Salvation Army’s premises ruled out their ability to provide overnight shelter, it became clear that we needed to do more.”

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“These spaces will offer people experiencing homelessness a safe and warm place to stay while we work to build long-term housing in the community,” said Nicholas Simons, MLA for Powell River-Sunshine Coast.

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town will receive $500 per week for use of the space.

“This location is ideal in many ways,” said Isaac Malmgren, associate director at RainCity Housing. “A number of our regular shelter residents frequent the library during the daytime hours and have relationships with service providers and local community. The site is also close to the downtown area and readily accessible by transit.”

The winter shelter solution comes just in time, as recent evening temperatures have been cool.

“Many in the community have been asking when we’ll be able to welcome people back inside,” said Malmgren.

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Education Matters Sue Girard

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When School District 46 was collaboratively gathering information and input from our three circles of care, students, staff and community, we were very cognizant of our contributing stakeholders. It was a great cross section of ideas in developing our mission statement for the new strategic plan which assisted us in formulating our goals for the ensuing four years.

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Pet Smarts Jane Bowers Professional Trainer

As it gets dark earlier in the evening, drivers have a harder time seeing pedestrians so make sure you and your dog are visible when out walking. High visibility jackets and vests plus lights you both wear are a good idea.

Many parts of the Coast are without sidewalks and street lights so be sure that drivers and others can easily see you and your dog from a distance anytime of the day.

Streams and creeks are deeper during the fall and winter and water can be running very fast. Keep dogs away from the banks to avoid them entering a fast running creek that can sweep them

away.

Fall is one of the mushroom seasons. While many mushrooms are not toxic, some are, and the toxic mushrooms are often hard to distinguish from the non-toxic ones. These mushrooms can be a risk to dogs so the best way to prevent pets from ingesting poisonous plants is to keep them away from areas where any mushrooms are growing (like wooded areas).

Symptoms of mushroom poisoning vary depending on the type of mushroom ingested; vomiting, diarrhea, lack of coordination, weakness, jaundice and drooling are some common symptoms. If you suspect your dog has ingested a mushroom or part of one, take the dog to the nearest veterinarian right away and, if you can, bring the suspected mushroom.

Some people use rodenticides around their home

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Ballroom dancing into your heart Get ready for some pre-Christmas magic.

The award-winning documentary “Mad Hot Ballroom” charms and inspires as it profiles New York City schoolchildren preparing for a city-wide ballroom dancing competition. (Sponsored by the non-profit group American Ballroom Theatre.)

The filmmakers, Marilyn Agrelo and Amy Sewell, followed 10- and 11-year-old ballroom dancing students from widely diverse econom-

ic and ethnic school districts.

We see their first awkward interactions with their partners and their uncertain steps in rhumba, swing, foxtrot, and tango evolve into confident, enthusiastic dance moves that are a joy to see.

The filmmakers avoided narration: the story is told from the candid and sometimes hilarious points of view of these kids. They reveal as much about their lives as they do about their dancing, transforming from typical ur-

ban kids into little “ladies and gentlemen”.

Warm, funny, serious, and irresistible, this engaging film will make you want to laugh, cry, and maybe do a little dancing yourself.

The SC Film Society screens “Mad Hot Ballroom” on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2pm. at the Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt, and on Monday, Dec. 9 and Tuesday, Dec. 10, 7:30pm, at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons.

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Sechelt archives seeks a new home

ElderCollege: from drinking to birding

Sechelt’s Council made finding a permanent home for its community archives a priority at its Nov. 20 meeting. It also authorized a temporary move of at least part of that collection from Sechelt Library to Rockwood Lodge or another location as soon as possible. The space available at the District-owned Rockwood building is not being considered as a permanent home for the collection as that location is not fully accessible to the public.

The Sechelt Library has asked the municipality to relocate the collection by March 2020, as the current

Sunshine Coast ElderCollege invites the community age 55 plus to attend a free preview of its spring 2020 courses on Thursday, Dec. 5, 10-11:30am, at Capilano University’s Sechelt Campus.

Registration opens on Dec. 9.

Spring 2020 courses are: Carbonate geology on the Sunshine Coast with Peter Hews; speculative fiction in diverse voices with Daniel Justice; take charge of your healthcare with Dr. Carmen Goojha, Cheryl Jensen, Alan Schwingenschloegl and Dr. Schloegl; hot topics – small group discussions moderated by Selma Swaab and Russ Tkachuk; trace your family history with Lorraine Gallant; design your own garden

archives space is needed for Library staff.

The archives were created in 1996, when local resident D. W. “Billie” Steele donated to Sechelt a collection of historic documents assembled by her sister, archivist Helen Dawe. That donation also included $25,000 to catalogue and maintain the collection.

At council’s request, the library association took on the role of custodian of the material. In 1996, the library moved into expanded premises on Cowrie Street. The archives opened to the public in 1997 and has been housed within the library ever since.

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The maintenance funds from the initial private donation were spent by 2003. The SCRD currently provides annual funding to staff the archives one day per week.

In the past 23 years, the size of Sechelt’s archives collection has tripled. Materials from more than 100 individuals and 25 organizations have been added. Material from the collection was featured in the Sechelt Arts Festival’s heritage exhibit entitled “Through Helens Eyes” in October. That showing was a tribute to the work of both Helen Dawe and the Coast’s first commercial woman photographer, Helen McCall.

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A watercolour of Amritsar in India by Halfmoon Bay artist Hiroshi Shimasaki, part of his current exhibition of “pilgrimage places in India” at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery. On Sunday, Dec. 1 at 2pm, Shimasaki will deliver a talk on the concept of pilgrimage, drawing on his observations of pilgrimages on four continents over the past 50 years. Shimasaki will be in the gallery to meet the public 1-4pm on Dec. 1. PHOTO SUBMITTED

Thursday, December 5th Gibsons Public Market 6:30 to 8:30pm Doors open at 6pm Refreshments

CommunityFutures.org/events or 604-885-1959 Tickets $10 Cheer on local entrepreneurs as they launch new ventures in a fun & friendly setting.

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Artus for the afternoon class; restorative justice with Nancy Denham; and spring birding on the Sunshine Coast with Tony Greenfield, John Hodges and Russ Tkachuk.

ElderCollege offers a wealth of valuable courses for the over 55’s. Most courses are held at the Sechelt campus of CapU. Course fees continue to be $36.75 (GST included). Students can register on the SCRD website (https://scrd/ca/recreation) or in person at the Sechelt Aquatic Centre or the Gibsons and Area Community Centre or at the Pender Harbour Aquatic and Fitness Centre.

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Off the Page play reading takes you to Christmas dinner with the David King play, “Comfort and Joy”, on Sunday, Dec. 8, 1pm, at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. Entrance by donation.

In “Comfort and Joy”, Mitch has fallen for a girl, Gini, who has invited him to Christmas dinner with her family in a ritzy neighbourhood.

But Mitch has always done Christmas dinner with his

mother, Joy in her modest apartment. Gini tells Mitch to bring Joy along. Joy is reluctant, claiming that she gets uncomfortable around people she doesn’t know.

But when she shows up, she seems intent on making everyone else uncomfortable The play features Janet Hodgkinson, John Payne, Ange Cruikshank, Ivy Lock, Ross McKeachie and Wanda Nowicki. Submitted

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Kid’s book reading What happens when forest tomboy Annie tries to turn her mother into a Bigfoot believer?

Find out on Saturday, Dec. 7, when Roberts Creek author Heather Conn reads from her new picture book, “Six Stinky Feet and a Sasquatch”. The free event at the Sechelt Public Library

starts at 10am and is suitable for children aged 3 to 9.

To open this event, shíshálh storyteller Andy Johnson will sing a traditional Indigenous song and share a sasquatch tale and information from his culture.

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Each year, the annual holiday light display at Gibsons Marina grows and glows.

This year, marina owner Klaus Fuerniss is teaming up with the Salvation Army’s food and toy drive. When Mayor Bill Beamish throws the switch at 6pm, Friday, Nov. 29, more than 20,000

bulbs will send a glow over the harbour creating a “sea of light.” With free hot chocolate, live and DJ music.

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Tip of the Week: Month 12 is poised to begin. Although it does so on the wings of Pegasus, as with the influences of Sagittarius, already the sobering grip of Capricorn is getting tighter. Venus just last week aligned with Jupiter with ceremony and pageantry, yet duty called and on November 25th she was wisped back to work.

Jupiter has lingered a little longer yet on December 2nd will also enter the sign of duty and responsibility.

Jupiter spends about a year in each sign, sometimes a month less and sometimes a month more. Its cycle through Capricorn will continue until mid-December 2020 and will culminate in a very powerful conjunction with Saturn in Aquarius right on Winter Solstice, next year. Currently, the scenario reveals a more serious and sober theme cycle, which invites us to recognize and embrace the virtues of hard work, endurance and practicality. Although the Sun remains in Sagittarius and will until the solstice, already this tone of Capricorn is setting in.

Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 19) The trumpets and cheers that so clearly pierced the

for more peaceful moments shared with ones you love.

This is your opportunity now, embrace it.

Leo (Jul 23 – Aug 23) Well, the brief spike of high energy lingers but has, for the most part, retired. Now again, the focus turns to more practical affairs. This will remain true throughout the month, actually. Yet, that creative spark ignited by the influence of Sagittarius remains lit. Still, the way to make the most of it is to become more disciplined.

Virgo (Aug 24 – Sep 22) That boost of confidence you enjoyed last week has actually moved on to become a more realistic mode of expression. Positively, this is a perfect fit for you.

It provides you with just the right balance to feel confident, inspired and focused on the work required for outer manifestation. Allow some room for variety and multi-tasking.

Libra (Sep 23 – Oct 22) Hopefully, you enjoyed last week’s boost. This week it will manifest as a more sober and realistic mode of confidence. You have really been learning to exercise your beginner’s mind over the past couple of years and this process continues. Yet, now you are entering into a more mature stage of it and are getting ready to advance to the next level.

Scorpio (Oct 23 – Nov 21) A boost of inspiration regarding taking risks and

gambles has come and gone.

Hopefully, you were able to tune-in and place your bets.

Now, the focus is turning to more practical and realistic measures. This is where working smart as opposed to hard comes to mind.

This kind of logic probably appeals to you and you are keen to think this way.

Sagittarius (Nov 22–Dec 21) For you, last week’s expansion stemming from the influences of your sign served to inspire you to take a few risks. Having done so, now the challenge includes getting down to business.

This includes gathering the needed tools, getting organized and implementing strategies. These may require investment. But avoid throwing money at the problem and be frugal.

Capricorn (Dec 22–Jan 19) That bit of reprieve that you hopefully enjoyed last week now shifts into a more proactive cycle. It does have to do with expressing yourself diplomatically. Yet, it also includes an impulse to take calculated risks as indicated by Jupiter in your sign. This influence will endure for an entire year, so there is no rush, unless you are ready to get a jump on things.

Aquarius (Jan 20–Feb 19) The current energy shift from lofty Sagittarius to grounded Capricorn is probably producing a mixed result for you. On the high side, it has served to ex-

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The Roberts Creek Com- There have been numerous munity members will be put munity Association (RCCA) is “Raise the Roof” challenges, directly towards the new roof. thrilled to be moving forward including concerts, farmer’s Five local roofing contractors with the roof replacement markets, country fairs, and bid on this project, with bids project of the Roberts Creek even burlesque events. A ranging between $86,798 Community Hall in the spring “Raise the Roof” GoFundMe and $112,700. After careful of 2020 (mid-March, weather account raised over $45,000 consideration, the RCCA has permitting). Full funding has dollars over the past two selected Tantalus Roofing as now been secured through years from nearly 60 gener- the roofing contractor.

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airwaves last week have now gone silent. Some of the euphoria lingers but that peak moment is now over.

The focus now is upon work.

For you, this includes strategies and actions emphasizing expansion based on concentrated focus and realistic choices and actions.

Taurus (Apr 20 – May 20) Your value of industriousness is being met and expanded by the current planetary alignments. Yet, what seems likely in terms of this, is change in your public and professional status. Whether these occur now or in a few weeks or months, the reality and momentum of this change are here now.

Your main job, therefore, is to trust and cooperate fully.

Gemini (May 21 – Jun 21) The uplifting winds of Sagittarius which graced your spirit has become colder, perhaps even bitter at moments. They are a reminder of the fact that all good things must come to an end. It is this stage of the game that is often more bitter than sweet. Yet, it can be for those whose hearts are filled with faith and gratitude. Thank, forgive and let go of the illusion of control.

Cancer (Jun 22 – Jul 22) For you, this interception of the Sagittarian euphoria may actually come as a welcome change. The noisy fanfare has its place and time and so too does the quieter aftermath. If you think about it, despite the cheers, you were secretly yearning

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