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Officer wins new trial in shooting ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

A new trial has been ordered in the 2009 shooting of William Gillespie by RCMP officer Const.

David Pompeo.

Pompeo was convicted of aggravated assault in the case in February 2013. For shooting the unarmed Gillespie, he was sentenced to two years probation and 240 hours of community service.

He was also allowed to keep his firearm.

Gillespie was stunned to hear the news Friday.

“I don’t know what to say,” he stated.

“I think they should have just kept the conviction. I can’t believe they would do that to Judge [Josiah] Wood,” Gillespie added, referring to the trial judge.

Pompeo filed an appeal of the conviction in February of 2013.

The appeal, heard by Justice Harvey M. Groberman, Chief Justice Robert James Bauman and Justice Nicole J. Garson, concluded that Judge Wood erred in excluding the evidence of an expert witness who said the use of lethal force was in accordance with police protocols and training and so the shooting was necessary.

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It took a speedy response to bring down a fast-moving fire in trees and brush on Elvins Street between Cowichan Secondary School and an apartment building Saturday afternoon.

North Cowichan’s South End firefighters were there immediately with two trucks after getting the call about a brush fire at about 2:20 p.m.

Nearby residents watched as the flames roared quickly up trees located where Elvins Street ends at the school and Kinsmen Park.

The blaze is still under investigation. South End’s Rick Dey was one of the firefighters who came out to deal with the blaze, acting as pump operator.

He agreed it was a fast moving fire, and that it was lucky the nearby cars didn’t burn up.

“There was one guy that came in after us and said it was right where he usually parks his truck but it was sunny so he put it over on the other side. He was really lucky,” Dey said, adding, “I don’t know how it got started.”

South End rolled two trucks to the scene.

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Flames roar up the trees at the end of Elvins Street near the Cowichan Secondary School students’ parking area at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Aug. 9. South End firefighters were quick to respond. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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Crown counsel Peter Benning told Judge Ted Gouge that witnesses Rob and Shelby Harding were notified July 15 through a message left with Rob’s spouse of their need to appear Monday morning for the trial.

They were not there. The case had been continued from June 9, when Shelby Harding had been scheduled to testify, but was not present.

Benning said he was prepared to close the Crown’s case immediately on the strength of witness testimony from Chris and Leigh Davies heard June 9. They told the court that on April 21, 2013 on

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Defence counsel Seth Cooper, however, said the two are vital to his case. “The defence does require them,� he told the court Monday.

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Trial fairness compromised OFFICER WINS, From Page 1 The appeal court also found that Judge Wood “went beyond his proper role when he made requests that evidence be tendered and when he engaged in lengthy questioning of witnesses.”

“The trial judge’s interventions in the case before us were extensive and frequent,” reads the written reasons submitted by Groberman. “While I do not call into question the impartiality of the judge, his active participation in the trial went well beyond the norm. Given that both the Crown and defence were well-represented by counsel, there was no need for any departure from usual adversarial practices, and the judge’s active role is, to say the least, curious.

“Given that the judge, himself, developed theories that were detrimental to the defence, and that he elicited considerable evidence that he used to support the conviction, the appearance of trial fairness was, in my opinion, compromised.

“A new trial must be ordered, in any event, on the basis of the trial judge’s refusal to hear potentially important and admissible expert evidence. It is, therefore, not necessary to say more on this last issue on appeal.”

Gillespie said he doesn’t think the new trial will work out in Pompeo’s favour.

“This time he’s going to definitely be found guilty,” he said. “This is a bad thing for him.”

However, he dreads the thought of a new trial.

“God, that would be absolutely just terrible. I couldn’t imagine. Unbelievable,” Gillespie said.

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Wrong location for skate park, say foes ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Battle lines have been drawn in advance of a decision North Cowichan council will be making Aug. 20 about whether or not to build a skate park at the old Chemainus Elementary School site.

“It is not the place for a skateboard park,” said Geoff Service, a resident of nearby Severn Street.

The biggest problem with the site, he said, is that the topography creates a bowl effect, amplifying any noise and projecting it back at the neighbours.

Service said that by nature a skate park is noisy, louder than a regular school playground.

Further, locating a skate park in a neighbourhood is just a bad idea, he argued, and he worries that it will have a negative impact on property values in the area.

Service is also angry with the process that’s been undertaken by the Municipality of North Cowichan to date.

“This has just been rammed through by council,” he said.

A public meeting in Chemainus on July 22 on the subject drew 60 to 70 people, he said, mostly neighbours. The vast majority of them were opposed to the project, he said, but that voice is being ignored.

The skatepark should go in a recreation area, Service said, such as at Fuller Lake.

Not everyone in Chemainus opposes the building of a skate park at the old elementary school site, however.

New Chemainus resident Chris Istace wrote in a long submission to council that he is firmly in support of the plan, and thinks it will be a great thing for the community and the neighbourhood.

“The park encourages youth to participate in physical activity, which in today’s culture, with the increased use

“I feel disappointed that the noise of children playing, creativity and exercise are looked down upon.”

CHRIS ISTACE, Chemainus resident

of electronics as activity, is a constant topic,” he said.

The central location at the old school is a good one for a number of reasons, he continued, including easy walkability for kids and teens to use it, proximity to fire, police and medical services, it’s close to restaurants, grocery and convenience stores, and the spot is highly visible, which promotes family use of the space.

“I feel disappointed that the noise of children playing, creativity and exercise are looked down upon,” he said, addressing the noise question.

Istace is a former city councillor for the community of Estevan, Sask. The skatepark built in that community, he said, has been nothing but a success.

He and his wife have leased a space in downtown Chemainus with the intention of starting a clothing and sporting goods store, and plans to include skateboard gear in his merchandise.

He is disappointed in the opposition to the skate park, and said it creates the feeling that the Town of Chemainus is “unwelcoming to new ideas” and “lacks vision”.

“From a personal point of view, when we moved here I felt the community extremely inviting, non-judging and full of positive energy,” Istace said.

“Now that the ugly face of NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) has shown itself, I am actually very disappointed and wouldn’t think this would happen here. Please don’t allow this attitude to prevail.”

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Aimee Smith-Brown touched a lot of people in her 31 years, before dying of cancer on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 5.

Friends of the Lake Cowichan woman are now banding together with a series of fundraisers to help out her husband and five daughters.

“She had an infectious smile,” remembered Saldana Skramstad.

“She was an amazing woman.”

Smith-Brown was diagnosed with cancer in January, but bounced back and got the all-clear from her doctor shortly afterwards, Skramstad said.

About a month later she got the bad news after some routine tests: the cancer had spread to her kidneys and lymph nodes.

“Then, it was really fast,” Skramstad said.

On Sunday, Aug. 3, Smith-Brown married her husband, whom she had been with for 11 years.

Her death leaves the care of Smith-Brown’s five daughters to him, which is “a lot of financial strain to carry,” Skramstad said.

To help the family cope, friends have set up an account at Island Savings with the number 2370278, where folks can donate.

There will be a bottle drive at Lake Cowichan Secondary School on Saturday, Aug. 16 at 8:30 a.m., with proceeds going to the family.

There are accounts open at the Lake Cowichan and Duncan bottle depots under the name Aimee Smith.

There is also a burger and beer night on Sept. 21 at Just Jakes in Lake Cowichan. Fifty per cent of the proceeds from all food purchases after 4:30 p.m. will go to Aimee’s family. There will be a shuttle to and from Duncan, a 50/50 draw, a silent auction and local band The Sugar Beetles will provide entertainment. Organizers are looking for items for a silent auction; those interested in donating can call Natasha at 250-701-7152.

There is also a Fund Me page online where people can donate: http://www.gofundme. com/64b0eg If anyone has any questions about any of the fundraiser, call Skramstad at 250-701-7197.

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Cowichan Tribes shared this week that Chief William C. Seymour, who serves as chief as well as councillor and in other executive positions, earns a total of $93,906.42.

That includes $44,427.28 in salary, $41,003.78 in honoraria, $4,082.31 in other remuneration and $4,393.05 in travel expenses.

Seymour released a statement Monday in response to some media reports that Cowichan Tribes had not complied with a new federal requirement for Canadian First Nations to report salaries of their chiefs and councils.

“Our auditor stated that chief and council were on time completing the financial statements and chief and council signed them on July 29, 2014. In communication to Kim Dibb, Finance Comptroller, our auditor added the statements could not be released to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada on the same date because two third-party confirmations had not been received by that date.”

The information is now available on the First Nations Transparency Act website but this sharing of figures is not new, according to Seymour.

“Cowichan Tribes has always communicated its finances to membership. Originally, hard copies were provided to Cowichan Tribes membership and now it is open to everyone electronically. It is important to note that the last

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by Cowichan Tribes disclosed the salaries of chief and council to membership.”

Both the remuneration schedule and the consolidated financial statements are available through federal website http://pse5-esd5. ainc-inac.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/ FFListGrid.aspx?lang=eng.

Both items are dated March 31, 2014.

“Our auditors performed their work from the final week of May to first week of June. Because the auditors have to consolidate the accounting information from numerous entities, then wait for third-party confirmations, the process was not finalized until Aug. 6 of this year,” Seymour said.

The First Nations Transparency Act “created some adjustments this year that didn’t necessarily contribute to a delay, but altered the standard previously installed without changing the deadline.

This is also the first year we are required to post this information on the website,” he said.

“It’s of high importance for Cowichan Tribes to be upfront with membership about our finances and the implementation of the act hasn’t Cowichan practices and our policies remain the sameCowichan Tribes leadership wants citizens of the Cowichan Valley to know that,” Seymour noted.

However, regardless of the challenges in the 2013-2014 audit, “there are no impacts to Cowichan Tribes in terms of compliance with funding contracts,” he

said, adding, “Cowichan Tribes has an excellent relationship with Aboriginal Affairs.

According to the Transparency Act website, Stz’minus’ Chief John Elliott earns $87,650 plus $16,518 in expenses; Malahat Chief Michael Harry earns $61,789 plus $24,370 in expenses;

Lyackson Chief Richard Thomas earns $68,296 plus $2,601 in expenses; and Penelakut Chief Earl Jack earns $45,888 plus $4,925 in expenses.

According to the website, figures had not yet been posted for the Lake Cowichan, Halalt and Ditidaht First Nations.

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“This event brings professional truckers together to compete in various competitions and one skilled driver will leave the weekend as the top Pro Truck Driver on Vancouver Island. It’s as much about the fun, camaraderie amongst commercial drivers, and a great community event for the public to attend,” said Shirley Kolompar, CEO of Cowichan School of Motoring.

Kids activities, dunk tank, food kiosks, competitions, and live entertainment Saturday, with the popular country band Montgomery County taking the stage from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. will all add to the event.

The awards presentation takes place late Sunday afternoon on the stage. There’s a special daily admission rate of $5 for everyone or a family of four pass for $15. For a two-day pass, the cost is $8 and a

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“It’s a fun way to for everyone to see the level of skill the commercial drivers on our highways and in our communities are capable of,” said Gord Price, general manager.

“Drivers will compete in slalom backing, alley backing right side 90 degrees, being pulled by a Mack tandem day cab with a 53-foot van trailer. Additionally they compete with a loaded B-Train 63-foot and must back up 500 feet with a width of 8 feet 6 inches. All professional drivers should be able to complete courses in five minutes or less. It’s going to be challenging and a lot of fun for everyone”.

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No million-dollar paydays for local chiefs he salaries of First Nations chiefs and councils across Canada, recently revealed on a website due to a new federal transparency requirement, have raised some eyebrows.

In particular, Chief Ron Giesbrecht of British Columbia’s Kwikwetlem First Nation being paid nearly $1 million, a figure that included a bonus of $800,000, has led to calls for his resignation.

The Kwikwetlem band has just 81 members.

But the salaries of the chief and council at Cowichan Tribes and our other local First Nations

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are pretty ho hum, all things considered.

And the numbers for Cowichan Tribes should come as no surprise to members of the First Nation.

As Chief William C. Seymour noted in a news release earlier this week remuneration for the band’s leaders has long been available to band members.

Seymour takes home just shy of $94,000, which includes salaries and remuneration for his position as chief as well as other executive positions he holds.

With Cowichan the largest single First Nation in British

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Columbia with over 4,600 members this doesn’t seem like a sum that’s out of line with his job descriptions. And he, as might be expected, is the highest paid of our local chiefs.

It’s a far cry from $1 million.

Compared to senior staff at the Cowichan Valley Regional District who often pocket over $100,000 a year it’s a pretty good bargain.

There’s certainly no need to be calling for anyone’s head.

There has also been some controversy about whether or not First Nations should have to publicly report this information.

Some have even talked about refusing to do so, which would endanger their federal funding.

On the whole, we think the public reporting is a good thing.

Taxpayers should be able to find out where their money is going.

There is too much secrecy in our senior levels of government as it is. Transparency and accountability are too often things we have to fight for.

We can easily look up online what our municipal officials make, so why not First Nations leaders, who are also paid with the public purse?

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We were at that time involved with the Cowichan Estuary Preservation Society. We had many talks with the new mill owners.

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Peake said what everyone was thinking I would like to respond to Mr. Peake’s letter about the spending going on in Lake Cowichan. He is absolutely right. There is so much being spent on attempting to make the town look pretty but so many empty buildings.

My mother and I moved here back in 1982. I remember it being a busy town with so many things going on. All of the buildings had a business. Now it’s turning into a pretty little ghost town.

People are paying unnecessary taxes for unnecessary additions, and most of them can’t afford it.

My mother is one of them. Her taxes have tripled over the 30 years we have lived here.

There needs to be much more discussion before the next municipal election. Thank you Mr. Peake for saying what we have all been thinking.

Melissa Black Lake Cowichan

Stolen fruit a huge disappointment Isn’t it great to be human?

My family and I have rented a house and garden on Ypres Street in Duncan for nearly a decade. We went away for a couple of days and found while we were away some turd had trespassed and stolen things.

They not only took the one ripe nectarine on my wife’s tree that she has been waiting for for years, they also stole all the unripe ones and broke branches on the tree.

The monetary value of the fruit was small, but the insecurity they have created and the disappointment is huge. Thank you so much!

William Reeves Duncan

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Explain why CVRD needs expensive staff Re: CVRD salaries Regarding the current controversy and discussions about salaries paid to persons employed by the CVRD, I remember an article in one of the local papers some years ago pointing out that the CVRD had 49 employees who each earned over $70,000 per year.

Would someone please to explain to me, in clear, nonbafflegab terms, what essential services the CVRD provides that requires the employment of 49 people, let alone 49 people each earning over $70,000 per year.

Graham Jones Chemainus

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Randy Streit gave us Whippletree, part 2

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y 1966

Randy Streit was working in Cowichan Bay as a longshoreCHRONICLES man before T.W. Paterson switching to construction jobs. Even then, it would seem, he had a penchant for old things. A 1961 photo in the Nanaimo Daily Press shows a young Randy Streit and friends driving around Duncan in the 1930 Model ‘A’ Ford convertible that Randy had just bought from the Ladysmith Fire Department.

“I’m going to give her a coat of paint,” he told the photographer.

When next Randy made news, he was helping to demolish the buildings of Duncan’s historic Chinatown. Which posed the question of what to do with the recycled lumber, a matter he discussed at length over his beers with Ray Woollam, then owner of the Maple Bay Inn Pub. One result of several earnest conversations was an idea to create “a sort of Gastown” on eight acres beside the Trans Canada Highway that Randy owned at Cowichan Station.

Another result of their beer parlour brainstorming was, by 1971, an antique store known as the Whippletree General Store where Randy was joined, in 1973, by his younger brother Ernie. To again quote Ray Woollam: “Randy became a tireless student of architectural and household antiques, gradually accruing a reputation as an ‘expert,’ particularly in the area of antique lighting. He became known and respected by antique dealers all over North America.”

Through the late ’50s and early ’60s, a local collector had scoured Vancouver Island’s back roads as outlying communities were being hooked up to electricity, and buying up householders’ oil and gas lanterns which were no longer of use to them. The result was three barns full of lamps, light fixtures and miscellaneous junque, many of the former being exquisite examples of glass, ceramic and brasswork from the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

All of which, with little more than a moment’s notice, he offered to sell to Randy when he decided to join his daughter in Vancouver. Randy wasn’t allowed to haggle or to examine the barns’ contents — it was to be cash, sight unseen, there and then. Having a good idea of the quality and the potential value

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AND WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED! This old dough mixer at Whippletree Junction is pure Randy Streit. —TWP of most of the better goods, Randy didn’t argue and headed for the bank to arrange a loan.

This vast collection — 40 truckloads including the scrap metal — became the nucleus of the antiques for sale in the General Store and the incentive for his learning about his stock. As word of the treasure at Whippletree spread, dealers and collectors came from afar.

By this time, the multi-hued storefronts parallelling the highway had become known as Whippletree Junction. This is an example of Randy’s wry humour, referring as it does to the Old Grey Mare that, legend has it, pooped on his/her whippletree, the horizontal crossbar to which the traces of a harness are attached. That’s not what he told an interviewer in 1984, however. “I call it Whippletree,” he blandly informed Geraldine Weld, “because the whippletree is a part of the harness used on all the big wagons that carried the pioneers across our prairies and the plains of the U.S. Northwest.”

As for the signature spelling with a dropped ‘h’ in signs and advertising, that, too, is typically Randy Streit who didn’t know how to spell whippletree. Neither did his painter. Ray Woollam still chuckles at the memory of arriving on the scene with Randy just as the painter clambered down from the ladder after brushing “Wippletree” in large black letters across the false-front of the General Store.

When Ray pointed out that the

painter had dropped the ‘h,’ Randy scurried up the ladder, paint brush in hand, and daubed an ‘h’ below, and an arrow, above, the rest of the lettering. It was, Herb recalled 40 years later, “a typical Randy” solution to a problem and, applied thereafter to all advertising and stationery, became Whippletree Junction’s signature. It was, Ray thought, a vast improvement upon Jackson Junction, Randy’s initial inspiration.

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Here’s your chance to be on film LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Want to get in on the fun of Warmland Film’s Feel Good Lost 20-minute short film project?

Lynn Hale of the Vancouver Island Film Co-op this week shared a call for film extras.

“If you live in the Cowichan region or thereabouts we’d love to hear from you about being an extra on Feel Good Lost.

“The date or dates hasn’t been nailed down yet but it will be the week of Aug. 24.

They especially need males 40+ who look the part of a salty old sailor, but need performers from late teens on up,” she said.

But, as she reminded everyone, this job is for the love of it. “Please note that this is a passion project and no one is getting paid, but this could lead to other projects.”

It’s a great chance to get experience with a winning team, the Avery brothers, Hale said.

When Christopher Scott Avery and his brothers shoot Feel Good Lost in Cowichan Bay this month, their new labour of love will be worlds away from their last smallscale project.

“With that series, it was the audience that dictated what we were putting out,” said Avery, recalling the astonishing success of Convos With My 2-Year-Old, the amusingly absurd online video they produced in which actor Matthew Clarke re-enacts silly conversations with Coco, his two-year-old daughter portrayed with bizarrely comic results by a grown man (David Milchard) wearing underwear.

The video went viral, garnering 10.5 million views on YouTube at last count, spawned a web series and thrust Warmland Films, their Vancouver-based collective of artists, musicians and filmmakers, into the global limelight when it was featured on CNN, Gawker, Time, The New York Daily News and more.

Filmmakers are looking for extras for their new production, ‘Feel Good Lost’. Filming will begin in August. [SUBMITTED] “That was almost scary because suddenly we weren’t creating for ourselves, but now we’re doing something for ourselves again,” recalled Avery, 29, who formed Warmland Films eight years ago with brother Sean, 31, and younger brother David, 24. They were

inspired by the achievements their father, Cameron Avery, the former Kaleidoscope Theatre technical director who ran Cruz Studios in the 1990s.

The Avery brothers and Darshan Rickhi, their Warmland Films partner who directed Convos, were in Cowichan last month for production meetings, location scouting and casting of local talent for their short film.

It’s about a young man who returns to his small coastal hometown from the big city to pick up the deed to the sailboat his justdeceased father has left him.

Hale is excited about it as a chance for Valley actors.

“You’ll also be networking with other people and getting more well known in the community as a keener and reliable. Reputations count for everything in the film industry,” she said.

Hale also said the filmmakers expect to submit their film to festivals both domestically and internationally so there’s a chance you will be better known.

“Plus it’ll be fun and perhaps a stepping stone for you to get hired on the next largerbudget production that comes to the Island.

Build it and give them tax breaks and they will come,” she urged.

Filming should start late in August or early in September.

If you’re interested in being an extra send you headshot and resume to vifec member@gmail.com with the email subject line “Extra on Feel Good Lost” and your name. You can email questions to Hale at the same address.

—With files from Times Colonist

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Duncan repeats as mosquito champs BEST IN BC: Dominant

hitting and pitching takes host team to the top KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

A combination of powerful hitters and fast-learning pitchers propelled the Duncan RiverCats to first place at the provincial mosquito AAA baseball championships at Evans Park last weekend.

The RiverCats blazed through the round robin, beating Tsawassen 13-3, Kelowna 15-0 and Cloverdale 16-3.

“Our offence was on,” head coach Bryn Battye said. “Our team is definitely a hitting team. It doesn’t matter if we start with our eighth hitter, we’re still getting hits.”

In addition to that great offence, however, the RiverCats also boasted topnotch pitching that started with Ladysmith’s James Joyce.

When Joyce joined the team, he had already mastered the curveball, and his teammates saw the value in it and decided to learn it as well. By the end of the summer, another three or four pitchers had added the curve to their arsenals, while most of the RiverCats’ opponents had only fastballs to work with. The curveball became a vital weapon for the team’s success.

“At age 10 or 11, it doesn’t take much to throw [opposing hitters] off balance,” Battye noted.

The host team’s only setback of the tournament came in an 8-3 loss to North Delta — a team they would get another crack at later on.

“We didn’t have a great game against them,” Battye admitted. “They had a pitcher who just threw off-speed stuff, and we were used to seeing fastballs all year.”

The RiverCats were tied with North Delta and Tsawssen after the round robin, but tiebreaker rules determined Duncan and North Delta would head to the playoffs, with the RiverCats facing Prince George. After the Duncan coaches consulted with their colleagues from Oceanside, who had played in the other pool, Joyce started for the RiverCats in the provincial championship against Prince George. Prince George had been tearing it up in pool play, but didn’t have an answer for Joyce.

“The other team couldn’t hit him at all,” Battye said. “Our offence was on, but Prince George couldn’t do anything with that curveball.”

Meanwhile, North Delta was beating Oceanside in the other semifinal, eliminating the prospect of an all-Island final while setting up a rematch from the round robin.

Thanks to their offensive explosions in the round robin, the RiverCats still had most of their pitchers available for the final, and they went with curveballer Linden Williams to start. Williams held North Delta to a single run through four innings, while his teammates racked up eight runs. Battye was cautious about sending Williams out for a fifth inning on such a hot day, but Williams felt he

The mosquito AAA champion Duncan RiverCats display the provincial banner won at Evans Park last Sunday. Coaches from left: Randy Branting, Shaun Freer, Bryn Battye. Back row: Gavin Foss, Liam Tanner, Kaleb Freer, Nathan Tiemer, Arjan Manhas. Front row: Brendon Wilson, Linden Williams, Joran Branting, James Joyce, Anthony Wilson, Darius Amini, Adam Strobl, Caleb Battye. [SUBMITTED] could handle it. Unfortunately, North Delta got their bats going, and managed to tie the score. Battye sent in fireballer Arjan Manhas to relieve Williams, and after one batter, Joran Branting, another master of the curveball, went in to finish the inning.

When the RiverCats won the pre-game coin-toss to determine the home team, Battye had opted to take the visiting dugout, an unusual choice but one that he made with his team’s offensive prowess in mind.

“I wanted to be able to score and get them behind before they even got up to bat,” he explained.

The RiverCats started the sixth and final inning near the top of the order, and were loading the bases right away as they built a 13-8 lead. Branting returned to the mound for the bottom of the sixth and took down the side in order with a ground ball to Gavin Foss at third, a pop fly to Nathan Tiemer at first, and another grounder to Caleb Battye at second, who threw to first for the final out.

The team had never lost hope of taking the title.

“When we were up 8-1 in that game, they were confident, but when North Delta came back and made it 8-8, I didn’t see anyone hanging their heads,” a proud

coach Battye said.

The championship was the culmination of a summer of hard work by the young players.

“We practiced two times a week, guaranteed, and three times a week lots of times,” Battye related. “And we’d play three or four games a week as well. They got lots of baseball. The team was put together on June 23, and in that month and two weeks, they probably had 24 games, and just as much practicing. The players put all the work in; they knew what they had to do, especially with the pitchers learning new pitches.”

Battye also coached last year’s provincial championship team, which included Caleb Battye and Nathan Tiemer, and also beat North Delta in the final. He was grateful to those second-year players in the lineup.

“Their role as second-year players was a lot bigger, and they took to it,” the coach said.

Most of this year’s champions will move on to peewee for next year, but twins Brendon and Anthony Wilson will be back to take another crack at the mosquito title, and they will have the roles that Tiemer and Caleb Battye filled this year.

“Next year, they’ll be the top players on that team,” coach Battye said.

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Caps name new broadcaster KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Cowichan Valley Capitals have named Jeff Sargeant as their new play-by-play broadcaster and media and communications director.

The B.C. Hockey League team announced last week that Sargeant will take over for Dustin Forbes this week.

Sargeant was the play-by-play voice for the Caps’ BCHL rivals, the Langley Rivermen last season, and also served as a season ticket sales and client rep for both the Rivermen and the Vancouver Stealth of the National Lacrosse League.

“I am extremely excited to join the Capitals and begin working in the beautiful Cowichan Valley,” Sargeant said. “I’m really looking forward to working with such a great staff and a team on the rise both on and off the ice.

The Cowichan fans are known for their passion and I can’t wait to get started working to help continue to grow this franchise.”

A native of Richmond, Sargeant hopes to bring excitement to his radio broadcasts.

“I definitely share the Capitals

fans’ passion for hockey,” he said. “You might say my call is a bit of a mixture of old school and new. I like to add in a lot of context and of course, a lot of fun too. I’m really big on stories; I like to include a lot of history and insight into players past and present and hope to be able to connect the fans to the team by doing so.”

Before he worked in Langley, Sargeant was a news reporter and anchor in Prince George, where he helped with Spruce Kings broadcasts. He also handled playby-play duties along with media relations and website management for the Cariboo Cougars of the B.C. Major Midget League.

In 2008/09, Sargeant called games for the Beaver Valley Nitehawks of the junior B Kootenay International Junior Hockey League.

“Jeff’s resume speaks for itself,” Caps head coach and general manager Bob Beatty said. “We believe he is the right person to continue building what we are trying to do in the community and his experience in the BCHL and skill set will prove to be a valuable asset.”

Female Hockey Day returns to ISC KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Female Hockey Day is coming back to the Island Savings Centre later this month.

The free event for girls of all ages and experience levels, intended to increase interest in the sport, will take place Saturday, Aug. 23 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Girls ages 5-12 take the ice at 11 a.m., and girls 13 and up begin at 1 p.m.

“Whether it’s your first time

out or you’d like to brush up on your skills, you’re guaranteed to have fun,” ISC program assistant Courtney Westwood said.

Sessions will focus on introductory skills and game play. Complimentary snacks will be available, and snacks will be handed out.

All participants require a helmet, gloves, stick and skates. For more information, or to register or arrange for equipment, contact the Island Savings Centre at 250-748-7529.

Players from the Cowboys and Thunder, including playoff MVP Chris Alphonse, celebrate following the Cowichan Rec Lacrosse League championship game last month. [BECKY JAMES PHOTO]

Alphonse guides Cowboys to rec lacrosse title KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Chris Alphonse was named playoff MVP for the Cowichan Rec Lacrosse League after a stunning performance in the final as he led the Cowboys to a 7-3 victory over the Thunder last month.

Alphonse made countless saves on the offensively gifted Thunder, who topped the league standings at the end of the regular season.

The Cowboys’ offence was led

by Nick Prangley, who scored three times, while Peewee Klaassen had two goals and one assist, Birds Collett had one goal and one helper, and Mitch Antoniuk

Island Savings Centre offering ice sessions As the upcoming hockey season approaches, the Island Savings Centre is offering summer ice sessions for both the general public and minor hockey players.

found the net once.

The Thunder got two goals from Ryan King and a goal and an assist from Pete VandenDungen.

The Cowboys had defeated the Warriors 7-5 in the league semifinal thanks to a big two-goal, two assist night from Luke Van Huizen. Terry Steele and Neil Gailey each added a goal and an assist, while Collett, Dave Prangley and Ben VandenDungen also scored. Nick Prangley scored twice for the Warriors, Pete VandenDungen had a goal and two helpers, and Gord Macdonald and Naomi Walser also scored.

Blair Pigeon was named league

MVP after racking up 22 goals and 10 assists for 32 points in 15 regular-season games. Pigeon was the only player not from the Thunder among the top five in regular-season scoring.

Kevin Rothbauer was named Most Dedicated Player.

Pete VandenDungen led the scoring race with 27 goals and 19 assists for 46 points in 13 games.

Rounding out the top five were his Thunder teammates Van Huizen with 24 goals and seven helpers in 15 games, King with 18 goals and nine assists in 15 games, and Ben VandenDungen with 18 goals and five assists in 12 games.

Until Friday, Aug. 29, the arena will be open weekdays from noon to 12:50 p.m. for Everyone Welcome skates. General admission is $2, and skate rentals are $2.75.

Also until Aug. 29, ice time has been set aside for minor hockey players. Players ages 8-10 can drop

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