T.W. Paterson Chronicles: The terrible case of the tight-fisted carpenter A wild night at the stick ends in a draw for the Cowichan Valley Capitals
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
NUTCRACKER’S NEW MODERN TWIST A BIG HIT Nutcracker princess Yui Watanabe gets the unruly mice in order during Ballet Victoria’s delightful rendition of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Nutcracker’ at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre on Saturday, Dec. 12. The presentation was new for Cowichan Valley fans of the ballet, but it hit all the right notes, pleasing large enthusiastic crowds that included many children. For story and more photos, see page 18 and check out cowichanvalleycitizen.com for a full photo gallery. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]
Storm cancels Chemainus Christmas event SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN
Chemainus’s 10th annual Little Town Christmas was cancelled as result of another windstorm that walloped the Cowichan Valley over the weekend.
The event was slated to run “rain or shine” according to an information poster around town but it didn’t say anything about the wind. The Saturday storm wasn’t as bad as the one on Thursday,
Dec. 10, according to a BC Hydro official. Spokesperson Karla Louwers said at its peak on Saturday about 2,000 customers in the Valley were without power. “There were really two uniques
sets of outages,” she said. “The first at about noon on Saturday.” Workers had things fixed before 8 p.m. for most customers. “And then we saw another gust in between 10 and 11 p.m.,” Louwers said.
It was unfortunate timing for the linemen. “Crews were winding down to head home and we saw the next gust then,” she said. See WINDS, Page 10
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