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TAKING A BITE OUT OF CHRISTMAS

3 years for man who shot father SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Yum! At Chemainus’s Little Town Christmas celebration Saturday, Dec. 14 at Waterwheel Park there were lots of things to do and yummy treats to enjoy, as nine-year-old Roman Howse is happily demonstrating as he enjoys his decorated cookie. For more photos and video from the event, scan this image with the Layar app on your smart phone or go to www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

Locals back wine sales at farm markets LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Local wines available at local farmers’ markets?

Sounds like a great opportunity to Linda Holford, co-owner of Rocky Creek Winery.

There’s been plenty of buzz after Premier Christy Clark, from

a winery in her West Kelowna riding, said last week she backs liquor law changes that include selling wine and other craft-brew products at farmers’ markets.

Holford said she hasn’t seen much in the way of hard information about the idea yet, though.

“Generally, I think it’s fabulous.

People that go to farmers’ markets are the ones who are really trying to be true to the region and are thinking local. They’ve got enthusiasm to meet the producer so I think this is a really good opportunity for the small handcrafted wineries to shine. That’s really why people go to farmers’

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Even after eight years in the business and a word-of-mouth network that sees them sell out every year, Rocky Creek is still unknown to some folks, she said.

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Marvin Antoniuk will go to jail for 23.5 months and follow it up with three years of probation with strict conditions — including a 10-year mandatory firearms prohibition and no contact with his father, Marvin Sr., and brother, Myles.

Antoniuk, 49, was sentenced Friday, Dec. 13 in Duncan Provincial Court.

Initially charged with attempted murder, Antoniuk pleaded guilty to aggravated assault after he shot his father, Marvin Antoniuk Sr., in the heart with an arrow from his compound bow on Jan. 27 of this year.

The attack came during an alcohol fueled incident whilst the family was watching TV at their home on Maple Bay Road.

Antoniuk was sentenced to three years less time served, which resulted in the sentence of just under two-years.

The Crown had been seeking a five-year prison term.

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KEEP THOSE CHIMNEYS CLEAN FOR SANTA

Sentencing for Elliott in double murder case moved to April Originally set to be sentenced beginning Dec. 16, William Gordon Robert Elliott’s double-murder case was instead in front of a judge in Victoria Monday to set a new five-day window for sentencing.

Crown spokesman Neil MacKenzie said the matter has been moved to April 14-17 in Duncan.

“My understanding is that it was to allow time for some additional reports to be prepared, that may be presented to court during the sentencing proceedings,” MacKenzie said.

Elliott pleaded guilty on July 19 to the second-degree murders of Karrie-Ann Stone, 42, and of 18-year-old fellow Cowichan Tribes member Tyeshia Jones.

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Valley hit with case of serious flu SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Island Health has confirmed eight cases of Influenza A on Vancouver Island — seven of them serious enough to require hospitalization.

“Yes, there is a case from the Cowichan Valley,” said Island Health spokeswoman Sarah Plank.

Dr. Richard Stanwick, Island Health Chief Medical Health Officer, said two of the cases — including one child — are so severe the patients required admission to Intensive Care Units.

Stanwick says most of the cases are H1N1, and a good match to the strain of Influenza A that is included in this year’s flu shot.

“This is a good reminder why flu shots are so important for individuals at high risk

of complications from influenza, and those who come in contact with them, including health care workers and visitors to Island Health facilities,” he said.

Symptoms of influenza are typically a fever with sudden onset, along with acute cough, headache, aches and pains, and fatigue and weakness.

To find the nearest flu shot clinic, call HealthLink BC at 811 or visit at: www. immunizebc.ca/clinics/flu Flu shots are free for children aged six months to five years of age, seniors, pregnant women and Aboriginal people, as well as individuals with chronic health conditions, compromised immune systems, or those who work or live with individuals with a higher risk of complications from the flu.

South End volunteer firefighters were called to a residence off Donnay Drive following a chimney fire that made its way into the attic on Dec. 7. Damage was minimal and no one was injured, but it served as a reminder that this is a good time of year to make sure chimneys are kept clean. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

In lieu of cards to clients and colleagues, the law firm Coleman, Fraser Whittome Lehan will again be making a donation to the Cowichan Valley Basket Society.

We wish all of our clients, colleagues and staff a happy holiday season!

WINTER BREAK OFFICE HOURS The School Board Office and the Transportation Department will be closed to the public from December 23rd, 2013 to January 3rd, 2014 inclusive.

The Operations Office and Maintenance Department will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

December 23rd, 2013 to January 3rd, 2014 (excluding statutory holidays).

Central Receiving will be closed on December 25th, 2013 and re-open January 2nd, 2014.

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Beverly/Lakes traffic woes could last until Jan. 11 SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse — it just might.

Just in time for the holidays, starting earlier this week, the detour directing drivers through side streets and around the bulk of construction on Beverly Street was closed. That’s right, there’ll be a detour for the detour and it very well could remain that way until Jan. 11, 2014 according to North Cowichan’s road closure website.

Drivers will need to use Trunk, Tzouhalem, Lakes, and Jaynes Roads instead of Clair and Heather Streets to get to their destinations.

Don’t panic. The end date is really just taking into account the idea the weather could turn at any minute, according to North Cowichan engineering manager David Conway.

“We hope to be paving by Wednesday,” Conway said. Crews were busy grading over the weekend. “If the plan goes as it looks this afternoon we’ll be paving starting Wednesday.”

Once that’s complete, the road will be re-opened. The reason for the Jan. 11 end date was so municipal staffers could avoid the potential for opening and then re-closing the road over the holidays should the weather not permit them to finish paving before Christmas.

“We can’t predict the weather,” Conway said. “But it will be open as soon as it’s available. It could be long before the 11th that it’s open and I sure hope so, but if we

Michelle and Phil Mavis, Willow Street Café

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Detours will likely continue into the new year as the completion date for construction on Beverly Street extends to Jan. 11.

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have a couple days of bad weather, we’ll have to wait.”

Recent sub-zero temperatures prevented some of the work on the roadways but it gave crews a chance to work on sidewalks. The paving is the last step in the project, which has been ongoing since the summer.

IT’S BEST SAID ON PAPER! Happy Holidays to all of our employees, family members, suppliers and community supporters.

Chemainus feted its business achievers at the annual Golden Brush Awards Nov. 30.

The recipients of the awards for 2013 are: • Retail Business of the Year: Rexall Drug Store • Food Service Business of the Year: Willow Street Café • Manufacturing Business of the Year: Vancouver Island Soap Factory • Personal Service Business of the Year: Urban Legends Salon and Spa • Professional Service Business of the Year: Island Savings, Chemainus Branch • Trades or Contractor Business of the Year: B&H Tire • Good Neighbour Award: 49th Parallel Grocery • Customer Service Award: Shelley MacKenzie, Rexall Drug Store • Volunteer of the Year: (tied) Shannon Bellamy and Ruth Schiller • President’s Award: Wes Everitt Phil Mavis of the Willow Street Café said Dec. 14 that he and wife, Michelle, were sur-

prised but pleased to be nominated again this year. They had previously won a service award in 2012 but in 2013 they were chosen tops in the food service category.

“It’s an honour to even be nominated.

There are so many good people,” he said.

Shelley MacKenzie, front sales manager at the Rexall Drug Store, was also on the job during the annual Chemainus Christmas business walking tour and Little Town Christmas Dec. 14.

“I’m here most of the time,” she said, laughing, before taking time to help a customer find just the right card.

The Golden Brush selection process begins when area residents and businesses are asked to nominate who they feel are the best in each of the categories.

This year there were 211 nominations for 71 businesses nominated in seven categories and 33 individuals nominated in three categories.

Three exceptions were made. Four finalists were chosen in two categories and five in the Volunteer of the Year category and then the chamber membership voted to decide the eventual winners.

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Opens up whole new market From page 1 This new marketing opening could be a win-win situation for the Cowichan Valley’s wineries.

“Now, it’s just to figure out the logistics, how it’s going to be done,” Holford said.

“If it’s going through the government, having to sell like it would be at government liquor stores, it won’t help us at all.

We don’t sell to them because it costs us too much money.

“There’s not an even playing field in liquor distribution. Consumers don’t know that.

Government liquor stores have the cheapest price but they actually take 60 per cent of my profit. That’s why a lot of private liquor stores are actually taking a hit by selling at liquor store pricing because they are not on the same playing field.”

Farmers’ markets could be a wholly new option.

“We have to figure out how it works. In our area there are at least 15 wineries, though. Are we all going to be allowed to go to the farmers’ market at one time?

Another thing is that if people go to a tasting event, it would be great to sell there, too. Now, if someone wants a nice bottle of what they tasted, they can’t get that, either,” she said.

Wineries like Rocky Creek can only sell to a legislated retailer or at the winery site.

“That’s why the farmers’ market opens up a completely different market. And it’s the market that I personally at Rocky Creek want because it’s the right kind of customer for the people who make these small hand-crafted choices.

“You won’t see the big box supermarkets at a farmers market [in competition with local farmers] but we’re expected to sell our product in competition with companies like Naked Grape or Jackson Triggs or Gallo.”

Meanwhile, the British Columbia Asso-

Linda Holford, Rocky Creek Winery. [CITIZEN FILE] ciation of Farmers’ Markets, after encouraging provincial regulators to bring B.C. in line with other provinces and U.S. states in allowing sales of local craft beer, wine and spirits at farmers markets, said in a release that it was happy to see the premier supporting the idea.

“Offering regular market shoppers, as well as out of town visitors, the option to taste-test and purchase locally made wines, ciders and craft beer, while they shop for local fruits and vegetables will ensure support for a vibrant farming sector in B.C.,” said Jon Bell, BCAFM president, adding, “It’s also a great way for small, local businesses which use B.C. grown farm products in alcoholic beverages to reach new customers, while providing increased selection and convenience.”

BCAFM Executive Director Elizabeth Quinn was also excited.

“Farmers’ markets are very effective incubators of small innovative businesses and farms in B.C. We are very happy to welcome the addition of local craft wineries, breweries, and distilleries to join in the enormous success of farmers’ markets across the province.”

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OUR VIEW

Disgusting to abdicate responsibility for poor ederal Industry Minister James Moore has apologized for the comments he made that he and the government don’t have a responsibility to feed the neighbour’s hungry, poor child.

Damage control is all well and good, but we have to wonder if he wasn’t just showing his true colours.

It’s an attitude we’ve heard all too often from a certain group of the well-to-do: if you’re poor you somehow deserve to be poor and therefore nobody should feel any responsibility to help you out.

It’s the ultimate end to the phil-

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osophy that if everyone acts in their own self-interest, somehow the interests of the society as a whole will be served.

Of course, it doesn’t work that way. It never has.

The same attitude used to be based in religion and morality.

The upper classes justified their obscene wealth and excess while others died in the street with the argument that they and their antecedents were being rewarded by God, and those who were poor and miserable were being punished by God for some moral flaw. (In spite of plentiful biblical urgings to help the poor.)

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It was ludicrous, self-serving clap trap then and it’s ludicrous, self-serving clap trap now, without the religious trappings.

Children have done nothing to deserve going hungry. They cannot do anything to alleviate the poverty they’ve been born into.

While it is great in principle to say that you’re fighting poverty by trying to improve the economy and get parents into jobs, the reality is that there are still a lot of unemployed, underemployed and underpaid people all around us in our wealthy nation, where the wealth gap just keeps getting wider.

This leads to a need for things like school breakfast programs.

Wealthy kids already have opportunities that poor kids do not. Filling their bellies so they can hope to educate themselves and strive for something better shouldn’t be one of them.

Poor children going hungry is the responsibility of every single person in this country and every level of government. People are our most important resource and we must nurture them, not to mention just being a decent human being.

It’s disgusting to suggest that this is not so.

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Return of Sunday school ring warms the heart Throughout the year we are bombarded with events of catastrophic proportions that shock and dismay us.

We range in emotions from horrified to almost nothing.

Then the Christmas season comes upon us and hearts soften.

We notice the man in dirty, old clothes who looks like his last meal and bath were some time ago.

As we pass, we smile…perhaps offer him some change and walk away feeling warmed inside.

During the loud dramas of life the plight of the one can pass almost unnoticed.

This week I went shopping at

Canadian Tire.

My hands were cold and my two family rings felt loose, so I left them safely in my pocket.

One ring consists of the stones from three generations of my family’s engagement rings.

The other, a small silver ring with the letters CTR on it, was my son’s Sunday school ring.

My son died almost 16 years ago, but this time of year is still hard.

As I shopped, I pulled my wallet from my pocket and the ring fell out.

It was not until I arrived home and was about to put it away that I realized it was missing.

I was heartsick.

Immediately I called Canadian Tire and asked if they has a lost

and found.

The young lady who answered, Vanessa Dingwall, said she had found the ring and would hold it for me.

It is a small, insignificant silver ring with a crooked band to most, but a treasure to a mom.

To Vanessa, you have warmed a mother’s heart at the time of year when we remember the birth of another mother’s son, Jesus.

May everyone have a warm and happy Christmas with family and loved ones as we remember Him. By the way, the letters on the ring, CTR, stand for Choose the Right.

Eve Carr Duncan

Re: “Public works should be contracted out” I would like to ask Joe Sawchuk to identify a public service that has been contracted out and resulted in a superior product at a cheaper cost.

The food services at the hospital? The hospital cleaning services, now that we have serious viruses infecting our hospitals?

How about public/private bridges over on the Mainland that now have tolls? I could go on but you get the picture.

You seem to have a problem with public service workers having a coffee or lunch break in a public place, but were you there monitoring exactly when they started work, if they missed a morning coffee break and are taking a longer lunch instead?

Personally, I would rather pay the worker who lives here a higher wage, which stays in the community, than the owner of some private company, perhaps in a different country.

Let’s not have a race to the bottom with wages please. And I would rather have someone who has pride in their work and can support a family on their wages than someone on minimum wage who is struggling to survive and can only think of how they can get a better job somewhere else.

The quality of the work, and subsequently the quality of life and community, goes hand in hand with the wages.

Donna Cameron Duncan

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Investing in families to eliminate child poverty makes sense

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hild poverty is a tenacious problem in British Columbia. It is a drain on our economy, and on our future.

The 2013 BC Child Poverty Report Card from First Call: the BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition found that the poverty rate of children in British Columbia was a staggering 18.6 per cent.

More and more research is showing that child poverty has effects that stay with someone for their lifetime — regardless of whether or not they move out of poverty later in life.

Children living in poverty have poorer health outcomes and are at a greater risk of chronic diseases like diabetes.

They are more likely to be taken into foster care.

Youth living in povous decades, this erty have a harder time would help young famcompleting high school ilies with expenses. and may not choose to And with universality, do any post-secondary it costs less to admineducation as it is too ister the program. expensive, even with One issue I have student loans. championed as an The recommendaMP is the need for COMMUNITY tions featured in increased funding for REPORT the report focus on First Nations child Jean Crowder reducing poverty. welfare services. Too The main federal many children are transfer to help young families is apprehended and put into care the Canada Child Tax Benefit at because their parents live in $1,367 annually. The report recpoverty. ommends the benefit be raised Advocates are arguing at the to $5,500 and be universal, so all Canadian Human Rights Tribufamilies with children receive nal that funding for child welfare it regardless of whether their services has not kept up with income is from earnings or govinflation or population increases ernment transfers. or with changes in how the serviLike the baby bonus of previces are provided to prevent chil-

dren from being apprehended in the first place.

So I welcome the recommendation in this report that says funding for First Nations child welfare services should be increased, along with funding for on-reserve schools and community health services.

Keeping families together and providing a healthy, enriching school environment helps diminish the effects of poverty. That’s why these investments make sense. The largest proposed new investment would create a $10 a day child care plan for B.C. In Quebec, the province that started the push for low-cost child care, their plan ended up paying for itself with an increase in GDP from the number of parents, mostly women, who were able to

rejoin the workforce.

A place in a licenced day care facility may cost up to $20,000 a year, beyond the reach of many low-income families. And while there are child care subsidies available already, they are limited and depend on available spaces. This idea already has local backing since the City of Duncan voted to support a Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning in August 2012.

The final message was that poverty can be reduced through targeted investments. To learn more about my anti-poverty bill, go to www.jeancrowder.ca

City of Duncan employees work hard

my dad were out working hard and having their coffee breaks where they were working or not at all. I don’t think it’s fair to put all the employees under the same umbrella. I also don’t agree with stating all negatives about a group of people. Why not spend more time thanking hard working people, than putting them

then put in overtime at night to keep us safe. My dad and other employees continue to get up every morning regardless of a lack of sleep, and get their jobs done with a smile.

A small thing such as picking up trash is something to be thankful for. Thank you Dad, for showing us what “hard-working”

is and for doing what you do!

Instead of watching a group of workers for 35 minutes, why not donate that time to helping at the food bank or Salvation Army? That would be a more useful way to spend that time.

In response to Dec. 11 letter, “Public works should be contracted out,” I would like to point out that not all of the City of Duncan’s workers were at this “35 minute coffee break.”

Instead, some of them, such as

down in a public letter?

The City of Duncan public works employees are the ones that fix water breaks, put salt on the streets of Duncan, remove snow, set up holiday celebrations (Remembrance Day/Light Up) and pick up your trash every day!

In the last week, my dad has worked during the day, and

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Islander gives Scrooge 1928 silent film makeover HAPPY ENDING: Movie brings Christmas spirit LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

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Looking for some unusual entertainment on a Christmas theme?

Saltspring Island’s Keith Picot has just the answer: a 21-minute silent film called Frank Georges and the Truth.

Picot is a musician by trade but in the last four or five years he’s been having a great time making silent films.

“I don’t know why. I’ve been making them by the score,” he said last week.

“I’ve made a few commercials and I’ve been commissioned to do some for people and stuff and I’ve always been the biggest fan in the world of Christmas. When I was a kid, I used to decorate my room at the beginning of October.

“I usually watch It’s a Wonderful Life about 15 times every year and cry the whole way through. So, this year, when I was on the road in October in Alberta I decided that since I’d just finished a big movie the next one was going to be a Christmas movie.”

Picot started writing it and filming it straight away and finished a couple of weeks ago.

He uploaded it to YouTube Dec. 13 for the general public to enjoy.

The story, he said, is hard to explain.

“It’s kind of like the Scrooge story. It takes place in 1928 and the main character had lost his wife 10 years earlier due to influenza in the big pandemic of 1918. He had just returned with the Canadian contingent from the First World War and came home to find his wife terribly ill and then she passed. Then he turned into himself and turned into a bitter, angry, sad man.”

But, in the 10 years between 1918 and 1928, this fellow started a film studio and became well-known and wealthy but still more and more bitter by the day.

“In the movie, some really bad stuff happens to him, then he gets helped out by a poor family and then he has some time to consider his life. It’s something like It’s a Wonderful Life that way: everything ends all happy and everyone gives gifts,” Picot said.

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“I’m just hoping it’s good.

I’ll be waiting for people’s feedback to see if anyone likes it, but I’m hoping it will be a fun heartwarming little thing. There’s a slapstick comedy part in the middle where all the bad stuff happens to him.”

KEITH PICOT, filmmaker

still waiting on the finished piano track to arrive from a friend.

“The fellow who’s doing it lives in Whitehorse but he’s on the road in Nova Scotia right now. When it comes I’ll glue it to the movie and put it out on YouTube at 8 p.m.

Friday.”

Anyone who wants to see the film can check out Picot’s website, too.

“My website www.keithpicot. com will have a link but if they want to make it simple they can just search for Frank Georges and the Truth. That’s the name of the movie and it’s the only one on the planet right now,” he said.

Picot said he was waiting with bated breath to see how people like his offering.

“It’s just like making a record.

When you make a small film, you get so close and so attached, you don’t know if it’s any good. I’m just hoping it’s good. I’ll be waiting for people’s feedback to see if anyone likes it, but I’m hoping it will be a fun heartwarming little thing. There’s a slapstick comedy part in the middle where all the bad stuff happens to him.”

The actors are all Saltspring Islanders except for two of the butlers, who are from Whitehorse.

“They were with me on the road when I started it. We were in this huge mansion in Canmore, AB. I couldn’t resist it because it was perfect and I took advantage of it so they became my butlers,” he said.

Upcoming projects for Picot include a film about an imaginary silent film studio in Canada.

The country never had its own, despite the fame of Mary Pickford and Mack Sennett.

Then, he plans to do a documentary about that project.

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The Royal City Youth Ballet’s production of the Nutcracker is always a popular spectacle. [CITIZEN FILE]

The Nutcracker in Duncan this weekend LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

The Sheriff (Nick Millar) and Robin Hood (Hannah Gallacher) square off in front of an anxious crowd. For more photos and a short video preview, scan this image with the Layar app on your smart phone or go to www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

Pantomime will make you merry, man LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Robin Hood and His Merry Men: a pantomime for the whole family!

It’s a title to make the heart beat faster at this time of year.

There’s nothing like a good serving of the ridiculous to help digest that turkey and stuffing and the only fruitcake likely to make an appearance will be onstage.

The British tradition of pantomime is nobly upheld in the Shawnigan Players production of this show by Robin Bailes and Jonathan Hales.

The show itself is a refreshing new take on the old legend of the stalwart Robin and his followers, the Merry Men. It has two villains: the evil Prince John and the even nastier Sheriff of Nottingham, and, of course, an outrageous dame, Jemima Gusset.

As always, there is plenty of crossdressing in true panto style and there are some well-known songs, too, from groups like the Village People and the Spice Girls, featuring original lyrics that are sure to have audiences falling off their seats.

Director Angie Brockhurst said at a recent rehearsal that she’s delighted to see so many great actors in this production.

“It’s just been amazing that they are all part of it,” she said. “We’re doing all the songs, too. It’s been a lot of fun. And great to work with this script. It’s a very funny one. I’ve been really pleased to see the actors becoming their characters.

They’ve been putting a lot of life into this show,” she said.

In the deliciously convoluted plot, Jim, a young girl, is desperate to join up with Robin Hood and become a Merry Man. Meanwhile, the evil Sheriff is up to

no good, raising taxes and imprisoning Jim’s parents. He kidnaps Robin’s sweetheart Maid Marian and determines to marry her.

All of which, as usual, sets up a glorious finale.

And, to make everything even tastier, the show is on offer in four nighttime performances (Dec. 27-30) at 7 p.m. and a matinee Dec. 31 at 1:30 p.m. at the Mercury Theatre at 331 Brae Rd. in Duncan.

Tickets are $15 each for adults and $12 for children 12 and under.

Get them from Mason’s Store at Shawnigan Lake and Ten Old Books in Duncan.

But don’t delay.

The only problem is that the Mercury Theatre is not a big venue and ever since their first panto several years ago, the Shawnigan Players have been packing ’em in.

Christmas is nearly here and for many Cowichan Valley residents that means a trip to the Cowichan Theatre to see the Royal City Youth Ballet Company’s production of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, The Nutcracker.

Two shows are scheduled, on Friday, Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 21 at 1 p.m.

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Tickets for these performances are specially priced for family entertainment. General admission is $24 per person, with a special of $74 for a family of four (two adults and two children).

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The third annual Winter Solstice concert has been expanded to offer two performances, on Saturday, Dec. 21 this year.

So, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Sylvan United Church on ShawninganMill Bay Road, look for singers Cari Burdett and Sara Marreiros to join with special guests violinist Richard Moody, cellist Corbin Keep, harpist Marilyn Rummel, dancer Marisa Jackson and the multi-talented Adrian.

“The range of talent in this ensemble is exciting and inspiring,” enthuses Burdett. “It’s not to be missed!”

So, what can you expect?

“Ancient, traditional a cappella songs from around the world, to all-time jazz classics, a little gypsy violin, romantic harp, a ribbon of dance interweaved throughout, the lush sounds of the cello and two singers. This concert will bring you to tears and have you dancing in your seats with laughter from the pure joy. These are some of the exciting elements that will be shared, along with surprises to bring light into the darkest night of the year.”

Previous years have been sold out with supporters hoping it would continue as a tradition in

The solstice concert will give two performances this year. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN] the Cowichan Valley.

“This production is brought to you from the same group that created the sold-out music/dance show Red Blue Yellow. Come along and enjoy the darkest night of the year in style, community, comfort and joy and let your inner light shine brightly,” Burdett urged.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for

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Given that Lavigne soldiered bravely on despite a cold at the recent Three Tenors gala in Duncan, it’s not surprising he had this message on his website for Island fans.

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Legos recreate Duncan past at museum KATHRYN GAGNON SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN

George Arrowsmith stands before the scene of Duncan past made with his lego models. [SUBMITTED]

Heritage is the theme of Christmas at the museum this year. “Harri-tage� the Hamster, the Christmas DBIA mascot, can be seen in the front window putting the finishing touches on his masterpiece, a painting of Duncan City Hall, which was once the old post office. Harri-tage has many photographs of buildings in his studio; some of the buildings are still here and others are gone.

The City of Duncan has created a heritage register, which recognizes buildings that have architectural, historical or cultural value and that therefore should be preserved.

This year, the Christmas train display features models of Duncan’s heritage buildings — made of Legos!

Ecole Cobble Hill student Geoff Arrowsmith, 11, constructed models of five heritage buildings especially for the display, including Duncan City Hall, the Duncan

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The mail always went through, in the old days

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Displayed in a snow-covered “City of Duncan�, the heritage buildings, and passenger train running through the town, create a scene of Christmas past.

Come to the museum to see this wonderful display, on view until Dec. 20.

“...Owing to my loose parka fillmailman. (Okay, postal person.) ing with water and shooting me How ironic that mighty up again as quickly as I went in, Canada Post’s home delivery I was not seriously wet.�—Tom should ultimately be brought Tugwell. down not by the physical chalirst it was the iceman. lenges of moving mail across Then the bread man, the one of the largest nations in milk man, the Rawleigh the world with one of the more Products man, the Chinese challenging landscapes, but CHRONICLES green grocer, and others who by the economics of decreasT.W. Paterson delivered to or solicited on our ing volumes of mail because very doorsteps. Now all are changed technology has gone, victims of changing times. spawned cultural choices. It was, perhaps, Next up is, we’ve just been informed, the as inevitable as was the phasing out of the

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Once, the Canadian postal service relied upon men (for the most part) who literally defied hell and high water, sometimes both, to deliver the mail. Theirs was a sacred trust, one that they seldom failed.

If you don’t believe me, read on.

Sooke pioneer Tom Tugwell’s story is remarkable enough in itself, but don’t think for a moment that he was unique.

Canadians embraced responsibility and duty more willingly and to a much greater degree than do most of us spoiled comelatelys, today. (Another of those changing times things, but this one a negative, alas.)

A century-plus ago, the notorious Fantail Trail was the tenuous link between northern B.C.’s Log Cabin and Atlin. Over these 40 miles were shipped all freight and His Majesty’s mail, usually by dog team. If all went well, it could be accomplished in a day. But seldom did all go well, as mailman Tom Tugwell knew personally after eight years’ of fighting the elements. For $90 a month and board, I might add.

In 1908 he described one such trip over the Fantail, and it’s an eye-opener today.

He and an unnamed helper reached Atlin, then scene of a gold mining boom, two days behind schedule after having struggled through temperatures between -20 and -30 degrees F. Once, their heavy sleigh broke through the ice and Tugwell had to jump into the freezing water to rescue the mail. When, after a 17-hour rest, supper and breakfast, they tried rowing the two miles back across Atlin Lake, they found that, in the teeth of a north wind, with both having to row and unable to steer, it was hopeless. “We decided to...get a man to cross with us, but none were willing, so we remained there until the next morning...Meanwhile a bank clerk stationed at Atlin who was anxious to get out for the Christmas holidays, wanted to come with us, but would not make the trip without his trunk.�

At first Tugwell refused to take the 150pound trunk. But the bonus of having another man help cross the lake made him relent and they set out. It took them five hard hours, “with the steam rising from the lake. It was very cold and the water quickly freezing...and we were covered with an inch of frost on arrival at Taku, which we reached at 6:10 p.m.�

Next morning, they skirted ice to Golden Gate where they’d left their canoe, to find that someone had used the craft and carelessly abandoned it in the ice so that it was frozen fast. Meaning that they had to chip it free with their hatchets, haul it to the water’s edge, several hundred feet distant, where it again stuck. So they hitched it to the dog sleigh “with a long rope which we made fast to the dog harness some distance ahead. The passenger’s trunk was hindering us and we had to drag that along the shore to the open water and place it in the boat. With the three dogs hitched to the boat and sleigh, I left my partner to drive the dogs and went ahead, and he urged the dogs from the rear, and I calling them from the front, so as to hurry them and keep them moving, so as not to allow them to stop and break through the ice.�

They made only 50 yards when “through she went, the dogs stopped and the boat and the sleigh both went through the ice.

[I] also went through, but owing to my loose parka filling with water and shooting me up again as quickly as I went in, I was not seriously wet. I continued the journey as quickly as possible after we

Today’s mail carriers still get out in all weather, but their treks are nothing like what carriers faced in days gone by. [CITIZEN FILE]

rescued the boat and sleigh, to prevent myself from freezing, and finally we were successful in getting the boat and the sleigh to the open water, where we made a start for Kirkland’s [roadhouse], with the water freezing on us fast.�

Then came two miles of “hard rowing� through ice. Upon landing a mile from Kirkland’s, Tugwell ran ahead to change into dry clothing as a relief party helped his companions. After a hot meal and night’s sleep, they reached Teepee next day. By then a storm was brewing and they warned their passenger that to continue was at “the peril of his life�. He confidently replied he was game and they were back on the trail by afternoon.

Six miles later, the storm broke, burying the thin trail and making it necessary for one to forge ahead through drifting snows.

Having recovered the eight dogs they’d left on the trip in, they fought onward, Tugwell acting as guide, his partner in charge of a team, the passenger directing the second. Within eight miles, however, the clerk was “continually falling down from fatigue. At last he fell at intervals of 100 yards. I kept shouting to him and urging him on again and again. Time after time he arose and continued, buoyed up against defeat because he had been positive he could make the trail, and also from his desire to get out for Christmas. “Finally his endurance gave out and...he fell for the last time and was unable to rise again. He just lay there, played out and waiting for the storm to go over. He would have waited several years if we had let him. I pulled him to his feet and tried to keep him moving so he would not freeze, but he was unable to stand and fell down again, quite willing to lie on the ice forever. We hitched all the dogs to one sleigh and laid a canvas on the mail, spread the passenger on top and lashed him to the frame. Telling him to keep his feet and hands knocking together as he lay, we drove those dogs as hard as we could.�

Dumping the hated trunk into the snow, the couriers raced on in the darkness.

Their original trail had been obliterated, their only lantern was broken, but they floundered through five miles of driving snow to Log Cabin where their frigid passenger revived in time to catch his train the next afternoon — after they’d retrieved his trunk!

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Brief time left to donate underpants SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Shop owner Sandra Beggs says Cycle Therapy bike mechanics Anthony Windsor and Sean Gibson have noticed a decline in drop-offs for this year’s Operation: Underpants campaign.

“The box is more empty than full and they are hoping more people start bringing in donations,” Beggs explained. “They were so excited last year about the numbers of underpants and socks that were donated for the homeless and needy in the Cowichan Valley and they know that every donation was needed.”

With noon on Dec. 20 as the cutoff date, time is running out.

In just its second year, Operation: Underpants is a local campaign aimed at collecting and distributing socks and underwear to the regions citizens in need.

“It’s funny on the face of it — who doesn’t giggle a little when talking about under-

pants? But the reality is less funny. A person has a chance at being their best self when they start the day with fresh underwear,” said organizer Maeve Maguire.

She explained the project was born last December after a conversation with homeless outreach worker Chuck McCandless.

“I asked him what he needed most to help these people and he said, ‘New underwear.’

People are great and giving away secondhand clothes and outerwear, but we don’t give away underwear (for obvious reasons!),” she said.

Last year, Operation: Underpants gathered over 500 pairs of underwear, most of which was given to Fatima da Silva’s Boxing Day dinner guests at Bistro 161.

New underpants for adults and children can be dropped off at Cycle Therapy, Cowichan Green Community, Maple Bay Rowing Club, Radway Studio, and Bound to be Different before noon on Dec. 20.

See Operation: Underpants on Facebook.

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Joan Elizabeth Plante November 13, 1941 - November 27, 2013

Ketch, Ellen December 22, 1941- December 13, 2013 .

Survived by her husband, Larry; sister, Eleanor; daughter, Kelly (Mike), son Jim (Donna); five grandchildren; three great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Ellen passed away peacefully in her home, surrounded by family, after a lengthy illness. Ellen requested that there be no service.

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Joan was born in St. Thomas, Ontario and the family moved to Alberta after the war. Joan received her education in Camrose, Provost, Wainright and a Secretarial College in Edmonton.

Joan married Dennis Plante on December 30, 1966 in Vancouver, BC. Predeceased by her parents Russell and Ann Lemon, sister Dwyne and brothers Chris and Jim. She is survived by her husband Dennis, daughter Brenda, son Daniel, grandson Nicky, brother in law Earl Gillespie & family and sister in law Lola Lemon & family. Joan made many friends through her passion for gardening, reading, music and art. She worked as a library technician in school libraries until retiring in 2006. She always felt fortunate that her work allowed her to help the children appreciate reading.

Joan enjoyed retirement by involvement in her church, art and garden clubs, her volunteer work and her lovely flower garden. Joan made friends easily as she could always see the good in everyone. Her greatest wish was to see her grandson grow into a well educated young man. A memorial will be held at the Chemainus Royal Canadian Legion, February 1, 2014 at 1:30 PM. Online condolences may be offered at www.hwwallacecbc.com

JOAN BLINN April 20, 1928 – December 10, 2013 .

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Joan.

She was born and raised in London, England and came to Canada as a war bride in 1946. She raised her family in Saskatoon and Calgary, before moving to Duncan, B.C. in 1971.

Joan enjoyed gardening, cooking, walking, good humour and entertaining her family and friends. She and Vern experienced many enjoyable trips camping in B.C. and travelling throughout Canada, the US, Hawaii and Europe. It didn’t take Joan long to pack her bags when there was an opportunity to travel. In her spare time Joan volunteered in the community, including serving as Senior Regent in the Moose Lodge. Predeceased by her son Keith, she is survived by her husband Vern, children Vivian (Barry), Les (Jeannie), Ruth (Trevor), Sharon and Gary; grandchildren Lori, Jennifer, Shauna, Kathleen, Greg, Daniel, John, Brandy, Michael, Kerri and Keith; great grandchildren Matthew, Nicholas, Liam, Dustin, Cara, Megan, Damien, Dayton, Anders and Gibson and many nieces and nephews. Special thanks to the staff at Sunridge Lodge for their care and compassion over the past five years – there are many that loved her dearly. Joan will live forever in our hearts and minds. A celebration of her life will be held at a future date.

In lieu of flowers, a donation to the Heart & Stroke Foundation in Joan’s name would be appreciated.

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HENRY, Albert Stanley .

WRIGHT - James Stewart February 8th, 1950 - December 9th, 2013 A genuine ‘one of a kind’ man has left us. Jim was a multi-talented person, a loyal husband and family man, and a hardworking provider who had a successful stucco contracting business until a devastating accident in 1994 left him burdened with chronic pain. Throughout, Jim was dedicated and involved family man who was known as the hill climbing crew chief for his boys. In the community he held court at the pool table, roamed the valley on his Shovelhead Harley and earlier, was an avid outdoorsman. A gregarious storyteller with an excellent memory, Jim was a friend to many. He had a warm spot for the underdog and that included animals too. This was most true with his constant companion, Cal the Cat. Jim’s death has left a deep hole in the lives of many. He was predeceased by his youngest son John in 2004.

He is survived by his wife of 35 years Debbie, his son Michael, his brother Alex (Tammy) and his beloved granddaughters, Charlotte and Alexandra.

A celebration of Jim’s life will be held at First Memorial Services, 375 Brae Road, Duncan on Friday December 20 at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations to Jim’s favorite charity the Cowichan Cat Rescue would be greatly appreciated.

Passed away on December 11th, 2013 in the Chemainus Health Care Centre at the age of 83 years. Born in Fairview, Alberta on September 21st, 1930. Predeceased by his mother, father, and five sisters. Survived by his loving wife Margarete of 60 years; sons, Dennis (Vi), Eric (Karen); daughters, Kathy (Wayne), Charlene (John), Tanya (Russell); eleven grandchildren and six great grandchildren; sister Faye, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Albert farmed in Alberta as well as road construction, and driving truck. In 1971 the family moved to Crofton, BC. Albert then started a new career as a commercial fisherman until his retirement. A loving and caring family man who enjoyed music particularly singing and playing his guitar. His memory will be cherished in the hearts of all those lives he touched.

Celebration of his Life will be held in the Seniors Centre Crofton, BC on Saturday, December 21st, 2013 at 1:00p.m.

In memory of Albert those so desiring may make donation to the Chemainus Health Care Centre, 9909 Esplanade Street, Chemainus, BC V0R 1K1.

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The Cowichan Valley Regional District invites submissions for Tenders for the supply, installation and servicing of toilets in Community and Regional Parks. .

Sealed Tenders will be received by Joe Barry, Corporate Secretary, Legislative Services, CVRD, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC until 2:00 p.m., Friday, December 20, 2013, with the envelopes clearly marked: “Tender for the Supply of Portable Toilets for CVRD Community and Regional Parks, 2014-2016�.

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The Lands File Number that has been established for this application is File #1414184.

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Robin Gusse makes one of his 27 saves against the Penticton Vees on Saturday night. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

Caps still coming together PROGRESS: Results not yet

indicative of effort KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Bob Beatty knows he has said it before, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

There’s no denying that the Cowichan Valley Capitals are working hard on the ice, and that the outcomes don’t always reflect that. But Beatty maintains that his team is about to turn the corner.

“I’m tired of saying we had a good effort and didn’t get any results, but there were times in that game when I was really happy with our team,” he said of last Saturday’s game, a 5-1 loss to the Penticton Vees. “We need to gel with the new guys; we’re moving in the right direction.”

Currently holding down first place in the B.C. Hockey League, Penticton is a perennial powerhouse, and the Caps definitely put in a solid effort against them.

“We came out of the first period down 2-0, but I didn’t think we were as bad as the score,” Beatty said. “We didn’t get many bounces, playing a pretty good hockey club.”

Myles Powell scored Cowichan’s lone goal early in the second period, cutting the Vees’ lead to one, but Penticton came back with three unanswered markers over the remainder of the contest. Caps goalie Robin Gusse took the loss, making 27 saves on 32 shots.

The Caps did get the results they wanted the night before when they won 2-1 over the pesky Alberni Valley Bulldogs, a team Cowichan needs to hold off in order to stay out of the Island Division basement.

“It was a huge win for us, no question,” Beatty said. “It was good for us to get

Taylor Allan joined the Caps prior to last weekend’s games. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN] back on the winning track, especially against Alberni. They needed that win as much as us.”

Alberni opened the scoring less than three minutes into the first period. Jesse Neher responded with a powerplay goal midway through the frame, and the score remained knotted until 12:11 of the third when Colton Kehler scored the eventual game-winner.

Gusse was nearly perfect, stopping 28 of 29 shots, including 16 in the second period.

The weekend games marked the debuts of recent acquisitions Taylor Allan and Clint Filbrandt, and both players came as advertized, according to Beatty.

“It’s exciting to get some new blood in the lineup,” he said. “I was very happy with their performances this weekend.

It was a short turnaround for Allan: traded Tuesday, then in the lineup on Friday. I think he’ll bring a lot of what we want in the lineup; he’s got size, he plays well. He plays gritty, but he’ll add some skill as well.

“Filbrandt is a mobile defenceman.

He’s a young guy, and he has potential to

be a dominant player in this league.”

The massive reconfiguration of the Capitals blueline continued late last week when the team released defenceman Patrick Arnold, who was fortunate enough to nab a tryout with the Carleton Place Canadians of the Central Canada Hockey League in his native Ontario, who happen to be the secondranked junior A team in Canada.

“We wish him well,” Beatty said. “He’s a great team player, a good player to have around the team, but we felt we had to add a bit more mobility.”

Adding Filbrandt, Matthew BerryLamontagna and Valik Chichkin to the group has made a marked difference for the entire team, Beatty said.

“We have significantly improved our D corps. I think we’re definitely more mobile. We’re capable of moving pucks a lot better than we were two weeks ago.”

Not done wheeling and dealing, Beatty added forward Alexis Guilbault from Saint-Hyacinthe of the Quebec junior A league last week. The 18-year-old has just finished school and will join the team after Christmas. In 31 games with Saint-Hyacinthe this year, he has eight goals and 31 assists.

“He can score,” Beatty said. “He’s not a physical player, but he put up good numbers in junior A in Quebec. He’ll add offence.”

The Caps hope to head into the holiday break on a positive note as they host the Trail Smoke Eaters this Thursday and the Nanaimo Clippers on Saturday.

“We need to make some hay before Christmas and get back into the win column,” the coach said. “We need to put some distance between us and Port Alberni, and if we want to catch Nanaimo, the Saturday night game will a big factor.”

Less than two weeks after he was traded, former Cowichan Valley Capitals centre Steen Cooper was back in The Stick with the Penticton Vees on Saturday.

The Duncan native was named second star of the match, and deservedly so, after recording a goal and an assist in the Vees’ 5-1 win over the Caps. Cooper now has four goals and five assists in seven games with his new team. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Chargers’ tournament welcomes back girls hoops KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Three senior girls basketball teams got a taste of what the competition will be like this season at Duncan Christian School’s Welcome Back Tournament last weekend.

Shawnigan Lake School went undefeated to win the four-team round-robin tourney, while Cowichan Secondary placed second, the host Chargers were third, and Ucluelet finished fourth.

The opening game proved decisive in the standings, as the Cowichan Thunderbirds edged the Chargers 40-38. While Shawnigan won all their games and Ucluelet was winless, it was the match between DCS and Cow High that determined second and third.

Sarah St. Cyr led Cow High with 14 points, all in the second half, while Rachel Bates added 12. Juliet King paced the Chargers with 12 points, and Brenna Bazinet had nine. Danielle Groenendijk had 18 rebounds, kicking off a tournament where she would average 16 per game.

“We have a young team,” DCS coach Michelle Nederlof noted. “It was nice to see what the competition is like; it looks like we will be very competitive in the Valley.”

Shawnigan had four players in double digits, led by Casey Crowley and Blakely

Campbell with 16 points apiece, in the second game of the tournament, a 71-24 win over Ucluelet. Crowley then poured in 20 to lead Shawnigan to a 42-26 victory over Cow High, who got 10 points from Sartaj Dale.

The Chargers got 18 points from Karli Paterson and 12 from King in an 87-36 win over Ucluelet. Cowichan topped Ucluelet 5927, led by Bates’s 16. Groenendijk and Lauren King-Nyberg each had eight in DCS’s 52-33 loss to Shawnigan. Casey Crowley paced Shawnigan in that game with 15 and Amber Ridgeway added 11.

Dale and Crowley shared MVP honours.

Tournament all-stars were King-Nyberg, Ridgeway, St. Cyr and Ucluelet’s Kara Frank.

DCS started the season a little later than most teams after hosting the provincial single-A volleyball tournaments, but got up to speed fairly quickly.

“It was basically my first look at the team,” Nederlof said. “I was really thrilled with what I saw.”

The Chargers’ theme this year is “Rise Up,” as in rising up to the occasion. The team has already shown a high level of commitment.

“They’re really buying into it,” the coach said. “It’s a good group of girls.”

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Winter Games trials get gymnasts going early KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

With two goals and an assist, Braedan Cross was the Islanders’ top offensive performer against Peninsula last Friday. [CITIZEN FILE]

Ben Williams and Chicago Bains were honoured among B.C.’s top midget athletes for 2013. [SUBMITTED]

Bains and Williams get provincial athletics awards KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Following fantastic seasons in track and field, a pair of CVAC Jaguars athletes have been recognized as the best in British Columbia in their respective disciplines.

Chicago Bains and Ben Williams were among 37 midget Athletes of the Year honoured at the BC Athletics annual awards banquet on Dec. 7, Bains for 80m and 200m hurdles, and Williams for triple jump.

Both athletes had impressive results, to say the least, in 2013. Bains was named the top female athlete for the entire meet and for Team BC at the Canadian Youth Legion Track & Field Championships in August after winning gold in both hurdles distances, which included breaking a 31-year-old Canadian U16 record in the 80m race. She was also part of the 4x100m relay team that won gold and took a full second off the old Canadian record. Prior to nationals, Bains won two gold medals in hurdles at the provincial championships.

Williams had a phenomenal provincial meet, taking gold in triple jump — the event he was honoured for at the banquet — silver in long jump and bronze in high jump. He was initially told he qualified for nationals in triple jump, then two days later that was rescinded because the result was wind-aided.

Undaunted, he attended nationals as an independent, and took fourth in triple jump and high jump, and seventh in long jump.

Agnes Esser, a Frances Kelsey Secondary graduate, was a finalist for junior female Athlete of the Year after taking gold in discus and silver in shot put at the Canada Summer Games, and placing fourth in shot put and fifth in discus at the Pan American Junior Championships in Colombia.

Islanders come up short against Peninsula Panthers KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The only goal of the third period stood up as the winner last Friday as the Kerry Park Islanders were edged 5-4 by the Peninsula Panthers.

The Isles and the host Panthers went into the third knotted at four goals apiece, but Peninsula broke the deadlock with just under six minutes left, and, despite pulling goalie Leighton Williams for the final 45 seconds, Kerry Park couldn’t draw even.

Braedan Cross had two goals and an assist, and Alex Milligan had one goal and a pair of helpers. Cody Short rounded out the scoring, and defenceman Colton Burt recorded two assists. Williams made 23 saves on 28 shots.

The Isles have one more game before the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League’s Christmas break as they host the Nanaimo

Buccaneers this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Naturally, they are hoping to go out with a win.

“We beat them last time, and they seem to be struggling a bit,” owner Mark Osmond noted.

Still a little below .500, the Islanders have been gaining ground on their South Division opponents, and Osmond would like to see even more improvement as the playoffs approach.

“We want to finish second or third, and avoid Victoria in the first round,” he said. “We can beat Westshore. We can beat Peninsula.”

While some of the teams that got off to hot starts have cooled, the Isles have showed gradual improvement over the course of the season, despite losing a few key forwards along the way.

“What I look for is progression, and we seem to be progressing,” said Osmond.

Duncan Dynamics gymnasts had to be in top form early in the season as they competed in the BC Winter Games Trials in Campbell River on Dec. 7.

Two competitors from the Duncan club qualified for the Winter Games that will take place in Mission this coming February, while two more just missed the standard.

Darby McIntyre finished first overall in Level 4 with a score of 52.90, winning gold all-around as well as on vault, beam and floor, along with a silver on bars. Keerstin Arden finished just behind her teammate with silver all-around. Arden won gold on bars with a score of 12.900, and added silver medals on vault and floor, and a fourth-place finish on beam.

Rebeca and Trystinna Bailey just missed qualifying for the Winter Games in Level 3, putting up impressive results in just their second competition at that level.

Rebeca finished eighth all-around, taking gold on beam and placing seventh on floor. Trystinna finished ninth all-around, claiming bronze on vault and placing sixth on floor.

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