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KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

A rental home on Festubert Street and the office of Cowichan Towing on Roberts Road were hit by fires within a short span this past week.

The Duncan Volunteer Fire Department was called to both blazes, continuing a busy stretch for the hall.

Just after 8 p.m. on Friday, firefighters were called to a house on Festubert, where flames had started in a back bedroom.

According to fire chief Mike McKinlay, it was a quick knockdown, complicated somewhat by the fact that the steps to the upstairs bedroom had burned away, requiring the firefighters to use external ladders to reach the second floor.

After dousing the flames, firefighters were on scene for another two and a half hours for clean-up purposes. The fire was not considered suspicious.

The Cowichan Valley should be investing in things like wireless and office space to build a local tech industry, Damir Wallener, a software development company owner, pitched to the Cowichan Valley Regional District board.

“What we get out of it is jobs,” Wallener said, citing potential employment figures in the hundreds.

He’s been spurred on by his own personal experience.

Wallener has been urged to move to New York for his business, but he didn’t want to do that — he wanted to stay right here on Vancouver Island.

His first choice was to locate in the Cowichan Valley, but he simply couldn’t get talent to come here, he told the board.

Now he is located in Victoria, a city that has made a concerted effort to attract technical industries.

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OCCUPANTS ESCAPE INJURY IN ROLLOVER The passenger and driver of a red Jeep Cherokee managed to escape injury last Friday morning after the vehicle rolled on the TransCanada Highway passing through Chemainus.

The Jeep was travelling north in the fast lane north of Henry Road when it struck the centre median and flipped. Witnesses reported that it became airborne and spun around before landing in the right-hand lane.

Police believe the driver may have been trying to change lanes but spotted a car in the other lane at the last second and over-corrected, hitting the concrete barrier. The crash remains under investigation.

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Tree takes out power in Duncan LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Many downtown Duncan businesses locked up early after a power outage struck the city’s core, along with hundreds of residences Monday afternoon.

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N. Cowichan ponders participatory budgeting LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

“Participatory budgeting” was a major buzz phrase in the recent North Cowichan election.

Rookie councillor Rob Douglas has decided to get the ball rolling by trying to get his colleagues to agree to introduce a pilot program for the development of the municipality’s 2016-2020 financial plan.

He started Feb. 18 by asking councillors to direct North Cowichan’s staff to prepare a report on the idea.

Coun. Al Siebring asked if there should be some limitations on the pilot project.

Douglas said he had been inspired by

Tofino council’s idea of asking for public participation in deciding grants-in-aid.

Putting a pointy end like that on the suggestion focused councillors.

“I love the idea of doing this with grants-in aid,” said Coun. Kate Marsh.

“It would help the community know how much we get back from the little money that we do contribute.”

Siebring wanted to know, “Do we set a cap and say, how do we spend that amount of money?”

Douglas said he thought the municipality would, under normal circumstances, be looking at some kind of a total cap for grants-in-aid.

Councillors were plainly getting on

board.

“Could it be done for this year?” Siebring asked, but Mayor Jon Lefebure replied, “not practically.”

Coun. Joyce Behnsen was thinking practically, too.

“Let’s say it’s an area like Crofton or Maple Bay. Some projects are more local, almost an area thing,” she said, suggesting that residents of other parts of North Cowichan might know little or nothing about them.

“How is this process to work?” she added.

Lefebure said she had raised a valid point, adding that councillors had a part to play as well.

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Coun. Maeve Maguire agreed.

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City financial report wins award

N. Cowichan hits climate milestone LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

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For the third year in a row, the City of Duncan has been recognized for its financial reporting.

The city has received the Canadian Award for Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers’ Association of the United States and Canada for the year ending Dec. 31, 2013.

The city was honoured for its financial reports in 2011 and 2012. Current director of finance Talitha Soldera and former director of finance (now CAO) Peter de Verteuil have both been recognized for their efforts.

“This is the third consecutive year the city

has won this prestigious award and it represents a significant accomplishment by our director of finance and her finance team,” Mayor Phil Kent said.

The city’s financial report was judged by a review committee to meet the program’s high standards, including a “spirit of full disclosure,” designed to clearly communicate the financial situation and to encourage users to read the report.

In order to be receive the award, a government must publish an easily readable and efficiently organized annual financial report that meets the standards and goes beyond minimal requirements to communicate the financial picture.

Community policing raise gets okay LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

North Cowichan council has consented to increase the funding for community policing.

They were acting at the request of the Cowichan Valley Regional District so it could adopt its bylaw on the community policing service.

Coun. Tom Walker was quick to agree with the idea.

“I strongly support the work they do. It saves a lot of uniformed police officers’ time. They did 7,500 hours of volunteer work this year,” he said.

“There are many ways people work in communities. This involves people, draws them into a relationship with police. A lot of good will is brokered.”

Walker also said the biggest problem for community policing is “they have to fundraise. So they end up using time for that.”

Coun. Maeve Maguire asked where the money to support community policing comes from and Mayor Jon Lefebure explained that it’s shown as a line on the tax form: the municipality collects it for the CVRD. Coun. Joyce Behnsen asked, “did we get a

“We’re getting it for a lot less money, too, than if we had RCMP or CUPE people doing that work.”

AL SIEBRING, North Cowichan councillor

North Cowichan has reached the fourth level in the Partners for Climate Protection program.

This milestone — implementation of actions identified in an adopted local area plan — is based on the work North Cowichan has done to implement its awardwinning Climate Action & Energy Plan, which specifies the goals of a 33 per cent reduction of greenhouse gases by 2025 and an 80 per cent reduction by 2050.

The PCP program, a Federation of Canadian Municipalities initiative, empowers municipalities to take action against climate change through a five-milestone process.

The program guides members in creating GHG inventories, setting realistic and achievable GHG reduction targets, developing local action plans, and imple-

menting plans using specific, measurable actions to reduce emissions.

“Reaching milestone four is a significant achievement,” Mayor Jon Lefebure said in releasing the information.

“That puts us in the top 10 per cent.

We’re very serious about climate protection work and have a great plan in place.”

Next up in the program is looking at the idea of energy incentive rebates and policy changes to help reduce community electrical consumption. Then, there’s looking at ways to move to renewable energy sources and working with BC Hydro to ensure compliance with the new energy aspects of the BC Building Code.

Finally, North Cowichan will look at ways to enable homeowners to fund home energy improvements, start a five-year LED streetlight replacement program and more.

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North Cowichan CAO Dave Devana replied, “[Community policing’s] Carol Ann Rolls came to council and I did a report. I thought there was a structural shortfall.

This council decided to ask the CVRD to increase their bylaw. This was an initiative made by this body.”

Coun. Rob Douglas asked why community policing should be singled out.

“There are a lot of non-profits who do good work. There are a lot of other non-profits who would love a grant,” he said.

“This is one of our core service areas,” Devana said. “They’re aligned with policing, one of our core services. I don’t like to throw them into grant in aid.”

Coun. Al Siebring pointed out to his newly elected colleagues, “We’re getting it for a lot less money, too, than if we had RCMP or CUPE people doing that work.”

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First step: treat addiction as medical problem n Canada, our model to deal with illegal drugs in our communities has historically been law enforcement-based.

We treat people involved with drugs, including addicts, as criminals, first and foremost.

This approach has been an abject failure, assuming the goal is to turn people away from abusing substances.

Other countries use a much more medical-centred approach.

In brief, the idea is that addicts don’t belong in jail, they need treatment. It’s past time that we consider formally switching our approach.

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The “tough on crime” die-hards often dismiss the medical-centred models as soft and “liberal” (as a pejorative), wrinkling their noses at the idea of turning away from the simple idea of locking undesirables away until, presumably, they’ve learned their lesson.

This not only hasn’t worked, it denies the nature of addiction. Drugs are seductive, both physically and mentally a ball and chain but also often the most pleasurable thing addicts have in their lives.

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locked up in some kind of facility and forced to get clean.

But if the underlying reasons for the addiction aren’t addressed that is at best a temporary solution.

Most addicts didn’t start doing drugs because they’re lives were so incredibly wonderful.

As soon as they’re free to do so, an addict will return to the drug that gave them an escape from their pain, as long as the pain is still there.

They have to want to stop.

Even then, quitting is an uphill battle.

There are also larger societal

issues at stake.

If we don’t address things like unemployment and homelessness at the same time as addiction we are doomed to failure in a large number of cases.

Say an addict gets clean and is then abandoned by the system with no job and no place to call home. The chances of long-term success in such circumstances is an easy equation, with a dismal answer.

It’s not just an individual problem. There are many social costs to substance abuse, from health care to urban decay to policing costs.

We need universal dental

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It will take a first great big bite to take a big bite out of the health care programs. One of the greatest costs in health care is poor dental health. Poor dental health in the long run costs more in other health problems than it would have cost to fix the problem. So why are governments so stupid as to not have it covered

by Medicare programs? Is it just the stupidity of elected officials or is it lobbying by dental organizations?

I remember the great battles in Saskatchewan, doctor strikes and those doctors supporting it having their offices, homes and even their children at risk.

After the battle was over the doctors never had it so good.

Why, please, when in the long run it will save money and have more healthy productive people in our society, do we not have universal dental care?

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In desperation for money to get drugs, many addicts do turn to criminal activities, whether it’s theft, prostitution or selling drugs themselves.

And there is a place for law enforcement in the equation.

There is no doubt that those who are making their money off the miserable disease of addiction deserve prison. We must do everything we can to stop the flow of drugs into our communities.

A medical-based approach is no simple solution. There is no simple solution.

It’s only the first step.

John Mc Donald Duncan

Why not return to two boat ramps?

Bait and switch is all it is. The proposal to move the Handy Road boat ramp is a sham orchestrated by CVRD staff and the marina owners.

It will take a centrally located public park amenity close to local services and replace it with a privately run facility outside the village. Remember, the ramp is a CVRD Parks facility. What follows is from years of documented communication with the CVRD. The marina owners find the ramp inconvenient and decommissioning it will provide more parking for them. A series of parking requirement “relaxa-

tions” and the CVRD’s allowing the Bistro to run at nearly double the originally permitted capacity have led to grossly insufficient on-site parking.

Available solutions were ignored, presumably to cut costs for the development.

The proposed solution, partial at best, is on public land and changes the nature of a CVRD park to benefit a private business.

The Malahat Nation’s proposal was in planning well before the marina owners latched on. Linking Handy Road to it is sheer opportunism.

A registered covenant clearly states the Handy Road ramp must be improved unless approvals failed. In that event, money

would be paid to the CVRD to improve other CVRD parks in Mill Bay. The promise was never for a ramp somewhere “in the community” as last Wednesday’s Public Meeting Notice claimed.

Ramp improvement approvals have been in place for some time now. Reconstruction could have been finished two years ago. The covenant also states the ramp must be rebuilt before townhouse construction started, yet CVRD staff allowed townhouse construction to start as soon as possible without the ramp. Did they ever intend to follow the promise?

Throwing the money for the Handy Road ramp reconstruction into the other ramp is giving

money earmarked for a park facility to an independent project that doesn’t need the funding.

It is smoke and mirrors to distract us from a promise being dropped and supporters being stabbed in the back. Mill Bay had two ramps before the current marina was built, why not return to that?

Terry Parker Formerly of Mill Bay

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ebruary is a trying agement a lot more difficult. month in Ottawa — the I was particularly struck frigid temperatures by the possibility that always make me long for the previously abundant spewarm land of the Cowichan cies could disappear from Valley. But this month, the our area as our seas warm West Coast came to Ottawa. up. They will move north Two events, a presentation towards the poles and cooler of emerging ocean research waters.

COMMUNITY and the annual Pacific SalFor the species that REPORT mon Foundation reception, remain, catches will be Jean Crowder brought the state of our lower because the fish are waters to the attention of decreasing in size as climate Members of Parliament. change increases.

Dr. William Cheung, a professor at The research also pointed to the need the University of British Columbia, to change what we can — by reducing presented some of his findings on the other stressors that fish face the sustainability of marine fisheries including overfishing, pollution and under climate change. habitat destruction, we can have more Many people may have heard about climate-resilient fisheries. the loss of many thousands of dolWhich was a nice segue into the work lars’ worth of shellfish from farms in of the Pacific Salmon Foundation the Strait of Georgia. While the cause and their Salish Sea Marine Survival there was acidification of the water Project. leading to loss of shell integrity, that It wants to determine the most sigproblem is amplified as climate change nificant factors affecting the survival increases water temperature. of juvenile salmon and steelhead in So it shouldn’t be a surprise that Dr. the shared waters of the Salish Sea. Cheung’s research shows that climate This large-scale project will study all change is affecting our coastal econbiological and environmental factors omies. What he discovered is that fish at the same time to better understand stocks are moving, which alters fishwhat is happening to this iconic eries yields and makes fisheries manspecies.

Ways to save on power other than wood burning A tip for all of you who worry about escalating power bills and are burning wood to save on your bills, I would like to share what we did about our power usage.

In 2012 my husband and I took the BC Hydro challenge. We cut our power bill by a whopping 31 per cent and received a cheque for our efforts.

We live on the west coast of Canada.

It’s cold here in the winter. That’s a fact that we need to remember. We dug out our sweaters, put on extra socks, and we curl up under a blanket in the evenings when we watch TV. We turned the heat down, unplugged appliances when we weren’t using them and shut lights off behind us. It

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And over in the Fraser River we saw one of the worst runs in history (2009) followed by a record-high year. And no one knows why.

Twenty different groups from both sides of the border are involved in the planning. It includes First Nations, academics, federal and state/provincial agencies as well as non-profit organizations.

The ultimate goal is a community-driven restoration plan based on adaptive resource management — a way of making decisions in the face of uncertainty.

The plan is $2 million short of its goal for fundraising. But a proposal to allow a portion of the Salmon Stamp program to be allocated to this project is going to the federal government and it will help close that gap.

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Island Health focused on harm reduction LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Dealing with harm reduction for substance abusers involves far more than just taking away their drugs, North Cowichan council learned recently.

Island Health’s Central Island medical health officer Dr. Paul Hasselback and harm reduction coordinator Griffin Russell answered a request for information from North Cowichan and made a presentation at a council meeting.

Russell said that the idea of harm reduction is not new.

“Our first methadone program started in Canada in 1964. We’ve progressed through different harm reduction programs across the country since that time. Following on the heels of the Netherlands in 1984, Vancouver opened its first fixed-site needle exchange in 1989, followed by Victoria in 1996. Since then health authorities have continued to offer a variety of harm reduction activities both in fixed sites, and in outreach and

mobile capacities,” he explained.

Addressing these issues is often providing service to “stigmatized, marginalized and vulnerable folks in our communities,” Russell said.

Hasselback said that harm reduction has been deemed by the courts to be “a form of health service” especially when seen as part of a continuum of services for people dealing with substance abuse.

Locally, Island Health has taken action.

“We do have a variety of harm reduction sites that provide services within the Cowichan Valley.

They’ve been in place for some time. They include a variety of materials like safer sex supplies, injection equipment and safer drug-smoking tips.

“We are talking about expansion of the distribution of glass stems, which is a bit of a hot point yet I would say it’s no different from any other activity we enter into when we’re talking harm reduction,” he said.

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“The glass stems are becoming a normalized function of what we consider to be necessary in order to provide help to those users who are still smoking,” Hasselback said.

Vancouver Island has its issues and he wanted councillors to know about them.

“On Vancouver Island we have seen a spike in overdose deaths occurring in the last year, year and a half. That is extremely close to home, not here but close enough that I’m concerned about that.”

The situation arises from people cutting into heroin supplies with phentenol, which, he said, “is a much more potent drug when it’s injected as heroin,” causing overdoses.

“The result has been that we’ve seen some very tragic outcomes even quite recently, in B.C. and on the Island specifically,” Hasselback said.

“We do have a need for an increased access to methadone, which is a form of narcotic treatment over a long period of time.”

The methadone program continues to grow on the Island at a rate of about five per cent per year, he said.

“This is a reflection of individuals who have had narcotic habituation issues and are trying to get off that habit. We still have a need for expansion of those services right here in the Valley specifically.”

However, even with that, hepa-

titis C is a greater concern, Hasselback said.

But all this is only one component of substance use.

“About two to three per cent of the population are habituated to some form of substance on an ongoing basis,” he said.

However, many remain functional and contributing to society without being able to rid themselves of a habit they’ve been carrying from an earlier period in their lives.

“They often benefit most from harm reduction activities. But it’s all part of a continuum that Griffin has alluded to. We’d all like to eliminate substance abuse, but it’s not an easy thing to achieve,” Hasselback said, adding that while the people who do not suffer from the problem may think a solution is fairly simple, “that’s not what’s happening out there in our communities. We need to acknowledge that.”

Coun. Rob Douglas later asked Hasselback about the idea of prescribing heroin.

The health officer replied that in Vancouver there is a test going on, involving people who do want to cease dependence.

However, he said, “It’s not the best of options. The quality and quantity of drugs available are really variable.”

If you find a needle or a glass stem, Russell advised people to call the local public health unit for advice on how to dispose of it.

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Crime Stoppers have best year ever; $198K in stolen property, drugs seized Campbell River Crime Stoppers had its best year ever in 2014, the organization says.

In 2014 Crime Stoppers reported that the amount of stolen property and drugs seized totaled $198,290.

They said their tip line received 402 calls, resulting in 325 tips that lead to 63 arrests being made. There were also 111 cases cleared from 91 charges laid.

“This success was accomplished with the help of our media friends ‘getting the word out’ as well as extensive use of Facebook, twitter and the Crime Stoppers web site,” said Crime Stoppers President Rob Harris.

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Association calls for public hearing The French Creek Residents’ Association is asking the provincial comptroller of water rights to hold a public hearing on proposed rate increases by Epcor.

The private water company, which has more than 2,000 connections in French Creek, is proposing staged rate hikes totalling 46 per cent in 2015-17, as well as a 202 per cent increase to a non-consumptionbased billing surcharge called a rate rider.

The company says it needs the increases in part to cover some $5 million in upgrades triggered by a health authority order on treating surface water.

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Group calls for cull of Canada geese “It’s very difficult to bring Canada geese numbers down without a cull,” John Cooper, president of the Guardians of the Mid-Island Estuaries, told Parksville council.

Cooper and vice-president Tim Clermont reported on the group’s work in the last four years to control the local goose population.

The group has been addling goose eggs since 2006 in the Englishman River estuary and since 2010 in the Little Qualicum River estuary.

Cooper asked the city to form a working group with the Guardians to explore other solutions, including a goose cull.

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Four saved as Wikima sinks in daring Coast Guard rescue When the Wikima went down Wednesday night, it was a rescue within a matter of moments.

At the Coast Guard marine communications centre in Ucluelet, the mayday call came in on VHF channel 16 around 9 p.m. on Feb. 4.

The radio centre in Ucluelet was able to direct a 900-foot vessel, the North Star, to provide a lee for the distressed vessel.

The broken Wikima sank and the Cape Ann took the survivors to Ahousaht to be reunited with family.

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“They’re actually doing really, really well,” he said.

What is most encouraging, Wallener said, is that most of the tech businesses there are home-grown, not imported.

Through the Victoria Advanced Technology Council, or VIATeC, a lot of work has been done in branding Victoria as a place to invest. Having such an umbrella organization to act as a hub for people to go to who are interested in the sector is key, Wallener said.

They’ve also been able to purchase a building in a nice area of the city for small new companies to have an affordable place to incubate.

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Compassion Campaign takes over schools LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Although today is designated Pink Shirt Day as part of a countrywide anti-bullying campaign, the students of the Cowichan Valley School District are in the midst of what they call The Compassion Campaign.

According to Wynn Rederburg, chair of the District Student Advisory Council, it’s been the group’s practice for the past couple of years to plan a week of compassion-oriented activities.

“We call it The Compassion Campaign. It started because one of the school trustees from a couple of years ago had said that they didn’t like that the word anti-bullying was being used so much.

“It was because anti- and bully are both so negative. We thought we should focus more on the positive, so compassion instead of bullying. It’s all about offering a positive alternative,” she said.

All this week at district schools each day has a different theme related to the campaign.

“We try to coordinate between the five high schools and the elementary schools. Sometimes it can be hard to get everyone to do the same thing at the same time but we do our best,” Rederburg said.

Guigin Wu, Grace Tan, Wynn Rederburg, Demy McEvoy, Mila Edwards and Lin Lin get together to set up tables about Chinese and Filipino culture at Frances Kelsey Secondary’s Multicultural Day Tuesday. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN] At Frances Kelsey Secondary, her own school, it all started on Monday, with a Random Acts of Kindness Day. A group planned to show up at school early and hold the doors open for all the students and staff as they entered the school.

“It’s all about emphasizing doing nice things for people. I’m excited about it all,” she said.

By Tuesday each school got to choose its own theme.

At Kelsey, they’d lined up a multi-culturalism day, in alliance with the Cowichan Intercultural

Society.

With students from the international program at the school and other students not in that program but of a specific heritage setting up booths to display their culture and heritage, it was a great idea, she said.

“It’s so everyone can learn more about each other because usually there isn’t a venue for that kind of demonstration. I thought it would be such a good idea, going past just seeing people in the hallways.”

According to Rederburg, on Wednesday, everyone is wearing pink, following the cross-country focus.

But there’s more.

“On Friday, we don’t have school which is a bit of bummer because we don’t have that extra day, but on Thursday it’s going to be LGBTQ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning] Awareness Day, for all sexual orientations.

“That’s another thing that’s not really talked about at school and I think it should be. There’s more now than there used to be but sometimes there still isn’t enough support for teens going through these sorts of realizations and the confusion involved.

It’s support, to let people know that that venue is there,” Rederburg said.

In addition, a special workshop for parents and caregivers entitled Creating Safe Spaces for LGBT2Q+ Youth was held Tuesday by the Community Options Society on how to create more inclusive and welcoming environments for youth with these orientations.

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Pink shirt day originated at a high school in Nova Scotia.

A Grade 9 boy was being bullied at the school for wearing a pink shirt. Students David Shepherd and Travis Price and a group of their friends went out and bought a pile of pink tank tops that they handed out the next day at school.

This was the first pink shirt protest.

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Join fight against violence: One Billion Rising Starting at noon on Friday, March 6 at Duncan City Square the Cowichan Valley will rise to say NO to violence against women and girls.

The event is held in solidarity with 200 countries around the world.

One Billion Rising is a call to action based on staggering statistics that one in three women will be beaten or raped in her lifetime.

With the world population at seven billion, this adds up to more than one billion women and girls violated — one billion daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, lovers and friends.

This year’s theme is “Revolution” and organizers envision the revolutionary

global movement of men as allies to have a growing presence in the Cowichan Valley.

“We invite all men of our community –— partners, fathers, uncles, brothers, sons to come out and dance with us, speak out and listen with an open heart,” said organizers.

Join the event on Facebook Cowichan One Billion Rising https://www.facebook.com/OneBillionRisingCowichan One Billion Rising t-shirts are $20.

Contact the Cowichan Intercultural Society at 250-748-3112 or cis@cis-iwc. org for more information.

But that’s not all. The action will continues into the evening with an Inter-

national Women’s Day celebration at 6 p.m.

Women’s organizations and governments around the world observe IWD annually in March by holding events that honour women’s advancement while diligently reminding of the continued vigilance and action required to ensure that women’s equality is gained and maintained in all aspects of life.

This year’s celebration will take place at the Eagle’s Hall. Doors open at 5 p.m., bring your favourite potluck dish to share. Entertainment starts at 7 p.m. and is family friendly.

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The workshop is facilitated by Kev Lescisin, program coordinator of Children on the Streets Society.

Doors to this free event open at 6 p.m. and the presentation starts 6:30. The church is located at 3036 Sherman Rd. If you are interested in attending, organizers would like you to reply to warmlandcops@shaw.ca or 250-701-9146.

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Prevention workshop takes look at youth sexual abuse Cowichan Community Policing is hosting It can Happen to Anyone on Thursday, Feb. 26 at the Church of the Nazarene in Duncan.

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Lions ‘hard-hitting’ in bid to end violence KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Even the BC Lions players who deliver the message as part of the Be More Than A Bystander program feel the impact of what they are communicating.

“When you first take the training it sounds all well and good on paper,” said Lions guard Dean Valli, who has been with the program since it started four years ago, but wasn’t 100 per cent sold on its effectiveness right away.

He and his trained teammates, though, found themselves “legitimately offended,” by some of the comments they would hear in the locker room, and realized how ingrained violence is in the culture, and how seriously it should be taken.

“It’s actually quite striking when you find out how offensive it can be,” Valli said.

Valli and his teammate, safety JR LaRose were in Duncan last Monday to give presentations to Cowichan Secondary School and Duncan Christian School students, followed by a public presentation that evening. They are among six players who work with Be More Than A Bystander, and who take the program’s message to heart even when they aren’t travelling the province making presentations.

“Even the way we act in and around the locker room has changed,” said Valli, admitting that with “50 macho football guys,” the Lions’ locker room is “the perfect storm,” for taking issues like violence lightly.

Be More Than A Bystander comes out of a partnership between the Lions and the Ending Violence Association of B.C, with the goal of breaking the silence surrounding violence against women and girls “by providing tools, language and practical ideas about how to be more than a bystander, how to speak up and how to communicate that violence and abuse is not acceptable.”

Valli feels that football players are an excellent way to deliver that message.

“As football players, we’re big, we’re visible, and we use that to leverage our point of view,” the 6-foot-5, 300-pound offensive lineman said. “But we’re not superhuman.

We want them to see that the people they see on TV, they’re human.”

Be More Than A Bystander is one of four community relations programs the Lions take part in, and while the other three are more “rah-rah,” this one takes a more serious trajectory.

“This is more of a hard-hitting one,” admitted Valli, who is involved in two of the other community outreach programs. “Our goal is to make people aware that when they see something in terms of domestic violence to speak up and say something.”

When students hear the Lions are coming to their school, they often anticipate something of a pep rally, but Be More Than A Bystander often surprises them.

“It’s not what they’re expecting,” Valli said. “By the end of it, we have their attention.”

• Parents who feel their child is not emotionally ready for the responsibility of a digital device can hold back on purchasing a smartphone or choose one with very limited features. Some schools set strict limits on phone usage, and children who go only from school to home and vice versa may not have the need for an “emergency phone”.

• Adolescents and teens should feel comfortable talking with their parents without the fear of reprimand. Otherwise, they may hide instances of cyberbullying or not know how to broach sensitive topics like bullying. Parents can engage in conversation with their children often and stress that the doors of communication are always open.

• Teens should be made aware that cyberbullying is a very real occurrence and is not just other kids “having fun” or “joking.” If behavior is repetitive and hurtful, it should be made public and addressed.

• Parents can monitor and limit their children’s personal accounts. Some smartphone and tablet applications can be mirrored on the main account, enabling parents to see incoming text or video messages.

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Life events recalled in Talking to Henry LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Talking to Henry — an exhibit of art by the residents of the Glenora Farm community opened at Cowichan Library on James Street on Tuesday, Feb. 24 and

will continue until April 1.

Entitled Talking to Henry, it has a great significance to the artists, who are a talented group of adults with developmental disabilities.

The exhibition, the result of an art class at the farm, is inspired by the desire to express and reawaken significant life events

that have happened within the individual’s life, according to Lucinde Metcalfe.

“Henry is a bear. He provided a platform for the individuals to share and explore their most significant memories. As Henry was passed around, the adults were encouraged to share and reflect on events that have influenced

them the most throughout their lives. The following weeks saw a beautiful transformation; the memories were converted into various physical art forms,” she said.

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Highlight concerts showcase Festival’s best and brightest LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

The Cowichan Music Festival’s Highlights Concerts, showcases of all sorts of superb Valley talent, are coming up next week at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre.

The first event, scheduled for Sunday, March 1, will start at 1:30 p.m. and the second, on Wednesday, March 4, will hit the stage at 7 p.m.

These big galas are the culmination of weeks of competition in dance, musical theatre, piano and other instrumental music plus speech arts and every kind of singing imaginable.

The performers, of every age, are encouraged and judged by a set of adjudicators chosen for their expertise in their various fields.

This year, Jeff Hyslop joined the gang as adjudicator for musical theatre.

As one of Canada’s foremost performing artists, he is surely no stranger to anyone in that field.

A singer, dancer and actor who can do it all with plenty of panache, he’s starred in Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jacques Brel, Phantom of the Opera and A Chorus Line. But he’s also seen theatre from the production side so he really knew what to look for when giving advice and encouragement to Valley performers.

In dance, the variety of styles calls for a variety of adjudicators, too. This year, they included Curtis Foley in ballet, Donna Wilkins in tap, Stewart Iguidez in street dance and Julio Fuentes in jazz.

Julian Vitek was looking after the strings section, while Bogdan Dulu was this year’s piano adjudicator, Caroline Harder acted as adjudicator for the vocal/choral section, Gordon Clements in bands and Susan Fullerton evaluated speech arts.

A selection of performers from all these areas are showcased in the annual concerts. The first one, a recital at the United Church in Duncan was held Feb. 22 but there are still two left, so don’t miss them.

Tickets for both these reservedseating events can be purchased at the Cowichan Ticket Centre at a cost of $15 for adults and $10 for children under 12. Call 250-748-7529 today to reserve your seats.

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For the record In our story “Meet Brentwood’s charming ‘Boy Friend’” Wednesday, Feb. 18, there was an error in identifying who pulled the school’s licence for The Sound of Music.

“While Music Theatre International does licence the performance rights to The Boy Friend, we do not license the rights to The Sound of Music. Those rights are handled exclusively by The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization and they are the company that would have denied Brentwood College School the rights to do the show,” said Brian O’Sullivan of Music Theatre International.

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‘I’m gonna live forever,’ sings Carmen (Yuki Watanabe) during a rehearsal of the musical ‘Fame’ in the Queen Margaret’s School fine arts building last week. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

Orchestrations by Steven Bishop and Jeff Lisenby Additional arrangements by David Abbinanti Ring of Fire was originally produced on Broadway by William Meade, CTM Productions, Bob Cuillo, GFour Productions, and James B. Freydberg

QMS takes stage for ‘Fame’ FOOTWORK: Talent prompts expansion of dance LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Fame. It’s out there. You just have to grasp it.

Or you can buy tickets for it.

One of Broadway’s favourite musicals is coming to the Queen Margaret’s School stage in a junior edition starting Thursday, Feb. 26 and continuing through three more shows until closing Saturday, Feb. 28.

This is one of those backstagestyle shows beloved by the musical theatre crowd.

Everyone can dive into the 1984 story of a group of dance students at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City and follow fame-obsessed Carmen (Yuki Watanabe), ambitious actress Serena (Sierra Tanner), the quiet Schlomo (Cassy Marr), and talented but dyslexic dancer Tyrone (Stephen Igbinosa) plus Nick (Jacob McIntyre), Iris (Alexzandra Haggith-Sookachoff) and all the others.

These young talented hopefuls undertake the journey of their lives. Ambition, triumph, heart-

break and romance conspire to steer them off course, and the pressure is too much for some.

But these kids are determined to live forever.

“When Alex auditioned, her lengthy training with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet poured through and she blew our minds,” director Martina Blake said of the production. “We made her read some lines and knew she would be perfect as Iris.”

Due to the dance talent levels of the cast, Blake and her musical director, Alison Hounsome decided to develop more dynamic choreography than what is provided in the script.

“There is so much magic inside these students and they can’t wait to show everyone what they can do,” Blake said.

The production features a cast of QMS students from Grades 5-12.

Shows, in the school’s fine arts hall, are scheduled for 7 p.m. nightly with a 2 p.m. matinee as well on Feb. 28. Tickets are $10 per person. Reserve them at 250-7464185 or get them at the door.

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Nathan Lowe, 13, is studying piano at the Grade 5 RCM level with Ann Mendenhall.

Nathan is a sensitive player who pays careful attention to detail and really listens, fine-tuning every expressive nuance in his music to make each piece as beautiful as possible. Nathan enjoys playing duets and he memorizes very easily. His music reading skills have been steadily improving. A Grade 8 student at Quamichan Middle School, he also plays percussion in the band.

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The Baha’is of Cowichan Valley will be screening a new documentary called To Light a Candle by Maziar Bahari on Friday, Feb. 27 in the auditorium at VIU’s Cowichan Campus.

The film is about the treatment of Baha’is in Iran and focuses on the denial of rights to post-secondary education, highlighting how the Baha’i community has set up its own university to allow Baha’is to continue their studies.

Cowichan Valley educator Dan Vaillancourt is a member of the Associated Global Faculty of the university and has taught master’s level courses in education over the past three years.

“We would like to draw attention to this deplorable situation of the violation of human rights in hopes of garnering support worldwide to put pressure on the government of Iran to change its ways. The film will be screened in cities across Canada at the end of February,” he said.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the film begins at 7:30 p.m.

‘Ring of Fire’ terrific evening of Cash music ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

If you’re in the mood for some dynamite country and gospel music, the Chemainus Theatre’s latest production Ring of Fire: Project Johnny Cash is for you.

And even if you’re not a fan of the iconic singer/songwriter when you go in, the quality of the presentation will make you one by the time you come out.

But you do need to be in the mood for an evening of music; this production is wallto-wall songs — 29 of them to be exact. If you’re looking for a complex storyline you won’t find it. Some sparse dialogue elucidates a few facts from Cash’s life and timeline, but it’s really just there to glue together the songs, which create a sense of time and place by themselves anyway.

It’s all there, from a childhood flood in Five Feet High and Rising, to his love-atfirst sight meeting with June Carter Cash in Ring of Fire, a song written by her.

There’s the exhaustion of touring in I’ve Been Everywhere and Cash’s iconic concert at Folsom Prison with Folsom Prison Blues, Man in Black and I Walk the Line expressing the quintessential Cash.

The cast are all superb, with each member singing and playing multiple instruments.

Andrea Cross, Scott Carmichael, Mark Macrae, Kraig Waye and musical director Zachary Stevenson are all terrific, but the show’s stars are undoubtedly Jonas Shandel as a younger Johnny Cash, Timothy Brummund as an older Johnny Cash and Samantha Currie as June Carter Cash.

Shandel handily portrays the driven Cash in his younger years of getting into trouble and getting famous.

Brummund does most of the narration and he has managed to capture the essence of Cash with his deep vocals and uncannily accurate inflections.

But Currie is a real standout here. Not

Samantha Currie and Jonas Shandel are Johnny Cash and June Carter. [SUBMITTED] only does she demonstrate a dynamite vocal range and get the country music twang dead-on, but she injects the whole thing with an incredible warmth and vibrancy that makes her character come alive despite not having much in the way of dialogue to work with. She’s fun and flirty and invites the audience to laugh and love right along with her.

Much of the music in the production is Cash’s own, but you will recognize some of the pieces from other writers and artists.

As a whole, the selections form a coherent whole, however, creating an atmosphere and telling the story not just of the man himself, but of the times and places he lived in.

Ring of Fire is a great way to start out the new year at the Chemainus Theatre, and if audience comments heard on the way out the doors are anything to go by, people will be recommending this to their friends.

The show runs until April 11. For more information go to chemainustheatre.ca or call 1-800-565-7738.

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Led Zepagain even impresses original band LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Even Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is impressed with Led Zepagain.

Since the tribute band’s inception in 1989, the group has become highly regarded as the most authentic representation of Led Zeppelin onstage today.

They’ve passed a stern test.

In January of 2004, Page himself attended a Led Zepagain show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles.

He was absolutely astonished at the band’s accuracy stating, “It’s amazing how much you sound like us. You must have grown up on this because you were inside the music, and you paid attention to detail in your presentation. I can tell you guys really love the music.”

This encounter led to the members of Led Zepagain attending Led Zeppelin’s 2007 Reunion Concert at London’s O2 Arena and getting a surprise visit from Jason Bonham in March of 2009 as he sat in with the band on their encore performance of the song Rock and Roll.

So, fans, that is all you need to know about the super act coming to the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre stage on Tuesday, March 3, starting at 7:30 p.m.

Having packed houses as far afield as Japan, Ireland, Germany, Bosnia, Peru, Mexico and Guam, Led Zepagain is ready to rock the big stage here, too.

Seats are $39.50 each. Get your tickets now by calling the Cowichan Ticket Centre at 250-748-7529 or by going online at cowichanpac. ca to reserve.

CASTING call

The Shawnigan Players are calling for auditions for a production of The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard.

According to director Laura Faulkner hopefuls can show up on two dates: Thursday, Feb. 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the Clements Centre at 5856 Clements St. in Duncan or Sunday, March 1 at 2 p.m. at Shawnigan Lake Community Centre in the Round Room.

Faulkner said she needs five actors, “two men and two women in their 30s-40s, two men in the their early 20s and one 17-year-old girl.”

Stoppard’s The Real Thing offers that favourite tool of dramatists: a play within a play, but there’s lots more than that.

Looking at actors’ lives on and off the stage always mean there are unusual avenues for comparisons between the real and the illusory and this play offers plenty to that tune for both performers and audiences.

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Get a copy of a scene for audition by emailing laura.lois. faulkner@ gmail.com “The Real Thing is a thoughtful and moving romantic comedy with lots of quick dialogue,” Faulkner said.

There is no need to bring anything to the audition but Faulkner is ready for the keeners.

“If anyone wants copies of the scenes ahead of time, they can email me at laura.lois.faulkner@ gmail.com,” she said, urging actors to feel free to audition even if you are somewhat outside of the given age range.

And of course, the Players will be happy to pick up a few willing hands, as well.

“Anyone interested in helping with the production side of things (sets, sound/lights, costumes, props) is warmly invited to volunteer,” she said.

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Westholme farmhand remains ‘missing’ a century later

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Englishman, last name Harwar, who disappeared from a field on Cranko Bros. farm in Westholme where he was digging potatoes...”

By that time Harwar had been missing for 11 days and it was thought that he “was probably dead of exposure or from attack by an animal.”

So off to learn poor Harwar’s fate, I went. The logical starting point was the October 1911 Cowichan Leader. Sure enough, there it was, on the front page and in bold headlines for Oct. 5: “Man Mysteriously Disappears From Farm Near Westholme.”

On Election Day, Sept. 21, the young Englishman identified only as Harwar, a recent arrival, was working for the Crankos on their farm north of the Mount Sicker Road, Westholme. When last seen by his employers (who’d gone to vote, we may assume) he was digging potatoes. When they returned home, they saw that he’d dug a few potatoes but he wasn’t to be seen. As time passed and he failed to show, they checked his room and found his personal effects intact.

That’s as much as the Crankos knew. But a settler named Baynon (as it was spelled but

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Harwar was last seen crossing the Chemainus River. From there, his trail vanishes. Did he disappear into the bush? [CITIZEN FILE] likely refers to a pioneer named Banon whose name originally graced today’s Miller Creek in the Chemainus watershed) reported having seen Harwar cross the Chemainus River, “hurrying along at a fast pace”.

Although it’s not stated, his crossing of the river would suggest that he was headed south as the Cranko farm was north of the river.

With that single sighting but no further sign of Harwar, the Crankos reported his disappearance to the police in Chemainus, describing him as being 24 years of age with a “darkish ragged growth of beard”. Beyond initial inquiries, “no action seems to have been taken,” reported the Leader.

“There is considerable indignation in the district that no search party was organized to go out into the hills to look for the man, although there is no direct evidence that he took to the bush.

The prevailing idea is that he may have got lost in the woods.

If that is the case, it is exceedingly doubtful whether he will be found alive now.

“It is possible, of course, that the man may merely have gone to work for some other farmer in the neighbourhood, but in that case he would have probably gone for his belongings. It seems quite likely that he may have met an animal along the trail and in that case he would naturally have taken to the bush and might quite easily have lost his bearings...”

There’s a single followup to the story, a week later, a response to the implications that police hadn’t shown due diligence to Harwar’s disappearance. The editor hedged slightly on the initial published report — “our information was obtained from several sources and there seems

to have been some misunderstanding over the attitude of the Provincial Police in the matter”.

Const. R.B. Halhed of the Chemainus provincial police detachment said that he’d forwarded the missing persons report and a description of Harwar to Duncan, Ladysmith and Nanaimo.

He’d also requested authority to “incur expenses in sending out search parties into the hills” from the government agent in Duncan. That authorization wasn’t forthcoming based upon another reported sighting of Harwar, this one to the effect that he was last seen walking on the E&N Railway track “within two miles of Chemainus” and the fact that “there was no evidence to show that he had taken to the woods”.

Nevertheless, Halhed had “spent two days with dogs in the hills...in order that no step might be left untaken which might lead to the discovery of the man”. He noted that it was hunting season, and the woods “full of hunters”.

He thought it improbable that Harwar “could have failed either to come up with one of these parties or that he could have failed to be led by the reports of the rifles” (if indeed he’d gotten lost).

Under the circumstances, the Provincial Police decided that a search party was “outside the[ir] duties”. Indeed, they thought that the onus for organizing a search was North Cowichan council’s!

By all appearances, Harwar chose to walk away from the Crankos without his personal possessions. Did he intend to return but met with misadventure? Who knows? It’s a great story but one without closure.

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Caps drop three on final trip; last game Wednesday KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Cowichan Valley Capitals’ final road trip of the 2014/15 B.C. Hockey League season didn’t go quite the way the team hoped.

“We didn’t get any W’s, which was pretty disappointing,” head coach Bob Beatty lamented. “We didn’t play poorly; it was a little more run-and-gun than you’d like, but that’s the way those teams play.”

The Caps finished with a 6-4 loss to the Coquitlam Express — including an emptynetter — on Friday, a 5-4 defeat at the hands of the Chilliwack Chiefs on Saturday, and a 4-3 overtime loss to the Surrey Eagles on Sunday afternoon.

In Coquitlam, the teams traded goals back and forth until the Express scored three unanswered goals, including an empty-netter, in the third to tie the score and pull away.

“We had enough chances to score 12 goals, but we didn’t finish,” Beatty said.

Ryan Burton finished with two goals, Darien Craighead had a goal and an assist, and Luke Santerno scored, while veteran defenceman Julien Lepage had three helpers and Kade Kehoe added two.

Goalie Lane Michasiw made 36 saves on 41 shots.

Saturday’s game in Chilliwack featured one of the most exciting stretches of hockey the Caps have played this season. After falling behind 3-0 over the first two periods, the Caps scored three times in the span of two minutes and five seconds early in the third to take the lead. Unfortunately, they couldn’t hold on as the Chiefs pulled even again, then scored the winning goal with just 14 seconds left in regulation.

“It was quite a comeback, if you will,” Beatty said. “We had a good effort in the third period. I thought the guys deserved better.”

Kehoe, Ben Verrall, Santerno and Daniel Wanner scored during the third-period flurry, while Matt Zentner stopped 30 of the 35 shots he faced.

Up 2-0 midway through the second period Sunday on goals by Skylar Pacheco and Rylan Bechtel, the Caps gave up three goals as the Eagles pulled ahead. Craighead scored in the third and the game went to overtime where the Eagles scored 92 seconds in.

“We were up 2-0, but we just took our foot off the gas, and played a little looser than we needed to win the game,” Beatty said.

Michasiw finished the game with 37 saves on 41 shots.

The Caps have one game remaining, at home against the Victoria Grizzlies this Wednesday, beginning at 7 p.m. For 20year-olds Pacheco, Lepage, Jesse Neher and captain Kyle Horsman, it will be their last contest in Capitals colours.

“Things come to an end quickly when you’re 20,” Beatty said. “I’m sure it will be an emotional time for all of them.”

The U12 Mid Island Lightning sport their gold medals from the provincial field lacrosse championships in Burnaby last weekend. [SUBMITTED]

Provincial gold for U12 Lightning KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

With a roster that included a handful of players much younger than most of their opponents and some who had never played field lacrosse before, the U12 Mid Island Thunder nevertheless turned out to be the best team in their age group in B.C., winning the provincial championship in Burnaby last weekend.

Because Mid Island didn’t field a U10 team, several players from that group played up, including some as young as nine.

While other teams boasted many older and larger players, that wasn’t a problem.

“The coaches [Bill Sanderson, Les Thibedeau and Lucas Rankin] were able to get the new players, and the more experi-

enced veterans of the team to gel and work together to earn their championship,” team manager Jason Gallaugher said.

The provincial final ended up being between two teams with unfinished business as Mid Island faced off against a Ridge Meadows #3 team that they had tied in the round robin. The second time around, the Lightning got off to a strong start, taking a 4-0 lead on two goals from Cameron Lumb and one each from Brandon Carlson and Patrick Wong. Ridge Meadows replied with a pair of goals, but the Mid Island defence and goalie Devyn Zunti managed to hold them off any further and secure the title.

The Lightning blazed through their opening round-robin games, beating Adanacs #2 7-2 and Mission 8-3 before facing their

first big test in Ridge Meadows #3.

Both teams went into the final roundrobin games undefeated. Ridge Meadows started strong and led 5-0 at halftime, but Mid Island dominated the second half and made it 5-4. With 27 seconds left to play, the Mid Island coaches called timeout. When play resumed, the Lightning collected the ball in their own end and delivered it to Thibedeau in front of the Ridge Meadows net, where he put away the tying goal with just two seconds on the clock.

In the semifinals, Mid Island squared off against another Ridge Meadows team — #2, which had gone undefeated in the round robin and 13-1 in league play. The Lightning got going early and rolled to a 7-3 win and a berth in the finals.

Cow High and Brentwood off to B.C. junior basketball tourney KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Both Cowichan Secondary School and Brentwood College came from behind to capture berths in the provincial junior boys basketball championships.

For the Cowichan Thunderbirds, it was a season-long recovery as the team had a major personnel change from last year’s provincial-contending squad and had to work from a slow start to the season to finish as Island champs. For Brentwood, the hosts of this year’s Island championship, that meant coming back from a deficit against Oak Bay to win the third-place game in the final half-second.

“It’s a big deal around here,” said Brentwood coach Liam Sullivan, whose team is the first in school history to qualify for the junior provincial tournament.

After losing to Nanaimo District by a single point in the first round of Islands, Brentwood recovered with a 73-47 win over Wellington to face Oak Bay in the thirdplace game on Saturday. Oak Bay happened to have been the only Island school to have been ranked in the provincial top 10 all year, but sound defence and some late heroics gave Brentwood a 44-43 victory.

“We played our best game of the year, and beat them by one,” Sullivan said.

With his team trailing 43-42 in the final seconds, point guard Aaron Shulga drew four defenders before slipping the ball to teammate Casper Poelen. Poelen was

Brentwood’s Aaron Shulga takes off against Wellington. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN] fouled and went to the line with half a second on the clock. His first free throw bounced around the rim before falling in, and the second swished in for the win.

The T-Birds, meanwhile, beat Claremont 49-36 in the first round, thanks to 33 points

by Eston Unrau, and edged Oak Bay 48-47 in the semifinal on 14 points from Zach Waddington, 10 each from Unrau and Matthew Miller, and seven from Brandon Reymerink, while David Catacutan played a strong game on defence.

In the final, Cowichan prevailed 41-34.

Leading 38-23 in the fourth quarter, the T-Birds had to fight hard to hold off a big

push by NDSS down the stretch. Unrau solidified himself as tournament MVP with a 22-point game, while Reymerink earned Player of the Game honours. Waddington was named a tournament all-star.

Cowichan and Brentwood, along with NDSS, will represent the Island at the provincial tournament which begins Wednesday in Langley. Brentwood is one of only two AA schools in the 32-team field.

“We have to be realistic about our expectations,” Sullivan said. “Hopefully we can win a few games and be competitive. You never know what’s going to happen along the way.”

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Chargers crush Island rivals KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

With three consecutive lopsided victories, the Duncan Christian School Chargers rolled to gold in the single-A girls basketball championships last weekend.

The final, against Maaqtusiis, was the Chargers’ closest game by a long shot, and even it was never in question as DCS won 86-54.

Juliet King received Player of the Game honours with a 24point, 26-rebound outing, while guard Lauren King-Nyberg put up 37 points and added 11 steals.

Danielle Groenendijk chipped in with 13 points, 18 boards and six steals.

The Chargers opened the tournament with an 83-26 win over Chemainus Secondary. Player of the Game Groenendijk alone had as many points as Chemainus, while King-Nyberg added 23 and King had 13, and everyone on the DCS roster scored.

In the semifinal, DCS pounded St. Andrew’s 73-14. King-Nyberg took the Player of the Game awards after putting up 15 points, 11 rebounds, eight steals and five assists. King had 22 points and 15 rebounds, and Groenendijk finished with a line of 19 points,

Ashton Aumen was named a tournament all-star. [CITIZEN FILE]

Injuries and illness stymie T-Birds KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Duncan Christian point guard Lauren King-Nyberg was named MVP at the Island single-A girls basketball championships. [CITIZEN FILE] 14 boards and six steals. Jenna Bakker got into the action with six points and 11 rebounds, and Rebecca Bakker had five points and 10 rebounds.

With an average of 25 points per game, King-Nyberg was named

tournament MVP, while King was selected to the all-star team.

Mikayla Lewis was named the Team Hustler.

Next up for the Chargers is the provincial tournament in Lumby, beginning March 4.

In both their games at the Island AAAA girls basketball championships, the Cowichan Secondary School Thunderbirds were able to keep pace with their opponents, but injuries and illness took their toll, and the T-Birds finished up the tournament in Port Alberni without a victory.

Cowichan faced Stelly’s in the first round, and kept the game close until halftime, when the Cowichan players ran into a wall.

Stelly’s pulled away and finished with a 66-41 win. Ashton Aumen was named Player of the Game, while Robin Thomas was strong both on offence and defence.

The second round set the TBirds up against another strong Victoria team from Belmont.

Cowichan was still in the game at the end of the third quarter, trailing just 32-26. The Bulldogs dominated the final quarter, however, and finished with a 53-28 win.

“Again, due to a short bench and illness we were unable to keep pace with them,” Cowichan coach Jim Nugent said. “They had a long bench.”

Player of the Game honours went to Maddi Allen, while Sartaj Dale played an exceptional game for the T-Birds.

Point guard Aumen was named a second-team all-star at the end of the tournament.

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