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Business shocked, angry over $18K Hydro bill ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

An $18,000 bill from BC Hydro has Cam McKinnon of Eagles Construction in Ladysmith fuming.

“I’m being bullied by BC Hydro, essentially,” he said. “It just blows my mind.”

McKinnon first noticed there might be a problem with the bill in April of 2014, after he and his family decided to shutter the business for six months.

“We weren’t using any power at that point,” he said.

When he continued to receive what he describes as “crazy” hydro bills, in spite of the business having temporarily ceased operations, he called the utility company to find out what was going on.

At that time, McKinnon said, an investigation discovered that Hydro was billing them for the wrong meter number (there are five meters in the building where the company has offices), and that their meter wasn’t working.

But it wasn’t until Dec. 12 that the malfunctioning meter was finally swapped out.

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Tzouhalem cross once again reaching for the sky

Jack Pearce and a small crew of volunteers enjoy the fruits of their labour, after reinstalling the cross on the top of Mt. Tzouhalem on Tuesday and Wednesday. The cross, which spears the sky above a cloud bank Wednesday, fell over in November. The Nature Conservancy of Canada, which owns the land, decided to put it back up after a majority of Valley residents expressed a desire to see it done. [TIM ENNIS/NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA]

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More than one culprit causing bad smells: survey ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

It’s not just one thing that smells foul in Cobble Hill.

This is the finding of an odour survey conducted in the community last summer, designed to give some hard data and direction to the Cowichan Valley Regional District, which has received ongoing odour complaints from residents against Fisher Road Recycling.

But while the facility is the source of some of the odours in the community, it is not the only source, the survey found.

Conducted by SENES Consultants, the survey was done between July 2 and Aug. 27, 2014. “This type of odour survey is intended to be used in identifying the magnitude of a community odour problem by systematically collecting and recording information on important odour variables such as the frequency, intensity, duration, offensiveness and location at which the odours occur,� the survey’s executive summary reads.

It concluded that there are five top sources of offensive odours in Cobble Hill. They are the Maple Hill Waste Water Treatment Plant, Twin Cedars Waste Water Treatment Plant, Fisher Road Recycling, Central Landscaping Supplies and Gamboa Greenhouses.

That’s not to say that it stinks all the time in Cobble Hill.

SENES Consultants found that for the vast majority of the odour observations, the predominant odours were either pleasant, barely noticeable or noticeable, not offensive.

Most of the offensive odours were short-term, as well, lasting less than 30 seconds.

The worst offender was the Maple Hill WWTP, the survey found. “Odours are seen as a nuisance rather than air pollution, and as they are subjective in nature they are difficult to regulate. Unfortunately, there is no definition of what constitutes a nuisance odour in the CVRD, or in the Province of British Columbia,� said Area C – Cobble Hill Director Matteus Clement.

The World Health Organization defines a nuisance threshold as being that concentration at which less than five per cent of the population experiences annoyance more than two per cent of the time.

But the survey notes that applying the definition in Cobble Hill is problematic because of the rural character of the area. “For the predominant odours in the Cobble Hill community, the only location where the frequency

Cam McKinnon of Eagles Construction shows the $18,000 BC Hydro bill on his smart phone. [ANDREA RONDEAU/CITIZEN]

‘It’s based on nothing’ BUSINESS, From Page 1

Cobble Hill area director Matteus Clement says dealing with odours is tough, because there are no concrete definitions. [FILE] of offensive odours exceeded the two per cent criterion defined by the WHO for nuisance odours was in the immediate vicinity of the Maple Hill WWTP. Whether this location would also meet the WHO criterion for five per cent of the community population is unclear. Although the other sources of odour such as the FRR, CLS, GG and the Twin Cedars WWTP all emit offensive odours at times, the odour survey did not identify persistent, predominant odours that were intense enough and frequent enough to meet this WHO criterion for nuisance odour impacts within the community,�

the survey said.

The CVRD is not giving up on trying to help clear the air for residents, however.

The CVRD said that by the summer of 2015, it will have a new odour control system in place to reduce the stink from the Maple Hill WWTP. The Regional District will also be asking the composting facilities to provide a review of their operations “to ensure that they operate in accordance with their operating plans and other best practices to address and abate odours,� the CVRD said in a press release.

In the meantime, Eagles Construction started up again in the fall, and McKinnon continued to receive bills he was told were based on energy use estimates, a common practice used by Hydro to produce billing amounts.

The problem, McKinnon said, is he’s been told that because his meter wasn’t working until the swap in December, there’s no way to retrieve actual usage data for the period in question, almost nine months. “It’s based on nothing,� he said of the bills he’s refused to pay. “There’s no hard fact numbers.

It’s very frustrating.� “I’m stuck with this bill based on a guess,� he said.

Initially, the bill he was sent was $22,000, but Hydro had agreed to reduce it to the $18,000 figure, a move McKinnon said is still inadequate to address the problem.

After the Citizen contacted BC Hydro about the situation, the company has said they are actively investigating the issues and will be sending a meter technician to the site to determine which meter serves Eagles Construction.

In the meantime, the account has been locked so that no late fees or credit action will be applied until the matter is resolved. “We appreciate their patience,�

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New name, logo for theatre LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

A new day is dawning for the Cowichan Theatre.

It’s all starting with a new name as the facility rebrands itself.

The Cowichan Valley Regional District announced Jan. 14 that the Cowichan Theatre will now be named Cowichan Performing Arts Centre.

The theatre has become known for hosting a wide variety of events since opening its doors in 1978 and it’s this variety that is prompting the name change, according to Sharon Jackson, chair of the Island Savings Centre Commission.

“The Commission loves the new name and new logos. As a designer myself, I was excited to see the dynamic refreshment of an older logo that has been in use for 30 years. The Commission is proud of this facility and happy to see that it is being actively promoted to the broader community,” she said in making the announcement.

“We’re changing the theatre’s name now because of its unprecedented success.

“For one thing, Kirsten Schrader [manager of both the CVRD Arts and Culture Division and the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre] has been working very hard to bring in a number of very

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Along with a new name, the rebranding process includes a new website, www.cowichanpac.ca, and a new logo. highly successful programs and shows.

“We’re having more events there than ever. And, working with the Friends of the Cowichan Theatre, we realized there’s the Caprice Theatre, there’s the Mercury Theatre. There are theatres all over the place,” Jackson said.

“And actually we don’t do that much theatre at the Cowichan Theatre, it’s more performing arts and music. So, that’s why we have taken the opportunity now.

“And a lot of it has to do with rebranding and marketing so we can bring bigger and better acts that will bring in profit. It’s important that the name reflects the facility’s reality,” she said.

“When someone says it’s the Cowichan Theatre, someone might think it’s only a little 250-

seat theatre. Now if it’s the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre, Kirsten can go to Vancouver or wherever these big conventions are and say, yes, this is the biggest theatre on Vancouver Island.

There’s no bigger theatre even in Victoria. And the equipment is being updated. We’re about to do technical training. It’s really ramping up the whole facility to become like a world class facility to reflect a theatre of this size.

“You’re going to be able to look forward to bigger and better and more exciting acts because we’re going to be able to sell it better,” she said.

The theatre is going great guns, Jackson said.

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Schrader is happy with the rebranding, too.

“The new name better reflects the diversity of performances here and the stature of the venue with the largest stage on Vancouver Island,” she said. “We don’t just present theatre, but music, film, dance, choirs, comedy, art exhibitions and special events. It is a multi- dimensional facility that is truly a centre of creativity.”

The name Cowichan Performing Arts Centre will begin appearing immediately on outdoor signage, brochures, advertising and on performance tickets.

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OUR VIEW

Litterbugs soiling our collective front yard t is both baffling and infuriating that many people still seem to believe that it’s their right to throw their trash wherever they want.

What’s so hard about waiting until you can drop your used coffee cup in a garbage can?

Better yet, get one that’s reusable, or at least take that used cup home and put it in your compostables.

It is repulsive to be driving along the road and see where some idiot has tossed their fast food bag out the window of their vehicle into the middle of the road, like the kilometres they put

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between them and it makes it magically disappear.

Disappear it doesn’t.

In fact, the garbage seems to multiply like bacteria. Soon that one bag has split open after someone ran it over, or a flock of crows found it. Now it’s a paper bag (recyclable) a soft drink cup plus straw and lid rolling around by the road’s centre line, and a couple of cardboard or Styrofoam containers for the burger or chicken and fries.

And that’s if the individual who did the littering didn’t also toss the ketchup and salt packets, too.

It’s disgusting.

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And totally preventable if people would just quit being messy slobs. Would it have killed them to just wait until they got home to throw it away?

Another favourite are the cigarette butts that people toss either while walking or driving.

They’re just little, right? But think foam packing peanuts — they multiply quickly and get scattered everywhere, creating a smelly, sodden mess that nobody wants to have to pick up.

Bags full of dog excrement are another story altogether. Consider the insanity of being willing to pick up and bag your dog’s

poop, but not to put that bag in a garbage can. It’s nuts.

These examples just address the relatively small, everyday kind of littering, too.

The folks who take truckloads of refuse out into the woods or onto rural roadsides and just dump it all are another kind of offender.

What it comes down to is being responsible for your own mess.

This is what we’re all taught as children (we hope). Most people wouldn’t go out to their front yard and just dump the garbage.

Public places are our collective front yard. Knock it off.

Having just read the article “Strike aimed to silence? We say Je suis Charlie” along with the impressive letter to the editor

by Bill Woollam, I would like to contribute a quotation from the preeminent book On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill.

“But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”

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Target gives up on Canada after failing to hit its mark Burning part of the culture of the area I am writing in response to the letter published in the Citizen on Dec. 31 from Gord Hutchings of Cobble Hill.

Kudos to Mr. Hutchings for a realistic view and appraisal of wood burning fireplaces and the choice to heat with wood.

He also touched on the fact that occasionally there would be the need to burn branches and debris caused by storms on properties in the Cowichan Valley area.

As many Valley residents can attest, fires for clearing properties of organic debris are not only normal for our area but I feel are necessary as well.

Even a parcel of land smaller

than one acre can be quite a challenge to maintain and keep under control.

Larger acreages are quite the challenge indeed.

We all live in the Cowichan Valley, a rural area that we enjoy in no small part because nature offers us much natural beauty.

Some of this comes in the way of shrubs, trees, bushes, and plants of all shapes and sizes.

Basic, regular maintenance requires disposal of the debris collected.

Some of this can be composted and some cannot due to the sheer amount involved. It is at this point a fire becomes an excellent tool and when used properly, extremely efficient.

There are residents here in the

Valley who do not require the use of fires to maintain their parcels of land.

I can only assume they live in more developed areas such as the City of Duncan, smaller subdivisions etc., for the residents that do have rural property that require maintenance due to windfall, pruning etc. the majority of those are not able to justify the expense of trucking their debris to a composting centre.

The sheer time involved to transport the debris is generally quite high.

Let’s not forget the ever-present tailpipe emissions created by the multiple trips to and from any such composting facility.

The residents who complain about wood smoke as a pollution

and health concern do seem to neglect the ever-present motor vehicle as a major contributor to their concerns.

Mr. Hutchings made a striking point in his letter.

That is, in rural areas, heating with wood stoves, burning of wood, outdoor wood-based fires for property cleanup, all of these have been around as long as man has been.

This includes in our own Cowichan Valley of course.

For the vocal minority that disapprove of such practices, I would ask that you respect the culture of the area that you are moving into or have grown up in.

Ken R. Worth Shawnigan Lake

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Why is it only terrorism when ‘they’ do it?

A local editorial regarding “the brutal murders of 12 French journalists” wrote: “Poking fun at a religion...or at power in any form...is a right all of us share”.

My observation is that, unfortunately, we are fed news stories that sympathize with the loss of life in our NATO forces and Western citizenry, while demonizing or dehumanizing the lives of the local Muslim population in the targeted/attacked Middle Eastern region itself.

I have been mulling over this topic and have some questions: 1. When our NATO forces have been using tomahawk missiles, depleted uranium tipped warheads, helicopter gunships, jetfighter precision missiles, white phosphorus, cluster bombs, and drone strikes in the areas of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria, why is it that the devastation to Middle Eastern human life is not called NATO terrorism?

I mean, I don’t see that kind of “devastating force” being used against us in the West.

2. Is it freedom of speech when the millions of Middle Eastern deaths of Muslim citizens over the last 13 years by NATO/U.S. forces gets minimal mainstream press, radio and television coverage? (ie: when food production plants, electrical power stations, transportation systems, and water purification plants get bombed, are not the local Arab population being left to die of disease and hunger?)

Yet, mainstream press continually inundates us with the handful of deaths, worldwide, from fundamentalist radicals (who often turn out to be just psychotic Westerners) whose idea of responding to the NATO “terror” is to use their own forms of terror.

Neither NATO leaders nor radicalized fundamentalists are

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serious about peace.

3. Why, when Middle Eastern Muslim deaths occur by the hundreds of thousands, do our leaders call that collateral damage, while on the other hand our media is found embellishing the deaths of a handful of Western citizens?

4. Are NATO forces really bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East, or are those who take us to war terrorizing the entire region to create regime change that favors the private interests of oil cartels, weapons manufacturers, military contractors, and international bankers?

5. When these questions are not being asked locally or nationally, through the mainstream media, can we say we have freedom of speech?

When pro-war newscasts fuel hatred for Middle Eastern Muslims and show little empathy for the slaughter of the Middle Eastern citizenry by NATO forces, is that not “keeping the topic within parameters which support further military aggression in the region”?

Is this what Noam Chomsky called “manufacturing consent”, when radio, press, and televised newscasts are used to garner support for further warfare? Is this what David Baldacci meant, in his novel The Whole Truth, when he called mainstream media agencies “perception management” firms?

Bill Woollam Duncan

Your recent guest columnist, Wally Smith, did a great job of putting lipstick on a pig (in this case a dairy cow) in defending supply management.

Without a powerful lobby in Ottawa, this tightly controlled marketing system would have been gone on day one of a Harp-

er majority. Hiding behind steep tariff walls goes completely against Conservative ideology.

At the heart of this skewed system is the monetary value of quota. Beef, pork and grain farmers do not enjoy this type of protection. I think it would be wise for any farmer in a supply-managed system to start thinking of a future without it.

Don Morden Cowichan Bay

Ferry fares out of whack A copy of a letter to BC Ferries Sir or Madam — can you please explain something to me?

A 42 foot motorhome, or 42 foot truck and trailer, travelling from Duke Point to Tsawwassen, with two people costs $219.95.

This vehicle takes up the same space as two 20 footers with two feet between their bumpers. A 20 foot vehicle with one person costs $69.50. Therefore, two vehicles 20 feet long, with one person in each, (and two feet between them), costs $139 per trip. The longer vehicle costs $80.95 more per trip.

That’s 58.2 per cent more than two shorter ones covering the same deck space.

I thought that maybe your excess fare for the motor home

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were some kind of luxury tax, but, no, that can’t be the answer, because the rate is even higher for commercial vehicles.

(42 foot – $256.20) Maybe it’s simply a tax (or punishment) for people living somewhere that consistently refuses to elect provincial Liberals? I think this is a valid question because virtually every single area hit by increased fares, and/or service cuts, is in an NDP riding.

P. Wardell Duncan

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Students stuff packs for peers LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

A group of enthusiastic representatives from the Valley’s public secondary schools and middle schools as well as the Cowichan Valley Open Learning Cooperative were cheerfully at work Wednesday, Jan. 7, packing toiletries and clothing into more than 40 backpacks.

The District Student Advisory Council was finishing up its wonderful annual project, an effort that sees them galvanizing their school populations to donate useful items to help the less fortunate.

Usually the job is complete just before Christmas.

“We’re a bit later because school started later because of the strike,” group chair Wynn Reder-

It’s lots of work but this lively group of students finished it quickly, stuffing essentials into 47 backpacks for needy young people. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

“They go to young people that often are in poverty situations or unstable home environments...”

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burg said, referring to the long dispute between the teachers’ union and the government.

“We have so much stuff here, though. The Valley is incredibly generous,” she said, looking around the busy scene.

District superintendent Joe Rhodes reported to the school board later that day that he and Trustee Cathy Schmidt had both been at the event.

“We were in the presence of probably the most organized kids

I know. They’re amazing at going around and getting donations from the community, sorting it all by gender and placing it in 43 backpacks. They did it all in a time span of about 45 minutes, which was quite remarkable.”

The packs go out to schools and also to Cowichan Community Options Society.

“They go to young people that often are in poverty situations or unstable home environments where they can make great use of the materials that are the backpacks,” Rhodes said. “Community Options was delighted to come and pick up about half of them.

We speak to our counsellors at the secondary schools about how many they will need and they are circulated through there as well.”

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Challenge: garbage free in Area D LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Like many, Lori Iannidinardo likes to walk. And, like many of us, she is noticing the amount of garbage strewn on the ground.

But this year, the energetic Cowichan Bay area director is issuing a call to action.

“This was a three garbage bag Saturday morning walk,” she said on her Facebook page last weekend.

“This is located at the Whippletree Junction turn around,” she added, including a video to show what she found. You can see it on her Facebook page.

“Come on, let’s be garbage free in Area D for 2015,” she urged.

“I’ve been doing it for quite a few years myself,” Iannidinardo said of her cleanup campaign. “I try to walk every Saturday and I’ve been picking up two garbage bags every Saturday. That’s how bad the garbage is. I just can’t believe it.”

What she really wants to see picked up is plastic garbage.

“I’d like to put the challenge out there for a Plastic Free Area D. Let’s see where we

The problem of littering isn’t confined to Area D, whose director Lori Iannidinardo has issued a challenge. [CITIZEN FILE] can get.”

People are more willing to get out and gather stuff if they can make a buck out of it. Folks scrounge for beer

But Iannidinardo is concerned about the wider effect on the environment.

“I was really moved when I went to a sustainability workshop and saw a video on that place, Midway Island. The sight of that has never left me. After you see it, you’re never the same: where the albatross were feeding their babies little lighters and bottle caps. The ocean there is so full of it that mothers are diving down and coming up with these bits of plastic to feed their babies, who are all dying. It’s been quite a few years since I saw that but that’s when I started my own quest.”

The response to her call has been quick and enthusiastic on Facebook.

She said, in addition, she wants to speak to the gun club because she’s spotted plastic shells and wadding in the Cowichan Bay estuary and is hoping to see a “pack in, pack out” campaign started for hunters.

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“I leave the cans myself for other people,” she said. “I pull them up by the road, though.”

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Members are expected to bring a wide range of nonpartisan views and experience with disability issues to ensure that Council hears the widest possible perspective. The Committee will provide a cross disability perspective on disability issues and not the perspective of the disability group with which members may be involved.

Environment & Sustainability Committee The Committee exists to provide Council with advice and recommendations on environmental issues, and shall generally investigate, promote, advise, recommend and assist with the implementation of measures that will improve the quality of life, the liability, and the working environment for the residents, visitors and businesses of the City of Duncan. Environmental issues include, but are not limited to, the Integrated Community Sustainability Plan, solid waste (including garbage, recycling and composting), water conservation stewardship, water quality, air quality, open spaces, trees, energy conservation, climate change, etc.

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Sahtlam residents are getting their official chance to voice concerns about a proposed four-day Rock of the Woods festival in their area this summer.

A public meeting is being held by the Cowichan Valley Regional District Thursday, Jan. 22 at the Sahtlam Fire Hall starting at 7 p.m.

At issue is possible approval of a temporary use permit for the festival to take place in the Riverbottom Road area from July 23-26.

More specific details of the proposal and how to submit feedback can be found in advertisements from the CVRD in this week’s Citizen.

Kelly Black, community outreach coordinator for Rock of the Woods Music Festival, said this week that his group is the first to apply under the new bylaw.

“Last year there was no official process. Rock of the Woods will give a short presentation at the meeting and then there will be community feedback,” he said.

Last year there was no formal process so volunteers went around the immediate neighbourhood where the festival was held and put letters on people’s doorsteps and talked to them about the event.

“This public meeting is really just a chance for people to hear about the festival and express support or concern or opposition or what have you,”

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Black said nobody came to RoTW after last year’s event with complaints.

“We didn’t have anybody follow up with us afterwards. Certainly, before the festival there were some concerns about fire, which everybody in the Valley was concerned about last summer. And there were also people concerned about traffic on the road but we didn’t really hear from anyone following up on that.

We didn’t have any incidents regarding traffic. Presumably, people were all right with that,” he said.

“But, I’m sure we’ll hear from people about those concerns again. That’s why we wanted to hold this public meeting,” Black said.

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Black said that, while jumping through all these hoops is great from the municipal politics side of things, it makes it tough for festival organizers.

“It’s quite a lengthy process. We submitted an application in November and we won’t have a ruling one way or the other until mid-February. For large events, it’s a little bit problematic because if you want to book acts, you have to do it well in advance. But, we’re kind of the guinea pigs for this process,” he said.

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The Cowichan Pipers and Drummers Society is reminding everyone that Robbie Burns Day is just around the corner and that means itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16th annual celebration of the Scottish bard.

This year the event is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 24 at the Duncan Travelodge.

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Entertainment will consist of performances by the Cowichan Pipes & Drums band, the Kathy White Highland Dancers and this year it will also feature a musical

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Keel is a talented entertainer, who was recently seen as Laughalot in the Shawnigan Players production of Rumplestiltskin.

The evening will also include a silent auction to help generate additional funds to help support the band as it prepares for a trip to China in 2015.

The pipers and drummers will represent Canada and the Cowichan Valley at next Septemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shanghai Tourism Festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a community-based organization with members from Mill Bay to Cedar, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a unique chance,â&#x20AC;?

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Cowichan Valley Citizen | Friday, January 16, 2015

‘Once, the earth had gone mad’

Does a mystery tunnel and caves link the Gulf Islands?

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ack in the spring of 1969, I and several other members of the Canadian Speleogical Society visited Thetis Island to investigate ancient legends of a tunnel that links to Valdes Island beneath Stuart Channel.

A quick look at a map shows that such a cavern would be three miles long: a major discovery if indeed it exists and can be found.

Although this legend dates from the mists of time, we were inspired by 1955 news reports of three men from the Nanaimo area who’d made several searches for it.

Lawyer Hugh Heath, journalist Jim Hume and Boat Harbour “pirate” Ken Kendall had repeatedly scoured Valdes Island’s rugged northwestern shore whose sandstone cliffs are

honeycombed with face of a cliff, he indisubterranean passagecated that something ways, large and small. special might be found Time and again, within. they’d crawled, shimCarefully, the explormied and roped their ers climbed down, over way through the and around tumbled island’s labyrinthine boulders, each one depths, finding numerweighing hundreds of CHRONICLES ous artifacts and other tons.

T.W. Paterson evidences of Native Some 200 feet below visitations. the surface, in total But the legendary inter-island darkness but for the bobbing tunnel eluded them. lights strapped to their foreThen they made a startling heads, they saw a large rectdiscovery thanks to Abe Crocker. angular stone which “had all the A grandson of the famous Chief appearances of being an altar”.

Capilano, the 83-year-old GabriA line drawn across the top of ola Island resident led them to this “altar stone” and a glowera site on Thetis Island where, ing face painted in red ochre on according to tribal folklore, could its front supported this theory of be found the mystery tunnel’s its usage. exit.

Its unusually rectangular shape Pointing to a large cleft in the even suggested it to have been

the product of human labour although the explorers could detect no tool marks.

There were similar, considerably smaller, stones jumbled about its base.

Wedged in a crack was a cedar staff which, split at the top, answered a description of an implement used in rituals, particularly those involving tribal initiation ceremonies.

According to their guide, Thetis and neighbour Valdes Island had been used in the long-ago by local tribes for puberty rites. An initiate would be taken to Valdes to fast and to practise other rituals, then to make his way through the tunnel beneath the sea to Thetis Island, deposit his staff, and return — all with the aid of a single torch.

Abe also told them that, as a

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young man, he’d been shown a cave crowded with ceremonial masks and staffs on Valdes Island. Earthquakes 20 years before, he said, had completely blocked this cavern and its priceless store.

Earlier, Hume, Heath and Kendall had made a promising discovery on Valdes’s western cliffside, a cavern which dropped more than 200 feet into the obsidian depths. Unfortunately, the entrance was such that they’d discovered it by sheer accident and, despite repeated attempts, they were unable to find it again.

Whether or not it was the object of their long search, they couldn’t say, as they hadn’t had enough rope at the time to

explore it.

By December 1956, they were more determined than ever to solve the mystery of the interisland cavern. But time and circumstances have a way of altering the best of intentions and Jim Hume, by then a resident of Victoria, said years later that he hadn’t been able to resume the search nor, so far as he knew, had Heath or Kendall.

This is where we came in, in March 1969.

To our surprise, we found that the island’s caves were so well known that they were linked by well-worn trails and each bore a number in garish paint.

These Thetis caves are known as talus, or rock-fall caves. Once, probably aeons ago, the earth had gone mad.

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Deep in this shattered mountain, hidden from the sun, snow still lay six inches deep at the time of our visit to the cave containing the “altar stone” and grimacing face in ochre.

Other caricatures were to be seen but of more recent, and doubtful, provenance having been executed with spray paints.

Other, smaller caves, all of them formed by falling rock, make the legend of a spectacular three-mile-long cavern between Thetis and Valdes islands dubious at best.

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Pair to compete at figure skating nationals event ROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS AND LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

A pair of local figure skaters have qualified to compete at the Canadian National Championships in the Novice category.

L u c a s P a l l a r d o, 1 8 , f r o m Nanaimo, and partner Sarah Kedves, 14, from Ladysmith, will travel to Kingston, Ont., on Friday for the event.

The pair qualified after placing second at the sectional championships for B.C. and Yukon in Prince George on Oct. 2. That result earned them a place at the Canadian Challenge in Montreal on Dec. 3 where the top 12 pairs advance to Kingston. Kedves and Pallardo finished 12th overall and will now face the other 11 pairs above them at nationals, scheduled for Jan. 20 and 21 next week.

Kedves said the pair is excited.

“We’ve been training a lot harder since then [December]. We put around 17 hours into training every week,” she said.

The pair train six days a week for three and a half hours each time out of Victoria, under the instruction of coach Matt Willis.

Kedves’ mom Alice says the two have ambitions to finish higher

than they did in Montreal.

“They messed up a spin in one of their programs which cost them about three places,” she said. “The sad but exciting thing about figure skating at this level is that everyone is very good.”

“They fly out on the 16th to help adjust to the time zone difference and then they have two days of practice skating, starting on Sunday, to get used to the high level environment of TV cameras, the big curtained off areas, and the hype of a nationally televised event,” Alice said.

According to Kedves, the pair are not expecting too many surprises at nationals, because their coach has been preparing them for it.

“I don’t think it’s going to be that much different than Challenge.

But our coach said the camera lights will be one thing that will be different.”

The two will socialize with the likes of Patrick Chan with the country’s senior and junior athletes also in town for their version of nationals.

Pallardo and Kedves found out Tuesday night that they are also finalists for the Nanaimo Sport Achievement award and will attend an awards night Feb. 13.

Lucas Pallardo, 18, from Nanaimo, and partner Sarah Kedves, 14, from Ladysmith practise in advance of their upcoming trip to the Canadian Figure Skating Championships. [SUBMITTED]

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Maple Bay Elementary School students took part in a different kind of learning at the Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre last fall.

Over six weeks, 12 students have embarked on a boat building project to make at 7.5 foot dinghy called a Polliwog.

In the process the children have been instructed by Tony Owen, facility manager at the Maritime Centre, with assistance from a handful of Cowichan Wooden Boat Society members who have been happy to volunteer their time and expertise.

Offering children’s boat building courses has been a long-time goal of the Wooden Boat Society. When Craig McLeod, vice principal at Maple Bay Elementary School inquired about involving his students in such a project, there was a resounding yes from the staff, the board of directors and society membership.

“It’s been very exciting to see the project fall into place,” said Owen.

The children’s boat building course has been a win-win. The Maritime Centre has been able to realize its dream of involving children at the centre in this way, one that they hope to continue with other school groups in the future. The students have been fortunate, too.

They have had the chance to work with wood using hand tools, saws and other machines as they have progressed through the boat building process.

“Providing different opportunities and environments to learn in is important for children,” McLeod said. “A hands-on opportunity like this is invaluable and,

Lew Penney shows two students from Maple Bay Elementary School how to use the sander at the Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre during a special boat building course last fall.

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for many of these kids, a once in a lifetime experience.”

The partnership with Maple Bay Elementary includes a fee that was generously paid for by the Parent Advisory Council.

The fee covers the materials, instructional time and, at the end of the course, the boat will belong to the school.

“We think we’ll be able to easily recoup the costs of the course by raffling the boat off when it is complete,” said McLeod.

The Maritime Centre is looking to run another children’s boat building course in the New Year or early spring.

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MUSINGS of a Magpie Mind (Bits and pieces of history, travel and trivia, collected over the years by Bill Greenwell) primitive privy we used, when we kids were evacuated to the countryside, to avoid the Gerry bombs). But let’s look into the legendary loos of yore. We’re told that some of the ancient civilizations were remarkably advanced in their sanitation systems, but we’ll start with the Romans, who were certainly ahead of the western world at the time. In Europe in particular, despite some enterprising one-offs, we didn’t really catch up with their technology until the late 18th century.

My family lived very near to the Roman Wall that stretches

across the north of England. In fact our neighbourhood boasted a wealth of excavations from that period, including an ancient temple that stood just down the street, between two houses. It was dedicated to Mithras, one of the favourite gods worshipped by the troops who manned those God-forsaken outposts against the marauding, blue-painted Picts, the tribal ancestors of today’s Scots.

The Emperor Hadrian’s engineers made sure that the wind-swept fortifications along his famous wall featured the

latest comforts, which included central heating in the barracks, plus latrines served by running water. Today the excavated rows of stone toilet holes, which were originally capped with wooden seats, bear witness to early sanitary ingenuity. When the Roman armies withdrew from Britain around 408 A.D. plumbing over there took a turn for the worse. Perhaps that’s one reason why the centuries after the exodus were called the Dark Ages, because for the next few See MUSINGS, Page 22

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL EVENT TEMPORARY USE PERMIT Applicable to Electoral Area E – Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/Glenora A Public Meeting will be held regarding a Temporary Use Permit Application for a four-day music festival (Rock of the Woods) at a property legally described as The South ½ of Section 7, Range 9, Sahtlam District, Except Parts in Plans 32322, 39629, 47605, VIP61622, VIP70150 and VIP83982 and shown on the map below.

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Thursday, January 22, 2015 TIME 7:00 pm Sahtlam Fire Hall, 4384 Cowichan Lake Road, Duncan, BC

Chamber pots were emptied every morning — out of the windows and into the street, and this medieval picture shows the possible consequences.

Shakespeare’s father, a town councillor, was fined a shilling in 1552 for maintaining a dunghill at his front door in Stratford. Local taxes didn’t include sanitation services!

The lowdown on the LOO. A delicate dissertation on a rather indelicate subject.

The applicant is proposing to host a music festival on the subject property from July 23 to 26, 2015. The event is expected to have an attendance of up to 1000 per day. Performance times are proposed to be limited as follows:

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his Christmas, Santa dropped off some nice little surprises for me, plus the usual bundle of books. One in particular caught my eye, a slim little volume with an intriguing title on its cover: A Lavatorial Miscellany.

I was naturally curious. How much in the way of royalties could a book like this generate, I wondered. It deals with a subject that we all know had long been almost unmentionable in genteel society, particularly in the fuddyduddy days when Victoria and the landed gentry set the tone for polite conversation. But this little volume has turned out to be a good read, with some quaint facts and funny illustrations, the sort of book that doesn’t take up much room at the breakfast table and produces the occasional chortle — good company for my poached egg.

I’ve always had an interest in social history, and military too of course, but the fascination of discovering how people through the ages had managed in their homes, in their work and in their determination not only to survive but to prosper, has kept

Thursday, July 23rd – 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm Friday, July 24th – 12:00 pm to 12:30 am Saturday, July 25th – 12:00 pm to 12:30 am Sunday, July 26th – 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm The purpose of the public meeting is to familiarize adjacent residents and the public with the proposed event and to obtain community input on the application. Comments received at the public meeting will be recorded and provided to the CVRD Board to assist with its consideration of the application.

me hooked on authors like Bill Bryson and the like, who answer my questions so well.

This little book adds a few more chapters to this knowledge. It describes, with tongue in cheek, the various primitive means provided over the years for us to perform one of our more private functions, a subject that understandably hasn’t inspired much attention from the world of literature. But then, neither have the fridge, vacuum cleaner or other contraptions that we rely on. But the loo, however distasteful, has a sort of naughty relish to it as an object of interest, rather like some of those old, ribald music hall jokes, so beloved of boisterous audiences in the cheap seats.

So let me share a few facts with you that I unearthed (and that very word reminds me of the

At the public meeting, CVRD staff and the applicant will explain the Temporary Use Permit Application. The CVRD will then facilitate a question and answer session, and persons who deem their interests to be affected by this application are invited to provide comments. Written submissions regarding the application may be submitted before, during, or up to one week following the meeting by: Fax: 250-746-2621 Email: ds@cvrd.bc.ca Mail and/or deposit at the Regional District office: 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC, V9L 1N8 Please note that all correspondence submitted to the CVRD in response to this Notice will form part of the public record and will be published in a meeting agenda that is posted online when this matter is before the Board or a Committee of the Board.

The CVRD considers the author’s address relevant to the Board’s consideration of this matter and will disclose this personal information. The author’s phone number and email address is not relevant and should not be included in the correspondence IF the author does not wish this personal information disclosed. Please contact the Planning & Development Department at 250-746-2620 or 1-800-665-3955, or the Recording Secretary at the time of submission. For more information on disclosure, contact the CVRD FOI Coordinator at 250-746-2507 or 1-800-665-3955.

Note: The CVRD has prepared a staff report to the Electoral Area Services Committee related to this proposal. You may request a copy by sending an email to the address noted above or telephoning the CVRD office. The report is also available for viewing online at www.cvrd.bc.ca/index.aspx?NID=1282 FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT Rob Conway, Manager, Development Services Division, Planning & Development Department at 250-746-2620 or by email rconway@cvrd.bc.ca.

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MUSINGS of a Magpie Mind THE LOWDOWN, From Page 21

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exchanged tweets last week with a commercial truck driver who was less than impressed with the winter maintenance of B.C.’s highways. There is no doubt in my mind that when your livelihood depends on being able to keep your truck moving road maintenance is a subject near and dear to your heart. My question is, was this gentleman speaking from emotion or was he being realistic?

If money was no object, we could hire enough people and equipment that snow removal vehicles would pass by you on any highway in B.C. like transit buses in downtown Vancouver at rush hour. This is not realistic of course. Our taxes would not support it and what would you do with all that manpower and machinery when the snow wasn’t falling?

When I travel in winter, part of the plan includes the decision on whether it is appropriate to travel at all. If it is, and I run into an unforeseen situation, it’s up to me to have some stake in being able to look after myself. Good winter tires, chains, jumper cables, a shovel, some sand, breakdown warnings, you get the idea. I cannot and should not place 100 per

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cent of the job on the shoulders of the road maintenance contractors.

Yes, sometimes road maintenance is not ideal. People get sick and can’t come to work, equipment breaks down and Mother Nature just dumps more snow out of the sky than even the best can cope with.

It’s all a compromise and in my experience the crews seem to do quite well more often than not.

Enough that I am still procrastinating about buying the set of chains for my truck that I swore I would buy after getting stuck on an unplowed road a couple of years ago.

The author is a retired constable with many years of traffic law enforcement experience. To comment or learn more, please visit drivesmartbc.ca

hundred years, the monasteries were probably the only places where hygiene seemed to count.

Many of them had quite sophisticated piped water systems and the monks obeyed sensible rules about washing before meals.

Since they all had to follow a rigid routine every day, some of their latrines were huge spaces with seats set back-to back in double rows. Stored rain water from the roofs helped drain away the effluent.

But in the nobility’s castles, draughty private garderobes were built into the massive stone walls, and they usually emptied into the moat or cesspits below.

But these facilities often caused more lethal problems than mere chilly discomfort because they compromised the castles’ defence systems. Several supposedly impregnable strongholds were captured by siege troops climbing up the garderobe shafts and taking the defenders by surprise.

By 1596, the man who might be called the “father of the water closet”, Sir John Harington, invented a cistern and valve combination then wrote a book about it. The contraption didn’t rally catch on, but worked well enough for Queen Elizabeth to have one installed in her Richmond palace, and a copy of the book was kept chained to the

wall beside the royal loo.

By the late 18th century some of the great mansions boasted water closets, but invariably they were situated outside. The pottery industry quickly recognized the profit potential of these new gadgets, and soon the age of Victorian sanitary magnificence arrived with bowls, cisterns and seats sporting splendid designs and ornamentation. The gentry often ordered theirs complete with the family coat of arms!

Of course the workers, the men, women and their children, who were crowded into burgeoning cities to toil in the mills and factories, had no such luxuries.

Housed in squalid rows of terraced tenements, they carried their water from a communal pump and shared an earth privy with several households. Not surprisingly, disease was rife.

Cholera and typhoid claimed thousands of lives in these industrial slums. In my home town for instance, three epidemics killed off many, many families, and most of the deaths were traced to fecal matter fouling the community water pumps.

Eventually these dreadful mortality rates focussed public attention on the unsanitary disgrace of Britain’s congested urban ghettos. Their open cesspits were gradually replaced by underground sewerage systems but not without much grumbling

from many wealthy city aldermen, who railed at the expense.

Meanwhile inventors continued to introduce more clever ideas, but sadly most of them were flawed. It wasn’t until the 1870s that efficient water closets were available to those who could afford them. Then an historic figure stepped into the public spotlight and added a new word to our lexicon — the wonderfully named Thomas Crapper, mistakenly believed by many to have invented the flush loo. Not so. What he did though, was to perfect a mechanism that can be found in modern cisterns, which allows water to circulate on demand. Perhaps his heirs are still earning royalties from his patent, but I recently read that a new lavatory valve has been designed which will perhaps have the same effect on plumbing as the silicone chip has had on electronics.

No wonder, when interviewed, its inventor seemed flushed with success.

(Bill Greenwell prospered in the ad agency arena for 40 years. He retains a passion for medieval history, marine paintings and piscatorial pursuits. His wife Patricia indulges him in these interests, but being a seasoned writer from a similar background, she has always deplored his weakness for alliteration. This has sadly had no effect on his writing style, whatsoever.)

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Miscellaneous • January Documentary Night at the Library features film “Narco Cultura”, a gritty look at the drug war in Mexico focusing on a Ciudad Juarez crime scene investigator who risks his life every time he leaves his house and a musician from Los Angeles who glamourizes drug lords with popular music. Monday, Jan. 19, 6-8 p.m., free, Duncan library.

• Duncan Aglow hosting evening of prayer and worship Monday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m. New Life Church in Duncan. Speaker: Rev. Hilda Chen who has been an integral part of the King of Kings Assembly in Jerusalem. Some of her most exciting work abroad has included Aliyah, whereby Jews are assisted in their return to Israel from the Former Soviet Union, and she also taught at the Discipleship School at the Israel College of the Bible.

• Cowichan Fish and Game hosting Canadian Firearm Safety course, restricted and nonrestricted, starting Friday, Feb. 6, at Glenora clubhouse. Info and registration: Mike 250-7480319 or email canadianfirearmsafety@shaw.ca

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• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre Pancake Breakfast, Saturday, Jan. 17, 9-11 a.m.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre Burns Night and Pot Luck Birthday Party, Saturday, Jan. 17, 5-8:30 p.m.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre soup and sandwich, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

• Valley Seniors Activity Centre, 198 Government St., Duncan open 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. $20 per year.

Carpet bowling, cribbage, billiards crafts, bridge, choir, bus trips on our own bus. Live music Mondays and Wednesdays 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Dances every 1st and 3rd Saturday evening 7:30 p.m.10:30 p.m. Open to public for Bingo each Tuesday.

Many special events throughout the year. Check

out Monthly Newsletter at valley-seniors.org and consider membership if you’re 55 years or older. Info: 250-746-4433.Info: 250-746-4433 or www. valley-seniors.org

Recreation • Geronimo Stilton Art Show, Duncan library, Jan. 18-24, children of all ages. Come and create your own work of art inspired by Geronimo Stilton books. Work will be posted in library.

• Paws 4 stories, Duncan library, Wednesdays, Jan. 21 and 28, 3:30-4:30 p.m., ages 6-12. Meet Talini the therapy dog.

• Light up the night storytime, Duncan library, Thursday, Jan. 22, 4-5 p.m., ages 3-plus and families. Storytime features glow in the dark and light-themed crafts and stories.

Meetings • Royal Canadian Legion Branch 53 general meeting for all Legion members Sunday, Jan. 18, 2 p.m., Duncan Community Lodge, Moose Road, lower level.

• New book club at Duncan library. Group to meet third Saturday of every month noon1:30 p.m. Leave name and number at front desk of library to find out more or call library 250-746-7661.

• Cowichan Valley Garden Club meets the second Wednesday of each month at St. John’s Anglican Church hall, 486 Jubilee St., Duncan, 7 p.m. Newcomers welcome. Info: 250-709-2608.

Arts • Ladysmith Camera Club presents “Become a Better Photographer” by award winning photographer Inge Riis McDonald and Ken Meisner, who will show you how to evaluate your pics.

Tuesday, Jan. 27, 7 p.m., Hardwick Hall, High Street at 3rd Avenue. Non-members $5 drop-in fee. www.LadysmithCameraClub.com

Black Tie Awards 2015 Call for Nominations The Black Tie Awards honour excellence in business and volunteerism in the Cowichan Valley Regional District.

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Customer Service Sponsored by Cardino’s Shoes Volunteer of the Year – Excellent Frameworks & the E.J. Hughes Gallery Young Entrepreneur of the Year – Sponsored by Coastal Community Credit Union Business Achievement 1 – 10 Employees Sponsored by Island Savings Business Achievement 11 – 19 Employees Sponsored by Jim Tyson Investors Group Business Achievement 20 or more Employees – Sponsored by MNP Green Business Award – Sponsored by Economic Development Cowichan Art in Business Award - Sponsored by Brentwood College School

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• The Stuart Channel Youth Baseball prospects team received a $1,500 donation this week from the Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) as part of the union’s Building Communities Together program.

The team was nominated by Leigh Melnick, who is a member of Construction Workers Union, CLAC Local 63 and a union steward. Melnick is currently employed by Pyramid Corporation working in Norman Wells, NWT but he’s keen on helping young athletes in his home town.

“The kids on the team range in ages from 10-12 years old,” Melnick said. “All of these kids have a passion to play, but many cannot afford the cost of travel and sports equipment that comes along with playing baseball. Because our community is very small, it is important to find ways to keep kids engaged in sports so they can keep physically fit, have positive activity choices, gain self-confidence, and create healthy relationships.”

• Seven Cowichan Valley businesses have been named finalists in the Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards.

The BC Forest Discovery Centre and Hudson’s On First are finalists in the hospitality/tourism category, while Cowichan Sound & Cellular is a finalist in the retail business category.

Hatton Insurance has made the cut in the small business category, and Tim Openshaw Contracting of Chemainus is among the finalists in the construction/development category.

Merridale Estate Cidery is in the running for top prize in the agriculture business category, and Cedars Discovery Centre in Cobble Hill is up for business of the year.

“It never ceases to amaze us the scope and diversity of the companies that are nominated for these prestigious awards,” says Business Examiner Publisher Mark MacDonald. “There are simply a large number of outstanding businesses on the island, and this event provides a platform to celebrate their innovations and successes.”

There are 17 categories in all.

Winners will be announced Thursday, Jan. 22 at a ceremony at the Westin Bear Mountain Resort.

See www.businessvi.ca/events for gala tickets.

Community Safety Advisory Commission Applications for Membership

The Cowichan Valley Regional District is accepting applications from interested persons wishing to serve as a member of the Community Safety Advisory Commission for a four-year term ending December 31, 2018.

The Commission advises the Board on community safety issues of regional,sub-regional and interagency importance.

The Commission has a leading role in providing advice and support to safer communities’ initiatives across the region.

Persons interested in volunteering their time to sit as a member of the Commission should submit a letter of application to Joe Barry, Corporate Secretary, Cowichan Valley Regional District, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC V9L 1N8 by mail or by email to jbarry@cvrd.bc.ca. Additional information may be obtained by calling the Corporate Secretary at (250) 746.2506 or toll free at 1 800 665.3955.

The following information is requested in the letter of application: name, address, postal code, home and/or business telephone number, email address, history of community involvement, other relevant history, technical or special expertise, and reasons for seeking appointment.

Applications are to be submitted by 9:00 am on Monday, January 26, 2015.

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Poleman rink tops bonspiel LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Out of a total of 27 teams, including 10 from outside the Cowichan Valley, competing in the 63rd annual men’s bonspiel at the Glen Harper Curling Rink last weekend, Gerald Poleman’s rink carried off the Duncan Ironworks A event.

The final saw Poleman and Randy Thiessen (third), Graham Smith (second) and Jim Machel (lead) square off against a Jim Bangle rink that included Kevin Lamont (third) Steve Neil (second) and Rick Manifold (lead).

According to spiel chair Sandy Rai, it was a well-fought encounter.

“Poleman started strong with one in the first end and four more in the second, Bangle got one in the third, two more in the fourth end making it 5-3. Game on again.

Poleman came back with one more in the fifth and six ends to make it 7-3. They now played the seventh end where Poleman got another, won the event and the two rinks shook hands,” he said.

Finishing third was the Doug Muir rink from Esquimalt with fourth going to the Brian Aaberg rink.

The Creative Woodcrafting B event final pitted Larry Mattin rink of Lou Oud (third), Dean Hallet (second) and Steve Rumold (lead) against Port Alberni’s Glen Cheetham rink that included Bruce Kendall (third), Rob Bandon (second) and Frank Rawcliffe (lead).

“It was a great game to watch going into an extra end,” Rai said.

“Mattin went ahead with one in both the first and second ends.

Cheetham came back with one in the third and two in the fourth and then Mattin came back with three in the fifth taking the lead by two.

Cheetham got two in the sixth end, tying it at 5-5.

“Then, Mattin got one in the seventh and then Cheetham came back with one in the eighth end, making it a tie game and forcing

Capitals notch barnburner win in overtime ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Strategic play means all hands on deck in this matchup. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN] an extra end. Cheetham got one buried and guarded it well. Mattin couldn’t do better and Cheetham won.”

Third in the B division was Tim Cullen’s rink from Nanaimo and in fourth was the Reynold Hert rink.

In the Leon Signs C Event final, the watching crowd saw another close game with Doug Gamble’s rink of Jim Odo (third), Rich Odo (second) and Randy Wise (lead) going against Tanner McQuarrie rink of Dave Court (third), Jamie Erickson (second) and Ryan Kline (lead).

“Gamble got one in the first end but McQuarrie came back with one in each of the second and third ends and three more in the fourth end, taking the lead 5-1.

Gamble came back with three in the fifth end, leaving him only one back. McQuarrie got one more in the sixth, moving ahead by two.

“But Gamble poured it on, with three in the seventh end, taking the lead and then sealing it by stealing one in the eighth,” according to Rai. Third place went to the Bart

Sawyer rink and fourth went to the Keith Ainslie rink.

The Ingram Pharmacy D final saw Duaine Hardie’s rink with Bob Court (skip), Dave Cassidy (third) Hardie (second) and Garrett Elliot (lead) going against Mickey Gagnon rink with Steve Whynott (third), Sandy Rai (second) and Doug Riehl (lead).

Hardie had hard luck in this game.

“Gagnon got one in the first end, four in the second, one in the third and two more in the fourth, making it time to shake hands,” Rai said.

Third place was the Mike Moroz rink and fourth went to the Jason Montgomery rink.

Rai said that the event went “really well” this year.

“These days it’s hard getting a lot of teams at times but we managed to get 27 and that’s not bad.

It’s hard getting younger people to stay steady with everything else they have to do these days,” he said.

Next up at the curling club is the Ladies Bonspiel, scheduled for Jan. 23-25.

The Cowichan Valley Capitals won an overtime thriller 6-5 at the Island Savings Centre Tuesday night against the Victoria Grizzlies.

“I think the fans got their money’s worth, that’s for sure,” said head coach Bob Beatty. “I thought they played pretty well.

We did let a 3-1 lead slip, but we didn’t throw in the towel and hang our heads and we were able to come back and fortunately we were able to pull it out.”

The Caps led off the scoring in the first period at the eight-minute mark when Kade Kehoe put one in the net on a power play with assists from Rylan Bechtel and Ryan Burton.

Four minutes later they made it 2-0 off a goal by Skylar Pacheco with assists from Carter Turnbull and Ryan Hogg.

The Grizzlies came back to within one on a power play 14 minutes into the first.

The Capitals widened the lead again early in the second frame with a goal from Sean Harrison, with assists from Luke Santerno and Darien Craighead.

But the Grizzlies weren’t done.

The visitors came back with three goals of their own, only to have their lead snatched in the dying minutes of the second period by Cowichan’s Pacheco with his second goal of the game, assisted by Kehoe and Adam Osczevski.

Going into the third period tied at four apiece, the Grizzlies once again took the lead ten minutes in, holding it until just before the buzzer, when Capital Craighead tied it up at 19:25 with assists from Pacheco and Bechtel.

“The adrenaline’s flowing,” said Beatty of what it’s like to be behind the bench as the seconds tick down and your team is still looking for a goal. What he does in those critical moments is put the guys out there he thinks can best do the job.

And they did. Julien Lepage scored the game winner for Cowichan just two minutes into overtime, with assists from Kehoe and Craighead.

“They came through for us last night,” said Beatty.

The coach had praise for a number of players after Tuesday’s win.

Affiliate players Ryan Hogg, Carter Turnbull and Brandon Tutte all played really well, Beatty said.

“We didn’t plan to play them all together from the outset but Ryan Hogg had an excellent game. I thought he played his best game of the year,” he said.

Lepage also got a nod for his overtime winner, and Kehoe put in a good effort with a goal and two assists, the coach said, while Pacheco turned in two goals and an assist.

The team had to juggle some offensive lines, Beatty said, with Kyle Horsman and Brody Smith both out and last week’s trade of Thomas Gobeil.

Beatty was also pleased with the play of the defence, singling out Jake Switzer as having “one of his best games of the season.”

Newcomer Michal Holub “showed that he belongs,” the coach said.

The Capitals play again Friday night starting at 7 p.m. at the Island Savings Centre, against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.

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Darien Craighead, right, has been selected to play in the Canadian Junior Hockey League’s Prospects Game next week. [CITIZEN FILE]

Craighead to play Prospects Game KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Isles had to work hard to keep up with a motivated Saanich Braves team in Saturday’s game at Kerry Park Arena. This week, they recharge their batteries for Westshore. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

Kerry Park Islanders drop 2 weekend games LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Kerry Park Islanders get another kick at the can at home Saturday night, Jan. 17 and, following a pair of losses last weekend, club owner Mark Osmond is hoping the guys bring their A game.

The Isles were outplayed 4-1 by the Saanich Braves at home Saturday and then were outgunned 8-6 by Oceanside Generals in Parksville in a penalty-filled encounter that included a slugfest after the whistle at the end of the second period.

“I don’t want to talk to you too much about the weekend. We lost Saturday night and we also lost Sunday, too. It’s been a grim 2015 so far for our team,” Osmond said Monday.

Asked if a few of the players seemed sluggish from the get-go Saturday, Osmond agreed.

“You had half the team firing and the other half not putting the effort in and it’s showing,” he said, adding that it’s time for the players to step up.

“We have to just try and motivate some of these kids and get them to perform like

they’re meant to. We’ve given them the platform. We’ve given them the training, the coaching. Now it’s up to them,” he said.

Saanich really looked up for the game Saturday night and were able to deal with whatever Kerry Park could bring against them.

“It was a big game. It was third versus fourth. Now they’re third and we’re fourth,” Osmond said. “They wanted it. They’re a hard working team. I wish some of our players would have fed off that. Because when you’ve got half the team playing like that and half not, it’s hard to play against a team that does it every line, every shift.”

Now, the Isles are preparing for a game Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. against Westshore.

“It’s another big game. And it’s Hockey Day in Canada, too,” Osmond said.

“We’re having some of the initiation kids come out between the first and second period to have a mini game in our game. And during the day, I think there is a bantam A and a midget A game before us. So, come out to Kerry Park and watch it all.”

The play of Darien Craighead since he joined the Cowichan Valley Capitals earlier this season has been recognized at the highest levels as he has been selected to play in the Canadian Junior Hockey League’s Prospects Game in Oakville, Ontario on Jan. 20.

The annual game showcases the top undrafted young players in the CJHL, as identified by NHL Central Scouting. The CJHL and NHL work together to select players for the game. Craighead will play on Team West, made up of players from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario.

“It’s a huge honour but I have to give a lot of credit to my teammates and coaching staff here in Cowichan,” Craighead said. “To be recognized for individual success is just a bonus. It’s a chance to throw

yourself out there, get exposed, and just really enjoy the experience.”

Craighead joined the Caps last fall in a trade with the Langley Rivermen. In 25 games this season — two with Langley and 23 with Cowichan — Craighead has scored eight goals and added 16 assists for 24 points. In his rookie season a year ago, he scored three times and added 19 assists for 22 points in 49 games with the Rivermen.

“The Capitals are excited on Darien’s behalf on his selection to the Prospects Game,” Caps head coach and general manager Bob Beatty said.

“It’s a great opportunity for him to showcase his talent with and against some of the best young prospects in Canada. Darien has a great skill set and tremendous vision with the puck and will continue to be a big part of our exciting young forward group.”

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• 50’ x 5/8” co pliance rope

SPECIAL PRICE

SALE

49.99

Reg. $69.99

15 8” NARROW CROWN STAPLER

2” 18G BRAD FINISH NAILER

• Drives 5/8” to 158” Staples • Toll Free Depth Adjust ents • Swivel Exhaust • Tool Free Ja Release

• Drive 5/8 to 2” Nails • Tool Free Adjust ent • Reload Indicator • Non marring Tips

SAVE

00

50

DW130V

YOUR CHOICE $ .99

39

70

PEAK WORKS ROPE LIFELINE W/ SNAP HOOKS

3 PC MAGNETIC TOOL BARS

• Power Full 5 AmP motor • All Ball Bearing motor • Cut 7/32 Strip While Cutting • Variable Speed

$

LEVEL ONLY

.99 199

299

DW292

18 GAUGE SWIVEL HEAD SHEAR

$

$

HOT PRICE

$

Reg. $59.99

SAVE

00

20

SALE

$

SAVE

.99

99

5 YEAR WARRANTY

Reg. $139.99

00

40

$

NT50AE2

SALE

.99

119

10” HD TILE SAW W/ STAND

$

.99

899

List $1389.00

TITANIUM HAMMERS Hickory handle • Titanium 16 oz 15 oz avail

SAVE

D24000S

Reg. $219.99

.99

119

HI END HAND PLANES/ SWEETHEARTS

.99

139

SPECIAL PRICE

48900 $

• Accurate to 1/8” xx 30’ • Built in magnetic Pivot • Self Leveling • C/W Hard Case

$

TI - BONE TITANIUM HAMMERS

40

N3804AB3

• Attach to any circular saw • Will cut angles up to 45° • Cuts up to a 12’ 90° bea

• Your choice 15 oz or 14 oz mini

SAVE

SAVE

SELF LEVELING LINE LASER

SALE

5 YEAR Reg. $159.99 WARRANTY

00

12” BEAM CUTTER

• Cantilevering Rail Syste Allows up to 24” Rips • Stainless Steel Rails • Integrated 22.5”/ 45” miter Feature • Plunge Head • 3 1/8” Depth of Cut • 1.5 HP motor

SPECIAL PRICE

SAVE

DW087K

NEW! SAVE 15%OFF

00

SALE

$

$

.99

249

90

$

179

Reg. $339.99

8” PRO DADO SET

SALE

.99

99

Reg. $139.99

.99 Reg. $249.99

PR-2700

FREUD INDUSTRIAL IAL SAW BLADES

• Create Clean Edges/ Square Shoulders/ Flat Botto Grooves & Vertically Splinter Free Cuts

$

SALE

70

SAVE

00

40

SD208

SAVE

%

20

OFF

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$

SALE

SAVE

179 25’ KITS $ 159.99

TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS -TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARTPS 5PC COBALT COATED HD HAMMER STAPLER HD HAND STAPLER 13” 2 SPEED PLANER HD STEP BIT SET SPECIAL PURCHASE

• Bench Top Model • 15 AMP Powerful Motor • 2 Speed Gear Box • Fan Assisted Chip Evacuator • Automatic Carriage Lock

SAVE

7000 SALE

$

24

SAVE

.99 Reg. $34.99

SALE

$

19

PHT150C

SAVE

00

80

PUNCH & FLANGE TOOL

.99

69

Reg. $149.99

TR110

ROK TAPERING JIG FOR TABLE SAWS

SALE

$239

SALE

SALE

.99 $339.99 Reg. $219.99

$

Reg. $29.99

• Drive 2” To 3¼” Nails • Bump Fire/ Single Fire Trigger • Adjustable Depth Controller • Compact Design

.99

439

00

80

Reg. $519.99

NV75AG

EVERYDAY LOW PRICE

$

319

.99

$

Reg. $389.99

NV90AG

4 1/2” ANGLE GRINDER

9

USED COVER-ALLS Sizes to fill all!

“BIG” 1000 PK. BISCUITS

MAX

SAVE

.99

349

9000

Reg. $439.99

SN883CH/28

$

49

Reg. $89.99

• Beach Wood

20% OFF

00

61255

.99

10’X20’ 549 $ .99 12’X20’ 649 $ .99 12’X28’ 899

SAVE

.99

40

3/4” PIPE CLAMPS • Hardened Leaves • 3 leave spring • Soft jaw pads

SALE

$ .99

9

Reg. $16.99

SAVE

41%

SALE

59.99

WOBBLE LIGHTS

NOW IN STOCK SAVE

$

SALE

3000

PORTABLE FAN BLOWER

SALE PRICE

TITE BOND GLUE

29.99 1000PK.

SALE

DW735

Reg. $89.99

WESTERN PREMIUM ALL SEASON CANOPY’S SNOW/WIND/RAIN PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT!

$ 99

#0 #10 #20

$

MADE IN JAPAN SAVE

Reg. $699.99

54060

• 1¾” - 3½” Capacity • Side Load Tilt Bottom Magazine • Sequential / Bump At A Flick Of A Switch

MADE IN JAPAN

10000

SAVE

33

.99

• Utility Gun Shoots Framing & Siding Nails • 200-300 Nail Capacity • Full Round Head Nails • Shoot 1¾” - 3” Nails

SALE

599

%

SALE

19

54060

SAVE

.99

SAVE

3¼” 28º FRAMING NAILER

K. 100.9P9 7

Reg. $119.98 90054

SALE

WELDING CART W/TANK STORAGE

3½” FRAMING COIL NAILER

$

$

.99

3” SIDING / FRAMING NAILER

SALE

.98

30 TON

139

409034

SALE

49

12 TON HYDRAULIC SHOP PRESS 20 TON

$

.99

33

$

ROK

8000 $

%

Reg. $29.99

SAVE

SALE

SAVE

- 1/4” - 1 3/8” - 3/16” - 7/8” - 1/4” - 3/4” - 1/8” - 1/2” - 3/16” - 1/2”

• Multi fan speeds • Up to 300LFM of air power SOLVE MOISTURE PROBLEMS

MOVE $ THE AIR

4000

SALE

49.98

Reg. $89.95

24” HD FAN • 2 Speed • 7700 Max CFM

UR UT YO DRY O L SPACE CRAW

$

SALE

.99

149

Reg. $189.99

SAVE

4000

TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS -TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS -

FALL KITS

• 400 lb capacity • 3 point • Quick connect legs & chest • Certifi ed CSA 2259.10

• Auto atic air da ped co pensator • Horizontal circle with 360° divisions • C/W round top tripod & 4 Grade stick

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TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS -TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARTPS ½” ELECTRIC IMPACT 24X BUILDERS PEAK WORKS FBH-10002A PEAK WORKS SALE TOOL LEVEL FALL ARREST $ .99 • 345 FT LBS of Torque Jogger24 Reg. $249.99 Forward & Reverse HARNESSES • 24x agnifi cation • AC/DC Rocking Switch • Ball Bearing Construction

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