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Flu sends double number of victims to hospital LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

South End firefighters, BC Ambulance personnel, passersby, and the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP tend to victims of a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 18 on Wednesday afternoon. This 2013 Honda Civic was struck from behind by a 2006 Hyundai Accent, which ended up in the ditch beside the highway. Both vehicles were registered to Victoria owners. The driver and three passengers in the Honda suffered undetermined injuries. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

The number of people who’ve had to be hospitalized with the flu doubled this year, according the Island Health officials.

Dr. Paul Hasselback, Medical Health Officer for Central Island, said that although more people are being treated in hospitals it doesn’t necessarily translate to a tougher strain of the bug.

“Influenza is a problem every year. I like to think that it’s a virus with a bit of a personality. Each year, we’re trying to find out what that personality looks like.

“This year we’re seeing a lot of people that are older and perhaps have some medical conditions who are being kind of really whacked out by the influenza for a few days,” he said.

That would include a big chunk of the Valley’s population, given the demographic.

“Its not just the Cowichan Valley, but right across the Island,” Hasselback said. “Those individuals are having a tough time coping within their own living environment.

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Assessments bring ‘modest changes’ to Valley values LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

It’s a bit of seesaw for Valley property owners as they look at their assessments for 2015.

BC Assessment announced its annual look at assessment trends around the province as its notices go out in the mail.

This time of year always sees homeowners anxiously opening their notices to find out what’s happened to property values.

What are the area’s priciest properties?

Like last year, the property at 249 Fraser Point Rd. on Thetis Island tops the region’s assessments, valued at $3,172,000, with a site at 450 Meredith Rd. in Cherry Point coming second at $2,672,000.

Next up is Dayman Island, classified as Duncan Rural, with an assessment of $2,665,000, followed by 6439 Lakes Rd. in North Cowichan at $2,641,000.

“Most homes in the Cowichan Valley are remaining stable,” said Vancouver Island regional deputy assessor Bill Dawson.

“Most home owners in the Cowichan Valley will see modest changes in the minus-10 per cent to plus-10 per cent range.”

Overall, Cowichan Valley’s assessment roll decreased from $10,751,961,341 (valued July 1, 2013) to 10,757,489 (valued July 1, 2014). It was $11,006,821,659 as of July 1, 2012, he reported.

This overall 2015 roll value is slightly lower despite an increase of almost $127 million from subdivisions, rezoning and new construction.

In the City of Duncan, the average single family dwelling went down from $262,300 in 2013 to $247,447 in 2014 to $245,100 in 2015.

Average strata condominiums in Duncan went down from $146,200 in 2013 to $139,900 in 2014 to $133,000 in 2015.

In North Cowichan, the average single family dwelling assessed at $325,400 for 2013 went down to $314,700 in 2014 and has now dropped to $312,000 in 2014.

In the Town of Ladysmith, an average

single family dwelling in 2013 was valued at $288,500, for 2014 it was $285,100, increasing slightly to $285,400 for 2015.

Average strata condominiums in Ladysmith have dropped from $178,700 in 2013 to $153,300 in 2015.

In the Town of Lake Cowichan, single family dwellings assessed at $219,100 in 2013 dropped in 2014 to $202,700 but bounced part of the way back to $208,100 in 2015.

Under the category of Cowichan Rural, which includes areas like Mill Bay, Shawnigan Lake, and Cobble Hill, “pretty well everywhere south of Duncan,” according to Dawson, single family dwellings on under two acres of land went down from $375,200 to $357,000 in 2014 but are now at $362,400 in 2015 and single family dwellings on over two acres went down from $499,600 to $488,000, again dropping in 2015 to $487,600.

Lake Cowichan Rural (which includes Youbou and Honeymoon Bay and a lot of pricey waterfront) bucked a downward trend a little last year but this year that kind of property is dropping in value again.

The average single family dwelling on under two acres there went up a little from an average assessment of $277,926 for 2013 to $291,000 for 2014.

However, this year it’s down again, moving to $285,400.

In Lake Cowichan Rural, single family dwellings on more than two acres were unchanged in 2013-14 at $383,000 but they are now up to $389,700, Dawson said.

According to BC Assessment, in general, commercial property assessments have remained stable in the Cowichan Valley with a taxable commercial assessment roll of $817,960,841.

A total of almost $18 million in new commercial value has been added due to various changes including subdivision, rezoning and new construction.

Dawson has seen values rise and fall, saying that in his decades at BC Assessment he’s even seen some years with consider-

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“Property owners who feel that their property assessment does not reflect market value as of July 1, 2014 or see incorrect

information on their notice should contact BC Assessment as indicated on their notice as soon as possible in January,” said Dawson.

After that, there is a review process available for changes.

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Shawnigan awaiting province’s appeal ruling ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Shawnigan Lake residents eager for the outcome of an appeal made to stop the trucking of contaminated soil into the watershed continue to wait as 2015 dawns.

There has been no indication of when a resolution to the long-running dispute between a large part of the community and South Island Aggregates can be expected.

“I’m certainly on tenterhooks,” said Cowichan Valley Regional District Shawnigan Lake area

Public Hearing Notice is hereby given that North Cowichan Council will hold a public hearing at 1:30 pm on Wednesday January 21, 2015, in the Council Chambers of the North Cowichan Municipal Hall, 7030 Trans Canada Highway, Duncan, BC, to allow Council to receive public input on two proposed bylaws which will amend “Zoning Bylaw 1997,” No. 2950.

Bylaw 3556, “Zoning Amendment Bylaw (No. 8 - Maple Bay Marina), 2014” proposes to reclassify that part of Birds Eye Cove foreshore in District Lot 2084, Cowichan District, Plan EPC629; Folio: 09286.009), shown as “Subject Property” and outlined in bold on the map below, from Private Residence Water Lot (W1) zone to Mixed Use Commercial Water Lot (W3a) zone. The W3a zone permits the following uses: Accessory Dwelling Unit, Aquarium, Boat Charter, Boat Ramp, Boat Rental, Boat Shelter, Float, Float Home (subject to “Float Home Standards Bylaw 1999”, No. 3015), Home-based Business, Marina, Marine Museum, Marine-related Office, Moorage Facility, Parking Use, Pier, Sale of Boats, Sale of Seafood, Water Taxi, Walkway, Way, Wharf, Yacht Club, and Marine-fueling Facility.

If approved, the applicant proposes to relocate a fueling barge, float plane terminal and increase the number of boat slips from approximately 256 to 287.

“I’m certainly on tenterhooks,” SONIA FURSTENAU, Shawnigan Lake area director

director Sonia Furstenau.

South Island Aggregates was granted a permit by the provincial Environment Ministry to accept thousands of tones of contaminated soil in a gravel pit on its site in the Shawnigan Lake watershed.

The Cowichan Valley Regional District, along with the Shawnigan Residents Association launched an appeal of the permit, and Appeal Board hearings began last spring.

The hearings themselves dragged on far longer than anticipated, said Furstenau, taking longer than any hearings in the Appeal Board’s history.

She attended the sessions.

“It was a large collection of experts who testified,” she said. “It was distressing to hear all of the experts and their opinions on it in terms of the fact that none of them thought that the plan was viable.”

The regional district and local residents say that accepting contaminated soil at the South Island Aggregates’ site poses too much of a risk of harmful chemicals entering and destroying the Shawnigan watershed.

After the hearings finally concluded in July, the wait began. Furstenau said there had been speculation that the community would hear something

by October or November of 2014, but that didn’t happen. It has now been the longest wait for a decision in the board’s history, said Furstenau.

South Island Aggregates was allowed to truck in some material while the appeal is in process, but now everything is at a standstill.

The long wait continues.

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If approved, electric bikes and scooter sales and rentals will be permitted in the Commercial General Zone (C2) zone.

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Youth charged in Ladysmith school stabbing TIMES COLONIST

RCMP in Ladysmith say a youth has been charged with assault with a weapon after a stabbing at the local high school.

Officials at Ladysmith High School called police after a student was taken to hospital with a stab wound on Dec. 19.

The student told the RCMP he was walking along a crowded hallway during a break between classes when he felt a sharp pinch in his back, but when he turned, he did not see anyone he recognized.

The student said his back started to hurt and the wound was discovered when a teacher looked at his back.

Mounties interviewed a suspect and the youth, who was released, is expected to return to court next month.

The two teenagers knew each other and police said the motives behind the stabbing are highly unusual though no one else at the school is at risk.

Council wants to talk economic development North Cowichan councillors say they are still interested in having their own economic development committee, despite being told of the importance of regionallybased efforts.

The previous committee was dissolved and no new one is listed among the select committees approved by council at the inaugural meeting.

According to North Cowichan CAO Dave Devana, economic development does need cooperation at a regional rather than just a municipal level.

“Here we can do revitalization and things like that but we should really try to help with a regional effort,” he said.

Mayor Jon Lefebure added that he was taking note of the strong desire from all of council to discuss economic issues.

Council was urged during the public comment period of the meeting to take another look at economic development.

They were also asked to reconsider having their all-day planning session in public instead of behind closed doors, and, when the subject came up later in the meeting, they voted to open the meeting so interested members of the public could watch.

It will be held Jan. 13, beginning at 9 a.m. in the council chambers and run until 5 p.m. or however long it takes to hold the discussions needed.

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Trustees dump hump day LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

School board meetings are moving to Tuesdays.

After many years of holding its sessions on Wednesdays, moving the meeting times back and forward to try to find a way to please everyone, the Cowichan Valley’s trustees decided on Jan. 7 to dump hump day altogether.

Board chair Candace Spilsbury said that time conflicts were the cause of the reexamination of the schedule.

“Several other governments in the area meet on Wednesdays and by changing we could avoid most of them,” she said.

Trustee Rob Hutchins, for instance, serves on the Cowichan Valley Regional District board as well and their sessions are held Wednesdays.

In addition, at least one of the board’s partner groups was finding Wednesday a tough day to schedule, she added.

In addition to changing to Tuesdays, the trustees will now hold one official board meeting a month on the first Tuesday plus one monthly committee of the whole meeting on the third Tuesday.

The idea of regular committee of the whole sessions is new to the school district but other jurisdictions, such as North Cowichan municipal council, hold them on a regular basis.

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Strike aimed to silence? We say Je suis Charlie e at the Citizen, like everyone in the journalism community, were shocked and horrified by the brutal murders of 12 people at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.

This is not just a strike against one publication, it is a strike against freedom of the press and freedom of speech and expression in general.

The two cowardly gunmen and their associates are not heroes or martyrs.

They are nothing more than criminals who hid behind masks as they went on their rampage

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in an attempt to force us all to accept their own skewed extremism, which can’t even tolerate the challenge of a few lines drawn on paper.

It is not about religion. It is about violence and terror.

Whoever’s name they claim to be doing it in means little. Extremists and zealots of all stripes are all the same under the dress-up of whatever cause they claim to represent.

In reality, it is about the coveting of power, and the attempt to take it by force.

And fear that their twisted ideologies won’t stand the bright

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light of clear thinking or heartfelt belief, let alone a real debate or discussion.

Poking fun at a religion, any religion, is a right all of us share, just as it is our right to poke at power in any form.

Whether the result is genuinely funny, genuinely funny to only a few, or genuinely offensive to a few or many doesn’t negate the right to express those views.

Think about where we would be if nobody ever questioned power.

That is traditionally one of the duties of the news media.

The gunmen on Wednesday tried to silence that questioning.

It comes down to the fact that no cartoon could ever be justification enough to kill.

Even in cases of hate speech or threats where we, as a society, do curtail the traditional rights of free speech to a certain extent, the penalty isn’t death.

By and large we cherish the right to say what we think about whatever subject we choose.

How will I know you, and you know me, if we don’t exchange ideas?

How will I convince you if you are dead?

So today, and always, Je suis Charlie.

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Funding decision shows CVRD irresponsibility It’s already clear that the partly new CVRD board is going to act as irresponsibly with taxpayer’s money as the previous board which had a nasty habit of giving away money to third parties with little oversight or realistic assessment of the usefulness of the spending.

Virtually all such CVRD giveaways involve a special interest group pleading for more money that they are unwilling to raise themselves from the public. They do this because it’s a lot easier to get into the taxpayer’s pocket through the weak CVRD board.

Most of the time these groups exaggerate their community ser-

vice and predict that some dire public disaster will occur if they don’t get more money.

Under the direction of the new CVRD chair, who applied for and whose community supposedly benefitted from the increased grant, the board voted to increase the grant to Cowichan Community policing by a whopping 24.9 per cent even though the group did not even ask for that much!

If they gave the group a 25 per cent raise the voters would have to approve this huge grant increase of almost $25,000 on top of the $100,000 the group gets now. This group has spent almost $1 million of taxpayer’s money in the past 10 years.

Just about every other volun-

teer group in the Cowichan Valley raises its own money directly from the public except, of course, the lucky ones that are already in the CVRD trough.

There is a well-paid, full time employee who takes home most of the money provided by taxpayers. The CVRD should require any special interest group asking for taxpayers’ money to fundraise themselves at least 90 per cent of their spending. There is no more acid test of genuine public support than fundraising or a referendum. The better solution is to stop all grants to third parties like most other regional districts in the province.

W.E. (Bill) Dumont Cobble Hill

Re: “Water: if we really care about the future there’s really no choice” David Slade of Drillwell Enterprises makes some great points in his article about the water usage and its future in the Cowichan Valley.

No one can argue that water conservation isn’t a good thing given low summer rains and low winter snows but as his per capita usage figures include all sources of usage both private and commercial, when it’s time for conservation both private citizens and businesses must participate. It can’t always be the little guy tasked with making the sacrifices.

And as a person in the water industry and a member of the Cowichan Watershed Board I can’t believe he doesn’t know or fails to mention where a massive amount of the water is going, when I think most everyone knows it going to the great slurping beast called the Crofton Mill.

It sucks 36,000,000 gallons of water per DAY from the Cowichan River!

That’s enough to fill 65 Olympic size swimming pools each and every day of the year!

It doesn’t stop like we have to on non-watering days.

Surely if he wants to save water for his grandchildren that would be a great place to start.

Barry Dixon Duncan

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School day starts too early; kids coming hungry and tired Thank you for letting me express my opinion!

I’m a Grade 4 student from École Cobble Hill. Over the past few years I’ve been noticing that school has been starting earlier and earlier and earlier. I’ve also noticed that kids have arrived at school looking very tired and hungry. I think the

Children taken from parents a crisis in our province I would like to thank all the people of the Cowichan Valley who came together to make it Merry Christmas for my oldest daughter and myself.

I would like to offer our prayers and support for all the children and families that are suffering from the tyranny of the Duncan branch of the Ministry of Children and Family Development. I would also like to thank and commend Patricia Dawn for her efforts to produce the documentary Stolen Hearts of Cowichan.

There is a crisis in our province, that seems to be more pronounced in our com-

Invite men to take care of themselves in 2015 I would like to send out this invitation to the men of the Cowichan Valley and beyond to take responsibility for their well-being — to be more proactive with their self care.

Why? Because they are important people — they are important to their families and to their friends, and most importantly to themselves.

I would invite men to reach out and ask for help when they are feeling down and isolated.

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Have your say, Cowichan! reason for this is because school starts way, way, way too early (8:15 a.m.).

My mom recently told me that we are mammals and mammals hibernate during the winter. So I think we should get one more hour of sleep. Many of my friends agree that school should start later.

Peter Salmon Mill Bay Age 9

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School starting could mean more flu FLU SENDS, From Page 1 “So, we’ve seen an increase in the number of hospitalizations this year, certainly,” Hasselback said.

“It’s been double over last year but much less in terms of severe outcomes so not the use of the intensive care unit or deaths.

There are some; it’s influenza. But it’s not necessarily as severe.”

Because an older group of people have been affected the community can help to respond.

“If you know somebody in the community that’s older, now is a good time to check on them and provide some additional support if they do happen to get sick. It doesn’t mean that they have to end up in hospital,” Hasselback said.

So far, younger people have escaped the worst of it.

“I have to stress that we’re in the early days,” he cautioned. “Students have been out of school for the last few weeks when the first real waves of influenza hit. They’ve just gone back into school and students are great transmitters of illness and bugs.

I don’t think we’ve seen what the impact is on students yet.”

This flu season has been “pretty typical” as regards timing, hitting strongly in midDecember through to mid- or late-January, he added.

No hospitals or care homes in the Cowichan Valley have been badly hit.

“Yet. But things can change quickly. We post a list on our website,” Hasselback said.

See http://www.viha.ca/mho/public_ health_alerts/active_outbreak_list.htm for facilities in your area.

Hasselback urged anyone who’s thinking of visiting a relative or friend in a care facility to think carefully.

“This is a time when you don’t want to share your germs. If you’re ill, please stay away. You may be the cause of an outbreak,” he said.

“If you do go, watch for signs posted,” Hasselback continued. “They will put them up if necessary. We may also ask individuals to limit their visitations to one person or immediate family members. Oftentimes, we’ll get people who’ll go visit multiple rooms and that’s how it spreads within the facility.”

Island Health requires that anyone visiting a long term care facility be immunized or if they are not, they should wear a mask once they come in the door.

“The best way to prevent an outbreak of flu is to get immunized,” Hasselback said.

But there have been recent reports about this year’s vaccine being a bad fit for this year’s virus.

“Certainly, there’s been a lot of rhetoric about it. People talk about a mismatch and I really don’t like that word. Influenza survives by changing itself so it can re-infect the same people years after years. That’s its survival mechanism,” Hasselback said.

“I kind of liken it to a makeover. We provide in the vaccine a picture of what the virus should look like. But if that virus has had a makeover, depending on how extensive the makeover is, some of the people will recognize it, some people will not,” he said.

So the vaccine may not be as effective as in an ideal year but it may well provide protection and “it is the best thing we have to offer in advance at the moment,” he concluded.

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Highway crash victim identified as Andre Genest

Managing air quality in the CVRD Editor’s Note: This article is the final in a series the Citizen will be publishing in partnership with the provincial Ministry of the Environment and the Cowichan Valley Regional District about the importance of clean air the effects of pollution.

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The BC Coroners Service has released the name of the man who died last Sunday after his truck rolled on the Trans-Canada Highway near Crofton.

He has been identified as 29year-old Andre Rene Genest of Ladysmith.

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The cost of air pollution-related deaths and illnesses in British Columbia could be just over $1.1 billion in 2015, according to the Canadian Medical Association.

They predict 375 premature deaths, and lost productivity, healthcare costs and reduced quality of life due to 1,370 hospital admissions, 10,370 emergency room visits, 71,970 doctor’s office visits, and 2.7 million minor illnesses. If pollution levels stay the same, by 2031 the costs could reach $1.6 billion, reflecting our aging population.

Predicted health impacts and financial costs can be reduced if air quality is improved.

AQBAT, the Air Quality Benefits Assessment Tool used by Health Canada, includes cost factors developed from a number studies on the health effects of air pollution. When these factors are applied to the Cowichan Valley Regional District, decreasing daily average fine particulate (PM2.5) levels just by one microgram per cubic meter over the long term could reduce the number of cases of bronchitis, restricted activity days, emergency room visits and days with acute respiratory symptoms, for a savings of $1.7 million per year.

While these kinds of estimates make a lot of simple assumptions, the general level of impact is not insignificant.

Making a relatively small change in long-term air pollution levels is often not as simple as it sounds.

Sometimes there are obvious places to start, like reducing industrial emissions or smoke from open and backyard burning, but most of the time, multiple sources produce the same pollutants.

To complicate things further, not all pollution is local. Regional and even global weather systems can bring pollutants from distant sources. Some sources are more effectively regulated at the national level while local actions are needed to bring fur ther improvement.

For any given source or pollutant, there are often overlapping strategies, policies and regulations at local, regional, national and even international levels that contribute to air quality management. Take PM2.5 for example.

International efforts take place under the Canada/U.S. Air Quality Ag reement. Canada-wide standards provide common air quality targets for all provinces and territories. B.C. provincial air quality objectives complement the national standards, and various ministries collaborate in regional air quality plans. At the local level,

www.bcairquality.ca/plans/airquality-plans.html Clear the Air Cowichan website: www.cvrd.bc.ca/index. aspx?NID=1469 CMA report (www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/resources/ no-breathing-room-costs-of-airpollution) Eleanor Setton is a research scientist at the University of Victoria. Contributions were also made by the Cowichan Valley Regional District and the B.C. Ministry of Environment.

Genest was alone driving his 2008 Ford F150 pickup south on Highway 1 when it left the highway and rolled about 800 metres south of Mt. Sicker Road. Genest was pronounced dead at the scene.

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With onstage seating, pre-concert chats and a table of treats, this morning series is proving popular with concertgoers.

Hagen is an interesting host and attracts world-class guest musicians, presenting them in an intimate, personal musical experience.

Her own skills are also exceptional and she likes to push at the edges of the envelope by including photography, dance and theatre with music.

She is the artistic director for Pro’ject Sound, a performance project involving live piano with large-scale projected images.

Hagen also curates, hosts, and performs widely around B.C. An avid collaborator, Hagen has performed with cellist Ariel Barnes, violinist Martin Chalifour, tenor Benjamin Butterfield, Trio Accord, Ballet Victoria and the Emily Carr String Quartet, among many others, and has appeared as soloist with various orchestras.

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MUSINGS of a Magpie Mind

MUSINGS of a Magpie Mind

(Bits and pieces of history, travel and trivia, collected over the years by Bill Greenwell)

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The art of the whaler

And Gregory Peck’s portrayal of the obsessed skipper merely whetted our appetites to learn more.

The local Lahaina museum and little artists’ outlets helped by showing us the lovely folk art of engraving on ivory, particularly on sperm whale teeth and walrus tusks.

We couldn’t afford the antique originals that were on display, but the little colony of scrimshanders in town were still selling carved teeth at affordable prices. So we bought a couple and at the same time I decided to try my hand in this style of engraving by picking up a few raw teeth before heading home.

Those were the days when such purchases were permitted. But in the 1970s the implementation of the U.S. Marine Mammals Act regulated the import, export and sale of original ivory from all such sources, and this

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efore we migrated from the Mainland to the Cowichan Valley, we usually headed for Hawaii for a welcome break.

We had a flimsy connection over there, because one branch of our family had created a successful coffee business in the early 19th century, by developing plantations on the Big Island, high above the Kealakekua Bay beach where Captain Cook had been butchered by natives in 1779.

Greenwell Coffee has been exported all over the world since then and we still send away for a few pounds of their best beans every year.

But the big attraction for us was Maui, because that’s where the hump-back whales were, and

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I spent many happy hours with my set of sharpened dental tools, doing my bit on the blank teeth I bought. It was an interesting challenge. My family have some samples of all this activity, but these days I probably wouldn’t have the patience or the keen eyesight to do a worthwhile job on a tooth. But I still have the tools and I certainly have the time.

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COFFEE time facility in December.

“These numbers are up significantly from last year and the feedback from the public has been extremely positive. Our visitors thoroughly enjoyed the event, many thanking us for a job well

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Once again, we could not have

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• Shirley McLeod is retiring from the Cowichan Valley Regional District after more than 40 years of service.

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“We have really appreciated your work,” said board chair Jon Lefebure, when McLeod was acknowledged at their meeting in December with a standing ovation.

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• Following a popular tradition for the force, on Dec. 17 some of the office staff, auxiliary constables, and regular members from the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment helped spread Christmas cheer throughout the Valley by dressing up and spending the day visiting seniors facilities from Chemainus to Duncan to sing Christmas carols.

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After each performance they greeted everyone and wished them a happy holiday.

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They were also seen to be walking down the streets of Duncan singing carols. Some surprised patrons and citizens expressed their thanks, and most sang along with the group,” Stuart said.

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The Cobble Hill Local Emergency Response Neighbourhood Group is holding an information meeting on Jan. 15 at the Cobble Hill Hall on the topic.

Local residents Steve Bradshaw and Denis Nessman will share their knowledge and talk about their personal experiences with various generators.

Organizer Jackie Barker said that people will have a chance to learn about the advantages of owning a generator, as well as safety considerations. There will be a question period as well as a demonstration by Dan Wheeler from Rona Cobble Hill.

The event runs from 7-8:15 p.m. For more information call 250-743-4627.

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Old typewriters work fine as antiques but I sure wouldn’t want to have to use one again. —TWP

Shiny Majestic electric drew the eye ODE, From Page 18 So it was with me and, by high school, I’d vowed to learn to type properly. But enrolling in Typing 101 came at a cost; as the only boy in the class, my manhood was a popular subject of discussion until the novelty wore off.

But I endured and, unlike my other classes, I excelled. Soon I was up to 60-80 words a minute with fewer and fewer mistakes.

I could really type. I was on my way!

Came my first job and my first pay cheque. No, I didn’t buy a typewriter, I bought a portable transistor radio which took several installments to pay for.

That done, however, it was down to business and a used Underwood with a wide carriage that I purchased through a mail order firm.

They made things to work and to last in those days and she served me faithfully until the day I saw a Royal Majestic electric portable in Eaton’s.

Unlike the dull grey Underwood, it had lots of gleaming chrome and metallic blue paint; feckless youth that I was, it was off to storage for the Underwood. Over succeeding years, I wore out two Majestics which, obviously, weren’t meant to do heavy-duty for which the Underwood was renowned.

I well remember the day that I broke my left hand. It still hurt and was in a cast when the deadline for my weekly two-page feature in the Islander came due.

We’re talking 10 pages times 26 lines of double-spaced type which I had to peck one letter at a time with one hand. It took me half a day but I met my deadline.

Obviously, it was a while before I typed with both hands again.

For all that, when, in the ’80s, word processors (a hybrid of an electric typewriter, video screen

and printer) came into being, despite friends’ glowing endorsement of their more operatorfriendly abilities, I remained true to my typewriter. Finally, I did see the light and my work day has never been the same since I bought my first computer and printer.

I still have three typewriters — as antiques. But, for all of my love of nostalgia, I wouldn’t go back to using one even at gunpoint.

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Recreation • Lego Fun at Duncan library Wednesday, Jan. 7, 3:30-4:30 p.m.; Chemainus library Wednesday, Jan. 14, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Ages 6-12. Lego provided.

• Game Night, Duncan library, Thursday, Jan. 8, 6-7 p.m., all ages. Board and card games. Bring a favourite or play one of ours.

• Dog Gone reading, Duncan library, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 3:30-4 p.m., ages 6-12 and families. Dog stories, dog crafts, chance to meet St. John’s therapy dog.

• 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, 3:304:30 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 lightthemed crafts and stories.

• Teen Yarn Craft Group, Duncan library, Thursdays, 5-6 p.m., ages 13-18.

Learn to knit, crochet. Extra needles and yarn provided.

• Family storytime at Duncan library Tuesdays, 10:30-11 a.m., ages 0-5 and families. Stories, songs, rhymes and fun.

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Arts • Ladysmith Camera Club presents “Become a Better Photographer” by award winning Nanaimo-based 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, Ladysmith. Non-members $5 drop-in fee. Info: www.LadysmithCameraClub.com • Calligraphy Show 2015, Feb. 4-25, Warmland Calligraphers of the Cowi-

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A seamless move from the ice to the mud MOTOCROSS CHAMPION:

Tireless Grace Haugen tackles multiple sports KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The multi-talented Grace Haugen doesn’t have much trouble switching from one extreme to another.

Near the top of her long list of hobbies are the vastly different pursuits of motocross and figure skating. She admits it used to be “weird” to go from one sport to another, but she has gotten used to it.

“Not really now, but before it was,” she said. “You have to be all graceful [in figure skating], and [motocross] is when you get dirty.”

The 11-year-old Maple Bay Elementary student, who recently landed her first axel on the ice, had a phenomenal 2014 in the mud, winning the Westshore Motocross Track’s junior girls (under 15) championship and placing third in the boys 65cc division. Eleven riders earned points in the girls series, while 33 did so in the 65cc class.

Haugen first rode a bike in August 2012, inspired after seeing her first races the previous month.

“We went to watch the pros race in Washougal, Washington, and the pro women were also there, and I asked my dad on the way home if I could do that,” she recalled.

Her dad, Curt, a former champion racer himself, who is now Grace’s coach and mechanic, was shocked when she suggested it.

“I didn’t know she’d ever want to,” he said.

“It was the strangest thing.”

It didn’t hurt that their next-door neighbour just happens to own Shane’s Excavating, and was able to build Grace a track

Grace Haugen executes a perfect corner on her backyard motocross track. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

“You have to be all graceful [in figure skating], and [motocross] is when you get dirty.”

GRACE HAUGEN, motocross champion

in her backyard. Just like that, a champion was born. She liked it the first time she tried it, running the bike until it ran out of gas.

Off the track, Grace also competes in ten-

nis, learning from South Cowichan Lawn Tennis Club pro Art Hobbs. She has figure skated since she was five, under coach Lorraine Francisty, and also does cross-country, field hockey and volleyball at school, as well as playing piano and ukulele. She can go from one hobby to the next, tirelessly.

“I can play any sport all day,” she said. “I like them all.”

Motocross is a hard sport, Curt emphasizes. It requires more physical strength than most observers expect.

“Motocross is about doing everything on the track as fast as possible,” he said.

There is an element of danger to the sport, which Curt and Grace understand. Grace’s parents make sure she has respect for the equipment and the track. She admits that she does feel nervous at times, particularly at the starting line, and then in the last two laps.

And it can get scary on the track, something she admits with a grin is just part of the fun.

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Five Hole for Food goes Friday night at The Stick Any paying fan who brings a pair of non-perishable food items to Friday night’s Cowichan Valley Capitals game against the Nanaimo Clippers will receive a second ticket for free as part of the B.C. Hockey League’s Five Hole for Food challenge.

Each team in the BCHL holds the event once per season, with all donations going to local food banks.

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Caps add young Dman in deadline deal KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

With the B.C. Hockey League trade deadline approaching this Saturday, the Cowichan Valley Capitals made a pair of moves on Wednesday and Thursday.

O n We d n e s d ay, t h e C a p s acquired 18-year-old defenceman Connor Russell from the Penticton Vees in exchange for future considerations.

Russell has played 27 games with the Vees this season, his first in the BCHL, collecting one goal, five assists and 10 penalty minutes.

A native of Guelph, Ontario, the six-foot-one, 188-pound Russell spent the 2013/14 season playing at the prestigious Northwood School in Lake Placid, New York.

“Connor is a solid young

defenceman that we’re pleased to add to our group going forward,” said Capitals head coach and General Manager Bob Beatty.

“He’s a talented blueliner with some good size and we feel he’ll be able to grow well with our good crop of young players.”

On Thursday, the Caps sent the junior A playing rights of Ryan Coghlan to the Nanaimo Clippers, also for future considerations.

The Nanaimo native last played in the BCHL in 2012/13, when he had two goals and three assists in 47 games with the Caps. Since then, he has skated in the major junior Western Hockey League with the Saskatoon Blades and Prince Albert Raiders.

Reports on Twitter from Saskatoon indicate that Coghlan has left the Blades and will report to the Clippers.

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Eston Unrau and junior T-Birds on target as 2015 begins KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Back row from left: Jason MacKay, Lincoln Findlater, Mason Shadlock, Liam Bell, Dawson Webb, Dawson Bittner, Jake Metcalfe, Billy Ramwell, Kirk Whittaker. Middle row: Isaac Tonkin-Palmer, Deklon Shadlock, Danny Bruce, Samson McLean, Jarrett Juch. Front row: Tyson Duffe, Brendon McDill. Not pictured: coaches Tom Shadlock, Dean Bruce, Mike Flynn and Ken Ramwell. [SUBMITTED]

Bantam Isles win Alberni tournament KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The bantam A Kerry Park Islanders’ first win of the season over their league rivals from Powell River wasn’t just another win.

It gave the Isles the gold medal in the Port Alberni New Years Classic Tournament.

“Powell River is a team in our league and until now, we have not managed to beat them,” team manager Sabine Bell said. “To beat a very strong team like Powell River in the gold game was very exciting for our boys. Both teams played a fabulous game of hockey.”

The Islanders had lost to the same Powell River team earlier in the tournament.

Kerry Park prevailed 4-2 in the tournament final, in which the teams combined for just six minutes in penalties. Samson McLean scored the opening goal and added an empty-netter, while Jason MacKay also found the back of the net, and Isaac Tonkin-Palmer’s marker stood up as the game winner. Tyson Duffe was outstanding in

The Cowichan Secondary School Thunderbirds wasted no time getting a jump on the new year with wins in backto-back junior boys basketball games at Belmont Secondary on Jan. 2.

The T-Birds started the year with a 52-40 win over the Belmont Bulldogs, then got by the Lambrick Park Lions 44-41.

Eston Unrau led the team in scoring in both games, putting up 27 against Belmont and another 15 against Lambrick. Zach Waddington added 15 against Belmont and nine against Lambrick, and Matthew Miller chipped in with seven against the Lions.

Just before Christmas, the junior T-Birds placed fourth in the Oak Bay Gary Taylor Classic tournament.

Cowichan opened the tournament with a 48-41 win over Claremont in the first round.

Unrau’s 21 points led the T-Birds, while Player of the Game Waddington collected 14 points in an all-around effort and Naoki Hasegawa added 11.

net for the Islanders.

The Isles opened the tourney with a 4-3 win over Nanaimo’s Tier 2 squad. TonkinPalmer scored twice, including the gamewinner, while McLean and Dawson Webb also found the net, and Brendon McDill earned the victory in net.

Kerry Park’s second round-robin game was a 6-3 loss to Powell River — the team’s only defeat of the tournament. McLean, Tonkin-Palmer and Mason Shadlock scored, while Duffe took the loss in goal.

Bouncing back in their final round-robin game, the Isles downed Oceanside 5-2.

McLean scored four times, including the first two and last two goals, and MacKay picked up the game winner. McDill was back in goal for the win.

In the tournament semifinal, the Isles faced their regional rivals from Cowichan Valley, prevailing 5-2. Tonkin-Palmer and Jake Metcalfe each scored twice, MacKay scored once, and Tyson Duffe earned the win in net.

The team’s first loss came against host Oak Bay in the semifinal, as the Bays won 68-43.

“It was an eight-point game in the third quarter,” Cowichan coach Lucky Walia said. “But they outplayed us the rest of the half.”

Unrau’s 29 points were again the most by a T-Bird, while Waddington had seven in another solid outing.

Another 29-point effort from Unrau in the third-place matchup with St. Michael’s was enough to earn him a spot on the tournament all-star team, but not quite enough for a victory as the T-Birds lost a close one 59-54. Waddington was again the No. 2 scorer with 12 points, while Matt Miller played tough defence, made some nice passes, and finished with seven points.

The junior T-Birds are off to the Vancouver College Emerald tournament this weekend, and will play host to Brentwood College School next Tuesday as part of a triple-header at the school. The Grade 9s tip off at 4 p.m., followed by the juniors at 5:30 p.m. and the seniors at 7 p.m.

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Five Cowichan players named to VISL all-stars KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Cowichan LMG won’t be in action again until Jan. 17 when the team visits Nanaimo, but several Cowichan players will be busy this weekend, representing the Vancouver Island Soccer League in the Interprovincial All-Star Game in the Fraser Valley.

Goalkeeper Joel Wilson, defenders Tyler Hughes and Jesse Winter, and strikers Paddy Nelson and Cooper Barry were named to the VISL all-star team, which will take on a squad made up of the best players from the Fraser Valley circuit on Saturday.

Nelson leads the VISL with 13 goals, while Barry, who has missed a handful of games this season, is tied for fourth in the league with eight. Hughes, a player/coach, and Winter, the team captain, are defensive stalwarts, while Wilson is second in the league with six shutouts.

“They all definitely deserve to be there,” Cowichan coach Glen Martin said. “They’ve been there before.”

Martin felt midfielder Kevan Brown probably deserved to be selected to the team as well, but admitted that the committee probably didn’t know if he would be

available or not.

Earlier this week, the draw was held for the Jackson Cup tournament to determine the Island champion. Martin said he is “fairly happy” with the draw, which will see his team open at home against Comox Valley’s Div. 1 squad.

Games have not been scheduled yet.

“It’s not a great draw,” he said.

“Some teams have easier draws.

I’d call it a decent draw.”

One plus of Cowichan’s draw is that the team is likely to face mostly Div. 1 teams if it makes a run.

“I like that better because we

know who we’re playing,” Martin said. “From a coaching standpoint, it makes it easier to prepare for a team if we’ve played them already.”

This year marks the centenary of the trophy, and Martin would love to hoist it in a landmark year.

Cowichan has been to the final four times in the last five years, winning twice.

“Personally, I’d like to win the 100th Jackson Cup,” he said. “That would be really good for Cowichan soccer.”

That’s down the road, though.

Martin’s team still has four games remaining in league play, and he

wants to improve on the secondplace result his team has finished with each of the last three seasons.

“I’d like to win the league first,” he said. “We’ve never done that in the history of Cowichan soccer.”

Div. 2 squad Cowichan United is also entered in the Jackson Cup tournament. United has drawn fellow Div. 2 entry Vantreights for the first round.

Vantreights is currently sixth in Div. 2, while Cowichan sits seventh.

United will resume the regular season on Jan. 16 when they visit eighth-place Saanich Fusion.

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