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Duncan court registry staff confirmed Friday that William Gordon Robert Elliott has pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of two Duncan women.

In April 2012, Elliott, 24, was charged in connection to the deaths of Karrie Ann Stone, 42, and of 18-year-old fellow Cowichan Tribes member Tyeshia Jones.

Crown counsel spokesman Neil MacKenzie said a mandatory sentence of life in prison will be imposed.

“Crown will be asking for the court to impose the maximum period of parole ineligibility, which is 25 years,” MacKenzie said.

The court has the option, in the case of second-degree murder, of imposing a parole ineligibility period of between 10 and 25 years.

After an appearance in Duncan court last week, Elliott’s case was moved to a Victoria Supreme courtroom, where he appeared in person Friday morning to enter his plea.

MacKenzie said the case was moved to Victoria to accommodate the schedules of counsel on the case and the availability of Justice Keith Bracken who heard the pleas and who will be the judge who presides over the sentencing as well.

Five days in December, com-

The disappearances, then murders of Tyeshia Jones, left, and Karrie Stone shocked Cowichan residents. See in photos how events unfolded by scanning this page with the Layar app on your smart phone or go to our website: www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com for a photo gallery. [FILE PHOTOS] mencing on Dec. 16, have been set aside for sentencing. That time has been booked in Duncan’s courts.

MacKenzie noted a pre-sentence report has been ordered with a psychiatric component attached as well as a Gladue report.

“That’s a report that looks at Mr. Elliott’s background and circumstances specifically as a result of being of a First Nations background,” he said.

A resident of the Super 8 motel just south of Duncan, Stone had been missing for five days when

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Jones went missing on Jan. 22, 2011 after leaving a friend’s party. Her naked body was found on Jan. 28, 2011, also in a wooded area, but on Cowichan Tribes land.

For in-depth coverage of Elliott’s plea hearing see page 5.

Warning: page 5 coverage contains graphic details some readers may find disturbing.

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Duncan man dies after crash near Mill Bay SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Fifty-year-old Cory Allen Cobb of Duncan died after his pick-up truck collided with a dump truck hauling a pup trailer.

The crash happened at about 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, July 18 at the intersection of Trowsse and Mill Bay Roads.

“The male passenger in the pick up along with the male driver of the dump truck were treated by paramedics on scene and released,” said Cpl. Jason Kerr of the Shawnigan Lake RCMP. Initially an air ambulance was called, but it was later cancelled.

Cobb was taken to hospital by

Bill Gillespie and Raji Mangat, a lawyer with the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, speak with the press outside the Duncan courthouse Tuesday. [SARAH SIMPSON/CITIZEN]

Shooting victim angry as sentencing postponed SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Bill Gillespie’s hopes for closure were postponed on Tuesday when he learned the sentencing of the police officer that shot him four years ago has been put off until Aug. 26 and Aug 27 in Colwood.

Sentencing for former North Cowichan/ Duncan RCMP Const. David Pompeo was slated to begin at the Duncan Law Courts on Tuesday. He was convicted of aggravated assault after shooting Gillespie during a routine traffic stop on Sept. 18, 2009, The sentencing didn’t happen.

Crown spokesman Neil MacKenzie said council on both sides of the case wanted more time to prepare.

“Both Crown and defence have agreed that some additional time is required to prepare for the sentencing proceedings,” he told media.

Gillespie, however, said he was kept in the dark.

He had his family and friends at his side at the Duncan Law Courts, ready to sit in on the two-day sentencing.

He felt “really mad. Really ang ry,” at the decision.

“We thought it was going to be case closed, that we’d be done with it and that my nightmare was starting to come to a close but that’s just not the case here today,” he told press.

It would have benefited Pompeo, too, Gillespie said, to finally have some closure.

“It would have been a good thing for him today to get this out of the way.”

Regardless, Gillespie believes “preferential treatment” will mean the “trigger happy” Pompeo sees no jail time when all is said and done.

“If they ever give him back his gun, he’ll shoot somebody else,” Gillespie said of the Mountie, who remains on desk duty in Nanaimo.

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ambulance. “Emergency personnel attended the scene of the incident and transported Mr. Cobb to Victoria General Hospital where he was confirmed deceased upon arrival,” Robert Fisher of the BC Coroners Service said.

While the investigation is ongoing, police say they believe the full-size quad pick up truck had been travelling north on Trowsse Road when the vehicle collided with the dump truck, which had been eastbound on Mill Bay Road.

Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash, Kerr said.

“Other possible contributing factors are being investigated,” he added.

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BC Hydro’s power outage list shows a bird contacting a wire was responsible for a power outage in the 1800 block of Tzouhalem Road on Monday, July 22. Power was disrupted between 8:17 and 9:15 a.m.

The outage affected fewer than five customers, a much smaller group than the 63 customers in the Victoria area who were afflicted by the same situation earlier the same morning.

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Get used to the possibility of being stuck in a (now infamous) Malahat traffic jam. First it was June 30, then July 30 and now sometime in August. The end date for Malahat improvements has been pushed back yet again by the B.C. Transportation Ministry.

“All major construction is expected to be completed by the August long weekend, weather permitting,” said the ministry’s Malahat blog (tranbc.ca).

Following that, line painting, rumble strips and other finishing touches will take place along the highway outside of peak travel hours.

Keep abreast of these dates, ladies Mobile mammography service returns to Chemainus on July 31 through to Aug. 2 according to the BC Cancer Agency.

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The hot and dry weather has caused the closure of the Municipal Forest Reserve gates at Mt. Prevost, Mt. Sicker, and Grace Road, meaning no motorized vehicles are allowed.

The gates will be closed until further notice.

The areas are, however, open for activities such as hiking and mountain biking.

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Mothers hear details of how daughters murdered Warning: story has graphic, disturbing details.

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The mothers of two Duncan women brutally murdered by William Gordon Robert Elliott finally learned Friday the chilling details of how their daughters died.

The information was made public after Elliott, 24, stood in a packed Victoria courtroom and pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Karrie Ann Stone, 42, in July 2010 and to the second-degree murder of 18-year-old Tyeshia Jones on Jan. 22, 2011.

When Crown prosecutor Scott Van Alstine told the B.C. Supreme Court hearing how Bev Stone’s daughter was beaten with a baseball bat, then set alight while she was still alive, the mother put her hand to her mouth in shock.

Jones’s mother, Mary Jim, wearing a T-shirt with Tyeshia’s photo, sat with her three youngest children as Van Alstine told the court that Elliott had run his truck over her daughter.

Justice Keith Bracken accepted the guilty pleas and ordered a presentence report with a psychiatric component.

A separate Gladue report, prepared for aboriginal offenders, was also ordered for Elliott, who is a married father and a member of Cowichan Tribes. His five-day sentencing hearing will be held in B.C. Supreme Court in Duncan beginning Dec. 16.

Second-deg ree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with a parole ineligibility period of 10 to 25 years. Van Alstine said he would ask for 25 years.

Mothers Bev Stone and Mary Jim speak to the press following the arrest of William Elliott for their daughters’ murders. [CITIZEN FILE] Stone was a 42-year-old single woman who lived at the Super 8 Motel in Duncan. She struggled with drug addiction and sometimes made money by selling sex, Van Alstine said.

Stone was last seen around midnight on July 7, 2010. When she missed her daily methadone appointments and didn’t show up at her brother’s funeral on July 10, her mother reported her missing on July 12. That was the same day, a man stumbled on her burned body in the woods, Van Alstine said.

Stone was burned beyond recognition. There was significant blunt force trauma to her head, he said.

On Jan. 22, 2011, Jones’s mother reported her missing when she didn’t return home after a party.

Her body was found after six days in the woods behind the Shaker Church in the Duncan area, Van Alstine said.

Cellphone records show Jones was last heard from at 3:39 a.m. on Jan. 22 when she called a friend, Van Alstine said.

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found in a planter box on Cowichan Tribes land.

On Jan. 25, police learned that a Duncan man, Alex Canute, had been telling people he’d seen blood behind the Shaker church.

Police went there with Canute, but couldn’t find the blood. On Jan. 28, police conducted a more thorough search with a police dog and found Jones’s naked body on the ground.

An autopsy showed extensive blunt-force head injuries, damage and injury to her teeth and her eyes, bruising on her knees and hemorrhages consistent with manual strangulation, Van Alstine said. The cause of her death was blunt-force injuries.

Swabs taken from her body turned up a partial male profile and a data bank match was made to Elliott, Van Alstine said. Elliott provided a DNA sample on Feb. 19, 2011.

Police obtained a warrant to search his residence. Swabs taken of a blood-like stain on a wall contained Stone’s DNA. Investigators of both murders began working together and cre-

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ated an undercover crime boss operation, Van Alstine said.

Elliott was brought into a fictitious crime organization where all the players were undercover police officers. He, ultimately, revealed details of the crimes.

Elliott told the crime boss that when his wife was out of town, he picked up Stone and took her home. After consensual sex, Stone threatened to tell his wife. Elliott got a baseball bat and hit her on the head with it.

“He put her in the back of his pickup truck along with a can of gasoline. He drove to a remote area of Duncan, into the woods.

He poured gas over her and set her on fire. She was alive at the outset while she burned,” Van Alstine said.

In the Jones killing, Elliott told the crime boss he was driving his truck and accidentally hit Jones, who was on her way to meet a friend at the Duncan Superstore on the Trans-Canada Highway. He put her in the back of his pickup

and drove her behind the Shaker cemetery, along a dirt track leading to the woods.

“She was alive and he attempted to sexually assault her. He took her clothes off and choked her with her own bra. He hit her on the head, her teeth and her eyes with a stick and left her there.

Then he took her clothes and burned them,” Van Alstine said.

Elliott re-enacted both murders for the crime boss, Van Alstine said. During the re-enactment, Elliott voluntarily handed over a bag of items connected to Stone’s murder. The bag contained her upper denture plate and a baseball bat with her DNA on it.

Shortly after, Elliott was arrested. During a police interview, he said what he told the crime boss was true.

After Elliott gave a statement to police, officers brought in the mothers of his two victims to meet him. Elliott wrote letters of apologies to both of them, Van Alstine said.

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Educating boys, men on sexual assault a must iolence against women is once again in the news this week, as details have been made public about the murders of Cowichan women Tyeshia Jones and Karrie Stone.

The brutal killings of Jones and Stone represent the extreme of the physical and sexual violence that far too many women still face regularly around the world — and yes, in spite of our much vaunted western progress, right here in Canada, B.C. and Cowichan.

No, in Canada you won’t, at least, face a prison sentence just for reporting being raped, as you

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would in Dubai. That’s what happened to a Norwegian woman who reported being raped by a co-worker in the Middle Eastern country. Any sex outside of marriage is illegal, you see, whether you wanted it or not.

Fortunately, she was pardoned this week — though the idea that a pardon was even necessary leaves a sour taste in the mouth.

But before we start patting ourselves on the back for our enlightenment, we should take a look at a survey released earlier this month by the Canadian Women’s Foundation.

It found that as far as we’ve

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come, we’ve still got a long way to go. According to the survey, almost 20 per cent of respondents believe that women may provoke or encourage sexual assault when they are drunk.

Fifteen per cent believe flirting may be a provocation and 11 per cent still, after all these years, think that wearing a short skirt may encourage or provoke sexual assault.

Of course, none of these things are true.

And all of them show a mindset wherein women are responsible for sexual assault and stopping sexual assault.

That’s something we’ve got to change.

Which is why we think the new and provocative Don’t Be That Guy campaign is genius.

It speaks directly to the other half of the sexual assault equation. The campaign depicts situations in which men might actually find themselves.

Girls and women are spoken to and educated about rape and sexual assault, but if we don’t educate the boys and men too, we’re missing the boat.

Thus we were dismayed to hear about the counter-campaign launched in Alberta by a so-

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called men’s rights group.

They used the style of the original posters, but replaced the message with one that claims women lie about sexual assault, something that is extremely rare.

Far less rare are the sexual assaults that go unreported.

We know we’ll likely hear from some about how it’s not just men, women are sometimes the perpetrators, too.

The fact remains, almost all sexual assaults are perpetrated by men against women.

And it’s past time they stop.

Addressing and educating boys and men is a must to do this.

Lack of enforcement drove me from home I totally agree with past mayoral candidate Joyce Behnsen in her anger at North Cowichan council. I met with more than a brick wall, I met with inaction, stonewalling, trickery and finally insult by our so-called council.

I went through years of dealing with a bully neighbour that had five barking dogs. No one from animal control, noise bylaw, mayor (Tom Walker), Mark Ruttan to CAO Dave Devana was willing to get to the problem, even though they hold all the power to act.

The police don’t want to hear about barking dogs because according to them it’s animal control and noise bylaw that

have to deal with it, even though it is actually a criminal offence to disturb the peace.

This caused me a great deal of stress and frustration, and eventual neighbour wars and a lawsuit and the BC Ombudsman’s office. I finally moved out and gave up my dream, my home, my gardens and moved after 12 years of it being my family’s home.

We had a tree planted in honor of my husband whom became very ill in 2005. He worked the night shift, the neighbours’ attitude towards us was swearing, “if you don’t like it you can move.”

Needless to say, my husband Derek did not sleep well during the days. One official actually had the nerve to several times

liken my complaint to, “we can’t send someone out every time someone jaywalks.”

How can you compare constant noise from early morning and all day and sometimes late into the evening, to someone crossing a street? I find this comment telling, unbelievable and extremely rude. I did everything to protect my property but I could not protect it from an ineffectual municipality that cannot or will not enforce the bylaws that ensure our safety and peace of mind.

And to think I actually payed for this abuse. They can all be fired and replaced as far as I’m concerned.

Janice Cowley Crofton

In response to Mr. Fahlman’s letter of July 19: It is really unfortunate Mr. Fahlman feels he has the right to misinform the public to further his protest to our land reclamation project. In no way will this ever be an “open pit mine”. We will be extracting gravel in eightto 12-acre portions, reclaiming the land as we go and adding it to the existing pasture land. At no time will the existing pasture land be jeopardized.

There was never any intent to “hide” anything from the public.

We cannot answer questions we have yet to get the answers too.

All studies and public consultation will be done at the time of our application to Mines.

We have initiated one small step in a long process and really feel people should show some respect for this process and listen to what this application is really about. Farm land. This is a logical progressive proposal for a topographically challenged part of our farm. Gravel does not grow grass and our cows cannot eat gravel.

The CVRD’s role in this first step was to comment on an application being submitted to the ALC. Once again no one has tried to “side step” procedure or misinform the public.

Oliver and Shelley Balme Balme Ayr Farms Ltd. Cobble Hill

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Man in need of a helping hand; do you know him?

Re: application to the Agricultural Land Reserve Commission to remove land at 2591 Beverly St. from the ALR. The ad was two inches by three inches in the paper. No doubt, so no one would notice it.

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don’t live in Duncan but I happened to be shopping in a large store there on July 15 or 16.

Ahead of me in the lineup at the checkout counter was an elderly gentleman in a self-propelled wheelchair. I’m a friendly, chatty kind of person so I drew him into conversation.

With some hesitance and reluctance, he eventually told me that he had lived in a local building which had been destroyed by fire about five months ago.

He had managed to get out only just in time with only the clothes on his back.

With only a tiny pension, he had not been able to afford insurance. He had lost everything he owned in the fire including, most of all, all his precious photographs of his late wife.

When he told me this, he began shaking with sobs.

He said that since the fire he had been staying in a motel where he spent every day alone in his tiny room, desperately lonely

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and staring blankly at the television for hours on end. He was soon moving to somewhere nearby (to rent a room perhaps?).

It stood out a mile that this man was still deeply traumatized. As well, I had the feeling that no one had shown an interest in him for perhaps a long time.

I am absolutely certain he was in no way a scammer or a dishonest person and that his grief and deep despair were totally genuine.

I asked him, “The fire must have made the news.

Hasn’t a Duncan social agency, charity, business, church or even a family stepped forward to help you and maybe check on you regularly?”

“None,” he said. “I’ve been left entirely on my own to cope somehow.”

So SURELY some enterprising and caring person or society in Duncan can seek out this man, if only to offer him a little help, invite him to a meal, or show him some compassion? Someone knows who

In today’s edition of this community newspaper

he is, like the manager or owner of the burned (apartment?) building; the proprietor of the motel; the person to whom he is or will be paying rent — all probably somewhere in the vicinity of the Superstore.

He is well-built, seems to be tall, has a shock of grey hair, and is in perhaps his mid or late 70s. He is wellspoken, courteous and dignified. Alas, that’s all I know. I don’t even know his name.

There you go, Duncan!

There’s a challenge for you! I have to believe that someone might be moved by this man’s plight and do something about it. I can guarantee that a kind, helping person will get far more out of it than he will.

The man’s astounded face, his immense gratitude and the tears in his eyes when I stepped forward to surprise him by paying for his pathetically few grocery items will haunt me for a long time to come.

Jo J. Sheridan Ladysmith

of this precious area falling to development then email ALCBurnaby@ Victoria.gov.bc.ca by July 25 or say goodbye to it forever. My comment is, what is wrong with our government that they would even think about this kind of application?

Rubber stamp “no” to removing any land from the ALR on our Island.

There is precious little left and we should be using it appropriately not turning it into urban sprawl or police stations or the like.

The area in question has been squashed until it can barely sustain the little wildlife that is left there.

Say “enough”!

Eve Carr Duncan

NOTICE OF INTENT TO CONSIDER THIRD READING OF ZONING BYLAW 3520 Bylaw 3520 is applicable to: Electoral Area A – Mill Bay/Malahat, Electoral Area B – Shawnigan Lake, and Electoral Area C – Cobble Hill NOTICE is hereby given that the CVRD Board of Directors will consider Third Reading of South Cowichan Zoning Bylaw No. 3520 at the regular Board meeting of July 31, 2013.

South Cowichan Zoning Bylaw No. 3520 will replace Electoral Area A – Mill Bay/Malahat Zoning Bylaw 2000 (adopted in 1999), Electoral Area B – Shawnigan Lake Zoning Bylaw 985 (adopted in 1986) and Electoral Area C – Cobble Hill Zoning Bylaw 1405 (adopted in 1992).

The intent of Zoning Bylaw No. 3520 is to implement the 2011 South Cowichan Official Community Plan and provide a modern and robust land use bylaw for the future of the three affected electoral areas. Zoning Bylaw No. 3520 would be one comprehensive zoning bylaw with common terms and conditions of use for the three electoral areas, and it would also maintain distinct height and setback regulations for each of the three electoral areas.

Zoning Bylaw No. 3520 divides the lands and water surfaces within Electoral Areas A, B and C into 68 different zones. These zones are classified under the following general land use categories: Agricultural, Rural Resource, Rural Residential and Recreational, Village Residential, Rural Comprehensive Development, Village Comprehensive Development, Rural Commercial, Village Commercial, Industrial, Parks/Institutional and Water.

Regulations for each zone generally include a list of permitted uses, minimum parcel size for subdivision, density (typically the number of dwelling units permitted per parcel of land or dwelling units per hectare), setbacks for buildings and structures, maximum permitted building height, and the degree to which land may be covered by buildings and impervious surfaces. Some zones contain other regulations – for example, requiring a parcel to be connected to community water and sewer services.

In addition to the specific regulations concerning each zone described in Zoning Bylaw No. 3520, there are general regulations that apply to all lands and water surfaces, related to land use, siting of buildings and structures, subdivision, off-street parking and off-street loading spaces. There is also a list of definitions, for terms commonly used within the Bylaw.

Subject Property Location: Zoning Bylaw No. 3520 affects all lands in Electoral Area A – Mill Bay/Malahat, Electoral Area B – Shawnigan Lake and Electoral Area C – Cobble Hill.

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All persons who deem their interests affected by Zoning Bylaw No. No. 3520 will be afforded an opportunity to present written submissions on matters contained therein to the Regional Board. Written comments on the proposed Bylaw may be faxed to 250-746-2621, e-mailed to ds@cvrd.bc.ca, or mailed and/or deposited at the Regional District Planning & Development Department office, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC, V9L 1N8 up to 4:30 p.m. on July 31, 2013. For further information, or if you have any questions, please call Mike Tippett, Manager, Planning & Development Department at 250-746-2620, or toll-free at 1-800-665-3955.

A copy of the proposed Bylaw, staff reports and correspondence received to date may be examined at the Regional District Planning & Development Department office, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC, from Friday, July 19, 2013, to Wednesday, July 31, 2013, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. A copy of the proposed bylaw and maps are also available for viewing on the CVRD website at http://www.cvrd.bc.ca/index.aspx?nid=1487

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Boatbuilding will be fast and furious at Cow Bay festival LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

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The Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre is bringing back the favourite event as it gears up for its 28th annual boat festival Saturday, July 27.

“It’s been one of those Cowichan Valley things that so many people are familiar with,” said Jane Rossetto, general manager of the Centre. “It’s a real representation of the kind of whacky fun we can have down in the village.”

Entry is $50 per team, which can include a maximum of five people and no more than $100 can be spent on materials.

Building is done in front of the Maritime Centre.

Teams are not allowed to use power tools or pre-cut pieces and two team members must take part in the race.

“The reason we do it this way is when you tell a team that they can have a hundred dollars to spend on materials you never know what they’re going to show up with.

“I’ve seen teams in the past try to build boats out of milk jugs, PVC piping, duct tape. If people got it into their heads that they could

make it into a boat and make it float to win, they’ve tried it. It’s hilarious,” she said.

Once the construction is done, a parade ushers the finished products and their builders down to the beach, where the water challenge awaits to test the seaworthiness of each craft.

“On the first lap they have to row, the second lap they have to sail and then on the third they have to get back any way the heck they can — if they can,” Rossetto said.

Building takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with the race itself taking place at 2 p.m. The winner floats away with 50 per cent of the entry fees in cash and the best-costumed team wins free ice cream cones.

Anyone who wants to enter the event should call the office ahead of time at 250-746-4955 rather than waiting till the last minute.

Though you can sign up the day of the event, there are some sponsorship opportunities if a team wants to participate but can’t pay the fee.

••• Boatbuilding isn’t all that will be bringing Cowichan Bay village alive from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. July 27 with all things nautical.

Bring your dinghies, Seagull motors and lifejackets and get ready to join the day’s events.

If you feel peckish at some point, don’t miss the Best of the Bay clam chowder competition.

There are kayak demonstrations and racing, too.

And an old-fashioned paper bag dinghy race.

“There are two people in a boat and the person rowing has a paper bag over their head and the other person has to verbally direct them through the course,” described Rossetto. “They have to get right around and back to the finish.”

Once you get tired of rowing you can put on that old Seagull outboard for some classic racing and even a poker run on the water.

Water soakers and super soakers are optional, organizers say.

There is no charge for registration and sign-in for the poker Seagull race, paper bag dinghy race and fishing events is available at the official tent in front of the Maritime Centre.

If you make a day of it, why not stay for the sit-down salmon barbecue starting at 6 p.m. right in front of the Maritime Centre? Tickets to this alcohol-free event are $15 each but only 80 are available.

‘They’re going to try to wait me out’ From page 3 “There should be a lesson here the police should learn here that you cannot go around shooting people,” he said.

“And then they think that they’re not supposed to be held accountable for that.”

Raji Mangat, a lawyer with the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, was at Gillespie’s side Tuesday morning.

“We’re very disappointed,” Mangat said. “This delay just adds to the almost four years that Bill has been waiting for justice and we’re

frankly very disappointed that the sentencing hearing didn’t go ahead today and tomorrow as scheduled.”

Mangat said the guilty verdict came down on Feb. 14 of this year and there was ample time between then and Tuesday for counsel to prepare whatever arguments they might want to make.

Meanwhile, the civil suit Gillespie has filed has also been postponed pending the outcome of the criminal case.

“They are dragging this on for me. They are making this as difficult as possible. They’re going

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to try to wait me out and wear me down. That’s what they’re trying to do here.”

Gillespie says he is facing a lifelong disability, as Pompeo’s bullet remains lodged in his spine.

“I live with pain every day and the horror of knowing that I could be facing paralysis in the future,” he said.

Finding closure in what has become a four-year ordeal would have meant “everything” to him, Gillespie said. He’s broke, in pain, and has a son to worry about.

“I’m not having a good time with life most of the time,” he said.

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A North Cowichan/ Duncan RCMP officer is facing a charge relating to the sale of his personal vehicle. Const. Shamrock (Rock) Atleo made his first appearance in Nanaimo Provincial Court on Tuesday, facing one count of uttering a forged document.

The charge stems from off-duty conduct relating to the sale of a jointly owned personal vehicle.

Atleo is currently restricted to administrative duties, and will also face a disciplinary hearing.

Kevin Rothbauer, Citizen

Cowichan Valley Citizen | Wednesday, July 24, 2013

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Bluegrass, accordions, and jazz Moody’s Royal Engineers conquered the B.C. wilderness LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

In laying the patched to the groundwork for isolated Pacific our first public colony at Gov. works, the 165 James Douglas’s officers, subrequest. alterns and sapActually, pers had their Douglas had work cut out for been as much them. concerned at CHRONICLES or all of that time with T.W. Paterson the monuthe defence mental of the dual difficulties faced by those colonies of B.C. and Vanheroic makers of the couver Island. In far-off “National Dream” during London, Lord Lytton the construction of the Canad- colonial secretary agreed ian Pacific Railway, the to a certain extent but, engineering challenges in writing to Douglas in that they’d had to battle October 1858, he made it were no greater than those plain that his reason for faced by a handful of army sending engineers rather officers and men in British than a regular military Columbia, 30-odd years force was intentional; before. not only because of their Be it a towering moun“superior discipline and tain , a raging river or an intelligence” which would impassable cliffside where “afford ground for expecteven game feared to tread, ing that they will be far no challenge had been too less likely than ordinary great for the Royal Enginsoldiers of the line to eers under the command yield to the temptation to of Col. Richard Clement desertion offered by the Moody, R.E. gold field,” but because of “Born into the army in their “capacity at once to 1813 in the Barbadoes,” provide for themselves in as one account puts it, a country without habitaMoody had known several tion, appears to me to renassignments and locales der them especially suited before coming to B.C. as for this duty...” the 45-year-old commander More importantly, Lytton of a corps of engineers dis- believed that engineers

would be of greater use to the young colony, that their need to act as police would be secondary to their breaking ground for the first public works. As he explained: “...By their services as pioneers in the work of civilization, in opening up the resources of the country by the construction of roads and bridges, by laying the foundations of a future city or seaport, and in carrying out the numerous engineering works which in the earlier stages of colonization are so essential to the progress and welfare of the community, they will probably not only be preserved from the idleness which might corrupt the discipline of ordinary soldiers, but establish themselves in the popular goodwill of the emigrants by the civil benefits which it will be in the regular nature of their occupation to confer.”

In another letter he added: “It will devolve upon them to survey those lands which might be considered suitable for settlement, to make out all allotments of lands for public purposes,

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On Saturday, Aug. 10, the ever-popular Accordion Day is back at Waterwheel, with squeeze box delights offered from 11 a.m. to about 4:30 p.m.

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Elders Day promises diverse fun for all Elders Day, the Duncan-Cowichan Summer Festival’s celebration of those who’ve been around a while, is set for Sunday, July 28 this year.

It is centred at the CUPE stage at Charles Hoey Park in downtown Duncan.

These three Ukeladies will be joined by another friend for the show Sunday at Duncan’s Charles Hoey Park for Elders Day celebrations. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN FILE]

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It all starts at 10:30 a.m. with yoga in the park and by noon turns into hula hoops for elders.

After all that exertion, set up that lawn chair in a comfortable spot and enjoy some entertainment.

A country/folk artist performs at 1 p.m. followed by the Ukeladies quartet, a group of talented gals who

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Enjoy your day.

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Engineers began works continued for century From page 9 to suggest sites for seats of government, to point out where roads should be made and to render such assistance as may be in their power.”

In short, the 165 officers, subalterns and sappers had their work cut out for them.

Further to the subject of defence, Lytton stated that it was up to the colonists to defend themselves against internal disorder, that Great Britain would confine herself to external aggression, at which time she’d “pledge the defence of her sword”.

To Col. Moody: “Nothing can be more likely to sap the manhood and virtue of any young community than the error of confounding the duties of soldiers with the ordinary function of a police. Nevertheless, though soldiers do not constitute a police, there are few societies in which the authority of the civil power is not more respectfully obeyed where it is understood that against disorderly force

there is always in reserve the unflinching aid of military discipline.”

In conclusion, Lytton reminded the colonel that Gov. Douglas was to be boss.

With these instructions for Douglas and Moody, Lytton set the machinery in motion for one of B.C.’s more illustrious chapters of human ingenuity and determination.

The first two contingents of engineers landed in Victoria in the fall of 1858, the third and main group arriving the following year. Although, officially, their work was completed by 1863, the major works that they began continued, under civilian and private authority, for more than a century.

As commanding officer of the engineers, Col. Moody bore the impressive titles of Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and Lieutenant-Governor, with a salary of 1,550 pounds a year.

Previously, he’d seen service in the Indies, served as governor of the Falkland Islands for four

years and completed a tour of duty in Malta. His senior officers consisted of Capt. J.A. Grant, whose specialty was construction, Capt. R.M. Parsons, a surveyor, and Capt. H.A. Luard who, according to an early researcher, was “strictly a military man”.

As for the men themselves, they’d been carefully selected so as to represent all required trades: architects, surveyors, draughtsmen, carpenters, blacksmiths, miners, masons — even photographers and artists.

First to reach Vancouver Island was the 20-man squad (most of them surveyors) under command of Capt. Parsons, Capt. Grant following with 20 men, the majority of whom were carpenters. Upon completing the two-month-long voyage from England, they arrived in time to participate in the colourful festivities that officially marked the union of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.

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Woods ready to rock KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

As the third edition of the Rock of the Woods music festival approaches this weekend, promoter Dave Bain is bursting with enthusiasm.

“I think this will be the year that puts us a step forward,” he said.

Bain’s optimism is the result of a few things, including bigger name headliners this year, a new venue in Glenora’s Godfrey Brownell Winery, and a familyfriendly appeal that won’t alienate the regulars.

“We’re trying to make it available to everyone,” he said. “If you make it strictly 19-plus, you lose out to the Valley, and there are a lot of young families here.”

With two festivals already under his belt, Bain has figured out not only what he wants from Rock of the Woods, but also how to create the environment in which it will prosper.

“The biggest thing I’ve learned is how to create a culture around the festival,” he said. “I had been to a lot of music festivals to enjoy the bands, but not so much to be part of the culture.

We saw it last year: there’s a community around the festival, and that’s what we’re trying to make here.”

The list of performers at the three-day festival is a long one, headed up by the soulful Monophonics on Friday, the modern folk of the Cave Singers on Saturday, and the Canadian pop-folk double hit of Jon and Roy and Hannah Georgas on Sunday.

That’s not to mention a host of other talents, including Valley acts like Cobble Swell, the Royal Canadians, and Sound and Science, along with Sunhawk, Acres of Lions and Michael Bernard Fitzgerald. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

There will also be DJ’s, local food vendors, merchandise, and onsite camping.

“All the little things seem to add up, and with the right supporters, we make it work,” said Bain.

Those supporters include the people of Glenora, who have done lots to help make the festival a success.

“I can’t say enough about the community,” said Bain. “How can you tell we’re on the right course? Last year, we had five volunteers setting up. This year, we have eight or 10 cars full of volunteers, including those five from last year. And half the people are Glenora residents.”

That’s a contrast to the traditional attendees, about 80 per cent of whom have come from Vancouver and Victoria. Bain would be thrilled to see more of a local audience.

Tickets for the festival, with and without camping passes, area still available at Mill Bay Pizza and Duncan Music, in Victoria at Lyle’s Place and Ditch Records, or online at rockofthewoods.com Win: The Citizen is giving away a pair of tickets to the event. To win passes to the Rock of the Woods festival, see page 15 for contest details.

Alive Inside organizers thrilled with Christian rock lineup LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Alive Inside, the Christian rock festival that lights up the Cowichan River Bible Camp site on Riverbottom Road every summer, is back Saturday, July 27 with a super lineup of talent.

The gates open at 4 p.m., with music starting soon after and continuing throughout the evening, inspiring and entertaining the huge crowd that always comes out.

This year, the bands include the Neverclaim, Fresh iE, Jon Neufeld, Fridays Cry, and Bondless.

Organizer Ivan Schulz is excited about the lineup.

“Fresh iE is Grammy nominated.

He’s originally from Winnipeg but he’s been everywhere. The Neverclaim is an up-and-coming group, out of Portland,” he said.

“We also have a number of other musical acts and even Polynesian fire dancers. We’re trying to get a local drum group in but we haven’t had a confirmation on that yet,” he said.

Fresh iE says in his bio that he not only writes his own songs but produces almost all of his pounding beats and rhythms as well.

The first commercial project he created — in his living room — was the album Red Letters. It made Canadian music history as he became the first Canadian rapper to be nominated for a Grammy, selected to the top five in his category from among thousands of performers.

“To say I didn’t dream of being

The Grammy nominated Fresh iE is just one of the new and exciting acts organizers have lined up for this year’s Alive Inside. [SUBMITTED] nominated and eventually winning a Grammy would be a lie. I dreamed of success, not knowing as a child [that] daring to believe in my dreams would actually put me in the same league as those I admired,” he said.

He’s played every sort of venue, from youth prisons to big festivals. His largest crowd to date was the 80,000 he faced at the 2010 Olympics.

“It is a huge rush, one I’ll never forget. An extreme honour to play for such a historic event,” he said.

The Neverclaim are also ready to rock Alive Inside.

In a relatively short time, this sextet has evolved from local to regional and now international levels, and are playing with the big names.

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The Alive Inside show date falls neatly between the Islands Folk Festival and SunFest, and Alive Inside usually gets great weather and fans are getting ready to enjoy a day full of excitement.

“I don’t think we’ve had rain in 10 years, so let’s not disturb that trend,” said Schulz.

Alive Inside is definitely a family-friendly, all-ages event.

“We’re going to have a bouncy castle and a slide for the little ones, and we’ll have some jousting and a vertical bungee for the older kids. There’s something for everyone,” he said.

Tickets for this open air show are $18 per person for anybody over 12.

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Big Machine rolling into Garage Showroom Oliver Swain’s Big Machine is arriving in Duncan Thursday, July 25 as part of a summer tour, featuring Jaron Freeman-Fox, Emily Braden, Adam Dobres and Quinn Bachand.

The Machine describes itself as “an ever evolving musical contraption.” The product of the multi-talented Swain, it’s a hit at festivals around the country.

This tour sees Swain collaborate with demon fiddler Jaron Freeman-Fox and jazz vocalist Emily Braden, while 17-year-old guitar prodigy Quinn Bachand will alter-

nate his duties with axe-wielding legend Adam Dobres, who is just off the road from touring with Ruth Moody, and consequently, Mark Knopfler.

The trio (in either configuration) is something to hear.

During a Big Machine show, each band member has a feature, which only emphasizes the quality of the collaboration.

Swain’s career spans 15 years of performing and writing with many of the U.S. and Canada’s most-loved roots bands including The Bills, The Duhks, Outlaw Social and The Red Stick Ramblers. This two-time Prairie Music Award (WCMA) winner and Juno

nominee leans into his music.

Vocalist and songwriter Braden’s career includes touring and recording with folk artist Harry Manx, singing with the Victoria Symphony and lately she’s been storming the Big Apple.

Freeman-Fox loves to take his violin where no one has gone before. He’s played with all sorts and enjoys fusing his Celtic and bluegrass roots with other kinds of music.

Showtime at the Duncan Garage Showroom is around 8 p.m. and tickets are $17 in advance or $20 at the door.

Lexi Bainas, Citizen

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Songwriters show hearts onstage LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

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Renata Shaw-Young wins song contest LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Reclining comfortably in their chairs or dancing happily by the main stage, music lovers of all ages enjoyed the Island Songwriters Contest that opened the annual Folk Festival at Providence Farm Friday, July 19.

They saw Renata Shaw-Young emerge atop a wide variety of performers, receiving a recording session for her winning song: Watch Our Garden Grow, an optimistic look at future possibilities.

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Finishing third was Doug Folkins with his grippingly titled song, I Love You More Than Bacon.

The contestants came from all up and down Vancouver Island and included Jack Sigurdson, Megan Blu, Nathan Senner, Cari Burdett, Gerry Auger and David Lowther.

Shayde Dame and Patrick Nixon shared the honours Friday, July 19, as the Duncan’s Got Talent judges decided they were both winners of the songwriters’ division.

They were also the only two competitors, earning by their efforts a full week of mentoring from the judging trio of Beverley McKeen, Laura Cardriver and Cathy Schmidt.

Schmidt praised the teens for taking up the challenge.

“This category is particularly cool because these are not show pieces. This is from the heart. And what I’ve particularly noticed is great about these kids this week is that we’ve been able to watch them grow,” Schmidt said. “Laura and I saw them last year and then again this year and it’s been absolutely wonderful to watch them. I know myself as a mentor, I didn’t want to be anywhere else this week.

“Thank you, [Longevity John Falkner] for breaking this up so the community can get to know the different genres of what we’re doing here.”

Falkner replied, “what a wonderful thing to do each day in the park at five o’clock.”

Cardriver said, “We’ve had a wonderful week with our two contestants in this category. We’ve asked them to sing a duet tonight as well and we’re looking forward to hearing that duet at the end of

Scan with the Layar app or go to www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com to see video of Patrick Nixon’s winning original song, as well as commentary from the judges on the songwriters category and more photos. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN] the program. We won’t be saying anything too much tonight so the kids can perform a sort of miniconcert for you. They each have an original song, then a cover, then another original song.”

Patrick went first.

“Because we’ve only had two contestants this week, we’ve thrown them some curves and sometimes it’s been a bit rough on them,” McKeen said. “It’s my first time as a judge in this thing, but I’ve been in the mentoring seat for a while with these two. It’s just a pleasure to watch the growth, it’s

a privilege to help them with that.

And just like Long John said, this is all about compassion, it’s from the heart and when these young people get up on the stage, they’re telling you two personal stories.

And there’s a great crowd here tonight. You show you’re community when you come out and support this.”

This week, contestants in the instrumental division are on the CUPE stage nightly at Charles Hoey Park, with the finals again taking place starting at 5 p.m.

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Bringing home gold with Team BC A FIRST FOR THE PROVINCE:

Cowichan’s Chantal Arnold wins championship, hangs out with Canadian stars KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Chantal Arnold not only collected a gold medal at the U18 girls national field lacrosse championships in Oshawa, Ontario, last week — she also got a glimpse of what she hopes is her future in the sport.

The U18 tournament — Canada’s first since 1997 — was held at the same time as two others events: the Turtle Island invitational tournament, and the Women’s World Cup. Sharing facilities with some of the national teams, including Canada, gave Arnold and her teammates a chance to mingle with some of their heroes.

On one particularly memorable occasion, Arnold had breakfast with Dana Dobbie, a Canadian star and assistant coach of the Loyola University Maryland Greyhounds in the dining hall shared by the U18 and World Cup teams.

“Me and my roommate [Team BC and UC Davis player Ellie Delich] sat down and had a conversation with her, talking about the food and how the eggs were rubbery,” Arnold laughed.

The Team BC players also attended some of the World Cup games, including a Canada/U.S. showdown, where the teams from the national tournament held their opening ceremonies at halftime. The Canadian players returned the favour by taking in the national gold-medal game.

Arnold’s team played four games and won them all handily, the closest result a 10-5 victory over the Ontario Selects in the final. Team BC hadn’t expected to be so dominant.

“We thought we’d be even with them, but we got there and we played really great,” said Arnold.

Arnold “felt really good” about her own play at the tournament, which included a

“We thought we’d be even with them, but we got there and we played really great.”

CHANTAL ARNOLD, U18 Team BC player

couple of goals and six assists in the four games, and regular playing time.

“I was out there quite a bit; more than I thought I would have been,” she said.

The victory in the final marked the first time B.C. has ever won the national championship, the beginning perhaps not just of a new era for the revived U18 tournament but also for Team BC. Arnold was the only Vancouver Island player on the team, and at 15, one of the youngest players. Her motivation is to play eventually for Team Canada, which currently has no players from B.C., and her chances seem pretty good at this point.

“The coach for the 2015 U19 Women’s World Championships was there watching us too, and I had a couple of conversations with him,” Arnold noted.

She’s also aiming at playing college lacrosse in the U.S., the higher division, the better.

“Hopefully I’ll get a scholarship,” she said.

“I’ve been in contact with some schools.”

This was also Arnold’s first season of box lacrosse, playing with the Nanaimo Timbermen who took part in the provincial championships just before she went east for nationals. Unfortunately, she didn’t experience the same success as the Nanaimo team lost every game, with the exception of an 8-4 win over Prince George.

“It was interesting,” she said of provincials. “I hadn’t really experienced that kind of stuff. It was a lot rougher; there was a lot more dirtiness.”

Regardless, she called box lacrosse “a lot of fun,” and plans to play again next year.

Arnold will round out this summer with a trip to the Cascade Cup in Washington with a Victoria team, and an appearance at Summer Slam in Victoria with the Cowichan Storm.

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Hearts broken, but heads held high

Duncan Stingrays are AA-OK at provincial long course meet

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Shockingly close losses for Cowichan

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It takes bad luck to lose a lacrosse game in the final minute.

It takes the worst luck to lose three games that way. Luck was definitely not on the side of the bantam B Cowichan Valley Thunder at the provincial championships in Delta last weekend.

“I have coached for many years and been to many provincials, but this was the first time I had a team that was so good, that we lost every game, but each game we lost in the final minute,” said head coach Dale Nordstrom. “In each game, we led all the way until there were a couple of bad bounces at the end of the game.”

The Thunder opened the tournament last Friday with an earlymorning game against the host Islanders. Cowichan led almost the whole way, getting two goals each from Brayden Grantham and Parker Teufel, and one from Michael Shepherd, and assists from Will Wright, Caleb Nordstrom, Liam Joe, Seth Negaard and Brayden Grantham. It wasn’t until the very end that Delta was able to pull even, then slip ahead and win 6-5. Cowichan goalie Zander Cozine was named his team’s game MVP. The story and score were similar when Cowichan played Langley that afternoon. Again the Thunder dominated early on, but Langley tied the score late and forced overtime.

“Even at the start of overtime, we were all over them,” Nordstrom recalled.

Cowichan generated the first eight shots of their extra frame, but the eighth shot glanced off the crossbar, and Langley recovered the rebound, ran down the floor and scored.

Scoring for Cowichan against Langley were Shepherd with two, Teufel, Caleb Nordstrom and Gavin Spencer. Brady Williams recorded two assists, and Joe, Nordstrom, Shepherd, Cozine, Clayton Raphael and Sam Baxter had one each. Raphael was named game MVP. Despite finding out just moments before their final roundrobin game against Vancouver on Saturday morning that there was no chance they could advance to the playoff round, the Thunder took the floor with their heads held high and still gave it everything they had.

“They did not throw in the towel — far from it,” said coach Nordstrom. “They went out with dignity and class.”

Once again, Cowichan took the

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“We could have easily been in that gold medal game and brought home gold.”

DALE NORDSTROM, bantam B Thunder head coach

lead, going up 4-2 before Vancouver came back and won 5-4.

Raphael, Grantham, Spencer and Miles Brooks had the goals.

Spencer and Caleb Nordstrom had two assists, apiece, with one each from Grantham, Teufel and Wright. Spencer claimed game MVP honours.

Vancouver would go on to win the provincial championship, beating Comox in the final, the same Comox team that Cowichan defeated for the Island championship.

“We could have easily been in that gold medal game and brought home gold,” said Dale Nordstrom.

It wasn’t just the Thunder who realized that they had been less than fortunate in their games.

“All three of the other coaches said they were lucky to win, that we were the better team,” said Nordstrom, who heard similar accolades from opposing parents, praising the Thunder’s class. “They said we played good, clean, hard … that’s the way to play lacrosse.”

Cowichan goalie Cozine was named to the provincial all-star team and received the Warrior Fair Play Award.

“Our goalie was amazing,” said Nordstrom. “He had just a couple of bad bounces. He’s a friendly, nice kid, and he absolutely deserved the awards he got.”

Another Cowichan representative who was recognized at provincials was Dylan Taylor, who received the Fair Play Official Award for the entire bantam tournament. Taylor didn’t ref any of Cowichan’s games at provincials, but had officiated some during league play, and Nordstrom was pleased to see him honoured.

“He’s an outstanding ref,” said the coach. “That’s a well-deserved award he got there.”

The high level of competition at the 2013 SwimBC Long Course AA Championships in Saanich late last month — featuring more than 350 swimmers from across the province — didn’t intimidate the dozen Duncan Stingrays who were in attendance.

Each of the 12 Stingrays recorded personal bests in the majority of their events, 10 had at least one top-10 placing, four tested themselves in completely new events, and three made their debuts at the AA provincial level.

Cecilia Johnson, Jasmin Marston, James Ogihara-Kertz and Desirae Ridenour had personal bests in all of their events; Rosie Lee, Megan Lewis and Kealey

Scott did so in all but one race; Jotei Browne, Olivia Campbell and Montana Prystupa did so in all but two races; and Lalaine Gower and Kayla Laberge made that achievement in all but three events.

Campbell, Johnson and Marston each had top-10 placings in all of their events: Campbell finished fourth once, fifth three times, and seventh once; Johnson was third three times and fourth once; and Marston had a third, a sixth, a seventh and a ninth.

Prystupa recorded four top-10 results (a third, a fourth, a fifth and a seventh), as did Ridenour (a fourth, a fifth, an eighth and a ninth) and Gower (a sixth, a seventh and two ninths); Lewis had three (a third, a fourth and a sixth); Lee had two (a third and a ninth), as did Ogihara-Kertz (a fourth and a seventh; and Scott had one third-place finish.

The 14-and-under medley relay team of Marston (backstroke),

Ridenour (breaststroke), Gower (butterfly) and Prystupa (freestyle) also collected a third-place result.

The three first-timers at the provincial AA level were Browne, Laberge and Scott. Browne also took the opportunity to try out three new events: the 100m free, fly and backstroke.

Also trying new races were Gower in the 200m fly, Lee in the 400m individual medley, and Ogihara-Kertz in the demanding 1500m free.

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VALLEY Calendar Miscellaneous • Summer storytime at Kin Park Youth Urban Farm Tuesdays, July 2-Aug. 13, 10-11 a.m. Vancouver Island Regional Library and the Farm team to host children’s storytime geared to three to five year olds (all ages welcome). Part of library Summer Reading Club. Stories followed by garden-themed activity.

Info: Kristen Rumohr 250-746-7661, or www.virl.bc.ca or www.cowichangreencommunity.org • Prairie Provinces Reunion, Royal Canadian Legion, Duncan, 6:15-9 p.m., Aug. 10. Supper and dance, music by Rosewood Music. Tickets $12, on sale now. Limited space, 50 tickets only, priority to members and guests with prairie connections, then general Legion members. Tickets: Ron 250-746-7805.

• Chemainus Literary Festival Fridays, 5-9 p.m., July and August. Part of ArtBeat on Willow Street. Meet local authors and/or bring your own published books. Free. Info: Eliza Hemingway, days 250-324-2212, evenings 250-416-0363, email elizahemingway@shaw.ca

Seniors • Chemainus 55+ drop in centre dance with the Esquires, July 27, 7 p.m. Lunch $9.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre muffin mornings Wednesday and Friday, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Come and meet new friends.

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• Weekly bingo, Tuesdays, 12 p.m., Valley Seniors Centre, Duncan. Info: 250-746-4433.

Chemainus 55+ drop in centre bridge for beginners Thursdays, 1 p.m. Info: Al Taylor 250-246-4134.

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• Chemainus Seniors Centre bridge classes: Monday 1-4 p.m., Tuesday pairs 7:30-9:30 p.m., Friday pairs 1-4 p.m. Duplicate bridge Wednesday, 1-4 p.m. Crib Classes 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month.

Recreation • New chess club at Duncan Library, Monday evenings 6-8 p.m.

All ages and skill levels welcome.

• Cowichan Valley Scottish Country Dancing Thursday evenings 6:30-8 p.m., singles, couples, beginners welcome, Chemainus Seniors Centre. Info: 250-748-9604.

• Calling all chess players, every Wednesday, 1-4 p.m. All levels welcome. Info: 250-743-8740.

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