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Legal grow-op neighbours get property values reduced 20% ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

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A group of Shawnigan Lake residents has seen their property values reduced because they are neighbours of a legal marijuana grow operation.

Neil Haley and five others appealed their property assessments this year, and had the amount reduced by 20 per cent because of what they say is a problematic neighbour.

The grow-op in question was built about two years ago in the residential area, Haley said, in a purpose-built building with ventilation and other requirements.

Preston Partridge, the owner of the grow operation, said he’s gone above and beyond what is required to try to make sure none of the facility’s neighbours are impacted.

“We’re being as courteous as anyone possibly can,” said Partridge. “All our stuff, it’s filtered, it’s all done properly.”

“We’re not trying to upset anyone. I am a businessman. I do things that make money,” It’s a business that doesn’t belong there, Haley and his neighbours say.

“The smell has been incredibly obnoxious,” he said, and the noise of the industrial fans is also a problem. The smell permeates about 300 metres from the growop, he said.

“Our property values have gone down dramatically,” he continued, saying that residents have also had trouble selling their homes because of the grow-op in the neighbourhood.

Partridge disputes the claims that his facility is a nuisance, saying he’s spent a lot of money on quieter fans and filtration so that odour isn’t a problem.

“We’ve done a lot of things that have cost us a lot of money that we don’t have to do, just to try and help out the neighbourhood,” Partridge countered.

He also said that there are other legal grow operations in the same area, which he says are far less courteous. “We’re taking the rap for it,” he said.

The group of neighbours has gone to the Cowichan Valley Regional District, Health Canada, Island Health and every other avenue they could think of.

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Music festival gets okay, but fight not over KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

It is a long and winding road to site of the Rock of the Woods music festival at the end of Irvine Road in Sahtlam.

But not as long and winding as the process that organizers have had to go through in order to hold the event in 2015.

A new bylaw, instituted by former Area E director Loren Duncan, was supposed to streamline and standardize the process for obtaining event permits, but delays and amendments at the Electoral Area Services level have only served to make it longer and more arduous.

The Cowichan Valley Regional District board of directors voted on March 11 to give notice that it plans to approve the Temporary Use Permit for the July 23-26 festival, all but guaranteeing final approval. In doing so, the board tacked on amendments — recommended by the Electoral Area Services committee — that cut back allowed attendance from 1,000 to 900 people and shut down the stage at midnight, half an hour before organizers had proposed.

While inconvenient, those amendments are relatively easy for organizers to stomach. Another

condition, however, that they be “strongly encouraged to fund a suitable location elsewhere” for the future, doesn’t sit with them quite as well.

“Given the numerous issues the Agricultural Land Commission has with holding non-agricultural events on agricultural land, the present site is the best possible venue for a special event such as Rock of the Woods,” organizers Dave Bain and Kelly Black said in an open letter to the CVRD board earlier this month, something they have said since they first discovered the location and continue to stand by.

The festival was first held in Bamberton in 2011, but the Shawnigan Lake RCMP’s lack of resources forced a relocation. Two sites in Glenora in 2012 and 2013 served the festival well, but were both within the Agricultural Land Reserve. According to Duncan, the organizers searched everywhere for yet another spot, hoping it would be the permanent site.

“They went pillar to post until they found a site for it last year,” the former director said.

Concerns from residents of the immediate area arose, mostly about noise and traffic, and while Bain thought he had addressed

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“The people that live on the road, about two-thirds of them have indicated that they are not in support,” she said. “What I know is that residents are not happy it’s going ahead.”

Although Bain and Black have provided responses to every concern from residents, including worries about the adjacent Cowichan River, noise from the concert, traffic and parking, and fire safety, Nicholson and some of her fellow directors remain unswayed.

With regard to noise concerns, Bain pointed out that tests were performed three times a day during last year’s festival, and not once did Rock of the Woods break the CVRD’s noise bylaw.

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Jenelle Pavlin’s daughter was slipping through the cracks in her Cowichan Valley public school and sliding towards an uncertain future — just one of the special needs students the public school system is failing.

“I’m frustrated,” Pavlin said before she recently made a decision pull her daughter from the mainstream system in favour of home schooling. “I’m at the point where no one is listening. I want to educate the public about how hard it is to get help.”

“I’ve waited three years, gone to multiple meetings with the school and with doctors and psychiatrists and all these agencies.

“It’s all about trying to get help for my child at school: a support system put into place, an IEP [individual education plan], and some assistance.

It’s about trying to get a chronic health designation, and the wait list and how things keep happening to set you back another year,” she said.

It’s been hard to wait when Pavlin knows that her child could already be as much as a year and a half behind because helping hands haven’t been there.

Pavlin’s daughter, the older of two, was at Tansor Elementary School until several weeks ago.

Faced with diagnoses from doctors of a complex neurodevelopmental condition which saw her daughter shutting down when overwhelmed and overstimulated, the anxious mom wanted to see some action.

“This was the problem. I had these diagnoses but the school was saying we had to go on a one- to twoyear wait list to get assessments.”

Added to the mix is that her daughter’s needs are internalized and more complicated because she also has epilepsy.

“Some days she’s fine but you don’t know when those fine days are going to be. And it takes something as simple as a substitute teacher to set her off.”

••• It’s the kind of story that’s all too familiar to Susan Stacey, occupational therapist (OT) for School District No. 79.

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Riding a bike around the school yard is fun for Pavlin’s daughter, like any elementary school girl, but difficulties arise once class is in session. [SUBMITTED] She’s served in her position for more than 22 years, and urged the school board earlier this month to take action quickly to help Valley children like Pavlin’s daughter who can’t get help.

School-age therapy has been around for a very long time, with the Cowichan district a progressive voice in the province, she said.

But, as with many other areas of public education, her own workload has increased steeply in the last two decades from 32 students in 1994 to 355 this year.

Stacey is concerned that in the Cowichan Valley’s public schools, students with OT-related needs wait far too long for OT support.

“I tried calculating that and it’s mind-boggling when you start going through the numbers. Some students have waited 10 years for service,” she told trustees.

On top of that, in 2011, the school district OT position was reduced by 40 per cent while there have continued to be about 40 referrals each year.

“The majority of those students are on my wait list because I just can’t see them,” she said.

Further, helping staff at schools also have to stand in line for support.

Some education assistants are “waiting three or four years for the actual recommendations of what they can do with that student,” Stacey estimated.

Parents these days are also being asked to pay for OT service privately that was previously provided through the school district OT, she said.

And there’s more.

Despite the provincial requirements and the great need, in June 2011, the ministry for children and family development “stopped providing their share of the school age therapy OT program” to the district, Stacey said.

She urged trustees to find out

what’s happening with it and get that funding reinstated.

“Our community is one of the only ones in the province that doesn’t get that funding,” she said.

Stacey also asked the district “to recommend a significant increase in the school district OT position to address that multi-year backlog of students looking for initial support, let alone ongoing support.”

••• Teachers, too, see problems in their classrooms.

“They ask for help,” Stacey said.

“That teacher, the next year’s teacher and probably the next year’s teacher will not receive that support,” she said, adding, “And by then the child has become a behaviour problem.”

Class size and composition is huge when talking about special needs children, and those “grey area” students not yet designated as needing specific help, Cowichan District Teachers Association president Naomi Nilsson reported to the school board.

“One of my colleagues that I taught with is now teaching Grade 7. He has seven designated kids in his class and there are three more on a wait list. And, because they are Grade 7, he is hoping they will get designated by the end of the year,” she said.

Grade 8 will see them leaving elementary school.

If a child is designated there is the hope of more funds for support but the subject of long wait lists is worrying teachers, according to Nilsson.

“When you suspect that a child will get a designation down the road, you put them on a wait list.

I was talking to another teacher who has actually placed a student on a wait list in Grade 2 and, in Grade 6, that student had still not been designated,” she said.

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“She was wonderful. She brought a friend with her to help, as part of the advocacy process. Which is good because that person could take notes and ensure we’d accomplished the goals that mom had set out at the start of the meeting, to make sure she touched on all the points she wanted to,” Newman said.

Pavlin said the school counsellor had also put her back into trying to help with the problem.

However, it wasn’t all smooth sailing from there, Pavlin found.

“What she [Newman] failed to tell me was that it’s very difficult to get the designation they are able to work with. I went on stress leave. I completely flipped out.”

Pavlin contacted the school counsellor.

“She cancelled all of her appointments. I have to give her a huge amount of thanks. Nobody’s ever put in that much effort for me. But there were also deadlines, which nobody else ever tells you about either.

“We had to fill out multiple forms. I made 32 phone calls and sent 10 emails [in one day] to try and get it organized. It’s a ridiculous amount of work you have to do. It shouldn’t have to be this way.”

And, with an IEP meeting pending, Pavlin was suddenly confronted with a request for a plan about her daughter’s seizures.

“They told me I needed to fill it out because it was a liability issue.

But, I’ve provided my own seizure plan at the school every year since kindergarten,” she said.

Eventually, Pavlin said, the family made a decision to take the girl out of her public school and enrol her in a home schooling service.

Even that meant research, as spaces for special needs children are in short supply.

Now things are looking up.

“She’s in her new program now, three days a week. Then she’s home schooled with me twice a week. She’s excited. She doesn’t kick up a fuss. She says she’s happy now. She’s made some friends there.”

The transition has not been effortless, but is making positive impact.

“Before she was biting and kicking and smashing against the windows and attacking us every day,”

Pavlin has been pushing for more than two years.

She took her first assessment to the school when her daughter was in Grade 1, assured the child would qualify for a designation.

Nothing happened.

Six months later, Pavlin began to contact everyone she could.

“I was worried by the time she got the right designation, got an IEP and got any help, she’d be in Grade 5,” she said, echoing Nilsson’s story.

Keeping her daughter at home for part of the day or even home schooling her were mentioned at that time, but Pavlin resisted.

“All the doctors said to keep my child in school, because, with private home school, she would have a tendency to become introverted, have really poor coping skills as an adult and not be able to function, get a job, go to university,” Pavlin recounted.

But to keep her in school, support was needed and there just didn’t seem to be any way to get at it, Pavlin said.

“Every week I felt like I could just burst into tears.”

Pavlin managed to arrange a meeting earlier this year with Dr. Lorna Newman, assistant superintendent at the Cowichan Valley School District.

Pavlin was initially hopeful after that session.

“Dr. Newman was very supportive, very open, and was able to come up with ideas about setting everything up. Nobody else seemed to be able to figure that out. I’m very grateful for that,” she said.

Newman, too was positive about the possible outcome and said waiting lists for help are not as long as they were several years ago.

“I think we need to clarify that early intervention services are much greater now,” she said, agreeing that Pavlin’s daughter has needs.

“There are referrals made for those services; they are being delivered. I was quite excited by all the steps that had been followed.”

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Pavlin said. “We had to hold the door shut at Tansor when we took her there.

“Now, she raced her dad to the door at school the other day and it was, ‘See you later, Daddy!’”

“She’s really smart actually,” Pavlin said. “It’s just difficult to get her to participate. It’s kind of a learning process all around.”

They haven’t yet completely said goodbye to the assessment process, however.

Pavlin has been working with the home schooling service to get a series of assessments of her daughter done by June which could be a game changer.

“The psychologist suggested that we do these tests to get to the bottom of it all,” she said.

••• Nilsson said there’s no question that parents like Pavlin advocating on behalf of their kids is key, but she also questions whether some schools are more equal than others when it comes to getting help for students.

“I want to touch on a story that one of our teachers relayed to me,” she told the school board. “She had a student at Alexander Elementary School who qualified for a certain kind of support but was not able to access it there because the needs of other students there were greater than this child.

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“It’s all about the importance of parent advocacy at our schools and at a district level,” Nilsson said.

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Special needs: school system gets failing grade ur public school system is failing students with special needs.

Not all of them, true, but enough of them for it to be a serious problem.

The fact that it has grown to the proportions that is has is a disgrace — one that falls squarely onto the shoulders of the provincial government.

It was provincial policy that integrated special needs students into regular classrooms under the philosophy of “inclusion.”

Great philosophy, but there was no provision of dollars — at least not the kind that it would have

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taken to make it truly successful for everyone involved.

For it to be a success there needed to be a significant hiring of both those to assess the needs of the students, and those to work with the students in the classroom.

Not very surprisingly, much of the burden has fallen onto the shoulders of the classroom teachers, with a few educational assistants giving some hours here and some hours there piecemeal to students who’ve been deemed to need aid, with dedicated full-time assistants for only the most serious cases.

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It’s not nearly enough. And that’s what is there for the kids who’ve been assessed.

As you can see in our special report by Lexi Bainas on pages 4-5 of today’s edition, we are woefully inadequate at moving students through the assessment process in a timely fashion.

Students waiting years — sometimes throughout their elementary school careers — to get assessed so they can be assigned some help is not good enough.

To find out that the occupational therapy position — the person who can assess the kids and design programs for them — has

actually been reduced is absurd and infuriating.

We’re consigning these kids to failure, grade after grade after grade.

It is appalling that they are pushed through the system, moving along with their peers year to year when they are often learning almost nothing at all from their classes and certainly not keeping up with what they’re supposed to be learning.

There is no justification possible for failing to have properly assessed someone for so many years that they are being pushed into high school when one can

assume they likely have trouble with even the most basic academic skills.

That’s barring a really involved and dedicated parent who’s essentially done the job of teaching their child themselves.

It begs the question: are we just hoping that these kids drop out of the regular system so that we never have to devote the time and funds to them?

This failure of our system to provide these students with the help they need affects them for the rest of their lives.

The problem is not going away.

We must do better.

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Canada’s health care system under threat There is a Day of Action being planned for March 31 to highlight the need for federal leadership on health care. In 2004 a Health Accord was signed between provinces, territories and government to provide stable funding and set national standards.

When this agreement expired in 2014 the federal government refused to renegotiate it. We now have 14 health care systems in Canada. Access now depends on where you live and your ability to pay. It seems not all Canadians are equal when it comes to medical care. Are some provinces more Canadian than others?

The Harper government will

start a $36 billion cut in payments of the Canada Heath Transfer [CHT] starting in 2017 for 10 years in addition to the elimination of the equalization of the CHT which effectively reduces transfers by another $16.5 billion.

Wednesday, March 11 the Cowichan Valley Chapter of the Council of Canadians and the Duncan United Church Justice Committee hosted a meeting attended by over 60 people on threats to health care. Two experienced nurses, Jo Salken and Kris Vanlambalgen spoke on the problems of the CDMR Care Delivery model redesign implemented by Island Health from their personal experiences.

This model replaces trained

nurses with health care assistants for care such as bathing, feeding, walking to bathroom with the supposed purpose of free nurses for patient assessment and planning. This model is supposed to cut overtime and nursing burnout.

These nurses, both with over 20 years experience, claim it does nothing of the kind. We must listen to them! Patient assessments are made by talking to the patient, watching how the walk, observing subtle changes, not by a 30 minute interview. Sometimes medications are being given up to eight hours late.

Health care assistants do have a place but they cannot replace a trained nurses.

We all need to contact our

local MLAs and make sure they are listening to medical staff themselves.

With a federal election coming up this is our chance to make our concerns known. If enough people will speak out, perhaps something will be done.

Don’t wait until you or a family member becomes a victim of cutbacks.

Trudy Thorgeirson Duncan

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Malahat film superb What a treat it was for us to attend the premiere screening of the film One Man’s Dream: the History of the Malahat Highway.

Congratulations to everyone involved in this community venture sponsored by the Mill Bay/ Malahat Historical Society. More than 400 people turned out to the Brentwood College theatre event and were obviously impressed

Field delay waste of time This letter is addressing Mr. Robert Douglas at North Cowichan and his request to delay putting to tender the turf field at Sherman Road.

As a mother of a soccer player, I must say I am terribly disappointed with council’s decision. For years the Cowichan Valley Soccer Association has been raising funds for this field.

For years our children have been anxiously awaiting this field. We are one of the very few that do not have a turf field to play on which is a HUGE disadvantage to our players when travelling.

I get that perhaps a story came out stating dangers. There are dangers in everything these days. And depending on who is telling the story or which article you look up, there’s always different opinions and answers.

And as far as concerns about concussions, our coaches are

by the superbly colourful documentary created by screenplay writer Geoff Johnson, filmmaker Nick Versteeg and Victoria actor Roger Carr, whom many may remember from his days teaching drama in South Cowichan.

The many guests and MBMHS members who dressed in period costume for the screening added to the atmosphere, as did the informative early 20th century fashion show which provided

very diligent about teaching the kids to head the ball properly, how to avoid situations whenever possible. Will there be concussions? Of course. They are playing a physical sport!

So you to choose to delay this, to start with two weeks? And then I am sure you will find you didn’t have enough time, and have reason to delay again.

Meanwhile, our kids’ games get cancelled due to field conditions.

I had my son at a practice with a team in Victoria not long ago.

Overhearing players talk about Cowichan and how pathetic we were — we had no turf and hardly any fields with lights. Let’s get moving on this and give our players something to be proud of and to play the sport they so dearly love! Please use these two weeks wisely.

Michelle Hutton-Marinier (mom of a player for U13 boys gold team — Cowichan United)

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We hope the DVD of this production will find its way into all schools in School District 79 and districts nearby as it is an exceptional historical record. One

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Woodstove a matter of financial need Dear Don, how lovely to finally get an opinion that actually is right on the mark.

Too many people are jumping down the throats of us woodstove people and not listening to the whys and wherefores of the real reasons we choose to burn wood over other more efficient so called proactive fuels.

I, for one, have used a wood-

stove, for going on 45 years and have always been extra vigilant on what I burn and the condition of the wood I put in it. Green wood never touches my stove, and wood that has been only recently cut is outside undercover waiting its full two years until its been marinated to the right consistency.

So for those of you who have a problem with my stove, I agree with Mr. Richards; it might be time that you found another

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Seriously people, when I was growing up this was not an issue, and still today with all that is going on in the world, you have found the time to bitch! Why is it a few select troublemakers always have to cause such a fuss? It is after all farm country and the last time I looked, you were living on the remnants of someone’s else’s farm that they had to sell because they couldn’t afford to feed their animals with

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all the skyrocketing prices that come with new people from the city demanding land to spread their wings.

Mr. Richards is right, we live in a temperate climate here and those of us that use wood to heat our homes use it to keep the darn damp out of our lives so it doesn’t cause other health problems in our lives that can be more costly and create a backlash on the health care systems that are already beyond the breaking point.

I have to use wood; unlike you I can’t afford anything else; the price of living these days has left me without a flipping extra penny in my pocket and to be

honest I don’t even have an alternate heat source to turn one on, even if I could.

So for those of you that like to think we are doing this on purpose, you might want to go back to your fancy homes and turn on all those clean alternative gadgets that you seem to think you need. When the power goes out — and it will — I’d like to see how you are going to keep your family from freezing to death; as for me I’m going to be nice and warm, and don’t even think about showing up to ask for a hot meal!

We must take a look at water priorities

is set at a level to recover the cost of administration. In practice that means a company like Nestle pays $2.25/thousand cubic meters. That is enough water to make 444,000 1.5 litre bottles of water, which sell for approximately $533,000. Not a bad profit from something that belongs to all of us! (If you think this is unfair, the online petition group sumofus.org has a petition you can sign.)

Most importantly, this blatant example of unfairness in the use and charges for our water should make us all think about how our precious water is being used. Do we really need to buy millions of litres of bottled water, which also produces mountains of garbage, when we have perfectly good drinking water in our municipally owned water systems? On World Water Day this Sunday, we need to remember that water is a human right and that managing it wisely for future generations is a public trust that our governments must protect.

World Water Day reflections.

While we have been revelling in our unusually warm winter, and basking in the warm sunny weather of the past few weeks, we are also uneasily aware that the consequent lack of snow up in the hills may bring us drought this summer.

Not only will we have to restrict our garden watering, but the far more serious low water levels in our rivers will once again put spawning salmon at risk.

The new Water Sustainability Act passed last year by the B.C. Legislature, does give the government the power to regulate water use in time of scarcity, and does include provisions to protect water in streams to provide adequate water for fish and ecosystem health.

However, the new act has some serious flaws. For example, the recently released fee structure for industrial users is totally out of line. The fees for industries that use huge amounts of water, like water bottling companies,

Wood heating the affordable option In addition to the recent letter about wood smoke one has to consider that many, many people in the Cowichan area and beyond simply cannot afford to heat their homes without wood fires.

The prices for BC Hydro, Fortis and other modes are simply too

No to traffic circles, plantings A skate park for our kids is a great idea. What is not a good idea is spending money on too many road roundabouts and decorative plantings that the municipality cannot afford.

Yes, let’s review the budget for a skate park based on the fact that monies have been being saved since 2003 in Crofton.

No to roundabouts and decorative plants, with water in short supply they can wait.

Plain and simple, our budget is stretched, we need to make

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steep and they are constantly rising. Have a good look around beyond the expensive cars and the million dollar properties.

There is a profound amount of poverty in our midst and banning wood fires would make the situation worse.

Mike McKenna Mill Bay

choices. We need to separate needs from wants.

An affordable future for our kids should be a priority over dog parks, excessive boulevards and garden beds. Families taxed to the max stretch the food bill, heating bill, gas bill, clothing, sports and extra curricular activities are all cut back.

The primary role of local government is to provide quality water, sewer service, roads and garbage, not to become developers at taxpayer expense.

Joyce Behnsen North Cowichan councillor

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Detoxification is the body’s natural process of elimination or neutralization of toxic materials from cells, organs and the bloodstream. The body processes these toxins through the liver, kidneys, urine, feces, exhalaion and perspiration. Cleansing is the action of helping your body to perform detoxification more thoroughly.

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Do you know who owned puppy Jay? KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The SPCA is hoping the public will help them track down the owner of a puppy who was found suffering from serious injuries.

Dubbed “Jay,” the five-month-old collie/ German shepherd mix was found bleeding, without any identification and with a rope embedded in his neck. He is also severely underweight and is fighting an infection from the wound on his neck.

“The rope had grown at least an inch into his neck; the veterinarian estimated it had been like that for at least a month,” Cowichan and District BC SPCA branch manager Sandi Trent said. “He’s also very skinny. Poor pup — he’s such a sweetie pie.

We’re glad someone saw him and reported it to us.”

Jay was named after Dr. Jay Pollock, the veterinarian who conducted emergency surgery on his neck at Central Cowichan Animal Hospital. He is receiving medical care and responding well to treatment.

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Ladysmith man charged in three B&Es KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Fong has been charged in three B&Es in Chemainus, one on Osborne Bay Road, and one on Herd Road, and also faces two charges for possession of stolen property. He made his first court appearance on Wednesday afternoon, and will remain in custody until his next appearance on March 23.

Insp. Ray Carfantan, who leads the North Cowichan/Duncan detachment, expressed his gratitude to business owners and residents for their cooperation and patience.

“No less than 1,000 operational police hours have been dedicated to bringing a positive resolution to this crime spree,” he said.

The North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP put a stop to a one-man crime spree last week with the arrest of Tyler Desmond Fong, a 31-year-old Ladysmith man.

The detachment’s street crime unit had been working diligently to resolve a spate of commercial and residential break and enters in the Chemainus area since January. Working with the general duty section and other nearby detachments, they gathered evidence that pointed to Fong. Following searches in Cedar and Ladysmith, with assistance from the Nanaimo RCMP, Fong was charged.

Fong was on parole from prison for several serious property crimes and a home invasion, but had recently had his parole revoked and a Canada-wide warrant issued for his arrest. He had turned himself in to authorities in Victoria and served out his sentence at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre, but before he got out, he was arrested on seven charges relating to his latest crime spree.

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Nicholson counters that some residents still could have been bothered by the noise. “I know that sound does weird things,” she said. “It could be that a neighbour is particularly affected because of the way sound bounces.”

She also expressed concerns about bylaw enforcement, saying there is no way to prove that organizers limit attendance to the numbers they are permitted. “Enforcement, I think, is important,” she said.

Nicholson also noted that residents raised issues with a volunteer party held after the festival wrapped up last year, where noise may have exceeded the CVRD bylaw. Bain and Black had already left the location at that point, and have vowed that the party will not be repeated.

Asked what it would take to make the current site of Rock of the Woods acceptable, Nicholson didn’t have an answer.

“I don’t know,” she said. “I don’t know how the community will feel after another event. But my gut tells me they won’t come around.”

Bain says he has made numerous attempts to contact Nicholson since she was elected last fall, but that she has yet to communicate with him. She did attend a site visit in January along with other regional directors prior to the community meeting, but did not speak directly with organizers.

CVRD board chair Jon Lefebure was on the tour with Nicholson, and was impressed both with the site and the organizers. Concerns like those being expressed by neighbours are not uncommon, even for things as small as a picnic table being set up in a park, he said.

“No matter where you hold an event, some neighbours will say they are having something taken out of their quiet, comfort and enjoyment,” he said. “We are very used to that.”

The key, he said, is to find a balance between an event and the concerns of

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neighbours, something he thinks can be achieved at the Irvine Road site.

With their festival finally approved, organizers are scrambling to plan the 2015 event in a short window.

“We are now left with less than four months to apply for a liquor licence, book talent, establish community partnerships, seek out business sponsorships, hire security, recruit volunteers, plan and implement logistics, and sell tickets,” Black said.

Bain noted that the short time span has also effectively killed plans for an arts bursary for local high school students, riparian work at the site, and a composting program.

Bain started Rock of the Woods as a way to showcase the Cowichan Valley, where he grew up, and to provide an event for young people in the area.

“There’s not a lot of things in the Valley that represent what youth are looking for,” he said. “There are not a lot of opportunities to be part of a community where anybody feels welcome.”

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“We got shut down on every one of them,” Haley said.

Sonia Furstenau, area director for Shawnigan Lake on the CVRD board, helped to organize a community meeting on the subject, to try to address the problem neighbours were having of everyone they contacted telling them it wasn’t their jurisdiction.

“The stories that we heard from them make it very hard for them just to enjoy their day-to-day lives,” she said.

When their assessments came in, which will determine their tax bills, it was the last straw, Haley said.

“We thought that if our house values are down, why should we be paying as much tax as we are?” he explained.

Their appeal went to a three-person tribunal.

“The board took little to no time to decide that our houses were unsalable and gave us a 20 per cent reduction,” Haley said.

It was only a partial victory, he said. They still have a grow-op in their backyard.

In general, grow-ops in residential neighbourhoods are problem-

atic, Furstenau said.

“This is just one of many examples where that’s not working,” she said. “They’re more suited for industrial areas.”

“Not working” is an understatement as far as Haley is concerned.

“We just want it gone,” he said.

“We’re not contesting the fact that medicinal marijuana is a necessary item, we’re just saying that it doesn’t need to be grown in a residential area.”

Partridge said there’s nothing he can do about the address at this point.

Last year, new federal legislation governing the growing of medical marijuana came into force, which strictly limits who can grow it in Canada. That was followed by a constitutional challenge which is now before the courts.

While the court process continues, Partridge said his licence is frozen.

“We can’t move it if we wanted to,” Partridge said. “We’re doing as much as we possibly can to accommodate everyone. If the neighbours want to rent the place off me then they can rent it. If they want to pay the rent and shut it down then they can do that.”

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Malahat documentary is dream come true KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Malahat Highway might have been one man’s dream, but it took many individuals working together to bring One Man’s Dream to the big screen.

The 38-minute documentary about Major James MacFarlane, the former Irish soldier who spurred the building of the road link from Mill Bay to Victoria, had its premiere last Wednesday at Brentwood College School. The brainchild of Maureen Alexander and the Malahat/Mill Bay Historical Society was put together by director Nick Versteeg and screenwriter Geoff Johnson.

The star of the show, however, is the literal star of the show: Victoria actor Roger Carr, whose portrayal of MacFarlane as a largerthan-life whiskey-quaffing ex-military man, brings the tale to life.

“We felt we had to tell the story through an actor playing James MacFarlane,” Versteeg told the sold-out crowd at Brentwood, and when the film played, it was easy to see why.

MacFarlane arrived in the area in 1903 after retiring from the British army, and found that he could only access his new home via an arduous boat trip, either from Nanaimo, Cowichan Bay, or the Saanich Peninsula. Rail was also an option, but the only way to get from Victoria was the Goldstream Trail, a deeply rutted five-foot-wide path around the far side of Shawnigan Lake that would take three days by wagon. The government said it was impossible to find a line upon which a road could be built, but MacFarlane spent three summers trekking through the bush to survey a route, and finally the government caved.

The Malahat opened in 1911 and was immediately labeled a “scenic wonder,” although it still wasn’t an easy trip. A thorn in the provincial government’s side, MacFarlane wasn’t invited to the ribbon-cutting, but found a way only he could have devised to be there.

The highway of course set off an econom-

steeg told the big crowd.

In attendance at the premiere were Major MacFarlane’s grandson Doug MacFarlane, great-grandson John MacFarlane, who not only verified his preference for Burke’s Irish Whiskey, but also donated his old riding crop, one of a sparse few artifacts left from MacFarlane’s life, to the Malahat/Mill Bay Historical Society.

The documentary will be shown again on June 3 at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre along with Seventy-One Years, Versteeg’s 2014 documentary about an Air Force plane that crashed near Port Renfrew during the Second World War and wasn’t discovered until 2013.

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A member of Victorian Vogue club shows off duds from the turn of the last century during a fashion show at the premiere of ‘One Man’s Dream.’ [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN] ic boom — from tourism to the Bamberton cement plant — that wouldn’t have otherwise been possible.

Sharp-eyed viewers recognize filming locations including the BC Forest Discovery Centre and the Legislature in Victoria, as well as the Malahat itself, where MacFarlane asks construction project manager Darren Englund about why his road still isn’t finished after more than 100 years, and where he gets pulled over by the Shawnigan Lake RCMP for driving too slowly.

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Great gardens: Happy heathers make great grass companions ELAINE SCOTT SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN

I hope that you are enjoying all of those beautiful heathers that are putting on a terrific display at the moment either through the wonderful show of flowers that the bees are busy visiting or by the

lovely coloured foliage.

Here are some tips on how to make sure that your heathers stay healthy and happy.

Pruning — The upright growing summer blooming varieties (Calluna vulgaris) will become leggy and out of control

if they are not pruned. They should be pruned back below the blooms in late February or early March before the new growth starts. Even better, prune them in the fall and you will enhance the display of the lovely tip colours that appear on some of the varieties. Be careful not

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to go back into the old woody parts. One other type of heather that requires pruning is Daboecia cantabrica (otherwise known as Irish heath). These can go into the winter looking untidy and if this bothers you just cut off the spent flower stems in late fall.

Leave your serious pruning until the spring. These plants can tolerate severe pruning. As far as your winter blooming varieties are concerned, pruning keeps plants bushy and well shaped and improves flowering. However, it is not always necessary on a regular schedule. If you feel that your winter flowering heathers could do with a bit of a prune, the best time to prune them is after they have finished flowering.

Fertilizing — Heathers do not need fertilizing as this may make them grow too quickly, resulting in plants that are quite woody in the middle. As heathers prefer lime-free and well-cultivated soil, amend the soil with peat moss, leaf mould or garden compost to attain a light workable acid soil.

Watering — It is important to remember that these are not drought-tolerant plants. They should be watered deeply at least once a week during hot weather.

Heathers cannot tolerate boggy areas but should never be allowed to dry out during the summer.

Sun –—Heathers need at least half a day of sun to enable them to flower to their potential.

Landscaping — In order to show your heathers to their best potential, one tip is to use companion planting which will add height to your garden as well a variety of colours. Many grasses will provide you with wonderful interest and two that I would particularly recommend are Carex morrowii “Ice Dance” which, although a slow spreader, looks good all year around and provides great ground cover for a partly shady moist area.

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Don’t miss the annual Heather Society sale GREAT GARDENS, From Page 20 Another suggestions is Festuca glauca “Elijah Blue” which also keeps it colour all year and will tolerate a dry sunny position.

Where to buy heathers — Many of our local nurseries keep a good supply of heathers on hand. As well, the Vancouver Island Heather Society spring sale will be held on Saturday, March 28, at the Farmer’s Institute Hall in Cobble Hill from 10 a.m. to noon or until sold out. As we ensure that we have unusual varieties on hand, experienced buyers will tell you that it is essential to get to the hall prior to the doors opening in order to get the best selection. Starter kits consisting of 10 plants and a planning diagram as well as a wide selection of individual plants (including tree heaths) will be on sale. Society members will be on hand to assist you.

An added feature at the sale this year will be the availability of a variety of wonderful grasses at very reasonable prices. These will really help you to add extra interest to

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Please visit our web site www.bcheathersociety.org for a list of many of the plants available as well as an indication of their prices.

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Spring is right around the corner: the days are getting longer, flowers are blooming, and lots of change is coming to Downtown Duncan!

Two new businesses have recently opened their doors just in time for spring: Resthouse Sleep Solutions and Salts Clothing.

Start your spring off well rested! Resthouse Sleep Solutions, at 126 Station Street, carries a variety of entirely organic products including mattresses, pillows, linens, and duvets. Enthusiastic owners Chris and Dawn will be happy to provide you with both information and products to help you overcome sleep issues. Their goal is to help you sleep naturally in a way that it good for both you and the environment. They are thrilled with their new downtown location as is in line with their values of shopping local and supporting local businesses.

If you are looking for high quality, wearable, and extremely comfortable clothes, look no further than Salts Clothing. Owner Jennifer Graham recently opened a studio shop upstairs in the Garage (330 Duncan St.) where she uses 100% organic materials in her products, which are “fine yoga clothes and casual organic clothing.” By using fabrics such as certified organic cotton, viscose from bamboo, hemp, soy, and merino wool, Salts is creating stylish, functional, and environmentally conscious clothing perfect for both yoga and everyday wear!

Changes are also in store for businesses already familiar to Duncan. Sai’s Place Spice Café (161 Station) is updating its name, its menu, and its hours. Now “Sai Thai Restaurant,” it will be open 6 days a week from 11:00-2:30 and 4:30-8:00 and will be focusing on more traditional Thai dishes. In order to provide you with the most authentic experience possible, chef May prepares your food fresh and on the spot as soon as you order. Their motto is “Freshest, not the Fastest” so you are encouraged to call ahead and have your order ready if you are pressed for time.

Chari-Teas has recently moved down the block to a bigger location at 211 Craig Street where they have had the chance to expand their stock to include the April Cornell line of fine linens. Chari-Teas helps provide needy families in developing countries with groceries and business opportunities, while providing you with a wide selection of teas and tea-related paraphernalia.

And a shout-out to three Duncan BIA members who have recently been recognized as 2015 Black Tie Finalists – congratulations to Jean Cardno (Cardino Shoes) and David and Sandra Beggs (Cycle Therapy), nominated in the Business Achievement 1–10 Employees category and to Fatima Da Silva (Bistro 161 and Vinoteca on the Vineyard) for her nomination in the Business Achievement 11–20 Employees category. Best of luck to all!

Whether it is an adorable Easter outfit for your little one from Giggle Gear, a fun new pair of shoes from Cardino’s, a piece of lovely artwork to brighten your home from one of our many wonderful galleries, or some bright beautiful blooms from Leaf & Petal – Downtown Duncan has what you need to bring in the spring!

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Resthouse is now open at our new location in Downtown Duncan.

Visit us at 126 Station Street, Mondays to Saturdays 10am to 5:30pm. Sundays closed

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◆ COMING UP IN COWICHAN

Meet employers at Cowichan Job Fair Global Vocational Services Inc. is hosting the Cowichan Job Fair 2015 in Duncan on Wednesday, March 25 as part of their efforts to support area employers and job seekers, as employment, skill shortages and finding work make headlines across the country.

The event will be held at the Quw’utsun Cultural and Conference Centre opposite Real Canadian Superstore at 200 Canada Way from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will feature numerous area employers from a range of sectors.

The Job Fair is free and open to the public. Job seekers are encour-

aged to bring targeted resumes for attending employers and to dress for success.

Employers are concerned about increasing skills shortages and there are a high number of people still without work throughout B.C. In today’s world of online employment applications, having an opportunity for jobseekers and employers to meet in person can make a huge difference to employment success. Over 25 employers have confirmed their attendance, representing a wide variety of sectors including, financial, hospitality, retail, health and resource based industry.

Attendees can expect to meet company representatives, gain

industry information, and learn about the skills and training required to gain employment in today’s job market.

Job seekers have an opportunity to ask questions and in some cases submit resumes directly for current positions. Most of the employers attending have either current vacancies or an upcoming need for staff. Those interested are encouraged to check out the Global Vocational Services website at www. gvsjobs.com for details on the event including a list of employers who will be there.

Global Vocational Services, in coordination with community partners, delivers a range of employment services through

Work BC Employment Services Centre storefront locations in Duncan and Ladysmith as well as a satellite office in Lake Cowichan. Services are diverse and focused on meeting the needs of area job seekers and employers as well as the shifting labour market.

Their mandate is to support eligible British Columbians to gain sustainable employment. Centres are open Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Do you know a youth Leader of Tomorrow?

Nominations are now open for the Leaders of Tomorrow Award.

Eligible youths must be between

the ages of six and 24 and demonstrate leadership through volunteerism.

Volunteer Cowichan is spearheading the awards.

Winners will be announced at an event at the Island Savings Centre on April 17.

The deadline for nominations is March 27.

For more information and nomination forms contact Anne-Marie Koeppen the volunteer services coordinator for Volunteer Cowichan by email at anne-marie@ volunteercowichan.bc.ca or go to www.leadersoftomorrowcowichan.com Compiled by Andrea Rondeau, Citizen

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The purpose of the BIA is to conduct a business promotion scheme for downtown Chemainus through advertisement, promotion, beautification, special events, and administration. The boundaries and 3 sub-areas of the BIA are shown on the map below.

The estimated cost of the service is approximately $90,000. A property value tax will be used to recover all of the costs of planning and implementing the business promotion scheme from affected property owners. The tax will be applied only to properties within the area outlined on the map that have both land and improvements classified by BC Assessment as “business and other” (class 6). For certainty, residential (class 1) land and improvements will not be subject to the tax. Within the BIA boundary there will be 3 different property value taxes, per thousand dollars of assessed value: $4.25 for Sub Area 1, $3.50 for Sub Area 2, and $2.50 for Sub Area 3.

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◆ COMING UP IN COWICHAN

Bring your sewing tools for Hug-a-Thon Saturday The fifth annual Hug-a-Thon hits the Cowichan Exhibition’s Mellor Hall Saturday, March 21 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

As people who’ve taken part

know, it’s a work bee, organized by the Handmade Hugs Society to make comfort item for those dealing with stressful situations like illness, loss or displacement, especially children and the aged.

“We want to let those in need know that someone cares enough

to ‘give a hug,’” said Julie McClure of Handmade Hugs.

The day offers participants the chance to join others while knitting, sewing or stitching — sharing the time together.

Bring along any tools you will use like a cutting mat, ruler and

cutter, sewing machine, serger, knitting needles, crochet hooks, small scissors and other similar items.

You’ll also need a mug and a bag lunch and plenty of enthusiasm, according to McClure, who urged everyone to consider bringing a

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Handmade Hugs also needs volunteers, quilt batting, sewing yarn and various sewing notions, personal sized toiletries, Canadian Tire money and donations of cash or gift cards to keep the work going, she said.

For more information or to sign up for the day, email handmadehugscowichan@gmail.com or call Julie at 250-749-3189 or visit the website http://handmadehugscowichan.com.

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The workshop take place in the curling lounge as part of the new Cowichan Lake Community Garden Project.

This Community Garden group is also hosting volunteer work parties to actually build the community garden every Saturday until the end of March.

For more information contact Erin at erin@cowichangreencommunity.org or call 250-748-8506.

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TELUS reserves the right to modify channel lineups and packaging, and regular pricing without notice. HDTV-input-equipped television required to watch HD. Minimum system requirements apply. The service agreement includes a free PVR rental and 2 free digital box rentals; current rental rates apply at the end of the term. A cancellation fee applies to the early termination of a service agreement and will be $10 multiplied by the number of months remaining in the service agreement. Rental equipment must be returned in good condition upon cancellation of service, otherwise the replacement cost will be charged to the account. TELUS, the TELUS logo, TELUS Satellite TV, telus.com and the future is friendly are trademarks of TELUS Corporation, used under licence. © 2015 TELUS.

The Cowichan Valley Performing Arts Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises funds for and provide bursaries to Cowichan Valley youth who require financial support to pursue performing arts activities and education, is holding a wine and cheese party on Friday, March 27 at Adage Studios starting at 7 p.m.

Accor ding to spokesperson Leanne Schultz, “this year, our aim is to create more awareness for our foundation.”

Compiled by Lexi Bainas, Citizen

March 2015

North Cowichan UPDATE

Cowichan Valley Citizen | Friday, March 20, 2015

Every Drop Counts: Taking Conservation to the Classroom Danielle New, a student working towards a Bachelor of Wildlife and Fisheries Management, is heading back to elementary school to provide water conservation education.

As jobs go, it’s a great fit. Danielle New, just finishing her third year of study at the University of Northern BC, will spend her summer break working as the Municipality’s Environmental Student focusing in on water conservation.

First hired in 2014 to work with the Engineering Department’s Environmental Education Program to educate students about invasive species, Danielle will return to the classroom to talk about water conservation with students ranging from kindergarten to grade seven. “It relates to what I am studying,” said Danielle, a Bachelor of Wildlife and Fisheries Management student. “Water conservation is very important when talking about fisheries management, and I am getting good experience for future jobs through public speaking.”

Preparing for the classroom, Danielle is applying what she learned last year delivering educational information to 849 students in the Cowichan Valley. “I’m not a teacher, so learning how to present content to a kindergarten student versus somebody in grade seven was a valuable experience last year. The young kids lose attention so quickly. This year I want to make the presentations more hands-on, and do more activities that get students involved. If they

participate, the students will better remember region or ones that don’t need a lot of water.

I only wash full loads of laundry, and I avoid what they learn.”

Through her classroom education sessions overloading the machine. I turn off the tap when Danielle says, “I hope the kids take away an I am brushing my teeth, and I keep a jug of water in the fridge to avoid running water until it is cold appreciation for the environment and an enough to drink.” understanding about why water conservation is important. There is a bit of disconnect between If you want to learn more about water seeing water come out of your tap and knowing conservation, please visit the North Cowichan where it comes from. I hope students will learn to website: www.northcowichan.ca/waterwise. be water wise, take away some things they can Danielle also recommends checking out National do around their homes to reduce water use, and Geographic’s Water Footprint Calculator. It’s a fun way to learn about water conservation, and you teach their families what they have learned.” will receive personalized water conservation tips.

Another message Danielle hopes students will The calculator is set up for American residents, take away is the importance of conserving water so you will need to enter a zip code. The Office all year round. “We should always be conserving of Sustainability and Environment at the City of water so that it becomes a habit, and when water Seattle invites North Cowichan residents to use shortages occur, we’re prepared.” their code, which is 98124.

According to Danielle, “Water conservation Danielle will begin visiting classrooms the sounds like a lot of work, but it’s surprisingly easy, first week of May. To arrange one of Danielle’s I keep an ice cream pail in the sink to catch water water conservation education sessions, email: when I do things like rinsing vegetables. Then I EnvStudent@northcowichan.ca. In addition use the water on plants. When shaving, I avoid to providing education sessions, Danielle will running water by having a small amount of water be coordinating a water conservation poster in the sink to rinse my razor. In the summer my contest. Winners, in a number of different family doesn’t water the lawn, only the plants. age categories, will receive prizes and have a And we try to plant plants that are native to the chance to meet the Mayor.

Angels Among Us

“Wilderness will not stay wilderness if there is garbage from one end to the other,” said John Holmes, President of the Chemainus Rod and Gun Club. His organization, led by a member who wishes to remain anonymous, recently cleaned up several truckloads of garbage dumped at Mount Sicker last month.

According to Mr. Holmes, his Club does a great deal of forest clean up. They regularly work with the Ladysmith Rod and Gun Club to clean up areas between North Cowichan and Ladysmith, and they often include children in the clean-up to help instill the value of pristine wilderness.

“North Cowichan has greatly benefitted from this value. The Chemainus Rod and Gun Club’s recent clean-up was an incredible effort,” said Darrell Frank, Municipal Forester. “I understand it took a lot of people and several trucks to move everything, and I know it’s not the first time they have made this kind of effort. It’s unfortunate that illegal dumping takes place, and we are very grateful for the clean-up.”

If you witness illegal dumping, please report it to the Municipality by calling 250-746-3106.

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MAY 3 - 9, 2015

Forest Legacy Scholarship and Bursaries Each year, the Municipality provides a $1,200 scholarship and two $600 bursaries to students enrolled in post-secondary science courses.

For information, eligibility details, and an application form, go to

www.NorthCowichan.ca/Scholarship Applications are due by April 30.

Water Treatment Plant Tours

How to Reach Council

Celebrate Drinking Water Week, May 3-9, with a tour of the South End or Chemainus water treatment facility. To book, contact: e. engineering@northcowichan.ca or t. 250-746-3128

MAYOR Jon Lefebure

250-746-3100 mayor@northcowichan.ca COUNCILLORS Joyce Behnsen Maeve Maguire Al Siebring

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Rob Douglas Kate Marsh Tom Walker

Want to discuss something with the Mayor? You can meet with him March 27, between 9 a.m. and 12 by booking an appointment. Call Executive Assistant, Nancy Tates, at 250-746-3115 or email: nancy.tates@northcowichan.ca

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SOUTH COWICHAN OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3877 (APPLICABLE TO ELECTORAL AREA A – MILL BAY/MALAHAT, ELECTORAL AREA B – SHAWNIGAN LAKE and ELECTORAL AREA C – COBBLE HILL) ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3878 (APPLICABLE TO ELECTORAL AREA A – MILL BAY/MALAHAT) NOTICE is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held as follows to consider the above noted Amendment Bylaws: DATE Monday, March 30, 2015 TIME 7:00 pm PLACE Kerry Park Recreation Centre (Denis McLean Room), 1035 Shawnigan-Mill Bay Road, Mill Bay, BC South Cowichan Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 3877 would amend South Cowichan Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 3510 by implementing the following changes: Schedule B (Plan Map) is amended by redesignating Lot 2, Range 8, Section 3, Shawinigan District, Plan 9554, as shown outlined in a thick black line on Map 1, from Village Residential (R) to Future Development (FD), and Schedule A (Plan text) is amended by adding this parcel to “Future Development Area” on Figure 7A - Future Development Area Map (not shown here).

MAP 1

At the public hearing, all persons who deem their interests affected by the proposed amendments will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions on matters contained therein, before representatives of the Regional Board. Prior to the public hearing, submit written comments on the Bylaws by: Fax: 250-746-2621 Email: ds@cvrd.bc.ca Mail and/or deposit at the Regional District office, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC, V9L 1N8, until 4:30 pm on Monday, March 30, 2015 The public should not assume that correspondence submitted on the proposed Bylaws prior to commencement of the statutory notification period on Friday, March 20, 2015, will be made available to the Regional Board.

Please be advised that the CVRD Board cannot receive correspondence or comment following the close of the Public Hearing. For further information, please call the Planning & Development Department at 250-746-2620.

The purpose of Bylaw No. 3877 is to recognize that Lot 2 referred to above is part of the Stonebridge development site and should be added to the previously identified “Future Development Area”.

Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3878 would amend South Cowichan Zoning Bylaw No. 3520 in the following manner: Part of Lot 2, Range 8, Section 3, Shawinigan District, Plan 9554, as shown outlined in a thick black line on Map 2, is rezoned from Village Residential 3 (R-3) to Comprehensive Development 9 (CD-9).

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Please note that all correspondence submitted to the CVRD in response to this Notice will form part of the public record and may be published in a meeting agenda that is posted online when this matter is before the Board or a Committee of the Board. The CVRD considers the author’s address relevant to the Board’s consideration of this matter and will disclose this personal information. The author’s phone number and email address is not relevant and should not be included in the correspondence IF the author does not wish this personal information disclosed. Please contact the Planning & Development Department at 250-746-2620 or 1-800-665-3955, or the Recording Secretary at the time of submission. For more information on disclosure, contact the CVRD FOI Coordinator at 250-746-2507 or 1-800-665-3955.

The Public Hearing is to be held by the Electoral Area Directors for Electoral Area A - Mill Bay/Malahat, Electoral Area F – Cowichan Lake South/Skutz Falls and Electoral Area H – North Oyster/Diamond as delegates of the Board. Decisions concerning the adoption of Bylaws No. 3877 and 3878 will not be made until the record of Public Hearing is presented to the Board.

A copy of the proposed Bylaws, the resolution delegating the holding of the public hearing, and other documents that may be considered by the Board in determining whether to adopt the Bylaws are available for public inspection at the Regional District Planning & Development Department office: 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC From Friday, March 20, 2015, to Monday, March 30, 2015, between the hours of 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. A copy of the Bylaws and supporting material may also be viewed on the CVRD website at the following address: http://www.cvrd.bc.ca/index.aspx?NID=1282 FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT

The purpose of Bylaw No. 3878 is to rezone the portion of Lot 2 that is not in the Institutional 2 (P-2) Zone to the same Comprehensive Development 9 (CD-9) Zone that the balance of the portion of Stonebridge that lies north of Shawnigan Creek and west of Barry Road is presently designated as. The CD-9 Zone is a holding zone that does not permit any further subdivision at this time.

Mike Tippett, Manager, Community & Regional Planning Division, Planning & Development Department at 250-746-2620

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John Baldwin: Sometimes paying your bills doesn’t pay!

Baldwin’s repeatedly that Hirst buy it asking for the return of back. He did, then the offending banknote told Magistrate J.F. bothered the magisPlanta. Thus it was trate, who impounded no coincidence that it and issued warrants Planta was in Hirst’s for Baldwin’s arrest emporium when Baldand to search his win returned to make premises. further purchases.

CHRONICLES hey may look Shown the offendT.W. Paterson like banana ing note, Baldwin republic money didn’t deny that it was but our new plastic bills are the the one with which he’d paid Royal Canadian Mint’s attempt his account, saying that he’d to combat counterfeiting in this received it in payment from a age of high-tech. Back in the old Chinese man. “Give the note to days (before offset lithography, me,” he said, “and I’ll go and look photocopiers and computers), if for him and get the money for you wanted to pass “queer” bills you.” you more or less had to rely upon Because he’d spent all of the your own artistic skills. $50, he offered to reimburse the In 1886, Departure Bay trader Hirsts in goods if they would John Baldwin, aka John Balden, send a wagon to his store. They was accused of having met his recovered satisfaction to the financial needs by doctoring a value of $35 and, with Baldwin’s Bank of British Columbia $5 promise of further goods on note; with a few strokes of his account, the matter there rested. pen he’d allegedly compounded Up to this point, Baldwin wasn’t its value 10-fold by making it a really under suspicion of hav$50 bill. ing altered or knowingly passed Thomas Hirst, of Hirst Broththe phoney note. Because Hirst ers, testified at Baldwin’s trial had been fooled by it, and, for a that he’d refused him further time, the hotel proprietor, Hirst credit because of an outstanding and Planta were willing to give account, to which Baldwin had Baldwin the benefit of a doubt replied, “I have lots of money,” that he, too, had been deceived. and threw a $50 bill onto the As later came out in court, counter. Hirst held it up — not neither Hirst nor Planta had because he was suspicious but thought Baldwin smart enough because he was so startled by to counterfeit.

Baldwin’s having come into But Baldwin’s repeatedly possession of such a large bankasking for the return of the note. After a cursory glance, he offending banknote bothered remarked, “You’ve worn a hole in the magistrate, who impounded [it] by handling it so much,” and it and issued a warrant for instructed one of his brothers to Baldwin’s arrest and a warrant fetch $50 in smaller bills. After to search his premises. Ten days deducting $15, the outstanding later, he stood before the magisbalance on Baldwin’s account, he trate and was remanded for trial gave him $35 change, with which after giving this somewhat vague Baldwin paid for some small pur- statement of defence: chases and left.

Upon being offered the $50 in Four days later, Hirst found payment (and not having had himself handling the same much experience with higher “$50” note but under very differdenomination notes, it would ent circumstances. One of his seem), he’d “stepped across the brothers had used it in the bar street to Mr. Harper’s corner... I of the Nanaimo Hotel and the asked a gentleman sitting there proprietor had huffily demanded if it was a good bill, and he said,

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‘Yes, it was a good bill.’ That is all the statement I have to make, and I think I can find the gentleman.”

This is where, 129 years later, our story unravels. There appears to be no further mention to Baldwin’s case in succeeding issues of the Free Press after a single reference to his being further remanded until witnesses could arrive from Victoria. Who these witnesses were, whether they could offer evidence for or against the accused counterfeiter, wasn’t specified.

Magistrate Planta seems to have had little real evidence with which to charge Baldwin.

There’s no suggestion of a previous criminal record, he’d returned to the Hirsts’ store on further business, he hadn’t denied passing the altered $50 note that had passed the initial examination of two experienced businessmen besides himself

Nanaimo where, in 1886, Departure Bay storekeeper John Baldwin found himself in court over a doctored $5 bill. —TWP before being detected.

Was John Baldwin a counterfeiter?

At this late date, with no legal conclusion having been reported in the newspaper, we can’t say — nor can we say whether it was

the fact that he was “coloured” had anything to do with the laying of the charge. It’s another of those little mysteries that so bedevil historians. www.twpaterson.com

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The evening will also include the Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the Electoral Area E Parks and Recreation Commission. The AGM is to hold nominations and election for five (5) positions for a one-year term. Interested persons can also request to serve on the Commission in one of the four (4) available appointed one-year terms. Parks and Recreation Commission members provide advice to the CVRD on matters regarding community parks.

Please plan to attend to learn more about your local parks and trails.

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Patti also wants to raise funds to assist people in our own community living with the disease.

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The MS Society currently provides over $10 million per year to MS research and is the single largest funder of MS research in Canada.

The Walk will be taking place on Sunday, May 24 at the Cowichan Sportsplex. For more information or to register go to www.mswalks. ca or call the local MS Society office at 250-748-7010 to register by phone. We would like to thank all the staff at 89.7 Juice FM for their support!

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Garth Harvey, left, tells Lori Treloar and the rest of a big crowd, that all of Shawnigan Lake should share in his award. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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• Officials at Branch 53 of the Royal Canadian Legion are urging all members to attend a special meeting on Sunday, March 22 at 1 p.m.

At that time, Jamie Morrison, Command Branch Advisory Officer, will be speaking about the future of the branch, and the possibility of building a new legion hall in Duncan. The meeting takes place at the Duncan Lodge on Moose Road.

• The theme of the 2015 Shawnigan Gathering, held March 13-14, was “cooperative community” and a ser-

ies of awards handed out during the event at the Shawnigan Lake Community Hall reflected this theme, area director Sonia Furstenau said.

In addition, the community also celebrated its ongoing effort to safeguard its watershed.

Each of the winners received an individualized award with a special message engraved on it.

Sarah Malerby’s award said: “a driving force in the community”, Dave Hutchinson’s: “strong community advocate”, Anne Marie Degroot

Thornton: “commitment to the watershed”, Garth Harvey: “community role model” and the Shawnigan Lake Volunteer Fire Department: “consistent community presence”.

Furstenau, who was assisted in handing out the awards by Lori Treloar of the Shawnigan Lake Museum, said that a joint award, “acknowledging the cooperation between the two schools at the rally at the legislature last March” went to Shawnigan Lake School and Dwight School, calling each “champions of the watershed”.

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Foil competitors clash during Dwight School Canada’s annual fencing tournament last Sunday.

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Dwight fencers cross swords KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Fencers from Dwight School Canada got to test themselves in a competitive setting last Sunday as they were joined by other athletes for their annual tournament.

“I have never brought our students to another competition, but I hope to in the future,” Dwight fencing coach Valerie Russell said. “I hold the tournament for several reasons: fencing in a competition is very different from fencing in a class. The students get to try electric equipment, as we do not own any yet. And they also get a chance to fence people they have never fenced before.”

Trying one’s skills against new opponents is important, Russell said.

“I find that fencing strangers is when fencing takes on a new feel, almost like chess,” she explained. “You are trying to predict the movements of an opponent that you do not know, while trying to decide what manoeuvre would be best to try on them, while also trying to guess how they will react.”

Dwight has had a fencing program since the school in Shawnigan Lake opened about six years ago, but has

changed in size throughout that time.

“It grows and shrinks depending on how many fencing movies are popular at the time,” Russell said. “This year I taught fencing in two of the terms, and had a total of 27 students try it out, though not all of them stuck it out till the end.”

Russell hopes to buy electric equipment for the fencing prog ram next fall, and noted that the school and the parent advisory council have been very supportive of fencing in the past.

In the foil division, first place went to Sagen Barefoot, a home school student from Duncan, who fences at Salle La Fleche. Second place went to Dwight’s Cameron Kibble, followed by Tyler Kibble, also of Dwight, in third.

In girls sabre, Neav Williams-Murphy of Ladysmith, another Salle La Fleche fencer, took gold. Silver went to Thalia Mar tin of Island Oak High school, while Karen Ogo of Dwight and Shengfei Yang of Island Oak shared bronze.

Nikolai Lampson of Island Oak took gold in the boys sabre, followed by Raven Myren, also of Island Oak, with silver.

Bronze went to Cameron Kibble and Jerry Miranda Osuna, both of Dwight.

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Cowichan returns to Jackson Cup final KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Cowichan LMG will be in contention for the 100th Jackson Cup when the tournament final takes place at Royal Athletic Park on March 29.

Cowichan booked its place in the final thanks to a 4-2 win over Vic West in Ladysmith last Friday. The championship game will be the team’s fifth in the last six years, and could result in Cowichan’s third-ever title.

“It’s hard to get to the Jackson Cup final, so five in six years is unreal,” head coach Glen Martin said. “There haven’t been that many teams that have won it.”

Cowichan’s first goal against Vic West came at 32 minutes when Steve Scott sent Romaie Martin in toward the net and Martin chipped the ball past the keeper. Paddy Nelson put his team up 2-0 on a penalty kick after Keevan Webb was hauled down in what coach Martin admitted was a questionable call.

“They had missed a couple of calls earlier, so that might have been a makeup call,” he contended.

Cowichan failed to carry their first-half momentum past the break, however.

“We came out flat as flat,” Martin acknowledged.

Vic West scored two quick goals, and the score was tied 2-2 five minutes into the second half.

“We couldn’t believe it,” Martin said.

Just as quickly as they fell behind, Cowichan came back to regain the lead. Nelson scored his second goal of the game in the 57th minute. His initial shot hit the post, but he corralled the rebound and buried it, returning the momentum to his side.

“That was a big goal,” Martin said. “You could just see their team drop.”

Webb scored his first goal for Cowichan in the 66th minute, taking a pass from goalkeeper Scott Brown and carrying it all the way down the wing to finish with a beautiful shot. Brown played well in his Cowichan debut after being signed as an emergency replacement for injured keeper Joel Wilson, and couldn’t be faulted on either Vic West goal.

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Historic win for Piggies in Alberni KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

For the first time in recent memory, the Cowichan Piggies beat the Port Alberni Black Sheep on the road.

As far as head coach Gord McGeachy could recall, last Saturday’s 15-8 victory gave the Piggies their first win in Port Alberni since about 2007.

“We haven’t won there since I was still playing,” he said. “It was good to get that monkey off our back. It’s a really difficult place to go and play. They always seem to play exceptionally well at home. We rarely play to the best of our abilities up there, and against stiff competition, that doesn’t cut it.”

Early on, it didn’t look likely that the Piggies were going to break their streak last Saturday.

Twenty minutes into the game, Cowichan trailed 8-0 after an Alberni try, followed quickly by a penalty goal.

“We had some opportunities to score early, but we didn’t convert,” McGeachy said.

Just before the end of the first half, Brock Gowanlock pushed over the line for the Piggies’ first try, and Cowichan went into the break down just three points.

“We were okay with that,” McGeachy said. “We had been playing against a strong and gusty wind in the first half, so we were okay going in down three knowing we had the wind at our backs in the second half.”

A great individual effort by Germain Lamothe led to the Piggies’ next try, as he chipped the ball over the Alberni defenders and retrieved it, then fed it to Mike Roberts, who dove over the line to put Cowichan up 10-8.

The Piggies spent much of the remainder of the game in penalty trouble, but managed to hold off the Alberni offence, then capped off the game with a try by David Cowie just before the final whistle.

Even after his first win in Alberni as a coach, McGeachy could see ways his team could improve.

The Piggies will play an exhibition in Victoria against the UVic Saxons this Saturday before ending the regular season at home against Velox on March 28.

Mathematically, Cowichan could still lock up a home game in the first round of the playoffs, but it’s not likely, as they will have to beat Velox, and winless Nanaimo would have to win their last game against Alberni.

“It’s possible, but probably n o t p r o b a bl e,” M c G e a c hy acknowledged.

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Sjoberg rink wins mixed bonspiel KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Duncan Curling Club’s 2015 mixed bonspiel on March 6-8 drew 16 teams, down in numbers from previous years, but the competition was as heated as ever.

The A event, sponsored by OK Tire, was won by the rink of Vicky Sjoberg, Keith Clarke, Lorie Ritchie and Adam Burnell over the foursome of Jason Montgomery, Megan Montgomery, Nolan Reid and Kim Bahler.

Sjoberg scored two in the first and one in the second, but Montgomery countered with one in the third. Sjoberg had one more in the fourth and two in the fifth to take a commanding lead. Montgomery added one in the sixth, but Sjoberg scored one each in the seventh and eighth to win 8-3.

The B event, sponsored by Ingram Pharmacy, went to the rink of Gay Ouellette, Leanne Ouellette, Craig Matthews and Bonita Matthews over the quartette of Kathy Yu, Duaine Hardie, Lori Hardie and Ted Busko.

Matthews pulled ahead early with four in the first end, but Hardie responded with one in the second and one in the third. Three more in the fourth gave Matthews a big lead, but Hardie had one in the fifth, sixth and seventh to trail by just one coming home. Matthews scored one more in the eighth to seal the win.

The C event was won by Rodney Challborn, Andrea Berkey, Tanner McQuarrie and Karen McClinchey over Pat Moore, Brian Aaberg, Joanne Leitch and Carlos Pereira.

Curlers battle hard during the second day of competition at the Duncan Curling Club’s mixed bonspiel earlier this month. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN] After Challborn scored one in the first and Moore had one in the second, the third end was blank. Moore pulled ahead with one in the fourth, then Challborn went up with one in the fifth and one in the sixth. Moore had a big seventh to score three, but Challborn came back with two in the eighth to tie the game,

then stole one in the extra end to win.

Duncan Curling Club spokesperson Sandy Rai reflected on the bonspiel and the season as a whole.

“It’s been a good season,” he said. “Only a couple of weeks left. We’d like to thank all our sponsors over the year for helping out.”

Rematch in the works for Jackson Cup title game COWICHAN RETURNS, From Page 36 Nelson was named the game MVP, an honour that had eluded him in the first two games of the Jackson Cup tournament, even though he scored six times in those two matches.

“He’s been scoring a lot of goals, but he never gets the MVP,” Martin said. “We couldn’t go by him this time.”

About 300 people packed the stands, probably

the biggest crowd LMG has had at a game in Ladysmith.

“The fans came out and the boys played well for the fans,” Martin said, pointing out that they were treated to four goals in a span of just 18 minutes. “It wasn’t that exciting for the coach, but it was exciting for the fans.”

Cowichan will face Saanich Fusion in the Jackson Cup final, a rematch of last year, when Saanich won in extra time. The teams

split their season series this season.

“Over the last five or six years, we’ve been pretty close,” Martin said.

The coach is pleased with his team going into the championship match.

“We’re really strong right now, very deep,” he noted. “The hardest thing will be picking a lineup for the Jackson Cup final. Everybody can’t start, but everybody is capable of starting.”

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MIR

Quality Brand Name Windshield Replacement and Professional Chip Repair

Mike 11 yrs exp

Justin 12 yrs exp

Lucas Gov’t Certified 10 yrs exp

DO YOU OWN AN RV? Pc Auto Electric offers full RV Service and Parts from Hitches and Wiring to RV Appliance Repairs and Propane Gas Certification, and anything else your RV may need to get it ready for camping.

Rob Apprentice Ralph Gov’t Certified 39 yrs exp

Tori

250-746-4824

186 Ingram St., Duncan Fax: 250-746-4642

Jill

www.pcautoelectricltd.ca

Stacie

www.dobsonsglass.com Email: dobsonsglass@telus.net

2984-1 BOYS RD. DUNCAN, B.C. V9L 6W4

Form Work • Prep • & More

FREE ESTIMATES Phone:

Commercial & Residential Yard & Greenspace Maintenance Planting, Pruning & Removal Trees, Hedges & Perennials Power & Window Washing Haulage, Small Moves & Junk Removal Gutter Cleanout & Snow Removal Seniors Discounts Service Packages Free Estimates

733-0884

(250)

paul@canopypropertyservices.com www.canopypropertyservices.com

Canopy Has You Covered! www.davidgaleconstruction.ca

RANDY SCHULTZ

All CErtiFiED trADES

David Gale

CONSTRUCTION Additions • Renovations

250.746.9956 leave message

20 yEArS in thE 25 YEARS IN THE VAllEy VALLEY

FREE Es ma es, Estimates, Plans FrEE P a s

Carpentry and Rockwork Serving the Cowichan Valley Since 1977 Cell:

Home:

250-715-5321

250-749-1612

• New Construction • Renovations • Foundations • Framing • Finishing Rick Teasdale 250-732-4446 ERT2008@icloud.com • Chemainus BC

Purely Optometry

EYE EXAMS Family Eye & Vision Care

250-597-1011 159 Trunk Road, Duncan

Finishing Carpenter with 25 years experience Highest Quality Work Guaranteed!

CUSTOM RENOVATIONS AND ADDITIONS

• Renovations • Installations• Framing • All Finishing Carpentry • Custom Kitchens • Laminate Flooring • Decks • Fences • Sheds • Additions • Windows & Doors

250-709-4035

FREE Quotes johnportelance@shaw.ca

Wayne Christy E-mail: christycabinets@shaw.ca www.christycabinets.net

General Contracting • licensed & insured

INDEPENDENT CRAFTSMAN

Environmentally Friendly “Green” Cabinetry

Cell: 250-701-5958

250-597-7782

Call for most reasonable rates

CHRISTY CABINETS • Cabinets • Custom Design & Finishing • ReFaCing existing Cabinets FR EstimEE • Quality new Cabinets ates • FaCe FRame KitChens • Custom CounteR-tops • enteRtainment CentRes & mantles

Isaac Schneider A – 5285 Polkey Road Duncan , BC

BESIDE DIAMOND EYECARE

t a ed A c ec u a tec o og s

•• Decks Decks •• Doors Doo s •• Basement Baseme Suites Su es •• Foundations Fou da o s • Windows • W dows • Kitchen • K c e • Bathroom Ba oom •• Drywall •• Plumbing D wa •• Electrical P umb g • Painting E ec ca & Trim

• Trailer Repair

Paul Chorney 250-510-5177

JACKO’S Concrete Finishing

Chris (250) 748-4113

COASTAL OUTBOARDS Offers: • Marine service parts and repairs • Certified marine mechanic

Call John Portelance ... 250.749.3174

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OUTSTANDING SELECTION OF USED VEHICLES 2009 TOYOTA COROLLA CE

2006 NISSAN SENTRA SE

2010 HYUNDAI ELANTRA TOURING GLS

Low kms, non smoker, Auto, A/C, More

Low Kms, Auto, CD, A/C, Full Power Group More

Alloys, Sunroof, Full Power Group, Low kms, More

#15-107A

#15-91A

$

8,480

$

#15-105A

11,800

$

Auto, Low kms, Full power Group, A/C, More GL #15-89A

12,780

$

$89 A WEEK* TAX INCLUDED

#14-54 Sunroof, Nav, Leather, Alloys, Loaded, More *O.A.C. with $1500 Trade Brand New

#14-206B

$

14,250

23,650 4,500

$

26,800

Tow Pkg, Reverse Camera, Nav, Chrome Accents, Like New More #14U28A

Leather, Sunroof, DVD, Entertainment, Keyless, Alloys, More

#15-67A

$

Auto, Low kms, CD, Full Safety, More

$

* RIDE OF THE WEEK *

2007 GMC ACADIA SLT1

Technology Pkg, 6 Speed, V6, Leather, NAV, Rear Camera, More

2002 CHEV CAVALIER VL

2012 GMC SIERRA 4X4

2012 HYUNDAI ACCENT GL

2014 ELANTRA “SE” COUPE

14,600

2011 HYUNDAI GENESIS SEDAN

2010 HYUNDAI GENESIS COUPE 2.0T ABS, Traction Ctrl, Alloys, Fogs, Low kms, More #14U23

19,499

$

2013 HYUNDAI SONATA SE

2008 HYUNDAI ENTOURAGE GLS

2013 HYUNDAI VELOSTER

Low Kms, Alloys, Keyless, Sunroof, Power Drivers, More

7 Pass, ABS, Traction Ctrl, Roof Rock, Low Kms, More

6 Speed, Alloys, Low Km, Warranty, Reverse Sensing, Mint, More

#15-69A

$

Stk# 15-52A

21,900

13,460

$

#14-225A

17,600

$

BUY FROM US AND ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF: REASSURANCE: COMPLETE MECHANICAL SAFETY INSPECTION CONFIDENCE: COMPLETE VEHICLE HISTORY REPORT WARRANTY: DUNCAN HYUNDAI PRE-OWNED PROTECTION PLAN

2006 SPECTRA 5 2010 ACCENT L 2014 SONATA SE 2014 SANTE FE AWD 2007 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 2000 EXPLORER SPORT 2011 BMW 328i XDRIVE 2014 ELANTRA GL 2010 ACCENT L 2010 ACCENT GL 2010 ACCENT GL 2012 INFINITI G25X 2006 SONATA GL 2010 TUCSON GL 2013 SONATA SE 2002 SANTE FE GL 2011 MALIBU LT 2008 COROLLA SPORT 2013 SANTA FE AWD 2003 SANTE FE 2010 ELANTRA L 2012 ESCAPE XLT 2011 SANTE FE AWD 2009 FUSION SEL 2013 SONATA SE

STK #14-221AAA STK #15-82A STK #15008 STK #15007 STK #14031A STK #14028B STK #15U12 STK #14-15 STK #15-74A STK #13-278A STK #15-50A STK #15U10 STK #14-165A STK #15U13 STK #15-69A STK #15-57AA STK #15-59A STK #14-205AA STK #15-112A STK #14U24A STK #14-196AA STK #14034 STK #15U04 STK #14-148A STK #15U14

SILVER GREY SILVER SILVER SILVER SILVER SILVER BLUE RED GREY RED BLACK SILVER BROWN BLACK SILVER GREY SILVER SILVER SILVER BLACK GREY SILVER GREY GREY

$6,900 $8,970 $26,600 $28,900 $14,800 $6,200 $26,400 $20,800 $8,100 $9,900 $6,900 $26,800 $7,840 $19,900 $23,400 $6,600 $15,800 $9,900 $28,650 $8,100 $9,980 $20,500 $21,400 $14,200 $23,700

$5,800 $7,400 $24,100 $27,600 $13,600 $5,100 $25,600 $19,600 $7,280 $9,000 $5,850 $25,700 $6,500 $19,100 $21,900 $5,875 $14,600 $8,200 $27,400 $6,970 $8,400 $19,300 $19,600 $12,650 $22,200

2801 ROBERTS ROAD DL 9988

250-746-0335 1-800-461-0161

(1 mile south of Duncan on Island Highway)

hours: • mon. - thur. 8:00-6:00 pm • fri. & sat. 8:00-5:30 pm • sun. 11-4 pm B w e ve y l e @ www.d c y d .c

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

TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS - TARPS - TOOLS – TARPS - TOOLS

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

The TARP & TOOL CO. LTD.

SALE

(South by the Silver Bridge) 250-748-0108

7”/12” SPEED SQUARES

- 2.2 GPM - GC 160 HONDA MOTOR - AXIAL AR PUMP - 25’ HOSE, WAND & ACCESSORIES INCLUDED

SALE

59

$

.99 Reg. 79.99

12/3G “SUPER FLEX” HD EXTENSION CORDS

$

.99

$ SALE

SAVE

OTHERS FROM

10 16

SALE

TIMBER FRAME COMPASS

%

60

A. 12/3 15’ SUPER FLEX CORDS B. 12/3 3’TRIPLE TAP WHIPS

200

399

.99 Reg. 599.99

$

$

%

100

399.99

Reg. 499.99

50

00

30

BLOW $6 $ SALE .99

9

.99

SALE

“UPSIDE DOWN” MARKING PAINT - SOLVENT BASE

SAVE

%

BOUT ASK A PRICE CASE

SALE

4

40

$ .79 Reg. 7.99

RS-203027

9

$ .99

SALE

Reg. 19.99

48” SLIDING “T” SQUARE - HD 1/4”THICK BLADE - FULLY ADJUSTABLE & 90 DEGREES & ANGLES

SALE

29

$

69

$

.99 Reg. 99.99

419-48

$

SALE

Reg. 239.99

SALE

869.99

SEWER DRAIN CLEANING HOSE

100’

SAVE

4000

59.99 89.99

$ $ SALE

50’ SALE

MADE IN JAPAN

SALE

Reg. 1149.99 GX389

- 13 HP 389 CC GX HONDA MOTOR - 4 GPM - EXTERNAL BYPASS - 50’ 4000 PSI HOSE, WAND & ACCESSORIES INCLUDED

SAVE

00

120

X-2565HWGENSP

SALE

- UP TO 4000 PSI & 4 GPM - PERFECT FOR ALL MODEL WASHERS

SALE

29

$

SAVE

00

20

Reg. 49.99

00

50

79

200

499.99

.99

SAVE

SALE

00

SALE

$

00

300

1299.99

Reg. 1599.99

SALE

$

00

60

Reg. 159.99

Reg. 99.99

4000

00

40

- ALL WEATHER FLEXIBILITY (-40ºC - 65ºC) 100’ X 1/4” SALE

Reg. 139.99 85.206.012L

WATER BROOM

4 TIP REPLACEMENT PACK

99.99 69.99

50’ SALE $ 25’ SALE $

SAVE

- 3 HIGH PRESSURE NOZZLES - PERFECT FOR CLEANING LARGER AREAS QUICKLY

Reg. 49.99

SAVE UP TO

UP TO

18’ WAND $119.99

.99

- RETRACTABLE REEL W/ LOCK OUT - ADJUSTABLE STOPS - HANG FROM CEILING OR WALL

FLEXINATOR AIR HOSE

99.99

TURBO NOZZLE

29

X-4013HWPGENR

12’TELESCOPING WAND

GX196

Friday, Mar. 20th Friday, Mar. 27th 2015

3/8” RETRACTABLE AIR HOSE REEL (ROH) SAVE

- PROFESSIONAL QUALITY - PERFECT FOR CLEANING GUTTERS & SIDING - UPTO 4000 PSI MAX - UPTO 8 GPM MAX

MADE IN JAPAN

Monday - Friday 7:00 am - 6:00 pm Saturday 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Sunday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

DB

49.99 99 - LIGHT WEIGHT & ZERO 50’ X 1/4” SALE 29.

MEMORY 99 - CHEMICAL & OIL 50’ X 3/8” SALE 29.

RESISTANT 21PC. AIR ACCESSORY KIT

SAVE

SAVE

%

00

53

20

DA

7” CAR POLISHER

$

SAVE

Sale Runs

Reg. 89.99

$

Reg. 989.99

REPLACEMENT WAND & LANCE

59.99

IC METR AIL AV ALSO

4000 PS HONDA WASHER

$

$

3000

$

SALE

MKMM12

HONDA GX 6.5 HP 196 CC MOTOR

300

849.99

- POLISH CARS,TRUCKS, RVS, & BOATS - VARIABLE SPEED 600-3000 RPM -10 AMP MOTOR - INCLUDES VELCRO BACKING PAD

209.99

$

Reg. 119.99

- REPLACEMENT ENGINE - 3/4 “SHAFT - BALL BEARING OHV DESIGN - 3 YEAR HONDA WARRANTY

00

30

SALE

X-2005HWA

SAVE

00

25

150

- REPLACEMENT ENGINE - 1” SHAFT - BALL BEARING OHV DESIGN - 3 YEAR HONDA WARRANTY

SAVE

%

00

Reg. 649.99

79.99

$

- 6.5 HP 196 CC HONDA GX MOTOR - 3 GPM - GENERIC ITALIAN TRIPLEX PUMP - EXTERNAL BYPASS - 50’ 4000 PSI HOSE, WAND & ACCESSORIES INCLUDED

SAVE

499.99

- ATTACH TO YOUR WASHER & BLAST THROUGH CLOGS

7” PROFESSIONAL SANDER / POLISHER (MAKITA)

SAVE

.99 Reg. 39.99

85.403.011

SAVE

- UP TO 4000 PSI MAX - STEEL BRAIDED HD HOSE

$

40

2500 PS HONDA WASHER

HONDA GX 13 HP 389 CC MOTOR

00

99.99

SALE

SAVE

- GEAR DRIVEN COUNTER W/ PUSH BUTTON RESET - FOLDING BODY FOR EASY STORAGE - FOLDING KICK STAND - READS UP TO 10,000 FT.

00

PRESSURE WASHERS & ACCESSORIES SAVE

50’ HD PRESSURE WASHER HOSE W/ QUICK COUPLERS

SAVE

OUT!

NEVER T S RETCHES

- 5.5 HP 160 CC HONDA GC MOTOR - 2.3 GPM - AR RM AXIAL PUMP - BUILT IN UNLOADER - 25’ HOSE, WAND & ACCESSORY TIPS INCLUDED

SALE

- 4000 PSI MAX - WORKS BEST W/ 3 GPM UNITS & HIGHER

500’

Reg. 99.99

00

INDUSTRIAL 20’WHIRLAWAY W/ CASTERS

(PRO) STRING LINE

$ .99 250’ SALE $ .99 SALE

Reg. 69.99

SAVE

10” MEASURING WHEEL

SAVE

- DUAL 6”WHEELS - ACCURATE GEAR DRIVEN COUNTER - 5 DIGIT COUNTER READS UP TO 10,000 FT.

2500 PSI HONDA WASHER

ONLY 6 IN STOCK!

30

49 100’SALE $69.99 SALE

$

% OFF

- TRIPLE/ OR SINGLE TAP - LIGHTED ENDS

50’

13.99 $ .99 SALE 29 SALE

Reg. 24.99

2400 PSI HONDA WASHER

00

30 AMP

.99

Reg. 29.99

SAVE

20

$

B. 8M METRIC ONLY

108 - 5462 Trans Canada Highway, Duncan B.C. 25’“RV” EXTENSION CORD

A. 100’ SALE

19 $ .99 SALE 24

Check your prices... we did!! Big or Small WE COMPETE WITH THEM ALL!

49.99 69.99 19.99

$ $ B. 200’ SALE $ C. 50’ SALE

A. 25’ SAE

MEASURE MARKER

- VARIABLE SPEED 600-3000 RPM - ROTATING HANDLE - 7”VELCRO PAD & WOOL BONNET INCLUDED

.99

Reg. 129.99

80585

72040

5.2 GALLON COMPRESSOR

PREMIUM COMPRESSORS & ACCESSORIES

NYLON CLAD STEEL TAPES

SAVE

- 6.5 CFM & 90 PSI - 140 PSI MAX PRESSURE - 3 HP & 13.8 AMPS - CAST PUMP WITH 5000 HOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY

SALE

379.99

6000

$

Reg. 439.99 MAC5200

4.2 GALLON COMPRESSOR SAVE

5000

- 4.2 CFM & 90 PSI - 130 PSI MAX PRESSURE - 2.5 HP & 12.3 AMPS - CAST PUMP WITH 4000 HOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY

SALE

$

319.99

Reg. 369.99

MAC2400

2.6 GALLON COMPRESSOR - 3.3 CPM & 90 PSI - 130 PSI MAX PRESSURE - 2 HP & 12.4 AMPS - CAST PUMP WITH 4000 HOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY

SAVE

4000

SUPER QUIET!

9

$ .99 SALE

Reg. 16.99

SALE

$

29.99

Reg. 49.99

POLISHING PADS & WOOL BUFFERS

SAVE 20%

72037

SALE

$

13.99

Reg. 29.99

14925

SALE

$

Reg. 259.99

- FULL 10’ X 10’VERTICAL LEGS - WATER PROOF CANVAS - HD STEEL CONSTRUCTION

- FULLY ENCLOSED W/ALL FOUR SIDES COVERED - FOOT PADS & ANCHORS INCLUDED

249

$ SALE

.99

MAC700

10’ X 10’“POP UP” CANOPY

10’ X 20’ FULLY ENCLOSED CAR CANOPY - 1 1/2” POWDER COATED STEEL FRAME

219.99

SALE

$

259.99

SAVE

10000

Reg. 359.99

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Queen Size

King Size

Reg $1498

Reg $1598

Now

$1198

Now

WWW.MUSEANDMERCHANT.COM 1711 Bowen Rd NANAIMO

COQUITLAM COQUITLAM 1400 United Blvd

COQUITLAM

COQUITLAM 1400 United Blvd RICHMOND 604.524.3444

LANGLEY

LANGLEY 20429 Langley By-Pass KELOWNA 604.530.8248

SSCANDESIGNS.COM CANDESIGNS.COM NANAIMO

VICTORIA

VICTORIA NANAIMO RICHMOND Rd., Millstream Village 1711 Bowen RdKELOWNA 661 McCallum 661 McCallum Rd 1711 Bowen Rd 12551 Bridgeport Rd 1850 Springfield Rd 250.475.2233 250.753.6361 Millstream Village 250.753.6361 604.273.2971 250.860.7603

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LANGLEY 20429 Langley By-Pass

MADE IN CANADA

NANAIMO

1711 Bowen Rd 661 McCallum Rd 250.474.3433 250.753.8900 250.753.8900 250.474.3433

LANGLEY

$1798

IN

661 McCallum Rd VICTORIA

Reg $2498 Now

$1298

VICTORIA

Chios Patio Set

EA R

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UNIQUELY DIFFERENT

SPRING INTO OUTDOOR LIVING

CEL CEL

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