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ing visitors of the situation. The beach is not closed, but the signs indicate that swimming and wading are not recommended. “Be prudent — do not risk your health,” they advise.

Mounties are making a move to include domestic violence in their prolific offender management program. Staff Sgt. Jack McNeill informed North Cowichan council of the change recently in his quarterly report. “We have three candidates in the community who are, for a number of reasons, constantly before the courts for matters of domestic violence,” he said. “We are broadening the scope of our program to try to get to the root cause of their behaviours.” These are difficult cases, he said, in response to concern from councillors. “Domestic violence is probably the highest risk investigation we have to embark upon. The amount of safeguards on domestic violence files is enormous and properly so. As you can well imagine, after every case, everything is analyzed to see what we could have done differently. “We need to know what’s behind it,” he said.

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Island Health is warning visitors to Maple Bay Beach to stay out of the water after bacteria counts last week indicated higher-than-normal levels. Further tests are being conducted to determine if the levels have gone down yet. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Just in time for the May long weekend, Island Health issued a warning that the water off Maple Bay Beach may be unsafe for swimming. A regular sampling program

conducted by Island Health during the warmer months indicated late last week that levels of bacteria near the beach were higher than normal and could potentially cause health concerns. “The Maple Bay count came back Friday, and it was much

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A bargaining breakdown between the BC Teachers’ Federation and the province has pushed teachers onto the picket lines in rotating action that will close Cowichan Valley schools next Thursday. Naomi Nilsson, president of the Cowichan District Teachers Association, called the action Stage Two of the union’s recently voted on bargaining strategy. “There has been no movement at the bargaining table on our key issue: class size and composition. It’s certainly our number one issue here in the Valley. Our BCTF executive committee made the decision that we need to escalate our job action,” she said. It’s been a contentious subject. “We know that the province is appealing class size and composition to the Supreme Court despite the fact that both in 2011 and in 2014 Justice Griffin said, yup. You can bargain that at the table.’ The government is still saying no to that, which is a difficulty because it’s taken us 10 years to get where we are,” said Nilsson. On Thursday Minister of Education

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“Just for the one day, and then all the locals will be back in on May 30.” NAOMI NILSSON, Cowichan District Teachers Association

Peter Fassbender said the teachers were being offered a new six-year-term, designed to open the door to a 10-year agreement, a length favoured by the province. He said they were also being offered a time-limited signing bonus of $1,200 if a deal is reached by the end of the school year. On Friday the province threatened to cut teachers’ wages by five per cent if a new contract isn’t reached by the time school is out for the summer. The threatened cut could go to 10 per cent if teachers engage in their planned rotating strikes. “Next week, we’ll see certain locals go out on May 26, 27 and 28 and here we will be out on May 29,” Nilsson confirmed. “Just for the one day, and then all the locals will be back in on May 30.” However, there is still the chance that a deal can be reached first. “We’re hoping because we have six days before we go through with this,

that this will be enough for the government to give [its negotiators] the mandate to complete this collective agreement. We’ve been bargaining now for 16 months and we would like a collective agreement by the end of June,” she said. In Cowichan, teachers will be picketing outside of public schools on May 29. “We’re hopeful we can reach a deal at the table. But, we’ve been legislated in 2005 and just recently. I’m hoping it’s not the same pattern but it’s the same government and they just don’t like us. Everyone else seems to be getting a deal but they won’t even give us what they gave HEU [the Hospital Employees’ Union, which recently reached a tentative deal],” she said. Across Vancouver Island, Sooke, Campbell River and Vancouver Island North will be on strike Monday, May 26. On May 27, teachers will be out in Saanich, Nanaimo and Alberni districts while on May 28, Greater Victoria, Qualicum and Vancouver Island West will be the subject of the strike. On Thursday, May 29, Cowichan Valley teachers will be joined on the picket lines by their colleagues in Gulf Islands and Comox school districts.

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Is it “bureaucratic bullying” or “operational necessity”? Faced with being overruled, the Cowichan Lake Recreation Commission’s Ian Morrison is looking for answers this week. What is becoming an uncomfortable situation began with a simple vote on May 12 at the Rec Commission meeting in which the eight representatives unanimously agreed not to participate in a regional activity guide but urge its own staff to continue with four more issues of the Playbook, which lists only programs run at the variety of Cowichan Lake area facilities managed by the commission. It was also decided to re-visit that idea with the commission in a year’s time. But the fallout from that motion was surprising, Morrison reported in an email. “I have the great displeasure to inform you that someone at the CVRD feels they have the authority to overrule and overturn a resolution passed by the three elected representatives of the sole funding jurisdictions (Areas F, I, Town of Lake Cowichan), and the five present citizen members of Cowichan Lake Recreation Commission,” said Morrison, who is also director for Area F (Cowichan Lake South). “We don’t need ivory tower bureaucrats in Duncan telling us what’s good for us and how to spend our own tax dollars. But just you watch. The backroom gang will cook up what sounds like a semireasonable explanation why Cowichan Lake Recreation must participate in the Regional Recreation activity guide. They may claim it’s cheaper or more convenient or an operational necessity to ensure efficiency.” Morrison said he consulted a number of CVRD board members, as well as former long-serving Area F Director Joe Allan for their opinions. “Each and every one’s reaction to this overreaching of authority has been ‘This just can’t happen!’ Only the CVRD board can force a service like Cowichan Lake Recreation to spend its taxpayers’ money on something we don’t want.” Area I director Pat Weaver said she, too, was concerned that she knew nothing more about the reversal of the commission’s decision and had not seen the subject discussed by board directors.

“These are often people who probably never had good role models when they were kids. There may be poverty issues, alcohol, drugs, things of that nature. It’s a perfect storm for violence. They are not ready to cope with the stresses any kind of a relationship has,” McNeill said. “We identify these people. Sometimes it’s not a full assault. It could be threats, they could be stalking someone. There are many layers to this kind of a problem. We try to get them into treatment. Every case is on its own merit but we have two officers and a Crown counsel and even a judge who is dedicated solely to these domestic violence files. Everybody from the premier and the attorney general on down realizes this is a priority.” Const. Eric Coyne, prolific offender coordinator for the North Cowichan/Duncan detachment, said that moving certain people who’ve been involved in a lot of domestic violence into the prolific offender program has been a great success in the Valley. The whole idea is to change the offender’s behaviour and it’s been working well. “Last year we were working with a domestic violence client and we had the idea that, because the prolific offender program was working for property crimes and drug addicted people, that perhaps the same concept could work for our high risk domestic violence cases,” he said. “We took the concept of effecting change and worked closely with one couple for a sort of pilot project,” he said. “The main difference between a regular prolific offender and a domestic violence prolific offender is that there’s a known victim. So, now, we have to bring that other person [the victim] into the equation.” And beyond that, there is innovation in the program, too, he said. “There are many, many services in this province for the victims of domestic violence. But, not a lot of energy has been put into the offenders, other than incarceration, forcing them to do programs while they are in custody, forcing them to do court ordered programs when they are out of custody,” Coyne said. Doing these things just because they have to and then going on to re-offend is not a good solution so this new method is reaching offenders in a new way. It is working “incredibly,” he said. “I can’t even begin to describe how well it works. But this is not a broad, across the board method of dealing with domestic violence,” he said. “There’s just not enough time and energy for that in our days. It’s for people that are high risk, who are a high demand on our system.”

Ian Morrison, Area F director “If it had been, I would have been there fighting for us,” she said. In reply to questions about the situation, Island Savings Centre manager John Elzinga read a prepared statement. “Staff at the regional district take the operational responsibility for creating program marketing materials and the format is not usually an advisory commission decision.” Asked why the commission would even be voting on it, Elzinga would only add, “that’s an interesting question.” He then said the regional district has been proceeding for more than a year towards a listing of all its programs together with an eye to launching program registration online in the fall. This big list would include programs for Kerry Park, Shawnigan Lake, Cowichan Lake Recreation and the Island Savings Centre. “This makes it easier and potentially cheaper to provide information for a combined printed activity guide. The major benefit is to have increased choice for Cowichan residents to have an active lifestyle,” he concluded. Morrison said Tuesday that he was not sure how he would proceed with his concerns about local autonomy, adding he was taking another careful look at the situation.

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Funding cut will destroy program, says coordinator

Arcadian recognized for legacy Arcadian Early Learning childcare centre in Duncan took home a Child Care Legacy Award for 2014 The award recognizes licensed childcare facilities that have provided more than 40 years of service.

Arcadian was the only winner from the Cowichan Valley area. In all, 15 childcare providers, organizations and municipalities were awarded for their excellence in working on behalf of B.C. children and families. Forty-three facilities got Child Care Legacy Awards.

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The school district has slashed half the funding they provide for the Chemainus Crofton Community Schools program and parents are being urged to come out to an emergency meeting Thursday to call for a second look. “This is the raw reality of it,” said coordinator Wendy Lambert. “They want to get rid of us. That’s my gut feeling. Our association will no longer exist as we know it.” Starting at Chemainus 14 years ago, the outreach has run for 10 years with Lambert in the lead. “We operate with a starting budget from the school district for the coordinator position, some office staff and some office supplies. Then we earn money from grants and user fees for some programs,” she said. The program has been receiving $56,000 annually from the Cowichan Valley School District but as of the new fiscal year, July 1, that will drop to only $28,000. There is no room in that amount to fund a full-time position. “It is brutal. I can’t believe it. I found out about this last Thursday. I got an email from the secretary of the Secretary Treasurer. After which, I thoroughly looked through the budget again and it doesn’t mention us in there. “There was no discussion whatsoever. No calling you in to tell you about it. No preliminary. Mind you, I didn’t go through the budget before, but there are some things you just trust. “It is impossible for me (or anyone), as coordinator, to run and supervise a full slate of programs and activities as we have been doing [on the reduced budget],” she said. “We are facing a loss of our Community School Program.” The emergency meeting is scheduled for this Thursday, starting at 6:30 p.m. at Chemainus Elementary Community School. “I’m hoping that the community will come out and say, ‘No! I’ve been part of Mother Goose or I’ve been part of Roots of Empathy’,” she said. “Those two particular programs that I do reach across the entire school district. They’re not just in Chemainus/Crofton. “The kind of programming that we do would also be very beneficial to Lake Cowichan, which is vulnerable in many ways,” she suggested, referring to a recent announcement by Island Health’s Paul Hasselback that children there were not as ready for school as kids in other areas. Lambert listed Parent-Child Mother Goose, Big Brother/Sister in-school mentors, the Rainbows program, family dances, Boys and Girls Club Chemainus, kidZsummerCamp, Spring Break camp, Harmony friends, received financial subsidies for low income parents, breakfast, lunch or snack

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ZONING BYLAW and OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT APPLICATION Applicable to Electoral Area B – Shawnigan Lake

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school programs, Hubert the bus, free lunchtime art classes, school immunizations, hockey after school, community garden and many more programs as all part of the community schools experience in both Chemainus and Crofton. A major difficulty is that program planning is done well ahead. “July 1 is the starting of a new fiscal year and programs are set to go for summer. It’s all in place already. I’ve got summer students set up. I’ve got my grant, which is federal money, for two summer students and high school assistant.” Most of the association’s budget comes through grants. “Working on that is part of my daily activity. We have a total budget of over $200,000 here. I’m just about to go into a meeting with people about offering a fitness program here. It’s fantastic but what on earth am I going to tell them now?” she asked. Reached for comment late Tuesday, Bob Harper, district secretary treasurer, said that the district is lining up a meeting to look at the proposed cuts. “We want to talk with them and see how we can make this work,” he said.

DATE: Monday, May 26, 2014 TIME: 7:00 p.m. PLACE: Shawnigan Lake Community Centre, 2804 Shawnigan Lake Road, Shawnigan Lake, BC Shawnigan Lake Investments Ltd. has made an application to rezone three (3) properties on Renfrew Road in order to permit a residential subdivision of 28 fee simple lots, each 1.0 hectare in size, and 31.0 hectares of park land. The subject properties are presently zoned Primary Forestry (F-1) and the applicants are proposing to rezone the properties to a new residential zone to accommodate the subdivision. The development would be accessed from Renfrew Road and the subdivision would be serviced by wells and septic ¿elds. The Electoral Area Services Committee of the CVRD Board directed that a public meeting be held in the community to gauge the interest of the community before the CVRD Board decides whether this application should proceed to the bylaw amendment stage. In the event that does happen, there would be a formal public hearing in the community at a later date. The purpose of the public meeting is twofold: ¿rstly, to generally familiarise the Shawnigan Lake community with the proposed application and secondly, to gather preliminary community input on the proposed application. This community input will greatly assist the CVRD Directors when they consider this application.

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Nigeria not the only place action is needed ost of us can’t imagine going to school with the fear we may be kidnapped by religious zealots. Parents may fear their child being bullied, or not scoring well on a test, or acting out in class. Maybe their kid cuts class to smoke a joint with some friends somewhere out of sight of the administration. But we don’t worry about a terrorist group rounding them up and spiriting them off. We don’t worry that today they will be forced to convert to some extremist version of Islam and possibly marry one of their captors. We

are free of the fear that they will be sold across a national border into sexual slavery. In Canada women and girls are expected to go to school and educate themselves. There is no suggestion that it is somehow against what God wants, or that women shouldn’t be allowed to exercise their brains. The world, including Canadians, is quite rightly demanding action to resolve the kidnapping of more than 200 school girls in Nigeria by the terrorist group Boko Haram, who have committed most of the acts above, and

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are threatening to carry out the rest. We don’t have to worry about this kind of backwards insanity, which really has no place in this world. But even today, even in Canada, women still struggle for equality and to be free of gender violence. Women are still often paid less than men for doing the same job. Domestic violence numbers, still mostly men committing acts of violence against women, tell a woeful tale. Hundreds of missing and murdered women had their cases largely ignored for years.

Some were simply hitchhiking. Others had “vanished” down the rabbit hole into the world of drugs, prostitution and poverty, even before they officially disappeared. It took years for the demands for action to bear any fruit. It is well-documented that most women who end up in the cycle of drugs, prostitution and poverty do so because they’ve already suffered abuse as children and adolescents, often at the hands of people they were supposed to be able to trust. They take drugs to forget or at least cope with the pain and the

Surely wolf could have been given a chance

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I wish to join the growing chorus of anger over the killing of the lone wolf near Mill Bay. I realize it was the cheapest and easiest way to trap and then kill it. However, surely it could have been relocated where it may have had a chance of survival. In many jurisdictions, whether it be east, central or south Africa, and closer to home, the Park Service in Alberta, they capture and release animals with known success. In the African context, a pride of lions which has similar societal behaviour to a pack of wolves, may adopt a solitary young lion or lioness into its pride. At least give a lone wolf a chance to survive on its own, be adopted into another pack, or even form its own incipient pack. With the encroaching human settlements, these events are bound to continue occurring.

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memories, and pay for them the way they can. This, too, is a life of fear and desperation, right here in Canada. Fortunately, we don’t have wellarmed militant extremist loons willing to declare their antiwomen madness to the world. But there are attitudes that persist, some buried deep, that need to be changed. Just as we demand action on the horrific crime committed in Nigeria, so must we demand action within our communities, our provinces and our country to address our home-grown issues.

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Fall and spring clean-up days can cut dumping The new CVRD waste facility on Peerless Road is a delight to visit and is extremely generous as to what can be taken there and disposed of at no cost. It is a great investment of tax dollars. Having said that, a problem I am finding is a lot of folks do not realize it exists, and more to the point, what can be taken there. The Municipality of North Cowichan, the City of Duncan and CVRD need to do a better job of advertising its existence and describing what can be taken there as well as what can be taken to Bing’s Creek at no cost. The basic requirement is, of course, that one has a car or

truck to take stuff to these facilities which is not always the case. To address this I have suggested to the MNC in the past that we need some kind of spring and fall clean up days on which people can put out old fridges, freezers, stoves, mattresses, furniture etc. — i.e. stuff that could be taken to these facilities — but for one reason or another doesn’t get there. This seems to be a hard concept to grasp by local administrations. In other municipalities in which I have lived this is a common practice. It ends up not being as much of a burden as might be thought as these days bring out the scavengers and those who deal at yard sales and auctions making treas-

ure out of other peoples waste long before the municipal trucks come by. In Kitchener-Waterloo region they have evolved spring and fall clean up days through a “phone ahead any time” system and someone will come to the present day system wherein you just put it out on your regular garbage day and the regular drivers call it in for you and your waste items get picked up. People tend to procrastinate, particularly when cost and effort are required and they become hoarders, or worse, midnight haulers and dumpers. We have to make the system user friendly. Participation is a direct function of ease of use. If we make it easier to use the

system we will cut down on the midnight haulers. It takes less effort to take it to the end of your driveway than haul it into the back roads and bush. Local municipalities need to start to think outside the box and make it easier for folks to manage their waste. If we don’t, this dumping issue will only get worse. Alex Currie Chemainus

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nearby place to take our glass and other recycling. Unfortunately none of those statements apply to the three CVRD recycling centres.

It is really a shame that the CVRD has chosen to remove the remaining recycling bins rather than find a way to make them work better. For instance, similar facilities in other jurisdictions have video camera surveillance installed. I suspect the district has the parts needed for a pilot project on the shelf. It wouldn’t take more than a couple of publicized arrests for illegal dumping to get THAT message across loud and clear. I use the Chemainus bins regularly and I have been a keen observer of the state of things there for several years now. I take exception with the complaints made by Jason Adair in the article on May 2. I never saw the dumpers, but did, from time to time, see their mess. One of the messiest slides in the set that came with the article was date stamped New Year’s Eve — a terrible time of year for waste because there is no pickup and it is our annual consumer holiday. Out of sight is not better in this case. Better to have the oil and whatnot where it is easy to clean up. We really need to do a better job of educating folks about the costs of dumping. The tagging and Halloween arsons are endemic. They happen everywhere and anywhere, and in rubbish bins far more often than recycling bins, simply because there are many more of them. I have never seen loitering, ever. I have seen many people come by and look for items — and leave. I have never been approached by anyone. I, on the other hand, am a curious and friendly fellow and have said hello now and then. I have seen obviously poor people — some that looked like they might live on the street but most not — who show up with extended reach grippers and look for returnable containers. Mostly that group is comprised of elderly folks who drive up. I met one older couple that were retrieving large jars. It turns out that they sterilize them and can stuff from their gardens for the needy. I watched a father-daughter team enthusiastically go through a bin, pulling out tubes and cardboard. I assume it was for a costume, art, or maybe a science fair project. While none of these activities at the bins are officially recognized, the bins serve the community by giving a break to folks who don’t get many, by providing resources (and thereby reuse) for diverse projects, and they do the primary task of providing a

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Ferries built overseas because it’s cheaper The reason for the last three B.C. ferries being built overseas was to shop for the best dollar value for the B.C. taxpayer, exactly the identical way every B.C. taxpayer shops the market when buying items in their personal lives that have to be paid from their very own hip pocket. In the last bidding process, there were 14 bids for construction with only three from within Canada. The final bid went to Flensburger shipyards in Germany because their final bid was still 40 per cent below the lowest Canadian bid. Included in the Flensburger contract were personal guarantees on delivery dates and performance. If the ships were not timely delivered, B.C. Ferries was permitted to levy penalties of $40,000 per day up to a maximum of $6 million, and after 180 days, B.C. Ferries could rescind the

contract for a full refund. A win-win situation. The B.C. taxpayers were the real winners in the construction costs of these three new ferries. Not one of the three Canadian company bids could come anywhere near the contract and guarantee bid from Germany’s Flensburger bid. New ferries will not be built by Canadian companies, unless they become more competitive. Joe Sawchuk Duncan

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Thanks to man who helped after crash I would like to thank a kind man who assisted me Thursday morning. I was on my way to work and was rear-ended while I was stopped waiting for a garbage truck and the car in front of me. It all happened so quickly, as accidents usually do. This man who had witnessed the accident jumped quickly to action. I was panicked, disoriented and very upset as I had my four-year-old son with me too. He

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‘Murder in Green Meadows’ packs punch LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Somebody, somewhere already knows what’s been happening at the home of Thomas and Joan Devereaux, but it wasn’t the audience of the Shawnigan Players thriller Murder in Green Meadows. The four-person cast of the Douglas Post play, which ran for two weeks at Queen Margaret’s School

theatre and at the South Island Zone drama festival last Thursday, kept their secrets close to their chests. There are red herrings galore in this extremely well acted murder mystery, which is produced and deftly directed by Maggie Sullivan. Erin Butler, who turns in a powerfully persuasive performance as Thomas,

manages to come across as both an abuser and victim. Jessie Mann’s turn as his wife, Joan, demonstrates yet again the skills of this talented actress. Nick Brown as Jeff, their neighbour and Deanna Attwood as Carolyn, his wife, prove once again that if a four-cylinder vehicle is firing properly, it can pack a lot of punch.

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Has it really been 11 years since Steps Ahead Dance Studio began “performing at home” at the Bunch Centre at Brentwood College? Yes, it has, and the talented young dancers and their teachers are right now in the final stages of preparing for their annual season-ending trio of shows, this year entitled Fame. “This year, after the junior classical students have told their stories through dance, the older classical students will perform excerpts from famous ballets while modern and tap students portray a selection of famous people,” studio owner Lorraine Blake promises. As usual with this group, look for costuming that’s second to none and a colourful, delightful show whichever day you pick. General admission tickets are $17 each and can be bought through the Brentwood

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Songwriters, it’s time to get ready for the Cowichan Folk Guild’s fifth annual Islands Songwriting Contest. Open to residents of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, this contest is an opportunity for all Island songwriters to gain recognition for their talent. “It is NOT based on the ‘idol’ model,” said Bobbie Blue, CFG artistic director. “It is a platform to support home-grown songwriters. We’re not looking for the prettiest songwriter, we’re looking for the best song.” The theme of the contest this year is history.

“We’re looking for a great song about the history of Vancouver Island, any other island, of Cowichan Tribes, of the Islands Folk Festival, of Providence Farm, of Duncan (the great flood of 2009) or any other town,” she said. “Do not take the theme too literally. Think outside the box. Just write a great song about history,” she urged. The contest is divided into three regional semifinals, to be held in June: North Island, Central Island, and South Island. The field will be narrowed to nine songwriters for each regional performance, and they will perform their songs for an audience and a panel of judges, who will vote for their favorite.

Nine finalists will perform their songs on Friday, July 18, the opening night of the 30th annual Islands Folk Festival. A panel of music professionals will select the three winners. The first place winner will receive a professionally produced and recorded version of his or her song, an additional performance at the Festival, radio airplay, and bragging rights. Second and third place prizes will also be awarded. Contest rules and a printable entry form are available at the Cowichan Folk Guild’s website: www.islandsfolk festival.ca/ The deadline for entries is midnight Friday, May 30 and the entry fee is $25.

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The members of the Encore! Women’s Choir are still in a New York state of mind as they prepare for their upcoming concert It’s Show Time! Saturday, May 24, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Christian Reformed Church. Their experiences in joining an International Women’s Day concert at the Lincoln Centre in New York have given the talented group new insights. Conductor Christine Dandy described the trip as “a very welltimed milestone in the development of Encore! [which] allowed the group to advance in terms of musical difficulty while at the same time, experiencing the wonders of singing with well-prepared, highly educated musicians in a world-class auditorium.” Dandy acknowledged that the generosity of the wider Cowichan community played a large part in helping the choir achieve its New York trip. “Encore! is now considered alumni of DCINY and we’ve been cordially invited back. We look forward to our next New York adventure,” she added. Now, it’s on with the show. The first half of the May 24 concert will feature six of the nine pieces prepared for New York. Cellist Trisha Daniell, violinist Garth Williams and percussionist Mark Ridewood, will join Encore’s accompanist Rykie Avenant for these numbers. From the bright and lilting Flocks are Sporting by Henry Carey, to the duet O Lovely Peace by choir members Sue Ryan and Ann Yelland, from opera and Broadway favourites to Canadian folk songs, there is lots to like. So, mark those calendars. Advance tickets can be purchased before May 22 from choir members or by contacting Christine Fagan at 250-746-0847, at a cost of $15 each for adults or $5 for children under 12. If you wait to get them at the door, tickets will cost you $20.

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Spot Prawns take centre stage at festival COWICHAN BAY: Come out to take a taste of the seafood, fresh bread, ice cream, wine and more locally made delicacies LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Cowichan Bay, the Valley’s Cittaslow community, is hosting its sixth annual Spot Prawn Festival Saturday and Sunday, May 24-25. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, the seaside village will be filled with lots of family friendly activities featuring yummy food and much, much more. Cittaslow celebrates old-fashioned good things found close to home, including locally baked bread, fresh garden produce, fish fresh from the sea, traditionally crafted cheese and wine, handturned pottery and the time to stroll the village and enjoy them.

Cowichan Bay’s festival is about more than just its iconic prawns and that’s what makes the day fun for everyone. Look for the kids’ station where Islands Savings Credit Union is hosting face painting and games. Nearby, First Nations artist Herb Rice, is giving a carving demonstration so why not stop by his display area and watch him bring wood to life? Of course there is plenty of food, too. Chris Williams, the new chef at Hilary’s Cheese, will be barbecuing spot prawns on the patio, so stop by for a skewer of deliciousness and a taste of Enrico’s wine or a sip of Vancouver Island

Brewery’s beer. The Sugar Beetles band will keep toes tapping, too. The wonderful aroma will draw you along the street to the prawn boil and the chefs’ cooking demonstration. The Rock Cod Café is hosting the 2014 prawn boil. Look for the big tent. This year, Chef Jacob Hokanson has extended his liquor licence to the tent, so in addition to soft drinks, you can also enjoy the beverages from Cherry Point Winery, Vancouver Island Brewery and Merridale Cider. Other top Cowichan chefs will be putting their own twist on spot prawns under the tent by the Maritime Museum.

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pairings for their dish. Everyone attending can take home copies of the recipes and, with boughton-the-spot prawns, recreate the festival at home. Yves Muselle of Morning Mist Ice Cream has created a pomegranate ice cream that will only be available during the festival weekend. He will also be providing prizes for the winners of the children’s contests. What kind of prizes? “Cool” ones. As this is an outdoor day, it’s important to remember that Cowichan Bay is an extension of the Cowichan River estuary. Promoting awareness of local culture and the natural environment are also an important aspect

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This year’s galaxy of stars includes: Brad Boisvert, Amusé at Cherry Point; Frédéric Desbiens, Saison Market Vineyard; Matt Heyne, Cow Cafe West Coast Grill; Janice Mansfield, Real Food Made Easy; Rob Martin, The Old Firehouse Wine Bar and Cocktail Bar; Dan Hudson, Hudson’s on First; and Brock Windsor, Stone Soup Inn. Jeff Downie from The Old Firehouse Wine and Cocktail Bar in Duncan is the genial host who will talk the crowd through each preparation. Tastings will be served to 10 guests every hour on the hour beginning at noon each day. The chefs will recommend wine

of the Cittaslow mandate. So, while you are visiting, check out the heron rookery or the Cowichan Estuary Nature Interpretive Centre as well as the prawn-based activities. Cowichan Tribes, the Cowichan Lawn Tennis Club, the Maritime Centre and the Cowichan Bay Wooden Boat Society are all part of the day as well. All prawn sales will be by ticket only. No cash sales are possible. Tickets will be available for purchase at the festival from Cowichan Bay Seafood or at the Cowichan Bay Fisherman’s Wharf. A limited number of prawns will be available for sale and a maximum of five pounds of prawns will be sold to a single person in one day.

Prawn sales will start at noon at Cowichan Bay Seafood and at about 1 p.m. off the boats at the dock. Bring a bucket. Parking in Cowichan Bay is at a premium. There is a shuttle service available all day Saturday from Bench School to the Oceanfront Hotel in Cowichan Bay as well as from the tennis courts just past the north end of the village where parking will also be available for shuttle users. Note to regular Cowichan Bay visitors: Hecate Park will not be used for Prawn Festival parking this year, as the sailing season will have started. T he shuttle ser vice is by donation. If you have difficulty walking, there are only two handicap parking stalls between the Maritime Centre and the Rock Cod Café but there is also a five-minute drop off zone across from the Maritime Centre.

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Not until the 1950s were rehab programs available for polio (Conclusion) ncredibly, polio, the dreaded virus that usually attacks children and can result in paralysis of arms or legs and even death, doesn’t always show symptoms, according to B.C. Healthlink. Or it can begin with misleadCHRONICLES ing flu-like symptoms accomT.W. Paterson panied by stiffness in the neck and back. Thanks to immunization, Canada was declared to be polio-free in 1994. As we’ve seen, however, it wasn’t always so, with almost a century of recurring epidemics beginning in the late 1800s, particularly those of 1910, 1927 and 1953, and usually in B.C. By 1934, almost half of Canada’s disabled population were victims of polio. On the plus side, infantile paralysis contributed

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KidSport Fun Run fundraiser at Shawnigan Lake this Saturday

Duncan’s Pat Kay a part of Canadian rugby history

KidSport Cowichan is holding a Kids Fun Run and Duathlon this coming Saturday in conjunction with Sunday’s Shawnigan Lake Triathlon. The run takes place at the Shawnigan

Lake Community Centre at 1:30 p.m., with registration from noon to 1:15 p.m. Prizes will be handed out to the top three fundraisers, and participants can enter a draw for a week at Camp Pringle. For more information, visit triseries.ca/ shawnigan_lake/kids_run.php or email Darcy Kulai at dkulai@cvrd.bc.ca

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Pat Kay got to be part of Canadian rugby history during the month of May. Kay, a product of the Cowichan Rugby Football Club and Cowichan Secondary School now attending the University of Victoria, didn’t get to play when he joined Canada’s senior men’s squad for the Glasgow Sevens on May 3-4, but it wasn’t lost on him that he was part of something huge as Canada reached the finals at an IRB Sevens tournament for the first time, finishing second after a loss to New Zealand. “It’s been great being a part of something like this,” Kay said. “It’s a really good group of guys and this recent success has been a long time coming.” Kay has been in and out of the squad this year, battling stiff competition within the team. He was part of the squad for the first tournament in Australia in October, and in South Africa in December before returning for the Glasgow Sevens, and then for the London Sevens last weekend, where Canada won the Bowl Final to finish the IRB Series with an all-time best sixth place. Naturally, Kay would like to see more action, but he is getting as much as he can from the experience regardless. “It is kind of bittersweet not seeing the field too much but it also gives me a chance to learn from the experienced guys who are at the top of their games right now,” he said. “I feel quite privileged to be on this team; I’ve been working really hard towards it back home at the Rugby Canada Centre of Excellence in Langford.” With the sevens season over, Kay’s next stop is the preparation camp for the senior men’s XV, who will play games against Japan, Scotland and the U.S. in June.

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Cowichan Secondary collects 25 medals KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Taryn Smiley was named the Outstanding Female Athlete, Ben Williams broke an Island record, and three members of the Lindsay family qualified for the provincial championships as Cowichan Secondary School placed third overall at the Island track and field meet in Victoria last week. Smiley finished first on the Island in the senior girls 100m and 200m races, and joined with Chicago Bains, Nicole Lindsay and Casey Heyd to take gold in the 4x100m, setting high expectations for the provincial meet in Langley at the end of May. Smiley was one of 17 Cow High athletes to qualify for provincials by finishing among the top three in their events in Victoria last week. Frances Kelsey and Queen Margaretâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School qualified two athletes apiece, while Dwight International School had one provincial qualifier. Smileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4x100m teammates made their own marks in individual events, as well. Bains, a Grade 10 running as a senior, won the 100m hurdles. Nicole Lindsay won the junior girls 100m and placed second in the 200m, and Heyd placed second in the junior girls 100m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really excited,â&#x20AC;? Lindsay said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working hard, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool to see my hard work put to the test. Having gone [to provincials] last year, that was really fun, so I was hoping to go again.â&#x20AC;? Two other Lindsay family members also qualified for provincials: Liam finished first in the senior boys long jump and second in

Taryn Smiley, Chicago Bains, Nicole Lindsay and Casey Heyd combined to win gold in the senior girls 4x100m relay. [SUBMITTED PHOTO] the 200m and helped Cow High to second in the 4x100m relay, and Emily was part of the junior girls 4x100m relay team that placed first. Liam has switched from concentrating on triple jump to long jump and 200m, and his decision has paid off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely different for me,â&#x20AC;? he acknowledged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to see how it goes.â&#x20AC;? Emily and relay teammates Olivia Burton, Brigitte Reid and Denise Roy had lofty aims going into the Island meet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were expecting to qualify, and it was exciting when we did,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had the right mindset, going in positive.â&#x20AC;? Liam Lindsay was joined on the senior boys relay team by Kaelan Colbourne, Riley Caljouw and junior athlete Ben Williams. Colbourne qualified for provincials in long jump, and Williams had an incredible meet, breaking the Island junior boys record in triple jump by nearly half a metre. The previous record of 12.77m was set in 2000, and Williams crushed it with a jump of 13.21m. He also qualified for provincials by placing third in the junior boys high

jump and 200m. Cow High swept the boys triple jump golds, as Kain Melchior won the senior boys event, as well as placing second in long jump. Also from Cow High, Josh Charles finished first in high jump and third in javelin. Eric Williams of Dwight International School qualified for provincials by placing third in the senior boys 100m. Cowichan also had one other senior girls qualifier as Makenna Campbell placed third in shot put. Kelseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tia Baker was first in the senior girls 400m, and second in both the 100m and 200m, and Abby Wadsworth of QMS placed second in high jump. Joining Ben Williams as individual junior boys qualifiers from Cow High were Andrew Derocher, who placed third in both the high jump and triple jump, and Noah Charles, who was second in shot put. Roy, in addition to her relay gold, also was first in the 100m and second in the 200m. Kelsey had one junior girls qualifier as Desirae Ridenour finished first in the 3000m and third in the 1500m, while QMSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Madison Heisterman won the 1500m.

Chargers pleased with effort at Island girls soccer tourney KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Up against some powerful competition, the host Duncan Christian School Chargers were wellaware that the 1A Island girls soccer championships would make for a tough tournament, but their performance left nothing on the field. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The tournament was great for the girls,â&#x20AC;? coach Leanne Vanderschaaf said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew it would be a tough fight, and we left the day with our heads held high.â&#x20AC;? Vanderschaaf was especially impressed with the way her key players stepped up in the tournament. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Becky Bazinet, our keeper and captain, held our team together and was a beast in net,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her leadership on this team will be missed as she graduates this year.â&#x20AC;? DCS bowed out of the tournament after a 3-1 loss to North Island Secondary in the semifinals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our last game against NISS was a great game for the girls even though the end score may not be what we had hoped for,â&#x20AC;? Vanderschaaf said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The girls were able to play their game, and work together as a team.â&#x20AC;? The Chargers have a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the future, thanks to the play of younger players like Miranda Wood and Rachelle Van Boven. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miranda and Rachelle were huge assets when our lead goal scorer Mikayla Cook was injured part way through our season,â&#x20AC;? Vanderschaaf said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These two girls met the back of the net numerous times throughout the season and tournament.â&#x20AC;? NISS and Glenlyon Norfolk will get the Island berths at the provincial championship, but the Chargers were in the mix, and have lots to be proud of. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This team is an incredible group of girls,â&#x20AC;? Vanderschaaf said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We may not be off to prov-

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Crew and Sirens win makeup games

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A 22-12 win over Spectrum last Thursday gave Cowichan Secondary’s senior boys rugby team a berth in the upcoming provincial championships. The match at St. Michael’s was Cowichan’s last chance to qualify for provincials, and with their season on the line, the Thunderbirds came out in the first half against Spectrum with some of their best rugby of the season. “The forwards were producing good ball, the backs were moving the ball efficiently and the team was duly rewarded,” head coach Ron Glass said. Justin Young opened the scoring with a try off a quick tap penalty, and Brock Gowanlock added one of his own from a similar scenario. Seth Davis carved his way through the defence for the T-Birds’ third try of the half. Spectrum pushed back hard late in the half, but the Cowichan defence held fast and carried a 17-0 lead into the break. The T-Birds lost some momentum in the second half thanks to some questionable penalty calls, including a stretch of a dozen short long arm penalties, which allowed Spectrum to gain territory or relieve pressure. A long run through five Cowichan defenders from Spectrum’s fullback got the team on the board. Gowanlock appeared to seal up the victory when he broke through the Spectrum defence, but was called for a knock-on as he tried to score under the posts. With renewed vigour, Spectrum got another try from their fullback, making the score 17-12. The T-Birds managed to regain their confidence and composure for the last 10 minutes, and put the game out of reach with a try in the corner from Amish Dobson. Seeded 14th in the provincial tournament, Cowichan will face third-ranked Oak Bay in the first round at Brentwood College this Saturday, kicking off at 11:30 a.m. The remaining games will be played in Abbotsford from May 28-31.

The Crew and Roofco Sirens picked up valuable victories in the Cowichan Women’s Football League standings in a pair of makeup games at McAdam Park last Wednesday. The Crew got three touchdowns and a convert from Jessica Lines-Wikkerink as they beat Moo’s Law 39-19. Marilou Sullivan set the tone on the opening catch, which she carried in for a touchdown. Morgan Kinahan also scored, while Willy Toews had an interception and a convert, Darbi Aitchison had two picks, and Sullivan added a convert of her own. The Law got touchdowns from Jackie Poz-

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Hogan cites one case in which the government agent for Similkameen took it upon himself to authorize a general store to supply the afflicted family with “staple foods” not to exceed $30 per month. Polio sparked provincial governments (particularly those of Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario) and Ottawa to devise and to develop “sophisticated and generous polio policies in this period”. Here in B.C., however, Dr. Young or no, Hogan judges our early response to have been “more haphazard”. It wasn’t until the mid-’50s that contributory hospitalization

By then a serum from the blood of post-polio victims was available. But it only worked if injected within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms — nausea, diarrhea, headache, fever and stiffness — which were more suggestive of the flu. More diabolically, a brief remission was often succeeded by an attack upon the central nervous system and paralysis. Sometimes, the only practical response in smaller, isolated communities without medical facilities was disinfection of living quarters and quarantine.

schemes and rehabilitative services were made available to all. A key concern, obviously, was the ability to pay and, the B.C. Polio Fund, established in the ’40s, was almost overwhelmed by the post-war baby and population boom. Most devastating for victimized families was the need to care for their afflicted child at home, only those patients requiring respiratory care being hospitalized, and Alison Hogan paints a grim picture of what it was like: “...Nursing staff who were required to monitor and care for their patients around the clock, often at great risk to themselves; 23 nurses were faced with wards

filled with helpless patients in rows of iron lungs [but] so prohibitively expensive that it was not always available to all who needed on, forcing some physicians to make agonizing choices about who should live or die...” Hence the need to try to do whatever could be done and, as we saw last week, the establishment of the Queen Alexandra Solarium at Mill Bay with its pioneering (and for the most part ineffective) treatment of exposure of patients to the sun. Overall, governments seem to have responded well under the circumstances. How individual families overcame such tragedy

and endured the burden of caring for a crippled child is a story that remains untold. Today, two polio vaccines are available, the first perfected by Dr. Jonas Salk, and Albert Salbin’s oral vaccine. Both have proven to be effective and the World Health Organization has made them available throughout the Third World. For decades, polio has been in retreat. However, as reported earlier this month, polio is making a comeback in Asia, Africa and the Middle East because of civil unrest. www.twpaterson.com

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