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SHAWNIGAN TAKES PROTEST TO THE HIGHWAY A crowd of angry Shawnigan Lake residents and their supporters turned out in force Sunday afternoon, taking up positions on both sides of the Trans Canada Highway in Mill Bay, waving signs and even collecting donations as they continue their protest against the Ministry of Environment’s approval of the dumping of contaminated soil in their watershed.

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Police probing parking lot death KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

An investigation is under way after a man died in a parking lot off York Street in Duncan on Tuesday morning.

“It doesn’t look suspicious, but

we are treating it as such until we complete our investigation,” North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Chris Swain said.

North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP were called to the parking lot near

the McDonald’s around 6:30 a.m., initially to assist BC Ambulance with a call for a man in medical distress. By the time police reached the scene, the man had died. Police then taped off the site and began an investigation.

The man’s identity was confirmed later in the morning, but his name was not released pending notification of next-of-kin.

The death occurred in the same part of town as a practice lockdown at Cowichan Secondary

School’s Quamichan Campus, but the two events were unrelated, Swain confirmed. Students walking from the main campus to Quamichan were stopped en route while the practice was completed.

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Sewage outfall move head to public meeting

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A 31-year-old man faces nine charges, including five counts of assaulting a police officer, after what Mounties describe as an attempt to avoid arrest by ramming past three RCMP squad cars and jumping into the Nanaimo River.

The alleged incidents took place Thursday. Tyler Fong also faces previous charges from Duncan and Ladysmith, according to the police.

Police were alerted to the vehicle’s presence in the University Village Mall and closed in on the area.

As police approached to block the vehicle’s escape, the driver, said the RCMP, rammed the police cars with his own vehicle and sped off.

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arrest. But the water was shallower than expected and he ended up injuring his ankle, according to police. He eventually swam to shore and was arrested without incident.

Nanaimo RCMP Const. Gary O’Brien said the suspect is known to police.

“This individual was well known to our officers for fleeing from police while showing no regard for the safety of the general public,” O’Brien said.

“For that reason, Air Services was requested which allowed the officers involved to safely monitor the suspect’s location, and throughout to minimize the risk to the general public.”

Fong also faces one charge each of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and evading police.

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Members of the public will have a chance to learn more about how much it will cost and other aspects of the plan to move a sewage outfall from the Cowichan River to another location.

The event, hosted by the Cowichan Valley Regional District, is being held on June 2 from 7-9 p.m. in the Mesachie Room at the Island Savings Centre in Duncan.

There will be a presentation about what’s been done on the project to date and the estimated costs of the move, then there will be an open question and answer session.

The CVRD, in partnership with Cowichan Tribes, the Municipality of North Cowichan and the City of Duncan is looking to move the Joint Utilities Board treated effluent outfall out of the river for a number of reasons.

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The June 3 double feature of Nick Versteeg’s two most recent documentaries — Seventy-One Years and One Man’s Dream — was in the works long before the Cowichan Bay filmmaker went to Nepal, where he witnessed the devastating April 25 earthquake firsthand.

Since the earthquake, though, Versteeg has altered his plans for next week’s event. Now, 100 per cent of the proceeds from tickets and DVD sales will go to the shattered village of Khumjung.

Versteeg will also be opening the evening with a short presentation about his experience in Nepal, which began with filming the work of Duncan’s own Susan Marshall with the Nepal Education fund and Seattle-based dentist Jeff Phillips with the widows and orphans of Sherpas in Khum-

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Versteeg was no longer in Khumjung on April 25, but he wants to do everything he can to help the village’s recovery.

The funds raised at the June 3 event will go to Khumjung through the Rotary Club, which funds Phillips’s work in Nepal.

“We are working with the consul and Rotary to get the funding straight to the village,” Versteeg explained.

The first film shown will be Seventy One Years, the story of Avro Anson L7056, which crashed near Port Renfrew in 1942 during a Second World War training exercise and wasn’t found until October 2013.

Along with author and historian Robert Stitt of Cowichan Bay, Versteeg followed the saga for a year, from the initial visits to the wreckage, to the recovery of the remains of the crew: three British airmen and one Canadian, and their burial together at the Oak Bay cemetery, following the tradition of interring the wartime dead in the closest military cemetery.

“For me, the visits to the families in England and Alberta are the highlights of the film,” Versteeg said. “Imagine, after 71 years, getting a call: we found your father, or brother.”

The movie also gives background about the Avro Anson aircraft and the Sidney airfield, now the Victoria International Airport.

“We talked with people who had come over to work at the airfield and stayed here,” Versteeg said.

Seventy-One Years has been shown on British TV, and Versteeg is hoping it gets picked up for Canadian TV sooner or later.

One Man’s Dream, the story of the building of the Malahat Highway, is lighter fare. Produced for the Mill Bay Historical Society from a script

by Geoff Johnson, it tells the tale from the viewpoint of Major James MacFarlane (the hilarious Roger Carr), the Irish military man who wouldn’t take no for an answer and planned the route when the provincial government said it was impossible.

Next week’s fundraiser won’t be the end of Versteeg’s connection to Nepal. He plans to continue to follow the saga of Khumjung, and how the funds are used.

“I hope to go back in the next two years,” he said. “I think we have to.”

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The Kinsol Trestle is on the list. [CITIZEN FILE]

What should join the heritage list?

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Councillor Maeve Maguire

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Parkland swap in Lakes Road area going to alternative approval LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

North Cowichan residents will be asked whether or not they approve of exchanging municipally owned park land with a private landowner in the area between Lakes Road and Regina Drive.

The private property in question is owned by Greg and Judith Adams.

In September 2014, North Cowichan received a proposal from them to give a piece of land they own on Lakes Road to the municipality in exchange for a piece of park land, and would also see the landowner constructing a trail from the end of Regina Drive to Lakes Road.

North Cowichan staff have been working since October on the paperwork necessary for council to consider the proposal, according to North Cowichan’s corporate services director Mark Ruttan.

Council agreed May 19 to let a proposed bylaw go to the alternative approval process rather than go to an expensive referendum.

It means that if 2,166 North Cowichan residents don’t agree, the idea stops dead right there. A lesser number doesn’t mean it moves forward, though. Council can still decide against doing anything with it.

And they wanted information.

Ruttan told them that this initial step is part of a long, involved process to amend the official community plan, which might also see the idea stopped dead.

A public meeting or open house will be held in June so that interested residents can get the information they need before the deadline for the completion of the alternative approval process, which is set as July 6 at 4 p.m.

Ruttan said that moving ahead with a bylaw about the Regina Drive Park exchange brings the subject clearly and immediately to the public’s attention. It has been written to follow the example of a similar one in Nanaimo, and has been reviewed by North Cowichan’s lawyer, he said.

Chief Administrative Officer Dave Devana also reminded council that they could not adopt the park exchange bylaw until they change the OCP.

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Coun. Kate Marsh said she shared a feeling of frustration but also wanted to see the process at least move to the next step.

Coun. Tom Walker agreed, adding that he was interested in learning more about the possibility of gaining a hiking trail to Lakes Road.

A g roup of property owners attended the meeting and said they didn’t know much yet about what was happening and were concerned about what might occur in the future if the official community plan is changed now.

Maguire said to them, “I hope the message is out to the neighbourhood that we don’t need 2,200 signatures to hear you.”

Councillors gave first reading to an amendment in the official community plan and first, second and third reading to the Regina Drive Park Exchange Bylaw, which will now start its journey towards a final discussion at the council table once the alternative approval process is completed in July.

Coun. Al Siebring still didn’t like the way it was moving.

“Do we have any leeway to set the number of voters? It’s a small neighbourhood,” he said.

Ruttan told him, “You have no leeway. This is an asset that belongs to the corporation of North Cowichan.”

Both he and Devana pointed out that council in the past has not necessarily been bound by the result of an AAP. “It seems ridiculous to have a small neighbourhood have to come up with 10 per cent of an electorate that doesn’t even vote,” said Coun.

Maeve Maguire.

She asked if there were some way to tweak the number to lower it.

Ruttan said he was bound to present a number that was a reasonable estimate of 10 per cent of North Cowichan’s eligible voters. “When it comes to a push, [the park] doesn’t just belong to a neighbourhood, it belongs to the whole municipality.

We can’t just pick a number.”

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Already on the register are sites such as the Kinsol Trestle, the Mill Bay Church, the Old Koksilah School, the South Cowichan Lawn Tennis Club and the Cowichan River.

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System failed Paige every day of her short life O

ur system failed Paige. It failed her to death.

A chilling report released this week by Children and Youth Advocate Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond titled Paige’s Story: Abuse, Indifference and a Young Life Discarded tells the tale of one young woman who, from birth to her death of an overdose at the age of just 19 was failed every day of her life by our protection systems.

What is so important about this report is that it goes beyond the story of just one young aboriginal woman who really never stood a chance, thanks to

those failures. It is a stark revelation of the failure of an entire system, not just the fault of individuals within that system.

With our Local Area Health Profile, presented last month by Island Health’s Dr. Paul Hasselback, finding that 23.3 per 1,000 children in the Cowichan Valley are in need of protection and 19 out of 1,000 are in care — both statistics far outstripping the provincial average — we in Cowichan in particular need to examine Turpel-Lafond’s report carefully.

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The trajectory and tragedy of Paige’s short life was, as TurpelLafond points out, entirely predictable, and yet through sheer inertia it continued like a rock downhill.

Her mother, already drug and alcohol addicted at 16, was a child herself when Paige was born. She was in no way prepared to take care of an infant and it was immediately apparent.

During the first three years of Paige’s life the Ministry of Children and Family Development

received seven child protection reports, including one when Paige was just five months old and yet nothing was done.

Domestic violence, abandonment and likely sexual abuse all played horrifying roles.

Various social workers clearly saw where Paige’s life was headed — a life of addiction, poverty, and abuse to mirror her mother’s — one even noting it in an official report when she was a young teen.

It is painfully clear she should never have been left with her mother.

She spent much of her teen

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years in squalid downtown eastside Vancouver shelters, detoxes and SRO hotels, moving 50 times in two and a half years.

Little wonder she never finished school, became addicted and terminated three pregnancies.

Paige’s life was chaos.

It was up to the system to put a halt to that chaos before it was too late, but over and over again it failed to do so.

Instead it added to the chaos with her file moving through 17 different social workers.

There are many more Paiges out there. None of them are expendable.

Gas price hike would hit working poor Re: Gas should be $5 a litre As much as I appreciate the effort to force conformity to the government-based transit system it might be considerate to consider that my form of employment does not allow me the financial ability to purchase a hybrid or a battery-powered car, and given the nature of my job buses are not an option, neither are bicycles.

I make close to minimum wage on top of other expenses and gas is one of them.

I might hedge a bet that I am not alone in this affliction.

So yes, for many well-to-do folks forcing people to conform to a bias is great but for people

in my position it just isn’t possible and raising the price of gas won’t fix it, it just won’t, all it will do is make us poorer and force us to jump on the welfare wagon.

Nick Rambold Cowichan Bay

Ferry closure needs better signage Dear BC Ferries: We presently enjoy some visitors from overseas and wanted to show them Butchart Gardens; driving through Mill Bay to take the Brentwood ferry. Surprise!

The ferry does not run.

Okay, sometimes there is

maintenance but I find it pretty cheap to only have a small sign at the bottom of the road at the barrier; so we had to turn around.

Too expensive to put a large sign at the turnoff, or even at the highway? I don’t call that customer service.

On the other side pretty well the same thing.

My passenger noticed the puny sign you put up that the ferry is out-of-service, I missed it, paying attention to the traffic.

Maybe you should start a collection to have better signage, or ask Mr. Corrigan to donate a few bucks out of his half-million dollar salary.

Wolfgang Lehwald Mill Bay

I don’t think there is anyone who would disagree that we need to rid our Island of broom.

However, the statement in your May 20 editorial “Effort needed to rid us of broom scourge” that BC Hydro is one of the “worst offenders” when it comes to tackling broom is wrong.

BC Hydro does not “own veritable network of broom corridors”. We operate on an acquired a right-of-way from the property owner of the land on which our transmission lines cross; we do not own the land.

Nonetheless, during vegetation management work on ROW, BC Hydro will contribute resources and work with different landowners, local government and community groups where there is an integrated plan and effort from all stakeholders to control broom. We work with property owners of adjacent land who have a current broom management program or with those whose lands are currently free of broom. As well, BC Hydro funds several regional invasive species committees throughout the province (including the Coastal Invasive Species Committee).

Broom was here long before transmission lines or BC Hydro made it to Vancouver Island.

Introduced in the 1850s by Captain Walter Grant, broom has had many years to spread and take hold. There is no quick and easy fix for eradicating it. While BC Hydro has spent thousands tackling broom, it will take the vigilance and commitment of all local governments, property owners and stakeholders to eradicate it completely.

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ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY GETS BOOST

West Coast Road could open up opportunities

Claire Wessan and Irene Casselman of the Auxiliary to the Cowichan District Hospital with Alison Taylor, chair of CDH Foundation, celebrate the Auxiliary’s $10,000 donation to help fund the echocardiography program coming to CDH. [SUBMITTED]

Expensive lifestyle the real problem Re: Stroller Brigade rolling for affordable care (May 13, 2015) Dare I suggest that it appears Ms. Middleton’s lifestyle choices are the real problem here? Before asking taxpayers to pay for her childcare, she might learn how others manage their affairs: • Work opposite shifts from your spouse so you’ll require little or no paid childcare.

• Trade childcare duties with friends and family.

• Sell your “average” house and move to housing your family can afford.

• Sell one vehicle and walk, cycle, share rides, use transit.

In a pinch, you drive your spouse to work when you need a car for the day.

• Knock off the expensive organic foods until you are self-supporting.

Duncan’s hospital staff wonderful On April 30 I had to go to emergency at the Cowichan hospital in Duncan.

We are recently moved to Duncan just last July. I would like, through your paper, which we look forward to always, to thank all the good people who took such great good care of me. I had a gallbladder surgery that night.

From the moment I was taken in the nurses, the doctor on

• Review some of your other “simple and frugal” lifestyle choices: • Do you own cell phones? Do you really need them? If so, get a $10 a month plan.

• Do you eat out? Prepare all meals at home.

• Smoke or drink? Quit or cut down.

• Take vacations? Don’t.

• Review your career choice and associated expenses.

Working in a horse riding and training business is an extravagance beyond the means of 95 per cent of the population. Did no one educate you on the necessity of having a job where you earn enough to support yourself and your horse hobby? If you can then build that expensive pastime into a viable business — great! But do it on your own dime.

No, “the math just doesn’t add up.” This is your life.

Before you ask others to sub-

sidize it, you first make every effort to add more income to one side and/or subtract expenses from the other side.

And sometimes that means doing a job you don’t like, or working nights and weekends, or foregoing some luxuries.

The struggle is not harder than it used to be for young families. Some people just have unreasonable expectations of what their standard of living should be. Those who adopt an attitude of personal responsibility and self-reliance usually manage just fine and can take pride in their accomplishments.

Let’s save the government handouts for those who really need it because I don’t want to live in a province with the ballooning debt that Quebec is carrying. Their math isn’t adding up either.

duty, the support staff and specialists were all so kind and caring.

What a great place if one is sick. I was treated so well and would like to say thank you to everyone there. You are simply the best.

The only complaint I had was not the hospital’s fault, just one of those terrible badmannered things we put up with these days.

A young man in the next bed talking on a cell phone incessantly from 7:15 a.m. until

lights out at night.

We really need to get a book written on cell phone etiquette. A sick bed is not somewhere one wants to hear the details of another person’s life; however I was released soon enough that I didn’t go quite mad.

Again, thank you to all you great people working in our hospital. Your job is really a calling.

Lori Hamilton Cobble Hill

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Re: Cowichan Valley Citizen, Wednesday, May 20 “Opening the west: road push on” It should be noted that for a number of years a coalition of concerned Bamfield residents, representatives of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, industrial lease holders (IT and WFP), along with Ministry of Transportation and Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources, all working together with the Bamfield Road Safety Association (BRSA.ca), have been addressing these very concerns.

After a number of fatalities and close calls on this industrial road, mostly due to road conditions, driver error, and inexperience, this coalition worked to get over $1 million spent on extra projects to improve safety on the road.

This brought the road from one of B.C.’s most dangerous roads, to one that is now safer and more accommodating to the experienced driver going to the West Coast and Bamfield. That said, many further improvements are necessary to get this road to a point where safety for all levels of drivers is assured.

There are many factors to address in order for improvements to be made, as the Huu-ayaht and Bamfield residents and other users would like to see. The road has a number of shareholders involved. The Huu-ay-aht, at least two forestry companies hold industrial permits, Ministry of Transportation, and private interests all own or lease the roadway known as the Bamfield Road or the West Coast Vancouver Island Road. Implementing a regime of improvements on this road involves a number of hurdles.

None that haven’t been crossed

Fission, not fusion I am sure Laurie Thomson, commenting on the use of thorium for electrical power generation in B.C., meant to reference fission and not fusion as the recommended technology.

To date, fusion remains

before.

Collectively, with the assistance of both the provincial and federal governments, First Nations, and industrial lease holders, an opportunity to open this area for the betterment of all Island residents and users exists. An example is that here lies the only way of getting from North Island to South Island in the event of a natural disaster and a potential blocking of Highway 4. That would be via Nitinat and Lake Cowichan. Road improvements would open many new potential financial opportunities for the Nitinat area and Bamfield.

Recreational and new industrial users could help pay the costs of the improvements and upgrades.

There is talk of a potential LNG plant that could be developed in the Sarita Bay area, close to Bamfield. This billion dollar industry and investment hinges on the ability to get there both safely and efficiently, and would offer many years of employment, and opportunities to the area residents, along with long overdue improvements to infrastructure like sewage disposal and water quality improvements.

It’s good to see that forward looking council member Tim McGonigle from Lake Cowichan recognizes the benefits associated to these potential road improvements, and the opportunities that exist for our town of Lake Cowichan when the road gets an upgrade as a connecter to the Bamfield Road (West Coast Vancouver Island Road), along with the safety, and recreational user aspect of having the a west coast loop road built for year-round access to Sarita, Bamfield, and connecting to Port Alberni.

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unproven. He might have added that thorium fission was developed more than 60 years ago and experimental reactors have been operated successfully for years.

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RAINBOW TROUT RELEASED

Four generations say no to contaminated soil My family has owned property in Shawnigan Lake since approximately 1905. My great-grandfather, E. E. Leason, was one of the first homeowners on the lake. In fact, my children swim in the same bay their great-great-grandfather did, 110 years ago.

When I think of my family’s presence in the history of the Shawnigan Lake community it has always made me feel extremely proud. My children have grown up with strong respect for their roots and appreciation of the lake, through stories and photos of their family members who swam, fished, and paddled in Shawnigan Lake every summer for decades. It’s the kind of deep connection that is felt when you have four generations come before you.

Imagine our family’s shock and anger to find out that South Island Aggregates has been authorized to expose both Victoria’s and Shawnigan Lake’s drinking water sources to the enormous health risks a toxic waste dump poses. Access to clean water is not only a basic human

Environment Minister not interested in protecting us

The Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC release 500 catchable-sized rainbow trout into Chemainus Lake. The lake is stocked with 1,500 trout in the spring and another 1,500 in the fall. On hand to learn about the fish and the lake were two classes from École North Oyster Elementary. It was recently announced that as of April 1 of this year 100 per cent of revenue from fishing licences will be directed to the Society to invest in services aimed at improving freshwater fisheries in B.C. For more information, go to www.gofishbc.com [SUBMITTED] 6984761

Mary Polak and the BC Liberals are destroying B.C.’s future one lake at a time.

It is appalling that my community of Shawnigan Lake must defend itself, like so many others, against not only a corporation like South Island Aggregates (Mike Kelly and Marty Block) but from the BC Liberals who have been elected to protect and lead our province.

I hope the citizens of Victoria realize that Sooke Lake will face the same dismal fate as Shawnigan and there will be no clean fresh water on southern Vancouver Island if we let SIA and the BC Liberals bully us.

The “science” Mary Polak continues to speak of states the plastic bag liner that

right, but it is a necessity of life.

In light of Minister of Environment Mary Polak’s obvious support of SIA’s permit, I question her ability as a leader to make sound decisions concerning the environment and the citizens of British Columbia. I question her competence and willingness to interpret facts honestly.

I implore Minister Polak to do the right thing by the citizens of Shawnigan Lake and Victoria and revoke SIA’s permit.

The risk of an environmental catastrophe is far too great. Take up the CVRD’s offer to find a more suitable site. Protect Shawnigan Lake from becoming the next Mt. Polley disaster.

If my grandparents and great-grandparents were here today to voice their opposition, to fight this mockery of a decision, they surely would. But knowing what they would do only fuels our anger and makes us stronger. It encourages us to fight harder for what we know to be right, and to do everything we can to prevent a toxic waste dump from ever being in the Shawnigan Lake Watershed.

Dana Hahn, Leason family Shawnigan Lake

will contain the poisons of the contaminated soil will have a life span of 35 years.

Then what Miss Polak?

How did Mary Polak become the Environment Minister? She clearly has zero knowledge of anything environmental and has zero intensions of protecting it. Is this the person/party we want leading us? History will show this for what it truly is; the greed of a few in power over the health and prosperity of the people they were elected to protect and lead.

Shawnigan Lake, like many communities across B.C. will stand united, on Parliament lawns, in your offices and in front of gravel trucks, until this madness comes to an end.

David Procter Shawnigan Lake

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Woman with MS caught in disability limbo LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

A Valley woman with multiple sclerosis is concerned that she’s having to jump through extra hoops to get assistance from the Duncan office of the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation.

Suzanne Cusson has been dealing with MS for decades but had been managing on her own, even operating her own business, until a few years back, when she found herself forced to apply for benefits in 2012.

Unexpected roadblocks appeared, she said.

“I owned a 2010 travel trailer and they said I had to get rid of everything before they’d even consider me for benefits,” she said.

She sold her trailer and finally started regular assistance in November 2012 but was not allowed to go onto disability benefits.

Everything had been going smoothly until December 2014, a time that should have been happy for her.

“I gave birth on Dec. 5, 2014. But on Dec. 30 I received a letter stating I needed to bring in all my work information, my T4s, my income information, my bank account dating back six months.

So I got as much as I could together. To make a long story short, I was denied benefits in January, and I’ve been fighting this. I have MS, I can’t go to work. I have a newborn. What am I supposed to do?” she asked.

“I was on assistance. But they closed my file in March. I never believed they would cut me off, because I have MS and I have a newborn. But, they cut me off so I asked for a reconsideration.”

She finally got an application package in the mail and then had to wait three weeks to see an advocate but finally she got someone to take a second look.

“They finally took my reconsideration request, they looked at it and, on May 14, they said I should never have been deemed ineligible and that my case needed to be re-opened.

“I went over there this morning and [the acting supervisor] said no, that because I re-applied I had to wait for the intake worker to call me. I should never have been deemed ineligible to start with. My file should have been re-opened and I should have been issued cheques for March, April and May.” Cusson said she was concerned because the acting supervisor “was the original guy who told me ‘no’ to disability because I owned too much. I don’t own anything now. It seems personal with him. I don’t understand why.

I had to beg, borrow and almost steal to get money to pay my bills.

But now he’s saying he doesn’t have to go with what the reconsideration branch says. I have to go with an application process again. That will take six to eight weeks,” she said.

The reconsideration branch were trying to short circuit an overly long process but their

Former Valley business woman Suzanne Cusson, whose multiple sclerosis has forced her out of the workforce, says she is frustrated at the way that local Ministry of Social Development officials have been handling her case. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN] The rent of a trailer, Hydro costs and other expenses come to more than that every month, she said.

“If I was a drug-dealing prostitute with a drug or alcohol problem, they’d be helping me but because I was a business owner they don’t understand it,” Cusson said.

“They don’t know that because I have MS it takes me 10 times longer to do a simple thing. I was diagnosed when I was 21 years old but they never told me what to expect. The fact that I’m still walking is incredible,” she said.

According to the Ministry of Social Development’s communications department, “due to privacy considerations, information on specific cases cannot be provided.”

However, the ministry’s policy’s also states that an

effort failed, she said.

“He could have helped me right now. They could have reopened my file, given me my assistance for March, April and May today. I don’t think he should be the one who overrides the reconsideration branch, what his peer did.

How could he say no?”

Now, Cusson is unsure what the future holds.

“If I have start again, I will. But what do I do about the months I had to borrow money? I’m already behind.”

Right now, the only money she has coming in is from her child tax credit, she said.

Cusson has two older children.

She receives $75 each in child support for them and then there’s her child tax benefit.

“My oldest daughter is 18. My child tax benefit is $640 so I’ve been living on $790 for the past three months.”

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Have a say as Crofton sets future blueprint LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Crofton residents can speak their piece on such contentious subjects as overheight waterfront property developments, the future of the old elementary school site and what to do about a variety of issues at an upcoming meeting about their proposed Local Area Plan.

A public open house will be held Tuesday, June 9 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Crofton Community Centre.

It’s best to do it now, rather than waiting, according to planning manager Brian Green.

There’s no point in holding it in July and August, said Green, with so many people away. The plan has been two years in the making and, when council gave it first reading May 20, Green said he didn’t want to see a public session put off until September.

Municipal officials, councillors and an advisory working group (AWG) of local folks have wrestled over the plan in its current state.

It’s been an adventure to get to this point, said North Cowichan Coun. Kate Marsh, who praised the amount of public input and hours of staff effort that went into the preparation of this plan. She said the working group had met 14 times and although discussion “felt pretty sticky and messy” at times, that overall the result is “pretty good”.

Green said there were several sticking points that both sides wrestled over before reaching consensus.

These included great local concern about a possible four-story building

As the scenic, seaside community of Crofton prepares for its future, the Municipality of North Cowichan is giving residents the chance to speak up about how they want to see development proceed on various fronts. [ANDREA RONDEAU/CITIZEN] on the waterfront in Crofton, how the old Crofton Elementary School property should be subdivided and how best to both diversify and increase the community’s inventory of various types of housing by infilling around Robert Street.

Green said that although the

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municipal staff said no to four-storey buildings along Joan Avenue, they thought three storeys was “totally appropriate given the context, what the OCP is saying, what our climate action energy plan is saying.”

Looking at the elementary school site involved talks about its future and the Crofton AWG and municipal staff finally agreed to present the idea that 75 per cent of that old elementary school be made available for residential development.

“We think that former elementary school site is currently derelict but it’s a great sustainable site for new infill residential development. That would see the remaining 25 per cent be an OCP amendment as park and community facilities,” Green said.

On Robert Street, the plan significantly reduces the scale and size of the mixed use commercial core area.

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“What we’ve said is that we want some broader housing types, we want some diversity in Crofton, which is currently so lacking. We think it’s totally appropriate from a planning and sustainability perspective to propose to allocate some infill housing around the Robert Street area,” Green said.

Coun. Joyce Behnsen was worried about the future of the old school property.

“With the community centre next door and the skate park, its recreational potential as well as the old gym should be considered. I think 75 per cent residential will be considered a really high percentage in that specific location,” she said.

North Cowichan CAO Dave Devana agreed that there’s interest in saving what appears to be a functional gym.

Getting the plan on the table means the public can now speak up, he said.

“But in the end, what I was trying to emphasize to [the AWG] is you must make sure to come up with $400,000 to $500,000 to take down the old school. The only way to get that money, other than asking the taxpayers to pay for it, is to develop the site. Otherwise they’re going to be coming back to us.

The school district isn’t going to take down the school because their budgets are also tight, he said.

Behnsen asked if the province was a part owner of that land but Devana said it was split between the school district and the municipality.

“I do know the district has deemed [theirs] to be surplus so they are in position to offer it to us.

But personally I wouldn’t personally be recommending assuming that liability unless there’s some development potential on the property,” he said.

Coun. Al Siebring said that when he’d attended a couple of the sessions, “the height restriction issue on the waterfront, particularly on the Twin Gables property, was a major bone of contention.”

Green said that even if the plan eventually passes, an applicant could still submit a development variance permit for consideration but it would require a strong design rationale and would still have to eventually hit the council table.

Devana agreed.

“It’s not about increasing density. It’s about a strong design rationale that would change the look of the building. The AWG agreed to this, too,” he said.

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Port Alberni impersonator will serve two years of federal time The man who impersonated a First Nations chief and scammed Port Alberni residents out of hundreds of dollars has been sentenced to two years in jail.

Robert Bennett Peters was sentenced in Port Alberni provincial court on Wednesday for two counts of fraud under $5,000.

Peters pleaded guilty to the charges.

One of the charges was for defrauding the Royal Bank for $680. The bank wired money for him to pick up at a branch in Nanaimo. Another fraud charge was for scamming a Port Alberni resident for $300.

Peters called and impersonated Tseshaht Chief Hugh Braker, making up a story that he needed money to help a friend’s sick and dying child.

Peters has a lengthy history of similar crimes, with dozens of previous fraud charges — impersonating a high-ranking official — spanning 30 years, said Crown prosecutor Gordon Baines.

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Illegal drug production caused explosion that injured three RCMP confirmed that illegal drug production was the cause of an explosion and fire Friday afternoon on First Street in Courtenay that sent three men to hospital.

Police conducted a search of the residence, after obtaining a search warrant under the Controlled Drug and Substances act, on Saturday, May 23 and located equipment and other evidence that is used in the production of Hash Oil. “This is a tragic reminder of the serious risks involved in the production of illegal drugs”, states Const. Don Sinclair of the Comox Valley RCMP. All three men, age 25, 28 and 29 years old, remain hospitalized at this time with serious injuries.

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Driver arrested for firing gun in road rage incident in Courtenay A 37-year-old man was arrested and charged following a road rage incident on the night of May 19.

Comox Valley RCMP said it all started when the driver of a Ford Escape was seen tail-gating a Chevy truck on Dyke road in Courtenay. The 31year old driver of the pickup allegedly slammed on his brakes, which caused the driver of the Ford to swerve.

Heated words were exchanged, said police, before the driver of the Ford allegedly pulled out a handgun and fired it in the direction of the other vehicle. It was later determined the handgun was actually a pellet gun.

Police tracked down the driver of the Ford and arrested him at gun point. He is now facing charges of assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. A 21-year old woman who was his passenger is facing charges of obstruction.

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A Victoria Day outing by two sisters on the Ripple Rock Trail turned into a search and rescue effort after the sisters left the trail and found themselves lost on the shoreline.

Thanks to the assistance of an RCMP helicopter that happened to be working in the area, local search and rescue volunteers were able to quickly locate the women.

“They very wisely called for help on their cell phone sooner rather than later, so rescuers were able to mobilize while there was plenty of daylight,” SAR spokesperson Tim Fairbank said.

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‘Wild Lands’ really was a voice in the wilderness in 1909

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The more things change the more they stay the same — many of the logging issues of today remain the same what was faced in 1909. —TWP time must be insisted upon because the timberman having cut out all the good trees, will be strongly tempted before he sets up his mill elsewhere to make what use he can of undersized trees and portions of the damaged ones...”

Clearly, Wild Lands is out of sync with today’s avowed industry philosophy of extracting all salvageable wood and of value-added. As for the waste treetops and branches, they had to be disposed of, he wrote, as they impeded new growth and were a fire hazard. He didn’t specify how he thought this should be done but slash burning would seem a logical surmise.

Then he touched upon an aspect of commercial logging that is a nerve-point for many today: “I cannot understand the advisability of allowing logs to be exported from any part of Canada to the United States. Why should not our lumberman be properly protected and allowed to

saw up the logs themselves? If it pays as well to sell logs as to saw them up, then I think that an export duty should be put upon them sufficiently high to keep the sawing in our hands, and by that means give employment to a much larger number of hands.

“It is a very great pity that so much timber is used up in the shape of pulp for paper making. [He’s certainly out of line with modern philosophy here. Bear in mind that he was writing of a time of primarily first-growth forest.—TW) The man who can invent an equally cheap and less wasteful source for paper-making would truly be a benefactor to mankind.” Rather than those lands already logged being converted to pasturage, he suggested that they be allowed to return to forest thus “forming a continual source of revenue” to the Crown.

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oo bad we’ll never know something towards showing the real identity of “Wild to what extent such a departLands,” as he signed ment might be applied to this country,” particularly as B.C. himself in a lengthy letter to had “enormous forests still the Cowichan Leader in 1909. untouched; we have simply to He’d written to suggest that preserve and not to reconstruct British Columbia should instinature... tute a Forest Department in “How great will be the heritplace of the existing free-forCHRONICLES age of our children if, in view all as was the case of timber of the immense destruction licensing in those days.

T.W. Paterson elsewhere, we can by judicious The editor thought his promanagement keep our forest area in posal “would help to maintain [B.C.] as full bearing, and how easily this may be the finest fir and pine producing country done!” in the world”. More than a century later, Curiously, he viewed most forested with all the benefits of hindsight, let’s lands as being unfit for anything other see what Wild Lands had to say... than animal habitat. His answer to After identifying himself as a former reducing the loss to forest fires was to civil servant in Britain’s “Indian Forest create fire-breaks; not those spontanDepartment,” he thought he might “do eously cleared by firefighting crews, but done on a large-scale, systematic basis by creating alternating blocks of standing trees during the logging process.

Janicki Anderson He then somewhat contradicts We put your Best Interest First himself by championing selective logging as opposed to clear-cutting: “When the lumbermen have cut out and utilized the sound, full-sized trees then is the time for the forest department to step in and close the section until the kenandkelli.ca undersized growth has had time to 250-746-8123 • mail@kenandkelli.ca mature... This closure at the proper

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Do I want my vehicle to think for me?

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remember when I was a teenager (yes, that was a few years ago) working in my father’s service station.

The latest safety gadget in new vehicles was a buzzer that warned the driver when seatbelts were not fastened.

That’s a good idea, right?

Apparently not, as customers were coming in to see if they could have the buzzer removed or disabled. If everyone got in, fastened their seatbelts and then the driver started the car, no one ever heard the buzzer. The trouble was that this was

Will we get to the place in my lifetime where our vehicles drive for us?

I’m not sure I want to climb in, tell my pickup where I want to go and then put my head in a book or do other non-driving related tasks while it takes me there. The human brain is still a better multi-purpose computer than is present in the best self driving car today, but it still makes it’s fair share of stupid decisions too. Where does the balance lie?

ful but I wonder if privacy concerns will lead to drivers who disconnect the vehicle to vehicle and infrastructure systems.

Is it wrong to have your vehicle do some of the thinking for you? What happens if the system makes the wrong choice? Do you owe it to fellow road users to keep all of these systems properly functional as the choice you make will affect others?

How far should legislation go to require implementation and continued use of safety systems that think for or override a driver’s control over their vehicle?

not the habit and it was easier to silence the buzzer than it was to change behaviour.

Fast forward to today and we are starting to see a range of new driver assistance technologies being implemented. Backup cameras, lane departure warnings, automatic emergency braking, vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communication are just a few examples of new conveniences and safety systems that will compensate for driver errors or omissions.

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Letter writer warned of dire consequences of cutting trees within steep watersheds ‘WILD LANDS’, From Page 12 For B.C., ”the extermination of [publicly-owned] forests to any large extent...would be productive of lamentable consequences.

Our watersheds are very steep, and when the soil becomes hard-

baked by long exposure to the summer sun, the rain, unable to penetrate, would rush down into the rivers and cause floods to which our present inundations are by comparison trifling.

“These consequences may appear far off, but if anyone will

look into the yearly increase of our lumber output and the rapidity with which foreign forests are disappearing, he must readily perceive that the demands to be made upon our timber supply in the near future will be sufficiently great to

cause serious uneasiness as to its permanence unless we act as other countries have long ago found it necessary to do.

“By proper management we shall not decrease our output — we shall simply render it permanent, while as competi-

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tion lessens through foreign inability to meet demands, we shall be able greatly to enhance our prices..”. That said, he thought cedar was doomed to near-extinction because logging upset its environmental balance, and that most second-growth was inferior because it produced more knots.

Deforestation, he warned, would mean decreased rainfall and deplenished watersheds (sound familiar?) and, ultimately, “not a sound to replace the ring of the woodsman’s axe save perhaps the clink of the miner’s hammer”.

He thought that the decline of some great civilizations could be linked to the destruction of their forests.

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Government House flower arrangers to share secrets “Not to be missed and worth the visit,” said Don Sinclair, president of the Cowichan Valley Garden Club of the upcoming Spring Flower Show coming up on Saturday, May 30.

“For weeks the members of the Cowichan Valley Garden Club have been preparing for their annual judged Spring Flower Show and Tea this Saturday. The show is an opportunity to step back in time, be in the moment and enjoy the pleasure of flowers and plants and leave all stress behind,” he said.

The show runs from 1-4 p.m. at St. Peter’s Church Hall, 5800 Church Rd., Duncan. Admission is $3 and afternoon tea is $4. Children 10 and under get in free.

“From the moment you drive on to the heritage church grounds, to walking up the stairs and entering the bright, open hall your senses will be enlivened by a profusion of colourful plants beckoning you to swoop to smell and marvel at their textures,” Sinclair said.

Special guests at the show this year will be Audrey Smith and Rene Barr of the Victoria Floral Artists Guild.

The highly acclaimed guild members do flower arrangements on a volunteer basis for Government House. They will host a free demonstration at 2 p.m. on how to cre-

ate a floral design. Designs demonstrated will include the latest trends and simple designs you can make at home.

The guild was established in 1949 and the session will be top quality and of interest to anyone who has a love of floral art or gardening, said organizers.

“The goal of a flower show is also to educate people about floral design and stimulate interest in horticulture and provide an outlet for creative expression for the Garden Club members,” said Esther Craig, convener of this year’s show.

“There will be a stunning flower and plant exhibit featured from best flowering exhibits, best potted plant, general decorative to best photograph and a variety of other categories in between. The Spring Flower Show is a culmination of the gardeners’ labour being showcased to delight the attendees.”

The general public is also invited to exhibit their talent by entering a floral design or flower cuts from the garden. Entering is free.

Displays are staged Friday, May 29 from 5 to 8 p.m. For further details go to www.cowichanvalleygardenclub.com or call Esther Craig at 250-246-2422.

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Social Planning Cowichan, Hiiye’yu Lelum House of Friendship and Cowichan Intercultural Society are hosting the 7th Annual Walk of the Nations on May 30 in Duncan.

The Walk of the Nations was born from the 2008 North American Indigenous Games and is a celebration of culture and diversity.

“Our community has a rich culture,” explained committee member Michelle Staples. “We hope the walk will create a community

filled with understanding, acceptance, respect and compassion.”

Nearly 1,000 people attended the 2014 Walk of the Nations and organizers hope that this year’s walk will be even bigger. Everyone is invited to attend and traditional and cultural clothing is encouraged.

The walk starts at 10 a.m. at VIU and will conclude with food and music at Centennial Park from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Valley productions dominate at festival Cowichan Valley productions and performers rocked the South Island Zone Festival Gala at Cedar last week taking home several awards.

The Mercury Players cleaned up for their play, Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun, which was chosen Best Production. They won the festival and now get to take their show to Kamloops to compete at the provincial level in Destination Mainstage, which is held July 5-11 against winners from five other zones.

From their show, Marinus Vesseur won Best Actor with Breann Landry taking home Best Actress. Michael Terides was chosen as Best Supporting Actor.

The other Valley group in the festival, the Shawnigan Players, picked up Best Ensemble for their production of Romeo and Juliet from the summer of 2014 with Laura Faulkner carrying off Best Supporting Actress at the same time.

To help finance the Mercury Players’ trip to Kamloops, the Ladysmith Little Theatre has kindly offered the use of their theatre for a couple of reprise shows on July 3 and 4, which means that there will still be two opportunities to see Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun if you missed it.

And the group is still looking for additional sponsors to step up with funding as well. For further information, contact Vesseur at 778-356-0202 or mvesseur@gmail. com.

Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun is a dramedy

by Norm Foster that was brought to the stage by the Mercury Players in Duncan in November of 2014 and was directed by Marinus Vesseur and Alex Gallacher.

Actor/director Gallacher, who has worked with both groups, said this week that the Shawnigan Players are enjoying re-connecting with Theatre BC. They had previously won the zone festival with The Children’s Hour in 2011, “but that was the first time the Shawnigan Players had entered for many, many years. We also won for Albertine in Five Times.”

Romeo and Juliet is not a common competition play, either.

“It has a larger cast. Usually there are four or five in the casts of plays that go, mainly because of the logistics of these things. But, I thought, why not bring 22 cast members and let everyone have that experience?” he said.

“The main reason we do it is to connect with other theatre groups and get a professional adjudication for the show. And Ladysmith letting us use their theatre for free to raise money for the Kamloops trip is phenomenal.”

No Cowichan troupe has hit the Mainstage in Kamloops in recent years.

“It’s exciting. The last one for the Shawnigan Players was King Lear in 1991 and this is a first for the Mercury Players,” he said, adding that the Kaatza Lakeside Players also have represented the zone at provincials.

Alex Gallacher, Marinus Vesseur and Breann Landry were all big winners at the South Island Zone Theatre Festival gala. [MONY VESSEUR PHOTO]

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Life is full of surprises for top notch playwright, Henry (played by Alex Gallacher, right), when he meets talented actress Annie (Elissa Barron) in the Shawnigan Players’ presentation of Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Thing’. [SUBMITTED]

Players show ‘Real Thing’ LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Tom Stoppard’s play The Real Thing is the next project for the energetic Shawnigan Players.

They’re presenting it starting Thursday, May 28 at the Duncan Showroom at 7:30 p.m.

A romantic comedy, it is the Players’ first show of 2015 and, under the direction of Laura Faulkner, the actors will bring to the stage a group of vibrant characters in a play that she says is “smart, honest and painfully funny.”

It’s all about theatre people, too, which adds an extra dimension.

Playwright Henry (Alex Gallacher) falls in love with Annie (Elissa Barron) and suddenly finds himself in a maelstrom of emotions, which draws his wife, his daughter, his lover, his lover’s lovers and a convict into a whirl of an entertaining story. Actors Lindsay Toutant, Erin Butler, Matt Williams, Hannah Gallacher and Connor Lachmanec round out a talented cast.

Faulkner said last week that the show excited her from the first time she read it.

“I was just sort of scouting around for things that would be fun and thought, this is brilliant!

I’ll do this one. It’s a seven-person cast but two of the characters have only one scene each, one of them being the playwright’s daughter, Debbie, who is played by Alex’s daughter, Hannah, which is kind of neat.”

Performances are scheduled for May 28-30 and again June 4-6 as the Players play the Showroom for the first time in its new location, upstairs at 133 Station St. Tickets are $15 each in advance. Get them at Ten Old Books in Duncan or Mason’s Store in Shawnigan Lake or if you email laura.lois. faulkner@gmail.com you can reserve them from the director herself. If there’s space available, it’ll cost you $18 for a ticket at the door.

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Brentwood bringing music to stage for children’s fundraiser LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Brentwood College’s exciting annual spring student production, Concert for a Summer’s Eve, takes the stage Friday, June 5, starting at 7:30 p.m.

According to Arts Director Edna Widenmaier, there’ll be many things to enjoy in this year-end showcase.

“We have lots of wonderful per-

formances including the gold winning Cappella group who will be heading off to the Nationals in Ottawa May 2016,” she said.

This show is also traditionally a fundraiser for the Choirs in Concert for the Children charity, which supports music for special needs youth in the Cowichan Valley.

Reserved seating is $10 per person.

Go to theatre.brentwood.bc.ca

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The Commodores Big Band will show off its stage band chops at the Crofton Hotel Pub Sunday, May 31.

From Victoria, this versatile 18-piece aggregation plays a hugely varied repertoire of music.

They’ve been around since 1975 when the band was called the Coppertones, changing the name in 1984 to the Commodores to reflect Victoria’s nautical history.

The band is led by Mark Fraser.

Vocalist Kim Greenwood, a successful crossover artist equally at home in a big band or a classical ensemble, is on the voice faculty at the Canadian College of Performing Arts.

The band is comprised of pianist Val Turner, guitarist Liam Arthurs, bassist Don Fox, drummer Michael Clement; saxophonists Don Reksten, Ken Campbell, Brian McLagan, Don Hauser, Kelly Wood; trumpeters Ole Backhaus, Wayne Speller, Corrine Painter, Kevin Greenwood; and trombonists Sue McTaggart, Rick Morrison, Gerry Wolfe, and Shawn Hamilton.

The performance is part of the Jazz at Crofton series, which runs from 2-5 p.m. each Sunday. Admission is $15 at the door.

Artisans studio tour opens doors for June weekend The Cowichan Artisans open studio weekend tour, June 5-7, showcases a creative group who work out of home-based outbuildings, workshops and studios.

The tour allows art lovers to travel to the members’ studios to meet and interact with the artists in the very places where they make their magic happen.

For more on the tour and the Cowichan Artisans, visit them at cowichanartisans.com

Big changes come to Musical Theatre Society The South Island Musical Theatre Society received $1,500 from the Duncan Lions Club at the big group’s recent annual general meeting. Lions’ treasurer Margaret Wall was on hand to present the cheque to SIMTS treasurer Frank Wilson.

In other society news, there’s a big change coming next year: the group’s 2016 musical will hit the stage in April, instead of earlier as

has been the previous practice, due to an executive decision.

Outgoing SIMTS president Denny Beaveridge said the executive voted in favour of this change as the usual show dates have been tightly sandwiched between Shawnigan Lake School’s annual production and the start of the Cowichan Music Festival.

He also pointed out to the AGM that it “is also hoped that moving the show to the spring may encourage more theatregoers from south of the Malahat to make the drive to Duncan without fear of winter weather conditions, as well as coinciding with the return of many snow birds [AKA potential showgoers] back to the Cowichan Valley.”

Beaveridge also presented a gift to treasurer Wilson, who is retiring from that job, after holding the position on and off for more than 20 years.

Finally, the Society elected a new executive for 2015/16 including president Irwin Killam; vice-president Cliff Braaten; treasurer Jan de Bree; secretary Susan Elo and past president Beaveridge.

Folk Festival ticket prices go up starting next week Planning on attending the Islands Folk Festival, which takes place July 24-26 this year?

Tickets are now on sale at the early bird rate but prices go up at the end of May. It’s time to get those weekend passes at https://islandsfolk.tickit. ca/events/419-islands-folk-festival to ensure you’re going to be one of the happy folks enjoying the music and fun at Providence Farm. Only 2,000 passes will be sold and the early bird deadline is coming up quickly.

According to event director Bobbie Blue, it’s a family friendly music festival, produced by the Cowichan Folk Guild and featuring several stages of entertainment at the beautiful farm.

The lineup this year will feature performers from five provinces and three countries. Who’s coming?

COIG from Cape Breton, Bombolesse from Quebec, Russell deCarle and the Jessica Stuart Few from Ontario, Kat Danser from Alberta, Shred Kelly from B.C., Martyn Joseph from Wales, HuDost and Matuto from the United States, “and so many more,” she said.

Check out islandsfolkfestival.ca for the complete list of performers.

The Mariachi Gala will feature musicians as part of its colourful show. It will also include dancers in traditional costumes and plenty of excitement. [SUBMITTED]

Mariachi Gala brings taste of Mexico to Cowichan theatre LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

It may not be Cinco de Mayo but the Cowichan Valley can enjoy the excitement of Mexican mariachi culture on Wednesday, May 27 in a special show at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre starting at 7 p.m.

Billed as a Mariachi Gala, the event features the thrilling sound of mariachi musicians plus lively and colourful folkloric dancing by performers Nuevo Ordaz from Mexico, Orgullo Azteca from the United States and Los Dorados from Canada.

You’ll be instantly whisked away South of the Border by the sounds of the guitars, vio-

lins, bass, and trumpets at this Mariachi Festival that takes the audience on a picturesque journey, complete with traditional costumes and extraordinarily colourful entertainment.

Tickets are $30 for adults, and $20 for seniors and children. Get them online at cowichanpac.ca or call the Cowichan Ticket Centre at 250-748-7529.

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PETS JOIN THE FUN OF HERITAGE DAYS Cowichan Lake’s Catherine Nahirnick shows off the costumes worn by her own super hero dogs, Daisy, left, and Dexter Doodles in the annual Family Heritage Days costume parade at Saywell Park on Saturday, May 16. For other photos from the event, see cowichanvalleycitizen.com [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

VALLEY Calendar Miscellaneous • Cowichan Fish and Game Association hosts Canadian Firearm Safety course (PAL/RPAL) starting Friday, May 29. Info: Mike 250-748-0319 or canadianfirearmsafety@shaw.ca • Evergreen Independent School presents Children and Apple Pie family fun fair Saturday, May 30, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Cobble Hill hall and fairgrounds.

Free admission. Mini golf, games, silent auction, apple pies, woodworking, bouncy castle, plant table, face painting and more. Win diamond earrings in a pie, sponsor: Ben Moss Jewellers. Info: 250-743-9786.

• Giant SPCA Garage Sale Saturday, May 30, Sunday, May 31, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Cowichan Exhibition Grounds. All proceeds to local SPCA. • École Cobble Hill Ecostravaganza celebrating World Environment Day, Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the school. Theme: Water. Yours to Protect.

• Koksilah Farmers Institute presents Linda Gilkeson: Canning and Preserving workshop, June 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., The Hub, 2375 Koksilah Rd. Limited seating. Contact a.auchincloss@shaw.ca for info and registration. $40 fee.

• Love horses? Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association needs dedicated volunteers in lots of different areas.

Help our special needs riders to reach their goals in the ring. No experience necessary, training provided. Info: 250-746-1028, email info@ctra.ca, website www.ctra.ca • Friendly Visitors wanted! Volunteer Cowichan program connects an isolated or lonely senior in the community with a Friendly Visitor. Interested? Call 250-748-2133.

• ShoDai Peace Chant new location Nichiren Peace Centre, Johnny Bear and Cambrai Road. Meditation Thursdays, 7 p.m., Discovery Sunrise Sundays, 10 a.m. Website: www.viretreats. com. Info: 250-710-7594. Email: peace@ viretreats.com • Duncan United Church Thrift Store, operating for 20 years, supports outreach programs. Great bargains, reasonable prices. Open Fridays, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

• The Duncan Family History Centre (Genealogy) is open, Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, 6:30-8 p.m. Free access to Ancestry.com, FindMyPast available, 1815 Tzouhalem Rd, LDS Church. Info: 250-748-9618.

Seniors • Dance to music from the 50s and 60s at Valley Seniors Centre, 198 Government St., every Wednesday, 3-5 p.m., $5. Info: 250-746-4433.

• Lake Cowichan 50 plus activity centre hosts Music at the Lake, Saturday, June 20, doors open 6 p.m., $5 entry fee, light meals and snacks for sale. Ray Harvey and Jack Gunderson will perform an eclectic program for all ages.

• Lake Cowichan 50 plus activity centre, 55 Coronation St., needs volunteers of all ages. Info: 250-749-6121.

• Lake Cowichan 50 plus activity centre, 55 Coronation St., holds bingo Wednesdays, 1 p.m., Sundays, 7 p.m. Volunteers needed. Info: 250-749-6121.

• Attention Lake Cowichan!

Rivernotes Women’s Choir meets Mondays, 6 p.m. at the Lake Cowichan Senior Centre. Lots of fun and a great vocal workout!

• Valley Seniors Activity Centre,

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

Carpet bowling, cribbage, billiards crafts, bridge, choir, bus trips on our own bus. Live music Mondays and Wednesdays 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Dances every 1st and 3rd Saturday evening 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Open to public for Bingo each Tuesday. Many special events throughout the year.

Check out Monthly Newsletter at valley-seniors.org and consider membership if you’re 55 years or older. Info: 250-746-4433.Info: 250-746-4433 or www. valley-seniors.org • Bingo for over 19s, Seniors Activity Centre (198 Government St., Duncan), Tuesdays 11:30 a.m. Early Bird Draw, Loonie Pot, Odd and Even, Number Seven and Bonanza. Info: 250-746-4433 or www.valley-seniors.org • Chemainus 55+ drop in centre new activities: floor curling and darts.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre cribbage every second and fourth Saturday, 1-4 p.m.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre line dancing every Tuesday, 9:30-11 a.m.

• We e k l y b i n g o, T u e s d ay s, 11:30 a.m., Valley Seniors Centre, Duncan. Info: 250-746-4433 or www. valley-seniors.org.

Recreation • All-ages chess club: all skill levels and ages welcome to play and learn chess in supportive, fun environment.

Mondays 6-8 p.m., Duncan library gathering place or available tables.

• Cowichan Fly Fishers meets 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Air Cadet Hall, Gibbins Road.

Doors open 7 p.m. Open to all ages and skill levels. Info: www.cowichan-

flyfishers.com • Teen Yarn Craft Group, Duncan library, Thursdays, 5-6 p.m., ages 13-18. Learn to knit, crochet. Extra needles and yarn provided.

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

• Art Film Night at Sylvan United Church, monthly double features $5.

For info see Facebook page or sign up for distribution list at artfilmnightatsylvan@gmail.com • Seniors Dragon Boating, Monday and Thursday mornings 9:30 a.m., Hecate Park. Info: sandysand007@ shaw.ca • Swing Dance Lessons Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., Island Oak High School, 5814 Banks Rd. Duncan, $10 per class, $12 drop-in fee, private lessons available. No partner necessary. Info: Josef 250-709-8583, jgraf5@yahoo.ca • Cowichan Valley Scottish Country Dancing Thursday evenings 6:308 p.m., singles, couples, beginners welcome, Chemainus Seniors Centre.

Info: 250-748-9604.

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

• Interested in rocks? The Cowichan Valley Rockhounds meet the third Monday of each month, 7 p.m., Duncan Airport. Info: 250-743-3769.

• Duncan Badminton Club, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8-10 p.m., Multipurpose Hall, Island Savings Centre.

Recreational and ladder. All welcome.

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• Beginners meditation, Wednesdays, 6:30-7 p.m., regular meditation, 7-8 p.m. Info: email peace@viretreats. com or 250-710-7594.

• Drop in table tennis, Monday and

Thursday, 7-9 p.m., Queen of Angels School. All ages welcome, coaching available. Drop in fee $3. Info: Frank 250-748-0566 or email fe0540@telus. net

Meetings • Cowichan Valley Hospice Society annual general meeting June 4, 7-8:30 p.m., St. John’s Anglican Church, Duncan. Hear results of this winter’s community consultations and learn about plans to develop hospice palliative care needed for the future.

Refreshments served.

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

• Cowichan 950 Toastmasters meets Wednesdays 7-9 p.m., Island Savings Centre, Duncan. Info: www.cowichan toastmasters.com • Silverbridge Toastmasters meets every Tuesday, Island Savings Rec. Centre, Duncan, noon to 1 p.m. Learn and improve public speaking and communications skills. Info: www. cowichantoastmasters.com • The Diggers Club of Cowichan meets the second Wednesday of the month, Chemainus United Church, 7 p.m. Come meet other collectors and see and hear about collections. Refreshments served. Info: 250-748-5707.

• Living with Cancer Support Group meets the last Friday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Cancer Society Office, Unit 100, 394 Duncan St., Duncan. Anyone with cancer and their caregivers welcome. Info: 250-746-4134.

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Perfect finish as Brentwood takes B.C. title GIRLS RUGBY:

Shawnigan fourth, T-Birds eighth in AAA KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Brentwood College capped off a perfect season in the perfect way last Saturday, beating Abbotsford Collegiate to win the provincial AA girls rugby championship.

Brentwood has been on the cusp of provincial glory since winning their last title in 2009. The results in the interim have included three silvers and a bronze, and the years of patience paid off with the 27-10 win in North Vancouver “For a smaller school like us, it takes a long time to develop players,” Marius Felix, who coached the Brentwood team along with Steve Cowie and Dave Grisdale, said. “We don’t bring in rugby players or try to recruit. We get athletes and teach them to play.

These girls have been taught to play and they buy in, and they love it. They love to play for each other, and they get results.”

Abbotsford, Felix said, was “undoubtedly the best team we’ve played all year.”

“We’ve played them three times in the last three years, and they’ve all been just crackerjack games,” he said. “The way we won was just terrific.”

Brentwood won the provincial title game the same way they’ve been winning games all year: with steady defence and killer speed.

“Our characteristic this season has been our ability to defend really good teams terrifically and turn the ball over, which we’ve been able to do all season,” Felix

Brentwood’s girls rugby team celebrates the AA championship and a perfect season. [SUBMITTED PHOTO] said. “Once we get the ball, we have other skillful, experienced and very quick players, and we’re off to the races. It’s great fun to watch.”

In terms of both possession and pressure, Abbotsford dominated the first 20 minutes of the championship game, but weren’t able to turn that into offence. Brentwood held on until they were able to generate the turnover they were looking for. Two passes later, the ball was in the hands of Denise Roy — among the quickest of the quick — who ran 90 metres and beat three defenders to open the scoring with the first of her three tries.

C i e l A r b o u r- B o e h m e a n d Shannyn O’Callaghan also scored tries, while Brentwood limited what Abbotsford could do in response.

Brentwood opened the tournament last Thursday with a decisive 57-5 win over Heritage Park,

then got past Shawnigan Lake School 33-10 in a hard-fought semifinal.

“We defended and defended and defended, and once we got turnovers, we were able to score,” Felix said. “They threw the kitchen sink at us. They’ve got some very good players.”

At no point did Felix feel his team was the preordained provincial champion, knowing that any of the final four teams could have claimed the title.

“On any given day, Shawnigan, Abbotsford, Lakeview or Brentwood could have won the final,” he said. “There was a very high quality of rugby this year.”

Shawnigan had opened the tournament with a 46-0 win over North Vancouver’s Windsor Secondary before falling to Brentwood in the semifinal, the fourth time this season that Shawnigan and Brentwood had met.

“The girls received much praise

Caps get two to finalize Gobeil deal KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Cowichan Valley Capitals have finalized the trade that sent forward Thomas Gobeil to the Victoria Grizzlies last January, and the return is impressive.

In return for Gobeil, a 20-yearold in his last season of junior who played just 16 games for the Grizzlies, the Caps get back two big, 1996-born players who have already proven themselves in the B.C. Hockey League: forward Ayden MacDonald and defenceman Chris Harpur.

Last season was the six-footthree, 200-pound MacDonald’s first in the BCHL. The Langley product played 50 games with the Vernon Vipers and the Grizzlies, scoring five goals and setting up eight others while compiling 57 penalty minutes. He added three more goals and one assist in five

playoff games.

“Ayden is a solid physical force that finished his rookie season putting up good numbers offensively,” Capitals head coach and general manager Bob Beatty said. “He also put up an impressive amount of points the previous season for the Richmond Sockeyes in the PJHL. He has an excellent skill set for a big man and is a solid penalty killer.”

Harpur, who calls Niagara-onthe-Lake, Ontario home, was also in his rookie season last year. The six-foot-three, 195-pound blue-

liner scored twice and added 13 helpers in 56 games, with 54 penalty minutes. He had two more points in six playoff contests.

“Chris is a big, mobile, physical puck-moving defenceman that we think is one of the very best defenders in the BCHL,” Beatty said. “We are extremely pleased to add the size, skill, and physical presence that Chris and Ayden bring to our team.”

Gobeil played three seasons of major junior hockey in Quebec before joining the Caps for his last season of eligibility. He missed time with injuries, but had 23 points in 25 games with Cowichan before being traded to Victoria at the deadline. He scored 12 goals and added five assists in 16 regular-season games with the Grizzlies, but was held without a point in six playoff games.

for their extreme improvement of play and much congratulations for giving Brentwood a tough go and fighting until the very end of the game,” Shawnigan coach Tanja Ness said, noting that her team scored the final try of the contest. “Shawnigan pride ran strong there.”

Shawnigan virtually controlled the bronze medal game against Lakeview from start to finish, but ended up on the wrong side of a 10-5 final score.

“We had the majority of ball possession and worked hard against their strong forwards,” Ness said.

“Unfortunately, two mistakes in the first 10 minutes led to them having a hold of the scoreboard.

We were able to get back one but couldn’t force the line to even the playing field.”

Shawnigan plans to build on this year’s fourth-place finish.

“Our girls had a terrific season,” Ness said. “We are a young team

and now have a fantastic base to build upon next season.”

Cowichan Secondary competed in the AAA girls provincial tournament, also in North Vancouver. Going in seeded seventh, the Thunderbirds lost 52-24 to Yale in their opener, and wrapped things up with a 22-7 loss to Elgin Park to finish eighth.

As for the provincial AA champions, Brentwood will lose key players Arbour-Boehme, O’Callaghan, Brooklyn Navarrete, Anita Agopyan-Miu, Cevina Ghuman, Rachael Macey and Hannah Colbourne to graduation this year, but players like Roy, Avi Sharabi and Mckenna Haz will be back to lead the team next year, which bodes well for the continuation of the legacy.

“There will be big shoes to fill,” Felix acknowledged. “But I think every coach says that every year when they say goodbye to their veterans.”

Roe leads jr. T-Men to Duncan KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Captain and Cowichan Valley minor lacrosse product Jeremy Roe will lead the junior A Nanaimo Timbermen into action against the Delta Islanders at the Island Savings Centre this Saturday.

Roe, in his final year of junior lacrosse, has two goals and three assists for five points in seven games.

He won’t be the only familiar face in the lineup for Cowichan Valley sports fans. Also on the Nanaimo roster this season are fellow CVLA products Tyson Black and Adam Golia. Black, who also plays for the intermediate B Cowichan Thunder, has five assists in seven games for the T-Men, while Golia has been held without a point in four appearances.

Also suiting up for Nanaimo

Junior A Timbermen captain Jeremy Roe. [CITIZEN FILE] this year is Cody Short of the Kerry Park Islanders junior B hockey team. Short is one of the T-Men’s top point-producers this year with four goals and five assists through six points.

The game, sponsored by Original Joe’s, begins at 4 p.m.

Ticket prices are $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors.

All minor lacrosse players with jerseys, and anyone 12 and under gets in free.

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Brentwood’s Graydon Clark holds on in a maul against D.W. Poppy. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Shawnigan, Brentwood advance in provincials KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Shawnigan Lake School and Brentwood College won their first-round games as the provincial boys high school rugby championships kicked off at Brentwood last Saturday. Cowichan Secondary and Frances Kelsey weren’t as fortunate as they lost their tournament openers, but all four teams will be looking for strong outings as the provincials continue in Abbotsford on Wednesday.

Top-seeded Shawnigan had no trouble as they opened the AAA tournament with a 112-0 crushing of 16th-seeded G.P. Vanier.

“Vanier played with good commitment and courage but just did not have enough experience or size to handle a very talented Shawnigan side,” Shawnigan coach Tim Murdy said. “It was a comfortable victory, but one that we have already put in our rear-view mirror. We are aware that the games will get progressively harder as we move forward in the 16-team bracket draw.”

Seeded eighth in the AA tourney, Brentwood knew they would have a close game against ninth-ranked D.W. Poppy, and it played out as promised, with Brentwood prevailing by a single converted try: 26-19.

“Although we were in the lead most of the game, if not the whole game, it wasn’t certain until the final whistle,” Brentwood coach Shane Thompson said.

In another incredibly close battle, AAA ninth seed Cowichan took eight-seeded Handsworth into double overtime before falling 22-17 despite phenomenal perform-

ances by Josh Jones and Peyton Edgar.

“Our lads came out soft for the first five minutes and then got back on track,” Thunderbirds coach Rogi Young said.

“There were moments of brilliancy and some missed opportunities.”

Kelsey had a favorable 11th seed going into the tournament, but ran into a determined Glenlyon Norfolk School team that beat them 36-0.

“We gave away too many penalties during the contest, and their fly-half was excellent and seemed to kick them out of trouble whenever we tried to get some momentum going,” coach Tom Fogarty said. “They were also very fit and organized, which allowed them to put pressure on us both in attack and defence. Some positives for us were our lineouts and our scrums, which were solid throughout. I don’t think we’re too far away from being able to compete at a higher level with these private schools.”

When the AAA tournament resumes on Wednesday, Shawnigan will face Handsworth, while Cowichan will play Vanier in a rematch of a game earlier this month that the T-Birds won, ending a years-long streak of losses to the Towhees.

Kelsey’s next game in the AA tourney will be against Langley’s R.E. Mountain, and Brentwood will take on top-seeded Rockridge, with a victory assuring them of a top-four finish.

“We have to correct a number of things and play a good game to beat them,” Thompson said. “The important thing is to take the things we do in practice into the game.”

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Cow High in the running at Island track meet KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Cowichan Secondary School broke three meet records, won 21 medals, and had 30 provincial qualifiers from the Vancouver Island Track and Field Championships in Victoria on May 13 and 14.

The school placed third in the overall standings, missing the Island title not because of a lack of success but because the team is smaller than most.

“For the size of our team, we did quite well,” coach Steve Ridenour said. “We dropped one place from last year, but we were the only team from north of Victoria to place in the top five.”

Cowichan sprinters finished in three of the top four spots in the senior girls 100m — Taryn Smiley in first, Casey Heyd in second and Emily Lindsay in fourth, just 0.01 seconds out of third — and four of the top five in the 200m — Smiley first, Chicago Bains second, Nicole Lindsay fourth and Casey Heyd fifth.

Smiley, Bains, Heyd and Nicole Lindsay also broke Frances Kelsey’s record in the 4x100m relay with a time of 48.70, 0.15 seconds faster than the old mark.

Bains added gold in the 100m hurdles and finished a close second in the 400m hurdles despite a hasty start after her previous event, having set a new record in the preliminaries of that race.

Closson club’s home opener this Thursday KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Cowichan Secondary’s Nicole Lindsay hands off to relay teammate Chicago Bains. [HEATHER GOODMAN PHOTO] Desirae Ridenour also set a new Island record as she won the junior girls 3000m in 10:16.58, breaking her own record of 10:37.93.

She also added a gold in the 1500m.

Kain Melchior leapt to a pair of gold medals in the senior boys long jump and triple jump, and added a silver in the high jump.

Olivia Burton, Syan Johnson, Brigitte Reid and Emma Dewit finished second in the junior girls 4x100m, and Smiley, Nicole Lindsay, Ridenour and Burton placed third in the junior girls 4x400m.

Nicole Lindsay was second in the senior girls 400m, Maddie Mahon took silver in the junior girls shot put, and Emily Lindsay was third in the senior girls triple jump.

Cowichan also added relay silvers in the junior boys 4x100m

(Miles Boulton, Luca Klotz, Sage Popp and Nicholas Yu), and 4x400m (Klotz, Popp, Luke Armstrong and Brendon Kerwin).

Other provincial qualifiers from the school include Burton (fourth in junior girls 400m), Emily Lindsay (fourth in senior girls long jump), Kelsey Goodman (fifth in senior girls 800m), Josh Charles (fifth in senior boys high jump), and Nicholas Yu (fifth in senior boys high jump).

Frances Kelsey had one provincial qualifier as Quienten Currie finished fifth in the senior boys high jump.

Brentwood College’s Sion Griffiths won gold medals in the junior boys hammer throw, shot put and javelin, while teammate Keiran Marrett-Hitch won the junior boys high jump. Kabir Bel-

Frances Kelsey high jump qualifier Quienten Currie. [SUBMITTED] lerose placed third in the senior boys 400m hurdles, and qualified for provincials by placing fifth in the 400m dash.

From Duncan Christian School, Mikayla Cook took bronze in the senior girls long jump and qualified for provincials with a fourth in the triple jump.

Chemainus Secondary had a lone provincial qualifier in Zach Diewert, who placed third in the senior boys shot put. Jose Garza was Dwight School Canada’s only qualifier, finishing fifth in the junior boys discus.

Queen Margaret’s School also sent athletes to the Island meet, but didn’t have any provincial qualifiers. Christina Dicarlo was their top athlete, placing seventh in senior girls triple jump and 12th in javelin.

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®/™The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. ‡Dealer Invoice Price of $14,558/$16,275/$23,286/$27,381/$30,315 available on all new 2015 Accent 5-Door L 6-speed Manual/Elantra L 6-speed Manual/Tucson GL FWD Manual/Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD/Santa Fe XL FWD models and includes price adjustments of $636/$719/$473/$1,313/$1,479. Prices include Delivery and Destination charges of $1,595/$1,595/$1,760/$1,795/$1,795. Prices exclude registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, license fees and applicable taxes. Delivery and Destination charge includes freight, P.D.E. and a full tank of gas. *The customer prices are those reflected on the dealer invoice from Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. The dealer invoice price includes a holdback amount for which the dealer is subsequently reimbursed by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. ΩPrice adjustments of up to $636/$719/$473/$1,313/$1,479/$4,000 available on all new 2015 Accent 5-Door L Manual/Elantra Sedan L Manual/Tucson GL FWD Manual/Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD/Santa Fe XL FWD/Elantra Limited models. Price adjustments applied before taxes. Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available offers. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required. ◊Leasing offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2015 Accent 5-Door L 6-speed Manual/Elantra L 6-speed Manual/Tucson GL FWD Manual/Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD/Santa Fe XL FWD with an annual lease rate of 0%/0%/0.9%/1.9%/3.99%. Biweekly lease payment of $58/$70/$118/$152/$180 for a 60-month walk-away lease. Down Payment of $995/$0/$0/$0/$0 and first monthly payment required. Total lease obligation is $8,535/$9,100/$14,820/$19,500/$22,100. Lease offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,595/$1,595/$1,760/$1,795/ $1,795. Lease offer excludes registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, license fees and applicable taxes $0 security deposit on all models. 20,000 km allowance per year applies. Additional charge of $0.12/km.†Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services. Financing example: 2015 Accent 5-Door L 6-speed Manual for $14,558 at 0% per annum equals $35 weekly for 96 months for a total obligation of $14,558. $0 down payment required. Cash price is $14,558. Cost of Borrowing is $0. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,595.

Finance example excludes registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, license fees and applicable taxes ♦Prices of models shown: 2015 Accent GLS Auto/Elantra Limited/Tucson Limited AWD/Santa Fe Sport Limited AWD/Santa Fe XL Limited AWD are $21,144/$26,794/$35,759/ $41,444/$45,094. Prices include Delivery and Destination charges of $1,595/$1,595/$1,760/$1,795/$1,795, levies and all applicable charges. Prices exclude registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and dealer admin. fees of up to $499. Fees may vary by dealer. ▼Fuel consumption for new 2015 Accent GLS (HWY 6.3L/100KM; City 8.9L/100KM); 2015 Elantra Limited (HWY 6.7L/100KM; City 9.7L/100KM); 2015 Tucson Limited AWD (HWY 9.3L/100KM; City 11.6L/100KM);2015 Santa Fe Sport Limited AWD (HWY 9.8L/100KM; City 12.9L/100KM); 2015 Santa Fe XL Limited AWD (HWY 9.7L/100 KM; City 13.0L/100 KM); are based on Manufacturer Testing. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. ▲Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). ‡†♦Ω*Offers available for a limited time and subject to change or cancellation without notice. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. Visit www.hyundaicanada.com or see dealer for complete details. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

| Cowichan Valley Citizen

ANNUAL PARKING LOT SALE

On Location 11am - 3pm Saturday May 30th

SATURDAY MAY 30 & SUNDAY MAY 31 ONLY

JUST SOME EXAMPLES OF THE SAVINGS WE HAVE STOREWIDE! Ashley Sofa

Queen Pillow Top Mattress

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Washer & Dryer

Ashley Recliner

399

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Self Clean Coiltop Range

Solid Oak Corner T.V. Unit

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Sedona Bedroom Suite

BC Made Pine Bedroom Suite • Head & Footboard • Rails • Dresser & Mirror • Chest • 1 Night table

• Head & Footboard • Rails • Dresser & Mirror • Chest • 1 Night table

SAVE $1,500

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Ashley Coffee Table & 2 End Tables

Leather Love Seat

Starting at

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Cabinet Beds

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$1,000 on Temper Pedic Includes Mattress

Local

Dealer 6989267

MERIT

250-746-5527

Monday - Saturday 9:30AM till 5:30PM Friday Open till 8PM Sundays & Holidays 12pm till 4PM

Available in Single, Queen or Double

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