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Community steps up after vandal chops trees SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Eight trees at the École Mt. Prevost playground, which officially opened on June 17, were felled overnight by a vandal. Buckerfields CEO Kelvin McCulloch has offered to replace the trees for the school. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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It was a distressing morning for staff and students at École Mt. Prevost Elementary, Wednesday. They arrived at school to see eight of the trees that were planted when the new playground went in this summer chopped down. Principal Lise Pagé confirmed the destruction. “Eight trees were sawed down. It is very sad for the children,” Pagé said, adding the school district’s operations department was quickly called to clean up the mess. “It was really upsetting for all of the students.” Pagé said the school is working closely with the school’s Parent Advisory Council to come up with a solution. “We don’t know yet what we’ll do with those trees,” she said. “They mean a lot to the students.” Witness Kyle Hughes said he and a friend saw the alleged lumberjack. “I was hanging out there with a friend last night at the play-

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New Liberal candidate in SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Despite it being the longest lead up to an election since 1872, newly installed Cowichan-Malahat-Langford Liberal candidate Luke Krayenhoff has less than three weeks to make an impact. Krayenhoff replaced Maria Manna on Monday after she withdrew from the race following controversy surrounding her 2013 comments on Facebook about 9-11. “I am excited to be able to represent the Liberal Party of Canada. I look forward to the next 21 days,” Krayenhoff said. The Saanich resident was able to be nominated for the position quickly as he’d previously tried to win the candidacy in the Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke riding and so had already been vetted by the Liberal Party. Despite being dropped into the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford riding at the last minute, Krayenhoff said he doesn’t feel like he’s behind. “It places me in the underdog position, but the party as a whole has been great in getting the message out and Trudeau has been doing great in the debates,” he said. “I’m pretty up to speed on the national issues like infrastructure, middle class prosperity and veterans.” As a former RCMP officer who’s worked in government to help streamline police services, not to mention lived near the

Royal Canadian Navy’s Pacific Fleet for most of his life, Krayenhoff holds a special place in his heart for current and former service people. “Veterans’ issues are a top priority for me,” he said. Improved highways and commuter rail are also high on his list. “We really have to get going on transportation initiatives; we’ve really got to get that Highway 1 moving,” he said. While transit solutions have to be part of the overall solution, so too does rail. “I know the Island Corridor Foundation has been struggling along to get things going, working to get funding commitments, but I’d like to see the feds and province step in to help.” Acknowledging the riding’s diversity, from the more agricultural, resource base of the Cowichan Valley in the north to the more urban development-minded tone of Langford, with First Nations playing a role throughout, Krayenhoff said the Liberals have the best plan that works for all. “There’s a lot of people who are going to vote strategically to unseat Harper, but I really think the Liberals have the best chance of forming government; we have the most credibility,” he said. “Once you’re in, you have to have a good set of policies, and we do. “The role of government is to set the stage for the private

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Curbside collection to expand? Survey

Tribes to help man left with hole in roof

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Check your tote bins, electoral area residents. Sometime over the next two months you will receive a survey from the CVRD asking your thoughts on the possibility of enhancing curbside collection in your area. The notes will appear on residents’ recycling bins between now and Nov. 23. Your choices: keep things the same, or check the boxes of the new services you’d like to see offered: organics for example. Once the survey is filled out, simply reattach it to your recycling tote bin for pickup on the next recycling day. “The results of the survey will be used to inform CVRD staff and board of directors of the curbside collection preferences of residents in these areas,” said CVRD waste management manager Tauseef Waraich in a press release. Not all electoral areas are serviced the same. Areas A, B, C, and H only have their recycling picked up by the CVRD. Garbage has been contracted out. Areas D, E, F, G, and I receive recycling and garbage collection from the CVRD. Some homes don’t get any pick-up at all. “There are currently 5,000 homes in the electoral areas that do not have bylaw-mandated garbage collection, which sees residents self-managing approximately 1,500 tonnes of garbage annually,” Waraich said. “Implementing a bylaw-mandated garbage collection service could see lower incidences of illegal dumping and burning of garbage.” Multi-Material BC recently began providing funding to the CVRD to support the curbside recycling collection program. Jason Adair, the CVRD’s solid waste operations superintendent believes now is an “opportune time” for residents to consider adding garbage and organics collection to their curbside services. A 2015 waste composition study found that in the 13,000 homes in CVRD elector-

Cowichan Tribes brass is citing miscommunication after a member living on reserve land has been left with a hole in his roof for almost a year. A single parent of two boys, John Alphonse said his Indian Road home was damaged when a tree fell on his house during a windstorm. “I tried to get help from Cowichan Tribes but they took one partial tree off my house and I had to do the rest,” Alphonse said. “I did try to get help from them but they don’t give me a response.” Prior to the tree incident, a grease fire in the home damaged the ceiling and he fears asbestos is falling out and making him ill. “The doctors did tell me I had to get that resolved sooner than later because the asbestos can flow without you seeing it,” he said. “I’ve had to go to the doctor more than once but they said unless I get the hole in my ceiling resolved there’s nothing much more he can do.” Alphonse said his calls to the band’s housing office have largely been ignored. “They told me they’d get back to me but nobody has phoned back or I get a voicemail if they find out it’s me calling,” he said. “With my roof, they say we’ll send somebody out and nobody ever does come out. I’m just worried about the winter coming up.”

Jason Adair, CVRD al areas where organics are not collected at the curbside, compostable food waste material made up 36 per cent of the total garbage. “The CVRD currently ships 19,000 tonnes of garbage annually to a landfill in the United States. The introduction of organics pick-up would divert up to 1,300 tonnes of waste from the landfill and reduce the amount of landfill-produced methane,” Adair said. “It would also give us the opportunity to turn that food waste into compost locally and stop it from making the long journey to Washington State.” The surveys will be conducted one electoral area at a time beginning with Area H. After the survey has been conducted, an open house event will be held in each area to provide residents with an opportunity to discuss their curbside collection program and the proposed changes. New programs could be launched as early as 2016. Visit cvrd.bc.ca/survey to learn more about the survey and options.

“I guess nobody had any idea about a tree falling on his house, or a stove fire. It’s news to us.” WILLIAM SEYMOUR, Cowichan Tribes Chief

He fears the tarp on his roof won’t hold if the region sees any significant snowfall. “This house was willed to me from my grandmother, they can’t help me, so I’m just frustrated that I don’t get any help,” he said. Chief William Seymour (Squtxulenuhw) said he understands sometimes people get frustrated when they feel they’re not being heard. He said, though, that nobody at Cowichan Tribes has a record of Alphonse’s house damage. “In speaking with our housing manager and the general manager, both of them had no idea that there was problems there. Housing is looking at it now,” Seymour said. “I guess nobody had any idea about a tree falling on his house, or a stove fire. It’s news to us.” This situation is made more complex, Seymour added, because it’s not bandowned housing. “He does own it, he is responsible for it, but when we look at emergencies like wind damage and that kind of thing, or fire damage, we do try to help.”

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Financial aid needed for those with illnesses

oxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN), a more severe variant of Stevens Johnson syndrome, is without a doubt a horrifying thing to be struck with. Anything that has to be treated in a similar way to severe burns is devastating. TEN is a rare side effect of a newly prescribed medication, that causes the top layer of skin to separate from the other layers, causing severe blisters inside and out and leaving the patient prone to infection. The patient, in this case, is Cowichan’s Andrew Blount, and

he’s in the kind of pain none of us want to imagine, let alone experience. Recovery will take months. But the situation is actually worse than just what he is suffering physically. Andrew was an entrepreneur who ran his own business, and thus there was no provision for sick leave. So he’s lost his business and livelihood. His employees have been laid off. He and his wife Teresa may also lose their home, as she is limiting her work schedule to try to be with him in Victoria

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and support him, which he will desperately need if he is to get better. Community members are stepping up to help the couple financially and the fundraising efforts (https://www.gofundme. com/rx4x279c) will hopefully be successful enough to help them keep their heads above water and a roof over them. But we can’t help but think that it shouldn’t be up to a fundraising effort to help people like Andrew and Teresa survive a medical blindside that they could not possibly have predicted.

In Canada we often comfort ourselves with the knowledge that we will not have to pay massive, crippling hospital bills in the event of an emergency medical situation, as people do in the United States, where health problems regularly spawn bankruptcies. But just because you can go to a hospital here and not be asked to immediately empty your wallet doesn’t mean that sudden health woes don’t take a huge financial toll on families and individuals in Canada. Self-employment is only increasing as people face layoffs

Vote NDP for women’s progress

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and difficulty in finding more traditional jobs. This growing number of people, like Andrew, are especially vulnerable. We should have some kind of provisions in place — government funding — to help folks in these kinds of situations so people aren’t driven into poverty and destitution because of the roll of the dice. Having people become impoverished in a double blow with a serious illness helps nobody — not the individual and not our community as a whole.

Bike lanes on Government not needed While reading Mark Williams letter to the editor (Duncan planning substandard) I could only concur. I don’t know what our planners are thinking. When I saw the medians being torn up on Government Street I thought we were finally going to get some proper paving done. This is after all a busy thoroughfare that has been patched and re-patched for many years leaving it a rough ride and an eyesore. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that the removal of the medians and construction of new islands was only to widen this road to allow for a bike lane to be positioned.

Prevost Vet Clinic deserves accolades

Now we have lines and multiple bicycle shaped stencils painted from the traffic circle at Gibbins through to downtown. We also now get to see and negotiate the rough ugly road areas that were previously covered by the old traffic islands. I drive this road multiple time each day and can count on my fingers and toes the number of times I have seen anybody ride a bike down this road. What is the cost for all the painting, signage, median removal (and the disruption of traffic for all those weeks) for a bike lane? You really should have just paved the road — it would have benefited many more of our citizens.

Re: Prevost Veterinary Clinic So often a business is just that — a business. Cowichan Valley is lucky to have a vet hospital that is not afraid to be human. My dog had the misfortune of suffering from bladder stones diagnosed this past week. The treatment that she and I received from the staff at Prevost was phenomenal. We seem too quick to criticize but slow to compliment. I’m hoping you will print this and give them a smidgen of the accolades they deserve.

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For the first time in a long time I am excited for an election! If you look at Canadian history, specifically the last 50 years, you’ll see a society that has progressed to benefit many largely due to government policies: universal medicare, anti-discrimination laws, Indigenous rights, LGBTQ equality. But we are not done. Women still need policies that reduce their barriers to make equal pay and safety a reality. The NDP has a plan to see more progress happen. Their affordable childcare policy means recognizing how it’s time to give women the opportunity to have safe, available childcare so they can pursue career goals and income opportunities like men traditionally have. They will also implement a national action plan to end violence against women and girls. Finally, a government that is proposing tangible solutions to end domestic violence and rape. We have improved the conditions of so many groups already in Canada and we have the opportunity to continue the progress of humanity by voting NDP this election! Aniko Martin Duncan

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Once again, as in so many previous cases, the so called “confidential” voters almost always show their true colours in one way or another. How do you tell these people from all others? Just take a drive around the neighbourhood and highway and observe the election signs. Which signs are usually destroyed and defaced? Right you are, and they are most likely not the NDP signs. Draw your own conclusions about the mentality of these voters in our so-called democratic society. Okay, now let’s go to an all candidate’s forum in Chemainus on the evening of Sept. 29., as I did and observe a less anonymous behaviour of these same kind of voters. The very kind and accommodating organizers of this event, graciously requested of the audience to refrain

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A p r ov i n c i a l g r a n t h a s afforded five workers a chance at hands-on agricultural job experience within the Cowichan Valley. Community and Employer Partnership funding to the tune of $120,000 enables Cowichan Green Community to train workers in farming and agriculture, giving them work for about a year. “Cowichan Green Community is honoured to be offering the Cowichan Agriculture Training project with support from the Project-Based Labour Market Training funding,” said Rosalie Sawrie, a project manager for Cowichan Green Community. “This project is going to be extremely beneficial not only for the participants, but also for our local agriculture sector.” Sawrie said by providing such in-depth training related to many facets of farming and growing food, they will be helping to increase food production and food security for the entire community. Participants will learn about

It’s not the only project benefitting the Valley. The Town of Lake Cowichan is receiving more than $37,300 in government funding for six people to get construction work experience by fixing up the town’s downtown core. “The team of participants we have on the program have already contributed greatly to our objective of constructing a public washroom in the central area of our small community,” according to Dalton Smith the manager of the Cowichan Lake Education Centre. In addition to constructing new picnic tables for Central park, the group will rebuild the public washrooms during the 32-week project, in order to provide better accessibility for people with disabilities. New picnic tables will also be built for the park. According to a provincial press release, the Community and Employer Partnerships program is featured in B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint and provides more support to people who are struggling to gain a foothold in the job market.

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Cowichan-Malahat-Langford Green Party candidate Fran Hunt-Jinnouchi applauds her party’s leader Elizabeth May during a packed town hall meeting in Duncan last weekend. While discussing the challenges facing the next Parliament, Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May said the powers of the prime minister’s office need to be vastly reduced by the next government.“ The Prime Minister is merely first among equals,” May said. “All MPs are equal.” Audience concerns ranged from deep cuts made to Veterans Affairs to the need for better home support services for seniors.[LINDSAY STEWART PHOTO]

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The Matraea Centre in Duncan is launching an ambitious fundraising project to help Syrian refugees. They’re calling it the Cowichan Community Business Challenge, and they aim to raise $25,000 by Nov. 30, which the federal government has pledged to match, for a total of $50,000. There’s an information meeting to familiarize those interested with the project on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Matraea Centre classroom. “We envision a community response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria,” said Rupert Koyote, a managing partner of the Centre. The numbers are stark, and Koyote lists some of them in his appeal. Eleven million Syrians have been displaced by the civil war in their country, with 6.5 million having left their homes to try to find a safe place within the country, and over four million having travelled into surrounding countries like Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq. Hundreds of thousands have fled to Europe, with the majority remaining in refugee camps. “The situation has reached the point that it has been dubbed the largest refugee crisis since World War II,” said Koyote. On Sept. 12, the Canadian government pledged to match private donations of emergency humanitarian aid directed to Syrian refugee camps up to $100 million before Dec. 31 and the Matraea Centre has their eyes on that promise. The Centre is partnering with PLAN Canada’s Syrian Refugee Appeal on the project. PLAN is a registered charity focused on assisting women and children throughout the developed world. Founded in 1937, PLAN has no political or religious affiliation. The Matraea Centre is also putting their money where their mouths are, getting the fundraising ball rolling with a $1,000 donation. For more information on what you can do contact rupert@matraea.com or call 778-422-3003.

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Did you know? October was the eighth month on the original Roman calendar, hence the name derived from Latin “octo”, meaning eight. Daylights Savings time ends in October, and it is Apple Month. It’s also the month we celebrate the spooky and weird with Halloween, as well as Oktoberfest, a festival that traces its roots back to 1810 Germany. In October of 1908 Henry Ford’s Model T car went on sale for the affordable price of $825 each.

Farmer Jen Woike made a passionate plea to North Cowichan council to do more to keep farmers safe on the roadways. [CITIZEN FILE] some research on effective signage. “It has to be uniform, it has to attract attention. It has to be clear and visible and it has to be easy to understand. I personally think that the sign that we’ve had in North Cowichan with the tractor on it is not effective. It doesn’t warn people of what they need to be looking out for.” Where to put new signs was on the agenda for Wednesday’s council meeting. That took a back seat when some councillors agreed the type of signs the municipality has traditionally used weren’t doing their jobs. CAO Dave Devana explained the current signage is the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure standard. “Other municipalities have varied away from this sign. We have not,” he said. Councillor Maeve Maguire wondered why. “Are these the best signs we can do? I’m thinking about what Mrs. Woike said about the type of sign we’re using,”

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Former Nor th Cowichan councillor Jen Woike appeared before council Wednesday to urge the group to take a second look at farm signage before they firm up plans to install more within the municipality’s rural areas. Woike, who hails from a longtime farming family, said the size and message on signs is simply insufficient. “It doesn’t matter if its spring, fall, winter or summer in the Cowichan Valley, any time of year, our tractors are on our rural roads. Inside every one of those tractors is someone’s husband, son, brother — even girls even drive tractors, yes, it could be someone’s mother, sister or daughter,” she said. Woike said her husband had an accident 20 years ago while driving a tractor on Herd Road and already this year she’s been flashed the finger, sworn at, yelled at and swerved at, all while driving at minimum a 20,000-pound vehicle — and that’s if it doesn’t have any attachments. “These vehicles usually drive slow — around 35-40 km/h and they cannot stop as quickly as a regular car, truck or SUV can,” she said. Woike described an incident this year when one of her employees was driving a large tractor pulling the hay baler. He had felt the pressure from two motorcycles behind him for about three kilometres. “He went to make a wide right turn and hit a motorcycle who passed on the inside. It hit the front of the tractor. Luckily no one was hurt, the driver of the motorcycle walked away. His bike was a write-off but he walked away from it,” she said. Woike said she’s been doing

Coun. Kate Marsh wasn’t so sure now was the best time to be making changes. She said it was time to get the signs up in their designated spots, and the sooner the better, as it’s harvest season. “I do have a lot of respect for Mrs. Woike but I feel that the signage, with the addition of ‘share the road’ is adequate,” Marsh said. Not in favour of doing more work on the issue, Marsh highlighted what she sees as the root cause of near misses with regular traffic and farm vehicles. “I think the problem is speeding everywhere. It’s not just on rural roads. We have speeding everywhere,” Marsh said. But Coun. Joyce Behnsen and the majority of council agreed it was better to get it right than to get it done for this harvest season.

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Savannah Goldsmith, 13, raised $360.55 and cut her lovely long hair in support of the Tour de Rock effort. She offered her contribution during the Tour de Rock festivities at Beverly Corners Tuesday afternoon. More photos: cowichanvalleycitizen.com [SARAH SIMPSON/CITIZEN]

The sun was hot and bright Tuesday afternoon as the 2015 Tour de Rock contingent reached the smiling faces and open arms of supporters at Beverly Corners on Day 10 of their campaign to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society and pediatric cancer research. North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP member Ian Wetzel-Eden, that detachment’s rider this year, said it was a homecoming like none other. “Coming home and seeing the support from your own community is totally different than rolling into some other communities,” he said. “We see them pull together but to come home and see the friendly faces and how everybody comes together — we’re all coming from different walks of life in the Valley, but you see everybody come together as a community and that’s something really special.” The group wraps up its Island-long trek on Oct. 2 in Victoria after having started off at the north end of the Island

on Sept. 19. The sun has shone on the riders for the entire trip thus far. “The weather has been exactly like this, sunny and bright,” Wetzel-Eden said. “I look at it as a blessing from all those kids who’ve come before us and have paved the path with sunshine. For those that didn’t win their battle, they’re making ours a lot easier and we’re so blessed and thankful for that.” The group tackled the Malahat Wednesday, “No Big Deal,” Wetzel-Eden said, and made a few more stops before finishing up on Friday in Victoria. “It’s coming to a close, it’s kind of bittersweet,” he said. “It’s certainly a journey worth doing.” Wetzel-Eden said he will not take a break from his bike after the events are over. “This has kindled a love for it in me,” he said. “It’s more than just cycling now, it’s about promoting health as well. It’s not just for cancer, it’s about living healthily and this has certainly taught me that.”

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Every child should get out in nature Editor’s note: If you haven’t met “Flo” yet, this superhero spent the summer visiting Cowichan communities, helping us face the severe drought and water restrictions, and interviewing local watershed heroes about their solutions. Cowichan Watershed Board summer student Lauren Frost wraps up her reports on Flo’s conversations this week. Name: Genevieve Singleton Occupation/Volunteer Roles: Nature Interpreter; co-chair, Cowichan Watershed Stewardship Roundtable; coordinator, Cowichan Valley Docents; co-chair, Eves Provincial Park, Honeymoon Bay and Mt. Tzouhalem Ecological Reserves Warden Why Flo likes her: Unabashed Nature Lover

lo: Nice to meet you Genevieve! I have heard about your inspiring work as a watershed steward

and educator. What keeps you so motivated? Genevieve: Hi Flo! I would say it is my deep love for nature and wanting a better world for my husband’s and my four children and all of us. As a child, my parents introduced me to my mentor, Freeman King, through the Victoria Natural History Junior Naturalists. That meeting sparked a lifelong passion, and a 45-year career as a nature interpreter in BC Parks and other natural areas. Flo: I love that you help children connect with nature. Can you tell me more about that? Genevieve: With the help of the amazing Cowichan Valley Docents (we are always looking for new docents!) and the support of School District 79, BC Parks, Girl Guides of Canada, Somenos Marsh Society, Cowichan Land Trust and others, we have engaged many children of the Valley in nature walks. Immersing chil-

dren in nature is so important. It is my dream that every child in the Valley is taken out for a least a few guided nature walks. Flo: Amazing! Now tell me about the Cowichan Stewardship Roundtable. Genevieve: Formed in 2002, the Roundtable is an open and collaborative group of stewardship organizations, businesses, industry, government and individuals focused on protecting our water and watersheds, now and for generations to come. We meet monthly and we share a common understanding: the health of watersheds is the key to the health of our families, businesses and environment. I currently have the honour of co-chairing with Parker Jefferson and I am pleased to share my facilitation and consensus building skills with the Roundtable. See ONLY BY, Page 18 7209511

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‘Only by knowing nature can you love it’ EVERY CHILD, From Page 17 Flo: You have been immersed in watershed stewardship all your adult life. From your perspective, what is the most important achievement we’ve made over the past 20 years, and what is the most important work that has not yet been done? Genevieve: Our stewardship community created the excellent Cowichan Basin Water Management Plan, which the Roundtable and other groups use as a mission statement. That is a significant accomplishment. Our current work to raise the weir is very important.

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What is worrisome, I think, is the lack of nature education for both children and adults in these days of climate change. Children are not outdoors enough; they are spending a great deal of times indoors in the virtual world. Flo: If you could ask every Cowichan region resident to do one thing for our watershed, what would it be? Genevieve: Gather up the children you know and get them outdoors. Connect them and yourself with nature. Flo: Any closing thoughts? Genevieve: Only by knowing nature can you love it and only by loving nature can you care for it.

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The group poses at the Global Harbour Commerce Centre. building we build a building. When they do it, they build 40 matching buildings. You’d look and you’d see all these brown ones and they all matched and then the next row was all matching grey ones.” Once the Cowichan contingent had finished with their performance duties, they toured to gardens in Xuzhow, which is near Shanghai, as well as the shiny new Shanghai museum, and took a boat ride to see the area from the water. “Our guide also took us on the maglev [magnetic levitation] train at 430 kilometres an hour. We regret that one of the guys didn’t take his bagpipes so we could have had the fastest bagpiper in the world,” Gregory said. They also went to Beijing and were photographed on the Great Wall. “It was certainly something you would only get one chance to do,” she said. “A once in a lifetime experience.”

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Members of the Cowichan Pipes and Drums Society got to see the new Orient last month, performing in the massive Shanghai Tourism Festival and even fitting in some time to visit Beijing before returning to the Valley. According to Diane Gregory, a member of the Society, the event was the trip of a lifetime and saw them away from home from Sept. 9-20. It all began more than a year ago with an invitation to perform at the famous Festival. “It’s a five day thing where, if they invite you, they pay for everything. So, we just had to pay for our airfare.” However, the 39-member group decided that going all the way to China for five days was too short a time and extended their time in the Shanghai area by two days before going on to Beijing for three days more. They started in Shanghai on a Friday night with a long rehearsal. “It was bone-numbing and went on until one in the morning but it was great. There were people from everywhere, all over the world. We were the only Canadian group and the only Scottish/Celtic pipe band involved,” Gregory said. The mix of participants was staggering. “There was only one group from the States but there were groups from Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Mauritius, it was just amazing. The rehearsal was fun because you’re seeing groups practise in this big schoolyard area and you get to greet them. The Canadian group that went last year, a pipe band from Saskatchewan, said it was like going to the Olympics with all these countries represented,” she said. The marquee event itself is a performance parade, a lot like the huge Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro. A pipe band, being used to performing as it marches, fits right in to what is needed, she said. “Every group that was there did something in the way of music in a parade down 2.2 kilometres of Huaihai Road in Shanghai. There was a big reviewing stand, all lit up, at the beginning with all the dignitaries. Then there are a few minor grandstand areas as you go along but mostly it’s people along the roadsides all the way along. They gave us a banner and we had our own in behind as well.” In addition to that enormous moving show, the band was taken on tours to present public performances around Shanghai. “We did three of them in Shanghai, one in one of the central courtyards at the Global Harbour Commercial Centre, which is the largest mall in Asia. We also performed on Nanjing Road, a pedestrian mall, and then another one at the Pearl Tower, which is that really fancy-shaped one you always see pictures of,” Gregory said. They were lucky to enjoy some spectacular weather while they were there, too. “The amazing thing was that they expect five blue sky days a year in Shanghai and we had three of them,” she said. The impact of Shanghai, home to 24 million people, is huge to people from the Cowichan Valley. “It was pretty amazing. There are fascinating things about the size of it. For instance when we build an apartment

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

Though monarchs reigned, Mr. Carson ruled. Among the hire help the butler’s word was law!

y the time I was 10, I had a hazy, perhaps crazy, idea of what I wanted to be when I grew up. Not for me the glamour of piloting a Spitfire, (there were lots of them flying around at the time). Nor did I want to drive the massive “Flying Scotsman” locomotive from my home town to London every day. That’s the sort of thrill my classmates hankered after. No.....I fancied a larger role and a quieter life, with lots of world travel, the best of food and drink, plus the chance to wear a clean shirt every day, with a bow tie and a claw hammer black jacket. “Bill the butler” seemed like a good career choice to me, but naturally I expected to be called Mister by everyone in the manor house, and on occasion William, by his lordship. This ambition of mine was initially fed by two comical sources. I devoured the exploits of P.G Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster, who was rescued regularly by Jeeves, his indispensable, learned and unflappable manservant, and also by the

Hollywood movie My Man Godfrey. I saw it twice. In those days I was at a highly impressionable age, although I indignantly denied the charge by my bosom buddy, that the real reason for this unusual career path was influenced by one of those naughty seaside peep shows, everybody’s holiday favourite......What the Butler Saw! My mother was in service to a wealthy Northumbrian family in her late teens. She reminisced occasionally, that living in the Big House was hard work with poor pay, but she was always treated kindly, ate well and enjoyed one afternoon and evening off, every week. But she emphasized that the snobbish pecking order below stairs was a daily fact of life, and she learned two priorities while she was there: servants who were not in livery had to be virtually invisible, never to be seen upstairs and also, the family butler always stood head and shoulders above the rest of the staff. He set the standard of service which contributed to the reputation of the house and of the people who owned it. His word was law on both levels, upstairs and down, as to how things should be done. The job sounded absolutely perfect. I became sold on a career

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of butling for the high and the mighty. Inevitably my zeal to rule a houseful of servants in country estates and London palaces began to lose steam. I even figured that living in a Parisian garret, daubing paint on canvas, surrounded by semiclad models, was more my style. Of course as time went by these aspirations changed, but I always retained an interest in the role of the butler and how much the wealthy relied on him, and on the rest of us peons in the lower classes, to keep them in the style to which they felt entitled. And obviously that same interest continues to be shared around the world today, hence the enormous popularity of such blockbuster entertainments as Downton Abbey, which I discussed in my column last month. I found it interesting to examine these traditional servant roles because they were very diverse, and still are, so let me share some thoughts with you. We’ll start at the top, with the butler. Originally he was the household’s wine and ale steward who commanded the “buttery”, where the barrels were kept. In later years he was given charge of the family meals from breakfasts to banquets, laying a proper table for each occasion with cutlery, glassware and huge bouquets from the house gardeners. In the big mansions, liveried footmen served the meals under the butler’s eagle eye. Having come up through the ranks from around the age of 12, there wasn’t a job in the household that he didn’t thoroughly understand, though the female staff was usually the responsibility of a housekeeper, a formidable martinet in many cases who shared his priority for discipline and detail. A good butler has always been a treasure to the master and particularly to the mistress of the house — a self-educated superior being, discreet in every way, able to put guests at their ease, answer questions about the food on

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he threatened to resign. Horrified, the lady of the house replied “In that case Lee, I beg you to tell me where you’re going, because I’m coming with you!” The members of Britain’s royal family, with their many town homes and country retreats, have always been cosseted by an army of servants, whose wages are partly paid by the over-taxed population. It takes 1,200 men and women to serve in a variety of posts across all five royal residences. Buckingham Palace alone employs 339 full time staff. Naturally there just isn’t one man there who does the butling, there’s a whole team of under butlers and then below them are the footmen, and the valets, and so on down the line, to the young beginners in the pantries. Once someone learns their trade there, a good reference is a guarantee of a top job elsewhere. Recently a former footman who spent three years at the palace was persuaded to move to the States as personal butler to a Texas billionaire. The carrot was a salary of $75,000 plus a house and two cars! See NOW MORE, Page 21

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the plates or the wine being served, and if pressed, what race horse had won the Derby that very afternoon. There were many legendary butlers, and some were lured away by envious gentry to better paying positions in grander establishments. Guests always tipped the butler on taking their leave, which more than matched the man’s salary, so that many of them were able to afford a servant or two in their retirement. One in particular, after a lifetime of private service, was rich enough to establish Claridge’s in London. It opened in 1856 and the hotel soon became a favourite of royalty and European heads of state. These days, the smart set is happy to pay 1,200 pounds for an overnight stay in one of the smaller suites. That doesn’t include tips of course. But they do throw in breakfast. There are many stories of legendary butlers. The most famous is probably Edwin Lee, who served Lord Aster for almost half a century and held the reins with an iron grip at the magnificent Cliveden estate. The forceful personality of Lady Astor sorely tested Lee’s patience, so much so, that one day in exasperation,

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Now more butlers than there were in the 1930s; they are considered a status symbol MUSINGS, From Page 20 A surprising number of today’s households will understand exactly how Lady Aster felt at the prospect of losing a vital key to her luxurious lifestyle. There are now more butlers managing Mayfair mansions than there were in the 1930s and an estimated 3,000 are currently working around the U.K. After the last war, some social commentators predicted that, by the ’60s, this role would simply fade away, together with the House of Lords and expensive private schools. The pundits were so wrong. The advent of television programs chronicling the lives of people upstairs and those below, has actually given a boost to the popularity of employing butlers, those all-seeing, all-knowing founts of efficiency. In the Middle East, China, Russia and India, the wealthy have acquired British butlers as ultimate status symbols. There are schools in the U.K. that train staff to perform the traditional major domo roles that were honed in Victorian and Edwardian days, and there are companies in London which place these people around the world in private homes, embassies and royal palaces. We’re told that not all butlers were the epitome of rectitude.

Historically, some less scrupulous were not averse to quaffing the master’s private reserve or having a little fun at their employers’ expense. An anecdote involving Edwardian political hostess Mrs. Ronnie Granville is worth repeating. She suspected her butler of

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having had a go at the sherry before serving in the dining room and wrote him a hasty note: “You are drunk. Leave the room at once!” Her butler received the note with a slight bow, placed it on a tray, walked around the table and presented it to one of her guests, the aquiline, toffee-nosed Tory MP, Austen Chamberlain. Sadly we don’t know the outcome of this marvelous initiative. Well, so much for butlers, those indispensable servants like Lee, Jeeves and Downton Abbey’s Mr. Carson. They still play an imperious role in the lives of those who can afford them. But history reminds us of the stark necessity for so many lesser people to live and work below stairs, because for centuries, a life in service was much preferable to eking out a meagre living in various other ways — in the dirty, mindless, serf-like jobs that the burgeoning population of cheap labour was expected to perform. The terrible alternative was being unemployed in an uncaring society, when often desperate men, their wives and their children, literally starved. Wasn’t it Charles Dickens who alone sustained his family at the age of 11, by working in a blacking factory 12 hours a day, while his father languished in a debtor’s prison? The statistics I’ve been reading are a sobering reminder that in those hard times, by serving the rich, so many of the poor survived.

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can vividly recall the shock, followed by rage, all these years later. The shock that a former soldier had just died in a veteran’s hospital where he’d been laid up from the First World War, some CHRONICLES 40-odd years before. And the rage at the thought T.W. Paterson that he’d spent two-thirds of his lifetime disabled and suffering in a hospital ward, far, far from the trenches and long, long after Armistice Day. It wasn’t right! It was so unfair! I was, obviously, young and very naive to think, first, that this couldn’t possibly be, then, since it must be so, that it was nothing less than unspeakable and prolonged cruelty. Only later, as I matured, as I observed, as I learned more not just about history but about life, did I come to realize that he was but one of tens of thousands of servicemen of all nations whose devastating injuries had been beyond healing, whose daily medical needs could only be met in a hospital. But the discovery that he and the others were still lingering under medical care from a war that had ended well before I was born truly distressed me. How sad, I thought then; how sad, I think now. And my research of Cowichan’s contribution of young men — Duncan had the highest enlistment rate per capita in all of Canada — has only deepened my sense of sadness for those names on the cenotaph. For some, there was the bitter irony of making it home only to die later as a direct result of their war service. Talk about adding insult to injury! Let me introduce you to Sapper Harry Parker, 9th Canadian Railway Troops (1st Canadian Platoon) formerly of the 10th Bn., C.E.F. and, previous to that, a printer and linotype operator with the Cowichan Leader. Handsome, with wavy hair, he was the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.J. Parker of Duncan. For all his youth he was the Leader’s senior employee, having joined the firm during its previous incarnation as the Duncans Enterprise. But, with war, he, too, as had so many others, enlisted and, in March 1915, he was off with the 50th Regiment then reassigned to the 48th Bn. and, in July, dispatched to England. After less than 10 weeks’ training the 48th was sent to the front. For a year Harry served in the front lines, until the third battle of Ypres in June 1916 when he was wounded in the foot, then gassed. Both times he required hospitalization and both times he returned to active duty, latterly with the 1st Canadian Pioneers with whom he fought at the Somme and Arras. But the gassing had done its work and his health wasn’t the same. Given leave on compassionate grounds, he returned home in time for Christmas 1918, a month after Armistice. By this time a corporal (sapper in the engineering corps) he took his discharge from the army. “For a time he appeared to be quite well,” a friend at the Leader wrote later, “and engaged in various open air tasks [no more printshop for Harry Parker, obviously], but last summer the effects of the gas and tuberculosis sent him to hospital in Victoria. See HARRY’S FOUR BROTHERS, Page 23

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The cenotaph in Duncan bears witness to the many Cowichan area men and women who lost their lives to war. Those who did come home would never be the same, including Harry Parker. [CITIZEN FILE]

Harry’s four brothers also enlisted for service WAR, From Page 22 He spent last Christmas in Duncan and subsequently was removed to [the provincial sanitarium at] Balfour.” A member of the Typographical Union, of the Duncan Court of the A.O.F. and of the Duncan Fire Brigade, he’d “exercised a beneficial influence” in the local Great War Veterans Association and had been appointed to the provincial executive at its convention in the spring of 1919. His workmates remembered him as an excellent craftsman with a “genial, sunny nature which won him friends everywhere...”

All five Parker boys had answered the call. Brothers Shircliffe, Hugh and George were in various units of the Canadian Army and Frank was with the American Expeditionary Force. None could make it home for the funeral. Ten days after his death, Harry Parker was given a military funeral at St. Mary’s, Somenos. A detachment of Canadian Engineers from Victoria paid honour to one of their own who’d been wounded twice and served 14 months in the hellish trenches. As a gun carriage to bear the casket wasn’t available, a specially prepared wagon was pressed into service and

a lengthy cortege of cars and mourners slowly made their from Duncan to Somenos where the Revs. Christmas and Bagshaw waited to officiate in a church filled to overflowing. The Leader glumly noted that Harry Parker was the Valley’s first soldier to die since returning home, that he “truly gave his life for his country as if he had fallen overseas”. One of the more poignant wreaths was that of the Nanaimo branch of the ITU with “30” spelled out in flowers — the universal newspaper signoff for The End.

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Passed away peacefully with family at his side on September 24, 2015. Born in Saskatchewan, July 24, 1929. Predeceased by his wife Elsie and step son Dale Reinholz. Survived by his 2 sons; Wayne and Ralph, step son Lynn Reinholz and daughters in-law, grandchildren and great grandchildren one of which he called â&#x20AC;&#x153;my little oneâ&#x20AC;? Ayla. His big smile, witty humor, wood carvings along with his jokes and stories will be greatly missed. Stan took every opportunity to make everyone smile or laugh. Special thanks to all the staff at Cairnsmore. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grampsâ&#x20AC;?, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Popsâ&#x20AC;? we will miss you. No service by my Fathers request.

Francis Ernest Newman (our Frank) Frank died surrounded by love at home in Duncan, BC on September 25th, 2015 in his 72nd year. His â&#x20AC;&#x153;Katieâ&#x20AC;? and his â&#x20AC;&#x153;boysâ&#x20AC;? Jason, Ethan, Ryan and Kyle and Katieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Neill will miss him a great deal. He adored and was adored by his grandchildren; Alexander, Sarah and Erika, Braydon, Madison, Mason and Jaimeson, Meghan and Alec. Frank was the third child of Nora Flack and Francis Newman. He was born on the 3rd of November 1943 in Lachine, Quebec. His sister Jane (Ed), brother Skeith (Danielle), his closest friend Bryan (Val) and many good friends and neighbours will remember and miss his contrarian turn of mind. His furry four legged friends; Jasper, Olivia, Trevor and Georgie will miss their cookie treats. A very smart man with strongly held opinions, Frank taught for many years on the West Island of Montreal. He retired to Vancouver Island and he and his Katie enjoyed living the West Coast life, especially watching the garden grow and Friday night dinners out with friends. Travelling to visit grandchildren and trips south and to the UK were great fun until Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health worsened. The last few years he fought valiantly to stay with us and enjoy the life he loved. He was our hero! â&#x20AC;&#x153;May God hold you in the palm of his hand until we meet againâ&#x20AC;? - Katie We would like to thank the Duncan Dialysis Clinic and Home Care for their compassion and help. The Royal Jubilee Hospital staff and specially; Dr. Greg Ganz, Dr. Matt Robinson and Dr. Todd Yip for their expertise and faith in Frank. Finally having as our family doctor, Dr. Patricia Seymour was the greatest gift. A memorial service will be held in Montreal in the spring of 2016. Donations to the Vancouver Island Kidney Patientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association (vikpa.org) would be appreciated. Online condolences may be made at www.hwwallacecbc.com

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Patrick Charles Lowe Pa The family of Patrick wishes to thank members of the extended family and many friends who helped and gave support during our loss. We deeply appreciate your prayers, visits and attendance at his service. The beautiful flowers, cards, baking, meals and donations made to the Comox Valley Recovery Center have touched our hearts and comforted our spirits. During this difficult time we realize how much our family and friends mean to us. Thank you, Love the families of Glen and Ida Lowe XO We had you. We loved you. We still love you. We will always love you.

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In Loving Memory of Tom Currie November 24, 1944 - September 8, 2002 & Bill Kernachan May 18, 1934 - October 5, 2013 We thought of you with love today, but that was nothing new. We thought about you yesterday, and the days before that too. We think of you in silence, we often speak yor name. Now all we have are memories, and your picture in a frame. Your memory is our keepsake, we have you in our hearts. Your Family

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BURNS, DAVID Sadly at the age of 61, David Charles Burns unexpectedly passed away on August 27, 2015 in Duncan, BC. Dave was born and raised in Brantford Ont. He was a very skilled auto Mechanic, and talented drift wood carver. He was a loving father to Miranda, Auralee and Shawna and grandfather of Rayden, Keiren and Aislee. Predeceased by his father Carol and sister Karen. Dear son of Marie Burns. Brother of Rochelle (Tomo), Bobby (Joy), Michael, Leona (Ted), Cathy (Ted), Shirley (Rick), Margie (Dave), Brenda (Jim), Theresa (Bill), Pam (Steve), Darcy, Tammy (Jim). Dave will also be missed by many nieces, nephews, extended family members and friends. Cremation has already taken place. There will be a small celebration of life on Saturday October 3th from 3-5 pm at Vimy Hall in Duncan.

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FOR SALE BY OWNER 1-bdrm apt in downtown Duncan. Numerous upgrades in well-maintained 55+ building. Asking $90,000 Call 250-710-4705

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EVERY SAT. FROM 9AM TIL 2PM. Girl Guide Hall: 321 Cairnsmore St. For info phone Gloria at 250-746-9678 or Dave at 250-746-3616 LAKE COW. Sat. Oct. 3, 9am1pm. Tools, furniture, household items, toys, books, lots of good stuff. 28 Prospect Ave. MOVING SALE 10684 Alder Cres., Youbou, Sat & Sun, Oct. 3 & 4, 10:00 to 4:00 MOVING Sale - 621 Powell St. Duncan. Sat Oct 3 8:30-1:00. Garden furniture & supplies, craft supplies, household items, books & more. WEEK LONG Garage Sale. Ruthiesroost B&B 3255 TCH. 8am-4pm.

2687 James Street Multi Purpose Hall Tables still available!! Call 250-748-7529 SNAP SELF STORAGE 2840 Roberts Road Sat, Oct. 3, 9:00 - 2:00 New items weekly. St Edward’s Church & Queen of Angels School 26th Annual Plant and Harvest Sale Saturday, October 3rd, 9:00am – 1:30pm. Corner of Tzouhalem and Maple Bay Roads – Follow the Signs Sale Items: Baking, Plants, Books, Toys, Games, Linens, Craft Supplies, Household Supplies, Fine Item Boutique, Outdoor, Garage and Workshop Items, Mystery Boxes, Silent Auction, And Much More! Tea Room, Hamburgers & Hotdogs

SWAP MEET at Cedar Community Hall, Sundays 8am1:30pm. 2388 Cedar Rd. Household items, books, tools, baking & more! For table info call 250-245-3460.

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TOOLS - wood/metal workers check this 100’s of new & used Power & Hand Tools + Accessories, Misc. Hardware, Metal Lathe, Bench Drill Press, Bandsaw, Tool Chests, Power Yard Tools. Christmas Decorations, Household, Toys, Bikes & Parts. GATE OPEN: Fri., Oct 2 from 2 - 5 pm Sat. & Sun., Oct. 3 & 4 from 10 am - 3 pm

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APARTMENT/CONDO BEVERLY ARMS APARTMENTS 2562 - 44 BEVERLY ST 1 bedroom - $650 2 bedroom - $750 FREE hear & hot water Close to schools and town • BAI - Please call Bonnie 250-746-4155. • BAII - Please call Ron 250-746-4424. ✱All our apartments are clean quiet & secure. Sorry, no pets! • •

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COUNTRYWIDE VILLAGE REALTY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT DIVISION 145 South Shore Road, Lake Cowichan, BC Phone: 250-749-6660 Toll Free: 1-800-729-3246 $1,700 - 413 Winter Drive, Lake Cowichan 4 bed/3 bath two story home. Custom 3100 sq ft home in the Slopes. Vaulted ceilings & beautiful fireplace, heat pump & built-invacuum. Double garage with room for an RV. Too many features to name them all. No smoking & no pets. $800 - 462 Point Ideal, Lake Cowichan 2 bed/1 bath lower suite. Furnished home. Stainless steel appliances & laminate floors throughout. No smoking and pet upon approval. $675 - #3-215 Madill, Lake Cowichan 3 bed/2 bath townhouse. Neat home in well managed strata, all appliances supplied. No smoking and pet upon approval.

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Crofton Motel 1Bdrm: $79./night, $413./wk, $900./mo. 2Bdrm: $99./night, $990/mo with kitchen, inclds everything! 250-246-9222 or 250-510-8000 1568 Chaplin St., www.croftinn.com CHEMAINUS LOCKWOOD Villa- 1 bdrm, small pet welcome, $700 Includes heat/hot water. Available now. Call 250-709-2765. CHEMAINUS LOCKWOOD Villa- Bachelor top floor, $625. New paint, new carpet, heat/hot water included, small pet welcome. Available now. Call 250-709-2765. LOVELY 2 bdrm suites in seniors oriented building, Central Duncan. Heat incld. NS/NP. $800. Please call Resident Manager at 250-732-0342. MUST VIEW Mountain View Terrace Estates 3420 Auchinachie Road ---------------------------1 bdrm & 2 bdrm freshly renovated bright & spacious, no pets please! Avail Now! Free heat & hot water. ---------------------------Resident managers on site CALL NOW 250-748-3321

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SUITES & CONDOS $625 #1513 Regent Pl, Cobble Hill, BC. $675 #8-2516 Alexander St, Duncan, BC. TOWNHOUSES & DUPLEXES $895 #2 & #5 660 Jubilee Rd, Duncan, BC. $1100 5202 Francis St, Duncan, BC. DETACHED HOUSES $1195 520 High St, Ladysmith, BC. $1395 10036 Victoria Rd, Chemainus, BC. $1450 #6 1759 Cowichan Bay Rd, Cowichan Bay.

SUITES, LOWER CHEMAINUS- 1-bdrm suite, level walkin F/B, raised bunglow, priv prkg, quiet neighbourhood, $750 utils included. NS/NP. (250)246-2665.

Duncan 1-bdrm w/den $850/mos Quiet tenant; NP; NS; W/D hook-up; hydro; fully furnished; parking. Avail. now. 250.748.2953

TRANSPORTATION CARS 2010 CHEVY Cobalt LT, 4 door, black, power everything, auto, A/C, less then 73,000km, $8,000 with full tank of gas! Call 250-634-8586.

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VALLEY Calendar Miscellaneous • Living with Stroke, eight-week interactive program to help stroke survivors and caregivers, Oct. 2-Nov. 20, Fridays 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Duncan library. Register: 1-888-473-4636. • Women invited to life-transforming 2015 Women of Faith conference: Loved – the Farewell Tour, Friday, Oct. 2, 6:30 p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 3, 9 a.m., New Life Church, Duncan. $25 (includes meals). Register: 222. newlifechurch.ca/register • Prevost Veterinary Clinic open house Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6-8 p.m., to celebrate Animal Health Week. Learn about pet welfare, socialization, dentistry, nutrition, guided tours, scavenger hunt, face painting. Leave pets at home. Location: 1057 Canada Ave., Duncan. • Craft Fair, Oct. 31, Duncan Seniors Activity Centre, 198 Government St. Book your table now, $15. Info: 250-746-4433. • Canadian Firearm Safety course (non-restricted and restricted) starting Friday, Nov. 13, Duncan. Registration and information: Mike 250-748-0319 or canadianfirearmsafety@shaw.ca • 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: 250746-1028, 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.

Bay Maritime Centre, for ages 10-14. Get some rowing experience with summer staff Thursdays 4-6 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m.-noon. $10 dropin fee, call ahead to reserve a place: 250-746-4955. • 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.

Meetings • Alpha a t Duncan Christian Reformed Church, dinner and conversation, ask anything about life, faith and God, Thursdays, Sept. 24-Nov. 19, info: 250-748-2122 or crc.pastor@shaw cable.com • October meeting of the Cowichan Valley Arthritis Support Group Monday, Oct. 5, 1 p.m., St. John’s Church Hall, 486 Jubilee St., Duncan. Speaker: Lifeline on their safety service. • Cowichan Historical Society meeting Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m., St. Peter’s Church hall, Duncan. Speaker: Bill Wilson on history of soda water manufacturers. All welcome. • Is food a problem for you? Overeaters Anonymous is here to help. Meetings Sunday morning, Thursday evening. For meeting times call 250-746-9366 or go to www.oa.org/membersgroups/ find-a-meeting/

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Seniors • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre pancake breakfast Saturday, Oct. 10, 9-11 a.m. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre pot luck birthday party Saturday, Oct. 17, 5-8 p.m. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre soup and sandwich Wednesday, Oct. 21, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre blood pressure clinic Wednesday, Oct. 21, 9:30-11 a.m. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre Halloween Dinner and Dance, Oct. 31, 6-10:30 p.m., tickets $20, on sale starting Oct. 1 at the centre, Tuesday-Friday, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Info: 250-924-4865. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre muffin mornings Wednesdays and Fridays 9:30-11 a.m. except Wednesday, Oct. 21. • 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.

Recreation • Cowichan Kayak and Canoe Club meetings second Tuesday each month except July and August, 7:30 p.m., socializing time 7-7:30 p.m., Seniors Activity Centre, Duncan. Next meeting Oct. 13. Refreshments provided. Info: cowichankayakandcanoe.wordpress.com • Duncan Badminton Club, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8-10 p.m., October through March Multi-purpose Hall, Island Savings Centre. Recreational and competitive. All welcome. Info: 250-746-4380. • Youth rowing program, Cowichan

Arts • Ladysmith Camera Club presents Portrait Photography with Kurt Knock, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m., Hardwick Hall, High Street at 3rd Avenue. Non-members $5 drop-in fee. Info www.LadysmithCameraClub.com • Basics of Soapstone Carving. The one-day course includes the soapstone, use of tools, approximately eight hours of learning, and you will take home your carved soapstone work. Shorter and advanced courses available. Courses usually run on one of the weekdays and Sundays. Call Brian or Linda 250743-4155. brianclark@shaw.ca

Music • Inviting female voices, teens to seniors, for The Rivernotes Choir, meets Mondays, 6-8 p.m., Lake Cowichan Senior Centre, 55 Coronation St. Info: Judith Quinlan 250-749-3728. • Like to sing? Join Medford Singers. Rehearsals Wednesdays, 6:45 p.m., Duncan United Church. Men welcome. Director Simon Leung. Info: Michele 250-748-0287. • Encore! Women’s Choir meets Monday evenings, Duncan. Seeking motivated women ages 18-plus who read music and enjoy singing repertoire that is challenging, yet fun! Info: Christine Dandy, 250-715-1568. • Cowichan Consort Orchestra rehearsal Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Sylvan United Church. Come play with us. All strings welcome. Info: 748-8982. • Cowichan Consort Choir Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., Sylvan United Church. Come sing with us. Info: 743-7445.

Dancing • Traditional Square Dances: come and dance with us to live music by Shady Grove Dance Band first Friday of every month. No experience or partner needed. Ages 12 and up, $5, at The Hub, Cowichan Station. Info: Peter 250-929-8226.

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Mill Bay’s Brian Harrison named to BC Hockey junior division post KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Cowichan’s Sara Goodman keeps the ball away from Frances Kelsey defenders during the final game of the John Ferreira Memorial Tournament at the Cowichan Sportsplex last Sunday. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

T-Birds take the Ferreira KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Cowichan Thunderbirds won their second consecutive tournament to start the high school field hockey season when they topped the field at their own John Ferreira Memorial Tournament at the Cowichan Sportsplex last weekend. The T-Birds beat the Frances Kelsey Breakers 1-0 to win the small tournament — Shawnigan Lake School and the South Delta Sun Devils were the other entries — thanks to Sara Goodman’s penalty-corner goal. “Kelsey gave us a really good final,” Cowichan coach Perri Espeseth said. “They have a lot of girls our players really know well, so it was a friendly game, but a competitive game.” Cowichan and Kelsey battled to a scoreless tie when they played earlier in the two-day tournament.

“That was a really close game,” Espeseth said. “It could have gone either way.” When they met in the final, both teams were just coming off a game against South Delta where each team played 30 minutes in order to give the Sun Devils a fourth game after they made the trip over to Vancouver Island. Emma Dame was among the standouts for Cowichan throughout the tournament. “We had one player, Brittany Smith, sitting out, and Emma did a good job filling in for her at centre midfield for the weekend,” Espeseth said. After winning the Friendship Cup the weekend before, the T-Birds got off to a slow start in the Ferreira tournament, but were back in form by the end. “We improved a lot over the tournament,” Espeseth said. “We started the weekend on a

bit of a low, but we were able to build back up again. We needed to get our legs going again, but we pulled it all together.” The tournament had several benefits for the T-Birds early in the season. “It was a good learning opportunity, definitely,” Espeseth said. “South Delta brought a few different things that we hadn’t come across yet.” After getting this weekend off, the T-Birds will be back in action on the Thanksgiving weekend as they play in the Bridgman Cup tournament at the University of Victoria. The Bridgman offers teams a good chance to prepare for the provincial tournament — which Cowichan, Kelsey and Shawnigan will be hosting this year — because it attracts most of the top teams in the province and teams play a busy schedule of six games over three days.

Mill Bay’s Brian Harrison, a former longtime director for Area A of the Cowichan Valley Regional District and three-time chair of the CVRD board, has been named the junior division coordinator for BC Hockey as of Sept. 23. As the junior coordinator, Harrison will provide oversight of all junior hockey programs governed by BC Hockey, working closely with the leagues — the junior A B.C. Hockey League and the junior B Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League, Pacific Junior Hockey League, and Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. Before his latest appointment, Harrison was the Junior B Director for about 10 years. He has been involved in the Kerry Park Minor Hockey Association for

Brian Harrison many years, including terms as president and referee-in-chief. He has also served as chair and secretary of the VIJHL. Outside of hockey, Harrison was Area A director between 1982 and 1993, and again from 2009 to 2011. He was CVRD chair from 1986 to 1988.

Lucky sevens for Cowichan Cardinals and Kestrels KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Two Cowichan Valley teams played to decisive seven-goal victories in Vancouver Island Ladies Field Hockey action last weekend. In Division 2, the Cowichan Cardinals defeated the Rebels Blue Jays 7-0 thanks to a hat trick by Jill Roberts and single goals by Ashley Brown, Shylayne Davidson, Teresa Gregus

and Shannon Parker. The Cowichan Stellers also won 7-0 over the Devils in Division 3. Jaime Court and Maiya Hermant each scored twice, while Birkley Anderson, Karissa Birch and Jill Dayton had one goal apiece. Also in Div. 3, the Kestrels were edged 3-2 by the Oak Bay Demons. Gregus and Morgan Battie had the goals for the Kestrels.

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Piggies settle for draw with defending Island champions KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Cowichan Piggies salvaged a 25-25 tie with the Port Alberni Black Sheep, but they weren’t exactly pleased with the result despite drawing even with the defending Vancouver Island Rugby Union First Division champions. “It was a very winnable game,” Cowichan head coach Gord McGeachy said. “We did enough to put ourselves in a position to win the game. But we left at least three tries on the field by not finishing when we had opportunities to. “Taking the whole game into context, we played well and should have won the game, so not winning was disappointing. Having said that, we have started to improve after the first three games. We’ve made up some good ground on where we left off last year.” The Black Sheep scored the opening try against the flow of the game, about 15 minutes in, picking off a Cowichan pass and running the ball about 70 metres to score. Cowichan continued to pressure, and it wasn’t long before Mike Rea scored to tie the game at 5-5. Ten minutes after that, Ryan Spooner scored to give the Piggies a 10-5 edge. Not long after that, Alberni kicked a penalty to make it 10-8, but Kyle Joe scored in the corner around the 35-minute mark to put the Piggies up 15-8. Alberni scored just as the first half expired and converted the try to make it 15-15.

Mid Island’s Gavin Spencer attacks the Nanaimo net. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Kyle Joe scores Cowichan’s second try against Alberni last Saturday. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

“We had played very well [in the first half],” McGeachy said. “We had the better part of the territory and possession. We had a couple of lapses on defence that let them score a couple of soft tries.” The Piggies started the second half well, and Lucas Quast scored about five minutes in to make it 20-15. Port Alberni managed to tie the score, then pull ahead 25-20. Cowichan’s Peter Budina evened things up once again with about five minutes left, but the Piggies missed the convert, which would have put them up by two points. They also missed a penalty kick for three points in the last five minutes. The Piggies’ standouts in the contest included veteran Dan

James in the forward pack, and Cowichan Secondary Grade 12 player Kyle Joe, who played in the backs and forwards. “He started the game on the wing and finished the game at flanker,” McGeachy said. “He played a tremendous game for a 17-year-old kid.” Following the match, both teams adjourned to the Red Arrow brewery to celebrated the launch of Piggy Pale Ale, some of the proceeds of which will go to support the rugby club. The Piggies will battle the Hornets in Nanaimo this Saturday. “Until we see what they have, it’s hard to predict at this stage,” McGeachy said. “As always, we expect a pretty tough battle up there.”

The U15 Mid Island Lightning split their first two games of the Vancouver Island Field Lacrosse season at the Cowichan Sportsplex last weekend. The Lightning got off to a rough start on Saturday as they fell 19-6 against the Pacific Rim tier 1 team despite a fierce effort. Hunter Hieta led the attack with three goals, while Brody Black, Jack Sanderson and Gavin Spencer

Cowichan women’s rugby team falls to Castaways Team captain Sherry Spence scored the lone try as Cowichan’s senior women’s rugby team lost 48-5 to Castaway Wanderers in Vancouver Island regional play last Saturday. “Unfor tuna tely, with players missing from our roster, we

had one apiece. The Lightning more than made up for Saturday’s defeat when they disposed of the Nanaimo Raiders 11-2 on Sunday. Mid Island allowed two goals in the first period, but shut down the Nanaimo offence for the rest of the contest. Spencer, Sam Baxter, Caleb Nordstrom and Dawson Webb each scored twice, while Hieta, Denton MacDonald and Nolan Thibodeau had singles. Hieta, Baxter, Black and Jazzy Shafi added assists.

couldn’t come out with the win,” Spence said. “CW had a young, fast team that scored on the wings.” Spence and scrum-half Jenna Bugden shared Player of the Game honours, as selected by the Castaways players. This weekend, Cowichan travels to Nanaimo to face the Hornets, who have started the year with two consecutive defeats.

Matt Evans scores for Canada at RWC

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Friday, October 2, 2015

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Double defeats for ’Dogs and T-Men KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Cowichan Bulldogs had trouble containing the Richmond Raiders in last weekend’s bantam football clash at McAdam Park, and the Raiders left town with a 41-2 victory. “Richmond just came in and played a little more aggressively,” Cowichan head coach Mike Williams said. “They had a big, strong running back, and defensively, we struggled early getting to the team tackle.” The Bulldogs are now 0-3, but Williams likes what he has seen from game to game. “There’s been improvement week over week,” he said. “Hopefully it won’t be a year-long process to get better.” Kilion VennRyan had a strong outing on both sides of the ball, picking up an interception on defence and a 30-yard pass reception on offence. Quarterback Carson Maertz also had a good game. “He threw the ball well,” Williams said. “We just have to work on better routes.” The bantam Bulldogs have a bye this week, and will prepare for a road trip to Vancouver the following weekend. “We’ll be working on being more disciplined and running better pass routes,” the coach said. “We’re playing with more heart than we did in week one, so there’s progress.”

Pat Unger presents the CLBC pairs league trophy to winners Judith Bulley and Bill Cleary. [SUBMITTED]

Pairs league wraps up bowling season Cowichan bantam Boston Hardy runs the ball up the middle against Richmond. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN] The midget Cowichan Timbermen also lost last weekend, falling 42-0 on the road against Chilliwack. The game was played on Saturday, which caused problems for the T-Men from the outset as seven players and two assistant coaches were unable to make the trip for work reasons. “The entire linebacker corps a n d f u l l b a c k s we r e o u t ,” coach Opie Williams said. “And we lost two players with minor injuries during the game. It was just one of those days. It was a short bench and had players in positions that they had

never played before.” Chilliwack set the tone early, returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown. “We were able to move the ball at times, but the short bench and the lack of conditioning showed,” Williams said. “The boys realized the importance of practice attendance to improve ourselves.” The T-Men have added three new signings to their roster and should have everyone in uniform this Sunday as they open a threegame home-stand against the Comox Raiders at 1:30 p.m.

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The Cowichan Lawn Bowling Club’s Thursday evening pairs league wrapped up the season with semifinals and finals on Sept. 18. In the first semifinal, the team of Jim Irvine and Tom Clark got past Maria Ridewood and Marilyn Boechler, while the other semi saw Bill Cleary and Judith Bulley edge out Marvin Thorgeirson and Joan Wilson. Cleary and Bulley then topped the Irvine and Clark duo in a very close final. Pat Unger presented the championship trophy to the winning team.

Some of the same bowlers also took part in the Invitation Pairs Tournament on Sept. 13. Using the Australian pairs format, the men’s and women’s teams each played several games in their own divisions, with the top women’s team — Ridewood and Phyl Ingram — taking on the winning men’s duo of Cleary and Tom Slemko. Cleary and Slemko prevailed in the final game. The Closing Jitney, the final event of the lawn bowling season, was played on Sept. 27, with bowlers dressed in traditional black mourning garb to mark their dismay at the end of the year.

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