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Search called off for missing man KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Emergency crews block Kenneth Street in Duncan on Friday morning as they respond to reports of a structure fire at the popular Nha Trang restaurant. It turned out to be a problem with the building’s air conditioning unit, and the restaurant is back up and running. [ANDREA RONDEAU/CITIZEN]

Downtown fire call finds faulty air conditioner ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Duncan volunteer firefighters were called out to popular downtown sushi restaurant Nha Trang Friday morning at about 10 a.m.

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with reports of a structure fire.

The smell of smoke drifted out onto Kenneth Street as firefighters took apart an air conditioning unit on the roof of the building as spectators looked on.

D u n c a n F i r e C h i e f M i ke McKinlay confirmed that there was no blaze and the smoke was the result of the air conditioner failing.

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Hydro and Terasen Gas trucks responding to the scene blocked the road as passers-by watched emergency crews work.

The restaurant was quickly back open for business.

After an exhausting weekend with hundreds of boots on the ground, the official search for Tony Morley has been called off, although some efforts will continue.

The 79-year-old Morley was last seen on Sept. 21, and he is believed to have gone for a hike on Maple Mountain that afternoon. Since that time, Cowichan Search and Rescue has led efforts to find him.

Volunteers from the community and all over Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland joined SAR personnel for a ramped-up day-long search on Sunday, which yielded no results.

“There have been well over 2,000 search hours logged over the 23square-kilometre search area and then some,” said Cpl. Krista Hobday of the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP. See MORLEY’S FAMILY, Page 5

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Ministers enthusiastic about completing vision LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

The final piece of the Cowichan Place puzzle inched closer to provincial approval last week as Valley officials gained the ears of four important government ministers.

According to North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure, the push was on at the Union of BC Municipalities convention to convince the province that a replacement for Cowichan Secondary School should be of the highest priority.

Redevelopment of Cowichan Place, a large site located between the Trans Canada Highway and Duncan Street, has been underway since talks began in 2005.

At that time, it included a concept for building a new Vancouver Island University campus and a new high school, as well as moving the ball fields and the Cowichan Exhibition.

“Well that whole plan now is missing one final step: that is the new high school and it is also going to have a new trade school between the university and the high school.

“It’s going to be dual credit, so

The Cowichan Place concept is missing one key piece: a new Cowichan Secondary School. [FILE] you can actually start taking university credits at the trade school while you’re still in high school, which is a big cost savings and also pushes people down the road towards university.

“It’s an exciting final piece of Cowichan Place. We’ve got the new tournament ball fields at a fantastic facility, we’ve got the new exhibition grounds which are great and we’ve got Vancouver Island University campus in place

which is just phenomenal for the community.

“At UBCM we had the chance to talk to the minister of education, the minister of advanced education and the minister of aboriginal affairs because what we know right now is First Nations are using VIU in very high numbers.

They are very strong at the trade school, too, and doing very well and getting jobs out of it.”

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Labour was also part of the discussions, he said.

“All four of those ministers were excited about the completion of the Cowichan Place concept,” Lefebure said.

They did not come away with any promises of approval for the new secondary school, however.

“What we came away with was a lot of shared excitement in those ministries about the opportunities that this will present and how it

will fit in with the provincial government’s own policies. The whole thing was, we made our case; we actually had Joe Rhodes and Bob Harper from School District 79 come to two of the meetings with us, too.

“The importance of it is that we laid it out before all four ministries and got their endorsement of the concept so that when there are capital funds available we believe that we will be looked at very favourably to move ahead with this project.”

It wasn’t what they hoped for but it moved everything forward, Lefebure said.

“That’s honestly the best we can do at this point in time. We make the best case we can. They look at it, see all the synergies they love like the First Nations involvement and the trade school.

“They like the fact that it’s local government working with the school district and the university. It’s just the capital,” he said.

“Getting to share our enthusiasm with the ministers at the UBCM was really enjoyable. They saw it; they got it. Now, it’s just fitting it into their budgets.”

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Crematorium case about precedent, says CVRD LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

The Cowichan Valley Regional District is worried about the precedent set by the recent BC Court of Appeal ruling that allows operation of a commercial crematorium at Sahtlam despite its being against local zoning, and that’s why they’re appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada, officials said.

CVRD CAO Brian Carruthers said that the Union of BC Municipalities may assist in financing any possible court action.

“The UBCM does have a program whereby they will pay up to a third, to a maximum of $10,000, to assist local government which is essentially dealing with a matter that has broad implications for local governments,” Carruthers said.

The Paldi Khalsa Diwan Society and their tenant, Cowichan Valley Crematorium Ltd., filed a BC Supreme Court action against the regional district in 2013, following refusal by the CVRD to issue a document to Cowichan Valley Crematorium Ltd. confirming that the crematorium in question was permitted by CVRD bylaws.

The BC Supreme Court judge ruled in favour of the CVRD, and the society and its tenant then subsequently filed an appeal and on Aug. 26, 2014 the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the appellants.

Carruthers said the CVRD is concerned that the ruling could affect all levels of

bylaw is a local council or board defining what they feel are appropriate uses in a particular zone after public consultation.

“At root of the issue is the idea that the court should take a broader view of the intent of the bylaw and the Court of Appeal chose to take a very narrowly focused view and determine that this operation, albeit commercial, was within the institutional zone. We’re really concerned about the

implications with other zoning matters that may come up,” he said.

An application has to be submitted by the third week of October to the Supreme Court of Canada and the CVRD was off the mark Oct. 1.

“We’re hoping it won’t be too long following that that we get a decision one way or another if the matter will be heard,” Carruthers said.

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government.

“It is troublesome. No local government wants to get embroiled in drawn out litigation over these types of issues.

“This one had such broad implications that the [CVRD] board felt it was imperative that at very least we make an application to the Supreme Court to try and have this matter heard,” he said.

Governments everywhere will be watching, too.

“What happens in case law is other jurisdictions will be looking at that case law in dealing with other matters right across the country,” Carruthers said.

“We want to ensure we get certainty in that decision particularly since the decisions of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal are so distinctly different,” he said.

Carruthers said it comes down to a local community determining its fate. A zoning

Morley’s family to keep looking SEARCH CALLED, From Page 1 “Local residents allowed access to their property, gave over their GPS after conducting their own searches, and shared their local knowledge with Cowichan Search and Rescue. The family of Mr. Morley has been very helpful to the searchers letting them know points of interest and Mr. Morley’s likely path,” Hobday said.

Sunday’s intense efforts covered terrain described by SAR as “brutal.”

“Different efforts are placed in different areas based on the probability that they will be successful in their search, such as thick brush versus roads and trails,” SAR manager Tina Phillips said. “It isn’t that we don’t believe Mr. Morley is on the mountain; we have just exhausted all efforts and Tony Morley remains missing after an resources available to us to locate him. It’s exhaustive search. [SUBMITTED] so terribly hard to stop.”

Phillips added that the entire group was of community involvement.” exhausted, but noted that honks and waves Morley’s family plans to continue searchfrom passing motorists gave them huge ing on their own, and hopes area users will morale boosts. also watch for him.

“It can be discouraging after so many “We would like to thank all of the many hours that nothing has been found,” she people that gave their time to help find my acknowledged.

Dad,” Morley’s daughter, Venessa Fischer, Cowichan SAR used resources in the said. “ If anyone does go hiking in the area, search for Morley that had not been avail- that they keep an eye open for any sign of able to them, including a helicopter and a him.” search dog that is new to the Juan de Fuca area.

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Ebola outbreak shows us it’s a small world n some ways the world today is very small.

But it’s still big enough that we often ignore the things we don’t want to think about, even when we should be paying attention.

The 2014 Ebola outbreak is a perfect example.

Sure, it’s getting a lot of press now. There are cases in the United States now, after all. It’s starting to hit a bit closer to home.

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Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone all had what were at least suspected cases by then.

Poor countries all, with less than ideal health infrastructures to deal with the outbreak.

Doctors from aid organizations almost immediately began trying to get people to listen to their assessments that these nations needed help, pronto, to stop the spread of the hemorrhagic fever.

There were a few stories in the western media, but all in all, in spite of the spectre the word Ebola usually conjures here, little was broadcast and even less

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was actually done. Compare, if you will, to the 24-seven coverage of Robin Williams’s suicide, for example. Not that that death and the way it happened didn’t raise legitimate discussion, but the discrepancy in word count is stark.

Were we just not that interested? Even when, as we’ve seen, all it takes is for someone to hop on a plane for the disease to spread?

Hundreds of Africans had already died before some foreign aid workers got sick and the story started to take on a bit higher profile.

Medical help for these coun-

tries is still desperately needed, as we now start to read accounts of Ebola clinic workers nursing patients without even the benefit of medical gloves.

This outbreak has infected and killed more people than all other Ebola outbreaks combined.

Here in the western world we pick and choose the world events with which we involve ourselves.

We don’t always choose on the basis of which is the biggest crisis, or where we can be the most effective. Perhaps it’s a good time to re-examine our priorities, given just how small the world really is in 2014.

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Education in the 1930s more than adequate Re: The good old days, Citizen, Sept. 19 I too attended school “back then”, when education was conducted without all our modern electronic technology.

I started school on Bowen Island in 1931 in a one room, one teacher, eight-grade school.

Approximately 30 pupils made up the eight grades and in 1937 this included a Japanese family of four ranging in age from seven to 15 with not one word of English between the four of them and of course all in Grade 1.

Of the four boys in my class one became a professor at a university in Boston for his entire

career, another was the head civil engineer for what was then the P.G.E. railway for his entire career. The third was an electrical engineer who worked all over the world and also became very wealthy.

I was the only dropout (Grade 9) and eventually became a logging foreman for Crown Zellerbach.

This job entailed a lot of highly accurate number work including the daily cut of up to 33 fallers (at times over one million board feet) the payroll for said fallers who were on various different pay scales that could change several times per month. I was also required to turn in two physical inventories per year involving well over 100 million board feet.

My point is that the teaching

level in the 1930s was more than adequate. Fortunately we did not have to contend with the drunks and other assorted misfits Ms. Thorgeirson describes.

Her remark about things being different today, that today’s teachers are well educated and interested in their work is nothing short of an insult to the educators of the ’30s and ’40s.

In the past few decades I have seen many students “graduate” from our local schools who could not write, spell, or do math efficiently enough to go on to higher education.

Maybe a touch of the old methods might not be out of line.

Walt Punnett Duncan

I offer a loud HEAR HEAR to Mr. Blackmore’s letter in the Oct. 1 Citizen regarding recycling bins and the need for their return.

I was not surprised, but hugely disappointed when they were removed, ostensibly due to misuse. I suspect there was more to it than that.

I saw nothing wrong with the gentlemen who went through the contents of the bins collecting things they valued...in fact it got to be a place to drop off my empties.

I fail to see how they could have been viewed a nuisance by anyone.

We are always going to have to deal with some people’s swinish behaviour, and here’s one example.

I’m happy to pay for the convenience of not having to haul my recyclables (the stuff that is either unacceptable or will not fit into my “tote” — try getting rid of glass properly now) to either Bing’s Creek or Fisher Road, even if I subsidize a few lowlifes who dump their “garbage” (nothing else to call it) at the bins.

We can either get rid of it after it’s dumped at the bin locations or collect it from the ditches.

Gary Paul Mill Bay

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Dust again beginning to choke Youbou Open letter to the Honourable Todd Stone, minister of Transportation and Infrastructure: The hot summer and resulting slowdown in logging activity was a welcome reprieve for the people of Youbou. Fewer log trucks, less dust.

But that is changing now. Active logging has resumed and the trucks are rolling again. They come down the hills a long distance on gravel roads and with them comes the dust and when it rains, the mud. At the entrance to Youbou the gravel road ends and the trucks then enter the public road. The dust clouds whipped up by the passing log trucks are covering everything, from houses to cars to gardens. The dust is so fine that it seeps into the cracks in windows and doors and ends up inside the houses. There is so much of it, that it creates a permanent health hazard.

The Youbou residents have endured this unbearable situation for over six years now. They have protested for years, to no avail. Timberwest promised to have a truck wash installed over a year ago.

Nothing has happened. A situation like this would never be tolerated close to a big city. Youbou is not a city, we are a small community. We have no jurisdiction over our roads. That responsibility rests with the Ministry of Transport. So far the ministry has failed that responsibility.

Trucks delivering wood chips, sawdust, top soil, etc. are required to cover their load with a tarp. If they are caught without, they are fined.

That same standard should apply to the log trucks. Log trucks coming off the gravel road cause a much greater health and traffic hazard than some wood chips or top soil blown off a truck.

The fact that the Cowichan Valley area has in previous provincial elections voted against the Liberal government probably does not help the situation either. It is understandable that this area might be somewhat neglected because of that.

However, when it comes to the health and welfare of residents, political affiliations or preferences should not matter. The provincial government should not ignore this situation; the ministry should step in and ensure that the roads in Youbou are safe, which includes avoiding a health and

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Politicians must rein in ‘salary mess’ Once again we taxpayers provided free meals, generous allowances and nice accommodation for our local politicians and senior staff at the recent Union of BC Municipalities meeting in Whistler.

And once again the UBCM wasted a huge amount of time debating silly and irrelevant issues and took no action at all or debate on the most serious waste of taxpayer’s money — paying excessive salaries to senior staff.

More than half the UBCM resolutions this year were directed at the B.C. government to spend more of our money!

A recent B.C. government report given to the UBCM confirmed what we all knew — salaries for senior staff in local government are out of control and increased at twice the rate of similar jobs in the B.C. government and four times the rate of inflation over the past 10 years.

In the Cowichan Valley the CVRD’s chief bureaucrat takes home a pay and benefit package bigger than the B.C. premier and close to what a B.C. deputy minister gets who looks after thousands of employees, up to a $1 billion in spending and has way more accountability and responsibility.

The CVRD has more than 220 employees of which 55 make more than $75,000 in pay plus benefits and half of those make more than $100,000.

There is a total disconnect between these pay rates and local economy, inflation rates and taxpayers’ ability to pay. I witnessed staff presentations promoting their own wage increase recommenda-

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CVRD staff negotiate pay rates for one level of employees that automatically increases their

own pay by the same amount.

Has no one in local government ever heard the term “conflict of interest”?

We really need local politicians who are going to rein in this salary mess and start representing taxpayer’s interests and keep spending below growth and inflation.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATIONS FOR SCRUTINEERS FOR THE CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY AND/OR COWICHAN AQUATIC CENTRE ASSENT VOTING (REFERENDUM) On Saturday, November 15, 2014, eligible electors in the electoral areas of the Cowichan Valley Regional District will be voting on the following questions specific to their electoral areas as listed below.

Scrutineers for and against the question in each electoral area must be appointed if applications are received from persons who wish to volunteer for the positions. Only persons entitled to vote as electors on the questions shown below are entitled to act as scrutineers. If sufficient applications are received, one scrutineer FOR and one scrutineer AGAINST the question will be appointed for each voting place.

One scrutineer for the question and one scrutineer against the question will also be appointed to be present at the determination of the official results and, if necessary, at a judicial recount.

Applications to act as a scrutineer will be received by the Chief Election Officer during regular office hours at the Cowichan Valley Regional District office, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC between 9:00 am on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 to 4:00 pm on Monday, October 27, 2014, excluding weekends. Application forms are available at the CVRD office or on the CVRD website at www.cvrd.bc.ca Interested persons can obtain information on the requirements and procedures for making an application by contacting Chief Election Officer Joe Barry at 250-746-2506, 1-800-665-3955, or jbarry@cvrd.bc.ca; or Deputy Chief Election Officer Kathleen Harrison at 250-746-2507, 1-800-665-3955, or kharrison@cvrd.bc.ca.

AREA F – COWICHAN LAKE SOUTH/SKUTZ FALLS CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY AND COWICHAN AQUATIC CENTRE

AREA I – YOUBOU/MEADE CREEK CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY AND COWICHAN AQUATIC CENTRE

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3836 – Chesterfield Sports Society Annual Financial Contribution Service (Area F) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $7,960 per year, or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.01964 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Chesterfield Sports Society with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Cowichan Sportsplex?

YES or NO?

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3839 – Chesterfield Sports Society Annual Financial Contribution Service (Area I) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $8,000 per year, or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.01664 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Chesterfield Sports Society with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Cowichan Sportsplex?

YES or NO?

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3840 – Cowichan Aquatic Centre Annual Contribution Service (Area F) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $10,000 or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.02468 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Cowichan Aquatic Centre with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the facility?

YES or NO?

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3842 – Cowichan Aquatic Centre Annual Contribution Service (Area I) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $10,000 or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.02080 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Cowichan Aquatic Centre with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the facility?

YES or NO?

AREA A – MILL BAY/MALAHAT CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY

AREA B – SHAWNIGAN LAKE CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3831 – Chesterfield Sports Society Annual Financial Contribution Service (Area A) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $12,840 per year, or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.01451 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Chesterfield Sports Society with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Cowichan Sportsplex?

YES or NO?

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3832 – Chesterfield Sports Society Annual Financial Contribution Service (Area B) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $21,550 per year, or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.01427 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Chesterfield Sports Society with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Cowichan Sportsplex?

YES or NO?

AREA C – COBBLE HILL CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY

AREA D – Cowichan Bay CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3833 – Chesterfield Sports Society Annual Financial Contribution Service (Area C) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $12,460 per year, or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.014566 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Chesterfield Sports Society with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Cowichan Sportsplex?

YES or NO?

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3834 – Chesterfield Sports Society Annual Financial Contribution Service (Area D) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $7,900 per year, or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.01521 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Chesterfield Sports Society with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Cowichan Sportsplex?

YES or NO?

AREA E – COWICHAN STATION/SAHTLAM/GLENORA CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY

AREA G – SALTAIR/GULF ISLANDS CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3835 – Chesterfield Sports Society Annual Financial Contribution Service (Area E) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $9,360 per year, or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.01680 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Chesterfield Sports Society with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Cowichan Sportsplex?

YES or NO?

Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3837 – Chesterfield Sports Society Annual Financial Contribution Service (Area G) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $8,340 per year, or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.01490 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Chesterfield Sports Society with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Cowichan Sportsplex?

YES or NO?

AREA H – NORTH OYSTER/DIAMOND CHESTERFIELD SPORTS SOCIETY Are you in favour of the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District adopting “CVRD Bylaw No. 3838 – Chesterfield Sports Society Annual Financial Contribution Service (Area H) Establishment Bylaw, 2014”, that would allow the CVRD to annually requisition the greater of $9,860 per year, or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.01839 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements, to assist the Chesterfield Sports Society with costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Cowichan Sportsplex?

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Currie Ellis steps Wheel throwing? into Area D election You can try it at the Hub, Oct. 13 ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Peggy Bran, candidate

Peggy Bran looks to curb spending in N. Cowichan LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Peggy Bran, a retiree from Crofton, announced that she is seeking a seat on North Cowichan council in the upcoming municipal election on Nov. 15.

She’s been monitoring council for three years, and is a founding member of the Cowichan Tax Busters group, and said that she fears that without change, tax increases and over-spending will likely continue for the next four years.

Asked if she thought the economy of North Cowichan was failing, Bran replied, “Well, the economy across Canada, even globally, has been struggling.

Stores are closing. Take a look at Chemainus. It’s really sad to see all those empty storefronts. Maybe it’s because the draw was always tourism and that isn’t what it was.”

Asked how she might boost the local economies of communities like Chemainus, she said, “They have to do the same thing they did before, when they became The Little Town That Did. They need to find a focus.

“Holding these local area plan meetings is all fine and dandy but the government can’t bring the people to the stores. Those ideas have to come from within.

For that you need to bring the people in and put up big easels with markers and let the ideas flow. See what people want,” Bran said.

All of this means lots of work for the municipality as well as residents “but spending money on roundabouts and more parks is not going to bring more people to the area.”

Bran wants to see fresh ideas at council.

“Our taxes have doubled in nine years. Doubled. I don’t know of any municipality where that has happened and when I see one more roundabout go in, I say to myself, it just doesn’t make sense.”

Her campaign will be different, based on her circumstances.

“As a result of polio I cannot walk from door to door to meet the voters in person. Therefore, I will be hosting meet-the-candidate events around the municipality where I hope to share a cup of coffee and hear the concerns of the voters,” she said.

The first ones are being lined up for Crofton and possibly the Duncan Lodge on Moose Road. Details will be posted on her website, www.peggybran.ca

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Currie Ellis has tossed his hat into the ring for the Cowichan Bay seat on the Cowichan Valley Regional District Board.

As someone who lives aboard his boat in Cowichan Bay, recent new proposed legislation governing liveaboards and float homes in Area D is something Ellis feels strongly about.

“The bylaw was one of the spurs to get me to run,” he said.

“I think I know what’s going on here, and the issues. I think I’m a good candidate and it’s time for some change here,” Ellis said.

He is in favour of parts of the proposed new regulations for the floating community, but believes the bylaw still needs some revisions.

“Float home owners have been waiting for the opportunity to connect to the CVRD sewer system,” he said of the positives offered in the bylaw. “This bylaw will allow float homes to acquire more permanency, and an easier process to sell their homes when desired. The values of their property should increase. They pay property taxes, but are denied most services.”

However, there are still serious flaws, Ellis said.

“There’s people that are going

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Currie Ellis, candidate to lose their places of residence here,” he said.

Ellis has also been pounding the pavement to find out what people in the community think are the top issues.

“It is so interesting talking to the people around here,” he said.

“That’ll be my focus.”

So far he’s heard concerns about spending and pay for CVRD staff. There are also some big developments in the works in the area, and Ellis said he wants to make sure they are done right.

“I’m pounding the pavement and I’m listening every day and it’s enlightening,” he said.

Mud. Get your hands in it as the Clay Hub at Cowichan Station opens officially Monday, Oct. 13.

Classes in wheel throwing and hand building, as well as additional workshops and open studio times are all part of the plan for this special studio, located at the 100 year-old, partly renovated, Cowichan Station School.

It’s now a non-profit, community-run centre called The Hub, run by the Cowichan Station Area Association.

All ages, from preschool on up, can access programs. All skill levels are welcome, too.

To realize a long-held dream, six professional, local potters went into partnership with the CSAA almost three years ago.

Grants and donations have transformed the space available into a surprising studio.

Courses starting in October include wheel throwing for beginners with Hilary Huntley and hand building and fun with colour with Franziska Ditter.

There are also one-day workshops like Buttons, Buttons, Buttons! and Christmas ornaments. There will also be open studio time. The Hub is located at 2375 Koksilah Rd. Contact Huntley or Ditter at clayhubcollective@ gmail.com for times, prices and more information on the new studio.

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B.C.’s Cracroft Islands linked to lost Franklin Expedition

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ast month, after 170 years, Parks Canada confirmed the discovery of Sir John Franklin’s flagship HMS Erebus.

One of the greatest tragedies of modern CHRONICLES history is recalled T.W. Paterson midway between Kelsey Bay and Port Hardy by Johnstone Strait’s Sophia Islands, Cracroft (designated a “locality” in the Gazetteer of Canada), Cracroft Inlet, Cracroft Point and Cracroft Islands.

All honour Sophia Cracroft, niece of Sir John Franklin who, with two ships and 128 men, sailed into oblivion in 1845.

It’s a story oft-told and one of renewed interest because of recent discoveries which have enabled scientists to determine what went wrong for the Arctic explorers.

In 1861, when Miss Cracroft and her aunt, Lady Jane Franklin, visited Victoria, there was no question of survivors, although it had taken a decade for government and private search expeditions to confirm the worst. Sophia was 44 and unmarried, having devoted herself to her aunt as travelling companion and secretary.

Originally, Lady Franklin’s world travels had been motivated by the need to sustain public support for further search expeditions. As hope for survivors faded, she’d focused on learning what happened to her husband and his men. Because the British Admiralty balked at the mounting costs, she sought the aid of other governments and private interests. By the time of their first Victoria visit, in February 1861, Franklin’s fate was known and his widow and niece were paying a social visit to Capt. George H. Richards (namesake for our own Mount Richards). Then serving with the Northwest Boundary Commission, he’d distinguished himself in a major search for the lost explorers.

He had, in fact, been Lady Franklin’s first choice for commander-in-chief of the privately-funded research expedition that solved the Franklin puzzle, but he’d been unavailable because of his work as chief astronomer and survey to the Boundary Commission.

History is indebted to Sophia Cracroft for her letters, written in the form of a journal. In them this “shrewd observer of men and manners,” with a sometimes caustic wit and eagle eye for human foibles, recorded their travels as VIPs. Inevitably, she carried her social and religious biases with her as so much baggage.

It slants her observations and can make them seem to be mean-spirited or petty.

Class-conscious, a devout Anglican, she disapproved of Jews, Catholics and Mormons. Pro-British, she disliked the Irish and Americans.

She looked down on North American Indians and wrote warmly of Negroes and Chinese immigrants (while deploring the latter’s “heathen element”). It would be asking the impossible of a woman

Franklin’s flagship HMS Erebus about to sail in search of the Northwest Passage — and into oblivion. —Public Archives of Canada of her corsetted upbringing and time in history to be anything but a snob. How she pitied the woman of Fort Victoria not having servants! (She did concede that this reality made frontier wives dependent upon each other, thus forging strong friendships.)

Most of the American women they met were, in her view, vain and vulgar, spoke with a “twang” (which Sophia delighted in mimicking for her friends by holding her nose as she spoke), and too forward.

Worse, they shared their husbands’ unbounded optimism in a future in which they were sure, once the Civil War was settled, B.C. would become their newest state.

With the American occupation of the San Juan Islands, she shared her aunt’s fear that the British government failed to appreciate the threat that American expansionism held for a fledgling Canada.

The solution, she believed, “must be laid in emigration from England, or at least from English colonies, so as to absorb (or at least outweigh) the American element”.

And what did others think of Lady Jane and Sophia? A member of the British foreign office in the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands wrote that, “of all the ladies that I have ever met with, they are just the ladies that suit me; they are of high mettle and breeding — not prudes, humdrum, and pernickety-nackety”!

The Islands’ Queen Emma, however, resented “the odious Miss Cracroft’s advice on correct dress and deportment”.

In 1870 Lady Jane and Sophia returned to B.C. and, again, Sophia recorded their experiences and observations in a series of letters. Written nine years later, they weren’t intended for publication. It’s interesting to speculate how the outspoken Miss Cracroft would have edited her “memoirs” had she known that the B.C. Provincial Archives would release them in book form a century later. www.twpaterson.com

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CITIZEN $600 PHOTO CONTEST WINNER. Chosen by Citizen staff as the official winner of our Garden Photo Contest.

All honorable mentions are on the following pages.

Thank you for all the entries of which there was just under 500. It was a very difficult decision to decide on the winner. With all the submitted photos, it’s no wonder we are often called The Beautiful Cowichan Valley.

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Giovanni Mocibob, Linda Goranson, Bill McFadden, Margaret Martin, and Wes Tritter star in the Chemainus Theatre Festival’s production of ‘Over the River and Through the Woods’, on now until Nov. 8.

The actors’ charming and touching performances bring to life this hilarious look at changing generations.

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Chemainus Theatre show like an evening with family ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

I did think much of the exposition that ended the show could have been written into a scene between grandmother and grandson, but that’s a small nit-pick.

This show is the perfect warm blanket to wrap around yourself as fall closes in on Cowichan.

Get your tickets soon, though, as the show’s run in limited.

It’s on stage in Chemainus until Nov. 8. Call 1-800-565-7738 or visit chemainustheatre.ca for tickets.

The strength of the Chemainus Theatre Festival’s production of Over the River and Through the Woods lies in fact that everyone will recognize the humour and heartbreaks that only come with family.

Giovanni Mocibob gives a strong performance as grandson Nick Cristano, who must decide whether to move away for his career, or stay close to his aging grandparents, and Stephanie Moroz is delightful in the small love interest role of Caitlin O’Hare.

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Special Woodstock founder Shelley Vaags was thrilled to hear from the producers of the original Woodstock Festival, and get the go-ahead to use the famous trademarks. [CITIZEN FILE] that I’m not crazy, that what we do is a good idea,” she said. “It came like a bolt from the blue. I didn’t know Woodstock was even still around. If I’d known I’d have contacted them before. I’ve done so much research on it since Woodstock offered to partner with us. They’re still around and promoting peace and love and all that.

“They are really excited about us. The woman, Jen, I spoke to suggested maybe we could create a T-shirt between us that we could sell at the General Store to raise funds for Special Woodstock. We can use their logo, which they hardly let anyone use. We’re the only one in a special community.”

Vaags and the official Woodstock crowd

Margaret Martin, Ian Harmon, Norma Dirom David Cooper Photography

Macy Wiebe, a Grade 6 student at École Mt. Prevost, is a talented young musician. She has been studying piano for four years, most recently with Rykie Avenant. She also has three years of voice lessons with Tilly Lorence. Macy enjoys piano because she can express her feelings through music.

She likes listening to pop and dance music.

The Cowichan Valley knows Special Woodstock is a unique and touching festival of music for special needs adults but now it’s gaining a wider reputation.

Shelley Vaags, the founder and voice of the festival, announced last week that she’s received notification from the legendary Woodstock Music Festival that Cowichan’s own Special Woodstock is being welcomed into the official Woodstock family.

It’s a unique opportunity for the celebration, held annually at Providence Farm in August.

Vaags, a longtime musician herself, said it was a special day both for herself and the other professional musicians from across Vancouver Island who have been coming out to spread the joy at Special Woodstock since it began in 2000.

Jen Roberts, a partner in Woodstock Ventures in New York wrote to Vaags, “We are the original producers of the Woodstock Festival and owners of the copyrights and trademarks of the Woodstock name and logo. We love what you are doing, and we would be delighted to support your work.”

In short order, a contract was signed, permitting the Cowichan crew to use the famous trademarks to promote next year’s Special Woodstock in Duncan.

Vaags was so excited so could barely speak.

“I have been bouncing off the walls, thinking, who else can I tell? What is really exciting for me is that nobody outside of Duncan would ever talk about us.

“Every year I was trying to reach out beyond the Valley with the idea that this is a feel-good story. So, for New York to come to us is really validating for me. It proves

are going to put their heads together to come up with some ideas, she said.

Special Woodstock has already been welcomed onto the Woodstock website.

“There we were front and centre. They have a link to our video and pictures from this year’s show. I also checked who’s seen the announcement so far. We’ve had people from Arizona, from Kentucky. One of them looked like he might have special needs.

We’re already opening up hope for people who might be really talented. Now it’s not so far-fetched that they might get a chance to sing onstage,” Vaags said.

Watch for a new look for Special Woodstock next summer as they take the stage at Providence Farm in 2015.

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◆ COMING UP IN THE ARTS

Coffeehouse headliners to ‘knock your socks off’ LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Looking for a place to take visitors on the Thanksgiving long weekend?

How about the Cowichan Folk Guild Coffeehouse on Saturday, Oct. 11 at the Duncan United Church?

The show that night will feature Tim Readman and Jennie Bice.

“Tim and Jennie have been performing a mix of traditional British and Irish folk songs for over 15 years,” said Bobbie Blue the Folk Guild’s coordinator of these events. “They will knock your socks off.”

Readman is the former leader of Canadian Celtic/folk favourites, Fear of Drinking, and has played for years with The Arrogant Worms.

He has an extensive repertoire

of traditional and original songs and can perform everything from “murder” ballads to more contemporary material by artists as diverse as the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Steely Dan and Madonna.

Lots of tuneful goodies to choose from at that buffet table.

Bice first played with Readman in Fear of Drinking in 1999 but her musical history spans many genres including Celtic, roots, jazz, blues, rock, Cajun and classical which accounts for her unique playing style.

“When Jennie and Tim perform together, the sparks fly,” Blue promises.

The Duncan United Church is right in town at 246 Ingram St. Doors open at 7 p.m. and an open stage starts at 7:30 p.m. with the headliners to follow.

Admission is $10 or $5 for CFG members.

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Lally’s ‘Shirley Valentine’ a triumph LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Shirley Valentine, which starred the Valley’s own Jennifer Lally, was more than just an exciting theatrical event.

Lally took the crowd with her every step of the way on a voyage of discovery that reached into every corner of her existence.

It was not her first time presenting the one-woman show that sees a middle-aged English woman leave husband and home and head to Greece in search of adventure.

Lally became Shirley right in front of our eyes, taking on the mannerisms and the accent. (We are not experts and can’t vouch for how authentic it sounded but, combined with spot-on body language, the actress embodied all the frustrations that come with discovering that the empty nest is truly void of anything worthwhile.)

She talked to the walls and later the beachside rocks in Greece while the audience listened in, sharing every intimate revelation and watching a woman who had

Shirley Valentine (Jennifer Lally), dressed in her best for her flight to Greece, tells the walls of her kitchen that life is for the living. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN] somehow become a friend grow into a self confident person with a future she can call her own.

Bravo Shirley. And bravo Jennifer for inviting us all to go along with you.

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VALLEY Calendar Miscellaneous • Thanksgiving storytime at Duncan library Friday, Oct. 10, 3:30-4:30 p.m., children ages 3-10 and their families. Stories and crafts celebrating Thanksgiving.

• OUR Ecovillage free Harvest Festival Saturday, Oct. 11. Tour starts 1 p.m.

Pie making, music, presentations and more. Potluck dinner 6 p.m., Ecovillage providing wild turkey, stuffing, gravy and potatoes. Bring dish to share. Register online www.ourecovillage.org • Cardboard Challenge at Duncan library Saturday, Oct. 11, 2-4 p.m., children of all ages. Build your cardboard masterpiece ahead and drop it off or come and create one.

• Cardboard Challenge at Chemainus library Saturday, Oct. 11, 10-11 a.m., children of all ages. Build your cardboard masterpiece ahead and drop it off or come and create one.

• South Cowichan Library presents Girl Power, Tuesdays, through Oct. 14, 3:30-5 p.m. Guided quest series for tweens (ages 9-12) led by clinical counselor Sherry Bezanson. Includes sessions on skill building, body image, body changes, friendships and peers.

Space limited, pre-register and info: 250-743-5436.

• Stuffie Sleepover at Duncan library, Thursday, Oct. 16, 6-6:30 p.m., children to age 8. Come for storytime, then leaver stuffies to spend night in the library.

• Cowichan Fish and Game Association in Glenora hosting Canadian Firearm Safety course (PAL and RPAL) starting Friday, Oct. 17. Details and to register: canadianfirearmsafety@ shaw.ca or call Mike 250-748-0319.

• Royal Canadian Legion Branch 53 social for all legion members and guests at Duncan Community Lodge, Moose Rd., Saturday, Oct. 18, 2-5 p.m.

• Presentation: Native Bees of Vancouver Island by Gord Hutchings, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2-3 p.m., Cowichan library. Hutchings is part of a growing movement questioning the wisdom of

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• 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 250709-8583, jgraf5@yahoo.ca • Cowichan Valley Scottish Country Dancing Thursday evenings 6:30-8 p.m., singles, couples, beginners welcome, Chemainus Seniors Centre.

Info: 250-748-9604.

Meetings

You may have noticed that the Cowichan Valley is experiencing a baby boom this year and the annual Breastfeeding Challenge held at the public library in Duncan on Oct. 4 only proved this as about 20 enthusiastic moms and their little ones gathered for the national campaign’s ‘latch on’ at 11 a.m. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

our reliance on one non-native pollinator: the honeybee. Learn about the many native bees that already share the Island with us as well as how we can help the native bees, ourselves, and each other.

• Artist/photographer/author Cim MacDonald presents the story behind her book of photography “Chemainus Gardens: The Beauty of the Seasons”.

Learn about book and self-publishing process Wednesday, Oct. 22, 12-1 p.m. free, Chemainus library, 250-246-9471.

• 7th Annual VSO Craft Fair Nov. 1 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Seniors Activity Centre, Duncan. All items handmade and homemade. Table rental $15. Book now. Info 250-746-4433 or 250-246-4746.

• South Cowichan Community Policing Return It collection days, third

Saturday of each month, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Valley View Centre recycling area. For returnable bottles, cans and other drink containers (except milk products). Funds to support community programs.

Seniors • Chemainus 55+ drop in centre soup and sandwich Wednesday, Oct. 15, 11:30 a.m., $5, entertainment by The Jammers.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre blood pressure clinic Wednesday, Oct. 15, 9:30-11 a.m.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre So… You Think You Can Dance? Sunday, Oct. 19, 2 p.m., Cost $5 and a donation of food for the Chemainus food bank.

Recreation • 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 • High Touch Health Self Care, free for all ages, techniques for spiritual, mental and physical well being.

Personal consultations: Cowichan Independent Living, 103-121 First St., Duncan, appts Fridays 11 a.m.-3 p.m., 250-746-3930; exercise program: Cowichan Sportsplex, Duncan, drop-in Fridays 4-5 p.m.; Classes: Cowichan Spirit of Women, Sands Reception Centre, Duncan, drop in Fridays 5:306 p.m. Please register for drops-ins 250-746-3930.

• Branch 53 Royal Canadian Legion, monthly general meeting Sunday, Oct. 19, 2 p.m., Duncan United Church, Ingram St. Legion members needed to assist at tables in stores during Poppy Campaign. Call 250-746-4210.

• New book club at Duncan library.

Group to meet on the third Saturday of every month noon-1:30 p.m Leave name and number at front desk of library to find out more or call library 250-746-7661.

• 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.

Arts • Warmland Calligraphers meeting, Oct. 14, 9 a.m.-noon, Mellor Hall, Cowichan Exhibition Grounds, info: warmlandcalligraphers@shaw.ca • Ladysmith Camera Club. Explore and expand your photography with us. Tuesday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m., Hardwick Hall, High Street at 3rd Avenue. Nonmembers $5 drop-in fee. Info: www.

LadysmithCameraClub.com • Crofton Art Group show and sale, Nov. 8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Crofton Seniors Centre, next to the ferry terminal.

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Sensational win for LMG

City, Bulldogs, Classics soccer clear up Rotary Park conflicts

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The “Saltspring Sensation” and a shuffled lineup sparked undefeated Cowichan LMG to a 5-0 win over Castaways FC in Div. 1 of the Vancouver Island Soccer League last Friday.

Head coach Glen Martin switched things around after the previous week’s 4-0 win over Vic West, giving some different players a chance to start, specifically Brad Thorne, Connor Crichton, Colin Knight and Brad Archibald. Those moves allowed Martin to bump Kevan Brown — the aforementioned Saltspring Sensation — from the back line to the front, a move that resulted in two of the team’s five goals.

After relatively slow starts in their previous games, Cowichan had put last Friday’s game away by the 32-minute mark.

“We scored four goals by the time we had scored in on our other games,” Martin observed.

Paddy Nelson needed just two minutes to score his league-leading eighth goal.

Captain Jesse Winter added his first of the season six minutes later on a shot from five yards out.

“That’s a long-range shot for Jesse Winter,” Martin laughed.

Crichton scored at 25 minutes, finishing off a hard-working play by Knight, and Brown made it 4-0 seven minutes later.

Martin brought in some fresh legs at halftime, subbing in Dan Cato for Crichton and A.J. Kambere for Dan Citra, and while the offensive barrage was quieter in the second half, Cowichan’s dominance was the same.

After missing one wide-open opportunity, Brown made it 5-0 at 79 minutes before he was swapped out for Justin Parish, who made his Cowichan debut after joining the team in the off-season, while Robbie Heggelund came in for Thorne. Goalkeeper Joel Wilson recorded his third clean sheet.

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Kevan Brown sparked Cowichan’s 5-0 win last Friday. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN] Cowichan’s next game will be against second-place Saanich Fusion, and while Cowichan is far enough ahead that first place isn’t on the line, a win would help widen the gap.

“We’ve got a real chance to get a grip on the league,” Martin said. “It should be really exciting.”

The game will also mark the first time that top-scorer Nelson and Cooper Barry — who is tied for second in the league with four goals — will face their former team.

Both players signed on with Cowichan this past summer after many years with the Saanich organization.

The scheduling conflict at Duncan’s Rotary Park that resulted in the Cowichan Bulldogs losing one of their practice sessions was the result of issues surrounding the City’s scheduling policies, and not the fault of one employee, who has taken the brunt of the blame.

The City and the two user groups implicated in the controversy — the Cowichan Valley Football Association and Cowichan Classics Soccer — issued a joint statement on Tuesday trying to clear up the questions.

“There have been issues with the scheduling of the Rotary and McAdam fields this year,” the statement read. “In particular, there has been a lot of discussion around the City’s move of youth football to McAdam on Wednesday nights, and the City’s insertion of a classics/masters soccer group into the 6-8 p.m. slot on Rotary for Wednesday nights.”

The issue has blown up, particularly on Facebook, where the city official — who plays with the classics soccer team, but does nor bear responsibility for booking the fields, as has been claimed — has been attacked personally.

“Unfortunately, the lack of clear policy guidance for staff members tasked with the duties of scheduling has resulted in an untenable personal attack of one of our valued employees,” Mayor Phil Kent lamented. “[He] and all City employees deserve respectful treatment when conducting their duties.

“The cause of the situation is not something that can be placed on one employee.

It was a failing of City policies and processes, and the City is working to rectify

this situation for future scheduling.”

Kent expressed his gratitude to both the CVFA and Cowichan Classics Soccer for helping to resolve the issue.

“City council appreciates that the CVFA board expressed their scheduling concerns directly to the City, and that the personal attacks were not condoned by the board,” he said.

CVFA president Loretta Copley emphasized that comments made to the Citizen last week were made by someone who is currently unaffiliated to the football program. The commenter expressed support of the Bulldogs but made some statements that proved to be inaccurate.

“The board wants to clearly state that these comments did not and do not reflect the viewpoint of the board of the Cowichan Valley Football Association,” she said. “We do not believe that those type of comments or unfounded allegations are appropriate, nor do they reflect the sportsmanlike conduct that we instill in our players.”

Beginning Oct. 22, the Bulldogs will practice on Rotary Park from 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday evenings, and they will make efforts to find an earlier time slot for younger players.

Martin Best, who organizes the Cowichan Classics — which has 45+, 55+ and 60+ soccer teams that play in a Victoriabased league — said that he was unaware when he asked for a Wednesday time slot that the Bulldogs would be displaced.

“The club simply asked for a time slot like other users, and [the city employee] had nothing to do with this request,” he emphasized. “The club members support youth sport and are happy that a compromise was able to be reached.”

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Hogg makes VIJHL debut, helps Isles to back-to-back wins over Panthers

Caps swept out of Interior on three-game road excursion KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

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Zack Smith makes a pass during the Isles’ game against Victoria last Sunday.

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by two once again. Peninsula scored again in the third, but the Isles held off their attempts to tie the score.

Ty Rennie made 20 saves in the Kerry Park net, while the Isles blasted Peninsula’s goalie with 49 shots.

Hosting the always-powerful Cougars on Sunday, the Isles saw Short open the scoring as the teams traded first-period goals.

Kerry Park went ahead in the second when Poets scored at 12:09 and Nick Kean added another one just 35 seconds later. The Cougars

tied the score in the third period, then notched the winner 67 seconds into overtime.

Williams was busy in net, facing 47 shots and stopping 43, while the Islanders had just 20 shots on the Victoria net.

Through 12 games, Kerry Park has compiled six wins, four losses and two overtime defeats to sit third in the VIJHL’s South Division.

The Isles visit the undefeated Campbell River Storm on Friday, then are home to the Westshore Wolves on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

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Ryan Hogg had five points over his first three Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League games last weekend as he helped the Kerry Park Islanders to two wins and an overtime loss.

Hogg, a Cowichan Valley Minor Hockey product who nearly cracked the Cowichan Valley Capitals’ full-time roster and who has played four games as an affiliate player, despite not turning 16 until December, set up both goals in a 2-1 road win over the Peninsula Panthers on Friday, notched a powerplay goal and an assist in a 3-2 victory over the Panthers at home on Saturday, and recorded another assist in Sunday’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Victoria Cougars.

Hogg’s first assist came on Cam Nickerson’s powerplay goal in the first period of Friday’s game. The Panthers responded with a goal of their own early in the second period, but the Isles quickly restored the lead on Kyle Green’s goal, and held on for the win. Leighton Williams was near-perfect, stopping 35 of 36 shots for the win.

On Saturday, Hogg got the Islanders off to a strong start, opening the scoring with a powerplay goal, which was followed later in the first period by Cody Short’s even-strength marker.

The Panthers scored 50 seconds into the second period, but rookie Patrick Poets put the Isles ahead

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The Cowichan Valley Capitals improved their play steadily during last weekend’s three-game road trip to the B.C. Hockey League’s Interior Division, but not enough to come home with any points.

“We didn’t get rewarded for anything,” head coach Bob Beatty said. “Three losses is three losses.”

The Caps found themselves trailing 1-0 15 seconds in and 3-0 after the first period of Friday’s game against the Smoke Eaters in Trail, and never quite regained their footing, losing that game 62, then falling 2-1 to the Vernon Vipers on Saturday and 5-3 to the West Kelowna Warriors on Sunday.

“We didn’t start off well,” Beatty said. “We played better, I thought, on Saturday, and probably our best game was on Sunday, but there are no rewards for coming close.”

The Caps trailed the Smokies 5-0 before Ryan Burton finally got them on the board at 11:20 of the second. Trail scored a shorthanded goal less than a minute into the third period to restore the five-goal lead, and the Caps added another one when Sean Harrison scored with 40 seconds left in the game.

Lane Michasiw started the game but lasted just four minutes and eight seconds before being pulled after allowing three

goals on six shots. Matt Zentner played the remainder of the game and stopped 40 of 43 shots.

On Saturday, the Vipers scored in the first and second periods, and the Caps didn’t get a puck past Vernon’s goalie until 18:47 of the third period, when Jesse Neher potted his second of the season. Zentner was back between the pipes and stopped 36 of 38 shots.

On Sunday, the Caps gave up the first goal, but evened things up when defenceman Skylar Pacheco scored on the powerplay precisely at the 11-minute mark. The Warriors scored three straight, including a powerplay goal and two shorthanded markers, before the Caps responded again with a goal from Thomas Gobeil, and then Pacheco’s second of the game. They pushed to tie the score, but gave up an empty-netter. Michasiw made 22 saves on 26 shots.

Beatty was pleased with his goaltenders over the course of the weekend.

“We let Lane hang out to dry early in the game on Friday against Trail, but generally it was strong,” he said. “I was happy with our netminding.”

The Caps are now 1-6 on the season. They still have two more road games — against the Victoria Grizzlies on Wednesday and Nanaimo Clippers on Friday — before finally returning home to host the Coquitlam Express at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

1914-2014

Cowichan Goes to War"

The Citizen is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War and the fact that Duncan and the Cowichan Valley had the highest enlistment per capita of all of Canada.

Incredibly, it’s been estimated that one of every six residents served in uniform during those horrendous years, 1914-18. The names on the Duncan Cenotaph attest to the high cost of that conflict, the so-called war to end all wars.

You can help Chronicles columnist T.W. Paterson by submitting photos and copies of pertinent documents, letters, reminiscences, etc. of family members who served in the WW1 for possible inclusion in Cowichan Goes To War c/o The Citizen.

This invitation is open to all readers whose family member(s) served in any of the Canadian and Commonwealth military services during the First World War, not just those who were resident in the Cowichan Valley at that time.

Publication Date: November 2014 Advertisers and community groups are given the opportunity to promote themselves and support this semi-hard cover commemorative publication.

Join us in bringing this new book of Chronicles to life. Advertising rates are available upon request. Contact your sales representative or e-mail: sskolos@cowichanvalleycitizen.com

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