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Liner sinking sparked anti-German sentiment LIVING, Page 15
Cow High boys locked in for B.C. tournament SPORTS, Page 33
Teacher gets trip of a lifetimeLEXI BAINAS CITIZEN
Valley teacher Janet Ruest has scored the experience of a lifetime: she’s been chosen from among 2,700 North American educators to join a National Geographic expedition.
She’ll be visiting the Galapa-gos Islands in September as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow on the Lindblad Expeditions ship, National Geographic Endeavour.
A teacher at Chemainus Sec-ondary since 1994, she’s just returned from a weekend in Washington, D.C., where, at National Geographic Headquar-ters, she met the other 34 people chosen as teaching fellows for 2015.
For Ruest, an enthusiastic life-long learner, it’s a dream come true.
“I’ve always loved geography. I used to look at a map of the world and think, gee, it looks like a puzzle. Doesn’t this fit here and that fit there? And that was long before I knew about plate tectonics,” she said.
She always wanted to be a teacher, too, and chose geog-raphy as a subject to accom-pany the physical education she already knew she wanted
to teach. Her high school social studies
teacher made a huge difference in her life.
“She would come back after traveling and tell us stories,really personalize the experi-ence. It made me want to go out and see the world. My goal in high school was to go to everysingle continent. I have one left now: Antarctica.”
Her school experience also gave her an enquiring mind.
“I’ve always wondered why. Why is that mountain thatshape? Why do we have earth-quakes here and not there?
Dancers shake to the rhythm in Duncan’s City Square last Saturday as the Shimmy Mob, a fundraiser for Cowichan Women Against Violence, takes to the Farmers Market. The Shimmy Mob also stopped at the Lake Cowichan Country Grocer, Cobble Hill Curves and the Community Farm Store. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
Daycare emptied as man arrestedKEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Police evacuated a nearby daycare and sought help from a tactical unit as they arrested a known dangerous offender on
Tuesday afternoon.Acting on a tip they received
earlier in the day, police located 35-year-old Nathan Myles in a residence in the 3000 block of Sprott Road, north of Duncan.
Police say that “alleged addi-tional violent offences” had been committed by Myles at the Sprott Road home on Tuesday.
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Janet Ruest
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Friends raising funds for grieving familyLEXI BAINAS CITIZEN
Friends of Deana Hill are rally-ing around to help the Lake Cowichan woman’s family after she succumbed to cancer May 13, following a tough battle.
Sister-in-law Danielle Cage shared with the Citizen Thurs-day: “She lost her battle early this morning and is now at peace. Family and friends will be noti-fied by this evening.”
Aliya Khan, a good friend of Deana’s, took up the cause late last month and started a gofund-me campaign that has already raised more than $10,000 towards its goal of $15,000. You can find it at www.gofundme.com/smders on the Internet.
“I want to help out this family as much as I can at this heart-breaking time,” she said on the appeal site.
Life for the family “started off like a fairytale,” Khan said.
Deana, 40, had married her high school sweetheart Bryan Hill.
“Together they had three hand-some boys: Tristin, Trey, and Riley. They are now 18, 15 and 13 years old.
“Life was great. They both par-
ticipated in the kids’ baseball. Bryan was coach for the team as well as president. However, he had had to step down due to his wife’s illness,” she said.
Meanwhile, Deana served on the parents’ committee at A.B. Greenwell Elementary School and volunteered with Sparks and Brownies as well, even though she had no girls of her own.
“Any spare moments were spent together as a family,” Khan said.
All that altered just under a year ago.
“With a blink of an eye every-thing changed. Deana was diag-nosed July 10, 2014 with inflam-matory breast cancer. She spent nine months doing extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments only to now find out that the battle is just too strong and they are all out of options. [In April,] after having numerous tests, scans, and MRIs they have learned that the disease has now spread to her bone marrow, and the battle is just too strong to fight this dreadful monster.”
That’s not the only tragedy this family has had to endure.
Deana “just lost her father on March 31 to acute AML leukemia
[which was only] diagnosed the previous month. On the day of his celebration, Deana was taken to Cowichan District Hospital due to spinal pain but was able to get a pass to join her family at a dev-astating time,” Khan said.
Bryan is still working but because of his wife’s illness and caring for her and their three boys he has had to take many days off and what vacation time he had.
“He was just recently grant-ed compassionate stress leave and had to take a huge pay cut. Expenses have added up and the last thing the family needs is financial stress.,” she said.
In addition, a bottle drive to raise money for the family is still going ahead. It’s scheduled for May 30, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Saywell Park in Lake Cowichan.
Her brother has been over-whelmed by the outpouring of support, Cage said this week and she is passing on the following comment from him: “We greatly appreciate everyone’s generos-ity. It has helped me be able to spend this time with Deana. No words can express how much it is appreciated.”
Deana Hill receives loving kisses from her three sons in this recent picture. The Lake Cowichan woman’s many friends are rallying to help her and her family through a very rough time. [SUBMITTED]
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They did not give any further details.Myles was wanted in connection with a series
of violent offences, including a serious assault
on an 18-year-old Duncan woman.Knowing that Myles is prone to violence, the
North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP requested assist-ance from the Island’s tactical unit.
“Given the violent history of the individualinvolved in this case, we deployed the Island Dis-trict RCMP Emergency Response Team to assist us with this arrest,” Island District RCMP spokes-person Cpl. Darren Lagan said. “Their expertise ensures that arrests of this nature are conductedefficiently and safely, increasing the likelihood ofa peaceful resolution for all involved.”
The nearby Parkside Daycare, which occupies the former Somenos Rural Traditional Schoolbuilding, was evacuated during the arrest.
“Out of an abundance of caution, the occupants of a nearby daycare facility were moved to a safelocation away from this property, prior to officers making contact with the suspect,” Lagan said. “The cooperation of the children, their parents,and the daycare staff is appreciated.”
Myles was arrested without incident, and will remain in police custody until he appears incourt. He is facing charges of harassment, unlaw-ful confinement, assault with a weapon, assaultcausing bodily harm, two counts of assault, and four counts of uttering threats. The date for his next appearance has not been set.
Wanted man arrested in Duncan by RCMP units without incident DAYCARE EMPTIED, From Page 1
Nathan Myles was arrested after a tip from the public led police to a Duncan home. [SUBMITTED]
KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
The drivers of a logging truck and dump truck were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after their vehicles collided on the Malahat Highway Wednesday morning, causing problems for the morning commute.
The Shawnigan Lake RCMP responded to the scene at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and South Shawnigan Lake Road at 6:45 a.m., along with
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Both vehicles were heading south when the collision occurred.
Traffic on the Malahat was reduced to one lane with alternat-ing north- and southbound traffic for about three hours while crews worked to investigate and clear the scene.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Witnesses are encouraged to contact the Shawni-gan Lake RCMP at 250-743-5514.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT DELIVERS MAGIC
Jake West juggles machetes while standing atop a ladder during the Murray Hatfield magic show presented by the Duncan Volunteer Fire Department at the Cowichan Theatre last Saturday. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
School district says goodbye to Joe RhodesLEXI BAINAS CITIZEN
In a brief but heartfelt address to the audience following his final school board meeting on Tuesday, May 5, retiring schools superintendent Joe Rhodes said he almost wished he was younger so he could watch the Cowichan Valley school district grow.
“We have here some of my greatest advocates and my greatest adversaries in the same room all at the same time and I just want to take this opportun-ity to thank everybody for eight wonderful years in the district,” he said.
He thanked reps from the Cowi-chan Valley Teachers Federa-tion, CUPE, Steelworkers, prin-cipals’ group, his own team, the parents and more, praising them all for doing the best they could with the money provided.
“Everybody in this room knows that the dollars need to be more and we all advocate for that in the ways that we can,” he said.
“To the board, I wish I was younger. It would be an abso-lute delight to spend the next four years with you. I can’t say enough how happy it makes me
feel to know that our district is in good hands and of the great work that you will do. I feel a bit short-changed because I feel we’ve been this incredible gar-dening team for the last four or five years.
“We’ve cut the trees down, we’ve blown up the stumps, we’ve got the rocks out, we’ve tilled the soil and we’ve planted some really neat seeds. And I don’t get to watch them grow. But thank you for all that,” Rhodes said, to
a standing ovation.Board Chair Candace Spils-
bury replied, “We admire you and your dedication, your cour-age and your achievements. We have improved. When you look at our transition rates, our grad rates that you brought forward tonight, I’m impressed with those and it’s all been during your watch.
“I think we’re also impressed with your efforts around vulner-able learners and what you and your team went through during restructuring and rebuilding. I think we’re in a very fine place now to grow some beautiful flowers with Rod [Allen, newly hired superintendent]. That was one of the attractions for him to come here; you built that with us and everyone has come to appreciate you,” she said.
Trustee Rob Hutchins also praised the superintendent’s work towards keeping students in high school so they can gradu-ate and Trustee Elizabeth Croft added that, in giving firm back-ing to the Cowichan Valley Open Learning Co-operative, Rhodes was offering new hope to stu-dents who might otherwise have left the school system entirely.
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We cannot continue to live as we have
Re: ‘Why has the price of gas not come down?’ by Greg Mccallum
The price of extracting oil or natural gas from tar sands and fracking is not profitable at less than approximately $70-80 per barrel. Those extraction com-panies, including the major oil companies, have been losing money steadily, even at $100/bar-rel due to the costs associated with financing the extraction.
Many of those oil company profits have been put right back into the search for new sources of oil. It is likely that within 10 years, we will not have the financial ability to extract the amounts of energy that we are using today. There is no phys-ical law that will allow us to continue to live the way we have been living since 1900.
There are hopeful delusions, such as, “surely someone will think of something, why there’s no REAL cheap energy problem, it is the evil rich or those nasty foreigners; maybe the Tesla bat-tery and electric cars will save us, we deserve to live as we do”.
I’m not sure that this planet really cares what a few bil-lion people think we deserve. Physical limits described by the paper Limits to Growth have been derided, demonized, and laughed at again and again by those who do not understand the nature of physical reality.
To quote: “Limits to Growth is a study about the future of our planet...” It is a Cassandra, but the thing is, Cassandra was right. Fascinating reading for those willing to question. (www.clubofrome.org/?p=326) It is more true today than when it was written in the early 1970s.
Dirk OuelletteCobble Hill/Mill Bay
Time for gas prices to become election issue
The letter in last week’s paper by Greg McCallum on the way we are being price-gouged for gas was interesting.
It’s nice to see that someone actually realizes there is some-thing severely wrong with our system of setting fuel prices. Basically, as I see it, this type of consumer abuse is a result of our government’s failure to act in the interests of its citizens.
As Mr. McCallum states, other countries with large oil reserves control the price of fuel and are not at the mercy of speculators. I know for a fact that in Vene-zuela gas prices are controlled to the equivalent of around 30 cents per litre.
Even though the price of a bar-rel of oil is a strictly arbitrary number, there has always been a ratio between this and the pump price. When oil was at around $130 a barrel a couple of years ago we were paying about $1.30 per litre for gas. Now that oil is between $50 and $60 we pare paying $1.22. This ratio has obviously been abandoned and skewed drastically against the consumer.
While I hesitate to use the word corrupt when referring to our federal government, its refusal to act on this matter for the benefit of Canadians leaves me with a very distrustful feeling. However, the way the tax on fuel is charged is a very powerful disincentive for federal action, as the government col-
lects more tax, as a percentage, the higher the pump price.
I have been hoping for many years to see government control on fuel prices become an elec-tion issue. We have another chance to make some demands on the parties in the fall elec-tion, but given the apathy of many voters I am not optimistic about future gas prices.
K. BeaumontDuncan
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A recent troubling trend is finally having some ser-ious consequences for at
least one perpetrator.You’ve probably read the story
or seen the viral footage of a CityNews reporter in Toronto confronting so-called sports fans outside a venue over their desire to harass media personal-ities on-air.
These guys operate by invad-ing live tapings, shoving themselves into the camera frame, sometimes grabbing the reporter, and yelling a par-ticularly vile phrase laced with obscenities.
It’s also a rape threat, though we doubt these morons see it as such. Mindless is almost too kind a description of their thought processes.
If it was some innocuous phrase, we’d probably chuckle a bit, too. But it’s not.
The phrase itself is too revolt-ing to repeat here.
How has such a dimwitted thing caught on? Why are adult men, professionals even, wait-ing in the wings for a camera on which to enact their stupidity?
When confronted by the Toronto reporter, these guys expressed the idea that their
workplace sexual harassment was hilarious.
It’s bizarre. It’s behaviour one might
expect young teenagers to find amusing and “daringly” engage in, not grown men.
Have we become a country of perpetual adolescents who remain emotionally frozen at the age when it was cool to hang out the window of their buddy’s car and catcall women?
Newsflash: girls don’t think that’s awesome.
It’s even less awesome when you’re a 20-, 30- or 40-something year old man acting like you’ve
never completed puberty.The sexual violence towards
women expressed in the phrase chosen is also disturbing.
Would you really want some-one yelling that at your mom or your sister or your daughter?
Now one of the offenders in Toronto is being fired from his job, losing his $100,000 per year paycheque.
Not so funny anymore. It’s never great to hear about
someone’s life being ruined because of one boneheaded moment, but his comments showed remorse was not on the menu otherwise.
Still, zero-tolerance has a ten-dency to throw the babies out with the bathwater.
It would have been prefer-able for an education process to take place. We need these men to realize that what they are doing is wrong — not just a fun stunt — and creates a hostile environment not only for the newsperson trying to do a broadcast, but for all women within range of hearing.
But these men do need to be identified and singled out.
If that’s the only way to stop this ugly virus from spreading, then we say, name and shame.
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Strategic plan for vulnerable children desperately needed
Re: Valley children top Valley concern
Recently we read about the presentation that Dr. Hassel-back made to the Cowichan Valley Regional District in regards to the health chal-lenges the community faces. Dr. Hasselback is quite clearly concerned about the wellbeing of children in our community, teens amongst them, as his strongest argument was for the CVRD to create strategic plan to deal with this most vulnerable sector.
We at Growing Together, for 22 years now, have been assist-ing and supporting these young teens and their children.
While some teens may be deal-ing with acne, school exams and planning and getting excited about what to wear to their graduation, these young women are struggling with diaper rash, the complexities of a new vocabulary, loss of friendships and when will they ever get
something new to wear?While others are getting the
rest so very badly needed by teens, these teens are up at night dealing with colicky, teething or even sick babies.
While yet others are consid-ering choices such as future schooling or occupation, which may or may not impact their lives forever, these young people are being asked today to make decisions that will.
What about the start and often frightening realization that one is responsible for another’s life, wellbeing, future?
All pretty daunting tasks for someone as young as 15!
Hard? You bet it’s hard and they need and deserve all the help we as a community can afford them.
As a small non-profit, we are limited in funds to do more but more is needed to break the pat-tern of poverty and vulnerabil-ity that may lay ahead for the children of these parents.
Each and every year, we are doing our best to provide high quality childcare so they can complete their education, food for their kids so they are assured
of a nutritious meal, clothing swaps, parenting guidance and supportive counselling to help them face some pretty adult issues in their still very young lives.
By completing their education, our teen parents are modeling the importance of commitment and determination. Graduating from high school puts them on the road to having a career that will support their children in so very many ways.
We will continue on doing what we can and we are confi-dent that the CVRD will see the wisdom of creating the strategic plan to deal with all of the vul-nerable children of the Cowi-chan Valley.
As well, we look forward to other positive community wide solutions for the problems that beset our Valley’s children including the report’s identified significant and ongoing high rates of teen pregnancy and resulting parenthood.
Katherine Barwickvice chairGrowing Together Child and Parent Society
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Cloverleaf was never proposalI am not quite sure how James Watt,
in reality, read that I proposed a clover-leaf for the Duncan crawl/TCH! What I proposed was a short-term fix to a big problem, using regular intersections at both Trunk Road and Beverly Street and an overpass at Coronation Avenue along with a pedestrian overpass at James Street.
The faster vehicles can go through town the less pollution would be expelled, stopping and starting burns a lot more fuel than a constant speed.
The Trans Canada Highway already divides Duncan. There is no doubt in my mind that a bypass will eventually have to be built; this won’t happen until we vote in a Liberal MLA — that likely won’t happen in the near future.
John Robertson Duncan
Just don’t ask for tax supportCatherine Wallace relies on parroting
Peter Nix’s rhetoric — none of which is new and some of which is not true.
For example, it is true that Germany currently leads the world in use of solar power — largely because its hydro power is several times more costly than here. Further, Germany is shifting back to coal-fired power which has proven to be less costly and far more reliable than its solar power experiment.
If Ms. Wallace wants to install solar power, good on her. Just don’t ask for tax dollar support.
Pat MulcahyCowichan Valley Carbon Mythbuster
Three per cent tax increase is the real issue
All this agonizing over North Cowichan council’s decision to shift the tax burden from resi-dential to commercial taxpayers addresses the wrong problem. The real question that should be asked is how did council let the tax bill balloon by more than three per cent in the first place?
Even a quick glance at the budget reveals expenditures that can only be described as frivolous, impulsive and unnecessary. Others have already questioned why some sidewalk work is being done, or at least done now; and why staff have been allowed to create, incremen-tally over two years, an entire com-munications function that many would agree is wholly unnecessary and wasteful.
And as for so-called grants in aid, a $162,000 grab bag of goodies,
most of which should never have been approved in the first place, council must be held accountable for that.
The debate over distribution is important and its impact is real, but the five year financial plan that calls for three per cent increases every single year is the real issue. Let’s focus on that.
Tom MastersChemainus
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“I’ve questioned everything and I try to bring that back to my students as well, that question-ing, but also that what we do has an impact on the world,” said Ruest. “That we’re not isolated. We’re interdependent. We need each other. And students know that nowadays. They want to make a difference.”
Her goal is, “How can we as educators support that? How can we make them citizens of the 21st century, of the world, not just citizens of Che-mainus, or B.C. or even Canada?”
But thinking about how we’re all intercon-nected brings her right back to the Galapagos, where Victorian scientist Charles Darwin made his amazing discoveries.
“That’s why it’s almost such a perfect place for me. It is kind of full circle, bringing that back not just to my students but trying to get that mes-sage of interdependence out to teachers, other schools. And that’s part of my job as Grosvenor Teacher Fellow for the next year or so, to do out-reach for different community groups, to go to schools and spread the word about geographic literacy. That’s the whole concept of the teacher fellowships with National Geographic and Lind-blad Expeditions,” she said.
The teaching fellow program, now nine years old, has grown from when it started as a thank you from Lindblad ownership to honour National Geographic’s Gil Grosvenor for years of educat-ing the world about geography.
Ruest had sent in four essays as part of her application for a fellowship but then, as the weeks ticked by, she’d given up hope of joining an expedition.
“It was amazing when I got the phone call. It was 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Feb. 7, I had just returned from a run. She said, ‘This is Mary from National Geographic. Would this be a good time to talk?’ When I heard I was going to the Galapa-gos, my reaction was: Wow, they picked me!”
During her recent trip to D.C., Ruest met plenty of excited people.
“We were all like giddy little children, anticipat-ing what we would be able to do.”
The first members of the group left Tuesday, May 6 on a circumnavigation of the British Isles.
Lindblad runs its trips along the lines of the old Jacques Cousteau expeditions, offering excur-sions on zodiacs to remote spots, diving, snorkel-ing, chances to learn from expert naturalists and watch National Geographic photographers and videographers at work.
The people in Ruest’s 2015 group of fellows will be sailing right until December when the last of them, the ones going to Antarctica, take to the waves. In the intervening months, groups will be visiting the arctic, Greenland and the Galapagos Islands.
Ruest’s own trip to the Galapagos Islands is not until September 11-20. She’s going with one other person, an educator from Louisiana, joining the others who are taking that particular Lindblad expedition on board the National Geographic Endeavour.
“This will be the first larger grouping going to the Galapagos as part of this program. We’re very excited to be the forerunners for our fellow-ship,” she said.
“What’s cool about this is that we’re going to be learning so much. I’m always taking courses or workshops, trying to change things I do in my classroom to make it more interesting for my stu-dents. We’ll have six to eight experts on flora and fauna on our ship, taking us out every day. The intrinsic value is amazing.”
Finally, Ruest is thrilled that her success shows someone can get there, even from a school as small as Chemainus Secondary.
“People may think if you teach at a small school you might not be chosen. But if you put your-self out there and apply for something as presti-gious as the Grosvenor fellowship and make it, it’s inspirational. You keep going and trying to improve with learning all your life long.”
Ruest ‘giddy’ to head to GalapagosTEACHER, From Page 1
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ROB DOUGLAS AND ROGER HART SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN
Economic development is an area of growing inter-est to local governments
across Canada — especially in this age of environmental deg-radation, increasing income inequality, and scarcity of good jobs.
With limited tools at our disposal, how do we create a healthy and prosperous econ-omy where regular working people and the most vulner-able members of our society — not just a select few — are able to reap the benefits?
Like many other local gov-ernments, the Cowichan Val-ley Regional District (CVRD) runs an economic develop-ment body that is involved in a range of activities from sup-porting the agricultural and tourism sectors, to develop-ing a strong regional brand, and attracting and retaining investment.
Established in 2001, Eco-nomic Development Cowichan (EDC) has produced a number of impressive studies and strategies, and has raised the profile of certain key indus-tries, with culinary tourism being a prime example.
Yet it has faced intense criti-cism in recent years, due to its struggles in reporting results, the perception that too many of its studies sit on the shelf collecting dust, and its dys-functional relationship with the Economic Development Commission — an advisory body set up to provide the CVRD Board with guidance
on economic development policies.
An economic development study prepared for the CVRD earlier this year found “a high level of frustration amongst function participants at all levels stemming from a num-ber of systemic problems, but fundamentally failures to follow Board strategic direc-tion, failures to clarify roles and responsibilities, failures to pursue previously recom-mended corrective actions, and failure to communicate between the Board, the staff and the Economic Develop-ment Commission.”
Others have argued that Eco-nomic Development Cowichan has put too much emphasis on attracting and retaining investment — what many characterize as a boiler plate approach to economic develop-ment that essentially puts the outside investor on a white horse — rather than mobil-izing resources from within the community through local investment funds, training entrepreneurs to establish
their own businesses, or encouraging local ownership and small firms.
The evidence suggests that small may indeed be beauti-ful, as the late economist E.F. Schumacher wrote.
To quote the Harvard Busi-ness Review, “More small firms means more jobs. Cities relying on a few large non-local businesses have slower subsequent job growth than cities with an abundance of small firms.”
Now may be the perfect time to shift gears. The CVRD’s economic development func-tion is currently under review, and the newly elected Board is keen on exploring new ideas, having shown a willing-ness to re-think conventional approaches and consider alternatives.
Earlier this year, the City of Nanaimo’s former Chief Administrative Officer, Jerry Berry, reviewed the govern-ance of our regional economic development function.
Series to probe economic future
See LOCAL, Page 13
◆ ECONOMIC FUTURE PART 1
Rob Douglas Roger Hart
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They concluded that the CVRD board “has to first consider [its] collective vision for Economic Development.…[and] whether or not the economy and the environment can or should be admin-istratively separated, or should be seen as integrally linked. Sustainability typ-ically means economically, environment-ally, socially, and culturally”.
Eager to follow through on Berry’s recommendations, board members and their municipal counterparts recently participated in a day-long workshop with leaders of a provincial economic develop-ment association to learn about many of the conventional approaches local gov-ernment has taken towards stimulating their regional economies over the years. Informative? Yes. Inspiring? Not so much judging by the declining attendance as the day wore on.
The CVRD is now in discussions with former B.C. cabinet minister and current Vancity Director Bob Williams to hold an additional workshop that would present a fresh and radically different perspective on community economic development. Williams was one of the key architects in Vancity’s emergence as a powerhouse in community economic development in recent decades, is a well-known advocate for co-operatives and other alternative business models, and has developed a sophisticated vision on reviving B.C.’s forest industry by de-centralizing control of our forests and lands (and perhaps water) to the regional level.
So where do we go from here?We would argue that the old approach
to economic development has been cost-
ly, frustrating to staff and commission members alike and has produced few metrics that demonstrate any success. A new model is needed — one that is guided by a vision endorsed by municipal leaders; one that empowers citizens and our local businesses; one that respects the environment and leaves enough for future generations; one that allows the most vulnerable of our community to participate in the economy; and one that creates good jobs close to home.
We feel the CVRD should follow Five Big Ideas to guide its future community economic development: Small Business Support, Community Investment Funds, Local Ownership, Anchor Institutions, and Co-operatives.
All have proven effective in other parts of the world, and they could allow us to chart a new course.
Over the coming weeks, we will release a five-part series exploring each of these ideas and suggesting how the CVRD can move forward in creating a more pros-perous community where no one is left behind.
Rob Douglas is Director for the CVRD and Coun-cillor for the Municipality of North Cowichan. Roger Hart is a member of the CVRD’s Economic Development and Environment Commissions. The views expressed here are their own and do not necessarily represent those of the CVRD, its Commissions, or the Municipality of North Cowichan.
Local ownership, co-operatives are keySERIES, From Page 12 “We feel the CVRD should follow
Five Big Ideas...”ROB DOUGLAS AND ROGER HART
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Sinking of passenger liner sparked anti-German sentiment“Common sense and
restraint were never more needed than they are today.” —Cowi-chan Leader.
A full century later the sink-ing of the
Cunard passenger liner Lusitania by a German U-boat is remembered as one of the greatest maritime disasters of all time (1,198 men, women and children killed), as a crime against humanity, and as having influenced the ultimate decision of the United States to join the Allied nations against Germany during the First World War.
Even though the tragedy occurred off the south coast of Ireland half a world away, there was such outrage in Victoria that the resulting rioting and vandalism against citizens of German/Austrian origin had to be quelled by the military and police after the city’s mayor declared martial law.
In Duncan, just 35 miles dis-tant, the reaction was much more muted despite a damning editorial in the Cowichan Leader
which published a week later: “The past week has furnished an appalling example of what German ‘frightfulness’ can do. It will not stop at the sinking of the Lusitania or the out-rageous use of poison gases. Again the call comes to Canada to
organize every possible resource to meet a peril which is gener-ally underestimated...”
The newspaper went on to urge the U.S. to declare war on Germany because of the deaths of numerous American citizens aboard the Lusitania which had sailed unescorted from New York Harbour when passenger shipping was supposed to be exempt from attack: “Her repu-tation as a united nation is at stake.”
The riots and destruction of property and businesses oper-ated in Victoria by those of Austro-German ethnicity — even those of other nationalities with German-sounding names
Injured survivors of the torpedoed Lusitania in an Irish hospital. —Daily Mirror photo.See TARGETS, Page 16
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— were not repeated in the Cowichan Valley, a fact noted with satisfaction by the editor in a succeeding issue of the Leader: “It is to be regretted that there has arisen need to remind a section of the public that the inhuman acts of Germans in Europe must not be allowed to influence their relationships with those in our midst who do not bear names that are actually British.
“Atrocities on the part of our enemies do not advance their
cause one whit. Recrimination and reprisal will help neither their cause nor ours. If there be at large enemy aliens who should be interned that is the business of the Dominion Gov-ernment, and the public will be well advised to leave it to them. That this part of Ottawa’s busi-ness needs reorganizing should be apparent, even at 3,000 miles range.
“Recent atrocities and the belief that the authorities had bungled long enough were responsible for the late Victoria disturbances. In these troubles
there is no doubt that many innocent people suffered with the guilty [sic] and that the public will have to pay for the mistakes of the mob.
“There must be no repetition of these things in any part of Canada.
“Information has reached us that suspicion and idle talk have centred not only upon persons bearing names of foreign origin, but even upon those who are known to speak more than one European language. Two languages are spoken by most of the French-Canadians in our midst.
“When Dame Rumour fixes upon any of these loyal British subjects and associates them with the stigma of the ‘enemy alien,’ it should be plain to the most heedless that the bounds of reason have been passed. Common sense and restraint were never more needed than they are today.”
While urging restraint in the pub-lic’s reaction to Ger-man provocation, it’s obvious that the edi-tor believed that there were, in fact, danger-ous enemy aliens about thanks to gov-ernment “bungling.”
It should be pointed out that the First
World War was yet in its first of four years of bloodletting and that the Cowichan Val-ley, because of its high British ex-patriate population, would ultimately have the highest enlistment per capita in all of Canada. Thus it should come as no surprise to us that emotions — and suspicions — ran high, particularly after such outrages as the use of poison gas in the trenches and the sinking with-out warning of the Lusitania.
Among my many interviews over the years was that of the late Florence M. Padley, a survivor of the Lusitania with whom I became friends in the 1960s. The wife of a bank
employee, it has always stuck with me that she described the sound of the detonation of the first torpedo as the slamming of a vault door.
She recalled that there was no panic, that passengers were stunned, incredulous, that they’d been hit.
Even when the truth began to register few seemed to be alarmed, so convinced were they that a ship the size of the Lusi-tania — 790 feet long — wouldn’t sink. (Despite the fact that this was just three years after the Titanic —Ed.)
A second torpedo put that mistaken confidence to rest and sealed the ship’s doom. By the time the last survivors were rescued, 1,200 men, women and children — all of them civilians — were dead. It took two more years for the United States to enter the war. When the first Yankee troops poured into war-torn Europe, it was with the battle cry, “Remember the Lusitania!”
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• Island Savings members who love country music are looking at an exciting summer.
They are eligible for discounted pricing on full-event passes to Sunfest as a special promotion running until July 15 and there’s also the chance to win a VIP pack-age that includes the opportun-ity to meet Sunfest’s headliner, superstar Keith Urban.
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• The Vancouver Island Sikh Cultural Society has donated$3,000 to the Auxiliary to the Cowichan District Hospital.
“We have been consideringwhere this donation should go,”Auxiliary President Claire Wes-san said. “It would be appropriate to recognize not just this dona-tion but the continued support of the Sikh community. We received $4,500 last year and once a yearthe ladies from the Sikh commun-ity come together and make sam-osas, etc. that are given to us to sell at the hospital, a very popu-lar initiative. This year we were sold out in 10 minutes and made $1,000. They have volunteered to do this twice a year now.”
Valley Calendar
Miscellaneous• Low Tide Day in Cowichan Bay,
Saturday, May 16, 9:30 a.m. Beach seine in the eelgrass, quadrant survey for children and families, Kil-Pah-Las Beach. Community beach and trail clean-up, meet at Hecate Park. Both groups meet at Hecate Park at noon for food, music, fun.
• Cowichan Jacobin Reading Group in cooperation with The Joseph Mairs Memorial Committee hosting “Our Wood Our Oil: The Case For Public Democratic Ownership” Saturday, May 23, 1 p.m., Mercury Theatre, 331 Brae Rd., Duncan. Presenter: author and journalist Mitchell Anderson.
• Inner Peace Movement of Canada lectures Tuesday, May 26, Travelodge, Duncan. Trust Your Intuition semin-ar 1 and 7 p.m. Talks 90 minutes, $21 at the door. Learn about life purpose, angels, cycles of life. Info: www.inner-peacemovement.ca
• Cowichan Fish and Game Associa-tion hosts Canadian Firearm Safety course (PAL/RPAL) starting Friday, May 29. Info: Mike 250-748-0319 or [email protected]
• Giant SPCA Garage Sale Saturday, May 30, Sunday, May 31, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Cowichan Exhibition Grounds. All proceeds to local SPCA.
• École Cobble Hill Ecostravaganza celebrating World Environment Day, Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the school. Theme: Water. Yours to Protect.
• Koksilah Farmers Institute pres-ents Linda Gilkeson: Canning and Preserving workshop, June 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., The Hub, 2375 Kok-silah Rd. Limited seating. Contact [email protected] for info and registration. $40 fee.
• Love horses? Cowichan Therapeut-
ic Riding Association needs dedicated volunteers in lots of different areas. Help our special needs riders to reach their goals in the ring. No experience necessary, training provided. Info: 250-746-1028, email [email protected], web-site www.ctra.ca
• Friendly Visitors wanted! Volun-teer Cowichan program connects an isolated or lonely senior in the com-munity with a Friendly Visitor. Inter-ested? Call 250-748-2133.
• ShoDai Peace Chant new location Nichiren Peace Centre, Johnny Bear and Cambrai Road. Meditation Thurs-days, 7 p.m., Discovery Sunrise Sun-days, 10 a.m. Website: www.viretreats.com. Info: 250-710-7594. Email: [email protected]
• Duncan United Church Thrift Store, operating for 20 years, supports outreach programs. Great bargains, reasonable prices. Open Fridays, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Seniors• Dance to music from the 50s and
60s at Valley Seniors Centre, 198 Gov-ernment St., every Wednesday, 3-5 p.m., $5. Info: 250-746-4433.
• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre pan-cake breakfast Saturday, May 16, 9-11 a.m. Hosted by the Carpet Bowlers. $5.
• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre pot luck birthday party Saturday, May 16, 5-8:30 p.m. Entertainment.
• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre blood pressure clinic Wednesday, May 20, 9:30-11 a.m.
• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre soup and sandwich Wednesday, May 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., $5. Entertainment by Centre Belles Ladies Choir.
• Lake Cowichan 50 plus activity centre, 55 Coronation St., needs vol-
unteers of all ages. Info: 250-749-6121.• Lake Cowichan 50 plus activ-
ity centre, 55 Coronation St., holds bingo Wednesdays, 1 p.m., Sundays, 7 p.m. Volunteers welcome. Info: 250-749-6121.
• Attention Lake Cowichan! Rivernotes Women’s Choir meets Mondays, 6 p.m. at the Lake Cowi-chan Senior Centre. Lots of fun and a great vocal workout!
• Valley Seniors Activity Centre, 198 Government St., Duncan open 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. $20 per year. Carpet bowling, cribbage, billiards crafts, bridge, choir, bus trips on our own bus. Live music Mondays and Wed-nesdays 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Dances every 1st and 3rd Saturday evening 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Open to public for Bingo each Tuesday. Many special events throughout the year. Check out Monthly Newsletter at valley-seniors.org and consider member-ship if you’re 55 years or older. Info: 250-746-4433.Info: 250-746-4433 or www.valley-seniors.org
Recreation• All-ages chess club: all skill levels
and ages welcome to play and learn chess in supportive, fun environment. Mondays 6-8 p.m., Duncan library gathering place or available tables.
• Cowichan Fly Fishers meets 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Air Cadet Hall, Gibbins Road. Doors open 7 p.m. Open to all ages and skill levels. Info: www.cowichan-flyfishers.com
• Teen Yarn Craft Group, Duncan library, Thursdays, 5-6 p.m., ages 13-18. Learn to knit, crochet. Extra needles and yarn provided.
• Family storytime at Duncan
library Tuesdays, 10:30-11 a.m., ages 0-5 and families. Stories, songs, rhymes and fun.
• Art Film Night at Sylvan United Church, monthly double features $5. For info see Facebook page or sign up for distribution list at [email protected]
• Seniors Dragon Boating, Monday and Thursday mornings 9:30 a.m., Hecate Park. Info: [email protected]
• 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 avail-able. No partner necessary. Info: Josef 250-709-8583, [email protected]
• Cowichan Valley Scottish Country Dancing Thursday evenings 6:30-8 p.m., singles, couples, beginners wel-come, Chemainus Seniors Centre. Info: 250-748-9604.
Meetings• Cowichan Historical Society
meeting, May 21, 7:30 p.m., St. Peter’s Church Hall, Duncan. Speaker: Jim Ward of the Cobble Hill Historical Society on a project researching his-toric Cobble Hill properties.
• Branch 53 Legion meeting Sunday, May 24, 2 p.m., Duncan Community Lodge, Moose Road, Duncan. All members needed, important items for discussion and vote. Mark you calendar for June 21, 2 p.m., Thrifty Foods Duncan meeting room.
• Cowichan Valley Garden Club meets the second Wednesday of each month at St. John’s Anglican Church hall, 486 Jubilee St., Duncan, 7 p.m. Newcomers welcome. Info: 250-709-2608.
• Cowichan 950 Toastmasters meets Wednesdays 7-9 p.m., Island Savings
Centre, Duncan. Info: www.cowichan-toastmasters.com
Arts• Cherry Point Artists Spring Show
and Sale Friday, May 22 and Saturday,May 23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Duncan United Church. Framed and unframed art,pottery. Admission free.
• Ladysmith Camera Club presents “Dogs in Motion”, a how-to by Doug Bell, Saltair photographer. Tuesday,May 26, 7 p.m., Hardwick Hall, High Street at 3rd Ave., Ladysmith. Non-member $5 drop-in fee. Info: www.LadysmithCameraClub.com
• See the two-artists show, with works by Maple Bay Painters’ Bon-nie Schmaus and Catherine Taron,Valley Medical Centre, 335 Jubilee St., from April to June.
• Warmland Calligraphers meeton the second Tuesday of the month at 9 a.m.-noon, Mellor Hall, Cowichan Exhibition grounds. Info: [email protected] or http://members.shaw.ca/warmlandcalligraphers.
• Cherry Point artists weekly paint-ing sessions (September to June),Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Cowichan Exhibition fairgrounds. Experienced and beginners wel-come. Info: Jack 250-746-4795 or Olive 250-746-8020.
• Cowichan Valley Artisans yearround studio tour: 14 professional studios to explore. From Mill Bay to Ladysmith. www.cowichanvalleyarti-sans.com for details of each studio’s hours. Admission free.
• Enjoy ‘Ways of Writing’ - short stories, memoirs, poems - Wednes-days, 12:24-3 p.m. at the Seniors Centre in Lake Cowichan. More info: 250-749-4176.
Island Savings representatives of Duncan present Nirm Blatchford, vice president of development for Easter Seals BC & Yukon, a cheque for $2,495. The donation was raised during their 2014 Jeans Day events to help send local kids from Duncan and the Cowichan Valley area to Easter Seals Camp Shawnigan, a specialized camp for kids with disabilities on the Island. “Thank you for the great work that Easter Seals provides for families living in our communities and the good work you do at Camp Shawnigan,” said Island Savings Community Relations Specialist Chris Waddell. “Your support and donation will help local children with disabilities discover their abilities at camp this summer,” said Blatchford. [SUBMITTED]
ISLAND SAVINGS SENDS KIDS TO CAMP WITH GIFT
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DUNCAN CHRIST IAN
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Annual Open House & Student Expo
• PreK - Grade 12 Student Displays • Grade 6/7 Science Fair• Talent Show - 6:00-7:00pm • Food served 4:00-6:00pm (Gluten free options) Desserts served 7:00-8:00pm Proceeds go to Grade 12 Mexico Mission onelifeonechance.ca• Fun activities throughout the night• Tours upon request
the Gifts & Talents of DCS Students!Celebrate
May 21st, 2015 3-8pm
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The British Columbia Chicken Marketing Board is accepting immediate applications to fill FIVE spots for persons to grow chicken on Vancou-ver Island within 100 kilometers of Cowichan Bay Area. Each of the five successful applicants will receive 11,189 kilograms live weight per 8 week cycle of primary quota for the purposes of growing broiler chicken. The five spots will be filled on a first come first serve basis. Appli-cation packages can be requested from the BC-CMB by phone at 604-859-2868 or by e-mail at [email protected]
Complete applications must be received by the BCCMB no later than 4:00 p.m. on July 15, 2015 Incomplete applications will be returned without consideration. Applications must be returned to: BC Chicken Marketing Board Atten-tion Mrs. Kathy Erickson Suite 101-32450 Simon Avenue, Abbotsford BC, V2T 4J2.
Application forms and the regulations regard-ing the New Entrant Program for growers can be downloaded from www.bcchicken.ca. If you have any questions or would like the ap-plication package mailed to you, please contact the BC Chicken Marketing Board by phone at (604) 859-2868.
Ken & KelliWe put your Best Interest First
Janicki Anderson
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Three years in, western bluebirds thriving in ValleyLESLIE MARIAN NEILSON SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN
Western bluebirds had been extinct from Vancouver Island for almost 20 years when a group of local conserva-tion organizations came together in 2012 to reintroduce the species to their former range, starting in the Cowichan Valley.
Now, three years into the Bring Back the Bluebirds project, western bluebirds can once again be found flying, nesting and breeding in the Cowichan Valley, with additional sightings from Nanaimo to Victoria.
“We are very happy with the success of this reintroduction effort,” says Jemma Green, the Bring Back the Bluebirds pro-ject coordinator. “Each year the number of birds returning to the Valley increas-es. In 2013 we had four birds return; in 2014 there were eight; and this year we have 20 and counting. And just last week the first nestlings of 2015 hatched. There are six of them and so far they are doing well.”
Once common in Garry oak meadows and savannahs throughout the region, the western bluebird population in Brit-ish Columbia became extirpated (locally extinct) in 1995. Habitat loss and compe-tition for nest holes with exotic birds are among the reasons for the loss of these tropical-looking songbirds.
Bring Back the Bluebirds is led by the Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team, in partnership with the Nature Conserv-ancy of Canada, Ecostudies Institute,
the Province of B.C. and the Cowichan Valley Naturalists.
The first pairs of western bluebirds brought up to Vancouver Island in 2012 were released on the Nature Conserv-ancy of Canada’s Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve in Duncan. Each year since then some of the birds have returned to this site to nest and raise their young. This year is no exception.
Two pairs and one unpaired male can be seen regularly at the Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve. One of the paired males
fledged at the preserve in 2012 and has returned three years in a row to breed there.
The other paired male and the unpairedmale are both his offspring; both fledged at the preserve in 2013.
“We host monthly bluebird survey vol-unteer events at the Cowichan GarryOak Preserve and around the Valley,and every time we have been able to spot some bluebirds,” said Katy Fulton, whocoordinates volunteer events for the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
A female western bluebird in the Cowichan Valley. [BILL PENNELL PHOTO]
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t par
tici
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anci
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tc.,
are
not
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s of
fer
may
not
be
rede
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for
cas
h an
d m
ay n
ot b
e co
mbi
ned
wit
h ce
rtai
n ot
her
cons
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ince
ntiv
es a
vaila
ble
on G
M v
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les.
Gen
eral
Mot
ors
of C
anad
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mit
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eser
ves
the
righ
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am
end
or t
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inat
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who
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par
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t an
y ti
me
wit
hout
pri
or n
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iona
l con
diti
ons
and
limit
atio
ns a
pply
. See
dea
ler
for
deta
ils. ^
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omes
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Few things can spoil a day at sea faster than a bout of seasickness. People from all walks of life can experience motion sickness, whether it occurs on the water, in a moving car or even on an amusement park ride. Those who have experienced it may avoid activities that spark symptoms or may be eager to fi nd ways to prevent it in the future.Evidence suggests that seasickness can aff ect nearly all the passengers on a cruise ship during rough water conditions. Seasickness often occurs as a result of a confl ict of bodily senses. A fl uid-fi lled canal in the inner ear called the vestibular system controls a person’s sense of balance, telling the body that it is moving. When you are in an enclosed ship cabin or not paying attention to the moving ship around you, the ears will tell you that you are moving, but your eyes may advise the brain that you’re not. This confl ict can cause your body to be out of balance and can also create discomfort in the digestive system and feelings of nausea.Researchers at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California, reported in 2003 that 70 percent of research subjects with severe motion sickness had abnormalities of the vestibular system. These abnormalities are often found in patients diagnosed with migraines or Meniere’s disease. Therefore, if you are prone to headaches, you may have a heightened risk for motion sickness.There are many diff erent symptoms of seasickness. These include fatigue, cold sweats, headache, increased salivation, vomiting, rapid breathing, diffi culty concentrating, panic, frequent yawning, and even a buzzing sensation.If you are interested in preventing seasickness, there are some things to try. It may take some trial and error to fi nd the method that works for you, as there is no universal cure for suff erers of seasickness.* Avoid troublesome foods. Do not eat greasy or acidic foods or dairy products several hours before traveling. It’s best to avoid heavy foods that will be sloshing around in your stomach when setting sail.
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* Stay in the center of the boat, which is often the steadiest area. The bow and the stern will have more motion and can contribute to seasickness.
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Many people who go boating or sailing experience motion sickness. It is estimated that
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Recreational boating reaches its peak when the weather warms up and people take to waterways in droves. Spending a day on the water enjoying the scenery or trying your luck at fi shing are popular pastimes. Following proper boating practices and etiquette can protect everyone onboard. Although ensuring passenger safety should be a priority, safeguarding against environmental impacts while boating also should be a concern.Marinas and various marine areas can become contaminated with pollutants generated from boating activities. Boat cleaning, fueling and marine head discharge are just a few of the pollutants that can fi nd their ways into the water. A past study in the marine reserve of Cape Creus in the Mediterranean Sea found that boat anchoring also is a considerable threat to marine habitats, as vulnerable ecologies can be damaged by anchors.Although there are regulations in place to protect marine life and ecosystems, these rules aren’t always adhered to. Recreational boaters can do their part to keep oceans, bays, rivers, and lakes pristine by adhering to some sound advice.• Reduce engine exhaust. Whenever possible, row, paddle or use sails to decrease engine use and subsequent exhaust. When engines must be used, do not idle unnecessarily. Always steer clear of the aft of the boat, where fuel fumes and carbon monoxide can cause serious health implications.
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Three days of family fun are scheduled at Lake Cowichan as the community hosts Fam-ily Heritage Days 2015 from May 15-17.
Several venues, including the Kaatza Station Museum and the Kaatza Art Group show at Centennial Hall, are open all three days, but there are also special events.
These include the annual Seniors Luncheon Friday at the Seniors Centre, starting at 11 a.m., with speeches by the Lady of the Lake candidates at noon.
Following that, there is the grand opening of the new Ts’uubaa-asatx Town Square at 1 p.m. with the mayor and council in attendance.
At Youbou, there’s family bowling and a historical display at Youbou Heritage Lanes from 6-9 p.m.
On Saturday, May 16, the new Lake Cowichan Farmers Mar-ket kicks off from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Ts’uubaa-asatx Town Square with the Lady of the Lake candidates attending.
In addition to lots of vend-ors, CICV Radio Cowichan will be broadcasting live onsite, there will also be face paint-ing, a Lake Cowichan Scouts fundraising hot dog sale and a chance to see the First Nations
carver who is working on a pole for the town.
Just down the street, at Say-well Park, there will be the annual plant sale and hanging basket sale under the gazebo.
The popular Heritage Days Logging Truck Parade leaves Darling Tire at 11 a.m. and winds along South Shore Road to Saywell Park, where there is a great chance to see the trucks close up.
A little later, also at Saywell Park, there’s a Dog Parade & Show starting at noon. You can enter for a $2 donation to the Cowichan Lake Animal Res-cue Society.
For little children there will also be colouring and a fish pond starting at noon, run by the Cowichan Lake District Chamber of Commerce. You can look for Lady of the Lake candidates there, too, and if
you’re hungry, Radio Cowichan is selling hot dogs by donation.
Local awards will be handed out at the Information Centre starting at 11:30 a.m.
By Sunday, at Saywell Park, the Kaatza Station Museum will be winding down its week-end presentation of displays on the CN Railway and the 70th anniversary of the Lady of the Lake as well as the popu-lar IWA Wilmer Gold Historical Photos.
A sale of Heritage Trunk Treasures takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a Commun-ity Picnic from 1-3 p.m. at the Bell Tower School.
There’s also a colouring con-test, whistle blowing and a scavenger hunt for the children and, for garden enthusiasts, a self-guided tour of the nearby Rhododendron Memorial Point Ideal Road Park.
Lake celebrates Heritage Days
The logging truck parade is always a popular part of the weekend, as people can see the big rigs up close. [CITIZEN FILE]
PROVIDENCE PLANTS A HIT
Eager gardeners inspect the wide variety of plants available at the St. Ann’s Garden Club Sale at Providence Farm on April 25. This year, buyers were also able to enjoy the fun of a big garage sale at the site. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]
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Hilary’s Cheese in Cowichan Bay is celebrating the safe return of friend Nick Versteeg from Nepal by working with him and wife, Elly Driessen to raise funds to help the victims of the horrendous Nepal earthquake.
They have planned a very special evening fundraiser on Friday, May 15 starting with a champagne reception at 6:30 p.m.
The event will feature a question and answer session with Versteeg’s raw foot-age, a three-course dinner and entertain-ment. Tickets are $75 each. Only 60 will be available.
The goal is to raise a minimum of $10,000.
Funds are earmarked for the village of Khumjung.
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Wooden Boat Festival set for this weekend at Maple Bay
The 20th Annual Maple Bay Marina Wooden Boat Festival is ready to go on May 16 and 17.
It’s billed as a rendezvous for wooden boat owners, but the public is invited as well from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to explore the docks and vote for their favourite boat.
There will also be a model boat show and pool, vendors, artisans and onshore displays.
From 1 p.m.-4 p.m. there will be live music for the crowd as well.
Nepalese speakers to highlight Chemainus Nepal fundraiser
A fundraising event titled Aid for Nepal is scheduled for Saturday, May 16 at the Chemainus Legion Hall.
Starting at 6 p.m. there will be music by Luv Train, Nepalese speakers and musi-cians shepherded by master of ceremon-ies Michael Pickard, a silent auction and snacks.
Donations will go to Care Canada, an emergency relief organization since 1945. Funds will be matched by the federal gov-ernment and the Chemainus Royal Canad-ian Legion #191.
Advance tickets are available at Che-mainus Health Food Store, and Seaside Yoga Studio. Tickets are $10.
Compiled by Andrea Rondeau and Lexi Bainas, Citizen
Valley resident Nick Versteeg witnessed first hand the devastation of April earthquake in Nepal. He will now be part of a fundraiser for the Nepal on May 15. [NICK VERSTEEG PHOTO]
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Cowichan’s senior women’s team fell short in their attempt to defend the provincial First Division championship at Brockton Oval last Saturday, falling 27-17 to United.
Cowichan had defeated United at the end of the regular season, but the squad that took the field last weekend bore little resemblance to that one.
“The United team that stepped onto the field at the B.C. finals was not the same team we played three weeks ago,” Cowichan captain Sherry Spence said. “But with that being said, Cowi-chan was ready to play a hard game.”
Both teams played solid, hard-hitting defence, but Cowichan was set back by a pair of game-changing calls from the referee. Laura Russell and Michelle Moore scored tries, however, and Moore added a convert, and the teams ended the first half tied at 12-12.
Russell added another try in the sec-ond half, but United replied with three, and Cowichan had to concede the prov-incial title.
“When the final whistle blew, we had lost the game, but we couldn’t be upset with the performance that we dis-played,” Spence said. “United is a great
team, and you can’t take that away from them. If the two calls from the referee would have went our way, would it have made a difference? I don’t know, But either way, that’s the way it goes.”
Losing the title gives Cowichan some-
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next year,” Spence said. “United knew our strengths and marked them. they had a strong forward pack that made for tough scrums.”
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The Ladysmith Dodgers went undefeated in the Chris Fenton Memorial Peewee Baseball Tournament in Chemainus last weekend, cap-ping it off with an 11-4 victory over the Duncan Royals in the championship game.
Behind the second-place Royals, the Lady-smith Orioles finished third, while the LakeCowichan Lakers were voted the Most Sports-manlike Team of the tournament.
The Chemainus Canadians won one of theirfour games.
The 10-team field included one squad each from Chemainus, Saltspring Island and LakeCowichan, two from Ladysmith and Nanaimo,and three from Duncan.
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A 43-10 win over G.P. Vanier last week earned Cowichan Secondary School’s senior boys rugby team a berth in the provincial AAA championships later this month.
“Vanier has held this provincial berth for more than a decade, so the victory was even more meaningful,” coach Ken-ton McNutt said. “The entire bench of 26
players contributed to the win, another complete team effort.”
The team will be doing fundraising in the community between now and the provincial tournament, hoping to offset some of the costs of the five-day tourna-ment in Abbotsford.
“If you see them out there or they come to your business, any type of sup-port is greatly appreciated,” McNutt said. “They love the sport of rugby and
love representing their school and the Cowichan region.”
Seven teams from the Valley have qualified for their respective provincial championship tournaments: Cowichan Secondary and Shawnigan Lake School in the boys AAA, Brentwood College School and Frances Kelsey Secondary in the boys AA, Cowichan Secondary in the girls AAA, and Shawnigan and Brentwood in the girls AA.
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For the first time in nine years, Dun-can Christian School’s girls soccer team is headed to the provincial single-A championships.
The Chargers last qualified in 2006, when they were the tournament hosts. They had previously qualified for the first time in 2004.
This time around, the Chargers have qualified as the third-place team from the Island, having claimed the bronze medal at the tournament hosted by Glenlyon Norfolk School earlier this week.
The Chargers had a tough draw in their opening game on Tuesday as they faced the powerhouse host squad, but Mikayla Cook was able to prevent DCS from being shut out.
The second game went much better for the Chargers as they downed Lake Cowi-chan 6-1. Cook scored three goals, while Zoey Alyward, Rachelle VanBoven and Lauren King-Nyberg had one each.
Wednesday started off with a 3-0 loss to the eventual silver medallists from North Island Secondary, sending the Chargers to the bronze medal match. In that game, it was DCS’s turn to shut out their opponents, with a 5-0 win. Katrina Climie’s hat trick led the way for Dun-can Christian, while King-Nyberg and
Cook also scored. Alyward, who was later named to the Island all-star team, had the shutout in net.
Coached by Taylor Hackett, Don Waddy and Noah Corbett, the Chargers will move on to the provincial single-A championships at Southridge Second-ary in Surrey on May 28-30.
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Nearly 700 athletes from 23 clubs and schools took to the water last weekend for Shawnigan Lake School’s annual regatta.
“The regatta went really well,” Shawniganhead of rowing Tim Coy said. “The weather was perfect, and the whole thing ran smoothlywithout delays.”
The host school won two races: the junior A men’s coxed four and the junior C girls double.
Vic City Rowing Club won both the men’s andwomen’s junior A eights, arguably the most prestigious events of the regatta.
Elliot Rogers of Brentwood College Schoolwon the junior A men’s single, while Steph-anie Grauer of Crofton House won the junior A women’s single.
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Cowichan’s Kaelyn Palmer shakes off a United tackler during last Saturday’s B.C. final. [SUZANNE MOORE PHOTO]
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A late touchdown by Perri Espeseth propelled the Blue Steel Brew to a 19-13 victory over the Wild in the Cowichan Women’s Football League last Friday night.
The teams were tied with three plays remain-ing when Espeseth took the handoff from quarterback Michelle Nederlof and ran it in for the winning points.
Mila Main and Michaela Peet had the Blue Steel’s other touchdowns, and Main added the convert on Peet’s score. On defence, Heidi Haslam and Kirbee Crisp each registered a sack.
The Wild got their touchdowns from Val Cham-bers and Rhiannon Kemmler, with a convert by Erica Dow and a sack by Teresa Melchior.
The Ravens and Crew were also supposed to play on Friday night, but the Crew had to forfeit, and the game will go in the books as a 25-0 win for the Ravens.
When the Ravens did get to play on Sunday morning, they managed a 26-20 come-from-behind victory over the Blue Steel.
The Ravens got a pair of touchdowns from Jamie Russell, who also had an interception and
a blocked pass. Dana Thorne and Rikki Wylie also scored, Wylie and Morgan Rogers had con-verts, and Lauren James finished with three sacks.
The Blue Steel got touchdowns from Espeseth, Main and Haslam. Haslam also had a sack and a convert, while Monni Savory also contributed a convert.
Also Sunday, Moo’s Law topped the Snap Fit-ness Sirens 27-21. Scoring for the Sirens were Christine Cronin-Switzer with two touchdowns and a convert and Carmen Zimmer with one touchdown. Zimmer also had an interception, Shelly McKay had a convert and a pick, and Hailey Hatcher had a convert.
The Crew were back in action on Sunday, and showed no ill effects from missing their game on Friday. Nicole Pugh led the Crew with three touchdowns, while Marilou Sullivan and Willy Toews each had two, with one of Sullivan’s com-ing off an interception. Lenneke Vinoly added a confer and Alita Mattin had an interception.
The Storm continued to improve steadily. Cait-lin Evans had two touchdowns, while Carly Boyd and Rachel Paddle added one each. Rachel Pugh had two sacks, and Boyd and Jennifer Elliott recorded interceptions.
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Jacob Bilina made a huge play to preserve a tie at the end of Blue’s game against Yellow in Cowichan Bulldogs U10 Flag Football last Saturday.
Bilina opened the scoring for Blue by scoring on a handoff from quarterback Zoe Billings. The diverse Billings followed that up with a touchdown of her own, and Easton Jubenville added a third major for Blue.
Matteo Breckenridge set the tone with a big play for Yellow, with Jaxson Ross scoring his team’s first touchdown. Parker Lawrence also scored on a handoff from Alex Amini, and Nat Davies had a great run to score his touchdown. Bryson Day had a big flag for a key defen-sive play.
The Green and Red teams also played to a close game.
“Both teams made some excellent plays on the turf this sunny Satur-day,” coach Opie Williams said.
Green was missing Logan Elz-inga, put picked up Jackson Kuntzfrom Red. After two touchdowns byGreen’s Elliot Beauregard, Kuntz added a two-point convert. All five Green players got to try their hands at rushing the Red quarter-back, and nearly pushed the Red offence back into their own zonewhen Beauregard sacked their quarterback.
Red opened the scoring on a great run from Cody Williams, but then struggled against theGreen Machine defence. RyderMaertz had a great diving flagto stop Beauregard. Toward theend of the game, Red tried some trick plays with Cody Williamsat quarterback: he handed off toMaertz, who in turn handed off toJaeden Williams, who returned theball to Cody William, who broke in to score. With one play remaining,Red tried another trick play with Rylan Rowe handing off to ParkerJubenville, but he was stopped just short.
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The peewee Cowichan Bulldogs tamed the Oceanside Lions last Sunday, earning a 22-8 road victory in Parksville.
The Bulldogs wasted no time get-ting on the scoreboard as Jaxson Jones caught the opening kickoff and wound his way through the Oceanside defence to score the first touchdown of the game.
“Blocking on the kick return has been a focus during practice and it showed,” head coach Devon Law-rence said.
The Lions attempted to come right back, but the Cowichan defence put a quick stop to their outside game thanks to big plays by cornerbacks Jason Boyd and Kepler Marshall. Before the first half was over, run-ning back Zach Pearson found his way to the outside and drove through to the end zone behind the blocking of slotback Jeevan Nijjar. Jones made his first appearance as kicker, and added two points to Pearson’s major.
“Kicking the point after touch-down is more difficult at this level, and as such it is worth two points rather than the standard one in the pros,” Lawrence explained.
The Lions started strong in the second half and managed to score their first points of the season. That got the Cowichan defence working even harder. Linebacker Jesse Kwa-sny stopped anything that came his way, and safety Sawyer Ellison got in on several tackles. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs offence kept march-ing, led by fullback Brock Lamont, and Jones capped off the scoring with his second touchdown.
The junior bantam Bulldogs vis-ited the Saanich Wolverines last Sunday, where they played excep-tionally well down the stretch in a 40-20 loss.
The game started slow as the teams tried to get a feel for each
other’s game, but the Wolverines began to pick up the pace first.
“Getting out of the gates slowseems to be a trend this yearfor us,” head coach Tim Maertzcommented.
By the middle of the second quarter, Cowichan trailed by three touchdowns. The Bulldogs hadopportunities to get into the game, but weren’t able to capitalize.Thanks to a change in tactics, theysurged in the third quarter.
“The running game had hit asnag, so we started to throw the ball, with successful completions,”Maertz said.
Evan Kwasny caught the firsttouchdown pass of his career to get the Bulldogs on the scoreboard, butthe Wolverines responded with twomore majors of their own.
It wasn’t until the fourth quarterthat the Bulldogs started to showwhat they can do.
“It was a nice change,” Maertz said. “The players started getting fired up.”
Kilion VennRyan scored on a pass-ing play, then made a big block forCarson Maertz, who scored Cowi-chan’s third and final touchdown.
“Kilion has really been on firelately,” coach Maertz said. “He’s a great kid who is very passionate for the game.”
The Bulldogs had the momentum on their side as time ticked down,and if the game was little longer,they might have turned the tide.
“If there was another quarter in the game, I think we could have won,” coach Maertz said. “If we had brought that fourth-quarter intensity and determination tothe start of the game, the outcome would have been in favour of theBulldogs.”
The junior bantam Bulldogs will visit the Nanaimo Redmen this weekend, while the peewees havea bye. Both teams will be at home on May 23 against Gordon Head.
BSB wins thriller with late touchdownNicole Pugh of the Crew chases down Katrina Waldron of the Storm. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
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She was one of the very fi rst tennis players I ever interviewed and took photos of. She was the very fi rst Canadian to win a major title on the WTA circuit back in 2008 at the Bank West Classic in California. She is fl uent in three languages, Polish, French and English. Any guesses? Of course I am talking about Alexsandra Wozniak, from Blainville, Quebec.With the emergence of Milos Raonic, Vasek Pospisil and Eugenie Bouchard, Alex has been out of the limelight for a couple of years now. Injuries have really taken a toll on her. The worst one being a shoulder injury that virtually wiped out the last two tennis seasons for her. I contacted her media presentative a few weeks ago, and he said Alex is training hard again, but would not be doing any interviews while she concentrates on getting her fi tness level to where she wants it.Wozniak is sometimes mistaken for Caroline Wozniacki, and in fact they have had some close contact over the years. In 2009 Alex made it to the semi-fi nal of the Aegon International Tennis Tournament in Eastbourne, before losing to Caroline. It’s a tournament I have covered for a number of years now. Alex reached a career high of 21st in the WTA standings back in 2008. When she won the Bank West Classic event she defeated a number of top players including Marion Bartoli of France in the fi nal. The city of Blainville that year renamed the city for one day by calling it Wozniackville in honour of Alex’s huge win, Alex noted in my interview, “it was a great thrill for me.”! Wozniak is an extremely personable person, and when I mentioned to her, my grandfather on my mother’s side came from Poland, she stated,” no wonder we are getting along so well Dave”! I was speechless for a couple of seconds and that is very rare for me!Wozniack has always been very supported of many tennis events put on by Tennis Canada, helping kids to learn and enjoy the game of tennis. When healthy she has contributed to the Canadian Fed Cup team for years. I sincerely hope she will get back on the
tour soon, because to this day she remains one of the most pleasurable players I have had the opportunity to interview and see play.Mill Bay Tennis Club tournaments start in June with a Strawberry Tea Social tournament to coincide with the Wimbledon Tournament. We have one or two more throughout the season each with a theme of their own including the Retro Tournament where players use wooden racquets and wear retro tennis outfi ts. Everyone welcome, members are free, nonmembers pay $10 each. Visit our website for more information about our tournaments or on becoming a member. www.millbaytennis.comStrawberry Tea Social Tennis TournamentJune 7 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pmStrawberries & Cream with Scones provided. Free for members, $10 for nonmembers, after party – location to be announced.Retro Social Tennis TournamentAugust 16 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
UP COMING TENNIS EVENTSMay 20- 4 Oak Bay Mixed Doubles..Mxd 3KO Oak Bay Tennis
Club, Dianna Logan (250)-595-1578 Panorama Men’s Singles..Mxd 3KO Panorama
Recreation Centre, North Saanich Entry deadline Tuesday May 26, Eric Knoester (250) 655-2177
May 30 Community Tennis Day..Henderson Tennis Courts..South Island Tennis Association… www.sitatennis.ca
June 13-21 Victoria $10,000 Women’s ITF Tournament..Panorama Eric Knoester (250) 655-2177
May 22-24 BC Selection Series Main Draw BGsd Cedar Hill Rec Dean Gillis (250) 475-7126 Sanctioned by Tennis BC ranking points are awarded.
June 5-7 BC Selection Series Main Draw BGsd Cedar Hill Rec Dean Gillis (250) 475-7126 Sanctioned by Tennis BC ranking points are awarded.
June 12-14 Cedar Hill Juniors BGs 9-173K0 Cedar Hill Rec Centre, Dean Gillis (250) 475-7126
June 13 Future Stars Tour BGs U9, 10(Orange and Green Balls) Cedar Hill Dean Gillis (250) 475-7126
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