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Last year, 68 people took part in the Polar Bear Swim at Transfer Beach. File Photo

25th Polar Bear Swim goes Jan. 1 Lindsay Chungthe chronicle

It’s Ladysmith Parks, Recre-ation and Culture’s first and fast-est special event of the year, and in 2014, the Polar Bear Swim is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

On Wednesday, Jan. 1, start the new year with a splash at Trans-fer Beach.“We want to encourage as many

people to come out and as many past participants as possible,” said recreation supervisor Kate Glenn, who has been involved in the swim since the very be-ginning. It began with family and friends but became an offi-cial event when the department

partnered with former Chroni-cle publisher Bobbie Jean Cloke.

Glenn thinks the event keeps going because it is so fast, and she jokes it’s a way to get rid of the previous year.

Registration for the Polar Bear Swim begins at 11 a.m. at Trans-fer Beach, and everyone must register. The plunge is at noon.

Glenn and aquatic program-mer Lois Walkling’s biggest tips for Polar Bear Swim partici-pants is to wear tight sandals or water shoes and bring a warm towel for afterward. They say it also helps if you have friends or family with you who can bring your clothing for after the swim.“It’s really fast — it’s run in and

run out,” noted Walkling. “They don’t really have time to think about being cold.”

Glenn and Walking suggest that parents do not bring their toddlers into the water.

Glenn and Walkling encourage groups such as sports teams and local businesses to challenge each other to see who can bring out the most people to the Polar Bear Swim.

Participants receive a certifi-cate, and they can warm up with hot chocolate and a bonfire af-ter the swim. “It’s no competition,” said

Walkling. “It’s just washing the previous year away and getting ready for the new year.”

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No decisions were made regarding the future of Ladysmith zone schools when the School District 68 board of education held its regular board meeting in Ladysmith last week.

The school board meeting was held Dec. 18 at Ladysmith Sec-ondary School, and about 110 people were on hand to hear the board discuss the op-tions put forward by the Ladysmith Extend-ed Consultation Work-ing Group and the recommendations put forward by Superin-tendent Dave Hutchin-son for school facili-ties in the Ladysmith zone.After much discus-

sion, the board tabled all motions related to the Ladysmith zone 10 Year Enhanced Facili-ties For Learning Plan proposals until the Jan. 29 board meeting.

Several trustees said they felt like they needed more informa-tion and had too many unanswered questions about French Immer-sion enrolment and how many students from Cedar would come to Ladysmith, for example, to make a de-cision that night.

At the meeting, Su-perintendent Dave Hutchinson outlined the consultation pro-cess that was under-taken in regards to the future of facilities in the Ladysmith zone, in-cluding the establish-ment of the Ladysmith Working Group to re-view alternatives to the proposed school

closures and recon-figurations. The Work-ing Group included representatives of the Town of Ladysmith, the Cowichan Valley Regional District, Par-ent Advisory Councils, school administrators, district senior staff and the board of edu-cation.

On Wednesday night, trustees discussed Option A and Option C put forward by the Working Group, as well as the recom-mendation from the superintendent, which is a modification of the district’s original pro-posal from April.

Hutchinson recom-mends the following actions:• Close École Davis

Road (EDR) in June 2014 and consolidate the English and French programs as follows: the K-6 French Im-mersion program with Ladysmith Interme-diate; the EDR Eng-lish program grades 4-6 students with Ladysmith Intermedi-ate; and the K-3 EDR English program stu-dents with Ladysmith Primary.

Transportation will be provided as per Board Transportation Procedure 4400. The district will also ap-ply Board Procedure 4011, The Disposition of Property, with re-spect to exploring the potential future use of the site.• Grade 7 students

from EDR and Ladysmith Interme-diate will move to Ladysmith Secondary in fall 2014 (already ap-proved by the Board). Transportation will be provided as per Board

Transportation Proce-dure 4400.• The district will un-

dertake a feasibility study with respect to the addition of a Grade 8 French Immersion program at Ladysmith Secondary.• Close North Oyster

Elementary in June 2015. This coincides with the opening of the newly renovated Ce-dar Elementary School in the fall of 2015, which may be a school of choice for North Oyster families. Pro-vide an opportunity for further consultation around school choice and possible catch-ment area revisions with the North Oyster community in the fall of 2014. The district will apply Board Pro-cedure 4011, The Dis-position of Property, with respect to explor-ing the potential future use of the site.• 2015-2016 School

Year: undertake a fea-sibility study with re-spect to elementary school renovations and/or rebuilds in the Ladysmith zone.

This is quite different from the two options proposed by the Work-ing Group.

Option A includes:• Close Davis Road in

June 2014• Move Davis Road

English track K-3 to Ladysmith Primary• Move Davis Road

English track to 4-6 to Ladysmith Intermedi-ate• Option for Davis

Road English track, LPS and LIS students to go to North Oyster• Grades 7 to 12 at

Ladysmith Secondary• French Immersion

K-7 to North Oyster

• North Oyster to be a K-7 school for French Immersion and Eng-lish track• SD68 to evaluate

feasibility of offering late French Immersion at North Oyster• SD68 to evaluate

Grade 8 French immer-sion offered at LSS• Retain EDR site for

possible future use• Begin planning pro-

cess for conversion of Ladysmith Primary to K-6 school

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2016• Close Ladysmith

Intermediate requiring a 60-day consultation process• Renovate/expand

LPS to accommodate LIS students

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Maintaining Lady-smith’s form and char-acter seems to be an important backdrop to making decisions regarding coach hous-es, big box stores and drive-thru service, as the Town of Ladysmith updates its Zoning By-law.

Brent Elliott, proj-ect consultant for the Town of Ladysmith Zoning Bylaw Update, made a presentation to council Monday, Dec. 16, asking for council direction regarding these three issues that have come up through

the Zoning Bylaw re-view, which has includ-ed discussions with council, a stakeholder working group and the community at large during an open house in late November.

Elliott told coun-cil that the issues of coach houses, how to treat big box stores and how to treat drive-thrus stood out the most.“We’ve identified

those because consis-tent in all three con-versations [with coun-cil, stakeholders and the public], there was some very good input but not necessarily consistent messages,”

he said. Coach housesElliott says the topic

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supported the bal-anced and phased ap-proach, finding ways we can encourage al-ternative or new kinds of housing changes while at the same time looking to preserve the character that Ladysmith is known for,” he said. “We also talked about wanting to walk before we run. We talked about intro-ducing them in kind of a staged fashion.”

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Long term: Build new K-6 school in LadysmithAnd Option C, which has been

supported by Ladysmith coun-cil and by the EDR Parent Advi-sory Council, includes:• Close North Oyster School in

June 2014• Move North Oyster K-3 to

Ladysmith Primary (one-time option for Cedar elementary schools)• Move North Oyster grades

4-7 to Ladysmith Intermediate (one-time option for Cedar el-ementary schools)• Grades 8 to 12 at Ladysmith

Secondary School• Move towards transition of

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sion K-7 at Davis Road• Analyze feasibility of offering

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Ladysmith Primary to renewed K-7 school and build a new K-7 Dual Track French Immersion school on a site in Ladysmith

Hutchinson noted that after reviewing the Working Group recommendations, the senior staff initially felt that Option A had the most merit, but feed-back received during the public meetings in late November in Ladysmith encouraged the se-nior team to take a closer look at the enrolment history of the French Immersion program at EDR and the catchment area en-rolment trends at North Oyster.

They concluded the French Immersion program at EDR is

“marginally viable,” and after an-alyzing data and hearing from many EDR parents who said they would not choose to have their children attend French Immersion at North Oyster, se-nior staff felt the placement of French Immersion at North Oyster was not a viable option, according to Hutchinson.

Hutchinson also noted that the majority of families with K-7 children in the North Oyster

catchment area are opting to choose schools outside of the North Oyster catchment area.“After considering all relevant

information carefully, the se-nior team does not think that it is realistic to advance a recom-mendation that includes main-taining North Oyster Elemen-tary,” he stated.

Hutchinson listed a number of points the senior team found problematic about Option C, in-cluding leaving EDR — “a build-ing which is overcrowded and has the worst facility condition rating in the district” — open; maintaining LSS as a Grade 8-12 school, which contradicts the board’s decision to reconfigure the school as 7-12; the gradual removal of the English stream at EDR, which is not consis-tent with the district’s optimal school size guidelines; and the consolidation of North Oyster with LIS and LPS, where the senior team believe a conversa-tion should be held with North Oyster families with respect to school choice.

During the Dec. 18 meeting, Trustee Nancy Curley brought forward a notice of motion to re-consider the motions approved June 26 that would move Grade 7 students from EDR and LIS to LSS, effective September 2014. She will bring these reconsid-eration motions forward at the board’s February meeting.

Next board meeting is Jan. 29School board from Page 3


After a whirlwind year that started with a come-from-

behind election win, Pre-mier Christy Clark sat down with me for the tradi-tional year-end interview in her Victoria office. Here are excerpts from that dis-cussion. A longer version with video can be found under the Opinion tab of the Chronicle’s website.

TF: Premier, you sur-prised a few people this year. What surprised you the most about 2013?

PCC: I guess it was the disconnect between the pollsters and the pundits, and the public. I did have a sense all the time that the citizens were think-ing something different in the run-up to the election campaign. I wondered, am I missing something here, or are they missing some-thing? And I guess it turned out that it wasn’t me that was missing something.

TF: The liquefied natural

gas export project is go-ing to use a lot of natural gas, especially in the early years. Will B.C.’s green-house gas reduction targets [20 per cent reduction by 2020, 80 per cent by 2050] have to be changed?

PCC: I don’t have a clear answer on that yet. We are working with the compa-nies on exactly how we are going to structure their en-vironmental commitments and costs, and their elec-tricity costs versus using gas, the total royalty tax re-gime. We’re looking at that as one package.

However that turns out, though, this opportunity to export natural gas to Asia is the single biggest opportunity we have ever had as a province to reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the world. In ship-ping this to China, we are going to help them wean themselves off some of the dirtiest coal anybody’s burning anywhere in the world.

TF: If B.C. is going to get credit for displacing coal

use in Asia, shouldn’t B.C.’s coal exports, even though it’s metallurgical coal, count in our greenhouse gas total as well?

PCC: I know that the aca-demics and pundits are go-ing to get all mired in com-peting sets of numbers and studies. For me, we have a chance to do good for the world, and we’re going to take it.

TF: On oil pipelines, your agreement in November with Alberta Premier Ali-son Redford involves B.C. supporting her effort for a national energy strategy. What do you see it doing in the future?

PCC: The big idea that she’s trying to pursue with that is a strategy that will connect us east to west in energy. Energy grids are much better connected north to south than they are east to west. So she’s trying to pursue a pan-Canadian strategy for the exchange of energy, whether that’s hydroelectricity or natural gas or whatever it is. We haven’t been intimately in-

volved with it until recently, so we’ll see where it goes.

TF: There’s a perception out there, fuelled by the opposition, that you cam-paigned against oil pipe-lines and now you’re turn-ing the tanker around, as it were, to be in support of them. What do you say to that?

PCC: It’s typical of the oth-er guys to reinterpret and misquote. That’s what they do. They’re in opposition. What I said was, we have five conditions that must be met in order for heavy oil to be considered to go ahead in British Columbia. That has not changed.

The five conditions re-main in place. As of today, none of them have been met. The only thing that is different today, from before the election, is that now I no longer stand alone in supporting the five condi-tions. I have one other pre-mier supporting me, and that’s Alison Redford.

Tom Fletcher is legisla-tive reporter and colum-nist for Black Press.

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Nova Scotians looking for information about Pictou Road

Editor:

We are contacting you from Pictou County, N.S., in regards to obtaining information on the origin of the name Pictou Road, located in your town of Ladysmith.

We have contacted the Ladysmith Historical Society and they have had no luck thus far in finding how Pictou Road was named.

We do know that the name is unique to our Nova Scotia area, being of Mi’kmaq First Nation language which means “place of explosion” because of the ig-nited coal seams of the area that burned many centuries before.

If any individual or organiza-tion in the area has informa-tion about this query could they please contact the e-mail address [email protected].

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We would like to pass on our thanks to the kind folks who helped my mother on the morn-ing of Monday, Dec. 2 when she fell on ice on the High Street sidewalk near the clinic.

You were so thoughtful to take the time to help her to get up and to take her to the Ladysmith Community Health Centre. Thankfully, there were no major injuries.

It is refreshing to see that there are still some people willing to lend a helping hand instead of turning a blind eye.

Since we do not know who you are to contact you, we are using our local media to express our deepest thanks.

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Frustrated homeowner wants dog owners to do better

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Our house is located on the in-side corner of a bend in the road in Ladysmith, and apparently this is an invitation for our flow-er beds and, most frustratingly, gravel driveway to be used as the local doggie outhouse.

In the past weeks, I have no-ticed an increase in the piles of doggie droppings on my drive-way and to my absolute dis-gust have found myself blindly traipsing through it when I come home in the evening (by which time it is of course dark

and, lately, raining). There is nothing quite like having to start your day off by digging the dog poop out of the tread of your running shoes before you can pack them back into your gym bag and head off to work!

Being a dog owner means be-ing responsible for your animal — if you cannot control it off-leash, then it should be on-leash at all times, and it is always, always your responsibility to clean up after you animal.

So this is my request to dog owners — always clean up after you animals and keep them off other people’s private property.

I do not have a dog and do not find it acceptable that I am con-stantly cleaning up after other people’s dogs.

Be a good dog owner or don’t be a dog owner!!!!!

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Dr. Vivan Kilvert has wanted to be a doctor since she could read, and she grew up with two teachers for par-ents. So it’s pretty fit-ting that the Ladysmith family physician re-cently received an Award of Excellence from the British Co-lumbia College of Fam-ily Physicians (BCCFP) for teaching.

The awards recognize

family physicians who have achieved excel-lence.“These members ex-

emplify the best of what being a family physician is all about, including exceptional care of patients, com-bined with a significant contribution to the health and well being of communities and/or society in general,” ac-cording to the BCCFP.

Kilvert has been teaching medical stu-dents, residents and

international medical graduates for more than 12 years.“The BCCFP awards

committee received many letters of sup-port for Dr. Kilvert from family physician residents, colleagues and nurse practitio-ners in support of Dr. Kilvert’s nomination, which are evidence of why she is deserving of this award,” the BC-CFP stated in its An-nual Report.

Dr. Ben Williams of

Nanaimo, who nomi-nated her for the award, had this to say about Kilvert: “By the time I finished residency, I had many wonderful teachers along the way. None have left the in-edible mark imprinted by Dr. Kilvert. She is a model physician and an outstanding educa-tor.”“Dr. Kilvert is a re-

markably brilliant doc-tor, a fantastic clinician, an exceptionally com-passionate and caring person and a devoted, inspiring teacher,” said Dr. Melissa Terlingen.

Kilvert, who prac-tised at Ladysmith Family Practice Clinic until August, says the award was very sur-prising.

Kilvert feels that re-ceiving the award vali-dated something she already knew — that she loves teaching.“I love being a physi-

cian, but I love the days when I’m a teaching physician even more,” she said. “Medicine is an exhausting profes-sion, and I always feel inspired and invigorat-ed on days I teach.”

Kilvert feels this award belongs more to her teachers than to her.“Certainly, if I’m a

good teacher, it’s be-cause I had good teach-ers,” she said.

Everyone who stud-ies medicine ends up teaching at some point, and Kilvert discovered that she really enjoyed teaching.“When I went to medi-

cal school, most of us trained for a portion of our time at larger sites, and you go through the ranks,” she explained.

“You’re usually teach-ing the stage below you every day, formally or informally.”

Nowadays, there are

numerous residency sites where there are no medical students, explained Kilvert. “Once you graduate

your residency and you are a practising doctor, there are not a lot of opportunities to teach, unless you choose to — I did,” she said.

Kilvert became a clin-ical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, and the university would send medial students to her for teaching.

Besides the academic details, there are three main points Kilvert hopes she is passing on to her students. One fundamental idea for Kilvert is that the patient is your best teacher.“The patient is your

teacher, and you are your patient’s teacher,” she said. “It’s easy to write a prescription, but people get more out of the visit if you teach them and explain things.”

Another point Kilvert thinks is important to pass on is that the art

of medicine matters as much, or even more, than the science. This includes bedside man-ner, how you speak and listen to patients and colleagues and other aspects that students pick up more informal-ly through day-to-day practice, she explained.

Kilvert also hopes to pass on the importance of communication to her students.

She can still recite an axiom from one of her favourite teach-ers, who used to say

“If you don’t know the diagnosis by the time you finish the patient history, you probably never will.”“If you listen really

closely to people’s sto-ry, you should be able to tell,” she explained.

“A lot of times, people don’t take the time.”“I hope if you are a

good and enthusiastic teacher, it makes some-one else want to teach, both formally and in-formally,” continued Kilvert. “I hope the peo-ple I teach go out and are good teachers to

their patients because that matters so much

— that would be my big-gest hope with it.”

Kilvert has always wanted to be a doctor.“I can’t remember not

wanting to be a doctor,” she said with a laugh.

When Kilvert was in kindergarten, she wrote in her class book under “career” that she wanted to be an ob-stetrician — and even spelled it correctly, she laughed.“It actually had started

earlier than that,” she said, recalling how, when she was three or four, she would rush out to meet the Book Mobile when it came to Saltair so she could be the first kid to get the book How Your Heart Works.

Kilvert grew up in Saltair, and her par-ents both taught in Ladysmith for years. She graduated from Queen Margaret’s School, then went to the University of Vic-toria and received her Bachelor of Science in the co-op program. She then went to medical school at the Univer-sity of Calgary. Kilvert stayed in Calgary for her residency, and she returned to Ladysmith in 2003.

Kilvert practised four years at Ladysmith Family Practice Clinic until August. She is cur-rently doing locums in Nanaimo and picking up some shifts in emer-gency at the Ladysmith Community Health Centre. Down the road, she says she may pur-sue higher education or look into finding a permanent practice in the area.


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Elliott says there was a lot of discussion around moving away from using lanes as criteria for accommo-dating a coach house and instead look at lot size, so they aren’t lim-ited to downtown. Dis-cussion also focused on the proposed floor area limit of 60 square metres, which was generally considered a good size.

Following Elliott’s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s , council voted that the Zoning Bylaw update include amendments to permit coach houses in phases, beginning in and around the down-town, with a minimum parcel size of 668 square metres where a lane exists or 780 square metres where a lane does not exist. The bylaw update will also permit coach houses on larger rural parcels, and it will state that the maximum floor space of coach houses is 60 square metres.Big box storesRegulating big box

stores was another big issue, with big box be-

ing defined as a single retail store with gross floor area exceeding 22,497 square feet.

Elliott says questions were raised about the possible loss of eco-nomic investment from a town-wide prohibi-tion, but when they looked at the Town’s Community Vision, Sus-tainability Action Plan and Official Communi-ty Plan, what stood out was a focus on buying local, investing in local businesses, focusing future growth in the downtown and trying to minimize highway-oriented development.

As a result, his rec-ommendation was to maintain the proposed town-wide restric-tion on big box stores, which council voted to implement as part of the Zoning Bylaw up-date.“The size threshold,

22,500 square feet, is fairly accurate, and we can work on lan-guage that can exempt the existing grocery stores and accommo-date what’s in the town today, but moving for-ward, larger-format re-

tail operations like that would be prohibited in the town,” said Elliott.Drive-thrusElliott told council

they identified a simi-lar messaging toward drive-thrus as big box stores.

He says there was support in principle for a town-wide prohibi-tion, but there was also concern about losing out on some potential economic investment.“I think from a charac-

ter point of view, this came up more so than the big box stores;

there was a good sense that prohibiting drive-thrus is supportive of the town’s interest to maintain that charac-ter aesthetic, and in particular, it would simplify land-use de-cisions made in the downtown,” he said.

Council voted that the Zoning Bylaw up-date include amend-ments to implement a town-wide prohibition on new drive-thru op-erations of all types.“The Town already has

a prohibition on drive-thru restaurants; this

would prohibit other drive-thru businesses, such as drive-thru banking,” noted Elliott.

Looking forward, El-liott explained to coun-cil that he and staff will take all this informa-tion and work on revis-ing the draft Zoning By-law and will then bring it back to council for further discussion.


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Richard Jerman got the shock of his life last Wednesday when Canadian border guards arrived at his place on Penelakut Is-land to arrest him as an illegal immigrant.“I was in shock al-

right,” said the 37-year resident of the tiny First Nations reserve off of Chemainus.“They figured I wasn’t

supposed to be here

(in Canada), and had to go with them.”

Jerman was allowed to change from his muddy work duds, be-fore being hauled to holding cells in Victo-ria Wednesday, then to a Vancouver Airport lockup Thursday. He was released on a $500 bond Friday.“You can’t pack any-

thing; you go as you are,” he said, applaud-ing fast legal action mounted by his fam-ily, the Penelakut band, and lawyer Peter Gold-en for keeping him from a quick deporta-tion.

Jerman’s surprise stemmed from his false belief he had perma-nent residency after settling so long ago on Penelakut with wife, Maria George. The com-munity pillar received no government notice, nor letters about his non-residency status before Wednesday’s ac-tion by Canadian Bor-der Services agents.“I also have all the dif-

ferent documents: a (B.C.) Care Card, and a SIN number,” taxpayer Jerman, 60, told the Cowichan News Lead-er Pictorial Thursday back in his home.

He had also crossed the border various times over the years, with no reason to ques-tion his residency sta-tus with the feds, he explained.

Muddying matters is Jerman’s lack of Cana-dian Native status. His American Aboriginal status is also unknown, he explained.“My childhood was

not happy,” said Jer-man, who believed his dad was Native.

His heritage is hazy as Jerman was adopt-ed by folks who hid his background from him.

He later learned of the Native roots he’s trying to track state-side.

On Penelakut, Jer-man and Marie have four kids and 14 grand-children, with another on the way.

His family and band rallied, securing the services of Golden, a Victoria immigration lawyer. He’s applying to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Can-ada so Jerman can stay in Canada while his application for perma-nent residency status is heard by the feds.“He acted as if he was

someone living here legitimately,” Golden said.According to Golden,

his client would likely

have received overstay or deportation notice, plus advice under Can-ada’s former immigra-tion rules. But those rules have become far more strict in recent years, catching Jerman in their wake.“People need some

compassion as to why people don’t have (res-idency) status. This doesn’t make a lot of sense compared to the mischief he’s supposed to have created,” Gold-en said.

Especially since Jer-man is a stand-up com-munity member with a large family who has lived on Penelakut for so long.

Elizabeth May, the Green Party’s Saanich-Gulf Islands MP also acted quickly.

She called the minis-ter of citizenship and immigration to prevent

Jerman from being kicked out of Canada within 24 hours — which could have hap-pened under those new deportation rules.“This was an extreme

reaction,” said May, who has a law degree.

“This came like a bolt out of the blue.”

Jerman, a farmhand and U.S. Army veteran, said he was treated po-litely by federal agents.

He credited his daughters and the Penelakut band for finding Golden to help pave the road to resi-dency.

While his case grinds along, Jerman re-mained worried — and legally unable to work.“My gut is physically

jittery; I’ve felt that since last Wednesday. I’ve got a long road ahead of me, but this is my home.”

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Music lovers in the Cowichan Valley are in for a treat in early Jan-uary, when John Reis-chman will perform in Chemainus with his new band, the Pine Sis-kins.

The group will be at the Chemainus Legion Hall Saturday, Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. The doors will open at 7 p.m., and tickets are $15.As one of the acous-

tic music world’s top-ranked mandolin players and compos-ers, veteran artist John Reischman is re-nowned for his exqui-site taste, tone and im-peccable musicianship.As an original mem-

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Reischman has just released a new solo CD titled Walk Along, John. He has recruited some very special mu-sicians to showcase the new music.

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an adventurous solo-ist equally adept at playing fiddle tunes and slow ballads. His rhythm playing fea-tures unusual and sophisticated chord voicings that strongly support the melody. Also adept at bouzouki, mandolin, and claw-hammer banjo, he finds his musical identity in collaboration, and has created music in the Northwest with Reis-chman, Tony Furtado, and many others.

Trent Freeman can play everything from groove-based, old-time tunes to melodically intricate modern jazz. He excels at playing backup to the other soloists, incorporating lush double stops and a propulsive rhythmic chop.

The recipient of nu-merous awards, Free-man has a broad range of experience and is a well-respected and sought-after session musician. His Rock Paper Scissors album, an all-original endeav-our, won him the 2012 Canadian Folk Music Award. Freeman has toured and recorded with many bands and artists such as the Wailin Jennys, Jessie Farrell, The Griffins, Wyclef Jean, The Fret-less and many others.

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The story wouldn’t be complete without spies, monsters, be-trayals, hair’s-breadth escapes, spells to be broken and all the usual accoutrements.

That is the classic

fantasy tale written by James Thurber that is part of the Chemainus Theatre’s most recent playwright pairing se-ries, The 13 Clocks.

The story written in 1950 by Thurber, a former writer/editor of the New Yorker, will be presented as a

stage reading by the theatre’s current cast from It’s a Wonderful Life as well as folks from the community.“When an evil Duke

captures a beautiful princess, her beloved prince must find 1,000 jewels and unfreeze 13 clocks that the duke

has stopped,” reads promotional material.

“If he fails, the prince will be devoured by the invisible Todal.“With the help of a

fumbling sprite named Golux and an old wom-an whose tears turn to gems, the prince frees the princess, leaving the evil duke to the terrible Todal.“It all makes for a stimulating concoc-tion of adventure, hu-mour and satire that defies the convention-al.”As one of Ameri-

can’s most celebrated humorists, Thurber showcased his won-derful wit and literary skill in both essays and cartoons.“He is especially re-nowned for his skillful wordplay, which is in full evidence in The 13 Clocks,” states promo material.

Thurber’s work spans genres, includ-ing autobiography, fic-tion, plays, children’s fantasy, and modern commentary.

Two of his short stories, “The Catbird Seat” and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” are among the best-known classics of American literature.

This special reading is being presented at the Chemainus The-atre Festival Monday, Dec. 27 at 2 p.m.

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Ladysmith students were in the Christmas spirit last week. Here, clockwise from top left: Ladysmith Sec-ondary School Grade 8 student Arianna Isaac helps Ladysmith Primary School (LPS) Grade 1 student Jerry Godfrey-Allenby with Christmas crafts Dec. 17; Hollyanna Johnson searches for a present at the LPS Christ-mas Store, which was organized by the Parent Advisory Council and raised money for the Ladysmith Food Bank, on Dec. 17; Faith S. (left) and Abby F. perform in Ladysmith Intermediate School’s Christmas play Lights! Camera! Christmas! on Dec. 19; Hannah C. and Mya M. sing during the LIS play; and, from left, Alysha O., Zari B., Zack R., Jayda L. and Toby B. perform in the play. Lindsay Chung

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NOTICEThe Town of Ladysmith intends to adopt changes to the Council Procedures Bylaw. These changes will remove the requirement for Council to hold a regular meeting on a Tuesday following a Monday statutory holiday.

Town of Ladysmith Procedure Bylaw 2009, No. 1666, Amendment Bylaw (No. 1) 2014, No. 1845 (a bylaw to regulate the meetings of council) is scheduled to be adopted at the January 6, 2014 Council Meeting.

You can see a copy of the proposed bylaw at City Hall, 410 Esplanade, Ladysmith, B.C. during regular business hours Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, except on statutory holidays – or on the Town’s website at www.ladysmith.ca

For further information, please contact Sandy Bowden, Director of Corporate Services at 250.245.6404

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Orcas achieve personal bests at Xmas Cracker InvitationalRoss ArmourTHE CHRONICLE

Ladysmith-Chemainus Orcas Swim Club had numerous swimmers re-ceive personal best times in its most recent competition.

The team travelled south to Saanich Commonwealth Place in Victoria Dec. 6 to Dec. 8 to compete in the Xmas Cracker Invitational, the last major swim meet of the calendar year.

Pamela Little, Morgan McKenzie, Brielle Woodruff, Faith Knelson, Courtney Chanin, Chantal Greenhal-gh, Aileen Humphreys and Morgan Humphreys all competed.“There was two things I was re-ally happy about,” said coach Dusan Toth-Szabo. “Everybody got multiple best times and every one of them was able to swim a decent swim, not only in one stroke but two or more strokes.”All of the swimmers competed in

at least one event for fly, free and back stroke with some swimming in breast stroke contests as well.“They’re really familiar with all of the strokes and that’s really impor-tant for me at this age,” said Toth-Szabo. “This Xmas Cracker is a pretty big one as most of the clubs from the Island, two from the Lower Mainland and two of the best teams from Al-berta come out for it.“It was an important one right be-fore Christmas as we a take a little break after. Then we go into the short course championship season starting with the Vancouver Island Regionals. Then we have AAA championships which is the B.C. provincials in Ka-mloops and two weeks after that it’s the Western Canadians. Westerns is the highest level short course meet and then we go into the long course season after that.”

Swimming sensation Faith Knelson competed in 15 events at the Xmas Cracker, winning 14 of them.“I take swimming very seriously,”

she said. It’s one of my main sports and I love it. I love working hard as it pays off.”

Knelson is now looking forward to 2014 and the big meets coming up early in the new year.“I have three big AAA short course meets. Then it’s the long course sea-son including nationals and westerns but it’s 15 and under for that. I have a chance of making finals, but they’re pretty slim, as there’s a lot of older more muscular, educated girls with more experience. But I’d like to see where it takes me and I’m very ex-cited.”

Of Knelson’s 15 events at the Xmas Cracker, she also achieved personal best times in 13 of them.

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Home-ice advantage worked well for the Fuller Lake Skat-ing Club, as local skaters had a strong showing in many differ-ent categories when they host-ed the Interclub Championship skating meet Nov. 15-17 at Full-er Lake Arena in Chemainus.

Competing against other Van-couver Island skaters, Fuller Lake Skating Club members earned many Top 10 finishes.

In Star 1, Brooklyn Puska won a silver medal in Group 2, while Hannah Southern earned a bronze medal in Group 4, and Emily Alyward won a bronze medal in Group 6.

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WELCH, Beverley MayDecember 23, 1930 – December 13, 2013

Born in Ladysmith, the fourth of ten children to Adolphe & Marie (De Frane) Fourmeaux, Mom led a happy life.

Mom attended school in Lady-smith where she enjoyed Miss Transfi eld’s English classes and playing basketball. Mom joined the work force early and was happy to earn her way at the New Western Hotel, the movie theatre, The Hub, and Cochrane’s before attending a commerce course at St. Mary’s convent. Mom then began a 42 year long career for School District #67 as the board offi ce secretary and later School District #68 as a school secretary, working at Ladysmith Primary, Davis Road, NDSS, and Dufferin Crescent from which she retired in 1996.

Mom had deep empathy for the welfare of others, and with her faith in God remained active in her church, Develop-ment and Peace, and donated to many charities. Mom spon-sored a child in a developing country and volunteered at the Ladysmith food bank for many years after retiring.

We will remember Mom as a warm, gentle, and compas-sionate woman with a sunny disposition.

Mom loved to travel; fi rst to Alberta as a young woman, to Disneyland with her children, to Australia & New Zealand with her sister Mary, and to Quebec, the Maritimes, and Alaska with her daughter Erin.

She loved her home and garden, music, and singing in a choir. Family was her greatest love which she worked hard to support. Mom adored her grandchildren.

Some of Mom’s special memories were picking blackber-ries with her brother Boy at Spinny’s creek, sleigh riding down the hills of Ladysmith, going to dances & the Wheat-sheaf with Tony, taking her children to Chemainus River, and the Santa Claus parade which stopped in front of her home. Mom loved a glass of sherry, sweets, and a big mug of tea (2 sugars).

We will always feel honoured to have had her as our Mom and Grandmother; grateful for her devotion, strength of spirit, and strong work ethic.

Mom passed peacefully with her four children by her side.

Predeceased by parents, brothers; Adolphe (Colleen) & Lawrence, sisters; Virginia Wilkin, Gloria Vern, Dolores Davey and brother-in-law; Bob Hendy. Survived by sisters; Mary, Geraldine Gilks, and Judy (Tom) Plensky and broth-er; Johnny (Maureen), sister-in-law; June Hendy, children; Tracey (George Sharp), Arden Chailler (Dan Ostler), Brad-ley, and Erin, granddaughters; Lauren and Michele Chailler, and step-grandson; Rob Ostler, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Special thanks to Dr. Lisinski and the staff at Arbor Cottage.

Mass was celebrated on Saturday, December 21st, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. from St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, 1135 4th Avenue, Ladysmith, BC. Father Robert Mmegwa, cel-ebrant. Interment Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens, Cedar, BC Donations can be made to the charity of your choice. Condolences may be offered to the family at [email protected]

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PLEASE SUPPORT LSS GRAD CLASS OF 2014 - The LSS grad class of 2014 has an account set up at Junction Bottle Depot. Please drop off your bottles and request the funds be deposited into the LSS Grad 2014 account or call a grad and they will be happy to come pick them up.

CO-ED BADMINTON - for adults and youth held Tuesdays at North Cedar Intermediate gym. Fun for all levels Equipment supplied. 7:00 - 8:30. $2 drop in fee. Phone Karen 250 722 2414 ext 249

LADYSMITH LEGION DRUM & BELL CORPS - is in desperate need of new members - especially drummers. We have the equipment and will teach you how to use it. Practice on Sat, 10-11 am upstairs in the Legion Hall. For info call Dorothy Reith 250-722-2945 or Eileen Chandler 250-245-2077. Come out and give it a try!

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• Looking for fun activities for your children during Christmas break?

School’s out, and the Frank Jameson Communi-ty Centre has you covered. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 27 and Monday, Dec. 30, the Frank Jameson Community Centre offers supervised games, sports, swimming, movies, arts and crafts.

It costs $30 per child per day and $10 for each ad-ditional child in the same family per day. For more information, call 250-245-6424.• Once you’ve finished cel-

ebrating and you’re ready to take down your Christ-mas tree, the Ladysmith Fire/Rescue can help.

For the sixth year, the Ladysmith Fire/Rescue His-torical Society will be offer-ing Christmas tree chipping Saturday, Jan. 4 and Sunday, Jan. 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. behind the Ladysmith Fire Hall (340 Sixth Ave.) on Malone Road.

Donations will be grate-fully accepted toward the restoration of the fire hall’s antique 1942 International parade truck.

The firefighters will also be driving through the com-munity on both days, so if you would like your tree picked up, leave it on the curb in front of your resi-dence, and the members will be happy to pick it up and confirm with you that it is gone.

You can also call 250-245-6436 and leave your name and address to confirm pick up.

Fire trucks will be set up and ready for your chil-dren’s enjoyment on Jan. 4 and 5, and child car seat in-spections will be offered.• Vancouver Island-based

Angels Under Our Wings (AUOW) cocker spaniel rescue is urgently seeking foster and adoptive homes in the Cowichan Valley.

This small, non-profit is dedicated to rescuing cocker spaniels locally, as well as focussing on high-kill shelters in L.A., where there is a greater need, ac-cording to a press release.“Over the last few weeks,

we have seen a decline in

both adoption and foster-ing applications, as well as dip in donations,” says AUOW founder Lisa At-terby. “This couldn’t come at a worse time. We are at full capacity with 20 dogs available for adoption, and soon high-kill shelters in the States will be inundated with dogs after Christmas, some of which will be ‘re-turned’ Christmas gifts. We

won’t be able to help them without your assistance.”

Several AUOW adopt-ers, volunteers and rescue dogs already live in the Cowichan Valley, and the rescue is hoping to find more homes for these dogs, all of which are spayed or neutered.

Cocker spaniels are not recommended for families with young children, as

they are particularly sensi-tive dogs that are not very tolerant of the sometimes unintentional, overzealous displays of affection from children, such as having their ears pulled, being laid on, or being hugged too tightly.

To support AUOW, visit www.angelsunderourwings.com or e-mail [email protected].

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NORTH POLE - Driveway can exclu-sively reveal that Santa Claus has been visiting local dealerships kicking tires—ahem, rails—in his search for a new ride.Ever conscious of the increasing cost of gas and effect his multi-million-kilome-tre Christmas flight has on the environ-ment, Santa seems to have opted for 2014 Ford Transit Connect Wagon for his next sleigh.The wagon promises a fuel economy of 7.84 L/100 kms fuel economy,which means the sleigh will be kinder to the environment than his current means of transporting gifts to the world’s children.As an added benefit, the EcoBoost engine – which is finely tuned for high-speed performance – would offer speeds much faster than Santa ever travelled in his former 36-hoofpowered sleigh. The expected upgrade comes as a record number of children earn spots on the “nice” list, increasing the payload weight of his bag of gifts beyond the normal tow rating of his nine-reindeer team.Santa told me that changing his mode of transportation will not compromise his ability to remain true to his mission.“My goal is and always has been

giving presents to good girls and boys, and a new sleigh will make that process more effective,” he says. “Let’s face it, every year there are more children who earn pres-ents. Things are simply getting out of control, and my old sleigh just isn’t going to be able to hack it much longer. With the new sleigh, I will be able to travel faster and carry more toys.”Ford engineers devel-oped the Transit Connect Wagon sleigh concept weeks after hearing of Santa’s dilemma during cold weather testing in the North Pole.“This is a winning situation for all,” says Darren Goddard, chief engineer for Ford Transit Connect Wagon. “The increased efficiency means added time for Santa to enjoy milk and cookies at stops. His new ride will offer 100 cubic feet of cargo space and versatility to haul up to 2,000 pounds, which Santa will need.”Reindeer spokesperson Dasher says

the nine reindeer look forward to some time off. Every year, the flying animals travel 200,194,557 kms and they’d like some time to rest, he says, explaining there are still splinters embedded in his hoofs from a particular wooden roof in northern BC.“You really can’t beat this new sleigh,” says Goddard. “It offers outstanding fuel econ-omy without sacrificing power. It even offers an electric windshield defroster, making short work of icy windshields in wintry conditions. So,

if there’s a foggy Christmas Eve, we won’t need a red-nosed reindeer to guide Santa around the world.”Some extras appear to have swung Santa in the direction of the Transit Connect. SYNC with MyFord Touch offers a touch screen display with navigation so Santa can easily find all the good children, even in more remote areas.The child observation mirror would

allow him to keep a close eye on his gifts in the second and third row.From its 60/40 three-passenger sec-ond-row bench seat through fold-flat second- and third-row seating with third-row independent fore-and-aft sliding capability, the wagon quickly adapts to accommodate multiple com-binations of elves and presents.The MyKey programmable ignition key restricts maximum speed should a mis-chievous elf get behind the wheel while Claus is down a chimney leaving gifts.With eight cupholders, Claus and his elves would have plenty of space to take along a few glasses of milk as they continue through their busy night.Rain-sensing wipers would keep Claus on the move, as there’s always a chance he’ll encounter nasty weather.“As always, we are busy making toys and checking long lists,” says Santa. “That said, Merry Christmas to all!”Of course, Mrs. Claus will have the final say on this purchase because, as any dealership owner will tell you, women make the final decision in 80 per cent of new vehicle purchases. Keep your eyes peeled Tuesday night to see if Santa got his Christmas wish.

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