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Davis Road parents bemoan SD68 decisionRoss ArmourTHE CHRONICLE

With School District 68 choosing to close École Davis Road El-ementary this June, the pain and reality is just settling in for EDR parents and ad-vocates.

Students current-ly enrolled at the school will now need to choose between Ladysmith Primary, Ladysmith Interme-diate, or North Oys-ter Elementary, with French Immersion only being offered at the latter beginning-September 2014.

“There could not have been a worse outcome for Ladysmith schools at [the] school board meeting (Feb. 6),” said Carrie Segreto from Davis Road’s Parent Advisory Council in an email.

“To say we’re upset is an understatement. The appalling actions of the School District 68 trustees and staff in the past year can only be described as bullying. They have acted in an unac-ceptable, disrespect-ful, and just simply scandalous manner in enforcing their

Enhanced Facilities Plan.”

Segreto will be one driving to North Oys-ter everyday come September in order to keep her kids in the French Immersion program — but she’s not happy about it.“I would like to ac-

cept this and move forward [as] school closures happen all the time, right? After our school’s com-munity has fought for almost a year to keep École Davis Road open, I would like to admit defeat, find the positives in the school board’s

plan, and assure my children that moving them to North Oyster for French Immersion is the best thing to do. But I cannot accept defeat when the game was full of misrep-resentation, played unfairly and with so much disrespect to the players. And I cannot accept a plan that is bad not only for our children but for the residents and Town of Ladysmith as well,” wrote Segreto.“Davis Road’s catch-ment area is the only one in all Ladysmith zone schools in which current enrolment

projections show sub-stantial growth in the population. [It] has been operating at ap-proximately 200 per cent its capacity for the past several years. Many families have moved to the south side of Ladysmith specifically for this popular, successful school with its amaz-ing group of staff and teachers and its strong, supportive parent community. Even with the risk of the school being closed, enrolment for French Immersion Kindergarten at Davis Road for the 2014/15

school year was full with a waiting list of 11 children.”

Segreto now feels the “hard work” put in by prior Davis Road parents in years-gone-by, in order to establish French Im-mersion at the school, has all gone down the drain.“In moving the pro-gram out of a com-munity, making it dif-ficult to access, the school district is con-tributing to the ‘elit-ist’ stigma associated with French Immer-sion. Over the past months, at public meetings and through

numerous letters and social media, Davis Road parents have indicated they would not opt to have their children attend French Immersion at North Oyster El-ementary, mainly due to its remote location. Families chose to live in Ladysmith for its small-town feel, walk-ability and close-knit community.“For several years,

Davis Road was among the top three priorities in the district’s capi-tal plan to be reno-vated or replaced.

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Royal Canadian Marine Search & Rescue acquires brand new boat Ross ArmourTHE CHRONICLE

The Royal Canadian Marine Search and Res-cue has a brand new boat to be used pre-dominantly at Station 29 out of Ladysmith.

Ladysmith’s old res-cue boat, now being replaced, was the sec-ond oldest vessel in the RCM•SAR fleet and the station is the second busiest on B.C.’s west coast behind Nanaimo.“The whole process

started about three years ago,” said Bri-an Cromp from the RCM•SAR. “The Roy-al Canadian Marine Search and Rescue envisioned a plan to establish standards in the type of dedicated search and rescue ves-sels being used by the various stations. To this end a group was brought together to work in concert with a marine architect to de-sign new rescue vessels.

“Ladysmith Station 29 was fortunate to have a long serving member on that design commit-tee and, by extension, had major input into the design. We were asked if we wanted to take part in the process so we did. This has tak-en three years of fun-draising and with the assistance of the local communities, marine organizations, mariners and Gaming grants, we were able to place our order.”

The actual building of the boat commenced last summer and that was done so by Liquid Metal Marine out of Sid-ney.“The new boat gives us

the ability to respond to emergencies in larger sea conditions and al-lows us to remain at sea for longer,” said Cromp.

One of the main rea-sons for that is due to the fact the new boat has numerous shock absorbers equipped

with it, as part of the cabin, taking the im-pact of crew members whilst out at sea.“The cabin, or console,

is a Shockwave style console and is equipped with 18-inch shock ab-sorbers which signifi-cantly reduce impact forces on crew mem-bers. With the resultant heavy weather, crew fatigue being reduced missions are now pos-sible for longer periods of time in heavier seas. The Shockwave console is built by Professional Components also of Sid-ney,” confirmed Cromp.

The boat will be used for regular marine rescue missions such as vessel fires, medi-cal conditions at sea, retrieving abandoned ships and rescuing ves-sels hung up on rocks.“The vessel is 9.14 m in

length (30 feet). State of the art electronics package purchased from Raymarine will provide the backbone

of the navigational in-struments on board. The vessel is configured with the helm to the port side and the navi-gator riding starboard seat. In normal opera-tions the coxswain, or the master of the ves-sel, will ride port side aft where another set of electronics and radio gear permit him or her to keep abreast of the vessel’s operation on a minute by minute basis.

A fifth seat is available centre aft in a ‘jump seat’ type configuration. There is room on the aft deck for two stretch-ers, side by each, which provides additional room not found on our current vessel,” stated Cromp who will be con-tinuing the fundraising efforts, alongside his colleagues, in a bid for further state of the art equipment.“Although the new

vessel is now a real-ity there are still fund raising activities under way in the Ladysmith and surrounding area. There remains a need to purchase additional on-board equipment be-fore the new boat can be placed into dedicat-ed marine search and rescue activities. We look forward to work-ing with the commu-nity in achieving these goals.”

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BC Ferries announces schedule refinement options to the public

BC Ferries has posted schedule refinement options to various ferry routes on its website.

The move has come with a wish to gain feedback from the public amidst propositions of change to certain routes.

Route 20, Chemainus - Thetis Island - Penelakut Island is particularly affected.“It’s important for the communities affected by the schedule adjust-ments to give us their input on the draft sched-ule options, and we urge our customers to take a few minutes to com-plete the online survey,” said Mike Corrigan, BC Ferries’ President and CEO in a press release.

Surveys are available online or can be con-ducted via telephone.

Deadline for ferry users to submit their thoughts and opinions is February 21.

BC Ferries has said it will meet with communi-ty leaders including Ferry Advisory Committee members and the new schedules will be imple-mented as of April 28.

Earlier this month, B.C.’s provincial govern-ment announced a $14 million reduction in ferry services, but further cuts are to come in the future.“The province said they wanted to save $18.9 million,” Darin Guenette, manager of public affairs at BC Ferries, told The Chronicle. “The other $4.9 million will come through cuts to the major routes from Vancouver Island to the Lower Mainland by April 2016.”

According to Guenette, BC Ferries has a bit of leeway with regards to the changes in terms of ferry sailing times, but the province has already set in stone the number of changes that need to be made.“The province has told us we need to save some costs and as we’re a contractor, they pay us to do that. We can adjust a ferry sailing to later in the day as long as it’s in the same shift,” said Guenette. - Ross Armour

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Ladysmith RCMP is investigating an armed robbery at Coronation Mall after a man held local workers at knife-point.

The incident hap-pened on Feb. 11 at ap-proximately 8:50 p.m. at the Co-Op gas sta-tion in the south end of Ladysmith.“We don’t have any suspects yet,” Cpl. Tim Desaulniers told The Chronicle. “We’re wait-ing for video surveil-lance from the com-pany and then we’ll be reviewing it. They told us he walked onto the street through the bushes and then dis-appeared so we don’t have a direction of travel after that.”

Co-Op gas station has CCTV cameras on-site.“A lone male, entered the store, brandished a knife, and demanded

money,” said Desaul-niers in a press release.

“The clerk complied and the male left the location on a bicycle that was behind the business with an un-disclosed amount of money.”

Police were immedi-ately called but were unable to find the culprit who vanished into the night on what was a rainy evening in town.“The suspect is de-scribed as a white male, approximately 35 years-old, 5’8” tall, 200 pounds, with a dark goatee. He was wearing a faded black hoody, blue jeans and black runners. He was also wearing a multi-coloured Rastafarian knitted hat with fake dreadlocks at the time of the robbery in an effort to disguise him-self,” wrote Desaul-niers in the release.Anyone with informa-

tion on the incident is urged to contact the Ladsymith RCMP at 250-245-2215 or call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Elsewhere, earlier that day, there was an accident involving a motor vehicle on Dog-wood Drive.

The incident oc-curred in the early hours with one person being transported to hospital with serious injuries.“On Feb. 11 at 12:39 a.m., BC Ambulance Service responded to a motor vehicle incident in the 300 block of Dogwood Drive,” unit chief Steven van der Minne told The Chron-icle. “Two ground am-bulances and one air ambulance were sent to the scene. One pa-tient in serious condi-tion was transported to Victoria General Hospital by air ambu-lance.”

Ladysmith Station 29’s new boat is equipped with 18-inch shock absorbers to reduce impact on cabin crew whilst out at sea. ROSS ARMOUR


In the 2012/2013 school year, Davis Road became the num-ber one priority project in the plan. Then suddenly, that all changed. The school district presented its ‘Enhanced Facili-ties Plan for Learning’ in April 2013 and announced plans to close and consolidate several schools, all in the south end of the district. From Number One to shut-down… obviously the school district did not like the idea that they might need to finally spend some money in Ladysmith schools.”

Segreto also believes closing Davis Road merely because it has the worst facilities in the district is the wrong thing to do.“All the schools in Ladysmith

have poor facility ratings be-cause for decades the school district has not invested any capital funds into an area with a relatively small section of the voting population of the Nanai-mo-Ladysmith School District.“Many Ladysmith families are

extremely upset and are con-sidering moving their children out of the district, going in-stead to schools in School Dis-trict 79 or private schools such as St. Joseph’s, where already at least 60 per cent of students are Ladysmith residents. Other families are considering leav-ing the French Immersion pro-

gram and putting their children into the Ladysmith Primary/Intermediate schools which are now the catchment area schools for all Ladysmith chil-dren. Problem is, though, that the two schools only have a combined capacity of 523 for the town’s almost 800 elemen-tary-aged children.”

PAC co-chair Aaron Stone is actively seeking assurances and arrangements from SD68 over busing for Davis Road stu-dents heading to North Oyster.“We’re still back and forth

with the school district, but the issue of busing can’t be assured without the trustees voting on it,” said Stone. “The message from SD68 is about enhancing education, so they need to show us that com-mitment so we can invest in that. North Oyster’s catch-ment area doesn’t support the school so they need us to buy in. We’ve said loud and clear that we need bus-ing or else the school district will be held accountable. If they’re not willing to commit to North Oyster, then why keep it open? They need us as much as we need them.”

Stone believes criticism of the SD68 should be aimed at district staff rather than the school trustees who passed a motion similar to Option A put together by the Ladysmith Working Group.

“I was one voice on the Work-ing Group but the reality is there was a lot of support behind Option A. Criticism should be aimed at adminis-trative and senior staff at the district as the trustees chose an option from the community against the will of staff.”

Stone will also send his chil-dren to North Oyster to remain in French and is trying to look on the bright side.“It’s a six minute drive to

North Oyster so it’s do-able. It’s a very nice facility. I don’t agree with the district’s deci-sion but I understand the logic of it. It was an enhanced ‘facili-ties’ for learning plan and you can see that. I’m trying to have a positive attitude towards all of this as I am heartbroken. Right now, it’s a hard pill to swallow but it’s about making it into something special,” he said.

Segreto see no prosperous fu-ture under SD68’s dictatorship.“Before more Ladysmith stu-

dents join the 116 who have al-ready left SD68 for alternatives in SD79 or private schools, per-haps the Town of Ladysmith needs to think about operating its own school district or join-ing SD79. Our public education system in B.C. is deteriorating, a fact that is clearly evident in Ladysmith. Our elected offi-cials need to start putting edu-cation before politics.”

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Crowder underlines lack of detail in 2014 budget

Ross Armourthe chronicle

So 2014’s budget will bring about yet another deficit for Canada, but this year’s money fig-ures being outlined leave more questions unanswered.

That’s according to Nanaimo-Cowichan NDP Member of Par-liament Jean Crowder who has highlighted what, in her eyes, is a “lack of detail in Fi-nance Minister Jim Fla-herty’s budget speech.“The budget is short

on detail, however there will be more de-tails to come in forth-coming months” said Crowder. “Even though the money rolls out in 2014/15, in many plac-es a lot of the govern-ment’s programs won’t come into place until 2015/16.”

Yet despite the por-trayed vagueness, Crowder says there are some positive things to look forward to for our constituency.“The money going into

disaster mitigation is something to pay atten-

tion too. They’re put-ting $200 million into that over the next five years, starting on April 1, 2015, and that’s im-portant for us as we’ve had disasters here.“There’s also going to

be a 15 per cent non-refundable tax credit for search and rescue workers that have put in 200 hours of volun-teer work. So at the end of the 2014 tax year, in the spring of 2015, that will become available to those workers, so that’s a good thing and something we’ve been pushing for.”

Crowder said the gov-ernment also indicated there would be more money available for municipal infrastruc-ture, but again there’s

“not enough details and no criteria,” with re-gards to that.

Despite a $2.9 bil-lion deficit this year, 2015’s budget year is supposed to instigate a $6.4 billion surplus, according to Flaherty and co.“Somebody said in

the House of Com-mons this is the ninth deficit budget in a row, but we’re in a very fragile economic re-covery right now. We also won’t be seeing the investment in job creation that people would’ve hoped for,” said Crowder.”The gov-ernment have said they will consider selling off crown assets, but that’s not always a good de-cision as it depends on what you’re selling. If what you’re selling is being used to pay down the deficit then the people never have access to that.”

Crowder concluded by saying the reason for the lack of detail may be down to a pending election next year with the govern-ment not wanting to

“put all their cards on the table.”“A lot of further an-

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VICTORIA – I made an error in a column two weeks ago about the lat-est court ruling in favour of the B.C. Teachers’ Fed-eration.

I referred to an “illegal” strike in 2012, and was quickly reminded that this teacher walkout was sanctioned by the Labour Relations Board.

After months of with-holding report cards and refusing to meet with ad-ministrators, the union went to the LRB to seek permission for a full-scale strike.

They got their wish, with authorization under es-sential services rules for

a three-day strike in the first week, and one day a week after that until the end of the school year or a settlement was reached.

The authorized three-day strike went ahead in March 2012. Regular read-ers may recall my reports of students being indoctri-nated in classrooms and in some cases sent out as union pickets, and of the strong-arming of union-ized government office staff here in Victoria to make them join a rally on the legislature lawn.

This was the strike that, according to the media the provincial cabinet conspired to bring about. This notion is central to the Jan. 27 ruling of Jus-tice Susan Griffin that or-ders the B.C. government to attempt to reconstruct the world of 2001.

Government lawyers filed an application with the B.C. Court of Appeal on Friday to suspend parts of this ruling. Im-posing Griffin’s terms would cause “irreparable harm to the public inter-est of unprecedented magnitude,” they said in arguments backed up by

a series of affidavits from superintendents who have to keep B.C.’s war-weary public schools running.

In Surrey, returning to 2002 conditions would add $40 million to the dis-trict payroll in year one. That’s one of 60 school districts.

The government’s sub-mission includes affida-vits from superintendents around the province on its likely impact. Here’s a partial list:

Cancellation of specialty programs for vulnerable youth, construction of portables to meet arbi-trary class size restric-tions, transfer of some students to other schools, closure of daycare and Strong Start preschool programs to free up space reallocated over the years, layoff of non-teaching staff, and cancellation of school participation in the international student pro-gram.

Premier Christy Clark and Education Minister Peter Fassbender have be-gun to push back against the conspiracy theory that has taken hold, pointing out that when the BCTF fi-

nally did get permission to strike, the cabinet of the day acted to prevent it.

Here’s a recap. In late February 2012, nearly 28,000 teachers (90 per cent) voted to go to the full strike allowed by the LRB. The government ta-bled legislation to impose a cooling-off period with provision for steep fines on the union for any fur-ther strike action, and ap-pointed a mediator. This kept schools open, and eventually yielded a two-year deal.

In April 2012, the union voted to withdraw all vol-unteer work by teachers. By this time they had been ordered by the LRB to pre-pare second-term report cards, in part so students would know if they could apply for post-secondary studies.

Once again this mess is before the court of appeal.

Perhaps there will be better recognition of the real world this time around.

Tom Fletcher is legisla-

tive reporter and colum-nist for Black Press news-papers.

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Alas a decision has been made with re-gards to school reconfiguration in the Ladysmith zone, with École Davis Road Elementary closing in June.

In recent times I have felt like an educa-tion reporter for this community rather than a general one.

On that pivotal night back on Feb. 6 I anticipated many upset Davis Road parents and associates at the end of the evening.

I wasn’t wrong, but even the most passionate mem-bers of Davis Road’s PAC would probably admit that this was a decision they saw coming — as did I.

Yet, Davis Road created a strong, defiant argument which many people couldn’t help but take note of, and one that in many other cases would have likely brought about a triumphant result on their part.

That voice is not going to go away anytime soon.But at the end of the day, the school has been re-

ported as having the worst facilities in the district, a factor that no doubt proved to be crucial at the SD68 board table.

Throughout this whole process, Davis Road advo-cates have emphasized to me the importance of keep-ing a community together.

The only elementary school in the south end of Ladysmith has now been closed, with French Immer-sion being taken out of the town completely.

Do French parents follow the program, head to North Oyster which reportedly has the best facili-ties in the Ladysmith zone, and drive approximately 14 kilometres each day for a school run? Or do they stay in town, dropping out of French completely, and change to English track at either Ladysmith Primary or Intermediate?

I reckon choices will be made based on what is val-ued more: community or French Immersion.

SD68 chair Dot Neary said at the special meeting that it was a decision her and fellow trustees needed to get right.

Whether they have done so, only time will tell.—Ross Armour

YOUR WORDS“The budget is short on detail.”

Jean Crowder, Page 5

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Ladysmith seen as an ‘add-on’ to School Distict 68

Editor:

When picking up my kids from school in Ladysmith today, I couldn’t help but notice the let-tering on the side of our school bus. It reads “School District 68 (Nanaimo)”.

Indeed, that is exactly how many of us in Ladysmith feel.

Though officially it is the “Na-naimo-Ladysmith” School Dis-trict, the actions of the Board in their recent facilities plan decisions reinforce what the buses clearly say: Ladysmith is an add-on to a School Dis-trict wholly committed to serv-ing the needs and priorities of Nanaimo.

Closing École Davis Road, re-configuring the high school to start in Grade 7, the planned over-crowding of LPS and LIS with the EDR overflow, the shipping of our French Immer-sion program out of town to North Oyster, the intransigence around providing Cedar kids busing to LSS, the frank admis-sions that any new schools for Ladysmith are a distant priority behind an $80 million+ rebuild of NDSS -- all underscore how we have been abandoned.

Trustees will be gleaming with pride when the new gym goes up in Hammond Bay, Dover gets its expensive new IB pro-gram, and the blueprints for the new NDSS go on display, but there’ll be no applause from Ladysmith.

It’s time to look elsewhere. I, for one, feel we should be giv-ing our municipal leaders a clear mandate to be exploring options like getting out of SD68 entirely.

And families caught in the ter-rible wake of the Board’s recent decisions should contact the principals at Chemainus El-ementary (12 minute drive) or École Mt. Prevost (18 minute drive), who have this week en-thusiastically toured us through their well-supported SD79 fa-cilities.

Brian ThomLadysmith

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I would like to extend a huge thank-you to Peter Richmond and the entire 49th Parallel family for the tremendous sup-port that they have shown and given to the Save Cedar Schools Coalition. As a member of the organizing committee for this group, I can attest to how much time, effort and product the 49th Parallel group of compa-nies has given to our fight to hold this school district and it’s Board of Education responsible not only for the terrible deci-sions they are making regarding the education of children in the entire south end of the school district but also for the ter-rible way these decisions were made. Most recently Peter and Lesley at the 49th Printers came to our rescue after we received our long awaited Freedom of Information requests from the school district. Instead of giv-ing them to us electronically, which we asked for and they are mandated by law to do, they gave us the requests in pa-per format, amounting to over 5000 pages. The 49th Parallel Printers generously scanned all the documents for us into electronic form and helped us

get the documents online for the community to read. For this time consuming effort they charged us just a fraction of the cost that they could have. It has been said before that 49th Par-allel likes to help groups who are helping others and for Save Cedar Schools this has certainly been the case. The next time you have shopping or printing to do or flowers to send, please choose 49th Parallel, they are a shining example of a local busi-ness using their resources to make our community stronger and better. Thank-you Peter Richmond and everyone at the 49th family of businesses for ev-erything you have done for this community.

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All dogs must go to Creek Trail on-leash

Editor: I was happy to read a couple

weeks ago that the Mayor and council were discussing the op-tion of making Holland Creek a required dog leash trail. It truly is a natural beauty to have right in our town, many residents not even having to start a car to get there, the envy of many a community. Not being a very vocal or outspoken person I did my usual leave it alone and let council do their job and hope

for a positive outcome. Then the Feb 4th issue of this news-paper decides to print two nega-tive letters regarding the issue. From the ‘few people complain’ to the ‘alerting of bad humans’ I was disgusted. Talk about simple minded hogwash. It’s a public place for all to enjoy, we have dogs, we keep them on a leash during walks along the trail so they don’t go running up to people who are not interest-ed in visiting with them. I don’t like loose dogs when I am run-ning as they tend to get excited and run along with me, all good until they cross and trip me up. This is a nuisance for me and unsafe, as well as disrupting, I leave our dogs at home for this reason.

When I first heard about the proposal I thought great, maybe as a compromise the more rug-ged side could be left off leash as it’s more narrow and less travelled. Westwood Lake has a diverted off-leash section for those who desire it so it’s not uncharted territory folks. The trail up to the Heart Lake area is a great place to let them off and run as well so it’s not like real estate is hard to find for them. I really don’t understand why some supposed ‘responsi-ble dog owners’ can’t see other peoples side of this topic.

Dwight LeslieLadysmith

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SD68 banishes busing from Cedar to LSSRoss ArmourTHE CHRONICLE

School District 68 re-cently banished hopes of students in Cedar being bussed into Ladysmith.

The students in ques-tion are those currently enrolled at Cedar Sec-ondary School, which closes in June, that have chosen to attend Ladysmith Secondary

School come Septem-ber.

Upon the school closing, students in Cedar were given a choice of either going to LSS or John Barsby Community School in Nanaimo.

Barsby is now the catchment area high school for Cedar kids so busing will be pro-vided for students heading there, but as

LSS is out of catchment, buses are not provided.At the special school

board meeting Feb. 6, trustee TerryLynn Saunders made a mo-tion to provide busing from Cedar to LSS as well, but that failed.“The best thing we

could’ve done was split Cedar in half and send half of the students to John Barsby and half to Ladysmith Second-

ary, but that didn’t hap-pen,” said Saunders at the meeting. “We’ve done an awful lot to the students of Cedar but we did provide busing from South Wellington to Chase River. I know the cost of busing is expensive but this hap-pens to be the right thing to do even if it’s at the wrong time.”

The motion would have seen SD68 pur-

chase new buses for a transport service to be implemented, but Saunders was only backed up by trustees Sharon Welch, Kim Howland and Bill Rob-inson.

Chair Dot Neary as well as trustees Donna Allen, Jamie Brennan, Bill Bard and Nancy Curley voted against.“I work a lot with peo-

ple in poverty and they

don’t have the same choices as people with money,” said Welch.

“We’re doing disservice to those who can’t af-ford the gas and I have a problem with that. I didn’t understand ini-tially the values of liv-ing in a small communi-ty. People in Cedar feel as though they relate more to the Town of Ladysmith rather than the City of Nanaimo.

We’re not looking out-side the box on this one. Over half of the stu-dents said they want to come to Ladysmith and I wonder how many more would come if they had busing.”

Chair Neary highlight-ed money as a stum-bling block.“It’s a luxury we can’t

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For Allan Kobayashi, endurance running is a key component of his effort to heal from post-traumatic stress disorder, diagnosed after multiple tours of Afghanistan.

A 30 kilometre run, he says, provides a

“sense of clarity in my mind and heart.”

Kobayashi and four other military col-leagues are spring-boarding their pas-sion for endurance training into an effort to raise awareness of PTSD among serv-ing and retired mem-bers of the Canadian Armed Forces.

The Wounded War-rior Run B.C. passes through the Lady-s m i t h - C h e m a i n u s area next week and will cover the length of Vancouver Island — 600 km over six days.

Kobayashi, a PO2 with the damage con-trol school in Col-wood, and fellow run-ner Sgt. Dan Bodden, an Air Force search and rescue tech, came up with the ambitious project last August through the under-standing that many of their colleagues suffer in silence with PTSD, unaware or refusing to acknowledge they have an unseen injury.“I knew I had to come up with a mission to raise awareness of PTSD,” Kobayashi said. “I knew I wanted to do something to give back.”

Kobayashi admits he nearly lost his family due to the ill effects of PTSD. He credits his wife Fran for forc-ing him to seek help. It wasn’t an easy pro-cess.“I was scared, terri-fied. But there is help, and you need to take that step and seek the help that is there,” he said. Not only in the Canadian Forces, but the rest of our broth-ers in uniform — po-lice, fire, paramedics

— and everyday civil-ians.”“These guys are what

I call miracle work-ers. There are fathers,

mothers, sons and daughters who are af-fected by PTSD, it’s a stress they face each day,” sponsor Bob Saunders of Saunders Subaru said. “We need to send a strong message to Ottawa not to close (veter-ans) support centres and create undue stress with bureau-cratic red tape.”

Lt.-Col. Chris Lin-ford (retired), a Vic-toria resident and na-tional ambassador for Wounded Warriors Canada, helped con-vince the Saunders family to support the cause.

He has suffered from PTSD for 20 years after a 1994 mis-sion in Rwanda during that nation’s genocide, as detailed in his book Warrior Rising.“I was a strong, fit soldier, a nursing offi-cer ready and trained. I tell you, of the 200 of us sent in (to Rwanda), 200 returned injured with PTSD,” he told the audience at the kickoff event. “I spent the next 10 years hid-ing it from everyone because of the stigma. The stigma is power-ful, it totally controls you, and PTSD con-trols you.”

Like Kobayashi, Lin-ford’s wife convinced him to seek help of-fered through the Ca-nadian Armed Forces.“We need to con-

vince veterans who haven’t found their way to come for-ward and admit they have an injury. That is one of the hardest things you can do. It’s against soldier culture and nature to declare themselves as a casualty. Getting to that point is a lot of work,” Linford said. “The attention these

guys will bring to the cause will save peo-ple. Bringing attention to this will convince Canadians that work needs to be done and the government needs to provide resources.”

The Wounded War-rior B.C. run begins February 16 in Port Hardy, and ends on February 21 in Colwood.

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Readers familiar with Ladysmth’s early his-tory will recall Dun-smuir’s decision to relocate the families and workers at Exten-sion Mine to the new community at Oyster

Bay, and discontinue coal shipments from Departure Bay. Busi-ness was booming at the newly constructed Coal Wharf, and both passenger and freight service were provid-

ed through a fleet of vessels operated by the British Columbia Coast Steamship Ser-vice in conjunction with the E & N. The fishing and logging in-dustries increasingly used the improved harbour facilities at Ladysmith to load their products for trans-shipment to both the mainland and over-seas. The railway was also transporting ore mined at Mt. Sicker to a new smelter in Ladysmith.

However, at the end of the 19th century, there was still a major problem transporting heavy equipment and machinery to Vancou-ver Island. It had to be lightered off and on the Island or sent by scow to Victoria or Nanaimo, a costly and labour intensive enter-prise.

The solution was to construct a dedi-cated transfer slip so

that boxcars could be shipped directly by railcar ferry to and from Vancouver Island without off loading the contents. The logical choice for the E & N was to build the facil-ity at Oyster Bay! By early 1900 Transfer Wharf was ready for business. According to railway historian Don MacLachlan, the first shipment from the rail car ferry slip was a carload of lumber from John Coburn’s mill at Shawnigan Lake. The first cars arriving on Vancou-ver Island at the new Transfer Wharf were CPR rail cars from Eastern Canada. Then, on December 2, 1900, the tug Czar arrived with Transfer No. 1, a railway car barge that could carry twelve boxcars on the forty mile crossing between Ladysmith and Van-couver. A new era had begun.

In 1905, the C.P.R. purchased the E & N. The rail line was quick-ly extended to Alberni (1911) Lake Cowichan (1912) and Courtenay (1914). Although a planned extension to Campbell River had to be abandoned with the outbreak of WWI, the major communi-ties on the east coast of Vancouver Island were now connected by rail to the rest of the world. The CPR was already in the shipping business, and along with the railway purchase came a small marine fleet including the Joan, a wooden-hulled twin-screw steamer and the City of Nanaimo, which served communities on the east coast of Vancouver Island for many years. Canadian Pacific now proceeded to fulfill its promise to provide a rail link from Halifax to Victoria.

On July 11th, 1908

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Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3781 proposes to amend Electoral Area G – Saltair/Gulf Islands Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 2500 by deleting Policy 9.2 which reads: “Development of land in the Manufactured Home Park Residential Designation will comply with the Regional District Mobile Home Park Bylaw”.Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3782 proposes to amend Electoral Area G – Saltair/Gulf Islands Zoning Bylaw No. 2524 by deleting Section 3.11.8 (Minimum Parcel Size Exemption for Manufactured Home Park Strata Plan), and by deleting Section 5.5 (MP-1 Manufactured Home Zone 1) and replacing it with a revised MP-1 zone that would permit site built dwellings.The purpose of Bylaw Nos. 3781 and 3782 is to amend the MP-1 Zone to permit “site built” dwellings as an alternative to mobile homes (CSA Z240) and modular homes (CSA Z277) that are presently permitted in the MP-1 zone. The only properties currently zoned MP-1 and which will be affected by the amendment bylaws are shown outlined on the side map.At the public hearing, all persons who deem their interests affected by the proposed amendments will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions on matters contained therein, before representatives of the Regional Board. Prior to the public hearing, submit written comments on the bylaws by:Fax: 250-746-2621Email: [email protected] orMail and/or deposit at the Regional District offices by 4:30 pm on the day of the hearing.The public hearing is to be held by Directors M. Walker, B. Fraser, G. Giles, L. Iannidinardo, L. Duncan, I. Morrison, M. Dorey, M. Marcotte and P. Weaver as delegates of the Board. A copy of the Board resolution delegating the holding of the public hearing, and other documents that may be considered by the Board in determining whether to adopt the Bylaws are available for public inspection at the Regional District Planning & Development Department office:175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC

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Seniors to showcase a western Lindsay Chungthe chronicle

The Chemainus Se-niors’ Drop-In Centre will bring you back to the Wild West during its upcoming musical show, Way Out West.

Choreographer Alma Hughes says Way Out West, which features a cast of about 35 and runs March 14-16, is quite a different show than what the seniors’ centre offers each year.

This is the story of an older couple who live on a each, who are reading a di-ary and going back in their memories to when they first came to this town, she ex-plained.“Each memory has

a scene, so you can see their memories all the way through,” she said.

Lesley Lambert, who is directing the show with Jo Kelly, was raised with country and western mu-sic, and she always thought she wanted to do a show about west-ern themes.“I thought I wanted

it to be about couples’ lives,” she said. “This basically goes from Rogers and Hammer-stein to Johnny Cash to Shania Twain, so we have a real mix.”

As the performances near, Hughes says ev-erything is going well.“A lot of talented men

have painted and dec-orated the scenery for us; the talent in the se-niors’ centre isn’t just

performing,” she not-ed. “It’s all done here at the seniors’ centre, so anyone who wants to join us, there’s al-ways something to do.”

Cast members sing, dance and act, and Hughes says they have some wonderful singers from the choir.“It’s so much fun,” said Margaret Maltby, a member of the cho-rus. “I think if the au-

dience has as much fun as we are having in rehearsals, it’s go-ing to be a knockout show.”“It’s great to get out

here with so many people,” said Gail O’Hara, a member of the chorus. “There’s so much talent.”

Many talented se-niors are performing on stage, but there are also many people working behind the scenes, making the scenery, costumes and props.“It’s a real concerted

effort for everyone who wants to be in it,” said Lambert. “Every-one puts the time in and hopefully enjoys the time they put in, and it’s great.”

The Chemainus Se-niors’ Drop-In Centre presents Way Out West Friday, March 14 at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 15 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 16 at 2 p.m. at 9824 Willow St.

The shows are re-served seating, and tickets are $15 each and can be purchased Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Drop-In Centre.

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Two new age group course records were set, and many runners ran personal bests dur-ing the Cedar 12K road race last weekend.

The Cedar 12K, the

third race in the Front-runners Island Race Series, took place Sun-day, Feb. 9, starting and finishing at Cedar Intermediate Second-ary School.

The race was hosted by the Bastion Run-ning Club, and 418 peo-

ple finished.Logan Roots from the

Prairie Inn Harriers won the race in 40:33, with Thomas Holm fol-lowing in second place with a time of 41:13, and Nicholas Walker finishing third in 41:52.

Claire Morgan of the Prairie Inn Harri-ers won the women’s race in 44:44. Melissa Ross was second with a time of 44:50, and Jill Ramstead was third, finishing the race in 47:39.

The Top Women’s Master racer was Cher-yl Davies, who finished in 48:29, while Hugh Trenchard won the Men’s Master category in 43:06. “The conditions for the Cedar 12K road race were nothing

short of ideal — cool and very little wind, and a sun that even peeked at us for brief moments,” race direc-tor John Durkin said in a press release. “With conditions like that, we had two age group course records, and many runners saw PBs. Our 70-some-strong volunteer crew gave the runners a safe and enjoyable experi-ence today. Great food, great entertainment and perfect running conditions — I couldn’t have asked for more.“ The age group course records were set by Bridget Cameron in the Girls 1-15 category (51:27) and Roslyn Smith in the Women’s 65-69 category (55:27).

Full race day results

are available online at http://racedaytiming.ca/results/Cedar2014.

In the club standings, the Prairie Inn Harri-ers lead the series with 1,393 points, followed by Bastion Running Club with 989 and the Comox Valley Road Runners with 819.

Eight races make up the Frontrunners Is-land Race Series. The next race is Hatley Castle 8K on Feb. 23, followed by Synergy Health Management Ltd. Bazan Bay 5K on March 9, Comox Val-ley RV Half Marathon on March 23, Merville 15K on April 6, and Sooke River 10K on April 13.

To register online for the series, visit www.vira.bc.ca.


Saltair skier heading to BC Games with medal hopes Ross ArmourTHE CHRONICLE

Sarah Rocque is certainly keeping a family skiing tradi-tion going.

But more than that, the 12 year-old out of Saltair is off to Mis-sion for the BC Win-ter Games Feb. 20-23.

Registering as an extra, Rocque will compete for the medals in the mo-guls skiing event this weekend, as she sets off by Thursday alongside her other Island teammates.“My goal for the BC

Winter Games is to try my best, have fun, meet new peo-ple and learn more skills,” said Rocque who is aiming to imi-tate Canada’s Alex Bilodeau in Sochi recently. “I want to bring home a medal, but I still want to have fun as well. It’s like a mini Olympics for kids.”

Like Sarah who has been skiing since she was two and a half, mom Amber has also skied her entire life.“The judges base it on their skiing tech-nique, air time, de-gree of difficulty in your jumps, finesses, how you hold your

feet and landings and take-off, things like that,” she said.

Davis Road El-ementary student Sarah is part of the Mount Washington Freestyle Club and is trained by coach-es Peter Stubbs and Ian McFadgen.“At the weekends I

would normally train at Mount Washing-ton but since there’s been no snow we’ve been going to Whis-tler and I’ve been training there with my coach,” said Rocque who is in training almost all year-round. “I train in the summer at Whistler for practice and I might go to the Momentum ski camp up on the glacier.”

There is no doubt skiing is one of Rocque’s biggest passions in life.“Skiing means a lot of things. I like hav-ing fun, enjoying the snow and hanging out with my friends. It runs in the fam-ily. My goal is to be in the Olympics one day.”

The skiing events for the BC Games will take place at Hemlock Valley Re-sort, between Mis-sion and Agassiz on the Lower Mainland.

New group records set in Cedar 12K run

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Local skier Sarah Rocque is aiming to win a medal at the BC Winter Games this weekend amidst Olympic dream. ROSS ARMOUR

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LADYSMITH LEGION SWAP MEET - every Sunday starting March 2. Tables $10, set up 7 am. Public welcome 8 am. Call Rain for info 250-245-8129.

HIGH STREET COFFEEHOUSE - Sat, Feb 22 7 pm, 232

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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

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