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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015 | VOL. 19, NO. 47 | $1 + GST | www.lakecowichangazette.com

Christmas: Parade ready to roll Sunday night, Nov. 29

One Cowichan: Working together to survive climate change

Economic development: Lake next tourist hotspot?

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LAKERS TAKE TOURNAMENT WIN

With a score of 6-1 the Midget Lakers handily beat Semiahmoo Ravens to take first place in the tournament held Nov. 14 and 15 in Lake Cowichan. [MALCOLM CHALMERS PHOTO]

Mould, asbestos a wrench in centre plansLEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

No one is going to be able to use Lake Cowichan’s newly chris-tened Kasapi Centre (otherwise known as “the old Logger Hut”) for a while yet, town council dis-covered Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Several groups, including the Lake Cowichan Food Bank, were hopeful that they could get space for programs in the main street location just up the street from

the municipal hall.Councillors, too, were looking

forward to discussing the future of this new town asset at their parks and recreation committee meeting when Lake Cowichan CAO Joe Fernandez dropped a bombshell.

A 15-foot stretch of mould as well as asbestos had been discov-ered in a cursory inspection of the building, Fernandez told the meeting, adding that even that

bit of news meant the building was plainly not ready for use.

“You need a full risk assessment before you allow the public in,” he said.

Coun. Tim McGonigle asked if councillors could take a quick tour to see for themselves what the issues might be and May-or Ross Forrest added that it was likely that there would be asbestos in any building of that vintage.

The risk from the asbestos usually comes when it is broken into for renovation and removal, he said.

If left alone, asbestos is not an immediate health hazard.

Fernandez was still firm on the need for caution, and the impossi-bility of allowing any group to use the structure for some time yet.

“‘Visible mould in the building’ was what they said. It’s critical

that we do remedial work,” he told councillors.

Coun. Bob Day suggested that getting some heat into the build-ing as soon as possible might help the mould problem.

Both McGonigle and Forrest were also firm that council at least should walk through and see the state of the building.

“Then we can decide if it’s financially feasible to go ahead,” McGonigle said.

2 Wednesday, November 25, 2015 | THE LAKE COWICHAN GAZETTE | www.lakecowichangazette.com

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LEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

When Lake Cowichan gets the final design for its new municipal hall, there will be some signifi-cant use of wood in the building’s plans.

Mayor Ross Forrest brought an idea to the town’s economic and sustainable development commit-tee Nov. 17.

“The administrator [CAO Joe Fernandez] and myself had a conference call yesterday with the architects for the new town hall,” said Forrest.

“Also on the line was a repre-sentative of the Wood Council of BC. Because we are a Wood First community, they would like to see us use wood instead of drywall for the ceiling for the new council

chamber and the entrance part of the hall. They’d like to see wood instead of plain gyproc.”

But the change means more money has to be spent.

“The additional cost would probably be about $40,000 but he knows he can get donations of wood and what not through the Wood Council so they can’t give us an exact figure. However, they

have to know about that before they start doing up the detailed plans. They have to know if it’s going to be wood or a drywall ceiling.

“We [Forrest and Fernandez] weren’t going to make that deci-sion ourselves so I’m bringing it you,” he said.

The change in the project still has to be fitted into the upcoming

budget as well.Fernandez said that since it was

a long-term project, the benefit of even $40,000 would be seen for years. Councillors agreed.

Wood has also been used in award-winning ways at both the Cowichan Lake Sports Arena and the Lake Cowichan branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library.

Wood adds $40,000 to new municipal hall plans

STORM DAMAGE

Youbou residents gather to see the tree that caused a power outage Tuesday morning, Nov. 17. High winds in the area caused branches to fall and trees to topple. This tree blew over landing on the cable/telephone lines while knocking a power line down on the opposite side of Youbou Road. Power was interrupted for over 20 hours on the west side of Youbou. The Cowichan Lake area was just one of many on Vancouver Island slammed by the wind and rainstorm. Thousands were left without power across Vancouver Island, ferries were cancelled and BC Hydro crews were left scrambling to clean up the mess. [MALCOLM CHALMERS PHOTO]

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We need to switch off power in your area for about four hours while we conduct

system maintenance. To keep our crews and the public safe, power must be switched

off while we complete this important work.

Where: Lake Cowichan, Mesachie Lake, Youbou, Honeymoon Bay

and the surrounding area.

Start time: 11 p.m. on Saturday, November 28, 2015

End time: 3 a.m. on Sunday, November 29, 2015

To protect your equipment from damage during the outage, please turn off all lights,

electrical heaters, major appliances and unplug all electronics. We’ll restore power as

soon as we can.

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Power outage notice: planned maintenanceLake Cowichan, Mesachie Lake, Youbou, Honeymoon Bay

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ANDREA RONDEAU GAZETTE

Get ready for some time in the dark next weekend.

BC Hydro has scheduled a power outage starting on Sat-urday, Nov. 28 at 11 p.m. and concluding on Sunday, Nov. 29 at 3 a.m. affecting Lake Cowic-han, Mesachie Lake, Youbou, Honeymoon Bay and the sur-rounding area.

“We need to switch off power in your area for about four hours while we conduct sys-tem maintenance,” BC Hydro advised in a press release. “To keep our crews and the public safe, power must be switched off while we complete this important work.”

Hydro said that people should plan to turn off all lights, elec-trical heaters, major appli-ances and unplug all electron-ics prior to the lights-out time to protect their equipment from potential damage during the outage.

“We’ll restore power as soon as we can,” the utility promises.

Plan for power outage Nov. 28-29

BC HYDROParade ready to roll Sunday nightSARAH SIMPSON GAZETTE

Come one, come all to the Christmas parade!

Lake Cowichan’s festive pro-cession is back for its second-straight year, taking off from Neva Road no later than 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 29, and ending at the Visitor Centre at Saywell Park on South Shore Road.

Thus far, 17 floats and walking groups have confirmed their par-ticipation in the parade.

More are welcome to join in. It’s free, but registration is

important. Find the Christmas Parade sign-up papers at cow-ichanlake.ca under the Events Calendar tab.

The deadline has been extended to Nov. 26 to allow for more entries.

On the big night, corporate sponsor Country Grocer will have the duty of transporting the pre-cious cargo, Santa himself, on its float in the parade, according to Katherine Worsley, coordinator of the Cowichan Lake Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Busi-ness Centre.

Following the parade, “Our dignitaries, our local politicians, will be at the Christmas tree to do the lighting with Santa Claus,” Worsley said.

That’s expected to happen at 6 p.m.

Those who wish to have a visit with the Big Guy after will have the opportunity to do so but be sure to bring your camera to cap-

ture the moment. Lake Cowichan Country Gro-

cer will not just be transporting Santa, but will also be putting smiles on the faces of many with free Christmas treats like sug-ar cookies and candy canes and oranges, and hot chocolate.

“I hope the weather stands because last year we had a beauti-ful day but it was cold,” Worsley said. “So far it’s looking good.”

She encourages folks to dress warmly, wearing gloves and add-ing extra socks if need be.

Because there will be lots to see and do and it would be dis-appointing to be too cold to take it all in.

For those looking to multi-task, vendors will be out at the North Pole Christmas Market, under the gazebo behind the Visitor Centre for gift buying.

There you’ll find wonderful homemade crafts and goodies sure to be a hit with your loved ones — or as a special treat to yourself!

Also for the shoppers in the crowd is a chance to win a $50 gift certificate.

Pick up a Shopping Passport at the Visitor Centre on Friday, Nov. 27.

Then, between Nov. 29 and Dec. 5 shop at participating businesses. Have your passport signed and drop it in the box at the Visitor Centre for your chance to win. The draw will be made at the Gazette office at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9.

Amber Mckigney, Kakike Mackay and Bailey Callihou help Katherine and Frank Worsley decorate the Visitors Centre for the Santa Parade and tree light-up on Sunday, Nov. 29. [MALCOLM CHALMERS PHOTO]


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It is an excellent idea to plan now to take advantage of the huge Sunfest country music extravaganza with its tens of thousands of visitors when it moves to the community.

The proposal seems likely to come to pass, possibly as soon as for the summer of 2016. It’s moving into the nal phases of rezoning approval at the Cowichan Valley Regional District.

It seems to have a lot of general support in the Cowichan Lake area, with some notable exceptions.

There is no doubt that there is a big economic opportunity here for the communities around the lake that have struggled in recent years as mills have closed, leading to subsequent closures of other community businesses and schools in the area, as the number of industrial salaries being spent in the community dwindled.

Tens of thousands of people coming to town will mean foot traf c for food establishments and shops in numbers not normally seen even during the generally busier summer tourist season.

The hope is that at least a portion of these visitors will want to come back to the lake area, too, at another time, to perhaps take advantage of the hiking, camping and lakeshore, thereby spinning one weekend windfall into a longer term economic development opportunity.

But we have reservations about the idea of seeing tourism as a long-term economic saviour for the Cowichan Lake area. Chemainus developed deliberately to feed the tourist trade and is now struggling, with empty storefronts marring the main downtown streets. Tourism can be a ckle business, particularly if it is not developed organically, with an eye to what can keep the community going during the shoulder and low seasons of the year.

Equally problematic is the idea that tourist businesses should bank on hiring baby boomers who are bored and don’t care about making enough money to live on. This is not a long-term sustainable strategy. Nor will it help to encourage new people to move into the lake’s communities. And in 10 years or so your workforce is gone.

Tourism can certainly be a substantial part of the Lake’s future, and proper planning to encourage that is great. But putting all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea.

Opportunity is there, but don’t get tunnel vision

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Catalyst should install desalination plant

Copy of a letter to the regional water manager:

Re: Catalyst application short term water use

I am writing to voice my objec-tion to this proposed applica-tion. I have lived on the shore of Cowichan Lake, since 1972. My family uses the lake water for our domestic use.

I think it is time to recognize that Cowichan Lake water and the river it supports and the environmental benefits accom-panying all that water is far more valuable for human use

than to continue to exploit it for industrial profits.

It may be acceptable during rainy times of excess supply to continue that practice. But when shortages occur, as they have in recent years, it is obvi-ous that conservation and water rationing, although helpful, will not satisfy the need. It is agree that shortages in the future are very likely.

If Catalyst needs more water during those times, they should incorporate a desalination plant on their property and take ocean water as needed to supply the mill. The cost of procuring water in this way will be expen-

sive, but setting up and operat-ing a pumping system, as they propose, will not be cheap either and anyway, it is only a stop-gap solution. Adding a desalination plant to their operation in Crof-ton would give them assurance of a constant supply of water, as drawn from either source, now and in the future.

I’m sure raising the weir to accommodate more water stor-age is not a done deal and it will not be inexpensive. Not even considering the politics involved with that proposal.

Norris NygaardLake Cowichan


Street Beat With Malcolm Chalmers

The Gazette asked:

Do you think people drive responsibly on the Lake Cowichan highway?

Kristine Nowlin“I think it’s 50/50, some

people do and some people don’t. I think the biggest offence is speeding and in all weather. They are try-ing to get past to make it here a few minutes faster and they don’t.”

Keith McKenzie“For the most part yes,

I do believe they do. But there are a lot of people who speed and there are some people who go really slow and hold back people to.”

Linda Allen“No, I think they drive

far to quickly, they pass when it is not safe and there is lots of tailgating.”

Val Sangster“Speeders and tailgaters

... seem to think if they drive right on your butt they will get to Duncan much faster and if they pass me, nine times out of 10 I meet up with them at the next light anyway.”

Tamara Brown“I think on Highway 18

they are okay, the Mala-hat not so much; they are just crazy. Everybody is in a gigantic hurry to get nowhere.”

Lights out for opponents of big Site C dam project

The fall session of the B.C. legislature

petered out two days early last week, as the ruling B.C. Liberals and the opposition NDP agreed to turn out the energy-efficient lights and head for home.

NDP leader John Horgan skipped the last day and headed to the B.C. Institute of Technology campus in Burnaby. There he announced “PowerBC,” billed as the NDP’s “bold, progressive plan for the future of B.C. energy, with a strong focus on jobs.”

Reporters asked, how many jobs? Horgan said retrofitting public buildings and homes for energy efficiency would create jobs all around the province, but he can’t say how many.

How much does the plan cost, and does it include subsidizing home-owners to fix their windows and insulation? “The costing will be more apparent when we get closer to the election,” Horgan replied.

Whatever the cost, the NDP plan apparently rests on the assump-tion that the $9 billion Site C dam project on the Peace River can be stopped by an NDP government after the 2017 election. That money would be used to build wind and solar generation, and to install a sixth and final water turbine at Revelstoke dam.

The chances of Site C being stopped are approaching zero. Con-struction of an access road started two months ago, site clearing and work camp construction a month before that. Energy Minister Bill Bennett says the main dam con-struction contract will be let short-ly, followed by the powerhouse contract next year.

Horgan said remaining legal challenges could slow or stop the project.

The West Moberly and Prophet Riv-er First Nations have lost their case against Site C twice, in the B.C. Supreme and Fed-eral Courts, and are appealing. The Doig

River and McLeod Lake Indian Bands dropped their challenges, and McLeod Lake’s construction company has started work on a Site C contract.

West Moberly Chief Roland Will-son staged a dramatic protest at the legislature last spring, bringing a cooler of frozen bull trout from a river below the two existing Peace dams, telling media they were too contaminated with mercury to eat.

Flooding land for hydro dams does elevate methylmercury levels in water, but BC Hydro provided me with the latest study that included fish samples collected by West Moberly members. It shows average methylmercury levels remain below federal guidelines for limiting consumption of commer-cially sold fish.

It’s an odd coincidence that Will-son suddenly made this claim, 47 years after the first Peace dam was completed, when he happened to be in court trying to stop Site C.

A coalition of U.S. and Canadi-an environment groups is also demanding that Site C be stopped, using typical arguments to appeal to their low-information donor base. According to the Sierra Club and others, Site C is not renewable energy because the (largely idle) farmland it floods is a “carbon sink.” Forests do store carbon, albeit temporarily, but farmland where the trees have been cleared? This is gluten-free gobbledegook.

They also trot out the claim that Site C will be used to power lique-fied natural gas operations. Most proponents so far have said they will use gas for LNG processing,

BC ViewsBy Tom Fletcher

and if they don’t have hydro available for ancillary power, they will have to burn more gas.

BC Hydro has just finished its latest grid upgrade, a second high-voltage trans-

mission line from Merritt to Coquitlam. It adds disaster reliability to the system that brings power from the Peace and Columbia dams to the Lower Mainland.

If you’re arguing that hydro-

electricity isn’t renewable power, you’ve already lost.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

Reconciliation: a meaningful step

Re: Myths of the Highway of Tears (B.C. Views, Oct. 28).

Tom Fletcher’s column trig-gered my memory of the dog whistle politics we saw in the recent federal election.

The Highway of Tears is not a myth and using mythology in the title of that column is an insult to the hundreds of aboriginal families who have lost loved ones as a result of many tragedies that have occurred on that road and across this country.

The identity politics of the outgoing prime minister were properly rewarded, and the party that showed Stephen Harper the door at 24 Sussex Drive has promised an inqui-ry into the disproportionate number of murders and dis-appearances that continue to occur in the aboriginal

population. It would be hoped that an inquiry will begin to expose the depth and colour of systemic issues inherent in Canadian institutions that help perpetuate these tragedies, and that the new federal government will com-mit to real solutions from its recommendations.

The incoming prime minister has made further commitments to the 92 recom-mendations that came out of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process.

The TRC has helped many Canadians to understand the origins of deep-rooted problems faced by aboriginal communities both on and off reserve, and to help them move Canadians individually and collectively to a recon-ciliation commitment. Those current and future problems will always be about the quality of the relationship

between the First Nations people and the general non-native population.

Improving the transporta-tion options for people in the North is primary, but it does not solve the systemic prob-lems that continue to poison opportunities for everyone to work together to end the dysphoria that has dominated aboriginal communities both on and off reserve.

Reconciliation Canada (reconciliationcanada.ca) is a key agent of change in this space and is dedicated to building meaningful relation-ships where all Canadians achieve their full potential and shared prosperity.

Getting informed is the first step. Stepping into this discourse is the next. I am stepping in.

Carl MashonVictoria

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Smile FILEWith Malcolm Chalmers Working together, we can make a

diff erence to survive climate change

At a recent screening of the new

film This Changes Everything shown by the local chapter of the Council of Canadians I noticed something very encouraging. There were not enough chairs.

Almost twice as many people showed up than the organizers expected. This told me that the number of people in our community that can see the elephant in the room is rapidly increasing.

People want to know what to expect in the future and want to know what we can do about climate change.

Climate change is here and it really is going to change every-thing. The thing is, we have a very good idea about how it will change things here in our community.

It makes sense for us to get ready for the changes that we know are coming.

About a year ago a group of us started meeting to figure our how to protect the most vulnerable in our community from the effects of climate change. In doing that we will all benefit from being in a more resilient and cooperative community.

We are calling our group the Cowichan Climate Change Collaborative Project and we are using the principles of col-lective impact to connect local resources.

A good example of collective impact in our community is the Cowichan Stewardship Roundtable, where all levels of government, conservation groups, First Nations and local industries have made great progress in protecting and improving the health of our watershed ecosystems.

Our group has inventoried local resources including gov-ernments, NGOs, industries, clubs and volunteers from

every walk of life in our community. We want to create awareness, connec-tivity and momen-tum to address the challenges we face.

Our research has revealed the climate changes we can expect and some valuable

metrics about our community. We are expecting an increase

in summer droughts and more precipitation in the fall, winter and spring months. We will have more severe storm events and much less snowpack. Our growing season will lengthen and our frost-free period will increase.

We also learned that four in 10 children in Duncan and Lake Cowichan live in poverty, one in five families have inad-equate housing and three in 10 people are living with chronic anxiety or depression.

We have goals to enhance our water security, food security and energy security.

We will soon tick the box for water security. We believe we will have a new weir that will increase our summer water storage significantly by 2019, maybe sooner. Increased summer water storage will enhance the health of our lake and river ecosystems wile providing ample water in the summer for community use, agriculture and industry.

Today, we are only using about half of our agricultural land and about 90 per cent of the land we are using is growing food for cows. Clear-ly we have a lot of potential, with increased water storage and longer growing seasons, to grow more food for people in our valley. As food costs continue to rise due to the drought in western North America and increasing trans-portation costs the business case for local food production will steadily improve.

Climate change will bring

increasingly severe storms and we are overdue for a major earthquake. Either of these scenarios have the potential to seriously damage our infra-structure, including ferry terminals. If the ferries ever stopped running, our stores would start running out of food in 72 hours.

The Cowichan Valley is already leading the province in new solar power installa-tions. We need to keep this momentum going and con-sider large community-based installations that will reduce our dependence on an aging infrastructure to keep the lights on.

We could produce much of our power requirements in the summer when we have long days and increasingly abun-dant sun and rely on existing hydro installations to get us through the dark and wet winters.

It now appears unlikely that our political leaders will be able to make the changes required to meet the target 2 degrees C temperature increase that science tells us is about all we can afford. I guess that’s the bad news.

The good news is that we are very lucky to live here. We have abundant pure fresh water, lots of suitable land to grow food and the potential to become much more energy self-sufficient.

We also have abundant human resources; all of you are included in this, and the ability to address these issues. We can create a resilient and sustainable community if we are willing to face the reality of climate change.

We all want nothing but the best for our children. Now is the time for us all to come together and create a sustain-able and resilient community. It’s going to feel good and we can have fun doing it too.

Parker Jefferson is with community group One Cowichan

One CowichanBy Parker Jefferson

The trouble with AAPsThere have been many com-

plaints about the Alternative Approval Processes (AAPs) currently being presented.

The main reason for a pref-erence of AAPs by a local government is that they cost only a fraction of the cost of a referendum.

Another reason is that the tax payers actually have to take action, get out of their chairs. Many people cannot bring themselves to take action, even though they do not agree with the decision being made, which then

results in actions by the local government being approved by default.

Democracy is not an easy form of government. It is not good enough to just take for granted that the elected officials do the right thing. At times they do the wrong thing, take the wrong direction. It is then up to the people to take action, to point the elected government into the right direction.

This could very well be one of these opportunities.

If you think the CVRD board has made the right decision in these instances, then do noth-

ing and let the process take its course.

If you do not agree with one or more of the AAPs then sit-ting back and doing nothing is not an option for you. Get the forms downloaded from the CVRD website or pick them up, sign them and take them to the CVRD.

It is an awkward process, def-initely not designed to make it easy for the tax payers. But you owe it to yourself and everybody else to do the right thing.

Klaus KuhnCVRD Director Area I

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LCSS Lakers players celebrate after their win over St. Andrew’s (25-9, 25-22) at the Island single-A girls volleyball championships at Duncan Christian School last Friday. The victory was the only one of the tournament for the Lakers, but they beat a solid team, as St. Andrew’s would go on to place fourth. Avii Ursulom was named to the tournament all-star team. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]


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TOMMY DOUGLAS COMES TO LAKE COWICHANJohn Nolan is Tommy Douglas in his one man play that looks at the life of a beloved Canadian politician. Nolan researched and wrote the play which he has performed all across Canada. He performed three shows at the Lake Cowichan School theatre as a fundraiser for the Kaatza Museum. [MALCOLM CHALMERS PHOTO]

With so many varieties of seed avail-

able commercially some gardeners may wonder why they should bother saving their own, but there is good reason to. Successive genera-tions of plants adapt to their region so the seeds we save will grow better plants each year. Saving your own is simple and costs nothing, so you might as well give it a try.

Besides, multinational agri-culture corporations have been lobbying our government to make seed collection illegal, pre-sumably so they can control the world’s food supply. This could put regional seed companies out of business, with seed that has adapted to particular gar-den climate and soil conditions available only to those who save their own.

I have been saving my own seed for the last five years and wish I had started sooner. Did I mention how easy it is? Since annuals like tomatoes, squash,

peas and beans pro-duce seed the same year they’re planted, they are easiest. Wait until they’re dead ripe before harvesting the fruit, then dry the seed and put it into packets. Tomato seeds need to ferment in a bit of water for a couple

of days before you dry them out since the fermentation process kills off pathogens.

Biennials like carrots, beets and onions should be moved to a bed separate from the rest of the garden at the end of the first year since it’s easier to tend them when they’re grouped together. Carefully dig up the best specimens and transplant them to the new bed in late fall, mid-winter or very early spring and they should produce seed by the end of that summer.

Some perennials like garlic and asparagus also produce seed that can be saved and replanted. Garlic is a little complicated so I will deal with it in a later col-umn, but I have let asparagus

go to seed in its bed. These take a few years to grow into food producing plants but I figure it’s worth a try. With organic asparagus at $10 a pound what have I got to lose?

Stored seeds last longest in cool, dry conditions. I put mine into quart-sized jars with a packet of desiccant in each one, labeled the first and 15th of each month of the growing season, and I put in each jar all the pack-ets of seeds that should be sown on those dates. When the time comes I just look into the jar and sow what’s in there, then move the ones that need re-sowing in a few weeks to the next jar.

Seeds can often remain viable for several years and there are usually more than one needs, so if anyone is interested in swap-ping their surplus, email me at [email protected]. For more information on this critic-al subject, Seeds of Diversity Canada has published a manual titled: How To Save Your Own Seeds, and there’s a wealth of information on the Internet that my granddaughter showed me how to find.

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The Medford Singers, under the direction of popular conductor Simon Leung are celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music with a show entitled Do Re Me!

But it’s not all about the Rodg-ers and Hammerstein musical. Selections will include songs like Love is a Many Splendoured Thing and more.

The group will be front and cen-tre at the Duncan United Church, at the corner of Ingram and Jubi-

lee, on Saturday, Nov. 28 for an evening show starting at 7:30 p.m.

But, the hills will be alive with the sound of music, too, as a second performance is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 29 at beautiful little St. Christopher’s and St. Aidan’s Church at 70 West Cowichan Ave. in Lake Cowichan.

The event will also feature guest accompanist Michael Gaudet and several local guest singers, including a presentation from the South Island Musical The-atre Society’s upcoming musical, Anne of Green Gables.

Tickets are $17 in advance from choir members or from Volume One Bookstore (Duncan show) or Lakeside Medical (Lake Cow-ichan show) or you can pay $20 at the door. Children 12 and under are admitted free.

Some of the cast from the South Island Musical Theatre Society’s production of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ include, in front, Ali Platt (Anne), and behind, from left, Cecilia Dennison, Alora Killam, Lily Killam, John Felton, Casey Heyd and Laura Cardriver. [IRWIN KILLAM PHOTO]

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Lake next tourist destination?LEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

So what does economic development mean to Lake Cowichan?

For some it’s as simple as looking at bringing in a food truck for next sum-mer’s anticipated spike in visitors. For others, it’s developing a town-wide fes-tival to take advantage of the overflow from Sunfest. And for still others, it’s a long-term plan that sees development of the entire Cowichan Lake area as a tourist hotspot.

Glenda Osborne Burg is one of the latter, giving the example of the Bav-arian-themed town of Leavenworth — located in the Washington State drybelt south of B.C.’s Okanagan country — as one to follow.

She said that the beauty of the area would draw outdoors enthusiasts from as far away as Germany and Austria, but what was needed first was a careful assessment of what could be on offer.

“I see this in five to seven years as a tourist destination. But we need to form an executive. We need to establish part-nerships,” she said. “We need to have infrastructure and co-operation from all areas.”

Others, such as Lake Town Ranch’s Mark Mitchell, suggested Whistler or Tofino or Elkford as examples for Lake Cowichan to follow.

Lake Cowichan Coun. Carolyne Austin said an economic development incentive some time back had produced a brand-ing logo for the area, based on a hiker.

It has not been used much, however, and most of those attending the meeting had not heard of it.

Community Futures’ Cathy Robertson suggested making use of the regional district’s “Cowichan” logo but that idea didn’t draw forth much response, either.

Other commenters told the members of the group that if they were looking at festivals of one kind or another they needed to remember that people who come to those are looking for chances to party, not to see wildlife.

Coun. Bob Day was more prosaic than

most, and talked briefly of looking at finding ways an energetic group could put extra wind in the sails of such exist-ing festivals as Cowichan Lake Days and Heritage Days while perhaps developing a companion festival to offer daytime activities in Lake Cowichan itself dur-ing Sunfest.

Area resident Sherry Sohye said she thought the town itself would have to seriously look at how it would address the arrival of new enterprises and infra-structure that was sure to arrive when Sunfest does.

Lake Cowichan Mayor Ross Forrest agreed with her, but said he saw the first, best step as one of consultation.

“We need to talk about this. For example, food trucks. Is it to the benefit of our area restaurants to have food trucks here?”

He suggested that a section of quiet road near the Fields store might be great location for half a dozen trucks, particularly if there was festival going on at various locations throughout the town, generating a lot of foot traffic.

“But, the public has to say what it wants to do,” he said. “And, you all need to be ambassadors for this going for-ward. This is more than just success for a business. We all have a stake in it. We all have something positive to gain with this positive message.”

Jenn Pollner, centre, an enthusiastic member of the emerging community economic development committee in Lake Cowichan, checks out the Tartan Treasures stall at a big Christmas market she helped organize at Centennial Hall Saturday. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

Lake Cowichan supporting Duncan totem pole ambitions

The Town of Lake Cowichan is sending a letter of support to the City of Duncan for their application for money from the Canada 150 Fund for a new totem pole.

It’s all a part of Heritage Canada’s plans to celebrate in 2017, a letter from Duncan Mayor Phil Kent explained.

“The proposed project seeks to add a new totem to the city’s renowned col-lection in celebration and recognition of Canada’s 150th anniversary — a last-ing reminder not only of the milestone event but themed to highlight and tell the story of Cowichan’s important place within Canada during the nation’s first 150 years,” Kent said.

Making sure drinking water safe is key to appeal of town

It was written in jest but Lake Cow-ichan town council is still taking pre-emptive action on some of its tongue-in-cheek suggestions.

Councillors have been kicking around some of the satirical ideas from a book called 13 Ways to Kill Your Community

and Bob Day, chair of the economic and sustainable development committee, led a discussion at a Nov. 17 council commit-tee meeting.

Since making sure you have good drinking water on offer is important, making sure that Lake Cowichan does not fall under boil water advisory again should be a leading priority, he said, add-ing, “We did address that issue last year.”

Mayor Ross Forrest added, “We’re on top of it. We know we’ve got good water. We want everyone to feel confident about it.”

Works superintendent Nagy Rizk add-ed, “We also have to make sure people just don’t judge our community by see-ing a boil water advisory on TV.”

CAO Joe Fernandez agreed, “the per-ception is out there, though. It’s import-ant to address this fear of the unknown.”

Newcomer service, youths focus of council discussion

Other points of interest in the 13 Ways to Kill Your Community discussion were the subjects of services offered to new-comers and ways to involve youth in the community.

“We talk one-on-one with almost all new arrivals to find out what they need,” works superintendent Nagy Rizk said. “You can’t get that kind of service in a bigger community.”

Mayor Ross Forrest said that he and other members of council have been working with the high school on the idea of a youth council that might occasion-ally attend town council meetings.

He learned, in talking to the school, that the student body showed an unprecedented degree of interest in the recent federal election, too.

“I’m quite pleased with what I’m hear-ing,” he said.

Lexi Bainas, Gazette

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In BriefHappenings at the Kaatza Station Museum: November, 2015

Fundraising is ongoing to cov-er the costs of building an annex to the Kaatza Station Museum and Archives. You can donate at the museum or online at www.kaatzamuseum.ca. Click on the “donate now” button.

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