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Beach could get cabins Developer Bernie Walsh proposes new cabins on the waterfront AUREN RUVINSKY writer@pqbnews.com

After numerous development attempts on his property over the last 10 years, Bernie Walsh plans to build one and two-story cabins beside The Beach Club in Parksville. “It ﬁts within the current zoning and complies with all the stuff required,” Walsh said, adding that the motel on the property is small and run down for the prime location. He added he is “looking forward to ﬁnally getting something done to bring in more commerce to the downtown.” Walsh has proposed many developments for the beachfront property at the foot of the Alberni Highway that stirred the community and were rejected by council for various reasons, so he’s applying for a development permit that won’t require any re-zoning or variances. “Council will only be able to review the form and character,” said mayor Chris Burger. See CITY FORCED, page A4

Sweep Island clean Broombusters issue local towns a challenge Joanne Sales is the last person who would make a mountain out of a molehill — at least, not when she can make it from invasive broom. The head of Qualicum Beach Broombusters this week issued a challenge to both Parksville and Qualicum Beach residents to build the biggest mountain of cut

broom possible. The challenge is two-fold, Sales said. Besides the creation of Broom Mountain or, even the Broom Range of mountains, she’s also challenging the communities of Qualicum Beach and Parksville to lace up their sensible shoes, latch onto some loppers and see which group, individual or community as a whole can bring out See FOCUS, page A8

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QUALICUM BEACH — Oceanside RCMP are on the lookout for the driver of a vehicle that slammed into a power pole Sunday night

near the Shady Rest Pub. Corporal Jesse Foreman said the crash happened at 7:15 p.m. when a Pontiac Grand Am hit a power pole on Highway 19A. When police arrived, he said, a witness informed them that after the collision, the driver grabbed two liquor bottles from the vehicle and fled. Police contacted the owner of the vehicle, a woman from Bowser who stated her vehicle had been stolen sometime earlier. Police were unable to find the driver and are now looking for the help of the public to identify the male driver, who was wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, described as Caucasian, five feet, 10 inches tall with a bald head and medium build. — NEWS Staff

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Sheri Farhina says she’s no radical, but she loves the B.C. coast and she feels she has to do something concrete to protect it. The Parksville resident will be part of a group called Cycle to Protect our Coast (CPOC), which will be biking from Campbell River to Victoria to spread their message about the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project from May 18 to 22. “When you love something, you stand up for it,” she said. “We met after the hearings in Comox for Enbridge Northern Gateway and we felt very strongly about that. We said, OK, what kind of project are we going to take on?”

Their ﬁrst idea, to take a bus to Calgary to protest outside the Enbridge headquarters was quickly dismissed in favour of a ride down Vancouver Island, stopping in communities along the way to present their views in opposition to the project. “We have set up information sessions at each of the stops, Campbell River, Comox, Courtenay, Qualicum Beach, Parksville, Duncan, Brentwood Bay and Victoria,” she said. “We will be at the gazebo in Parksville Community Park at 9 a.m. on May 19 and from there we will cycle to the farmer’s market in Qualicum Beach, where we will have a table. We will all have bright lime green shirts on.” See SUPPORTERS, page A6

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The mayor pointed out council only has any leverage over applications that require re-zoning or ofﬁcial community plan amendments. “We can’t just say no to a development permit application because we don’t like it,” he said, pointing out he will have to “manage the discussion very carefully,” because he knows people will want to talk about the big picture issues around development and the waterfront that won’t be relevant. If they turn it down based on form and character, they have to cite very speciﬁc and egregious issues or they would likely end up in court, Burger said. The new proposal is expected at the May 28 council meeting, with 81 single unit cabins ranging from around 90 to 140 square meters (1,000 to 1,500 sq.ft.), built in phases as the market allows. Walsh said they will just sell the cabins to single owners, who will be able to come and

An artist’s rendering shows a sample of what beachfront cabins could look like in Parksville, should a planned development by Bernie Walsh proceed.

go as they please or put them in a voluntary rental pool. He has admitted frustration with the process in the past, saying they would ﬁnd a way to build something within the tourist commercial zoning which allows hotels but not the mixed residential, commercial council said they wanted in the past. “It’s not what we wanted to

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Heritage Park opens for season Volunteers make it work, says Burger PARKSVILLE â€” Dignitaries were on hand Saturday, May 12 to cut the ribbon and ofďŹ cially open Parksvilleâ€™s Craig Heritage Park for the season. Ken Welwood president of the Craig Heritage Park Society asked Parksville Mayor Chris Burger to dedicate the property which ofďŹ cially became a park this month. The historic property has undergone some major improvements including better access for people with disabilities. Burger said it is the volunteers who make the park successful and once the tourist season gets underway it will be bustling with visitors. â€œIt is especially important for tourists to know a bit about the history of the area,â€? he told the crowd on hand for the opening. â€”Brenda Gough

Parksville mayor Chris Burger (second from left), with society president Ken Welwood, councillor Bil Neufeldand manager Buddty Williams cut the ribbon to open a new season at the Craig Heritage Park.

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principal as a medal bearer for the 25th anniversary Rick Hansen relay across the country, ending May 22. When Maya and her sister Hannah met Hansen in Victoria recently, Maya was invited to walk with Hansen. Maya said she was thrilled to meet one of her heroes and she presented him with a special Hope Rope. The relay retraces

Notice of Application for a Change of Works to a Water Licence We, the Arrowsmith Water Service, a joint venture between the City of Parksville, the Regional District of Nanaimo and the Town of Qualicum Beach at PO Box 1390, Parksville, BC V9P 2H3 have applied for a Change of Works to relocate the City of Parksville’s water intake to a new location and to divert water out of the Englishman River which ﬂows south to north and discharges into the Salish Sea and give notice of our application to all persons affected. The new point of diversion will be located approximately 50 metres upstream of the Highway 19 bridge. The ultimate future quantity of water diverted is 0.34 cubic meters per second based on the highest average future monthly consumption. The purpose for which the water will be used is for potable public consumption. The land on which the water will be used is within the Regional District of Nanaimo. Anyone having concerns or comments with regard to the above proposal, please contact the applicant at the above address in order that you may discuss the issues and arrive at a mutually acceptable arrangement. Objections to this application may be ﬁled with the Assistant Regional Water Manager at the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Operations, 2080A Labieux Road, Nanaimo BC V9T 6J9 within 30 days of the date of the publication of this notice. Information provided in response to this Notice will be used to help adjudicate this water licence application. Your reply will also be subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection Act. If you have any questions regarding the treatment of your personal information, please contact the Information Access Operations with the Ministry of Labour, Citizens’ Services and Open Government.

the ﬁnal 12,000 kilometres of Hansen’s historic 40,000 km trip around the world, raising over $26 million for spinal cord research. Maya’s mother Maureen said NBES principal Steve Hamilton and secretary Colleen Barnatt have been key supporters. “Nanoose Bay has been absolutely phenomenal, it’s become such a community project,” she said. Maya was inspired by her grandfather’s battle with cancer to start the Hope Ropes when she was six, to raise money for the B.C. Cancer Foundation. They have since raised over $15,000, including money for other groups like the food bank and Mayan

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and Nanaimo. Hope Ropes can be purchased, or donations made to the Rick Hansen Foundation through Maya’s website at www.hoperope. ca.

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During their tour, Farinha said supporters will be invited to join the team on what she called ‘pocket cycles’ of a few kilometres each. The information they will be disseminating, she added, is disturbing, noting that Enbridge and Kinder Morgan have no liability for the costs of a coastal oil spill once a tanker has been loaded, as each tanker is set up as a ﬂoating corporation, speciﬁcally to reduce the amount a company could be considered liable for in the event of a spill. In conjunction with the ride, Captain Brian Falconer, the coordinator of marine operations for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, will give a public presentation at 1:30 p.m. on May 19 at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre. The presentation is free.

Neufeld supports group A member of Parksville council threw his support behind a group cycling from Campbell River to Victoria to raise awareness of the threat to B.C.’s coast from a proposed pipeline and increased oil tanker traffic. Coun. Bill Neufeld said he donned a Protect Our Coast T-shirt and stood with the group to show his concern about the risks posed by the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and the tanker traffic it would bring. Not only the Enbridge proposal, but a similar plan by Kinder Morgan to twin its pipeline to the Port of Vancouver is weighing on Neufeld’s mind. “The doubling of the pipeline wouldn’t mean twice the tanker traffic on the coast, but 11 times as much,” he said. Neufeld said it would just take one tanker having a major spill to devastate the coast. Neufeld said British Columbia has a significantly different approach to the potential risk posed by the project than than those on the other side of the Canada/U.S. border. “Washington State has something like 75 to 80 employees involved in the environmental side and Alaska has that many or more, but I think we have a total of eight here in B.C.,” he said.

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Messages in an emergency Emergency communications team ready to respond on the Island AUREN RUVINSKY writer@pqbnews.com

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Salvation Army Major Rolf Guenther and Save-On-Foods operations manager Maurie Robinson are hoping for a strong response to their project.

Food bank fundraiser PARKSVILLE — What do the Salvation Army and B.C. Children’s hospital have in common? In Parksville anyway, they have a special program being run by SaveOn-Foods. Operations manager Maurie Robinson said the plan is to offer $8 bags of food for sale at the store for the discounted rate of $5, with all funds raised going towards B.C. Children’s Hospital and all the food being donated to the Salvation Army food bank. The promotion will run right through the May long weekend. — Neil Horner

Local governments marked National Emergency Preparedness Week (May 6-12) by introducing a new communications trailer. Customized with countless donations and volunteer hours for just $26,000, the District 69 Emergency Communications Team can tow it to any secure location, unlock the door, turn on the battery, generator or plug it in and be relaying life saving information back and forth to the world in minutes. With several overlapping technologies the team — comprised largely of Mid-Island Radio Association members — can speak to or exchange email by radio, with the nearest emergency centre. Municipal amateur radio co-ordinator Bob Longmore explained while they may only need to communicate with Victoria or Kamloops — with communication being one of the weak links in a large scale disaster — they are able to relay messages between local emergency services and the closest regional managers, using repeaters from anywhere

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Bob Longmore, municipal amateur radio co-ordinator for the District 69 Emergency Communications Team, demonstrates some of the capabilities of their new trailer.

in the world. “All we are is a conduit, in the case of a disaster we’d send messages on to the government,” Longmore said, explaining they would work closely with a separate emergency command centre. The trailer, aside from comfort and portability, replaces the team’s tent. The trailer has a built in system to quickly raise an antenna and between the batteries and generator can power itself for many days. With a central place to work with the special equipment, the team now needs more vol-

unteers interested in learning how to help provide that crucial link in the event of a major disaster that experts say is not a question of if, but when. For more on emergency preparation in general check the local municipal websites at www.parksville.ca, under the “quicklinks” on the right, www. qualicumbeach.com, www. rdn.bc.ca and the national site at www.getprepared.gc.ca. For more information, or to join the communication team check www.mira-orca.ca or e-mail Longmore at va7za@ shaw.ca.

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The Friends of French Creek Conservation Society and Qualicum Beach Streamkeepers are chopping the noxious, invasive giant hogweed from the banks of French Creek again this season. Crews have already been out three times this spring to tackle infestations on properties near Imperial Drive, the railway trestle and Hof Waldeck farm, reports team leader Michael Jessen. An average of seven volunteers have taken part in each “dig” and they are looking for

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arbage men/persons/sanitary enJuly sun. Once the week’s (month’s?) garbage was gineers may seem an unusual the tilted into the truck, the vehicle drove off leaving subject for a literary effort, but behind an odious brown trail to its next stop. back in 1969, Canadian author and By Nancy Whelan Enter composting and recycling onto the varhumorist, Harry J. Boyle, wrote a ied stages of garbage collecting. collection of musings he called Straws in the Back in the good old days when glass was one Wind. Each musing included comments on evof the early recyclable products, we were first erything from pussy willows and women shopfaced with the chore of removing all labels. But pers to garbage men. all glass was not considered equal. I recall cerBoyle defends the garbage men’s creed of tain frosted gin bottles — rejected, and left at the creating as much noise as possible and sympacurb to advertise my sins. thizes with their need for recognition along with It was a relief when “bottles’ rights” won their the high profile community service of firemen and police, to case against frosted glass discrimination. But here we are wit: “The wispy trails of more mature refuse on the street give again with all glass being denied a seat anywhere on the rethe citizen a full measure of awareness of the men who pick cycle bus. up and haul away.” What a boon to the refuse receptacle manufacturers was Granted, today’s complicated garbage day displays and the “Beans to Bones” set up — bright, shiny, wheeled green combos do not allow quite the fortissimo or olfactory ren- bins and subtly coloured counter food waste catchers. All ditions of years past, but the soup cans still clatter and the these “… a mandatory service for single family … residencgears still grind. Like all music, the compositions change es” but denied to apartment and condo dwellers. More diswith the age. crimination against the poor garbage and its householders. Today’s garbage collection is an activity regimented and Luckily there is a wheeled and pulling gizmo that can be controlled by the lower levels of government, and every con- attached to those weighty blue boxes, because a yellow bag tainer of waste has its day and roadside requirements. It was with two weeks worth of newspapers, flyers galore, maganot always thus. zines, and Cheerios boxes, plus cans and plastics beside it in Early days in northern Ontario were a far cry … Each the box add up to several pounds. In an area with the counhousehold had some very large container in the back yard try’s oldest population it makes sense for people to roll their which held a homogenized mixture of all household refuse. boxes to the curb rather than carry them with weak backs The one I remember was a grey galvanized monster — and a tin hip or two. from childish recollections, at least four feet high, about three But why, I ask you, do those pretty yellow bags often disfeet in diameter, with a conical lid and one handle straddling appear along with the blue box of recycle items? Three times the peak. The garbage men of the day were either particu- now, my yellow bag appears to have accompanied everylarly strong or suffered chronic back and shoulder pain. thing else into the trucks’ maws, never to be seen again at my The collector himself was some private entrepreneur with curb. If everything in the blue box can be dumped together maybe a one-ton truck sporting wavering wooden sides and and at the same time, why are we instructed to keep the stuff rear. He may or may not have had a calendar; the ‘monster’s’ separate in the first place? contents were often basted with juices well simmered in the Ah, the vagaries of garbage and its destination.

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Parksville council asked staff to bring back a proposal for a council advisory committee to help guide them on some of the bigger or trickier issues. Council has been looking at verious ways to be as open and community responsive as they can, mayor Chris Burger said, so at their regular May 7 meeting they asked staff for information on establishing an advisory group of resident volunteers. Burger said councillor Sue Powell brought forward the motion, though he was already in favour, wanting to “take advantage of the huge intellectual infrastructure here ...” He pointed out it is not a new idea,

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Letters NOT A HARPER FAN The Harper Conservatives are neither free enterprise nor democratic. Free enterprise refers to a form of capitalism where the government does not interfere in the economy. The Harper Conservatives are using every lever of government to push through their rip it; strip it; and ship it mode of development of the tar sands, with huge taxpayer subsidies, in a way that favours only the Chinese and global extractive corporations. All independent economic analyses reveal there is not even an economic case to be made for how the tar sands are being developed or the pipelines pushed through. Ways that would make economic sense and benefit all Canadians, including Albertans, are shut out. We can’t even refine the crude in Canada because of the way this resource is being developed. And this before we get to health and environmental costs! Do you have any idea of what is going to happen to ferry rates and the cost of everything on this island if the price of oil goes up by $2 – $15 per barrel as the oil and pipeline industries anticipate? Then we have the Harper Conservatives repeatedly breaking Canada’s own election laws as well as intentionally lying to the House and Canadians about the benefits of the way they are developing the tar sands as well as the costs of the F-35 jets and the Libyan mission. The misrepresentation of the full costs of the F-35s, as well as the total lack of due process in awarding that contract is what

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brought us the last election. The Harper Conservatives intentionally manipulated this so they could try again to get their socalled majority. We need to stop this Machiavellian behaviour if we don’t want to end up in a neofascist state with a raped environment! YVONNE ZAROWNY Qualicum Beach

A LOVELY GESTURE On Mother’s Day I was travelling In Parksville behind a small van when it suddenly pulled over and a woman in a safety- striped shirt jumped out, ran across the road and gave a very elderly lady, who was sitting on a bus-stop bench with her husband, a long, single stemmed rose. With a wave she was back in her truck and away. It called to my mind an occasion when I was around 55, sitting in a pub with a lot of friends, when a young fellow of around 20 did the same — bought a rose from a vendor and crossed the pub to hand it to me. I have never forgotten this; amazing how a simple gesture can stay with you for a lifetime. DIANA MEYER Qualicum Beach

MAKE SOME MUSIC Thanks to a federal grant, free weekly music classes starting on May 23 and a free 10-hour intensive program in July are being offered at the Arrowsmith Hall. The one-hour classes are in the day-

time and early evening on Wednesdays and Thursdays. If you enjoy singing or playing guitar, ukulele, banjo, ﬁddle, harmonica, or a percussion instrument and would like to learn to play songs in the jug band style, you can register by calling Val Dare at 250-586-6583 or e-mailing vgdare@gmail.com. Registration is limited and classes are starting to ﬁll up — there’s already a waiting list for ukulele. Some instruments can be provided if you don’t have your own. VALERIE DARE Parksville

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GREEN SOUNDS GOOD I like the idea of the bus terminal property being turned into a open green space where public events could be held for everyone to enjoy. Let’s call it Qualicum place, eagle place or whatever. The property has a spectacular open view of Mt. Arrowsmith which from the center of town will clearly be appreciated by visitors and residents for ages to come. A nice green space with a elevated concrete pad for a centerpiece stage would be excellent. Add some old style streetlighting, brick walkways, seating, perhaps a large eagle carving or two and then the town is ready for some festivities. This venue could be used by the many community and cultural groups to attract and bring popular events into the town. TOM DEIR Qualicum Beach

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Yes, I am satisﬁed. I also think every convicted drunk driver needs to have a breathalyzer installed in their car.

No. Especially when there is zero tolerance. Why don’t they enforce in places where they serve alcohol at closing time?

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I feel it could be enforced a little bit more. The roadblocks should be later at night. Not 6 p.m. CHRISTINE BRYANT Errington

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No. You still see too many people driving drunk on the road.

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ut it doesn’t — make any sense, I mean. Why, for instance, would any decent tongue adorn itself with contronyms? These are words that, depending on context, can

mean the exact opposite of what they seem to mean. Thus, we have the word ‘cleave’ which can mean to stick together, or to rend asunder. We have ‘fast’ which can mean speedy — or utterly immobile. A trip to Gay Paree is not the same as a trip over a loose shoelace. The alarm on your bedside clock goes off by going on. A pyromaniac/author could put

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wind up as in ‘bring to an end’ — or wind up as with a baseball pitch? Forget contronyms, what about verbing? Your English teacher might call it “the practice of denominalizing — turning nouns into verbs.” I call it a viral plague. Much of it is computer-based. ‘Blog’ is a word that isn’t even old enough to vote — it’s derived from ‘web log’ and has led to bloggers, blogging, even blogosphere. Hideous words all, but, like warts on a toad, with us for the duration. Likewise ‘Google’,

formerly a noun (Google it, if you don’t believe me); also Xerox, fax and ‘text’. There’s nothing wrong with turning nouns into verbs; it goes on all the time. One can dress in a dress, dream a dream and dance a dance, but where do you draw the line? For me, it’s at Facebook. I won’t join the social phenomenon because I cringe at the thought of ‘friending’ anyone. It just sounds creepy and vaguely pedophilic. And defriending? Puhleeeze. I am much more amenable to the idea of paraprosdokians. A paraprosdokian is a ﬁgure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected. The best one I ever heard sprang from the lips of John Wilkes, an English politician who was lambasted by the Earl of Sandwich a couple

of centuries ago. The Earl roared at him in the House of Commons: “I do not know, sir, if you will die on the gallows or of the pox” (i.e., of syphilis). Quick as a ﬂash Wilkes stood up and purred, “That depends, my Lord, on whether I embrace your Lordship’s principles, or your mistress.” Paraprosdokians don’t have to be that exquisitely elaborate. Dorothy Parker was a master (mistress?) of the genre. She once sniffed, “I know a woman who speaks eighteen languages and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.” Another time: “I require only three things of a man: he must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.” But the master of paraprosdokians? Sir Winston, of course. Churchill once explained his facility with English. It sprang, he said, from

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Revamped plans for the running of BC Ferries is missing the point completely, says MLA Scott Fraser. The NDP representative for the Alberni-Paciﬁc Rim constituency said the injection of $79.5 million into the partly privatized corporation will do little to address the core problems with the ferry service. “The Liberals brought in the Coastal Ferries Act, which quasi-privatized the institution with a deeply ﬂawed model,” Fraser said. “The commissioner’s report talked about reaching and exceeding the tipping point of affordability. They have over-priced the product and made it cost-prohibitive to travel to Vancouver Island or

We’ll be paying more and getting less. That’s the solution they have. SCOTT FRASER, NDP MLA

the other islands and the public interest isn’t met.” Fraser said the corporation’s focus on increasing prices to address falling revenues is misguided. “Every time they need money they increase the price and they lose more ridership,” he said. “What this bill does is continue to raise the cost of ferries — at double the rate of inflation from the looks of it.” At the same time, he said, British Columbians are going to lose services as the corporation finds efficiencies and cuts

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Orca Airways makes return to Qualicum Beach Vancouver-based small airline to offer ﬂights between Qualicum Beach and Vancouver BRENDA GOUGH reporter@pqbnews.com

With BC Ferry fares on the rise residents of Vancouver Island are looking for other ways to get to the Lower Mainland and with the addition of Orca Airways Ltd. at the Qualicum Beach Airport, they now have one more option. Orca Airways has been flying between Vancouver and Tofino for seven years and the company has added Qualicum Beach to it’s schedule. Andrew Naysmith, president and CEO of the Vancouverbased airline said when they attempted to offer service in Qualicum Beach a few years ago, the demand wasn’t there. He said now they feel there is a market for flights between Qualicum Beach and Vancouver and they are offering two flights departing daily except Saturday between Qualicum Beach and the Vancouver South Terminal.

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Captain Spencer Thompson and first officer Phillip Carson are two of the 55 employees of Orca Airways, now flying between Qualicum Beach and Vancouver.

Naysmith said it has been rewarding working with his father-in-law Harald Leukefeld, who used to be director of main-

tenance at Air Canada, as they continue to grow the business. “It has been pretty exciting. We started with just one plane

and now have 18 and 55 employees,” stated Naysmith. From its humble beginnings in 2005 with just a Navajo Chief-

tain its current ﬂeet of 18 aircraft includes two King Airs for luxury travel. The King Air 200, which is used for private charters, can seat up to eight people and travels up to 280 nautical miles per hour. The company recently acquired a building for its operations. The hanger is one of the original buildings at the south terminal in Richmond and the company moved in to their new headquarters one month ago. The south terminal is also expanding and offering more amenities including an outdoor observation deck with telescopes to watch the the big planes come in and land at YVR. If you have some time between ﬂights, the terminal is just a short walk from the Flying Beaver Bar and Grill a popular place to eat at the Harbour Air terminal on the Fraser River. See ANOTHER, page A22

Pension assets: Unlocking locked-in funds

hile pension assets represent an important source of retirement income, locking-in restrictions can hamper retirement income planning flexibility. By making full use of maximum withdrawal limits, thousands of dollars of pension savings can be unlocked while remaining tax-sheltered. Individuals with pension savings often transfer these assets to a locked-in plan, such as a Life Income Fund (LIF) to provide retirement income. While a LIF provides a certain degree of flexibility, the annual minimum and maximum withdrawal limits can restrict retirement income planning. You are able to unlock a portion of your locked-in savings without losing the benefit of tax-sheltered investment growth.

growth. The unlocked funds If you are looking for adcan be used when the need ditional retirement income arises, without maximum ﬂexibility, there is a straightwithdrawal restrictions. forward strategy that can unlock some of these locked-in By Stuart Kirk An in-depth look funds. If you need less than Pension legislation imposthe maximum LIF withdrawal es a maximum amount that amount each year, the differcan be withdrawn from LIFs ence between this maximum because these plans hold amount and the amount acpension assets that remain tually withdrawn from the under pension legislation. If plan can be transferred dithe maximum amount is not rectly to a Registered Retirewithdrawn from a lockedment Savings Plan (RRSP) if you are 71 or younger, or to a Registered in plan, it continues to be locked-in, even Retirement Income Fund (RRIF). The ad- though the individual had an opportuvantage? You are able to unlock a portion nity to withdraw it. Any unused amounts of your locked-in savings without losing between the minimum and maximum the beneﬁt of tax-sheltered investment amounts, however, can be transferred to

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a regular RRSP for those 71 or younger, or to a RRIF each year. This unlocks assets that would otherwise remain locked-in while maintaining the tax-sheltered investment growth. While the person may not need immediate access to these funds, they gain future ﬂexibility in their retirement income planning. Here is a tip: If funds are currently in a Locked-in Retirement Account (LIRA), individuals can transfer to a locked-in plan such as a LIF as soon as pension legislation allows. This is typically at age 55, but varies by province — Alberta is age 50; Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick and funds governed by federal legislation have no age requirements. See CONSIDER, page A22

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Some of Orca’s pilots said it has a great patio where you can sit and watch the ﬂoat planes take-off and land on the water. Angela Giannotii, a travel consultant at Expedia Cruise Ship Centre in Parksville, sampled one of the ﬂights on Orca Airways and said it is great to have another option to offer her cruise clients. The south terminal has a free shuttle to the international airport where passengers can get the Canada Line to board a cruise ship at Canada Place. With free long term parking at the Qualicum Beach Airport, Giannotii said it is a convenient way for Oceanside residents to get to Vancouver.

She said the Tsawwassen ferry terminal doesn’t have a bus and it costs about $45 dollars to get a cab from Horseshoe Bay to Canada Place so flying to Vancouver has some benefits. Most international airlines allow 50 pounds for checked luggage. Baggage is free up to 35 pounds on Orca Airways with additional weight being charged $1 per pound but management said they make every effort to accommodate extra luggage and if there is no room on one flight, they can send luggage over ahead of BRENDA GOUGH PHOTO time on other flights. Phillip Carson assists Angela For information on flights Giannotii after a flight from go to www.flyorcaair.com. Qualicum Beach to Vancouver.

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Following this course of action means they will need to make their annual withdrawals earlier than they might have planned — but they beneﬁt by the unlocking occurring earlier as well. Note: Some provinces do not allow a transfer back to a LIRA once the LIF option is chosen. Don’t need income? You may still want to consider an unlocking strategy as early as possible. The minimum payment you have to take into income can be used to make your annual RRSP contribution or to make a tax deductible interest payment on money borrowed for investment purposes.

71 or younger, or RRIF. This means individuals may be able to unlock 25 to 50 per cent of their locked-in savings without losing the beneﬁt of taxsheltered investment growth. The amount that’s left remains locked-in and is subject to the annual minimum and maximum withdrawal limits. Some provinces offer a prescribed RRIF (PRIF) that can be used for funds transferred from a pension plan or from a LIF. With a PRIF, the funds remain subject to the applicable pension legislation but there is no limit on the maximum annual payments. The investments in a PRIF continue to beneﬁt from tax-sheltered investment growth.

Other options In order to provide more ﬂexibility in meeting ﬁnancial needs during retirement, several pension jurisdictions now provide individuals with the opportunity to unlock some or all of their locked-in funds. Some pension jurisdictions have introduced a limited one-time opportunity to transfer a portion of LIF funds to a regular RRSP, for those age

Ideal candidates An unlocking strategy for pension savings is worth considering for those who: • Are relying or plan to rely primarily on pension funds as their main source of retirement income. • Are looking for more ﬂexibility in terms of access to their retirement savings. • Anticipate needing less than the maximum amount

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from their LIF over the next several years. The unlocking strategy is an easy one to carry out each year. You simply need to: • Select the minimum withdrawal amount (or the amount needed as income) from the LIF and complete form T2030 once a year to transfer any leftover maximum to an RRSP (for those under age 71) or to a RRIF. This is a direct transfer, so no RRSP contribution room is required and there is no withholding tax. Remember to always consult your advisor before taking any action. Written by Stuart Kirk, CIM Stuart Kirk is an Investment Funds Advisor with Manulife Securities Investment Services Inc and a Retirement Planning Specialist with Precision Wealth Management Ltd. The opinions expressed are those of the author and may not necessarily reﬂect those of Manulife Securities Investment Services Inc or Precision Wealth Management Ltd. For comments or questions Stuart can be reached at stuart@precisionwealth. ca or 250-954-0247.

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receive a regular inspirational message in acter from my failures than my successes.” my inbox every morning. It’s a great way to But, I ﬁrmly believe we learn more from our start my day. I see many more of these messuccesses by far. sages throughout the course of my day. They are If you fail, all you know is that the particular By Kim Burden everywhere. These encouraging statements are path you took didn’t work. But, it really doesn’t nothing new, one of my favorites drummed into tell you much about which of the other paths my head by my mother — “Good Better Best, might work. But, if you succeed, you’ve created never let it rest, until the Good is Better and the a pattern for success; a guide that can give you a Better is Best” — has served me well through sense of where to go next time. school, business and my personal life. It helps you understand, at an intuitive level, I recently read an interesting article about what feels right and what feels wrong. In essence, ﬁltering these sayings into Glass Half Full or it gives you what everyone calls a “gut feel” for Glass Half Empty categories. The writer desuccess. And, it’s why venture capitalists focus scribes these sayings as small lies. They have an important on past successes much more than past failures. subtle message, but they’re perceived as whole truths. And, It is immensely valuable for people to participate in a patoften they’re so universal we don’t even give them a second tern of success. That will shape the way you think and make thought. But, these small lies end up having a pretty distort- you immensely more valuable to the next business venture ing effect on our behavior or our perceptions. you go to or start yourself. The most important thing you can One example is the statement “life is short.” I hear it all develop early in your career is a gut for what success feels the time. I understand why people say it. What they mean is like. The only way to do that is to be part of something suc“live life to the fullest.” But we don’t say that. We instead say cessful. “life is short.” So, please don’t tell yourself that you’ve learned more In the world of business I think the most dangerous lie we from your failures. We all get character from our scars, but tell ourselves is: “I’ve learned more from my failures than my we learn far more from our successes. — Kim Burden is executive director of the Parksville and successes.” It’s simply not true. Fantastic Qualicum Beach District Chamber of Commerce What is true is the statement, “I’ve developed more char-

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Cell: (250) 607-7038 Toll Free: 1-866-386-2735 Fax: 250-248-2099 WEBSITE: www.DeborahNicol.com

Qualicum Beach, almost rancher, nestled in forested setting, only steps from the world famous Qualicum Beach and town centre. Located just down the street is the lovely Qualicum Memorial Golf Course & ﬁne walking trails are only moments away. The main ﬂoor master is large and private & overlooks the easily maintained treed yard. This meticulously cared for home is the perfect Qualicum Beach home.

124 Craig St., Parksville Vancouver Island Realty

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Coast Realty Group Parksville Ltd.

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“Providing Knowledge, Service and Dedication” 689 Memorial Ave Qualicum Beach

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 The Parksville Qualicum Beach News THEY DON’T GO SOUTH IN THE WINTER! PROTECT YOUR CROPS & GARDEN WHILE YOU’RE AWAY

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Automobile Repairs & Service

PARKSVILLE PETROCAN SERVICE Spring Time

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Ginny Gossen R.N. CH Natural Practitioner • Registered Nurse Chartered herbalist • Zyto Compass • Iridology

(Stick on weights: $2.00/tire extra) • Brake service, tires, batteries • Fully qualiﬁed mechanic • Gov’t Testing Station

Friendly Courteous Service

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431 E., Island Hwy., Parksville

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10am-7pm Welcome Back Kelly! •Gel Nails •Manicures •Pedicures •Waxing •Girly Goodies

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7-162 Harrison Ave.

Evenings available by appointment.

QUALITY ASSURED COLLISION SERVICES

SINCE 1979

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COLLISION SERVICES

ALL DENTAL PLANS WELCOME DISABILITY PLANS WELCOME (no cost to patients)

440 East Island Hwy, Parksville 250-248-2082

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310.3535 fax 250.248.4655 email classified@pqbnews.com FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

TRAVEL

DEATHS

CELEBRATIONS

INFORMATION

GETAWAYS

HELP WANTED

BUCHHOLZ James Ernest William

IF YOU want to drink, that is your business. If you want to STOP, we can help. Alcoholics Anonymous. 1-800-883-3968

LONG BEACH - Ucluelet Deluxe waterfront cabin, sleeps 6, BBQ.Spring Special. 2 nights $239 / 3 nights $299. Pets Okay. Rick 604-306-0891

James (Jim) Buchholz leaves behind his beloved wife Joyce and his children Robert, Kim, William and Kenneth. He was predeceased by his oldest daughter Elizabeth. He passed away in the early hours of May 5, 2012 after a 2 week long battle for his life after a terrible single vehicle crash. It was a battle that he appeared to be winning until he suffered a heart attack from which he would not recover. Jim’s career included working at British North American Oil Company (Gulf Oil), National Energy Board, Northern Pipeline Agency, Indian and Northern Affairs- Director of Indian Minerals (West). He and his wife retired to Vancouver Island in 1985.

PARKSVILLE & DISTRICT MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Will be held Wed, May 16, 2012, 7:00pm Oceanside Community Arts Council Building.

33 YEARS established Ford dealer on beautiful Sunshine Coast, looking for an experienced Automotive Salesperson with proven track record. Please send resume to scford@eastlink.ca 1-800-5384504.

JASPER SUPER A is currently recruiting a candidate with good interpersonal and communication skills, with a positive energetic attitude for the position of Full-time Permanent - Premium Clerk. The primary duties include scanning, ordering, receiving, merchandising, replenishing stock, inventory and facing shelves. Candidates require the skills and ability to maintain operational objectives in the Manager’s absence. Computer literacy is a must. Candidates must have the flexibility to work a variety of shifts including days, evenings, nights and weekends. A grade 12 Diploma and a clean Security Clearance are also required. Jasper Super A offers competitive compensation, rental accommodations and health benefits package to eligible employees, as well as the opportunity for personal and professional development. If you believe that you are prepared for this challenging position and have an interest in working within a dynamic organization, please submit your resume, in confidence to: Jasper Super A, P.O. Box 818, 601 Patricia Street, Jasper, AB, T0E 1E0. Fax 780-852-5491. Email: rick.lagace@tgp.ca We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

April 21, 1930 – May 5, 2012

Donations can be made to Prostate Cancer Canada. YATES FUNERAL SERVICE & CREMATORIUM (250-248-5859) in care of arrangements.

P. Gordon Willey September 09-1938-May 08-2012

Passed away peacefully while visiting family in Alberta. Gordon was an auto mechanic and body man in Vancouver for most of his life, retired to Vancouver Island in 1987 to enjoy boating and ﬁshing and became a member of the Nanaimo Power Squadron. He then took on a new venture and turned his talents to repairing shopping carts and became part-owner in the Canadian Carecart Co. He is survived by his sister Brenda Kirincich [Norman] his brother Ronald [Marie] along with his nephew Richard, nieces Terri Quandra [Mike], Nikki Gilks [Kirk], children Kandis and Bradley,Lisa Esposito [Carmine] and children Dario, Rico and Enzo. A memorial service will be held at Yates Funeral Services, 1000 Allsbrook Road, Parksville, BC on Wednesday, May 16th. 2012 at 1pm.

MERGENS, Michael William

Sept. 24, 1934 – May 7, 2012 Mike passed away after a very courageous battle with cancer. He will be forever missed by his loving wife Linda, of 26 years, and her sons Raymond and Michael Clarke. He is also survived by his daughter Lynda Brown and grandchildren Vanessa, Tristen and Clarissa (Matt), his sister Molly, his brothers Peter (Marjorie) and Joe (Vicki), and many nieces and nephews. Mike was born in Weyburn, SK and grew up in Cranbrook, BC where his love for the sport of curling began as a teenager. He worked as a Human Resources Manager for 34 years in the Forest Industry followed by 4 years with Purolator Courier until his retirement in 1996. A man of integrity, Mike touched many lives. He was loving, caring, strong, positive, humble, charming and honourable. These are only a few words that describe the amazing man Mike was. He shared his love where ever he went and never lost his sense of humour. Special thanks to everyone who was involved with Mike along his journey with cancer. In lieu of ﬂowers please make a donation in his name to the Canadian Cancer Society. A celebration of his life was held at Yates Funeral Home on Saturday, May 12, 2012. YATES FUNERAL SERVICE & CREMATORIUM (250-248-5859) in care of arrangements.

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MAURICE (MOE) ROY the world has lost a very wonderful husband, great father, brother & friend. A celebration of Moe’s life will be held at 180 Veterans Way, Qualicum BC (RC Legion #76) at 2pm on Saturday, May 26, 2012.

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING EVENTS

LEGALS NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE ESTATE OF LUCINDA ROMA SOCHA, DECEASED LATE OF PARKSVILLE, WHO DIED NOVEMBER 20th, 2011. Creditors and all others having claims against the Estate of LUCINDA ROMA SOCHA, are hereby notiﬁed pursuant to s. 38 of the Trustee Act, that particulars of their claims and any security held by them, should be sent to the Executor of the said Estate, c/o the Solicitor for the Estate at the address set out below, on or before the 30th day of June, 2012, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice. THOMAS & COMPANY Barristers, Solicitors & Notaries Public #6 - 162 W. Harrison Ave, PO Box 1779, Parksville, BC, V9P 2H6 File No.: 11844

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AIRLINES ARE Hiring- Train for high paying Aviation Maintenance Career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualiﬁed- Housing available. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance (877)818-0783. HOME BASED Business. We need serious and motivated people for expanding health & wellness industry. High speed internet and phone essential. Free online training. www.project4wellness.com

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS APPLY NOW: Pennywise Scholarship For Women to attend Journalism certiﬁcate course at Langara College in Vancouver. Deadline May 30, 2012. More information: www.bccommunitynews.com

An Alberta Construction Company is hiring dozer, excavator and rock truck operators. Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilfield road and lease construction. Lodging and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Call Contour Construction at 780723-5051. An Earthmoving Company in Alberta is looking for a 3rd year or Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic. You will be part of a team maintaining and servicing our fleet of Cat dozers, graders and rock trucks plus Deere/Hitachi excavators. You will work at our Modern Shop at Edson, Alberta with some associated field work. Call Contour Construction at (780)723-5051 WANT TO see Scenic BC? Needed immediately . Experienced Feller Buncher Operator with Chipper Head/Mower to work around Hydro Transmission Lines. Must be willing to travel throughout BC (based out of Vanderhoof). $28-$34 per hour + Benefits. For more info e-mail: sbcjobs@hotmail.ca Send Resume to: SBCJOBS Box 1136, Vanderhoof, BC V0J 3A0 or Fax: 250-567-2550

PARKSVILLE PETRO-CANADA Is Hiring P/T or F/T Service Attendants.

Apply in person at 431 East Island Hwy NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

IN MEMORIAM

CELEBRATIONS

In loving memory of

Christian Newland Donkersley July 13, 2001 - May 12, 2007

Rennie & Judy Haylock are pleased to announce the birth of their adorable little grandson born at Victoria General Hospital Jan. 30, 2012 weighing 7 lbs. 6 oz.

Sleepless in Victoria are his proud parents Brodie and Joe.

HOTEL, RESTAURANT, FOOD

Celebrating with them are 1st time grandparents Sue Poirier & Gary Cooper of Fort, Saskachewan and John Cunningham and Carol Wagner of Fort St. John. Also thrilled with a new grandson is great-grandmother Lauretta Smith (nanny 2) of Parksville, B.C.

KITCHEN MANAGER Required at Gary’s Bistro. Apply with resume to Gary, 115 2nd Ave. Qualicum.

Earle T. Mitchell

May the winds of love blow softly And whisper so you’ll hear; We will always love and miss you And wish that you were here. You’re deeply missed by your cousins, Sydney, Nash & Peyton

PROFESSIONAL JOB Opportunities. Troyer Ventures Ltd. is a privately owned, ﬂuid transport company servicing Northern BC and Alberta. We are an equal opportunity employer now accepting applications at various branches for: Mechanics (Commercial Transport or equivalent). Wage Range: $25-$40/hour. Minimum experience required: second year apprenticeship or equivalent. Professional Drivers (Class 1, 3). Wage Range: $25-$35/hour. Minimum experience required: six months professional driving. Field Supervisors. Annual Salary Range: $90-$110,000 (based on qualiﬁcations). Minimum experience required: previous supervisory experience. Successful candidates will be self-motivated and eager to learn. Experience is preferred, but training is available. Valid safety tickets, clean drug test, and drivers abstract are required. We encourage candidates of aboriginal ancestry, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities to apply. For more information and to apply for these opportunities, visit our employment webpage at: http://troyer.ca/employmentopportunities

There will be an informal open house celebration of Earle’s life on Saturday, May 26th, 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. at Sherry and Warren Mitchell’s home, 1147 Wedgewood Close (Eaglecrest), in Qualicum Beach. Evelyn and family would love to have you drop by to remember Earle and share your stories.

LITTLE MOUNTAIN CAFE is looking for 2 creative, enthusiastic cooks for breakfast, lunch & dinner service. Must like working independently. Please bring resume to Debra or Sandra at 1000 Bellevue Rd, Errington. No phone calls please.

MEDICAL/DENTAL P/T MOA needed for Medical Ofﬁce in Q.B. 20hrs/week approx. Afternoons 1-6pm+ holiday/temp. relief. Computer, Communication & Multi-tasking skills required. G.S.O.H. essential. Please send resumes to 173 Fern Rd.

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WORK WANTED WORK WANTED: Gardening, Housekeeping, Dog Walking, Car Washing, etc. $18/hr, 2 hour min. Small pick up for Yard Waste Removal. Please call 250-248-3248.

WORK WANTED

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

Looking for a NEW employee? .com

WORK WANTED FOR ALL your drywall and painting needs, reno’s and repairs.Specializing in re-textured ceilings, spray paint. Call a pro, no job too small. Phil 250-954-1859.

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

Gain the SKILLS. Get the Job.

MEDICAL/DENTAL

TRADES, TECHNICAL

CDA

SOFTWOOD LUMBER GRADER

Family dental practice in Parksville area is searching for a Certiﬁed Dental Assistant to help with chair side duties, 9 month position - 6 hours/day. Must be motivated & work well in a team environment.

Send resumes to nskida@shaw.ca

BECOME A VITAL MEMBER OF THE DENTAL HEALTH TEAM.

TRADES, TECHNICAL

Our 47-week Dental Assistant II Program will prepare graduates to meet or exceed the requirements for a Dental Assistant Level II in British Columbia.

Smile with conﬁdence, earn great wages and beneﬁts. Start today! PROGRAM STARTS SOON IN NANAIMO

CALL NOW!

WELDERS, FITTERS required for busy Edmonton FCAW structural steel shop. $2733/hour base plus beneﬁts, OT, indoor heated work, paid ﬂight. Fax: 780-939-2181, Email: careers@garweld.com

Funding may be available.

Your Career Starts Here

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

SPECIALTY LUMBER MILL Located in PARKSVILLE requires for a minimum 3 Years A FULL TIME EXPERIENCED TICKETED SOFTWOOD LUMBER GRADER CLASS A OR B. Must be physically fit and able to work 10 hr days. The work entails heavy lift working a trim saw and grading specialty high end Douglas fir structural timbers. Excellent renumeration for the right candidate with bonus for speed, accuracy and 100% on grade components. Resumes must be received not later than May 21 and must include 4 references, copy of grading ticket and drivers license. Please reply to Office Manager, Box 782, Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1T2

PERSONAL SERVICES HEALTH PRODUCTS WAIST AWAY the summer days in a new bathing suit. Get your 1st 9 weeks for $99 Proven Results! Call Herbal Magic now 1-800-854-5176.

FINANCIAL SERVICES DEBT CONSOLIDATION PROGRAM Helping CANADIANS repay debts, reduce or eliminate interest regardless of your credit!

Qualify Now To Be Debt Free 1-877-220-3328 Licensed, Government Approved, BBB Accredited.

The next LPN Day is about 365 days away. Let’s thank them every day until then.

HELP WANTED

PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

LEGAL SERVICES CRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certiﬁcation, adoption property rental opportunities. For peace of mind & a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES COMPUTER SERVICES

DROWNING IN Debt? Helping Canadians 25 years. Lower payments by 30%, or cut debts 70% thru Settlements. Avoid bankruptcy! Free consultation. Toll Free 1 877-5563500 www.mydebtsolution.com GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877987-1420. www.pioneerwest.com IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: It’s that simple. Your credit/age/income is not an issue. 1-800-587-2161. M O N E Y P R OV I D E R . C O M . $500 Loan and +. No Credit Refused. Fast, Easy, 100% Secure. 1-877-776-1660.

Friendly in home Mac/PC support and lessons. Certiﬁed tech, 15 + years experience making technology approachable and easy to understand. All my work is guaranteed. Call

Scott @ 250-821-1994.

DRYWALL Taping/ Texturing/ Painting. Reno & Repair Specialist. 30 years of fast friendly service. Wayne 250-752-4658 QB

GARDENING MANURE FOR your garden, free delivery, $60 (truck load). Call Matt at 250-240-1116. WES-COAST YARDBIRDS. Lawns, gardens, yard cleanup, hauling. Pressure washing, Irrigation, carpentry. Tree Pruning, Topping, Removal. Please call 250-752-9444.

HOME CARE SUPPORT HOME SUPPORT Caregiver honest, caring, reliable, experienced caregiver taking clients. Provide nutritious meals, shopping or driving to appointments, housekeeping, and companionship. Insured. First Aid/CPR. Call Pauline 250248-4471.

HELP WANTED Employment Opportunity for

SUPERINTENDENT, TRANSIT OPERATIONS

(Permanent Full Time Position) Competition No. 2012-43

The Regional District of Nanaimo has an employment opportunity for a Superintendent, Transit Operations in the Transportation Services Department. Visit our website at www.rdn.bc.ca (employment opportunities) for a complete job posting. TRADES, TECHNICAL

TRADES, TECHNICAL

HAULING AND SALVAGE ALL TYPES of hauling. Small loads, garden waste, construction debris & junk. Call Ron 250-757-2094. PHONE ANY day. We will Haul Away. Call anytime at 250-468-5733.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

“LET GEORGE DO IT”

Carpentry and Painting No HST!

250-951-0844

May 13 was Licensed Practical Nurses Day in BC. It’s the day we celebrated LPNs’ contribution to nursing teams and to the health of our communities. Join us in thanking them, every day of the year.

Uniting nurses for quality healthcare

Maintenance Worker Seniors Care Qualicum Beach

The Gardens at Qualicum Beach has an immediate need for an experienced and motivated PART TIME Maintenance Worker. The successful candidate will be responsible for regular maintenance repairs, building improvements, environmental issues and ﬁre and life safety. You will have a proven knowledge of plumbing, carpentry, commercial painting, gardening, electrical and HVAC. You will also have a good working knowledge of computers and be able to organize a schedule of maintenance. A positive attitude and a commitment to customer service are key. Please submit your resume IMMEDIATELY, in the strictest conﬁ dence, via our website at: www.retirementconcepts.com/careers Retirement Concepts is an equal opportunity employer.

MOVING & STORAGE 2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on local moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)951-0010.

PAINTING A STROKE ABOVE Painting. Commercial & Residential. Interior/Exterior. WCB, liability insurance. All jobs warranted. See what we can do! Dave 250-248-0335, 250-240-2310. A1 QUALITY PAINTING Experienced-Insured-References

I love to paint! (250) 248-8450. A & M PAINTING. Interior & exterior. Free estimates. Call 250-248-3604. BC PAINTING Inside/Ext 20 yrs exp. No job too small. 250-248-1160. POIRIER PAINTING, Residential / Commercial / Vinyl Siding / Driveway Power Washing/ Driveway Sealing. Fully insured, Guaranteed Workmanship, Free Estimates. Call Dan 250-240-3528. WCB

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE

RENTALS

LESSONS/TRAINING

FUEL/FIREWOOD

GARAGE SALES

HOMES WANTED

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

OFFICE/RETAIL

SUITES, UPPER

OBEDIENCE- 8 wk course starts June 5 in Nanoose. $225. Limited to 4 students. 15+ years experience with all breeds. 250-821-0715

COASTAL MOUNTAIN FIREWOOD & Logging. Stock up now! *Clearing. *Downed trees. *Wood Spiting Services Call 250-468-9660. 1-866-768-8886 (Nanoose).

BOWSER, GAINSBERG Rd. Neighborhood Sale. May 19 (8-2).

WE BUY HOUSES

COOMBS, 1 bdrm duplex, deck, fenced yard, #5-1027 Virginia Rd., avail immed, $580 + utils. (250)248-2285.

DOWNTOWN PARKSVILLE, 800 sq ft, ground level retail space for lease, great location, 124 Middleton Ave., $600 mo + triple nets & HST. Call 250248-3142 or 250-905-2526.

Seasoned Douglas Fir Firewood You pick up or we can deliver 250-248-5887

GUNS WANTED, “FAIR” Wholesale prices paid. Call (250)468-7533.

BRIGHT & SPACIOUS, near new, 2 bdrm, upper suite near Parksville train station. 1000 sq ft, 5 appl’s, deck with partial mountain view, NS, NP. $975/mo + util’s. Call: 1-250716-6797 or 250-248-3850.

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE APPLIANCES

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE $$ CASH PAID $$ for NEWER FRIDGES, STOVES, WASHERS, DRYERS etc.

BELLEVUE RECONDITIONED APPLIANCES

SEASONED FIREWOOD Vancouver Island’s largest ﬁrewood producer offers ﬁrewood legally obtained during forest restoration, large cords. Help restore your forest, Burndrywood.com 1-877-902-WOOD.

FURNITURE

Sales & Service. FULL WARRANTY. Large Showroom

1040 BELLEVUE ROAD Parksville 250-248-8251

FREE ITEMS FREE DROP OFF: Oil, batteries, scrap metal. We pay $Cash$ for unwanted Cars & Trucks. Call anytime. Norms Towing & Salvage (prev. of Bull Dog Auto) 250-757-8911 or 250-954-7543.

DINING ROOM suite - 9 piece Knechtels 1930’s solid walnut includes table, 6 chairs, china cabinet and sideboard. $2000 Mikasa Garden Harvest dishes - 8 place settings plus extras. $250. Phone 250-594-5995

GARAGE SALES PARKSVILLE- 631 BLENKIN Ave, Sat, May 19, 8am-1pm. Multi-unit complex. Books, china, collectibles, etc & 2 homes are for sale, as well.

CARRIERS FARM SERVICES

FARM SERVICES

Needed in your area.

Want The Parksville/Qualicum Beach News to Eat & Live Sandpiper Rte #316 - 122 papers Well?

Call The News at 248-4341 ext. 260 is looking for a responsible person to deliver in your area! call The News circulation at 248-4341, ext. 260. CURRENT ROUTES AVAILABLE:

Chesterton, Drew, Gilley Cres, Greenwood, Nicolls, Patrick & Sunrise

Parksville Rt #136 - 26 papers Craig & Despard

Watch this spot for upcoming Listings for Parksville Rt #138 - 24products. papers locally grown & made Cedar Village on Corﬁeld St. N.

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

PLANTS/NURSERY STOCK FLOWER SALE- Baskets & Cedar Planters. Geraniums & Begonias etc. 612 Morning Star Drive, 10am-4pm.

Sandi WellsRtsandiwells@bcclassiﬁ ed.com Parksville #210 - 77 papers Digby, Fairwind, Gaetjen, Samuel & Temple 250.248.2545, local 225 Pauline Stead ofﬁce@pqbnews.com

Call: 1-250-616-9053 www.webuyhomesbc.com

RENTALS

REAL ESTATE

APARTMENT/CONDO

APARTMENT/CONDOS BEAUTIFUL 2 bedroom condo downtown Parksville right across from the community park. Just over 1000sqft with ocean and mountain views. Master bedroom has spacious walk in closet and ensuite with access to balcony. 2 full bathrooms laundry room washer,dryer and dishwasher. Covered parking space, elevator and a low strata fee of $140. New paint and carpets just cleaned, move in ready. No age restrictions, rentals allowed and small pet. $210,000.00 O.B.O. 250-7529578

FOR SALE BY OWNER 5 ACRES In Qualicum. Close to path for shopping. House 3000 sq.ft., 4 bath. Shop 30’x40’x16’ ceilings, 220 wiring, 2 12ft doors, pool 23x40. Small barn, security gate, city water. Vendor mortgage ﬁnancing, 2.5%. $825,000. Call (250)752-1693. PARKSVILLE, 1 acre, walking distance to Wembley Mall. 1363 sq ft split level home w/2 bdrms, 1-1/2 bath, partially ﬁnished basement. 24 x 32 ft shop w/carport & covered RV storage. Lrg garden. Mature fruit & nut trees. $449,900. Call 250-947-5432

OTHER AREAS

To advertise your products affordable please contact: Parksville Rt #139 - 48 papers Cooper, Corﬁels St S, Peacock, Pheasant, Skylark213 & Stanford Ave. E. 250.248.2545, local

Damaged House? Pretty House? Moving? Divorcing? Estate Sale? We will Buy your House Quick Cash & Private. Mortgage Too High and House won’t sell? Can’t make payments? We will Lease Your House, Make your Payments and Buy it Later!

FREE BROCHURE- Kings County - “Land of Orchards, Vineyards & Tides” - Nova Scotia’s beautiful Annapolis Valley. Live! Work! Start a business! Toll-Free: 1-888865-4647 www.kingsrda.ca

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“The game is simple. Hit, run, throw and catch.” It was back to the basics for Royals’ skipper Dave Wallace and company as they took to the ﬁeld that bears his name up at Springwood Park recently for the 18th annual Parksville Royals Baseball Clinic. Sponsored by Quality Foods and Dairy Queen since year one, “we had 37 kids out, which was up substantially from last year — we were quite pleased with the numbers,” Wallace said after the clinic, held last Tuesday. The 90 minute clinic stresses fundamentals and featured 11 Royals’ players and three coaches — Wallace, pitching coach Jim Seredick, and associate head coach Bruce Biro. See GOOD FOR ROYALS, page A30

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Golf Canada’s seasonopening amateur championship — the 2012 CN Future Links Pacific Championship — is officially in the can, and people are still talking about the play of Canadian National team member Anna Kim of Toronto. Kim fired a six under par on Sunday’s final round to win the junior girls division of the big annual showcase. Nanaimo’s Zach Anderson won the junior boys division. Played out Friday through Sunday at Morningstar Golf Club, the 54-hole competition for the top under 18 players in Western Canada, including national team members, brought out the best in many of the 99 golfers (72 males, 27 females) here. According to event chair Mike Loftus, Kim’s six under par “is a new course record for ladies here at Morningstar,” explaining the old record was 68 but has an asterisk beside it as it was played out from slightly longer tees.

“But yesterday was just an incredible round of golf — she did everything,” Loftus said of Kim, adding, “she’s just a phenomenal player. It was a pleasure to watch and see someone of that calibre playing here, and that is an LPGA score, that’s not a CN Future Links Junior score.” Also playing in the lead group on Sunday and showing she has ice in her veins was 14-year-old Naomi Ko from Victoria who pushed her older counterpart on every hole. “I was amazed at her — she held her own,” said Loftus, Morningstar’s vicepresident of sales and marketing, adding, “she’s not on the Canadian National team yet, but the national team coach spent more of the day watching her than probably the girl who shot the 66. Here’s this girl that’s 14 years of age with a phenomenal temperament and is so cool on the golf course.” No where did was that ice water more evident, he said, then on hole 15. Kim had a two-shot lead at the time, “and she chipped in off the

Anna Kim fired a six-under par set a new course record on Sunday to win the 2012 CN Future Links Pacific Championship.

green, and I was amazed to see Ko stand up there and knock in a 20 footer for birdie to stay within two, and then on 17 to knock in a 25footer to put more pressure on Kim. (Ko’s) an amazing young player — she plays the course much older, and I think you’ll hear big things about her in the future.” “There’s been some excellent golf — the calibre of play seems to be getting better

every year,” Morningstar’s Grant Skellern echoed from behind the wheel of a golf cart during Sunday’s ﬁnal round. “There’s some great coaching, even here on the Island, and that’s certainly helping their play. Their etiquette and their mannerism on the course is excellent. All week long we haven’t had any problems whatsoever. It’s been a real treat this year for sure. “And of course the condition the golf course was in last week (very wet) compared to what it is now is because of the grounds crew here. You can’t say it’s a miracle, but boy if somebody had seen it last week they’d have never thought they’d have this event,” he said. Skellern, who works in the pro shop and has been a sales rep in the golf biz almost 40 years, has volunteered for too many junior tournaments to count, and makes the point “you try and give back as much as you can.” The girls, he said, stand a much better chance of See ANDERSON, page A30

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Ace was icing on the cake QUALICUM BEACH — From Kathy Lennox comes word that Lynn Gordon watched her ball soar across the gully on hole number 14, roll up to the pin and drop into the hole for an ‘eagle’ hole in one. It was Gordon’s first ace on what was an eventful morning for the Qualicum Beach Memorial 18 ladies Golf Club as five other ladies scored birdies (Susan Paterson had three, Marilyn Roney, Lennox, June Dunn and Charlotte Dunwoody). Wednesday was also the ZCTC (Zone Club Team Championship) qualifier. Hope Kitzler won the Div. A Low net LYNN GORDON with a 66 and Susan Paterson was second at 68. Charlotte Dunwoody was tops in Div. B at 62 and Tina Hawkins in second at 65. According to Lennox, two teams from the QBMGC ladies group will head up to Storey Creek Golf Course in Campbell River in June: Team one (18.1 – 25 handicappers) is Lynn Gordon, 69, Barb Borritt, 68, and Karen Carignan, 69. Team two (25.1- 40) is Pat Chern, 72, Shirley McGill 68, and Joan Jeffs, 72. — James Clarke

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The kids ranged in age from 5-12, and there were a number of girls in the mix. “More and more each year,” said

Wallace. “Lots of enthusiasm,” he said of the kids, “willing to learn and very typical of previous years. It’s always fun to go out there — it’s really good for our

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landing a university golf scholarship, but that said, he continued, most of the golfers who competed on the weekend, males and females, will go on to compete at college. Enjoying Mother’s Day on Sunday was Adriana Ko, who was walking the course with her husband and young son in support of her daughter Naomi. “Very much,” she said when asked if she’s enjoying the event. Asked what she thinks of the course — Naomi had never golfed Morningstar before — Adriana said “it’s hard I think.” It took some 40 volunteers to keep the tourney running smoothly, and organizers began preparing for it over two months ago. Tigh-Na-Mara was the host hotel. Fifteen-year-old Santiago

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Santiago Bouyra from Mexico was introduced to many of the top junior players in Western Canada.

Bouyra from Mexico, currently in his second year at the Brent Morrison Golf Academy out of Pheasant Glen Golf Resort while attending Kwalikum Secondary School, finished 31st among junior boys with a 236 total. Only 16 players in the field of 99 were from Vancouver Island. Nanaimo player Zach Anderson “he was definitely the best left-hander in the tournament, and he won it all,” said Loftus.

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The sport of softball is back on solid footing in these parts thanks in large part to a new crop of young players who have embraced the learning curve. The Parksville Rage girls softball club boast two teams this year — a Bantam team and a Squirt team. Squirt coach Kevin Spicer, a teacher at Kwalikum Secondary School, has two daughters playing — his oldest, Gabrielle, is on the Bantam team, and his youngest Meriana, plays for the Squirts. In action against Ladysmith last Tuesday up at Springwood Park, Meriana started the game on the hill for the Rage and struck out the ﬁrst six batters she faced to pace her team to a 22-13 win. “They’re doing really well considering we have 10 players this year new to softball,” Spicer said of his squad, comprised of 11 and 12-year-olds.

IN OTHER ACTION, the older Rage were in Port Alberni over the weekend for the annual 12-team Bantam Blast softball tournament. Coached by longtime local coaches Cheryl McNichol and Greg Roy, the Bantam Rage have been together for a few years “and the team is competing well in their league.” At the Bantam Blast, which featured seven teams in the B division and ﬁve teams including the Rage in the C, Parksville went 2-2 in pool play and lost a nail-biter 13-12 to their rivals,the Cedar Heat, in the bronze medal game. “It was a really good game,” said Spicer, who made the trip up to Port Sunday to cheer the team on. “Both teams were playing smart and hitting the ball well; the Cedar team ended the game with a double play.” Earning Player of the Game props on the weekend were Gabrielle for her defensive play and Tyra McNichol for her hitting and pitching The Rage are halfway through their regular season as part of the seven-team Bantam House League

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Some dynamic young dancers will perform Friday, May 18 at the Whalebone Theatre in Parksville. At a recent rehearsal, the members of Helix Dance Theatre worked on their choreography for a piece called Sinner Man.

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Fans of contemporary dance won’t want to miss an upcoming performance by the Helix Dance Theatre company in Parksville. Several pieces including four original new works will be presented by gifted young dancers at the Ballenas Whalebone Theatre May 18. Helix was co-founded by Sarah Panichelli-DeVito and Kourtney Hunchuk and is celebrating its third anniversary. This will be the ﬁnal performance of the season and the dancers will present a fantastic evening of sophisticated dancing.

The company incorporates contemporary jazz and theatre as a medium to convey education through dance. Their goal is to showcase the talents of gifted and diverse young dancers through unique and relevant repertoire that connects dancers to their communities while demonstrating an elevated technical and artistic calibre. Currently there are 11 dancers between the age of 13 and 18 in the company from Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Nanaimo and Courtenay who bring a wide range of dance genres to the group and perform mainly contemporary pieces.

Panichelli-DeVito said one of the dances is a modern piece about six and a half minutes long that she choreographed called Sinner Man. It is based on the civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the southern United States to defy segregation laws and call for change. “The piece is inspired by the stories of the freedom riders of 1961. These people changed the south. It is a heavy duty topic but the girls are invested in it,” she said. Part of her mandate is to have the dancers understand the piece. See DANCE, page B2

There will be a wide range of local talent on stage during an annual event that supports rising stars in the community and provides an evening of quality entertainment. The Mosaic Youth Talent Showcase, supported by the Rotary Club of Parksville, takes place on Friday, May 19 at 7 p.m. Knox United Church in Parksville. Local country singer Beth Marie Anderson is producing the show this year which includes scholarships for those selected to perform. Anderson said this year she had many people audition or enquire about the show but she had to narrow it down and she’s thrilled with the high calibre of talent for the show. The talent showcase has performers in various artistic disciplines and each of them will get a scholarship. See ANDERSON, page B5

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THOUGHTS ON AGING Naomi Beth Wakan will be reading from her new book, A Roller-coaster Ride: Thoughts on Aging at the Parksville Library on May 17 at 2 p.m. The essayist and poet, with more than 40 books published (19 in the VIRL) lives on Gabriola Island. Her book is unique in the field of aging, being a combination of personal reflections and analyses of books on aging. Writing from the perspective of an aging woman, she expresses opinions that are based on both experience and on her extensive knowledge of the aging literature. Her reflections are presented with humor and punctuated with poems. Although Wakan’s book is about aging, the author welcomes all ages to her reading. — submitted

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piece in Nanaimo back in November at the Port Theatre and Pa n i c h e l l i - D e V i t o said the dancers really do justice to the choreography and will once again convey the emotion of it for the audience in Parksville. The moving piece is set to an interesting mix of songs from the old south and includes gospel and slave music. Panichelli-DeVito is also excited that Jessica Atkinson will be performing a modern contemporary piece on Friday night. Atkinson who just returned from dancing with the contem-

porary Gallim Dance Company in New York City began her dance training at the Parksville Ballet School. In Grade 10 she moved to Vancouver to join the Arts Umbrella SPARTS program. She continued there for four years and completed the Arts Umbrella/VCC Graduate Program. Atkinson has participated in Springboard Danse Montreal where she got to perform with the Rubberbanddance Company. The Montrealbased company is well known for breaking new ground on stage by fusing elements of

ballet, contemporary and street dance. Its choreography mixes the exuberance of hip hop with the reﬁnement of classical dance to present a new concept of dance. Atkinson is now teaching various classes on the Island and in Vancouver and will be performing a piece that she choreographed herself called To Catch a Dandelion. A lyrical piece by guest choreographer Mike McInnes will also be presented. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $12 and are available at Mulberry Bush Book stores and at the door.

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Boom Booms make you move BRENDA GOUGH

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The Boom Booms are bringing their Latin-soul-funk-rock-reggae vibe to the Errington Hall Friday, May 18. With a soulful, reggae groove like Sublime and an eclectic world music sound like the Gypsy Kings, The Boom Booms play music that make people want to get up and dance and they had the crowd grooving the last time they played the old hall. The Boom Booms are an East Vancouver band made up of a host of incredibly talented musicians that range from a few up to nine people. Founding members Aaron Ross and Geordie Hart are lifelong friends who formed their first band in fifth grade. They discovered their mutual passion for Latin music and culture during a musical odyssey they embarked upon through Cuba and Mexico as 20-yearolds — so much so that many of Ross’ viscerally poetic lyrics are written and sung in Spanish. Recently, African influences have begun to make their way into the Boom Booms’ groovy stew. After a three-month European tour in 2011, the band competed in the Peak Performance Project sponsored by Vancouver’s 100.5 FM Radio, finishing as runners-up. The talented lineup is Aaron Ross on vocals and Latin-friendly nylon guitar, Geordie Hart on stand-up, sit-down and strap-on bass, Sean Ross on vocals and ukulele/cavacino, Tom Van Deursen on black, sexy electric guitar, Theo Vincent on ragin’ percussion and drum kit, and Richard Brinkman on drums that he keeps deep in his pocket. Forged in 2007 from friendships born on the school yards, soccer fields, cafe patios and eventually bars of East Vancouver, The Boom Booms are a band on the move ... literally. On any given day you’ll find the musicians around Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, on a hilltop in Barcelona, or

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The Boom Booms were a huge hit at the Hi Neighbour Day dance two summers ago at the Errington Hall and the groove-meisters are back at the old hall this Friday night.

traveling down the Amazon River. Last winter they were off to Brazil for a ﬁlm project that took them from the jungles of Manaus down the Amazon River to Salvador for a month, and then to Rio to perform at Carnival. The documentary that’s in the works will show their cultural journey, focusing on the Boom Booms’ support for the efforts of the indigenous peoples

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Anderson sang in and grew up with the show Anderson, 25, sang in the ﬁrst show which her father initiated through the Rotary Club of Parksville. For four years she performed in the event and now she is the producer. This year she will do a special performance with Erick Gow. The two will sing a duet from West Side Story. Gow who does stand up comedy will emcee the event and will perform a comedic song he wrote with Nicco Rhodes. Previous performances by talented youth have included opera, classical music, musical theatre, hip hop dances and contemporary singing, among others and this year the entertainment line-up is varied. “I have really talented people in the show,” admitted Anderson who added, “This year I had to turn people away. It is growing and it is encouraging to see all the new talent and I am excited for next year to showcase the talent that isn’t in this show.” Kiana Smith who has performed in Mosaic before is a dancer who enjoys hip hop and other dance disciplines and she will be dancing solo, as well as with a dance troupe called Foot Clan. Nic Annau will do an acoustic set playing guitar and singing. Sisters Bethany Freed and Kristen Freed will be dancing solo performances. Esme Liddicoat who studying at the Victoria Conservatory of Music is coming back for her second Mosaic performance doing classical voice. Cate Richardson who is studying at the College of Performing Arts in Victoria will perform musical theatre. Nicholas Atkinson a 17-year-old from Parksville who took top honours in four categories in the North Island Festival of Performing Arts will be doing musical theatre.

Atkinson placed ﬁrst in musical theatre ballad, musical theatre comedy, American folk song and Italian art song at the festival back in February. Emily Brandstatter and Mordecai Tang will be doing a Spanish

dance duet which won them ﬁrst place at the Upper Island Music Festival in Nanaimo last month. Lemon Tree a sister duo from Parksville who perform regularly at the Errington Coffee House will entertain with their country har-

mony. Lachlan Craven a talented elementary school student will be playing piano. Nicco Rhodes will perform solo on piano. Tickets for the May 19 show ($15 adults, $10 students, kids 12

and under free) can be purchased at Cranky Dog Music in Parksville and Mulberry Bush Book Stores or at the door. Anderson said she has made the event affordable because she wants to encourage families to come out.

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The number of working-age Canadians for every senior is decreasing** 6 5

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4 3 2 1 0 1990

2012

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Sara Marreiros, Victoria’s master of Portuguese fado will be back in town this weekend performing with pianist Ron Hadley at the Old Dutch Inn. Her music has been described as evocative and soulful, and when she sings in Portuguese she embodies the music she grew up listening to. Marreiros takes the audience from delight to despair and back again when she sings the traditional folk music. Portuguese fado is best heard in a small venue and The Old Dutch Inn is the perfect setting to enjoy the Victoria vocalist. Marreiros will be performing at the Qualicum Beach restaurant accompanied by pianist Ron Hadley on May 18 and 19

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Victoria vocalist Sara Marreiros will be back in town this weekend performing with pianist Ron Hadley at the Old Dutch Inn.

She sings in both English and Portuguese; everything from fado to bossa nova/ samba and jazz to country and western. The remarkable vocalist has been discovering her own voice by merging the music of her roots and the music she came of age with. Fado is to Portugal what ﬂamenco is to Spain and what the blues are to the American South. Marrieros grew up spending time in her father’s village in Portugal. Her mother’s love of improvisational music led her to study jazz in high school where she discovered that

singing, not ﬂute or saxophone, was her passion. She began performing with Djole, sang jazz in clubs, turned up at local improv nights, and started working in electronica. She could always hear the siren song of fado, but it wasn’t until her heart had its own cruel experiences with life that she felt ready to sing the music she had heard since she was a girl. Her father helped her ﬁnd her way into the many layers of meaning that are so much a part of fado and a whole new musical world began to open. She studied the

history of the music and traced its roots back to the inﬂuences from which different styles evolved. Marreiros said although she was born with musical talent, she has done plenty of training and she is constantly learning, pushing her voice and herself to try new things. “There has been a lot of training and welcoming other sounds and embracing other ways to sing…but it has evolved in an organic way. I like to challenge myself by learning different languages to sing.” She said she learned Portuguese when she learned

English but having that second language growing up helped her wrap her mouth around the words of other languages. She admitted that she still ﬁnds singing to a Brazilian crowd challenging sometimes. “I stumble occasionally but if your heart is in the moment you improvise and you embrace those moments and have fun with them because often wonderful things come out of mistakes,” she admitted. Marreiros said she loves singing in all venues and enjoys coming to Qualicum Beach to perform with Hadley. “I do my best to be centered in whatever space I am in. It doesn’t matter what the space is if you are connecting with the people in the room.” If you are looking for outstanding music and a great food you should check out Marreiros at The Old Dutch Inn. The Friday and Saturday night entertainment gets going at 6 p.m. For reservations call 250-752-6914 or visit www.olddutchiin.com.

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rtist, author, activist and environmentalist are just a few hats Ken Kirkby wears and if you happen to see a sexy, blue Austin-Healey driving around Qualicum Bay, it is likely Kirkby behind the wheel and the story about how he recently acquired the classic roadster takes many twists and turns. Kirkby is known for his tireless work to restore the pink salmon run in Nile Creek. He has spent countless hours on the habitat restoration project and has used the proceeds from the sale of his paintings to financially support the Nile Creek Enhancement Society. To explain the history behind the British sports car now in Kirkby’s driveway, one must know a bit about the man to realize how significant the car is in his life. The painter, who has has lived in many places around the world, now calls Bowser home. Kirkby was born in London, England. He was brought up in Portugal, where his father was behind the country’s rebuilding, following the war. When he was 17 he became involved in a revolution in Portugal, where many were killed and few escaped. Luckily, he and the Canadian ambassador to Portugal had become close fly fishing friends and the man helped him find refuge. He provided him with the necessary documents and he also gave him a map to the best fly fishing spot in the country, the south shore of a place called Nile Creek on Vancouver Island. He had friends there who owned a cabin and Kirkby would be welcome. Kirkby immediately fell in love with the place and he promised himself that one day he’d return. He was 18 and headed off for the Arctic and wouldn’t return to the Island until he was 60. Kirkby left the Arctic when he was 26 and arrived in Vancouver and that is where the story of his beloved Austin-Healey begins. “When I came back from the Arctic I was walking down Broadway past a car dealership and there in the showroom

window was this thing. Oh my god,” he recalled after he ﬁrst set eyes on the car. “I actually sat in front of Michelangelo’s David and I thought it was the most beautiful thing ever … but I found I was wrong. I went in and talked to them about the car and I sat in it … wow.” He said he didn’t ask the price and didn’t care. “I said I will take it. It was $6,600. Now of course $6,600 in 1969 would buy you half a house … in some places a whole house,” he admitted. A while later Kirkby got married and because the car is a two seater eventually the rare car had to go even though it was the apple of his eye. “I am not a materialistic person even in the remotest way. But the one thing I regretted was selling that car to the point where it became a recurring dream which in turn became a nightmare.” Kirkby had told the story of his car and nightmare to anyone who would listen to relieve his anxiety — including a lady in Qualicum Beach who said ‘oh my mechanic friend is crazy about these cars and you should talk to him’. Two nights later he was having a party and along came the woman with her mechanic in tow. “The mechanic gave me a printout of a Healey for sale. For three days I skirted the phone, I couldn’t resist it anymore so I called the guy in Shawnigan Lake, he then said he would be willing to bring it up.” Long story short, the vehicle is the same one Kirkby reluctantly gave up all those years ago. “When I sold the car, that person sold it to someone in New York, so it has been around. The only material thing on this planet I hungered for I got back … I am blessed and will be driving around in the summer in my baby.” Good karma for all of his hard work or serendipity ... whatever you want to call it Kirkby is just happy to be reunited with his dream car. “No engine on earth makes the sound of that car. It is sort of like a terrestrial spitﬁre from the Second World War.”

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oombs will be buzzing this weekend with a host of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Creek Community School and the upcoming birthday of the Coombs Agricultural Fall Fair. The little school with the big heart is inviting everyone to join them May 18 to 20 for a walk down memory lane. There will be historical memorabilia, Maypole dancing, games, entertainment and a whole lot more. To mark the centennial of the school, students have been encouraged to dress in any fashion mode of the past century on Friday. Over the past few weeks the students have been busy making decorations for the occasion and the public is invited to take a tour of the school to check out the art work and the memory lane displays. The community of Coombs found its roots as a Salvation Army colony beginning in 1910. A group of pioneers were sent from England to Vancouver Island by Salvation Army founder General William Booth and his commissioner in Canada, Thomas B. Coombs. Bert Topliffe, one of the eldest living members from the ﬁrst colony of families to settle in Coombs still re-

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Grade 4 and 5 Students at French Creek School will be Maypole dancing May 18 as the celebrations kick off to mark the 100th birthday of the school in Coombs.

COOMBS CELEBRATES FCCS 100TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND Fri., May 18 • 2:30 - 6 p.m. - French Creek Community School tour. • 3 - 5 p.m. - Get-Together Social in FCCS. • 4 p.m. - Cake cutting ceremony. • 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Schoolyard games. • 7 - 10 p.m. - Coombs Country Opera at the Rodeo Grounds. Sat., May 19 • 8:30 a.m. - Volunteers meet and greet. • 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Food concession. By donation. • 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - French Creek Community School tours; Community and business displays; Children’s activity centre. • 10:30 a.m. - Maypole Dancing. • 11 a.m. - Main Stage Opens behind the gymnasium building. • 11 - 11:30 a.m. - Opening ceremonies and heritage quilt unveiling. Birthday greetings from dignitaries. • 11:30 a.m. - 3:40 pm. - Main stage entertainment. • 5 - 8 p.m. - Community potluck at the Coombs Fairgrounds. • 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. - Community dance at the rodeo grounds. Sun., May 20 • 8 - 11 a.m. - Pancake breakfast at the Coombs Fairgrounds. • 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Pancake breakfast at the Bradley Centre. • 9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Grace United Church service. • 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Ocean Idlers Car Rally and Poker Run.

sides in the area and will be on hand to celebrate the birthday of the school he attended as a young boy. The ﬁrst log cabin school built on Gibbs Road, now called Shearme Road in

Coombs dates back to 1910, the same year the colony was founded. The present day school began as a one room school in 1911-1912. The Coombs General

store began its existence in 1911 and the Coombs Agricultural Fall Fair began in 1913 so there is a lot to celebrate. All the excitement starts at 2:30 p.m. May 18 and includes refreshments, cake, school yard games, music and dancing. Saturday’s events start in the morning and run throughout the day at the school with a long list of free children’s activities. At 5 p.m. at the Coombs Fairgrounds there is a community potluck picnic and at 8 p.m. there is a community dance at the Coombs Rodeo Grounds. On Sunday, there are two pancake breakfast events, one at the Coombs Fairgrounds and another at the Bradley Centre. At 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. the Ocean Idlers car rally and poker run occurs with all car entries welcome. Get registered and pick up your rally cards before 11 a.m. Follow the Coombs 100th Anniversary historical poker run and return to the fairgrounds for the 2:30 p.m. awards. As the community recognizes the wonderful members and institutions in the community there will be festivities throughout the next several months. For a complete schedule of activities, times and locations a detailed list can be found at www.coombs100. com.

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