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STARTING POINT Today’s Page 1 photo:

Our front page photo today was taken by reporter Lissa Alexander with graphics by Brad Everest. It depicts a nativity scene set up at French Creek’s Church of the Ascension on Wembley Road. Merry Christmas from everyone at The NEWS!

Kershaw retains school board chair position

KERSHAW

Lynette Kershaw was acclaimed as chairperson of the board of education and Ross Milligan acclaimed as vice chairperson at the most recent board meeting.

As trustees Eve Flynn and Barry Kurland were not present, Kershaw said committee representation appointments would be postpo ned.

— NEWS Staff

Be aware of winter road conditions — RCMP It’s a winter wonderland out on the highways and byways of the Central Island, and motorists would do well to keep that in mind.

That was the message put out this week by Central Island Traffic Services Constable Blake Manchur in relation to this week’s first winter storm of the season. Although Manchur said police responded to several fender benders during and after the storm, he said there were no major incidents. However, he said drivers need to be aware that winter and summer driving are different. “We are seeing drivers following too close, but the main thing is people driving too fast for road conditions,” he said. “Just because a sign says the maximum speed, that doesn’t mean you can necessarily drive that speed if the road conditions are poor.”

— NEWS Staff

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SKATING IN WONDERLAND: People of all ages enjoyed skating in a Winter Wonderland at Oceanside Place this week, set up until Dec. 26. The indoor arena is decorated to look like an outdoor frozen pond with trees, a winter cabin, an igloo, murals and cold-weather animals like penguins, polar bears and deer. Oceanside Place will be closed Christmas Day but open Boxing Day from 1 to 4 p.m.

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‘Nurse practitioners are an integral part of the modern health-care team’ As part of the new approach to how health care services will be provided in the Oceanside Health Centre (OHC) when it opens in June 2013, Vancouver Island Health says it has now posted two positions for nurse practitioners for Oceanside.

“Our government is committed to delivering new, innovative and better ways for B.C. residents to stay healthy and receive the care they need,” said Parksville-Qualicum MLA Ron Cantelon.

“Nurse practitioners are an

integral part of the modern health-care team, not only supporting physicians but directing and leading care, and the coordination of care, to help residents maintain their health.”

Nurse practitioners have been eligible to practice in B.C. since 2005. VIHA has approximately 25 nurse practitioners who provide care in a variety of settings from hospitals to small, rural communities.

When working with clients, nurse practitioners col-

laborate with family physicians and specialists, other health care providers, families and community service providers.

Nurse practitioners, who have a Master’s Degree in Nursing and advanced clinical skills to manage medical conditions, can diagnose illness and disease, write prescriptions for medication, order diagnostic and lab tests and refer patients to physicians or specialists.

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PARKSVILLE CITY COUNCIL

180-day limit stays for now AUREN RUVINSKY

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ROLAND BECHTHOLD ROLA

Parksville considered dropping its controversial 180-day limit on tourist stays, but decided against it at a recent meeting.

Dropping the limit was one of the first two recommendations from the new, five-member council advisory committee, but committee chair Coun. Al Greir said due to new information, the recommendation should just be received for information, rather than put to a vote.

The limit was first set in 1994 to stop campgrounds from becoming permanent homes.

Some Resort Row resorts were included when that area was brought into the city in 1995, explained Greir.

Council discussed which properties are subject to the limits, but could not come up with a definitive list.

The advisory committee said that since not all tourist accommodation properties are subject to the limit, and it has never been enforced, it should be dropped.

The 180-day limit has mostly been an issue since former mayoral candidate Rick Honaizer campaigned on it and then attempted to bring charges of conspiracy against the city, mayor, chief administrative officer “and other unknown conspirators,” for not enforcing bylaws around waterfront access and residency terms.

In January 2012 Judge D. Cowling told Honaizer he was casting too wide a net, but left it open for him to return if he did more research.

“This city, the CAO, the bylaw enforcement officer and you, Mr. Mayor, have not done your job,” Honaizer said during question period at the end of the meeting Dec. 17.

“And we will, if you still keep on refusing to enforce the bylaw, we will go to court again and I will force the city to enforce the bylaw, because that is the law and it’s a criminal act for you and the CAO and the bylaw enforcement officer not to enforce the bylaw,” he continued.

Councillor Bill Neufeld said he was concerned about the advisory committee process itself.

“The approach I have heard from a number of individuals, to put it quite honestly, they look at the exercise as being a sham, a farce, something to be laughed at,” he said, adding that people said the committee had based its decision on information from a single city staff source rather than researching it.

Council unanimously decided to pull the agenda item rather than vote on it — in effect maintaining the status quo.

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THAT’S A LOT OF PENNIES: The NEWS handed over two cheques on Friday, with the funds collected in our annual Pennies for Presents Campaign. The NEWS Publisher Peter McCully passed one to Renate Sutherland (left), executive director of the SOS, for $2,045 and the same amount was given to Lisa Clason from the Salvation Army.

COMMUNITY POLICING

Volunteers’ safety a concern

RCMP ask for ‘a simple structure’ right in civic centre atrium AUREN RUVINSKY

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Parksville’s community policing office is underused but city council hopes to change that by giving it a new location.

RCMP Cpl. Jesse Foreman, in charge of Oceanside community policing, appeared before Monday’s regular council meeting to request the move.

The office is currently in a quiet corner of the community centre, where Foreman said the volunteer manager works alone.

“There’s nobody near them or around them,” he said. “My main concern this year, after a couple of incidents, is safety. People wander in, they see community policing and they don’t make a separation between volunteers providing services and the RCMP or police in general.”

Foreman said they have had “a few tense moments there,” and compared that to the community policing office in the middle of the Qualicum Beach Town Hall.

“The office is right in the hub, the nerve centre of town. You walk in to see council, the mayor or to use the library and you can’t help but walk into that office,” he said.

That brings in a lot of people “asking about services like block watch, gatekeepers, keeping in touch, fraud awareness, bicycle rodeos, scooter rodeos, as well as attracting new volunteers,” Foreman said.

The community-based, non-profit, donation-driven office is volunteer run, Foreman said, and Parksville has trouble attracting enough volunteers, which is not an issue in Qualicum Beach.

“We get less than a quarter of the

visits here in Parksville and we have a much larger community. I attribute that to (the office) location.”

“We’d like to be housed . . . here in the atrium, with a very simple structure, glass walls and a door,” he said, explaining they just need room for a desk, one person working and be able for someone to come in and close the door and lock it at night.

“The model in Qualicum actually works very well,” said mayor Chris Burger. “The synergies in this building are actually quite tremendous — there’s not a day that goes by that virtually every aspect of the community isn’t represented. I think this would be a very positive thing for us.”

Most of council expressed support for the idea and unanimously supported Coun. Peter Morrison’s motion to have staff report back on the possibility.

Trustee wants to follow every dollar spent School trustee Julie Austin wants to see the local budget process changed so that every dollar spent can be reviewed, even if it’s time consuming.

Austin brought a motion forward recently and listened to a presentation by

Secretary-Treasurer Erica Bailey on some ideas she has come up with to address the concerns. Austin responded that she’d like to go even further, as other school boards have done, perhaps tossing the budget and starting from the bottom to

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Bailey responded that there may be a way to fit some of that into the process but to look at every $1,000 expense would be extremely time consuming.

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MS sufferer gets high-tech chair Residents, chair company make a dream reality NEIL HORNER

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Sometimes, Christmas dreams really do come true — and it can be particularly sweet if that dream is on somebody else’s behalf.

Just ask Vivian O’Connor, who put out a call recently to help a fellow multiple sclerosis sufferer obtain a tilting wheelchair.

On Tuesday, O’Connor reported that area residents opened their hearts after reading about her appeal in The NEWS — to the point where she feels the need to say, stop!

The appeal was for Dean Jesperson, who is badly affected by MS to the point where he is bent over, meaning he is sometimes unable to either breath or eat properly.

O’Connor, who uses a tilting wheelchair to get around, knew that a tilting model for Jesperson could make a big difference in his quality of life. She made an appeal for a tilting chair through the newspaper and was more than gratified by the result.

“We put out the appeal and people just started calling in,” she said. “I was getting anonymous donations, a couple of them for $500. My

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daughter’s workplace had a big bottle at the side where people could put donations in for him and another friend had a bake sale, while another had a party and charged $5 to get in and ended up with $1,000. People in The Gardens were phoning up to ask what they can do and St. Stephen’s Church gave money, too.”

Even as the donations

rolled in however, O’Connor received a phone call that put her campaign over the top.

“Right out of the blue, Motion Specialties, the ones that deal with my wheelchair, phoned and said there was a man who was going to donate a chair,” she said. “It has a tilt on it.”

With the chair secured, O’Connor said the funds

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“All those extra things are so expensive,” she said.

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SEEDY SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2 IN QUALICUM BEACH

Never too early to plan your garden The event includes a popular seed swap NEIL HORNER

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The first snow of winter may have just coated the ground, but there are some people in the area who are already not just thinking about spring, but preparing for it.

Those preparations will bear fruit on Feb. 2 when Qualicum Beach once again plays host to Seedy Saturday at the Civic Centre.

Seedy Saturday is a time to see food and flowering plants and seeds that will grow in the Central Island area and to get ideas from experts in all aspects of gardening.

The event includes a seed swap, where gardeners can share their saved seeds with other local gardeners or buy seeds they have saved locally.

Nurseries from the region are well represented, with lots of specimens to choose from or just to admire. As well, expert speakers and master gardeners will be on hand to discuss many aspects of gardening.

It’s important to note that not only people with large plots of land can benefit from Seedy Saturday, particularly this year, when the theme will be Pots and Plots, Sowing and Growing our Food.

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Seedy Saturday has a particular resonance in the Parksville-Qualicum area, with its predominantly seniors demographic.

“Some people are trying to re-create the tastes of their childhoods and support the companies at Seedy Saturday that have seeds of heirloom varieties,” Glazier said.

“Even a variety of fruit trees can be grown in the average backyard. Instead of one large, spreading apple tree, however appealing it might be to sit and read a book in as I did in the Bramley’s cooking apple tree in my childhood, columnar trees are now available that take up less space and can even be grown in pots. These also blend nicely into the more contemporary, minimalist landscape plans.”

Seedy Saturday-related talks include Pots and Plots; Sowing and Growing Our Food at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre on Saturday, Feb. 2, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m; Linda Gilkeson speaking on: Don’t Panic: Keeping Up With New Pests and Diseases; Gord Hutchings on Bumble Bees: Our Only True Native Hive Bee and Kathy Claxton, From Plant Pot to

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Kathy Claxton, one of the speakers at the Qualicum Beach Seedy Saturday will talk on edibles successfully grown in pots, troughs and raised beds, with a few hints as to how to handle a bumper crop when the season nears its end.

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The Christian Churches of Oceanside wish you a joyful Christmas.

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Holiday lunch for everyone Collaborative effort between lunch program, senior foods programs at BSS NEIL HORNER

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Regardless of their situation at home, all the students at Ballenas Senior Secondary school enjoyed at least one Christmas feast this year.

That’s because students and staff teamed up on

foods program.

“We feed the entire school a Christmas lunch,” she said.

“The teachers donated all the food this year and we collect donations at the door and the money we raise goes to fund the lunch program for the rest of the year.”

Wednesday to create a fullcourse turkey luncheon, complete with all the trimmings.

The project, said Monica Bradbury, the teacher of the foods program, was undertaken jointly by the lunch program and the senior

REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION

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Four jurisdictions are working together this holiday season to promote active transportation in the Oceanside area.

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, the Regional District of Nanaimo, the City of Parksville and the Town of Qualicum Beach are collaborating to provide way-marking signs for the Parksville-Qualicum Beach Links, a popular low-traffic road and trail route that con-

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“Once this popular recreational route is continuously-signed from Parksville city centre to Qualicum Beach town centre, the Parksville-Qualicum Beach Links will be even more user-friendly for cyclists and pedestrians,” said Parksville Mayor Chris Burger.

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“The Parksville-Qualicum Beach Links provides a convenient way for pedestrians and cyclists to travel between municipalities without having to use Highway 19A,” said RDN Chairperson Joe Stanhope.

“We are pleased to add signage to this extremely popular part of our Regional Trail System.”

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Merry Christmas

T

he Thanksgiving holiday provides us an opportunity to really think about, and publicly state, the gratitude we feel for all that we have in material items and the love of others.

New Year’s is often a time of both looking back and looking forward, a chance to make promises to better ourselves and, perhaps, the lives of those around us.

So what of Christmas? It is many things to many people, and to some it means nothing, although it’s impossible to escape in mostly-Christian North America.

For many, it has become about gifts — the getting and receiving and, unfortunately, the pressure to purchase.

When we think of the little ones, is it really all that bad for them to see Christmas as a time Santa comes and put presents under the tree? We think not. If your family is so inclined, some kind of talk about the meaning of the holiday — the birth of Jesus Christ — and the importance of giving is good to get into the conversation.

That said, if Christmas for a five-year-old is all about fun and Santa and gifts and making your mom a present out of clay in your Kindergarten class, we see nothing wrong with that. If recent events have not taught us to protect the innocence of youth, to encourage them to laugh, have fun and eschew the seriousness of life, nothing will.

So what of the rest of us? Words can be just that, hollow collections of letters, but the ones we see at this time of year — peace, joy, love — can give us inspiration and hope.

These are not religious words. Or, perhaps more accurately, they are appropriate to all faiths.

We wish for you to find some peace, some joy, some love this holiday season, and to share those feelings with others. If that just means putting the darn smart phone away for a few hours, so be it. If it means volunteering to help the less fortunate, great. If it means a smile and a “merry Christmas” for a stranger you pass on the street, fantastic.

Life is too serious, too fast, too busy. If this season to celebrate the birth of Christ brings you peace, love and joy, even in small amounts, you have felt the spirit.

From all of us at the Parksville Qualicum Beach News: Merry Christmas! — Editorial by John Harding

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Our special green and silver surprise My mother can’t keep a secret, thanks to her expressive face The quality of mercy is not strained. If falleth as a gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed. It blesses him who gives and him who receives. It is an attribute of God himself. ~ William Shakespeare ~

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y mother is not a poker player. Because Mom has a ‘tell.’

A ‘tell’ is a facial expression or mannerism that lets the whole world know when you’re bluffing.

Mom’s inability to put on a poker face was very useful to us as children.

We always knew when she was hiding something. And so every Christmas we’d pump her for information about our presents.

Dad was keenly aware of mom’s inability to deceive anyone. So he would nip any Christmas questions in the bud.

If we asked him, “Is our Christmas present bigger than a bread box?” Dad would invariably answer in Dutch. “Kinderen vragen naar vensterbank.”

Roughly translated that means, “Children ask at window seats.”

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It’s pretty hard to argue with that.

We had a tradition when I was a By Ray Smit child.

We always bought our Christmas tree on Dec. 20. Dec. 20 is my mother’s birthday.

Every year we celebrated at her favourite restaurant and on the way home we’d buy her a tree.

There was no point asking Christmas related questions before December 20, but after that, well, all’s fair in love and war and Christmas.

The year I was eight, there was a snowstorm on mom’s birthday.

It started in the afternoon with bone-chilling wind gusts and soon there were four-foot drifts.

It was obvious that we wouldn’t be going out for dinner or a Christmas tree.

That Dec. 20 was also the last day of school before our Christmas holiday.

After we were dismissed my brother noticed the janitor throwing out the school’s magnificent nine-foot Christmas tree.

No slouch, he sprinted over and asked if we could have it.

The janitor was only too pleased to get rid of it, so Jay and

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I took turns dragging that tree home through the snowcovered streets of Toronto.

We felt like heroes that snowy afternoon!

Mom might not be getting her dinner on the town but she was sure going to have a Christmas

tree!

Mom was delighted and dad immediately took the tree to his workshop to trim it down to size.

Mom was simply beaming.

Not one to miss an opportunity, I casually asked her, “Mom what colour are our Christmas presents this year?”

“Green and silver,” she replied temporarily forgetting dad’s interdiction against giving us clues.

“We’re getting bikes!” I yelled.

Mom turned three shades of pale.

Jay, a consummate poker player, immediately rushed over to study her face.

“Wha...wha...what makes you...uh...think...it’s b...bikes?” she stammered.

“We are getting bikes!” Jay exclaimed.

Then Jay and I began dancing around the living room. “We’re getting bikes! We’re getting bikes!”

When dad heard all the com-

motion he came running upstairs.

He didn’t say a word. He just looked at mom and then at us.

I’ll always remember that look.

Suddenly we didn’t feel like celebrating anymore.

On Christmas morning standing under the Christmas tree there were two brand new green and silver bicycles: which was quite an extravagance for a family of relatively modest means.

How mom and dad must have looked forward to giving us those bicycles for Christmas!

Yet somehow, unintentionally, we managed to steal away much of their joy that Christmas morning.

Still, neither one of them mentioned it. They simply forgave us.

“The quality of mercy is not strained…It is twice blessed. It blesses him who gives and him who receives.”

Although dad is gone now, Jay and I still share mom’s birthday every year.

But we never inquire about our Christmas presents. It’s a question neither of us has asked since the Christmas of our green and silver bicycles.

Ray Smit is a regular columnist with the Parksville Qualicum Beach News. He lives in Parksville.

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Lane to be closed for toboggans Highway 19A made to protect children from cars AUREN RUVINSKY

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The toboggan hill along Hwy. 19A into Parksville’s Community Park is popular enough that the city will close a traffic lane to accommodate the winter fun.

“It’s a rare event, but whenever we have a sizable snow fall, right across from the Dairy Queen . . . there can be quite a crowd of individuals because we have this tremendous tobogganing hill,” said mayor Chris Burger at Monday’s council meeting.

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incided with the first major snowfall of the year.

“It’s something I like to see quite frankly,” he continued but said he shares the concerns of people who have questioned the safety of the children on the sidewalk beside a busy road.

Burger asked for a council motion to allow city crews to temporarily close a lane between Corefield and McCarter streets during “significant snow fall events that result in large numbers of youths tobogganing.”

“They’ve been going down that hill on toboggans for hundreds of years and to my knowledge we we haven’t had a problem,” said Councillor Al

Greir.

Grier supported the motion but questioned its effectiveness.

“My concern is we have a snowfall which is always complicated for drivers and now they’re going to close a lane. I agree with you it makes it safer but if we’ve never had an accident I question the need for it now.

“To close it might cause more of a disturbance than having it open,” Greir said.

Burger replied that he had the same concerns but conversations with staff convinced him they could make it work safely.

Council unanimously passed the motion.

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While many people need help from time to time, the people who help other people may be overlooked.

The partners of Forward House Community Society invite “carers” — people who care for people with mental health and addictions recovery issues — to join their ongoing Families Forward group.

“We recognize that the responsibili-

ty for caring for loved ones with ongoing health concerns can be emotionally charged and isolating, therefore, our intention is to create a community of mutual respect and support in which carers will learn information relevant to their responsibilities, practical skills and self care,” said Forward House executive director Carol Richardson.

The semi-monthly group started last year with a two-year funding commitment from the Coastal Community

Credit Union’s Coastal Spirit Fund.

Richardson said the group, led by Pat Trozzo, is free and very informal, but they ask people to register so they can get a sense of what issues they are dealing with and how they might fit with the existing group.

“People can join any time,” Richardson said, “but we are putting the call out now because this is a stressful time of year.”

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The students in Ballenas’ Music Department asked music director Rick Robson at the beginning of the year to line up some challenging music — and he listened.

The large crowd that attended BSS’ Winter Concert got to hear it first hand on Wednesday evening when the school’s choir, Based Five Jazz Combo, Stage and Concert bands performed.

To kick off the evening vocal students performed six solos.

In addition to the very rhythmic BayouBreakdown, which saw many different themes going on at one time, the Concert Band suddenly switched to orchestral mode and played beautifully on Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.

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Local theatre company Bard to Broadway (B2B) has announced their 2013 summer season, bumping it up from two shows to three at the Village Theatre this year.

Kicking off the season at the beginning of July The Drowsy Chaperone, a Canadian musical comedy, will be directed by founding B2B member Gary Brown.

“It absolutely took Broadway by storm, it was nominated for a whole whack of Tony (awards) and it won a whole whack of Tony’s, so its kind of the little Canadian musical that done good kind of idea,” said co-artistic director of B2B Eileen Butts.

Vocal director with B2B Hilary Whelton saw the show on Broadway in

2006, Butts explained, “and she hasn’t stopped talking about it since.”

Recently the rights became available to perform the show and B2B jumped at the chance. The Drowsy Chaperone is a tale of a Broadway starlet trying to find and keep her true love complete with gangsters, mistaken identities and multiple, spontaneous weddings.

Sexy Laundry is another show by a Canadian playwright, about a middle-aged couple intent on rekindling some passion in their 25-year-old relationship. They take to a swanky hotel room and bring along some clothing and accessories, along with a copy of Sex for Dummies.

The show will have a guest director from Vancouver, a celebrated veteran Canadian actor by the name of Norman Browning. He will also be host-

Thank you to everyone who helped raise $600 for the local food bank.

ing workshops for B2B actors and directors this season. Butts warned that this show has some course language so may be offensive to some theatre-goers.

Finally, Little Women will be presented, directed by Butts. This classic family tale takes place during the American Civil War and focuses on the lives and relationships of four sisters in Concord, Massachusetts.

Butts said B2B had such a great response following their production of Anne of Green Gables, they thought another family-centered show would go off well.

Auditions for this season begin at the end of January in Parksville and Nanaimo for new and experienced actors aged 13 to 70. For more information visit www.b2btheatre.com.

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Local Rotary clubs are big supporters of the Salvation Army food bank and other services, but when they heard about additional pressures this year, they started talking about what they could do, explained Rotary Club of Parksville AM’s Jo Dunn. “These services are like the fire department, when you don't need it it seems expensive, but

when you do, it’s very worthwhile,� Dunn said.

The Parksville-Qualicum Beach area's four clubs combined efforts and donated $4,300 cash toward the Salvation Army’s programs.

The money will be used for things like buying turkeys and filling other gaps in the food that gets donated. “We have food right now, but it usually runs out in March or April,� said Major Martin Ketteringham.

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HAMPER RAISES MONEY FOR HUNGRY: The NEWS’ Pauline Stead and her husband Brian raised $218 for the Salvation Army by selling tickets for a hamper they filled with goods. Here she hands the money over to Major Martin Ketteringham of the Salvation Army on Friday.

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Big Boys Toys delivers for the needy More than 15,000 pounds of food collected for food banks This year for the first time they dropped 2,200 kg off directly at the French Creek Salvation Army food bank, with the rest going to Nanaimo.

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Owlers lead charge to count feathered friends Annual event helps tally a census of bird populations in North America NEIL HORNER

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Who? That was a question that kicked off this year’s annual Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 16. “Early on it was starry skies with a bit of cloud, which is good owling weather,� said count organizer Sandra Gray. “Five teams went out to do some owling and they recorded a total of eight great horned owls, three barred and one northern SawWhet owl, which is fantastic.

Any owls we can pull out of the darkness is fantastic.�

In all, she said, 47 birders were divided into nine teams to fan out across the area to record as many types of birds and num-

bers of birds as they could in a 24-hour period. In all, Gray said just under 31,000 birds were recorded, with 112 species. “That’s on the high side,� Gray said. “Last year’s totals were an alltime high, with just under 35,000.

We’ve had considerably less than that. The first year we had between 9,000 and 10,000, but of course we have more eyes and ears now.�

NEWS FILE PHOTO While there was no spectac- Trumpeter swans were one of the highlights of this year’s Christmas Bird Count. ularly unusual sighting, such The information recorded by and 156 ring-necked ducks. as the Citrine wagtail that had Trumpter swans in the area.

Courtenay birders all a-twitThe number of Canada geese the count is forwarded to the “We had quite a few people ter, but there was wood duck, really enthusiastic about these gi- recorded — 1,200 of them — Audubon Society, which uses a northern shoveler and eight ant, white birds,� Gray said. “There was about the same number as the numbers garnered from ring-necked pheasants, which were quite a number at the mouth last year and the year before. counts all across North Amerof the Little Qualicum River.� was up from zero last year. “The number has gone up a lit- ica, to determine how various Also of note, she said were tle and down a little but they are populations of birds are rising Of particular interest to the or falling. birders, she said, were the 860 71 Brant geese, a turkey vulture staying about steady,� Gray said.

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We deliver The NEWS! Spencer Bradbury, Carrier

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Videos holding out against Internet Parksville store hopes a desire for community interaction keeps them alive at least a few more years AUREN RUVINSKY writer@pqbnews.com

The video rental business is suffering in the face of online competition, but Flix nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pix is still inviting people in to browse after nearly 20 years. i1FPQMF GPSHFU PS EPO U SFBMJ[F weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still here,â&#x20AC;? said Jaquie Fantinato, who owns the store with her husband Claudio.

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We welcome the best of all aspects of life in Qualicum

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INVASIVE SPECIES IN BC WATERS

New fish fines will bite your wallet The impact of the snakehead has been devastating TOM FLETCHER

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Releasing a snakehead fish into B.C. waters could cost you up to $250,000.

The B.C. government has amended its controlled alien species regulation to impose steep fines for releasing invasive fish such as the snakehead, a Chinese import with a voracious appetite and the ability to wiggle across land to get to new waterways.

A snakehead fish discovered in a pond in Burnaby Central Park in June forced environment ministry biologists to pump the lake level down so it could be captured. The toothy beasts were being imported and sold alive in Asian specialty food stores.

The new regulations also aim to stop the spread of zebra or quagga mussels that can attach themselves to boats and equipment and infest lakes. Failure to remove those mussels, alive or

dead, can trigger a fine of up to $100,000.

“The impact of the snakehead and zebra mussel in other jurisdictions has been devastating to those local ecosystems,” Environment Minister Terry Lake said Thursday, announcing the latest changes.

The regulations also prohibit possession and breeding of identified high-risk aquatic species.

They expand the reach of legislation passed in 2009 that restricted ownership and breeding of tigers, snakes, crocodiles and a long list of other exotic animals. Added to the list are species of monitor lizard that grow to more than two metres long or otherwise represent a threat to public safety.

B.C.’s restrictions for private zoos were passed after a woman was killed by a Bengal tiger kept in a cage at an exotic animal attraction on a farm near 100 Mile House in 2007.

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When retired diving instructor J Holbrook takes his semi-weekly plunge into local waters, he documents everything he sees very carefully.

“I take stills and video when I dive and a lot of the creatures I see, the colours and textures, I try and mimic,” said the Nanoose Bay artist.

Holbrook grew up in Salmon Arm and after working as a dive instructor in warm places like the Caribbean, he moved to the Island in 1987 to take a job in Campbell River.

He became involved in the forestry sector on the Island, but after 15 years of working in sawmills he had a serious work related injury in his neck and had to reassess his life.

“I needed a different way to be,” he said. “So I started looking into things that interested me.”

Holbrook took a course from a master woodworker in Errington named Peter Bailey about eight years ago, and then on to the North Island

College in Port Alberni for their cabinet maker program. There he received the Top Student award.

Since then Holbrook has made and sold high end custom furniture, and a couple of years ago he began incorporating metals and pebbles into to his work.

Holbrook said he likes to combine wood and metal because of their perfectly opposite characteristics. Metal is a homogenous material that is consistent and flawless, he said, unlike wood.

“Wood I like because it comes with defects in it and you try to highlight what people might consider to be a defect, but it might be something really beautiful,” he said.

Today Holbrook’s house is filled with stunning home decor items like

shelves and boxes, highlighted with copper that has been hand-cut, hammered and soldered and then finished with flame to bring out the brilliant blue and green hues of the sea.

He also makes striking jewelry and his newest creation, copper rock cod, are creating quite the buzz.

These one-of-a-kind fish are hand-crafted out of heavy gauge copper and treated with flame to create some colourful, wonderfully west coast characters.

Holbrook is a member of about 15 artists called the Nanoose Studio Tour group, who host studio tours twice a year to showcase their work. His work can be found and purchased at Bowser’s Salish Sea Market, Nanaimo’s Art Gallery gift shop and on his website, www.jpholbrook.com.

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PETS PET CARE SERVICES CAT SITTING in my home. No cages. 7day to long term stay.

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE APPLIANCES FRIDGIDARE DOUBLE Wall Oven.

Convection/Microwave & Standard oven. ($4000.00 new) $1500.00 Please Call 250-594-6332 GAS STOVE Top with 6 burners, center grill with stainless steel front, 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122; long with 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stainless steel hood fan. ($5000.00 new) $1500.00 for both. Call 250-594-6332.

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UNDER $100 FLUORESCENT LIGHT Bars, 4 feet long, double tube. $20 ea. Also, 2 round frosted hallway lights, $10 ea. Great for garage or shop. Call 250-5946332.

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GREENHOUSE FOR XMAS Also garden sheds, gazebos, pergolas, studios & storage solutions. Call 250-951-0855 MINTON CHINA- set of 8 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Laurentian pinkâ&#x20AC;?, mint condition. $995 obo. Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plate silverware â&#x20AC;&#x153;MayďŹ&#x201A;owerâ&#x20AC;?, set of 12. (250)723-8215 leave msg.

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FURNITURE 3 SEATER hide-a-bed, $175, 3 seat sofa, $99, 2 rocking chairs and 1 Tub chair (offers), dresser w/ 2 large mirrors, $25, kitchen table (2 chairs $25). By appt only. (250)7402783 (250)755-2026 (Fri, Sat & Sun) 10am-2pm.

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SHOPRIDER MEDICAL Scooter, only 7 hours use, like new, $3700 obo. 3 piece recliner sofa set, high quality, $500 obo. Very large sofa, reclines, good condition, $125.

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BRAND NEW Kitchenaide stainless steel 8 piece cookware pots. $180 (ďŹ rm). New cost was $399. (250)729-9978 COOKING WOODSTOVE, Good for Cabin or home antique. Must see, SacriďŹ ce $500. Also Regular wood stove, glass door, $250.00.

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The Ravensong Breakers were in great spirits at the annual Christmas Cracker swim meet in Saanich.

Fly, to go along with a second in the 200 IM. All of them personal best times.

“She’s really matured from where she was as a 10-and-under swimmer,” said Campbell, “and with her maturity were able to talk about race strategy and basically get the most out of her. A lot of her top competition was there,” he pointed out. “She swam great.”

Also earning extra props were Simon Gilmour, 12, who won three events (50 Fly, 100 Fly and 800 Free) and placed second in the 200 and 400 Free, along with Angus McGibbon, 17, who came through making four finals with four

personal best times (50 Fly, 50 Breast, 400 IM and 200 Breast) in the senior division.

McGibbon’s time of 4:56.97 in the 400 IM “puts him in striking range of making the Western Canadians qualifying standard for the first time, he’s made some huge gains.”

“Our club records keep falling, and that’s my best indication that we’re getting better,” Campbell said proudly, pointing out there were a number of new club records set at the Cracker, none bigger than in the 10&U 200 Fly in which Sophie Lorette “absolutely shat-

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In keeping with tradition, ‘tis the season to be speedy for Oceanside’s RAC Breakers, who lit it up again this year at the Christmas Cracker.

In the mix down Island at Commonwealth Pool Dec. 7-9 for the 11th annual festive swim meet — one of Canada’s largest invitationals numbering 650 swimmers from all over B.C. as well as Oregon and Washington — Breakers’ head coach John Campbell took 27 swimmers ranging in age from 8-17, “and we did extremely well,” he said, pointing out the Ravensong Aquatic Centre-based crew, aka ‘The Little Club that Could’ finished sixth out of 25 teams — bettered only by clubs a lot bigger than them.

Swimmers are allowed a maximum of nine events each, and in a heats and finals format that means the top competitors are turning in as many as 18 swims over the two days.

The swimmers were at the pool and on deck by 7:30 a.m. each morning and swam preliminary heats until 1:30 p.m., then a three hour break before returning for the finals which went from 4:30 - 8 p.m.

“It’s the biggest meet before our championship season,” said the Breakers’ longtime skipper, pointing to the busy home stretch coming up for the short course campaign that starts with the Regional Championships (VIR’s) in Comox mid-January; followed by the Western Canadian’s in Saskatoon in mid-February, and finally the AAA Championships in Surrey the beginning of March.

Leading the charge for Ravensong at the Christmas Cracker was 12-yearold Joanna (Jojo) Redenbach.

The spark-plug from Parksville won seven, count’em seven, events, touching the wall for first in the 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 50 Fly and 100

tered,” Linsey Epp’s 11-year-old record of 3:16 when she went 2:58.

“They had a blast. This meet is a real favourite with the kids,” Campbell said, explaining there are no medals up for grabs, instead, swimmers vie for prizes.

Finish top three and they get their names entered in a draw for iPods, iPod speakers, digital underwater cameras, ear buds, “all sorts of great stuff. The kids love it.”

“Oh yeah, you bet,” Campbell chuckled when asked if the Breakers might have had some extra pop off the blocks, spurred on by longtime Breaker and UBC standout Kelly Aspinall, 22, who just over three weeks ago powered his way to five gold medals at the Canada Cup in Toronto, set two new UBC records, and took a big step, make that big stroke, towards that spot on the national team and the right to represent his country at the Olympics.

“That’s basically our role as an age group club,” said Campbell, “is to put these kids in a position where they continue swimming successfully once they become a senior swimmer.”

IN OTHER NEWS, on that same weekend, the Breakers’ Maran Kokoszka, 15, was selected to compete for Team B.C. at the big annual Paul Bergen International Swim Meet in Portland, Oregon, which also featured teams from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, France and Germany.

Kokoszka made B Finals in her 100 and 200 Back “and they were very, very strong mid-season times.”

Also making the trip and competing as a Breaker was Laura Romkes, 17, who won the B Final in the 200 Fly. LOOKING AHEAD, the Breakers are in the process of preparing for their bi-annual road trip — this is the fifth year — down south to Palm Desert (near Palm Springs) “for 10 days of intense outdoor long course training.”

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“They’re certainly coming together with the team concept, and I think they’re having a lot of fun right now — it’s high-level up-tempo hockey that’s for sure,” said head coach Darren Freeman.

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The Midget Rep Gens head into the break sitting third out of five teams in their Tier 2 league at 5-51. The squad of 15-17 year olds takes its game down Island to the Victoria Ice Hawks Tournament Dec. 28-30.

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Pass the gravy, actually make that the gridiron please — seems a couple of Whalers will be spending part of their Christmas break down in Texas where they’ve been selected to play for Team B.C. Football B.C. recently announced its 36-player roster for the provincial U18 tackle football team that will represent British Columbia at the FBU International Games as part of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Week to be held in San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 30 - Jan. 6, and two Parksville players will be making the trip.

Selected to the high performance team are the Whalers’ AA MVP quarterback Liam O’Brien, 17, and Gr. 11 standout Brock Mould, 16, who is being platooned primarily at O-line but will also see duty on defence.

“There are only 36 kids on the team, so to have two from Ballenas is awesome,” Whalers’ skipper Jeremy Conn said of the news. “To have a quarterback on that team and a Grade 11 on the team, that’s a pretty big accomplishment for our school.”

Team B.C. is led by head coach and offensive line coach Tom Kudaba, former CFLer now a teacher and head coach of Coquitlam’s Terry Fox Ravens.

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ciled in as the number two QB, “but that could change once we get down there.

We’ve got three days of practice before our first game, so it will really come down to who’s picking up the system quicker. It’s a real challenge for these kids to pick up what we’re doing in such a short amount of time. We’ll keep it simple for them as much as we can, but you can’t put them in a offence and expect them to master it in three days that’s for sure.”

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Contacted last week, Kudaba said he was looking forward to his first time taking a team to this tournament, a team he says is stacked with talent but faces the challenge of gelling as a unit in a very short amount of time.

“We’re only playing two games down there with possibly a scrimmage against a Mexican group. I would assume all kids on this 36 man roster are going to see playing time.”

At this point he says O’Brien is pen-

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Team B.C. leaves for the Longhorn State Dec. 29 and opens their FBU International Games schedule Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 against Team Europe at Heroe’s Stadium. Their second and final game will be against Team USA two days later (Saturday) at the Alamodome.

As fired up as they are to be suiting up south of the border, the Texas tourney was their second choice.

For those following along at home Team BC has placed 3rd the last two years at the Canada Cup, but due to some red tape somehow found themselves on the outside looking in when they were not allowed to enter this year, and as such the coaching staff needed to find something to replace it.

For the players (Gr. 11s and 12s), the process started in the spring of last year with an identification camp at SFU, “but prior to that me and (offensive coordinator) Jay Prepchuk went around the province to formulate an invite list,” said Kudaba.

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“We’re part of a tournament that is part of that week showcase for different ages — it’s big down there,” he said, and answered with a quick “for sure,” when asked if his team is looking forward to the challenge.

“We think we have the majority of the best players in the province for this age level — and we’re dealing with both AA and AAA here and community football as well all represented. It’s a good group, and they’ve got their work cut out for them.”

They leave Dec. 30 and return home Jan. 5 and will bring in the New Year there.

“We had our last selection tryout last week at the BC Lions

facility in Surrey and that day we had invited about 50 kids,” Kudaba explained, adding “We can only keep 36, so it was a tough call to make for almost 16 kids.

“It’s part of the job, and for the players it’s part of the growing up experience, but it doesn’t make it easier,” he said.

As for the two Whalers, “they’ve definitely earned their spots on the roster.

“I have an affinity for Brock,” Kudaba said, explaining how he was never the biggest guy on the line back in his playing days either, “but he’s very strong for his age group and size, and he has a good understanding of the game.”

O’Brien he said, “is a big

strong quarterback athlete who’s got a strong arm, shows a lot of poise, and runs well as well. I’m not going to call him the next RG3 (as in Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins QB), but certainly for the high school level he’s a guy who’s got some great athletic skill and he’s able to throw the ball quite well with accuracy.”

O’Brien has been attending Prepchuk’s quarterback camps for a number of years.

At the end of the day the road to the Texas roster both local players agreed “was intense,” and both make no bones they’re looking forward to lining up against the Americans in their final game.

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“It was a couple of weeks ago on the Monday — Me and Liam were waiting in the library, we knew they were going to announce it on the web at 11 o’clock and right at 11 we went to the site and we were looking for our names, just praying they’d be there,” Brock said with a big smile when asked how they got word they’d made the team Texas bound.

“It’s going to be a great experience,” said the lineman. “Only 36 players in all of BC are going down there, and I’m one of them, and especially to be picked with my quarterback ...”

“I’m pretty excited,” Liam countered, nodding his head in confirmation and smiling from ear to ear “probably more excited then I’ve ever been about anything in my entire life; I’m really looking forward to it.”

The scheduling works in the Canadian’s favour as Team BC will have an expected pre-tourney exhibition game against Mexico and their opener against Team Europe to get their feet under them before taking on the Americans in their final game at the storied old Alamo Dome in front of what will no doubt be large loud crowd of high school football fans.

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