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Audience members say they will stop supporting the Cancer Society Nick Bekolay THE CHRONICLE

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Representatives of the Canadian Cancer Society, BC and Yukon Division (CCS) responded to the criticisms and pleas of veteran volunteers at Eagles Hall Wednesday, March 27 with expressions of sympathy, but remained unyielding in their decision to close the Ladysmith CCS office.

Much to the chagrin of local members, Ladysmith’s CCS office marked the 75th anniversary of the society last Friday by opening its doors to the public for the last time.

The office is now closed.

Senior staffers Peter Kingston, CCS’s divisional-vice president of operations, and Kathy Ilott, the society’s regional director for Vancouver Island, met with Ladysmith residents at Eagles Hall to discuss the impending closure.

Following a presentation on CCS funding initiatives and programs, volunteers and donors disenchanted with the planned closure aired their grievances to Kingston and Ilott and suggested means of keeping the office open.

When asked to reiterate the society’s motives for closing the local unit office, Kingston said the decision stemmed from “a number of cost-cutting steps that we were faced with taking this year.”

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“We believe that when we were looking at the budget for the next fiscal year, which we have now started, we needed to trim some costs in order to continue to deliver services,” he said. “The economic environment and the revenue projections showed us that if we didn’t reduce some costs, we wouldn’t be able to deliver service. So we had to take some very tough choices.”

CCS administrators looked at cutting “optional costs” like marketing, communications, travel and training, Kingston added — a process which led to the closure of both the regional office in Whitehorse, Yukon and unit offices in Ladysmith and Parksville-Qualicum.

“In addition, because we’re trying to make sure we go into the fiscal year with a balanced budget, we did have to reduce our total payroll cost,” Kingston said, “and we have reduced the equivalent of 12 full-time positions. I know you’re looking at [the cost of operating the Ladysmith office] in isolation.

This is, in your minds, a small cost — the $5,000 rent cost plus the cost of us administering the unit — but for us, it’s a whole package of cost-cutting of which this is one element.

“We know that the community is going to be disappointed. We understand that.”

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Unit closure described as Conservative leader part of ‘future looking’ cuts floats ferry tax credit From Page 1 The crowd drew very little comfort from Kingston’s explanation, and some questioned why salaries for CCS senior staffers hadn’t been reduced.

“That wasn’t a strategy,” Kingston said. “Our belief is that with fewer people being asked to do the same amount of work, that would not be the optimum choice. But that was a choice that was debated and discussed.”

Kingston expressed hope that the community would continue to support the Canadian Cancer Society following the closure of the unit office. In response, members of the audience informed Kingston and Ilott that the closure, combined with a lack of discussion between administrators and unit volunteers in the months prior to its announcement, had left donors and volunteers feeling snubbed, with one audience member condemning them for having “kicked the paper boy.”

Audience members subsequently pledged to discontinue their volunteer and financial support for the CCS. In closing, Kingston committed to reporting the “depth and the extent of the feelings” expressed by those in attendance to the senior management team at CCS, but he confirmed that the office would be closing and that no extension would be granted.

Comparing CCS T3010 filings for 2011 and 2012 — representing fiscal years 2010 and 2011 — reveals increases in revenue, management and administration costs, and compensation for employees, but a substantial portion of the 2011 budget — $6.9 million — reflects funding for one specific project, Kingston said.

“This is money given for a specific campaign to be used

CCS British Columbia and Yukon Division finances* % 2011 2012 change Revenue $34,372,825 $39,041,022 +13.6 Government funding

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to construct a new lodge in Prince George,” Kingston commented by phone on March 21.

“It’s really not part of the equation when we start to look at what’s available to cover our normal operations in unit offices. That campaign is really, totally separate from what we’re looking at on Vancouver Island.”

A standard, external audit of CCS finances for 2012 is currently underway, Kingston added, and a T3010 won’t be filed with the Canada Revenue Agency for 2012 until late April at the earliest.

Until that time, Kingston said he “wouldn’t want to speculate, in advance of completing that external audit procedure, as to what the end results are going to be.”

The closure of the Ladysmith office was part of a series of cuts that are “future looking,” Kingston said, and “part of a much bigger equation. We’re trying to make sure that we

first of all cut any administration or overhead costs to do with bricks and mortar rather than cutting the delivery of our actual mission service to the communities. That’s why you see these cuts in unit offices on Vancouver Island and in the Yukon.”

CCS programming is made possible through the assistance of some 17,000 volunteers division-wide, Kingston said.

“We are concerned and saddened that some of the volunteers in Ladysmith appear to choose not to continue to work with us,” Kingston added.

“We’d like their involvement.”

Sue Carlson, a CCS “volunteer and paid contractor for many years,” is stepping in to co-ordinate the door-to-door campaign in Ladysmith, Ilott said. Carlson can be reached by e-mail at midislandd2d@ bc.cancer.ca, or by phone at the CCS Nanaimo unit office (250-741-8180).

Foster reading at library Staff Writer THE CHRONICLE

Local author Eric Foster of Saltair will be sharing stories from the north during a free author reading at the Ladysmith Library.

The reading will take place Tuesday, April 9 from 6:30-8 p.m. at the library 740 First Ave., and Foster will discuss his two recently published books: BC-Yukon Sketches, and Mile 1202: Life along the Alaska Highway. Foster will recount his intriguing experiences living and working in the Yukon and northern British Columbia.

Learn all about life in remote northern locations like Beaver Creek during the 1970s, where the community held curling bonspiels, holiday dances, hunted moose and mountain sheep, and cavorted on snowmobiles as they enjoyed the cold for eight

months each year.

“These are the stories of strong, enterprising and committed people who have chosen to make a life for themselves and their families in a harsh, unforgiving land that at times was bitterly cruel but at other times pleasantly nurturing to the original native inhabitants of this region,” states a press release for the event.

Foster was born in England but raised on Vancouver Island. As a boy, he read many stories about Canada’s north and hoped to live there one day. He received his chance when he first worked in the Yukon as part of a geological survey in 1957.

In 1969, he returned to the Yukon as a teacher, first in Whitehorse and then at Beaver Creek, Mile 1202.

Foster is now retired and living in Saltair.

For more information about the reading, contact the library at 250-245-2322.

Lindsay Chung THE CHRONICLE

Tax credits for ferry and toll bridge users and a repeal of the Carbon Tax are two ideas the BC Conservatives are announcing in the runup to the May provincial election.

BC Conservatives leader John Cummins was in Ladysmith March 26 for a Meet and Greet the day after the party announced its new Bridge Tolls and Ferry Fares Tax Credit, and Cummins said the ferries are a big issue whenever he is in this part of the province.

“Every time I come to the Island, the high rates are a topic of conversation,” he said. “If you look at the ferry fares since the Liberals formed this separate corporation back in 2003, ferry rates have gone up by 48 per cent — that’s significant. As well, this past year, the ridership was the lowest it’s been in 21 years, so that’s pretty much a stunning statement about the impact I think the high fares have had on the ridership. As you lose that ridership, of course you’re losing revenue. So we’ve got to do something to build the ridership up, and in part, that’s what the announcement is about.”

Cummins announced March 25 that Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island motorists will enjoy significant financial savings through a new Bridge Tolls and Ferry Fares Tax Credit if his party is elected to government on May 14. If a Conservative government is elected, this tax credit would come into effect Jan. 1, 2014.

The Bridge Tolls and Ferry Fares Tax Credit would allow B.C. motorists to calculate annual tax savings by tallying their expenditures on tolls on the Golden Ears and Port Mann bridges, and fares paid to travel on BC Ferries. Those expenditures could be used to reduce the B.C. portion of their personal income taxes, up to a maximum of $408 per year. The tax credit would be applicable only to the ferry fares paid for vehicles — not for passengers.

“What it would do is if you spend over $780 on ferry fares, you would begin to get a tax credit of 40 per cent on every dollar you spend, up to a cap of $1,800,” said Cummins.

“If you spent $1,800 on ferry fares, you would get a tax credit for $408.

You are required to keep your ferry receipts, and when you’re filing your income tax, that tax credit will apply to the provincial portion of your tax.”

The tax credit would not be available in the first year (2014) to commercial trucks, semi-trailers and other large vehicles, but would be extended to such vehicles in 2015.

The estimated total cost of the Bridge Tolls and Ferry Fares Tax Credit in its first year of operation

is $45 million — or slightly less than 10 per cent of the combined revenues for vehicle traffic in a calendar year on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges, and BC Ferries, according to the BC Conservatives.

The total may be expected to increase in the second and subsequent years of operation, as public awareness of the tax credit grows, and as the tax credit is extended to commercial trucks, semi-trailers and other large vehicles.

The BC Conservatives have committed to ending the Carbon Tax, which Cummins says would be another advantage to BC Ferries.

“The Carbon Tax costs BC Ferries about $10 million a year, so that’s significant money, and it would represent a significant savings for BC Ferries that would be helpful to keeping costs under control,” he said. “But when all is said and done, I think we need to take a careful look at the management structure at BC Ferries and determine whether or not this independent company that is now operating with the province as sole shareholder is working, or would it be better to bring it back under the government as a Crown corporation. I think some choices have to be made.”

Cummins said that here on Vancouver Island, the creation of more job opportunities is a main concern.

“Many people are complaining that the young people here can’t find good-paying jobs and they’re having to leave the Island and go elsewhere, and that’s a problem we’re facing across British Columbia,” he said. “In the last six quarters — in other words, the last year and a half — more people have been leaving British Columbia to seek their fortunes elsewhere in Canada than have been coming here from other provinces, so we’ve got a net outflow of people to places like Alberta and Saskatchewan, Ontario and even Quebec, and fewer people are leaving those provinces to come here. One of the reasons of course is that 40 years ago, wage rates in British Columbia were the highest in Canada; now, we’re No. 5. People just don’t see the opportunities here in British Columbia, so they’re going elsewhere to find them.”

One way a Conservative government would do that is a commitment to not raising taxes, explained Cummins.

In the last couple of weeks, the BC Conservatives have issued their Budget and Fiscal Framework, which outlines the financial constraints we see over the next five years, and their Pre-Election Platform, and Cummins says “there will be more to come over the next few weeks.”

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“We’re still looking at whittling it down.”

Erin Anderson, financial services director “Your target of four to five per cent without the RCMP and library increases is achievable, but with these costs, it will be very difficult to do,” said city manager Ruth Malli. “Obviously, any cutback is on the table. It’s a lot more challenging this year than it would be.”

Essentially, the increases in policing and library costs mean a 2.5-per-cent tax increase.

One of the areas for reduction that council looked at was trolley service and transit. The Town of Ladysmith is expected to begin service with BC Transit this September, and staff wondered if council wanted to look at cutting back the trolley service before this transition, such as cancelling the trolley on Saturdays.

Council also floated the option of delaying the start of BC Transit service to Jan. 1 if that would result in significant savings. BC Transit only orders buses twice a year, so Malli explained that council’s options would be to order the buses now and pay just the lease costs from

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During the meeting, council gave first, second and third reading to the Waterworks Regulations Bylaw, which establishes water rates for 2013.

The bylaw sets the base rate for metered service for each individually metered singlefamily dwelling unit at $22.45 per quarter, with charges coming for use over 25 cubic metres.

With this bylaw, the base rate for metered service for all other users would also be $22.45 per quarter, with a charge for any use over 25 cubic metres. For non-metered service, the flat rate per unit is $39.80 per quarter.

Council also gave first, second and third reading to the Sanitary Sewer Rates Bylaw, which establishes sewer rates for 2013.

The bylaw sets the monthly sewer rates for residences or apartments at $14.30 per residence or $14.30 per unit in multifamily buildings.

Both bylaws still need to be adopted by council before coming into effect.

If the bylaws are adopted, water rates will go up 45 cents per quarter, while sewer rates will go up 30 cents per month.

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Ladysmith council held a special meeting Monday, March 25 for more discussion on the Town’s 2013-17 Financial Plan.

The Town is required to have a balanced budget every year, and staff continues to review the budget and make reductions as it attempts to keep the property tax increase between four and five per cent, as requested by council in earlier discussions.

When the 2013 preliminary budget was presented in mid-February, that increase was at 9.22 per cent — including the library and policing taxes.

T h i s y e a r, t h e To w n o f Ladysmith is faced with an increase of $159,415 for RCMP services and an increase of $17,222 for library services, and with those and other service requests, it’s difficult to get to council’s desired four-to-fiveper cent range, explained Erin Anderson, the Town’s director of financial services.

“We’re still looking at whittling it down … we’re still above the desired five-per-cent rate,” she said.

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Airport passenger caught with throwing stars The Ladysmith RCMP responded to 69 calls for service over the past seven days.

Friday, March 22 • The Ladysmith RCMP received a complaint of a theft that occurred within the past week on Frost Road. Stolen were four plastic rain barrels and a cord of firewood. Damage was also caused to the gate.

• Ladysmith RCMP responded to a report of a break and enter to the A&W Restaurant and Husky Gas Station on the Trans-Canada Highway that occurred overnight. Police continue to investigate and ask anyone with information on this crime to contact the RCMP at 250-245-2215 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.

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• Ladysmith RCMP attended to the Nanaimo Airport after receiving a report of security personnel locating prohibited weapons in a passenger’s luggage. The passenger stated that they were travelling from Thailand, and they had purchased two throwing stars while there.

The throwing stars were seized, and no charges are being considered. The passenger subsequently missed the connecting flight as a result.

Sunday, March 24 • The Ladysmith RCMP received a report of Take Auto Without Consent in which a male borrowed a friend’s vehicle to move his household effects and failed to return it. The vehicle was entered on police databases as stolen and was eventually returned on March 26.

No charges are being considered.

• Ladysmith RCMP stopped to deal with a male and female hitchhiking on the TransCanada Highway northbound toward Nanaimo in the early morning hours. The male subsequently provided police with a false name and was found to be on probation at the time and subject to a curfew, which he was breach-

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• Police responded to a domestic in progress after receiving a call from one of the parties involved. Investigation revealed that a 34-yearold male was assaulted by a 33-year-old female.

The investigation continues, and a charge of assault is being recommended.

• Ladysmith RCMP received a report of an assault that occurred on Grandview Road in Saltair. The investigation revealed that a dispute while attempting to retrieve items left behind after the sale of a home resulted in an altercation. During the altercation, a 63-yearold male was allegedly assaulted by a 45-yearold male. The matter is still under investigation.

• Ladysmith RCMP responded to an arson complaint on Hallberg Road in the early morning hours. Upon attendance, it was discovered that the water shed to the Seabird Trailer Park was burnt on the corner of the structure.

Members of the North Oyster Volunteer Fire Wednesday, March 27 • Police received a Department were on scene and were able report of a break and to extinguish the small enter to a residence fire. The damage is located in the 1100 estimated at approxi- b l o c k o f S p r u s t o n mately $3,000. Police Road. Stolen during the continue to investigate. break in were several • Ladysmith RCMP car parts and a laptop received a report of computer. The matter is a burnt motorcycle still under investigation. on Edgelow Road N. • Ladysmith RCMP Police attended to find responded to report a small unregistered of uttering threats motorcycle lying in the over a rental residence ditch, destroyed by fire. on Louise Road. The Police are attempting investigation revealed to locate the registered that the previous tenowner and ask anyone ant made threats of with any information to harm to the female owner, as well as made contact police.

• Police responded to threats to damage the a report of an intoxi- residence. Also durcated male at the Tim ing the altercation, an Hortons restaurant on associate of the owner First Avenue. A 56-year- was assaulted by the old male was located tenant. The investigaand arrested for being tion is continuing, with Drunk in Public and charges likely.

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• Ladysmith RCMP to a report of a posreceived a complaint sible impaired driver of a vehicle that was on Christie Road in tailgating an ambu- Ladysmith. The vehilance that was south- cle was located, and bound on the Trans- the driver provided a Canada Highway from sample of his breath, Nanaimo with emer- resulting in a three-day gency equipment acti- Immediate Roadside vated. Police located P r o h i b i t i o n . T h e and stopped the vehi- 23-year-old driver of the cle, and the female vehicle was also found driver from Victoria to be in possession of a was issued a Violation motorcycle in the box Ticket. Police remind of his pickup that had motorists to yield the been reported stolen in right of way to and August 2012 in Duncan. give sufficient room Charges of Possession to emergency vehicles of Property Obtained when emergency equip- by Crime are also being recommended. ment is activated.

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Members from Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue, Station 29 (RCM-SAR29), took a $1,812.45 bite out of their $35,000 fundraising goal March 24 through a garage sale hosted by Art of Brewing and Winemaking owner Art Lindala (at right, sporting a tie-dyed “Beeriodic Table of Elements” T-shirt). Lindala sold carboys, corking presses, wine racks and more — much of it donated by customers — and forwarded 100 per cent of the proceeds to RCM-SAR29’s boat fund. Nick Epp-Evans, station leader with RCM-SAR29, said $35,000 would provide Station 29 with a pair of “nice engines” for the new rescue boat it plans to purchase. The Unit wishes to offer its sincere gratitude to Lindala and to those others that donated. Although the hull of the new rescue vessel will be manufactured soon, Unit 29 is frantically fundraising to achieve the final cost. Donations can be made by calling Nick Epp-Evans at 250-668-2993 or visiting http:// rcmsar29.com.

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YOUR WORDS “We had to take some very tough choices.”

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here’s an old belief that goes along the lines of “not bad, but it could be better.”

That sums up the B.C. Conservatives’ proposed tax credit for bridge tolls and ferry costs.

If the Conservatives form the government following the May election, they propose a 40-per-cent tax credit to frequent travellers who spend more than $780 and less than $1,800 a year on B.C. Ferries’ fares.

It applies strictly to a driver and vehicle — excluding vehicle passengers — and could amount to a credit of $408 a year.

While the tax credit hinges on the Conservatives getting elected to power May 14, it’s at the very least a bone the increasingly frustrated travelling public can latch onto.

It’s more than any other political party in B.C. has come up with. And it’s better than cutting sailings with one hand while increasing fares with the other. It’s painfully clear no one has any idea how to fix the money-sucking hole in the water that is B.C Ferries.

So, the tax credit is a start, but it doesn’t go far enough.

The credit floor of $780 should be the first thing to go.

All ferry users should have a shot at getting some of their money back. At $120 per driver and vehicle return from Vancouver Island to the Lower Mainland — more come the fare increase April 1 — travellers need to complete seven trips a year to collect a rebate.

That’s tough considering many passengers walk on and catch transit on the other side to avoid the high vehicle costs. Are those efforts worth any less than taking a vehicle onboard?

After all, all taxpayers cover the more than $150-million subsidy the government provides B.C. Ferries, and this tax credit, however positive, would be more of the same.

We all deserve a break.

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he Pacific Carbon Trust orchestrated a months-long campaign of calls and letters to discredit a report from B.C.’s Auditor General on its first two big carbon offset projects, before it could be released.

Just as the audit report was about to be made public, the trust, a Crown corporation created at taxpayer expense, participated in the leaking of selected critical letters to media outlets.

Then the Speaker of the B.C. legislature, Bill Barisoff, made a final, clumsy effort to delay the release of the report.

As soon as it was out, Environment Minister Terry Lake tried to discredit it, by blustering about all the highly paid experts who swore up and down that a forest reserve near Kootenay Lake, and a gas flaring reduction project near Fort Nelson, were bona fide carbon offsets worth $6 million

of taxpayers’ money.

The audit states in plain language, with charts and timelines, that the $6 million was basically given away for nothing. I look forward to further audits on this carbon offset scheme, assuming it survives after the May election, because these two projects aren’t the only boondoggles.

The Pacific Carbon Trust was set up in 2008 as part of former premier Gordon Campbell’s climate change program. To make the B.C. government’s operations “carbon neutral,” the government and all of its agencies were required to pay the trust $25 per tonne for their carbon dioxide emissions from fuel use.

In 2011 alone, B.C. universities paid $4.46 million to the trust. B.C.’s 60 school districts paid a total of $5.36 million the same year, and the province’s six health authorities paid $5.79 million. The money is supposed to go to projects that capture carbon, thus “offsetting” the heating of

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The 55,000-hectare forest reserve is known as Darkwoods. The audit shows that the Nature Conservancy of Canada decided in 2006 to buy it, using $25 million of federal taxpayers’ money. The deal closed in 2008, the same year the Pacific Carbon Trust was formed.

From 2008 to 2010, the trust bought 450,000 tonnes of carbon offset, based on independent evaluations that all rested on the assumption that Darkwoods would be clear-cut logged.

Since the forest was already owned by Canada’s leading conservancy, this assumption makes no sense. Was the conservancy going to log it, or flip it to someone who would, after accepting $25 million in tax money to acquire it? Legally, it could not.

The audit found a similar case against EnCana’s flare reduction program, which the company used on many wells before

the trust started offering money. EnCana was saving money as well as reducing emissions without collecting offsets. Therefore, the audit concluded, neither of these projects was a credible offset because the emissions savings would have occurred anyway.

Here’s the next Pacific Carbon Trust project that should be audited. In a complicated transaction, the trust bought offsets from something called the Great Bear Carbon Credit Limited Partnership. Yes, this is the world-famous forest on B.C.’s North Coast that was subject to a preservation deal in 2006. The offset purchases were in 2009 and 2010, years after detailed preservation areas were mapped and codified in law.

Again, the trust paid for forest that was already preserved.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers.

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Government Contacts LOCAL: Rob Hutchins Mayor, Ladysmith 250-245-6403 rhutchins@ladysmith.ca

Editor: The board of directors for Ladysmith and District Credit Union (LDCU) is pleased to announce the purchase of properties adjacent to our current building at the corner of First Avenue and Roberts Street.

Several months ago, the board of LDCU became aware that these properties neighbouring our offices were about to come onto the real estate market. The properties involved were two commercial premises with two residences above, and a house adjacent to Queen’s Park.

Recognizing the opportunity, LDCU negotiated to purchase all three properties for future needs. The Credit Union carefully researched the prospect and determined that the return on investment would defray the cost of purchasing the properties in the short term. Longer term, the Credit Union will be developing a plan for expansion, utilizing the properties in a phased and measured way.

This purchase reinforces our published long-term vision that LDCU remains the cornerstone Credit Union for our community.

Serving a growing membership and community requires everincreasing space.

We understand this change in ownership has caused some concern to existing tenants and would like to take this opportunity to reassure the community that existing businesses have in no way been adversely affected by the Credit Union assuming ownership.

We anticipate development of more concrete plans over the coming months and years and will certainly be a good neighbour and provide all the tenants with plenty of notice of any anticipated change.

Building on our proud history as a community Credit Union, our passion is to have a positive impact on our members, neighbours and community. The board of directors feels very fortunate to have secured these properties

REGIONAL: Rob Hutchins Chair, CVRD 250-245-6403 rhutchins@ladysmith.ca PROVINCIAL: Doug Routley MLA, Nanaimo-North Cowichan Ladysmith Constituency Office: 250-245-9375 (Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

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Brent Browning sent us this great photo of his dog Boscoe at Transfer Beach on a sunny day. If you would like to share any of your photos with us, please send them to editor@ladysmithchronicle.com. for the good of the Credit Union and to continue its leadership role well into the future of our growing community.

Tim Richards Secretary, board of directors Ladysmith and District Credit Union

Please consider your neighbours Editor: Residents from Sutherin Road to lagoon bridge do not enjoy the sound of shotguns blasting away up Peerless Road-Bannon Creek.

The Chemainus Gun Club has a range at four mile for skeet shooting. The Nanaimo Game Club also provides a facility for trap shooting. The shooting seems to be on weekends, and the duration can last for hours.

I ask that the folks responsible would consider their neighbours rights. Our pets (dogs and horses) are scared for hours on end. To sit in our own backyards and listen to your shotguns is very disturbing.

NOTICE OF NEIGHBOURHOOD INFORMATION MEETING The Town of Ladysmith invites members of the public to attend a Neighbourhood Information Meeting about an application by the Town to amend the Official Community Plan and Zoning Bylaw for property at 1201 and 1251 Christie Road (Lot 7 and Lot 8, DL 147, Oyster District, Plan VIP85271) for Light Industrial land use.

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For further information, please contact Felicity Adams, Director of Development Services at 250-245-6405 or fadams@ladysmith.ca.

By the way, I live to hunt and fish.

It could be that those involved do not realize the impact they are having on their neighbours — well, now you do.

David Sandulo Ladysmith

This is what I wish I had said Editor: I attended the meeting held by the Canadian Cancer Society at Eagle’s Hall on Wednesday evening. I wish I had said: Why did you feel it necessary to show us little videos of children and others suffering from cancer? Did you not realize that all the volunteers in that room have been working for up to 30 years for your society because they care so much? How dare you insult us like that.

I understand the terrible disease that cancer is. My mother died of it, my friend died, and both my husband and I have had experience with it.

However, there are other agen-

cies out there, working to help cancer sufferers, who perhaps would not treat their volunteers so badly. My money will go to support them in future and not the Canadian Cancer Society.

Maureen Martin Ladysmith 12-year Canadian Cancer Society volunteer

Last day of Esquires a sad day Editor: Today [March 26] is a very sad day for this resident of Ladysmith.

I’ve enjoyed coming to Esquires since I moved here in 2001. I’ve bought coffee beans from here faithfully since then, and now its come to an end. The lease is up, and its just too expensive for this business to continue.

A very sad loss for all of us who relish a good espresso.

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Ed Nicholson speaks about the expected increase in the number of tourists coming from China during the Chemainus and District Chamber of Commerce LINDSAY CHUNG/CHRONICLE AGM. Chambers have begun a Association and also process of offering dis- w o r k e d w i t h t h e counted memberships Chemainus Advisory to micro-businesses Committee on some (with five employees or issues and co-operless) that are members a t e d w i t h R o t a r y, of one or more of the Neighbourhood House, Cowichan Chambers. the Heritage Society Together with the and the Mural Society, o t h e r V a n c o u v e r as well as working Island and Gulf Island with the other four Chambers, Chemainus C o w i c h a n V a l l e y is now partners in Chambers, she noted. the Vancouver Island Chemainus Visitor Accord, an agreement Centre co-ordinator that will allow these Marlie Kelsey had a Chambers to lobby for positive report for the issues affecting them c o m m u n i t y, w h i c h all, such as ferries and showed an upward natural gas pricing, trend in visitors from explained Matthews.

May to October.

Collaboration was The number of visia l s o a t h e m e i n tors increased 16.9 per Chamber co-ordinator cent from 2011 to 2012, Jeanne Ross’s report. and Kelsey said it was She explained that interesting to compare one of the Chamber the Chemainus Visitor board’s objectives for Centre’s 2012 statistics 2012 was increased with those from the difcollaboration and co- ferent regions on the o p e r a t i o n b e t w e e n Island and the Island as local organizations, and a whole. the Chamber co-host- “ O u r ed a variety of events t o u r i s t with the Chemainus n u m Business Improvement b e r s Association and the Chemainus R e s i d e n t s

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The idea of working together — inside and outside the town’s boundaries — was heard often during the Chamber’s annual general meeting March 19 at the Chemainus Seniors Drop-In Centre.

Throughout 2012, the Chamber of Commerce worked to increase its service to the community, increase membership and work more closely with other organizations both within the community and around Vancouver Island, Chamber president Peter Matthews explained in his report.

Matthews explained that Chemainus has been working with the other four Cowichan Valley Chambers — Ladysmith, DuncanCowichan, South Cowichan and Lake Cowichan — to see how they can work together to benefit their members and to develop a Five Chambers Accord.

As well, they are looking forward to the completion of the new regional Visitor Centre at the Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan.

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showed an increase during the meeting, starting in May, while Chemainus businessother regions did not es can expect to see show any increases more tourists from until July,” she said. China. Nicholson spoke “While our year-end about how the number numbers were up, the of Chinese tourists Vancouver Island and coming to Canada is B . C . y e a r- e n d v i s i - expected to increase tor totals still reflect — and how businesses the downward trend in Chemainus can capithat started in 2010, talize on this expected although not as big a surge. drop as in 2011. The Vancouver Island totals were lower than the B.C. numbers. This may be attributed to the BC Ferries costs, the price of gas, the strength of the Canadian dollar as compared to the U.S. dollar, the U.S. economy, and the loss of Japanese tourists.”

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Candidates took centre stage when the Ladysmith Ambassador Program held its Speech and Talent Night March 27 at Ladysmith Secondary School Above, Cassi Plourde dances during the talent portion of the evening, while below, Kira Mauriks (left) does a performance as Wednesday from The Addams Family musical, and Kristy DeClark sings and dances as Roxie from the musical Chicago. The Ambassador candidates will hold their coronation Saturday, April 20.

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Easter Egg-stravaganza Families celebrate holiday with activities organized in Chemainus and Ladysmith

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The Easter Bunny offered up free hugs, high-fives and friendly waves in the lead-up to the fifth annual Ladysmith Lions Easter egg hunt at Transfer Beach Park Saturday morning. Children of all ages came to hunt for a share of the 105 pounds of chocolate Easter eggs hidden in the playground and scattered across the seaside lawn.

ABOVE: Twenty-monthold Greyson Miller of Chemainus seems to like Easter, as he takes part in the Easter Eggstravaganza March 30 at Fuller Lake Park. The easter egg hunt was sponsored by the Chemainus-Crofton Fraternal Order of Eagles.

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The Parkes family drove up from Victoria Saturday morning to house hunt in Ladysmith and decided to drop by Transfer Beach Park to hunt for their share of the 105 pounds of chocolate Easter eggs stashed around the park by the Ladysmith Lions Club.

RIGHT: Six-year-old Amanda Nagy of Chemainus hunts for Easter eggs Saturday, March 30 at Fuller Lake Park during the Easter Eggstravaganza.

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Luri Hoffman cuddles her cat during a break from work in her studio. Hoffman, an abstract painter, is one of the Ladysmith artists participating in the inaugural artisan studio tour April 26-28.

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Artists making Ladysmith home Painters, potters and more open studios to meet neighbours as part of inaugural tour We’re not sure why there people who appreciate and are so many great artists livsupport what we do.” ing in Ladysmith these days.

Cathy and Garth Gilroy, Do artists tend to relocate of Caldera Glass, do fused there, or is it that the gorglass, including kiln-formed geous seaside setting of this jewelry, art glass, functional tranquil town brings out the ware, and torch-formed glass artist in folks? Let’s hear why beads. they do what they do — and Cathy says the process what inspires them, exactly. “combines artistic vision with Chip Nary, creator of a sort of chemistry.”

Crystalline Vortex Glazed “Nothing can be duplicated, Pottery, Happy Zak’s Lotions and often the results are (the latter is soon to be a unpredictable,” she adds. focus on the Dragons’ Den “It’s really, really fun.”

TV show) says it is the proShe also talks about how it cess of transformation. feels for her looking at her “The whole process from completed work, saying she forming the magic clay, to feels “occasionally appalled, the pyromaniac in me that sometimes perplexed, but enjoys transforming raw clay most often excited.” into a beautiful piece,” Nary Cathy is inspired by “my says. family and friends, and “It is still a bit of an enigma those lovely folks who stop to me why I have this by every year at my regular unquenchable desire to get fair tables just to say hello my hands in the clay,” he — and oooh and ahhh, of says. “I believe we all have course. I love to see what a creative spirit within us others do — we are all truly trying to get out. It is my unique. True inspiration release and my passion all comes to me on a daily basis, rolled into one.” a colour, a flower, a shape, Nary says he is inspired sights and sounds.” by “all the ‘mad’ potters out Abstract painter Luri there exploring the outer Hoffman says that through limits of what we can do doing her art, she has with clay and fire, and all the learned “that I have a brutal

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“I believe we all have a creative spirit within us trying to get out.”

Chip Nary, Crystalline Vortex Glazed Pottery ego that tries to put on the brake while my foot is on the gas.”

“Trying to run free with artistic abandon is not as ‘free’ as it sounds in my experience, when there is an ego that holds the weight of a ship’s anchor,” she said.

Sources of inspiration for her are nature, animals, Sheila Norgate, Ann Lammott and children.

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We know that none of our artists do it for the money.

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the business aspect of doing art for a living, “That’s the million-dollar question ... we just do the best we can with what we have. But it must be said that there’s no question more frustrating than when someone says: ‘it must be so nice to make your living with your hobby.’ After more than three decades of living with the expense and worry of surviving as artists, we can honestly say that this is not a hobby; the moment you pay taxes, pay bills, purchase supplies and so forth, you’ve left the hobby behind.”

Meet more of our artists during the inaugural Ladysmith Artisan Studio Tour April 26-28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Maps are available at the Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery at 610 Oyster Bay Rd. or online at www.ladysmith waterfrontgallery.com.

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Chronicle Athlete of the Month

Simpson finds success in net Lindsay Chung

about everyone. The coaches care about everyone and their success, and the playSixteen-year-old Zach ers look out for everyone Simpson has just finished and really play as a team. his fourth season of hockey, This year, one of the biggest and it was a very successthings is our team had a lot ful one for the Ladysmith of depth; we all did a lot for Secondary School Grade 11 everyone. We all played a student. big role; there wasn’t one As a goalie, Simpson guy who stood out more helped the Cowichan Valley than the others.”

Midget B Capitals finish first After this season, in their league.

Simpson’s goal is to try out “I’ve always been a huge for some Junior B teams — hockey fan, watching the possibly Kerry Park — and NHL and younger teams,” play Junior B. said Simpson. “Then I talked “If that doesn’t happen, I’m to my cousin, who’s a goalie never going to stop playing” coach, and he suggested I he said. “If that doesn’t hapget into it, so I did, and I pen, I will try out for Midget loved it.”

A, which is a big step up.”

Simpson has been a goalie Simpson says you have to since day one. have a lot of confidence to “I liked the pressure and all deal with the pressure of the attention the goalie got,” being a goalie. he said. “I enjoy being in the “I’m confident in my play,” spotlight, I guess.” he said. “I just go out there, This year, the Cowichan and I’m not really worValley Midget B Capitals ried about what everybody won the league and playoff thinks. I just go out there banners and had a lot of and play my game. Even success in tournaments. The though we’re on a team, and Capitals recently won gold you have teammates looking at a year-end tournament in out for you, it’s like you’re Ridge Meadows. The team alone. I try not to overthink went undefeated, winning anything. If you don’t over all four games and advancthink anything, you just play ing straight to the final, your game and don’t see it where Cowichan defeated as such a big deal, it’s easier Burnaby 5-1. and simpler.”

This was the first year Simpson feels he has Simpson played rep hockey, improved a lot this season. and he says the whole sea“It’s more physically and son was a highlight. mentally demanding playing “That was huge for me,” he at a higher level,” he said. said of play“There’s ing on a rep Quoted in the Chronicle more presteam. “That’s sure to sucbeen my “It’s the first thing I ceed, and dream all think of when I wake you play along, to play a bigger up and the last thing role rep hockey. I as the enjoy every I think of when I go goalie.” game. There’s Simpson to sleep.” not one highloves sports, light I can and he also Zach Simpson, point out — plays soccer.

Athlete of the Month every time I He has step onto the been playing ice, I love it.” in goal since Grade 8. He Simpson played about played three seasons for 30 games this season and John Barsby Community went to three tournaments School in Nanaimo before from late September to late coming to Ladysmith March.

Secondary School this year.

“For me, it was a new thing This season, he was asked being with a rep team,” he to play for the Mid-Isle said. “It took some getting Soccer Club U18 boys’ socused to. There’s a little more cer team. pressure, but there’s also a “I kind of procrastinated team-first foundation. Once because of hockey, but I you get in there and get to decided I wanted to keep know the boys, it’s like you playing,” he said. “I love become a big family. I know any opportunity to compete I’ll never forget the boys I in sports. I think I helped played with this year, and that team a lot because they they’ll probably never forget needed a goalie. It was fun.” me. Everyone just cares THE CHRONICLE

Zach Simpson had a great season this year as goalie for the Cowichan Valley Midget B Capitals and for the Mid-Isle Soccer Club’s U18 boys, and he is the Chronicle’s Athlete of the Month for March.

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The soccer team went to the finals in the end-of-year tournament and lost 2-0 to Oceanside to win the silver medal.

“That was another huge success,” said Simpson.

Simpson feels there is the same kind of pressure to perform as a goalkeeper in soccer as there is in hockey, but there are definitely differences.

“Soccer requires quite a bit more fitness,” he said. “It’s a bit different in style — in hockey, you’re just there to keep the puck out of the net, but in soccer, you are almost like another player on the field; you play more and pass more. In hockey, you tend to be more conservative, so in soccer, sometimes the coach would get on me for being too deep in my net and waiting for the ball to come to me.”

Simpson came to the team halfway through the season and says it was a bit tough because they already had a system in place, but he really enjoyed playing with the team.

“It took a few practices and a few games for me to become part of the team, but once I did, I loved it,” he said. “We competed hard and made a statement we were definitely one of the better teams in the league. It was fun.”

Sports is definitely

Simpson’s biggest interest.

“It’s what motivates me,” he said. “It’s the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing I think of when I go to sleep. I wake up and look forward to the next game I get to play. I could never get sick of it.

“Growing up, I never had a lot of opportunities to get involved in sports, so I don’t take anything for granted,” he added.

“I just love getting a chance to compete and win. I definitely have a competitive spirit. I like to take advantages of my opportunities. I just love playing and competing and winning. To have as much success as I did this season was pretty overwhelming.”

Simpson’s hockey and soccer seasons have both ended, but he plans to train a lot during the off-season to stay fit and try to improve for next season.

“Even though both seasons are over, it doesn’t stop,” he said. “Whenever I get a chance, I’m always out there playing and training.”

Simpson plans to train with his cousin, David Murray, who runs Vancouver Island Goaltender Training in Nanaimo, a lot during the summer.

“I love training with him,” said Simpson. “It doesn’t really get much better than that.”

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LADYSMITH: STUDIO suite, own private ent. 4 piece bathroom, large sundeck. Incld’s all utils and cable. NP/NS. Quiet area. $550. (250)245-0295.

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Washers $150-$250, Dryers $100-$150. Built-in dishwashers $100-$150. 6 month warranty on all appliances. Please call Greg at (250)246-9859.

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CHEMAINUS MT. BRENTON GARDEN CLUB - meeting Tues, April 9, 1 pm at Calvary Baptist Church, 3319 River in Chemainus. It will be a workshop for our upcoming garden tour. Guests are welcome. $2 drop in fee.

For more info 246-4109.

LADYSMITH DOWNTOWN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION - meets on the third Thursday of each month, 7:30 am upstairs at the Legion.

This dedicated group of business owners discuss everything businessrelated in Ladysmith from partnerships with organizations, upcoming events, business strategies and tips, website performance and sometimes, a guest speaker.

CROFTON ART GROUP - May 10 & 11, 10 to 5 Spring Show & Sale incl. jewellery, Senior's Centre Chemainus, adjacent ferry dock, door prize & refreshments, 250-2457738 EAGLES #2101 RUMMAGE SALE Sat, April 6th, 8 am-1 pm 921 First Ave., Ladysmith Coffee & Muffins $1.00 LRCA FRIENDLY VISITOR/PHONING TREE PROGRAMS Now taking new volunteer signups for an upcoming training session. Improve quality of life for shut-in or isolated seniors by scheduled weekly contact.

Call Barb at 245-3079.

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BINGO - LADYSMITH Every Wed - 6:45 pm, Doors 5 pm, St. Mary's Church Hall. Info call 250245-3079. Sponsored by Ladysmith Resources Centre Association CANCER SOCIETY The Ladysmith Branch needs volunteer drivers

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HAR­VEST HOUSE FOOD BANK - Chemainus. Friday, Info call 250-246-3455.

BINGO - Chemainus Senior Drop-in Centre. Mondays, 6:40 pm. Info: Murray 250246-9968.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH Volunteers needed.

250-245-1118.

MEALS ON WHEELS Ladysmith meals delivered Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. Volunteer drivers needed. Call Pearl: 250245-3844.

LADYSMITH LEGION Mondays, crib, 7 p.m.

Meat draws: Saturdays 2 - 5:15 pm, Fridays 4-6 pm, Sundays 3-5 pm, Darts: Wednesdays, 7 pm, Line dancing: Thursdays 9-11 am, Fridays: pool, 8 pm, 250-245-2273.

CANADIAN FEDERATION of UNIVERSITY WOMEN Nanaimo branch. Meets 4th Monday of each month. St. Andrews Presbyterian. 7 pm. Karen: 250-756-9508.

BINGO - Every Fri, 6:45 p.m., Chemainus Legion branch #191. Doors open 5 p.m.

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS Organizers meet 3rd Thursday of each month at the FOL building at 4th & Strathcona Ave. 7 pm. 250245-5888 or 250-245-2263.

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SIDNEY 250-655-1119

COURTENAY 250-337-2174

PORT ALBERNI 250-724-4648

Toll Free 1-888-272-8887

Toll Free 1-800-665-5581

Toll Free: 1-888-272-8888

Toll Free: 1-866-330-2174

Toll Free: 1-877-724-4648

◆ Total Price including freight, excluding Road Ready Package and taxes. PAYMENTS based on total price including freight and taxes less 10% down (or equivalent trade-in value). Variable interest rate at time of calculation 6.99% on approved credit (OAC) amortized over *390 bi-weekly pymts/5/15 term, **520 bi-weekly pymts/5/20 term, ***260 bi-weekly pymts/5/10 term, ****130 bi-weekly pymts/5/5 term. Zero down option available on request (on approved credit).

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20 Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Ladysmith Chemainus Chronicle

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Don’t foget to check out our ‘New Look’ 8 page flyer Double the Pages, Double the Savings!

Ladysmith and Cedar Stores

Spring is Here!

The Garden Shops are OPENING SOON! We’re so excited, we wet our plants!

Fresh Boneless Centre cut

Pork Loin Chops or Roasts

Regular 14.31 - 15.41 kg

Buy ONE Get ONE

Free

MJB Ground

Ground Coffee

Regular, Fine, Morning or French.

250-300 grams. Limit 4 total

2/ 5 $

Decaf or Columbian

2/$7

California Buck Brand

Navel Oranges 2.16 kg

Hockey Goes On BBQ! On Saturday, March 16th, 49th Parallel Grocery hosted a fund-raising BBQ! Thanks to everyone who made this event a huge success. $1,034 was raised for Cowichan Valley Minor Hockey’s Atom B Capitals.

98

¢

Hunt’s

Thick & Rich Pasta Sauce 680 ml, limit 4 total

Special thanks to:

98

¢

Prices effective Monday, April 2 to Sunday, April 7, 2013

Your Your Island Island Community Community Grocers Grocers since since 1977 1977 940-1st Ave., Ladysmith Phone 250-245-1200

Bloooms Florist Direct

250-245-3344

CEDAR STORE

In the Cedar Village Square

Open Daily 7:30 am to 9 pm

250-722-7010

The Old Bruce’s Store

DUNCAN

550 Cairnsmore Street

Open Daily 7:30 am to 9 pm

250-748-2412

CHEMAINUS

Next to the Ferry Dock

Open Daily 8:00 am to 9 pm

250-246-3551

100% Locally Owned & Operated We deliver! (See store for details) We reserve the right to limit quantities Pictures for illustrative purposes only Visit our Website: www.the49th.com

LADYSMITH

Beside the Liquor Depot

Open Daily 7:30 am to 9 pm

250-245-3221