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Fairwinds kerfuffl e Residents want to see RDN increase the pace JOHN HARDING editor@pqbnews.com

Delays in the Regional District of Nanaimo’s zoning-approval process may force the owners of a project that’s receiving unprecedented public support to walk away from their Nanoose Bay plans, says the president of the Fairwinds Community Association. “It has been going so slowly, the investors have begun to consider their options,” said Gerry Thompson. “We think it could be going a lot quicker . . . I think we are at a critical stage.” More than 200 people attended a meeting Thursday night in Nanoose Bay to ask questions about the zoning of project, which Fairwinds has said would start with a “seaside village” development at Schooner Cove. On October 25, 2011 the RDN board of directors adopted two separate OCP amendment bylaws to integrate the Lakes District and Schooner Cove Neighbourhood Plans into the Nanoose Bay OCP. The Schooner Cove plan allows for shops, a full-service marina, pedestrian-oriented public open spaces and a maximum of 360 condo units. The Lakes District Neighbourhood Plan includes a maximum of 1,675 single dwelling and multi-dwelling residential units, which represents the remaining balance of the 2,500 dwelling units permitted in the OCP for what the RDN calls the Fairwinds Urban Containment Boundary. Thompson said members of his association are not pleased with the pace at which regional district staff have worked on this file. “There has been virtually no closure on major issues regarding the zoning,” said Thompson. See ONLY, page A8

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DANGEROUS BUT NECESSARY: Ministry of Forests fire crews from the Coastal Fire region (Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast) based in Parksville were doing their annual hover training at the Qualicum Beach Airport Friday. Forest fire fighting crews who go on to battle wildfires across the continent have to be re-certified for the dangerous manoeuvre of exiting hovering helicopters when it is unable to land. Please see related story inside today’s edition of The NEWS.

Ferries boss outlines challenges Mike Corrigan speaks to joint meeting of the area’s chambers of commerce JOHN HARDING editor@pqbnews.com

When Mike Corrigan was a professional hockey player, he didn’t shy away from the rough stuff. The president and CEO of BC Ferries also didn’t pull any punches Thursday night when he addressed a joint meeting of the Parksville and Qualicum Beach chambers of commerce. “Everybody has a different opinion on what BC Ferries is,” said Corrigan. “It doesn’t matter if the ferry system is within government or outside of government — it costs a lot to run a ferry system.”

Corrigan presented loads of numbers to the 120 people in attendance, including the fact the ferries, overall, run at about 50 per cent capacity. He pointed to the airlines, which generally run at 80 per cent capacity or cancel flights. “If we did that (cancel sailings that aren’t 80 per cent full) at BC Ferries, I guarantee you one thing: there’d be a new CEO talking to you here next year,” he said. Corrigan also spoke of plans to introduce cable ferries (Buckley Bay to Denman Island) and, despite the capital costs, converting as much of the fleet as possible from diesel-powered to liquid natural gas. See FUEL, page A8

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One person suffered minor injuries when a pickup truck slammed into the side of a passenger vehicle at Highway 19A and Sunrise Drive Sunday night. Oceanside RCMP Corporal Jesse Foreman reported the crash took place at 8:38 p.m. “One vehicle was going south and didn’t have a chance to stop and there was a collision,” Foreman said. “The driver failed to yield after a stop, started into the intersection and didn’t notice the other vehicle.” The resulting collision saw the female driver of the passenger vehicle having to be rescued from her vehicle by firefighters, who cut off the door in order to free her. The driver of the pickup has been charged with failure to yield. — NEWS Staff

Give our new word challenge game a try Words Without Borders should prove to be a fun game for readers, and a weekly prize for one lucky entrant. Each week, The NEWS will publish a selection of the responses to the previous week’s challenge and one lucky entrant each week will win a gift certificate for a local retailer. Here’s how the game works. Qualicum Beach resident Jeanne Denee will issue a challenge each week. The first one is this: add or change a letter to any well-known city and define the new word. For example: Naples - Napless, a city that never sleeps. So, that is your first challenge — add or change a letter to any well-known city and define the new word. Send your responses, with your name and the community you live, by May 20 to jdenee@pqbnews. We will publish a selection of responses and the winning entry, on our Games and Puzzle page in the May 23 edition of The NEWS.

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Helen Cole, 99, cast her ballot in the provincial election at an advance polling station at the Christian Fellowship Centre in Qualicum Beach on Friday.

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Today, Tuesday, May 14, is general voting day for the provincial election. You can cast your ballot any time from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and the general voting places in our region for the Parksville Qualicum constistuency are: • Christian Fellowship Centre, 825 Village Way, Qualicum Beach • St. Columba Presbyterian Church, 921 Wembley Rd, Parksville • Qualicum Beach Civic Centre, 747 Jones St, Qualicum Beach • Nanoose Place, 2925 Northwest Bay Rd, Nanoose Bay • Parksville Comm & Conf Centre, 132 Jen-

sen Ave E, Parksville • Lasqueti Comm Centre, 206 Main Rd, Lasqueti Island • Parksville Fellowship Baptist Church, 550 Pym St N, Parksville Alberni-Pacific Rim constituency The voting places in our region for thgose who live in the Alberni-Pacific Rim constituency are: • Coombs Comm Hall, 2595 Alberni Hwy, Coombs • Bradley Centre, 975 Shearme Rd, Coombs • Lighthouse Comm Centre, 240 Lions Way, Bowser. — NEWS Staff/Elections B.C.

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Be sure to read your copy of The NEWS on Thursday for the region’s most comprehensive coverage of the provincial election. The NEWS will have reporters at the campaign headquarters of all three Parksville Qualicum constituency candidates: Barry Avis (NDP), David Coupland (B.C. Conservatives) and Michelle Stilwell (B.C. Liberals). The NEWS team will take you behind the raw numbers and results by providing interviews and photographs involving the candidates and

their supporters. There are, of course, the numbers and The NEWS will have those for you too from both the Parksville Qualicum constituency and the Alberni-Pacific Rim constituency, which has candidates Darren DeLuca (B.C. Liberals), Scott Fraser (NDP) and Enid-Mary Sangster-Kelly (B.C. Conservatives). It’s all in the Thursday edition of The Parksville Qualicum Beach News. — NEWS Staff

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Forest Fires

Long fire season for the Island Don’t let this bit of damp spring weather fool you NEIL HORNER news@pqbnews.com

The hot, dry weather experienced in the mid-Island last week isn’t expected to last, and that’s good news, says Donna MacPherson of the Coastal Fire Centre. “We are told this hot weather is going to return to seasonal norms over the weekend,” she said Thursday. “It has been exceptionally dry over the past week, but once that turns and we start getting the night time dew and moisture recovery, that will bring the fire danger down.” The spell of hot weather saw the fire danger spike into the high range in some parts of the Lower Mainland and in Port Alberni, she said, but this returned to a moderate rating after temperatures eased late in the week. That fire danger eased further with the heavy rains experienced on the weekend. At this point, she said, the number of forest fires recorded by the Coastal Fire Centre is down slightly, with nine on the books compared to the average of 13, but she expects the pattern this summer could mirror that of last year. She noted as well that Environment Canada has predicted a warmer, drier summer than usual, but whether or not that comes to pass remains to be seen. “June is going to tell us if we are going to have much of a fire season or not,” she said. “Last year we had Junuary, where June was so cold and wet, but we had a fire season that went into October. By the time we hit October we were on par with our yearly average.” MacPherson urged residents to check with their local municipality before lighting a backyard burn, just in case the local municipal restrictions do not match that of the Ministry of Forests. The Coastal Fire Centre covers all the area west of the height of land on the Coast Mountain range from the U.S./Canada border at Manning Park to the northern border of South Tweedsmuir Park, the lower mainland, the Sunshine Coast, all of Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Haida Gwaii and contains about 75 per cent of the population of British Columbia. The Coastal Fire Centre supports six zones and 12 fire bases throughout the region. The fire fighters in these zones work on three-person Initial Attack crews or 20-person Unit crews. If you see a wildfire or unattended campfire, dial *5555 on a cell phone or call 1-800-6635555 toll-free.

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FUN IN THE SUN: Now that the rain has returned, it’s easy to forget how nice it was last week. Here, Victoria resident Adam Mitchell plays with daughter, Arielle, 2, at the Lions water park in Parksville’s Community Park Thursday.

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Smolt count in Englishman tributary NEIL HORNER news@pqbnews.com

Anyone wanting to get a good idea about the health of the Englishman River needs to do more than just count fish and other creatures in the main watercourse. They also need to take a close look at the smaller streams that feed it. That’s what Faye Smith and her team of volunteers with the Mid Vancouver Island Habitat Enhancement Society are doing this spring, with their focus on the health of Shelly Creek. The tiny tributary, Smith said, flows through some very developed areas before it joins the Englishman and has suffered greatly from habitat alteration and development — but it appears to be recovering nicely. That recovery, she said, is indicated by a healthy run of coho salmon smolts

that is currently swimming up the creek. Those smolts are being counted every morning by volunteers who race to Martindale Road at 9 a.m. to take out the night’s catch from the MVIHES fish trap. The results have been impressive — and surprising. “We’ve had terrific numbers so far,” Smith said. “We started on April 1 and our biggest day saw 700 fish, almost all of them coho smolts.” Once they count the fish, they measure and weigh some of them before releasing them upstream from the trap. An average count, she added, is about 150 coho, along with one or two steelhead, cutthroat trout or sculpins. This is the third year the group has been counting the fish and the numbers appear to be growing.

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“The first year we were thrilled to count 3,000 fish,” she said. “Last year we got over 8,100. That blows everybody’s mind because nobody expected it. This year is good, although not as good as last year. So far we’ve counted at least 5,500.” The group will continue the program until the water quality and quantity makes it unworkable. Shelly Creek, she said, winds its way through much of Errington and has been ditched and moved, while wetlands that once helped to feed it have been filled in. “It goes through urban settings and through farms,” she said. The information gathered is available for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, as well as anyone else who is interested on the MVIHES website at www.mvihes.bc.ca.

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DevelopmeNt

Public hearings not being replaced by open houses Confusion reigns over process used to get public input in PV AUREN RUVINSKY writer@pqbnews.com

Parksville council has been using developer’s open houses as additional public consultation for proposed projects more often recently because there have been more of those open houses, said director of community planning Blane Russell. Russell explained the process to The NEWS after John Mansell asked about it during question period at the May 6 regular council meeting. “Every rezoning amendment or OCP (official community plan) amendment requires a formal public hearing, which is a fairly formal process,” he said, pointing out these are generally done at the start of regular council meetings.

He suggested there could be confusion about the developer’s open houses replacing those hearings but Russell said they do not and could not fulfil that roll. On top of the public hearing, OCP amendments require “additional consultation,” Russell said, but it is not specified what that is and can include anything from sending letters to affected neighbours or groups, to public meetings. The number and form of additional meetings depends on the scale of the proposal in question. In response to Mansell’s question mayor Chris Burger said they had not consulted a lawyer as to whether the developer’s open houses fulfilled the legislated requirements but indicated they have their own expert and they are comfortable they are meeting the requirements.

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Questions remain about water plan AUREN RUVINSKY writer@pqbnews.com

The renewal of a water supply agreement with Nanoose Bay brought up some issues at Parksville council’s May 6 regular meeting. The city entered into an agreement with the Regional District of Nanaimo in 2008 to convey bulk water from the city’s Englishman River intake during the dry summer months. With the agreement expiring at the end of April, RDN staff asked that the new agreement increase the supply 33 per cent to a maximum 2,619 cubic metres (576,000 gallons) per day. The staff report said it would not be appropriate to commit to the increase until a hydraulic analysis of demand that is underway is completed and recommends against the increase. Water service program manager Mike Squire

explained the RDN already has rights to the water as a partner in the Arrowsmith Water Service but the city charges for the operational and infrastructure costs of providing it to the Nanoose Bay area water mains. Squire couldn’t answer council questions about the RDN’s request for the increase in water supplied but pointed out Nanoose Bay is a partner in the Englishman River Water Service project in the early stages of planning a new river intake and treatment facility. Councillor Marc Lefebvre, an RDN director, said he would look into the RDN request. Squire assured council there are provisions in the agreement that allow the city to stop the supply in an emergency such as the collapse of a clay bank last year that made the river water unusable.

Grandmothers to talk on Africa

Grandmothers group helps struggling families in Africa

So what’s really going on with the Grandmothers to Grandmothers group in Africa these days? That answer, along with many others, will be on tap this week when the Parksville Library will hosts Ann Tardiff and Carol Lundine, members of the Oceanside Grandmothers to Grandmothers group — one of 240 such groups established across Canada to help families in Africa that have been devastated by the impact of the AIDS virus.

The event is slated to be held on May 15. Residents are invited to come down to the library from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. to listen to the two local women talk about the adventures they had on their recent trip to Africa and watch a slide show of their travels. Their expedition included a visit to a Maasai village, a school in Nairobi, as well as going on a safari. This free event is meant for a senior audience, as well as for people who are aged 19 and up. For more information, call (250) 248-3841. — Submitted by G2G

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Kiefer Penman and his little brother Lennox are working hard to raise money Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and hoping others will join them in raising funds and awareness. Kiefer, now six, has dealt with type 1 diabetes — like more than 300,000 other Canadians — since he was diagnosed with the disease at the tender age of two. He set up an iced tea and goodie stand with his three-year-old brother on a recent sunny Friday and managed to raise $107 for the JDRF. While Kiefer’s father has type 1 diabetes, his mother Sheelagh cautions that 80 per cent of children diagnosed don’t have a family history and all families need to

be aware of the symptoms, which include excessive thirst, hunger and urination, unexplained weight loss and tiredness and dry, itchy skin. People don’t realize what a big deal type 1 is and how different it is from type 2, father Kenneth Lennox said. It is a non-preventable autoimmune disease that strikes suddenly, leaving the person dependent on insulin for the rest of his or her life. The Penmans will join other locals in the Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes, Sunday, June 2 at Maffeo Sutton Park in Nanaimo. For more on how to participate or donate contact in this campaign, Sheelagh at 250-954-1404 or Kit with the JDRF in Nanaimo at 778-441-0857.

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“In tourism, because we have a government that has confused, I think, the government of B.C. with the Liberal Party, they took over conMAY 14 trol of Tourism B.C. It had worked well, with the industry marketing tourism,” he said, “That was until the Olympics happened and then they decided it has to be us. We’ve suffered ever since. Tourism has gone downhill as a direct result.” The need for skills training for young people was also a focus, with Dix noting industry is crying for skilled workers, yet the Liberal government slashed the trades training program. “Our workers can compete with anyone in the world if they are given a level playing field and we are going to give them that level playing field,” he said. Today (Tuesday) is voting day in B.C. Check out The NEWS for all the results.

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Lois Smith needs some help, in order to help. The Parksville resident is the coordinator for the Bagel Cafe — the breakfast program at Parksville Elementary and Springwood Middle School and she’s looking for more volunteers to beef up her program. Smith and her team provide healthy breakfasts to hungry children at Parksville Elementary five days a week and Springwood Middle three days a week, serving as many as 100 breakfasts. Smith has been do-

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Fuel costs continue to rise

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He said between 2004-2012, fuel costs skyrocketed to $120 million a year from $50 million, “and obviously we have to pass those costs along.” Corrigan said BC Ferries gets 25 per cent of its revenue from government and 75 per cent from fares and services. “That (75 per cent) is a heck of a lot more than any other ferry service in the world,” said Corrigan. “I think the taxpayers are getting a good bang for their buck.” Questions from the floor after Corrigan’s presentation centred around fares and services offered on the ferries. One chamber member suggested the sales of alcohol on board might mitigate some of the expenses. Corrigan expressed some caution about the idea, but did say “maybe we need to look at it.” Before anyone asked, Corrigan addressed the question about whether BC Ferries should be considered an extension of the provincial and/or federal highway system. “You need to go ask the Minister of Transportation that question,” he said. Corrigan was drafted by the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings in 1980. He never played in the NHL, but he did play 229 games in North American minor professional leagues, recording 120 points and 445 penalty minutes with the Kalamazoo Wings and the Adirondack Red Wings. Corrigan has been a senior executive with B.C. Ferries since joining the company in 2003. He has a MBA from the University of Victoria, a Bachelor of

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Thompson also said there have been target dates set for movement on the development but RDN staff “have missed them all, with apparently no sense of consequences.” “The level of support for this proposal has been unprecedented. The support is solid — it has not deteriorated over time. It’s a popular project.” Thompson said residents are in favour of the development for a number of reasons, including improved access to the waterfront, local shopping opportunities that will reduce the reliance on automobiles and the “amount of employment and general economic benefit.” Further delays, said Thompson, could “effectively poison the investment climate (in Nanoose Bay) for decades to come.” George Holm, RDN director for Nanoose Bay, said last week he believes the hold-up is with the provincial Ministry of Transportation (MOT). Holm said before any zoning can be approved, the ministry must sign off on the developer’s plans to have roads and sidewalks that are more narrow than what’s considered standard. Thompson said he doesn’t believe it’s the MOT that is causing any delays. “That’s a completely resolvable issue,” said Thompson in interviews with The NEWS on Thursday and Tuesday.

“There’s nothing new about it. The ministry of transportation has indicated it can be resolved. I’m sure they (RDN directors and staff) mean well, but that (the assertion the MOT is holding up the process) is actually not true.” Thompson said Tuesday the meeting Thursday night included some frank discussion.

We’re only a couple of months apart. If we can get issues sorted out, we may be able to accelerate the timeline Rdn’S GeoFF GARButt

“The people were very clear to their government that they were not happy with the way things are unfolding,” said Thompson about the RDN’s plan to have the zoning issues ironed out by early 2014. “We would like to see this matter wrapped up by the end of the year.” Geoff Garbutt, the RDN’s general manager of strategic and community development, said Monday the application is “complicated and time consuming” and “we are working as effectively as we can.” Garbutt said the plan right now is to have the first reading of zoning bylaws in front of the RDN board in November and, if the bylaws pass first and second

readings, a public hearing in January, 2014. Garbutt said the applicant indicated to him they wanted to see a public hearing by November of this year. “We’re only a couple of months apart,” said Garbutt. “If we can get issues sorted out, we may be able to accelerate the timeline.” The Fairwinds development is owned by the B.C. Investment Management Corporation (BCIMC), which manages public sector pension plans. A company named Bentall Kennedy manages the development. Russell Tibbles, Bentall Kennedy’s vice president for development and operations at Fairwinds, sent this comment to The NEWS by email on Monday: “With regard to applications to the RDN . . . there are still a number of RDN comments that we’re waiting for, or that have yet to be provided to us,” Tibbles wrote. “We are hopeful that a schedule can be established with the RDN that sees these applications reach public hearing by November 2013. The Schooner Cove and Lakes District Neighbourhood Plans — adopted in 2011 as part of the RDN’s Nanoose Bay Official Community Plan — reflect a fantastic shared vision for our community’s future, with broad community benefits. We hope that all involved can get on board to allow this vision to move from paper to reality.”

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Construction on municipal infrastructure upgrades on Highway 19A between Moilliet Street and Rushton Lane are now well underway. The entire project should be completed in October; however, construction is expected to be substantially complete by the end of June so there will be no disruptions during summer months and peak traffic along Highway 19A. Installation of water and sanitary utilities is finished and the Moilliet Street light will soon be replaced. During this time, there will be no light at the intersection. Traffic personnel and/or construction signage will be at the intersection during the day; however, outside of these hours, residents should try to avoid this intersection.

This spring, like most others, door-to-door handyman scams will increase. There are some reputable doorto-door handymen, but residents need to be aware of fraudsters trying to take advantage. They may offer to fix your roof, clean gutters or to do other odd jobs. They may tell you they are working in your neighbourhood and may even use a neighbour’s name to gain your trust. They may try to entice you by saying they have left over materials from another job and can offer you an amazing deal!

As with all major road construction, there will be some inconveniences. Two lanes of traffic on Highway 19A are being maintained for vehicle traffic. For everyone’s safety please slow down and obey traffic personnel while driving through the construction site. Thank you for your patience.

2013 Property Taxes Council has set the residential and business property tax increase at 2.4% for 2013 and also approved the 2013-2017 financial plan now available on the website [Quicklinks/Financial Reports]. Tax notices will be mailed the last week in May and to avoid penalty, payment must be received by the City and the homeowner grant claimed by July 2, 2013.

It’s Easy to View Accounts Online Homeowners and businesses may access their municipal accounts from the City’s website [Online Services]. With MyCity, a secure online service, customers may view previous billings, monitor utility consumption and claim the Provincial Homeowner Grant. MyCity supports licences, property tax and utility accounts. Customers may set up a profile and register each account using the folio or account number and access code from the notice or bill.

Water Conservation Level 2 Water Conservation Level 2 is now in effect. Odd numbered addresses water on odd numbered days and even numbered addresses on even numbered days. Watering times are 6 to 10 morning and evening for no more than two hours per period with a maximum of four hours total allocated watering per day. Watering of vegetable gardens, shrubs, trees and flowers is restricted to a hand held container or a hose with shut-off nozzle if watered outside of permitted times. Quicklinks/Water Conservation

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Your best defence against being scammed is to never allow unsolicited handymen into your home. Reputable roofers, handymen and security companies generally do not go door-to-door. Consider asking a neighbour or someone you trust who they use for maintenance and ask them to share their contacts. If you feel threatened or suspicious about a door-to-door handyman, contact: • Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island: 877 826-4222 • Oceanside RCMP: 250 248-6111 • Crime Stoppers (anonymously): 250 248-TIPS (248-8477) or bccrimestoppers.com Our thanks to Cpl. Jesse Foreman, Oceanside RCMP for this information

Springwood Water Facility Open House May 22 – 11 am to 3 pm To recognize Drinking Water Proud Supporter of Week, the City will host an open house of the Springwood water facility at 550 Despard Avenue on Wednesday, May 22 with tours offered from 11 am to 3 pm. A series of 16 wells, mechanical pumps and storage reservoirs used as a source of supply are located in the vicinity of Springwood Park. This is an opportunity for residents to view the facility and learn about the water system. Drinking Water Week is sponsored by BC Water and Waste Association, a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to safeguard public health and the environment on matters related to water. Through activities May 20-26, Parksville along with the RDN, other municipalities and the BCWWA will educate residents about their drinking water, raising awareness of the need to conserve water and protect our environment. rdn.bc.ca [Team WaterSmart]; drinkingwaterweek.org

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OCP Update After more than two years of public engagement, the City’s OCP has entered the statutory process and received first reading at the May 6 Council meeting. The plan must now go through a number of readings prior to adoption. Through the process, the OCP was referred to other levels of government for input and open houses held in February and March provided opportunities for the public to review the draft plan. Thank you to those who attended the events and submitted comments. The public is invited to provide input throughout the statutory process and encouraged to watch the website for notice of the upcoming public hearing, most likely in June.

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Bike to Work Week Ride with Council May 29 - 4 pm

May 27 to June 2 is Bike to Work Week in Parksville and to support the week, Mayor Chris Burger and Council invite Parksville residents, families and friends to join them on Wednesday, May 29 for a ride with Parksville Council. This is the second year for the rides with council and a friendly rivalry between Parksville and Qualicum Beach. We would love to win the challenge this year and need your participation to make it happen. Consider joining the ride and also registering at biketowork.ca/oceanside. You can register kilometres cycled, as a first time cyclist and for “bike to your coffee shop” discounts – it’s not just about cycling to work. The Ride with Council starts at the Parksville Civic and Technology Centre (City Hall), 100 Jensen Avenue East at 4 pm and will travel to Corfield, along Despard Avenue to Chestnut Street, to Hirst returning to the PCTC for refreshments. The ride is about 5 km and is expected to take 45 minutes. Map and info on the City’s website.

City Dates May 16 May 20 May 22 May 22 May 23 May 29 May 30 June 3 June 6 June 13 June 13 June 17

Coffee with Council Statutory Holiday Council and Committee of the Whole Springwood Water Facility Open House Coffee with Council Ride with Parksville Council Coffee with Council Council – CANCELLED Coffee with Council Advisory Design Panel Coffee with Council Council and Committee of the Whole

The public is encouraged to attend Council and Committee of the Whole meetings held on the first and third Mondays of the month. The public is welcome to observe advisory committee meetings. Please refer to the website for agendas, dates and times.

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t’s election day, and we have decided not to publish any opinions — in this space, in columns, in letters to the editor — related to provincial decision day. We have a smattering of news stories and information related to the election in today’s edition, but we feel the best way to express an opinion today for everyone involved is at the ballot box. Please vote. Never short of opinions, we do offer today some comments on other happenings in Parksville Qualicum Beach. • Dave Willie is walking a slippery slope. The Qualicum Beach town councillor says he is going to start releasing information from in-camera meetings in the form of motions at regular, open council meetings. He says his motives relate to a need for a more open government and transparency in Qualicum Beach, and no media outlet worth its salt would oppose such a move on those terms. We, of course, welcome more transparency and open government, especially in Qualicum Beach, where rumor and innuendo are running rampant and need to be backed, or not, by some facts. To that end, we have submitted a few Freedom of Information requests to the town. We hope Willie wasn’t just trying to score political points and intends to back up his promises related to open-council motions. It’s a slippery slope because there are good reasons for some matters (ie. personnel decisions, land purchases/sales) to be kept behind closed doors. And there are laws in place to ensure these matters stay behind closed doors, plus potential civil action. However, some municipalities and organizations have been known to use those laws to keep too much information from the public, especially in relation to the use of tax dollars. We applaud Willie, and we expect him to back up his promise. • Did you see the graph we published on page three Thursday, as supplied by the City of Parksville related to their budget and, more specifically, where the city spends its money? The use of the word ‘welfare’ on the pie chart was liberal, to say the least. Economic welfare, organizational welfare and community/social welfare accounted for more than $3 million of the budget. We hope to provide a better explanation of these odd terms in future editions and will reserve cheeky comment until we do so. — Editorial by John Harding

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Letters Charging not free I’d like to respond to two positions stated in John Harding’s editorial in the April 30 edition of The NEWS (‘Not fully charged’). I disagree that “the whole notion that (governments) provide (this particular and most other) services is a good one.” That perspective embodies much of what is wrong with our governments, of all levels. Government’s mandate should be restricted to identifying and promoting policies and objectives deemed desirable for society, and the putting in place of the necessary environment or framework that will allow or encourage others — business, individuals, non-profit organizations — to achieve those policies and objectives. It is not government’s place to actually undertake the activities themselves that will result in the achievement of the desired objectives. In the specific case at issue, why should the government of Parksville install and operate electric vehicle charging stations? Their mandate should include no more than the determination that the existence of the charging stations is a desirable end (and note that I take no position on the relative merits or lack thereof of that particular position), and then allow (or encourage, or require, as the case may be) the private sector to accomplish that end. Government thinking that they actually have to perform these activities or work at the tasks involved in achieving the desired ends themselves, inevitably leads to government growth and deficits. Furthermore, the charging stations are not free to use. Whether actually built and operated by

QuotaBle:

“The level of support for this proposal has been unprecedented.” Gerry thoMpson, see story page a1

the government, or by the private sector with government subsidies (or even grants, which merely means the subsidies are an extra step or several removed from the taxpayer contributors), there is a cost attached to them. Calling their use “free” ignores the reality that someone other than the direct beneficiary or user of the service is paying for someone else’s use of it at less than its true cost. A complete and honest presentation of the issue would include a statement showing the true cost, and a clear statement that ‘x’ per cent of the cost is being subsidized by “society” (read, the taxpayer) because government has deemed their use a desirable objective and it is socially responsible for non-users to fund it. Those two messages are increasingly ignored by government leaders and would-be leaders, and increasingly forgotten by the public. Lotar Maurer Qualicum Beach

DemoCraCy in QB? What has happened to democracy in Qualicum Beach? In spite of the fact that our mayor and our OCP were supported by a large majority of the population, we have three councillors who have chosen to ignore both. At the public meeting on May 6 about a proposed condo development downtown, eight people spoke in favour of the proposal, and 29 spoke against — actually not against, just for changes to this one. Very reasonable concerns and suggestions were voiced.

These were mainly to do with the height, design, size, lack of view lines and green space, and DCC exemptions for the developer. After this public meeting, five amendments were proposed by the mayor and Coun. Scott Tanner, all of which were voted down by these three and so third reading was passed. The most beautiful seaside towns on this planet have changed very little over the years — it’s what makes them so desirable to many people. They have architectural guidelines and new buildings have to fit into those guidelines, It doesn’t stop growth. It is obvious that this building, aesthetically and architecturally, doesn’t fit with the village of Qualicum Beach. So it leaves one to wonder — what are the real reasons behind their push for this particular proposal? L. rainey Qualicum Beach

Editor’s note:

The following acknowledgement should have accompanied the guest column by Gwyn Morgan in the May 7 edition of The NEWS (Page A14 - ‘Think about the consequences’): Morgan is the former chair of SNC Lavalin, and is a director on the boards of several other large corporations including EnCana Corporation. He has also served as an advisor to Christy Clark.

almanaC Government Contacts ProVinCial:

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parksville: 250-951-6018 e-mail: ron.cantelon. mla@leg.bc.ca

feDeral:

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teunis westBroek Mayor, town of Qualicum Beach

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ParKsVille: rDn:

Also, see GueSt column on PARkSville’S ocP page A22

Views in the News We asked: Do you pay attention to polls during the election cycle?

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Joe stanhope Chairman, regional district of nanaimo 250-390-4111 e-mail: corpsrv@ rdn.bc.ca

Rules to write by Somewhat, but not particularly Brian Bagatto Nanoose Bay

Not particularly. It doesn’t make a difference to what I’m going to do.

Not at all. A poll isn’t going to help.

I don’t pay any attention to polls.

KurtiS laing Parksville

Ken PeterS Parksville

Sandy taylor Parksville

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170gr

160-170gr

300gr

Crawford’s

English Clotted Cream

Blancmange

Classic Cream of Tomato Soup

Cadbury

Curly Wurly

English Mustard

2 1

4$ for

100gr

2 400gr

Marmite

Yeast Extract 125gr

Tunnock’s

Caramel Wafer Biscuits

400gr

Real Milk Chocolate 8’s

415gr

Pearce Duff’s

Heinz

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30gr

Fruit Gums, Fruit Pastilles or Jelly Tots

Cadbury

Paxo

5 Heinz

99 99 99

Heritage

In Tomato Sauce 410gr

Favourite Gravy Granules

for

Flake Bar

Baked Beans

Bisto

330ml

400gr or 2x300gr

Cadbury

Rowntree’s

200-215gr

330gr

Branston

170gr

Barr

Broad Beans

Butter Beans

for

Digestives Milk Chocolate or Rich Tea Cookies

The Devon Cream Company

Sherbet Lemons, or Mint Favourites

Hayward’s

Crosse & Blackwell

McVitie’s

Vanilla, 1’s

Irn Bru

with Fiery Jamaican Root Ginger, 330ml

A21

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Walnut Whip Bar

Bassett’s

520gr

300gr

Hayward’s

Ginger Beer

330ml

1’s

Old Jamaica

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2$ for

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2$ for

Tunnock’s

Milk Chocolate Tea Cakes

4 6’s

2$ for

Heinz

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285-300gr

2$ for

Aunty’s

Steamed Pudding 2x100gr

2$ for

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Schneiders

Outlaw Beef Burgers 2.27 kg Box

49 2

Sirloin End Boneless Pork Loin Chops

Each

Family Pack, 5.49 per kg

Outside Round Marinating Steak

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Canadian Meaty Beef Grilling Ribs

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Island Farms

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Christie

Bits & Bites

2 $5

Cookies Selected 297-300gr

200-225gr

Heinz

for

Beans 398ml

General Mills

Chex Mix or Bugles 213-248gr

for

Twizzler

Licorice Candy 375-504gr

Hawkins

Cheezies 210gr

Island Farms

Simply 2% Yogurt 650gr

2$5 for

Stoned Wheat Thins

Crackers 300-325gr

for

V-8

3 $5 for

Splash Beverage

¢ 99 900ml

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Outside Round Oven Roast

Locally Raised BC Poultry

Family Pack, 7.69 per kg

• Free Run • Grain Fed

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2$8

Olymel

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Family Pack, 13.21 per kg

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2 Pack, 4.83 per kg

Blue Diamond

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Five Alive Fruit Beverage or Nestea Iced Tea

375gr

per lb

each

Bonus Q-Points

4 Minute Maid

100% Orange Plus Juice Applicable

2 Fees

1.75lt

Prime Chicken Cordons 284-340gr, Each

10,000 Minute Maid

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Tassimo

Nabob or Carte Noir Coffee 108-472gr

Kashi

Kraft

Peanut Butter

1kg

Kraft

Snowcrest

Cereal

Jam

Frozen Fruit

370-460gr

500ml

Selected, 600gr

99 2

Nature Valley

Granola Bars 160-230gr

2$4 for

Nestle

Kellogg’s

Fun Pac or Variety Pack Cereal Boxes

2$7

210-275gr

for

the QF Way!

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1.75lt

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454gr

for

4 99 5

99 Grimm’s

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Olymel

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Carnation Hot Chocolate Mix Assorted Sizes

2$5 for

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Cracker Barrel Cheese

9 99 6

Kraft

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Kraft

900gr

375ml

4 Heinz

1lt

3x375ml

475ml

Ritz

Kraft

Dill Pickles 1lt

Assorted Sizes

Selected

400gr

Original, 2.35kg

100’s

Chapman’s

Frozen Yogurt or Sorbet

2$ for

Hawaiian Punch

Realemon

Mott’s

Fruit Flavoured Drink

Lemon Juice 945ml

Clamato Juice

6x296ml

Demineralized Treated Water

for

Plus Applicable Fees

for

McCain

International or Crescendo Pizza 465-900gr

3$ for

for

500-750ml

for

Plus Applicable Fees

Ocean Spray

Sparkling Fruit Beverage

1.89lt

750ml

500ml

5 2

for

680gr

6x296ml

Plus Applicable Fees

6x330ml

99 Plus Applicable Fees

Camping Season Ofﬁcially Begins!

The Great Jamaican

for

5 2

Plus Applicable Fees

McCain

Plus Applicable Fees

San Pellegrino

Cocktail

Mineral Water

Bick’s

Straight Cut French Fries

for

1.89lt

Premium Sandwich Savers Pickles

400ml

Aquafina

Pickled Beets

Plus Applicable Fees

French’s

375ml

Bick’s

Squeeze Yellow Mustard

Relish

24x500ml

2lt

Chapman’s

Premium Ice Cream

2lt

pickles a burger!

1lt

12x340-355ml

Bick’s

Premium Dills

for

890ml

400gr

for

Super Sandwich, Bars or Cones

175-454gr

3 2$ 5

Bick’s

250gr

for

Chapman’s

Crackers

Bonus Pack Cheese

Pepsi, 7-Up, Mountain Dew or Schweppes

Miracle Whip or Mayo

Philadelphia Cream Cheese Spread

Jet-Puffed Marshmallows

Butter, 127gr

Christie

Laughing Cow

for

hese t d n i f p l He

Kraft

100% Juice or Sparklers Real Fruit Beverage

Popcorn

for

140-225gr

Picnic Pack

Kraft

Jiffy Pop

Iced Tea Mix

12x355ml

Dole

Plus Applicable Fees

Christie

Goodies for around the Campﬁre!

225gr

Bonus Pack!

Heinz

for

Dressing

Kraft

for

Sharp Cold Pack Cheddar 250gr

Tomato Ketchup

BBQ Sauce

Imperial Carefully Aged Cheese

1kg

Heinz

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Cheez Whiz

Classic Dip

200gr

Good Host

Mr. Freeze or Crush Freeze Pops

Nalley

Potato Chips

220-240gr

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907gr

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Planters

Molson

Dry Roasted Cashews Peanuts 275gr

Exel Non Alcoholic Beer

600gr

12x355ml

Stouffer’s

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99 Plus Applicable Fees

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More special deals on qualityfoods.com or your smartphone Kraft

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Cracker Barrel Cheese

9 99 6

Kraft

Singles Processed Cheese Product

Kraft

900gr

375ml

4 Heinz

1lt

3x375ml

475ml

Ritz

Kraft

Dill Pickles 1lt

Assorted Sizes

Selected

400gr

Original, 2.35kg

100’s

Chapman’s

Frozen Yogurt or Sorbet

2$ for

Hawaiian Punch

Realemon

Mott’s

Fruit Flavoured Drink

Lemon Juice 945ml

Clamato Juice

6x296ml

Demineralized Treated Water

for

Plus Applicable Fees

for

McCain

International or Crescendo Pizza 465-900gr

3$ for

for

500-750ml

for

Plus Applicable Fees

Ocean Spray

Sparkling Fruit Beverage

1.89lt

750ml

500ml

5 2

for

680gr

6x296ml

Plus Applicable Fees

6x330ml

99 Plus Applicable Fees

Camping Season Ofﬁcially Begins!

The Great Jamaican

for

5 2

Plus Applicable Fees

McCain

Plus Applicable Fees

San Pellegrino

Cocktail

Mineral Water

Bick’s

Straight Cut French Fries

for

1.89lt

Premium Sandwich Savers Pickles

400ml

Aquafina

Pickled Beets

Plus Applicable Fees

French’s

375ml

Bick’s

Squeeze Yellow Mustard

Relish

24x500ml

2lt

Chapman’s

Premium Ice Cream

2lt

pickles a burger!

1lt

12x340-355ml

Bick’s

Premium Dills

for

890ml

400gr

for

Super Sandwich, Bars or Cones

175-454gr

3 2$ 5

Bick’s

250gr

for

Chapman’s

Crackers

Bonus Pack Cheese

Pepsi, 7-Up, Mountain Dew or Schweppes

Miracle Whip or Mayo

Philadelphia Cream Cheese Spread

Jet-Puffed Marshmallows

Butter, 127gr

Christie

Laughing Cow

for

hese t d n i f p l He

Kraft

100% Juice or Sparklers Real Fruit Beverage

Popcorn

for

140-225gr

Picnic Pack

Kraft

Jiffy Pop

Iced Tea Mix

12x355ml

Dole

Plus Applicable Fees

Christie

Goodies for around the Campﬁre!

225gr

Bonus Pack!

Heinz

for

Dressing

Kraft

for

Sharp Cold Pack Cheddar 250gr

Tomato Ketchup

BBQ Sauce

Imperial Carefully Aged Cheese

1kg

Heinz

MacLaren’s

Cheez Whiz

Classic Dip

200gr

Good Host

Mr. Freeze or Crush Freeze Pops

Nalley

Potato Chips

220-240gr

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Cracker Barrel Cheese Slices

907gr

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Ginger Beer Soda

Planters

Molson

Dry Roasted Cashews Peanuts 275gr

Exel Non Alcoholic Beer

600gr

12x355ml

Stouffer’s

Plus Applicable Fees

Bistro Crustini

99 Plus Applicable Fees

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Freybe Bavarian or Continental Traditional Irish Smoked Ham

Lilydale

Kentucky Chicken Breast

Lilydale

Fat Free Oven Roasted or Sundried Tomato Turkey Breast

per 100gr

Bonus Q-Points

per 100gr

• Local B.C. Pork • Lactose & Gluten Free • No Added MSG • No Growth Promotants

10 Pack Crispy Chicken Drumsticks

points

bonus

Tropicana 100% Pure & Natural Orange Juice 6x236ml

3000

Freybe

Authentic Smoked Beef Bottom Round

3000 Kraft Dip 227gr

Min. 750gr

Canadian

2500

Macedonian Style Feta Cheese

Alexis de Portneuf Belle Creme

Triple Cream Brie

49 per 100gr

Dove Body Wash

Selected, 300-400ml

2500 Grannyʼs Laundry Detergent

per 100gr

each

Each

Available at Select Stores

Medium

Vegetable Chop Suey

per 100gr

Shaved Parmesan

Garlic Sausage 2 Links

per 100gr

Fruit, Sweet Bean,

Seafood Pasta or Traditional Potato

Schneiders

Arla Organic Cream Cheese 200gr

per 100gr

Medium Size Deli Salads

Per Package

10,000

Medium

Chow Mein ................ Alexis de Portneuf

Saint Honore

200gr

99 each

Medium

Szechuan Beef ...... Small

Sweet & Sour Pork ..

595 895 550

Serving Suggestions

Weather Permitting

Fresh Sole Fillets

4.55kg

5000

Febreze Set & Refresh Refill 2ʼs

5000 Green Works Bathroom Cleaner 709ml

5000 Alcan Aluminum Foil 18x25ft

Reynolds Baking Cups 50-75ʼs

2500

White Tiger Prawns

Frozen or Previoulsy Frozen

99 per 100gr

100

Colossal U 10 Size

East Coast Scallops

Frozen or Previoulsy Frozen

69 per 100gr

Produced in Parksville at Eco Smart Trout Lodge

29 PER

100gr

Locally Raised

Fresh Rainbow Trout

per 100gr

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Large 21/25 Size Raw

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Fresh Hand Peeled Shrimp

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Bakery Fresh

Italian Buns

Bakery Fresh

Raisin Bread

for

Original Cakerie

Family Pack Dessert Squares

Bakery Fresh

Cinnamon Buns 6 Pack

99 2

99 6

each

D’Italiano

Chocolate Eclairs

Strawberry Shortcake

D’Italiano

Italian Style Thick Slice Bread

Selected, 6-8’s

675gr

Buns

Bonus Q-Points Olson

Dessert Cups 6 Pack, Each

2500

points Q

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5000

6ʼs

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2 $5

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5000

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3500

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5000

2 $5

Club House Caesar Rim Seasoning

Family Favourites Sesame Sticks

Organic Goji Trek Mix

60-85gr

240gr

180gr

330ml or 354ml

Candy Coated, 250gr

for

Organic Mustard or Salad Dressing

Family Favourites Peanuts

2 $5

2$4

Simply Natural

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100gr

255gr

for

Organic Dark Chocolate Bar

All Natural Tortilla Chips

2$4 2$4

Green & Black’s

Mexi-Snax

Organic Chunky Salsa 470ml

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Dempsterʼs Original Bagels

99 2 $ 5

for

Plus Applicable Fees

for

Quality Fresh

49 2

Plus Applicable Fees

for

Quality Fresh

99 4

180gr

3000 Purina Luv Cat Treats

2000 Cesar Bistro Dog Food 12x100gr

5000

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Drop in between 4:00 AND 6:00 PM for a fresh

NEW APPY SPECIAL!

C E L E B R AT E California “Driscoll’s”

Fresh Cauliflower

Fresh Blueberries or Blackberries

2.18 per kg

Cello Wrapped

6oz Clamshell

per lb

California “Andy Boy”

for

Fresh Romaine Lettuce

each “Litehouse”

Gourmet Salad Dressing 355-384ml

9oz Clamshell

BC “Hot House”

On the Vine Strawberry Tomatoes

for

AL FLORAL FLORAL R O FL

ORG

Selected

for

Washington “Green Giant”

Russet Potatoes 10lb

ANIC

California “Sunkist”

Large Navel Oranges 2.84 per kg

each

C ORGANI

ORGANIC

Tomatoes and Vegstarters

Gerbera Bouquet

99 each

Organic Royal Gala Apples

4.14 per kg

per lb

“Photos for presentation purposes only”

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Organic Avocadoes

California Fresh

Mexican “Hass Variety”

Washington “Extra Fancy”

4”

for

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Dairy Milk Buttons 1’s

Cadbury

Twirl & Dairymilk Caramel

Cadbury

Dairy Milk

200-230gr

Crosse & Blackwell

Branston Original Pickle

99 99 ¢

Onions 454gr

Red Cabbage

2$ for

for

99 4 Pack

Last! While Supplies

for

Mint BiscBits 165gr

2$ for

5 2 Ready Brek or Scott’s

Porrage Oats

Orginal, 250-500gr

170gr

for

Batchelors

3$ for

100-150gr

Fry’s

50gr

Piccalilli Pickle 275gr

for

95gr, 100gr or 9’s

Lee’s

Macaroon & Scottish Tablet Bar

3$ for

60-70gr

130gr

3$ for

Hartley’s

Ma Made

Glacier Mints

850gr

2$ for

4$ for

Daddies

Favourite Brown Sauce

Coleman’s

4$ for

80’s or 160’s

300gr

Chocolate, Orange or Peppermint Cream

Heinz

Thorntons Special Toffee, Farrah’s Original Harrogate Toffee, or McVitie’s Penguin Biscuits

Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea or Scottish Blend Tea

Bigga or Mushy Peas

Strawberrry/Raspberry/ Chocolate/Vanilla,146gr

Custard Creams or Garibaldi for Biscuits

Fox’s

Sage & Stuffing Mix

170gr

160-170gr

300gr

Crawford’s

English Clotted Cream

Blancmange

Classic Cream of Tomato Soup

Cadbury

Curly Wurly

English Mustard

2 1

4$ for

100gr

2 400gr

Marmite

Yeast Extract 125gr

Tunnock’s

Caramel Wafer Biscuits

400gr

Real Milk Chocolate 8’s

415gr

Pearce Duff’s

Heinz

Baked Beanz

30gr

Fruit Gums, Fruit Pastilles or Jelly Tots

Cadbury

Paxo

5 Heinz

99 99 99

Heritage

In Tomato Sauce 410gr

Favourite Gravy Granules

for

Flake Bar

Baked Beans

Bisto

330ml

400gr or 2x300gr

Cadbury

Rowntree’s

200-215gr

330gr

Branston

170gr

Barr

Broad Beans

Butter Beans

for

Digestives Milk Chocolate or Rich Tea Cookies

The Devon Cream Company

Sherbet Lemons, or Mint Favourites

Hayward’s

Crosse & Blackwell

McVitie’s

Vanilla, 1’s

Irn Bru

with Fiery Jamaican Root Ginger, 330ml

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Bassett’s

520gr

300gr

Hayward’s

Ginger Beer

330ml

1’s

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Cherry Coke

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BRITISH SALE

It’s our famous

Saturday Ma th 9 1 y a M to Sunday

3$ for

Tunnock’s

Coconut Covered Marshmallows 4’s

2$ for

Some quantities are limited. Shop early for best selection. Photos for Presentation Purposes Only. Sorry No Rainchecks!

2$ for

Tunnock’s

Milk Chocolate Tea Cakes

4 6’s

2$ for

Heinz

Pudding

285-300gr

2$ for

Aunty’s

Steamed Pudding 2x100gr

2$ for

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PARKSVILLE’S OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN

Based on ‘old and failed concepts’

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An Official Community Plan (OCP) is a community’s overarching long-term vision. It is an important document that represents how scarce resources, including taxes, are allocated in order to provide community services and amenities, and guides land use planning. Given generalized concern by many around the state of the environment — our life support system — many local governments are including sustainability frameworks in hopes of moving their communities in the right direction. Unfortunately the final draft of the Parksville OCP Review is based on old and failed concepts. I was part of a group that submitted comments on the OCP. We focused on its sustainability section and our major concerns were the models that the city had selected: the three-legged stool of sustainable development, the triple bottom line, and smart growth. All three have received significant criticism from the scientific and planning communities and we pointed this out to the city. For example, according to the current draft of the OCP there is a “growing global consensus that a ‘triple bottom line’ approach should be applied when evaluating success in land use planning and governance.” This approach purports to balance the social, environmental, and economic values equally rather than sacrificing one

element to satisfy the oth- across Canada. CMHC coner. The three-legged stool cluded there was a large gap model is supposed to do the between the stated smart same. growth management polHowever, we found sev- icies found in the cities’ eral published studies criti- planning documents and cal of the triple bottom line’s actual on the ground acactual use. It is difficult, if complishments. Most of the not impossible, to measure indicators suggested that the benefits there was either of society and no progress or the environthings were getment in mon- By Richard Hampton ting worse. etary terms The result as it is with of the CMHC the economy. study reminded These studies us of the RDN conclude that 2006 and 2008 the triple-botsustainability tom line model reports where, failed to live up after 11 years of to its promises, working towards invariably giving greater im- sustainability, the RDN conportance to financial issues cluded that “overall, the rethan ecological or social is- gion is not doing well in its sues. As a result, the model efforts to become more suswas deemed unlikely to be tainable.” Quite the oppoable to contribute to an eco- site, the reports found that logically sustainable society. “the region is moving away Then, smart growth was from sustainability.” This is used as a model “devoted not surprising when poputo achieving sustainable de- lation growth continues unvelopment outcomes.” Ac- abated. cording to the studies we reWe encouraged Parksville viewed, smart growth does to address these serious isnot fully take sustainability sues in the OCP by reviewinto account. Despite efforts ing the current scientific to combat sprawl through literature on sustainability, “smart growth” strategies, reworking the sustainability studies show the approach section, and demonstrathas had limited success being to the taxpayer that the cause it fails to address a key city truly does value a “scireason for sprawl — popu- ence-based approach to lation growth. This failing sustainability,” as it claims. was discussed in a Canada However in the final draft Mortgage and Housing Cor- we found no evidence that poration (CMHC) report, this science-based input which looked at the imple- was used to repair the docmentation of smart growth ument. In fact, the situation policies in six major cities was worsened by the addi-

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tion of an incomplete definition of sustainability. According to the Parksville draft OCP, “Sustainability is about meeting the needs and aspirations of today’s generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs and aspirations”. This definition was modified from the 1987 Brundtland Commission report; however, it omits two of their key concepts: “The concept of ‘needs’, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs.” This latter concept of limits is key to sustainability, for growth of material things cannot continue indefinitely on a planet with finite resources. When incomplete ideas are presented and outdated models and concepts are shown to be lacking and no modifications are made then, while Parksville may claim a science-based approach, the result is simply green-washing. It is not surprising that citizens become cynical about the OCP process. As it currently stands, the OCP would take a clearer, “science-based approach” by removing any and all references to sustainability. Richard Hampton is a retired engineer who lives in Nanoose Bay

WORK ON HIGHWAY 19A

City suggesting you take alternate routes Parksville is encouraging motorists to use alternate routes during ongoing work on Highway 19A heading into the busy summer months. The highway is being widened and extensively upgraded including underground services from be-

tween Pym Street and McMillan Avenue. Traffic typically increases 23 per cent on the highway in the summer and while traffic control will keep two lanes open, there will be delays. The city therefore suggests people use other routes for their own con-

nivence and to lessen traffic in the area until the reconstruction project is substantially complete, scheduled for the end of June. This week the corner of Hwy 19A and Molliet may be particularly congested as Knappett Industries is preparing to replace the traffic

signals. The City of Parksville and Knappett thank the public for their patience during the project, more information on which is on the City’s website at www.parksville. ca/cms.asp?wpID=452. — Submitted by the City of Parksville

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After police investigated a rash of thefts from vehicles in Parksville, police came up not only with an arrest but also an explanation about why the alleged thief had such an easy time of it. Oceanside RCMP Corporal Jesse Foreman reported Monday that a 24-year-

old Parksville man was arrested by the Oceanside RCMP Crime Reduction Unit in connection with a large number of thefts from vehicles that occurred in the early morning hours of April 28. Charges of theft and possession of stolen property are being recommended against the man who is to appear in court on July 23. Foreman noted that while the thief is

the one facing charges, the owners of the vehicles also have to share some of the blame. “It is important to note that every vehicle targeted was left unlocked and many had valuable items in plain view,” he said. “Oceanside RCMP would again like to remind the public to lock their vehicle doors and remove any valuables from their vehicle when parked.”

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MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE 60â€™S RETRO Bdrm Suite, 3-piece, $300; Antique living room chairs (2) $50 ea, Dining Rm table/4chairs, $100; Buffet, $200; Bookcase, $75; Roll Top Desk $75; Treddle Sewing Mach. $100. 250-753-0806 ANTIQUE MAPLE dining suite, centre claw leg, $200. Wool carpets/Sears, 3-matching. Dusty rose w/pastel edging. $125. 1 (250)753-7397 AT LAST! An iron filter that works. IronEater! Fully patented Canada/U.S.A. Removes iron, hardness, smell, manganese. Since 1957. Visit our 29 innovative inventions online; w w w. b i g i r o n d r i l l i n g . c o m . Phone 1-800-BIG-IRON. BLACK & DECKER electric lawn mower, $125. Push lawn mower, $75. 22â€? Apex TV, $25. (250)752-4742.

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WELL 1813 sq ft rancher, excellent cond, built 2002 in quiet cul de sac. 3 bdrm, 2 baths, walk in closet, granite work tops, hardwood/ceramic flooring. Open plan. Lrg kitchen w/island, walk in pantry.S/S appl. RV & boat parking at rear. Private easy care yard. $429,000. Call 250-594-3919

HOUSES FOR SALE Incredible 5 acre treed PARK-LIKE PROPERTY with Well-Maintained Furnished Home 1500 sq.ft, 3-bdrm, 2 bath. Extremely close to Pristine Cowichan Lake, in the town of Caycuse. Perfect for recreational property or full time living. Motivated seller $378,800. Exceptionally low yearly cost. Not leased land. Call 250-745-3387 smartytwo@hotmail.com

COLLEGE HEIGHTS. 3-level, 4bdrm +1bdrm suite. Beautiful Ocean & City views. 0% Down! Easy to buy. Call (250)753-0160 for more info.

Wetherby Apartments For Seniors - 55+ 3205 Wetherby Road Seniors only please - 55+. Bachelor - $725 1 bdrm - $915 2 bdrm - $1100 This seniors only building has on site laundry, outdoor and covered parking, Shopping at Hillside Mall is just steps away. Pets welcome with some restrictions. Please call Bonny at 250-598-1650 weth@raamco.ca to view our available suites.

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MORE SPACE FOR LESS Storage Containers Currently available: 8â€™ x 20â€™ $105. + taxes. Open storage for RVs, cars, boats, trailers: $40. + taxes for first 20â€™ $2 each additional foot.

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SUITES, UPPER HILLIERS SPACIOUS 1 bdrm upper Duplex, includes all appls and hydro. No pets. Non-smoking. $800/mo. Avail June 1st. Call 250-752-9066.

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ANTIQUE PLAYER Pano Built in 1913. Approx 100 rolls of music beautiful sound, very good condition. $2,500. 250-334-3667

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RENTALS APARTMENT/CONDO 10 MINS from Qualicum, recently re-decorated, grd level. $500. NS/NP. Available now. Call 1-250-954-4018. AVAIL JUNE 1st. 2 bdrm, 2 bath Patio home, Emerald Estates (Parksville), mint condition, weekly housekeeping inclâ€™d in $1300/mo rent. Optional dining program avail. Call (250)248-7612. PARKSVILLERENOâ€™D 2 bdrm Apt, free storage & parking, quiet bldg, heat/hot water included. Avail June. 1. $800. Call 250-248-3350.

1994 TOYOTA Celica GT hatchback, white, fully loaded, power windows/door locks, factory sun roof, A/C, new 17â€? mag wheels, new profile tires ($1100 wheels & tires). $2000. (250)752-5162. 1997 OLDS 88 - GREEN 159 K. fully load, clean, good cond. 6 cyl, 3800 cc. Runs well. new michelins + 4 good snows on rims. $2900. obo 250-752-7064

1993 FORD Escort station wagon, 5 speed transmission. 134,000 miles (mostly tow miles). Excellent condition for age. Raodmaster Hitch. $2,500 obo. Call (778)4247784.

2004 5th WHEEL 24â€™6â€? Westwind 5th Wheel. Best of towable & liveable, new queen matt., rear kit., New roof, great condition. Canadian made. Second marine battery wheels repack. $15,500. Truck also avail. Call 250-586-4716

SENIOR MALE seeks bachelor/studio apt. in Parksville. N/S, N/P, Quiet, good natured. Call Amor 250-228-1469.

TRANSPORTATION ANTIQUE/CLASSICS 2001 PONTIAC SUNFIRE: 4/Door. standard. Great on gas. Lots of extras. 2nd owner. $2000 obo. 250-618-3147.

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BLOWOUT 2007 DRV Dbl Tree Suites, 36TK3, exc cond, huge living, U-kitchen, king master, superslides. $39,995. www.beautifulrv.net 250-6185138. Truck also avail for sale.

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1955 Ford Thunderbird, convertable hardtop, V8 Auto, T-Bird Blue, Good condition. Call 250-951-8895 or 250-586-6555

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4 KUMHO Radial Snow tires, Very good condition. 205/65R 16 95Q. $100.00 obo. Call 250-954-1066

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543 SEAWARD Way, Qualicum Beach, Almost 1400 sq.ft.,2 bdrm, 2 bath, 2 blocks to ocean. Bare land strata. $58/mo. strata fee. Completely updated, Granite Countertops, Guest Ensuite, H/W floors & much more. On site RV Parking avail.(free). Priced to sell. $341,900, Call Daniel at 250752-5780.

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ATTRACTIVE COMMERCIAL SPACE - Craig St, in vibrant downtown Parksville. Near Tuesday Night Market and Community Centre. 1160 sq ft. Call Keith - 1 (866) 682-4244

1987 BIGFOOT (11.5â€™) and truck. Roomy, comfortable, clean interior. Queen & Dble beds. Good shape. 1 owner. $9,000. (250)758-2067

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WHISKEY CREEK. 3-bdrm, 1 bath, 850 sq.ft. manufactured home. Priv. 1/4 acre lot. $950. + hydro. 1(250)537-7279.

2002 BMW-X5 4-Door, 4WD, new front brakes, 1460km, Power package. Great condition. $12,500. (250)618-7589

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QUALICUM BAY: Senior Park, newer 5th wheel with slide, N/S, 1 pet under 20lbs allowed. Water, hydro, sewer and pad rent incldâ€™d, $475/mo. Call (778)424-7784.

2001 GMC Jimmy- 4 x 4, New tires, new brakes, front & back, A/C, AM/FM, CD, 239,000 kms, Only $4000.00 Call 250-594-4342.

HOMES FOR RENT 12 MINS north of Qualicum Beach, 1600 sq ft rancher for lease. 3 bdrms, 2 baths, 6 appls, N/S, N/P, no drugs. Avail now. View today. $1100 + utils. Call 250-756-6713, 250-756-5714. 3-BDRM, 1 bath. W/D in Eagle Crest. Walking distance to schools & beach. N/S. Pets OK. $1250. Avail immed. (250)586-3636. BOWSER Oceanfront. 1100 sq.ft. 2-bdrm, Beach access. New applâ€™s, wood burning F/P, W/D hook-up, carport, shed. N/S. $1100. (250)751-1548. PARKSVILLE: ACROSS from Foster Park, 3 bdrm, 2 bath $1175, N/S. 250-951-1827.

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TRUCKS & VANS 1991 CHEV PICK-UP 4x4 350 auto, 1/2 ton, good condition. $1700. (250)245-3307. 2004 CHEVY Express van 2500 V8. 128,000 km, fully shelved, ready for work. $10,500. obo. (250)248-1358.

2000 CBR 600F4, 23000km,perfect dealer maintenance, New tires, chain, sprockets,battery, full tune, valves,timing, fluids,brakes. $4000.00, Helmet & Jacket $450.00 Call or text: #250-240-9556

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Thank You The Qualicum Beach Downtown Business Association would like to thank the companies who supported our fundraiser and helped make the Buddy Holly 50’s Dance Party held on Saturday, April 27th at the QB Civic Centre a tremendous success. Remax Anchor Realty Faye’s Gifts Bailey’s

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Lefty’s Fresh Food Restaurant Village Clothing

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Patrick Nicholson – D.J. Services • Michael Behm – Sound Engineer ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS and the 320 rock & rollers who came out to enjoy the evening and support the efforts of the QBDBA. We are pleased to donate $1000, a portion of the event’s proceeds to the KSS Automotive Program in memory of Gary Hopkins of Gary’s Bistro.

QUALICUM BEACH MUSEUM

Films reveal town’s history Public launch of project in June NEIL HORNER news@pqbnews.com

What was Qualicum Beach like when it was first settled? That’s a tough question to answer, considering the dearth of written records detailing the growth of the town. However, there are still a few people in town who remember how things used to be, and their knowledge is being put to good use by the Qualicum Beach Museum. At a special screening recently, museum manager Netanja Wadell and her team of volunteers showed off their latest project to bring Qualicum Beach’s history to life. This installment of the museum’s oral history project, she said, involves two films by Cliff Craven, featuring local elders reminiscing about the days when Qualicum Beach had no paved streets and automobiles were still a rare sight. The films features short interviews with pioneers such as Evelyn Mitchell, Helen Eggersman, Frances Doginson and Herbert Topliffe, along with

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Qualicum Beach residents gathered in the 1940s to enjoy a picnic in the great outdoors.

scenes from the early years. The two films will be available for viewing in a special section upstairs at the Beach Road facility and can be started with the press of a button. “The idea was to capture the story of Qualicum Beach,” Waddell said. “One of our pioneers just turned 100, so time was of the essence to capture the story. Many of these people were born and raised in Qualicum Beach, so they know what happened and we wanted to capture their memories while they were still

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The 2013 Vancouver Island Taekwondo Championships happened on Saturday, where over 260 students converged and competed at the Parksville Curling Club. Here, Samuel Atagi (right) and N. Cole Schiml spar in the martial art Chanbara, using padded-weapons.

Parksville hosts taekwondo event Over 260 at friendly Island tournament hosted by Parksville Taekwondo Academy The weekend’s big sporting event saw over 260 taekwondo students competing in Parksville. Organizer Brett Fee of the Parksville Taekwondo Academy said the friend-

ly gathering was mostly about giving mid-Island students a chance to experience the tournament atmosphere, and continue their development. The 2013 Vancouver Island Taekwon-

do Championships were definitely the largest martial arts event Fee’s aware of in the Parksville Qualicum Beach area and possibly the largest on the Island north of Victoria.

The students came from 12 schools and ranged from age five to adult It was also a great chance for the area’s 10 young referees to gain experience. — Auren Ruvinsky

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Parksville U16 at Strawberry Vale tournament Parksville’s girls fastball teams of all ages are doing well all over the province. Last weekend the U16 Rage went undefeated at a Strawberry Vale tournament. The sun came out as the Rage — coached by Sheryl McNichol and Greg Roy — played five tight games against Langford, Peninsula and Duncan. Peninsula led for most of the final game before the Rage pulled it together and did what they do best, hit. Parksville earned seven runs in the final inning to win 114. The U16 girls have been working hard and are aiming to compete in the 2013 provincials in Chilliwack mid July.

The Parksville U18 B Rage girls also competed last weekend at a tournament in Kelowna. Battling a lot of good teams the Parksville girls earned a hard fought fifth place finish. The team is hosting their annual golf fundraiser June 8 at the Eagle Crest golf course. Call Kris at 250954-7510 for more information. Also, the Parksville U12 girls have two teams this year, the Red Rage and Black Rage. Both teams won their games at this year’s opening ice breaker tournament in Nanaimo. This group of girls appear poised to start moving up the ranks. — Submitted by Sheryl McNichol

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Parksville’s U16 Rage fastball team were undefeated in Strawberry Hill.

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PQB BEACHES

Discover the beaches of Parksville-Qualicum Beach! Sponsored by Ron & Peggy Mehan

MADRONA POINT

Divers and lovers

What to bring

JILL DAVIES Special to The NEWS

Oceanside has hundreds of hidden beaches loved by those with local knowledge and magical for the curious to explore. Madrona Point is one of these and will amply reward those wanting to venture beyond the obvious and popular large beaches. The access to the beach is at the end of a paved cul-de-sac. Although parking there is limited to just a few spaces, further down the road cars can be safely parked. The short path to the beach is found just to the right of a newly constructed driveway and takes you down a short trail of maybe 15-20 metres. As the path leads you through a copse of trees and bush, part way along there are two natural steps bound by tree roots. The first glimpse of the bay is framed through an archway of fir and leaning arbutus. Along the way a path to the right winds through the trees to a grassy headland and will also lead to the shore The main beach is a small cove hidden from view of nearby homes. It is flanked either side by great shelves of conglomerate and then sandstone rock with occasional boulder like ironstone protrusions that have built up over thousands of years. At low tide, these together with the many rock pools among a carpet of rockweed invite further exploration To the left, walking along the shoreline or over the sandstone, the view opens up from the distant Pacific Shores, along the beach at Craig Bay to the scattering of resort cottages and then the old growth forest and long stretch of sandy beach that is Rathtrevor. Behind Rathtrevor are the soaring peaks of Mt Moriarty and Mt Arrowsmith. In the late spring these are still capped with snow and on a clear day, rosy pink in the early morning sun. A small channel in the rock limits further exploration though on this day, a small and curious Harbour seal inquisitively first raised its head above the water to check out the perceived intruder on the rocks and then, just a few minutes later, pulled itself up across the way playing peek-a-boo over the rocks, its dark, bright eyes shining with curiosity. The beach at low tide is fine shingle and sand sloping gently down to the water edge. Sitting on one of the ever convenient logs, weathered, stripped and bleached by salt and sun, it was a place of peace and ease. From there, across the water, the view looks out to the distant Coastal Mountains. To the right is Mistaken Island and, tucked behind, a glimpse of West Ballenas. To the right the beach looks across to the Beachcomber Peninsula and the distant masts of the marina in Northwest Bay. To the right of the cove the sandstone shelf extends to the point and closer to the shoreline, drawing attention, is a gallery of sculpted rocks. These serve to remind us of our place in the universe. As part of the Nanaimo Sandstone Group and among the youngest sandstone and conglomerate rock sequences on the peninsula, they accumulated on top of even older rocks about 80 million years ago. Today they provide a playground for adventurous children of all ages, shelter from whichever way the wind may blow together with sun or shade at most times of the day. Past the point is another small shingle beach and from there a path leads back into the woodland. Above the small bluff there is a bench in memory of one who ‘lived and loved life by the sea’. This too is a sheltered and peaceful place to enjoy the evening sun, maybe watch a sea lion lift its head from the all-engaging task of fishing for its dinner, hear a loon call across the water or possibly spot the distant plume of a whale breaching in the Salish Sea.

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Eric and Jessilee know they have found the perfect place to create lasting memories of their summer wedding — Madrona Point.

What might you see there in late spring? Up until the end of May sea lions will swim out from their winter home in North West Bay, ever graceful in the water, ever following the fish. Harbour seals stay close to the shoreline and raise their curious heads from time to time. If they are fishing salmon then you may see or hear the crack of fish on water as they slap their catch down before swallowing it whole. If you are lucky you may even see the white plume of a whale breaching way off shore, a mother and calf or perhaps a playful school of dolphins. Common Loons can be seen or heard with their plaintive call across the water and, looking up, there are often swooping bald eagles and gracefully curving seagulls; There can be herons too, elegant in flight, and, through till late fall, perhaps turkey vultures, drifting on a thermal as they keenly search for carrion. As you follow the path back to the parking lot, it skirts around the headland and then back among the coastal Douglas fir, Arbutus and Garry oaks bent by wind and

weather. In the woodland you may see small birds including Chickadees and Pine Siskins. Listen for the caw of the occasional crow or the tapping of a Pileated woodpecker. There too you grow the native Salaal, Oregon Grape and, in late spring and early summer, the creamy, cascading clusters of lilac-like flowers of Ocean Spray (otherwise known as the Cream Bush or Ironwood) with their faint, sweet sugary scent. While at Madrona, why not also check out the beach to be found about half way back along Madrona Drive. Look out for a small dirt parking lot big enough for 8-10 vehicles. To the left of the lot a steeper trail drops down to another bay. At high tide this is a great place to swim and at low tide the wide beach with its fine shingle bound either side by rocks is a great place for children to explore. If you want more, travel on to where Arbutus meets Madrona Drive and there by the mail boxes is another trail leading down to a rocky beach.

Beach shoes for scrambling over the rocks • Binoculars, cameras • Maybe a sketchpad or paint box. • If you plan to linger then take water bottles and snacks • Bathers and towels for swimming • If you are a scuba diver or snorkeler then take appropriate gear.

Directions:

• From the Island Highway at Parksville take Northwest Bay from Highway 19a. The turn to Beaverbrook Rd is just over 2 kms from the Parksville Visitor Centre. • From Nanaimo take Northwest Bay Rd from the Petrocan at Highway 19. Turn on Beaver Creek Wharf Rd. • Turn left again onto Madrona Drive (.5 km). Continue for less than a kilometre to the end of the paved road where there is generous room to turn around. • Parking only between 6 am – 10 pm

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Black Press Van Isle 360° 580 mile round Island race gets a new sponsor and name Black Press has signed on as the title sponsor of this year’s Van Isle 360 International Yacht Race, giving its readers the inside passage on the big event as it unfolds. A true test of for man and boat, the Van Isle 360 is a biennial, 580 nautical mile point-to-point race circumnavigating the wild and rugged coast of Vancouver Island. Sailed in ten legs (including a stop in French Creek), the course provides inshore, offshore and overnight sailing “through some of the most stunning and challenging waters on the planet.” According to a recent news release, community newspapers will chart a course alongside sailing yachts from across the Pacific Northwest for the Black Press Van Isle 360° 2013 International Yacht Race. With a race organizer in place, Black Press announced its sponsorship of the event Monday, 15 April 2013. Formerly known as the Cadillac Van Isle 360°, the newly named event will still start and finish in Nanaimo as it has since 1999 when Nanaimo yach-

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The year was 2001 and Nanaimo Skipper Lewis Forth and the crew of the Sidney Rogue were battling 25 knot winds 20 nautical miles southwest of Brooks Peninsula during leg eight of the Van Isle 360 International Yacht Race from Winter Harbour to Ucluelet (which at 138 nautical miles is by far the longest and one of the most grueling of the 10 individual legs) when the halliard snapped sending hearts racing.

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Sun and rain for lawn bowling tournament The Qualicum Beach Lawn Bowling Club held their first open tournament of the year over the weekend. A mixed fours tournament with teams from Courtenay, Nanaimo, Parksville and of course hosts Qualicum Beach. Two teams even came from Victoria. The Qualicum Beach teams didn’t take

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First — Pat and Gwen Kelly, Patti Barrow and John Larner (Parksville). Second — Brenda and Wayne Edwards, Gerry and Marion Whitney (Parksville). Third — Vern Greenhill, Mellie Ursulom (Courtenay) Rick Quibell and Mary Mulligan (Nanaimo). — Submitted by the QBLBC

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An intriguing collaboration of sound and motion will take place at the Whalebone Theatre in Parksville on May 17. Movement & Muse mixes dance by Helix Dance Theatre with music by Ryan McMahon. The show debuted at the Malaspina Theatre April 13 and was so well received organizers are putting on another show in Parksville. Helix Dance Company is a non-profit pre-professional youth dance company based in Parksville. The company’s goal is to create work that demonstrates an elevated technical and artistic calibre, taking dance to a level above competitive-based performances. Members travel from the Comox Valley, Salt Spring Island, Nanaimo and the Parksville Qualicum Beach area. Movement & Muse is a platform for experience, exposure, and training for these young, aspiring dancers. Ryan McMahon is an awardwinning Canadian musician who

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Helix Dance company members are doing a collaborative show with musician Ryan McMahon at the Whalebone theatre on May 17.

resides in Ladysmith. He has toured the country 15 times and shared stages with artists including Lisa Loeb and the group Nickelback. Most of his live perfor-

mances are solo acoustic shows. The performance at Ballenas Secondary School’s Whalebone Theatre takes place at 7:30 p.m. on May 17. Tickets are $15 or

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We want to thank you for all your past business and support. We are very grateful in having you as our patients, and we are proud to have been a contributor to many activities in the local community! We are pleased to advise you that we are very fortunate to continue your care, at the new VIHA Oceanside Health Centre in Parksville, BC. The Oceanside Health Centre will be open on June 24th, 2013 and will begin seeing patients at their Medical Imaging Department on June 24th, 2013. Should you require your images for your specialist appointments dated in June, 2013, please call 250-248-3362 to arrange for a disk to be picked up before May 31st, 2013. As of June 1st, 2013, the equipment and online images will be the possession of VIHA Oceanside Health Centre, and you will need to contact them with any of your requests. Thank you for the opportunity to be a partner in your medical care and we extend our best wishes to you! Sincerely, The Owners & Staff at Parksville X-ray Ltd.

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Annie Louise Genest is playing at the MACoustic Folk Club May 17.

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Enjoy some old-time music mixed with bluegrass and topped with a healthy dose of originality at the MAC on Friday. Annie Louise Genest is playing at the McMillan Arts Centre’s MACoustic Cafe on May 17. Genest has been nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards and a Juno for her music. She spent 20 years living in Yukon Woods where she says she tapped into her exploratory self and started making music. She released a couple of solo albums with electric instruments and then started to find her voice, moving toward acoustic sounds, traditional country, old time music and bluegrass.

Genest moved to this area last year. The music is very community-based, she said in a recent interview with The NEWS, and brings people together. Genest’s first album as The Annie Lou Band received nominations for a Juno and a Canadian Folk Music Award (CFMA). Her latest album, Grandma’s Rules for Drinking, snagged her nominations for two CFMAs last year, as English Songwriter of the Year and Solo Artist of the Year. The title track on that album also reached number one on the international folk DJ chart. On Friday night the doors at the MAC open at 7 p.m. and the concert starts at 7:30. Tickets are $5 at the door. As always, the first half of the concert is an open stage. Slots are limited — those who would like to play contact Kerri Coombs at kerri@livingmidnight.com.

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After trying out some local groups in Victoria, and doing stints in Los Angeles and California, where he tried out singing in a band from Orange County, he decided to pack up and head to Byron Bay, Australia. He needed some time to get his spirit feeling good again, he said. There he played and recorded music and also got some exposure in a less than conventional way. “I’d literally walk into radio stations unannounced and just say something like ‘Hey, I’ve come here from Western Canada, the opposite side of the planet, to give you my music.’ Almost every time, without fail, they’d get super stoked and want to know why, what I’m doing, all of that,” he said. Vaccaro has shared stages with artists like Mumford & Sons, Sam Roberts, City & Colour,

Bedouin Soundclash and Matthew Good. He has five full-length albums under his belt, as well as two EPs and several singles. He recently finished up his new album Byron Songs, featuring songs written almost entirely in Byron Bay. At the Erringon Hall on May 17 Vaccaro said people can expect to hear some music performed by someone who does it from the heart. He’ll be performing solo acoustic, he said. Tickets are $15 at Cranky Dog Music in Parksville, Heaven on Earth in Qualicum Beach and the Errington Store. Under 12s are $5 at the door and under 5s are free. For more on Vince Vaccaro visit www.vincevaccaro.com and find his music on iTunes, Soundcloud and other online music sites.

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A Spring Market fundraiser will benefit the parrots of the World Parrot Refuge, like the ones seen here with owner Wendy Huntbatch last December.

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Come shop for natural products, accessories, food products, pet products, jewelry and more May long weekend, while helping out the parrots. It’s called The World Parrot Refuge Spring Market, a fundraiser for the refuge. There will be food vendors on site and there will also be a fortune teller.

It all happens at the refuge May 18 through 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, located at 2114 Alberni Hwy. in Coombs. More vendors are wanted for the event. Tables for interested vendors are $10 a day. Find the Facebook Page for more information: World Parrot Refuge Spring Market and Giant Yard Sale. You can also contact organizer Jody James at onetwothreewee@hotmail.com.

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Wine matched with choreography Former Parksville student part of unique event LISSA ALEXANDER reporter@pqbnews.com

A professional dancer who spent a year training at the Parksville Ballet School is participating in the BLOOM choreographic residency with renowned Canadian choreographer Jennifer Mascall.

An event will take place May 14, 21 and 28 in Vancouver featuring the dancer, Kelly McInnes, who now lives in Vancouver. The event is called BLOOM: Experience dance through the wine’s eye and the comic’s tongue, and it combines choreography with wine and a stand-up comedy. At the event a sommelier selects wine for each work based on adjectives the seven choreographers used to de-

scribe their dances. Spectators then sip the wine while viewing a five minute excerpt of the dance. Following that a stand-up comic interprets the dance. The event takes place at Mascall Dance Studio at 1130 Jarvis St. in Vancouver. Tickets are $10 which includes a glass of wine. The show runs from 5:15 to 6:15. For more information on the company visit www.mascalldance.ca.

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Parksville Elementary’s carnival is PAC’s main fundraising event of year Elementary school’s carnival scheduled for May 31 LISSA ALEXANDER reporter@pqbnews.com

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A free “Re-Cycle” program is taking in, fixing up and redistributing bikes. It’s called the Everyone Rides program, a project of the District 69 Family Resource Association (FRA), a non-profit, charitable organization that serves families, youth and children, at no cost. The organization has partnered with PASS/Woodwinds Alternate School to help tune-up the bikes. The program began last year and has allowed the FRA to give out bikes to toddlers, students and adults that may not otherwise be able to have a bike. “It’s great when the community members come and donate them and then to see how much they are appreciated and needed and how useful they are in our community — it’s just a really wonderful program,” said Donna Jager, youth services co-ordinator at the FRA. Jager said the idea came from their executive

director Deborah Joyce, and then Jager began to see a real need for it in the community, so they sprung into action. Transportation is a problem for many people in District 69 and this is one way to help address the problem, she said. A 15-year-old student from PASS named Kyle Johnson did some work experience at Arrowsmith Bikes last year and has a real aptitude for mechanics, said child and youth care worker at PASS/Woodwinds, Paul Boyle. Johnson will mentor other students at the school to work on the bikes and those students will receive credit toward their school completion. The program is looking for bikes for any age group that are in good working order. They are also in need of temporary storage for the bikes, if someone has an empty garage or shop space they are willing to donate for usage. Anyone who has a bike or needs a bike can contact Jager at donna@d69fra.org or 250-752-6766. Visit www.d69fra.org for more on the FRA.

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A question that seems to keep mented soy foods were not found arising is the one about how soy to be beneficial when it comes to factors in to prostate health. Some prostate cancer risk. say soy is all bad, others tout it as Much of the protective qualities a miracle food, still others claim of soy has been attributed to soy only fermented soy is worthwhile. isoflavones. Since some of these What is one to think? isoflavones are also known as phyIn Canada, prostate cancer is the toestrogens, there has been some most common cancer diagnosed concern over male fertility. While in men. With about 25,000 ex- one study gained a lot of publicipected new cases to be diagnosed ty over suggesting that soy could yearly (Canadian Cancer Statistics, adversely affect sperm counts, it 2011), it would be good to clear was not able to prove cause and up the confusion around soy and effect. This same study did not see prostate health. any changes in sperm While cancer may quality and motility have genetic factors (Chavarro 2008). to consider, more and By Dr. Tara Macart While several more, we must recmechanisms of action ognize environmenhave been proposed tal factors, like diet, for soy’s anti-canas major influences cer activity, the take on the incidence and home message is that progression of cancer. soy consumption is Research supports safe and wise to eat the idea that soy conif you want to reduce sumption reduces your risk of prostate the risk of prostate cancer (Hsing, cancer. 2000). Dietary soy is a cultural What has not been explored yet, norm in Asia where there is a lower however, is the difference between incidence of prostate cancer. Un- organic soy versus non-organic fortunately, this favorable statistic and GMO soy in respect to cancer. changes as Asian people adopt I recommend selecting organic soy lifestyles common to western as a healthful food. The non-orcountries (Cook 1999, Sim 2005). ganic/GMO soy is a wild card that In compiling multiple studies does not have centuries of safe usthat looked at the association of age to back it up as safe. I prefer soy consumption and prostate to reduce exposure to chemical cancer, researchers found that residues that may be present in people who eat soy frequent- non-organic products and the unly had a 30 % reduced risk, (Yan known effects of GMO foods in the 2005). When further analyzing for diet. the variable of fermentation, ferOrganic tofu stir fry anyone?

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Centuries ago, when Christopher Columbus brought biscotti to the New World it was markedly different from what Mirella Trozzo makes today. “When he brought them they were different, they were rock hard and they had lots of oil in them because they had to survive the long ship journeys,” said Trozzo, owner and founder of Biscotti Di Notte and more. Trozzo makes a non-traditional biscotti, which originated from a family Italian recipe, and then she tweaked it, and designed and commissioned her own baking tools. The result is a softer, more textured and rustic looking biscotti that comes in a variety of flavours. There’s double chocolate mocha, lemon cranberry, orange walnut anise, ginger mango and almond vanilla. And there’s the ones she makes for seasons and special occasions like chocolate chili lime for the Fire and Ice Festival and a seedy biscotti for Seedy Saturday. Biscotti is traditionally served with a drink, and often dunked into coffee, or after dinner, into wine. Trozzo’s biscotti is sold at Quality Food Stores around the Island and from her home in Qualicum Beach.

Trozzo started Biscotti Di Notte 10 years ago when her children were three and six years old. She dreamt of visiting her home country, Italy, and needed some funds to get there. She would stay up late, after her children went to bed, perfecting her one-of-a-kind biscotti, hence the name Biscotti Di Notte which translates to “cookies of the night.” “I wanted to create something within my home that I loved, that I had a passion for, and that’s baking.” Trozzo was born in Italy and came to Canada when she was young. She recalls eating Italian cookies her mother made when she was young. Being the oldest of five, the kids would line up for her mom’s pizzelle (a waffle cookie cooked in an iron over a stovetop), one of the oldest cookies in the world and the most versatile, Trozzo said. Trozzo makes these ancient cookies, as well as Italian short bread and hearty mercatto muffins. She has also perfected a gluten-free energy bar made with quinoa and dried fruits, among other tasty ingredients, that she plans to sell soon. She’ll be set up at the Lantzville Farmers’ Market on Sundays this season where she’ll also be selling homemade macaroons and limoncello tiramisu.

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Mirella Trozzo is the owner and sole-baker of Biscotti Di Notte, Cookies of the Night.

Although Trozzo has built up a devoted fan base of her baked goods, she still has yet to make it home to Italy. Her kids are now in Grades 9 and 12 and life continues to get in the way of her trip. Her goals for her business include acquiring a vintage-style food truck in the near future, to make it easier to sell her baked

goods at markets. She also hopes to attract more cookie-lovers to her home at 1026 Cardinal Way in Qualicum Beach. There she’ll be open for sales Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. To contact Trozzo directly email biscottidinotte@shaw.ca or call 250-7523637.

Laws being changed regarding locked-in accounts

I continue to get many questions on how to unlock locked-in accounts. First, let me start by explaining what a lockedin account is. Employees who retire, terminate their employment early, or find their pension plan being discontinued need to make some important decisions. Some pension plans are being closed and employees have the “lump sum” or “annuity” option. Other people are faced with a difficult choice of whether to take a lump sum of money from the pension today, purchase an annuity, or wait to receive a monthly cheque at retirement. The lump sum option allows the fully vested (owned) pension benefits to be transferred to a locked-in registered plan. What is a locked-in account? This type of investment account is registered and is one where the plan issuer signs an agreement with your employer to “lock-in” your pension plan proceeds until retirement. A lump sum from your

pension plan is transferred into the regisThe minimum and maximum withtered locked-in investment account. The draw amount will fluctuate from year to age at which the funds may be released, year and is based on the previous yearand to what uses they may be put, vary end value. The year-to-year amount will vary depending on the with the pension legislation amount of money you withgoverning the plan. Any draw, the income your plan amounts earned by the plan earned and any market flucalso become locked-in. By Stuart Kirk tuations that may occur. A Withdrawals are generalLIF is similar to a RRIF in that ly not allowed from Lockedthe holder is required to rein Registered Savings Plans ceive a minimum payment (LRSP) or Locked-In Reout of the plan each year. The tirement Accounts (LIRA), minimum payment levels are except in limited circumcalculated using the same stances such as shortened method used for RRIF paylife expectancy, small balments. Additionally, these ance or financial hardship. The governing legislation controls accounts are subjected to a maximum these funds, even though the employee withdrawal limit. The maximum amount can invest them as they wish (similar to is established by a formula, which takes an RRSP). Some provinces have been into account a discount factor and your changing their legislation with respect to age. In the first year a LIF is opened, there locked-in accounts.

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is no minimum withdrawal required, however, there is still a maximum allowable payment. This maximum is prorated for the number of months, including the month of transfer into the plan, remaining in the year. One can transfer this maximum amount in the first year to a RRSP even if you have no RRSP room and in subsequent years you may transfer the difference between the minimum and maximum payments, this can be done up until age 71. Remember to always consult your advisor before taking any action. Stuart Kirk is a Wealth Advisor with Precision Wealth Management Ltd. The opinions expressed are those of the author and may not necessarily reflect those of Precision Wealth Management Ltd. For comments or questions Stuart can be reached at stuart@precisionwealth.ca or 250-954-0247. Website: www.precisionwealth.ca

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MENTAL HEALTH COLUMN

Mom taught Neill how to evaluate risk

Last week was a heavy one for me. I at- so she taught me to save. I saved enough tended funeral services for two women, from part-time jobs to buy a new bicyboth of whom were mothers. cle at 10. I saw boat plans in a magazine A funeral can be a time of deep reflec- and she helped me work out a plan for tion, a time to grieve the one who just building one. Again from part-time jobs I died and reflect on her life and her lega- bought tools by mail order and materials cy. A funeral is also a time to grieve past from a local lumber mill. It took all winter losses. My mind went to adult children I to learn how to use the tools and build an have lost, to a brother who died when I eight-foot punt, but I completed my first was in my 30s, to my father boat at age 11. She was my who perished in a plane cheering section. crash when I was eight, and And she taught me at an especially to my mother By Dr. Neill Neill early age an ability to evaluwho died at 40 in a car crash ate risk and then the willingwhen I was 16. ness to take a risk. Whenever The services were attendI wanted to do something ed by many friends and relthat carried risk, for example, atives, including adult chilhitchhiking to an aunt’s place dren, nieces and nephews in Toronto (80 miles) at age of the deceased. I thought 10, she grilled me on an unabout how lucky these peoderstanding of the risks and ple were to have known then on how I would handle their mother or aunt during their own this or that situation. When she was satisadult lives, something I never got to do fied, she would support my decision to go. with my own mother. I admit those were different times. I Yet my mother has been with me later found out that she was often terriduring my adult life. She finished her for- fied, but never let on, lest it interfere with mal schooling before she turned 11, yet a well-thought-out plan. Mother’s gift of she instilled in us children the value of managing risk has opened doors for me education. All four of us got at least one through my entire adult life. university degree. We were poor, yet we Thank you, mother, and thank you to never felt poor. We learned generosity all you mothers who have encouraged through her generosity. your children to pursue their potential. Even more important was my mothYou can reach Registered Psychologist er’s indomitable belief that anything is Dr. Neill Neill at 250-752-8684 or through possible. At age seven, I wanted a bicycle, his website www.neillneill.com

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Golfers, history fans and local politicians gathered at the Qualicum Beach Memorial Golf Course Friday to inaugurate the newly-refurbished third hole. The new green, said club president Dave Kovach, has been two years in the making and comes as the golf course begins celebrations to mark its 100th year as an integral part of the Qualicum Beach scene. As a small crowd of onlookers

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The accolades handed to the Fine Arts Department at Kwalikum Secondary School over the years have been numerous and it was easy to see and hear why after the 19th Annual Premiere Performance April 30. Held at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre the event allows the community to come and experience a tradition of excellence and the strides made by students in the music, drama and visual arts departments at KSS. The art exhibition included masterpieces in all mediums which are currently on display at the Oceanside Community Arts Centre in Parksville until May 25. There was a clever skit presented by the drama department and the stellar performances by the Grade 9/10 concert band, Grade 9/10 chamber choir and Grade 10/12 concert band proved once again why the music department at KSS continues to live up to its reputation as one of the most successful and prominent school music programs in Canada. You may not recognize Karen Waugh the next time you ring your purchase through at Shoppers Drug Mart in Parksville. That’s because she cut off all of her hair for Locks of Love on May 4 during the store’s fundraising gala for the Look Good Feel Better Organization which benefits women who are or who have had to struggle with the effects from cancer. Those who attended and made a donation were treated to some terrific cosmetic goody bags as well as makeovers and other pampering treatments. According to Lori Koop at the Parksville Career Centre 396 people checked out a Hiring Fair they hosted May 2 at the Parksville Community & Conference Centre. She said it provided a great opportunity for job seekers to connect with local employers. She added the Career Centre is the place to be Monday morning for Hot Leads Hour. At 9:30 staff go over the latest hot job leads and most recent labour market information. The Beach Club Resort celebrated Bellstar Hotels & Resorts 10th anniversary with a Mexican themed afternoon and fun activities on May 5, which also happened to be Cinco de Mayo, the anniversary of a victory in 1862 of the Mexican army’s fight for independence from French forces. The resort certainly had the weather and the beach setting for their fiesta which included food and drinks inspired by Mexico and a piñata. Beach Club Resort employees did their part for Earth Day April 22 by collecting garbage along the Parksville boardwalk. The resort recently joint the EcoStay Program which means guests will have the opportunity to completely neutralize the impact of their stay on the environment. There should be some more relaxed and fit people in the community after Dr. Keith Jeffery presented a seminar on the practice of 4 Minute Fitness to a large group at the Parksville Community & Conference Centre May 8. Parksville Pharmasave hosted the free event which was also used as a fundraiser for the Telus Walk to cure diabetes. Pharmacist owner Tammie Toriglia said they have always supported diabetes research and anyone who makes a donation to the walk which takes place in Nanaimo June 2 will receive a 25% discount off a Pharmasave brand product.

Alto sax players Sarah Hildebrandt and Caleb Borsboom are both rising stars in the KSS music program. The Grade 9 students were among the top brass that performed with the Grade 9/10 Concert Band April 30 at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre for the Kwalikum Fine Arts Program Premier Performance.

Karen Waugh (right) cut off all of her hair for Locks of Love on May 4 during a fundraising gala at Shoppers Drug Mart in Parksville for the Look Good Feel Better Organization. Her co-worker Lori White was one of the many supporters who donated cash to Karen’s cause to take a snip out of cancer.

The Career Centre in Parksville hosted a Hiring Fair May 2 at the Parksville Community & Conference Centre. Twana MacArthur of Parksville used the onestop job shop to drop off some resumes and visit with some of the gals from Tigh-Na-Mara Seaside Resort including (left) Amanda Foucault, Cindy Lunde and Narinder Kaur.

10 year old Eve Halverson (left) and nine year old Tyler Goodman of Parksville may have felt like they were in Mexico May 5. They spent the sunny day swimming in Parksville Bay and then strolled up to the Beach Club Resort which was celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a piñata and other Mexican favourites.

Dr. Keith Jeffery with the assistance of 14 year old Lindsay Pilton (middle) and 15 year old Sophie Debruyne demonstrated how everyone can learn his easy 4-minute routine of stretching and breathing to improve their health. The Parksville Pharmasave invited Lindsay who has Type 1 diabetes to the event at the PCCC so she could raise some funds in her campaign to find a cure for the disease.

The Parksville Lawn Bowling Club held a successful open house back in April and recruited some new members. Here Olav Skjelbred demonstrated some of the skills used in lawn bowling to 15 year old AJ Messner. The club will be home to some of the best lawn bowlers in the province on June 7, 8 and 9 when it hosts the Open Classic Mens Triples event.

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