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The Royal Canadian Legion, Lake Cowichan Branch No. 210 would sincerely like to thank all those in the Cowichan Lake area who contributed to our 2013 Poppy Campaign and Remembrance Day Ceremonies. To the organizers and businesses that purchased wreaths or allowed us to place a poppy box in their store and to the members who canvassed, delivered and picked them up. To all those who helped on Poppy Tag Day, your time was really appreciated. To those who took part and to those who attended the ceremony at the cenotaph. To all the members who helped out at the Legion on November 11th, our deepest gratitude.

Sincerely, 2013 Poppy Committee Legion Branch #210, Lake cowichan has made donations from their Bingo and Meat Draw funds to the following:

St. John Ambulance $600.00 Cowichan Lake District Figure Skating $500.00 Cowichan Valley Lacrosse $250.00 Sonya Matthews, for wheel chair ramp $250.00 Duncan Christian School, Basketball Championship $250.00 Lake Cowichan Minor Hockey, Bantams $250.00 Army Cadet Corp., Duncan $800.00 D.A.R.E. B.C. equipment & supplies $500.00 Lake Cowichan Road Hockey Tourny $500.00 Cowichan Pipes and Drum Corp. $800.00 Admiral Mainguy Sea Cadets $800.00 #744 Cowichan Air Cadet Squadron $800.00 community Services: -Summer Camp Program $2,500.00 - Activity Center $2,500.00 -Parenting Group $2,500.00 -Children and Adult Programs $2,500.00 - Meals on Wheels $2,500.00 L.c.S.S. Bursaries: -Sierra Tjepkema $500.00 -Leah Hudson $500.00 -Darien Robertson $500,00 -Nicole Gibson $500.00 -David Piatkowski $500.00 -Mallory Marrs $500.00 community Services: - Christmas Hampers $750.00 Lake Cowichan Minor Hockey, Initiation Teams Jamboree $250.00 total $23,301.00 Approximately $7,630,50 was raised in this years Poppy Campaign. Donations made from 2012 Poppy Campaign were to the Cowichan District Hospital for drapes and refurbishing of the Cairnsmore Annex in the amount of 1,500.00.

Many thanks to the community, our patrons, and our members for their support over the year.

On behalf of the Executive of Legion Br. #210, Lake Cowichan, BEST WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! Sincerely, Wilma Rowbottom, President.

Malcolm Chalmers

Top, clockwise: The ‘Choir of Angels’ from the Grades 4/5 classes singing the Christmas songs at LCS’s student Laura Frost’s Christmas play the Light of Christmas Morning.

Jewel Jamieson, Grade 6, plays the Christmas fairy.

Alexa Balbes, Grade 7, plays the shining star in the sky.

Lauren Frost, Grade 11, is all smiles after her successful run of the play she wrote.

Meaghan McKechnie, Grade 7 and Allan Aldes, Grade 6 are the narrators of the play that takes place Christmas Eve.

The crowd was hushed as the lake Cowichan School theatre opened its elementary Christmas production penned and directed by Grade 11 student Lauren Frost.

“The play is basically about a small Scrooge-like town, obsessed with presents,” said Lauren.

Susan — who was played by Sage De Pol — loves the generosity and spirit of Christmas. She moves to the small Scrooge-like town and is pestered by the other kids because she tries to tell them the true meaning of Christmas and they don’t believe her.

In a letter to Santa, Susan asked that he help the kids believe and understand what Christmas was about.

Santa sends a Christmas fairy — played by Jewel Jamieson — who waved her wand over the town, the angels sang, yet the kids still don’t believe even with Sasha Snow Angel — played by Divinity Arbic — telling them it was all true. With that, the Christmas star — played by Alexa Balbes — shone down and told the Christmas story and the town started to understand and believe.

Touched with the spirit of Christmas giving, the kids bought presents and donated them to charity.

“Merry Christmas to all, and to all good night!”

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Christmas with the kids

A Berry Merry Holiday at Palsson school

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Realistic approach to contracts a big important change

One of Canada’s great “Union bargaining power takes a entrepreneurial success stories trip down the pooper.” in recent years is WestJet, the I think there’s more than that Calgary-based airline that is going on. Perhaps today’s union expanding across the country and leadership is beginning to accept taking on European routes. that its wage, benefit and pension Clive Beddoe, the founding arrangements look pretty good CEO of Westjet, was famous for compared to the harsh reality of helping the cabin crew tidy up the private businesses competing in a plane before getting off a flight. global economy.

And the company is also known I asked Premier Christy Clark if for its profit-sharing program, this new approach is inspired by with all employees referred to as private-sector profit sharing. She “owners” who have a stake in the agreed that is the model. success of the operation.

“I think that’s a great principle I thought of this management for all of us to work from,” Clark approach when news emerged said. “Until now, the growth of that the B.C. public sector government was wages has been offering public completely service unions insulated from a new kind of changes in the contract, with a private sector. five-year term and BC Bureau And this is the

By Tom Fletcher wage increases first time we’ve tied to improved ever been able to economic growth. successfully link The surprising thing is that those two things. At this point unions are accepting the idea, it’s still a small increment wage even though provincial growth growth, but it’s a big change, and must exceed the government’s I hope we can continue to build independent economic forecast on it.” council projections before it can From an employee perspective, take effect in a given year. it is indeed modest. If real gross The generally non-militant domestic product increases one Health Sciences Association per cent beyond the independent was the first to recommend forecast used in the provincial acceptance of a five-year budget, employees get an agreement with only 5.5 per cent additional half of one per cent raise raises guaranteed. Then they for that year. were joined by negotiators for It takes me back to my first 51,000 health and social services union job, where I was warned employees, represented by the never to take just one sick day. We B.C. Government Employees’ negotiated for two at a time, so Union and other unions that have always take two, the union rep told long been adversaries of the B.C. me. Implicit in this is the mindset Liberals. that employees should give as little John Fryer, negotiator for and take as much as possible. the BCGEU going back to the Looking through my files each epic battles with Social Credit December for the B.C. story of the governments and now a professor year, I consider what is likely to at University of Victoria, wasn’t matter five or 10 years from now. impressed when he heard the This partnership approach to news. building the provincial economy is “These deals reflect what my pick for 2013. happens when public sector Tom Fletcher is the legislative reporter unions back the losing party in and columnist for Black Press. a provincial election,” he said.

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Organizers hope to expand Lake Days logger sports show It has been just over six months since Lake Days went country. Now it’s time to start planning for the 70th Lake Days Celebration.

Last year’s celebration was a successful event, thanks to our fantastic community spirit and, of course, fantastic weather.

The Lake Days Society could never accomplish this event without the tremendous support from local businesses and our dedicated volunteers.

We hope to bring back the ever popular West Coast Lumberjack to perform on Lake Days weekend.

The local forest companies happily sponsor this event every year that showcases logging technique from the past and present with a taste of comedy and

some crowd participation. This group has a larger show they can bring to town, which would include log burling and spar tree-climbing. If we can add a couple more corporate sponsors this would be possible.

We will be holding our annual general meeting in mid-January, and invite anyone who is interested to come join us. After the AGM we meet monthly to plan the week-long festival during the second week in June.

If you wish to find out more about Lake Days and it’s history, please visit our website at cowichanlakedays.com and if you want to ask any questions don’t hesitate to send us an email at cowichanlakedays@hotmail.ca —Bob K Day

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Chris Gravelle “We have breakfast in the morning before we open any presents. It’s a big breakfast with the whole family.”

Cheryl Power “Yes. I like to go the Christmas Mass in Victoria at the Christ Church Cathedral.”

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Do you have any traditions you follow at Christmas?

Bonnie Makowsky “Yes. We fondue on Christmas Eve, and weeks before Christmas I get together with my granddaughters and do baking and crafting.”

Elaine Scheffer “Yes. Stocking stuffers are always the same. Every year we have got to have silver dollar chocolates, the orange in the stocking and the lifesaver box.”

Monika Kraus “My parents are German so we open our presents on Christmas Eve. It makes for a much more relaxing Christmas morning.”

Canada Post a necessary Honeymoon Bay’s community service that needs pot-luck lots of festive fun government support In my opinion: There is a way to stop cutbacks and that is to make your voice heard

Small towns like Lake Cowichan depend on a reliable and regular postal service.

From seniors waiting for cheques to small businesses that use mail to deliver packages, Canada Post is a necessary public service.

In fact, the Conservative government said so when it forced Canada Post employees Jean back to work when they went on strike in Crowder 2011.

So it comes as a surprise that the Conservative government no longer believes that home delivery, affordable lettermail prices or supporting rural post offices is necessary and applauded Canada Post’s plans to fundamentally change the service they provide to Canadians.

Canada Post announced on Dec. 11 that it would stop door-to-door mail delivery to five million homes, charge more for a single letter and reduce the number of employees by up to 8,000.

While most people in our area either have rural delivery or go to a lockbox for their mail, this change means more and more people will be expected to use super mailboxes.

And as the CBC reported on the same day Canada Post announced these changes in British Columbia alone thieves targeted those super mailboxes nearly 5,000 times between 2008 and 2013. The people whose mail was stolen had to change credit cards, bank accounts and other vital information.

We know that the number of parcels Canada Post delivers is actually going up thanks to online shopping. So while it is true that lettermail is dropping, Canada Post still has a lot of material to deliver.

Most people I know want to see Canada Post modernized instead of cutting services and driving away customers while raising costs. And more and more people are asking if Canada Post could take on new services.

Organizations like the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have called for Canada Post to provide banking services. Since postal outlets are in every community in the country, they could provide a valuable alternative to the big banks, especially in small communities that no longer have a bank or credit union.

Canada Post itself has taken on new partnerships with courier companies to provide last-mile parcel deliveries in rural and smaller communities that are unaffordable for the couriers to do.

Here on Vancouver Island we have faced a reduction in the number of service locations for federal government departments - like the closure of the immigration office and a reduction in the number of Service Canada outlets.

Where once the post office was the place to go to get a paper copy of the tax return, it could provide even more government services now. At the very least, postal employees could be trained to help people navigate government websites since postal outlets have provided high-speed Internet access since the 1990s.

If you don’t want to see Canada Post cut its services, I encourage you to send a letter to the Minister responsible for Canada Post, Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport at House of Commons, Ottawa K1A 0A6.

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Jean Crowder is the Member of Parliament for Nanaimo-Cowichan.

Malcolm Chalmers Photos

Clockwise from top left: Jason and Clara Teo share a quick kiss while filling their plates at the annual Honeymoon Bay “Pot-Lick Dimmer” on Sunday, Dec. 15. About 170 residents attended the event; Juliett Bodig plays with her presents from Santa while her dad Matt Brown looks on; Wesley Parker dressed up like Santa and posed with him for fun holiday shot; Lennox Webber happily displays his Power Rangers blocks he received from Santa who doled out gifts to about 40 excited children; Volunteers organizers Guy Patten and Anne Orman watch with delight as Santa cradles a newborn.

The lucky winner of the beautiful, handmade pewter bowl doorprize was Dena McCaughey.

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Hometown: Lake Cowichan Occupation: clerk, Fields Fave food: Chinese Best thing about living here: the Cowichan River Fave activity: going for a drive Wish I were better at: math My proudest moment: my graduation Guilty pleasure: chocolate and peanut butter Fave moment of day: is bedtime In my car I listen to: country music My go-to wardrobe staple: fuzzy pants In my fridge you’ll find: chocolate If I had a $1 million: I would help out my family I’ve always wanted to: go to Australia I define down time as: hanging out and watching TV If I was stuck on a dessert island I would: definitely need fire

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Courtesy Kaatza Station Museum and Archives

A view of the Lake Cowichan Hatchery property on the Big Pool of the upper Cowichan River, March 1927. Today the land seen beyond the boathouses, ramp and wharf, is Central Park. Downriver, not far from this point, lies the first island on the upper Cowichan River. Although apparently nameless, the small treed island could be called Bird House Island due of the many birdhouses that were placed in the trees on the island several years ago.

Trevor`s take on the islands in the Cowichan Lake Having explored just impossible for the Stokers to keep their herd of about every hill and goats away from the large vegetable garden, the dale, river and stream animals were banished to the island, thus the in the Lake area, pio- name Goat Island. neer Trevor Green was The next island, number four, lies adjacent to Rolli well acquainted with Youbou and is also called Goat Island. In recent Gunderson the 10 islands located years the island has been increasingly referred PAGES OF HISTORY in Cowichan Lake. to incorrectly, as Billy Goat Island. The picturApart from two is- esque island lies adjacent to the community of lands, both called Youbou and was described by Green in 1986 as Deadman‘s Island — which were mentioned in being “quite unspoiled and added greatly to the this column recently — there were plenty of oth- fine views” near Youbou. er islands for Green to explore.

A favourite of Green’s was Starting at the south end of the fifth island which lies furthe lake near Lakeview Park ther west on the south shore of was the first island, which the lake.

The islands stand was nameless. In 1986 Green Green recalled a “vivid explained that it was situated memory” of a day long ago out [on my map] and close to the shore near the park (July 1919) when he, at age are numbered one to and that it was “virtually un10, along with his parents and changed in appearance from other families, hired a ten, from east to west several snapshots taken in the early “launch” (boat) to take them down the lake.

1900s when early logging was through the Narrows near Goractive in that area.” don Bay. The destination was Trevor Green 1986 The second island was lothe upper part of Cowichan cated near Marble Bay and was Lake, (near Youbou) where the nothing more than merely a “cluster of willow group was to enjoy a Sunday picnic. branches far too impenetrable and low-lying to Back then this area was “relatively unknown camp on.” (When this author took a kayak trip up country,” recalled Green, and of those who visto these islands four years ago, it was discovered ited this area back then few knew of the winds that the entire former island mass, other than a which regularly blew up in that part of the lake. few scraggly bushes visible above the waterline, Being in the Narrows during such winds could was entirely underwater.) be, and still is, frightening as well as dangerous.

The third island, the most visible and accesAs luck would have it, the launch was in the sible, is Goat Island which sits within view of Narrows when the winds blew in. With the water both Honeymoon Bay and Gordon Bay. In 1986, so rough it was impossible to land on shore so Green described it as a “forest of conifers and as- the guide — who was also captain of the launch pen trees.” These trees had replaced the original — did his best to keep the launch upright while old growth timber that had been destroyed by fire looking for a safe place to bring in the boat. many decades prior.

Meanwhile the anxious parents instructed the On a nearby lakefront property — presently children to lie on the bottom of the boat and pray. owned by the University of Victoria — was the Years later Green said “and pray we did.” The home of Dr. Richard Stoker and his wife Susan. guide eventually landed the launch and his 12 The couple kept a herd of goats which foraged passengers safely on a nearby island. freely on the Stoker acreage. Since it was quite To be continued next week.

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What could Santa do to make the world a better place?

According to Lake Cowichan School’s Grades 4 and 5 students

Akiva I just want to help other people that need tooth brushes, pencils, food, paper for school, water and money. I just want to help people in need so could you please bring peace and love?

Tahlia My wish for families is a home to live with running water, a bed, food, heat, clothes and medicine and a big school with books, water, pencils and paper. I want all of the families and kids to have a healthy and great life. I wish peace in your life.

I wish everyone a nice Christmas dinner and to wake up on Christmas morning and see all the gifts underneath the tree and see joy in their eyes. All I want is families, friends to have a healthy life.

Rainee For Christmas I want to help the people in need. I want you to bring them food, fresh water and medicine so they stay alive. Please save the animals that are sick. Give the people in need money. Give them peace, no wars, no guns, no fighting.

Everyone needs peace and a safe place to live.

Ally All I want for Christmas is health for others and families to have a Christmas dinner. There is a lot of sick people out there.

They do not have health or food or water or even any family to help them survive. Some don’t even have any books! I mean imagine growing up without books or pencils. I hope you can try. They could not write to you because they can’t read or write. They need help.

paper so we can draw, pencils to write and we need laptops for the class so we can type quickly.

Hannah For Christmas can you get all the children in the world that have no food and water, food and water?

Can you get the children that have no books, books?

Can you get the children that are very ill medicine?

Can you help the animals that are going extinct?

Owen I wish there was no war in the world but lots of peace and love. I wish you could make medicine for the sick and food for the ones that don’t have any. I wish you could bring toys for the ones that don’t have any. I wish there would be water for the ones that don’t have any and to share what you bring to the world and to have peace.

Curtis Can you bring the things for kids? Toothbrushes for the kids that don’t have them and toothpaste and dental floss.

And, things for kids for school, like books, paper, pencils and that kind of stuff. I’m sure they would like that. I’m sure they would like more health things like medicine so they would feel a lot better.

Riley Only if you can give the people what they need desperately; like fresh water, food, money, medicine and jobs. If you can please do so.

Nathan It is sad for some people in some countries and places. It would be great if you could give people some food and water to a poor country or place. There are lots of diseases out there and some people don’t have any protection from them. It would be awesome if you could give a country or place medicine because it is terrible that some people are suffering or dieing from diseases that they have cures for.

Breeze Could you please give other people who need gifts, not us.

I was thinking of building schools for kids and teachers with books, pencils, crayons, paper, desks and chairs. Also, give them food like Christmas dinner, apples, chips, veggies, fruit.

A few more would be fresh water, peace, no war, no fighting, no guns, no bombs and no killing. Give them a city with jobs to make money and to make a family feel loved.

Dylan If you could deliver presents to the poor and medicine for the sick people then I’m pretty sure they will love you. And for the animals that may not survive then get them some medicine as well.

Kierce Please help all the children who don’t have any homes and all the children who don’t have any clothes or dental care by giving them what they need and not the children that don’t need it. Please Santa.

Taylor May I have for Christmas a gift to help others like people in need? Can you please get them education and a school and also peace, no war, no fighting and no guns. So please get them things they need to survive like fresh water and food.

And, what would you do if people were sick? They would need medicine. So, please help people in need survive and also give them a house.

Kyle H. Please help all the kids that can not afford stuff like toothbrushes and tooth paste or medicine, school, food and water.

So please don’t get me a lot of stuff, get the people that don’t have toys and things to keep them healthy.

Dalton I want it all for the kids that don’t have any money so they haven’t went to school because they have no money. So are you getting the point? I’m running out of ideas . We all need

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Kyle M. I wish someone would help animals more and people in need. Maybe they could have fresh water and food. Maybe there could be no war, no fighting. That’s my wish.

Cameron If you could deliver 2 billion presents in 24 hours, then it should be easy to give some to the poor people and give some to animals. Give medicine, education, peace, jobs and shelter.

I could keep going but I think you get my point. There’s a lot of spoiled kids out there and there’s a lot of poor ones too. So, take one year to think of the poor.

Allie For Christmas this year I would like to focus on the needs of others, not the wants of myself. To help others, I would like you to give medicine to sick animals all over the worlds. If you can, please give shelter and food to the homeless. My biggest wish is for you to bring peace to countries at war. There are places that don’t even have fresh water so that’s one of my wishes too. I would also like you to bring school supplies to less fortunate schools. That is all of my wishes.

Tristen For Christmas we want other people to have the gift of life, health and medicine, food and Christmas dinner, fresh water, education, school supplies, world peace, jobs and money. We want other people, including you, to have what they need.

Shyann I want peace for Christmas and food for the poor and water and please give money to the poor.

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Clearing the dust central to 2013 in Youbou

The biggest issue this past year should be voted on in a referendum. has been dealing with the dust and All costs and responsibilities need to mud for the residents of Youbou be clearly laid out for our residents townsite. so they can make an informed After making many phone calls decision. and attending many meetings and The community spirit in Youbou listening to feedback from the is alive and well. The Youbou residents, I have Regatta, the haunted been informed by house, the annual craft TimberWest that fair and Christmas and they have decided to New Year’s events install a truck wash are well attended and on the west side of the family oriented. townsite.

The good news Pat The site location is that the Youbou Weaver and permits are being Community Church pursued now and once is actively being AreA i report everything is in place restored and used by the truck wash should the community. be installed early in the new year.

My main focus as your area Two street lights have been director is to bring forward concerns installed in the upper Beaver Road and issues affecting residents of the area.

Youbou/Meade Creek area to the The old wharf, which was a safety Board table at the CVRD. I also issue, has been removed from the work really hard to control taxes.

North Arm of the lake at Sunset.

On your behalf I attend Board The zoning for the properties at meetings, Regional Services Marble Bay has been changed to Committee, Electoral Area Services allow year-round residence for the Committee, Engineering and owners.

Environment Services Committee, I sat in on and contributed to the Cowichan Community Health meetings in the search for medical Network, Communications services for the Cowichan Lake Committee, Emergency area. It looks very favourable for a Preparedness Committee, Parks nurse practitioner to be in place in Committee and Transit Committee. the new year. The walk-in clinic is If you have any questions, want now open a couple of days per week to provide feedback or want to talk at 138 South Shore Road. to me please call 250-749-3230 The Cowichan Community or 250 710-3145 or e-mail me at Health Network meets monthly in pweaver@cvrd.bc.ca.

Duncan. Part of our job is to look Thank you to all of those people for new site for a new hospital. who have called over the past year. I The swimming pool in Duncan enjoy your feedback. is a big issue that keeps coming A special thank you to my forward. My concern is that alternate, Director Brooke Hodson, any decisions made about our who fills in when I am unable to contributing financially to the pool attend meetings.

Choose Cowichan Lake a healthy success story

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Residents prepare to listen and discuss the doctor shortage in the Cowichan Lake area at the firs tcommunity meeting on Dec. 11, 2012.

At this time last year the Choose Cowichan Lake Committee did not exist.

A public meeting had been held to talk about the fact that Lake Cowichan was about to lose our last two doctors and from that meeting a number of people volunteered to form a committee, which met for the first time on Jan. 10 at the Lake Cowichan Council Chambers. Since that first meeting a dedicated group of volunteers, under the leadership of Laurie Johnson, has met every month, and in just one year, has accomplished a lot!

Although our original goal was simply to try to attract new doctors to our community, we have expanded our mission to state that we are “committed to improving the determinants of health for the Cowichan Lake Community, through advocacy and promotion.”

So one of our first tasks was to explore the ways that doctors come to communities and to form alliances with people and organizations that could help us. Throughout 2013 we have had the support and encouragement of the Cowichan Division of Family Practice, the VIHA (Island Health) Physician’s Recruitment office, and the Cowichan Community Health Network. We also made contact with other communities and on several occasions made our situation known not only to local politicians but also directly to the Minister of Health.

As we expanded our search beyond just looking for doctors, we were very excited to be selected as a designated community for an Integrated Health Network, which will be opening in the former Kaatza Health unit with a case manager (registered nurse position), a dietician, a behaviorist (social worker position), and a medical office assistant.

All of these people will be providing support to patients with chronic health conditions beginning in January or February of 2014.

We then applied and were approved for a nurse practitioner for Lake Cowichan. As a result Valerie Jefford, our new NP, will be starting work in January alongside Dr. Gary Toth at the newly re-opened Brookside Medical Clinic. As well we were very happy to welcome to Lake Cowichan Dr. Vincent Rossouw and our first-ever part-time walkin medical clinic.

In the spring we supported the Town of Lake Cowichan in applying for a B.C. Healthy Communities grant and were the recipients of a $4,500 grant to improve health in our community.

Two major projects underway are the creation of a brochure listing all the health and wellness services in the community and a health and wellness fair to be held at the community hall on March 1, 2014.

We realized early on that we needed to publicize the benefits of living in the Cowichan Lake area so a sub-committee worked with the Town to make major improvements to the Town’s website and a Choose Cowichan Lake Facebook page.

Of course for the entire year we also stayed focused on our goal of attracting new doctors, so we put together a welcome package for interested physicians. By working with the Physician’s Recruitment office we were able — over the past 10 months — to host a total of seven internationallytrained doctors on day-visits to our town. As a result of those visits, as long as all goes well, by the summer of 2014 two of these physician should be coming to Lake Cowichan to establish brand-new family practices.

We are very happy with what we have accomplished in just one year and we look forward to continuing to work towards making Lake Cowichan one of the healthiest communities on Vancouver Island.

— Submitted by Margaret Davis, secretary, Choose Cowichan Lake Committee

Wishing you peace, health and happiness Jean Crowder, MP Nanaimo-Cowichan Toll Free: 1-866-609-9998 jean@jeancrowder.ca www.jeancrowder.ca

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One of the biggest highlights in the first quarter of the year for LCFD came about in March when the team conducted a river rescue at a local duck pond after a young boy lost control of his kayak and became water bound.

It was just a regular day at the office, although back then the new rescue boat was nowhere to be seen and another vessel had to be borrowed.

In May, the team started a swift water rescue program involving 24 people.

June saw a strength in numbers scenario as LCFD assisted their Sahtlam colleagues with a travel trailer fire tanker incident.

In the same month, the team did order its new rescue boat after donations were received, and the vessel would indeed arrive later in the year.

A busy June would continue with some low

slopes rescue training and end with a muscular dystrophy ball tournament involving a number of fire departments in the Cowichan Valley. The tournament raised $42,000.

July would see an ATV accident four kilometres southeast of Johel Road that would see the team rescue a man as his vehicle flipped after hitting a log.

A rescue truck contract was awarded to International Truck Bodies out of Surrey, B.C. Also, preplanning would begin in July as LCFD officials began analyzing the team’s buildings and drawing up floor plans.

In August, the team assisted the RCMP with the recovery of a drowning elderly male below Skutz Falls although unfortunately the second person, the man’s wife, was never found.

Further on in August, the team rescued s distressed child who was locked in a Central Park washroom.

Into October and the team organized a fund raiser for former fire chief Dick Newman and his family,

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Notice Regular Meeting Dates - 2014 Please note that the Regular Meeting dates for Council of the Town of Lake Cowichan for 2014 are as follows: • January 28th • February 25th • March 25th • April 22nd • May 6th • May 27th • June 24th

• July 22nd • August 26th • September 16th • October 28th • November 25th • December 23rd

The start time for the meetings is 6:00 pm and the meetings are held at 39 South Shore Road, Lake Cowichan (Municipal Hall).

Dates this 18th day of December, 2013.

Joseph A. Fernandez, Chief Administrative Officer

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The Cowichan Lake District Chamber of Duncan will most likely create even more Commerce has made it through another of an increase in the visitor explosion. year with many successes. The Junk-inIn December the Cowichan Lake the-Trunk sales during the summer and the District Chamber of Commerce signed an wine and cheese tasting at the Shaker Mill accord with the Chambers of Commerce in November, were just from Duncan, Ladysmith, 2 successful events.

Chemainus, and South The Breakfast in the Cowichan to jointly Town —sponsored by promote and advocate for CVRD Areas F and business in the Cowichan I — in June, the Burger Valley. and a Beer fundraiser The agreement was at the Riverside Hotel also sanctioned and in October, and the signed by the President December Madness of the B.C. Chamber of along with the Christmas Commerce. This signing Tree Light Up with has the potential to create Santa Claus in Saywell Ron McKenzie and foster new business Park, were all well for the Cowichan Lake CLD Chamber Vice-President received by those who Region as well as the attended.

Cowichan Valley. Time Add to this the scholarships of $500 and hard work will tell. each to two graduating students of Lake Our program and events committee is Cowichan Secondary School, and our already in the process of putting together donation of $2,500 to the Lady of the Lake the 2014 events and the list looks pretty Committee, it was a banner year. promising.

Visitors to the Cowichan Lake Region To add to the successful events of 2013, this year toppled the 30,000 mark setting we plan a return of a remodelled Spring a new record and putting our Visitor Fling in May and a Small Business Expo Centre at number two on the Island behind in October during small business week.

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Our general meetings will include more The addition and continued usage of guest speakers who can provide assistance the Pacific Marine Route has proven to and knowledge to new entrepreneurs as be beneficial to Cowichan Lake as traffic well as our current small business owners. has increased considerably since its Cowichan Lake District Chamber of completion.

Commerce intends to lead by example The Town of Lake Cowichan’s sidewalk in 2014, to assist the Town of Lake and road improvements through the town Cowichan, and the Cowichan Valley did little to slow the amount of visitors Regional District Areas F and I, to promote down. The addition of the traffic circle business and tourism in our region. It and the clean new look of the main drive promises to be a banner year. through town has enhanced its appeal.

With that said, the Cowichan Lake Well done.

District Chamber of Commerce wishes a This along with the addition of the very Merry Christmas to our residents and new Cowichan Region Visitors Centre in a joyous and prosperous New Year to all.

power lines being down alongside more typical camp and chimney fires.

LCFD wishes everyone a merry Christmas and a safe new year.

—Submitted Ray Bourassa, Lake Cowichan Fire Department

Learning and fundraising dominate Mesachie Lake firefighters’ year

We started this year with news of our gaming grant being accepted for the amount of $25,000 which allowed us to purchase low-slope rope rescue systems, helmets and harnesses.

Our firefighters participated in many training exercises this past year: officer training, low-slope rope rescue, auto extrication, and mutual aid with Honeymoon Bay Volunteer Fire Department covering pumping, drafting and large diameter water supply.

During the summer on long weekends we sold hot dogs, shirts, hats and raised more than $400. We chose the Monday of the holiday weekends as it seemed more people where coming back into town on those days and we plan on doing this again next year.

We had some very dedicated people take on the project of raising money for rescue equipment and the training involved to use it by selling tickets on a new quad. A total of $10,000 was raised for us including buying the quad.

The MD Auction and Ball Tournament raised $42,400.

Even our annual Christmas dinner last week helped the Community Services Christmas Hampers with a donation of $315.

With all of the fire departments in the area needing people to join, please if you can, join your local volunteer fire department and help you friends and neighbours.

—Submitted Gary Eve, Mesachie Lake Volunteer Fire/Rescue Department

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2013 has been a very productive year in the continued monthly meetings where constituent Cowichan stewardship community. groups shared information and coordinated their The year started with frustration over the activities. CSR meetings include representation governance of our precious water resources. The from Cowichan Tribes, the Cowichan Watershed newly formed One Cowichan group was able Board, CVRD, provincial and federal government to demonstrate the degree agencies and several of public outrage in our conservation groups. CSR community over failed water members activities this year management practices and the included eel grass restoration, government regulators listened. water sampling and kelp bed The weir management rules surveys in Cowichan Bay. were changed to allow for The tremendous returns of more summer water storage in salmon were analyzed and the lake, which is necessary to much was credited to the Stoltz offset the effects of the 35 per Bluffs remediation project. cent decrease in our summer Massive amounts of gravel were rainfall totals. This was a step in removed from the lower river ne OwiChan the right direction as we strive to help with fish migration and to build resilience to climate flood control measures. instability into our community.

Several interesting reports The Cowichan Lake and River Stewardship were released during the past year that will be Society was very active, hosting a lakeshore very useful tools for us to use to build a better riparian workshop in April. The workshop was community. attended by civic leaders, conservation groups, The first was the LIDAR survey, which is a government agencies and local industries all map of all Cowichan Lake shoreline properties working together for the common good. This twowhere aerial photographs of the houses are shown day event identified sensitive riparian areas and with property lines and various lake water levels developed priorities for restoration work. superimposed over the images. This survey is This summer, more than 100 lakefront property invaluable information for use in any discussions owners were visited by CLRSS directors to discuss about increased summer water storage in the lake riparian values. that is being proposed.

The annual river cleanup netted 1,100 kilograms Another study details the specific changes that of garbage and $600 worth of returnable bottles. we can expect here as a result of climate change.

The Saywell Park riparian restoration was started We have also inventoried all of our agricultural land in November. Invasive blackberries were removed and when we combine all this information we can and over 1,000 native plants were put in their come up with ideas about how to approach water place by CLRSS members and students from Lake management and agriculture in future decades.

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We are very lucky to be blessed with the A comprehensive water sampling program was geography we have and the people that are all completed in the fall in the lake and many of its working to protect and preserve our community tributaries. The data obtained confirmed that our far into the future. We have made good progress in water is generally of excellent quality but a few several areas and our conservation community is sources of pollution were identified for further growing. investigation.

The most encouraging and important part of CLRSS president Gerald Thom was awarded our growth is in youth involvement. I have been the 2013 Volunteer of the Year Award from the inspired by the young people I have worked with B.C. Lake Stewardship Society for his tireless this year and I am looking forward to many more conservation leadership. productive years as we work together to prepare for The Cowichan Stewardship Roundtable the future.

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There are a few coupes still available and one that is worthy of consideration is this new 2014 Honda Accord Coupe V6.

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If you like the idea that intuitive. The rest of The 4-cylinder equipped the dash is large, with big models come with halogen of a smart looking car cup holder and plenty of headlamps and 17-inch storage areas. that is well equipped alloy wheels. The coupe The steering wheel and powerful, you starts at $26,400, a $2,500 buttons and heat controls premium over the regular might want to move on on the dash use first rate an Accord Coupe. sedan but when the switches and they are sedan is equipped with placed with precision.

Zack Spencer alloy wheels, the price is Drive Another trend almost identical. The EX-L that Honda is bucking, with this Accord is $30,100 for the leather and navi and Coupe, is the inclusion of a 6-speed the V6 premium is $35,500. Not an manual transmission and V6 engine. The inexpensive car but most are very well latest movement is to turbo or superequipped. charged 4-cylinder engines to replace V6

It’s fascinating to watch trends in the auto industry play out over time.

Some changes happen quickly, with one manufacturer coming out with a feature, then the rest of the industry following suit. Backup cameras would be a good example of this.

Other trends are much slower, changing because of demographic fluctuations.

One example of a slow-moving trend is the two-door coupe falling out of favour and its replacement by sedans and crossovers. This trend is greatly affected by baby boomers getting older and buying more for practical reason, rather than styling.

In the 1980s, and even the beginning of the 90s, there were plenty of coupes to choose from and they sold well. But where are the Honda Prelude, Toyota Celica, Pontiac Sunfire and Ford Probe coupes? Now gone and many not replaced with newer models. I’m thrilled to report that there are a few coupes still available and one that is worthy of consideration is this new 2014 Honda Accord Coupe V6.

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Subaru Forester 2009 to 2012 A dependable, utilitarian ride A redesigned third-generation Subaru Forester was an early 2009 model year release.

A new look, better performance, enhanced safety features and more interior space were all achieved without drastic changes to the exterior dimensions of this popular compact utility vehicle.

A “Boxer” type engine, with horizontally opposed cylinders (like a Porsche engine) and a symmetrical all-wheel-drive system, distinguish a Subaru as a Subaru. Forester has an excellent history of mechanical dependability and the Subaru essentials are packaged with a practical, utilitarian body.

Compared to the previous generation Forester, the ’09 came with a new chassis with a wider track and a longer wheelbase (by 9 cm), plus a new double wishbone rear suspension.

The structural changes also yielded extra cargo space and more rear passenger head and legroom.

The single overhead camshaft base engine can produce 170hp and fuel economy is rated at 10.6/7.5 L/100 km (city/highway). While reliable, it’s no rocket, and flat-out acceleration to 100 km/h takes more than 10 seconds. Agile handling does help compensate for tame straight-line speed.

A turbocharged variant has twin-camshafts and can produce 224hp.

Price Check However, it likes premium fuel Year Edition Expect to Pay and consumes (Nov. 2013) 10.9/8.3 L/100 2009 2.5X Limited $16,000 to $20,000 km (city/highway). Manual 2010 2.5X Limited $19,000 to $23,000 transmission 2011 2.5X Limited $22,000 to $26,000 models have an electronic “hill 2012 2.5X Limited $25,000 to $29,000 holder” feature.

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delays release of the foot brake to prevent the vehicle from rolling backward and gives the driver more time to achieve a smooth take-off. The automatic option was a conventional four-speed.

Forester got top marks from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in its rollover test. The roof is more than double the strength required by U.S. federal safety standards.

In addition to its all-wheel drive system, a Forester comes with anti-lock brakes and an electronic stability control system called Vehicle Dynamics Control.

It also provides what Subaru describes as a ‘virtual’ limited slip rear

differential function.

The 2009 Forester was offered in four trim levels: 2.5X, 2.5X Touring Package, 2.5X Limited and a 2.5XT Limited model with a turbocharged engine. Even a base Forester 2.5X comes well-equipped with heated seats, air conditioning, power windows and mirrors, roof rails, a tilt and telescoping steering wheel with audio controls.

A new partial-zero-emissions-vehicle edition of Forester was added for the 2010 model year. Emissions are about 90 per cent lower than most 2010 vehicles, according to Subaru.

In 2011, the base 2.5L boxer engine got a double overhead camshaft upgrade, plus new bore and stroke dimensions. While maximum output remained at about the same level, more power is available at a lower rpm and fuel economy improved.

Other than a new height-adjustable front passenger seat, no significant

changes were made in 2012.

The reliable Subaru Forester is a very impressive blend of utility, comfort, handling and fuel efficiency in a compact package. While Forester has a loyal following, Subaru’s smaller dealer network may be an issue, depending where you live, and used resale values are typically higher than average.

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2009 - An oil supply pipe to the engine turbocharger may crack at the stay brazing on the cylinder head-side, and this could potentially cause an engine compartment fire.

2009 to 2012: A faulty centre rear seating position seatbelt retractor may not allow proper installation of a child restraint or booster seat.

2009 to 2012: Dealer-installed accessory puddle lights may short circuit and cause the lights to melt. bob.mchugh@drivewaybc.ca

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The 2014 Toyota Tundra has deep roots in the Wild, Wild West.

The 1794 Edition is a tribute to the ranch, founded in the year 1794, on which the Tundra plant is located in San Antonio, Texas. In 2002, Toyota began the search for a U.S. facility to build the second generation Toyota Tundra. The 2,000-acre site was acquired, and groundbreaking took place Oct. 17, 2003. Just like the ranch it replaced, hard work and

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The top-of-the-line Western-themed 1794 Edition comes with a unique chrome grille, and a chrome and silver bumper. It’s almost like a belt buckle!

The inside screams country music, with its exclusive premium saddle-tan-brown leather seats with embossed and suede accents. Softtouch materials are found on the centre console, the front and rear door trim, and the instrument panel.

Rich maple wood-grain covers the steering wheel, dash and shifter. It’s a big improvement to the back seat of the Double Cab and Crew Max, where a 60/40 split bench flips up with a one-handed latch to allow more cargo space.

Two engines are available, depending on the model you choose: the 4.6L i-force V8 that puts out 310hp and 327 lb ft of torque, and the 5.7L i-force V8 with a 32-valve dual overhead

cam engine that generates 381hp and 410 lb ft of torque. Both motors are connected to a 6-speed automatic transmission with sequential shift mode.

The ride was a perfect combination of on-road comfort and off-road toughness.

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I am happy they continued with the larger, oversized buttons and knobs, which you can operate while wearing gloves. With the popularity of the Tundra growing, I can easily see the two-millionth truck roll out before the next design change. ian.harwood@drivewaybc.ca

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Grade 5 student Emma Torrie, 10-years-old, on the left, along with Grade 4 student Taylor Svendsen, 9-years-old, and Grade 5 student Breeze Silvaggio, 10-years-old (far right) with Ms. Garner at the dance.

☞ See Ya Later dance at LCS has everyone snow dancing for Ms. garner Lake Cowichan School had an outdoor going away “see you later” dance planned for vice-principal Ms. Garner on Friday, Dec. 20 and it was going to happen rain or shine. They didn’t get the sun or the rain but they did get some snow to add some fun to the function.

The music played and a group of students and teachers danced to the music as snow fell gently around them as they said “so long” to the popular VP as she heads to Bench School for the remainder of the year.

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The gymnasium at Lake Cowichan School was a hub of activitiy and delicious smells as the school held their annual turkey dinner for students and staff on Wednesday, Dec.18. A group of volunteers were kept busy during the lunch hour as a steady stream of students, along with their teachers moved along the food line to load up their plates with turkey dinner and all the trimmings. It was also one of the school’s fun days — Crazy Hair Day. Above clockwise: Grade 6 student Abbey Helliwell lines up to get her turkey dinner; Crazy coiffured Grade 7 students Jessie McCoy (left) and Haley Burant get their turkey dinner; Grade 4 students Caylee Medal (left) and Asia Nichols have their dinner with teacher Ms. Bhandari.

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• Looking to kick-up your heels? Cowichan Lake Recreation is having an adult only New Year’s Eve dance at the upper Youbou Hall starting at 9 p.m. Tickets at arena in Lake Cowicha, Youbou Hall and Shop and Save in Youbou. Call 250-749-6742 or 250-7453712 for more information.

• Cowichan Lake Recreation has a number of new classes beginning in the new year.

For the dog lover who needs a little help and direction with training Fido is the dog obedience class starting Jan. 14.

If your New Year's Eve resolution was to get fit try Zumba or yoga classes.

Call 250-749-6742 for all the information.

• If you are looking for some fun in the new year, don't forget to check out the Youbou Community Bowling Ally — the only handset, 10-pin lanes in Canada! You can play 5-pin, 10-pin and even cosmic bowl. The Gazette next family bowling Loonie Night is Jan. 3, Wesley Parker, 6-years-old, Grade 1; Harmony 2014.

Grossman, 5-years-old and Damian Essler-Edgar, Call 250-745-3712 for more information 5-years-old, both in Kindergarten, were all dressed up for Pajama Day at Palsson school.

☞ Perfect day to wear pajamas to school There were plenty of PJs and even a Santa in Miss Dodge’s Kindergarten/Grade 1 class at Palsson Elementary School on Friday, Dec. 20 as the school celebrated Pajama Day and the kids got wrapped up in the excitement of the last day of school before the Christmas Break.

The teachers even joined in coming to work in night-time attire.

☞ LCS ‘new’ acting VP

• Lake Cowichan School welcome’s Mrs. Kyla Bridge as their new acting vice-principal.

Bridge will be taking over for Mrs. Garner when school resumes in January after the winter break and will be in the position until the end of the school year.

“Having Mrs. Bridge in the office will be great for the school because she is already familiar with staff, students and parents.” said a post on the school’s Facebook page.

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“There are seven teams in the tournament; our two laker teams, Sooke Thunderbirds, Port Alberni Ice Breakers and three teams from the Cowichan Valley,” said coordinator Belinda Waller in an email to the Gazette.

The puck drops at the first game, 7:30 a.m. on Saturday when the Kaatza Logging Lakers play the Cowichan Valley Mighty Midgets. The next Laker game scheduled is Lakers Synergy Safety versus Alberni at 10:30 followed by a puck toss.

Check out all the fun. There will be tickets for raffle baskets all weekend long with the draw being held on Monday at 11 a.m. and 50/50 draws during every game except for the games where there is a puck toss at the end. Go Lakers go!

☞ Seniors Centre on roll for Nickels for Nichole The Lake Cowichan Seniors Centre is on a roll.

The Nickels for Nichole campaign — formerly Nichole Stock Penny Drive — is underway. This is the 22 year the Lake has been raising money for the charity Variety Show of Hearts.

In 1991, at just nine-years-old, Nichole

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was watching the Show of Hearts telethon on TV with her grandmother when she decided she wanted to be a part of helping other children too.

Sadly, Nichole passed away in 1999, but not before she had the chance to walk alongside her friends during her graduation from Lake Cowichan Secondary School.

The community has since named the annual Community Service Award after Nichole as a reminder of the work she did to help other children.

If you have any change that you would like to donate bring it by the Centre on 55 Coronation Street, or pop it into one of the many containers on local business counters.

All donations are presented to the charity’s annual telethon on January 24.

For more information please contact Jackie at 250-749-6121.

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