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Counc. Jayne Ingram (back centre) is ready to take notes, Mayor Ross Forrest (right) and others listen to a speaker at the March 24 public meeting with business owners and the Town of Lake Cowichan.

Ross Armour

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Great Lake Walk: Society chair fears the event may never happen again

The Great Lake Walk is seemingly at the end of the road.

For the second year in a row, the event has been cancelled and society stalwarts are fearing it may never happen again.

“We just haven’t had the numbers we need, in terms of people registering and coming out for it,” said Great Lake Walk Society chair Joan Hieta. “I think it has ran its course.”

The event was a 56-kilometre walk starting at Youbou Community Hall and participants would then walk or run around Lake Cowichan and finish at the community hall in the town.

It happened on the third Sunday of September each year but was also cancelled back in 2013.

“We tried a team thing last year to try and get the numbers and hype up where basically we put people into teams in terms of the number of seatbelts in a car, say there was six, and then they could split up the 56 kilometres however they wanted. It was a pretty gruelling walk,” said Hieta.

That plan didn’t come to fruition either but although Hieta and company see the end as near for the walk, the society will still remain open for the time being.

“I really can’t see it happening again but we’re not going to close the society or do anything drastic incase somebody else comes in and makes some kind of breakthrough,” said Hieta, who also confirmed the society’s finances are in a poor state with very little left in the pot.

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BIOvator seems a distinct possibility Ross Armour

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The idea of a chemical composter for the Town of Lake Cowichan could become a reality, if not this year then next.

Town staff has already begun primary research into the machine called the BIOvator which converts organic waste into compost.

“I went on the internet and found two companies that have a product close to what we have in mind but we’d need a mandate directed from council (to go ahead and purchase),” said superintendent Nagi Rizk at the Finance and Administration meeting held March 11 at town hall. “Those companies can send us a quote and their only catch is proof in the system. Both companies suggested an electric fence (around the machine).”

Rizk highlighted that the project would require “a lot of infrastructure” and predicted it would cost the town at least $180,000 up front.

Mayor Ross Forrest still wants numerous questions answered before going ahead with the purchase, but is an admirer of the concept.

“There’s a few questions in terms of operating costs, acquiring property, how much land we would need if it’s an acre or two acres. I’d hate to go in and rush without looking at other municipalities who say it doesn’t work. We have to do our homework.

It’s a big investment,” said the mayor.

Like Forrest, Coun. Jayne Ingram wants to see much more detail come forward from staff in forthcoming weeks.

“We need a full report. I’d like to know where we’re getting the wood product or sawdust from to

support that,” she said.

After waste is inserted into the cylindrical machine, a wood product is required to be placed on top as support, before the waste travels down the machine and is converted into compost.

The machine can take up to 500 kilograms of waste per day.

“There’s definitely the issue of location as well,” said chief administrator Joe Fernandez. “A fair bit of work needs to go into the logistics and financing of this.”

Coun. Tim McGonigle, who chaired the meeting, doesn’t see the BIOvator as a 2014 item but possibly in 2015.

“I don’t think it’s a 2014 item but it might be a topic for our five-year financial plan,” he said.

Coun. Bob Day, who instigated the idea, agreed.

“It would also cost about $100 a year to run the electric motor required,” said Day. “A ton of compost manure goes out of the grocery store each day and the farmers see it as gold, it’s the smell of money to them. I don’t think it’s a 2014 item but we could organize a road trip somewhere to find out even more about it.”

Coun. Frank Hornbrook wants to see a business agreement in order to sell some of the compost that the town produces through the machine, potentially with farmers.

“Somewhere along the line we need to create a partnership with somebody to use the compost.

We’re not going to use it all,” said Hornbrook.

Council is envisioning using the compost within the Parks and Recreation department for its own use.

Health network to Great Lake Walk cancelled for second host info session year in a row for public input Continued from page 1 “I sat on the board of directors of the society as a volunteer as well as the liaison to Cowichan Lake Recreation. I was one of the founding members of this event and was the co-chair for the past few years. At the end, there were two original members left as directors: Bertha Gravelle and myself. We worked over the years with a number of dedicated and hard working volunteers.”

Blatchford voted against cancelling the 2014 GLW but was one of only 10 directors that did so, much to her dismay.

“I am very interested in keeping this event alive and wish to remain a director on the Great Lake Walk Society. It is my hope that some of the current director’s will remain on the board and that perhaps new volunteers may be interested in getting this event back up and running. I plan to re-instigate discussion around this issue very soon.

“Sponsorship dollars are needed in order to cover initial expenses (advertising, website maintenance, facility rental fees, etc.). Volunteers are needed to solicit these sponsorship dollars. Costs related to the safety, and health and well-being of participants and volunteers are expensive but extremely necessary (insurance, food, first aid supplies and first aid providers, shuttle busses around the lake during the entire event, fencing rentals at the finish site, portable toilet rentals etc.). These costs could not be excessively trimmed because there is a duty of care to our participants and volunteers and a need to mitigate any kind of legal action that could happen to the society and its directors should an accident or incident occur.”

The society fell short of its minimum required number of registrants for 2013 by about 100 and as well as costs, the fall of rest stations was a big reason behind the most recent cancellation.

“Rest stations around the lake were a huge important part of the event and fell under the safety, health and well-being of participants. They were strategically placed in order to allow for food, water and washroom breaks as well as the opportunity to rest or to get first aid attention. We relied heavily on volunteer businesses/groups to run these rest stations. In 2013, due to unforeseen circumstances, we had a number of groups drop out a few weeks before the 2013 walk leaving the society scrambling to find replacement groups to run these stations. In order to resurrect this event, we would need renewed commitment of volunteer groups to man the rest stations,” said Blatchford.

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Our Cowichan Communities Health Network is hosting an information and input session today at Cowichan Lake Arena.

The session will run from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and is open to anyone in the public as the group seeks information on health related items in the community.

“Our Cowichan is a community health network and our boundaries are everywhere in the Cowichan Valley Regional District including the Cowichan Lake area,” said Cindy Lise from One Cowichan. “We often ask the question of how we’re doing with regards to being healthy, what things look like beyond the health services and what our focuses should be.”

Lise is one who believes public input is vital with regards to developing and enhancing healthcare throughout the region and area.

“We want to know how healthcare is doing in terms of the economy, social support, physical environment and in education and so on. What we’re doing is creating a community profile for all communities in our region.”

Lise says the information from the public word of mouth only enhances and adds to the information received from specific statistics such as those provided by Statistics Canada.

“In addition to statistics, we want to connect with the local organizations entrenched in providing health services to the communities (such as Choose Cowichan Lake). We will be sending out surveys. This is a time to get together in Cowichan Lake and see how we’re doing.

“We need to know our strengths and what we can build on, as well as the gaps and the pointers we need to address. We will share what we’ve learned so far and what we’re still finding out. It’s about filling in the pieces we can’t get from the collected data. Everyone is welcome, even if they can only stop by for a little bit.”

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Bicycle stolen from outside local Tim Hortons Hard lesson: Boy has BMX stolen from Tim Hortons after he entered the restaurant Ross Armour

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Dick Orman from Honeymoon Bay takes the opportunity to express his feelings at the public meeting.

Town public meeting draws numerous local business owners Majority of local business owners want continued improvement on signage throughout town Ross Armour

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The Town of Lake Cowichan held a public meeting this past Monday night at Centennial Hall with numerous local business owners coming out to express their views to council.

Up for discussion was signage, the new Renfrew Town Square and a theme for the town amongst other things, with Mayor Ross Forrest consistently praising the positivity of the meeting.

“There’s been a lot of changes in the town, now our concern is private properties and the appearance along the main road,” said Forrest to open the meeting.

“Your businesses impact our downtown core. Signage is a big thing we’re working on. We want to attract people to Lake Cowichan.

“I received an email recently from the mayor of Prince George and they’ve created a Facebook page up there called ‘Hell Yeah Prince George’ and it’s strictly for positive input about the city.

If you say negative things you are deleted from the page. I’d love to see a page where we can help each other out and write positive information about the town. We can’t sell our community with bad use.”

Dr John Wilson from the Lake Dental Health Centre asked if the town has a “grand theme” in the works.

“The town does not have a theme,” said Forrest. “It’s up to the body to decide that theme but it’s a good idea to sell the community.”

Tara Bushby, who is part of the town’s advisory planning commission, confirmed “the APC is doing a lot of work on signs” at the present time.

“We want a signage that’s consistent throughout the town,” said Forrest. “We’ve budgeted money for that this year and for 2015 so we can complete the work. It’s important.

“The new town square will hopefully get more people on foot into the core of our town. It’s a six to eight week project that we hope to complete before the

summer. Hopefully people driving the circle route will be stopping and spending more time and money in the town too. We want to improve the local economy.”

Bushby confirmed “the APC is working on signage for the downtown area as well as Saywell Park. The first time I came through town there was no signage and we have this beautiful water here. We’re working on signage that will pull tourists in and make them stay.”

Bob Culmer, who owns the Galloping Moon Gallery with wife Jane, asked if the town could implement a liaison to the Ministry of Transportation.

“There are some people who still have no idea the road to Port Renfrew is paved and they still think it’s a logging road. It’s been paved for four years,” said Culmer. “There should be a sign that says Highway 18 is an alternate route to the Malahat and people can get home through Sooke down Island. That would bring people to town.”

Forrest responded.

“Most people have the internet these days,” he said. “If you Google the circle route it will tell you that it is paved. We are working on our signage as we do want to advertise. We recognize the importance of Saywell Park and it attracting people to the town.

We’ve got a beautiful lake, rivers and mountains and they’re all under utilized. We did really want a beach at Saywell Park but there’s a very sensitive fish habitat there and it was impossible.

“Our next option was a walkway and a wharf so the town decided to purchase a water lot off of TimberWest and we’re the only one in the area that has done that. We’ll continue to work to make it look nicer but it is a flood area so there is only so much you can do so that it doesn’t wash away every winter. We have a big, beautiful wharf now that’s 90 feet long, 14 feet wide. Last year’s secondary school grad class donated $5,000 towards it.

We are so thankful for that, they bought into it, and we’re proud of what we’ve done there.”

Sandy Stinson who owns the RE/MAX realty branch in Lake Cowichan asked if the town

could build a graveyard so people can bury their family members here.

“We don’t have a cemetery and they are very expensive. We could look at a site where people can place their family members’ ashes, rather than a burial,” said the mayor.

Katherine Worsley from the Cowichan Lake and District Chamber of Commerce stated that the chamber had produced a detailed map for the area, with the public constantly asking for better access to the water.

“We constantly talk to individuals about lake access,” she said. “We’ve created a map and pointed out the public access points. Local shopping is what we need to stay focused on but we must be open to drawing new business too.”

Councillor Bob Day agreed.

“How about we look after the Lake Cowichan customers.

Costco would’t fly and it would put people out of business. But we need to expand the town and that’s how Tim Hortons had a look. That created jobs. The average income in the Cowichan Valley is $24,900 and that’s what developers should be looking at,” said Day, who also praised the work of the Choose Cowichan Lake Committee that has produced a recent influx of medical personnel to the town, which is still ongoing.

Day is on that committee alongside Forrest who said “the downtown revitalization is just part of our grand improvement of Lake Cowichan. We want to attract investors and someone with big pockets that will want to build an apartment building.

Then we’ll improve.

“The forest industry isn’t what it once was. What we can attract is people who want to come and live in our community. I grew up here and 2,000 people used to work in the mills on the lake alone. That’s not there anymore, so we need to sell this place as a good place to live. The natural assets that we have, we need to build on that. I’m thrilled at the positivity of tonight’s meeting.

We needed the input to enhance our community,” said the mayor.

A bicycle was stolen from outside Tim Hortons restaurant in Lake Cowichan last Tuesday night.

The owner, Carter Allan, 16, entered the building after leaning the bicycle up against the side of it and when he returned it had vanished.

The bike is a WeThePeople BMX, black in colour, with gold handle bars.

“Carter is devastated,” said mom Denise who works at the bottle depot in town. “He works in Tim Hortons so his earnings raised the money to save up for the bike and he bought it last April.”

After realizing his bicycle had been taken, Carter immediately phoned his parents who put the word out on social media right away.

“Every minute that passed we were putting statuses up on Facebook,” said mom Denise. “He went into Tim Hortons with a couple of his buddies and they started spreading out right away to look for the bike. He was very upset when he called us and his dad got out of bed and immediately drove into town to pick him up. They then drove around for about an hour to look for it.

“I’ve spoken to the police already and they’re going to be getting footage from Tim Hortons. I’ll also be calling the bike shop in Duncan, where Carter bought it, to see if anything comes through there. I’ll be calling pawn shops as well.”

Lake Cowichan RCMP is already actively investigating.

“At approximately 8:45 p.m. a BMX type bicycle was stolen from the Tim Hortons restaurant located at 37 North Shore Road. The model was Versus,” said Cst. Andrew Burn in a press release.

Lake Cowichan RCMP is asking anyone with information or leads to contact the detachment at 250749-6668 or call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

In recent bike thefts are anything to go by, there’s not much hope for the Allans.

Corinna Russell had a bike stolen from her property back in January and is yet to have it found.

“The cops haven’t traced it yet and I haven’t heard anything more,” said Russell. “It’s an open file so the investigation is still ongoing.”

Russell’s bike that was stolen was also a BMX and was custom made with blue handle grips, blue metal pedals, blue rims and white in colour.

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Fired society bosses get severance pay Kersten Stuerzbecher.

Coleman said a new “professional” board will continue to examine society expenses, and if any potential fraud is BC Bureau discovered, information

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Four Vancouver anti-povAn audit by KMPG erty charity executives fired Forensic Inc. covered three for a tax-funded spending years of expenses, 2010 spree that included luxury through 2012. It found foreign trips, limousines, restaurant meals and booze managers and directors expensed nearly $70,000 over will receive severance pay three years on restaurants of up to eight weeks plus and more than $300,000 on accumulated vacation pay. travel.

Housing Minister Rich Trips were to Vienna, Coleman said Monday Paris, Bristol, Istanbul, the severance is required New York City, Los Anunder B.C. labour law for geles, Banff and Ottawa. four top executives of the In addition to hotel rooms, Portland Hotel Society, which operates low-income some costing more than housing, addiction services $800 a night, there were charges for spa services, and a string of non-profit alcohol, fresh flowers, a businesses in Vancouver’s cruise for a society mandowntown east side. ager and other questionable Directors of the society expenditures. resigned after terminatNDP leader Adrian ing the four executives, Dix said Monday he has Mark Townsend, his wife requested an unpaid leave Liz Evans, Dan Small and

of absence for VancouverMount Pleasant MLA Jenny Kwan, who repaid $35,000 in travel expenses to the society on Friday. In a tearful news conference, Kwan said she had been told by her husband Dan Small that he was personally paying expenses that were actually billed to the society.

Kwan accompanied Small and their two children on a trip to Disneyland, and on another trip to Vienna and Bristol, England.

The Portland Hotel Society operates the supervised injection site for street drug users and a network of businesses including a coffee shop and a pest control service, in addition to managing multiple singleroom occupancy hotels in the downtown east side.

The society receives more than $28 million a year from the B.C. government, the vast majority of its revenues.

NDP takes aim at Multi Material BC recycling ‘failure’ Jeff Nagel BLACK PRESS The NDP is accusing the provincial government of handing over control of B.C.’s blue box recycling system to Toronto-based multinational executives who will be unaccountable while B.C. businesses and households pay higher costs.

Opposition small business critic Lana Popham raised the issue of Multi Material BC in the Legislature Monday, calling on the province to change course before the agency’s new system for recycling packaging and printed paper takes effect May 19.

“If government doesn’t take a step back, B.C.’s recycling system is going to end up in a giant dumpster,”

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“The control of recycling should never have been outsourced to the large corporate interests based in Ontario and abroad. This is a profound failure. This program needs to be paused and the entire concept reconsidered.”

Popham’s comments follow the launch earlier this month of a campaign against MMBC by a coalition of business groups, including the newspaper industry, who say they can’t afford to pay high fees imposed under the new system.

“The Liberal government loves to claim they’re getting rid of red tape,” she said in an interview Monday. “So it’s quite ironic because MMBC is a Godzilla-sized

red tape monster.”

Although MMBC is registered as a society, Popham called it a “dummy corporation” because two of its three directors are Toronto-based senior executives with Loblaws and Unilever, while the third is MMBC managing director Allan Langdon.

The Saanich South NDP MLA said the province should force MMBC to give B.C. stakeholders majority control.

Popham said the MMBC system will be “dangerously close to monopoly” resulting in less competititon and innovation in recycling.

She also said municipalities have been pressured into signing contracts with inadequate

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MMBC’s new recycling fees on businesses will be passed along to consumers through higher prices, Popham said, calling it a “hidden tax” that won’t be transparent to consumers.

Meanwhile, she says cities are unlikely to rebate property taxes that households already pay for recycling.

“The slogan for MMBC should probably be ‘Recycle once, but pay twice.’”

In some cities where MMBC won’t provide services, such as Kamloops, residents will pay for nothing, Popham added.

MMBC says it will take new types of containers and packaging not collected in B.C. before.

But Popham noted glass will no longer be collected curbside in many cities and there’s little evidence the system will improve recycling rates overall.

She said a smarter approach would have been to extend the beverage can deposit-refund system to more containers, such as milk cartons and laundry detergent jugs.

Liberal MLA Eric Foster (Vernon Monashee) responded in the Legislature, saying the province made changes to exempt most businesses from MMBC fees and paperwork if they earn less than $1 million

in revenue, generate less than one tonne per year of packaging, or operate as a single outlet.

“We’ve got all kinds of validation on this — chambers of commerce, local government, opportunities for local government to either continue the way they’re doing it or to have MMBC put their contractors in there to pick up,” said Foster, who serves on the government’s environment and land use committee.

“MMBC came forward as an opportunity to change people’s way of doing business and to put the onus on the original producers of the waste product or the recyclable product to reduce.”

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SAYS We asked: Do you think the Town of Lake Cowichan should deal with its own garbage (waste) or ship it away?

Tamara Brown “If it would provide some jobs for the area, because we need more employment here.”

Gord Roy “We create it here so we should deal with it here.”

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Ted Gamble of Lake Cowichan Needs Access to CAC with volunteer Ross Johnston (right) had an information table set up at Lake Cowichan Country Grocer on Saturday, March 15 to explain to people ‘Yes’ side of the Cowichan Aquatic Centre issue.

It takes taxes to keep community livable In my opinion: It would be a mistake for the “yes” side to relax

On Saturday, March 15 myself and three other volunteers manned the courtesy tent at our local Lake Cowichan Country Grocer to convey information to our fellow citizens about the ongoing Lake Cowichan vote for equal access to the Cowichan Aquatic Centre (CAC).

It was a rainy day but we managed to talk to a good number of people, both pro and con. We were able to give out a good number of information pamphlets.

Although our focus was on encouraging people to vote ‘yes’ for equal access, this was also a good opportunity to hear the other side of this contentious issue.

On the con side for instance, I personally talked to several Lake Cowichan citizens who have fixed pensions and are worried about “the never ending tax grab” and others who are essentially resentful at the process of how the pool was built.

Others said that we don’t get any extra funds from North Cowichan for our arena so why would we give them our tax dollars for their

pool. Still others said that the price would just keep on rising and we would eventually be stuck with a huge tax bill.

Accordingly, I can empathize with the pensioners who worry about how many dollars they have and where they are going. Living expenses are a huge part of the financial pie for the elderly, and middle class families alike.

Likewise for the amount of taxes we need for our town, as we live in a thriving community and it takes taxes to keep the community vibrant and livable for the benefit of all citizens now and in the future.

Indeed I have to admit that I am not as familiar as I would like to be with the initial CAC building process and was not in town in 2008 when all area directors were invited to contribute to the pre-construction and maintenance of the CAC. However, I understand that the process was not perfect and I believe we should not limit the health opportunities of our citizens due to the resentment of a few, developed years ago, which are harbored today preventing our citizens fair and equal access to a wonderful facility a short drive from our community.

On the other hand, my fellow volunteers and I were amazed at how many citizens

who were in favour of having equal access to the CAC and who actually thought that the present one-year deal was actually a complete five-year deal or longer.

In the same manner, many people thought that because we have a one-year deal “surely we will have equal access from now on.” This was not surprising to me as there has been very little concrete information put forward by The Town of Lake Cowichan’s council around the reasons or the validity of this equal access vote.

Finally, my understanding is that this vote is non-binding and a litmus test to garner the mood of the people around the equal access issue.

Although none of the councillors or the mayor have said so directly, I believe this vote will have a great bearing on how the council will proceed in the future in relation to equal access to the CAC. Why else would they proceed with such an exercise?

I personally think it would be a mistake for the citizens on the ‘yes’ side to rest on the laurels of our present one-year equal access deal and believe we need to be actively engaging our fellow citizens to vote ‘yes’ at every opportunity, until final day of voting on July 2.

—Ted Gamble, Lake Cowichan Needs Access to CAC

Karen Kloske “One of the most upsetting things I see are people dumping it on the less traveled roads so we are not taking care of it in our own back yards. Shipping it away?

Does any body want it? We have to be responsible for our individual garbage.”

Judy Brown “If it wouldn’t increase our tax I think we should deal with it on our own.”

Leah Saari “Whatever provides us jobs locally and is good for the environment.”

Thanks for bean here at Cowichan Lake library

Lake Cowichan library launches spring break planting program; come back and watch your bean plant grow Ross Armour

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Vancouver Island Regional Library recently launched a spring break planting program with operations in full swing at the Cowichan Lake branch last Thursday.

Various youngsters and family members came out to plant beans in celebration of spring break.

“We’re getting ready for a spring break planting program so we’re inviting the kids to stop by on their spring break to plant some beans to take home,” said customer services librarian Kristen Rumohr.

Rumohr herself was on hand to help the children plant their beans by first digging up compost, planting the beans and then watering them.

As well as taking their beans home, children were also given the opportunity

to leave some more to grow at the library, where they can come back and visit.

“We’re having a little experiment so they can watch their beans grow at the library as well,” said Rumohr.

The program is just a small segment of a variety of events the library puts on every year when spring break comes around, in order to get families out and about in the community.

“It’s a library program. Every year at spring break the library does programs for pre-schoolers and school aged kids to get them engaged and have some fun with others.”

This particular planting program was designed and set up for children aged between three and 12.

“We try and do lots of programs that bring whole families together and to us, so we like to have as wide a range in age as we can,” said Rumohr.

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Librarian Kristen Rumohr helps a youngster dig up compost and plant a bean as part of Vancouver Island Regional Library’s spring break planting program, aiming at bringing different families together throughout the community.

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Meetings will be held on the dates and at locations listed below: West Zone – Saturday, March 29, 2014 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am at Lake Cowichan Secondary School, 190 South Shore Road, Lake Cowichan, BC South Zone – Saturday, March 29, 2014 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm at George Bonner Elementary School, 3060 Cobble Hill Road, Mill Bay, BC Central Zone – Monday, April 7, 2014 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at Quamichan Campus, CSS, 2515 Beverly Street, Duncan, BC North Zone – Tuesday, April 8, 2014 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at Chemainus Secondary School, 9947 Daniel Street, Chemainus, BC www.sd79.bc.ca

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Addie Pecknold holds an award that was presented to the Lake Cowichan Drama Club back in the 1960s. She and husband Adrian were heavily involved in the club and took part in many of the group’s theatre productions in the 1950s and ‘60s.

The 100 Houses, home to many families like the Pecknolds It was a fun place to live. The neighbourhood was Elementary School — later called Stanley full of young families and lots of children.

Gordon School — which was just a stone’s throw The official name of the neighbourhood was from her home in the 100 Houses. For several Parkstone and although there were only 99 years she, and school principal Len Plater, jointly houses actually built, it was and still is, called the taught a Grade 6 class at the school where the 100 Houses.

Pecknold children also attended.

Conveniently situated on the hill above the Eventually the family moved from the 100 elementary and high schools, the subdivision was Houses to a lovely home and property on built in the late 1940s specifically for returning Cowichan Lake.

Second World War veterans. When the houses Addie was always a well liked teacher and were built the families arrived. person. She loved music and The neatly compact homes — volunteered time as a church choir three styles to choose from (two or master in the community. three bedrooms) — built on orderly She had a quick wit, tireless streets were soon full of residents energy and a great love of music who worked hard and raised their and was well liked by her students families. They were part of the long here, and, years later in Ontario, Rolli list of people who helped make the where the family moved in the Gunderson community of Lake Cowichan a 1960’s. great place to live.

Both Addie and Adrian were PAGES OF HISTORY It was a good life and many of very much involved in the Lake those who lived there in the 1940s, Cowichan Drama Club and ‘50s and ‘60s still fondly recall the fun they had participated in many theatre performances locally living at the 100 Houses. and beyond. In the 1960s, Adrian turned to “It was a fun place to live,” said Carol LaForge professional acting which constituted a move to (nee Hurst) recently of her early years in the 100 Ontario for the family.

Houses.

He worked hard and made a name for himself Another one of the many families that lived as the character Poco in CBC’s children’s show, there were the Pecknolds. Adrian, Addie and their Mr. Dressup, and he also founded the Adrian two kids Adrian David, and Susan Pecknold Mime Theatre.

“They were good neighbours and fun people.”

Addie’s long teaching career ended in 1985 recalled Carol. when she retired from the Pauline Johnson Junior Married in 1941, the Pecknolds moved to Lake Public School in Scarborough, Ontario.

Cowichan after Adrian had completed military The couple then spent many idyllic years at service during the Second World War. It wasn’t Niagara-on–the–Lake and other destinations. long before the family became involved in the In January of last year, Addie died in Ajax, community, like so many others Ontario at the age of 92. Adrian passed away in Born in Nakusp, B.C., Addie (Adeline Mary) 1992 followed by daughter Susan in 2002. had graduated from Victoria’s Provincial Normal Among the surviving family members is their School for teachers. Not long after moving to son Adrian David who is retired and lives on the Lake Cowichan, Adrian opened a coffee shop lower mainland. (café) in the local landmark the Smith Block. It Occasionally, perhaps once every five years, a was in a small portion of the space that is the site group of close friends — all raised and schooled of today’s Shaker Mill restaurant. The little café here — get together for a good time here at Lake was small but very welcome in the community.

Cowichan. Several, including Adrian David, were Addie soon began teaching at Lake Cowichan raised in the 100 Houses.

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The BC Government is now off-loading our recycling decisions to Toronto.

Under its new regulations, the BC Government has set up an association led by big corporations to take over the local Blue Box recycling program throughout BC. If you look closely, you’ll see that of seven board members, six are executives of Toronto-based multi-national corporations, with the seventh weighing in from Montreal.

How do you like that, British Columbia?

This means, unlike the current program run locally by BC municipalities, this new program will be managed not by people whose first responsibility is our local environment, but rather, their Bay St. profits.

That can’t be a good thing for BC. The most perplexing thing is that we currently have a Blue Box program that works, is efficient, and costs BC homeowners just

$35 a year on average. The new proposed system does not guarantee to keep our local environment as its first priority, nor does it guarantee that there won’t be job losses here in BC. It doesn’t guarantee service levels, or say anything about how big business will pass along the costs to you when you go to pick up a pizza or buy groceries.

Yikes!

Perhaps this is why several of BC’s municipalities refuse to sign onto the new program, calling it a “scam.”

Given that, maybe it’s time you called Premier Clark to keep BC’s environmental decisions right here in BC where they belong.

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GLASS Pregnant elk killed and beheaded by poachers Rod’s&AUTO UPHOLSTERY Wilderness Watch outraged as elk Lake CowiChan Gazette

A pregnant elk was killed and beheaded in the Lake Cowichan area by poachers recently with the unborn fetus left to rot at the dead mother’s side.

The elk and baby were recently found by the Wilderness Watch department of the Valley Fish and Game Club who are outraged by the discovery.

“We’re really upset about this poaching,” said Wilderness Watch coordinator Denis Martel. “The Valley Fish and Game Club put a lot of time, effort and money into protecting these herds so they can be sustained eventually for First Nations hunting and limited entry hunting. The public have bought into that and we need them to continue supporting us. The government has also got to help us. They need to give us more time, more money, and more conservation officers so we can sustain these herds.”

Martel also wrote in with details on the incident. “[The] unborn baby elk fetus was torn away from its birth sack and then laid beside the mother’s head, exposing both of the animals to the elements of this year’s bitter snow,” said Martel in an email. “Only the cow head and fetus were left at the poaching scene.”

fetus torn away and left to rot

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Cowichan Lake Wilderness Watch members came upon this grisly scene recently — an elk fetus that would have been an calf in a matter of weeks.

The remains of another mature cow were found earlier this month also by the Wilderness Watch, according to Martel.

“This poached elk was more disturbing to find than usual due to the way the elk remains were found. In one area, the mature pregnant cow was shot

and the gut bag removed. The elk was then dragged several metres to another area where the poachers dressed out the rest of the elk, beheaded the cow elk, removed the unborn elk fetus out of its birth sack, and finally laid the fetus beside the cow elk’s head, leaving a grisly statement to all who

witnessed or saw the photo of this horrible scene.

“What really makes Wilderness Watch members upset is the fact that the unborn fetus would eventually have been a beautiful elk calf in only a few more weeks. This is not the first poached elk we have found. In the past few months we have found the remains of at least five or six more poached elk in the Cowichan Lake area. Poaching a mature cow elk at this time of year, in actuality, kills two elk: A mature calf bearing elk cow as well as a young calf. This calf could be another calf producing cow elk who could give birth to several calves in her lifetime or the calf could become a majestic bull elk, now of which none are possible.”

Martel is encouraging anyone with information to contact the 24-hour reporting poachers hotline at 1-877-952-7277.

“Wilderness Watch members, whose mandate is to report a poacher/polluter to the conservation officer service or a federal fishery officer, have approximately 30 Valley Fish & Game Club members who are always looking for illegal activities while out in the wilderness, lakes or ocean.

This all helps in crime prevention, but it is only through the help of the general public that crime prevention can truly be successful.”

Fishing good for local river and lake anglers Gord March

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LAKE COWICHAN AREA April/May 2014 Saltwater Nanaimo to Sooke has been excellent for winter chinook fishing.

Try trolling just off the bottom with a purple glow flasher, glow anchovy head and anchovy or purple haze hoochies.

Bold Bluff out of Cowichan Bay has also been excellent with fish ranging from eightto 12 pounds. Try out the new Kite Tail lures — early reports have been excellent on these.

Freshwater Cowichan Lake fishing is going strong.

Try trolling creek mouths and paralleling the shore line staying within 30 feet. Keep your line back from the boat by at least 150 ft.

Top lures of choice are three inch tomic. The best colours are the new iridescent inserts.

Also working well are Dr. Minnow rainbow trout pattern

and the ever popular gang troll and flat fish.

As of April 16 until Nov. 14, bait, barbs and trebles are allowed in the lake.

Fishing the creek mouths with bait (single eggs, roe, paste or worms) and a corky rig can produce large numbers of fish including the odd lunker. My favourite way to fish the lake.

Kissinger and Lizard Lakes to the west have good rainbow trout fishing. Try corky and single egg rig off the docks and beaches.

Trolling with small Spratley’s leeches, wooley buggers, flatfish and small spoons.

Fuller Lake, Chemainus Lake, Dougan’s Lake, Quamichan Lake, and Somenos Lake are also producing well. These seven lakes have been stocked recently.

Cowichan River Trout Fishing Mid-river resident rainbow and brown trout. Minnow flies, Prince Nymphs and stoneflies.

From Skutz Falls to Greendale Trestle is excellent for browns and rainbows. The largest browns in the river are found in this section.

Flies of choice are: single egg patterns, rolled mudlers,

A fisherman casts in a quiet pool on the Cowichan River.

Prince Nymphs, Hare’s Ear Nymphs and Pheasant Tail Nymphs. Stick to the bead heads and weighted flies.

Steelhead Fishing Cowichan River: April, and the start of May, steelheading is still excellent on the Cowichan mainly for mended kelts.

These fish have to feed aggressively after spawning, making them the easiest steelhead to target. A great month to catch your first steelhead!

Lures of choice are blades, single egg copies or small pink worms.

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Flies of choice are large and black or the ever popular egg fly.

Nitinat, San Juan, Harris Creek All excellent rivers for early summer runs and winter steelhead.

They are best fished when coming off of high water.

Cowichan Fly and Tackle has over 400, 3-inch plugs in stock with over 80 different patterns and there are over 30,000 flies in stock.

“May your rod bend to the butt and your smile go from ear to ear.”

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TERM: May 19, 2014 – August 22, 2014 HOURS OF WORK: up to 40 hours per week WAGES: $17.80 per hour Application letter and resume shall be received no later than 4:00 p.m., Friday, April 11, 2014 at: Town of Lake Cowichan P.O. Box 860, 39 South Shore Road Lake Cowichan, B.C. V0R 2G0 and shall be marked: CONFIDENTIAL – Public Works & Parks Attention: Mr. Nagi Rizk, P.Eng. or CONFIDENTIAL – Lakeview Campsite Attention: Mr. Dalton Smith **Only short listed applicants will be contacted**

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The Retreads hiking group take a break during their hike on Stoney Mountain in Genoa Bay.

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The trail has a few steep sections but is otherwise a pleasant up and down hill experience right at the edge of the residential part of Ladysmith.

More hiking trails go on up around Stocking and Heart Lakes. This is the Cowichan experience. We step out of town and we are in wilderness.

The previous week saw 20 of us park down the Genoa Bay Road and hike up Stoney Mountain. As you hike up this hill you soon understand where the name came from. You are hiking over bubbly rock with just the thinnest layer of soil and plants clinging to it.

At our first stopping point, we have a great view down toward Arbutus Ridge and the Victoria Airport. How do we know you say? We watch planes fly in there. At this point I discover that our Wednesday walk geocache note book has become soaked and that will require a return trip with a new note book.

We move on to a second hill overlooking the Maple Bay Channel and across to Salt Spring Island with a view of Mount Maxwell.

After a restful lunch, chatting and enjoying the scenery it is back down the trail to our cars and a refreshment stop at the Shipyard Restaurant and Pub. Sound decadent? Pick up a schedule at Cowichan Lake Sports Arena and join our hikes.

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We awoke, looked out the window, and saw it was pouring with rain.

It was our Wednesday hike day so how could this be? By the time we rushed down to Saywell Park the rain was pretty much over and as we started up the Holland Creek trail at the edge of Ladysmith the sun broke through and we had a pleasant hike up the hill. We count on Wednesdays being sunny and pleasant for our weekly hike.

One member summed up the hike this way: “Beautiful hike today with lovely sunny weather and 14 happy hikers! Coffee in the Bean Time in Ladysmith after the hike. Fun time.

Thanks to Greg and Colleen for leading today’s hike!”

Yes,we take turns at leading hikes.

To elaborate, Holland Creek trail follows the creek some three kilometres up to a point where we cross the creek which is a busy and scenic torrent of water during this season.

We then hike up to a site where the Rotary Club has fashioned a picnic area overlooking the town with Nanaimo airport in the distance. Then we return down the other side of the creek. A total of 7.25 km. which has burned 600 calories according to our Runkeeper app.

This is a busy trail. When we arrived about 10:30 a.m. the parking lot was full. Along the trail we passed runners, hikers enjoying time out with their dog, and a few workers replacing

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The Saywell Park Floating Walkway had finishing touches added in the last few days. Ladders were added in different zones of the wharf for added safety to enter and exit the river. “It was part of the project. It was just a matter of waiting for the arrival of the ladders.� commented Mayor Ross Forrest. Dalton Smith, manager of Cowichan Lake Education Centre, oversaw the walkway project and was assisted by Cliff Gibson — owner of Jordic Marine — who donated his time to design and consult on the wharf component of the Saywell Park project.

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☞ RCMP report • Cst. Bruce Coles said in an email to the Gazette that "A canoe was located floating off Youbou on Cowichan Lake."

An employee of the library turned in a copper wind chime to the detachment.

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Music in the Lake regrets the last day cancellation of the Clover Point Drifters concert this month. Evidently group mainstay Alan Law was in the hospital for a medical emergency.

We will host an evening with Island band West My Friend, on Friday, April 4. Checked them out in advance at westmyfriend.com. As usual we will be at Lower Centennial Hall, with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are unbeatable at $5 per person.

In May we welcome music historians Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat, who promise us a look (and listen) to the history of the B.C. logging industry.

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Wednesday, March 26 • Documentary Night is back at Cowichan Lake library starting at 6 p.m. “Friendly and majestic giant or ruthless killer? Over the years, orcas have been labelled as both.â€? Blackfish,the story of Tillikum, will explore the issue of keeping these unique creatures in captivity.

Saturday, March 29 • School District 79’s public consultation meeting on the 2014-15 budget and the disposal of property is at Lake Cowichan School starting at 9:30 a.m.

Monday, March 31 • Dr. Laura Hughes, Lake Cowichan chiropractor, will be leading a moderate walk on the Greendale Loop. It’s a hill-free walk on gravel and pavement that will take about 45 to 60 minutes. Meet outside of Lake Cowichan Chiropractic before 12:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join in. Check out the Get Walkin’ Lake Cowichan Facebook page.

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■ The Lake Cowichan Co-ed Slo-Pitch league will be holding their annual season start-up meeting on April 1 at 6 p.m. at Jake’s on the Lake. New players, new teams, new ideas are welcome. They will be discussing a start date, fees, scheduling, and so on.

■ Game on! Get your team together and register for the Lake Days Road Hockey Tournament — for all ages — at Saywell Park on June 10. Team forms can be picked up at IRLY, Lake Cowichan or email: lakecowichanroadhockey@shaw.ca There is limited space. Registeredwith your completed form and full payment. Volunteers are needed for one hour blocks to make this happen. Call 250-749-4710 ■ Homestay host-families are required for the upcoming visit by delegates from our sister city Ohtaki, Japan in October, 2014.

Please contact the Town of Lake Cowichan office at 250-749-6681 if you would like to host a delegate.

Students in Grades 5-11, residing in the Cowichan Lake area, can be part of the July

Spring clean-up! Town of Lake Cowichan Public Works crews were doing a little clean-up behind the library on March 20.

The arrival of some nice weather and the first day of spring had many local residents outside enjoying the warmer weather and doing some spring cleaning themselves. Can summer be far away?

2015 delegation from Lake Cowichan to Ohtaki, Japan. Contact the Town of Lake Cowichan’s office for more information, 250-749-6681.

☞ Handmade hugs

Handmade Hugs Society Cowichan Valley is a group of caring individuals who provide comfort items for people facing stressful situations like illness, loss or transition with an emphasis on children and the aged.

In 2009 founder, and Lake Cowichan

resident, Julie McClure donated her 500th toque to the Nanaimo-based group Everyone Deserves A Smile who ran a winter outreach program for street residents.

McClure wanted to somehow help her own community and began formulating an idea which eventually evolved into Handmade Hugs.

Five years later, her original idea has been expanded upon, turned inside out and upside down and become far more than the original idea had ever been. She and a group

of approximately 100 dedicated volunteers are now part of a registered society, complete with a Board of Directors, a website, regular monthly get-togethers to work on projects and two annual events (one a work bee and one a fundraiser), and a number of facilities who rely on them to provide items that their own funding does not allow for.

With an inventory of almost 20 standard items and an ever-changing list of specialty items serving the Cowichan District Hospital, and other facilities, this group also provides ‘handmade hugs,’ (quilts, afghans, knitted toys, etc.) to individuals whose names have been submitted by family or friends to let the person know that they are not alone, that there are people around them who care.

If you’d like to volunteer with this group, the perfect opportunity is coming in a few short weeks. The annual work bee — the Hug-A-Thon — is being held on Saturday, April 5 in Mellor Hall at the Cowichan Exhibition grounds from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Visit the website at: http://handmadehugscowichan.com, call 250-749-3189 or email: handmadehugs@ shaw.ca —Submitted

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