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Seniors Centre: name change and events PAGE 5
Kaatza Art Group: submit your photos PAGE 3
CLEC: International youth group visits centre PAGE 10
Election candidates declared Friday Candidates for Mayor • • •
Candidates for Councillor
Ross Forrest Wendy Klyne Kyle Wylie
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Photo Malcolm Chalmers
Kristin Svendsen, Mitsuki Takayama, Nonoka Fujita and Camika Bell enjoy dinner together on Tuesday evening at Centennial Hall. The evening was arranged for the Ohtaki and Lake Cowichan delegates, visitors and families on the Japanese delegates’ last evening in Lake Cowichan. The Ohtaki group was in Lake Cowichan for four days of community events and cultural exchange.
Community Connections business showcase Aspen Gainer
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This Saturday at 10 a.m. head down to Centennial Hall in Lake Cowichan for Community Connections: A Business Showcase. This local business symposium is free for attendees and boasts $400 in door prizes. Attendees from around the lake will find displays from almost 40 local businesses like South Shore Cabinetry and Gerald’s Specialty Foods, and from the eight sponsor businesses. “It’s more than a trade show. We’ve invited artisans as well because we have some really amazing artisans in this community,” said Glenda Osborne-Burg, organizer of the Community Connections showcase. Businesses had to pay to participate
and the 40 spaces at the showcase were, at the time of writing, almost sold out. The showcase was sponsored by eight local businesses and individuals. “We’ve raised about $800 in sponsorships, plus another $400 or so in door prizes,” said Burg. With almost 40 businesses in attendance at the showcase, it is a good way to start off Canadian Small Business Week (Oct. 19-24) and get a feel for the local business community. “We may not be able to compete with the big box stores, but what we can do is offer specialty items that you can’t find in the bigger conglomerates,” said Burg. When you arrive at the hall, you will be given a program complete with a passport. “What we ask you to do is to visit at least 10 exhibitors, and each exhibitor you visit will put a stamp
in your passport. That gives you eligibility for the door prizes,” said Burg. You don’t have to remain in attendance to win. Door prizes include gift baskets from Country Grocer and Island Pharmacy, plus $100 and a one-year-free checking account from Island Savings. As well, you will be able to vote for the best exhibitor at the showcase. The exhibitor who gets the most votes will receive the Community Connections People’s Choice Award. “This is the first (Community Connections showcase) and judging from the response that we’ve received it will certainly be continued next year,” said Burg. Visit Centennial Hall this Saturday to learn more about local businesses in the community and help make this first showcase a success.
(acclaimed) Director, Area F: Ian Morrison Director, Area I: Klaus Kuhn
Carolyne Austin Hubert Crevels Bob Day Ted Gamble Franklin Hornbrook Tim McGonigle Beverly North Lorna Vomacka Rocky Wise
17 school trustee candidates for SD 79 Peter Rusland NEWS LEADER
The most familiar face at Cowichan’s next school-board table could be Ladysmith’s longtime mayor, and regional chairman, Rob Hutchins. The former Ladysmitharea teacher has chalked his name on district 79’s slate of 17 trustee candidates, seeking four-year terms in seven desks Nov. 15. Victoria dropped that number from the previous nine trustee seats in Cowichan. The district’s former school board was fired by the education ministry after submitting a controversial deficit budget to protest perstudent funding levels. Of the 17 candidates for trustee, five are from the fired board; some of the others have previous political experience.
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Newcomers include Dana Arthurs, Kayla Barrett, Connie Buckner, Keith Chicquen, Roger Chin, Elizabeth Croft, Joanne de Lure, Randy Doman, and Amy Matamba. Incumbents, or familiar school-board faces, looking for election include Barb de Groot, Deb Foster, Ellen Oxman, Amrik Prihar, Cathy Schmidt, Candace Spilsbury, and Joe Thorne. Then-trustees Foster and Oxman voted in favour of the budget that got the board fired. Prihar, Schmidt and Spilsbury were from the minority opposed. Cowichan’s former nine trustees, elected in 2011, were replaced by appointed trustee Mike McKay. He helmed a pack of public meetings to gather public opinion about which valley schools to close amid locally declining student enrolments.
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