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Seussical brings fun to stage

Singing was hard for the Cat in the Hat. But she learned to do it; how about that!

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Melissa Hazel Lowe is tailor-made to Meli play the t lead Cat in the Hat for Portal Players Playe Dramatic Society’s latest production, Seussical the Musical. But prod if she sh hadn’t channeled her inner The Theodor Geisel—Dr. Seuss’s real nam name—she never would have got th the role.

Lowe, you see, was shy about singing s in public—problematic if y you are trying out for the lead in a musical.

“This is my first lead musical,” she says. “I’ve never been confident with my singing.”

So shy, in fact, that when she appeared in a pantomime a few years y ago “there was a song my character c had to sing and they ended en up cutting it because I wouldn’t wo sing it.”

Even Ev karaoke was a spectator sport spo for her, until she joined the Sea Notes Note choir and had a singing part in Wizard Wiza of Oz last year.

Lowe has been involved in theatre since she s was six or seven, and has done a lot l of behind-the-scenes work with Portal Por Players since she was in high school.

She took tto drama at Alberni District Secondary Second School under Kerry Robertson.

Roberr “I really started getting onto the stage st with (Portal’s) one-acts,” she said.

Lowe’s Lo first big foray into stage work was playing Cecily Cardew in The Importance Imp of Being Earnest, which was wa a Portal Players’ North Island Zone Zo Drama Festival submission in 2011.

2 (Now, Lowe is on the committee bringing the zone festival back to Port Alberni in May.) She initially auditioned to be a bird girl in Seussical, a supporting part for Lisa Fryer’s Gertrude. “They called me and asked if I wanted to be the cat, and a I said ‘OK, I’ll do it,’” she said.

“I’m trying to accept the challenges and get outside my ch bubble.” bu There are no speaking parts— Th just singing—in the musical, which sold out opening night and both its matinees. matin Learning the timing to go with the th music has been challenging, she added, add because she doesn’t read music. “I “ was using my ears to go with the words I had h on paper.”

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Lisa Fryer, top, uses her beautiful voice to give Gertrude some character, while the Whos from Whoville, right, often stole the show. Melissa Lowe, left, nails the many faces of the Cat in the Hat last week.

version of The Cat in the Hat was fairly easy for Lowe, who grew up reading Dr. Seuss books and watching The Cat in the Hat on television.

“I’m really comfortable in it,” she says of the role. “I don’t feel like I really have to stretch too hard for that inspiration.”

Seussical artistic director Elliot Drew, who came into the picture midway through the production schedule, said the beauty of Seuss’s characters are they challenge the imagination, so actors can have a little fun with them.

“People know Horton, people know the Cat, but to bring them to life on stage, you can have a little bit of fun,” he said.

“How do you bring a person to the stage who is an elephant? And most importantly, how do you make the Cat in the Hat come to life? Seuss was really great in creating these characters that embodied a sense of value; those values have to be in the forefront as you bring the characters to

the stage,” he added.

Collaborating with costume designer Stephanie Fortin and her sisters, Jenny Fortin and Ellisha Cartlidge has spelled success in bringing the characters to life, Drew said.

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City Budget Time This Thursday, Feb. 19, come out to city hall and listen to the last of the city department budget presentations. Admin, corporate services and reserve funds present at 10 a.m. and planning and the SPCA round out the departmental budget presentations at 6 p.m. Get the information and then ask your questions at the Feb. 25 public budget presentation at Echo Centre at 6:30 p.m.

The top senior curlers descend on the Alberni Valley Curling Club from Feb. 16-21 for the Tim Hortons Seniors Curling Championships. The public is welcome and adimission is by donation. Finals go around 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21.

Have Your Say There’ll be a piece of art popping up by the train station late this spring courtesy of the Young Professionals of the Alberni Valley and they want to know what you think about it. Come out to Steampunk Cafe, meet the YPAV and tell them and project artist Shayne Lloyd what you think about their idea for a tsunami memorial pillar, all while enjoying a cup of joe.

The session is on Thursday, Feb. 19 from 6-8 p.m.

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AVCF has partnered with the City of Port Alberni and the Alberni Environmental Coalition to host two presentations concerning the impacts of climate change in the Alberni Valley. The Foundation also funded the construction of garden boxes for residents of Abbeyfield. AVCF invites proposals for projects that will enhance environmental sustainability and resilience in our community.

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Regarding our front page article on Feb. 12 (From dentures to adventures), the Alberni Valley News would like to clarify that Stephen McOrmond is a student denturist at Alberni Denture Clinic working under the tutelage of clinic owner Jason Kirouac, a licensed denturist.

••• In an article about the Huu-ay-aht heading into the second phase of its LNG agreement with Steelhead LNG, Huu-ay-aht executive director James Edwards was incorrectly quoted as saying 4,000 workers would eat two eggs for breakfast, which would equal 2,000 eggs per day.

Upon re-doing our math, we realized he said 8,000 eggs.

That’s still a lot of eggs; however, we do regret our error.

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Raven Coal figures Love it or leave it: city finally ‘inflated’: Armstrong debates district energy plan KATYA SLEPIAN ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

Compliance Coal’s Raven Underground Coal Mine application presents neither a solid business case nor does it properly portray environmental risks posed to the Alberni Valley, said Jane Armstrong, member of the city’s select committee set up to provide input on the latest Raven Coal environmental review

process.

If the coal mine goes ahead—this is Compliance’s second kick at applying since the first one was turned down last year—trucks carrying coal could drive through Port Alberni and a coal port be located at the harbour.

According to Armstrong, the committee took issue with assumptions made about “local and regional shares of employment.”

Jobs provided by the coal mine would fit into three categories;

direct, indirect, induced. According to Armstrong, while some of the money from these jobs would flow into the community, much of it would not.

“You’ve got to subtract taxes and then what is in essence ‘leakage,” which is money spent outside the local community, such as grocery shopping in Nanaimo.

Armstrong also addressed the “image factor” of bringing a coal port to Port Alberni.

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City councillors will decide next week whether or not to go ahead with a district energy plan that’s been on the table since 2010.

Pat Deakin, the city’s economic development manager, held an open meeting at city hall on Monday (Feb. 16) where Stephen Salter, an engineer with Farallon Consultants Limited, presented the plan to council.

The district energy system would divert

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APPOINTMENTS TO COMMITTEES CITY OF PORT ALBERNI Council for the City of Port Alberni has established several new Committees and is now inviting applications from interested parties for the following:

community wood waste away from open burning into a biomass boiler and be used to heat “key Port Alberni buildings,” including West Coast General Hospital, city facilities in the Roger and Wallace streets corridor and private seniors’ facilities on 10th Avenue.

The hot water would travel along nearly three kilometres of underground pipes that would be maintained by the utility owner, said Salter. Only buildings with central heating could switch to district energy.

The biomass boiler could be located at one of five sites but Salter declined to list the locations.

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School Registration for 2015/16

The Seniors Advisory Committee is a standing committee of Council appointed for the purpose of making Please be advised that Cityto Hall will be access closed on recommendations to Council enhance to the Cityfollowing servicesdates: for seniors, and to identify and suggest solutions to gaps and barriersththat impede the full participation of seniors in all aspects of life in our Wednesday, December 24 community. There is also ath focus on forming partnerships with the community and acting as public forum Thursday, December 25 for issues seniors Friday, affecting December 26th including but not limited to transportation and housing.

School closure considerations require reasonable and informed enrolment projections. To assist in developing accurate enrolment projections and to comply with SD70 school admission policy, registration for the 2015/16 school year will occur in two phases:

Four members will be appointed from the community at large to serve up to two years.

Wednesday, December 31st Thursday, January 1st Youth Advisory Committee

1) catchment-area students ONLY prior to March 6, 2015; 2) out-of-catchment students starting April 1, 2015

will Advisory be open for business is asausual on allcommittee other days.of Council appointed for the purpose of making TheWe Youth Committee standing recommendations to Council to enhance access to City services for youth, and to identify and suggest Payments solutions to gaps and barriers that impede the full participation of younger residents in all aspects of life Payments can be madeisvia online banking, telephone or at banking Cheques can as public in our community.

There also a focus on forming partnerships withinstitutions. the community and acting be dropped Payments placed through the mail slot at City Hall on December 31st forum for issuesoff/mailed. affecting young residents. or January 1st, will be processed as of December 31st.

Four Youth members will be appointed from the community at large to serve up to two years.

For any questions regarding the above, please contact: Food Security and Climate Change Davina Hartwell TheCity Food Security and Climate Change Committee is a Standing Committee of Council appointed for the Clerk purpose of making recommendations to Council with respect to urban food security and climate change Tel. (250) 720-2810 concerns the community.

Email: affecting davina_hartwell@portalberni.ca

Catchment Area Registration

Prior to March 6, 2015 the following students should register at their current catchment area school: - Children born in 2010 registering for Kindergarten - Children currently attending another SD70 school but intending to enroll in their catchment-area school for September 2015 Students currently attending a school outside their catchment area will be automatically re-registered and accommodated if space permits.

When registering your child in your catchment area school, please ensure that you have the child’s Birth Certificate and Care Card, and proof of residence in that catchment area.

Four members will be appointed from the community at large to serve up to two years.

Terms of Reference for the above-noted Committees are available from the City Clerk. Letters of application indicating the Committee you are interested in participating in and your expertise in that particular area will be accepted until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, February 27th, 2015 and should be submitted to:

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if the city went that route.

“The people at the Green Municipal Fund have indicated, when we had told them we were talking to Catalyst, that they would have reservations about going away from the original plan,” Salter said.

Part of the grant money was awarded due to the innovation factor of this being the first system of its kind in North America, something that would be lost.

Councillor Ron Paulson said that he thought it was important to include Catalyst as a way of helping them diversify.

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Out-of-Catchment (Schools of Choice) Registration As of April 1, 2015 parents may apply to transfer their child from one school to another school as a cross boundary student. Decisions regarding cross boundary applications will be made following school closure decisions and only where space permits.

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(Salter noted in a 2012 report to the city that the public works yard on Sixth Avenue is the best location because it is central and there is trucking access directly to Wallace Street.)

The project would benefit the city by improving air quality, reducing greenhouse gas emissions (the equivalent of removing 1,000 cars from the city each year) and raising modest revenue for the city, Salter said.

At various times in the process the city has discussed using steam from Catalyst Paper to heat the biomass boiler, however, Salter said that some of the grant money could be lost

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Possible rebranding but no new pool yet The Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce started off the second day of city budget presentations with their usual request of $84,000 for their contract with the city. The contract includes operating the visitor centre and conducting internal marketing.

According to chamber president Teresa Bird, the visitor centre saw a small increase in visitors in 2014 compared to 2013.

“We’re pretty much back to our prerecession numbers,” said Bird.

The visitors centre had 25,000 people pass through it last year, Bird said.

The chamber sent representatives to a trade show in Abbotsford in 2014 and gave away a prize package to one of the 650 people who stopped by their booth.

“The couple from Langley came here and reported back how much they loved their experience in the community,” said Bird, adding that the couple enjoyed their time in Port Alberni so much that they stayed for two extra days at cost.

With the success of that trade show, Bird said that the chamber would be interested in pursuing an external marketing contract valued at $30,000 in order to promote Port Alberni at four to six trade shows per year.

The chamber would also like to make improvements to their mobile visitors centre.

“It is an older vehicle and so it does need some TLC,” Bird said.

Another chamber wishlist item is a deck outside their building facing Mt. Arrowsmith, possibly in conjunction with a new welcome sign.

According to Bird,

that could help alleviate a common problem in Port Alberni, where tourists travelling to Tofino often don’t realize they’ve passed through the city because the only Port Alberni signage along Johnston Road is a Rotary sign.

“Though we love our Valley, it’s not actually marked on a map.

Port Alberni is.”

Marketing Port Alberni was also the topic of the city’s economic development manager Pat Deakin’s presentiation.

“Our strengths, weaknesses and challenges as a community are many,” Deakin said, but added that “the opportunities are also many and that we can and will realize our potential.”

Key to developing

the city’s potential is attracting Deakin’s target demographics, which include young people and families, retirees and outdoor lifestyle enthusiasts.

Part of Deakin’s efforts to attract more residents is rebranding. He drew on the example of Squamish, which recently rebranded from being the outdoor recreation capital of Canada to “hardwired for adventure.”

Deakin said that rebranding could help the Port Alberni streamline its message to potential new residents.

He intends to apply for Island Coastal Economic Trust grants to match funds already set aside for a possible rebranding.

Current marketing efforts include the Heart of Vancouver

Island Facebook page, Clutesi Haven Marina which Deakin plans to and the exterior of expand to a website. the train station, the Sports tourism is latter of which Kenny also a big draw for hopes will be painted visitors to the city, in late spring or early Deakin said, summer this with 65,000 year at a cost athletes coming of $25,000. to participate Other parks at sporting and recreation events at the capital projects city’s facilities. include “It’s more resurfacing than just Gyro PAT DEAKIN parks and Recreation recreation and Park at a cost of heritage,” director of $50,000, a user parks, recreation and activated control heritage Scott Kenny for the Roger Creek told council during his waterpark for $10,000, departments’. a continuation of “Some would say the Roger Creek trail we’re not a core project fro $100,000 service but I think that with possible everyone who works matching grants and for the department in conjunction with would disagree with salmon enhancement that. We are a core service.”

The department maintains recreational facilities, parks, city hall, Harbour Quay,

by West Coast Aquatic.

A fitness circuit is planned for Bob Dailey Stadium at a cost of $75,000.

“The fitness equipment is about to be ordered,” Kennysaid , adding that the Kiwanis Club had expressed an interest in partnering with the city and the AV Track Club was providing $10,000.

Equipment could be added as sponsors for are found.

Replacing the pool in the Echo Aquatic Centre isn’t on the budget till 2019, Kenny said. At an approximate cost of $20 million, it’s a project that would require regional

participation and would costs residents $250 per parcel annually.

Hugh Grist of the Industrial Heritage Society told council that McLean Mill would be requesting $14,000 less from the city this year, down from $239,000 in 2014.

In total, the mill will cut its expenses from $510,000 to $472,500 due to cuts in marketing and mill and site maintenance.

Sales from lumber are expected to fall by $38,000 with fewer orders coming in for 2015 although admission revenues are due to go up to $150,000 from $131,000.

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Throne speech overly silent Annual health-care crisis grips B.C. The speech from the throne of the B.C. legislature would leave most outsiders with the impression that the province has few issues to deal with during the spring sitting.

That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon read the speech on behalf of the provincial government last week, outlining the priorities for sitting MLAs over the next several weeks which includes a new rural advisory to look for economic opportunities and focus on the education system to fill a skilled labour shortage.

In effect, it’s a ‘standpat’ speech that offers little in the way of new spending or initiatives.

Mike DeJong delivers the As Nanaimo’s budget on Tuesday.

Opposition MLAs pointed out, Vancouver Island alone has half a dozen issues that government could scrutinize, from B.C. Ferries to the forestry industry.

While Premier Christy Clark and her Liberal government focus attention on resource extraction in B.C.’s north, families in Nanaimo struggle to make ends meet with rising costs of Medical Services Plan premiums, electricity rates and ferry fares, just to name a few.

Nanaimo and Port Alberni traditionally have high poverty rates, especially among children. An end to the child support clawback for people on social assistance, will at least make a difference.

Clark and her team released the provincial budget on Tuesday (Feb. 17), and have said there will be a surplus. Time will only tell how changes in income tax at both the highest and lowest levels will affect people on the whole.

Throne speeches always bring a lot of bluster; when they’re silent on certain subjects, it speaks volumes.

— Nanaimo News Bulletin and Alberni Valley News

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ICTORIA – The annual ritual of declaring a crisis in health care is upon us, with the B.C. Liberal government boasting that we have the best system in Canada, while the NDP and the B.C. Nurses’ Union try to portray it as the worst.

The BCNU is the last big public sector union still to settle in the latest round of contract talks.

Feeding horror stories to the media is part of its strategy, and this time it was a patient at Abbotsford Hospital assigned a bed in a small shower room for a month due to chronic overcrowding. Hospital officials said his care wasn’t compromised.

We’ve seen it in Abbotsford, Surrey and elsewhere: a new hospital or expansion is built and is immediately overcrowded.

We are reminded every

winter that influenza season brings a wave of people into emergency, expecting treatment for a viral infection that in most cases can only run its course.

Many people still don’t understand what “the flu” is, beyond the notion that it sounds serious enough to tell the boss you won’t be in to work.

And as fewer doctors choose the endless demands of family practice, the expectation that all problems must be dealt with quickly and for free seems to grow as inexorably as the health care budget.

An emergency physician of my acquaintance provided a typical scenario for night shift at the ER. Where once nights were quiet, now there are patients waiting for hours, around the clock.

Several are drunk, and one has urinated on the floor. Surveys show as many as half of ER visits

are alcohol-related, from overdoses to fights, falls, car crashes and chronic conditions.

Into this chaos comes a mother with her young child, who has nasal and chest congestion. The child’s cough led her to throw up, so off to ER they went, blithely assuming that this is where you bring a kid with a cold.

This week’s B.C. budget brings us a step closer to the moment when half of all provincial revenues go to keep the health care system running.

In the legislature, NDP health critic Judy Darcy blasted Health Minister Terry Lake for the government’s failure to keep its 2010 promise to find everyone in B.C. a family doctor.

Lake allowed they’re still working on that, and then plugged the latest Conference Board of Canada study showing B.C. ranks third in the

‘Many people still don’t understand what ‘the flu’ is.’

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world in health care outcomes, second only to Switzerland and Sweden.

Darcy, a former president of the Hospital Employees’ Union, was quick to respond: “This is surely a first in question period, the Minister of Health going back to the record of the NDP government in the 1990s, because we’ve had the best health outcomes in Canada since 1993. The fact is that we exercise more, we smoke less and we drink less, and that’s to the credit of British Columbians.”

We also have more elderly people, as Premier Christy Clark argued in 2011 when the federal government changed its financing formula.

After years of increasing transfers by six per cent per year, the late federal finance minister Jim Flaherty announced that starting in 2014, increases would be tied to economic growth, but wouldn’t fall below three per cent.

This was treated as a cut, rather than continued increases above inflation.

Continued / A09

Commitment to accuracy To report corrections and clarifications, contact editor Susan Quinn at 250-723-6399 or e-mail: editor@ albernivalleynews.com or drop by our office at 4656 Margaret St.

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Don’t change Westporte To the Editor,

Should the city do away with commercial garbage collection?

Yes – 55.6% No – 44.4% This week’s question: Was the provincial budget released Feb. 17 a good one for families?

Vote at: www.albernivalleynews.com See us also on Facebook.com Dixie Everson Re: BC Budget: surplus funds low-income assistance, Feb. 18/15.

This blows my mind and challenge anyone to voice there opinion on the total lack of increase for people on welfare or provincial disability! We obviously won’t get any increases unless your voice is heard!

Speak up.

You can comment on any story you read @ www.albernivalleynews.com

Be responsible From / A08

But there it is, and all provinces have to deal with it.

Darcy is quite right that personal responsibility is the key, something to remember as the

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usual squabbling of special interests continues.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

Re: Westporte Park I am opposed to the proposed sale of 5350 Russell Street, known as Westporte Park.

I moved to Westporte Place three years ago and have enjoyed all that it offers There are two green spaces in Westporte Place that are used by the residents and visitors.

Westporte Park is the only park this side of Blair Park with a place for pavement hockey and basketball, that is easy to access and is highly visible with homes nearby, making the park a safe place of everyone.

I live across the street from Westporte Park and I know it is well-used. This past weekend, with the good weather, lots of folks visited the park.

Youngsters played pavement hockey, romped on the playground equipment and practiced riding their new two-wheeler and scooters on the pathway.

A Rainbow Gardens resident arrived by wheelchair and others enjoyed the sun on the park benches with their dogs.

A playground is the social hub of any

neighbourhood where one enjoys the fresh air and stretches out the kinks of indoor winter activities.

This is what Westporte Park is all about.

Westporte Place subdivision was well designed, with good traffic flow, wide sidewalks and pathways for walking with pets, children and for seniors with mobility issues (wheelchairs and walkers).

I believe the city got it right the first time when they created the subdivision with Westporte Park and I’m against its relocation to another area and especially the one proposed that is inhabited by bears and cougars.

Gerry Walerius, Port Alberni

ACRD should pay half of mill To the Editor,

For any deficit the McLean Mill occurs, the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District should pay at least 50 percent.

We’re about $1.5 million short annually for capital projects on our roads. The city needs every extra dollar it can get.

Richard Berg, Port Alberni

Canada can help with Ebola To the Editor,

In Dec 2013, Ebola claimed three victims.

By October 2014, that number had ballooned over a thousand-fold, and people worldwide were panicking at the prospect of this killer disease ending up on their shores.

Massive budget shortfalls at the WHO played a critical role in the failure to stop Ebola, showing the frightening consequence of short-sighted health funding.

Unfortunately, Canada’s federal Conservative government is poised to repeat the world’s mistake in West Africa.

Five years ago this same government, once a great supporter of tuberculosis eradication, launched TB REACH, a fund that seeks out the hardest to reach TB sufferers.

TB Reach has been proven enormously successful, greatly reducing the number of infected individuals in areas where TB is difficult to detect and treat.

TB has enormous impact in the developing world, and the consequence of sporadic funding

and treatment is the evolution of new and deadly TB strains resistant to drug treatment. And like Ebola, TB travels worldwide.

Despite the great success of TB REACH, Minister Paradis is prepared to halt funding of this successful, costeffective program, a fateful decision that will allow TB to spread, evolve and threaten the globe.

In the face of the Ebola catastrophe, it’s staggering to witness such short-sighted budgeting by the Conservatives.

Nathaniel Poole, Victoria

Auxiliary thanks donors To the Editor,

The West Coast General Hospital Foundation would like to thank all donors for their generosity during the 2014 Christmas campaign.

This Christmas was all about the children of the Alberni Valley.

We were hoping to raise $80,000 to purchase necessities for the children’s department above the standard government funding level.

With the help of a generous donation from the Toy Run, we

initiated the Pediatric Dental Program here at WCGH. Your donations will allow us to provide the additional equipment to ensure the best possible care for the patients in the Valley and surrounding communities.

On behalf of the board of directors of the WCGH Foundation, thank you again for your generosity and continued support.

“A Foundation for a Healthier Future”.

Ed Francoeur, chair, WCGH Foundation

Thumbing nose at the budget To the Editor,

When Premier Christy Clark smiled into the cameras and proclaimed B.C. would have a health bouncing balanced budget, I thought of some of her other “promises”: openness and honesty; family values; stable hydro rates; preservation of farmland; educational labour peace; LNG plants; and jobs-jobsjobs.

Ms. Clark would be in the running for gold if there was an Olympic medal for breaking promises.

Lloyd Atkins, Vernon

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Valentines Day has come and gone. Our ‘day of love’ has passed, and we so easily settle into patterns which in which brokenness and fears arise. In a letter to the early church, John says ‘There is no fear in love. Rather, perfect love casts out fear’. (1John 4:18) In a story told of a grandfather who tells his grandson that in every human heart two wolves dwell, in constant conflict until the day one dies. The boy asks, ‘Grandfather, which wolf wins?’ Grandfather replies, ‘the one you feed!’” We have now entered the season of Lent, with Ash Wednesday marking an opportunity to turn from feeding our brokenness and seeking God, the source of healing and renewal. It also marked the end of the Residential School on Cormorant Island, built as a place of learning, but experienced by many as a place of abuse and prejudice.

May its destruction become an opportunity for healing. In all the choices we make, may we feed love, and starve fear!

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Cut to tourism negates benefit

From / A06

If there was even a five percent reduction in tourism revenue as a result of the stigma of having a coal port in the region, Armstrong said it would cancel out all of the revenue of bringing coal to Port Alberni.

Bringing a coal port to the city would also have marine, air quality and terrestrial impacts not properly addressed in the application, said Maggie Paquet.

She added that although Compliance Coal has indicated that the trucks would be sealed, there is no guarantee that

airborne particles— which she said are especially dangerous to children and the elderly—would not further degrade Port Alberni’s already poor air quality.

Impacts on the Somass Estuary have also not been considered, Paquet added.

Armstrong said Compliance’s new application looks similar to the 2013 application, meaning very little has changed.

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ADSS hosts dual hoops championships Inbrief KATYA SLEPIAN ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

Alberni District Secondary will be filled with the sound of bouncing basketballs and pounding feet this weekend as the senior girls AAA Island championships and the senior boys North Island championships come to the Armada gym from Thursday, Feb. 19-21.

The senior girls

placed second in their league standings and third in the playoffs, leaving coach Al Seredick confident for the upcoming championships.

The girls will start off their tournament at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19 against second place South Island team Claremont.

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press but provided we can handle the press, I’m comfortable. My girls are skilled and they play with a lot of heart. I’m looking forward to the game.”

Depending on the results of the tournament, the senior girls could see themselves off to the provincials. The top two teams will go to the provincials while the third will

challenge for their spot against a lower mainland team.

Seredick doesn’t see his team placing first on the Island because “Oak Bay is very, very good, virtually untouchable but the second seed is up for grabs so it’s possible we could be in the top two or three.”

While Seredick doesn’t want to sound overly cocky, he said he’s not expecting to be knocked out quickly.

“We’re here to compete, we’re here to play.”

So are the Armada senior boys, despite facing uphill odds.

“It’ll be a challenge,” said senior boys coach Neelam Parmar, adding that “this will be the last year we’re in the top [AAAA] tier, we’ll be re-tiered for next year” due to falling school population.

“But even though it’s an uphill battle, I think our boys will be able to live up to the challenge. If everything goes our way we hopefully have some tactics we’re going to use that’ll hopefully help us against some of these bigger, stronger be held on Saturday. reporter@albernivalleynews.com Twitter.com/AlberniNews

teams.”

While the senior boys have had a rough year in terms of injuries, if Parmar is lucky he’ll have a full squad for their first game against Cowichan at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19.

“We’re at the middle of February and I still haven’t had an entire practice with the entire squad,” Parmar said.

“But I think we should have everybody at Islands.”

The public is welcome to come and watch the games, which will all be held at the ADSS gymnasium. Finals will

Bulldogs in fight for third The Alberni Valley Bulldogs will finish their regular B.C. Hockey League season with five road games and a fight for third place in the Island Division.

The Bulldogs were secure in the fourth and final divisional playoff spot before facing Victoria Grizzlies in their final regular season home game on Wednesday, after the News went to press. They can still catch the Grizzlies for third spot. Powell River is currently sitting in second place. Nanaimo won the Island Division.

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The B.C. senior men’s and women’s curling championships continue at the Alberni Valley Curling Club this week, with semi-final action Friday, Feb. 20 and Saturday, Feb. 21. Finals are tentatively scheduled for 2 p.m. on Feb. 21.

The best of the province’s curlers over the age of 50 are here vying for a spot at the national championships next month.

The public is welcome to come and watch the games.

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Lindsay Cheetham from Port Alberni is playing lead for the Wes Craig team from Victoria in the Tim Hortons Senior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships this week.

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Merritt Centennial Stephen Seeger gets down to ice level as his teammate Griffyn Martin and Alberni Valley Bulldogs Drew Weich and Tyler Povelofskie scramble for the puck during the Bulldogs’ 3-0 win at the AV Multiplex on Saturday, Feb. 14.

Theoren Fleury, former National Hockey League star with the Calgary Flames, will be in the Alberni Valley May 8–9 working with Circles of Cedar, the Ha-shilth-sa Newspaper reported this week.

Circles of Cedar hosts a free youth event featuring Fleury and therapist Kim Barthel on May 8 from 12–4 p.m. at the Alberni Athletic Hall, and an all-day event on May 9 at the hall.

Tickets are available at Alien Sports, ACAWS on Third Avenue and the Alberni Valley Bulldogs’ office. For more info, call 250-724-3273.

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Fire chief asks for 0.4 per cent budget increase small vehicle instead measures allowed Pley of a ladder truck to to present a 0.4 per respond to cent increase medical calls, to council which make even with up roughly the inclusion 50 per cent of of women’s calls. Using the shower smaller truck facilities for reduces wear $40,000 and and tear on the control room TIM PLEY approximately upgrades for $510,000 ladder truck, $55,000. said Pley.

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Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Located at 30618th Ave. or call 250724-3412 for more info.

Pristine books only for sale

Call to artists for Art Rave

The Rollin Art Centre is accepting only “like new” books, DVDs, CDs and puzzles for its annual book sale, which takes place May 8–9.

“The Community Arts Council prides themselves on selling books that are in pristine condition.

Please, do not drop off books that are very used, we cannot re-sell them.”

“Our donation box is located at the Rollin Art Centre, inside,

Alberni Art Rave Society is hosting a multi-media Art Show during the week of June 19–26, Spotlight on Art-—Art on Stage.

The exhibit is open to sculpture, video/ film, painting or drawing or any other media chosen by the artists. For more info contact Art Rave at alberniartrave2015@ gmail.com.

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House of David Gang play the Rainbow Room on Feb. 27 at 10 p.m.

Reggae at the Rainbow Toronto’s reggae warriors House of David Gang bring their Bob Marley tribute to Rainbow Room in Port Alberni on Friday, Feb. 27.

House of David Gang is an uplifting

Melissa Martin is the Arts Administrator for the Community Arts Council.

Canadian reggae band that draws on the roots sounds of 1970s Kingston, Jamaica.

They carry on the long history of top notch Toronto reggae, taking their name from an after-hours

hang out on Queen Street West, which was popular with Toronto’s Rastafarian and reggae community.

Since the release of their album Reggae Warrior on NuFunk

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Teamwork created Seussical: Deakin From / A3

That sort of teamwork has allowed the cast to gel both on and off the stage, producer Janet Deakin said.

Deakin has been reunited with three of the lead characters who all appeared in Suds together, while Drew is back for his second year as artistic director (he also

led Wizard of Oz; he hasn’t been onstage himself since Greater Tuna with Peter Wienold.

John Kenchenten brought Seussical to life for Portal Players, and while he had to step back from his initial role, Deakin said Drew, musical director Janet Schlackl and band leader Sandy Bouleau and

the other department heads have worked hard to prepare the cast.

Vocal rehearsals started back in September, but blocking didn’t begin until October.

“Everybody’s been working hard and putting in so many hours.”

Now it’s all over but the performances.

Seussical started Feb. 13 and runs Fridays Feb. 20 & 27 and March 6, and Saturdays Feb. 21 & 28 and March 7.

Curtain call is 7:30 p.m. Sunday matinees are sold out. Tickets can be purchased at the Capitol Theatre box office, Rollin Art Centre or online at www.atthecapitol.org.

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said Salter, was “a project that would cover its own costs, do something good for the environment and would create employment locally.”

Jobs would come from administration, operations and maintenance of the district energy system as well as firms needed to collect and process wood waste so it can go into a biomass boiler.

Salter said that the project was designed to run off of just slightly more than the 3,000 tonnes of wood waste than is currently going to the landfill.

According to Deakin, while he would like the wood waste from local forestry companies’ slash burning, it’s just not financially feasible to ship it to the city at this time.

However, Salter said that in the future, the project could expand to forestry wood waste but that it would have to be the province that would initiate that discussion with forestry companies.

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However, the company itself has been lukewarm about the project since backing out of a memorandum of understanding with the city a few years ago.

There are currently three options on the table for council to consider; a fully municipally owned and operated utility at a cost of approximately $10 million; a privatepublic partnership; or termination of the district energy initiative.

If the city went for the project alone, it would be at a cost of $10 million, with $1.93 million coming from grants and $7.8 million coming through borrowing, which would require a referendum. This option would see the city receive $100,000 per year in revenues for the first 25 years or until the loan is paid off, at which time the revenues would increase to $500,000.

A private-public partnership would see the city using grant money to pay $1.5 million and the private partner pitching in the rest although this would reduce revenues.

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