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More than puppy love: campaign raises money for companion dog Lindsay Chung THE CHRONICLE

Four-year-old Eve-Lynne Linden of Ladysmith loves animals.

The little girl with dark curly hair and a big smile faces a number of health challenges, and one friend of the family wants to make sure that she gets a puppy that can become her best friend, companion and support.

Coleen Fortner Moat, who lives in Westbridge near Kelowna, has become close to Eve-Lynne and her mother, Janice Boley, after meeting them at BC Children’s Hospital.

And now she wants to do something for them by donating a labrador retriever puppy as a service dog and companion for Eve-Lynne, who was born with a severe case of an omphalocele — a defect that means her abdominal organs are located in a sac outside her body.

She was born by c-section in November 2011 and was not expected to survive birth. When she did, she wasn’t expected to see six months.

Eve-Lynne spent 402 days in BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, and she kept beating the odds.

The omphalocele causes EveLynne’s lungs to grow long and thin, and her heart is not in the right place. She also has a tracheostomy and ventilator, and she is fed through a nasal tube.

Now, she’s four years old and

learning how to use a walker to stand and is beginning to eat orally — according to Fortner Moat, she loves chocolate.

Fortner Moat says Eve-Lynne has a long road ahead of her and many, many correcting surgeries to have her omphalocele repaired, and she believes a companion/service dog would benefit in her in many ways.

That’s why she is raising money through a GoFundMe online campaign to give a newborn puppy the training and vet services it needs so that it can be a companion for Eve-Lynne as she gets older.

“In raising labs, I’ve seen what type of work they’ve done as guide dogs for people,” she said. “It’s been proven that they reduce stress and promote the social interaction and encourage exercise. I just thought that with a child with disabilities, it helps them calm themselves and maybe will help her be able to deal with the challenges that she has to overcome. I know that Janice has said whenever she’s around an animal, her eyes just light up and sparkle and she’s smiling and she’s so much calmer. She’s got so many battles ahead of her; we just thought if we could ease her struggles and give her some comfort and unconditional love, that it could make a world of difference for her.”

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Volunteer Cowichan is calling for nominations for the Leaders of Tomorrow Awards.

This is an opportunity to nominate youth aged six to 24 who demonstrate leadership through volunteerism.

The deadline for nominations is March 27.

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Ladysmith family helps the homeless

taking classes together ever since.

Both of Métis heritage, they’ve decided to pursue aboriginal law together after graduation, Jaden next Resilience and determination. winter and Sharae in 2016.

These are two key characteristics Alana is delighted to be back in of a mother, daughter and son team school with two of her four chilfrom Ladysmith studying together dren. She obtained her Bachelor of at Vancouver Island University Arts degree (with a major in history) (VIU) in Nanaimo. as a mature student when her chilSiblings Jaden Bourque and dren were young, and she enrolled Sharae Antley are anthropology main VIU’s post-baccalaurate Bachelor jors at VIU, and their mother Alana of Education program in 2013.

Bourque, in remission from a seri“Unfortunately, I had to withdraw ous illness, has audited classes with when I was diagnosed with my illthem for two years. ness,” she said.

Recently, the mother, son and Alana required 11 months of chedaughter team completed an anthropology of homelessness class The daughter, mother and son team of Sharae Antley, Alana Bourque and motherapy, and Jaden was one of her main caregivers. at VIU’s Cowichan Campus taught Jaden Bourque study together at VIU. PHOTO SUBMITTED “It was a difficult time,” he said. “I by instructor Helene Demers. For a remember one night helping mom class assignment, they organized a should volunteer more in our own take all their classes,” said Jaden.

Sharae points out that the chance when mom was violently ill. The donation drive to collect non-per- community.”

Demers aims to incorporate com- to take classes with her brother and next day, I had to write two finals. I ishable food and other items for the munity action and/or social justice mother and work on projects like don’t know how, but we got through Ladysmith Soup Kitchen.

Targeting about 200 homes in assignments in all her classes and the donation drive has special sig- it.”

In coming months, Alana will Ladysmith, they collected hundreds encourages students to conduct ap- nificance because of unforeseen life of bags of food items and $400 in plied research that promotes safe, circumstances the family has faced require a kidney transplant, and Sharae has been identified as a potogether. cheques for the Ladysmith Resourc- healthy and inclusive communities.

“It’s wonderful to see students “I’m a thyroid cancer survivor and tential donor. es Centre Association.

“I’m proud of how my kids have “The response from the community making a difference in their com- mom is in remission from a serious was overwhelming, and the project munities, especially when that vol- blood disease called Amyloidosis,” handled the past few years,” said Alhad a profound effect on all of us,” unteerism carries on after the class she explained, “so we really appre- ana. “They both have young families, ciate every minute we get to spend are full-time students keeping up exsaid Jaden. “Helene’s class really ends,” she said.

The family plans to organize a sec- together.” cellent grades and have helped me opened our eyes.

Jaden was the first in the family as caregivers. On top of all that, they “We’ve lived in Ladysmith for 10 ond donation drive later this spring years and had no idea the soup after their classes end this semester. to start taking classes at VIU three stay positive, volunteer and make a Sharae and Jaden are currently en- years ago, after working in the con- difference in their community.” kitchen feeds 60-plus people per week in the basement of the Eagles rolled in five classes together, while struction industry for nearly a de- “Our experiences have helped us put things in perspective and have Hall. Helene’s class was the first op- Alana is auditing one class with cade and briefly at a restaurant.

Sharae joined him the following se- brought us closer together,” she portunity we had to get out into the them — the anthropology of peace mester when her youngest child was added. “We’ve learned that every community and do something posi- education, taught again by Demers.

“We find an instructor we like and in kindergarten, and they’ve been moment counts.” tive. All three of us realized that we Marilyn Assaf

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Council emphasizes its support for derelict vessels bill

Lindsay Chung THE CHRONICLE

With the first hour of federal debate on Nanaimo-Cowichan NDP MP Jean Crowder’s private member’s bill regarding the handling of derelict vessels now complete and hazardous boats in the harbour, Ladysmith council is sending another strong message of support for the bill to the federal government.

Council voted March 2 to write a second letter to show support for Crowder’s bill and request that Stz’uminus First Nation Chief John Elliott sign the letter as well.

“There was a letter from Chief John Elliott and myself that was sent to [Transport Minister Lisa Raitt ] last week about a specific vessel in our harbour, specifically with the intent of getting it into

the hands of the Ministry and MP Jean Crowder before that debate took place in the House,” said Mayor Aaron Stone. “That letter was delivered and received; we have not gotten a reply so far. We also did send a letter after Sheila Malcolmson was here in support of the bill. I don’t think it would be unreasonable to send a followup and say how incredibly strongly we continue to support the resolution and get action on that.”

The first hour of debate on Crowder’s private member’s bill to designate the Coast Guard as a receiver of wreck was held Feb. 26 in the House of Commons.

Last week, Crowder reported that during the debate, the Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Transport stated: “Making obligations mandatory would require the receiver of wreck to

take action on every wreck and to take every reasonable measure to locate the owner of the wreck, regardless of its location or state.

This would create a financial burden on the federal government, and that means on the Canadian taxpayer. In the same vein, it would be costly to the Canadian Coast Guard, and it would divert resources from responding to priority vessels, causing damage to the marine environment.”

The second hour of debate on the bill will take place in April.

Coun. Steve Arnett brought the matter up at the council table.

“What I was really concerned about is what they spoke about if the reporting is accurate was the very thing that causes the problem, and that’s these competing jurisdictions where nobody will take any authority or responsibility,” he said. “So I would urge that

we are in communication with the other coastal communities that signed onto the [Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities and Union of British Columbia Municipalities] resolution and we send a strong letter to both the MP in support and to the sitting government members on the Island that this is an issue of economic development ... and we really need this resolved.”

John Craig was in attendance at the meeting, and he encouraged council to send the letter, noting that he started sending photographs of derelict vessels in the harbour to the Town 12 years ago.

“I don’t think we have a parallel for this industry in Canada,” he said. “When cars get old, they go to auto-wreckers, they’re crumpled, they’re destroyed and re-invented as new cars or tableware or whatever. When boats get old,

they just go somewhere and they rot and rot until they sink. In the meantime, you are polluting the seabed, you’re creating a hazard to navigation and it’s an issue that if we think it’s a big issue today, wait 10 years, wait 20 years.”

Expressing appreciation for Craig’s support, Stone noted that the vessel they are most concerned about right now is a large boat that is listing to one side with 16,000 litres of oil and solvents onboard.

“The Coast Guard unfortunately was only able to with their funding pull up I think it was 20,000 litres in 2012, and they commissioned a report that said there was less than a sixteenth of an inch of hull left, and yet here we are, still trying to petition the minister and the groups responsible to take some action on this,” he said.

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Fifty per cent of Canadians never talk to family and friends about what they want if they were ill and couldn’t speak for themselves, but 100 per cent of us will die. It is time to take our heads out of the sand and talk about our end-oflife wishes.

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Participants place stickers on the issues that they believe are priorities for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school board during the Your Voice round table discussion March 5 at Ladysmith Secondary School. Lindsay Chung

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so now we have to re-adjust. It would be irresponsible of us the chronicle not to do that.”

At last week’s meeting, parNanaimo-Ladysmith School District staff members and ticipants were asked if they trustees came to Ladysmith have been impacted by the Enlast week to hear about the ed- hanced Facilities for Learning ucational priorities of people Plan and what the negative or living in the south end of the positive impacts have been, as well as what advice they could district.

The school district held its provide that might help make third and final Your Voice 2015 any future transitions easier public round table discussion for families. They were also March 5 at Ladysmith Second- asked what other options or ary School. The meetings were solutions the board should a chance for the public to tell be considering to keep the the school board what they schools open.

Participants were broken think about the budget, how to spend limited resources into tables of nine or so, and and what plans should be a facilitator from each table made for the facilities where reported what they had discussed. students learn.

Some of the recommenda“We’re trying to tackle two issues — the budget and the tions or possible solutions facilities plan,” school board coming out of the discussions chairman Steve Rae. said at at the Ladysmith meeting inthe meeting. “Any time a plan cluded re-opening Cedar Comgoes into place, we need to munity Secondary School; fore-evaluate the plan, so that’s cusing on the school district what we’re doing. We’re three as a whole and not having all years into a plan, and we’re the changes in one area; maktasked with spending taxpay- ing a real effort to secure a ers’ dollars, so we need to building and property for a make sure we are doing the new school before closing a most thorough analysis pos- school; considering the impact sible to make sure we spend on students first, followed by taxpayers’ dollars properly, so the impact on the community; that’s what this is about. It’s an generating income by selling opportunity for people to have or renting empty school proptheir voice and speak to issues erties; focusing on increasing that concern them and to give the levels of support for stuus feedback so that when we dents; being more transparent make our decisions, those de- with the process of making cisions are informed. And that changes; and cutting top-heavy is what the goal is with this management.

This meeting was the final of whole process.”

In June 2013, the board three Your Voice public round passed the 10-year Enhanced table discussions hosted by the Facilities for Learning Plan, school board. Public meetings and as the current board con- were also held in February at ducts a review of the plan, it Dover Bay Secondary School is asking for the public’s input and John Barsby Community into where it should go from Secondary, and the school board held a round table dishere.

“The plan was made three cussion with its stakeholders years ago — things change,” as well.

“It’s been interesting,” said said Rae. “When the plan was made, there were certain Rae. “The public is engaged things in place, and those and intelligent. It’s refreshing things aren’t in place anymore, to see people with great ideas

and great passion for what they believe in, and they share their thoughts with us. It will help us make a better decision at the end of the day about how we spend our money and how we go forward with our facilities plan.”

Rae says he hasn’t heard anything particularly surprising in these meetings.

“People are passionate about their positions, and that’s the difference, I think, between being a trustee and being a parent,” he said. “I’m both, but when you’re a parent, you advocate for what’s best for you and your family; what we’re tasked with is trying to do what’s best for 15,000 kids. So when we speak to our parents and partners, they’re advocating for what they believe is best for their family, which, God bless them, is what they should be doing. But we need to take that information and try to do what’s best for the whole district. So that’s what we’re trying to figure out.”

For more information about the Your Voice 2015 engagement process or to fill out the online survey, visit www.sd68. bc.ca. Anyone who is interested can also pick up a booklet at any school in the district.

Parents can also register to make a 10-minute presentation to the board Thursday, March 19 at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre in Nanaimo by e-mailing Kelsey. toye@sd68.bc.ca.

Anyone interested in providing e-mail feedback can also send their input to yourvoice@ sd68.bc.ca.

“After that, we’ll gather all the information, and we will try to make the best decision for the whole district — that’s our goal is to do what’s best for the whole district and spend taxpayers’ money the best way possible,” said Rae. “We have difficult decisions going forward, and we can’t do it without input from our partners.”

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Eve-Lynne ‘just sparkles when she’s around animals’ From Page 1 with Eve-Lynne and Boley for more than four years.

In 2010, Fortner Moat gave birth to her twins four months early and ended up in BC Children’s Hospital. Boley’s room was across the hall from hers, and they saw each other every day while dealing with frightening situations with their children.

“We were there for six months, so we spent a lot of time chatting in the [neonatal intensive care unit] and the family room lending support to each other and encouraging each other to keep going,” recalled Fortner Moat. “They just really touched a special place in our heart, and we stayed in contact through Facebook. A couple of years ago, we had talked, and Janice said they had owned labs, and I told her we have been breeding labradors for 15 years, and we had wanted to donate some of the pups to some services for guide dogs. I asked her if she’d be interested in one for Evie once we had our new females certified and

wasn’t supposed to forward to driving the have her first birthday puppy to Ladysmith to or go home and she visit. “I think Janice is just kept on going and just an amazing mom fighting,” she said. “I … I really admire her just thought with her strength and I think being such a warrior, she’s just awesome.”

I just wanted to be a Boley says she and part of watching her her partner Roy Johngrow.” son were shocked Fortner Moat and Fortner Moat told her Boley have stayed they wanted to donate close and would chat a puppy to Eve-Lynne on the computer for this year. hours at a time when “We felt amazing and they were having bad honoured to be Evie’s nights. parents, knowing that “It’s kind of like hav- people other than our ing a new family mem- immediate family think ber,” said Fortner Evie is as special as we Photo Submitted Moat, who is looking do and an inspiration Four-year-old Eve-Lynne Linden was born with a severe case of omphalocele and faces many medical challenges. A family friend is raising money so she can have her own service/companion dog. ready to breed, and she said yes. We just had a litter last week, so that brought us to this point.”

Fortner Moat is hoping to raise at least $5,000 through GoFundMe. This money will cover the puppy’s transportation to Ladysmith, booster shots, spay/neutering, first year’s feed and initial private training. Any money raised above the $5,000 will go for additional training and care.

Fortner Moat says

she wants to help EveLynne and Boley because Boley was such a help to her when she was in the hospital with her twins, and they formed such a strong bond while being able to help each other get through difficult times. Eve-Lynne has also been very inspiring.

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to others near and far,” she said. “Coleen deciding that she wanted to give Evie something that would make her life even more fulfilled than it already is makes me believe that there are a lot of good people out there, and we are not alone.”

Boley says that EveLynne loves animals, and their cats have been great for her.

“She just sparkles when she’s around animals,” she said. “She glows. She’s a pet lover just like her mamma.”

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Please support Crowder’s derelict vessels bill Editor: Derelict and abandoned vessels in our coastal waters pose environmental contamination and safety risks. They are also visual eyesores.

Untended vessels end up adrift, washed ashore and possibly even sunk, releasing fuel and other toxins into the marine environment. This puts marine life and habitat at risk, not to mention the danger these vessels pose to mariners and beach-goers and the damage they can cause to shoreline facilities.

The biggest challenge we have in mitigating the impacts of derelict and abandoned vessels is the jurisdictional quagmire that surrounds them. No provincial or federal ministry is taking ownership of the problem, despite repeated local government and community appeals for leadership.

MP for Nanaimo-Cowichan, Jean Crowder, is proposing legislation designating the Coast Guard as a receiver of wreck and requiring them to take reasonable steps to contact the owner and also to provide for government to make regulations on the removal, disposition or destruction of derelict vessels. The intention is to give the Coast Guard the regulatory power it needs to take action before a derelict vessel becomes a problem.

Please support MP Crowder’s bill by writing the Minister of Transportation, Lisa Raitt (lisa.raitt@parl. gc.ca).

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.C.’s new seniors’ advocate has issued her second report, and the media mostly ignored it.

When this new office was promised by a campaigning Premier Christy Clark two years ago, I suggested that B.C. already has 85 seniors’ advocates. They’re called MLAs, and inquiries go to their local offices.

Much to the chagrin of the opposition, Seniors’ Advocate Isobel Mackenzie’s mandate is not to pursue individual cases, and so she won’t be serving up a fresh assortment of horror stories to embarrass the government.

Instead, it is to look for “systemic challenges” and recommend ways to deal with them. The latest report is based on a survey of more than 500 seniors from around the province, and the key finding was not what she expected.

“We were surprised to learn of the lack of awareness among seniors, particularly low-income seniors, of government programs

and the subsidies available to assist them,” Mackenzie said.

The survey found that 60 per cent of seniors living on $30,000 or less annual income didn’t know they are eligible for discounts on Medical Services Plan premiums. For income less than $22,000, the entire $864 cost of individual MSP premiums is waived.

Other frequently overlooked programs are a monthly rent subsidy called Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER), grants for disability modifications called Home Adaptations for Independence, drug cost assistance called Fair Pharmacare, property tax deferment and the federal Guaranteed Income Supplement program. Those older than 75 with income of less than $30,000 reported the lowest awareness of assistance designed specifically for them. But you don’t get these benefits unless you apply and show that your income qualifies.

The survey also found that the biggest fear of lowincome seniors is that they won’t be able to afford to

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about the response rate for $40-a-day parental strike pay, which was snapped up by almost 100 per cent of eligible parents. This demonstrates that the government can indeed give away money with great efficiency, just by telling people how to get it.

The NDP’s version of seniors’ advocacy is to find the most tragic problems from complaints coming into constituency offices, and use those to ambush the government.

A popular choice is an elderly couple who have to be separated because their medical needs are too different to keep them in the same facility. TV news loves that one. People cry on camera and denounce politicians for being heartless, as if the health minister stayed up late plotting how to break their granny’s heart.

Maybe this seniors’ advocate wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

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Awareness and usage of the SAFER program was lowest in the north and highest in urban areas, perhaps not surprising since the B.C. government exists more in theory than in fact in many remote places.

So what should the government do about this?

Well, it could advertise these programs. The government does lots of advertising, but not about old news like the SAFER program, which dates back to the 1970s.

Clark’s government did a whack of advertising in the election year, 2013.

Much of it was about the B.C. Jobs Plan, heavy on the hardhats and blueprintstyle graphics and arc welding and stuff like that.

Then last year the government’s big ad campaign was around the teachers’ strike, and the payments to parents to help with child care while teachers demanded twice as big a raise as all the other unions.

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MacGregor is new NDP candidate

John McKinley For the chronicle

Alistair MacGregor has been NanaimoCowichan MP Jean Crowder’s right hand in Duncan for the past eight years.

She has been his boss, his mentor and his inspiration as he took the lead role helping local residents whenever she was serving in Ottawa.

Now he will take her torch.

Crowder’s 35-yearold constituency assistant was selected to be the NDP candidate for the new CowichanMalahat-Langford riding in late January, outlasting five others to claim the role in a vote that occurred simultaneously in Duncan and Langford.

He feels working with Crowder has him well-prepared for the job.

“Her best words of advice were ‘remember who you represent.’

I am taking that to heart,” he said during an interview the day after the vote. “I know everything an MP does.

I learned from the best.”

Like Crowder, MacGregor was raised an army brat. Like Crowder, he is from Cowichan, calling the Duncan area home for the past 24 years. Like Crowder, he feels it is job one to be there working for every resi-

dent of the community. effectively make a “There were days I slow transition from would come out of that an oil-based economy. (constituency) office And he said economic absolutely wrecked strength and stability because the govern- is paramount. ment didn’t seem to “If people and families care,” he said. don’t have economic MacGregor has a security, the other isdegree from the Uni- sues don’t matter.” versity of Victoria in He said a lot of political science and younger people share a masters from Royal the values of the NDP Roads in professional but are not necessarily communication. His active for the party at Alistair MacGregor, who has been working as MP political ambitions the ballot box. Part of Jean Crowder’s constituency assistant, has been seawoke early. his mission is making lected as the federal NDP candidate for Cowichan“It started day one them understand their Malahat-Langford.

Photo Submitted from working in the vote can make a differMP office. That’s when ence. really don’t benefit wider stage as we apI caught the bug.”

“I don’t really think you.” proach a federal elecHis candidacy was the NDP needs to He credits his selec- tion scheduled to be the first confirmed for change its values. I tion to 11 months of held on or before Oct. a new riding, merging want to change the na- direct contact with the 19. those parts of Nanai- ture of the conversa- voters, where he dem- “Being elected, you’ve mo-Cowichan south tion,” he said. “I want onstrated his work got to earn it,” he said. of Ladysmith with the to ask people if they ethic and his level of “Actions speak louder north end of Esqui- are really happy with care. It’s a philosophy than words. They almalt-Juan de Fuca. itty-bitty tax cuts that he plans to bring to a ways will.”

When the riding split was announced, he had originally thought he would pursue a seat in whatever seat the well-respected Crowder decided not to pursue.

But when she ultimately decided to retire at the end of this term after being elected four times to Parliament Hill, he figured the riding that included his hometown would be the best choice.

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A large standingroom-only crowd filled Ladysmith council chambers for the March 2 meeting, and most people were there to hear what council would do with a request to discharge a covenant from the

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ment and rezoning process in which the subject properties were designated as multi-family residential and were rezoned to the low-density residential zone. As part of the process, a covenant was registered on the certificate of titles for the rezoned land.

In 2006, a development permit was issued for the property, and the first three units of the 15-unit development were constructed on the land. The development permit expired in 2008, as the project was not completed in the timeframe stated in the permit.

In 2010, the previous owner requested that council consider discharging the covenant, but council did not support the removal or replacement of the covenant.

The property was sold in 2014, and the current owner made pre-application inquires to the Town regarding development concepts, according to Adams.

The property owner has asked staff to seek council’s approval to release the covenant. The owner is proposing 25 new units, where currently, with the covenant, only 12 new units are allowed, as three have already been built on the property.

Explaining the history of the property, Coun. Rob Hutchins made a motion that council not support the removal or replacement of the covenant, just like council had decided back in 2010 when the previous owner approached council.

“When this initiative

came forward, it was very clear, back in 2005 I believe it was, that discussion surrounded around the proposal for 15 units,” he said. “There was support in the neighbourhood for the proposal, but there was also concern expressed that ‘if you grant this 15, how do we know it’s not going to turn into 20, 25 in the future,’ so the recommendation was that we can assure that by the establishment of a covenant on the property.

“Five years later, the owner of the property wasn’t as successful with the 15 units, and he wished to dispose of the property and found it would be more disposable if the covenant was lifted.

However, those members of council who were there at the time and were there in the rezoning process have a clear recollection that the community was supportive of the rezoning way back then because there was such a covenant. I don’t think things have changed there, so I am personally not supportive of lifting the covenant that was established there for the rezoning process.”

Noting that the proposed density is “way beyond” any kind of green planning so she wouldn’t stand for this, Coun. Carol Henderson pointed out how many people were at the council meeting and guessed that they were likely there because they opposed the request to remove the covenant.

“The lot is not suited for more than the 15 that was covenanted,” she said.

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which includes the tivities, O Canada will ferry and bus ride be sung, an Opening to and from Stan- Prayer will be perley Park. BC Ferries formed and the unwalk-on attendees veiling of the statue will be met by a bus will occur. There will and be taken directly be speeches from to Stanley Park.

Portuguese and GovThe commemora- ernment dignitaries, tion will begin at 2 Coast Salish dancp.m., and at the fes- ing and First Nation

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Here in Ladysmith, artists and non-artists have grown to love to follow the careers of Luke Marston and his brother John.

Both are local carvers from Stz’uminus First Nation who have excelled in their art careers.

Marston’s lineage is from Stz’uminus First Nation. The brothers grew up in a family of artists, and both have been carving since they were children.

Luke Marston’s latest project is all about honouring his ancestry. The impressive 14-foot bronze sculpture, titled Shore to Shore, is being unveiled at Brockton Point in Stanley Park on April 25.

The site in Stanley Park is the site of Marston’s ancestral village, Xwáýxway. The statue was carved in yellow cedar and cast in bronze and is a tribute to Marston’s greatgreat-grandfather Joe Silvey and his wives Kwatleematt and Khaltinaht.

The sculpture depicts Luke’s greatgreat-grandparents, Portuguese Joe Silvey,

Luke Marston of Ladysmith has created a 14-foot bronze sculpture titled Shore to Shore, and it will be unveiled April 25 in Stanley Park. The Ladysmith Arts Council is organizing a bus trip to see the unveiling.

FILE PHOTO and his two wives: had two daughters efforts, they raised Kwatleematt (Lucy), before she passed $266,000 from the Caa Sechelt First Nation away at a young age nadian Legacy Fund matriarch and Sil- due to tuberculosis. and $50,000 from the vey’s second wife and Silvey then married family itself. In addiKhaltinaht, Silvey’s Kwatleematt, Mar- tion, the Portuguese first wife, a noble- ston’s great-great- community put in woman from the Mus- grandmother, from $200,000. queam and Squamish the Sechelt First NaThis project has First Nations. Around tion. also drawn the attenthe trio, Marston has In April 2014, Mar- tion of filmmakers included tools of his ston travelled to the and journalists. Peter grandfather’s trade: Azores to visit his Campbell is working seine nets, whaling great-great-grandfa- on a 50-minute docuharpoons and West ther’s place of birth mentary film about Coast salmon. and to thank the Por- Shore to Shore, and Silvey moved to Can- tuguese government journalist Suzanne ada from the Azores for their contribution Fournier is writing in Portugal in the mid to the project. about the project for 1800s and settled at Marston and his fam- Harbour Publishing.

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to conduct a séance, getting angry at Elhoping to learn the vira, he’s directing his lingo and gather ma- remarks to her. Elvira An eccentric medi- terial for his next is a mischievous spirit, and she continually um and a misbehaving book.

He gets much more attempts to disrupt ghost are just two of the quirky characters than he bargained for, Charles’s new marwe meet in Ladysmith though, when Mad- riage, infuriating Ruth Little Theatre’s latest am Arcati summons and driving Charles production, Blithe his late wife, Elvira. crazy.

Charles is the only As Charles falls Spirit.

This hilarious play one who can see and apart under the stress written by Noel Cow- hear Elvira, which of living with two ard centers around causes many prob- wives, Madam Arcati novelist Charles Con- lems with his second is summoned to exdomine, who invites wife, Ruth, who gets orcise Elvira, but she a medium and clair- more and more up- doesn’t know how to voyant named Madam set as she thinks that get rid of her. Ruth increasArcati to his house every time Charles is becomes ingly upset, and she starts to suspect that Elvira is trying to kill Charles so that he can go to the other side with her and they can be together again.

It all comes to a head in the third act, as things go from bad to worse for Charles, and his home is filled with ghostly chaos.

The ending was one of my favourite endings and was very well done.

This fabulous play was a joint effort by producers Mort Paul and Stephen Lewis, and it’s so well done $ * that it’s obvious the cast and crew all work very well together.

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As impish Elvira, Pamela Walker drives a wedge between Charles and Ruth, and she is great in all her scenes.

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Kyra Moore plays Edith the maid, and she does a marvelous job. She had the room laughing out loud many times, and her delivery was excellent.

Greg Heide gets better and better as the play goes on and Charles becomes unraveled. His performance is especially impressive when you consider that he is on stage for most of the play.

As a sensible and then increasingly angry wife, Lynnia Clark does a great job as Ruth.

Bill Young and Mary Lou Reside are great as well as Charles and Ruth’s friends, the Bradmans who are skeptical of Madam Arcati’s powers and provide a lot of humour.

The writing is great in this play, and the dialogue is excellent.

An abnormal love triangle, miscommunication, confused conversations, strong characters, excellent acting and perfectlysuited costumes and set design make for a very enjoyable night at the theatre.

This play is a bit longer than others, with three acts and two 10-minute intermissions, but it’s a great story, and the ending is definitely worth the wait.

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A skate park nearly eight years in the making got its official opening Friday afternoon.

More than 300 youth, parents and officials came out to celebrate the opening of the long-awaited Chemainus Skate Park (located at the old Chemainus elementary school site) March 6, although it has already been in use since construction completed ahead of schedule in February.

The sound of skateboards, bikes and scooters filled the sunny afternoon skies as dozens of youth practised grinds, ollies, kickflips and other fun tricks on the new 7,500-square-foot concrete park built by New Line Skateparks Inc. “This skate park is the talk of the entire Island. There’s people driving here from everywhere,” said Chris Istace, owner of Beyond the Usual in

Chemainus. “And it’s not just skateboarders; you’ve got the BMX kids, all the kids on scooters — you’ve got three levels of sport and it’s serious to them.”

The park is a 50/50 mix of street style and traditional features, said Ernie Mansueti, director of Parks and Recreation for the Municipality of North Cowichan. The street style features include ledges, rails and stairs, while banks, pockets and wide curves allow for more speed.

The project came in below its budget of $350,000, thanks in part to New Line’s tender proposal coming in at $308,542.

“The design, the construction, the support from the community has been over the top.

We couldn’t be more pleased with it,” said Mansueti. “It’s got something for everyone — it’s built so that a new user can use it, but those that are experienced are going to have just as much fun

on it.” also enjoyed a hot dog Friday’s festivi- barbecue and cake. ties kicked off with “To see the number of speeches from Deb people here today for Savory Wright, event the opening of a skate emcee and KidSport park is absolutely fabCowichan board chair, ulous,” Mansueti said. and North Cowichan “The usage we thought Mayor Jon Lefebure. would happen at the Lefebure recounted park has already been the long journey of go- exceeded.” ing from idea to reality, He added that users noting the many peo- from all over the Island ple and organizations have been coming to who rallied together to use or try out the park. make it happen, such The municipality is as the Chemainus now looking to add Neighbourhood House, further infrastructure the Skate Park user to the skate park, and committee, Chemainus the $10,000 donations and District Cham- will go a long way to ber of Commerce and assisting with that.

School District 79.

“One of the things we During the grand want to do is increase opening, two cheque the landscaping, add p r e s e n t a t i o n s picnic tables, possibly were made by the pave part of the pathChemainus Rotary way to keep the rocks Club and the Western off the park,” said Community Founda- Mansueti. tion and Coast Capital Rick Neufeld is a Insurance Services in 39-year-old skatethe amount of $5,000 boarder who has been each using the new park Beyond the Usual, with his two sons four which sells skate- times a week since boards and clothing construction was comapparel for all ages, plete. was on site with free “We just couldn’t giveaways, and guests wait; I’ve been count-

ing down the days for this park to open,” he said. “We were pushing the doors open [soto-speak] to try to get in to ride it while they were still washing the park.”

Neufeld said it has been nice to see the community rally around what some consider a renegade sport. With its completion, the skate park will give local youth a good quality exerciseoriented place to hang out and be kids.

“You’re not focused on any kind of winning; you’re not focused on any kind of competition at this point,” he said. “It’s just hanging out and learning the sport and learning from other kids that know it really well.”

“It’s also an excuse for old people like me to try to stay as young as possible,” he added.

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In a Cinderella story, the Upper Island Storm U18 girls’ soccer team is the VIPL “A” Cup winners and has advanced to the Coastal Cup and Provincials. The team is coached by Iain Baird and Geoff Whiting, managed by Louise Kirk and made up of two Ladysmith girls — Aliyah Griffin and Katelyn Horsley — and girls from Nanaimo and Parksville. The team played with all their hearts on March 1 in Saanich to come back from a 2-0 deficit against Saanich to win 5-3. The team has played just about the entire season with only one spare on the bench and without its goalie due to injuries. Coastal Cup play begins in April, and Provincials are in July. Pictured here are: front from left, Megan Dial, Olivia Friesen, Rachel Baird, Bronwyn Kirk and Deryn Davies; and, back from left, Maddy Whiting, Nicole Foglietta, Amelia Kazanowski, Sophie Palmer, Katelyn Horsley, Claudia Ritzker, Aliyah Griffin, Emily Robertson and Victoria Pallard.

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HARTLEY, Dorothy Avis Passed gently on March 3, 2015, in her 99th year.

Born to Frank and Jane Dawson in the family home on Selby Street on February 24, 1917, Dorothy was a member of a large coal mining family who emigrated from Yorkshire to Nanaimo in the 1870’s.

Gone to be with her beloved family, she is predeceased by daughter Sheila (1953), husband Howard (1983) and daughter Avis (1996).

Survived by daughter Zoe (Curt), grandchildren Colin (Madeline), Ann (Joey) and Bramley (Jennifer), and great grandsons Isaac and Brendan.

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Born to Ernest Wilbert and Verna Maude on May 25, 1926 in Winnipeg, MB; he was predeceased by his parents and sister Doreen Collings.

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Martha Annie Hawthornthwaite (High) Jan 26, 1938-March 1, 2015 Our loving Wife, Mother and Grandmother passed away peacefully at the Palliative Care Unit at NRGH in the loving arms of her family.

Martha was born in Cumberland, BC and grew up in Northfield, lived in Ladysmith, Qualicum Beach and in 1967 settled in Nanaimo. She was an avid gardner and loved going to the Casino. In her retirement she enjoyed travelling South with Bill where they made many great friends. Some of her favorite places to spend time were in Lake Cowichan and in Lake Havasu.

She is predeceased by her son Mark, her parents William and Anna High and her sister Betty. She is survived by her loving husband Bill, children Leanne, Cathi (Ersilio), and Wayne, her brother Bill (Walleen) and grandchildren Kaitlin, Jane and Will as well as many other dear relatives.

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As well as editing copy and paginating pages, we are looking for a high energy individual who expects to generate quality stories for all types of publications including specialty supplements. Knowledge of Canadian Press style is vital.

You have a passion for, and are comfortable with, all aspects of multimedia journalism. You have a track record of turning around well-written, fact-based, concise, well-produced content quickly, for posting online that day - with collateral (text, photos,and video).

A vehicle as well as a camera is required.

The Ladysmith Chronicle, a Black Press publication, covers the vibrant and growing communities of Ladysmith and Chemainus on the east coast of Vancouver Island.

Black Press is a well-established, nationally recognized community newspaper group with more than 150 community, daily and urban papers located in B.C, Alberta, Washington State, Hawaii and Ohio.

Please forward your cover letter and resume

by March 17th, 2015 to Publisher, Ladysmith Chronicle Attention: Teresa McKinley 940 Oyster Bay Drive, PO Box 400 Ladysmith BC V9G 1A3 Fax. 250-245-2230 publisher@ladysmithchronicle.com Thank you to all who apply. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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