Lake Cowichan Gazette, October 28, 2015

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Your Garden: Getting the garlic in the ground and growing PAGE 10

Registration required for all off-road vehicles

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Have ATV owners been calling Off-road vehicle registration and liability insurance are man- for this registration?

“Well, one of the things that’s datory on Crown land on Nov. 1.

That means that if you haven’t been happening is that there have got your paperwork for your ATV been huge thefts of unregistered or trail bike done yet, you’ve got ATVs and dirt bikes throughout the province. So there have been to get moving.

The new regulations promote calls for licensing from Quad Ridsafe and responsible use of B.C.’s ers ATV Association of BC. The backcountry, and include provi- only bad thing about it is that sions on number plate placement, now the government, in their rules for child operators and safe- wisdom, has decided that if you bought it from somebody else ty equipment requirements.

But that’s not all, according to they’re going to hit you for tax if Mike Lees of the Cowichan Valley you bought it anytime after 2010.”

It’s about proof of ownership.

ATV Club.

“If you didn’t buy it [your ATV] ATV owners were urged to get from a dealership, you have to go licenced starting last year.

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The move to registration allows B.C. to catch up with its neighbouring provinces.

“They are even registered in Alberta and Saskatchewan. B.C. is the only province, from what I understand, that didn’t have registration,” Lees said.

So hunters who want to take their ATV from here to the prairies, for instance, will have to prove their registration.

“We’re comfortable with it, we knew we had to do it. We have always preached that you must carry liability insurance. You have to have it to travel on forest service roads anyway,” he said.

Most ATV owners in his experience go to ICBC first for the registration and the minimum insurance and then go to one of a couple of private insurance companies for liability, theft and collision — wherever they can get their best deal.

“Those companies are affiliated with the organizations like Quad Riders ATV BC, they offer us a discount,” Lees said.

Nov. 1 is the deadline this time.

“If you are caught without being registered and insured, you’re going to get an $840 fine, just the same as driving your car without insurance,” he said.

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(if a manufacturer has installed seatbelts, then the seatbelt must be worn), lights (off-road vehicles must use lights during low visibility conditions when riding on Crown land 30 minutes after sunset or 30 minutes before sunrise), and supervision of children.

The off-road vehicle registration is integrated within ICBC so it’s straightforward to register.

The regulations also offer a sticker option for those vehicles which are unable to house metal plates.

Owners who already secured an ORV number plate during voluntary registration can, between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 2015, bring their registration and metal plate to any ICBC broker and exchange their metal plate for a sticker for no charge.

As well, snowmobile owners who have already registered their vehicles under the Motor Vehicle (All Terrain) Act will be eligible for a refund, up until Nov. 16, when they register under the ORV Act. Voluntary registration has been in place since Nov. 17, 2014.

As of Nov. 1, 2015, registration will be mandatory. The combined cost of the number plate and registration fee remains $48.

The regulations govern a wide range of ORVs, including snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles or “quads”, dirt bikes and side-by-sides (e.g. Rhinos and Argos).

For more information about the new regulations go to www.for.gov. bc.ca/mof/orv/

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The African Children’s Choir is once again bringing their colourful, energetic show to Lake Cowichan. [SUBMITTED]

African Children’s Choir looks for a warm Lake welcome LEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

The African Children’s Choir is bringing its heartwarming show to Lake Cowichan Sunday, Nov. 1.

They will be performing at the Lake Cowichan Christian Fellowship Church at 10 King George St. starting at 10:30 a.m.

The 18 young singers (nine boys and nine girls aged eight to 11, all from Uganda) melt the hearts of audiences with their charming smiles, beautiful voices and lively African songs and dances, done with three colourful costume changes.

The program will also feature wellloved children’s songs, traditional spirituals and gospel favourites like He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, This Little Light of Mine and even some sing-alongs.

Music for Life (MFL) — the parent organization for The African Children’s Choir — works in seven African countries including Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.

The children of the choir represent 7,000 to 8,000 other children that would never be able to get education because of the backgrounds in their homes, said choir manager Tina Sipp.

“Most would never be able to attend public school. So we are raising money to support educational programs for these very impoverished children who are from some of the most vulnerable areas. We hope they can become self-sustaining as well as make a positive difference in their community, country and continent later on. We have a number of educational programs which we support back in Africa.

The choir children represent a small proportion of them but they are from those same programs, out of that same mix.

“The choir children have their education paid right through post secondary

“Honestly, it was the smaller communities that were so much more fun. It was THE event and you got to mix with people more.

It’s much more fun than bigger communities where you are just one of many things. There’s a wonderful dynamic there.”

TINA SIPP choir manager

level. They are guaranteed a professional level of training of some type. It’s no small thing for these families to have one child educated fully. They wouldn’t have it otherwise. This is just the beginning for these children. It’s the beginning of opportunities, potential careers and impact.”

The children are chosen after attending camps that give organizers the chance to assess them.

“They are sort of recommended by the supervisors of the schools. They often identify the neediest of the needy, those who would benefit most. They come to a weekend of camp. They don’t know they are auditioning, they just have a fun time. Our staff is there to evaluate them. They do bible study, singing, dancing and games and then they go home.

We will have identified some children by then. We will go to their homes and ask their guardians if they wish to become part of the choir. They usually do. Then they come to us. We start immersing them in English and they come out on the road for their tour. Afterwards they go back to a school we have just for former choir members. It helps them acclimate back to the African school system. That school is amazing.”

The African Children’s Choir is no stranger to Lake Cowichan, either.

“I believe we have been there a number of times over the years,” Sipp said.

Why would they come to communities

as small as Lake Cowichan on a big fundraising tour?

“We don’t come to Vancouver Island every time we are in Canada but when we come over we have a certain number of dates to fill. We try all different kinds of communities and, depending on which churches jump onboard, it determines where we go. We had an invitation from that particular church and so we’re going,” she said.

Sipp has been on tour with the choir for a couple of years herself and likes visiting out-of-the-way places.

“Honestly, it was the smaller communities that were so much more fun. It was THE event and you got to mix with people more. It’s much more fun than bigger communities where you are just one of many things. There’s a wonderful dynamic there. The kids are adorable, there are three costume changes so it’s really colourful and bright. It’s amazing,” she said.

MFL’s purpose is to help create a new kind of leadership in Africa and, to that end, has educated over 52,000 children.

Its focus-on-education impact has been felt in the lives of more than 100,000 people through its relief and development programs during its history.

The choir has performed before presidents, heads of state, and most recently Queen Elizabeth II during her diamond jubilee and the choir has shared stages with the likes of Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Michael W. Smith, and other inspirational performers.

Most recently, the chorus recorded some tracks with Sarah Hickman for a CD, Love Is a Journey. They also have a small role in the Pan movie (Warner Bros. Pictures) starring Hugh Jackman.

The concert is free and open to all.

A free-will offering is taken, however, at the performance to support African Children’s Choir programs, such as education, care and relief and development programs.

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Community must help out Food Bank

It’s unfortunate, and we wish it wasn’t so, but food banks are vital resources in our communities.

We say we wish it wasn’t so, because we heartily wish that so many people weren’t forced to rely on them for the very sustenance they need to continue to live and breathe.

We wish everyone had a good job so they could afford to purchase enough food to eat, and put a roof over their heads, and put clothes on their backs.

But the fact of the matter is that a great many people do not have the funds for these things, and one of the rst budgets that gets squeezed is the one for food.

We’re certain that when the rst food bank in Canada opened in 1981 (yes, before that they didn’t exist) in Alberta the folks running it thought it would be a temporary measure. Surely our governments wouldn’t continue to let people go hungry. Little could they have suspected that food banks would soon spread from one shore of our country to another, with one in practically every community that is more than a few houses gathered around an intersection.

Over 7,000 food banks now serve more than 700,000 people every month, according to HungerCount 2008.

Fifty per cent of the households helped by a food bank have at least one child, and 37 per cent of food bank customers are children.

That’s an incredibly sobering thought and drives home the absolute need for the continued existence of food banks and food programs. Because even the most hard-hearted anti-socialist would be loathe to tell children they just need to fend for themselves when clearly that’s nonsense. That’s even if it was the Canadian way to leave people to starve, no matter what the age. And that’s not something we think reects our Canadian, or our community values.

Which brings us to the predicament of the Lake Cowichan Food Bank. This is an important institution, feeding people in the community. There’s nothing more basic than that. And now it’s asking for the community’s help.

The building it’s situated in presently is scheduled for the bulldozers and it needs a new place to call home. It’s time for the community to come together like we know it can and nd a solution. Chances are, even if you don’t know it, a friend or neighbour has used the service. It must continue.

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Burden shouldn’t fall just to Cowichan Valley residents In regard to Jon Lefebure stating the need to raise taxes for ratepayers to make improvements to the Lake Cowichan weir.

This would in turn improve the community’s water supply.

In the late 1950s the weir was constructed by B.C. Forest Products to assure a reliable and continuous water supply in order to insure it’s business viability.

The community was much smaller then, and there was

enough water for everyone.

Now Catalyst is the owner of the mill.

They are by far and away the single largest consumer of water.

The water licence they have from the B.C. government allows them to extract 60 million U.S. gallons per day.

Although through water saving efforts they do not normally extract the full amount it is in the tens of millions daily.

Since the weir was constructed, the Crofton mill has implemented no permanent improvements to increase water capacity. Catalyst has success-

fully lobbied local government to lower their taxes significantly.

They receive a lower electricity rate from B.C. Hydro. They have permits from the province to release pollutants into the air, the ocean and to bury waste in the ground.

I believe they are a stakeholder in the water supply along with the ratepayers.

The burden of this initiative should not fall completely on the people of the Valley to insure the viability of the Crofton Mill.

Peter Colquhoun North Cowichan

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Street Beat

With Malcolm Chalmers

The Gazette asked: Are you willing to have your local taxes go up to help manage the quantity and quality of the water in the Cowichan Lake and River?

Dave Gillis

Louise Stockand

Glen Hayward

Kim Peters

Ron Mayea

“NO, I think I already pay enough taxes here, that should be provincial if not federal responsibility.”

“Yes absolutely, because we need them.”

“No, I am in favour of raising the weir to store more water and the river is important but local taxes are high enough as it is.

It should be a federal and provincial matter.”

“Yes, I think it would be a good investment. The province or federal governments could contribute but for what we use the lake and river for locally it is worth it.”

“Of course, I don’t mind, it will be good for everyone here.”

Letters to the editor

Myths of the Highway of Tears

Voting with bag over the head

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I was at the polling station in Honeymoon Bay Monday at approximately 8:15 a.m. At that time I was the only voter in there.

I cast my vote, then looked at the doorway and noticed a person with a brown paper bag over his/her head. This gave me the chills. The person was not asked to remove the bag and proceeded to walk in and I believe cast a ballot.

I was standing talking to a

CVRD sucking money out of residents Once again the CVRD is going to try and suck more money out of the residents of the Cowichan Valley. Watch for it folks.

Bylaw 3930 looking to reap $600,000 from a portion of the CVRD including the Town of Lake Cowichan to take over and manage the Cowichan Lake, river and tributaries which will include construction of a weir etc. Each of us involved, (and it does not include all CVRD residents), will pay $9.13 per $100,000 value of our homes to feed this hungry monster (CVRD). More bureaucrats etc.

This should be a provincial issue not a small portion of the CVRD. As well, bylaw 3918 will look to steal another $2.65 per $100,000 valuation to do what is called flood management.

Gas prices up, oil down How dare the oil companies put gas up when the price of oil is going down. A jump of $0.06 to $1.099! Simply incredible!

J. Robertson Duncan

worker when I was told to leave by another worker as I had already voted.

There was no one else in there waiting to vote at the time. I left and was in the lobby when the person came out and removed the bag from her head. A fellow was there and took a picture of her.

Was this a set up to see if she could pass through? My complaint is why was I told to leave so rudely?

Jean Atkins Honeymoon Bay

This piles up on top of my third problem and that’s bylaw 3931 to put money into arts and culture this time $0.85 per $100,000. So if you have a home worth $200,000 you will pay additional taxes of $25.26, a $300,000 home will cost you $37.89 and $400,000, $50.52. So here we go again, higher taxes, more bureaucrats and more control.

This has to stop and stop now.

Most of us on fixed incomes with little increase in income are already being taxed to death.

Put a stop to it get, an elector response form, fill it out and get it to the CVRD to end this thievery.

Only you the taxpayer/voter can control this nonsense. If you don’t care, do nothing, if you do care make your voice heard.

Jack Peake Lake Cowichan

Send us your letter Write 300 words or less on the topic of your choice and email editor@lakecowichangazette.com Include: your name, a town you hail from and a phone number.

he scandal of the week at the B.C. legislature is what could be termed “delete-gate.”

Primarily, it revolves around 36 pages of government emails that the NDP opposition has been trying for a year to get under freedom of information legislation. They relate to a series of meetings between transportation ministry bureaucrats and remote communities along Highway 16, between Prince George and Prince Rupert.

If you want all of the accusations about government secrecy and alleged cover-ups, I invite you to read “Access Denied,” the latest report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner at www.oipc.bc. ca, and transcripts of question period in the legislature this week.

What you won’t find there is much discussion of the actual problem, which is a shortage of safe and practical transportation options in and out of these communities, most of which are federally funded aboriginal reserves far from the region’s only highway.

What we have seen for decades is a dramatic media narrative about one or more serial killers preying on vulnerable women hitchhiking along what is now known worldwide as the Highway of Tears.

The Wikipedia entry for Highway of Tears gives a sense of the credibility of this narrative.

It begins with the unsolved murder of Gloria Moody, last seen leaving a bar in Williams

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Lake in 1969. That’s a long way from Highway 16.

Then there was Monica Jack, killed in 1978. DNA technology resulted in a charge finally being laid last year against a known serial rapist. This was even further away, near Merritt, and she was a 12-year-old riding her bike.

Other cases involve street prostitution in and around Prince George, an urban hub for a large aboriginal population similar to Regina and Winnipeg.

Discussion in Victoria focuses on urban notions of increased transit, in places where existing service may be under-used.

Nationally, the narrative is that deep-seated social problems within aboriginal communities would somehow be solved by a lawyer-heavy judicial inquiry that looks only at tragedies involving women.

If you drive Highway 16 today, you will see fading billboards pleading for information on the disappearance of Madison Scott. She was last seen in the early hours of May 28, 2011, after a grad party in the woods outside Vanderhoof. Her truck and tent were still there. Again, nothing to do with hitchhiking, but at least it was near Highway 16.

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Christmas fireworks upset people who have experienced war and violence, and dogs, who may panic and quiver and hide, or jump fences and tear around and get run over.

While some are all out gasp-

won’t often hear in the Highway of Tears melodrama. There is commercial bus service on Highway 16, although Greyhound reduced frequency in 2013 as it struggles with low ridership and high costs.

BC Transit also operates bus service to some remote communities like Kispiox and Gitsegukla, connecting them south to Smithers. But BC Transit requires local governments and riders to cover about half the cost. Indian Act reserves don’t pay.

North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice has noted that what people in remote communities ask for is a way to get back and forth for shopping and medical appointments.

Yes, shopping is an important need, as those who live in remote areas can tell you. And Northern Health already runs a bus service for remote residents who need medical care.

Rice’s observations at least move us toward practical solutions, although most of her effort seems directed towards political blame.

I hope the infamous 36 pages of emails are eventually released, since they were not deleted but rather excluded from release. They may bring the discussion back to the actual public service issue, which is what realistic transportation options exist for these communities.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@ blackpress.ca

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Lake Cowichan Salmon & Mushroom Festival Society Fine weather greeted visitors to the 16th annual Salmon & Mushroom Festival at Centennial Hall Saturday, September 26th and Sunday, September 27th, 2015.

Each adult’s name was entered into a draw for a 2 person mushroom workshop with Ingeborg Woodsworth valued at $80.00. A BIG THANK YOU to the volunteers manning those tables, being cheerful and inviting.

Five hundred adults and about two dozen children entered the hall over the weekend enjoying the various vendors and artists selling jewelry, stained glass art, spices, preserves, paintings, greeting cards and mushroom growing kits. As well there were mushroom displays and sales, a slide show and tantalizing edibles.

Terry Finch provided great music and was upstairs and downstairs helping with announcements as well, creating an inviting atmosphere.

Cowichan Lake and River Stewardship Society, Cowichan Green Community, and Willi Jansen, Fisheries Officer, providing pertinent information from the Department of Fisheries regarding local salmon stock, their life cycle and how to ensure their survival was available with hand-outs.

Jordan Maher, Executive Director of Q’ul-lhanumutsun Aquatic Resources Society provided for the second year ‘fish painting’ for young and old. This was further complimented by two four-meter large Salmon Paintings by Cam MacDonald mounted on the Upper Hall walls.

During the weekend the kitchen, with Rita Dustow in charge, served up delicious mushroom/onion quesadillias, various other dishes and three different soups; the mushroom chowder being the favourite. Each morning Rita had fragrant Illy Coffee, donated by the Galloping Moon for all these years, ready and waiting to be served by our wonderful volunteers. Next to the kitchen Gabrielle offered home-baked Apple strudel and other goodies for those with a sweet tooth.

Ingeborg and David Tamblin as usual had 53 varieties of mushrooms, edible and toxic for close examination by spectators. A dozen people enjoyed a slide show presentation on mushroom identification in the Arena’s boardroom. I believe education is the key to a safe and successful mushroom picking trip into the woods.

Ingeborg’s Mushroom Cookbook with recipes and a guide to picking mushrooms is for sale at her Mayo Creek Gardens Nursery on McLean Road.

This year we changed the popular field trips to Saturday instead of Sunday. As in every year three different field trips had a dozen cars of enthusiastic mushroom hunters following their guides. As the weather held and after fueling up with refreshments from the kitchen, participants were even rewarded with their own mushroom findings. Compliments were many and a good time was had by everyone.

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hen we woke up on Oct. 20, we rose to the potential of a new

Canada.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party surprised many with the strength of their majority and we will now turn the page on the Harper government. I was impressed with Trudeau’s speech and with his very positive message of unity.

He made several promises during the marathon campaign and we must now hold him accountable for what he said his government would do in the coming years.

One of the main components of his campaign was increasing government spending on infrastructure. This is work that has been neglected for the past 10 years as the previous government focused mainly on lowering taxes and decreasing government spending.

Mr. Trudeau has promised to change this policy and spend billions on infrastructure projects across our country. We have just such a project in our community that might benefit from some federal government support.

At the Oct. 20 Cowichan Watershed Board meeting there was a very positive feeling and there were many broad smiles among the participants. First Nations representatives, elected officials, federal government employees and conservation group members were all very happy with the results and the prospect of a new approach from our federal government.

On the agenda was a report on our chinook salmon, where Cowichan Tribes biologist Tim Kulchyski reported that 2,300 adult chinook had passed the counter before it was removed on Oct. 16. The counter was removed a bit early due to concerns about a rising river level and it is estimated that about three-quarters of the run would have been counted.

This means we are still short of our goal of 6,500 adults but the rains we got this September helped the fish we did see get to their spawning grounds where they are now actively producing the next generation.

David Slade showed us how successful the watering restrictions put in place last summer were in reducing our water consumption. When Stage 3 water use restrictions were put in place last July 3

Take Your Kid to Work Day offers fresh look Lake Cowichan School sent out a notice to the parents of Grade 9 students last week, reminding them of Take Your Kid to Work Day.

This licence would our community enable pumping of responded by five cubic metres reducing water use per second of by about one-third water from the in the first two lake over the weir weeks. By Sept. 18 and into the river. we had reduced This would preconsumption by 50 per cent of June One Cowichan vent the river from

By Parker Jefferson running dry as it levels. Brown was very nearly did the new green for this fall. Thirty per our neighbourcent of this water would be hoods and dirty cars were used to keep the Catalyst mill cool. Well done to all of us for functioning and also provide responding to our water crisis water for the community of so effectively. We now need to Crofton. The remaining 70 address this annual drought per cent of the water would problem with renewed vigour. benefit the fish in our river by There were several discusmaintaining river flow. Catasions about the current status lyst would fund the pumping of our infrastructure project: operation. the re-construction of our Another measure Catalyst is weir to store more water in considering is the possibility the summer. There are a few of temporarily increasing the different initiatives being purstorage capacity of our cursued by Catalyst as well as the rent weir. Engineering studies CVRD and Cowichan Tribes.

Brian Carruthers from CVRD are being done to determine if the current weir could handle explained the status of the funding application in place the increased lateral load of an for the weir project. He is optiadditional foot of water stored mistic that the application will behind it. If the weir can hanbe successful and the CVRD dle the increased load, Catahas created a function to lyst will apply for a temporary accept the money and adminstorage increase and design istrate the weir project. The brackets to be installed on top federal government is involved of the weir to hold blocks that with the grant process and the will effectively raise the weir. change of government may This could be in place by next delay any announcement until summer.

January.

All of these projects will Before any work can begin a be of great interest to our water storage licence needs to community and Catalyst will be obtained to increase sumbe holding an open house to mer storage and this is still in explain their proposals and process. This is something a answer questions. This open more engaged federal governhouse will be held on Thursment might be able to assist day, Nov. 5, at Centennial Hall, and expedite.

309 South Shore Rd. in Lake The process involved with Cowichan from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. the weir re-construction is You may also provide feedback very complex and it is not at contact.us@catalystpaper. expected that we will have com or by writing to Catalyst a new weir until 2019. This Paper, Box 70, Crofton B.C., leaves us vulnerable to the V0R 1R0. annual summer droughts Objections to this application for another three years and may be filed with the Regional Catalyst is taking measures to Water Manager, Ministry of mitigate the storage problem Forests, Lands and Natural for the interim period.

Resource Operations, 2080 Catalyst is applying for a Labieux Rd. Nanaimo B.C., licence to pump water over the V9T 6J9 until Nov. 29. weir, if necessary, in the fall It is important for all of us of 2016 and 2017. This project to understand the details of was seriously considered for how we can work together to this year and was cancelled solve our annual and increaswhen we got our precious earing drought problems. The ly fall rains. Catalyst is being change of federal government proactive and seeking a Short can only help us to achieve our Term Water Use licence under goal of increased water securSection 8 of the BC Water ity for our community.

Act to enable this pumping should the weir reach zero Parker Jefferson is with community storage in the next two years. group One Cowichan

This national event, Wednesday, Nov. 4 is a day on which Grade 9 students are encouraged to spend a day at a worksite with one of their parents.

The idea is to offer students the opportunity to see what the workplace is like, appreciate the

expectations, understand their parents better and understand the importance of planning a career path.

Anyone with more questions should see Mrs. Holland, in the LCS Career Centre, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on school days.

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October: Getting the garlic in the ground and growing

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Cover the leaves arlic may be or newspapers with the easiest a four-inch layer of crop to grow. either compost or You plant it any topsoil or a mix of time in October and both to which you it’s ready next July can add peat moss, without a whole lot available in big bales of trouble on the garfor $9.99 at Home dener’s part.

By Mary Lowther Hardware. Sprinkle Here’s one methwith fertilizer — I od: if this is a new use Steve Solomon’s bed, measure off its mix which is four parts seed dimensions and dig along the meal, one-half part lime, oneperimeter with a shovel just to delineate the garden. Push down half part phosphate rock and one-half part kelp meal, applied into the soil as far down as the shovel will go and pop any hard- at the rate of one litre for every pan that might be there. Pull out 100 square feet. Store-bought garlic should grow well as long the shovel without turning over as it hasn’t been irradiated, but the soil. Then go over the whole you’re better off buying seed bed like this every few inches, garlic from a supplier. leaving the soil oriented the Mix the fertilizer in a bit with same way. a hoe or rake, soak the bed Don’t turn the soil over as thoroughly and you can plant recent studies have shown that right away since the leaves and this damages the soil structure newspaper rot pretty quickly and plants do not grow as well.

You have a few options now: you in our winter rains. Separate the cloves from the garlic bulb can cover the bed with a) a onegently since you don’t want to inch layer of shredded leaves (although I have read that leaves bruise or break any. If they do break they’ll probably rot in the are acidic, I have never noticed ground so throw them out. If any deleterious effect on my you find a mouldy clove, don’t gardens), or b) a layer of newsuse the entire bulb since this papers which you shred or poke mould can spread throughout holes all over for drainage.

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six inches apart in rows that are eight inches apart. No watering, ever, and that’s it! You might want to cover it temporarily with mesh or spun cloth cover like Remay to keep out varmints like the neighbour’s cat.

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had broken and the CVRD crew had to come and dig it up? These fine gentlemen gave me time to move my garlic and other winter vegetables so they could come in with a small backhoe and dig a trench across the backyard to replace the broken clay pipe.

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Activity Centre needs new blood Rod’s

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SARAH SIMPSON GAZETTE

The Cowichan Lake 50 Plus Activity Centre is in need of volunteers — and the more the merrier.

Town councillor Carolyne Austin also doubles as the Golden Agers Society’s president. The Golden Agers’ Society is one of the two groups that operates the bustling activity centre.

“People that have been doing things a long time are getting worn out,” Austin said. “The 50 Plus Activity Centre has 347 members but a lot of people pay their memberships basically in support. What we need is some of those people to step up and volunteer.”

A paid cook runs the kitchen but volunteers do the dishes and various other tasks.

These days, the hostess desk needs a friendly face to greet people and bingo callers are urgently needed.

“The bingo, that’s where we get our money to keep running,” Austin said.

The group has a gaming licence to run the bingo sessions but if those fall through, there would be no way subsidize the various trips, events, and adventures the centre hosts,” she explained.

“Eventually we would run out of money.

Without the finances from the bingo within a year or two we would have to close down and we don’t want to do that,” she said.

Sunday night bingo runs from 6 to 9 p.m.

“We need callers, people that can work the computer and the till. We need three to four people every Sunday to work the

Carolyn Austin bingo and every Wednesday from noon until 3 p.m.,” Austin said.

Neither players nor volunteers need to be 50-plus.

“They have to be over 19 and we will train them,” Austin said.

There are perks to volunteering during bingo hours, too.

“The ones that work Wednesday will get a free lunch and we do a few other things for the people on Sunday — there’s coffee and tea and snacks and things like that,” Austin noted.

The Centre, located at 55 Coronation St., is a happening place.

Monday nights the choir meets, on Tuesday afternoons bridge is the name of the game. Wednesday is carpet bowling day. On Mondays and Fridays line dancing is on tap, and cribbage and canasta are also Friday favourites.

A pool and snooker tables are always available, along with a host of other games like darts and shuffleboard.

The centre opens at 7 a.m. but most people don’t arrive until about 9 or 10 a.m., Austin said.

Unless there are special events — and there are a lot of special events — the centre closes at 3 p.m.

“People can come in at any time and play pool or do anything they want,” Austin said. Coffee is put out in the morning and lunch — fresh and homemade — is served from 11 a.m. until 1:15 p.m.

A band plays during the lunch hour on Thursdays.

“We have lots going on,” Austin said.

With special events planned through the end of this year and straight through the New Year, there really is something for everybody.

Those looking to join the Golden Agers’ Society can look forward to a modest $15 membership fee and in addition to discounts on event costs, one heck of an additional perk: “We will reimburse you for one ambulance trip per year and a lot of people have picked up on that one,” Austin said, adding a standard ambulance ride costs in the neighbourhood of $80 and that’s not a bill you can opt out of if you really need it.

With a Christmas concert and road trips and winter night get-togethers all upcoming, it’s a great time to meet some new people and perhaps even volunteer.

Many hands make light work.

“We really do a lot of neat things there but we need some fresh faces,” Austin admitted. “If you volunteer to help somewhere you maybe only have to volunteer once a month. It’s not like you have to volunteer every day or anything.”

Call 250–749–6121 or visit http://senior0. wix.com/lake-cowichan-seniors to learn more about the 50 Plus Activity Centre.

Food Bank scrambling as they search for new location LEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

The Lake Cowichan Food Bank, which has been desperately scouting around for a new home, now has a deadline looming.

By the end of February 2016, they must be out of the Mildred Child Annex — a building owned by the Town of Lake Cowichan — which they had been using on a 10-month contract that winds up this month before continuing on a monthto-month basis.

“We knew this was coming but it doesn’t make it good,” said foodbank spokesperson Betty Weberg Sanddar. “It makes me very sad. We picked up the mail and saw we were getting four months notice. Nobody seems to want us. ” The g roup has already knocked on almost every door in the area trying to find a new home, Sanddar told Lake Cowichan town councillors recently.

The reason for the notice to quit is that the Town of Lake Cowichan has been re-assessing what to do with all its buildings, and one of the ideas being floated was to flatten the annex, which has served as public library, town council chambers,

“That’s something that the Food Bank has asked for but there are a bunch of other groups that have also asked for that space so we have no firm plans yet. We’re also looking at whether it’s fit for habitation yet. It also all depends on what council decides at the end of the day who should have use of the building.”

JOE FERNANDEZ, Town of Lake Cowichan CAO

and building inspection headquarters among other uses.

According to Town CAO Joe Fernandez, demolition plans are now ready to move forward.

“We do anticipate [the Mildred Child Annex] coming down.

We’re moving forward with some engineering items now,” he said.

One location nearby — the old Logger Hut restaurant building — may be an option at some

point in the future but nothing has been decided about its use yet.

Sanddar said her group is hoping for a chance at some space there.

However, the building, unused for many years and lately donated to the town, is attracting wide interest, according to Fernandez.

“That’s something that the Food Bank has asked for but there are a bunch of other groups that have also asked for that space so we have no firm plans yet. We’re also looking at whether it’s fit for habitation yet. It also all depends on what council decides at the end of the day who should have use of the building,” he said.

“The arrangement with the donors was that it be used ‘for the good of the town’, but not by any one particular group alone. We have to look at all those considerations, too,” Fernandez said.

Sanddar said late Saturday that she’s decided to try a new avenue for assistance.

“I’m going to approach Greg Adams. He’s bringing Sunfest to the Lake. He says he wants to help us. What can it hurt to ask?” she said.

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Calling all Former International Woodworkers of America Members “Together we support our history”

The Kaatza Historical Society (Kaatza Station Museum & Archives, Lake Cowichan, BC) is honoured to be the recipient of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) archives in recognition of the historic role our community has played.

To house this significant collection we are embarking on a fundraising campaign to build an addition to our museum.

We are asking all former IWA members, families, other Union members and members of the community to join our cause and chip in for some local history! You can be a part of this exciting time by simply making a donation of $10 (or more) to our campaign. Should you wish to make a larger gift please check our website for levels of Patronage. www.kaatzamuseum.com Your tax deductible donation can be delivered to the Kaatza Station Museum located at 125 South Shore Road adjacent to Saywell Park, or mailed to:

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The future of the weir operations at Lake Cowichan are the subject of an Alternative Approval Process being undertaken by the Cowichan Valley Regional District. [CITIZEN FILE]

CVRD should not take on responsibilities abdicated by others

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ho should pay for weir upgrades?

Should the CVRD, and by extension the local area taxpayers, take on that ongoing responsibility and financial burden?

Catalyst owns the weir and the necessary water storage licence.

They use the vast majority of all surface water used in our Valley.

The provincial government has ultimate responsibility for the water flow and the fish in the river, except for the salmon, which are under the federal government’s jurisdiction. So the responsibilities and authorities are pretty clear.

The CVRD has no involvement at this time.

It is felt by some people that,

because the senior governments have not taken their responsibilities seriously, the CVRD has no option but to step into the void and take charge. But does the CVRD really have no other option?

There is much discussion about recent “downloading by the senior governments”. Is it really downloading, if a senior government neglects some of their responsibilities? Where is it written that local government has to step in and take charge?

Do the local taxpayers expect the CVRD to deal with every pressing issue that arises, even if it is clear it has no authority or responsibility to do so?

Local politicians are the ones

most connected with their electors. They face criticism almost daily. It is no wonder therefore that they have a tendency to please the public, which means they have a hard time sayBy Klaus ing NO. They want to be the good guys. Needless to say, that often results in higher property taxes. It also means that the tax burden gets shifted from a senior government, which has multiple sources of revenue to a local government, whose only major income source is property taxes. Also, senior governments’ revenues fluctuate with the economy. In times of an economic recession, there are cutbacks in spending. Local governments don’t have the kind of financial constraints that a slumping economy might provide. That, coupled with the reluctance to say NO to increasing demands, is a recipe for ever increasing property taxes.

Property taxes are considered regressive, in that the local taxpayers have no option to avoid paying, unlike other taxation, like consumption tax, alcohol tax and gas tax, where there is an option to adjust the behaviour or consume less.

If the senior governments neglect their responsibility with regard to the river, the

salmon and the other fish, does the CVRD have to step in? If the Catalyst Mill has to close down for lack of water, does it become the CVRD’s responsibility?

Where is the incentive for the Kuhn senior government or Catalyst to live up to their responsibilities, if the CVRD presents itself as the fall back option?

Bylaw 3930 was passed at a recent board meeting. It enables the CVRD, among other things, “to build, upgrade, inspect, operate and/ or own a weir on Cowichan Lake.” Under this bylaw the CVRD can also obtain and hold water licences. This may trigger an annual tax requisition of up to $ 600,000. That’s $9.13 per $100,000 of taxable property value.

Bylaw 3930 is subject to Alternative Approval Process that will end on Dec. 2, 2015.

The new water licence is being labeled a Conservation Licence. That is misleading.

The additional water is actually needed by Catalyst to keep operating despite summer droughts. Last summer is a case in point. The existing water licence stipulates that a minimum flow of seven cubic meters per second has to be maintained to assist the fish and to dilute the sewer outfall.

In the last several years that flow has been reduced to five

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and 4.5 cms in order to stretch the supply of water through the dry summer months and to avoid a closure of the mill.

This was arranged through a request to the provincial government. If the flow had been kept at seven centimetres through the summer, the Catalyst Mill would most likely have had to cease operations because the lake level would have been at zero storage.

If the description of Conservation Licence is to be insisted upon, then what are we conserving? If we are conserving water for the fish, then we are doing something that is the responsibility of the provincial government. We have no jurisdiction when it comes to fish or the flow of the river.

The weir was built in the 50s and that was when the rule curve, which dictates how much water can be released from the weir, was established.

The climate has changed dramatically since the 50s. A new weir with a new rule curve (or rule band) are desperately needed. Of that there is no question.

The question is, “Should the CVRD get involved with the ownership, operation or financing of the weir?”

Are you concerned about the CVRD taking on ever increasing responsibilities?

Are you concerned about increasing property taxes?

You should be, after all it is your money.

Klaus Kuhn is the CVRD director for Area I (Youbou/Meade Creek)

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Big ideas abound as Lake looks to economic development LEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

“The million dollar question is, ‘Are we ready?’”

Coun. Bob Day challenged a group attending the Town of Lake Cowichan’s sustainable economic development committee Tuesday, Oct. 20.

After the official committee meeting concluded, Day, who chairs the committee, and the rest of council held a talkfest with some community representatives.

Council wants to kickstart a new future.

“All along we’ve wanted to start inviting the public,” Day said.“This seemed like the perfect time to get that ball rolling.”

The announcement that the huge annual Sunfest country music festival wants to move to a former industrial/forestry site near Meade Creek hit the area like a tornado a couple of months back and since then, enthusiasts of all kinds have been putting for-

ward their opinions.

Day said he was pleased to see 30 people at the meeting.

“I targeted community groups to start with; everybody from Kinsmen and Lions right up to the Chamber of Commerce to every downtown business.”

He had a two-fold goal: to get an economic development committee going with public representation and to chat about ideas around Lake Town Ranch but it didn’t quite turn out that way.

“It turned into more of a ‘Yay, Sunfest is coming meeting’. That was going to be part of the discussion but it ended up taking up most of the meeting. But that’s okay. My goal was not to try to rally troops in a specific direction right off the bat, but just to get introductions going and go around the room and ask everybody about their thoughts about economic development.”

Day said he started with Sunfest’s Greg Adams since he was there.

“I had asked them but I hadn’t expected them to be there. But he was and then the whole topic veered around to Sunfest.

“It did stay on an economic development vein because a lot of people were interested in hearing from Mr. Adams and also from Cathy Robertson from Community Futures Cowichan for ideas on how to best take advantage of the people that are coming this way.”

Ideas abounded.

“Well, to start with, pop-up stores. The old Dollar Store location [on South Shore Road] has been mentioned a few times now.

Someone suggested making that a cowboy hat store or something like that,” Day said.

But talk went well beyond what shops might offer.

Another suggestion was “having three stages in town during that week, or weekend anyway, and Mr. Adams said he would possibly help get some young performers to be on those stages for a few hours a day. People got

excited about having a festival of our own right downtown during the daytime [of the Sunfest weekend]. Somebody’s already busy starting to organize it on paper, I understand.”

“That’s Year One for me: organize a downtown festival in Lake Cowichan, and have an ongoing committee after that,” Day said.

His vision goes well beyond Sunfest.

“Long-term, there’s an opportunity for a grant that will help us get a study done. A consultant could give us an actual action plan on what we could do in five, 10 or 15 years. Sort of a road map, steps we could take to move forward. It’d be nice to leave behind a guidebook for the next group.”

It’s important to see opportunities and be ready to take action on them, Day said.

“If you got everyone in town together and dumped a big pile of horse manure in the room, some people would be complaining about the smell and others would

be saying: ‘Now we can make money selling compost.’ Those are the ones I want, to drown out that negativity.”

Getting the ball rolling is key.

“It’s been identified that we need to have as many festivals as we can throughout the year.

Why don’t we have an Octoberfest and things like that? But, we need people and I’m hoping this committee can act as a catalyst for economic development for the town and Areas F and I.” Day was one of those who re-envisioned the annual Cowichan Lake Days celebration, so he knows there’s work involved.

“There’s got to be something that now moves ahead on these new ideas. We need a team of workers that goes with it or we need to pay people to do the work.

We’ve got to get going,” he said.

If you’re interesting in lending a hand or ideas, the sustainable economic development committee will be meeting the third Tuesday of every month.

CVRD seeks public consent on 3 big items SARAH SIMPSON GAZETTE

The Cowichan Valley Regional District has announced it will use the controversial Alternative Approval Process to solicit feedback on one arts and culture-related and two water-related expenditures.

AAPs are used in place of more costly referendums. If less than 10 per cent of eligible electors for a given issue don’t submit response forms citing their opposition to the bylaws aimed at increasing the tax requisitions, they will be deemed to have community approval.

“There was even some discussion at the board, some concern over using AAPs but the fact is that a full regional referendum costs $150,000 whereas an AAP is a few thousand dollars,” CVRD board chair Jon Lefebure said.

“When we’re considering how to talk to the public about something we need to do, or we feel we need to do, the cost of that does come in.”

Lefebure said it’s “unfortunate” to have so many AAPs go out to the public all at once but the board has timelines to consider.

“We are facing time concerns around both the maintenance of the dikes and the watershed management so it’s something we really would like to get done now,” he said, noting some of the functions the board needs elector approval on “are things that we really do need to do.”

The first AAP is related to the maintenance of the region’s extensive diking network.

“We’ve built our dikes to protect our core areas and First Nations areas from the type of flooding that happened in 2009, and we need actually a function so that we can maintain those dikes,”

Lefebure explained.

The CVRD took advantage of grants from Emergency Measures B.C. but the condition was in order to get the two-thirds funding, the regional district would be on the hook for maintenance.

The AAP information says affected residents include the whole of the City of Duncan, the whole of the Town of Lake Cowichan, portions of the District of North Cowichan, Electoral Areas B (Shawnigan Lake), D (Cowichan Bay), E (Cowichan Station/ Sahtlam/Glenora), F (Cowichan Lake South/Skutz Falls) and I (Youbou/Meade Creek).

Should the AAP pass, those residents could see a maximum tax hike of $2.65 per $100,000 of residential assessed value.

“That one is really essential to our maintenance of the dikes going into the future,” Lefebure said.

A second AAP would see the establishment of a watershed management service.

It involves a maximum tax hike of $9.13 per $100,000 of residential assessed value for residents of the whole of the City of Duncan, the whole of the Town of Lake Cowichan, portions of the District of North Cowichan, Electoral Areas B (Shawnigan Lake), D (Cowichan Bay), E (Cowichan Station/ Sahtlam/Glenora), F (Cowichan Lake South/Skutz Falls) and I (Youbou/Meade Creek).

The watershed management service has been a main topic of discussion amongst local governments ever since community group One Cowichan raised the profile of the issue and the CVRD board began to investigate the far reaching impacts of the Cowichan River running dry, Lefebure said.

“The board actually applied for

Cowichan Valley Regional District board chair says there is a lot of support for increased local watershed management. [FILE] two-thirds funding from the Strategic Works grant funding to do a project to raise the weir and store more water so that we could have more water to help the flows in the Cowichan River, but we need a place to actually receive that money and we couldn’t proceed with the project if we were given the grant without a CVRD function to receive the money,” Lefebure explained.

He believes there’s significant community support about that particular issue.

“Of all the things that I’ve dealt with at the CVRD, I’ve had more

people call me or email me about the critical state of the Cowichan River and the Cowichan watershed. This is just doing our homework to make sure we have a function in place to actually do work on that water system,” he said. “And it goes beyond the weir. We would like to be able to consider non point-source pollution issues, groundwater connection to the river and the watershed, water quality issues, so it’s a function that would allow us to raise some money but also allow us to accept grants and actually do projects.”

But the hit to property owners is not a light one.

“That is significant,” Lefebure said. “People will have to recognize that it is an upper limit on what we could do to raise funds for projects. That isn’t in the budget nor is the intention necessarily to raise that amount of money.”

Water issues aside, a third AAP has been announced by the regional district.

If adopted, the Arts and Culture Initiatives Service Establishment bylaw would authorize the CVRD to tax up to $130,000 per year for the purpose of establishing a service to support arts and culture initiatives and programs within the regional district. The maximum cost to all residential property owners within CVRD would be $.85 per $100,000 of assessed value.

“Spread out over the entire regional district, that’s not a large amount of money,” Lefebure said.

“There was quite strong board support for that. That comes from a belief that if you invest in arts and culture that you get a many-fold increase in economic activity in the community. It’s not a big one but we think that’s a really good investment in our community.”

Should eligible residents wish to submit elector response forms, they are available online (at www.cvrd.bc.ca) and from the CVRD offices at 175 Ingram St. in Duncan. The original signed forms must be returned to those Ingram Street headquarters.

Faxed or emailed forms will not be accepted. The deadline to submit elector response forms for the arts and culture AAP is 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 18 while the deadline for the other two is 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 2.

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In Brief Youbou offering Halloween Haunted House The hugely popular Halloween Haunted House is back at Youbou Hall Saturday, Oct. 31.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. so if you want to be part of the set-up, come on in and fill the neighbourhood with fright on Halloween Night. Call 250-745-3712 if you’d like to help with the Haunted House. Bring your own ghoulish gadgets. The hall provides the space and will reward the most hair-raising and creative costumes with prizes. The Haunted House itself opens to the public at 6:30 p.m. with costume judging at 7 p.m. and fireworks later on.

‘Arrows of Desire’ aimed at Lake Cowichan stage Mark you calendars for a special presentation of Tommy Douglas: The Arrows of Desire, written and performed by John Nolan.

The show is headed to the Lake Cowichan School theatre (190 South Shore Rd.) on Nov. 6 and 7 starting at 7 p.m., and Nov. 8, starting at 2 p.m. The performances are a fundraiser for the Kaatza Station Museum IWA annex building.

Tickets are $15 for seniors and students and $20 for everyone else, and you can get yours at the Duncan museum, Lake Cowichan Curves and the Kaatza Station Museum. For more information call 250-749-6142.

Fall Bazaar offers plenty of treasures The 1st Lake Cowichan Cubs and Scouts are having too much fun at the carnival they have set up at Camp Imadene.

When this photo was sent to the Gazette there was room for one more in both Cubs and Scouts, but lots of room left for new Beavers. Meetings for the groups are held a Mesachie Hall on Tuesday nights from 6:30-8 p.m. for the Cubs, 6:30-8:30 p.m. for Scouts and Sunday, 5-6 p.m. for Beavers. If you’re interested in joining the fun check out 1stlakecowichan.wordpress.com for more information. [SUBMITTED]

The Cowichan Lake Golden Agers are hosting a Fall Bazaar on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There will be books, baking, crafts and other new and used items for you to pick up. Lunch will be on sale from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

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