Lake Cowichan Gazette, November 18, 2015

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2015

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Take a hike: Retreads explore Mesachie and more PAGE 10

Remembrance Day: Photos from Lake Cowichan service PAGE 13

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The women dance while the men drum and sing at the raising of the totem pole in the heart of Lake Cowichan, acknowledging the small First Nation that calls the area home. [LEXI BAINAS/GAZETTE] 5.83”

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Chuckles from the crowd followed this reference to Ingram’s encyclopedic knowledge of her community.

He told her about his idea to carve and erect a totem pole and she promised to work towards bringing the idea to fruition.

Then, the carver began to tell the stories of the images that could be seen on the pole, explaining that the three faces on the top stand for the past, present and future, how the hole stands for a special cave near Mesachie Lake and what the other creatures all signify.

To complete the ceremony at the square, the male members of the

Ts’uu’baa-asatx Nation drummed and sang a song while the women and girls danced slowly around the pole.

Afterwards, Melanie Livingstone said the day was very special for the nation’s members.

“The last time my family has danced was the 1950s. So proud to be Ts’uu’baa-asatx. I am so grateful to Ron Hamilton for teaching me and my children our culture. Klecko klecko,” she said.

After the dancing everyone crowded around to have photographs taken with the new pole and then everyone was invited to Centennial Hall for a celebration feast and further ceremonies.

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Lack of communication mars Catalyst open house

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They came, they had a coffee and went home.

Close to 100 Cowichan Lake area residents turned out at Centennial Hall Thursday, Nov. 5 hoping to learn more about Catalyst’s plans for pumping water from the lake during the next couple of years.

The pulp and paper company has sent in a Notice of Application to the provincial government for short term water use under the Water Act (Section 8).

Catalyst had announced it was holding an “open house” and organizers had prepared for it by setting out a few round tables and chairs and putting up a series of information boards around the big hall.

The crowd was clearly expecting for an informative question and answer session as entrants to the hall looked wonderingly around at the lack of chairs and the overall set-up. However, people continued to arrive and by 6:20 p.m. there were about 100 people there, drinking coffee, talking to their friends — often about a stormy meeting held the night before at the nearby arena or about Catalyst’s Lake Cowichan weir in general or historic terms — and waiting for something to happen.

When nothing organized seemed to follow, they began to drift away, at first indi-

FAITH DIRECTORY

An open house in Lake Cowichan Nov. 5 offers a chance to talk about the Cowichan River with Cowichan Tribes Chief Chip Seymour, right. [LEXI BAINAS/GAZETTE] vidually or in pairs and then in groups.

Catalyst officials said privately Nov. 4 that they would try to find another way to get their message out.

But, despite Thursday’s communication setback, the Catalyst application is still pending and anyone with concerns can provide feedback by sending an email to contact.us@catalystpaper.

com or in writing to Catalyst Paper, Box 70, Crofton, B.C., V0R 1R0.

Objections to this application may be filed with the Regional Water Manager, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, 2080 Labieux Rd, Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6J9.

The deadline for feedback is Nov. 29, 2015.

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Catalyst aims to keep river flowing LEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

If next summer is dry, then Catalyst could be pumping water over the weir from Cowichan Lake to keep the Cowichan River viable.

Catalyst’s Crofton operation has applied for a licence to pump water from the upstream side of the Lake Cowichan boat lock and weir (located near 300 North Shore Rd.) to the downstream side of the structure which will maintain up to five cubic meters per second of flow in the Cowichan River.

Approximately 30 per cent of this water will be used by Catalyst under its existing water licence, which authorizes water for the pulp and paper facility in Crofton and for domestic use by the village of Crofton, while 70 per cent will be used for conservation purposes to support fish populations in the Cowichan River, according to the application.

Although it might appear to be a reaction solely to last summer’s drought, the move is based on years of observation, according to Harold Norlund, Crofton mill’s vice-president and general manager.

Built in 1957, the weir at Cowichan Lake is there “to hold back more of the spring and summer rains and snow melt and then release it back out during the fall,” he said. But even though summers were dry in the 1950s, there were snowy winters, too.

“People used to ski at Green Mountain [south of Nanaimo] and Mt. Arrowsmith in Port Alberni but now it has really changed. You don’t get the snow con-

tinuing into the July period and so the lake goes down way faster than it used to. The weir is there but the water won’t last,” he said.

This is not a new problem for the Cowichan Valley but “for the last few years it’s been gut-wrenching looking at it. It’s like [the weather] has shifted a month.

It used to be dry from mid-July to early October but now it starts in May.” Low water affects the migration of salmon but its reach goes far beyond that, Norlund said, pointing out that the outfalls from the sewage treatment operations run by Lake Cowichan and the Joint Utilities Board are also affected by the Cowichan River flow in a drought year.

“We have to try and hold enough water to last into Nov. 5. But it’s clear the fall rains don’t seem to come at the right time and you can tell that the river is going to go down. This is not just about if you run out of water, the mill has to shut down until it rains. There’s more to it,” Norlund said.

This past summer, Catalyst paid for an independent environmental group to study the river and then revised its application but people still must remember it’s only for two years, he said.

“We’re looking at a two-year opportunity where we could pump up to 49 days per year. This is a short term measure.

For the long-term, for a hundred years, this is not an appropriate solution.”

Norlund said that DFO will decide which fish conservation efforts should be undertaken, if they are needed.

“The permit says we must keep the

lower part of the river above 2.83 cu metres per second. Last summer, that flow got to around 3.1.”

The mill uses about 1.6 cubic metres per second itself, which is “far down from what it used in the past” partly because of new cooling systems.

Now, the idea is to be ready to help keep the river flowing, if needed.

The pumping option involves floating, low-velocity pumps.

“They float on the surface, like a fish pen, and would pump water over the weir without stirring up the bottom, continuing to flow until the fall rains came,” Norlund said.

The floating pumps would have to be fueled by a diesel generator because there “is not an easy place to get electricity there. If you were going to do it long term you would have to put in a power substation in. But this is only a two-year permit.”

Many people all along the watershed became anxious river watchers and are interested in Catalyst’s application.

Norlund said there were about 25 comments dropped in the box at an open house in Lake Cowichan last week.

There will not be an opportunity for a public meeting but people can still send in comments until Nov. 29 by emailing contact.us@catalystpaper.com or in writing to Catalyst Paper, Box 70, Crofton, B.C., V0R 1R0.

Objections to this application may also be filed with the Regional Water Manager, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, 2080 Labieux Rd., Nanaimo, B.C., V9T 6J9.

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Snow packs the hills around Lake Cowichan in the early 1960s. This is what it looked like in May. [LEXI BAINAS/GAZETTE]

No snow pack speaks of climate change calamity One doesn’t need to look at the science (though there’s plenty of it) to see that climate change is real.

There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence simply from our own memories, along with photos like the one above, to back up what scientists around the globe are warning about.

Taken in the early 1960s, in May, this photo graphically depicts just how much show was on the hills around Lake Cowichan (not even very high up).

That snow pack has been reduced to zero, or virtually zero for the last several years.

So why is this worth mentioning? It informs many of the issues that are being debated in the Cowichan Lake communities at present. Questions surrounding the weir at Cowichan Lake, and Catalyst’s proposal to install pumps to try to keep the river owing at a healthy level during the summer drought months, as well as questions of ood management and who should take control of the watershed are profoundly inuenced by the impacts of climate change.

A snow pack used to hold water in for when we needed it in July, August and September. Without that natural storage we are left oundering in the shallows.

Less snow is falling, certainly, and our winter temperatures have risen to the point where it doesn’t stay when the white stuff does stick to the ground.

Clearcuts don’t help.

We must face up to the changes we are undergoing, so that we can nd solutions and prevent further damage.

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Poll worker just complying with the rules Re: Jean Atkins, “Voting with bag over head” First of all, before one puts a communication out into the public domain, one should have at least a knowledge of the facts.

A Supreme Court ruling had been passed that allowed this covering of one’s head. Therefore this was legal.

Secondly, posted in the polling station was an Election Canada poster advising people that once they had voted they

were required to leave the polling area. This did not have the stipulation that if there was no else there they could stay.

Further, it is important for the public to realize that those who serve to ensure that Canadians continue to have fair and honest elections, according to the legal rules of process, for small remuneration, deserve respect.

In the case of the DRO for Honeymoon Bay, I worked with this person over the duration of the Lake Cowichan location of the advance poll and was impressed by his commitment to detail,

accuracy and knowledge of the correct and required process.

It appears that the request to comply with leaving the polling area was necessary in order for compliance of the rules.

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Street Beat

With Malcolm Chalmers

The Gazette asked: What preparations have you made for winter?

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Shaun Farrell

“I get the canning finished from the harvest and prepare the woodpile.”

“Not much more that go out and buy a new heater.”

“Basically I clean the gutters, make sure the roof is in good shape and always put snow tires on the car.”

Green shift returns, goes global

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e will soon learn what Premier Christy Clark and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have in mind for Canada’s renewed effort to influence climate change.

As they prepare to join the 40,000 people jetting to Paris for the next big United Nations summit to deal with human impact on the world’s weather, here is some context for what is to come in December and beyond.

Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion served as environment minister under former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin.

Then, as Liberal leader, Dion’s proposed “green shift” carbon tax was pivotal only in ending his leadership.

With a majority government this time, he promises the entire federal cabinet will be involved.

Dion gave a revealing interview to The Globe and Mail last week about his experience in government.

“The old system was to give the file of the environment to the minister of the environment and say, ‘deal with it, be the hero of the environment groups, but don’t bother us because we have jobs to create and an economy to grow’,” Dion said. “That will not work.”

It certainly didn’t work, which is not surprising since Dion is admitting the Liberals considered the environment ministry a mere public relations tool.

This was the period when Canada signed on to the Kyoto Protocol, then pretended to care about it as the United States rejected it in a unanimous vote of Congress.

We now understand more about those environmental groups, most funded by U.S. billionaires to target the Canadian oil and gas industry while the U.S. booms.

Their tactics were on display in the defeat of the Keystone XL oil pipeline to the U.S., with arguments that even President Barack Obama acknowledged were exaggerated.

Dion’s ill-fated “green shift”

By Tom Fletcher

BC Views

wasn’t just about greenhouse gases. He intended to impose a national carbon tax and use the proceeds to eliminate child poverty.

This concept is back, on a global scale. If you’ve been to the movies lately, you may have seen a slick animated commercial sponsored by the UN, featuring animals running the world from the seats of the General Assembly. “We have a plan,” trumpets the elegant llama at the podium, not only to fix climate change but to eliminate poverty as well.

One problem with Kyoto was that it left emerging economies like China and India untouched. And while Canada endures false allegations of subsidizing fossil fuels, actual subsidies are huge in petro-states like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria and Indonesia, where gasoline sells on average at a third of Canadian prices.

China and India’s carbon emissions have about tripled since the Kyoto public relations gesture in 1997. That growth is one reason why Canada’s share of global emissions has now fallen to below two per cent.

Here in B.C., Clark intends to unveil her “Climate 2.0” plan before heading to Paris. We’ll see if it includes another increase in B.C.’s vaunted carbon tax, which now translates to about seven cents on a litre of gasoline.

Even without carbon taxes, about a third of the pump price Canadians pay is federal, provincial and local tax.

In Metro Vancouver, it’s closer to 40 per cent. In Venezuela, a big winner in the Keystone XL decision, gas sells for around two cents a litre.

The B.C. government admits its

Ingeborg Woodsworth I put the garden to bed, then make sure the house is ready for the cooler weather by closing up rooms we don’t use to save electricity.”

AAPs must be stopped: say no

post-carbon tax reduction in greenhouse gas emissions was largely due to the global recession of 2008-09. Now with crude oil at historic low prices, B.C.’s carbon tax is a weak signal lost in the noise of a world-wide glut of oil and gas.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

I fully agree with Ross Grant’s letter to the Cowichan Valley Citizen Nov. 4.

Ross, you hit the nail right on the head on all three items and I urge people to go to the CVRD office and sign the electoral response forms to stop arts and culture and the Cowichan flood management initiatives. It is my understanding AAP for the Lake Cowichan weir is put on hold right now.

Jolene Pilon “We rearrange some of the rooms for the kids to play in, we use the plastic shrink wrap on windows to save heat, get the pellet stove ready, and bring out the winter blankets.”

Area E has one more AAP coming which has to do with street lighting. I have lived in Area E 50 years and I have never seen street lighting anywhere in my neighbourhood. We have defeated the pool increase big time and we can do it again.

Please folks do yourself and everybody else a big favour, go to the CVRD office and sign the electoral response forms.

Leo Kasbergen Area E

Power outage notice: planned maintenance Lake Cowichan, Mesachie Lake, Youbou, Honeymoon Bay

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We need to understand and decide individual issues at AAP stage

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munication availt has been an able to each and interesting every one of us couple of weeks in today’s world, dealing with with any degree of CVRD bylaws integrity. brought forward For at least from the board three years now and now at the I have witnessed alternate approval past and present (AAP) stage of the Guest column boards turn down process. This is my By Bob Day the request from first experience as staff for a desiga board member nated communications poshaving to work through this ition. I totally understand the process in an effort to supply reason people complain about what the board has agreed the actions and processes upon as valuable services to associated with governments. citizens of the region.

Elected officials sit, listen and As I listen and deal with the ponder mountains of inforcomplaints about the process, mation from all disciplines there is one thing that stands associated with each and every out the most and that is the issue, something the general issue around communication.

There are minimum standards public expects of us and do not have the time in their for public communication busy lives to do themselves. I and engagement, set out in truly admire my fellow elected the local government act and officials and staff for going the community charter. It over and above each and every has been my experience that day to make sure they have usually only the minimum all the information at hand in requirements are undertaken order for elected officials to as a cost saving measure to taxpayers. I have been an elect- make sound decisions. The one piece we most often fall short ed official for seven years now on is educating our electors and I cannot figure out how through efficient methods of to best communicate with the communication. tax paying public. Obviously Recently through staff attrithe newspaper is not the absotion, our CAO has been able lute method in this new age to hire a manager of Strategic of communication, but unless Services, whose job descripthere is a dedicated staff pertion will focus largely on comson at a cost of $50 to $100,000 munications. I look forward to a year, it would be impossible this position taking affect earto cover all the modes of com-

ly in the new year so the CVRD board can convey information around regional issues before they affect the pocketbooks of the taxpayers.

In the meantime we need to work together as best as possible to understand the bylaws currently at the AAP stage and decide as individuals whether or not we approve of the proposed services in each bylaw.

What concerns me most is that folks may be led astray by the opinions of folks who don’t understand the reasons for the services. It should also be noted that one of the loudest voices in the Lake Cowichan area speaking against the AAP, was an elected official and sat at the CVRD board table while some 20 service bylaws were adopted. At the end of the day, I can only hope that before anyone signs and delivers an AAP form back to the CVRD that they have thought for themselves.

My personal mantra around taxation is, “A fair and equitable distribution of wealth.”

We are so very fortunate to live in a country with so much and in a governing culture full of ways to share wealth through all levels of taxation in an effort to enrich the quality of life throughout the country.

Bob K. Day Town of Lake Cowichan councillor CVRD director

Do not hand feed the elk; you’re not helping This fall in Lake Cowichan, we are again fortunate to witness the majestic Roosevelt bull elk!

First, let us not forget that these animals are not tame.

Second, these animals are not your new pet. Roosevelt elk are wild animals. They are not to be trusted.

Recently, it has come to my attention that a few people are venturing too close to the elk. While it can be the thrill of a lifetime to witness a bull elk, you must be respectful of these animals by giving them the appropriate amount of space they need to enter or exit an area. Please keep your distance when viewing a bull elk.

On several occasions people have gone way too close to these animals. Numerous people have attempted to get within a few inches of them. In some instances, people actually tried to feed these bull elk…

BY HAND! In another instance someone ripped flowers out of a property owner’s flower box and hand-fed the bull elk!

To an elk, this type of action can very well be seen as a

Don’t get too close to these guys, they can hurt you. [DENIS MARTEL PHOTO] threat! When an elk is threatened, they are unpredictable.

They could escape without harming anyone. They could bolt over you and injure you with their hooves. They may attempt to defend themselves with their antlers (use your imagination here).

In closing, I would like to leave you with one thought: if a bear wanders into town, do you try and feed it by hand?

When a bear begins to be a threat to humans, the Conservation Officer Service is called

and a conservation officer is dispatched. The officer will assess the situation and appropriate action must be taken.

The end result might be to relocate or shoot the bear.

These actions are no different for an elk if is deemed that the elk is a threat to humans.

Enjoy the elk that have come into town — but enjoy them from a safe distance.

Denis Martel Wilderness Watch Coordinator Valley Fish & Game Club

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etreads continued with three more fall outings. Two were close by with one to good old Mesachie Take a hike

By David Kidd Mountain, one from Skutz Falls upstream, and the third was further away at East Sooke Park.

The Mesachie hike was pretty uneventful. We had hoped for a clear day in order to admire the view from the summit but that was not to be.

It was low overcast when we started out, the view from the top was quite restricted and we were only able to just see the road to Honeymoon Bay from the summit. By the time we had finished lunch and headed back down the cloud had cleared a bit and we stopped at the lookout halfway down and admired the view out over Bear Lake and towards Honeymoon Bay where we could see that it was bright and sunny.

By the time we reached the bottom the cloud had cleared completely and we could easily see the top of Mesachie Mountain when looking up from Honeymoon Bay Road. Those who had not done this hike before were surprised at how high it is and how shear the mountain face is. Discussions were many and varied. We talked about the weather (of course), whether it was

Beth Kidd scrambles over fallen logs on the Skutz Trail. [SUBMITTED] possible to hike up from the east side, the upcoming election and the surprise appearance that Tommy Douglas would be making at the Lake Cowichan School soon after the election. Back at the Lake quite a few of us met up at Jake’s for coffee etc.

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Chamber speaker talks staff LEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

Are you a business person interested in new ways to afford more employees?

The Cowichan Lake District Chamber of Commerce may have the speaker for you.

At its meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 18, the group is featuring guest speaker Jack Tieleman of Global Vocational.

He’ll be talking about employer opportunities such as wage subsidies, job-start supports,

short-term training, work clothing, basic tools, transportation.

Currently he is actively involved in managing staff in both those areas as well as managing day to day operations of Global Vocational Services.

The dinner meeting will take place at Jake’s at the Lake from 6-9 p.m.

It is Burger & Beer Night at Jake’s at the Lake with a little extra on the menu for the meeting. Tickets are $20 per person to attend.

◆ COUNCIL BRIEFS Lake Cowichan Mayor Ross Forrest hands over to the VIRL’s Steve Hurcombe and Kristen Rumohr an award of merit for the outstanding use of wood in the construction of the library’s Lake Cowichan branch. Lake Cowichan town councillors, Tim McGonigle, Lorna Vomacka, Bob Day and Carolyne Austin are glad to add their congratulations.

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It was just supposed to be a simple photo opportunity.

But when the Town of Lake Cowichan presented an award of merit it had received from the Canadian Wood Council to the Lake Cowichan branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library, councillors discovered that the town’s population were the real winners.

The initial presentation was made at the recent Union of BC Municipalities convention and there wasn’t much fanfare about it, according to Lake Cowichan Mayor Ross Forrest.

“There was no mention of Lake Cowichan at the time, that we were the winner; people kept saying: get up there, it’s yours, get up there,” he said, to laughter from colleagues and the audience.

“But, it’s a great honour now to present this to the library board.”

He and councillors posed for the cameras with VIRL board member Steve Hurcombe and Kristen Rumohr, head librarian, but then Rumohr said she brought along a few numbers “just to compare the library programs and usage between now and before we opened [the new facility]”.

Those got everybody in the room smiling.

The award-winning facility is a real draw, she said.

“So far this year, in 2015, we’re averaging 3,300 visits per month at the library, which is actually, if you include all the communities we serve, about half the population that we serve. It was 2,900 in 2013.

“For programs, we’re now offering 13 per month compared to five in 2013. In our summer reading club this year, we had 155 kids compared to 62 in 2013, more than double, which is incredible,” she said.

In addition, Rumohr shared a

statistic that conjured up some fun images.

“I thought I’d tell you about one of our most popular programs from the summer: our annual Stuffie Sleepover. We had 45 kids come into the library to take part and then leave their stuffies at the library; during the night they got into all kinds of trouble,” she said.

Fun aside, the library is meeting community needs.

“Everyone is proud of the work we are doing, we’re getting lots of good feedback. And we’re doing lots of work in early literacy.”

Forrest then asked, “When it first opened up, you said you were seeing more high school students than you had seen in the old library, enjoying the facility and the atmosphere. Are they still coming in?”

Rumohr assured him that this was continuing.

“We had lots of teens in the building in the summer. There were also a couple of teens who were always around outside in [Forestworkers Memorial Park] riding their bikes and that sort of thing. I went out and talked to them, to see how they were doing. Then they came in and now we’re seeing them come in to the library after school. We’ve also got teens coming at lunch.

It’s wonderful that they feel comfortable there, just enjoying some time with their friends, without being under a ‘watchful’ eye.”

Coun. Carolyne Austin praised the reference materials and computer facilities available to library users.

“My husband goes in there and looks up consumer magazines whenever we are going to buy something. He loves it in there, too. It’s good for seniors as well,” she said.

Rumohr said, “Use of the computers for downloads at our branch is more than at most

branches. People are using them for everything from social media and playing games to job searches and research.”

Library workers also had fun with visitors to the community this summer.

“People would come in and look around and then say: ‘Um, someone told me I could get a fishing licence here.’”

And they did, she said.

Asked by the audience if the students were there for the books or the computers, Rumohr replied, “Both. Our circulation of teen books is definitely stronger than it ever has been. Right now we are working on our readers’ choice award. It’s a selection of books selected by librarians all through the Pacific northwest.

Teens have an opportunity to read those books and then vote.

Those books are almost never available; we have seven copies and they are nearly always out.

“We have a couple of school classes that come very regularly,” she said, adding that the library also has programs to help students with homework.

Forrest said that the town is proud of the success of the new library, feeling it justified the decision to locate it there because there had been some initial resistance to the choice to put it where the old bowling alley had stood.

“I think this verifies its value to our community as being far better than an empty lot,” he said.

“This means more than land and dollars. The social aspect of libraries is great. We’re very lucky.”

Coun. Tim McGonigle also noted, “That’s the second similar award that has come to the town of Lake Cowichan. First of all there was the renovation of the Cowichan Lake Sports Arena and now this library. A wood community using wood for its community.”

Glass, garden waste recycling splits council The Town of Lake Cowichan is not ready to move ahead with the recycling of glass or garden waste just yet, but councillors are still discussing the subject.

They took another look at it during their public works committee meeting Nov. 3 but learned from town CAO Joe Fernandez that, although he’s been in touch with the other municipalities to see what they are doing, he’s hasn’t “crunched the numbers” yet.

Also, “it’s all over the map; every city does it differently,” he continued.

Part of the problem is that residents can already dispose of those materials by driving them to the Cowichan Valley Regional District’s Bings Creek facility but there’s more to it.

Such collection could involve the town’s own public works employees since the current contractor is “not amenable” to doing either, according to Coun.

Tim McGonigle.

He said he wasn’t sure if the added expense to benefit what might be only a small number

of people was a good choice for the town.

Mayor Ross Forrest agreed.

“If the system we have now is not broken, why are we so concerned about it?” he asked.

Coun. Carolyne Austin said she was concerned for people that don’t have vehicles and would like some environmentally friendly way to dispose of their yard waste instead of burning it.

Town entrance sign design proceeding The ongoing saga of replacing the sign at the entrance to Lake Cowichan continued last week and council is now looking at a design that might incorporate the style of other signs that have been erected more recently in the town.

A new design could also make clearer to motorists that they are entering the Town of Lake Cowichan.

Some fresh designs could be available for viewing at the town’s big public meeting on Monday, Nov. 30.

Lexi Bainas, Gazette

Moment of silence for Cozens RETREADS, From Page 10 Toward the end of the outward part of our hike we crossed some pretty unproductive gravel-based land where the trees were pretty stunted. No doubt traces of other river bed changes.

And then out onto a clearing right at the edge of a deeper section of the Cowichan River.

Time for lunch and memories.

It was exactly two years since Jean Cozens had passed and it seemed appropriate to remember Jean, the founder of our club, with a moment of silence and the releasing of memory cards into the river. That done, we gathered ourselves for the hike back along the Trans Canada Trail to the parking lot. A few more enthusiastic members decided to hike back into town on the TCT. Fourteen of us met at the Aylard Farm Parking lot for our hike along the coastal part

of East Sooke Park to the trap cabin. We were delighted to have the rain ease off and the sun come out as we followed the contours along the rocky shore, lead by Jim Jenkins who is well known for his knowledge of the back country and his art work. We had excellent views of the Olympic Mountains and the boats in the Juan de Fuca Strait.

We had lunch at a point by the trap cabin with the ocean pounding against the rocks, the sun warming us, seals frolicking by the shoreline — perfect! Our route back took us through lush forest with a short detour back to the coastline to see the seal petroglyph at Allridge Point. Another stellar Retreads hike that we will long remember. Indeed some members recalled doing the complete hike along that coastal trail together with Jean Cozens a few years back. It was a challenging day.

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Ron Wallace, left, places a wreath at the cenotaph in Lake Cowichan. To see colour versions of the photos, go to www.lakecowichangazette.com for a photo gallery.

Photos by Malcolm Chalmers

A young boy places a wreath at the cenotaph in Lake Cowichan while a cadet stands guard.

Leading the parade, Suzanne Jones gives the marching orders on Remembrance Day.

The Lake Cowichan legion colour party marches to the cenotaph in Lake Cowichan

A cadet salutes in honour of Remembrance Day at the Lake Cowichan services at the cenotaph.

Lake Cowichan resident Lucile Palsson at the 2015 Remembrance day Ceremony.

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These seven lakes have been recently stocked.

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Cowichan River Trout Fishing: Try trolling creek mouths with threeinch tomic plugs in Fishing There are mid-river

By Gord March resident rainbow and the new amazing brown trout. Single iridescent colours. egg copies.

Also good success Skutz Falls to 70.2 trestle is with Gang Trolls (the larger the excellent for browns and rainbetter.) 24-30 inch leader and bows. Use single egg copies size five to seven Kwikfish or and minnow or rolled mudler Flatfish Chrome Blue and Frog flies. Greendale trestle to 70.2 patterns best. Try fly casting trestle is loaded with rainbows at creek mouths with wooley that have dropped from the buggers or leeches. Remember lake to dine on the salmon eggs the bait ban and single barbless and prepare for spawning. The hooks until April 15. Cutthroat largest browns in the river are and Rainbow trout over 50 cm found in this section. Flys of must be released. choice: single egg patterns, Kissinger and Lizard Lakes rolled mudlers, prince nymphs, to the west have good rainbow hairs ear nymphs, pheasant tail trout fishing; try corky and nymphs. Stick to the bead heads single egg rig off the docks and and weighted flys, the river is beaches. Trolling can be done still quite high as it is important with small spratley’s leeches, to get down deep. wooley buggers, flatfish and Best flys for Coho are blue small spoons. rolled mudlers, micky fins or Fuller Lake, Chemainus Lake, Jim Humphrey’s famous river Dougan Lake, Quamichan salmon flies.

Lake and Somenos Lake are

These are all excellent rivers for late summer runs and winter steelhead. They are best fished when coming off of high water.

Fly Fishing:

Drift fishing is a popular sport on the Cowichan River and the river provides an afternoon of the best fly fishing around. [MALCOLM CHALMERS PHOTO] Best spinning lures for Coho: Vibrax, gold/orange size 3 or silver/pink in size 3 also Gibbs croc spoons in hammered brass or copper with fire stripe.

Steelhead Fishing: Cowichan River: Try Silver Bridge area for early

steelhead. Pink worms (we stock 17 shades), blades, spin and glows are your best bets. Mid-river (Riverbottom Road area) try pink worms, blades and smaller roe imitations. December/January yields the largest fish of the season followed by the February/March run of smaller but more plentiful fish.

Heavy sink tip lines are necessary when the rivers are running in winter conditions.

Flys of choice: always popular are egg and roe copies, the best of the best are Jim Humphrey’s Intruder Flys that could entice a strike at any time.

Put your time in and as the weather improves the odds of landing a winter steelhead will only get better.

“May your rod bend to the butt and your smile go from ear to ear” Stop by the store for the current fishing report. View our webpage www.gordsflybox.ca Gord March is the owner of Gord’s Fly Box & Goodies, 170C Cowichan Lake Rd., Box 1742, Lake Cowichan, B.C., V0R 2G0. Call: 250-932-9309 or email gordsflybox@shaw.ca

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