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Protesters arrested for blocking trucks at SIA SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Nine protesters were arrested for blocking the road outside South Island Aggregates’ Stebbings Road contaminated-soil landfill on Tuesday morning.

Those arrested were only briefly held and were released without charge.

Cpl. Janelle Shoihet, a media relations officer at the RCMP’s E Division headquarters in Surrey said about 200 protesters had been at the SIA site and were blocking the trucks from getting into the facility with their loads.

“There was a court clerk that came and read the injunction

and people were given the opportunity to leave and then we came and we also reaffirmed the injunction and gave people the opportunity to leave,” Shoihet said.

Nine people opted to hold their ground. That’s when they were taken into custody.

“They stood in the way of the trucks and so we had to arrest them,” she said. “They were arrested and moved off the roadway and then released.

They were told not to return.

No charges have been laid in regards to that event.”

Shoihet noted police would continue to monitor the situation but thus far officers have,

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by and large, been met by peaceful protesters.

Even so, given the sheer numbers of people out, Shoihet noted extra members from the tactical squad were called out for everyone’s protection.

“We base our response on the number of protesters that were on site. Given that there were upwards of 200 people, we needed to have enough officers to ensure public and police safety,” she said.

“The protesters were vocal, but very peaceful and they were good to deal with so we hope that that will continue.

Hopefully this will get resolved sooner than later.”

The student Crime Stoppers program, expected to be rolled out in the New Year, has been given a $1,000 boost from the folks at Coast Capital Savings.

The credit union’s manager David Armstrong and some of his staff met with Cowichan Crime Stoppers vice president Derek Crawford and Cpl. Cari Lougheed, officer in charge of the North Cowichan/Duncan Crime Prevention Unit, on Dec. 9 to present a cheque. The student Crime Stoppers program incorporates students in an effort to fight crime in the Cowichan Valley.

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Cowichan Valley MLA Bill Routley had a very special task on Dec. 9 during a Christmas party for building staff and their families at the Legislature in Victoria.

Routley was this year’s “Member from the North Pole” for 72 children and took much delight in doling out gifts to the wide-eyed bunch during the festivities.

“It was so much fun to do,” he said.

A staffer from the Office of the Speaker said the annual party is a hit with the kids.

“There’s a child-sized table with chips and Cheezies and candy canes and all sorts of stuff like that and we do crafts for them too,” she said.

“It’s a great time. It’s a really nice event. The kids

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Routley’s own daughter, Alisha Haldorson, and his grandchildren Gabriel, Peter and Mya were on hand at the event to welcome their special Santa, making it an extra special day for the familiar-looking Big Guy in the red suit.

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Fight against contaminated soil continued ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Shawnigan Lake residents and other activists held numerous protests in 2015, fighting to have a permit that allows South Island Aggregates to haul in millions of tons of dirty dirt rescinded. [CITIZEN FILE] CVRD Zoning Bylaw No. 985 be enforced in relation to the SIA property, which would shut down any dumping of contaminated soil on the site. Contaminated soil treatment and landfill facilities are not a permitted use of the

property within the F1-Forestry zone under the bylaw.

The results of both of those appeals are still pending.

The drama heightened with an SRA court filing in July after documents were dropped off at

their offices in a cloak and dagger manner.

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by South Island Aggregates onto a property they own within the watershed continued in 2015.

In March, the Environmental Appeal Board dismissed appeals by the Cowichan Valley Regional District, the Shawnigan Residents Association and several private citizens that sought to prevent SIA and Cobble Hill Holdings from importing millions of tonnes of contaminated soil to their Stebbings Road site, under a permit issued by the provincial Ministry of Environment.

But that wasn’t the end of the battle.

Residents vowed to continue the fight, and in May the Shawnigan Residents Association and the CVRD announced that they would be petitioning the B.C. Supreme Court.

The SRA has filed an application for judicial review, and is seeking to have the court set aside the decision of the Environmental Appeal Board. The CVRD petition to the court asks that

Active Earth’s impartiality in the matter.

The Ministry of Environment relied on information from Active Earth in making the decision on the permit.

South Island Aggregates/Cobble Hill holdings officials say the documents, stolen from their offices, describe only an abandoned agreement.

A bombshell announcement hit in August when Malahat First Nation Chief Michael Harry resigned over allegations he had taken a consulting fee from South Island Aggregates.

Since then, trucks have been rolling to the site, and several community protesters have been arrested for blocking their access.

A warning was issued for part of the lake in November, saying the water may have been contaminated by runoff from the Stebbings Road site, but it was subsequently rescinded.

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Federal election brought surprises; NDP’s MacGregor takes local seat ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

The entire country has experienced a profound change following November’s federal election, with it’s surprising result of majority rule for the Liberals.

It was certainly not what anyone would have predicted when 2015 began and the local riding associations began to choose their representatives.

Early out of the gate were Alistair MacGregor for the NDP, Fran Hunt-Jinnouchi for the Green Party and Maria Manna for the Liberals.

As the months wore on and the local Conservatives were silent about declaring a candidate speculation was rampant that they were looking to parachute in a star candidate, and eyebrows were raised when the writ was officially dropped in early August — heralding the longest campaign in Canada since 1872 — and the new riding of Cowichan-Malahat-Langford remained without a Conservative candidate.

Eventually, Duncan’s Martin Barker joined the race on the Conservative ticket, and Alastair Haythornthwaite rounded out the list of candidates, running for the Marxist-Leninist Party.

But the drama wasn’t finished.

Social media histories proved to be the downfall of a number of hopefuls across the country, as previous comments on a variety of issues had resignations flying. Among that number was the local riding’s Manna, who dropped out at the 11th hour over old posts where she questioned the legitimacy of the official account what brought down the twin towers in New York on 9/11.

She was replaced by Luke Krayenhoff, whose party wound up with the most to celebrate on election night.

“We’ve got everything to be proud of,” Krayenhoff said. Of his party’s national accomplishment, he added, “We had no idea it would be such a strong success.

We’re just over the moon.”

Barker expressed the surprise of many at the strong Liberal showing, even locally, where the party has not fared

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Alistair MacGregor of the NDP was all smiles as he entered his victory celebration in Duncan on the night of the federal election. [CITIZEN FILE] particularly well in the past.

“I believe it was this red tsunami that washed over us. We never foresaw our Conservative support going so thoroughly to the Liberals,” Barker said on election night.

Hunt-Jinnouchi expressed disappointment in what she saw as a desperation to remove Stephen Harper from office that effectively shut out her smaller party as people moved to vote strategically.

“It’s very disappointing because we are at such a crucial time in Canadian history, to bring a Green perspective and

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Though the NDP were disappointed with their showing nationally, it was all smiles for new NDP member of parliament MacGregor.

“The people of Cowichan-Malahat-Langford have sent a clear message tonight,” MacGregor said on Oct. 19.

“You voted for change! Rejecting the politics of fear and division, you voted for a better and more inclusive Canada.

And that was a good thing.”

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Ideas, issues that sparked editorials in 2015

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t was no surprise that there was plenty of political fodder for this space in 2015.

With a federal election in the works, the declaration of candidates began in January and continued all year.

And there was plenty to sink our editorial teeth into at the federal, provincial and local levels.

Our very first editorial in January discussed our belief that then-federal Minister for Veterans Affairs, Julian Fantino was an early sacrifice on the altar of attempted re-election.

Much reviled in his cabinet

position, he was an easy and obvious choice to ditch in the hopes that the policies and cuts put in place under his watch would be blamed solely on him, and the bad publicity would disappear with him.

We also wrote more than one editorial about the shockingly poor access to information at federal and provincial levels of government, a situation that only seems to be getting worse.

From the increasing difficulty for reporters to even get a live public relations person on the phone, to the provincial government getting raked over the

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coals for triple deleting emails, it caught our editorial interest — and continues to cause us concern going into a new year.

We talked about the overturning of a ban on physician-assisted suicide, and how it could mean an end to suffering for people afflicted with unendurable illnesses.

The discussion of the water issues that would go on to seriously affect the Cowichan Valley during the summer of 2015 got an early start here in the Citizen, and we talked conservation, taking control of our watershed, and ways to reduce

our residential use.

The need for more services for school aged children and young adults with special needs made our pages and tugged at our heartstrings as we heard the stories of those abandoned to fall through giant cracks in our inadequate systems.

We also wrote about bad hockey parents, stupid tobogganing lawsuits, and terrible drivers.

The need to vaccinate children, bring back the long-form census (success!) and the horrifying revelation by the provincial seniors advocate that one third of seniors in care are being

Concerns: from raw logs to LNG to water

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given anti-psychotic drugs that turn them into vegetables when only a tiny fraction of those actually have a psychiatric illness drew our passionate eye.

We argued for more effort to get rid of broom, and the continuing need to protect farmland in our province, especially in light of droughts drying up California.

We also talked about a Cowichan Valley hero, our very own Frances Kelsey. This year saw her finally honoured by the Canadian government just before her death for her heroism in stopping thalidomide use.

People don’t understand how to use roundabouts Maybe you could do us all a favour and publish an annual guide to using roundabouts in Duncan.

Going on five or six years since the first ones were installed, there are more and more of them, and I see maybe one out of 10 people entering and exiting safely or signalling correctly.

Most don’t signal at all, so one has to assume they’re going to remain in the roundabout.

When they exit without signalling, it just holds up traffic waiting to enter, until they actually exit.

I’ve seen others signalling left, presumably indicating they’re going to stay in the round-

about, but then failing to signal right (the only correct signal in a roundabout), presumably assuming that the other drivers will infer from their lack of signalling left that they are about to exit.

The scariest is drivers that nearly enter the roundabout, in the absence of existing traffic in the roundabout signalling left (incorrect), so assuming (wrongly) that traffic is about to exit.

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Racial comment not in spirit of fundraising Coming out of London Drugs on Dec.12, three young men were collecting money for a

local hockey team.

When I and my granddaughter went past without putting money in their pot, one of the persons made a racial comment that I found offensive.

If these people want to raise money in this community, they should make sure the morons are not the ones they send out.

The three thought the comments were funny but I did not, and they didn’t even get my race right.

One letter that caught my attention is the one by Liz Newton on the proposed TPP agreement that our former prime minster [signed] where he gave away the hen house, fox and all.

I note that our own group in Victoria have been doing or preparing for this kind of relationship ever since they were unfortunately voted into the legislature. But to compound a felony our B.C. government promise faithfully to keep exporting raw logs since they are continuing to earn a huge profit for the government coffers. One surely has to wonder what side of reality these members are working on, dreaming of a copious flow of cash from a non-existent LNG flow, which, by the way, was finally scuppered by a former B.C. government excuse as too dangerous, even on an island near Prince Rupert (present location now West Australia, off port Hedland).

This also makes for good reading! Oh editor, another thing to keep your eye on: water. Nestles of Switzerland are now owners of 75 artesian well across Canada from which they have plans to sell a very large quantity of this water at a mega profit!

George Manners Cowichan Bay

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Janet Cowan ordeal was ‘A Coast Tragedy Without Parallel’

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when help arrived.

This incident drained the last ounce of hope and, to a man, they sank into a pit of despondency. In complete silence, sprawled about the fire, they waited: for death or rescue, no longer caring which. Days passed, the men stirring only to keep the fire alight or to eat. Each morning, those sheltering in the line shack hiked to camp for food and implored their companions to return with them.

But Legall and Hunt couldn’t be moved and, even in their despair, the seamen couldn’t consider abandoning their ailing shipmates.

They didn’t know that help was on its way.

En route to Alberni, Commodore John Irving had spotted Janet Cowan, still upright, sails set, from the bridge of the S.S. Princess Louise.

Unable to put ashore in the running sea and gathering darkness, he proceeded to port and telegraphed Victoria authorities. Returning the following day, Irving still couldn’t make a landing.

Immediately upon hearing the news, Capt. J.R. Libby of Puget Sound Tugboat Co. had dispatched the tugs Pioneer and Holyoke. But it was a full three days after Irving’s sighting that a third company craft, the Tyee, succeeded in landing men.

“A sight greeted their gaze that will not be forgotten for years to come,” reported the Colonist. “Seated about a fire on pieces of wood and on the ground were 13 men, all wearing an expression of utter helplessness and misery.

At the sight of Tyee’s men the scene was transformed into one of hope and hilarious joy. The castaways jumped to their feet and embraced their

rescuers.”

Mate Hall of the Seattle tugboat described the memorable experience: “Capt. Gove thought it best to make an attempt to land in the tug’s small boats, so I took several men, and Chief Hawkins took several, and we started. By good hard pulling, we soon got alongside the ship and then passed under her bow. Over on the port side the water was comparatively quiet and we had but little trouble in making a landing. There was a rope stretched from the ship’s side to the shore, so we knew that the crew was safe [sic]. After making a landing we climbed up a rope ladder that led to the top of a bluff which we could not see from the other side of the ship, and came upon the crew in a tent at the top.

“They were mighty glad to see us, I tell you. They wanted us to take them on board the tug right away. We assured them that they would be looked out for, and then started back to look around for ourselves. They told us a terrible story of how they had suffered and what they had gone through with, and it broke me all up. When they finished with the story we started into the woods to look for the bod7297367

(Conclusion) was a severe blow. anuary 2, 1896: Thompson had kept On the second them active and morning Capt. hopeful. With the first mate injured Thompson divided and the second offihis men into squads, cer drowned, the having them scout crew began to disinthe snowbound tegrate. Nights were beach in opposite CHRONICLES bitterly cold, the directions. days empty. There T.W. Paterson He was confident was little to do, just there was some one thing to talk about — resform of settlement nearby, as cue. They could only wait. And evidenced by the telegraph pray. line and cabin. He couldn’t On the sixth day, the cook know there was only Carand two others died. The manah lighthouse, four miles engineer’s last hours were to the west, and its keeper hellish; raving violently, he couldn’t see the stranded had to be forcibly restrained Janet Cowan from his perch. until death ended his torment.

The telegraph was no help The next misfortune — as the same storm which had wrecked their ship had broken which convinced all that “the fates were against them” the line in a dozen places.

— came when the camp was Their only hope was a passing deserted, all but Mate Legall vessel or fishermen. and seaman Hunt vainly The weary seamen returned watching the empty beaches to camp with little to report. for help. In their makeshift Other than the linesman’s hospital, Legall was lashed shack they’d found no signs to a chair, Hunt rolled in a of human life. Fever-wracked blanket on the earth floor.

Thompson ordered them out Both were helpless. Suddenly, again the next day. And the Legall identified an odour next. But to no avail. They he’d noticed earlier — smoke. were alone.

“Hunt, the tent’s burning!” he By now Thompson and cried. several hands were feeling Unable to stand, Legall franthe effects of exposure and tically yelled for rescue. There exhaustion. Amazingly, young was no one to hear. Hunt Chamberlain had not only couldn’t move. Then Legall’s recovered from his daring casting eyes fell upon a rifle swim but was one of the most near the door. active. Even when both feet If he could just...reach it... froze, he continued hobbling His fingers clawed empty about, nursing the others. space. Savagely rocking his They constructed a tent of chair from side to side, he sail canvas as a hospital for inched toward the weapon.

Capt. Thompson, Mate Legall, The chair tipped, spinning the cook and three seamen. him onto his face in the dirt.

But without medical supplies, But he had the gun. there was little Chamberlain Two shots brought the others and Steward Taylor could running. do for them and, on the fifth The snow-shrouded canvas day of their stranding, Capt. hadn’t burned easily, although Thompson died. flames were reaching for Hunt The loss of their master

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Nepal quake tragedy rattles Cowichan KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Filmmaker Nick Versteeg snapped this photo as he awaited evacuation back to Canada from Nepal, where he was working when a devastating earthquake struck, sending people fleeing from their homes on April 25. [SUBMITTED] nearest airport to Namche Bazaar is located. They waited there a couple of days before they could fly to Kathmandu.

The capital and largest city in Nepal, Kathmandu was just 80 kilometres from the earthquake’s epicentre, and sustained significant damage, particularly in older parts of the 3,000-year-old city.

“The situation was pretty grave, but I was surprised by how much was still standing,” Versteeg said.

Eventually, Versteeg flew from Kathmandu to Delhi, beginning his journey home. It was 41 hours before he made it to Vancouver for a “tearful reunion” with his wife, Elly Driessen, and her sister. “That was a minor inconvenience after what we went through,” he said.

When Winfrey made it home a few days after the quake, she was still in shock — as much because of the contrast in cultures as because of what she had just gone through.

“Even coming home from Nepal in the first place would be a shock,” she

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Filmmaker Nick Versteeg, teacher Taylor Winfrey and UN worker Anna Kosa were all in Nepal when the earthquake happened.

A fourth Valley resident, Susan Marshall, operates the Nepal Education Fund, and had returned from the country just a few days before the quake.

Versteeg had been in Nepal for a while already, filming the work of Marshall’s NEF and Seattlebased, Rotary-sponsored dentist Jeff Phillips, who volunteers his time to assist the Sherpas and their families, as well as his own trek to Mount Everest Base Camp.

On April 25, Versteeg had just returned to Namche Bazaar — the hub for Everest exploration — from Base Camp. He was staying in a lodge in Namche, which provided food and shelter, with no extravagances, and was constructed, like most buildings in the village, out of large stones and no cement. He emphasized that it was not a hotel.

Versteeg and two friends had just ordered lunch when the earthquake hit. They ran outside, feeling the ground shake as they watched buildings sway.

After the initial quake and a series of major aftershocks, many of the international visitors moved to a camp on a nearby mountain. Despite what they were going through, the Nepalese people did their best to take care of the many international visitors who were trapped by the quake.

“The people from Namche were fantastic,” Versteeg said. “There were hundreds of trekkers from all over the place who didn’t know what to do.”

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Winfrey was alone at the house where she stayed with other volunteers when the earthquake hit. She heard it before she felt it.

“I thought it was like a truck or a train, and I thought, what the heck is coming down our street?” she recalled. “I stepped onto the balcony, and in less than five seconds, I knew what it was.”

With the building swaying side-to-side, Winfrey watched from her third-floor balcony as the eight-foot brick wall around the house crumbled “like it was nothing.” As fast as she could, she got out of the building.

“I’m from B.C., so I know the drill,” she said.

A strong aftershock followed.

“Then I knew it was serious,” Winfrey said. “I still had cell service, so I sent a text and posted on Facebook to tell people I was alive. I didn’t know the extent, but I knew it was big.”

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“The ground kept shaking,” she recalled. “There were always little tremors, and quite a few notable ones, like fours and fives.”

While she was relieved to be home, Winfrey envisioned a return, maybe as soon as 2016, to help with the recovery.

“Part of me needs to go back,” she said.

Kosa was working at the United Nations Development Programme in Kathmandu.

She “knew the drill” too, but said she froze when she felt the earthquake.

“All my earthquake training — drop! cover! and hold! — was erased from my mind as I watched people stampede from the restaurant,” she wrote. “I was stupefied and I certainly did not drop, cover and hold, but merely went to the wall away from people, pots and chandeliers. You never know how you’ll react in a situation like this. You can prepare, you can know exactly what to do; yet, when you’re thrust headfirst into the moment of truth you have no idea how you’ll react.

“The funny thing is, my office had an earthquake drill five days before the real one. Of course, everybody treats it as a fire drill and never thinks it will happen any time soon.

I was aware that Nepal was expecting the ‘big one,’ and it was always at the back of my mind, but I never thought it would happen while I was there for my six-month placement.

But that’s the scary thing; you never know when it’s going to happen. Even now when I am no longer in Nepal, it still feels like the earth is shaking.

I know it’s not shaking; however, after having experiencing aftershocks for days on end it’s difficult to adjust to solid, unmoving ground.”

Marshall, who founded the Nepal Education Fund in 2004, wasn’t sure if she would rather be in Duncan or Nepal after the earthquake. Being home meant she was safe and could support relief efforts but if she had been in Nepal, she could have been more involved.

“We were blown away by the poverty,” she recalled.

With the help of donors from around the world, Marshall and the NEF assist about 160 children in Nepal’s two largest cities, Kathmandu and Pokhara, and surrounding villages.

Several children sponsored by the NEF lost their homes in the earthquake, and affiliated schools were damaged, but all NEF staff were okay.

Information on how to donate to NEF is available at www. nepaledfund.ca Kosa dreamed of seeing Nepal restored to its former beauty.

“Everything about Nepal is colourful,” she wrote. “The temples. The stupas. The people. Bordered by red cloth, you would see the temples pointed to the sky in the cultural hubs of Patan, Kathmandu and Bhaktapur Durbar squares.

They were places of worship, places where tourists would spend the day milling around and eating on rooftop terraces. They were places where you would see holy men beside young artists sketching the beauty of urban life. I’m using past tense, but these things can be rebuilt and restored.”

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Increasing numbers of bush fires had Cowichan on edge Campfire bans, air quality advisories and flames much closer to civilization than most would prefer dominated headlines during the 2015 summer season.

Wildfires were a real danger to the region’s tinder-dry forests with the first significant threat coming in the final weeks of July at Duncan Meadows golf course.

A brush fire at the course prompted a full scale response from North Cowichan’s South End fire hall with mutual aid from crews from Duncan, Crofton, Maple Bay, and Sahtlam as well.

They wanted to be safe rather than sorry.

Firefighters were well into it on multiple fronts by the time the B.C. Forest Service arrived with more personnel and a helicopter. Highway 18 was closed because smoke was thick and the fire was on both sides.

It was just a sign of things to come.

A fire near Skutz Falls had crews working from the end of July and into August.

That blaze maxed out at about 16 hectares before it was extinguished.

It was one of the two bigger fires in the region.

While the Skutz fire was still burning, but contained, a second fire was discovered along the Copper Canyon Mainline (Hill 60) on Aug. 2.

That one was not an offshoot of the Skutz Falls fire, Fire Information Officer Donna MacPherson stressed, but a second, completely separate human caused fire.

It ran about 7.5 hectares before it was put out.

A third, albeit small, wildfire burned at the top end of Meade Creek in August.

Lightening striking the top of a tree was to blame for that fire.

“It’s in a fairly remote area on a mountain called Mount Holmes,

about three kilometers north of Lake Cowichan,” MacPherson said.

A fourth, but relatively small, fire at Kingburne (Cobble Hill) had nearby residents armed with hoses and sprinklers and making plans to move livestock as it crept close to homes and farms. A cigarette butt from a passerby seems to have been the culprit there.

“I always had in my mind to protect the house with a plan,” resident John James noted. “Sprinklers on poles were set up in quick order with a rotating sprinkler on top of each. Reached all roofs and 30 feet beyond. We were pretty well covered.”

The family watched from a safe distance as three Forest Service helicopters made drops from above using water from the quarry while members of the Cowichan Bay, Maple Bay, Shawnigan Lake volunteer fire departments and a BC Forest Service crew tackled things from the ground, pumping water up from the river in the rural location.

The biggest fire of all was near Lizard Lake, just outside the CVRD, near Port Renfrew, though it’s command base was set up within the CVRD’s borders.

It was significant enough to be listed by the B.C. Wildfire Service as a “wildfire of note.”

The blaze was discovered around midnight Aug. 11 and ultimately closed the Pacific Marine Circle Route and popular area recreation spots as a result.

Raging for weeks because of tough terrain and weather that was less than helpful, the Lizard Lake fire prompted air quality advisories after Cowichan was covered in a fog of ash.

Smoke played an issue in trying to accurately estimate the fire’s actual size but it topped out at close to 400 hectares.

That fire is also believed to be caused by humans.

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Drought had Valley thirsting for rainfall ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Water — specifically a lack of it — was big news through the spring, summer and fall of 2015.

Water watchers began warning Cowichan Valley residents even before the days began to warm from winter’s chill that we were most likely facing a significant drought again over the summer and into fall, and their prognostications proved to be true.

By the end of June the provincial River Forecast Centre had issued low streamflow advisories for the Koksilah, Chemainus and Cowichan Rivers.

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“We have to manage a long dry season with the water that’s behind the weir,” Cowichan Valley Regional District chair Jon Lefebure said. “We’re trying to save it because we have to be ready for the worst case scenario. That’s the kind of planning we have to do.”

Water conservation was going to be crucial to keeping the river running, so the CVRD also launched a new website full of ideas on ways residents could save water.

By the end of August, Catalyst Paper, the operator of the weir, reduced river flows to 4.7 cubic metres per second, well below the 7 cubic metres per second advised.

“We’re to the same flow we were at last

year at this time. As long as we continue to get an annual drought we’ll be in this situation of annual reductions,” warned Brian Houle, Catalyst Crofton’s environment manager.

The rains finally did come in the fall, but the CVRD, and Catalyst, weren’t done with the subject.

Catalyst has put forward a proposal to install pumps to allow them to pump water from behind the weir to aid with water flows during what everyone is expecting will be the years of summer droughts to come.

The CVRD, meanwhile, is looking seriously at the idea of taking steps to, in partnership with other groups, take more control over the Cowichan watershed.

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Whales, seals, bears, dogs and chickens SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

What would a Year in Review be without a look at some of the best animal stories of 2015?

We had our fair share of sad stories, such as the wolf in Mill Bay that conservation officers euthanized in April because it had become habituated to humans, or Coco the miniature yorkie that was attacked while out for a walk with its owners and took off never to be seen again, or Henry, the dog that was shot by a farmer in September and ultimately had to have his front leg and shoulder amputated. Its owners had to risk losing the dog forever in order to get it the help it needed. (That story ended positively, as the dog was patched up and was able to remain at home with its family.)

But we’ve also had some other epic, inspiring and heart-warming animals stories as well.

In late May, Cowichan Lake’s Rod Mizak captured an epic battle between a cougar and a wolf on video.

He and some friends were driving the backroads towards the San Juan area at 3 a.m. when they came across the desperate encounter in the middle of the roadway.

“They knew we were there, no ifs, ands, or buts about it, but they couldn’t care less if we were

This adorable abandoned seal, Queen Mary, was rescued at Cowichan Bay in August. It remains there, recovering. [CITIZEN FILE] there,” he said. “When that cougar pounced, it was just like when you see on National Geographic when they jump up and they hit the hole. Well, this cougar just leapt and hit the wolf with such accuracy, I was stunned.”

Mizak profited from his unique encounter, signing over rights to the video and images to a British media content provider.

During the first week of August, a baby harbour seal abandoned by its mother in Cowichan Bay was rescued by beach-goers and

area residents and was taken to Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre where it remains, recovering.

Dubbed Queen Mary by aquarium staff, the seal was just two thirds of the normal birth weight when it arrived. With the help of aquarium staff, the orphan quickly began to put on weight but hasn’t yet reached the 20 kilograms required to be released back into the wild.

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During the last week of August, a couple of Lake Cowichan boys got the scare of a lifetime and a story for the ages after a hungry black bear wandered into the garage where they were busy skinning a deer.

“A bear actually entered the garage and took the deer that was hanging there right off the hook and beetled off out of the garage,” Lake Cowichan RCMP detachment commander Sgt. Wes Olsen said. “When the bear came into the garage, the boys actually climbed up into the rafters of the garage to get out of the way. The bear absconded with deer and headed off into the bush.”

The boys, ages 13 and 18, weren’t hurt in the incident, but the twice-hunted deer was going to be dinner, one way or another.

In late October, Paldi resident Joan Mayo noticed her usually quiet, rural neighbourhood had suddenly acquired new residents.

Some 35 “live big brown chickens” had been dumped near her house. Hungry and cold, some of the birds didn’t survive the two nights they were believed to be outdoors.

While that in itself is a terrible story, what happened next was heart-warming.

After a quick visit from SPCA animal control officer Colin Owen-Flood, local hobby farmer

Izak Eskelson arrived with his wife and kids to round up the chickens and the eggs they had laid in the bushes. They did their best, making several trips to get the animals to their new home, where the eventual goal was for them to join his own flock, along with his ducks and a few other animals at the farm.

Finally, humpback whales returned to Mill Bay in 2015, giving visitors and residents of the area, particularly those at Mill Bay Marina and Bridgeman’s Bistro, quite a thrill.

“It has become quite a phenomenon for the boating crowd,” said Mill Bay Marina manager Josh McKamey. “I understand whales use to be common in the [Saanich] Inlet many years ago, but nobody I’ve talked to has heard of this much activity in recent years — and nobody I’ve talked to has ever heard of Humpbacks hanging out so close to the marina.”

Mariner Jen MacPherson said one of her favourite encounters was their first experience of the year with the giant mammals, on Sept. 4, with a particularly friendly whale.

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Proposed Sunfest move made headlines in 2015 LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

The biggest news to wallop west Cowichan came when it was mooted midsummer that Sunfest would move to Meade Creek.

While fans of the country music festival were more interested that Carrie Underwood was coming to the Valley in 2016 — after all, when any singer is given the iconic role of Maria in a blockbuster TV remake of The Sound of Music, that singer is a mega-star — residents of the Cowichan Lake area were way more concerned about the impact on them of the massive move.

They were in an instant tizzy, hopping up and down like fleas on a hot brick, taking both sides of the idea and flooding social media with a Niagara of opinions.

The Sunfest folks announced their plans with the posting of a rezoning application sign at the old sand drags site at Meade Creek on the Youbou Highway.

They announced its name — Lake Town Ranch — and then began a careful campaign to boost their plans for a permanent, privately-owned home for not just Sunfest but a few other festival-type events on a big property that would also house a new campsite.

Their obvious two-fold aim: to try to gather their supporters behind them while hopefully derailing the doubters by presenting them with study after study.

Led by owner Greg Adams and consultant Jennifer Kay, they waved reams of paper work to show they’d looked into it all: economic benefit, noise, traffic, environmental, social and even charitable concerns, on-site parking, fire protection — the lot.

To many, including the town council of nearby Lake Cowichan, they were convincing.

These folks, tired of seeing facilities, schools, and business closing in the area, looked optimistically towards what they thought was a door to a hopeful future for a part of the Valley that had been smacked down far too often.

Others, however, are, ready to do battle.

Led by such Lake Cowichan movers and shakers as former mayor Jack Peake, this group’s members argued strongly that the Lake’s prime asset: its natural beauty and peaceful country lifestyle would be excoriated by the arrival of a major music festival bringing more than 10,000 people a day for its duration.

Some suggested that the thinly populated

Greg Adams addressed a crowd of interested citizens at an open house. [CITIZEN FILE] district would soon be punch drunk from being hit by traffic problems — particularly at the already dangerous Y-intersection at the entrance to Lake Cowichan, inescapable noise, garbage, and the physical and social impact on the infrastructure and facilities of an unprepared municipality that had no say about anything regarding the festival or its relocation.

Others, fearful that the forest-ringed area would suffer another dangerously dry summer, were concerned about the increased fire hazard, not only from having so many people so near the dry trees but by the possibility of fires starting from cigarettes tossed out windows by folks in a party mood.

Still more were worried that there were simply not enough restaurants, motels, food stores, gas stations and other amenities for such a big crowd.

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to make a tough decision on how to vote when the Cowichan Valley Regional District ponders whether or not to give Lake Town Ranch the green light at a mid-January meeting.

The Lake Town Ranch group opened its official campaign at the Meade Creek site on Aug. 20, with what was billed as an open house. Even though it was not advertised as a meeting, hundreds of people came, their cars soon filling every available place on the gravelly ground and then lining the Youbou Highway and Meade Creek Road.

The visitors crowded up to the tents to pick up the information on offer and talk to the consultants assembled.

But, in what could have been a major turning point in a debate that was barely underway, Adams gauged the mood of the people present and began to answer ques-

tions himself.

Almost immediately a crowd formed around him, eager to hear from him directly and Adams stayed there for quite some time, telling them that he loved their area so much that had bought a home there himself, giving more details about what was planned for the Lake Town Ranch site.

But that was only a beginning.

Despite being a CVRD issue, Lake Cowichan’s town council was soon forced into fielding questions at its meetings, simply because it is the hub for the Cowichan Lake area. Town residents like Rosemary Danaher gave tongue to dire warnings about the effects on the Cowichan River of many, many more visitors trying to escape the heat of the notoriously dry August long weekend when Sunfest is held every year.

However, led by Mayor Ross Forrest and Town CVRD board rep Bob Day, council held firm in seeing the festival’s relocation to their doorstep as a once-in-a-lifetime chance for economic renewal. Business owners, such as Jenn Pollner of Lake Cowichan’s Country Grocer stepped up to voice agreement and urge everyone to look for ways to tap into what they saw as a bonanza coming down the road.

By Dec. 5, when the final regional district public hearing on the subject was held in Youbou, everyone was there.

The historic Community Hall, which has seen many a contentious meeting down the years, welcomed a host of heavyweights. The crowd included many regional directors, Cowichan Valley MLA Bill Routley, folks from the Cowichan Exhibition — Sunfest’s current home, which is deemed too small for the growing event — representatives from the Island Savings Centre, firefighters from several departments along with folks from Coulson’s Flying Tankers in nearby Port Alberni, young musicians, business owners from all across the Valley and, of course, plenty of music lovers and nearby homeowners.

Lake Town Ranch’s Kay again made a presentation, backed by more comments from Adams. CVRD officials were there to offer additional information. Then, for the last time, the public got up to speak.

So, the year is ending and the question on everyone’s lips at the Lake is: will the hills be alive with the sound of music this summer?

PROPOSED INTER‐COMMUNITY BUSINESS LICENCE AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3081.01, 2015 The Council of the City of Duncan hereby gives notice, in accordance with Section 59 of the Community Charter, of an opportunity for citizens and businesses to make representation to Council with respect to the proposed "INTER‐COMMUNITY BUSINESS LICENCE AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3081.01, 2015."

The purpose of this amendment is to add “marijuana related business” to the list of excluded businesses in Schedule A to the Inter‐Community Business Licence Bylaw.

The proposed bylaw is scheduled to proceed to Council for their consideration at a Special Council meeting to be held at City Hall, 200 Craig Street, Duncan, on Monday, January 4, 2016 at 5:30 p.m.

Delegations requesting permission to speak to "INTER‐COMMUNITY BUSINESS LICENCE BYLAW AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3081.01, 2015" at the January 4, 2016 Special Council Meeting are required to submit a written request to the Corporate Services Department by Monday, January 4, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. Applications to appear as a Delegation can be found at http://www.duncan.ca/duncan_city_hall/meetings.htm The proposed bylaw, in its entirety, and supporting materials, may be viewed through the City’s website at: http://www.city.duncan.bc.ca/pdf/2015‐12‐21%20Agenda.pdf For more information about the proposed "INTER‐COMMUNITY BUSINESS LICENCE AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3081.01, 2015," or to receive a copy of the bylaw, please contact: Karen Robertson, Director of Corporate Services karen@duncan.ca.

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Year in Review

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RCMP kept busy in Cowichan through 2015 SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Cowichan’s population exceeds 80,000 people and with many more coming and going at any given time, it comes as no surprise that RCMP in the region were kept busy in 2015.

Officers at the region’s four major detachments dealt with everything from petty crime to fatal automobile accidents and even murders — so many in fact, that’s it’d be impossible to write a concise recap of only the cases they presented to the media.

What follows is a not-at-all complete review of some of the more curious, interesting, and frightening cases of 2015: • In early February, a man robbed the Mill Bay Pharmasave.

The suspect waited outside the store until customers had left, then walked to the pharmacy and demanded that the staff hand over prescription drugs.

He then went behind the counter and stole an undisclosed amount of medications.

• Garbage bags packed with marijuana and thousands of dollars in cash were seized from an Alberta man after he was stopped for speeding on Chemainus Road, mid February.

• Also mid month, the 7-Eleven at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Trunk Road was evacuated on Sunday evening after someone called the store with a bomb threat.

The threat turned out to be a hoax, but police treat all such instances seriously, according to Sgt. Chris Swain of the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment.

“It’s better safe than sorry. We have to make sure it’s not a valid complaint.”

• In early March a beloved bear carving was stolen from the Secret Garden courtyard behind the Hansel and Gretel Candy Shoppe in Chemainus. At around 200 pounds, it wouldn’t have been easy to move.

• Thieves struck again shortly thereafter, taking a statue of a mother and child — belonging to a Duncan resident who was holding a garage sale.

“A garage sale usually means things are for sale, not for stealing,” North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Krista Hobday said.

• In April, a man was apprehended after it was reported that he was wandering around the area south of Duncan with a gun.

A friend of the man called police saying that he had been seen with a gun, and police began a search for him.

By the time he was located, he had ditched the weapon, but it was later recovered as well.

• Also that month, more than 16 officers from the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment converged on Drinkwater Elementary after a threat was called in. Students were dismissed, the playground was cleared and

Murder of Delores Brown shocked community SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Perhaps the biggest police story of 2015 was the disappearance and later recovery of murdered Penelakut Island teen Delores Brown.

The 19-year-old was reported missing on July 29. Brown was last seen on Penelakut Island two days before and had been leaving the Island to go to visit her grandmother, who lives in Chemainus. Her family was immediately worried when she never arrived at her destination.

“Her uncharacteristic disappearance and details of the investigation have led investigators to believe the disappearance of Delores Brown is as a result of foul play,” Island District RCMP spokesman Cpl. Darren Lagan said.

Her family’s worst fears were realized when a group of kay-

Delores Brown was first reported missing, then, in a tragic turn, her body was recovered. Police suspect foul play. [FILE] akers found Brown’s remains in the waters off Norway Island on Aug. 19.

No arrests have been made but police are still working on the case.

Two people were seriously injured when this plane crashed in July at the Duncan Airport. The plane also sustained significant damage. [CITIZEN FILE] ultimately police found there was no truth to the threat, but would not call it a hoax.

• In May, a variety of drugs and an unspecified weapon were seized by police in a raid on a Cowichan Bay home. “When our officers entered the home, they found it unoccupied, but a large quantity of marijuana, methamphetamine, other drug trafficking materials, and a weapon were seized,” North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Chris Swain said.

• In June, two Duncan men spent a night in jail and faced further charges after an incident that began with a report of shots being fired at a Cowichan Lake Road residence. With the help of a service dog, and with “minimal threat” to the officers and

the public, the two men, aged 22 and 23, were taken into custody.

One of the suspects cooperated with the police and showed them where the gun was in the vehicle.

•At the end of June, a 25-yearold Crofton man was stabbed at the Tim Hortons parking lot on Drinkwater Road.

“Two men, one of which is the victim, became involved in fisticuffs after a road rage incident just before three in the afternoon,” North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP Cpl. Krista Hobday said.

“The victim sustained very serious injuries and has since been released from hospital.”

• In July, two people were seriously injured after a small single-engine plane crashed at the Duncan Airport. Turbulence may have been to blame. The plane

sustained significant damage, and the occupants, a 55-year-old male pilot and 43-year-old female passenger, were badly hurt. The pilot was airlifted to Victoria General Hospital, while the passenger was taken by ground ambulance to Cowichan District Hospital.

• Also in July, Campers at the Pine Point Campground on the north shore of the lake near Youbou watched as a motorboat purposely swerved into a flock of geese floating about 400 feet off the shoreline. The boat struck and killed one of the geese.

Among the witnesses were several children.

“The witnesses report that this was a deliberate action on the part of the boat operator,” said Const. Bruce Coles of the Lake

Cowichan RCMP. • At the end of July, a Duncan taxi driver came to the rescue of a 19-year-old man when he scared off three other men who were beating him with a baseball bat.

The taxi driver then gave the victim a ride home.

• In August, a stray bullet through the window of his excavator had a Cobble Hill man wondering just who pulled the trigger. The 57-year-old was working on a property on Cavin Road when the back window of his small excavator shattered sending glass down on top of him, police confirmed.

• In September, eight agricultural prize medals were stolen from the Cowichan Valley Museum and Archives.

• A Duncan woman was left shaken but physically unharmed after an attempted abduction near the intersection of Trunk and Marchmont Roads in September.

• In mid-September, a minor hockey team was left without its cell phones, ball caps and one youth even had to go home shoeless, after what police called “a brazen theft” from the Cowichan Arena.

• Also in September, the owners at Al’s Asian Treasures in Chemainus were the target of thieves, for the second time in a year. Nine locally made cement statues were stolen after thieves cut a chain and lock to gain access. Seven months prior, 50 statues has been stolen.

• At the end of September, a Duncan woman was approached in her driveway by a man sporting what looked to be a police uniform. He wasn’t an officer.

“He drove into her driveway and began to make inquiries as if he was conducting an investigation,” according to North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Krista Hobday. “This is very disturbing, to hear that a person is out there pretending to be a police officer.”

• A porn scam in October left a Duncan man surprised to learn his personal computer was apparently being used to distribute child pornography all over the Internet. Except that it wasn’t. It was a scam aimed at getting the man’s personal information but he didn’t bite.

• One fewer magic mushroom labs exists in North Cowichan thanks to a Nov. 6 raid.

N o r t h C ow i c h a n / D u n c a n RCMP’s street crimes unit got help from E Division’s specialized Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response Team to execute a warrant on a psilocybin grow op. Seized were both drug paraphernalia and a number of containers used to cultivate what is suspected to be psilocybin mushrooms.

• Also in early November, a 29-year-old Chemainus man was beaten in what police are calling a targeted attack outside his Westholme-area home. The man remains in hospital with serious injuries.

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In the 2015 news: LNG projects to vandalized trees ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

The Cowichan Valley Regional District was faced with a big mess to clean up after consultant Jerry Berry reported to the board in February that the Economic Development function at the district was in total disarray.

The function, which had a budget of over $800,000 in 2014, had a host of serious issues, he reported, describing a labyrinthine system of commissions, district operations and societies that failed to function in concert with each other or with the board’s strategic direction.

Many of the volunteer members of the Economic Development Commission were on the cusp of resigning en masse, Berry reported.

The fix for these issues remains in progress.

••• In January the Cowichan Valley was named as a Top 20 Place to Visit in Canada by vacay.ca’s travel experts, something local tourism operators said is significant to continue to build the region’s profile.

“It is exciting and gratifying that the entire region is being recognized as a destination. Most of the others on the list are well known, established cities with huge marketing budgets. Cowichan Valley is the only Vancouver Island destination to make the list,” said Cathy Mailhot, marketing coordinator for Tourism Cowichan.

••• In early July Cowichan Valley residents woke up to the eerie site of an orange sun, its glow subdued by a sky filled with smoke.

The entire east and south coasts of Vancouver Island were put under a Wildfire Smoke Advisory, as ash particles from distant and not-so-distant fires sifted down like snow at times, blown in by the wind.

The adverse conditions continued for several days.

••• In August the Malahat First Nation announced they had made a deal with Vancouver-based Steelhead LNG to develop a liquefied natural gas facility at the former Bamberton site south of Mill Bay. The proposed facility would have an expected capacity of up to six-million tonnes per year, and would include floating liquefaction facilities moored to the shoreline and minor supporting landbased infrastructure. Between construction, operation and decommissioning, it could provide up to 30 years of revenue generation for local, provincial and fed-

The White Spot restaurant in Duncan burned down in September. Owners have promised to rebuild as soon as possible. [CITIZEN FILE]

John William Barton, of Saanich, did not survive.

••• A vandal sparked community outrage in October when he chopped down eight newly-planted trees at École Mt. Prevost Elementary.

Students arrived to see nothing but trunks where the trees, planted in the summer as part of a new playground project, used to stand. The trees had been dedicated in memory of various residents, and the plaques remained a forlorn legacy of what once was.

It didn’t take long for the community to step up to replace the trees.

••• In September a man arrived on Mt. Tzouhalem carrying a seriously space-age looking soccer ball.

The soccer ball was actually a camera owned

by Google, which was using it in partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada to film the trek up a popular hiking trail to a view overlooking Cowichan Bay. The trail, which traverses the NCC’s Chase Woods Nature Preserve as well as the province’s Mount Tzouhalem Ecological Reserve and Providence Farm, is one of six sites across Canada that the NCC has selected to capture with the Google Trekker camera.

The resulting footage will be stitched together by Google and added to the Google Maps and Street View system so anyone with computer access can see what it is like to hike to the summit through Mount Tzouhalem’s coastal Douglas fir forests.

“It’s like Street View, but it takes you to places you can’t access with a car,” NCC west coast stewardship coordinator Katy Fulton said.

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An elderly man drove off the end of the Mill Bay Ferry dock in a fatal crash. [CITIZEN FILE] eral governments, as well as up to 200 long-term positions, as well as training and employment opportunities for members of the Malahat First Nation and other Island residents.

Further announcements detailed plans for pipelines to feed the facility.

Opposition to the proposals has already begun, and Steelhead LNG was in the midst of community consultations as the year ended.

••• In late August the Cowichan Valley Regional Hospital District announced that it has picked a site for a new hospital for the region.

The preferred spot is three properties on Bell McKinnon Road.

A new hospital for the Cowichan Val-

ley will still require provincial government approval; no approvals or funding are in place at this time. But the CVRHD has been saving for years.

••• The face of Duncan was changed forever in September when the White Spot restaurant was destroyed by fire.

Even as longtime employees mourned the loss the community rallied to offer temporary jobs to the suddenly unemployed, and White Spot owners promised they would be back up and running as soon as possible.

••• On Sept. 18 the Mill Bay Ferry missed several runs after an 89-year-old man crashed his van off the end of the ferry dock.

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The Annual Mammoth Crossword Puzzle Continued 190 Price dropped of this black gold (3) 191 Legendary female jazz singer born 100 yrs ago (6,7) 192 Men’s formal wear (3) 193 Japanese money (3) 194 Holy leader visited U.S. & Cuba (4,7) 195 Mamma __ closed on Broadway (3) 196 Psychic power (3) 198 Highway (4) 200 Quick haircut (4) 201 __ Levine did his 9th season of The Voice (4) 202 Make music via voice (4) 203 Father (3) 204 Number of times a weight is lifted (3) 205 Apprentice star running for prez (6,5) 209 Quentin __ released 8th film (9) 211 Empty promises (4) 213 Former graduate (4) 214 Jets or Sharks, for example (4) 215 One __: the year’s biggest selling group (9) 218 Oscar’s best picture (7) 220 Country legalized same sex marriage in ntl vote (7) 223 Particulars (7) 225 Got on a train (7) 226 Tavern (3) 227 Banned on cross-country flights 25 yrs ago (7) 229 A group of 4 musicians (7) 232 Grammy’s best new artist __ Smith (3) 234 Excessively sentimental (5) 236 Siesta (5) 237 Atlantic fish (3) 242 Short snooze (3) 244 A navigation system (3) 245 Little lie (3) 246 Embargo (3) 258 Second person pronoun (3) 259 Allows (4) 260 __ Stefani split from her husband (4) 262 Slipped (4) 263 Peas grow in this (3) 268 Anger (4) 269 Skinny (4) 270 Pledge (4) 272 Snare (4) 277 Girl (3) 278 Unpleasant person (British term) (3) 279 Low, steady continuous sounds (4) 280 Murder (4) 281 Capacity (4) 283 Excursion (4) 285 Business support systems; abbr. (3) 286 Nothing (3) 288 Morning moisture (3) 289 Roswell sighting (3) 291 Carnival attractions (5) 292 Ribonucleic acid; abbr. (3) 293 Napkins tied around the neck (4) 294 A combustible dark ‘rock’ (4) 295 __ Galloway finished 3rd in Dancing with the Stars (4) 297 Confess (4) 299 Do film work (3)

300 Entrances to rooms (5) 387 Conjunction (3) 301 Egyptian cobra (3) 389 Indefinite article (2) 302 By way of (3) 390 Stock symbol for a big audit firm (2) 304 Industrious insect (3) 392 Footnote note (4) 305 Highs and __ (4) 394 Dream on (2,2) 306 Multitude (4) 396 Turncoat (7) 308 Get ready (4) 398 Immediately (3) 310 Daytime TV offering (4) 402 Reunite with a group (6) 312 Don Johnson’s new character (3) 404 Brazilian dance (5) 314 Shower alternative (4) 406 Prefix meaning one (3) 315 Feudal estate (4) 408 As much as needed (6) 316 Blood-carrying body part (4) 412 CNN misidentified __ Reagan (5) 318 One who completes school (4) 413 This stretchy fabric turned 57 (5) 320 Dang (4) 414 Abominable snowman (4) 322 This Love Bug actor passed (4,5) 415 Question answered with ‘because’ (3) 323 Shipwreck discovered 30 yrs ago (7) 418 Belonging to me (2) 324 When water heats up (5) 420 Moves briskly (5) 325 Diminutive (3) 421 A bowler hat (5) 326 To joke around (4) 425 To and __ (3) 327 Digestive juice (4) 427 Competent (4) 328 She and Tiger Woods split (4) 428 Middling; nothing special (2-2) 329 TV show about high-school singers ended 429 Now obsolete video format (3) (4) 430 High-pitched woodwind instrument; abbr.

331 Spoken (4) (2) 333 This NASA probe reached dwarf planet 432 Dynamite (3) Ceres (4) 434 __ and flow (3) 335 Halloween month; abbr. (3) 436 To exist (2) 336 Pester (5) 437 Calif. city with worst heat wave in a century 337 A salty, doughy treat (7) (2) 338 Weapon first used on large scale, 100 yrs 438 Opposite of stop (2) ago (6,3) 439 Thanks, in baby talk (2) 340 Arid (3) 440 Silence! (2) 341 __ and paper mill (4) 441 New hit: Love __ Like You Do (2) 342 Windmill blade (4) 442 A common abbreviation for Germany (2) 343 Peter Gabriel’s fifth album (2) 444 Measurement side to side (5) 344 Abbreviation of saint or street (2) 446 Kings of __ worked on seventh album (4) 346 Untidy person (4) 448 Vienna’s home (7) 348 Van Gogh’s mistress (4) 449 Rug (6) 350 Body part Van Gogh sliced off (3) 450 A video camera that streams into a 352 Purple flowering shrub (5) computer (6) 353 Despise (4) 451 Clothing (6) 354 A round, flattish cap (5) 452 35th anniversary of this Beatles’ death (6) 355 Knight’s title (3) 453 A reflective surface (6) 357 Makes a mistake (4) 455 Sticky (5) 359 Approaches (5) 456 Enemies of the Inca (6) 362 Table part (3) 457 Earl Anthony was one (6) 363 Body of water (4) 458 A First Nations gathering (6) 364 Where you find Cape Town; abbr. (2) 459 Italian-style ice cream (6) 366 Uncouth person (4) 460 Greek spirit of forgetfulness (5) 368 Fashion icon Christian __ born 110 yrs ago 462 Italian sandwich (6) (4) 463 Dreadful (6) 370 Expire (3) 464 __ & Gretel (6) 372 Lunch meat (3) 465 Asian mountain sheep (6) 373 Malay dress: baju __ (6) 466 Trims or embellishes decor (6) 374 A martial art: __ chi (3) 471 Take to court (3) 375 Conformity to established standards of 474 U2’s The __ fell off a stage (4) behavior (9) 475 __ Ruth hit his first career home run 100 yrs 376 Common ship prefix (2) ago (4) 377 Prolongs (9) 479 Praiseful poem (3) 378 A medicine (4) 482 __ Pacino celebrated 75th birthday (2) 380 Newsroom boss (6) 484 State with extensive auto racing history; 382 Psychedelic drug (3) postal abbr. (2) 384 U.K. broadcaster that fired Top Gear host (3) 486 Rockers __/DC did another world tour (2) 385 Receiving (7) Puzzle copyright: Monica Zurowski 386 __ and behold (2)

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‘He’s watching from a Wimbleton sky box’ This year, the Citizen lost one of our own, when David Rubenstein died in June. We think of him this holiday season. We miss you Dave!

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hen David Rubenstein, known affectionately by his friends, colleagues and clients as Dave, or Ruby, started at the Cowichan Valley Citizen some 29 years ago, he had no idea he would become such an intrinsic part of the community paper.

Coming to the job from a background of radio announcing (he had that deep radio voice), he soon found his groove.

Over the years Dave made the office a more colourful place with everything from his love of the Red Sox, to his passion for tennis, horse racing, and football (soccer).

And when we say passion, we mean it. Dave has sat down with some of tennis’s hottest stars, and photographed even more at the various international tournaments he attended.

His photos of the sport he so dearly loved have gained international recognition in recent years.

But he always had time for those close to home as well.

He has been invaluable to the employees as a longtime union representative for the paper, as well as just being someone you could always talk to when you needed an ear. In the spring and summer he’d bring in roses from his garden in Crofton to brighten the

For his decades of service with Cowichan Valley soccer, Bill Keserich was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 Duncan Cowichan Chamber of Commerce Black Tie Awards.

With the 2015 federal election in October, Cowichan Valley (now former) Member of Parliament Jean Crowder officially retired.

Crowder served the Cowichan Valley in Ottawa for 11 years.

Scientist Dr. Frances Kelsey was finally honoured by the federal government for her achievement in blocking the approval of thalidomide in the U.S., being named to the Order of Canada just before her death this year.

The community was saddened when Cowichan Valley Basket Society icon Betty Anne Devitt died at the age of 83. One of the food bank’s original founders, Devitt acted as the face of the organization for more than 20 years.

David Rubenstein office. Ruby ran for Duncan City council on several occasions and was always up on the latest in the community.

In May, serious health issues meant the end of Dave’s tenure at the paper, but he’s left an indelible mark on our hearts.

David died on Monday, June 22, peacefully at Cowichan District Hospital, with his wife, Bonnie, and stepson, Bobby, at his side.

We’ll always be able to picture him walking into the office in his brown leather jacket and colourful scarf, celebrating the Red Sox or the Bruins, ready with a smile.

We are grateful for all the years we got to know and work with Dave, and we will miss him, but always carry on his passion for life.

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n Ottawa, on Nov. 12, the year became even more special for Chemainus Secondary School teacher Janet Ruest.

Her dynamic approach to helping geography students expand how they learn earned her The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s 2015 Innovation in Geography Teaching Award, Canada’s highest geography K-12 teaching award. “We are delighted that Janet’s community nominated her for this prestigious award,” says Connie Wyatt Anderson, chair of Canadian Geographic Education. “Janet teaches geography in a way that harnesses teen energy and curiosity to better appreciate the world we share. She deserves the recognition this award can bring.”

It was more than apparent to evaluators that Ruest’s teaching methods are achieving classroom results.

Today her students are working, for example, as urban planners, geographic information systems (GIS) consultants, hydrographers, and engineers.

For Jane Kaiser, now working as a GIS consultant, Ruest’s teaching style had a big impact, according to a RCGS release.

“Janet was one of those few teachers that you remember for the rest of your life. I feel she has always made an effort to go the extra mile by innovating and finding new ways for her students to connect with the geographic field of study.”

The Innovation in Geography Teaching Award is comprised of a medal and $2,500 prize, split evenly between the award winner and a donation in their name to support geographic education in Canada.

It recognizes an outstanding contribution to geographic education in Canada and was presented by Nellie Taptaqut Kusugak, Commissioner of Nunavut, at a medal ceremony in Ottawa on Nov. 18.

Ruest joined such other honorees as celebrated authors Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson who will both be receiving the Society’s Gold Medal.

This is the third teaching award that Janet Ruest has won in 2015.

Earlier this year, in addition to her Grosvenor fellowship, Ruest won a Government of Canada History Award for her lesson plan on Historical Dilemma: Who was the greatest Canadian Prime Minister?

Valley teacher Janet Ruest posts a letter from the Galapagos Islands on her National Geographic expedition as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow. [FILE]

Galapagos: the trip of a lifetime LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Valley teacher Janet Ruest scored the experience of a lifetime and a prestigious award in 2015.

She was chosen in the spring from among 2,700 North American educators to join a National Geographic expedition to the famed Galapagos Islands in September as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow on the Lindblad Expeditions ship, National Geographic Endeavour.

For Ruest, an enthusiastic lifelong learner, and now a teacher at Chemainus Secondary School, it was a dream come true.

She always loved Geography as a subject and chose it to accompany the physical education she already knew she wanted to teach.

Her high school social studies teacher made a huge difference in her life.

“She would come back after traveling and tell us stories, really personalize the experience.

It made me want to go out and see the world. My goal in high school was to go to every single continent. I have one left now: Antarctica.”

Her school experience also gave her an enquiring mind and her goal in education has always been: “How can we as educators support that? How can we make our students citizens of the 21st century, of the world, not just citizens of Chemainus, or B.C. or even Canada?”

But thinking about how we’re all interconnected brought her right back to the Galapagos, where Victorian scientist Charles Darwin made his amazing discoveries.

“That’s why it’s almost such a perfect place for me. It is kind of full circle, bringing that back not just to my students but trying to

get that message of interdependence out to teachers, other schools. And that’s part of my job as Grosvenor Teacher Fellow for the next year or so, to do outreach for different community groups, to go to schools and spread the word about geographic literacy. That’s the whole concept of the teacher fellowships with National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions,” she said.

The teaching fellow program, now nine years old, has grown from when it started as a thank you from Lindblad ownership to honour National Geographic’s Gil Grosvenor for years of educating the world about geography.

Ruest had sent in four essays as part of her application for a fellowship but then, as the weeks ticked by, she’d given up hope of joining an expedition.

“It was amazing when I got the phone call. It was 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Feb. 7, I had just returned from a run. She said, ‘This is Mary from National Geographic. Would this be a good time to talk?’ When I heard I was going to the Galapagos, my reaction was, Wow, they picked me!”

Lindblad runs its trips along the lines of the famous old Jacques Cousteau expeditions, offering excursions on Aodiacs to remote spots, diving, snorkeling, chances to learn from expert naturalists and watch National Geographic photographers and videographers at work.

The people in Ruest’s 2015 group of fellows have been sailing right until December when the last of them, the ones going to Antarctica, took to the waves.

Before that, groups visited the arctic, Greenland and the Galapagos Islands.

Ruest’s own trip to the Galapagos Islands was from Sept. 11-20.

She said she loved the idea of being able to learn so much in one trip.

“I’m always taking courses or workshops, trying to change things I do in my classroom to make it more interesting for my students. We’ll have six to eight experts on flora and fauna on our ship, taking us out every day.

The intrinsic value is amazing.”

Finally, Ruest was thrilled that her success shows someone can get there, even from a school as small as Chemainus Secondary.

“If you put yourself out there and apply for something as prestigious as the Grosvenor fellowship and make it, it’s inspirational,” she said.

••• By the time the intrepid adventurer headed out for her adventure in September, excitement was rushing through her veins.

She saw and experienced more than she had dreamed of on her visit to that special part of the globe.

They were welcomed aboard Endeavour by the Galapagos handshake — g rabbing the wrists of two crew members to get out of the Zodiac — met their expedition leader and had their first briefing.

The next day they arrived at Espanola Island where they got their first taste of snorkeling, Galapagos style.

“Fabulous colours of fish, sea lions who played around our group and then I spotted a rock that seemed to ‘grow wings’ as I swam overhead. A massive ray revealed himself to our delight,” she reported on her blog of the trip.

Her early tour experiences with the wildlife had already shown Ruest she’s not in Chemainus anymore. “‘Wild’ animals who stay near humans have usually become

habituated and have lost their fear...the opposite process has taken place in the Galapagos.

The birds and animals have never had a fear of humans and therefore do not flee. On our walk this afternoon, marine iguanas continued to sun themselves without the slightest worry as we walked within a few feet...Waved albatrosses flew overhead and appeared to be purposely providing fabulous photo opportunities.”

Back aboard ship at sunset, she enjoyed the evening discussion with one of the experts and saw some of the photos taken that day by naturalist Juan Carlos.

Ruest said a highlight of her day was seeing some of Darwin’s famous finches coming right up and “pecking at my runners.”

By Monday, Sept. 14, the expedition had reached Floreana Island.

They circled the Champion Islet preserve by Zodiac, observing how the distinctive flows of lava created provide nesting sites for many birds in a landscape that included many prickly pears. Snorkeling or viewing through a glass-bottom boat showed them a great variety of fish as well.

After lunch, they visited the Pacific’s oldest postal system, Post Office Bay: a barrel set up for postal delivery by British whalers, which involved no postage.

“Whalers would take the post cards from their local area and hand deliver them to the intended recipients. Imagine how the recipients must have felt receiving a post card from the Galapagos years after it had been written,” she said.

Ruest sent a postcard to Chemainus Secondary and continued with an adventure many would envy.

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Gaps in systems for special needs big news LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

It all started when Jenelle Pavlin came to the ‘Citizen’ about her frustration over lack of school support for her daughter with special needs. [CITIZEN FILE]

When discussing education in the Cowichan Valley it is never long before the problems surrounding the area’s special needs children become part of the conversation.

Early in the year, a mother approached the Citizen to talk about her situation.

Jenelle Pavlin’s daughter was slipping through the cracks in her Cowichan Valley public school and sliding towards an uncertain future — just one of the special needs students the public school system was failing.

“I’m frustrated,” Pavlin said later before she finally made a decision to pull her daughter from the mainstream system in favour of home schooling. “I’m at the point where no one is listening. I want to educate the public about how hard it is to get help.”

“I’ve waited three years, gone to multiple meetings with the school and with doctors and psychiatrists and all these agencies.

“It’s all about trying to get help for my child at school: a support system put into place, an IEP [individual education plan], and

some assistance. It’s about trying to get a chronic health designation, and the wait list and how things keep happening to set you back another year,” she said.

Pavlin wasn’t alone in recognizing a problem.

It’s the kind of story that’s all too familiar to Susan Stacey, occupational therapist (OT) for School District No. 79.

She’s served in her position for more than 22 years, and urged the school board in the spring to take action quickly to help Valley children like Pavlin’s daughter who can’t get help.

School-age therapy has been around for a very long time, with the Cowichan district a progressive voice in the province, she said.

But, as with many other areas of public education, her own workload has increased steeply in the last two decades from 32 students in 1994 to 355 in 2015.

Stacey was concerned that in the Cowichan Valley’s public schools, students with OT-related needs wait far too long for OT support.

“I tried calculating that and it’s mind-boggling when you start going through the num-

bers. Some students have waited 10 years for service,” she told trustees.

Teachers, too, admitted seeing problems in their classrooms.

Class size and composition is huge when talking about special needs children, and those “grey area” students not yet designated as needing specific help can skew the numbers, Cowichan District Teachers Association president Naomi Nilsson reported to the school board at a spring time meeting.

“One of my colleagues that I taught with is now teaching Grade 7. He has seven designated kids in his class and there are three more on a wait list. And, because they are Grade 7, he is hoping they will get designated by the end of the year,” she said.

“Grade 8 will see them leaving elementary school. When you suspect that a child will get a designation down the road, you put them on a wait list. I was talking to another teacher who has actually placed a student on a wait list in Grade 2 and, in Grade 6, that student had still not been designated,” she said.

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Not enough for young special needs adults, say advocates GAPS IN, From Page 24 But young children with special needs were not the only ones in the news in 2015.

In July, Valley mom, Sandra Anderson brought he story to the Citizen.

She was desperately worried because her son, Kody, caught in a no man’s land between high school and adulthood, had seen his lifestyle change from busy to barren just because he’d turned 19.

Kody has Down syndrome and is developmentally aged eight to 10, meaning “he could never be left on his own; he has lots of needs,” she shared.

But the active young man still has a great zest for life, according to his mom.

She described a typical day in the school year he’d just finished.

“He’d get up and take the bus to Cow High where he’d be in school all day. They’d swim, do very active recycling, wood work, P.E., things like that. Then, after school, he’d get on the bus and go over to the Clements Centre for their after-school program.

He’d do that until 5:30 p.m. in the evening four days a week. Some days he would go from there and he would either go to bowling or other sports with Special Olympics. He was very, very busy, very much in the community,” she said.

SandiLea Gibson is now working to try to get a society going.

A rally to raise awareness about the problem of a lack of opportunities for special needs people drew a big crowd in August. [CITIZEN FILE]

Programs available through places like the Clements Centre and Providence Farm that offer a variety of activities from working in a kitchen to gardening, and fun like bowling and yoga are either not always appropriate for special needs adults or are already full, Anderson said.

Others in the Valley heard Anderson’s call for help and a push began to secure funding for a support program for young special needs adults in the Cowichan Valley.

A big rally was held in downtown Duncan in August to raise awareness about the problems

facing young adults with special needs. It attracted many supporters, including school trustees and Cowichan Valley MLA Bill Routley.

Following that, SandiLea Gibson and Adam Clutchey said they were excited about building on the success of the rally.

“We were trying to think of something to gather the troops together and it was great,” Clutchey said.

From the size of the turnout, the issue is striking a chord with Valley residents.

“It’s huge. It has been for years,” Gibson said. “Recently, we final-

ly realized there’s no way we can allow this to slip onto the back burner,” she continued.

They and others have formed a group called the Next Step Outreach Day Program Society.

Clutchey, a special needs teaching assistant, and Gibson, who runs the cafeteria at Cowichan Secondary School, are sharing the job of president of the society.

The aim is simple: start running programs for special needs young adults in the Cowichan Valley between the ages of 19-30.

As the year ended, they were still working on getting the project going.

Gibson, who has worked with special needs youth in her cafeteria before, knows there are many ways to provide some useful activity for young people like Kody.

Clutchey is modest about his contribution, saying he just spread the word through Facebook but Gibson is blunt.

“He has been absolutely crucial.

Of course, we are a team, but Adam got our butts on fire.”

Thinking up ideas for programs was pretty simple. But, getting the money together is tough and the group is hoping Routley will add his muscle to the effort.

Routley knows about the problems of caregivers first hand because he has a grandchild with autism. He came out and spoke passionately at the rally in Duncan, offering his support.

“He won’t stop until he gets somewhere with this,” Clutchey said.

However, the provincial budget is tight and many programs simply don’t get funding anymore.

Gibson said she is worried about these “sudden” adults.

“For so many of them, life stops,” Gibson said.

“I can tell you how many kids who worked at Cow High with me in the caf are just walking the streets now. It’s terrifying really that there’s no place for them to go because they are not needy enough.”

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It was a great year in the Cowichan Valley for fans of live theatre as local groups of all kinds took to the stage in record numbers.

Here, clockwise from top left, we celebrate the South Island Musical Society’s production of ‘The Pirates of Penzance’, the Mercury Players’ ‘Nunsense’, Brentwood College’s ‘The Boy Friend’ and the Shawnigan Players’‘As You Like It’. See page 30 for pictures of our stellar thespians.

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The play’s the thing Photos by Lexi Bainas Everyone took to the boards, including the lively Chemainus Seniors group, seen left Doing the Lambeth Walk in their hugely popular annual show.

The Cowichan Valley is well known for its live and lively theatre scene. And, in 2015, there was more than ever. Here, we spotlight, clockwise from left, Shawnigan Lake School’s production of ‘Shrek’, the Chemainus Valley Arts Council’s ‘Lady Day’, Queen Margaret’s School’s ‘Fame’, the Mercury Players ‘Power Plays’ and Adage Studio’s ‘Rapunzel’.

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Flowers are gratefully declined. Those desiring to make a donation, can do so to either the BC Heart and Stroke Foundation, or the Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation.

of the Valley Medical Clinic Duncan I would like to inform my patients that I will be retiring from full time medical practice on January 10, 2016. Dr. Neil Heard will be providing continuity of care for patients in my practice at the Valley Medical Clinic after that date. Dr. Heard is a well qualified and experienced physician certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all my patients, many of whom I have known since my arrival in the Cowichan Valley in 1982, for the privilege of assisting with their health concerns over the years and to wish them all the best of good health in the future.

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1944 - 2015 went to be with his Lord early on December 21st. Born February 12th in Hindenburg, Germany, Chris emigrated to Canada with his family in 1957; he graduated from UBC in 1970 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. A quiet & gentle man, he married in 1967, then moved to Vancouver Island with his young family in 1974 and opened his own business, Cowichan Accounting.

Strong in his faith and his love for his family, he devotedly served as an elder in the church throughout his life. A clever man with a very dry sense of humour, Chris didn't say much, but when he did, you listened.

Survived by Lynda, wife of 48 years; sons David (Michelle), Paul (Corrinne), daughter Jennifer (Allan), and chosen son Nathan (Colleen); grandchildren Isla, Anya, Christian, Madeleine, Rebecca, Tyus, Alecsa, and Deryn; and sisters Gabrielle and Micheline.

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Service to be held Saturday, January 2nd 2016 at 1:00 pm, Cornerstone Christian Church, Vimy Hall, 3968 Gibbins Road, Duncan, BC. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association gratefully received.

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VALLEY Calendar Miscellaneous • Canadian Firearm Safety course (PAL/RPAL) starts Friday, Jan. 8, Duncan. Registration and info: canadianfirearmsafety@ shaw.ca or Mike 250-748-0319. • Love horses? Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association needs dedicated volunteers in lots of different areas. Help our special needs riders to reach their goals in the ring. No experience necessary, training provided. Info: 250-7461028, email info@ctra.ca, website www.ctra.ca • Friendly Visitors wanted!

Volunteer Cowichan program connects an isolated or lonely senior in the community with a Friendly Visitor. Interested? Call 250-748-2133. • ShoDai Peace Chant new location Nichiren Peace Centre, Johnny Bear and Cambrai Road.

Meditation Thursdays, 7 p.m., Discovery Sunrise Sundays, 10 a.m. Website: www.viretreats.com.

Info: 250-710-7594. Email: peace@ viretreats.com • Duncan United Church Thrift Store, operating for 20 years, supports outreach programs. Great bargains, reasonable prices. Open Fridays, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. • The Duncan Family History Centre (Genealogy) is open, Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, 6:30-8 p.m. Free access to Ancestry. com, FindMyPast available, 1815 Tzouhalem Rd, LDS Church. Info: 250-748-9618. • The Council of Senior Citizens Organizations is an advocacy group devoted to improving “quality of lifeâ€? for all seniors. Seniors organizations, associations, wishing to affiliate, or individuals wishing to become members contact Ernie Bayer at 604-576-9734 or email ecbayer@shaw.ca. • SDA Thrift Store, 3441 Gibbins Rd., open every Thursday, 11 a.m.3 p.m., and every second and third Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. • The Saltair Country Market, Mt. Brenton Centre, 3850 South Oyster School Rd. (off Old Chemainus Road). Info and to book a table ($10) 250-416-0363 or www.elizahemingway.com • Little Eagles Stay and Play, a Chemainus Community Schools Association program for 0-3 year olds at Chemainus Elementary Fridays, 9-11 a.m. Stories, songs, crafts, creative movement, snack, social time. Drop in and enjoy.

Info: 250-246-3588; ccsa@sd79.bc.ca

Seniors • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre Drop-in Centre New Year’s Eve Dinner and Dance Dec. 31, doors open 6 p.m., dinner 7 p.m., dancing and fun to Andy McCormack. Tickets $30 on sale at AGM, Nov. 19. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre pancake breakfast, Jan. 9, 9-11 a.m. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre Burns Night and birthday party, Jan. 16, 5-8:30 p.m. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre soup and sandwich, Jan. 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre muffin mornings Wednes-

days and Fridays 9:30-11 a.m. • Dance to music from the 50s and 60s at Valley Seniors Centre, 198 Government St., every Wednesday, 3-5 p.m., $5. Info: 250-746-4433. • Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre — Bingo every Monday, doors open at 4:45 p.m. starts at 6:40 p.m. Loonie Pot, G-Ball, Bonanza, & 50/50 draw. Everyone Welcome. • Lake Cowichan’s air-conditionded 50 Plus Activity Centre open 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Bridge, canasta, cribbage, shuffleboard, pool, line dancing, music.

Exercises 9:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Bingo for over 19 Wednesday, 1 p.m. and Sunday, 7 p.m. Kitchen serves home-made lunches, 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m., weekly specials. Banquets, bazaars and bus trips organized throughout the year. More volunteers wanted.

Info: 250-749-6121. • Valley Seniors Activity Centre, 198 Government St., Duncan open 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. $20 per year.

Carpet bowling, cribbage, billiards crafts, bridge, choir, bus trips on our own bus. Live music Mondays and Wednesdays 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Dances every 1st and 3rd Saturday 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Open to public for Bingo each Tuesday.

Many special events throughout the year. Check out Monthly Newsletter at valley- seniors. org and consider membership if you’re 55 years or older. Info: 250746-4433.Info: 250-746-4433 or www. valley-seniors.org

Recreation • Mill Bay Carpet Bowling Group meets every Wednesday, 1 p.m., Mill Bay Community League Hall, beside Kerry Park Arena.

Info: Jim 250-743-5189 or Pauline 250-733-9886. • Cowichan Kayak and Canoe Club meetings second Tuesday each month except July and August, 7:30 p.m., socializing time 7-7:30 p.m., Seniors Activity Centre, Duncan. Refreshments provided. Info: cowichankayakandcanoe. wordpress.com • Cowichan Intercultural Society presents Art Healing Series, Wednesdays, 2-3:30 p.m., Mill Bay Library. Meet to paint, draw, sketch and create art pieces. Info: Francoise francoise@cis-iwc.org or 250-748-3112. • Duncan Badminton Club, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8-10 p.m., October through March Multi-purpose Hall, Island Savings Centre.

Recreational and competitive. All welcome. Info: 250-746-4380. • Youth rowing program, Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre, for ages 10-14. Get some rowing experience with summer staff Thursdays 4-6 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m.noon. $10 drop-in fee, call ahead to reserve a place: 250-746-4955. • All-ages chess club: all skill levels and ages welcome to play and learn chess in supportive, fun environment. Mondays 6-8 p.m., Duncan library gathering place or available tables. • Cowichan Fly Fishers meets 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Air Cadet Hall, Gibbins Road. Doors open 7 p.m. Open to

all ages and skill levels. Info: www. cowichanflyfishers.com • Seniors Dragon Boating, Monday and Thursday mornings 9:30 a.m., Hecate Park. Info: sandy sand007@shaw.ca • Cowichan Valley Scottish Country Dancing Thursday evenings 6:30-8 p.m., singles, couples, beginners welcome, Chemainus Seniors Centre. Info: 250-748-9604. • Calling all chess players, every Wednesday, 1-4 p.m. All levels welcome. Info: 250-743-8740. • Interested in rocks? The Cowichan Valley Rockhounds meet the third Monday of each month, 7 p.m., Duncan Airport. Info: 250-743-3769. • Beginners meditation, Wednesdays, 6:30-7 p.m., regular meditation, 7-8 p.m. Info: email peace@ viretreats.com or 250-710-7594. • Looking for Dragon Boat paddlers for the Sea Sisters Team, Cowichan Bay. Come out for fun and fresh air every Tuesday evening, April-September. Info: Sarah, 250-743-9894 or burdetrs@hotmail. com • Dragonboat paddlers — male and female, over 50, come paddle in Cowichan Bay weekday mornings. Info: Sandy at sandysand007@shaw.ca or 250-478-9152 or Mary at mlames@hotmail.com or 250-746-7950. • Drop in table tennis, Monday and Thursday, 7-9 p.m., Queen of Angels School. All ages welcome, coaching available. Drop in fee $3.

Info: Frank 250-748-0566 or email fe0540@telus.net • Duncan Badminton Club season runs Tuesdays and Thursdays 8-10 p.m. in the multi-purpose hall at the Island Savings Centre. Recreational and ladder play. Info: 250-746-4380. • Legion Branch #53, join us for fall/winter activities starting Sept.

8: Monday, cribbage 7 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday open at 2 p.m.; league shuffle board Thursday 7 p.m.; lunch 11 a.m.1:30 p.m. Friday; Friday/Saturday open 11 a.m.; last Sunday of the month General Meeting 2 p.m.

Info: 250-746-5013. • Drop in or register for Ashtanga Yoga with Marie at the Cowichan Aquatic Centre, Mondays and/or Wednesdays 7-8 p.m. Info: 250-746-7665. • Yoga for people with Parkinsons. Helps maintain strength, balance and flexibility. Free weekly classes. Info: Page at 250-748-6062.

Meetings • Adult Child of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (ACOA) meetings 107 Evans St., Duncan, Fridays, 7 p.m. • Cowichan Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group meetings held the last Thursday of each month from 2-4 p.m. Cancer Society office, 394 Duncan St. Info: Gord Thomas 250-743-6960 or Brian King 250-748-5785. • Is food a problem for you?

Overeaters Anonymous is here to help. Meetings Sunday morning, Thursday evening. For meeting times call 250-746-9366 or go to www.oa.org/membersg roups/ find-a-meeting/ • Cowichan Valley Scottish Country Club. Come and join us at Crofton Fire Hall (upstairs).

Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.

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The sports year in photos

The U12, U14 and U16 Mid Island Lightning teams swept the Island field lacrosse championships and all advanced to provincials, where the U12s won gold and the U14s took bronze. [SUBMITTED]

The Cowichan Piggies made it to the final of the Times Cup tournament twice in the 2015 calendar year, losing to UVic in January and Port Alberni in December. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

The Cowichan Valley Wrestling Club sent 12 wrestlers to provincials, and they came home with four medals. The club also sent four wrestlers to nationals.

Shawnigan Lake School’s hockey team played to a perfect record in its first season in the Canadian Sports School Hockey League while opening their own home arena. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Both Cowichan Secondary School and Brentwood College reached the provincial junior boys basketball championships. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN] Both the senior girls and senior boys basketball teams from Duncan Christian School won their Island championships and advanced to provincials. The girls placed eighth in B.C. and the boys finished 10th. [SUBMITTED]

Humza Khan and the Cowichan Secondary Thunderbirds reached the provincial senior boys basketball championships, where they finished 11th in a strong field. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

The bantam Tier 3 Kerry Park Islanders won their Island championship and advanced to the provincial tournament, where they narrowly missed a berth in the semifinals. [SUBMITTED]

Andres Algarin and Cowichan LMG’s prevailed in overtime to beat Saanich Fusion 4-3 in the Jackson Cup title game at Royal Athletic Park in late March.

LMG also won the Vancouver Island Soccer League Div. 1 championship and reached the semifinals of the provincial tournament. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Chemainus product and Cowichan Valley Wrestling Club athlete Hannah Tuplin won gold in the 49kg at the national championships in New Brunswick in April.

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Cowichan’s senior women’s rugby team reached the final in the provincial First Division, falling 27-17. [SUBMITTED]

The Cowichan Secondary relay team of Taryn Smiley, Chicago Bains, Nicole Lindsay and Casey Heyd struck down the old provincial record in the senior girls 4x100m relay, setting a new mark of 48.27 seconds. Bains also won solo gold in the 100m hurdles. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

The peewee A2 Cowichan Thunder won the Island box lacrosse championship, then finished third at provincials. [SUBMITTED]

Brentwood College’s girls rugby team capped off a perfect season with the provincial AA championship. The team also won the B.C. sevens title. Shawnigan Lake School finished fourth in the AA bracket, and the Cowichan Secondary Thunderbirds placed eighth in the AAA championships. [SUBMITTED]

A year after their five-year run as champions was ended by St. George’s, Shawnigan Lake School reclaimed the provincial AAA boys rugby banner with a 35-5 win over that same team. Cowichan Secondary finished 12th in the AAA tourney, while in the AA championships, Brentwood placed seventh and Frances Kelsey was 16th. [SUBMITTED]

The Vancouver Canucks brought their prospects camp to Shawnigan Lake School in July.

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Hailing from the smallest baseball association in B.C., the Chemainus Heat surprised everyone by winning the provincial bantam A title. Several Duncan baseball teams also reached provincials: the AA and AAA mosquito teams, the peewee AA team, and the bantam AAA team. [SUBMITTED]

Cowichan Women’s Football League MVP Nicole Pugh led the Crew to a win over the Ravens in the league championship showdown.

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U14, U17 and U18 teams from the Cowichan Valley Soccer Association all reached their respective provincial championships. The U14 Blackout (above) finished third, and the U17 Spartans placed sixth and won the sportsmanship trophy. [SUBMITTED]

MVP goalie Kain Stewart led the Cowichan Valley Thunder to the gold medal at the provincial intermediate B box lacrosse championships.

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The U16 Cowichan Piggies beat Capilano 29-17 to win the provincial chamionship on their home field, while the U18 Piggies beat Bayside 38-0 to win the plate final for third place. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN] Fifty years after they last took the field together, the 1959, 1962 and 1965 Island champion Duncan All-Stars, who also won B.C. and Western Canadian championships during their dynasty years, got together for various reunion activities, including a slo-pitch game at Evans Park. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Duncan Christian School’s boys and girls volleyball teams both won their respective Island single-A championships and advanced to the provincial tournaments. Brentwood College won the AA girls title and also reached provincials. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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