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Bill C-14 falls short Proposed law disappoints couple faced with dementia JOHN HARDING editor@pqbnews.com
Anne Arial and her husband Norman were looking forward to the day when the federal government would provide some clarity and relief for those looking to end their lives with dignity. The Parksville residents said they were less than pleased when they read details of the Liberal government’s Bill C-14, tabled Thursday in the House of Commons. “We were hoping it would give us a road to how to do it,” Ann said last week. “It was his only hope. It’s so devastating.” Norman has dementia. “He’s in very good physical condition, but his mind is going,” said Ann. She said they had hoped the new legislation would provide them with some peace of mind as Norman’s mind deteriorated. “We thought he could enjoy what life he has now because he would know he wouldn’t have to sit in his own sh** for years.” Bill C-14, if passed into law in its current form, would limit access to medically assisted suicide to “competent adults” whose death is “reasonably foreseeable” and are suffering “intolerably.” It sets out criteria that has to be met for a person to lawfully end their life with the help of a nurse practitioner or doctor. Mental illness alone is not enough for a person to be eligible for assisted death. Ann said she and her 85-year-old husband have discussed the issue “thoroughly.” She said they have a plan. “I would be asking him if it was time and we would go through that several days in a row,” she said. “There were no questions that I was doing it for him.” See I’LL JUST END UP IN JAIL, page A8
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BEAR CUBS JORDAN AND ATHENA STILL IN ERRINGTON
CO not seeking his old job JOHN MCKINLEY
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The Vancouver Island conservation officer who became international news last summer for refusing to shoot two bear cubs has abandoned the fight to get his job back. Bryce Casavant launched a grievance after he was first suspended, then transferred out of the CO service and into another department following his actions in defiance of provincial orders.
According to his union, the grievance has now been dropped. “Bryce Casavant is content with his current position with the Ministry of Forests and has chosen not to continue his grievances in the pursuit of a return to his previous position with the Ministry of Environment,” B.C. Government Employees Union president Stephanie Smith said in an emailed statement. “Bryce has decided to focus his energy on attaining a PhD in furtherance of interests in environ-
mental sustainability. The Province of B.C. supports his decision.” Casavant received worldwide attention when he disobeyed an order from his superiors within B.C.’s Ministry of Environment to put the cubs down after their mother was caught ravaging a freezer July 3 in Port Hardy. He shot the mom as being too habituated to humans for rehabilitation, but determined the cubs did not meet the same standard and could be saved. See CUBS OUT, page A4
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Hirst Avenue West from Lodgepole Drive to Renz Road in Parksville will be closed today (Tuesday, April 19) and tomorrow (Wednesday, April 20) during allowed working hours (from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.). A City of Parksville news release stated the purpose of this closure is to facilitate the installation of new sanitary sewer and storm drain pipe in the road. It will be necessary for the construction equipment to occupy the north side of the road in order to install the pipes in the south half of the road. According to the city, this is the most efficient construction methodology — should the road be kept open, construction would take twice as long and with lengthy traffic delays. There are no residences using this portion of Hirst Avenue West to access their houses. The lane to the estate located in the Regional District of Nanaimo to the west of Renz Road will be able to access their home from Renz Road. According to the city, the contractor, Knappett Industries, believes this road closure is in the best interest of public safety and will present the least danger and inconvenience to the travelling public. — NEWS Staff/City of Parksville news release
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iLLeGAL DuMpinG neAr QuALiCuM BeACh
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A particularly ugly case of illegal dumping just west of Qualicum Beach is part of a $200,000 annual problem. “This is an area we know there’s been dumping in the past, there is history there,” said Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) Manager of Solid Waste Services Larry Gardner of a pile at the end of Claymore Road, near the Little Qualicum Fish Hatchery. “I know we did a clean up there in 2015, it was a fair bit of material,” he said, highlighting nearby ‘No Dumping’ signs they’d erected. Though the surrounding forested area is well used, with many other bits of garbage and signs of human activity, one high profile pile has appeared over the last two or three weeks, which the RDN became aware of on April 13. Gardner hadn’t been to the site recently, but saw photos and heard from the attending bylaw officer and said that reports of medical waste appear to be exaggerated. “There did appear to be IV related materials, but from what I saw it didn’t actually meet the definition of medical waste,” he said there aren’t
“any materials like needles or blood-borne materials, but it came from that kind of activity.” “It was a mix of different materials,” he said. “There is a significant quantity, but there isn’t anything identified as an immediate hazard or threat that we need to jump on right away.” The pile — several pick-up truck loads worth — included old clothing, electronics, paint cans, car parts and random household waste. “In general we don’t really like to clean up private land, but we do do some of it, especially when it’s been ongoing,” he said, pointing out it is expensive for tax payers to have the RDN clean it. He said they try to work with the land owners, which in this case he believes to be Island Timberland, who they have a close working relationship with. “Landowners do have responsibility to try to minimize dumping and the forest companies do put in a concerted effort for policing and clean up of sites.” And that clean up is important, he said. “We like to get sites cleaned up as quick as we can because once someone has dumped material, it seems to be easier for the next load to come. My suspicion is, it’s easier for people to rationalize — it’s already a mess.” See ILLEGAL DUMPING, page A6
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Bear cubs Jordan and Athena in mid-October, a few months after they arrived at the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre in July, 2015.
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Boosted by the support of British comedian Ricky Gervais, an online petition for Casavant’s reinstatement eventually passed a total of 300,000 signatures. Meanwhile, the cubs whose lives Casavant spared remain isolated from human contact at the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre in Errington, just outside Parksville. Dubbed Jordan and Athena, they have emerged from hibernation and are expected to be released back into the
wild along with the centre’s other rescue cubs. “The eight cubs including Jordan and Athena are doing well. They have become active in their enclosure again but nothing really has changed,” NIWRA wildlife manager Julie Mackey said. “We still do not have any word on release date but are hoping for early summer.” A new provincial policy for dealing with problem bears is expected to be in place this spring.
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To help residents be better prepared, Emergency Management Oceanside (Town of Qualicum Beach, City of Parksville and Regional District of Nanaimo) is once again hosting an Emergency Preparedness Expo on May 14. It will feature displays, demonstrations, workshops, opportunities to learn about the challenges we will face in an emergency and how to be better prepared. People can ask questions and even bring your fire extinguisher to be tested. Participating groups include the RCMP, B.C. Ambulance Service, local fire departments, Health Emergency Management B.C., Oceanside Emergency Support Services, Oceanside Emergency Communications Team, BCSPCA and PALS (Pet and Livestock Services), B.C. Forest Service and Outsider Adventures (hosting workshops). Food will be available from the Parksville/
Qualicum Shrine Club (pancake breakfast) and the Nanaimo and District Shrine Club (lunch). Disasters may be beyond our control, but there are ways to reduce the risk and the impact of whatever emergency we might face. Residents and business owners are encouraged to take steps to be prepared personally, as an individual, a family and in the workplace. Emergencies can strike at any time so being prepared is critical since it can take time for help to arrive. Do you know the risks? Do you have a plan? There will also be a Quake Cottage simulator, sponsored by the Insurance Bureau of Canada and Emergency Management Oceanside, at Family Day in Qualicum Beach on Sunday, May 29. The ‘ride’ simulates the feeling of an 8.0 magnitude earthquake. The Oceanside Preparedness Expo runs 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, May 14 at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre, 747 Jones Street. — Submitted by Emergency Management Oceanside
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a unique opportunity here on Vancouver Island, with this rail corridor, to not only do cruise ship tours, but actually, we have an opportunity to do special event tours as well,” said Butzelaar. Blackwell said the train ride was the type of thing she has questions about: what did it cost and was it money well spent? Ultimately, she hopes the conversation can help determine whether rail has a future, and what that future is. “It will proceed logically from here. How long has it been since we’ve seen a train running down the rails?”
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Vancouver Island communities want a review of the way Vancouver Island’s rail line is financed and managed. But who will do it, how it will be done and who is going to pay for it remains very much up in the air. Delegates to the annual Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities (AVICC) conference in Nanaimo voted Sunday to “work with impacted local governments and the ICF board to conduct a financial and governance review of the Island Corridor Foundation (ICF).” The vote came despite the fact the AVICC executive told its members it does not have the ability to conduct such a review in-house and that it may come with a cost. The ICF is the partnership of regional districts and First Nations that owns the rail corridor. It has been criticized for its lack of transparency, spending, fee policies and progress in restarting passenger rail service. ICF co-chair Dr. Judith Sayers said the ICF and AVICC have always had a very positive relationship and she expects that to continue. “We’re pleased to meet with the AVICC any time,” she said. “Our audits are public, they are on our website. I’m not sure exactly what more they are looking for.” That’s understandable because the AVICC isn’t sure itself. AVICC president and Comox councillor Barbara Price said the organization will likely reach out to each member community to determine exactly what they want the review to achieve. Once that information is compiled, a plan will be drafted, reviewed and approved. Then someone will likely have to be hired to do the actual work. “It will definitely have to be a contractor to do this work,” Price said. “We will certainly be working with communities to build a terms of reference before we start. We will have to find a way to fund it.”
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Capital Regional District spite recent concerns expressed (CRD) Director Denise Black- by the CRD and the Regional well, who presented the motion, District of Nanaimo (RDN). said she can live with the proVictoria’s Ben Isitt said there cess if that’s what it takes to get is no advanced country in the a better look at what the ICF is world without a high-quality rail doing and why. system and forward-thinking “I think that’s fair,” Blackwell communities need to embrace said. “I am glad that there are rail as a better economic and people recognizing that there ecological option for the future. are issues with the manage“It’s been an incredible batment.” tle. If we walk away now, everyMeanwhile, while its man- thing will fail,” Courtenay Mayor agement was Larry Jangula being scruti- I am glad there are people said. nized, the fu- recognizing there are issues A handful of with the management ture of rail serdelegates said vice itself got any questions deniSe bLaCkweLL the support of that exist about a majority of ICF managemunicipal poliment must be ticians. kept separate On Saturday morning, AVICC from the issue of rail service. delegates voted in a show of “The management is a sepahands by an approximately two rate question,” Isitt said. to one margin to urge the fedRDN director Julian Fell said eral government to release the the RDN’s recent decision to $7.5 million it has promised to pull a promised $950,000 grant, upgrade the tracks. rendered the grant release moWhile the vote is largely sym- tion — introduced by Port Albolic, it did send the message berni — moot. He pointed to that a majority of communities a sold-out excursion train that still endorse the idea of a Van- toured Nanaimo Friday. couver Island rail system, de“That may be the last passen-
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The RDN responds to anywhere from 50 to 150 cases of illegal dumping a year, Gardner said, and the number of community organized cleanups has been increasing. The RDN waves tipping fees for those community efforts, which he said amounts to $20,000 to $50,000 a year, but they still save the RDN a lot of money. “There were 17 community clean ups last year, which was fabulous, less
for us to do.” He estimated between tipping fees, staff time, bylaw officer responses and investigations, cleanups and signage, illegal dumping costs the RDN “well over $100,000 a year, closer to $200,000. “If we can identify the responsible party, we’ll carry out an investigation, potentially get them, either to clean it up, or there’s the ability for fines,” he said. They start at $150 and range all the way up to criminal charges.
“Quite often when we are able to contact somebody who’s waste it is, that can be a pretty effective message,” he said, adding that there have been cases where a person’s garbage was dumped by someone else, a hired crew or young family member, for example. Report illegal dumping, with as many details as possible, to the Report All Poachers and Polluters (RAPP) line at 1-877-952-7277.
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Eight-member family expected Family consists of three adults and five children and is expected within 12 weeks
preparing to support the refugee family and are still waiting for permission to use a house owned by the Town of Qualicum Beach, according to the release. Doering said the home is pretty much ready L auren CoLLins to go whenever the family arrives. The group reporter@pqbnews.com has raised almost $30,000 so far. The group met The Qualicum Refugee Sponsorship Group with the Anglican Diocese of B.C., the sponhas been matched with a family. sorship agreement holder, while reviewing the The group’s chair Carol Doering said through family’s profile because she said it’s a bigger a news release April 14 they have been matched commitment than they were expecting. with a family of Karen hill tribe heritage from She said that the QRSG group needs to reMyanmar. view its budget in light of the different needs. She said the information they have received It might need to spend more on tutors because about the family is limited, but they do know the of the language barrier, for example, but it is family consists of three adults looking at what services are (mother, father and grandThe family speaks S’gaw, a available. mother) and five children (beDoering said the group may dialect of the Karen language, and all members have to support the family for tween the ages of six and 14). The family speaks S’gaw, a of the family have minimal longer than the planned year dialect of the Karen language, education and are illiterate because of the extra needs. QRS gRoup and all members of the family The QRSG is still fundhave minimal education and raising with a Cut-A-Thon at are illiterate. Crops ’N Bobbers in BowsThe family meets all the criteria for settle- er on April 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., an open ment in Canada and should be arriving within house and silent auction on April 30 at the reffour to 12 weeks, said the release. ugee house (181 Sunningdale Road West) and The first Karen refugees started arriving in a dance and celebration on May 19 at 7 p.m. at Canada in 2006, according to the Government the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre. of Canada website. The refugees mainly came For more information or to get involved with from two remote camps in Thailand; Mae La the QRSG effort, e-mail qualicumrsg@telus.net Oon and Mae Ra Ma Luang that each had about or call 250-974-7031. 10,000 refugees. There are currently at least 16 private sponBackground information on the Govern- sorship efforts in the mid-Island, including ment of Canada’s website said that since Bur- two others in Parksville Qualicum Beach. One mese Karen refugees are coming from remote through the Church of the Ascension Refugee jungle refugee camps, adjusting to life in Can- Sponsorship Committee (250-954-1991) in ada can be a challenge, so learning about the Parksville, in line to get a young Syrian couple safe use of appliances as well as fire and build- with a baby any day and the other through the ing safety is a priority. Qualicum Community Baptist Church (250More than 140 Parksville Qualicum Beach 752-9123) which has received two refugees volunteers have spent more than 2,000 hours from east Africa. I N V I TAT I O N T O P A R T I C I P AT E I N T H E 1 8 TH A N N U A L
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onsidering the demographics of Parksville Qualicum Beach, this was always going to be a closely-monitored piece of legislation. This was also always going to be a difficult task for the Liberals, but the Supreme Court tossed this issue back to the House of Commons and noone ever said governing is easy. The physician-assisted-death bill tabled by the federal government last week is predictably coming under fire, especially from advocates of those who suffer from mental illnesses like dementia. If you have ever visited a facility that houses people with severe dementia, you can understand the criticisms of the bill tabled on Thursday. Here are people who may be in reasonably-good physical shape, but mentally they aren’t really there. Actually, it’s difficult to determine where they are mentally. If you spend any amount of time with someone who has severe dementia, there are moments of lucidity. But they become increasingly rare. When someone who can’t put a relevant sentence together for years all of a sudden reacts with a smile to a song played for them, perhaps a tune from when that person was a bobby-socks-wearing teen, it’s difficult to dismiss that person as someone who should be put out of their misery. It’s especially difficult for family members who have watched their loved one deteriorate for years. These family members get excited about these moments of (real or not) lucidity. Ending the life of a loved one has to be the most difficult decision facing any human being. It goes against all we believe. Then again, we also believe in comforting our loved ones, doing our best to spare them pain and anguish. This is such a gut-wrenching issue, full of conflict and degrees and moral ambiguities. Just as the calculated, scientific, medical and legal approaches do not provide all the answers, neither does the hard-line biblical or religious approach. Bill C-14 was never going to appease everyone. And it will be interesting to see if the federal Liberals — the ones who promised a more open, conciliatory government — will accept amendments to the bill they tabled last week. Through improving science, humans learn more about the brain and its functions every year. Still, it seems like we have only scratched the surface in our knowledge of our most important organ. Are we ready to attach laws to that minimal knowledge? Or should compassion for the sick and dying rule the day? There are no easy answers. — Editorial by John Harding
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Letters Point of rant about assessments? One of the best parts of The NEWS is the letters section, highlighting a variety of views of community residents. The April 12 issue was a great example, with wellthought-out positions and sentiments. One doesn’t have to agree to appreciate the writers point of view. The one unfortunate exception was the letter you chose to lead with. The writer objects to providing information to ensure proper assessment of properties. Not her job apparently. Unfortunately no real thought appears to go into this opinion. I suppose that the alternative would be an army of assessors combing the district and snooping in all of our houses. Can’t see any problems with that, aside from cost, privacy, practicality. Given the general anti-tax feel from the writer I’m guessing they’d have even more concerns with that. Let’s keep the variety of opinion, but perhaps avoid the thoughtless rants. James Watson Nanoose Bay
name change won’t slow traffic on 19a
Why is it that some people seem to think that changing the name of the highway through the city will slow traffic down? One only has to drive up to Courtenay via the Oceanside Route to see a name change does nothing. On entering Courtenay from Royston, the highway becomes Cliff Avenue and the speed limit is 50 km-h. Does the fact that the name has changed slow the traffic? Not one bit. In parts of Europe, the UK for one, they have painted the speed limit on the roadway in big bold numbers and this seems to help. I met with one of the councillors a couple of months ago at “coffee with council” and brought this suggestion to her attention, complete with photos. I am still waiting for a response. As for the suggestion of turning the highway through town into a single lane with angle parking, this is an accident
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waiting to happen. Just imagine drivers trying to reverse out into oncoming traffic. Frank Leach Parksville
the homeless need drug counseling Typical noise from mayor and his friends in not having something in place for the predicted homeless situation. If they have been walking or driving through town they would have seen the new collection of people that are sitting in front of the banks, etc. with their cardboard signs collecting money. They have been here for some time. To quote whoever wrote in your newspaper last week that these are local people, you are wrong, they are not. Talk to them, you will find out that they have come here because it’s too crowded in other areas of B.C. like Vancouver and Victoria. They are expanding and like vagabonds of the old days, albeit a lot of them have mental health issues, they travel where the money is good. As citizens of this community, either be prepared by continuing to give them money as I see people do allowing them to camp where ever they like in the upcoming months. How about a campground, like Rathtrevor? Wouldn’t the provincial government be OK with that? If not, then you better get off your behinds and spend as much of our taxpayers money as you can and quickly build them suitable housing. Be prepared to hire proper staff because without supervision it will quickly turn into a slum. These people are not just homeless people. Most have mental health issues and additions, they need treatment as well. Perhaps if the provincial government set up places for these people to go for treatment, or just to get back to living in society with a job and a home, all communities wouldn’t have this problem. We collectively as a society could all be responsible for them. It doesn’t matter where they live if they get treatment or assistance does it? I mean they aren’t living
here for the ambiance and pleasure. They are drifting because we don’t take the problem in hand and insist that this is the way it will be for them. They can’t make those decision themselves, they are lost. If they live on the streets, parks, etc. they are required to go to this facility where they will be housed, assessed and given the proper treatment or assistance. Why let them flounder, get involved in drugs and continue the cycle? nancy Jones Parksville
the homeless are a threat to children
I know there has been a lot said about Parksville’s parks/open spaces bylaw, but I have a few comments/questions. No camping in ecologically sensitive parks. What defines ecologically sensitive? I believe that the bylaw should include no camping in all parks that have an existing children’s play structure and no camping in parks that are in close proximity to schools. The health and safety of our children and grandchildren is at risk if homeless people are allowed to camp in our parks. We have seen by the massive cleanup that took place in Parksville this week (Morison and Molliette) that the homeless do not clean up after themselves and they will certainly not be up and about to vacate their camp by 9 a.m. There will be needles, condoms, human waste around the parks. Closing the bathrooms will just force the campers to use the area around the park. Spreading the homeless problem around the city is not the answer. The policing and clean up alone would be costly. Hopefully the mayor will continue pursuing the idea of finding land for the homeless to camp. This bylaw needs to be carefully thought through before it is passed — there is a lot to be considered. June Parkinson Parksville See more LETTERS, page A15
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y son has a new cellphone. versatile and tiny enough to carry around in a Aside from making and receiv- shirt pocket. Which he does, as does just about ing calls, it takes snapshots, re- everyone nowadays. No excuse for being ‘away cords videos, accommodates from the phone’ anymore. messaging, features a calenOr away from everybody elses’ phones, dar, plays music, connects to FM radio, offers a come to that. browser, a homepage, a library, a voice recordThat’s why the cops busted Dennis Nicholl. er and e-mail. It also syncs with WAP, GPRS, Mister Nicholl is a Chicago financial analyst EDGE, 3G and MMS. who takes a train filled with other commuters, Whatever the hell they are. most of them blabbering noisily into their cellMy son’s new cellphone weighs phones. less than a pack of cigarettes and One day Mister Nicholl boardfits in the palm of his hand but ed the train carrying a mysterious when I look at it, I don’t think gizmo festooned with several anBy Arthur Black ‘magic’. I think ‘Myrtle’. tennas. Pretty soon, nobody’s cellMyrtle was my connection to phone worked. Mister Nicholl was the first telephone my family ever jamming the calls. He was arrested had. Myrtle didn’t live with us; she and charged with ‘unlawful interlived in a box on our kitchen wall. ference with a public utility’. The box was our telephone. It was He hasn’t been sentenced yet, made of wood, about the size of a but if I was the judge I think I’d give hotel room mini-fridge. To activate him... oh, I don’t know — a Citizen it you pulled the receiver off a hook of the Year plaque perhaps, and and clamped it to your ear; then you cranked a maybe a couple of Blackhawks playoff tickets. handle and said into the mouthpiece: I’d at least like to buy him a beer. “Hello, Myrtle, give me Walnut five, threeMeanwhile, the cellphone continues to oh-eight-five” — or some other number. Myr- morph into new and harrowing configurations. tle, sitting somewhere in a room with a switch- Very soon Americans will be able to buy a brand board the size of a dining room table, plugged new product: a .380 calibre, double-barrelled in the requisite cords and made the connection pistol that will fit snugly into pocket or purse. for you. But here’s the beauty part — it looks just like We didn’t know it then, but Myrtle the op- a smartphone! Now when somebody whips out erator’s days were numbered. Soon both she their cell and points it at you, you won’t know and the box on the wall were replaced by stand- whether to smile for the camera or say your alone black telephones made of heavy Bakelite prayers. The U.S. government hasn’t decided with a rotary dial and an ear-to-mouth receiver whether the cellphone/handgun will be subheavy enough to knock out a burglar. That mod- ject to federal firearm restrictions. el lasted for years but it too was destined for the I miss Myrtle. trash heap of history, supplanted by the first ‘mobile’ phones (circa 1980). They were clunky — Arthur Black lives on Saltspring Island. and awkward, about the size of a shoebox. His column appears weekly in The NEWS. Fast forward to my son’s phone, a hundred He can be reached by e-mail at: times more powerful, a thousand times more arblack43@shaw.ca
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING STRATEGIC & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Agriculture Bylaw and Policy Update Project Bylaw 500.402, 2016 Electoral Areas ‘A’, ‘C’, ‘E’, ‘G’ and ‘H’
Pursuant to Sections 464, 467 and 469 of the Local Government Act we advise you that a public hearing with respect to proposed “Regional District of Nanaimo Land Use and Subdivision Amendment Bylaw No. 500.402, 2016” affecting properties in Electoral Area ‘A’, ‘C’, ‘E’, ‘G’, and ‘H’ will be held: Date: Monday, April 25, 2016 Time: 6:30 pm Location: Regional District of Nanaimo – Board Chambers, 6300 Hammond Bay Road What is the Zoning Amendment about? If approved, Amendment Bylaw No. 500.402 would amend existing zoning regulations to better support and remove barriers to agriculture in the region. The proposed bylaw amendments include; new or amended land use zones for lands in the Agricultural Land Reserve; new or revised definitions and amendments to the general regulations section of the bylaw related to agriculture or farm use and the keeping of animals. The proposed bylaw also includes new general regulations to allow the keeping of household poultry, limited to five chickens or ducks, on parcels less than 1000 m² in area subject to specific regulations. Where can I get more information? A copy of the proposed bylaw and relevant documents may be inspected at the hearing or prior to the hearing until Monday April 25, 2016 at the Regional District of Nanaimo office located at 6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo. Please contact the Planning Department Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, with extended business hours until 5:30 pm on Wednesdays. The public hearing for this bylaw will be chaired by Director Veenhof or his alternate as a delegate of the Board. All persons who consider their interest to be affected by the proposed bylaw shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person or by written submission at the public hearing. Written submissions can also be provided in advance of the public hearing and must be received at the RDN office by 4:30 pm Friday April 22, 2016 to ensure their inclusion in the public record. Questions or Comments? Please contact the RDN PLANNING DEPARTMENT at: Phone: Fax: Mail: Email:
250-390-6510 or 250-954-3798 or toll free in BC 1-877-607-4111 250-390-7511 6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6N2 planning@rdn.bc.ca
DID
CARRIE POWELL-DAVIDSON WAS CITIZEN OF THE YEAR IN 2011
New co-ordinator for museum
Museum’s board wants to create a focal point for local food advocacy
“Parksville and area flourished around the early 1900s and we were actually growing most of the food consumed on Vancouver Island,” said Nikki Gervais, manager of the museum. The Parksville Museum’s new program “We only produce about three-to-five per cent co-ordinator is Carrie Powell-Davidson. of the food we consume on Vancouver Island Powell-Davidson is well known in Parksville, compared to 100 years ago. But we can see a Qualicum Beach and area. Residents know her change happening; a return to our communias an event planner, a politician and a writer. ties’ past industries.” But for Parksville’s 2011 Citizen of the Year, it is For the past two years, the Parksville Muher passion for local food that landseum has been testing the waters ed her dream job, according to a with the Friday Night Farmers’ Marnews release from the museum. ket and now, they said they are are “When it came time to select ready to jump in with both feet. our new program co-ordinator, the “The success we have had with board had many talented people to our Farmers’ Market is astounding,” choose from, but Carrie’s resume readded Gervais. “The community ally stood out as the person with the has shown us that there is a dual desame drive and passion to move the mand for access to fresh, local food, Parksville Museum forward,” said as well as supporting and encourPeter Kawerau, president of the Hisaging a revitalization of the farming torical Society. infrastructure of our region.” POWELL-DAVIDSON Kawerau also said this not only Earlier this year, the board deincludes establishing the museum as one of the cided to create a new position. They advertised cultural centres in Parksville Qualicum Beach, for a program co-ordinator who could develbut also creating a focal point for local food ad- op events and educational programming that vocacy. would engage and interest the community. At the turn of the last cenThe news release said Parkstury, Parksville and the surville Museum is the perfect loCarrie’s resume really rounding region were the key cation to nurture a community stood out as the person growing areas for Vancouver that includes a thriving local with the same drive and Island. Over the years, develfood industry and Powell-Dapassion to move the opment and reliance on imvidson is the right person to Parksville Museum ported food have replaced help bridge the gap between forward much of the area’s agricultural the region’s history and issues PETER KAWERAU industry, according to the muof food security and sustainseum’s news release. ability.
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You do the Pickin!
Triple
Q-Points! Wednesday Apr. 20
9 $10 Quality Foods
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Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
Lean Ground Beef
1kg pack
Frozen, 2.5kg
99 Each
With 150,000 Q-Points Redeeme d!
Earthbound Farm Organic Salad or Litehouse Dressing
Selected, 142g, 355-384ml
6
2$ for
Armstrong
Shredded Parmesan Cheese
10
min. 300gr tub
$
3
Carbonated Mineral Water
LICABL PP
EES EF
6x1lt
99 PLUS A
Montellier
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7” Strawberry Cheesecake
99
Prices in effect April 18 - April 24, 2016
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Meat Sunrise Farms
Boneless Center Cut Pork Loin Chops 8.80 per kg
3
Whole Frying Chicken
Locally Raised BC Poultry
2 Pack, 5.49 per kg
Grain Fed Free Run
99
2
49
Per
LB
Sunrise Farms
Chicken Drumsticks
Bonless Center Cut or Rib End Pork Loin Roast
Locally Raised BC Poultry
5.49 per kg
Per
LB
Canadian AAA
Canadian AA
24.23 per kg
13.20 per kg
Inside Round Marinating Steak
T-Bone Grilling Steak
8.80 per kg
Grain Fed Free Run
2
3
49
10
LB
25
5
99
99
Per
Per
LB
99
Per
LB
Per
LB
%
OFF All Le Creuset
Upstairs in these Quality Foods Stores
Cast Iron
Stainless
Bakeware
Ceramic
Offer in effect April 18-24, 2016
Add a Twist to Your Next Meal
Blue Diamond
Almonds 454gr
7
Mrs. Cubbison’s
Arla
142gr
In Oil, 100gr
12x100gr
4
99
Astro
Blue Diamond
Nut-Thins
120gr
2
for
San Remo
Blue Diamond
Almond Breeze Non-Dairy Beverage
5
2$ for
4
2$
99
946ml
Astro
Yogourt
Apetina Feta Cheese
Restaurant Style Croutons
99
Qualicum, Comox, Courtenay Powell River and View Royal
Organic Balsamic Vinegar or Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml-1lt
5
99
4
2$ for
Tre Stelle
Rising Sun Farms 354ml
3
99
400gr
500gr
7
2$ for
Astro
Traditional Feta Cheese
Balsamic Dressing
Athentikos Greek Yogourt
Yogourt 650-750gr
5
99
5
2$ for
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Meat Australian
Strip Loin Grilling Steak
Canadian AA
Inside Round Oven Roast
13.20 per kg
3 Pack
5
99
15
$
Schneiders
Johnsonville
Brats or Italiano Sausages
Schneiders
Wieners
Bacon
Selected, 375-450gr
375gr
LB
Maple Leaf
Prime Stuffed Chicken Breasts
500gr
284-340gr
4
4
99
5
99
BUY 1
GET 1
6
FREE
Saputo Shredded Natural Cheese 320gr
99
Per
5
99
$
THE PERFECT TOAST with Villaggio and Dualit
Que Pasa Organic Tortilla Chips 425gr
Offer valid April 18-24, 2016
That’s
a
9 $4.4 ! e Free
WIN a
Valu
Quality and Taste Every Time
Stouffer’s
Bistro Melts
170gr
Clover Leaf
5
2$ for
TOASTER
See stores for details. Over $500 Value
Dairyland
Cream
Selected, 946-1lt
Kraft
Chunk or Flaked Light Tuna in Water
Philadelphia Cream Cheese Spread
Skipjack, 170gr
299
340gr
Dairyland
Stouffer’s
Dinner Entree
4
5
201-340gr
99
4$
2
99
Cottage Cheese
Stoned Wheat Thins
Clover Leaf
Clover Leaf
640gr
600gr
Wild Pacific, 213gr
Wild Red Pacific, 213gr
Saute Sensations
499
7
2$ for
Sockeye Salmon
Pink Salmon
5
3$ for
7
2$ for
5
2$ for
Stouffer’s
Crackers
500gr
Dairyland
Sour Cream 500ml
4
2$ for
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Quality Foods an Island Original Cheddar Cheese
Milk 2 Go
Pioneer Chips
Iced Tea
200-275gr
Kettle Cooked Potato Chips
500ml
907gr
Melitta
Estate Whole Bean Coffee
325-473ml
142gr
9 907gr
5
3$ Black Diamond
Black Diamond
Parkay
Cheese Strings
Shredded Cheese
LICABL PP
for
for
Old Dutch
Restaurante Tortilla Chips
20x355ml
200gr
Pepperidge Farm
Primo
525-540ml
for
Vegetable Cocktail
180-227gr
5
99
LICABL PP
for
Beans
5
Italpasta
Tradizionale Pasta
for
5
Classico
Pasta Sauce
Heinz
398ml
Olive Oil
Selected, 750ml
for
6
5
99
2$ for
THESE SPECIALS ARE THE REAL DILL French’s
Classic Yellow Prepared Mustard
Bull’s Eye
Vlasic 1lt
HP
425ml
for
5
Miracle Whip or Mayo
5
2$ for
5
2$ for
5
Kraft
3
3
99
99
Pizza Pops
Pizza Minis
400gr
Minute Maid
Frozen 100% Orange or Grapefruit Juice
340-400gr
295ml
for
5
for
Mott’s
Fruitsations 100% Apple Juice
Fruitsations Snack
4x90gr or 6x104-113gr
Natural, 1.82lt
272-552gr
4
2
99
99
5
2$ for
Gelato or Sorbet
1.5-2lt
Chapman’s
Premium Unsweetened Frozen Fruit
Frozen Yogurt 2lt
2lt
3
99
10
4$ for
for
Snowcrest
Chapman’s
Premium Ice Cream
3
99
5
3$
LICABL PP
GET THE SCOOP ON THESE GREAT DEALS Chapman’s
5
3$
2$ Mott’s
Nature Valley, General Mills or Betty Crocker
Pillsbury
370-385gr
Post
2
Value Size Granola Bars or Fruit Snacks
Dressing
475ml
890ml
450gr
400ml
225ml
4$
Kraft
Pillsbury
Steak Sauce & Baste for Meat
Barbecue Sauce
Pickles
2
99
for
99
Honeycomb, Sugar Crisp or Alpha-Bits Cereal
99
4$
5
3
99
EES EF
5
3$
9
Singles Process Cheese Product
Tomato Ketchup
2 425-550gr
99
Kraft
Heinz
1lt
5
4$ for
Filippo Berio
410-650ml
900gr
2
99
LICABL PP
80’s or 144’s
99
Post
Pasta
Kraft Dinner Macaroni & Cheese
398ml
EES EF
for
2$
Tea
946ml
Shreddies, Shredded Wheat or Spoon Size Shredded Wheat Cereal
99
Tetley
Coffee Whitener
Ruffles Macaroon Biscuits
5
Original, 12x225gr
3$
International Delight
Dare
2$
Kraft
Heinz
1.89lt
5
300gr
LUNCH IDEAS? BEAN THERE, LOVE THAT
V8
Goldfish Baked Snack Crackers
Ready to Serve Soup
5
2$
PLUS A
2
4
99
99
for
276-384gr
EES EF
4
99
5
4$
Coke or Canada Dry
Potato Chips Kettle Cooked
1.28-1.36kg
5
4$
Dutch Crunch
Margarine
336gr
340gr
PLUS A
for
4$
PLUS A
99
EES EF
9
Dairyland
Nestea
Crispbread
Black Diamond
A23
Prices in effect April 18 - April 24, 2016
Wasa
PLUS A
A22
600gr
4
99
4
99
3
99
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Quality Foods an Island Original Cheddar Cheese
Milk 2 Go
Pioneer Chips
Iced Tea
200-275gr
Kettle Cooked Potato Chips
500ml
907gr
Melitta
Estate Whole Bean Coffee
325-473ml
142gr
9 907gr
5
3$ Black Diamond
Black Diamond
Parkay
Cheese Strings
Shredded Cheese
LICABL PP
for
for
Old Dutch
Restaurante Tortilla Chips
20x355ml
200gr
Pepperidge Farm
Primo
525-540ml
for
Vegetable Cocktail
180-227gr
5
99
LICABL PP
for
Beans
5
Italpasta
Tradizionale Pasta
for
5
Classico
Pasta Sauce
Heinz
398ml
Olive Oil
Selected, 750ml
for
6
5
99
2$ for
THESE SPECIALS ARE THE REAL DILL French’s
Classic Yellow Prepared Mustard
Bull’s Eye
Vlasic 1lt
HP
425ml
for
5
Miracle Whip or Mayo
5
2$ for
5
2$ for
5
Kraft
3
3
99
99
Pizza Pops
Pizza Minis
400gr
Minute Maid
Frozen 100% Orange or Grapefruit Juice
340-400gr
295ml
for
5
for
Mott’s
Fruitsations 100% Apple Juice
Fruitsations Snack
4x90gr or 6x104-113gr
Natural, 1.82lt
272-552gr
4
2
99
99
5
2$ for
Gelato or Sorbet
1.5-2lt
Chapman’s
Premium Unsweetened Frozen Fruit
Frozen Yogurt 2lt
2lt
3
99
10
4$ for
for
Snowcrest
Chapman’s
Premium Ice Cream
3
99
5
3$
LICABL PP
GET THE SCOOP ON THESE GREAT DEALS Chapman’s
5
3$
2$ Mott’s
Nature Valley, General Mills or Betty Crocker
Pillsbury
370-385gr
Post
2
Value Size Granola Bars or Fruit Snacks
Dressing
475ml
890ml
450gr
400ml
225ml
4$
Kraft
Pillsbury
Steak Sauce & Baste for Meat
Barbecue Sauce
Pickles
2
99
for
99
Honeycomb, Sugar Crisp or Alpha-Bits Cereal
99
4$
5
3
99
EES EF
5
3$
9
Singles Process Cheese Product
Tomato Ketchup
2 425-550gr
99
Kraft
Heinz
1lt
5
4$ for
Filippo Berio
410-650ml
900gr
2
99
LICABL PP
80’s or 144’s
99
Post
Pasta
Kraft Dinner Macaroni & Cheese
398ml
EES EF
for
2$
Tea
946ml
Shreddies, Shredded Wheat or Spoon Size Shredded Wheat Cereal
99
Tetley
Coffee Whitener
Ruffles Macaroon Biscuits
5
Original, 12x225gr
3$
International Delight
Dare
2$
Kraft
Heinz
1.89lt
5
300gr
LUNCH IDEAS? BEAN THERE, LOVE THAT
V8
Goldfish Baked Snack Crackers
Ready to Serve Soup
5
2$
PLUS A
2
4
99
99
for
276-384gr
EES EF
4
99
5
4$
Coke or Canada Dry
Potato Chips Kettle Cooked
1.28-1.36kg
5
4$
Dutch Crunch
Margarine
336gr
340gr
PLUS A
for
4$
PLUS A
99
EES EF
9
Dairyland
Nestea
Crispbread
Black Diamond
A23
Prices in effect April 18 - April 24, 2016
Wasa
PLUS A
A22
600gr
4
99
4
99
3
99
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Deli & Cheese Continental
Black Forest Ham
1
69
1
Ham with Garlic, Lyona, Beer or Summer Sausage
1
69
Per
100 gr
Sushi
Sabra
100 gr
4
3
5
48
95
99
Available at select stores only.
per 100gr
Medium
Spring Roll
Dinner for Four
16 Piece Maki Platter
7
$
99
99
Available at select stores only.
Per
100 gr
One Dozen Cooked Chicken Wings
Cambozola Blue Cheese
283gr
99
69
Per
German
Hummus
8 Piece Happy California Rolls
7
Grimm’s
Vienna
Roast Beef or New York Style Corned Beef
Deli Salad
1
49
• Creamy Coleslaw • Macaroni • Red Potato with Dijon
5
99
Seafood • Quality Foods
1
99
Sockeye Salmon Fillets
Grey Cod fillets
1
99
Per
100 gr
Per
100 gr
Fresh
9
99
Hand Peeled Shrimp
580-615gr
With 50% U.S. Grade A Peanuts
49 Per
100 gr
3
49
Janes
Breaded Fish
Salted or Unsalted Mixed Nuts
1
Frozen
Fresh
Quality Fresh
Quality Fresh
Quality Fresh
Family Favourites Trail Mix
Sweet Treats Jelly Beans 600gr
2
99
Per
100 gr
Country Style or Cranberry Cocktail 225-250gr
299
Sweet Treats Chocolaty Buds or Macaroons
400gr
299
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Bakery
Calabrese Buns
Calabrese Bread
3
2
49 8 pack
for
6 pack
Quality Foods
Cinnamon Buns
Wonder
Raisin Butter Tarts
3
Bread or Buns
3
49
570gr or 12’s
69
6 pack
Cake
5
2$
6 pack
for
Cheesecake Slice
Two Layer
8” Apple Pie
4
2$
99
Casa Mendosa
10 Inch Tortillas
8-10’s, 512-640gr
4
99
• Chocolate • Cookies & Creme • Lemon Truffle • Chocolate Orange
9
5
2$
99
for
6
2$ for
Quality Foods • Taste for Life OneCoffee
Organic Single Serve Coffee
A Good Portion
Solo Gi
80gr
50gr
Roasted Pistachios
132gr
599
2 Blue Diamond
Almond Breeze Non-Dairy Beverage
Ground Coffee
340gr
Gluten Free Products
Selected, 227-432gr
4
2$
99
Seattle’s Best Coffee
Udi’s
Energy Bar
for
Annie’s
3
Macaroni & Cheese
99
Selected, 170gr
1.89lt
5
399
99
Spray’N Wash
for
Finish
Airwick
250ml
141gr
Household Royale
Fragrance Candle
Rinse Agent
Resolve Laundry Stain Remover
4
2$
Tiger Towel 6’s
650-946ml
2
99
3
99
4
99
5
99
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Drop in between 4:00 & 6:00 PM for a fresh
NEW APPY SPECIAL!
You do the Pickin! From Our Fresh Produce Aisle MINI IN SIZE MAXIMUM IN FLAVOUR YOUR CHOICE!
7
2$ for
B.C. Grown “Hot House”
California Grown
Celery
4
1lb bag
49
3.28 per kg
Mexico/B.C. Grown “Hot House”
Peru Grown
1
Mixed Coloured Peppers
Satsuma Mandarins
69
Mini Bell Peppers 1lb Bag
B.C. Grown “Heavenly Villagio Marzano”
Mini San Marzano Tomatoes 10oz
California Grown
Fresh Corn on the Cob
for
Mini Watermelon
Spring Roses Bouquet
Per
LB
4
3$
Mexican Grown
4 99 4 2lb bag
3.72 per kg
B.C. Grown “Hot House”
1
Beefsteak Tomatoes
2$ for
Mini Cucumbers
B.C. Grown “Hot House”
Hawaiian Grown
Per
LB Washington “Premium”
1
Fuji Apples
99
4.39 per kg
99
Whole Pineapple
California Grown Green Giant
Baby Cut Carrots 2lb bag
Per
LB
6
2$ for
Natural Organics
4” Vegstarter Selected
12
99 2$ 4
Mexican Grown
Organic Zucchini
for
3.28 per kg
1
49 Per
LB
B.C. Grown “All Seasons”
Organic White & Brown Mushrooms 227gr
5
2$ for
B.C. Grown “Hot House”
Organic Long English Cucumber
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Garage founder passes the baton in Parksville Selective selling process results in an ideal fit between outgoing, incoming owners J.R. RaRdon news@pqbnews.com
Brian and Julie Zimmer took over operation of longtime Parksville business Miles D Automotive on April 1. But the April Fool’s joke actually took place a few months earlier. The Zimmers were already looking to purchase an established auto repair business in B.C. after having owned Calgary’s Heritage Auto Pro for a decade. When he learned through a broker last December that the shop founded by Miles Doughty was on the market, Brian made an appointment and drove his badly vibrating truck from his home in Kamloops for a “secret shopper” experience at the shop off Industrial Way in Parksville. “I knew I had to fix it, but I let it go, knowing I needed something to bring into the shop,” Zimmer said. “I wanted to see the business from the outside looking in. Needless to say, I was impressed.” Upon returning home, Zimmer began the process of purchasing the business. When he returned to Miles D Automotive a few weeks later to “officially” meet Doughty and his wife Lynn, Zimmer was caught out immediately. “Miles and Lynn recognized me right away,” he said. “They just laughed about it.” Looking back now, the change of ownership seems almost pre-ordained. But both couples admit there was a good deal of serendipity involved in bringing the deal together. Now 58 and facing a major heart operation next month, Doughty had been looking to sell the business. But he also wanted to be selective about who came in to take it over — he owned it for 22 years. “We felt a responsibility, not just to our employees but to our longtime customers, that whoever would take over and buy the business would take care of those customers who have been with us all these years,” said Doughty. “I didn’t want to sell the business to anyone unless we felt they could give the same experience to our customers and employees that we offered.” Nearly two years ago Doughty listed the business with a broker and those instructions, and actually turned down
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technician chuck landa, centre, serves as a bridge between outgoing owners miles and lynn doughty, left, and new owners Julie and Brian Zimmer, right, at Parksville’s miles d automotive.
buyers who were unwilling to retain his technicians or otherwise failed to meet his criteria. Meanwhile, B.C.-raised Brian Zimmer was in the process of selling his Calgary auto shop and looking to set up business somewhere back in British Columbia. His wife was a native Albertan, but her parents, Barry and Val Conn, had relocated to Parksville four years ago. “After they moved I came out here to visit and I remember telling Brian, ‘I could see us living here,’” Julie said. The Zimmers never dreamed they would actually find their ideal shop in Parksville, however. They had relocated to Kamloops but Brian remained stymied in his efforts to find the right business until Doughty’s broker called him late last year. “We just looked at each other, like, ‘A
shop in Parksville? Why didn’t we know about this?’” Julie Zimmer said. Not only will the Zimmers continue the tradition of the family owned and run operation, but Miles Doughty will continue to work periodically at the shop, which specializes in European makes — particularly Volvos. The Zimmers were pleased to discover Miles D Automotive utilizes most of the same computer diagnostics and business and workflow practices — down to the same software program — they had used at Heritage Auto Pro. Doughty and Zimmer both trained at the Canadian Institute of Technology after completing their apprenticeships. “Brian and I were actually taught by some of the same instructors,” said Doughty. “The transition was excellent because we both had operated the same
way in our businesses.” The Zimmers have gone from a fourbay shop at Heritage Auto Pro to a threebay garage at Miles D Automotive. But Brian Zimmer said he’s given up nothing in workspace or equipment, and a second-floor loft provides space for parts and inventory. “This building actually has more square footage,” he said. “And I never had high ceilings like this.” Zimmer, a hot rod buff who owns a fully restored 1969 Beaumont convertible, got his start by leasing a three-bay PetroCanada shop in Kamloops. When PetroCanada closed the operation, he moved to Alberta and purchased Heritage Auto Pro, adjacent to Calgary’s historic Heritage district. Doughty spent 16 years as head technician at Williams Automotive in Victoria before starting his first business, Miles Mobile Automotive, also in Victoria. Less that a year later, he moved to Parksville and opened Miles D Automotive in a defunct auto shop just down Industrial Way from the current location. He added his first employee the following year and Lynn, who had been working at Starlight Windows, joined him in the shop at that time. The business moved to its current location in its third year. Current technicians Chuck Landa and Gord Hall have been kept on at Miles D, which services all makes and models. “We feel very positive about them coming in,” said Miles. “We feel they’re going to be able to do as good a job as we did. It will still be a place to go get that personalized service and value for the dollar spent.” The Zimmers, who have purchased a house in Nanoose Bay and who have already been welcomed by both neighbours and customers, already feel like they’re at home. “We want to be very involved in the community, as Miles and Lynn have been,” said Brian. “We stumbled upon Paradise, I guess.” Miles D Automotive is located in Unit A-1002 Herring Gull Way in Parksville. To contact the shop, call 250-248-9679 or email mdauto@shaw.ca.
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Artists prepping for show and sale Second annual open studio will be at Nanoose Place Community Centre on April 30 L auren CoLLins reporter@pqbnews.com
A weekly painting workshop is helping some local artists improve their skills. Nancy Day, Carmen Mongeau and Cindy Mersky get together every Friday at Nanoose Place Community Centre to work separately on their art. Day said the women will work and then break every now and then to have a small critique. She added if someone is working on a painting and they get stuck, the women will also help then. “We’ll say, ‘OK, I need some help’ and we’ll put the painting up on an easel and stand around and talk about it and come up with ideas and let them know what parts of the painting are good and where it could improve a bit and if it’s finished,” Day said. “We give each other a lot of moral and visual support for it.” One day, though, Merksy taught the women a different style of art, decollage, which is what Mersky does. “That’s what we’re experimenting with today,” said Mongeau, adding that isn’t how most of their weekly meet ups go. “She’s teaching us to use tissue paper between layers of paint, and then what you do is you rip it, you gouge into it and rip it so you get these beautiful colours and shapes,” Mongeau said. Day said it was a day to play. “We’re not doing our own work. We’re just launching off into something really different for Carmen
and I,” said Day. “We’re just having a great deal of fun. Abstract and layering of paper and pulling it off and putting it back down and assessing what you’ve got.” These weekly get togethers have been happening since January, and Day said it was Mongeau’s idea to paint together. “I said ‘wonderful idea,’ and she said ‘Nancy, you find a spot and I’ll find another artist.’ So that’s exactly what we did,” Day said. Along with Day, Mongeau and Mersky is Barbara Scott, but she has been busy the past few weeks and hasn’t been able to attend. “We like a small group. We’re finding that three to four is just perfect,” Day said. All of the pieces they have been working on will be in their Fine Art Open Studio Show and Sale on April 30 and May 1 which also coincides with the Nanoose Bay Studio Tour. Day, who was involved with the tour for a few years, said their studio showcase is an offshoot of the Nanoose Bay Studio Tour. “We decided that we should have a one-day showcase with all the artists that were on the Nanoose Studio Tour.” “We rented the small room and there were 14 of us in that room. It was a great success to the point that they decided that the next year they would enlarge into the gymnasium and invite other guest artists.” Now the fine art open studio is in its second year. See Artwork, page A29
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Nancy Day working on a decollage piece on April 1 at the Nanoose Place Community Centre during a weekly meet up of three artists.
UkULeLe PLAyeR COMINg ThIS SATURDAy
James Hill coming to Errington Latest album The Old Silo ‘isn’t all sex, drugs and ukulele’ James Hill has made a career as an awardwinning ukulele player and songwriter, and one of his next stops is Errington Hall. Hill’s latest album, The Old Silo, was released in 2014. The album is described as having an “edginess and swagger unlike anything Hill has ever recorded.” “The thundering baritone ukulele riff in She’s Still Got It wouldn’t be out of place on a Black Keys album and the grinding slide ukulele in Tie One On would make Jack White proud,” said a press release. “But it’s not all sex, drugs and ukulele,” the release added. “There are moments of stillness and striking beauty: the haunting strings in For
So Long, the intimacy of I’ll Never Know and the country ballad If Wishes Were Horses show Hill hasn’t entirely lost himself in overdriven amps and pounding drums.” Hill will be joined by his musical partner and wife, cellist Anne Janelle. The April 23 show is Hill’s second time at Errington Hall. Tickets are general admission for $25 and can be purchased at Cranky Dog Music, Heaven on Earth and Errington General Store. Creekmore’s Coffee and refreshments are available. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. For more information, visit www.erringtonhall.bc.ca. — Submitted by Errington Hall
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“(Last year) was a great success as well and it’s on again this year in conjunction, we’re the fine art part of the showcase,” Day said. Mongeau said the women will have work for sale at their fine art open studio. “We have new works that will be displayed and we have discounted the work so that we’re offering studio prices,” Mongeau said. She said she usually has larger canvases, but this year she’s introducing smaller works. Mongeau said she decided to do some pieces on canvas and some on Japanese washi paper. “It’s a whole new body of work,” Mongeau said, adding that she will have about 25 pieces for the show and sale. “They’re all different. Some are kind of lightly realistic and some are very abstract and some are in between. There’s enough for everybody.” Day said her work at the show and sale will be mostly acrylic on canvas in various sizes and various prices. “It’s based on many of my walks through the woodlands and forests of this area. I became quite captivated with the beautiful composition of trees, but mostly their trunks,” Day said. “So the work in this show is based on capturing the images of white birch. They are like the ladies of the forest and all the beautiful fall colours and spring colours intermingled with them.”
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Cindy Mersky working on a decollage piece on April 1 at the Nanoose Place Community Centre. Mersky was teaching Day and Mongeau how to create a decollage piece.
Day said she has always been a landscape artist. “This is a subject that’s really captured my heart and my attention. I’ve had a great deal of fun producing these works. To me, they’re quite magical,” she said. The show and sale is on April 30 and May 1 at the Nanoose Place Community Centre (2925 NW Bay Rd.) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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PQB HISTORY
For a look back at life in Parksville Qualicum Beach, tour the Qualicum Beach Museum, 587 Beach Road, Qualicum Beach
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Power House began operations in 1930 WENDY MAURER NEWS Contributor
The brick and steel building at the top of the hill on Beach Road is now an icon. “It is an excellent example of the adaptive re-use of an historic building. In the early 1980’s the municipality purchased the building and leased it to the local historical society who, in turn restored it for use as a museum. The Power House was constructed at the site as a private power generating facility during the years 1929-30 and began to operate in 1930. The steel framed building with brick infill, was built by Turley Brothers. The bricklayer, Jim Foster, was a skilled tradesman of the Salvation Army Community, whose members had migrated from Great Britain in 1910 and established a settlement in Coombs. Two diesel engines with the characteristic large flywheel, were installed in the building. The first manager of the power system was Mr Francis Lindsay who on May 1, 1930, moved into an adjacent house provided for his use. The main generator was likely powered by a 165 h.p. Merilees, Bickerton and Day from Birmingham England. The backup generator, for lighter loads and short periods was powered by a smaller 55 h.p. diesel, thought to be a Vivian. The largest engine sat about 18 inches (457 cm) above the floor so that the 6 - 7 foot (2 m) flywheel could turn in a well formed in the concrete floor.
ARTS IN BRIEF Royal Exhibit
The exhibit “Royalty in our Midst” is officially opening to the public on Thursday, April 21. The display is in honour of the Queen’s 90th birthday on Thursday. Refreshments will be served including royal birthday cake generously donated by Qualicum Foods. This regal exhibition will appeal to all ages. On display will be objects from the late Gladys Killip’s collection of royal memorabilia as well as the magnificent Queen’s Bowl on loan from the Robert Held Gallery. Beautiful bone China tea cups and fine British linens will be for sale in the museum gift shop. —Submitted by the QB Museum
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The Power House, now part of the Qualicum Beach Museum, first started operations in 1930.
The power station served an area from Craig’s Crossing to Dashwood, starting with about 85 customers and expanding to 675. In the period prior to 1930 there had only been a few isolated private plants, such as the one at Qualicum Beach Inn and those at several local residences. The area served by the Qualicum Beach Power House was connected to the main network at Craig’s Crossing around 1935 after which the generators were used only occasionally as standby systems in case of power failure. There are recollections of workers driving to Craig’s Crossing
and climbing a pole to connect or disconnect the lines when the power failedsome say that bills were delivered by horseback. In about 1946 the generators were removed and apparently re-installed in Sechelt. The flywheels seem to have gone to Port Clements in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Around this time the power for the area was supplied by the BC Power Commission which in 1954, became BC Hydro. The Power House was used as an office and the compound as the hydro work yard. The facility became crowded and outdated and in the early
‘80s the new Fern Street office was built and a large work yard developed. The house that was on the Hydro site was moved one property down the hill and is now a private residence. The Society plans to develop the current Power House to provide a display of past hydro power systems, and using solar and wind generators, a glimpse of future emerging alternative sources of energy. This will demonstrate the fit between past, present and future. (Developed from archived documents with thanks to Tony Taylor.)
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Vancouver Island University’s Milner Gardens Spring Plant Sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 23 and 24 at Milner Gardens & Woodland (2179 West Island Highway, Qualicum Beach). Great discounts on heritage trees, shrubs and perennials propagated on site by Milner volunteers. Master gardeners will help answer your plant questions or choose the right plant. Come early for the best selection. Enjoy walking through the rhododendron collection as it begins the spring bloom. Winter rates admission for plant sale weekend: Adults $5.25, Youth $3.25, children 12 and under accompanied by an adult, Milner Gardens members, and current VIU students with card enter free. The Tea Room is open 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the gardens close at 5 p.m. with last entry at 4:30 p.m. The gardens open daily starting April 21. For more information, please e-mail milnergardens@shaw.ca, phone 250-752-6153 or visit https://www2.viu.ca/milnergardens. — Submitted by Milner Gardens
Live music at Smoke ‘N Water
Seacruze will be playing at Smoke ’N Water in Nanoose Bay this Saturday. The band from Victoria plays a wide variety of music ranging from jazz and Latin to popular rock music. The show starts at 7 p.m. — Submitted by Seacruze
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The QBSAC wish to thank all who helped make our Spring Sale such a success. We encourage all to support these local businesses who so generously donated to the sale. • Qualicum Foods • Save On Foods • Dolly’s Hardware • Arbutus Emporium • Second Avenue Clearance • Melody’s Gifts • Mulberry Bush Books • Making Waves Hair Salon
• Magnum Opus • QB Pharmasave • Bullseye Sales • Qualicum Sushi • Deez Bar & Grill • Lefty’s • Oh So Yummy Cafe • Bailey’s
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If you are not using Synthetic Oil in your vehicle and equipment you are running in the past century. Amsoil introduced the first 100% synthetic oil for retail sale in 1972. Today, Synthetic oils are required by most automotive manufacturers and engine producers. The constant driving of daily life means oil changes happen all too often, especially if you change oil every 5,000 KM’s. AMSOIL synthetic motor oils last longer in service, allowing you the convenience of changing oil less often while giving your vehicle outstanding protection against extreme heat and wear. AMSOIL offers premium oils including a synthetic formula specifically for European Vehicles. Specialty oils are available for all engine types, including Diesel, Marine, Motorcycle, ATV, Classic auto and Industrial. AMSOIL lubricants offer, Advanced wear protection, Excellent engine performance, Maximum fuel economy and Convenience of extended drain intervals. Your MidIsland Dealer is; Don Rudman of Qualicum Beach. Don is a certified Interprovincial Automotive Repair Technician. For the past 10 years Don worked as an Emission Test Technician with Environment Canada in their Ottawa test facility. He dyno tested all engine platforms from highway tractor trucks to chainsaws. These gruelling dyno tests proved the value of a superior lubricant. After witnessing the performance of AMSOIL lubricants Don decided to become a dealer for this proven product. For all your vehicle and equipment lubrication needs call on Don Rudman for an expert evaluation. “Preferred Customer” and “Retail Accounts” are available. Internet ordering comes with home delivery within 2–3 days.
Allison is a psychotherapist with over 22 years experience. Counselling adults and occasionally adolescents, Allison brings extensive experience and compassion to her clients. She offers clients a range of therapy: solutionfocused to long-term and in-depth. Her unique training and experience are in: family caregiving, chronic health concerns, anxiety, and grappling with the difficulties of Post-traumatic stress disorder. Allison is highly trained as an EMDR therapist and brings 18+ years of experience to people wanting to get over disabling memories. Allison is affiliated with several Employee Assistant Programs, Parksville’s wonderful SOS, Crime Victim Assistance Program, First Nations’ Health Authority, Counsellor Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society, Stroke Recovery Groups in both 250.927.6548 Oceanside and Victoria as well as the Family allisonreevescounselling.com Caregivers of BC.
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Wisdom & Confidentiality Allison has more than 20 years of direct counselling experience. Empathy & Understanding She has journeyed through the battle of chronic illness. Guidance & Coaching She can help make sense of complex family caregiving issues. Specializing in: Family caregiving, Chronic physical illness, Chronic pain, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Since its introduction of the world’s first API-rated synthetic motor oil in 1972, AMSOIL has helped motorists save time, money and effort by extending the time between oil changes. With three advanced formulations to choose from, you can select the oil change interval that fits your lifestyle and comfort zone. CANAMLUBE You Local Dealer -Don Rudman 250-752-4408 canamlube@gmail.com www.SyntheticSolutions.ca/Parksville
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Our Denturists Michelle and Allan have many years of experience and are highly trained in all areas of denture fabrication. Michelle has been a certified BPS lecturer and instructor – trained in Liechtenstein Europe – for a leading dental company Ivoclar North America for over 10 years. Allan has a passion and extensive knowledge in overdenture implant solutions. Together, Allan and Michelle can offer you complete customized treatment options.
Transform Your Life with Implants Hundreds of our patients have improved their quality of life by choosing denture over implant solutions. Dental Implants are a good option for most denture wearers and age should not be a deterrent. There are many different implant treatment options available that are affordable and accessible to most people. Dental implants not only provide secure teeth, they provide the opportunity for beautiful aesthetics, full function and confidence.
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What an amazing spring we have had up to this point. Half way through April and we have already enjoyed a bit of summer. Tom actually got his first sunburn of the season on April 12th! While we all enjoy the sunshine, we can get to the point of having too much of a good thing. This can occur when our homes become unbearable due to solar heat gain through our windows and/or skylights. Thankfully, there are solutions that can effectively limit the solar heat gain in your home.
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At NorthPacific Window we have products that can drop your Solar heat gain to as low as 15% Solar Heat Gain Coefficient. (SHGC). These products have the added advantage of keeping the heat in the house in the winter, reducing or eliminating condensation on your windows, and adding to the resale value of your home. Now is the time to start planning your window upgrades to beat the heat this summer.
Cracks or chips in your car’s windshield can create glare from the sun and negatively affect your info@northpacificwindow.ca visibility. Now that the streets have been swept and the highways are free of gravel, this is a great time to have your windshield repaired or replaced to ensure a safe summer of driving. And remember, NorthPacific Window guarantees all of our work. Look for us at the Home show on Mother’s day weekend in Parksville.
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At 19 years old Andrew McLane was the youngest Realtor in Canada. Now, almost 12 years later, Andrew has established himself as a rising star in the industry. Profiled in Vancouver Island’s top 25 under 25, Andrew has been recognized as one of the most accomplished young businessmen in the region. Andrew was born and raised in the Oceanside area with strong ties to the community through a large network of family and friends. As a new breed of realtor, Andrew brings an exceptional understanding to the opportunities that technology presents in the practice of marketing and selling real estate. His passion for real estate shines through when dealing wit h buyers and sellers. Remain realistic and practical in the process of selling and/or purchasing a home in a hot market. ANDREW MCLANE Make a list of your priorities – Where can you make Real Estate Agent compromises or sacrifices. Finishes and appliances can be changed: Location cannot. Make sure you are (250) 951-1141 prioritizing properly. www.andrewmclane.com Look over what’s available before you get serious – Get a handle on the local market without the pressure of feeling like you need to make an offer. Learn about the kinds of homes and neighbourhoods you like, or don’t, and which features matter to you. Work to understand the current housing market – Try to successfully navigate through your current cirPersonal Real Estate Corporation cumstances .When it comes to real estate, the more you know, the better Don’t wait for market prices to change – There is a chance that prices will go down, but waiting too long isn’t in your best interest. A home is not just a place to live -- it is an investment. Begin building equity in your home now. You may decide to move later, but begin contributing to your net worth in the meantime.
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De Rooy, Isabella Celebration of Life for Isabella De Rooy
Thursday, April 21, 2016, 1pm Yates Funeral Service, 1000 Allsbroke Rd, Parksville, BC May the winds of love blow softly And whisper so you’ll hear That we will always miss you And wish that you were here
AGM Meeting Parksville Community Centre Society Annual General Meeting June 16th. at 7pm. Nomination Committee is accepting applications for becoming a director. Please contact the Centre to have a form sent to you. 250-248-6234 Application deadline is May 5th. HIP OR knee replacement? Arthritic Conditions/COPD? Restrictions in walking/dressing? Disability tax credit $2,000 tax credit $20,000 refund. Apply today for assistance: 1-844-453-5372.
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January 2, 1943 – April 4, 2016
Lorraine, known as Carol to family and friends, passed peacefully in the Palliative Care Unit of NRGH on Monday, April 4th with her husband by her side. She is survived by her loving husband of 48 years, Dan; sister, Arlene Watkin; brother, Reg Fryling; stepdaughter, Cathie, Wally and Keenan Thacker; stepson, David, Karen and Lauren Aspden; nieces and nephews, Shelly and Bruce, Tracy and Robin, Wendy, Jen and Mamoud, Heather and Colin, and Chris and Sarah; cousins, Gary and Roberta, Ed and Penny, Norman and Lila, and Pat and Jake. Carol had a fabulous and fulfilling life of family, flying, sailing and travelling the world. Born in Calgary, Alberta Carol lived in Jasper, Inuvik, Banff and Nanoose Bay. The family’s heartfelt thank you goes out to all those involved in Carol’s care during her illness, especially Dr Peter Haslett of Qualicum Beach, the Palliative Care team at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, the staff at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, and the Oceanside Heath Care Centre in Parksville. Carol will be greatly missed by her family and friends. A Celebration of Life will be held for Carol at a later date. To send a condolence to the family please visit www.yatesfuneral.ca YATES FUNERAL SERVICE & CREMATORIUM (250-248-5859) in care of arrangements.
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Kele Rae
Kele Rae passed away at the age of 77 on April 6, 2016. She is survived by her daughters, Sheila and Debbie, her son, Randy (Susan), her grandsons, Troy and Christopher (Gailynne) and great granddaughters, Hailie, Kai, Kallie and Kinsey. She was predeceased by her parents, her son, Murray and her brother, Melvin. Kele had a love for God, animals and nature. A special thanks to the staff at Eagle Park Health Care Facility. Celebration of life to be held at a future date in Edmonton, AB. In lieu of flowers, donations to the North Island Wildlife Recovery Assoc or SPCA.
William Alan McDonald January 1, 1968 – March 25, 2016
It is with heavy hearts we announce that Bill has passed away. He was born in New Westminster and moved to Little Qualicum in 1972 where he resided all his life. He was a member of local 170. His career as a welder took him to many locations in BC throughout the years. Bill will be sadly missed by Christine and their daughter Rachel, parents Alan and Marlene, sister Suzanne and extended family. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Qualicum Legion on Saturday, April 23rd from 2:30-4:00 pm.
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In a game in which hits were at a premium, the most important one was the hit that never fell. With a runner on third charging home with the potential tying run, Parksville Royals shortstop Thomas Green raced back into shallow left field, reached up and snared a soft line drive by Nanaimo’s Finn Martin to preserve a 3-2 victory over the Pirates in B.C. Premier Baseball League play Satur-
day at Springwood Park. Nanaimo repaid the favour in the second game, holding off a wild Parksville rally in the bottom of the seventh inning and stranding the tying and winning runs in a 5-4 win over the Royals. “We’re really pleased with the day, overall,” Royals head coach Dave Wallace said. “We were down 5-0 before we even got to bat, so that second game was almost like a win. “If we’d have gotten that last base hit we’d be ecstatic.” The split left the young Royals squad at 2-2 in league play heading into another doubleheader Sunday
at Victoria. The team will be back home this Saturday to face White Rock at 1 p.m. “Wins were hard to come by last season, so this has been a good start,” Wallace said, noting a season-opening road win in Victoria a week earlier. “Learning how to win is habit-forming.” In Saturday’s opener, Parksville starter Adam McKilliken hurled five innings of two-hit ball for the win, and Aidan Brot came in for the save with two scoreless innings of relief. “That was a great play,” McKilliken said of Green’s game-saving catch. “He’s got really nice range.”
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alex Jinda of nanaimo slides across the plate just ahead of the tag by parksville royals catcher spencer Walton with the first run of saturday’s b.C. premier league doubleheader at springwood park.
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If this is how Jake Lane struggles, rival golfers could be in trouble once he finds his groove. Lane, a Grade 11 student playing at Alberni Golf Club for the first time matched teammate Aiden Goodfellow with a low round of 73 to help pace the Kwalikum Secondary School golf team to victory
last Wednesday in an eight-team invitational tournament. “When I’m playing a course blind like today, I play on the defence a lot,” said Lane. “I think I only used three drivers; I was just trying to limit the damage.” Lane fired a 37 on the front nine and closed with a 36 to finish three-over on the par-70 course. Goodfellow, a Grade 10, went out with a 36 and came in with a
37 to match Lane for the round. The pair finished one stroke ahead of Tyrus Brach of Powell River’s Brooks Secondary (74) and three strokes clear of Alberni’s Spencer Rhodes (76). Shririn Anjarwalla of Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Secondary, the 2014 B.C. Juvenile Girls Champion, shot a 72 from the ladies’ tees to post the low score of the afternoon.
Kwalikum Secondary, the reigning provincial runner-up, got an 87 from Masato Wilson and an 89 from Moritz Wagner to finish with a team total of 322. Anton Stamme, who rounded out the five-member travelling squad, tallied 98. Host Alberni District Secondary School parlayed the home-course advantage to a second-place finish at 340. See ballenaS golferS, page A42
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Two late goals, including a breakaway score at the final whistle, allowed Dover Bay to break open a close game in a 5-2 senior girls soccer victory at Kwalikum Secondary School Thursday afternoon. The Kondors, who will host the AA North Island Championships May 9-10, were punching above their weight against the Class AAA Dolphins, from Nanaimo’s largest secondary school. “We have six girls in club soccer; they have 20,” Kwalikum coach Ruth Stefanek said. “We have a few that have never played soccer before. This is only their third game together and they’re still learning to work together as a team.” The squad opened the season with a 5-1 win over Wellington and dropped a 2-0 decision to Nanaimo District Secondary School, both on the road, before hosting Dover Bay. KSS will host Wellington in a rematch today
at 3:30 p.m. and then welcome NDSS the following Tuesday, April 26. “We lost to NDSS last week, but they are beatable,” Stefanek said following the Dover Bay contest. “I think we will be surprising them (next) week.” Alex Shaw scored both goals for the Kondors Thursday. The first was a 20-yard blast from the centre of the field, off snappy passes from Larissa Stefanek and Cara Burch, that tied the match 1-1 in the 18th minute. That shot followed a wild sequence of near-misses at the Dolphins’ net, during which Reece Koch, Montanna Mosher and Shaw each tried shots with Dover Bay goalkeeper Hailey Zonneveld out of position after ranging high in the box. A pack of scrambling Dover defenders managed to get back and block each attempt. Shaw’s second goal came on an eight-yard boot from the right wing after she beat the Dover Bay defence on a rush, and
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Cara burch of Kwalikum secondary, left, duels Kaylie rafuse of dover bay for possession of the ball during their teams’ senior girls soccer match in Qualicum beach on thursday.
drew Kwalikum to 3-2 in the 62nd minute. “It was a close game most of the way,” Stefanek said. “The girls didn’t do badly, and we lost three players at halftime to work commitments.” The Kwalikum team is made
up of 19 players from divergent backgrounds and experience levels, united in their desire to represent their school on the pitch, Stafanek said. Shaw and Charlotte Palmer capably held down the centremidfield positions Thursday,
and Mosher, a B.C. female midget AAA hockey standout who played goal in the team’s first two games, adds athleticism and multi-position versatility. Thursday’s game featured the debut in goal by Ana Franco-Costales, an international student from Spain who made several big saves against the speedy Dolphins’ strikers. The Kondors also introduced two Grade 8 players, Olivia Williams and Catalina Magana, to the Senior level. Missing was Grade 9 standout Jodi Lekx, who pairs with Larissa Stefanek in a “dynamic duo” in the centre back spots for the team. Ruth Stefanek is supported by assistant coaches Emma Taylor, a Vancouver Island University grad who played in the school’s soccer program, and by Tyler Lucente, a Grade 12 student at Kwalikum who has helped with the program for three years. “It’s great to have some young coaches for the girls,” said Stefanek.
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Parksville’s Ballenas Secondary placed fourth at 356. The Whalers were paced by Michael McKee, who turned around a shaky start with a birdie on the par-three fourth hole. McKee finished with an 86 and was closely followed by teammates Daryl Setter (87) and Connor Freeman (88). Ethan Busch added a 95 and Devon Matheson shot 106. The round was played after a day of steady rain in the Alberni Valley, and was marked by wind gusts and occasional light showers. “It’s not a long course, but it played to its full length today,” said Daryl Britz, Ballenas coach. “Still, for all the water they got, the greens were in good shape.” Both teams return to tournament play this Thursday at Crown Isle Golf Club in Courtenay. Ballenas will then host a tournament next Monday, April 25, on its home course at Morningstar Golf Club with a 1 p.m. shotgun start.
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