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On the Cover: Coming from a highly esteemed carving family, Junior Henderson has been surrounded by his people’s art and culture all his life. Now he dedicates his life to keeping that culture alive and vibrant through his own art. Photo by Paul Rudan

JUNE 2016

Aboriginal Day

Celebrate the richness and contributions of First Nations

Junior Henderson uses art to express his

cultural identity

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Chef Matt MacDonald from Berwick at the Sea and his team will be creating a dish with local albacore tuna for the gala.

“I think there’s a lot of diversity in background and I think that basically creates collaboration,” he said.

MacDonald was on the founding board of the festival and he was chosen as one of six featured chefs for this year’s gala dinner, which will be the final one.

The team will be creating a Thai sweet and sour dish using tuna loin for the gala dinner. Earlier this spring, they started preserving limes so they can make a relish out of them, and they were planning to make a slaw with Thai vegetables. They were going to dredge the tuna loin with a peppery dredge and sear it off on barbecues.

MacDonald will be joined at the BC Shellfish and Seafood Festival by Whitney Ramn, sous-chef Shawn Galway, lead host Shayna Greenwood and servers Allison Graham and Elizabeth Crum. MacDonald jokes that he has been cooking “since pterodactyls were flying.” He has worked for Berwick facilities for almost 10 years and has also had a couple of his own restaurants, including in Victoria and Courtenay. Ramm has worked at Berwick by the Sea for about six months, and before that, she worked in camps in northern Alberta and at Salmon Point Restaurant and Pub.

“What you end up doing in things like this is in many cases, you are choosing from your stock of dishes that you normally do, but it’s a bit more fun to conceptualize and to try to put something together,” said MacDonald. “So I looked up a recipe, I entirely changed it up and basically took the ingredients that were in the recipe and mucked around, played around until I came up with something that was right.”

MacDonald and his team plan to do a tasting of their dish for the Galway has a lot of experience in Berwick residents about a week Asian food and has worked at many before the gala, which MacDonald different places in Campbell River, is excited about because it will including Wasabiya Japanese Sushi create an energy at the facility. Cafe, the Royal Coachman Inn and “In that case, we’ll do a microthe Heriot Bay Inn. version of the whole thing, mostly Greenwood has been working at just a tasting to get a sense of all Berwick by the Sea for just over a the flavours and the garnishing year and has been at the hospitality that we’re going to do,” said business for about eight years. She MacDonald. “That’s a great ran a local nightclub here for a opportunity for the residents to get couple of years and before that, she behind it and it also allows to do worked at Wasabiya for five years. last-minute touches, so it’s like a Graham has been at Berwick by the test run.” Sea just over a year and was at the MacDonald is excited to bring his Heriot Bay Inn before that. She has team to the festival and showcase been in the hospitality business for what they can do. seven years. “Because we’ve got a team going Crum has been at Berwick by the there, I think it’s good for the Sea for about five months and she morale of the team,” he said. “I has worked in hospitality for about think it’s great. I think one of the eight years. Besides acting for the things is that Berwicks in general Tidemark Theatre, she has worked have gone out of their way to at the Riptide Marine Pub and the put staffs together that include Heriot Bay Inn. fine-dining chefs and with that in mind, that allows us to showcase MacDonald says there’s a lot of what we’re capable of doing. An strength in the team. Photo courtesy of Morgan Cross

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event like this creates an energy that we can put forward, even in the service staff too, in terms of they’re going to be doing some fine dining where they have to lay platters very quickly and a lot of wines and things like that are being poured. It requires staff all around that are very professional. And it gives us an opportunity to do something brand-new and off-site.” Ramn and Greenwood are both really looking forward to the experience. “It will be the first time that I’ve ever done anything like that in such a large scale and professional situation,” said Ramn. This will be Greenwood’s first time taking part in something of this scale as well. “It sounded like it would be a lot of fun to do,” she said. “I like doing a lot of catering events and being with people.” The BC Shellfish Growers Association Annual Gala Dinner takes place June 17 at Filberg Heritage Lodge and Park in Comox. After a raw oyster bar reception, guests sit down to a six-course meal and each course is created by a different BC chef and paired with a BC wine or craft beer. Along with MacDonald and his team, this year’s featured chefs are

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cultural identity Junior Henderson is doing his part to keep his culture alive, because he knows how close it was to being lost forever. The eldest son of the eldest son of Master Carver Sam Henderson – a name known around the world for his cultural art done right here in and around Campbell River – Junior’s life has been surrounded by his people’s art and culture since birth, and while it was never “forced” on him, he says, it was natural that he would absorb it organically and make it an important aspect of his life. His father, Henderson says, “went away when he was young to go learn his culture and learn who he was and where he was really from. He knew he wasn’t just from here in Campbell River, and he wanted to learn the language, as well.” And so as Henderson watched his father make button blankets, help with potlatches, and engage with his culture in any and every way he could, it just kind of rubbed off on him. “I was brought up in that life. I grew up seeing that culture, being surrounded by it, having it just be part of life. I was dragged, I guess you could say, to all these things, and I didn’t really have an

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‘It takes work to be a cultural person’ – Junior Henderson uses understanding of it when I was younger, but as I got older I started to understand.” As he was about to graduate from high school, like many others, he was trying to figure out how he’d make a living, “and my uncle was doing pretty well as a carver, and I knew my grandfather was a renowned artist worldwide, and I kinda wanted to just be like him.” So when, after a couple of years working in forestry, his uncle took him under his wing in a protege/mentor kind of role. That was 20 or so years ago, now, and he’s never looked back.

Kwakiutl Bear Pole his grandfather carved as part of the Route of Totems Centennial project in 1966, and had stood overlooking the strait at the Museum at Campbell River for years. Over the years since its creation, however, issues of ownership and responsibility for its upkeep and maintenance became clouded, so it, unfortunately, deteriorated beyond repair despite attempts to restore it, and Henderson was commissioned to replace it. While he gets excited about every project he works on, “this one’s a little extra exciting,” he admits.

“I guess at this point, I’ve devoted more than half my life to be like Sam Henderson – who I hardly knew,” he says, looking down at the large log outside the carver’s shed out on the spit that he’s skinning and preparing to begin work on, giving it a loving pat with the palm of his hand.

“My grandfather was fortunate to be a part of that group that revived the culture from the era when you weren’t allowed to celebrate it,” he says, “and now here I am replacing a part of that legacy that he brought back into people’s lives, in a way.”

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his art to express his cultural identity is just the way Henderson lives. After he learned to carve, under his uncle’s tutelage, he wanted more. “Carving, singing, dancing, I got involved in all of it,” he says. He wanted to, as he puts it, be “a cultural person.”

doing and keeping out people strong and proud.” “I believe in a lot of different things that are spiritual,” Henderson says, “but that was just something truly magical.” So he’s still at it.

“Culture is a way of life,” he says. “It’s not something you walk into and out of. It’s something you’re a part of. I try my best to be a role model – that person that somebody can look up to.” But it’s not easy to live that way, he says, but, as he says, “you have to work at it, like anything else in life that’s worth doing, I guess. But I’ve devoted my life to it.” But there was a time, Henderson says, “not too long ago,” when he felt like giving up on the carving aspect of his life. “The market was really bad, and I was, like, oh, man, I gotta get a real job,” he says with a laugh. But not long after that thought started creeping into his mind – consuming him, really – he was up in Alert Bay for a potlatch, and something changed his mind. “One of the nights I was there, a pretty respected carver who I look up to gave me this talk at, like, three in the morning, about the gift I have and the talents that I carry, and it was just amazing. He couldn’t have known what I was thinking, and here he was, giving me this talk about how important it is that I’m doing what I’m

And he’ll be back down at the Transformations on the Shore competition this month in Willow point, as well. “I’ve been doing it 15 years straight now, I think,” he says. He watched the first few, he says, but it took him a few years of watching to build up the confidence to sign up. Once he did, however, he was hooked. He’s won basically every category on offer at the competition, he says, but that’s not what’s important about participating. “I’ve gained a lot of skills from going in that contest,” he says, “and it’s also

another opportunity for me to give back using my skills and my culture. And he enjoys the challenge of turning around a carving in a short time. “I’m used to spending a month on a piece, right? So then to go whip one out in a couple of days … well, you’ve gotta go in with a good plan, and your time is precious in those kinds of competitions. Every minute is important, so it’s a totally different kind of experience.” These events are also about the camaraderie. Many of the carvers at a competition like Transformations on the Shore come every year – or most years – and Henderson says he enjoys meeting up with them whenever they come back. “Some of those guys, man, they just travel around carving, selling enough work to make it up the road to the next competition, and they’ve got some great stories to share. They’re fun guys to hang out with.” The public can go hang out with them, too, this June 22-26, as the wood chips fly from the chainsaws down at the 20th annual Transformations on the Shore at Frank James Park in Willow Point.

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Story by Alistair Taylor The Campbell River Chapter of Cystic Fibrosis Canada holds a successful fundraising golf tournament, dinner and auction every year and a major part of that success has been due to its patron, retired hockey star Rod Brind’Amour. Over 20 years the Rod Brind’Amour Golf Classic raised $1.5 million for the search for a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. Then last year, Brind’Amour himself announced that the young player who had been accompanying him to the annual event for the last five years had signed on as co-patron of the successful community event. That meant a name change was in order and it was announced at last year’s golf classic that it would henceforth be known as the Rod Brind’Amour/ Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Golf Classic, Dinner and Auction. “Last year before the event, Rod came to the committee,” said Chris Black, an organizing committee member, longtime activist for cystic fibrosis and a former executive of Cystic Fibrosis Canada. “It was his idea to ask Ryan if he would consider lending his name to the event.” Right from the start nearly 21 years ago, Brind’Amour has wanted it to be a classy event that made sure every penny raised went directly into Cystic Fibrosis research and support for patients. But such is Brind’Amour’s concern for the event that he wanted to ensure it continued to be a success and that meant evaluating what could make it better. In doing that, Brind’Amour, now a few years

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removed from his playing days, was obviously looking to the future and concluded that the event needed some new blood. He felt the event needed a new name associated with it that would keep it fresh in the public eye and maintain its relevance to a new generation. Burnaby’s Nugent-Hopkins burst into the National Hockey League as a highly touted rookie in the 2011-2012 season. He has since become a young star in the game. But it was his mom that proved to be a connection to Brind’Amour, the retired hockey star and member of the Carolina Hurricanes coaching staff. Frankie Hester, a volunteer with the Brind’Amour golf classic lives in Vancouver and comes up here every year to help with the event. That volunteer knows Nugent-Hopkins’ mother Deb and admires Brind’Amour and what he does for CF. Nugent-Hopkins’ mother knew what a great event the golf classic is and what a wonderful job Brind’Amour does with it each year and how passionate and committed he is to the event. “And so Deb, she thought that would be a nice thing for Ryan to become involved in,” Black said. Being from Burnaby, Campbell River was close to Nugent-Hopkins’ summer home and so the committee asked the Nugent-Hopkins if Ryan would like to get involved. “I think it’s really thanks to Deb that she encouraged him to become involved,” Black said. So Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (RNH, as he’s often nicknamed) attended that first year and met with young people with cystic fibrosis and had a really good time with Brind’Amour.

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“They just really seemed to connect,” Black said. Another thing that helped NugentHopkins decide to get involved was the welcome he received from the community. “I think our community really was happy to see him and really opened their arms to him. It was ‘Welcome Ryan and we’re so happy you came,’” Black said. Since then Nugent-Hopkins has come back every year and last year it was decided to approach him. Brind’Amour wanted the event to keep the strong support from the community going and one way to do that is to have new blood. “It was important to him, anyway, that we have a hockey player who is actually playing because he feels there’s a little bit more interest,” Black said. “We believe there’s a lot of interest and support in this community just for Rod because of who he is but in his mind he just felt it was a good thing and he really liked what Ryan was doing and the fact that Ryan was pretty committed.” Nugent-Hopkins is committed to the event now and continues to support Cystic Fibrosis Canada by doing an event for

the Edmonton chapter during his hockey season. He has has met some young people with CF there and developed some relationships with them, especially the teenage boys who really look to him as a role model. “Sometimes that’s the stage when they start having some difficulty complying with their medication routine and their physio routine,” Black said. “Ryan’s been really encouraging to the kids to keep at it, keep working hard, stay healthy and so he’s been a little bit of an inspiration. That’s often a stage where their health starts to decline anyway. It’s even more important for them to keep going.” Kids at that age often find it hard to keep going because they don’t feel they’re getting any better and they’re often having to increase their medications. “Because that’s what CF is, it just gets worse and worse,” Black said. Once known as a childhood illness because sufferers rarely lived into adulthood, CF now has more adult patients in Canada than children. But there is still further to go.

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“I didn’t think we’d still be here doing this 20 years later,” Black’s daughter Kim Wood said during her address to last year’s banquet. “I thought we’d have a cure.” And that’s what the Rod Brind’Amour/Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Golf Classic, Dinner and Auction’s goal is to help find a cure. This year’s event is on June 18 with the golf at Storey Creek and the dinner and auction at the Sportsplex. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $45 each and available by calling Bev, 250-276-8600. Dinner is catered buy Quay West Kitchen and Catering. The M.C. will be Bruce Williams and the auctioneer is Jason Fitzgerald. But because it now has new blood in the form of a new co-patron, it needed a new name – the Rod Brind’Amour/Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Golf Classic, Dinner and Auction. It’s one of the biggest fundraising success stories in Campbell River and it all began 21 years ago with a little girl asking the big hockey star if he could help out his home town’s new fundraiser for cystic fibrosis research. Wood (née Black) was a young girl struggling with cystic fibrosis, a disease that killed people by the time they were in their early 20s. The organizers of the then-new golf tournament were bandying about names of celebrities that could attach their names to the event and Campbell Riverite Brind’Amour’s name came up. The plucky, 12-year-old Wood said she would contact the player and drafted up a letter sent to him care of his team at the time, the Philadelphia Flyers. “Back then I was a younger kid in the NHL,” Brind’Amour recalled last year. “I never really viewed myself as a role model.”

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Brind’Amour set the standard back in 1995, agreeing to sign on as long as it was a classy affair and that all the money go towards fighting the disease. Brind’Amour has attended every year and covers all his travel expenses himself. Paralleling the success of the Campbell River fundraiser has been the success in the medical profession in improving the longevity of individuals living with the disease. Brind’Amour has always been modest about his contribution but his support has been unwavering. He always parks himself at the 17th hole – 17 was his sweater number during his playing days – and greets each and every golfer that comes through. They get to talk to him and have a picture taken with him.

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He frequently invites his hockey friends to attend the event. NugentHopkins started attending five years ago and the two joined each group at the tee box of Storey Creek’s signature 17th hole last year, posing for team photos and lending their tee shots to the best-ball play. At last year’s banquet, it was announced that Nugent-Hopkins had agreed to take on a larger role with the event. “I’m not playing anymore, and I think it’s time for some new blood,” Brind’Amour said.

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“Ryan deserves a big hand,” Brind’Amour told the banquet last year. The news was greeted with a standing ovation. “But my name’s still going on the top!” Indeed, Brind’Amour has no intention of walking away from the event. “He is as committed as ever,” Black said.

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Mitchell Mussenden says he kind of always expected he and Lucas Antoni would start playing music together. Mussenden, 24, and Antoni, 23, went to school together in Campbell River and Mussenden remembers that one day, Antoni was over at his place playing music and they decided to start doing music together and see what happens. “It was really spontaneous,” said Antoni. “Honestly, there’s no real big story behind it,” agreed Mussenden. “It was just years of ‘it’s probably going to happen at some point.’” A few years ago, Mussenden and Antoni formed How Could I, blending acoustic music with alt-rock, post-punk and jazz to create a unique sound that’s been catching people’s attention and opening up opportunities since they started performing. This spring, Patrick Herman, 23, joined the band on drums.

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“We were fortunate enough that everything just kind of worked out,” said Antoni. “Like we had just one good experience after another, all these blessings.” “For the first year and a half of us getting involved with music and live music, which is what we jumped into, was just phenomenal,” agreed Mussenden. “We got nothing but positive responses from the people that we were around.” Antoni and Mussenden started playing music together nearly four years ago. “We met a friend named Trent and he got us really involved in playing at the open mics and getting us involved with music and everything,” said Mussenden. “We started getting more passionate about it. We had a lot of people pushing us and telling us we were doing a really good job for the lack of experience that we both had at the time, so we both started doing that and we started writing our own original material — and that was really fun, seeing the response that we’d get from friends and family or just strangers out at the open mics. We started playing at places like Painter’s Lodge and getting really good responses from the ever-changing crowd.” Herman had seen Antoni and Mussenden play a couple of times before he met up with them. They did phenomenal as an acoustic duo,” he said. They met at a jam at Super Mario’s Bar and Lounge. “There was nobody on drums because they were just in duo and I

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Antoni says this was a moment that kickstarted the band. They started working on more original songs and thinking about going into the studio. Antoni and Mussenden started recording their first self-titled EP about a year ago. “It was a cool experience,” said Antoni. “We got to work with some great people.” They worked with performance coach Jason Parsons and Jacob Gregory, who owns Aurora Music Studios in Comox. Parsons coproduced the EP, while Gregory engineered the album. Herman wasn’t in the band at the time so he doesn’t play on the EP. Gregory did the drum and bass tracks on the recording. “I’m itching to get in there,” said Herman. “I really want to do it.” How Could I celebrated the release of its EP April 22 at the Carriage Room at the Royal Coachman Inn, with a sold-out show opened by Courtenay’s Joey Clarkson. “That was some of the most fun I’ve had playing those songs,” said Herman. “I was definitely really blown away by how nice the Carriage Room was and how many people were there. It was better than I could have imagined.” This spring, the band was also nominated for two Vancouver Island Music Awards: Group/Duo of the Year and Pop Recording for “Killing Clocks.”

was just there for hanging out and checking out the scene,” said Herman. “They played Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ‘Under the Bridge’ and I just couldn’t help myself and I went up there and sat on the kit. They came to the part where the drums come in and I came in.”

Looking forward, How Could I will playing at Painter’s Lodge throughout the summer, and the band plans to write songs and work on the business side too, supporting the EP and building up some merchandise.

“We’d never met before,” continued Herman. “I just walked up there. I’m pretty sure I actually missed my cue and then they noticed I was back there and I told them to loop it around and they went back into it.”

“It definitely helps having such supportive friends and family that the three of us have,” said Antoni. “It’s done so many favours for us. And even people to help us push. Even at the EP release party, we had friends swapping at the merch table, Joey Clarkson selling CDs for us. We didn’t expect any of that to happen. We have so many supportive friends. Every time I think about stuff like that, it seems more and more like this is meant to work because so many good things just present themselves.”

“That was hilarious,” said Antoni. “It worked perfectly.” And then they didn’t see each other again for a year. They saw each other once more but then again not for another year. Herman and Mussenden bumped into each other at a friend’s house and Mussenden told Herman that they were thinking of expanding and getting a drummer. Herman was open and said he’d love to come and play with them because he knew he liked what they were doing.

“Overall, it’s been an amazingly overwhelming experience the last couple of years, just to see how positive of a reaction we’ve received,” said Mussenden.

A couple of years ago, How Could I won a small recording demo at Dove Creek. The Flying Canoe Pub in Courtenay was hosting a competition for local acts to play for a free one- or two-song recording experience.

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If you like discovering a good wine and supporting a local charity head to the Maritime Heritage Centre on June 11 for an evening of whites, reds and blues. Daybreak Rotary is hosting the seventh annual Wine and Blues Fest by the sea featuring Tim Williams, 2014 International Blues Challenge Award winner. “We have over 12 winery representatives with wine from regions all over the world and this year 3 craft beer tasting tables,” said Theresa Marson, one of the coordinators of the event. The wine tasting will be complimented by a special selection of cheeses, cold cuts, breads, fruit dishes and spreads all generously provided by Thrifty’s Food, Super Mario’s Bar and Lounge, Rocky Mountain Chocolates, Natural Pasture Cheese, Outlandish Shellfish and Grieg Seafood. Attendees will have the chance to sample specialty wines as well as learn about the perfect wine pairing at ‘Winespeak seminars’. There will be a silent auction and tickets to the event include a chance to win a door prize. This year’s representatives have selected a cross section of wines for tasting, often featuring a new or unique selection to be sampled. This year’s wine representatives are: Mark Anthony

Brands, Martin & Peacock, Trialto Wine Group Ltd., Storied Wines & Spirits, Vibrant Wines, Lone Tree Cellars, 40 Knots Winery, Constellation Brands, Peter Mielzynski Agencies Ltd. (PMA Canada), Jason Hyde Wines, The Red Dog Wines, Vibrant Wines, Phillips wines, Quench! Wines, Authentic Wine & Spirits Merchants, Blue Moon Winery, and Phillipe Dandurand Wines. Tim Williams promises to be entertaining. His blend of passionate, soulful vocals and awe-inspiring chops on a number of instruments including finger-style and slide guitar, mandolin and Hawaiian guitar, along with his wry sense of humour and deep knowledge of blues and roots music, continue to win fans everywhere he plays. He has multiple Maple Blues Award nominations, three JUNO award nominations and roughly a dozen awards from Real Blues magazine. He was honoured as guitarist of the year in 2012 by the Calgary Blues Music Association. The Campbell River Daybreak Rotary is responsible for organizing this event and as an annual event, this event will allow the Rotary to continue with its many charitable causes in the community. This is a non-profit fundraiser event and all proceeds will stay in the community. Tickets are available at the Tidemark Theatre or online at Tidemarktheatre.com. The price of the ticket includes a cab home within Campbell River.

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A CLOWN AT HEART

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While the other girls around her were preoccupied with thoughts of what colour and type of gown they would wear to graduation, she had something else in mind.

Always wanting to be a clown, her mom, Patricia Turner, finally made Turner-Rondquist a clown suit when she was in high school.

“I asked if I could wear my clown suit to my graduation and my parents said no,” Turner-Rondquist says. “My cousin’s boyfriend, who was a good friend of mine, ended up surprising me by showing up in a clown costume and escorting me down the aisle. So that was as close as I got.”

After tagging along with a friend to entertain at a child’s birthday party, she was hooked.

Her parents thought that would be the end of it. “I guess my parents kind of thought it might wear off,” Turner-Rondquist says.

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But she wasn’t so sure on how to get where she wanted to go. “I would put on circuses in our garage at home as a kid and would charge people to come. I always wanted to to that, but didn’t know how,” Turner-Rondquist says. “There’s nothing about circus arts at career day. I have a friend who

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