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RECREATION

Aquatic Centre to undergo $2.4 million refit

BY ROBERT BARRON

The Cowichan Aquatic Centre will soon undergo a major retrofit and expansion to better serve local residents, thanks to a $2,377,000 grant from the Fed-

eral Gas Tax Fund.

Since the facility opened in 2008, its swim club has expanded significantly, outgrowing the very limited space on the pool deck where warm-ups, cool-downs and training occur.

In addition, the fitness and wellness portion of the building is overcrowded and unable to expand its programming.

The gas tax funding is planned to be used to relocate the current storage area on the pool deck,

creating more space for swim clubs, and adding folding bleachers behind the diving boards to improve spectator access.

The renovation will also reconfigure and expand the facility’s upstairs gym, expand the group

fitness rooms, and create some private areas for training and user intakes.

North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure said at the event to announce the funding on March 9 Continued on A3

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Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a man spotted with a weapon in the Genoa Bay area on March 12. (FILE PHOTO) male was not located.

If you have any information about this incident, please call the RCMP at 250-748-5522 or if you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222TIPS (8477).

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A peaceful protest is planned against animal abuse at the Duncan Courthouse on April 3 after the recent death of Teddy, pictured, in a horrific case of animal abuse. (FILE PHOTO)

Peaceful protest against animal abuse planned for Duncan Courthouse

BY ROBERT BARRON

There will be a peaceful protest held at the Duncan Courthouse at 9 a.m. on April 3 as Duncan’s Anderson Joe and Melissa Tooshley appear in court to answer to charges of animal cruelty after a dog, called Teddy, that was seized from their care died from severe neglect.

Brittany Pickard-Brown, who has formed a group called “United For Paws” to fight against animal abuse in the Cowichan Valley and beyond, said the group is also petitioning Crown council and Doug Routley, MLA for Nanaimo-North Cowichan, to ask that the maximum penalty be imposed on Joe and Tooshley for their “horrific act” of animal abuse.

If convicted, Joe and Tooshley face a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison, a $10,000 fine and up to a lifetime ban on owning animals.

“This case is just the tip of the iceberg of the many cases of animal abuse and neglect that have surfaced in the Valley over the last six months,” Pickard-Brown said.

“They include Molly, the pot-bellied pig that was eaten by its owner, and Gigi the cat who was drugged and shaved. These cases make everyone in the Valley look bad so we decided to come together as a group to make a stand against these cases of animal abuse.”

In one of the most profoundly shocking and disturbing cases of abuse the BC SPCA ever witnessed, special constables seized the emaciated and chained Teddy in critical distress on Feb. 16.

The dog was found on a tether that was only a few inches long, standing in a large pile of mud and feces, and not only was Teddy severely emaciated, but his collar was deeply embedded into his neck, causing massive infection so severe 7002013

Officers from the he North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment responded to a call of a man with a weapon in the Genoa Bay area at approximately 9:30 a.m. on March 12.

The man was described as wearing a dark coat and carrying a weapon.

The Emergency Response Team was activated and extensive patrols were made in the area.

The RCMP’s Police Dog Service conducted a track and Air 8, a police air service, also assisted.

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Despite extensive emergency treatment and around-the-clock care, the dog succumbed to his critical condition two days later.

Alistair MacGregor, MP for Cowochan-Malahat-Langford, said many residents have reached out to him to share their concerns about what happened to Teddy and demand that the federal government act to implement tougher animal cruelty legislation.

He said that he “emphatically agrees”.

“New Democrats have proudly led the charge over the years on strengthening regulations and penalties for animal abuse, including MP Fin Donnelly’s Bill C-380, which would have banned the importation of shark fins, former MP Peggy Nash’s Bill C-232, which would have strengthened the language of federal animal cruelty laws and former MP Isabelle Morin’s Bill C-592 which would have established penalties for those who were guilty of cruel acts against animals,” MacGregor said.

“In 2016, the House of Commons had the opportunity to make real progress on this issue when we debated a Liberal Private Member’s Bill, C-246. I was proud to support that legislation at the time, but unfortunately the Liberal and Conservative parties overwhelmingly voted to defeat the bill.”

MacGregor said that after that vote, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould promised to follow up with new, government-initiated animal cruelty measures.

“Unfortunately, nearly a year and a half later, there are no new measures, and it appears those promises were just more empty rhetoric,” he said.

“Today, I am calling on Minister Wilson-Raybould to finally act to address these urgent concerns. We owe it to Teddy and other animals that are victims of abuse to make sure that nothing like this happens again.”

Pickard-Brown said that, judging from the response she is receiving on social media, she expects hundreds of people to show up for the peaceful protest at the court house on April 3.

She said the online petition has already seen more than 33,000 people sign from Canada and the U.S. “We want justice for all animals, and we’re united as a community against animal abuse,” Pickard-Brown said.

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CVRD gets $8 million for water projects

BY ROBERT BARRON

The Cowichan Valley Regional District will be receiving almost $8 million for infrastructure funding from the Federal Gas Tax Fund.

The district will receive $5,888,900 for the first phase of a wastewater integration project in Mill Bay, and another $1,900,000 for a wastewater integration and re-use upgrade in Cobble Hill.

The Ditidaht First Nation will also receive $166,180 in gas tax money to ensure a reliable power supply for their community on Nitinat Lake, near the mouth of the Caycuse River.

The Cobble Hill Sewer System

The CVRD will receive almost $8 million for infrastructure funding from the Federal Gas Tax Fund, announced CVRD board chair Jon Lefebure. (CITIZEN FILE) project will combine two existing CVRD-operated sewer systems, Twin Cedars Sewer System and Cobble Hill Sewer System, into

one integrated sewer system with the funding.

The project will provide customers of the system with longterm, cost effective, high-quality wastewater treatment and allow for the expansion of the effluent re-use for irrigation in community parks.

The expansion of the collection system to allow servicing of homes in the Cobble Hill core, where requested, will be included in the project.

The Mill Bay project will allow for the integration of small, existing, problematic community wastewater systems in and around the Mill Bay area into a central system that will meet the

high-quality standards required under the South Sector Liquid Management Plan.

It’s expected that this new combined system will serve as a starting point for the long-term management of waste water in Mill Bay that will be developed under an amendment of the existing Liquid Waste Management Plan, which is currently underway.

Opportunities for re-use of effluent and the protection of the receiving freshwater and marine environment are also goals of this project.

“These grants are important for the CVRD in allowing us to develop a more strategic, integrated approach to dealing with waste-

water challenges in the Cobble Hill and Mill Bay areas,” said CVRD chairman Jon Lefebure.

“We are also pleased to be able to assist Ditidaht with improving access to reliable power for their community.”

Selina Robinson, B.C.’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, said improvements to local infrastructure are very important.

“They make our communities even better places to live,” she said.

“We are pleased to partner with local governments and the federal government to improve the daily lives of British Columbians.”

Odour debate gets heated in North Cowichan

BY ROBERT BARRON

A letter from the province in response to an ongoing odour issue in North Cowichan led to lively debate in the municipality’s council chambers on March 7.

Environment and Climate Change Minister George Heyman was responding to council’s concerns with the odours allegedly coming from Coast Environmental Ltd., a waste and compost treatment facility in Chemainus.

Heyman said in the letter that

odour management and associated controls are included in a review currently underway as part of Coast Environmental’s application for the new Organic Matter Recycling Regulation permit from his ministry.

The facility is located in North Cowichan, but jurisdiction for its operations is shared among a number of authorities, with no clear guidelines on which authority is directly responsible to deal with excessive odours, or even what constitutes excessive odours.

While Coast Environmental’s

operation is located in North Cowichan, which issues it an annual business licence to operate, the Cowichan Valley Regional District is responsible for issuing its recycler licence and the Ministry of Environment issues the permit for the facility to compost soil.

But Coun. Joyce Behnsen said she believes North Cowichan could be having more of an influence in dealing with the issue than it is exercising.

“More work can be done at this level (of government) and we shouldn’t just be handing this

up to the province to deal with,” she said.

Behnsen said that North Cowichan Mayor Lefebure, who is also chairman of the CVRD, should be doing more to deal with the issue.

“The smell is making people sick and ruining the reputation of this community,” she said.

“This has been going on for six years and that’s too long.”

Lefebure said “it’s not that simple” and that “spreading misinformation” is no way to deal with the issue.

“Large improvements have already been made to deal with the odours from the facility,” he said.

Coun. Kate Marsh said she “feels sad” that the debate had come to this point “I can’t believe a councillor here is saying that nothing is being done,” she said.

“We have this letter from the minister and I don’t want the public thinking that North Cowichan and the CVRD are doing nothing. You can say your opinion at this table, but it has to be based on facts.”

Once-controversial facility overwhelmed with users Continued from A1 that the facility is more than a pool and a gym; it’s an integral part of the community.

He said the referendum held more than a decade ago in the Valley to determine if the public wanted to move forward with building the CAC passed by a mere 51.4 per cent and some thought the project should be abandoned at the time.

“But we decided the community needed this facility and we’ve been overwhelmed with people using it since it opened,” Lefe-

bure said.

“Now we’re running out of space to meet our needs, so it’s time for improvements to the facility.”

Selina Robinson, B.C.’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, who was also at the event, said improvements to infrastructure make the province’s communities even better places to live.

“Investments in infrastructure like this facility allows people to be the best they can be,” Robinson said.

“Centres like these are a critical

element in any community and we’re pleased improvements will be made to improve this fabulous facility with this funding.”

North Cowichan will also receive an additional $112,500 in gas tax funding to further its asset management program.

Pictured, from left, are North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure, Cowichan Tribes Councillor Francine Alphonse, Selina Robinson, B.C.’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Sonia Furstenau, MLA for Cowichan Valley, and Duncan Mayor Phil Kent. (ROBERT BARRON/CITIZEN)

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BY ROBERT BARRON

The residents of Quamichan Lake plan to be more vocal and proactive with the concerns of their neighbourhood.

More than 100 people attended the Quamichan Lake Neighbourhood Association’s AGM on March 1 and association president Marilyn Palmer said the increasing density of the mainly rural community was a major concern raised.

She said the association was formed just over a year ago largely as a means to express the neighbourhood’s concerns with the number and density of housing projects that are being planned for the area.

Palmer said the association made presentations at all three public hearings last year that were held by the Municipality of North Cowichan in regards to the controversial housing proposal for Donnay Drive.

The developer plans to build 38 residential units on 27 lots on a 2.65-hectare site just north of Maple Bay Elementary School.

“There were many delegations at those public hearings who spoke against the development

Doreen Dinsdale speaks to council in North Cowichan at a packed public hearing last year expressing her concerns around a new housing development on Donnay Drive. Despite numerous delegations speaking against it, the project got the green light to proceed, with a 4-3 vote. (FILE PHOTO) plans, but council voted for it anyway,” Palmer said.

“Council listens but they don’t act consistently with what they hear. They are morally obliged to listen to the citizens and act on their concerns when they rep-

resent the views of the majority.

This is still a democracy after all.”

Palmer said another important issue that was discussed at the AGM was the health of Quamichan Lake.

There have been at least four dog deaths around Quamichan Lake since 2016, and all are suspected to be caused by ingesting toxic blue-green algae from the lake.

North Cowichan set up a task

force, consisting of staff and council members, along with water specialists, to study and seek solutions to the ongoing health issues related to the algae.

The task force concluded the nutrients that are causing the algae outbreak in the lake are coming from a number of sources, including urban runoff, and runoff from nearby agricultural lands, construction areas and logging sites.

“The health of the lake is a great concern for us,” Palmer said.

“We look to our municipal leaders to help stop the flow of material entering the lake that ends up with dead dogs. But the municipality is loathe to admit that developments are releasing harmful phosphates that are entering the lake and we don’t think they are taking this seriously enough.”

Palmer said there is strength in numbers and the association has decided to begin collaborating with other neighbourhood associations in North Cowichan to present a united front to council when dealing with municipal issues.

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ring on the public service announcements.

There are many wonderful pet owners in Cowichan. But over the last several months, and even years, we’ve had a disturbing number of animal cruelty incidents in the Cowichan Valley. And while it’s great to see the courts involved in some of these egregious cases, by then, in too many instances, it’s too late.

In the latest such case to hit the news Anderson Joe and Melissa Tooshley of Duncan are facing charges and, if convicted, possible jail time for the horrific state their dog was found in.

The treatment of this poor animal, who died as a result of its injuries, was deplorable. But, as has been pointed out by some folks who have commented on the article, it’s also disturbing that this dog was seized only after it was too late — where, some question, was the outcry from those who must have seen the animal as its condition deteriorated?

It’s a legitimate question. Did nobody from the public, no friends, family or acquaintances, see the dog? And if they did, why didn’t they report it? Confront the owners? Do something, in other words, besides turning a blind eye?

We do not know, of course, if someone tried and was unsuccessful, but the point is that too often people don’t want to get involved. This happens in cases where humans are being abused and neglected, so one can only imagine how much more prevalent it is in the case of pets.

But we can’t keep turning away. When we do, there will only be another Robert Carolan, also from Duncan, who is headed to four months in jail for beating his 16-week-old puppy to death.

We need to educate this Valley on what animal abuse looks like and what we need to do when we see it happening.

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Our society is addicted to white crystals, powders I am a fairly recent resident of this fair city, having moved here from Shawnigan Lake last year following the death of my wife.

Best move I ever made!

Last December I made two New Years resolutions. The first was that if I was driving, I would offer a good gesture to another driver such as letting him or her pull out in front of me or make a left turn, the other was that if I was walking I would pick up a piece of garbage to help keep the city clean and tidy.

Last Thursday evening, while walking home with my three companions from the Royal Dar, perhaps the best Indian restaurant on the Island or maybe the province, I picked up a bag containing a large paper cup. Not coming upon a garbage container, I brought it home with me.

The next day I inspected the cup, finding out that it would hold 48 ounces or six cups of liquid, and I wondered where and with what I could get it refilled. With-

out difficulty (I asked Google) I found the filling station, and looked at the list of options.

Water was not included, so I did not refill it since all of the options were heavily sweetened and some contained up to over 800 calories! More than a third of a day’s ration.

In our food chain we have four white powders or crystals, all processed from plants: heroin, cocaine, sugar and white flour; all are highly addictive. The first two are illegal and the drug cartels in Mexico and Central America are making millions from the marketing of these drugs and many of our citizens are addicted. The second two are legal, widely promoted, even to children, and available everywhere!

The majority of our population is addicted to these two.

The food industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the medical professions are making millions as a result of these addictions!

This cup is a good example. Over $2 to get it filled with a water, sugar and a flavour solution that probably costs less than 25 cents,

and if you consume it on a regular basis it will ruin your health!

These products are so popular that at many locations you can obtain them without even getting out of your car. You drive up to a microphone, place your order and then pick it up at the window. Instant fix, but remember the wise words of Michael Pollan, “If the food arrives through the window of your car, Do Not Eat It”.

I would like to ask for your help to spread the word that we are on a very dangerous path to ruin the health of the entire human population, but then perhaps that is what we deserve.

W. L. Toby Riley Duncan

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The marina is a monument to the joys of strata living, and will stand until the first real storm from the north east when it will likely be destroyed. We can only hope that in the meantime no accidents occur when the dock is jumping around in a moderate breeze from the north easterly sector, or from similar waves generated by passing marine traffic.

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Its easy to write tickets for speeding. Very few of us can argue successfully NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING against a radar gun. But ZONING BYLAW NO. 3166, 2017 AND to charge someone for OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3178, 2018 obstructing the flow of traffic takes longer and City of Duncan Council will hold a Public Hearing at 5:00 pm on Monday, might even require video March 19, 2018 to allow Council to receive public input on Bylaw No. 3178, proof. which proposes to amend "Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 2030, 2007”, Not to say that there is and Bylaw No. 3166, which proposes to replace the current “City of Duncan not a difference between Zoning Bylaw No. 1540, 1988”, “City of Duncan Off-Street Parking and Loading speeding and inappropriate Spaces Bylaw No. 3098, 2013”, “Screening and Landscaping Regulation Bylaw speed, there is. But to No. 3112, 2014” and “Fencing (barbed wire) Bylaw 1955”. suggest that all of the What is Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3178, 2018 about? drivers that successfully The proposed bylaw amendment contains revisions to the Temporary Use drive at 110 or 120 are some Permits section, to allow a Temporary Use Permit to be issued for emergency kind of menace is incorrect. shelters. Additionally, the bylaw will amend the Development Permit Area The Coquihalla is a good Policies section to exempt downtown property owners from requiring a road for 120 or 140 in good, Development Permit for minor exterior changes (paint, landscaping, etc.), as dry weather. I believe well as general updates to the design guidelines for the Multi-Family and half the problem with it Downtown Development Permit Areas. is in winter when drivers

Your recent article titled “Storm damage forces closure of new dock at Arbutus Ridge” is very misleading. On Feb. 18 the wind was blowing from the north east and was a moderate breeze, the kind of wind people like for sailing. The dock was moving violently and was recorded on a video. It was dangerous and was enough to cause the Bill Talford resulting damage. You referred Arbutus Ridge to the damage as cosmetic, but we have yet to make a complete Objection to gun ads inspection.

The truth is that this location I read the Cowichan Valley Citis not suitable for that type of izen regularly and would like to installation. In 2007 a group of voice my objection to receiving residents explored the possibility a flyer from Cabela’s which inof a year round dock in that cludes advertising for semi-aulocation, paid ourselves for an tomatic weapons.

I fear that American gun culengineering study by a very reputable company, and were ture can easily spread to Canada. advised against building a year Do we need ads for semi-autoround marina in that location. matics distributed far and wide?

We abandoned the idea.

I hope these flyers will disapIn 2013 with a new group of pear soon. residents in Arbutus Ridge, the idea was floated again, and Karen Severson residents were persuaded to go Cowichan Valley ahead with the existing project.

We have now seen the results. In Speeding gets a bad rap fact it is the second incident of its kind in just a few months. The first Don Bodger just wrote a column was on Nov. 10, 2017 while the on speed on our highways. I have dock was still under construction. to agree that the damage done Recorded wind speeds were similar multiplies with speed, but I am on both occasions. of another point of view.

I could fill this newspaper Look at the Chemainus with all the advice and pleas to River bridges. The old one, the council not to go ahead, but to narrowest, used to hold two lanes do an updated version of what of opposing traffic. You met we already had, a large platform someone travelling at 60 miles protected with a breakwater of an hour, while you were doing propane tanks that was well proven in that location.

There were serious questions which were ignored about how the engineers were selected.

Those opposing the project were ridiculed, WATER MAIN FLUSHING defamed, and threatened by those City of Duncan water system users please be advised that promoting the new year round design. Council the City is conducting annual water main flushing from was advised, with the March 19 to May 18, 2018. help of a detailed legal opinion from a well Some users may notice a slight chlorine taste and some known and respected lawyer specializing in discolouration of the water during this time, which can be the Strata Property resolved by simply running a cold-water tap for a short Act, that the project period of time. needed a 75 per cent majority to go ahead.

Questions? To find out about specific flushing dates, They refused even to discuss it. They went contact Public Works at 250-746-5321. ahead anyway with a

What is Zoning Bylaw No. 3166, 2017 about?

The Zoning bylaw regulates all land uses within the City of Duncan. The purpose of the proposed bylaw is to replace the current “City of Duncan Zoning Bylaw No. 1540, 1988” with a new bylaw that will be consistent with the Official Community Plan, be more user friendly, and facilitate development that meets the needs of Duncan’s current and future citizens.

Bylaw No. 3166 will also incorporate required components of “City of Duncan Off-Street Parking and Loading Spaces Bylaw No. 3098, 2013”, “Screening and Landscaping Regulation Bylaw No. 3112, 2014” and “Fencing (barbed wire) Bylaw 1955”.

How do I get more information?

The proposed bylaws and staff reports can be viewed on the City’s website at www.duncan.ca or at City Hall, 200 Craig Street, Duncan, BC, Monday to Friday, between 8:30 am and 4:00 pm. (except public holidays), and from the date of publication of this notice until 4:00 pm on the date of the Public Hearing.

How do I express my views on these Bylaws?

Attend the PUBLIC HEARING at 5:00 pm on Monday, March 19, 2018, City Hall Council Chambers, 200 Craig Street, Duncan. If you cannot attend the Public Hearing, you may write to City Council, 200 Craig Street, Duncan, BC V9L 1W3, send a FAX to 250-746-6129, or send an e-mail to allison@duncan.ca before 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 to be included in the Public Hearing Agenda. All correspondence received by 4:00 pm on the day of the meeting will be read out at the Public Hearing and form part of the public record.

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No parole for 10 years in fatal RV spear attack “Prison time will be additionally difficult due to his ailments. ..He’s at a very high risk of losing his leg and will have a prosthetic…he is in a wheelchair much of the time and when he can emulate it’s with a walker. That will make time in prison harder than prison time normally is.”

BY MIKE GREGORY

Trevor George Meers had been living at Campers Corners RV Park in Ladysmith for six years when an argument erupted to the point of him grabbing homemade spear and plunging it into Rayna Johnson a half a dozen times, killing her on the doorstep of her home.

On Friday, the 53-year-old was sentenced in a Duncan courtroom to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 10 years after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in January.

Johnson, a single mother of two adult children, was pronounced dead on Feb. 3, 2015 at the RV park and campground just off the Trans-Canada Highway in the south end of town.

“I’m deeply regretful that this whole thing has happened and I just sometimes, I have a problem having it all sink in,” said Meers, addressing the court last week. “I just wish it would have never happened.”

The weapon Meers used in the attack was a 15 cm kitchen knife that was attached to the end of 1.5 metre long wooden shaft. During the trial, the court heard that five of the stab wounds inflicted on the 55-year-old Johnson were as deep as the blade itself while a sixth reached even further.

In rendering her decision, Justice Devlin said the issue at trial was intent.

“The number and degree of wounds inflicted on Ms. Johnson would have required a significant force to penetrate the colon and stomach,”she said. “Based on all the circumstances of this case I find that Mr. Meers intended to cause bodily harm to Mr. Johnson that he knew was likely to cause her death and was reckless about whether death ensued or not.”

During the trial, the jury heard that Meers had returned to his trailer following the fatal stabbing, consumed two beers and made a distressed call to 9-1-1 before leaving Campers Corners with a friend.

He then returned sometime later and was arrested by Ladysmith RCMP without incident.

Meers testified at trial that he didn’t know there was a blade attached to the end of the spear until Johnson called out that she was bleeding.

A pathologist’s report found that the

STEPHEN TAYLOR, defence attorney

Trevor George Meers was found guilty of second degree murder in the stabbing death of Rayna Johnson.

(FILE PHOTO)

cause of death was the multiple stab wounds combined with pre-existing heart disease.

The jury deliberated for four hours before rendering its guilty verdict in early January, with nine out of the 12 jurors recommending Meers be locked up for 20 years without eligibility for parole.

A pre-sentence report detailing Meers’ health history as well as an RCMP criminal record was then ordered delaying the continuation of the sentencing hearing until last week.

Justice Devlin said she considered the input of the jury while also focusing on the character of the offender, nature of the offence and the aggravating and mitigating factors in the case to arrive at the 10 years without parole — the minimum for a second-degree murder conviction.

“Mr. Meers has expressed remorse throughout this trial and again this morning,” Devlin said. “I am satisfied that Mr. Meers has good prospects for rehabilitation.”

A day earlier on Thursday, Crown counsel Leah Fontaine had argued for 15 years without parole while defence attorney Stephen Taylor submitted that the min-

imum 10 years was fitting for his client.

The RCMP criminal record check submitted by the Crown on Thursday showed Meers has 14 prior convictions for everything from failing to comply, possession of narcotics and possession of property obtained by a crime.

The last time Meers served time was in March 2005 and he had no prior history of violence.

Taylor described his client’s criminal past as “dated” and “the definition of petty crime.”

The court heard that Meers’s health has also been deteriorating over the past few weeks due to several ongoing ailments.

He’s also recently lost vision in his right eye.

Meers suffers from cirrhosis of the liver, an enlarged gallbladder, arthritis, ulcers and hepatitis C which he contracted in 1980 from a blood transfusion.

“Mr. Meers has been in custody 37 months and he’s been in hospital for about 18 of those,” Taylor said.

“Prison time will be additionally difficult due to his ailments. I have no idea what will happen to him in a federal system.

He’s at a very high risk of losing his leg and will have a prosthetic…he is in a wheelchair much of the time and when he can emulate it’s with a walker. That will make time in prison harder than prison time normally is.”

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FROM THE FRONT

Women’s rights focus of One Billion Rising

BY ROBERT BARRON

The voice of Kendra Thomas broke with emotion as she talked about the death of two young girls at the hands of their father on Christmas Day last year in Oak Bay.

Thomas, from Warmland Women’s Support Services Society, told a gathering of more than 100 people who braved the rain and the cold in Duncan’s City Square on March 8 that in response, a domestic violence steering committee with 21

stakeholders has been formed in the Cowichan Valley that is working towards decreasing the risk of violence in the area.

“We don’t want to see an incident like what happened on Christmas Day in Oak Bay happen here,” she said at the

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE North Cowichan Council will hold a Public Hearing at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 in the Council Chambers of the North Cowichan Municipal Hall, 7030 TransCanada Highway, Duncan, BC to allow Council to receive public input on proposed Bylaw 3693 which proposes to amend “Zoning Bylaw 1997,” No. 2950.

Bylaw 3693 - “Zoning Amendment Bylaw (No. 5 – Somenos Road), 2018” proposes to amend section 80.10 of Zoning Bylaw 1997, No. 2950 by: 1. Repealing subsections (9) to (11) [conditions of use] and substituting the following: (9) The conditions of use for the CD10 zone are as follows: a) no fences over 1.2 m in height are permitted in any yard that abuts public property, a highway or a lane; b) no fences over 1.8 m in height are permitted in any other yard; and c) common garbage receptacles must be enclosed by walls or decorative fencing or enclosures and landscaping for the purpose of screening, and (10) Where a lot abuts a lane, driveway access to a garage must be from the lane; and

Students from a number of schools in the Cowichan Valley participated in the annual One Billion Rising event in Duncan on March 8. Pictured, from left, are Abby Gray, Marnie de Montford, and Alana Antonsen from Discovery Elementary School. (ROBERT BARRON/CITIZEN)

2. Rezoning 6122 Somenos Road (PID: 005-685-559) from Residential One and TwoFamily Zone (R3) to Urban Medium Density Comprehensive Development Zone (CD10).

Permitted uses within the CD10 zone are: Apartment, Multi-Family Residence and Home-Based business. The intended purpose of the proposed bylaw is to permit construction of three 3-unit townhouses on the subject property shown outlined in bold on the map below.

Carrie Shortreed proudly displays her T-shirt at the annual One Billion Rising event in Duncan on March 8. (ROBERT BARRON/CITIZEN)

If you believe your interests will be affected by the proposed bylaw you may attend the Public Hearing and express your views to Council. If you cannot attend the Hearing, you may provide your written comments to Council at the address or fax number shown below, or send an email to publicmeetings@northcowichan.ca before 1:00p.m., Monday, March 19, 2018. Submissions received before the deadline will be made publicly available and form part of the official public record. Copies of the proposed bylaw and relevant documents may be inspected in the Development Services Department at the Municipal Hall, Monday through Friday (except statutory holidays) between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. from March 14 to 20, 2018.

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One Billion Rising event, which was held on International Women’s Day. “I’m so pleased to see so many people coming together like this to raise awareness. It’s so important that we hear the voices of people on this issue, especially the youth.”

People come together from the Cowichan Valley once a year at the local One Billion Rising event to dance and express joy, community and celebrate the fact that, together, violence can be defeated.

The events, held around the world, are calls to action based on the staggering statistics of abuse against women that state that about one in three women around the world will be raped or beaten in their lifetimes.

With the world population currently at about seven billion, this adds up to more than one billion women and girls.

The Duncan event is hosted in partnership by Cowichan Intercultural Society, Cowichan Women Against Violence and the Matraea Centre.

Bernadette Frank, from Cowichan Women Against Violence,

said the organization deals with thousands of women each year that have been beaten by their partners, strangers or at the work place.

She said many of these women still have the people who beat them in their lives.

“We’ve seen kids, both boys and girls, as young as four years old, who have seen their moms treated violently, or were the victims of violence themselves,” Frank said to the gathering.

“I feel hopeful with all of you coming here and showing that you want to make a difference in the lives of women.”

Marnie de Montford, a Grade 7 student at Discovery Elementary School, was among dozens of students from a number of local schools that attended the event.

She said she’s happy to participate.

“The turnout is really awesome,” Marnie said after dancing to ‘Break the Chain’ in a flash mob.

“We’re all here because we want women’s rights protected and respected and that’s great.”

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Making observations and keep-

ing records throughout the season sharpens the skills needed to be a successful seed-saver.

“It provides that next step in developing that eye that will make us better seed growers and potentially breeders.”

The Duncan Seedy Sunday Event takes place on Sunday, March 18 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Si’em Lelum Gymnasium. Contact info@ cowichangreencommunity.ca.

For more information about the BC Seed Trials Project, go to www. bcseedtrials.ca.

Foster Richardson and Natasha Tymo on Hilldown Farm in the Cowichan Valley. (SUBMITTED)

Row by row: BC Seed Trials and Seedy Sunday

BY MICHAEL MARRAPESE

As soon as days begin to get longer and the winter cold starts to fade gardeners, like over-wintering plants, get restless. Leafing through seed catalogues and flipping through seed racks is an annual rite of passage into the new year.

This time of year gardeners and small farmers alike also look forward to Seedy Saturday and Sunday events across B.C. Foster Richardson of Hilldown Farm gets pretty excited about seed. He’s working with Cowichan Green Community to organize the 2018 Seedy Sun-

day in Duncan. Richardson has been incorporating seed production into his farming operation in Cobble Hill for the last five years. Towards that end, he’s participating in the BC Seed Trials, a project of FarmFolk CityFolk. The project receives funding from the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security. For Richardson, the funding was timely.

“It caught me at a perfect time,” he says, “I was suddenly open to this whole world of seed production which I hadn’t really contemplated being part of. We were able to pursue several things that wouldn’t have

otherwise been economical.

Through the Bauta Initiative we’re involved with a participatory plant breeding project — growing out and selecting potato varieties — and I’m pursuing a seed mentorship with Cedar Isle Farm in Agassiz which is helping me take my grain production to the next level.”

BC Seed Trials introduces farmers to a detailed and rigorous process for identifying beneficial traits throughout the entire crop cycle and then selecting those for either seed saving or replanting the following year. Bringing this level of scientific rigour to his work is

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For those who are waiting in anticipation to start your veggie garden, Cowichan Green Community invites you to celebrate the growing season at the 10th annual Duncan Seedy Sunday, taking place at the Cowichan Tribes Si’em Lelum Gymnasium at 5574 River Rd. in Duncan.

This is an event for gardeners of all ages and experiences to source locally grown and ecologically sound seeds, garden

starts, and perennials. It will feature over 35 vendors, activities for children, door prizes, a raffle for a $500 gift basket from Buckerfields, and four free gardening workshops. Admission is $2 per person. CGC members and children under 13 get in free.

As well, four vendors will be offering food, including Zed Squared Korean Food, Taco Revolution, Bite Me Cookie Company, and Depot Dawgs.

Guest speakers have a wealth of information so be sure to sit in on one or more of these talks: 10:15 a.m.–11 a.m. – Mason Bees with Eu-

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Business BUSINESS NOTES News from the Cowichan Valley Business community

City of Duncan’s Rembrandt’s Chocolates preparing for the busy Easter season apist, has recently joined the centre’s medical team.

Belsher moved from Alberta and also teaches Somatic Yoga in the centre’s movement room.

She said she is “excited” to practice in Duncan and is offering direct billing for veterans, RCMP and those with Greenshield Massage Therapy coverage.”

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taff at Duncan’s Rembrandt’s Chocolates are preparing for the busy Easter season.

The store makes its own handmade chocolate creations, including a number that are sugar-free, and new owner Jackie Robinson has spent the last year taking chocolate-making lessons from Ernest and Lisette Horvers, who founded the business in 1995 and are looking to retire.

Robinson said she was working in the restaurant industry in Victoria when the opportunity arose to take over the store.

“I couldn’t resist,” she said as she carefully prepared Easter bunnies at the store, located at 25 Kenneth St. “Thanks to help from Ernest, the store is quickly filling up with chocolate Easter eggs, bunnies and chickens. It’s a lot of fun and I’m really enjoying the experience.”

Draftsman offering expertise for affordable housing A new online business based in the Cowichan Valley wants to add its expertise in helping to deal with the ongoing affordable housing crisis in the region, and beyond.

Christopher Bauer, a certified draftsman with training in architectural design, began Terra Floor Plans in 2017 to develop project blueprints for developers and builders.

He said he has made providing blueprints for affordable housing projects a priority for the company after recently meeting with the CEO of BC Housing.

“Once a building project is completed, it can be very costly to renovate it to meet the demands in about a decade’s time when the previous design doesn’t

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Jackie Robinson, the new owner of Duncan’s Rembrandt’s Chocolates, is preparing for the busy Easter season. (ROBERT BARRON/CITIZEN) fit the needs anymore,” Bauer said.

“Our designs allow for the project to be flexible and allow for one, two or three-bedroom units to fit in the same space with an easy conversion that wouldn’t require additional architectural costs.”

Bauer said he has met with municipal leaders and developers in the Valley and they have shown interest in the company’s designs, and he is also looking at international markets.

For more information, check out www.terrafloorplans.com.

Connect with loved ones at Healing Reflections A business specializing in spiritual mediumship, called Healing Reflections, has opened in Duncan.

Ayla Xaveriss, a spiritualist who claims to have been in contact with spirits since she was a child, said she wants to help

people connect with their loved ones who have passed.

Xaveriss, who has been working as a spiritualist is the Valley for more than two years, said it’s a natural-born gift but she has also taken training in shamanism.

She said her colleague Rosalina Heard Carelse, a certified shamanic energy medicine and luminous healing practitioner, will also be working from Healing Reflections, located at 167 Canada Ave. “Our location allows us to hold group readings and fundraisers as well,” Xaveriss said.

“We’ve had a lot of success over the years in the Valley and we’re looking forward to offering appointments and sessions from our new location.”

For more information, call 250597-4505.

in Duncan has opened a new location at 420 Trans Canada Highway.

The business makes all of its pet foods locally, and all the ingredients are grown or raised in the region as well.

The company boasts that Buddies’ products contain only fresh, human-grade ingredients that are 100 per cent gluten free.

Manager Danielle Sliva said the store was operating from the company’s production plant in Duncan, but it outgrew the location.

“The demand was for more than just our foods, so we wanted to expand into other products and food supplements that required more space,” she said.

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The Duncan Wellness Centre has a new practitioner.

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The new E3 Spaces organization in the Cowichan Valley is hosting its launch party, that is also a networking event and a celebration of business, on March 15.

After spending years developing the idea about an entrepreneur community that empowers business owners, a press release states the time has come to unleash the E3 Community in the Valley.

The release said the event, called “The Future of Entrepreneurship”, is the grand opening of the concept and the release of the organization’s intention to empower entrepreneurs in Duncan, and beyond.

“The free Future of Entrepreneurship event will show you exactly how to get into the fast lane for success by joining our like-minded, heart-centered group of entrepreneurial bad-asses,” the release said.

“We’re looking for people that share our vision of mutual benefit, collaboration and partnership to become part of our family here at the new e3 Space in Duncan.”

Duncan Mayor Phil Kent is one of the featured speakers at the event, and his topic is “The State of Business in the Cowichan Valley”.

The event begins at 6 p.m. on Thursday at 225 Canada Ave. To register, go to e3spaces.com/ duncan, or call 587-888-0049.

Robert Barron is a reporter with the Cowichan Valley Citizen. He can be reached at Robert.Barron@cowichanvalleycitizen.com

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B.C. GOVERNMENT

Furstenau hopes review will restore public confidence in environmental assessments

BY ROBERT BARRON

Sonia Furstenau said she hopes the review of B.C.’s environmental assessment process will help the province step into the 21st Century.

Furstenau, MLA for the Cowichan Valley and the B.C. Green Party spokesperson for environment, said the review, announced by Environment Minister George Heyman on March 7, is a first step in restoring public trust in the province’s environmental assessment process.

“There have been too many instances where development has failed to ensure the health and safety of our local communities,” Furstenau said.

“This has left communities and First Nations with no choice but to use the courts to advocate for their own protection. A robust environmental assessment process that includes adequate consultation and thorough scientific, evidence-based analysis will avoid costly legal challenges and

Sonia Furstenau, the Green MLA for the Cowichan Valley, is pleased the government has decided to review B.C.’s environmental assessment process. (FILE PHOTO)

save government from dealing with expensive clean-ups when projects go awry.”

Heyman said the review will focus on restoring public confidence in the assessment process, ensuring respect for Indigenous legal rights and protecting the environment while supporting

sustainable growth.

He said the recommendations of a 12-member advisory committee, which will include Lydia Hwitsum, a lawyer and former Cowichan Tribes chief, will lead to reforms of the assessment process expected to be introduced this fall.

The government also announced late last year that it will review the professional reliance model that has been in place for many years to have proposed projects in B.C. environmentally assessed.

In many cases under the process, the same engineers and

other professionals that companies rely on to do the technical work on their projects are also being called upon to provide the mandatory environmental assessments of the work being done.

Furstenau said at the time that she welcomed the government’s professional reliance model review and hoped it would lead to policy changes that will prevent other communities from having to face what Shawnigan Lake went through in its efforts to close a contaminated soil landfill that had raised concerns around contamination of the local water supply.

Furstenau said the review of the professional reliance model, which is separate from the review of the environmental assessment process, is ongoing.

“The period for public input into the review of the professional reliance model ended in January and the input is now being analyzed,” she said.

“I hope to see a final report with recommendations soon.”

The Look of Success The Murals of Chemainus Like many places on Vancouver Island, Chemainus is a town in transition as older buildings are being demolished to make way for stronger and more modern structures. But in a place renowned for its more than 54 murals, this undertaking takes on an entirely new dimension.

Despite the problem that preserving Mural #3 presented, the dilemma itself actually reflected the success of the revitalization of Chemainus.

It’s original home was on the outside wall of the town’s Fire Hall/Visitors Centre, which was now being torn down to make way for a new library.

Recently, the third mural ever to grace the walls of Chemainus found its fate in flux. Mural #3: Steam Train on Bridge over Chemainus River, painted in 1982 by Paul Marcona, was a staple of the downtown core. But when its original location faced demolition, Mural #3 was forced to find a new home.

“The problem was that we couldn’t keep the mural in its original form, because it was painted flat onto brick and mortar,” recalls Andrews. “We needed help to move it.”

Tom Andrews is the President of the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society, which manages and develops the mural project. “Mural #3 was painted the same year the mural project started,” he explains. “The mill shut down that year, so the town was going through a pretty bad economic downturn.”

Funding from the province relieved some of that burden, giving Chemainus a budget to spruce up their downtown core. “At the same time,” says Andrews, “the town came up with the idea of painting these murals on buildings and use that as an economic stimulant for tourism.”

The project was more than successful, as anyone walking through downtown Chemainus can see.

The population of 4000 benefits from about 60,000 tourists a year, 90% who come just see the murals.

But what did this all mean for Mural #3?

A new home had been selected, the TELUS building on Willow Street. But, as Andrews explains, “it was necessary to get the approval of the company before anything else.”

When the Chemainus Festival of Murals reached out to TELUS, they were surprised with the response. Not only did the company approve the installation of the mural, but they offered the funding to support its move from one location to the other too.

With this problem overcome, the next challenge of migrating Mural #3 came in the form of finding a new way to present this original mural.

“We kept it, but it’s in a totally new form,” laughs Andrews. We took several high resolution photos, very detailed photos, and put these on photographic film. Then, we printed that on metal sheets and installed these on the building. It’s quite vibrant and colourful- it’s almost better than its original form. So, in short, we revitalized that mural into an even more exciting form.”

Tom Andrews, President of the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society

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ON STAGE

Soul King ready to reign in Crofton

BY DON BODGER

Michael Clarke and Glaucia Desrochers are ready to reprise their roles in Soulking. (PHOTO BY DON BODGER)

Encore! Encore!

Writer, director and star of Soul King, Michael Clarke, is bringing back the story of Sam Cooke to the Osborne Bay Pub for another four-show run March 16 to 18.

Many people who already saw it a month ago are thrilled for the chance to attend again and those who missed it previously and then heard great things are grateful for another opportunity.

Clarke will reprise his role as Cooke, providing incredible insight into the man, his music and his eventual murder at the age of 33. It was an easy decision for Clarke to give the show a longer life than the initial four dates in February.

What made that possible is “just the response from the people and a lot of people said they couldn’t come and wanted to make it,” he pointed out.

The schedule for the performances this time is Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17 at 8 p.m. There’s also a matinee at 2 p.m. March 17 and the Sunday, March 18 finale at 7 p.m.

Ticket prices range from $28 to $35 for the main seats nearest the stage and $15 at the back.

Clarke is pleased the second run all came together, with his right-hand co-star Glaucia Desrochers and the entire band led by Nico Rhodes all being available.

“The band knows all the music,” said Clarke. “We just need one rehearsal now.

We just need to keep it fresh. All the costumes are already built and all the props are there.”

Desrochers, 33, of Crofton, a busy mom of four kids, is looking forward to the second staging of the show.

“I love music, I love theatre, the show was fun,” she indicated.

“I played five different characters. Once we got past all the dress rehearsals, it was pure joy. I love seeing the reaction people get from it.”

Desrochers’ background is mainly in singing, but she’s learning to develop a flair for acting with each experience and this show has definitely brought out the best of those talents in her.

Born in Brazil, Desrochers came to Canada when she was nine. She attended St. Joseph’s School in Chemainus till Grade 6 and was at Chemainus Secondary School for Grade 9.

Desrochers always had a natural penchant for singing, but there were lapses along the way. She credits Brian Thompson, a math teacher at the Alternate School she attended for a while, as the one who “really encouraged me to keep singing.”

Desrochers was the winner of the first

Duncan Idol singing contest in 2007 and later served as M.C. for the competition that evolved from it, Duncan’s Got Talent.

She’s been in numerous productions over the years, including the Cowichan Musical Society’s production of Brigadoon and The Sound of Music at the Chemainus Theatre. The role that brought her instant fame and local recognition was portraying Billie Holliday for the Chemainus Valley Arts Council’s Lady Day at Emerson Bar and Grill in 2015.

Desrochers did Holliday for six shows, including two each at the St. Michael’s and All Angels Church in Chemainus, the Osborne Bay Pub and Chemainus Gardens.

“I was terrified nobody was going to come,” she recalled. “It was a challenge because I’d never acted before. It was like a one-woman show.

“It was awesome to get out of my comfort level to do acting which was lots of fun.”

Now with a bustling household that includes children Isaac, 16, Jussara, 5, Xzavier, 3, Jonisah, 1, and husband Corey, she’s putting the time and energy she has left into Clarke’s extravaganza.

Cooke’s story kind of flew under the radar compared to most musicians of the time, but Clarke was anxious to bring it out.

“You start it with a dead body on the ground and then you go backward and then the audience wants to know how that guy died,” explained Clarke.

“It was kind of like feeling if he could speak right on that night and had a voice, I was writing it and channeling what he might be thinking at that moment. Then it was just a matter of telling that story.”

Clarke added it’s the life of a human being, not defined by one moment: his death.

“You see the man’s life. Everyone makes choices - good and bad - and he made his share. I also felt he would be pleased to see his story being told to help this little idea of Cedrick’s.”

All profits from Cedrick’s Tea and Coffee House in Crofton, presenters of the show, go to the KIDS International Development Society.

Being part of the show left a lasting impression on Desrochers that she’s looking forward to reliving.

“It’s a show everybody needs to see - the realities and the struggles of what it was like for black people in that time,” she concluded. “How easily people can slip back into that.”

And the music speaks for itself with familiar hits that Cooke pumped out.

“There’s so many of them,” noted Clarke.

“A lot of his songs were No. 1 or top 10.

A lot of people knew them.”

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GARDENING

Cobble Hill Hall was packed Saturday morning for Seedy Saturday. (PHOTOS BY ANDREA RONDEAU/CITIZEN)

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BY ANDREA RONDEAU

Hordes of people flooded into Cobble Hill on Saturday and brilliant sun shone down on the 18th annual Seedy Saturday.

This event traditionally marks the beginning of spring for many

gardeners, and people came out in droves to buy and trade seeds, plants, produce and tools.

This year, organizers doubled the number of vendors at the event, spreading them out into two buildings, the Cobble Hill Hall and the Stu Armour Hall.

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Sports Brentwood slays Dragons to repeat BLACK PRESS

Brentwood College senior boys basketball coach Blake Gage could relate to what his counterpart with the King George Dragons was going through.

In the 2017 provincial championship final, Gage’s squad struggled with their shooting in the early going, but recovered to win the B.C. boys AA title with a 55-44 win.

And on Saturday night, the Mill Bay private school shot nearly 44 per cent from the field in building a 45-20 lead over the Dragons.

And while King George played Brentwood College to a draw in the third quarter, the tournament’s top seed iced the victory in the fourth, prevailing 97-59.

“I have a ton of respect with what Darko Kulic does with his guys; they bring it every single game,” Gage said about the King George coach. “Unfortunately for them, they didn’t shoot the ball very well tonight.

“In a big game, you have to make some shots.”

Brentwood College made the game’s first field goal and was off to the races, never trailing.

Brentwood players celebrated after beating King George 97-59 to repeat as provincial AA champions. (GREG LAYCHAK/BLACK PRESS) The team had a balanced attack in Saturday’s victory with most valuable player Brendan Sullivan leading the way with 25 points, five rebounds, three steals and two assists.

And while Sullivan led the onslaught from the outside —

he made five of 12 three-point attempts — Player of the Game Somto Dimonachie did his damage in the paint with 18 points and 12 rebounds.

Bruno Chan chipped in with 13 points, 11 rebounds and four assists and Casper Poelen had

10 points. Chan was named the tournament’s most outstanding defensive player and a first-team all-star, with Nathan Pasloske also earning all-star honours.

Brentwood opened the tournament last Wednesday with a 94-30 trouncing of Grand Forks,

then faced their local rivals from Shawnigan Lake School in the quarter-finals on Thursday.

Shawnigan led 35-27 at halftime, but Brentwood regrouped at the break and went on to prevail 7555. Brentwood then dispatched Seycove 93-57 in the semifinals on Friday.

While Brentwood’s coach may battle nerves, his players do not.

“I am always nervous, I always have doubts but these guys always step up,” Gage said. “And thank God they are the ones playing and not me.

“It is really special to be a part of this as a coach and I am privileged to be along for the ride.”

Shawnigan, who entered the tournament ranked eighth, kicked off the tournament with a 71-65 win over ninth-seeded Pacific Academy, which was followed by the loss to Brentwood.

They knocked off fourth-seeded Charles Hays 90-56 in the third round, then downed sixth-seeded Britannia 62-55 to finish fifth in the province.

Shawnigan’s Dru-Leo Leusogi-Ape was named a first-team all-star, and Sergio Pereira was selected to the second team.

Dynamics send four to provincials after strong showing in Port Alberni

BY KEVIN ROTHBAUER

The Duncan Dynamics Gymnastics Club collected nearly 40 medals and qualified four athletes for the provincial championships when they competed in the Mount Arrowsmith Invitational and Zone 6 Trials in Port Alberni earlier this month.

Priya Dhami finished first allaround in the Junior Olympic 7 (12-16) division, and won a special award for beam choreography. Also finishing first all-around in her age group was Nirva Megevand, in the JO4 (12-13) division, while Sophie Chernykh received a special award for floor choreography.

Chernykh was also one of four Duncan gymnasts, along with Jillian Telfer, Caydence Samp-

son and Amelia Cannon, who qualified to compete in the Gymnastics BC Provincial Championships in Port Coquitlam next month.

Full Duncan Dynamics results: JO3 (7-8) Yasmin Foo: gold on floor, silver on bars and beam, bronze on vault, silver all-around JO3 (9-11) Mya Boyden: gold on vault and floor, bronze on beam, gold all around Inez Londono: silver on vault, bronze all-around Maika Jay: silver on floor Honey White: bronze on vault JO4 (12-13) Nirva Megevand: gold on floor, silver on vault, bars and beam, gold all-around JO5 (12-14)

Jillian Telfer: gold on floor, silver on vault and bars, silver all-around Caydence Sampson: silver on floor, bronze on bars and beam, fourth all-around JO6 (age 13) Sophie Chernykh: gold on beam, silver on floor, bronze all-around JO6 (14-16) Amelia Cannon: gold on beam, fourth all-around JO7 (12-16) Priya Dhami: silver on beam and floor, gold all-around Khrystyna Yaremyn: silver on bars, bronze on beam, silver allaround Charcey Erickson: gold on beam, fourth all-around Sarah Carson: gold on floor, silver on vault

The Duncan Dynamics’ Mount Arrowsmith Invitational contingent. Back row from left: Anna Mataganova (coach), Nirva Megevand, Charcey Erickson, Priya Dhami, Amelia Cannon, Khrystyna Yaremyn, Sarah Carson, Jillian Telfer, Micaylla Broadway (coach). Front row from left: Sada Bennefield, Sydney Brittan, Honey White, Inez Londono, Chloe Power, Mya Boyden. (SUBMITTED)

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United advance to first ever Smith Cup final

BY KEVIN ROTHBAUER

With one victory on Sunday afternoon, Cowichan United achieved two of the goals they had set for their debut U21 soccer campaign.

By beating Prospect Lake 2-1 at Layritz Park, the team qualified for the George Smith Cup final, and as a cup finalist, earned a berth in the provincial championships.

“Both of them were goals we wanted to achieve,” Cowichan head coach Tyler Hughes said.

“Getting to provincials is an important step. It keeps our season going and allow us to compete against the top teams from the Mainland.”

Playing for the George Smith Cup comes with prestige and history, and a chance to compete in front of a big crowd at Royal Athletic Park, which Hughes calls “the soccer hub of Victoria.”

“It will be a good experience for the kids,” he said. “to play in a cup final atmosphere.”

Cowichan was playing without leading goalscorer Logan Kits on Sunday, as he served a suspension from a previous cup match. Nevertheless, forwards Oliver Bontkes and Devin Jack got off to a good start in the match, creating trouble for the Prospect Lake defenders. Jack opened the scoring when he caused a turnover and capitalized

Oliver Bontkes, pictured here in a league game earlier this season, scored what proved to be the decisive goal in Cowichan United’s 2-1 win over Prospect Lake in Sunday’s George Smith Cup semifinal. (CITIZEN FILE)

“We don’t see ourselves as the underdog or lucky to be here. We deserve to be here, and we’ll give it a go.”

TYLER HUGHES, Cowichan United head coach

on the ensuing breakaway with a lob over the goalkeeper. Bontkes added another five minutes later, taking a pass from Liam Thibodeau-Perry, then burying the rebound of his own shot.

“The two of them deserved their goals,” Hughes said. “They had a good start and caused

problems for the Prospect Lake backline.”

Cowichan took the 2-0 lead into halftime.

“We were feeling confident,” Hughes recalled. “They had some chances but we felt like we were in control.”

Among the halftime subs were brothers Michael and Nic Fusick, who had just returned the night before from a family trip to Scotland, but arrived at the field ready for action. “[Prospect] started to come out stronger in the second half,” Hughes said. “But we were confident with a two-goal lead.”

Prospect Lake made it a onegoal game with about 20 minutes to go. Although their opponents generated some momentum, Cowichan clung to their lead.

“The last 20 minutes, we were hanging on, defending, blocking shots,” Hughes remarked. “We managed to stave them off.”

Captain Tyson Black was named Man of the Match.

“He worked his socks off in the middle,” Hughes said. “He was a big inspiration to the guys on this day, for sure.”

This might be United’s first season, but it’s no surprise to see them in contention for a title.

“We don’t see ourselves as the underdog or lucky to be here,” Hughes said. “We deserve to be here, and we’ll give it a go.”

Cowichan’s opponent in the final at R.A.P on March 24 will be Vic West. Vic West finished sixth in the seven-team U21 league, and Cowichan won all three meetings between the teams this season: 2-1 in the season opener, 5-1 in early November, and 6-1 in late January.

“You can’t look at previous meetings,” Hughes said. “We’re expecting a physical battle. They can be a tough team to play against. They have older, more experienced players. Our games were closer than the score lines would reflect. In a cup final, it’s a one-off game; anything can happen. The underdog gets motivated. It doesn’t matter what place you’re in. It’s 90 minutes. One goal can make all the difference.”

Before the George Smith Cup final, Cowichan United has one league game left to play, against Lakehill next Sunday at Braefoot Park. With a win, Cowichan will finish second in the U21 league, while a loss or a tie will put them third. Even though they’ve already locked up a berth in provincials, Cowichan doesn’t plan to take the weekend off.

“That’s not something we want to do,” Hughes said. “Whenever you play, especially a league game, you need to make sure you put the effort in to win.”

Niners get past Bobcats, will get to defend cup title “It was a battle. It wasn’t pretty…Things got sort of heated on both sides.”

BY KEVIN ROTHBAUER

A rough-and-tumble semifinal win on Saturday night propelled the Cowichan Craig Street 49ers into their second consecutive Tony Grover Cup final.

The 49ers beat the Cordova Bay Bobcats 2-0 in a brutal match at Lochside Turf, earning a chance to defend their Vancouver Island masters soccer championship.

“It was a battle,” Cowichan head coach Kevin James said. “It wasn’t pretty. It was an extremely physical game. Things got sort of heated on both sides. A lot of bad fouls weren’t called, and a lot of minor fouls were called. It was hard to read the game. Both teams had a hard time on that end of it.”

Cordova Bay resorted to embellishment as the game progressed, which occasionally worked in their favour, leading to frustration, and sometimes retaliation, on the Cowichan players’ behalf.

“It worked for us whenever we got away from trying to play their style of game, and brought

KEVIN JAMES, Cowichan 49ers head coach

George Thomas provided leadership and a calming presence on the pitch for the Cowichan 49ers on Saturday. (CITIZEN FILE) more skill into it,” James related. “They couldn’t play with us when we played that style of game. But we bit a few times.”

For the most part, the Cowichan players kept their heads.

They did collect a couple of yellow cards, but nothing that will impact the cup final. Credit goes to Dave Tuckey and George Thomas for keeping things under control on the pitch.

“We had a couple of guys step up and pull in the reins,” James said. “They both took good leadership roles that helped us, especially in the second half.”

Brad Thorne scored for Cowichan in the first half, and Darcy Kulai added one in the second half.

James kept his bench short, and while that led to less playing time for some players, they understood the rationale.

“Some guys didn’t get minutes, some guys had limited minutes,” James said. “When you have depth like we have, things can go sideways. When you get to where we’re at, I’m not gonna make changes unless we absolutely have to.

“We have something special and they’ve bought into that.

It makes it easy for me, coaching-wise.”

Cowichan will face the Gorge Masters A team in the Tony Grover Cup final at Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park on March 25. Gorge finished second in the A division, one spot back of Cowichan, and only three points behind. The 49ers won 15 of their 17 games this season, and the other two matches were a loss and a tie against Gorge.

“Even though we’re the league champs, in some regards, we’re the underdogs because we haven’t beaten them this year,” James acknowledged.

The 49ers are still going into the final with “100 per cent confidence,” James insisted.

“We know we can [beat them],” he said. “If we play hard, we can win, No question about that.”

Cowichan beat Vic West 2-1 in the cup final last year. Gorge knocked off Vic West 7-1 in the semifinals this year.

“Gorge is Gorge,” James said.

“They’re a solid team. They have a lot of good players. They’ll show up to play. We’re going to have to have a great game [to win], and so will they.”

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Cup semifinal loss among LMG’s ‘worst ever’ Cowichan will regroup for provincial championships

BY KEVIN ROTHBAUER

Glen Martin has coached a lot of soccer, including more than a dozen years at the top level of the Vancouver Island Soccer League, but his team’s 3-1 loss in the Jackson Cup semifinals on Saturday just might be an all-time low.

“For me as a coach, it probably ranks as the worst game we’ve lost, ever,” Martin said about Cowichan LMG’s defeat at the hands of Gorge. “I can’t remember a bigger loss than that.”

Playing on their home turf, Cowichan dominated the early going and held a 1-0 lead late in the first half, but ended up on the losing end of the score. Gorge didn’t look like giant-slayers in the early going, but once they pulled ahead, they didn’t look back.

“We took our foot off their throat and helped them up off the ground,” Martin said.

Steve Scott scored the all-important first goal of the game in the 36th minute. Until then, Cowichan had controlled every aspect of the game.

“They hadn’t even been in our

Cowichan LMG head coach Glen Martin called Steve Scott his team’s best player in Saturday’s loss to Gorge. (CITIZEN FILE)

“We had that team down and out, and we let them off the hook, for sure.”

GLEN MARTIN, Cowichan LMG head coach

end,” Martin noted. “Then, in a 20-minute period, they were up 2-1, and we couldn’t recover from it.”

Gorge tied the score shortly after Scott’s goal, then took the lead on a penalty shot after

Cowichan goalkeeper Darian Achurch took a player down in the box following a bad defensive play.

“That was all it took to get their confidence going,” Martin said. “We had that team down and out, and we let them off the hook, for sure.”

Under immense pressure, Cowichan put everything into tying the score over the final 45 minutes.

“In the second half, we were

pushing, pushing, pushing,” Martin said. “You do that, it’s either going to be 2-2 or 3-1. We came at them in waves, but the quality wasn’t good. We kicked the ball at their goalie probably 20 times.”

Goal-scorer Scott set a tone on Saturday that Martin wished the rest of the team had followed.

“To me, he was our best player,” the coach said. “If everybody played as hard as he did, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”

Other players who stepped up in the loss included Kevan Brown, Colin Knight, and Govinda Innes off the bench.

Prior to Saturday’s game, Gorge’s season appeared to be over. They had finished fifth in the Div. 1 standings, and could only earn a provincial championship berth by reaching the Jackson Cup semifinals.

“We saved their season,” Martin said.

Cowichan had played in seven of the previous eight Jackson Cup finals, winning five times.

Martin wasn’t ready for this year’s tournament to be over.

“We have five guys who have never played in a Jackson Cup final,” he said. “It would have been nice for those guys. You can talk about coming back next year, but you don’t know what you’re gonna get next year.”

Even Cowichan’s two Jackson Cup final losses didn’t sting as much as Saturday’s defeat,

having both come in overtime against arguably stronger, more motivated squads. The closest comparison Martin could come up with was a loss to Estrella de Chile FC from Burnaby in the 2015 provincial semifinals. EDC tied the score at 1-1 in injury time, then went on to win on penalty kicks.

“That was the most heartbreaking loss ever,” Martin said.

“This was the worst loss, as far as team play.”

If there is a silver lining, it is that Cowichan has a history of recovering from untimely exits from cup play.

“Last time we lost a Jackson Cup game, other than the final, we went to the provincial semifinal,” Martin pointed out.

“That’s one positive we can take out of this.”

That was in 2013, when LMG lost to Bays United in a play-in game that ended up featuring the two tournament favourites that year. Bays went on to win the cup.

Gorge will face Lakehill in the Jackson Cup final on March 25.

As Div. 1 champions, Cowichan has already qualified for the provincial tournament, the draw for which will be held on March 26, so Martin’s team will have to refocus quickly. As a seeded team, Cowichan is guaranteed to at least open the tournament with a home game.

“We need to have a short memory,” Martin said.

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In their last season together, the U18 Cowichan Chaos bowed out of the playoffs just shy of returning to the provincial championships.

After finishing second at provincials in 2017, when they also won their U18 Gold Lower Island Soccer Association league (as a U17 team), the Coastal Cup and Island championship, the Chaos moved up to the Vancouver Island Premier League this year.

Competing against regional teams, where they were the only entry representing just one single club, the Chaos finished third in the six-team U18 league, going 11-6-2, while not losing any games against Victoria-area teams.

“From that standpoint, we had an outstanding season,” Cowichan coach Brian Johnston said.

Entering the playoffs, the Chaos would have played the sixth-place team, but circumstances led to them having a bye to the second round, where they met a Nanaimo Storm team that draws players from Nanaimo, Parksville and Port Alberni.

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Although Cowichan came on stronger in the second half of the match, Nanaimo prevailed 4-1 in the Island semifinal.

“They were focused to beat us,” Johnston said of the Nanaimo team. “They deserved it on the day. We didn’t play all that well.”

Robyn Zinkan scored the last goal for the Chaos on a feed from Emma Dewit.

“That was a nice combination to end Cowichan Valley soccer,” Johnston said.

The core of the Chaos had been together for the last seven years, with a few additions and no subtractions during that time.

“In the back of their minds, I think they were thinking it was potentially their last game,” Johnston acknowledged.

Had they beaten the Nanaimo Storm, the Chaos would have had to play the Riptide, a powerhouse team that draws from the Comox Valley, Campbell River, Port Hardy and Powell River.

Several players from the Chaos will go on to play post-secondary soccer next season: Dewit has committed to UVic and Zinkan will play for the University of Northern B.C. Hannah Tuplin, Khasi Dietrich and goalkeeper McKenna Posey are in the mix for the VIU Mariners.

“It’s nice that a number of them are going on to mix schooling with soccer,” Johnston said.

Montgomery wins mixed bonspiel

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The Montgomery rink prevailed 7-4 over the Venn foursome in the final of the A event at the Duncan Curling Club’s Mixed Bonspiel on March 4.

Jason Montgomery skipped his team, which included Megan Montgomery, Nolan Reid and Kimberly Nahler, to the win over the team of Don, Lee Ann and Corey Venn and Barb Kaiser. Third place in the A event, sponsored by Farmer Ben’s Eggs, went to Gerald Poelman, Fiona and Jim Machell and Shannon Harris, and fourth place went to Kelly and Carla Krantz, Wayne Clough and Wayne O’Keefe.

Bart Sawyer skipped his rink, which included sister Amy Sawyer, Craig Burton and Mike Wallin, to first in the B event, sponsored by Swabbies, beating the team of Jim Odo, Betty Cowling, and Richard and Julie Odo 8-6 in the final. Rodney

Challborn, Diane Myrden and John and Maria Elzinga placed third, followed by Duaine, Lorrie and Carley Hardie and Kathy Yu in fourth.

The OK Tire C event was won by Ken Sheila Percival, Jim Irvine and Lori Pickard, who prevailed 8-6 over the team of Kevin Lamont, Shannon Stevens, Dakota Stevens and Trina White in the final.

Murray Blom, Maryanne Saunders, and Chris and Ian Blom placed third, with Barry and Susan Klein and John and Pat Robillard in fourth.

The team of Andre and Kelsey Dentoom and Dwayne and Lisa Perry finished first in the D event, beating the team of Brent Dellebuur, Nancy Friday, Andy Skinner and Vicki Janzen 8-3 in their final. In third were Stephen Wiles, Lorrie Bell-Wiles and Jim and Margot Welwood, and Dean and Kelly Meikle, Rick Manifold and Debbie Loewen finished fourth.

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Cowichan Valley C2, Powell River, Comox C3, Sooke and Saanich C5 make up Pool A; Cowichan Valley C1, Cowichan Valley C2, Coquitlam C3, Comox C6 and Port McNeill are the teams in Pool B; and Chilliwack, Campbell River, Nanaimo C5, Saanich C2 and Cowichan Valley C4 comprise the entries in Pool C. The schedule at Fuller Lake begins Friday at 8:30 a.m. and runs until 9:50 p.m.

Saturday action commences even earlier at 7 a.m. and continues until 9:50; and Sunday’s schedule begins at 7:30 p.m. and culminates in the championship game at 6:30 p.m.

Dale Irving displays one of the Gold In The Net jerseys for the mini tournament part of the Cowichan Valley Memorial. (DON BODGER/BLACK PRESS)

Memorial tourney honours families united by tragedy

BY DON BODGER

It’s almost indescribable what it means for families linked by hockey and the loss of loved ones at an early age to be part of the Cowichan Valley Memorial Midget C Hockey Tournament.

The first tournament last year that followed a string of successes of the Ryan Clark Memorial brought a great deal of satisfaction for the competing teams, the memorial families and organizers.

“It just fell into place last year, it couldn’t have worked out better,” said Kathy Irving, who heads the massive organizational team of volunteers.

Everyone is looking forward to the second annual event and the ninth overall under the Ryan Clark Memorial umbrella, taking place Friday through Sunday at Fuller Lake and Island Savings Centre arenas.

Hockey is at the core of this event in a healing environment for so many people affected by unfortunate circumstances. The young players are remembered through a series of unique awards.

“That’s something all these kids had in common,” noted Irving.

“They loved hockey. For those kids, it was a passion.”

The families of Brayden Gale, Eric Kernachan, Caleb Kroffat, Christina McLeod, Zak Andrews, Paige Whitelaw and Ryan Clark are thrilled to have this avenue to pay tribute to each of them.

The reception from those families to attend games and offer support was phenomenal.

“I couldn’t get over the Whitelaws,” cited Irving as an example. “We had more people from the community in the arena.”

These are the awards lucky players from among the 15 competing teams will be receiving: the Brayden Gale Memorial Award for the player with the most heart; the Karny Award for

fearless player; the Caleb Kroffat Award for the player with the most character; the Christina McLeod Award for the player with the most passion for the game; the Zak Andrews Award for Mr. Personality; the Paige Whitelaw Award for the most sportsmanlike player; and the Ryan Clark Goalie Award for the most outstanding goaltender, the showcase honour from the time the tournament first started.

Each of the awards comes with a unique cube keepsake that was a big hit last season. The award recipients were so thrilled to be recognized it was overwhelming to everyone to witness that response.

There’s also the Ryan Clark trophy for the championship team and commemorative individual belt buckles.

All the participants in the tournament receive hoodies and special tournament towels go to the individual game MVPs. This is the first year Kroffat’s friends are now of age to play in the actual tournament so that will add a special touch.

There are numerous connections to the birthdates and anniversaries of the deaths of some of the honourees in March to make the event even more emotional.

As an added touch, there’s a mini alumni tournament taking place at Fuller Lake during the tournament for friends of the players who have died.

“Very exciting and the families are so excited,” offered Irving.

Those games for Team Clark, Kernachan, Gale, Andrews and Whitelaw members take place Sunday from noon to 1:40 p.m. and 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. during gaps in the main draw.

The main tournament features 33 games and it’s sure to be action-packed from start to finish.

“Everybody’s quite gung-ho about it,” said Irving.

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Helga Cooper December 1944 – March 2018

Remembering Loved Ones

May 15, 1928 – March 12, 2018

It is with great sadness that we announce Helga’s passing. She leaves behind her devoted and loving husband of 49 years Gary, and her lovely daughters Rita and Debbie. Helga was the eldest of her siblings (Bill, Barbara, Elsie and Ernie), and was born in Germany. She is pre-deceased by her parents Willy and Trudy.

Her family moved to Edmonton, Alberta when Helga was 7, and then Costa Mesa California for 3 years where she graduated from High School. Helga was a devoted daughter and sister. Despite being offered a full scholarship to University, she chose to work and be additional support to her parents and siblings. The family then moved to Victoria, BC where she met Gary, introduced to her by life-long friends Bill and Linda. Upon marrying Gary in 1969, she resided in Duncan, BC where she has lived ever since.

Helga excelled in retail and banking careers and after marrying Gary and moving to Duncan, she continued to work as a Bank Teller at CIBC. When she became a mother, she proudly chose to be a full-time homemaker and continued to assist her aging parents.

Helga loved being a wife and mother and was also very fond of animals. For 38 years, she enjoyed life on a small hobby farm on Lakes Road, designed and built

by Gary. A variety of animals led blissful lives under her care, but the highlight of her pride and joy was her prize-winning registered herd of pygmy goats, some ancestors of which now reside in the Beacon Hill and Stanley Park petting zoos.

She also loved her plants – able to revive anything that might be struggling and turn it into thriving jungle-like greenery! In her final years, she enjoyed caring and tending to what plants that she could, and spending time with her dogs, and the fish and frog in their small pond.

Helga was a strong woman and survived cancer several times; however, in the last 4 years, she experienced many more health issues. While her family misses her dearly, they have some peace knowing that she is no longer in pain or suffering.

A Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 2:00 PM at H.W. Wallace Cremation and Burial Centre, 5285 Polkey Road, Duncan, BC. In lieu of flowers, you may wish to make a donation to the SPCA.

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Jagjit Kaur Minhas, age 89, passed away peacefully at the Cowichan District Hospital surrounded by her family after a courageous battle with heart and lung disease. Jagjit was born in Majra, Punjab, India on May 15, 1928 and was one of nine children. In 1945, Jagjit married Sarup Singh Minhas in Punjab, India and settled in Bahadargarh, Punjab. Together, they raised four beautiful daughters. Following the death of her beloved husband (1991), Jagjit came to Duncan, B.C. to live with her daughters in 1993.

Jagjit earned the respect and admiration of all those she encountered along the way.

She is predeceased by her parents, Bhagwan Singh and Thakri Kaur Janjua, her husband Sarup Singh, her daughter Devinder Kaur, her brothers Parkash and Gurdash, and her sisters Gurbachan, Naranjan, Budha and Sankri.

Jagjit is survived by her daughters, Ranjit Kaur Parmar (late Gurbax Singh), Balinder Kaur Parmar (Amrik Singh), Manjit Kaur Parmar (Sangram Singh), sisters Surinder and Paro, son-in-law Jiwan Singh Parmar (late Devinder Kaur), 16 grandchildren, several great-grandchildren, great great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family would like to thank Jagjit’s family doctor, Dr. Harwood Reimer, and Dr. Fazil and Dr. Morris, as well as the staff at the Cowichan District Hospital.

A celebration of Jagjit’s life will be held at H.W. Wallace Cremation and Burial Centre at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 17. Doors open at 1 p.m. The service is followed by prayers and lunch at the Paldi Sikh Temple.

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Thomas Garth Harvey January 12, 1921 - February 28, 2018 Garth passed away at Shawnigan Lake, BC at the age of 97. He was predeceased by his wife, Gladys, his parents and all his siblings, but leaves behind his beloved nieces and nephews, and his special, extensive ‘extended family’.

There will be a Celebration of Life on April 8 at 2 pm at the Shawnigan Lake Community Centre. Since Garth touched the lives of so many people over his many years with us, we invite you to share your memories of him on the funeral home website at: www.dignitymemorial.ca/obituaries.

We plan to print these and share them at his Celebration of Life.

For those who are attending, there will be a table where you can leave your memories to share.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Shawnigan Lake Museum and Historical Society. www.shawniganlakemuseum.com/how-to-help.php

Passed away peacefully on March 6, 2018 at the age of 95, with his family by his side. George is survived by his loving wife of 70 years Kay, their son Brian and grandchildren; Matthew, Leah and Ella, siblings; Arthur Pickering, Iris Nelson, and Shirley Pickering, nephews; Walter, Earl and Leigh Large, Kevin Mahoney, nieces; Valerie Lawson, Julie Burns Battaglia and Susan Nelson.

George was predeceased by his daughter Kathy who passed away in 2001, as well as sisters; Marion Large and Marjory Mahoney.

Born to Walter and Maude Pickering in Hamilton Mountain, Ontario on March 3, 1923, he was raised in Toronto and at the age of 17, George joined the Canadian Army where he served with the Signal Corps from 1940 – 1945. After his time served, George had a successful career working for Christie Biscuits, Jergens Soap and Bristol Myers. In 1978, he and his family moved to Duncan, BC where he worked for the K&R Food group. Retirement did not last long, as shortly after George started a lot cleaning business and became well known for looking after local businesses until the age of 83, including; Country Grocer, Dog House Restaurant, Reggie’s Veggies, Cobblestone Pub, as well as Smith and Jones Automotive.

George was a dedicated family man with an incredible work ethic and a positive attitude which he has passed on to multiple generations. He had a passion for storytelling and having coffee all around town, as people were his favorite hobby.

Georges family would like to give a special thank you to all the staff at the Glengarry Hospital.

Please join us in celebrating George’s life at H.W. Wallace Cremation and Burial Centre, 5285 Polkey Road, Duncan, BC on Friday March 16, 2018, at 10:00am. Inurnment to take place at a later date. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the BC Transplant Society.

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Online Auction Of Restaurant & Food Equipment Online Bidding & Viewing Opens Mar. 20 / Closes March 27 VIEW ONSITE: Mar. 26 & 27 - 10am to 3pm @ 444 Seymour St., KAMLOOPS, BC. Items incl. Taylor Soft Serve, Walk-in Cooler, Gas Equip, U/C Dishwashers, Sinks, Robot Coupes, Conv.

Ovens, Coolers, Freezers, Display Cases, Mixers, Band Saw, Chiller & MORE. View & Bid Online @ www.activeauctionmart.com buyit@activeauctionmart.com / Tel: 604-371-1190

• Decking • Carpentry • Flooring • Plumbing • Eaves • Trough-Cleaning • Rubbish Removal • Small Moving Jobs

Seniors Discounts

Ian 250-743-6776 TOTAL RENOVATIONS

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

We require a copy of your Trade and Red seal certiďŹ cates.

Casual On-Call Noon Hour Supervisors

GARAGE SALES

Carpenter will do additions, Carports, Decks, Siding, Flooring, Painting, Finishing, Plumbing, Fences Pres-washing, plus more.

All work guaranteed.

Insured

250-748-9150

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE APPLIANCES Appliances 6 mo. Warranty FRIDGES White 17 cu ft fridge-$200 White 18 cu ft bottom freezer fridge $ 300.00 RANGES White 30� range-$150 Black 30� Genair gas Electric S/C convection range $550 WASHER & DRYERS Kenmore dryer $125 Kenmore Washer $200 Maytag Washer $180 Stacking washer/dryer $350 DISHWASHER Built-in D/W-$100-$150 Greg 250-246-9859

FUEL/FIREWOOD M&M FIREWOOD. Custom cut. Good to burn now. Call 250-710-1640 * 250-710-1976.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE SAWMILLS from only $4,397 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-567-0404 Ext:400OT

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

2 French violins made 1870 & 1900’s. Very nice condition. please call 250-701-2035

HELP WANTED

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FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISORS Adams 22 Holdings o/a Tim Hortons is currently looking for Food Service Supervisors Locations: 166 Trunk Road, Duncan, BC, V9L 2P2 – 3 Vacancies 2628 Beverly Street.

Duncan, BC, V9L 5C7 – 3 Vacancies Terms of Employment: Permanent, Full-Time, PartTime, Shift, Weekend, Day, Night & Evening Salary: $14.00 +Benefits Start Date: ASAP Experience: 1-2 years Education: none Please contact for job description. How to Apply: timscowichan@shaw.ca or In Person at any of the above locations FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISORS TCC Ventures o/a Tim Hortons is currently looking for Food Service Supervisors Locations: 2927 Drinkwater Road, Duncan, BC, V9L 6C6 – 3 Vacancies 825 Deloume Road, Mill Bay, BC, V0R 2P2 – 3 Vacancies Terms of Employment: Permanent, Full-Time, PartTime, Shift, Weekend, Day, Night & Evening Salary: $14.00 +Benefits Start Date: ASAP Experience: 1-2 years Education: none Please contact for job description. How to Apply: timscowichan@shaw.ca or In Person at any of the above locations

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