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Gardeners brace for weekend rush ANNUAL TOUR: Hundreds expected to take in the sights while raising funds for CFLA MIKE D’AMOUR CITIZEN
More than 400 people are expected to take in the sights and scents of local gardens during this year’s Annual Cowichan Valley Garden Tour. Put on as a fundraiser for Cowichan Family Life Association (CFLA), 2013 marks the nineteenth year of the tour, a one-day event that will take in seven spectacular gardens between Mill Bay and Duncan. “This is our major charity fundraiser to support our programs that promote the health and well being of children and families in the Cowichan Valley,” said Maureen Gallinger, executive director of CFLA. The self-guided tour of seven unique and diverse private gardens offers participants an opportunity to commune with master gardeners, enjoy refreshments, and to purchase raffle tickets for lots of wonderful prizes donated by generous Valley people. One garden will see a tea service, while another will host a “Chat in The Garden” with long time Times
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John McCauley shows he has more than just a green thumb as he poses with partner Deb Kopf in their fabulous Phillip Street yard (front and back are not to be missed) during the 18th annual Annual Cowichan Valley Garden Tour, June 3. [MIKE D’AMOUR/CITIZEN] Colonist garden columnist, Helen Chestnut. “It will just be a casual thing,” said Gallinger, who noted one of the homes on the annual tour — of which none will be revealed publicly until the tour begins — is to be featured in the Homes and Garden section of the Victoria paper next weekend. The money raised from the tour is vital for Cowichan Family Life, an organization
that grew out of a grassroots movement driven by concerned and caring people that believed counselling services should be available to everyone. CFLA offers affordable peer counselling. a summer camp for kids, programs to support school-aged children in their social and emotional development and well being, a “Books and Bubbles” bus that delivers early learning
and literacy programs to children in outlying areas of the Valley and lots more. Tickets for the Annual Cowichan Valley Garden Tour are $20 and are available in may Valley locations, including Duncan’s Cowichan Family Life Thrift Store, 531 Canada Ave. For more information about CFLA or the garden tour, call 250-748-8281, or visit www. cowichanfamilylife.org
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NOTICE OF INTENT RE: LIQUOR CONTROL AND LICENSING ACT PATRON PARTICIPATIONENTERTAINMENT FOR FOOD PRIMARY LICENCE An application has been received by the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch, Victoria, BC from Golf BC Holdings Inc, operating the Arbutus Ridge Golf Club, located at 3515 Telegraph Bay, Cobble Hill, BC to allow for patron participation entertainment ending at 12:00 midnight daily. The current licensed hours are between 11 AM to 1 AM (Monday to Saturday ) and 11 AM to 12 Midnight on Sunday. There are no proposed changes to the capacity. Residents and owners of businesses located within a 1/2 mile (0.8 km) radius of the proposed site may comment on this proposal by 1) Writing to: THE GENERAL MANAGER C/O Case Manager LIQUOR CONTROL AND LICENSING BRANCH PO BOX 9292 Victoria, BC V8W 9J8 OR 2) By e-mail: lclb.lclb@gov.bc.ca
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