May 2022 Issue 162

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MAY 2022 ISSUE 162 SPRING FINE ARTS SHOW I COWICHAN ARTISANS I WILD FOODS I LOCAL MUSIC

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May 2022 Issue 162 Cowichan Valley Voice Magazine Publisher Richard Badman Editor Sheila Badman Contact us at: editor@cowichanvalleyvoice.com 250 746 9319 6514 Wicks Rd, Duncan BC V9L 5V2 Visit us online at www.cowichanvalleyvoice.com Distribution

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OUR COMMUNITY May Events 5 What is Right 9 Yasmeen Olya Community Healing Fundraising 29 Giant Book Sale at St. Peters Church 31 A Gift of Love 36-37 Hub Spring Sale 38 Lessons From My Mother 39 Mother’s Day Gift Guide 40-41 Celebrating Charmian Horner Co-Founder of theCFLA Garden Tour 45 Cedricks Coffee House Helps K.I.D.S 57 Time for Some Financial Spring Cleaning 72 Stamp Collecting is Alive and Well in the Cowichan Valley 73 May Forecasts 77 Directory of Businesses 78-79 LOCAL FOOD & DRINK Farm Table Inn’s Mother’s Day Brunch to go Package 12 Greener Tea: May in the World of Tea 18 Citrus Spot Prawn Salad 19 BC Spot Prawn Linguine 20 Grow Your Wine Collection This Spring 23 Japanese Gobo 26 Remembering Stephen Schacht 27 Mothering Cows at Cowichan Station Creamery 30-31 Local Food Security - Planning For The Future 52 Support our Local Farmers with CSA’s 67

SPECIAL THANKS TO FOLLOWING VALLEY VOICES Craig Spence, Susan Down, Grant Easterbrook, Donna Shaw, Merv Bowman, Jane Nares, Bill Jones, Jessica Schacht, Tim Mock, Brad Boisvert, Love’s Triangle, Tina Foster, Amy Caine, Media Octopus, Alicia Fall, Sonia HOME & GARDEN Furstenau, Ranji & David, Tina Short, Vedrana Ashcroft, Tamara Dinter, A Spring Refresh for Your Home 24 David Coulson, Alan Bagshaw, Shayna Grimwood, Dr. Lyn Pascoe, Debbie Shkuratoff, Cari Burdett, Bernie Dinter, Cathy Simons, Madelaine Cowichan Family Life Association Garden Tour Revived for 2022 44 Southern, Todd Foley, Dr. Bill Nielsen, Kristy Landry, Joanne Sales, Shiloh Understanding the Role of Fungi in Soil 46 Badman, Debbie Wood, The lovely Georgia Nicols, Nicolette Genier, Bamboo, a Scourge in the Garden or a Lifeline to our Planet?

Cindy Jolin, and the Wonderful Staff at the Community Farm Store.

We welcome your story ideas & photo submissions; however Cowichan Valley Voice Magazine reserves the right to omit and/or edit all submissions for space, clarity, content and style. The opinions expressed in Valley Voice Magazine do not necessarily reflect those of the editor, publishers or other contributors. Please send a query email with your suggested topic prior to sending your article as space is limited and may not always be available.

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Says artist and art therapist, Catherine Fraser. Visit Catherine Fraser’s studio during the Cowichan Artisans Spring Tour May 13th-15th.

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LOCAL ARTS Ukraine Blue & Yellow the Palette at Rainforest Arts 8 CVAC Arts this Month 11 Cowichan Artisans Spring Tour 14-16 39 Steps Back by Popular Demand 17 Ryan McMahon Live at the Chapel 25 A Thriving Arts and Cultural Community 32-33 Song Voice Sound Nature 34 Love’s Triangle 35 Art Auction for Yasmeen 50 BODY, MIND & SOUL Prayerfulness and Action 27 Why We Should Read Tilly and the Crazy Eights 42 Reflexology for Relaxation 43 Building a Better World Together 47 Facial Hyperpigmentation Disorders 54-55 Maca - Find the Balance you Seek 55 Caring for the Caregiver 64 Wart did you Say? 65 Transformation Through Movement 68 Imagine Being Given a User Manual for Your Life 69 Community Song Voice Sound Nature Mornings 74 PETS, RECREATION & NATURE Spring Foraging in the Cowichan 26 Cowichan Summer Camp Guide 58-63 Snails 70 Lucky Dog Queen Victoria’s Dogs… 71 Cut Broom in Bloom 76

MAY EVENTS 39 Steps Chemainus Theatre Festival Tickets 250-246-9820 chemainustheatre.ca runs to 05/22

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Lawn Bowling Open House all ages 12-3pm Centennial Park 325 1 St, Duncan www. cowichanlawnbowling.com FREE Beginner Irish Concertina Music Club 2-3pm Ladysmith carpool available greengarden@shaw.ca $5 also 05/15

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Community Choir/Vocal Improvisation/Sound Bath Workshops Fundraiser for Yasmeen’s Cancer Healing Fund & Q’ushin’tul Ancestors’ Walk Lila Music Centre 3228A Gibbins Rd, Duncan cariburdett.com by donation Ladysmith Saltair Garden Club Plant Sale 9am to sold out Aggie Hall 1110 1st Ave Ladysmith Open Learning Spring Fling Fun Fair BBQ Bouncy Fun Game Loonie Toonie Auction 11-2pm 1033 Nagle St, Duncan

Lawn Bowling Coaching all ages 10-2pm Centennial Park 325 1St, Duncan www. cowichanlawnbowling.com FREE runs to 05/06

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Buyers’ Preview Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show 6-7pm 2687 James St, Duncan $20

Tea Garden Tour Tasting Experience 9:30am 8350 Richards Trail, Duncan $90 www. westholmetea.com also 15/22

Opening Night Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show 7-8:30pm 2687 James St, Duncan $10

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Community Song Voice Sound Nature 10:30-12pm Lila Music Centre 3228A Gibbins Rd, Duncan cariburdett.com by donation also 05 12/19/26 Mercury Players Quartet Artists & Aging Comedy mercuryplayers. org for times & shows runs to 05/15

Mother’s Day Tea 2-3:30pm CVAC Gallery 2687 James St, Duncan 250-746-1633 $5 in advance

Building a Better World Together Spiritual Upliftment & Conversation 3 Baha’ i Friends 7:15-8:30pm call for info 250 748 2585

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100 Women Who Care Cowichan Meeting 7pm Queen Margaret’s School 660 Brownsey Ave, Duncan www.100WomenCowichan.

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CFG Coffee House 7:30pm Duncan United Church Hall 246 Ingram St $5/$10 Spirit Guide readings Tiffany Mailloux 114pm The Community Farm Store 5380 TCH, Duncan to register nettlecohealing@gmail. com $30

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Coffee Cauldron Meet local Pagans 5-7pm Arbutus Cafe 195 Kenneth St, Duncan https:// garryoakadf.wordpress. com

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Plants & Dance Rewild Your Creativity Silent Disco & Expressive Arts Stolz Pool Provincial Park 7:15-9pm christygreenwood.com $125 runs to 06/14

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Cowichan Stamp Club meeting 7pm Valley Seniors Centre 198 Government St, Duncan Visitors Welcome FREE Paper basket weaving workshop Alison Irwin 6-9pm CVAC Studio 2687 James St, Duncan 250-7461633 $35

Upliftment & Conversation 3 Baha’ i Friends 7:15-8:30pm call for info 250 748 2585

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Kirtan 7-8:45pm Harmony Yoga & Wellness Center 103-360 Duncan St, By Donation

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Love’s Triangle Devotional Songs to Open the Heart 7pm Collective Space 166 Station St, by donation

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Crofton Art Group Spring Show & Sale 10-5pm Crofton Senior Center 1507 Joan Ave also 05/07

Danielle Lebeau Peterson CFG Coffeehouse Duncan United Church Hall 246 Ingram St 7pm www.cowichanfolkguild.ca

Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show 2687 James St, Duncan runs to 5/29 FREE

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Giant Book Sale 9-1pm St. Peters Church 5800 Church Rd, Duncan

Art Attack Music & Art 7-8:30pm CVAC Gallery 2687 James St, Duncan 250-7461633 $10 in advance Hub Spring Sale 10-3pm outdoor event 2375 Kokasilah Rd, Duncan FREE

Sport & Recreation Fair try 25+ local sports & rec groups 11-3pm 5847 Chesterfield Ave, Duncan FREE

Kaatza Art Group Exhibition & Sale 6-9pm Sat/Sun 10-4pm Centennial Hall 309 Shore Rd, Lake Cowichan Runs to 05/22 FREE Community Kirtan w/ Love’s Triangle 2:30pm Collective Space 166 Station St, Duncan By Donation Chemainus Classical Concerts Mark Valenti Piano 2pm St. Michael’s Church 2858 Mill St 250-748-8383 $25-$10

Ryan McMahon Live in The Chapel 7pm Providence Farm 1843 Tzouhalem Rd, Duncan www.cowichanfolkguild. ca $20/$25 Cowichan Family Life Garden Tour self-guided 6 gardens 10-4:30pm 250-7488281 $25 Feel the Earth Outdoor Spring Concert 2pm Providence Farm 1843 Tzouhalem Rd, Duncan www.encorewomenschoir.com

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Ukraine Blue & Yellow ­- the palette at Rainforest Arts The works of Claudia Lohmann, Gina Shear, and Rohana Laing will be among those on the wall at Rainforest Arts during the Blue & Yellow for Ukraine fundraiser from May through July.

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t’s hard not to feel helpless, watching the horrors and devastation in Ukraine, and there’s not much the average person can do to help. But if all the millions around the world who are opposed to the war pitch in even a little,

a tidal wave of support will flood into that stricken land.

So artists at Rainforest Arts are mounting the Blue & Yellow for Ukraine show, donating between 50 to 100 percent of their sales earnings to the cause, and the gallery itself will be adding its commissions from all donated pieces to help those displaced or wounded in the war.

The Blue & Yellow show will be on the walls of Rainforest arts for the months of May, June and July. Works at the gallery, located at 9781 Willow Street in Chemainus, will be predominately in hues of blue and yellow, as all the walls will be dedicated to the fundraiser.

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On plinths and shelves look for selected pieces by 3D artists, too. Their contributions will have blue stickers or twist ties attached.

Included in the offering will be: pottery, jewelry, encaustic bowls, blown glass, woodturning, mixed-media sculptures, and metallic paste on glassware.

So you can give a gift to yourself or someone else, and help the people of Ukraine at the same time.

“I think it’s really important that artists feel they can do something,” aid RFA photo artist Daphne Carlyle, who helped organize the show. “It would be depressing if there was nothing at all we could do.”

There’s a full range of prices and sizes available for people who want to purchase art at the gallery. Some artists are even creating special works just for the show, while others are selecting art from their inventory. Many of the pieces

will be replaced as they sell.

“I’ll be replacing any pieces I sell with another,” artist and Chemainus Valley Cultural Arts Society director Diana Durrand said. “That way we can raise even more for the people of Ukraine.”

A collection jar will be available for people who simply want to donate money. “You’re welcome to stop in any time to donate,” Rainforest Arts Manager Stephanie Allesia said, noting that funds raised will go to the Rotary Club of Chemainus, which will forward it to Rotary Foundation of Canada where it will be designated for the Ukraine Disaster Fund.

Rainforest Arts is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 4pm. You can visit the gallery online at RainforestArts.ca or call 250-246-4861.

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What is Right Prose Poem by Craig Spence

The beautiful child, in her room playing.

Innocent, perfect, a state of bliss...

Then her mother’s desperate script scrawled on the little one’s back… just in case.

The urban street, canyoned with its places of life and living, its balconies...

Then the bombs, the collapsed concrete charred walls, the ruinous graffito of war.

The proud citizens of a prosperous nation in cafes, parks, places of congregation...

Then the broken bodies on sidewalks, in bags disposed of as if they were...

Memories to be erased, Their very names defaced.

Their truth denied… …in broad daylight and cold blood.

Who takes pride in this?

Strutting like a hero though the devastation of a nation, ‘cleansing’ planned and executed strategically as a stupid game of chess by those who invent then sell the cruel calculus of mutual conflagration.

We will not forget... will we? here on the brink of our war to end all wars?

We will do what is right?

Won’t turn our backs, as if business as usual can go on, and on, and on?

Let us remember here and now: It’s you and me trudging in the long, tired lines of refugees, Our children we must mourn Our cities being burned Our freedoms dashed.

Let’s ask: Where does this madness end?

Then do what is right!

Video reading & more at CraigSpenceWriter.ca/stop-war

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DANIELLE LEBEAU PETERSON Danielle’s passion for songwriting shines brightly through her original material, and is informed by many greats that she will be presenting for you on the evening of May 14 at the Cowichan Folk Guilds’ monthly Coffee House Concert Series. At Having recently put together a tribute to Joni Mitchell, Danielle will not only be playing this repertoire, but also many other songs that have enriched her life and love of this craft. Join her for a serene and special evening of solo acoustic performance CFG Coffee House Saturday, May 14, 7:30 pm Duncan United Church Hall 246 Ingram St $5/$10 at the door

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SPIRIT GUIDE READINGS Spirit Guide readings w/ Tiffany Mailloux- These sessions will be led by your

Spirit Guides so each one can be different depending on what you need in that moment. They will include messages from your guides and loved ones who come through, energy healing and tools to take away as well as time for your questions to make sure you have both the healing and clarity you need. May 14th 11- 4pm, Community Farm Store, 25 mins for $30 email: nettlecohealing@gmail.com to book.

ENCORE! WOMENS CHOIR The Encore Women’s Choir is delighted to present a live outdoor concert under the tents at Providence Farm.

The program includes many springtime choral works and features two pieces composed by the choir’s Resident Composer, Deborah Sumner.

Little Blue’s poignant verses start with “Take the Earth, Feel the Earth and Touch the Earth and demonstrate Deborah’s deep love of nature. A second Sumner composition was added to the program after the invasion of Ukraine. Peace Walk tells us that we need to support each other in a quest for peace. Feel The Earth - Our outdoor spring concert Sunday, May 29, 2pm Providence Farm, 1843 Tzouhalem Rd, Duncan, Tickets can be purchased from choir members and at Volume One Books in Duncan.

Celebrating Fine Art May 5-29

Cowichan Community Centre.

The exciting part this year is that we have more events planned: Tickets are available on the CVAC website under What’s On: https:// cowichanvalleyartscouncil.ca/ Presales only.

MAY ART EVENTS Buyers’ Preview

May 4, 6 pm - 7 pm Tickets $20 Get the first look at over 140 pieces of art and the first chance to buy something special. Enjoy music and great food and then stay for the opening and prizegiving starting an hour later.

Opening Night

May 4, 7 pm - 8:30 pm Tickets $10 Celebrate the region’s fine artists and enjoy some divine food and musical entertainment.

Mother’s Day Tea

May 8, 2pm - 3:30 pm Tickets $5 Music, tea and goodies all in an artistic setting.

Art Attack

May 13, 7 pm - 8:30 pm Tickets $10 Blending art and musical performance! Ten artists will create paintings inspired by live music by Laura Anderson and the Swing Set. (Anderson on ukulele, harmonica and vocals; Steve Flood, Bass; Dave Morgan keyboards, and Arlo Rankin percussion). Watch it all happen in real-time and vote for your favourites. Cash bar.

Leather Starfish, watercolour, 16x24, Sheila Karrow

Making art can be solitary but displaying it to the public for the first time becomes a reason for community celebration.

The highlight of our season and the biggest art show of its kind on the Island, the Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show runs May 5 – 29 and features work by more than 140 artists from the Cowichan Valley, the Victoria region and the central Island. The galleries will burst

with original and outstanding painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and jewellery pieces. Since all the work is for sale, you may want to attend the Buyers’ Preview – the first chance to buy art at a reasonable price.

View the work any way you like: online on the CVAC website and also displayed in the CVAC gallery spaces in the

About Us CVAC operates two community art galleries, hosting up to 30 shows annually at its art space in the Cowichan Community Centre in Duncan. Founded in 1971, CVAC programs workshops for youth and adults in its studio space. 2687 James Street, Duncan www.cowichanvalleyartscouncil.ca 11

FARM TABLE INN’S MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH TO GO PACKAGE

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Somatic Yoga Tuesdays 2-3:30pm Cowichan Community Centre cvrd.ca Somatics on Zoom Friday 9 - 10 am Inquiries - somayogaviolet@gmail.com

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Canoeing Adventures Youth Programs

Soup - your choice of (1 tub) Chicken Noodle, Beef Barley, Borscht, Smoked Pea and Ham, Broccoli and Cheddar, Vegan Lentil, Vegan Mushroom (frozen) House-made bread with herb butter - (1) Sourdough OR (1) Bannock Bread ( fresh ) Dessert - your choice of (1) Nanaimo Bars, Lemon Squares, or Chocolate Mousse (fresh) Treat Mom to house-made quiches, soups, breads and desserts – only $48 per package Call to order 250-932-3205 www.farmtableinn.ca

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you next! May 8, Tea Garden Tour + Tasting Experience, 9:30am, 8350 Richards Trail, Duncan, $90/person, www.westholmetea.com, every Sunday (also 15/22)

MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH AT FARM TABLE INN Variety of breakfast and llunch selections plus traditional eggs bennys served to your table!

Cowichan Lake Road at Skutz Falls Sunday May 8th 10am to 12:30pm Reservations required.

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TEA GARDEN TOUR & TASTING A guided tour of the Westholme Tea garden where we grow Camellia sinensis for rare Canadian tea. Taste our garden grown tea + our favourite tea from different gardens around the world, and take home a handbuilt ceramic cup for continued enjoyment. Learn about the evolution of growing and tasting the Cowichan Valley terroir at Westholme, connect with 5,000 years of global tea culture, and consider where your tea journey might take

KAATZA ART GROUP EXHIBITION Kaatza art group was formed in 1970 by local artists, It now has a thriving group of artists.in a very wide range of media to produce an eclectic and dynamic exhibition. Join us for the 50+2 show on the May long weekend. Friday 20th -Sunday 22nd May Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturday/ Sunday 10am-4pm Centennial Hall, Lake Cowichan FREE

DANCE TEMPLE COWICHAN Intentional dance space, to explore expression through music and movement.

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BEV ROBERTSON I PAINTER

2152 Wildflower Rd, Shawnigan Lake www.bevrobertsonwildflowerartstudio.ca

Cowichan Artisans Spring Tour 2022

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pring’s here and the weight of a long winter is lifting and so are Covid restrictions. As we’re learning to live with the virus and it’s time to get out and explore our community, yet still follow Provincial Health guidelines. One way to explore the rich culture and stunning landscape of our Cowichan Valley is to take the Cowichan Valley Artisans Spring Tour, May 13th,, 14th and 15th. Studios will be open from 10am to 5pm for the tour.

Trial By Fire Pottery Studio 2 Week Wheel Classes

Hilary Huntley

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The Cowichan Valley Artisans are a group of 13 professional artisans with an eclectic range, offering such arts as metal sculpture , pottery ,paintings, glass art, mixed media and collage art. Their studios are unique spaces, where they create and perfect their craft. To learn about the artisans and their studio locations, pick up a brochure from around

valley and beyond or visit our website cowichanartisans.com where you can find a tour map and artist info.

Mark your calendar, plan your route, call a friend and make it a “weekend getaway” or at least “a get out and explore” weekend. Your starting point can be north, south or in between. The tour map is numbered, starting at the southern end, with painter, Bev Robertson, in her Shawnigan Lake studio, where she creates bold, floral paintings, seascapes and more. Then to Cobble Hill, Hayes Glass Designs where you discover Tyler’s glass sculptures ,globes ,mugs and custom creations….over to Cowichan bay, visit Jennifer Lawson’s Studio, a well know water colour artist, Jennifer depicts historical houses and gardens and nearby is Catherine Fraser studio. A world renowned painter/ mixed media artist, Catherine

paints thought provoking, vibrant images from her home and travels.

Then to Duncan, Live Edge Designs, where world famous furniture creations, are designed and built from salvaged local wood, letting the tree tell their stories. A visit to Stitched Pictures, Caroline Storie uses a combination of fabric, thread, paint, and ink to make fun art and continuing on with the whimsy, Laurel Hibbert paints whimsical, folksy characters that tell a stories of hardworking village women.

Cathi Jefferson’s Pottery Studio or Travis Rankins Wroughten Iron workshop both have tucked away, riverside oasis’s where creativity flow. Cathi’s unique, sculptural and functional salt fired pottery and Travis’s iron artistry, from grand gates, down to earth fire pits and iron wall

sculptures should both make your “don’t miss list”.

Working from her Westhome Studio, Margit Nellemann hand builds ceramics that are inspired by her love of tea (in particular Westholme Teas) from there visit Wilma Millette’ Maple Bay studio, it’s like stepping into a cabinet of curiosities.

Wilma takes found object and collage artistry to a new artistic level. Next is Julie King, who paints vibrant abstract paintings in her quiet studio overlooking Maple Bay… last (or maybe first on your tour) in tranquil Genoa Bay, Linda Helm makes unique clay pieces, using ancient Raku firing methods that produces spontaneous earthy designs.

Cowichan Artisans invite you to explore, welcome you to our studios and thank you for supporting local Artists. www.cowichanartisans.com

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COWICHAN ARTISANS SPRING TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

CATHERINE FRASER Catherine’s paintings are created using a variety of media including acrylics, watercolours, oils, and photography. “I’m interested in spirituality, exploring inner and outer sacred space.” Says artist and art therapist, Catherine Fraser. “It is my hope that the potpourri of experiences will be thought provoking, that vibrant imagery will tickle your imagination and that you can feel the heartbeat of my work”. Visit Catherine Fraser’s studio during the Cowichan Artisans Spring Tour May 13th-15th. Catherine Fraser Studio, 5412 Gore-Langton Rd, Duncan 250-748-2067 www.catherinefraserart.com

JENNIFER LAWSON Jennifer’s unique interpretation of nature and refreshing impressionism allows you to enjoy its magnificence in your home forever. She can paint your ongoing dream - accentuate its best features - suggest elements

unthought of - and complete your ongoing projects and to do lists! Prints and cards are readily available. Jennifer’s studio is in her historic original log home; framed by the river and the ocean. The outside gazebo will be filled with paintings. Private viewing is also available by appointment.Come and enter the draw for a framed original painting. 1516 Khenipsen Rd Duncan 250 748 2142 jenniferlawsonart.com

keen eye and a keen desire to paint, Bev decided to pursue her dream of becoming a full time artist. You will find that Bev paints a diverse range of subjects, her way of capturing the light shining on the flowers and sometimes the glass that holds them. Visit the Wildflower Art Studio during the Cowichan Artisans Spring Tour May 13th15th. Wildflower Art Studio, 2152 Wildflower Rd, Shawnigan Lake, 250 929-4560 www.bevrobertsonwildflower artstudio.ca

MARGIT NELLEMANN

LIVE EDGE DESIGN

BEV ROBERTSON Bev has drawn, painted and created art in some form as long as she remembers. In 2012 with no formal training in art but a

heart of the Cowichan Valley.

Live Edge Design, 5195 Mearns Road, Duncan, 250-748-0763 www.liveedge.com

Tour around Live Edge Designs 10,000 sq ft facility this Spring during the Cowichan Artisans Spring Studio Tour, May 1315th from 10am to 5pm. “Live Edge Design is an art furniture experience. Trees tell us their stories. Our job is to relate that story to our customers as beautifully as we can.” Says owner John Lore. Quality is first for Live Edge Design, quality in how they salvage local wood, quality of each piece of art they create, and the quality of work conditions for their artisans.

Experience art furniture in the

Working from her Westholme studio in British Columbia’s lovely Cowichan Valley, Margit Nellemann creates one-of-a-kind ceramic art.

Using the traditional method of hand-building, each piece is individually formed and finished. The raw clay texture and the smooth finish of the glaze balance each other in a beautifully functional fashion.

Margit’s love for tea continues to feed the inspiration for a series of amazing ceramic teapots, tea inspired vessels, cups and other ceramics that will enhance your enjoyment at every sip. 8350 Richards Trail, Westholme 250 748-3811 www.margitnellemann.com

JENNIFER LAWSON OPEN STUDIO MAY 13 - 15 10-5 pm 1516 Khenipsen Rd Duncan

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Cowichan Folk Guild Presents:

LIVE AT THE CHAPEL- PROVIDENCE FARM SAT MAY 28, 7:30 PM Duncan

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39 Steps Back by Popular Demand

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eeking a frivolous night out at the theatre, Richard Hannay is lured into a world of intrigue by a mysterious woman claiming to be a spy. When she winds up dead in his flat, he flees London with the police hot on his trail. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python, and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winner is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance! Equal parts hilarious whodunit, espionage thriller and quick-change comedy, adapted for the stage from Hitchcock’s famous 1935 film and John Buchan’s 1915 novel.

The Broadway premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE 39 STEPS opened to deliriously ecstatic reviews. Ben Brantley, New York Times, called the production, “Absurdly enjoyable! This gleefully theatrical riff on Hitchcock’s film is fast and frothy, performed by a cast of four that seems like a cast of thousands.

The actors themselves seem to be having a helluva good

time. As does the audience.”

Clive Barnes, New York Post, pronounced THE 39 STEPS “Inventively astonishing, riotous & marvelous.” Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News, exclaimed, “Hitchcock probably never imagined his thriller had the makings of a hilarious comedy, but this show is a dizzy delight and an ingenious spoof, inventively directed by Maria Aitken. A fast-paced fun ride!”

Patrick Barlow adapted The 39 Steps based on the novel

by John Buchan and the movie

by Alfred Hitchcock. He is an English actor, comedian and playwright with a comedic alter ego-Desmond Olivier Dingle. This alter ego is the founder and Artistic Director of the two-man National Theatre of Brent. The stage adaptation of The 39 Steps first premiered in June 2005 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. The play has been performed on Broadway since 2008. It has now been played in over 40 countries world-wide.

Tickets for Alfred Hitchcock’s THE 39 STEPS are available from at the Chemainus Theatre Festival, by telephone at 250-246-9820 and, online at chemainustheatre.ca.

Chapel Acoustic Series 1843 Tzouhalem Rd

$20 Members / $25 Non

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Spring Studio Tour May13,14,15

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serendipitous alignment with International Tea Day on the 21st.

Greener Tea: May in the World of Tea

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y the month of May tea terraced slopes worldwide are lush and vibrantly green.

Many freshly harvested teas arrive to North America this month. In the Westholme Tea Garden we begin plucking our first flush, typically in

When tea leaves are hidden inside a tea bag, we may not recognize tea as an agricultural product from an evergreen shrub (Camellia sinensis). Where a tea was grown, soil quality, elevation, as well as cultural and historical contexts is expressed in the leaf. Even timing of harvest is encompassed in a tea.

The first leaves of Spring are alive with a unique freshness after winter slumber that shifts with summer heat. Spring teas – greens in particular – are highly sought after.

There is a common misconception that green teas are too bitter to appreciate.

However, many high-quality greens have no perceptible astringency! When tea leaves are properly crafted and when we learn to steep with more appropriate methods for delicate green leaves there can be surprising differences. Fresh

leaves may be shaped into long serpentine twists, rolled into pearls or snails, flattened by pan-roasting, or formed into needles. Green teas can be toasty, nutty, soft, vegetal, kelpy, buttery, or even creamy, with delicate floral and fruit notes and mineral sweetness.

One could say this is where tea blends science and art. We can look to the molecular level where chemical transformations take place in the garden, the teamaker’s process, international exchanges of tea, and steeping methods. We can look to traditional tea ceremonies which marry attention to detail with the Zen concept of living in the moment. To prevent bitterness and to highlight delicacies, presence is required during preparation. General guidance for green tea is use lower temperatures (typically 80-95° C) and shorter times (between 1-3 minutes). Then of course, there is the importance of selecting a steep which suits your tastes.

While there is no right way to drink tea, International Tea Day invites us to think about rights for the hands plucking tea who are calling for global attention to unjust and inequitable impacts of the tea industry. Because teas are an expression of the environment where they are grown, working conditions affect the quality of tea. What better way to consider the ripple effect of a drop of tea than to sit for a cup of fresh Spring green tea.

Alicia Fall is an employee at Westholme Tea Company, farmer, and ceremonialist in the Cowichan Valley

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Citrus Spot Prawn Salad

Recipe courtesy Grant Easterbrook, The Olive Station, 225 Canada Avenue, Downtown Duncan

Ingredients:

5 BC Spot Prawns 1 bay leaf 1/2 pink grapefruit, peeled and segmented 1/2 naval orange, peeled and segmented 1/2 blood orange 2 radishes, thinly sliced 1 tsp. chopped chives 1 c. watercress 2 Tbsp. Pink Grapefruit White Balsamic 1/4 c. Blood Orange Olive Oil Saltwest Naturals Toasted Coconut Sea Salt Optional 2 Tbsp. finely chopped, roasted pistachios Slivers of red onion

Directions

Poach spot prawns in a pot of salted, boiling water with bay leaf for 4 minutes. Remove prawns and allow to cool. Remove and discard the shells. Alternate cooking method is to remove shells and sauté in an extra Virgin Olive Oil for a few minutes until pink.

In a medium bowl toss spot prawns, grapefruit, oranges, radishes, chives, watercress and pistachios. Next, add Pink Grapefruit White Balsamic and Blood Orange Olive Oil to bowl. Finish with a few pinches of toasted coconut sea salt. Toss gently and serve.

Experience old world tradition.

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BC Spot Prawn Linguine

Courtesy Brad Boisvert, Cure Artisan Meat and Cheese

Ingredients

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 garlic clove, minced 200 ml Pssata Tomato 320 g linguine 700 g cleaned BC Spot Prawns, (no heads and shells) 1 teaspoon red chili flakes 2 Tablespoon white wine 2 tablespoon basil pesto 1 tablespoon chopped preserve lemon To taste Black Cambodia Pepper Shaved Pecorino cheese Except for the white wine and garlic all ingredients can be purchased at Cure. We are excited to celebrate this years Prawn harvest and support our local fishermen.

Method

1. Heat a large skillet over medium heat, add the garlic followed by the tomato pssata and a sprig of parsley, and cook for a few minutes, stirring often.

2. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil, then cook the pasta al dente, about 8 minutes.

3. Add the red chili flakes and preserve lemon into the skillet, followed by the prawns. I like to add whole prawns first, then a handful of chopped ones.

4. Cook Prawns for 2 minutes, until they’re pink and cooked through. Pour in a splash of white wine and pesto.

5. Drain the pasta, reserving a cup of pasta water. Add the pasta into the skillet, and sauté all the ingredients for a minute. If your sauce it’s too dry, pour in a little of the reserved pasta water.

6. Stir to combine all the ingredients, then turn the heat off. Sprinkle some chopped parsley all over the linguine, season generously with freshly cracked black pepper, shaved pecorino cheese and serve immediately.

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Local Pairings for BC Spot Prawns

RED ARROW BREWING COMPANY

Side Tracked ISA

EMANDARE VINEYARD

2021 Blanc De Noir

BLUE GROUSE ESTATE WINERY

ZANATTA WINERY

2021 Ortega

Damasco

Brewmaster Zach Stumborg

Winemaker Mike Nierychlo

Winemaker Bailey Williamson

Winemaker Jim Moody

The light body and citrus flavours of the Side Tracked session ale complement the unmatched freshness of local prawns.

The ISA has rye additions that create a smooth mouthfeel, and coming in at 4.5%, this brew is light and refreshing.” $5.60 in the taproom.

A brand new white wine for us this year that we couldn’t be happier about. 100% Pinot Noir with just a touch of skin contact giving it a very pretty pink hue. Such an elegant wine full of flavour and texture.

Floral and citrus notes meet with apple and pear brought together with mouthwatering savoury tones and textures.

“Every time I sip it I just want sea food!” Juicy, refreshing and textured. Fruity and savoury.” $26

What grows together goes together! The mineral salinity of the Ortega pairs perfectly with Spot prawns prepared any way, it is always my go to. “ Bailey Williamson Ortega is Vancouver Island’s signature grape, and this wine is its perfect ambassador.

Whole cluster pressed, leading to a brighter, more fruit-forward wine. Medium-bodied, savory, and well- balanced, with ripe orange, caramel, and a long finish. $24.99

With our close proximity to the ocean, it is easy to follow the wine pairing rule of what grows together, goes together. Our Damasco is a delicate blend of our estate grown grapes, Ortega, Muscat, Auxerrois & Madeleine Sylvaner and is an excellent pairing for our local BC Spot prawns.”

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pring is the perfect time to refresh your palette with white wines you haven’t tried before – and maybe even a few surprises. With so many award-winning wines in the Cowichan Valley, now is the perfect time to take yourself on a tour of this world-class terroir.

soft floral, fruity character and slight sweetness play well with prawns, crab, and fish ‘n’ chips.

Perfect Picnic Wines

The Ultimate White Pinot Gris is a dry white wine grape originating from the vineyards of Burgundy, France but a very popular and worthy varietal grows right here in Cowichan. Blue Grouse Estate Winery’s 2019 Pinot Gris is crafted from the oldest Pinot Gris vines in BC and this vintage boasts aromas of butterscotch and vanilla with a medium-long finish and fresh acidity.

Alderlea Vineyards’ 2021 Pino Gris is a treat for the eyes as well as the taste buds.

Low yields and meticulous vineyard practices produce a Pinot Gris with a fuller body and longer finish than most.

Alderlea’s signature skincontact winemaking style results in a dry, rose-coloured wine showing aromas of peach and apricot, with flavours of tangerine, orange and mango.

The sweetness level of Pinot Gris makes it a great pairing with spicy foods.

Grow Your Wine Collection This Spring

Vancouver Island’s Famous Grape Celebrated as one of the signature grapes of Vancouver Island, Ortega is a cross of two German grapes, MüllerThurgau and Siegerrebe. With the oldest vines in Canada, Zanatta Winery’s award-

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winning Ortega is dry with delicate floral and peach aromas. Ortega is known for its simplicity and easydrinkability and can be found at Blue Grouse and Enrico Winery as well. Ortega pairs beautifully with seafood which is perfect for the Cowichan region. Ortega’s

Deol Estate Winery prides itself on 100% estate grown grapes, and that includes their picnic perfect 2007/2008 Gamay Rosé. This blend of 85% Gamay Noir and 15% Pinot Noir gives a pleasing array of peaches, nectarine and raspberry and finishes with a hint of butterscotch.

And for a picture-perfect glass, Damali Lavender and Winery’s Muré Lavande is as beautiful to look at as it is to drink. Fill your glass with pure BC blackberries balanced with lavender and oaked to perfection. This unique, flavourful wine pairs well with creamy dishes, desserts and rich dark chocolate. Damali’s lavender fields are also the ultimate picnic location.

Take yourself on a wine tasting tour June 1-30 at eight local wineries, or join us at the Cowichan Wine Festival Launch Party August 4 with 12 wineries, food, and music – or attend both!

Tickets go on sale May 1 at cowichanwineries.com.

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es, it’s that time of year, time for a refresh.

Traditionally the time for spring cleaning, does anyone do this anymore? Does anyone have time to pull all the furniture out to clean behind and underneath, take all the drapes down for cleaning and go through all the closets and drawers?

You may not have time for a complete overhaul of your home, but I’m sure you can make time for a visual refresh.

Here’s a good way to start, what about changing the colour of your front door?

You’d be amazed at how different your home can look with this one small change.

Afraid to commit to colour?

Start small, freshen up your living room with new pillows, a great place to try out new colours and don’t forget pattern and texture, both of which can add interest to a room.

Check your lighting, lamps are your best friend, do you have any? Lamps create layered lighting which creates the best atmosphere. Where can you add a lamp? Have

a lamp but don’t like the lampshade? Keep the base and go looking for a more interesting lampshade.

Do you have some upholstered pieces that have seen better days?

Consider reupholstering if the structure of the piece is solid. Upcycling can breathe new life into existing pieces and it’s also good for the environment since you’re repurposing items that would otherwise go to a landfill.

Have you had the same items on display for an age? It’s time for a change! Move photos around; is that house plant past it’s prime? Do you still love that vase that’s been sitting out for the past 10 years? You can pick up “new” items at thrift stores and one of the many local shops in the area.

With a few tweaks here and there, you can really freshen your space up in a short amount of time! But if all this sounds overwhelming and you need some advice, don’t be afraid to reach out and ask for help. I have Colour Consultation or Designer for a Day packages that can help get you started!

Ryan McMahon Live at the Chapel

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ngaging and honest, Ryan McMahon’s music is written from the heart and sung from the soul. A blend of alt country, americana and rock following the lead of his Canadian peers like Bryan Adams, Sam Roberts, Craig Northey. The singer/songwriter who has released six solo albums and brings his wit and charm to his live performance. Born on

the coast of British Columbia in a small seaside hamlet on Vancouver Island, Ryan’s first experiences performing were for family members laughing at his reiterations of comedians he loved. He grew up with the music influences of his parents, which included a mix of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, The Everly Brothers and BB King. Over the years, Ryan has opened for many iconic bands and artists from Buffy Ste. Marie and Lee Harvey Osmond, to Nickelback and Lisa Loeb. His talent, persona and musicality opened many doors to the range of genres encompassed in his songs. In 2019,Canadian Country Music singer Aaron Pritchett took Ryan under his wing and lit a new fire under McMahon’s feet as the pandemic settled into the hearts of people around the world. Ryan’s first U.S. radio single,“One More Fire,” is just a taste of his upcoming album. May 28 Live At The Chapel- Providence Farm 1843 Tzhouhalem Rd, Duncan Doors at 7:0opm, Show at 7:30pm $20 Members $25 Non-Members www.cowichanfolkguild.ca

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Upcoming Events May 7 Mothers Day Weekend Foraging Workshop May 14 Morel Dinner May 21 Victoria Day Weekend Foraging Workshop

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Spring Foraging in the Cowichan

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Recipe courtesy Chef Bill Jones, Deerholme Farm

Serves 6-8 This dish is also great with just carrots. I use a vegetable peeler to shred the roots into thin strips.

1 Tbsp 1 cup 1 1 Tbsp 1 tsp 1 tsp 1 tsp 1 Tbsp

grapeseed oil gobo root (fresh burdock root, (shredded) carrot (shredded) garlic sesame oil Japanese soy sauce hot sauce toasted sesame seeds

In a skillet over high heat, add the oil, gobo root, carrot and garlic.

Saute until fragrant and add a splash of water. Season with sesame oil, soy and hot sauce. Stir until the liquid has evaporated. Add the sesame seeds and toss to coat. Serve warm or chilled.

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Bill Jones is a chef, author and food consultant based at Deerholme Farm.

ne thing that gives me hope for the future of this planet is seeing how resilient it is after we inflict damage on the landscape. Looking at the Valley over many years we see how logged forests can regrow, disturbed soil can regenerate and plants can reclaim the soil they were uprooted from. Each spring we see a new cycle of wild plants emerge, many of the plants are edible. Some of these edible plants have been introduced from many parts of the world and have naturalized themselves in our midst. Plants like dandelion and pepper cress are some of the first to spring from the warming soils. In fact in mild winters, like we just experienced, they never really stopped growing. One of the first really good edible plants to sprout in the spring is one of my all-time favourites Miners Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata). Look for the small diamond shaped young leaves (turning round when matured) under Douglas Fir trees on the sides of paths and in areas with a good supply of moisture. The greens are

mild and delicate and make an outstanding base for a wild salad. Young dandelion leaves make a nice addition adding bitterness and lots of phytonutrients. Pepper cress adds a subtle bite of mustard-like flavor and blend well with the other two greens.

This year is impacted by the recent winter weather we have experienced. When the snow disappears we will see stinging nettles coming up at the sides of roads and pathways. Near the water, like the Cowichan delta area is always much further ahead on the growing scale. We should also start to see morel mushrooms springing up in the valley sooner than later.

Typically we see morels start to fruit around the last week of March, the season extends until the end of May. Look for southern exposure slopes near a good source of water.

One of my favourite areas is an abandoned farm with old cherry and apple trees. The local morels seem to really like this type of habitat. As an added bonus, you also see lots of stinging nettles mixed into the morel patches. It is one stop shopping for the soup pot. www.deerholme.com

Build cocktail in a rocks glass over ice and stir When I first met Stephen, I was always enthralled by his stories of travel. So many Schacht family stories seemed to take place on a trip somewhere, and could be recounted over meals where the recipes came right from the trip.

Stephen met the love of his life, Ramona, on a beach in Mexico. +He was travelling in ‘Coochifritos’ – a converted Flexible Flyer camper van that would later take his family all over the west coast before finding it’s home as woofer accommodation on SOL Farm. Mexico would remain a place of many happy memories, as he and Ramona would often travel there in the winters with friends and family.

While in Mexico Stephen delighted in nightly crib games with Ramona, shopping in the markets, and enjoying the beach.

In addition to a tasty margarita (on the rocks of course), Stephen enjoyed cooking a variety of Mexican cuisine back at home.

Remembering Stephen Schacht Jessica Schacht Ampersand Distilling Co. ampersanddistilling. com

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’m writing about a different kind of history today, one much closer to home, to commemorate the life and recent passing of my father-in-law, Stephen Schacht.

There is no way to sum up such a storied life, so here I offer some recollections told through a history of cocktails in his life.

Margarita 1 ½ oz Tequila ¾ oz Triple Sec ¾ oz fresh squeezed lime juice 1/6 oz simple syrup (no agave, per Stephen’s request)

– made with vodka. This was the staple that saw him through dinner parties with so many friends at their family home in Fernwood. After living on Denman Island where daughter Jessica Lena was born, Ramona and Stephen made their way to Victoria to raise their growing family, soon to be joined by son Jeremy. Along the way they founded the Out of Hand store and its namesake craft fair – one of the largest artisan fairs on the west coast.

and worked tirelessly - as his grandson Lenny would put it “Pop Pop fixing things”. Stephen shared his love of food with all the visitors to the farm – always ready to impart the best way to eat heirloom tomatoes (sliced with salt) or host a summer party for his friends. Stephen was always an inventor and a storyteller, naturally suited for making the connections that proved so valuable to realize his dreams.

Build in a rocks glass over ice and stir (I used to make fun of him for this one, now I’m thinking he just really didn’t like using cocktail shakers)

Husband. Father. Pop Pop. Inventor. Raconteur. And so much more. Stephen was the heart of our family, and he will be missed greatly by all those who knew him. He made anyone who visited the market or the distillery welcome, and moved through the world as a man who knew no strangers, only friends yet to be made.

It wasn’t until he moved to the Cowichan Valley and opened Ampersand Distilling Company with his family that he became a gin lover. Stephen and Ramona moved to the Valley in 2007, a return of sorts to their way of life on Denman Island. Stephen loved his John Deere tractor

While some may think of history as something that exists only in the past, I think of it as something we keep alive through our memories and experiences.

And so, I raise a glass to the many memories I was lucky enough to share with Stephen.

Cheers.

Dry Martini – Stephen’s way 2 oz Ampersand Gin A splash of Imperative Dry Vermouth

Negroni 1 oz vodka 1 oz Campari 1 oz sweet vermouth Build cocktail in a rocks glass over ice and stir For the longest time Stephen’s favourite cocktail was a Negroni

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Spiritual Upliftment and Conversation

Prayerfulness and Action

W Join us in offering prayers for the healing and upliftment of the world, and conversation on topics that support the establishment of unity and peace.

We are three local Baha’i friends who meet on Zoom from 7:15 to 8:30 on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month.

All are invited and welcome, whatever your spiritual path.

Please call us for details and link: Tim/Laurice Mock, Lee Masters – (250) 748-2585

May Topics May 11: Introduction to Cowichan’s upcoming Building a Better World Together Conference.

May 25: Taking Steps to Build a Better World.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

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ith the ongoing war and destruction in Ukraine, my thoughts turn daily to ‘what can I do to reduce the suffering and loss’? Our family prays daily for the welfare of humankind, including those being so gravely impacted by this conflagration. But one wonders if prayer is enough.

In an article published online at BahaiTeaching.org in 2019 and based on the work of Joseph Roy Shepperd, this topic was addressed head on.

It said, “Our prayerful actions are the implementation of our prayerful words. Eventually our prayerfulness is reflected in our daily lives. When looking for indications of our spiritual growth, good deeds are always more convincing that good words.” Or as Baha’u’llah, the prophet/ founder of the Baha’i Faith wrote, “Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.” The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah.

Shepperd suggests that there is, “no better legacy than selfless acts of lovingkindness; they uplift the spiritual condition of humankind, and no prayer for the world could be more powerful than this.”

Prayerfulness can be said to include our words, our thoughts, and our actions.

Shepperd further suggests that when all three of these aspects of prayerfulness are brought together and harmonized, we begin,

through our outward actions, to reflect the true reality of our inner spiritual being, and “The entirety of our lives can be seen as one seamless and enduring prayer.” This idea is reflected in a talk given

by Abdu’l-Baha, (eldest son of Baha’u’llah and his designated interpreter) in Paris in 1911, where he stated, “Pray to God that He may strengthen you in divine virtue, so that you may be as angels in the world, and beacons of light …” Paris Talks, p. 62.

We are uplifted to see and hear about so many ‘angels’ from all parts of the world and all levels of society giving their all to help the peoples of Ukraine. Through their manifold actions, from digging through rubble, to ferrying refugees to safety, feeding, and sheltering them, to providing medical care and fundraising from afar, they are no doubt seen as ‘beacons of light’ to the millions of suffering people. While not connected physically to the actions underway in Europe, I can focus on my prayerfulness and strive that my daily actions promote unity and fellow feeling with everyone in my small circle and beyond.

Submitted by Tim Mock

Yasmeen Olya Community Healing Fundraising

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f you have ever heard Yasmeen’s harp and singing, you know that her music is out of this world, sinking deep into the psyche in the most healing waves of colour. Yasmeen is a treasure to this world. Her music has the most healing effect on so many around the globe.

Many have reached out to her from all corners of the world attesting to the healing powers of her music. Today, it is she who needs healing.

Her art and music are truly ethereal, from another time, they touch depths that many of us did not even know existed. Our dear sister, mother, daughter, friend, artist, needs her community support to undergo treatment for cancer. This community, never ceasing to amaze us all, has shown the drive to create art auctions, music, puppet shows, workshops and many other events to support our dear friend, whose craft is a

gift to humanity.

We are sharing an excerpt from her website yasmeensong.com “We seek through the longing to understand and grow in the depths of ourselves, the agony, and the ecstasy of our lived experience. Both music and art speak freely into that dimension and deeply impact our lives… Look to your humanity, the depths of darkness, the heights of light in both music and art, we feel the nuance and wonder, and we are reminded that our consciousness is limitless, infinite in the Highest…Dream into life and find within the beauty and abundance you long for. Your dream can be as big as the whole world or as small as a cup of tea, but dream into it, the colours, the textures, the tastes and sounds, the peace of it, the love of it”.

Yasmeen Olya A facebook page has been created (Yasmeen Olya Healing Community) Please follow to find out about events as they are created in the valley and beyond, and if you would like to donate, her Gofund me link is there too. This page can also serve as a point of contact if anyone would like to donate

to a silent auction or create an event to support. Please reach out if you have any questions, and if nothing else, we encourage you to listen to her music in the healing sound journey she shares with this world.

For more info contact hannahhidson@gmail.com.

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“From Earth to Table” is the motto of Cowichan Station Creamery, a new small farm based in the Cowichan Valley. We do everything from harvesting feed, to milking the cows, to making the cheese. We currently have 18 cows which includes milking girls,”dry cows” and boys.

Our newest member of the herd is Laxmi born in March. She is half Braman and Half Gir. The newest Jersey calf is Vella.

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Mothering Cows at Cowichan Station Creamery

“For the best cheese, we breed, purchase and rescue high fat cows. We genetically test them all through UC Davis Veterinary Medicine. We also keep them milking longer (up to 1000 days) to reduce the number of calves (since any calf born here, stays here). We feel less volume of milk, but of higher quality is better all around to reduce the feed, number of cows

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and environmental impact.

Our mother cow Scarlette, was artificially inseminated last summer. We do AI because bulls can be quite rough and tough to

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deal with. Sexed semen is used when possible, which means that there is a 90% chance that the calf will be female. 60 days later, the vet comes to do an ultrasound to confirm the pregnancy and the sex of the fetus. A cow’s pregnancy is roughly nine months. For the first eight, she lives with the other “dry cows”.

In the last month of term, she is brought in with the milking girls and stays in her own private suite (stall). She can still go out during the day for sun and air with the milking girls, but she has the safety of her own room at night. To prepare for births we set up a camera in the barn in the week of the due date (cows are pretty accurate in most cases) and watch very closely. You can tell when they have discomfort and the biggest clue is when their water breaks.

Laxmi was born mid morning.

Scarlette’s water broke at

about 9am just after milking.

Normally they come out feet first then the snout. This one seemed a bit odd because we had feet, but not the snout. So we decided to call the vet in. It turned out she was just fine, and just had really long legs. The concern was the head being turned around 180 deg. The vet helped pull her out and made sure she was breathing ok. She was standing in about 20 minutes. After birth we make sure the calf and mom learn how to nurse and get as much colostrum as possible. The first couple of milkings, we collect what’s left of the colostorum and freeze it for emergency use later.

Modern cows produce way more milk than a calf can drink, so it is important to make sure she is milked properly. If not done correctly, a lot of complications can arise, such as mastitis. We try to put off breeding of the adolescent cows as much as possible. We like them to enjoy their youth. Happy mothers day to ALL the mothers. 4354 Howie Road, Duncan www.cowichancream.ca

GIANT BOOK SALE AT ST PETERS CHURCH Please come to our Giant Book Sale at the Church Hall on Saturday May 7, from 9 am to 1pm.

The Anglican Parish of St Peter Quamichan is holding our semiannual Book Sale. A popular sale in the past, we are back!

Raising funds for the outreach programs of the church and the upkeep our historic Church and Cemetery. Among the out reach programs that we support are

the Foot Care Clinic at Warmland House, the Cowichan Basket Society, and lo-cost housing for seniors.

At this years sale we will have thousands of books, of almost every genre, including fiction and non-fiction. We have been blessed to receive a large number of books from a book store on the island that has sadly closed. We are so grateful for all of the books that have been donated.

During these pandemic times, St Peter’s Church has remained busy, serving our parishioners, developing our website and broadcasting our services. Regular services are now being held at the church on Thursdays at 10 am, and Sunday at 8 am and 10 am.

You will find a warm welcome

with us! For more information about our historic church, wildflower filled cemetery, services and caring community , please visit our website: www. stpeterduncan.ca or contact the church office at 250-746-6262.

We are located at 5800 Church Road, Duncan (just off Maple Bay Road) We are also searching for another group who would like to have their own book sale and will happily donate our remaining books to them after the sale. If your group is interested in our remaining books, please contact Liz Williams through the church office.

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A Thriving Arts and Cultural Community

BEETLE-MANIA & DANCE IN THE SUN SUSIE CIPOLLA & GAIL JOHNSON AT Aquamaris Art Gallery

Red Power, Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 48” by Susie Cipolla

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aby, you can drive THIS car….. Beep-beep, beepbeep, yeah!

Revving from the fringes with the retro-vibe and the spirit of adventure, the cars are back upstairs in the old

Duncan Garage thanks to the whimsical new arrivals by the Canadian artist Susie Cipolla. Initially introduced into our gallery and to the art lovers in the Cowichan Valley through her striking abstract paintings, Susie Cipolla is sure to delight and take many a viewer on a joyful journey down the memory lanes of youth with her representational interpretations of the car that got big by “Thinking Small.”

Affectionately known as the Bug, it made an undeniable imprint on our collective consciousness as a symbol of the 60’s, while its larger cousin, colloquially known as the Bus, became the icon of counterculture and rebellion.

Painted in acrylic on canvas, Susie’s colourful assembly, which includes two large pieces, pays homage to the

To Serve The Earth, Acrylic on Canvas (Diptych), 48” x 72” by Gail Johnson

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Along For The Ride, Acrylic on Canvas, 10” x 10” by Susie Cipolla

adorable curvy Beetle and its innocuous successor, but also honours the 60’s ethos of “small is beautiful” in form of eight little gems measuring 10”x 10” and 12” x12”. Together they give an anthropomorphic wink to the hippy crouching in us all and to the good years of footloose and care-free living.

Echoing that free-spirited energy, wander-lust and the connection to nature is the flower power of two impressive, bold and beautiful arrivals by the Vancouver Island artist Gail Johnson.

Inspired by a road trip of her own and depicting sunflowers in a misty field,

Gail’s 48” x 72” diptych “To Serve The Earth” is a magnificent statement piece rendered in her signature style and saturated palette that capitalizes on the dynamic interplay of blues and yellows. Gail’s flamboyant 60”x 48” abstracted poppies painting, “Dance In The Sun”, delivers stunning visual choreography of round shapes and sun-kissed colours with effortless fluidity.

Aquamaris Art Gallery Upstairs in the historic Duncan Garage Building (Level entry from the back) Suite 202 - 330 Duncan Street (250) 597-2798 aquamarisartgallery.com

MAY ARTS

The Innovative Creations of DEERIN THOMPSON Excellent Frameworks

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xcellent Frameworks in Duncan, is proud to feature the exhibition From Birth Until Death May 3 - 28th. This exciting show presents the unrivaled and innovative creations of Darren Webster Thompson - Chuuchuub, aka - Deerin Thompson. From Birth Until Death is intended to reference the balance between life and death, creation and destruction, beauty and ugliness, and the fleeting moments of meaning and insignificance. The exhibition features work that is entirely unparalleled against the backdrop of Pacific Northwest Coast Art, or First Nations art in general, and in the present context Darren is evolving ancient forms, advancing ancestral sensibilities, and placing bold symbols inside time-honoured methods.

We are all born into the world wet

Ancestral Fears Known and Unknown, Deerin Thompson

and disheveled, clinging to life not yet loose from the embryonic sac. We are born small. We are born with the force of our Ancestors. We are born with the love of our mothers. From Birth Until Death we are clinging to all that is ancient and good.

THE ARTIST Chuuchuub - Darren draws inspiration for his creativity from his renowned uncles Haa’yuups - Ron Hamilton and Tsakwasap - Art Thompson, including many other famous

and artistic extended family relatives. Darren’s creative genius reveals a sensitivity that can only be anchored to a past rich in expression, sensibility and originality. His entire body of work is unparalleled, and his artistic ability speaks to an inherent understanding of identity, belonging and beauty.

Chuuchuub is an intended chiefly title and it is meant to impart a defined authority, and that he comes from people of significant standing. To this extent Chuuchuub - Darren has dignified his ancestral name through his creative expressions, and in the manner in which he carries himself.

His signature Deerin is a nickname given to him by his Uncle Ron Hamilton Haayuups. When Uncle Ron would see him, he would say with a drawn-out animated tone, “Deeeeeeeeeeeeeerin.”

Excellent Frameworks Home of the EJ Hughes Gallery, 115 Kenneth Street 250-746-7112 www.excellentframeworks.ca www.ejhughes.ca

Excellent FrameWorks is Downtown Duncan’s premiere custom framing gallery. We feature reproductions

by EJ Hughes as well as original art by BC Artists. 115 Kenneth St., downtown Duncan 250-746-7112 excellentframeworks.ca

AQUAMARIS ART GALLERY The arrival of spring coincides with many new arrivals in our gallery. From small gift size items to large statement paintings, we are here to assist you with selecting the perfect pieces for your intended setting and occasion. May hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 4:00 pm Suite 202-330 Duncan St. Downtown Duncan 250-597-2798 aquamarisartgallery.com

Broken Soul Death Box, Deerin Thompson

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SONG VOICE SOUND NATURE A Day of Singing with Cari Burdett

Saturday May 7 Photo Devon Gillot Sessions

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You are invited to join us for a day of Nature Connection, Singing Simple Songs, Vocal Improvisation Circle Songs and Deep Listening during the Sound Journey Ceremony.

10am -Morning Gratitude- Sense meditation - Nature Connection 11am - Noon - Song Circle - Easy Fun Songs in Harmony Noon - Lunch Bring your own tea/water, blanket, yoga mat, slippers etc.

2pm - 3pm Voice Improvisation 4pm - Sound Journey Ceremony Join one workshop or all day. Times will be fluid.

Everyone Welcome, children, families, all ages and stages.

FUNDRAISER - Raising Money for Yasmeen Olya’s Cancer Healing Fund and the Q’ushin’tul Ancestors’ Walk.

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SONG VOICE SOUND NATURE WORKSHOP & FUNDRAISER Saturday May 7th - Song Voice Sound Nature - A Day of Singing With Cari Burdett — You are invited to join us for a day of Nature Connection, Vocal Improvisation Circle Songs and Deep Listening during the Sound Journey Ceremony.

Everyone Welcome, children, families, all ages, and stages.

Our day will begin at 10 am with Morning Gratitude, Sense meditation and Nature Connection.

11am - Noon - we will join in Song Circle with easy fun songs in harmony Noon - Lunch (Please bring your own and tea/ water) 2pm - 3pm Voice Improvisation 4pm - Sound Journey Ceremony Join one workshop or participate all day. Please bring a blanket, yoga mat, slippers etc.

This is a Fundraiser for Yasmeen Olya’s Cancer Healing Fund and the Q’ushin’tul Ancestors’ Walk.

For more information, please call 250 710 4174 Lila Music Centre Yurt, 3228A Gibbins Rd, Duncan 250 710 4174, www.CariBurdett.com

SOUND IS EARTH-BOUND! Love’s Triangle Karen Allen: Guitar, Frame Drum, Arie Vander Reyden: Harmonium, Drum lovestriangle108@gmail.com

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ound needs matter to be able to travel. Air, water, earth are the media for sound.

Without a medium sound is actually silence.

And that’s a good thing.

It means that sound travels through our body, and we now know that pleasing harmonious sound, charged with loving joyful feelings, takes on the shape of mandalas. Mandalas are beautiful, like flowers. (Check out Emoto’s research online.

He photographed water droplets that turned into stunning mandalas.)

And when water droplets become solid matter, as in snowflakes, we see that each snowflake forms the shape of a mandala. No two snowflakes look alike. Each one is different.

So, you might ask, “how does that effect my physical body?”

Plants sing, mushrooms sing, trees sing, animals sing, birds, whales, and even coyotes sing. They all sing their own unique melodies.

Recent technology, PlantWave, makes it

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possible to listen to plants’ symphonies. And they are all different, authentic. That is pretty amazing.

No less amazing though, than the fact that there isn’t a single person on this earth, neither in the past, the present, or the future, that is similar to you.

And just like plants are made of cells that are made of molecules that create their own unique melody, so does your body.

Simple logic: Plants sing.

Plants are made up of living cells which are made up of molecules. So their molecules and cells sing.

Water exposed to harmonious sounds, water droplets take on the shape of mandalas.

You are 80% water. Therefore 80% of you becomes mandalas.

It is safe to conclude then that if 80% of you becomes mandalas, you become a mandala.

You might have heard of the Mozart Effect, or the fact that plants and animals are positively influenced by harmonious music.

Sound is vibration and rhythm. From its source it travels through the various media to reach our ears, our skin, and penetrates our bodies. And the rhythm

combines with the rhythms that keep us alive, like breathing, heart-beat, brainwaves, not to mention sleep rhythms and digestive rhythms.

Well, there you have it. Sing, chant, or even hum – as explained in the book The Humming Effect – it creates healing and wellness. It tunes into the rhythms that are subconsciously directly connected to our connection with life energy: heartbeat and breathing. You can think of sound as an essential nutrient.

In chanting we charge sound with words that are symbols, manifestations of energies expressed by different deities.

They can express compassion, transformation, freedom, motherhood, generosity, embrace, devotion, and so on.

Those symbols are charged with positive, healing feelings. And we know that feelings imbued with healing resonance fulfill every creature’s most basic pursuit in life: the pursuit of joy, happiness, delight.

So don’t just sing in the shower. Find opportunity to sing and chant. Sound is earth bound.

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Delicious Cakes, Baked Goods, Brunch items and Takeaway foods to serve at home to Mom!

And that’s a good thing.

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SHOP WITH US Tuesday - Friday 11am - 4pm Saturday 10am - 3pm

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Amy and her mother Christine at Twice As Nice Consignment in Oak Bay.

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hen I think of May I get so excited for all there is to look forward to. We feel the heat of the sunshine, the summer within our grasp. The beauty and freshness of nature and all of its glory as the leaves of the trees fill in creating a canopy of shade we will be grateful for.

see our family and friends as we embrace with great enthusiasm the return of our social lives.

Mother’s Day is a great way to kick off the festivities and head out to see and be seen! As we celebrate our mothers, I am reminded of how I choose to celebrate mine.

This is the month we celebrate our mothers and the gift of motherhood. This Spring especially, we are all eager to

Motherhood is the ultimate fashion statement and my mom has always been my style icon.

I grew up watching her dress

for success everyday, able to look polished and classy for any occasion. My mother always kept me dressed in top form often in imported fashions, thanks to having family in the UK. I remember all of the shopping trips. Back to school, birthdays, school dances, graduation, weddings and those weekend trips we took together USED just because.GENTLY She was patient through my grunge stage and thankful that my hippie phase didn’t last long as I was making skirts out of tablecloths depleting her linen closet. As a mother of two young adults myself, I too have watched my kids go through their own fashion stages.

I remember taking my son Eli out of town to shop at consignment stores for one of a kind treasures and those most needed vintage pieces. I watched him choose sustainable fashion first, learning from him a new way to look at adding to my own wardrobe.

With my mind racing and the ideas pouring at a rapid pace, Roby and I started to plan how we could bring more sustainable fashion to the valley. Thus, the birth of Goldstone Boutique.

We now share two consignment boutiques and I can definitely say that the best part is watching mother daughter duos and women bonding over fashion wanting to see each other look and feel their best.

With the start of a new season and our social calendars filling

up let’s look into our closets at our own unused and perhaps a little dusty formal wear. What do we want to keep and what is in desperate need of a refresh?

Each year, my mother and I would take inventory of what we had, what was needed and if we were organized, a list to avoid unnecessary purchases that often happen when too enticed.

CLOTHING Keep in mind what BOUTIQUE you need and how comfortable you will be in the pieces you plan to buy.

With new Spring and Summer pieces arriving daily at both of our locations, there is never a shortage of small ways to freshen up your closet. We love seeing linen, denim jackets, shirts and shorts, flirty floral dresses and all the cute accessories to go with every outfit. Hats and fascinators are also a great way to add a punch of style this Spring for a small expense.

Give yourself and your mothers the gift of a treasure or unique piece from one of our stores.

Goldstone Boutique here in the Cowichan Valley and visit us at Twice As Nice boutique on Estevan Avenue in Oak Bay. Twice As Nice Boutique 2532 Estevan Ave., Victoria Goldstone Boutique 225 Canada Avenue, Duncan

Looking for high end, current and classic apparel.

Now booking for spring and summer appointments.

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Amy Caine, Co owner Goldstone Boutique and Twice as Nice.

Amy showcasing a formal hat for wedding and party season

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Cowichan Community Workshop Co-op

Hub Spring Sale Clay Hub Collective CCWC Woodwork Shop Cowichan Valley Rockhounds

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or the first time ever the Clay Hub Collective, the CCWC woodwork shop and the Cowichan Valley Rockhounds are collaborating to have a Spring sale to showcase the three groups that are a mainstay at the Hub at Cowichan Station. This is a fundraiser as well. There will Rockhound necklace, Judy Moss

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Garlic pots by Tanis Humeny

be a fundraising table with items from all three groups and proceeds go back into the running of the Clay Studio.

Established in 2014, the Clay Hub’s purpose was to create a fantastic community studio that will be open to the public and is inclusive to the whole range of artists from those just starting out, to those recharging their artistic life and those seasoned veteran artists who have so much to share and teach.

To become a healthy source of income for the beautiful historical building that has been brought back to life by the Cowichan Station Area Association based on our income sharing model.

To be a source of training and practice for all aspects of operating a pottery studio To enrich the culture of art and contribute to the artistic well-being in the Cowichan Valley, in collaboration with the CSAA. Established 2017, the Cowichan Community Workshop Co-op is a volunteer-run not for profit Cooperative that operates a community workshop at The HUB at Cowichan Station. It is a well-equipped woodwork shop which allows members to have access to space and tools to create projects of their own. Recently, classes have been started which augment the open shop times during the week.

The Cowichan Valley Rockhounds was formed in 1963 and its members have a keen interest in all things rock related. We promote the study, collecting, cutting and polishing of gemstones, minerals, rocks and other geological material in the Cowichan Valley. We go on field trips to hunt for rock and have workshops where we have machines and tools to cut and shape rock and slabs into jewellery. We also do silver and copper work.

Hub Spring Sale, May 14, 10am-3pm, 2375 Koksilah Rd, Cowichan Station

Sonia Furstenau with her sister Julie Furstenau, and their mother Jan Carroll

Lessons From My Mother Sonia Furstenau, MLA for Cowichan Valley, (250) 7152792 Sonia.Furstenau.

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his Mother’s Day, I reflect on the lessons I’ve learned from my mother.

Take care of others. Mom has a vast network of family friends, old and new, and she puts consistent effort into staying in touch with the people in her life, whether it’s a yearly letter to relatives in other countries or a daily phone call with a neighbour, or regular visits with her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Take care of yourself. Mom had a fall last summer and broke her hip. Her recovery has not always been easy, but she persisted with physio and exercise, and is once again mobile. I admire her determination and I’m inspired by her efforts.

as I can remember, she has volunteered her time, expertise, and energy to help move things forward. In Alberta, she was pivotal in the efforts to protect Elk Island National Park from having a landfill put right next to it. In Saanichton, she has helped to create community garden spaces.

I am so grateful to my mother for all that she has taught me, and for the guidance and wisdom she continues to provide.

Having been a mother for nearly 27 years, I have also had the joy of learning from my children, who help me to see the world from different perspectives, to remember to be curious, and to not take myself too seriously.

This Mother’s Day, I will also reflect on the mother that all of us depend on, Mother Earth. We have so much to be grateful for –air, water, food, beauty – and so many reasons to be protective and to take care of the natural world that provides us with all we need.

Take care of the planet.

Mom was one of the original recyclers. Way back in the 1970s, we would always collect the newspapers and drop them at the recycling depot. She has been a lifelong organic gardener and instilled in me the importance of valuing and protecting the natural world.

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COWICHAN MOTHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE

Come to THE OLIVE STATION for Mother’s Day gifts. We have dipping plates, and olive oil accessories to highlight your table. 225 Canada Ave Downtown Duncan www.theolivestation.com

Get ready for summer adventures with Ambler. Hats and tees inspired by nature, made in Canada.

COWICHAN VALLEY RUNNING Located in Mill Bay Centre www.cowichanvalleyrunning.com

CFS for the SOUL- Adorn your Mother in beauty with a gorgeous semi-precious gemstone or crystal necklace, hand-crafted in BC with love. In the Community Farm Store.

5380 Trans-Canada Hwy, Duncan cfssoul@communityfarmstore.ca

A MEMORABLE GIFT Pamper mom with this adorable lined planter drawer basket which includes Lavender themed table runner, paper napkins, candle and natural bathing salts and locally handmade soap. $75 www.amemorablegift.com

Mother’s Day Art Tea, May 8 Enjoy tea, live music and fine art at the COWICHAN VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL Fine Arts Show. Tickets $5 in advance. 250-746-1633

LITTLE BIRD GIFT SHOP & GALLERY Metalbird makes a great gift for Mom, for her garden, patio or deck.

Lots of birds to choose from!

163 + 165 Station Street Downtown Duncan www.littlebirdonline.ca

Mother’s Day Box, a selection of meats, cheeses, breads , sweets, and condiments Ready to eat, celebrate brunch with Mom. CURE ARTISAN MEAT & CHEESE 1400 Cowichan Bay Rd, Valley View Centre 250-929-2873

Treat Mom to a wonderful Summer experience. ISLANDS FOLK FEST TICKETS Enjoy 25 acts,5 stages, food, beverage garden - one day only Saturday July 23 Reserve online at www.islandsfolkfestival.ca

Mother’s Day Brunch To Go Package From the FARM TABLE INN’S FARM STORE Treat Mom to house-made quiches, soups, breads and desserts – only $48 per package. 250-932-3205 www.farmtableinn.ca

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EUPHORIC JUICERY CLEANSE Give mom the benefits of drinking raw, organic, cold pressed juice without the planning, prepping and clean up!

Every Saturday at the Duncan Market hello@euphoricjuicery.com

RESTHOUSE SLEEP SOLUTIONS Kakūn Eco Wool Body Pillow Give mom the gift of perfect support.

Order online and exchange at the Duncan warehouse if the size isn’t quite right. www.resthousesleep.com

BARNES & MARACLE We’ve got Mom covered with a fabulous Mother’s Day delivered meal special.

Please visit for menu and details. www.barnesandmaracle.com

NIKKI DESIGNS Pure linen scarves, generously sized, made in our studio in Ladysmith. The perfect accessory for Spring and Summer. 117 Clarke Rd, Ladysmith www.nikkidesigns.ca

Tea for One Giftset. Perfect for the mother + tea lover in your life.

WESTHOLME TEA COMPANY, 8350 Richards Trail, Duncan www.westholmetea.com

Mom always needs a little TLC. Our luscious white blend that is “personality-driven” and flavours race out. $22 ROCKY CREEK WINERY 1854 Myhrest Road, Cowichan Bay www.rockycreekwinery.ca

Still Life by Sarah Winman. A novel that celebrates love in all its many forms. VOLUME ONE BOOKSTORE 149 Kenneth St, Downtown Duncan www.volumeone.ca

The best moisturizer your Mom will put on her face, ever. Clean, silkysoft, no ingredients with more than 3 syllables! BOTANICAL BLISS at the Duncan Market every Saturday. www.botanicalbliss.ca

REIKI WELLNES Treat Mum to a relaxing Reiki Balancing session and/ or Detoxing Foot Spa, Reiki, Foot Detox, Reflexology, Acupuncture Packages/Gift Certificates. Valley View Centre www.reikiwellness.ca

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the ceremonies since when they “left the rez almost five decades earlier, healing circles, talking circles, and ceremonies were not happening… Everyone was too busy trying not to be Indian.”

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Once there, they watched in disbelief at the sheer number of Indigenous people at the Pow Wow – wearing the clothes and doing the ceremonies that many of their ancestors had been killed for. Tilly “wondered what it was like for them to see so many people proud of being Native.”

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f you’ve wanted friends and family to learn more about Indigenous community members and have faced reluctance, this book may be a good place to start. A group of Elders decides to fulfill bucket list dreams, culminating in attending the Gathering of Nations in New Mexico, the largest Pow Wow in North America. Along the way there is healing, romance, self-acceptance, and a whole lot of fun! Who doesn’t like a road trip story?!

Weaving in so many issues – addiction, MMIWG, residential schools, cancer, LGBTQ+, and more – it is also one of the few books that illuminates the perspectives of Elders, their journeys, their full human complexity. It gives space for Elders’ shame at not knowing

This book is good for multigenerational audiences.

It is a ‘gentler’ intro to the heartbreaking realities that Indigenous people have had and continue to face. There is gentleness throughout, beautifully capturing being part of an Indigenous circle where you are embraced. This story is a celebration of full lives lived and the healing power of shared laughter and community.

The Warmland Book & Film Collective – a response to the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada – next meets online May 11th to discuss What Was Said to Me: the Life of Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman by Ruby Peter. Email WarmlandBFC@ gmail.com for zoom link.

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Reflexology for Relaxation Debbie Shkuratoff - Reiki Master Teacher Usui Karuna - Komyo Tibetian - Seichim

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eflexology is a simple, effective and natural therapy which focuses on the feet. It is over 5,000 years old and has origins in China and Egypt, where pressure therapies were recognised to have therapeutic benefits and more importantly, help prevent disease.

Every part of the body has a reflex point on the feet. The right foot represents the right side of the body and the left foot, the left side. The feet have many nerve endings and it is felt that this is why reflexology works. The nerves are stimulated at the reflex points with specific thumb and finger techniques.

The nerve relays this stimulus through the nervous system up the spinal column to the corresponding affected area of the body.

Where there is inhibited functioning or disease, congestion will be found in the form of grainy crystal deposits. These deposits are caused by excess acidity in the bloodstream which increases calcium deposits at the nerve endings. They

may feel tender, sensitive or positively painful and/or they may feel hard, tight or lumpy.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is believed that ch’i (energy) circulates along twelve meridian pathways within the body. The six meridians which penetrate the major organs of the body are found in the feet - specifically the toes. Reflexology helps to clear the blockage along the medians and encourages the ch’i to flow.

As a holistic therapy, Reflexology aims to treat the body as a whole and works to get to the root cause of disease and treat this, not the symptom. However, most disease/ailments have taken time to manifest and will therefore take time to eradicate. Reflexology has proved itself to be effective, it is safe for everyone, and very relaxing. A Reflexology treatment reaches the receiver on several levels - physical, mental and spiritual, it can only be of benefit, while bringing the body into a state of balance and harmony. An absolute wonderful, relaxing way to relax to spend an hour and feel better at the same time. www.reikiwellness.ca

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Drop by Little Bird for great Mother’s Day cards, sweet chocolate treats & locally made gifts!

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COWICHAN FAMILY LIFE ASSOCIATION GARDEN TOUR REVIVED FOR 2022!

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he Cowichan Family Life Association (CFLA) is excited to announce the revival of the Garden Tour on Sunday, May 29.

“We are honoured that six local garden owners have generously opened their gardens for the public tour this year,” says CFLA President Deanna Wrate.

“The tour is a wonderful opportunity for the community to come together to appreciate the beauty of nature while helping community members who are going through difficult times.

These are experiences we can all appreciate.”

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CFLA provides affordable, if not free, mental health services for individuals and families of the Cowichan Valley and has done so for more than 50 years. Programs include training for volunteer peer counsellors, healing anger, communicating with confidence and individual counselling. Other programs are in the process of development such as First Nation, youth and senior services and finding financial freedom.

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The Garden Tour serves as a major fund raiser for the organization and tickets are now on sale at various locations, including Third Edition, Dinter Nursery, Buckerfields, Volume One Books, Russell Farms, and Black Door Décor, as well as the CFLA office. Tickets are also available through e-Transfer at admin@ cowichanfamilylife.

Tickets are $25 each and come with the map of the garden locations. Raffle tickets will also be available during the garden tour itself, a chance to win some choice prizes such as winetasting passes for Cherry Point, $125 gift basket from Country Grocer, passes to Butchart Gardens, and an E.J. Hughes print donated by the Municipality of North Cowichan, among others.

CFLA would like to thank the following sponsors who generously donated funds to assist with the Garden Tour promotion: Buckerfields; Dinter Nursery; 49th Parallel; Island Office Equipment; HSM Insurance; Merit Home Furniture; and RE/MAX Island Properties.

If you or someone you know could benefit from mental health services, please contact Cowichan Family Life Association at 250 748-8281. www.cowichanfamilylife.org

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adly, this year Cowichan Family Life Association lost the last of the three founding members of the popular Annual Garden Tour.

It saddens me that after 2 years of cancellations due to COVID, I was looking forward to bringing it back and of course inviting Charmian to attend. I remember sitting with her in 2019 enjoying tea and freshly baked scones while enjoying the amazing view of the ocean from her front living room window. Even after the loss of her daughter and husband, she continued to do what she could to promote our garden tour and garner support for Cowichan Family Life Association (CFLA).

According to Luke, Charmian’s son-in-law, Charmian had a great sense of humour and was a lot of fun to be around. Charmian was born and raised in Zimbabwe Rhodesia and then moved to

her husband passed away, she wanted to downsize. She was originally looking to move to Arbutus Ridge but not finding one suitable, decided to buy a lot and have a house built to her liking. It took approximately 18 months to build, and it had a lovely garden and spectacular view of the ocean.

Wilf and Charmian Horner

CELEBRATING CHARMIAN HORNER Co Founder of the CFLA Garden Tour England which is why she was very English including her wittiness. She did her schooling in England and spent many years training in the slums of East London.

After meeting and marrying Wilf, she moved to Canada and settled in the Cowichan Valley. She and Wilf had one daughter together and was stepmother to 5 grown children from Wilf’s previous marriage. She was a caring and fiercely independent woman.

According to Luke, who was married to Charmian and Wilf’s daughter Frances, she was a no fuss, practical person and

a very kind, generous, fun, positive, thoughtful lady. He says that she was always good company even after the passing of her daughter and her husband. “She was great as a mother-in-law,” stated Luke. She loved chatting, baking, gardening, and Lily her Westie.

She was a very active lady and as an example I was told that at the spry age of 79 after

In keeping with the way, she lived her life, Luke says she passed away the way she would have liked, very quickly. In fact, at age 84 ½ she was driving herself to Duncan when she experienced a stroke and passed away the next day. She would not have wanted to be reliant on others.

If you wish to attend the “Celebration of Life” for Charmian Horner (July 3, 1937 – January 5, 2022) it will be held May 7th at 11:00 am at St. John’s Anglican Church in Cobble Hill, 3295 Cobble Hill Rd.

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Understanding the role of fungi in soil Tamara Dinter, Dinter Nursery General Manager and Soil Enthusiast

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he term mycorrhiza is often referred to in discussions of ecological gardening practices. But what is it and why is it important?

Mycorrhiza refers to the fungus (myco) that grows in and around plant roots (rhiza).

Most plant species form associations with root fungi that are mutually beneficial as the fungi receives amino acids and sugars from the plant roots and the plant receives nutrients from the fungi.

There are two general types of root fungi. Most are endomycorrhizal associations, with hyphae that penetrate the cell wall (but not the cell membrane), branching out for maximum nutrient exchange. Less common are ectomycorrhizal associations, in which the fungus facilitates nutrient exchange by covering the surfaces of the root tip like a sheath, occasionally passing through a root tip without penetrating the cell walls. Ectomycorrhiza are mainly found with certain

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temperate climate trees (e.g. beech, birch, conifers, oaks, willows).

Root fungi are often present in fertile soils and are able to form associations with plants without human assistance.

Plants growing in poor soil noticeably benefit from the addition of a commercially available mycorrhizal inoculation. Keep in mind that mycorrhiza added to soil in this way will only thrive if conditions favorable to their growth are met. This means building a good soil texture and nutrient holding capacity (add organic matter!) when adding the fungi.

There are many different species of root fungi. Some form associations with certain plants only, while others will form associations with many different plants. To help fungi flourish in your own garden, build soil health by adding organic matter.

Once you have established a healthy and thriving soil ecosystem, keep soil disturbance to a minimum.

In your vegetable garden, this means avoiding turning the soil when preparing for planting. Loosening soil with a broadfork or pitchfork is sufficient to reduce winter compaction while minimally disrupting the existing fungal networks.

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his spring Baha’i communities around the world are hosting close to 10,000 conferences with more than four million people expected to attend. The focus of these events is Building a Better World, Together.

The conferences are designed for everyone to participate (all ages, backgrounds, cultures, and spiritual paths), and contribute to exploring the characteristics of a vibrant community and how we together can ensure the wellbeing of everyone.

The Cowichan gathering will incorporate concurrent programs for adults, youth, and children, including presentations and small group discussions. Arts and music will contribute to a positive, joyful, and uplifting atmosphere. “… the more the qualities of cooperation and mutual assistance are manifested by a people, the more will human society advance in progress and prosperity” ‘ Abdu’l-Bahá, quoted by the Universal House of Justice in a letter dated Dec 30, 2021.

Five themes will help to focus discussion. These include exploring a vision of a united humanity, and what a shared vision for our community could look like. This will be followed by a brief look at where we are in relation to this vision. We will then look into what it means to build vibrant communities, exploring the characteristics of a vibrant community that contributes to the wellbeing of everyone. The fourth theme will explore the role of education in building vibrant, inclusive communities, and finally, we will explore the process of contributing to social transformation.

The intended outcome of the gathering is to initiate a process of investigation, ongoing discussions and learning that can lead to specific action.

We warmly invite you to join us. Please call or email for more information and to register. The conference is free, doors open at 9:15 and it will end at 5:30. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, and please do preregister.

Laurice and Tim Mock, on behalf of the Baha’is of Cowichan. call: 250 748-2585 or email: tmock@bc.bahai.ca

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a new shoot emerging from the ground with distinct Samurai design elements.

Bamboo, A Scourge in The Garden or A Lifeline to Our Planet?

David Coulson is a local certified Built Green design builder.

He has a staff of 25 that have built through the island for over 20 years.

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ow many times have you heard about bamboo taking over someone’s garden, lifting pavement or simply exploding into an invasive nightmare on the neighbour’s property?

I must admit I have seen the plant grow out of control on the island, so I am here to share what I know in hopes it helps our neighbours and communities make good use of this incredible plant.

First of all, let me explain my passion for bamboo.

In 1996, I attended the American Bamboo Association Conference gathering at the university of Hilo Hawaii. We were side by side with the world’s top bamboo architects, landscape designers, and craftsmen in this unique

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material. From bamboo furniture and surfboards to 65-foot live plantings in children’s hospitals (+14% increased oxygen result here!) to the largest and heaviest constructed architectural rooflines on the planet. We ate bamboo, carved it, wove with it (guided by traditional Japanese gate builders) and studied it thanks to the masterful inspiration of David Farrelly, who published what remains the most comprehensive reference on bamboo, ‘The Book of Bamboo’.

Look it up! Published by the Sierra Club. Farrelly’s book illustrates the 1500 plus varieties and 2500 plus traditional uses of bamboo practiced for centuries worldwide.

That’s the scope of interest in this plant, and how I got my start with it. Now, what we can do here on Vancouver Island with this monopodial (running) grass?

Hard to imagine a grass in my yard now 3 inches (about 8 cm) in girth and 45 feet tall (14 meters) - but it’s there.

The plant can grow as much as 2 feet per day here in June/July and provides me with an abundance of aesthetic and practical building products from fencing, curtain rods, ladders, beanpoles, roof-top picking poles, gutter brushes, plant and rose supports (see photo), occasional meal, plant pot, slingshot, garden stake, beer or water cup, railing spindles, garden feature, table frame and top, chair, bench and decorative window treatments to name a few.

I have 35 varieties of these runners all dug into a very heavy clay hill in Eagle Heights that in most gardening scenarios would not grow a ‘hill o beans’. I did have to supplement the soil to get the results I wanted, and of course I kept the bamboo patch separate from our other (flower, veggie, herb) garden plots.

So rule #1, plant in a secure area to keep contained.

Options: - a large concrete lined box (best) - steel lined hole (still good but watch) or - container (risk overcrowding roots and drying out).

Containers will never provide

My pagoda.

the robust size and they are very hard to divide once established.

Free running (need lots of room) is best as long as you keep the root or rhizome pruned back (see photo of my tool of choice). And containers or barriers need only be 24 inches deep and ideally pitched at 7 degrees away from the plant.

Rule #2, water well but never make roots soggy or situate in low areas or they will rot. The Chinese called it ‘knit bone’ as its preferred home was the well-drained sides of fertile creeks and rivers. Through overdevelopment, bamboo removal has now destabilized rivers and creeks in many countries, contributing to the fatal landslides we see annually.

Once well established, say after 7 years, a good patch of well-trained bamboo will start to yield it’s maximum size for the orientation and climate you have selected. I still get the odd surprise in years 8 to 10 with large culms (stalk or blade of bamboo grass) - they can be a trickster, keeping you on your toes. Like the one that suddenly appears 30 to 50 feet away one spring indicating you have dropped your guard and they are truly ‘running’.

Year 7 is also the year one can start liberally thinning the clump by cutting out the older culms that now take on a slightly weathered colour indicating they have ‘hardened off’ and are at their best for use structurally (some varieties are destined for structural use, or for crafts, or fish poles, or weaving). Black bamboo (Phyllostachys negro) actually turns black with age as it starts off green for two to three years. But thinning out gives air to the plant and room to grow.

Some bamboos can be cut earlier (years two and three) if you want the flexibility and bright colour for weaving, basketry, or simply for its clean and unaltered brilliance. Within a year of harvest, they mostly all fade to a buff yellow tan colour except for the revered black bamboo.

And don’t forget, if you want a snack or lovely addition to your stir-fry, kick over a new shoot just as it’s breaking ground.

Steam quickly and if at all bitter, add a bit of milk when cooking or just toss in the pan and enjoy. I often eat them raw on my late spring rounds to see who’s coming up next. Rule #3, throughout the growing season here from late spring to mid- summer, feed with heavy nitrogen. Chicken manure and alfalfa powder are great to liberally feed at the base. Also, fun fact: bamboo loves pee (your call).

After ten to 12 years of growing bamboo you start to get more aggressive with it.

First, invest in a cordless Sawzall and buy some carbide-tipped, long cutting blades. Don’t spend too much as they dull quickly.

Root (rhizome) prune the plants to where you want them to stop spreading, Rip the chunks of rhizome from the ground (often just inches below the surface) and plant directly and quickly into pots to propagate new plants.

Watch for the small node that appears at the internodes (those wonderfully clear sections of bamboo) and looks like a brown polished fingernail-like growth.

This is the life force that is deciding whether to be a new rhizome root OR an upward growing shoot and eventual culm. Keep moist in pot at all times, assuming they drain freely until you have three or four fresh

new culms shooting up. This is best done in late fall or early spring. The new growth won’t show until spring of course so fall dividing gets the fibrous root structure going over winter.

This is a very serious grass but many have remarked that,

together with the Eucalyptus tree, bamboo could provide enough fibre and construction material to look after the entire developing world.

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ocal artist, singer and musician Yasmeen Olya is in the fight for her life against a cancer that she has travelled to Germany to have treated. The treatments offered here in Canada, while mostly free, don’t have the same effectiveness and high success rate as the specialized treatments and surgeries offered in this particular private clinic in Germany.

Since last year, Yasmeen knew she had a problem and started going to the hospital in Victoria for assessment and tests. When the diagnosis came, the options offered were not good. The treatments would likely take away the sensation in her fingers, and her tongue as well. As an artist, singer, musician, losing this sensation would have been devastating, so she sought other treatment options. Travelling to Germany last winter with the help of her friends, family and online community, she was able to get situated close to the clinic and got started on her treatment plan.

The initial costs of travel and living in Germany were covered by donations from her online followers, family and friends. I created an online auction fundraiser quickly, that netted $14,000 CDN over the auction weekend, 100% of the proceeds went to Yasmeen for the treatments she needed.

Now, she’s faced with the most important task of having this tumour removed, by these world-renowned surgeons in the private clinic

in Germany. The cost for this and following treatments is expected to be 20,000 Euro ($28,000 CDN).

We are setting up a second online art auction in order to raise funds to cover as much of this as possible, though donations can be made to her directly via PayPal at www. yasmeensong.com/gift.html or through her GoFundMe page at https://gofund. me/9b8cf46e This auction will have many of Yasmeen’s original artworks, and donated original artwork and prints from a good number of other artists. Bidding starts at 25 to 40% of the market value of the originals, so it’s very possible you can bid and get a wonderful piece of art for a very good price!

This time 100% of the originals sold, and approximately 75-85% of the proceeds from prints will go to Yasmeen. The auction is viewable now at: 32auctions.com/yasmeen2 We’ll be adding more artwork over the next 3 weeks leading up to the auction opening at 12 noon PST on May 13th.

It will run for the weekend, closing at 5pm PST on Sunday May 15th.

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hile Vancouver Island boasts some of the most fertile land on the coast, we also have one of the least sustainable regions for food security in BC, producing less than 6% of our own food here on the Island. As a natural result, we import most of what we consume, increasing supply and demand needs for foods grown extra-regionally and driving the market towards less sustainable supply chains.

From floods at home to war abroad and with gas prices soaring, the cost of food is going up, and it has never been more evident that we need to start planning for greater local food security, than it is today. By producing more of our own food,

and supporting sustainable agricultural practices locally, we can do our part for our shared global environment, in our own backyard.

Purchasing organically grown foods from local producers or small grocery stores goes a long way to voting for the kind of future we want to create, and integrating permaculture on any scale to your home garden can also help. No matter how little land you may live on, “edible landscapes” can be integrated in ways that can make a big impact for your pocket book, as well as the Earth.

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Local Food Security Planning For The Future systems, far more productive than conventional agricultural land of the same size. He also says that our future is dependant on having far more small-scale gardeners, using permanent agricultural techniques to heal the land, and provide food (and water) security for generations to come.

Working harmoniously with your available light, seasonal changes, indigenous plants, helpful pollinators and creative design, converting even a small section of your lawn into a micro edible landscape by utilizing permaculture practices can be easier than you think. It looks beautiful, makes for great conversational space, and can subsidize the food you buy at the grocery store, offsetting carbon and saving you money at the end of the day.

Permaculture systems are also drought-resistant, meaning that you can do your part to decrease watering in the dry months (and avoid the

dreaded “brown is the new green” line when your grass dies off). Edible landscapes are lower maintenance than conventional landscape designs, attract beneficial bugs, replenish soil and ecosystems and decrease water consumption.

It’s good for the environment and looks great too, and is easy to maintain once the initial garden design and implementation is complete.

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very year there are more incentives to grow your own food. With raising commodity prices and supply chain issues creating bare shelves in the grocery stores, we need to become more self-reliant. Home grown food is fresher and healthier and gives one a sense of accomplishment. Successful gardening comes from experience, and it is never too late to start.

Planning a Vegetable Garden value crops but cannot be set out until the heat arrives in May. Get a head start by growing them indoors for setting out in space created by early greens being harvested.

Alternatively, grow tomatoes in containers with 7 or 10 gallon sizes being ideal for the larger growing plants.

Vegetables can be grown in any location that receives six hours or more of direct sunlight around mid-day. Good soil is important and if not present, can be brought in to supplement the existing garden beds, fill raised beds or containers on sunny decks. If you have a sunny location, you can grow food.

Analyze what kind of food you are eating and what can be substituted from the garden. An easy start is salads, with greens such as lettuce, spinach, kale, mustard greens, mescluns and more. Many of these are hardy and can be planted in March with

rotations ending with the last harvest in early December. This is nine months of harvest!

Tomatoes top the list of high

If you have limited space, look to crops that you can make full use of and rotate through several plantings. Root crops such as carrots can be seeded twice with the second crop staying in the ground for harvesting over the winter. Potatoes do well in grow bags that free up valuable garden space. Early planting of peas in cool spring weather can be followed by beans in warm summer temperatures.

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to help answer those questions.

Solar Lentigo These brown spots seem to develop on the face in isolated areas, most often on the cheek areas.

They are also called age spots and sometimes liver spots. These brown spots are harmless patches of darkened skin resulting from exposure to UV radiation.

They often also occur on the hands. These spots are more common in fair-skinned individuals. Your physician can treat solar lentigo with cryotherapy, but treatment may leave a white mark. This is preferable to the brown spot for many people as it is easier to camouflage with makeup. Prevention includes minimizing sun exposure and

Facial Hyperpigmentation Disorders Dr. Lyn Pascoe is a member of the Doctors of BC, the Canadian Medical Association, and the Family Physicians of BC.

As we age, we seem to develop brown spots on our face. Do you wonder what these brown spots are, how they can be treated, and which ones you need to be concerned about? Here’s a list of common pigment disorders

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using mineral sunscreens.

This prevention needs to start early in life.

Seborrheic Keratoses These are harmless warty spots, usually of a brown or dark color. Often there is a genetic predisposition to these spots. They can occur on the face, neck, and torso. Your physician can also treat these with cryotherapy if they are cosmetically undesirable.

Melanoma These spots are the ones to be careful not to miss. They can appear as a darker patch on the skin or arise from within a mole or freckle. Melanomas can occur anywhere on the body, not only in areas that get a lot of sun. The first sign of melanoma is usually an unusual-looking freckle or mole. Physicians often use the ‘Ugly Duckling’ sign when checking moles on

your body. They check for moles that stand out and look different. If you are unsure about a change in a mole or the appearance of a new lesion that ‘looks different’, please schedule an in-person appointment with your family physician.

Melasma Melasma is a common skin disorder that presents as a bilateral blotchy brownish facial pigmentation. Melasma is more common in women and is most common in people who tan easily or have naturally brown skin (Fitzpatrick skin prototypes 11, 1V). Factors involved in the development of melasma include family history, sun exposure, and hormones (including the use of oral contraceptive pills and IUDs).

Some cosmetics may also trigger this condition. It is ESSENTIAL to diagnose

melasma accurately as the treatment for other pigment disorders may make melasma worse. Because melasma can be triggered by light, it is IMPORTANT not to have brown spots treated with a light-based device (IPL or intense pulsed light) as this will worsen your brown spots.

To reduce brown spots caused by melasma, the year-round use of mineral-based sun protection (zinc, titanium dioxide, or ferric oxide) is essential. Discontinuing hormonal contraception is helpful if possible. Many topical products can be used, including hydroquinone, retin, kojic acid, tranexamic acid, and other plant-based products. Your physician should supervise the use of these products. Hydroquinone and retin can, for example, cause skin irritation and need to be added to your skincare regime slowly and carefully.

There are few laser treatments that are truly effective.

Microneedling may be helpful when combined with effective topical products.

Q switched lasers may have some benefits also. The good news is that treatments can be very effective, but the condition is permanent and needs to be managed. The use of daily mineral sunscreen is imperative.

The Bottom Line Not all pigment disorders are the same, and diagnosis by your physician is essential before embarking on a treatment regime.

is an excellent addition to your diet to help do all this!

It is also a delicious and very healthful caffeine alternative.

Maca- Find The Balance You Seek Good health to you!

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aca, also called Peruvian Ginseng, grows in high altitudes of the Andes in Peru. For centuries it has been used by the people there as a food and for its medicinal properties. Maca is a hardy tuber vegetable that is harvested and ground down to a powder, and is nutrient rich in minerals and antioxidants.

It is consumed and used for increased energy, stamina and systemic strength building, hormone balance, and as an adaptogen in times of mental or physical stress. As such, it can improve mood, memory, combat fatigue, and enhance sexual desire and libido in both men and women.

It provides the hormonal balancing mechanisms needed for women at various life stages, including at menopause when our taxed adrenals begin to play the role in estrogen secretion (which because of stress they do so insufficiently). Maca can strengthen the adrenals

and help the body provide the hormones needed, improving symptoms, mood, and bone health. For males it can also improve sexual health, improve sperm quality and motility, and create youthful well-being. Because maca doesn’t contain male or female specific hormones, yet provides this wonderful balancing mechanism, it is useful for either sex, and at any stage of life! How wonderful!

The antioxidant content has been shown in studies to lower blood cholesterol and triglycerides, and also for its neuro-protective qualities.

Antioxidants are important to fight against all disease, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. It is vital to always improve your antioxidant status to prevent oxidative stress in the body, fight free radicals, and prevent cell damage. Maca

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When looking for maca powder or capsules, look for gelatinized, which has removed the starch making it more digestible and allowing the beneficial properties of the plant to be better absorbed and utilized by the body. This also makes the maca more potent per amount taken, in comparison to raw form.

Top favourites here at the store, are the: * Organic Traditions “MACA X-6 BLACK AND RED POWDER”, due to its 6:1 concentrate, Coldgelatinization process, and easy to scoop powder form.

Both black and red varieties of Maca root are superior energizing adaptogens. *New Roots Herbal “Fermented Maca” powder, a naturally fermented maca root powder, very tasty and easy to assimilate also. *Bell Health PMS or Menopause formulas. Both contain differing hormone balancing blends of herbal concentrates including the Maca 10:1 or 20:1 concentrates. Both of these formulas receive rave reviews from our customers.

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“Ukrainian Egg Decorating” supplies will be available year round; this is a beautiful, creative and heartfelt way to support our brothers and sisters in Eastern Europe. Thank you to our customers who are helping to bring this meaningful tradition to their families, friends and neigbours.

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Here at the Freya-Sophia Waldorf store we are inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner and committed to meeting the soul needs of our children and our community by providing books, toys, supplies, resources, classes, workshops, instruction, support and conversation to those who visit us. We are here to help and to support. We are happy to accommodate your mail orders and inquiries by phone or email info@freyasophiawaldorfstore.ca 56

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o you know about a great little spot in Crofton that supports children throughout the world?

Cedricks Coffee House owners, Judith and Jerry Fewster have teamed up with charity founders Rick Lennert and Adrianne Dartnall to bring you a beautiful, warm and cozy little coffee house to help raise funds for K.I.D.S. Kids International Development Society is a Vancouver Island charity that assists children, youth and families in Cambodia and Myanmar with providing education, health care, clean drinking water and medical services. All profits made at Cedrick’s Coffee House will go directly to supporting K.I.D.S.

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Cedricks Coffee House Helps K.I.D.S

In 2000, Adrianne Dartnall and her partner Rick Lennert lost their only child, twentyone year old Danielle, when she was killed by a drunk driver. Devastated by the tragedy they sought to find meaning in their lives and to honour the memory of their daughter, who had wanted to be a teacher and loved children. Since that time Adrianne and Rick have been traveling each year to impoverished villages and communities in developing countries. They volunteer their time and talents working to improve the lives of children and their families living in poverty. In 2004, in response to the interest of more and more people who wanted to donate and be a part of the work they were doing, Adrianne and Rick formed Kids International Development Society (K.I.D.S.).

Adrianne and Rick travel to developing countries where, using their own funds as well as funds that have been donated, they assist with the basic needs for the communities they work with including: housing, clean water, medical supplies and support, schools, libraries, educational supplies, bathrooms, bicycles and small business grants. They work in communities in Southeast Asia, where people face poverty, unemployment, high infant mortality and diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.

We serve light breakfasts and lunches & a delicious selection of fresh baked goods.

All profits made at Cedrick’s Coffee House in Crofton will be used to support education, healthcare, medical services and clean drinking water for thousands of children facing challenging conditions through the Kids International Development Society.

The activities undertaken by Adrianne and Rick in their work for K.I.D.S. benefit families and communities in very real and direct ways.

They have volunteered in Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand/Myanmar border refugee camps, India, Vietnam and Nepal.

Next time you are in town, drop into Cedrick’s and enjoy a variety of baked goodies, baked daily in house, as well as breakfast and lunch options. They proudly serve Drumroaster Coffee, a delicious coffee that is roasted right in Cobble Hill.

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Cowichan SUMMER Nature and Science Camp, Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre

Offering INDIVIDUALIZED ASSESSMENTS AND LESSONS since 2014, including work in developmental and therapeutic areas for children who are STRUGGLING TO LEARN TO READ.

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Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre Summer Camp We’re offering our Estuary Nature & Science Day Camps again this July and August!

In our 5-day camps small groups ages 5-7 and 7-9 will explore the clam beds, eelgrass meadows and mudflats of beautiful Cowichan Bay, and learn about pollinators, shoreline plants, inter-tidal species and coastal birds. They’ll practice their discovery skills through creative play, while learning gratitude and respect for self and others. Single day camps available August 3rd, 4th and 5th! Registration Details Timing: 9am - 3pm MondayFriday Fee: $240 /child.

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application and registration links on our website: http://www.cowichanestuary. ca/programs/camps/ or contact camps@ cowichanestuary.ca.

KinPark Kids Camp is excited to bring another fabulous outdoor summer experience for children ages 6 – 10 at KinPark Youth Urban Farm on Alderlea Street downtown Duncan!

Our goal is to teach children how to grow, harvest, and cook healthy food in a fun, hands-on, and engaging way, and provide them with opportunities to expand their physical, social and practical skills in order to live sustainably. These activities include growing, planting, harvesting, cooking, building,

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Camp runs from June 27th to September 2nd. Costs are $180/week or $45/ day ($155 for week of Canada Day, and BC Day), Register in our reFRESH Marketplace on 360 Duncan Street, or go online for our registration form at www.

cowichangreencommunity. org/project/kinparkkids-camp-2/and submit via email to camp@ cowichangreencommunity. org. For more information please call 250-748- 8506 or email camp@ cowichangreencommunity.org.

Coastal Bliss Adventures Cowichan Bay Kayaking summer kids and youth camps have been running since 2012 in the Cowichan valley, with inspired children returning annually, with some progressing onto leadership rolls as instructors.

Our Day camps provide a mixture of water and landbased activities that include beach front programs for the younger ages, Paddle Canada instructional programs and journeying for the older groups in: Kayaking,

canoeing, Stand-up-paddleboarding, as well as landbased outdoor activities such as shelter building, beach exploration, chart and compass reading and environmental stewardship.

We hope to be able to offer some of our youth multi-day overnight programs again in the near future. Register early online or contact us for more details. Programs fill up quickly! Programs are listed on our website Coastal Bliss Adventures Kids Adventures with for various age groups starting at 8 years old and up. www.coastalbliss.ca Coastal Bliss Adventures Camp

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Cowichan SUMMER Camp Pringle Summer Camp, Shawnigan Lake

Creating memorable camping experiences since 1950! The George Pringle Memorial Camp (Camp Pringle) is located on a beautiful 22-acre property on the shores of Shawnigan Lake. We warmly welcome people of all ages, abilities, and identities.

Camp Pringle is proudly a United Church of Canada camp and is accredited by the BC Camps Association.

Our outdoor adventure-based camps feature: Archery, Arts & Crafts, Campfire Songs & Skits, Canoeing, Faith Exploration, High Ropes Course, Kayaking, Leadership Development, Low Ropes Course, Orienteering, Paddle Boarding, Rock Climbing, Swimming, Wide Games.

Our day and overnight camps are open to children of all abilities and identities with programs for ages 6-14!

Teens ages 14-17 interested in leadership opportunities can consider joining our CREW or CIT programs. Camps run Westview Learning Camp Monday-Friday from 8:30am-5:00pm starting at $275.00.

To register or for more information go to www. camppringle.com.

Join us this summer for an Experience that Lasts a Lifetime!

WestView Learning offers week long, hands on, creative summer camps specializing in technology and multimedia crafts. From coding and robots to creating fibre designs and working models, our instructors adapt camps to allow for interests of participants, and returning campers. Each day has plenty of fresh air and movement breaks, and time to make new friendships during inventive tasks, snack, lunch and end of day activities. We take advantage of the wonderful fields and ball court that are part of our location. Students need to dress for the inside as well as summer weather, ensuring hats, sunscreen, water bottles are included in day packs. Camps run 9:00 - 3:00, with staff ready to welcome 15 minutes before start of day. Parents dropping off kids at multiple sites can connect with us to arrange for special circumstances for pick up/drop off. www.westviewlearning.ca

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Camp GUIDE Warmland Summer Arts Day Camp

We are very excited to be offering Summer Arts Day Camps for youth ages 4 and up.

Led by Warmland Dance Artistic Director and Waldorf Educator Leah Burley, M.Ed., campers will play outside on the Hub at Cowichan Station grounds and in the forest, explore singing, dance, drama games, and quality arts and crafts. The cost is $75/day

including all supplies and fees, or $350 per week. Space is very limited, please email warmlanddance@gmail.com to reserve your spot today!

Youth Arts Camp Dates: Camp 1: July 11-15 Camp 2: July 25-29 Camp 3: July 15-19 Camp 4: July 22-26 www.warmlanddance.ca

CAMP 1: JULY 11-15 CAMP 2: JULY 25-29

experiential and nature GAIA STEWARDSHIP activities set within our 28Eco Wisdom Farm acre nature sanctuary. Each Sanctuary Fostering child will receive potted ecological imagination plants to grow at home, combines emotional, and nature-based art projects, social learning, building our homemade herbal remedies, sense of interdependence and a Gaia Stewardship with the earth. Awareness of certificate. Michelle Atterby, connections, critical thinking, Environmental educator, independent thoughts and permaculturist and animal kind hearts will shape our behaviourist offers engaging, future community. Through experiential, creative gentle mentoring we teach immersions into ecological animal communication, care literacy for youth. For more and training with baby goats information and registration and ponies, using positive please contact michelle at reinforcement. Garden lessons ecowisdom11@gmail.com will consist of learning about systems thinking, Gaia Stewardship Camp growing organic foods at home, harvesting and preparing simple plant medicine remedies. We will explore Gaia consciousness through eco art, story-telling,

CAMP 3: JULY 15-19 CAMP 4: JULY 22-26

Ages 5-10 $75 per day includes all supplies and fees. $350 per week.

Space is very limited. Reserve your camp session today!

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Cowichan SUMMER

Thriving Roots Wilderness Camp

Wilderness Kayaking LESSONS • TOURS • RENTALS • SALES

www.wilderness-kayaking.com Summer Youth Programs From Maple Bay KAYAK KIDS - INTRODUCTION TO SEA KAYAKING July 4-7; July 25-28; August 8-11 Sessions Monday - Thursday 9am - 1pm

YOUTH DAY TRIP ADVENTURES – MAPLE BAY July 8; July 29; August 12 Fridays 9am - 3pm

Awaken your true nature at Thriving Roots Wilderness School Summer Camps! Wilderness Living Skills Camp - Ages 7-14 : FULL (August 15-19) Earth Song Wilderness Camp - Ages 7-14: still open! (July 25-29) Earth song wilderness camp: Music is alive in the forest - bird song fills the air, wind rustles through the trees. Tune into this magic together and join us for: Fun nature connection and games.

Instrument making from wild harvested materials.

Song writing, singing and creative play. Introduction to wild edible plants and bird language. A performance for families on Friday at 2pm.

Don’t miss out on this exciting chance to explore music and voice with some of our most well-loved mentors.

Instruments are welcome but no musical training is necessary. Come play and

ALSO OFFERING: Harbour Tours, Moonlight paddling, Bio-Luminescence paddling, Day tours, Multi-day tours, Lessons, rentals (kayaks & SUPS) and more. Call for more info or to reserve.

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Thriving Roots Camp

find your song! Mentors: Cari, Robin and Teresa Ages: 7-14. July 25-29. 9am-3pm.

Cost: $425. Includes TRWS t-shirt and sticker. OUR Eco Village in Shawnigan Lake. www.thrivingroots.org.

Bring your friends to Maple Bay and try Sea Kayaking, Stand up Paddle Boarding or join in on a Youth kayaking day trip. Kayak Kids Camp ages 6-12 - an introduction to kayaking $145+tax July 4-7; July 25-28; Aug 8-11. Learn kayak skills and safety, basic weather interpretation, on water games and more…

Youth Day Trips Bring your friends and join us for a guided tour in the Maple Bay area. Come explore and practice your paddling skills in single and double touring kayaks. $59+tax July 8, July 29, August 12 For more information call 250746-0151 or email info@ wilderness-kayaking.com

Camp GUIDE Camp Qwanoes in Crofton

Camp Qwanoes

Overnight Camps are back at Camp Qwanoes!

Jump into the adventure and let friendship fill each day! Experience a world of discovery all in a spectacular oceanfront setting with a staff team from around the world.

All we need is you!

Endless activity options!

Choose from our giant floating Aqua Park, Airwalk Village, the Triple Biscuit, concrete skate park, wakeboarding, zip lines, archery, outdoor laser tag… Qwanoes Beach, our Challenge Course and Land Activities are ready and waiting.

All star games! Everyday is something wild and new…

and everyone’s a star.

Prepare for action and a bit of summer craziness… plus our legendary night games.

Enjoy our band in “Q-Town,” counselors, the Tuck Shop, Ice cream Island, Shave Ice Palace, hanging out at Carpetball, every day’s a new adventure. It all makes for an unforgettable week where kids are accepted for who they are by staff who really care. Experience the best of a Canadian west-coast summer!

For more info call 250-2463014 or www.qwanoes.ca.

Would you like to share a GREAT Cowichan Summer Camp program in the JUNE 2022 SUMMER CAMP PLANNER? Contact us for details on how to participate. info@cowichanvalley voice.com Deadline May 16 for June Issue.

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Traditional Chinese Exercise for Health All Classes in the Cowichan Valley *unless stated Wild Goose Qigong (Chi Gong) Gentle movement • Calms your mind • Heals internal organs • Develops flexibility Mondays 9 -10 am Tuesdays 6 pm - 7 pm (combined Qigong and Chun Yuen) Wednesdays 10-11:15 am Fridays 10-11:15 am (Victoria)*

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Dynamic movement • Improves posture • Increases energy • Strengthens bones Tuesdays 6 pm - 7 pm (combined Qigong and Chun Yuen)* Wednesdays 9 am - 10 am

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CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER The first full week of May marks National Hospice Palliative Care Week in Canada. Together let’s celebrate the amazing care that hospice palliative care teams across Canada provide to our neighbours and families, empowering them to Live in Colour – to embrace life’s kaleidoscope of colours until the very end.

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hen Frank made the decision to end all dialysis to survive and face his death with dignity and bravery, his wife Kate was by his side. “I said to everybody, ‘he had a good death,’” Kate said, reflecting on their time journeying together through his illness.

Even in Frank’s wellsupported death, the weight of it all took a toll on Kate as his caregiver. One of the home care nurses who had cared for Frank suggested that Kate reach out to Cowichan Hospice. It was the right decision for her. “I really felt I could just be myself,” Kate said of her grief support experience. “I didn’t have to put on an act. I felt safe.

It makes you feel okay, that there are other people in this strange state also.”

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The demands of caregiving can feel both overwhelming and lonely. Hospice is here to walk alongside caregivers as they remain present for their loved one and anticipate the eventual grief when the death finally occurs.

In Kate’s experience with hospice care, she reflected back on an earlier death of a loved one. “My dad died when I was 32,” Kate explains. “You do this thing with the grief, you assess, you go into yourself, you rebuild, you look at everything. It’s not just that particular event; it’s your whole life, its your whole being. I wish I had hospice then.”

If you or someone you know is overwhelmed by caregiving at the end of life, Cowichan Hospice is here to walk with you. Call 250-701-4242 today for free, confidential support in person, virtual or over the phone.

Cowichan Hospice is a registered charity that has been providing compassionate support to the Cowichan community for 40 years, thanks to the generous support of the community. www.cowichanhospice.org 250-701-4242

Todd Foley Communications Coordinator Cowichan Hospice

Wart Did You Say? Dr Bill Nielsen has been practising in Duncan for thirty years

Who hasn’t heard of Herpes Virus types I and II? You also must know about Covid with it’s half dozen new strains from Gamma to Omicron.

But these viruses are only amateurs when it comes to having extended families compared to their second cousins, the HPV’s. Human Papilloma Virus has over 150 subtypes, and nine of them cause serious mischief to your gentleman and lady parts.

Unlike the family of Herpes viruses, which cluster in the nerves and periodically travel to your epidermis and make it tingle with blisters and sores, HPV’s live out their sullen lives silently in the skin or mucous membranes. HPV’s cause warts – the kind of warts that decorate witches’ noses and little boys’ grubby fingers. HPV’s also causes plantar warts.

Two specific HPV’s cause genital warts. Seven other

strains of HPV can cause cervical, oral, anal and other genital cancers.

The common everyday skin and plantar warts are completely different subtypes of HPV and not going to turn into cancer, so don’t worry about that happening.

It’s true people: Herpes is forever. That’s because HSV I and II and Herpes Zoster, the cause of Shingles, hide in the nerve ganglia where your immune system can’t go root them out and eradicate them. HSV fortunately is not forever. Over 90% of the time you eliminate it. But sometimes it hangs around long enough to cause the warts we all detest and the cancers we all fear.

But fear not! A great vaccine called Gardasil-9 is available for girls in grade seven and boys in grade eight or nine.

When your kids are dressed to the nines, so to speak, with Gardasil-9, you protect them from future genital warts and genital and oral cancers. It stops the nine most dangerous HPV’s. Skin warts and herpes will persist for now, but genital warts and cancers are preventable by vaccination.

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Support Our Local Glenora Farm

Glenora Farm

FARMERS: KANDIS MORNEAU

Half and Full Boxes available for 20 or 10 week option

& GLENORA FARM COMMUNITY MEMBERS Glenora Farm is an intentional community based on a 96 acre farm, including a 2-acre mixed vegetable garden using organic and biodynamic practices. People of all abilities work and live together in a horizontal model that promotes selfefficacy, personal fulfilment through meaningful work, and responsibility to the earth. Join our 16-week CSA from June 13 to the end of September. Each week you will receive a mix of fresh,

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local vegetables grown, harvested and packaged by our community members.

Don’t like a certain veggie?

Want more of something else?

Feel free to let us know and we will happily adjust your weekly share to meet your needs. June 13th to the end of September (with possibility of extension) $30/week for 16 weeks = $480. Can be paid in full or monthly. Contact gardener@glenorafarm.org

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FARMERS: TRENT BERG BRANDY GALLAGHER OUR ‘Eco-Lifestyle CSA Box’ is an educational program....with a food box to go with it! A membership has

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Boots and Roots Permacultre Farm

you become part of OUR farm, a ticket to the ‘Intro to Permaculture’ (with Starhawk) in person or online, perennial plants, farm tours/ events/petting area with lambs & goats, grafting/cuttings workshops (from one of the oldest developing Food Forests in Canada), flowers, wide variety heirloom veggies/fruits, weekly eggs, proteins (meat or alt.), access to all OUR onsite programs... and educational SHOW every week: “Foodies, Farmers, and Medicine Makers”.. www. ourecovillage.org/our-csa-box

BOOTS N ROOTS PERMACULTURE FARM FARMER: KELLY RAYE

Boots ‘n’ Roots works really hard at building a healthy, vibrant soil with lots of beneficial microbes, resulting in some of the most nutritious food in the Valley. Healthy soil results in healthy plants and healthy people. BNR is one of the few organic market garden farms in the Cowichan Valley that practices true Permaculture techniques. This is a step up from traditional organic, and is the most sustainable and regenerative way to grow our food! We never use tractors or other heavy machinery, and practice a ‘no till’ method, where a lot of effort is put into creating a healthy soil food web - loaded with beneficial

micro-organisms, fungi, and minerals. We make all our compost and fertilizers from scratch right here on the farm.

We grow over 30 different veggies, herbs and berries Our CSA program is a ‘You Choose’ model, which works like a reloadable card. You get what veggies you want, when you want them! Great for people who would like to have choices. We grow 12 months a year, so veggies are available year round! www.bootsnrootsfarm.com

MICHELLE ROSE CSF FISHERMAN: Guy Johnston

Do you want to eat tasty, locally and sustainably caught seafood and help support local fishermen involved in sustainable fisheries?

Become a member in the Michelle Rose Community Supported Fishery (CSF). A community supported fishery

is direct fair trade between fisherman and consumer. As a member of a CSF you get the West Coast’s highest quality seafood at prices fair to both members and fishermen.

My name is Guy Johnston.

I have been a fisherman for over 40 years. I use hook and line to catch salmon and fish and fish by trap for prawns and shrimp: all low impact fishing methods.

As a CSF member you will connect directly with the local fishing community and have healthy and sustainable seafood year around. For more information and to sign up for a 2022 share visit our website or contact us by email mrfishing@telus.net. www.michellerosecsf.com

2022 Glenora Farm CSA $30/week for 16 weeks = $480 Can be paid in full or monthly 250-715-1559

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Boots ‘n’ Roots Permaculture We offer a ‘You choose CSA’ with pick up at the Duncan Market or at our farmgate stand in Glenora

Includes eggs and roasting chickens too!

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Transformation Through Movement “A program by the name of “Transformation Through Movement” could not come at a more welcomed time”, said Kendra Thomas, Program Coordinator for Warmland Women’s Support Services Society, a sexual assault advocacy centre in the Cowichan Valley. “Given the past two years of COVID restrictions on movement, reduced access to supports, and isolation community members are more than ready to reconnect and express!”

“Transformation Through Movement” is a traumainformed movement program for self-identified women and gender diverse survivors of relationship abuse and/ or sexualized violence.

“Women’s bodies have been objectified, targeted and shamed. It’s time to reclaim our relationship with our bodies and discover that not only do women need to heal our bodies from abuse but that our body is actually our ally in recovering from trauma, particularly sexualized abuse”, said Thomas.

The program combines mindfulness practices with dynamic movement resulting in an exhilarating and liberating approach to healing. Regardless of age and ability, self-paced movement is an invitation for women to explore some of the stresses associated with the

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impact of abuse and reset our nervous system from chronic anxiety. A therapeutic somatic approach transforms shame into resilience, cultivates dignity by celebrating women’s resistance to oppression and abuse, creates positive experiences and feelings associated with trauma recovery, and allows women to imagine more for ourselves through body-based intuition. A workout for body and soul, “Transformation Through Movement” takes survivors from depression to expression, contraction to expansion, fragmentation to wholeness, moving us beyond self-imposed limitations and isolation into new depths of connection with ourselves and our bodies.

“Transformation Through Movement” is an 8 week therapeutic group program bringing together feminist theory and 5Rhythms©- a practice of being in body that facilitates deep and unending exploration.

Registration is FREE thanks to generous funding from Island Health Community Wellness Grants. Registration is open for our MaySeptember Sunday afternoon groups at Providence Farm. Contact kthomas@ warmlandwomen.org 250710-8177 for registration details.

HUMAN DESIGN SYSTEM

Imagine being given a “user manual” for your life.

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his manual that could guide you on how to navigate your perfectly aligned with who you are.

Detailing your talents, and skills and potential. It would give you a map for actualizing these.

It would help you understand how you are designed to engage with the world and show you where you are susceptible to your environment’s influence and conditioning.

The manual reveals how your inner guidance system operates and provides you with practical techniques for making decisions that can greatly enhance the experience of life.

This is what the Human Design System has to offer.

Simply put, if you want to, • Discover how to improve the quality of your life in a simple yet immensely effective way • Make the right moment-to moment decisions, resulting in improved relationships and career choices.

• Manage the challenges that are part of daily life, without getting overwhelmed.

You have the innate ability

to make choices that are in alignment with your authentic nature and based in your Personal Authority; This knowledge will empower you to live a fulfilling life in your unique way.

Now imagine how helpful this user manual could be, not only for yourself but for a child. This knowledge is meant for children, to be raised from birth as their true selves, retaining their natural and pure essence according to their unique design and mechanics. To raise them to grow to be empowered by their own inner authority, talents, skills and potential.

I honestly cannot imagine a greater gift to a child and a caring parent. An awareness of Human Design can assist in a harmonious deeply understood relationship.

Contact Cathy for more information or a chart foundation reading. crystalclearawakening.com crystalclearawakening@ gmail.com

“Over the years, Human Design has never let me down and has proven itself to me.

It is incredibly accurate and deeply transformative. I am available to share your chart and unique blueprint with you if you feel called”.

Cathy has been studying and living her design for over 10 years. Certified Professional Human Design Analyst I invite you to be in touch with any questions, lets chat about HD! crystalclearawakening@gmail.com

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Snails Madeline Southern Aquarist/ Educator, Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre Cowichanestuary.ca

Down by the Bay Where the eelgrass grows Back to my home, I dare not go For if I do My mother would say Have you ever seen a snail riding a whale Down by the Bay!

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e all know that snails don’t usually ride whales, but have you ever wondered how a snail moves?

Snails and a few of their relatives have what is known as a “stomach-foot” that is basically one big suction cup type muscle with a mouth on the bottom. Some snails are slow movers, but others can move surprisingly fast.

The Frilled Dogwinkle that we have in the observation tank can make a trip from one side of the tank to the other, in about 15 minutes. Other snails, such as tiny periwinkle snails, don’t move very fast at all.

Snails can be carnivores or herbivores, depending on what species they are. The Dogwinkles in our tank have an insatiable appetite for barnacles and clams. They eat these by drilling a hole in the shell with their tonguelike structure called a radula.

Herbivorous snails still use their radula to eat, they use

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their radula like a cat’s tongue to scrape algae and small bits of seaweed off rocks and other surfaces. If you’re ever in the Nature Centre and there’s a snail on the side of the clear tank, take a look and see if you can see its radula moving around.

Did you know that snails also have a door? It’s called an operculum and when they’re disturbed or tumbling around, they can close their door to protect their soft foot. Land snails also have operculums as well.

Beach etiquette: Please be gentle with all creatures you find on the beach. The ocean is a hard place to live.

If you turn a rock to look underneath, please turn it over and put it back exactly as you found it. The creatures that live under rocks need their homes to survive.

One last note- this year, the Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre is turning 10! We are grateful to you all for your support and enthusiasm.

Here’s to another wonderful 10 years!

LUCKY DOG

Queen Victoria’s dogs…

Debbie Wood owns Lucky Dog U-Bath.

She can be found on trails in the Cowichan Valley with her BF, Bonnie.

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lthough Victoria Day is steeped with the problems of colonialism, the Empress herself was a lover of dogs. Being surrounded her whole life by “yespeople” it must have been heart warming to have honest companions around as well.

Victoria was raised in thick royalty from day one. Her childhood was lonely except for a beloved King Charles

spaniel named Dash. She was gifted Dash when she was fourteen years old and the dog is included in several paintings. Dash was witness to the Princess becoming a Queen. Victoria’s journals include lots of stories about her pets. She clearly loved her dogs.

Queen Victoria reigned for over sixty-three years and there were always dogs.

A kennel with over one hundred hunting hounds (of course) but the companion dogs reigned. The Queen’s husband, Prince Albert came from Germany with his greyhound, Eos. The menagerie would ebb and flow in size with dachshunds, collies, and pugs. The Queen was gifted a pekingese (the first in Britain) after the second opium war. There were more greyhounds and a pair of deerhounds.

She acquired her first pomeranian in 1888 while in Italy. She must have loved the breed because the numbers hit thirtyfive Poms at their height. Some of them were entered into the Crufts dog show. (I can only imagine being the judge at that event.)

Victoria’s favourite collie was Noble. He can be seen in several photographs

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During her reign, Queen Victoria gave her stamp of approval to the RSPCA. She was also the first patron to the Battersea Dog’s and Cat’s home.

with his mistress. Victoria loved the new medium and had many pictures taken of her dogs. Noble died at the country estate Balmoral.

Victoria cried for two days and was too distraught to choose his final resting place.

Staff found a nice spot at Balmoral for Noble to lay.

It has a bronze statue of the beloved dog atop it.

She had mutts as well, a favourite was Turi, a spitz x pom whom she acquired in 1893. Turi was allowed to travel in the Queen’s carriage and was her constant companion until Victoria’s death in 1901.

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Dogs could hold Victoria’s secrets, accompany her through grief, and provide delight with their antics. In this way she was no different than the rest of us. Dogs are the great leveler. And we may have thoughts about the Victorian era with it’s pillaging and bloodshed, but on May 23rd, remember the human Queen Victoria with her very human love of dogs.

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Time For Some Financial Spring Cleaning Kristy Landry, Financial Advisor at Edward Jones.

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pring is here and for many that means a fresh beginning and the time to spruce things up. This year, as you tidy up your home and surroundings, why not also consider some financial spring cleaning?

Here are a few ideas for getting your financial house in order: “De-clutter” your portfolio Over the years, many of us tend to pick up duplicate items that find their way into the nooks and crannies of our homes, gathering dust and remaining unused. Over time, your investment portfolio can

also accumulate redundancies – that is, you might own several investments that are essentially similar. It might be appropriate to replace some of these and broaden your holdings.

potential you’ll need to retire comfortably. But you might also own other vehicles, such as bonds or other fixed-income investments, to provide you with a source of regular income.

Own your investments purposefully

“Dust off” your investment strategy

You own certain things for certain reasons – a broom to sweep the floors, a microwave to heat the food and so on.

As an investor, you should be following a goal-based strategy that includes the matching of certain investments with certain objectives. For example, you might own stocks or mutual funds to eventually provide the capital appreciation

Over a long winter, your windows can get dirty and grimy, so, when spring arrives, you may want to get out the glass cleaner – and when you’re done, you’ll be able to see out more clearly.

Over time, your investment strategy may get somewhat “dusty,” too, especially if you’ve experienced significant changes in your life, such as a new job, a new child or even a new plan for retirement. By periodically reviewing your investment strategy, you’ll be able to clarify your vision for the future.

Protect yourself from hidden dangers

objects – gardening tools, paint thinners and engine fluids, leaning ladders and so on – that could be dangerous, either because they aren’t stored properly or they’re hard to see and can cause trips and falls. As part of your spring cleaning, you’d want to get these objects out of harm’s way to safeguard yourself and your family.

But when you think of your financial situation, are you also exposing yourself and your loved ones to risk? If something were to happen to you, could your family members stay in their home?

Could your children still attend post-secondary school?

To help keep their lifestyle intact if you weren’t around, you’ll need adequate life insurance. And to avoid burdening your grown children with potentially huge expenses should you ever need some type of long-term care, such as an extended nursing home stay, you may want to talk to a financial advisor about protection strategies.

By taking some springcleaning measures, you can brighten your living space for the seasons ahead. And by applying some of the same principles to your financial environment, you can help improve the prospects for meeting your important goals.

If you poke around your garage, shed or other storage area, you may well find some

Prioritize your future with a free financial review!

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Stamp Collecting is alive and well in the Cowichan Valley

tamp collecting (also known as Philately) has been around almost as long as stamps have existed.

Collectors have been busy in the Valley for a long time.

Among them was Gerry Wellburn, local lumberman, founder of the BC Forest Discovery Centre, and one of Canada’s foremost philatelists. The Cowichan Valley Stamp Club he helped establish in 1956 is active to this day. It is a great way to find information about the hobby and make new friends with similar interests.

Stamp collecting is a hobby that can encompass and educate most interests history, geography, art, science to name a few. While rare and expensive items spring to mind, the hobby can be pursued with reasonable spending.

A lot of enquiries received by our club involve people inheriting, finding collections or trying to decide what to do with their old collection. The club offers an information package for these enquiries.

We also offer a look-see (NOT an appraisal) to provide a basic idea about the

collection’s contents. Then we can suggest the most likely alternatives to dealing with the material.

There is a very important thing to remember when looking over an inherited collection, or even just finding an old bunch of envelopes when sorting through belongings. If envelopes have legible cancellation and other postal markings DO NOT cut off the stamps, save the whole thing. These are called covers.

The stamp may be worth 5¢, but the markings can be worth a lot more to a postal history collector. You won’t get rich, but you may make someone very happy with a good cover.

The Cowichan Valley Stamp Club is involved each year in Cowichan Exhibition, both as an exhibitor and as sponsors of prizes in two categories of “Design your own stamp” within Fine Arts category.

We also participate in special events at the BC Forest Discovery Centre by staffing the Westholme Post Office, which we helped renovate, and putting on activities.

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s the world around us presents grief, loss, constant change, conflict, chaos, wars, division, inequality, homelessness, genocide and all the things that I can’t possibly mention here, let us come together in song and community. Let us come together not to forget the pain that lingers in our hearts, but to embrace and find peace with what is. Let us welcome the grief, while also opening our hearts and minds to gratitude. Let us take a moment to pause and look at the magnificence that is this natural world, full of harmony, joy, beauty and ever present magic. Let us find the space to celebrate all that we love and cherish, so that we can also nourish our aching hearts.

You are warmly welcome to join me, Cari Burdett, on Thursday mornings for May and June to explore our voices together in song community.

We will begin the morning in nature, starting with Nature Connection practices, (sense mediation, gratitude and songs). We will explore

improvised circle songs that are born right there and then, invite deep listening, deep breathing and full hearted singing. We will end the sessions with a short sound journey. I am very excited to share these new classes with you and look forward to the magic we can create together with our voices in harmony.

Any questions - don’t hesitate to ask - Cari@cariburdett.com Cari Burdett offers community choir, vocal improvisation, threshold singing, voice lessons/ coaching, community connections and performances.

Cari is grateful for sharing her gifts of song and community building over the past 16 years, on these traditional unceded lands of the Quwut’sun, Coast Salish peoples. A percentage of all donations will be returned to the hosts of this land via the Quwut’sun Elders Fund. www.cariburdett.com

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infestations first. It feels really good to see the native plants thrive again!

Thanks for volunteering! www.broombusters.org Cut Broom in Bloom!

MAY BROOM TO-DO LIST

Joanne Sales Executive Director Broombusters Invasive Plant Society www.broombusters.org

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he fire chief of Powell River, Terry Peters, confirms that Scotch broom a volatile flash fuel - because of its high oil content and naturally dry branches.

With our increased concern about wildfires, there is now much more commitment to eliminating Scotch broom.

That’s where you come in!

You can get rid of this nonnative invader where you live. May is the time to cut Scotch broom. The energy of the plant is above the ground

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CUT BROOM IN BLOOM when it is in bloom, so the roots are weak and will die easily in the summer’s heat.

Before the seed pods form at the end of May, the branches are harmless and can safely be moved without spreading seeds.

Do you want to help?

Broombusters website has videos and contacts to help you get started. Volunteers in the Cowichan Valley are currently organizing in Maple Bay, Stony Hill, Chemainus,

Southend, Lake Cowichan, Youbou and elsewhere. You can organize a group where you live. Broom disposal must be planned before cutting – but it can be done.

Why do we cut broom instead of pull? Broom has abundant seeds, but the seeds do not sprout in the shade. But if we disturb the soil, the seeds will sprout in the sun, making the problem worse than before. Cutting works! Go after single plants and small

Do you want to protect a park, field or road?

Contact Broombusters to join other volunteers or to arrange a cut in your neighborhood.

Use long handled loppers.

Cut the broom at ground level or below.

Large broom (>2 inches) can be cut up higher.

Take to the greens dump, compost, chip or burn.

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Georgia Nicols M.A. Georgia’s book, You and Your Future is a best seller with international printings in 3 languages. georgianicols.com

Aries (March 21- April 19) Stay on top of banking details.

Know what’s happening because something unexpected could impact your assets, including your earnings. This might also apply to your belongings. For example, something you own might be lost, damaged or stolen. Therefore, keep your eyes open! Meanwhile, you are becoming increasingly in touch with a softer part of you – your inner self and your spiritual values. In turn, this will prompt a greater appreciation of your world. It will also prompt a greater appreciation of the suffering of others.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You feel independent! Perhaps even feel rebellious. You don’t want to be dictated to by others.

Furthermore, you might feel compelled to suddenly act or do unexpected things. Life has taken on an unpredictable quality for you, which can be exciting but also disconcerting.

Be aware of this wild energy swirling around you and think before you do anything. Don’t be rash. Fortunately, friends and members of groups are supportive and loving to you now, which is such a blessing.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) This is an unsettling time for you because electric, impulsive energy is fomenting beneath the surface of things. This could make you feel vaguely restless.

You have that feeling that you should “do something.” In fact, you might say or do something that surprises others. Fortunately, a lovely, supportive influence is taking place at the top of your chart right now, which is helpful to you. This means people in power will be supportive -bosses, parents, teachers, VIPs and the police. Therefore, if you need help – ask for it.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) This is a popular time for you!

You are more involved with young people as well making connections with organizations or clubs. Your involvement with others is lively and stimulating!

It might make you feel younger.

It might also trigger new ideas that will make you change your future goals? Without

doubt, some of you will meet someone interesting, perhaps a real character – someone unusual in some way or different from you. In addition, travel and opportunities to broaden your horizons will be thrilling!

You might develop a crush on someone from another culture?

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You feel rebellious, especially against authority. You want to do something on your own terms. Furthermore, you’re prepared to speak up about it.

You want to fight for what is right, not only for yourself but for others. (Very much your style.) Meanwhile, financial matters are looking sweet!

Gifts, goodies and favours from others will come your way. You might receive an inheritance.

This same, beneficial influence can promote your love life and make things passionate and wonderfully affectionate. It’s all good.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Travel opportunities might drop in your lap. Conversely, planned travel might suddenly be changed or cancelled?

Meanwhile, others will hear unexpected news about medical matters or something to do with a legal situation. Or something unexpected might even impact your work in publishing or the media? New ideas and new opportunities to get further training and education will also be exciting. Fortunately, your closest relationships are warm

and cozy! (We like.)

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) With financial matters, unless it’s a boon or a windfall, nobody likes a surprise. Therefore, stay on top of your scene. Know what’s happening, in case you have to head something off at the pass. (Especially if the posse is after you.) Fortunately, something quite wonderful is impacting your health as well as your job or your work.

These areas are where you will truly benefit! Relations with coworkers are positive. You might see ways to make your workspace more attractive. You might get a promotion or even a better job. We like!

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Someone might make an unusual demand upon a relationship? They might want more freedom? Or perhaps, you will meet someone new?

Or someone close to you might introduce you to someone who is different and unusual?

Meanwhile, this is a lovely time for your social life because social plans with others will be interesting! You will enjoy the theatre, movies or some kind of interaction where you are entertained. Playful activities with kids will be upbeat.

Romance will be thrilling, heartwarming and affectionate.

Smoochie boochies!

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) A change to your work might happen now. You might start a

new job or a new project? You will be full of original, clever ideas related to your work.

Likewise, something unexpected might occur that relates to your health. Avoid accidents and be careful. Similarly, keep an eye on your pet to avoid mishaps. On the upside, you will adore entertaining at home or redecorating where you live or buying wonderful things for your home because everything related to home and family is blessed! (You feel so fortunate.)

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) A change to social plans might occur. This change will also apply to vacations or any kind of entertaining diversion, including the arts as well as sports. This could include an unexpected award or a win or some wonderful acknowledgement?

Most likely it is positive news because this month, your everyday relations with others are unusually warm, friendly and mutually beneficial. You are the charter member of your own mutual admiration society. Kiss, kiss, hug, hug.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Get ready. Small appliances might break down or a minor breakage could occur.

Unexpected company might be knocking at your door. (Do get dressed.) Technology might be a challenge. A Wi-Fi connection?

Computer glitches? The good news is that money is coming your way! Many of you will suddenly boost your earnings or find a better paying job. You will work hard to earn your money as well. Since the money is flowing, many of you will also buy lovely, beautiful, special things for yourself. And why not? Money is only useful if you spend it.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Do be careful because this is an accident-prone time for you. Therefore, pay attention to everything you say and do because I’m referring to both physical and verbal accidents. (“Did I just say that?”) On the upside, you will have brilliant, original ideas! That’s because you can easily think outside of the box. New faces, new places and new plans will be exciting!

All of this will definitely keep you on your toes. Meanwhile, expect good fortune in a general sense in your life. Alphabetize your blessings! www.georgianicols.com

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Art Classes

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