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Ornithologist Christopher Stephens at the Parksville beach with flocks of gulls, scoters and Brant geese temporarily agitated by the passing of a pair of Bald eagles. The migrating birds are prey for eagles, Stephens said, but these eagles were more interested in each other. [BRIAN WILFORD/OCEANSIDE STAR] Beach, another to the Parksville beach, a third to the Englishman River Estuary, Craig Bay and Rathtrevor Beach, and a fourth to Nanoose Bay. One thing they did is a threshold count for eBird, an online database launched in 2002 by
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It’s time for the annual Spring Calving Festival at Morningstar Farm, home to the Little Qualicum Cheeseworks and Mooberry Winery. Above: Dairy farmer Clarke Gourlay shows off a Simmental-Holstein-cross that’s not even a day old. The Swiss-origined dairy calf already weighed 80 pounds. Gourlay was expecting 6-8 more calves in the coming week. The farm, which has been attracting 200-300 people a day during the festival, also has newborn chicks, pigs and lambs. At right: Farm worker and festival guide Krista Keno is holding a dayold lamb. The heritage dairy farm, cheeseworks and winery are at the end of Lowry’s Road in Parksville, just passed the entrance to the Morningstar Golf Course. For more, see morningstarfarm.ca or call (250) 954-3931. [BRIAN WILFORD/OCEANSIDE STAR]
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School district to the rescue Aquatics Leadership Program students Henry Osborne and Alisha Yarham receive instruction in rescuing Jasper Edge during a mock emergency Friday in the Ravensong pool. [JULIE BERTRAND/ OCEANSIDE STAR]
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between CEAP, Ballenas Secondary, Kwalikum Secondary and the RDN. “These guys are getting all their qualifications,” Temple said. “We give them dual credits for it.” The program counts as four elective courses. High school students must take seven elective courses to graduate. The program’s credits can also be used for university. Temple said the program makes it affordable for students to get lifeguard certification. “Usually, it costs $1,600 for somebody to become a fully certified lifeguard,” he said. “[With the Aquatics Leadership Program], we pay more than half of that. We ask students to pay for part of the program.” Students who cannot afford it are eligible for financial help. The school district is able to use government funding to subsidize the cost because students get credits. “I talked to the students and they said they’re enjoying it,” Temple said. “We see it as a way to
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internationally, of what scientists around the world already recognize is a “globally important bird area.” Locally, he’d like to see more community awareness and public education around protecting and enhancing bird habitats. He notes that many of the people he meets on the beach, usually to ask them to stop their kids and dogs from chasing the birds, have no idea why the birds are here. He’d like to see signs that don’t just “warn” and “ban” but show photographs of the birds and explain what’s going on. And he’d like to see more promotion of the area as a must-see for birders, especially at this time of year. “It’s a real spectacle,” he said. “It’s a real asset to the communities in such proximity to a tourist destination.” Stephens, who conducts birding tours for Pacific Rainforest Adventure Tours, finds it ironic that birders from all over the world want to book tours here in the summer, “and they miss all this. This is when they should be coming.”
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Bahà’í faith recognizes all major prophets BAHAI, from Page 7 He was exiled and imprisoned in the Turkey, where he eventually died. His son Abd’ul-Bahá succeeded him as head of the Bahà’í faith and spread the faith to the rest of the world. The Bahà’í faith recognizes all the prophets from all the major organized religions. “The Bahà’í accept all the
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for a feast. The governing body of the Bahà’í faith is the Universal House of Justice, which is located in Haifa, Israel. Its nine members are elected every five years from assemblies all over the world. The closest Bahà’í temple is in Chicago. As part of their faith, Bahà’í assembly members volunteer in the community. Sherwood has
been involved with many groups in the Oceanside region and received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for his outstanding contribution to the community. Bahà’í practitioners also help assemblies in Islamic countries, where the religion is considered apostasy from Islam and practitioners are thus persecuted. The Qualicum Beach assembly
is currently raising money to help the assembly in Vanuatu, which was just struck by Cyclone Pam. “They were in the process of a building a temple,” Sherwood said. For more information about the Bahà’í faith, please go to www. bahai.org. jbertrand@oceansidestar.com; 250-954-0600, ext. 209
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Council ponders solution for problematic intersection JULIE BERTRAND OCEANSIDE STAR
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ualicum Woods residents are unhappy that town council decided Monday to defer discussing improvements to the Village WayQualicum Road intersection to an upcoming strategic planning session. Residents of the neighbourhood have been asking council for years to do something about the intersection, which they say
is dangerous for pedestrians. “We’re concerned about our safety,” said Carol Dowe. The town lowered the speed limit from 70 km/h to 60 km/h last year but residents say it’s not enough. According to ICBC statistics, the intersection is a high crash site and is the highest ranking site for personal injuries, with six sustained between 2009 and 2013. At a previous meeting, coun-
cil instructed staff to look into options for an illuminated crossing at the intersection. Town engineering director Bob Weir considered three options in his report: a pedestrian signal with green, amber, red signals, a roundabout, and a traffic signal. A consultant recommended the pedestrian signal in the Age Friendly Transportation Plan in 2013 but only if a roundabout can’t be constructed. “A roundabout would slow traf-
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‘One of the best decisions we ever made’ Q ualicum Beach Mayor Teunis Westbroek calls it “one of the best decisions we ever made.” He’s referring to the June 2011 decision to, on the recommendation of Coun. Barry Avis, withdraw from participation in the Englishman River Water Service. Avis argued that Qualicum Beach, population 8,700, didn’t need the water. Its water system was already producing 40 per cent more water than the town needed and in the next 30 years the population was expected to grow by at most six per cent.
Besides, Avis said, the town has as backups potential access to Cameron Lake, as well as continued membership in the Arrowsmith Water Service. Less than two years later, Regional District of Nanaimo director Joe Stanhope, using a similar rationale, pulled French Creek out of the ERWS. Those decisions, including the cost of a pipeline to get ERWS water to Qualicum Beach and French Creek, may have saved the town $10 million and the electoral area $4 million. A water surcharge on French Creek property taxes immediately dropped
from an average $138 to $5. Residents of Parksville may not realize it but they are already paying for their nonexistent $37million water-treatment plant in their property taxes. Some $6.5 million have already been spent on it. For saving $14 million and avoiding the whole ERWS quagmire, the citizens of Qualicum Beach and French Creek might consider springing for statues of Avis and Stanhope. Residents of Parksville contemplating a tar-and-feather parade for their mayor, an ERWS director from the beginning, should
consider that the real problem here is a senior-government directive followed by years of senior-government silence. If B.C. had proper water legislation, as in drought-stricken California, the directive would have gone to a water board with the expertise and authority to ensure there is sufficient safe, clean water for everyone, regardless of the source. At this juncture, some local water decisions look good and some dreadful. In truth, these are not decisions small-town councils should be making.
by natural gas. So far as I can find out, no municipality that has introduced a bylaw banning wood-burning appliances has been sued. To take any municipality to court would be prohibitively expensive, and time-consuming. Bob Budd Parksville
on your windshield and on the sides of your car that allow you to see what’s happening behind and beside you. Not everything that you need to be concerned about is going to happen in front of you. Above all, people need to remember they’re not the only ones on the road and should be aware of their surroundings. They need to understand that their actions while driving don’t only affect them. Tim Kottsieper Parksville
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>>Your Letters // email: letters@oceansidestar.com The problem isn’t water shortage, it’s storage In reference to the articles in the Mar. 19 paper concerning water issues, it seems obvious that the politicians and staff still don’t get it. We don’t have a water shortage problem around here and we never will as long as the skies continue to open up each winter as they have for centuries and will continue to do so. We have a water-storage problem that politicians have failed to properly address for years. Yes, they built the Arrowsmith Dam but that was inadequate by the time it was finished. They need to listen to people like Trevor Wicks, whose article in the same paper was excellent. Obviously, any water taken higher up will be cleaner and you won’t run the wrath of DFO. Another suggestion I made years ago and has been repeated is why not examine taking water from Cameron Lake and piping it down to Oceanside? It is clean, very deep, fed from the mountain and wouldn’t cost what the new fandandoogle plant is going to cost to treat the dirty river water! Start thinking simple instead of money, money, money. Mike Battams French Creek
Wood-burning ban just basic physics, biology Well it was quite obvious that no one at the Parksville council meeting March 16 showed any understanding of basic physics or biology. When you burn something, it’s called an exothermic reaction. No matter what you burn, it produces carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, along with all sorts of nasty toxins that council don’t to want to know about.
During sunlight hours, vegetation and trees only absorb a certain percentage of CO2, and give off some oxygen. The process is reversed in the dark. It’s called photosynthesis. Trees take anywhere from 16-30 years, depending upon species, to grow to a size useful for burning. We are cutting down trees faster than we are replacing them, if at all! We do get temperature inversions in Parksville. That’s why we have fog. To stop this turning to smog you have to restrict all wood-burning on foggy days. Natural-gas fracking does not exist in Parksville, so why compare it with the deleterious health effects of wood smoke? Burning natural gas produces fewer furans and free radicals than burning wood. According to StatsCan, less than five per cent of our energy needs are fuelled
Remember, you aren’t the only one on the road After reading the article Mar. 19 about not signalling when driving, I wanted to bring up two very important points that the people of this community should know: 1) Unless otherwise posted by a sign, the speed limit for city streets is 50km/h. Not 30, not 40 but 50! 2) There are mirrors located
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Business part of our shared habitat Clarke Gourlay Flourishing in a Green Economy
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abitat is a word that has grown out of fashion but one that I believe is very useful from so many angles in the ongoing sustainability discussions. One’s habitat, loosely defined, is where one lives all aspects of one’s life: Home, workplace, social places and social groups, recreation areas, sources of food and even where one deposits bodily excretions. Once we have a sufficiently wide understanding of habitat, it is not a far stretch to understand that other critters on this good Earth also have various aspects to their habitats.
respect to each other, it becomes a sustainable whole with many benefits for many people. Come for a visit! Take the example to the next logical step. We have sixtyish cows on the property. At various times we have collections of sheep, goats, pigs, horses, ducks, chickens etc. Animal welfare experts tell us that for animals to thrive they
But it doesn’t end there. What of the fish in Morningstar Creek and the deer, bears, racoons, eagles, and swallows that pass through regularly? And what of the zillions of worms and soil critters that live and die making our soil better? These need proper protective fencing and buffer zones, appropriate tillage and fertilizing. All done in such a way not to
recreate some virgin forest but so that they can share this habitat with the people and animals. You get the idea. Shared habitat: A powerful lens through which to re-create and sustain a better world. Clarke Gourlay, with his wife Nancy, owns Morningstar Farm, home to the Little Qualicum Cheeseworks and MooBerry Winery, on Lowry’s Road in Parksville.
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Minimal thought and life experience leads from the idea of habitat to the idea of shared habitat. Every aspect of our complicated habitat we share in some way with other people. And other critters. At the risk of oversimplification, shared habitat is achieved ideally by respecting the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Business today is an extraordinarily powerful force, for good or ill. I wonder what would change if businesses of all sorts reviewed their places and practices through the eyes of shared habitat. Let me explain some of the implications in our business. First, we analyse who shares the habitat. As a farm, we manage 88 acres on the outskirts of several small communities. We employ people and we feed cheese and wine to a great many more people. We have guests on our farm all day long, both locals and visitors from out of town. Trade and industry people come for a range of purposes. We have neighbours that we impact, and four generations of our family living on the farm. In no case does any one of these groups live in a utopia in which they get everything they desire. But, as we focus on systems that allow us to share the 88 acres in meaningful ways, with due
need to experience the ‘five freedoms.’ Google it; it’s good and foundational teaching on habitat management for animals. As farmers, we need to create environments in which all these animals can coexist, all experiencing the five freedoms (which animals will experience differently depending on their own needs) side by side with the above-mentioned people.
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I don’t like the clicking sound Re. Why is it so hard for drivers to signal? (Mar. 19) I loved the survey answers as to why drivers don’t signal. It’s not a courtesy option; it’s a legal, mandatory safety factor. Period. In a mini-survey of my own, I can add two more reasons; “I don’t like the clicking sound” and “I don’t want to burn out my bulbs.” But, just like bicycles riding in crosswalks, on sidewalks and in the wrong direction, it all comes down to education and enforcement. Thank God the brake lights come on automatically! Gord Byers Parksville
Give a little and feed the wolves The supporters of the anti-terrorism bill and those who acquiesce should consider the words of Benjamin Franklin (to paraphrase): “Any people willing to give up a little liberty to gain a little security deserve neither and will lose both.” An old Italian saying also comes to mind: “Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.” J. Paterson Parksville
It’s ludicrous to blame DFO You deserve high praise for your Mar. 19 editorial ‘Let‘s look at this summer as a dry run’, informing Parksville residents as to the sorry state of our water system. The emperor not only has no clothes, he
seems to have an invisible thread to funding past, present and future. I guess the weavers consider all of us taxpayers unworthy to know what is going on. Secrecy prevails. It’s ludicrous to blame DFO for this chaotic performance. The emperor should have made plans with them long ago. Spending resident taxpayers’ money is a grave responsibility with long-lasting effects. Let Coun. Al Greir show the way. This is indeed insanity and the inmates are running the asylum. Jim Enright Parksville
Human life has become cheap We live in very strange times indeed! Until recently I foolishly thought that a ‘celebration of life’ had reference to the remembrance of the life of a human being but, alas, I am behind the times! It turns out that it can also refer to a tree (Mar. 19)! How interesting that in our modern, progressive age of great wisdom human life has become so cheap that we would have a ‘celebration of life’ for a tree and yet see no reason to protect a helpless unborn child unless we decide we ‘want it’. There is increasing pressure by animal rights groups to bring about criminal charges including jail sentences for those who don’t care for animals properly while at the same time we are considering legalizing self-murder (assisted suicide in the lay vernacular) and bumping off undesirables (i.e. euthanasia). The times they are a-changin’ but I’m not so sure we’re going to like where we end up! M. Groenewold Parksville
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f all of Victoria author Guy Dauncey’s many books, the most uplifting has to be ‘The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming.’ Learning about the green initiatives small towns and cities are using to improve their economy and quality of life is a great antidote to the gloom we often hear about our future. Dauncey is a fountain of information on ways to create ‘green collar’ jobs while increasing resilience and sustainability. He uses examples from around the world to show how communities can benefit from ‘greening-up’ the way they work. Households can reduce their costs with more efficient heating, lighting, and transportation, and a region can build a local green economy that is more robust, resilient, and sustainable to offset a faltering national economy. Dauncey will be speaking on effective strategies to strengthen our region on Thursday, April 9, 7-8:30 p.m., in The Forum, the council chambers at Parksville city hall. There will be a question and answer period, so bring your curiosity with you! This free event (donations are always appreciated) is hosted by Communities to Protect Our Coast as a prelude to the Flourishing in a Green Economy Faire on Sunday, April 26 that will gather experts, vendors, and interested community members from throughout central Vancouver Island at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre. If you would like more information, look on Facebook at ‘Flourishing in a Green Economy,’ email flourishinginagreeneconomy@gmail. com, or contact the Parksville & District Chamber of Commerce. Myst de Vana is a member of Communities to Protect Our Coast.
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Oceanside archers hit the bull’s eye JULIE BERTRAND OCEANSIDE STAR
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ceanside residents can see if they measure up to Katniss Everdeen and Hawkeye when it comes to shooting arrows. The Arrowsmith Archers offer the opportunity to try archery and to be taught by certified coaches. The club has been around for more than 30 years and is part of the ParksvilleQualicum Fish and Game Club. Club members meet twice a week at the Nanoose Bay
Pentecostal Camp gym to shoot arrows into targets. Children as young as nine can join with their family. “It’s an up and coming sport. The Hunger Games is a huge factor,” said club archery coordinator Rhonda, who didn’t want her last name used. “People also hear about archery through word of mouth. It’s a fun sport.” Rhonda first took up archery after her teenage daughter Taiya got into it seven years ago. Since then, mother and daughter have become enthusiastic archers.
Arrowsmith Archers members line up in the Nanoose Pentecostal Camp gym to shoot at targets. The club has more than 60 members, including many families. [JULIE BERTRAND/OCEANSIDE STAR]
Miranda Mail pulls out arrows from a target. Mail recently won a silver medal at the Canadian Regional Indoor Archery Championships. [JULIE BERTRAND/OCEANSIDE STAR]
Taiya recently won a bronze medal at the Canadian Regional Indoor Archery Championships. “We have four kids who placed in the Canadian top three in their category,” Rhonda said. Most of the younger members of the club take part in the Junior Olympic program, which has different levels. Club head coach Bob O’Brien say the program starts with an 80-centimetre target. “Archers have to shoot the minimum score twice before they move on to a different level,” he said. “The targets get smaller and archers get an award at each
level.” There are also tournaments for adult archers but members don’t have to compete or keep score to be part of the club. O’Brien says archery is about concentration and focus. He credits the sport with teaching young archers how to be quiet, calm and focussed. It’s also a tremendous confidence builder, he said. “My son started when he was nine years old. At his first tournament, he was so nervous he could not pull his bow string back,” O’Brien said. “When he left the sport, he had partici-
pated in provincial and national championships.” Bows start at $160, while a basic set of arrows will cost about $33. “It’s way cheaper than hockey,” Rhonda said. In warm weather, the club practises outside, sometimes with 3D targets. One its most popular events is its annual 3D shoot held at the Dorman range in North Qualicum. “We had 120 archers this year from all over the province,” Rhonda said. For more information about the Arrowsmith Archers, email arrowmistharchers@shaw.ca.
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he Living Hope Community Church is hosting a Country Vespers concert Friday, April 3 to buy a defibrillator for the Errington War Memorial Hall. The 7 p.m. concert at the hall, which is also where church members congregate Sundays at 10 a.m., is part of being “a church more focused on the commun-
ity,” says Clarke Gourlay, chair of the church’s leadership group. The Christian church, formed about 18 months ago, says Clarke, with wife Nancy owner of Morningstar Farm, came together as “a group of people doing church on a local community level. “It’s a more intimate group,” he says, with a congregation of 70-90 people predominantly from the Errington area. “In a small
community church you do everything related to the church with everybody.” The services are guided by lay pastors Gerrold Paetkau and Lauren Berg but the church “is more group-led than professional,” says Nancy. “There’s a different leader every Sunday,” says Clarke. The leadership group of seven is reviewed at an annual general meeting, with the idea of involv-
ing everyone. The service, which might focus on something like the parables of Jesus or something from the Old Testament, is usually over by 11:15 a.m. (the some 25 kids in the congregation get to leave halfway through and go to the fire hall next door) and then it’s time for chatting and coffee, with people drifting away around noon. It’s during this time that arrangements are made for the
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Vespers service a fundraiser HOPE, from Page 22 “We give away a lot of money,” Nancy says. “We have a lot of room for creative giving.” The church looked ahead to Easter this year and decided to do something for the hall, which has been “very generous” in terms of rent, says Nancy. They decided on Country Vespers (vespers is an evening service) to raise money for an automated external defibrillator (which starts at about $2,000, according
From left: Ray Haynes, Don McConnell, Wayne Finucan and Geoff Williams of the Ocean Winds saxophone quartet will be among those performing in Country Vespers, a fundraising concert Friday, April 3 hosted by the Living Hope Community Church in Errington.
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is a dahlia to suit just about everyone’s taste. You can usually get away with leaving them in the ground. I have never lifted mine and they’ve always come back the next year. Well-drained soil and a sunny location are a must. Plant dahlias once you think the chance of frost has passed and the soil has warmed a tad. Usually April is a good time.
I amend my soil as I’m planting with Sea Soil Potting Mix with Coconut to give the plant a good start and to condition the soil. The coconut fibre is a better alternative to peat moss and will help with drainage. If you’re planning to leave the tubers in the ground all year, add a handful of bone meal mixed in with the soil. Make sure the soil is moist before planting as you’re
really not supposed to water until you see signs of growth. Dig a hole about six inches deep and slightly mound the soil at the centre of the hole. The bulb, which is actually called a tuber, looks like a fleshy bunch of sweet potatoes attached to a short bit which is the main stem of last year’s plant. See GARDEN PATH, Page 25
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Dahlias need fertilizers low in nitrogen for strong stems Shirley Eppler Down the Garden Path GARDEN PATH, from Page 26 Making sure the ‘potatoes’ stay attached, carefully spread them over the mound with the old
stem upright. If you’re growing tall varieties such as Dinnerplates or any that get over three feet, you might want to place a stakes around the tuber to support the plant as it grows. Cover up the tubers, slightly tamping the soil around them with your hand to get rid of air pockets. Once you see something sprouting above ground and you’re
sure it’s not a weed, you can give it a bit of fertilizer. Dahlias like food lower in nitrogen (the first number in the N-P-K rating on the container). Too much nitrogen will mean the stems are too weak to support the blooms. To promote shorter, bushier plants, you can also pinch back the centre shoot just above the third set of leaves. Really, the plant doesn’t mind.
Watch for slugs and snails as they tend to find dahlias tasty. Use Safers Slug Bait and/or Diatomaceous Earth or go ‘picking’ at night with a flashlight. Once flowers form, you might notice they’re being nibbled and that’s usually earwig damage. Again, use Diatomaceous Earth or offer them a home in a balled up newspaper in an upside down pot, then discard them. Once the plant starts flowering,
it will continue all summer up to first frost as long as you cut off the dead flowers. Once frost has blackened the foliage, you can cut it back to the ground and either leave the plant to overwinter or dig them up. Shirley Eppler is the owner of Cultivate Garden & Gift at 609 East Island Highway at the south end of Parksville. Email comments to shirley@cultivategarden.com.
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How to Reduce your Pain Serrapeptase is an enzyme that was discovered by German physician Hans Nieper. Research today shows this proteolytic enzyme, meaning that it breaks down proteins, works to reduce pain and inflammation by inhibiting a compound called bradykinin. Bradykinin is part of an inflammatory response by our immune system to mobilize our defensive mechanisms in response to injury, trauma, or invasion. However, if unchecked it will eventually damage the local tissue and can lead to disease. Bradykinin also lowers our tolerance to pain so increases our sensitivity to pain. By inhibiting this compound Serrapeptase helps to restore our tolerance to normal levels and effectively reduce our pain and let healing take place. Serrapeptase helps with inflammation since it works to breakdown other protein fibres in the circulatory system, thereby improving blood circulation and helping the body to reduce inflammation. Serrapeptase can bring much needed relief from pain and inflammation especially from conditions like arthritis, sinusitis, injury, sports activities, tendonitis, over exertion, and even carpal tunnel syndrome.
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if it does not trigger even more distraction. No doubt, a Computer style will be triggered by a Distracter style. In all stances but the Leveller, matching a stance with the same stance will not produce good results. Two Blamers will argue, two Placaters will wallow, two Computers will be bored and unproductive, and two Distracters will be in utter chaos. Be aware of when you are
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‘Songs of Love and Nature’ Parskville & District Community Choir present their spring concert ‘Songs of Love and Nature’ on Sunday, Mar. 29. The 50-voice choir, under the direction of Ann Barber and accompanied by pianist Margaret Nelson, will feature two song cycles: John Rutter’s The Sprig of Thyme and Dvorak’s Songs of Nature. The Sprig of Thyme offers a selection of traditional songs of
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MAR. 26 ■ Drop-in tennis at Springwood Park, 1-4 p.m., daily. Info: Arrowsmith Tennis Club, arrowsmithtennis.ca, 250-248-7280. ■ Spring Break swim, 1:30-4 p.m., games and activities for all ages, Ravensong Aquatic Centre. RDN: 250-752-5014.
■ Frozen skate with games and crafts based on the movie, 1-3 p.m., Oceanside Place. Regular admission. RDN: 250-248-3252. ■ Spiritual insight and ways to enhance spiritual growth, with ‘Windwalker’ Wes Gietz, 7 p.m., Parksville Community & Conference Centre. Connecting the dots of right relationship with self, nature, and other human beings. $5 suggested donation. Shift in Action: 954-1002.
Technology Learning Centre, Family Place, 494 Bay Ave., Parksville. Info: 250-947-8258; blt@ sd69.bc.ca. ■ Tales for the Telling, Stories for Adults presents Tla-q-qui-aht First Nations storyteller Gisele Maria Martin, 7:30 p.m., McMillan Arts Centre, 133 McMillan St., Parksville. $12 at the MAC or at the door. MAR. 28 ■ MACoustic Folk Music presents Peter Brunette and the Lake Hill Band, 7 p.m., McMillan Arts Centre, 133 McMillan St., Parksville. Admission $15.
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■ Local and sojourning Freemasons meeting of Qualicum Lodge UD, 10 a.m., Rotary House (Fern Rd.W.), Qualicum Beach. Refreshments 9 a.m. Info: Murray 250-757-8755. ■ Bow Horne Bay Community Club’s 6th Annual Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Lighthouse Community Centre, 240 Lions Way, Qualicum Bay. Categories: Events, Trivial Trivia, History and Geography, and Music & Movie Trivia. Tickets $12 per person, $60 for a team of six, at at Mulberry Bush Book Store in Qualicum Beach and the Georgia Park Store and Salish Sea Market in Bowser. Winning team
of six receives dinner or lunch donated by ArrowsmithGolf. Home baked goodies, cash bar, auction round out. ■ Grumpy Old Men Charity Exhibition Hockey Game, Switchblade Sports versus Vancouver Island All-stars, 3:30 p.m., Oceanside Arena. Admission by donation to the SOS Recreation Assistance Program for Children and Youth. Raffle prizes:Chad Brownlee/Dallas Smith autographed guitar, signed Carey Price jersey, Vancouver Canucks signed jersey, and more. Continued on Page 31
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Continued from Page 30 MAR. 29 ■ Parskville & District Community Choir present their spring concert ‘Songs of Love and Nature, 2:30 p.m., Knox United Church, 345 Pym St., Parksville. Features John Rutter’s The Sprig of Thyme and Dvorak’s Songs of Nature. Tickets
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 $15 at Mulberry Bush Book Stores and at the door. ■ Vancouver Island Paleontology Museum Society presents B.C.’s Fabulous Fossils, with Dr. Jim Haggart of the Geological Survey of Canada, 1 p.m., Qualicum Beach Community Hall (Memorial Avenue. Free. All welcome. Info: 752-9810. ■ Parksville Recital Series presents solo music for bassoon and piano, with Isaac Bull and Nikolai Maloff, 3 p.m., McMillan Arts Centre Gallery. $15 at the door. MAR. 30 ■ Taoist Tai Chi New Beginning
Class, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mondays and Wednesdays (class meets twice per week), Parksville Clubhouse, 491A E. Island Hwy. (across from Tim Horton’s). Register at 1st class. All welcome. Info: 250-240-3387. ■ Oceanside Grandmothers present ‘Travelling with My Paintbrush’ featuring Julia Cairns, artist and children’s book illustrator, 2-4 p.m., at Knox United Church, 345 Pym St., Parksville. Tickets $15 include refreshments and are available at Cranky Dog Music and Arbutus Fashion & Lifestyle. All proceeds to the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers
Campaign. ■ Alpine Gardeners of Central Vancouver Island host photographer and writer David Sellars, 1-3 p.m. at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre, for presentations on the Alpine Garden of the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain and Where to Find Alpine Flowers in the Olympic Mountains in Washington State. Admission $5 includes coffee, tea, entry in prize draw. Sellars will have plants for sale. APR. 1 ■ Grief support group for the lonely or those who have experi-
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enced a loss of any kind, 4-5 p.m., Knox United Church. Small group, safe, confidential. Info: 250-248-3927. APR. 2 ■ Parksville Newcomers’ Club meets 7 p.m., Parksville Community & Conference Centre, 132 Jensen St., Parksville. Speaker: Eva Grodt, Parksville Tai Chi. Info: www/parksvillenewcomers.net. ■ Oceanside Breast Cancer Support Group, for women dealing with breast cancer, meets 7 p.m., The Gardens, 650 Berwick North, Qualicum Beach. Info: 250-7528066; amen@shaw.ca.
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NEWS/COMMUNITY DOOR TO DOOR CANVASSERS: Canvass 20-25 homes in your area collecting donations for The Cancer Society at any time during April. THERAPEUTIC RIDING SIDEWALKERS: Adults required for therapeutic riding program. Walk beside horse for an hour or half-day, your choice. Spring session begins April 7. Orientation will be March 31.
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 VISITOR COUNSELLORS: Needed to promote their community and enjoy meeting and helping visitors from all over the world. 4-8 hours once a week for a minimum of a year. COMMUNITY POLICING: Parksville and Qualicum Beach offices need people to take an office shift and help with community events.
SPRING FLING: at Parksville Seniors Residence on Friday, May 29. People needed to help organize and execute the Garden Party; security, parking, entertainment wrangling, setup, decorations, bar, etc. STREET TEAM: Help with the April Daffodil Campaign. Man collection boxes at business locations, encouraging the public to purchase pins or
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flowers to support the fight against cancer. A leader is required to contact, schedule and recognize Street Team volunteers. There are many more volunteer opportunities. The Oceanside Volunteer Association is at 10221 Second Ave. West, Qualicum Beach, V9K 2S5; (250) 594-2637; oceansidevolunteer@shaw.ca.
Nanoose Bay woman off to historic funeral DARRELL BELLAART VING NEWS SERVICE
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anoose Bay’s Leslie Ibsen is in England en route to the royal interment of her ancestor, King Richard III, at Leicester Cathedral. Ibsen started planning the trip the moment she knew plans were in place to give England’s last Plantagenet king a proper ceremony for a British sovereign. “When they announced the date, that’s when we started to plan,” said the retiree, who arrived at Heathrow Airport Saturday with her husband Chris. In London on Sunday they missed the throngs who watched the simple oak casket holding the monarch’s remains carried through the Lancashire city, where he was secretly buried in 1485 by church officials after Henry Tudor defeated him in the Battle of Bosworth. Nor did she witness the hearse carrying the casket to tour the former Bosworth battlefield nearby, or see it blanketed in the white roses which are symbolic of York, the county of King Richard’s origin. “We didn’t make that,” Ibsen said.
But her voice took on a note of pride, describing how her older brother, Michael Ibsen, had crafted the casket holding the monarch’s remains. It was DNA of the Ibsen’s mother, Joy, that scientists used to Leslie Ibsen confirm the identity of the remains of the 15th-century king, after it was unearthed in 2012 in a Leicester parking lot. On Thursday Chris, Leslie and her two brothers will be part of the royal procession, alongside Richard, the Duke of Gloucester, and the Queen’s cousin. Ibsen said she is unprepared for what to do in a royal procession — “I’ll have to wing it” — but she’s honoured to be part of an historic event. “It will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Ibsen said. “We’re giving the king a proper burial. It’s a very important part of history.”
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‘Forward thinking’ celebrated on Water Day BRIAN WILFORD OCEANSIDE STAR
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bout 50 people came out to the Qualicum Beach waterfront Saturday in celebration of World Water Day. After a welcome at the seaside Brant Lookout, Michael Jessen, of Parksville-Qualicum KAIROS, led the gathering across the Island Highway at Crescent Road West to the entrance to the Grandon Creek Trail. Stopping by the creek, Streamkeeper Faye Smith hearkened back to the mid-1980s and the collapse of coho salmon stocks. “It’s been a large learning curve,” she said. It was discovered that coho like to spawn in some 350 small creeks in the Georgia Basin. Grandon Creek was so degraded, Smith said, that the water ran straight down like a ditch. At the sea, the mouth was blocked so the returning salmon couldn’t even get in. With the help of town council and staff, Streamkeepers worked to rehabilitate the creek with the
At Grandon Creek (from left): Qualicum Beach Mayor Teunis Westbroek, Mid-Island Wilderness Committee members Annette and Scott Tanner, Streamkeeper Faye Smith, and Qualicum Beach Coun. Barry Avis.
Michael Jessen, of Parksville-Qualicum KAIROS, discusses shoreline erosion.
fallen logs, rippling currents and small pools the coho like. Coun. Barry Avis, a Streamkeeper since 2005, said he’s proud of the town’s record over the years of “forward thinking” in relation to environment and conservation issues. Mayor Teunis Westbroek said the town has been diligent in securing safe and sufficient sources of drinking water, including buying land to protect its wellfields. He called the town’s withdrawal from the Englishman River Water Service, now struggling to meet an Island Health order to treat surface water, “one of the best decisions we ever made.” Qualicum Beach now has enough water, he said, “and we didn’t have to spend millions on pipelines and pumps.” Jessen then led the group back to the seaside and spoke of the increasing risk of a king tide, a storm and wind combining to overtop and erode the shoreline, in some places mere feet from the Island Highway.
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8. More disreputable mortification 9. F. Lamas’ 3rd wife Arlene 41. Alder genus 10. 11-23-14 awards show 42. Awadh 11. Big Blue 43. Blood type 12. Million gallons per day (abbr.) 45. Meeting arranged 14. Runs out of gear 46. Green, black and oolong 16. Beige 47. It causes scratching 17. Nostrils 48. Slang saying of disbelief 21. Unit of loudness 49. Art ____, 1920’s design 22. Czar 50. Lyrics 23. Insert mark 51. Show disrespect to 24. Doctor of Education 52. Returned material 26. ___ Adaba authorization, abbr. 27. Walk with your feet in water 53. Clod or lummox 28. Genetic information carrier 54. Computerized money 29. Great St. Louis bridge builder movement 30. Political action committee 55. Mandible & maxilla 32. Cast out THIS WEEKS SUDOKU ANSWER 34. Cub Scout groups 35. Voltage 37. Guide 38. Self-
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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, give a loved one the benefit of the doubt before jumping to conclusions. This beloved confidante deserves your trust and ardent support. TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, expect some powerful emotions to surface when you meet a new person this week. You may be immediately drawn to this individual, so embrace the attraction. GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, the week starts off on a bumpy note but quickly turns itself around. By Friday, you will have a smile on your face and be ready to make the most of the weekend. CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, some long weeks have left you physically and emotionally wiped out. Take some time out for yourself in the coming days and resist the urge to jump back into the fray too quickly. LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 A romance at work begins to heat up, Leo. This may be the perfect opportunity to find your match. Just don’t let feelings get in the way of productivity. VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 A problem dominates your thoughts as you work to find a solution, Virgo. Until you pull away and focus on something else, you will not be able to see the answer
clearly. LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, you have a difficult decision to make, but forge ahead with what you think is best. Keep a level head and weigh all of the consequences of your decision. SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Friends jokingly suggest you have psychic powers, Scorpio. They are put to the test this week when you suspect something is amiss. Rectify the situation in due time. SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Avoid taking a big financial risk this week, Sagittarius. Hold on tight to your money and resist the temptation to spend any money for the time being. CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, pressure to complete an important project will find its way to you this week. No matter how quickly you need to get things done, calmly approach the tasks at hand. AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Resist the instinct to keep your feelings bottled up this week, Aquarius. Get your thoughts out in the open, and you will instantaneously feel much better. PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, you will be very productive this week as you benefit from a new outlook. Plan ahead for some magic.
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