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Retired hatchery worker goes back to roots LIVING, Page 15
Road to 2017 begins at Shawnigan Lake SPORTS, Page 23
BACKYARD BURNINGFresh Air Team seeking banROBERT BARRON CITIZEN
While many others can’t wait for the sunny weather and gen-tle breezes of spring, Jennifer Lawson is praying for con-tinuous rain during the next month.
Lawson lives in North Cowic-han, where local bylaws allow backyard burning for residents to get rid of the wood waste on their properties from March 15 to April 15, and Oct. 15 to Nov. 15, each year.
But Lawson said she is “very sensitive” to woodsmoke and is forced to wear a mask with filters at times when the wood-smoke from the other proper-ties in her neighbourhood becomes too excessive.
“To a lot of people around here, especially the older ones, burning wood waste is as nat-ural as a mother’s milk,” said Lawson, who is a member of the Cowichan Fresh Air Team.
“But it’s a fact that a lot of the particulate matter from
this burning causes all kinds of health problems. We were hoping that the last burning season would have been the last. I just wish for rain to dis-courage people from burning.”
Backyard burning is allowed in North Cowichan and a num-ber of the electoral areas of the Cowichan Valley Regional Dis-trict during the designated per-iods each fall and spring, albeit with regulations.
See BURNING, Page 11
The amount of smoke in the air gets so severe that some like Jennifer Lawson must wear a mask to try to filter out some of the contaminants. [ROBERT BARRON/CITIZEN]
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ROBERT BARRON CITIZEN
Susan Faulkner is still in a legal limbo with her ongoing court case against the City of Duncan.
Faulkner was the owner of the Red Balloon Toy Store and the building it was housed in on the corner of Station and Craig streets.
But the old building was ordered to be torn down by the city in 2014 after a city-owned backhoe accidentally struck it in 2009, causing significant damage.
Faulkner was stuck with the cost of approximately $400,000 to demolish the building at the order of the city and has been fighting the city in court ever since.
The latest court date for the case was earlier this month, but it has been postponed again until April, 2017, according to Faulkner.
“There’s no guarantee that it will finally be settled then either,” she said.
“I’m 66 and had planned to be
retired by now, but all these costs have prevented that.”
Faulkner started the Red Bal-loon store in 2001, and bought the building in 2006 as a retirement investment.
It was fully occupied by tenants in 2009 when the backhoe struck a support pillar, causing damage that she claims didn’t manifest immediately.
The building gradually began to shift, and sustained further damage in the summer of 2009 because of construction work on Craig Street.
In one instance, a jackhammer caused wires in the building to rub together, producing flames that were prevented from causing significant damage because they burned through a water pipe and extinguished themselves.
Despite many attempts to fix and stabilize the structure, Work-SafeBC eventually shut down the building, forcing Faulkner to evict her tenants.
She ended up selling the toy business before she was prepared
to, and has since had to start a new business, a Kumon learning centre, at the age of 65 to help make ends meet.
Peter de Verteuil, Duncan’s CAO, said the case, which involves a number of issues and defendants, is one of the more complicated he has seen in his career.
He said the city doesn’t dispute that its backhoe struck the build-ing, but the argument is over the extent of the damage caused by the incident.
“If we at the city and our insur-ers felt we could have settled this matter right away, we would have,” de Verteuil said.
“But there are complicated claims here. Working with our insurers is like a driver dealing with ICBC in that we leave it up to our insurer as to how to proceed.”
De Verteuil said the city knows the ongoing situation has been hard on Faulkner. “She had a building, and now she doesn’t.
“We certainly feel for her.”
Years of legal wrangling drags on for former building owner
DUNCAN
Susan Faulkner points to her Duncan building before it was torn down in 2014. All that remains on the spot is a grassy square, but the legal wrangling about who should have to pay for the building’s demolition and other expenses has dragged on for seven years, with no end in sight. [CITIZEN FILE]
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ROBERT BARRON CITIZEN
The community of Chemainus reduced its water consumption by 25 per cent in 2015, declining use by approximately 650 litres per person each day.
In fact, overall residential water consumption went down last year in almost all the local water systems in the Cowichan Valley, which is likely due to the extreme drought that struck the region last summer and the water restrictions that went with it.
David Slade, chairman of the Cowichan Watershed Board’s water conservation working group, said he hopes the region is experiencing an improving “cul-ture of conservation” in regards to water use as residents become more aware of its value.
He said the growing awareness of water conservation in the val-ley is timely as it coincides with the United Nation’s World Water Day, which was celebrated on March 22.
“People here really rose to the challenge of extreme drought and low water flows last summer, proving to ourselves that we can live with far less water,” Slade said. “While our water issues
pale in comparison to those in California, we don’t know what the future will bring and we don’t know what our water sources will support. Conservation is an essential step on the path to sustainability.”
As part of the water conserv-ation initiatives by the United Nations, almost all the water sys-tems in the region agreed to par-ticipate in the Cowichan Water Challenge in 2015.
The challenge is engaging the water systems in a collective race to reduce water consumption by 20 per cent in four years, from 2014 to 2018.
Other than Chemainus, the other water systems in the area that achieved significant conserv-ation savings in 2015 were the Cowichan Valley Regional Dis-trict, Mill Bay and North Cowic-han’s Crofton and South End sys-tems, with each reducing water use by as much as 17 per cent.
The Water Challenge was inspired, in part, by the great success in Ladysmith with water conservation in recent years.
Between 2002 and 2013, Ladys-mith reduced its total water use by 25 per cent, while the popula-tion grew by 20 per cent.
JAMES GOLDIE CITIZEN
Property owners in North Cowichan, especially those with green thumbs, will likely be pleased with recently adopt-ed changes to the municipality’s Water Works Bylaw.
On Wednesday, council voted in favour of revising some of the watering restrictions imposed on residents during summer-time drought conditions.
The bylaw amendments would change the allowable watering times during stage one, two and three water use restrictions, which currently are from 6 to 8 a.m. or 8 to 10 p.m. The new rules would allow people to water their yards and gardens from 7 to 9 a.m. or 7 to 9 p.m.
Coun. Tom Walker pointed out that because watering restric-tions in 2015 last until Oct. 31, these hours posed challenges for some citizens as the days grew shorter.
“I know at least for myself and some of my neighbours were late into the fall watering, hand-watering in the dark. This created some concerns,” he said,
adding he thought when the restrictions were initially put in place no one anticipated they would be running into the fall.
Another change proposed by staff and accepted by council was the adding of weeper hoses to the municipality’s definition of “micro-irrigation”.
The third amendment to the bylaw’s watering restriction is the prohibition of washing hous-es during stage two restrictions, unless the washing of the house is necessary to paint or apply a preservative.
Coun. Maeve Maguire said she was pleased input from the pub-
lic was taken into consideration and reflected in these amend-ments. She also raised some concerns she had noticed with respect to the public’s response to watering restrictions.
“One of my concerns last year was particularly evident on social media, there was drought-shaming. So people taking pictures of green lawns. It made me really uncomfort-able,” she said. “I’m wondering if there’s anything the whole CVRD can do in that regard to stop neighbours from going after each other if we don’t have a bylaw enforcement policy for this?”
In response, mayor Jon Lefe-bure said the CVRD has put out information online about why water restrictions are put in place but he was not aware of any attempts made to “delve into abuse on social media.”
Director of engineering David Conway reported the municip-ality did not hand out many tickets last summer.
“There were a number of warn-ings and information spread about during the time,” he said.
Chemainus reduces water use 25 per cent
REGIONAL DISTRICT NORTH COWICHAN
Council makes tweaks to summer water restrictions
TOM WALKER
NEWS
ROBERT BARRON CITIZEN
The community of Chemainus reduced its water consumption by 25 per cent in 2015, declining use by approximately 650 litres per person each day.
In fact, overall residential water consumption went down last year in almost all the local water systems in the Cowichan Valley, which is likely due to the extreme drought that struck the region last summer and the water restrictions that went with it.
David Slade, chairman of the Cowichan Watershed Board’s water conservation working group, said he hopes the region is experiencing an improving “cul-ture of conservation” in regards to water use as residents become more aware of its value.
He said the growing awareness of water conservation in the val-ley is timely as it coincides with the United Nation’s World Water Day, which was celebrated on March 22.
“People here really rose to the challenge of extreme drought and low water flows last summer, proving to ourselves that we can live with far less water,” Slade said. “While our water issues
pale in comparison to those in California, we don’t know what the future will bring and we don’t know what our water sources will support. Conservation is an essential step on the path to sustainability.”
As part of the water conserv-ation initiatives by the United Nations, almost all the water sys-tems in the region agreed to par-ticipate in the Cowichan Water Challenge in 2015.
The challenge is engaging the water systems in a collective race to reduce water consumption by 20 per cent in four years, from 2014 to 2018.
Other than Chemainus, the other water systems in the area that achieved significant conserv-ation savings in 2015 were the Cowichan Valley Regional Dis-trict, Mill Bay and North Cowic-han’s Crofton and South End sys-tems, with each reducing water use by as much as 17 per cent.
The Water Challenge was inspired, in part, by the great success in Ladysmith with water conservation in recent years.
Between 2002 and 2013, Ladys-mith reduced its total water use by 25 per cent, while the popula-tion grew by 20 per cent.
JAMES GOLDIE CITIZEN
Property owners in North Cowichan, especially those with green thumbs, will likely be pleased with recently adopt-ed changes to the municipality’s Water Works Bylaw.
On Wednesday, council voted in favour of revising some of the watering restrictions imposed on residents during summer-time drought conditions.
The bylaw amendments would change the allowable watering times during stage one, two and three water use restrictions, which currently are from 6 to 8 a.m. or 8 to 10 p.m. The new rules would allow people to water their yards and gardens from 7 to 9 a.m. or 7 to 9 p.m.
Coun. Tom Walker pointed out that because watering restric-tions in 2015 last until Oct. 31, these hours posed challenges for some citizens as the days grew shorter.
“I know at least for myself and some of my neighbours were late into the fall watering, hand-watering in the dark. This created some concerns,” he said,
adding he thought when the restrictions were initially put in place no one anticipated they would be running into the fall.
Another change proposed by staff and accepted by council was the adding of weeper hoses to the municipality’s definition of “micro-irrigation”.
The third amendment to the bylaw’s watering restriction is the prohibition of washing hous-es during stage two restrictions, unless the washing of the house is necessary to paint or apply a preservative.
Coun. Maeve Maguire said she was pleased input from the pub-
lic was taken into consideration and reflected in these amend-ments. She also raised some concerns she had noticed with respect to the public’s response to watering restrictions.
“One of my concerns last year was particularly evident on social media, there was drought-shaming. So people taking pictures of green lawns. It made me really uncomfort-able,” she said. “I’m wondering if there’s anything the whole CVRD can do in that regard to stop neighbours from going after each other if we don’t have a bylaw enforcement policy for this?”
In response, mayor Jon Lefe-bure said the CVRD has put out information online about why water restrictions are put in place but he was not aware of any attempts made to “delve into abuse on social media.”
Director of engineering David Conway reported the municip-ality did not hand out many tickets last summer.
“There were a number of warn-ings and information spread about during the time,” he said.
Chemainus reduces water use 25 per cent
REGIONAL DISTRICT NORTH COWICHAN
Council makes tweaks to summer water restrictions
TOM WALKER
6 Friday, March 25, 2016 | Cowichan Valley Citizen
Proper legislation would have prevented battle
Tuesday, March 22 is World Water Day, yet Canadians are still fighting for the right to legally enforceable laws when it comes to the accessibility of clean drinking water for all its residents.
Where it hits home most is the ongoing dumping of contam-inated soil into the Shawnigan Lake watershed. South Island Aggregates plans to continue this dumping for the next 50 years regardless of the outcries of locals and the overall feeling of betrayal that lingers in the Cowichan Valley.
If there was proper legislation to protect our bodies of water this entire battle could have been avoided, yet it has been ongoing since it was proposed in 2013. But sadly there are many other examples across Canada where the people aren’t being heard, the voices are too few, and the locals are left under boil-water advisories for decades.
This kind of behaviour is going to stop as more and more Canadians take a stand and refuse to stay silent on these issues. The United Nations has stated in 2012 that the issue of clean water is a fundamental human right. I hope that other Canadians will urge the federal government to introduce an environmental bill of rights that will recognize, protect and fulfill our human right to clean water.
It’s time for the federal gov-ernment to implement the right to clean water in Canada by passing an environmental bill of rights that respects, protects and fulfils our right to a healthy environment, including the right to clean water.
Christine Gaudreau Duncan
Who is going to clean up what’s there?
What a relief to know that the Shawnigan Lake issue with SIA has been decided by one of the courts. Still another court case to go!
However, there is no comment as to who is going to clean up the huge dumping of contamin-ated waste that is already there. And who will pay for it?
Canada has one-fifth of the world’s fresh water.
More than 80 per cent of the Guidelines for Canadian Drink-ing Water Quality relating to chemical contaminants pro-vide less protection for public health than other industrialized nations.
On any given day, more than
1,000 boil-water advisories are in effect across the country, many in Indigenous commun-ities. Places like Shoal Lake 40, Grassy Narrows and Neskant-aga have been under boil-water advisories for decades.
Let’s have some respect, rever-ence even, for the amazing gifts of clean water and clean air!
More than 110 countries — over half of Earth’s nations — already recognize their cit-izens’ right to live in a healthy environment.
Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms is silent on the issue. A federal environmental bill of rights would help com-pensate for this omission and promote better environmental protections, build healthier com-munities and position Canada
as a leader on environmental rights.
I hope other Canadians will urge the federal government to introduce an environmental bill of rights that will recognize, protect and fulfill our human right to clean water.
Together, ordinary people can take extraordinary action to protect the people and places we love.
I am so grateful to be living in such an amazingly rich and beautiful environment as the Cowichan Valley.
Johanna New MoonMill Bay
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So it turns out there was something positive about the drought last summer.
Finally it appears that the need for conservation — yes, even here in Cowichan — has started to sink in and be taken to heart by a good portion of the valley’s population.
It’s hard to credit when we experience the kind of rainfall we’ve had over the last few months, but water is not an infinite resource, and during our summers it has become an infinitely precious, frighteningly finite one.
When sump pumps are flying
off local shelves and it seems like every second day Cowichan Bay Road is closed because the pavement is under several feet of water, it can be hard to imagine the need to cut your shower a little short, or save the grey water from washing dishes.
But it was only short months ago when everything was so dry that the least spark threatened to turn into a conflagration, and the sun beating down on us did so through a haze of smoke from brush fires.
And our rivers were danger-ously low on water, slowed in some places to a literal trickle.
Less robust waterways around the valley disappeared altogeth-er until the fall rains replen-ished their courses once more.
We are encouraged that while people may have complained about the Cowichan Valley Regional District’s water restric-tions, enough people followed them to make a notable differ-ence in usage from just one year ago, when the valley was also under drought conditions.
The news that all of Chemainus, Mill Bay and the Municipality of North Cowic-han’s South End and Crofton water systems marked sig-
nificant conservation savings was welcome as we face down another summer that could well follow the hot, dry pattern of the last few.
While there’s a lot of rain falling now, there’s little snow pack (which stores and releases water), due to the relatively warm temperatures.
Chemainus residents deserve applause for cutting their water use by 25 per cent — that’s an astounding reduction of 650 litres per person per day.
Several other communities came close to the 20 per cent reduction number that all of the
water systems are challenged to meet by 2018.
There can’t have been too many people getting out the power washer or leaving the hose running as they washed their car, in contravention of the restrictions we hit last year, with those numbers.
Those restrictions aren’t some-thing we should see as iron-fist-ed government coming in and trying to take away our way of life, interfering in our homes.
They are something we need to do to preserve our precious water resource for the whole community.
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Cowichan Bay Road is nature’s revenge
Your recent editorial “Cowichan Bay Road needs some TLC” brought much-needed attention to the flooding situation on this main access road.
Frequent floods have seriously affected life of residents using this road, and even more for those living on the flooded area. The mudslide on another part of this road made it worse. Both problems can be traced back to human ignorance or mistakes.
Hard to believe that we have let battered nature revenge on us for years without doing anything to heal the wounds. I take it as nature’s calling for responsible citizens and government to take actions to correct past wrongs and build a healthy and safe future.
Tiffany ShiCowichan Bay
Money savings not saving us money
When the Island Highway was upgraded I spoke to the engineer in charge of this section of highway between Koksilah and the tennis courts about rais-ing the whole length by approximately two feet.
His reply, “we are just doing the lead-in section since there was no further funds to do more work!”
I have not heard a mur-mur from our rep Lori Ian-nidinardo (about this road) towards our government in Victoria.
Yes, another thing about the lowest bidder wins contract, our area road surfaces between Valley View and Drinkwater Road are now in a state of dis-repair at both sides of road junctions.
Some weird sort of econ-omy, wouldn’t you say?
George MannersCowichan Bay
After years, railway line a dead asset
North Cowichan council should join Langford in demanding accountability from the Island Corridor Foundation, and in the meantime consider the E&N track to be a dead asset.
Various entities fiddled around for years while wood rotted and steel rust-ed, until someone finally blew the whistle on safety of the track for the speed needed to perform the Victoria-Courtenay tourist excursion.
Victoria city omitted tracks from the new John-son Street bridge, eliminat-ing much of the potential business as most people will not want to walk from well into Vic West to their workplace many blocks from the bridge in down-town Victoria, or make another transfer after having a bus, ParkNRide, or KissNRide transfer at their origin. That leaves CFB Esquimalt and the dockyards whose gates the track passes close to. But many base employ-ees chose not to use the cross-harbour ferry service across Esquimalt Harbour so it ceased — how many would actually use a train service?
Because the track and bridges etc. were allowed to deteriorate there has not been a market test of commuter service, which is essential.
The E&N track does bypass the troubled Mala-hat Highway, which by the way has bus service, but are many people willing to pay for having trains on standby to ensure they get to work on time?
The E&N track should be considered a dead asset for rail service, to stop bleed-ing money on administra-tion and unrealistic plans, perhaps able to be necessi-tated by someone who can actually get things done, which isn’t the ICF. Jon Lefebure should not make any forecast until he is actually riding on a sched-uled train he purchased a ticket for.
Keith SketchleySaanich
Flooding on Cowichan Bay Road is a perennial problem. [CITIZEN FILE]
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A) YesB) No
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Last week’s question:On March 18 we asked you:
Is the response to drug houses in neighbourhoods adequate?
A) Yes 8.6%B) No 91.4%
LETTERS TO THE EDITORSend your items to: [email protected]
Cowichan Bay Road is nature’s revenge
Your recent editorial “Cowichan Bay Road needs some TLC” brought much-needed attention to the flooding situation on this main access road.
Frequent floods have seriously affected life of residents using this road, and even more for those living on the flooded area. The mudslide on another part of this road made it worse. Both problems can be traced back to human ignorance or mistakes.
Hard to believe that we have let battered nature revenge on us for years without doing anything to heal the wounds. I take it as nature’s calling for responsible citizens and government to take actions to correct past wrongs and build a healthy and safe future.
Tiffany ShiCowichan Bay
Money savings not saving us money
When the Island Highway was upgraded I spoke to the engineer in charge of this section of highway between Koksilah and the tennis courts about rais-ing the whole length by approximately two feet.
His reply, “we are just doing the lead-in section since there was no further funds to do more work!”
I have not heard a mur-mur from our rep Lori Ian-nidinardo (about this road) towards our government in Victoria.
Yes, another thing about the lowest bidder wins contract, our area road surfaces between Valley View and Drinkwater Road are now in a state of dis-repair at both sides of road junctions.
Some weird sort of econ-omy, wouldn’t you say?
George MannersCowichan Bay
After years, railway line a dead asset
North Cowichan council should join Langford in demanding accountability from the Island Corridor Foundation, and in the meantime consider the E&N track to be a dead asset.
Various entities fiddled around for years while wood rotted and steel rust-ed, until someone finally blew the whistle on safety of the track for the speed needed to perform the Victoria-Courtenay tourist excursion.
Victoria city omitted tracks from the new John-son Street bridge, eliminat-ing much of the potential business as most people will not want to walk from well into Vic West to their workplace many blocks from the bridge in down-town Victoria, or make another transfer after having a bus, ParkNRide, or KissNRide transfer at their origin. That leaves CFB Esquimalt and the dockyards whose gates the track passes close to. But many base employ-ees chose not to use the cross-harbour ferry service across Esquimalt Harbour so it ceased — how many would actually use a train service?
Because the track and bridges etc. were allowed to deteriorate there has not been a market test of commuter service, which is essential.
The E&N track does bypass the troubled Mala-hat Highway, which by the way has bus service, but are many people willing to pay for having trains on standby to ensure they get to work on time?
The E&N track should be considered a dead asset for rail service, to stop bleed-ing money on administra-tion and unrealistic plans, perhaps able to be necessi-tated by someone who can actually get things done, which isn’t the ICF. Jon Lefebure should not make any forecast until he is actually riding on a sched-uled train he purchased a ticket for.
Keith SketchleySaanich
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Just how visible are pedestrians supposed to make themselves?
Re: Man killed after vehicle hits pedes-trians, Feb. 24, Citizen
(I believe the man was killed when or as the vehicle hit the pedestrians.)
That said, I would ask [RCMP Cpl.] Kris-ta Hobday and the RCMP (and drivers) generally: Just how visible do you want pedestrians to make themselves “shortly after noon” at the corner of Jubilee and Evans on a rather pleasant day?
There is a crosswalk at that corner on the north side of Evans for pedestrians crossing Jubilee. There is another cross-walk on the west side of Jubilee for pedestrians crossing Evans. There are three-way stop signs (which should be four-way at that intersection). I was on the sidewalk on the east side of Jubilee that day and had noticed only a woman crossing Jubilee in the crosswalk. I yield-ed to her as she completed the crossing and continued east. The woman I had allowed to pass ahead of me jaywalked across Evans. It wasn’t until the ambu-lance approached and I glanced back at the intersection that I realized a collision had occurred.
I don’t have a car and won’t be getting one; hence I walk everywhere. I find the drivers here to be among the worst behaved toward pedestrians I have ever experienced. For the police to make such a banal statement about pedestrians making themselves visible in the middle of the day makes me wonder if the cops’ eyes are open to the facts around them.
I and other pedestrians take our lives in our hands while obeying all the rules at that and many other intersections. The only safe area in Duncan for ped-estrians is the downtown core because
Craig Street is one-way and there are crosswalks and stop signs at every corner (although I have occasionally watched as drivers have blown through at least one of those stop signs).
Of course I’ve also seen pedestrians tak-ing chances when they should not, and in the downtown core too many pedestrians have an attitude of entitlement as if drivers would like to spend the afternoon watching pedestrians cross in front of them. On the Craig Street corners, pedes-trians need to have some consideration for the drivers. That said though, we’re a bit of flesh and blood against at least 2,000 pounds of lethal steel and rubber.
Bottom line: on that day at that time there was no reason for the driver to fail to see the pedestrians.
Victoria Sundberg StewartDuncan
Local government planners can help with pollen, nectar
Trish Elwick’s encouragement to plant bee (pollinator) gardens as part of the million garden challenge is welcome in the Cowichan Valley. However what our pollinators need most here is a plan for bigtime expansion for pollen and nectar production for all our pollinators, not just honey bees. This means our planners in the CVRD, North Cowichan and City of Duncan have to get with the program.
The technology for pollinator conser-vation is available and is working well in other countries and regions.
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Residents of the Bell McKin-non Road area are invited to an open house on March 31 on the formation of a neighbourhood plan for their community.
The open house, which will be hosted by the Municipality of North Cowichan, is part of the public consultation process, as the area is being considered for the construction of the new, approximately $350-million Cowichan District Hospital.
The drop-in session, which begins at 7 p.m at the munici-pal hall, will provide the pub-lic with information on the municipality’s work to date on the neighbourhood plan, and seek the public’s input on its elements.
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Three properties on Bell McKinnon Road, totalling approximately 22 acres, were selected by the Cowichan Val-ley Regional Hospital District in August to potentially house the new hospital following two years of site scrutiny.
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The new hospital would replace the more than 40-year-old hospital on Gibbins Road.
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There are no guarantees at this stage as to whether Island health will choose the site for the new hospital, as the region must now compete for Min-istry of Health funding with other projects from across the province.
Jon Lefebure, mayor of the municipality, said in a previous interview that construction of a new hospital is still likely five or 10 years from beginning, but the goal of local governments, and the CVRHD, is to be pre-pared with a site and money in the bank should Island Health declare Cowichan next in line for a new hospital.
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A 24-year-old Duncan man will appear in provincial court on April 19 after being arrested and charged in relation to graf-fiti tagging.
Adrian Gary Wilson was stopped on March 18 after a concerned citizen reported a man dressed in dark clothing tagging the side of a building on Coronation Avenue around
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“We would like to public-ly thank our complainant in this investigation for getting involved and helping the Moun-ties get their man,” Hobday said.
Anyone with more informa-tion should contact the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP at 250-748-5522 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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BUSINESS NOTESNews from the Cowichan Valley business community
Fabricland in Duncan has moved to a new, larger location.
The store, which has been in operation in the city for eight years, has relocated from its long-time location on the Trans Canada Highway to 180 Trunk Rd., next to the Winners store.
Owner Jaqui McDonald said the new location is approximately 10,000 square feet, which is about one-third larger than the old store.
“We need more space to bring in more inven-tory to meet the growing demand,” she said.
“We’ve had to expand the old location twice in the time we’ve been there, and we still need more space.”
Finalists have been chosen for the Golden Brush Awards, honouring the best in busi-ness in the Crofton, Chemainus, Saltair
and Thetis Island areas.Nominees are:Good Neighbour Award: Beyond the Usual, Hos-
pital Auxiliary Thrift Store, Lealand Contracting, Mike’s Café
Business Booster Award: Beyond the UsualAttractive Business: Hansel & Gretel Candy Co,
Magpies Antiques and Gifts, Vancouver Island Soap Factory
Beautiful Streetscape: Bound to be Different and The Art of Second Hand/Beloved Stained Glass, Shear Impression, Trouts’s Barber Shop and Twisted Sisters Tea Room
Senior Supporter Business: 49th Parallel Gro-cery, Go Taxi, Rexall Drug Store
Youth Mentor Business: 49th Parallel Grocery, Beyond the Usual, Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop, Mike’s Café
Best Customer Service: Johnny Lee of Chemainus Theatre, Christine Thu Bui of Pho Triple 7 Vietnamese Restaurant, Lulu Veigh of Chemainus Health Food Store, Kathy Wilkins of Urban Legends Salon & Spa
Volunteer of the Year: Mike Beggs (Rotary, Legion), Edna Brown (Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Store), Brock Caplin (Neighbourhood House, Scouts), Geoff Hincks
The Golden Brush Awards will be presented on April 2 at a gala dinner at the Chemainus The-atre. Tickets are $50 plus GST and are available at the Chemainus Visitor Centre.
A non-profit group, called 100+ Women Who Care, will hold their first meeting in the Cowichan Valley on March 29.
The group consists of more than 100 local women who will come together every three months to raise funds for local charitable causes.
The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Cowichan Golf and Country Club.
For more information, check out 100womenco-wichan.com.
Jaqui McDonald, left, owner of Duncan’s Fabricland, and store manager Jackie Stewart are pleased with the store’s new location on Trunk Road. [ROBERT BARRON/CITIZEN]
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But the practice is banned completely in other local municipalities, including the City of Duncan, the Town of Ladys-mith and the Town of Lake Cowichan, and moves have been made by various groups in the last few years for all areas of the Cowichan Valley to implement a full ban on backyard burning.
The CVRD released an extensive air shed protective strategy last year, noting that hospital admissions for children with res-piratory diseases were on average 70 per cent higher in the valley than the rest of B.C. between 1998 and 2012.
The report also found asthma rates were 14 per cent higher and chronic respiratory illness in people over 45 was 50 per cent higher in the valley.
The geography of the valley, ringed by mountains, means bad air is often held at ground level at certain times of the year, the report stated.
Lori Iannidinardo, the Cowichan Valley Regional District’s director for Cowichan Bay, said the district’s bylaw that limits backyard burning to two one-month per-iods is just a few years old, while there were no restrictions before.
But she said even limiting the burning to those restricted time periods is still “not working well.”
“There are a lot of rules in the bylaw around backyard burning, including the fact that the wood material has to be dry and there must be proper atmospheric venting at the site, but I’m not sure how many people actually follow those rules,” Iannidinardo said.
“It’s hard to enforce these rules in this rural region, so I think we need to revisit this issue.”
Iannidinardo said the district offers free composting services for wood waste at its facility on Fisher Road, but residents are responsible for transporting their waste to the site.
Banned in three municipalitiesBURNING, From Page 1
Artist Jennifer Lawson is so badly affected by smoke from backyard burning that at times she has to wear a mask to filter out particulates. [CITIZEN FILE]
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Defi cit, lack of funds for health concerningPAUL BRIAN CITIZEN
Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau handed down his first budget Tuesday, with
a deficit of $29.4 billion and an ambitious stimulus program including tax breaks for nine million taxpayers, a more gen-erous, tax-free child benefit and big dollars for infrastructure and indigenous people.
Local Member of Parliament Alistair MacGregor, a member of the New Democratic Party, had some praise for the budget, but expressed concern over high deficit spending, mixed progress on seniors’ issues, lack of tax breaks for small businesses and no infrastructure funds for local railways and ferries.
“I think when you compare this budget to previous Conser-vative budgets there certainly are a number of groups who are happy to see an increase in fund-ing. I know the veterans have expressed that and it’s great to see also for First Nations,” said MacGregor, who is also the NDP’s critic for seniors. “However, the comparison I make is if some-one’s been wandering through the desert and you offer them a glass of water, they’re going to think it’s the most amazing thing in the world.”
The budget forecasts more than $100 billion in deficits for the next five years, contrary to Prime Min-
ister Justin Trudeau’s election promise to balance the budget in four years.
Hailed by Morneau as a plan to “revitalize the Canadian econ-omy,” the budget was called a “nightmare scenario” by Conser-vative leader Rona Ambrose and also drew some criticism from NDP leader Tom Mulcair.
MacGregor said Trudeau’s bro-ken deficit promise concerns him.
“When the Liberals were cam-paigning they made quite a promise to stick with a deficit of $10 billion,” he said, adding that despite hopes of change under the Liberals, “we didn’t see any-thing for small businesses and we haven’t seen the closing of the stock option loopholes that very wealthy CEOs use.”
The budget allocates $120 bil-lion to be spent on infrastructure in the next 10 years with a focus on water, transit, waste manage-ment and housing, but MacGre-gor said several local and region-al services are not served by the increase.
“With Island Rail, there was no commitment in funding for infra-structure upgrades for railways. I think there was just some money for Via Rail to improve some of its service or to do a study,” Mac-Gregor said. “For ferries, the only ferries mentioned in the budget were in Atlantic Canada. They’re receiving a further $51 million, but our ferries aren’t getting any money invested in them.”
At least one local piece of infra-structure may get a chance at
some serious federal funding, however.
“For the Lake Cowichan weir, I have looked through the infra-structure and there is a fund of $518 million that’s specifically for projects that deal with climate change adaptation. Given that our low river levels are from cli-mate change I think that’s some-thing I might be looking more closely into,” MacGregor said.
Big ticket items in the budget include the reduction of middle class tax rates from 22 to 20.5 per cent for the $45,000 to $90,000 income bracket, with part of that tax cut cost offset by an increase in the tax rate for income over $200,000 from 29 to 33 per cent.
The budget also includes $8.4 bil-lion for aboriginal communities.
Changes to improve employ-ment insurance benefits for work-ers in regions hit by hard times are good, but MacGregor said concerns remain.
“There’s still no protection for the employment insurance fund. All the money that workers pay as premiums is still disappearing into the consolidated revenue fund,” MacGregor said, adding that previous Liberal govern-ments have helped balanced their books before with money from EI premiums.
The seniors’ guaranteed-income supplement will increase by up to $947 annually, something which pleases MacGregor but leaves
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MacGregor said there’s also been insufficient progress on health care issues.
“There’s a lot of talk about extending home care and doing a prescription drug plan, but there was no money budgeted for either of those items. So that for me was a big miss,” he said.
Overall, MacGregor said that while the budget does allocate some big funds to necessary areas, it is a fiscal red flag.
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The Easter weekend in the Cowichan Valley offers plenty of fun for the whole family.
From rabbit-chasing to Easter egg hunting and even skating, crafts and train rides, it’s all available, much of it free of charge.
Crofton:In Crofton children are invited to come
out and chase the Easter rabbit.On Saturday, March 26 from 11 a.m.-2
p.m. at the Crofton ballfields behind the community centre families can enjoy the annual Easter egg hunt, along with an obstacle course, bouncy castle and bouncy boxing.
There will be hot dogs, prizes and treats, and it’s all for free.
Chemainus:North Cowichan’s Parks and Recrea-
tion department is partnering with the Chemainus Eagles to host an Easter Egg Hunt at Fuller Lake Park on Saturday, March 26 at 10 a.m.
There will be a special section set up just for toddlers and small children so they don’t get bowled over in the excitement.
Duncan: The B.C. Forest Discovery Centre is
hopping into Easter with a weekend of fun activities for the whole family. The Easter Eggspress steam train will be running each day and everyone will get the chance to take part in the annual Easter Scavenger Hunt. There will also be appearances by the Easter bunny, informative educational experi-ences, goodie bags and the chance for the whole family to enjoy the museum and grounds.
“This event has been a popular spring tradition for over 10 years and become so popular that we expanded last year to the whole three-day Easter Weekend,” said centre manager Chris Gale. “What a fun way to kick off our new season.”
There will be a special admission rate of $6 for children under 12 and $8 for adults/seniors and youth. The Easter events take place March 26 to 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information on the centre visit www.bcforestdiscoverycentre.com or call 250-715-1113.
Cowichan Station:The HUB at Cowichan Station has
received a matching offer from the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program and will be celebrating with an Easter Sunday event for the whole family on March 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Easter at the HUB will includes a pan-cake breakfast, crafts, music from Mbi-ra Spirit, clay crafts, cookie decorating activities, a silent auction and straw-berry basket making. It will also include all sorts of Easter egg fun, including a
traditional Easter egg hunt in the forest. “What a great opportunity to have
gourmet pancakes, crafts, music and Easter egg fun while helping a thriving community reach its fundraising goals. We are so glad The HUB has been award-ed this $46,000 matching contribution. This fun community event will help us get there,” said Barry O’Riordan, exec-utive director of the Cowichan Station Area Association, the local charity that runs The HUB.
“We want to invite the entire Cowic-han Valley to come along to The HUB to support us and to have a great time this Easter Sunday.”
The funds will pay for TLC at the former Cowichan Station Elementary School, including re-painting the 100 year old schoolhouse, landscaping for safety, signage, and outdoor lighting. The project will also add community info boards to share “What’s HUB’ning” inside, and in the community. The $46,000 will only be released by the government once the HUB has raised $46,000 of its own.
About 500 people now use The HUB weekly for everything from Girl Guides to yoga to toddler music classes to pot-tery to live music and more.
Mill Bay:Families in south Cowichan can head
to an easter egg hunt at the Mill Bay Centre, Saturday, March 26.
Attendees should meet at Bru-Go’s Cof-fee Shop before 10 a.m., with their own basket. This event goes rain or shine and the Easter bunny will be there.
Folks can enjoy a “famous” Rotary Pancake Breakfast beside the coffee shop from 8 a.m.-11 a.m. before heading out with the rabbit.
This event is sponsored by the Mill Bay Merchants and South Cowichan Rotary.
Cobble Hill:The Shawnigan and Cobble Hill Farmer’s Insti-
tute are getting into the Easter spirit with their annual Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, March 27, sponsored this year by South Cowichan Storage.
“The Easter Bunny plans on leaving many fine eggs for those in their best Easter costume, the littlest egg hunter and more,” promises the group’s Facebook notice.
Everyone is invited to “hop on over” to the Cobble Hill Fair Grounds on Watson Avenue at 10 a.m.
Lake Cowichan:Cowichan Lake Recreation invites members of
the public to attend its annual Easter egg hunt on Monday, March 28. Children will have the opportunity to search for the colourful eggs rain or shine, with the hunt taking place in the ball field next to Centennial Hall, or inside the arena if weather conditions are poor.
Afterwards, there is a free public skate offered. (However, there is a fee for skate rentals.)
“It’s always a great turnout,” said recreation programmer Tanya Kaul, adding that the weath-er usually cooperates.
The activities kick off at 2:30 p.m. for the Easter egg hunt. The free skate begins at 3:30 p.m.
Bunnies, eggs and more on tap for Easter
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Garage sale treasure identifi es one of names on cenotaph
It has been said that a soldier only really dies when he’s forgotten.
If I had a loonie for every time someone has said to me, “You must do a lot of research,” why, I’d be, well, maybe not rich, but I’d probably need a wheelbarrow to carry them in. (The loonies, I mean.)
To which I must confess a resounding, yes: every day, all day. Not necessarily thor-ough research in every case, let’s just say that I do a lot of reconnaissance: in newspapers, books, online, in the field, through interviews — wherever and however information pre-sents itself as possible subject matter for these columns. You can throw in garage sales, too, which double as R&R.
A perfect example is a treasure from a garage sale of probably 20 years or more ago, it’s been that long in my library. But I only read it this week, to find that I’d been sitting on a gold mine all that time.
The book, an expensive hard-cover when published by the Bank of Montreal, is Field of Honour: The Second World War, 1945-1946, a tribute to its employ-ees who served in the war. The first half of the book is dedicat-ed to those former employees who didn’t make it home, and it’s here that I struck paydirt.
If you should read through issues of the Cowichan Lead-er in the 1920s and 1930s, Rev. Bishchlager’s name will appear again and again. My personal interest in him is the fact that
his son was killed while serving with the RCAF in the Second World War and his name is on the Duncan Cenotaph. Which is as far as I’ve ever actually researched him even though I’ve been working for several years now on creating profiles of those names on the Cenotaph. But there are a lot of names, from both world wars, and it’s a big job...
So imagine my surprise, and joy, while reading Field of Honour. There, almost at the very beginning (the book is in alphabetical order), this tribute to Sgt. Harold Bischlager, RCAF:
“Born at Duncan, B.C. on August 19th, 1921, he attended Queen Margaret’s School, Duncan Elementary and High Schools, and finally Esquimalt High School, from which he matriculated in 1939. An out-standing student and athlete, he served as president of the Stu-dents’ Council and played rugby, soccer, softball, badminton and lacrosse, attaining particular prominence in the latter sport.
“He was also active in Cubs and Boys Scouts, being a Troop Leader in the Duncan troop. On entering the bank in July, 1939, he was attached to Victoria branch, from where he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in October, 1940. He received his
first training at Eburne, B.C., and in July, 1941, graduated as a Pilot from No. 4 Service Flying Training School at Saskatoon, Sask. He then went overseas, where he was attached to No. 220 Training Unit at Welles-bourne in Warwickshire. On completion of the course with that unit he was posted to 87 Squadron at Coningsby, with whom, on December 18th, 1941, he took part in a raid on the Ger-man battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, then lying at Brest.
“In the ensuing action the landing gear of his aircraft was put out of commission, and as a result, when attempting to land, he crashed and was instantly killed.”
To be more specific, Sgt. Bis-chlager and his fellow crewmen were returning to base in Man-chester bomber L7490 after it was hit by flak that severely wounded pilot F/Lt. Wright. According to the record, “The flak damage is believed to have been a contributory factor.”
That’s a pretty short bio for a pretty short lifespan but it’s more than we now know about many, indeed most, of those names on the Cenotaph. This, to my mind, is the greatest tragedy of war. It has been said that a soldier only really dies when
he’s forgotten. And forgotten, I’m sorry to say, is the case for most of those hundreds of names on the Cenotaph. There’s no one left from the First World War now and veterans of the Second World War are in their late 80s. Short of family and friends, many of them of simi-lar age, who will soon be left to recall them, not just as names on war memorials and in sparse military records, but as flesh-and-blood human beings?
As very young men and women, they offered up their lives for their country — our country. The very least that we can do is to remember them. And I don’t just mean wearing a poppy in November. The start-ing point for this remembrance is within the family, with those old photo albums and medals and other such memorabilia that should be passed down and treasured and made known to each succeeding generation.
And if grandfather or grand-mother is still around, talk to them. With today’s technol-ogy you can tape record, even videograph them if they’re so inclined. Think what these memories, saved for posterity, can mean to future generations of your family.
www.twpaterson.com
T.W.PatersonChronicles
[CITIZEN FILE]
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Garage sale treasure identifi es one of names on cenotaph
It has been said that a soldier only really dies when he’s forgotten.
If I had a loonie for every time someone has said to me, “You must do a lot of research,” why, I’d be, well, maybe not rich, but I’d probably need a wheelbarrow to carry them in. (The loonies, I mean.)
To which I must confess a resounding, yes: every day, all day. Not necessarily thor-ough research in every case, let’s just say that I do a lot of reconnaissance: in newspapers, books, online, in the field, through interviews — wherever and however information pre-sents itself as possible subject matter for these columns. You can throw in garage sales, too, which double as R&R.
A perfect example is a treasure from a garage sale of probably 20 years or more ago, it’s been that long in my library. But I only read it this week, to find that I’d been sitting on a gold mine all that time.
The book, an expensive hard-cover when published by the Bank of Montreal, is Field of Honour: The Second World War, 1945-1946, a tribute to its employ-ees who served in the war. The first half of the book is dedicat-ed to those former employees who didn’t make it home, and it’s here that I struck paydirt.
If you should read through issues of the Cowichan Lead-er in the 1920s and 1930s, Rev. Bishchlager’s name will appear again and again. My personal interest in him is the fact that
his son was killed while serving with the RCAF in the Second World War and his name is on the Duncan Cenotaph. Which is as far as I’ve ever actually researched him even though I’ve been working for several years now on creating profiles of those names on the Cenotaph. But there are a lot of names, from both world wars, and it’s a big job...
So imagine my surprise, and joy, while reading Field of Honour. There, almost at the very beginning (the book is in alphabetical order), this tribute to Sgt. Harold Bischlager, RCAF:
“Born at Duncan, B.C. on August 19th, 1921, he attended Queen Margaret’s School, Duncan Elementary and High Schools, and finally Esquimalt High School, from which he matriculated in 1939. An out-standing student and athlete, he served as president of the Stu-dents’ Council and played rugby, soccer, softball, badminton and lacrosse, attaining particular prominence in the latter sport.
“He was also active in Cubs and Boys Scouts, being a Troop Leader in the Duncan troop. On entering the bank in July, 1939, he was attached to Victoria branch, from where he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in October, 1940. He received his
first training at Eburne, B.C., and in July, 1941, graduated as a Pilot from No. 4 Service Flying Training School at Saskatoon, Sask. He then went overseas, where he was attached to No. 220 Training Unit at Welles-bourne in Warwickshire. On completion of the course with that unit he was posted to 87 Squadron at Coningsby, with whom, on December 18th, 1941, he took part in a raid on the Ger-man battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, then lying at Brest.
“In the ensuing action the landing gear of his aircraft was put out of commission, and as a result, when attempting to land, he crashed and was instantly killed.”
To be more specific, Sgt. Bis-chlager and his fellow crewmen were returning to base in Man-chester bomber L7490 after it was hit by flak that severely wounded pilot F/Lt. Wright. According to the record, “The flak damage is believed to have been a contributory factor.”
That’s a pretty short bio for a pretty short lifespan but it’s more than we now know about many, indeed most, of those names on the Cenotaph. This, to my mind, is the greatest tragedy of war. It has been said that a soldier only really dies when
he’s forgotten. And forgotten, I’m sorry to say, is the case for most of those hundreds of names on the Cenotaph. There’s no one left from the First World War now and veterans of the Second World War are in their late 80s. Short of family and friends, many of them of simi-lar age, who will soon be left to recall them, not just as names on war memorials and in sparse military records, but as flesh-and-blood human beings?
As very young men and women, they offered up their lives for their country — our country. The very least that we can do is to remember them. And I don’t just mean wearing a poppy in November. The start-ing point for this remembrance is within the family, with those old photo albums and medals and other such memorabilia that should be passed down and treasured and made known to each succeeding generation.
And if grandfather or grand-mother is still around, talk to them. With today’s technol-ogy you can tape record, even videograph them if they’re so inclined. Think what these memories, saved for posterity, can mean to future generations of your family.
www.twpaterson.com
T.W.PatersonChronicles
[CITIZEN FILE]
Cowichan Valley Citizen | Friday, March 25, 2016 15LIVING
ARTIST
Retired hatchery worker goes back to rootsPAUL BRIAN CITIZEN
Lambert Goldsmith carves his people’s myths and history as well as his own
experiences. The Duncan man runs a stand
near the old mound on Gov-ernment Street where he sells his carvings of Cowichan First Nation totems and masks, crafts and blankets, having rediscov-ered his childhood interest in carving after retirement.
“I took early retirement so I could get back into carving,” said Goldsmith, who retired in 2012 after over 30 years of working in the salmon hatchery on Boys Road.
Goldsmith, 63, first began carv-ing at eight years old, taught by his father Raymond, who had been taught by an older rela-tive. On days when his father was busy working as a logger, he would tell Lambert to go learn from renowned local carver Simon Charlie who lived a few doors down.
“Simon Charlie would go out of his way every day to make sure we had something to do. He’d lit-erally shape these out for us and all we had to do is put the design in,” Goldsmith said, adding that he’d then go and sell his carvings for pocket money.
Charlie also told them founding myths of the Cowichan nation, something Goldsmith depicts, for example, in his Thunderbird totem pole.
“The people at the bottom here, they’re waiting for the salmon to return but they never returned, they migrated. So what the people did is went all the way downstream to see what the prob-lem was,” Goldsmith explained.
“The people ended up all the way down in Cowichan Bay and when they got to Cowichan Bay there was this killer whale just eating them and preventing them from coming up. So they — I don’t know if it was a sha-man — prayed to Thunderbird to come take the killer whale
away. He’s the only one powerful enough to pick up a killer whale. So Thunderbird came and picked up the killer whale and dropped it. Over by those mountains is where it’s supposed to be. When Thunderbird removed the killer whale, the people got their sal-mon back.”
Goldsmith’s big future plan includes doing a 15-foot Thunder-bird totem pole. He’s currently inquiring about where he can display it when it’s complete.
“This is going to be like my model totem pole,” he explained
of the smaller carving.Goldsmith uses cedar, yellow
cedar, white pine and alder to carve, obtaining his wood from several sources, including a friend for whom he carved a walk-ing stick in return for good pieces of cedar wood, donations and lumberyards. Goldsmith shapes the wood with a carving knife and adze, or power saw for larger pieces then knifes and chisels in details.
“I carve it, shape it, sand it, then paint it,” he said.
Another piece shows a mother bear feeding salmon to her cub, while another, the Moon Mask (at a price of $1,200), depicts the moon surrounded by a male and female salmon, with abalone shells as eyes and stars.
“The reason I always put them together is because it’s known from the old people that anytime
there’s a full moon and a high tide the salmon will come up the riv-er,” said Goldsmith.
Then there are carvings based on personal experience such as a small grey mask called Lightning Shadow representing a spirit that comes out during lightning storms that Goldsmith and his friends were warned about by his grandfather. They saw it them-selves one day during a lightning storm — a shadowy grey figure that ran between two trees.
Pieces sell from $30 and up into the hundreds and thousands. Some carvings take months to make, while others may take only several days. Goldsmith spends weekday afternoons at his spot on Government Street and week-ends taking part in the Songhees First Nation market outside the B.C. legislature in Victoria.
Being artistic runs in Gold-smith’s family, who all love the work he does. His wife Phyllis and daughter Caroline also make dreamcatchers for him to sell at his stand, and his sister Kathy knits Cowichan sweaters and winterwear for him to sell during the colder months. His daughter Talia has also worked with him painting his carvings and now lives in London, Ont. where her work has been displayed locally and featured on the news.
Talia said she has great pride in her father and what he does.
“He has a beautiful, well-estab-lished style,” Talia said. “He’s such a huge inspiration to me.”
Duncan carver Lambert Goldsmith runs a stand on Government Street in Duncan where he sells Cowichan First Nation carvings and crafts. Seen here, a Thunderbird totem pole. [PAUL BRIAN/CITIZEN]
A moon mask constructed by Lambert Goldsmith. The mask depicts a male (left) and female (right) salmon, with the moon in the middle drawing the salmon up the river at high tide. [PAUL BRIAN CITIZEN]
“He’s the only one powerful enough to pick up a killer whale. So thunderbird came and picked up the killer whale and dropped it. Over by those mountains is where it’s supposed to be. When thunderbird removed the killer whale the people got their salmon back.”LAMBERT GOLDSMITH, carver
Carving out history
LIVING
ARTIST
Retired hatchery worker goes back to rootsPAUL BRIAN CITIZEN
Lambert Goldsmith carves his people’s myths and history as well as his own
experiences. The Duncan man runs a stand
near the old mound on Gov-ernment Street where he sells his carvings of Cowichan First Nation totems and masks, crafts and blankets, having rediscov-ered his childhood interest in carving after retirement.
“I took early retirement so I could get back into carving,” said Goldsmith, who retired in 2012 after over 30 years of working in the salmon hatchery on Boys Road.
Goldsmith, 63, first began carv-ing at eight years old, taught by his father Raymond, who had been taught by an older rela-tive. On days when his father was busy working as a logger, he would tell Lambert to go learn from renowned local carver Simon Charlie who lived a few doors down.
“Simon Charlie would go out of his way every day to make sure we had something to do. He’d lit-erally shape these out for us and all we had to do is put the design in,” Goldsmith said, adding that he’d then go and sell his carvings for pocket money.
Charlie also told them founding myths of the Cowichan nation, something Goldsmith depicts, for example, in his Thunderbird totem pole.
“The people at the bottom here, they’re waiting for the salmon to return but they never returned, they migrated. So what the people did is went all the way downstream to see what the prob-lem was,” Goldsmith explained.
“The people ended up all the way down in Cowichan Bay and when they got to Cowichan Bay there was this killer whale just eating them and preventing them from coming up. So they — I don’t know if it was a sha-man — prayed to Thunderbird to come take the killer whale
away. He’s the only one powerful enough to pick up a killer whale. So Thunderbird came and picked up the killer whale and dropped it. Over by those mountains is where it’s supposed to be. When Thunderbird removed the killer whale, the people got their sal-mon back.”
Goldsmith’s big future plan includes doing a 15-foot Thunder-bird totem pole. He’s currently inquiring about where he can display it when it’s complete.
“This is going to be like my model totem pole,” he explained
of the smaller carving.Goldsmith uses cedar, yellow
cedar, white pine and alder to carve, obtaining his wood from several sources, including a friend for whom he carved a walk-ing stick in return for good pieces of cedar wood, donations and lumberyards. Goldsmith shapes the wood with a carving knife and adze, or power saw for larger pieces then knifes and chisels in details.
“I carve it, shape it, sand it, then paint it,” he said.
Another piece shows a mother bear feeding salmon to her cub, while another, the Moon Mask (at a price of $1,200), depicts the moon surrounded by a male and female salmon, with abalone shells as eyes and stars.
“The reason I always put them together is because it’s known from the old people that anytime
there’s a full moon and a high tide the salmon will come up the riv-er,” said Goldsmith.
Then there are carvings based on personal experience such as a small grey mask called Lightning Shadow representing a spirit that comes out during lightning storms that Goldsmith and his friends were warned about by his grandfather. They saw it them-selves one day during a lightning storm — a shadowy grey figure that ran between two trees.
Pieces sell from $30 and up into the hundreds and thousands. Some carvings take months to make, while others may take only several days. Goldsmith spends weekday afternoons at his spot on Government Street and week-ends taking part in the Songhees First Nation market outside the B.C. legislature in Victoria.
Being artistic runs in Gold-smith’s family, who all love the work he does. His wife Phyllis and daughter Caroline also make dreamcatchers for him to sell at his stand, and his sister Kathy knits Cowichan sweaters and winterwear for him to sell during the colder months. His daughter Talia has also worked with him painting his carvings and now lives in London, Ont. where her work has been displayed locally and featured on the news.
Talia said she has great pride in her father and what he does.
“He has a beautiful, well-estab-lished style,” Talia said. “He’s such a huge inspiration to me.”
Duncan carver Lambert Goldsmith runs a stand on Government Street in Duncan where he sells Cowichan First Nation carvings and crafts. Seen here, a Thunderbird totem pole. [PAUL BRIAN/CITIZEN]
A moon mask constructed by Lambert Goldsmith. The mask depicts a male (left) and female (right) salmon, with the moon in the middle drawing the salmon up the river at high tide. [PAUL BRIAN CITIZEN]
“He’s the only one powerful enough to pick up a killer whale. So thunderbird came and picked up the killer whale and dropped it. Over by those mountains is where it’s supposed to be. When thunderbird removed the killer whale the people got their salmon back.”LAMBERT GOLDSMITH, carver
Carving out history
16 Friday, March 25, 2016 | Cowichan Valley Citizen
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A tradition in my family has always been the customary ritual of
decorating eggs for Easter. As far back as history can
take us, the egg seems to have always been a symbol of con-tinuing life and resurrection. Therefore, it was natural to decorate them and give them out as gifts for part of the feasting after the solemn fast of Lent.
Although it is now more con-temporary to exchange choco-late or candy eggs, many fam-ilies still carry out the historic practice of using real eggs. However, what is to become of all the excess hard-boiled eggs other than the habitual egg sandwich?
Allow me to give you a few examples that will hopefully inspire some culinary creativ-ity in your kitchen.
A quick and simple idea would be to crumble them to garnish salads. This would not only add bright colours to the salad, but is also is a fantastic way to add additional protein.
Crumbled eggs are also vivid garnishes for stir-frys or around the outer edge of a platter of rice.
Add a splash of freshly chopped parsley over the rice, and you will have trans-formed the bland grains into something more attractive. The crumbled mix of white and yellow is much more eye
appealing than two-toned slices of egg.
Egg slices are better used along with spinach and cheese rolled inside the middle of a pork loin for a stuffed roast that is extraordinary. Egg slices can also be layered in many different casseroles.
If one were to search the Internet or visit the local library, they would discover a variety of hard-boiled egg recipes.
They will include a number of egg and cheese dips, pickled eggs, and many versions of devilled eggs.
For example, try combining the yolk mixture for devilled eggs with smoked salmon before stuffing back into the egg white halves for a deli-cious change.
My favourite hard-boiled egg recipe is Scotch Eggs. This Scottish recipe is prepared by encasing hard-boiled eggs with sausage meat. They are then rolled in a mixture of cracker crumbs and fresh chopped parsley, and baked in the oven. Once cooled, they are sliced into quarters for a sensational presentation.
Hopefully all of this egg inspiration will keep your mind from questioning, “what was cooked first — chicken or the egg?”
Dear Chef Dez:I hate making hard-boiled
eggs. I find it difficult to peel them without having huge chunks of the cooked white staying attached to the shell pieces. Also, they always have that “green ring” around the yolk. Are there any tricks to help me?
Janet C.Maple Ridge, B.C.
Dear Janet:Firstly, when selecting eggs
to boil, one wants to make sure they are choosing older eggs rather than the freshest ones.
This is because over a per-iod of time more air develops between the shell and the shell membrane, and thus making it easier to peel. Also try rolling the cooked egg on the counter with some gentle pressure to makes cracks all over the sur-face, and then peel under cool running water.
The “green ring” indicates a chemical reaction between the iron in the yolk and the sulphur in the white. This happens when the egg is either cooked too long, or at too high of a temperature. Try adjusting your cooking time and plunge them into an ice water bath immediately to stop the cooking process.
Chef Dez is a food columnist, culinary travel host and cookbook author. Visit him at www.chefdez.com Write to him at [email protected] or P.O. Box 2674, Abbotsford, B.C. V2T 6R4
Easter eggs in the kitchen
Chef DezOn Cooking
COFFEE TIMESend your items to: [email protected]
• Ryan Knowles, 23, is a super-hero to Cowichan cats.
Starting at age 14 he has, through a family charitable foundation, donated every year to the Cowic-han Cat Rescue. His total giving to date is $22,000, making him the largest private donor to the organ-ization. That translates to over 200 cats and kittens fixed, vaccin-ated and treated for parasites and health problems.
This year’s donation has come “at just the right time to help out with the beginning of the spring trapping season, to be closely fol-lowed by the spring kitten season,” the Cat Rescue says. “We are just coming into our busiest time of the year. Now that winter is over we are able to start trapping the outdoor cats in a mad race against the arrival of the first round of kittens. Ryan’s gift will allow us to proceed full steam ahead without getting too panicked about the vet bills we create doing this.”
Cowichan Cat Rescue wants to remind people that if you have unfixed ferals on your property it is only a matter of time before you have a population crisis. Call CCR to make a plan for those cats to be fixed, and if you see kittens, no matter how tiny they may be, pick them up and take them to your nearest vet clinic or send a Face-book message or email to CCR.
CCR has foster homes where they can be raised, bottle fed if neces-
sary, and socialized so good homes can be found for them.
• Cowichan Branch Early Child-hood Educators of BC members Betty Excelby, Mary Dolan, Wendy Ready and Mary Vane-Hunt met with Alistair MacGregor, MP for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford; Paul Manley, representative for MP Elizabeth May, Saanich-Gulf Islands; Rachel Blaney, MP for North Island-Powell River and a representative for MP Sheila Mal-colmson, Nanaimo-Ladysmith in Nanaimo on March 12.
Also in attendance were other early childhood educators from Vancouver Island branches includ-ing Joan Gignac, executive direc-tor for Aboriginal Head Start and ECEBC’s provincial executive dir-ector Emily Mlieczko.
The federal representatives heard moving stories of success and concern in the field, including the skyrocketing child care fees, “big box” childcare versus quality care, lack of spaces (especially infant toddler), and about working poor families, all highlighting the eco-nomic loss to the workforce when parents cannot access safe, reliable child care.
The Early Childhood Educators of BC have a community plan for a public system of integrated ear-ly care and learning ([email protected]) ready to implement and supported by thousands of British Colum-bians, they say.
LIVING
COOKING
A tradition in my family has always been the customary ritual of
decorating eggs for Easter. As far back as history can
take us, the egg seems to have always been a symbol of con-tinuing life and resurrection. Therefore, it was natural to decorate them and give them out as gifts for part of the feasting after the solemn fast of Lent.
Although it is now more con-temporary to exchange choco-late or candy eggs, many fam-ilies still carry out the historic practice of using real eggs. However, what is to become of all the excess hard-boiled eggs other than the habitual egg sandwich?
Allow me to give you a few examples that will hopefully inspire some culinary creativ-ity in your kitchen.
A quick and simple idea would be to crumble them to garnish salads. This would not only add bright colours to the salad, but is also is a fantastic way to add additional protein.
Crumbled eggs are also vivid garnishes for stir-frys or around the outer edge of a platter of rice.
Add a splash of freshly chopped parsley over the rice, and you will have trans-formed the bland grains into something more attractive. The crumbled mix of white and yellow is much more eye
appealing than two-toned slices of egg.
Egg slices are better used along with spinach and cheese rolled inside the middle of a pork loin for a stuffed roast that is extraordinary. Egg slices can also be layered in many different casseroles.
If one were to search the Internet or visit the local library, they would discover a variety of hard-boiled egg recipes.
They will include a number of egg and cheese dips, pickled eggs, and many versions of devilled eggs.
For example, try combining the yolk mixture for devilled eggs with smoked salmon before stuffing back into the egg white halves for a deli-cious change.
My favourite hard-boiled egg recipe is Scotch Eggs. This Scottish recipe is prepared by encasing hard-boiled eggs with sausage meat. They are then rolled in a mixture of cracker crumbs and fresh chopped parsley, and baked in the oven. Once cooled, they are sliced into quarters for a sensational presentation.
Hopefully all of this egg inspiration will keep your mind from questioning, “what was cooked first — chicken or the egg?”
Dear Chef Dez:I hate making hard-boiled
eggs. I find it difficult to peel them without having huge chunks of the cooked white staying attached to the shell pieces. Also, they always have that “green ring” around the yolk. Are there any tricks to help me?
Janet C.Maple Ridge, B.C.
Dear Janet:Firstly, when selecting eggs
to boil, one wants to make sure they are choosing older eggs rather than the freshest ones.
This is because over a per-iod of time more air develops between the shell and the shell membrane, and thus making it easier to peel. Also try rolling the cooked egg on the counter with some gentle pressure to makes cracks all over the sur-face, and then peel under cool running water.
The “green ring” indicates a chemical reaction between the iron in the yolk and the sulphur in the white. This happens when the egg is either cooked too long, or at too high of a temperature. Try adjusting your cooking time and plunge them into an ice water bath immediately to stop the cooking process.
Chef Dez is a food columnist, culinary travel host and cookbook author. Visit him at www.chefdez.com Write to him at [email protected] or P.O. Box 2674, Abbotsford, B.C. V2T 6R4
Easter eggs in the kitchen
Chef DezOn Cooking
COFFEE TIMESend your items to: [email protected]
• Ryan Knowles, 23, is a super-hero to Cowichan cats.
Starting at age 14 he has, through a family charitable foundation, donated every year to the Cowic-han Cat Rescue. His total giving to date is $22,000, making him the largest private donor to the organ-ization. That translates to over 200 cats and kittens fixed, vaccin-ated and treated for parasites and health problems.
This year’s donation has come “at just the right time to help out with the beginning of the spring trapping season, to be closely fol-lowed by the spring kitten season,” the Cat Rescue says. “We are just coming into our busiest time of the year. Now that winter is over we are able to start trapping the outdoor cats in a mad race against the arrival of the first round of kittens. Ryan’s gift will allow us to proceed full steam ahead without getting too panicked about the vet bills we create doing this.”
Cowichan Cat Rescue wants to remind people that if you have unfixed ferals on your property it is only a matter of time before you have a population crisis. Call CCR to make a plan for those cats to be fixed, and if you see kittens, no matter how tiny they may be, pick them up and take them to your nearest vet clinic or send a Face-book message or email to CCR.
CCR has foster homes where they can be raised, bottle fed if neces-
sary, and socialized so good homes can be found for them.
• Cowichan Branch Early Child-hood Educators of BC members Betty Excelby, Mary Dolan, Wendy Ready and Mary Vane-Hunt met with Alistair MacGregor, MP for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford; Paul Manley, representative for MP Elizabeth May, Saanich-Gulf Islands; Rachel Blaney, MP for North Island-Powell River and a representative for MP Sheila Mal-colmson, Nanaimo-Ladysmith in Nanaimo on March 12.
Also in attendance were other early childhood educators from Vancouver Island branches includ-ing Joan Gignac, executive direc-tor for Aboriginal Head Start and ECEBC’s provincial executive dir-ector Emily Mlieczko.
The federal representatives heard moving stories of success and concern in the field, including the skyrocketing child care fees, “big box” childcare versus quality care, lack of spaces (especially infant toddler), and about working poor families, all highlighting the eco-nomic loss to the workforce when parents cannot access safe, reliable child care.
The Early Childhood Educators of BC have a community plan for a public system of integrated ear-ly care and learning ([email protected]) ready to implement and supported by thousands of British Colum-bians, they say.
NEWS
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I grew up in a small town where there were no side-walks, unless you counted
four sides from three blocks downtown.
As children, we didn’t pay much attention to the rule that required us to walk on the left facing oncoming traffic but we did make sure that we were on the edge or even off of the pavement when a vehicle drove by. Most neighbourhood streets were our playgrounds and we shared with other road users as the need arose. That system worked well for us and I can’t recall anyone being hurt aside from one girl who had been clipped by the mirror of a passing pickup truck.
This system probably worked well for us because people parked in their driveways rather than on the streets. There was always room on the sides to be seen and walk safe-ly. The village council did not see a need to build sidewalks so when roads were paved or rebuilt none were constructed. Some municipalities followed suit, at least in the quieter areas.
Fast forward 40 years.Needs and expectations are
quite different today. Drivers
call the police to report chil-dren playing street hockey. Neighbourhood streets look like parking lots. Health con-scious people walk and run on and beside the roads. Pedes-trians are being hurt in colli-sions. The sidewalks that are needed may not be there or are expensive to add so await road reconstruction budgets.
What do we do in the mean-time? Being accountable for our actions and sharing with others comes to mind. Safe
road use is not a contest to make sure you get what you feel you are entitled to. Occa-sionally you might be required to give up an entitlement to remain safe or provide safety for other road users. Doing so is the sign of a truly safe and smart road user.
Tim Schewe is a retired constable with many years of traffic law enforcement experience. To com-ment or learn more, please visit DriveSmartBC.ca
DRIVESMART
Safe road use is not a contest
Tim ScheweDrivesmart
Many people use roadsides for walking or running. Sharing the road with drivers is something you’ve got to be smart about. [SUBMITTED]
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I grew up in a small town where there were no side-walks, unless you counted
four sides from three blocks downtown.
As children, we didn’t pay much attention to the rule that required us to walk on the left facing oncoming traffic but we did make sure that we were on the edge or even off of the pavement when a vehicle drove by. Most neighbourhood streets were our playgrounds and we shared with other road users as the need arose. That system worked well for us and I can’t recall anyone being hurt aside from one girl who had been clipped by the mirror of a passing pickup truck.
This system probably worked well for us because people parked in their driveways rather than on the streets. There was always room on the sides to be seen and walk safe-ly. The village council did not see a need to build sidewalks so when roads were paved or rebuilt none were constructed. Some municipalities followed suit, at least in the quieter areas.
Fast forward 40 years.Needs and expectations are
quite different today. Drivers
call the police to report chil-dren playing street hockey. Neighbourhood streets look like parking lots. Health con-scious people walk and run on and beside the roads. Pedes-trians are being hurt in colli-sions. The sidewalks that are needed may not be there or are expensive to add so await road reconstruction budgets.
What do we do in the mean-time? Being accountable for our actions and sharing with others comes to mind. Safe
road use is not a contest to make sure you get what you feel you are entitled to. Occa-sionally you might be required to give up an entitlement to remain safe or provide safety for other road users. Doing so is the sign of a truly safe and smart road user.
Tim Schewe is a retired constable with many years of traffic law enforcement experience. To com-ment or learn more, please visit DriveSmartBC.ca
DRIVESMART
Safe road use is not a contest
Tim ScheweDrivesmart
Many people use roadsides for walking or running. Sharing the road with drivers is something you’ve got to be smart about. [SUBMITTED]
Cowichan Valley Citizen | Friday, March 25, 2016 19
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INVITATION FOR LE TTERS OF INTEREST
The Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) invites Letters of Interest from community groups and organizations for occupancy and use of the former Mill Bay Church building located at 2851 Church Road in Mill Bay. This historic building provides approximately 840 sq. ft. of interior space, including a single washroom. Letters of Interest should provide an introduction of your organization, intended use(s) of the building and how your organization would generally expect to support such use(s) (i.e. funding).
Letters of Interest can be sent to Brian Farquhar, Manager, Parks & Trails Division, Planning & Development Department, by mail (CVRD, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC, V9L 1N8) or email ([email protected]) and should be delivered no later than 2:00 pm, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Use of the Mill Bay Historic Church Building - Mill Bay
To arrange a tour of the building, please contact Mike Miller, Parks Capital Projects Specialist, Parks & Trails Division, Planning & Development Department, at [email protected].
This is an invitation of interest only, with no commitment by the CVRD to accept any suggested uses for the building.
INVITATION FOR LE TTERS OF INTERESTINVITATION FOR LE TTERS OF INTEREST
The Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) invites Letters of Interest from community groups and organizations for occupancy and use of the former Mill Bay Church building located at 2851 Church Road in Mill Bay. This historic building provides approximately 840 sq. ft. of interior space, including a single washroom. Letters of Interest should provide an introduction of your organization, intended use(s) of the building and how your organization would generally expect to support such use(s) (i.e. funding).
Letters of Interest can be sent to Brian Farquhar, Manager, Parks & Trails Division, Planning & Development Department, by mail (CVRD, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC, V9L 1N8) or email ([email protected]) and should be delivered no later than 2:00 pm, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Use of the Mill Bay Historic Church Building - Mill BayUse of the Mill Bay Historic Church Building - Mill Bay
To arrange a tour of the building, please contact Mike Miller, Parks Capital Projects Specialist, Parks & Trails Division, Planning & Development Department, at [email protected].
This is an invitation of interest only, with no commitment by the CVRD to accept any suggested uses for the building.
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The South Cowichan Parks Commission and CVRD Parks & Trails Division are hosting the Public Open House #2 to invite public input on the Bright Angel Park Recreation Rejuvenation Project. The CVRD has received grant funding from the Province of BC to rejuvenate specific park facilities at Bright Angel Park which must be completed by March 31, 2015.
Join us for discussion and input at Open House #2:date Saturday, June 8, 2013 time 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.place Bright Angel Park Lower Parking Area
Public Open House #2BRIGHT ANGEL PARK RECREATION REJUVENATION PROJECT & PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN
for more information, please contact: Graham Gidden, CVRD Parks & Trails Planner, Parks & Trails Division, 250-746-2620 or [email protected]
The South Cowichan Parks Commission and CVRD Parks & Trails Division are hosting the Public Open House #2 to invite public input on the Bright Angel Park Recreation Rejuvenation Project. The CVRD has received grant funding from the Province of BC to rejuvenate specific park facilities at Bright Angel Park which must be completed by March 31, 2015.
Join us for discussion and input at Open House #2:date Saturday, June 8, 2013 time 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.place Bright Angel Park Lower Parking Area
Public Open House #2BRIGHT ANGEL PARK RECREATION REJUVENATION PROJECT & PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN
for more information, please contact: Graham Gidden, CVRD Parks & Trails Planner, Parks & Trails Division, 250-746-2620 or [email protected]
The South Cowichan Parks Commission and CVRD Parks & Trails Division are hosting the Public Open House #2 to invite public input on the Bright Angel Park Recreation Rejuvenation Project. The CVRD has received grant funding from the Province of BC to rejuvenate specific park facilities at Bright Angel Park which must be completed by March 31, 2015.
Join us for discussion and input at Open House #2:date Saturday, June 8, 2013 time 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.place Bright Angel Park Lower Parking Area
Public Open House #2BRIGHT ANGEL PARK RECREATION REJUVENATION PROJECT & PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN
for more information, please contact: Graham Gidden, CVRD Parks & Trails Planner, Parks & Trails Division, 250-746-2620 or [email protected]
CVRD Water Systems Flushing NoticeThe Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) will be carrying out flushing of the water systems listed below on:
The South Cowichan Parks Commission and CVRD Parks & Trails Division are hosting the Public Open House #2 to invite public input on the Bright Angel Park Recreation Rejuvenation Project. The CVRD has received grant funding from the Province of BC to rejuvenate specific park facilities at Bright Angel Park which must be completed by March 31, 2015.
Join us for discussion and input at Open House #2:date Saturday, June 8, 2013 time 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.place Bright Angel Park Lower Parking Area
Public Open House #2BRIGHT ANGEL PARK RECREATION REJUVENATION PROJECT & PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN
for more information, please contact: Graham Gidden, CVRD Parks & Trails Planner, Parks & Trails Division, 250-746-2620 or [email protected]
Residents may experience some air in the lines and discolouration of the water supply during these opera-tions. Should this occur, running a cold water tap for a short period will help restore the water quality to normal. Should the problem persist, please call the CVRD’s Engineering Services Department at 250.746.2530
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Many Canadians see our country as a human rights leader, but a United
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The committee’s periodic review of Canada put our country’s com-mitment to providing basic neces-
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Their recommendations on environmental protection and climate change policy were especially noteworthy. Although it’s evident that a healthy environment is the foundation of human rights to food, water, health and liveli-hood, the committee’s decision
to push Canada to pursue renewable energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and establish stronger environ-mental regulations illustrates the growing global recognition of the link between environ-mental and human rights.
This recognition may be just emerging in international human rights law, but it’s nothing new to indigenous people and many others who directly depend on nature for food and livelihood.
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Environmental defi cit tarnishes Canada’s rights recordDavid SuzukiScience Matters
See SCIENCE, Page 21
The Government House Foundation announces the 2016 call for entries for the annual Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for Excellence in British Columbia Wines. Win-eries from through-out the province are invited to enter their best wines in the competition.
The 2016 awards schedule is:
May 20: Deadline for receipt of entry forms.
May 26: Deadline for entered wines to be delivered to Govern-ment House.
June: The wines are judged at Gov-ernment House and the 2016 winners are announced.
July 27-29: The Lieu-tenant Governor vis-its the winning win-eries to make award presentations.
Entry forms are available online at: www.ltgov.bc.ca
A n y e n q u i r i e s should be directed by email to: [email protected]
The Lieutenant Gov-ernor’s Awards for Excellence in British Columbia Wines were established by the Government House Foundation in 2003. The award program recognizes and hon-ours excellence in wines made from 100 per cent grapes, grown and processed within the province.
Call for wine entries
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SCIENCE MATTERS
Many Canadians see our country as a human rights leader, but a United
Nations committee says we should do better. In early March, the Com-mittee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded that Canada’s lack of environmental protection and climate action mars our rights record.
The committee’s periodic review of Canada put our country’s com-mitment to providing basic neces-
sities under the spotlight. Although the review’s authors commended Canada for sev-eral progressive steps, includ-ing the recently announced national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, they expressed concern about the systematic lack of action on homelessness, poverty, access to food and other important obligations under the Interna-tional Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Their recommendations on environmental protection and climate change policy were especially noteworthy. Although it’s evident that a healthy environment is the foundation of human rights to food, water, health and liveli-hood, the committee’s decision
to push Canada to pursue renewable energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and establish stronger environ-mental regulations illustrates the growing global recognition of the link between environ-mental and human rights.
This recognition may be just emerging in international human rights law, but it’s nothing new to indigenous people and many others who directly depend on nature for food and livelihood.
I heard this over and over again this past summer as I travelled with a team along Canada’s vast Pacific coast, visiting a dozen communities in the traditional territories of 12 First Nations. These people reside along 26,000 kilome-tres of British Columbia’s
winding shoreline — home to trillions of plankton, billions of fish, millions of seabirds and thousands of whales, which live among forests of kelp and eelgrass, along underwater canyons and glass sponge reefs.
During the tour, we were wel-comed with feasts that embod-ied the intersection of nature, food and culture, and we con-ducted more than 1,500 pro-foundly moving interviews with coastal residents. They expressed fears about threats to their way of life, including industrial projects that will catastrophically affect the environment and their live-lihoods being approved with little or no consultation.
Environmental defi cit tarnishes Canada’s rights recordDavid SuzukiScience Matters
See SCIENCE, Page 21
The Government House Foundation announces the 2016 call for entries for the annual Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for Excellence in British Columbia Wines. Win-eries from through-out the province are invited to enter their best wines in the competition.
The 2016 awards schedule is:
May 20: Deadline for receipt of entry forms.
May 26: Deadline for entered wines to be delivered to Govern-ment House.
June: The wines are judged at Gov-ernment House and the 2016 winners are announced.
July 27-29: The Lieu-tenant Governor vis-its the winning win-eries to make award presentations.
Entry forms are available online at: www.ltgov.bc.ca
A n y e n q u i r i e s should be directed by email to: [email protected]
The Lieutenant Gov-ernor’s Awards for Excellence in British Columbia Wines were established by the Government House Foundation in 2003. The award program recognizes and hon-ours excellence in wines made from 100 per cent grapes, grown and processed within the province.
Call for wine entries
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SCIENCE MATTERS
Many Canadians see our country as a human rights leader, but a United
Nations committee says we should do better. In early March, the Com-mittee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded that Canada’s lack of environmental protection and climate action mars our rights record.
The committee’s periodic review of Canada put our country’s com-mitment to providing basic neces-
sities under the spotlight. Although the review’s authors commended Canada for sev-eral progressive steps, includ-ing the recently announced national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, they expressed concern about the systematic lack of action on homelessness, poverty, access to food and other important obligations under the Interna-tional Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Their recommendations on environmental protection and climate change policy were especially noteworthy. Although it’s evident that a healthy environment is the foundation of human rights to food, water, health and liveli-hood, the committee’s decision
to push Canada to pursue renewable energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and establish stronger environ-mental regulations illustrates the growing global recognition of the link between environ-mental and human rights.
This recognition may be just emerging in international human rights law, but it’s nothing new to indigenous people and many others who directly depend on nature for food and livelihood.
I heard this over and over again this past summer as I travelled with a team along Canada’s vast Pacific coast, visiting a dozen communities in the traditional territories of 12 First Nations. These people reside along 26,000 kilome-tres of British Columbia’s
winding shoreline — home to trillions of plankton, billions of fish, millions of seabirds and thousands of whales, which live among forests of kelp and eelgrass, along underwater canyons and glass sponge reefs.
During the tour, we were wel-comed with feasts that embod-ied the intersection of nature, food and culture, and we con-ducted more than 1,500 pro-foundly moving interviews with coastal residents. They expressed fears about threats to their way of life, including industrial projects that will catastrophically affect the environment and their live-lihoods being approved with little or no consultation.
Environmental defi cit tarnishes Canada’s rights recordDavid SuzukiScience Matters
See SCIENCE, Page 21
The Government House Foundation announces the 2016 call for entries for the annual Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for Excellence in British Columbia Wines. Win-eries from through-out the province are invited to enter their best wines in the competition.
The 2016 awards schedule is:
May 20: Deadline for receipt of entry forms.
May 26: Deadline for entered wines to be delivered to Govern-ment House.
June: The wines are judged at Gov-ernment House and the 2016 winners are announced.
July 27-29: The Lieu-tenant Governor vis-its the winning win-eries to make award presentations.
Entry forms are available online at: www.ltgov.bc.ca
A n y e n q u i r i e s should be directed by email to: [email protected]
The Lieutenant Gov-ernor’s Awards for Excellence in British Columbia Wines were established by the Government House Foundation in 2003. The award program recognizes and hon-ours excellence in wines made from 100 per cent grapes, grown and processed within the province.
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KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Missing five starters, including a trio of national-level players, Cowichan none-theless gave one of the top teams in the BC Rugby Women’s Premier League a challenge last Saturday.
With Brandi Van Eeuwen, Laura Rus-sell and Tyson Beukeboom all attending the national team camp at Shawnigan Lake School, and Jenna Bugden and Carolyn Gudmundseth sidelined with injuries, Cowichan played host to Seattle, and gave it their all in a 48-10 loss to the American side.
“I would say a 48-10 score is a good score on that given day,” said Sherry Spence, who was named player of the game along with Rebecca Kerswell.
Quinn Battie and Nenagh McCulloch provided Cowichan’s tries in the defeat, while provincial U18 player Mckenna Haz of Brentwood College stepped in at full-back for her first senior women’s match.
Cowichan is off this weekend, then away to UBC on April 2. The team will close out the season with a home game against Bayside on April 9.
Depleted squad gives Seattle a run
WOMEN’S PREMIER RUGBY
Player of the game Rebecca Kerswell
KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Prospective players for Canada’s entry in the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup — including three players from the Cow-ichan Rugby Football Club — started the tryout process at Shawnigan Lake School last week.
About half of the 70 hopefuls for the national team gathered for the western camp at Shawnigan, which will be fol-lowed by a similar camp in eastern Can-ada next month, and coaches were pleased with what they saw.
“We were happy with the way it went,” said Shawnigan’s Gary Dukelow, the scrum coach under national team head coach Francois Ratier. “There was lots of learning to do because we had lots of new players. We were happy with the way the rookies performed, and with how the veterans helped them out, not just on the field, but off the field as well.”
The veterans are key to the efforts by Ratier and the other coaches to recreate the culture and cohesion that led to the team’s success at the 2014, where Canada had a best-ever second-place finish.
The short, five-day camp ended with a final game last Thursday, where the coach-es tested players in different positions.
“Our focus was on contact and passing and catching,” Dukelow related. “Those seem like basic things, but they’re things that Francois always thought were most important for success.”
Members of the Cowichan women’s team showed up for the final game of camp dressed in pig costumes to cheer on their teammates, Brandi Van Eeuwen, Laura Russell and Tyson Beukeboom.
Local product Van Eeuwen pulled out of the selection process for the 2014 World Cup team because of school commit-ments. This time, even though she has a baby and job to worry about off the field, she is taking another shot.
Van Eeuwen injured her hand on the second day of camp and broke her collar-bone early in the intrasquad game, but did enough while she was healthy to keep the coaches’ interest.
“Because she did such a good job, the potential is there still,” Dukelow said.
Dukelow also praised Russell and Beuke-boom, both of whom played for Canada at the 2014 World Cup.
“Laura Russell performed well,” he said. “She’s one of the leaders in this group. Tyson Beukeboom also performed well.”
Russell and Beukeboom relocated to the Cowichan Valley from Ontario in order to play with the local club, and Dukelow wouldn’t be surprised to see other players from across Canadafollow suit.
“Other girls in the country have shown interest in playing here because of the uniqueness and closeness of the club,” he said. “Francois recognizes the local community as a rugby culture he’d like to emulate. It makes me proud as an ex-mem-ber of the national team and a member of the Cowichan club.”
NATIONAL TEAM CAMP
Road to 2017 begins at Shawnigan Lake
Cowichan women’s team member Tyson Beukeboom goes through a speed test during the national team camp at Shawnigan Lake School last week. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
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Several riders from Millshaw Meadows Equestrian Centre in Mill Bay earned awards from the Foxstone Stables Winter Ser-ies horse shows, accumulating points over the series.
The Millshaw Meadows award winners:
Champion Poles Division - Madi Hagel riding West Abbey Liski
Reserve Champion Poles Div-ision - Madison Porter riding Brown Sugar
Reserve Champion X-Poles Division - Tori Raymond riding
Nacho PonyThird in X-Poles Division -
Kailyn Daynes riding Something Special
Reserve Champion in 2’ Div-ision - Breanna Wikkerink riding Sea to Sky
Fourth in 2’ Division- Zoey Har-ris riding Brown Sugar
Reserve Champion in 2’3” Div-ision - Jody Patsch riding Second Debut
Reserve Champion in 2’6” Div-ision - Peyton Hogg riding Espoir
Reserve Champion in 3’ Div-ision - Cassandra Priest riding Bella Ragazza
KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Any hopes the Cowichan Pig-gies had of hosting a First Divi-sion rugby playoff match this spring were dashed with a 42-33 loss to the Hornets in Nanaimo last Saturday.
A second-half comeback attempt by Cowichan fell short on a day that was largely disap-pointing for head coach Gord McGeachy.
“The score was a little closer than the game really was,” he said. “Most of that was just gar-bage second-half stuff. Right from the beginning we came out flat. We were just not ready to play.”
Nanaimo scored their first try four minutes in and were up 21-0 by the 20-minute mark
“It was a pretty big hole for us to crawl out of,” McGeachy commented.
Five minutes before halftime, the Piggies got their first try of the day from Jenner Teufel, and Owen Wood kicked the conver-sion. A halftime deficit of 21-7 didn’t look so bad, but Nanaimo managed to restore the three-try margin with a soft one just before the whistle.
That didn’t give the coach much hope.
“We’re not exactly an offen-sively gifted team,” McGeachy noted. “We score, but we don’t score a ton, and we figured we’d need to score four tries in the second half, or even five, to have a chance of winning.”
Noah Dobson came in for the second half and made an imme-diate impact, scoring a try that Teufel converted, but the Hor-nets came right back to score and go back up by 21. Cowichan did control much of the play in the second half, and got the next two tries from Mike Need-ham, converted by Teufel, and Peter Budina. A ball-handling error led to another Nanaimo try before Ty Jones closed out the day with a try just before
the final whistle, with another conversion from Teufel.
It was small consolation, but the Piggies got their best kick-ing of the season as Wood and Teufel combined to go 4-for-5 on conversions.
McGeachy shouldered the blame for his team’s lack of preparation for an important match.
“The guys knew they let them-selves down,” McGeachy said. “The positive thing is that I think a lot of it was mental. Our mental preparation just wasn’t as good as it needed to be for a big game like that. Hopeful-ly it’s a fixable situation. As a coach, I have to take a lot of the responsibility.”
The First Division Piggies will have the Easter weekend off, and will be home to Westshore on April 9.
Coach Cathie Newman and the Millshaw Meadows award winners at the awards ceremony at the Quamichan Inn. [SUBMITTED]
Millshaw riders honoured
Piggies come up short in Nanaimo, miss out on home playoff match
“The positive thing is that I think a lot of it was mental . . . As a coach, I have to take a lot of the responsibility.”GORD MCGEACHY, Piggies head coach
FIRST DIVISION MEN’S RUGBY
SPORTS
KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Several riders from Millshaw Meadows Equestrian Centre in Mill Bay earned awards from the Foxstone Stables Winter Ser-ies horse shows, accumulating points over the series.
The Millshaw Meadows award winners:
Champion Poles Division - Madi Hagel riding West Abbey Liski
Reserve Champion Poles Div-ision - Madison Porter riding Brown Sugar
Reserve Champion X-Poles Division - Tori Raymond riding
Nacho PonyThird in X-Poles Division -
Kailyn Daynes riding Something Special
Reserve Champion in 2’ Div-ision - Breanna Wikkerink riding Sea to Sky
Fourth in 2’ Division- Zoey Har-ris riding Brown Sugar
Reserve Champion in 2’3” Div-ision - Jody Patsch riding Second Debut
Reserve Champion in 2’6” Div-ision - Peyton Hogg riding Espoir
Reserve Champion in 3’ Div-ision - Cassandra Priest riding Bella Ragazza
KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Any hopes the Cowichan Pig-gies had of hosting a First Divi-sion rugby playoff match this spring were dashed with a 42-33 loss to the Hornets in Nanaimo last Saturday.
A second-half comeback attempt by Cowichan fell short on a day that was largely disap-pointing for head coach Gord McGeachy.
“The score was a little closer than the game really was,” he said. “Most of that was just gar-bage second-half stuff. Right from the beginning we came out flat. We were just not ready to play.”
Nanaimo scored their first try four minutes in and were up 21-0 by the 20-minute mark
“It was a pretty big hole for us to crawl out of,” McGeachy commented.
Five minutes before halftime, the Piggies got their first try of the day from Jenner Teufel, and Owen Wood kicked the conver-sion. A halftime deficit of 21-7 didn’t look so bad, but Nanaimo managed to restore the three-try margin with a soft one just before the whistle.
That didn’t give the coach much hope.
“We’re not exactly an offen-sively gifted team,” McGeachy noted. “We score, but we don’t score a ton, and we figured we’d need to score four tries in the second half, or even five, to have a chance of winning.”
Noah Dobson came in for the second half and made an imme-diate impact, scoring a try that Teufel converted, but the Hor-nets came right back to score and go back up by 21. Cowichan did control much of the play in the second half, and got the next two tries from Mike Need-ham, converted by Teufel, and Peter Budina. A ball-handling error led to another Nanaimo try before Ty Jones closed out the day with a try just before
the final whistle, with another conversion from Teufel.
It was small consolation, but the Piggies got their best kick-ing of the season as Wood and Teufel combined to go 4-for-5 on conversions.
McGeachy shouldered the blame for his team’s lack of preparation for an important match.
“The guys knew they let them-selves down,” McGeachy said. “The positive thing is that I think a lot of it was mental. Our mental preparation just wasn’t as good as it needed to be for a big game like that. Hopeful-ly it’s a fixable situation. As a coach, I have to take a lot of the responsibility.”
The First Division Piggies will have the Easter weekend off, and will be home to Westshore on April 9.
Coach Cathie Newman and the Millshaw Meadows award winners at the awards ceremony at the Quamichan Inn. [SUBMITTED]
Millshaw riders honoured
Piggies come up short in Nanaimo, miss out on home playoff match
“The positive thing is that I think a lot of it was mental . . . As a coach, I have to take a lot of the responsibility.”GORD MCGEACHY, Piggies head coach
FIRST DIVISION MEN’S RUGBY
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KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
It has been a busy few months for the Duncan Stingrays swim team, with meets including the provincial AA and AAA championships.
The Stingrays sent seven swimmers to the Swim BC AA championships in Penticton on Feb. 12-14, where they were among nearly 500 athletes from across the province.
Of the seven who attended, James Ogi-hara-Kertz and Robyn Zinkan achieved 100 per cent personal bests and Jere-my Kissack and Brielle Woodruff had personal bests in all but one event, and Mathias Bell and Montana Prystupa each had three PBs.
Each of the seven swimmers also brought home hardware. Prystupa claimed one fifth-place result and one eighth in the 14-and-over group; Wood-ruff brought home two silvers, a fourth and an eighth in the 12/13 group; and Zinkan collected a gold, a bronze, a fourth and a fifth in the 14-and-over group. Those three also teamed up with Megan Lewis to win gold in the female senior/open 4x50m freestyle and medley relays.
Bell picked up a bronze, a fifth and an eighth in the 14-and-over age group; Kissack came home with a bronze, two fourths and a fifth in the 14-and-over group; and Ogihara-Kertz, also in the 14-and-over group, claimed a bronze, a fifth and an eighth.
The club also measured its success based on how much the swimmers climbed in the rankings over the course of the meet. Kissack and Ogihara-Kertz each moved up in all of their events, and as a team, the Stingrays moved up in 26
of their 41 races.Also at the AA meet, three swimmers
earned qualifying times for the AAA championships in Victoria two weeks later: Woodruff in the 200m freestyle, Kissack in the 100m and 200m back-stroke, and Zinkan in the 100m free and 50m fly. Added to her previous times in the 50m free and 100m fly, Zinkan had more than the requisite three qualifiers to attend the AAA championships.
Including Zinkan, the Stingrays had 10 swimmers at the AAA meet in Victoria on March 3-6, where they were part of a field of 620 athletes.
Zinkan, Mary Paridaen vanVeen, Dylan Kruger and Savanah VanNieu-wkerk each had 100 per cent personal bests. Ty Dahlstrom and Malia Prystu-pa were one event short of that mark, and Olin Dahlstrom and Oliver Castle were two events short. Cailine Keirstead and Desirae Ridenour each finished the meet with two PBs.
Zinkan, coming off just racing at the AA meet, was the only Stingray not to score points with a top-16 finish. Three
swimmers had top-eight results: Pari-daen vanVeen in the 11-and-under 100m fly, Ty Dahlstrom in the 11-and-under 100m backstroke, and Castle in the 14/15 200m breaststroke.
Castle had six top-16 finishes, Van-Nieuwkerk had four, Kruger and Keir-stead had three each, Paridaen van-Veen, Ridenour, Ty Dahlstrom and Malia Prystupa had two each, and Olin Dahlstrom had one.
Paridaen vanVeen, VanNieuwkerk and Zinkan each climbed the rankings in all of their races.
Castle, a 14-year-old racing in the 16-and-under events, earned an invita-tion to the Canadian Age Group Cham-pionship by collecting his second and third qualifying times in the 100m and 200m breaststroke.
Castle also set new club records for his age in the 100m backstroke (1:03.34), 200m backstroke (2:14.64), 50m breaststroke (32.31), 100m breaststroke (1:10.09), and 200m breaststroke (2:32.96 in the prelims and 2:32.86 in the finals.
Kruger, 12, set new club marks in the 50m backstroke (33.07), 100m backstroke (1:09.33), 100m breaststroke (1:20.93) and 200m breaststroke (2:52.29).
Paridaen vanVeen, 10, achieved records in the 50m fly (35.50 seconds) and 100m fly (1:18.51). Ty Dahlstrom, 10, set new marks in the 100m backstroke (1:19.01) and 200m backstroke (2:51.89). Olin Dahlstrom, 12, twice broke the record in the 200m fly (2:38.95 in the pre-lims and 2:35.68 in the finals), and set a record in the 100m fly (1:10.64).
The 14-and-under 4x50m medley relay team of Kruger, Castle and both Dahl-stroms also set a new club record of 2:10.97.
KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Two teams from Cowichan Field Hockey made their respective league championship games last Sunday, with the Cowichan Stellers win-ning the Div. 3 title.
The finals were held at the Cowichan Sports-plex’s John Ferreira turf, and the semifinals were held at UVic the previous day.
Jamie Court and Ali Andersen scored for the Stellers as they defeated the Ravens in the Div. 3 championship game. The Stellers had also finished atop Div. 3 in the regular season standings.
The Cowichan Flickers reached the Div. 1 final against Lynx I, where they battled back from a 2-0 deficit to tie the score and force a shootout, only to be beaten 2-0 on strokes. Beth Corish and Jenna Berard did the scoring for the Flickers in regulation. Like the Stellers, the Flickers had also won the regular season title in Div. 1.
In Div. 2, the Cowichan Cardinals lost in the semifinals, falling 3-1 to the regular season champion Sailors. The Sailors went on to lose to Lynx II in the final.
Cowichan Stellers win Division 3 fi nal in VILFHA playoff s
Stefanie Langkammer of the Flickers
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Stingrays rewrite record book, bring home hardware
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Several riders from Millshaw Meadows Equestrian Centre in Mill Bay earned awards from the Foxstone Stables Winter Ser-ies horse shows, accumulating points over the series.
The Millshaw Meadows award winners:
Champion Poles Division - Madi Hagel riding West Abbey Liski
Reserve Champion Poles Div-ision - Madison Porter riding Brown Sugar
Reserve Champion X-Poles Division - Tori Raymond riding
Nacho PonyThird in X-Poles Division -
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Reserve Champion in 2’ Div-ision - Breanna Wikkerink riding Sea to Sky
Fourth in 2’ Division- Zoey Har-ris riding Brown Sugar
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Reserve Champion in 2’6” Div-ision - Peyton Hogg riding Espoir
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KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Any hopes the Cowichan Pig-gies had of hosting a First Divi-sion rugby playoff match this spring were dashed with a 42-33 loss to the Hornets in Nanaimo last Saturday.
A second-half comeback attempt by Cowichan fell short on a day that was largely disap-pointing for head coach Gord McGeachy.
“The score was a little closer than the game really was,” he said. “Most of that was just gar-bage second-half stuff. Right from the beginning we came out flat. We were just not ready to play.”
Nanaimo scored their first try four minutes in and were up 21-0 by the 20-minute mark
“It was a pretty big hole for us to crawl out of,” McGeachy commented.
Five minutes before halftime, the Piggies got their first try of the day from Jenner Teufel, and Owen Wood kicked the conver-sion. A halftime deficit of 21-7 didn’t look so bad, but Nanaimo managed to restore the three-try margin with a soft one just before the whistle.
That didn’t give the coach much hope.
“We’re not exactly an offen-sively gifted team,” McGeachy noted. “We score, but we don’t score a ton, and we figured we’d need to score four tries in the second half, or even five, to have a chance of winning.”
Noah Dobson came in for the second half and made an imme-diate impact, scoring a try that Teufel converted, but the Hor-nets came right back to score and go back up by 21. Cowichan did control much of the play in the second half, and got the next two tries from Mike Need-ham, converted by Teufel, and Peter Budina. A ball-handling error led to another Nanaimo try before Ty Jones closed out the day with a try just before
the final whistle, with another conversion from Teufel.
It was small consolation, but the Piggies got their best kick-ing of the season as Wood and Teufel combined to go 4-for-5 on conversions.
McGeachy shouldered the blame for his team’s lack of preparation for an important match.
“The guys knew they let them-selves down,” McGeachy said. “The positive thing is that I think a lot of it was mental. Our mental preparation just wasn’t as good as it needed to be for a big game like that. Hopeful-ly it’s a fixable situation. As a coach, I have to take a lot of the responsibility.”
The First Division Piggies will have the Easter weekend off, and will be home to Westshore on April 9.
Coach Cathie Newman and the Millshaw Meadows award winners at the awards ceremony at the Quamichan Inn. [SUBMITTED]
Millshaw riders honoured
Piggies come up short in Nanaimo, miss out on home playoff match
“The positive thing is that I think a lot of it was mental . . . As a coach, I have to take a lot of the responsibility.”GORD MCGEACHY, Piggies head coach
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• Somenos Women’s Institute Cele-bration of 80 Years Tea Saturday, April 2, 2-4 p.m., Duncan United Church. Spon-sor: Circle of Friends DUC group. Enter-tainment: Fashion Show by Heritage Costume group from Victoria modeling costumes from the 1930s and 40s; Dutch Auction of crafts, gift baskets. Doors open 1:30 p.m. Tea tickets $15 each, Duncan United Church office or Som-enos Women’s Institute members. Info: 250-748-5820.
• Canadian Firearms Safety course (PAL/RPAL), Friday, April 8, Duncan. Registra-tion and info: [email protected] or Mike 250-748-0319.
• Cowichan Valley Garden Club annual spring perennial plant sale Saturday, April 9, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 486 Jubilee St., St. John’s Anglican Church Hall.
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• Island Oak High School info sessions for patents and students interested in grades 8-12 Waldorf educational pro-gram. Wednesday, April 20, 6:30-8 p.m., Shawnigan Lake Community Centre, 2804 Shawnigan Lake Road; Monday,
April 25, 6:30-8 p.m., Island Oak High School, 5814 Banks Rd., Duncan; Wed-nesday, April 27, 6-7:30 p.m., Vancouver Island Regional Library Ladysmith branch, #3-740 First Ave.
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in Centennial Park. Learn to garden and take something home each time. Info: www.duncangarden.com. Phone: 250-748-0580.
• Fraternal Order of Eagles #2546-2965 Boys Rd., Duncan. Weekly meat draws, Friday, 4:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 3:30 p.m.
• Cowichan Neighbourhood House accepting registration for workshops: February: Rent Smart, Chronic Pail Management, Spanish Lessons, Non Violence Intervention; March: Foodsafe, Canning, First Aid. More info: www.cnha.ca or 250-246-3202.
• Mt. View 1966 — 50th reunion. Grads
send contact info to [email protected] or call Dave Hutchings 250-477-4505.
Seniors• Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre
April 2 Centre spring clean-up day. Vol-unteer sign up sheet at Centre.
• Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre April 9 Pancake Breakfast, 9-11 a.m.
• Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre April 16 birthday party with pot luck din-ner, bar, and entertainment, 5-8 p.m.
• Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre April 20 soup and sandwich. Entertain-ment by Ladies Choir, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Meetings• Cobble Hill Historical Society Annual
General Meeting Tuesday, April 12, 7 p.m., Youth Hall at 3665 Watson Ave., Cobble Hill. Guest speaker: Jim Ward presenting his Pioneer Landowner Map. Map depicts original owners of each major block of land in southern Cowic-han Valley.
• Cobble Hill Historical Society presentation by Dalhousie University research fellow John Orr commemorat-ing those who died in WWI memorial-ized on South Cowichan Cenotaph in Cobble Hill, Saturday, April 16, 3-5 p.m., Cobble Hill Hall.
• Cowichan Family Caregivers Support Society support groups for all care-givers: fourth Thursday of the month, 1-2:30 p.m., Chemainus United Church; second Tuesday of the month, Ladys-mith Resource Centre. Info: lisa@family caregiverssupport.org or 250-882-4411.
Ladies from the Sikh Temple met with ladies from the Cowichan District Hospital Auxiliary to make East Indian dishes that were sold at the hospital March 4, following two days of preparation. The event has been held for several years, but this is the first time the Auxiliary has participated. The Auxiliary made over $2,700 to go towards needed hospital equipment. [SUBMITTED PHOTO]
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VALLEY Calendar
Miscellaneous• Free Family Caregiver Workshop,
Alzheimer Society of B.C., April 2, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., St. Ann’s Garden Club at Providence Farm, 1843 Tzouhalem Rd. Pre-registration required: Jane Hope 1-800-462-2833 or [email protected]
• Somenos Women’s Institute Cele-bration of 80 Years Tea Saturday, April 2, 2-4 p.m., Duncan United Church. Spon-sor: Circle of Friends DUC group. Enter-tainment: Fashion Show by Heritage Costume group from Victoria modeling costumes from the 1930s and 40s; Dutch Auction of crafts, gift baskets. Doors open 1:30 p.m. Tea tickets $15 each, Duncan United Church office or Som-enos Women’s Institute members. Info: 250-748-5820.
• Canadian Firearms Safety course (PAL/RPAL), Friday, April 8, Duncan. Registra-tion and info: [email protected] or Mike 250-748-0319.
• Cowichan Valley Garden Club annual spring perennial plant sale Saturday, April 9, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 486 Jubilee St., St. John’s Anglican Church Hall.
• Island Savings Spring Parents Unite Garage Sale Saturday, April 9, 9 a.m.-noon. Get rid of toys your child no longer wants and get greats deals on clothes and toys. Activity area for kids. Space for 66 vendors, reserve your spot. Tables $20 each. Free admission.
• Island Oak High School info sessions for patents and students interested in grades 8-12 Waldorf educational pro-gram. Wednesday, April 20, 6:30-8 p.m., Shawnigan Lake Community Centre, 2804 Shawnigan Lake Road; Monday,
April 25, 6:30-8 p.m., Island Oak High School, 5814 Banks Rd., Duncan; Wed-nesday, April 27, 6-7:30 p.m., Vancouver Island Regional Library Ladysmith branch, #3-740 First Ave.
• Register for Garden Pals, free com-munity garden program for children and parents, Jubilee Community Garden
in Centennial Park. Learn to garden and take something home each time. Info: www.duncangarden.com. Phone: 250-748-0580.
• Fraternal Order of Eagles #2546-2965 Boys Rd., Duncan. Weekly meat draws, Friday, 4:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 3:30 p.m.
• Cowichan Neighbourhood House accepting registration for workshops: February: Rent Smart, Chronic Pail Management, Spanish Lessons, Non Violence Intervention; March: Foodsafe, Canning, First Aid. More info: www.cnha.ca or 250-246-3202.
• Mt. View 1966 — 50th reunion. Grads
send contact info to [email protected] or call Dave Hutchings 250-477-4505.
Seniors• Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre
April 2 Centre spring clean-up day. Vol-unteer sign up sheet at Centre.
• Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre April 9 Pancake Breakfast, 9-11 a.m.
• Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre April 16 birthday party with pot luck din-ner, bar, and entertainment, 5-8 p.m.
• Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre April 20 soup and sandwich. Entertain-ment by Ladies Choir, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Meetings• Cobble Hill Historical Society Annual
General Meeting Tuesday, April 12, 7 p.m., Youth Hall at 3665 Watson Ave., Cobble Hill. Guest speaker: Jim Ward presenting his Pioneer Landowner Map. Map depicts original owners of each major block of land in southern Cowic-han Valley.
• Cobble Hill Historical Society presentation by Dalhousie University research fellow John Orr commemorat-ing those who died in WWI memorial-ized on South Cowichan Cenotaph in Cobble Hill, Saturday, April 16, 3-5 p.m., Cobble Hill Hall.
• Cowichan Family Caregivers Support Society support groups for all care-givers: fourth Thursday of the month, 1-2:30 p.m., Chemainus United Church; second Tuesday of the month, Ladys-mith Resource Centre. Info: lisa@family caregiverssupport.org or 250-882-4411.
Ladies from the Sikh Temple met with ladies from the Cowichan District Hospital Auxiliary to make East Indian dishes that were sold at the hospital March 4, following two days of preparation. The event has been held for several years, but this is the first time the Auxiliary has participated. The Auxiliary made over $2,700 to go towards needed hospital equipment. [SUBMITTED PHOTO]
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