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Dad dies in Yellow Point car crash

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A tragedy on Yellow Point Road last week has left two young chil-dren without their father.

Gavin McConville, a 51-year-old English professor at Vancouver Is-land University died in a car acci-dent May 4 on Yellow Point Road.

Regional coroner Matt Brown said Monday investigators are still trying to determine whether McConville died as a result of the crash or some form of medical condition that may have contrib-uted to the crash.

The Ladysmith man was south-bound with his two children in the area near De Courcy Drive when the vehicle left the road, striking a power pole and then a tree before coming to rest.

He was declared dead on the scene by the B.C. Coroner’s office. “We’re still waiting for the traffic analyst’s report,” Brown said. According to Brown, the crash

occurred on an s-curve.“He negotiated the first turn, he didn’t negotiate the second. There’s no indication that weather was a factor, but that’s still to be determined.”

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Truck retired to volunteer

A Crofton fire truck will find new life in retirement serving a needy community in South America.

North Cowichan has donated a 1984 Mack Pumper Truck, retired last year, to Firefighters Without Borders Canada. “When David Hitchcock, a North Cowichan firefighter and the Central Vancouver Island representative for Firefighters Without Borders Canada, made the recommendation, Council didn’t hesitate to approve the dona-tion,” said Mayor Jon Lefebure.“Thanks to Crofton fire hall’s commitment to maintenance and upkeep, this truck will likely be in service for another 20 years.”

In Canada, a combina-tion of safety standards and insurance require-ments only allow fire trucks to be in service for around 25 years. “The mission of Firefighters Without Borders Canada is to assist the emergency service agencies in developing countries to improve their ability to effectively offer a higher level of emer-gency services to their communities,” said Bob Dubbert, President of Firefighters Without Borders Canada.

Dangerous man wanted

North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 35-year-old Nathan Myles, a resident of the Cowichan Valley.

Myles, left, is wanted in con-nection with a series of violent offences,

including the serious assault of an 18-year-old Duncan woman who was known to him.

He is about 6’1”, 166 pounds and recently cut his long hair short.

Anyone with informa-tion should call the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP at 250-748-5522, or anonymously through Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Methuen area going to the dogs


A new fenced dog park is coming to Ladysmith in a central location.A late recommendation

from staff to build the park on undeveloped town land west of the turf field failed to trump similar existing proposals at Brown Drive Park, Davis Road School and the corner of Sixth Avenue and Methuen.

Instead, council has de-cide to move forward with the Methuen site, near one of the entrances to the Holland Creek Trail. The proximity to that popular dog walk and the fact that it is in the middle of town overcome any concerns about site size.“It’s a central location and there is enough space,” Mayor Aaron Stone said.

“I think council thought it was a better location.”

Stirling and Audrey Beeston are the owners of a pair of the town’s 1,000 li-censed dogs. They are OK with the idea of a fenced off-leash dog park being added in town. Shrinking and fencing in the current off-leash area at Transfer Beach Park? Not so much.

The couple has been tak-ing their pets to Transfer Beach Park for 40 years on an almost daily basis. They see lots of space, pets and people interact-ing in an healthy way and no threat to public safety or people’s enjoyment of

the park.They don’t see anything

broken, and they wonder why council feels the need to start fixing.“Why are they wasting

our tax dollars?” Audrey asked.

The answer, according to the town, is part safety and part being neighbour-ly. Stone said there have been incidents of dogs running out on to the road. And there have been com-plaints from other users of the beach area who don’t want to have to interact with canines.“There’s been feedback from the other side of the

equation,” he said. “There are people that don’t want a dog park there at all. We don’t want that.”

Instead, the goal is to continue providing oppor-tunities for dog owners while minimizing impact on other park uses.

Council has already approved reducing the Transfer Beach off-leash zone to the area below the horseshoe pitch. In the other half of the current area, they will be permit-ted on-leash only.

Stone said some people are misunderstanding what the beach area will look like. It’s less a fence

and more of a way of mark-ing out the new territory.“The intent is not to en-

close it. It’s providing a soft barrier,” he said. “It’s still a very large area. It’s all about finding a com-mon good.”

Split-wood fencing, land-scaping and new signage has been approved to mark the new off-leash area in this year’s bud-get. Work is expected to get underway at a cost of about $14,000, once coun-cil has approved the final design.

It’s less clear when work on the Methuen site is expected to get started.

Estimated cost of devel-oping the park is $27,000 — $3,000 less than the Forrest Field option, and $14,000 more than Brown Drive.

Plans still need to be drawn up and a lease agreement negotiated with BC Hydro.

The Brown Drive Park location was deemed by staff to lack parking and be too close to the play-ground. Council also felt both it and Forrest Field could be better utilized for other purposes. The school was rejected as an option partly due to un-certainty about school dis-trict plans for the property.

Ladysmith approves fenced dog park for the centre of town

Dusty inspects a photographer while Rascal trots off to explore other areas of the Transfer Beach off-leash dog area. Owners Stirling and Audrey Beeston have been taking their dogs to the park for 40 years. JOHN MCKINLEY

Study says all our schools below average


If you find the annual Fraser In-stitute school rankings a waste of your time, flip ahead to the next story.

Otherwise, be prepared for a little bit of good and a little bit of bad.

The good news in rankings re-leased last week is Ladysmith Intermediate School continued a recent trend of improvement and Ecole Davis Road bounced back strongly after a down year.

The bad news is every school in

the Ladysmith-Chemainus area is below the provincial average.

The report ranked 978 elementary schools from across the province based on the results of foundation skills assessment testing done in the 2013-14 school year. The FSAs are given annually to Grade 4 and Grade 7 students to test their pro-ficiency in math, reading and writ-ing. The average provincial score from 2013-14 was 6.0.• The now-closed Ecole Davis Road

topped all local schools this year with a ranking of 557th and a score of 5.7. The total was up considerably from a 4.2 the previous year.

• LIS maintained the sizable jump it had made in the rankings from the previous year, finishing in 647th place. Its score of 5.3 was well above its five-year average of 4.5.• Crofton Elementary scored

third-best results among local schools, finished in 692nd place, although its 5.1 score was well be-low its five-year average of 6.2.• North Cedar declined for the

third consecutive year, dropping to 844th spot. Its score of 4.1 down from its five-year average of 4.6.• St. Joseph’s, which was not part

of the report last year, also ranked 844th, with the same score of 4.1.• North Oyster and Chemainus

Elementary Schools were not in-cluded in the Fraser Institute rank-ings released last week — usu-

ally an indication that not enough students wrote the tests to make them statistically relevant.

Ecole Davis Road was closed after the last school year and its French immersion program trans-ferred to North Oyster.

Eighteen of the top 21 schools in this year’s overall rankings were private institutions. Private schools Aspengrove in Lantzville and Queen Margaret’s in Duncan topped all schools within the two local districts, ranking 24th and 53rd, respectively.

The second best public school score (after Hammond Bay) in the Nanaimo and Cowichan districts was Nanaimo’s learn@home pro-gram, finishing 121st overall with a score of 7.9.

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Have you been kind today?


The vignette, captured on video and posted on a public forum, is hard to watch without cracking a smile: five women packing flower baskets, knock-ing on doors at a local seniors complex.

The doors open. Eyebrows raise under white and gray and dyed coifs. Hands reach to ac-cept the gift as uncertain smiles crack lined faces.

It’s just another random act of kindness mission accom-plished in Ladysmith.

Launched last summer, the Ladysmith Random Act of Kindness movement is kicking into high gear again this spring with a series of videos on its Facebook page.

Random Acts of Kindness Ladysmith promotes the prac-tice of paying it forward: buy-ing a coffee for the car behind you at the drive-through; telling the restaurant server scrubbing someone else’s table she is do-ing a good job; complimenting the stranger beside you at the cash register on his nice coat.

These are the unexpected, thoughtful actions that make a surprising amount of difference in people’s lives.“One of my personal missions

in life is to put a smile on some-body’s face every day,” Ron Dale said.”It’s being aware of some of the needs around you and re-membering why Ladysmith is a wonderful place to live.”

Dale and Kim Judson launched the local movement last June after a presentation to town council. Marketed with stickers posted in a variety of lo-cations, organizers also pushed the campaign at schools and churches through tip sheets and bulletin board forms where people could make note of the random acts of kindness expe-rienced in their personal lives.

Dale said the initiative has caught on simply because peo-ple like it and it makes sense. He just wants to remind them of how easy it can be to make a difference.“It’s happening. I just want to refresh your memories,” he said. “There are so many ben-efits to it. We just want to keep it front-and-centre.”

Thus the new video series. In the video described above, the

second in the series, members of the Ladysmith Dragon Boat team prepared flower baskets and de-livered them to random seniors.

It is the second of nine clips that will be posted to the Random Acts of Kindness Ladysmith page in the com-ing weeks in order to inspire people into similar acts. In the first; Jesse Winter and his fam-ily hand out balloons to strang-ers along First Avenue.

The suggestions are endless: from the effortless old staple of holding a door open, to buying someone an ice cream cone, to writing a letter of appreciation for a favourite service worker and sending it to his or her boss.

Dale’s message is simple: try it, you’ll like it.“It also makes the day of the person who did it,” he said.

Post any random acts of kind-ness you’ve received to the movement’s facebook site, or email them to the Chronicle at [email protected].

We’ll publish our favourites.

Ladysmith’s Random Act of Kindness movement is kicking into high gear again this spring with a series of videos on its Facebook page

Ron Dale washes his car after taping a toonie to the machine for the next person to use — an example of the types of simple, yet mean-ingful actions being encouraged by the Ladysmith Random Acts of Kindness movement. JOHN MCKINLEY








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The large “Welcome to Ladysmith” sign at the north end of town in Bob Stuart Park will be replaced soon as part of a $280,000 signage overhaul designed to make Ladysmith look more welcoming.

The money — most of it expected to come from a govern-ment grant — is being targeted to build 13 new signs, including a pair of signature wel-coming signs at either end of town.

The plan began as a discussion on how to regulate the use of sandwich boards downtown. Then evolved into some-thing larger.“How can we pro-

vide opportunities for people to learn about our great downtown?” Ladysmith develop-ment services manag-er Felicity Adams said. “We want to get peo-ple off the highway and into downtown. Then, once they are into downtown, we want to entice them by showing them what is available.”

A committee includ-ing representatives from the Ladysmith Downtown Busi-

ness Association and Ladysmith Chamber of Commerce went to work. Consultant Golder Associates was hired to help at a cost of $25,000.

The resulting sig-nature pieces are a pair of large welcome signs on either end of town. They will mir-ror the existing Bob Stuart Park sign in size and scope. Initial designs show a more modern look and a script-style font, how-ever staff state the look may be revised.

The draft new Bob Stuart sign is blue on white. The south end sign (opposite the south Davis Road turnoff) will have a blue-and-green co-lour scheme that will be echoed in a series of smaller “heritage downtown” direc-tional signs aimed at drawing people in off the highway.

New will be a hand-ful of street-sign-style directional signs along First Avenue, designed to point out businesses off the main drag and eliminate the need for sandwich boards.

These will be com-plemented by a kiosk sign featuring a map and a business direc-tory. Businesses are

expected to have to pay a fee to be includ-ed in these signs.Also part of the plan

are tourism info signs and a new 49th Paral-lel photo-op marker, likely at the Aggie Hall plaza.According to Adams,

the design was pretty much set through the committee and feed-back members gath-ered out in the com-munity.“There was quite a bit of feedback,” she said. “The committee did spread their wings and go out a little bit, hopefully people will like what they see.”

Council has already approved the project in principle. The town hopes a $230,000 gas tax grant will pay for the bulk of the work. Results of the grant application will likely be known in late sum-mer.

Timing of installa-tion will be subject to when council decides to make money avail-able.

$280,000 Ladysmith project designed to help downtown business and get people off the highway

Above, the new Wel-come to Ladysmith sign for Grouhel Road. Be-low, the new 49th Paral-lel marker proposed for the plaza in front of Ag-gie Hall. courtesy town of Ladysmith


Albertans have always laughed about their long-standing reputation as a reck-less, immature society.

The classic bumper sticker, now available as a T-shirt or coffee cup in several variations, states: “Please God, give us one more oil boom, we promise not to p--- it away this time.”

Now they’ve thrown out the government that finally tried to stop blowing money like a roughneck fresh out of the bush. Jim Prentice had the gall to propose raising income tax-es for high wage earners, do-ing away with former Alberta treasurer Stockwell Day’s sig-nature flat tax.

In response, voters have abruptly replaced the 44-year Progressive Conservative dy-nasty with an upstart NDP

that wants to tax the rich and corporations even more. Fac-ing an oil slump, layoffs and a huge structural deficit in Alberta’s lavish public ser-vice, NDP premier-elect Ra-chel Notley is committed to a 50-per-cent increase in the minimum wage and another “review” of resource royalties.

One headline in a national paper summed it up: “Go home, Alberta. You’re drunk.”

In the sober days after the election, a few truths emerge. Alberta hasn’t been a fiscally conservative, small-govern-ment place for a long time. Among other things, it has ratcheted up teacher and nurse wages across the coun-try.

Alberta is broke, again, and even the NDP is afraid to re-sort to a sales tax.

The minimum wage hike is a pet policy of Canada’s labour federations, which somehow remain convinced that poverty can be eliminated by state or-der.

On the positive side, Notley has promised to end corporate and union donations to po-litical parties, as has already been done federally. B.C.

should be next, but the gravy train of business donations is too tempting for our nominally Liberal government.

Here at the B.C. legislature, an NDP staffer passed out cans of Orange Crush to cel-ebrate. NDP leader John Hor-gan pronounced himself “ec-static,” and hastened to assure reporters that Notley is “as competent as she sounds.”

Notley now has to sort through a caucus that includes typical NDP place-holders, college students and union staff running in faint-hope constituencies. Soon after the result, the party pulled down its website platform and can-didate biographies, as Notley began phoning energy compa-nies to reassure them Alberta will be “A-OK” on her watch.

Horgan likes to describe the “capital flight” from new NDP governments as if it’s just a show put on by big business. Plummeting stock prices and relocation of corporate offices are all staged, according to the party line, nothing to do with actual investment conditions created by NDP policies. This fiction is all Horgan dares to say publicly, because it’s what

his party base devoutly be-lieves.

Besides, they’re only branch offices of multinational oil companies like Shell, Horgan said. He used his favourite Tommy Douglas quote, about the bad news of a big oil com-pany leaving. “The good news is, the oil is staying here.”

B.C.’s natural gas might be staying here too. Horgan in-sists he supports a natural gas export industry, but his party seems more concerned with an ascending Green Party, and an urban base that believes you can run a resource econ-omy on windmills and solar panels.

Notley supports twinning the TransMountain pipeline, while Horgan continues to insist he has no opinion on the project Adrian Dix so memorably op-posed.

The Alberta NDP has a steep learning curve ahead. The B.C. NDP has a couple of years to see if the appearance of a like-minded Alberta government is a boost for them, or a caution-ary tale for voters.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers.

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This year’s Ladysmith and North Cowichan budgets involved a lot of serious debate about how to slice up the property tax pie.

How much of the load should be shouldered by residents and how much by businesses?

And it left us wondering: why is there is any difference at all?

We all share in the benefits of living and working in Ladysmith. Why don’t we all pay the same rate?

By what rationale have we deter-mined that businesses must shoulder a larger share of the burden?

An argument can be made that busi-nesses, particularly heavy industry, cause a greater strain on the town’s infrastructure.

The counterargument would be that there are other ways to make heavy industry pay.

They use more water? They should pay higher water rates. Heavy trucks wearing out town streets? Hit them with a business licensing fee to pay for maintenance.

An argument can be made that they are in a better position to pay than the average citizen.

That may be true, but has somebody actually demonstrated that as fact? Certainly they generate more income, but just as obviously they carry more costs.

Maybe communities have tradition-ally taxed businesses at a higher rate simply because they can.

And maybe they have been doing it for so long no one has ever really thought to wonder if it was fair or ef-fective.

We are not suggesting a flat rate is necessarily the way to go. We are ask-ing what would happen if one was in place. Would a resulting growth in businesses and jobs make up for the lost tax revenue?

We’re interested in the answer.

YOUR WORDS“One of my personal missions in life is to put a smile on somebody’s face every day.”

Ron Dale, Page 4Why does business have to

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from page 3The B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory

Councils has spoken out in support of the FSA tests, saying they provide important informa-tion about the effectiveness of a school’s pro-grams. But B.C.’s teachers have been campaign-ing to boycott FSA testing for years, claiming they intrude on teaching time and are unfairly used to rank schools.

Officials in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district share some of their concerns. The pre-vious school board indicated it was concerned about the “misuse” of the data to rank schools and its belief the FSA results also serve to dis-count the quality teaching and learning that oc-curs in classrooms.

The Fraser Institute has long maintained the rankings help parents and teachers compare schools by showing which schools have shown improvement, and which schools have fallen behind.

— with file from Robert Barron

Children treated and releasedfrom page 1“An RCMP traffic analyst at-tended and his report, along with a mechanical inspection of the car are pending,” Const Gary O’Brien of the Nanaimo RCMP said in a media release.“It is still under investigation but early reports indicate the male driver may have experi-enced a medical emergency just prior to the collision.”According to police, the

kids, age 6 and 8, did not sus-tain any significant injuries. The police report indicated they were taken to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, treated and then released.

The incident, which oc-curred at about 5:30 p.m., was attended by members of the Nanaimo and Ladysmith RCMP.

No word was available at press time about a service, or if the family is in need of any help from the community.

Members of the North Oyster Fire Department monitor a practice burn conducted on Brenton-Page Road Saturday at the head of Ladysmith Harbour, opposite Schon Timber. Teresa McKinley

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Chemainus businesses to shoulder more of the loadDivided council shifts burden of overall 3.2% increase away from homeownersLexi BainasFor the chronicle

Passionate pleading by busi-ness backers didn’t budge the majority of North Cowichan council from their 2015 bud-get choice: shifting more of a planned tax increase onto business and industrial.

Rejecting an option that called for a 3.22% tax increase across the board, council nar-rowly approved a budget that will result in a 2.98% jump for residential property owners and a 3.7% hike for commer-cial and industrial properties.

The votes of Councillors Al Siebring, Tom Walker, Joyce Behnsen and Rob Douglas carried the day, with Mayor Jon Lefebure and Councillors Kate Marsh and Maeve Magu-ire preferring the across-the-board increase.“We’re one of the lower busi-ness rates on the island com-pared to other municipalities. The lion’s share of this will fall on a handful of properties. It’s not ideal, but it’s quite a small amount for most businesses,” Douglas said.“We need to show we care about homeowners,” Council-lor Tom Walker said. “Many homeowners are now strug-gling. We keep talking about the average house but I have trouble finding it.”

Cam Drew of Thermoproof Windows in the Chemainus industrial park led the charge at North Cowichan’s May 6 council meeting as business owners packed the council chambers trying to change that mindset.“If it is the goal of council to download the burden to light industry, congratulations, you’ve already done it,” he said, explaining that his light industrial operation, which employees 27 people and has a payroll of more than $1 mil-lion per year is already paying five times the rate paid by the residential class.

He was backed by Brad Grig-or of the Chemainus Chamber

of Commerce saying profitable local businesses spend money locally and are also local home-owners so they get hit twice by North Cowichan taxes.“A tax increase for a business is not a write-off. It erodes profitability and that profit is the only take-home pay for the owner.”

George Gates, another Chemainus business own-er, questioned the message council was sending. He said council was backtracking on a progressive message sent by previous councils to anyone looking to open a business.“I may not be able to trust you after this vote,” he said. “This shows you’re not on board with that plan. I’m concerned.”

He certainly had the support of Marsh.“I feel this is a defining mo-ment for council. We’re in the first year of our term. It’s all about messaging. Who we are as council. We can set the table for business,” she said.

Marsh also pointed out that North Cowichan’s staff had originally come to council

with a budget proposal that saw every class looking at an increase of only 2.89 per cent.“We chose to move it up to 3.22 per cent. We don’t want to hide that we did this,” she reminded her colleagues.

Siebring, although on the other side of the vote, agreed.“Councillor Marsh is right. We all have to wear this,” he said, explaining he thought a three per cent ceiling was an impor-tant psychological threshold for the residential class and that if the municipality had been able to keep the evenly-distributed rate at under that level, he would have been able to consider supporting it.

Mayor Jon Lefebure noted in his comments that one thing council must remember as it looks at future budgeting is that it is the residential sector that is growing and that any more attempts to shift the tax burden away from homeown-ers would see diminishing re-turns.

Total taxes on a $300,000 home in this year’s budget will amount to about $1,370.

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As expected, Ladysmith council approved a budget last week containing a 6.29% hike in the residential tax requisition.

Working out to an overall tax hike of 5.54%, the budget also includes a lift of 4.6% to the commercial tax requisition and a jump of 2.64% to the industrial tax take.

The increase amounts to just over $37 per $100,000 of assessed property value for a home-owner. Of that increase, $21.50 is for capital projects and infrastructure reserves, $7.38 for information technology upgrades, and $2.90 for policing.“One of the most important focus areas for

2015 and beyond is ensuring that there is an as-set management program in place to make sure the Town’s infrastructure is regularly repaired or replaced and fully capable of meeting the demands of our growing population,” the city said in a media release.

The budget also attempted to cut costs by in-vesting in shared services with other munici-palities and introducing new garbage cans in the downtown area that need to be emptied less frequently, reducing overflow in the pro-cess.

In addition, four vacant management posi-tions will not be filled.

Paul Mycroft sweeps up some trash in the alley be-hind the Traveller’s Hotel Tuesday. Mycroft has qui-etly made it an annual event to spend a morning tidying trash and debris from the area around his downtown business, a habit he hopes others will pick up on and copy. John McKinley


It’s your watershed. How do you want to see it managed?

That question is the reason for a com-munity meeting scheduled for Ladysmith next week.A proposal to create a watershed man-

agement roundtable designed to help give stakeholders a place to regularly meet and share watershed activity and shape watershed policy is starting to gather steam in the community.

Consider this May 20 meeting square one.“In an analogy, the bus is just getting fu-

eled up. The public meeting on May 20 will be the first stop for an empty bus, and then the passengers that get on will have to decide on the destination and sights to be taken in on the way,” Greg Roberts said.

A former member of the town’s now-dormant environment commission, Rob-erts has been attempting to better con-nect TimberWest, the forestry company which owns much of the land in the wa-tershed, with a variety of groups who use those lands and depend on what it offers.

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with quality water with enough capacity to support our current needs. But the future is not so clear,” Roberts said.

The questions that need to be ad-dressed cover many areas: climate change; fish habitat; wildlife conserva-tion; public access; water quality and quantity; forestry; and hydrology.

“There should be an opportunity for for-est companies to communicate with the public on its plans and have discussion to ensure that forest practices protect qual-ity and quantity of water,” Roberts said.“The town has a responsibility to deliver quality water to our homes and business. The responsibility carries costs.”

Next week’s meeting will feature speakers from other communities shar-ing their experience, followed by a ques-tion-and-answer session.“It is hoped the meeting will provide a

wealth of information that can then be used to draft terms of reference and agenda for a made-in-Ladysmith ap-proach,” Roberts said.“These are important questions that need to be addressed; we need to put in place a new model for collaboration and communication.”

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We all have them, those days you re-member exactly where you were and what you were doing.

Days like when the twin towers fell, when Diana’s car rolled or when Neil Armstrong made his historic first steps.

But these days pale in comparison to May 7 and Aug. 15, 1945.

Everyone older than 80 remembers them vividly, the days the Second World War ended in Europe and in Japan.

The issue is how to make sure those memories are pre-served when that gen-eration passes.

The Ladysmith branch of the Royal Canadian Legion is marking the 70th an-niversary of the end of the war with a spe-cial project designed to keep those memo-ries alive.

Quite simply, the branch is posing the question “What were you doing the day the war ended?” to the entire community and recording the an-swers for posterity.

Ladysmith Legion asking the community to share its memories of what you did when the war ended

This shot from the Ray Knight collection shows Mayor Ernie Jameson gathering the community for a VE-Day ceremony downtown at the corner of High Street and First Avenue, in front of the original CIBC building. Anyone with period photos they are interested in adding to the community archive is invited to contact the Ladysmith Historical Society at [email protected]. courtesy Ladysmith archive

The project arose as a com-plement to a special ceremony being hosted at the branch on May 14, where local Second World War vets will be hon-oured with a special com-memorative lapel pin and cer-tificate.“We got a memo from B.C./

Yukon Command and we just though it should be marked somehow,” Allyson Wagner, one of the volunteers working on the project, said.“So many people who have

so many memories and if we don’t get them they’re lost,” Georgina Lorette, another vol-unteer added.

Participation is simple. Just jot your story down in an email and send it to the Le-gion at [email protected]. Or if you aren’t comfortable doing that yourself, call the office at 250-245-2273 and they will connect you with a volunteer who will do an interview.

Children and grandchildren are urged to help the proj-

ect by asking their elders the question themselves and pass-ing along their responses.

The deadline is mid-June and the pair hopes they will be able to republish some of the stories in Legion publica-tions and the Chronicle.

Lorette said she hopes the project will put a real face on how the momentous news af-fected our community.“You don’t get stories in the history books,” she said. “You just get history.”



In the world of community sports re-porting, it’s sometimes hard to give a story its proper weight.

So read the following statement with care.According to last month’s Team Canada

swimming trials, Faith Knelson is very close to joining the ranks of the best swimmers in all of Canada.

Not the best in her age group. Not the best from a small swim club. Not the best among those living on the north island — although she is certainly all those things too.

When Knelson dove into Toronto’s Pan Am Sports Centre last month, she was competing against the best swimmers our country has to offer, period, full-stop: women up to 10 years her senior; women who would eventually be named to Cana-da’s Pan Am Games team.

She finished 17th in the 50-metre wom-en’s breaststroke final, where she shared the pool with Breeja Larson, a 23-year-old American who finished sixth in the 2012 London Olympics.

Knelson is only 13.Ultimately, the shining light of the Lady-

smith-Chemainus Orca swim club didn’t make the Pan Am team, or even our coun-try’s squad for the upcoming Junior Worlds in Singapore — the world’s marquee event for swimmers 16 and under.

But she served notice she is knocking on the door, perhaps as soon as next year.“To qualify you have to make a certain time and finish in the top two,” her coach Dusan Toth-Szabo said. “She didn’t make the team, but she has three more years to make it. She is number one out of all 13-year-old girls in Canada.”

To put her finish in the 50-metre breaststroke final in perspective, this preco-cious Ladysmith torpedo fin-ished one spot below the next youngest qualifier, a girl three years older. A 17-year-old finished 6th overall. Every-one else she was chasing was at least six years her senior.

In addition to qualifying for final in the 50-metre breaststroke, Knelson also just missed the cut in the 100-metre breast-

stroke, finishing 23rd in the country. And she finished a respectable 47th in the 50-metre butterfly.A Ladysmith resident and Grade 8 stu-

dent at Queen of Angels school in Duncan, Knelson qualified for this same event last year, but attended mostly for the experi-ence.

This time, it felt like the stakes were higher.“I was totally nervous. I flew into Toronto at 2 a.m. My flight was delayed and I only got two hours sleep,” she said. “My heart

was pounding. Then I raced my first race.”

The venue was world-class — brand-new, sleek, huge and glistening, built to host this summer’s Pan-Am Games. The competitors were mostly from large, monied clubs.

One could see how it would be pretty tough for a small-town kid barely into her teens to feel entirely comfortable. But she did a good job chan-neling her discomfort into the pool.“Swimming in a small club and a small town swimming against the best swimmers in Canada is quite intimidating,” she said. “At the end it is who

wants it most.”At home, she swims six times a week, 90

minutes at a time. Toth-Szabo has tried to manage her training in such a way to en-courage steady, long-term progress.“What I am trying to make sure is not hap-pening is that we see so many age-group

superstars that have never did anything later,” he said. “She’s not burned out. She still has a lot left in her.”

In order to make the Junior National team, Knelson will have to carve some time off her personal best clockings.“I need two seconds,” she said. “I don’t

know if I can do that so I think I have to push myself even harder than this year.”

She will work toward that goal this sum-mer while competing at the age-group islands, provincials and nationals. Last year at nationals, she made the finals in all four disciplines — breaststroke, but-terfly, backstroke and freestyle — a rare occurence.

Continuing that success means a huge commitment, not only from Faith, but from her family as well. That kind of trav-el involves time and money.

The family has always valued sports in general, so it’s a commitment they have been happy to make. “She’s had incredible opportunities be-

cause she’s had the gift of swimming,” Faith’s mom, Shelley Anderson, said.

“She’s had several oportunities to meet Olympians at a very young age and I think they inspired her.”Anderson said her daughter has always

had a love affair with the water. One of her earliest swimming instructors dubbed her Ms. Fish.Already the fastest Ladysmith-Che-

mainus Orca ever, Knelson has been swimming with the club since she was seven and loving it. But her goals are fo-cused far beyond the cement-and-tile tank at Frank Jameson Community Centre.“(My goal) is to eventually make national

teams and swim in an Olympic final,” she said. “When I was six or seven, I said to my mom, I’m going to be an Olympian.”

Big dreams like that are shared by many youngsters. Unlike most of her peers, Knelson is starting to show signs those dreams actually may have a chance of coming true.

Eight medals at last year’s age group nationals and the fact she set three pro-vincial records for three different swim strokes — freestyle, butterfly and breast-stroke — put her on the radar of the na-tional swimming program.

The organization is helping her with a nutritionist, a sports psychologist and a physiologist.

Mom is starting to realize this has the potential to be more than a hobby. But what she thinks is most important is that her daughter is doing what she loves.“My hope is that she continues to love the sport and have a passion for the sport,” she said.“She definitely has the times and the drive. It’s all her. We’re definitely there to support her.“Whatever she sets her mind to she can do. It’s her goal and her love and she’s my love.”

Toth-Szabo is reluctant to put his young charge on a pedestal yet. You can see him weigh his words carefully to determine what will have the best effect.

He emphasizes years of work and per-sonal growth are still needed, but ac-knowledges the potential is there.“She knows what she’s doing and knows

where she wants to be,” he said. “Any-thing’s possible.”

All in good Faith

Faith Knelson is serving notice she can swim with the best in the country — not just in her age group, but at any age. JOHN MCKINLEY

Ladysmith-Chemainus Orca com-peting against the best adult swimmers in the country at the tender age of 13

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A pair of Ladysmith soccer players are finishing their high school careers on a high.

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The store is at 1260 Rocky Creek Rd.• Linda Brown of the Rotary Club

tells us things are coming together nicely for the annual Ladysmith Ro-tary Club Garden Tour, May 30.

We’re looking forward to an upcom-ing tour of one of the gardens in ad-vance of our annual preview article. Look for that piece sometime in late May.• May 21 marks your chance to get

down and dirty in the Ladysmith Public Works yard. Displays, demon-strations, food and fun for the whole family are being hosted up at the Sixth Avenue site from 1 to 3:30 p.m.• Have you had a chance yet to check

out the Ladysmith Spring Farmers Market at the 49th Parallel?

New this year, it sets up in the gro-cery store parking lot Tuesday morn-ings from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., until May 26. After that comes the Ladysmith

Farmers Market at Transfer Beach, Tuesday’s from June 2 to Sept. 8.

The support continues to pour in for the Transfer Beach Playground replacement project. Clockwise from bottom left: Karen Lonsdale and Barbara Stewart entertain a full Aggie Hall during the May 2 Alf Carter dance, which raised $4,100; Sophie and Olivia Pawluk join Robert Erskine (left) of the Knights of Columbus and Jim Delcourt of the Kinsmen at the playground after the Knights donated $500; Ladysmith Eagles president Ted Walker, left, hands a cheque for $5,000 over to Duck Paterson of the Kinsmen; The project has raised about $130,000 towards its $170,000 goal. JOHN MCKINLEY, SUBMITTED

And all the rest of the news that we can fit in print

Chemainus steps up for Nepal

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Myra BoothMay 6, 2015

Myra Booth went to be with her Lord and Saviour on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 in Chemainus, BC at the age of 88.

Many thanks for the wonderful care given to Myra by the staff at Chemainus Health Care Centre.

Myra is predeceased by her husband Bill in February 2013 and survived by her sons John, Robert, David (Arlene) and daughter Melanie Lutz (Rick).

A memorial service will be held at Blue Mountain Baptist Church (450 Blue Mountain Street, Coquitlam) on Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 3:30 for family and friends.

Donations in lieu of fl owers can be made to Compassion Canada.

PRODUCTION WORKERSCanada’s Largest Independently owned news-paper group is currently looking for Part Time Production Workers for its Ladysmith location.This is an entry level general labour position that involves physical handling of news-papers and advertising supplements.REQUIREMENTS:• Prior bindery and/or

machine operator experience would be an asset

• Motivated self-starter willing to work in a fast paced environment performing repetitive tasks

• Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs and stand for long periods of time

• Ability to work cooperatively in a diverse, team based environment

• Must be reliable, dependable, have excellent communication skills and good attention to detail

• Must have own transportation

✱Afternoon and evening shifts 16-20 hours per week. $11.25 an hour

Interested parties may drop off their resumes between 9am and 5pm at:

LADYSMITH PRESS940 Oyster Bay Drive,

Ladysmith, BCV9J 1A2

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

LEEMAR Excavator Compo-nents is looking for a commis-sioned Technical Sales Repre-sentative to join our expanding team. A successful applicant will be required to service ex-isting parts and service cus-tomers as well expand our customer base. Experience with heavy duty equipment parts and service is an asset. Applicants should have a mini-mum of 2 years experience in a related fi eld. You must be self-motivated, able to work in-dependently and as part of a team. A valid BC driver’s li-cense and own transportation is required. We offer a com-petitive benefi ts package de-pendent on experience and performance. Please send re-sumes to [email protected], by fax to 250-248-4404, or mail to 1390 Springhill Rd Parksville BC V9P 2T2. Only short listed applicants will be contacted. www.leemar.ca

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS




FUNERAL HOMESFUNERAL HOMES

Kevin Leonard Barge1961-2015

Kevin passed peacefully surrounded by those who loved him.

Kevin leaves the love of his life, his wife Wendy and their son Michael (Krista), his loving parents Myron and Lynne and his big sister Vicki (Rick) and their sons Chad, Ryan and their families. He also leaves Wendy’s special family who loved him like a son, Yvonne and Gordon, Maureen (Sandy), Christine and all of Wendy’s step-family.

Kevin’s cousins always referred to him as the “Gentle Giant” and that was truly a refl ection of his character. If Kevin were here today and we could ask him what was important in life to him, he would not hesitate, it would be family before all else.

Kevin was employed with Catalyst Paper for 32 years.

Kevin had many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who will mourn his passing.

We were all blessed to have Kevin in our life for as long as we did and must now hold him forever in our hearts.

We will never be able to express in a few words our gratitude to the 3rd fl oor I.C.U. staff at Victoria General. Their compassion not only for Kevin but for his family will never be forgotten.

A Celebration of Kevin’s Life will be held at a later date.

If you wish to honour Kevin’s memory, in lieu of fl owers please make a donation in his name to

Jeneece Place, 201 Hospital Way, Victoria, B.C. VSZ 6RS.

Telford’sBurial and Cremation Centre

LADYSMITH112 French St.

250-245-5553

NANAIMO595 Townsite Rd.

250-751-2254

Your local Memorial Society of BC Funeral Home, caring service at reasonable cost.

Greg Lonsdale

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PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

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Shipper Receiver Needed Ladysmith Press Full-time permanent Ladysmith Press is looking to hire an organized individual with an attention to detail to work in our busy shipping department. Must have forklift certificate, forklift experience and entry level computer skills. This is a full time position, M-F, 7:30am - 4pm, starting wage at $14.50/hour. plus benefit package, profit sharing, pension and company growth plan.

The Ladysmith Press, a Black Press division, prints many community newspapers, magazines and flyers for distribution on Vancouver Island.

Black Press is a well-established, nationally recognized community newspaper group with more than 170 community, daily and urban papers located in B.C, Alberta, Washington State, Hawaii and Ohio.

Please forward resumé and cover letter by May 13, 2015 to:

Kerri Troy, 940 Oyster Bay Drive, PO Box 400 Ladysmith, BC V9G 1A3 Fax: 250-245-2230 e-mail: [email protected]

No phone calls please. Only those selected for an interview will be notified.

www.blackpress.ca

SHIPPING/RECEIVING SHIPPING/RECEIVING

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

HAULING AND SALVAGE

COWICHAN Hauling & Moving

(250) 597-8335HAULING/JUNK REMOVAL

MOVING & DELIVERIES SMALL DEMOLITION JOBS

Lowest Price Guarantee

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.

HOUSEHOLD SERVICES

* Gutters * Windows* Siding * Moss Removal

* Pressure washingMill Bay/Duncan250-743-3306

Chemainus/Ladysmith 250-324-3343

PLUMBING

A SERVICE PLUMBER. Li-cence, Insured. Drains, HWT, Reno’s, Repairs. Senior Dis-counts. After Hour Service. Call Coval Plumbing, 250-709-5103.

ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

Trent DammelAll Types of

Roofi ngResidential/Commercial

New and Re-roofi ng24hr Emergency Repairs

Professional Service Since 1992250-245-7153www.r-and-l-roofi ng.ca

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

APPLIANCES

20 CU.FT deep freeze, $150. Almond 17 cu ft fridge, $125. White 15 cu ft fridge, $150. In-glis 18 cu ft fridge, $250. May-tag smooth top self clean con-vection range, $250. White 30” range, $150. 30” almond range, $125. White 30” pro-pane stove, $150. Kenmore Washer dryer sets, $300-$350. Washers, $150-$250. Dryers, $100-$150. Full size stacking washer/dryer, $300. Built-in dishwashers, $100-$150. 6 month warranty on all appliances. Please call Greg at (250)246-9859.

GARAGE SALES

10851 GRANDVIEW Road- (Saltair/Ladysmith). Multi-Family Sale, May 9, 10, 16, 17, 8am-1pm. Rain or shine! Household, clothing, books, fi shing, camping, boat, swim-ming pool.

MOVING- FURNITURE, tools, electric motors, household items & much more. Sat & Sun., May 16 & 17, 8am-3pm. 327 Chemainus Road.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

ATTENTION GARDENERSFundraiser by

LSS Girls Volleyball. MacNutt Fish Mulch

30 L bags, $5 ea. Sat. May 9, beginning at

9am at Aggie Hall OR call 250-714-6395 to pick up at LSS OR call 250-245-7872

for delivery within Ladysmith for a small fee.

ELECTRIC SCOOTER- 1 year old, new battery, comes w/charger $1000 fi rm. (250)723-4449.

SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

LADYSMITH: SEMI-OCEAN-FRONT. View plus treed acreage. 2700’ updated home. $415,000. fi rm. Call (250)245-8950.

NANAIMO - FOR SALE BY OWNER with option for rent to own. Million dollar ocean

city view. Call for information 250-753-0160, Nanaimo

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

PORT HARDY: Well main-tained 6-plex. Great invest-ment $385,000. Call Noreen 250-949-6319 or email to:[email protected]

HOUSES FOR SALE

246 BAYVIEW AVE. Great Ocean views, RV Parking, 2bdrm, 1bath, 0.29acres, easy walk to downtown. $286,000. Please call 250-210-1659.

Distress Sale- 3bdr detached house full bsmnt,new roof, close to shopping and schools, 125 French St. Ladysmith.Ask-ing $200,000. Call 250-618-5993

RENTALS

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

1800 SQ.FT. Commercial / Light industrial unit in modern strata complex with Highway Exposure in Duncan area. Call 1(250)658-4336.

COMMERCIAL SPACE avail. at Timberlands Mobile Home Park, 3581 Hallberg Rd. Suitable for restaurant or small grocery. Call 250-245-3647.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

CHEMAINUS: UPPER level duplex. 2-bdrm, 1 bath, F/P. Bright, open fl oor plan. Large balcony, 180 degree ocean view. NS/NP, $950. Avail. June 1. Call (250)710-6243.

UPDATED oceanview 2 bed-room lower duplex, hydro extra, non-smoker, references req’d $850/mo. 250-739-0912.

MOBILE HOMES & PADS

TIMBERLAND MOBILE Home Park; 2 mobile home lots for rent at $450/mo; 1 on Family side and 1 Seniors. Call (250)245-3647.

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than 24. Take priority over 26. Foreign service 27. Russian king (alt.

sp.) 28. Stinkheads 30. Old name for

Tokyo 31. Box (abbr.) 34. Red rock in Aus-

tralia 36. Not old 37. Enlarge hole 39. Diffi culty walking 40. The high point of

something 41. 101 42. Hunting expedi-

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ghostly fi gure 50. Without civilizing

infl uences 51. Heartbeat 52. Morning juice 53. Wicket 54. Head louse egg 55. 40th state 56. Pleasing to the eye

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star 5. Family crest 6. Forearm bone 7. Unable to move 8. Loss due to a rule

infraction 9. Touchdown 12. Accordingly 13. Spiritual teacher 17. A bridal mouth-

piece 19. Dress up garishly 20. Cleverly avoid 21. S.E. Asia goat

antelope 25. Fla. state dessert 29. Popular legume 31. Two-die gambling

game 32. Easily annoyed

(alt. sp.) 33. Khoikhoin peoples 35. Cyclic 38. Flavor of Newport

cigarettes 41. Jamestown was

the 1st English 43. Fine meal made

from cereal grain 44. Incarnation 45. Norse goddess of

the sea 46. Ignores or snubs

(slang) 47. Tiny glass bubble 49. Chinese mahogany

genus 56. Deepwater Hori-

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CHURCH DIRECTORYAttend regularly the church of your choice

381 Davis Road 250-245-5113

www.oceanviewchurch.ca

May 17, 2015 10am Back to Summer Hours! One Service @ 10am

2Peter Series

(2Peter 2)

Pastor Darin Phillips

Welcome toSt. Mary’s

Catholic Church1135 - 4th Avenue

Ladysmith, BCMass Times:Sat. 5:00 pmSun. 9:00 am250-245-3414Father Anthony Gonsalves, OFM

Hall Rentals Available250-245-3414

Leave message

Attend regularly

1149 Fourth Ave, Ladysmith, 250-245-8221

All services 10:30 am

(Nursery & Children’s classes available)

Mid - week groups for Children, Preteens, Teens and Adult Life Studies

Rev Maxine Pirie 232 High Street250-245-2183

www.ladysmithunited.org

Sunday Serviceincluding Sunday schoolat 10:30 amHealing Pathway

1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6-8 pm

Inclusive - Diverse - VibrantLadysmith

First United Church

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Up Coming

AID FOR NEPAL - CHEMAINUS

FUNDRAISING EVENT - Sat, May 16, 6 pm start. Chemainus Legion Hall, 9775 Chemainus Rd. Music by Luv Train, MC - Michael Pickard. Nepalese speakers & musicians Personal Treasures Silent Auction, Sweet & savory snacks. Donations in support of Care Canada - emergency relief since 1945. With matching funding by the Canadian Federal Government & Chemainus Royal Canadian Legion #191 . Advance tickets available at: Chemainus Health Food Store - 250-246-9838, Seaside Yoga Studio,

Chemainus - 250-246-3797, Cash or cheques only (made out to Care Canada), Can't make the event? Advance donations gratefully accepted

NEXT CHEMAINUS GARDEN CLUB MEETING - Tues, May 5,1 pm, Calvary Baptist Church, 3319 River Rd, Chemainus. Guest speaker Garry Brust speaking about growing vegetables like cucumber, peppers, tomatoes and cape gooseberry in containers. Guests welcome. Brag table, $2 drop-in fee. Come see what we are all about! For more info 250-246-1207.


LADYSMITH CHEMAINUS CEDAR DUNCAN

Your Island Community Grocers since 1977

Visit us on the web www.the49th.com

3055 Oak Street1020 1st Avenue 1824 Cedar Road 550 Cairnsmore Street

250-246-3551250-245-3221 250-722-7010 250-748-2412

100% Locally Owned & Operated • We deliver! (See store for details)We reserve the right to limit quantities • Pictures for illustrative purposes only

Open Daily from 7:30 am - 9:00 pm

Prices effective 8 BIG DAYS - Monday to Monday, May 11 to 18, 2015, unless otherwise noted.

VENDORS

IXIM, Mexican products

LIVING SOIL FARM, fresh salad mixes

SEA ENERGY GLASS, hand crafted glass beads

WESTCOASTEES, silk- screened tee-shirts

DAD’S WOODWORKING, children’s toys, pet bowl holders

SWANNY’S CREATIONS, up-cycled fabric creations

I BE JAMMIN, gourmet jams and pickles

SANDY’S SOAPWORKS, artisan goat milk soaps

PAT’S MAGNETIC JEWELRY, also up-cycled candles and crocheted items

DAVE’S BARNBOARD, up-cycled frames and wood creations

PRAIRIE WIND CREATIONS crystals and stained glass

THE HAT EMPORIUM, local hats and magnet pieces

TWO CAN SCOOP, hot dogs and ice cream

ISLAND HIGHLANDER, Scottish baking

FABULOUS FOCACCIA, fresh breads, vinegars, sauces and spice blends

SHELLEY LEEDAHL, local author and musician

MEDICINE GARDEN, handmade cream and teas, intuitive readings

Farmers Market

Farmers MarketFarmers MarketTuesday*

9 am - 1 pm

49th Parallel Parking Lot

• Two Can Scoop • Ixim Mexican • Fabulous Focaccia • Dave’s Barnboard • Sandy’s Old-Fashioned Soapworks

• I Be Jammin’ • Island Highlander • Westcoastees • Dad’s Woodcrafting • Living Soil Farm • The Hat Emporium

*Each and every Tuesday until May 26th

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SpringWater24 x 500 mlLimit 2 397Old Dutch

PotatoChips255 gram bag

2/$5

Coca Cola orPepsi Cola

& Assorted Pop12 - 15 pak tins

2/$7

3DaySale

Friday, Saturday

& Sunday

May 15, 16, 17

3DaySale

1.36 kg 1/4’s, limit 2

298

ImperialMargarine

3DaySale

1.66 litres, limit 2

398

BreyersClassicDessert

3DaySale

4” x 4”, Chocolate, Tiramisu or Strawberry Short Cake

598

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