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Th e SOS Caring for Kids at Christmas campaign needs some last-minute help from the public this year to meet the needs of local families.

We have a bit of a dearth on books and teen gifts and certainly were running behind on money, said Renate Sutherland, SOS execu-tive director.

Th e campaign is about $15,000 behind where they were last year at this time, and only about halfway to their goal of $110,000.

Th is year they have even more families, seniors and individuals in need who are hopeful they will receive food gift certifi -cates and presents for their children.

Donations are needed as soon as pos-sible as the campaign ends at the end of the day on Dec. 21, although donations are also appreciated between Christmas and New Years as well.

Coordinator of the Christmas cam-paign Renee Caulder reiterated the SOS desperate need of gifts for teens (prefera-bly gift certifi cates) and said the program helps give an enjoyable holiday to those in our district.

Every donation goes to the communi-ty (those who donate) are supporting their neighbours, friends and children of District 69.

Toy donations fi ll the SOS toy shop, where families can go to get free presents for their children. Drop off new, unwrapped toys or cash donations to the SOS offi ces at 245 West Hirst Ave. in Parksville from 8:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. or monetary dona-tions can also be taken over the phone by calling 250-248-2093. Th ose in need this Christmas can also drop by the offi ce for assistance.

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SHOVELLING WITH A SMILE: Its starting to look a lot like Christmas in the Central Island, as Nigel Mohan knows. Here, he finishes up clearing the sidewalk outside Pacific Brimm coffee shop in downtown Parksville on Monday morning.

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Coordinator of the SOS Christmas campaign Renee Caulder stands in an empty donation toy box by her desk.

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After being targeted online with hate mail and inaccurate accounts of what was going on at the World Parrot Refuge a year ago, Wendy Huntbatch said her donations dropped off drastically, and she has only recently started to recover.

I had hate mail, I had so many people tell-ing me how disgusting I was, and it just de-stroyed my donor base, said Huntbatch, the owner and operator of the World Parrot Ref-uge in Coombs. We call it anti-social media, because it seriously can destroy you.

The World Parrot Refuge operates as a non-profit organization giving more than 800 pre-viously-owned pet parrots a home for life in 23,000 square feet of heated, indoor free-flight aviaries.

Huntbatch said a couple of the people who began targeting her organization are dis-gruntled ex-employees, but mostly it is a group of Internet users in Alberta. Just over a year ago, people started posting pictures on the Parrot Refuges Facebook site and their own Facebook sites with captions stating the birds werent being cared for properly.

Huntbatch said the pictures werent damn-ing at all. For instance, one showed what ap-peared to be a bird hanging by its beak, with


World Parrot Refuge owner Wendy Huntbatch said her donor base has dropped off drastically since she was targeted by a group of internet users.

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Non-profit attackedHate mail, anti-social media hurting organizations ability to help

a caption that said this bird hung here for half an hour without anyone coming to help. But the bird had bone cancer and had to have a leg removed a number of years ago by a vet in Vancouver. Because it only has one leg, it holds on to things with its beak for balance Huntbatch said.

Shes lived here for four and a half years, she can fly, she has a boyfriend and they are the happiest birds in the world, said Huntbatch.

The manager of cruelty investigations for the B.C. SPCA, Sean Eccles, said the associa-tion does hear concerns about the refuge, like they do with many other organizations, and have been to the site.

They havent been charged with any of-fense, said Eccles. Certainly if we receive a complaint were attending and we are com-municating regularly with Wendy Huntbatch.

Eccles said the SPCA has never run into is-sues at the property and the association has been welcomed back at any time.

Huntbatch said she was advised not to re-spond to the attacks but she felt people need-ed to know what was really happening at the refuge. She ended up dismantling her website because she couldnt take it anymore, she said.

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The 34-year-old man is suspected in multiple break and enters in both Oceanside and Nanaimo. The break in the case came on Dec. 11, when Nanaimo RCMP watched surveillance video from an un-derground parking lot in the 1600 block of Dufferin Crescent in Na-naimo after the lot suffered a break and enter to 26 storage lockers and vehicles. Police said the surveillance video clearly showed two men and a woman enter the underground parking lot at the time of the thefts. Police executed a search warrant at a mans home the following day and made an arrest. A 32-year-old Nanaimo man and 37-year-old Nanaimo woman were also arrested for possession of stolen property. NEWS staff/RCMP

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Dashwood firefighters had to doff their jammies and don their protective gear early Monday morn-ing when the first snowfall of the year brought a power line down at the intersec-tion of Corcan Road and Meadowood Way.

The line caught a hedge on fire and the line remained ac-tive for some time until a BC Hydro crew arrived to turn off the power.

Dashwood crews blocked off access to the area and checked on homes in the vi-cinity of the line down to ad-vise them to remain in their homes until BC Hydro de-clared the area safe and power was cut.

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The trains are not currently running on Vancouver Is-land, but as one reader pointed out to us last week, there has been work along the railway.

The reader (who didnt want to be identified) ques-tioned the cost and decision to add new crossing traffic signals and arms on quiet Lowrys Road.

She said the stops signs seemed to work well before the installation last April and people dont stop anymore, assuming the lights will warn them.

Frank J. Butzelaar, president of Southern Railway of Vancouver Island explained that they maintain the rail-way on behalf of the Island Corridor Foundation, but it was the Ministry of Transportation that installed a new traffic signal and arms on the Lowrys Road crossing.

Butzelaar said that since the railway was there before the road, the Ministry of Transportation is responsible for the crossings. He said there can be a long lead time between decisions and actually installing a crossing arm, and he believes the decisions were made before the VIA Rail passenger trains stopped running.

He added that while there are not currently trains run-ning along that stretch of railway, they are still technical-ly open and should be treated as active.

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Residents could be a little more fit this sum-mer after the installation of the Parksville Lions Clubs GreenGym outdoor exercise equipment in Community Park.

The club has been fundraising for almost a year and with a $3,000 donation from the Parks-ville Downtown Business Association (PDBA), club building chair Duane Round said they are about ready to start. The nine pieces of special outdoor equipment will include 14 stations and provide 56 different exercises and will be suit-able for all ages.

The total cost is estimated around $70,000 of which the Lions have secured a significant portion.

PDBA President Michelle Jones said they made the donation because they consider the park to be part of the downtown and this equipment will bring great benefit to the entire community.

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The City of Parksville says this memorial 90-year-old American elm at Hirst and McMillan will be removed due to poor health and another one will be planted.

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Elm in declining healthwas planted as memorial

The City of Parksville warns the public that a high-profile tree is in declining health and will have to be removed.

The large 90-year-old American elm at Corner of McMillan and Hirst in front of the SOS (Society of Orga-nized Services) was planted to commemorate the men from Parksville who died in the First World War.

It was planted with sever-al elm trees when the ceno-taph was situated at the end of Memorial Avenue in the centre of the road, in front of the McMillan Street School, now the McMillan Arts Cen-tre.

In a news release, the city said is acting on a report it recently received from an independent International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) arborist and staff recom-mendations.

On inspection, the elm was found to be

in an advanced stage of declining health with dead wood in the upper canopy and exten-sive decay in the upper branches, caused by the practice of tree topping, quite common 35 to 40 years ago, the city explained in the

release.The city decided it rep-

resents a significant hazard which will only increase as it continues to decline, and will be removed before the end of December for public safety.

It will be replaced with an-other American elm in recog-nition of its historical signifi-cance.

Trees are rated using the TRACE (Tree Risk Assessment in Urban Areas and the Urban/

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The elm was found to be in an advanced stage of

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Shriner Colin Craig shows off this years cash cal-endar.

CASH CALENDAR

Take one look at this years Shri-ners Cash Calendar and it becomes abundantly clear who its all about.

Just like the Gizeh Shriners themselves, the calendar is all about helping children the ones who need it the most.

All the paintings in the calendar are done by children and are really cute, said Shriner Colin Craig.

Currently there are more than 400 British Columbia children being treated in the Shriners sys-tem, which resulted in a saving of over $6 million to the BC govern-ment last year alone.

The Shriners operate 22 hos-pitals which cost over $2 million each day to operate. These costs

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There are 365 cash prizes; $25 each weekday, $100 each week-end, and three $1,000 prizes. Lo-cal businesses that support the Shriners are Joe Cunningham Ford, AGS Business Systems, Tim Hortons and United Carpet.

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Facebook took down the offending site there and the refuge has just recently started up a new Facebook page.

During this time, Huntbatch was going through chemotherapy treatments as she bat-tled her own cancer, which made it a very diffi-cult time for her, she said. Her latest test results show she is now cancer-free.

If people think they can do a better job of caring for parrots, Huntbatch said she encour-ages them to do so as she only wants whats best for the birds. She volunteers all her time to the refuge, she said, and hasnt had a job outside of

working with parrots for 20 years.Eccles said any sort of animal rescue agency

that solicits donations runs the risk of criticism and even the SPCA has their detractors, he said.

We are a multi-faceted organization, said Eccles. We do animal welfare but we also do cruelty investigations. Were somewhat of an enforcement agency, so were always under scrutiny. Its how do we respond and what are peoples perceptions of what we do.

For more on the World Parrot Refuge, or to donate, visit www.worldparrotrefuge.org or call 250-248-5194.

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Premier Christy Clark has completed the traditional round of year-end interviews with legislative press gallery reporters.Here are ex-cerpts from my discussion with her, dealing with the Enbridge oil pipeline proposal and the balanced budget her government has promised to present in February.

TF: On the Enbridge project, are you getting the answers you want on safety?

PCC: No, were not. Weve set out our posi-tion. The five conditions need to be met, period.

(B.C.s conditions are world-class land and marine spill prevention and response, meeting legal obligations for aboriginal consultation, passing federal-provincial environmental as-sessment and a fair share of financial benefits.)

PCC: We need the oilpatch producers, the Alberta government and the federal govern-ment to come to the table.

Weve been cross-examining Enbridge. We have not been getting any of the answers that we hoped to get. We havent gained a lot of comfort from that process. And none of the oth-er conditions are even close to being met.

We are doing our own study of marine traf-fic. We want to understand the total number of ships that are out there plying our coast right now. Because all of them have fuel in them, and some are cargo ships that are big enough to have enough [bunker] fuel as a mini-tanker would.

Part of this is trying to understand where our level of Coast Guard protection needs to be today, in order to protect us should there be a

spill from the existing traffic.TF: Balancing the budget: the finance min-

istrys current projections call for an upturn in natural gas royalties in the coming year. With the current glut of gas, isnt that kind of far-fetched?

PCC: It is going to be difficult to present a balanced budget, but I think, because were going to build in some [forecast] allowance, as we always do, and because were going to be completely transparent about the assumptions that have led us there, and because we arent going to fiddle with any of the assumptions that we receive from the experts in the Ministry of Finance, its going to be quite clear that we have done it. We have come by a balanced budget honestly.

So when it comes to natural gas, you know that the assumption we use in the budget is based on a fairly complex formula that the Min-istry of Finance has relied on for probably a de-cade now. We dont fiddle with that.

There are those who would say we should artificially lower the [revenue projection] num-ber that we use. But if you artificially lower it, whats to stand in the way of artificially raising it? You either accept the advice of your experts or you dont. And theyre the experts, not the politicians.

TF: Right now we have a deficit gap of more than a billion dollars. Can that be closed with-out significant spending cuts, or tax increases, or both?

PCC: You will see when we get to the budget. And it will be absolutely transparent how we got there. [Laughs] Nice try.

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Janet Boley has been around the Coombs area most of her life and has been volunteering with the Coombs Fair for over 40 years.

Born and raised in the area she lived and went to school in Qualicum Beach until she was 13, but her family already had the farm they moved to on Grafton Road.

I have been other places, she pointed out, but its such a beautiful island to live on and its where my kids grew up, said the 63-year-old.

She is also happy to have all three of her adult children living relatively close.

As manager of the Coombs Fair today and the Arrowsmith Agricul-tural Associations only paid staff Boley is deeply involved in the com-munity, much of it centred around the fairgrounds.

One of the few agri-fairs in the prov-ince to actually own its own grounds, the association has done considerable renovations and additions to the sev-en acres in the past few years, partly in anticipation of next summers 100th anniversary celebrations.

Most prominent is the relatively new 6,000 sq.ft. activity hall which is

now a hub of activity, with commu-nity groups using it on a regular basis for everything from meetings to tak-ing full advantage of the gym for fl oor hockey, volleyball, badminton and basketball.

PGOSA (Th e Parksville Golden Oldies Sports Association) conducts several of their popular activities in the gym which includes a multi-pur-pose sport mat fl oor and some sports equipment, Boley said.

Th e large open space has also been used for everything from dog classes to trade shows, photo exhibits and even weddings.

Also fairly new to the grounds is the Soundgarden concert facility, which Boley said is quickly becoming a well known location throughout the region for smaller concerts and musi-cal events.

Th e rest of the fairgrounds are also busy, especially through the summer with two big car shows, the Coombs Commu-

nity Picinic and 4H animals events.Boley is also an active member of

Grace United Church, where she said there is a growing membership since they separated from St. Stephens Unit-ed Church in Qualicum Beach in 2008.

Th e church has been doing a lot of community outreach, bringing in interesting speakers, she said of on-going eff orts to attract new people.

But she pointed out there is also still an active long time membership including people like one of the orig-inal builders of the more than 60 year old church, who attended until he was 104.

Coombs is a funny community, she conceded, at one time it was a real community where everyone pitched in to get everything built, but now we dont even know our neigh-bours anymore, I think things have changed for the worse that way.

She quickly added the thought, But in a crisis there is still some of the old community spirit and people come together really well to get things done.

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Im having a wee problem with the 16th letter of the alphabet. You know the one between O and Q.

Right . . . its P, or more specifically in my case, Pee.

Peeing is something Ive done several times every day of my life but Im still getting mixed messag-es about it.

When I was a kid I risked any-thing from a dressing down to a cuff upside the head if I didnt wash my hands immediately following the deed.

This taught me that urine is a dangerous sub-stance and a threat to my health and well-be-ing.

Then I found out that Mahatma Gandhi drank the stuff.

Really. He downed a glass of his own urine every morning. Couldnt have been too toxic he died at 79.

And not just Gandhi. Ancient Romans brushed their teeth with their own urine to brighten their smiles. French in the Renais-sance wore scarves soaked in urine to ward off strep throat.

The Chinese have practiced urine therapy for a variety of maladies for centuries. Its advo-cated in the Hindu scriptures where its known as amaroli.

Even the King James Bible promotes urine therapy (Drink waters from thy own cistern Proverbs 5:15).

Not just the ancients either. Moises Alou, the one-time Montreal Expos star claimed he pees on his hands to prevent calluses.

Madonna confided to David Letterman (and his audience of millions) that she pees on her feet to alleviate athletes foot.

So which is it a foul body waste product or the golden elixir of life?

Some medical specialists still consider it a potentially dangerous commodity, but dont try to tell that to Old MacDonald down on the farm.

Turns out Ive been neglecting my garden by

not peeing on it. I know a rose grower in my

neighbourhood (no names to pro-tect the piddler) who anoints his rose bushes on a regular basis.

He relates how his personal daily blessing results in luxurious prize-winning blooms year after year.

Agronomists in Finland claim that a combination of urine and wood ash resulted in a whopping 400 per cent increase in tomatoes,

and a report in the Washington Post credits the application of human urine for a fantastic in-crease in cabbage yields.

Makes sense when you think about it. Urine is rich in potassium, nitrogen and phosphate just like those bags of fertilizer you pay an arm and a leg for at the gardening store.

Mind you, urine is also highly acidic so you have to apply it judiciously.

Fortunately for males the dispenser is, um, flexible. Professionals advise applicators to keep moving so to speak.

Reminds me of the story I heard in an En-glish pub years ago.

Seems Lord Grantham, a local member of the aristocracy, had been shot by an irate hus-band.

What did he do? I asked the bartender.He was walking in the garden with Lady

Cynthia, the other mans wife he said.I pointed out that that a mere walk in a gar-

den with another mans wife seemed harmless enough.

The bartender polished a glass. Yes, he said, but you see, it was snowing. During the walk Lord Grantham paused to relieve himself. They found his name written in the snow.

I allowed as how that was eccentric, frivolous, and possibly tasteless but hardly a shooting offense. The bartender shook his head, leaned in and whispered: You dont understand. The signature was in Lady Cynthias handwriting.

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There was a time, not too long ago, many of the services now provided by the SOS in our region were the responsibility of one level of government or another.

For many reasons some logical, some not-so-much governments stopped providing these services. Thing is, the need for them has not declined.

In steps organizations like the SOS. Were willing to bet the work done by their staff and volunteers has touched every single person in District 69, either di-rectly or indirectly.

Baby-sitting courses, help for troubled teens, home visits for seniors, Meals on Wheels, income tax help, belly dancing, hardship emergency support, mens and womens personal growth courses, counselling re-ferrals these are just some of the programs currently offered by the SOS.

These services are provided free or at little cost to those who seek them. Its a lot more than free or little cost for the SOS to provide them and this time of year can be most stressful for those in need and those who help.

Adding to that stress for the SOS is the status of their Christmas fundraising campaign. As reporter Lissa Al-exander describes in a front-page story today, the SOS coffers are hurting, almost $15,000 below where the campaign was at the same time last year. Its money they use to run all their programs for the year.

We live in a region of wealth, both natural and mon-etary. There are many, however, who have to fight for every meal every day. Some have to escape dangerous relationships, others are making the effort to escape addictions or trying to cope with mental health issues they never asked to have.

SOS can help them, does help them, every day. But they cannot do their good works without our help.

We can get political and yell at governments for backing out of what some may say is their job. We can talk about how we worked hard to get what we have and label some who are in need as lazy. All of that does diddly squat to help the single mother escaping abuse who just wants her children to have some semblance of a happy Christmas.

We ask you to find a way during this holiday season to give to the SOS 250-248-2093.

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NAUGHTY OR NICE?Well, once again its time for Santa to

check his naughty/nice list to see who de-serves a gift this Christmas and he came across Premier Christy Clarks letter.

Apparently she doesnt want a lot: just to keep her job and have the people give her Liberal party a new mandate next spring. This seems simple enough but, lets just take a look at whether or not she deserves what shes asking for.

It seems that she hasnt been doing the job shes being paid for as she hasnt sat in the Legislative Assembly since last Febru-ary when she decided that the government didnt need to have a fall session to do the business of governing the province. Thats a naughty.

Apparently she got into a cat fight with another female premier, her neighbour, about whether or not B.C. should allow un-precedented job and monetary gains. Not really much of a fight though, as they just kind of ignored one another once it came time to sit down to discuss the matter.

She has been quite feisty about it in the press and on TV, although she hasnt really talked much about any of the other critical issues this province is facing.

Clark has undertaken the job of restoring the image of the governing Liberal party by spending, according to a report on Global TV this past week, $36 million of taxpayers money on glossy TV ads to tell us all what a good job they are doing.

However, it seems that the ads about good

job programs, low taxes, economic stability, balanced budgets, etc. are not based on ac-tual facts so, thats a big naughty.

As to the narrow-sighted ad concern-ing the lowest personal tax rate in Canada, she forgot to mention the additional seven per cent we are still paying despite hav-ing rejected the secretly-installed Liberal HST boondoggle. Somehow it apparently will take three years for the Liberals to stop charging the extra tax they implemented overnight.

Lets not bring up the carbon tax issue, as we are the only jurisdiction in the west-ern hemisphere in which taxpayers have to pay that burden, which results in some of the highest gas prices anywhere and puts a drag on our attempts at making a recession comeback. Nor shall we discuss the Prop-erty Transfer Tax which has, along with the HST, crippled the housing industry and put housing prices into a nose dive. Naughty and more naughty.

So, in summary, all Santa will be bring-ing you this Christmas, Premier Clark, is a bag of tar sands bitumen and, come spring, a place at the back of the long unemploy-ment line.

R.S. BOTHWELLParksville

ROYALTY REALITYJoe Sawchucks letter (The NEWS, Dec.

11) requires clarifications. In referencing a B.C. government five point plan, he says B.C. taxpayers should receive a favourable

share of royalties from the EnBridge com-pany.

It should be noted that pipelines do not pay or receive royalties. Under the Consti-tution, natural resources are owned by the provinces. These royalties go to the provin-cial treasury and are used in part to finance such things as provincial infrastructure roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, etc.

Pipelines such as Enbridge are generally regulated public utilities and the revenue they receive is from tolls paid by shippers, which include oil and gas producers. These tolls are established by either federal or pro-vincial regulators depending on whether the pipeline crosses provincial borders. Regulated pipeline tolls are designed to re-cover the cost of financing the installation and operation of the pipelines facilities to transport crude oil, natural gas or refined products such as gasoline.

Tolls are generally based on the utilities cost of capital which includes bonds sold on public markets.

The regulator, such as the National En-ergy Board or provincial utility commission, normally permits pipeline tolls to be set three to four per cent above the prime bank rate. Similar federal or provincial tolls are established for utilities such as Fortis Gas or BC Hydro.

Therefore, a company such as Enbridge is not in a position to share royalties that it doesnt receive.

TIM PRITCHARDQualicum Beach

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We asked: Are you hoping for a white Christmas?

Yes, I totally am. I

love the snow.

ALYSSA HORSTEAD Parksville

Yes, I dont have to

drive. I take the bus.

KRISTIM BAILEY Parksville

For sure! I love the

snow. I get to plough

and make a bit of

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KERRY MEUCKON Coombs

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TEUNIS WESTBROEKMayor, Town of Qualicum Beach

Town office: 250-752-6921e-mail: [email protected]

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FEDERAL: QUALICUM:

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JOE STANHOPEChairman,Regional District of Nanaimo

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PARKSVILLE: RDN:

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LOSING PROPOSITIONKudos to the majority of Regional District

area directors, Towns of Parksville and Quali-cum Beach for challenging the numbers from the Island Corridor Foundations railway pro-jected costs and thumbs down to the City of Nanaimo for using its weighted vote advan-tage in railroading the taxpayer into paying for it.

While everyone may want a railroad, the question remains as to whether the ICF can produce a reliable business plan extended over the next decade and, when may it project that rail operations become a viable money making operation where taxpayers are no longer looked to as a bail-out resource. Based on history, VIA Rail couldnt operate the rail service without going into debt every month, perhaps there is no solid business plan because what would it be based on?Failure?

Quoting from a letter written by Joshua Craig, Financial Analyst with Local Govern-ment Support, Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, and as contained within his report to the Comox Valley Region-al District in a public document on the CVRDs website, Craig cautions the Regional Districts.

One of the key considerations for the RDs should be their strategic timeline and relation-ship with ICF. The current $3.2 million require-ment represents the local portion of capital needs over the next decade. There will be on-going capital requirements beyond that point. Based on information from an Associated En-gineering Study and some of ICFs own press releases, long term capital requirements may vary between $30 and $100 million.

Next we will be subjected to the odious, undemocratic Alternative Approval Process to push things through rather than letting citizens vote on this very expensive losing proposition.

LEN WALKERDeep Bay

COMPASSION LACKINGIts Friday evening and my children arrive to

the house. Being a lowly community support worker, I

work paycheque to paycheque like most people in my sector. I just got off the phone with my trades union. I am furious.

My union strike pay wont arrive until Mon-day (making it more than a week late) and my service rep, sitting in his warm home, seems content on allowing my family to go without food for the weekend.

I dont know about you, but my union is my piece of communism I pay for, without delay, every pay cheque. I dont need capitalist excus-es like our office is closed. I expect a box of Kraft Dinner hand-delivered by my rep himself.

I asked to be paid in food coupons, and they couldnt make that happen. Have to wait until Monday.

Bills are high, wages are being garnish-eed, consumer proposal filed, I am at my wits end. Luckily my great grandmother who lived through the Great Depression taught me how to work miracles with flour and water. I dont even have flour. My cupboards are bare.

My spouse is ill and has been fighting a liver condition for years now. Today he has caught the flu and is unable to work.

I have signed up for extra shifts for group homes in Nanaimo, but am unable to drive there as now I have to conserve gas for the

whole weekend.I do what I know how to do. I am a profes-

sional musician and I take my guitar to town. Driving around I see that the Sally Ann has most of my corners occupied. I find a location in front of a liquor store.

I put myself in an out-of-the-way location so I do not have direct eye contact with people coming in and out of the door. I am dreadful-ly aware that many charities are out asking for money and I want to be the least aggressive in my street performing.

I park myself around an alcove and begin to sing. Minutes into my performance, a liquor store staff member tells me to leave. I explain through tears my situation and ask for compas-sion and tell her I only need to stay long enough to make some bread.

Shortly, the police arrive and shut down my music. Never in my life have I had anyone call the police on me. Thank you, staffer from the li-quor store, for your compassion.

I would like to put a call out to all social ser-vice workers, all musicians, and anyone who has had hunger in their belly and had to do things they didnt want to do (like play guitar in the freezing cold) for money.

SCOTT GEILER Errington

JUST ISOLATED NUTS?A nut walks into his workplace and kills three

fellow workers.A couple of nuts walk into their high school

and begin killing their fellow students.A nut walks into an elementary school and

kills 20 little children and 6 grown adults.A nut in isolation is no longer the appropri-

ate response or news headline.When we are faced with this many nuts, it

is time for us all to examine our nut factory. It is time that our entire culture is brought into question.

It should be apparent to all of us that some-thing is deeply wrong, and it is deeper than a debate over gun control and rights.It is a bigger problem than just blaming America and Amer-icans. When we look at the way we live as a spe-cies, in our totality . . . we cannot deny that the fabric of our humanity is being torn.

It is time that we began to talk about our violent cultures economic, environmental, political, social and spiritual for this alone holds the hope for the beginning of a great healing, a healing that our planet and our hu-manity desperately requires.

DALLAS COLLISParksville

PROTECT THE SHORELINERe: Parksville waterfront zoning, including

161 W Island Hwy. property.Parksville is in a unique location on Vancou-

ver Island with its waterfront.The longterm and irreversible effect of

rezoning on the waterfront will be with us and future generations to come.

I urge our mayor and councillors to reflect upon the trust that has been given to them by the citizens of Parksville and care for our her-itage.

Vote No to rezoning for year-round resi-dences on the downtown waterfront.

PATRICK PROUDLOCKParksville

&BOUQUETS BRICKBATS

Id like to send a beautiful, holiday bouquet to glass art-ist, Ted Jolda. He graciously donated numerous Christmas ornaments and glass-es to the Qualicum Beach Middle School band as raffle prizes for our Winter Con-cert. He has donated items to us every year since his daughter was in our program in Grade 8. She is in Grade 11 at Ballenas now, but he still stops by to donate his glass work to our raffle ev-ery year, and he does this without us even having to ask. He is such a great support-er of our community and our schools arts programs. We really appreciate your gen-erosity, Ted!

BRENT KELLASQBMS MUSIC

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Really, I feel com-

pelled to write to the people of Parksville for their utmost con-sideration for the many aged people that live here; open-ing doors for us, wait-ing patiently while we cross the road, etc., etc.

Thank you so much, we do appreci-ate the kindness thats extended.

Id like to mention also what a wonder-ful organization you have in the SOS. What I observe is that theyll help anybody that needs it.

Its a very special village because of your obvious concern for each other.

A very happy Christmas to every individual one of you. Bless you all and a very happy New Year too.

JOAN GILESParksville

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Stockings bring cheer to lonely(Editors note: SOS delivers stock-

ings to people in our region who will be spending Christmas alone, or whose family and friends have pre-deceased them. SOS marketing co-ordinator Cathy Kosiancic has taken some first-hand accounts from our volunteers who deliver the stockings and created an ex-ample of one such individual in order to let the public know what a wonderful gift this is to these recipients. That exam-ple is presented below, written by Ko-siancic, with thanks from The NEWS.)

For many years, my memories of loved ones long gone have been my only Christmas visitors.

An unexpected knock on the door is welcomed it could bring a bit of relief from the long, lonely hours. Im surprised to be greeted by a smiling face, and a warm Merry Christmas!

They know my name? Who is this? This gift is for me? A beautiful Christmas stocking, filled with special treats, and little treasures is placed in my hands.

Somebody is giving me a Christmas gift? I cant remember the last time I received a gift. I try to stop them, but tears fill my eyes. The ache in my heart lightens, and I no longer feel forgotten, and alone.

This lovely soul has gone out of his/her way to care about me on Christ-mas Day. Thank you, thank you, thank you! And I hope you have a very happy Christmas too!

SOS would like to thank the Oceans-ide Newcomers Alumni Society, the Qualicum Beach Area Newcomers Alumni, the Parksville Quilt House Quilters Guild, and the Qualicum Beach Newcomers for the beautiful Christmas stockings, which bring so much joy, and remind our neighbours that someone does care. Please give to SOS if you can. Unwrapped gifts, or donations are gratefully accepted at 245 W. Hirst Avenue, Parksville. Thank you for caring.

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When David Fri-esen sees an old, rusty lawn-mower blade, he doesnt see a piece of junk. What he sees is a piece of high-carbon steel.

And he knows just what to do with that.

Friesen uses those castoffs to create his own brand of unique metalwork that is starting to at-tract a lot of attention.

Friesen, who runs Crossed Heart Forge, makes knives, as well as shawl pins and kitch-enware from recycled steel and copper, pounding it out the old fashioned way, with a forge, hammer and anvil.

He began his love affair with metalurgy when he was just a young teenager.

I got involved in black-smithing with a broken kitchen knife my parents had, he said. I spent hours making it into a miniature Japanese sword.

It was clear he had found something that fired his imagi-nation, so his parents decided

that if he was going to handle red hot metal, he should prob-ably learn to do it properly.

They sent me to learn with an Amish blacksmith for two weeks, he remembered. My grandpa found an anvil and old forge at a farm auction and thats the beginning of the story.

Like many passions, metal working doesnt necessarily pay all the bills at the start. Be-cause of this, Friesen supple-mented his income doing web page design, eventually leaving his blacksmith tools in storage and moving to Japan, where he taught graphic design.

He missed Canada though and just over a year ago he and wife Tamaki moved back to Canada, where they took up residence on Vancouver Island.

Lots of stuff was changing in the economy and we realized we wanted to be somewhere more like the Island in the long term, rather than the big city, he said. This a good area to do the art thing and we realized we were either going to talk about this for the rest of our lives or do it so weve been doing it.

After displaying his unique pieces at craft fairs and a small

number of other venues, people have started to take notice of his unique creations.

People really appreciate something that doesnt look like it came out of a machine, he said. We even make the char-coal that fuels the fire. We make it from construction scrap. Ev-ery part of the process using something that was going to the landfill. Now that weve been here for a year, people are get-

ting aware that were in the busi-ness of slow recycling.

He said the reaction to his work has been gratifying and lucrative.

People are just blown away at the difference between what we start with and what we finish with, he said.

We can tell them this knife was once a rusty lawnmower blade, but when they see them together they say no way

thats amazing. If I was buying bars of steel and making knives out of them it would not be nearly as interesting as finding a rusty old harrow tooth and mak-ing something out of that.

Hes not alone in his efforts. Tamaki has also been bitten by the metalwork bug and she cre-ates her own line of metal but-tons which are probably the couples biggest seller.

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Qualicum Beach company named as one of the best in B.C.THE EDGE

The B.C. public has voted and local business The Edge Food Energy Company has been named one of the top 10 best small businesses in the province as part of the Small Business BC Successful You Awards Contest.

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TIS THE SEASON: Whole Show Restorations presented a gift of $1,000 to the Salvation Army Friday. From left Lisa Clason, community services co-ordinator of the Salvation Army, with Lene and Mike Klassen of Whole Show Restorations in their Errington office.

Just as rituals public or private help us deal with loss, rituals play an important role in our celebration of important events. The rituals surrounding Christmas and Hanukkah tend to pull like people together and acknowledge that a year has passed. Birthday celebrations similarly mark a passing, albeit in a smaller circle.

Most societies still have rituals around com-ing-of-age. Thats why they are often called rites of passage. In the modern world we celebrate

graduations.A Vancouver com-

pany came up with an innovative design for a powerful tugboat. This month, they launched their creation complete with the ritual of having a dignitary break a bot-tle of champagne across the bow.

Thirty-some years ago a colleague an-

nounced she had accepted an important job 300 miles away. We agreed on dinner to celebrate her good fortune. After all, the ritual of breaking bread has been around forever. Many celebrations pull people together, and this one was no exception. Weve been married 32 years.

In a culture such as ours with a strong work ethic, many of us neglect to develop celebration rituals around our accomplishments. This was a problem for me for many years, and I still slip into it sometimes. I would finish important task a building project, a big sale or a piece of research and then without a pause say next. That left me with the feeling of not getting anything done.

What I learned to do was to pause and punctu-ate the completion of something with something completely different a coffee with my wife or with a friend, a day away from work, or a road trip after a significant accomplishment. Ive been a lot more productive in the years since I introduced celebration rituals to my completions.

Simple personal rituals are often used to neu-tralize or prevent anxiety. In the extreme, ritual-istic behavior is a major symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder.

I invite you to be curious about just how many rituals fill your day.

You can reach Registered Psychologist Dr. Neill Neill at 250-752-8684 or through his website www.neillneill.com

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Fun awaits new membersNEIL [email protected]

There are many ways to commu-nicate, says Janet Woolgar. There is speech, sign language, semaphore . . . and bridge.

That subtle form of communi-cation between two partners at the bridge table is something Woolgar knows can be both fascinating and fun and its a skill she wants to help impart to other area residents.

To this end, she said, the dupli-cate bridge clubs in the area are kicking off beginner lessons in the popular card game.

It used to be everyone used to learn bridge when they were young, she said. The current

generation didnt do that, but a lot of people want to le

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