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Highland Secondary School Grads will once again arrive in style at their graduation ceremo-ny as the Highland Grad Classic Car Cruise con-tinues this year.

There are expected to be about 40-50 vehicles ranging from Model-A’s to the most potent Mus-cle cars transporting over 90 Grads on a scenic cruise around the Comox Peninsula on the after-noon of Saturday, May 30.

The event will get underway shortly after 2:00 pm, as the Grads meet their drivers and cars in the Highland Secondary Parking lot, just off Pritchard Rd. in Comox.

The cruise itself will start at about 3:00 pm and follow a route that includes Lazo Road, Knight Road, Military Row, Ryan Road, Crown Isle Drive, Lerwick Road, Anderton Road, and Comox Av-enue. The Cruise will take a quick loop through Marina Park to allow cruise participants to view

the rest of the cars. They should start arriving atFilberg Park at approximately 4:00 pm .

There may be a few minor inconveniences tothe public during this time, mostly at the inter-sections listed above. We appreciate the patienceof the motoring public in this matter.

Highland Secondary would like to take this op-portunity to thank the RCMP and Comox FireDepartment for providing support to the proces-sion, thus ensuring that it runs smoothly andmost importantly, safely.

We would also like to thank all those automo-bile owners and drivers who generously supplytheir time and wheels, without which this eventcouldn’t take place!

We hope to see many from the communityout on the boulevards and sidewalks along thecruise route on the afternoon of Saturday, May30 2015.

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BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

Telus plans to install small cell technology in the Comox Valley Region-al District to improve cel-lular service in the Ryan Road and Anderton Road area.

The technology is not new as it has already been applied in other munici-palities in the province including the Town of Co-mox.

In his delegation to the CVRD, Doug Anastos, se-nior real estate manager for Telus, said the new technology will enhance capacity and coverage to cell phone users.

“They’re small, about the size of a laptop com-puter,” Anastos explained. “It’s about a square foot in size and we’ve been us-ing them in an urban set-ting and the reason is to intensify our network. We use them in areas where there’s poor coverage, spe-cifi cally in the Anderton/Ryan Road area of the re-gional district.”

Telus aims to address this issue the best they can, especially with the prolif-eration of cell phones and devices that people rely on for various reasons that include business needs and emergency purposes. This had made Telus’ job challenging, said Anastos, as they work on staying up to speed and meeting demands with the wireless network.

The small cell technolo-gy will not need a new tow-er. They will be installed in existing infrastructure such as BC Hydro poles or buildings.

Anastos said they’ve done this in the Brooklyn Elementary School area in the Town of Comox and indicated the technology has worked well.

Telus is hoping to start installing them in the re-gional district some time this month or June and wrapping it up in the sum-mer.

CVRD chair Bruce Jol-liff e appreciated Telus’ ef-fort to improve service and suggested it also look at Denman Island and Horn-by Island where reception is also poor.

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Neighbour Katie Rempel took this dramatic shot from her backyard after the explosion and fi re last Friday afternoon

Butane cylinders in the backyard (Photo: CHEK News)

Neighbours angry at hash oil production that caused explosion and fi reBY MICHAEL BRIONES AND DEBRA MARTINEcho Staff

They were three ama-teurs wanting to make ‘shatter’, a drug derived from marijuana.

But they ended up shat-tering their lives, and those

of their families and loved ones instead, not to men-tion destroying a duplex and the peace and quiet of a family neighbourhood.

Residents living next door to the house that ex-ploded and caught fi re

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on First Street in Cour-tenay last Friday after-noon are upset with the alleged creation of a form of cannabis that led to a dangerous situation in the neighbourhood.

Three individuals who were in the house at the time were seen leaving the scene and ended up driv-ing themselves to St. Jo-seph’s Hospital. The men, 25, 28 and 29 suff ered “life

threatening” burns and injuries and were airlifted to Vancouver and Victoria hospitals.

Following the execu-tion of a search warrant, Comox Valley RCMP con-cluded that the explosion that erupted in the base-ment the duplex on the 2000 block of First Street was due to production of butane hash oil or BHO as it’s often called.

Cst. Don Sinclair, spokesperson of the local

RCMP, said they located equipment that was used and other evidence.

The three suspects in the explosion were neither the homeowners nor the tenants. Sinclair said they are looking for the tenants and want to talk to them.

Butane was used in the hash oil making process, which Courtenay Fire Chief Don Bardonnex said was a dangerous accident waiting to happen.

“Butane is 2.1 times

heavier than air so it’s going to drop, it’s going to drop to the fl oor,” said Bardonnex. “It’s not going to come out of the base-ment unless it’s ventilated so it’s just sitting there waiting there for an igni-tion source.”

He said the “surprising fact is they survived.”

The fi re was fi rst report-ed at around at 4:56 p.m. last Friday. Numerous blasts were heard from the residence.

Lora Kane, who lives next door said she heard a “boom and the whole house just shook.”

“And I just saw the shad-ow of fl ames and some guy screaming roll around roll around, I just went ‘Oh God this is bad.’”

One witness who was cycling in the area at the time said he heard “a huge boom” before he saw men running out of the house and speeding away in a truck.

“One guy was all burned ... his shirt was in shreds,” he said.

Bill Wright lives across the street and saw the smoke as he returned home, telling CHEK News that “I saw a big puff of smoke as I was coming down the road and as I got close to my property here I see a couple of pieces of something smouldering on the road.


A distraught woman affected by the fi re gets a helping hand from Fire Chief Don Bardonnex. He said he didn’t know whether she lived in the duplex or not, but she was worried about her cat.


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“I pulled over and looked at it and it was a couple of pieces of clothing that were still on fi re a little bit.”

Nicole Lebrun, who lives across the street, told CHEK News “all of a sud-den I started hearing a bunch of screaming, more bangs, loud, loud bangs. Sounded like someone got shot up. So I come outside and all of a sudden I see the house like up in fl ames.”

Neighbour Jenny Wright said what she saw and heard still disturbs her.

“I saw the fl ames and then I heard the scream-ing. I saw the people come outside and get in the truck and rush off .”

A day after the fi re, neigh-bours were also fi nding out what the alleged cause of the explosion was. They’re angry.

“Well I’m a little bit an-gry yeah, because of the complete disregard for the neighbouring families, I mean there’s kids all the way through here,” said Kane.

“It’s very shocking for us especially living across the street, we’re walking past there quite often with the kids,” said Jennie Wright.

“Does make you a little bit angry that you know if the explosion had come out the front and if we were

standing out front with our kids it could have been a whole other story,” said Bill Wright.

The house suff ered ex-treme damage and is now structurally unsound. It’s likely to be torn down.

The new drug the trio were attempting to make is called “shatter”; it looks like maple syrup or thin tof-fee on wax paper.

The drug is similar to hash oil and is also known as honey oil or budder.

Butane is poured over the top of a cannabis shake, which pulls out THC (tetra-hydrocannabinol), the prin-cipal psychoactive compo-nent of marijuana, from the leaves and creates a gummy substance.

There is no heating in-volved, but it creates a lot of fumes.

The product contains a THC level of up to 80 per cent, which can give hallu-cinations.

Top grade marijuana on the streets usually mea-sures about 20 per cent.

Last week’s explosion wasn’t the fi rst on the Is-land to be caused by BHO makers.

Three men were sent to hospital in March 2014 with serious burns after their house north of Qualicum Beach exploded while they were using butane to make the marijuana product.

The back of the duplex after the fi re; the building was knocked off its foundation due to the explosion (Katie Rempel photo)

Comox Valley Regional District is to appeal a BC Supreme Court ruling that set aside a decision not to consider an ap-plication from 3L Devel-opments Inc. seeking to amend the Comox Valley Regional Growth Strat-egy (RGS).

The company had gone to court to ask for a judi-cial review of the rejec-

tion of its request for an RGS amendment cov-ering land between the Puntledge and Browns Rivers, which ultimately could pave the way for an intensive development of up to 700 homes and some commercial space close to Stotan Falls. The RGS currently allocates the land mainly for large-lot, low-density residen-

tial development.3L won its case earlier

this month when Justice Emily Burke ruled the CVRD must follow the full and detailed amendment process set out in the RGS document, rather than halting the request at an early stage.

But following an in-camera board meet-ing on Tuesday, CVRD

chair Bruce Jolliff e said: “We respect the decision made by the judge of the BC Supreme Court, but we do not agree with it. Therefore, we will be fi l-ing an appeal of that de-cision.

“Until the outcome of that appeal, the board will have no further com-ment, as the matter will be before the courts.”

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A $6 million gift to the ValleyThe late ‘Mamie’ Aitken leaves a generous bequest that will benefi t at least four groupsBY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

Catherine Mary “Ma-mie” Aitken has left the Comox Valley a sizable donation of over $6 mil-lion.

It’s the largest amount ever donated to the com-munity.

The generous amount has been entrusted to the Comox Valley Community Foundation, which will be responsible for allocat-ing the income generated from the Aitken fund to four local organizations the well-known philan-thropist specifi ed in her will.

They are St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation, stu-dents attending North Island College and the Comox Valley Hospice Society, and the founda-tion, which will use the funds for its annual grant-ing program.

“It is an amazing gift to the lasting benefi t of the community,” said Norman Carruthers, president of

Norman Carruthers, president of the CVC Foundation, congratulates North Island College vice-president of strategic initiatives Randall Heidt for being one of the chosen recipients of the Aitken Fund.

the CVC Foundation. “It will have a profound im-pact on the Valley, and be-cause only the income will be spent, the gift will keep on giving to our commu-nity for generations to come.”

Carruthers estimates the possible income of the Aitken fund would be between $250,000 to $500,000 annually. It will be shared equally by the four organizations.

NIC vice-president of strategic initiatives Ran-dall Heidt expects the college to receive around $70,000 every year from the fund.

It will benefi t 25 stu-dents from the Comox Valley.

“It will allow them to attend our college basi-cally for free,” said Heidt. “It is an amazing gift. It’s the largest ever in North Island College’s Founda-tion.”

Heidt expects the fund to be available in 2016. He added it will be open to “the best, the brightest

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Audrey Craig, president of the Comox Valley Hos-pice Society, said this will allow them to continue to help hundreds of people especially during their tender moments.

“Mamie understood that while places of care are important, being able to ensure that people are available to off er care was paramount,” said Craig.

“Her generous gift will

allow hospice care to be here now, and more im-portantly in the future for all people in our commu-nity.”

Lynn Dashkewytch, Ex-ecutive Director of the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foun-dation says that contri-butions from the Aitken Fund, “... will provide the opportunity to address the needs of both care and comfort for the frail and elderly living at The Views at St. Joseph’s.

“This very generous and thoughtful donation will help us upgrade the physi-cal space in the rooms, the respite room and the com-mon areas,” she said.

“The renovations would include new paint, window coverings and furniture. The goal will be to create an environment that feels more like a home setting. These upgrades will help enhance the comfort and quality of life for the resi-dents of The Views at St. Joseph’s.”


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Mamie’s parents, John and Elizabeth Aitken im-migrated to Vancouver Canada in 1910 and took up residence in Courtenay in 1912 when John was sent to open the telegraph offi ce. Daughter Cherry was born in 1920 and Ma-mie arrived in 1922. The Aitkens had planned to stay in Canada for just a few years and then immi-grate to New Zealand but they fell in love with the beauty of the Comox Val-ley and the friendliness of the people and decided to

stay and raise their family here.

Mamie and Cherry were active in the community throughout their lives. Both members of the So-roptimist International Club of Courtenay, they were dedicated to improv-ing the lives of women and girls.

The Aitken Fund en-sures that their legacy and generosity will continue in perpetuity. The Aitken gift to the CVC Foundation increases the endowment fund holdings to more than $11 million.

Carruthers said this year

the foundation distributed a record $200,000 to 20 organizations. Howev-er, they also had to turn down an equal amount of applicants. But with the Aitken fund, Carruthers said this will allow them to increase the number of recipients in the future.

For further information about the Comox Valley Community Foundation, its mission and how indi-viduals and organizations can participate in Enrich-ing Life in the Comox Val-ley visit the Foundation’s website at www.cvcfoun-dation.org

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BY PHILIP ROUNDSpecial to the Echo

Courtenay City Coun-cil has agreed to bend its own rules to supply water and sewer services to the K’ómoks First Nation’s Puntledge RV campground just across Condensory Bridge.

But there is more to the proposal than fi rst meets the eye, as the Band is considering the possibility of wider economic devel-opment initiatives on the extensive #2 Indian Re-serve property either side of Condensory Road.

Those include an ex-pressed interest by the KFN in promoting a resi-dential housing project, with accommodation for up to 500 people.

As the land is a desig-nated Indian Reserve, it lies outside both City and Regional District jurisdic-tion, so development plans for the site would not be required to go through the usual processes of lo-cal government decision-making.

But the City hopes that by off ering services and negotiating a cooperative agreement with the KFN, they can help guide de-velopment options that would also benefi t the wider community and ad-dress potential concerns.

The Agreement in Prin-ciple (AIP) on water and sewer services has been welcomed by both par-ties, which will now begin

negotiations on a detailed servicing agreement with a view to having this in place by the end of the year. As the regional dis-trict is responsible for water supply and sewer disposal services, its wa-ter committee and sewage commission will also need to be involved.

While a fi nal deal is likely some months away, KFN Chief Rob Everson said he was “elated” at the interim AIP. The col-laboration with the City “demonstrates that we are ready to move forward with our neighbours.”

He added: “The expan-sion will build capacity within our nation and gen-erate an economic benefi t for the Comox Valley.”

City Mayor Larry Jan-gula said the municipality was pleased to be working with KFN on the initia-tive.

“We have a strong work-ing relationship with the K’ómoks First Nation and we support their desire for economic development,” he said. “This is also a mutually benefi cial agree-ment, since the proximity of their land to downtown Courtenay could lead to more economic activity in our downtown core.”

In recent years Courte-nay has taken a tough line on refusing permission to property owners outside its boundary to hook up to water and sewer lines within the City, and had enshrined the principle of

City agrees to bend rules to service KFN landPuntledge Reserve could host big residential development

The extent of KFN’s #2 Indian Reserve, with the Puntledge

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Reserve is the route of the former logging railway; Condensory

Bridge, carrying the existing road access, is just above the point

where the railway used to cross the Puntledge.

yond its borders. Nonetheless, the OCP

will have to be amended through proper public process to make a special case, including hosting a public hearing.

The non-binding AIP also states that the fi nal agreement with the KFN will have to ensure the on-going costs to the City in supplying water and sew-age disposal services will be covered by the Band and that the KFN will also reimburse the City for all the capital (construction) costs incurred in getting pipes and associated in-frastructure to and from the Reserve land.

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“Neither the City of Cour-tenay nor the K’ómoks First Nation will subsidize the services for others’ benefi t.” It also states the KFN will not allow any prop-erty owners outside its Reserve boundary to hook up to the new pipes to ac-cess City services by the back door.

As far as potential land uses are concerned, the AIP also stipulates “that

the KFN must restrictdevelopment to land usesthat are compatible withthe surrounding area.”Specifi cally, no heavy in-dustrial uses will be per-mitted, nor will any landuse that produces off en-sive odours.

Further, the KFN agreesit will address to the City’ssatisfaction a number ofpotential fl ooding issuesthat could impact the im-mediate area and furtheraway if development pro-gresses.

City, KFN reach agreement


Rare approval has been granted to BC Hydro to reduce fl ows in the Pun-tledge River to new lows in order to conserve water supplies.

With the agreement of other government agen-cies, the Comptroller of Water Rights has granted the power company -- which controls water from Comox Lake -- a variation in its licence, allowing it to severely curtail river fl ows this summer, start-ing right away.

And from Monday (June 1), water use restrictions for most homes and busi-nesses in the Comox Val-ley will be stepped up.

The unusual step of a licence variation has been taken following detailed discussions with the fed-eral department of fi sh-eries and oceans and the provincial ministry of for-ests, lands and natural re-source operations.

“The result of those dis-cussions is an agreement to consider fi sh habitat over a likely record dry summer and still having

some water for returning salmon in September,” said BC Hydro spokesper-son Stephen Watson. “We are thinking long-term.”

As the master licence holder for the lake’s water, BC Hydro has to serve the needs of various users, in-cluding the 40,000 people in Courtenay, Comox and some neighbouring rural areas hooked up to the Comox Valley Regional District’s water system.

It is they that face Stage 2 water restrictions from Monday, meaning that people may use a sprin-kler to water a lawn only on these days and be-tween these times: at even numbered addresses on Tuesdays and Saturdays between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. and between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.; and at odd numbered addresses on Wednesdays and Sundays between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. and between 7p.m. and 10 p.m.

Another important user of water from the lake is the DFO, which operates the Puntledge fi sh hatch-ery and which oversees fi sh habitat in the river system.

Puntledge fl ow will dip to new lows to save waterValley water restrictions start Monday

To balance near-term and long-term fl ows for fi sh and still have water left in the reservoir by the end of summer, BC Hydro and the agencies have agreed their plan for the coming months.

Normally, the minimum river fl ow to be sure fi sh thrive is 15.6 cubic metres a second. But from last weekend, below the Pun-tledge power generating station that fl ow has been cut to 14 cubic metres a second for a three-week period ending June 15.

“The river fl ow will then be reduced to 12 cubic me-tres a second from June 16 to July 31,” Watson added. “And for the month of Au-gust, the fl ows will be re-duced to the extreme con-servation fl ow of 9 cubic

metres a second.”The generating station,

which is currently running at only 20 per cent capac-ity to save water, will be shut down altogether from mid-June through Septem-ber, he confi rmed - unless there is an extraordinary and unexpected change in the weather.

“On June 15, all required downstream fi sh habitat fl ows will be passed down the Nymph Falls and Sto-tan Falls section of the Puntledge River; no fl ow will be coming out of the generating station,” Wat-son explained.

He added: “This is the fi rst time in BC Hydro’s Puntledge River opera-tions history that such a long and precise opera-tional plan has been put

in place. Unprecedented conditions require stead-fast focus on relationships to manage through this as best as possible.”

For the federal DFO, Darcy Miller, the Pun-tledge River watershed enhancement manager, said the DFO and BC Hydro would “work co-operatively to ensure the best conditions possible for fi sh while ensuring wa-ter conservation measures are achieved during the unseasonably dry months ahead.”

As previously reported in the Echo, current water

infl ows into the reservoirare around 11-13 cubic me-tres a second, below his-torical record lows datingback 52 years.

“There has been neg-ligible snowpack run-off into the reservoir; basi-cally there hasn’t beenany,” said Watson. “ComeAugust, water infl ows maybe as low as two cubic me-tres a second.

“One of the benefi ts ofdams and the manage-ment of water is, in thiscase, holding back wateras much as possible whileconsidering various wateruse interests.”

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Jim NiessenSurrey

I attended the Town of Comox May 20th Council meeting as I was anxious to hear their fi nal deci-sions on zoning bylaw amendments 1791 and 1792; amendments, which if passed, would allow the proposed Lorne Hotel to go forward.

After what I witnessed I can safely say Comox is where democracy goes to die. Not only that but the behaviour by two of the Councillors was shameful to say the least. Bullying in its fi nest form.

Given the recent public hearing and submissions (including a petition), it was clear the majority of the people of Comox do not want this proposed building.

They want a building, they want a pub, they just don’t see this 5 storey pro-posal as the right building.

To this end, Councillor MacKinnon proposed a compromise with a 4 sto-rey building, a proposal supported by Councillor Price.

Councillor Ken Grant suggested that “compro-mise will kill this project and you’ll end up with a vacant lot.”

He used the “sky is fall-ing” scare by intimating if council said “no” and

asked for a new plan of 4 stories, then the developer would take “his toys and go home.”

And to change plans now would send a bad message to other developers who may want to build in Co-mox.

What utter nonsense. So, Council is just there to do the bidding of developers and be damned what the citizens of Comox want for their town?

If that’s the case then heaven help up all. What does it say about a Town Council that does not sup-port the majority of it’s citizens.

I do not believe due pro-cess was followed with re-spect to this entire project; as my Dad would say “this fi x was in.”

My thanks to Councill ors Mackinnon and Price for actually listening and attempting to do the right thing. To the rest of you ..shame,shame.

Barb TribeComox

I noted with interest the article in the May 22 edi-tion of the Echo about 3L’s continuing eff orts to get their controversial de-velopment proposal for the Stotan Falls area ap-proved.

Although the judge de-cided that the CVRD acted unreasonably in turning

back the application, there is still a process that must be followed before this project can move forward.

The proponents of this project have decided that this should be treated as a minor amendment to the Regional Growth Strategy (RGS).

Minor amendments have a diff erent process than a standard amendment as outlined in the RGS docu-ment on Page 110 (can be viewed on the CVRD web-site).

However I assert that asking for this application to be treated as a minor amendment is absurd.

This is a huge devel-opment that will have enormous environmen-tal impact no matter how “green” they think they can build it.

Throwing in a few acres of green space and prom-ising to build a few trails does not make this devel-opment green. In fact the very location fl ies in the face of green development because it would require everyone living there to get in a car every day to get to work, school, or for shop-ping.

I urge the Board of the Regional District to ensure that they do what they can to see that this is not pro-cessed as a minor amend-ment.

If they cannot legally do that then they have to fol-

low the process for a minor amendment to the letter and they must insist on a public hearing as part of that process.

The public worked long and hard to develop the Regional Growth Strategy and the 3L development, in my opinion, fails to meet any of the goals and objec-tives of that strategy.

Pamela MunroeCourtenay

For some reason, I can-not let go of the dream of having TB REACH fund-ed. Here is an organization that with so little, can do so much.

TB REACH funds new, innovative ideas for fi ght-ing one of the world’s old-est diseases, whereas the Global Fund needs strong evidence that a certain ap-proach works before they can support it.

TB REACH needs a mere $120 million over the next fi ve years to stay in the business of reaching the hardest to reach TB patients. This is, relatively speaking, a small amount and will still keep Canada well below Lestor Pear-son’s recommended .7% of GDP for international aid funding. Would the HAT Caucus kindly rise to the occasion and make my dream come true?!

Connie LebeauVictoria

Dear Mr Mayor:I just had a strange oc-

currence. Kind of a fate thing. I had a fellow mem-ber send me a copy of a let-ter he sent to you Re: Clos-ing Courtenay airport.

What’s interesting was that I was just doing my fl ight planning to go there. I have a friend who is a teacher and I was going to go up to do a little crab fi shing, have dinner than head home before dark.

Courtenay airpark is one of my favourite locations. Partly because my friend lives there but it also off ers many nice features.

Fuel is always the cheap-est in the area, little kids hang around the fence line to watch (I have asked a couple to come and sit in my airplane making their day and great smiles), beautiful scenery, a nice walking path up the river (?? longest river port in the world?? I remember read-ing something like that on a sign) and very close to local food.

In the summer many of the lower mainland and Victoria fl ying clubs orga-nize Courtenay as a fl y out destination because of the close proximity to a good selection of restaurants.

I had heard there may be the possibility of mov-ing the airport but I think you would lose all the good

reasons for going there in the fi rst place.

Remember there are many features accessible within a short walk.

There are other airports we go to but the longer or the more diffi cult it is to get somewhere after land-ing the less likely we will go there.

Tofi no was a great ex-ample of this when they closed off the west side access for a couple years. You needed to park on the east side and take a taxi in. Previously you could walk directly to the beach.

While the barriers where up I rarely went to Tofi no.

If you have any questions in regards to the fi nancial benefi ts of keeping a small local airports I’d suggest you contact Patrick Gilli-gan of the Canadian Own-ers and Pilots Association.

They are a national or-ganization and have lots of information about this exact situation.

My guess would be that a developer/friend/contribu-tor has started putting the pressure on you to develop the land. Patrick will have information to show you the long term economic benefi ts of keeping the air-park vs the short term real estate dollars.

Respectfully against de-stroying a beautiful jewel in the Comox Valley.

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solutely I have the utmost sympathy for the owners of the duplex that burnt down last week but also for the 3 young men and their families. All of the people involved in this horrible situation have my prayers. In a time of need and very wrong decision making this is not a time for judg-ment or questioning but rather love, support and forgiveness. Not one per-son out there can say they have never made a mistake in their life that could have altered their life diff erently if they got caught or under diff erent circumstances. Think about if one of these people were your child, spouse, friend, brother or other relation. Yes it was wrong and dangerous and inconsiderate of other peo-ple around them but that does not deserve some of the cruel remarks I have read or heard. They are paying their consequenc-es with their lives on the line and do not need other people’s judgment and sometimes non-factual comments. Please fi nd the goodness in your heart in-stead of the hatred. Peace, love and happiness.

HUGE BEEF to the young guys who stole our lo-cal Designated Drivers Tempo! Your family must be sooo proud of you for targeting a group dedicat-ed to helping people get home safely. This hurts, no only us, but our com-munity greatly! Not only do you steal our car..you break it! Brakes were shot and our handsfree device stolen among other things! The mud covering the car..kinda looks like the mud at Maple lake...ya we have good citizens in our com-munity seen you and even got a pic of you on their phone! One of you look very familiar. Got a good idea where one of you live! We have other sightings of you driving(guy with the cap) The police have dusted the car for prints...and dusted your water bot-tle too! Do the right thing now and turn yourself in under your own choice be-fore they have to come and get you...cause they will!

TO THE PERSON who wrote the “News Bulletin” (Beefs & Bouquets May 22nd) complaining about large people in Spandex: while the garments may not be

hiding body-shape, they may be covering a beau-tiful person; you never know. And they are OUT THERE, trying. Kudos to them. Perhaps you need Spandex for the head, to get your mind in shape? C’mon! And no, I am not such a be-spandexed per-son.

A BIG BOUQUET of beautiful fl owers for Valerie at Su-zanne’s women’s clothing store in the Comox Mall. Thank you for helping me out by lending me a cloth-ing rack during my home renovation. I can now ac-cess my clothing and keep it wrinkle-free! Greatly ap-preciated.

A GIGANTIC BOUQUET of bouncing tennis balls to the amazing Coach Bren-da! The Valley is so fortu-nate to have someone like you who works tirelessly to push tennis forward, to keep our kids active, and to build community. As an award-winning volunteer, you inspire us with your energy and commitment. Thank you for all that you do!

A BEEF to a fellow driver from this past Sunday morning at the intersection of Headquarters & Mer-ville Road. I noticed you drove past the two males and proceeded a couple of hundred feet where you stopped your pick-up and started yelling obscenities and ranting at the female and younger volunteers. When asked to move on, you threatened them with physical violence, and then threatened to back over the fl ag person. Thank-fully you moved on in a timely manner. This type of behaviour, in our Co-mox Valley, to volunteers at a community event is appalling! You are not completely anonymous as the name of a business is on the door of your pick-up truck. How many hours were you inconvenienced by a community event that was enjoyed by whole fam-ilies, parents and children alike. For next year I in-vite you to have more fun and get involved in events, whether that be partici-pating or volunteering, to be active with the rest of your community and un-derstand that these events promote a healthy happy Comox Valley.

DEAR SPANDEX FASHION CRIT-IC: The most unattractive thing a person can wear is an attitude like yours!

THIS IS A MESSAGE to the management of every big box, and large store in the Comox Valley. Your stores are situated in a beautiful place, a place where a huge amount of elderly folk re-tire to live out the rest of their days. ALL these old folk are your customers, the people willing to sup-port, and spend their dol-lars in your stores, so that you and your staff have a job, and can take a pay-check home every month to support you, and your families’ way of life, and make the valley the won-derful place it is to live in... Okay! Here’s the beef I have with every single big box store, and a lot of the slightly smaller ones! None of you seem to have any respect for us old tim-ers, in that, you don’t have one single seat in a store where we can ‘take fi ve’ as we walk around the acreage inside your store, viewing the products that you’re attempting to sell, and we are considering buying... Are you manag-ers unable to understand that it can be a one mile walk (or more) around your store looking for our items. A LOT OF US ARE OLD AND FRAIL!!!; we use walkers, canes, crutch-es and God knows what to struggle around, but still manage to crawl our way, to get to your store to spend our bucks... You should re-spect us more by having a simple little 3-seat bench in each of the far corners of your store so we can take a moment, and also, at each exit so we can sit and wait for our friends to go through the check-outs. So, Costco, Superstore, Canadian Tire, Walmart, Home Depot, London Drugs, John’s (in Comox), Quality Foods, Thrifty’s, Central Hardware, Slegg’s and any that don’t come to mind at this time, please, at your next ‘management meeting’ bring this subject up for consideration. You may gain some customers as I know several folk that won’t come to any large store for this very reason! There’s nowhere to rest. (Walmart needs a little seat at EACH exit, not two seats at one exit). As

a handicapped old timer that slumped to the fl oor in London Drugs one day, from exhaustion, and they had to call for a wheel-chair, I’d like to say thank-you for reconsidering this option...

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noon a woman entered our retail place of business and promptly and repeatedly verbally beat the heck out of our very well trained, underpaid employee. This poor girl took the ABUSE and held herself well to provide the info this haga-tron was demanding so rudely. I don’t know why this happens sometimes, but there is no reason at all not to be civil in any retail operation, yes even a car rental operation. We are doing the best we can on a Sunday, at low wages. Thankfully this poor ex-cuse for a lady will be re-turning here to pick up her rental. We hope she comes through the door with a much diff erent frame of mind. She will be met with good service regardless. Trashing the employees is just a downer.

KUDOS to the many people who took part in the anti-GMO march on Saturday. Unfortunately, the world wide protests have come too late for the people of rural Argentina who have suff ered by the thousands with birth defects, can-cers and other debilitating and fatal diseases directly resulting from the wide-spread usage of chemical spraying of soy crops in areas that used to have widely diversifi ed crops. Check it out.

A HUGE BOUQUET to Doc-tors & Surgical Daycare Nurses at S.J.H. I recent-ly had Gallbladder Sur-gery at the Saint Joseph’s Hospital. I would like to express my deepest grati-tude for the wonderful care I received. Especially, Dr. Kimberly, Dr. Richard-son and Surgical Daycare Nurses involved in my surgery and care took the time to calmly and thor-oughly explain in each procedure. It alleviated my fears to know exactly what was happening and why. I wish to thank in particular Surgical Daycare Nurses, Vicky and Dawn who de-serve recognition for their competence as well as

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grateful thanks to the smallnumber of local businesseswho take the trouble to al-low posters for local eventsto be posted in their storesand businesses. For smallnon-profi t organizationsa low cost way to let thecommunity know of im-portant events is not easyto fi nd. Thank you to thewilling few businesses foryour spirit of community!

RE: NEWS BULLETIN. I wouldlike to know where peoplelike you who are narrowminded and have an over-infl ated sense of self worthfi nd hats to fi t your oversized egotistic head. Nowis the time to take a goodlong look at yourself in themirror. You’re not as fl aw-less as you might thinkyou are.

LUNCHBOXES FULL of rotten beef to the irresponsible parents and children at the Mile of Flowers cel-ebration. There were sev-eral children hanging and swinging on the recently repaired volleyball nets, and not once did we see a parent ask them to stop damaging city property. Now the net close to the road has permanent dam-age and an even more no-ticeable sag. The city rents out these courts to various sports teams, so perhaps these parents will chip in when they have to buy a new net again?

MY SINCEREST APOLOGIES to the couple I almost hit at the intersection of Fitzger-ald and Cumberland at 8:15pm on May 26. I’m so glad you were doing the driving for both of us as obviously I need a refresh-er on what Red means.

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the rest of the complainers in general, I have detailed maps to the short pier, so you can take a long walk. But I anticipate my best seller will be my magic pills called, getalife, cause everyone in the valley should be walking around with a smile on their face. I know I’m smiling now, how about you.

TO THE PERSON complaining about the “BALL TEAM” breaking her sunroof. When you park your car next to a ball diamond it is WELL known that you do so at your own risk. Those playing the great pasttime sport of slo pitch or any other kind of baseball are NOT held responsible for damage cause to vehicles by errant balls that may hit a vehicle. If you have been at meetings in this build-ing before then you should know that when you park 20’ feet away from a back stop you are asking for something to happen to your car whether it be a dent in the hood or in your case a broken sun roof. Does it suck that it hap-pened? Yes it does but to turn around and blame it on the ball team, that is just ludicrous. That is why we have insurance people. So pull up your adult un-derwear and stop pointing the fi nger at other people and take the responsibility that is all YOURS for park-ing there. Not trying to be rude just stating the facts about parking next to a ball diamond. Have a great summer and may this nev-er happen to you again.

JUST WANT TO GET THE JUMP on people that will call for the closure of the airpark due to the latest mishaps. If you sit back and think, would you want the same thing each time two or more vehicles are in a colli-sion on any major roadway

- let-s close the road down until it can be made safer. I don’t use the airpark but still know the aircraft have a better safety record and are maintained at a higher standard than cars on the roads today and that’s also for the pilots versus the drivers.

I’D LIKE TO GIVE a big bou-quet of fl owers to the, I’m guessing dude, in the big silver guts, glory, and Ram, also ran, pick-up, who sped up, when I passed him on Anderson Rd. yesterday. The 20 bucks worth of gas you burned when you fl oored your behemoth must have infl ated your manhood just as your stu-pid truck depletes your cash fl ow, and let’s every-one know that you’re a stereotypical, small man syndrome derivative. I didn’t look, as it took only a few seconds to leave your 7000 pound hulk in my dust, but if I must, I’d guess that you have a ball cap and tats, board shorts and fl ip fl ops, and that you’re also short of educa-tion. Haul on, you stupid mother trucker, you’re just another over-vehicled, and under-brained, sucker in-vesting 50 grand in mak-ing grocery runs and pick-ing up your six pack of cheap beer.

THANK YOU “MR. A--HOLE” for denting my car at lunch, on the 22nd of May, in the McDonald’s parking lot on Ryan rd. My poor black 2011 VW Jetta didn’t deserve such a thing. It was great of you, after someone saw you, to write me a note of what had happened. Although may-be you should have left some information instead of writing and telling me that you were just faking it to make it look like you were a “nice guy” in front of the witnesses. I asked

every business in the area for camera footage of you smashing my car. You’re lucky, I couldn’t get a good enough angle of the inci-dent. I wish I could thank you in person for the dent and the fake note you left me. I guess Karma will just have to thank you instead. Maybe the witness who saw you hit my car is read-ing this. Then maybe I can thank you personally.

I’M SENDING all the bad bugs to infest your hard-ware stores. I went to three building supply stores to purchase a simple item, a sliding screen door for a patio door. I actUally thought these were hard-ware stores that carried products for the DIY peo-ple. Thanks a lot for noth-ing. BAH, BEDBUGS to ya’s.

THE SALVATION ARMY would like to send a bouquet of spring fl owers to the Co-mox Valley Presbyterian Church for their faithful donations of monthly food items to enrich the food hampers that Cornerstone Community and Fam-ily Services provides on a daily base to those in need. The Salvation Army would also like to thank Staples for their special items that also enhance our emergen-cy food hampers. Thank you!

Re: NEWS BULLETIN: Here’s a new bulletin for you and a beef. Why are you so fat phobic that you feel the need to publish how grossed out you are with people wearing things they like? Who cares what size people are? They aren’t taking away any of your rights by wearing spandex. As someone who has expe-rienced this type of sham-ing fi rst hand (and I’m not even that big at all!) it’s be-yond hurtful and damaging

to someone’s self esteem. If someone size 20+ wants to wear spandex, I say right on for wearing what you like and not changing your style to suite some-one else’s skewed idea of beauty. Be proud of your body and don’t let people tell you to be ashamed. Love yourself.

STREET SMART KIDZ are cel-ebrating Steven Baird’s birthday at the Whistle Stop Pub from 2-4 Sat-urday, June 6in conjunc-tion with Street Smart Kidz Meat Draw. All funds raised go directly to build-ing Street Smart Kidz House. It’s time to get even and Roast the Man of the hour. Come and have fun and show your support.

IT’S NICE that you think that your pitbull is “cud-dly, lovable, well trained and amazing around chil-dren”. This is your per-sonal opinion and maybe your dog is an exception. However, in the past week in Calgary, there were in-cidents involving pitbulls attacking pets, children & a teenager. Too often over the years we’ve heard on the national news about pitbulls attacking people & pets with sometimes tragic results. Apparently the Cities of Toronto and Winnipeg have banned pit-bulls and some cities are considering having them muzzled when out in pub-lic. So you can say all you want about how nice pit-bulls are, but most of us will remain very cautious of this breed for good rea-son.

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Melissa McIntosh, of ComoxWinner of two classic cheese baskets

from Dairy Queen

IT’S 12:15 PM on Friday, May 22. You, sir, in the big white Dodge Ram 4x4 with the Brian Howich license frame exiting the Home Depot lot via Lerwick, were in the WRONG so why did you have to shake your head and throw up your arms like you weren’t? That lady you almost hit on the cross walk had the walk signal. Maybe put down that Timmy’s drink you had and pay more at-tention! Then at the inter-section at Ryan/Lerwick you were so impatient to turn left. Were you heading to Costco for a hotdog? SLOW DOWN!

THANKS TO BEEFS and Bou-quets, I’m starting up a new, feel good business in town. It entails selling ear-plugs to the people who complain about Snowbird noise and piped in music downtown. Then I have real dark sunglasses to sell to those, so you can’t see the recycled homes along Dyke Rd. For the spandex haters, I have kites to sell, so you can, go fl y a kite. For

people are walking - espe-cially when they have the signal to do so? I know ev-eryone’s getting into sum-mer driving mode now and for some reason that means completely toss-ing the rules of the road out the window, but please PAY ATTENTION when you turn left at an intersec-tion. Rushing out of a turn when you are not clear is not only a danger to the pedestrian but to you and other drivers as well, when you have to slam on your brakes and stop in the mid-dle of the intersection to prevent a collision. Please use common sense behind the wheel so everyone can get home safely!




INTERESTING the CVRD collects an average of $25 per year for liquid waste management from rural residents, but do abso-lutely nothing for this fee. It’s not just Brent Road residents who smell an odor. Who voted for this, Regional Directors? We would not know - they vot-ed to not record their vote! This does not smell well.

ONCE AGAIN, planning costs top the list for ex-pensive services for ru-ral property owners. The CVRD planning costs are way out of line with other local jurisdictions and oth-er RD’s. Where is the jus-tifi cation, when there are so many other expensive infrastructure priorities?

U18 GIRLS RIPTIDE would like to thank Danny Keyes of Comox Valley RV Ltd., for his outstanding sup-port. Danny has provided assistance to our team since it’s inception. On be-half of the players, coach-

es, managers and parents we wish Danny continued success.

I ONCE AGAIN READ in the beefs about the nasty pit bulls. Do you people out there not realize it is the owners who train the dogs to kill? Put the owners down not the dogs.

WHILE MANY WOULD AGREE with concentrating devel-opment within the bound-aries of municipalities, it’s no wonder that Judge Burke found the CVRD RGS process fl awed. The CVRD argument “To avoid the waste of scarce economic and staff re-sources” is incredible - the CVRD planning budget is larger than the 3 munici-pal budgets, where there is growth! What is “scarce”, is accountability for these budgets, and open, trans-parent local government.

A THOUSAND DIFFERENT sized

and shaped sad looks to the author of “News Bulle-tin” on May 22. How nice it must be that you can think yourself an authority on what the human struc-ture should be, and feel the need to dictate what does and does not look good on others. Everyone is beau-tiful in their own way and what they wear is rendered moot by the personality within. Maybe you should

educate yourself on the fact that we are not all alike .... and who would want to be. I say to those who want to wear spandex - stride on and love who you are!!

THE COMOX VALLEY B&B Association wishes to thank 40 Knots Winery, The Whistle Stop, and Blue Moon Winery for inviting our members to experi-ence their businesses fi rst hand with open houses and receptions. This will allow us all to speak fi rst-hand about our experienc-es with our guests. Thank you!

SENDING LOVE, peace and incense to all you happy people of the Comox Val-ley! Unfortunately, I can-not share your joy and happiness. First, my life is interrupted by the sound of airplanes cruising over my house, then my mid-morning nap is interrupted by tutors practicing fl ying stunts over my neighbor-hood, and this week I have been off ended by the putrid smell of cow ma-nure as I drive along the rural roads on my way to the shopping center. This morning I had to roll up the windows of my car as I cruised along the Dyke Road because the smell of liquid cow excrement was being sprayed into the fi elds and the stench was

overwhelming. With to-day’s technology surely we can deodorize these drop-pings so that civilized peo-ple like myself can motor along in unimpaired bliss. Failing that, I shall put in a request to the Regional District to reimburse me for my breathing appa-ratus, my ear protectors, and the sound proofi ng I’ve had to add to the roof of my home. Does anyone know of an uninhabited, tropical island I can buy?

IF THERE’S A Kathryn Hemmingway in the val-ley, there’s an elderly gen-tleman from the UK that keeps phoning your old phone number from 5-6 years ago & leaving mes-sages. He seems concerned about you. Please phone him and give him your new number. Thanks!

INTERESTING that Timber-West has been criticized for overlogging in the Great Bear Rainforest, exceed-ing the Province’s annual allowable cut. Is this hap-pening in our watershed? Who has responsibility for this? It seems the BC Gov-ernment has invested in the TimberWest through BCIMC? BC Hydro con-tinues to have huge chal-lenges with predicting the Comox lake watershed in-fl ows. What has changed, besides the climate?

MoreBeefsandBouquets

Michael DeanNAGY

DOB: 1975-01-05168 cms, 64 kgs, Brown hair, Brown eyes

Warrants: Break and enter with intentComox Valley fi le # 2013-10835

Dalton Shawn Robert COLE

DOB: 1967-05-11183 cms, 102 kgs, Brown hair, Hazel eyes

Warrants: Produce a controlled substancePossession for the purpose of traffi ckingComox Valley fi le # 2000-6953

If you have any information about the whereabouts of either of these two people, call the Comox Valley RCMP Detachment at 338-1321, or Comox Valley Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (1-800-222-8477). You don’t have to give your name and you could be eligible for a cash reward.

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29 FRIDAYCYCLING • Come join us on our Friday rides. We are a road cycling group of active adults and members of the Cross Canada Cycle Tour Society (CCCTS) www.cccts.org. At 10am (except in the months July and August when the start time changes to 9AM because of the heat). We meet at the Filberg Cen-tre’s lower parking lot, 411 Anderton Courtenay, before setting off on a bike ride. See www.cccts.org under tabs Day Rides/Comox Valley for the schedule or email [email protected] LEGION • Meat draws every Friday, 5-7 pm.COMOX LEGION • Meat draws every Fri-day, 3 p.m. Open to all Legion members

and signed in guests. Friday is still drop in darts night 7.30 pm toe line, $2.25 per person.

30 SAT.MARS AGM • Sat. May 30th 10 am to 2 pm Merville Big Yellow Hall off Hwy 19A. Refreshements follow reports by directors, staff. Live Ambassador Birds of Prey. Followed by a walking tour of the New MARS Property. Appropriate footwear required. FMI 250-337-2021 or www.wingtips.org COMOX VALLEY FARMERS MARKET • 9-12 every Saturday at the Headquar-ters Road fair grounds, Cliffe Avenue, Courtenay. Come for the freshness, stay for the fun! FMI: Mkt. Mgr. Vickey 250.218-0321 or or www.comoxvalley-farmersmarket.com & keep in touch on Facebook.COURTENAY LEGION • Meat draws every Saturday 2-5 p.m. in the lounge. Danc-

ing to Gord Kruger and friends.COMOX LEGION • Meat draws are held every Saturday 3 p.m. plus Ace of Spades draw.

31 SUNDAYHUGE GARAGE SALE • Cumberland PAC and Community School society annual huge garage sale Sunday May 31 9-3 at Cumberland Elementary.

1 MONDAYCRIBBAGE • Every Monday night, 7:00, at the Royston Hall, corner of Old Island Highway and Royston Road. No need to bring a partner. FMI: 250-334-1883.LADIES AUXILIARY DROP-IN BINGO • Comox Legion Ladies Auxiliary Drop-in Bingo, upper hall. Doors open 6 pm, bingo 7 p.m. All money goes to chari-ties. Free coffee and tea.

2 TUESDAYPEARL ELLIS GALLERY IN COMOX • Presents: “WEST COAST RENDITIONS” a SHOW & SALE by CHARLOTTE DEPT-FORD” From June 2nd - 21st . Open Tues - Sat from 10 am - 4 pm, Sun 1 - 4 pm, Closed Monday. Free Admission. Located at 1729 Comox Avenue. FMI and to see a virtual gallery of the current show go to www.pearlellisgallery.comROYAL PURPLE DROP-IN BINGO • Every Tuesday night, 7 p.m., at the Elks Home on Sixth St.COMOX VALLEY WOOD CARVERS • If you are interested in any type of wood carv-ing please join us at the Royston Com-munity Hall every Tuesday from 9:30 AM to 3 PM for a day of carving and learning about carving. No experience necessary. FMI call Al at 250-331-0156 or Jim at 250-339-5350.DUPLICATE BRIDGE • Every Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m., Comox Seniors Centre.

VANCOUVER ISLAND BRAZILIAN EM-BROIDERY STITCHERS • Meet every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Black Creek Community Hall. Please bring a bag lunch. FMI: Darlene 897-1345.

3 WEDNESDAYNORTH ISLAND MPRA • Do you receive a pension from The Municipal Pension Plan? The next North Island MPRA meet-ing will be: June 3rd at 1:00, at the Co-mox Legion, 1825 Comox Ave. Our guest speaker is a Pharmacist who will speak about the intricacies of pharmaceuticaldrugs, and anything else we wish to know about them. For further information, con-tact Graeme (250-339-7604)PLAY BRIDGE • Every Wednesday at 7:00 pm at the Royston Hall, 3902 Old IslandHwy and Royston Road. FMI: 250-334-1883 or roystonhall.com and on Face-book at Royston Community Club


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BCAA is looking to set up its own auto service centre in the Comox Val-ley, off ering its members discounts and extended warranties on work done there.

Last fall, the provin-cial insurance, rescue and travel group - which al-ready operates an insur-ance agency in Courtenay in the former Safeway plaza - opened its fi rst full-service auto centre in Kel-owna.

Now it has commis-sioned commercial real estate specialists Colliers International in Nanaimo to seek out an appropri-ate site or building in the Courtenay/Comox area as part of a plan to expand

the concept to other com-munities.

Colliers says the prem-ises it is looking for would ideally be between 7,000-11,500 sq. ft and have 8-10 vehicle service and repair bays, a car wash, busi-ness offi ce and storage, and public retail space for services such as BCAA’s insurance agency.

“Sites that can only ac-commodate the repair centre/car wash and not the admin offi ces will also be considered,” states Col-liers. “Facilities may be either existing or built to suit.” They add that prop-erties “with prominent ex-posure and signage oppor-tunities” will be preferred, but any location proposed must have appropriate zoning to be considered.

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ber of high-profi le vacantValley sites with com-mercial zoning that couldbe off ered, notably in theRyan Road and adjacentareas - and as for exist-ing premises, eyes couldfall on part of CanadianTire’s existing premises ifthat business is able to ful-fi ll its hope of moving tothe former Target store atDriftwood Mall.

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After a long fl ight the Ducky 500 participants have arrived in the Comox Valley. As one happy ducky said: “This is the ultimate Duck Race of the season and we are very excited to get into the river here! The fl ight was wonderful, my wings aren’t tired at all!” According to the Westjet fl ight attendants the ducks were very well behaved, although they did have some diffi culty with their seatbelts and headsets. After leaving the air-port the ducks were spirited off to an undisclosed location for a medical checkup and further training. You will see Comox Rotary members at many locations during June. They will be pleased to show you how to sponsor a ducky. The actual race will take place at Lewis Park on Canada Day. (Photo by Susie Fraser)

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Manthey retires today (Friday) from her role as the authority’s director of fi nancial services as well as being the City’s deputy chief administrative offi -cer.

There was no let-up in her fi nal days as she pre-pared and presented a de-tailed briefi ng on her de-partment and its work to councillors this week.

Born and raised in Ter-race, BC, Manthey began her career at the credit union in her home town, before moving to northern Alberta to join the staff of a public accountancy busi-ness.

In the early 1980s she switched to a position with the municipality of Cold Lake, later being ap-pointed director of fi nance with a regional hospital board in Alberta.

She arrived in Courtenay in 1992 and has worked in the fi nance department at City Hall ever since, tak-ing on overall responsibil-ity for the good manage-ment of what is now a $55 million annual budget in the year 2000.

There have been many changes and challenges to the work since she arrived in the Valley, but Manthey says she has always found the job fascinating.

Technological innova-tions have been to the fore, and a particular high-light was a massive up-

dating of all the software used for City’s accounts to improve effi ciency and provide faster and better reports on both income and expenditure.

At about the same time the municipality em-barked on the process of choosing new auditors as well as changing its bank to secure best value for taxpayers - a huge issue when so many automated payments and accounts are involved.

Change continues to be constant, she notes - last year a web-based Citizens’ Budget service was pro-vided to help guide coun-cil spending priorities, and right now a new program allowing people to apply

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As she steps way from her role to enjoy retire-ment in the Comox Val-ley, Manthey takes satis-faction from consistently strong audit reports over many years highlighting the City’s solid fi nancial position.

And while no one enjoys paying taxes, she hopes people will at least recog-nize that she and her team have been meticulous in the manner in which they have handled public mon-ey.

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The City of Courtenay’s retiring fi nance chief, Tillie Manthey, pictured while working on her fi nal presentation to councillors this week.

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Long-serving city planning chief retiresBY PHILIP ROUNDSpecial to the Echo

Long-serving planning chief Peter Crawford re-tires today (Friday) after 35 years guiding develop-ments in the Comox Val-ley.

Born in Creemore, On-tario, his began his career in Ottawa before moving

west to Red Deer (Alber-ta) and then to the Comox Valley in 1980, when he was appointed director of planning for the former Comox Strathcona Re-gional District.

He became Courte-nay City planner in 1994, and for the past 21 years -- most recently as direc-tor of development ser-

vices -- has helped guide the municipality’s growth and overseen a series of developments that would have seemed unimagina-ble when he fi rst took up post.

Back then, there was no Inland Island High-way, Crown Isle was only just getting started, Ler-wick Road was not even a

through route to Comox, and the advent of big box stores like Home Depot

and Walmart were still years off .

Refl ecting on his time

Director of development services Peter Crawford checks out a zoning map of the City of Courtenay just prior to his retirement today.

in the Valley, Crawford says he is most pleased with the work to estab-lish a growing network of recreational greenways in Courtenay and, in ear-lier years with the CSRD, getting regional parks for-mally established through Crown grants at places such as Nymph Falls, Seal Bay, and Mount Geoff rey on Hornby Island.

He recognizes that for anyone involved in plan-ning there will be contro-versies along the way, and his career has been no ex-ception.

But as he steps away from being in the front line, he says throughout his career “I always put the interests of the com-munity fi rst.”

He will continue living in Comox and in retirement plans to keep up his active participation in hockey.

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It’s been a long haul for Michael Vincent and his four business partners, but they are now close to becoming the latest craft brewery to open in the Comox Valley.

The Forbidden Brewing Company’s walk-in bar, tasting room and brew-house alongside the Best Western Westerly Hotel in Courtenay is targeted to welcome its fi rst custom-ers in July.

The independent busi-ness venture follows in the footsteps of two other micro-breweries that have recently launched to ac-claim in the Valley - Cum-berland and Gladstone.

Forbidden Brewing hadn’t actually intended to follow anyone, but getting all the paperwork and licensing agreements in place has taken longer than originally expected, as has the conversion of premises that were never designed to be a brewery.

When it fi nally launch-es, it will be what chief

executive Michael Vin-cent calls a ‘nano’ rather than ‘micro’ brewery.

“We’ll start small and build up,” he told the Echo. “We’ll begin by brewing 900-litre batch-es, starting with a Pale Ale and an India Pale Ale.”

The project began nearly 12 months ago, but most of the major work is now complete, including building a walk-in cooler, creating washrooms, and installing the majority of the all-important brewing equipment.

Front-of-house, reju-venation has been the theme, with the sleek bar being made from re-claimed wood recovered from a Tin Town resto-ration project, and old wood tables and chairs being restored to give them new life.

A series of wood planks ‘branded’ by burning Forbidden Brewing’s logo on to them have been used to create a custom-ized sliding door to divide the bar from the brewing operation.

Tapping the market: Michael Vincent at work installing equipment at the Forbidden Brewing Company, which is set to open this summer in premises alongside the Best Western Westerly Hotel.

The bar has been li-censed for just 30 people, who will be served beer by the pint or glass. There will be a simple menu of snacks and food to ac-company drinks, provided in part through a business arrangement with the Westerly Hotel.

“If we have enough beer, we’ll be doing growler fi lls as well,” said Vincent, who got involved in setting up the brewery because he wanted to be his own boss doing some-thing he was interested in.

“And for sure I’m very interested in beer,” he added.

The Comox Valley Pho-tographic Society (CVPS)holds their annual GarageSale, rain or shine, on Sat-urday May 30th at 1892Noel Ave, Comox, BCfrom 8am to noon.

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I love this time of year. Everything is growing so vigorously, as we leave be-hind the Spring Garden and make way for all the fabulous Summer blooms.

The lilies and roses are starting to make a show and they are breathtaking in both their beauty and fragrance. The Irises are stunning. The early dou-ble Rudbeckia are so lush and everything that was only a few green leaves before is now forming buds and getting ready to bloom. It’s so exciting to see what’s next. Especial-ly all the new varieties of plants - taking all are our old favorites and adding a new twist.

The beautiful, graceful Campanulas have always been lovely with their en-

chanting bells or bell clus-ters - then comes along the interesting Campanula glomerata ‘Genti Twisterbelle’. Imagine fascinating feath-ery tuff s of blue and white bi-color fl owers growing along 21-23”stems. This sun to part shade lover is a prolifi c bloomer with long stems which make it an excellent cut fl ower. Wonderful in the mid border, containers or in the cutting garden, it is very hardy ( Zone 3) and attracts hummingbirds and butterfl ies, but the deer usually leave it alone .Keep the soil moist but well drained.

Phloxes come in a vari-ety of colors and sizes, are long blooming, hardy and long-lived, often fragrant and never need staking. They have been gracing gardens for over 100 years and there are over 800

Highlights for the summer gardenA new twist on some old favourites ...

garden, and usually come in yellow with pink and burgundy recently appear-ing on the market.

Now we have Coreopsis ‘Crusin’ ‘Broad Street’ sport-ing bright scarlet red fl ow-ers with orange overtones and the underside of each bloom is orange. It has light open thread-leaf fo-liage and blooms from summer to fall. Lovely at the edge of the border it will grow only 15-18.” Give it full sun and good drainage. When the new colors became available they were not very hardy but this one is, at zone 4. It makes a wonderful cut fl ower, butterfl ies love it but deer and rabbit leave it alone.

Shasta daisies are al-ways sunny in any garden and this variety is no ex-ception. Leucanthemum ‘Real Dream’ has large creamy

yellow fl owers with 3 lay-ers of petals that surrounda golden center. Shorterthan many Shasta it growsonly 14-16. ‘Real Dream’ isa well behaved easy care,long blooming plant in thegarden that is disease re-sistant and makes a greatcut fl ower.

Your butterfl ies andhummingbirds will loveit and yet it is deer andrabbit resistant. It can bemass planted and makes acheery addition to the cot-tage garden.

Another sunny additionto the perennial garden isHelianthus ‘Happy Days’ (pe-rennial sunfl ower).


named varieties. This year we added the

lovely Phlox paniculata ‘Flame Blue’ to our collection. It has dark blue buds which open to large fragrant clusters of white fl ow-ers brushed with blue. Considered a dwarf at 12”, this disease resistant plant loves full sun to part

shade and looks won-derful in garden beds or borders. It also makes an excellent cut fl ower. Hum-ming birds and butterfl ies love it. Zone 4

Coreopsis are wonder-ful dependable plants that are easy to grow and maintain, add wonderful texture and design to the

The interesting Campanula glomerata ‘Genti Twisterbelle’.

‘Flame Blue’ phlox



This fantastic mid-size (21-23”) sunfl ower has a gorgeous head of a dou-ble blooming large yellow fl ower with a pom-pom center. The blooms are 3 1/2 -4” in size!

This lovely easy care plant would be attractive in any garden bed, along borders or in containers. It can be used as a cut fl ower and will attract but-terfl ies to your garden but the deer and rabbits leave it alone. It prefers full sun and moist soil but will tol-erate salt air making it a great choice for the sea-side garden.

An old favorite to the Summer garden is Digi-talis mertonensis (Strawberry Foxglove). Tolerating sun but preferring part shade, it grows 24-36” high and has huge coppery rose tubular fl owers that bees and hummingbirds love. Butterfl ies and birds love it too.

Foxgloves are a clas-sic for the woodland and cottage garden and love a moist organic rich soil. They bear gorgeous tow-ers of fl owers above the garden canopy giving height without needing staking and adding charm and romance to the gar-den. Usually considered a bi-annual, this variety is

considered the most har-dy (Zone 4) and the foli-age always looks crisp and fresh. They often reseed themselves and can natu-ralize quite nicely, are deer resistant and their showy blooms can be used as a cut fl ower.

Most people are familiar with the annual Lobelia but there are several pe-rennial versions. The most common is the native red version Lobelia cardina-lis which is quite tall and used in boggy areas. This year we are off ering two blue varieties.

Lobelia speciosa ‘Fan blue’ is the blue version of the cardinal fl ower yielding intense blue-violet blos-

soms on compact (28”) upright stems. It blooms from mid - summer to fall and is a multiple award winner for its garden per-formance.

Defi nitely a humming-bird magnet but it also attracts butterfl ies and swallowtails. It grows in average soil but needs consistent water.

Although hardy at Zone 5, it is often considered a short lived perennial but usually reseeds itself. This showy accent is great in beds, mixed perennial borders, for the cottage garden or large contain-ers. Song birds love it and again deer and rabbits leave it alone.

Lobelia siphilitica ‘Blue Se-lection’ (24-36”) is a lighter lavender blue, with short-er stalks and larger fl ower heads. From mid-summer to early Fall, spires of col-orful hood-like fl owers open from top to bottom.

This lobelia needs con-stant moisture and is of-ten grown along a stream or beside a pond. Great paired with ferns and Heu-chera. Like all woodland plants, it prefers part Sun to full shade and is hardy to Zone 3.

It is attractive to hum-mingbirds, butterfl ies and birds but the Deer leave it alone. Good cut fl ower. The plant can be pinched

before fl owering to pro-duce a more compact plant. An interesting note: the species name of siphi-litica came from a prior medicinal use of the plant in the treatment of vene-real disease.

Saving the fun one for last is Salvia elegans ‘Pineap-ple Sage’ which smells like a pineapple cocktail. Seri-ously! The foliage smells like a ripe pineapple can-dy.

It is considered a tender perennial at Zone 8, but can be brought inside to winter over or grow it as an annual. It grows quite tall and has stunning pro-fuse bright red tubular fl owers which have hum-mingbirds fl ocking to it.

Despite its intense fra-grance only the fl ower is

used as an edible garnish. Add it to salads or fruit cocktails or sugar it and use it to garnish cakes or cookies. Either way, this plant is a must for the Summer - so much fun for both you and humming-birds.

Lots of new and won-derful perennials fi lling our tables with wonder-ful blooms and fragrance - whether you choose an old favorite or a new va-riety you can have fun in your garden this Summer.

Happy Gardening!

Salvia elegans ‘Pineapple Sage’ which smells like a pineapple cock-tail

Coreopsis ‘Crusin’ ‘Broad Street’ sporting bright scarlet red fl owers with orange overtones

Helianthus ‘Happy Days’

Leucanthemum ‘Real Dream’ has large creamy yellow fl owers


GRANDOPENING

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The 7th Annual HUGE Garage Sale takes place this Sunday May 31st.

The Cumberland Com-munity School gym will be packed with treasures all priced by donation includ-ing clothes, toys, sports

equipment, housewares and more!

This year, the event is an important fundraiser for both the Cumberland Community Schools So-ciety (CCSS) and the Cumberland Community

School Parents Associa-tion. CCSS is a registered charity that has been working in the Village of Cumberland for 15 years.

Working in partnership with the school, volunteers and community organiza-

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The Cumberland Com-munity School Parents Association works to en-rich the school environ-ment through fundraising

and parent engagement. Individuals can drop off

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BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

When traffi c is at its busiest, would you prefer to drive your car or to ride your bicycle?

The proponents of the Bike to Work Week in the Comox Valley held a com-muter challenge to prove which was more conve-nient and faster.

Two cyclists - Courtenay councillor David Frisch and Comox Valley Region-al District’s senior man-ager of recreation facilities Darcy Walters - went up against the 97.3 FM the Eagle’s promotions direc-tor Linda Thomas and afternoon radio host Rick Yurkewich, who traveled in their community cruis-er.

The race started at 2:55 p.m. at the Eagle radio station located on 29th Street, and the fi nish line was at the Lewis Centre in Courtenay.

Participants were re-quired to make three pit stops along the way at The Broken Spoke on Fitzger-ald Ave., Mountain City Cycle on Fifth Street, and the Comox Valley Regional District Offi ce on Comox Road.

The fi rst to reach the Lewis Centre was Frisch, an avid cyclist who ped-aled around the traffi c with ease and speed. He crossed the fi nish line at 3:08 p.m.

A minute later, Walters wheeled in the CVRD e-bike with the Eagle cruiser coming in at 3:13 p.m.

Frisch said it proves that cycling has its benefi ts.

“It’s actually viable,” said Frisch. “It was great on Fitzgerald because we

Cyclists top commuter challenge

them to zoom in especially if they have bike parking in front of the store. For us it’s harder to park, es-pecially at the CVRD. It’s really very small. We le-gitimately tried very hard and kudos to Bike Week.

They did a fantastic job.”Active Comox Valley co-

ordinator, Dawn Stevens said this year they tried to make the challenge a little more realistic.

“Having to fi nd parking, it’s tough in town,” said

had our own bike lane so it was really comfortable there. There are some ad-vantages because you’re smaller and you’re a little more maneuverable. I am just really excited that we had the opportunity to show that it’s possible for people.”

Last year, the Eagle was fi rst to cross the line. It was a straight race with no stops along the way. This year, it wasn’t that easy.

“We had three stops to make along the way, that’s the diff erence this year,” said Linda Thomas, pro-motions director of the Eagle. “We had to park our vehicle, go to the store and then go on our way. For cyclists, it’s easier for

Commuter Challenge participants relax at the Lewis Centre after racing through Courtenay - and having to make a few stops. From left to right, Courtenay councillor David Frisch, the Eagle’s Linda Thomas and Rick Yurkewich, and Darcy Walters, CVRD senior manager of recreation facilities.

Bike to Work Week kicked off Monday morning at Courtenay city hall with municpal and school board offi cials joiining others for a quick ride

Stevens. “When you’re in a bike, you can put it in a bike rack and away you go. When you’re in a vehicle, that’s where their chal-lenge came from, fi nding parking, getting in and out, getting blocked in by other people backing out. So it was really great this year.”

Bike Week in the Comox Valley was a huge success. There were a lot of partici-pants this year especially at the schools where some of the bike racks were fi lled to the max. A big barbecue event was also held at Simms Park on Wednesday afternoon to celebrate Bike Week.

It’s actually viable. It was great on Fitzgerald because we had our own bike lane so it was really comfortable there.”

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ART■ Campbell River Art-ist, Charlotte Deptford, is presenting a collec-tion of her most favorite Acrylic and Watercolor paintings at the Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox, June 2 to 22. Charlotte would love to meet and chat with you. A recep-tion will be held June 7, from 1-4pm. Pearl Ellis is located at 1729 Co-mox Ave, is open daily Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm, Sundays 1pm to 4pm. For a visual tour of the show visit our web site at www.pearlel-lisgallery.com

BOOKS AND WRITING■ Calling all book au-thors - As a contribu-tion to the City of Cour-tenay centennial, the Comox Valley Writers’ Society is compiling a history of book authors from the Comox Valley and surrounding com-munities. This applies to authors of all genres and includes those with self-published books as well as books pro-duced by mainstream publishing houses. For further information or inclusion in this project please contact Terry at [email protected] or 250-338-0597. Deadline is June 5.■ Poetry and Prose Readings - Comox Val-ley Writer’s Society and the Courtenay Public Li-brary invite the public to our Monthly Reading Se-ries. New and published writers will read their work at the Courtenay Library Events Room from 11:45am to 1:15pm on Friday, May 29th. For more information and to sign up to read please call 338-0965. Everyone is welcome. This is a free event, refreshments will be served. - Our next reading event will be the last Friday in Septem-ber. See you there!■ Denman resident Shei-la Carnegie has once again become a best selling author with the release of her third book “Tales from Old Toad Island,= Humourous Adventurs of Esmerelda Perkins, Book Two”. She will be at Abraxas Books on Denman Island on June 6th from 1-4 pm for a book signing and will have her three books available. ■ Get your creative juices fl owing! On Sunday June 7th, Victoria author Julie Paul is off ering a one day writing workshop in

Cumberland. This explo-ration will include writing prompts and exercises, as well as in-class readings and is open to writers of

all levels and genres. The workshop runs June 7th, 9 am - 3 pm, at Purusa Movement+Mind, 2703 Dunsmuir Av., Cumber-land. Cost is $75. To reg-ister please call 250-336-8702 or email [email protected].■ Author Marlet Ash-

ley and illustrator Kate Brown have published a sixth book for children set in the Comox Estuary. A Pirate’s Life for Gabby, fi fth in their series Revelry on the Estuary and their sixth children’s book, is set in the Comox Estu-ary at Comox Harbour

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MUSIC■ THE RANGERS are rockin’ it up at The Grif-

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MUSIC■ The Comox Valley Youth Music Centre (CYMC) is widening its sphere of infl uence through a Gala Fundraiser on Saturday, May 30. The event starts at 7:00 pm at St. John the Divine Anglican Church on Fifth Street in Cour-tenay, Saturday May 30. Doors to the hall will open at 6:30 pm to give every-one a chance to bid on the auction items. Strings & Winds Director, John Littlejohn, select students and more will be enter-taining us with the famil-iar and the fun. The pro-ceeds are earmarked for three very fortunate wind students from St. James Music Academy in Van-couver, where at-risk kids are shown a “doorway to a better world” through after school music pro-grams. Tickets are $30.00 and will be available at the Laughing Oyster Book-store in Courtenay, the Blue Heron in Comox and on line at www.cymc.ca.■ Anela Kahiamoe and his Band “The Experiment-

ers” take the stage at the Avalanche Pub for a spe-cial performance this Sat-urday evening, May 30 at 7:00. Tickets are $15 at the door or $12 Advance and available now at the Avalanche Pub, Bop City Records, Red Carpet Boutique in Comox and Scorpios Hair Salon in Comox.

■ This Sunday, Letz Sing steps out of the ordinary to share singing with the wider community for an evening of fun that will benefi t the Care-A-Van, a project of the Comox Bay Care Society. Tickets are available at the Laugh-ing Oyster Bookshop in Courtenay for $10 each. The concert starts at 7 pm sharp at Cumberland United Church, 2688 Penrith Avenue. Find out about Letz Sing at www.letzsing.com■ It’s hard to know where to begin describing the talents of Helen Austin, a featured guest of the 1stTuesday Fundraiser at the Mex Pub on June 2nd. Joining Helen for the evening is local and world renowned dobro player Doug Cox. Austin will be performing this benefi t concert in support of the Comox Valley Hospice Society, with admission by donation.The evening at the Mex Pub starts at 7:30pm with an open-ing set by event organiz-ers Judy and Bruce Wing,

joined by violinist Blaine Dunaway. Donations of food for the Comox Valley Food Bank are also appre-ciated. For more informa-tion about the evening’s entertainment visit hel-enaustin.com or dougcox.org.

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Comox Psychologist Dr. Frank Young will present several perspectives on this topic, and demon-strate how diff erent parts of our brain are moved by this fascinating emotion. Moderator Peter Schwar-zhoff will then open the fl oor for what looks to be a very engaging topic for a lively discussion at Phi-losophers’ Cafe.

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The Courtenay and District Museum is celebrating the City’s 100th anniversary with the publication of a coffee table style book with the help of the Comox Valley Echo. It is a high quality magazine style publication with a durable cover.

Historically rich content focuses on activities of people who have shaped our community over the decades. Proceeds from the sales of book copies will help the museum with funding development of programs and activities. Copies are $5.00 each which includes GST, and are available at the Museum and the Echo.

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The Evergreen Club presents their fashion show “Something Old, Something New, Some-thing Borrowed” on Satur-day June 6th at 7pm in the Florence Filberg Centre.

This fun walk down memory lane takes place upstairs in the Conference Hall.

This will be an extra spe-cial fashion show showcas-ing a century of fashion.

“We are celebrating Courtenay’s Centennial with a show of fashions through the decades,” says convenor Marlene Lally.

The evening starts with the Denman Island and District Lace making group doing a demo in the lobby.

“Come and enjoy their beautiful creations,” says Lally. “It is so intricate, an artwork that you need to see up close to appreciate the process.”

Doors will open at 5:30 to allow guests to do just that and socialize.

Hors d’oeuvres and cof-fee/tea will be served prior to the show and a no host bar will be available.

Everyone is welcome to take part in this fun histor-

ical evening as we remem-ber fashions and events from our past.

Guests are invited to be part of the show as well.

“If there is an outfi t deep in your closet that you cannot bear to part with,” says Lally, “now is the time to bring it out, dust if off , and come in style!”

There will be a prize for the most original outfi t.

The evening is a night of fashions, food and music. We don’t think there could there be a better way to

celebrate Courtenay’s birthday!

Two local shops from Downtown Courtenay, LaCache and Jim’s Clothes Closet, will be showcasing the fashions of today.

LaCache have beauti-ful modern fashions and accessories that comple-ment a show of vintage items perfectly.

Tickets are $15.00 each and may be purchased at Courtenay Recre-ation’s Filberg offi ce or at LaCache on Fifth St. in Courtenay,

Evergreen Club presents a centennial show of fashions through the decades

Talented young Victoria musicians Quinn and Qristina Bachand have acquired a big following inter-nationally, in Canada, and here on the North Island. We’re very fortunate to have them performing in concert at the Big Yellow Merville Hall on Thursday June 11th.

Over the last two years you may have seen Quinn performing locally at concerts with Ashley McIsaac, Pierre Schryer, and Shane Cook. And you may have been lucky enough to see Quinn and his sister Qris-tina performing at Gardeners Green Folk Club house concerts. However, this magical sibling duo’s popu-larity has outgrown the house concert venue, and many who wanted to see them weren’t able to get in, so this time there will be room for all at the Merville Hall.

Qristina and Quinn began their musical lives ear-ly, both specialising in classical violin. Quinn soon discovered his affi nity for all stringed instruments, quickly mastered both guitar and banjo along with

various other instruments, and the duo began todraw on their Celtic heritage for material. Their fi rsCD, Relative Minors, was released in 2008, and theisecond, Family in 2011. Their newest CD, Little Hinges, has just been released, so named for the adage“big things swing on little hinges”.

Qristina’s sultry voice and superb fi ddle playingcontinue to captivate audiences. With a degree inpublic health under her belt, she will be beginning amasters degree in traditional music at the Universityof Limerick in September.

Don’t miss a fantastic evening’s entertainmenwith the Bachands exciting mix of phenomenal talentyouthful vigour, and Celtic-tinged traditional and newmusic. Advance tickets are available at Long and McQuade in Courtenay, $18 for adults, $12 for youthsor online at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/qristinaquinn-bachand-merville-bc-tickets-16606091266 They’ll also be available at the door on the concernight, Thursday June 11th, $22 adults, $15 youths.

Rare chance to see Quinn and Qristina in concert

Join us for a community information meeting to review the comprehensive BCOB water rate study.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.LIVING WATERS FELLOWSHIP CHURCH

2222 Regent Road, Black Creek

The CVRD will present information on well water capacity and conservation issues. There will also be a discussion on monthly volume thresholds and the rate increases that come into effect for the billing period ending June 30, 2015.

For questions or inquires, contact the CVRD’s engineering branch at 250-334-6056 or by email at: [email protected]

Prior to the meeting, residents are encouraged to review the frequently asked questions (FAQs). The FAQs provide clarity on the 2015 water rate review. www.comoxvalleyrd.ca/waterratereview.

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Patti Harris, a member of the Comox Golf Club won Overall Low Net with a siz-zling 64 at the Ladies North Island Golf Tournament on Mother’s Day.

Shelly Stouff er from Fair-winds carded a 74 to win the Overall Low Gross trophy.

The team prize, presented by Kay Dick in honour of her late husband, was awarded to the team of Brenda Kelly, Karen Wade, Phyllis Taylor and Sharon Crowe.

Of course none of this could have been possible without our major spon-sors Gregg Hart, owner and managing broker of Royal LePage in the Comox Valley and our Hole in One spon-sors, Canadian Western Bank and Visual Sounds.

Although there were no Holes in One, it was the thought that counted.

Royal LePage provided goody bags with the par-ticipation of a lot of their realtors and a towel made by Peg Runquist, one of our lady members.

Throughout the weekend the ladies enjoyed a horse race, chipping contest, ka-raoke, great food and some great golf.

John, Sean, Ernie and Brandon had the course in great shape and the fl ags in some pretty tricky places.

It was nice to have our new manager, Jesse Mous-sa and his wife Nadine Ash (teaching pro) take part in our weekend.

Nadine provided a free lesson for registering before May 1st which was won by Tobi Norris in a draw.

Adrian, head chef of the Tee Box Restaurant, provid-ed us with an amazing meal topped off with some awe-some decadent desserts.

On Saturday night Jesse supervised the Horse Race.

Lorelei Banford, Laurie Appleyard and Barb Dixson placed fi rst when they bird-ied the last hole, #9.

Shawne Munro, Fran Gib-son and Sue Leakey placed second and third was the team of Sue Fulkerth, Janet Edwards and Patti Harris.

A chipping contest was held also, with Kathy Branch placing fi rst by chipping 10-1/2” from the hole, second was Nancy Riva 4 feet.

Ian chose a hidden spot on the green for another prize won by Shawne Munro.

Our tournament is so suc-cessful because we have very generous hole sponsors:

Bill Wheeldon Construc-tion, Chinook Forest Prod-ucts- Ian Leakey and Ed Leakey, CIBC Wood Gundy Investment Broker-Dave Wheeldon, Comox Fireplace and Patio, Comox Men’s Club, Creative Orthodon-tics- Dr. Mark Lawrence, G lacier Gutters- Rick Mc-Caughan, Golf Life- Jesse

Moussa, Holland and Cam-eron - Mike Holland and Chris Cameron, Investors Group-Keith Gibson, J.R. Edgett Excavating Ltd. - Jack and Lynda Hornstein, Marty Peterson Contracting, Royal LePag e- Scott Fraser, Royal LePage - Gregg Hart, Scor-pio’s Hair Design - Cheri Kahiamoe, Shilo Painting - Mark Vandervoort, Sun Life Financial - Rick Siddall and Tracy Branch Contracting and Finishing.

A generous donation was made by Thrifty’s, Rexall Drugstore, Independent Grocers, The Echo and Na-dine Ash.

The Comox Golf Club has a very committed group of volunteers as well.

Ron Pratt, Brian Buchan-an, Yvonne Higgs, Hank Verdenhalven, Gus Baudais and Tom Shaw found our er-rant shots in the trees, water and somewhere around the green.

Ian Leakey, Don Vanetta and Gerry Rautenberg su-pervised the chipping con-test.

A cheerful group of ladies greeted us at the Registra-tion Table.

Bernice Sutherland, Mar-got Hope, Monique Walker, Linda Diamond and Yvonne Baker were joined by Chet-tie MacDonald from Royal LePage to present us with our goody bags and cards.

Pat Ailles was busy pol-ishing the trophies. Don and Maureen Taylor along with Doris Ellis and Ber-

nice Sutherland worked dili-gently to tally the results in a timely manner.

As the ladies headed into the club house after their golf or fl og or whatever you wanted to call it, they re-ceived Bits and Bites pro-vided by Edith Albrecht with help from the kitchen staff .

In the 56 years of this tournament Edith has only missed one and that was because she was on a cross country train tour.

Chairman Kathy Branch and her committee of Sha-ron Crowe, Karen Vanetta, Sue Leakey, Mary Buchan-an, Linda Callender, Car-

men deWinter and Nancy Riva, were congratulated on another successful tourna-ment.

Following the presenta-tions Katrina LeNoury led us astray in another rous-ing Karaoke sing song and dance.

Here are the top winning scores:

Low Gross: Karen Kloske -80, Darleen Michell - 82, Jenny Steel - 84, Dee Horie - 85, Tobi Norris - 85, Katrina

LeNoury - 86, Pat Peden - 87, Georgina Hermans - 88, Carolyn Walker - 88, Suzy Venuta - 90, Judy Pouliot - 90 and Sue Fulkerth - 90.

Low Net: Pat Schmidt- 69, Nancy Newton - 71, Kar-en Wade - 72, Barb Buchan-an - 72, Nancy Riva - 72, Fay Baxter - 73, Anne Patterson -73, Brenda Kelly - 73, Edith Yaworski - 73, Phyllis Taylor - 73, Laurie Appleyard- 74 and Amber Dufour - 74

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Low net win for Patti Harris

Kathy Branch Jesse Moussa, Patti Harris. Low Net Champion from Comox and Gregg Hart.

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anna RicksonB 1 Charles Hodson -

Tim Kennelly2 Tom Dugdale - Jea-

nette Baron3 Gary Priestman - Pat

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lie CraigOur club is located on

Nordin Street across from the Comox Mall under the Museum and Art Gallery.

We off er guaranteed partnerships, so if you’re visiting or your regular partner is away, make sure you come out to play any-way. If you don’t have a regular partner, I’m sure you’ll meet one. Our Web-site is www.cvdbc.com and email is [email protected] For more information, please contact Linda Mari-nus at (250)338-2544.

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Charges for vehicle parking will have to be imposed at North Island College before the new hospital opens, Courtenay councillors have been ad-vised.

In a briefi ng on the col-lege’s draft fi ve-year plan, NIC president John Bow-man explained that as the hospital was being built right next door to the col-lege -- and parking charg-es will defi nitely apply to its parking lots -- the col-lege had no option but to introduce its own fees.

If it failed to do so, stu-dents and staff would inevitably fi nd they had nowhere to park, as the college’s parking lots would be swamped with vehicles trying to avoid the hospital’s charges.

At present, NIC is one of the few colleges in BC that has not introduced pay parking, but that pol-icy simply could not be sustained once the hospi-tal opened, Bowman sug-

College ‘will have to charge for parking’Fears lots will be swamped with hospital staff and visitors

gested. Careful consideration

was being given to how parking charges could be structured and imple-mented to make them as aff ordable as possible for staff and students, while deterring overspill park-ing from the hospital site.

On present projections, he thought it would be about a year before they were implemented.

The Echo has confi rmed

the same issue is being actively considered by regional district staff re-sponsible for the CVRD’s Aquatic Centre, which also currently off ers free parking and which is also alongside the new hospi-tal site.

Answering questions from councillors on other NIC issues, Bowman ac-knowledged that several BC colleges had changed their names and status to

‘university,’ but in his view that had caused some con-fusion for the public.

People had diffi culty working out what the dif-ference really was between, say, Camosun College in Victoria and Vancouver Island University (for-merly Malaspina College) in Nanaimo, especially as both off ered degree-level credentials and broadly comparable programs.

“I understand the mo-

tivation behind the title change, but it’s not some-thing North Island Col-lege aspires to do,” Bow-man explained.

Apart from Masters de-grees, NIC already off ered a very wide range of pro-grams and qualifi cations related to local student and employer needs and interests without chang-ing its status or name.

NIC was proud to be a valued community col-

lege, and already off ered its own business degree program.

Other partnerships and dual admission agree-ments had been forged with institutions else-where - including univer-sities - so students could pursue their studies and gain credits locally for the fi rst year or two, which for many was a very attractive proposition.

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This Sunday (May 31), K’ómoks First Nation will launch its own Guardian Watch-men program at the Band’s new administration offi ce on Dyke Road between 1p.m. and 3 p.m.

KFN Chief Rob Everson and Band Councillor Melissa Quocksister will speak at the open event, introducing the four guardians - Cory Frank, Tony Billie, Randy Frank, and Candace Newman.

In addition, there will be tra-ditional dancing and a Power-Point presentation explaining

the role of the watchmen and the importance of the work they are taking on.

Guardian Watchmen are First Nations’ people who monitor and protect the lands and wa-ters on their territory in a bid to ensure a vibrant future for gen-erations to come. They view their task as carrying forward the work of their ancestors to manage and respect their natural and cultural resources through traditional laws.

In particular, they monitor the health of important food,

social and ceremonial species and the impacts of various re-source uses throughout their territory. Often working in for-estry, fi sheries and parks, they contribute to the successful im-plementation of land and ma-rine use plans and other sus-tainable resource management initiatives.

A growing number of First Nations, particularly along the BC coast, have Guardian Watchmen, and the KFN is pleased to be able to launch its own program.

Sunday launch for Guardian Watchmen program Join the Oh Canada! Team Trivia Night, Eh?

To get in the spirit of Canada Day and the Cour-tenay Centennial celebrations, the Comox Valley Council of Canadians is hosting their ninth annual Oh Canada! Team Trivia Night. To accommodate demand, this popular event will move to a new location at the Rotary Hall of the Florence Filberg Center, 411 Anderton Road, Courtenay.

Doors open at 6:15 pm, Saturday June 6, with trivia questions beginning at 7pm.

For more information and to register for the June 6 Team Trivia Night, call Kathie at 250-334-4608 or email [email protected].

$10 per person includes a ticket for all door prizes. Visit www.cvcanadians.org for more details and upcoming events

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an annual spring cleanup of the park, and act as marine park hosts during summer weekends.

Any potential new mem-bers are invited to attend a social event later in the day and will be eligible for

a prize draw.For more informa-

tion, contact Sue at 250-898-8333, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.comoxvalleyy-achtclub.com.

Mess around in boats with CV Yacht ClubThe Comox Valley Yacht

Club (CVYC) will hold its annual information ses-sion Saturday, May 30, 10 AM - 3 PM at the Comox Valley Marina site near the Harbour Air offi ce in Co-mox.

This year we have been invited to be part of the Comox Valley Marina ‘Boaters Exchange Ex-travaganza’.

CVYC is a fun-loving group of people with boats of all sizes and descrip-tions. They all share a love of the water.

Members can go on planned group summer cruises whether they have a power boat or sailboat. We have power and sail boats in the fl eet, from 17 - 51 feet and all levels of experience.

Our members are inter-ested in exploring, learn-ing, socializing, and shar-ing ‘all things boating’.

Therefore, if you have a boat, love boating, and want to share or acquire information about sail-ing the wonderful waters that surround us, come to check us out and ask questions of the members who will be on hand.

During the winter months there are regular educational presentations on boating-related topics, and many social events to entertain.

A monthly bulletin with a calendar of events, ma-rine information, and boating articles keeps members up to date on what’s happening.

Reciprocal moorage at other yacht clubs is a defi -nite club benefi t. Members also receive discounts at chandleries on the Island.

In conjunction with BC Parks, the club is a stew-ard of Sandy Island (Tree Island). Club members do

Comox Valley Marina, in con-junction with the Comox Valley Yacht Club, are hosting the First Annual Boaters Exchange Extrava-ganza and Yacht Club Open House in the upper lot at the Comox Val-ley Marina where the Edgewater Pub used to sit (1805 Beaufort Avenue, Comox, BC)

Mark it on your calendars May 30, from 10:00 to 3:00 p.m. Arrive when the doors open and be the fi rst to spot just the special item that’s what you’ve been looking for. Vendors such as Wills Marine, Ocean Metals and Comox Ma-rine and Woodworking and more will display their specials and many boaters will have dug out the treasures from the bottom of their lockers to buy, sell and trade. Desolation Sound Yacht Charters have lots of bits and pieces at the ready.

A concession worthy of the hungry sailor is sponsored by the Sailing and Stand up Paddle Boarding Association to support Youth Watersport Athletes in the Comox Valley in the areas of cata-maran and Stand Up paddle board development. Come and explore the treasures of the deepest bilge and see what you can fi nd.

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Annual information session Saturday with boaters’ exchange event

Help us name our new ferries.We’re proud to be introducing three new Intermediate Class Ferriesto our fleet. They will become part of our shared culture and history,serving British Columbians and visitors for decades to come.

Celebrate the beauty of coastal British Columbia and our marineheritage by submitting your best vessel names.

You could win over $500 in ferry travel. Contest ends June 9.

To enter, visit bcferries.com.

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Comox Valley RCMP re-sponded to the following incidents between May 19 and 25:

Crash at intersectionOn May 20th police at-

tended a three vehicle col-lision at the intersection of the Old Island Highway and Ryan road in Cour-tenay. The investigation revealed that a full sized pickup drove into the back of a car stopped for the red light which in turn pushed

that vehicle into a third. One minor injury was re-ported and the driver of the pickup was charged under the Motor Vehicle act. (2015-6179)

Big TV stolen from mallPolice received a re-

port of a theft of a 40 - 50 inch Samsung TV from the Comox mall on May 20th.

The suspect is de-scribed as a white male in his early 20’s, is about 5’11”, 200 pounds and was wearing black pants and a white shirt. If you know this male or have any information about

this theft you are asked to contact Cst. N. Ban-det of the Comox Valley detachment at 250-338-1321. (2015-6200)

Break-in at grillOn May 22nd police

responded to a report of an alarm at the Joe Klas-sen’s Grill located on the 2400 block of Cliff e Av-enue in Courtenay. Entry was gained by smashing a window and once inside the thief targeted the till. This investigation is con-tinuing. (2015-6282)

Theft from shedPolice took a report of

a theft from an unlocked shed on the 2000 block of Bolt Avenue in Comox. Someone stole a large pressure washer that was on wheels. (2015-6317)

Woman pulls knifeOn May 23rd police

responded to a report of a female pulling a knife and demanded money and cigarettes from the store clerk at the Shell Gas bar located on Ryan road in Courtenay.

The female was located shortly after near her res-idence and was arrested for Robbery.

The 52 year old woman

will be appearing in court at a later date. (2015-6367)

Break-in on 16th St.A break, enter and theft

was reported to police on May 24th at 06:45 AM from a resident on the 1000 block of 16th street in Courtenay. It is re-ported that the break and enter occurred during the early morning hours while the people in the residence were asleep.

The point of entry to the residence was the unlocked basement door. Several items were sto-len. ( 2015-6383)

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Learn about water and boating safety during ‘Everyone Welcome’ swim at the RD’s Aquatic Centre

May brings warmer weather, and also the Canadian Red Cross’ Na-tional Lifejacket Day,

To mark the occasion, the Comox Valley Region-al District (CVRD) is in-viting the public to learn about water and boating safety on Saturday, May 30 between 2:00 - 4:00 pm during the “everyone welcome” swim at the CVRD’s aquatic centre which runs from 1:00 - 4:30 p.m.

The event, which is in partnership with Pacifi c Pro Dive, will raise aware-ness of the importance of lifejackets and personal fl otation devices (PFDs)

It will include fun activ-ities for the entire family, including water survival games and rescue chal-lenges, and boating safety drills and demonstra-tions.

This water safety ses-sion will take place in a section of the 25-metre pool, and is included in the regular swim admis-

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win prizes. The wave pool and

remaining areas of the 25-metre pool will be open for patrons enjoying the “everyone welcome” swim.

Some of the tips at-tendees will learn about include the proper size and fi t of a lifejacket, wa-ter entries and exits, how to safely load and enter a boat, and rescue simula-tions.

“National Lifejacket Day is an annual cam-paign initiated by the Canadian Red Cross to ensure boater safety by encouraging the use of lifejackets and PFDs,” said Jennifer Zbinden, the CVRD’s recreation services manager.

“We wanted to off er a fun session on water safe-ty skills because we want residents of our commu-nity to feel comfortable around water and be able to enjoy some safe, sum-mer fun.”

For more information on the CVRD’s sports and aquatic centres, includ-ing swim lesson rates and schedules, visit www.comoxvalleyrd.ca/rec.

Tip sheets on water safety can also be found online at www.redcross.ca/swim .

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Gabe Gledhill receives the CV Road Runners Youth Grant ($300.00) from Roslyn Smith, President of the CVRR. Gabe is a dedicated and talented youth run-ner and cross country skier. Gabe is 12 yrs. of age in his 2nd year with the Comox Valley Cougars. We all wish him well in his dream to compete at the Olympics.

Road Runners present youth grant

Enjoy a nice Hawaiian-theme dinner and drinks to support emerging Is-land athletes in a variety of mountain sports.

The Vancouver Island Mountain Sports Society is having a special fund-raiser on Saturday, June 6 in the alpine lodge at Mount Washington resort. There will be silent and live auction items, plenty

of games, a free scenic chair ride and scaven-ger hunt between 3-5 pm. Then sit down for dinner at 6 pm. Dress in your best summer wear - prize for best dressed.

For tickets and to do-nate to the auction please email [email protected]

Tickets are adults $50, children under 10 $25.

Support young athletes at mountain dinner, auction


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Comox Valley Echo, May 29, 2015