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Drew McLachlanLAKE COWICHAN GAZETTE

Lake Cowichan or Cowichan Lake?

While the distinction may be clear to most residents, some of� cials with the Town of Lake Cowichan are concerned that the branding of the town, most notably the confusion surrounding its name and the name of the

surrounding area, is holding back its image and its potential as a tourist destination.

The naming issue however, isn’t just an issue with potential tourists, but even within the Cowichan Valley itself. Councillor Bob Day, who has been leading these recent discussions at the council table, said that even the area directors with the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) aren’t on the same page when it comes

to the name(s) of our community.“During meetings, regional

directors won’t want to say that we live in Lake Cowichan, they’ll say that it’s Cowichan Lake,” Day said. “I’ll joke about it often, that it’s what’s politically correct – we’re on the edge of the Cowichan Valley. It’s a bit silly, but we should all be using one name if we’re trying to sell something.”

The most conventional nomenclature, which the Lake

Cowichan Gazette and many other local organizations use, is that Lake Cowichan refers only to the town, while Cowichan Lake refers to the lake itself along with the surrounding communities of Youbou, Honeymoon Bay, Caycuse and Mesachie Lake.

While the topic has recently come up around the council table, Mayor Ross Forrest said that the name confusion is nothing new for the town and that he’s

unconvinced that it could be having an effect on the area’s tourism.

“When [tourists] are coming here, they’re coming to Lake Cowichan or they’re coming to Cowichan Lake, it doesn’t matter what they’re calling it,” Forrest said. “It’s nothing that we’ve ever really focused on, but it does come up now and then.”

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Is naming confusion a barrier to tourism?

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Soap Box Derby:A change in course for the sixth annual racing event

Photo Drew McLachlanTourists and area directors are in disagreement over the name of the area, which councillor Bob Day said is affecting the town’s image and its potential as a tourist destination — though not everybody agrees.

Heritage Day:Honeymoon Bay celebrated its past last Saturday (May 23)

Play ball!Fire� ghters returning to Mesachie Lake for charity tournament

The Lake CowichanGazettePAGE 10

Drew McLachlanLake CowiChan Gazette

Lake Cowichan’s trademark soap box derby is coming back to Lake Days for its sixth year in a row, this time with a few changes.

The green light will go off on June 7, with the races taking place from 2 to 6 p.m. Though the derby typically takes place over two days during Lake Days, coordinator Terry Hale said that the entire event will be held on June 7 this year.

“We changed the schedule and condensed it down so more family members could come out and enjoy the fun,” Hale said. “The second night went pretty late in previous years, so the younger kids couldn’t stay for the whole event.”

Another change at this year’s derby will be the addition of an “open class,” which will allow participants to roar down the track in anything, so long as it fits onto the ramp.

“The new [open] class will open the derby up to more people, and hopefully make it more entertaining for the audience,” Hale said.

The races will be split into three different age categories, Category 1 (ages six to nine),

Category 2 (ages 10 to 13) and Category 3, which will be open to racers of all ages.

Hale said that the changes were inspired by the need for a bigger audience turnout.

The derby’s first year saw 30 racers register for the event, with even more racing in the second derby. Interest in the event has waxed and waned since, and Hale is hoping that the new changes will reinvigorate the derby. The turnout varies between 22 and 38 each year, but with the new changes, this year’s derby has the opportunity

of being the biggest one yet.“I just wanted to change things

up a bit,” Hale said. “Sometimes when you make changes, more people notice.

“It varies each year, there have been other events like baseball happening on the same day, that didn’t include Lake Days events, that took away from the soap box derby.”

Hale noted that the Sunday event has typically drawn a bigger crowd.

One thing that is staying the same this year will be the race course. The soap box karts will line up at the top of the hill on Stone Avenue, and continue 400 metres to the bottom of the hill at Hammond Road and Sahtlam Avenue.

Another aspect of the derby that Hale hopes is here to stay is the level of excitement as the racers reach the finish line.

“The best part of the derby is the excitement and the families gathering around the participants coming down the finish line,” Hale said. “The faces of the

children as their eyes light up when they see the crowd gathered.

“The competition kicks in with the older kids, and there’s a lot of excitement when they come down the hill and win by a nose.”

Registration for Lake Cowichan’s soap box derby is open

until June 1, and can be done completely online at www.cowichanlakedays.com/2014/03/soap-box-derby.

Registration for those who already have a soap box kart is $20, while those who don’t will be required to purchase a $75 soap box kit which includes all the basic parts: tires, steering components and a frame, which the cardboard face can be built onto.

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Open class: New category will see more creative karts and add to the excitement of the annual event

”“The best part of the derby is the excitement and the families

gathering around the participants coming down the finish line.

Terry Hale

File photoRacers line up at the top of the hill on Stone Avenue at last year’s Soap Box Derby.

Annual Soap Box Derby changes course this year with new schedule, open class

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Andrea RondeauCowiChan Valley Citizen

A push is on to improve the road between Cowichan Lake, Nitinat and Port Alberni, with the aim of opening up the area for business development.

Driving the movement is the Huu-ay-aht First Nation, a group of about 750 members which owns 8,500 hectares of land in the Barkley Sound region on the west coast of Vancouver Island at the entrance to the Alberni Inlet.

The Huu-ay-aht signed their treaty with the provincial and federal governments in 2011, and now operate under a municipal system where they collect taxes to provide services to their people.

The Huu-ay-aht want “significant” road improvements to the 120 kilometre stretch to bolster the development of two large industrial projects, a transshipment hub in Port Alberni and a liquid natural gas project at Sarita Bay.

These projects are key to the future of the band, said Chief Councillor Jeffrey Cook, because 85 per cent of their people don’t live on the nation’s lands, and

they’d like to lure them home with the promise of good jobs.

Both proposed projects will require materials to be transported overland from the east to the west coast of the Island.

The long-ignored stretch of what they’re calling the West Coast Vancouver Island Road is the preferred route.

“We’ve been talking about the road for the better part of 30 years,” said James Edwards, the band’s executive director, but said upgrade proposals are finally starting to gain some traction.

The province has indicated the development is a matter of when, not if, he said.

“We want to make sure the when is soon,” said Edwards.

The goal is to have the road designated a public highway and brought up to safety standards and either have asphalt laid or have the surface chip-sealed.

Saying that “the road isn’t great, perhaps is an understatement,” Edwards said.

At some times of the year it’s not really even passable, he said, and is certainly not suitable for those looking to go camping or hiking in the area.

Attracting such visitors is also an important part of developing the entire area economically, he said, including Lake Cowichan, and Nitinat.

Fixing the road will also significantly improve access to medical and emergency services, Edwards said, especially if a disaster were to occur.

The current lone highway into Port Alberni has both safety and congestion issues, he pointed out, and a secondary route is smart development.

The vision is to pay for the upgrades with both private and public funding.

“We do see that this is going to take a partnership,” Edwards said.

The CVRD is being asked to voice their support for the project and be part of a group meeting with the province to sell the idea.

Directors were enthusiastic about the possibilities.

Coun. Tim McGonigle from Lake Cowichan said he could see that the area “would most definitely benefit,” while Dir. Ian Morrison said of the proposal, “This is music to my ears.

The proposal will come back to the board for action at a later date.

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Improvements on road west of townHuu-ay-aht: Nation wants to lure members home through job development

Photo submittedYoubou’s own Canadian horseshoe champion Jerry Melissa began the 2014 season in grand style, winning the BC International Tournament in Abbotsford last weekend. It was Melissa’s fourth straight title at this event. This weekend he will take part in the Victoria Open at Glandford Park in Victoria.

File PhotoThe town’s Public Works and Engineering Department have not yet received the lab results to the recent algae bloom, though Shawnigan Lake has recently seen the same problem — with the same complaints of a stench emanating from the water.

Photos submitted/Drew McLachlanAbove: For the fourth time in a row (and the ninth time since the award was established) Dave Thompson won the People’s Choice Award at the Kaatza Art Show and Sale this May long weekend. Known for his wood creations in intarsia and segmented turning, Thompson managed to capture the audience with his multimedia piece featuring a heron taking off from a pond. The 3D artwork was a unique piece of realistic representational art. Below: After seeing the speed board encourage drivers to slow down near Lake Cowichan School, the town has installed a second speed board, which is currently near the entrance to town on South Shore Road.

Cowichan Lake: Town’s Department of Public Works and Engineering still awaiting lab results from recent algae bloom

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BC Climate battle could go nuclearTom FletcherBLACK PRESS

Premier Christy Clark revealed some unexpected allies when she unveiled her “climate leadership team” to go beyond a carbon tax in reducing BC’s greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to mayors, climate experts, aboriginal leaders, representatives of the natural gas and forest industries and environmental activists surrounding Clark at an announcement last week, red-coated scientists gathered in front of a strange machine with radiating steel arms.

It’s a prototype of a nuclear reactor being built in Burnaby by General Fusion, backed by venture capital funds including those run by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the Malaysian government.

Conventional reactors use nuclear � ssion, in which large molecules of radioactive material are broken apart to produce heat. Fusion reactors attempt to compress hydrogen atoms to create a helium atom, releasing enormous energy in the process that powers the Sun and other stars.

Even after a tour of General Fusion, Clark wasn’t anxious to describe the project. She laughed off a question by comparing it to the “� ux capacitor” used for time travel in the Michael J. Fox movie Back to the Future.

Nuclear fusion has been a holy grail of clean energy for decades. Stable, ef� cient fusion reactors would revolutionize energy production, upending the economics of coal, oil and natural gas-powered electricity.

General Fusion has competitors, none bigger than a 34-country collaboration

called the ITER project, under construction in southern France. That machine covers an area equivalent to 60 football � elds, with the same goal of re-creating the reaction at the core of the Sun.

General Fusion chief scientist Michel Laberge described his project in a recent TED Talk, comparing his design with ITER and other efforts. “We are almost there,” he said.

BC’s climate leadership team is to make recommendations by the end of November on how to advance the province’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. The team includes:

• Academic – Paci� c Institute for Climate Solutions executive director Tom Pedersen, SFU public policy professor Nancy Olewiler, UBC business professor James Tansey

• Communities – Comox Mayor Paul Ives, Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strimbold, Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner

• Business – Council of Forest Industries CEO James Gorman, Columbia Power director Tim Newton, BC LNG Alliance president David Keane

• Environment – Clean Energy Canada executive director Merran Smith, Pembina Institute regional director Matt Horne, Tzeporah Berman, formerly of Greenpeace International

• First Nations – Squamish First Nation Chief Ian Campbell, Ulkatcho First Nation Chief Zach Parker, Cayoose Creek Indian Band Chief Michelle Edwards

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.Twitter: @tomfl etcherbc Email: tfl [email protected]

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Jolene Mutch“I would like to see more music, activities and stuff for the kids, maybe it can keep the trouble makers out of town.”

Linda Allen“Well, we have lots of parks and places to gather already, so maybe a little market or something. The stage is set up kind of funny but for music we have the stage at Central Park. I can’t see them developing much there.”

Tina Arnold“I think a gathering place for people to visit would be nice, a place you can sit and have a chat, maybe have a coffee or tea.”

Denis Martel“It would probably be a good place for people to drop in with their guitars or whatever during the summer to have more music there.”

Street BeatCowichan Lake SAYSWe asked: Now that the new town square is open what would you like to see it become?

With Malcolm Chalmers

Clint Martetish“A place for festivals or for more community gatherings.”

Youbou/Meade Creek public meetingThe Cowichan Valley Regional

District will be hosting a the � nal public meeting in a four-part series at Youbou Hall June 9 from 7 to 9 p.m. The meeting will be regarding proposed rezoning in Electoral Area I (Youbou/Meade Creek) put forward by a group of residents in the Nantree

and Peri Road neighbourhood, which would allow residential property to be used as recreational property.

Come learn the facts or make your voice heard in the issue. The meeting will feature a Q & A period.

This follows three meetings held throughout May.

Dear editor,

In response to the letter “CVRD considers new zoning to allow campsites in residential neighbourhoods,” published in the Lake Cowichan Gazette, May 20, 2015.

Our neighbourhood in the Nantree and Peri Road area consists of 35 properties. There are 11 permanent residents and the remaining 24 properties consist of a mixture of seasonal cottages and RVs.

The owners of 15 properties have applied to the CVRD to consider a new zoning as

recreational and to allow up to four RVs per property. These lots are more suitable for seasonal recreational use than residential because of � ood plain issues. We are not suggesting every residential lot around the lake be turned into family campsites or cottages. Zoning should be applied in the context of “most appropriate use of land.”

Please note: We are not asking to have four campsites per property as the letter writer insinuated. We only want to continue to use our properties as we have been for many years — as recreational.

Our families enjoy spending time at the lake. On our properties we have one central area where we enjoy games, barbecuing, visiting, and in the evening we sit around one camp� re. To say that we want to invade the neighbourhood with 60 campsites is absolutely ludicrous.

We are hopeful that under the process of this application a reasonable solution will be accomplished so that permanent and seasonal residents can live in harmony.

—Randy SmartLake Cowichan, BC

Nantree/Peri Road rezoning would allow property owners to continue current use

Dear editor,

In response to the letter “Water quality matters — keep sewage out of the lake,” published in the Lake Cowichan Gazette, May 20, 2015.

The writer refers to the Nantree/Peri Road area of 35 lots where 25 lots have been used seasonally either with cottages or RVs for over 50 years. There is good reason for that as the area is in the � ood plain and traditional septic � eld systems often � ood in the winter. Only 10 residences were built with septic systems which by today’s standards would not be approved. A group of owners in consultation with the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) has asked that seasonal recreational use be recognized through a zoning or amendment process currently underway.

There is no evidence that seasonal owners are damaging the shore, the lake or drinking water any more than residential owners with outdated septic systems. RVs do have holding tanks and while pit toilets are not the most elegant way to handle sewage, they have existed for thousands of years. Properly constructed, according to established guidelines, they are an effective means of waste disposal and indeed are in common use around the lake on private property, regional parks, forestry campsites and provincial parks. The suggestion that we are willingly contaminating the land, the lake shore and the lake is ridiculous.

Likewise, the comments previously made by the author (Lake Cowichan Gazette, May 13, 2015) that “...he had seen trailers with no improved septic systems dumping raw sewage into Cowichan Lake and on the ground...” is a blatant misrepresentation of the facts. We do, after all, bring our children and grandchildren to our properties, to swim in the lake and play on our lands. We are as respectful of the environment and nature’s beauty as anyone, perhaps more so, as that is one of the reasons we come to the lake. As an aside, I recently had our well water tested and there was no evidence of fecal contamination.

The hysteria and scare tactics employed by the writer, blaming us for everything from dumping raw sewage to creating turbidity and algae bloom in the Lake, is demeaning to the reasoned review being undertaken by the CVRD, and certainly questionable considering his position.

The Nantree/Peri Road neighbourhood is a relatively pristine area of forest and natural � ora. The alternative development of 25 lots and construction of year-round residential houses with high tech sewage treatment plants would have a far greater effect on the environment and the riparian ecosystem than the current weekend use for three or four months of the year.

—Dr. Chris FitschLadysmith, BC

Campers care about Cowichan Lake too

Photo Malcolm ChalmersRob Conway, manager of Development Services at the Cowichan Valley Regional District speaks with residents at the second of four meetings regarding a proposed rezoning in Electoral Area I. Sewage is still the major issue in the rezoning application to permit recreational uses on a number of properties in the Nantree/Peri Road area.

Correction:In last week’s issue we did a story on the local Ts’uubaa-asatx First Nation, who are hoping to start a program that would see their native language reintroduced to the community. Though we said that the elders that would be leading the language courses are from Duncan, they actually live in Nitinat.


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Lexi BainasCowiChan Valley Citizen

Rod Allen’s wide background in education has seen him working in everything from rural classrooms to the Ministry of Education.

Now, he’s taken up the job of superintendent of schools at the Cowichan Valley School District, replacing Joe Rhodes, who retired last week.

Starting his career in rural Saskatchewan, Allen went to Lesotho in southern Africa and then returned to Canada to spend 20 years teaching in Smithers, BC. He finally left rural BC for what he thought was a short-term job at the Ministry of Education.

He stayed seven years. “In government, I found that, while I loved the job, I wanted to get back. I really miss the kids, I miss the action, I miss the schools,” he said.

“Cowichan has intrigued me for a while. This district is poised on the edge of doing amazing things,” he said.

Having served so long in northern BC, he is well up on such problems as an increasing call for trades training, how to increase offerings at small secondary schools, how to improve aboriginal student success, how to fit everything into ever-tightening budgets and more.

Small secondary schools, academies and trades training can all be looked at under the same microscope. There’s a need for new ideas in all of them, he said.

“What I’ve seen around the province is that some of the greatest innovation is coming out of small rural secondary schools,” he said.

“We used to believe that rural secondary schools had to be

helped and compensated for because of their small size. What we see now is that the literature on optimum school sizes is shifting around and the ability of these small schools to be nimble is an asset,” he said.

Traditional wisdom said the larger the school, the greater the menu selection of courses, the better the situation for students. That is changing. “As we look into personalized learning, smaller secondary schools can offer programs that are tailored almost to individual students.”

Students can spend mornings following a fairly traditional academic timetable but afternoons are around project-based learning, which means getting out into the community and really applying their learning in different ways.

“It’s far easier to do in a smaller community where everybody knows everybody than it is if you’re Burnaby South with 3,000 kids,” he said.

Big schools are starting to divide into pods, acknowledging that “students can’t interact well, teachers can’t interact well in communities much larger than a hundred.” The closeness of a small community can become an asset, Allen said.

“We know learning and relationships go hand in hand. You can’t do one without the other.”

The skills students learn are different, too.

“The periodic table? You can print that off your phone now. That’s not the game. It’s being able to use that knowledge, to apply that learning,” he said.

While districts are moving towards offering trades and academies, that can still be just part of adding to the menu, he said.

“We have to look at that new ways. That apprenticeship

model can be applied to all kinds of learning, getting young people working with motivated, interested experts. That comes down to the community coming into the schools, the kids going out into the community. No school has all those experts in place.

“We want to see hands-on learning earlier. Kindergarten has it, that exploring the environment. But we lose that very quickly in schools.”

He said that the province’s First Nations Principles of Learning are being seen as an acknowledgement that the holistic, environment-based way of looking at acquiring learning, prevalent in aboriginal cultures, is the way all education should be moving.

Dealing with the many young children who are not ready to start school is a challenge facing many districts but it has been identified as a significant issue in the Valley.

Using adaptable programs has shown that students can catch up quickly, if they are given the right kind of situation, Allen said.

“The Strong Start program is a piece of the answer. But what is the ecosystem the family lives in? And are there families we are missing with programs like Strong Start? A solution takes everyone in the community,” he said.

Tight budgets have been challenging school districts for years and solving problems often means taking a new vantage point, he said. “You have to be constantly looking at what you are doing. When there were bags of money around we thought we could just buy success. Ontario tried to do that, but it didn’t work. And a little stress on the system can be a good thing,” Allen said.

SD79 welcomes new superintendent

Occupation: Lake Cowichan Christian Fellowship I’ve always wanted to: Help and support peopleMost people don’t know that: I moved around a lot as a childFavourite food: Pasta, pizza and frozen yogurtBest thing about living here: Helping out with the churchFavourite activity: Playing hockey, basketball and team sportsI define down time as: WalkingI wish I was better at: Talking with peopleMy guiltiest pleasure is: ChocolateIn my car I listen to: Christian bandsIn my fridge you’ll find: Organic stuffIf I had a $1,000,000: I would give it to the poor

Photo Malcolm ChalmersSaturday afternoon was the perfect day to have your car washed. Madisyn Young, Kourtney Brooks, Aislinn Mckeown Ferris and Lacey Drunow were washing cars to raise money for LCS Grad 2015. There was also a bottle drive that same day to help with their grad celebrations.


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Photo Drew McLachlanLady of the Lake candidate Amanda Nixon spent the day painting faces, including this design on Landon Garnett.

Photo Drew McLachlanColby Hartshorn reels in a big prize at the fishing pond at Palsson Elementary’s annual Fun Fair, held last Friday (May 22) at the school. Lady of the Lake candidate Kirsten Mackie ran the activity.

File PhotoThe Lake Cowichan Fire Department up at bat during last year’s final game. Lake Cowichan claimed a victory over the Ladysmith Fire Department, who won the softball tournament in 2013.

Firefighters play ball at Skydome for charityDrew McLachlanLake CowiChan Gazette

This Fathers’ Day weekend, firefighters from across the South and Central Island will descend on the Mesachie Lake Skydome for the 36th consecutive year.

The annual slo-pitch softball tournament will see the Mesachie Group, which includes firefighters from Mesachie Lake, Lake Cowichan, Honeymoon Bay, Youbou, Caycuse, Duncan, Cowichan Bay, Langford and Ladysmith, come together to raise as

much money as possible for Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

The tournament began in 1979, as a way to raise money for the Mesachie Lake firehall. Since then, its become a huge fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy Canada, raising over $700,000 for the group over the years, according to a press release from Cowichan Bay’s deputy fire chief Cam Ferguson. Along with the Mesachie Group’s other events, the 30km Walk for Muscular Dystrophy and golf tournament, the group raises an annual $30,000 to 40,000 every year.

This year’s softball tournament will begin on Friday, June 19 with a game between Honeymoon Bay and Youbou at 7 p.m. The decision to change the Friday to a single game was made in order to reduce the pressure on fire departments to make it there on time for the usual earlier game on Friday.

Saturday will kick off with a game between last year’s champions, our very own Lake Cowichan Fire Department, and the Ladysmith Fire Department, who defeated Lake Cowichan in the final game of 2013. Eight more games will be played between June 20 at 10 a.m. and June 21 at 1:45 p.m., with the final game being played at 2:30 p.m. on June 21.

Though the tournament is open only to teams put together by the firefighters themselves, anyone is welcome to come down to the Skydome to watch and cheer on their local firefighters.

The tournament will also include an auction of over 100 items, with the sale of items going towards Muscular Dystrophy Canada. The auction begins at 1 p.m. on June 20.

“We invite anyone to attend and participate in the bidding of the items we auction off,” organizer and Ladysmith firefighter Dwain King said.

The Mesachie Lake Skydome is located at 9315 South Shore Road.

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Heritage Day in Honeymoon Bay

Allan Corrigall, a long-time resident of Honeymoon Bay, shows off his old phonograph and it’s recorded cylinder at the 2015 Heritage Day Celebration at the Honeymoon Bay Hall.

Above: Claire Corrigal explains what some of her items on display were used for when they were in their prime.

Below: A razor blade with it’s sharpener in a silver box, old fuses and some logging equipment used in the early 1900s were just a few of the items on display last Saturday (May 23).

Photo Malcolm ChalmersCatcher Noah Murdoch seems to be looking in amazement at the smoke coming off his glove after Lakers pitcher Ethan Brown drills in a fast pitch. In reality, it’s clay dust from home plate on his glove, but it makes a good photo.

Photos by Malcolm Chalmers

Photo Malcolm ChalmersEthan Brown, pitching for the Lakers Peewee Baseball team, was throwing some serious heat when they played against the Ladysmith “Orioles” in Lake Cowichan last Saturday afternoon (May 23).


Outdoor days teaches elementary students about local environmentJammin’ 4 Jay: Secondary students moved by ICBC safe driving presentation

April was a happening month throughout the school, with as much activity going on upstairs as downstairs. Both the elementary and secondary schools are buzzing with liveliness.

The elementary students in grades six and seven have began participating in outdoor days, in which they have been canoeing, kayaking, hiking in the forest as well as making traditional bannock over � res.

“I really like this class because I enjoy making bannock and spending time outside,” grade seven student Keegan Mullin said. The class runs once a week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on the activity. This program gives elementary students the opportunity to explore the surrounding environment in an entertaining

and educational way.In next week’s class, the grade

six and seven classes will be learning how to � sh here in the Cowichan Lake. The lake, with its diversity of � sh species, is the perfect place to teach the next generation how to catch � sh — a skill which, in the future, these students can use to feed their families, teach these same skills to their own children and paint memories of the times they will spend together � shing with their families.

In LCS’s woodwork class this semester, the students enrolled in the course are in the process of building a garden shed which, according to the students, will likely be sold upon completion to provide extra funds to go towards the wood shop, allowing students access to better construction materials.

“We are putting the garden boxes we’ve made on today,” grade 10 student Ryan Pincombe said. “We’ve been working on it for several weeks now, and I’m excited for when we complete it.”

Just this last week, the class has poured concrete foundations for the shed, which will soon hold the shed up once it’s constructed. This project will be remembered fondly for being perhaps one

of the woodwork class’s most monumental achievements.

Last week, our school hosted an ICBC safe driving presentation presented by Greg Drew, the founder of Jammin’ 4 Jay, an organization devoted to the memory of his son, Jason “Jay” Drew, who tragically passed away in a car accident on Mothers’ Day in 2003. Drew’s message was to educate teens about safe driving by sharing his story with students in grades 10 to 12 in hopes that he can reach at least one person.

There wasn’t a dry eye in the theatre when Greg pulled out his son’s urn. Everyone in attendance was profoundly moved. This experience was both a reality check and an eye-opener to what can happen when someone makes the choice of driving too fast. Drew’s foundation has travelled across Canada and he has spoken to tens of thousands of teens throughout the years.

If anyone is interested in supporting his organization, you can � nd Jammin’ 4 Jay online (jammin4jay.com).

With so much going on in the school, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for more events, presentations, fundraisers, meetings and grad meet-ups.

AREA NAME CONT.

Town sign: The confusion starts at the entrance to town, which could see a redesign

—Continued from the front page

The town will be hosting a series of Valley-wide “webinars” this summer, one of which, set to take place in late June, is planned to focus on the branding of local communities. Day said that something he hopes that will come from that webinar is less of an emphasis on the “Cowichan” part of Lake Cowichan, seeing as the word could already be used to refer to Cowichan Bay, Cowichan Tribes or the entire Cowichan Valley.

Day also said he hopes the town can adopt an of� cial slogan, and offered “come for lunch, stay for a lifetime” and “BC’s best kept secret” as his own personal suggestions. The town did have a slogan at one point, though “it’s worth the drive” apparently failed to catch on.

“In my opinion, we can’t sell ourselves as an industrial logging town anymore,” Day said. “We should sell ourselves with the lake, as having lots of outdoor activities and great places to eat.”

The slogan could be incorporated into a new town entrance sign as well, seeing how the term Cowichan Lake

is more pronounced than the town’s actual name.

According to Day, the sign at the entrance to town is due for an entire redesign. He named the sign at the entrance to Parksville, with its use of timber, as an example of what Lake Cowichan’s own sign should look like.

“It has these big, huge wooden timbers [sic], and that’s part of what we’re about too,” Day said. “There’s not a lot of wow factor [in the current sign], aside from the bears.”

The town has also looked into having a commercial produced to promote tourism. The town’s options have ranged from $3,000 to 35,000, with the priciest package including a redesign of all of the relevant websites and a mobile app. Due to more pressing issues coming up recently, such as the water treatment upgrades, the town has had to pass on that for now.

With proper branding, Day believes, Lake Cowichan could see a rejuvenation in tourism. BC’s best kept secret, as he calls it, would become a little less secretive, and its name much more clear.

”“In my opinion, we can’t sell ourselves as an industrial

logging town anymore.

Bob Day

Photo Malcolm ChalmersBy mid-morning last Saturday (May 23) Diana Hutton estimates she had 100 people at her garage sale in Youbou. Hutton and a few friends organized a dozen families to promote and have garage sales on the � rst weekend after Victoria Day. On Saturday and Sunday a good number of other households joined in and saw customers from as far as Victoria to buy items. Hutton and friends want to make this sale an annual event for Youbou.

EDUCATION UPDATE

EvanCroteau

Photo submittedThe concrete foundation recently poured outside of Lake Cowichan School will soon house a garden shed built by the school’s woodwork class.

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Tipton, Walter RichardWalt/Dad/Grampa was born on January 31, 1926 in Spiritwood, Sask. In 1946 he and his wife Mavis moved to BC. They settled in Lake Cowichan in the 100 houses and raised their family, Rod (Diane), Wayne (Jan), Wendy (Dorwin).

He had 6 grandchildren, Brandon, Dean (Christina), Dayna (Paul), Stuart (Jen), Nicole, (Riley) and Mike (Lorena). He had 8 grandchildren, Allie, Keegan, Chase, Wesley, Gwen, Hadley, Kipp and Finn.

Waterskiing was a huge part of the families lives in the late sixties, early seventies. The boys Rod and Wayne along with Mavis and Walt were out in early spring right through to the late fall. The LC Ski Club was formed.

Walt worked for many years at WFI in Honeymoon Bay and while there, started fixing outboard motors in his basement until he built up enough work to open up Tipton`s Outboards and built their house on the river.

After a very successful run of selling boats and motors with his son`s Rod and Wayne by his side, night and day, Walter and Mavis retired. They spent many years down south in Indio/Palm Springs area, golfing, motor bike riding and travelling. Walt and Mavis spent summers fishing all over the island. There was never any shortage of canned fish for all of the family.

He and Mavis loved to go out and see Wendy and Dorwin and would help out at planting and harvesting time and they would bring cases of canned fish to share.

In 2010, after a very full life, Mavis passed away. It left a huge void for us all. Luckily for Walt he found a loving friend in Arlene. Together they cruised to Alaska and Hawaii. They spent many hours at dances at the OAP in Duncan and playing bridge. He found his true love of singing and belonged to a choir. Life will never be the same without you here.

As per Walt`s request there will be no service. In lieu of flowers a donation to the charity of your choice is appreciated.

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Come celebrate our 9th year as your favourite “Frontier Town” Market.

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www.lakecowichangazette.com THE LAKE COWICHAN GAZETTE Wednesday, May 27, 2015 15

Photo Malcolm ChalmersDebbie Carlow and Greg Trombley are collecting funds to keep little Naomi Carlow’s parents close to her while she undergoes a liver transplant in June. Naomi’s parents Curtis and Meredith are with her in Edmonton while she waits for the transplant originally planned to take place one to two years from now. Her health deteriorated and she was put at the top of the list for a transplant next month. Donations can be made to the Carlow family of Youbou.

Our Community in BriefHistory comes alive at LCS tomorrow

Lake Cowichan School will be hosting their annual historical fair tomorrow (May 28) in the school gymnasium at 1:30 p.m.

Grade nine to 11 students will be showing exploring Canadian history as well as European history from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Previous fairs have seen students incorporate multimedia, 3D displays, interactive games and even cuisine in their history projects.

Fundraiser for local family raises $11,000, still going

The family of Deana Hill, a local woman who passed away last week after a year-long battle with breast and bone marrow cancer, are seeking help in alleviating the financial stress brought on by their circumstances. Donations are being accepted online (www.gofundme.com/smders).

The fundraising campaign, which began on April 22, has raised $11,000 as of May 25.

Roller skate season starts with free skates at CLSA

Dry floors are in at the Cowichan Lake Sports Arena, which means the arena will be open for roller skating until July 16.

Along with daily daytime skates each weekday from 11 a.m. to 12:50 p.m., a free public skate will be held each Monday from 3:30 to 4:50 p.m.

Ball hockey and broom ball will also be held on Tuesday to Thursday evenings.

Lake Days Dance tickets now available

The annual Lake Days Dance is set for June 13 at the Cowichan Lake Sports Arena, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

The dance will feature three live bands this year: local country group Backstage Whiskey, pop-rock “corporate” band The Circus as well as David James and the Big River band, a tribute to Johnny Cash.

Tickets are $20 and available at CLSA, Youbou Hall and online at ctcentre.bc.ca. The event is 19+.

—Drew McLachlan


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