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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2015 | VOL. 19, NO. 46 | $1 + GST | www.lakecowichangazette.com

Open house: Residents left frustrated after information event

Take a hike: Retreads explore Mesachie and more

Remembrance Day: Photos from Lake Cowichan service

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A totem pole acknowledging the small First Nation that calls the Cowichan Lake area home is raised in Ts’uu-baa-asatx Square in the heart of Lake Cowichan Saturday. [LEXI BAINAS/GAZETTE]

Totem takes place of honour in squareLEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

It was a celebration unique in Lake Cowichan’s history.

The town’s Ts’uu-baa-asatx Square was packed with hun-dreds of residents and visitors who had come to see the cul-mination of special journey as a stunning totem pole was raised Saturday morning, Nov. 14.

The beautiful pole, a gift to the townspeople from the 20-mem-ber Lake Cowichan First Nation (Ts’uu-baa-asatx), had been

carved outdoors near the square during the summer by Chuuch-kamalthnii (Ron Hamilton) and two assistants.

Wearing colourful regalia, he led the ceremony that raised the pole from its bed of cedar boughs, first scattering feathers over it with Kristen Hamilton and then calling on various groups for assistance in erecting the tall sculpture. In that way the area’s forest industry workers, com-munity safety folks, children and women all got to lay a hand on

the rope and pull together.Once it was raised, Chuuch-

kamalthnii called on Lake Cow-ichan’s legendary welder Bob Godfrey and he came forward, dressed in his equally legendary Stanfields shirt, to supervise bolt-ing the totem to its steel support.

Hereditary Chief Sha e’lum (Cyril Livingstone) and Lake Cowichan Mayor Ross Forrest assisted with bolting it in place and then a few short speeches followed, by local dignitaries.

Sha e’lum, spreading his hands

and looking up at the sunny sky, said he had “asked the Creator” to bless the day with good weath-er and his wish had been granted.

An emotional Cowichan Valley MLA Bill Routley spoke for most when he shared that he had been strongly moved by being allowed to take part the community-build-ing exercise of physically raising the pole.

Chuuchkamalthnii then told the story of how the totem came to be.

He told the crowd that he had

been unhappy, when arriving in the community, to see that there had been no official notice taken by the Town of Lake Cowichan that there was a First Nation in their midst.

He then called forward Jayne Ingram and shared how he had met the former town councillor coming out of Curry in a Hurry one day a couple of years back.

“She looked at me and said, ‘I don’t know you,’” he said.

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Chuckles from the crowd followed this reference to Ingram’s encyclo-pedic knowledge of her community.

He told her about his idea to carve and erect a totem pole and she promised to work towards bringing the idea to fruition.

Then, the carver began to tell the stories of the images that could be seen on the pole, explaining that the three faces on the top stand for the past, present and future, how the hole stands for a special cave near Mesachie Lake and what the other creatures all signify.

To complete the ceremony at the square, the male members of the

Ts’uu’baa-asatx Nation drummed and sang a song while the women and girls danced slowly around the pole.

Afterwards, Melanie Livingstone said the day was very special for the nation’s members.

“The last time my family has danced was the 1950s. So proud to be Ts’uu’baa-asatx. I am so grateful to Ron Hamilton for teaching me and my children our culture. Klecko klecko,” she said.

After the dancing everyone crowd-ed around to have photographs taken with the new pole and then everyone was invited to Centennial Hall for a celebration feast and fur-ther ceremonies.

TOTEM TAKES, From Page 1

Carver told crowd about pole’s symbolic design

The women dance while the men drum and sing at the raising of the totem pole in the heart of Lake Cowichan, acknowledging the small First Nation that calls the area home. [LEXI BAINAS/GAZETTE]

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LEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

If next summer is dry, then Catalyst could be pumping water over the weir from Cowichan Lake to keep the Cowic-han River viable.

Catalyst’s Crofton operation has applied for a licence to pump water from the upstream side of the Lake Cowichan boat lock and weir (located near 300 North Shore Rd.) to the downstream side of the structure which will maintain up to five cubic meters per second of flow in the Cowichan River.

Approximately 30 per cent of this water will be used by Catalyst under its existing water licence, which authorizes water for the pulp and paper facility in Crofton and for domestic use by the vil-lage of Crofton, while 70 per cent will be used for conservation purposes to sup-port fish populations in the Cowichan River, according to the application.

Although it might appear to be a reac-tion solely to last summer’s drought, the move is based on years of observation, according to Harold Norlund, Croft-on mill’s vice-president and general manager.

Built in 1957, the weir at Cowichan Lake is there “to hold back more of the spring and summer rains and snow melt and then release it back out during the fall,” he said. But even though summers were dry in the 1950s, there were snowy winters, too.

“People used to ski at Green Mountain [south of Nanaimo] and Mt. Arrowsmith in Port Alberni but now it has really changed. You don’t get the snow con-

tinuing into the July period and so the lake goes down way faster than it used to. The weir is there but the water won’t last,” he said.

This is not a new problem for the Cow-ichan Valley but “for the last few years it’s been gut-wrenching looking at it. It’s like [the weather] has shifted a month. It used to be dry from mid-July to early October but now it starts in May.”

Low water affects the migration of salmon but its reach goes far beyond that, Norlund said, pointing out that the outfalls from the sewage treatment operations run by Lake Cowichan and the Joint Utilities Board are also affected by the Cowichan River flow in a drought year.

“We have to try and hold enough water to last into Nov. 5. But it’s clear the fall rains don’t seem to come at the right time and you can tell that the river is going to go down. This is not just about if you run out of water, the mill has to shut down until it rains. There’s more to it,” Norlund said.

This past summer, Catalyst paid for an independent environmental group to study the river and then revised its application but people still must remem-ber it’s only for two years, he said.

“We’re looking at a two-year opportun-ity where we could pump up to 49 days per year. This is a short term measure. For the long-term, for a hundred years, this is not an appropriate solution.”

Norlund said that DFO will decide which fish conservation efforts should be undertaken, if they are needed.

“The permit says we must keep the

lower part of the river above 2.83 cu metres per second. Last summer, that flow got to around 3.1.”

The mill uses about 1.6 cubic metres per second itself, which is “far down from what it used in the past” partly because of new cooling systems.

Now, the idea is to be ready to help keep the river flowing, if needed.

The pumping option involves floating, low-velocity pumps.

“They float on the surface, like a fish pen, and would pump water over the weir without stirring up the bottom, con-tinuing to flow until the fall rains came,” Norlund said.

The floating pumps would have to be fueled by a diesel generator because there “is not an easy place to get electri-city there. If you were going to do it long term you would have to put in a power substation in. But this is only a two-year permit.”

Many people all along the watershed became anxious river watchers and are interested in Catalyst’s application.

Norlund said there were about 25 com-ments dropped in the box at an open house in Lake Cowichan last week.

There will not be an opportunity for a public meeting but people can still send in comments until Nov. 29 by emailing [email protected] or in writing to Catalyst Paper, Box 70, Croft-on, B.C., V0R 1R0.

Objections to this application may also be filed with the Regional Water Man-ager, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Nat-ural Resource Operations, 2080 Labieux Rd., Nanaimo, B.C., V9T 6J9.

Catalyst aims to keep river fl owing

LEXI BAINAS GAZETTE

They came, they had a coffee and went home.

Close to 100 Cowichan Lake area residents turned out at Centennial Hall Thursday, Nov. 5 hoping to learn more about Catalyst’s plans for pumping water from the lake during the next couple of years.

The pulp and paper company has sent in a Notice of Application to the prov-incial government for short term water use under the Water Act (Section 8).

Catalyst had announced it was hold-ing an “open house” and organizers had prepared for it by setting out a few round tables and chairs and putting up a series of information boards around the big hall.

The crowd was clearly expecting for an informative question and answer session as entrants to the hall looked wonderingly around at the lack of chairs and the overall set-up. How-ever, people continued to arrive and by 6:20 p.m. there were about 100 people there, drinking coffee, talking to their friends — often about a stormy meeting held the night before at the nearby arena or about Catalyst’s Lake Cowichan weir in general or historic terms — and wait-ing for something to happen.

When nothing organized seemed to fol-low, they began to drift away, at first indi-

vidually or in pairs and then in groups.Catalyst officials said privately Nov. 4

that they would try to find another way to get their message out.

But, despite Thursday’s communica-tion setback, the Catalyst application is still pending and anyone with con-cerns can provide feedback by sending an email to contact.us@catalystpaper.

com or in writing to Catalyst Paper, Box 70, Crofton, B.C., V0R 1R0.

Objections to this application may be filed with the Regional Water Manager, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, 2080 Labieux Rd, Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6J9.

The deadline for feedback is Nov. 29, 2015.

Lack of communication mars Catalyst open house

An open house in Lake Cowichan Nov. 5 offers a chance to talk about the Cowichan River with Cowichan Tribes Chief Chip Seymour, right. [LEXI BAINAS/GAZETTE]

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One doesn’t need to look at the science (though there’s plenty of it) to see that climate change is real.

There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence simply from our own memories, along with photos like the one above, to back up what scientists around the globe are warning about.

Taken in the early 1960s, in May, this photo graphically depicts just how much show was on the hills around Lake Cowichan (not even very high up). That snow pack has been reduced to zero, or virtually zero for the last several years.

So why is this worth mentioning? It informs many of the issues that are being debated in the Cowichan Lake communities at present. Questions surrounding the weir at Cowichan Lake, and Catalyst’s proposal to install pumps to try to keep the river owing at a healthy level during the summer drought months, as well as questions of ood management and who should take control of the watershed are profoundly in uenced by the impacts of climate change.

A snow pack used to hold water in for when we needed it in July, August and September. Without that natural storage we are left oundering in the shallows. Less snow is falling, certainly, and our winter temperatures have risen to the point where it doesn’t stay when the white stuff does stick to the ground. Clearcuts don’t help.

We must face up to the changes we are undergoing, so that we can nd solutions and prevent further damage.

No snow pack speaks of climate change calamity

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Letters to the editor: YOUR SAY

Poll worker just complying with the rules

Re: Jean Atkins, “Voting with bag over head”

First of all, before one puts a communication out into the public domain, one should have at least a knowledge of the facts. A Supreme Court ruling had been passed that allowed this covering of one’s head. There-fore this was legal.

Secondly, posted in the poll-ing station was an Election Canada poster advising people that once they had voted they

were required to leave the poll-ing area. This did not have the stipulation that if there was no else there they could stay.

Further, it is important for the public to realize that those who serve to ensure that Canadians continue to have fair and honest elections, according to the legal rules of process, for small remu-neration, deserve respect.

In the case of the DRO for Hon-eymoon Bay, I worked with this person over the duration of the Lake Cowichan location of the advance poll and was impressed by his commitment to detail,

accuracy and knowledge of the correct and required process. It appears that the request to comply with leaving the polling area was necessary in order for compliance of the rules.

Lynda BowdLake Cowichan

Want to talk Alternative Approval Process? Does something going on in town annoy you, or does someone deserve some praise? Tell us in your letter to the Gazette.

Snow packs the hills around Lake Cowichan in the early 1960s. This is what it looked like in May. [LEXI BAINAS/GAZETTE]


Street Beat With Malcolm Chalmers

The Gazette asked:What preparations have you made for winter?

Brenda Morrison“I get the canning

finished from the harvest and prepare the woodpile.”

Ella Gauti“Not much more that go

out and buy a new heater.”

Shaun Farrell“Basically I clean the gut-

ters, make sure the roof is in good shape and always put snow tires on the car.”

Jolene Pilon“We rearrange some of

the rooms for the kids to play in, we use the plastic shrink wrap on windows to save heat, get the pellet stove ready, and bring out the winter blankets.”

Ingeborg Woodsworth

I put the garden to bed, then make sure the house is ready for the cooler weather by closing up rooms we don’t use to save electricity.”

Green shift returns, goes globalWe will soon learn what

Premier Christy Clark and Prime Minister Justin

Trudeau have in mind for Canada’s renewed effort to influence climate change.

As they prepare to join the 40,000 people jetting to Paris for the next big United Nations summit to deal with human impact on the world’s weather, here is some context for what is to come in December and beyond.

Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion served as environ-ment minister under former Lib-eral prime minister Paul Martin. Then, as Liberal leader, Dion’s proposed “green shift” carbon tax was pivotal only in ending his leadership.

With a majority government this time, he promises the entire feder-al cabinet will be involved.

Dion gave a revealing inter-view to The Globe and Mail last week about his experience in government.

“The old system was to give the file of the environment to the minister of the environment and say, ‘deal with it, be the hero of the environment groups, but don’t bother us because we have jobs to create and an economy to grow’,” Dion said. “That will not work.”

It certainly didn’t work, which is not surprising since Dion is admitting the Liberals considered the environment ministry a mere public relations tool.

This was the period when Canada signed on to the Kyoto Protocol, then pretended to care about it as the United States rejected it in a unanimous vote of Congress.

We now understand more about those environmental groups, most funded by U.S. billionaires to target the Canadian oil and gas industry while the U.S. booms.

Their tactics were on display in the defeat of the Keystone XL oil pipeline to the U.S., with arguments that even President Barack Obama acknowledged were exaggerated.

Dion’s ill-fated “green shift”

wasn’t just about greenhouse gas-es. He intended to impose a nation-al carbon tax and use the proceeds to eliminate child poverty.

This concept is back, on a global scale. If you’ve been to the movies lately, you may have seen a slick animated commercial sponsored by the UN, featuring animals run-ning the world from the seats of the General Assembly. “We have a plan,” trumpets the elegant lla-ma at the podium, not only to fix climate change but to eliminate poverty as well.

One problem with Kyoto was that it left emerging economies like Chi-na and India untouched. And while Canada endures false allegations of subsidizing fossil fuels, actual subsidies are huge in petro-states like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria and Indonesia, where gas-oline sells on average at a third of Canadian prices.

China and India’s carbon emis-sions have about tripled since the Kyoto public relations gesture in 1997. That growth is one reason why Canada’s share of global emis-sions has now fallen to below two per cent.

Here in B.C., Clark intends to unveil her “Climate 2.0” plan before heading to Paris. We’ll see if it includes another increase in B.C.’s vaunted carbon tax, which now translates to about seven cents on a litre of gasoline.

Even without carbon taxes, about a third of the pump price Canadi-ans pay is federal, provincial and local tax.

In Metro Vancouver, it’s closer to 40 per cent. In Venezuela, a big winner in the Keystone XL deci-sion, gas sells for around two cents a litre.

The B.C. government admits its

post-carbon tax reduction in greenhouse gas emissions was largely due to the global recession of 2008-09. Now with crude oil at historic low pric-es, B.C.’s carbon tax is a weak signal lost in the noise of a world-wide glut of oil and gas.

Tom Fletcher is legislature report-er and columnist for Black Press. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

BC ViewsBy Tom Fletcher

AAPs must be stopped: say no

I fully agree with Ross Grant’s letter to the Cowic-han Valley Citizen Nov. 4.

Ross, you hit the nail right on the head on all three items and I urge people to go to the CVRD office and sign the electoral response forms to stop arts and culture and the Cowichan flood management initiatives. It is my under-standing AAP for the Lake Cowichan weir is put on hold right now.

Area E has one more AAP coming which has to do with street lighting. I have lived in Area E 50 years and I have never seen street lighting anywhere in my neighbour-hood. We have defeated the pool increase big time and we can do it again.

Please folks do yourself and everybody else a big favour, go to the CVRD office and sign the electoral response forms.

Leo Kasbergen Area E

We need to switch off power in your area for about four hours while we conduct

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Where: Lake Cowichan, Mesachie Lake, Youbou, Honeymoon Bay

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Start time: 11 p.m. on Saturday, November 28, 2015

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Publication: Lake Cowichan Gazette (BCNG) Size: 5.8125 x 91 linesInsertion date: Nov 18 and 25

Name: Carole Livingstone Occupation: works for Lake

Cowichan First NationsHometown: Lake CowichanI’ve always wanted to: do dan-

cing for the First NationsMost people don’t know that:

I am a member of a small Tribe in Lake Cowichan

Favourite food: baked salmonProudest moment: seeing my

granddaughter being bornBest thing about living here:

it’s a small town, great sum-mers and the people

Favourite activity: playing with my granddaughter

If I was stuck on a desert island I would definitely need: my TV

My guiltiest pleasure is: chocolate

I am currently reading: a book called My Sister’s Keeper

Carole Livingstone

COWICHAN LAKE

Smile FILEWith Malcolm Chalmers We need to understand and decide

individual issues at AAP stage

It has been an interesting couple of weeks

dealing with CVRD bylaws brought forward from the board and now at the alternate approval (AAP) stage of the process. This is my first experience as a board member having to work through this process in an effort to supply what the board has agreed upon as valuable services to citizens of the region.

As I listen and deal with the complaints about the process, there is one thing that stands out the most and that is the issue around communication. There are minimum standards for public communication and engagement, set out in the local government act and the community charter. It has been my experience that usually only the minimum requirements are undertaken as a cost saving measure to taxpayers. I have been an elect-ed official for seven years now and I cannot figure out how to best communicate with the tax paying public. Obviously the newspaper is not the abso-lute method in this new age of communication, but unless there is a dedicated staff per-son at a cost of $50 to $100,000 a year, it would be impossible to cover all the modes of com-

munication avail-able to each and every one of us in today’s world, with any degree of integrity.

For at least three years now I have witnessed past and present boards turn down the request from staff for a desig-

nated communications pos-ition. I totally understand the reason people complain about the actions and processes associated with governments. Elected officials sit, listen and ponder mountains of infor-mation from all disciplines associated with each and every issue, something the general public expects of us and do not have the time in their busy lives to do themselves. I truly admire my fellow elected officials and staff for going over and above each and every day to make sure they have all the information at hand in order for elected officials to make sound decisions. The one piece we most often fall short on is educating our electors through efficient methods of communication.

Recently through staff attri-tion, our CAO has been able to hire a manager of Strategic Services, whose job descrip-tion will focus largely on com-munications. I look forward to this position taking affect ear-

ly in the new year so the CVRD board can convey information around regional issues before they affect the pocketbooks of the taxpayers.

In the meantime we need to work together as best as pos-sible to understand the bylaws currently at the AAP stage and decide as individuals whether or not we approve of the pro-posed services in each bylaw. What concerns me most is that folks may be led astray by the opinions of folks who don’t understand the reasons for the services. It should also be noted that one of the loudest voices in the Lake Cowichan area speaking against the AAP, was an elected official and sat at the CVRD board table while some 20 service bylaws were adopted. At the end of the day, I can only hope that before anyone signs and delivers an AAP form back to the CVRD that they have thought for themselves.

My personal mantra around taxation is, “A fair and equit-able distribution of wealth.” We are so very fortunate to live in a country with so much and in a governing culture full of ways to share wealth through all levels of taxation in an effort to enrich the quality of life throughout the country.

Bob K. DayTown of Lake CowichancouncillorCVRD director

Guest columnBy Bob Day

Do not hand feed the elk; you’re not helping

This fall in Lake Cowichan, we are again fortunate to wit-ness the majestic Roosevelt bull elk!

First, let us not forget that these animals are not tame. Second, these animals are not your new pet. Roosevelt elk are wild animals. They are not to be trusted.

Recently, it has come to my attention that a few people are venturing too close to the elk. While it can be the thrill of a lifetime to witness a bull elk, you must be respectful of these animals by giving them the appropriate amount of space they need to enter or exit an area. Please keep your dis-tance when viewing a bull elk.

On several occasions people have gone way too close to these animals. Numerous people have attempted to get within a few inches of them. In some instances, people actual-ly tried to feed these bull elk…BY HAND!

In another instance someone ripped flowers out of a prop-erty owner’s flower box and hand-fed the bull elk!

To an elk, this type of action can very well be seen as a

threat! When an elk is threat-ened, they are unpredictable. They could escape without harming anyone. They could bolt over you and injure you with their hooves. They may attempt to defend themselves with their antlers (use your imagination here).

In closing, I would like to leave you with one thought: if a bear wanders into town, do you try and feed it by hand? When a bear begins to be a threat to humans, the Conserv-ation Officer Service is called

and a conservation officer is dispatched. The officer will assess the situation and appro-priate action must be taken. The end result might be to relocate or shoot the bear.

These actions are no differ-ent for an elk if is deemed that the elk is a threat to humans. Enjoy the elk that have come into town — but enjoy them from a safe distance.

Denis MartelWilderness Watch CoordinatorValley Fish & Game Club

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The Mesachie hike was pretty uneventful. We had hoped for a clear day in order to admire the view from the summit but that was not to be. It was low overcast when we started out, the view from the top was quite restricted and we were only able to just see the road to Honeymoon Bay from the summit. By the time we had finished lunch and headed back down the cloud had cleared a bit and we stopped at the lookout halfway down and admired the view out over Bear Lake and towards Honeymoon Bay where we could see that it was bright and sunny.

By the time we reached the bottom the cloud had cleared completely and we could easily see the top of Mesachie Mountain when looking up from Honeymoon Bay Road. Those who had not done this hike before were sur-prised at how high it is and how shear the mountain face is. Discussions were many and varied. We talked about the weather (of course), whether it was

possible to hike up from the east side, the upcoming election and the sur-prise appearance that Tommy Douglas would be making at the Lake Cowichan School soon after the election. Back at the Lake quite a few of us met up at Jake’s for coffee etc.

Twenty six of us — an impressive and colourful group when strung out along a trail — hiked what was for us a new trail, starting and ending at the Skutz Falls parking lot and heading upstream along the river bank.

Much of this trail had the look of a fisherman’s trail with side spurs run-ning down to the river. At one point we were out on the Trans Canada Trail then back into the forest again. Further along we faced a challenging “bushwack” up and down over fallen trees and rocks. It turned out that the river had changed course — something rivers are prone to do — and obliterat-ed parts of the trail.

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Beth Kidd scrambles over fallen logs on the Skutz Trail. [SUBMITTED]

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Toward the end of the outward part of our hike we crossed some pretty unproductive gravel-based land where the trees were pretty stunted. No doubt traces of other river bed changes. And then out onto a clearing right at the edge of a deeper section of the Cowichan River. Time for lunch and memories.

It was exactly two years since Jean Cozens had passed and it seemed appropriate to remem-ber Jean, the founder of our club, with a moment of silence and the releasing of memory cards into the river. That done, we gathered ourselves for the hike back along the Trans Can-ada Trail to the parking lot. A few more enthusiastic mem-bers decided to hike back into town on the TCT.

Fourteen of us met at the Aylard Farm Parking lot for our hike along the coastal part

of East Sooke Park to the trap cabin. We were delighted to have the rain ease off and the sun come out as we followed the contours along the rocky shore, lead by Jim Jenkins who is well known for his know-ledge of the back country and his art work. We had excellent views of the Olympic Moun-tains and the boats in the Juan de Fuca Strait.

We had lunch at a point by the trap cabin with the ocean pounding against the rocks, the sun warming us, seals frolicking by the shoreline — perfect! Our route back took us through lush forest with a short detour back to the coast-line to see the seal petroglyph at Allridge Point. Another stel-lar Retreads hike that we will long remember. Indeed some members recalled doing the complete hike along that coast-al trail together with Jean Coz-ens a few years back. It was a challenging day.

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It was just supposed to be a sim-ple photo opportunity.

But when the Town of Lake Cowichan presented an award of merit it had received from the Canadian Wood Council to the Lake Cowichan branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library, councillors discovered that the town’s population were the real winners.

The initial presentation was made at the recent Union of BC Municipalities convention and there wasn’t much fanfare about it, according to Lake Cowichan Mayor Ross Forrest.

“There was no mention of Lake Cowichan at the time, that we were the winner; people kept say-ing: get up there, it’s yours, get up there,” he said, to laughter from colleagues and the audience.

“But, it’s a great honour now to present this to the library board.”

He and councillors posed for the cameras with VIRL board mem-ber Steve Hurcombe and Kristen Rumohr, head librarian, but then Rumohr said she brought along a few numbers “just to compare the library programs and usage between now and before we opened [the new facility]”.

Those got everybody in the room smiling.

The award-winning facility is a real draw, she said.

“So far this year, in 2015, we’re averaging 3,300 visits per month at the library, which is actually, if you include all the communities we serve, about half the popula-tion that we serve. It was 2,900 in 2013.

“For programs, we’re now offer-ing 13 per month compared to five in 2013. In our summer reading club this year, we had 155 kids compared to 62 in 2013, more than double, which is incredible,” she said.

In addition, Rumohr shared a

statistic that conjured up some fun images.

“I thought I’d tell you about one of our most popular programs from the summer: our annual Stuffie Sleepover. We had 45 kids come into the library to take part and then leave their stuffies at the library; during the night they got into all kinds of trouble,” she said.

Fun aside, the library is meet-ing community needs.

“Everyone is proud of the work we are doing, we’re getting lots of good feedback. And we’re doing lots of work in early literacy.”

Forrest then asked, “When it first opened up, you said you were seeing more high school students than you had seen in the old library, enjoying the facility and the atmosphere. Are they still coming in?”

Rumohr assured him that this was continuing.

“We had lots of teens in the building in the summer. There were also a couple of teens who were always around outside in [Forestworkers Memorial Park] riding their bikes and that sort of thing. I went out and talked to them, to see how they were doing. Then they came in and now we’re seeing them come in to the library after school. We’ve also got teens coming at lunch. It’s wonderful that they feel com-fortable there, just enjoying some time with their friends, without being under a ‘watchful’ eye.”

Coun. Carolyne Austin praised the reference materials and computer facilities available to library users.

“My husband goes in there and looks up consumer magazines whenever we are going to buy something. He loves it in there, too. It’s good for seniors as well,” she said.

Rumohr said, “Use of the com-puters for downloads at our branch is more than at most

branches. People are using them for everything from social media and playing games to job search-es and research.”

Library workers also had fun with visitors to the community this summer.

“People would come in and look around and then say: ‘Um, some-one told me I could get a fishing licence here.’”

And they did, she said.Asked by the audience if the

students were there for the books or the computers, Rumohr replied, “Both. Our circulation of teen books is definitely stronger than it ever has been. Right now we are working on our readers’ choice award. It’s a selection of books selected by librarians all through the Pacific northwest. Teens have an opportunity to read those books and then vote. Those books are almost never available; we have seven copies and they are nearly always out.

“We have a couple of school classes that come very regularly,” she said, adding that the library also has programs to help stu-dents with homework.

Forrest said that the town is proud of the success of the new library, feeling it justified the decision to locate it there because there had been some initial resist-ance to the choice to put it where the old bowling alley had stood.

“I think this verifies its value to our community as being far bet-ter than an empty lot,” he said.

“This means more than land and dollars. The social aspect of libraries is great. We’re very lucky.”

Coun. Tim McGonigle also noted, “That’s the second sim-ilar award that has come to the town of Lake Cowichan. First of all there was the renovation of the Cowichan Lake Sports Arena and now this library. A wood community using wood for its community.”

Lake Cowichan Mayor Ross Forrest hands over to the VIRL’s Steve Hurcombe and Kristen Rumohr an award of merit for the outstanding use of wood in the construction of the library’s Lake Cowichan branch. Lake Cowichan town councillors, Tim McGonigle, Lorna Vomacka, Bob Day and Carolyne Austin are glad to add their congratulations.[LEXI BAINAS/GAZETTE

Lake Cowichan library nets CWC wood award

RETREADS, From Page 10

Moment of silence for Cozens

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Are you a business person interested in new ways to afford more employees?

The Cowichan Lake District Chamber of Commerce may have the speaker for you.

At its meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 18, the group is featuring guest speaker Jack Tieleman of Global Vocational.

He’ll be talking about employ-er opportunities such as wage subsidies, job-start supports,

short-term training, work cloth-ing, basic tools, transportation.

Currently he is actively involved in managing staff in both those areas as well as man-aging day to day operations of Global Vocational Services.

The dinner meeting will take place at Jake’s at the Lake from 6-9 p.m.

It is Burger & Beer Night at Jake’s at the Lake with a little extra on the menu for the meet-ing. Tickets are $20 per person to attend.

Glass, garden waste recycling splits council

The Town of Lake Cowichan is not ready to move ahead with the recycling of glass or garden waste just yet, but councillors are still discussing the subject.

They took another look at it during their public works committee meeting Nov. 3 but learned from town CAO Joe Fernandez that, although he’s been in touch with the other municipalities to see what they are doing, he’s hasn’t “crunched the numbers” yet.

Also, “it’s all over the map; every city does it differently,” he continued.

Part of the problem is that residents can already dispose of those materials by driving them to the Cowichan Valley Region-al District’s Bings Creek facility but there’s more to it.

Such collection could involve the town’s own public works employees since the current contractor is “not amenable” to doing either, according to Coun. Tim McGonigle.

He said he wasn’t sure if the added expense to benefit what might be only a small number

of people was a good choice for the town.

Mayor Ross Forrest agreed.“If the system we have now is

not broken, why are we so con-cerned about it?” he asked.

Coun. Carolyne Austin said she was concerned for people that don’t have vehicles and would like some environment-ally friendly way to dispose of their yard waste instead of burning it.

Town entrance sign design proceeding

The ongoing saga of replacing the sign at the entrance to Lake Cowichan continued last week and council is now looking at a design that might incorporate the style of other signs that have been erected more recently in the town.

A new design could also make clearer to motorists that they are entering the Town of Lake Cowichan.

Some fresh designs could be available for viewing at the town’s big public meeting on Monday, Nov. 30.

Lexi Bainas, Gazette

Chamber speaker talks staff

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Lake Cowichan remembers

Ron Wallace, left, places a wreath at the cenotaph in Lake Cowichan. To see colour versions of the photos, go to www.lakecowichangazette.com for a photo gallery.

A young boy places a wreath at the cenotaph in Lake Cowichan while a cadet stands guard.

The Lake Cowichan legion colour party marches to the cenotaph in Lake Cowichan

Leading the parade, Suzanne Jones gives the marching orders on Remembrance Day.

Lake Cowichan resident Lucile Palsson at the 2015 Remembrance day Ceremony.

Photos by Malcolm Chalmers

A cadet salutes in honour of Remembrance Day at the Lake Cowichan services at the cenotaph.


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Cowichan Lake fishing has picked up.

Try trolling creek mouths with three-inch tomic plugs in the new amazing iridescent colours. Also good success with Gang Trolls (the larger the better.) 24-30 inch leader and size five to seven Kwikfish or Flatfish Chrome Blue and Frog patterns best. Try fly casting at creek mouths with wooley buggers or leeches. Remember the bait ban and single barbless hooks until April 15. Cutthroat and Rainbow trout over 50 cm must be released.

Kissinger and Lizard Lakes to the west have good rainbow trout fishing; try corky and single egg rig off the docks and beaches. Trolling can be done with small spratley’s leeches, wooley buggers, flatfish and small spoons.

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Skutz Falls to 70.2 trestle is excellent for browns and rain-bows. Use single egg copies and minnow or rolled mudler flies. Greendale trestle to 70.2 trestle is loaded with rainbows that have dropped from the lake to dine on the salmon eggs and prepare for spawning. The largest browns in the river are found in this section. Flys of choice: single egg patterns, rolled mudlers, prince nymphs, hairs ear nymphs, pheasant tail nymphs. Stick to the bead heads and weighted flys, the river is still quite high as it is important to get down deep.

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