Parksville Qualicum Beach News, February 03, 2015

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A double gold medalist on the track, Michelle Stilwell is accustomed to speedy achievements.

Eighteen months into her � rst job as an elected o� cial on any level, the Parksville-Qua-licum MLA took her place in the inner circle of the provincial government on Monday.

Stilwell was sworn into cabinet as the Min-ister of Social Development and Social Innova-tion, replacing fellow Islander Don McRae, who resigned for personal reasons last week.

“I have lots of reading and brie� ng binders to go through,” Stilwell told � e NEWS on Fri-day shortly after learning about her promotion and recently returned from a vacation with her family. “I’m well rested and ready to hit the ground running.”

Stilwell said she wasn’t sure what to expect last week when her phone indicated she was getting a text from Premier Christy Clark.

“You know it’s either good or bad when the premier is texting you,” she said.

Stilwell replaces Comox Valley MLA McRae, who told the Comox Valley Record he was re-signing due to a family health concern.

“When you’re a cabinet minister, you get the province owning you a bit,” McRae said Fri-day, his 45th birthday. “I spent a lot of my time, when the legislature was not sitting, visiting stakeholders around the province. I think that’s a really important job as a cabinet minister, but at some stage you want to make sure you’re there for your family. Family health is super im-portant to me.”

McRae gave Stilwell a vote of con� dence.“”I’m excited for her,” he said. “She’s a great

new MLA. I have full con� dence in her.”

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Eight medical marijuana users went to Parksville city hall � ursday in support of a compassion club, but were told “municipalities have little power over the issue,” by Mayor Marc Lefebvre.

� e supporters and patients of Phoenix Pain Management Society like John Whitlock asked that the city “considers asking police to shift their priorities, based on the people’s will.”

(Oceanside RCMP Sta� Sgt. Brian Hunter was scheduled to appear be-fore Parksville city council Monday

night. See � ursday’s edition of � e NEWS for a report on that meeting.)

With a federal election on the hori-zon, and marijuana legislation in � ux, � e NEWS asked candidates about their stance on Phoenix’s Parksville location.

Vancouver Island North incum-bent Conservative MP John Duncan, who is running in the new Courtenay-Alberni riding that includes Parksville Qualicum Beach, said he’s “not a fan” of pot dispensaries.

“We (the Conservative Party) have moved to ensure these kinds of facili-

ties are not in existence so any that are in existence are only there because people are choosing to ignore the law,” said Duncan, adding the govern-ment has “created circumstances for the production of medical marijuana (through Health Canada).”

He said Health Canada has a “dis-tribution methodology and anything else is improper and not legal.” Dun-can said “in contrast certainly to the Liberal position,” he doesn’t support legalizing marijuana in the future.

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Members of the Phoenix Pain Management Society marched to Parksville city hall on Thursday to speak with Mayor Marc Lefebvre about policing priorities around medical marijuana.

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Canada Day in Parksville will return in the same format as the past several years after the Parksville and District Chamber of Commerce agreed to be the umbrella organization for the city’s biggest annual party.

“It’s awesome, I’m very excited,” said Bonnie Wallis, the chair of Canada Day event last year when it was organized by the Rotary Club of Parksville PM. “I’m glad the chamber stepped up to the plate.”

The Rotary Club decided not to take on the responsibility this year and the events, which attract more than 10,000 people to the down-town and Community Park every year, was in jeopardy.

“This means Canada Day is going to happen this year,” said Wal-lis, who will chair the Canada Day committee once again, this time under the chamber’s umbrella. She is also the chamber’s president-elect. “Without the chamber, it was on the chopping block.”

The chamber said it was asked to assume responsibility for the organization and production of the popular Celebrate Canada Day Festivities by the Rotary Club.

In a news release, the chamber said its board of directors passed a motion at a special board meeting Jan. 26 accepting the responsibil-ity.

Anyone wishing to participate as an event volunteer or sponsor contact the Chamber at 250-248-3613 or Wallis at 250-586-1934.


Compliance Energy has re-submitted its ap-plication for a coal mine less than 50 kilometres from downtown Qualicum Beach.

In May of 2013, the B.C. Environmental As-sessment Office (EAO) rejected the company’s application for the proposed Raven coal mine, saying “the application does not contain the required information and (the EAO) has de-cided not to accept the application for detailed review.”

Compliance CEO Stephen Ellis said Monday he’s confident about this application.

“We believe we have answered the questions that were asked and have put in a good applica-tion,” said Ellis.

The EAO now has 30 days to tell Compliance whether its application will be accepted. If the EAO accepts the application, a 180-day review will be initiated, which includes a public com-ment period.

Reaction to the news Raven was back on the table was swift.

Comox-based CoalWatch issued a news re-lease Monday morning saying it is gearing up for a review process.

“With no evidence of social license being granted by the residents of the Comox Val-ley or Port Alberni, many may have thought the Raven Coal Mine Project had gone away,” said CoalWatch president John Snyder. “How-ever, Compliance Coal seems intent on moving their project forward despite the ever increas-ing headwind of opposition from Vancouver Island residents. CoalWatch will also be putting together an expert technical team to review the Application/EIS and pinpoint issues of con-cern.”

On its website (www.theravenproject.ca), Compliance says it expects to hire up to 200 workers during construction and create up to 350 full-time jobs. The underground operation would be centred about five kilometres west of the Buckley Bay ferry terminal and the coal would be stored and shipped out of Port Al-berni.

Ellis spoke about the employment possibili-ties on Monday, especially in light of the layoffs in the oil sector.

“With everything else that’s happened in the economy, how good would some jobs be here?” he said.

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Aquaria donated by Pacific Shores Resort Centre in Craig Bay being moved piece by piece to their new home at VIU’s Deep Bay Marine Field Station. The aquaria will be repurposed to expand the field station’s public local marine life displays.

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Pacific Shores’ iconic aquarium has moved north and officials are hoping to have it up and running next month.

The 22,700 litre saltwater tank, thought to be the largest privately-owned aquarium in B.C., now belongs to Vancouver Island University’s Deep Bay Field Marine Station.

“We hope to have the free-standing aquaria up and running in time for special events we have planned during the annual Brant Wildlife Festival in March,” said Brian Kingzett, VIU Ma-rine Station manager.

Kingzett said the donated equipment will be “reused” and “repurposed,” in line with the sta-tion’s green building principles, for the station’s research and educational programs.

Earlier this month, the glass tank was dis-mantled at the resort in Craig Bay.

Pacific Shores’ general manager Tanya Og-mundson explains it was a tough decision as the tank was a central part of the resort for 12 years, but the mounting upkeep costs were unmanageable.

“The aging equipment that supported the aquaria required extensive upgrading to ensure that the sea life was maintained in good health,”

Ogmundson said. “Due to the significant costs involved in the required upgrades … the con-tinued operation of the aquaria was no longer sustainable.”

She said staff will certainly miss the oppor-tunity to view sea life on a daily basis, but the decision was made in the best interests of the marine creatures.

The sea life, which included different kinds of salmon, rock fish and other West Coast marine animals like anemones, urchins and starfish were caught and held under a Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) permit and were therefore released under DFO supervision.

According to Pacific Shores’ Andrea Wil-liamson, the fish, who were released into Craig Bay, “swam in a circle about the size of the tank for a while then swam off.”

But not everybody was released back into the ocean, Wolfie the wolf eel was sent to the Vancouver Aquarium for breeding and is cur-rently in quarantine.

When the tank was first installed, the 3.5 cm-thick acrylic tank had to be lowered into the restaurant in three parts before the roof was finished. Three weeks ago, when the monu-mental tank was removed, it was cut into many sections of several hundred pounds each.

VIU marine station staff haven’t finalized what kind of sea life will live in the aquarium next.

Tanks moved to Deep Bay

An 18-year-old Parksville woman died in a traffic accident Sunday morning.

Oceanside RCMP report that around 9:50 a.m. a blue Dodge pickup truck, driven by a 17-year-old woman, lost control while pass-ing a car in the southbound lanes of Highway 19, just past exit 51.

“She briefly left the highway to the left and then over-corrected and swerved back across the lanes,” states a news release issued Monday morning by the RCMP.

“The truck collided with a car, pushing it off the road. The truck then left the roadway to the right side and collided with a large traffic sign. After striking the sign, the truck rolled several

times before coming to a rest.”The lone passenger in the truck, the 18-year-

old, was killed. The 17-year-old driver of the truck suffered minor injuries, as did the driver and passenger in the other car who were trans-ported to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital by ambulance. No names have been released and the RCMP provided no further details. The highway was only closed temporarily as traffic was diverted into the left lane and able to con-tinue with the assistance of flagging staff. Cen-tral Vancouver Island Traffic Services is still in-vestigating. Any witnesses who have not already talked to police, or have further information, call Cpl. Elston at 250-954-2951. — NEWS Staff

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Stilwell, 40, is married to Mark and they have one son, Kai. She said she ex-pects to be in her constituency as much as she has been in the last 18 months.

“I hope you’ll see just as much of me,” she said. “We seem to be able to find that work-life balance.”

The premier made the announcement through a news release on Friday.

“I fully support Don McRae’s difficult and courageous decision to step away from the additional responsibilities of

executive council at a time when he needs to focus on his family and his constituents,” she said. “Michelle Stilwell has excelled at everything she has done, in-cluding as our caucus chair. She will continue to provide a strong voice from Vancouver Island in cabinet.”

Since being elected in May 2013, Stilwell added a number of responsibilities, including caucus

chair and parliamentary secre-tary to the Minister of Health for healthy living and seniors. She will relinquish those roles now.

Stilwell said her new job is to head a ministry “that helps peo-ple gain their independence.” The Ministry of Social Develop-ment and Social Innovation is in charge of the province’s so-cial assistance programs, often

called welfare.

There are often calls for an increase to the monthly payments for those on social assistance in B.C.

“We have to acknowledge that we have a comprehensive social safety net in B.C.,” she said.

Stilwell, like McRae was, will be the lone Island-based MLA in cabinet.

She said she was scheduled to meet with the new municipal councils in Parks-ville and Qualicum Beach this week, but those meetings have been postponed.

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“After you’ve taken a lot of opiates and codeines, you remain in bed all day, you can’t get up, get any exercise, or get out of the house,” said medical mari-juana user John Whitlock during last Thursday’s rally for Phoenix Pain Man-agement at Parksville city hall.

He said finding medical marijuana to help manage his pain after an operation for a fused disc in his back, “opened up a door. It allows me to get out of bed and

make it through the day.”He said unlike pharmaceuticals,

which “you are prescribed to take three times a day or whatever, no matter what the pain, you don’t take (cannabis) all the time, you take one when it’s neces-sary.”

“If it’s bothering you, can you still tolerate your pain level? Then you go and have a puff and that will settle you down. At night you take another variety and you can get to sleep.”

“We’re in limbo and we feel lost,”

he said of the current changing federal laws which mean they are supposed to get larger quantities from a select few large scale producers who operate by courier.

“But I like to see the product and buy as much as you need,” said John’s wife Teresa, who said her condition has im-proved 200 per cent since she started using cannabis pills for fibromyalgia.

“We’re too old, we don’t go out to bars, or hang out behind the high school where we’d be picked up as perverts,” John said.

“We don’t have many ways to get it.”“A person can go into Phoenix (in

Nanaimo), buy $10 worth and settle themselves down for a couple days and come back when they need,” John said.

The Whitlocks joined other patients of Phoenix Pain Management in asking the city and mayor of Parksville to let a compassion club, or dispensary, oper-ate despite being illegal, pointing to the public support shown by polls, petitions and the intentional lack of enforcement by police in some bigger cities.

‘We’re in limbo and we feel lost,’ say couple

Tory approach failing, says Grit candidateCONTINUED FROM PAGE A1

Duncan said his government has “been quite professional in how we’ve addressed the issue (of medical marijuana).”

However, Liberal Party can-didate and former Parksville city councillor Carrie Powell-Da-vidson said “the Conservative’s approach to marijuana is failing our communities.”

She insisted “our broader message is going to be on the failure of the Conservative poli-cy … the system is clearly broken and the Liberals are going to ad-dress it.”

While she said the Liberal’s “clear solution” is to tax and regulate marijuana in the fu-ture, Powell-Davidson wasn’t on board with Phoenix’s set up.

“If they are not a legal opera-tion then the answer is no (they shouldn’t be allowed to operate within Parksville),” she said. “It’s unfortunate that this business, or service, has been deemed il-legal but I’m not going to second guess the RCMP.”

Like Powell-Davidson, NDP candidate Gord Johns blamed the Conservative government for “failing” Canadians and “launching the war on drugs.”

Johns said “in terms of a com-passion centre (or marijuana dispensary) when it is well-run, it can be a trusted source for people to get medicine … No Ca-nadian should have a criminal record for marijuana use.”

Asked if Phoenix should be allowed to operate within city limits despite being illegal, Johns

said “each individual dispensary is different and I think it’s un-fair for me to comment … it’s a national issue and local govern-ments and law enforcement are left in a grey area because of our (current) federal government, the war on drugs has failed.”

He said he wants to see mar-ijuana decriminalized in the fu-ture claiming “historically the NDP has been leading the charge on marijuana for four decades … it’s clear this conversation needs to happen sooner than later.”

Meanwhile, Green Party can-didate Glen Sollitt said he sup-ports the legalization of marijua-na in Canada.

“Clearly prohibition is not working,” said Sollitt. “I can’t identify enough problems with marijuana to continue to make it an illegal substance, it does less damage than other stimulants that are legal.”

He pointed to what he called “the successes” of marijuana legalization in some American states, saying “it’s a model that clearly can and does work and it’s incumbent on us to move in that direction.”

That being said, in terms of Parksville’s dispensary, Sollitt said “I don’t support an ille-gal operation and I don’t think it’s fair to ask the RCMP to look the other way, I don’t think we should treat any law that way.”

The Phoenix Pain Manage-ment Society members marched to city hall Thursday with Nanai-mo singer songwriter Cameron

Gunn signing “Please Mr. May-or, can we have our medicine,” after a promise the previous week to attend every scheduled Coffee with Council drop-in meeting until Mayor Marc Lefe-bvre changes his stance on the dispensary and directs Oceans-ide RCMP to “de-prioritize” the operation. “Your issue really is with the federal government, you should be going to the MP’s office,” Lefebvre told the group, reiterating previous statements that, “I and the rest of the city can

do absolutely nothing for you, it’s not within our purview, it’s not within our jurisdiction.”

Asked “If it was in your pur-view would you do something about it?” Lefebvre said “I’d have to listen to the RCMP, he’s (Staff Sgt. Brian Hunter) my com-manding officer, he’s the chief of police for the city of Parks-ville and I have an obligation to respect what the chief of police gives me in terms of advice.”

“In other cities the RCMP have changed their priorities,

where they’re not prosecuting these people,” said society man-aging director Akil Pessoa. “Can you please have this conversa-tion and have the RCMP reallo-cate their resources?”

The Phoenix supporters said they will keep going back Thurs-day’s at 2 p.m. until the city is willing to allow the compassion club to remain open, which Pes-soa said is not distributing med-ical marijuana in Parksville, but helping patients get it from their Nanaimo branch.


Phoenix Pain Management Society supporters John and Teresa Whitlock rode their scooters as part of a march to Parksville city hall Thursday to speak with Mayor Marc Lefebvre about medical marijuana. Read their story below.

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Perhaps you have been thinking of downsizing to a smaller home, patio home or condo, independent seniors living or assisted living and simply do not know what is available. We want to help you explore your options so that you can make an informed decision when determining your next step. There will be a variety of guest speakers, professionals in their field, to discuss everything from possible home choices (such as Emerald Estates & The Gardens), Karen Flannery who owns Transitions Made Simple (and specializes in senior’s relocation), and a financial professional who can provide financing options available.

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Aquaria donated by Pacific Shores Resort Centre in Craig Bay being moved piece by piece to their new home at VIU’s Deep Bay Marine Field Station. The aquaria will be repurposed to expand the field station’s public local marine life displays.

FROM PACIFIC SHORES RESORT . . .

Resort says decisions made in the best interests of the creaturesCANDACE [email protected]

Pacific Shores’ iconic aquarium has moved north and officials are hoping to have it up and running next month.

The 22,700 litre saltwater tank, thought to be the largest privately-owned aquarium in B.C., now belongs to Vancouver Island University’s Deep Bay Field Marine Station.

“We hope to have the free-standing aquaria up and running in time for special events we have planned during the annual Brant Wildlife Festival in March,” said Brian Kingzett, VIU Ma-rine Station manager.

Kingzett said the donated equipment will be “reused” and “repurposed,” in line with the sta-tion’s green building principles, for the station’s research and educational programs.

Earlier this month, the glass tank was dis-mantled at the resort in Craig Bay.

Pacific Shores’ general manager Tanya Og-mundson explains it was a tough decision as the tank was a central part of the resort for 12 years, but the mounting upkeep costs were unmanageable.

“The aging equipment that supported the aquaria required extensive upgrading to ensure that the sea life was maintained in good health,”

Ogmundson said. “Due to the significant costs involved in the required upgrades … the con-tinued operation of the aquaria was no longer sustainable.”

She said staff will certainly miss the oppor-tunity to view sea life on a daily basis, but the decision was made in the best interests of the marine creatures.

The sea life, which included different kinds of salmon, rock fish and other West Coast marine animals like anemones, urchins and starfish were caught and held under a Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) permit and were therefore released under DFO supervision.

According to Pacific Shores’ Andrea Wil-liamson, the fish, who were released into Craig Bay, “swam in a circle about the size of the tank for a while then swam off.”

But not everybody was released back into the ocean, Wolfie the wolf eel was sent to the Vancouver Aquarium for breeding and is cur-rently in quarantine.

When the tank was first installed, the 3.5 cm-thick acrylic tank had to be lowered into the restaurant in three parts before the roof was finished. Three weeks ago, when the monu-mental tank was removed, it was cut into many sections of several hundred pounds each.

VIU marine station staff haven’t finalized what kind of sea life will live in the aquarium next.

Tanks moved to Deep Bay

An 18-year-old Parksville woman died in a traffic accident Sunday morning.

Oceanside RCMP report that around 9:50 a.m. a blue Dodge pickup truck, driven by a 17-year-old woman, lost control while pass-ing a car in the southbound lanes of Highway 19, just past exit 51.

“She briefly left the highway to the left and then over-corrected and swerved back across the lanes,” states a news release issued Monday morning by the RCMP.

“The truck collided with a car, pushing it off the road. The truck then left the roadway to the right side and collided with a large traffic sign. After striking the sign, the truck rolled several

times before coming to a rest.”The lone passenger in the truck, the 18-year-

old, was killed. The 17-year-old driver of the truck suffered minor injuries, as did the driver and passenger in the other car who were trans-ported to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital by ambulance. No names have been released and the RCMP provided no further details. The highway was only closed temporarily as traffic was diverted into the left lane and able to con-tinue with the assistance of flagging staff. Cen-tral Vancouver Island Traffic Services is still in-vestigating. Any witnesses who have not already talked to police, or have further information, call Cpl. Elston at 250-954-2951. — NEWS Staff

Crash claims life of local teen

Stilwell, 40, is married to Mark and they have one son, Kai. She said she ex-pects to be in her constituency as much as she has been in the last 18 months.

“I hope you’ll see just as much of me,” she said. “We seem to be able to find that work-life balance.”

The premier made the announcement through a news release on Friday.

“I fully support Don McRae’s difficult and courageous decision to step away from the additional responsibilities of

executive council at a time when he needs to focus on his family and his constituents,” she said. “Michelle Stilwell has excelled at everything she has done, in-cluding as our caucus chair. She will continue to provide a strong voice from Vancouver Island in cabinet.”

Since being elected in May 2013, Stilwell added a number of responsibilities, including caucus

chair and parliamentary secre-tary to the Minister of Health for healthy living and seniors. She will relinquish those roles now.

Stilwell said her new job is to head a ministry “that helps peo-ple gain their independence.” The Ministry of Social Develop-ment and Social Innovation is in charge of the province’s so-cial assistance programs, often

called welfare.

There are often calls for an increase to the monthly payments for those on social assistance in B.C.

“We have to acknowledge that we have a comprehensive social safety net in B.C.,” she said.

Stilwell, like McRae was, will be the lone Island-based MLA in cabinet.

She said she was scheduled to meet with the new municipal councils in Parks-ville and Qualicum Beach this week, but those meetings have been postponed.

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Stilwell is now the lone Island MLA in cabinetCONTINUED FROM PAGE A1


“After you’ve taken a lot of opiates and codeines, you remain in bed all day, you can’t get up, get any exercise, or get out of the house,” said medical mari-juana user John Whitlock during last Thursday’s rally for Phoenix Pain Man-agement at Parksville city hall.

He said finding medical marijuana to help manage his pain after an operation for a fused disc in his back, “opened up a door. It allows me to get out of bed and

make it through the day.”He said unlike pharmaceuticals,

which “you are prescribed to take three times a day or whatever, no matter what the pain, you don’t take (cannabis) all the time, you take one when it’s neces-sary.”

“If it’s bothering you, can you still tolerate your pain level? Then you go and have a puff and that will settle you down. At night you take another variety and you can get to sleep.”

“We’re in limbo and we feel lost,”

he said of the current changing federal laws which mean they are supposed to get larger quantities from a select few large scale producers who operate by courier.

“But I like to see the product and buy as much as you need,” said John’s wife Teresa, who said her condition has im-proved 200 per cent since she started using cannabis pills for fibromyalgia.

“We’re too old, we don’t go out to bars, or hang out behind the high school where we’d be picked up as perverts,” John said.

“We don’t have many ways to get it.”“A person can go into Phoenix (in

Nanaimo), buy $10 worth and settle themselves down for a couple days and come back when they need,” John said.

The Whitlocks joined other patients of Phoenix Pain Management in asking the city and mayor of Parksville to let a compassion club, or dispensary, oper-ate despite being illegal, pointing to the public support shown by polls, petitions and the intentional lack of enforcement by police in some bigger cities.

‘We’re in limbo and we feel lost,’ say couple

Tory approach failing, says Grit candidateCONTINUED FROM PAGE A1

Duncan said his government has “been quite professional in how we’ve addressed the issue (of medical marijuana).”

However, Liberal Party can-didate and former Parksville city councillor Carrie Powell-Da-vidson said “the Conservative’s approach to marijuana is failing our communities.”

She insisted “our broader message is going to be on the failure of the Conservative poli-cy … the system is clearly broken and the Liberals are going to ad-dress it.”

While she said the Liberal’s “clear solution” is to tax and regulate marijuana in the fu-ture, Powell-Davidson wasn’t on board with Phoenix’s set up.

“If they are not a legal opera-tion then the answer is no (they shouldn’t be allowed to operate within Parksville),” she said. “It’s unfortunate that this business, or service, has been deemed il-legal but I’m not going to second guess the RCMP.”

Like Powell-Davidson, NDP candidate Gord Johns blamed the Conservative government for “failing” Canadians and “launching the war on drugs.”

Johns said “in terms of a com-passion centre (or marijuana dispensary) when it is well-run, it can be a trusted source for people to get medicine … No Ca-nadian should have a criminal record for marijuana use.”

Asked if Phoenix should be allowed to operate within city limits despite being illegal, Johns

said “each individual dispensary is different and I think it’s un-fair for me to comment … it’s a national issue and local govern-ments and law enforcement are left in a grey area because of our (current) federal government, the war on drugs has failed.”

He said he wants to see mar-ijuana decriminalized in the fu-ture claiming “historically the NDP has been leading the charge on marijuana for four decades … it’s clear this conversation needs to happen sooner than later.”

Meanwhile, Green Party can-didate Glen Sollitt said he sup-ports the legalization of marijua-na in Canada.

“Clearly prohibition is not working,” said Sollitt. “I can’t identify enough problems with marijuana to continue to make it an illegal substance, it does less damage than other stimulants that are legal.”

He pointed to what he called “the successes” of marijuana legalization in some American states, saying “it’s a model that clearly can and does work and it’s incumbent on us to move in that direction.”

That being said, in terms of Parksville’s dispensary, Sollitt said “I don’t support an ille-gal operation and I don’t think it’s fair to ask the RCMP to look the other way, I don’t think we should treat any law that way.”

The Phoenix Pain Manage-ment Society members marched to city hall Thursday with Nanai-mo singer songwriter Cameron

Gunn signing “Please Mr. May-or, can we have our medicine,” after a promise the previous week to attend every scheduled Coffee with Council drop-in meeting until Mayor Marc Lefe-bvre changes his stance on the dispensary and directs Oceans-ide RCMP to “de-prioritize” the operation. “Your issue really is with the federal government, you should be going to the MP’s office,” Lefebvre told the group, reiterating previous statements that, “I and the rest of the city can

do absolutely nothing for you, it’s not within our purview, it’s not within our jurisdiction.”

Asked “If it was in your pur-view would you do something about it?” Lefebvre said “I’d have to listen to the RCMP, he’s (Staff Sgt. Brian Hunter) my com-manding officer, he’s the chief of police for the city of Parks-ville and I have an obligation to respect what the chief of police gives me in terms of advice.”

“In other cities the RCMP have changed their priorities,

where they’re not prosecuting these people,” said society man-aging director Akil Pessoa. “Can you please have this conversa-tion and have the RCMP reallo-cate their resources?”

The Phoenix supporters said they will keep going back Thurs-day’s at 2 p.m. until the city is willing to allow the compassion club to remain open, which Pes-soa said is not distributing med-ical marijuana in Parksville, but helping patients get it from their Nanaimo branch.


Phoenix Pain Management Society supporters John and Teresa Whitlock rode their scooters as part of a march to Parksville city hall Thursday to speak with Mayor Marc Lefebvre about medical marijuana. Read their story below.


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“It is private managed forest land and we’re harvesting second-growth timber,” said Island Timberlands spokesperson Morgan Kennah, of land between Hilliers Road South, Highway 4 (Alberni) and the Inland Island Highway, near the Qualicum Beach exit.

Gray said residents were worried they are trying to sneak the logs out at night, but Kennah said they are following provincial requirements by doing the work at night when there is less disruption to traffic in the area.

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Cy O’Leary was a minor hockey referee in the 1970s in the Lower Mainland, a time when Philadelphia’s Broad Street Bullies were winning Stanley Cups and Punch MacLean’s New Westminster Bruins were brawling their way through junior hockey seasons.

The 80-year-old Parks-ville resident only remem-bers tossing an unruly fan out of the area once — a woman he said screamed at him for about an hour.

“As a referee, I imagined I had nine layers of skin,” O’Leary said last week.

O’Leary said he doesn’t believe banning all spec-tators from minor hockey games for a weekend is a good idea. It was something floated by the Vancouver Is-land Amateur Hockey Asso-ciation (VIAHA) recently in light of what it said has been an increased level of abuse hurled at o f f i c i a l s and play-ers.

“ T h a t will never work,” said O’Leary. “The kids, they want their parents there, they want them to see them and be proud of them.”

VIAHA president Jim Humphrey sent a memo to all member associations, including Oceanside Minor Hockey, earlier this month about the no-spectators idea.

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As for those parents who insist on verbally abusing young officials from the stands, Copley said he be-lieves Humphrey’s memo may have some positive ef-fect.

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Also every day of the month, Curves Fitness will be donating 50 per cent of all service fees to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

In 1952, heart disease and stroke was responsible for 46 per cent of all

deaths in Canada. Today that num-ber has dropped to 27 per cent of all deaths.

Heart disease and stroke continue to be two of the leading causes of death in Canada; every seven minutes in Canada, someone dies from heart dis-ease or stroke.

More donations are needed to fund cardiovascular research that leads to life-saving treatments. Heart Month is the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s largest campaign to raise donations and awareness. Together, we can cre-ate more survivors.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation’s mission is to prevent disease, save lives and promote recovery. A vol-unteer-based health charity, it says it strives to tangibly improve the health of every Canadian family, every day.

For more information about Heart Month or anything else related to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, you can contact:

Tina Lutz, Vancouver Island Heart and Stroke Foundation, 250-754-5275 or e-mail: [email protected].

— Submitted by Heart and Stroke Foundation


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Parksville Mayor Marc Lefebvre is in quite the pickle.

On � ursday, eight people with signs and their own version of Bob Dylan showed up at Co� ee With Council and

asked the mayor what he was going to do to help his constituents who use marijuana as medicine.

Lefebvre is the mayor of a city. He is not a Member of Parliament who helps make laws or a lawyer or a doctor or a police o� cer.

Our experience with Lefebvre has shown him to be a compassionate man who cares about the less fortu-nate in our community. He has been a champion of accessibility issues, for example.

He is from a generation that generally does not question authority or, if he did, that feeling died soon after Woodstock.

� ere isn’t much Lefebvre can do about marijuana laws in this country. However, he can no longer say he is powerless, a stance he’s been trying to take since we broke the story about the medical marijuana dispen-sary setting up shop in his city.

Lefebvre has been saying he takes his advice from the chief of police on this matter. Oceanside RCMP Sta� Sgt. Brian Hunter’s view is marijuana is a con-trolled substance and the possession and/or distribu-tion of such is an o� ence under the Criminal Code of Canada.

True, for the moment, and we don’t believe we’d want a chief of police to say anything other than he will enforce the criminal code.

However, from time to time, city council meets with the chief to talk about priorities. � ey discuss problems of the day and the need to shift enforcement priorities to or from one problem or another (gra� ti, theft from vehicles, etc.). � e criminality of these certain acts has not changed in the criminal code, but they change in frequency and the people paying the freight (taxpay-ers) could suggest their police force deal with the most pressing issues.

Lefebvre, along with city council, could if they wish direct the RCMP to back o� any medical marijuana dispensary. It’s up to Hunter whether he will, or can, pay attention to that request. Hunter was scheduled to appear before council last night, after our press time.

Until he’s done that, Lefebvre cannot continue to say there’s nothing more he can do about this issue.

— Editorial by John Harding

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MEASURE SEAWEED SCIENTIFICALLY

Having lived at the water’s edge at the entrance to Baynes Sound for more than 20 years has been a privilege as well as an edu-cation. Every year, I gather many trash cans full of seaweed to place upon my seaside veg-gie garden.

One year, I had the bright idea of cover-ing the whole front lawn with the stuff. I was putting it on about a foot thick when I turned around and looked at the large area I cov-ered I began laughing. A kabillion bugs were jumping out of the seaweed and heading to-wards the beach a few feet away. I often won-der how they knew which direction to go?

One of your recent letter writers (‘Seaweed is good business,’ Cliff Walker) was incorrect in several areas I would like to address.

Dr. Ian Birtwell, retired DFO scientist, did an academic peer review of published doc-uments pertaining to seaweed and came to his conclusions. This is not anecdotal story telling like the above paragraph. Its scientific data reviewed and restated for public knowl-edge.

Science does not generally put undergrad students on short, two-month-long projects to study and reach conclusions upon which business will be allowed to change the envi-ronment significantly as is being done with a Ministry of Agriculture grant to Clamshell U to hire some students to flag seaweed and see that it floats and re-floats after every storm. A real scientific study would take several years of undertaking, and employ real scientists.

I do acknowledge that after we com-plained to high heaven about the destruc-tion that these people did to our community garden they participated recently in cleaning up and restoring the area. Much appreciated by the Deep Bay community for sure. But the tracks from their machine are still visible in places.

This indeed is raw resource extraction abusing our community and greatly affect-ing the ecology of local beaches as well as the oyster and shellfish industry.

One thing that people don’t realize when they smell the rotting seaweed on the beach is that this is a natural process... the seaweed eventually is broken down by feeding bugs, crabs, critters (bear, deer, otter eat it) and the next storm even washes what’s left back into

the sea, this then becomes liquefied eventu-ally and is nutrient rich food for shellfish in Baynes Sound.

LEN WALKERDeep Bay

CLEAN YOUR CHIMNEY FOR FIRE SAFETY

On January 15 my tenants had a chim-ney fire. I would like to thank our local vol-unteeer fire department for its prompt and courteous response.

I would also like to stress the importance of cleaning your chimney once in awhile during heating season. My tenants were for-tunate not to lose their home.

LAUREL LACEYDashwood

SUPPORT MEDICAL MARIJUANA

What is wrong with using marijuana? Nothing.

It is a person’s freedom to choose to smoke tobacco, drink alcohol or eat sugar. These highly-addictive items cause a myriad of expensive health and social problems, but are legal. Two are heavily taxed by the gov-ernment.

Marijuana, while safer, remains illegal in Canada. In 1972, the national commission of Marijuana and Drug Abuse found that mari-juana isn’t entirely safe, but its dangers have been overstated. Twenty-three U.S. states and D.C. have enacted laws to legalize med-ical marijuana.

In 2014, the Canadian government changed the law, no longer allowing medic-inal users to grow their own (almost free), forcing the purchase from a pricier Health Canada-approved grower ($5-12 per gram). People living with disabilities/illness are less able to afford this more expensive (market price?) medical marijuana.

The Phoenix Pain Management Society offers medical marijuana by donation, with a prescription.

Marijuana has been credited as effective treatment for many ailments, such as: can-cer effects (pain, anorexia, nausea, etc.), MS, Crohn’s disease, glaucoma, hyperten-sion, chronic pain and epilepsy. Studies show many other health benefits, limited

here by space.Marijuana is known as a recreational

drug, but it has many positive uses in health care. In 2010, 925 million people were hun-gry, struggling to get food let alone health care. Marijuana is a fast-growing plant able to provide all these health benefits — why not use it? Keep it in the hands of the people and out of the pharmaceutical realm. It is an affordable treatment that without free access many of those in need can not afford.

Legalize it. Allow folks to use it as neces-sary. I stand beside Phoenix strongly, as it is life or death for some.

HALEY SUDLOWParksville

CATSPAN THANKSLast month, we wrote you about a cat res-

cue project that CatSpan was working on in Fairwinds. Due to a misunderstanding, our traps had been taken, and along with our best chance of rescuing the kitten(s). Fol-lowing that letter, we are pleased to let you know our traps were returned to us, and we continue to seek the Fairwinds cat(s). Thank you to the person who returned our traps.

Not only that, but CatSpan received many words of encouragement from the public in Oceanside. We would like to offer a heart-felt thank-you to the residents that donated to our cause. Because of people like your-selves, CatSpan can humanely and compas-sionately care for the feral cat population of our communities. We also had traps gener-ously donated from community neighbours and Bosleys’s North Nanaimo, who kindly replaced the traps that Bosley’s in Parksville had helped CatSpan acquire originally.

Many of the cats that we help do not start their lives as wild (feral) cats. Many lose their homes through no fault of their own, or are abandoned by people who won’t be there to see the distress and hunger and loneliness that these cats endure, and in time these cats can become wild. Others come to our attention because pet owners don’t spay and neuter their cats. The volunteers of CatSpan have tirelessly worked for 20 years in Oceans-ide feeding feral cats, spaying and neutering, treating illness and finding homes for our communities’ forgotten cats.

SHAWN HOOPERNanoose Bay

LettersQUOTABLE:

“This means Canada Day is going to happen this year.”

BONNIE WALLIS, see story page A3

VIEWS IN THE NEWSWe asked: Will Parksville Qualicum Beach MLA Michelle Stilwell’s cabinet appointment affect this area?

It can only help. I

think it’s a good

thing.

MALCOLM

MACKENZIE

Columbia Beach

Any representation in

the cabinet is a good

thing.

KRISTIN BAILEY

Parksville

I hope she

remembers who

she’s representing.

JENNIE CUMMER

Parksville

She’ll do a good job in

both places.

DOREEN WILSON

Parksville

ALMANAC

Rules to write byAll LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must be signed and include your full name, home town and contact phone num-ber. Those without these requirements will not be published. Letters must be 300 words or less and are subject to editing. The NEWS retains the right not to publish submissions.

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Alberni-Pacific Rim

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leg.bc.ca

Government ContactsPROVINCIAL:

MICHELLE STILWELL,MLA,ParksvilleQualicum250-248-2625e-mail michelle.stilwell.mla@

leg.bc.ca

TEUNIS WESTBROEKMayor,

Town of Qualicum Beach

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

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MARCLEFEBVRE,Mayor,

City of Parksville

250-954-4661e-mail: mayor@

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JOE STANHOPEChairman,

Regional District of Nanaimo

250-390-4111e-mail: corpsrv@

rdn.bc.ca

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This is not a really good time for you — I realize that. You’ve got a lot on your mind, what with the clown show in Ottawa, the weather outside and the obscene messag-

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Are you ready for a Carrington Event?It’s been a while since we had the last one.

One hundred and fifty-six years to be pre-cise. It was on September 1, 1859 that a British scientist by the name of Richard Carrington happened to be peer-ing through his microscope when suddenly the sun burped.

It was a solar flare, a massive one. It took the energy punch from that flare (technically known as a coronal mass ejection) just seven-teen and a half hours to gallop 93 million miles through space and slam into our planet, resulting in the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded.

For the next two days, au-roras — better known as the Northern Lights — were seen as far away as Cuba and Ha-waii.

The glow over the Rock-ies was so intense that some gold miners awoke and began cooking breakfast, assuming it was morning. In New Hamp-shire it was bright enough at midnight to read a newspaper. A reporter for the Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser wrote:

“The light appeared to cover the whole fir-mament, apparently like a luminous cloud, through which the stars of the larger magni-tude indistinctly shone. The light was greater than that of the moon at its full, but had an in-describable softness and delicacy that seemed to envelop everything upon which it rested. Between 12 and 1 o’clock, when the display was at its full brilliancy, the quiet streets of the city resting under this strange light, presented a beautiful as well as singular appearance.”

It wasn’t merely a spectacular light show. Telegraph systems around the world crashed. Some telegraph operators were showered with sparks when they tried to operate their trans-

mitting keys.The Carrington Event was a solar flare, al-

beit a stupendously huge one. Solar flares are by no means rare. Our scientific instruments record at least one a week.

Nobody knows when the next solar flare will erupt, or how large it will be.

The fact is, the earth could see another Car-rington Event, the same magnitude or even greater... tomorrow.

Ah, but this time the earthly ramifications would be different. A hundred and fifty six years ago the earth was a simpler place. No airplanes, no telephones, no Internet. Elec-tricity was a scientific curiosity.

And today? Imagine our civ-ilization not as a multilingual, many-layered hive tendrilled to-gether by fibre-optic cables carry-ing cyberspatial tweets and Insta-grams. Think of our world instead as a single insect. A dung-bee-tle, say — but a dung-beetle that

wears its nervous system on the outside of its carapace.

Now imagine Carrington Event Take Two. A massive solar flare that fries the pow-er grids from Tanganyika to Tofino. No lights. No televi-sion. No subway or supermar-kets.

Need some gas? Too bad, the pumps don’t work. Neither do your credit cards. Please don’t get sick because the hos-pitals are down. And don’t look to the cops — they’re out of business too, with all computers on the fritz. And let’s hope it’s not winter — unless you happen to own a wood stove.

The glittering exoskeleton of our insect has flickered and died. Everything that used to work by the flick of a switch or a push of the button is defunct.

Could it really happen? Could an electro-magnetic solar fireball swell up and wallop our planet that way? No reason why not. No reason on earth.

— Arthur Black lives on Saltspring Island.His column appears Tuesday in The NEWS.

E-mail: [email protected].

COLUMN

Keep your sunny side up

BASIC BLACKBy Arthur Black

After a Carrington Event, everything modern would shut down

Imagine... A massive solar flare that fries the power grids from Tanganyika to Tofino. No lights. No

television. No subway or supermarkets

ARTHUR BLACK

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Building big fishing boats in Coombs

In times of uncertainty, many inves-tors look for equity investments that rep-resent stability and safety. Certainly one place to look is at the so-called “blue-chip” stocks.

What is a blue chip today?Just being big and dominant is no lon-

ger a guarantee that a company is blue chip quality. A blue chip today is most often found in the mature investment sectors, such as banking, insurance, and the equities of large-cap, industrial sec-tor giants.

Their shared attributes are investment stability, the quality of their tangible as-sets and value, their long and predictable revenue and earnings track record, and competitive dominance in their respec-

tive markets. Such com-panies can usually show a long record of increasing dividend payouts and a reputation for dependable management practices. Most blue chip investments are leaders in their indus-try, and their products and services often possess wide “brand” recognition.

Homework is requiredBlue chips tend to main-

tain value in both good and bad markets, and can be an attractive way to achieve a higher level of safety in a portfolio’s equity component. But home-work is required. While size, history and reputation are good guides to blue chips,

they do not guarantee future performance. There could be any number of reasons for a blue chip to “lose its edge.” It is important that proper analysis be undertaken not only when selecting blue chip investments, but also when deciding if and when to move from one to another.

Understand valueBlue chips are rarely the

most popular choice for growth investors seeking high returns in a short period of time. But they do often possess understated value that can make them a superior investment over time.

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chips is their dual investment value. As equities, their share price appreciates with earnings growth, and there is gener-ally a dividend. Over the long term, the combination of gradual stock price ap-preciation and regular dividend income can give blue chips an attractive long-term rate of return.

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DOLLARS AND SENSEBy Jim Grant


Roy Brown at Independent Shipwrights in Coombs is build-ing the biggest boat of its kind on the West Coast.

The 60-foot long commercial fishing boat will be unusually wide at 23-feet, competing with boats a third longer, said Brown, who has been building boats on the property for 36 years.

“I started training on building wood boats in New Zealand in 1972,” he said.

“Back then you had to go to the East Coast or overseas,” he said of his early interest in the craft.

But very soon after starting his business back in his home province, he had to switch to fibreglass, which was already standard in the industry.

“It takes about a third of the man hours to do the same work in fibreglass,” he said.

Unable to find waterfront property, he moved to then very rural Coombs where “I could build my own building and no-body bothered me.”

Today he’s still building his biggest boat in that same origi-nal building where the hull pretty much takes up the whole space.

The boat will be so big that they will have to move it to French Creek Marina with spe-cial permission through empty roads from 2-4 a.m., with hydro and utility company coopera-tion.

They do about half the work in the shop, building the hull like the foundation of a house, then move it without the wheelhouse, which will be built in place once the boat is in the water.

With a 7,000 gallon fuel tank and a huge amount of storage capacity, the “very beamy” or wide boat will be able to spend months out in the middle of the ocean between stops to re-fuel and unload their catch.

The 70-ton boat, being built for long time local customer Neil Main, will be able to operate with just two deck hands and a skipper and despite its large size, still slips in under the 100 ton mark where regulations get a lot

more complicated, Brown said.It will fish black cod off B.C.

and Alaska, mid-Pacific tuna, coastal prawn and brown fish like halibut.

“This is the first new build this size in fibreglass in 20 or 30 years on the coast of B.C.” Brown boasted, mourning the loss of much of the boat building not only in the region, but across North America, with much work being outsourced over seas.

Despite the trend in larger boat building in general, Brown is excited about his market in what he called “small boats,” with a resurgence in the market for those under 100 tons.

“The market is growing, the fleet out there is getting too old now,” he said, adding they have at least a year and a half of work booked.

Brown, who also builds fibre-glass tanks and components for salmon hatcheries all over the coast, invites people to stop by their supply shop in Coombs, just past the goats on the roof. Call 250-248-2293 or visit www.independentmarine.ca for more.


Roy Brown looks up at the hull for the largest boat they have built at Independent Shipwrights in Coombs.

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To send a condolence to the family please visit www.yatesfuneral.ca

YATES FUNERAL SERVICE & CREMATORIUM(250-248-5859) in care of arrangements.

David John Allen 1933 - 2015

Sadly, at the age of 81, on Sunday, January 18, 2015 at Trillium Lodge in Parksville, David left us to be with his Lord.He leaves behind his 3 brothers, Robert (Pat) in Wales, John (Phyllis) in New Zealand, and Stephen in London, England.David enjoyed the wilderness, especially in Canada when he worked in Kitimat and in regular trips to qui-et mountain places. He also enjoyed hiking and ski-ing in the mountains near Vancouver and made many good friends there. David also took up fencing and figure skating. As a child growing up in wartime England, David made and flew powered model aircraft. He did Na-tional Service in the Royal Air Force after completing his engineering apprenticeship. He was an aircraft fitter but also played the trombone in the local Air Force band, and was stationed in Germany. When David returned to England, he took a variety of prac-tical machining jobs, and eventually immigrated to Canada where he continued to practice his craft as a machinist. After moving to Parksville, he volunteered at the SOS and loved to take walks on the beach.

A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, February 6th at Church of the Ascension, 887 Wembley Road in Parksville, with a reception

to follow. Interment to be held at Yates Cemetery in Parksville.

Lorenzo Giustiniani BarugoloLorenzo went to his final rest on

January 26, 2015.

He was preceded in death by his parents Ada Brocca and Mario Barugolo. He is survived by his loving wife of 50 years Gina, devoted daughter Adina and son-in-law Jeff Oberacher of Qualicum Beach, sister Daniela Taylor of Lowell Arkansas, USA, extended family in British Columbia, and many relatives in Italy. Lorenzo

was born in Venice, Italy on December 20, 1941 in Palazzo Giustiniani. He served in the Italian Navy from the age of 18 to 20. He was on the rowing team for the Seven Seas Republics. Lorenzo moved to Canada in 1964 to marry the love of his life Gina. He worked in the Pulp Mill in Port Alberni for 20 years and then moved back to Italy where he returned to his former profession as owner/operator of a motoscafi (water taxi) on the canals of Venice. One of his favorite things was playing tour guide aboard “The Canuck” where he met many fascinating people from politicians to movie stars. He enjoyed a variety of interests including golf, fishing, and playing cards at the Cavalotti Italian Lodge. Lorenzo was a proud Venetian who never forgot his roots.

A memorial service will be held at 11am on Wednesday February 4, 2015 at First Memorial

Funeral Services, 1720 Bowen Rd, Nanaimo, BC with reception to follow.

The chapel will open at 10am for friends and family wishing a quiet moment of condolence.

FREDA HOLMESApril 22, 1925 – January 23, 2015

It is with a sad heart that we said good-bye to our wonderful mother on Friday January 23, 2015, at Arrowsmith Lodge.She is survived by her daughters Sharon (Stew), Judy (Jim) and Karen; grandchildren Jamie (Lyndon), Brian (Candice), Jessy (Brian), Amanda, Chelsea and Lynsey and great granddaughter Korrae Jessica Freda Wiunczura.

There will be a memorial tea at the Parksville Legion on February 10, 2015 at 2:00 pm.

STURLIS, Trudi Phyllis1949 – 2015

On January 27th we lost our beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend after a lengthy illness.Trudi was a passionate reader. She created beauty with water colour and she had a keen, inquisitive mind. She was a gentle soul and was loved by all who met her and were touched by her sensitive and loving nature. We miss her deeply.In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the Palliative Unit at NRGH.

A celebration of Trudi’s life will be held at Yates Funeral Home in Parksville on Saturday, February 7th at 1:00 pm.

Broatch, Joan Florence(Johns) (nee Wright)

Jan. 17, 1921 ~ Nov. 10, 2014Joan passed away, Nov. 10, 2014 in the Nanaimo Hos-pital. She will be lovingly remembered by her sons David, Murry, William, Peter, and Robert, her daughters-in-law Jill and Cathy, her grand-daugh-ters-in-law Nicole and Leah, her grand-children Christy, Craig, Ryan, and Nolan, her great-grand-children Riley and Archer and close friends Jeanne, Jan, Sherry and Gloria. She had many friends who enjoyed her smile she so freely gave to everyone.

Family was her life!A memorial service and celebration of life will be held at 1:30pm on Saturday February 7th in St. Edmund Anglican Church, 407 Wembley Rd. Parksville, BC.

Everyone Welcome!

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

6pm - Tuesday March 10, 2015Parksville Community & Conference Centre

132 East Jensen Avenue

Election of directors, presentation of 2014 financial statements and 2015 budget.

Only property owners and business owners/operators within Parksville’s downtown Business Improvement Area (McMillan St. to McVickers St., Jensen Ave. to the waterfront) have voting privileges.

[email protected] or 250-248-8079

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Arrowsmith Agricultural Association & Coombs Fair

SPECIAL AGM NOTICENotice is hereby given to all members that the monthly meeting of the Arrowsmith Agricultural Association will be held on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7:30 PM at the Coombs Fairgrounds, 1014 Ford Road, Coombs. Notice is also hereby given to all members that a SPECIAL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Arrowsmith Agricultural Association will be held on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 8:30 PM at the Coombs Fairgrounds, 1014 Ford Road, Coombs, to approve minor amendments to the Bylaws of the Association.

New members welcome. 250-248-4458

Arlene LamontAugust 12, 1938 – January 28, 2015

Arlene Lamont’s life has ended. Her journey was blessed

with an abundance of love, enthusiasm, laughter, and with the most extraordinary fellow travelers. Her wish is that she leaves good memories with

each of them. No Service or

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What is Zoning Amendment No. 1285.23, 2015 about?

To rezone a portion of the property located at 1069 Smithers Road as outlined in bold on Map A from T-1 (Institutional/Community Facility 1) to C-3 (Commercial 3). If adopted, Amendment Bylaw No. 1285.23, 2015 will permit expansion of an existing outdoor storage use for the sale and display of utility trailers on the neighbouring lot at 1093 Smithers Road.

What is Zoning Amendment No. 1285.24, 2015 about?

To rezone the property located at Evergreen Way (Errington) as outlined in bold on Map B from A-1 (Agriculture 1) to R-4 (Rural 4). If adopted, Amendment Bylaw No. 1285.24, 2015 will rezone the property to reduce the minimum parcel size from 4 ha to 2 ha in order to facilitate a three lot subdivision.

Where can I get more information?

A copy of the proposed bylaws and relevant documents may be inspected at the meeting, or prior to the meeting at the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) office at 6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo until February 11, 2015. Office hours are Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, with extended hours on Wednesdays 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, excluding statutory holidays.

The public hearing for these bylaws will be chaired by Director Fell or his alternate as a delegate of the Board. All persons who consider their interest in their property to be affected by the proposed bylaw shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person or by written submission at the public hearing. Written submissions can also be provided in advance of the public hearing and must be received at the RDN office by 4:30 pm February 10, 2015, to ensure their inclusion in the public record.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGApplication No’s. PL2012-012 and PL2014-092

1069 Smithers Road and Evergreen Way (Errington)Electoral Area ‘F’

Pursuant to Sections 890, 891, and 892 of the Local Government Act, we advise you that a public hearing has been scheduled in your area with respect to the proposed “Regional District of Nanaimo of Nanaimo Electoral Area ‘F’ Zoning and Subdivision Amendment Bylaw No. 1285.23, 2015” and “Regional District of Nanaimo Electoral Area ‘F’ Zoning and Subdivision Amendment Bylaw No. 1285.24, 2015” and will be held:

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Subject to the provisions of the City’s Grant-in-Aid Applications Policy 3.26, the City of the Parksville may provide direct � nancial assistance to community groups and organizations for events which bene� t its citizens and visitors. Eligible applicants are community non-pro� t organizations in the arts, cultural, recreational or social services � eld.Organizations wishing to apply for funding assistance are asked to obtain a copy of the policy to ensure their submission will meet all necessary criteria and must submit their application on the approved form. Copies of the policy and application form can be obtained in person at the Civic and Technology Centre, 100 Jensen Avenue, or from the City’s website [City Hall/Mayor and Council/Grant-in-Aid Applications]. Applications will be forwarded to the Grants-In-Aid Select Committee for review and recommendation to Council regarding the approval and amount of the grants. Council is not obligated to allocate any or all of the $2,500 budgeted funds.Please note incomplete applications will be returned and returned applications which are not re-submitted by the deadline in correct form will not be considered.

Deadline for submission of applications is 4 pm on Friday, February 27, 2015, to the City of Parksville - Administration Department100 Jensen Avenue East, PO Box 1390Parksville, BC V9P 2H3

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Louise Mandell is Vancouver Island University’s new chancellor.

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Chancellor MandellVIU says aboriginal rights lawyer Louise Mandell has been agent for positive change

One of Canada’s foremost Ab-original rights lawyers and a tire-less advocate for Canada’s First Nations was installed as Vancou-ver Island University’s (VIU) chan-cellor at the convocation ceremo-ny in Nanaimo on January 29.

Louise Mandell Q.C. is recog-nized for her exceptional and for-ward-thinking work in advancing Aboriginal and treaty rights. She is one of the founders of the nation-ally recognized and respected law firm Mandell Pinder, established in 1983 specifically to support Can-ada’s Indigenous people to achieve recognition and implementation of their constitutional rights.

“Louise inspires others through her diligence, energy, creativity and use of a collaborative approach,” said Dr. Ralph Nilson, President and Vice-Chancellor of VIU.

“She shares similar values to VIU as well. Throughout her ca-

reer she has used law as an agent for positive change; VIU uses ed-ucation in the same way. Louise recognizes the important role ed-ucation plays in the development of people and communities and is seen by many as an invaluable mentor.”

Passionate about education, Mandell uses her skills as a writer and as a public speaker at work-shops and forums to pass on her knowledge and expertise.

Mandell has been recognized for her work with a number of des-ignations and awards. In 1997 she was appointed Queen’s Counsel; in 2001 she was awarded the Georges Goyer Q.C. Memorial Award for exceptional contribution to the development of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights jurisprudence across the country.

Today Mandell is partner emer-itus at Mandell Pinder, still con-nected but no longer involved in the day-to-day practice of law. This has created space for her to focus her considerable skills and exper-tise in other areas.

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Dance Odyssey is set for Saturday at the Port Theatre in NanaimoJESSICA [email protected]

Twenty-two dancers from Parksville’s Innovative Dance Arts school are put-ting the final touches on their pieces for a performance at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo next week. They have been in-vited to perform at the non-competitive Dance Odyssey ’15, which IDA co-owner and director Deena DeVito-Carl calls “a celebration of youth dance on Vancouver Island.”

“It’s not about competing,” said IDA’s director of intensive ballet programming Jennifer Quibell. “It’s about the love of dance.”

Sarah DeVito, co-owner and direc-tor of intensive jazz and modern at IDA, is also excited for the students to have a “feel-good event” to start of their per-formance season. “Competition has its place,” she said, adding that Dance Od-yssey ’15 will still offer positive learning experiences.

In particular, DeVito-Carl said the performances will gives the students an “opportunity to dance on a professional platform,” which in this case, is the Port Theatre’s stage.

For this year’s festival, IDA is present-ing one piece each from their junior and senior intensive dance programs.

“We’re presenting both ends of the spectrum,” said DeVito.

Quibell is working with students in the school’s junior intensive program on a classical ballet piece called Printemps Variation, which has some of Vivaldi’s Four Season as soundtrack. “Unity of the group is key,” she said, adding that she hopes the dance will help add variety to the upcoming performance. “We don’t always get a lot of classical pieces.”

There are 16 dancers in the junior class, all of whom are around 10-12 years old. While they may be some of the younger students at IDA, but DeVito-Carl said they still have four or five years dancing experience each and are cur-rently practicing a minimum of 10 hours

a week. DeVito, on the more advanced side

of things, is working with six dancers in the senior intensive program. These stu-dent are the most senior in the school and have been dancing seriously for 9-10 years. DeVito-Carl added that the girls in this group are dancing at least 18 hours a week.

“They’re technically more proficient dancers,” said DeVito.

For their contribution, the senior dancers are working on a challenging and edgy contemporary piece titled Im-plicit Demand for Proof.

Dance Odyssey ’15 is hosted by Dan-cestreams, the performing company of the Vancouver Island Youth Dance As-

sociation. According to the organiza-tion’s website, all dance schools in the mid-Island are invited to submit one or two pieces for the event on Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Nanaimo’s Port Theatre. Tickets for Dance Odyssey ’15 are $22, or $17 if purchasing for a group of 10 or more, and are available at 250-754-8550 or porttheatre.com

Parksville & District Historical Society is pleased to announce a brand new edi-tion of the book Parksville & Then Some by local author and historian Marjorie Leffler.

Originally printed in 1999, the book has been completely redesigned and ex-panded with support from the Parksville/Qualicum Community Foundation and Coastal Community Credit Union.

Parksville & Then Some is a fascinat-ing collection of stories and vignettes describing the historical beginnings of Parksville and the nearby settlements of Errington, Coombs and Nanoose Bay. Informative and often amusing, this book offers insight into the daily lives of the staunch pioneer homesteading families — the challenges they faced and the successes they achieved in the

late 1800s and early twentieth century. Readers will recognize familiar names such as Craig, Hirst, McCarter and Stan-hope. During the 1930s and into the mid-century, other waves of newcomers arrived including members of the Salva-tion Army from Britain, Russian Douk-hobors, war brides and entrepreneurs to name but a few.

For long-time residents of the area,

newcomers and visitors, Parksville & Then Some provides a very enjoyable glimpse into the history of the town and its surrounding communities.

The new edition is available at Mul-berry Bush Book Store in Parksville and the Parksville Museum & Archives (1245 East Island Highway; 250-248-6966).

— NEWS Staff/Parksville & District Historical Society

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Innovative Dance Arts’ Sarah DeVito, top row far left, Jennifer Quibell (top row second from right) and Deena DeVito-Carl (top row far right) stand with the school’s junior intensive dance students, who will be performing a classical ballet piece called Printemps Variation at Dance Odyssey ’15 in Nanaimo’s Port Theatre next week. IDA will also be sending the senior intensive dance class, which will perform an edgy contemporary piece titled Implicit Demand for Proof.

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Local artist Layne Collinson designed more than 130 hearts that hang at Smoke ‘N Water Restaurant in NanooseJESSICA [email protected]

The dozens of stained glass hearts hanging in the windows at Smoke ’n’ Water restaurant are looking to help spread some love in the community. From now until Valentine’s Day, all proceeds from each piece of art sold will go to the Manna Homeless Society.

“I wanted to do something,” said Parksville stained glass artist Layne Collinson, who added that she thinks

it’s “abominable” how many homeless and low-income call the area home. “It’s nice to raise awareness.”

“We’re all in this together,” said Smoke ’n’ Water owner David Jones, who said he is happy to do “any little thing to help. I think every business should be involved in the community.”

For the fundraiser, called Hearts for the Homeless, Collinson designed more than 130 unique hearts. There are currently 60-70 pieces hanging in the restaurant and they will be replaced by the remaining inventory as each is sold. The hearts range in price from $10-80.

“It’s amazing what you can do with a heart shape,” said Collinson, who has been making stained glass for nearly 40

years. “They’re gorgeous.”This isn’t the first time the artist has

sold stained glass hearts as a fundrais-er.

Last year, she raised nearly $1,000 for the Bennett family, who lost mother Cara to cancer, at the Final Approach restaurant at Qualicum Beach Airport.

Jones also hopes to do more fund-raising, be it for homelessness or other causes, at the restaurant.

“I think it’s a wonderful environ-ment not being maximized,” he said of the space, which has a larger capacity now that the fish tank is gone from the centre of the restaurant.

(What happened to the fish tank? You can read that story in this edition

of The NEWS.)


From left, Smoke ’n’ Water’s sous chef Shawn Brown, server Brandy Presley and owner David Jones show off a few of the stained glass hearts on display at the restaurant. The artworks, all created by Layne Collinson, are part of a fundrais-er for the Manna Homeless Society.

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Cynical, clever and taboo. Those are the words host Jared Bor-

land used to describe a comedy show he’s bringing to Parksville Thursday, Feb. 5 at the Quality Resort Bayside.

“You don’t often get this caliber of comedy in smaller towns,” said Bor-land, a former Nanaimo resident who now lives in Vancouver promoting the Canadian comedy scene.

Borland has two comedians head-lining the show: John Beuhler and Brett Martin, both who he describes as “personal idols when I first got into comedy eight years ago who are even more talented now.”

Beuhler, he said, is an “incredible”

comedian with “all the traits of Russell Peters and the likes … I’m not quite sure why he isn’t super famous right now.”

Beuhler has opened for Zach Galifi-nakis, Dennis Miller, Joan Rivers, Mar-tin Short, Craig Ferguson and Brent Butt. He’s performed on CBC’s Just For Laughs Gala, has been featured on stand up specials on CBC including the Debaters, Just For Laughs Gala, CTV and The Comedy Network; and his awards include Corner Gas Comic Ge-nius Comedy, Comedy Network and Just for Laughs Homegrown winner. Beuhler even starred in his own one hour snowboarding mocumentary on Global TV called Chill.

“He (Beuhler) makes people think in a different way than maybe they nor-mally would, he’ll attack social aspects of life and is very opinionated but by the time he’s done you can’t help but agree,” said Borland. “I imagine he’ll be in L.A. soon on the big screen.”

Also headlining the show, Bor-land says Brett Martin “has basically achieved all you can achieve in Cana-da’s comedy industry.”

Martin recently shot his first nation-al television special: Comedy Now for CTV and the Comedy Network. He’s been touring Canada relentlessly and has since become a familiar face in the Canadian comedy landscape.

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Borland said the two co-medians have great chemistry and it’s sure to be an enjoyable show.

He warns that there will be “mature content” but assures lots of laughs.

Parksville is the first stop of the show’s Vancouver Island tour which will hit communi-ties from Sidney to Port Mc-Neil over the next few weeks.

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With exams taking place this week, the Ballenas Whalers senior boys basketball team is using the break to fine-tune its game ahead of a showdown with Carihi (Camp-bell River) for the right to go to the Island championship.

The Whalers, coming off a weekend where they beat Gulf Island Secondary (70-23) and lost to Brentwood College and G.W. Graham (both provincially-ranked teams), will be looking to learn from some mental lapses last weekend ahead of a big game on February 10 at home against the NDSS Is-landers.

“We had a tough time in the first game we played against Brentwood,” head coach Kevin McMillen said. “We had trouble con-taining them and we couldn’t score the ball like we were hoping to.”

“Even though we lost by two points to G.W. Graham, we played them very well and had a great game defensively,” McMillen said. “It was our consistency that really gave us problems in that game and it’s been like that in a few games for us this season so far.”

McMillen and his coaching staff, Taylor Wilson and Tim Bigelow, will be looking to implement a few things this week to help turn that around for their team.

Even though the season got off to a late start, McMillen has been impressed with what he’s seen so far and knows the best is yet to come.TYSON TAYLOR PHOTO

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME: Nine teams of under-12 girls got together for some footy over the weekend at Springwood Field. There were two teams from Oceanside and the rest came from all over Vancouver Island to play on Sunday.


It was a tough way to end a busy week for the Save-On-Foods Oceanside Gener-als, dropping a 10-2 decision to the Saan-ich Braves at home Saturday night.

The Gens were playing their third game in three days after losses to the Nanaimo Buccaneers (8-3) and the Peninsula Pan-thers (7-4).

“It was a tough way to end our week, for sure,” head coach Rob Gaudreault said after the game Saturday night. “We came out slow, we came out lazy, we didn’t play to our game plan and we took some weak penalties that shouldn’t have happened. I was impressed that we kicked back in that

third period after being out played for 40 minutes.”

The tough week was even tougher in the final game as injuries to captain Gib-son Doney, forwards Tristan Sailor, Chase Gaudreault and defensemen David Bi-agioni and Josh Harvey all came against the Braves on Saturday night.

“It’s tough on a team when we’ve got a smaller roster to begin with,” Gaudreault said. “Then to see five guys get hurt in the same game, it’s tough. But we just need to keep on preaching what we’ve been tell-ing these guys about systems, that’s all we can do going forward here.”

For Gaudreault, it was especially tough having the showing the team did in front

of the hometown crowd, who have been there through thick and thin for the team since the start of the season.

“The fans have been amazing to us all season,” Gaudreault said. “I feel bad for disappointing them with this last game. It’s the first time that they’ve seen this from our team all season at home. It’s been a long year for everyone, including our fans, but they’ve stuck with us through it all and I can’t thank them enough for that.”

Frustrations started to show in the second period and were still there when Gaudreault spoke after the loss.

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we’ve got guys who are going out and playing their own system, it doesn’t work as a team. It’s been 44 games now and we’re still having these problems, so it’s frustrating.”

Looking ahead the Gens have just one game this weekend against the first place Campbell River Storm (35-4-1) on Satur-day night at Oceanside Place (7:30 pm).

“We’re going to work on special teams, penalty killing in particular,” Gaudreault said. “It’s been weak all year. We’ve been working on it pretty much every single practice and I’m puzzled. We’ve been showing them what to do and it hasn’t been translating over to games, it’s very puzzling and frustrating for us.”

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Last week’s B.C. Supreme Court decision in favour of the B.C. Teacher’s Federation could have a local impact, but local officials say it is too early to know what that will be.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Susan Griffin ruled that provincial legislation interfering with teachers’ bargaining rights was unconsti-tutional and a breach of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and ordered the province to pay $2 million in damages.

In April 2013, the court found the legislation had de-leted bargaining terms and prohibited bargaining on a wide range of working con-ditions, including class size and composition and sup-port for special needs students.

In her decision, Griffin wrote: “The free-dom of workers to associate has long been recognized internationally and in Canada as an important aspect of a fair and democrat-ic society. Collective action by workers helps protect individuals from unfairness in one of the most fundamental aspect of their lives, their employment.”

“Good things come to those who wait,” said Debbie Morran, president of the local Mount Arrowsmith Teacher’s Association. “And we have waited 12 years for this.”

Morran highlighted the changes that came under the collective agreements that Griffin ruled, “have been restored retroactively and can also be the subject of future bargaining.”

“What this means, we now have a gener-ation of B.C. students who have been short-changed by this government,” Morran said,

listing off the local effects.“We currently have seven Kindergarten

classes that are over our collective agreement limit, we have 20 classes, by figures in this dis-trict, in grades one, two and three that are over the limit.”

She said the current agreements also pose safety concerns in lab and shop classes and have meant students who need help “have been in overly complex classes and received less than one on one time with teachers than children who graduated prior to 2002.”

School District 69 board chair Lynnette Kershaw said it is still very early in the pro-cess and they haven’t had a chance to review what the ruling might mean locally, especially in light of the financial difficulties they are al-

ready dealing with, including considering closing schools.

She also pointed out that the government has said it would appeal the ruling, so things are still in process, but added that this district has done its best to

“stay close to a good ratio,” in terms of class sizes and she hopes the ruling would not make this district “too far off the mark.”

“In an already stew of variables this is one more ingredient in the mix and how this fla-vours things is yet to be seen,” Kershaw said.

Though the judge said it was highly specu-lative, the government has said the ruling could cost up to $500 million retroactively, and up to $275 million a year going forward.

The decision says “it will be in the interests of the BCTF and the (employer) to negotiate an overall resolution to these claims through bargaining.”

“We want our class sizes restored, we need our specialist teachers re-hired, we want to give our children the education they de-serve,” Morran said, summing up the union’s position.

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RDN chief administrative officer Paul Thorkelsson said the government body is undertaking its first ever survey speaking to the satisfaction of rural residents.

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resident’s opinions of services provide by the RDN,” said Thorkelsson. “Part of it is getting an understanding of where we have gaps or limitations and where we have overlaps.”

Thorkelsson said the survey is part of the RDN’s Operational and Efficiency Review.

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Foreman also said the 14-year-old offender will be forwarded to Crown counsel for possi-ble charges, due to the teen’s prior involvement with the RCMP.

“Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act we try and exercise every available option before using the court,” Foreman said about the Re-storative Justice process. “The idea is for youth going through the process to realize what they have done wrong.”

Restorative Justice involves the offender, the victim and police, who collectively address the crime and come up with some type of resolution.

“We’re lucky to have the program here,” said Foreman, adding that it has a successful track record.

Pacific Brimm owner Teresa Patterson said she is thankful for her recently-installed sur-veillance cameras, as well as the power of the internet and the concern of the community.

“The video went viral on Facebook,” said Pat-

terson, who noted that the week following the vandalism she had youth, community members and organizations contacting her with various tips.

“All of the leads I received pointed to the same two suspects,” she said.

Despite being left to clean up broken glass and cigarette butts, Patterson remains compas-sionate to the young individuals.

“I’m a mother first and foremost,” she said. “I sympathize with those who don’t have a home life that is strong and involved, but we live in a community that is willing to support youth and I am hoping they (the youth who allegedly per-formed these acts of vandalism) will see that.”

Patterson said she has “a soft spot for youth” and will work alongside RCMP in the Restor-ative Justice program.

The outdoor gate to Pacific Brimm’s back-yard patio now has a sign reading: “Smile, you’re on camera.”

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Tough weekend as Generals lose three of threeVIJHL HOCKEY


With exams taking place this week, the Ballenas Whalers senior boys basketball team is using the break to fine-tune its game ahead of a showdown with Carihi (Camp-bell River) for the right to go to the Island championship.

The Whalers, coming off a weekend where they beat Gulf Island Secondary (70-23) and lost to Brentwood College and G.W. Graham (both provincially-ranked teams), will be looking to learn from some mental lapses last weekend ahead of a big game on February 10 at home against the NDSS Is-landers.

“We had a tough time in the first game we played against Brentwood,” head coach Kevin McMillen said. “We had trouble con-taining them and we couldn’t score the ball like we were hoping to.”

“Even though we lost by two points to G.W. Graham, we played them very well and had a great game defensively,” McMillen said. “It was our consistency that really gave us problems in that game and it’s been like that in a few games for us this season so far.”

McMillen and his coaching staff, Taylor Wilson and Tim Bigelow, will be looking to implement a few things this week to help turn that around for their team.

Even though the season got off to a late start, McMillen has been impressed with what he’s seen so far and knows the best is yet to come.TYSON TAYLOR PHOTO

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME: Nine teams of under-12 girls got together for some footy over the weekend at Springwood Field. There were two teams from Oceanside and the rest came from all over Vancouver Island to play on Sunday.


It was a tough way to end a busy week for the Save-On-Foods Oceanside Gener-als, dropping a 10-2 decision to the Saan-ich Braves at home Saturday night.

The Gens were playing their third game in three days after losses to the Nanaimo Buccaneers (8-3) and the Peninsula Pan-thers (7-4).

“It was a tough way to end our week, for sure,” head coach Rob Gaudreault said after the game Saturday night. “We came out slow, we came out lazy, we didn’t play to our game plan and we took some weak penalties that shouldn’t have happened. I was impressed that we kicked back in that

third period after being out played for 40 minutes.”

The tough week was even tougher in the final game as injuries to captain Gib-son Doney, forwards Tristan Sailor, Chase Gaudreault and defensemen David Bi-agioni and Josh Harvey all came against the Braves on Saturday night.

“It’s tough on a team when we’ve got a smaller roster to begin with,” Gaudreault said. “Then to see five guys get hurt in the same game, it’s tough. But we just need to keep on preaching what we’ve been tell-ing these guys about systems, that’s all we can do going forward here.”

For Gaudreault, it was especially tough having the showing the team did in front

of the hometown crowd, who have been there through thick and thin for the team since the start of the season.

“The fans have been amazing to us all season,” Gaudreault said. “I feel bad for disappointing them with this last game. It’s the first time that they’ve seen this from our team all season at home. It’s been a long year for everyone, including our fans, but they’ve stuck with us through it all and I can’t thank them enough for that.”

Frustrations started to show in the second period and were still there when Gaudreault spoke after the loss.

“It’s frustrating, the way things have been going. We’ve been showing them systems to work with as a team and when

we’ve got guys who are going out and playing their own system, it doesn’t work as a team. It’s been 44 games now and we’re still having these problems, so it’s frustrating.”

Looking ahead the Gens have just one game this weekend against the first place Campbell River Storm (35-4-1) on Satur-day night at Oceanside Place (7:30 pm).

“We’re going to work on special teams, penalty killing in particular,” Gaudreault said. “It’s been weak all year. We’ve been working on it pretty much every single practice and I’m puzzled. We’ve been showing them what to do and it hasn’t been translating over to games, it’s very puzzling and frustrating for us.”

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“It’s one of those things where they’re play-ing good basketball, but they haven’t peaked just yet,” McMillen said. “The fact that we hav-en’t peaked as a team is a good thing, because you don’t want to be peaking in the early part of the season.”

“It’s when the playoffs roll around that you hope to be peaking as a team and I can sense that we’re building up to that with each prac-tice and game that goes by.”

Looking to shake things up a little, McMil-len has handed over the game-day coaching duties to Wilson, a graduate from Kwalikum Secondary School who played university bas-ketball at Vancouver Island University.

“Having Taylor and Tim here has been great for everyone,” McMillen said. “It’s nice to have

more than just one person handling the load, it makes it a lot easier on the team.”

“Being able to bounce ideas off someone in the middle of a game is great and both Taylor and Tim have done a fantastic job so far with these kids.”

The Whalers have an exhibition game this weekend against B.C. Christian School and then play host to the NDSS Islanders next Tuesday (Feb. 10) at Ballenas Secondary (7 p.m.). Last time they met NDSS won by 15 points.

“We know what kind of a team we are,” Mc-Millen said. “If we can play with the same in-tensity we’ve been playing with the last cou-ple of games on defense, I don’t see why we shouldn’t be able to pull out a win against NDSS.”

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HEAVY LOAD: Parksville’s Zeyad Al Karsh returned home from the Canadian junior weightlift-ing championships in Winnipeg with a silver medal in the 105kg category with lifts of 103kg in the snatch event and 133kg in the clean and jerk.


The Parksville Curling Club hosted the Parksville women’s open bonspiel with 20 teams from Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Nanaimo, Comox Valley, Port Alberni and Es-quimalt.

Players also came from as far away as Van-couver, Edmonton and Calgary.

The bonspiel was played out over 50 games, including five event finals and featured players from Vancouver Island, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary.

The team of Lynn Noble (skip), Donna Lan-glands (third), Crystal Murray (second) and Shirley Wong (lead) from Qualicum Beach, won the “A” event, sponsored by Hollis Wealth Management.

Winners of the “B” event, sponsored by Les-ley’s Esthetics, were the team (from Nanaimo) of skip Lesley Shearer, third Glynis Davis and second Susanna Gundison.

The “C” event, which was sponsored by Sunwest Helicopters, was won by the team of skip Amber Dufour, third Jen Zbinden, second Brenda MacPherson and lead Christine Dun-can, all from the Comox Valley.

In the “D” event, sponsored by Sheila Dale, the winning rink was skip Dolores Wallace, third Lynn Fedoruk, second Lori McKay and lead Jade Shultis (from Esquimalt).

Taking home the “E” event, sponsored by the Parksville Curling Club, was skip Winn Re-hill, third Cheryl Noble, second Nancy Doug-las and lead Vivien Williams, hailing from Parksville.

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EveryFridayOCEANSIDE STROKE RECOVERY11am-1:30pm. St. Columba Hall, 921 Wembley Rd, Parksville. Bring lunch. 250-586-6766. www.strokerecoverybc.caQBEACH SENIORS CENTREYoga@11:45am. $4 drop-in.Ukelele/Beginners@10:30am.COOMBS COUNTRY OPERA7pm, 3rd/Fri/mo. CHRC Rodeo Grds, 2595 Alberni Hwy. Local talent. $5. Musicians/kids FREE. Grab your guitar, � ddle, mandolin or whatever & join us! Snacks provided. 248-1009 MUSIC TRIVIA7pm start! Shady Rest Pub. 3109 W. Island Hwy, Qualicum Beach. Get a team together, show us what you’ve got, and win prizes!SAND DOLLAR’S SQUARE DANCEBradley Centre. 1st & 3rd/Fri/mo. Pre-rounds 7:30pm/dance at 8pm. Debbie 250-951-0135.BRADLEY CENTRE LUNCHEONS11:45am-1:15pm, Last/Fri/mo. Bradley Ctre., 975 Shearme Rd. $6/Members $2 annual. Gunter, 250-248-2336, [email protected] FREE TECH WORKSHOPS9:30-10:30am, Family Place, 494 Bay Ave., PV. Feb 6: Intro to Editing/Formatting Docs using free OpenOf� ce - Part 2. Feb 13: Show off your project, holiday, grandkids, etc. with a Slideshow App on iPad/iPhone. Beginners ok. Feb 20: Windows 8 Improvements-what changed? Feb 27: Look at Android Tablets, email & web brower apps. DROP IN LAB HOURS, Tues & Thurs: 9am-12pm. Fri: 10:30-12pm (after workshop). 250-947-8258, [email protected], www.blt.sd69.bc.ca, Facebook.com/tlc.blt.

EverySaturdayMID ISLAND WALKING CLUB10 am/1 &/or 2 hr walk alternate Sat/Sun, [email protected] for schedule. ann. $10.PARKSVILLE LYME SUPPORT GROUP1:30-4pm, 3rd Sat/mo PV Pharmasave (281 E. Is. Hwy) meeting rm. [email protected] BEACH FARMERS MARKET8:30am-12:30pm, Veteran’s Way & Memorial. www.qbfarmersmarket.comSMART RECOVERY10-11:30am, meet/SOS, 245 W. Hirst Ave., PV. Info/assist.re-Alcohol & Drug Use Disorder. Ray Deller, 250-714-9703, [email protected]

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EveryMondayQBEACH FRIENDLY BRIDGE CLUB6:45-10pm, QB Legion, 180 Veterans Way (back door). Knowledge of Bridge. 250-752-0196PARKSVILLE PROBUS CLUB8:30am, 3rd/Mon/mo. Quality Bayside Resort. parksvilleprobus.ca. 250-752-4204.ARBUTUS CLUB TOASTMASTERS7-9pm (except holidays). PCCC, 132 Jensen Ave. All welcome! Kristin, 248-1926, Matt 250-752-0794. arbutus.toastmastersclubs.org

EveryTuesdayTUESDAY BIRD WALKS9am, Parksville Beach Comm. Park. Neil Robins, 250-954-1928, [email protected]://www.thebirdstore.blogspot.ca/QUALICUM BEACH PROBUS CLUB9am,1st Tues/mo. St. Stephen’s Church Hall.ROTARY CLUB OF QBEACH SUNRISE7am, Tuesdays, Rotary House, 211 Fern Rd W SOCRATES CAFE10am-12pm, The Meadows Comm. Hall, Finholm St, PV. $1 drop in. Discus philosophy of life. Helen Males, 250-951-9952, [email protected] ALZHEIMER’S & DEMENTIA1:30-3pm, 1st/Tues/mo. Caregivers Support Group, Stanford Place, 250 Craig Street, Parksville. Jane Hope 1-800-462-2833PARKSVILLE LIONS7pm, 1st & 3rd Tues/mo., 241 Moilliet,250-248-5806/250-248-9392OS PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT7pm, 1st/Tues/mo., The Gardens, 650 Berwick N, Qualicum Beach. Affected, family & friends. 250-752-7489, [email protected]

PQ LINUX/ANDROID USERS GROUP6:30pm, 3rd Tues/mo. at A & W Restaurant, 540 Island Hwy East, Parksville. Bring your laptop, Android device, or Chromebook.QUALICUM BAY LIONS CLUB7pm, 2nd & 4th/Tues/mo., 240 Lions Way, Qualicum Bay. 250-240-4538

JOIN AIR CADETS6:15-9:15pm, begins Jan 6th. Hangar A3/QBeach Airport. Registration ongoing, 12-18yrs. Debbie, [email protected]://www.893aircadets.caTENNIS AT SPRINGWOOD PARKDrop-in 1-4pm, EVERYDAY OF THE WEEK to April 1, 2015. arrowsmithtennis.ca. 250-248-7280

EverySaturdayLIVE MUSIC7-11pm. Live Local Bands. Shady Rest Pub, 3109 W. Is. Hwy, Qualicum Beach.BISHOPS OF BOWSER12pm, Henry’s Kitchen, QBay chess club meets. www.bowserchess.pbworks.com or Robert 757-8709. Everyone Welcome.

EverySundaySENIORS SOCIAL ACOUTIC JAM1-3:30pm, 961 Clarke Rd, QBeach. Last/Sun/mo. Bring your instrument, a friend & enjoy! Donation/$5, $3/treats. Mike Mallon, 250-594-9951, [email protected]. http://www.lazymikerockinrecliners.com/houseofmusic.htmPANCAKE BREAKFAST & GARAGE SALE8:30-11:30am, 3rd/Sun/mo. 975 Shearme Rd./Bradley Centre. $6/$2 annual. Frank, 250-248-0676, [email protected] MEETING11am, 2nd/Sun/mo, at Bethlehem Retreat Ctre, 2371 Arbot Rd Nanaimo. 250-754-0774.

EveryMondayLIFETREE CAFE7-8:30pm, Our Saviour Lutheran Church, 795 Is. Hwy Parksville. 19+, FREE, with coffee, tea & snacks provided. Rhonda Kelman, (250)248-6644, [email protected], http://lifetreecafe.com/ CDN. FED. UNIV. WOMEN PV QUALICUM7:30pm/meet, 2nd/Mon/mo. QBeach Civic Ctre. Bring your passion, (knitting, painting, collecting etc.) All welcome. Lynn Brown 248-5142.OS YOUTH STITCHERS4-6pm, 1st/3rd/Mon/mo. The Gardens, QB/Comm. Rm. Age 7-17. All welcome. Supplies included/$25 annually. Pat 250-594-5727. ROTARY CLUB OF PARKSVILLE12pm, Mondays (except holidays), Quality Resort Bayside.ROTARY CLUB OF QUALICUM BEACH6:15pm, Mondays (except holidays) Rotary House, 211 Fern Rd West.QBEACH SENIORS CENTREYoga, 9:30 & 11:30am. $4 drop-in. Line-dancing @3:45pm MOUNT ARROWSMITH PIPE BAND6:30pm, Arbutus Grove Church, 170 W Hirst, PV. All pipers & drummers welcome. Will teach new members. Mel, 250-752-7810.

EveryTuesdayQBEACH & AREA NEWCOMER’S CLUB 2nd/Tues/mo, St. Stephen’s Hall, 150 Village Way, Qualicum Beach. 9:45am/doors, 10:15am/meeting. qbnewcomers.orgQB ALZHEIMER’S & DEMENTIA SUPPORT1:30-3pm, 3rd/Tues/mo. Community Room, The Gardens. Jane Hope 1-800-462-2833YOUTH 16+ FREE DROP-IN BASKETBALLTues. (Feb 3-Mar 24). 7-9pm, Coombs Fairgrnds 250-248-8515 or [email protected] OPEN ACOUSTIC MIC6:30pm/doors, 7-10pm, Last/Tue/mo. 961 Clarke Rd, QBeach. All ages/$5, $3/treats. All talents/styles. Mike Mallon, 250-594-9951, [email protected]. http://www.lazymikerockinrecliners.com/houseofmusic.htm

EveryWednesday“GET RHYTHM”7-10pm, Parksville Legion. Dance to Country, Old Rock & Roll, Pop & Blues. Members & potential members welcome. Sharon Franzen, [email protected] 11-18 FREE DROP-INGAMES & SPORTSWed. (Feb 4 Mar 25) 6:30-8pm, Coombs Fair-grnds 250-248-8515 or [email protected] 16+ FREE DROP-IN FLOOR HOCKEYWed (Feb 4-Mar 25). 8:15-9:45pm Coombs Fairgrnds 250-248-8515 or [email protected] SISTERS FITNESS WALKWed 10-11am, Different local each week. All levels of � tness. 250-248-8515 or [email protected] SENIORS CENTRETai Chi@10am. Tai Chi/Qi [email protected] CLUB OF PARKSVILLE AM7am, Wednesdays, The Beach Club ResortASBC MID-ISLAND GRANDPARENT SUPPORT GROUP MEETING10am-noon., 2nd Wed/mo. Family Resource Association, 198 Morison Ave, Parksville. www.nanaimoautism.org, 250-714-0801PARKSVILLE CHURCH CHOIR7-9pm, Knox United Church, 250-248-3927OCEANSIDE PHOTOGRAPHERS CLUB7-9pm., 1st/Wed/mo. Qualicum Beach Civic Centre, oceansidephotographers.caSINGING IN FRENCH1:30-3:30pm, “Nous Chantons”. New members welcome/Nouveaux membres, bienvenue! Suzanne Bernard, 250-248-8714MID ISLAND WALKING CLUB9:30/1 hr walk, [email protected] for schedule. annual $10.OS SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCERSBeginners/6:30-7:45pm, Experienced/7:30pm QB Comm Hall. Social Dancing, No partner needed.NANOOSE SENIORS11:30am, 2nd/Wed/mo., lunch atNanoose Place.

EveryWednesdayOS EMERGENCY SOCIAL SERVICES9-11am/meetings, 2nd/4th/Wed/mo. 250-954-3411, [email protected] FORWARD SUPPORT GROUP6:30-8:30pm, 136 East Hirst Ave., Parksville. 19+. Free. Starts Jan 7th. Pat/Sharon, 250-954-0785, [email protected]. For caregivers of persons with mental health &/or addiction issues. www.forwardhouse.comAWANA5:30-7:15pm (except school holidays) until mid May. Oceanside Community Church. K-9th grades. Shirley 250-757-9802.QUALICUM BEACH FAMILY HISTORY7pm, 3rd/Wed/mo. 180 Veterans Way, QB Legion. Lola Cook: 250-594-5556

EveryThursdayTHE PARKSVILLE NEWCOMERS’ CLUB7pm/doors, 7:30pm/meeting, 1st/Thurs/mo, 132 Jensen St. Lots of parking & guest Speakers. www.parksvillenewcomers.netOLD TIME FIDDLE DANCES7:30-10pm, Rotary House, Qualicum Beach. Variety of dance styles by the Coombs Old Time Fiddlers. $2.50/snack included. Bruce Foden, 250-586-3743, [email protected] CORONATION STREET CLUB2pm, 2nd/Thurs/mo. Qualicum Beach Legion. 250-752-4445.OPEN GOSPEL MUSIC7-9:30pm, last Thurs/mo., Nanoose E Free Church. (Across from the new Fire hall/Nanoose Bay) 250-468-9233.NANOOSE NATURALISTS7pm, Nanoose Library Hall, 2489 Nanoose Rd. 2nd/Thurs/mo. Outings are arranged on a regular basis. www.nanoosenaturalists.orgOS BREAST CANCER SUPPORT7-9pm, 1st Thurs/mo. at The Gardens, 650 Berwick North, QBeach. Free, family & friends welcome. 250-752-8066 or [email protected] DEGENERATION SUPPORT1:30pm., Last Thur/mo. The Gardens, Wellness Rm. Qualicum Beach. Val 250-468-7556.NANOOSE BAY LIONS7pm, 2nd & 4th/Thurs/mo., Nanoose Place. 250-927-0518MUSIC AT DEEZ BAR & GRILL7pm, 3353 Island Hwy West. Qualicum Beach. 250.752.8055, deezbarandgrill.comIMPROVE HEALTH8:45-10am, until June 25. Jaya Studio, 420 Trio Lane, QBeach. Free trial class - then $10. Small, private, yoga studio. Kathy Murphy, 250-594-0285, [email protected], www.kathleenyoga777.ca

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