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POPULATION ESTIMATES

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� e population in Parksville and the sur-rounding rural areas increased slightly, by 0.6 and 0.9 per cent respectively, while the popula-tion in Qualicum Beach dipped by 0.5 per cent.

As of 2014 Parksville’s population was 12,227, Qualicum Beach came in at 8,500 and the surrounding areas cumulatively recorded a population of 39,085 which includes Deep Bay/Bowser, Coombs/Errington, Nanoose Bay, French Creek, Cedar and Pleasant Valley.

� e numbers come from B.C. Statistics 2014 Sub-Provincial Population Estimates, a report that came out in January stating the province grew as a whole by 1.1 per cent or 49,000 peo-ple.

B.C. Statistics director Jackie Storen said the two biggest factors a� ecting population booms and dips are natural change (birth and death rate) and migration.

“Rural communities seem to be getting smaller while metropolitan areas are getting larger,” said Storen. “People want better access to education, jobs and healthcare.”

According to the report, neighbouring city Nanaimo grew by 1.5 per cent reaching a popu-lation of 88,869.

Storen explains B.C. Statistics’ population estimates are based on hydro connections and health client registry. “Within Canada it’s really the job and where you can � nd work which will push people to go and live somewhere.”

Parksville Mayor Marc Lefebvre echoed Storen’s comments that population is intimate-ly linked to the economic cycle.

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FESTIVAL FUN: From left, Tim, Angel and Brooke Delange pose for a picture on the old tractor at Morningstar Farm during the Little Qualicum Cheeseworks’ Calving Festival this past weekend. Aside from the opportunity to view some baby pigs, lambs, calves and chicks, the festival also had a colouring contest for kids with great prizes.

PARKSVILLE BUDGET DELIBERATIONS

Curling club gets a breakJOHN [email protected]

� e Parksville Curling Club will get a grant to cover its tax bill this year, city councillors decided last week.

� e city will lose money on the deal, providing the curling club with a $3,000 grant-in-aid that will cover the club’s total tax bill this year. However, about half of that grant money will

go to other taxing authorities like the school district, while the city will get back about $1,500 in tax revenue.

It’s not likely a scenario the city en-visioned when it looked to increase revenue by changing the tax exempt status of the curling club from 100 per cent to 50 per cent last year. � e club has lobbied the city hard, saying the new policy would jeopardize its

operations. � e club also challenged its assessed value with the provincial authority, which brought its tax bill down from $16,000 to $6,000.

Coun. Al Greir, a member of the committee that came up with the 50 per cent solution last year, was opposed to the grant when council voted 6-1 in fa-vour of the motion on � ursday night.

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The NEWS placed third in its circulation category for Best Overall Newspaper, part of the 2015 Canadian Community Newspaper As-sociation (CCNA) awards announced Friday. Two Alberta publica-tions, The Okotoks Western Wheel and the Fast Forward Weekly (Cal-gary) finished one-two in The NEWS’ circulation category (12,500 to 24,999).

The only other paper on Vancouver Island to make the top three of its circulation category for Best Overall Newspaper was The NEWS’ sister paper, The Alberni Valley News, which was second in its cat-egory (6,500 to 12,499).

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Interested in a long, healthy life? Lead researcher Angela Brooks-Wilson will

be in Parksville to discuss “super seniors,” de-scribed as those age 85 and older who have never been diagnosed with cancer, heart dis-ease or stroke, dementia or Alzheimer’s, diabe-tes or lung disease.

Brooks-Wilson is studying what sets super seniors apart from the majority of individuals prone to common age-related diseases.

She told The NEWS earlier this month that super seniors are “actually quite rare.”

On average Brooks-Wilson said the parents of super seniors lived 14 years longer than their contemporaries and while lifestyle factors con-tribute to a long life, it’s possible shared genet-ics play a strong role in familial longevity.

“The study is designed to identify genetic factors that contribute to healthy aging,” she said. “The idea behind studying people who are 85 and free of disease is that we want to look at health rather than just longevity.”

Parksville Qualicum Beach is known as one of the oldest communities in Canada. Accord-ing to Statistics Canada the average age in Qua-licum Beach is 64.

Brooks-Wilson will be discussing the Healthy

Aging study, a research she’s been spearhead-ing for more than a decade. The study is now in its second phase and as reported earlier in The NEWS Brooks-Wilson is seeking super se-niors to take part in the study. She’s also seeking centenarians, people age 100 or older, regard-less of their health history for another branch of research.

Brooks-Wilson is attempting to find out if super seniors lack genetic susceptibility factors that contribute to common diseases found in the majority of people, or if they possess special re-sistance factors that enhance their ability to en-joy long and healthy lives. She will be discussing the key findings of her study to-date on Saturday, April 11 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Forum at the Parksville Civic and Technology Centre located at 100 Jensen Avenue. Admission is $10 at the door and the presentation is open to anybody interested in it. The presentation is sponsored by VIU ElderCollege as a Saturday Speaker event.

According to a news release issued by VIU ElderCollege, members of the audience are invited to meet Brooks-Wilson to continue the discussion at a no-host lunch at a local restau-rant after the presentation.

If you’re a super senior or centenarian inter-ested in taking part in the study please contact 604-675-8151 or e-mail [email protected].

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Province offers vehicle subsidyThere are 13 charging stations in this area, six in Qualicum Beach aloneCandaCe [email protected]

Driving an energy efficient vehicle just got a little cheaper.

The B.C. government announced last week that those who purchase bat-tery powered and plug-in hybrid cars can save up to $5,000 through a revived emission-free vehicle subsidy.

It’s welcome news for Parksville’s director of community planning Blaine Russell, an electric vehicle enthusiast and driver since 2012.

“If we want to see a paradigm shift someone’s got to vote with their dol-lar once in a while,” Russell told The NEWS.

“In the long run there are huge en-vironmental benefits and right now we’re dependent on oil from places where people don’t necessarily like us — so there’s geopolitical and environ-mental reasons.”

The program takes effect April 1 and is funded to continue until March 2018. Those scrapping a 2000-or-old-er vehicle can receive an additional $3,250 toward a new battery electric or eligible plug-in hybrid under the B.C. Scrap-It program.

Even with the rebate, an electric car is more expensive to buy than a com-parable gasoline-powered vehicle, but according to a government-issued news release the fuel savings average about $1,600 a year compared to gas-oline.

B.C.’s last electric vehicle rebate program ran from 2011 to 2014, sub-sidizing the purchase of 950 electric vehicles and more than 1,000 charging stations, several of which are in Parks-ville Qualicum Beach.

Russell confirmed Parksville has three electric vehicle charging stations that take approximately four hours to

use depending on the vehicle, two are located in the parking lot of Parksville city hall and one is located at the Com-munity Park.

Neighbouring Qualicum Beach has six public charging facilities located in: the town hall underground parkade, downtown Qualicum Beach (across from Qualicum Foods), the Civic Cen-tre parking lot, the waterfront beach washrooms parking lot, the visitor in-formation centre parking lot, the Qual-icum Beach airport parking lot and in the underground parkade of Qualicum Foods.

There is also one charging station in each: Coombs, Errington, Nanoose Bay and Deep Bay.

For a comprehensive list of where each charging station is located visit www.plugshare.com.

However, while the region boasts more than a dozen electric vehicle public charging stations, none are high power stations, which take substantial-ly less time to charge your vehicle.

Deep Bay resident Dianne Eddy, who drives a Nissan Leaf, said the clos-est fast charging station is in down-town Nanaimo and it takes about 20 minutes to use.

With the government’s revived in-centive program, Eddy is hoping “per-haps we will also see a few more fast chargers around…This facilitates lon-ger trips for those of us that can’t afford a Tesla.”

Eddy said installations in Victoria and Courtenay would “really add to the service” as the only fast charging stations she’s aware of are located in Nanaimo and Duncan.

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Energy Minister Bill Bennett looks at the power system of a plug-in electric vehicle on display at the Vancouver International Auto Show.


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Deliberations are far from done, but the city is currently looking at a two per cent increase in taxes for Parksville homeowners this year.

Last year, when all the taxing author-ities were factored in (school district, etc.), the 2.5 per cent tax increase on the average home in the city (assessed at $295,000) was $35. If city council doesn’t change much by the end of next month, it looks like city homeowners will face a similar increase this year.

The increase includes provisions for borrowing charges on the new water treatment and storage facilities, although the fate of that project and its ultimate cost to taxpayers, remains unknown.

Council got to some nuts and bolts of the budget during public deliberations Thursday night, focussing on special requests and some big-ticket items re-quested by staff.

The biggest item to consider, the con-

struction of a $600,000 building for archi-val records storage, was squashed unani-mously by council on Thursday night.

“If we don’t do this we are taking a risk,” said Mayor Marc Lefebvre. “At some point we are going to have to bite the bullet.”

“Right now we are in a difficult finan-cial situation,” said Coun. Sue Powell. “I need to be convinced.”

“We don’t have $600,000 to spend,” said Coun. Leanne Salter. “I can’t believe this is even in the budget.”

“It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,” said Coun. Kirk Oates. “But I’m not sure this is when.”

Attempts by staff to add two positions to their ranks were also rebuffed by coun-cil on Thursday night. Council has been presented information in the past month showing the need for both an additional bylaw enforcement officer (plus the cost of a new vehicle for the officer) and a full-

time health and safety officer.Staff had explained bylaw enforce-

ment files are piling up and response times are lengthening. Chief Administra-tive Officer Fred Manson also explained that health and safety files and issues — much of which mandated for action by

the provincial govern-ment — are being done off the corner of senior staff’s desk.

Council has squashed the notion of a new bylaw officer and vehicle entirely and on

Thursday night they asked staff to come back with less expensive options for the health and safety officer, perhaps a part-time position. Those two measures shaved roughly $200,000 off the 2015 ex-penditures side of the budget.

Council did approve some less-expen-sive expenditures on Thursday night, but not without some debate. The Vancouver Island North Film Commission will get

$2,500 from the city this year.“They have spent money in this com-

munity and I think we should be part of that,” said Coun. Teresa Patterson.

“Many other communities in the area are contributing and I think we should do our part as well,” said Coun. Mary Beil.

Council passed the motion to provide the film commission with $2,500 in a 6-1 vote, with Coun. Al Greir opposed.

The Vancouver Island Tribute Festival will get $1,000 from council this year and Greir, consistently opposed to this type of request over the years, was in favour of this one, noting the success of the inau-gural festival last year and saying he be-lieved it would be the last year the festival would need to ask for financial help.

Council still needs to make final deci-sions on a number of other issues in the budget — and give final approval to the entire budget — including increases to water and sewer rates and the possibility of establishing user fees for sports fields and Community Park.

Council nixes $600K archival storage building plan

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Dolphin Tales, a new non-prof-it, Reggio Emilia-style preschool has open spaces in Parksville.

“We decided to develop the pre-school because the Family Resource Association (FRA) has expertise in child care and we thought we could contribute something to the commu-nity,” said FRA executive director Deb-orah Joyce.

“We did a feasibility study and found there was need both in terms of seats and style, so we’re introducing the fist Reggio Emilia style preschool in the area.”

“Reggio Emilia is a style that sup-ports our philosophy at FRA, it is child centred where the children contribute to the way the facility is run,” she said of the system named after the village in Italy where it was developed after the Second World War.

“Children are naturally curious so we facilitate their curiosity and it be-comes based on their interests. It is not a pedagogical model, with children as receptacles,” she said stressing that it is a very inclusive model that welcomes all kinds of children.

FRA is publicly funded, but the pre-school is a separate, self supported, non-profit program, charging on a cost

recovery basis.Accepting children age three to five,

about half of the 40 spaces are current-ly full, she said. They only really got started this January, partly due to the complications of the late start to the school year due to the strike.

Joyce said they are excited about how the preschool adds to the pro-fessional mental health and social services the FRA has been providing to children, youth and families in the community for 25 years.

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‘Reconnection’ helps young people overcome barriers

Qualicum School District 69 has received $20,000 from the provincial government’s civil forfeiture grant funding program to help sup-port the Reconnection youth employment project, according to a news release from the provincial government.

“Giving young people hope and the skills to land a good job goes a long way in helping them avoid run-ins with the law and the legal sys-tem,” said Parksville-Qualicum MLA Michelle Stilwell. “Some youth need that extra little bit of assistance and guidance; and programs such as School District 69’s Reconnection project help them develop and grow into confident adults.”

The school district’s Reconnection project helps young people overcome barriers to em-ployment by providing them with employabili-ty skills, training, and work placement opportu-nities. Youth will also work on self- assessment, life and job skill development, career planning, and goal setting.

This year, the priority focus for civil forfei-ture grants is on initiatives that address violence against women, and support the Violence Free B.C. strategy. Other areas where funding was made available included serving victims through restorative justice, community and youth crime prevention.

Since the civil forfeiture grant funding pro-gram became active, it has returned more than $16 million from successful forfeiture actions to crime prevention projects and to victims of fraud and phony investment schemes in British Columbia. Violence Free B.C. is the provincial government’s long-term strategy and commit-ment to end violence against women. Acting as a roadmap, Violence Free BC combines imme-diate actions with a long-term vision to end the violence, and to support women whose lives and well-being have been impacted by violence.

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PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH TOURISM ASSOCIATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Natural beauty, people lead tourists hereThe Island holds second largest market share in both visitation and tourism revenue in B.C.CandaCe [email protected]

Scenery and you. Those are the two biggest

attractions bringing tourists to Parksville Qualicum Beach, ac-cording to Dave Petryk, presi-dent and CEO of Vancouver Is-land Tourism.

“When we see Vancouver Is-land win the award for Conde Naste Traveler, a travel leisure magazine, for best destination in North America…the top two things they rate us on are our natural beauty and our people,” Petryk told a crowd of about 80 at the Parksville Qualicum Beach Tourism Association’s annual general meeting Thursday eve-ning at the Qualicum Beach Inn.

Petryk, the event’s keynote presenter, said Vancouver Is-land holds the second largest marketshare in both visitation and tourism revenue, next to Vancouver’s coast and moun-tain region.

He said close to $2 billion in revenue is made on Vancouver Island annually.

But there appears to be a gap. “Often we’re not working

together with tourism and eco-nomic development,” said Pet-ryk. “Although the messages tend to be the same.”

He said it’s important for stakeholders to work together to build a strong brand first, then work on individual businesses.

“The objective is to grow an awareness of tourism, to work in alignment together and to in-vest in each other,” he said. “It’s important to think about the value of tourism.”

He said last year in B.C. the tourism industry alone created more than 18,000 jobs.

Petryk said tourism brings in “fresh dollars” from outside the region, creates more services and attracts new residents to the area.

“A lot of the things I like to do as a resident of Vancouver Is-land I might not be able to do if there wasn’t a tourism industry supporting it,” he said, noting the various golf courses, fishing lodges and adventure tourism organizations on the Island.

He asked the audience, by a show of hands, how many had moved to Parksville Qualicum Beach after first coming as a vis-itor.

About half the hands in the room flew up.

Petryk said realtors often boast the importance of tourism for home sales as it strongly in-fluences a person’s decision to

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The 2015-2016 Parksville Qualicum Beach Tourism Association’s board of directors was acclaimed Thursday evening at their annual general meeting at the Qualicum Beach Inn. Back row from left are: Noel Hayward (Qualicum Beach Inn), Bob Rogers (RDN director), treasurer Geoff Ball (Milner Gardens and Qualicum Beach Chamber of Commerce), Arthur Wong (Beach Club), Pat Jiggins (Paradise Sea Shell Motel, Adventure, RV Park and Arrowsmith Golf). Front row from left are: Rob Hill (Oceanside Village Resort), chair Robynne Shaw (Sunrise Ridge Resort), Beth Ross (Parksville and District Chamber of Commerce) and past chair Paul Drummond (Tigh-Na-Mara). Missing from the photo are vice chair Sandy Herle (Close To You), Richard Varela (Horne Lake Adventures), Kim Burden (Parksville and District Chamber of Commerce), Evelyn Clark (Qualicum Beach Chamber of Commerce), Mary Beil (Parksville city councillor) and Bill Luchtmeijer (Qualicum Beach town councillor).

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“We passed this unanimously last year be-cause we wanted to create some revenues,” said Greir. “They was a strong feeling they (the curl-ing club) should pay their share. I don’t see why they shouldn’t be paying. Three thousand is not a lot of money — that’s less than $10 a member. There are a lot of people in the city who don’t curl and they shouldn’t have to pay for it.”

Councillors Sue Powell and Teresa Patterson pointed to the economic activity created by the curling club when it holds big events like pro-vincial bonspiels.

Mayor Marc Lefebvre suggested this issue will likely return to the council table later this year when the city looks again at tax exemp-tions.

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Issue likely to return to council

“The economy is in a state of suspended an-imation in terms of growth and interest rates,” Lefebvre told The NEWS. “It (population) is re-lated to what we have in terms of employment.”

Given the mild climate and natural beauty of the region, he said retirees will likely continue to relocate to the area but he wants to encourage a younger generation to consider moving here as well.

“While I’m mayor one of the things I’d like to do is work with the Chamber of Commerce to see if we can get other non retirees to move here, people who want to set up small businesses,” said Lefebvre. “With the downtrend in Alberta, people are going to be coming back here and it would be nice if we could get them to stay.”

Regional District of Nanaimo chair Joe Stan-hope said population fluctuation is “hard to ex-plain.” Stanhope, who represents French Creek, said the region is seeing an increase in popula-tion because French Creek is “one of the most, if not the most, urbanized electoral area in the province” as it’s sandwiched between Parks-ville and Qualicum Beach.

He said as people retire they tend to gravitate to urban centres in an effort to be closer to ser-vices and shopping.

“After this past winter in Eastern Canada there’s going to be a lot more people look-ing west in my opinion,” he said, noting re-cord-breaking snowfalls on the other side of the country. “And look what we have here…this is a pretty neat community.”

Qualicum Beach Mayor Teunis Westbroek was also asked for comment regarding the pop-ulation statistics.

“I don’t see the preservation of our small-town atmosphere as competing with growth, however; growth that does occur needs to be compatible with our quality of life,” Westbroek wrote in an e-mail to The NEWS. “Our long term approach, as per our OCP, in the long term is about quality of life that will drive our economy and population growth. I consider the popula-tion statistics for last year as a minor fluctuation in our long-term plan which will see a build out to approximately 12,000.”

According to B.C. Statistics, Surrey is the municipality that attracted the most newcom-ers in the 2014 year. Lake Country, Fort St. John and Sechelt also topped the list. On the other end of the spectrum Saanich, Prince Rupert and Smithers showed some of the fastest rates of decline.

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MuSic At tHe GARdenS: Musicians Tatiana Kostour on violin and Douglas Hensley on guitar brought music to The Gardens at Qualicum Beach on March 24. The duo’s performance is part of the year-long concert series hosted by Retirement Concepts, who runs The Gardens. The gen-eral public is invited to join residents for the performances, which run on the fourth Tuesday of every month.


The Parksville Qualicum Beach News is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body govern-ing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the me-diation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or pub-lisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to: B.C. Press Council, P.O. Box 1356, Ladysmith BC V9G 1A9.For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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Snow refugees

Saved by the snow.

In a story in today’s edition of � e NEWS, French Creek regional district director Joe Stan-hope surmises the rough winter in Central and Eastern Canada could mean an in� ux of new

residents for the Parksville Qualicum Beach region.It’s a reasonable theory. Raise your hand if you have

ever watched TV news coverage of the poor souls digging out of their snowbound houses in, say, Moncton and im-mediately sent an e-mail or text to your friends and rela-tives there with a photo of your blooming � owers or that day’s golf scorecard.

Ice scraper for the windshield of the car? Sorry, not fa-miliar with that product.

If Chairman Joe’s theory has any merit, we could see frustrated New Brunswickers load up the truck with all their belongings and trek across the country to settle in this region. And once they see how much it costs to get their stu� here on the ferry they won’t be able to leave.

However, relying on the weather advantage to ensure our population doesn’t drastically dip isn’t exactly a pro-gressive strategy. � e statistics in our story today don’t send us to the panic button. � ey show Parksville and the surrounding rural areas increased slightly, by 0.6 and 0.9 per cent respectively, while the population in Qualicum Beach dipped by 0.5 per cent.

� ese numbers would be well within any plus/minus factor, and they are estimates from the provincial govern-ment’s stats bureau. � ey are not Statistics Canada num-bers from any o� cial census.

One could also argue a dip, or � atline, in population is natural and healthy and will have little or no e� ect on the services we have come to expect for our tax dollar. � ing is, the cost of operating a town or city continues to rise, re-gardless of the population. Sta� — union and non-union — generally get increases every year. � e goods and ser-vices used by municipalities rise in price every year. Mean-while, help in the form of transfer payments from senior governments aren’t increasing, and municipalities are be-ing asked to do more with less.

Without an increase in population and jobs and some kind of tax-generating new businesses, a town like Quali-cum Beach will eventually — perhaps sooner rather than later — have to make tough choices about the services it provides taxpayers, or tough choices about tax increases.

With our demographic also in mind, we can’t see why any municipality here would stand in the way of plans for new, job-creating businesses and resorts.

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Parksville

water woesThe headline in your March 17 edition

screams “DFO causing water woes.” Really? It looks to me as though DFO is simply doing its job of protecting fish.

If anyone is causing water woes, it’s us and our increasing demand for water to serve a largely unchecked population growth. This is contrary to the Nanoose Bay Official Com-munity Plan which says that water, as a finite resource, should be regarded as a limiting factor to future growth and development. Yet, we have a local government water utility that seems to respond only to demand with little attention to waters finite supply.

The public’s agents in all this — RDN, City of Parksville and the ERWS — have serious-ly misjudged DFO’s position regarding fish protection and have gambled that approval for its water withdrawal scheme would be forthcoming. RDN is blaming DFO for this, and now we have a spat. This rather juvenile posturing is not doing anyone any good.

It’s time to step back from this fighting and bickering and do what should have been done in the first place – that is initiate a more collaborative management system for the Englishman River Watershed that (1) recog-nizes the complexity of the various jurisdic-tions at play, (2) acknowledges the myriad of views, uses and values of the watershed’s resources, and (3) works towards cooper-ative resolutions (including water sharing) that would benefit all interests. Clearly the present system of posturing and acrimony isn’t working. A more collaborative approach isn’t impossible; others have done it, and we could learn from them. As I see it, there’s no other way, and it’s not too late.

Ross PeteRsonNanoose Bay

out of waterReality has reared its ugly head. We’re go-

ing to run out of fresh water by August if we don’t get heavy spring rains. Is that supposed to be a surprise?

Englishman River was on the endangered list during the Beach Club public forums. People concerned questioned council about water levels and the increase in population. Council ignored us.

Summerland and Tofino ran out of water

in 2005 and 2006. The reason? Over develop-ment. What have we got? Over development. We have used all the water we have been allotted. DFO is correct in protecting what little remains of Englishman River. Nature provides only so much and it is short sight-ed to think we can keep taking more. Will we be able to flush a toilet by September? What about wild fires?

Council said we had enough water. They were wrong. They said our sewage plant was large enough. They were wrong. They thought $37 million could replace water. It can’t.

So, please stop the building permits. Put everything on hold.

The inn is full. Council promised that our way of life would not be affected. Guess they were wrong about that too.

Stop thinking bigger is better and taxes are king. I feel like we are on the deck of the Titanic. There must be balance and we are sliding towards the edge.

elaine thomPsonParksville

iCBC ConfusionKudos to editor John Harding for stimulat-

ing a response from ICBC senior vice-presi-dent Steve Kendall. Unfortunately, Kendall’s comments continue to fuel added questions as to the purpose and design of ICBC.

In his letter to the editor in response to Harding’s editorial, Kendall states that ICBC contributed about $7 million to mainland B.C highways last fiscal period. I may be confused, but is it not the B.C. Ministry of Transportation that handles highway infra-structure responsibilities for B.C.? At that, $7 million dollars does not seem to be sufficient to build/repair/improve too many kilome-tres of B.C.’s road needs.

Many in the province seem to forget that we live on an Island. Therefore, we have no connection to mainland highway sys-tems. Unlike PEI (population approximately 150,000 and a land mass area of about 5,660 sq km) that is connected to the mainland by highway/bridge, we on Vancouver Island (population approximately 790,000 and a land mass of about 31,285 sq km) are not connected directly to the mainland.

We, on the Island, do not benefit from our share of the premium contributions we pay to ICBC. Aside from road limitations here,

ICBC must also understand that we pay about twice as much in premiums for auto insurance as opposed to other parts of Can-ada. My analysis is mostly Wikipedia refer-enced.

What I pay ICBC in premiums is in excess of what my total auto insurance needs would be should I be driving in the most congested area within Canada.

Camillo tofanoQualicum Beach

Change weed lawsAs the debate over cannabis’ legal status

continues, and is poised to be a federal elec-tion issue this year, I’d like to recommend a film to anyone who feels that the status quo is working.

“The Culture High” is a documentary pro-duced by B.C. filmmaker Adam Scorgie, a fol-low-up to “The Union: The Business Behind Getting High” (available on Netflix). It’s been listed for Oscar consideration and it delves into North American cannabis laws, featur-ing Vancouver addiction specialist Dr. Gabor Maté and others. It’s a hard-hitting exposé that everyone opposed to cannabis legaliza-tion should watch if they want to know who benefits from prohibition and who is hurt by it. The opening scene is pretty shocking, but it gets better as the film goes on to explain how we got here.

Sensible B.C. organizers collected more than 4,500 signatures in Parksville-Qualicum last fall in our campaign to change canna-bis laws. We’re most concerned with allow-ing patients to access low-cost, high-quality cannabis medicines, but we’re aware of the heavy toll paid by recreational users who are caught using cannabis instead of alcohol or other drugs.

We advocate for a “wine model” to reg-ulate cannabis, where adults are allowed to grow some of their own cannabis or buy it like they can buy alcohol now, with prop-er ID. The benefits of this model are many, including increased safety, reduced youth access, increased tax revenues (Colorado has raised over $15 million for schools), and reduced enforcement costs. Visit www.sensi-blebc.ca to get involved.

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lettersWhy are eagleS Such a priority?

Just lately it seems that in some ways we are really losing our perspective on life. For exam-ple:

Do we really want or need a “celebration of life” for a tree that has been dead for years, and is a danger to the public? And we seem to be so concerned about a couple of eagles losing their roost, while we are unable to provide ad-equate and affordable housing for the home-less. By the way these eagles are quite capable of taking care of themselves.

We are also willing to spend any amount of money to keep an animal alive, while we feel it is okay to help another person die, because they feel their quality of life is no longer good enough.

We certainly don’t give an animal the choice, and we can’t even explain to them why they are being put through all kinds of (pos-sibly painful) treatments, so that we can feel good about ourselves. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love animals, and I cannot stand to see any of them suffer, but …

Do we really want the world to stop because we are inconvenienced or bothered in some way by other people going about their busi-ness? Are our rights to having things the way we want more important than someone else’s rights to having things the way they want?

What happened to accepting and dealing with the challenges and changes in life and what happened to accepting one another as unique individuals who do and enjoy any va-riety of things.

Unless something is life-threatening of course, does a worker or anyone else really have to stop working or doing things because it might interfere with our comfort or what we perceive to be our “rights?”

Let’s focus on what is important: caring for each other, making sure that no one suffers needlessly, and let nature take its course. We are not in control. God is, and all is as it should be. The eagles will survive, and if not then that is as it should be as well.

Jan KorvemaKerParksville

long Wait timeS for hip replacement

Much has been written and discussed re-cently about the surgical wait time for hip re-placement. My wife is currently one of those going through this process.

A factor not often mentioned is the wait time for an appointment with the surgeon who

performs the operation. In my wife’s case, she had to wait nine months.

After meeting with the surgeon, we were advised the wait time for the operation would be 18 to 22 months, so in effect the total wait time after the initial diagnosis is more than two years and could be as much as two-and-a-half years.

Because the operation is elective surgery, we do not expect to be treat-ed immediately, but a multi-year wait is excessive, especially in light of the pain and loss of mobility my wife suf-fers.

On Vancouver Island, where the population is generally older and re-quires more hip replacements, the total wait time is longer than other re-

gions in B.C. We checked the Health Ministry’s various websites to see if we could travel elsewhere in B.C. to get the surgery sooner.

Some surgery wait times are less, but when you add the wait time to see the specialist, it’s at least 18 months, so we’re no further ahead.

Surgeons are given a certain amount of operating room time and they determine how to use it and who should receive surgery. Therefore the only solution seems to be more oper-ating room time for the surgeons.

The government spends a large percentage of its budget on health care and I don’t believe we can afford any more money for it.

What I think should happen is a

re-balancing of operating room time across all the hospitals in B.C. so that the total wait time is fairly even for all hip replacement surgery throughout the province. This rebalancing should reduce the total wait time on the Is-land.

If you’re waiting for this operation, take the time to talk to your MLA and register your concerns with the Pa-tient Quality Care Office (1-877-977-5797 and the e-mail address is [email protected]).

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Ever dreamed of robbing a bank? Of course you have. The fantasy is ir-resistible. You’ve got a building just down the block where employees rif-fle through more money in an hour

than you’ll earn in a lifetime.And for all their professed frugality, they’re

not that careful with it — or even good at it. Ac-cording to the Globe and Mail, the Bank of Mon-treal missed three of four ‘performance targets’ last year. For most businesses that would quali-fy as an epic fail. Not at the BMO. The bank gave its CEO, Bill Downe, a raise.

Of half a million dollars.Well, it’s only fair. There was Bill trying to

scrape by on an annual salary of only $9.48 million. This raise brings his salary up to almost ten million dollars a year, which means he won’t have to pack a lunch from home anymore.

Seeing money get tossed around like that can have an effect on people who have to actually earn their keep. That’s why bank robbers bubble up in the public consciousness every once in a while.

We’ve had some famous ones — Jesse James, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson. Cana-dians too — The Boyd Gang, The Stopwatch Gang. And women — Patty Hearst, Bonnie Parker.

Whatever their sex or their citizenship, they owe their inspiration to a nondescript chap named Edward Smith, the first bank robber in North American history. Ed was a penny-ante crook who ran a small shoe store in downtown Manhattan back in the early 1800’s. One day a ring of keys came into his possession.

And not just any keys. These were duplicate keys to the door and the strong room of The City Bank on Wall Street.

Ed used the keys and made off with $245,000 in cash and Spanish doubloons. (This was in 1831, mind, when a couple of hundred thou-sand dollars was the equivalent of, well, Bill Downe’s annual salary almost.)

But Ed commenced to do everything wrong.

He went on a spree, burning through $60,000 in less than a week. He moved into a boarding house under the incredibly imaginative alias of ‘Mr. Jones’ and started to go weird. His landlord observed that ‘Mr. Jones’ was a tad paranoid over three small trunks that he’d dragged up to his room, refusing offers of assistance.

When he left with one of the trunks, the land-lord called the cops. The police came and, not overly concerned with legal niceties like prob-able cause or search warrants, picked the locks on the remaining two trunks. Inside they found $170,000 in bank notes. Serial numbers on the bills identified it as the missing bank loot.

Justice moved a little more nimbly in 1831. Edward Smith had a one-day trial. He was found guilty and sen-tenced to five years breaking rocks at Sing Sing.

Financial institutions have im-proved security since Smith’s day. Now bank safes are uncrackable, controlled by locks with combina-tions that are just about impossible to decode. Flat out bank robberies are a rarity. A modern bank loses ten times more money to cheque fraud than they do to gunsels leap-

ing over the counter with a gunny sack yelling “Fill ‘er up!”

The chances of getting away with a bank heist are slim and the take for successful rob-beries is meagre. Less than $8,000 on average.

But when you open your newspaper tomor-row there will be a story of somebody some-where trying to knock over a bank because…

Ever heard of Sutton’s Law? It’s a medical ax-iom. It proposes that doctors, when diagnosing a condition or disease should first consider the obvious rather than the esoteric. It’s named af-ter Willie Sutton, a career bank robber who was once asked by a reporter why he robbed banks.

Sutton looked at the reporter and replied, “Because that’s where the money is.”

If you don’t believe Willie, you could ask Bill Downe.

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

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lettersDriving in QB

Friday, March 20, 2015, 11.30 a.m.Driving in Qualicum Beach, Part One: today

there was no street parking near the Qualicum Beach post office, so I pulled into the parking lot, which was full. A woman was just getting into her car, so I waited politely and patiently (with my turn signal on and not blocking the sidewalk) for her to drive away.

Two women walked around my car, and got into their parked cars and began to back out of their spaces (which I was blocking, while wait-ing). I honked at them, to remind them that I was still there, even though they’d only just walked past my car.

They gestured to me to get out of their way. I pointed to the car ahead. Once the first lady pulled out of her spot, I was able to park.

The second and third ladies then tried to pull out of their side-by-side parking spaces simul-taneously, barely missing a collision with one

another, and both honked and gave me “the finger” as they drove by me. The entire interac-tion lasted about two minutes.

Driving in Qualicum Beach, Part Two: After my errand at the post office, I drove down the “one way” lane from the parking lot, and had to hurriedly move aside from a vehicle driving too fast, the “wrong way.”

Driving in Qualicum Beach, Part Three: I then went to the store, where I again waited patiently, turn signal on, for someone to vacate a parking space — and three vehicles drove by me, too fast, in the parking lot — oblivious to the fact that someone was trying to back out.

More honking and raised fingers ensued. Again, this interaction lasted less than two min-utes.

What’s the hurry? Why the overt hostility? What’s up, Qualicum Beach?

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KnorrSimply Broth900ml

Stoned Wheat ThinsCrackers600gr

BabybelMini Cheese120-129gr

KraftShredded Natural Cheese300-340gr

PlantersCashews or Dry Roasted Peanuts275gr or 600gr

MolsonExel 0.5% Alcohol Beer12x355ml

CadburyMini Eggs943gr

ChristieCrackersSelected, 175-454gr

LoackerQuadratini Bite Size Wafers250gr

Dad’sCookies535-550gr

E.D. SmithPie Filling540ml

TenderflakeShells255-397gr

MacLaren’sImperial Carefully Aged CheeseSharp Cold Pack Cheddar, 230gr

KraftParmesan Cheese250gr

ArmstrongCheese600gr

KraftPhiladelphia Cream Cheese250gr

FolgersClassic Roast

Ground Coffee920gr

Chapman’sOriginal Ice Cream2lt

Chapman’sIce Cream Sundae1lt

TobleroneChocolate Easter Daffodil200gr

Chapman’sSlice Cream Ice Cream1.5lt

Green GiantSimply Steam Vegetables226-250gr

Green GiantFrozen Vegetables750gr

Fraser ValleyCreamery ButterSelected, 454gr

Hellmann’sMayonnaise890ml

Chapman’sFrozen Yogurt2lt

E.D. SmithPure Pumpkin796ml

Mott’sClamato Juice1.89lt

Ocean SprayCranberry Sauce348ml

Uncle Ben’sStuff’n Such Stuffing120gr

Green GiantVegetablesSelected, 341-398ml

Club HouseGravy or Yorkshire Pudding Mix21-45gr

DolePineapple398ml

McCormickInternational Sauce or Gravy Mix30-56gr

Bick’sDill Pickles or Hamburger Slices1lt

NestleAero Bunny or Smarties Friends60-100gr

Hershey or ReeseEaster ChocolateSelected, 185-230gr

LindtLindor Mini Easter Eggs100gr

KinderMini or Milk Chocolate Egg110gr or 3x20gr

CadburyMini Eggs154-200gr

Bick’sPickled Beets500-750ml

Uncle Ben’sClassiques Recipe Rice Selections170-180gr

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Green GiantValley Selections Vegetables300-500gr

KnorrSimply Broth900ml

Stoned Wheat ThinsCrackers600gr

BabybelMini Cheese120-129gr

KraftShredded Natural Cheese300-340gr

PlantersCashews or Dry Roasted Peanuts275gr or 600gr

MolsonExel 0.5% Alcohol Beer12x355ml

CadburyMini Eggs943gr

ChristieCrackersSelected, 175-454gr

LoackerQuadratini Bite Size Wafers250gr

Dad’sCookies535-550gr

E.D. SmithPie Filling540ml

TenderflakeShells255-397gr

MacLaren’sImperial Carefully Aged CheeseSharp Cold Pack Cheddar, 230gr

KraftParmesan Cheese250gr

ArmstrongCheese600gr

KraftPhiladelphia Cream Cheese250gr

FolgersClassic Roast

Ground Coffee920gr

Chapman’sOriginal Ice Cream2lt

Chapman’sIce Cream Sundae1lt

TobleroneChocolate Easter Daffodil200gr

Chapman’sSlice Cream Ice Cream1.5lt

Green GiantSimply Steam Vegetables226-250gr

Green GiantFrozen Vegetables750gr

Fraser ValleyCreamery ButterSelected, 454gr

Hellmann’sMayonnaise890ml

Chapman’sFrozen Yogurt2lt

E.D. SmithPure Pumpkin796ml

Mott’sClamato Juice1.89lt

Ocean SprayCranberry Sauce348ml

Uncle Ben’sStuff’n Such Stuffing120gr

Green GiantVegetablesSelected, 341-398ml

Club HouseGravy or Yorkshire Pudding Mix21-45gr

DolePineapple398ml

McCormickInternational Sauce or Gravy Mix30-56gr

Bick’sDill Pickles or Hamburger Slices1lt

NestleAero Bunny or Smarties Friends60-100gr

Hershey or ReeseEaster ChocolateSelected, 185-230gr

LindtLindor Mini Easter Eggs100gr

KinderMini or Milk Chocolate Egg110gr or 3x20gr

CadburyMini Eggs154-200gr

Bick’sPickled Beets500-750ml

Uncle Ben’sClassiques Recipe Rice Selections170-180gr

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Paradise IslandLactose Free Cheddar Cheese400gr

WeetabixCerealSelected, 400-475gr

KindHealthy Grains Granola Bars175gr

Ty-Phoo Tea80’s

Farmer’s MarketOrganic Pumpkin or Pie Mix397gr or 398ml

Sara’sOld Fashioned Ice Cream Cake1.4lt

Chocolate Eclairs

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White or Whole Wheat Crusty or Dinner Buns

Chelsea or Raisin Bread 7” Strawberry Cheesecake

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D’ItalianoBread, Buns or BagelliSelected, Assorted Sizes

BrownberryBread Crumbs300gr

ZiplocSandwich Bags100’s

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Washington “Medium” Yellow Onions3lb bag

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The store and its newly-expanded Canada Post outlet, is open seven days a week

Pharmasave in Qualicum Beach now has a full postal outlet as part of Canada Post’s ex-pansion which included 73 new outlets in 2014.

Expanding an existing outlet in the store at 720 Memorial Avenue, the outlet is operated by owners Briana Barker, John Beever, Sandy Conn and Satnam Lalli and offers all standard Canada Post products and services.

“Working with local entrepreneurs enables Canada Post to make postal services even more accessible to busy Canadians. We’re pleased to welcome Pharmasave as part of the Canada Post retail family in Qualicum Beach,” Doug Jones, a senior vice-president with Canada

Post, said through a news release.“We are very excited to offer our customers

a complete shopping experience at Qualicum Pharmasave,” said Conn, owner and front store manager. “With our many departments, knowl-edgeable staff, convenient hours and accessi-ble parking we believe our customers will ben-efit from the addition of Canada Post’s products and services within our store.”

The outlet offers parcel pickup, shipping, stamps, post office boxes, money orders, gov-ernment forms including Revenue Canada and Passport Canada, and debit/credit card pay-ments.

It is open seven days a week – Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Canadian Federation of University Women Parksville-Qualicum are offering 10 scholar-ships/bursaries in 2015 to women with strong connections to School District 69.

First, there are three CFUW Parksville/Qual-icum Memorial Awards of $2,000 each. These awards are available to women entering their second year, or beyond, in a Canadian univer-sity/college undergraduate program.

There are also two Return-to-School Bursa-

ries of $2,000 each, which are open to women who are resuming their education at a Canadi-an post-secondary institution following an ab-sence of at least two consecutive years.

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SATURDAY AT THE ROD AND GUN IN PARKSVILLE

Band won the 2014 Maple Blues Award for New Artist/Group of the YearJESSICA [email protected]

It’s amazing what a year can bring.For blues band Wicked Grin, it fi-

nally brought them into the limelight and earned them the 2014 Maple Blues Award for New Artist/Group of The Year after 12 years of playing.

“All of a sudden we were visible,” said guitarist Murray Kinsley.

But, let’s start from the beginning. Wicked Grin’s rocket into the spotlight started with the release of their latest album Shame on Me in December, 2013 to great reviews across North America. The album also received attention in their home province of Ontario where the single Heaven was chosen by the Ot-tawa Citizen as one of the top ten songs of the year by local artists. From there, the band then represented Ottawa at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, was runner-up in the Toronto Blues Society’s new talent search, played four major festival gigs, had a successful Western Canadian tour, showcased at the seventh annual Blues Summit in Toronto and earned the Blues Underground Net-work’s number one Canadian blues rock CD of the year award.

All of this playing and travelling brought good connections to the band, said Kinsley. It also brought the band to the attention of The Maple Blues Awards, Canada’s national blues awards program that aims to promote blues music and to recognize outstanding achievement in the field.

As mentioned above, Wicked Grin was nominated for the new artist/group award despite the fact that the band had played in one form or another for a doz-en years. This was possible, Kinsley said, due to the award’s criteria. According to the Maple Blues Awards website, a new group or artist must not have been nomi-nated for any of the organization’s prizes

previously, have performed under its own name on a regular basis, and made “considerable advances artistically and/or commercially” during the year.

The nominations are made by a panel of some 50 radio hosts, journalists, festi-val organizers and other blues experts.

“The nomination was really cool to get because they’re our peers,” said Kinsley.

However, while the nomination panel is responsible for choosing winners for the instrumental categories, the winners in all other categories, including new art-ist, are selected by blues fans across the

country. This is where Wicked Grin’s sky-rocketing popularity served them again. “We got votes from everywhere,” said the guitar player.

With the award now in hand, Wick-ed Grin isn’t slowing down. In fact, the group is stopping in at the Rod & Gun in Parksville as part of the band’s latest Western tour.

The night will give locals a chance to hear the group’s take of what Kinsley calls “stripped down” and “honest” danceable rock blues. “It’s a simpler sound,” he said. “A little rawer.”

The band will also be a little stripped down for the show. Joining Kinsley on stage will be bass player Leigh-Anne Stanton and Liam Melville on drums and percussion. Unfortunately, harp player and vocalist Rod Williams won’t be able to make it.

Still, despite the missing band mate, Kinsley assured that Wicked Grin will still play a strong set of “truth telling, party starting, soul healing” music.

Wicked Grin will play the Rod & Gun on Saturday, April 4 starting at 9 p.m. Cover charge is $5 at the door.

In April, the McMillan Arts Centre will explore the exciting world of print mak-ing as an art form.

In the Concert and Oceanside galler-ies, there will be three artists. First will be Clive Powsey, who currently teaches drawing at North Island College and has worked in animated films and television. His exhibition, titled Transmitted Draw-ings, will feature hand-pulled prints that contain figurative elements and describe organisms with human qualities, or hu-

mans with the qualities of organisms.Alongside Powsey, Sara Vipond will

curate a duo exhibition of artists Sylwia Gustyn and Lukas Roy called Histories & Matter: Lukas J Roy and Sylwia Gustyn. In his work, Roy will appropriate, revive and alter the imagery and text of folktales and icons — breathing new life and pos-ing new questions to these stories and images.

Gustyn, on the other hand, will fo-cuse on the ways in which we interact

with each other and the things around us shape the world we live in.

In the Nemeth Gallery, Inge Riis Mc-Donald will present 20 Shades of Grey. The monochromatic photography exhi-bition showcases a different view of the world around us. “Colour often domi-nates the subject in your image and by removing it you force yourself to think more about composition, light and shad-ow, textures and the story you are telling with your photo,” said McDonald in a

news release.The exhibitions run at the MAC from

April 1-26, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 11 from 1-3:30 p.m. That day, the artists will be on hand to chat about their work and there will be a spe-cial presentation on printmaking tech-niques at 1:30 p.m.

For more information contact [email protected] or call 250-248-8185.

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Wicked Grin, the 2014 Maple blues Award winner of best New Artist/Group of the Year, will play at the Rod & Gun on April 4. The quartet will be paired down to the trio pictured here: (from left) Murray Kinsley, Leigh-Anne Stanton and Liam Melville. Harp player Rod Williams (not pictured) will not be able to make the show.

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EASTER HOLY WEEK SERVICES

7:00PMAPRIL 2, MAUNDY THURSDAY

We celebrate the Last Supper and the institution of the Sacrament of Communion.

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10:00AMAPRIL 5, EASTER SUNDAY

Celebrating the promise of the Risen Christ through prayer, Word, Sacrament of

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17 year-old from Vancouver released an EP with her songs last yearJESSICA [email protected]

Alyssa Baker may not have gradu-ated high school yet, but she is already taking some smart steps in the music in-dustry. Last year, the Vancouver-based musician released an EP entirely filled with her own songs.

“I realized writing is a really big part of the music industry,” said the 17 year-old.

Writing isn’t a new venture for Bak-er, however. The musician remembers writing “some really silly songs about friendship” around the same time she started singing lessons at age six. That being said, Baker didn’t start writing se-riously until age 12 or 13 and she then spent a few years creating music in dif-ferent genres until she found her fit.

Baker describes the sound she has settled into as “indie quirky pop with folk influences.” The combination, she said, suits her self-given criteria of hav-ing something that is “unique” but has “mass appeal.”

This is the same sound showcased on Baker’s self-titled storytelling EP, which is a collection of four songs that follows the course of a relationship.

“We narrowed it down to the ones we though were the strongest,” she said of the songs.

While Baker mentioned she would eventually love to record a full-length al-bum, the young musician also said she would like to take some post-secondary courses focusing on the music industry. In particular, Baker said she is interested in learning the business side of things in order to become a stronger artist.

In the meantime, the young musi-cian has taken other steps to get her name out. Last year, Baker had her first tour throughout B.C. and Alberta. She also made it to the second round of CBC’s Searchlight competition with her song Timebomb and took a trip to Nash-ville, which she had heard was a “real-ly big writing city,” to look for industry connections.

This month, Baker will continue showcasing her work, only this time on Vancouver Island.

Baker will perform on Friday, April 17 at the Smoke ’n’ Water Restaurant in Nanoose Bay from 7-11 p.m. She said she will play a selection of new origi-

nals, like her EP songs and a few covers. There is no cover charge or tickets for the event and the kitchen will be open during the performance.

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Teen creates ‘indie quirky pop’

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Young Vancouverite Alyssa Baker will bring her version of indie folk-influenced pop to Smoke ’n Water Restaurant in Nanoose Bay on April 17.


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Three celebrated Canadian country music stars are coming to Nanoose Bay this weekend.

Juno nominated Chad Brownlee and Canadian Country Music Associ-ation award winners Jess Moskaluke and Bobby Wills will join other Canadi-an bands Midnight Sons, Dylan Stone Band and Dark Horse for the When the Lights Go Down Tour.

The tour is hosted by Wideglide Entertainment ltd. as a way to build anticipation for this summer’s Sun-fest Country Music Festival in the Co-wichan Valley, said Emmalee Brunt, PR Manager for Sunfest Concerts.

British Columbian singer-songwrit-er and former NHL draft pick Chad Brownlee has received numerous ac-colades, including a Juno nomination for country album of the year and con-secutive male artist of the year nomi-nations from the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA).

Brownlee previously performed at Sunfest in 2011 and 2013.

Jess Moskaluke is a country-pop songstress who rapidly rose to stardom in three years.

Recipient of the 2014 CCMA award for female artist of the year, Moska-luke also has the highest charting song on the iTunes top 200 singles chart for any Canadian artist (Cheap Wine and Cigarettes).

Her single Light Up The Night achieved gold record status in August 2014, becoming the first Canadian female solo country artist to surpass 40,000-plus downloads since Shania Twain. Finally, Bobby Wills amalgam-ates classic country with deep rock ’n roll undertones to create a dynamic sound.

It earned him the nomination for male artist of the year at the 2014 CCMA awards, as well as 2013 CCMA rising star title and the Alberta Coun-try Music Association male artist of the year award in both 2012 and 2013.

The event will be held at Arbutus Meadows Equestrian Centre (1515 E. Island Hwy) from 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. General admission tickets are available online now at sunfestconcerts.com/lights-go-tour.

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Country stars play Arbutus Meadows

Rising country star Jess Moskaluke is one of three headliners playing in the When the Lights Go Down Tour at the Arbutus Meadows Equestrian Centre in Nanoose Bay this weekend.

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A local solution to waste-creating K cupsSoft pod idea isn’t new, but it’s taking off and it’s part of a business in ParksvilleAUREN [email protected]

The inventor of Keurig “K-cups” re-grets inventing them, according to re-cent interviews, and a local entrepreneur hopes to be part of the solution to the avalanche of waste they create.

Ken Crause has been in the loose leaf tea business for 14 years with his Busch Tea and this year he stepped into the cof-fee industry when he realized there is a big market for soft, tea-like pouches for coffee makers.

“We wanted to start selling coffee but I discovered the problem with K-cups and started looking for alternatives,” he said, referring to the K-cups company’s own figures that they sell 30 billion a year and aim to produce recyclable ones by 2020.

Crause said the soft pod is not new, but until now there hasn’t been a high quality brewer, with hotels often using cheap, single serving brewers that don’t get the most out of the kind of quality cof-fee he sells.

In January CrauseCo, based in the Parksville industrial park, began market-ing nine of its own custom coffee roasts and 15 tea blends in soft pods.

He also went a step further and intro-duced a subscription program to provide the high quality brewer, which he called at least as good as a Keurig machine, free with a home delivery of coffee and/or tea.

“You can just buy the brewer and cof-fee or tea whenever you want, or you can sign a two-year contract like a cell phone and get the machine for free,” he said from his little shop surrounded by a wide assortment of products, where he’s quick to offer samples to customers.

They then deliver coffee and tea pods directly to your home or business.

Crause, who came to Canada from Zimbabwe in 1973, specializes in rooibos teas from southern Africa and particular-ly stresses their health benefits.

He markets a couple brands of “Will-power” teas with hoodia, a popular weight loss plant and matcha, which is considered a very healthy tea variety.

The new company brings in custom roasted coffee and loose tea and pack-ages and markets them out of Parksville.

Most of their customers are currently in the local area with some online custom-ers coming from across the country and into the U.S.

Crause said that tea is actually more popular than coffee worldwide, and is currently the world’s fasted growing bev-erage with sales increasing around seven

per cent a year. “It’s really popular among young people because people love the health benefits,” he said.

Anyone interested in their products or subscription service can visit www.crauseco.com or stop by the shop at #3-1003 Herring Gull Road in the Parksville industrial park.

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Dividend-paying stocks are a popu-lar choice as RRSP investments. With today’s interest rates, it is not difficult to find large, successful companies with dividend yields alone that exceed what you would get on a GIC or a quality bond. As an added benefit, profitable compa-nies tend to increase their dividends over time, and their stock prices generally go up.

While there are many good Canadian companies to choose from, there are even more options available worldwide. In fact, of the hundred largest compa-nies in the world (as measured by mar-ket capitalization), only 2 are Canadian. The US tops the list at 47, with the UK and China tied for second at 8 each. Compa-nies like Apple Computers, Johnson and Johnson, and Wells Fargo are examples of successful companies with histories

of increasing dividends and share prices – qualities that make them ideal choices for long-term savings.

Be careful, though. Taxes can be an issue. While all types of investment income are sheltered from Cana-dian taxes when held in a registered plan, the US Gov-ernment often applies with-holding taxes of its own. If you are not careful you may inadvertently undo some of the tax benefits associated with your retirement plan. An easy way to avoid this is to invest in individual US stocks directly. As long as the dividend is paid to you directly (not through a 3rd party), and originates from a stock held in an RRSP or RRIF, withholding taxes

will generally not apply.Also be sure to maintain a healthy al-

location to fixed income. Bonds, GICs, preferred shares, etc. are less volatile than common stocks, and will tend to moderate performance swings in peri-ods of market volatility.

Of the amount that you decide to allocate to stocks, my advice is to focus on finding the best companies, without limiting yourself to only Canada. For proper di-versification, in addition to fixed income and Canadian stocks, 15 to 20 US/interna-

tional stocks should do the trick. Or con-sider Exchange-Traded funds that trade on a US stock exchange, as they too are exempt from withholding when held in-

side a Canadian RRSP or RRIF.More importantly, make sure you

have an established process that will dic-tate how future investment decisions will be made. It is crucial that an investment portfolio be monitored and maintained, and not just left to its own accord. In the long run, how you manage your invest-ments will have more to do with your overall returns than your initial invest-ment selections.

For information on our approach, feel free to call 250-752-6010 or e-mail [email protected].

Jim Grant CFP, CIM (Chartered In-vestment Manager) is a Financial Advi-sor with Raymond James Ltd. (RJL) His views do not necessarily reflect those of

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Betty Yvonne Hilke(nee Schell)

Dec 30, 1933 – March 22, 2015Betty passed away suddenly on Sunday, March 22, 2015 in her 81st year. She was born on her par-ents’ farm near Tisdale, Saskatchewan. In 1948, Betty moved with her family to Penticton, BC where she completed high school. Upon graduation, she moved to Calgary where was employed as stenog-rapher with the Royal Bank and then Trinidad Lease-holds. In 1955, Betty married Edwin Hilke, whom she had met in high school. They lived in Vancouver for 12 years where Betty was employed as a secretary at Canadian General Electric for 3 years, Sears mail-or-der for 5 years, and Kelly Douglas for 3 years. In 1966, they moved to Gold River, then to Quadra Is-land for 5 years. In 1972, Betty and her family moved to Sooke for 16 years where she was employed as a Payroll Clerk at Maplewood Poultry Processors (now Lilydale). In 1988, Betty and Edwin retired to Grand Forks. BC. After the passing of her husband in 2002, Betty returned to the Island, residing in Qualicum Bay.Left to remember Betty are her daughter, Char-maine (Ron) Russell, grandson, Robert (Robyn), great-grandson, Mason, granddaughter, Shelly, and great-grandson Daemion of Victoria; her son, Andrew (Colleen), granddaughter, Farron, grandson, Alex of Bowser; her daughter, Elizabeth (Jamie), grand-daughter, Stephanie of Qualicum Beach.

A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2015 at Yates Funeral Chapel,

1000 Allsbrook Road, Parksville, BC.No flowers by request. Please consider honouring Betty’s memory by making a donation to the Salva-tion Army at www.salvationarmy.ca or PO Box 1874, Parksville, BC, V9P 2H6 or the charity of your choice.

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SUSAN POPP-LOGANAugust 13, 1960 - March 23, 2015

Beloved mother and daughter, Susan, age 54, passed away at Arrowsmith Lodge Parksville, BC on March 23 from a long battle with various health issues. Susan is survived by her mother, Florence; daughters, Melissa (Justin), and Catlin; son, Nicholas (Amanda); sister, Cheryl; 7 grand-children and numerous friends at Arrowsmith Lodge. Her gentle, caring and compassion will be greatly missed.To send a condolence to the family please visit

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JOHN ANTHONY SHEAOctober 11, 1935 – March 17, 2015

It is with sadness we announce that John passed away at home, at the age of 79, after losing his battle with cancer. John was a loving husband to Dorothy; father to Mike (Sandy), John (Darlene), Robbie, Margaret (Ivan) Hiscock, Joey, Darren

(Merley), Stephen (Heather) Morris; stepfather to Kelly Morris and Kevin Morris; brother to Josephine (Ernie), Agnes Morris, and Janice Pelton.He was predeceased by his brother Jim and brother-in-law Reg. John will be greatly missed by his extended family and many close friends. A special thank you to Dr. Desai and the Palliative Care nurses, Lisa and Kelly, for the kindness and support shown to John.

A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at the Parksville

Legion, 146 Hirst Avenue West.In lieu of flowers, please consider honouring

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47th ANNUALGENERAL MEETING

The purpose of this meeting is to elect two Trustees for three-year terms ending in 2018. Also, to discuss works completed in 2014 and new developments for 2015.

To be held at the Lighthouse Community Hall240 Lions Way, Qualicum Bay

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The final details for the May 23 card for the “Rumble at the Rink” at Frank Crane Arena in Nanaimo are taking shape.

Parksville’s Aubrey “Bam Bam” Mor-row will battle Paul Bzdel for the West-ern Canadian Middleweight title.

There will also be a rematch of the much talked about fight between Peggy Maerz and Alisha McPhee as they fight for the CPBC (Canadian Professional Boxing Council) Western Canadian title.

It’s an event that should excite fight fans, much like last summer’s event at the Port Theater, now with space for more fans in the arena.

“It’s been challenging but things are moving along,” Gloved Up Promotions’ Terry Strawson said. “Being able to fi-nalize the deal for Aubrey to fight for the

title was a big one for us.”

“We’re extreme-ly happy to be able to showcase such a great talent and give him the platform to fight in front of the hometown fans,” Strawson said. “We want the fans that come out to the fights to leave with a smile on their face and I think we’ve the fighters to do just that.”

Strawson, along with Stan Peterec, Wayne Willows and Dave Allison, were able to bring in amateur fights on the card as well.

This allows amateur fighters to not only be showcased on a card but to also get a glimpse of what could be right around the corner for them once they turn professional.

“It’s a win-win situation,” Strawson

said. “We get to show-case some of the great amateur talent and they get to have a chance to see some great profes-sional talents as well.”

“For someone at the amateur level, this could be the difference

between going pro or not moving up at all, being able to see what it’s like at the next level. It’s great for boxing too be-cause you get to encourage the growth of the sport, being able to have both the amateurs and professionals on the same card.”

Another name on the card is Dashon Johnson, who was slated to fight last year at the Port Theater but had to pull out due to an injury.

Johnson, who was recently in the UFC, had two sparring sessions with

Manny Pacquiao recently and was just given the chance to continue sparring daily with Pacquiao as he prepares to fight Floyd Mayweather.

“Another big draw for us, for sure,” Strawson said. “Having a guy coming to fight in Nanaimo who’s training with one of the boxers in one of the biggest matches in boxing history is pretty cool.”

“Dashon has a lot of talent and it was clearly recognized to get this opportu-nity. We’re very proud of Dashon, we’ve known him a while now, and everything that he’s accomplished.”

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The Western Canadian Mid-dleweight title will be on the line when Aubrey “Bam Bam” Morrow steps into the ring May 23 at the “Rumble at the Rink” in Nanaimo.

Morrow, who enters this fight on a two fight win streak (7-1 overall), will take on Paul Bzdel (5-6-1 overall) in what is scheduled to be an eight-round bout. The match between the two will be the main event on the card, which has been put together by Gloved Up Promo-tions.

“We’re very excited about this match,” coach Rich Le-Stage said. “Aubrey is coming off an impressive performance against Cameron Rivera, who was a highly touted fighter in the United States, where he made it look rather easy.”

“We know this is going to be a tougher fight for us. Paul has taken on a lot of the top names in the middleweight division and he’s had some great match-es.”

After making his return back to the ring last year, Morrow was successful last summer at the Port Theater with a victory over Jonah Arbuckle.

He followed that up with another KO victory over Rivera

last November, setting him up for a shot at the Western Cana-dian Middleweight title.

“Aubrey has been very im-pressive since his return,” Le-Stage said. “He’s matured a lot

as a fighter, which is great to see. He’s had lots of injuries in the past and it was something that we had to worry about.”

“Now Aubrey is more fo-cused, he’s more aware of what

he can do and he’s more mature about the way he goes about his business.”

With the title fight being so close to home, Morrow will have the home-crowd advan-

tage on his side. It’s something that LeStage knows will help fuel his fighter that much more but knows it comes with the po-tential to be damaging as well.

“It’s great that we get to be so close to home,” LeStage said. “Aubrey is used to fighting any-where but here so it doesn’t re-ally matter to us where the fight was going to be.”

“We’re happy it’s here though and for Aubrey to have the chance to fight for the title in front of family and friends, that’s something, that doesn’t happen all that often.”

“It’ll be a motivational fac-tor but we can’t play it up too much, or it has that potential to backfire on you. But I know the kind of fighter Aubrey is and he’s going to give it his all no matter who he’s fighting and where the fight takes place.”

Morrow will be looking to follow in the footsteps of Mark “Machine Gun” Woolnough, who won multiple titles in his career. LeStage knew from day one that Morrow was “next.”

“I used to call him ‘Next’ when he first started,” LeStage said. “He’d come in to the gym and that’s what I’d call him, ‘Next.’ Aubrey didn’t know what I was talking about and I just said, ‘You’re next up to fol-low after these guys’.”

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Aubrey “Bam Bam” Morrow was ‘next’ for a long time and is now getting his chanceMorrow goes for western titlelocal boxer

Rumble at the Rink will include title fightslocal boxing

Tyson Taylor PhoTo

Aubrey “Bam Bam” Morrow, training with coach Rich LeStage, is gearing up for his shot at the Western Canadian Middleweight Championship at the “Rumble at the Rink” May 23.

We’re extremely happy to be able to showcase such a great talent and give him

the platform to fight in front of the hometown fans

Terry STrawSon


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Team Switchblade was back in Parksville this weekend to take on a team of Vancou-ver Island all-stars during the Grumpy Old Men tournament this past Saturday at Oceanside Place.

Both teams put on a good showing for the fans in the stands, as it was the Vancouver Island All-Stars taking home the win by a score of 11-6 over Team Switchblade.

This was the second year Team Switchblade has put on a charity game at the Grumpy Old Men tournament, raising money for the Society of Orga-nized Services Recreation As-sistance Program, which goes towards helping children to get a chance to take part in various sports.

There were former NHLers on either team, including Wayne Van Dorp and Mark Lofthouse for Team Switch-blade.

The Vancouver Island All-Stars, complete with Grumpy Old Men uniforms, saw a line-up that included Doug Bodger, Trent Kaese and goaltender David LeNeveu, who most re-cently suited up for the New York Rangers as the backup to Henrik Lundquivst in last year’s Stanley Cup Final.

“Gotta stay loose,” LeNeveu said stretching before the game with a chuckle.

“No matter the game, it’s

always important to get that stretch in before you hit the ice. Don’t want anything to happen that might not usually happen in this kind of game.”

Oceanside Minor Hockey Timbit players were the star at-

tractions in both the first and second intermissions as the youngsters took to the ice and had a game of their own.

“We wanted to make sure to include the kids,” organizer Bruce L’Hereux said. “It’s im-

portant, with an event like this, to make sure that we reach all age groups.”

“We wanted to bring the kids out so they could enjoy them-selves and be a part of all of this,” L’Hereux said.

NHLers and local hockey players played for a good cause and bragging rightsAll Stars take Team Switchbladecharity hockey

tyson taylor Photo

Wayne Van Dorp slips past goalie David LeNeveu during action at the Team Switchblade Charity game this past weekend. The Vancouver Island All-Stars would go on to win by a score of 11-6.

No matter the game, it’s always important to get that stretch in before you

hit the ice

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Team Switchblade was back in Parksville this weekend to take on a team of Vancou-ver Island all-stars during the Grumpy Old Men tournament this past Saturday at Oceanside Place.

Both teams put on a good showing for the fans in the stands, as it was the Vancouver Island All-Stars taking home the win by a score of 11-6 over Team Switchblade.

This was the second year Team Switchblade has put on a charity game at the Grumpy Old Men tournament, raising money for the Society of Orga-nized Services Recreation As-sistance Program, which goes towards helping children to get a chance to take part in various sports.

There were former NHLers on either team, including Wayne Van Dorp and Mark Lofthouse for Team Switch-blade.

The Vancouver Island All-Stars, complete with Grumpy Old Men uniforms, saw a line-up that included Doug Bodger, Trent Kaese and goaltender David LeNeveu, who most re-cently suited up for the New York Rangers as the backup to Henrik Lundquivst in last year’s Stanley Cup Final.

“Gotta stay loose,” LeNeveu said stretching before the game with a chuckle.

“No matter the game, it’s

always important to get that stretch in before you hit the ice. Don’t want anything to happen that might not usually happen in this kind of game.”

Oceanside Minor Hockey Timbit players were the star at-

tractions in both the first and second intermissions as the youngsters took to the ice and had a game of their own.

“We wanted to make sure to include the kids,” organizer Bruce L’Hereux said. “It’s im-

portant, with an event like this, to make sure that we reach all age groups.”

“We wanted to bring the kids out so they could enjoy them-selves and be a part of all of this,” L’Hereux said.

NHLers and local hockey players played for a good cause and bragging rightsAll Stars take Team Switchbladecharity hockey

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Wayne Van Dorp slips past goalie David LeNeveu during action at the Team Switchblade Charity game this past weekend. The Vancouver Island All-Stars would go on to win by a score of 11-6.

No matter the game, it’s always important to get that stretch in before you

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Parksville Panters win the Bob Gold 55+ divisionGrumpy Old Men wrap 25th tournamnethockey


The 25th installment of the Grumpy Old Men tournament has come and gone, leaving smiles on the faces of most of the players, with the odd grimace and limp thrown into the mix.

Twenty-four teams were spread across six divisions, playing for bragging rights during the three-day tournament.

The Parksville Panters won the Bob Gold (55+) division, beating the Comox Valley Hustlers by a final of 6-0. In the Don Curry (45+) division, the Gold River

Grey Hawks won in a shootout, beating the Pylons 4-3.

The Fred McEachern (45+) division saw another shootout finale, with Camp-bell River beating the Port McNeill Pi-rates 5-4.

The Nanaimo Strangers took on the Port McNeil Ice Devils in the MacIsaac & Company (45+) final, with the Strangers winning by a score of 2-1.

“It’s always a good time,” Jim Ethier said. “The guys love the tournament and keep coming back for more every year. It’s great.”

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Port McNeil Ice Devils goaltender keeps his eye on the puck, stopping a possible goal from the Nanaimo Mariners. The Ice Devils would win 5-2.


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