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October 30, 2012 edition of the Parksville Qualicum Beach News
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AUREN [email protected]
The tsunami warning in the wake Saturday nights earthquake off Haida Gwaii serves as a good emergency preparation reminder for our district, say local officials.
There were provincial e-mails and radio and TV notification, but newer technology may have been the fastest way to hear about the earthquake. District 69 was never included in the tsunami warnings Saturday night.
I have an app on my iPhone that lets me know whenever theres an earthquake within a certain radius, said Parksville mayor Chris Burg-er who had just arrived at a Halloween party when it started beeping.
He he did get the provincial e-mails, but not until he got home to his computer after the party.
The first official provincial tsunami bulletin was e-mailed at 9:05 p.m., about an hour after the earthquake but never included Zone E the Georgia Basin which is protected by the Island meaning there is little risk of a serious tsunami.
There isnt enough water or space to build up a large wave in the Straight of Georgia explained Parksville fire chief Doug Banks, who said they do still have a tsunami backup plan for the lowest areas like San Pariel, Surfside and Craig Bay.
Both Qualicum Beach and Parksville fire chiefs said risk assess-ments have suggested a tsunami here wouldnt be more than a metre or two, affecting very few homes or other buildings.
They received hourly updates of the risk throughout Saturday night, but the warnings that ranged from Alaska to California and Hawaii at various points, never included Zone E.
But this is a great reminder of how active our region is, a 7.7 (earth-quake) would completely stop a community from functioning, Burger pointed out. Its good to have these little rumbles every now and then, its a good chance to talk to the kids and think about having an emergency kit.
Banks agreed that they urge everyone to be prepared to be on their own for at least 72 hours in the event of a major earthquake the more serious local threat.
Fire chiefs in Parksville and QB getting hourly tsunami updates
Officials keptphones close
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SKILLED SPOOKSTERS: Sheila Goodman checks the otherworldly forecast for Halloween night in Qualicum Beach. Sheila and her husband Stacey work in the Vancouver film industry and their Halloween display at their house at 520 Chester Street shows their creativity and skills. See page A7 for a story about the Goodmans and Page B1 for a list of Halloween events in our district.
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Bobbie Garnons-Williams would like to see the Qualicum Beach Farmers Market run all year long, but right now she said shes content to wind things up in December.
The market president said the indoor market in Qualicum Beach is going well this year, particularly after organizers changed the hours to be con-sistent with the summer market schedule.
People dont like to change their routines, she said, noting however the whole operation will move outdoors from its usu-al indoor Saturday setting at the Qualicum Beach Community Hall to the old bus garage park-ing lot on Nov. 24, in order to make way for the long-running Christmas craft fair.
Overall, she said, traffic has been coming in, although, as expect-ed, not in as high numbers as on a hot, summer day.
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NEIL [email protected]
Les Oulton never thought he would consider himself lucky if a vehicle smashed through the wall of his place of business.
Thats exactly how the manager of the Qua-licum Beach Toy Shop looks at what happened last Thursday though, when a confused, elderly driver slammed her vehicle into the side of the Qualicum Toy Shop on Second Ave.
It was perfect timing for a car to come though the store, he said, when nobodys here.
The crash happened at 1:30 p.m. Thursday when the driver of a vehicle lost control while parking outside the store and slammed into the front of the building.
We had a vehicle that decided to come and park in our drive-through toy store, Oulton joked. I was just coming out of the washroom on the other side of the store.
That was the first piece of good luck, he said, as the vehicle hit the stores counter and slammed it three feet across the room. Had he been at his post, he could very likely have been injured or worse.
I had a busy morning throughout the day and hadnt had a chance to use the facilities, he said. I had an opportunity with nobody in the store and so I put a note on the door saying I would be back in five minutes. As I came out I heard the noise and took two steps forward and couldnt believe what I saw. The whole wall had come down and there were window panes all over the place and all sorts of debris and there was a CRV sitting two and a half or three feet into my store.
That empty shop was the second piece of good news. Mere minutes before, he said, a customer had been kneeling down against the wall at ground zero, showing his wife one of the jigsaw puzzles stored there.
In that same spot, Oulton noted, he usually keeps eight-month-old daughter Paige when she goes down for her nap. As it happened, Paige was at home with her mom that day the third piece of good luck.
The Qualicum Beach Volunteer Fire Depart-ment was on scene in short order and the wom-an, dazed but otherwise unhurt, was helped out of her vehicle, which was then towed out of the store. The woman does not face any crimi-nal charges in relation to the incident.
NEIL HORNER PHOTO
Qualicum Toy Shop manager Les Oulton holds daughter Paige where he would have been stand-ing when a vehicle slammed into the wall Thursday.
QUALICUM BEACH TOY STORE CRASH
Lucky, narrow escapeStore manager and his baby usually at the spot of the crash
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Qualicum Beach Farmers Market president Bobbie Garnons-Williams.
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REMEMBRANCE DAY
Poppy campaignParksville Legion begins annual awareness driveAUREN [email protected]
The Parksville Legion, Branch 49 joined those across the country kicking off their annual Remembrance Day poppy campaign.
The colour guard marched
in the cold, pouring rain, the Remembrance Day flag was raised and Legion president and poppy chair Dave Do-skoch pinned the ceremonial first poppy of the season on Parksville mayor Chris Burger.
Watch for volunteers with poppies in front of local su-permarkets and liquor stores from now until Sunday, Nov. 11, when the day will be marked at cenotaphs across Oceanside.
AUREN [email protected]
Parksville businesses have had a chance to review a proposed business bylaw update and now staff will prepare a new draft for their con-sideration.
There were some concerns and issues with the first draft, explained director of adminis-trative services Debbie Comis during Mondays regular council meeting.
She pointed out that while the chamber and downtown business association had some con-cerns about the fee increases, they are actually lower than the inflation rate.
The staff report points out that the basic rate would increase from $120 to $150 per year, but an inflationary adjustment from the rates set in 1991 would push it above $175.
The current bylaw has 10 business catego-ries, including broad groups like accommo-dation, retail and all other, and doesnt deal
much with regulation, which staff propose should be added.
The proposed bylaw would break those down into 62 new categories, with retail be-ing divided into 11 specifics like convenience store, sales agent or money store.
The new categories allow different fees for different types of business, which Comis said should be increased to reflect the cost to the city.
Councillor Peter Morrison asked about the difference in fees for similar business, singling out pawn shops and money stores being more expensive.
Comis explained there are different costs for reviewing and granting different licences in-volving police and fire safety inspections and administrative costs.
The bylaw will be updated with the relevant feedback and sent back to council to begin the statuary process.
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AUREN RUVINSKY PHOTO
Doreen Wilson (left) and Sue Hodges raise the Remembrance Day flag at the Parksville Legion Friday starting the seasons poppy campaign. Look for volunteers with poppies in front of local supermarkets and liquor stores.
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POPPY CAMPAIGN BEGINS: As members of the Qualicum Beach Legion geared up to begin their 2012 Poppy Campaign, they set aside a moment of silence with mayor Teunis Westbroek (with black umbrella). After the mayor had the first poppy ceremonially pinned to his lapel, members fanned out across the community to raise money to support veterans and their families.
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How far is it to Qualicum Bay and Bowser? Drivers on the central Island are going to have to wait a little while longer to find out after the Regional District of Nanaimo deferred a re-quest from the Lighthouse Country Business Association for more signage this week.
The RDNs Northern Community Economic Development Select Committee made a recom-mendation to the board at Tuesday nights meet-ing, urging them to defer the application for Light-house Country village signs for Qualicum Bay, Bowser, Deep Bay, Horne Lake and Spider Lake.
The reason for the deferment was to allow the Oceanside Tourism Association to com-plete its rebranding process which is currently underway, in order to ensure consistency be-tween Lighthouse Country village signs and the rebranded Oceanside ones.
The motion to this effect, moved by Parks-ville director Marc Lefebvre and seconded by Qualicum Beach director Dave Willie, passed unanimously.
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That director was Coombs-Hilliers EJSFDUPS+VMJBO'FMMXIPSFJUFSBUFEIJTcontention that the plan wont do what it set out to do, which is to increase the amount of food produced on central Vancouver Island.'FMMXIPDBMMFEGPSBSFDPSEFEWPUF
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Although he voted in favour of the plan, Deep Bay-Bowser director Bill Veenhof expressed trepidation about
doing so.I am voting in favour, but I feel
there are significant issues with it, he said. I plan to continue to work within the plan on those issues.
Qualicum Beach director Dave Wil-lie also expressed lukewarm support.
I would add my concerns, he said. We need to step carefully with this plan. We have to look carefully at how we increase food production and we need to look at new alternatives. Im not sure this speaks to those but its a start an I hope we can work with the document to make food production move forward.
Lukewarm support for plan
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Stacey and Sheila Goodman love Halloween.They love dressing up and decorating their house. Most of
all they love the look on childrens faces as they clutch tight to their parents hand as they inch past the misty graveyard on the way to their front door on Halloween night.
I love to see the kids come and the looks on their faces, Sheila said. We had one little girl who, when her parents tried to take her in the front door, had one hand on the door and her feet against the jam and there was no way she was going in. I told her none of it was real, but she didnt go in that year. The following year she did though, and shes come back every Halloween since. Thats kind of cool.
Halloween, she said, allows her to unleash her creativity.Its the one time of year when I can kick up and be who
Im not, she said. Im a staid accountant. Do I look like a staid accountant now? You can be something youve always wondered about.
The Goodmans have been growing their dark collection for 20 years now, the last five of those in Qualicum Beach. They are ideally suited to put on a bottom of the grave Hal-loween spookfest, as Sheila works as a production accountant for the film industry and Stacey is a special effects technician. Between their contacts on film sets, Sheilas creativity and Staceys special effects know-how, theyve been able to put together a Halloween spooktacular.
In about July we start thinking about what were going to do this time, Sheila said. We try to do something new every year.
This Halloween, she said a haunted tree, a creepy scare-crow, an even creepier reaper and other surprises will be added to the Halloween experience.
We just ended up with all these new creations, she said. We just decided OK, were really going to go for it and go big this year and see what happens.
The road that led to their house of horrors started small, with a couple of styrofoam tombstones outside their North Vancouver home. A couple of years later, Stacey built a creepy fence to go along with them. Their Halloween display soon began to grow and that growth took on a life of its own.
I dont earn my living in art but I have always been inter-ested in creating and I do a lot of that, Sheila said. Stacey knows smoke and how to create illusions with dry ice and all the blood illusions and that sort of thing and hes been around a lot of special effects makeup, so he taught me a lot and I taught him a lot and we found out we were both really crazy about doing this. Each year we have to outdo the year before.
Staceys favourite creation they call Chewie, a wolflike yet somehow reptilian, fanged thing that Sheila saved from the garbage heap.
Chewie is our version of a chupicabra, she said. I was working on The Grey, with Liam Neeson in 2010 and we needed an articulated form of a dog or a wolf character, so the props department had one created at great expense, for blocking and so on, and when the show was over it was on the dump pile.
Using latex appliances and pieces from a variety of differ-ent costumes and masks, he came up with a truly fearsome result.
Sheila may be fond of Chewie, but its a giant rat that has
her affections.I really like Ratula, she said. I got him off a show we both
worked on it with Mark Hammell. He was a gift to me from the producer. I took him over the Second Narrows bridge in my sports car with the top down. That was fun.
A lot of their ideas, she continued, come from movie prop sales.
After a picture is finished they sell off the props or cos-tumes and so we take it from there, she said. We make what we are missing and we build things. We are very interested in the costumes and the wigs and I sew, so I make a lot of our costumes.
With Halloween imminent, the couple along with some of the neighbours are just about ready for their big night and theyre hoping for decent weather. Unlike a Hollywood set, Stacey knows, theres no opportunity to come back and try again the next night if conditions arent right. Halloween is the night, rain or Shining.
We use dry ice for ground fog that comes out across ground in the cemetery, so the biggest challenge is the weath-er, he said. If its really windy it blows all the smoke away and you dont see anything.
Although they take busloads of special needs students be-forehand, the Goodmans plan to open their house for Hal-loween starting at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday for the little ones and theyll continue until 10 p.m.
The house is at 520 Chester St., Qualicum Beach.
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NEIL HORNER PHOTO
Sheila Goodman cozies up to her rat gargoyle.
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Parksville Scotiabanks Jessi Dunlope (from left) and branch manager Penny Shantz hand a $1,500 cheque to Forward House executive director Carol Richardson towards Dr. Larry Smiths triathlon fundraising efforts for their recreation for wellness programs. Staff, clients and pets gathered in thanks.
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Staff and friends of Parks-villes Forward House gath-ered to receive a $1,500 donation from the Parks-ville Scotiabank to Dr. Larry Smiths fundraising efforts.
Dr. Larry is a good friend, said branch manager Pen-ny Shantz explaining that he brought the fundraising to their attention and the banks
staff and customers were very supportive, raising the money through a book sale.
A local chiropractor, Smith competed in the Penticton Ironman in August where he beat his previous time, finish-ing the 3.8 km swim, 180 km cycle and 42.2 km run in just over 14 hours.
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Dogs allowed at MoorecroftThe plan recommends minimizing development in the parkNEIL [email protected]
People visiting Moorecroft Regional Park are welcome to bring their dogs as long as the pets remain on a leash.
The ruling was contained in the final draft of the Moore-croft Regional Park Manage-ment Plan, which was released this week.
As a condition of sale by the United Church of Canada, a conservation covenant was developed with the Nature Conservancy of Canada to ensure that the natural habi-tat and ecosystems present at Moorecroft Regional Park will continue to be protected.
The Plan will guide the management, development and operations of the park over the next 10 years.
The intent is to balance the values of ecological pres-ervation and protection with enhanced visitor services and appropriate facility develop-
ment, said Electoral Area E Di-rector and Park Management Plan Advisory Committee member George Holme. The plan recommends minimizing development in the park, and recognizes that while some of the existing infrastructure can be used, many of the buildings are in poor condition and do not meet public safety and risk management requirements.
The issue of whether dogs should be allowed to run free in the park or allowed there at all proved to be conten-tious during the year-long consultation process, with some calling for off-leash areas to be established and others calling for dogs to be banned outright.
For reasons of environmen-tal protection and respect and safety of all park users, the plan recommends that dogs be kept on-leash in the park at all times.
The plan also recommends working to find other off-leash
areas in the vicinity of the park.The plan has some high
priority items to implement within the first few years, in-clude developing a feasibil-ity study for the building of a long house with the Snaw-Naw-As First Nation; adding interpretive signs and add-ing more benches and picnic shelters throughout the park. It also calls for improvements that would allow the park to be used year-round and for the removal of any structures deemed to be unsafe.
The Regional Parks and Trails Select Committee will review the draft plan on Dec. 4 and consideration for ap-proval of the plan by the RDN Board is anticipated in Janu-ary.
Visit the Recreation and Parks webpage at rdn.bc.ca/moorecroft, email [email protected] or contact Wendy Marshall, Manager of Parks Services, at 250 248-3252 or 1-888-828-2069.
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As usual, our readers got it right. As usual, something between the extremes is most likely the truth.
Letters to the editor in todays paper re-acting to the story on Page 1 Friday about
the continued sniping between some council mem-bers and the mayor of Qualicum Beach are urging the two sides, if thats what they are, to get on with the operation of the town and stop their bickering.
If Mayor Teunis Westbroek is slow to forward e-mails to council members about events or issues, or if he forwards e-mails that perhaps should not be for-warded, he should pay more attention to his time on the towns e-mail systems and do it properly.
If the mayor is leading staff, or trying to lead staff, in a direction different than the tone and substance of the legally-passed motions of council, he needs to cease and desist. And for goodness sake, stop with the RDN appointment whining Qualicum Beach isnt the only community in B.C. to send a councillor and not the mayor to the regional district board table.
We empathize with Westbroek in the sense that his political world has changed with this council. Votes he clearly disagrees with have been passed. But they are the law of the land when they are passed by council, and the mayor needs to suck it up, express his opposition and respect the vote of council when speaking with staff and residents if you believe hes not doing that now.
Similarly, Coun. Dave Willie and others who cant seem to pass up the opportunity to take a shot at West-broek need to better understand a fact of political life: the mayors position is not just one vote on council like everyone else (well it is in a voting sense, but we be-lieve you get the drift).
Voters are asked to put an X in a different area of the ballot for the mayors race. The position is inherently different than that of councillor. The mayor is an am-bassador, a leader in times of emergency, the towns public face at events. Election results clearly show the voters of Qualicum Beach wanted Westbroek to be that person for the next three years (two remaining). Peo-ple who disagree with the mayor or any of the council-lors can run against them in the next election, because electors always get it right, even when theyre wrong.
Editorial by John Harding
commentaryQuit bickering
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A SAD VENDETTARe: Infighting continues, (THE NEWS, Oct.
26).What a sad state of affairs that after a year
of supposedly working together toward the same end the sound governance of our beautiful town our elected officials are still squabbling like a bunch of 10-year-olds.
Well, perhaps not all. Councillor Dave Willie is either expressing a natural vindic-tive nature or is acting as the mouthpiece for the group of disruptive fellow council-lors.
Many of us feel that the town of Quali-cum Beach has lost some of its sparkle and happy, contented atmosphere.
Continual sniping at the mayor who, like us all, is not error-free but has earned the approval and support of a large majority of citizens after almost 20 years in the coun-cil chamber shows an immature charac-ter completely at odds with public service.
Willie is entitled to his own opinions but we expect him to use them for the good of the town, not for perpetuating his childish vendetta against the mayor.
FRANK H. HORNERQualicum Beach
HOW EMBARRASINGRe: Infighting continues,(THE NEWS, Oct.
26). When will these people stop this non-sense?
They were elected to guide the town of Qualicum Beach, not act like a bunch of
spoiled brats. These people are becoming an embarrassment to the citizens of this town, and we are becoming the laughing-stock of District 69.
The people of Qualicum Beach are not like people in other communities in this area. When we elect by the democratic sys-tem, a mayor to lead our community, we support that mayor. If other people who have been elected to council do not like our choice, too bad.
We are not like the other city in our area we do not throw our mayor under the bus and let some council decide who our leader will be.
The citizens of this town should have this message for those people on council who are unhappy: get on with the business of guidingour town.
At the next election, the people can de-cide whether they want to keep you.
TED SMITHQualicum Beach
FIREWORK FEARSI like what Victoria is doing this year for
people planning on a Halloween Evehome fireworks display.
First, the fire department is putting on a safe fireworks workshop and second, this permit required in order to obtain a per-mit.Failure to comply is a $160 fine.Not too harsh.
Celebrating Halloween is huge in B.C. The downside is not only the danger of fire but also injury, especially with young chil-
dren roaming about, some in flammable costumes.
Furthermore, lets face it, alcohol and drugs may be needed to enjoy the fireworks, especially when no driving is required.
Then there is the teens who were seen on the streets of Parksville last year lighting off firecrackers and launching hand-held Ro-man candles as they travelled about.
Im sure pets and wildlife will be thinking the two leggers started a war. Environmen-talists will be thinking about the planetary heat and pollution produced by thousands ofincinderie displays.
People trying to sleep before work will be inconvenienced and yes, babies will need to be reassured.
But personally, my aged father-in-law will likely be thrown back to the war where he may linger for days, even weeks, seeing soldiers outside of his home of 30 yearsand preparing for attack.
Please be careful everyone and enjoy your unofficial holiday Happy Hallow-een.
GORD BYERSParksville
CARING APPRECIATEDNanoose Community Services would
like to thank Christs Church Oceanside for generously supporting our Thanks for Giv-ing Food Drive. We truly appreciate the gen-erosity of the congregation throughout the year. Thank you forhelping us help others.
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DEPRESSING CHOICEI have voted in every federal and provincial
election since I was old enough to vote in 1952.Since then, I have seen some great govern-
ments and recently some very poor ones. Look-ing at our choice for the next election is very depressing at best.
The Conservative party was a possible alter-native for many until all this fuss about leader-ship.
I dont know who the dissidents are wheth-er they are Liberals trying to destroy the party or an arrogant group who think that they are the only ones to run things, or possibly an honest group thinking that there is a real problem.
It really doesnt matter, as this will almost destroy any chance of the party making any large gains in the next election. This is what happened to destroy the B.C. Reform Party some years ago.
As we have seen many times, a political par-ty does not require a strong leader. The NDP have gone some 20 years without a strong lead-er, the last one being Mike Harcourt, and his government was only fair.
Since the NDP will form our next govern-ment (God help us), where do we go from here? We have only very limited idea of what they have planned, if anything.
The Liberals have managed to alienate most
of the intelligent people of the province they will have little chance of being elected. Their privatization policy was a 100 per cent failure and has brought about to near destruction of the ferry system and with MLA Ron Cantelon making statements like walk on the ferry and rent a car on the other side, it shows that he has lost all sense of reality and has no idea of the real problems.
I just hope that the Conservatives and the Liberals can do a complete reconstruction of their parties before the next election.
VICTOR YOUNGNanoose Bay
GOODBYE SOVEREIGNTYIf I were to go out into the street today and
randomly ask 10 people what they thought of the upcoming FIPA agreement, what do you think they might say?
Would they understand the ramifications of all parts of this accord (any one of the 10 of them)? Do they know that the Foreign In-vestment Protection Agreement (FIPA) would give foreign corporations sweeping powers to sue Canadian governments for implementing common-sense environmental protections, investing in Canadian jobs, or for stopping the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and other projects like it?
And worse, these lawsuits would happen in secret tribunals outside Canadian legal chan-nels and would be in effect for a minimum of 15 years (plus the possibility of an extension to double that)?
All this could become law within a week with no input or voting required by the public, or by committees.
In other words, after that implementation, democracy as we know it will cease as will Canadian sovereignty over one of the last free countries in the west.
We need to pressure our MPs, and I can think of no better way than by making it public in your newspaper, so that more people can de-cide for themselves before it is too late.
LYN POLLARDCoombs
OUR RIGHT TO DIESo the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled
against the Supreme Court of B.C. in the Right to Die with Dignity law.
How did our society come to this situation, whereby 25 per cent of our population can overrule the other 75 per cent?
Who are the people that have this power? Is it the need to update the Constitution? Does re-ligion have anything to do with it?
I know the French part of Canada is not at fault Quebec is part of the 75 per cent in favor of the right to die movement.
How do we get the attention of the Members of Parliament who voted against this movement a few years ago? They clearly did not listen to their constituents.
Please ask eachMP now and at election time how they stand on this issue and demand that they truly represent the people who elected them.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court of Cana-da is not elected and remain 100 years behind.
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Parksville and area music fans should get ready for some fascinating rhythms as the fall singing season gets under-way.
The A Cappella Plus choir will revisit some favourites from the past in their upcoming fall concert String of Pearls every song a gem!
The group, in their 33rd year under the baton of director Rosemary Lindsay, will present a concert on Saturday, Nov. 3 in Parksville.
It will feature the traditional songs Sing We and Chant It, Loch Lomond, Shenandoah and String of Pearls.
For classical pop the group will perform In My Life, Cant Buy Me Love, Moon River and Unchained Melody.
Spirituals and contemporary songs round off the pro-gram.
Enjoy some refreshments after the show with the choir. The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. at St Edmunds Angli-
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I am walking in the woods with my dogs. I am peaceful.Centred.At one with The Great Green Goddess.I spy another couple walk-ing down the path.I know them slightly and we pause to chat.
But something is amiss. We palaver amiably enough but they seem ill at ease, unwilling to meet my gaze. They look to the heavens; they study their shoelaces. They crane to the east and they peer to the west. They will not look me in the eye.
After several awkward moments we part company and I am left with my dogs to wonder a for-gotten slight? Something I wrote perhaps? A few hundred yards down the trail my hand brushes across my thighs and I solve the mystery.
Oh crap. My flys open again.I dont know if its a harbinger of impending geezerdom
or mere wishful thinking, but I find my fly seems to be at half mast more often of late. Odd, when you consider that doing up your fly is something all lads are supposed to master be-fore they get out of knee shorts.Doubly odd when you con-sider that a gaping fly is a no-win condition.Mortification all around.
Geoffrey Chaucer and his Middle Ages pals didnt have to worry about accidental breaches in their breeches. They wore codpieces a kind of sliding manhole cover (think of it as a man bra but with only one cup).
Codpieces were functional but less than subtle, fash-ion-wise. Along about 1700 tailors came up with what they called a fall front a flap of fabric that functioned some-thing like the breech-clout that North American Indians had figured out centuries before.
When you think about it mankind has never had a rock-solid solution for the codpiece/fall front/button/zip fly problem. What complicates the conundrum is that men are lazy slobs. We want to get er done with a minimum of inter-ruption and inconvenience.Women dont have a fly prob-lem because they sit down and do the job properly.
And obviously, women dont have an open fly problem either. If they did, they would doubtless have come up with a diplomatic, non-humiliating way to say Hey, buddy
your fly is open.Not that there havent been some splendid
attempts. General euphemisms for informing someone that their clothing is in need of adjust-ment abound. Im rather fond of Paging Mister Johnson.Paging Mister Johnson
Im also intrigued with the idea of putting on a big black studly voice and rumbling: Im talkin Shaft can you dig it?
Security breach at Los Pantalones isnt half bad, nor is Our next guest is someone who needs no introduction But personally, I pre-
fer the personal touch warnings custom-crafted for the poor schlub with the open portal problem.
For a dishevelled computer nerd: Excuse me, but you have Windows on your Laptop.
For vegetarians: Dont look now but the cucumber has left the salad.
For rock fans: Attention, attentionElvis Junior has left the building.
For nautical types: Now hear this: Sailor Neds trying to take a little shore leave.
For airline passengers with a fly problem: Time to bring your tray table to the upright and locked position, sir.
For lovers of classical literature: Quasimodo needs to go back in the tower and tend to his bells.
Whats also missing is a suitable retort to the news that your fly is open. Usually its a mumbled Oh, Geez, thanks eh?
Pretty lame.Winston Churchill knew how to handle such a situation.
Using the facilities in the House of Commons one day during his final years in office, Winston turned from the urinal to the washstand, only to be confronted by a fellow MP who fluttered about trying to tell him the bad news as delicately as possible.
Ah, Sir Winston, you should knowah, that is to say, er. Youum.Oh dear. It seems your flies are open.
What of it? growled the 90-year-old Churchill. Dead birds dont fall out of nests.
Arthur Black is a regular NEWS columnist.
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Rat-tat-tat-tat!You cant miss the sound of Phil St.
Luke as he raps out a rhythm on his drum while he leads the parade.
What strikes you most about him though is the grin, big, wide and genu-ine, that is a much-welcomed feature of the roadsides in Parksville and area.
St. Luke was born in Burnaby and worked on a farm doing manual labour as a teen, but it wasnt until he moved to Parksville at age 19 that people started to take notice of him.
Th e 60-year-old unoffi cial ambassa-dor for Parksville can be seen at almost any time of day, walking along the side of the highway with his characteristic gait, waving and giving a big thumbs-up to passing motorists, who often respond with a cheerful toot on the horn.
Known to some as Mr. Parksville and to others as Flying Phil, St. Luke is a fi x-
ture in just about any parade in the area, but hes particularly fond of the SPCA.
An avid fan of wrestling, St. Luke is one of, if not the most decorated special Olympians in the area, having been an active participant for 25 years.
He keeps in shape with his daily walks, which see him travel as many ki-lometres in a day as many people drive. He has even walked from Parksville to Port Alberni.
It took me about fi ve hours and something minutes, he said.
St. Luke has become such a fi xture in the community that in 2008 then-coun-cillor Chris Burger pushed through a motion to have March 7 his birth-
day offi cially declared Phil St. Luke Day. Th e motion passed unanimously and the day was celebrated with special T-shirts and the unveiling of the Phil St. Luke sandwich at a local restaurant.
An entirely unpolitical celebrity, St. Luke has no hesitation about walking into any and every business in Parksville to spread his unique brand of cheer and warmth. Th e business owners, for their part, welcome the interruption to their daily routine.
Because he has touched so many lives in a positive way, its probably not surprising that St. Luke has his own fan page, with nearly 2,000 members.
Rain or shine, chances are youll see Phil out on the road somewhere in Oceanside this winter and when you do, give him a wave or a honk.
Without a doubt hell respond with a cheery wave, a two thumbs up and that trademark ear-to-ear grin.
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AUREN [email protected]
Parksville council will hold another town hall style meeting Nov. 19 at Knox United Church as part of their ongoing effort to engage the community.
They will start with a regular council meeting at 6 p.m. followed by the town hall meeting at 7 p.m. allowing residents to join the discussion.
The town hall portion will include brief staff presentations on topics determined for the meeting, followed by a question-and-answer session for residents to voice concerns.
The agenda of items to be discussed will be posted on the city website by the previous Fri-day, Nov. 16.
The meeting follows similar well attended meetings held in various locations in the com-munity over the last several years including one at Ballenas Secondary in May that dealt with resident-only parking signs and introduced the hot topic of keeping backyard hens which has since become a bylaw.
The town hall meeting in May was an ex-tremely positive experience for council be-cause so many residents were passionate about the issues under discussion, said mayor Chris Burger. We are certainly looking forward to engaging in this kind of interactive dialogue again.
The November 19 meeting starts at 6 p.m. at Knox United Church, 345 Pym Street in Parks-ville.
Town hall meet slated for Knox Parksville steps back on water rates
AUREN [email protected]
Parksville council heard enough op-position to proposed water rate chang-es from different sectors of the city to take a step back.
Our proposal is to eliminate tiered water rates all together and switch to a flat rate system, as far as were concerned its the only equitable way, said Parksville Res-idents Association repre-sentative Rob Campbell, speaking as a delegation at the start of Mondays regu-lar council meeting.
Create a level playing field so no one group has a financial advantage, he said in opposition to the proposed changes.
Rudi Widdershoven, president of the Parksville and District Chamber of Commerce, spoke as the next dele-gation and had a long list of questions
and concerns that he said he didnt ex-pect answers to on the spot.
Why equality in the water service, does council want equality other ar-
eas? I dont think so, he said referencing the fact that business pays several times the prop-erty tax rate.
He said that neigh-bouring communities pay less for their wa-ter and reiterated the chambers point from a previous presentation that businesses already do everything they can to conserve water since it effects their financial bottom line.
The more water used the less profit the incentive is built in, he
said.Mayor Chris Burger started the dis-
cussion with a quick overview of the water supply, pointing out that due to
a new provincial mandate the city has to build a treatment facility for its river water, at a very early estimated cost of around $40 million which they are trying to build financial reserves for to cut down on the eventual borrowing costs.
Before the meeting Burger told THE NEWS he would encourage council to table the proposed changes, which council did unanimously.
After the meeting Burger said that while they could run into a time crunch for the March billing date, hes happy with the process.
He said hes had more concern and response on the issue than usual and hes glad council decided to send the proposed bylaw back to staff for addi-tional options and adjustments.
This is how government should work pause and revaluate I think thats good governance, he said add-ing I guarantee at the end of the day not everyones going to be happy with it, but hopefully well find a happy me-dium.
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Remember when mattresses had handles?Ill call it the Grr-r-r factor. Its the
usual expression of the feeling and frus-tration I experience when I come up against these apparently senseless every-day obstructions.
Following are a few Grr-r-rs that come to mind.
I open a can of food which promises a delectable recipe for its use . . . found on the back of the label. When you tear the label from the can, you invariably find that youve torn the recipe in half if not into tatters. If the instructions must appear on the labels back, could not Mr. Heinz or whoever at least indicate where on the back you might find it so you could tear into it with some assurance of not deleting a critical ingredient or two?
Moving from the kitchen to the bed-room, remember the good old days when
a mattress an extremely unwieldy item at best always had two sturdy handles on each side with which to wrestle it into the place or position you wanted. Handy handles also, when it came to moving day, or the time for said mattress to move on to the transfer station. Now theres no way to get a grip on a contrary mattress, and to add to the problem, they keep making them bigger.
Into the bathroom now, and those elegant bottles of lotion with the squeeze top and spout to make dispensing a breeze. They really do work so effortlessly . . . until you get below the halfway mark of contents and the physics of pressure
and plunge deliver only a minute spurt of lotion. But look theres plenty of
the creamy aid to smooth skin remaining in the plastic container. And thats where we do have a bit of luck at least its not a glass bottle (we hope).
So back to the kitchen; a container laid out on a stur-dy cutting board and the tool for a dollar-saving operation at hand. Getting firm grips on the offender and a good sharp knife, its off with its head! And there lies suffi-
cient product for a week or more of soothing application. We can guess why the handy plunger arrangement was in-troduced, cant we?
Now, what do you look for in your newspapers classified ads? A boat, a lawnmower, a pet, or a partner? There may be pages demanding careful scru-tiny ahead. It was not always so. At one time newspapers were caring and help-ful enough to print a directory or index of their ad categories on the first page of the classifieds. No more. Put on your specs and wade through the headings and fine print until you find (or not) the depart-ment you want.
What do you suppose is the reasoning behind this barrier to communication? Isnt that what newspapers are about communication? Why the hurdles to ease of access?
Well, lets get out of the house and do some therapeutic shopping. When at last you find the perfect sweater, or the jacket
WILLI WAWSBy Nancy Whelan
of a hue to blend with all the pants, dont de-pend on the job being done when you hang it in the closet. When, in anticipation of getting it all together, you hurry through your prepara-tions for a big evening and finally don the new purchase you feel an irritating scratching at the back of your neck. Its that (expletive deleted) label!
Just a small oblong of some phony fabric, sewn to the neckline with 10-pound test prick-ly-end fishing line can lower the enjoyment of an event beyond imagining as you adjust, scratch, and fume at some thoughtless manu-facturer on either side of the ocean.
A few clothing makers are finally getting the message and printing their deathless prose/name brand, quite invisibly to any observers, right on the garments fabric. Kudos to these enlightened ones.
A little tip: if you a carry a Band Aid or two in your purse, ladies, its application over the label can relieve the discomfort till you get home and dig out the pointed little scissors to disable the pesky irritation. Grr-r-r!
Nancy Whelan is a Qualicum Beach resident and long-time columnist with The NEWS.
SHORT-STORY WRITING
Local 15 yr oldplaces thirdin B.C. contest
Fifteen-year-old Erin Spence of Parksville re-cently placed third in the provincewide Junior Authors Short Story Writing Contest.
Her winning story Snow Globes is a vivid, touching tale that goes deeply into a tender, healing moment shared by a mother and her young son as they remember the husband and father who has passed away.
About placing third in the Junior Authors contest, Spence said: I am very happy to have placed third. I didnt think I even had a chance in the competition.
This year, 58 stories were submitted from 17 municipalities across the province.
Kyra Wilson, a 14-year-old writer from Qual-icum Beach, placed 16th in the same category with her story The Silent Crash.
For more on the Junior Authors Short Story Writing Contest visit www.juniorauthorscon-test.com.
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