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Our front page photo today was taken by reporter Lissa Alexan-der with graphics by Brad Everest. It depicts a nativity scene set up at French Creek’s Church of the Ascension on Wembley Road. Merry Christmas from everyone at The NEWS!
Lynette Kershaw was acclaimed as chair-person of the board of education and Ross Milligan acclaimed as vice chairperson at the most recent board meeting.
As trustees Eve Flynn and Barry Kurland were not present, Kershaw said committee representation appointments would be postponed. — NEWS StaffKERSHAW
Be aware of winter road conditions — RCMPIt’s a winter wonderland out on the highways and byways of the
Central Island, and motorists would do well to keep that in mind.That was the message put out this week by Central Island Traf-
fic Services Constable Blake Manchur in relation to this week’s first winter storm of the season. Although Manchur said police respond-ed to several fender benders during and after the storm, he said there were no major incidents. However, he said drivers need to be aware that winter and summer driving are different. “We are seeing driv-ers following too close, but the main thing is people driving too fast for road conditions,” he said. “Just because a sign says the maximum speed, that doesn’t mean you can necessarily drive that speed if the road conditions are poor.” — NEWS Staff
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SKATING IN WONDERLAND: People of all ages enjoyed skating in a Winter Wonderland at Oceanside Place this week, set up until Dec. 26. The indoor arena is decorated to look like an outdoor frozen pond with trees, a winter cabin, an igloo, murals and cold-weather animals like penguins, polar bears and deer. Oceanside Place will be closed Christmas Day but open Boxing Day from 1 to 4 p.m.
OCEANSIDE HEALTH CENTRE STAFFING
Two positions postedAs part of the new ap-
proach to how health care services will be provided in the Oceanside Health Cen-tre (OHC) when it opens in June 2013, Vancouver Island Health says it has now posted two positions for nurse prac-titioners for Oceanside.
“Our government is com-mitted to delivering new, in-novative and better ways for B.C. residents to stay healthy and receive the care they need,” said Parksville-Qua-licum MLA Ron Cantelon. “Nurse practitioners are an
integral part of the modern health-care team, not only supporting physicians but directing and leading care, and the coordination of care, to help residents maintain their health.”
Nurse practitioners have been eligible to practice in B.C. since 2005. VIHA has approximately 25 nurse prac-titioners who provide care in a variety of settings from hospitals to small, rural com-munities.
When working with cli-ents, nurse practitioners col-
laborate with family physi-cians and specialists, other health care providers, fami-lies and community service providers.
Nurse practitioners, who have a Master’s Degree in Nursing and advanced clini-cal skills to manage medical conditions, can diagnose ill-ness and disease, write pre-scriptions for medication, order diagnostic and lab tests and refer patients to physi-cians or specialists.
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THAT’S A LOT OF PENNIES: The NEWS handed over two cheques on Friday, with the funds collected in our annual Pennies for Presents Campaign. The NEWS Publisher Peter McCully passed one to Renate Sutherland (left), executive director of the SOS, for $2,045 and the same amount was given to Lisa Clason from the Salvation Army.
PARKSVILLE CITY COUNCIL
180-daylimit staysfor nowAUREN [email protected]
Parksville considered dropping its contro-versial 180-day limit on tourist stays, but decid-ed against it at a recent meeting.
Dropping the limit was one of the first two recommendations from the new, five-member council advisory committee, but committee chair Coun. Al Greir said due to new infor-mation, the recommendation should just be received for information, rather than put to a vote.
The limit was first set in 1994 to stop camp-grounds from becoming permanent homes. Some Resort Row resorts were included when that area was brought into the city in 1995, ex-plained Greir.
Council discussed which properties are sub-ject to the limits, but could not come up with a definitive list.
The advisory committee said that since not all tourist accommodation properties are sub-ject to the limit, and it has never been enforced, it should be dropped.
The 180-day limit has mostly been an issue since former mayoral candidate Rick Honaizer campaigned on it and then attempted to bring charges of conspiracy against the city, may-or, chief administrative officer “and other un-known conspirators,” for not enforcing bylaws around waterfront access and residency terms.
In January 2012 Judge D. Cowling told Honaizer he was casting too wide a net, but left it open for him to return if he did more research.
“This city, the CAO, the bylaw enforcement officer and you, Mr. Mayor, have not done your job,” Honaizer said during question period at the end of the meeting Dec. 17.
“And we will, if you still keep on refusing to enforce the bylaw, we will go to court again and I will force the city to enforce the bylaw, because that is the law and it’s a criminal act for you and the CAO and the bylaw enforce-ment officer not to enforce the bylaw,” he con-tinued.
Councillor Bill Neufeld said he was con-cerned about the advisory committee process itself.
“The approach I have heard from a number of individuals, to put it quite honestly, they look at the exercise as being a sham, a farce, something to be laughed at,” he said, adding that people said the committee had based its decision on information from a single city staff source rather than researching it.
Council unanimously decided to pull the agenda item rather than vote on it — in effect maintaining the status quo.
COMMUNITY POLICING
Volunteers’ safety a concernAUREN [email protected]
Parksville’s community policing of-fice is underused but city council hopes to change that by giving it a new loca-tion.
RCMP Cpl. Jesse Foreman, in charge of Oceanside community policing, ap-peared before Monday’s regular council meeting to request the move.
The office is currently in a quiet cor-ner of the community centre, where Foreman said the volunteer manager works alone.
“There’s nobody near them or around them,” he said. “My main con-cern this year, after a couple of inci-dents, is safety. People wander in, they see community policing and they don’t make a separation between volunteers providing services and the RCMP or po-lice in general.”
Foreman said they have had “a few tense moments there,” and compared that to the community policing office in the middle of the Qualicum Beach Town Hall.
“The office is right in the hub, the nerve centre of town. You walk in to see council, the mayor or to use the library and you can’t help but walk into that of-fice,” he said.
That brings in a lot of people “asking about services like block watch, gate-keepers, keeping in touch, fraud aware-ness, bicycle rodeos, scooter rodeos, as well as attracting new volunteers,” Fore-man said.
The community-based, non-profit, donation-driven office is volunteer run, Foreman said, and Parksville has trouble attracting enough volunteers, which is not an issue in Qualicum Beach.
“We get less than a quarter of the
visits here in Parksville and we have a much larger community. I attribute that to (the office) location.”
“We’d like to be housed . . . here in the atrium, with a very simple struc-ture, glass walls and a door,” he said, explaining they just need room for a desk, one person working and be able for someone to come in and close the door and lock it at night.
“The model in Qualicum actual-ly works very well,” said mayor Chris Burger. “The synergies in this build-ing are actually quite tremendous — there’s not a day that goes by that vir-tually every aspect of the community isn’t represented. I think this would be a very positive thing for us.”
Most of council expressed support for the idea and unanimously support-ed Coun. Peter Morrison’s motion to have staff report back on the possibility.
RCMP ask for ‘a simple structure’ right in civic centre atrium
Trustee wants to follow every dollar spentSchool trustee Julie Austin wants to
see the local budget process changed so that every dollar spent can be re-viewed, even if it’s time consuming.
Austin brought a motion forward re-cently and listened to a presentation by
Secretary-Treasurer Erica Bailey on some ideas she has come up with to address the concerns. Austin responded that she’d like to go even further, as other school boards have done, perhaps tossing the budget and starting from the bottom to
look at each and every expenditure.Bailey responded that there may be
a way to fit some of that into the pro-cess but to look at every $1,000 expense would be extremely time consuming.
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MS sufferer gets high-tech chairResidents, chair company make a dream realityNEIL [email protected]
Sometimes, Christmas dreams really do come true — and it can be particular-ly sweet if that dream is on somebody else’s behalf.
Just ask Vivian O’Connor, who put out a call recently to help a fellow multiple scle-rosis sufferer obtain a tilting wheelchair.
On Tuesday, O’Connor reported that area residents opened their hearts after reading about her appeal in The NEWS — to the point where she feels the need to say, stop!
The appeal was for Dean Jesperson, who is badly af-fected by MS to the point where he is bent over, mean-ing he is sometimes unable to either breath or eat prop-erly.
O’Connor, who uses a tilt-ing wheelchair to get around, knew that a tilting model for Jesperson could make a big difference in his quality of life. She made an appeal for a tilting chair through the newspaper and was more than gratified by the result.
“We put out the appeal and people just started call-ing in,” she said. “I was get-ting anonymous donations, a couple of them for $500. My
daughter’s workplace had a big bottle at the side where people could put donations in for him and another friend had a bake sale, while anoth-er had a party and charged $5 to get in and ended up with $1,000. People in The Gardens were phoning up to ask what they can do and St. Stephen’s Church gave mon-ey, too.”
Even as the donations
rolled in however, O’Connor received a phone call that put her campaign over the top.
“Right out of the blue, Motion Specialties, the ones that deal with my wheelchair, phoned and said there was a man who was going to do-nate a chair,” she said. “It has a tilt on it.”
With the chair secured, O’Connor said the funds
raised — about $4,000 —will be used to outfit it with ex-tras, such as a new cushion for the seat.
“All those extra things are so expensive,” she said. “Now, we don’t need any more. Anything else he needs for the chair we can purchase.”
The experience, she said, has given her a warm, sea-sonal glow.
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The first snow of winter may have just coated the ground, but there are some people in the area who are already not just thinking about spring, but preparing for it.
Those preparations will bear fruit on Feb. 2 when Qualicum Beach once again plays host to Seedy Saturday at the Civic Centre.
Seedy Saturday is a time to see food and flowering plants and seeds that will grow in the Central Island area and to get ideas from experts in all aspects of gar-dening.
The event includes a seed swap, where gardeners can share their saved seeds with other local gardeners or buy seeds they have saved locally.
Nurseries from the region are well represented, with lots of specimens to choose from or just to admire. As well, expert speakers and master gardeners will be on hand to discuss many aspects of gardening.
It’s important to note that not only people with large plots of land can bene-fit from Seedy Saturday, particularly this year, when the theme will be Pots and Plots, Sowing and Growing our Food.
“People from Qualicum Beach and
surrounding areas have probably down-sized from larger lots and are trying to figure out the best way to still enjoy fruits and vegetables from their own gardens,” said organizer Sandy Glazier. “The op-portunities to do so have increased in recent years, as more varieties of patio sized vegetables, and even fruit, have been developed.”
Seedy Saturday has a particular reso-nance in the Parksville-Qualicum area, with its predominantly seniors demographic.
“Some people are trying to re-create the tastes of their childhoods and support the companies at Seedy Saturday that have seeds of heirloom varieties,” Glazier said. “Even a variety of fruit trees can be grown in the average backyard. Instead of one large, spreading apple tree, however ap-pealing it might be to sit and read a book in as I did in the Bramley’s cooking apple tree in my childhood, columnar trees are now available that take up less space and can even be grown in pots. These also blend nicely into the more contemporary, mini-malist landscape plans.”
Seedy Saturday-related talks include Pots and Plots; Sowing and Growing Our Food at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre on Saturday, Feb. 2, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m; Linda Gilkeson speaking on: Don’t Panic: Keeping Up With New Pests and Diseases; Gord Hutchings on Bumble Bees: Our Only True Native Hive Bee and Kathy Claxton, From Plant Pot to
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Kathy Claxton, one of the speakers at the Qualicum Beach Seedy Saturday will talk on edibles successfully grown in pots, troughs and raised beds, with a few hints as to how to handle a bumper crop when the season nears its end.
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Holiday lunch for everyoneNEIL [email protected]
Regardless of their situ-ation at home, all the stu-dents at Ballenas Senior Secondary school enjoyed at least one Christmas feast this year.
That’s because students and staff teamed up on
Wednesday to create a full-course turkey luncheon, complete with all the trim-mings.
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a Christmas lunch,” she said. “The teachers donated all the food this year and we collect donations at the door and the money we raise goes to fund the lunch program for the rest of the year.”
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A different kind of connectionFour jurisdictions are work-
ing together this holiday season to promote active transporta-tion in the Oceanside area.
The Ministry of Transpor-tation and Infrastructure, the Regional District of Nanai-mo, the City of Parksville and the Town of Qualicum Beach are collaborating to provide way-marking signs for the Parksville-Qualicum Beach Links, a popular low-traffic road and trail route that con-
nects Parksville and Qualicum Beach by way of French Creek.
“The Parksville-Qualicum Beach Links provides a conve-nient way for pedestrians and cyclists to travel between mu-nicipalities without having to use Highway 19A,” said RDN Chairperson Joe Stanhope. “We are pleased to add signage to this extremely popular part of our Regional Trail System.”
In partnership with its part-ners, the RDN has now com-
pleted a plan to install nine signs in each direction along the five-kilometer French Creek section.
“Once this popular recre-ational route is continuous-ly-signed from Parksville city centre to Qualicum Beach town centre, the Parks-ville-Qualicum Beach Links will be even more user-friend-ly for cyclists and pedestrians,” said Parksville Mayor Chris Burger. — NEWS Staff
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The Thanksgiving holiday provides us an opportunity to really think about, and pub-licly state, the gratitude we feel for all that we have in material items and the love of others.
New Year’s is often a time of both looking back and looking forward, a chance to make promises to better ourselves and, perhaps, the lives of those around us.
So what of Christmas? It is many things to many peo-ple, and to some it means nothing, although it’s impos-sible to escape in mostly-Christian North America.
For many, it has become about gifts — the getting and receiving and, unfortunately, the pressure to pur-chase.
When we think of the little ones, is it really all that bad for them to see Christmas as a time Santa comes and put presents under the tree? We think not. If your family is so inclined, some kind of talk about the mean-ing of the holiday — the birth of Jesus Christ — and the importance of giving is good to get into the conversa-tion.
That said, if Christmas for a five-year-old is all about fun and Santa and gifts and making your mom a pres-ent out of clay in your Kindergarten class, we see noth-ing wrong with that. If recent events have not taught us to protect the innocence of youth, to encourage them to laugh, have fun and eschew the seriousness of life, nothing will.
So what of the rest of us? Words can be just that, hol-low collections of letters, but the ones we see at this time of year — peace, joy, love — can give us inspira-tion and hope.
These are not religious words. Or, perhaps more ac-curately, they are appropriate to all faiths.
We wish for you to find some peace, some joy, some love this holiday season, and to share those feelings with others. If that just means putting the darn smart phone away for a few hours, so be it. If it means volun-teering to help the less fortunate, great. If it means a smile and a “merry Christmas” for a stranger you pass on the street, fantastic.
Life is too serious, too fast, too busy. If this season to celebrate the birth of Christ brings you peace, love and joy, even in small amounts, you have felt the spirit.
From all of us at the Parksville Qualicum Beach News: Merry Christmas! — Editorial by John Harding
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DEATH WITH DIGNITYIt was extremely disappointing to read
the Nov. 27 article on euthanasia (Soci-ety needs to talk — an interview with NDP health critic Mike Farnworth).
Those of us who wish to die with dignity should be allowed to do so.
Twenty years ago, Sue Rodriguez fought the Supreme Court of Canada to have the right to die with dignity but failed.
Government should be ashamed of
themselves. It has ignored this issue and still does. Please let us have a referendum on the issue — I am sure the results would be a resounding yes.
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THANKS FOR HELPINGBouquets to the many land owners who
allowed birders to have access to and view-ing of their lands during the recent Parks-
ville — Qualicum Beach Christmas Bird Count.
The teams in the field could not do this important census of bird populations with-out your cooperation.
As well, bouquets to Buckerfields for serving as the ‘pick up-drop off location’ for Feeder Count Checklists during the recent Parksville Qualicum Beach Christmas Bird Count.
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Our special green and silver surprise
The quality of mercy is not strained. If falleth as a gentle
rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed. It
blesses him who gives and him who receives. It is an attribute of
God himself.~ William Shakespeare ~
My mother is not a poker player. Be-cause Mom has a ‘tell.’
A ‘tell’ is a facial expression or mannerism that lets the whole world know when you’re bluff-ing.
Mom’s inability to put on a poker face was very useful to us as children.
We always knew when she was hiding something. And so every Christmas we’d pump her for information about our pres-ents.
Dad was keenly aware of mom’s inability to deceive any-one. So he would nip any Christ-mas questions in the bud.
If we asked him, “Is our Christmas present bigger than a bread box?” Dad would in-variably answer in Dutch. “Kin-deren vragen naar vensterbank.”
Roughly translated that means, “Children ask at window seats.”
It’s pretty hard to argue with that.
We had a tradi-tion when I was a child.
We always bought our Christ-mas tree on Dec. 20. Dec. 20 is my mother’s birthday.
Every year we celebrated at her favourite restaurant and on the way home we’d buy her a tree.
There was no point asking Christmas related questions be-fore December 20, but after that, well, all’s fair in love and war and Christmas.
The year I was eight, there was a snowstorm on mom’s birthday.
It started in the afternoon with bone-chilling wind gusts and soon there were four-foot drifts.
It was obvious that we wouldn’t be going out for dinner or a Christmas tree.
That Dec. 20 was also the last day of school before our Christ-mas holiday.
After we were dismissed my brother noticed the janitor throwing out the school’s mag-nificent nine-foot Christmas tree.
No slouch, he sprinted over and asked if we could have it.
The janitor was only too pleased to get rid of it, so Jay and
I took turns drag-ging that tree home through the snow-covered streets of Toronto.
We felt like he-roes that snowy af-ternoon!
Mom might not be getting her din-ner on the town but she was sure going to have a Christmas
tree! Mom was delighted and dad
immediately took the tree to his workshop to trim it down to size.
Mom was simply beaming. Not one to miss an opportunity, I casually asked her, “Mom what colour are our Christmas pres-ents this year?”
“Green and silver,” she re-plied temporarily forgetting dad’s interdiction against giving us clues.
“We’re getting bikes!” I yelled.Mom turned three shades of
pale.Jay, a consummate poker
player, immediately rushed over to study her face.
“Wha...wha...what makes you...uh...think...it’s b...bikes?” she stammered.
“We are getting bikes!” Jay exclaimed.
Then Jay and I began dancing around the living room. “We’re getting bikes! We’re getting bikes!”
When dad heard all the com-
motion he came running up-stairs.
He didn’t say a word. He just looked at mom and then at us. I’ll always remember that look. Suddenly we didn’t feel like cel-ebrating anymore.
On Christmas morning standing under the Christmas tree there were two brand new green and silver bicycles: which was quite an extravagance for a family of relatively modest means.
How mom and dad must have looked forward to giving us those bicycles for Christmas!
Yet somehow, unintention-ally, we managed to steal away much of their joy that Christmas morning.
Still, neither one of them mentioned it. They simply for-gave us.
“The quality of mercy is not strained…It is twice blessed. It blesses him who gives and him who receives.”
Although dad is gone now, Jay and I still share mom’s birth-day every year.
But we never inquire about our Christmas presents. It’s a question neither of us has asked since the Christmas of our green and silver bicycles.
Ray Smit is a regular colum-nist with the Parksville Qua-
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I hope you’re sitting down as you read this. My intention is not to cause panic and anguish in the community, but you need to know that
we are facing a grave and imma-nent danger. There is an insidi-ous, uncontrolled substance run-ning rampant through society and nobody’s doing a damned thing about it.
Potent? This stuff can turn a Leopard tank into a mound of rust. Dangerous? It can smash through cement walls and devastate entire towns. What’s more, this chemical is everywhere. In our hospitals, our schools, our homes — even ourselves. It’s been found in the tumors of terminal cancer patients and it’s present in every organ of our bodies.
Can it kill you? In a variety of ways. In sol-id form it’s been known to cause severe tissue damage. As a gas it can leave you with third de-gree burns. Inhaling it as a liquid will kill you stone dead in minutes.
Now for the bad news — we’re all addicted to it. Can’t live without it. Total withdrawal will cause headaches, weight loss, major organ fail-ure and ultimately, certain death.
And the name of this nightmare chemical that threatens our future and rules our destiny? Some call it DHMO — dihydrogen monoxide. It’s also known as hydroxyl acid.
Most folks just call it water.It’s a strange, love-hate relationship we have
with water. In 1779, the U.S warship known as Old Ironsides set sail from Boston carrying 475 officers and men, 7,400 cannonballs, 11,600 pounds of black powder, 7,000 gallons of rum and 48,600 gallons of fresh water. She returned to Boston seven months later with no cannon balls, no black powder, no rum….and 48,000 gallons of stagnant water.
These days? A total sea change in attitude. Today, in shopping malls and airport lounges; at baseball games and bar mitzvahs you see people practically welded to their personal water supply. They’re all clutching their plastic bottles of Dasani and Aquafina. They look like they’re preparing for a crossing of the Gobi, but
no, they’re merely ‘keeping hydrat-ed’, a la the latest fad. When I was a kid the only adults who actually car-ried their own water supply around with them were GIs in war movies and Humphrey Bogart crawling through the cacti in Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Nowadays, every-body packs their own ‘canteen’.
Must have been a bit of a chal-lenge for the Madison Avenue ad-vertising buzzards to figure out how to make so many of us pay for
something we can get for free. In the end, they used the same technique they use to flog that watery beer that all tastes the same — they sold us an image.
Aquafina, for instance, shows a range of snow-capped mountains on the bottle’s label, implying that we’re purchasing water air-lifted from pristine and untouched streams high in the Rockies. The fine print at the bottom of the label reads: “bottled at the source P.W.S.”
Hmmm. P.W.S. What could that mean? Pure Wonderful Stream?
Actually, it stands for Public Water Supply. Aquafina (which is owned and operated by Pepsi-Cola by the way) is trying very hard not to tell you that what you are paying for is tap water.
Which is not to be confused with Smartwa-ter. Smartwater is a designer brand of bottled water that former Friends star Jennifer An-niston is flogging these days. You can see the toothy blonde smiling back at you in dozens of glossy magazine ads. She’s clutching a plastic bottle of Smartwater, implying I suppose, that drinking that brand will make you brighter —possibly rich, beautiful and famous to boot.
Victoria Kaplan disagrees. She speaks for a movement called Quitting the Bottle’, which is dedicated to getting rid of all those plastic bot-tle. “Customers are waking up to the myth of bottled water, despite celebrity endorsement,” says Kaplan. She’s not too keen on the Smart-water label, either. “I’ll tell you what smart wa-ter is: smart water is when you walk to the tap and there is this wonderful product that is life fulfilling and delivered right into the room we want it in.”
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While many people need help from time to time, the people who help oth-er people may be overlooked.
The partners of Forward House Community Society invite “carers” — people who care for people with men-tal health and addictions recovery is-sues — to join their ongoing Families Forward group.
“We recognize that the responsibili-
ty for caring for loved ones with ongo-ing health concerns can be emotional-ly charged and isolating, therefore, our intention is to create a community of mutual respect and support in which carers will learn information relevant to their responsibilities, practical skills and self care,” said Forward House ex-ecutive director Carol Richardson.
The semi-monthly group started last year with a two-year funding com-mitment from the Coastal Community
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The toboggan hill along Hwy. 19A into Parksville’s Community Park is popular enough that the city will close a traffic lane to accommodate the win-ter fun.
“It’s a rare event, but whenever we have a sizable snow fall, right across from the Dairy Queen . . . there can be quite a crowd of individuals because we have this tremendous tobogganing hill,” said mayor Chris Burger at Mon-day’s council meeting.
By chance, the council meeting co-
incided with the first major snowfall of the year.
“It’s something I like to see quite frankly,” he continued but said he shares the concerns of people who have questioned the safety of the chil-dren on the sidewalk beside a busy road.
Burger asked for a council motion to allow city crews to temporarily close a lane between Corefield and McCar-ter streets during “significant snow fall events that result in large numbers of youths tobogganing.”
“They’ve been going down that hill on toboggans for hundreds of years and to my knowledge we we haven’t had a problem,” said Councillor Al
Greir.Grier supported the motion but
questioned its effectiveness.“My concern is we have a snowfall
which is always complicated for driv-ers and now they’re going to close a lane. I agree with you it makes it safer but if we’ve never had an accident I question the need for it now.
“To close it might cause more of a disturbance than having it open,” Greir said.
Burger replied that he had the same concerns but conversations with staff convinced him they could make it work safely.
Council unanimously passed the motion.
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Winter Concert well attended
THEATRE LINE-UP ANNOUNCED
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Bard to Broadway, a local summer theatre company, has announced their upcoming season. Above, B2B actors perform in Becky’s New Car.
B2B gearing up for summer
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Local theatre company Bard to Broadway (B2B) has announced their 2013 summer season, bumping it up from two shows to three at the Village Theatre this year.
Kicking off the season at the begin-ning of July The Drowsy Chaperone, a Canadian musical comedy, will be di-rected by founding B2B member Gary Brown.
“It absolutely took Broadway by storm, it was nominated for a whole whack of Tony (awards) and it won a whole whack of Tony’s, so its kind of the little Canadian musical that done good kind of idea,” said co-artistic di-rector of B2B Eileen Butts.
Vocal director with B2B Hilary Whelton saw the show on Broadway in
2006, Butts explained, “and she hasn’t stopped talking about it since.”
Recently the rights became available to perform the show and B2B jumped at the chance. The Drowsy Chaperone is a tale of a Broadway starlet trying to find and keep her true love complete with gangsters, mistaken identities and multiple, spontaneous weddings.
Sexy Laundry is another show by a Canadian playwright, about a mid-dle-aged couple intent on rekindling some passion in their 25-year-old re-lationship. They take to a swanky hotel room and bring along some clothing and accessories, along with a copy of Sex for Dummies.
The show will have a guest director from Vancouver, a celebrated veteran Canadian actor by the name of Nor-man Browning. He will also be host-
ing workshops for B2B actors and di-rectors this season. Butts warned that this show has some course language so may be offensive to some theatre-go-ers.
Finally, Little Women will be pre-sented, directed by Butts. This clas-sic family tale takes place during the American Civil War and focuses on the lives and relationships of four sisters in Concord, Massachusetts.
Butts said B2B had such a great re-sponse following their production of Anne of Green Gables, they thought an-other family-centered show would go off well.
Auditions for this season begin at the end of January in Parksville and Nanaimo for new and experienced ac-tors aged 13 to 70. For more informa-tion visit www.b2btheatre.com.
SUBMITTED PHOTO/ CARRIE POWELL-DAVIDSON
Guitarist Gabe Boydell performs at the BSS Music Department’s Winter Concert.
Auditions for the three upcoming shows begin in January
The students in Ballenas’ Music Department asked music director Rick Robson at the begin-ning of the year to line up some challenging music — and he listened.
The large crowd that attended BSS’ Winter Concert got to hear it first hand on Wednesday evening when the school’s choir, Based Five Jazz Combo, Stage and Concert bands per-formed.
To kick off the evening vocal students per-formed six solos.
In addition to the very rhythmic Bayou-Breakdown, which saw many different themes going on at one time, the Concert Band sud-denly switched to orchestral mode and played beautifully on Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
—Submitted by Carrie Powell-Davidson
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Local Rotary clubs are big supporters of the Salvation Army food bank and other services, but when they heard about additional pres-sures this year, they started talking about what they could do, explained Rotary Club of Parks-ville AM’s Jo Dunn.
“These services are like the fire department, when you don't need it it seems expensive, but
when you do, it’s very worthwhile,” Dunn said.The Parksville-Qualicum Beach area's four
clubs combined efforts and donated $4,300 cash toward the Salvation Army’s programs.
The money will be used for things like buy-ing turkeys and filling other gaps in the food that gets donated.
“We have food right now, but it usually runs out in March or April,” said Major Martin Ket-teringham.
AUREN RUVINSKY PHOTO
The Salvation Army’s Major Martin Ketteringham (second from right) accepted a cheque from all four local Rotary clubs, represented by (from left): Peter Kellas (Qualicum Beach Sunrise), Kim Burden (Parksville) and Jo Dunn (Parksville AM).
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Rotary Clubs raise thousandsSalvation Army gets money for turkey and other food items
Dance with the Sand Dollars Dec. 31The Sand Dollars Square Dance Club is giv-
ing you an opportunity to show off your moves and have some fun at their annual New Years Eve dance at the Bradley Center in Coombs.
The fun kicks off at 8:30 p.m., and the dance
will wrap up soon after midnight.The cost is $20 at the door. For more information contact Rocky
Woolverton at [email protected].
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HAMPER RAISES MONEY FOR HUNGRY: The NEWS’ Pauline Stead and her husband Brian raised $218 for the Salvation Army by selling tickets for a hamper they filled with goods. Here she hands the money over to Major Martin Ketteringham of the Salvation Army on Friday.
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The Big Boy’s Toys RV has delivered the more than 7,100 kg (15,600 lbs) of food they collected to area food banks.
“It was a really great year. Our communities give awesome support,” said organizer Larry Polnick.
“The motorhome is getting recognized a lot, even so people were waiting for us at places,” he said of the success of the fifth annual food and fundraising effort.
“People even complained that we didn’t leave it open so they could put food in — in a nice way,” he said.
This year for the first time they dropped 2,200 kg off directly at the French Creek Sal-vation Army food bank, with the rest going to Nanaimo.
Polnick thanked donors and sponsors — in-cluding The NEWS — and encouraged people to keep donating directly to the food banks and to watch for them next year.
Check www.bigboystoys.ca or call 250-468-1500 for more information.
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Thank You to our many generous readers who collected and donated pennies for our
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Who?That was a question that kicked
off this year’s annual Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 16.
“Early on it was starry skies with a bit of cloud, which is good owling weather,” said count organizer Sandra Gray. “Five teams went out to do some owling and they recorded a total of eight great horned owls, three barred and one northern Saw-Whet owl, which is fantastic. Any owls we can pull out of the darkness is fantastic.”
In all, she said, 47 birders were divided into nine teams to fan out across the area to record as many types of birds and num-
bers of birds as they could in a 24-hour period. In all, Gray said just under 31,000 birds were re-corded, with 112 species.
“That’s on the high side,” Gray said. “Last year’s totals were an all-time high, with just under 35,000. We’ve had considerably less than that. The first year we had between 9,000 and 10,000, but of course we have more eyes and ears now.”
While there was no spectac-ularly unusual sighting, such as the Citrine wagtail that had Courtenay birders all a-twit-ter, but there was wood duck, a northern shoveler and eight ring-necked pheasants, which was up from zero last year.
Of particular interest to the birders, she said, were the 860
Trumpter swans in the area.“We had quite a few people
really enthusiastic about these gi-ant, white birds,” Gray said. “There were quite a number at the mouth of the Little Qualicum River.”
Also of note, she said were 71 Brant geese, a turkey vulture
and 156 ring-necked ducks.The number of Canada geese
recorded — 1,200 of them — was about the same number as last year and the year before.
“The number has gone up a lit-tle and down a little but they are staying about steady,” Gray said.
The information recorded by the count is forwarded to the Audubon Society, which uses the numbers garnered from counts all across North Amer-ica, to determine how various populations of birds are rising or falling.
CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT
Owlers lead charge to count feathered friends
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Trumpeter swans were one of the highlights of this year’s Christmas Bird Count.
Annual event helps tally a census of bird populations in North America
On Sunday, Jan. 1, 2013, some hardy area residents will be welcoming in the New Year by running into the chilly wa-ters of Parksville Beach. The 2013 Polar Bear Swim is organized by the Regional
District of Nanaimo and, as in previous years, will take place at Parkville Com-munity Beach, with the actual plunge taking place at noon, with registration beginning at 11:30 am.
Members of the Arrowsmith Search and Rescue water rescue team will also be in the water to provide assistance — not to mention encouragement — for anyone who may get into difficulty. Hot
beverages and snacks will be available on a donation basis.
Firefighters and first responders from the Parksville Fire Department will also be present.
POLAR BEAR SWIM
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PROFILE
Videos holding out against InternetParksville store hopes a desire for community interaction keeps them alive at least a few more yearsAUREN [email protected]
The video rental business is suffer-ing in the face of online competition, but Flix n’ Pix is still inviting people in to browse after nearly 20 years.
we’re still here,” said Jaquie Fantinato, who owns the store with her husband Claudio.
-ping pretty steadily for the past three or four years, but hopes they can survive by offering the kind of personal com-
compete with.
wasn’t a store to come to,” she said, pointing out that tourists from big cit-
they still exist.The “mom and pop” stores that
started the industry were completely bought out, replaced or “knocked out” by big box chains in bigger cities, Fanti-nato explained.
“But it turned out they bit off more than they could chew,” she said, so when those chains went out of business, the cities were left with a gap that people already gone and it was too late. market they are happy to fill.
around forever, but the way the world is
she said.-
ness has remained relatively stable,
used to be big have really died off.
and seeing all the people coming in —
-nity and some of her customers grow
the store.“We’ve watched kids grow up, some
of them used to come in car seats and
to see.”Born and raised in Port Alberni, the
Fantinatos moved back to the area in
bought what was then a two-year-old -
they are to this day.They invite everyone to check out
the selection and personal service in the middle of downtown Parksville.
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QB community award nominations
AUREN RUVINSKY PHOTO
Jaquie Fantinato invites people to check out Flix n’ Pix selection at 138B Middleton, Parksville.
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The impact of the snakehead has been devastatingTOM FLETCHERBlack Press
Releasing a snakehead fish into B.C. waters could cost you up to $250,000.
The B.C. government has amended its controlled alien spe-cies regulation to impose steep fines for releasing invasive fish such as the snakehead, a Chinese import with a voracious appetite and the ability to wiggle across land to get to new waterways.
A snakehead fish discovered in a pond in Burnaby Central Park in June forced environment ministry biologists to pump the lake level down so it could be captured. The toothy beasts were being imported and sold alive in Asian specialty food stores.
The new regulations also aim to stop the spread of zebra or quagga mussels that can attach themselves to boats and equip-ment and infest lakes. Failure to remove those mussels, alive or
dead, can trigger a fine of up to $100,000.
“The impact of the snakehead and zebra mussel in other juris-dictions has been devastating to those local ecosystems,” En-vironment Minister Terry Lake said Thursday, announcing the latest changes.
The regulations also prohibit possession and breeding of iden-tified high-risk aquatic species. They expand the reach of legisla-tion passed in 2009 that restricted ownership and breeding of tigers, snakes, crocodiles and a long list of other exotic animals. Added to the list are species of monitor lizard that grow to more than two metres long or otherwise repre-sent a threat to public safety.
B.C.’s restrictions for private zoos were passed after a woman was killed by a Bengal tiger kept in a cage at an exotic animal at-traction on a farm near 100 Mile House in 2007.
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Nanoose artist mimics the seaLISSA [email protected]
When retired diving instructor J Holbrook takes his semi-weekly plunge into local waters, he docu-ments everything he sees very care-fully.
“I take stills and video when I dive and a lot of the creatures I see, the co-lours and textures, I try and mimic,” said the Nanoose Bay artist.
Holbrook grew up in Salmon Arm and after working as a dive instructor in warm places like the Caribbean, he moved to the Island in 1987 to take a job in Campbell River.
He became involved in the forestry sector on the Island, but after 15 years of working in sawmills he had a se-rious work related injury in his neck and had to reassess his life.
“I needed a diff erent way to be,” he said. “So I started looking into things that interested me.”
Holbrook took a course from a master woodworker in Errington named Peter Bailey about eight years ago, and then on to the North Island
College in Port Alberni for their cabi-net maker program. Th ere he received the Top Student award.
Since then Holbrook has made and sold high end custom furniture, and a couple of years ago he began incorpo-rating metals and pebbles into to his work.
Holbrook said he likes to combine wood and metal because of their per-fectly opposite characteristics. Metal is a homogenous material that is con-sistent and fl awless, he said, unlike wood.
“Wood I like because it comes with defects in it and you try to highlight what people might consider to be a defect, but it might be something re-ally beautiful,” he said.
Today Holbrook’s house is fi lled with stunning home decor items like
shelves and boxes, highlighted with copper that has been hand-cut, ham-mered and soldered and then fi n-ished with fl ame to bring out the bril-liant blue and green hues of the sea. He also makes striking jewelry and his newest creation, copper rock cod, are creating quite the buzz.
Th ese one-of-a-kind fi sh are hand-crafted out of heavy gauge cop-per and treated with fl ame to create some colourful, wonderfully west coast characters.
Holbrook is a member of about 15 artists called the Nanoose Studio Tour group, who host studio tours twice a year to showcase their work. His work can be found and purchased at Bows-er’s Salish Sea Market, Nanaimo’s Art Gallery gift shop and on his website, www.jpholbrook.com.
Next Holbrook said he’s going to try his hand at welding, incorporate some more metals, and head down a sculptural pathway.
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Breakers light up Christmas CrackerThe ‘little club that could’ finishes sixth of 25, breaking many of its own recordsJAMES CL [email protected]
In keeping with tradition, ‘tis the sea-son to be speedy for Oceanside’s RAC Breakers, who lit it up again this year at the Christmas Cracker.
In the mix down Island at Common-wealth Pool Dec. 7-9 for the 11th an-nual festive swim meet — one of Can-ada’s largest invitationals numbering 650 swimmers from all over B.C. as well as Oregon and Washington — Break-ers’ head coach John Campbell took 27 swimmers ranging in age from 8-17, “and we did extremely well,” he said, pointing out the Ravensong Aquat-ic Centre-based crew, aka ‘The Little Club that Could’ finished sixth out of 25 teams — bettered only by clubs a lot big-ger than them.
Swimmers are allowed a maximum of nine events each, and in a heats and fi-nals format that means the top compet-itors are turning in as many as 18 swims over the two days.
The swimmers were at the pool and on deck by 7:30 a.m. each morning and swam preliminary heats until 1:30 p.m., then a three hour break before returning for the finals which went from 4:30 - 8 p.m.
“It’s the biggest meet before our championship season,” said the Break-ers’ longtime skipper, pointing to the busy home stretch coming up for the short course campaign that starts with the Regional Championships (VIR’s) in Comox mid-January; followed by the Western Canadian’s in Saskatoon in mid-February, and finally the AAA Championships in Surrey the beginning of March.
Leading the charge for Ravensong at the Christmas Cracker was 12-year-old Joanna (Jojo) Redenbach.
The spark-plug from Parksville won seven, count’em seven, events, touch-ing the wall for first in the 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 50 Fly and 100
Fly, to go along with a second in the 200 IM. All of them personal best times.
“She’s really matured from where she was as a 10-and-under swimmer,” said Campbell, “and with her maturity were able to talk about race strategy and basi-cally get the most out of her. A lot of her top competition was there,” he pointed out. “She swam great.”
Also earning extra props were Simon Gilmour, 12, who won three events (50 Fly, 100 Fly and 800 Free) and placed second in the 200 and 400 Free, along with Angus McGibbon, 17, who came through making four finals with four
personal best times (50 Fly, 50 Breast, 400 IM and 200 Breast) in the senior di-vision.
McGibbon’s time of 4:56.97 in the 400 IM “puts him in striking range of making the Western Canadians qualifying stan-dard for the first time, he’s made some huge gains.”
“Our club records keep falling, and that’s my best indication that we’re getting better,” Campbell said proud-ly, pointing out there were a number of new club records set at the Cracker, none bigger than in the 10&U 200 Fly in which Sophie Lorette “absolutely shat-
tered,” Linsey Epp’s 11-year-old record of 3:16 when she went 2:58.
“They had a blast. This meet is a real favourite with the kids,” Campbell said, explaining there are no medals up for grabs, instead, swimmers vie for prizes. Finish top three and they get their names entered in a draw for iPods, iPod speakers, digital underwater cameras, ear buds, “all sorts of great stuff. The kids love it.”
“Oh yeah, you bet,” Campbell chuck-led when asked if the Breakers might have had some extra pop off the blocks, spurred on by longtime Breaker and UBC standout Kelly Aspinall, 22, who just over three weeks ago powered his way to five gold medals at the Canada Cup in Toronto, set two new UBC re-cords, and took a big step, make that big stroke, towards that spot on the nation-al team and the right to represent his country at the Olympics.
“That’s basically our role as an age group club,” said Campbell, “is to put these kids in a position where they con-tinue swimming successfully once they become a senior swimmer.”
IN OTHER NEWS, on that same weekend, the Breakers’ Maran Kokosz-ka, 15, was selected to compete for Team B.C. at the big annual Paul Bergen Inter-national Swim Meet in Portland, Ore-gon, which also featured teams from Al-berta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, France and Germany.
Kokoszka made B Finals in her 100 and 200 Back “and they were very, very strong mid-season times.”
Also making the trip and competing as a Breaker was Laura Romkes, 17, who won the B Final in the 200 Fly.
LOOKING AHEAD, the Breakers are in the process of preparing for their bi-annual road trip — this is the fifth year — down south to Palm Desert (near Palm Springs) “for 10 days of intense outdoor long course training.”
JOHN CAMPBELL PHOTO
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Midget Reps hit speed bump, still funJAMES CL [email protected]
Oceanside’s Midget Rep hockey team hit a speed bump on home ice heading into the Christmas break, as they came up on the short end of identical 4-2 finals, but their coach says he likes what he sees.
“They’re certainly coming to-gether with the team concept, and I think they’re having a lot of fun right now — it’s high-level up-tempo hockey that’s for sure,” said head coach Darren Freeman.
In action at Oceanside Place Dec. 15-16, the Midget Rep Gens gave Comox and Racquet Club both a good run for their money.
“They were both great games,” Freeman confirmed after, point-ing out “either one of those games could have gone either way — they were both quality games.”
The difference on the day in both games he said “was puck luck basically. Our chances didn’t go in and their’s did.”
The Midget Rep Gens head into the break sitting third out of five teams in their Tier 2 league at 5-5-1. The squad of 15-17 year olds takes its game down Island to the Victoria Ice Hawks Tournament Dec. 28-30.
League play resumes mid Janu-ary at home against Juan de Fuca.
JAMES CLARKE PHOTO
Midget Rep Generals’ Dawson Balaski, above buzzing the Comox net in recent Tier 2 action, and his teammates are hoping for a little puck luck under the tree this year.
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Pass the gravy, actually make that the gridiron please — seems a couple of Whalers will be spending part of their Christmas break down in Texas where they’ve been selected to play for Team B.C.
Football B.C. recently announced its 36-player roster for the provincial U18 tackle football team that will represent British Columbia at the FBU Interna-tional Games as part of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Week to be held in San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 30 - Jan. 6, and two Parksville players will be making the trip.
Selected to the high performance team are the Whalers’ AA MVP quarter-back Liam O’Brien, 17, and Gr. 11 stand-out Brock Mould, 16, who is being pla-tooned primarily at O-line but will also see duty on defence.
“There are only 36 kids on the team, so to have two from Ballenas is awesome,” Whalers’ skipper Jeremy Conn said of the news. “To have a quarterback on that team and a Grade 11 on the team, that’s a pretty big accomplishment for our school.”
Team B.C. is led by head coach and offensive line coach Tom Kudaba, former CFLer now a teacher and head coach of Coquitlam’s Terry Fox Ravens.
Contacted last week, Kudaba said he was looking forward to his first time tak-ing a team to this tournament, a team he says is stacked with talent but faces the challenge of gelling as a unit in a very short amount of time.
“We’re only playing two games down there with possibly a scrimmage against a Mexican group. I would assume all kids on this 36 man roster are going to see playing time.”
At this point he says O’Brien is pen-
ciled in as the number two QB, “but that could change once we get down there. We’ve got three days of practice before our first game, so it will really come down to who’s picking up the system quick-er. It’s a real challenge for these kids to pick up what we’re doing in such a short amount of time. We’ll keep it simple for them as much as we can, but you can’t put them in a offence and expect them to master it in three days that’s for sure.”
Also in the mix representing the red
and white will be a team from Quebec and a team from Ontario.
Team B.C. leaves for the Longhorn State Dec. 29 and opens their FBU Inter-national Games schedule Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 against Team Europe at Heroe’s Stadium. Their second and final game will be against Team USA two days later (Saturday) at the Alamodome.
As fired up as they are to be suiting up south of the border, the Texas tourney was their second choice.
For those following along at home Team BC has placed 3rd the last two years at the Canada Cup, but due to some red tape somehow found themselves on the outside looking in when they were not al-lowed to enter this year, and as such the coaching staff needed to find something to replace it.
For the players (Gr. 11s and 12s), the process started in the spring of last year with an identification camp at SFU, “but prior to that me and (offensive co-ordinator) Jay Prepchuk went around the province to formulate an invite list,” said Kudaba.
Some 200 players turned out at that initial camp, and from there 110 were in-vited back to SFU last May for an intense three day camp from the team that was then believed to be bound for Canada Cup, was selected.
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Ballenas Whalers San Antonio boundTwo Parksville high school football players headed to U.S. Army All-American Bowl
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Alamodome-bound Varsity Football Whalers, QB Liam O’Brien, left, loading up with a snowball, and lineman Brock Mould are part of a Team B.C. headed for Texas for a big tournament.
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“We’re part of a tournament that is part of that week show-case for different ages — it’s big down there,” he said, and an-swered with a quick “for sure,” when asked if his team is look-ing forward to the challenge.
“We think we have the ma-jority of the best players in the province for this age level — and we’re dealing with both AA and AAA here and community foot-ball as well all represented. It’s a good group, and they’ve got their work cut out for them.”
They leave Dec. 30 and re-turn home Jan. 5 and will bring in the New Year there.
“We had our last selection tryout last week at the BC Lions
facility in Surrey and that day we had invited about 50 kids,” Kud-aba explained, adding “We can only keep 36, so it was a tough call to make for almost 16 kids.
“It’s part of the job, and for the players it’s part of the grow-ing up experience, but it doesn’t make it easier,” he said.
As for the two Whal-ers, “they’ve definitely earned their spots on the roster.
“I have an affinity for Brock,” Kudaba said, explaining how he was never the biggest guy on the line back in his playing days either, “but he’s very strong for his age group and size, and he has a good understanding of the game.”
O’Brien he said, “is a big
strong quarterback athlete who’s got a strong arm, shows a lot of poise, and runs well as well. I’m not going to call him the next RG3 (as in Robert Grif-fin III, Washington Redskins QB), but certainly for the high school level he’s a guy who’s got some great athletic skill and he’s able to throw the ball quite well with accuracy.”
O’Brien has been attending Prepchuk’s quarterback camps for a number of years.
At the end of the day the road to the Texas roster both local players agreed “was in-tense,” and both make no bones they’re looking forward to lin-ing up against the Americans in their final game.
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B.C. sending tough team to TexasCONTINUED FROM PAGE A35
“It was a couple of weeks ago on the Monday — Me and Liam were waiting in the library, we knew they were going to announce it on the web at 11 o’clock and right at 11 we went to the site and we were looking for our names, just praying they’d be there,” Brock said with a big smile when asked how they got word they’d made the team Texas bound.
“It’s going to be a great experi-ence,” said the lineman. “Only 36 players in all of BC are going down there, and I’m one of them, and es-pecially to be picked with my quar-terback ...”
“I’m pretty excited,” Liam coun-tered, nodding his head in confir-mation and smiling from ear to ear “probably more excited then I’ve ever been about anything in my en-tire life; I’m really looking forward to it.”
The scheduling works in the Ca-nadian’s favour as Team BC will have an expected pre-tourney ex-hibition game against Mexico and their opener against Team Europe to get their feet under them before taking on the Americans in their fi-nal game at the storied old Alamo Dome in front of what will no doubt be large loud crowd of high school football fans.
Keep in mind the BC High School Football is four down American rules football.
“Its gong to be amazing,” said Brock.
“It’s going to be a great experi-ence for the players, and I’ll tell ‘ya what, I think those Americans are in for a surprise...” Liam’s dad Barney offered up off the cuff in a chance meeting outside a store.
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Team B.C. head coach Tom Kudaba
Tom Kudaba has been coaching every year for 25-plus years, at all levels, from professional, college and high school, since retiring from the game as a player.
A familiar name to CFL fans, Kudaba spent eight years in
the trenches as a lineman in the CFL. He spent his 1976 rookie sea-son with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats; spent six years with the BC Lions under the Vic Rapp era, and played his final campaign in ‘83 with the old Montreal Concorde.
Kudaba knows football
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