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After numerous development attempts on his property over the last 10 years, Bernie Walsh plans to build one and two-story cabins beside The Beach Club in Parksville.

“It fi ts within the current zoning and complies with all the stuff re-quired,” Walsh said, adding that the motel on the property is small and run down for the prime location.

He added he is “looking forward to fi nally getting something done to bring in more commerce to the downtown.”

Walsh has proposed many developments for the beachfront prop-erty at the foot of the Alberni Highway that stirred the community and were rejected by council for various reasons, so he’s applying for a de-velopment permit that won’t require any re-zoning or variances.

“Council will only be able to review the form and character,” said mayor Chris Burger.

Developer Bernie Walsh proposes new cabins on the waterfront

Beach could get cabins

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GREEN THUMBS: Bussy and Hans Trupp are using a square foot gardening technique to maximize their community garden plot in Qualicum Beach. One-year-old Manu Max seems to approve. As the warm weather finally arrives, gardeners are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work.

See CITY FORCED, page A4

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Joanne Sales is the last person who would make a mountain out of a molehill — at least, not when she can make it from invasive broom.

The head of Qualicum Beach Broombusters this week issued a challenge to both Parksville and Qualicum Beach residents to build the biggest mountain of cut

broom possible.The challenge is two-fold,

Sales said. Besides the creation of Broom Mountain or, even the Broom Range of mountains, she’s also challenging the communities of Qualicum Beach and Parksville to lace up their sensible shoes, latch onto some loppers and see which group, individual or com-munity as a whole can bring out

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QUALICUM BEACH — Oceanside RCMP are on the lookout for the driver of a vehicle that slammed into a power pole Sunday night

near the Shady Rest Pub.Corporal Jesse Foreman said the crash happened at 7:15 p.m.

when a Pontiac Grand Am hit a power pole on Highway 19A. When police arrived, he said, a witness informed them that after the colli-sion, the driver grabbed two liquor bottles from the vehicle and fl ed.

Police contacted the owner of the vehicle, a woman from Bowser who stated her vehicle had been stolen sometime earlier.

Police were unable to fi nd the driver and are now looking for the help of the public to identify the male driver, who was wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, described as Caucasian, fi ve feet, 10 inches tall with a bald head and medium build. — NEWS Staff

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Sheri Farhina says she’s no radical, but she loves the B.C. coast and she feels she has to do something concrete to protect it.

The Parksville resident will be part of a group called Cycle to Protect our Coast (CPOC), which will be biking from Campbell River to Victoria to spread their message about the proposed En-bridge Northern Gateway pipeline project from May 18 to 22.

“When you love something, you stand up for it,” she said. “We met after the hearings in Co-mox for Enbridge Northern Gateway and we felt very strongly about that. We said, OK, what kind of project are we going to take on?”

Their fi rst idea, to take a bus to Calgary to protest outside the Enbridge headquarters was quickly dismissed in favour of a ride down Van-couver Island, stopping in communities along the way to present their views in opposition to the project.

“We have set up information sessions at each of the stops, Campbell River, Comox, Courtenay, Qualicum Beach, Parksville, Duncan, Brent-wood Bay and Victoria,” she said.

“We will be at the gazebo in Parksville Com-munity Park at 9 a.m. on May 19 and from there we will cycle to the farmer’s market in Qualicum Beach, where we will have a table. We will all have bright lime green shirts on.”See SUPPORTERS, page A6

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The mayor pointed out council only has any leverage over applications that require re-zoning or offi cial commu-nity plan amendments.

“We can’t just say no to a de-velopment permit application because we don’t like it,” he said, pointing out he will have to “manage the discussion very carefully,” because he knows people will want to talk about the big picture issues around development and the water-front that won’t be relevant.

If they turn it down based on form and character, they have to cite very specifi c and egregious issues or they would likely end up in court, Burger said.

The new proposal is expect-ed at the May 28 council meet-ing, with 81 single unit cabins ranging from around 90 to 140 square meters (1,000 to 1,500 sq.ft.), built in phases as the market allows.

Walsh said they will just sell the cabins to single owners, who will be able to come and

go as they please or put them in a voluntary rental pool.

He has admitted frustra-tion with the process in the past, saying they would fi nd a way to build something within the tourist commercial zoning which allows hotels but not the mixed residential, commercial council said they wanted in the past.

“It’s not what we wanted to

do, it’s what they’re forcing us to do,” he said after the last rejection, but he is optimistic about getting something built there soon.

He said they could start construction immediately af-ter fi nal approval and suggest-ed if everything fell into place they could start building over the winter with the fi rst sales next summer.

An artist’s rendering shows a sample of what beachfront cabins could look like in Parksville, should a planned development by Bernie Walsh proceed.

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PARKSVILLE — Dignitaries were on hand Sat-urday, May 12 to cut the ribbon and offi cially open Parksville’s Craig Heritage Park for the season.

Ken Welwood president of the Craig Heritage Park Society asked Parksville Mayor Chris Burger to dedi-cate the property which offi cially became a park this month. The historic property has undergone some major improvements including better access for peo-ple with disabilities.

Burger said it is the volunteers who make the park successful and once the tourist season gets underway it will be bustling with visitors.

“It is especially important for tourists to know a bit about the history of the area,” he told the crowd on hand for the opening.

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Volunteers make it work, says Burger

Heritage Park opens for season

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Museum volunteers demonstrate the art of forging during the Craig Heritage Park’s opening day events.

Parksville mayor Chris Burger (second from left), with society president Ken Welwood, councillor Bil Neufeldand manager Buddty Williams cut the ribbon to open a new season at the Craig Heritage Park.



Nanoose Bay is helping fundraising stars Maya and Han-nah Cudney reach $5,000 for the Rick Hansen Foundation.

Maya, a 10-year-old, Grade 5 student at Nanoose Bay El-ementary (NBES) has been making and sell-ing Hope Rope brace-lets since Grade 1 and was nominated by her

principal as a medal bearer for the 25th an-niversary Rick Hansen relay across the coun-try, ending May 22.

When Maya and her sister Hannah met Hansen in Victoria re-cently, Maya was invit-ed to walk with Hans-en. Maya said she was thrilled to meet one of her heroes and she presented him with a special Hope Rope.

The relay retraces

the fi nal 12,000 kilo-metres of Hansen’s historic 40,000 km trip around the world, raising over $26 mil-lion for spinal cord research.

Maya’s mother Maureen said NBES principal Steve Ham-ilton and secretary Colleen Barnatt have been key supporters.

“Nanoose Bay has been absolutely phe-nomenal, it’s become such a community project,” she said.

Maya was inspired by her grandfather’s battle with cancer to start the Hope Ropes when she was six, to raise money for the B.C. Cancer Founda-tion. They have since raised over $15,000, including money for other groups like the food bank and Mayan

Families, which has earned Maya recogni-tion through things like a Save-on-Foods Amazing Kids schol-arship. Maya’s efforts have inspired other schools in District 69

and Nanaimo.Hope Ropes can be

purchased, or dona-tions made to the Rick Hansen Foundation through Maya’s web-site at www.hoperope.ca.

The hand-craft-ed, limited edition bracelets in Hansen’s colours of yellow and black are also avail-able at the Nanoose Bay school offi ce for $10.

During their tour, Farinha said supporters will be invited to join the team on what she called ‘pocket cycles’ of a few kilometres each.

The information they will be disseminating, she added, is disturbing, noting that En-bridge and Kinder Morgan have no liability for the costs of a coastal oil spill once a tanker has been loaded, as each tank-er is set up as a fl oating corpo-ration, specifi cally to reduce the amount a company could be considered liable for in the event of a spill.

In conjunction with the ride, Captain Brian Falconer, the co-ordinator of marine operations for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, will give a public presentation at 1:30 p.m. on May 19 at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre.

The presentation is free.


Supporters invited to ‘pocket cycles’

A member of Parksville council threw his support behind a group cycling from Campbell River to Victoria to raise aware-ness of the threat to B.C.’s coast from a proposed pipeline and increased oil tanker traffi c.

Coun. Bill Neufeld said he donned a Protect Our Coast T-shirt and stood with the group to show his concern about the risks posed by the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and the tanker traffi c it would bring.

Not only the Enbridge proposal, but a similar plan by Kinder Morgan to twin its pipeline to the Port of Vancouver is weighing on Neufeld’s mind.

“The doubling of the pipeline wouldn’t mean twice the tanker traffi c on the coast, but 11 times as much,” he said.

Neufeld said it would just take one tanker having a major spill to devastate the coast.

Neufeld said British Columbia has a signifi cantly different approach to the potential risk posed by the project than than those on the other side of the Canada/U.S. border.

“Washington State has something like 75 to 80 employees involved in the environmental side and Alaska has that many or more, but I think we have a total of eight here in B.C.,” he said.

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PARKSVILLE — What do the Salvation Army and B.C. Children’s hospi-tal have in common?

In Parksville anyway, they have a special program being run by Save-On-Foods.

Operations manager Maurie Robinson said the plan is to offer $8 bags of food for sale at the store for the discounted rate of $5, with all funds raised going towards B.C. Children’s Hospital and all the food being do-nated to the Salvation Army food bank.

The promotion will run right through the May long weekend.— Neil Horner

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Salvation Army Major Rolf Guenther and Save-On-Foods operations man-ager Maurie Robinson are hoping for a strong response to their project.

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Local governments marked National Emergency Prepared-ness Week (May 6-12) by intro-ducing a new communications trailer.

Customized with countless donations and volunteer hours for just $26,000, the District 69 Emergency Communications Team can tow it to any secure location, unlock the door, turn on the battery, generator or plug it in and be relaying life saving information back and forth to the world in minutes.

With several overlapping technologies the team — com-prised largely of Mid-Island Radio Association members — can speak to or exchange e-mail by radio, with the nearest emergency centre.

Municipal amateur radio co-ordinator Bob Longmore explained while they may only need to communicate with Victoria or Kamloops — with communication being one of the weak links in a large scale disaster — they are able to re-lay messages between local emergency services and the closest regional managers, us-ing repeaters from anywhere

in the world.“All we are is a conduit,

in the case of a disaster we’d send messages on to the gov-ernment,” Longmore said, explaining they would work closely with a separate emer-gency command centre.

The trailer, aside from com-fort and portability, replaces the team’s tent. The trailer has a built in system to quickly raise an antenna and between the batteries and generator can power itself for many days.

With a central place to work with the special equipment, the team now needs more vol-

unteers interested in learning how to help provide that cru-cial link in the event of a major disaster that experts say is not a question of if, but when.

For more on emergency preparation in general check the local municipal websites at www.parksville.ca, under the “quicklinks” on the right, www.qualicumbeach.com, www.rdn.bc.ca and the national site at www.getprepared.gc.ca.

For more information, or to join the communication team check www.mira-orca.ca or e-mail Longmore at [email protected].

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the most broom busters to the event, slated for May 18, 19 and 20.

The focus of the attention, she said, will be the highway interchange in Parksville, which is heavily infested with the alien species.

“This spot is just so ter-rible,” she said. “The broom is completely out of control.”

Sales said Qualicum Beach Broombusters have cleared out the vast majority of broom from within town limits, so they want to help Parksville tackle their own infestation. However, she stressed that it’s going to take a concentrated effort to make an impact on the problem.

“Courtenay is getting their interchange cleared right now and Qualicum Beach is in fair-ly good shape, so Parksville will be left as a sea of broom,” she said. “Rather than wait around for somebody else to do it, let’s do it ourselves. We’re challeng-ing Oceanside community to show what can be done when the community comes togeth-er. So many communities have given up on this, but we want to say, let’s not give up.”

Ideally, she said, other com-munities that have been in-fested by the Scotch pest will be inspired by a strong turnout in Parksville to take up the lop-pers themselves.

To take part in the Broom-busters challenge, residents

don’t need to have experience or even their own loppers. Those can be supplied. All they have to do is show up at by the train station in Parks-ville on Friday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sign up fi rst for a highway insurance form, then head with everyone else to the interchange and get cutting.

People can also sign up on Saturday, this time at 10 a.m. at the weigh station at Highway 19 and Kay Road in Parksville, or on Sunday, although the lo-cation will be determined by the location where the team feels they can come up with the biggest mountain of broom.

Sales stressed that partici-pants should wear a hat, sensi-ble shoes and gloves and bring some water and a snack.

Although Broombusters has about 40 pairs of loppers avail-

able for people who don’t have their own, anyone who has their own set is encouraged to bring it.

Volunteers can show up any time during the weekend, or for all three days.

The individual, group or club that brings the most cut-ters will win the coveted Gold-en Loppers, supplied by THE NEWS.

There will be other prizes awarded as well, Sales said.

“We’re asking local busi-nesses if they can offer re-freshments, a gift certifi cate or something fun to thank the volunteers and make the weekend more fun.”

For more information, to donate, or to keep track of where Sunday’s cut is going to take place, visit broombusters.org.


Focus will be on Parksville

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Broombusters are confident they can make a broom mountain much higher than this if they really get a strong turnout.


The Friends of French Creek Conservation Society and Qualicum Beach Streamkeep-ers are chopping the noxious, invasive giant hogweed from the banks of French Creek again this season.

Crews have already been out three times this spring to tackle infestations on proper-ties near Imperial Drive, the railway trestle and Hof Wal-deck farm, reports team leader Michael Jessen.

An average of seven volun-teers have taken part in each “dig” and they are looking for

more volunteers for several more days out by the end of June when the weed becomes dormant.

Giant hogweed was prob-ably brought to the French Creek watercourse 60 years ago. Starting in the Winchester Road area it has since spread to much of the creek and other areas, including Romney Creek near Parksville, Milner Gardens and recently at Trillium Lodge.

The weed and its sap can cause blistering and scarring on the skin of people who come in contact with it. It can be safely dug up as long as workers wear clothing that

covers all skin and eyes.A member of the carrot

and parsley family, hogweed reaches up to fi ve metres tall with a hollow, ridged, central stem two to six centimetres in diameter, with purple or red blotches and coarse hairs. Its leaves are broad and unevenly lobed and can grow to one me-tre across.

Ministry of Forests and Range’s management strategy for dealing with hogweed can be found at frenchcreekhog-weed.ca.

For details or assistance, contact Jessen at 250-752-4579 or [email protected].

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Garbage men/persons/sanitary en-gineers may seem an unusual the subject for a literary effort, but back in 1969, Canadian author and humorist, Harry J. Boyle, wrote a

collection of musings he called Straws in the Wind. Each musing included comments on ev-erything from pussy willows and women shop-pers to garbage men.

Boyle defends the garbage men’s creed of creating as much noise as possible and sympa-thizes with their need for recognition along with the high profi le community service of fi remen and police, to wit: “The wispy trails of more mature refuse on the street give the citizen a full measure of awareness of the men who pick up and haul away.”

Granted, today’s complicated garbage day displays and combos do not allow quite the fortissimo or olfactory ren-ditions of years past, but the soup cans still clatter and the gears still grind. Like all music, the compositions change with the age.

Today’s garbage collection is an activity regimented and controlled by the lower levels of government, and every con-tainer of waste has its day and roadside requirements. It was not always thus.

Early days in northern Ontario were a far cry … Each household had some very large container in the back yard which held a homogenized mixture of all household refuse.

The one I remember was a grey galvanized monster — from childish recollections, at least four feet high, about three feet in diameter, with a conical lid and one handle straddling the peak. The garbage men of the day were either particu-larly strong or suffered chronic back and shoulder pain.

The collector himself was some private entrepreneur with maybe a one-ton truck sporting wavering wooden sides and rear. He may or may not have had a calendar; the ‘monster’s’ contents were often basted with juices well simmered in the

July sun. Once the week’s (month’s?) garbage was tilted into the truck, the vehicle drove off leaving behind an odious brown trail to its next stop.

Enter composting and recycling onto the var-ied stages of garbage collecting.

Back in the good old days when glass was one of the early recyclable products, we were fi rst faced with the chore of removing all labels. But all glass was not considered equal. I recall cer-tain frosted gin bottles — rejected, and left at the curb to advertise my sins.

It was a relief when “bottles’ rights” won their case against frosted glass discrimination. But here we are again with all glass being denied a seat anywhere on the re-cycle bus.

What a boon to the refuse receptacle manufacturers was the “Beans to Bones” set up — bright, shiny, wheeled green bins and subtly coloured counter food waste catchers. All these “… a mandatory service for single family … residenc-es” but denied to apartment and condo dwellers. More dis-crimination against the poor garbage and its householders.

Luckily there is a wheeled and pulling gizmo that can be attached to those weighty blue boxes, because a yellow bag with two weeks worth of newspapers, fl yers galore, maga-zines, and Cheerios boxes, plus cans and plastics beside it in the box add up to several pounds. In an area with the coun-try’s oldest population it makes sense for people to roll their boxes to the curb rather than carry them with weak backs and a tin hip or two.

But why, I ask you, do those pretty yellow bags often dis-appear along with the blue box of recycle items? Three times now, my yellow bag appears to have accompanied every-thing else into the trucks’ maws, never to be seen again at my curb. If everything in the blue box can be dumped together and at the same time, why are we instructed to keep the stuff separate in the fi rst place?

Ah, the vagaries of garbage and its destination.

WILLIWAWSBy Nancy Whelan

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Parksville council asked staff to bring back a proposal for a council advisory committee to help guide them on some of the bigger or trickier issues.

Council has been looking at veri-ous ways to be as open and commu-nity responsive as they can, mayor Chris Burger said, so at their regular May 7 meeting they asked staff for in-formation on establishing an advisory group of resident volunteers.

Burger said councillor Sue Powell brought forward the motion, though he was already in favour, wanting to “take advantage of the huge intellec-tual infrastructure here ...”

He pointed out it is not a new idea,

including in Parksville where previous mayor Ed Mayne set up a “blue rib-bon panel” to advise on big issues and Sandy Herle established an advisory council that didn’t last.

Burger said it is a matter of fi nding the right format for dedicated citizens to have input and make recommen-dations, with all decisions still going through council, similar to the exist-ing Advisory Design Panel and Advi-sory Planning Commissions that re-view projects before council.

He suggested it could be particu-larly useful for delicate issues like the recent council stipend increase and big controversial projects.

Staff will report back to council with some options, possibly as soon as the newly added May 28 council meeting.

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G et ready for the next wild ride at city hall in Parksville.

Development on the waterfront is back in the spotlight this week as property owner Bernie Walsh pres-ents his latest proposal for his land

next to The Beach Club resort. For years, Walsh has been duelling with city hall and city residents over his plans for the site.

Walsh has done his best to try to come up with a plan to replace his Parksville Beach Motel with something that fi ts with the city’s offi cial commu-nity plan — and with the desires of area residents. To date, he has been rebuffed each time.

Now, instead of building a paved parking lot there out of spite (he was probably joking bitterly when he mentioned that option), Walsh is proposing a high-density project featuring cabins. Not the rustic kind, but tourist-oriented residences — modern cabins that can be bought as homes and/or included in a rental pool format. He says his latest plan fi ts the current land zoning.

That means as long as the development looks good, city hall really can’t do a thing, legally, to stop it. City hall has been gun shy of approving develop-ment on the beach, ever since existing buildings re-ceived a very rough ride from folks in each of the last two municipal election campaigns. It’s safe to say the issue still exists, as residents are very protective of the waterfront — and the views of the ocean from above Highway 19A.

This latest proposal will certainly raise those feel-ings again, as it gets away from outright commercial development there, and proposes largely residen-tial or tourism accommodation. During the last go-round, Walsh’s proposed mix of residential and com-mercial structures received a very cool reception.

Now, however, he’s sticking with the zoning and there will be little anyone can do to stop it. It is, after all, private land.

And this time, it would seem the decision-mak-ing is being taken out of people’s hands. For Walsh, it must come none-too-soon. For everyone else, our chance for compromise on a project we could live with is long gone. – editorial by Steven Heywood

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NOT A HARPER FANThe Harper Conservatives are neither free

enterprise nor democratic. Free enterprise refers to a form of capitalism where the gov-ernment does not interfere in the economy.

The Harper Conservatives are using every lever of government to push through their rip it; strip it; and ship it mode of develop-ment of the tar sands, with huge taxpayer subsidies, in a way that favours only the Chi-nese and global extractive corporations.

All independent economic analyses re-veal there is not even an economic case to be made for how the tar sands are being de-veloped or the pipelines pushed through.

Ways that would make economic sense and benefi t all Canadians, including Alber-tans, are shut out. We can’t even refi ne the crude in Canada because of the way this re-source is being developed. And this before we get to health and environmental costs!

Do you have any idea of what is going to happen to ferry rates and the cost of every-thing on this island if the price of oil goes up by $2 – $15 per barrel as the oil and pipeline industries anticipate?

Then we have the Harper Conservatives repeatedly breaking Canada’s own election laws as well as intentionally lying to the House and Canadians about the benefi ts of the way they are developing the tar sands as well as the costs of the F-35 jets and the Libyan mission.

The misrepresentation of the full costs of the F-35s, as well as the total lack of due process in awarding that contract is what

brought us the last election. The Harper Conservatives intentionally manipulated this so they could try again to get their so-called majority.

We need to stop this Machiavellian be-haviour if we don’t want to end up in a neo-fascist state with a raped environment!

YVONNE ZAROWNYQualicum Beach

A LOVELY GESTURE On Mother’s Day I was travelling In Parks-

ville behind a small van when it suddenly pulled over and a woman in a safety- striped shirt jumped out, ran across the road and gave a very elderly lady, who was sitting on a bus-stop bench with her husband, a long, single stemmed rose.

With a wave she was back in her truck and away. It called to my mind an occasion when I was around 55, sitting in a pub with a lot of friends, when a young fellow of around 20 did the same — bought a rose from a vendor and crossed the pub to hand it to me. I have never forgotten this; amazing how a simple gesture can stay with you for a lifetime.

DIANA MEYERQualicum Beach

MAKE SOME MUSICThanks to a federal grant, free weekly

music classes starting on May 23 and a free 10-hour intensive program in July are being offered at the Arrowsmith Hall.

The one-hour classes are in the day-

time and early evening on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

If you enjoy singing or playing guitar, ukulele, banjo, fi ddle, harmonica, or a per-cussion instrument and would like to learn to play songs in the jug band style, you can register by calling Val Dare at 250-586-6583 or e-mailing [email protected].

Registration is limited and classes are starting to fi ll up — there’s already a wait-ing list for ukulele. Some instruments can be provided if you don’t have your own.

VALERIE DAREParksville

GREEN SOUNDS GOODI like the idea of the bus terminal prop-

erty being turned into a open green space where public events could be held for ev-eryone to enjoy. Let’s call it Qualicum place, eagle place or whatever.

The property has a spectacular open view of Mt. Arrowsmith which from the center of town will clearly be appreciated by visitors and residents for ages to come.

A nice green space with a elevated con-crete pad for a centerpiece stage would be excellent. Add some old style streetlighting, brick walkways, seating, perhaps a large ea-gle carving or two and then the town is ready for some festivities. This venue could be used by the many community and cultural groups to attract and bring popular events into the town.

TOM DEIRQualicum Beach

LettersLettersQUOTEABLE:

“No engine on earth makes the sound of that car.”

KEN KIRKBY, see story page B7

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Parksville:250-951-6018e-mail: [email protected]

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VIEWS IN THE NEWSWe asked: Are you happy with the level of drunk driving enforcement in Oceanside?

No. You still see too many people driving drunk on the road.

LUISE NORMANErrington

Yes, I am satisfi ed. I also think every convicted drunk

driver needs to have a breathalyzer installed

in their car.

LINDA THOMASErrington

No. Especially when there is zero tolerance.

Why don’t they en-force in places where they serve alcohol at

closing time?

JENNIFER BROWNParksville

I feel it could be enforced a little bit

more. The roadblocks should be later at night. Not 6 p.m.

CHRISTINE BRYANTErrington

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TEUNIS WESTBROEKMayor,Town of Qualicum Beach

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JAMES LUNNEY,MPNanaimo-Alberni

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FEDERAL: QUALICUM:

CHRIS BURGERMayor,City of Parksville

City Hall office:250-954-4661e-mail: chrisburger@

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JOE STANHOPEChairman,Regional District of Nanaimo

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If the English lan-guage made any sense ‘lackadaisical’ would have something to do with a shortage of fl owers.

— Doug Larson

But it doesn’t — make any sense, I mean. Why,

for instance, would any decent tongue adorn itself with con-tronyms? These are words that, depend-ing on context, can

mean the exact oppo-site of what they seem to mean. Thus, we have the word ‘cleave’ which can mean to stick together, or to rend asunder. We have ‘fast’ which can mean speedy — or ut-terly immobile. A trip to Gay Paree is not the same as a trip over a loose shoelace. The alarm on your bed-side clock goes off by going on. A pyroma-niac/author could put

out a fi re — or put out a new book (Looking Blackward, Harbour Publishing 252 pag-es).

And if that author was a sado-masoch-istic opportunist he could fl og himself — or his book (Looking Blackward, Harbour Publishing, 252 pag-es).

Don’t panic — I’m about to wind up this contronym tangent I’m on. But do I mean

wind up as in ‘bring to an end’ — or wind up as with a baseball pitch?

Forget contronyms, what about verbing?

Your English teach-er might call it “the practice of denomi-nalizing — turning nouns into verbs.”

I call it a viral plague. Much of it is computer-based.

‘Blog’ is a word that isn’t even old enough to vote — it’s derived from ‘web log’ and has led to bloggers, blogging, even blogo-sphere. Hideous words all, but, like warts on a toad, with us for the duration.

Likewise ‘Google’,

formerly a noun (Google it, if you don’t believe me); also Xe-rox, fax and ‘text’.

There’s nothing wrong with turning nouns into verbs; it goes on all the time. One can dress in a dress, dream a dream and dance a dance, but where do you draw the line?

For me, it’s at Face-book. I won’t join the social phenomenon because I cringe at the thought of ‘friending’ anyone. It just sounds creepy and vaguely pedophilic. And de-friending? Puhleeeze.

I am much more amenable to the idea of paraprosdokians.

A paraprosdokian is a fi gure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unex-pected. The best one I ever heard sprang from the lips of John Wilkes, an English politician who was lambasted by the Earl of Sandwich a couple

of centuries ago. The Earl roared at him in the House of Com-mons: “I do not know, sir, if you will die on the gallows or of the pox” (i.e., of syphilis).

Quick as a fl ash Wilkes stood up and purred, “That de-pends, my Lord, on whether I embrace your Lordship’s prin-ciples, or your mis-tress.”

Paraprosdokians don’t have to be that exquisitely elaborate.

Dorothy Parker was a master (mistress?) of the genre. She once sniffed, “I know a woman who speaks eighteen languages and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.” Anoth-er time: “I require only three things of a man: he must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.”

But the master of paraprosdokians? Sir Winston, of course.

Churchill once explained his facil-ity with English. It sprang, he said, from

his poor scholarship.Other students

were taught Latin and Greek but because he was considered ‘slow’ he was taught only English.

“As I remained (in third year) three times as long as anyone else, I had three times as much of it. I learned it thoroughly. Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the English sentence — which is a noble thing.”

It certainly was when fi ltered through the Churchillian vocal cords.

Such as the occa-sion when a mousta-chioed young Winston was confronted by an angry female voter.

“Young man,” she sniffed, “I care for nei-ther your politics nor your moustache.”

“Madam,” respond-ed Churchill, “you are unlikely to come into contact with either.”

— Arthur Black lives on Salt Spring Island

English, as she is spoke, can be a verbal plagueBASIC BLACKBy Arthur Black

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Revamped plans for the running of BC Ferries is miss-ing the point completely, says MLA Scott Fraser.

The NDP representative for the Alberni-Pacifi c Rim con-stituency said the injection of $79.5 million into the partly privatized corporation will do little to address the core prob-lems with the ferry service.

“The Liberals brought in the Coastal Ferries Act, which qua-si-privatized the institution with a deeply fl awed model,” Fraser said. “The commission-er’s report talked about reach-ing and exceeding the tipping point of affordability. They have over-priced the product and made it cost-prohibitive to travel to Vancouver Island or

the other islands and the pub-lic interest isn’t met.”

Fraser said the corporation’s focus on increasing prices to address falling revenues is misguided.

“Every time they need mon-ey they increase the price and they lose more ridership,” he said. “What this bill does is continue to raise the cost of ferries — at double the rate of infl ation from the looks of it.”

At the same time, he said, British Columbians are going to lose services as the corpora-tion fi nds effi ciencies and cuts

back sailings.“We’ll be paying more

and getting less,” Fraser said. “That’s the solution they have, and paying more will lose more ridership.”

What is needed, he said, is a full review of the ferry system, with the aim of returning it to being considered a part of the provincial highway system.

“This is a transportation system,” he said. “There is a cost to all roads, bridges and transportation in general and ferries are a form of transpor-tation and there’s a cost to it. We need a complete review of BC Ferries, with the mind of bringing it back to being part of the highways system and treating it as such. It’s an es-sential transportation route, like a highway.”

Ferry travel too expensive: MLAWe’ll be paying more and

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SCOTT FRASER, NDP MLA

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While pension assets represent an important source of retirement income, locking-in restrictions

can hamper retirement income planning fl exibility. By making full use of maximum withdrawal limits, thousands of dollars of pension savings can be unlocked while remaining tax-sheltered.

Individuals with pension savings of-ten transfer these assets to a locked-in plan, such as a Life Income Fund (LIF) to provide retirement income. While a LIF provides a certain degree of fl exibil-ity, the annual minimum and maximum withdrawal limits can restrict retirement income planning. You are able to unlock a portion of your locked-in savings with-out losing the benefi t of tax-sheltered in-vestment growth.

If you are looking for ad-ditional retirement income fl exibility, there is a straight-forward strategy that can un-lock some of these locked-in funds. If you need less than the maximum LIF withdrawal amount each year, the differ-ence between this maximum amount and the amount ac-tually withdrawn from the plan can be transferred di-rectly to a Registered Retire-ment Savings Plan (RRSP) if you are 71 or younger, or to a Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF). The ad-vantage? You are able to unlock a portion of your locked-in savings without losing the benefi t of tax-sheltered investment

growth. The unlocked funds can be used when the need arises, without maximum withdrawal restrictions.

An in-depth lookPension legislation impos-

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in plan, it continues to be locked-in, even though the individual had an opportu-nity to withdraw it. Any unused amounts between the minimum and maximum amounts, however, can be transferred to

a regular RRSP for those 71 or younger, or to a RRIF each year. This unlocks assets that would otherwise remain locked-in while maintaining the tax-sheltered in-vestment growth. While the person may not need immediate access to these funds, they gain future fl exibility in their retirement income planning.

Here is a tip: If funds are currently in a Locked-in Retirement Account (LIRA), individuals can transfer to a locked-in plan such as a LIF as soon as pension leg-islation allows. This is typically at age 55, but varies by province — Alberta is age 50; Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick and funds governed by federal legislation have no age requirements.

WHERE IT COUNTSBy Stuart Kirk

Pension assets: Unlocking locked-in funds

See CONSIDER, page A22

Orca Airways makes return to Qualicum BeachVancouver-based small airline to offer fl ights between Qualicum Beach and VancouverBRENDA [email protected]

With BC Ferry fares on the rise residents of Vancouver Is-land are looking for other ways to get to the Lower Mainland and with the addition of Orca Airways Ltd. at the Qualicum Beach Airport, they now have one more option.

Orca Airways has been fl ying between Vancouver and Tofi no for seven years and the compa-ny has added Qualicum Beach to it’s schedule.

Andrew Naysmith, president and CEO of the Vancouver-based airline said when they at-tempted to offer service in Qual-icum Beach a few years ago, the demand wasn’t there.

He said now they feel there is a market for fl ights between Qualicum Beach and Vancouver and they are offering two fl ights departing daily except Saturday between Qualicum Beach and the Vancouver South Terminal.

Naysmith said it has been rewarding working with his fa-ther-in-law Harald Leukefeld, who used to be director of main-

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and now have 18 and 55 em-ployees,” stated Naysmith.

From its humble beginnings in 2005 with just a Navajo Chief-

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The King Air 200, which is used for private charters, can seat up to eight people and trav-els up to 280 nautical miles per hour.

The company recently ac-quired a building for its opera-tions. The hanger is one of the original buildings at the south terminal in Richmond and the company moved in to their new headquarters one month ago.

The south terminal is also ex-panding and offering more ame-nities including an outdoor ob-servation deck with telescopes to watch the the big planes come in and land at YVR.

If you have some time be-tween fl ights, the terminal is just a short walk from the Flying Beaver Bar and Grill a popular place to eat at the Harbour Air terminal on the Fraser River.

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Following this course of ac-tion means they will need to make their annual withdrawals earlier than they might have planned — but they benefi t by the unlocking occurring earlier as well. Note: Some provinces do not allow a transfer back to a LIRA once the LIF option is chosen.

Don’t need income?You may still want to con-

sider an unlocking strategy as early as possible. The mini-mum payment you have to take into income can be used to make your annual RRSP contribution or to make a tax deductible interest payment on money borrowed for invest-ment purposes.

Other optionsIn order to provide more

fl exibility in meeting fi nan-cial needs during retirement, several pension jurisdictions now provide individuals with the opportunity to unlock some or all of their locked-in funds. Some pension jurisdic-tions have introduced a lim-ited one-time opportunity to transfer a portion of LIF funds to a regular RRSP, for those age

71 or younger, or RRIF. This means individuals may be able to unlock 25 to 50 per cent of their locked-in savings with-out losing the benefi t of tax-sheltered investment growth. The amount that’s left remains locked-in and is subject to the annual minimum and maxi-mum withdrawal limits. Some provinces offer a prescribed RRIF (PRIF) that can be used for funds transferred from a pension plan or from a LIF. With a PRIF, the funds remain subject to the applicable pen-sion legislation but there is no limit on the maximum annual payments. The investments in a PRIF continue to benefi t from tax-sheltered investment growth.

Ideal candidatesAn unlocking strategy for

pension savings is worth con-sidering for those who:

• Are relying or plan to rely primarily on pension funds as their main source of retire-ment income.

• Are looking for more fl exi-bility in terms of access to their retirement savings.

• Anticipate needing less than the maximum amount

from their LIF over the next several years.

The unlocking strategy is an easy one to carry out each year. You simply need to:

• Select the minimum with-drawal amount (or the amount needed as income) from the LIF and complete form T2030 once a year to transfer any leftover maximum to an RRSP (for those under age 71) or to a RRIF. This is a direct trans-fer, so no RRSP contribution room is required and there is no withholding tax.

Remember to always con-sult your advisor before taking any action.

Written by Stuart Kirk, CIMStuart Kirk is an Investment

Funds Advisor with Manulife Secu-rities Investment Services Inc and a

Retirement Planning Specialist with Precision Wealth Management Ltd. The opinions expressed are those of the author and may not necessarily

refl ect those of Manulife Securities Investment Services Inc or Precision Wealth Management Ltd. For com-

ments or questions Stuart can be reached at stuart@precisionwealth.

ca or 250-954-0247.


Consider an unlocking strategy

Another local travel optionSome of Orca’s pilots said

it has a great patio where you can sit and watch the fl oat planes take-off and land on the water.

Angela Giannotii, a travel consultant at Expedia Cruise Ship Centre in Parksville, sam-pled one of the fl ights on Orca Airways and said it is great to have another option to offer her cruise clients.

The south terminal has a free shuttle to the international airport where passengers can get the Canada Line to board a cruise ship at Canada Place.

With free long term park-ing at the Qualicum Beach Airport, Giannotii said it is a convenient way for Oceanside residents to get to Vancouver.

She said the Tsawwassen ferry terminal doesn’t have a bus and it costs about $45 dol-lars to get a cab from Horse-shoe Bay to Canada Place so fl ying to Vancouver has some benefi ts.

Most international airlines allow 50 pounds for checked luggage.

Baggage is free up to 35 pounds on Orca Airways with additional weight be-ing charged $1 per pound but management said they make every effort to accommodate extra luggage and if there is no room on one fl ight, they can send luggage over ahead of time on other fl ights.

For information on fl ights go to www.fl yorcaair.com.


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It helps you understand, at an intuitive level, what feels right and what feels wrong. In essence, it gives you what everyone calls a “gut feel” for success. And, it’s why venture capitalists focus

on past successes much more than past failures.It is immensely valuable for people to participate in a pat-

tern of success. That will shape the way you think and make you immensely more valuable to the next business venture you go to or start yourself. The most important thing you can develop early in your career is a gut for what success feels like. The only way to do that is to be part of something suc-cessful.

So, please don’t tell yourself that you’ve learned more from your failures. We all get character from our scars, but we learn far more from our successes.

— Kim Burden is executive director of the Parksville and District Chamber of Commerce

VOICE OFBUSINESSBy Kim Burden

Learning from our successes is valuable VANCOUVER ISLAND MAYWORKS PROUDLY PRESENTS:

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In loving memory ofChristian Newland Donkersley

July 13, 2001 - May 12, 2007

May the winds of love blow softlyAnd whisper so you’ll hear;

We will always love and miss youAnd wish that you were here.

You’re deeply missed by your cousins, Sydney, Nash & Peyton

MERGENS, Michael WilliamSept. 24, 1934 – May 7, 2012

Mike passed away after a very courageous battle with cancer. He will be forever missed by his loving wife Linda, of 26 years, and her sons Raymond and Michael Clarke. He is also survived by his daughter Lynda Brown and grandchildren Vanessa, Tristen and Clarissa (Matt), his sister Molly, his brothers Peter (Marjorie) and Joe (Vicki), and many nieces and nephews. Mike was born in Weyburn, SK and grew up in Cran-brook, BC where his love for the sport of curling began as a teenager. He worked as a Human Resources Man-ager for 34 years in the Forest Industry followed by 4 years with Purolator Courier until his retirement in 1996. A man of integrity, Mike touched many lives. He was loving, caring, strong, positive, humble, charming and honourable. These are only a few words that describe the amazing man Mike was. He shared his love where ever he went and never lost his sense of humour. Special thanks to everyone who was involved with Mike along

his journey with cancer. In lieu of fl owers please make a donation in his name to the Canadian Cancer Society.

A celebration of his life was held at Yates Funeral Home on Saturday, May 12, 2012.

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

P. Gordon WilleySeptember 09-1938-May 08-2012

Passed away peacefully while visiting family in Alberta. Gordon was an auto mechanic and body man in Vancouver for most of his life, retired to Vancouver Island in 1987 to enjoy boating and fi shing and became a member of the Nanaimo Power Squadron. He then took on a new venture and turned his talents to repairing shopping carts and became part-owner in the Canadian Carecart Co. He is survived by his sister Brenda Kirincich [Norman] his brother Ronald [Marie] along with his nephew Richard, nieces Terri Quandra [Mike], Nikki Gilks [Kirk], children Kandis and Bradley,Lisa Esposito [Carmine] and children Dario, Rico and Enzo. A memorial service will be held at Yates Funeral Services, 1000 Allsbrook Road, Parksville, BC

on Wednesday, May 16th. 2012 at 1pm.

BUCHHOLZJames Ernest William

April 21, 1930 – May 5, 2012James (Jim) Buchholz leaves behind his beloved wife Joyce and his children Robert, Kim, William and Kenneth. He was predeceased by his oldest daugh-ter Elizabeth. He passed away in the early hours of May 5, 2012 after a 2 week long battle for his life af-ter a terrible single vehicle crash. It was a battle that he appeared to be winning until he suffered a heart attack from which he would not recover. Jim’s career included working at British North Ameri-can Oil Company (Gulf Oil), National Energy Board, Northern Pipeline Agency, Indian and Northern Af-fairs- Director of Indian Minerals (West). He and his wife retired to Vancouver Island in 1985. Donations can be made to Prostate Cancer Canada.

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

Earle T. MitchellThere will be an informal open house celebration of Earle’s life on Saturday, May 26th, 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. at Sherry

and Warren Mitchell’s home, 1147 Wedgewood Close (Eaglecrest), in

Qualicum Beach. Evelyn and family would love to have you drop by to

remember Earle and share your stories.

Rennie & Judy Haylock are pleased to announce the birth of their adorable little grandsongrandson

born at Victoria General Hospital Jan. 30, 2012 weighing 7 lbs. 6 oz.

Sleepless in Victoria are his proud parents Brodie and Joe. Celebrating with them are 1st time grandparents Sue Poirier & Gary Cooper

of Fort, Saskachewan and John Cunningham and Carol Wagner of Fort St. John. Also thrilled with a new grandson is

great-grandmother Lauretta Smith (nanny 2) of Parksville, B.C.

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS


FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

DEATHSDEATHS


CELEBRATIONS

MAURICE (MOE)ROY

the world has lost a very wonderful husband, great father, brother & friend. A celebration of Moe’s life will be held at180 Veterans Way, Qualicum BC (RC Legion #76) at 2pm on Satur-day, May 26, 2012.

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

COMING EVENTS

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

INFORMATION

IF YOU want to drink, that is your business. If you want to STOP, we can help. Alcoholics Anonymous. 1-800-883-3968

PARKSVILLE &DISTRICT MUSICAL

ASSOCIATIONANNUAL GENERAL

MEETINGWill be held Wed,

May 16, 2012, 7:00pm Oceanside Community Arts Council Building.

LEGALS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

IN THE ESTATE OF LUCINDA ROMA

SOCHA, DECEASED LATE OF PARKSVILLE, WHO DIED NOVEMBER

20th, 2011. Creditors and all others having claims against the Estate of LUCINDA ROMA SOCHA, are hereby notifi ed pursuant to s. 38 of the Trustee Act, that particulars of their claims and any se-curity held by them, should be sent to the Ex-ecutor of the said Estate, c/o the Solicitor for the Estate at the address set out below, on or before the 30th day of June, 2012, after which date the Executor will distrib-ute the Estate among the parties entitled to it, hav-ing regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.THOMAS & COMPANYBarristers, Solicitors &

Notaries Public#6 - 162 W. Harrison Ave, PO Box 1779,

Parksville, BC, V9P 2H6File No.: 11844

TRAVEL

GETAWAYS

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HOME BASED Business. We need serious and motivated people for expanding health & wellness industry. High speed internet and phone essential. Free online training.www.project4wellness.com

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

APPLY NOW: Pennywise Scholarship For Women to at-tend Journalism certifi cate course at Langara College in Vancouver. Deadline May 30, 2012. More information: www.bccommunitynews.com

CELEBRATIONS

HELP WANTED

33 YEARS established Ford dealer on beautiful Sunshine Coast, looking for an experi-enced Automotive Salesper-son with proven track record. Please send resume to [email protected] 1-800-538-4504.

An Alberta Construction Com-pany is hiring dozer, excavator and rock truck operators. Pref-erence will be given to opera-tors that are experienced in oilfi eld road and lease con-struction. Lodging and meals provided. The work is in the vi-cinity of Edson, Alberta. Call Contour Construction at 780-723-5051.An Earthmoving Company in Alberta is looking for a 3rd year or Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic. You will be part of a team maintaining and servicing our fl eet of Cat doz-ers, graders and rock trucks plus Deere/Hitachi excavators. You will work at our Modern Shop at Edson, Alberta with some associated fi eld work. Call Contour Construction at (780)723-5051WANT TO see Scenic BC? Needed immediately . Experi-enced Feller Buncher Opera-tor with Chipper Head/Mower to work around Hydro Trans-mission Lines. Must be willing to travel throughout BC (based out of Vanderhoof). $28-$34 per hour + Benefi ts. For more info e-mail: [email protected] Resume to: SBCJOBS Box 1136, Vanderhoof, BC V0J 3A0 or Fax: 250-567-2550

PARKSVILLEPETRO-CANADA

Is Hiring P/T or F/T Service Attendants.

Apply in person at 431 East Island Hwy

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

CELEBRATIONS

HELP WANTED

JASPER SUPER A is current-ly recruiting a candidate withgood interpersonal and com-munication skills, with a posi-tive energetic attitude for theposition of Full-time Perma-nent - Premium Clerk. The pri-mary duties include scanning,ordering, receiving, merchan-dising, replenishing stock, in-ventory and facing shelves.Candidates require the skillsand ability to maintain opera-tional objectives in the Man-ager’s absence. Computer lit-eracy is a must. Candidatesmust have the fl exibility towork a variety of shifts includ-ing days, evenings, nights andweekends. A grade 12 Diplo-ma and a clean SecurityClearance are also required.Jasper Super A offers com-petitive compensation, rentalaccommodations and healthbenefi ts package to eligibleemployees, as well as the op-portunity for personal and pro-fessional development. If youbelieve that you are preparedfor this challenging positionand have an interest in work-ing within a dynamic organiza-tion, please submit your re-sume, in confi dence to: JasperSuper A, P.O. Box 818, 601Patricia Street, Jasper, AB,T0E 1E0. Fax 780-852-5491.Email: [email protected] thank all applicants, how-ever, only those selected foran interview will be contacted.

PROFESSIONAL JOB Oppor-tunities. Troyer Ventures Ltd.is a privately owned, fl uidtransport company servicingNorthern BC and Alberta. Weare an equal opportunity em-ployer now accepting applica-tions at various branches for:Mechanics (Commercial Trans-port or equivalent). WageRange: $25-$40/hour. Mini-mum experience required:second year apprenticeship orequivalent. Professional Driv-ers (Class 1, 3). Wage Range:$25-$35/hour. Minimum expe-rience required: six monthsprofessional driving. Field Su-pervisors. Annual SalaryRange: $90-$110,000 (basedon qualifi cations). Minimumexperience required: previoussupervisory experience. Suc-cessful candidates will beself-motivated and eager tolearn. Experience is preferred,but training is available. Validsafety tickets, clean drug test,and drivers abstract are re-quired. We encourage candi-dates of aboriginal ancestry,persons with disabilities, andmembers of visible minoritiesto apply. For more informationand to apply for these opportu-nities, visit our employmentwebpage at: http://troyer.ca/employment-opportunities

HOTEL, RESTAURANT, FOOD

KITCHEN MANAGER Re-quired at Gary’s Bistro. Apply with resume to Gary, 115 2ndAve. Qualicum.

LITTLE MOUNTAIN CAFE is looking for 2 creative, enthu-siastic cooks for breakfast,lunch & dinner service. Mustlike working independently.Please bring resume to Debraor Sandra at 1000 BellevueRd, Errington. No phone callsplease.

MEDICAL/DENTAL

P/T MOA needed for Medical Offi ce in Q.B. 20hrs/week ap-prox. Afternoons 1-6pm+ holi-day/temp. relief. Computer,Communication & Multi-task-ing skills required. G.S.O.H.essential. Please send re-sumes to 173 Fern Rd.

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IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM


May 13 was Licensed Practical Nurses Day in BC. It’s the day we celebrated LPNs’ contribution to nursing teams and to the health of our communities. Join us in thanking them, every day of the year.

The next LPN Day is about 365 days away.Let’s thank them every day until then.

Uniting nurses for quality healthcare

The Gardens at Qualicum Beach has an immediate need for an experienced and motivated PART TIME Maintenance Worker. The successful candidate will be responsible for regular maintenance repairs, building improvements, environmental issues and fi re and life safety. You will have a proven knowledge of plumbing, carpentry, commercial painting, gardening, electrical and HVAC. You will also have a good working knowledge of computers and be able to organize a schedule of maintenance. A positive attitude and a commitment to customer service are key.

Please submit your resume IMMEDIATELY, in the strictest confi dence, via our website at:

www.retirementconcepts.com/careers

Retirement Concepts is an equal opportunity employer.

Maintenance WorkerSeniors Care

Qualicum Beach

The Regional District of Nanaimo has an employment opportunity for a Superintendent, Transit Operations in the Transportation Services Department.

Visit our website at www.rdn.bc.ca (employment opportunities) for a complete job posting.

Employment Opportunity for

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WORK WANTED: Gardening, Housekeeping, Dog Walking, Car Washing, etc. $18/hr, 2 hour min. Small pick up for Yard Waste Removal. Please call 250-248-3248.

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MEDICAL/DENTAL

CDAFamily dental practice in Parksville area is search-ing for a Certifi ed Dental Assistant to help with chair side duties, 9 month position - 6 hours/day. Must be mo-tivated & work well in a team environment.

Send resumes to [email protected]

TRADES, TECHNICAL

WELDERS, FITTERS required for busy Edmonton FCAW structural steel shop. $27-33/hour base plus benefi ts, OT, indoor heated work, paid fl ight. Fax: 780-939-2181, Email: [email protected]


TRADES, TECHNICAL

SOFTWOOD LUMBER GRADERSPECIALTY LUMBER

MILL Located in PARKSVILLE requires for a minimum 3 Years -

A FULL TIME EXPERIENCED

TICKETED SOFTWOOD LUMBER GRADER

CLASS A OR B.

Must be physically fi t and able to work 10 hr days. The work entails heavy lift working a trim saw and grading specialty high end Douglas fi r structural timbers.

Excellent renumeration for the right candidate with bonus for speed, ac-curacy and 100% on grade components.

Resumes must be re-ceived not later than May 21 and must include 4 references, copy of grad-ing ticket and drivers li-cense.

Please reply to Offi ce Manager, Box

782, Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1T2

PERSONAL SERVICES

HEALTH PRODUCTS

WAIST AWAY the summer days in a new bathing suit. Get your 1st 9 weeks for $99 - Proven Results! Call Herbal Magic now 1-800-854-5176.

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HELP WANTED

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LEGAL SERVICES

CRIMINAL RECORD? Don’tlet it block employment, travel,education, professional, certifi -cation, adoption property ren-tal opportunities. For peace ofmind & a free consultation call1-800-347-2540.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

COMPUTER SERVICES

Friendly in homeMac/PC support and

lessons. Certifi ed tech, 15 + years experience

making technology approachable and easy to understand. All my

work is guaranteed. Call Scott @ 250-821-1994.

DRYWALL

Taping/ Texturing/ Painting. Reno & Repair Specialist. 30years of fast friendly service.Wayne 250-752-4658 QB

GARDENING

MANURE FOR your garden, free delivery, $60 (truck load).Call Matt at 250-240-1116.WES-COAST YARDBIRDS.Lawns, gardens, yard clean-up, hauling. Pressure washing,Irrigation, carpentry. TreePruning, Topping, Removal.Please call 250-752-9444.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

ALL TYPES of hauling. Smallloads, garden waste, construc-tion debris & junk. Call Ron250-757-2094.PHONE ANY day. We willHaul Away. Call anytime at250-468-5733.

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PAINTING

A STROKE ABOVE Painting. Commercial & Residential. In-terior/Exterior. WCB, liabilityinsurance. All jobs warranted.See what we can do! Dave250-248-0335, 250-240-2310.A1 QUALITY PAINTINGExperienced-Insured-References I love to paint! (250) 248-8450.A & M PAINTING. Interior &exterior. Free estimates. Call250-248-3604.BC PAINTING Inside/Ext 20yrs exp. No job too small.250-248-1160.POIRIER PAINTING, Resi-dential / Commercial / VinylSiding / Driveway PowerWashing/ Driveway Sealing.Fully insured, GuaranteedWorkmanship, Free Estimates.Call Dan 250-240-3528. WCB

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GARDENING

Lawn & Garden Maintenance

Design/Installation

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BARK MULCH

BARK MULCHBark Mulch Per Yard:

Fine Dark Fir $21 Medium Dark Fir $18 Cedar Mulch Med. $12 Fine $15 Chips $15

White Sand $15+ taxes

WE DELIVER

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LANDSCAPING

• Blue & Multi Driveway Chips• Construction Aggregates

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Golf Canada’s season-opening amateur cham-pionship — the 2012 CN Future Links Pacifi c Cham-pionship — is offi cially in the can, and people are still talking about the play of Ca-nadian National team mem-ber Anna Kim of Toronto.

Kim fi red a six under par on Sunday’s fi nal round to win the junior girls division of the big annual showcase.

Nanaimo’s Zach Ander-son won the junior boys di-vision.

Played out Friday through Sunday at Morningstar Golf Club, the 54-hole competi-tion for the top under 18 players in Western Canada, including national team members, brought out the best in many of the 99 golf-ers (72 males, 27 females) here.

According to event chair Mike Loftus, Kim’s six under par “is a new course record for ladies here at Morning-star,” explaining the old re-cord was 68 but has an aster-isk beside it as it was played out from slightly longer tees.

“But yesterday was just an incredible round of golf — she did everything,” Loftus said of Kim, adding, “she’s just a phenomenal player. It was a pleasure to watch and see someone of that calibre playing here, and that is an LPGA score, that’s not a CN Future Links Junior score.”

Also playing in the lead group on Sunday and show-ing she has ice in her veins was 14-year-old Naomi Ko from Victoria who pushed her older counterpart on ev-ery hole.

“I was amazed at her — she held her own,” said Loftus, Morningstar’s vice-president of sales and mar-keting, adding, “she’s not on the Canadian National team yet, but the national team coach spent more of the day watching her than prob-ably the girl who shot the 66. Here’s this girl that’s 14 years of age with a phenomenal temperament and is so cool on the golf course.”

No where did was that ice water more evident, he said, then on hole 15. Kim had a two-shot lead at the time, “and she chipped in off the

green, and I was amazed to see Ko stand up there and knock in a 20 footer for bird-ie to stay within two, and then on 17 to knock in a 25-footer to put more pressure on Kim. (Ko’s) an amazing young player — she plays the course much older, and I think you’ll hear big things about her in the future.”

“There’s been some excel-lent golf — the calibre of play seems to be getting better

every year,” Morningstar’s Grant Skellern echoed from behind the wheel of a golf cart during Sunday’s fi nal round. “There’s some great coaching, even here on the Island, and that’s certainly helping their play. Their eti-quette and their mannerism on the course is excellent. All week long we haven’t had any problems whatsoever. It’s been a real treat this year for sure.

“And of course the condi-tion the golf course was in last week (very wet) com-pared to what it is now is because of the grounds crew here. You can’t say it’s a mira-cle, but boy if somebody had seen it last week they’d have never thought they’d have this event,” he said.

Skellern, who works in the pro shop and has been a sales rep in the golf biz almost 40 years, has volun-teered for too many junior tournaments to count, and makes the point “you try and give back as much as you can.”

The girls, he said, stand a much better chance of

JAMES CLARKE PHOTOS

Victoria’s Naomi Ko blasts out of a bunker during Sunday’s final round.

Kim, Anderson win at Morningstar

Ball players get back to the basicsJAMES CLARKE [email protected]

“The game is simple. Hit, run, throw and catch.”

It was back to the basics for Royals’ skip-per Dave Wallace and company as they took to the fi eld that bears his name up at Spring-wood Park recently for the 18th annual Parks-ville Royals Baseball Clinic.

Sponsored by Quality Foods and Dairy Queen since year one, “we had 37 kids out, which was up substantially from last year — we were quite pleased with the numbers,” Wallace said after the clinic, held last Tues-day.

The 90 minute clinic stresses fundamen-tals and featured 11 Royals’ players and three coaches — Wallace, pitching coach Jim Seredick, and associate head coach Bruce Biro.

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Future Links amateur championship sees 99 junior golfers take on a hard course

Anna Kim fired a six-under par set a new course record on Sunday to win the 2012 CN Future Links Pacific Championship.

See ANDERSON, page A30

See GOOD FOR ROYALS, page A30

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Hole in one for Gordon

QUALICUM BEACH — From Kathy Len-nox comes word that Lynn Gordon watched her ball soar across the gully on hole number 14, roll up to the pin and drop into the hole for an ‘eagle’ hole in one.

It was Gordon’s fi rst ace on what was an eventful morning for the Qualicum Beach Memorial 18 ladies Golf Club as fi ve other ladies scored birdies (Susan Paterson had three, Marilyn Roney, Lennox, June Dunn and Charlotte Dun-woody).

Wednesday was also the ZCTC (Zone Club Team Cham-pionship) qualifi -er. Hope Kitzler won the Div. A Low net with a 66 and Susan Paterson was second at 68. Charlotte Dunwoody was tops in Div. B at 62 and Tina Hawkins in second at 65.

According to Lennox, two teams from the QBMGC ladies group will head up to Storey Creek Golf Course in Campbell River in June: Team one (18.1 – 25 handicappers) is Lynn Gordon, 69, Barb Borritt, 68, and Karen Cari-gnan, 69.

Team two (25.1- 40) is Pat Chern, 72, Shir-ley McGill 68, and Joan Jeffs, 72.

— James Clarke

LYNN GORDON


landing a university golf scholarship, but that said, he continued, most of the golfers who competed on the weekend, males and fe-males, will go on to compete at college.

Enjoying Mother’s Day on Sunday was Adriana Ko, who was walking the course with her husband and young son in support of her daughter Naomi.

“Very much,” she said when asked if she’s enjoying the event.

Asked what she thinks of the course — Naomi had never golfed Morning-star before — Adriana said “it’s hard I think.”

It took some 40 volun-teers to keep the tourney running smoothly, and orga-nizers began preparing for it over two months ago.

Tigh-Na-Mara was the host hotel.

Fifteen-year-old Santiago

Bouyra from Mexico, cur-rently in his second year at the Brent Morrison Golf Academy out of Pheasant Glen Golf Resort while at-tending Kwalikum Second-ary School, fi nished 31st among junior boys with a 236 total. Only 16 players in the fi eld of 99 were from Vancouver Island.

Nanaimo player Zach Anderson “he was defi nitely the best left-hander in the tournament, and he won it all,” said Loftus.

“He showed incredible patience out there, he played within himself very well, and he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat on the 18th hole.”

According to Loftus, Gared Du-Toit from Kimber-ly was leading by one shot going into the last hole but triple-bogied the tough 18. Anderson was able to make bogey to win by one shot.

Also impressing was Em-mett Oh from Calgary who shot a two-under Sunday to

fi nish seven over and tied for second.

“Working with Golf Can-ada, we always consider it a privilege,” said Loftus. “They bring us some great play-ers, they run great champi-onships, and our members and the local people have a chance to see some of the stars of the future here. In general the golf was excep-tionally good this year, and I think it helped market the Oceanside area by having this event here.”

This is the second time Morningstar has hosted the tournament, the fi rst time in 2009.

“They’ve asked us to be more permanent in it,” said Loftus, adding, “they like the venue; the golf course is perfect for championship play, so they’d like us to hold more events — not only Fu-ture Link events, but more national championships.”

JAMES CLARKE PHOTO

Santiago Bouyra from Mexico was introduced to many of the top junior players in Western Canada.


Anderson snatched victory on hole 18

The kids ranged in age from 5-12, and there were a number of girls in the mix.

“More and more each year,” said

Wallace. “Lots of enthusiasm,” he said of the kids, “willing to learn and very typical of previous years. It’s always fun to go out there — it’s really good for our

players to work with the younger kids, it’s a tremendous experience for them, and they enjoy it.”

— PQ NEWS SPORTS


Good for Royals to work with youngstersJAMES CLARKE PHOTO

Royal Mackenzie Parlow was up at Springwood helping out at the long-running camp he attended as a young player.

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The sport of soft-ball is back on solid footing in these parts thanks in large part to a new crop of young players who have em-braced the learning curve.

The Parksville Rage girls softball club boast two teams this year — a Bantam team and a Squirt team.

Squirt coach Kevin Spicer, a teacher at Kwalikum Second-ary School, has two daughters playing — his oldest, Gabrielle, is on the Bantam team, and his youngest Me-riana, plays for the Squirts.

In action against Ladysmith last Tues-day up at Springwood Park, Meriana started the game on the hill for the Rage and struck out the fi rst six batters she faced to pace her team to a 22-13 win.

“They’re doing re-ally well considering we have 10 players this year new to soft-ball,” Spicer said of his squad, comprised of 11 and 12-year-olds.

IN OTHER AC-

TION, the older Rage were in Port Alberni over the weekend for

the annual 12-team Bantam Blast softball tournament.

Coached by long-time local coaches Cheryl McNichol and Greg Roy, the Bantam Rage have been to-gether for a few years “and the team is com-peting well in their league.”

At the Bantam Blast, which featured seven teams in the B division and fi ve teams includ-ing the Rage in the C, Parksville went 2-2 in pool play and lost a nail-biter 13-12 to their rivals,the Cedar Heat, in the bronze medal game.

“It was a really good game,” said Spicer, who made the trip up to Port Sunday to cheer the team on.

“Both teams were playing smart and hit-ting the ball well; the Cedar team ended the game with a double play.”

Earning Player of the Game props on the weekend were Gabrielle for her de-fensive play and Tyra McNichol for her hit-ting and pitching

The Rage are half-way through their reg-ular season as part of the seven-team Ban-tam House League

made up of teams from Parksville and Nanaimo.

But it’s the addition of the Squirt team that bodes well for the fu-ture as word spreads

about the game.“It’s growing for

sure,” he said of the numbers locally, add-ing, “many of the girls joined this year and did not know their

was girls softball in the area, which is a shame as who knows how many other girls and families do not know there is a league for them,” said coach

Kevin, adding, “it’s a lot of fun ... my team is really improving and we have set a goal to win the Islands in July in Victoria.”

GAME ON The Bantams were

back in action on Sun-day and on Thursday the Rage host a big game against a rep team from Nanaimo.

Bantams and Squirts are all the Rage this season

JAMES CLARKE PHOTO

Parksville pitcher Meriana Spicer delivers some more heat during her team’s recent win over Ladysmith up at Springwood Park.

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Second Section ARTS & LIFEDANCE MUSIC

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Some dynamic young dancers will perform Friday, May 18 at the Whalebone Theatre in Parksville. At a recent rehearsal, the members of Helix Dance Theatre worked on their choreography for a piece called Sinner Man.

Helix Dancers at Ballenas BRENDA [email protected]

Fans of contemporary dance won’t want to miss an upcoming performance by the Helix Dance Theatre company in Parks-ville.

Several pieces including four origi-nal new works will be presented by gifted young dancers at the Ballenas Whalebone Theatre May 18.

Helix was co-founded by Sarah Pan-ichelli-DeVito and Kourtney Hunchuk and is celebrating its third anniversary.

This will be the fi nal performance of the season and the dancers will present a fan-tastic evening of sophisticated dancing.

The company incorporates contempo-rary jazz and theatre as a medium to con-vey education through dance.

Their goal is to showcase the talents of gifted and diverse young dancers through unique and relevant repertoire that con-nects dancers to their communities while demonstrating an elevated technical and artistic calibre.

Currently there are 11 dancers between the age of 13 and 18 in the company from Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Nanaimo and Courtenay who bring a wide range of dance genres to the group and perform mainly contemporary pieces.

Panichelli-DeVito said one of the dances is a modern piece about six and a half min-utes long that she choreographed called Sinner Man.

It is based on the civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the south-ern United States to defy segregation laws and call for change.

“The piece is inspired by the stories of the freedom riders of 1961. These people changed the south. It is a heavy duty topic but the girls are invested in it,” she said.

Part of her mandate is to have the danc-ers understand the piece.

Coming from Courtenay to Nanaimo, dancers will bring the Whalebone Theatre to life

BRENDA [email protected]

There will be a wide range of lo-cal talent on stage during an annu-al event that supports rising stars in the community and provides an evening of quality entertainment.

The Mosaic Youth Talent Show-case, supported by the Rotary Club of Parksville, takes place on Fri-day, May 19 at 7 p.m. Knox United Church in Parksville.

Local country singer Beth Marie Anderson is producing the show this year which includes scholar-ships for those selected to per-form.

Anderson said this year she had many people audition or enquire about the show but she had to nar-row it down and she’s thrilled with the high calibre of talent for the show.

The talent showcase has per-formers in various artistic disci-plines and each of them will get a scholarship.

See ANDERSON, page B5

Localrising stars entertain

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They know the sto-ries they are present-ing and the girls re-searched the piece

and totally embraced it when it was present-ed to them.

They debuted the

piece in Nanaimo back in November at the Port Theatre and Pa n i c h e l l i - De V i t o said the dancers re-ally do justice to the choreography and will once again convey the emotion of it for the audience in Parksville.

The moving piece is set to an interest-ing mix of songs from the old south and includes gospel and slave music.

Panichelli-DeVito is also excited that Jes-sica Atkinson will be performing a modern contemporary piece on Friday night.

Atkinson who just returned from danc-ing with the contem-

porary Gallim Dance Company in New York City began her dance training at the Parks-ville Ballet School.

In Grade 10 she moved to Vancouver to join the Arts Umbrella SPARTS program.

She continued there for four years and completed the Arts Umbrella/VCC Graduate Program.

Atkinson has par-ticipated in Spring-board Danse Mon-treal where she got to perform with the Rub-berbanddance Com-pany. The Montreal-based company is well known for breaking new ground on stage by fusing elements of

ballet, contemporary and street dance. Its choreography mixes the exuberance of hip hop with the re-fi nement of classical dance to present a new concept of dance.

Atkinson is now teaching various classes on the Island and in Vancouver and will be performing a piece that she choreo-graphed herself called To Catch a Dandelion.

A lyrical piece by guest choreographer Mike McInnes will also be presented.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $12 and are available at Mulberry Bush Book stores and at the door.

Dance piece debuted in NanaimoCONTINUED FROM B1

Author and historian Jan Peter-son will read from her new book, Kilts on the Coast: The Scots Who Built BC at the Parksville Mulberry Bush Book Store.

The public is invited out 7 p.m. May 17 to meet Peterson and hear some fascinating history of the province and Vancouver Island.

The Nanaimo author will read from her new book which examines how the Scots settled Vancouver Is-land and ultimately built B.C.

In her eighth book, Peterson re-veals how generations of Scots con-tributed to the development of B.C.

From Alexander Mackenzie to Sandford Fleming there is no ques-tion that Scots have had a major impact on Canada, but their role in western Canada is equally ubiqui-tous.

A survey of the history of the West Coast quickly reveals the fundamen-tal infl uence the Scots had on B.C.

When the Hudson’s Bay Com-pany decided to establish its new Pacifi c coast headquarters at Fort Victoria in 1843, it was one of the last places in North America to be settled by Europeans.

Vancouver Island was seen as a wild and untamed source of wealth for Queen Victoria and the ever ex-panding British Empire. It was Scots who answered the call of the HBC to come to the Island and manage the company’s business in Fort Vic-toria, engaging in the fur trade and establishing coal-mining ventures around what is now Nanaimo.

Peterson came to Canada in 1957, settled in Port Alberni in 1972 and her eight books include a memoir and a trilogy on Nanaimo where she lives.

Her work as an investigative jour-nalist and historian has earned her several awards and certifi cates of recognition. — submitted

Readings: on kilts and agingNaomi Beth Wakan will be reading

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The essayist and poet, with more than 40 books published (19 in the VIRL) lives on Gabriola Island.

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Anderson, 25, sang in the fi rst show which her father initiated through the Rotary Club of Parksville.

For four years she performed in the event and now she is the producer.

This year she will do a special performance with Erick Gow. The two will sing a duet from West Side Story.

Gow who does stand up comedy will emcee the event and will perform a come-dic song he wrote with Nicco Rhodes.

Previous perfor-mances by talented youth have included opera, classical mu-sic, musical theatre, hip hop dances and contemporary sing-ing, among others and this year the en-tertainment line-up is varied.

“I have really talent-ed people in the show,” admitted Anderson who added, “This year I had to turn people away. It is growing and it is encouraging to see all the new talent and I am excited for next year to showcase the talent that isn’t in this show.”

Kiana Smith who has performed in Mo-saic before is a dancer who enjoys hip hop and other dance disci-plines and she will be dancing solo, as well as with a dance troupe called Foot Clan.

Nic Annau will do an acoustic set playing guitar and singing.

Sisters Bethany Freed and Kristen Freed will be dancing solo performances.

Esme Liddicoat who studying at the Victoria Conservatory of Music is coming back for her second Mosaic performance doing classical voice.

Cate Richardson who is studying at the College of Performing Arts in Victoria will per-form musical theatre.

Nicholas Atkinson a 17-year-old from Parksville who took top honours in four categories in the North Island Festival of Per-forming Arts will be doing musical theatre.

Atkinson placed fi rst in musi-cal theatre ballad, musical theatre comedy, American folk song and Italian art song at the festival back in February.

Emily Brandstatter and Morde-cai Tang will be doing a Spanish

dance duet which won them fi rst place at the Upper Island Music Festival in Nanaimo last month.

Lemon Tree a sister duo from Parksville who perform regularly at the Errington Coffee House will entertain with their country har-

mony.Lachlan Craven a talented el-

ementary school student will be playing piano. Nicco Rhodes will perform solo on piano.

Tickets for the May 19 show ($15 adults, $10 students, kids 12

and under free) can be purchased at Cranky Dog Music in Parksville and Mulberry Bush Book Stores or at the door.

Anderson said she has made the event affordable because she wants to encourage families to come out.

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Sara Marreiros, Victoria’s master of Portuguese fado will be back in town this weekend performing with pianist Ron Had-ley at the Old Dutch Inn.

Her music has been described as evocative and soulful, and when she sings in Portuguese she em-bodies the music she grew up listening to.

Marreiros takes the audience from delight to despair and back again when she sings the traditional folk music.

Portuguese fado is best heard in a small venue and The Old Dutch Inn is the per-fect setting to enjoy the Victoria vocalist.

Marreiros will be performing at the Qualicum Beach res-taurant accompanied by pianist Ron Hadley on May 18 and 19

She sings in both English and Portu-guese; everything from fado to bossa nova/samba and jazz to country and western.

The remarkable vocalist has been discovering her own voice by merging the music of her roots and the music she came of age with.

Fado is to Portugal what fl amenco is to Spain and what the blues are to the Amer-ican South.

Marrieros grew up spending time in her father’s vil-lage in Portugal. Her mother’s love of im-provisational music led her to study jazz in high school where she discovered that

singing, not fl ute or saxophone, was her passion.

She began per-forming with Djole, sang jazz in clubs, turned up at local improv nights, and started working in electronica.

She could always hear the siren song of fado, but it wasn’t until her heart had its own cruel experienc-es with life that she felt ready to sing the music she had heard since she was a girl. Her father helped her fi nd her way into the many layers of mean-ing that are so much a part of fado and a whole new musical world began to open.

She studied the

history of the music and traced its roots back to the infl uences from which different styles evolved.

Marreiros said al-though she was born with musical talent, she has done plenty of training and she is constantly learning, pushing her voice and herself to try new things.

“There has been a lot of training and wel-coming other sounds and embracing other ways to sing…but it has evolved in an or-ganic way. I like to challenge myself by learning different lan-guages to sing.”

She said she learned Portuguese when she learned

English but having that second language growing up helped her wrap her mouth around the words of other languages.

She admitted that she still fi nds singing to a Brazilian crowd challenging some-times.

“I stumble occa-sionally but if your heart is in the mo-ment you improvise and you embrace those moments and have fun with them because often won-derful things come out of mistakes,” she admitted.

Marreiros said she loves singing in all venues and enjoys coming to Qualicum Beach to perform with Hadley.

“I do my best to be centered in what-ever space I am in. It doesn’t matter what the space is if you are connecting with the people in the room.”

If you are looking for outstanding mu-sic and a great food you should check out Marreiros at The Old Dutch Inn. The Friday and Saturday night entertainment gets going at 6 p.m.

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Victoria vocalist Sara Marreiros will be back in town this weekend perform-ing with pianist Ron Hadley at the Old Dutch Inn.


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Artist, author, activist and environmentalist are just a few hats Ken Kirkby wears and if you happen to see a sexy, blue Austin-Healey

driving around Qualicum Bay, it is likely Kirkby behind the wheel and the story about how he recently acquired the classic roadster takes many twists and turns.

Kirkby is known for his tireless work to restore the pink salmon run in Nile Creek. He has spent countless hours on the habitat restoration project and has used the proceeds from the sale of his paintings to fi nancially support the Nile Creek Enhancement Society.

To explain the history behind the British sports car now in Kirkby’s driveway, one must know a bit about the man to realize how signifi cant the car is in his life. The painter, who has has lived in many places around the world, now calls Bowser home.

Kirkby was born in London, England. He was brought up in Portugal, where his father was behind the country’s rebuilding, following the war. When he was 17 he became involved in a revolution in Portugal, where many were killed and few escaped. Luckily, he and the Canadian am-bassador to Portugal had become close fl y fi shing friends and the man helped him fi nd refuge. He provided him with the necessary documents and he also gave him a map to the best fl y fi shing spot in the country, the south shore of a place called Nile Creek on Vancouver Island. He had friends there who owned a cabin and Kirkby would be wel-come. Kirkby immediately fell in love with the place and he promised himself that one day he’d return.

He was 18 and headed off for the Arctic and wouldn’t return to the Island until he was 60. Kirkby left the Arctic when he was 26 and arrived in Vancouver and that is where the story of his beloved Austin-Healey begins.

“When I came back from the Arctic I was walking down Broadway past a car dealership and there in the showroom

window was this thing. Oh my god,” he recalled after he fi rst set eyes on the car. “I actually sat in front of Mi-chelangelo’s David and I thought it was the most beautiful thing ever … but I found I was wrong. I went in and talked to them about the car and I sat in it … wow.”

He said he didn’t ask the price and didn’t care.“I said I will take it. It was $6,600. Now of course $6,600

in 1969 would buy you half a house … in some places a whole house,” he admitted.

A while later Kirkby got married and because the car is a two seater eventually the rare car had to go even though it was the apple of his eye.

“I am not a materialistic person even in the remotest way. But the one thing I regretted was selling that car to the point where it became a recurring dream which in turn became a nightmare.”

Kirkby had told the story of his car and nightmare to anyone who would listen to relieve his anxiety — includ-ing a lady in Qualicum Beach who said ‘oh my mechanic friend is crazy about these cars and you should talk to him’. Two nights later he was having a party and along came the woman with her mechanic in tow.

“The mechanic gave me a printout of a Healey for sale. For three days I skirted the phone, I couldn’t resist it any-more so I called the guy in Shawnigan Lake, he then said he would be willing to bring it up.”

Long story short, the vehicle is the same one Kirkby re-luctantly gave up all those years ago.

“When I sold the car, that person sold it to someone in New York, so it has been around. The only material thing on this planet I hungered for I got back … I am blessed and will be driving around in the summer in my baby.”

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“No engine on earth makes the sound of that car. It is sort of like a terrestrial spitfi re from the Second World War.”

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Coombs will be buzzing this weekend with a host of events to celebrate the

100th anniversary of the French Creek Community School and the upcoming birthday of the Coombs Ag-ricultural Fall Fair.

The little school with the big heart is inviting everyone to join them May 18 to 20 for a walk down memory lane.

There will be histori-cal memorabilia, Maypole dancing, games, entertain-ment and a whole lot more.

To mark the centennial of the school, students have been encouraged to dress in any fashion mode of the past century on Friday.

Over the past few weeks the students have been busy making decorations for the occasion and the public is invited to take a tour of the school to check out the art work and the memory lane displays.

The community of Coombs found its roots as a Salvation Army colony be-ginning in 1910.

A group of pioneers were sent from England to Van-couver Island by Salvation Army founder General Wil-liam Booth and his commis-sioner in Canada, Thomas B. Coombs.

Bert Topliffe, one of the eldest living members from the fi rst colony of families to settle in Coombs still re-

sides in the area and will be on hand to celebrate the birthday of the school he at-tended as a young boy.

The fi rst log cabin school built on Gibbs Road, now called Shearme Road in

Coombs dates back to 1910, the same year the colony was founded.

The present day school began as a one room school in 1911-1912.

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All the excitement starts at 2:30 p.m. May 18 and in-cludes refreshments, cake, school yard games, music and dancing.

Saturday’s events start in the morning and run throughout the day at the school with a long list of free children’s activities.

At 5 p.m. at the Coombs Fairgrounds there is a com-munity potluck picnic and at 8 p.m. there is a community dance at the Coombs Rodeo Grounds.

On Sunday, there are two pancake breakfast events, one at the Coombs Fair-grounds and another at the Bradley Centre.

At 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. the Ocean Idlers car rally and poker run occurs with all car entries welcome.

Get registered and pick up your rally cards before 11 a.m. Follow the Coombs 100th Anniversary historical poker run and return to the fairgrounds for the 2:30 p.m. awards.

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French Creek School turns 100Former one-room schoolhouse headlines a busy anniversary weekend in Coombs

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Grade 4 and 5 Students at French Creek School will be Maypole dancing May 18 as the celebrations kick off to mark the 100th birthday of the school in Coombs.

Fri., May 18 • 2:30 - 6 p.m. - French Creek Community School tour.• 3 - 5 p.m. - Get-Together Social in FCCS. • 4 p.m. - Cake cutting ceremony. • 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Schoolyard games.• 7 - 10 p.m. - Coombs Country Opera at the Rodeo Grounds.

Sat., May 19• 8:30 a.m. - Volunteers meet and greet. • 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Food concession. By donation.• 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - French Creek Community School tours; Community and business displays; Children’s activity centre.• 10:30 a.m. - Maypole Dancing.• 11 a.m. - Main Stage Opens behind the gymnasium building.• 11 - 11:30 a.m. - Opening ceremonies and heritage quilt un-veiling. Birthday greetings from dignitaries. • 11:30 a.m. - 3:40 pm. - Main stage entertainment. • 5 - 8 p.m. - Community potluck at the Coombs Fairgrounds. • 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. - Community dance at the rodeo grounds. Sun., May 20• 8 - 11 a.m. - Pancake breakfast at the Coombs Fairgrounds.• 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Pancake breakfast at the Bradley Centre.• 9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Grace United Church service.• 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Ocean Idlers Car Rally and Poker Run.

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