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April 19, 2016 edition of the Comox Valley Record
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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2016 $1.25
NEWSDon McRae leaving politics
It’s with a bit of regret that Comox Valley MLA Don McRae has decided to step down from politics when his term ends in May, 2017. There’s no major crisis behind his decision. He simply wants to spend more time with family and friends in the community he loves.
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Hospital parking fees will stayA plea from north Island communities for
support in their bid to eliminate parking fees at new hospitals being constructed in Camp-bell River and Courtenay was rejected at the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities conference earlier this month.
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ARTSMonday Bunch show and sale
The Pearl Ellis Gallery is presenting the annual spring show and sale by the Monday Bunch, a group of local artists, opening April 19 and running until May 8.
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Mighty String Thing at the SidLegendary Commander Cody guitarist Bill
Kirchen is leading a talented group of ‘six-string slingers’ on to the Sid Williams Theatre stage on April 21.
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SPORTSTough draw for Comox Valley United
Local men’s soccer team to meet top-seeded Pegasus FC in Surrey in first round of single knockout Province Cup competition.
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Fish and game club busyThe Courtenay and District Fish & Game
Protective Association is hosting a spring gun show and making plans for their annual out-door show.
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Important for seniors to file taxes B.C. Seniors Advocate is reinforcing the
need for seniors in the province to file tax returns, even if they think they do not make enough income to file.
“There are many subsidies available to seniors that are based on income tax informa-tion,” said Isobel Mackenzie. “If seniors don’t file their taxes, low-income seniors in partic-ular may be giving up opportunities to access subsidies which can make significant differenc-es to their lives.”
The importance of filing taxes was high-lighted in a recent case where the Federal Gov-ernment found that 83,000 Canadian seniors, 13,000 of them in B.C., did not receive Guar-anteed Income Supplement (GIS) payments for up to seven years because they did not file income tax for one or more years. The Federal Government is now fixing the problem and making retro-active payments to these low-in-come seniors. “GIS is a key support for the lowest income seniors,” said Mackenzie. “These are seniors living on $17,300 annually or less, however to receive this GIS, you must file an income tax return.”
In British Columbia, the median income of those over 65 is $24,000 and $22,000 for those over 75. Roughly one-quarter of senior home-owners have household incomes of less than $30,000. Approximately 35 percent of seniors who rent, have household incomes of less than $20,000. There are 54,000 seniors living on $17,000 or less annually. “Clearly there are many seniors in this province who are facing very challenging financial situations,” said Mackenzie. “For these people, any financial support can result in life-changing outcomes, the ability to pay for a hearing aid, or unin-sured dental care, or basic living expenses such as covering monthly rent.”
Mackenzie stresses it is important for seniors to know that there is help available to prepare income tax returns and it is free of charge for low-income seniors. Throughout the province there are Volunteer Income Tax clinics host-ed by local community agencies. Volunteers, many of whom are retired accountants, receive training from the Canada Revenue Agency and are aware of all recent changes and relevant tax issues affecting seniors. Each year over 10,000 tax returns are prepared through this program. A full list of free income tax services available in all communities in B.C. is available by calling the Office of the Seniors Advocate at 1-877-952-3181.
Earth Day fundraising concertJoy District is headlining an all-ages fund-
raising concert on Saturday, April 23, 7 p.m. at the Lower Elks Hall, in conjunction with Earth Day.
The Island-based band is among the artists who support the Jellyfish Project — a global coalition of musicians committed to promoting environmental awareness. Tickets are $10, available at the onethirtythree skateboard shop, Riders Pizza and Trousers. Admission is free for those 12 and under.
MLA McRae stepping away
It’s with a bit of regret that Comox Valley MLA Don McRae has decided to step down from politics when his term ends in May, 2017.
There’s no major crisis behind his decision. He simply wants to spend more time with family and friends in the community he loves.
“It’s been a very interesting and enjoyable job and experience,” McRae said. “I find it so ironic that you run to represent the Comox Valley, and sometimes you’re lucky enough to be in Cabinet, and yet those two jobs take you out of the Comox Valley so very much.
“My wife (Deanne) has been phe-nomenal for seven years. My old-est daughter (Gracie) has never not known me not in politics, and the youngest daughter (Chloe) was born after I got the job. Being the MLA,
you don’t get to be here very much. I miss my community.”
Sharing the news well ahead of term’s end enables the Liber-al Party and the electorate to become acquainted with new candidates who will run for office.
McRae has informed Pre-mier Christy Clark — who was saddened but under-stands why he is leaving — and his caucus. But at 46, he has plenty of time ahead in the workforce.
“I still have a lot of work left in me.”Before entering provincial politics,
McRae had served on Courtenay city council. He had also spent 15 years teaching at Vanier Secondary, where he attended high school. He hopes to continue his employment with the Comox Valley School District, from where he took a leave of absence in 2009 when first elected MLA.
He also hopes to help some of the larger education groups.
“Maybe have a better conversation with government,” he said. “I find
right now the education community has a lot of good people in it. They have some very important issues. I
think education is very good at talking to education, but when it comes to talking to government…after my seven years on the job, I wouldn’t mind helping them have a better conversation with gov-ernment.
“It can be a very confus-ing sector,” he added, noting Comox Valley issues can differ
significantly from other B.C. school districts. But he realizes many dis-tricts are in declining enrolment.
“Sadly, for the last 40 years, there’s been so much politics intertwined with education. I think every group, whether it’s the boy scouts or the mining industry or education, they need to make sure that government is aware of their issues, good and bad, and put forward their case in the best way possible. If they want some help doing that, it’s something I’d like to consider on top of my teaching posi-tion.”
■ Busload for the Bank A few residents from Berwick Comox Valley paid a Friday visit to Valley View Elementary, where students collected items to help ‘Fill the Bus for the Food Bank.’ Residents, Berwick staff, teachers and kindergarten students — who engage in an inter-generational program with Berwick residents — gathered in front of the bus, which was quickly filling up with food. Mark Isfeld Secondary and Berwick also collected non-perishable items for the cause.
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Comox council approved a 2.7 per cent residential tax increase per annum at Wednesday’s com-mittee of the whole meeting as part of the third draft of the 2016 - 2020 financial plan.
The business/com-mercial tax rate will increase by 1.7 per cent.
The motion was carried unanimously (Coun. Barbara Price was absent) and will be brought forth to the next regular coun-cil meeting for fourth reading.
• • •With only two bids
for the Marina Water-front Vitalization project tender pack-age, council direct-ed staff to negotiate with the low bidder - Kinetic Construc-tion - to identify items that can be reduced/removed from the project to reduce its scope and meet the available budget.
Richard Kani-gan, the town’s chief administrative officer, said in his discussions
with the company, he is feeling “relative-ly comfortable we can achieve what we want.”
Following a ques-tion by Coun. Russ Arnott, Kanigan noted about seven or eight companies took
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Woolgatherers connect with refugees
A passion for knitting and the fibre arts has connected Lois Harvey and fellow Comox Valley Woolgathers with new-ly-landed Syrian refugees.
In February, Harvey’s hus-band Derrick - one of the lead Red Cross volunteers for the reception centre welcoming more than 150 government-as-sisted refugees in Victoria - told Lois women and girls were keen knitters but lacked supplies.
“We didn’t realize they knew how to knit, but they just need-ed wool,” said Lois.
A fellow Red Cross volunteer, who was also a past member of the Woolgathers (a local guild of knitters, weavers and spinners), helped to canvass all the thrift shops in the Comox Valley and purchased every available yarn.
“Within a week, we had
donated 12 boxes of fibres,” added Lois, who said the Wool-gathers collected yarns and nee-dles to share.
The donated wool and sup-plies were taken to Victoria and passed to 55 moms, daughters and one boy who eagerly started knitting scarves, vests and hats for their families, she noted.
“There’s lots of international connections within our group; members go around the world looking at spinning, looms, and yarn.”
The knitters could be seen everywhere in the hotel as they chatted with friends, waited for appointments and entertained their children, she explained.
“The Woolgathers were pleased to play a small part in easing our new Canadian families into their lives here on Vancouver Island. Knitting is an international language that unites knitters around the world without the need for words.”
For more information, search The Woolgathers, Comox Valley, Vancouver Island on Facebook.
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COMOXVALLEYRECORD.com ■ Tuesday, April 19, 2016 ■ 5
Ancre Heights is a First World War battle honour awarded to the 102nd Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, which fought in the Battle of the Somme. The battalion — formed and trained in Comox before shipping off to France in 1916 — was known as the North Brit-ish Columbians.
The memory of these soldiers is being kept alive by a motor-cycle riding club named after the Battle of Ancre Heights. The group — a local chapter of the Canadian Army Veteran Motor-cycle Units (CAV) — consists of about 17 veterans in the North Island. Members gather at least once a month during the riding season, starting in April.
“We ride together for the sake of seeing other veterans and supporters, to talk about the old days, and have a good time,” said club president Fred Den-ninger, aka Ranger Fred, who is
among the few Canadians who have attended the U.S. Army Airborne Ranger School, thus the nickname.
Other members of the Ancre Heights executive include Bone Digger (vice-president), Mr. PEI (sergeant-at-arms), Grave Dig-
ger (road captain) and Gunz (treasurer).
A CAV member needs to be a veteran of the army, navy, air
force or RCMP, though the orga-nization includes non-veterans called supporters.
Denninger is a retired chief warrant officer who spent eight years in the infantry as a sniper/reconnaissance patrolman, 26 years as an air force Search and Rescue Technician (SAR Tech), and three years as an army CIMIC (Civil-Military Co-oper-ation Team) field operative. He is also an Afghan war veteran.
“Most of our veterans have 20 years-plus in the forces, but some not, and we take current serving members,” Denninger said. “We support anything that veterans support.”
Support includes events such as Boomers Legacy, a charity named after Andrew ‘Boomer’ Eykelenboom, a Comox soldier who was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in 2006.
But the big thing is to gath-er as civilians, to support one another and — as Denninger said — to have a good time.
Drop by the Comox Museum to learn more about the 102nd Battalion. An exhibit runs the duration of the year.
Members of the Ancre Heights motorcycle riding club gather outside the Comox Legion. The group is named after the WW1 battle honour bestowed upon the 102nd Infantry Battalion. PHOTO BY EarlE COuPEr
■ Scott Stanfield scott.stanfield @comoxvalleyrecord.com
Motorcyle riding club keeps memory of WW1 battalion alive
There appears to be a large gap between residents of north and south Vancouver Island on the issue of pay parking at hospitals.
And that has left north end poli-ticians feeling somewhat betrayed by their southern counterparts.
A plea from north Island communities for support in their bid to eliminate parking fees at new hospitals being con-structed in Campbell River and Courte-nay was rejected at the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Commu-nities conference earlier this month.
“It’s extremely disappointing,” Quadra Island-based Strathcona Regional Dis-trict director Jim Abram said. “I think a lot of people there don’t understand the dynamics of the north Island. It was a very poorly thought-out move.”
Abram is the elected local represen-tative for the Discovery Islands — a sprawling collection of rugged islands and remote inlets stretching northeast from Campbell River onto the mainland.
His constituents — and those in neighbouring communities like Gold River, Tahsis, Port Alice and Sointula — will be served by the new $274.5 million, 95-bed hospital opening in late 2017 in Campbell River.
Abram said the difference between these people and the people in the south Island is that in the north many people have to drive four or five hours on a dark logging road or aboard a ferry to get to their hospital. Often, their incomes are lower and their options fewer.
“Then they have the stress of maybe not being able to go back home,” he said, adding the additional issue of feeding a parking meter is something they don’t need.
Saanich councillor Judy Brownoff said she is sympathetic to the situation in the north but for her it’s a question of how to best use health-care dollars. Parking is an expensive service. Free parking means parking maintenance will take money away from actual health services.
“It’s a difficult situation,” she said. “I’d rather the dollars go to health care than a parkade.”
That reflects the position of Island Health.
In a February interview, Island Health corporate director of logistics and opera-
tions James Hanson told Black Press parking fees are necessary in order to provide parking services since Island Health will always pick health care over parking when it comes to setting budget priorities.
“If we didn’t have parking fees, we would have to take it out of patient care money,” he said. “It’s that simple.”
Courtenay and Campbell River will join Royal Jubilee, Victoria General, Aberdeen, Gorge Road, Saanich Pen-insula, Nanaimo and Priory as Island Health facilities charging fees. They will also be implemented at future facilities like the planned Cowichan District Hos-pital replacement.
Fees at the new hospitals are expect-ed to mirror those of existing hospi-tals down-Island — typically between $2.25 and $2.75 for the first two hours, and $1.25 for each additional hour. B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake has informed the regional district that offi-cials intend to proceed with the fees, but Abram said residents have yet to give up the fight.
“This kind of thing should never be happening in this day and age,” he said. “It is difficult to say what we will do next, but we are going to do something. This is sick.”
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An annual ceremony paying tribute to fallen workers and their families is coming up later this month.
On Thursday, April 28 at 10 a.m., the City of Courtenay, WorkSafeBC and CUPE 556 will hold a flag-raising ceremony at the Simms Park Pavil-ion in Courtenay to mark the Day of Mourning. This event honours workers who have been killed, injured, or suf-fered illness as a result of work-related incidents.
Paige Knapman, occupational health and safety adviser for the City of Cour-tenay, said the event is an important reminder of the need to remain vigilant on workplace safety.
“This Day of Mourning is an opportu-nity for both employers and employees to remind themselves of the reasons we work so hard on safety,” noted Knapman. “Our workers are our most important asset, and at the end of the day we all need to do everything we can to ensure they can go home to their loved ones.”
According to WorkSafeBC, 122 B.C. workers died in 2015.
The Canadian Labour Congress first recognized the Day of Mourning in 1984. In 1990, this day became a national observance with the passing of the Workers Mourning Day Act.
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There’s a strong movement afoot, led by the B.C. Federation of Labour, to raise this prov-ince’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.
On the surface, having the lowest mini-mum wage in Canada, when our provincial government boasts that our economy is one of the best performing in the country, makes no sense and is the height of unfairness. It says that the rich are getting richer, on the backs of working-class citizens.
While it would be great if everyone could make more money, it’s not as simple as argu-ing that people making $10.45 an hour need more money to pull them out of apparent pov-erty.
Pushing the minimum wage up to $15 in one fell swoop, as the B.C. Fed is asking for, could have unintended consequences. Would it force small businesses to lay employees off, or worse, shut down due to the higher cost of labour? Or would they simply raise prices sig-nificantly to cover the additional cost?
Either move could potentially have a net negative effect on the economy, with either fewer people working or goods becoming less affordable for those at the bottom end of the wage scale.
According to the B.C. Fed, about 6.4 per cent of workers in our province make minimum wage, with more than half of those women (63 per cent) and 10,000 of them seniors. That 6.4 per cent equates to about 120,000 people. But many of those are young people in their first job, for example, or bar and restaurant servers for whom tips can raise their income substantially – although bar servers’ lower minimum of $9.20 per hour cuts into that. The question is, does it make sense to increase the minimum wage more than 40 per cent at one time for a relatively small number of workers, when the consequences could force all of us to pay more for goods and services? It’s anybody’s guess how such a move might play out here in B.C., and how long it would take to have an effect.
Certainly no one wants to see poverty con-tinue to be a growth industry.
The need for the government to move more quickly on raising minimum wage is less about the optics of the national rankings and more about allowing more workers to gain more buying power. The province should set the goal of getting to $15 an hour, but do it in a way that allows business to adjust on a more gradual basis. -Black Press
Minimum wage fairness needed
B.C. NDP leader John Horgan dis-tanced himself as best as he could from the federal party’s decision to dump moderate leader Thomas Mul-cair and spend the next couple of years debating the far-left crackpot-tery known as the Leap Manifesto.
“It’s a document that I don’t embrace personally,” Horgan told reporters at the legislature. “I believe there are elements in the document that make sense, and there are ele-ments that make no sense in British Columbia.
“So we won’t be proceeding under any Leap Manifesto in the next 12 months under my leadership.”
Horgan didn’t specify what part of the manifesto he likes. Presum-ably it’s not the part about tearing up Canada’s free trade agreements, converting food production to local agrarian collectives or unilaterally dismantling our energy industry and replacing it with community-owned windmills and solar panels.
It can’t be the demand to stop all pipelines, because while the B.C. NDP doesn’t like oil, Horgan is in favour of natural gas exports to Asia. In general, that is. He’s now on record with the federal regulator that he’s against the Petronas-led Pacific
Northwest LNG project with a termi-nal at Prince Rupert.
The Leap Manifesto is the brain-child of anti-capitalist Toronto author Naomi Klein, with support from Greenpeace and the Sierra Club. Its campus-radical cluelessness is per-haps best summed up by the format, which consists of 15 “demands.”
Here’s demand number six: “We want high-speed rail powered by just renewables and affordable public transit to unite every community in this country – in place of more cars, pipelines and exploding trains that endanger and divide us.”
This demand effectively declares all of rural Canada irrelevant. By even considering it, the NDP risks doing the same.
Here’s number 11: “We must expand those sectors that are already low-carbon: caregiving, teaching, social work, the arts and public inter-est media.”
And how will “we” pay all these state-funded ballerinas and bloggers? Financial transaction taxes, increased resource royalties (until resource industries are killed off), a “progres-sive” carbon tax, and that old standby from the Occupy tent, higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
It’s hard to tell now, but the NDP was created to give political power to industrial workers. Horgan was asked if the party’s effort to win back industrial workers could be ham-pered by this potential lurch to the urban left.
“The difference between my hard-
hat and the premier’s hardhat is that my hardhat has union labels on it, and hers doesn’t,” Horgan replied.
As this statement was being made, the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council was meeting in Victoria. Its president, Tom Sigurdson, would use that event to host B.C. Liberal cab-inet ministers and blast Horgan for opposing Pacific Northwest LNG.
In the 2013 election, then-NDP leader Adrian Dix made a mid-cam-paign decision to come out against the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion. Since then the NDP has opposed construction of the Site C dam on the Peace River. Horgan is in favour of hydroelectric power, you understand. Just not this project at this time.
Perhaps the most stunning thing about the federal NDP’s fling with the Leap Manifesto was that it was staged in Edmonton. It came as a direct rejection of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who faces the grim reality of an oil and gas slump.
Notley has promised a carbon tax and the end of coal-fired power generation, moves that no NDP gov-ernment has proposed, much less implemented.
Her own pretending-to-be-green party ignored and betrayed her.
Horgan wandering around in a hardhat is looking like a tougher sell every day.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @
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Kudos to Community Justice Centre
Dear editor,I was recently involved in
an incident at Quality Foods in Comox.
Although I truly believe my action was caused by a med-ical condition, it in no way negates that I walked out of the store without paying for merchandise. I was shocked and ashamed by my action.
I am fortunate that Quality Foods and their security elect-ed to send me to the Commu-nity Justice Centre for the resolution to my actions. I had never heard of the Jus-tice Centre so was not sure what to expect the process would be.
My first appointment was with a gentleman who thoroughly explained how the process works and what would be expected of me. He then arranged a meeting with a three-person panel, an observer and the security officer from Quality Foods. Through this meeting a reso-lution was agreed upon.
What I am most impressed by is that everyone at the Community Justice Centre is a volunteer who gives of their own time to help resolve issues such as mine. They are most professional and respectful in their approach and actions. I cannot express enough how fortunate we are to have this centre in our community - thank you to all of the Community Justice Centre volunteers.
I am very much aware of the cost to business, commu-nity and consumers when theft occurs - everyone pays. Therefore, please accept my apology and I hope that I can give back through volunteer-ing in our community.
Editor’s note: This letter was written anonymously as a condition of a settlement reached with the help of the Comox Valley Community Justice Centre.
Some questions for Tom Fletcher
Dear editor,I had hoped Tom Fletcher’s
recent opinion piece entitled “Why be so cheap with the poor?” was going to be a seri-
ous discussion of why income assistance and disability rates are so low that people in B.C. are going hungry and living on the streets. Instead, most of the column was used to criticize the NDP and unions, and to justify the BC Liberals taking away the annual bus pass when they increased disability rates from $906 a month to $983. He used the words ‘cheats,’ ‘deadbeats’ and ‘varmints,’ and although he attributed them to a premier who hasn’t been in power for 20 years, he says that most of the policies put into affect by that pre-mier remain today.
Fletcher says he intends to find out how many disabled people decided to take the $77 increase and pay for tran-sit only when they need it. Perhaps he can ask them how often they stay home because they needed the money to buy food and pay bills. And people on disability often do need their transit pass to go to jobs, not, as Fletcher says, mainly for shopping, medi-cal appointments and social activities.
Fletcher says there are sound reasons for making a person who is applying for assistance look for work for five weeks before they get their $610 a month, an amount they are not allowed to supplement with any work. Maybe he can find out how many of them became home-less during that waiting peri-od, and how many of them go to bed hungry.
The column has a quote from Faith Bodnar of Inclu-sion BC, who said the govern-ment equalized poverty for people with disabilities in BC. The mean-spirited Liberals are not only equalizing pover-ty, they are enforcing poverty.
Ellen RainwalkerCumberland
Beech Street not right for pump station
Dear editor,I am writing with regards
to the ongoing saga of the future pump station most recently being proposed for a site on Beech Street. This decision follows on the heels of the decision not to proceed with the planned Croteau
Road site. I have many concerns
about this spot, not the least of which is that it is smack dab in the middle of a quiet residential neighbourhood which was previously consid-ered and rejected. I have yet to hear any reasonable and valid reasons not to expand the existing Courtenay pump station. I’ve heard costs men-tioned as the main (only) reason and, in my mind, this is not a reason to exclude this site. The money wasted on surveys and reports by board and Sewage Commission members could have been put towards the more appropriate site, the Courtenay pump station.
I think what resonates with me the most is that this board and commission is sim-ply not listening. I thought this might be because there are so (too) many councils and districts involved, but having dealt with Comox town council on a singular issue, I have found they don’t listen to what the majority of their residents want either.
I was doing some much-needed house cleaning a few months ago and came across a newspaper clipping from the Times Colonist from Jan. 23, 1973. It was an article about my father, John Tribe, as he attended his last council meeting before retir-ing. He was the administrator for the Municipality of Saan-ich, and I think some of his words at that time could be applied today.
He spoke of “preserving local government for the little man” and also said “the local council is the last bulwark of our civilization – once you’ve lost the basis of the communi-ty, you’ve lost it all.” All wise words by a wise man.
Clearly this is what’s hap-pening in the Comox Valley. The people are not being heard. This happened with the Lorne project where the MAJORITY of the residents of Comox were against the proposed project and it’s hap-pening again with the pump station.
It’s time to listen to the res-idents, the taxpayers and the community! If you choose not to – shame on you!
Barb TribeComox
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The province declared an unprece-dented state of emergency this morn-ing in response to an epidemic of drug-related deaths so far this year.
Victoria and Nanaimo are ground zero on the Island, which has added more than 40 people to a 2016 provin-cial body count that is on pace to oblit-erate last year’s total of 474 overdose deaths by more than 300 people.
Vancouver Island medical health officer Dr. Paul Hasselback said the death rate is evidence of how commu-nities need to consider places where people can inject, inhale or swallow drugs with the supervision of a health professional.
“I think the most important thing it does is that it helps highlight the severity of the situation,” Hasselback said. “This is an unusual circum-stance. This will legitimize it. We can’t have an emergency and not do any-thing different.”
Hasselback first publicly brought up the issue of safe consumption sites last month in an interview with the Nanaimo News Bulletin. It followed on the heels of a Canadian Press story in February that Island Health had
started talks with Victoria city officials and police about supervised injection sites there.
Provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall declared the public health emergency today to allow medical health officers to collect real-time information on overdoses in order to identify immediately where risks are arising, and be proactive in warning and protecting people who use drugs.
“The recent surge in overdoses is a huge concern for us,” Health Minister Terry Lake said in a media release. “We have to do what’s needed to pre-vent overdoses and deaths, and what’s needed is real-time information. Med-ical health officers need immediate access to what’s happening and where so they can deploy the necessary strat-egies to prevent these tragedies.”
Currently, information on overdoses is only reported if someone dies. The emergency declaration should increase access to the information and acceler-ate the speed with which it is shared.
Hasselback said the changes are not about compromising people’s privacy. They are about saving lives.
“Health authorities have consistent-ly asked for more data that will help inform responses and prevent future overdoses,” Kendall said. “This is the first step in making that happen.
“Over the next few weeks, I’ll work with medical health officers, health authorities, emergency room staff, paramedics and other first responders, and the BC Coroners Service to deter-mine how best to collect and share the data.”
The ministry expects the data to help prevent future overdoses and
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A total of 76 deaths in B.C. in Janu-ary was the largest number of deaths in a single month since at least 2007.
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Island doctor hopes drug OD declaration serves a purposeingested by users after being cut into other drugs like cocaine and heroin.
Naloxone — used to reverse overdoses involv-ing opioids like fentanyl — is now available without a prescription at a number of locations in many Vancouver Island communities. Check towardtheheart.com for one nearest you.
Hasselback said communities have to under-stand the gravity of the situation and realize that every harm reduction option needs to be part of the discussion.
“How do we maximize our ability to respond?”
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EXPERT SOLARCreates watches that are not only reliable but also
innovative thanks to its use of special materials and
advanced technology.The inspiration behind every
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TAKUMI FRAMESTakumi frames are a streamlined fusion of master craftsmanship and style. This Japanese line comes in the latest colours and trendy shapes. Not only that - each frame comes with its own magnetic sunglass clip. On sale this month at Mosaic’s downtown location.MOSAIC VISION CAREmosaicvisioncare.ca250-334-4512250-338-1665
Crown Isle206 - 444 Lerwick Road, CourtenayPhone 250-338-1665Hours: Monday to Friday9:30-5:30Saturday 9:30-4:00
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Ecco Offroad sandal celebrating 10 years.Ladies size 36-42 Multi, Black, Bison, Medieval & RedMen’s Size 40-47 Black or Bison$160.00
“Searle’s for that hard to fit foot”“Serving the Comox Valley for over 80 Years”
250 Fifth Street Courtenay
Weather or Not
COMOX VALLEY
TIDESAPRIL 20
to APRIL 27
Shower with a friend and save water was the message heard on TV in Australia in the 1970s and 90s. Having grown up in Brisbane, on the east coast of Australia, a newly transplanted Comox Valley resident speaks of how water re-strictions were instilled in her as a child, and unlike myself and many other west coast chil-dren, running through sprinklers isn’t a child-hood memory. A mem-ory she does have is of city fountains being dry, acting more like a sculpture than a water feature.
Another message that was introduced was the slogan “keep it yellow“.
“When you live in Australia, it becomes common sense to mini-
mize your use of water”, explains the new im-plant to our rainy (note not rainforest) Comox Valley. We went for a walk in her now local neighbourhood in east Courtenay. She com-ments further – “People here [in the Comox Valley & Canada in general] complain about the rain but the rain is amazing! We don’t
know how fortunate we are”. Yet, is this fortune respected?
With extended pe-riods of drought, in-creasing temperatures and the risk of fire widespread, the idea to move her family to Can-ada began to form. She has no regrets about the move but observes that a lot more can be done here to conserve water.
*Rainforests are defined as a dense
evergreen forest with a minimum of 1,800 mil-limeters of rainfall per year. According to En-vironment Canada, the average annual rainfall in 1971 – 2000 in the Comox Valley was 1,100 millimeters.
Do you have a wa-ter-related question for Sonya for future seg-ments? Please send an email to: [email protected]
Waterwoman Consult-ing (waterwoman.ca) is a consulting service based in the Comox Valley. Sonya holds her Master’s in Water Resources and Coastal Management from the University of Bergen, Norway.
More can be done to conserve water
$2*
795 RYAN ROAD250.334.9638
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It’s time for tough questions.
CIBC Wood Gundy is a division of CIBC World Markets Inc., a subsidiary of CIBC and a Member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. If you are currently a CIBC Wood Gundy client, please contact your Investment Advisor.
Do you understand the risks within your portfolio?
I would be pleased to provide you with a personal consultation and second opinion.
Call me at 250 703-5388.
Robert Trainor Investment Advisor Portfolio Manager
250 703-5388 [email protected]
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2016-04-20Time HeightPDT (m) (ft)05:18 4.5 14.811:57 1.8 5.918:16 4.3 14.123:59 2.6 8.5
2016-04-21Time HeightPDT (m) (ft)05:42 4.4 14.412:26 1.6 5.218:55 4.4 14.4
2016-04-22Time HeightPDT (m) (ft)00:35 2.8 9.206:05 4.4 14.412:55 1.5 4.919:35 4.5 14.8
2016-04-23Time HeightPDT (m) (ft)01:10 2.9 9.506:28 4.3 14.113:25 1.4 4.620:14 4.6 15.1
2016-04-24Time HeightPDT (m) (ft)01:46 3 9.806:52 4.3 14.113:56 1.3 4.320:54 4.6 15.1
2016-04-25Time HeightPDT (m) (ft)02:25 3.2 10.507:18 4.2 13.814:29 1.3 4.321:37 4.6 15.1
2016-04-26Time HeightPDT (m) (ft)03:09 3.3 10.807:48 4.1 13.515:05 1.3 4.322:23 4.6 15.1
2016-04-27Time HeightPDT (m) (ft)03:59 3.4 11.208:23 4 13.115:46 1.4 4.623:13 4.6 15.1
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TRAIL OF THE WEEKTSOLUM SPIRIT
PARK
Listen for native red squirrels as you walk through Tsolum Spirit Park. Their chatter includes growls, screeches, buzzes and chirps, of-ten accompanied by foot stamping and tail jerking.Find complete TRAIL MAPS at www.comoxvalleyrd.ca
Quality FoodsBoneless Skinless Chicken BreastsFrozen, 2.5kg
999999With
150,000 Q-Points Redeemed!
Each
PLUS
A
PPLICABLE FEES
MontellierCarbonated Mineral Water6x1lt 399399 7” Strawberry
Cheesecake
12991299
CanadianLean Ground Beef1kg pack
$10$10
Beef or Chicken
ArmstrongShredded Parmesan Cheesemin. 300gr tub
$10$10
You do the Pickin!
Earthbound Farm Organic Salad or Litehouse DressingSelected, 142g, 355-384ml
2$62$6for
Triple Q-Points!TripleTripleTripleTripleWednesday
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Beef
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Add a Twist to Your Next Meal
2$4for2$4for
399
599PerLB
Boneless Center Cut Pork Loin Chops8.80 per kg
249PerLB
249PerLB
Sunrise FarmsChicken Drumsticks5.49 per kg
Bonless Center Cut or Rib End Pork Loin Roast8.80 per kg
Canadian AAAT-Bone Grilling Steak24.23 per kg
1099PerLB
Blue DiamondAlmonds454gr
Blue DiamondNut-Thins120gr
Blue DiamondAlmond Breeze Non-Dairy Beverage946ml
299
799
PerLB
399PerLB
AstroYogourt12x100gr
AstroAthentikos Greek Yogourt500gr
AstroYogourt650-750gr
499
ArlaApetina Feta CheeseIn Oil, 100gr
Rising Sun FarmsBalsamic Dressing354ml
San RemoOrganic Balsamic Vinegar or Extra Virgin Olive Oil500ml-1lt
Tre StelleTraditional Feta Cheese400grVirgin Olive OilVirgin Olive OilVirgin Olive OilVirgin Olive OilVirgin Olive OilVirgin Olive OilVirgin Olive OilVirgin Olive Oil
599
Mrs. Cubbison’sRestaurant Style Croutons142gr
399 599
Canadian AA Inside Round Marinating Steak13.20 per kg
Sunrise FarmsWhole Frying
Chicken2 Pack, 5.49 per kg
2$5for
2$7for
2$5for
Grain Fed Free Run
Locally Raised BC Poultry
Grain Fed Free Run
Locally Raised BC Poultry
Cast Iron Stainless Bakeware CeramicAll Le Creuset25% OFF
Offer in effect April 18-24, 2016
Upstairs in these Quality Foods Stores Qualicum, Comox, Courtenay
Powell River and View Royal
Meat
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Quality and Taste Every Time
2$7for
2$5for
2$4for2$7for
3$5for
Clover LeafChunk or Flaked Light Tuna in WaterSkipjack, 170gr
Stoned Wheat ThinsCrackers600gr
Clover LeafPink SalmonWild Pacific, 213gr
599Maple LeafPrime Stuffed Chicken Breasts284-340gr
Clover LeafSockeye SalmonWild Red Pacific, 213gr
$5
KraftPhiladelphia Cream Cheese Spread340gr
JohnsonvilleBrats or Italiano Sausages500gr
SchneidersWienersSelected, 375-450gr
$15
Stouffer’sBistro Melts170gr
Stouffer’sDinner Entree201-340gr
AustralianStrip Loin
Grilling Steak3 Pack
4$5Stouffer’sSaute Sensations640gr
Canadian AAInside Round Oven Roast
13.20 per kg
PerLB
SchneidersBacon375gr
299
499
499
DairylandCreamSelected, 946-1lt
DairylandCottage Cheese500gr
DairylandSour Cream500ml
499 499 599
2$5for 299
Offer valid April 18-24, 2016Offer valid April 18-24, 2016
BUY 1Saputo Shredded Natural Cheese 320gr
699
GET 1Que Pasa Organic Tortilla Chips 425gr
FREE That’s a
$4.49
Value Free! WIN a TOASTER WIN a TOASTER WIN a TOASTER
THE PERFECT TOAST with Villaggio and Dualit
See stores for details. Over $500 Value
Meat
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GET THE SCOOP ON THESE GREAT DEALSTHESE SPECIALS ARE THE REAL DILL
4$5for
4$5for4$5for
4$5for
PostHoneycomb, Sugar Crisp or Alpha-Bits Cereal340-400gr
French’sClassic Yellow Prepared Mustard225ml
VlasicPickles1lt
KraftMiracle Whip or Mayo890ml
ClassicoPasta Sauce410-650ml
Filippo BerioOlive Oil1lt
299
299 399Minute MaidFrozen 100% Orange or Grapefruit Juice295ml
3$5for
Bull’s EyeBarbecue Sauce425ml
HPSteak Sauce & Baste for Meat400ml
PostShreddies, Shredded Wheat or Spoon Size Shredded Wheat Cereal425-550gr
Chapman’sPremium Ice Cream2lt
Chapman’sGelato or Sorbet1.5-2lt
SnowcrestPremium Unsweetened Frozen Fruit600gr
Chapman’sFrozen Yogurt2lt
499
WasaCrispbread200-275gr
Black DiamondCheese Strings336gr
V8Vegetable Cocktail1.89lt
Pepperidge FarmGoldfish Baked Snack Crackers180-227gr
Black DiamondCheddar Cheese907gr
International DelightCoffee Whitener946ml
TetleyTea80’s or 144’s
DareRuffles Macaroon Biscuits300gr
PrimoReady to Serve Soup525-540ml
499 599
HeinzBeans398ml
MelittaEstate Whole Bean Coffee907gr
Old DutchRestaurante Tortilla Chips276-384gr
Black DiamondShredded Cheese340gr
DairylandMilk 2 Go325-473ml
3$5for
499
ParkayMargarine1.28-1.36kg
HeinzPasta398ml
ItalpastaTradizionale Pasta900gr
3$5for 699
Nature Valley, General Mills or Betty CrockerValue Size Granola Bars or Fruit Snacks272-552gr
PillsburyPizza Minis370-385gr
599
999Mott’sFruitsations Snack4x90gr or 6x104-113gr
77¢
KraftSingles Process Cheese Product450gr
999
299HeinzTomato KetchupSelected, 750ml
KraftDressing475ml
399 499499399
Pillsbury Pizza Pops400gr
3$5for
2$5for2$5for
2$5for
2$5for
4$10for
2$5for
2$5for
299
9994$5for
Coke or Canada Dry20x355ml
KraftKraft Dinner Macaroni & CheeseOriginal, 12x225gr
399299 299399
Mott’sFruitsations 100% Apple JuiceNatural, 1.82lt
3$5for
4$5for2$5for
2$5for
NesteaIced Tea500ml
Pioneer ChipsKettle Cooked Potato Chips142gr
399
PLUS
A
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A
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A
PPLICABLE FEES
LUNCH IDEAS? BEAN THERE, LOVE THAT
Dutch CrunchPotato Chips Kettle Cooked200gr
Quality Foods an Island Original Prices in effect April 18 - April 24, 2016
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GET THE SCOOP ON THESE GREAT DEALSTHESE SPECIALS ARE THE REAL DILL
4$5for
4$5for4$5for
4$5for
PostHoneycomb, Sugar Crisp or Alpha-Bits Cereal340-400gr
French’sClassic Yellow Prepared Mustard225ml
VlasicPickles1lt
KraftMiracle Whip or Mayo890ml
ClassicoPasta Sauce410-650ml
Filippo BerioOlive Oil1lt
299
299 399Minute MaidFrozen 100% Orange or Grapefruit Juice295ml
3$5for
Bull’s EyeBarbecue Sauce425ml
HPSteak Sauce & Baste for Meat400ml
PostShreddies, Shredded Wheat or Spoon Size Shredded Wheat Cereal425-550gr
Chapman’sPremium Ice Cream2lt
Chapman’sGelato or Sorbet1.5-2lt
SnowcrestPremium Unsweetened Frozen Fruit600gr
Chapman’sFrozen Yogurt2lt
499
WasaCrispbread200-275gr
Black DiamondCheese Strings336gr
V8Vegetable Cocktail1.89lt
Pepperidge FarmGoldfish Baked Snack Crackers180-227gr
Black DiamondCheddar Cheese907gr
International DelightCoffee Whitener946ml
TetleyTea80’s or 144’s
DareRuffles Macaroon Biscuits300gr
PrimoReady to Serve Soup525-540ml
499 599
HeinzBeans398ml
MelittaEstate Whole Bean Coffee907gr
Old DutchRestaurante Tortilla Chips276-384gr
Black DiamondShredded Cheese340gr
DairylandMilk 2 Go325-473ml
3$5for
499
ParkayMargarine1.28-1.36kg
HeinzPasta398ml
ItalpastaTradizionale Pasta900gr
3$5for 699
Nature Valley, General Mills or Betty CrockerValue Size Granola Bars or Fruit Snacks272-552gr
PillsburyPizza Minis370-385gr
599
999Mott’sFruitsations Snack4x90gr or 6x104-113gr
77¢
KraftSingles Process Cheese Product450gr
999
299HeinzTomato KetchupSelected, 750ml
KraftDressing475ml
399 499499399
Pillsbury Pizza Pops400gr
3$5for
2$5for2$5for
2$5for
2$5for
4$10for
2$5for
2$5for
299
9994$5for
Coke or Canada Dry20x355ml
KraftKraft Dinner Macaroni & CheeseOriginal, 12x225gr
399299 299399
Mott’sFruitsations 100% Apple JuiceNatural, 1.82lt
3$5for
4$5for2$5for
2$5for
NesteaIced Tea500ml
Pioneer ChipsKettle Cooked Potato Chips142gr
399
PLUS
A
PPLICABLE FEES
PLUS
A
PPLICABLE FEES
PLUS
A
PPLICABLE FEES
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A
PPLICABLE FEES
LUNCH IDEAS? BEAN THERE, LOVE THAT
Dutch CrunchPotato Chips Kettle Cooked200gr
Quality Foods an Island Original Prices in effect April 18 - April 24, 2016
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Available at select stores only.
FrozenSockeye Salmon Fillets
FreshHand Peeled Shrimp
169
199
8 Piece Happy California Rolls
16 Piece Maki Platter
799
599
FreshGrey Cod fillets
169Per100 gr
Per100 gr
Grimm’sHam with Garlic,
Lyona, Beer or Summer Sausage
169
ViennaRoast Beef or New York
Style Corned Beef
SabraHummus283gr
499
599
Per100 gr
Continental Black Forest Ham
Per100 gr
149
MediumDeli Salad
• Creamy Coleslaw• Macaroni• Red Potato with Dijon
$7
349
199
999
GermanCambozola Blue Cheese
JanesBreaded Fish580-615gr
Available at select stores only.Available at select stores only.
4895 149Dinner for Four Spring Roll
399One Dozen Cooked Chicken Wings
Quality FreshSweet Treats Chocolaty Buds or Macaroons400gr
299
Quality FreshSweet Treats Jelly Beans600gr
Quality FreshFamily Favourites Trail MixCountry Style or Cranberry Cocktail 225-250gr
299299Per
100 gr
Salted or Unsalted Mixed NutsWith 50% U.S. Grade A Peanuts
Per100 gr
Per100 gr
per100gr
Deli & Cheese
Seafood • Quality Foods
Sushi
Available at select stores only.
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2$4for
Two LayerCake
Calabrese BunsCalabrese Bread
2$4Cake Donuts
Udi’sGluten Free ProductsSelected, 227-432gr
Cinnamon Buns
3498” Apple Pie Cheesecake Slice
RoyaleTiger Towel6’s
599
for2993496 pack
WonderBread or Buns570gr or 12’s
2$5for
Casa Mendosa10 Inch Tortillas8-10’s, 512-640gr
2$6for
Spray’N WashResolve LaundryStain Remover650-946ml
AirwickFragrance Candle141gr
FinishRinse Agent250ml
499
Solo GiEnergy Bar50gr
999
Seattle’s Best CoffeeGround Coffee340gr
599
A Good PortionRoasted Pistachios80gr
299
2$5for
Quality FoodsRaisin Butter Tarts
369
499
Blue DiamondAlmond Breeze Non-Dairy Beverage1.89lt
399349
199
8 pack
6 pack
OneCoffeeOrganic Single Serve Coffee132gr
599
399299
6 pack
2$4for
Annie’sMacaroni & CheeseSelected, 170gr
3$5
399
• Chocolate• Cookies & Creme• Lemon Truffle• Chocolate Orange
Bakery
Quality Foods • Taste for Life
Household
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Spring Roses Bouquet
B.C. Grown “Hot House”Organic Long English Cucumber 1299 Mexican Grown
Organic Zucchini3.28 per kg
B.C. Grown “All Seasons”Organic White & Brown Mushrooms227gr
4” VegstarterSelected
2$4 2$5for2$7for
Mexican GrownMexican Grown 149for
Washington “Premium”Fuji Apples4.39 per kg
199199PerLB
for
2$72$7California GrownCelery
2$42$4for
B.C. Grown “Hot House”Beefsteak Tomatoes3.28 per kg
149149PerLBMexico/B.C. Grown “Hot House”Mixed Coloured Peppers2lb bag
499499
499499Hawaiian GrownWhole Pineapple
B.C. Grown “Hot House”Mini Cucumbers1lb bag
YOUR CHOICE!
Peru GrownSatsuma Mandarins3.72 per kg
169169PerLB
2$62$6for
California Grown Green GiantBaby Cut Carrots2lb bag3$43$4for
California GrownFresh Corn on the Cob
B.C. Grown “Hot House”Mini Bell Peppers1lb Bag
B.C. Grown “Heavenly Villagio Marzano”Mini San Marzano Tomatoes10oz
Mexican GrownMini Watermelon
You do the Pickin!From Our Fresh Produce Aisle
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Jeremy Lyster earns Governor General’s Bronze Medal
Jeremy Lyster won the Governor General’s Bronze Medal at NIDES/Navigate). PHOTO suBMiTTed
Jeremy Lyster has been awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Bronze Medal for 2015 from Navi-gate NIDES. This medal is award-ed annually to the student who achieves the highest grade point average upon graduation from sec-ondary schools in Canada.
As an active member of his school community Lyster devoted much of his senior years as team captain for the Navigate NIDES VEX robot-ics team, working to achieve both regional and provincial honours, including an invitation to the US Open Robotics Championships.
Lyster is passionate about history and participated in the School Dis-trict 71 Heritage Fairs from Grade 5 to Grade 12, receiving several honours, including being sent to the provincial championships to com-pete in Grade 5 before becoming a mentor and judge for the yearly
event as well as a judge for the regional competition in Port Alber-ni.
Lyster has also earned a junior black belt in karate. He was also a member of the Highland concert and stage bands for five years and attended the Challenge Program for School District 71 for four years. In addition to his already busy sched-ule he volunteered more than 500 hours to with Courtenay Recreation working with children.
Lyster has been captain of the Dragon Riders youth dragon boat team in the Comox Valley for three years.
Lyster’s teachers have described him as thoughtful, mature, hon-ourable, well-mannered, articulate and wise beyond his years. He is currently attending North Island College pursuing a career in com-puter science.
Robotics teams rise to the challenge at regional championshipsIt was an exciting home-
coming for the nine Vancouver Island robotics teams, who were definitely making the news at the recent Pacific Northwest Regional Championships.
Sixty teams from B.C., Alber-ta, and Washington State gath-ered at the BCIT campus to compare their skills at robotic programming. In the world of student robotic competitions, it’s the largest of its kind, involving 10,000 teams in 750 tourna-ments worldwide.
For those not familiar with the scene, imagine the excite-ment of a gymnasium divided into five competition courts, a skills court, and a practice field,
each whirring with machines that will prove the capabilities of their builders.
Each team has brought their best design to demonstrate to a panel of judges how they can apply their cooperative learn-ing skills to achieve a partic-ular goal. Add the attention of live broadcast, large media news coverage from CBC, the Province, and Global TV, and the excitement of parents and peers, and you’ll start to feel how challenging it would be for these students (and their robots) to perform well under pressure.
In each 12’x12’ competition court, the robotic sport of “Noth-
ing But Net” was underway, as robots competed to slingshot foam balls into nets using var-ious configurations of proxim-ity sensors, motors, gears and pneumatics. There were also bonus points for those who could lift a competitor’s robot off the ground.
The Pacific Northwest Regional Championships has two divisions, the A Division, which was made up of 24 teams, and B Division which was made of up 34 teams, all from B.C.
The NIDES/Navigate teams B, C, E, F, G, H and J teams par-ticipated in the B Division and had their best season to date, taking home six trophies in all.
Teams 7842F and 7842B won the top team Championship Alliance, 7842F won both the Excellence Award and the Robot Skills Award, 7842B won the Design Award, 7842H won the Build Award.
Although the Navigate teams 7842A and 7842D were the highest ranking teams from B.C. in the A Division, placing third and fourth in regulation play, they were knocked out in the semifinals. Winners in this division go to compete in the upcoming world competitions.
Team 7842 will be hosting a VEX Worlds Party on April 22-23 at the Tsolum School Campus of NIDES/Navigate to
watch and follow the 450 high school teams participating in all five divisions at the Worlds.
These events will be live streamed on five video screens beginning at 8:30 each morning to late afternoon and all inter-ested students and adults are welcome to attend.
For Navigate teacher Stew-art Savard, it was exciting to see the passion these students have for their achievements and STEM subject areas (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). “Our teams did exceptionally well, and this was our best success in terms of results. It was a great way to end the season.”
Highland team off to world championships
Highland students Judd Foster and Daniel Beaule are off to Louisville, Kentucky after being crowned cham-pions of the Provincial VEX Robotix Championship in Delta earlier this year. They are one of eight teams, out of 37 individual teams that par-ticipated, who will advance to the World Championships on April 19-23.
Last summer competitors were given a set challenge to create their robot around, giv-ing them the full summer and beginning of the school year to fashion a robot meeting the specifications.
This year’s challenge was named “Nothing But Net”. Participants built robots to score foam balls into a net.
At the beginning of a match, robots are programmed to score balls for 15 seconds autonomously, without any driver control.
Following the autonomous round, robots drove around the court scoring balls into a net for one minute 45 seconds. Extra points are awarded if a
partner robot is lifted off the court.
“One of the most difficult things (about creating the robot) was designing and planning where everything was going to be,” said Foster. “A lot of thought needs to go into how to keep the robot as small as possible, because a lot of ideas just don’t have enough room to work.”
While Beaule has been part of the VEX robotics team at Highland for the past four
years this was Foster’s first experience in being part of an organized team. This is the first time for both to compete in such a high-level champi-onship.
“Since teams in the Worlds are from all around the world the competition will be a lot tougher,” said Foster.
“There are lots more teams in other parts of the world, with lots of resources and many more minds working on a single robot.”
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The Highland robotix team 1039A consists of Daniel Beaule and Judd Foster. PHOTO suBMiTTed
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“You’ve reached 911, Is this call for fire, police, or ambu-lance?”
“Police. He’s doing it again. It sounds bad this time.”
It could be a neighbour, making the call. It might be a child. Sometimes it’s the victim, herself.
It’s a scenario played over far too often, in every community.
The issue is domestic vio-lence and the Comox Valley is not immune.
In 2014 there were 132 spou-sal/partner assaults filed in our community. In 2015, there were 151.
That’s an average of nearly three reported cases per week – and while the victims were not exclusively women, they accounted for the vast majority.
Several triggersConst. Keeley Deley is the
domestic violence co-ordinator for the Comox Valley RCMP. She said that while no two cases are identical, there are several prevalent triggers to domestic violence incidents.
“There are a few things that could be the cause of what is happening in the home,” said Deley. “One of the things could be alcohol, or past history of abuse, or being abused. There could be stresses that are financial, children bringing on extra stress, lack of employ-ment bringing on extra stress. There are so many triggers, but those are some of the things that come to mind as reasons people get (into conflict).”
Deley said the primary goal of the RCMP when answering
a domestic violence call is to diffuse the situation.
“If it’s getting to the point that the police are needed to intervene or to assist in some way, that’s what we are here for, before it gets to the point of an assault taking place or someone getting hurt.”
The RCMP are trained to make an on-the-spot decision as to the best way of diffusing the situation.
“Each file, or each incident, the RCMP officers are going to make judgement calls along the way as far as the investigation is concerned. Our key objec-tive is that the offence that is happening does not continue happening. So if that means separating the parties and bringing one to a safer place, that’s what we will do. Some-times one of them is arrested and taken out of the home. But the key objective is that the situation does not continue and that it is safe for everybody.”
A safe havenThat’s where the Comox Val-
ley Transition Society comes into play.
The CVTS was founded in 1987 and in 1992 Lilli House - a safe house for women and children trying to escape abu-sive relationships - was opened.
Currently Lilli House has 14 beds in nine bedrooms. The CVTS receives an average of 1,500 crisis calls every year and houses, on average, 300 women and children annually.
“Lilli House has become... over the years, we have more and more nights when we are full,” said Anne Davis, program director at CVTS. “In 2015 we were actually full, or over full, for 302 nights.”
“Part of the issue is that peo-ple are staying longer, because there is nowhere to go, other than back to their abusive
situation, which is not a good option,” said Heather Ney, executive director of the CVTS. “There is no affordable housing, no supportive housing, particu-larly for single women, but also for women with children. So that’s where the biggest pres-sure is on Lilli House.”
Every year, in mid-April, the Comox Valley Transition Society carries out the annual Purple Ribbon Peace Begins at Home campaign with the sup-port of other organizations and individuals in our community.
“This is our sixth year doing the Purple Ribbon Campaign, and it’s all about awareness,” said Ney. “We are trying to build awareness about domes-tic violence, broadly and then specifically the particulars of the Comox Valley.”
The RCMP works intimately with the various facilities avail-able for people in need.
Deley had high praise for the Comox Valley Transition Society.
“We work very closely with the Transition Society, and they are a wonderful group of resources we have in the Comox Valley that work very hard to ensure that anybody that needs a safe place to go can reach out and find a safe place to go. They are a great partner that we work with.”
Say something This year, the Transition
Society is profiling the province of B.C.’s Say Something Cam-paign during the Peace Begins at Home period of April 10 -23.
The Say Something Cam-paign addresses domestic vio-lence against women from a different perspective. Whereas many campaigns work with the female victims of domestic vio-lence, the Say Something Cam-paign puts the onus on men, to take a proactive approach.
“Men in peer relationships need to be models and mentors to each other,” said Ney. “They need to speak out and say ‘that was a sexist comment. That’s not OK,’ or ‘when you say you pushed your wife last night because you were mad at her, that’s not OK.’ Men need to be standing up to the plate. I think women are working over-time to try to keep themselves and their children safe, but it takes the whole community.
Women alone can’t do it,” Ney said.
“So the Say Something Campaign is a ‘be more than a bystander’ campaign. It’s time for the men to step in and come alongside the women... and challenge their peers.”
The challenge is out there. Rather than join in on the cat calls on a construction site, say something. Imagine if that was your daughter being whistled at.
Domestic violence can be committed in many forms. All forms of violence can have a serious negative impact on a victim’s health and well-being.Women are predominantly at risk of violence. It happens in all cultural, religious, ethnic and racial communities, at every age, income group and social class. However, those who experience various oppressions and lack the most options are more vulnerable to ongoing experiences of violence and abuse. For example:• Women with disabilities;• Women living in poverty or who are homeless;• Immigrant and refugee women;• Aboriginal women;• Women of colour;• Senior women and young women;• Women living in rural or remote settings;• Pregnant women.No culture condones violence. Although there may be different religious and cultural interpretations of men’s power over women, anyone who claims violence is ‘normal’ in a particular culture is misrepresenting it.
–Government of British Columbia
Types of domestic violence
■ Terry Farrell terry.farrell @comoxvalleyrecord.com
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More resources needed for men seeking proactive help Speaking out against demeaning acts and comments
toward women is a growing trend.“I went to a really good presentation by the B.C.
Lions a couple of years ago, who have been speaking to the high school kids around the province about being more than a bystander,” said Davis. “One of them talk-ed about how having taken the training and becoming really aware of the issue, when he went back to the locker room, he couldn’t be quiet anymore, when there were derogatory comments made about women. He said he had to speak up and say something, and so did the other teammates who had taken this training. He said that over time, the conversation changed in the locker room.”
More resources needed for menNey said one of the areas that needs improvement
is services to men who are seeking help in a proactive form – men who recognize they have anger issues and want to do something about it before it becomes a crim-inal issue.
“Those services are woefully inadequate,” she said. “The only way there is any help, or training or support is if they get charged and convicted, and are mandated to take a relationship program. It would be nice if we were able to supply some service and be more proac-tive, to men who voluntarily want to help themselves.”
With that in mind, the CVTS has started a support group, specifically to address that issue. This is a free service and the group meets weekly. For more informa-tion on that service, contact the CVTS at 250-897-0511.
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Students strove to achieve new belts at the Sunday wrap-up of the five-day Batizado and Brazilian Cultural Festival. PHOTO submiTTed
brazilian cultural festival big successDuring the last week in
March, the Comox Valley’s local capoeira group wel-comed the world to their first Batizado and Brazilian Cultural Festival.
Graduada Carnauba from Atlanta, Georgia, kicked off the five-day festival with workshops for children and adults at the Axé Capoeira Comox Valley Academy on 5th Street in Courtenay.
Thursday, workshops moved to the Comox Rec Centre to accommodate the increasing number of stu-dents flocking to the Valley to partake in the event.
Students were treated to a workshop with Mestre Eddy Murphy of Macau, China (a part of the Portuguese empire until late 1999), and enjoyed a high-energy roda afterwards.
By Friday, all of the spe-cial guests and students had arrived, including Grão Mestre Barrão (Recife, Bra-zil), Murphy, Contre-Mestre Camara (Phoenix, Arizona), Contre-Mestre Tigrão (Cal-gary, AB), Contre-Mestre Barrãozihno (Vancouver, BC), and Contre-Mestre Testinha (Victoria, BC).
The founder of Axé Capoeira, Grão Mestre Bar-rão, led the evening’s roda, and all guests were formal-ly welcomed.
On Saturday, 150 students (including 60 children), were busy in workshops all day at the Comox Rec Cen-tre. The group then put on a top-notch show to a sold-out crowd at the Sid Williams Theatre, showcasing tradi-tional Afro-Brazilian danc-es and, of course, capoeira.
The event concluded on Sunday with a Batizado and Troca de Corda at the Native Sons Hall, where stu-dents played with Mestres and Contre-Mestres to earn their first belts, or to grad-uate to the next belt level.
Staging this international event, and hosting so many of Axé Capoeira’s leaders, was made possible by the
hard work of Graduada Ali-cia Fennell, the leader of Axé Capoeira Comox Valley, and her students, as well as many parent volunteers who selflessly gave time and energy to the event.
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above and beyond in sup-porting the event.
Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art developed by African and native slaves in the 1700s. It is a beautiful, rhythmic art form involving self-defence, music, song, acrobatics and strategic play.
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Students of capoeira develop a strong sense of self within a communi-ty of friends who embrace respect, health and family as a lifestyle.
Fore more information about capoeira visit www.capoeiracomox.com or Face-book (Axé Capoeira Comox Valley).
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The Monday Bunch is a friendly and enthusiastic group of artists who have been in existence for more than 30 years. The group meets every Monday, from September to May, in the Lion’s Den, below the Pearl Ellis Gallery to paint in a supportive and non-competitive environment. Each artist has a distinct style reflecting his/her own unique personality.
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Another addition is Helen Corness whose retirement hobby is painting. She was instructed by Marilyn Paisley, volunteer watercolour instruc-tor at the Fountain of Youth Spa in California, who gave her the courage to paint her first picture in 2009; and also to Walter Sundkvist, her part-ner, who gave her ongoing, though in her words, “possi-bly biased,” critiques. She has been inspired to paint the “personality” of the subject.
Sundkvist made his first serious attempt at art while he was in public school by
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Lone Tree (above) by Detty Arends and Sweet Peas (below) by Colleen Johnston. The two artists are part of the Pearl Ellis Gallery’s Monday Bunch whose annual spring show and sale starts today. PHOTOS SuBMiTTed
One of the key acts of each Georgia Strait Jazz Society season is when the Nanai-mo Musicians’ Asso-ciation (NMA) Big Band takes the stage at the Avalanche Bar. in downtown Cour-tenay
This performance year, September through May, we’ve been fortunate to have this great band on our stage on two occasions: the result of the stunning show in November which resulted in a standing ovation from a capacity audi-ence, with a promise that the band would return as soon as pos-sible for an encore presentation.
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It was founded in 1967 by Bryan Stovell, recently
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Bryan has been active over that entire period. The band com-prises some of the best big band musi-cians from the Mid-Is-land.
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My pappy said “son you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’
if you don’t stop driving that Hot Rod Lincoln ” ...
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Chances are if you are a baby-boom-er and you hear the opening sentence above; your brain will immediately fol-low with the world famous boogie-woo-gie guitar line played by Bill Kirchen of Commander Cody fame.
It is easily one of the most recogniz-able guitar parts of all time and the man who invented it will be at the Sid Williams Theatre on April 21 as part of the inspired collaborative ‘six-string-
slingers concert’ entitled ‘The Mighty String Thing.’
Austin’s Bill Kirchen will be there along with Nashville native Mark Stuart who has toured as guitarist for Steve Earle, Stacey Earle, Steve Forbert and Freddy Fender among others.
Canadian guitarists will include string genius Kevin Breit whose musi-cal talents have landed him stints with everyone from kd Lang to Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Lou Reed and yes, even Celine Dion among others.
Montreal’s Cécile Doo-Kingué has been compared to artists as wide ranging as Tracy Chapman and T-Bone Walker; she’s a masterful blues guitarist and a stunning singer/songwriter who is final-ly starting to gain notice worldwide as one of Canada’s great talents.
Rounding out the group are two local
players whose careers have seen them jam with the likes of folks from Jimi Hendrix to Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. From stints with Long John Bald-ry to hosting a jam in NYC in the hazy 60’s; Cumberland’s Doug Cox and Powell River’s Sam Hurrie have both had very colourful careers and are excited to add the Mighty String Thing to their lists of musical experiences.
“The point of the String Thing is for us all to get together and have fun on stage trading licks and sharing songs along with stories,” says Cox. “It isn’t going to be a serious, staid show like so many of the guitar-in-the-round tours... we are going to have some fun!!”
The show is a co-presentation of the Sid Williams Theatre and VI MusicFest. Advance tickets are recommended and are available at the Sid box office.
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The luck of the draw isn’t always good luck.
Such was the case for Comox Valley United on April 5 in Victoria when BC Soccer held the Adult Pro-vincial Cup draw.
United will face top-seed Pegasus FC of Surrey in the first round of the Province A Cup on Saturday, April 23 at 4 p.m. at Newton Athletic Park in Surrey.
Both teams finished second in their respective leagues: United in Div. 1 of the 10-team Vancouver
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United is making their Province Cup debut. They went 12-3-3 this season with 39 goals-for and 21 goals-against. Pegasus posted a 16-2-4 record with 69 goals-for and 26 goals-against.
The 16-team, sin-gle-knockout competition quarter-finals go April 30-May 1 with semifinals May 7-8 and the final May 14 at Westhills Stadium & Goudy Turf in Langford.
There are four other VISL teams in the tourney, and the luck of the draw means only two of them will advance to the second round.
Saanich Fusion will meet Nanaimo United while third-seed Cowichan will
take on Bays United in a rematch of the April 3 Jack-son Cup final.
Cowichan scored twice in overtime to claim their fourth Jackson Cup in the past seven years. The Bays won their first Jackson Cup in 2013.
Two MIWSL TeamsThere are two Mid-Is-
land Women’s Soccer League teams competing in the Leeta Sokalski Cup Women’s B Championship – Courtenay’s CVUSC Revo-lution and Campbell River’s Cermaq Outlaws.
Both have drawn Lower Island Women’s Soccer Association opponents for their April 23-23 first-round games: the Revolution will take on Saanich Fusion FC United while the Outlaws will meet Nanaimo United
FC.The Outlaws are the
2015-16 MIWSL champions, going 14-1-0, while the Rev-olution finished in a three-way tie for second with a 10-5-1 record.
The 15-team, sin-gle-knockout competition’s subsequent rounds will be played April 30-May 1 with semifinals May 7-8 and the final May 15 at Westhills Stadium & Goudy Turf.
THROW INS Cowichan finished first in VISL Div. 1 this year while Saanich was third … Pegasus is the white winged horse of Greek mythology … BC Soccer’s Adult Provincial Champion-ships includes more than 100 teams … scores and updates will be posted at http: / /adultprovincials.bcsoccer.net …
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Freestylers make podium at B.C. championshipsMount Washington
Alpine Resort hosted the provincial Timber Tour and Super Youth Freestyle skiing com-petition – the BC Freestyle Champion-ships – from March 31 to April 3.
The Mt. Washing-ton Freestyle Ski Club was joined by clubs from Whistler/Blackcomb, Vancou-ver, Apex, Silver Star, Big White, Sun Peaks and the Yukon as well as two athletes from the provincial mogul team.
More than 120 ski-ers competed in the third and final in a series of provincial freestyle events. The event included one official training day and three contests, Slopestyle, Moguls and Big Air. There were two tiers of ath-letes: the Timber Tour (ages 13-18) and the Super Youth (ages six-13).
This competition was originally slat-ed to take place at another resort, how-ever plans changed and with less than six weeks to prepare, the crew at Mount Washington, along with coaches and par-ent volunteers, put in countless hours of hard work and pulled off a hugely successful event.
“It couldn’t have happened without the support of Don Sharpe and his crew from Mount Wash-
ington Alpine Resort, the parents, the vol-unteers from other hills, and the moun-tain staff (liftees, park crew, groomers, security, food and beverage, all resort employees),” reported MWFC president Roy Krejci.
The weather was spectacular with tem-peratures reaching into the mid-teens and clear visibility
throughout. All the Mt. Washington Free-style Ski Club ath-letes skied well, with three Super Youth landing on the podi-um: Catrina Krej-ci (U14) Slopestyle bronze; Monique Vinnedge (U10) Big Air gold; Angus Heys (U8) Big Air bronze.
The club also had three Timber Tour athletes on the podi-um: Brandon Playford
(U18) gold in Slope-style; Todd Heard (U18) gold in Big Air and bronze in Moguls; Sarah Rocque (U16) gold in Big Air and silver in Slopestyle.
Mei Pond, a Mt. Washington Free-style Ski Club alumni now on the provincial mogul team, took gold in the Moguls U18 contest. Many of the host club athletes achieved personal
best scores and had loads of fun.
“A big thank you to all our club support-ers for an amazing event, what a week-end, what a silent auction! Thank you all for the donations,” a MWFC spokesper-son said.
“Special thanks to our sponsors: Mount Washington Alpine Resort, Life-style Metal Ventures, Woodgrove Chrys-ler, Archie Johnstone Plumbing and Heat-ing Ltd., Vancouver Island Insurance Centres, Mount Sick-er Lumber Company, Ski Tak Hut, and Bea-verTails Pastry.”
For more informa-tion on the Mt. Wash-ington Freestyle Ski Club, check out www.mwfc.ca.
Great athleticism was on display at the BC Freestyle Championships at Mount Washington Alpine Resort. PHOTO BY MROBERTSON PHOTOGRAPHY
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Fish and game club hosting gun show
Comox Valley Volleyball Camp back this summerThe Comox Val-
ley Volleyball Camp is returning again this summer to pro-vide athletes with an excellent opportunity to play, improve and excel at this awesome sport.
The camp will be held at the G.P. Vani-er gymnasium from July 11-14.
“It is really excit-ing to offer this well established camp for the 13th year in a row. It is one of the longest running volleyball camps on the Island,” stated camp co-ordi-nator Brian Stevens.
There are two ses-sions of the camp available to accommo-date a wide range of ages and skill levels. The Youth Session, for boys and girls ages 11-14 (turning 11), will run from 1-4:30 p.m. The Elite Ses-sion, for boys and girls ages 15-17, will run from 5-8:30 p.m. If your son/daughter is 10 and turning 11, please don’t hesitate to register.
Both sessions will focus on technical skill development, game play knowledge, tons of touches with the ball, and of course fun. The Elite session
will also have a strong focus on position spe-cific play, CORE and strength training, and game strategy compo-nents.
In addition to the i n d o o r g a m e , a th le tes will also have the o p p o r -t u n i t y to learn and play outdoor volleyball on the grass. Playing both indoor and out-door really assists the skills and knowledge of the game.
Stevens has five years of CIS (univer-sity) playing expe-rience, five years of coaching Team BC (including Canada Games), assistant
coached at Camosun College, many years of club and high school coaching, and many years of indi-vidual athlete train-
ing/development. There will be a
strong collection of coaches facilitating the camp. Both cur-rent and former uni-versity athletes, all
of whom attended this camp at some point in their vol-l e y b a l l c a r e e r s , will be
providing their exper-tise and enthusiasm.
The camp is $150 which includes a T-shirt. There are 40 spots available in
each session and both sessions are already filling up so register soon. You can register your son/daughter by contacting Stevens at [email protected] or by calling 250-339-0434. A regis-tration form will be e-mailed to you with all of the pertinent information.
“This camp is a great opportunity to further your vol-leyball development, meet some new peo-ple, and have a great time,” said Stevens. “Be sure to register soon!”
There have been plenty of happy campers at the annual Comox Valley Volleyball Camp over the past 12 years. PHOTO submiTTed
❝ It is really exciting to offer this well-established camp for the 13th year in a row. ❞
brian sTevens
The Courtenay and Dis-trict Fish & Game Protec-tive Association will hold a Spring Gun Show on Sun-day, May 1 at the main hall from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Admittance is $5 for men 19 and over; women and youth are free. Food and beverages will be available while you view the near-ly new or gently used in sporting, hunting and some historical firearms and asso-ciated equipment.
It is a buy, sell and trade show with an assortment of nearly new to antique. The show is a great opportunity to find a starting firearm for a novice hunter such as a son or daughter or grand-child.
More and more young peo-ple and women are express-ing interest in the shooting sports and this could be the opportunity to find an eco-nomical firearm.
Several shows are held throughout the year on Vancouver Island. Any-one interested in gun show information can contact
Rick McClure at 250-703-0223.
Outdoor ShowJune is just around the
corner and so is the Cour-tenay and District Fish & Game Protective Associa-tion’s 24th annual Outdoor Recreation Show on June 4-5.
This popular family com-munity event is generously sponsored by 97.3 the Eagle, Quality Foods and John’s Your Independent Grocer. Admission and parking is free, we just ask for food bank donations.
We welcome interest-ed exhibitors to fill out the
exhibitor application form on the website at www.cour-tenayfishandgame.org and mail to PO Box 3177, Cour-tenay, BC V9N 5N4, Attn: Outdoor Recreation Show with the required fee no later than May 1 to ensure a space. Only $100 per space for both days.
The fish and game club’s Spring Gun Show is set for May 1 in the main hall at the clubhouse. PHOTO submiTTed
Outdoor Show invites exhibitors to apply by May 1
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JAMES, June Margaret (nee HUNTLEY)June 29, 1923 – March 22, 2016
June was born in Manchester, England, and spent a happy childhood and youth there. During World War II, she served in the RAF as an aircraft mechanic, where she met Norman Peter “Bob” James on the same crew. After the war, she trained in Early Childhood Education, and she and Bob were married in 1951. They spent many years travelling with postings at various RAF stations, finally settling in the beautiful Comox Valley in 1969.
June loved small children and will be remembered for setting up and running several daycare centres, including one for under 3 year olds and the Child Development Centre. She was a lifelong volunteer in many different capacities. She and Bob spent many happy hours at d’Esterre Seniors’ Centre in Comox, becoming life members. In later years, quilting became June’s passion, and she greatly enjoyed the company of her many quilting buddies.
Mum was a very dedicated and loving wife, mother and grandmother, and will be dearly missed and fondly remembered by Bob, her husband of 64 years, her children Linda (John), Steve (Benita), Mike (Lynne), daughter-in-love Donna, grandchildren Lisa (Micah), Amy (Scott), Neil, Lindsey, Brittany (Justin), Briana (Mike), Brandon (Lacey), and great-grandchildren Josiah, Annalise and Jax.
The family would especially like to extend thanks to Dr. Susan Hunter for being an exceptional family doctor and friend. Thanks also to all June and Bob’s Berwick friends and staff for the 7 happy years Mum and Dad spent there, and much appreciation to the dedicated staff at the Comox Valley Seniors’ Village for all their kindness.
A Celebration of Life for June will be held in Comox May 28, 2016. Further details will be announced.
Say not in grief, “She is no more,” but live in thankfulness that she was.
Today is full of memoriesHappiness and tears.Of birthday celebrationsWe’ve shared through out the years.
And though we always miss youthe endless joy you brought, warms our hear with gratitudeAnd fills our every thought
Where ever you are restingWe hope you can see how precious and uplifting your memory is to us.
We feel that you are with usIn everything we doSo we will celebrate your birthdaybut spend it missing you
In Memory on your BirthdayMom we can not send you a birthday card but
would still like to send our wishes.
Love you forever, Claudia and Natalie, Grandchildren: Yani, Chris, and Connor, Great- grandchildren : Rachel and Daniel
Catharina Meyer DeleeuwApril 18, 1953- September 26, 2015
Lawrence Adam Wenninger
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Lawrence Wenninger April 11, 2016 after a brief stay at St. Joseph Hospital in Comox. He was born in Denzil Sask. 81 years ago. He had COPD for 14 years. He leaves behind his wife Willy and family in BC, Alberta, Winnipeg & Hamilton.
No service by request.
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The Comox Valley Record has a full time employment position available for an Ad Controller/Receptionist. As Ad Controller, the position requires an extremely organized individual with an uncanny ability to pay attention to details whether big or small. Booking advertising which includes classifieds, print, online and flyers. Accounting skills are required for balancing of cash reports, and bank deposits. This is a team environment and you must be able to work with numerous interruptions and yet stay focused and adhere to deadlines. As receptionist, you will be acting as the first point of contact for clients by phone and at the front counter while maintaining a high level or professionalism and customer satisfaction. Your responsibilities will be answering phone calls and re-directing to the respective departments, handling and re-directing mail and a variety of other duties. Knowledge of Excel applications on a Mac platform are also a requirement.We offer a great working environment with a competitive remuneration and a strong benefits package.Black Press is Canada’s leading private independent newspaper company with more than 170 community, daily and urban newspapers in Canada and the U.S. and has extensive digital and printing operations.Please email your resume with cover letter by Thursday, April 28, 2016, to: Chrissie Bowker, Publisher, [email protected]
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Whether building a new home or simply adding to your existing home, these are the businesses to contact for the finest in workmanship, quality materials and prompt service
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Locally owned & operated. Since 1979“The Refreshing Remodel”
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OPEN SATURDAYS FOR READY-MIX DELIVERIES
HYLANDPRECAST INC.
Tel: 250-336-2412 250-336-8705
4552 Cumberland Rd., Cumberland
Vancouver Island
Enterprises
1200 Knight Rd., ComoxNext to Airport
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Serving the Comox Valley
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Providing asbestos, mould and lead sampling and remediation
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SHOWER BASES • BATHTUB-TO-SHOWER CONVERSIONSWALK-IN-SAFETY BATHTUBS
• GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
BATHTUBS AND BATHTUB LINERS • WALL SURROUND SYSTEMSSHOWER BASES • BATHTUB-TO-SHOWER CONVERSIONS
WALK-IN-SAFETY BATHTUBS• GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
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12B 1209 EAST ISLAND HWY PARKSVILLE1-800-BATHTUB • 250-586-1555
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• GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
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WALK-IN-SAFETY BATHTUBS • GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
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12B 1209 EAST ISLAND HWY PARKSVILLE1-800-BATHTUB • 250-586-1555
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• GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
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12B 1209 EAST ISLAND HWY PARKSVILLE1-800-BATHTUB • 250-586-1555
12B 1209 EAST ISLAND HWY PARKSVILLE1-800-BATHTUB • 250-586-1555
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SHOWER BASES • BATHTUB-TO-SHOWER CONVERSIONS WALK-IN-SAFETY BATHTUBS
• GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
BATHTUBS AND BATHTUB LINERS • WALL SURROUND SYSTEMS SHOWER BASES • BATHTUB-TO-SHOWER CONVERSIONS
WALK-IN-SAFETY BATHTUBS • GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
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WALK-IN-SAFETY BATHTUBS • GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
Locally owned & operated. Since 1979 Locally owned & operated. Since 1979 Locally owned & operated. Since 1979“The Refreshing Remodel” “The Refreshing Remodel” “The Refreshing Remodel”
TRAFALGAR HOMES
Your Dream. Your Style. Your Budget.
BUILD FOR LESS!
Contact us for a no obligation quote...1-866-971-0239
www.trafalgarhomes.ca
YOUR NEW HOMEstarting as low as
$88,474• Over 30 years of experience• Complete within as little as 8 weeks• 30% lower cost than a custom designed home• Many designs to choose from• Financing program available• Built to code and industry standards
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Comox Home Improvement
KellyCoPainting & Decorating Services
Interior/ExteriorResidential/Commercial
WallcoveringsComplimentary Colour Consulting
Kelly C.Riggs
“You’ll be as proud ofour quality as we are!”
Guaranteed, Quality Work30+ Years Licensed Journeyman
250-218-7685
• ROOM MAKEOVERS • STYLING AND STAGING• SPECIAL EVENTS DÉCOR • CUSTOM MOSAIC AND TILING
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS forDESIGN CHALLENGES
HOME, LANDSCAPE OR BUSINESS
Creating New Spaces without Breaking the Bank!TERESA PHILLIPST.A.P. DESIGNS
Email: [email protected]: 250-703-6608
For More Info go towww.designsbytap.com
Free Estimates Call 250-334-4988
Your In-Floor Radiant Heat
Specialists
• Residential Repair & Installation
• Commercial Repair & Installation
• Gas Fireplaces • Radiant In-Floor Heating
& Heat pumps
• Ready Mixed Concrete• Precast Products • Concrete Pumping
• Gravel Products
OPEN SATURDAYS FORREADY-MIX DELIVERIES
HYLANDPRECAST INC.
Tel:250-336-2412250-336-8705
4552 Cumberland Rd., Cumberland
Peter Tapley 250-218-2084
Serving the Comox Valley
• Gutter Cleaning • Residential & Commercial
Window Cleaning • Power Washing
• Hand Wash Vinyl Siding
BOOK NOW
TOP DOWN
12B 1209 EAST ISLAND HWY PARKSVILLE1-800-BATHTUB • 250-586-1555
12B 1209 EAST ISLAND HWY PARKSVILLE1-800-BATHTUB • 250-586-1555
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WORLD’S LARGEST BATH REMODELER WORLD’S LARGEST BATH REMODELER WORLD’S LARGEST BATH REMODELERBATHTUBS AND BATHTUB LINERS • WALL SURROUND SYSTEMS
SHOWER BASES • BATHTUB-TO-SHOWER CONVERSIONSWALK-IN-SAFETY BATHTUBS
• GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
BATHTUBS AND BATHTUB LINERS • WALL SURROUND SYSTEMSSHOWER BASES • BATHTUB-TO-SHOWER CONVERSIONS
WALK-IN-SAFETY BATHTUBS• GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
BATHTUBS AND BATHTUB LINERS • WALL SURROUND SYSTEMSSHOWER BASES • BATHTUB-TO-SHOWER CONVERSIONS
WALK-IN-SAFETY BATHTUBS• GRAB BARS & NON-SLIP COATINGS
Locally owned & operated. Since 1979 Locally owned & operated. Since 1979 Locally owned & operated. Since 1979“The Refreshing Remodel” “The Refreshing Remodel” “The Refreshing Remodel”
Meeting Comox Valley’s Excavation Needs
250-339-6100jredgettexcavating.ca
40 years in the Comox Valley
Masonry Heaters • Bake Ovens Decorative Concrete
• Optimal Efficiency • Radiant Heat
• Wood is a renewable green energy source
Carl Sidl 250-898-3430www.masonryheating.com
250-897-6061 www.glacierenvironmental.ca
Providing asbestos, mould and lead sampling and remediation
services for Central and Northern Vancouver Island
Locally Owned And Operated
Glacier Environmental
1-866-405-9225
Pit: 2323 Fosgate Road, Oyster RiverExcavating • Trucking • Stone Slinger
Land Clearing • Sand • Gravel • Topsoil Landscaping • Septic Systems • Road Building
Comox Home Improvement
Is your solution.Is your solution.
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VISIT OUR NEW LOCATION #J-2703 Kilpatrick Ave., Courtenay
250-898-9670 Hours: Mon-Fri 9-4 • Sat by Appointment
Vancouver Island
Enterprises
1200 Knight Rd., ComoxNext to Airport
250-207-6352www.vancouverislandenterprises.com
• Bark Mulch • Top Soil
• Aggregates • Organic Compost• Pickup or Delivery
Available
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• Organic Compost• Clean Dirt• Top Soil
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250-207-6352
Pickup or Delivery Friendly Service
BARK MULCH KNIGHT ROAD,
COMOX
Next to the Airport