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Man killed after vehicle hits pedestriansKEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

A 55-year-old Duncan man has died of injuries sustained when he was hit by a truck on a down-town street last Thursday.

Vincent Frances Samson was one of two men hit by the pickup in the early afternoon. He was airlifted to hospital in Victoria with a serious head injury short-ly after the accident.

Samson succumbed to his injur-

ies in hospital on Monday.“It’s not good. We’re all deaing

with sadness,” Samson’s aunt, Dolly Sylvester, said, adding that her sister also died recently, leav-ing the family reeling from mul-tiple tragedies.

Samson left behind a wife and two sons, as well as his mother, three sisters and a brother.

The incident happened shortly after noon last Thursday when two men who were walking

toward the Human Resources office in downtown Duncan were hit by a 2012 GMC pickup as they crossed Jubilee Street near the intersection with Evans Street.

The other victim, a 53-year-old man, also from Duncan, remains in hospital and was last reported in critical condition.

“The vehicle was travelling at a very low speed which may have minimized the extent of the injuries to the 53-year-old man,”

North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Krista Hobday said.

Police are continuing to investi-gate the collision with help from the Integrated Collision Analyst and reconstruction experts from South Island Traffic Services.

“The preliminary investigation has ruled out alcohol and mech-anical error as contributing fac-tors,” Hobday said.

The driver of the pickup pro-vided a statement to police at the

scene and has been cooperating with the investigation.

Victim Services has been offer-ing support to the families and those who assisted in caring for the injured on the roadside, Hob-day added.

“Police would like to remind both pedestrians and motorists to be visible and aware of their surroundings as they make their way to and from their destina-tions,” Hobday added.

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Two men were hit by a slow-moving pickup truck as they crossed Jubilee Street in Duncan last Thursday. One of the men has since died of his injuries, while the other remains in hospital. Police are reminding pedestrians and drivers to make sure they are visible and aware of their surroundings. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Permit granted, but muni controls road◆ NORTH COWICHAN

ROBERT BARRON CITIZEN

The Municipality of North Cowichan has the right to limit the maximum loads of dump trucks on the access road lead-ing to the Pastula open pit quarry.

Mayor Jon Lefebure said staff has been instructed to prepare a report on truck traffic to the quarry site, which is expected to be tabled in March.

An information session Thursday on the controver-sial quarry was hosted by Jim Dunkley, a regional director for the Ministry of Energy and Mines.

Dunkley was fulfilling a com-mitment to the community to outline the operating terms of the quarry prior to its operating permit being issued.

“My understanding is that we can’t do anything to directly prevent the quarry’s operation once the province has granted the operating permit,” Lefe-bure said to the packed council chambers in North Cowichan.

“But while we can’t control the site, we can regulate and control the roads that run to it. We’ve decided to move forward with a staff report now that we know the conditions of the permit.”

The issue of the quarry, first

proposed in 2014, has been con-troversial in the region.

Richards Trail is a keystone in the area’s agri-tourism industry and is popular with cyclists, with hundreds using the rural road on a regular basis.

The Catalyst mill waterline also goes under the road, and there are signs warning against moving heavy equipment on the route.

The District of North Cow-ichan sent a letter to the min-

istry outlining its concerns and opposition to the quarry, and are on record stating that Richards Trail is not capable of supporting industrial traffic.

Dunkley said the permit lim-its the extraction of materials from the site to 25,000 tonnes per year during the expected lifespan of the project, which means approximately 11,000 truck loads will be moved from the site.

“That would mean about

10 truck loads a day,” Dunkley calculated.

Dunkley said the quarry’s oper-ations will be limited to Monday to Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., which he indicated should go a long way in dealing with impacts to recreation in the area, as most recreational activities usually take place on the weekends.

He said the project was not required to undergo an environ-mental assessment as it’s considered too small.

He said only quarry projects that extract more than 250,000 tonnes of material per year are required to undergo assessment.

As for concerns around blasting, Dunkley said the blast contractor will be required to notify the min-istry and residents within one kilo-metre of the centre of the quarry not less than 24 hours prior to each blasting.

Dunkley said that prior to the start

of operations at the quarry, a base-line water sampling program will be completed with samples taken from the runoff coming from the site, Richard’s Creek, all wells on the Pastula property and the wells of two nearby properties.

“I know a lot of people aren’t happy with this project,” Dunkley said. “But we’ll do the best we can to be on top of the work there and deal quickly with any complaints.”

Donna Hickey, who lives close to the quarry, said she’s still not fully comfortable with all aspects of the quarry, even after the information session.

“There’s a lot of complex issues to deal with here, and my main con-cerns is with the impacts this could have in the watershed,” she said.

“But I feel that this process was good and I’ll feel a little more com-fortable with this if the monitoring of the site will be as good as they say it will be.”

North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure. [CITIZEN FILE]

Water, lighting systems to see upgrades at pool, Fuller Lake

The Cowichan Aquatic Centre and Fuller Lake Arena will soon see significant infrastructure investments.

The Municipality of North Cowichan will spend approximately $392,000 on energy projects at the aquatic centre, council decided Wednesday.

The projects include replacing the facility’s hot water system with a new more energy-efficient system that includes solar components.

The funding will also pay for the completion of the centre’s LED lighting conversion program.

As well, the Fuller Lake Arena will have its electrical transformer replaced, at a cost of $351,000.

The projects are included in the municipality’s estimated 2.96 per cent budget increase for 2016.

Duncan camera operator retiring after eight years behind lens

Margot Izard was honoured for her eight years of service to the City of Duncan at Monday’s council meeting.

Izard has been in charge of operating the cam-eras at council meetings and is now retiring.

Coun. Sharon Jackson thanked Izard for her camera expertise over the years.

“Margot has been behind the scenes quietly recording council meetings for a long time,” Jackson said. “We want to thank her for her great and wonderful service over the years.”

Robert Barron, Citizen

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Owners pay off back taxes; judicial review continuesROBERT BARRON CITIZEN

The owners of the controversial soil dump near Shawnigan Lake have paid the back taxes owed to the province.

A portion of the soil dump on Stebbings Road, which is owned by South Island Aggregates and Cobble Hill Holdings, reverted to the Crown last week after its owners failed to pay more than $22,000 in property taxes.

Mike Kelly, president of Cobble Hill Holdings, said at the time that the failure to pay the taxes was “an oversight.”

He said, now that the taxes have been paid, the province’s property taxation branch has sent a certificate to the Victoria Land Title office requesting the title be reinstated to the company.

The government declined media inquiries on the issue, citing privacy issues.

In related news, the judicial review of the pro-ject by the B.C. Supreme Court in Victoria is now in its second week.

The review, which is expected to conclude this Friday, was instigated by the Shawnigan Residents Association.

The SRA asked for the review as part of its efforts to have the court set aside the decision by the Environmental Appeal Board in March that dismissed appeals to stop the importation

of contaminated soil into the area.The project was previously given a permit by

the province’s Ministry of Environment.But documents that came to light in July

revealed a complex deal between the companies working to establish the soil facility, which the SRA alleges throws doubt on engineering firm Active Earth’s impartiality in the matter.

The Ministry of Environment relied on infor-mation from Active Earth in making the decision on the permit.

Calvin Cook, president of the SRA, has been attending the judicial review on most days since it began last week.

He said that, considering the procedural errors and fraud allegations that have been raised since the permit was issued, the SRA hopes the court will decide to stop operations at the site as early as this Friday until a final decision is made.

“We want to see the importation of contamin-ated soil to the area stopped as soon as possible,” Cook said.

“We think we’ve presented an excellent case with tons of information, but it will be up to the judge to decide how to proceed.”

Company representatives couldn’t be reached for comment by press time.

Meanwhile, the soil dump site is undergoing phased improvements to its water-management program.

Crews are currently working to reinforce the operation’s settling pond.

When the work, which was recommended by the engineering firm Stantec, is complete, it’s expected it will greatly reduce the amount of sol-id materials leaving the site during heavy rain.

Taxes have now been paid on the part of the South Island Aggregates site that had reverted briefly to the province. There is also work taking place to beef up the operation’s settling pond. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Bike station off ers free fi x-it tools for cyclists

The Cowichan Valley Regional District has installed a bike main-tenance station at Island Savings Centre.

The station offers cyclists basic tools for easy fixes.

This includes a pump, wrenches, hex keys and other bike tools that can be used for simple adjustments and enjoyable riding.

The station is available for use by the public and is located on the west side of the building next to the electric vehicle charge stations.

“The bike maintenance station is a convenient option for simple bike fixes,” said CVRD chairperson Jon

Lefebure. “Ultimately, the station supports

healthy living and environmental stewardship as we work towards active transportation in our communities.”

This station is a pilot project. If it is successful, additional sta-

tions will be installed at priority cycling locations within the CVRD.

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The Municipality of North Cowichan wants a neighbour-hood plan developed for the Bell McKinnon Road area within the next five months.

The area, which is zoned rural-residential, is being con-sidered for the construction of the new, approximately $350-million Cowichan District Hospital.

Three properties on Bell McKinnon Road were selected by the Cowichan Valley Region-al Hospital District in August to potentially house the new hos-pital following two years of site scrutiny.

The new facility would replace the more than 40-year-old hospi-tal on Gibbins Road.

Jon Lefebure, who is both mayor of the Municipality of North Cowichan and chair-man of the CVRHD, said MNC staff have been instructed to develop a neighbourhood plan in conjunction with the rezon-ing application for the new hos-pital site.

He said the intention is to determine the implications of the hospital project on the area, and then gather public input into the plan at a mandatory public hearing that will be held in either June or July.

“We would have to bring sew-er services into the neighbour-

hood to deal with the density requirements of the new hospi-tal,” Lefebure said.

“There is municipal water in the area already, but we may to have to upgrade some of the water pipes. There will be ongoing consultations with the public as we develop this plan, and the public’s input and com-ments will be welcome.”

The proposed hospital site is a short distance southeast of where Herd Road/Highway 18 intersects with the Trans Can-ada Highway.

It’s in a residential area out-side of the Agricultural Land Reserve within North Cowic-han’s urban growth boundary.

The site was selected from a crop of 34 potential sites iden-

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The CVRHD is responsible for covering 40 per cent of the cost of the new hospital, with Island Health picking up the rest of the tab. The hospital district has put aside more than $21 million in a reserve fund for the project so far.

“We’ve been putting aside about $7 million each year from taxes for the new hospital,” Lefebure said.

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No pilot practises over built-up areas

Re: the letter (Friday, Feb. 19) from Bernice Ramsdin of Chemainus:

As a pilot of more than 35 years, presently holding a com-mercial licence and owner of one of the small planes that Ms. Ramsdin is so critical of, I can assure her that no pilot pur-posely practises aeronautical manoeuvres over any built-up area. That said, the Canadian Aeronautical Regulations state that, in an emergency, a pilot may land an aircraft anywhere. The pilot who safely landed on Highway 18 the other day has my personal congratulations for carrying out an engine-out land-ing so successfully. What would

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They are tested on their emer-gency knowledge and the man-ner in which they carry out an emergency. Such practices are carried out AWAY from built-up areas. Knowledge of emergen-cies is a requirement of aircraft owners’ insurance.

Furthermore, Nanaimo Regional Airport is located just northwest of Chemainus. Aircraft large and small use the only available runway for both landing and take-off. We are required to avoid noise-sensi-

tive areas in the vicinity of the airport; in fact, virtually all air-ports in Canada and the United States have such avoidance procedures.

Pilots are not allowed to per-form the types of manoeuvres mentioned by Ms. Ramsdin — “flying round and round over town, cutting their engine [and] starting up again,” diving and backfiring. Any aircraft doing that sort of thing, large or small, should be reported to the near-est air traffic control facility which, in Ms. Ramsdin’s case, is the Nanaimo Regional Airport. A commission operates the air-port; she may call 250-245-2157 to complain.

Manuel EricksonMill Bay

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The Internet is both a wonderful and a terrible invention.

It allows us to be connected to one another like never before, and gives us access in seconds to huge quantities of information.

But it is also being used as a tool by some to maliciously cause harm to others.

We were surprised and dis-mayed to learn from the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP that children only nine and 10 years old have taken to cyber bullying like a duck to water.

We suppose we shouldn’t be shocked when we consider that

this young generation has been exposed to smart phones, iPads, laptops and all manner of other technologies their whole lives.

But the age at which they have learned to use it to torment their peers is just depressing.

Then again, there are certainly far too many adults who aren’t providing a good example for them to follow.

Though his actions more close-ly resemble those of an abusive partner than an elementary school bully, the term cyber bullying immediately brought to mind the case of B.C. man Pat-rick Fox, who has created a web-

site he explicitly states is aimed at destroying his ex-wife.

This horrible individual has made any number of claims on the site, and perhaps most repre-hensibly, has stuck the couple’s teenage son squarely in the mid-dle by including him in every hate-filled exchange he has with the boy’s mother.

So far, the legal system has not worked to stop him. The technology has run far ahead of the law.

But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t done anything wrong and there won’t be consequences for his repugnant behaviour.

He certainly has, and there certainly will. And that’s what we hope our youths of today can learn from this case.

So far, his victim hasn’t been able to afford an attorney to take him to civil court, but we imagine all the publicity may dig one out who’s willing to take the case on pro bono.

He may find it tough to find a partner after this, given how he’s treating his previous one.

Anyone who employs this indi-vidual likely isn’t thrilled about it right now. And we can only imagine his friends are uneasy about the acquaintance.

So we can only surmise that this man will eventually find himself alone, with only his hatred for company.

Our laws are only now starting to catch up with our tech, but they are catching up.

In many places now, for example, it’s illegal to post explicit photos of somebody without their consent.

This has been a key compon-ent of previous notable cyber bullying cases like those of Rehtaeh Parsons and Amanda Todd .

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Steelhead LNG committed to quality

As the discussion about our proposed LNG project takes shape, we’re seeing a number of critics quoted in the media who continue to make inaccurate claims about the project and about LNG itself.

All of us at Steelhead LNG believe in having a broad and energetic community conversa-tion about our proposed project, and we’re certainly prepared to be challenged by those who have questions or concerns.

However, we really hope it will be a discussion based on facts and science, and not on the myths and misconceptions.

In the interest of getting it right, I’d like to provide some important details about our proposed Malahat LNG project on the shoreline of the Mala-hat Nation-owned Bamberton Industrial Lands.

Together with the Malahat Nation, we are proposing to build a moderate-sized natural gas liquefaction and export facility.

If the proposed Malahat LNG project moves forward, it would include floating liquefaction facilities moored to the shore-line and supporting land-based infrastructure.

Currently, we’re working to submit a project description to regulators, which will initiate multi-year provincial and/or federal regulatory processes, including a rigorous environ-mental assessment for the pro-posed Malahat LNG project.

Steelhead LNG is licensed to export LNG for 25 years. That’s a long-term commitment, and a big reason why we are working hard to build a project that’s right for the community, the region and the rest of British Columbia.

Our proposed Malahat LNG project will contribute to

the community, care for the environment, put safety first and deliver long-term economic benefits for the region and Brit-ish Columbia.

The proposed location is an active industrial site that was a cement factory for more than 100 years and is currently being used as a rock quarry, and for off-loading industrial equipment and materials.

It has a deep water port and is located close to international shipping lanes, making it well suited for the proposed Malahat LNG project.

We value the opportunity to work in collaboration with the Malahat Nation, who are explor-ing LNG as a way to realize their Nation-building goals, create important economic, employ-ment and training opportunities for its members, and generate revenue to support important community programs.

The proposed Malahat LNG project would create signifi-cant economic benefits for approximately 30 years, or the life of the proposed project, including revenue generation through taxation for region-al, provincial and federal governments.

In addition, approximately 400 workers will be needed during peak construction, with approximately 200 well-paid, long term positions at home on Vancouver Island for operations, as well as hundreds of addition-al indirect jobs in a wide variety of sectors that will provide goods and services during con-struction and operation.

At the same time, community engagement and consultation is as important to us as it is to the community.

Announcing the proposed Malahat LNG project in advance of formally entering into any regulatory processes has allowed us to focus on initiating engagement with aboriginal groups, the public and stake-holders to begin learning about community interests, issues and concerns. By gathering feed-back at this early stage, we can work to identify concerns and interests in our project descrip-tion and the actual design of the facility.

We understand that not every-one will be in favour of the proposed Malahat LNG project, and we respect the opinions of everyone involved.

That said, we want to ensure that local communities are pro-vided accurate and up-to-date information on the proposed Malahat LNG project, LNG itself and the LNG industry so that we can have frank and meaningful discussions over the coming months and years.

Like the rest of our team, I look forwarding to working with local communities and stake-holders in the days ahead. Mean-while, if anyone would like to receive updates and information on the proposed Malahat LNG Project, please email us at [email protected]

Nigel KuzemkoCEO Steelhead LNG

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These good Samaritans went into the ditch and brought up the plastic container, Styrofoam and an old radio. These items, and more, were dumped and abandoned by someone along Thain Road, near the Cobble Hill quarry. These two carried it to their vehicle and will properly dumped it at Bing’s Creek Recycling Depot. [CHERYL TRUDELL PHOTO]

Time to unite against unfair gas pump prices

I wrote about the gouging at the pumps Nov. 5, 2015. The prices slowly came down to about $.40 behind what the price of oil should reflect, to about $.92 per litre.

Gas in Calgary was $.54 per litre at the same time, so we here in Duncan were paying $.38 more for the same gas.

Now that the Arabs are putting a cap on oil produc-tion and the price of a barrel of oil went up to about $30 a barrel, up about $2 a barrel, which should only be a $.02 or $.03 rise at the pump, and our American-owned gas sta-tions put the price back up to a greedy $.99.9 per litre, that’s $.09 which would be for $90 per barrel price, if the num-

bers don’t lie, so we are being gouged close to $.50 per litre today.

I’m mad as hell at how we pensioners and disabled suffer when those in power put what-ever price they want on gas and I guess they’ll get away with it if no one complains. Here is a forum in this news-paper to voice your complaints and see if something can’t be done to right this terrible wrong that our government wont do because the higher the price the more tax dollars we pay.

I believe it’s time to start a movement called “Citizens Against Unfair Gas Prices and Price Fixing”.

What do you think?

Ross CalderwoodDuncan

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An unexpected opportunity to return home

You can take the boy out of Duncan, but you can never take the Duncan out of the

boy.Or something like that.The strapping young lad to

the right, the one with the epic mullet (eat your heart out, Jaromir Jagr) and era-correct adult action star ’stache, has returned to his old stomping grounds. For a short spell, anyway.

Half a lifetime ago, the mul-leted young fellow left the

Citizen for the world of daily newspapers. As you may be aware, jobs at many Canadian dailies are being hacked and

slashed at a rate that would frighten Jason Voorhees.

One of those positions was mine.

Initially, I assumed I would be without work for the first time since Bobby McFerrin’s Don’t Worry, Be Happy was charting.

The plan was simple — lie around binge-watching old episodes of The Rockford Files and crank out job applications.

Fortunately, the fine folks at Black Press saw fit to keep me aboard, in a regional capacity.

That role, for the time being, includes helping out the tal-ented crew here at the Citizen.

I was excited about the opportunity for a variety of reasons.

First, I can keep paying my mortgage and meet the

ravenous eating demands of my teenage son. Second, newspapers of this size are the ones that will continue to flourish and produce outstanding journalism that res-onates in smaller communities.

Third, current publisher Shirley Skolos was one of my all-time favourite co-workers, so I knew the gig would be fun.

And finally, it’s a chance to get reacquainted with the place I’ll always consider home.

For the last week or so, it has felt like Richard Dreyfuss is narrating my own personal movie (everyone read the next passage in their best Dreyfuss voice...)

“Even though I hadn’t lived in the Cowichan Valley for nearly a quarter-century, the memories kept flooding back.”

Now, I haven’t been a world away for much of that time, but so much has changed I might as well have been living on the moon.

Virtually all of my visits home included a drive down the back roads to the Maple Bay area to visit family — or trips to either Mr. Mikes or the Doghouse for meals with said family members.

That’s about it. In and out.Why is there a gaping hole where

The Galaxy should be? I didn’t vis-it the ‘Lixy’ that often, though we did enjoy stopping by on our way back from Victoria to watch the dustups in the parking lot after closing time.

I spent my teen years living on Ortona Street. Who’s the genius who changed it to Ortona Road? Why?

The list of questions is endless and I look forward to answering all of them. I plan to walk all through the downtown, though with knees so bad Bobby Orr feels sorry for me, it may take a few trips.

Just driving around is fascinat-ing, with Mr. Dreyfuss narrating the entire way.

“Now here’s where they had the old Odeon Theatre. It was here that my Dad took me to see my first restricted movie, Jaws. When the head popped out of the boat underwater, I nearly jumped out of my skin. I never again got scared by movies like I did when I was nine. Geez, does anyone?”

Is it like that for everyone that grew up here but has seen the gradual change?

Even my drive out of town on Monday was an endless series of flashbacks.

I went up Government Street. I peered down at Centennial Park (is it still called that?), and there I was, playing tennis with my giant, old, green Prince tennis racquet.

Looked up the hill to where I assume Khowhemun Elementary school still sits, and remembered how in one class, if our coats weren’t hung up properly in the cloakroom, you risked getting your hands whipped with a yard-stick. Good times.

Every street I drove by, it was like “hey, I wonder if so-and-so’s par-ents still live there?”

“Sure seems odd without Bruce’s Grocery. A 7-Eleven, really? Which person on the city staff has a bizarre roundabout fetish? Look at all these apartments. Wonder if the Oak still has their big hockey pool? Man, I remember playing Asteroids at the old arcade. Didn’t McQuinn’s used to be where that haircut place is? What’s the deal with these roundabouts? Look at all the soccer fields. Mt. Prevost is a French immersion school now? Wonder whatever happened to Mr. Rodman? Wow, look at those ball fields. Nice setup. Another round-about. Seriously?”

And on and on.Change is a great thing. An

important thing. I’ve had enough experience with NIMBYists and folks who believe progress is a cuss word. They can definitely hold a community back.

That said, nostalgia can also be fun.

The Great Reconnection Tour of 2016 aside, there’s also work to be done here. I’m very interested in hearing your stories, past and present. Tell me what you think of this paper — why it’s good and what might be done better.

How do you consume your local news? Do we meet those needs on all platforms in a timely fashion? Do you have your own tale to tell? Know of anyone else who should make headlines? Should mullets make a comeback?

Just let me know. I look forward to hearing from you.

It’s great to be home.

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A proposed hous-ing development a t 6 0 0 6 L a k e s Rd. is one step closer to reality after a crowded p u bl i c h e a r i n g Wednesday.

The Municipality of North Cowic-han gave the third r e a d i n g t o t h e controversial project, which would see a 16-lot subdivision built on 3.8 acres of property, after hearing from the proponent, Gordon McEwan, and many nearby residents to the property who raised a number of concerns.

The concerns were mainly around increased density and traffic in the primarily residential neighbourhood, and drainage issues at the site.

Dan Cramer, who said he moved to the neigh-bourhood just three months ago, said he decided to move there because it’s a “nice, quiet neigh-bourhood with nice lots.”

“This project would change the feel of the neighbourhood, and it was not what I signed up for when I bought my house,” he said.

McEwan assured that the drainage issues, which he said he feels is the main concern of the neighbours, and the issues around increased traffic on area roads, will be dealt with in the construction phase by professional engineers.

He said fears of increased noise to the existing residents in the quiet neighbourhood related to the new development would be “irrelevant” due to the distance of the new lots from their homes.

Coun. Al Siebring said change “is difficult” for neighbourhoods.

“I understand that,” he said.“But I really believe that if the process is given

some time, like 10 to 15 years after it’s completed, the new development would integrate nicely into the rest of the neighbourhood.”

Scott Mark, the municipality’s director of development services, said staff support the application on the basis that it’s consistent with the objectives of North Cowichan’s Official Com-munity Plan as it relates to growth and develop-ment within its urban containment boundaries.

The date for the fourth, and final, reading of the application for the zoning change to develop the property will be considered by council at a later date.

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The Cowichan Valley has a “huge potential” for a dynamic and growing tourism industry, Janet Docherty told Duncan’s city council Monday, Feb. 15.

But Docherty, chairperson of the Cowichan Tourism Society, said much of that tourism potential is currently “just passing us by.”

She said there are some big changes coming to the society that are intended, in part, to help consolidate the many tourism initiatives that are being car-ried out separately by various agencies in the valley.

Docherty said the CTS has been suc-cessful in acquiring a $138,000 grant from Destination BC that should be in hand by April.

She said one of the first things the society will do with the new funding is to change its governance model.

That includes increasing the number of directors on its board from seven to 13, as well as establishing committees for governance, finances and marketing.

“We need expert help to achieve our goals, so we’ll be hiring a co-ordinator as well,” Docherty said.

“We’ll be refreshing our brand and investing more money into a number of areas, including digital marketing, more advertising at events and festivals and more signage and research.”

Docherty said the society will also begin focusing on having all tour-ist agencies in the region “pool our scarce resources” in ongoing efforts to increase tourism in Cowichan.

She said the society wants to focus local initiatives on attracting more tourists from the Lower Mainland, Alberta and Washington state.

“We need to all work together to cre-ate one brand for all the five regions in the valley,”Docherty said.

“We’ll soon be holding stakeholder meetings in the valley to gather input and ideas.”

Docherty said while the funding from Destination BC must be leveraged with funding from local agencies and stake-holders, she wasn’t asking the City of Duncan for any funding at this time.

“What we’re requesting is that the city let us know what they are doing to attract more tourists here, and engage with us as we move forward with this process.”

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Members of the public are invited to review and provide comments on the Timber Supply Review information package for the Pacific Timber Supply Area (TSA). The Pacific TSA covers roughly 698,000 ha and is composed of 30 Blocks — ranging in size from 76 ha - 405,000 ha — on Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, the Mainland Coast and the Douglas Channel.

The information package provides a general description and brief history of the TSA, and a draft of data that will be applied to the upcoming timber supply analysis. The timber supply analysis provides the province’s Chief Forester with information required to determine the allowable annual cut (AAC) — the maximum volume of timber to be harvested from the TSA — for the next 10 years.

The Chief Forester will consider public and First Nations input, and other information required under the Forest Act when a new AAC is determined.

Copies of the Pacific TSA information package are available online: http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/bcts/areas/tsg/tsg-tsr.htm or at the following Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations District locations: (Please call ahead to arrange an appointment.)

• Campbell River, 370 South Dogwood St., Campbell River Ph: (250) 286-9300

• Sunshine Coast, 7077 Duncan St., Powell River Ph: (604) 485-0700

• South Island, 4885 Cherry Creek Rd., Port Alberni Ph: (250) 731-3000

• North Island-Central Coast, 2217 Mine Rd., Port McNeill Ph: (250) 956-5000

• Coast Mountain, 5220 Keith Avenue, Terrace Ph: (250) 638-5100

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Instead, Benson replied, they’d sent their furs home! Douglas, who disap-proved of Benson’s political leanings, wasn’t amused and banished him to the Columbia River in the junior

Helmcken’s place. Nanaimo was Benson’s next assign-

ment; he’d take his leave of the fur company there, to become the surgeon for the Vancouver Coal Co. before opening his own practice and investing in coal mine development. When he retired to the Old Country in 1862 it was as a highly respected and liked Nanaimo resident. His friend, Capt. George Richards, RN, had compli-mented him by naming Mount Benson in 1859. Benson Island in Barkley Sound and Benson Creek in Welling-ton district also honour this eccentric pioneer.

Historians remember Dr. A.R. Benson for his role of returning officer in the June 1859 election to the provincial legislature. Capt. John Swanson, the only candidate, was elected by a major-ity of one — by Capt. C.E. Stuart, the only registered voter.

Earlier this month it was announced that Mount Benson Regional Park, only a portion of which actually is mountaintop, is finally to be protected from further logging by a conservation covenant, 10 years after its acquisition as parkland.

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Half a century ago, for some Granduc miners, a miracle(Conclusion) When it was over the

men were just gone. Just gone, that’s all.”—radio operator Innis Kelly.

On the morning of Feb. 18, 1965 a devastating ava-

lanche swept away the mining camp at Gran-duc in northwestern B.C. Twenty-six men were killed, many of them buried alive as they slept in their bunkhouse, in the worst provincial mining disaster in 35 years.

An RCAF hangar in Vancou-ver saw heartrending scenes of survivors as they were reunited with families. Flown by chartered aircraft from Alaska, “tough hard-rock miners and construction men from the northern wilderness spilled unashamed tears...”

For some there was no joy. While elated husbands and wives embraced, one woman huddled alone in a corner, weeping softly.

Radio operator Innis Kelly described the killing slide: “It was noiseless, not a sound. It was like watching a huge white wave with bulldozers and cats and men rolling on top of the crest. When it was over the men were just gone. Just gone, that’s all.”

Kelly had been at his make-shift radio for 16 hours. Initially, unable to receive, he’d not even been sure that his frantic distress signals were being picked up. Between calls, he helped look for missing friends. The night shift, he recounted, 35 men, “were sleep-ing. They were buried alive. We got some of them out...they were crying and beating their heads against the timbers trying to get

free when we found them.”

Alex Knott, 21, told how he’d been clearing snow from the bunk house roof when the slide came. “I turned around and saw the cook house coming right at me. I yelled, ‘Look out, a slide!’ then it hit me and I was buried.

It felt like I was being hit by wet blankets — boom, boom. I was bur-ied. Then I felt a foot in my face. I pushed up.”

It was his friend, Bill Rogers, who “grabbed my arms and was pulling while he stood on my ribs”.

The horror of avalanche had followed but a few hours after a similar slide buried the 26 inhabit-ants of a tiny Chilean village, Cabrera. For the poor South Amer-icans there’d be no rescue, it being reported that not a sign of life was to be found within the three-mile sea of ice, mud and rock which had swept over the village. Also, half a world away, more than 40 Japanese miners were trapped when an explosion shattered the coal pit in which they were working.

At Granduc, a small army of soldiers and bulldozers grimly struggled on. Roger Schmidt, who’d been the first rescuer to reach the scene, described the difficult conditions encountered: “The amount of debris in there is beyond description. There are 40-foot lengths of pipe; conduit, torn up by the slide, is lying in 200-foot-long strips. When I first arrived there I was working in powder snow up to my knees even with snowshoes on. The dog was buried up to his neck... You’d see a boot sticking out of the snow...you

had to check to see whether there was a leg in it. You’d find a glove and have to check for fingers. The place was just one general mess...like a bomb pit.”

By this time the list of known dead had risen to 16; 10 men remained unaccounted for.

But the rescuers had been inspired by the discovery of a carpenter — alive after having been entombed for 77 hours. Einar Myllyla, 38, was uncovered by the blade of a bulldozer which was clearing a helicopter landing pad. He suffered from severe frostbite. But he was alive.

Despite an improvement in the weather, which was now mild, the threat of new slides continued. Thousands of miles distant, in Japan, hope was abandoned for the 33 miners still trapped at Yubari and, in Coleman, Alberta, rescue workers ripped through a wall

of coal in search of a 26-year-old miner buried for a week.

Then, on Feb. 24, all rescue personnel were hurriedly evacuated from the still-dan-gerous Granduc. It was snow-ing heavily again, precipitat-ing small slides, more of which were expected imminently.

Five hundred miles to the south, yet another avalanche sparked a search at the min-ing community of Bralorne for eight-year-old Leo Smythe who’d vanished while en route to a Cub Scout meeting; it was feared that he’d been buried by snow sliding from buildings.

A week after the mountain thundered down upon Ganduc, hope was abandoned for the seven men still missing.

In Ketchikan, doctors fought to save the frozen limbs of carpenter Myllyla, who lay in a special oxygen pressure tank which helped to rebuild damaged tissues and to restore body functions. Although his fingertips would have to be amputated, he’d make a full recovery from his ordeal.

Among the last to be injured had been the RCMP dog Prince who’d suffered a slashed foot from metal debris while hunt-ing for bodies.

Finally, in Vancouver, 175 persons attended memorial services for the 26 men who died at Granduc.

Later, rescue leader Lt.-Col.

Matthews, a veteran of the Port Alberni tidal wave disas-ter the previous year, recalled the week of frustration he’d experienced at Granduc. First-ly, snow and fog had prevented helicopters from landing at the site during the first crucial 24 hours, and crippled flying operations sporadically there-after. Secondly, vital radio communications had suffered frequent interference and complete blackouts. Even the Alaskan ferry Taku, pressed into service as a hospital ship, instead of taking the direct 110-mile route to Chickamin River, had gone 180 miles out of the way, costing more previ-ous time.

But the worst blow had been the fact that two-thirds of the rescue army had been stranded in Stewart during the hours immediately after the slide when they had been most needed. Twenty-six men died at Granduc, Feb. 18, 1965; it was the worst provincial min-ing disaster in 35 years.

It had been a bad winter for slides. Four persons died the previous January when 15 mil-lion cubic yards of rock and mud obliterated a two-mile stretch of the Trans-Pacific Highway near Hope. Seven more were buried at Ocean Falls, four days later.

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TIM SCHEWE SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN

Party hearty! Some people would seem to make a contest about how much

alcohol they can drink and still function. Early in my policing career it was not uncommon to find a drunk driver with a blood alcohol level between .30 and .36. These people were truly drunk and not just impaired as most of us would start to be at the .05 level. Time to head for home and sleep it off because some of us have to be at work in the morning.

Fast forward to mid morning of the next day and I stop a loaded logging truck in a school zone whose driver smelled of stale liquor. Yes, he had been out partying the night before but he thought that he should be good to go now. A quick test with an approved screening device at the roadside showed that this driver just squeaked in under the .05 limit. I could not impose any driving sanctions against him but I strongly suspect that he was not at his peak of safe driv-ing performance just then.

Since we don’t really have any accurate idea of our maximum blood alcohol concentration after having a few drinks it can be difficult to know if we can

legally drive or not. An online BAC calculator for a 180 pound male drinking that mickey evenly spaced from 9 p.m. to midnight indicates it should be about .14 at 4 a.m., the probable time of our highest BAC. We are now a 14-hour wait away from zero, and could still be at about .06 by lunchtime the next day. That’s enough to become involved in the Immediate Road-side Prohibition program if you are found driving.

Does that mean you should not have a glass of wine with dinner at a restaurant? Probably not, but as with all things, it depends on many factors. That single glass of wine does impair your ability to drive to some extent. If you are tired, feeling poorly, using medication, traffic is heavy, the weather is bad, it’s night time and the unexpected happens that glass might just be the tipping point between becoming involved in a colli-sion and avoiding one. You can choose to drink or not to drink before driving and your fellow road users are relying on your good judgment.

Tim Schewe is a retired constable with many years of traffic law enforcement experience. To comment or learn more, please visit drivesmartbc.ca.

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Corb Lund and his band, the Hurtin’ Albertans, played the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre on Jan. 28, taking a packed house on a journey through his long career as an outlaw country music star, from his 2002 breakthrough, Five Dollar Bill to last year’s Things That Can’t Be Undone. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Cowichan Secondary School’s Leadership Class took part in School Spirit Day Feb. 22 by wearing school colours. School Spirit Day is part of Compassion Week from Feb. 22-26, a week dedicated to inclusivity and treating others with respect. [PAUL BRIAN/CITIZEN]

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Local teams address both bully and victimKEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The issue of bullying in sports came to the forefront on Van-couver Island recently when the Oak Bay High School junior boys basketball team cancelled the remainder of its season after a serious incident involving the team, which was ranked No. 1 in Victoria at the time.

A photograph described as “highly inappropriate” by the

Greater Victoria schools super-intendent was taken of one of the players and posted on social media by a teammate, leading to further harassment and abuse from some individuals.

Although only a handful of players on the team were involved in the incident, the majority of them were award of what hap-pened, and the decision was made by school administrators to can-cel the season.

Schools in the Cowichan Valley don’t think they are immune to similar situations, and have tried to be proactive about both pre-venting and addressing bullying within their sports teams.

Some of that involves dealing with bullying the same way one would in any school situation.

“I think a few things come to mind,” said Lucky Walia, ath-letic director and senior boys head coach at Cowichan Sec-

ondary School. “First, when you notice, or hear about bullying, you want to make sure that the person being bullied is safe: feels heard, respected, and cared for. You also want to check in on the person involved with the bully-ing actions: what is going on with them, what is the context, how can you help manage their behaviour?

“Next, can you help mend the relationship? What was the root

of the problem? We do have a dis-trict policy with respect to report-ing, investigating, corrective actions, and addressing adverse symptoms — you would try to make use of available resources to support students.”

Duncan Christian School has a similar approach that weaves in the school’s faith-based programs.

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We know the Internet can be a pretty negative place, and that this negativity can lower self-esteem and create bullying behaviour. During the next few days, in lead-up to Pink Shirt Day, CKNW Orphans’ Fund wants to change that! CKNW Orphans’ Fund is teaming up with Coast Capital Savings to turn the Internet positive and help stop bullying.

Will you help #PinkitForward?How can you get involved? It’s simple:1. From now until Pink Shirt Day (Feb. 24), post a photo of someone special on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. It could be a friend, teammate, colleague, family member, classmate or even someone you just met.2. Tell us what you appreciate about them or what makes them so special and include the hashtag #PinkItForward Twitter: For #PinkShirtDay, I appreciate <Name of friend> because <reason why they’re awesome>. Now it’s your turn to #PinkItForwardInstagram or Facebook: For #PinkShirtDay, I’m helping to stop bullying by turning the Internet into a positive place. I #PinkItForward to <Name of friend> for <reason why they’re awesome>. Now it’s your turn!3. Remember to tag that person so they can also #PinkItForward.It’s that easy! And remember, each time someone spreads the kindness by using #PinkItForward, Coast Capital Savings will donate $1 to Pink Shirt Day — up to $45,000.

Brighten up the Internet with #PinkItForwardBrighten up the Internet with #PinkItForwardFor #PinkShirtDay, I’m helping to stop bullying by turning the Internet into a positive place. I #PinkItForward to <Robert Barron> for <his fi ne writing skills>. Your turn!

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Children grow and develop their personalities in various ways. While many youngsters are teased or re-ceive some good-natured ribbing at some point in their school careers, some teasing can eventually turn into bullying.The National Education As-sociation estimates that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimida-tion by other students. Furthermore, more than 70 percent of students report incidents of bullying at their schools. Although children in lower grades have reported being in more fi ghts than those in higher grades, there is a higher rate of violent crimes in middle and high schools than in elementary schools. According to the associa-tion Make Beats Not Beat Downs, harassment and bullying have been linked to 75 percent of school shooting incidents.Bullying can take many forms, and learning the warning signs as a par-ent can help prevent harassment and

potentially dangerous situations.

Verbal: If your child reports being called names, being the recipient of racist, sexist or homophobic jokes, or being spoken to in an offensive or suggestive way, this can be a

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that their child is being bul-lied at school. Bullied chil-dren frequently make excus-es to avoid going to school. While the desire to stay home is something many children may express, those who are bullied may do so much more frequently. Bul-lied children tend to avoid certain places and may be sad, angry, withdrawn, or depressed. They may have trouble sleeping or experi-ence changes in appetite, and bullied youngsters’ academic performance may suffer. Also, parents may notice that children return from school missing some of their belongings.

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or “joking.” If behavior is repetitive and hurtful, it should be made public and addressed.* Parents can monitor and limit their children’s personal accounts. Some smartphone and tablet applications can be mirrored on the main account, enabling parents to see incoming text or video messages. * A laptop or desktop computer should be placed in a shared space so that usage can be monitored. Parents can restrict tablet or smartphone usage to public areas.* When online, children should be advised not to share personal informa-tion. Social media sites may be used by bullies to gather sensitive information about a person that can be used against them at a later time. Children should be urged to keep passwords secret and to never give information such as birth-days, phone numbers and addresses to people who aren’t close friends. Friend lists should be restricted to only those people students interact with frequently to minimize the chance for bullying or other inappropriate behavior.* Teens who have been bullied can keep evidence of the bullying and may ben-efi t from talking with a counselor. Cyberbullying is a growing concern for educators and parents and has far-reaching implications. Getting smart about this phenomenon can help staunch new cases of online bullying.

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We know the Internet can be a pretty negative place, and that this negativity can lower self-esteem and create bullying behaviour. During the next few days, in lead-up to Pink Shirt Day, CKNW Orphans’ Fund wants to change that! CKNW Orphans’ Fund is teaming up with Coast Capital Savings to turn the Internet positive and help stop bullying.

Will you help #PinkitForward?How can you get involved? It’s simple:1. From now until Pink Shirt Day (Feb. 24), post a photo of someone special on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. It could be a friend, teammate, colleague, family member, classmate or even someone you just met.2. Tell us what you appreciate about them or what makes them so special and include the hashtag #PinkItForward Twitter: For #PinkShirtDay, I appreciate <Name of friend> because <reason why they’re awesome>. Now it’s your turn to #PinkItForwardInstagram or Facebook: For #PinkShirtDay, I’m helping to stop bullying by turning the Internet into a positive place. I #PinkItForward to <Name of friend> for <reason why they’re awesome>. Now it’s your turn!3. Remember to tag that person so they can also #PinkItForward.It’s that easy! And remember, each time someone spreads the kindness by using #PinkItForward, Coast Capital Savings will donate $1 to Pink Shirt Day — up to $45,000.

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Children grow and develop their personalities in various ways. While many youngsters are teased or re-ceive some good-natured ribbing at some point in their school careers, some teasing can eventually turn into bullying.The National Education As-sociation estimates that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimida-tion by other students. Furthermore, more than 70 percent of students report incidents of bullying at their schools. Although children in lower grades have reported being in more fi ghts than those in higher grades, there is a higher rate of violent crimes in middle and high schools than in elementary schools. According to the associa-tion Make Beats Not Beat Downs, harassment and bullying have been linked to 75 percent of school shooting incidents.Bullying can take many forms, and learning the warning signs as a par-ent can help prevent harassment and

potentially dangerous situations.

Verbal: If your child reports being called names, being the recipient of racist, sexist or homophobic jokes, or being spoken to in an offensive or suggestive way, this can be a

form of verbal bullying. Cyber: Social media,

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Physical: Some bullies engage in physical attacks,

including hitting, kicking, spitting, or other

forms of physical confrontation. Destroying personal property also is considered physical bullying.

Indirect: Gossiping and spreading nasty rumours about a person is another form of bullying. This type of bullying may go hand-in-hand with cyber bullying.Signs your child is being bulliedParents can recognize certain signs

that their child is being bul-lied at school. Bullied chil-dren frequently make excus-es to avoid going to school. While the desire to stay home is something many children may express, those who are bullied may do so much more frequently. Bul-lied children tend to avoid certain places and may be sad, angry, withdrawn, or depressed. They may have trouble sleeping or experi-ence changes in appetite, and bullied youngsters’ academic performance may suffer. Also, parents may notice that children return from school missing some of their belongings.

Signs your child is the bullyParents may not want to imagine their children bullying other stu-dents, but bullies do exist. Children who bully other kids have strong needs for power and negative domi-nance. They may fi nd satisfaction in causing suffering to others. Some signs that your child may be a bully include:

• easily becoming violent with others

• having friends who bully others• blaming others quickly• comes home with belongings that do not belong to him or her• getting in trouble with teachers or school administrators• picking on siblings• not accepting responsibility for actions

There are ways parents can teach their children to act properly when faced with a bully. First, parents should explain that bullying is not the child’s fault and he or she does not deserve to be picked on. Next, parents can let children know that

being assertive but not violent with bullies may diffuse the situation, as some bullies thrive on the fear of their victims. If the bullying behav-iour continues, the student should speak to an adult or authority fi gure.Parents of bullies may need to be especially mindful of their chil-dren’s behaviour. Counselling could be necessary to determine what is compelling kids to bully other students.

Recognizing cyberbullying Learn the early warning signs of bullying…Before social media became so

prevalent, instances of bullying were somewhat easy to recognize. However, with a good majority of children now engaged in digital networking and social media, bullying may not end with the ringing of the school bell, and evidence of bullying may not be so readily apparent.According to Cyberbully-ing statistics from the i-SAFE foundation, more than half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online, and about the same number have engaged in cyberbul-lying. More than 80 percent of teens use a mobile phone regularly, making it the most popular form of technology and a common medium for repeated cyberbullying.Cyberbullying takes place through electronic technology and differs from traditional forms of bullying. Cyberbullying can occur via text messaging, blogging, updates to social media sites and/or phone conversations. What makes cyberbully-ing more diffi cult to detect and remedy than traditional bullying is that some-times this type of bullying is veiled in secrecy.Those who engage in cyberbullying can create aliases and accounts under

false names, allowing them to co-vertly engage in bullying behavior. As a result, tracking down bullies can be challenging.Although cyberbullying is on the rise, there are some things that parents and children can do to help put a stop to such unfortunate instances.

* Parents who feel their child is not emotionally ready

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should feel comfortable talking with their parents without the fear of reprimand. Otherwise, they may hide instances of cyberbullying or not know how to broach sensitive topics like bul-lying. Parents can engage in conversa-tion with their children often and stress that the doors of communication are always open.* Teens should be made aware that cyberbullying is a very real occurrence and is not just other kids “having fun”

or “joking.” If behavior is repetitive and hurtful, it should be made public and addressed.* Parents can monitor and limit their children’s personal accounts. Some smartphone and tablet applications can be mirrored on the main account, enabling parents to see incoming text or video messages. * A laptop or desktop computer should be placed in a shared space so that usage can be monitored. Parents can restrict tablet or smartphone usage to public areas.* When online, children should be advised not to share personal informa-tion. Social media sites may be used by bullies to gather sensitive information about a person that can be used against them at a later time. Children should be urged to keep passwords secret and to never give information such as birth-days, phone numbers and addresses to people who aren’t close friends. Friend lists should be restricted to only those people students interact with frequently to minimize the chance for bullying or other inappropriate behavior.* Teens who have been bullied can keep evidence of the bullying and may ben-efi t from talking with a counselor. Cyberbullying is a growing concern for educators and parents and has far-reaching implications. Getting smart about this phenomenon can help staunch new cases of online bullying.

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Law enforcement is standing up against bullies.

North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP are showing their support for Anti-Bullying Day as both Const. Joe Power of the Crime Preven-tion Unit and Cpl. Cari Lougheed will be wearing pink uniform shirts as they teach Drug Abuse Resistance Education classes at local schools focused on putting a stop to bullying.

“One trend that seems to be on the rise is cyber bullying among the younger children. Nine- and 10-year-old children are using the Internet for social media and therefore opening themselves up to cyber bullying,” said North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP Cpl. Krista Hobday.

“There are age restrictions on most social media sites but they are difficult to enforce, there-fore it is left up to the parents to ensure they know what their children are doing online. When such young children are online they become susceptible to child luring and other online predators as well,” Hobday added.

For that reason Hobday advises parents to be very aware of what their children are doing online.

“A message we would like to put out there is, if your child is using the Internet for anything; gaming, Facebook, Twitter, Insta-gram, it is incumbent upon you to know what they are accessing and who they are speaking to,” Hobday said. “It isn’t easy to mon-itor your children’s online use but it is absolutely necessary.”

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“At DCS, we emphasize that each person is uniquely and beautiful-ly created, and as such, all people ought to be valued and respected,” athletic director Tom Veenstra said. “Coaches and school staff set the tone for how students on a team treat one another. We want our students to understand the importance of treating one another with love and respect, and coaches are vital in helping guide student athletes to put this into practice.

“Bullying is absolutely contrary to what we value as a school. Bullying destroys relationships and breaks down community — the opposite of what we’re all about. We believe that we are cre-ated to live in community with one another and our interactions on and off the court need to nurture positive, healthy relationships.”

As with Cowichan Secondary, early steps involve seeing if the relationship between the victim and bully can be repaired.

“When bullying occurs and is confirmed, we want to take action promptly to stop the destructive behaviour of the bully and work with all involved to provide heal-ing and a restoration of damaged relationships,” Veenstra said. “In general, as a smaller school we tend to find out about incidents of bullying fairly quickly and the strong relationships we work to develop with student athletes helps us work through these issues with them.”

Bullying situations within teams need to be addressed in similar ways to any others, accord-ing to Walia.

“With respect to a team, group, classroom, you try to develop a place that encourages healthy relationship skills: having empathy, and being socially responsible,” he said. “If you can model those skills with students, and they see you hand-ling yourself that way with others, hopefully, that’s what they adopt as their way of interacting with people in their lives. To the best that you can, you’d like to create a place where bullying is prevented, rather than trying to manage it after the fact.

“For adults and students, managing emotions, and making good decisions is an important life skill. athletics provide an opportunity to learn how to work with other people, respect each other’s differences, acknowledge shortcomings, and see development and learning as a lifelong process,” Walia said.

Sports teams are expected to be a microcosm

of the larger school environment at DCS, Veenstra related.

“Student athletes that demonstrate destructive behaviours such as bullying will have a one-to-one conversation with the coach, often followed by a time to think while sitting on the bench. Depending on the situation, parents and other school personnel may become involved,” he said.

“It’s really important student athletes understand the impact their behaviour has on the rest of the team. If parents or other students notice a situation of bullying,

they are encouraged to speak with a coach, myself, or another teacher about the situ-ation. This is not ratting out another stu-dent, but simply an effort to keep their fellow students safe. Again, the empha-sis on showing love to one another is the key. Of course, we all make mistakes but together with students we do our best to walk this path of love and respect at DCS.”

Duncan Christian has also attempted to help students work positively with new technology, like cell phones and social media.

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Spookily we go, laughing all the way.

Brentwood College School is pre-senting The Addams Family – A New Musical Comedy March 1 to 5 at the T. Gil Bunch Centre for Per-forming Arts, a humorous take on a macabre, death-obsessed clan introduced to audiences through television and films over the last several decades.

The musical takes a look at what happens when daughter Wednesday falls in love with a normal young man.

“Why can’t we be an average family?” Wednesday sings as she rues parental pressure to stay true to their family’s ghastly roots.

Wednesday wants to break free to be with Lucas, her well-adjusted and normal fiancé, but her father Gomez and mother Morticia, not to mention the rest of the freaky family, make every step a laugh-out-loud chal-lenge. It all comes to a (witch’s) boil at a dinner where Lucas and his family are invited over to meet the Addams family.

“Wednesday is fascinating. She goes through character changes and is very dynamic. She starts out traditional Addams family, spooky and one-sided, but she has fallen in love and it changes every-thing,” explained Grade 11 student Holly Collis Handford, who plays Wednesday.

Auditions were held in Septem-ber followed by frequent rehearsals ahead of next Tuesday’s opening

night performance. “It is honestly an absolute joy,”

said Kyle van Wiltenburg, who stars as Gomez, a possessive father caught between taking his wife or daughter’s side as the new romance divides the family.

Van Wiltenburg auditioned by singing a song for a general role, only to be approached later by Dir-ector Edna Widenmaier with a sur-prising offer.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to be or anything, I was just like ‘you can put me where you see fit.’ But

then one dinner I was eating with my friends and Mrs. Widenmaier pulled me aside and said ‘How would you feel about being the lead in the play?’” van Wiltenburg recalled.

Accepting the role has been a great decision, he said, adding that it has required really work-ing on straightening his posture and perfecting Gomez’s Latin accent.

“He’s definitely a very upright, very proper man...It’s supposed to be Latin, Spanish or Latin but it kind of went off in its own direction,” van Wiltenburg said. “He’s a very charismatic per-son, very passionate, very animated in a sense. There are two things he loves in this world the most, his wife and his daughter and the whole point of the show is that it’s the first time ever where he has to choose whether he supports his daughter or his wife and because of that things just kind of go out of control,” he added.

Brentwood College School’s production of ‘The Addams Family – A New Musical Comedy’ tells the hilarious and spooky story of what happens when falling in love divides the family in unexpected ways. [PAUL BRIAN/CITIZEN]

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One step forward, two miles down the rabbit hole.

Queen Margaret’s School’s presentation of Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl was a brilliant compilation of Lewis Carroll’s classics Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, pivoting from laugh-out-loud comedy of the absurd to compelling messages about life and growing up.

“You are a very little girl,” Alice is told by numerous char-acters, as she slowly builds up confidence, switches size between small and big and finds that nobody in Wonderland really has all the answers.

“What if we’re all mad?” Alice asks.

The play by Karen Hart-man weaves a narrative about female empowerment and find-ing one’s destiny with a roller coaster ride through the upside-down world of Wonderland and its cast of colourful characters and creatures.

An outstanding performance from Alyssa Andress as Alice anchored the show, including great singing, while her com-panion the Cheshire Cat was played paw-fectly by Maiya Modeste.

“If you walk long enough you’ll go a long way,” Cheshire Cat tells Alice, also advising her that her preconceptions of what’s real and valid are mis-taken, and getting her to try a cigar, which doesn’t work out so well.

The imperious Red Queen played by Sydney McCrae cuts an imposing figure, who at one point leads the court in its judgment of Alice for forget-ting her lessons and breaking other increasingly random rules. Later the queen softens

to Alice, giving her some cynic-al advice.

“Life is a big game of chess and you are a pawn…In this world it takes all you have just to stay put,” she tells Alice, later adding “I don’t apologize for my former tiny size, I learn-ed to strategize like all girls do.”

The White Queen played by Arrington Bricker spun Alice’s head around with her take on living backwards and defying the ordinary.

“When I was your age I prac-ticed six impossible things before breakfast,” she tells Alice. “Don’t cry, consider, con-sider what a big girl you are.”

A host of other characters from a pair of clowns to the White Knight and the Jab-berwocky kept the audience careening through each crazy twist and turn until near the end Alice encounters a nem-esis who deals a blow to her expectations.

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ty Dumpty, given a brilliantly hilarious treatment by Rohin Arun, who had the audience doubling over with laughter as he lectured Alice, went berserk over the idea his own fate was foreknown, and criticized the play itself and its entire concept as he perched on his small wall.

The whole tale must be dis-counted “upon consideration of the biographical impulses behind the wishful thinking” of its author, Humpty claims, silencing Alice’s protests that she is not a fiction.

“You’re an egg,” she yells at him.

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Finally when she has to leave Wonderland and grows up, Alice is filled with nostalgia and wisdom, crying for “all the ways she had changed” and for all those who want to stay where they are on the chess-board of life, but must move by necessity.

With students from Grade 5 to 12, the cast of 35 featured spot-on performances with characters sporting colourful and creative costumes, as well as numerous other students helping as designers, producers, light technicians and choreog-raphers for the production. Lighting was used imaginative-ly and boldly to create moments of drama and illumination, and even a sparkling, flowing riv-er at the end. Sound was also used to great effect to highlight moments of tension, humour and the unexpected.

The set was very well done, with a wonky off-kilter chess-board floor, a castle done with construction paper and a giant rainbow creating the backdrop for Alice’s amazing adventure.

Queen Margaret’s School’s presentation of ‘Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl’ told the amazing adventures of Alice with a big cast of colourful characters. [PAUL BRIAN/CITIZEN]

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Austin Frykas is a bass-baritone singer on the rise. His voice teacher Meredythe Broadway helped him prepare for the shepherd role in the recent performance of the opera ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’, conducted by Joy Ann Bannerman. His inspiration has been time spent in the music classroom of Laura Cardriver. He loves making music and enjoys “being on stage”.

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A g reat musical score by Andrew Lippa keeps the action hopping along under musical dir-ector Phil Newns, with dramatic, detailed sets conveying a decided-ly Gothic tone. Top-notch technic-al direction from Don Armitage and choreography by Lorraine Blake complete Widenmaier’s superb direction.

Van Wiltenburg said working with the cast and crew has been tremendous. “It is awesome. Everybody is just super sup-portive of one another,” he said. “We all have a blast when we’re onstage together.”

Handford has also found it a great experience working with the cast of 56.

“It’s been incredible,” she said. “The whole cast has worked together and become sort of our own family too.”

The Addams Family – A New Musical Comedy opens March 1 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are avail-able at the door or by reser-vation through www.theatre. brentwood.bc.ca or by calling 250-743-8756. Special group rates are also available through the box office for parties for 10 or more.

Fun onstage and backstageBRENTWOOD, From Page 18

Saltspring takes jazz to CroftonSongstress Sue Newman plays Sunday,

Feb. 29 at the Crofton Pub at 1534 Joan Ave. Backed by a talented quartet New-man and the Jazzmen — saxophonist Monik Nordine, guitarist Peter Taschuk, bassist Ian Van Wyck and drummer Lau-rent Boucher, all Saltspring Islanders — will explore jazz standards and Broadway favourites.

Newman, who hails from Saltspring Island, has studied with jazz singers Jay Clayton and Sheila Jordan and performed with such artists as Hugh Fraser, Karel Roessingh, Joey Smith and Valdy.

The weekly jazz series runs every Sun-day from 2 to 5 p.m. at the pub. Admission is $10. For information, call 250-324-2245 or

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Casting call: ‘Steel Magnolias’The Mercury Players will be holding

auditions for their upcoming production of Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling. The play centres around a young beautician who arrives in a small town in Louisiana and becomes friends with a tight-knit group of local women.

Performance dates will be May 25 to June 4 (eight shows). Auditions for SteelMagnolias will be held Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. at the Mercury The-atre located at 331 Brae Rd. in Duncan. There are six roles for females ranging in age from 19 to 66. Callbacks take place Sunday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m.

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Adagé Studio presented its Highlights Dance Feb. 20 at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre. Dancers of all ages wowed the crowd with their energy, expertise and creativity. [PHOTOS BY PAUL BRIAN/CITIZEN]

Dancers performed in a variety of pieces.

Hip hop was one of the styles on display at Saturday’s show in Duncan.

Adagé Studio students performed styles that ranged from ballet to modern.

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There weren’t many surprises last Sunday afternoon as Cowic-han LMG opened their defence of the Jackson Cup — the big-gest prize in soccer on Vancouver Island — with a 6-0 win over Pow-ell River Villa at Williams Field.

Cowichan, the best team in Div-ision 1, had little trouble with the Div. 2 Powell River team.

“The game went how we thought it would go,” Cowichan head coach Glen Martin said. “They played very defensive. It was park the bus, keep every-body back, and go as long as they could at 0-0.”

That turned out to be about half an hour. In the 30th minute, Cowichan captain Jesse Winter banged in a goal from a scramble just outside the goal line to put his team ahead. A minute later, Steve Scott scored a similar goal.

Not long after that, a Powell River player who had been hand-ed a yellow card for chirping at

the ref was given a red card for a nasty tackle on Josh Cuthbert. That sealed Powell River’s fate.

“Behind by two and down a man, it was pretty well game over at that point,” Martin said.

It was still 2-0 at halftime, but Stu Barker scored in the 55th minute, and Cuthbert scored 11 minutes after that. Govinda Innes and Jordan de Graf added penalty shot goals.

Somewhat surprisingly, Van-couver Island Soccer League scoring leader Paddy Nelson was held off the scoresheet despite playing an excellent game.

“It’s a good sign when we get six goals from six different play-ers and our 27-goal scorer didn’t score,” Martin said.

In the first half, Nelson found himself alone in front of a wide open net, only to see his shot stopped by a Powell River player who appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

“That was message to the Wiz,” Martin said. “That was his day right there. He’s played much worse than that and scored three or four goals.”

The game also marked a defen-sive milestone for Cowichan, who got their first clean sheet

against a Div. 2 team in 10 tries going back over the last seven Jackson Cup tournaments. Sam Hutchison did the bulk of the work in goal, but Joel Wilson came in for the last 15 minutes.

LMG will have two weeks off before their next Jackson Cup game on the weekend of March 4-6, when they will be back on the Williams Field turf at home against Nanaimo’s Div. 1 team.

Sadly, any hopes for an all-Co-wichan Jackson Cup final were dashed on Saturday evening as Div. 2 side Cowichan United lost 4-0 to Lakehill, the last-place team from Div. 1.

Martin, who was on the side-lines, called it a “strange game.”

“[United] outplayed them and out-chanced [Lakehill],” he said. “But every time they thought they had something going, the other team would go down and score.”

Martin estimated that United controlled possession about 70-30 over Lakehill, and guessed that Cowichan had five or six chan-ces to Lakehill’s three — even though Lakehill scored four goals.

“That happens in soccer,” he said.


After a heartbreaking loss to the same team last year, the Cowichan Valley Soccer Asso-ciation U17 Gold Grizzlies is returning to the provincial B Cup championships this year after a thrilling win over Pros-pect Lake at the Williams Field turf on Valentine’s Day.

The 2015 showdown between Cowichan and Prospect Lake went all the way to penalty kicks, and the story was the same this year, surprising no one.

“After eking out a narrow 1-0 game against the same team three weeks ago, we knew the game would be close,” Grizzlies coach Al Longair said.

The Cowichan players got off to a fast start in the Feb. 14 game, and just missed some early scor-ing chances.

“They kept putting on the pressure, but the Prospect Lake keeper was superb at parrying our shots” Longair said.

Although the Grizzlies held the edge in possession, a quick counter-attack goal allowed Prospect Lake to pull ahead late in the first half. Prospect Lake carried that momentum into the second half, and put pressure on the Cowichan defence, but were unable to get through.

It wasn’t until the last five minutes of the game that Tyler Leech was able to muscle the ball into the net to knot the score at 1-1. The Grizzlies pushed for the go-ahead goal, but it didn’t materialize, and the game went to extra time.

The Grizzlies dominated the two 15-minute extra-time ses-

sions, and had several chances that either narrowly missed their targets or were stopped by the Prospect Lake keeper.

“Late in the second overtime half, Liam Thibodeau-Perry got his foot onto on a beautiful cross that looked to be the winner,” Longair said. “Unfortunately, his shot bounced off the under-side of the crossbar and bounced out.”

After a frantic finish, the game went to penalty kicks. The Griz-zlies had been practicing their penalty kicks, and all five shoot-ers scored. Unfortunately, the first five Prospect Lake shooters also scored. The sixth Cowichan shooter also found the back of the net, and Prospect Lake’s keeper stepped up to shoot. Grizzlies goalie Ty Benson, who had been subbed into the game specifically for his penalty shot prowess, made the save.

“There were many heroes on the team,” Longair said. “With a full team roster of skilled play-ers, we’re very fortunate to have so many committed and out-standing players. It’s an impres-sive group of young men; it took every one of the 18 team mem-bers to reach this season’s goal.”

The Grizzlies will play for the Coastal B Cup in Aldergrove in April and May. The provincial tournament is set for July 7-10 in Vancouver.

No surprises as LMG moves onJACKSON CUP: Cowichan United eliminated by Lakehill

Cowichan LMG’s Josh Cuthbert keeps the ball away from Powell River defenders. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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The Cowichan Secondary Thunderbirds will head to the Island AAAA senior boys basketball tournament as one of the top seeds after sweeping through the North Island tournament last weekend.

The T-Birds, who hosted the North Island tournament, started out with a 57-49 win over Dover Bay. The game was tied at 49-49 in the late going before Zach Waddington nailed a three-pointer to put Cowichan ahead for good. Eston Unrau added another three soon after.

Humza Khan finished with a team-high 15 points, while Noah Charles added 14.

“A number of guys contributed in var-ious ways, chipping in with baskets, grabbing rebounds, and keeping the ball moving on offence,” head coach Lucky Walia said. “That said, Zach Waddington and Matthew Miller did some great work defending Dover Bay’s guards. Their guards are good offensive players, who receive a lot of screens on, and off the ball. It takes resilience to keep working through those screens to make shooters uncomfortable.”

On Saturday, the T-Birds clinched the tournament title with a 76-56 win over G.P. Vanier. Charles put up 27 points and boosted the offence with several nice pass-es. Unrau added 13 points and Andy Der-ocher had 10.

“Andy picked up some fouls, but he did a really nice job of competing, and making Vanier’s big guy work for his shots and to get to his favourite spots on the floor,” Walia said.

As the top seed from the North Island, the T-Birds have a bye to the semifinal

at the Island tournament this weekend. Cowichan will play the winner of the game between Vanier and Belmont.

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The Cowichan Valley Capitals collected two wins on their three-game Mainland Division road trip last weekend and returned firmly ensconced in third place in the B.C. Hockey League’s Mainland Division.

The Caps started the season with the goal of finishing higher in the standings, and sat in second place for much of the year, but ended up a little short of their aim.

“We didn’t set out to get third at the beginning of the year,” head coach Bob Beatty said. “It would have been nice to have home ice in the first round, but it is what it is.”

The Caps started their trip last Friday with a 7-3 win over the Surrey Eagles. They got past the Wenatchee Wild 3-2 in overtime the next night, then wrapped it all up with a 5-2 loss to the Chilliwack Chiefs.

Against Surrey, the Caps gave up the opening goal just 54 seconds in, but led 5-1 by the end of the first period, and held on to that four-goal lead.

“We played well enough to win,” Beatty said. “It was a good start to the road trip.”

Jared Domin led the Caps with a hat trick, while Josh Adkins had a goal and four assists, and Ryan Burton scored once and added three helpers. Chris Harpur and Adam Osczevski also scored, while goalie Lane Michasiw stopped 31 of 34 shots for the victory.

The Caps and the Wenatchee played to a thrilling 2-2 tie at the Island Savings Cen-tre on Dec. 11, and last Saturday’s game — the Capitals’ first contest south of the border in more than 20 years — followed that pattern.

“It was similar, end-to-end. I think it was even a little better game down there,” Beatty said. “There was a lot of neu-tral-zone play. I think the game was even better executed in Wenatchee than it was

here. Both goalies played well.”Three minutes into overtime, Corey

Hoffman sprang Matthew Hudie, who went in and beat the Wenatchee goalie. Burton and Osczevski had the other goals, while Hoffman finished with two assists. Storm Phaneuf stopped 38 of 40 shots for his 20th win of the season.

“They have a great atmosphere there,” Beatty said of Wenatchee’s Town Toyota Center. “Our guys played really well. Storm was certainly a factor. I thought our defensive zone play was pretty good, even though we gave up a lot of shots. I think we played a strong game.”

The Caps closed out the trip with a rough outing in Chilliwack.

“We didn’t mail it in, but we weren’t moving the puck well,” Beatty said. “We weren’t executing like we can. It wasn’t a sloppy effort, but we played them a lot better here last weekend.”

Adkins and Kade Kehoe scored against the Chiefs, while Michasiw stopped 32 of 37 shots.

The Caps will round out the season this weekend with a home-and-home series against the Nanaimo Clippers, playing at Frank Crane Arena on Friday and the Island Savings Centre Saturday at 7 p.m.

Cowichan and Nanaimo sit first and second in penalty minutes in the BCHL, the Clippers with 1,017 and the Caps with 951, more than 100 ahead of the Alberni Valley Bulldogs and West Kelowna War-riors, who are tied for third.

“It should be an interesting weekend,” Beatty said. “Both teams are locked in to where they’re going to finish, but there’s never any love lost in our meetings. I expect a couple of spirited outings, con-sidering there isn’t a position at stake.“

By virtue of their third-place finish, the Caps know they will play the Powell River Kings in the first round of the playoffs, with the Kings holding home-ice advan-tage. The Caps lost 4-0 and 7-0 last time they played in Powell River.

Caps win two on Mainland trip, lock up third place

Pictured here in a recent game against the Victoria Grizzlies, Corey Hoffman assisted on two goals in Cowichan’s victory over the Wenatchee Wild, including Matthew Hudie’s overtime winner. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

T-Birds off to Islands as top seed

Noah Charles scores two against Vanier. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]


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The Kerry Park Islanders haven’t beaten the Victoria Cou-gars since March 8, 2012, con-sistently struggling against the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League powerhouse in the last four seasons.

That last win over Victoria came in the playoffs, and with the Isles set to open the first round of the VIJHL playoffs against the Cougars, the time is ripe to end that streak.

“The playoffs are a new season, so we’ll see,” said Islanders owner Mark Osmond, who bought the team in late 2012. “Win or lose, it will be an exciting series.”

The series will begin Thursday at Archie Browning Arena. The teams will play at Kerry Park on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., then return to Esquimalt on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Game four is set for next Tuesday, back at Kerry Park, at 7:30 p.m. If more games are necessary, they will be played on March 3, 5 and 6, continuing to alternate locations between Archie Browning and Kerry Park.

The Isles were shooting all sea-son for second place in the South Division, which would mean both avoiding a first-round matchup with the Cougars and home-ice advantage in the first round. They sat second for much of the season, but slipped in the stand-

ings over the last few weeks.“We had good positioning, but

it wasn’t to be, I guess,” Osmond said.

Osmond and head coach Aaron Spotts are doing their best to rally the troops for what will be a daunting series, but one that

isn’t completely out of reach.“We keep telling the boys,

‘They’re just young men like you,’” Osmond said. “‘They’re not superheroes just because they’re wearing a Cougars shirt.’”

An arena packed with fans will

go a long way to helping the Isles overcome the Cougars, Osmond pointed out.

“We’ll try and win,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll get the crowd behind us.”

The Isles’ last two regular-sea-son games included a 9-2 loss to the Cougars last Thursday. The Isles were playing with a short bench due to injuries and had two defensemen kicked out. By the end of the game, they were down to 11 healthy bodies, but it wasn’t a hopeless case.

“At times, when we played five-on-five, you could see we can do something against them,” Osmond said.

David Bittner and Caleb Frank-lin had the Kerry Park goals. Ty Rennie started in goal and allowed five goals on 16 shots over the first 31 minutes and 45 seconds. Chase Anderson relieved him and allowed four goals on 16 shots.

Still short players but with pride on the line, the Isles man-aged to win their regular season finale 5-2 over Nanaimo at Kerry Park Arena on Saturday.

“It was nice to win our final game of the year going into the playoffs,” Osmond said.

The Isles got a goal and assist each from Keenan Eddy, Graham Winship and Corey Peterson, with Chris Carpentier and Tait Aptakin also scoring. Anderson stopped 39 of 41 shots for the win.

Isles brace for playoff series with Cougars

Kerry Park forward Keenan Eddy slips between a pair of Nanaimo Buccaneers during last Saturday’s regular-season finale. Eddy was the Islanders’ scoring leader in the regular season with 13 goals and 23 assists in 40 games. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]


Five rock climbers from the Cowichan Valley all scrambled to top-10 finishes in their age groups at the Sport Climbing British Columbia Provincial Bouldering championships late last month.

“Bouldering, for those not in the know, consists of short intense routes that are done without the use of a rope,” coach James Doyle explained. “Usually the climbs are lower than 15 feet in height.”

Brennan Doyle won the Youth C boys category (ages 12-13), Aidan Doyle placed second in Youth B boys (14-15), Jack Whitney was fourth in Youth D boys (under 11), and Ethan Fagan and Marc Platt finished sixth and eighth, respectively, in the junior boys category (ages 18-19).

Fagan and the Doyle brothers qualified to represent B.C. at the Bouldering Nationals in Ontar-io this month.

Valley climbers qualify for nationals


PEVERELLE, Kenneth Robert,October 17, 1943 - February 20, 2016

It is with sad hearts that we share the news of the passing of Ken of a massive heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Bev, of 50 years: also his brother Gary; his children Lisa, Catherine (Mark) and Tom (Kirsten).A very, very proud Papa to Michael (Brianne), Megan, Max, Aidan and Jacob. He served in the Armed Forces for 25 years as well as the Commisionairs for a number of years. He had a real love of the outdoors whether it be hunting with Al and Tom; or fishing with his grandsons. We would like to thank all the doctors and nurses that have seen him over the past few years – he put up a good fight. Many thanks to the Shawnigan Lake Volunteer Fire Department and the ambulance crew that tired so hard to save him; also to Jim the CIU nurse at the Victoria General Hospital who helped us to notify Lisa and Michael. There will be an open house on Saturday, February 27 at 3362 Boyles Rd., Cobble Hill from 1-4 pm. Cremation has taken place. No flowers, donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation. To sign the book of condolence please visit www.sandsfuneral/colwood.com.

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Darrell “Duff” BowcottSeptember 4, 1959 – February 3, 2016

With great sadness we announce the sudden, unexpected passing of our dad, Darrell “Duff” Bowcott on February 3, 2016 at the age of 56. Darrell leaves behind completely heartbroken, his three children, son Jesse, daughters Jenna and Keshia (Garrett), and grandson Ryan. Also left to mourn his loss is his mother, Peggy, and siblings Bill (Tauni), Kathy, and Corrine, many nieces and nephews, and countless other family and friends. We love you and miss you so much Dad. Thank you for all the long days at the river, nights spent watching the stars and for always telling us you loved us and you were proud.A celebration of Darrell’s life will be held in Crofton at his childhood home on Saturday February 27th from 1 – 4.

Luther, OttoOtto passed away peacefully on February 21, 2016. Born in Blotto, Poland on March 12, 1929, he arrived in Canada in 1949. Otto was well known for building many houses in the Cowichan Valley. Predeceased by his wife Helga (2001) and daughter Heidi (1970). He will be lovingly remembered by son David (Maryanne) Luther; daughters Annelie Mannly and Ellenore (Sid) Kershaw; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Private family arrangements.

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“Mama Naomi, Papa Blair & Big Sis Anais MIDDLEMISS

are very happy to announce the birth of Elliot Claude Middlemiss;

born December 14, 2015, in Duncan. We are thankful for a happy, healthy addition

to our family!”

Frederick George Bourne

September 20, 1921 - January 29, 2016

A Celebration of Life will be held for Frederick Bourne of Chemainus, BC on Friday, March 11, 2016 at 2:00pm at Oceanview Community Church, 381 Davis Rd., Ladysmith, BC.

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Mrs. Wilma Helen Mac-Donald born in Alberni, BC on March 21, 1926 passed away on Feb. 15, 2016 at Trillium Lodge in Parksville, BC, where she resided over the past year. A long time resi-dent of Duncan she was a housewife, a mother of 2 and worked at CIBC, The Home Bakery and BC Tel. Wilma was pre-deceased by her father Ed Davey, her mother El-len Vidal, her husband Ken MacDonald, and her son K. Bryn MacDonald and is survived by her daughter Norma Gibson and son-in-law Ken Gib-son currently of Quali-cum Beach, BC.

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RESPONSIBLE CARRIERS WANTED

& P/T OR ON-CALL CARRIERS (for emergency situations)

WANTEDFOR MORE INFORMATION

PLEASE CALL: 250-715-7783

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AdvertisingSalesConsultant

The Cowichan Valley Citizen, has an opening for an experienced multimedia advertising Consultant.

By joining the leading community newspaper serving Cowichan Valley you can develop a rewarding career in advertising and marketing while contributing to one of the most vibrant communities in Duncan, BC. The team environment at The Citizen will inspire you to the highest level of customer partnership and reward your motivated approach to excellence. You should be a strong communicator, well organized, self motivated and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. Print advertising sales experience is preferred. A car and a valid driver’s license are required.The Cowichan Valley Citizen is a member of Black Press, Canada’s largest private independent newspaper company with more than 150 titles in print and online in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Hawaii, California and Ohio.Send your resume with a cover letter to:Shirley Skolos, [email protected] Valley Citizen251 Jubilee St.,Duncan, B.C. V9L 1W8

Do you want to write your own paycheck, grow and nurture your list of clients?

We have a growth sales position with the fun and exciting local radio station in the Cowichan Valley,

89.7 Juice FM!This is an entry level position with AMAZING

opportunity for someone with the grit and determination on a list with tons of potential!

Join Juice FM, a fun, community oriented, radio station, where we collaborate, learn, share

and grow every day!

Position Description

revenue targets

sales process and ensure ongoing client success

Position Requirements

apply today at vistaradio.ca/careers

Vancouver Island Counselling

Has an opening for a full time Counsellor in their Duncan/Nanaimo Offices. Our clinical team provides short term EFAP counselling to employees and families emphasizing our core values of compassion, respect and integrity. We have been a well-respected and valued “not for profit” community counselling service since 1980. Some of our key selection criteria include:

Strong counselling skills working with individuals, couples and groupsExpertise in addictions and mental health issuesFacilitation of onsite workplace Critical incident Stress Debriefing Experience providing short term counselling in an EFAP environmentAvailable to work some eveningsEligibility for Professional CertificationMinimum 7 years related experienceMasters in Counselling

Please forward your resume by 4th of March, 2016.Please respond to:Bruce YoungrenExecutive DirectorVancouver Island CounsellingFax# 250-746-8994 orEmail: [email protected]

We thank all who apply.

RCMP Detention GUARDS – Town of Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island

We are seeking persons of good character (male and female) who are interested in joining Canada’s largest security guard company as RCMP Detention Guards for the Spares List, which is casual/on call, as-and-when required shift work. We prefer Cana-dian Forces and RCMP veterans, but others are wel-come to apply. Successful applicants must submit to or have recently passed an RCMP Enhanced Reliability Security Clearance, and must possess a valid OFA Level 1 First Aid certificate with Cardiopulmonary Certification prior to commencing work.

Please submit a cover letter and resume to: Ron Warmald, Manager Human Resources,

by email to [email protected]

Applications must be received by the closing deadline of 12:00 noon on

Monday 29 February 2016.

We are seeking persons of good character (male and female) who are interested in being RCMP Detention Guards for casual/on call, as-and-when required shift work. We prefer Canadian Forces and RCMP veterans, but others are welcome to apply. Successful applicants must obtain a RCMP Enhanced Reliability Security Clearance, and must possess a val-id OFA Level 1 First Aid certificate with Cardiopulmo-nary Certification prior to commencing work.

Please submit a cover letter and resume to Ron Warmald, Manager Human Resources, by email

to [email protected]

Applications must be received by the closing deadline of 12:00 noon on

Wednesday 2 March 2016.

ACCOUNTING/BOOKKEEPING

Inter Tribal Health

Authority

MANAGER COMMUNITY HEALTH

AND WELLNESSTemporary full-time one year position. Nanaimo Inter Tribal Health Au-thority (ITHA), a multi-disciplinary health or-ganization providing ser-vices to 29 member First Nations on Vancouver Is-land based in Nanaimo, British Columbia is seek-ing a Manager, Commu-nity Health and Wellness (CHW) to lead the CHW Department and related programs such as those related to Residential School survivors, those who have suffered Inter-generational trauma, sui-cide and critical incident response and youth leadership.The ideal candidate has a degree in the fi eld of human services plus 3 to 5 years directly related experience including su-pervision. The incum-bent must have suicide prevention, substance abuse and mental health program knowledge as well as knowledge of programs and services available through other provincial, federal and First Nations agencies and organizations.Advance your career to-day with a great or-ganization! Please send your re-sume and cover letter by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax at 250-591-2169.Please refer to the posi-tion title when submitting your application.✱The closing date for this competition is Feb-ruary 26, 2016.

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

MEDICAL/DENTAL

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

LOG SCALER Fully licensed for full time job - Nanaimo area. Inventory management/computer skills favorable but will train suitable candidate. Tremen-dous growth, opportunity, and learning environment. Duties may include but not limited to: metric & scribner scaling, weight scaling, custom log sorting, inventory mgmt - land and water, water scaling, etc. Email: [email protected]

FOODSAFE COURSES Lev-el 1. March 19th & April 26, 2016. $75/person. Location: Island Savings Centre. Regis-ter online: www.saferfood.ca or 250-746-4154

HEALTHCARE DOCUMEN-TATION Specialists are in huge demand. Employers want CanScribe graduates. A great work-from-home career! Train with Canada’s best-rated program. Enroll today. 1-800-466-1535, www.canscribe.com [email protected]

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit today: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your work-at-home career.

START A New career in Graphic Arts, Healthcare, Business, Education or Infor-mation Tech. If you have a GED, call: 855-670-9765.

HELP WANTED

FT & PT Workers wantedIsland Return It Duncan

seeks dynamic team player, able to work

weekends and excel in afast paced environment.

Apply in person:6476 Norcross Rd, Duncan


SALES

HELP WANTED

JANITOR

Pacifi c Energy requires a Janitor for its premises at

2975 Allenby Rd., Duncan.

Qualifi cations would include:

• Prior Janitorial experi-ence

• A strong work ethic• Excellent references

Pacifi c Energy offers an attractive compensation

package including a company - paid benefi ts program, RSP plan, etc.

Please forward your resume to the attention of Chuck Richardson at

chuck.richardson @pefp.net

Or deliver in person to 2975 Allenby Rd.,

Duncan, BC


SALES

MEDICAL/DENTAL

LOOKING FOR TEMPORARY / ON

CALL REGISTERED DENTAL HYGIENIST

Position available at Island Dental Health Centre; may extend to a maternity leave. Apply in person, or by email to:

[email protected] or by fax: 250.748.5739

Att’n Amanda

WWORK ANTED

HUSBAND FOR Hire. Nothing but the best - Carpenter, Plumber, Painter, Electrician, Pressure Washing. Just ask my wife. Call 250-709-1111.

SALES

PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.

1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or

604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca

MEDICAL/DENTAL

SALES

HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

fi l here please


HELPING HANDS FOR YOU-Home and Garden Service*Housecleaning (senior’s 1-hr discount)*Garden Tidying (now is not too soon!)

*Mending clothes or ironing.*Run errands or pick-up service.

*Need something else done? Please ask.

Call Lori 250.732.2100 Great References

Licensed/insured/bondable

PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Rapid debt relief. Good people to know in times of trouble. Serving communities throughout Vancouver Island. Call Kyle for a consultation. 1-855-812-6767; Abakhan & Associates Inc. www.abakhan.com

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

CLEANING SERVICES

FANTASTIC HOUSE Cleaner Prof. 5 star hotel & Resort Re-lais & Chateaux trained. Ener-getic, hard-working, own sup-plies, reliable friendly service. Tons of refs. Over 20 yrs cleaning exp. Beds and laun-dry welcome $25hr. Please call Melinda 250-715-1185 or [email protected]

FOR ALL your cleaning, cooking and laundry needs. Is-land Domestic has experi-enced housekeepers. We also do apartments, offi ces and one-time cleans. Serving Mill Bay to Ladysmith. Bonded, In-sured, WCB, registered with DVA. 250-710-0864. www.islanddomesticservices.ca

CLEANING SERVICES


COMPUTER SERVICES

ABLE COMPUTER REPAIRIn-home service. Senior’s

discount. Nico 250-746-6167

TCOUNTER OPS

GRANITE Countertops , we supply, fabricate and install ,with over 25 years experience and reasonable pricing. Call Scott 250-715 6652 , E-Mail: [email protected]

ELECTRICAL

Licensed #LEL0203619. Bonded.

Commercial & Residential. New construction, renos,

and maintenance.Call James: 250-710-4714

FLOOR REFINISHING/INSTALLATIONS

CUSTOM HARDWOOD FLOORING

Professional installations of solid, engineered hardwood fl oors, laminated, vinyl plank, etc. Over 20 yrs. experience.

For estimate call 250-710-5712

CLEANING SERVICES


HOME IMPROVEMENTS

HOME RENOVATIONS. Deck work, carpentry, fl ooring, plumbing, eaves trough-clean-ing & rubbish removal. Small moving jobs. Sr. Discount. Ian 250-743-6776.

TOTAL RENOVATIONSCarpenter will do additions,Carports, Decks, Siding,

Flooring, Painting, Finishing, Plumbing, Fences

Pres-washing, plus more.All work guaranteed.

Insured250-748-9150

PLUMBING

A SERVICE PLUMBER. Li-cence, Insured. Drains, HWT, Reno’s, Repairs. Senior Dis-counts. After Hour Service. Call Coval Plumbing, 250-709-5103.

FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.


ANTIQUES/VINTAGE

GARAGE SALES

2349 Arnhem Rd, Sat. Feb. 27/16 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Household & yard sale.


GARAGE SALES

DON’T MISS THIS!Cowichan Family Life

Thrift Store

✱3 DAY SALE✱

• 75% off all clothing. • 25% off everything else.

531 CANADA AVENUELast Thursday, Friday,

Saturday of every monthFebruary 25, 26 & 27th.

10am-5pm.Stocked up & replenishing

throughout Sale!

*KIWANIS FLEA MARKET*

EVERY SAT. FROM 9AM TIL 2PM. Girl Guide Hall:

321 Cairnsmore St. For info phone

Gloria at 250-746-9678 or Dave at 250-746-3616

MOVING SALE BUSINESS AND HOUSEHOLD FURNI-TURE CONSTRUCTION TOOLS DRAFTING TABLE WASHER/DRYERS MISC. SATURDAY FEB 27/16 9AM-1PM. NO EARLY BIRDS. 2922 ALLENBY ROAD

GARDEN EQUIPMENT

FOR Sale. John Deere LT166 Lawn Mower. 250-746-5558.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

2006 Pontiac Pursuit, Black, 4 door, auto, 147,000 km, new tires, new brakes - $3,000. Weider Pro 9635 home gym, excellent cond. - $200. 1970 Nova project car - $2,000. Contact 250-715-7841.

POLE BARNS, Shops, steel buildings metal clad or fabric clad. Complete supply and in-stallation. Call John at 403-998-7907; [email protected]

REFORESTATION NURSERYseedlings of hardy trees, shrubs and berries for shelter-belts or landscaping. Spruce and Pine from $.99/tree. Free shipping. Replacement guar-antee. 1-866-873-3846 or www.treetime.ca


MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397. Make money and save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock, ready to ship. Free Info & DVD: 1-800-566-6899 ext: 400OT.www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT

STEEL BUILDING Sale. Real-ly big sale, extra winter dis-count on now!! 21x22 $5,190 25x24 $5,988 27x28 $7,498 30x32 $8,646 35x34 $11,844 42x54 $16,386. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422; www.pioneersteel.ca

REAL ESTATE

LOTS

10.4 acres - 7705A Cowichan Lake Rd. Well tested, septic needed, other services at road. Motivated vendor, will consider fi nancing. $190k ph:604-250-2396

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

DUNCAN- 8 km North; fur-nished studio apartment; inter-net, satellite, laundry, hydro, heat. NS/NP. $600/mos. Call 250-748-1310.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

BACH. SUITE - DUNCAN1 and 2-br; balcony; F/S; heat & hot water; 1 bldg only; parking; pets con-sidered. $550 to $775 per month.

AVAILABLE NOWCALL 250-748-7764

COWICHAN BAY. 1-br condo with patio. Unfurnished $800, furnished $850. No pets. 250-245-0835; 250-246-4999.

DUNCAN - First & Jubilee. Brand new 900sq.ft. apt. 2Bdrm,1Bath. $950/mo. Avail. Apr. 1, 2016. N/S, No pets. Appliances & in house laundry. Cell: 250-709-0576. Email: [email protected]

LOVELY 2 bdrm suites in sen-iors oriented building, Central Duncan. Heat incld. NS/NP. $825. Please call Resident Manager at 778-936-0400.

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

1800 SQ.FT. Commercial/ Light industrial unit in modern strata complex with Highway Exposure in Duncan area. Call 1(250)658-4336.

RENTALS

OFFICE/RETAIL

OFFICE & RETAIL SPACE FOR LEASE

55 Canada Ave.Wheelchair accessible -

Motivated Landlord offering incentives.

Contact Jayson Deleskie 250-755-7257

oceansidejay.com

STORAGE

HEATED Mini storage lockersavailable in Crofton by themonth. 3X6=$30. 4X6=$40.7X9=$83. 9X10=$125. Tax incl. Call or txt: 250-709-1379.

SUITES, LOWER

3541 Auchinachie Road, Duncan

2-bdrm; W/D; F/S. Hydro & cable incl.

No pets. $1,000 mos. Available now!250-748-3663

fi l here please

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Business at a GLANCE Call to place your ad: 250-748-2666 Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm

Email: [email protected]

TO ADVERTISE ON THIS PAGE call the

Cowichan Valley Citizen Newspaper

(250) 748-2666

251 Jubilee St., Downtown, [email protected]

• Catering• Weddings• Anniversaries• Memorial• FRESH or FROZEN

meal delivery

Gloria’s Food Service

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Purely OptometryBESIDE DIAMOND EYECARE

EYE EXAMSFamily Eye & Vision Care

Call for most reasonable rates

250-597-1011159 Trunk Road, Duncan

6959398

JACKO’S Concrete Finishing

Form Work • Prep • & More

FREE ESTIMATES

Phone: (250) 733-0884

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We Fill You In...Every Wednesday and Friday,

we bring you up to date on news and community events that matter to you.

Phone: 250-748-2666Fax: 250-748-1552


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