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CRASH CLOSES HIGHWAY LANES

Southbound lanes of the Trans Canada Highway were backed up from the Chemainus River Bridge to Henry Road and beyond on Wednesday morning as RCMP, Crofton volunteer firefighters and BC Ambulance personnel attended to a two-car incident just south of the bridge. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

Man killed atCrofton millKEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

An investigation at the Cata-lyst Paper mill in Crofton con-tinues after the body of a truckdriver who went missing at thesite on Tuesday was recovered on Wednesday.

WorkSafe BC has been at the mill since late Tuesday afternoon, when the man, who was making adelivery of wood chips to the site, was first reported missing.

“Our job is to determine thecause, what happened, why ithappened, how it happened, andhow to prevent it from happeningin the future,” said WorkSafe BCspokesperson Scott McCloy.

Assisting WorkSafe BC with the investigation were the RCMPand the BC Coroners Service. Pre-liminary investigations had sug-gested that the truck driver, an employee of Bobell Express mak-ing the delivery on behalf of Mar-pole Transport, had been caught on a conveyor belt and taken into a chip silo.

“Officers attended to the scene,”said Cpl. Jon Stuart of the NorthCowichan/Duncan RCMP.

School board has fi rst session in 2 yearsLEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

School trustees elected veteran Candace Spilsbury as chair of the Cowichan Valley Board of Education at the first meeting of the new board on Dec. 10, with Barb de Groot to assist her as vice-chair.

It was the first time an elected board has met since the previous board was fired in 2012.

Spilsbury was chosen by acclam-

ation with de Groot emerging as the winner in a run-off against Randy Doman.

It was back to the future for Spilsbury, who has served as chair before.

Experience is a helpful thing at this stage of the game, she agreed.

“As we come back to create a new board after a two-year gap in elected trustees, it is helpful to have someone who has the experi-

ence particularly around things like governance and Robert’s Rules of Order and facilitation, with a background of knowledge of the district.”

Spilsbury certainly has that. She worked for the school dis-trict as a principal and then as director of elementary educa-tion before retiring and then was elected as a school trustee where she was chosen as board chair by her colleagues.

She was replaced in that pos-ition by Eden Haythornthwaite in 2011 when the composition of the board changed to a group that decided to challenge the edu-cation ministry by sending in a deficit budget, a move that saw them all fired July 1, 2012.

Spilsbury is back, elected as one of the members of a team that promised balanced budgets.

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LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Christmas carols wafted out of the garage over a loud speaker on a sunny Sunday morning as Norm and Mary Morgan and their help-ers worked to get their house at 2390 Trillium Terrace ready for their annual Christmas light up.

It’s a labour of love for the family.

“We started four years ago to put some decorations and lights up and then all of a sudden we’ve got cars stopping by the house. At first we had two or three, but now they’re lined up,” Norm said.

“We had neighbours come down last year. A lady stopped. She had a big box about two and a half feet long and my wife wondered what it could be. It turned out to be a big box of chocolates and it was from neighbours up the street because they wanted to thank us.”

But that was not all, he said.“All of their grandkids would

come over and say, ‘We have to go down and see that house now, Grandma.’

“We’ve already had people walk-ing by the house asking, ‘When are you going to turn them on?’ My grandson’s here today. We’d have to turn them on for him, even if it was daylight outside.”

Mary agreed.

“I think here it was a case of the more the people enjoyed it, the more drive-bys we got, then we were motivated and started add-ing more and getting crazy,” she said.

“We can see people really appre-ciate it. They come and thank us. Even yesterday we had some people by here asking about it.”

Both Morgans enjoy driv-ing around looking at holiday decorations.

“We like to see houses decorated up for Christmas. And when we went out, we didn’t know where to go. We wish there was more here. In Victoria they always used to have a list on the front page of the paper about areas like Candy Cane Lane. People would drive around to see them all,” Norm said.

Back in the ’50s and ’60s, whole subdivisions used to light up their houses, drawing big crowds “but, now when we go out here, it’s just hit and miss,” he said. “You drive into a subdivision and hope some-body’s got some lights on.”

What Norm is hoping is that people will write or email in with their addresses so a list could be published in some way, just so Val-ley folks could enjoy a colourful drive to see them all.

On Trillium Terrace, the Mor-gans try to add something new

each year to the display.“We look around and say, we

need to do a bit more to that. This year we’ve got some new murals that are pretty nice that are going on the garage doors. One shows Santa with his sack and another shows a nativity scene,” he said.

Near the house Sunday, Janna Little and Lisa Adamschek were putting the finishing touches on a gingerbread house they had built to add to the display.

Mary is delighted.“Last year they built the candy

canes. It was their first project. They took a long time. They’re beautiful. Then we added ribbon to them this year.”

They search for new ideas everywhere.

“We get almost all our stuff online. We’ve got an electric Santa that Richard Mann is going to come and put up on the roof for us. It was from Christmas Done Bright,” Mary said.

“You know we get everything on sale. Even then it’s expensive. We go and bargain with the stores. We drive them nuts. But we don’t travel very far on holidays. This is Norm’s thing.”

Irene Barker and husband Doug were famed for their display, too.

Morgans share the Christmas spirit in huge holiday display

It’s almost showtime. Mary and Norm Morgan, in front, and Janna Little and Lisa Adamschek, behind, are getting ready for their big annual Christmas display at 2390 Trillium Terrace. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

The campaign is on to have one of Cowichan’s most heroic former residents recognized nationally.

Kelly Black, with the assistance of Nanaimo-Cowichan MP Jean Crowder, has started a push to have Dr. Frances Kelsey honoured as a person of national historic significance.

Black began his campaign after the Department of Canadian Heritage released a survey in the spring that included the question: Which Canadians have inspired you the most over the last 150 years? From the answers, a list of Canada’s top 10 heroes was put together.

“The list was entirely male, there wasn’t a single female on that list,” said Black. “I felt that was a bit ridiculous.”

When he considered women of significance in Canadian history, as a student of Frances Kelsey Secondary School in Mill Bay from 1998 to 2002, the school’s namesake was the first person that came to mind.

Kelsey was born in Cobble Hill in 1914. She received a BSc and an MSc in pharmacology in Canada, then went to the U.S. where she got her PhD and M.D. degrees. She began work with the Amer-ican Food and Drug Administra-tion in 1960.

“In her first month at the FDA,

she was pressured to approve the release of a sleeping pill for preg-nant women call thalidomide,” Crowder said. “She had seen data that women who used the drug repeatedly experienced dangerous side effects and in 1961 when Brit-ish reports of severe birth defects in children started, that was the information Dr. Kelsey needed to block approval of the drug in the U.S., which eventually led to its ban around the world.”

“She was the one who really blew the whistle on thalidomide and its effects,” she said. “Without her intervention, I can’t imagine how many more people would have been impacted by it.”

It was a very brave thing for Kelsey to do, said Black.

“The fact that Dr. Kelsey stood up to the pressure of the phar-maceutical companies to approve this drug, thalidomide, was a very powerful thing for her to do, particularly as an upcoming person working at the federal drug administration, and also as a woman,” he said.

Kelsey has been extensively honoured in the U.S., receiving the President’s Award for Distin-guished Federal Civilian Service in 1962, the highest honour that can be bestowed upon a civil-ian, and in 1995 she had a minor planet named after her. In 2000 she was inducted into the Nation-al Women’s Hall of Fame and in

2001 she was named a VirtualMentor for the American MedicalAssociation.

Given her achievements, Kelsey should be ripe for recognition as aperson of national historic signifi-cance in Canada.

There’s just one catch — she’sstill alive.

Guidelines of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Can-ada state that a person must be dead for 25 years before being recognized.

Black calls the rule archaic, andCrowder agreed.

“Why wouldn’t we actuallyhonour people while they’re stillhere?” Crowder questioned. “I justdon’t understand that rule.”

It’s been 53 years since Kelsey,now 100, did the work for which she would be recognized, Crowdersaid, which would be in keepingwith the historical nature of theaward.

“Why not now?” she asked.To support the effort to have

Kelsey recognized by the federalgovernment, contact the Historic Sites and Monuments Board and the Ministry of Environment.A draft of a letter is available at https://canstud.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/frances-kelsey-unsung-canadian-hero/, and scrolldown to “Application: HSMBC_FrancesKelsey_Application”

There’s also a petition you candownload at www.jeancrowder.ca

Dr. Frances Kelsey, for whom Frances Kelsey Secondary is named, is one of the most celebrated people to come from Cowichan. [FDA PHOTO]

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LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Parents at Chemainus Elementary Com-munity School are being urged to watch out for hand, foot and mouth disease.

Principal Brenda Stevenson reported to them in a letter Dec. 9 that “several cases” have been reported at the school.

She told them that symptoms include fever, runny nose, sore throat, sores in the mouth, loss of appetite and painless rash or blisters on the palms of the hands, soles of the feet or, occasionally, the buttocks.

“Hand, foot and mouth disease is conta-gious. It can be passed to others through contact with the infected person’s saliva, mucus, or feces. Children are most conta-gious during the first week of the illness,”

she said in the announcement. However, the virus remains in the feces

and “can sometimes spread for several weeks after the blisters and sores have healed. There is no blood test or medicine for hand, foot and mouth disease.”

Good hygiene works to help keep the ill-ness from spreading, including washing hands well with running water and soap after nose blowing or using the toilet.

“If your child is not feeling well, it is important to keep him or her home from school until the symptoms have stopped,” she told parents.

For more information contact your local health unit, their doctor or try phoning 8-1-1 HealthLinkBC (a free call) or visiting www.healthlinkbc.ca

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LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Graham Bruce, CEO of the Island Corridor Foundation, said that questions about what might happen with possible commuter traf-fic on the VIA Rail line are premature.

Discussion up and down the Island this week has been prompted by concerns that proposed schedules might not facilitate commuter traffic on the line.

Bruce said VIA’s service is not about com-muter traffic.

“We’re not trying to provide a commuter service. VIA Rail is an intra-city service, aimed at meeting the needs of the whole of Vancouver Island,” he said.

The VIA train schedule for Island com-munities will offer twice daily service between Nanaimo and Victoria four days of the week. On Wednesdays it will travel between Nanaimo, Victoria and Qualicum and on weekends to Courtenay, according to Bruce.

The service will be adjusted as ridership demand warrants it.

“This is the initial schedule that Southern Rail developed last spring, times and stops will be adjusted to meet the needs of the greatest number of Island residents once the service is fully operational,” he said.

“An important change in the train ser-vice agreement with VIA is that we now have the ability to alter the schedule,” he added.

Although the service he’s talking aboutruns between cities up and down the Island,there is a possibility, with track improve-ments complete, to offer the western com-munities in Victoria the chance to considerthe merits of a commuter train betweenLangford and Victoria.

In addition, once there’s “lots of trackcapacity,” there is room for a commuterservice to the Canadian Forces base to ser-vice residents living in the south end of theCowichan Valley, he said.

But all of these ideas are still on the draw-ing board.

“Southern believes there is strong demandfor intra-city passenger service and is intent on meeting community needs,” he said.

Bruce said that the public must remember that there are four possible types of service,including freight, tourist excursions, intra-city traffic and commuter runs.

The types of cars needed for tourist excur-sions or longer-distance intra-city runs are not the same as those that might servicecommuters, so there is still a lot of room for discussion and planning, he said.

Funds for the track improvements havebeen committed by the federal, provincialand regional governments. Work will betendered once both the federal and prov-incial government departments completetheir reviews and sign off.

But this has not happened yet and Brucesaid he has no idea when it might occur.

VIA service not about commuters, says Bruce

KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The body of a 79-year-old Crofton man who went missing in September was found on Maple Mountain earlier this week, accord-ing to the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP.

A massive search for Tony Morley in late September and early October failed to turn

up any trace of him. Morley was last seenon Sept. 21. His car was found on OsborneBay Road near Maple Mountain Park, wherehe was believe to have gone hiking.

“There was somebody found that they have identified as him,” Cpl. Jon Stuartconfirmed, adding that Morley’s family hasbeen informed.

Missing man’s body found on mountain

“[They] determined that there was enough to support the belief that the driver had been taken by a conveyor belt, and carried into one of the storage silos,” Stuart said Wednesday. “There is nothing to suggest a criminal act at this time.”

Operations at the mill were shut down as the investigation went on.

“We are all saddened by this tragic acci-dent,” Catalyst President and CEO Joe Nemeth said. “We extend our heartfelt sympathies to his family and friends dur-ing this difficult time.”

Delta-based Bobell Express voiced simi-lar sentiments.

“It is with great sadness that we at Bobell Express report the tragic loss of a loyal and long-term fellow driver and friend,” the company stated in a press release. “Our thoughts and sincerest condolences

go out to his family, friends, and fellow co-workers. We would like to ask during this difficult time that the family’s privacy be respected to allow them the time and space to grieve their loss.

“Additionally we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Catalyst Paper, the RCMP, WorkSafe BC, and all the first responders, and our own crew and staff, whose exemplary service and profession-alism through this heartrending incident cannot be overstated.”

McCloy could not recall a similar inci-dent occurring in more than 20 years working with WorkSafe BC. “It’s extreme-ly rare, for good reason,” he said.

There was no indication on Thursday how much time the investigation would take.

“They’ll be there as long as it takes them to gather evidence and have a sufficient explanation as to what has gone on.”

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Nature is beautiful; don’t replace Tzouhalem cross

To replace the cross — or not — on Mt. Tzouhalem?

I’ve been thinking of this and talking with folks.

I have sent my feedback/vote in to the Nature Conservancy of Canada [email protected]

My vote is to 1. not replace it — Mother Nature is beautiful enough as it is. Signs and sym-bols flashing on our mountains just take away from the natural beauty; 2. if there absolutely has to be something, maybe it could be something carved in rock or wood, so it blends in better with nature. So far, the most fitting thing I can think of is the Coast Salish legend of the Thunderbird and the Orca www.joejack.com/thunderbirdandorca.html.is

This legend is about this area. I am not in favour of religious symbols gracing public land. I respect that many folks have connections to those who installed it in the ’70s/’80s, but it is not neutral, nor is it repre-sentative of the majority of the Cowichan Valley.

The thunderbird/orca may not represent the majority, but it cer-tainly represents the people that were here long before the rest of us showed up.

Gina TalbotDuncan

Air pollution warnings about corporate greed

I would like to respond to the recent articles in the Citizen, and Eleanor Setton’s concerns in regards to woodsmoke, and the use of woodstoves in the Cowi-chan Valley.

If the B.C. Ministry of Environ-ment would like to go further or dig a lot deeper into the health and welfare of its citizens, then woodstoves would just be amongst a very large list of things that are extremely harm-ful to our environment and the well being of its citizens.

David Suzuki just recently provided us with articles on the harms of geoengineering. Geoengineering activity has

been going on for decades and polluting our atmosphere. This information has been hidden from the greater public.

The Cowichan Valley has just been through two large power outages in the last several weeks. The only thing that is guaran-teed in a power outage is the woodstove.

Along with climate change, how will most of us cope when we lose power, possibly for extremely long periods of time? I believe this “great concern” that the Ministry of Environ-ment suddenly has for us is to be completely reliant on Hydro and other sources of heat.

We then have no control or are self reliant in any way, and our bills just keeping going up each

year. Our neighbour blows mari-

juana over our fence all day long. My children and I are told that there are no laws in effect to con-trol this. I doubt very much the B.C. government will look into the effects of this any time soon. Woodstoves have been around for centuries.

This is distraction by big cor-porations that are brainswash-ing us into believing that the woodstove is our enemy. This is still about misinformation and corporate greed.

The Fogel familyDuncan

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One of the stories we’ve covered this year that stunned us the most was

that of 47-year-old Cobble Hill resident Tammy Walker.

Walker came to our attention because of her need for a life-sav-ing double lung transplant.

To be hit with such a serious illness is bad enough, but to be told by the government that your bank account isn’t big enough to save your life is worse.

In fact, it’s shameful and hor-rifying for our province, indeed, our country.

As Canadians we take pride in our universal health care system.

It is one of the key things that separates us from our neigh-bours to the south, and it is something we often boast about — not without reason.

There are flaws, of course, but on the whole it works really well.

You don’t have to be rich to get treatment.

You can walk in and walk out of your doctor’s office as often as you need to without getting a bill. You can walk in and walk out of the hospital without being stopped for your financial infor-mation, though you may have a costly fistful of prescriptions (one of the flaws).

People with more money don’t get to cut in line for procedures and tests.

We don’t have to worry — or we’re not supposed to have to worry — about not being able to afford the medical care we need, especially when our lives are on the line.

That’s what makes what has happened to Walker so shocking.

She couldn’t even get put on the transplant list until she could prove she and her family had $25,000 in the bank.

There are not supposed to be financial qualifications for sav-ing lives. It is despicable that

there are situations in our prov-ince where our health system won’t help you unless you have cash.

Oh, they’ll help you if you are completely destitute, otherwise you have to bankrupt yourself for the necessary aftercare.

Walker was told by officials that she falls through the cracks in the system — she has both too much money and not enough.

That’s not a crack, that’s a gaping chasm known as two-tier health care, something that is anathema to our Canadian beliefs.

It’s not a chasm that’s been

closed, either.While Walker has raised the

funds, it’s been thanks to her family, friends and community, not the health system or the provincial government.

They should be the ones pay-ing for this necessity. It should not and cannot continue to come down to how successful your bottle drives, car washes and gar-age sales can be.

It’s disgusting that nothing has changed. Politicians expressing their dismay and promising to look into it is not enough.

We need definitive action so that this never happens again.

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Solar energy can launch green tidal wave for Cowichan Valley

I see a green tidal wave of good news for Cowichan in the struggle against climate change — and hey, it’s about time.

The CVRD has more “green” political representation after recent municipal elections — new people like Sonia Furste-nau in Shawnigan Lake, Rob Douglas in North Cowichan and Kerry Davis in Mill Bay.

Even in Ottawa, senators are discussing the need to act on climate change — this while our Prime Minister received an embarrassing verbal scolding from the United Nations Secretary-General for his appalling failure to act on climate change. One senate speaker compared climate-related catastrophic weather events with water flowing downhill; we may not know the exact route, but it always ends up at the bottom of the hill.

The American Society of Science has warned that our social infrastructure will be destroyed by storms caused by climate change. And the high cost of repairing this storm damage will reduce govern-ments’ ability to fund normal services like medical care, road maintenance, gar-bage collection, and so on.

So most governments know they must act. Locally, one action our green pol-iticians should consider is to provide financial incentives, such as zero-inter-est loans, to encourage homeowners to install solar panels and make their own electrical energy. This will be easy for them to do politically, since solar panels installed on our rooftops will return a profit which could be given back to the municipality until the loan is paid off.

For myself, I plan to transfer pension money into the creation of a solar “farm”. Viridian Energy Co-op and Alternative

Electric, both local companies, will be installing 192 solar panels on my property in February. I will sell electricity to BC Hydro and earn a profit — increasing from four to eight per cent over 25 years.

BC Hydro tells me that Cowichan is lighting up their map of B.C. with solar energy — we are a hotspot for solar panel installations. If you are interested in a bulk buy, contact [email protected]

In my opinion, my solar farm is a better investment for my old age than shares in an unpredictable stock market. And if the municipality sees profits from my pilot project, they then could form a much lar-ger publically-owned solar energy utility that would make money and reduce our taxes.

Importantly, if citizens start making renewable energy for a profit, they will also then see the advantage of using electricity to power their new electric cars. Using electric cars will reduce the amount of carbon emissions into the atmosphere big time — almost 80 per cent of greenhouse gases in Cowichan come from our cars and trucks.

This combination of locally produced solar energy and gas-less electric cars could start a real green tidal wave, sav-ing us money on car maintenance and fuel costs, lowering our utility bills, and reducing our collective carbon emissions.

Remember, severe weather events will only worsen if we do not reduce our car-bon emissions — as surely as water runs downhill. So both individuals and polit-icians need to act.

Solar power is a win for our bank accounts, a win for local jobs, and a win for our planet.

Peter Nix, Cowichan Carbon BusterMaple Bay

Let’s target idling vehicles

With all the hullabaloo about air quality why is there no law against excessive vehicle idling as there is in some jurisdictions?

There is one area (down east) that will fine you for idling more than four minutes. Early mor-nings by some ones bedroom window is also just plain rude and can be a health hazard.

If the jurisdictions here care about the health and environment what action have they taken? Wood smoke has been around probably before man, vehicle exhaust not very long.

Art SegerDuncan

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Stolen Christmas tree lot direction sign disappointing

I am writing to thank the person(s) who stole a directional sign this week on Cowi-chan Lake Road.

I operate a small Christmas tree farm in Sahtlam and in order to assist customers to locate me, I post direction signs at vari-ous locations.

This week I noticed that one of the signs

had been uprooted and stolen/destroyed. Although the cost of each sign is min-

imal at $30 to $40 apiece, I am disappoint-ed that someone would take the time to steal it.

Once again, thank you to the ignorant individual who presumably got some delight out of his actions.

Mike FlattCowichan Valley Christmas Trees

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The presentation of the prestigious President’s Award to Ron Neubauer was a highlight at the 2014 Golden Brush Awards Saturday, Nov. 29 at the Chemainus Seniors Centre.

The awards recognize excellence in busi-nesses and individuals, particularly those that contribute to the community. Nom-inations are accepted from anyone in the community, and the Chamber members select who should receive the awards in each category.

This year there were over 260 nominations in nine categories. The tenth category, the President’s Award, is chosen by the Cham-ber president with input from the board of directors.

The award is given annually to a special person in the community whose efforts

somehow don’t fit into any of the GoldenBrush categories, and Neubauer took it home for 2014.

“When the board got to discussing whothey should give the award to this year a lotof names came up but when they got to his,it became, ‘Yeah, that’s the guy we should recognize for what he does’,” said Chamberspokesperson Jeanne Ross.

Neubauer was described during the pres-entation of the award Saturday as “one of those individuals whose contributionsgo largely unacknowledged most of thetime.”

A resident of Chemainus for more than 30 years, Neubauer is known as “an incred-ibly hard worker and an outstanding fam-ily man,” said those acknowledging hisservice.

Ron Neubauer realizes he is the winner of the President’s Award at the Golden Brush Awards held Saturday, Nov. 29 in Chemainus.The category honours those who don’t quite fit into the other categories, but who has made their mark on the Little Town That Did.[SUBMITTED]

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In past years “he was a key person in hanging and looking after the beautiful flower baskets that Chemainus is so proud of every summer.”

Neubauer is the supervisor for the 49th Parallel’s stores in Chemainus and Duncan but he has also found time to play a key role in the distribution of Christmas hampers, and in recent years he has been the driving force in raising funds for the annual Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock.

Largely through his efforts, more than $57,000 has been donated from his area to Cops for Cancer; $10,000 this year alone.

Among the other Golden Brush awards, Chemainus Foods took the Good Neigh-bour Award, learning as they did so that the community thinks “the staff at this long established downtown grocery store is always helpful, with special attention paid to seniors.”

The store was also praised for helping the food bank and other organizations.

Food Service Business of the Year went to Willow Street Café and Bound to be Differ-ent won Retail Business of the Year.

The Manufacturing Business of the Year award went to Thermoproof Windows and Doors.

Tim Openshaw Contracting was chosen as Trades Person or Contractor of the Year and the Professional Service Business of the Year was the Chemainus Valley Courier.

The Personal Service Business of the Year went to Doc the Barber.

Customer Service winners were Debra Young and Teresa Davies of Twisted Sis-ters Tea Room.

Nominators said, “Teresa and Debra have been in business for about a decade now. And boy have they got the hang of it. Great customer service; they remember every-one’s name and what the customers like to order. Everyone’s a regular at Twisted

Sisters.”The Volunteer of the Year was Karen Hop-

kins, described as “a driving force in the Chemainus Valley Cultural Arts Society — those are the folks that bring us Music in the Park on Tuesday nights throughout the summer as well as several great festivals.”

The unassuming Hopkins also works hard for the Little Town Christmas committee and helps out at Neighbourhood House.

Ross said that this year’s Golden Brush awards drew more than 260 nominations.

“For little Chemainus, that’s doing well,” she said.

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Editor’s Note: This article is the third in a series the Citizen will be publishing in partnership with the provincial Ministry of the Environment and the Cowichan Valley Regional District about the importance of clean air the effects of pollution.

ELEANOR SETTON SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN

Think burning your garbage is a good idea? Think again.

It is not that far in the past that many of us had burn barrels in the backyard to take care of everyday household garbage — wood and food scraps, paper, cardboard, milk cartons and food packaging. It’s no longer permitted in most cities and towns, but some rural areas still use burn barrels, and sometimes people slip a little garbage onto the leaf pile — bet-

ter than sending it to the landfill, right? Wrong.

A wide range of pollutants are produced by burning garbage — the most harmful are dioxins. TCDD (2,3,7-8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) is one of the most toxic. It stays in the environment a long time and can travel a long way before settling to the ground, where it ends up in the tissue of living organisms and concentrates up the food chain.

In 2007-2009, small amounts of TCDD were detected in the blood serum of 83 per cent of the people from across the country tested in the Canadian Health Measures Survey — that’s 3,800 out of 4,580 tested.

Long-term exposure to TCDD causes cancer in people and ani-mals, impairs immune, hormone and reproductive systems, and impacts nervous system develop-ment. These are serious health effects, and exposure should be minimized as much as possible. This is why emissions of TCDD from industry, municipal waste incinerators and pulp mills are heavily regulated in Canada and around the world.

The good news is that TCDD levels in the environment and in people have been decreasing steadily since the 1970s and 1980s, when emission control devices for large sources were becoming widely used.

The bad news is that open burn-ing of garbage in backyards nowproduces more dioxins than all industrial activities combined in Canada, according to Environ-ment Canada.

Some TCDD is produced by burn-ing leaves and wood, but muchmore is produced when anythingcontaining even trace amountsof chlorine-based chemicals isburned, like plastics, paper andfood packaging.

Controlled tests have measured almost 1,800 times as much dioxinfrom burning typical householdgarbage as from natural wood.

A more startling fact may be thatin some cases, burning 10 kg of domestic garbage in the backyardcan produce as much dioxin as a Municipal Waste Combustor burn-ing 182,000 kg of similar garbage.

TCDD isn’t the only pollutantof concern — burning garbagealso produces harmful polycyclicaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs),dibenzofurans, and polychlorin-ated biphenyls (PCBs).

CVRD bylaws and provincialregulations prohibit the burn-ing of household or construction waste, tires, plastics, drywall, paint, tar paper, treated lumber,railway ties, rubber, asphalt, fuel or lubricant containers, and otherhazardous waste.

The best way to deal with yourhousehold garbage is to reduce the amount you produce, compost or recycle what you can, and sendthe rest to the landfill where it canbe handled responsibly.

Visit the Cowichan Recyclopediawebsite for more information onhow to reduce your garbage andrecycle effectively (www.zerowas-tecowichan.ca/recyclopedia).

Eleanor Setton is a research scientist

at the University of Victoria. Contribu-

tions were also made by the Cowichan

Valley Regional District and the B.C.

Ministry of Environment.

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Their house on Cairnsmore Street in Duncan was always a must-see. Barker used to laughingly say she, too, drove the stores crazy with requests for Christmas items.

It turns out the Morgans know all about that house.

“Norm did her place last year. This year she’s tak-ing a break, but she’s loaned us her beloved Buck. She’s a big part of our life. And we will do her place again next year,” Mary said.

Although it goes up fairly slowly, Norm said it doesn’t take long to put everything away.

“I can do it in a day,” he said.Mary knows the reason.“He was a mover for 25 years,” she said. “He’s

very organized. In fact, we would have had this all done before this if not for the snow that fell last weekend.”

They’ve been storing it all in their garage but are thinking about renting a storage locker because the gingerbread house can’t be disassembled.

“Then, everything will be safe, too. I keep thinking of those people who lost that Christmas house in Lake Cowichan that was destroyed by fire. It’s all stuff you can’t replace,” she said.

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DATES FOR 2015

Please note that the meeting dates for the Regular CouncilMeetings of the City of Duncan are as follows:

The Regular Council Meetings are held in Council Chambers at 200Craig Street at 7:00 p.m.

The Committee of the Whole Meetings are held in the CommitteeRoom at 200 Craig Street at 6:00 p.m. (access back door of City Hall,200 Craig Street)

December 22, 2014January 19, 2015February 16, 2015March 16, 2015April 20, 2015May 19, 2015June 15, 2015

July 20, 2015August 17, 2015

September 14, 2015October 19, 2015November 16, 2015

December 7, 2015 (Annual)December 21, 2015

January 5, 2015February 2, 2015March 2, 2015April 7, 2015May 4, 2015June 1, 2015

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The trustees elected Nov. 15included four new ones: Rob Hut-chins, Joe Thorne, Randy Domanand Elizabeth Croft.

Former trustees Cathy Schmidtand De Groot complete the group.

“The thing I’m most looking for-ward to is assisting new trusteesto be welcomed into the team and to give them background, to behelpful, but not to be changing their views at all but to broadentheir understanding,” Spilsburysaid.

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The Causeway (Sloedam) battle, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 1944Part 4

‘I think that my experience of taking part in the Causeway battle on Halloween night and November 1, 1944 in Holland is probably the most terrible 40 hours I have ever spent...’ –the late Bill Powell, 1998

In October 1944 Germans con-trolled the entrance to the port of Antwerp although it, with all

its docking facilities, had been captured intact. Duncan’s late Bill Powell was one of the Calgary Highlanders of the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Divisions who were assigned the task of driving them out, the Highlanders to capture the mined Scheldt Estuary...

Bill Powell:Next morning the Calgary Highlanders

were to try again. This time “D” Coy was to lead the attack. Of course, our battered “B” Coy was to go along, too. When our #12 Platoon was rounded up, it was found that out of our 24 men of the night before, only Pte. Fisher, Pte. Huskins and I were in any condition to go. The few surviv-ors of the night before were completely worn out, mostly in their efforts to get Lt. Lefroy back to safety.

The second Calgary attack started at 6:05 a.m. on November 1st with “D” Coy in the lead. If memory serves me right, “B” Coy followed them, “A” and “C” fol-lowing [us]. Again the terrific barrage by our own guns. In the histories I’ve read there’s no mention of our artillery laying down smoke but I’m sure they did. Smoke, of course, helps attacking troops to avoid detection. Again the enemy fire was ter-rible. Again casualties were heavy. There was a steady drizzle of rain. Once more, the 88s were firing steadily as well as sev-eral kinds of mortars, machine guns, etc.

Every minute or two a big shell fired from a coast gun on Walcheren Island would land and the whole place would shake. As some historian pointed out, it would send shock waves through your system. How true! On top of all this, some

of the 88s’ armour-piercing shells were skipping and rico-cheting down the length of the Causeway. All this on a narrow strip of land only 40 metres wide[!]

This time “D” Coy got right to the far end and “B” Coy right behind. When we were perhaps three-quarters of the way down the Causeway, to my amaze-ment, I saw a bulldozer making

its way towards the huge crater [in which they’d previously taken cover–Ed.], no doubt with the intention of filling it up. The driver soon realized the futility of what he was doing and retreated to the eastern end of the Causeway. I think he made it without mishap. Days later, the engineers estimated it would have taken [him] five uninterrupted hours to fill it.

When we got to the end of the Causeway and onto Walcheren [Island], we were dir-ected to head south towards some build-ings about a half-mile away. So far Husk-ins, Fisher and I hadn’t been hit. On leav-ing the Causeway, I remember having to step over dead Canadian soldiers. Anyway, we advanced a few hundred yards beside a dike on the edge of Walcheren where we dug in. I don’t remember how long we stayed there but we heard a rumour that we were running short of ammunition. Apparently while all this was going on, Col. Ellis was watching from across the Causeway in his command post although there was no way he could see the Ger-mans [begin to] counter-attack.

Capt. Clarke was very frustrated. His radio contact with Battalion HQ had bro-ken down. He wanted accurate artillery fire, just over our heads, brought down on the advancing enemy, to break up their counter-attack. I remember feeling fairly secure in my slit trench with Fisher and Huskins close by. [Then] we got the order to pull back towards the Causeway. I was somewhat disgusted and didn’t want to leave; yet we three, Huskins, Fisher and I, started back.

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There was some firing from buildings not far away. In no time at all Huskins and Fisher got wounded. Huskins was the closer of the two so I put his arm around my neck [so] he could walk. He’d been shot through the side. Fisher called out he’d been hit. Apparently he hadn’t been too badly wounded as, I heard afterwards, he managed to get back to the Causeway by lobbing grenades over the dike at the

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towards the Causeway, someone was firing at us. Why we weren’t hit, I don’t know, because I could hear the bullets snap as they went by. I remember being furious that someone was shooting at us. In all fairness, perhaps he wasn’t trying to hit us. I will never know.

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MUSINGS of a Magpie Mind

(Bits and pieces of history, travel and trivia, collected over the years by Bill Greenwell)

Windows on time

Hobbies are usually quiet pursuits, particularly if we have a separate space

to enjoy them. I’ve been assured that the

pleasure of time spent in busy solitude, away from our daily routine, is good for the blood pressure and even balm for the soul. So whether it’s something taking shape on an easel, or a loom or on a work bench with wood shavings on the floor, we can remind ourselves that this sort of concentrated, quiet effort is precious, and gives balance to our lives. But for those of us who have contracted the Collectors Bug, the hobby benefits are not quite so benign, or even so quiet.

In our household there’s much evidence that we’ve both been bitten by the bug more than once. The porcelain miniatures, the antique cameras and the teddy bears of all sizes and nationalities bear witness. They always remind us of when we discovered them and how we snapped them up at the prices we could afford. They’re quiet, inanimate reminders — all that

is, except my collection of clocks, which are a varied lot.

Although they have different faces and quirky personalities, they all have one thing in com-mon, their beautiful mechanical movements. No batteries. And they all chime with a different voice and make their noisy con-tribution to the passing days, and the nights too.

That’s why when we have friends or family staying over, most of our clocks are switched to “silent” or are stopped com-pletely. For some peculiar reason few people seem to appreciate the delightful cacophony that

erupts when they all manage to strike together. And each clock expects to be wound up too, and that takes place at weekends.

The exceptions to this routine of course are the anniversary timepieces in their domed glass covers. One wind-up can last for 400 days, because their brass weights that twirl around with monotonous precision, keep each movement going day after day.

Of course to the dedicated col-lector, having enough is seldom a concern. There’s always room for one more. And most of us bitten by this particular bug remember when it all started and the very first clock that launched us on our spree, the one that intro-duced us to the history of time and to the reams of facts and fig-ures we eventually digested. This knowledge helps us weigh the merits of further acquisitions, so essential when buying old clocks, because repairing a dud can be very expensive.

But the history of mechanical clocks is fascinating and essen-tial to the satisfaction of owning a few.

The church in the village where I grew up is huge, paid for in

the 12th century by local wool merchants who were thankful to the Almighty for their prosper-ity. They were also desirous of a cosy corner in the hereafter, so no expense was spared in creat-ing that glorious building, which included a full set of bells and later an enormous chiming clock mechanism on a separate floor in the tower. This controlled the hands on the big round dials out-side, one on each of its four mas-sive walls. When I first climbed those winding stone steps up that scary tower with the custod-ian, (who just happened to be my aunt, the only woman in Eng-land doing the job, while most of the men were away fighting the Hun), I was awed by that ancient clock when it struck the hour or the quarter. The noise was deaf-

ening and quite frightening to an eight-year-old. But it started me reading about the keeping of time, on land, at sea, wherever, and the stories of geniuses like the self-taught Englishman John Harrison, whose exquisitely engineered chronometer solved a major navigation problem for the British navy in 1772.

All this is a far cry from my lit-tle clock collection. I still keep a lookout for a bargain and groan when I see the astounding prices that antique timepieces fetch at auction. But here on my desk beside me, ticks a little inexpen-sive treasure that cheerfully chimes its way through the day and greets me every morning. It’s a regulated reminder of the fun I enjoy, being a collector.

(Bill Greenwell prospered in the ad

agency arena for 40 years in the U.K.

and Canada. He retains a passion for

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One Cowichan wants to ignite Valley with rapid-fi re evening

The local citizens group One Cowichan will host an “Ignite” event Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m. at Just Jake’s, featuring local personalities giving rapid-fire talks on a range of topics from art to politics to food.

“Ignite evenings are popping up across North America, so we thought we’d try one,” said Matt Price with One Cowichan.

“We’re excited that a great group of locals has agreed to give it a try. It’s going to be a fun evening.”

The Ignite format sees par-ticipants speaking to 20 slides that auto advance every 15 seconds. Speakers are able to cover a surprising amount in the time. Ignite Cowichan will be emceed by Patti Shea of Juice FM and speakers include Jean Crowder, local Member of Parliament; Cari Burdett, musician and music trainer; Dan Hudson, award winning chef and restaurant owner; Maryann Dick, Tribal Journeys participant; Coco Jones, accomplished local art-ist; Roger Chin, teacher and anti-bullying advocate; and Dave Godfrey, owner of God-frey-Brownell vineyard.

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The lunch bunch at the Cowichan Valley Basket Society gave an extra warm wel-come Dec. 4 to visitors from the board of the Cowichan Valley Sportsplex and David Strong from Scotiabank.

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The Sportsplex raised $7,200. Since half the money was earmarked for the Basket Society food bank effort, the announcement of this amount was greeted with a storm of applause.

More than 60 people and organizations donated to the fundraiser, according to

Sportsplex administrator Jackie Fowler, who handed over a cheque for $3,600 to Bas-ket Society manager Colleen Fuller, who thanked the group on behalf of both the volunteers and patrons of the food bank.

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Keep the counters clean or the dog out of the kitchen and thekitchen door closed! Freshly roasted turkeys have been lost tohungry dogs more than once on Christmas Day!Beware of chocolate boxes and any Christmas presents that maycontain chocolate or other inappropriate items! If you’re baking forChristmas, be aware that the yeast can cause the dough to fermentin the dog and cause alcohol poisoning, as well as dangerousdistension of the stomach and intestines.Be particularly careful with turkey leftovers. A sudden rush of allthose fatty bits might cause pancreatitis or liver damage. Cookedturkey bones could puncture the intestines. Chocolate and onionsare toxic to dogs, and some can develop sudden, allergic reactionsto grapes and raisins. Be sure to keep garbage out of reach. String,cheesecloth and tinfoil covered in food or grease pose greattemptations but can cause life-threatening blockages.

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Proceeds from the day will sup-port the Victoria Human Society this year.

Activities include getting Santa photos taken with your pet, paw print painting, raffle basket, baked goodies and tables full of information on pets. There will also be forest agility try outs if the weather is good enough.

Cedar Ridge Canine is located at 7661 Mays Rd.

City of Duncan workers collecting for food bank

The City of Duncan’s public

works crew is again collecting donations of non-perishable food items for the local food bank.

But, they’re also collecting donations of unwrapped toys this year.

You can choose to donate food, or toys, or both. Please place your donations, clearly marked Food/Toy Drive at curbside on your scheduled garbage collec-tion day on Dec. 16, 17 or 18. You can also drop off your donations to City Hall or the public works yard.

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Fairbridge Carols off ers vocalists, sing-along

The Fairbridge Carols annual concert is scheduled for Satur-day, Dec. 13 starting at 2 p.m. in Cowichan’s historic Fairbridge Farm school chapel.

The event is open to friends and all music lovers with admission is by donation.

Featured on this year’s program will be vocalists Cari Burdett and Sara Marreiros, cellist Corbin Keep and more.

Add in the Fairbridge commun-

ity children’s chorus and other special musical offerings, and sing-along carols for audience par-ticipation and it sounds like fun.

Please bring a non-perishable grocery item for the Cowichan Basket Society. Admission is by donation that will be split between

the guest artists and the Fair-bridge Chapel Heritage Society.

Orchestra off ers program of Winter’s Eve music

The Cowichan Camerata String Orchestra, under the direction

of Garth Williams, will performa concert they are calling Musicfor a Winter’s Eve on Saturday,Dec. 13 starting at 7:30 p.m. at theDuncan United Church.

According to the group’s WoodyReimer, “the program includesbaroque classics of Handel and Bach and a variety of Christmascarols, including some sing-alongsfor audience participation.”

The strings will also accom-pany the special guests from the Encore! Women’s Choir singing carols by acclaimed contempor-ary composer John Rutter.

There will even be an opportun-ity to meet with the musicians after the concert while enjoyingsome seasonal treats available fora small donation.

Tickets are $25 for a family, $10for adults and $5 for children. Getthem from orchestra members or at the door.

Shawnigan Lake School hosts sing-along Messiah

Want to sing the HallelujahChorus?

For many music lovers, it isn’tChristmas until they’ve done so.

The Victoria PhilharmonicChoir is performing a Sing-alongMessiah, Sunday, Dec. 14 at2.30 p.m., bringing 70 voices andthe Civic Orchestra of Victoria to the beautiful chapel at ShawniganLake School.

Singers are asked to bring their own scores if they have them; thereare a limited number available toborrow at the performance.

Conductor Peter Butterfieldwill lead everyone in this excitingevent that will feature 12 soloists.

Some are at the beginning oftheir careers, like 16-year-oldsoprano and hopeful opera sing-er Julia Hensley, and some areestablished professionals, includ-ing mezzo-soprano Kathryn Whit-ney, voice teacher at the VictoriaConservatory of Music, and Van-couver-based baritone Andrew Greenwood.

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28 Friday, December 12, 2014 | Cowichan Valley Citizen Valley Calendar

CHRISTMAS TAKES TO THE WAVES

A jolly snowman decks the decks of a sailboat to the delight of those gathered onshore to see the annual Cowichan Bay holiday sail past on Saturday, Dec. 6. Boats of all sizes joined the parade which circled the bay drawing a steady stream of onlookers. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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• Youbou Historical Society hosts Christmas in the Old Church Hall basement Saturdays in December (13, 20). Crafts (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.-ish), coffee (from 9 a.m.), crib, caroling, cake. Fees from craft tables go to historical society projects, eg. chimney for old church. Crafters contact: Al 250-710-3237 or [email protected]

• Cowichan Fish and Game Association, Glenora hosts Canadian Firearm Safety course (PAL and RPAL) starting Friday, Dec. 12. Info and registration: [email protected] or Mike 250-748-0319.

• South Cowichan Community Policing Return It collection days, third Saturday of each month, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Valley View Centre recycling area. For returnable bottles, cans and other drink con-tainers (except milk products). Funds to support community programs.

Seniors

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre Christmas Dinners, Dec. 12. Doors open 4:30 p.m. Entertain-ment: Centre Belles and the Centremen Song-sters. Cost $15 for members, $20 for guests, one guest per member. Info: 250-246-2111.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre blood pres-sure clinic Wednesday, Dec. 17, 9:30-11 a.m. All welcome.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre New Year’s Eve Dance, Dec. 31, doors open at 8 p.m., dance to Happy Hans. Light lunch served $20. Tickets on sale now.

• Chemainus 55+ drop in centre muffin mor-nings Wednesday and Friday except Dec. 24 and 31, 9:30-11 a.m. Come and meet new friends.

• Valley Seniors Activity Centre, 198 Govern-ment St., Duncan open 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday to Friday, 8a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. $20 per year. Carpet bowling, cribbage, billiards crafts, bridge, choir, bus trips on our own bus. Live music Mondays and Wednesdays 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Dances

every 1st and 3rd Saturday evening 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Open to public for Bingo each Tuesday.Many special events throughout the year. Check out Monthly Newsletter at valley-seniors.org andconsider membership if you’re 55 years or older.Info: 250-746-4433.Info: 250-746-4433 or www.val-ley-seniors.org

• Weekly bingo, Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m., Valley Seniors Centre, Duncan. Info: 250-746-4433.

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• Art Film Night at Sylvan United Church,monthly double features $5. For info see Face-book page or sign up for distribution list at [email protected]

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• New book club at Duncan library. Groupto meet third Saturday of every month noon-1:30 p.m Leave name and number at front desk of library to find out more or call library 250-746-7661.

• Cowichan Valley Garden Club meets the second Wednesday of each month at St. John’sAnglican Church hall, 486 Jubilee St., Duncan, 7 p.m. Newcomers welcome. Info: 250-709-2608.

• The Diggers Club of Cowichan meets the sec-ond Wednesday of the month, Chemainus United Church, 7 p.m. Info: 250-748-5707.

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• Calligraphy Show 2015, Feb. 4-25, Warmland Calligraphers of the Cowichan Valley 17thannual show and sale, The Loft Gallery at Val-ley Vines to Wines, Mill Bay Shopping Centre,Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Cherry Point artists weekly painting ses-sions (September to June), Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Cowichan Exhibition fairgrounds. Experienced and beginners welcome. Info: Jack 250-746-4795 or Olive 250-746-8020.

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Back-to-back all-out efforts resulted in back-to-back victories for the Kerry Park Islanders last weekend as the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League team defeated the Westshore Wolves 5-2 on Saturday evening and the Comox Valley Glacier Kings 9-4 on Sunday afternoon.

“We played really well all the way through both games, and our effort got us wins,” Kerry Park captain David Bittner said. “Against Westshore, we played a full 60. Part of the second period against Comox, we eased up a bit, but we found a way to get back in it and finished strong.”

After a scoreless first period against Westshore, Braeden Cross got the Isles on the board with a shorthanded goal less than a min-ute into the second. The Wolves answered back, then took the lead, but Tanner Browne’s goal with two seconds to spare evened it up heading into the third. The

third period was all Kerry Park as Ryan Paisley scored just eight seconds in, Patrick Poets added to the lead two minutes later, and Kyle Green wrapped up the scoring.

Cross finished the night with a goal and two assists, and Bitt-ner and Lynden Eddy each had two helpers. Leighton Williams earned the win with 36 saves and picked up an assist on Cross’s goal.

The nine goals scored on Sun-day matched the team’s season-high, set on Sept. 6, also in a win over Comox. The Isles took a 4-1 lead in the first period on goals by Paisley, Matt Osmond, Lyn-den Eddy and Cross, and never looked back. Cross completed the hat trick with two in the second as his team went up 6-2, and Nick Kean, Green and Keenan Eddy added goals in the third.

Cross ended up with five points on the night, while Lynden Eddy had four, and Kean had three. Green added an assist to his goal,

and Browne, Nick White and Adam Page each collected two helpers. Williams was back in goal and stopped 37 of 41 shots.

Bittner is hopeful that the team can build some momentum from last weekend.

“Lately we’ve been playing well, but until these last two games, the luck wasn’t going our way,” he said. “We were able to get two wins, and everyone on the team bought in. It’s the start of something new. It’s better to get your stride toward the end of the season before playoffs than peak early and fade away.”

The Isles have two home games this weekend, playing host to the Peninsula Panthers at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and the Saanich Braves at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

“We’re expecting to win these games,” Bittner said. “We want to get a bigger gap between us and Saanich and we’d like to get closer to Westshore. We need solid efforts all the way through. It’s the same game plan.”


It’s been a big couple of months for Sara Goodman.

In November, she was named Field Hockey BC’s Under 15 Female Player of the Year. And this month, she and three other Cowichan Valley players were named to the national junior development program for 2015.

Goodman was presented with the U15 Player of the Year award at Field Hockey BC’s annual banquet in Vancouver, having learned earlier that she would be receiving the honour.

“I got a letter in the mail where they told me I’d be getting the U15 top female athlete,” Good-man recalled. “I was really sur-prised; I’d never gotten anything like that before. I was happy with myself. My hard work paid off.”

Goodman played for a wide range of teams in 2014, includ-ing Cowichan ladies and junior teams, the Cowichan Secondary School Thunderbirds, and the provincial U15 Blue team that won the silver medal at the U16 national championship. Her coach with that team praised her leadership abilities in addition to her talent.

“Sara is a young athlete who leads by example, has a competi-

tive drive, excellent work rate,and a team-first mentality,” the coach wrote. “This helped bring the team together both on and off the field. She continually asks forfeedback and understands thereis always more work to be done.”

Along with her CowichanThunderbirds teammates Robin Fleming and Brittany Smith and2014 Cow High graduate StefanieLangkammer, Goodman wasnamed to the Canadian Women’sJunior Development Squad for 2015 by Field Hockey Canada.

“It’s super exciting,” said Good-man, whose long-term goalsinclude playing for the nationalteam and for a university team.

Goodman, Fleming and Smithwere part of the Cowichan Sec-ondary team that finished ninth at the provincial AAA champion-ships this fall, despite winningfive of their six games.

“It was kind of unfortunate,”Goodman said. “I think wedeserved a higher placementthan ninth.”

Those three players will bepart of the core when Cowichanmakes another run at the provin-cial title next year.

“I think we’ll still be a strong team, even though we are losingthree very competitive Grade12s,” Goodman said.

Back-to-back wins for IslesKerry Park defenceman Tanner Browne clears the puck from the defensive zone. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

Sara Goodman is B.C.’s U15 Female Player of the Year

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After successfully concluding the 2014 roller derby season with the Wreck the Halls event at the Cowi-chan Exhibition last Saturday, the Candy Crusherswill be looking for new blood in 2015.

An intense junior bout saw the Tinsel Toes knockoff the Candy Canes during last Saturday’s festiv-ities. Two adult matches, with the Snowbawls bat-tling the Fruitcakes, and the Slay Belles facing the Ho Ho Ho’s, followed. Skaters from all over Van-couver Island, Vancouver, Chilliwack and the GulfIslands took part.

Not wasting any time, the Candy Crushers areholding a “Fresh Meat” for newcomers ages 10-18 on Jan. 6.

“We are looking for kids who are looking to havefun, be part of a team, challenge themselves andbe more fit for 2015,” said Candy Crushers coach Amanda Gould, a.k.a. Miss B. Haven.

New recruits, and anyone else wanting to find out more about the Candy Crushers and roller derby can head out to Mellor Hall at the CowichanExhibition Grounds on Jan. 6 between 6:30 and 8:30p.m. For more information, email [email protected] or find Candy Crushers Junior RollerDerby on Facebook.


The Cowichan Valley Wrestling Club kicked off the 2014/15 sea-son by winning seven individual gold medals at the Island Novice meet in Courtenay at the end of November.

The CVWC took 27 first- and second-year wrestlers repre-senting nine different schools to the tournament at G.P. Vanier Secondary.

“Our wrestlers showed tremen-dous heart and determination throughout every match that they wrestled,” CVWC head coach Nick Zuback said.

One of the club’s newest mem-bers, Mikayla Brennan-McCann (Queen of Angels), made an impression in her competitive debut, going 4-0 and capturing her first gold medal in the school girls 47kg, while “sheer determin-ation and work ethic” got Aidan Tuplin (Q of A) to the first gold medal of his career in the cadet boys 57kg.

Also claiming gold medals were Jordan Atcheson (Q of A) in the school boys 82kg, Miaya Brown-bridge (Cowichan Secondary) in

the school girls 43kg, Stephanie Mould (Q of A) in the school girls 51kg, Sarah Calimbo (Chemain-us) in the school girls 54kg, Tesla Fraser (Queen Margaret’s) in the school girls 69kg, and Antonio Diaz (Q of A) in the cadet boys 41kg.

Finishing second in their respective divisions were Chris-topher Gaw (Bench) in the school boys 45kg, Owen Ketch (Q of A) in the school boys 63kg, Sydney Hall (Q of A) in the school girls 34kg, and Jacob Berry-McKech-nie (Cowichan) in the cadet boys 63kg.

Bronze medals went to Dylan Battye (Tansor) in the school boys 35kg, Owen Mackenzie (Q of A) in the school boys 41kg, Rowan Gil-lard (Drinkwater) in the school boys 54kg, and Grace Rhone (Q of A) in the school girls 34kg).

Q of A also finished first in the school girls standings, and sec-ond in both school boys and cadet boys.

Next on the schedule for the CVWC is the 10th Annual Cou-gar Invitational, this Saturday at Cowichan Secondary School from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.


After losing their opening game in last week-end’s South Island Tip-off Tournament at Pacific Christian School in Victoria, Duncan Christian School’s senior boys basketball team rallied to win their next two matches, placing fifth out of eight squads.

The Chargers led 41-29 at halftime of their open-er against Ladysmith Secondary, but Ladysmith took over in the third quarter, outscoring DCS 20-8 on their way to a 73-68 victory.

Jesse Vanwingerden was the Chargers’ top per-former in the loss, tying Mike Brandsma with a team-high 18 points, matching Adam Kapteyn and Johnny Caron with nine rebounds, and lead-ing the team with six assists. Kapteyn also had 11 points, while Brandsma was one off the lead with eight rebounds.

The Chargers bounced back in their next game, beating the Oak Bay Bays 61-56. Adam Kapteyn edged brother Nick 16 points to 15, while Nick came away with 10 rebounds to Adam’s eight. Brandsma again reached double digits in points with 12.

DCS wrapped up the tournament with a 47-43 win over Pacific Christian, although they lost Brands-ma to a wrist injury in the process. Nick Kapteyn provided more than half the team’s offence, put-ting up 25 points and adding 11 rebounds, while Adam Kapteyn grabbed nine boards and Caron had seven assists.


Duncan Christian School’s sen-ior girls basketball team warmed up for the Welcome Back Tourna-ment coming up this weekend with a win over Queen Margaret’s School at home on Tuesday.

Each of the DCS players got on the scoresheet, including Sam Davison, who notched her first basket as a senior player. Lau-ren King-Nyberg led the team with 19 points and 10 steals, while Juliet King and Danielle Groenendijk each had 16 points and 11 rebounds. Rachelle Van Boven also put up 10 points.

Six different players scored for the QMS Royals, who were

led by Kelsea Sebastian’s six points. McKaylee Catcher, Emma Wadsworth and Nicole Lu added four points each.

The Chargers will play host to Cowichan Secondary, Shawni-gan Lake School and Chemainus Secondary in the Welcome Back Tournament this weekend. DCS and Cow High will open play at 5 p.m. on Friday, followed by Shawnigan facing Chemainus at 6:45 p.m.

On Saturday, Chemainus and DCS will meet at 9 a.m., Cow High will play Shawnigan at 10:45 p.m., Chemainus and Cow High will square off at 1:15 p.m., and DCS and Shawnigan will fin-ish things off at 3 p.m.


Cowichan Secondary School’s junior boys basket-ball team won their first two games in a tourna-ment at Walnut Grove in Langley last weekend, and nearly pulled off the three-game sweep.

The Thunderbirds opened the mini-tournament with a 52-32 win over Semiahmoo. Eston Unrau put up 14 points to earn Player of the Game honours. Naoki Hasegawa also scored 14, while Zach Waddington and Brandon Reymerink each had 11.

Unrau again scored 19 as Cowichan beat Walnut Grove 47-42. Hasegawa added 12 points and was named Player of the Game.

Cowichan played a strong game against St. George’s to close out, trailing by just three points in the second quarter and nine at the beginning of the fourth, but made some mistakes down the stretch as St. George’s won 60-42.

“The group is off to a pretty good start,” head coach Lucky Walia said. “Lots of contributions from different players.”

The T-Birds played their first league game of the season on Tuesday at Gulf Islands Secondary. Their next games will be at the Oak Bay tourna-ment on Dec. 18-20.

Chargers warm up for Welcome Back Tournament

Wrestling club claims seven gold medals at Island Novice meet

Lauren King-Nyberg charges up the middle during Duncan Christian’s win over Queen Margaret’s on Tuesday afternoon. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

Candy Canes jammer Jawbreaker (centre) is stopped by Tinsel Toes blockers Amnaija and Slaughter Bee during last Saturday’s junior bout. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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