Ladysmith Chronicle, January 13, 2015

Lindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

Sarah Kedves of Ladysmith was a flower retriever for some of the top figure skaters in the country when the Canadian Figure Skat-ing Championships were held in Victoria in January 2011.

She’ll be back at the nationals this January in a much different role, as she and her partner Lu-cas Pallard of Nanaimo will be representing B.C. and competing against 11 other teams for the Ca-nadian novice pairs title. They’ll have their own flower retrievers when they compete at the 2015 Canadian Tire National Skat-ing Championships Jan. 18-25 in Kingston, Ont.

Kedves, 14, and Pallard, 18, fly to Kingston, this Friday (Jan. 16) and will have a couple of days to get used to the time differ-ence and get used to a different ice surface before skating their short program Tuesday, Jan. 20 and their long program Wednes-day, Jan. 21. The event will be live streamed online at www.dai-lymotion.com/skatecanada.

Kedves and Pallard qualified for the nationals after representing B.C./Yukon at the Skate Canada Challenge in Montreal in early December and finishing 12th. This is the first time either skater has qualified for the highest level of competition in Canada.

Kedves has been skating since she was three and is a product of the Fuller Lake Skating Club, while Pallard has been skating since he was eight. They became a team while they were both skating in Nanaimo, and Kedves’ former coach suggested they try skating pairs together.

This is the third year Kedves and

Pallard have been skating together, and this season, they’ve been training full-time with the Racquet Club of Victoria.

Kedves is feeling confident as the national championships get closer.“I feel like we were ready two

weeks ago; we’re kind of just now running programs for car-dio,” she said. “I’m confident we can do lots of clean programs. We’re just going to go and run a program.”

Kedves says she gets nervous in the warm up, but when it’s time to actually compete, she’s not re-ally that nervous.

Kedves is prob-ably most looking forward to the team room, where all the skat-ers from BC/Yukon gather, and there is food and games, and they broadcast the competition.

Pallard says he doesn’t feel nervous as they head into the competition, and he is looking forward to travelling to Ontario.“I’ve never been, so that will be

interesting, even if it is in the middle of winter,” he said. “The arena is the same one that hosts the Skate Canada International, so we’ll be skating on the same

ice surface as people like Joan-nie Rochette, Patrick Chan, and Jessica Dube and Bryce Davison.”

This season, Pallard and Kedves have been working hard to increase the value of their lifts, throws and spins, such as having Kedves doing a cartwheel out of a lift instead of coming straight down, or making their spins last longer.“You can do an element and

it’s worth something, and you do variations that increase the value,” explained Pallard. “We’ve been working on those a lot this

year because the elements are the same. It will be interesting to see more in-depth what can be improved on for next year.”

In the past month since compet-ing at Skate Canada Challenge, they’ve added more difficulty to their lifts and changed their spin to try to up the ante on their ele-ments. Pallard thinks one of their strengths is their twist, as it is quite consistent.

Pallard feels that in the three years they’ve been skating to-gether, he and Kedves have grown in many ways.“We get along better, our con-necting steps between elements have improved, and we com-municate more without having to talk — it’s a connection kind of thing. That’s something you can’t really learn; it either comes, or sometimes it never does,” he said.

In Victoria, Pallard and Kedves skate two to three hours a day, six days a week.

The club coach is Deena Bea-com, although she works more singles skaters, and their head coach is Matt Willis, who also does their choreography. Pallard and Kedves spend a lot of time on the ice with assistant coach Luke Laurie.

Kedves feels they’ve improved in their elements while skating in Victoria.“We’ve improved a lot,” she said.

“We get along really well. Our throws are really good, and our lifts are pretty good.”

When it comes to competitions, Kedves says she likes the feeling of giving her all on the ice.“I like getting off the ice and be-

ing like ‘that was the best I could have done,’” she said. “That’s a good feeling.”

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Ladysmith council getting close to reviving Board of VarianceLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

Ladysmith council has begun the pro-cess of reviving the Board of Variance, but more information is needed before council takes the step of adopting a new bylaw for the board.

Council considered a draft updated Board of Variance Bylaw during the Jan. 5 council meeting and ended up referring the matter back to staff to get more answers before proceeding after a number of questions came up.

The Local Government Act requires that any local government that has adopted a Zoning Bylaw must, by by-law, establish a Board of Variance. La-dysmith’s first Board of Variance was established in 1962, and a new bylaw was adopted in 2000 that states a three-member board meets on the third Thursday of each month if required.

According to Sandy Bowden, the Town’s director of corporate services, Ladysmith’s Board of Variance has not met since the 1990s or early 2000s, as no applications have been submitted for consideration by the board.

Since 2000, the legislation pertaining to Boards of Variance has changed, and staff has recommended that council repeal the current Board of Variance bylaw and adopt a new, updated bylaw.

In Ladysmith, the Board of Variance is made up of three individuals appointed by council who have expertise in areas such as urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, building de-sign and construction, professional en-gineering, and law. A property owner applying for a minor variance has a choice whether to apply for a Develop-ment Variance Permit through council or apply to the Board of Variance. A de-cision made by the Board of Variance is final, and an applicant cannot appeal the board’s decision to council. At the council meeting, Coun. Rob

Hutchins raised a number of concerns about the wording of the bylaw.

The bylaw speaks to individuals applying for minor variances, but Hutchins noted that there is no defini-tion for “minor variance.”“I don’t see a definition of minor,” he said. “Who makes that determination?

It’s my understanding from the legisla-tion that individuals can choose to ap-ply to council for a variance or apply to the board of variance, so what defines minor?”

City manager Ruth Malli explained there is no definition for “minor.”“The legislation is provincial,” she said.Bowden told council this is an issue

that Boards of Variance throughout the province struggle with.“There is no definition; it’s very sub-

jective,” she said. “It’s all very individu-al, and it’s up to the board to determine that.”

Mayor Aaron Stone wondered if the Town could create its own definition in its bylaw, but Bowden said it isn’t rec-ommended. “The lawyers certainly don’t recom-mend putting any kind of definition in,” she said. “It’s very, very difficult to nar-row it down, so I’m not really sure how you would define it.”

Hutchins wondered if the Town could provide information such as an exam-ple of a minor variance to help illus-trate the meaning of “minor variance.”“If it is subjective, how, in the best in-terest of the community, can we ensure that the term ‘minor’ is respected?” he asked.

Bowden suggested examples of what a minor variance is and additional in-formation about the meaning of “mi-nor” could be part of the policy or in the terms of reference for the Board of Variance, and Stone wondered if it would be possible to establish guide-lines that would help define some of the terms, like the Town has done for its Zoning Bylaw and Development Permit Areas.

Hutchins also raised an issue with the wording that states that at least 10 days before the date set for a Board of Variance hearing, the secretary of the board must mail or deliver a notice of the hearing to the owners and oc-cupants of the land that is adjacent to the land that is the subject of the ap-plication. He wondered what “adjacent” means, noting that, typically, when a Development Variance Permit appli-cation comes to council, all property owners within 60 metres of the appli-cant’s property are notified.

Bowden told council that her under-standing is that it refers to abutting properties. Council expressed a wish to expand that to include more proper-ties. “If we were to say adjacent in our bylaw would include adjacent proper-ties plus properties within 60 metres, it would give more opportunity to the public to provide input,” said Stone.

Coun. Duck Paterson noted that the government guidelines did say that definition could be altered, and he agreed with Hutchins that the notifica-tion area should be 60 metres, just like it is for Development Variance Permit applications.

Hutchins also questioned the fact that the board may close to the public all or part of a hearing, in accordance with Division 3 of Part 4 of the Community Charter. He had never come across this.

Bowden explained a Board of Vari-ance must follow the same closed meeting rules from the Local Govern-ment Act that apply to all boards and advisory bodies. She has personally never seen a Board of Variance close a meeting.

Hutchins wondered if council could not allow the board to close meetings and wondered why the Town would be permissive.“The legislation allows for it,” said

Bowden. “I don’t think we can prohibit them from holding a closed session if there’s an extenuating circumstance under which it meets the criteria for closed meetings.”

Coun. Carol Henderson wondered why a whole section of the legislation wasn’t included in the draft bylaw, as she felt that if she was a property own-er coming to the board of variance or council with a variance application, it would help guide her more.

Bowden explained the initial draft of the bylaw came from the Town’s law-yers, and they did not include all of the legislation so they could keep it con-cise. Other information that is missing from the bylaw could be included in a set of guidelines or policy document, she noted.

Staff will find answers to council’s concerns and bring the draft bylaw back to council at a future meeting.

RCMP reassures people that the community and the school are safe

Police arrest youth in alleged LSS stabbingincident

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Ladysmith RCMP have made an ar-rest in relation to an alleged stabbing at Ladysmith Second-ary School that took place on Dec. 19.

On Tuesday, Jan. 6, working with Ladysmith Second-ary School staff, Ladysmith RCMP in-vestigators arrested one youth offender for assault with a weapon. The weap-on allegedly used in the stabbing was subsequently seized and placed into evi-dence, according to a press release from the RCMP.“The alleged offend-er was well known to the victim at the time of the offence,” Staff Sgt. Dave Her-man said in the re-lease. “The motives behind this incident are highly unusual and do not place any other member of the student body or staff at risk. Ladysmith RCMP reassure the community that the student body and staff at Ladysmith [Secondary] School are safe.”

The youth offender arrested was inter-viewed by RCMP investigators at the Ladysmith RCMP Detachment before being released to parents and will ap-pear in Youth Court in Duncan on Feb. 26.

Ladysmith RCMP had responded to a complaint of a stab-bing at Ladysmith Secondary School at 11:55 a.m. on Dec. 19, shortly before the high school closed for the Christmas holidays.“At that time, little

details were known as information pro-vided to RCMP in-vestigators by the victim of the alleged stabbing was highly questionable and confounded inves-tigators for some time,” stated Her-man. “There were no known witnesses to this act.”

In a press release following the inci-dent, the police re-ported that the stu-dent who reported the alleged stabbing was in the crowded hallway and headed to the bathroom dur-ing a break between classes when he felt

“a sharp pinch in his back.”

The student’s back started to hurt, and when he asked a teacher to look at it, a wound was found.

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�New group forms to help non-pro� tsStaff WriterTHE CHRONICLE

A new group created to support the Cowichan Valley’s not-for-profit sec-tor will be launching next week.

Networking for Non Prof-its will launch Wednesday, Jan. 21, and it is a merger of three similar groups: Leading Edge (for Execu-tive Directors), Volunteer Management Group, and Cowichan Fundraisers Ex-change.

The group will be open to any organization, not for profit or for profit, who be-

lieves that our community is better served through connecting, communica-tion and collaboration, ac-cording to a press release.“Many of the Valley’s or-ganizations currently work with limited staff and find it can be quite isolating,” Anne-Marie Koeppen of Volunteer Cowichan said in the release. “This new group is designed to share skills and resources, as well as provide support to each other.”

The group will be driven by the suggestions and topics of interest by those who attend.

Plans include regular speakers for professional development opportuni-ties that are often beyond the budget of smaller orga-nizations.

Members will meet about eight times a year for work-shop-style training on a variety of issues identified by the members, as well as networking and sharing resources. A $5 to $10 do-nation will be requested to cover refreshments and a small stipend for speakers.

The group is also plan-ning social evening mixers and a joint volunteer ap-preciation event in April

during National Volunteer Week.

Networking for Non-Profits launches Jan. 21 from 10 a.m. to noon at Sands Reception Room on Trunk Road in Dun-can. After a discussion about the group’s vision and plans, Rick Juliusson of FreeRange Consulting will lead a training work-shop on Donor Cultivation. Doors open at 9:40 a.m. for coffee and networking.

For more information, or to register for the event or join the mailing list, visit www.FreeRangeConsult-ing.ca/Networking.



Labour martyr Jo-seph Mairs will be honoured this week-end in Ladysmith during the 13th an-nual Joseph Mairs Memorial.A trade unionist and

a coal miner, Mairs died in 1914, a month short of his 22nd birthday, after being arrested by govern-ment troops during the Occupation of Ladysmith. “This struggle which coal miners on Van-couver Island waged was for the eight-hour day, health and safety regulations, and union recogni-tion,” the Joseph Mairs Memorial Committee states in a press release.

Mairs rests in the Ladysmith Cemetery beneath a cairn his fellow miners erect-ed in his honour with the inspiring inscrip-tion: “A Martyr to a Noble Cause — The Emancipation of His

Fellow Men.”To honour Mairs,

the Joseph Mairs Me-morial Committee organizes a memo-rial each year. The general theme for the day is “Our Common Condition.”

This year, the 13th annual Joseph Mairs Memorial will take place this Sun-day (Jan. 18) at 1 p.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church

Hall at 1135 Fourth Ave. in Ladysmith. This year’s keynote speaker is Mitchell Anderson, a Vancou-ver-based freelance writer and frequent contributor to the Tyee.“His research fo-cuses on resource pricing and sustain-ability,” according to the press release. “In 2002, the Tyee sent him on assignment to Norway to learn more about their oil fund that currently has more than $900 billion in assets. He wrote a 10-part se-ries comparing pe-troleum policy in Norway and Canada which shed light on the question of why Canada — with our vast natural resourc-es — is not a wealthi-er country.”

During Sunday’s memorial, Anderson will give a talk titled

“Why Can’t the Sec-ond Richest Country in the World Afford Postal Delivery?”After Anderson

speaks, there will be a discussion, and ev-eryone is encouraged to participate.“Through this event,

we hope to provide an opportunity for all of us to reflect on the need for the public ownership of our re-sources,” stated the Joseph Mairs Memo-rial Committee.Again this year,

there will be perfor-mances by local mu-sicians linked to the labour movement, in-cluding Art Farquhar-son and friends, Bev-erley McKeen and friends, and Charlie Fox.“All this will be tech-nically perfect due to the skills of our sound person, Mike Gagnon,” stated the committee.After the indoor

program, everyone in attendance will form a procession behind long-time piper Frank Nichols and walk to the Ladysmith Cem-etery to place flow-ers at the graveside of Joseph Mairs.

13th annual Joseph Mairs Memorial takes place Jan. 18 in Ladysmith

Coal miner and trade unionist Joseph Mairs is honoured each year during the Joseph Mairs Memorial in Ladysmith. This year’s event will be Jan. 18. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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Meat-� lled freezer helps raise $2K for playgroundStaff WriterTHE CHRONICLE

A new fundraiser helped the Ladysmith Kinsmen Club get $2,200 closer to its goal of rebuilding the playground at Transfer Beach Park.

In December, the Ladysmith Kinsmen Club held a raffle draw for a freezer full of meat to raise funds for the new playground. The winning ticket be-longed to Linda Wick-lund of Ladysmith.“This was quite a suc-

cessful project,” Kins-men member Duck Paterson said in a press release. “As it was a different idea, we weren’t sure how it would go, but it turned out to be very well re-ceived. We have been trying to come up with different fundraisers, and this one proved to click.”

Paterson says they raised just over $2,200 for the new play-ground with the raffle.“We’re not as close

as we’d like to be to the $172,000 price tag for the new one,” he said. “But every little bit counts.”

The Kinsmen and the Ladysmith Rotary Club have agreed to work together to ac-complish this project.“With the Rotary on

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be a huge help,” said Paterson. “They have quite a few more mem-bers than we do and an opportunity for differ-ent ideas as well. We plan on doing different events, as well as do-ing stuff together. Not only is it a broader op-portunity to fundraise, but it’s also an oppor-tunity for both clubs to meet and enjoy fellow-ship.”

Paterson says they are looking for all groups in the commu-nity to get together, as Transfer Beach and the playground are a total community asset.“If we can get that

kind of involvement, we can guarantee that we can have the new playground there by this summer,” said Pa-terson.

Paterson says the Ladysmith and District Credit Union has com-mitted $10,000, and McNab’s Corn Maze has donated $1,000 al-ready. The Ladysmith Native Daughters Post #7 have donated funds as well.“We are getting some

individual donations, and anybody who wishes to donate can go to the Ladysmith and District Credit Union and just tell them the funds are for the Transfer Beach Playground,” said Pat-erson.

People who would like to help can also take their returnable bottles and cans to the Junction Bottle Depot, where an account has been set up to take funds for the play-ground.

Paterson says that with all the commit-ments they’ve received, it looks like they have about $105,000 to-wards the playground right now.“With the wear and

tear and age of the existing playground at the beach, we hope that we can pull off as much fundraising as possible to have a new one there by this coming summer,” said Paterson.

The Kinsmen and Ro-tary clubs, along with Oceanview Commu-nity Church, are plan-ning another “Eggs Benefit” fundraiser, which will take place June 14.

Paterson says Ocean-view Pastor Darin Phil-lips approached the Kinsmen and asked about doing a third Eggs Benefit because it is so much fun.

If anybody would like to donate to the playground or would like more information, Paterson invites them to call him at 250-245-2263 or call Joe Fries-enhan from the Rotary Club at 250-245-2646.

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My Christmas reading included a fascinating

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He was an ancient hunter buried just south of B.C. almost 9,000 years ago, in the Early Holocene pe-riod following the last Ice Age. Among the oldest hu-mans found along the West Coast of North America, he sparked an unprecedented battle by the Smithsonian Institution to examine the skeleton and publish the book late last year.

The most controversial evidence came from the skull. It doesn’t match the classic Mongoloid pro-file of modern aboriginal people, key to the theory that the earliest humans reached North America by land bridge from Siberia to Alaska as glaciers receded.

Smithsonian scientists confirmed initial reports that Kennewick Man is a closer match with early Polynesians, and the Ainu people who remain in Ja-

pan today. He lived until about age 40, surviving for years with a stone spear point stuck in his hip.

The authors conclude from chemical analysis that “Kennewick Man could not have been a long-time resident of the area where he was found, but instead lived most of his adult life somewhere along the Northwest and North Pacific coast where marine mammals were readily available.”

This suggests migration by sea, perhaps from a great distance.

The U.S. Army seized the skeleton. The scientists sued and eventually won the right to a brief exami-nation. The court case ex-posed brutal and illegal actions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and federal departments to destroy the site and intimi-date the scientists.

U.S. law demanded all remains from before Eu-ropean settlement be repa-triated for burial by local tribes, without examina-tion.

Umatilla tribe spokes-man Armand Minthorn wrote in 1996: “We view this practice as desecra-tion of the body and a vio-

lation of our most deeply-held religious beliefs.

“From our oral histories, we know that our people have been part of this land since the beginning of time. We do not believe that our people migrated here from another conti-nent, as the scientists do.”

The head of the Society for American Archaeology tried to get the researchers to drop their lawsuit, fear-ing it would interfere with fragile relationships with area tribes.

The U.S. Justice Depart-ment warned the Smith-sonian that lead scientist Douglas Owsley and oth-ers might be in criminal conflict of interest as fed-eral employees suing the government. Even the White House weighed in against them.

Meanwhile the skeleton was mishandled and later stored in substandard conditions at a Seattle mu-seum, where it remains to-day. Parts of both femurs were lost, and scientists were falsely accused of taking them. They had been removed by tribal representatives and se-cretly buried.

Kennewick Man was found as the army was in

tense negotiations with tribes on salmon fishing rights on the Columbia, their demand for removal of dams, and the $100 bil-lion cleanup of the Han-ford nuclear site.

The scientists finally won their case in 2004, with a ruling that the skeleton is so old there isn’t enough evidence to show it is re-lated to the current tribes. The judge found the army repeatedly misled the court, and assessed the government $2.4 million in costs.

The U.S. Army still con-trols the skeleton and de-nies requests for further study. The spear point, for example, could show the location where he was in-jured.

One final irony. Analysis shows Kennewick Man ate mostly salmon in his later years, around 6300 BCE. These are the salmon runs wiped out by dams built by U.S. Army engineers be-fore the signing of the Co-lumbia River Treaty with B.C.

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After more than eight years of trying to persuade North Cowichan council to preserve the 52-acre Echo Heights Forest, a great compromise has been reached.

In June 2014, North Cowichan council voted in fa-vour of preserving 91 per cent of the forest as park. Some years back, council was hoping to develop 50 per cent, so 91-per-cent-park is absolutely marvelous. The birds, bees and trees and all the living things that make up this forest will continue to impress us all with their beauty.

If you would like to visit the forest, there are two entrances: one on Echo Heights, and another at the top of Channel Boulevard in Chemainus. There is a wonderful network of trails. In May, the blue camas lilies blossom. You can see them just a few feet from the street at the Echo Heights entrance.

Thank you to everyone (a huge number of people) who contributed to saving this forest.

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John Blain has been appointed as acting superintendent/CEO of the Nanaimo-Lady-smith School District while the school board looks to permanently fill the vacant superin-tendent position.

The superintendent position became va-cant after it was an-nounced Jan. 5 that David Hutchinson re-signed and is “moving on to pursue other op-portunities.”

Blain, who was the deputy superintendent for the district, was ap-pointed acting superin-tendent/CEO at a Jan. 7 board meeting. Blain, who was a principal at Ladysmith Secondary School and at Dover Bay Secondary School before taking a senior leadership role in the district, has 32 years of experience as an edu-cator in the B.C. public school system, includ-ing 18 years as an ad-ministrative officer.

In announcing Hutchinson’s resig-nation, school board chairman Steve Rae said last week that the search for a new superintendent would begin immediately.

Rae said the board will discuss how it will go about conducting the search, and the goal is to select the right candidate. He is hoping Blain will apply for the position perma-nently.“We’re going to make

sure we get the right person, and we feel comfortable with John as the acting [superin-tendent] for however long it takes to find the right person for the job, and it may very well be John,” said Rae. “I hope he puts his hat in

the ring.”Rae said the board

was thankful for Hutchinson’s efforts the past three years and wished him the best. He admitted to being surprised by the announcement and said he talked at length to Hutchinson after he and new school board trustees were voted in after November’s mu-nicipal election.

Hutchinson and the previous board re-ceived criticism for the controversial 10-year facilities plan, which saw a number of school closures.“Whether or not he

was going to stay or go really hadn’t even entered my mind to be honest with you,” said Rae. “We’re just trying to get our feet wet. I talked to Dave right after the elec-tion. We had a long talk about where we saw ourselves going in the future and it was very positive.”

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In our nation’s Parliament, the Speaker of the House of Commons calls the next speaker from the floor: “The Hon-ourable Member for Nanaimo-Cowichan.”

New Democrat Jean Crowder stands at her seat. She is small in stature, but fierce in her appeal to the majority

Conservative government. As the NDP critic for Aboriginal affairs, she is summarizing findings of a report on violence against First Nations women. Her final statement is un-

relenting: “It is Canada’s shame that indigenous women and girls have never been made a prior-

ity, by any government.”Crowder was two years into her first term

as municipal councillor for North Cowichan when she was asked to run federally for the NDP. She was elected to Parliament in 2004, along with fellow freshman Jack Layton, and has remained in office since.

Crowder redefines the image of the Cana-dian politician.

She is 5’2 inches tall. Slight. Female.Of the 308 members of the House

of Commons, this 41st parliament of Canada has 76 female MPs. Crowder

is unapologetic in advocating for more women in politics. Her stories about being disregarded as an MP because of her sex are

both funny and telling about the expectations the public still has — in 2014 — of what our political leaders look like.

Crowder’s 11-year political career comes to an end this year when we go to the polls in our newly defined Langford-Malahat-Cowichan riding. Before she leaves office, I wanted to capture some of her lessons learned and

memories during her successful career. This is Part 1 of a two-part feature. Please watch for the second half in next week’s

paper.*****

MM: Were you involved in community work before you were elected to municipal council?

JC: I’d been a community activist. I’d been at protests and was involved with various groups. I’d been always small-p political but never was interested in running for office.

MM: Because?JC: I didn’t see myself as a politician. I didn’t see it as some-

thing I had the skill set for or the aptitude because I saw it, at that time, as being combative, aggressive, nasty, and I just didn’t see that was a sandbox I would play in. What happened was North Cowichan council had a rezoning application to put in a gas-fired generation plant. They were going to zone a piece of property Heavy Industrial—they had to change the zoning to allow that to happen. That was 2002. The council was all male. They had hearings at the community centre. I’m making these numbers up but it just shows you the imbalance. Five-hundred ninety-nine spoke against the application and one spoke in favour. But the council sat on the stage and looked completely disinterested. Maybe they weren’t but they looked it.

MM: Your impression.JC: That was how it felt from sitting in the audience. And so a number of people said

we need women to run for council. We need women’s voices at the table. And because I’d been involved in various community things people would say, “You should run!” I laughed. Except that what happened was a group of three women all agreed that we would run for North Cowichan council together so we had a support network. The two other women dropped out so I was left standing. Barb Lines did end up getting elected at the time, and so did Ruth Hartmann.

MM: How was your first campaign?JC: I was pretty naive. I didn’t know what I didn’t know. I had a team that helped me.

We knocked on doors, and went to all-candidates meetings, and went to the farmers’ market, and I did all the things you should do. I had no expectations of winning and people thought of me as a long shot because I hadn’t been involved in council at all. Then I won.

MM: Were you comfortable at council?JC: A ridiculous thing to say, they weren’t ready for women on council. We had no

place to put our handbags. It was the mundane stuff. It was like, “Oh wait, we have women on council, what do we do with them?”

MM: Now you need two sexes going to the bathroom.JC: So it was a different experience for staff and council members to all of sudden

have all these women — for the first time.MM: What year was that?JC: 2002!MM: That doesn’t seem that long ago.JC: They had had women elected previously, but not many, and never half the council.MM: How did you end up running federally?JC: I was frustrated at council with the fact that so many decisions were made some-

where else that impacted directly in our community. And then people approached me to see if I was interested in running provincially and federally, but I said “no” provincially.

MM: The first campaign you were naive. On this campaign?JC: I’d had the basic bones of the campaign experience with municipal. A federal

campaign ramps it up in scope and magnitude and issues, of course. And you have a way bigger team and you need to spend more money. It’s more sophisticated, you know with media and those kinds of things. But I had an experienced campaign team because people here had worked on successful provincial campaigns for a number of years and so they were able to translate that into the federal campaign. Having that support from people is huge. There’s no way you can do this on your own — nor should you think you could. That part of it was easier in some ways because there was such a team. It was harder in some ways because the issues are so big.

MM: And could you speak to them?JC: Well, I’m a policy wonk. And I had somebody doing research for me. That was one

of the team members’ tasks. We would be paying attention to issues in the media and they would do research to find out what other people said, and you know, Google is a wonderful tool. And so I felt fairly comfortable with talking about a variety of things because of that research capacity within our team.

MM: Were you an NDP supporter from the beginning?JC: I’ve been an NDP member off and on since university.MM: How do you devote yourself wholly to one party platform? What if you think a

decision the Conservative party made was a good one?JC: I think you support the decision parties make when you can align yourself with

them. Because of how our electoral system works, it’s very difficult to not align yourself with a party.

MM: Don’t you think that’s a drawback?JC: I think it’s a drawback when you have a first-past-the-post system. I don’t think it’s

a drawback when you have proportional representation because when you have propor-tional representation you’re going to find many more avenues for collaboration across party lines. We would have to fundamentally change our electoral system in order to not have parties. I think it’s far easier to move into proportional representation, which then allows for that cross-fertilization to happen. But right now with first-past-the-post, it’s everyone for themselves. It’s a completely dysfunctional system.

MM: That dysfunction I think is one of the reasons people don’t engage in it. I don’t think people trust that you’re going to meet constituents’ needs because you’ll meet the party’s needs first.

JC: Well that’s not true, actually. I have a broad cross-section of the community that supports me. Obviously I do; party members are only a tiny portion of the population so I had 20,000 people vote for me and most aren’t party members. What people perceive with me, and will perceive for many people, although I’m running as an NDP candidate, once you run for Parliament, you represent the whole riding.

MM: You don’t represent the NDP members only, but I think you answer to the NDP leader before you answer to your constituents.

JC: I’ve voted against our party on matters, or I’ve abstained and so have other colleagues.

MM: Without repercussion?JC: I haven’t had repercussion. Sometimes there are reper-

cussions for other members, but it depends what the matter is. We are generally not whipped. We are whipped on matters of confidence — because that’s going to bring the government down — we’re whipped on matters of human rights. So on the same-sex marriage bill when it was being debated, we were all going to vote for it. One member didn’t vote for it and there were sanctions for it. She opted to sit as an independent.

MM: Interesting.JC: But that was her choice. She wasn’t forced out of the

party. The sanction was she wasn’t going to get question in Question Period for a period of time and she wasn’t going to get statements and then should could come back into the fold.

MM: And do all of you think that’s fair?JC: Yep, that’s fair. You get to tell the leader what’s in your head. Sometimes you

change the leader’s mind on issues. I think it’s fair. Generally speaking, we’re not whipped on votes. Generally speaking, I support where we go on pieces of legislation because we’re usually bringing the New Democratic point of view to it which I sup-port — you know social justice, environment — I don’t generally disagree with where we’ve gone on a particular issue. Where I have disagreed, I’ve either abstained because I haven’t felt strongly enough to vote against it, or I’ve voted against it. And I haven’t had repercussions. People are clear when I run what my stance is on women’s right to choose, on the gun registry, on same-sex marriage, which are in line with the party. I think what’s important is you’re clear with people about where you come from with those issues, and they can decide whether or not to vote for you.

MM: Question period. It seems like a show.JC: It is. I’ve only been there since cameras were intro-

duced but apparently it completely changed. The govern-ment likes to remind us that it’s question period not answer period. So you rarely get answers to anything.

MM: What a waste of time.JC: It is. I think the one small value in question period

is you get to ask questions that need to be asked about particular issues. You may not get the answers, but at least it’s on people’s radar that you need to pay attention to this issue. Apparently, there are other parliaments in the world where the speaker makes the government answer. That would be a refreshing change.

MM: Wouldn’t it.JC: It’s pretty frustrating as a person asking a legitimate

question and getting nothing for an answer. Sometimes when you hear the response you think were you actually in the same room where the question was posed?

Lindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

Conversations about terminal illness and caring for people who are dying aren’t easy or comfortable. But they are necessary, and a story-theatre presentation coming to Ladysmith later this month hopes to make it a little bit easier to start having those con-versations.

Margaret Murphy and Wendy Potter, who are both volunteers with the Nanaimo Commu-nity Hospice Society, have created a 60-min-ute story-theatre cel-ebration of the life of the woman who is con-sidered the founder of modern hospice, Dame Cicely Saunders.

Saunders started a worldwide movement to provide compas-sionate care for the dying. A nurse, social worker and doctor, she established new meth-ods of pain control and initiated an innovative, holistic approach to caregiving for termi-nally ill patients and their families.

Murphy and Potter celebrate her life in CICELY! The Life and

Work of Dame Cicely Saunders, which they will present Saturday, Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. at Ladysmith Little The-atre at 4985 Christie Rd.

Tickets are $10 at the door, and tea and goodies will be served. There will be a discus-sion with the audience after the presentation.

In the presentation, Murphy, an accom-plished storyteller who has written and per-formed several pieces about the lives of im-portant women, plays Dame Cicely, speaking at age 80 about her life and work, while Pot-ter, who has worked on dozens of lighting de-signs for the Ladysmith Little Theatre and is a volunteer board mem-ber, plays Narrator, giving background and contextual information.

Saunders opened the first hospice, St. Chris-topher’s, in 1967. Ac-cording to Saunders’ obituary in The Guard-ian, St. Christopher’s was seen as the first hospice to bring tight-er teaching and clini-cal research, pain and symptom control, and compassionate care.

According to The Guardian, Saunders

died July 14, 2005, at St Christopher’s, which at that time had trained more than 50,000 stu-dents, spreading pal-liative care programs to more than 120 coun-tries. She was 87.“Margaret and I are

wanting to do this be-cause we want people to be aware of plan-ning for the end of their lives,” said Pot-ter. “This is tough stuff. People shy away from these conversations, and what we have dis-covered through the

presentations we’ve done so far is that this makes it a little easier for people to start hav-ing those difficult con-versations — and that’s exactly what we hoped for.”

This presentation will be Potter and Murphy’s eighth, and Potter says they’ve also found that people in the hospice community are learn-ing new information about Saunders.“Our research is pretty

deep,” said Potter. “We totally fell in love with

her, and the more we do this, the more we love her. She was just a remarkable woman.”

Potter says Saunders was a privileged upper-class English woman, but she was not like other upper-class Eng-lish women.“She was a very in-

dividual thinker,” she said. “She was very much her own wom-an, and once she con-ceived of a particular thing she wanted to do, she went ahead and did it.”


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Find fun, � tness and friendship with Ladysmith Dragon Boat ClubLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

The Ladysmith Dragon Boat Club’s motto is fun, fitness and friendship.

And Tracey Scanlan and Di-ane Burt, who paddle with the Tuesday and Thursday eve-ning team, say dragon boating offers all that and more.

The Ladysmith Dragon Boat Club has a few openings for new paddlers as it enters its sixth season, and Scanlan and Burt think there are many reasons to give the sport a try.

The Ladysmith Dragon Boat Club was founded in 2010, and Scanlan and Burt both started that year.

Scanlan joined the club in July 2010. She and her hus-band had moved here from the Mainland, and she was feeling unhappy and lonely.“I didn’t know anybody

here, and I didn’t like it here because I didn’t know any-body,” she said. “I was ready to leave.”

Scanlan’s husband saw an ad for the Ladysmith Dragon Boat Club and encouraged her to join. She joined, and she’s so glad she did.“I’ve gotten a lot of close

friendships from it,” she said. “It’s great. There are a lot of socials. I know a lot of us re-ally like the social aspect, but we get a good workout too.”

Burt joined the club in April 2010.“I think there are different

reasons for why people go, but you can gain a multitude of things,” she said.

Susan Erickson and Denise Pearson came up with the idea of starting a dragon boat club in Ladysmith, and Burt recalls that Erickson phoned her and asked if she was in-terested. In March 2010, they went up to Nanoose to try out dragon boating and were placed in boats with experi-enced paddlers.“I wasn’t sure how seawor-

thy I would be,” said Burt. “It was one nasty day in Na-noose. I got out of the boat and said to Susan, ‘I got out of the boat without trouble, so I guess I’m in.’ I was at that stage in my life where I need-ed to do something for myself, and I decided that was a good place to do it.”

Burt says before she started

paddling, she hadn’t thought of dragon boating one way or the other. She associated it with breast cancer, as many teams are breast cancer sur-vivor teams. The Ladysmith Dragon Boat Club is not a breast cancer club, although there are survivors on the teams, and the club does make a donation to breast cancer research each year.

Both Scanlan and Burt say they enjoy dragon boating be-cause it’s social, it’s a work-out that is enjoyable, and it feels good to be out in the fresh air.“Sometimes, I’ll come home

from work and not want to go, but I’ll go and be so glad I did,” said Scanlan, who is a direc-tor/treasurer for the club this year.

They agree the chance to ex-plore the Ladysmith Harbour is also a real positive.“The Ladysmith Harbour is

the most beautiful harbour,” said Burt. “It’s so amazing. Our coach will say ‘we have a nature moment’ and lose everyone’s attention. We see some amazing boats out there, and the wildlife [is amazing]. The seals follow us. It’s a lot of fun.”

Burt says the women who

belong to the club have many different characteristics. Members range in age from their early 30s to their 80s.“I’m really shy when I don’t

know anybody,” said Scanlan. “These ladies, they come from all walks of life, and it’s so friendly. We try to help each other out.”

Scanlan and Burt both feel the club is very welcoming to new paddlers.“It’s wonderful,” said Burt.

“When you first start, you can get intimidated, but we’re al-ways still learning better tech-niques. It’s not something you have to get right away — you just have to work with it.”“Everyone’s endurance level

is different,” added Scanlan. “The coach we have, she slow-ly builds your endurance up each practice. You don’t feel uncomfortable. All the ladies are really encouraging.”

Burt says they have a won-derful coach, who focuses on teaching paddlers proper techniques so they won’t hurt themselves.“You don’t have to be in top-

notch shape,” she said. “You get there.”

The Ladysmith Dragon Boat Club offers the chance to join a more recreational team that

does not enter any races or a team that enters one or two Vancouver Island races a year.

Although there are two teams, Scanlan and Burt say everyone feels like a member of one big club, as the teams do all their socials and events together.“We really try to be that club

atmosphere, all of us, even though we have two separate teams,” said Scanlan. “There is no ‘us’ and ‘them;’ it’s ‘we.’”

The Ladysmith Dragon Boat Club feels it’s important to give back to the community.

The club docks its boat at the Ladysmith Maritime Soci-ety (LMS) Community Marina and tries to give back to the society as well. Dragon boat-ers volunteer at LMS events such as Kids’ Pirate Day and do what they can to help out.“We have had wonderful sup-

port through LMS,” said Burt. “LMS is a non-profit society, and so are we. You have to give back to your community, and we have lots of fun.”

Registration for the Ladysmith Dragon Boat Club takes place Wednesday, Jan. 28 at the Ladysmith Mari-time Society Welcome Centre. There will be a social at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting and registration starts at 7 p.m.

It costs $125 to join the Mon-day evening and Thursday morning team, which does not enter any races. If you are interested in racing, the Tuesday evening and Thurs-day evening team will enter one or two races on Vancou-ver Island during the season, and it costs $150 to join that team. Fees include profes-sional coaching, steering clin-ics, boat insurance, moorage and storage.

All paddlers need is what-ever clothing they like to exercise in, and they are en-couraged to get their own personal flotation device so that it fits properly, but the club does have five extras. As well, the club has used pad-dles that new paddlers can use. Burt says bringing a pair of gloves is nice for comfort, as well. Paddlers are asked to bring water bottles and to not wear perfumes, as some members have allergies.

The dragon boat season goes from April to September, weather permitting.

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The Ladysmith Dragon Boat Club is recruiting new paddlers for its sixth season and will be holding a registration and social Jan. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the LMS Welcome Centre. FILE PHOTO

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GARDENING

Stearn’s GardensExperienced

Fruit Tree Pruning Services250-416-1664

HAULING AND SALVAGE

COWICHAN Hauling & Moving

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MOVING & DELIVERIES SMALL DEMOLITION JOBS

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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. Call 1-800-573-2928.

HOUSEHOLD SERVICES

* Gutters * Windows* Siding * Moss Removal

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PLUMBING

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

ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

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PETS

PETS

GORGEOUS CKC black lab puppies, immunized, ready now. $1200. (250)338-1562.

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

APPLIANCES

15 CU.FT. upright deep freeze, $125. 8 cu ft deep freeze, $150. Almond 15 cu ft fridge, $125. White apt. size fridge, $200. White 30” range, $150. 30” almond range, $125. White 30” propane stove, $150. Black 30” range, $200. Kenmore Washer dryer sets, $300-$350. Washers, $150-$250. Dryers, $100-$150. Apt size staking washer/dryer, $250. Built-in dishwashers, $100-$150. White portable dishwasher, $125. Black Ken-more built-in dishwasher, $125. 6 month warranty on all appliances. Please call Greg at (250)246-9859.

FURNITURE

MOVING SALE For sale all furniture and contents. Every-thing must go Thurs. Jan. 15 to Sun. Jan. 18, 10am to 6pm 2949 Dolphin Drive, Nanoose

GARAGE SALES

NANAIMO ESTATE SALE #12-1000 Chase River Rd Jan 15 & 16 (8-5). Massive sale, scooter, TV, furniture, elect bed, garden furn. & orna-ments, art work & carpets. Too much to list go to website www.estateliquidators.ca

NANAIMO SOD Buster Land-scaping Ltd. Massive liquida-tion sale. Jan 21, 22 & 23 (8-5). 717 Shorthorn Cresc. Trucks, trailers, lawn mowers, & much more. To view items to go www.estateliquidators.ca

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

5000 WATT 10 HP Generator, 110V-220V, good condition. $250. 1-306-261-9639 (Sas-katchewan phone number) Can be viewed at D-3 Os-borne Bay Resort, Crofton.

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

SNOW TIRES: 215/70-R16 as-new mounted on GM alloy wheels to fi t Astro or Safari van. $400. ph:778-356-3565

STEEL BUILDINGS / Metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100. Sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206;www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

REAL ESTATE

APPRAISALS/INSPECTIONS

FOR SALE BY OWNER

FOR SALE BY OWNERwith option for rent to own.

Million dollar ocean city viewcall for information

250-753-0160

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

2 bedroom apt available, lo-cated at 1365 Alberni Hwy, Parksville. $650 per month. 250-954-9547

Ladysmith: 1200 sqft 2 bdrm downtown, 5 appls, 11’ ceil-ings, total reno. Adult unit, NP, 250-245-2283.

Meicor PropertiesChemainus: Lockwood Villa. Well kept bldg, 1 bdrm $650 incl heat & hot water, available now. N/S, 1 small pet wel-come. 250-709-2765.

www.meicorproperties.com

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

Meicor PropertiesLadysmith: 2 bdrm 4th fl r $860/mo. Includes heat & hot water, small pets OK. 250-924-6966.

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COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

COMMERCIAL SPACE avail. at Timberlands Mobile Home Park, 3581 Hallberg Rd. Suitable for restaurant or small grocery. Call 250-245-3647.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

UPDATED oceanview 2 bed-room lower duplex, hydro extra, non-smoker, references req’d $900/mo. 250-739-0912.

MOBILE HOMES & PADS

TIMBERLAND MOBILE Home Park; 2 mobile home lots for rent at $450/mo; 1 on Family side and 1 Seniors. Call (250)245-3647.

HOMES FOR RENT

4-BDRM HOUSE in Lady-smith. Close to all schools. Oil heat, W/D Hook-up. Oil & hy-dro not incld. Avail. Feb. 1st. $1050./mo. (250)245-4869.

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WANTED Quality Rentals to add

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JOHN BOOTH250-245-2252Royal LePage

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SUITES, LOWER

LADYSMITH: 1 bdrm, private patio/entr, shared laundry 4 appls, N/S, N/P, $750 incl. utils & internet. Avail Feb 1st 250-245-5007.

Ladysmith: Freshly painted 2 bedroom in a convenient loca-tion now available. Hydro and parking included. N/S, N/P. 250-245-4638.

SUITES, UPPER

BACHELOR suite available, hydro, basic cable and internet included $500 per month. 250-954-9547

TRANSPORTATION

VTRUCKS & ANS

2000 GMC Savana Van. 105,585 km, Auto V8, AC, Suitable: tour/taxi co., church grp, sports team, seniors home, “trades” van, Reduced to $4750. 250-246-4684, view at 3298 Cook St, Chemainus.

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Ladysmith Chronicle, January 13, 2015