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Tough decisions remain for Qualicum Beach town council as it tries to decide how to spend $1.8 million for capital projects in 2013.

Staff put forward its priorities and a couple of residents gave their input at council’s regular meeting Monday night. It’s part of a financial-plan-ap-proval process that has included some heated debate at a recent commit-tee of the whole, and some pointed comments from a couple of residents Monday night.

The process may end this fall with the adoption of the financial plan and 2013 budget. Or perhaps not until until Spring 2013. It may mean a new fire hall for Qualicum Beach, extensive Memorial Avenue improvements, a new boat ramp and more. Or none of the above.

Clearly it’s a moving target, and resident Deborah McKinley urged council to take aim outside the box by cancelling the tax-exempt status 23 separate organizations in town, like churches, museums, golf clubs, service clubs, TOSH and others.

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The Regional District of Nanaimo has no plans to redesign their sewage diffuser in French Creek to allow fishing nets to slide over it, despite a tab of over $600,000 to fix the current unit, which was damaged after becoming tangled in a fisherman’s gear.

The outfall is a 599mm high-density polyethylene pipe which stretches approximately two kilometres offshore from the French Creek Pollution Control Centre. At the end of the pipe is a 78-metre long steel diffuser. This diffuser was damaged some time prior to a video inspection done in 2007.

Fishing gear damaged diffuser off French Creek

One resident suggests eliminating tax-exemptstatus for community organizations will help

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The 88-year-old Parksville man who was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street last week has died of his injuries.

Oceanside RCMP Corporal Jesse Foreman said the man died while in the intensive care unit at Victoria General Hospital.

The accident took place last Wednesday evening when a 63-year-old driver of a pickup truck was attempting to turn left from Highway 19A onto Bagshaw Street in Parksville.

The victim was in the crosswalk at the time of the crash.Although Foreman had noted earlier that the sun, which was low in

the sky at the time, was a significant factor and neither alcohol nor speed are believed to have been a factor, he said the outcome of the Oceanside RCMP investigation is still pending. Out of respect for the family, no names will be released.

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From Left to right: Cst. Trevor Shields, Staff Sgt Brian Hunter, Duty Commissioner Craig Callens, Cst. Blake Manchur, Sgt. Darrell Robertson and Cst. Jason Racz.


When the names of Constable Blake Manchur and Corporal Paul Voisine were called to receive two coveted awards at a special ceremony in the Nanai-mo Legion Wednesday, it was Manchur and mem-bers of Voisine’s family who accepted the honours.

The two RCMP officers from the Oceanside de-tachment were named as recipients of the Com-manding Officer’s Commendation and St. John’s Lifesaving Award.

Corporal Voisine was not able to accept his medal as he died in the summer of 2011 in a tragic scuba diving incident in Nanaimo. In a moving moment, his wife, daughter and grandchildren accepted on his behalf.

The award came as a result of the two officers’ ac-tions on Jan. 20, 2010, when they attended a distur-bance call and found a local man in full cardiac and respiratory arrest.

The RCMP officers quickly began CPR and con-tinued for several minutes until members from BC Ambulance could attend and take over.

The officers were credited with saving the young man’s life.

The two weren’t the only local RCMP officers hon-oured at the event.

Oceanside RCMP Staff Sergeant Brian Hunter, Cst. Jason Racz, Cst. Trevor Shields and Cst. Lorant Hegedus received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

The Queen’s Jubilee marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the Throne as Queen of Canada.

To celebrate Her Majesty’s 60 years of service to Canadians, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal was created as a visible and tangible way to rec-ognize outstanding Canadians from all walks of life. As well, Sgt. Darrell Robertson received a long service medal to celebrate his more than 30 years of service and good conduct within the ranks of the RCMP.

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All was quiet Wednesday at the site of the College Heights development.


The developers of the College Heights site in Qualicum Beach have a new develop-ment permit that allows them to increase build-ing heights while stay-ing within the commu-nity’s restrictions.

The owners of the heritage site, Ainsley Foster and PR Pome-roy Restoration and Construction can now avoid costly excava-tion procedures for the three luxury condo buildings they plan to construct to add to the heritage building cur-rently on site.

On Monday night, town council passed an

itage building has quite a colourful history. Ac-cording to the project website (qualicumcol-legeheights.ca) Robert Ivan Knight built the Qualicum College Boys School in 1935.

“The schoolmaster soon endeared him-self to the community of Qualicum Beach and became not only a pillar, but an in-fluence,” reads the website. “The formal Tudor walls of the col-

lege and the eloquent beauty of an English garden were soon re-flected in the quaint redesign of the town of Qualicum Beach.”

Knight closed the school in 1970. The building became the Qualicum College Inn and later the Quali-cum Heritage Inn and was home to accom-modations and a pop-ular pub. Foster and Pomeroy bought the site in 2006.

amendment to the orig-inal development per-mit, with only Mayor Teunis Westbroek op-posed. The mayor said he has “never been in favour of this project.”

The owners plan a total 40 units in the four buildings, rang-ing in size from 1,100-1,900 square feet and in price from $449,000-$949,000.

A town source has confirmed neighbour-ing residents have initiated legal action against the project, but that same source did not want to comment on the status of that ac-tion or how it might af-fect the progress of the development.

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McKinley suggested collecting tax-es from these organizations for the next three years would allow the city to collect $815,000 more in taxes.

“That’s approximately one-quarter (the cost) of the new fire hall,” she said, adding that many of these “competent entities” have “enviable financial statements.”

McKinley cited safety concerns, es-pecially as they relate to the earth-quake-readiness of the existing facility,

as her main motivation to get this fire hall project happening right away.

“When the big one happens, I would like to think the fire department will be fully functional and not immobilized by a building that comes crashing down,” she said.

Another resident, former Mayor Art Skipsey, told council he sees “no signs of restraint” in the way the town currently spends tax dollars.

“Every weed picker has his own truck,” said Skipsey.

Town council took it all in without comment.

The town’s financial administrator, John Marsh, presented staff’s capital-purchase priorities for 2013, which totalled about $800,000 and included culvert relining on Yambury Road, other sewage/drainage work and rebuilding the town’s boat ramp, which Marsh said is “beyond repair.”

Coun. Bill Luchtmeijer said he didn’t believe the timing was right to approve any work on the boat ramp.

“That needs to be put on the back burn-er until we decide what we’re doing with the waterfront master plan,: he said.

Council gave the bylaw related to the financial plan second reading, and it’s ex-pected the plan and further discussion about priorities and the fire hall will be part of council’s next regular meeting Oct. 22.

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MINOR INJURIES: One woman suffered minor injuries on Tuesday when two vehicles collided just after 3 p.m. at the access to Highway 19 from Highway 4 in Qualicum Beach. Highway traf-fic was briefly interrupted as crews worked to clean up the aftermath.

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UFO sightingat Nanoose BayNEIL [email protected]

Vancouver Island continues to be a hot spot for sightings of unidentified flying objects, says a Houston, B.C.-based researcher.

“There were a lot of sighting reports from Vancouver Island,” said Brian Vike, who runs the UFO research website The Vike Factor. “I don’t think it would take a lot more reports to have that area in the top 10 at year’s end.”

Last year, he said, there were 1,000 reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in all of Canada, but this year he has posted 799 himself — and he has more than 200 more reports sitting in his mail in-box after being away for a month.

“That is phenomenal. The most I’ve ever got was 400 for a whole year,” he said. “This is a huge, huge spike.”

One of the most recent sightings, he said, came from Nanoose Bay.The report described the passing of a strange, brightly lit object near the

Schooner Cove Marina.“I was standing out on my upper deck in the dark to cool off at about 9:45

p.m. on Aug. 18, when an extremely large, low-flying object appeared just over the tree line from the west,” the report said. “It moved eastward at a very slow rate of speed. It was square in shape flying on a diagonal with brilliant bright white, red, green and blue lights underneath. It had white strobing lights running from the middle to the back end which clearly outlined it’s square shape — as opposed to an airplane with wings.”

The object moved in complete silence until it disappeared from view behind the trees to the east.

“I quickly ran down the road to where there is an unobstructed view eastward across the open ocean towards Vancouver where I expected to still see it flying, but it was nowhere in sight and had disappeared.”

As a policy, Vike does not release the names of the people who report to him. The sighting, Vike said, was an odd one.

“The weird thing is the shape,” he said. “It is pretty strange. The lights sound like navigation lights, but he couldn’t see any wings on that thing and I don’t know of too many square airplanes. It’s a really weird kind of beast.”

Another strange sighting was reported the following morning over south Nanaimo. “I got a call from my boyfriend at 9:45 a.m. to say he had just seen a UFO by the Country Club,” the report said. “It was as bright as a street light. So I went outside of my house and looked up and saw one light that was much farther away than what he saw, six zagging back and forth towards the ocean.”

The light faded and disappeared, only to be followed by another that looked exactly the same, zig-zagging towards Port Place Mall, before disappearing.

Skywatchers got an eyeful on Aug. 12 as well, when a Courtenay resident reported seeing something odd in the night sky. “I noticed the light on Monday … around 10 p.m. It was moving slowly, in an eastern trajectory. It was much brighter and larger than any other star in the sky. I only noticed when I noticed my neighbours outside, pointing up at it. The object went straight over my house and towards the local airforce base.”

Strange, brightly lit object near Schooner Cove

PARKSVILLE DEVELOPMENT

Small-lot subdivison nears approvalPlan is for 25 single family lots at Despard and CorfieldAUREN [email protected]

A small lot subdivision on the corner of Despard Avenue and Corefield Street in Parksville is one step from final approval.

Council unanimously passed third reading for official com-munity plan and zoning amend-ments to create the new “small lot residential” zone to allow 25 single family residential lots of 330-420 sq.m. (3,550-4,520 sq.ft.).

People were generally sup-portive of the proposal at a Sept. 17 public hearing, agreeing with

the developer’s suggestion that it would help the city’s goal of densification and provide more affordable properties to help at-tract and keep younger families.

Like other proposals at the same meeting, the biggest con-cern was about increased traffic, with several neighbours saying that Despard is already a busy, dangerous road where people speed and don’t stop at the stop signs.

Coun. Bill Neufeld said he was uncomfortable with the

proponents’ suggestion that the houses could be built incremen-tally, including renovations to increase their size later.

The lots are under the 560 square-metre minimum for a sec-ondary suite, but they have the same 7.5 m height limit as all res-idential lots which would allow a second storey.

Director of community plan-ning Blaine Russell explained that any expansions would still have to be within the setbacks and requirements of the zoning.


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Confusion created by motion about scheduling‘I don’t know what we’re reviewing’ — District 69 Superintendent Jim AnsellLISSA [email protected]

School District 69 senior staff may not have understood a mo-tion put forward by the board recently, but the vote passed all the same.

Staff said they didn’t understand a motion to review schedul-ing practices in local schools, it passed at the last meeting.

“I don’t know what we’re reviewing,” said

superintendent Jim Ansell when a motion to review scheduling practices at schools was presented. “We had some kids that didn’t get courses this year, we have kids that don’t get

courses every year.”Trustee Julie Austin

brought forward the motion at the last Dis-trict 69 Board of Educa-tion meeting asking the board to review and as-sess present scheduling practices. She said the decision to bring it for-ward came from an in-formal meeting where she and others learned there were some “ups and downs” in the sec-ondary schools with students not getting de-sired courses and being put on wait lists.

Trustee Eve Flynn asked staff how they saw this unfolding in less than three months time. Ansell said he wasn’t sure what was intended by the mo-tion and he wasn’t sure it gave staff any direc-tion. After comments from trustee Austin and trustee Ross Milligan, Ansell said the motion was “getting clearer” and he wasn’t opposed to doing the work but needed more clarifica-tion.

Board Chair Lynette Kershaw said she sup-ported the motion, and recognized the time commitment neces-sary.

“I think the num-ber one thing trustees are here to do is to put

student achievements first and foremost, and if there are improve-ments, no matter if it’s one child or 10 chil-dren, if there’s improve-ments we can do to make sure children are getting the optimum classes they selected, then it behooves us to look into that.”

Director of instruc-tion Gillian Wilson agreed that she didn’t understand what was being asked, whether it had to do with timing or scheduling.

Trustee Kershaw said an informal meet-ing during the first few days back at school brought to light that some students didn’t have complete time tables and some had a repeat course put on their schedules by the computer, and then couldn’t get their de-sired courses.

Trustee Barry Kur-land said he wasn’t supporting the motion because although the motion was well in-tended it didn’t ask for the right stuff. He said the counsellors and ad-ministration staff real-ize the issues because they deal with it every year and questioned what trustees would do with the review.

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WAY TO ROE: Federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Keith Ashfield tried his hand at collecting salmon eggs during a tour of the Big Qualicum Hatchery on Oct. 1 as part of a two-day tour of the province.

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The video showed that a commercial fishing net was wrapped around the end of the diffuser and the connection between the diffuser and outfall flange had been damaged. In addition, it appeared that some of the diffuser ports appeared to be plugged.

The RDN was ordered by the Ministry of Envi-ronment to repair the damage in 2010. A study of exactly what was needed to comply with the order was undertaken in 2011 and the job was tendered over July and August of this year.

Two bids were received, one from Can-Dive Construction Ltd. for $645,900 and another from Vancouver Pile Driving Ltd. for $673,500.

In a report tabled at Tuesday night’s RDN board meeting, wastewater services manager Sean De Pol noted the Can-Dive bid included a list of vari-ations to the proposal which allowed a reduction of $105,600 in the price. Can-Dive got the contract.

General manager Paul Thorkelson replied that the incident was highly unusual and there were no plans to modify the design.

“This is rather unusual,” he said. “You generally don’t see this type of damage at the end of outfalls.”

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An application has been submitted to the City of Parksville in order to amend the Future Land Use Map designation of the Official Community Plan, for a portion of 151 Despard Avenue (adjacent to the Alberni Highway), from ‘Residen-tial’ to ‘Multifamily Residential’ and to define the scope of the existing ‘Neighbourhood Commercial’ designation.

Date: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012Time: 5:00pm – 7:30 pmLocation: Parksville Community and Conference Centre 132 E. Jensen Avenue, ParksvillePlease join us for refreshments and information. We will present details of the proposed OCP amendment, receive in-put from members of the community, and respond to ques-tions.If you would like more information, please contact Mau-reen Pilcher (applicant’s agent) by e-mail at [email protected] or phone (250)802-6046.

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DOWNTOWN GREEN: Parksville Home Hardware was recently selected as a recipient of a Home Hardware corporate grant to purchase trees for our community. The final tree to be planted was a Bruns Serbian Spruce that will serve as a celebration tree for downtown and be lit during the holiday season and at other special times. On hand for the tree plant-ing ceremony at Craig Street and the Island Highway on Wednesday were, from left, Brian Fisher (Tree Canada Foundation), Michelle Jones (president, Parksville Downtown Business Association), Peter Crawshaw (City of Parksville), Carol and Bill Ormiston (owners, Parksville Home Hardware) and Chris Mohr (Parksville Home Hardware).

QUALICUM BEACH COUNCIL

Lower DCCsclose to realityDevelopers building in village could save 30-70 per centJOHN [email protected]

Scott Tanner says it’s a pig, but it looks like it’s a pig he will soon have to accept as law.

Qualicum Beach town council gave three read-ings Monday night to a bylaw that made subtle changes to the original bylaw that reduces devel-opment cost charges (DCCs) for those who want to build in the village neighbourhood.

The amendments and the bylaw itself are ex-pected to pass fourth reading and become official town policy at council’s next meeting Oct. 22. The vote Monday night was 3-2 in favour, with Coun. Tanner and Mayor Teunis Westbroek opposed and councillors Dave Willie, Mary Brouilette and Bill Luchtmeijer in favour.

Tanner said he believed the changes council voted on Monday night did little to change the by-law he has opposed from its inception.

“You can put lipstick and make-up on a pig but it’s still a pig,” said Tanner.

The bylaw will reduce development cost charges anywhere from 30-70 per cent, depending on the number and density of units proposed. The cur-rent structure charges developers $8,000-$9,000 for each unit in a complex. Those numbers reflect a unit of typical apartment size, roughly 100 square metres.

The vote Monday was on specific changes to the actual DCC-reductions bylaw. The changes basi-cally introduced a tiering system for the DCCs, in relation to density.

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While much of the provincial coverage sur-rounding the UBCM convention last week cen-tred on the group’s motion to decriminalize marijuana, Qualicum Beach town councillors say they had valuable meetings in regards to municipal issues related to their community.

Coun. Dave Willie said he attended a ses-sion about Internet voting and also learned more about matching grants for the improve-ment of bus stops in communities, something he said could benefit Qualicum Beach.

“There are some pretty lonely places on Vil-lage Way to stand and wait for a bus,” he said at town council’s regular meeting Monday night.

Willie seemed to be joking when he made a comment about all the discussion at the con-ference about the marijuana motion.

“I was asking for samples but no samples were available,” he said.

Coun. Bill Luchtmeijer also said he attend-ed some valuable sessions.

“My only disappointment about being at UBCM was that we weren’t here for the Tour de Rock events,” said Luchtmeijer, referring spe-cifically to the 15 members of town staff who shaved their heads to raise money for cancer research in conjunction with the Tour. “I take my hat off to those who took their hair off.”

Mayor Teunis Westbroek reported that he had meetings with ministers in regards to possible funding for Qualicum Beach-specific

projects, like a comprehensive waterfront plan and something called age-friendly planning.

Westbroek also suggested communities are often persistent in their requests to get meet-ings with provincial cabinet ministers but rare-ly send words of thanks after those meetings, so he directed staff to send notes of thanks to the ministers he met with at UBCM.

Coun. Scott Tanner said he attended ses-sions about paper and package recycling and the protection of watersheds. He also said he was impressed with new Environment Minis-ter Terry Lake.

“I’m very encouraged that we have a minis-ter of environment who really knows his stuff,” said Tanner.

‘No comment’ for DeezBriefly from Qualicum Beach town council’s

regular meeting Monday night:* Council gave third reading to a bylaw that

bans smoking within 7.5 metres (25 feet) of any doorway, window or air intake of a public (town-owned) building.

* Council passed a motion that provided no comment to the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch on the application of Deez Bar and Grill to have its license changed to allow for dancing during special events. Staff and councillors indi-cated the “no comment” response is consistent with what the town has done in the past with sim-ilar applications.

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We may not have a romantic story about pilgrims, but we have much to be thankful for this holiday weekend.

If there is a more beautiful, di-verse region in the country, we haven’t seen it. And the extension of the good weather only adds to the enjoy-ment of our natural surroundings.

We have no shortage of active, community-minded volunteers who provide fun, life-enriching opportuni-ties in the fields of arts, culture and sports. Many more do good deeds every day to help the less fortunate and those stricken with disease and other challenges.

We have an active, respectful political scene, with enough people to ensure one faction does not rule the day over another.

That stated, and in the spirit of transparency, we are thankful for the occasional political loose cannon — who are we to ignore great quotes?

We are thankful we live in a free market society that has not, at least yet, turned into a nanny state where the government is expected to take care of everyone from cradle to grave.

We are thankful for the largest shellfish industry in North America, the best sandcastle event in the world and the coolest car show this side of Detroit (thank you Gary Hopkins, may you rest in peace).

We are thankful Oceanside residents make an effort to shop local and seem to realize the shopkeeper they deal with today could very well be a neighbour, a per-son who contributes to the tax base and quality of life in our district, and worthy of their support.

We are thankful for the water that surrounds us, both fresh and salted, for it gives us life and sustains all creatures who call this area home.

We at The NEWS are thankful for our plentiful, inter-ested and intelligent readers who give us support, are always open to help us spread the word, and keep us in check when the need arises.

Operating a newspaper with such an engaged read-ership is a joy.

— editorial by John Harding

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The Parksville Qualicum Beach News is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body govern-ing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the me-diation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or pub-lisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to: B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2.For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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health care costs and one of his solutions is for a Vitamin D Day, (THE NEWS, Oct. 4) I found it difficult to not fall out of my chair.

We have drug and medical equipment costs soaring through the roof and this is the best he can come up with?

There is nothing from the federal gov-ernment and its health minister to develop a national purchasing plan for drugs and medical supplies.

This would reduce costing nationwide by billions of dollars. There is no plan to im-prove our methodology for minimizing risk from foreign imports of tainted food.

Sunlight is the best supplier of vitamin D and it is free. The simple act of children playing outside fulfills the vitamin D and ex-ercise requirement for good health.

It is time we, the public, demand some-thing better than a Vitamin D Day, maybe a government that allows more free votes and less party constraints with consequences should those entrusted to represent us fail to fulfill their mandate.

Maybe, just maybe, I have it all wrong and this Vitamin D Day will give our elected poli-ticians the guts to actually improve our na-tional health costing, get us out of the F-35 fiasco, take care of our fresh water for the future, and even allow the earth to survive in this rush to the bottom line.

BOB TRITSCHLERParksville

UBCM WAS NO JUNKETUnique in Canada, the Union of British

Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) has ex-isted for more than 100 years.

Its annual convention provides a special forum for local government councillors or directors, MLAs, senior provincial bureau-cracy, business leaders and labour repre-sentatives to meet in a non-partisan envi-ronment available nowhere else in British Columbia.

The attendees are all serious about their business and there are dozens of workshops, seminars, consultations, meetings to attend and networkings established.

It is hardly a junket — there is no time for fun.

As a first time participant, it was all new to me, but I came away with the sense that almost everyone elected at the local gov-ernment level is serious, dedicated and I was constantly impressed by the depth and perception exhibited in questions and com-ments.

I was constantly thinking: “Why didn’t I think of that?”

The convention considers and endorses/rejects resolutions brought by member local governments reflecting local problems or needs.

The resolutions have no binding effect on any higher level of government. They are ex-pressions of sentiment.

The marijuana decriminalization resolu-tion was brought by the community of Me-tchosin.

It elicited considerable debate and a wide range of impacts were raised. Opinion was broadly divided.

Most would have preferred that it not have come up.

It most certainly was not a publicity stunt as your editor intimated.

JULIAN FELLErrington

SOLUTIONS NEEDEDOver the summer I have had a few tirades

posted on this page that note various curi-ous and strange decisions or directions by those in the political arena, now it is time to propose a few solutions.

The revenue issue: if a village or town seems to have surplus revenue (read tax dol-lars), then we are being over taxed. Return the money and cut the mill rates. As well, the community charter states that a municipal-ity must have a zero balance at years end. Taxpayers do not see the sense or validity in spending the “surplus” on useless projects.

Certain capital projects are necessary if growth is projected, and also there is a need for contingency funds for maintenance and repair, but let’s look at the big picture. If the economy is slow, slow down your spending. Small-time government is not in the busi-ness of stimulating the economy. And re-member, it is not a business, it’s governance, which is leadership and fiscal responsibility. The mayor and councillors are the facilita-tors with staff being the resource.

To the issue of a fire hall and the bus barn, as there appears to be a concern about earth-quakes. I propose that the old bus building be utilized to store some of the fire appa-ratus. This will get us a use and provide an option to having all the eggs in one basket. In an earthquake not all the buildings will fall down and the roads and streets might be impassable in front of a single location. I would also suggest a small fire apparatus storage building at the proposed fire hall site at the reservoir on Rupert Road. These two facilities would not be staffed. Only used in an emergency, or as the closest responder.

ALLAN CLARKQualicum Beach

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VIEWS IN THE NEWSWe asked: What are you thankful for? Family — and this is the

first survey I have been

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BRYCE WEIRParksville

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RECOGNITION NEEDEDSeveral months ago, I became aware that the

City of Parksville was accepting nominations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal, with a dead-line for submission July 13, 2012.

The criterion stated that nominees should be exceptional Canadians who, like our Queen, had made longtime contributions to their community.

Like many others, I submitted the name of an exceptionally hard working volunteer in Parksville who for many years has enriched the lives of others in our community yet has never been recognized publicly.

For her, this would have been a special honor.The recipient was to be chosen by Parksville

City Council.This week, I learned than an already medal

adorned athlete had received a deserved recep-tion by the city at which time she was presented with a key to the city as well as (afterthought?) the Queen’s Jubilee medal. I certainly agree that we should be proud of her accomplishments on the world stage and that her triumph over adversity is an inspiration. I would, however, like the other worthy nominees to be recognized in some way.

BERNICE E. HATHAWAYParksville

PROBLEMS WITH POLLRe: Poll shows clear support, (THE NEWS, Sept.

28). Really? Having participated in other surveys, I can picture the conversation.

Pollster: Do you support a refinery in Kitimat? Responder: Well, it’s certainly better than sending our crude oil somewhere else.

Pollster: So, you’re somewhat supportive of the proposal. Responder: I guess.

Like the polls THE NEWS conducts every week, this is for entertainment value only. With a 2.62 per cent margin of error only, about 1,400 B.C. res-idents were canvassed, of which over 300 (22 per cent) weren’t aware of the proposal.

Combining the ‘somewhat supportive’ group and the ‘in favour’ group together to obtain the high percentages is the worst form of mathemat-ical dissemination. It’s totally meaningless. What the poll appears to present is that well over half the survey group were undecided.

DARREL GIESBRECHTQualicum Beach

A TAXING CONCERNThis might be a bit out of the blue but for some

time now I have been wondering why we taxpayers are not allowed to have some say about where our income tax dollars are spent.

Why would it not be possible to divide govern-ment spending into four or five rough categories

and to offer the taxpayer the right to alter the per-centage given over to a particular segment of that spending.

For example, if there were five categories of spending the default position would give 20 per cent of your income tax money to each category and one could tick off that option in a check box.

But, if you were able to tell the government that you wished your money to go largely to the mili-tary, you could write in a larger percentage, per-haps as much as 80 per cent to go to that spending priority.

There would have be a default minimum posi-tion for each category but by the exercise of choice the taxpayer would be empowered to strongly in-fluence government policy.

This kind of control of spending would certainly affect the government’s priorities in a serious way and would better reflect the will of the electorate.

Given the sophistication of today’s computer-ized tax returns I can see no technical reason for such a tax form to be assembled and presented as I have suggested.

BOB PELLOWParksville

WELL DONE TO COUNCILRe: City plan ‘flawed,’ Page 1, The NEWS, Sept.

28.The Parksville Resident’s Association is con-

cerned that the environment will get short shrift in the updated OCP.

I would be inclined to agree with them except that I don’t believe the decision-makers are going to be able to avoid the results obtained in their re-cent Ipsos Reid poll of Parksville residents.

In that survey, “the vast majority of citizens think it is important for the city to be a leader in protecting the environment, even if doing so in-creases their municipal taxes. The importance at-tached to environmental protection is consistent with other survey results showing that the environ-ment is a top priority for citizens.”

Bravo, Parksville! And their greatest emphasis was on “preserving and protecting watersheds.” It really doesn’t get any clearer than that.

FAYE SMITHQualicum Beach

KUDOS TO THE NEWSThe missing Bonsai Juniper tree from the Knox

United Church garden has returned. Its disap-pearance was indeed a misunderstanding. Many thanks to the PQB News for prompt publication of our letter, providing the information needed to di-rect the tree home.

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Like most of these things, it started inno-cently enough.

As a junior reporter in Fort St. James, I lived from paycheque to chamber of commerce dinner and I could just about make ends meet if I didn’t have to deal with transportation - but of course I did. The Courier was the Fort St. James paper but it was produced in Vander-hoof, so every week I would fill up my latest wreck with just enough gas to make it to the

‘Hoof. My editor, a great

guy named Gord Smedley, was quite happy to let me sleep on his couch Saturday nights and I would of-ten borrow just enough money from him to gas up for the return trip.

I got pretty good at estimating the absolute bare minimum amount of gas I could buy while still leaving enough for a cup of coffee or two. Not only did I nev-er lose, but — on two separate occasions — I coasted to a gentle stop right at the gas pump in Fort St. James.

Ca-Ching!Impressive I know,

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It got to be a habit, this gastank roulette, and before I even knew what was happening I was hooked. I need-

ed that adrenaline hit again and again and again.

Life’s not like that of course. Just as with any addiction, that early, ecstatic high is never repeated. Oh I’ve coast-ed to a gentle stop all right, but never at the gas pump. Not even close.

I’m not alone though. There’s at least one other similarly af-flicted soul out there.

“I lost,” (I’ll call her Bev) said. “I ran out of gas right in the inter-section. This car was behind me, so I got out and told the guy he should go around me.”

Instead of an angry

huff, squeal of tires and pedal to the metal, the guy opened his door and got out.

“I swear, he was the biggest man I’ve ever seen in my life,” she said. “He was huge! His legs were like tree trunks. Enormous! He said he would push my car to the side of the road for me and I thought, why don’t you just pick it up and carry it?”

It didn’t hurt of course that he was ex-tremely good looking. And charming. And funny.

She accepted his offer of a ride and it wasn’t long before she placed his accent as Kiwi. When Bev asked her roadside rescuer what he did for a living, he replied that he was a member of New Zea-land’s national rugby team.

The All Blacks. She was saved by a member of the All Blacks.

Ca-Ching!

“I couldn’t be-lieve it,” she said and laughed. “I guess it real-ly says something about your day when the best part of it involves run-ning out of gas in an in-tersection.”

It put my glory story to shame. There’s no way I’ll ever top that payout, no matter how well my luck holds.

It won’t change any-thing though. I’ll still play. After all, I’m an addict — hooked hard — and I know the next time I’m driving I’ll look at my gas gauge and think yeah … I can make it … probably.

Don’t worry about it if you see me hiking a can of gas along the side of the highway. It’s entirely my own fault and I deserve what I get.

Don’t even both-er offering me a ride — unless, say, you are Britney Spears, Christy Clark, or you happen to be Swedish and part of a bikini team.

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Ferry rates to rise, service to dropIsland residents will see less sailings to the Lower Mainland, but they’ll be paying more to get on board those that are left

SHIPPING NEWSBy Neil Horner

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The sun may still be shining, but the pleasure boating season is coming to a close as autumn winds begin to blow, kicking up large whitecaps, such as these in Qualicum Beach this week.

Rate increases for BC Fer-

ries were a p p r o v e d

this week, meaning Is-land residents will be shelling out 12 per cent more at the end of three years, while having fewer sailings to choose from.

The rate hike ap-proved will see fares jumping by 4.1 per cent starting April 1, 2013, with another four per cent hike in April of the following year and a further 3.9 per cent rise one year later.

The price bump will be preceded by cuts to service between Van-couver Island and the Lower Mainland, which

will kick in Oct. 13 of this year.

Starting on that date, BC Ferries announced they will cut some Sat-urday morning and evening sailings be-tween Tsawwassen and Duke Point. Extra sailings on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays between Departure Bay and Horseshoe Bay are facing the axe.

Ferries, the corporation this week urged holiday weekend travellers to be aware that the 3:10 sailings from both De-parture Bay and Horse-shoe Bay on Thursday are expected to be particularly busy, as

NEIL HORNER PHOTO

Independent Marine Store owner Cynthia Brown serves up a smoky at their customer appreciation day.

will the 3:10 p.m. from Horseshoe Bay and the 2:10 p.m. sailing from Departure Bay on Fri-day.

For the return jour-ney, BC Ferries expects all the sailings from 10:40 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. from Departure Bay are expected to be busy, as will the 10:30 a.m. boat from Departure Bay on Tuesday morning.

Marine Supply Store in Coombs saw fisher-men and other nauti-cal types gather in their outdoor courtyard on Wednesday to enjoy a free smoky and cof-fee as the store held a customer appreciation day.

Co-owner Cynthia Brown said she made a point of serving all local products, with the cof-fee coming from Kar-

ma Coffee across the street and the smokies purchased from Hilliers Sausage.

Not only fishermen who have had their boats either widened or lengthened showed up, she said. Represen-tatives from many local marine-oriented com-panies also dropped by throughout the day.

-son may be drawing to a close, but that doesn’t mean an end to activi-

ties with the Schooner Cove Yacht Club.

Commodore Ron Davis reports club members will gather at the Rockinghorse Pub on Oct. 20 for their annual Oktober Fest. Following this, on Nov. 20, they’ll hold their annual general meeting at the Fairwinds Golf Club.

Yacht Club played host to visiting Swedish yachters Gunilla and Jan Nogeus, who ar-rived in their 36-foot sailboat, Liva.

Club members host-ed a special barbecue and potluck supper on the wharf, where club member Derrick Ward presented them with the club’s blue and gold burgee, making them honourary members of the club.

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Th ey may not have federal funding anymore, but that doesn’t mean the local chapter of the aid group KAIROS has gone dormant.

Far from it, said local spokesperson Hans Kratz. Th eir activities may have been scaled back, but they’re learning to make do with less.

Kratz made the comments as the local KAIROS chapter prepares to host its fi rst regional con-ference at St. Edmund’s Anglican Church hall in Parksville on Saturday, Oct. 13.

Th e day-long meeting, Kratz said, is expected to attract as many as 50 delegates from both British Columbia and the Yukon.

“We are imagining a very diff erent kind of pro-cess involving talking circles, which better refl ects the way KAIROS is working at the national level when it comes together,” Kratz said.

For this reason, the event has been dubbed Cir-cle of Right Relationships.

Th e keynote speaker will be Trish Garner, of the B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition, who will take to the podium at 1 p.m.

“Th is is the fi rst time we’ve had it here,” Kratz said.

Besides the feature speaker, delegates will dis-cuss issues such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Missing and Murdered Ab-original Women’s Inquiry.

Kratz conceded the church-based group has been hurt by the withdrawal of federal funding, but they’ve managed to keep active, albeit at a lower level.

“KAIROS had to downsize, especially a lot of their projects overseas,” he said. “Th e funding just isn’t there. But at least they are keeping things go-ing and quite a few of the projects are at least func-tioning because the various churches that belong to KAIROS are kicking in a certain amount of mon-ey.”

KAIROS is a Canadian group that unites church-es and religious organizations to promote social justice, both in Canada and around the world.

In what was to become a major Canadian scan-dal, former Minister of International Development Bev Oda in 2009 ordered one of her staff to insert the word “not” in a recommendation to fund KAI-ROS from the Canadian International Develop-ment Agency (CIDA).

Th ey have been without federal funding ever since.

KAIROS to hold Parksville meetChurch-based rights group is soldiering on without funding

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PUBLIC NOTICEPursuant to Section 227 of the Community Charter notice is hereby given the Municipal Council, in

accordance to Section 224 of the Community Charter, intends to adopt “Permissive Taxation Exemption

Bylaw, 2012, No.1485” to exempt the following lands and improvements from taxation under Section 197(1)

(a) [municipal property taxes] of the Community Charter for the year 2013:

a) Roll No. 770.16 - Lot 16, District Lot 4, Nanoose District, Plan VIS2590 - 116 - 425 Stanford Avenue

East [Oceanside Cadet Youth Society]

Estimated taxes for 2013 - $962.23; 2014 - $991.10; 2015 - $1,020.83

b) Roll No. 125.200 - Lot 1, District Lot 13, Nanoose District, Plan VIP71491 - 149 Stanford Avenue East

[Parksville Lawn Bowling Club]

Estimated taxes for 2013 - $7,813.05; 2014 - $8,047.44; 2015 - $8,288.86

c) Roll No. 144.010 - Lots 29 and 30, District Lot 13, Nanoose District, Plan 1565 - 205 Jensen Avenue

East [Parksville Lions Senior Citizen Housing Society]


d) Roll No. 158.001 - Lease Area “A” of that Part of the Remainder of Parcel “B” (DD34903-I), District Lot

13, Nanoose District, Plan VIP67307 - 193 Island Highway East [Regional District of Nanaimo

Parksville Curling Club]


e) Roll No. 158.500 - Lot 1, District Lots 2 and 50, Nanoose District, Plan VIP55660 - 200 Corfield Street

North [The Nature Trust of BC]


f) Roll No. 180.000 - Lot 17, District Lot 13, Nanoose District, Plan 6836 - 144 Middleton Avenue

[Parksville Seniors Activity and Drop In Centre Society]


g) Roll No. 204.000 - Lot 41, District Lot 13, Nanoose District, Plan 6836 - 129 Jensen Avenue East

[Forward House Community Society]


h) Roll No. 214.001 - Lot A, District Lot 14, Nanoose District, Plan VIP74182 - 188 Hirst Avenue West

[District 69 Society of Organized Services]


i) Roll No. 217.000 - Lots 4 and 5, District Lot 14, Nanoose District, Plan 5663 - 170 Hirst Avenue West

[Mt. Arrowsmith (Pacific No. 49) Branch Royal Canadian Legion/Arbutus Grove Reformed Church]


j) Roll No. 218.000 - Lots 6 and 7, District Lot 14, Nanoose District, Plan 5663 except Plan 36767 - 187

Alberni Highway [Governing Council of Salvation Army BC & Yukon Territory Divisional Headquarters]


k) Roll No. 283.000 - Lot 8, District Lot 4, Nanoose District, Plan 5797 - 312 Hirst Avenue West

[Kingsley Low-Rental Housing Society]


l) i) Roll No. 295.011 - Lot 6A, District Lot 14, Nanoose District, Plan 2536 - 266A Moilliet Street South

[Arrowsmith Rest Home Society]


ii) Roll No. 295.012 - Lot 6B, District Lot 14, Nanoose District, Plan 2536 - 266B Moilliet Street South

[Arrowsmith Rest Home Society]


m) Roll No. 366.085 - Lot 1, District Lot 74, Nanoose District, Plan 34131 - 795 Island Highway West

[Our Saviour Lutheran Church]


n) Roll No. 366.365 - Lot A, District Lot 87, Nanoose District, Plan 41355 - 550 Pym Street North

[Trustees Parksville Baptist Church]


o) Roll No. 366.665 - Lot 4, District Lot 74, Nanoose District, Plan 2467 - 407 Wembley Road [Anglican

Synod Diocese of BC]


p) Roll No. 366.901 - Lot 1, District Lot 89, Nanoose District, Plan 45926 - 245 Hirst Avenue West

[District 69 Society of Organized Services]


q) Roll No. 366.903 - Lot A, District Lot 89, Nanoose District, Plan 49747 - 133 McMillan Street

[Oceanside Community Arts Council and Parksville and District Association for Community Living]


r) Roll No. 483.100 - Lots 1 to 4 inclusive, District Lot 89, Nanoose District, Plan 26728 - 118 McMillan

Street [Parksville and District Association for Community Living]


s) Roll No. 605.801 - Lot 1, District Lot 127, Nanoose District, Plan 34272 - 345 Pym Street [Trustees

Congregation of Knox United Church]


t) Roll No. 670.040 - Lot 8, Block 564, Nanoose District, Plan 33339 Except Plan VIP60816 and Plan

VIP62488 - 1245 Island Highway East [Parksville and District Historical Society]


u) Roll No. 670.041 - Part of Lot 8, District Lot 40, Nanoose District, Plan 33339 - 1275 Island Highway

East [Parksville and District Chamber of Commerce]


v) Roll No. 670.080 - Lot 1, Block 564, Nanoose District, Plan 22048 - 1245 Chattell Road [Parksville,

Qualicum Fish and Game Association]


DEBBIE COMIS

Corporate Officer

To submit your activities into our weekly (Friday)Calendar of Events: [email protected]:250-248-4655 • #4-154 Middleton Ave, Parksville

WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK

NEIL HORNER PHOTO

FUN WITH CHALK: Avalina MacKinnon-Wild, 2, and Quinn Pallee, 2, work together on some sidewalk art during Children’s Day at the Qualicum Beach Museum.

DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL

Old plan resurfaces185-unit mixed use development back on the front burnerAUREN [email protected]

There is a lot of interest in the corner of Despard Avenue and the Alberni Highway in Parksville where a new Quality Foods has been proposed, a health centre is being built and an old proposal has resurfaced.

Brian Henning of Williamson and Associates presented an of-ficial community plan amend-ment (OCP) proposal at the Sept. 17 regular council meeting on behalf of property owner In-Sight Holdings.

InSight presented prelimi-nary plans for a 185 unit mixed use development on the forested northeast cor-ner in early 2009, but little has happened publicly since.

Henning said they have been working on the project for over a year but have run into compli-cations planning the long-term project during the city’s OCP update process.

Working at the conceptual design stage, Hen-ning envisions a larger neighbourhood com-mercial component facing the main intersection transitioning down through residential buildings to some kind of patio-style homes adjacent to the existing single family homes on Moss and Stan-ford avenues.

The OCP amendment only looks at wider land

use issues and didn’t included details about the proposed development but Henning later told The NEWS they hope to build an assisted living complex on the Alberni Highway and a multi-unit residential building on Despard Avenue.

George Hanson, development manager for InSight Developments, had been open about their frustra-tion with a “lack of process and shifting requirements from the city” in the past, which the city acknowledged at a time of staff shortages.

In December. 2010 Hanson said the lack of progress was “a

direct result of the city’s inability to deal with our development application in a manner acceptable to our professional and business requirements.”

The OCP change would allow the senior care facility and multi-family residential compo-nents.

At its regular meeting Oct. 1, city council unan-imously directed staff to start the statutory pro-cess and encourage the applicant to host a public open house.

If the OCP ammendment application is suc-cessful, council will ask staff to incorporate the new land use policy in the new OCP delaying it a month or two past its projected year-end com-pletion.

Assisted-living complex and multi-unit residential building requires an OCP amendment — area near

new health centreattracting a lot of attention


Only a working smoke alarm can save your life!Fire Prevention Week October 7 - 13

Smoke alarms save lives

Many fatal fires start at night

As most Canadians turn back the clocks on November 4, here are some timely smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) safety tips:

• When you change your clocks, test your smoke alarm.

• You have less than three minutes to escape a fire. So when smoke alarms sound, everyone must know what to do and where to go. Having and practicing an escape plan is essential.

• Install one smoke alarm on every storey and outside bedrooms. Install inside bedrooms if you sleep with doors closed.

• Ensure all smoke alarms are fully powered. Never take out batteries or remove an alarm from ceiling due to a false alarm.

• If your home has any fuel-burning devices such as a gas furnace, gas water heater, gas appliances, or an attached garage or carport, install at least one CSA-approved carbon monoxide outside all sleeping areas. One per storey is recommended.

• Replace smoke alarms every 10 years, and CO alarms every 7-10 years (depending on manufacturer) whether battery operated or hardwired into your home’s electrical system.

Carbon monoxide is colourless, odourless and tasteless. So without a CO alarm, humans cannot detect its presence. Despite the average home having several potential sources of the deadly gas, studies show that nearly 60 per cent of Canadians have not installed a CO alarm. In addition to being impossible to detect, CO also has another nefarious trait. Symptoms of carbon monoxide exposure mimic the flu, without the fever. It is routinely responsible for thousands of clinic and hospital visits each year, and is commonly misdiagnosed. Prolonged or extreme exposure causes nausea, dizziness, confusion, the loss of physical mobility, brain damage and ultimately, death.

More home safety resources can be found on the www.safeathome.ca web site.

E -Comm’s fire dispatch team is warning families to be mindful of their turkey cooking during Thanksgiv-ing weekend. “A turkey isn’t something you typically see on a list of household fire hazards, but we get 9-1-1 calls about ovens going up in flames all the time,” says Corey Kelso, E-Comm fire dispatcher. “The result can be devastating if you’re not careful every time you have something cooking for an extended period of time.”

E-Comm has received some odd calls to 9-1-1 before – including someone wanting to know how long to cook a turkey – but a turkey fire is no joke. In fact, it is a leading cause of spikes in 9-1-1 calls over the holidays.

“A flame in your oven can start easily and escalate quickly,” says Kelso. “Oil drippings through a thin tinfoil turkey pan or bits of leftover food residue inside your oven are extremely flammable in a high tem-perature setting.”

Investigations into home fire deaths very of-ten find that a smoke alarm did not sound. It may have been disconnected or not in working order. The batteries may have been dead, or someone may have taken them out. Smoke alone won’t necessarily wake you up. In fact, the fumes could put you into an even deeper sleep. Often, victims never wake up. Seniors will often need assistance from family members to put safety measures into place. As well, family members are in the best po-sition to reinforce the precautions necessary to help their loved ones prevent or respond to a fire. Focus on these six priorities to help aging family members protect themselves against fire in the home.

“Fall back” to smart home safety

Thanksgiving turkey fires cause for concern at 9-1-1 centre

Smell gas?Get out, then call:FortisBC’s 24-hour Emergency Line

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• INSTALL smoke alarms inside every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on every level of the home, including the basement.

• Larger homes may need ADDITIONAL smoke alarms to provide enough protection.

• For the best protection, INTERCONNECT all smoke alarms so when one sounds they all sound.

• An IONIZATION smoke alarm is generally more responsive to flaming fires and a PHOTOELECTRIC smoke alarm is generally more responsive to smoldering fires. For the best protection, both types of alarms or combination ionization and photoelectric alarms (also known as dual sensor alarms) are recommended.

• Smoke alarms should be INSTALLED away from the kitchen to prevent false alarms. Generally, they should be at least 10 feet (3 meters) from a cooking appliance.

• REPLACE all smoke alarms when they are 10 years old.

ANALYSIS was undertaken on almost 50,000 fires that occurred in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario over a 5-year period involving 663 fatalities. The findings demonstrated that the death rate per 1,000 fires in the absence of a present, functioning smoke alarm was 74% greater than when a functioning smoke alarm was present.


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Electrical cords are in good condition

(not damaged).

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Appliances and lights are plugged into

separateelectrical outlets.

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Curtains and other things that

can burn are away from the

stovetop.

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The furnace has been

inspected in the past year.

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The clothes dryer has a

clean vent and filter (no lint

built-up).

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Portable space heaters are

off whenevera grown-up leaves the

room and goes to sleep

Fire Prevention Week October 7 - 13Bow-Horne Bay Dashwood

Coombs-Hilliers Deep Bay

Members from left to right are as follows

Back row: Lloyd Rae (Assistant Chief)

Middle row : George Lenz (Fire Chief), Mick Smith, Simone Maguire, Liz Champagne, Ed Pater (Captain), Margaret Furnell (Administrator), Bob Hutton

Front row: Jonathan Ehman, Spencer Rae (recruit), Norm Devine (recruit)

Missing: Dave Nixon (Deputy Chief), Les Barrie, Rob Cottrell, Linda Jordan, Wendy Scott, John MacMillan, Lynn Gates


Back row: Brad Cornish, Dom Brittain, David Baldinger, Mike Bellwood, Eric Lacey, Chris Hillsden, David Fisher, Aaron Poirier

Front row: Darren Hillsden, Katelynn VanDuin, Krystina Stahley, Emily Tamburri, Andrew Le Brett, Terry Whibley

Missing: Bill VanDuin, Jeff Simmons, Todd Patola, Robert Roth, Gabriel Whitelaw, Richard Klass, Captain Darren Hillsden


Front row: D/C Geoff MacIntosh, T/O Phil Brown, Captain Bill Lovegrove, Fire Chief Steve Anderosov, Firefighter Keith Nickerson, Firefighter John Arnold, cadet Sterling Ignatescue.

Back row: Captain Kootchie Giroux, cadet Charles Brown, Firefighter Chris Bennett

Missing from photo: Firefighter Roy Allen, Firefighter Bill Burnett, Firefighter Ken Collett, Firefighter Dennis McQuillan, Captain Jesse Partridge, Firefighter Doug Prizeman.

Members from left to right are as followsFront row: J. Woodyatt, D. Chetcuti, D. Gooding, D. Cappus, C. Olson, D. Francoeur, S. Puts, K. Francoeur, D. Sorg, G. Howard.Back Row: D. Shantz, J. Morton, S. Walsh, J. Brown, B. March, J. Yacovelli, M. Hurst, Lt. P. Hyde, Capt. B. McCauley, A. Courtice, Deputy Chief D. Francoeur, B. Raper, Chief N. Acciavatti, K. Morton, Capt. L. Hepting, Lt. S . Hogg, . H. Jestin, Lt. Z. Stonley, J. Howse, J. Lampman, M. Scott.Missing-Lt. A. Hillsden, Lt. K. Lyons, R. Cappus, G. Percival, D. Hook, D. Mintz, B. Lovegrove, S. Cappus. - Greg Howard photo

Dashwood Volunteer Fire Department

“We are changing the location of our Annual Fire Works and Halloween Event. This year, with Corcan Meadowood Residence Association, are bringing an even better event. The event will be located at our Meadowood Fire Station, 1800 Galvin Place, the Haunted Walk this year will have two sections, one for bigger kids and one for smaller kids. There will be kids events, Bonfi re, coffee/hot chocolate & hot dogs by donation & of course the fi reworks which will be bigger than ever! We hope that you will join us and enjoy the new location! If you live in Dashwood/Meadowood areas we have free smoke alarm batteries too.”

VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS

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Meadowood Fire StationsAnyone interested, call

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or like our Facebook page or send us a tweet!

Bow Horn Bay Volunteer Fire Department

We at Bow Horn Bay Fire Departmentare planning ourDOOR-TO-DOORSMOKE DETECTORBATTERY GIVE-AWAYtogether with the annualMUSCULARDYSTROPHYBOOT DRIVEin the next two to three weeks.

We are also planning the usualBONFIRE AND

FIREWORKS DISPLAYto follow the

COMMUNITYHALLOWEEN PARTY

at the LighthouseCommunity Centre Hall

SATURDAY EVENING,OCTOBER 27TH.

Is your chimney cleaned & ready for use?Do you have a good, refl ective house number

sign out where it can be seen?

ERRINGTON FIRE FIGHTERS

will be visiting theElementary School

[email protected]

to talk to the kids about fi re safety.

Errington Volunteer Fire Department

Recruitment Classbeginning soon! Call for details.

Open House Oct. 1411am-3pm • at Hall #1During

Bring the kids for a photo with Sparkey, the fi re dog,

and Smokey the bear.Participate in hands-on demos

& enjoy refreshmentsand live music.

FIRE INSPECTION CHECKLIST


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A grown-up always stays in the kitchen whenever food is cooking on the stovetop.

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All extension cords are

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All smoke alarms work

when tested by a grown-up.

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All escape routes are

clear of clutter and easily accessible.

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The chimney has been

inspected and cleaned in the

past year.

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Portable space heaters are 3 feet away

from anything that can burn.

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Fire Prevention Week October 7 - 13ParksvilleErrington

Qualicum BeachNanoose Bay


Back Row: Mark Watson, Steve Mallory, Douglas Lochhead, Rob Hunter, Don Marshall, Ryan Lay, Paul Gibbons, Capt Mike Insley, Chief Darryl Kohse

Middle Row : Louise Dawson, Heidi Zabel, Lieutenant Nancy Marshall, Bob Patterson

Front Row: Matt Traynor, Denyse Kohse, Dan Ritchie, Jeff Hoard, Cliff Bergum, Lieutenant Janice Hooper

Missing: Brian Hale, Brian Thorburn, Greg Roberts, Ron Smith, Chris Pertch, Friso Mckenzie, Deputy Chief Peter Cornell, Rob Junkala, Mike Hamilton, Nico Grauer, Toni Botelho, Barry Blair, Tristan Jack, Hans Trupp


Back Row: Chief Doug Penny, Alex Smith, Rich Pappel, Cpt. Murray Walker, Jeremy Maeers, Cpt. Cody Nielsen, Leo Groenewegen, Anthony Hawkes, Lt. Steve Parry.

Middle row: L-R: Morris Bouman, Lt. Monica Litton, Fred Bull, Deputy Chief John Newall, Andrew Bloomer, Ashley Nygren, John Thompson, Roy Burns.

Front row: Training Officer Denis Holme, Nick Shillito, Robert Hale, Morgan Farrell, Bryce Mack, Shane Servant, Robb Farrell, Rob Fell.

Missing From Photo: Adam Snyder, Ross Thompson.

Members from left to right are as followsBack row: Dave Seaton, Jody Chambers, Stuart Gay, Richard Reedel, Justin Glendale, Chris Armour, Captain George Klemm, Scott Walker, Anne Klok, Sara Doggett, Stacey Price, Penny Portman, Norm NormanFront row: Dave Dahlstedt, Assistant Chief Troy Bater, Captain/Training Officer Brad Knorr, Lieutenant Mason Sigouin, Hugh O’Callaghan, Shawn HeineMissing from photo: Fire Chief Colin Catton, Deputy Chief Ken Amour, Lieutenant Ray Naylor, Chelsea Kelloway, Kevin Kurkiniemi, Brad Williams, Ralph Christian

Parksville Members:Jon Abbott, Mark Adelborg, Scott Bailie, Doug Banks, Shaun Bartlett, Daryl Britz, Gloria (Miki) Butterworth, Aaron Callaway, Mark Chandler, Courtney Davidson, Michael Davidson, Keith Denies, Alexander Eckert, Gerald Ferguson, Adam Fras, Tyrone Heigh, David Hildebrand, Wade Hoard, Ryan Ihl, Ken King, Jesse Kroell, Steven Liedl, Laura Lohrmann, Tai Long, Timothy Lotzien, Michael Matzanke, Eric Miller, Robert Murison, Dale Narum, Timothy Nolan, Marc Norris, Liz Olson, Jesse Roberts, Paul Roy, Larry Schug, Ben Sommerfeld, Mike Tisdelle, William (Bill) Tkach, Amanda Tornai, Michael Weeks, Martin (Marty) Wickman

OPEN HOUSESAT., OCT. 13 • 10am-3pm

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Nanoose Bay Volunteer Fire Department

Nanoose Bay Volunteer Fire Department plays a major role in the safety of Nanoose and surrounding communities. We are made up of volunteers from all walks of life, gathering for the purpose of fi ghting fi res and providing other emergency fi rst response activities, fi lling a gap that is much needed in a small community. We recruit at the end of the year and will be looking for dedicated, responsible, reliable and healthy individuals that work well in a team environment and look forward to helping others. Our calls are made up of approximately 50% fi rst responder (medical), 25% motor vehicle accidents, and 25% fi re or potential public endangerment related situations.

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Price was honoured at Monday’s regular council meeting for his work on accessi-bility and inclusivity issues in and around the city.

When the charita-ble Social Planning and Research Council of B.C. heard about the honour they added their praise and sent a “You made a differ-ence pin,” explained

mayor Chris Burger as he presented a plaque and thanked him for his ongoing work.

Price said city staff listen to the Measur-ing Up Committee and pointed out that ac-cessible tourism, like cruise ships, are an in-creasingly important industry as the coun-try’s population ages.

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No agreements reached and Christy Clark describes the meeting as ‘frosty’TOM FLETCHERBlack Press

Premier Christy Clark’s meeting with Alberta Premier Al-ison Redford Monday lasted only 15 minutes, and didn’t re-solve any of their differences about the Enbridge heavy oil pipeline proposal.

Clark spoke by phone with reporters after what she de-scribed as a “frosty and quite short” meeting with Redford in Calgary. She said she reiterated her government’s five condi-tions for supporting the Northern Gateway pipeline, includ-ing one about B.C. needing a “fair share” of benefits from the line.

The other four conditions are for the project to pass a federal environmental review, and for “world leading” spill response on land and on water, as well as meeting legal re-quirements for aboriginal and treaty rights along the route from northern Alberta to Kitimat.

Redford told reporters in Calgary after the meeting that she reiterated her position that giving up any of Alberta’s oil royalties is “a non-starter.” She said she asked Clark to pro-pose other ways that B.C. could increase benefits, but Clark offered no response.

“I gave her the opportunity, more than once in the meet-ing, to say that royalties aren’t on the table, and she didn’t take that,” Redford said.

Clark said it’s not her job to find ways of increasing benefits to B.C.

“It is up to whoever is going to benefit from this project to come forward and advocate for it. In my view, that’s her,” Clark said. “I said to her today, as it stands right now, there is absolutely no way that British Columbia will support this proposal.”

As Clark was preparing for her meeting, B.C. Environment Minister Terry Lake told a Kamloops radio station that benefits for B.C. could mean more value-added jobs, such as refining the oil.


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BC Ferries has the green light to raise fares by up to 12 per cent over three years and passengers should expect less frequent sailings on some major runs.

Increases in the fare cap of roughly four per cent a year were approved Monday by B.C. Ferry Commissioner Gord Macatee.

The ferries regulator also directed BC Ferries to come up with more than $54 million in savings over four years, in-cluding $30 million through service cuts.

BC Ferries will trim some sailings starting Oct. 9, particu-larly when vessels are running with light passenger loads on major routes between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.

Regular odd-hour sailings won’t be affected, but nearly 100 even-hour sailings are to be scrapped between those

terminals this fall and winter to help save an estimated $1 million.

Tsawwassen-Duke Point sailings that have been running less than 25 per cent full account for nearly half the planned cuts.

Potential cuts to Gulf Islands routes are to go to public hearings in advance of any decision.

BC Ferries reported declining fare revenue in 2011, re-cording the lowest number of passengers in 21 years. Vehi-cle traffic is at a 13-year low.

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The Qualicum Beach Museum is on the hunt.This time however, they’re not looking for fossils

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“Many of our board members have been there for years and some of them have come to the point in their lives when they feel it’s time to step down and do other things. We need fresh blood.”

Besides directors at large, Wadell said the mu-seum is in particular need of someone to fill the secretary position.

“We’re looking for people who want to give time to a great community cause,” she said.

She stressed the museum isn’t just looking for people who enjoy archiving documents or re-searching the past.

“We’re looking for people with all sorts of differ-ent skill sets, such as advertising, marketing, tour-ism, school programs and business,” she said.

The Qualicum Beach Historical Society and the museum team met for their monthly meeting on Tuesday at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre.

At the meeting, video producer and museum supporter Cliff Craven was scheduled to give a talk about some of the more memorable productions he has done, including work for the Discovery Channel.

The Navy League and Sea Cadets will be in front of Parksville stores on Tag Day, this Saturday Oct. 6. The event helps them raise essential funds nec-essary to keep the organization up and running through the year.

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POLITICAL MEMOIRS

Climbing the bestseller listQualicum Beach resident Brian Peckford’s latest book reaches No. 2 on non-fiction listNEIL [email protected]

Former Newfoundland premier and current Qual-icum Beach resident Brian Peckford is doing his best to keep up with the phone inter-views and e-mails about his recently-released book, but you’ll have to forgive him if he takes a while to answer.

That’s because his book, Some Day the Sun Will Shine and Have Not Will Be No More, has risen to become the number two bestseller in the country for Canadian non-fiction.

Peckford, who just re-turned from a whirlwind book promotion tour of Newfound-land and other points east, said the book has also risen to place fourth in all non-fiction in the country.

“I did 800-900 book sign-ings in three days in New-foundland,” he said. “Then I did a 12-hour blitz in Ottawa with the press.”

The book, which has sold out of its first printing and is currently being printed for a second run, is a political memoir that aims to change the story of how the deal that brought about the Constitu-tion actually occurred.

Although he said it’s grati-fying to see his book skyrock-et in popularity, there’s an-other aspect to the situation that has Peckford smiling.

“It was acknowledged in the Canadian Encyclopedia that my version of events with regards to the patriation of the Constitution is valid,” he said.

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Brian Peckford’s book is into its second printing.

REGIONAL DISTRICT NEWS

RDN sticks with same phone carrierThe Regional District of Nanaimo

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“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

- Mark Twain

With all the news of troubles in Europe, a slowdown in China, U.S. deficits and whatever happens in the Middle East, market pundits have no shortage of explanations for why the market goes up or down on any given day. There is always an explanation.

I watched a panel discussion of market analysts on CNBC several weeks ago, and they all had their ex-planations — explanations that dif-fered, but were delivered by highly educated analysts in language that was mostly incomprehensible to the layman.

Were they all correct? That would be impossible.

One simple explanation that anyone could wrap their head around was delivered by Jeff Saut, Chief Investment Strategist of Raymond James & Associates. The market, according to Jeff, has been following a pattern that is typical of an election year.

Could it all be that simple? You wouldn’t think so, based on the reaction of the other panellists — all highly educated, highly-paid and highly respected on Wall Street. That is not to suggest that the past can tell us what the future holds. I agree that history does not necessarily repeat itself. But I also agree with Mark Twain that it of-

ten rhymes.Can the study of market history

make us better investors? I think it depends. If your goal is to try to time the markets, probably not. But if you simply look at the past with the view of putting the events of to-day into perspective, I think it can help immensely.

And if there is one thing I have learned from years of being in this business, it is this: following the news of the day does not make you a better investor. In fact, stud-ies have shown the opposite to be true.

On Oct. 17 we are hosting a pre-sentation entitled Lessons from the Past — 100 Years of the Mar-kets. For information feel free to call us at 250-594-1100 or e-mai

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The intent and purpose of “Regional District of Nanaimo Land Use and Subdivision Amendment Bylaw No. 500.372, 2012” is to increase the FAR to allow the property owner to enclose a portion of the existing outdoor storage area within a building at the rear side of the existing retail store (Central Builders Supply). The proposed addition would provide a sheltered area for the storage and pick-up of bulk building supplies and is not proposed to expand the existing retail store.

A copy of the proposed Amendment Bylaw and other relevant documents and information may be viewed until October 15, 2012 at the offices of the Regional District of Nanaimo at 6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo, B.C. on any regular business day between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, with extended business hours on Wednesdays from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, excluding public holidays.

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available for public inspection along with copies of the Amendment Bylaw and other documentation and information as set out in this Notice.

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I will never forget the first time that I had my life flash before my eyes.

Has it ever hap-pened to you?

I was spending my summer working in northern British Co-lumbia as a tree-plant-er and had just fin-ished a long day of work. My crew and I were waiting for a

pickup to take us back to the base-camp. We usually passed the time chatting, eating something left over from the lunch we had packed for the day, or just quietly relaxing.

On this particular day, however, two or three of us had decid-ed to explore the area a bit and found a deep rock pit nearby. We de-scended into the larg-er hole in the ground by way of “surfing” down the rocks which slid out from under us and transported us to the bottom like a pre-industrial escala-tor. Wanting to share our find with the rest of the crew, we called out to them, inviting them to come and see the crater we had dis-cover.

What came next was unexpected, al-though in hindsight I suppose it was pre-dictable. A couple of the guys decided it would be fun to pick up some of the rocks scattered at the edge of the pit and throw them down at us. Oth-ers soon joined in.

I will admit, it was a bit of a laugh as the first few stones were hurled down. Perhaps it was the adrenaline rush that seemed to accompany the land-ing of each one. But as the rocks got closer and closer, things in the bottom of the pit got real serious, real fast, and the laughs quickly faded away.

I’m not sure I’ve ever felt more help-less. More powerless. More afraid.

As the rocks hit the bottom of the pit, some were exploding and launching pieces of shale which pep-pered us with dust and stung the exposed skin on our arms and legs, not to mention our faces which we were now trying to shield with our hands.

That’s when the “tape” played and life seemed to flash. I ac-tually feared death at that moment.

But something else happened too — three things actually.

First, I became much more passion-ate about living. I re-alized afresh that life was worth living and I started to declare it loudly and clearly.

Secondly, relation-ships became very important to me and I quickly picked out those “friends” at the top of the pit to whom I would call out to for some rescue. Those whom I trusted my well-being to, hoping that they would inter-vene for me and stop the stones from rain-ing down.

Finally, I became very humble, very fast. It is incredible how be-ing powerless can take the pride out of you and wash the arrogant

self-confidence a way.Fast-forward to

just a few weeks ago. I was reminded of the rock pit incident while reading a Bible story found in John 8 about a woman caught in sin and, based on the laws of her time, facing a death by having rocks thrown at her until she was killed. At the con-clusion of the story, she is rescued by Jesus who says to her, “nei-ther do I condemn you ...Go now and leave your life of sin.”

My guess is that she left, given a second chance at life, with much more passion, not wanting to waste a moment on anything but what mattered most to her.

My guess is that she immediately went to those most important to her, either letting them know how valu-able they are, or with a heart to making things right if the relationship was broken.

My guess is that she had a more hum-ble heart afterward, knowing that life is fragile and that hav-ing an encounter with God will bring every-thing — both immedi-ate and eternal — into perspective.

“Teach us to num-ber our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” – Psalm 90:12.

Dan King is the Parksville Fellowship Baptist Church pastor to youth and young adults and a regular News columnist.

Rock-pit revelationsDeep thoughts amid the rocks raining down lead to sense of powerlessness and humbleness

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Michelle Wright coming to QBLISSA [email protected]

A Canadian country music legend is making her way to Qualicum Beach, with a concept for a tour that is un-like anything else she's done.

“I’m really excited to sing songs by other artists that I never thought I’d sing and share with an audience,” said Michelle Wright, who has sold nearly two million albums in the United States and Canada since her career took off in 1990.

Last year Wright was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and she and her agents be-gan discussing how they could celebrate the honour. They came up with an idea for Wright to sing songs by others who have been inducted into the hall of fame — artists who have influenced her, as well as her own classics.

It’s called Songs From the Halls and it’s coming to the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre Monday, Oct.15. The con-cert will feature Wright and her band performing songs by music greats like Aretha Franklin, Anne Murray, Merle Haggard and Joni Mitchell. Once the concept was cre-ated Wright said she decided to go out and attend some concerts herself, which filled her with inspiration.

“I just decided I needed to get out and connect to mu-sic again. And how fun it is to be in an audience and hear some of your favourite songs done by the artists that you love,” she said. “The concept has really connected me to music again and has been way more fun than I imagined.”

Wright grew up in a small farming community in On-tario. Her parents were both country performers and at the age of five she remembers being handed a micro-phone and getting “cute kid” comments.

She started playing instruments at 12 and by age 13 she was hooked on guitar. Wright was playing profes-sional gigs on the weekend at age 17 and remembers an opportunity at 19 when an American booking agent saw her perform. He helped her get in with a well-known band which started Wright on her career on the road. A few years later she got her big break when performing at a festival. Her agent called her at mid-night and asked if she could take the early slot the next morning.

“It meant getting up at 7 a.m. and I thought, well, we like to party till about 4, let me think about this. And then I thought no, no maybe we'll get up and go.”

And it's a good thing she did. A well-known songwriter and producer from Nashville was in the audience and he ended up taking her to Nashville.

"That day and that moment in time — mind you it took five or six years to get to there — changed my career," she said.

Wright has had 25 Top 10 hits in Canada and has re-ceived more than 40 major awards. In the United States she has had a Top Ten hit, a number one video on CMT and won the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Fe-male Artist in 1993, the first Canadian to do so in a few decades.

Other highlights in her career include her first Female Vocalist of the Year award from the Canadian Country Music Association, singing at the World Series and ap-pearing on Jay Leno.

Today her work at World Vision is also very significant, she said. When she was younger she didn’t really get that her reputation could help her influence others to make a positive difference in the world.

“The fact that I can take, maybe my career, and my

reputation and my support of something and encourage other people to join me, and then it effects people around the world—that's become more than I imagined.”

Wright is currently living in Nashville and will be com-ing to 30 Canadian cities on her Songs From the Halls tour, with three stops on Vancouver Island including the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre Oct. 15 and Nanaimo’s Port Theatre Sunday, Oct. 14. She said she’s looking forward to the tour and said there’s something very special about the give and take that goes on when performing live shows. She’s also in the process of completing a new album set to be released in the new year.

Tickets are $40 available from the Mulberry Bush Book Store in Qualicum Beach. For more information on Wright visit www.michelle-wright.com.

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Canadian Country Music Hall of Famer Michelle Wright is coming to Qualicum Beach Oct.15.

Second Section ARTS & LIFE

The Country Music star will perform at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre as well as Nanaimo’s Port Theatre while on her Songs From the Halls Tour across Canada

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Fans of Alice in Wonderland should make their way to Milner Gardens and Woodland tomorrow as it holds a Mad Hatter High Tea.

Secretary Michele Lacey said it sounded like a fun idea and encourages people to come wearing a mad hat or dressed in period costume or won-derland attire.

“It’s a new reason to come for tea and it sounds like fun. And so many women have read the book and some (volunteers) here are also wonderland collectors.”

The event will feature a high tea luncheon with small sandwiches, mushroom quiches, a hot scone with Devon cream, jam tarts and, of course, tea. While enjoying the feast, participants will be able to meet Alice, the Mad Hatter, The Queen of Hearts, and a few other well-known characters.

High Tea commences at 1 p.m. on Oct. 6 and costs $18.95, with garden admission $5, free entry for members. Regular tea service will also be avail-able. Reservations are necessary, e-mail [email protected] or phone 250 752 8573 Ext 224 and leave a message.


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Gerri Hemphill is the director of Separate Tables, Echo Players first show of the season which starts Oct.11 in Qualicum Beach.

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Echo Players’ first show of the season starts up next week, and it’s not just one, but two plays.

Separate Tables surrounds the lives and secrets of some permanent res-

idence staying at a private, seaside hotel in En-gland, and their run-ins with visitors.

The main characters in the first play, called Ta-ble by the Window, is a disgraced politician and his ex-wife, who has hunted him down. The second play, Table Number Seven, focuses on an upstand-ing resident of the hotel — a retired soldier, and a surprising scandal.

Director Gerri Hemphill really likes the play, written by Terence Rattigan, so she submitted it to the Echo Players reading committee. They selected it for production.

“It’s beautifully written,” said Hemphill. “The story lines are good, the characterizations are fun and there’s lot of humorous moments.”

Hemphill first got involved in theatre in her 40’s, after feeling like she hadn’t done anything with her life. After meeting with some school council-

lors at a college in Calgary she was encouraged to try some dance classes, English literature and live theatre.

“And by George I sure was having a good time,” she said.

She received accreditation in stage manage-ment and directing and worked with a number of companies in Calgary, including work at the Uni-versity of Calgary.

Hemphill moved to the area in 2002 and has been with Echo Players since 2005. Her first year with the group she directed Casting for Murder.

Hemphill said Separate Tables was written in the 1950s and will ring bells with a lot of people in the community. Especially those with ties to En-gland or those who remember the country post-war when Great Britain was trying to pull itself out of economic hardship, she said.

Separate Tables opens Oct. 11 and runs to Oct. 28 at the Village Theatre in Qualicum Beach. Tick-ets are $18, $15 for seniors and $10 for students. Stop by the box office in Qualicum Beach during office hours at 110 West 2nd Ave, or call 250-752-3522 or e-mail [email protected] for tickets.

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This event is held on the first Saturday of every month and is an open-stage for-mat, often filled with young entertainers as well as seasoned ones.

All types of talents are welcome and in the past the hall has seen people singing, playing instruments, reading poetry, act-ing and generally en-tertaining.

Locals bake up some real treats, which have includ-ed triple layer cakes, cheesecakes, pies, puddings and re-freshments (includ-ing coffee of course) are also available.

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WHITE – Robert Alfred (Bob)Bob passed away Sept 29, 2012 at Trillium Lodge in Parksville. He is survived and will be missed by wife Donna (Robertson), son Christopher (Paulette), daughter Andrea, son David (Sandi), 6 grandchildren – Matthew, Alex, Hailey, Ben, Jacob, and Kas-si, brothers Ralph (Judy) and Archie (Elaine), sisters Donna (Lafe Olkovick) and Sylvia (Ernie Zerkee), brother-in-law Bob (Gladys) Robertson, and many nieces, nephews, and friends. He was predeceased and welcomed home by his previous wife & mother of his children, Patricia (Glover) White, parents Fred & Dorothy White, infant sister Dorcas, sister Muriel (Creswell) and sister Violet (Gullett). Bob, who lived all his life on Vancouver Island, was born July 2, 1934 in Comox Hospital at which time Dr. Briggs was paid a hind quarter of venison in lieu of his fees. Bob was a kind, gentle, loving man with a winning smile who always had time for a good “b.s.” session!! He was a voracious reader who particularly enjoyed “Canadiana” and local history books, as well as his collection of antiques and knickknacks. Always a hard worker, he worked in the logging industry (started work from age 15) and with highway maintenance – as well as a ‘short stint’ as a milkman! His homes and gardens were immaculately-kept. He retired in 1996 and was a firm believer in social justice. He worked diligently for his trade Unions … holding steward and executive positions with both the IWA and the BCGEU. During his lifetime, Bob lived in Courtenay, Lake Cowichan area, Rumble Beach, Campbell River, and Parksville, but was always so proud of his Dove Creek origins. He was a member of Knox United Church in Parksville. Bob enjoyed travel ~ ~ ~ especially cruising, RVing, and the odd jaunt to Reno or Laughlin! And oh, how he loved to dance! Bob was a delightful “people person” who would strike up a conversation with anyone, anywhere. His “joie de vivre” is missed by all. We would like to thank all of our supportive friends and the wonderful caring staff at Trillium Lodge.

A “Time to Remember Bob” will be held at the Bradley Centre, corner of Shearme Rd and Hwy 4A, Coombs, on October 14, 2012 at 1:30PM.

Please, no flowers, but if you wish to remember Bob in a tangible way, feel free to donate to your favourite charity. We encourage you to celebrate his life by doing something which makes you feel good ….. give a random act of kindness, read a favourite poem, take your sweetie out dancing, pick a bucket of blackberries, take your kids trout fishing, marvel at a glorious full moon, enjoy a glass of wine ….. and think, “Here’s to you, Bob!” YATES FUNERAL SERVICE & CREMATORIUM (250-248-5859) in care of arrangements.

MILIKAN THEODORUS ALEXANDER

Dec. 11, 1918 - Sept. 23, 2012Dad was born December 11, 1918 in Oegstgeest Holland. He passed away peacefully Tuesday, September 25, 2012 (in hospital). Mom & Dad immigrated to Port Alberni in 1954 and worked together for 30 years in their photographic business. After retirement they moved to Parksville where they did everything together especially gardening and dad, his woodworking. Dad loved his sports especially speed skating, which he did in Holland with the National Club till his early 80s with the Parksville Skating Club.When mom (Annie) passed away, dad lived with me (Robert) for the last 13 years, which were very special to us. Many thanks to everyone at the Nanaimo Regional Hospital. Dad leaves behind his son Robert, daughter Simone (Duncan), McVie and grand kids Andrew & Tamara and their families.

No flowers or service by request.

Thomas Henry Clarke Wilson“Uncle Buck”

Aug. 25, 1924 - Sept. 27, 2012Born & raised in Penticton, BC

Buck passed away peacefully sur-rounded by family. He is survived by his grateful children: Bobbie Burns, Jim (Glenis) Burns, Barb (Doug) Burns, three grandchildren, many nieces and nephews and the Reid family. Buck was a Professional Forestry Engineer who was renowned as a bridge builder and inspector. He spent many years laying out logging roads up and down the Coast. Buck was honoured to have served for many years on the Executive of the Bowser Legion Branch 211 and was a life time member. He was a resi-dent of Bowser since 1968. There will be a short service held Saturday October 13, 2012 at 2:30pm at the Bows-er Legion, 7035 Island Hwy. The service will be followed by a fundraiser in Buck’s honour with all proceeds going to the replacement of the roof on the Bowser Legion.

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Arthur LeBaron CoreyPassed away peacefully at Qualicum Manor, Qualicum Beach, on September 25, 2012 at age 94 years. Born in Grande Prairie, Alberta on December 9, 1917, grandson of Arthur and Kate Davies, well known North Vancouver pioneers. He is survived by his wife Margaret Doreen, cousins Douglas and Audrey Gordon, and nephews Newman and Robbie Corey. Arthur served five years in Holland with the Canadian Army during the Second World War. During the war he met and later, in 1947, married Margaret Doreen Davies (no relation). Settling in Maple Ridge, where they lived for twenty-five years, Arthur was an active member of the I.W.A. serving as Secretary - Business Agent in Local 1-367. He owned and operated a small tug boat business, during which time he fell in love with the Gulf Islands. In 1972, Arthur and Doreen purchased waterfront property on Mayne Island where they built their own home. During their 25 years on Mayne Island they travelled in their 5th wheel throughout Canada and the USA. In 1996 they moved to Qualicum Beach, where they resided until late 2005 when they both suffered severe health problems. Since that time Doreen and her husband have lived in care facilities, first in Parksville then moving to Qualicum Manor in the summer of 2009.

Arthur’s wife Doreen and his dear friends, Harry and Barbara Adshead, would like to thank the staff

of Qualicum Manor for the loving care and attention they have devoted to Arthur whilst in their care.

At his request there will be no Funeral Service.

Sharon Love, You always will be in my heart, with love until forever, Benno. It is 3 years now without us knowing your favorite resting place you had asked for.

Sharon, with love in our hearts for you, Benno, Michelle’s and Janine’s families.

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Sharon Gail PoolSept. 6, 1941 - Oct. 3, 2009

HARMON, Marilyn Patrice, “Midge” nee York/McKeen

March 19, 1929~September 26, 2012“So come, my friends, be not afraid.

We are so lightly here.It is in love that we are made;

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our Grandma, our G.G., our Aunt, our Cousin, our Mother in love & law, our Neighbour, our Friend.

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Geoff DuncanApril 4, 1944 - Oct.10, 2007

5 years later - you are stillAlways remembered

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LADD, DONALD MCLEOD1916-2012

Don passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, September 27, 2012 after a long and happy life of 96 years. He leaves behind his wife of 61 years, Georgi-na (Gena); children, Kathleen, John, Daniel, Michael (Sandra); grand-children, Caroline, Dun-can, Hannah, Colin, Hay-den; sister, Kathleen (Kay) and surviving brothers, Gordon, Ted, Stewart and many neph-ews, nieces, good friends and neighbours.A Celebration of Life will be held on Satur-day, Oct 13, 2012 at his Nanoose Bay home from 2-5pm.

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The Trustees of Little Qualicum Waterworks District wish to receive lump sum tenders for the demolition, removal and disposal of a water tank and tower located on Hobbs Road.

The work is as follows:• To remove the tank from the tower• To remove and demolish the tower, including the steel lower section.• To remove the foundations of the tower and the buried pipe feeding the tank.

All resulting materials will become the property of the contractor and are to be removed from the site and disposed of by the contractor. At the conclusion of the work the site is to be cleaned up and left in a tidy condition.

Contractor will be required to provide evidence of possession of general liability insurance for the work and a cash security deposit of $5,000.00

Lump sum prices will be received by the Trustees up to 4:00 p.m PDT on Monday the 15th day of October 2012 at the offi ce of John Motherwell & Associates Engineering Ltd., 35 Cadillace Avenue, Victoria, BC V8Z 1T3, Phone (250)475-3535, FAX (250)475-3536, email [email protected].

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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

INFORMATION

QUIT SMOKING? Join us every Tuesday at 7:30 pm at the Baptist Church in Quali-cum, located next to the train stn. at 600 Beach Rd. Come to a meeting & share an hr with us - we talk about our smoking history, learn how to succeed in our quest to be FREE at last, and have some laughs.

LOST AND FOUND

FOUND: BOYS Bike. Call 250-954-1814 to identify

FOUND: FRIENDLY tame Cockatiel in Eaglecrest area. Call the SPCA 250-248-3811

FOUND: LADIES gold ring in Quality Foods, Qualicum. Call 250-752-6033 to identify.

LOST HEARING AID between Shoppers Drug & Cha Cha Java on Sep 30. Call 250-248-3808 if found.

LOST SMALL gold ring. Senti-mental value. Reward! Call (250)954-3441.

TRAVEL

HOUSESITTING

GOING AWAY? NEED YOUR HOUSE CHECKED? Did you know it is now required by in-surance companies that you have your house checked on a regular basis if you are away more than 2 weeks? If your house is not being monitored on a regular basis, your insu-rance company will not cover you for theft or water damage etc, and you must be able to prove that it has been checked. We have been in the business for 6 years now and can check on your house once or twice a week. We wa-ter your plants and bring in the fl yers and pick up your mail and any other service you may require. Verify with your insu-rance company as to how many times per week they re-quire your house to be checked. Our goal is to give you peace of mind that your house is safe and secure while you are away. So if you or someone you know is a snow bird or just taking a vacation, please call Glenna Brinnen in Parksville at 250-951-0672. We can provide many refer-ences from satisfi ed clients.

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

ADMINISTRATION

ACCOUNTING POSITION

Nootka Sound Timber, locat-ed 10 mins. North of Qualicum Beach, has an opening for someone to process accounts payable and perform related accounting activities. Some accounting knowledge is re-quired as is familiarity with ex-cel and accounting software.

Please fax resume to (250) 594-1198 or email

[email protected]

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

OWNER RETIRING. Heating Service Business for sale, 3400 clients, $20k inventory. Campbell River, BC. Call Alan at (250)480-6700.

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

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DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING

DRIVERS WANTED: Terrifi c career opportunity outstanding growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects. No Rail Experience Needed!!

Extensive Paid Travel, MealAllowance, 4 wks. Vacation &

Benefi ts Package.Skills Needed - Ability to travel 3 months at a time Valid License with air brake endorsement. High School Diploma or GED.

Apply at www.sperryrail.comunder careers, keyword Driver DO NOT FILL IN CITY or STATE

HELP WANTED

An Alberta Construction Com-pany is hiring Dozer and Exca-vator Operators. Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilfi eld road and lease construction. Lodg-ing and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Alcohol & Drug testing required. Call Contour Con-struction at 780-723-5051.

CDA/RECEPTIONIST is need-ed immediately in Parksville. 4 days/week. (250)954-0193.

ENGAGEMENTS

HELP WANTED

BANNISTER AUTO GROUPIf you are energetic, creative and motivated and have the desire to join a “Customer First Family”, then we should invite you to come grow with us.

We are one of Western Canada’s fasted growing automotive companies.

We have an opening at our GM store in Vernon for a

Sales Manager. Interested in joining our team?

Contact Darryl Payeur @ 1-888-410-5761 or email

your resume to [email protected]. Bannister GM Vernon, Bannister GM Edson,

Bannister Honda Vernon, Browns GM Dawson Creek, Champion GM Trail, Huber-

Bannister Chevrolet Penticton, Salmon Arm GM Salmon Arm.

FAMILY RESOURCE Asso-ciation requires an FASD/CDBD Family Support Worker for details go to www.d69fra.org

FELLER BUNCHER- Duncan, BC. We are looking for a full-time Feller Buncher operator. Our logging operations are with Timberwest in the Lake Cowichan area. Wage and benefi t package as per the USW Coast Master Agree-ment. Please fax resume to 604-736-5320 or email to: [email protected].

PART-TIME FRONT DESKRequired for Co-Ed & Wom-en’s Only Fitness Facility. Morning, evening’s & weekend shifts, must be fl exible. Sales & Fitness experience an asset, but employer will train. Must like dealing with the public. Resumes to Bodywork’s Fit-ness, 162 Morrison Ave Parksville, BC

RODWAY & PERRY, a Quali-cum Beach law fi rm, requires a legal assistant for a solici-tor’s wills, estates & corporate practice. Please forward re-sume to PO Box 138, Quali-cum Beach, BC. V9K 1S7 or fax to 250-752-9521

ENGAGEMENTS

HELP WANTED

SUPERINTENDENT, MAINLINE TRACK HOE OP, PIPELAYERS For Underground installation of Sanitary, Water, Storm. Min. 10 yrs. 403-250-8868

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

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HELP WANTED

TENDERS

HOTEL, RESTAURANT, FOOD

BUSY RESTAURANT re-quires a server/bartender. Must have at least 5 years ex-perience and be quick on POS. Apply with resume in person to Trent at Deez Bar & Grill or on-line - [email protected]


HELP WANTED

TENDERS

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES


CAREER OPPORTUNITIES




APPLIANCES

WANTED DEAD OR

ALIVE$$ CASH PAID $$for NEWER FRIDGES, STOVES, WASHERS,

DRYERS etc.

BELLEVUE RECONDITIONED

APPLIANCES Sales & Service. FULL WARRANTY.

Large Showroom 1040 BELLEVUE ROAD

Parksville 250-248-8251

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

HOTEL, RESTAURANT, FOOD

COOK NEEDED. Must have “Food Safe” and a positive at-titude. Apply to: The French Creek Marine Pub #1-1025 Lee Rd, Parksville. Ask for Richard.

WWORK ANTED

FOR ALL your drywall and painting needs, reno’s and re-pairs.Specializing in re-tex-tured ceilings, spray paint. Call a pro, no job too small. Phil 250-954-1859.

PERSONAL SERVICES

ART/MUSIC/DANCING

ORGAN &KEYBOARDLESSONS

In your own homeon your own instrument

KEITH CLARKE1-250-743-9669

FINANCIAL SERVICES

WE’RE ON THE WEB

PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.

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MEDICAL HEALTH

FOOT CARE in your home by certifi ed foot care nurse. 35 years experience. Vets ap-proved. Marg, 250-954-8259.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

CARPENTRY

“GREG’S CARPENTRY” Doors, trim, crown, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, fencing renovations, siding & repair. Quality work. Reasonable. 250-586-5542. Free estimates.

CLEANING SERVICES

ALL CLEAN Housecleaners. Exp., reliable & insured. [email protected]. 250-668-4642

COMPUTER SERVICES

BUYDENS

Computer Services

Offering PC Repairand Personal Tutoring

From Nanoose to Deep Bay

Call Kevin 250-240-7372

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

COMPUTER SERVICES

Friendly in homeMac/PC support and

lessons. Certifi ed tech, 15 + years experience

making technology approachable and easy to understand. All my

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

DRYWALL

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

FENCING

T & R FENCING custom ce-dar fences, gates, & arbours. Tony Albanese 250-951-6289 [email protected]

GARDENING

CHELSEY’S GARDENING Certifi ed horticulturist. Garden & lawn maint. 1 time visits OK. Look forward to seeing you & your garden. 250-586-6172

GARDEN CLEAN-UP, hedge, lawn, sprinkler adjust, haul away anything. Call (250)240-1116 for service today!

TREE PRUNING HEDGE/SHRUBMAINTENANCE Call the qualifi ed

specialist...certifi ed Garden

Designer/Arborist Ivan 250-758-0371

www.eucalyptusdesign.ca

WES-COAST YARDBIRDS. Lawns, gardens, yard clean-up, hauling. Pressure washing, Irrigation, carpentry. Tree Pruning, Topping, Removal. Please call 250-752-9444.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

ALL TYPES of hauling. Small loads, garden waste, construc-tion debris & junk. Call Ron 250-757-2094, 250-228-1320.

CLEAN-UP SPECIALIST, small or big loads, rubbish, garden, waste, junk. Service today at (250)240-1116.

WAYNE’S HAUL-AWAY. Will haul away unwanted whatev-er. Small engine repair, Bondable, Call 250-752-1639.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

TODD THE BUILDER. Renos, plumbing. Commercial offi ces; Custom homes. 250-752-1121

& MOVING STORAGE

2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on lo-cal moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)951-0010.

PAINTING

A STROKE ABOVE Painting. Commercial & Residential. In-terior/Exterior. WCB, liability insurance. All jobs warranted. See what we can do! Dave 250-248-0335, 250-240-2310.

POIRIER PAINTING, Resi-dential / Commercial / Vinyl Siding / Driveway Power Washing/ Driveway Sealing. Fully insured, Guaranteed Workmanship, Free Estimates. Call Dan 250-240-3528. WCB

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

FREE ITEMS

FREE DROP OFF: Oil, batter-ies, scrap metal. We pay $Cash$ for unwanted Cars & Trucks. Call anytime. Norms Towing & Salvage (prev. of Bull Dog Auto) 250-757-8911 or 250-954-7543.

WHERE BUYERS AND SELLERS MEET

FUEL/FIREWOOD

SEASONED FIREWOOD Vancouver Island’s largest fi re-wood producer offers fi rewood legally obtained during forest restoration, large cords. Help restore your forest, Burndrywood.com 1-877-902-WOOD.

FURNITURE

APARTMENT SIZE Half moon sectional sofa (3 pcs on cast-er). 30” high, 32” deep. Pastel colors in fi ne stripes. Perfect cond. $295. 250-248-9400

DINING ROOM set, medium oak, solid wood with 4 chairs and china cabinet. Like new, asking $1200 obo. Call (250)951-0839.

HIGH QUALITY FURNISH-INGS 4 sale. Sofa & love seat, green & gold, end tables wood inlay, lamps, cream recliner, hutch. 8 pc bdrm suite & many other items. 250-586-8922

QUEEN SIZE Hide-A-Bed (Ikea), in very good condition, beige colour. Asking $295 obo. Call (250)585-8998.

SINGLE PINE Canonball style bed with mattress, in mint con-dition, asking $175 obo. Call (250)752-5573.

MEDICAL SUPPLIES

PORTABLE “AQUATIC” Bath lift. Seldom used. Cost $2,000. Sell for $500. 250-752-8272

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

ACKLAND GAS welder with onan engine. $2500: Power washer 3000 psi, Honda 11

horsepower, $800. Call 250-248-5255

BOWFLEX POWER Pro Trainer, $500. Sears Frees-port Treadmill, $500. Sears kingsize, top of the line latex mattress, hardly used. $750. Call (250)586-8027.

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

JVC 48” projection colour TV (grey), fl oor model, 6 yrs old, great picture and colour, $200 obo. Call (250)951-0839.

QUALITY GARDEN SHEDS Also gazebos, pergolas, studi-os & storage solutions. Call 250-951-0855

TOOLS

18” BANDSAW, 220 amp, nice saw, $500. 12” Plan-er/Shaper, good one, $500. Call (250)802-5894 leave message.

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

BRAND NEW Nanaimo home under 10 yr warranty. 3bdrms +den up; 2bdrm legal suite down. Lndry on both levels. $390,000. 1 (250)751-5114

CAYCUSEVery rare 5 acre treed

park-like Property with well-maintained furnished home - 1500 sq.ft, 3-bdrm, 2 bath. Extremely close to Pristine Cowichan Lake. Perfect for recreational

property or full time living. Reduced to sell $378,800.

Exceptionally low yearly cost. Not leased land.Call 250-745-3387 or

250-478-2648

CREEKFRONT 2.5 acres in Englishman River Estates, Er-rington. Total 3000 sq ft, 3 bdrm, 4 bath near-new home including private suite. $449,900. Courtesy to real-tors. Call 250-586-8444. For details: http://members.shaw.ca/forsale_1580benzon/index.html

IMMEDIATE POSSESSIONWell maintained, +/- 1200 sq ft. Rancher, 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath, close to schools & shopping.

Reasonable offers considered $280,000 Call 250-240-8558Parksville, 681 Blenkin Ave.

LONG LAKE CONDOGreat location 2bdrm, 2bath, 1400sq.ft., in-suite lndry, brkfst nook, new appli’s, walk-in closets, nice deck. $275,000. (250)585-2289

Parksville 2 hectacres with 3 bdrm modular. Mins. from town. Lots of water, trees & lawn. Reduced to $450,000.00 Drive by 1304 Coldwater Rd. If interested call 250-228-7162

QUALICUM BEACH $295,0001512 sq/ft., 2 bdrm, 2 bath + den, 5 yr old modular home situated on own land in Coop Park. Lots of parking. Will trade for rancher in Nanaimo or Oceanside. 250-738-0248

UPTOWN QUALICUM. 3 bdrm 1 bath rancher in Hermi-tage Park. 1,200.sq ft, updat-ed peek-a-boo view of ocean and mtns. French doors lead-ing to deck. $304,000. Katherine 250 752-5433.

HOUSES FOR SALE

NANAIMO PATIO home. Ex-cellent location, 1280 sq ft, 2 bdrms, 2 bath, gas furnace & fi replace, garage, vaulted ceil-ings, sunny patio. Asking $282,900. Call 250-327-2551.

REAL ESTATE

HOUSES FOR SALE HOUSES FOR SALE

PARKSVILLE: 3 Bdrm, re-cently reno’d, 1/4 acre lot close to all amenities. Likely the nicest home in price range! 250-947-9959. To view go to www.propertyguys.com/42584

REAL ESTATE

GARAGE SALES

ERRINGTON, 1430 Errington Rd. Multi-Family. Sat. Oct. 6th (9-2) Fresh produce, baked goods, too many things to list! Good stuff!! Join us? Table rental $10 Info: Please Call Serina at 250-927-4493

FRENCH CREEK 1416 Willow Way (off Johnstone). Oct 6 (8-2). Multi family. Dodge truck tire/rims, scuba gear, wine bot-tles, fi shing gear, golf balls, household & toys. Lots more.

PARKSVILLE, 253 McKinnon St. (off Hirst), Sat, Oct. 6, 8am-2pm. Toys, bikes, sports gear, Halloween costumes and much more.

PARKSVILLE 541 Chinook Ave Oct 5-7 (9-1). All the treasures you ever wanted.

PARKSVILLE, 650 Wedge-wood, (off Soriel/off Pym), Oct. 6 (8:30-2). Moving Sale.

PARKSVILLE OFF of Alls-brook First lane on Popham Rd on the left. Oct 6 (9-4). Twenty years of things!!

PARKSVILLE. SAT. Oct. 6, 9am-2pm. Household items, lots of tools, pressure washer, books, men’s bike, etc. 646 Brice Ave.

QUALICUM BAY 2855-59 Olympic Rd (off Horne Lake Rd). Oct 6 & 7 (10-3). Two families, houseware, jacuzzi tub, granite, some furniture. All must go!!

QUALICUM BEACH: 939 McFeely Drive (off Kincade). Rain or shine! Sat., Oct. 6th, 8-2pm. Revival Finds selling out store, 60% off.

GARAGE SALES

QUALICUM BAY 5996 W. Is-land Hwy.(By Henrys) Moving Sale!! Fri. & Sat. Oct. 5th & 6th (8-2). Offi ce & house furniture, china, kitchen appl’s, books, kids toys, gardening equip., lawn mover, tools...Everything must go! Too much to list! Postponed if raining!

QUALICUM BEACH- 1211 Clubhouse Dr, Sat, Oct. 6 10am-3pm. Last chance for hand crafted Opals set in pen-dants at half wholesale price. (175 left). Think about Xmas.

Qualicum Beach 3 Car Garage Sale

Chest freezer, desks, mahjongg table, wine

making equipment, dog carrier, dresser, jetted corner bathtub, sinks,

aircraft propeller, WW11 goggles, instruments and

books, handipole, teen books, games, clothes, scooters. Sat, Oct. 6th, 8am, 788 Hemsworth

Rd., (off Mant).

QUALICUM BEACH, Harle-quin Rd. (Eaglecrest), Sat, Oct. 6, 8:30am-1pm. Multi Family Sale. Furniture, fl oor-ing, kitchen, linens, Christmas, clothing, L’Amour/books, misc and vintage items. Something for everyone.

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Garage SalesGarage Sales


REAL ESTATE

HOMES WANTED

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RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

1/2 MONTH FREE! MOVE IN OCT 15. DON’T PAY TIL NOV 1ST: Emerald Estates (Parks-ville) 50+ Independent Suppor-tive Seniors. 1 & 2 bdrm patio suites. Walk to beach & shops. Housekeeping incl. Meals optl. $1250-$1650. 250-468-1465. [email protected]

255 HIRST Ave- 2 bdrms, $900. Call Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881.www.ardentproperties.com

297 HIRST Avenue- 2 bdrms + den 2 bath, $1150 or $1350 furnished. Ardent Properties. www.arden tp roper t ies.com (250)753-0881.

Available Oct 1Beautifully renovated 1 bedroom condos. 2nd fl oor with balcony and covered parking. Gated & quiet setting next to Heritage Forest. Walk to QB Village. Small pets ok. To view: 250-752-5233.

OCEAN SANDS RESORT on Rathtrevor Beach. Fully fur-nished 2 bdrm condos in-cludes utilities, cable, phone & internet. Units available starting Sept 1. $1100/mo. Call (250)954-0662.

PARKSVILLE. 930 sq.ft. ground level 2 bdrm condo. In-suite laundry, H/W fl oors, W/D, D/W, gas F/P, parking, NS/NP. Avail. now. $950 p/mo. Lease, ref’s req’d. 250-947-5151.

PARKSVILLE, Brand new luxury apartments on Weld St. 6 stainless steel appliances, granite c/tops, some with ocean view, centrally located, small pets ok, N/S bldg. Avail Immed. Call 250-468-9811

PARKSVILLE, LUXURIOUS 2 bdrm condo, 2 bath, fi replace, patio, prkg incl’d, $1100 mo + utils. Call (250)713-1025.

PARKSVILLE APT- 2 bdrms, top fl oor in quiet 4-plex, F/S, D/W, free laundry. $850. Avail Oct. or Nov. 1. 250-954-7435.

PARKSVILLE- RENO’D 2 bdrm apt, free storage & park-ing, quiet bldg, heat/hot water incld. Available Oct 1. $800. Call 250-248-3350.

QUALICUM- 1 BDRM apart-ments, $475. NS/NP. Please phone 250-248-4656.

QUALICUM: 1 bdrm apt w/ocean view, parking at the door. $700/mo inclds all util’s. Avail Nov. 1. 250-752-3333.

QUALICUM BEACH- 1 bdrm, furnished suite, bright, water-front. Avail now. NS/NP. $825 inclds utils/internet. Call 250-757-8682 or 250-752-9252.

QUALICUM BEACH (Down-town)- 1000sq ft, 2 bdrms, 1 bath, 5 appls, lrg living room & deck, $1000 mo. Avail Nov. 1. Min 1 year lease. NS/NP. 2 ref’s. 250-240-0549, 250-752-3241 or 250-752-7904.

QUALICUM BEACH, Down-town. Quiet, secure 1 bdrm + den, 810 sq.ft. condo. F/S, D/W, W/D. Large deck, u/ground parking, elevator. N/S, N/P. $950 p/m Call 250-821-8997 or 250-240-3909

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

QUALICUM BEACH North. 1 bedroom, 925 sq feet. Private setting. 1 bath, full kitchen,w/d NS/NP. $700/month utilities not included. Available Nov. 1, 2012. Call Mike 250 752-2379

QUALICUM BEACH- water-front condo. 2 bdrms, 2 bath, W/D, secure parking. Adult oriented building, non smoking no pets. $1150/mo. Call 250-752-5021 or 250-954-5021. Available Sept. 1st.

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

RETAIL/OFFICE- 530sq ft, 130 W 2nd Ave, Heard Centre, Qualicum Beach. $12sq ft+ triple net. Parking access doors front & rear. Available Nov 1 or sooner. Call (250)752-9892.

COTTAGES

QUALICUM BAY, 1 bdrm cot-tage, 800 sq ft, $700 mo, priv setting, all utils incl’d except heat, N/S, pets neg with dep. Avail immed. (250)240-2335.

QUALICUM BEACH: 1&2 bdrm fully furnished cab-ins/townhouses for rent $800-$950/mo. incl. ALL util. @ Riv-erside Resort. 400 yrds to beach. No smoking. Pets OK. 1/2 mo. deposit required. 250-752-9544; drop in to view daily at 3506 West Island Hwy. www.MyRiversideResort.com

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

PARKSVILLE- 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath. Avail Nov 1. 55+ bldg. NP/NS. $800. 1(403)942-3752

PARKSVILLE- BRIGHT, spa-cious, 1 bdrm w/deck, walk to beach, schools, parks, shops. Parking & shared W/D. NS/NP. $725+. Avail Oct 1st. 778-300-2148, 250-947-5678.

QUALICUM: COZY, clean 2-bdrm suite in duplex, minutes from Qualicum Beach. Country setting, N/P, $750/mo. utils not included. Avail now. Call (250)752-6098, (250)954-8847

QUALICUM- Walk to every-thing. 2 bdrm duplex. car port, storage. NS/NP. Discount to good tenant. (250)954-3645.

HOUSESITTING

MATURE WOMAN will house sit and or pet sit. Call Shirley 250-248-9628

MOBILE HOMES & PADS

PARKSVILLE: 2 bdrm mobile close to Orange Bridge, 4 appl’s. $800 + utils. Avail now. (250)954-1960.

MODULAR HOMES

PARKSVILLE 2 bdrm trailer w/addition. F/S, no pets. Ref’s. $800 + util. Avail Nov 1st. 250-248-9828

HOMES FOR RENT

112 PYM- 4 bdrms, 2 bath, $1200. Call Ardent Properties. www.arden tp roper t ies.com (250)753-0881.

ERRINGTON- (5 kms to Parksville) 1150sq ft, 3 bdrm Rancher, 1 bath, electric heat, quiet, treed property shared acreage with neighbours, 12x20 shed. Fenced yard, no dogs. $800/mo. Available im-mediately. Call 250-248-7118 or cell 250-954-5045.

ERRINGTON BY the falls: Bachelor cabin with loft sleep-ing space, $750/mo. incls. laundry, hydro, internet. Avail Nov. 1, NS/NP. (250)951-9621

NEW CUSTOM 3 bdrm, 2 bath home 12 min to Qualicum Beach. Share 15 acres of trails & pond. 5 appl, N/S, 1 pet neg. $1150. 250-757-8862.

OCEANFRONT, DEEP Bay. 1400 sq.ft. 3-bdrm, 2 bath, 5 appl’s. N/S. Small pet neg. $1000./mo. + utils. Ref’s req’d. (778) 241-5253.

PARKSVILLE- 3 BDRMS, 2 bath Rancher. 5 appls, car-port, fenced backyard, wood-stove. Walk to Wembley Mall. NS/NP. $1300+ utils. Refs req’d. Oct 1. (250)752-9807.

PARKSVILLE: 3 bdrm ranch-er, mountain view, 1.5 bath, dbl garage, RV parking, F/S, W/D, gas FP, NS, NP, $1350. Avail Nov. 1st. (403)278-6857

RENTALS

HOMES FOR RENT

please refer to our website:www.parksvillerealestate.comto view our rental properties

Q.B. BRIGHT furn 3 bdrm rancher, nr beach, $1250+ util’s. NS/NP (604)240-1069.

QUALICUM BEACH, 1 bdrm + sunroom on half acre, 4 appls, N/P, N/S, ref’s req’d. Avail Nov. 1, $800 mo. Call (250)752-0126.

QUALICUM BEACH- large 2bdrm townhouse, 1200sqft 2bath, 3appls, lrg private deck & patio, sm pet ok. $975. Avail. Oct. 1st. 250-752-4258.

QUALICUM BEACH Rancher, walk to town & beach, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, double garage in NEW condition, $1350/mo utils ex-tra. Available immed. Call 250-752-4842.

QUALICUM BEACH recently renovated 3 bdrm house, 1.5 bath, all appl’s, NS/NP near town, ref’s req’d, avail Nov. 1, $1100/mo. 250-240-8644 or 250-240-2730.

QUALICUM BEACH VILLAGE CENTER - 2 bedroom home, hardwood fl oors, new kitchen and bathroom, bright and airy. Has 1 car garage and extra parking. $1250/mo landscap-ing included, available Decem-ber 1. 250-752-0288

RENT YOUR HOME!Owner & Tenant

Management ServicesNanoose to Bowser

View current rentalsOn our website:

www.remax-fi rst-bc.ca

250-248-10711-888-243-1071

propmgmt@remax-fi rst-bc.ca

Ron LimerManaging Broker

Val LambertProperty Manager

21 - 826 W. Island HwyParksville, B.C., V9P 2B7

The Kerr Group Management

Parksville: 2 bdrm, 2 bath bungalow.

1600 sq.ft. All hardwood fl oors, nice view of pond

off deck. N/S.Avail. now. $1250./mo Call (250)586-1100

WHISKEY CREEK, charming fully furnished 2 bdrm home. Avail Oct 31-Apr 31’13. 5 appls, propane f/p, n/s, small pet OK. Most util incl. $950./mo. 250-752-9495

OFFICE/RETAIL

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PARKSVILLE: RV site avail. yr round on acreage. Located on Martindale Rd. $400/mo. + metered hydro. Quiet country style living, lots of parking, storage shed avail. on site. Phone Dan at 250-248-0080.

QUALICUM BEACH. Long term RV site, $375/mo. (excl. hydro, cable). 250-752-9544. Riverside Resort.

PARKSVILLE AREA- RV pad. Wooded site. $425/mo, in-cludes utils. Available now. Call 250-927-5623.

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PARKSVILLE: 1 bdrm charm-ing, self contained, oceanside cottage Winter vacation in San Pareil. Daily, weekly & monthly rates. NS/NP. 250-248-3897.

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DOGLEG RD SELF STOR-AGE. 250-752-0175. Special 5’ x 10’ units $36/mo. incl tax.

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PARKSVILLE (SANDPIPER) clean 1 bdrm entry level, 6 appls, shower. Nov 15. Heat, light, Starchoice, some furn, shed, freezer. $800./mo N/S, Quiet. Call: 250-738-0092.

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PARKSVILLE, 3 bdrm, N/S, N/P, Avail. Oct. 15th. $1200 p/m incl. sat. TV, Hydro. Call 250-248-4074

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CHURCH ROAD,1 bdrm suite, large spacious, Wembly area, gated, available immed. Call 250-228-3177

COOMBS. 12 mins to Parks-ville/ QB. Bright 3-bdrm, open concept - kitchen, dining room, family room. Huge garage & storage. F/S, D/W, wood stove $1000./mo. (250)951-9962.

ERRINGTON. PRIVATE bachelor suite. inclds heat/hy-dro, cable, N/S, N/P. $575 mo. avail Oct. 15. 250-248-2101.

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1988 VOLVO 240DL, body in good shape, no rust at all. Good driving condition. In-cludes 4 new all season tires and 4 new snow tires. $2000 obo. Call (250)240-2014 or email to: [email protected]

1996 MERCEDES C-280, V-6, 4-door, sport sedan, color: desert sand. 162,000k, leath-er interior, heated seats, fully loaded, $6,500.(250)390-2424

2001 JAGUAR XJ8Black leather interior and black exterior. 153,975 km, $10,000.Call 250-586-3380

2002 MERCEDES E320 Load-ed, immaculate, all leather. Sil-ver on Gray. $129,000 km’s. Original owner. $12,500. Call 250-594-0012.

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BENEFITfor Aaron Bee who was hit by a drunk driver & lost an arm. Silent auction & meat draw all starting 4pm at Deez Bar & Grill, 3353 W. Island Hwy., QB SANDBAR FRIDAYPeter Mason plays Sandbar Cafe6087 Island Hwy. W.,QB

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The Wildcats were game but the Kondors wore them down Tuesday as KSS knocked off Wellington 5-1 in AA B.C. high school soccer action.

A fast-paced match played out in Qualicum Beach under still more sun, the Kondors struck early as in a minute in to go up 1-nil when Santiago Bouyra cashed in on a wild goal mouth scramble.

“It was a wild scramble,” KSS head coach Butch Gayton confirmed after, pointing out “we had about five shots be-fore it finally went in it — they (the shots) were bouncing off defenders, bouncing off our guys....”

The underdogs from Wellington scored to pull even 1-1 off a nifty passing play down low five minutes later, which is how it stood for quite awhile.

“I’m surprised it’s this tight,” the Wellington keeper

quipped after another Kwalikum shot sailed wide. “It was supposed to be a blowout.”

“We weren’t excited about scoring goals in the first half,” said Gayton. “We were tinkering with formations and we wanted to knock the ball around to get used to each other.”

Ben Robson slotted one home late in the first half for a 2-1 Kwalikum lead at the break.

The Kondors came out in the second half with purpose and upped the offensive pressure even more, as Darien At-kinson, Evan Stefanek and Axel Cash all tallied for Kwali-kum down the stretch.

Backup goalie Bruno Feitosa looked solid to pick up the win in net.

But the big news for the lads in the burgundy strips was the 28th-29th at the Carihi Sr. Boys Fall Classic in Campbell River where the Kondors went 4-0 to finish top of the heap at

the annual eight-team tourney, which is always seen as an important litmus test for the top teams.

KSS opened with a 1-0 win over Mark Isfeld’s Ice from Comox; knocked off the host Tyees in penalty kicks (1-1 after regulation), then trimmed the defending provincial champions Glenlyon Norfolk from Victoria 2-1.

“That was a very interesting game. It was a great game for us — it was a good win for our confidence.”

KSS closed it out with another win in PK, this one over Gulf Islands (1-1 after regulation).

“We were incredibly gritty, they were incredibly talented.“The thing about this is that we started the tournament

missing five starters,” said Gayton,” and we’ve got guys that are hurt, that are limping, and we were trying to hold off two very good teams in GNS and Gulf Islands.”

See SR. BOYS, page A42

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Varsity Whalers rout Argyle 51-0

QB Kondors wear out wildcats


Heeeeee’s baaack.Starting senior tailback Tysen Hunt

marked his return to the lineup on home field with an exclamation mark Saturday as the Ballenas Whalers pasted the Argyle Pipers 51-0.

The six-foot, 200 pounder, who had ma-jor knee surgery in the off season, was play-ing his first game in almost a year, and his 35 yard touchdown romp up the middle six plays into the Whalers first offensive series marked the first of seven Whaler majors on the day.

“He had compounding injuries so he played pretty much all of last year on a bad knee,” explained Whalers’ head coach Jere-my Conn, confirming Hunt’s return to the lineup is great news for the team as it steers course towards the playoffs.

“He’s our captain, and you could defi-nitely feel the boost in the energy level — he brings a physical presence to the team,” said Conn, adding “he’s a big athletic kid, and he also brings lot of leadership and ex-perience.”

A standout with the JV’s for two years, Hunt’s last start was the varsity Whalers playoff game against Mission in the semi-finals last year. Saturday marked the final appearance on home turf for Hunt (and 11 of his teammates), and to that end he certainly looked like he was having fun out there as he flattened more than one would-be tackler, rushing for 75 yards and the TD on seven carries.

“We didn’t know if he was going to be able to play at all this year,” Conn said after the dust had settled, adding “but he’s been doing a lot of physio and we’ve been keep-ing him out until now — we had this game

targeted as a good game to make his come-back, and he was cleared to play.”

The Whalers led 37-0 at the half. The Pipers, from North Van, showed some pluck but were clearly overmatched.

“’Gun’na be a quiet bus ride home for those boys,” one dad surmised from the sidelines. The Pipers, in only their second season in the league, lost 33-0 to NDSS the week before.

THE NUMBERS GAME Saturday’s win was definitely by com-

mittee.Dallas Towle was on a tear, pulling in

three touchdown catches for 92 yards re-ceiving, and adding a 50-yard punt return for a TD to go along with two interceptions.

“That’s a good day,” chuckled Conn.Scott Childs had four catches for 82

yards and two TDS, and he also had a 65 yard punt return for the major.

Quarterback Liam O’Brien was 6-for-6 for 160 yards in the air and four touchdown passes — both season highs — and he also had another interception on defence.

Asked how they approach games like Saturday where they know they will have the upper hand, Conn was clear that “for us it’s to play the best we can play. We’re try-ing to build consistency. It’s still all about teamwork, right.”

JV call-up Coltin Laplante stepped up with an interception and four tackles. Nick Walter had three carries for 56 yards and added seven tackles on defence. Josh Bishop had seven tackles and an intercep-tion.

O’Brien was given the second half off, and backup quarterback Josh Bouchard threw an 18-yard TD strike to Childs in the 3rd quarter.

“We played good in all areas,” said Conn, pointing out the Whalers pulled down five interceptions on the day, “but there’s still definitely some things that need to get fixed, especially on special teams.”

GAME ON The Varsity Whalers are in Victoria on

Friday for a 5 p.m. kickoff against the Bull-dogs from Belmont.

“It’s going to be a good test,” said Conn. They’re a big school with big kids, we just have to try to out execute them.”

IN AA JR VARSITY action, the Whal-ers, who are coming off a bye, travel to Bear Mountain Friday to take on the Bel-mont Bulldogs in a key Island Conference matchup.

Tysen Hunt, back from off-season injury, runs 35 yards for one of seven touchdowns

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

JAMES CLARKE PHOTO

Senior tailback Tysen Hunt, above busting this TD run up the middle thanks to some key blocks by teammetes Adam Droog, left, and Brock Mould, marked his return to the Whalers’ lineup against the Argyle Pipers on Saturday in BC Highs School AA Football action.

SOCCER



One thing for certain, the extended stretch of au-tumn sun is being well received on area golf courses, as evident on the fairways of Eaglecrest on Tuesday when four old friends, each of them charting their course carefully in the face of gusting winds, were clearly enjoying themselves.

The four amigos — Bob Bagnall, Dennis Gies-brecht, Bill Watson and Neville Taylor — were part of the Eaglecrest Men’s Club Tuesday match play.

“Another beautiful day, fantastic!” one of them

piped up from the edge of the green on number nine, and then Dennis drained a nice 13-footer which earned some props from his playing partners.

“That was probably my best putt of the day,” he panned.

Between the four of them we determined, they bring 189 years of golfing experience to the greens. Bagnall, 85 with a 25 handicap, leads the way with 75 years under his belt, Neville next at 64, Watson’s in at 30 and Dennis has 20.

“Wow, that’s a lot of experience,” Bill laughed, and off they went.

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Four amigos among those enjoying the late season golf

JAMES CLARKE PHOTO

Four amigos from left, Bob Bagnall, Dennis Giesbrecht, Bill Watson and Neville Taylor.

In the tournament final against the Scor-pions, Gayton said his side was out-possessed “probably 75 per cent to 25, we got a goal and we just hung on for dear life.”

Robson notched the opening goal in that one 10 minutes — it was his first game back after missing three to injury, and to win the game in

PKs was a notable ac-complishment for the team.

“It was pretty spec-tacular,” said the long-time teacher/coach, adding “it was a very special moment in KSS soccer — at the end of it to realize what we did with just a ragtag fugi-tive fleet.”

In what was certain-ly a busy week one of

their season, the Kon-dors played five games in five days and won all five — three of them by shutout, with a goals for-and-against of 11-2.

“We were the wounded warriors to-day. We battled hard,” Kwalikum teacher and soccer booster Ruth Ste-fanek said after the tour-nament final in CR.

GAME ON

Kwalikum’s Sr. Boys are home next Tuesday (Oct. 9) when they host Barsby (3:30 p.m. start) then travel to Nanaimo to take on AAA power-houses Dover Bay Dol-phins in a friendly.

In junior boys soc-cer action, Kwalikum and Ballenas both had league games on Wednesday.

The Kondors clipped Ladysmith 7-1 at KSS, and the Whalers suf-fered a 4-1 setback against the Dover Bay Dolphins in Nanaimo.

Daniel Doukakis was on a tear Wednesday, leading the Kondors with four goals and two assists in their win, which lifts the team to 2-0 in league play and 3-2-1 overall. Their next league game is next Wednesday on the road.

In the BSS game, Dover went up 1-nil and Ian Whibley bur-ied a hard low shot to knot it 1-1. The Dol-phins upped it to 2-1 just before the half, then scored two late goals to secure the win.

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Gens weekend previewJAMES CL [email protected]

Oceanside’s Save-On-Foods Generals head into week six of their VIJHL regular season campaign looking to snap a two-game losing skid against two tough teams with reinforce-ments on their way.

In this, our first instalment of an ongoing update on the team to run every Friday, The News caught up with this weeks featured player on the Generals program — home grown D-man and assistant captain Noah Rus-si, 17.

The 5’10” 180 pound right shooting rearguard is in his sec-ond season with the Generals and is coming off a great rookie campaign that saw him selected to the North Division All Star Team. Russi, who has arguably one of the best shots in the en-tire VIJHL, gave the Gens 38 games last year and chipped in with four goals and 12 assists.

In his senior year at Ballenas Secondary, Russi came over from Abbotsford when he was around seven and played his minor hockey here.

Asked about the Generals current special teams — the Gens are currently sitting sixth in the nine-team league on spe-cial teams with a power play that’s only producing at 10.26 per cent with four goals in 39 PP opportunities thus far, while allowing only nine power play goals in 43 PK’s (79.07 per cent).

“I think we just have to do the small things better. We’re trying

to do much,” he said when asked about what the players need to do to turn their power play and offensive output around. “Just get pucks out when we need to and capitalize on our chances. For sure we need to get the puck on net more.

“Were not a very big team, but we should be chipping the pucks in and hitting more. When we have been strong on the forecheck, when we use our skill to our advantage and get the puck on net we’ve been successful, and we should stick to that.”

All in all, Russi says he’s glad to be back with the hometown club.

“It’s been great. I like the new coaches and the guys are great ... I think we have some really skilled players; we just have to come together and I think we’ll do pretty good.”

“He’s a solid D-man, one

of our top four guys for sure,” Gens’ head coach Brent De-merais confirmed about Rus-si’s game, adding “we do have a fairly young core back there, but he’s a strong kid, he sees the ice pretty good, and he works ex-tremely hard.”

On the subject of reinforce-ments, Demerais confirmed he’s close to signing some new players — “We have to shake up the lineup a bit here,” he said — and was some happy to report that local power forward Tra-vis Flug is expected back in the lineup for spot duty this week-end as he gets back up to game speed. Flug had a hernia opera-tion back in August and just got back on skates last week.

“I thought he was the best player in training camp by far, but he needed to get this done to get it over with and out of the way. He’s not up to game speed, but he’ll still contribute. It’s great to have him back, and he’s really excited about play-ing tonight,” said the first year coach. “We’re lacking a physical presence in front of the net right now, and he’ll be one of the guys that will help fix that.”

GAME ONThe Generals were in Victo-

ria Thursday night to face the league’s first place unbeaten Cougars, and return home to ‘the Place for a big North Divi-sion showdown against the Co-mox Valley Glacier Kings (7:30 p.m. start).

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The News takes a look at local D-man Noah Russi


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