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LOCAL, IT’s LOCO Event”Last year I wanted to do a

promotion that rewarded our customers, but also an event that would show everyone in the community how much we appreciate all the local business and support we have received here at Courtenay KIA since I arrived in April of 2013.

So we created the “It’s so Local it’s LOCO event.” Here is how it works: #1 You purchase a New or Used car from Courtenay KIA, #2 You pop a balloon with a Local Business Gift Certificate inside and #3 You pop another balloon to find out how much of the proceeds from the sale of the vehicle will go to a local charity. (Prizes and donations range from $25 -$100 value each.)

We wanted an event that helped and promoted local businesses, their employees and charities, rather than offering a bunch of bulk items from a big

box store or a gimmicky vacation package with fees attached.

We selected a wide variety of quality local businesses that we think stand out in the Comox Valley . Many of the businesses are currently Courtenay KIA clients (Home & Garden Gate, Spirit of the West Coast Native Art Gallery, and many of the staff next door at The White Whale.) or else they are associated with the dealership from a networking group here in the valley called” Corporate Connections” (past member Muck Off Car Wash and present member Charisma Essentials Day Spa) or the Courtenay KIA White Whaler Mens hockey club. (Gladstone Brewery and The White Whale) and finally we can’t forget the Bucher’s Block where we get our BBQ supplies. We are very proud to help Local Charities for the next two months and hope to raise a ton of money for people. The

charities we are working with this time around are the Comox Valley SPCA, YANA, Comox Valley Child Development Association & Comox Valley Food Bank.

HERE COMES THE “CRAZY” GUILT TRIP ...So if you are looking for a vehicle in May or June you owe it to your community to check out Courtenay KIA. LOL

It would be absolutely “BONKERS” to give away a ton of Cash to all these Charities we are CRAZY about, and to hand out a WACKO amount of LOCAL Gift Cards!

As an added level of CRAZINESS, just find our event on Facebook, Like & Share it for a chance to win $500 in local shopping, that’s one Gift Certificate from each business in our event, there’s no purchase necessary !

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Snowbird likes local picture. You’re Invited! The 2017 Kia Sportage Launch Party

Welcome to our newest recruit.Congratulations to

our Sales Person of the Month for April, Alex Campbell.

Alex is our senior sales rep at Courtenay KIA and has all the answers to help with your vehicle needs. A proud Grandpa (& Great Grandpa) and amazing person. Good Job Alex, we are all proud of your quality work!

I had a chance to get down to Kye Bay and check out the Snowbirds this year. Managing to get some good shots, I put one on Instagram. The next day I received a like on the picture from Snowbird6.

It’s a treat to be here and see them and I was flattered that one of the pilots took the time to interact with people on social media.

Thank you to snowbird6 (on Instagram, check him out his pictures are awesome.) and the rest of your team. See you next April from all your friends at Courtenay KIA.

Come join us for our special event to debut the all new 2017 Sportage at Courtenay Kia. Conceived for urban adventure, the completely redesigned 2017 Sportage is the most extraordinary compact crossover on the road today. With an imposing appearance, a rock-solid stance, an upgraded cabin, and the torque to take you wherever the journey leads you, the new Sportage is a stylish, bolder-than-ever standout in an otherwise utilitarian category. Bring the whole family and test drive the new models and have some fun!

And when you test drive on May 14th, you’ll receive a $60 gift to be used in the dealership. Plus, be entered to win a $10,000 Power to Surprise Experience. It’s a great time to try something from our highly awarded lineup

We are pleased to introduce Brianne Sutherland to our sales team.

She is new to the area but has worked at another far away KIA dealer in the past.

If you have any questions for us and email the store you will most likely receive a response from Brie or the Sales Manager (Elmano Lima) as they will be providing all of our potential customers with the answers they need to make the right choice of vehicle.

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It’s ready!One of only two single malt whiskeys being made in Canada goes on sale today from Shelter Point DistilleryBY SPENCER ANDERSON Echo Staff

Shelter Point Distillery is releasing its fi rst-ever batch of single malt whis-key today, and U.S. and Chinese buyers are snap-ping up the lion’s share of

the new spirit.The whiskey is the re-

sult of fi ve years’ work and makes the distillery only one of two in Canada that regularly produces a sin-gle malt whiskey, which is made from barley.

(Continued on page 4)Shelter Point Distillery owner Patrick Evans and lead distiller James Marinus with their newly-released single malt whiskey; theresult of fi ve years’ work.

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Its famous cousin is scotch, the well-known and revered barley whis-key produced in Scot-land.

Shelter Point is also a 1,279-acre farm, and produces its own barley on site and is modeled on the ‘fi eld to fl ask’ on-site production made famous by Scottish dis-tilleries.

Located by the Oyster River, Shelter Point was a gamble by owner Pat-rick Evans more than fi ve years ago. Today, as bottles of the whis-key are shipped out, the gamble pays off .

Already, about 65 per cent of the total 34-bar-rel run – roughly 1,200 cases – is spoken for, said Evans. The rest will be distributed in private liquor stores and some will be available to taste at the distillery itself.

The good news for whiskey afi cionados wanting to sample the whiskey is that next year’s run will be larger, at an estimated 2,800 cases. The next year, the distillery aims for 4,800, Evans said.

But Evans said he expects demand will remain high among for-eign markets like China and India, where supply for domestic single malt

supply is running dry.Shelter Point’s Ca-

nadian origins can also lend an exotic appeal.

“It brands itself to some degree,” said Ev-ans.

Another point in the distillery’s favour is the relative rarity of Canadi-an single malts in a mar-ket where rye – a grain that produces a spicy, fruity, peppery whiskey – and blended whiskeys remain popular.

James Marinus has been in charge of craft-ing the spirit over the past fi ve years.

“Everyone and their dog can make whiskey and everyone and their dog does,” he said. “But there’s only so much sin-gle malt whiskey.”

As for the whiskey’s taste, Marinus, who has been sampling the spirit “since day one,” says he detects “quite an apple note to it.”

Evans, on the other hand, tastes oak, vanilla and caramel.

“I think that’s the neat thing about whiskey,” he says. “It’s very subjec-tive.”

(Reporter’s note: I had a small taste, and also noticed caramel and fruit fl avours.)

Now, it’s tasting time for the upstart whiskey and the rest of the world can judge.

The Point Holmes Recreation Association will be holding our AGM at 7 pm, Thursday 19 May, in the Pavilion by the boat ramp on Lazo Rd. The PHRA manages the boat ramp and li-aises with the Town of Comox for maintenance and improve-ments to the adjacent park.

Everyone is welcome to attend and share ideas, fi sh stories and pick up your 2016 boat ramp pass. Annual passes will be available for only $35 for boaters, kayakers and SUP. Cor-porate annual memberships are available for $100, with your logo displayed on our sign.

Pt. Holmes annual meeting next Thursday

BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

Debra Oakman is leaving her post as chief administrative offi cer of the Comox Valley Regional District at the end of June.

The quest to fi nd Oakman’s re-placement has already began.

The CVRD board decided to use a recruitment fi rm to do the searching for them. A request for proposal was issued earlier this year and out of 11 companies that responded, the top ranked proponent was Davies Park

Executive Search fi rm.The board agreed to award a con-

tract in the amount of $36,500, in-cluding disbursements, to Davies Park.

A CAO selection select committee has now been formed as well. It con-sists of board chairman and Elec-toral A director Bruce Jolliff e, Town of Comox director Ken Grant, Vil-lage of Cumberland director Gwyn Sproule and Courtenay director Bob Wells.

The committee was scheduled to meet with Davies Park.

CVRD forms select committee for CAO search

The Comox Valley RCMP would like to report, that con-tact has been made with the family of the found tombstone/memorial plaque.

Arrangements are being made to return this item to the family.

The Comox Valley RCMP would like to thank the public for their assistance in this mat-ter.

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3. South Sewer Service (Operations) Establishment Bylaw No. 428, 2016;

4. South Sewer Service (Shared Capital) Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 429, 2016.

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If you have any infor-mation regarding any of these fi les, or any other crime, please contact the Comox Valley RCMP at 250-338-1321.

If you wish to remain anonymous, contact Co-mox Valley Crime Stop-pers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or online at co-moxvalleycrimestoppers.bc.ca. You never have to identify yourself or testify in court, and you could receive a cash reward for your information.

Comox Valley RCMP responded to the follow-

ing incidents between May 3 and 9:

■ While conducting patrols during the early morning hours of May 3rd, a driver of a vehicle caught the attention of a member of the Comox Valley RCMP.

A traffi c infraction was noticed that resulted in a traffi c stop. An impaired driving investigation was started with the driver of the vehicle. A 90 day Im-mediate Roadside Prohi-bition was issued to the driver. The vehicle was impounded for 30 days.

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DOB: 1994-06-03170 cms, 73 kgs, Brown hair, Blue eyes

Warrants: Breach Recognizance x3Breach of Probation x2Comox Valley fi le # 2015-6236

If you have any information about the whereabouts of either of these two people, call the Comox Valley RCMP Detachment at 338-1321, or Comox Valley Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (1-800-222-8477). You don’t have to give your name and you could be eligible for a cash reward.

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(2016-4898)■ A traffi c stop was con-

ducted during the morn-ing rush hour on May 3rd. During the traffi c stop, the Comox Valley RCMP Municipal traffi c member entered into an impaired investigation.

The driver was detained for impaired driving and criminal code charges are being recommended. The driver was released on documents for a future court date. (2016-4900)

■ On May 3rd, the Co-mox Valley RCMP were advised about the theft of fuel from a vehicle parked on the 700 block of 29th St, Courtenay. The theft occurred sometime be-tween April 30th and May 3rd. (2016-4903)

Later in the day, the Co-mox Valley RCMP were advised of more vehicles, parked on the 500 Blk of Silverdale Cres, that have also had fuel stolen since mid-April. (2016-4912)

■ The Comox Valley RCMP were advised of a break, enter and theft to a building on the 2900 block of Vanier Drive, Courtenay, on May 5th. Sometime overnight, a shed on the property had a lock cut and several lawn maintenance tools and gas cans were taken. (2016-4982)

■ While driving on Cliff e Ave, Courtenay, on May 5th, a Comox Valley RCMP Municipal Traf-fi c section member was passed by a motorcycle excessively speeding.

The bike was stopped and investigation revealed that the rider had been drinking alcohol before riding. The rider was is-sued a 90 day immediate roadside prohibition and a violation ticket for exces-sive speed. The bike was impounded. (2016-5013)

■ The Comox Valley RCMP received three calls on the morning of May 6th regarding stolen bicycles. A mossy green 10 speed

road bike, a burgundy

Norco Mountain bike and a Blue Kona bike were all taken.

One bike was left on the scene of one of the thefts. The serial number was run, and it turned out to have been reported sto-len in 2009. The owner was contacted that the bike was located. The Co-mox Valley RCMP would like to remind everyone to keep their bikes secure and write down the serial numbers after being pur-chased. With the serial number, we may be able to get your bike back to you.

■ During the early morning hours of May 7th, the actions of a ve-hicle passenger caught the attention of a Comox Valley RCMP Constable. During the following traffi c stop, an impaired driving investigation was started on the driver. It was determined the driver had been drinking alcohol before driving. The driver was issued a 3 day imme-diate roadside prohibition and the vehicle was im-pounded. (2016-5083)

■ Two vehicles were stopped early in the morn-ing on May 8th. The fi rst vehicle was being driven in a manner that caught the attention of a Comox Valley RCMP constable. While speaking to the driver, an impaired driv-ing investigation was started. The driver was is-sued a 90 day immediate Roadside suspension and the vehicle was impound-ed. (2016-5128) The sec-ond vehicle was located during an unrelated fi le. The driver was spoken to and an impaired driving investigation was started, resulting in a 90 day im-mediate roadside suspen-sion and the vehicle being impounded. (2016-5130)

■ On May 9th, the Co-mox Valley RCMP were advised of a break, enter and theft that occurred on the 4800 block of Island Highway North, Courte-nay.

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On May 23 and 24, members of the Strath-cona Sunrise Rotary Club will be mountain bike riding from Courtenay to Port Alberni and back again. This ride is a fundraiser to increase awareness about Post-Traumatic Stress Disor-der (PTSD) and the Vancouver Island Compas-sion Dogs (VICD) program.

Vancouver Island Compassion Dogs pairs rescue dogs with military and RCMP veterans suff ering from PTSD, and trains them together to become a service dog team.

Gordon Nettleton, Russ Thompson, and David MacDonald will lead the mountain bike ride, departing from the Courtenay Railway Station at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, May 23. They will be accompanied by veterans who are cur-rently in the VICD program. Barb Ashmead, VICD president, will be speaking to the Port Al-berni Rotary Club on May 24 before the group begins the return trip to the Comox Valley. The team will fi nish at Rider’s Pizza in Cumberland.

“People aff ected by PTSD benefi t from team-ing up with a dog for a number of reasons,” explains Ashmead. “Hav-ing a canine compan-ion reduces the severity of fl ashbacks, provides emotional security, and encourages reintegra-tion back into society for those veterans who have isolated themselves.”

“VICD was started in 2013,” says Ashmead, “and to date, VICD has nine certifi ed teams and ten other teams in train-ing. The program is of-

fered to veterans at no cost, but VICD requires$15,000.00 to train each team to certifi cationlevel.”

To date, funding has largely been provided bythe Royal Canadian Legion, Boomer’s Legacy,and Wounded Warriors Canada. The VICD pro-gram has been very eff ective and there is a waitlist of veterans wanting to participate.



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Unknown person(s) entered a locked gate and appeared to have siphoned fuel from a vehicle. The investigation into this break, en-ter and theft is continuing. (2016-5183)

■ The Comox Valley RCMP re-ceived a report of several vehicles damaged on the 1800 block of Lake Trail, Courtenay. Unknown person(s) entered a lot and ap-peared to have smashed the win-dows of two vehicles. Items were then stolen from them. (2016-

5187)■ A vehicle driving down Mis-

sion Hill, in Courtenay, was struck by a rock, causing damage to the car on May 9th. A large rock was located on scene. The Comox Val-ley RCMP are looking for any wit-nesses that were in the area be-tween Muir Rd and Dingwall Rd at approximately 12:30. If you have any information regarding this in-cident, please contact the Comox Valley RCMP at 250-338-1321 and cite fi le number 2016-5202. Or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477)

Dr. David MacDonald kneels next to Hunter and Maria, a Vancouver Island Compas-sion Dogs (VICD) team based in Comox Valley. Members of the Strathcona Sunrise Rotary Club will be mountain bike riding from Courtenay to Port Al-berni later this month to raise funds for the VICD program, and to increase awareness about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Standing: Strathcona Sunrise Rotary representative, Chip Ross, rider Russ Thompson, rider Gordon Nettleton, and VICD president, Barb Ashmead.

Rotary ride for Vancouver Island Compassion Dogs

Fire! What horrors we are witnessing in the Fort McMurray region.

No one can possibly miss what is happening there now and just how quickly it got away from what must have seemed manageable, all too briefl y as it turned out.

My heart goes out to the people in the city of and beyond to the First Nations, along with the wildlife and land that are all suff ering this extreme event.

Several incidents within the last year are notewor-thy for me in our region.

Smokers turfi ng their cigarettes out of vehicle windows as though a right and how this one act can begin a bigger event is dangerous enough but it is shock of another level to hear during a serious drought such as ours last summer (and sadly also during bird nesting season, mid-summer) the sounds of chain saws when for-esters have long put down their chainsaws in the woods.

Felling trees for ‘a view’ was more important and acceptable in this local res-ident’s mind (and likely the realtor’s mind, too) while trying to sell the residence attached.

Newly arrived neigh-bours of mine like fi res,

too and seem to think bon-fi res are fun, to the point that they round their deck chairs out there facing the fi re not ten feet from our shared boundary, even at night. Theirs is a multi-acre property too. Not from a forest fi re environ-ment, yet, I’m guessing.

Attempts at communica-tion in a written, respectful manner apparently landed in the same stinky pile still smoking the next days. The Fire Department will eventually arrive when they are burning as they like be-yond the current restric-tions. Here’s hoping that it is before the forest goes up because of their personal property aggressions.

Where did the knowl-edge that the sky is not a free garbage pit go? I have been in the Comox Val-ley for over 10 years and the particulate matter and chokehold on our breath-ing has felt some days as if I signed on for a Valley life in the fi fties, and some-where else more industrial.

Air and land and water are critical to the quality of life all around us.

Health that we would all want for ourselves, chil-dren and the future of all life here. Why on Earth do we continue to allow the burning of any piles of bits, construction and forestry material included?

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Where are the health reports from the medical resource people about the Comox Valley?

Where are the Region-al education campaigns about chipping materials, recycling and responsibili-ties for sending construc-tion materials to strictly approved dumpsites?

Where are the health re-ports from the inversions that the Comox Valley ex-periences? Where are the Fire Department educa-tion campaigns about NOT burning, that will always be cheaper than dealing with fi res?

There are job opportuni-ties for people with trucks who could pick up refuse or construction material, which WON’T be burned on someone else’s back property because it is cheaper. A double receipt system might confi rm that the loads went to a regional dump.

Education campaigns, using young people paid on summer holidays, to pro-vide information at mar-kets, festivals and in neigh-bourhoods, about what our atmosphere is made of and how burning is no longer a cheap solution, it seriously hurts; the positives of com-posting; the need for a dif-ferent approach to how we work on our properties and more.

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JUST VOTE ‘NO’Union Bay to Royston

Residents: On June 18 you get your chance to vote on the well intended but ex-pensive South Sewer Ser-vice plan down.

Unless you don’t mind paying next year and the following 29 years there-after around $2,000 a year (+/- $60,000.00 in total) for operation/maintenance and capital debt repay-ment.

Of course there is a way to pay less for this if you have an old sock laying around and stacked with $22,000.00 that you don’t mind fl ushing out to get connected to this unique but expensive sewer sys-tem.

If you do that, you still face a yearly operations and maintenance fee of $636.00 starting next year and going up every year with the rate of infl ation.

Just this operation fee is already almost twice the amount as was bud-geted only over a year ago. ($390.00 then, versus $636.00 now).

The strange thing about this sewer plan is that de-spite CVRD fi nding $13.3 million in an extra grant, the capital cost to home owners from Royston to Union Bay is only reduced by $3.5 million. What hap-

pened to the 10 million?Yes, Cumberland backed

out, for good reason as this plan is fi nancially way out of proportion for the aver-age individual, not to men-tion the many low income earners, seniors and other retirees.

They form the bulk of the residents occupying this area from Royston to Union Bay and will see their annual tax-bill in many cases more then double. O.K., the CVRD will respond with the ar-gument that if you are eli-gible, the parcel tax can be deferred. Putting it as lien towards your property and pay another .7% interest (Province of BC rate) on that.

With the 5% interest al-ready on the capital cost over 20 years, now at 5.7%, you are going to pay twice the original sewer cost.

Home-owners of Area A unite, and say NO to the referendum on June 18 and if you are in need of a new septic, buy one for a frac-tion of this CVRD plan and virtually no maintenance costs for years to enjoy.

Marianne BuijsArea A

THANKS FROM VARIETYOn behalf of everyone

at Variety - The Children’s Charity, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the communities of

Comox Valley and Camp-bell River for their out-standing support of our 8th annual Radiothon on 97.3 The Eagle. In twelve hours we raised $36,941, a fi gure that is remarkably close to the record break-ing amount from last year’s two-day event. The funds will go back into the com-munity to provide direct help to local children with special needs, giving them the support they need to meet their challenges and achieve remarkable victo-ries.

In the four months that I’ve been in the role of ex-ecutive director, not a day goes by where I’m not amazed and humbled by the incredible generosity of the many donors, vol-unteers, sponsors and oth-er supporters who move mountains for Variety ev-ery day. I believe it’s a tes-tament to the strength and heart of the people of the North Island who stead-fastly stand up for their neighbours and truly make a diff erence in their com-munities.

If you missed the Radio-thon but would still like to donate, or to make an enquiry about a grant or volunteer opportunities, please visit us at variety.bc.ca.

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TO THE PERSON who took my six-year old daughter’s rainbow purse from the bathroom at Shopper’s Drug Mart in Courtenay – just wanted to let you know that your unkind act sparked many kind acts from the cashier and customers in the store. My daughter’s tears elic-ited the kindness of two

the generous community of the Comox Valley for their on-going support for people experiencing homelessness. We hope to see you all next May. - Liz Datoo and Joline Martin of Spices and Blarney

BOUQUETS AND WARM SMILES to the garden crew for doing such a great job on cleaning up the Co-mox hill. Looks GOOD! Plants on Comox Ave. are a pleasure to view.

A BEEF TO THE THIEF who took bins out of our van at the bottle depot on Puntledge. We are a group of people with diverse-abilities who are trying to make money and serve the community The bins are clearly labelled “CANDO” and if they are seen or found please call the number which is also clearly marked on the bins.

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broke down, dead battery. Ross being a very nice man came to her res-cue. He called her home and called her family, he stayed with her for over an hour and a half, for us to arrive with help. But he did not stop there. We had no easy way to get the scooter home. So he, and my husband, lifted it ito the back of his pick-up truck and delivered it to her home. WOW!! Ross, thank you. We wish many blessings to you.

A HEART-FELT THANK YOU to all who worked to put on the Anzac service. From a Kiwi who had his fi rst chance since living in Canada to attend a service. It brought back many memories of at-tending the dawn service in Auckland with my father, who served in the desert and later in Italy in WW II. A special thanks to Mr. Bartholomew who organized this event and the Canadian vets who at-tended. There was a good attendance and I am sure all the Aussies and Kiwis are grateful to all who put on this event. It was obvi-ous that a lot of care and pride went in to it. Thank you to all who spoke, it really made it a special time. Also to the people who served coff ee, cook-ies, and, of course, Anzac biscuits. I will certainly be attending next year.

HUGE BOUQUET and heart shaped box of chocolates to the McDonalds on Ryan Rd. I ordered fries with no salt and that is exactly what they gave me! Not a speck of salt anywhere! Thanks for taking the care you did. I’ve never received abso-lutely no salt before. You people are the best, thank you.

JUNE WILL BE A SAD, sad month in Comox. Judy, one of my two favourite posties is retiring and the post offi ce will never be the same again. She

graditude to those who no doubt did this. First to Dr. Fehlau and Dr. Nel for immediate diagnosis and treatment. Next to Jennifer, Cheryl, Heather, Karen and all the staff at the liver wellness center who don’t get enough thanks for what they do. Finally to all who have been diagnosed with Hep C you need to go to the liver wellness support group. Al the information and help is there to get you through a very bad time. You are not alone in this fi ght ... the help they gave to me is beyond what I can repay and I will forever be in their debt. Thank you all for the help and giving me a new lease on life.

THE ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY THRIFT SHOP sends a big, beautiful, virtual bouquet of sweet smelling roses to the Rotary Club for the donation of used books left over from their recent book sale. Funds raised through book sales at the Auxiliary Thrift Shop directly supports the purchase of medical equipment and health-care related comfort items for the patients and residents of St. Joseph’s Hospital and The Views at St. Joseph’s.

SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS to a young military man named Sonny. I forget his last name. He’s from the Philippines. I was out for a walk when I turned my ankle and fell. He stopped to help. He drove me to emergency and came back to pick me up. Thank you Sonny. You are a wonderful human being. May you have a long and happy life. God bless.

YEARS AGO, about 1947- 195 , some RCMP in Ottawa in Basic Train-ing were paid $25.00 per donation of blood to the Red Cross. That was

a lot of money at that time as RCMP in basic training only had pocket money enough to buy cigarettes or a couple of bus tickets. I heard these facts from my husband who was in Ottawa from 47-1953, and many young recruits were very happy to earn an extra $25.00 this way. I’m sure there are a few retired “guys” who know these facts and sold a pint or two. I wanted to mention this fact, after hearing the news on April 25: re the Red Cross consider-ing buying blood, from healthy persons. Ruling out blood disorders/ dis-eases such as HIV/Aids, syphilis, hepatitis B or antibody syndron(APS) etc, this may be a practi-cal way to boost blood supplies. We can listen to the news and the Red Cross; and by the way, my calendar says that the Red Cross was created in parliament in 1909. An historic occasion for Canada.

A BOUQUET OF THANK

YOUS. Spices and Blarney wish to thank all of the people who made Night of Wonders a thundering success of a fund raising event for Dawn to Dawn. Our volunteer team out-performed our expecta-tions; the Glacier Gran-nies served the dishes profi ciently; the kitchen team headed by Chef Nasim Datoo worked like a well oiled machine; the entertainment was dazzling and the audi-ence was lots of fun. In particular we would like to thank our sponsors, Oh Spa Mayor’s Golf Tourna-ment, Coastal Communi-ty Credit Union, Remax Realty Group, Grains Bakery, Coxox Coach and Shuttle, Home Depot and Bob Wells the sound master. Most importantly we off er our gratitude to

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women who off ered her money from their own pockets and the cashier Cassandra who made my daughter a beautiful new purse and presented it to her with some of her own money and poke-mon cards that her son donated from his col-lection. Thanks to these kind ladies my daughter learned that there are car-ing people in this Valley.

TO THE LADY IN THE PINK TOP at Tim Hortons on Sat-urday, May 7. Thank you so much for the generous surprise of you paying for my coff ee order and many more behind me. Wishing you the best. Hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day. I will defi nitely pay it forward to someone else.

HEARTFELT THANKS ..... how do you thank the people who have no doubt saved your life. This letter is to show my heartfelt

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WONDERFUL BOUQUET to Ross. My mother Edna was at Lewis Park on Thursday. Her scooter


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THE OPERATING ROOM NURS-ES at St. Joseph’s Hos-pital would like to thank the following people for making National Nurses Week such a pleasure for us: Atlas Cafe, Dairy Queen, Mad Chef Cater-ing, Panago Pizza, Plates Catering, Quality Foods, Thrifty Foods, Tim Hor-tons Coff ee, Starbucks Coff ee, Supreme Conve-nience Store. Last but by no means least, all the surgeons and anaesthe-tists who kindly brought treats into work with them. We thank you all from the bottom of our hearts and bellies.

BOUQUETS to Puntledge Hatchery workers who keep wild salmon alive in the River and Estuary. Thanks again to many volunteers who keep streams and rivers alive with wild salmon. Such a challenge with climate change and the BC Liber-als Wild West, logging in our watershed.

DISTRACTED DRIVERS will pay a little more to ICBC to text and talk, but the big problem on BC roads is excessive speed. Speed kills, especially when impaired/distracted. A parked, distracted or impaired driver does no harm. The Comox Valley police report indicates that administrative penalties do not work to reduce impaired and speeding drivers - they just keep driving. So far this year, 31 killed and 2372 hospitalized in BC from impaired driving.

FINALLY, BC HYDRO has recognized that there is a need to retain water in Comox Lake when

CAPITAL REGIONAL DISTRICT DIRECTORS are extending the protection of their watershed to almost double the protected watershed area. They are concerned about human activities causing for-est fi res, and impacting water quality. Here in the Comox Valley, our Comox Valley Regional District Directors have no infl u-ence in our watershed, or storage of potable water. This has not been an issue until the past few years. Logging practices, planning for growth, are the issues in the Comox Valley. There has been no preparation for predicted climate change. Capital Regional District Direc-tors are looking out for their constituents - unlike the Comox Valley Re-gional District Directors. Stand by for more stage 3 and maybe stage 4.

IT’S UNFORTUNATE that the

public school students in SD71 will bear the brunt of the loss of 19 teach-ers, following many days out of class with BCTF strikes. Could lower

worked there for something like 33 years, starting at the age of 13, I believe. We will all miss her. I particularly, will miss her winning smile, beautiful hair and her fl irty fl irty eyes. i think the very least Comox could do, would be to fl y all fl ags at half mast on the day she retires.

WCG SERVICES and the ServiceAbility Courtenay

program would like to send a big bouquet and many thanks to all of the local employers who have and are continuing to support the participants in our program. What a great community!

ONE OF THE SPECIAL PERKS in the Comox Valley is wonderful places to eat like Locals in Courte-nay and Twisted Dishes in Comox. Both use quality, locally sourced products. I know I will get wonderful food and great service at both. At Twisted Dishes, they even bake their own bread, cookies, and other special treats. And now, Twisted Dishes too is open 7 days a week, with breakfast available all day on the weekend.

ROSY RETIREMENT BOUQUET to Judy from Comox Ave Post Offi ce who retires on Friday 20th May. She has been a wonderful, help-ful and most organised, fantastic member of the Canada Post team and I sincerely hope that all residents of Comox take this opportunity to say a heartfelt ‘Thank You’ to her for her years of won-derful service to the town

dry weather is forecast. The present discharge from the reservoirs is low and the lake elevation is rising. Hoping for no paddle fest, followed by CVRD stage 3, this year. Hoping that no one is backyard burning in this dry weather. A Fort Mac could happen here.

FORMER BC FERRIES CEO

David Haun is com-fortably retired with a $300,000 indexed pen-sion after sinking the Queen of the North. The present BC Ferries CEO should be thinking of his job and pension when the Baynes Sound Con-nector cables are hit by some ill informed boater who does not not notice or know about those red lights on shore. Likely the boater won’t come from any yacht club or Wash-ington State. Imagine the lawsuits from Ferry passengers. Rightfully, survivors are suing the owner of the Tofi no Tour Boat operator who cap-sized the tour boat and has done it before. So has BC Ferries sunk a Ferry.

student enrolment be due to an exodus to private schools and home school-ing? This situation seems to be a lose/lose for public school students in the Comox Valley, who will continue to spend less time at school.

WHAT A DISASTER in Fort Mac - lucky no lives lost.It could happen here. The CVRD stage 3 and 4 will make wild fi res potential-ly worse with dead grass and shrubs. Courtenay, Comox and the CVRD have been closing their eyes to growth and not expanded potable water storage-needs for fi re fi ghting and our green environment. It’s not too late to leave the Comox lake reservoir full for fi re fi ghting and the mile of fl owers.

PLEASE GET GOMESHI AND

DUFFY off the daily CBC news and the public payroll – both losers, double dipping,milking /choking the system/vic-tims, in diff erent ways. Canadian values they do

not represent. Please lose these losers, CBC and CTV - former employers who likely knew these two well. Too well.

FIRST THE BOUQUET. I love the food trailer in Marina Park, serv-ing fi sh and fries hot dogs and drinks etc.!! Tables are set around so people can sit to enjoy. BUT now for the BEEF! Why did the town of Comox make the providers move the trailer to a place completely in the sun and taking up

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One of Barb Ashmead’s goals for2016 is to gain Assistance Dog Inter-national recognition, now in the fi nalyear of the four-year process. Assis-tance Dog International credentialswill give VICD world-wide recogni-tion for the training of PTSD servicedogs.

Dr. David MacDonald and his teamat the Comox Valley Animal Hospitalare all involved.

“When Barb Ashmead gave a pre-sentation at the Strathcona Sun-rise Rotary Club breakfast severalmonths ago, I knew it would be agood fi t for me and my business,and I felt I could serve VICD inmany ways,” explains Dr. MacDon-ald. “The idea of the bike ride cameup because Gordon, Russ, and I gobiking together most weekends inCumberland and we always take ourdogs along. So, bikes, dogs, the Ro-tary Club and VICD - they all cametogether.”

To support the Vancouver IslandCompassion Dogs program and vet-erans with PTSD, donations can bedropped off at Comox Valley Ani-mal Hospital located at 3110 ComoxRoad, handled by Strathcona Sun-rise Rotary Club members, or de-posited directly at the VICD website:vicompassiondogs.ca.

Cumberland forms committee for Liquid Waste Management Plan


The Village of Cumberland Council is forming a Wastewater Advisory Com-mittee for its Liquid Waste Manage-ment Plan.

After withdrawing from the South Sewer Project, the village had to restart its LWMP.

A WAC was required to be formed to serve as a combined public and techni-cal advisory committee.

Council directed staff to send invita-tions to relevant government agencies and members of the community, who they want to sit on the committee.

On Monday, councillor Sean Sullivan was chosen to represent Cumberland council in the committee with council-lor Jesse Ketler as alternate.

Among the government representa-tives that have confi rmed participation

are David Cherry of the Vancouver Is-land Health Authority and Rob Ever-son, Chief of the K’omoks First Nation.

To date the public representatives that have agreed to sit on the commit-tee are Ken Barth, Dennis Cassin, Matt Ishoy and Mike Tymchuk.

Council is still awaiting confi rmation from other potential representatives.

The primary function of the WAC is to compile information and conduct public consultation to identify the over-all goals of wastewater treatment, de-velop a range of options to meet them and select the preferred options and develop a fi nancing and implementa-tion plan.

The WAC will report its recommen-dations to council for decisions.

The village plans to conduct a feasi-bility study on its LWMP.

To get the project going, project co-ordinator Paul Nash has initiated pro-

curement of grants for stages 1 and 2.Nash asked council to authorize ap-

plication to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund in the amount of $175,000.

Chief Administrative Offi cer Sun-dance Topham informed council the feasibility studies and the LWMP pro-cess qualify for such a grant.

If successful, the project has a good chance to receive further funding from the GMF.

Topham said that Nash has been successful in landing GMF grants be-fore and is very familiar with the pro-cess.

Another grant the village wants to pursue is the BC Infrastructure Plan-ning Grant Program for Liquid Waste Management Planning for reclaimed water. The amount they are applying for is $10,000.

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The Town of Comox’s fi nancials have been given a clean bill of health from auditors.

However, Meyers Norris Penney, the accounting fi rm that carried out the audit, has recommended the town hire an actuary to assess how much the town pays out in post-em-ployment benefi ts.

MNP partner Cory Van-derhorst said the town is in “healthy fi nancial shape,” noting low long-term debt ($1.4 million) and a growing accumu-lated surplus.

Vanderhorst conclud-ed in a presentation to council last week that the town’s “net fi nancial asset position has been steadily increasing for the past fi ve years,” with “no sig-nifi cant” increases in debt since 2008.

But the report from MNP also recommends the town engage an actu-ary to calculate the cost of pay for ex-employees, including retirement, sev-erance, sick leave or dis-

ability or death payments. That prompted Coun.

Maureen Swift to ask the accountant to explain his recommendation.

Vanderhorst said calcu-lations to determine the amount are “very com-plex” and said municipali-ties that undertake the ex-ercise see a diff erent total than previously thought.

“Our experience in the last few years … has been there’s always been a little

bit of an adjustment up or down,” said Vanderhorst, although he added he was “comfortable” with fi nance director Don Jac-quest’s calculations.

Jacquest jokingly re-ferred to himself as the town’s “cheap fi nancial offi cer,” and said the cost of hiring an actuary could quickly add up.

Jacquest also said that total accrued liabil-ity for employee pay is

$867,000, which he said is mostly owed vaca-tion time, not post-em-ployment pay. He noted that MNP’s ‘materiality’ threshold – the amount of missing or incorrect funds that would raise a red fl ag during an audit – was $350,000.

“So I’d have to be really off before it would result in a material diff erence in the fi nancial statements,” Jacquest said.

Clean bill of health for Comox fi nancials


The Marine Communi-cations and Traffi c Servic-es centre in Comox deliv-ered its last broadcast on Tuesday, marking the for-mal closure of the station.

The Canadian Coast

Guard announced plans to close the station under the previous Conserva-tive government, but the unionized staff members hoped the newly-elected Liberal government would reverse the decision.

But those hopes were dashed with fi nality this week, despite pleas from employees.

Staff from the building will be consolidated at the MCTS centre in Victo-ria, now just two operat-

ing MCTS centres in theprovince. The other is lo-cated in Prince Rupert.

The Coast Guard saysadvances in technologymake the consolidationpossible, but staff havewarned that the system,which relies on phonelandlines to transmit in-formation, has been sub-ject to outages and couldinterfere with distresscalls from vessels andcrew.


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The Coast Guard also says the move will result in savings, but Unifor Lo-cal 2182 president Allan Hughes said the savings will be eaten up in over-time costs due to staff shortages.

Speaking to media out-side the station, Hughes said there are 17 staff that worked at the centre. Be-tween eight and nine will begin working at MCTS Victoria, Hughes said.

It’s pretty sombre, as it has been the last few days,” said Hughes. “Lots of hugs, some tears.

“They’ve been a really good team that’s really static, there’s been very little turnover in the 20 years since this building was established. So it’s breaking apart a team.”

ABC Printing partner Bryan Wiley mans the front of McDonald’s on Cliffe Avenue as part of the day-long McHappy Day last week. The event saw politicians, business owners and local personalities donate their time during the event, which raises money for charity. More than $7,189 raised locally will go to the Comox Valley Child Development Association. The restaurant also donated a portion of sales from their Grand Re-Opening weekend at the Cliffe Avenue location at the end of April. Thus a total donation of $10,306 was made to the CDA.

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The Town of Comox is embarking on three large capital projects this year in an otherwise hold-steady budget.

Council gave fi nal adop-tion last week to its 2016 budget and tax rates by-laws, ushering in modest tax increases for most commercial and residen-tial properties.

But one of the more no-table trends in the fi nan-cial plan is a surge of ap-proximately $3 million in general capital spending for this year, mostly due to a trio of infrastructure upgrades.

Included in the list is the Lazo Road project, which just received a $1.1-mil-lion boost from the prov-ince. The work will see erosion protection along the ocean-side perimeter road, as well as pedestrian upgrades in the area.

The fi rst phase of the Robb Road widening and improvement project will also get underway this summer, budgeted for ap-proximately $900,000.

The town also hopes to begin work on its $1.6-mil-lion Marina Park upgrade, although two bids on the project came back over-budget by approximately $700,000. The town’s ar-chitect is working with the lowest bidder on revisions to the design to cut back costs.

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Comox council has voted to extend property tax exemption provisions for its downtown in a bid to encourage more mixed commercial and residen-tial developments.

The council gave third reading to a bylaw that would extend the program for one year.

A report from the town’s planning department says two projects have come under the program’s um-brella: a proposed residen-tial building on the former Lorne Hotel site and the proposed extension of the Berwick retirement home, both on Comox Avenue.

Both those projects are seeking a 100 per cent tax exemption under the plan for eight years. The for-gone tax would fall within the $40,000 estimated cost of the program, town staff said.

The bylaw will forward to council for adoption next week.

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We often fi ll our gardens with colors and fragrance to enjoy during the day … but what about at night?

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What is lovely about Ce-rastium is its fast spread-ing mat of silvery grey leaves that refl ect the moonlight and the ador-able white fl owers that are charming both day and night.

It doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive to add white varieties to your containers or garden beds.

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It is a small shrub that is easy to maintain and attracts a lot of benefi cial insects.

Now that you have plants that refl ect the moonlight, the other thing to consid-er is fragrance. Wander-ing through the garden at night, our senses enhance and magnify the fragrance of the plants.

Some fragrant plants have their scent activated by the heat of the sun, some need you to brush by them or crush their leaves to release a fragrance and some plants open up at night.

Roses may seem the fi rst choice for the moon-light garden. ‘POPE JOHN PAUL II’ is a beautiful dou-ble white that produces large luminous pure white blossoms with a delightful

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white is the award win-ning ROSE ‘LION’S FAIRY TALE’ which is very fragrant and both roses make excellent cut fl owers, bringing the moonlight indoors.

The dramatic DATURA (ANGEL’S TRUMPET) (3-4 feet) has huge 6 inch fl owers which appear from mid-summer until frost. The large blooms open at night and release a delicious fra-grance lasting well into the next day.

Caution: It is poisonous so keep away from chil-dren.

NICOTIANA (TOBACCO PLANT) is a lovely annual with trumpet like blooms that come in a variety of colors and are valued for their intense evening fragrance. All Nicotiana are fragrant at night but my favourite is NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS. It is huge at 3-5 feet but it has amazingly fragrant showy white fl owers and the but-terfl ies and humming-birds love it too.

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There is an Irish belief that the fairies sit under the Hawthorn tree. What better choice than hav-ing the CRATAEGUS OXYCAN-THA PLENA (DOUBLE WHITE HAWTHORN) for the fairies to dance under the full moon.

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Changes to the RCMP’s auxiliary constable pro-gram are raising concerns among volunteers across the country, including in the Comox Valley.

The national police force has run the volunteer pro-gram since 1963. Accord-ing to the RCMP, there are approximately 1,600 aux-iliary members across the country.

Auxiliary members are unarmed, unpaid, uni-formed volunteers who assist paid police offi cers in their duties, including public appearances, traf-fi c control and search and rescue.

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But the change has been met with widespread op-position from auxiliary constables. Some say the changes will ultimately mean the demise of the program.

Jerad Langille, a char-tered accountant and one of 19 local auxiliary constables, voiced his disapproval in a letter to Comox Mayor Paul Ives, whom he asked to raise the concerns with the province. Langille has also written to the mayors of both Courtenay and Cum-berland.

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“Many of the members will tell you that the force has not yet fully dealt with the tragedy in Mayer-thorpe, and now manage-ment is facing charges in the Moncton shooting,” he said.

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“Combine this with the prospect of facing a col-lective bargaining unit in the near future and my impression is that man-agement is overwhelmed and is looking for ways to simplify its situation at the risk of losing an in-valuable asset,” Langille said.

When contacted for comment, Langille said the new rules could result in him leaving the pro-gram.

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But he said that around “50 per cent” of feedback from other auxiliary constables from online polls and discussion indicates others are considering that option too.

Ives said a resolution was passed by the Association of Vancouver Island Coastal Communities to address the issue. It will be considered at the upcoming Union of Brit-ish Columbia Municipalities convention.

Ives said the topic also came up at the recent B.C. Mayors’ Caucus meeting amid larger concerns over growing police costs.

“I think the auxiliary program is one that is working well for municipalities,” Ives said.

Ives noted broader safety concerns for auxiliary constables, but said Langille and others have stated they are aware of the per-sonal risks.

He said the volunteer force in B.C. adapt-ed when the rules were changed in the late ‘90s to no longer allow auxiliary members to carry sidearms, as well as the newer rules on road checks and ride-alongs.

“That’s been something they’ve been able to work around, but certainly without their uniforms, I don’t know what they’re going to be doing,” Ives said.

“They know that they’re going to risk life and limb at times, the same way our volun-teer fi refi ghters do, and they’re willing to do that,” Ives added.

National RCMP spokesman Sgt. Harold Pfl eiderer said the federal police force is “currently conducting consultations” on the program.

In an email, Pfl eiderer said the RCMP is also “seeking feedback from Auxiliary Con-stables, municipal and territorial partners and others stakeholders.”

The review will focus specifi cally on changes to the national policy, a national training standard, better-defi ned roles for auxiliary constables and a review on uni-form options.

Join the CV Horticultural Soci-ety meeting on May 16 to learn about ‘Small Fruits in the Gar-den” from Dianne Gaines.

Doors of the Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay will be open at 6:45, with the meeting and guest presentation to follow. Non members fee is $5.

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This began her learning expe-rience on the importance of gar-dening, gradually understanding being a gardener is more than a simple hobby, it is a way of life.

Lucky for her, her parents nurtured her budding garden-ing career and built her a green-house when she was still in grade school.

During the mid ‘80s, Dianne and her mother joined the Lang-ley Garden Club.

Here she blossomed further, garnering more knowledge about plants and gardening, and at the same time, sharing her passion for her garden with like-minded people.

All of this passion led Dianne into continuing her education at the university level, undertaking a major in microbiology with a minor in botany.

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Explore the magic of DenmanThe natural beauty and

magic of Denman Island are a constant source of inspiration for the art-ists who live there and a draw for art lovers from near and far. Visitors can expect to receive a warm welcome to ten unique venues showcasing excit-ing new clay works on Sat-urday and Sunday, May 21st and 22nd between 10 am and 5 pm daily.

New on the 29th an-nual tour are Barb and John Mills of Raucous Ra-ven Pottery. Long-time naturalists, the Mills have counted 7 hummingbird nests around their island home so far this spring. In addition to at least 25 diff erent varieties of drag-onfl y, life on the edge of Morrison Marsh includes the seasonal company of swans, deer, frogs, sala-manders and newts, birds of all kinds, otters and beavers. In fact, tour-

goers will be welcome totake a trail from RaucousRaven Pottery to the wa-ter’s edge and perhapscatch a glimpse of beaverstending to their lodge.

Inside the potters’ stu-dio, however, wildlifesightings are guaranteed!

Barb Mills’ sculpted,mixed media creatures in-clude tree-climbing bears,diff erent species of wood-pecker and colorful salm-on.

She also models littlefree-standing songbirdslike wrens, chickadeesand towhees, as well ascrows and ravens.

An iron oxide washhighlights detail on thenatural clay surface ofmany of these delightfulcreations.

Also on display in thestudio are a playful Vene-tian Carnival bird mask(harkening back to the16th century), portraits ofthe Sun and Moon, andother masks inspired bythe artist’s Buddhist ori-entation.

These include smilingThai Buddhas and the el-ephant head of Hindu De-ity Ganesha, god of begin-nings and patron of arts.


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John Mills has recently returned to the potter’s wheel to throw canisters, casseroles and small lanterns, but his prima-ry focus is on producing beautiful bowls of vari-ous sizes. Depending on the clay body used for these functional wares, John’s gorgeous blue colour palette ranges from dusky turquoise to a grey fl ecked cerulean, and the dark blue of a star-studded nite sky.

Scott and Garnet Beardsley’s woodland studio showroom is one of many Denman sweet spots found at the end of a long country drive-way so well worth the journey. Covered casse-role dishes hand-paint-ed with dreamy moun-tain vistas, vases and mugs bearing impres-sions of leaves collected from the forest fl oor, sea foam-colored plates and bowls accented with tiny shells ...the diverse ways in which this incredibly talented duo express their appreciation for the natural world are truly endless.

Other exceptional artisans getting ready to unveil new functional and decorative wares on the studio tour weekend are Shirley Phillips, Bentley LeBaron, Gordon Hutchens, Marjo Van Tooren, Tom Den-nis, Dante Ambriel and Hanne Christensen.

Drop in to the Denman Island Craft Shop, one of the venues on the tour this year, for a spe-

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You can pick up your free map there for the self-guided adven-ture, or at the ferry booth in Buckley Bay before you board the new cable ferry! For a col-orful sneak preview along with ferry schedule information and more, visit www.denmanpot-tery2016.blogspot.ca

It’s the merry month of May in the beautiful Comox Valley.

Songsmiths Saskia & Darrel spend most of the year out on the road touring across Canada & Eu-rope, but once a year they perform a fundraiser concert for CV Tran-sition house, which gives them an excuse to come home for a visit.

Come help welcome them back and support a great cause! Sat-urday, May 14 at 7:30 at the Elim Gospel Church (566 – 5th Street, Courtenay).

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The Great Plains are living the minstrel lifestyle to the fullest. Saskia and Darrel play well over 100 partial benefi t concerts each year, touching on humanitarian is-sues of communities and tailoring the concerts specifi cally to their needs. They always leave behind a sense of community, fellowship, hope and joy and tons of laughter.

An evening full of friendship and laughter, this is a show not to be missed.

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For all you Latin lovers out there, jazz society brings in a great quartet

One of the most com-mon requests we receive at the Jazz Society is for Latin Music. We try to of-fer a broad range of jazz music in the course of our performance years, but if you are one of those folk who has made such a re-quest, or just happen to be a lover of Latin rhythms, this is the week for you!

This booking has been months in the making and it is one of the clos-ing highlights to what has been an amazing year for Thursday Night Jazz at the Avalanche Bar and Grill. Showtime is 7:30 pm Thursday, May 19.

The Kelby MacNayr/Pablo Cardenas Quartet brings together four of the West Coast’s most ac-complished performers and experts in the fi eld of Latin Jazz.

Pianist composer Pablo Cardenas trained and was a rising star in his native Cuba before becoming an international calibre pia-nist and composer based in Victoria.

Drummer Kelby Mac-Nayr has become one of the West Coast’s most respected and dynamic drummers, performing with the likes of John Clayton, Larry Fuller and

Misha Piatigorsky. MacNayr maintains a busy performing schedule nationally and interna-tionally and leads his renowned Quintet as well as performing with Pablo Cardenas, Louise Rose and others in his home town of Victoria BC.

Conga player extraordinaire Hector Ramos brings an au-thenticity and fi re to the instru-ment steeped in his musical upbringing in Cuba and now contributing to the sounds of the West Coast Afro-Cuban All-Stars and the Pablo Cardenas Quartet among others.

Special guest trumpeter Mi-geulito Valdes is a trumpet play-er of the highest order. Migeuli-to has shared the stage with jazz luminaries Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Michael Brecker, toured with the inter-nationally renowned Afro-Cu-

ban All Stars and the legendary Buena Vista Social Club.

Get ready for some exquisite Cuban music from the refi ned to the hot from Danzon to Latin Jazz and more!

With only one more Thursday concert to follow this, you really should treat yourself to fi ne jazz in Courtenay, before we head for the summer break. This will certainly be a well attended per-formance, so you’re advised to arrive early for the best seat se-lection. Dinner specials and the regular bar menu are available, so why not plan on making it a Latin evening out? Admission is $10 for members, $12 for non-members.

For more information about the Georgia Straight Jazz So-ciety, please visit www.georgi-astraightjazz.com or fi nd us on Facebook.

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This year’s theme for the national Volunteer Week, ‘Volunteers are the roots of Strong Communities’, per-fectly suits Glacier View Lodge. GVL traces its roots back to an initiative by a group of volunteers with the Women’s Institute in 1946.

Today, nearly 400 com-munity members off er reg-ular volunteer service to the residents that call Glacier View Lodge home. They are part of this strong tra-dition of support that has continued over 70 years.

On April 15 the Lodge celebrated with their vol-unteers.

“While we sincerely ap-preciate the contribution of all our volunteers,” said Liz Friis, Director of Resi-dent Lifestyle & Commu-nity Programs, “it is our pleasure to award special recognition to an individ-ual volunteer, an Auxiliary member and a group.”

The Individual Volunteer of the Year Award was pre-sented to Roslyn Smith. It is rare to have someone so involved in so many aspects of daily life and operation of the Lodge.

Roslyn is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and a member of many sub committees to the Board, she is the volunteer of the day with the Adult Day Program, she accompanies residents to the swim out-ing, and helps with all the fund raising events.

We certainly appreciate her energy and dedication to the Lodge. Her swim buddies are particularly grateful for her gift of time and compassion and the participants in the Adult Day Program truly appre-ciate her friendship.

L to R: Maureen Wagner with the StrongStart Program and Heather Van Holderbeke, Auxilian of the Year.

Glacier View Lodge honours its volunteers, AuxiliaryThe Group of the Year Award was

presented to Maureen Wagner on behalf of the StrongStart partici-pants.

This program brings such mean-ingful connections between the chil-dren and our residents. Maureen has gone above and beyond to ensure that our weekly visits with the young children have been successful and enriching.

This program allows spontaneous interactions between our elders and young children. They play games together, working at stations, read, garden, and sing songs.

At Halloween we carve pumpkins and visit the pumpkin patch and in the spring we hatch butterfl ies and release them in the Lodge’s beautiful garden tended by the CV Horticul-tural Society.

The best magic happens when one of our elders, with joy shining in his or her eyes, reaches out to fold their arms around a young child.

Thank you to the children, par-ents and grandparents who visit the Lodge and to Maureen for her ongoing dedication to maintaining our connection.

The Auxiliary of the Year award

was presented to a very deserving Heather Van Holderbeke.

Heather is also a woman of great energy and devotion. Beyond all that she does to support the activities carried out by the Auxiliary, she visits each and every resident on their birthday, signs a song and presents them with a card and best wishes.

Heather has also been the inspiration behind a penpal connection between children at Brooklyn School and two of the Lodge’s residents.

The staff at Glacier view Lodge are eternally grateful to the many amazing volunteers who bring joy to our resident and lend a helping hand.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, please look at the volunteer section of our web-site at www.glacierviewlodge.ca


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REHABILITATION MEDICINERehabilitation Medicine is probably

veterinary medicine’s fastest growing specialty area. It is the animal version of human physiotherapy, but unlike its human counterpart, the patients can-not tell their doctor where it hurts! In-stead we see lame or reluctant-to-move animals or in the case of our animal ath-letes - a failure to perform to their full potential in their sport. Not only is it used to diagnose and treat injuries, but can greatly enhance orthopedic post-surgical recoveries.

Veterinary and human medicine have come a long way in understanding the nuances of our musculoskeletal systems. As an example, animals and people were traditionally restricted in their ability to move a limb when there was an injury in the past - even to the point of splint-ing or casting. We now understand that although this is essential for certain in-juries, there are major benefi ts to keep-ing joints moving and promoting at least some limited weight bearing after an in-jury. A joint that is not experiencing any form of “load” on it can lose signifi cant cartilage thickness in weeks - a most-ly non-reversible condition that leaves this joint potentially compromised for the rest of an animal’s life. At the same time, not moving a leg can result in a signifi cant loss of muscle and potential shortening of muscles; these conditions can be reversed but only with consider-able time and eff ort on both the animal and its human companion. Consequent-ly employing rehabilitation principles in

a recovery process following an injury or orthopedic surgery can both speed up recovery and help prevent further in-jury. This is why we see fewer of those “write-on” casts anymore and more walking casts and splints allowing par-tial joint movement!

The basis of rehabilitation medicine is the understanding that muscles and bone structure lend themselves to VERY specifi c actions. When there is a loss of normal movement OR a reluctance to move in a certain way, a veterinarian trained in rehabilitation medicine will be looking for damage in very specifi c muscles, tendons, ligaments or joints. A diagnosis can be narrowed down by ob-serving gait (how the animal moves), as-sessing “passive range of motion” (does a joint move fully in an expected fash-ion) and fl exibility (is a muscle tighter or looser than expected) and by palpa-tion (feeling muscles and tendons look-ing for pain or for changes in texture). Most injuries can be diagnosed with these tools alone, but some will require further diagnostic work-up (perhaps ra-diographs, Ultrasound, chiropractic as-sessment or even MRI’s).

Once a working diagnosis is de-termined (some diagnosis will never be fi rm - especially when pain occurs only when a muscle is being ‘actively” used.....if only animals could talk!!!) a va-riety of therapeutic options exist. These could include stretching, specifi c ex-ercises, therapeutic laser, neuromus-cular electrical stimulation (NMES),

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2. Agility dogs who are performing at a lower level than expected may have

experienced a sports injury (they hap-pen even off the hockey rink or foot-ball fi eld) or may simply require musclestrengthening and balance “training” toenhance their performance.

3. Partial to full paralysis: Rehabilita-tion can signifi cantly aff ect the outcomeand speed of recovery of pets who havesuff ered a spinal cord injury by stimu-lating neurological pathways. In fact, re-habilitation therapy is the only therapythat has shown ANY repeatable benefi tin studies involving Degenerative My-elopathy (similar to ALS in people).

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4. Overweight pets: weight loss stands a much higher chance of being successful if, in addition to dietary alterations (calo-ries in), there is a rehab program estab-lished (the equivalent of getting a trainer to set up a customized exercise program = calories out!).

5. Finally, although surgery is usually considered the optimal approach to treat-ment of partial ACL tears in in large breed dogs, rehab medicine can be very valuable in patients who are not surgical candidates for one reason or another and can be con-sidered an alternative therapy in these pa-tients.

Rehabilitation medicine can be valuable in any musculoskeletal condition causing weakness, pain, decreased range of mo-tion, loss of coordination, decreased en-durance or diffi culty with normal daily activities. The goal is always to stop pain and return a pet to full function (although this may not always be achievable). Only veterinarians are allowed to make a diagno-sis of any kind in animals and ideally this should be established by a veterinarian cer-tifi ed in rehabilitation medicine if the prob-lem pertains to the musculoskeletal system. Registered Veterinary Technicians (RVT’s) often will work with clients on a rehab pro-gram, but they are not legally allowed to ei-ther make a diagnosis or set up a program themselves – only veterinarians or human physiotherapists certifi ed in animal reha-bilitation are allowed to set up therapeutic programs.

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COME FROM?Fleas can strike anytime, any-

where. It only takes a second for a fl ea to jump on and make itself at home. Fleas will habituate both indoors and out. It is just as easy for your pet to pick up a fl ea during a quick, outdoor bathroom break as it is from a visit to an infested home.

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ONTO MY CHILDREN?While fl eas never pass up an op-

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our other friend, the mosquito, some people are more susceptible to fl ea bites.

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MY PET HAS FLEAS?This can be tricky. Many pets

will carry fl eas and not show any signifi cant signs. For others, fl eas can be very bothersome. Some pets can be quite sensitive to fl eas and even suff er an allergic reaction or what’s known as fl ea allergy der-matitis. Pets that suff er from fl ea allergies tend to be extremely itchy and develop visible sores on their skin which eventually turn into bacterial skin infections or hot spots. A fl ea combs work great at detecting fl eas and can be picked up at almost any pet store or vet-erinary offi ce.

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PET HAS FLEAS?There are several great products

used to treat and control fl eas, each work slightly diff erent. Your pet’s lifestyle and the type of infes-tation you are trying to control or simply avoid will determine which product is right for you. The best source of information on the right fl ea control for your pet is your veterinarian. Be very cautious with

some of the over the counter fl ea medications meant for treating dogs only. Some of these prod-ucts can be extremely harmful,even deadly for cats. Owners willsometimes treat both their dog and cat, not realizing the danger. Even just treating a dog that livesin the same household as a cat can have a harmful, even devastatingeff ect especially if your cat likes togroom your dog.

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as quickly as 20 minutes. Others will have a full eff ect on your petwithin a couple hours. The key is continuous treatments. It can takeat least 3 months or treatments (iftreating monthly) to completelyrid the pesky fl ea from your home. Fleas lay hundreds of eggs on your pet and in your home. These eggscan lay dormant for months, evena year before they decide to hatch.This is why it is important to con-tinue to treat long after you’ve stopped seeing fl eas. Better yet….start treating before you even seethem!

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The South Sewer Proj-ect is ready to be imple-mented but its fate lies in the outcome of the refer-endum that is happening on June 18.

Property owners in Elec-toral Area A will be asked two specifi c questions on that day. One seeks sup-port for the Comox Valley Regional District to estab-lish a South Sewer Service to serve portions of Elec-toral Area A with a maxi-mum total annual requisi-tion limit of $2,004,000 and the second is for the partnership agreement for the project for 30 years.

Project manager Kris La Rose said they are aiming for a positive outcome.

“A no answer to both or to either one will sig-nifi cantly impact the proj-ect,” said La Rose.

“It will signifi cantly delay the project. When this project was started 10 years ago, the last ref-erendum cost was around $31 million and now the price has almost doubled to $56.2 million. It’s not going to get any cheaper.”

A successful referendum would help land the proj-ect P3Canada funding, which is 25 per cent of the capital cost estimated to be $56.2 million.

La Rose indicated the project has received noth-ing but positive feedback from P3Canada.

“Our sense is that if the referendum passes, the funding will be off ered to

Successful referendum key to future of South SewerTeam not giving up on Cumberland coming back to the fold cess would include the

South Sewer Project.“Initially it didn’t look

like Cumberland wasn’t going to consider the South Sewer Project be-cause in their eyes they’ve considered it and rejected it,” said La Rose. “That’s not the intention of the LWMP process which is to take a look and com-pare all the possible op-tions. I am very happy to see that since he (Nash) has come on, Cumberland has expanded its list that include the South Sewer Project.

“As long as they’re con-sidering it, I am confi dent that it will rise to the top. Every other solution they have will be a go-it-alone solution.

“According to Cumber-land, one of the things they have heard from their residents last year was they wanted a made in Cumberland solution which really was signifi -cantly at odds with the other bigger message that I heard from their resi-dents which is, ‘it is too expensive.’ You can’t have a made in Cumberland

solution servicing half as many connections and have that be cheaper.”

The South Sewer Proj-ect has been designed to accommodate future con-nections.

This leaves the door open for Cumberland and the City of Courtenay to join. Since Cumberland withdrew, there have been major developments to the South Sewer Project like the 58 per cent grant funding. La Rose wants potential stakeholders like Cumberland to be aware of it.

“We are giving Cum-berland a clear snapshot of the cost, so that they have something to com-pare with the other op-tions against,” La Rose explained.

“There will be a time limit on that because we will be initiating our pro-curement process next fall, a year and a half from now. If we do that without Cumberland committed to the project, and they come out after that, the cost will increase. That’s what we’ll be communi-cating with them.”

There will be three pump stations to be built in Union Bay, Kilmarnock and Royston much like the one installed at Millard Drive, which is similar in size to what will be needed for the south sewer project.

us,” said La Rose.Add the P3Canada

funding to the Union of BC Municipalities Strate-gic Priorities Fund Grant worth $15 million, along with $933,000 from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Green Mu-nicipal Fund, and Com-munity works fund, it would amount to around $31 million, which gives the project 58 per cent of the total capital cost. As

well, the K’omoks First Nation has committed combined cash and land worth around $5.4 million.

“The project is ready to implement,” said La Rose. “In 2012, when it went through the applica-tion process, the project was still uncertain. That’s a huge one. The project’s readiness has vastly in-creased since 2012.”

Phase one of the proj-ect will see the construc-tion of pumping stations to be located in Royston, Kilmarnock and Union Bay. All the waste water that is collected at each of the communities will be pumped to a waste water treatment plant.

La Rose reported they are fi nalizing the selec-tion of the sites for a waste water treatment fa-cility. They are favouring K’omoks First Nation land located along the highway from across the Kilmar-

When this project was started 10 years ago, the last referen-dum cost was around $31 million and now the price has almost doubled to $56.2 mil-lion.”

KRIS LA ROSEProject Manager

nock Subdivision.“Out of the four sites

that we’ve looked at by far provides the biggest buff er between the waste water treatment plant site and the neighbours in the area,” said La Rose.

Residents who might have to pay for the servic-es have raised concerns about the high cost of the project.

La Rose said they’ve been asked why they aren’t bringing in more connections. Enticing the Village of Cumberland to come back would be a huge help, said La Rose.

Cumberland, which withdrew from the SSP due to the excessive cost, has restarted its Liquid Waste Management Plan. It has hired a new coordi-nator Paul Nash. La Rose said he met with Nash as he wanted to make sure

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Have a free hot dog and a chat next week with the local police chief

May 15th to May 21st brings Police Week to the Comox Valley. Police Week has been rec-ognized in Canada since 1970, and is a way to connect with the communities, meet with po-lice and increase awareness about their local police services.

To celebrate this year’s Police Week, Comox Valley RCMP Inspector Tim Walton will be out in the community off ering hot dogs and con-versations to local residents at two locations:

On May 17th at the Crown Isle Thrifty’s park-ing lot between 11:30 am and 1:00 pm.

On May 19th, you will fi nd Tim at the Cum-berland Museum between 11:30 am and 1:00 pm.

Both days, you will be greeted with a smile and off ered a hot dog.

“It is another opportunity for me to have the chance to get out and engage with the commu-nities we serve,” said Inspector Walton.

“To have the chance to answer questions or just speak to the residents is very helpful for us. I can even make hotdogs to order as long as you like them really well done. ”

This is not the fi rst time Tim has barbequed for the public. He was the “master fl ipper” while being stationed in Baker Lake and White-horse and once served the Premier of Nunavut.


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Mama mia! The Knights of Colum-bus are doing it again - cooking up pots and pots of spaghetti in support of L’Arche Comox Valley’s I Belong campaign. Give the cook at your house a break this Saturday night, and head over to Christ the King for an Italian

feast of steaming pasta and scrump-tious tomato sauce.

And if you’re worried about those ex-tra pounds, you can dance them off to some great tunes after your meal! As always, there will be a cash bar and a great family feel.

Doors open at 5:30, with dinner served at 6:30. The cost is just $20/per-son, and a family of four can eat for $50 ($10 for each additional child). Mark your calendars for May 14 and join the Knights in supporting a great commu-nity cause.

Spaghetti dinner Saturday for L’Arche

Riding 200km for local Hospice careTwo days and 200km:

the Cycle of Life Tour is set for 2016! With registra-tion now open, volunteers at Comox Valley Hospice Society are encouraging other local riders to join this supported cycling Tour which takes place this year on July 23rd and 24th. You can also make tax deductible pledges to support registered riders like Comox Valley Hospice Society volunteers Dave Ward and Mark Toth!

Starting from downtown Victoria, on the fi rst day riders cycle to Brentwood

Bay and ferry over to Mill Bay, coast through the picturesque Cowichan

Valley, then at Crofton ferry over to Salt Spring Island for the night. While

on Salt Spring, cold bev-erages, hot showers, meals and entertainment are all provided. The next day the Tour crosses Salt Spring to Fulford Har-bour, where the ferry takes riders to Swartz Bay. Back on Vancouver Island, the tour’s last leg is a ride through the countryside of the Saanich Peninsula before reaching the fi nish line back in Victoria.

The Tour is organized by Victoria Hospice, but funds raised by riders in the Comox Valley area will stay local, going to the Comox Valley Hos-pice Society. Participants help raise funds as a part of their registration.

Riders receive Tour jer-seys. Local participants

can take part in grouprides and receive a train-ing guide. With the ridecapped at 60 cyclists, it’sgood to register early. Formore information or to getinvolved, contact ComoxValley Hospice Society at250.339.5533 / [email protected] or go towww.cycleofl ifetour.ca .

The Comox Valley Hos-pice Society companionspeople who are living withdying, grieving and care-giving.

For more informationon compassionate careand support, volunteer-ing or free Advance CarePlanning workshops,please call 250-339.5533 orvisit www.comoxhospice.com or www.AdvanceC-arePlanningCV.ca. CVHS volunteers Mark Toth and Dave Ward supporting local hospice care in July Cycle of Life


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The Comox Valley Road Runners (CVRR) were pleased to present certifi -cates of achievement to two deserving young athletes at a recent track session. Lizzie Gummer and Renate Bluschke (shown holding certifi cates) are members of the CV Cougars Track Club and are coached by John May. CVRR club members wish all the best to these dedicated young women.

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Join Comox Valley Re-gional District (CVRD) parks and Active Co-mox Valley as they pres-ent a free guided walk at Nymph Falls nature park. Energetic walk leader, Gayle Bates, will get par-ticipants moving as part of the provincial “Move For Health” day on Satur-day, May 14 from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Learn about the plant communities of a second growth forest as you walk a loop of the park, includ-ing a stop to view the falls. Children will take part in an educational ‘search and fi nd’ scavenger hunt

which will help them learn about the busy life of a for-est with its ground bees, shelf fungus, tree rings and more.

The event will happen rain or shine and is fun for all ages, however please leave your pets at home. Bring your camera and binoculars for viewing birds and scenery. Meet at the main parking lot on Forbidden Plateau Road. There will be prize draws, giveaways and healthy snacks.

For more information about CVRD parks, visit www.comoxvalleyrd.ca/parksandtrails .

Join leader Gayle Bates for a fun and energizing nature walk at Nymph Falls park.

Discover Nymph Falls Nature Park at free guided walk


Glen Tiede got a dog for his children 16 years ago. It was a high energy collie mix.

To reduce the dog’s high activity level, Tiede searched for solutions to help their pet release its umpteen amount of en-ergy.

That’s when Tiede came across dog agility, which is like equestrian jumping for canines.

It’s a popular canine sport in which handlers guide their dogs as quickly and accurately as they can through a variety of ob-stacles that include jumps, tunnels, teeter-totter, and weave poles.

“He was pretty good at it so we just played around it,” said Tiede. “Then we started teaching 10 years ago.”

It is now a hobby and a second job for Tiede, who now runs Team Agility Group in Black Creek

The fi rst dog he trained has already passed but

Black Creek team to represent Canada at World Agility event

Glen Tiede and dog agility partner Billy Bob

since then he has had a couple of other four-legged friends.

Now Tiede has a new partner, seven-year-old Billy Bob, a Jack Russell Terrier Border Collie-X.

They will be competing at the World Agility Cham-pionships this weekend in Birmingham, England.

It will be Tiede’s fi rst time to compete interna-tionally. He and Billy Bob are the only team from British Columbia out of the 19 pairs that will be representing Canada May 13 to 15.

“It’s a dream come true for me,” said Tiede.

Tiede acquired Billy Bob from a breeder in Idaho, U.S.A. Upon seeing the dog for the fi rst time, he knew Billy Bob had the potential to be good in the sport.

“He just had that ‘it’,” said Tiede. “I felt this was something he could do and accomplish.”

Tiede’s hunches and feelings about Billy Bob off the bat were accurate. In the last seven years, they have forged a good partnership and have worked well as a team,

They have competed in tournaments in Alberta,

Kelowna, and at the Ca-nadian National Cham-pionships in Ontario last summer.

“He focuses really well,” said Tiede. “When we get on the agility fi eld, as soon as he knows that this is what we will be doing, his focus is on me and he kind’a cares less about what’s going on around. This is what he’s doing. He’s entuned very much to what I am doing so that’s where as my part in the team, I have to be very sure what information I give him.”

Although this is a sport for dogs, handlers need to be in top physical shape as well. Tiede knows this only too well.

At the nationals last summer, they were in good position after the fi rst two days of competi-tion but on the last day, it was Tiede who faltered.

“We were sitting fi rst in most events then I blew out my hamstring on the fi rst run Sunday so that ended my week,” said Tie-de.

“The dog was fi ne. He came when I was down and probably was asking what are you doing down there?”

Tiede has recovered from his injury. He is ready and eager to com-pete on the world stage.

“We want to see how well we can do, and show what we can do and ac-complish,” said Tiede.

Both have been training regularly. Tiede said for Billy Bob, the whole thing is nothing but a game.

“It’s not work,” he said. “It’s building a connection between the two, building that team. It’s something you have to develop. It’s just like any other team. You just don’t throw them together and expect the best. He gets to play the game. Who doesn’t want to play games? He could go all day.”

As for him, Tiede said he enjoys the running part of it with his dog.

“I like working with the dog and seeing what we can accomplish, what challenges we can meet,” said Tiede.

“With the teaching part, I like seeing other people develop and being able to see them building that connection with their dog, building that team work with their dog and having a fun time at it where they are both wanting to do it.”

HERBERT RENZHerbert H. Renz passed into his

fi nal rest on Saturday May 7th

2016 at St. Joseph’s Hospital

in Comox, British Columbia.

Awaiting him on the far banks

of Jordan are his Mother and

Father Friedrich Renz and

Hulda Renz (nee Graf), also

his brothers Oskar and Alfred,

and a loving extended family

of whom he shared many fond

stories. He is survived by his

wife of 64 years Alma, and

children Nelson (Georgeann),

Ron (Roberta), and Deborah

(George); also 2 grandsons

Ryan and Robert.

Herbert was born on October 18, 1924 in a small German village, Güldendorf,

near Odessa on the Black Sea in what is now the Ukraine. He served in the

military and was badly injured in World War II. He immigrated to Canada

in 1949 with his Mother (having lost most of his family in the war). He

worked hard at several professions, working the longest (over 30 years)

with MacLeods/Gambles in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as a valued member of

their management team. He met the love of his life, Alma, while visiting

relatives in Calgary, Alberta. They married on October 12, 1951 and settled

in Winnipeg. As their family grew up and moved along into their own homes

and lives, Herbert and Alma moved with their youngest, Deborah, to the

west coast, settling fi rst in North Delta, and then later in Surrey, British

Columbia.

In 2007 they moved to the beautiful Comox Valley to be near Deborah and

her husband. Despite many physical challenges in recent years, Herbert’s

greatest joy was visiting his children, sharing stories, helping them with

home improvements and projects, and participating in family gatherings

large and small.

Everyone who knew Herbert will remember him as a principled man with

great strength of will and stamina, a good provider, a contributor to his

community, a dedicated professional, loyal to his friends, and as a proud and

loving Father and Husband, who instilled a strong work ethic and values into

his children and grandchildren.

His love for his wife and family was unconditional. To his children and grandchildren he will always be our Dad or Grandpa, our advisor … ally … protector … champion … our best friend.

A memorial service for Herbert Renz will be held at 1pm on Friday the 13th

of May 2016 at Piercy’s Funeral Home (440 England Ave. Courtenay, BC).

Herbert loved history, and he and Alma enjoyed many evenings together

at the theatre. So in lieu of fl owers, the family asks that a contribution be

made to the Comox Valley Community Foundation (www.cvcfoundation.

org) to either the Sid Williams Theatre Fund or the Courtenay and District

Museum Fund.

The family would also like to sincerely thank the staff at Comox Valley

Seniors Village, Cyndi White of Grannies on the Go, Dr. Brailey and staff at

Seacove Medical Clinic, and St. Joseph’s Hospital First Floor Inpatient Unit

staff for all their help and kindness.

NEULEBEN, ErnieErnie was born in Balve Germany into

a family of three sisters and later his

brother Walter arrived. Ernie married

Anneliese Wurzinger in Germany.

Ernie arrived in Halifax aboard the

MS Fairsea. He worked for a short

while logging in Quebec and then

Anneliese and his step-son Kurt

Wurzinger joined him in 1952. They

moved to Richmond BC. Ernie worked

as a machinist at Dominion Steel for

a short while and then worked at

Truefi t Millwork as a truck driver.

Ernie quit work to become blueberry farmers with Anneliese. They owned a

20 acre farm on Granville Street in Richmond. Ernie really enjoyed farming

(and in later years gardening both food and fl owers). On the farm there

was always something needing some tinkering, the grandchildren coming

for the summer to work on the farm, getting to tease, tell stories and

jokes to his grandchildren and getting to teach them to drive the old farm

tractor! Anneliese and Ernie would spend some winters in Hawaii while the

blueberries rested.

Ernie eventually subdivided 5 lots off the farm and began a history of

investing in real estate. In 1988, they sold the blueberry farm and moved to

Royston to be closer to Kurt, Evelyn and the grandchildren.

Ernie never met a stranger. He was an honest, knowledgeable, charming,

generous and very interesting man. He enjoyed rebuilding bicycles that he

found at the dump or in scrap yards. He also was known for his ability to

rebuild/fi x lawnmowers. He also loved to win at the casino!

Ernie was a devoted husband, companion, grandfather, great-grandfather

and great-great-grandfather who loved his family, his rye bread and salami,

playing the button accordion and even riding his motorcycle into his 80s!

Ernie is predeceased by his wife Anneliese, step-son Kurt Wurzinger,

daughter-in-law Evelyn, sisters Herta, Hilde and Ilse, and his companion

Lucy Powell.

Ernie is survived and deeply missed by his brother Walter(Gerda) Neuleben

of Chilliwack, niece Sonja and grandchildren Kurt (Lorna) Wurzinger of

Courtenay, Charlene Loader of Port Alberni, Tom Wurzinger of Merville,

and Lisa (Dale) Mangles of Port Alberni, 7 great-grandchildren and 2 great-

great-grandchildren, nephew Henry and many more nieces and nephews

along with his best friend and companion Millie Calnan who brought Ernie

much joy in his last years.

A tea to celebrate Ernie Neuleben will be held at the OAP Hall, Cumberland

on May 15th, 2016 at 1 p.m. Please bring your memories and stories!!

July 3, 1930 – April 6, 2016

Comox Valley Funeral Home250-334-0707

It is with deep sorrow and sadness that we announce the loss of our mother Elsie Friesen. On April 6, 2016 Elsie slipped away peacefully in her home surrounded by her loving children, grandchildren and husband. We are all thankful for having the precious me to thank, honour and tell her how much she was loved by all. Elsie was a reless and loving mother to her 5 children. Predeceased by her oldest daughter Lori Mae on May 8, 2010. Survived by her husband David (would have been married 63 years, August 24th), sons Wayne and Brian, daughters Val and Sandra, many cherished grandchildren (8) and great-grandchildren (2).

Elsie was a devoted wife, loving mother and ac ve in many clubs and organi a ons in the omo Valley since moving here in 1 62. She showed uncondi onal love to all, and tremendous strength while struggling with several health condi ons, always pu ng the needs of others before her own.

She will leave a deep void in the hearts of those who knew her and loved her.

A celebra on of life will be announced at a later date.

PECK –Arthur Thomas “Art”Jan 6, 1930 Toronto, ON – May 8, 2016 Comox, BC

Art is survived by his wife Gwen of 48 years; 5 children Wendy & Allan Stachiw, Debbie Peck, Rick & Linda Peck, David Peck, and Gre Peck; 8 randchildren Ma Stachiw, Danieala McKenzie, Chantal Peck, Selina Peck, Eric Peck, Jack Peck, Derek Stachiw, and Jamie Henderson; 6 great grandchildren Cole, Evere , an, Paige, Caitlyn and Ashley, brother-in-law Ed Perry of Humboldt, Sask as well as many nieces and nephews. Art served for 25 years in the Military (Army) and was a Korean War Veteran. He worked for the City of Courtenay for 15 years as an R.C.M.P. Guard and Fire & Ambulance Dispatcher. Special thanks to Dr. Mark Woldnik, Carol & sta of the Dunsmuir Medical Clinic. Also a sincere thank you to the sta of C at St. Joseph s Hospital.Private family arrangements.


WREGGITT, KAREN F. 23 FEB 1954 TO 28 APR 2016

From the depth of our grief we are distressed to announce our won-derful, loving daughter died in Vic-toria. Her huge heart just gave out. She did not suffer. She will be re-membered forever by parents Russ and Margaret, sister Linda (Cheryl), And soul mate Vita. She has been cremated and Karen’s Celebration will be at The Esquimalt Legion 15 May. Karen was dearly loved by so many. Con-dolences at CareFuneral.Com

Robyn Hazleton May 20, 1957 – May 14, 2013

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standing in a field of beautiful flowers

you turned around and smiled

it was only then that I knew you were safe

in God’s gardenHe only takes the best

Loved and missed so much by Mom and Dad (Sally & Chuck), Mark (Spike) Katherine, Charlie and Olivia

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Helen Margaret SmithNovember 1st, 1923 – May 3rd, 2016

The family of Helen (‘En’) Smith are

sad to announce her passing on May

3rd, 2016 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in

Comox, B.C.

Helen was born in Strathtay,

Perthshire, Scotland to John and

Helen Douglas.

Helen was predeceased by husband

and soulmate Bill, brother Jim (Kaye),

brother-in-law Michael Wellock

and nephew Doug Wellock. She is

survived by her sister Rachel Wellock,

niece Louise Bustard (Robert) and

their sons Stephen and Jeffrey, great-grandnephew Oliver, nephew Gordon

Douglas, step-son Jim Smith (Connie), grandchildren Nathan and Tasha.

Helen spent her childhood in Rossland, B.C. and spent the first years of her

working life as a secretary at Teck Cominco in Trail. She then spent time

as a legal stenographer in Castlegar before turning to the florist business,

apprenticing in Nelson before purchasing and running her own flower shop

in Castlegar where she met her husband Bill. Bill and Helen moved to Black

Creek in 1984 to pursue their love of ocean fishing. They spent many happy

years together.

Helen was a quiet, private person who enjoyed the simple things in life

and faced life’s challenges with a courageous tenacity and a sharp wit. She

loved being in nature, gardening, golfing and curling. As Helen was very

artistic, she was able to capture her love of nature in her paintings and in

her dried flower cards.

Helen will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

Special thanks to the third floor staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital, her

neighbours,friends and to her very close friend Louise Wiens for their

support and care.

No service by request.

Charles Malcolm Fryer 1923 – 2016

“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings.”

Charles passed away peacefully at home on April 26th at age 93 leaving to grieve Claire, his wife of 71 years, his daughter Lee Ettinger of Sayward and son Randall (Peggy) of Golden. Also two grandsons and one great-grandson, Little Charlie Fryer, all of Calgary.He served our country during WW2 as a pilot

with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and later as a civilian enjoying a flying hobby.As war ended Charles attended UBC and

graduated with a Mechanical Engineers degree in 1950. He spent 30 years working in the oil patch in Alberta. Retiring in 1980 he moved to the Comox Valley where he enjoyed golfing, fishing, snooker, and bowling and devoted his engineering skills to building two lovely homes here in the Valley.A celebration of Charles’ life will be held at

Berwick (1700 Comox Ave, Comox) on Thursday June 9, 2016 between 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm. Join us to share a toast and your memories

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• Supply and installation of approximately 180 m of PVC storm sewer, complete with all required manholes, catch basins, services, and tie-ins.

• Upgrading of two (2) existing watermain branch connections and construction of one (1) new branch connection.

• Re-alignment and re-surfacing of approximately 170 m of residential road, complete with all required curbing, sidewalks, and utility relocations.

Contract Documents will be available online through BC Bid (www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca)No registration, tracking or other recording of Tender document holders will be per-formed by the Owner or Consultant. All addenda, amendments or further information will be published on the BC Bid website. It is the sole responsibility of the document holder to monitor the website regularly to check for updates.

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Passed away peacefully on Monday, May 10, 2016 at Cumberland Lodge. She is survived and will be dearly missed by her 4 sons, 6 daughters, numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren, 3 sisters and many nieces and nephews.Ingrid will be remembered for her e cep onal coo ing and family dinners, her gardening, which was her life , her ni ng s ills, and

that she was always willing to lend a hand to help others. Special than s to the sta at Cumberland Lodge for their loving care and indness.

memorial service in celebra on of her life will ta e place on Friday, May 13th, 2016 at 1:00PM from Comox Valley Funeral Home, Crema on and ecep on Centre, 1101 yan oad with Pastor im

umsch o cia ng. Placement of her urn will follow at Cumberland Municipal Cemetery. Should friends wish, dona ons in Ingrid s memory to the l heimer s Society, #300-828 West 8th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1E2 would be appreciated.


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Iverson, HelenIt is with deep sadness that we an-nounce Helen’s passing on May 1, 2016. Early Sunday morning, as the sun came up, she chose to leave us and move on. Helen will be deeply missed by her sons Jason (Le-anne), Stephen (Julie) and Trevor; grandchildren Alex, Ethan, Wyatt and Ford; her sisters Barb (Marty) and Betty Anne; her brother Paul (Linda); nieces Janet, Christine, Lindsay, Kirsten and Dana; nephew Oren; and many more cousins and extended family in Saskatchewan

and friends far and wide. Helen is predeceased by her husbands Buck and Willie; parents Agot and Ernest; stepfather Douglas; and daughter-in-law Lynn. Although she endured hardships in her life, Helen chose to smile, laugh and carry on. Nothing could slow her vivacious spirit. She was always outgoing, friendly, fun-loving and generous and simply put, amazing. Thank you all from the family as we grieve the loss of this wonderful woman. A celebration of Helen’s life will be held at a later date. Please join us in remembering Helen by visiting our memorial at piercysmtwashington.com

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Keep up to date on the latest info onMyeloma and enjoy socializing with othersaffected by the disease. RSVP Linda [email protected] or 250-204-9055if you plan to attend or for more info.“SCOUNDRELS, DREAMERS & SECOND SONS,BRITISH REMITTANCE MEN IN THE CANADIANWEST” • Lecture and book signing withauthor Mark Zuehlke. Presentation begins7 pm, Tuesday, May 17 at the Courtenayand District Museum. Tickets $6 (plusGST). Advance tickets recommended.FMI and to purchase tickets: 250-334-0686 ext 5.CANADIAN FEDERATION of UNIVERSITY WOMEN(CFUW) COMOX VALLEY • Monthly meetingand AGM on Tuesday, May 17. 11:30Eagle Ridge Club House, 2200 ManorDrive, Comox. An opportunity to meetwith like mined women, join book groups,share in community projects and supportwomen university students with bursaries.FMI 250-339-5656 or 250-334-3306.

THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL ASSOCIATION •Holds its Monthly Meetings at 1:00 P.M. inthe Upper hall of the Comox Legion on the3rd Wednesday of each month. Maymeeting will be held on the 18th. Guestsare more than welcome.THE COMOX GLACIER WANDERERS VOLKSWALKCLUB • Is hosting a 5/10 km walk onWednesday, May 18th. Starting from theparking lot of the Salmon Point Pub, 2158Salmon Point Road, V9H 1E5. Registrationbegins at 9:30 am. Walk starts at 10:00 am.The walk will follow a scenic seaside trailand thru residential Saratoga Beach.Lunch to follow at the Salmon Point Pub.For further information contact Peg orRodney @ 250-941-3656.HEART SUPPORT GROUP • Comox ValleyChapter. Monthly Meeting May 18, 7PMComox Recreation Centre, 1855 Noel Ave.Our group is a support group for anyonewho has had a heart procedure, is aboutto undergo a heart procedure and theirspouses. This meeting will be anopportunity to focus on individualquestions & concerns; as well as reviewdetails for the upcoming “Walk for Hearts”June 5th. There is no charge for ourmeetings & all are welcome. For moreinformation, please call: (250) 339-5349

THE POINT HOLMES RECREATION ASSOCIATION •Will be holding our AGM at 7 pm, Thursday19 May, in the Pavilion by the boat rampon Lazo Rd. The PHRA manages the boatramp and liaises with the Town of Comoxfor maintenance and improvements to theadjacent park. Everyone is welcome toattend and share ideas, fish stories andpick up your 2016 boat ramp pass. Annualpasses will be available for only $35 forboaters, kayakers and SUP. Corporateannual memberships are available for$100, with your logo displayed on oursign. COMOX VALLEY WRITERS SOCIETY • Will holdits General Meeting on Thursday, May 19that Valley View Elementary School in thelibrary. 7 – 9pm. Members will be readingfrom their current work . New members arewelcome. HOMEMADE SOUP AND SANDWICH LUNCH •Thursday, May 19, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m,Upper Legion Hall, Comox Avenue. FullLunch $8.00 Individual Entrees $3.00.Endless tea & coffee. Come & enjoy ahomemade lunch & dessert with family andfriends. Sponsored by Comox LegionLadies Auxiliary. Open to the publicCV HARD OF HEARING SUPPORT GROUP • DarylHoughton of Phonak HearingAppliances will be the guest speaker atthe May meeting of the CHHA – CV Hard ofHearing Support Group. The meeting willtake place on the third THIRD THURSDAYof the month (May 19)) in our new meetingplace - the COMOX RECREATIONCENTER (1855 Noel Ave, Comox). Family/friends/others are most welcome. Meetingstarts at 10. Hope to see you there! FMIcall Glenda at 250 3387792

EVERGREEN CLUB FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE • May 13th. Try something new instead of staying home on a Friday night! You will not be disappointed with the live music from THE DAN HUGHES BAND! Dancing is from 7:30pm to 10:30 pm with our usual coffee and cookie break at 9pm. Dance takes place at Courtenay Recreation’s Florence Filberg Centre downstairs in the Rotary Hall. Evergreen members are $7 at the door and non-members are $9. FMI call the Filberg Office at 250-338-1000.COURTENAY LEGION • Meat draws every Friday, 5-7 pm. COMOX LEGION a• Meat draws every Friday, 3 p.m. Open to all Legion members and signed in guests.

SPAGHETTI DINNER FOR L’ARCHE • Mama mia! The Knights of Columbus are doing it again - cooking up pots and pots of spaghetti in support of L’Arche Comox Valley’s I Belong campaign. Give the cook at your house a break this Saturday night, and head over to Christ the King for an Italian feast of steaming pasta and scrumptious tomato sauce. And if you’re worried about those extra pounds, you can dance them off to some great tunes after your meal! As always, there will be a cash bar and a great family feel. Doors open at 5:30, with dinner served at 6:30. The cost is just $20/person, and a family of four can eat for $50 ($10 for each additional child). SEED SAVERS PLANT SALE • On Saturday May 14th between 9am and Noon, the Comox Valley Growers and Seed Savers will host their annual plant sale at the K’omox Band Hall on Dyke Rd in Comox. Normally sought after is our large collection of heritage tomatoes. There will also be a selection of vegetables as well as berries, herbs and flowers all grown locally by our members. Most of the varieties sold are open pollinated and grown following organic principles. Come early for the best selection and remember to bring a box or flat to take you plants home. For more information contact Sylvain Alie 250-336-8632. A FUNDRAISING CONCERT FOR THE CV TRANSITION SOCIETY • With Saskia and Darrel; The Great Plains. Saturday, May 14 at 7:30 At the Elim Gospel Church (566 – 5th Street, Courtenay) Tickets at Laughing Oyster Books. Please call Marie for more info at 250 897 6347

COMOX VALLEY ELDERS • Take action meeting May 16 at the Courtenay Library, 1-3 pm. Guest speaker Wendy Johnstone, gerontologist on “Getting your eldercare affairs in order.” We meet on the third Monday of the month. Everyone welcome. FMI: Jennifer 250-334-2321 or [email protected] CLUB WHIST • 20 hands of play, door prizes, snacks and good fun. New players welcome. Come early to sign up. $2.00 per person, members only. FMI call 250-338-1000. Monday, May 16, 2016 - 7:30pm. LADIES AUXILIARY DROP-IN BINGO • Comox Legion Ladies Auxiliary Drop-in Bingo, upper hall. Doors open 6 pm, bingo 7 p.m.

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Ecole Robb Road Elementary Principal Kyle Timms hopes a new, covered bicycle rack will encourage more of his students — and their parents — to cycle to school.


These days, kids are more likely to roll up to school in an air-condi-tioned SUV than arrive red-cheeked and bright-eyed from a morning cycle.

A group of parents at Ecole Robb Road El-ementary in Comox are hoping to buck the trend with a new project, and the school district is pay-ing attention.

Parents have raised more than $18,000 to build a covered bicycle shelter for students to park their bikes when they arrive at school. The structure would be able to host about 60 bikes, in addition to other non-covered bicycle racks on the school grounds.

The aim is to provide an incentive – a dry place to store bikes – to en-courage more parents to hold off the chauff euring duties.

But even proponents of the project admit the reasons behind the waves of vehicles arriving at the school each morning stem from more deep-seated – rather than wet-seated – issues.

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Getting school kids out of the chauff eur syndromeEcole Robb Road Elementary trying to buck the trend with new project to encourage cycling to school

An artist’s rendering of the proposed covered bike rack (School District 71 photo)

program – short for ‘Hub for Active School Travel – to try to lay out a path to a more active student population.

Angela Holmes, sustainabil-ity coordinator for the school district, has been leading the ef-fort. Part of her work has been conducting surveys among stu-dents and their families about their commuting routines.

She found that 35 per cent of school-age families live within

1.6 kilometres of Ecole Robb Road – the average ‘acceptable’ walking distance in Canada – while 22 per cent lived between 1.6 and three kilometres away. The remaining 43 per cent lived further than 1.6 kilometres.

Compare that to the actual commuting habits: 58 per cent of students are driven to the school. An additional 27 per cent carpool, meaning just 15 per cent walk or bike to school.

There are some encouraging signs.

In 2013, Holmes found there was an average 20 bikes in racks at the school. Now, the typical daily num-ber ranges from 40 to 60.

But survey respondents’ reasons for keeping their kids’ bicycles in the garage are telling.


It’s a habit we’ve gotten into, and it’s a culture of convenience.”

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Holmes said the top three include safety concerns, the fact that the school is on par-ents’ way to work and conve-nience.

Is ‘convenience’ a code word for laziness?

“I wouldn’t say that, I would say it’s a lack of awareness,” Holmes said. “It’s a habit we’ve gotten into, and it’s a culture of convenience.”

CULTURE OF CONVENIENCE

That ‘culture of conve-nience’ could be undermining the everyday activity experts say children need to fi ght off disease.

The federal government says children between fi ve and 17 should get 60 minutes of exercise a day. It’s estimated that just nine per cent make that target.

Cycling or walking to school is recommended as way to meet the target, but it’s unknown how often this suggestion is taken to heart. Statistics Canada does not track which methods of trans-portation children take to get to school.

However, the statistics that are available suggest a growing childhood obesity epidemic. A 2015 study from Statistics Canada concluded 13 per cent of Canadians age three to 19 were obese.

And while there is no data on childhood cycling, the data for adult cyclists shows that those who cycle more than one hour a week report lower blood pressure, body mass in-dex and waist circumferences.

Still, according to a Cana-dian Health Measure Survey, a whopping 91 per cent of men and 96 per cent of women age 20 to 79 years log zero hours a week.

KIDS MORE ALERTEcole Robb Road Principal

Kyle Timms says he notices an increase in alertness and better behaviour among students who walk or cycle to school.

“It kind of jump-starts your brain,” he said.

Timms also hopes increased

cycling will displace the waves of vehicles that converge in the residential area every school morning.

“It’s a nightmare at most schools, I think,” said Timms.

“It’s not that bad,” he quickly adds. However, he said a lack of a crosswalk near to the school means students on foot have to cross the street amid a steady stream.

“I’m surprised there hasn’t been an accident,” he said.

FEAR OF ACCIDENTSParadoxically, fear of an ac-

cident with vehicles may itself be contributing to more vehicle drop-off s at school. Marg Har-ris, president of the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition, thinks there is a connection.

“We have had a huge increase in traffi c over the past few gen-erations,” she said.

Harris said a new generation of parents has grown up not cycling or walking to school themselves as a result.

“The generation before that (would say), ‘Ha! A ride? You must be joking,’” she said.

“The fear factor (now) is huge,” Harris added. “Parents seem much more paranoid when their children are out of sight.”

But Harris said lobbying eff orts from parents for bet-ter cycling infrastructure is an encouraging sign.

Holmes said the fact that the new bike shelter was done through fundraising was prom-ising.

“I think the momentum be-hind the bike shelter says a lot,” she said.

“If that’s going to make a dif-ference, then heck, let’s go for it.”

The school district has also produced maps to show com-muters the best routes to cycle to school and Holmes is work-ing on similar surveys on other schools. The district also paid design costs for the project.

PENDULUM SWINGINGFeedback from the school

surveys has also helped leverage improvements to pedestrian in-frastructure, notably a new side-walk on Robb Road. The Town of Comox also waived $1,000 in development permit fees for the

new bike shelter, she said.But more importantly, Holmes

said, children remain excited about getting to school on their own steam.

The district’s annual ‘Bike to School Week’ has a 70 per cent

turn-out. Cycling workshops run by volunteers also receive a popular response.

“So when I say the pendulum is swinging, I really believe kids want to make a diff erence and this is one way they can make

it,” Holmes said.For now, the bike shelter is a

pilot project. But its proponents show no signs of backpedaling on their goals to make the cy-cling to school the norm to the exception.

Do you have any questions about Strathco-na Park and its fascinating plants, wildlife, or history?Are you interested in taking an easy day hike or exploring some of the challenging back country? Would you like to learn more about the Strathcona Wilderness Institute?

Would you like to meet some great people including an author and local historian, Cath-erine Gilb ert? She will be presenting a slide show and will be discussing the soldiers and sailors who were stationed at the Old Fort (1937-45) on Yorke Island (near Kelsey Bay).

She will read excerpts from their letters home about what they did while stationed there, and will talk about the impact their pres-ence had on the surrounding communities.

Today Yorke Island is a Conservancy under BC Parks.

Then be sure to put Wed. May 18 on your calendar! The 21st Annual General Meeting of the Strathcona Wilderness Institute will be held downstairs in the Evergreen Room at the Filberg in Courtenay from 7 - 9 pm.

As a non-profi t organization, the Strathcona Wilderness Institute Board of Directors will be

pleased to answer questions about Strathcona Park and their summer programs at the Paradise Meadows Wil-derness Information Centre. We are always looking fornew volunteers, new ideas and new skills!

If you have fundraising skills, event planning experi-ence, communications experience, organizational skills,park & trail knowledge, building experience (repair,etc), you are always welcome! Or if you do not haveexperience, but are willing to learn, you are also verywelcome!

We also wish to give a special welcome to potentialyounger volunteers who are high school grads who careabout their beautiful local park and wish to contributeand learn about preserving and educating the publicabout the Strathcona Wilderness Park. This would po-tentially be a great experience to put on your resume forfuture possible job opportunities.

We are also looking for new Directors this year. Be sure to put Wed. May 18 on your calendar! There willalso be great refreshments! We hope to see you there!For more information please see http://strathconapark-blogspot.ca/

Wilderness Institute having AGM on May 18


Why they practise ...Serious bus crashes have only happened rarely on Vancouver Island but two of the worst were right in our backyard, Right, two students were killed and several seriously injured when a charter bus from Victoria lost its brakes coming down the road from Mt. Washington in 1984. Above, 11 people were killed - more than half from the Comox Valley - in a Sept. 4, 1977 crash near Lantzville between an Island Coach Lines bus, a pick-up and a fl atbed. (Photos: Comox District Free Press, Nanaimo Free Press).

No fi refi ghter or paramedic ever wants to go to a multiple-casualty accident.

But if they are called out to a major in-cident, they need to be trained up. And know how to work with other depart-ments’ equipment and personnel.

That’s why Courtenay Fire Depart-ment jumped at the rare chance of hav-ing a training exercise Saturday with a full-sized bus available for tearing apart with rescue tools.

“We really appreciated that,” said Fire Chief Don Bardonnex of the school bus donation by Georgia Straight Collision.

The bus was tilted on its side, with two cars jammed underneath with casualties, too.

Vanier Secondary students volun-teered to be “victims”.

Fire departments from Comox, Cum-

berland, Union Bay and Oyster River participated in the exercise held at the Courtenay department’s new W.L. Lane MacDonald Fire Training Centre on Wa-ters Place.

“B.C. Ambulance came on board, which was great,” said Bardonnex.

Although getting underneath a large bus to stabilize it poses its own set of dif-fi culties, the rescue techniques are the same as for any crash.

While fi refi ghters all train to the same standards in extrication techniques, what was a “bonus” learning experience this time was having to deal with diff er-ent rescue tools used by the various de-partments.

“We need to do it more often,” said Bardonnex of the multi-department ex-ercise.

And just because there haven’t been any recent bus crashes in the area, doesn’t mean they don’t happen. And with devastating results.

The most recent major bus crash hap-pened in the winter of 1984, when a char-ter bus carrying Victoria-area students lost its brakes on the way down from Mount Washington ski resort.

Two students were killed and numer-ous others suff ered serious injuries.

Before that, almost 39 years ago, the worst motor vehicle accident ever to hap-pen on Vancouver Island claimed 11 lives – many from the Comox Valley.

The crash happened on Saturday, Sept. 4 on the Labour Day Weekend near Lantzville on the old Island Highway.

A pickup truck, a fl atbed truck carry-ing heavy equipment, and a Vancouver

Island Coach Lines bus collided.Bodies of the dead and injured were

strewn all over the highway when they were ejected from the bus. Others were trapped inside the smashed vehicle.

The driver of the pickup truck, which is believed to have caused the accident, died at the scene. The bus driver, from Campbell River, also died later from his head injuries.

The other fatalities included the twin brother of then-Courtenay mayor Bill Moore.

“Ambulance attendants, stained and bloody, worked hard and diligently to re-move as quickly as possible, any injured passengers from the wreckage. The jaws of life apparatus was used to free tightly jammed occupants of the vehicles” - Na-naimo Free Press.

A rare chance for fi refi ghters, paramedics to train on a bus crashPlease see our facebook page for more photos from the exercise


Courtenay Fire Department is thankful that some trees in a bush fi re early Sunday night didn’t “candle”.

That might have caused a much bigger fi re, especially with the high and gusty north-west winds at the time.

The fi re department was called out just before 7 pm to a site off Lake Trail Road and the Comox Logging Road, under the powerline.

The high winds had blown a branch off a tree and into power lines, causing a cascade of sparks which set off the brush and grass.

The 30 x 50 metre fi re had extended into the trees, which

were burning 12-15 metres up.“The wind was our biggest

concern,” said Fire Chief Don Bardonnex.

Courtenay called in the tank-er truck from Cumberland Fire Department to augment their own in fi ghting the fi re. There are no hydrants in the area.

“We’re extremely grateful for the assistance from the Cum-berland Fire Department to help extinguish this fi re before it spread any further.”

Crews had the fi re extin-guished in just over an hour.

While fi ghting the bush fi re, someone had to go check out a nearby “burning complaint” of a person burning leaves in their

front yard – without a permit.Bardonnex said you “can’t

burn in the city. Period.” If you live outside city bound-

aries, but are in the Courtenay Fire Protection District, then you need to get a permit.

Permit burning is allowed from April 1 to Oct. 31, and there are restrictions as to when and what you can burn. The permits are free, though.

Bardonnex said “it’s typical” every spring to receive a large number of burning complaints, as people try to get rid of their garden and yard debris.

If conditions get dry enough, the Fire Department can issue a complete burning ban for

residents outside the city. But it’s up to them to be aware as they won’t be notifi ed individu-ally even if they have a burning permit.

Bardonnex says the fi re on Comox Logging Road should serve as a warning that these types of fi res can aff ect any community.

With the devastating fi re losses in Fort McMurray, Alberta in everyone’s minds, this weekend’s fi re was a stark reminder of the risks right here in the Comox Valley.

Chief Bardonnex also urged residents to use caution in the outdoors and help protect against wildfi res by disposing

of cigarette butts responsibly, and keeping vehicles and trail-ers well-maintained to prevent sparks.

Even discarded bottles and broken glass can act as mag-nifying glass, starting fi res through refl ecting the sun’s rays.

Fines for starting wildfi res in B.C. may be levied through the provincial Wildfi re Act.

Homeowners can fi nd out more about how to reduce the potential impacts of wildfi re through the Province of Brit-ish Columbia ‘s FireSmart Homeowner’s Manual: http://bcwildfi re.ca/prevention/docs/homeowner-fi resmart.pdf

Sunday brush fi re a reminder about the risks here

Come and join in the fun on Monday, May 23rd in Cumberland with the annual Victoria Day Pa-rade.

Decorate your bike and have the chance to win some great prizes.

This year to honour the theme of Salute to Cycling

children are encouraged to decorate their bicycles and ride them in the pa-rade.

The age categories for decorated bicycle are 6 years and under and 7 to 12 years. There are prizes for the Best Overall deco-rated bicycle as well as 1st

and 2nd prizes for the two age groups.

Just so the adults don’t feel left out there are also 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes for Best Decorated Float and a prize for the Best Orga-nization or Group.

You can fi nd the Pa-rade Registration form on

the Cumberland Empire Events Facebook page or you can pick up a copy at the Cumberland Recre-ation Centre at 2665 Dun-smuir Ave.

For more information you can contact Ed at 250-702-3933 or [email protected].

‘Salute to Cycling’ parade theme this yearfor Cumberland’s 128th Victoria Day event

Award-winning popular historian launches new book at Courtenay Museum

Join award-winning Vancouver Island au-thor Mark Zuehlke as he launches the new edition of Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West (Harbour Publishing, $24.95).

The presentation and book signing will take place at the Courtenay and District Museum & Palaeontology Centre (207 4th St, Courtenay) on Tuesday, May 17 at 7:00pm.

Beginning in 1880, thousands of young, upper-class British men with few prospects were sent to the Canadian West to distance them from British society.

Still supported by their families, thus earning them the title “remittance men,” these men set out to continue their lives of leisure in this new land.

With education, re-spectable breeding and the belief “from birth that they were superior be-ings,” the remittance men descended upon Western Canada with expectations of accomplishing some-thing great and increasing their wealth.

In reality, they hunted, played games, courted women, and enjoyed dis-tinguished pursuits that squandered their parents’ money and made hard-working Canadians raise their eyebrows.

Mark Zuehlke grew up in the Okanagan Valley hearing stories of British remittance men.

Fascinated by both the actual stories and roman-tic myths, Zuehlke made them the subject of his fi rst work of history—Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons.

Zuehlke’s many books include the Canadian Battle Series; the Mili-tary Heritage Series; and his award-winning Elias McCann Series centred around a modern-day remittance man.

In 2014, Zuehlke won the prestigious Gover-nor General’s Award for Excellence in Popular Media, also known as the Pierre Berton Award. He lives in Victoria, BC.

Admission is $6, or $5 for Historical Society members, and books will be available for sale. Ad-vance tickets are recom-mended.

For more information about the event, please contact the Courtenay and District Museum at (250) 334-0686, ext. 5.

A taste of Taiwan coming up at FeteComox Valley Multicultural Soci-

ety is hosting its fi rst Multicultural Fete May 19 to May 21.

The fete will feature Taiwanese cuisine by award-winning chef Tony Huang from Taiwan. Chef Tony is a gold medal winner of World As-sociation of Chef’s Societies, a pro-fessor at Hsing Wu University and head chef for the Four Season hotel in Taipei. Chef Tony will be assisted by Chef Tom, also from Taiwan.

There are three diff erent ways you can enjoy Chef Tony’s food so pick the one that works best for you or come to all three.

■ Thursday, May 19 from 6 pm to 9 pm at the Bamboo Inn Restau-rant in Comox, a special Taiwanese meal prepared by Chef Tony, this is a fundraiser for the Comox Valley Multicultural Society. The cost of

the meal is $35 but seats are limited to the fi rst 70 people, making res-ervation is recommended, call Jin @(250)898-9567.

■ Friday, May 20 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm, a Taiwanese Fine Cui-sine demonstration and tasting will be held at K’omoks Band Hall (3310 Comox Ave).

Admission is by donation, will have four dishes demonstration, participants will have opportunity for food tasting.

■ Saturday, May 21 from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm, a barbeque held at Simms Park. The theme of the bar-beque is West Meets East and will include a fi ne cuisine demonstra-tion at 2:30 pm by Chef Tony and Chef Tom from Taiwan and Chef Dale from Canada.

The demonstrations will be fol-

lowed by a barbeque at 4:30. The cost of the barbeque is $10 per per-son or $20 per family, but Comox Valley Multicultural Society mem-bers will get half off .

This is a great family event and you are also invited to join a walk from Lewis Park to Simms Park. If you want to go for the walk, meet at the water park by the outdoor swim-ming pool at 1 pm.

Another way to get involved and be part of the action on may 21, is to volunteer.

Comox Valley Multicultural Soci-ety needs assistance setting up and taking down tables.

If you want to volunteer, purchase tickets or want more information about any of these events, please contact Jin at (250)898-9567.

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GOLF NEWS

COMOX GOLF CLUB LADIES LEAGUE MAY 5

For many of us out on the course, it still feels like we are just beginning the season as you can tell from some of the scores.

Lorelei Banford won Low Gross with 90 and Nancy Riva followed with a 93.

The Low Net scores were much better: Pat Schmidt-71, Gi Carlson- 72, Phyllis Taylor-74, Mary Suchla-74, Sook Kim-75, Linda Diamond, Sharon Crowe and Linda Callender tied with 76.

Our skills prizes were awarded to Linda Dia-mond for closest to the bucket sponsored by Keith Gibson of Investors

Group. Closest to the hole on

#7 and #16 was spon-sored by Looneyrama and won by Sharon Crowe. Lorelei Banford won clos-est to the hole on #5 and #14 sponsored by Panago Pizza and Gi Carlson won closest to the hole in 2 shots by chipping in on #9 and #18 sponsored by the Tee Box Restau-rant. The longest putt on #3 and #12 was Phyllis Taylor and on # 8 and #17 Amber Dufour was the winner.

GLACIER GREENS MEN’S SHOOT-OUT ROUND TWO

On Saturday May 7th clear skies and warm

Somebody had an eagle at Comox Golf Club

temp’s greeted the par-ticipants as they played round two of this years Shoot-Out tournament. Team Scramble was the format.

A few changes at the top of the Gross side with the father and son team of Mike and Terran Berger taking over the lead with a two day total of (132).

One stroke back at (133) is another father and son team of Bob and Jeff Edwards.

Should be a real dog fi ght next Saturday when these two families are paired together for the fi nal round of the tourna-ment and the alternate shot format.

In third place with (134) is Barry Norris and Willie Oliver. Rob Borland and Steve Peters are forth with (135).

Tied for fi fth with (138) is Darell Fieber and Brian Goodwin along with Steve Blacklock with Fabian McCarty.

I would not say its a commanding lead but on the net side the team of Len Doyle and Wayne Wood are still leading with a two day net total of (106).

Greg Conway and Art Trto are very close with (107).

The following three teams are tied for third place with (109). Norm Fellbaum and Pat Ren-aud, Dave Buckley-Jones and Wayne Ogilvie as well as Wayne Hay and Nick Stolarchuck.

Team K.P.’s went to Bob & Jeff Edwards on hole # 4 sponsored by Scott Fraser of Royal LePage, Henry Bonde & Claude Dufault on hole #7 sponsored by Scott Smith of Cobra Golf, Bob & Jeff Edwards on hole #12 sponsored by Gary Wiebe of Boston Pizza, Jim & Clint Perry on hole #15 sponsored by Bill Kelly of Bill Kelly Golf and to Clint Hartery and Mike Pollock on hole #17 sponsored by Bill Girard of Canadian Western Bank.

Next Saturday, May the 14th will be the fi nal day of the 2016 Shoot-Out and it will be the inter-esting and sometimes dreaded Alternate shot format.

This year all teams must decide before the fi rst ball is teed who will hit from the even tees and who will hit from the odd tees.

I’m sure if you’re at the Comox Air Terminal and you listen closely you will hear the term “sorry

partner” coming for the Glacier Greens Golf Course.

- Submitted by Len Doyle, Saturday Men’s Coordinator, Glacier Green Golf Club

SUNNYDALE MEN’S CLUB

It was another well at-tended event on May 8th, 51 participants, thanks to the Comox visitors.

It was called the 4 Stick Event because each person chose and was restricted to using only 4 golf clubs which did not seem to eff ect the scores.

Field 1st Low Gross went to Thomas Drew with a 72, 2nd was Tyler VanAnrooy with 75. Field Low Net went to Ed Ru-dolph (68), 2nd was Dave Pye (69).

By category Low Gross 0-10 leaders were Mitch Carr-Hilton (76) & Larry Ferguson (78) shared with an unknown name.

Low Gross 11+ were Rick Dawson & Bo Bishop each with (85) fol-lowed by Ed Podetz (86).

Low Net winners - Jim Buchanan & Keith McNeillie (70), Gord Reichelt & Mike Kirby (71), Bob Whitehouse, Damon Gaudet, Butch Williams & Keith Welch with (72).

Skins 11+ payouts went

to Bo Bishop, Greg ?, Bruce Donegan & Guy Traverse. Pro Shop Skins went to Butch Williams, Robin Ward, Tyler VanA-nrooy, Ian Haigh, includ-ing Dave Pye for his Low Net 69.

KP winners were Wally Pettigrew, Randy Ben-nett, Bruce Donegan, Jim Buchanan & Robin Ward. Pot of Gold winners were Butch Williams, Bruce Donegan, Damon Gaudet & Ian Haigh.

Long Drives - Pro V1 donated by Greg Koster, by category Thomas Drew H’cap 0-10, Randy Bennett 11+, Ed Podetz age 65+.Long Putts spon-sor winners were Forty Knots Winery Rick Ad-ams, Rob Speer Pro Shop Guy Traverse, Subway Corey Nickerson, Club Caterers Marc & Becky went to Mike Kirby.

Everything you should know about the game; Rules, Handicaps, etc is available at WWW.Golf-Canada.ca..

- Submitted by Jim Mc-Caffery

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