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The Comox Valley Record uses the final two issues of 2015 to reflect upon the biggest stories in our community in the past 12 months. From river rescues to plane crashes, our newsroom staff was kept busy. On the sports end, we had national track record setters, international hockey goal scorers, and locals shredding hills all over the world on skis and snowboards. Today’s issue looks at the first six months of the year.

Snowboarder dies on Mount WashingtonRecord staff

Tragedy struck Mount Wash-ington Alpine Resort on Tuesday, with the death of a teenage snow-boarder.

Fifteen-year-old Reid Kyfiuk, from the Victoria area, was on the slopes with family on Tuesday.

He and his sister headed down the hill at approximately 3:45 p.m. and when she arrived at a desig-nated rendezvous point, he was not behind her.

The resort’s ski patrol team began a search immediately, and Comox Valley Ground Search and Rescue was called out to assist in the search at approximately 5 p.m.

Kyfiuk’s body was discovered in a hole, possibly a tree well, in the upper part of the mountain.

“He was found in a fairly open area, between the Retirement ski run and Linton’s Loop”, said Don Sharpe, the resort’s director of business operations.

“This is a very sad tragedy,”

resort general manager Peter Gib-son said. “Everyone here at the resort sends our sincerest condo-lences to the family.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with them. I would like to thank our dedicated staff and the exem-plary search and rescue team for their assistance.”

BC Coroners Service spokesman Matt Brown told CTV Vancouver Island that Kyfiuk was wearing protective equipment.

“He was wearing a helmet and goggles,” said Brown. “This is an unfortunate accident that proba-bly occurred very quickly.”

Kyfiuk was in Grade 10 at Cla-remont Secondary School in Saan-ich.

–With files from CTV Vancouver Island

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Pink circle shows approximate area on Mount Washington Alpine Resort where Reid Kyfiuk’s body was found.

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A Centennial celebration2015 started with more than just a

New Year celebration in Courtenay. It also marked the beginning of a year-long party, celebrating the city’s 100th birthday. And it all got going on New Year’s Day, with a pancake breakfast, massive birthday cake and an open invite to the community to join in on the celebrations.

Aside from the fun and frivolity at the Filberg Centre, the residents were getting restless, dealing with a boil water advisory that had been issued Dec. 11 of 2014 and would remain in effect until Jan. 27, a total of 47 days - the longest-ever continuous boil water advisory ever in the community.

New Year’s babyBrendan and Lauren Somers made

the news, as proud parents of Comox Valley’s first baby of 2015. Hunter Dean Donald Somers was born at 8:04 a.m. on New Year’s Day.

River dramaJanuary ended on a tragic and at the

same time, heroic note in the Comox Valley, when news came over the scan-ner on the afternoon of Jan. 30, that a woman and baby were seen entering the turbid Puntledge River, at Conden-sory Bridge.

Crowds of onlookers watched as emergency workers including RCMP, Comox Valley Search and Rescue, and the Courtenay Fire Department com-pleted the rescue along the banks of the river in Courtenay.

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dispatched at approximately 2:30 p.m. that afternoon, after reports came in of a woman and a baby in the water. Rescue workers found the baby in the river near the Condensory Bridge at approximately 3 p.m. and performed CPR before transporting the child to St. Joseph’s Hospital.

The baby, Grant Weaver, was res-cued from the river and resuscitated. His mother, Veronika, perished in the incident.

The ensuing rescue efforts gripped the entire community for the rest of the day, and into the weekend.

“The city of Courtenay is only about 26,000 people so it’s really not a big city – the whole area is only about 65,000 – so indirectly most of us know something about most of us,” said Courtenay Mayor Larry Jangula of the incident. “Our concern, of course, is toward this person’s family, the par-ents, all the people involved. It’s a very difficult thing.”

Jangula commended all those involved in the rescue operation.

“The RCMP, the firefighters, the ambulance, the Search and Rescue people all did just an outstanding job,” he said. “I can tell you from person-al experience, having been with the RCMP, that it’s bad enough for first

responders when there’s tragedy or accidents but it’s 10 times as bad when there is a child involved.”

Baby Grant and his father, Doug Weaver, have since moved to Victoria.

McRae steps downAlso at the end of January, Comox

Valley MLA Don McRae stepped down as Social Development and Social Innovation Minister, citing family health reasons.

McRae — who was Vancouver Island’s lone voice at the cabinet table — continued to represent the Valley as its MLA.

Target misses markOn the business front, Target

employees across Canada were left in a lurch, when the U.S.-based retailer announced that it was ceasing opera-tions in all its Canadian stores.

The Driftwood Mall location liqui-dated its stock and put approximately 150 local employees out of work.

On a happier note, Gladstone Brew-ery opened its doors in 2015 as well, and was originally overwhelmed with the consumer response. The business just west of Cliffe Avenue on Fourth Street has become one of the city’s most popular social venues.

Above: Parents Brendan and Lauren Sommers welcomed their son Hunter Dean Donald Sommers as the official New Year’s baby in the Comox Valley, who was born at 8:04 a.m. Jan. 1. Below- a chopper participates in the search for Baby Grant.

CuRReNT News BRIeFs45-year-old victim identified

The BC Coroners office has identified the 45-year-old Fanny Bay resident who was fatally injured Dec. 18 in a motor vehicle incident on the Inland Island Highway (19) as Joel Christopher Reeves.

Reeves lost control of his vehicle at Rosewall Creek and it rolled several times.

North Island Traffic Services note the preliminary investigation revealed a Toyo-ta 4-Runner lost control, crossed the grass median striking the bank and rolling over several times before coming to a stop in the southbound lane.

Reeves was pronounced dead at the scene, while the 27-year-old passenger, a Nanaimo resident, was airlifted to Victoria General Hospital and is expected to make a full recov-ery.

Speed and weather/road conditions are believed to have been contributing factors in the collision.

single vehicle collision claims lifeThe Comox Valley RCMP responded to a

single vehicle collision during the late night hours of Dec. 22, where a young man died.

At 11:59 p.m. the Comox Valley RCMP, along with the BC Provincial Ambulance attended to the Inland Island Highway, approximately 15 km north of Cook Creek. Upon arrival, a vehicle was found in the centre median. The 24-year-old male was the only person in the vehicle and was pronounced deceased at the scene.

The road conditions at the time of the colli-sion were reported to be slippery with slushy sections. Drugs and alcohol are not suspected at this time, however, speed and road condi-tions may have been contributing factors for this motor vehicle collision.

The BC Coroners service, North Island traf-fic section, and the Vancouver Island collision reconstructionist, will be continuing with this investigation.

The victim’s name had not yet been released when The Record went to print.

It was the second fatality on that stretch of Highway 19 in four days.

Internet safety presentation Comox Valley District Parent Advisory

Council and Lake Trail Middle School present Darren Laur, of Personal Protection Systems, Inc., speaking on the topic of internet, social media safety and digital citizenship for par-ents on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Lake Trail Middle School Gym. Admis-sion is free with donations to the food bank.

This presentation will provide important information that parents need to know to help keep their children safer, increase their priva-cy and protect their digital footprint.

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The Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society purchased a new 10.4-acre piece of proper-ty outside Merville, thanks in large part to a $300,000 bequest from long-time MARS supporter Michele Woodrow.Record report-

er Erin Haluschak produced a gripping four-part series on residential schools, coinciding with a First Nations recon-ciliation ceremony at St. Michael’s Residen-tial School in Alert Bay Feb. 18.

Haluschak was a finalist for a presti-gious Jack Webster Award as a result of her series.

Comox council provided the biggest controversy in Feb-ruary, when it voted in favour of removing the remaining struc-tures from the Bay-brook/Mack Laing Park property in order to return the property to a natural state for passive rec-reation use.

Last-minute efforts by conservationists proved fruitless.

The month of Feb-ruary ended on a solemn note, with a full military funeral for Sgt. Mark Salesse, who died during a mil-itary training exercise Feb. 5 at Polar Circus near Banff, Alta.

The 44-year-old, W i n n i p e g - b a s e d Search and Rescue Technician — who

had trained at 19 Wing before graduat-ing into the SAR Tech profession in 2005 — had completed an ascent and was on his way down when an avalanche swept him off the side of a narrow cliff. A six-day search ensued but was hindered by poor weather.

Salesse was given due respect, with a funeral procession of about 20 vehicles escorting the casket from the Comox Val-ley Funeral Home to the base. The pall-bearer party included SAR Techs from vari-ous corners of Canada. Friends, co-workers and Comox Valley residents lined both sides of Ryan Road for the procession and hundreds more gath-

ered at 19 Wing to honour the memory of Salesse.

“Mark was a friend to everyone,” his mother Liz Quinn said at the service. “He was the loving threads that held the colourful quilt of friends together. And by the many gathered here today, he saw beauty in each of you, and you in him.”

The service con-cluded with a fly-past of a SAR aircraft and a firing volley.

Chief Warrant Officer Jeff Warden, commandant of the Canadian Forces School of Search and Rescue in Comox, said the large turnout “speaks to the indi-vidual and the com-munity” that Salesse touched.


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Heroes honouredThe City recognized a few

heroes associated with the Baby Grant Puntledge River rescue.

A quartet of first respond-ers — two firefighters and two police constables — received a rare citation from the City of Courtenay for saving the life of seven-month-old Grant Weaver in January.

Mayor Larry Jangula pre-sented commendations to firefighters Margaret Ham-ilton and Chris Murdock, and RCMP constables Steve Trevor and Mike Wheeler for extraordinary efforts that exceeded the call of duty.

“Thank you so much,” Jangula said. “In the face of extremely hazardous, diffi-cult situations, two firefight-ers and two policemen placed their lives in jeopardy. They wandered into very danger-ous, swift moving, deep water to rescue a child and the child’s mother, although the child’s mother was deceased by that time.”

“It was a chaotic day,” Trev-or said. “It was a lot of emo-tional highs and lows. In the end, Baby Grant survived, and that’s the most important thing. I’m just happy we were able to do our part.”

Murdock credited police, ambulance attendants, fire-

fighters, and Search and Rescue volunteers for their combined efforts.

“They all work so well together that everybody deserves credit in the whole situation,” he said.

Jangula — a retired police officer — noted that police and firefighters constantly take risks, but said the “combina-tion part is rare.

“In fact, this is the first one (Mayor’s Commendation) I’ve ever done. The reason this is so significant is because they put their own lives and their own safety at great risk to do this.”

Picking up the trashThe topic of illegal dumping

made headlines in March, as The Record began a clean-up campaign, after the manager of the Courtenay and District Fish and Game Club contact-ed the newspaper regarding the problem. The inaugural Comox Valley Community Clean-up was arranged, and more than 16,000 pounds of illegally dumped garbage - mostly household appliances and furniture - was recovered and taken to the landfill.

Our own poet laureateOn the arts scene, local

schoolteacher Kevin Flesher was named the Comox Valley’s first poet laureate.

Well-known for his sly wit, his Robbie Burns poems, as one of the Dukes of Dodge and as wacky children’s hero Captain Thunderpants, Flesh-er was introduced to the com-munity at the Sid Williams Theatre before the Shane Koy-czan show.

“I am tremendously hon-oured and delighted to have been chosen,” said Flesher. “It’s a treat, a thrill and a chal-lenge I am stoked to meet.”

The poet laureate search was organized by the Comox Valley Community Arts Coun-cil.

No Future in ShopIn business news, more

Comox Valley retail workers received a shock in March, as Future Shop employees showed up for work March 28 to find the doors locked and a note, stating all Future Shop locations across Canada had been shuttered. Fortunately for the majority of the Comox Valley workers, the Courte-nay location was one of the ones to be transformed into a Best Buy, meaning most of the Future Shop employees were only out of work for a week.

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Mayor’s Commendations were presented Monday to, from left: firefighter Chris Murdock, RCMP Const. Mike Wheeler, Const. Steve Trevor and firefighter Margaret Hamilton. They were recognized for acts of bravery during the river rescue event Jan. 30. Below, Kevin Flesher was named the Comox Valley’s first ever poet laureate.

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Science trumps fiction for global change

Dear editor,In response to the letter in

the Dec. 22 Record by Murray Coulter regarding climate change (Global warming not as important as within)

World political leaders, and people in general, with opin-ions like that of Mr. Coulter regarding climate change and science in general, are the biggest part of this life-alter-ing and possibly life-ending problem our species has got-ten itself into.

When leaders make deci-sions based on ancient fiction they believe is true, and try to force everyone else to follow, as opposed to proven science that has no vested interest other than the truth, it’s clear why there is so little progress in this or any other of the Earth’s major problems. It’s clear people and leaders with views like Mr. Coulter have only ever read one book, and it’s not a science book. That would be logical, but this is religion.

Amazingly, four out of 10 people believe we are living in end times, yet citizens and media never ask leaders if they believe the world is going to end soon, and is that a bad thing? Reasonable people not guided by reli-gion want to live as long as possible on this planet, and also want to leave a world for their children and grand-children. When countries depend on religious scientists who don’t believe in science, we are all doomed. When decision makers tell us to not worry about rising sea levels because in the Bible God promised Noah there wouldn’t be any more floods, we are all doomed.

What is next from people like this, eliminate health care and replace it with prayer?

No wonder very little ever gets done to fix our planet.

It’s bad enough that reli-gion is in every war in human

history, from the old testa-ment to Paris. Now we are told to trust that same “rea-soning” to fix issues as dire as climate change?

I can only “pray” that lead-ers and citizens with opinions similar to Mr. Coulter get pushed aside before it’s too late and they get their wish.

Tim ChaissonCourtenay

Courtenay councillor takes progressive step

Dear editor,David Frisch brought the

motion forward to investigate a genetically engineered free preferential purchasing policy at a fall council meeting. Not banning GE, just preferential purchasing for city events.

GE foods have only a 20-year commercial histo-ry. We do not know enough about the effects on health to regard them as absolutely safe for humans. There are numerous published scientific papers revealing results with serious concerns.

Consider allergies. Genet-ic engineering can transfer allergens from foods to which people know they are aller-gic, to foods they think are safe. This is not theory. Genes from Brazil nuts were inject-ed into soybeans. People with nut allergies that consumed the engineered soybean products had serious allergic reactions. Engineered foods could be creating thousands of different and new allergic responses.

Nutrition of GE foods may also be compromised. A study published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmen-tal Health (2003), declares that GE soybeans produce less phytoestrogen com-pounds, believed to fight heart disease and cancer, than non- GE soybeans. The conclusion, “ it is possible that genetically modified food will lack important nutrients that are normally present in the corresponding natural, nonge-netically engineered food.”

Geneticist David Suzuki exclaimed, “...without any indication that there are genetically modified organ-isms in our food, we are now unwittingly part of a massive experiment... The problem is, geneticists follow the inheritance of genes, what biotechnology allows us to do is to take this organism, and move in horizontally into a totally unrelated species. Switching genes from one to the other without regard for the biological constraints. It’s very bad science, we assume that the principals governing the inheritance of genes verti-cally, applies when you move genes laterally or horizontal-ly. There’s absolutely no rea-son to make that conclusion.”

Thank you Council for tak-ing a progressive step.

Lauren SiponeComox

Younger councillors bring fresh perspective

Dear editor,I’m so glad we have some

new younger oouncillors in Courtenay who aren’t afraid to be involved in “social and controversial issues” as one critic says. Issues like wheth-er the City should support our local smaller organic farmers with their buying choices.

We know the big dairy farmers,- all 10 of them- are crying unfair, at possibly not having their GMO corn fed milk purchased by the City of Courtenay. That is what a local and GE Free purchasing policy means. That the City will prioritize the smaller, local and sustainable agricul-tural producers. And where will milk and cheese for City functions come from? Maybe it’s time to go vegetarian.

This policy will also keep out the GE Apple if Cour-tenay ever decides to plant fruit and nut trees on its city streets, as I believe they should.

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April was a noteworthy month for residents of Hornby Island, as they voted to build a new firehall.

Eighty three per cent of respondents said yes to a pro-posed loan authorization bylaw to build a new facility.

The referendum attracted a 94.6 per cent voter turnout, which was forced after an alter-nate approval process in Jan-uary prevented the regional district board from adopting the bylaw without a referendum.

A Record monthApril was a good month for

The Comox Valley Record, as we were honoured twice at the BC Yukon Commu-nity Newspapers Asso-ciation.

The big win was the Newspaper Excellence Award, where The Record was deemed, by our peers, as being the best community newspaper in the province.

Here’s what the judges said in their summation:

“The Comox Valley Record makes a very strong first impression. From the front page on, this paper leaves no doubt about its absolute con-

nection to the community. With strong local features, a wide

and pleasing rotation of reg-ular columns, unmatched sports coverage, and a thor-

ough classified sec-tion, I learned more

about what was happening in the region than with any other read in the category. Clean and sharp, with relevant, w e l l - c r o p p e d photos and thor-

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tion headings, and overall great layout. Excellent work!”

It was not the only honour we received on Saturday evening.

The Record also received a silver medal for Best Special Section, for our election cover-age supplement, Options 2014.

For that publication, the judges said:

“Absolutely brilliant idea! To the point (yes or no) and so politically pertinent, it hurts! Great job.”

The month ended with anoth-er high for The Record, as the final issue of April was also the introduction of our re-branding.

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ARTSCVAG opens three exhibits todayThe Comox Valley Art Gallery has a trio of shows opening today. As You Are, re.search,and Pathways are three group shows featuring diverse art from three very different groups of people: emerging artists, instructors and pre-schoolers. ■ P29

SPORTSUVic coaches to host hoops campThe Comox Valley Athletic Association is holding its Spring 2015 Girls Vikes Camp this weekend at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary School.UVic women’s basketball head coach Dani Sinclair and assistant coach Leanne Evans will be conducting the clinics, which are open to girls in Grades 8 to 12. ■ P37

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NEWSIsland Health posts RFP for surgeries

Island Health is contracting out thousands of day surgeries each year over the next five years. Comox Valley MLA Don McRae assures residents that there will be no cost to patients to receive day surgeries through whichever private practice is awarded the contract.

“We’re just using different facilities to alleviate the backlog,” he said. “We’re still using public resources to deal with public issues, and it’s under MSP.”

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Pickleballers get some helpComox town council has agreed to share the cost of a field study on a piece of land immediately adjacent to the roller hockey box, with the Comox Valley Pickleball Association. ■ P3

Foundation grant � lls bookshelvesA Comox Valley Community Foundation grant has been put to good use at École Puntledge Park School. French immersion students have a vastly expanded library thanks in large part to the $1,500 grant. The school library has an extra 573 books this year and the students have been challenged to read at least 40 books each by the school year’s end. ■ P5

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The merry month of May was memorable for travellers, as Air Canada touched down at the Comox Valley Airport for the first time in six years.

“It’s a big day. When you think of Air Canada, you think of 190 destinations spread over five continents; that’s big. And now Comox is indeed one of those destinations - we couldn’t be happier,” explained airport CEO Fred Bigelow during a celebra-tion at the terminal building. “Passengers can enjoy the con-venience of checking in for their flight at our airport and then seamlessly connect to destina-tions in Asia, Australia, Europe and across North America, all on the same ticket.”

Plane problemsThe second week of May was

a bad one for small planes tak-ing off and landing at – or near - the Courtenay Air Park, as two single-engine planes crashed in a three-day period.

First, a small plane ran into

the fence while taxiing down the runway at the Airpark. There were no injuries reported in that incident.

In the more serious of the two incidents, a small plane clipped the roof of the Comox Valley Animal Hospital on Dyke Road, then crash landed in the hospital’s parking lot, hitting one parked car and flipping over onto another car.

There were no occupants in either car. The pilot of the plane was conscious when extri-cated by emergency workers and transported to hospital in Comox.

The two episodes re-ignited the contentious debate as to whether the Courtenay Airpark should be closed.

Mayor Larry Jangula chimed in, saying that there are no plans to close the park in the immediate future.

“It’s something in light of what happened we will likely eventually be looking at it in a more serious nature, but in

the immediate time I would say we’re not going to change any-thing,” he said.

Festival cancelledWith the prospect of another

dry summer looming, BC Hydro announced the cancellation of the planned spring water spill.

The BC Hydro decision had a ripple effect. Organizers of the popular Puntledge Paddle Festival announced that they would be cancelling the event this year.

“We had been in discussions with BC Hydro and they told us that it (scheduled spring water spill) was probably not going to happen so … in interest of the community and water conser-vation we (cancelled the event),” said festival organizer David Prothero.

The Puntledge River Hatch-ery was also affected by the announcement as the chinook smolt release is always sched-uled to coincide with the annual spill, in an effort to help push

the young fish past the seals and into the ocean.

“With due discretion on what could be extremely low water conditions this summer, all parties came to the conclusion that the multi-day annual Pun-tledge Paddle Festival and the multi-day water release for chi-nook smolts will not happen this year,” Watson said in the press release. “This is the first time this has occurred since the water use plan was implement-ed in 2004.”

The pilot of this plane was taken to hospital after clipping the roof of the Comox Valley Animal Hospital and landing in its parking lot, damaging a couple of unoccupied cars in the process. Below, the Puntledge Paddle Festival was cancelled due to BC Hydro’s cancellation of its annual spring water spill.


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it dry weather, record temperatures, water restrictions, and fit-tingly, a visit from the country’s most nota-ble environmentalist, David Suzuki.

The Canadian icon addressed oceans, climate change and other topics concern-ing the environment in front of a packed house at the Comox Community Centre, included in a tour of Vancouver Island, Northern B.C. and Haida Gwaii.

Dubbed Celebrat-ing Coastal Connec-tions, the 12-day tour drew on the history of work, activism and friendship that Suzu-ki — and the foun-dation named after him — has with B.C.’s coastal communities.

“For over 20 years, the scientists have been saying, ‘The evi-dence is in. Climate change is happen-ing, we’re causing it.’ But there’s still a lot of denial,” Suzuki, host of the long-run-ning CBC series The Nature of Things, said in an interview. “This is a world we’ve cre-ated.”

Road workMinister of Trans-

portation and Infra-structure, Todd Stone was in Courtenay to announce plans for a true connector route between Highway 19 and North Courtenay, as part of B.C. on the Move, the Province’s new 10-year transpor-tation plan.

Improvements will include approximate-ly 700 metres of new two-lane road run-ning west from the intersection of Head-quarters Road and Dove Creek Road to the intersection of Piercy Road and Dove Creek Road, where Piercy Road contin-ues on to Highway 19. The project will also include a new, two-lane bridge across the Tsolum River.

HomecomingThe month ended

amidst a 10-day “Homecoming Week” party celebrating the city’s centennial.

The Homecoming Party began June 27 with a Centennial

Sports Festival and Tailgate Party at the Comox Valley Sports Centre, featuring special appearances by CFL Alumni and team cheerleaders for a full day of family

sports, food, and fun, in 31C temperatures, which concluded with the presentation of the CFL’s opening weekend doublehead-er on a huge outdoor screen.

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SPORTS REPLAYJANUARY

•The Royston Rocket, Brett McLean, was with Team Canada at the Spen-gler Cup. McLean, the team’s assistant captain, was playing for HC Lugano in the Swiss league and fin-ished the tourney with one goal and one assist in four games.

•The VIJHL trade dead-line was Jan. 10 and the Glacier Kings sent 2015 All-Star Classic goalie Blake Pearson to the Westshore Wolves. Pearson was back in Courtenay on Jan. 18 when the G-Kings hosted the All-Star Game.

•The G.P. Vanier Towhees senior boys basketball team hosted - and won - their 47th annual Towhee Invitational with 11 other teams in town for the fun. Bryce Olsen won the Nate DaSilva Award as Most Valuable Towhee and

was tourney MVP.•The Sharpe siblings,

Darcy and Cassie, impressed at the FIS World Freestyle Ski & Snowboard Cham-pionships in Kreischberg, Austria. Cassie won silver in the ski halfpipe event while

brother Darcy won silver in big air and finished fourth in snowboard slopestyle.

•Chris “Bukwas” Ander-son pounded his way to the Battlefield Fight League’s vacant welterweight ama-teur championship. Compet-

ing in BFL 34 at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, Anderson rained a flurry of punches down on Perry Hayer, forcing the ref to stop the fight at 1:49 of the sec-ond round.

•It took their final league game to decide it, but the Upper Island Riptide U14 Girls soccer team beat the Lower Island’s Gorge/Lake-hill Thunder team 3-0 on home turf Jan. 31 to earn top spot and become Vancou-ver Island Premier League champions.

•Cam Levins brought new meaning to the phrase “go the extra mile” at the Armory Track Invitation-al in New York City. The 25-year-old Black Creek dis-tance runner was the star of the meet on Saturday, win-ning the mile race, taking a brief rest, then winning the two-mile event.

Brett McLean celebrates a goal at the Spengler Cup.

FEBRUARY•The Vanier Towhees

senior girls had a solid sea-son of high school hops, fin-ishing with an overall record of 18-13.

•Former Comox Val-ley Glacier Kings goalie Michael Hails was enjoying a terrific freshman year at Lindenwood University. He led the Lions to the 2015 Central States Collegiate Hockey League Conference tournament championship.

•Courtenay’s Hila-ry Graham was one of six PACWEST Athletes of the Week for Week 19.

•Darcy Sharpe won gold under the lights in down-town Quebec City in the big air event at the Cana-dian stop on the snowboard World Cup circuit.

•There was a decidedly

Comox/Courtenay connec-tion with the first B.C. ath-lete to win a medal at the Canada Winter Games in Prince George. Elena Gas-kell, 13, garnered gold in slopestyle freestyle skiing on the first day of compe-tition and followed that up the next day with gold in big air.

Gaskell has a number of relatives in the Valley including her grandmother Carol (Geneau) in Comox, her great grandmother Dor-othy Branch in Comox, and her maternal grandparents who live in Courtenay.

•G.P. Vanier rugby play-ers Madi Gold and Lauren Sargent were with the BC Rugby U18 Girls Elite team competing in the Las Vegas Invitational 7s tournament. B.C. finished second with a

3-3 record.•More than 50 freestyle

snowboard athletes from across the province visited Mount Washington Alpine Resort to take part in two BC Snowboard Provincial Series Slopestyle competi-tions.

•Comox Valley Lacrosse Association alumni Adam Bakular-Evans and Tanner Jones, who got their start in box lacrosse when the CVLA started in 2004, have both gone on to play Div. 2 in the NCAA.

•The spandex-clad Green Men were saying goodbye to hockey fans across B.C. with a 10-city farewell tour for charity. They were at the Comox Valley Sports Centre when the Comox Valley Gla-cier Kings hosted the Nanai-mo Buccaneers.

Susie Hang of Vanier battles Alberni opponent for the ball at Island championships.

MARCH•Cassie Sharpe struck

gold at a FIS World Cup freestyle skiing compe-tition in Tignes, France. She won women’s halfpipe with a score of 93.80. It was the first World Cup victory for the 22-year-old. A 2015 World Championship silver medallist, Sharpe beat a stacked field that included Olympic and X Games med-allists.

•Chris “Bukwas” Ander-son added a new belt to his MMA wardrobe. The Comox Valley Boxing Club & Mixed Martial Arts fight-er decisively defeated Mac Laursen at HK42 in Calgary to claim the Hard Knocks Fighting Championship amateur welterweight title.

•Comox Valley Raiders football stalwarts Arron Slack, Tristan Thies Erick-son and Conor MacNeil were selected for the 2015 Senior Bowl.

•The Comox Valley had two winners at Sport BC’s 49th annual Athlete of the Year Awards Banquet. Brenda Dean, owner of In Your Court Tennis Academy, received one of 45 Presi-dents’ Awards while TRU WolfPack volleyball stand-out Brad Gunter was named University Athlete of the Year.

•Comox Valley volleyball players won gold and bronze at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association cham-pionships. The Camosun Chargers men with sec-ond-year right side Rian Plante of Comox won gold while the Chargers women with fifth-year outside Hil-ary Graham of Courtenay earned bronze.

•The fledgling Comox Val-ley Triathlon Club encom-passes a quintet of Super Seniors. Competing in the 65+ and 70+ age categories, these five - Bruce Morri-son, Robert Lundine, Bonny Ervin, Derek Richmond and Don Blacklock - dominate the heart of the Canadian Age Class Triathlon Team.

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Rian Plante (third from right) and his Camosun teammates celebrate CCAA volleyball gold medal.

APRIL•In a year of firsts for the Royal LePage

Comox Valley Snow to Surf Adventure Relay Race, the big question was: Who finished first?

Due to confusion at the finish line, no immediate winner was declared, although race officials said the North Island Tanks were the likely overall champions.

In the 33rd edition of the event, three legs were changed, one was cancelled, a new tim-ing system malfunctioned, a collision with a vehicle sent a road cyclist to hospital and for the first time ever there was no snow on Mount Washington.

•The G.P. Vanier Towhees defeated Yale 17-0 to win the Plate Final at the 2015 B.C. High School Girls Rugby Association Pro-vincial 7s.

•Seven Comox Valley Aquatic Club Sharks travelled to Toronto to compete at the 2015 Canadian Trials and train with the Markham Aquatic Club and Brantford Aquatic Club. The training camp group included Gabrielle Wolfe, Jared Theriault, Cole Young, Emma Neufeld and trials com-petitors were Ben Neufeld, Jordyn Ryan and Brooke Lamoureux.

•Eight Strathcona Nordics competed at the 2015 Cross-Country Ski Nationals in Thunder Bay. They enjoyed a week of intense, high-calibre racing against the best skiers from across the country.

•Vancouver Island Society for Adaptive Snow Sports racers found snow and posted great results at the Western Canadian Para Alpine Championships at Silver Star Resort in Vernon.

Strathcona Nordic Avalon Wasteneys sprints across the finish line in the Junior Girls’ finals at the 2015 Cross-Country Ski Nationals.

MAY•The G.P. Vanier Towhees

defeated the Carson Gra-ham Eagles 39-14 to win their second straight B.C. AAA high school girls rugby championship. Madi Gold was named to the Presi-dent’s XV.

•Georgia Bellamy, a Grade 12 student at G.P. Vanier, was part of Gain-line Africa’s tour as a rugby coach. Gainline Africa is an international develop-ment organization that uses rugby as a tool for re-build-ing in post-conflict Northern Uganda.

•With a final round 3-under 69 at Crown Isle Resort & Golf Community, Eric Onesi earned medal-list honours at PGA Tour Canada’s British Columbia Qualifying Tournament.

•The Comox Valley Raid-ers played perfect hosts to the Game Ready Spring Training football camp. CFL players Paris Jackson, JR Larose, Jason Arakgi, Jus-tin Sorenson, Tim Cronk and Ryan Lucas were the instructors.

•It took Cam Levins 27 minutes and 7.51 seconds to make Canadian history. Competing at the Nike Pre-fontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore., the Black Creek run-

ner smashed the Canadian 10,000m record with a time of 27:07.51, eclipsing the previous mark of 27:23.63 by 16 seconds and beating his own personal best by 20 seconds.

•Cassie Sharpe was named Female High Perfor-mance Rookie of the Year at the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association’s inaugural Ath-lete Performance Awards.

In her first season on the national team, the Comox halfpipe competitor won (among other things) a FIS World Championship silver medal and a FIS World Cup.

•Four of the Valley’s top runners competed against some of the best in the coun-try at the 41st Ottawa Mar-athon.

One of the highlights was a Canadian record set by Roslyn Smith. She totally dominated the F6569 age group, finishing first and beating her nearest compet-itor by over two hours. She set a Canadian record of 3:44:37 in the process.

•Chris “Bukwas” Ander-son kayoed Mazadak Pour-bohloul at 2:42 of the second round at River Rock Casino in Richmond at Battlefield

Fight League 36 in his first defence of his BFL amateur welterweight championship.

Cam Levins set a Canadian record in the 10,000m and Cassie Sharpe was named the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association’s inaugural Female High Performance Rookie of the Year.

JUNE•Joel Regehr was one of

three UBC Thunderbirds men’s volleyball players that helped Canada win bronze at the seven-team U-21 Pan American Cup in Gatineau, Que.

Regehr, a 6’,7”, 207-pound middle, was Mark R. Isfeld Senior Athlete of the Year in 2013 and played five years with the Comox Val-ley Strikers Volleyball Club.

On June 25, Volleyball BC announced Regehr was one of two recipients of a Ray Lepp Scholarship. Recipi-ents are selected based on their demonstrated lead-ership, commitment to academic excellence, and potential to join the Canadi-an National team.

•Cam Levins of Black Creek was one of three Van-couver Island track and field athletes named to the Cana-dian team that will compete at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto (July 10-26).

Levins, a 5,000m and 10,000m finalist at the 2012 London Summer Olym-pics, crushed the Canadian 10,000m record by 16 sec-onds with a 27:07.51 clock-ing at the Portland Track Festival on May 29.

•Three local boys, Jai-rus Ball (12), Bryce Benton (11) and Jasper Fellbaum (8) make up the competi-tive boys gymnastics team for the Chimo Gymnastics Club. All three received all-

around gold at the Island Championships in Victoria.

•Radiant sunshine and eager runners welcomed the return of the Country Roads Marathon. The rural romp was held from 2000 to 2004 before going on hiatus.

•The Courtenay and Dis-trict Fish and Game Protec-tive Association (CDFGPA) received the Ducks Unlim-ited Canada and Premier of BC Conservation Award for its outstanding record of conservation projects and

causes over the years.The award is normally

given to an individual, how-ever the 2015 award goes to the CDFGPA in recogni-tion of their sustained and broadly based conservation work in restoring fish and wildlife populations in the Comox Valley, Vancouver Island and on the Coastal Mainland.

•The Van Isle 360 Inter-national Yacht Race sailed into the Comox Valley, bringing Leg 1 of the June

6-20 circumnavigation of Vancouver Island to a close.

The Comox Bay Sailing Club hosted the local stop, and Commodore Andy Wal-ther said, “I’m proud and very happy to mention this was a tremendous weekend both on and off the water for the CBSC.”

Sports Replay will con-clude in the Thursday, Dec. 31 edition of the Comox Val-ley Record with a recap of July through December.

Joel Regehr (#9) of the UBC Thunderbirds helped Canada win bronze at the U-21 Pan American Cup.

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SPORTS REPLAY

■ YEAR IN REVIEWThe first six months of 2015 had many memorable moments. Clockwise from top left: the armband exchange at the Royal LePage Comox Valley Snow to Surf Adventure Relay Race; The Super Seniors of the Comox Valley Triathlon Club (left to right) Don Blacklock, Bonny Ervin, Bruce Morrison, Derek Richmond and Robert Lundine), Vanier Towhee Taya Gagnon is tackled by Cowichan’s Hannah Morten in Vanier’s 55-7 Island championship win; Chris “Bukwas” Anderson was unstoppable in MMA action; Wyatt Strachan of the Vanier Towhees drives to the hoop; Colton Brown makes the tackle at the Game Ready Spring Training Camp hosted by the Comox Valley Raiders.

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