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Month of MayMay is Foster Care Month, and, fittingly, National Barbecue Month, but there are some wackier observances as well. Did you know that International Tuba Day falls in May. So does Lumpy Rug Day and Oyster Day. Close to our hearts is National Press Freedom Day.

Thefts from yard cost residents peace of mindANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Shirley Kruse and her husband have so far lost a lawnmower and a beloved lawn ornament, and theirs isn’t the only house in the neighbourhood around Westview Street and Grieve Road in Dun-can that’s had belongings pilfered from it by thieves.

“We’re being targeted big time up here,” Kruse said. “When I go to bed at night I can’t help but wonder who’s crawling around my place and when I wake in the morning I wonder, well, what’s going to be missing today? I got on the verge of I wanted to cry.”

The retired couple moved to the area a year ago, and have since heard of several lawnmow-ers in the neighbourhood that have been stolen, along with a two-man canoe that was chained and locked down, that everything from the garage of a resident on vacation was cleaned out, and even a compressor was snatched in broad daylight from tradesmen working in the area. They caught the thief in the last instance, Kruse said.

“People in the community should know what’s going on,” said Kruse, who would like to see the thieves shamed.

North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesman Sgt. Chris Swain said the Kruse’s neighbourhood has not been particularly hard-hit as far as the detachment knows, these kinds of thefts from yards and vehicles are just a common type of crime.

“It’s a fairly common offence, unfortunately, but it is; people

wandering around at night look-ing for something easy to steal,” he said. “I’m hoping everyone phones police when something like that happens; not a lot of people do.”

Notifying the authorities is important, even when the stolen items aren’t worth a lot of money, Swain said, because then police can get an accurate snapshot of what’s happening in a neighbour-hood, and if it is being targeted they can step up their vigilance.

Police do conduct patrols at all hours, he said, and there is also the citizens on patrol group as well.

“There’s things we can do, and things we are doing,” Swain said.

Kruse said the thieves likely think people’s insurance will cover the losses, but that’s not the case in many instances, such as the loss of their lawnmower. The deductible on many policies is so high that it more than covers the cost of many of the missing items, leaving the victims out of pocket.

The Kruses haven’t yet been able to purchase a new mower and have had to pay someone to come and cut their lawn.

The thefts, she said, are even more frustrating and bizarre when one considers that the stolen lawnmower was 16 years old, and the lawn ornament, taken last week, was broken, awaiting a fix with some glue by Kruse. The ornament is in the shape of a little boy with dark-coloured paint.

The first inkling the couple had of problems in the area came when they were waiting to take possession of their home and they had a call from their realtor who informed them that there had been a break-in.

The former owner’s belong-ings were still in the home when thieves used a chainsaw to cut a hole in the back door. They then boarded up the opening and pro-ceeded to live in the house, eat the food in the freezer, and use the owner’s car to drive around town.

The perpetrators were caught in that case as well, Kruse said.

So far there’s been no such luck with the recent thefts.

It’s not just the items that have been stolen, however, it’s also peace of mind.

“They don’t realize, maybe they don’t care, it’s an inconvenience for the pocketbook for seniors, it’s heartwrenching,” Kruse said. “Sometimes I’ll clean up at the end of the night and I’ll go out and put something in the garbage; I wouldn’t want to be out there if somebody’s in my backyard.”

LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

New information about options for the proposed Sherman Road artificial turf field sent North Cowichan councillors back to reword a motion.

They had decided on April 15 to go ahead with putting out a tender for building the field, but include the possibility of using such materials as cork or coco-nut husks.

However, since then, the muni-cipality’s parks and recreation director Ernie Mansueti discov-ered that the cork infill system doesn’t drain quickly enough in very wet weather to actually shed the water. On top of that, in hot and cold weather the cork surface turns hard, which leads to safety and playability issues as well.

Mansueti said he has been able to get information from the City of Port Coquitlam, which has such a field.

In addition, some research done by the Division 1 Cowichan Soccer Club also shows that there is concern that a cork field is not as comfortable to play on in hot weather, he said.

“The Cowichan Valley Soccer Association is now concerned that the cork field may not be playable in very wet, cold or hot weather. The CVSA have com-mitted $300,000 to capital costs of this facility,” he said.

So far, several other options have been examined for an artificial surface and Mansueti

urged council to pull back the cork/coconut husk idea and go ahead with the synthetic turfproject as designed and engin-eered, including a product called Nike Grind as one of thealternative infill options.

Coun. Rob Douglas, who has been the prime mover behindtrying to get alternative sur-faces in the mix, asked if there might just be a difference between manufacturers of thecork/coconut husk surface thatis causing the problem but Man-sueti replied, “where we are, I’m more concerned about the wetweather in B.C.”

Coun. Kate Marsh and Coun. Joyce Behnsen said they still had concerns about the idea at all while Coun. Al Siebring asked Mansueti if the NikeGrind — which is made from recycled athletic shoes — wouldcost more.

Mansueti told him, “I’d saythat was certain,” suggesting itcould be $200,000 more.

“If it’s above budget, it’s back to you,” he said.

Coun. Tom Walker wanted to see some forward movement.

“This council has heard there might be some health concernswith the surface. We’ve checked it and received assurances. Nowwe know it’s a safe way to go. I’dlike to see us proceed. I think it’stime to move on,” he said.

Councillors votes to go to the next stage, replacing the cork/coconut husk option with Nike Grind.

Cork out, Nike Grind in for fi eld

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Never so disappointed in our government

I’ve lived in B.C. my entire 63 years, as has my wife. Most of this in Victoria, and now in the Cowichan Valley. We have had property on Shawnigan Lake for 25 years and never have I been so disappointed in our govern-ment, and the way contamin-ated soil is being allowed to be dumped in our watershed.

Please don’t tell me all appro-priate safeguards are, or will be in place. The owners of SIA have demonstrated they are profi-teers first, and everything else second. I have no confidence in their ability, or interest, in com-plying with the requirements of the permit. Neither do I have confidence in the ability of the regulators to detect, or uncover their noncompliance.

The technology and science that is to “safeguard” our drink-ing water and health, has been debated by experts without any consensus. Given the risks, why would any sensible person, or government, sacrifice the potential health of thousands for the profits of an individual company?

Please do the right think and help us reverse this permit. How one community is allowed to get rid of their garbage by dumping it on another community, with-out the second community hav-ing any say, is beyond me.

Grant and Corinne PriceShawnigan Lake

Seniors’ hospital woes only going to get worse

I am so glad that Abi, a dedi-cated RN, was brave enough to risk coming forth with some details about conditions in our CDH.

I hope she bears no repercus-sions for her honesty.

As someone with a senior par-ent that had the misfortune to be involved with medical system the last seven years of her life I can only concur with her.

It took me a full two years after my mother’s death to recover enough composure to be able to meet with the CDH head of nursing to discuss issues that caused her unexpected death. I was assured at the time that they were aware of many short-

falls and things were changing, but apparently over a year later they are changing in the wrong direction!

Lack of facilities, poor com-munication between patient, staff and doctors, and under-staffing on the ground level are a few challenges.

Many of the CDH senior prob-lems are exacerbated by an inefficient home care system which does not help prevent so many seniors ending up in a hospital ill equipped to handle them.

This is another system with a top heavy bureaucratic web too complicated to enable one to speak to the same person twice; the ball of responsibility just gets passed back and forth. Lack of proper care in VIHA home-

care, and regulations tying their hands, is causing many people to go to emergency for non-sens-ical problems. A senior cannot even get their blood pressure taken at Makola, the new state-of-the-art senior care facility. A resident needs to make a doctor appointment for this!

The senior issue is only going to worsen, with current Harp-erism politics, especially in another decade when we are all there. Let’s not spend a few mil-lion or billion more dollars on a study to determine the challen-ges and get public input. Haven’t billions been spent already on these? We know what the prob-lem is!

Lorene BenoitDuncan

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Is the message being sent worth the token amount of savings?

The tough decisions just keep on coming for municipal coun-cils debating and voting on their budgets for the year.

Last week, North Cowichan council broke a previous dead-lock and decided to allocate more of a tax increase to busi-ness and industrial than to resi-dential taxpayers.

It was a 4-3 decision.Those who opposed the move

wanted to split the tax increase equally among the tax classes.

Doing it that way would have

meant about $3 more increase for residential taxpayers.

For such a small amount of savings, hitting the business community instead seems unwise.

Make no mistake, we see no problem with charging the big guys who can afford it rather than the individual property owner who may just be making ends meet.

The problem is that the tax classes don’t separate out the big guys who can afford it from the small business owners who are counting every penny just as carefully as a senior homeowner

on a fixed income.For these folks, even small

increases can indeed be make-or-break.

These are the engines of our local economy. These are the business owners who live here in our Valley, who buy things from other local businesses and who employ local people.

These are the folks whose roots are right here — they won’t be looking to move their operation to Mexico for cheaper labour and fewer standards.

We want there to be more of them. Will this help?

We believe that council-

lors made their decisions conscientiously.

But there needs to be some serious discussion, once this budget cycle is done, about the direction this decision is point-ing council in and whether it is indeed a road that council wishes to proceed down in the years to come.

It’s high time for a serious discussion about continuing tax increases in general.

As a community, it is folly to count on constant growth to fund ourselves. Incomes are not growing. We must look to sustainability.

Tax discussion must focus on sustainabilityOUR VIEW

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Cowichan not sunny enough for solar

I am somewhat bemused by Mr. Slade’s “Special to the Citizen” on solar energy in the April 29 edition.

I am the speaker that had the temerity to question the wisdom of people in our area rushing head-long into solar power investment.

My sole motive is to inform, to educate. As I said during the meet-ing, solar power is an excellent technology, when it is applied in its proper context.

For those of us who watched the video presentation, did you notice that all of the filming took place somewhere in the U.S. southwest? For good reason, that area gets plenty of sun, which is critical to making solar power generation cost-effective.

The Cowichan is a Warm Land but not quite sunny enough to reward solar power users with a reasonable payback on their investment.

By all means, buy into solar power if you feel inclined; but please do not expect support from local government and your fellow taxpayers to do so. Our taxes are already much too high, thank you very much.

And, lest we forget: somewhere down the line, those solar panels are going to have to be replaced

and recycled. The problem is the recycling and it goes like this: let’s say there are 50 cents worth of recoverable selenium in a solar panel. However, (I am just guess-ing now, but won’t be far off the mark) it costs, say $5 to recover that selenium. Who will pay that recovery cost? Our grandchildren?

You know how these things go. The used solar panels will be quietly stockpiled and left to decay in someone else’s back yard. Not what citizens of good conscience intend.

Oh! Before I close on this subject, please remember that Mr. Slade is promoting this technology. He stands to make a buck.

One might wonder: at whose expense?

On the subject of thorium and thorium power, yes, it is a technol-ogy that is “out there.” But China and India are already researching it vigorously and Canada’s own Candu reactors are very well-suit-ed for re-purposing for thorium fis-sion. Why not push for a technol-ogy that is clean, easy to handle and moves us further away from uranium and plutonium, which are primarily war materiel?

I hope that the above gives you some balance and food for thought.

Laurie ThomsonDuncan

SIA permit a terrible ideaFinally South Island Aggregates

(SIA) has received the go-ahead to fill their quarry on Stebbings Road with giant containers constructed out of plastic liners filled with con-taminated soil. To be clear, this is not about “dirt from dredging the ocean” or just “some soil from an old gas station”; the permit gives SIA the permission to accept soil containing high concentrations of chemicals/metals like mercury, pesticides (including DDT), and PCBs. In addition, this is not just local soil. Soil has already been brought to the Island from places as far away as Prince Rupert.

The Ministry of Environment knows that Shawnigan Lake is a valuable source of drinking water that needs to be protected. Unfortunately, rather than find-ing a low risk site, the Ministry is depending on engineered contain-ment in the form of liners, clay and a sophisticated water treat-ment plant to keep the watershed safe. There are various reasons this is a terrible idea:

• The location couldn’t be worse. The dump is on a hill, next to a stream, over an aquifer.

• Water leaving the site will enter the creek and eventually Shawni-gan Lake or possibly even the aqui-

fer beneath the site. (On the topic of aquifers, the dump is actually closer to Victoria’s watershed than it is to Shawnigan Lake.)

• SIA is going to continue blast-ing in the quarry, even after they start installing the plastic liners and accepting fill.

• The monitoring of the site is done by SIA themselves.

• SIA has already failed, at least once, to properly treat the water leaving the site

This is not about finding a place to put the waste in the absence of a good alternative. There are other places this waste could go on the south Island. The CVRD has even offered to help find additional sites. The fundamental issue is that the current site offers no real natural containment: it is on the side of a hill, next to a stream, over an aquifer. If the engineered containment solution fails, pollu-tion will enter the watershed. The problem is, liners can leak and water treatment plants need to be maintained. In fact, we really don’t need to look any farther than the Mt. Polley disaster to see what can happen when we rely solely on engineering to protect our natural environment.

Alex ActonShawnigan Lake

Hearing aid needed, not PR personIt appears that a number of our regional direc-

tors are unaware of the final outcome of the Eco Depot. This is disquieting.

To be on record at a regional district board meeting opining that “had the public only known” appears either disingenuous or simply a failure to understand that a private citizen requested a legal judgment regarding a CVRD bylaw.

I doubt that the judge who made the decision really cared whether the proposed use was

described as an Eco Depot, a transfer station with garbage privileges, a drop off, a mini-Bings’ Creek, a dump, or a place to recycle Aunt Hepsibah’s tea bags. In this instance, the CVRD was wrong.

CVRD spent over $1 million in taxes on this little fiasco, and still owns that half of the property that is a hay field in summer and a duck pond in winter. We have knowledge-able, experienced, educated people living in the Cowichan Valley. Many of them are very willing to share their expertise. The CVRD should, in good faith, work with its citizens.

Rather than considering a communications officer, it would seem that certain regional directors would derive more benefit from a hearing aid.

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Two unusual requests stood out from the Town of Lake Cowichan’s grants-in-aid list this spring.

Lake Cowichan town coun-cil pared the requests down by almost half but the municipal-ity is still handing out $4,800 in grants-in-aid for 2015. This includes $1,000 for a request for a digital sign from Lake Cowichan School Parent Advisory Council and $500 for a morning program at Palsson Elementary School.

It’s not common to see munici-palities handing out money for school programs or to parent advisory councils but Lake Cowi-chan is an unusual case, accord-ing to Mayor Ross Forrest and Coun. Tim McGonigle.

Forrest explained that neither request came from the school board or the schools themselves.

Helping Palsson with a morning program is based on “a concern that is held in our community,” he said.

Island Health’s Dr. Paul Hassel-back has reported in recent years that Lake Cowichan’s young chil-dren are significantly less ready for school than kids in many other areas. While the school dis-trict is attempting to find ways to help them, the overall commun-ity remains concerned.

So much so, in fact, that the Our Cowichan Communities Health Network has scheduled a special community meeting for Monday, May 4 starting at 7 p.m. to talk about “the dramatic worsening” in the early childhood index for the Lake area.

But, in the meantime, Lake Cowichan council is stepping up to help by giving a grant-in-aid to the Palsson program.

“We’ve heard of many students going to schools hungry and it’s affecting their learning abilities. So that’s part of it; they’re trying to help that. We engaged to give them $300 to help that along,” Forrest said.

McGonigle was able to flesh that out with a bit more information.

“It’s a branch out of a program that began over at Lake Cowichan middle school that the principal wanted to try at the elementary school.”

That not only addressed hunger but tardiness, he said.

“By offering an early morning exercise and nutrition program they are hoping that it will encourage parents to get the students there on time for this program.”

It could easily do so, based on the experience at Lake Cowichan School.

“Attendance with that initial program increased by 40 per cent, so she’s looking at similar results

and going along with EDI num-bers that Dr. Hasselback brings to us year after year, we’re hoping that will also help with that as well,” McGonigle said.

Forrest explained that the request for a digital sign board comes from the PAC.

“The town has looked at that as an opportunity for collabora-tion with them for advertising purposes. It’s also of benefit to ourselves here. If the town needs to get information out, such as about boil water advisories, the digital sign board will be really useful for us as well. The more people we can get information to at all times on any issues the bet-ter. It’s a local asset,” he said.

After recent budget discussions, the rest of the grants-in-aid will go to Cowichan Lake Lady of the Lake ($500 for parade and pageant expenses), Cowichan Lake River & Stewardship Society ($500 for ongoing stewardship at Saywell Park), Lake Cowichan Down-town Renewal Society ($1,000 for a Lake Cowichan farmers mar-ket), Scouts Canada ($500), Sum-mer Nights ($500 for music in the park: a grant that is still waiting to see if the program will run at all this year) and Lake Cowichan Secondary School ($500 for a scholarship).

Grants unusual, but will benefi t whole town

Mayor Ross Forrest

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Lady of the Lake candidates are ready for their first speeches at Lake Cowichan town council April 28. They are, front row from left, Kristen Hamilton (Miss Legion), Kirsten Mackie (Miss Kinsmen), Sidney Fothergill (Miss Countrywide Realty), Madison Youmans (Miss Country Grocer), Amanda Nixon (Miss Lions) and back row, Gianna Egilson (Miss Shaker Mill), Crystal Bell (Miss Copper Lane )and Avi Ursulom (Miss B.P.O.Elks). [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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Cowichan Lake Days will again be allowed to host a beer gar-den but town councillors have one concern: they want a fence around it.

Coun. Tim McGonigle, while noting that BC Liquor Control regulations now allow an open beer garden, said that the town still had some authority in issu-ing permits and wanted to see it used in this regard when look-ing at the annual request for a beer garden.

“They didn’t request [an open beer garden] specifically but it wasn’t clear within the letter so we just wanted to be sure. It’s a public event and there are small children involved. I think you have more control when it’s fenced in, for that reason alone. That was my concern,” he said.

His colleagues agreed.

Idea fl oated to house food bank at the bank

Resident Dave Ridley asked Lake Cowichan town council that, when they have a lunch meeting May 4 with representa-tives from Island Savings to discuss the recent merger with First West Credit Union, they ask about the possibility of

using part of the Lake Cowi-chan Credit Union building for the local food bank.

He pointed out that “it’s got space, it’s got water, it’s got toi-lets and it’s not being used at all and my impression was there are no major plans to use it” and it could be a good use for the space.

Mayor Ross Forrest said he had noted the idea.

Coun. Tim McGonigle said it could be worth looking atbecause the current stop-gaplocation for the foodbank — in a town-owned building right on the main street — could pose pri-vacy concerns for those who use the service.

Ridley said it might be a greattime to talk about it because he had the impression that FirstWest was “very keen” to showtheir community involvement.

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“It’s very simple; super basic.”Versteeg and his friend had just ordered lunch, and managed

to convince the Australian fellow whose bedroom was next to Versteeg’s (and who had been up all night with the Khumbu Cough) to join them rather than head to his room for a nap.

Then the earthquake hit. They all ran outside, feeling the ground shake beneath them while the building in front of them swayed left and right and cracks appeared.

“I had never been in a 7.8 earthquake before,” Versteeg noted.

After a major aftershock struck about an hour later, and after the Nepalese paramilitary police had arrived to take control of the situation, they returned to the lodge, where the wall they had been sitting beside had fallen inwards, and the Australian man’s bedroom was destroyed.

“Where we had been sitting, the whole ceiling had come down,” Versteeg said. “I felt incredibly lucky.”

Fortunately, Versteeg was able to recover his equipment, including six weeks of film footage, which was dusty, but not damaged.

Despite what they were going through, the Nepalese people did their best to take care of the many international visitors who were trapped by the quake.

“The people from Namche were fantastic,” Versteeg said. “There were hundreds of trekkers from all over the place who didn’t know what to do.”

After another night of aftershocks, the police moved every-

one from the village to a camp at the top of a nearby mountain.Around that same time, Versteeg and his friend were reunited with the Seattle dentist and his guide. The guide was even-tually able to arrange for a helicopter ride to Lukla, where the nearest airport to Namche Bazaar is located. They waitedthere a couple of days before they could fly to Kathmandu.

The capital and largest city in Nepal, Kathmandu was just 80 kilometres from the earthquake’s epicentre, and sustainedsignificant damage, particularly in older parts of the 3,000-year-old city.

“The situation was pretty grave, but I was surprised by howmuch was still standing,” Versteeg said.

Versteeg and his companions stayed in a hotel that remainedintact with some structural damage, and where all the staff had been laid off as tourists fled the country. While theywere eating a breakfast of boiled eggs, white bread and tea, a couple came in — Versteeg doesn’t know if they were English or American — expecting the hotel’s usual spread and takenaback by what they considered “camping.” That was the only time Versteeg lost his composure.

“I lost it,” he admitted. “There were 5,000 people dead. I foundit incredibly rude. That was the only negative thing.”

It wasn’t easy to leave Kathmandu, and Versteeg spent a dayat the airport before he was able to get a flight out. There, he was able to watch the international aid efforts in action.

“There were huge planes coming in — Russian, Chinese,Turkish — and all the unloading was done by hand, which would take a couple of hours,” he recalled. “And everythingwas stocked on the side of the runway. What we felt they need

is people with forklifts and trucks.”Eventually, Versteeg flew from Kathmandu

to Delhi, beginning his journey home. It was 41 hours before he made it to Vancouver for a “tear-ful reunion” with his wife, Elly Driessen, and her sister. “That was a minor inconvenience after what we went through,” he said.

Versteeg had already planned a showing of histwo latest productions, 71 Years (about a Second World War-era military flight that crashed on Vancouver Island and wasn’t discovered until 2013) and One Man’s Dream (about the creationof the Malahat Highway) at the Cowichan Per-forming Arts Centre on June 3. That will still go ahead, but now all the profits will go to the Nepal-ese village of Khumjung, where Versteeg filmed the Seattle dentist in action, and which has been completely destroyed. Versteeg is also planningto put together a short film about his earthquake experience for that event.

“A couple of thousand dollars would go a long way in helping these people out,” he said.

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Versteeg narrowly missed being crushedThe village where Nick Versteeg was staying when the earthquake hit Nepal was mostly destroyed, with many buildings left crumbling, spilling piles of rubble that were once walls. [SUBMITTED]

A resident attempts to clean up the rubble that was once a home. [SUBMITTED]

Big blocks of stone from floors and ceiling litter a room in Nepal. [SUBMITTED]

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B.C. mapmakers have been unkind to coal mining DunsmuirsOne might think that

they’ve been deliberately snubbed.

I’ve mentioned before the somewhat tenta-tive tributes that

mapmakers have paid the Dunsmuirs of Vancouver Island coal mining fame/infamy. When one consid-ers the economic, political and social clout that this coal mining dynasty held over B.C. for half a century, their immortality, as measured by their enduring geographical presence, seems slight.

One might think, in fact, that they’ve been deliberately snubbed.

Where’s the glory in Qualicum’s tiny Dunsmuir, Ladysmith’s Dunsmuir Islands and Burleith Arm, Cedar’s Joan Point, Crofton’s Joan Avenue, or Vancouver’s, Victoria’s, Nanaimo’s or Cumber-land’s Dunsmuir streets? Not a mountain peak, river or city — not even those townships founded by the Dunsmuirs themselves.

Each of the above-named geographical fea-tures recognize father and mother (Robert and Joan) and first son James. There’s no mention of James’s younger brother Alexander although he helped to further the family fortune, too. Accord-ing to the Gazetteer, B.C. has 12 Alexanders, six Alexandras, five Alex’s, one Alexandria and an “Alex Allan.” Only Alexandra Peak, east of But-tle Lake, is on Vancouver Island. None of them is named for Alex Dunsmuir.

Years ago, there was the Alexandria Slope, one of many mines working the Douglas coal seam at South Wellington. Begun by James Beck in 1879, it was acquired by Robert Dunsmuir and part-ners three years later. When Robert became sole proprietor he named it (according to one source) the Alexander, the Alexandria or the Alexandra (after the Princess of Wales, wife of the future King Edward VII, no doubt).

Ah, we’re getting warm. Dunsmuir—Alexander — Alexander Dunsmuir? Nope, the B.C. Dept. of Mines’ Annual Report(s), but for a single refer-ence to Alexandra, refer to Alexandria.

Whichever spelling or gender, it’s a moot point now as the mine’s long shut down and filled in. Which more or less applies to Alex Dunsmuir, too: buried and forgotten.

So what’s the story behind “Mr. Alex’s” appar-ent anonymity, even when alive? He was, among other accomplishments, the first white child born in Nanaimo and his parents’ favourite son. Upon the death of Robert Dunsmuir he and elder brother James controlled one of the largest industrial empires on the Pacific Coast. Fame, to a degree, and fortune were his birthright. What went wrong?

As manager of the San Francisco office where the bulk and best of Dunsmuir coal was sold, Alexander found himself for the first time his own boss — no parents or older brother to watch over him. He began to drink — for more complex reasons than his being unsupervised, of course. By the time the family realized he had a problem

it was too late. He would, in fact, die of acute alcoholism at the age of 46.

Sober, he and James made a formidable team, Alex handling American sales, promotion and distribution, James run-ning the Island collieries, railways and steamships. They did it so well that the revenues poured in, further enriching themselves, their mother (sole owner since Robert’s death) and ensuring that their idle sisters (and their idle hus-bands) could live the lives of luxury to which they’d become accustomed.

After years of arguing business policy with the headstrong matriarch, and of increasing resentment at their sisters’ sharing the profits without contributing to the earnings, James and Alex bought Mrs. Dunsmuir’s interest, incorporated the company — and cut a secret deal whereby each willed his share of the company to the other brother rather than to his wife and children.

Finally freed of needing his mother’s approval, Alex married his “secret” live-in companion of 20 years and died

from “alcoholic dementia.” He’d literallykilled himself with booze. Years of bit-ter litigation between the survivingDunsmuirs followed.

In short, you won’t find mention of Alex Dunsmuir on a B.C. map. But he isimmortalized in California.

When his train paused at the small station of Pusher in 1886, so struck was he by its lack of amenities that he offered its citizens a water fountain

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(there’s irony for you!) if they renamed their com-munity for him. They did and the fountain’s there today, in Dunsmuir, Cal., its donor gratefullyacknowledged by a small plaque.

The Alexander/Alexandra/Alexandria Mine had its own townsite during the few years it operated.After the mine closed, the small settlement (as manyas 300 residents at its peak) survived as South Wel-lington village. By this time the Dunsmuirs wereno longer active participants, Pacific Coast Col-lieries, then Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd. and smaller independents providing most of theemployment for residents. Today, an unrecogniz-able depression immediately beside the E&N Rail-way grade just north of South Wellington townsiteis all there is to show for the Alexandria Mine. Or the Dunsmuirs, for that matter.

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Richardson slope in South Wellington, adjacent to the Alexandra mine — not named for Dunsmuir. [PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM TEER]

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I first wrote about drivers whose behaviour in the “no zone” around heavy trucks left much to be desired back in 2004.

Little seems to have changed since then as when I listen to the trucking radio channels the most common complaint involves drivers who jam themselves in front of a truck and then slow down. There are many possible outcomes to this scenario when it goes wrong; the trucker is able to swerve out of the way and nothing happens, the trucker swerves out of the way and harms themselves or perhaps the trucker chooses to maintain course and harms the fool-ish driver.

A heavy commercial truck may have as little as 60 per cent of the braking capacity of a car or pickup truck. This essentially means that once the brakes are applied, the big truck takes twice as long to stop as you do.

Air brake systems can take more time between pressing the brake pedal and the brak-ing components starting to do their job than your hydraulic brakes. You can extend the stop-ping distance even further if all of the heavy truck’s brakes are overheated, not in good con-dition or properly adjusted.

Do you still think that it’s a good idea to get close to the front bumper of a big truck and hit your brakes? Self-preservation might dictate that you slow down, lane change behind the truck and then make your right turn or use the exit. If you are continuing straight ahead check traffic conditions ahead before you change lanes and either avoid having to brake or have a light vehicle behind you instead.

While we’re on the topic of the “no zone”, there are many other bad places to be as you cruise alongside or behind a large commercial vehicle. If you cannot see the driver in his mir-rors or through any of his windows, he cannot see you! Being invisible to a trucker is definite-ly not what you want to be. A fender bender for the truck could be a catastrophe for you.

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Mike Bateman is the owner/operator in Duncan and has decided to donate a free house painting job to a person in the Cowichan Valley living with MS. When asked why he was donating he said, “I wanted to do something nice for someone else and give back to the community”.

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Since its founding in 1948, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada has acted as a key partner to the MS research community. The MS Society cur-rently provides over $10 million per year to MS research and is the single largest funder of MS research in Canada.

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Mother’s Day is the one day each year when men, women and children across the country gather to honor the mothers in their lives. Though it can be challenging to find new and unique ways to display your affection for Mom on Mother’s Day, rest assured that sometimes the simplest concepts are the ones mothers most appreciate. This year, look no further than the following ideas for some inspiration as you aim to make this Mother’s Day as special as possible for the mother or mothers in your life.• Give the gift of sweet treats. What better

way to highlight mom’s sweetness than with some delicious treats made just for her? Whether you decide to whip up some homemade confections in the kitchen or visit a nearby store for something decadent, mom will no doubt appreciate the chance to indulge on her big day. Moms who prefer cookies and portable snacks will no doubt enjoy Pocky and Péjoy biscuit sticks. These tasty snacks from Gilco are dipped or filled with popular flavors, such as chocolate and strawberry, and are now available with green tea cream. Pair with a cup of tea, coffee or whichever beverage mom prefers to complement her favorite treat. Pocky

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• Make a meal to remember. Mom deserves a night off from dinner detail, and while dining out is an option, a homemade meal may come across as more intimate and heartfelt. Thanks to kitchen appliances that make it easier than ever to prepare gourmet meals at home, you can now make restaurant-style meals in your kitchen without sacrificing restaurant-quality taste. For example, new tacook Rice Cookers from Tiger Corporation do more than just perfectly steam rice. They also incorporate synchro-cooking to cook two different items at once. Present mom with her favorite Asian-inspired poultry-and-rice dish or use the cooker to easily bake bread or steam a side of vegetables. Pair the meal with her favorite wine and make sure you handle all the cleanup.

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Happy Mother’s Day!Happy Mother’s Day!Working mothers have a lot on their plates. In addition to the responsibilities that come with raising a family, working moms also must focus on their careers.Many mothers find that managing such hectic balancing acts leaves little time for physical fitness. But there are ways for working moms to stay physically fit even as they juggle their commitments to career and family.• Work out in the early morning. Working

out in the early morning, when the kids are still asleep and the office has yet to open, is a great way for busy working mothers to get their daily exercise. Designate a room in your home where you can spend time each morning doing some light strength training before hitting the treadmill or elliptical machine. The United States Department of Health and Human Services recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity each week, and women who get up just 45 minutes earlier each morning can meet those requirements and then some. An added benefit to working out in the early morning is that many people who follow such regimens insist they

have more energy throughout the rest of the day.

• Exercise with the kids. Working mothers looking to find time for exercise can turn part of family time into a time to exercise with their children. Play in the yard with youngsters while dinner is cooking or go for nightly post-meal walks. Exercising with kids is a great way for mothers to get their daily exercise while also instilling a love of physical activity in their children.

• Have a backup plan on hand. Working out at a gym can be motivational, as many mothers want to make sure their monthly membership fees aren’t going to waste. But there will inevitably be days when working mothers can’t get to the gym. Prepare for such days by purchasing home workout DVDs you can play while the kids are doing their homework or after they have gone to bed.

• Look for gyms with childcare. Many gyms now offer on-site childcare to parents of young children who can’t stay home alone while their folks are at the gym. Gyms that offer on-site childcare may prove more reliable and even less expensive than hiring a sitter, and some

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The students of École Mt. Prevost are presenting the Disney musical, Beauty and the Beast, Thursday, May 7 at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre at 10:30 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m.

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blay and Gia Jane, this family show fea-tures the school’s huge Grade 3-7 choir of 275 children along with 20 actors from the school’s Grade 7 students.

The children were working hard last week as their preparations really took shape.

“It’s such a great show. We have won-

derful costumes and colourful back-drops. And, as you know, true loveconquers all in this fairy tale, which has been so good for the kids to learn,”Tremblay said.

Tickets are $5 each. Check with the school office to see if any tickets are left.

Mt. Prevost students rehearse a scene from the beginning of Act Two of Beauty and the Beast, where Belle is attacked by wolves in the forest. The show also features the school’s signature huge choir, made up of 275 children from Grades 3-7. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

On Saturday, May 9, Shimmy Mob, belly dancers will take to stages around the Valley and even on Thetis Island.

The dance event performed worldwide to raise awareness of belly dance as an art form and to raise money for local women’s centres and shelters, is a red-letter day for the local shimmy crowd.

On that Saturday, the Cowichan Valley Shimmy Mob team will be out and about in the Valley, dancing at 9:30 a.m. at Wendy Mitton’s Garage Sale for Somenos House at the Country Grocer parking lot in Lake Cowichan, at 10:30 a.m. at Cobble Hill Curves, at 11:30 a.m. at the Commun-ity Farm Store and at 12:30 p.m. at the Duncan Farmers Market. In addition, the Valley group is offering Shimmy and Silk 2015, its fundraising belly dance fashion show on Wednesday, June 10 at starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Cow Cafe in Cowichan Bay.

Meanwhile, the Gypsy Dancers of the Salish Sea have announced that mem-bers of their dance troupe from Thetis Island are participating in this year’s Shimmy Mob at Thetis Island Marina to raise money for the Cowichan Women Against Violence Society.

Cash donations there can be made dir-ectly to any of the dancers but cheques payable to Cowichan Women Against Violence Society should be sent to Shim-my Mob c/o Char Aaberg, P.O. Box 18-8, Thetis Island, B.C., V0R 2Y0.

LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Ready for a nostalgic evening?The Duncan Choral Society has one

lined up for you this Saturday, May 9 starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Christian Reformed Church.

According to choir director Susan Doughty, the group has prepared a whole list of well-loved tunes for your listening pleasure.

“We’re calling it Musical Memories and

it’s mostly songs that people will be fam-iliar with,” she said.

“We’ve got folk songs like Early One Morning and The Last Rose of Summer and the men are doing a really good ver-sion of When the Saints Go Marching In.”

Singers from the choir are also present-ing solos, she said.

So look for Laurie Schmidt singing Vil-ja from The Merry Widow, Lisa Dallin presenting Memory from Cats and Karen

Bigelow singing Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.

“They’re all great, strong singers,” Doughty said. “We also have a choral arrangement of Lascia Ch’io Pianga, which some people would know as an Italian aria. And we’re doing Time to Say Goodbye, which will be accompanied by mandolin. It’s a real variety as usual.”

Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students, with children under 12 admit-ted free. Get them at the door.

Choral Society takes trip through memories

Shimmy Mob ready to shake for cause◆ DANCE FOR A CAUSE

Marylyn Pegg, Myla Frankel, Char Aaberg, (Team Leader), Cecilia Inness, Janice Young and Nicole Chiassong will be joined by Kelly Bannister for the Thetis Island event. [SUBMITTED]

Members of the Cowichan Valley Shimmy Mob, who danced at City Square last year, will be taking their performances all over the Valley Saturday. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

Spend Summer Nights at the LakeThe family friendly Summer Nights concert

series will be back at Lake Cowichan’s river-side bandshell this summer.

Organizer Mike Bishop has been trying to gather up enough volunteers to run the eventagain and announced April 30 that a grouphas emerged.

“Your participation has ensured that there will be fun in the park again for the summer of 2015,” he said. “One big change in 2015 is that each evening will start with an hour dedi-cated to children’s entertainment and activ-ities to fill in the time, while the big kids get the stage ready.”

There will be five shows this summer. Start-ing on July 4, there will be outdoor entertain-ment at Central Park every other weekend after that. (July 4, July 18, Aug. 1, Aug. 15 with the finale on Aug. 29.)

“Let’s have the biggest audiences ever ready to participate in some great entertainment and down home good times,” he said.

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LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Valley favourite Monte Nord-strom is the headliner for the Cowichan Folk Guild Cof-feehouse at Duncan United Church on Saturday, May 9.

Doors open at 7 p.m. The open stage starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by the main show.

Nordstrom is well-known in the Cowichan Valley, and especially at Providence Farm where he coordinates the

Segues day program. A talented multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, he began writ-ing his own music in the late 1960s, developing a unique and innovative guitar style.

He has showcased his songs in Nashville, recorded at Sun Stu-dio in Memphis, and even per-formed solo concerts in Japan.

On Saturday, fans will hear a specially selected acoustic pro-gram of original material, fea-turing story songs and ballads

on six and 12 string guitars with a rack-mounted harmonica.

There will be a focus on localand regional subjects in such selections as Doubloon and the Stranger, the Mount Sick-er Manhunt and The FlyingDutchman.

Accompanying Nordstromwill be John Robertson on stand-up bass.

Admission at the door for this special evening is $10 per personor $5 for CFG members.

LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

The South Island Musical The-atre Society has announced to its members that next year’s production will be Anne of Green Gables.

With music by Norman Camp-bell and lyrics by Don Harron, Norman Campbell, Elaine Campbell and Mavor Moore, this show is a piece of true Canadiana.

It’s based on Lucy Maud Mont-

gomery’s beloved stories of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to a middle-aged brother and sis-ter who were hoping to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in Prince Edward Island.

The musical currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running annual musical theatre production, having been performed every summer in Charlottetown since 1965.

The show will offer a great variety of solo and chorus work for performers of all ages and the society’s executive thinks it’s a great fit for the Valley,according to board member Laura Westwick.

Anne will be on stage at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre on April 1-3, 2016, and atthe Port Theatre in Nanaimo on April 9 and 10, 2016.

Auditions are expected to takeplace in the fall.

Musical ‘Anne’ coming next year

Nordstrom goes acoustic

Monte Nordstrom, right, well known as a supporter of Providence Farm’s excellent work for a variety of Valley people, is bringing his great music to the Cowichan Folk Guild Coffeehouse on Saturday evening.[SUBMITTED]

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KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Just one minute of soccer sep-arated Cowichan LMG from the BC Cup championship match.

Leading 2-1 after 90 minutes of regulation and one minute of injury time in last Saturday’s semifinal in Burnaby, Cowichan just had to get through 60 more seconds without allowing a goal. Unfortunately, that was all that EDC FC needed to draw even and force overtime.

Neither team scored in over-time, and the game went to the dreaded penalty goals, where EDC edged past Cowichan 6-5, sending themselves to the final and putting an end to LMG’s incredible season.

“We were just as good [as EDC],” Cowichan coach Glen Martin said. “We were one min-ute away from being in the final, but it wasn’t meant to be.”

After both teams started the game cautiously, Cowichan got on the board first when Dan Cato headed in a cross from Craig Gor-man at the 30-minute mark. The 1-0 score held up through the 45-minute mark.

“We felt pretty good at half-time,” Martin said. “But they were a strong team. I felt we were going to need more than one goal.”

At 57 minutes, EDC finally scored their first goal on a clear offside that the linesperson missed, but the Cowichan players didn’t let that throw them off.

“The guys kept their compo-

sure,” Martin said.At that point, the game opened

up. Martin ended up making his first substitution of the game with 20 minutes left, sending Andres Algarin in for Dan Citra, and the move paid off just min-utes later when defender Tyler Hughes got the ball to Gorman, who completed another perfect cross that Algarin finished off.

Cowichan had chances to make it 3-1 after that, but the EDC goal-ie came up big every time.

“Their goalie had a strong game,” Martin said. “Both goal-ies did.”

After regulation, the ref called for two minutes of extra time, which turned out to be one too many for Cowichan. On the tying goal, an EDC player sent a cross over the head of Jesse Winter, and his teammate brought the ball down with his chest and volleyed it into the corner behind Cowichan goalie Scott Brown. It was reminiscent of another late goal in a big game this season, albeit one that Cowichan man-aged to overcome with a victory.

“The guys were just gutted,” Martin said. “It was the Jackson Cup all over again, a last-shot-of-

the-game kind of thing.”Cowichan controlled the first

15-minute overtime, and had chances to score, but couldn’t capitalize. In the second 15, EDC set the pace, but Brown kept Cowichan alive.

When it went to penalties Paddy Nelson and Hughes scored, Steve Scott was stopped, and Gorman and Keevan Webb scored, while EDC’s first three shooters scored, the fourth was stopped, and the fifth put the ball in off the cross-bar to keep the game going.

“It was a game of inches,” Mar-tin said.

It kept going: Kevan Brown scored for Cowichan, and EDC matched that. Then LMG defend-er Brad Archibald was stopped — just barely — and EDC’s seventh shooter sealed it up with a goal.

“It was a really heartbreaking game for the guys,” Martin said. “It was hard to take.”

Martin also made sure to thank the fans who have supported the team all season, noting that at last weekend’s match, they had nearly as many supporters as the home team did.

“We have the best fans in the province at this level,” he said.

The loss to EDC brings an end to a season in which Cowichan achieved its goals of winning the Vancouver Island Soccer League title and the Jackson Cup, and was within sight of complet-ing the trifecta with a BC Cup championship.

“You can’t get closer than what happened to us,” Martin said.


The opportunity to play a Women’s World Cup game in Vancouver would mean a lot to Emily Zurrer on so many levels.

For one, Team Canada doesn’t have any group-stage matches scheduled at BC Place, so the only way they would get to play in Vancouver would be if they reached the quarterfinals or semis — or the final on July 5.

It would also mean a homecom-ing for Zurrer, who grew up in Crofton and still has strong fam-ily ties to the Cowichan Valley.

“That’s the ultimate goal,” Zur-rer said on Tuesday, a month and a day before Canada’s first World Cup match against China in Edmonton on June 6. “We’ve been training the past year in Vancouver, and that’s my home base, so there would be nothing better than to play a game in my home province, in front of my friends and family and the crowd here.”

The 2015 Women’s World Cup is an opportunity for redemp-tion for Canada, which placed last out of 16 teams at the 2011 tournament.

“That was disappointing for all of us,” Zurrer recalled. “It was one of the lowest points of our careers.”

That disappointment led to the hiring of head coach John Herd-man, who immediately turned things around and guided Can-ada to a bronze medal at the Olympics just a year later.

“That goes to show how import-ant a coach can be and a leader can be,” Zurrer said. “He wasable to get the most out of us when we were at the lowest point in our careers.”

Despite being ranked eighth in the world right now and not being a favourite, Canada’s aimis to finish first on home soil.

“Our goal is to win the World Cup,” Zurrer said. “It’s as sim-ple as that. I think we’ll be the most prepared team. We are so connected both on and off thefield.”

Playing at home comes with pressure, but the Canadians are embracing that.

“I think that’s going to help us,”Zurrer said.

Canada will keep busy until that game against China. Next,they will head to Los Angeles for closed-door matches againstthe U.S. and Mexico. Then it’soff to Mexico for a heat-acclima-tization camp. Finally, they will play their last exhibition match against England in Hamilton on May 29.

The Canadian Women’s Nation-al Team is partnering with Mon-delez Canada for the Pride & Joy campaign. Throughout theWorld Cup, fans can activate the Pride & Joy app on their smart-phones and raise money for local youth soccer clubs across Can-ada every time they shake their phones during a game. The app will be released on May 11, and more information is available atprideandjoy2015.ca

One minute from glory: LMG falls in BC Cup semi

Seen during the BC Cup quarterfinal against Langley, Andres Algarin (left) scored Cowichan’s second goal of the game during the semifinal loss to EDC FC last Saturday. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

Zurrer hopes Cup trail leads to B.C.

Emily Zurrer expresses her joy at being named to the Canadian Women’s National Team in a Twitter photo on April 27. [SUBMITTED]

“We were just as good [as EDC]. We were one minute away from being in the final, but it wasn’t meant to be.”GLEN MARTIN, Cowichan LMG head coach


Gymnast Mia Butcher, who lives in Duncan and trains with Falcon Gymnastics in Victoria, capped off a successful season at the provincial champion-ships in North Vancouver last month, taking a silver medal on the bars in the Junior Olympic 7 division, and finishing seventh all-around.

Butcher, a Grade 7 student at Queen of Angels School, had already claimed several medals in competitions throughout the season.

At the Flip City Invitational in Langley, she won gold on bars, and placed fourth on vault and sixth all-around.

At the San Diego Invitational, she finished sixth on bars.

Butcher added a silver on the vault and a bronze on floor at the Christy Fraser Memorial meet

in Langley, as well as a fourth on bars, fifth on beam and fifth all-around.

At the Twisters Invitational in Abbotsford in March, Butcher won gold on bars and bronze all-round, and placed sixth on beam as well as winning the Floor Choreography Award.


The Cowichan Valley Capitals turned a player who hadn’t skated for them since 2013 into what promises to be a key contributor for the upcoming season.

At the B.C. Hockey League trade deadline last January, the Caps shipped the rights to defenceman Ryan Coghlan back to his hometown Nanaimo Clip-pers. Coghlan hadn’t played for the Caps since 2012/13, having moved to the Western Hockey League after that, where he skated for the Saskatoon Blades and Prince Albert Raiders.

He returned to the BCHL part-way through the 2014/15 cam-paign, but the Caps sent him to Nanaimo before he got into a game.

To complete the deadline deal, the Caps acquired forward Nicolas Carrier, a 1995-born player who scored 21 goals and added 26 assists for 47 points in 57 games with Nanaimo last season, good for eighth among BCHL rookies. The product of Delson, Quebec added another

10 points on five goals and five assists in 23 postseason games as the Clippers reached the league final.

“Nicolas is an excellent all-around forward that can add offence and maintain a presence in the defensive zone,” Capitals

head coach and general man-ager Bob Beatty said. “He is a tremendous penalty killer and his biggest asset is his compete level which he continuously dis-played in games against us and throughout the playoffs in key situations.”

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Duncan Christian School fin-ished third at the North Island badminton championships hosted by the school late last month.

DCS beat Ucluelet 6-5, while losing to Dover Bay 7-4 and Alberni District 10-1.

Against Ucluelet, Jany Fer-nandez and Sujin Lim won two doubles matches, Micaylla Broadway and Rebecca Bakker won one doubles match, Clark Johnny and Matt Brandsma won a doubles match, Tessa Bou-chard won a singles match, and Nick and Adam Kapteyn won a singles match.

Against Dover Bay, Lim and Minseok Kim won a mixed doubles match, and each won a singles match, while Nick Kapteyn and Georrance Atsma

also won a doubles match.Atsma and Adam Kapteyn

teamed up to win a doublesmatch for DCS against Alberni.

DCS also sent three playersto the BC Christian Second-ary School senior badminton championships in Surrey lastweekend.

Rebecca Bakker and TessaBouchard had a strong showingin the girls doubles tournament,reaching the semifinals, where they fell to the eventual tourna-ment champions from Pacific Christian before being edged 22-20, 21-19 by Richmond Christianin the bronze medal match to fin-ish fourth overall.

The girls also competed in the singles tournament, and ended up tied for fifth.

Lewis Luo earned one victoryand plenty of experience in a dif-ficult boys singles pool.


The Cowichan Blackout suf-fered their first loss of the 2014/15 soccer season in last Sunday’s Coastal Cup championship game, but the U14 boys Gold team will live to play another day.

The Blackout carried their per-fect record into the Coastal Cup final in Aldergrove, but ended up falling to Surrey’s CCB United in overtime by a 3-2 score.

Cowichan built up a 2-0 lead, but CCB battled back to send the game to overtime. The game went back and forth in the extra session, until finally CCB man-

aged to get the ball to an open player in front of the Cowichan net, and he capitalized.

“Our goalie couldn’t get to it,” Cowichan coach Will Chaster said. “It happened too quick.”

There was still time on the clock when the Surrey team scored, but not enough for the Blackout to get the equalizer.

Both Cowichan goals were scored by Ole McKay.

“One of them was a pretty spectacular one,” Chaster said. “He dribbled his way through about four players to score that one. There were lots of oohs and aahs from the crowd.”

The Blackout players did have trouble adjusting to CCB’s style of play, something they hadn’t encountered much on the Island.

“It was a kind of game we weren’t too familiar with,” Chaster said. “They’re much more aggressive in Surrey, and that distracted the boys a little bit; they weren’t used to the manhandling.”

The Blackout will get some rest before heading to 100 Mile House for provincials in July.

“The good news is we got that one loss out of our system,” Chaster noted.

Caps collect Carrier from Clippers

Nicolas Carrier skates for the Nanaimo Clippers in a game last season. [NANAIMO DAILY NEWS PHOTO]

Multiple medals for Mia Butcher

Duncan-based gymnast Mia Butcher. [SUBMITTED]

Blackout bows out in cup fi nalOle McKay, pictured during the semifinal in Duncan, scored both goals for the Cowichan Blackout in a 3-2 loss in the Coastal Cup final in Aldergrove last Sunday. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

DCS third in N. Island badminton

DCS’s Minseok Kim prepares to serve during a mixed doubles match at the North Island badminton championships. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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A Duncan horseback rider will be one of five from across Canada representing the country at the 2014 Saddle Seat Invitation-al in New Orleans at the end of June.

“I’m excited to be on the team for Canada, to be able to go different places and repre-sent Canada,” said Caiden Varasteh, a 14-year-old rider out of Valley View Farms.

Saddle seat, for the uninitiated, is a style of riding within the category of English riding, with a very specific look for both the horse and rider. The rider wears a suit and hat, while the horse — usually a Mor-gan, Arabian or Saddlebred — sports two reins and shows off high-trotting form.

“The horse usually presents with its head nice and high,” Varasteh said. “They pick up their feet very high compared to most horses.”

In competitions, there is a special chal-lenge for the riders. Unlike many types of equestrian competition, saddle seat riders don’t travel with their own horses, and the luck of the draw determines which one they will ride when they get there.

“You only have 15 minutes and a bio about the horse [to get acquainted],” Var-asteh explained. “You have to figure out what the horse needs. The horses I’ve had have been pretty good for me.”

When Varasteh, who also competes with the Fuller Lake Skating Club, started rid-ing at Valley View, she didn’t know any-thing about saddle seat.

“I originally thought horseback riding was horseback riding,” she said.

Now, it’s her passion. Even at shows that aren’t specifically for saddle seat riding, Varasteh wears her suit and rides saddle

seat-style.In her bid to make the national team, Var-

asteh started by sending in an application. She was one of a few riders who got called back from that, and had to do a video test with patterns that Saddle Seat Canada sent her. After a second trial, she was invit-ed to the Spring Fling saddle seat show in Ponoka, Alberta last month, where it was announced that she made the team.

The Saddle Seat Invitational is for riders ages 14-21, and Varasteh is the youngest one on the team of five.

“When I first heard I was intimidated, but when I got to meet them it was okay,” she said.

In addition to helping Canada win the event over the U.S. and South Africa, Var-asteh is also looking at the Invitational as a chance to improve as a rider. It could also help her get to the next level, the World Cup, which is open to all riders 14 and up.

“It’s sort of like the Olympics for saddle seat,” she said.

By making the team for the 2015 invita-tional, Varasteh is on the right track.

To get to New Orleans, Varasteh will have to put up $1,500, as do all of her teammates. She is selling chocolates and homemade items and planning hot dog sales. Anyone interested in sponsoring her trip should contact Valley View Farms at 250-710-1517.

Canadian dreamSaddle seat rider cracks national team

“I’m excited to be on the team for Canada, to be able to go to different places and represent Canada.”

CAIDEN VARASTEH, saddle seat national team rider

Caiden Varasteh and her horse, Harley, at Valley View Farms. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]


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®/™The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. ‡Dealer Invoice Price of $14,558/$16,275/$23,286/$27,381/$30,315 available on all new 2015 Accent 5-Door L 6-speed Manual/Elantra L 6-speed Manual/Tucson GL FWD Manual/Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD/Santa Fe XL FWD models and includes price adjustments of $636/$719/$473/$1,313/$,1,479. Prices include Delivery and Destination charges of $1,595/$1,595/$1,760/$1,795/$1,795. Prices exclude registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, license fees and applicable taxes. Delivery and Destination charge includes freight, P.D.E. and a full tank of gas. *The customer prices are those reflected on the dealer invoice from Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. The dealer invoice price includes a holdback amount for which the dealer is subsequently reimbursed by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. ΩPrice adjustments of up to $636/$719/$473/$1,313/$1,479 available on all new 2015 Accent 5-Door L Manual/Elantra Sedan L Manual/Tucson GL FWD Manual/Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD/Santa Fe XL FWD models. Price adjustments applied before taxes. Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available offers. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required. ◊Leasing offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2015 Accent 5-Door L 6-speed Manual/Elantra L 6-speed Manual/Tucson GL FWD Manual/Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD/Santa Fe XL FWD with an annual lease rate of 0%/0%/0.9%/1.9%/3.99%. Biweekly lease payment of $58/$70/$118/$152/$180 for a 60-month walk-away lease. Down Payment of $995/$0/$0/$0/$0 and first monthly payment required. Total lease obligation is $8,535/$9,100/$14,820/$19,500/$22,100. Lease offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,595/$1,595/$1,760/$1,795/$1,795. Lease offer excludes registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, license fees and applicable taxes. $0 security deposit on all models. 20,000 km allowance per year applies. Additional charge of $0.12/km.†Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services. Financing example: 2015 Accent 5-Door L 6-speed Manual for $14,558 at 0% per annum equals $35 weekly for 96 months for a total obligation of $14,558. $0 down payment required. Cash price is $14,558. Cost of Borrowing is $0. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,595. Finance example excludes registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, license fees and applicable taxes ♦Prices of models shown: 2015 Accent GLS Auto/Elantra Limited/Tucson Limited AWD/Santa Fe Sport Limited AWD/Santa Fe XL Limited AWD are $21,144/$26,794/$35,759/$41,444/$45,094. Prices include Delivery and Destination charges of $1,595/$1,595/$1,760/$1,795/$1,795, levies and all applicable charges. Prices exclude registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and dealer admin. fees of up to $499. Fees may vary by dealer. ▼Fuel consumption for new 2015 Accent GLS (HWY 6.3L/100KM; City 8.9L/100KM); 2015 Elantra Limited (HWY 6.7L/100KM; City 9.7L/100KM); 2015 Tucson Limited AWD (HWY 9.3L/100KM; City 11.6L/100KM);2015 Santa Fe Sport Limited AWD (HWY 9.8L/100KM; City 12.9L/100KM); 2015 Santa Fe XL Limited AWD (HWY 9.7L/100 KM; City 13.0L/100 KM); are based on Manufacturer Testing. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. ∆The Hyundai Accent/Elantra received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among small/compact cars in the proprietary J.D. Power 2014 Initial Quality StudySM (IQS). Study based on responses from 86,118 new-vehicle owners, measuring 239 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Propriety study results are based on experiences and perceptions of owners surveyed in February-May 2014. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com. ▲Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). ‡†♦Ω*Offers available for a limited time and subject to change or cancellation without notice. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. Visit www.hyundaicanada.com or see dealer for complete details. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

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