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Couverdon proposal doesn’t get approvalLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

The preliminary results for the Couverdon boundary extension Alternative Approval Process in Ladysmith are in — a referendum will need to be held for the proposal to go any further.

The Town of Ladysmith recently conducted an Alternative Approval Process (AAP) to determine if the public supports proceeding with a proposal submitted by Couverdon Real Estate/TimberWest to expand the Town boundaries to include ap-proximately 700 hectares of land owned by Couverdon/TimberWest.

The Town received 1,601 valid Elector Response Forms stating electors were against the proposal, and since more than 10 per cent of eligible Town of Ladysmith voters responded to the AAP, the proposed boundary expansion can only pro-ceed if the Town obtains the assent of electors through a referendum.

The AAP is a way of gauging pub-lic opinion on matters that are im-portant to the community, and this process has been used in the past for issues such as borrowing for the remake of First Avenue, the build-ing of a new RCMP detachment office, the building of a new water supply pipeline, and the purchas-ing of a new fire truck, explained Ladysmith Mayor Rob Hutchins.

The process for undertaking an AAP is established by the provincial government.“Public dialogue is vital in any com-

munity, and the Couverdon bound-ary extension application has cre-ated that dialogue,” Hutchins said in an e-mail to the Chronicle. “Council expected — and wanted — to hear from citizens who had questions and concerns about the proposed boundary extension. During the AAP, it became clear that our citi-zens and neighbours have concerns and questions, particularly about

water supply issues. “The Town has commissioned nu-

merous studies over the last two de-cades and invested millions of dol-lars in water supply improvement. Today, the Town is using less water annually than it did 25 years ago. All studies using historical climate data indicate we have adequate supply of drinking water to support a popula-tion of 18,000 envisioned in our Of-ficial Community Plan.”

The work on climate modelling for water supply issues is under-way, and council may decide that the work should be completed be-fore further considering next steps in the process, including a possi-ble referendum on the matter of a boundary expansion, according to Hutchins.

Hutchins says council is looking closely at the issues community members raised during the AAP, es-pecially watershed protection and water supply.“These are matters that concern

council members as well, and the boundary expansion proposal in-cluded protecting significant por-tions of our watersheds that are now private managed forestland,” he said. “We believe that we can find ways to address citizens’ concerns, protect our watershed, ensure an adequate water supply and encour-age sustainable economic growth. The concerns of our citizens that led to the defeat of the AAP are heard and respected by council.”

The boundary extension applica-tion was initiated by Couverdon, not council. Couverdon first brought the proposal forward to council and the community in 2008.

Hutchins says the Town will con-sult with Couverdon prior to consid-ering whether to hold a referendum and timing of such a referendum.

The AAP results will be officially reported to council at the Monday, April 7 regular council meeting at 7 p.m. at Ladysmith City Hall.

Three-and-a-half-year-old Harrison Blatchford-Duncan of Ladysmith has a ball Sunday, March 30 at Ag-gie Field during the Bring Back Play Funmobile tour’s visit. The tour is sponsored by ParticipACTION and Healthy Families BC, and the campaign is meant to inspire parents and caregivers to motivate children to move more through play. LINDSAY CHUNG

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In brief Meet your Spirit Award nomineesLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

They won’t be celebrated in a formal Spirit of Ladysmith Com-munity Awards ceremony this year, so the Ladysmith Chamber of Commerce wants to recognize the people and businesses who were nominated for Spirit Awards.

The Spirit Awards, which are sponsored by the Ladysmith Chamber of Commerce, were scheduled to take place Friday, April 11 at Ladysmith Secondary School (LSS), but a surprisingly low response has caused the Chamber to cancel the awards this year.“We had to cancel at this time

due to a low number of nomina-tions, which quite surprised us, given that our surrounding com-

munities like Chemainus had over 200 nominations for their Golden Brush Awards,” said Alana New-ton, a director with the Ladysmith Chamber of Commerce and chair of the Spirit Awards. “It concerned us when we saw such a low number of nomina-tions. We wanted the awards to significantly represent what we considered to be Ladysmith spirit. I felt that we did enough to communicate to the community, but having said that, obviously, we didn’t, so we’re looking to see how we could do it better.”

Newton says that as Chamber directors and staff considered what to do about the low num-bers, questions arose such as was the nomination process too long, did they leave enough lead time for people, and were the catego-

ries broad enough. The Chamber would love to hear feedback from the community, and anyone who has any input to offer about the Spirit Awards can e-mail [email protected] and write

“Feedback” in the subject line.It was a very hard decision to

cancel the Spirit Awards, and Chamber directors and staff tried to see if they could extend the nomination period or move the event forward to May, but LSS was booked up for the rest of the school year, explained New-ton.

This year’s event was going to involve a lot of LSS students, and the Chamber was working close-ly with LSS.“All of the staff I worked with at the school were phenomenal,” said Newton. “They were so ex-

cited and knew their students would be excited too. From cu-linary to drama and music, tech-nical and lighting, and carpen-try, they would all have been involved. I can’t give enough ku-dos to [principal] Dave Street and his staff.”

Newton would like to thank all of the sponsors who came for-ward and were willing to support the event.

Below is a list of all this year’s nominees.“Each and every one of them are

winners in their own right,” said Newton. “They made a difference to somebody. I really think each one of these people should be re-ally proud of their contribution to the community because they represent what the community is all about.”

They won’t be celebrated at a gala this year, but the Chamber of Commerce wants to recognize all nominees

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Black Tie Awards will be presented

Two people from our area have been chosen as finalists for the Cowichan Valley-wide Black Tie Awards.

The Duncan Cowichan Chamber of Commerce recently released the Black Tie Award finalists for 2014. Only three finalists are selected in each category.

Nikki MacCallum of Nikki’s Designs in Ladysmith is a finalist for the Green Business award.

Peter Watts of the Best Western Plus Chemainus Inn is a finalist for the Business Achievement (11-19 Employees) award.

Each finalist attends an in-person interview with a panel of two judges. The interviews use a standardized score format. Once the interviews are complete, the results are forwarded to the official Black Tie Awards auditor. The results are tallied, then sealed until the night of the awards.

This is the 18th annual Black Tie Awards honouring excellence in business and volunteerism. The awards ceremony will take place Saturday, April 5 at Brentwood College School.

You’re invited to Historical Society’s AGM

Dr. Patrick Dunae will give an illustrated talk on post-WWII Ladysmith during the Ladysmith Historical Society’s upcoming annual general meeting.“Former VIU and UVic professor Dr. Dunae will be giving an interesting talk about a part of Ladysmith’s history that has not been well documented,” society president Ian Hardy said in a press release. “Most histories have focused on pre-war topics, so this is a great opportunity to hear something new.”

The meeting will take place Tuesday, April 15 at 7 p.m. in the Lower Program Room at the Frank Jameson Community Centre. Non-members are welcome.

Call 250-245-0100 for more information.

Ladysmith Family and Friends (LaFF) held its annual Garage Sale Sunday, March 30 at Aggie Hall. Above, siblings, from left, Sophia, Sierra and Cooper Smith sell their wares; while at right, Jordan Henderson and his mother, Breann, offer bargains at their table. LINDSAY CHUNG

A bounty of bargains at Aggie Hall

Youth of the Year Samanta de SouzaNatasha Sharpe

Outstanding Customer Service

Adolfo Gil-Rodriguez (Royal Bank) Vicki Portik (Pharmasave)Uforik ComputersNevin Arnold (49th Parallel Printers)Shelly White (High Street Hair)Sasha Sumpter (Home Hardware)Twisted Sister LoungeBouma Meat MarketMarty Westergaard (Blooms at 49th)Claire’s Hair DesignSean Durrell (E&S Heating)

Business of the Year 1-10 EmployeesE&S HeatingCnR PaintingLD Plumbing & Heating

Business of the Year 10 + EmployeesLadysmith & District Credit UnionCoast Realty Group — Ladysmith

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Green AwardNikki’s Designs (Nikki MacCallum)

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Volunteer of YearWillow Hartig (Mid-Isle Soccer Club)Debbie Greenhorn (Community Policing)Gord Patterson (Fraternal Order of Eagles)Karen Fediuk (PAC)Ed & Marie PolachekIsabelle Anne Ouelette (Ladysmith & District Historical Society)


Lise Broadleythe chronicle

The Ladysmith Safeway will under-go a major change this week after it closes for three days and reopens as a Save-On-Foods.

The brief closure is scheduled to begin Wednesday, April 2 and run through Friday, April 4. On Saturday morning (April 5), following renova-tions, staff training, some product replacement and the installation of new signage, Ladysmith Save-On-Foods will open to the public.

All of Safeway’s 52 employees have been invited to keep their jobs in the changeover.“The staff stay with us, which is

awesome,” said Overwaitea repre-sentative Julie Dickson Olmstead.

Overwaitea Food Group, which owns Save-On-Foods, purchased the Ladysmith store from Sobeys Inc. earlier this year. The Ladysmith Safeway was one of 15 stores in B.C. and Alberta acquired in the deal, which came about as the result of the Canada Competition Bureau’s requirement that Sobeys divest it-self of a number of locations after it purchased Canada Safeway. The changeovers began in mid-March and are expected to wrap up by the end of April.“We are very excited to be in

Ladysmith,” said Dickson Olmstead. “We’re really looking forward to it.”

Though Saturday will be a “soft opening,” where staff and custom-ers will be getting used to a new system and new products, Dickson Olmstead said there will likely be an opening celebration in the near future. In the meantime, she said,

“We certainly are going to make sure there are lots of good offers to thank the public for the patience.”

She added that other than new signs, new tills and new products, including Overwaitea’s Western Classics and Western Family items, much of the store will remain the same. The existing Starbucks will stay open, but the Airmiles program will not be offered at the new Save-On-Foods. Instead, customers will have the opportunity to participate in the More Rewards program, a spending-based points system that rewards shoppers with free grocer-ies, travel and items such as elec-tronics and giftcards.

Dickson Olmstead added that Overwaitea is very responsive to customer needs, and once the new owners have a chance to learn what local customers are looking for, the store will begin carrying items spe-cific to Ladysmith shoppers.“The first couple of weeks are

about integration,” she said. “We’ll evolve the store, and the offerings, over a period of months. The ob-jective is to have the offerings that make sense for our customers.”

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NOTICES & NEWSAPRIL 2014

COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULECouncil Meetings Monday, April 7th, 7:00 p.m. No Municipal Services or Council Meeting on Monday, April 21st due to the Easter Monday Statutory Holiday.Mayor’s Open Door* – City Hall Thursdays, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.City Hall (410 Esplanade) Business Hours Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.Corner of Trans Canada Hwy. and Roberts St. except statutory holidays*Please check the website or call City Hall at 250.245.6400 to confi rm times.

HOLIDAY CLOSURESCity Hall, Frank Jameson Community Centre, Development Services and Public Works will be closed Friday, April 18 and Monday, April 21, 2014 for the Good Friday and Easter Monday Statutory Holidays.

FIRST QUARTER UTILITY BILLS TO BE INVOICED MID APRILUtility bills for January to March will be sent out soon. They will be due by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28. If you have not received your bill by the end of April; or have any questions about it, please call 250.245.6414, ext. 6206.

PAY YOUR UTILITY BILLS AUTOMATICALLY WITH OUR PRE-AUTHORIZED DEBIT PROGRAM (PAD)To sign up all you need to do is fi ll out the form available on our website: www.ladysmith.ca or at city hall, 410 Esplanade and return it to us with a void cheque. We will advise you that your payment plan is set up. After that, your account will be debited on the bill’s due date. You will still receive your quarterly utility bill by your choice of mail or e-mail. To receive your bill via email, please email your request to [email protected] with your Utility Account number.

GARBAGE / RECYCLING COLLECTION – YOUR GARBAGE COLLECTION DAY IS CHANGING!Following the Good Friday and Easter Monday statutory holidays on April 18 and 21, 2014, your pick-up day will be moving forward by 2 (TWO) days. If you need a new schedule you can pick one up at City Hall or the Frank Jameson Community Centre. You can also fi nd your schedule on the Town’s website at: http://www.ladysmith.ca/our-services/garbage-recycling

SPRING CLEAN-UP WEEK – April 22 to April 28, 2014During this week, on your regular garbage (recycle) day, the following additional oversized material will be picked up.

• Furniture (wooden or fabric-covered wood)• Washers and Dryers• Carpets, Rugs and Mattresses* (must be fully contained in plastic and be

taped/sealed) • Barbeques• Toys and Bicycles

All items must be placed at the curbside the day before your regular garbage (recycle) day.

*Please Note: If items left at curbside are not on the list above they will NOT be picked up. Extra regular garbage will not be taken unless properly tagged. Garbage tags are available at City Hall and the Frank Jameson Community Centre: $2 per tag or $10 for a book of six tags.

PEERLESS ROAD RECYCLING CENTRE – RENOVATED SITE NOW OPENThe newly renovated Peerless Road Recycling Centre is now open for business and has expanded the list of acceptable items. To view the list, please go to http://cvrd.bc.ca/DocumentCenter/View/62889. Peerless Road hours from April 1 – October 31 are Wednesday to Sunday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., excluding Statutory Holidays.

ZONING BYLAW UPDATE PROJECT The project to review and update the Ladysmith Zoning Bylaw is nearing completion. Watch for a public meeting on the proposed new Zoning Bylaw coming soon.

The aim of the Zoning Bylaw Update project is to:

Lay out clear, technically sound regulations Be consistent with the Offi cial Community Plan Implement ideas and principles from the Ladysmith Sustainability Vision and Community Energy Plan Support economic development

For more information on why an updated Zoning Bylaw is important to our community, please visit the Zoning Bylaw Project website at www.ladysmithzoningbylaw.ca, click the link at www.ladysmith.ca, or call 250.245.6415

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The NDP is accusing the provincial govern-ment of handing over control of B.C.’s blue box recycling system to Toronto-based mul-tinational executives who will be unaccount-able while B.C. busi-nesses and households pay higher costs.

Opposition small business critic Lana Popham raised the is-sue of Multi Material BC (MMBC) in the Leg-islature March 24, call-ing on the province to change course before the agency’s new sys-tem for recycling pack-aging and printed pa-per takes effect May 19.“If government doesn’t

take a step back, B.C.’s recycling system is going to end up in a giant dumpster,” she said. “The control of recycling should never have been outsourced to the large corporate interests based in On-tario and abroad. This is a profound failure. This program needs to be paused and the entire concept recon-sidered.”

Popham’s comments follow the launch of

a campaign against MMBC by a coalition of business groups, in-cluding the newspaper industry, who say they can’t afford to pay high fees imposed under the new system.“The Liberal govern-

ment loves to claim they’re getting rid of red tape,” she said in an interview March 24. “So it’s quite ironic because MMBC is a Godzilla-sized red tape monster.”Although MMBC is

registered as a soci-ety, Popham called it a “dummy corporation” because two of its three directors are To-ronto-based senior ex-ecutives with Loblaws and Unilever, while the third is MMBC manag-ing director Allan Lang-don.

The Saanich South NDP MLA said the province should force MMBC to give B.C. stakeholders majority control. Popham said the MMBC system will be “dangerously close to monopoly,” resulting in less competition and innovation in recycling.

She also said munici-palities have been pres-sured into signing con-tracts with inadequate

compensation for their costs, the threat of penalties for contami-nation and a gag clause.

MMBC’s new recy-cling fees on business-es will be passed along to consumers through higher prices, Popham said, calling it a “hid-den tax” that won’t be transparent to con-sumers.

Meanwhile, she says cities are unlikely to rebate property taxes that households al-ready pay for recycling.

In some cities where MMBC won’t provide services, such as Ka-mloops, residents will pay for nothing, Po-pham added.

MMBC says it will take new types of con-tainers and packaging not collected in B.C. before.

But Popham noted glass will no longer be collected curbside in many cities and there’s little evidence the sys-tem will improve recy-cling rates overall.

She said a smarter approach would have been to extend the beverage can deposit-refund system to more containers, such as milk cartons and laun-dry detergent jugs.

Liberal MLA Eric Fos-ter (Vernon Monashee) responded in the Legis-lature, saying the prov-ince made changes to exempt most business-es from MMBC fees and paperwork if they earn less than $1 mil-lion in revenue, gener-ate less than one tonne per year of packaging, or operate as a single outlet.“We’ve got all kinds

of validation on this — chambers of com-merce, local govern-ment, opportunities for local government to either continue the way they’re doing it or to have MMBC put their contractors in there to pick up,” said Foster, who serves on the government’s envi-ronment and land use committee.“MMBC came forward

as an opportunity to change people’s way of doing business and to put the onus on the original producers of the waste product or the recyclable product to reduce.”

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Town of Ladysmith Spring Clean Up Week April 22nd to 28th, 2014

During this week, on your regular garbage (recycle) day the following additional oversized items will be picked up.

Furniture (wooden or fabric-covered wood) Washers and Dryers Carpets, Rugs and Mattresses* Barbeques Toys and Bicycles

*Mattresses must be fully contained in a plastic bag and be taped/sealed. All items must be placed at the curbside the day BEFORE your regular garbage (recycle) day. Please Note: If items left at curbside are not on the list above they will not be picked up. The new Peerless Facility has expanded the list of acceptable items. For more information, please visit their website at www.cvrd.bc.ca/index.aspx?nid=360 or call toll-free 1-800-665-3955. Peerless Recycling Centre hours: Open Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday 9 am–5 pm (November 1st to March 31st only) Open Wednesday through Sunday, 9 am-5pm (April 1st to October 31st only)

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Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett has done what I report-

ed last November he was doing: seized the horns of the sacred cow that is the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). Henceforth there shall be two land reserves.

The Island, South Coast and Okanagan, which pro-duce 85 per cent of B.C.’s total farm revenue on 10 per cent of protected land, retains its strict anti-devel-opment rules.

In the much larger area Bennett likes to call “be-yond Hope,” non-farm uses will be considered to help maintain the many eco-nomically marginal farm-ers. This is the Interior, Kootenay and North, where development pressure is mostly an urban myth.

Political critics were quick to call this a B.C. Lib-eral hidden agenda to pave the ALR for their developer pals. Certainly neither par-ty’s 2013 platform talked about the ALR, although

B.C. Liberal leadership can-didates Kevin Falcon and Mike de Jong promised re-lief from its more senseless bureaucracy to Peace coun-try farmers in 2011.

When the zone plan was revealed last week, media went to ALR pioneer Har-old Steves, the hero of all Lower Mainlanders who try to tell northern farmers what to do.

“My real fear is that they want to open the door for fracking and natural gas and oil,” Steves said.

I’ve got bad news for the socialist sage of south Rich-mond. Oil and gas compa-nies have operated on farm-land since before the ALR was created in 1974.

Conspiracy buffs should read the delegation agree-ment that took effect just weeks after last May’s elec-tion, giving the Oil and Gas Commission authority to administer wells, pipelines and waste pits on farmland. If the ALR interferes with the prescribed handling of drilling waste, it interferes with safety measures.

University of the Fraser

Valley “food security” pro-fessor Lenore Newman went on CKNW to refute what she called “unin-formed arguments,” and offered one of her own. This two-zone change is connected to the exclusion of large tracts of Peace land for the Site C dam, she said.

Actually, the government exempted that project last December using the long-standing “provincial inter-est” provision, so this phase of the alleged capitalist plot against farmland has no ef-fect on Site C.

Steves is also concerned about second homes being built beyond Hope and later sold, rather than being de-stroyed, as is the current di-sastrous rule. He warns that farmers might end up with “non-farm neighbours,” or as we like to call them up north, “neighbours.”

Again, this is an urban problem projected onto rural B.C., where costly re-strictions mainly serve to accelerate the depopulation of rural and remote areas.

Delta South independent MLA Vicki Huntington is

livid about the legislation, which has no effect on loss of farmland in her constitu-ency. The growing federally regulated port supersedes provincial laws, and the Tsawwassen First Nation is growing a big shopping centre on its treaty land.

Aboriginal entrepreneurs are also starting to force big-box development on southern Vancouver Island, home of the purest of the pure left.

The most damning charge is that the six regional ALR panels now in place are open to corruption under new rules. Panel members have always been cabinet appointments, but cur-rently, they have to be from outside the region so they are less likely to hand out exemptions to their friends.

That is certainly some-thing to keep an eye on. So is the status of B.C. farms, where the average farmer age is 56 and rising, and half of farms have income less than $10,000 a year.

Tom Fletcher is legisla-tive reporter and colum-nist for Black Press.

The Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the prov-ince’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with docu-mentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby Street, Nanaimo, B.C., V9R-2R2. For information phone 1-888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

Last week, Dave Judson of the Ladysmith Sportsmen’s Club took me on a drive along the logging roads to see how much garbage people dump near our creeks.

The club is organizing a Ladysmith Water-shed and Area Cleanup for Saturday, April 12, and from the looks of it, the volunteers will be busy.

When the club did this volunteer cleanup in 2011, the group picked up 48,000 pounds of trash, with six tonnes of that coming from the area right around the Peerless Road Recycling Centre, according to Judson.

It’s a real community effort.“The last cleanup we did, if it wasn’t for partners like

the Cowichan Valley Regional District, TimberWest, community members and local contractors, it would cost thousands,” noted Judson.

Judson wonders if the cost of recycling and access to facilities — or lack thereof — are an issue when so many people are dumping near the recycling centre.

“Most of the things I find on logging roads are free to recycle,” he noted. “What can we do to keep the cost of recycling shingles down or make it easier to recycle drywall? You need to make it easy.”

There is a high cost to the environment and to wildlife when people dump their garbage in the bush, especially near Stocking Creek and other waterways, but another reason for the cleanup is to maintain recreational access to the logging roads.

“People might say why not put a gate up, but it’s rec-reational access, and the people who horseback ride or ride ATVs, they aren’t the ones who are dumping gar-bage,” said Judson. “Our 150 members come up here to enjoy the scenery … they appreciate having this in their backyard.”

Anyone interested in volunteering can show up at the Bush Creek Hatchery Saturday, April 12 at 9 a.m.

If you’d like more information, contact Dave Judson at 250-245-3690. Judson advises volunteers to dress ac-cording to weather conditions and suggests that if you have a high-visibility top, it might be a good idea to wear that. If you have a truck or trailer, that helps a lot too.

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A few months back, I received a no-tification which

advised me that I had to declare whether Bucker-fields was a “producer” of printed paper or packaging material. If so, we would have to implement an “ap-proved stewardship plan” to deal with the material. Otherwise, we would have to join another “steward-ship plan” and pay fees to that plan holder.

I thought it was a scam. But I looked into it fur-ther and determined there were indeed regulatory provisions in effect which stated this very thing, and according to the regula-tions, Buckerfields is now a “producer” of printed pa-per and packaging mate-rial, with the best example being our Buckerfields feed bags. I then discussed the alternatives with a Ministry of Environment official and came to real-ize that we had no choice but to join the only ap-proved stewardship plan in the Province, MMBC.

We signed the MMBC contract. But we also read it. And it stated MMBC had to file audited financial statements on its website. I recently went to the web-site, and there are no au-dited financial statements.

Now, several months lat-er, I have discovered the following:

• MMBC is a corporation under the Societies Act comprised of three direc-tors, two of whom live in Ontario. None of the directors have public sec-tor credentials. All of the drectors represent large corporate interests.

• MMBC is not account-able to any government agency, appointed official, elected official or govern-ment body other than the Registrar of Companies under the Societies Act.

• MMBC is not governed by the Province’s Finan-

cial Administration Act which sets out the rules for the administration of all public monies.

• None of the monies col-lected by MMBC, includ-ing the fees Buckerfields is supposed to pay, go to the Public Accounts of the Province or any other gov-ernment organization.

• MMBC is not subject to oversight by the Auditor General of BC.

• Under MMBC’s “stew-ardship plan,” as approved by the provincial gov-ernment, MMBC has the authority to charge com-panies like Buckerfields unlimited fees based on whatever MMBC spends, regardless of what the ac-tual costs are to recycle our feed bags and regard-less of the fact that we al-ready pay municipal taxes in all eight of our locations.

•MMBC has the authori-ty to come into any munic-ipality in the province and offer financial incentives to the locally elected gov-ernment to do what MMBC wants in the area of waste collection and recycling; if the locally elected govern-ment refuses, MMBC has the authority to do what it wants anyway.

• Municipal governments of the province don’t know the background of MMBC and don’t yet realize the fees MMBC is charging to Buckerfields and the other companies amounts to double taxation.

• The municipal govern-ments are going to have to give up that tax base they have for waste collection and recycling because the shift to ”producers” paying directly for waste collec-tion and recycling elimi-nates the need and justifi-cation for “consumers,” i.e. property tax payers to pay for these services through the municipalities.

• The provincial gov-ernment did not consult with the municipal gov-

ernments or the public, but companies like Buck-erfields are pointing it out because until it is re-solved, we are being taxed twice for the same service, and residential taxpayers (including me) are being taxed for something that someone else is actually paying for.

• Taxpayers and munici-pal governments were not consulted as to whether they really want to shift the financing and control of municipal waste and recycling services out of the municipal jurisdiction that is the jurisdiction of democratically elected municipal officials and into the hands of a corpo-ration under the Societies Act that is accountable to no one and is outside the jurisdiction of the Provin-cial Auditor General.

• Taxpayers and voters are unaware that the fees being charged by MMBC are so onerous that they will cause newspaper closures and job losses of 300-500 in the newspa-per industry in B.C., even though recycled newsprint is actually very valuable.

In finding all this out, I la-ment the fact that none of this was introduced into the Legislature for proper debate because it means that instead of spending my days managing the sale of chicks and garden supplies at Buckerfields, I have to spend my time trying to revive demo-cratic processes in British Columbia, retroactively. I find it appalling.

My position as of the time of this writing is this: we ain’t paying a dime to MMBC and neither should anyone else, not until:

• The provincial govern-ment reconciles what it is doing with the municipal governments and munici-pal taxpayers so taxpayers don’t have to pay twice.

• The provincial gov-

ernment takes back the legislation which calls us “producers” and “blames us” for the choices made by manufacturers and in-deed consumers that are completely outside of our control.

• Any monies charged under the auspices of the Recyling Regulation are included in the Public Ac-counts of the Province and subject to the provisions of the Financial Adminis-tration Act and the Audi-tor General Act.

• Whatever is going to be done is introduced into the Legislative Assembly in the form of a Bill so the proper public debate can occur.

• Insofar as MMBC has not filed its audited fi-nancial statements since inception, and the period of time not reported spans more than two years, and insofar as MMBC is actu-ally a taxing and funding agency, there be an inde-pendent public enquiry into the financial opera-tions, sources and uses of funds, contractual proce-dures and expenditures of MMBC.

No, Buckerfields is not paying a dime until this cash and power grab is un-

raveled and revealed for what it is.

One final word: 96 per cent of all printed paper and packaging material is already being picked up or deposited into municipal-ly-financed facilities.

Despite what MMBC is saying, at least 53 per cent of that is already being re-cycled and it is very likely that that number was seri-ously understated to give the government a reason for its MMBC cash and power grab.

In reality, there is no basis for setting up a re-cycling dictatorship and charging punitive fees to companies like Bucker-fields at all. Recycling is a booming business with rapidly increasing prices of marketable commodi-ties. Could that be why the board of MMBC is all big business and outside the jurisdiction of the Auditor General?

We don’t have to change a thing to see recycling take off in B.C., in the hands of our elected mu-nicipal officials. We need to send the MMBC regime to the recycle bin.

Kelvin McCullochCEO, Buckerfields

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Sarah Wilke’s love of singing and dedica-tion to learning and improving is paying off.

The 15-year-old

Ladysmith resident recently won a Gold Medal for scoring the top mark in B.C. on the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) Grade 6 Voice examination.

Wilke takes private

voice lessons with Iris Cooke-Chislett, who lives in Mill Bay.

Regional Gold Medals are awarded each aca-demic year (Sept. 1 to Aug. 31) to Conserva-tory examination can-

didates in Preparatory A and B and Grades 1 to 10 who achieve the highest mark in their respective province or designated region. Eli-gible candidates must score at least 80 per cent on their practi-cal examination and must have completed the co-requisite theory examinations for their respective grade and discipline.

Wilke says she was pretty surprised but very happy when she found out she’d earned a Gold Medal for Grade 6 Voice.“I worked very hard

on those pieces that I did for my exam, and I guess I just had a good singing day that day; I sang pretty well, so I’m happy about it,” she said.

Wilke has taken most of her RCM Voice ex-ams so far, except Grade 2 and Grade 4, and she is currently working on Grade 7.

When Wilke was younger, her mother taught piano, and her students took the RCM exams, so when Wilke started taking voice lessons, she already knew about the organi-zation and she started taking the exams.

Wilke started sing-ing with a choir in Nanaimo when she was seven and began taking solo vocal les-sons when she was 10.“I’ve always loved

singing ever since I was younger, and I just asked my mom if I could taking singing lessons because I love to sing,” she said.

She says what she loves about singing is the chance to become the character in the song.

“When I sing a piece, I sing a lot of classi-cal and sometimes musical theatre, and you take the character in the song, immerse yourself in the song and be who that char-acter is,” she said. “I also love to share mu-sic with others.”

When it comes to singing, Wilke does have her favourites.“I love singing a lot

of folk songs — I re-ally like the style of them,” she said. “I like singing in Italian and German — I like sing-ing the languages and the sound of it. A lot of Italian songs are more dramatic; it’s fun to sing like that. When

my teacher gives me an Italian piece to sing, she says ‘sing this like you’re Italian!’”

Wilke feels that go-ing through the RCM examination process is very educational.“When I do an exam,

they mark me for tech-nique and my approach to the song, and they give me tips about how I can improve the piece,” she said.

The RCM goes up to Grade 10, and Wilke says that although she isn’t quite sure at this point, she does hope to get her Grade 10 Voice.“I’m not sure if I’d do

anything career-wise with my music, but I think it will always be

part of my life and I’ll keep singing and play-ing piano,” she said. “I also sing for my church, so I think I’d continue to do that as well.”

Wilke, who was born in Winnipeg and has lived in Ladysmith since she was three and a half or four years old, is home schooled and enrolled with Tra-ditional Learning Acad-emy Online, which is based in Vancouver. When she is not sing-ing and playing piano, she likes to hike and backpack, and she also plays soccer and basketball with her friends. Wilke is also an avid reader, and she likes to write.


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The road is not an empty concept to Steven Beddall, a.k.a Wooden Horseman.

A decade has passed since the Ottawa musician left the Ot-tawa Valley in search of something else, which he quickly found — driving a truck over thousands of miles, through blazing summers and bitter winters, alone with his thoughts for hours on end, with plenty of time to think things over, and over again.

Raised on the roots of blues — Waters, King, Vaughan, Hook-er, Johnson, Hendrix

— Beddall would fur-ther hone his appreci-ation and love for the sound while working as a dishwasher at Tucson’s, the famed Ottawa blues institu-tion. Along the way, he would tune into Leadbelly’s sound and later tap into Dylan. Combine that Hall of Fame musical education with a nat-ural leaning toward the nomadic lifestyle, throw in some truck driving for good mea-sure and let that fer-ment for a few years, and you get Beddall’s Wooden Horseman project.

The group, which features some of Vancouver’s finest in cellist Alex Hauka, singer Missy Cross, organist Owen Con-nell, pianist Peter Bowles and drum-mer Emlyn Sherk, re-leased its self-titled debut album in Feb-ruary and will be cel-ebrating that release Friday, April 25 in Ladysmith.“Careful and mini-mal in its production (Mark Lawrence), re-strained yet potent in its execution, Wood-en Horseman paints a

road-tested picture of an artist who has just begun to reveal him-self,” states Wooden Horseman’s website.

Wooden Horse-man performs Friday, April 25 at 8 p.m. at the Short Close Song Shelter in Ladysmith as part of its CD re-lease tour. Tickets are $20 and are available at Uforik Computers.

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Christina YoungrenSponsored by the Fraternal Order of EaglesChristina is 16 and in Grade 11. Christina’s passion is music. She sings and plays guitar and the piano by ear. Acting and singing in her high school musicals keep her very busy. After graduation, she would like to attend UVic to get her degree in biology and eventually become a zoologist.

Melissa MrusSponsored by the Kinsmen Club of LadysmithMelissa is 16 and in Grade 11. Family is the biggest influence in her life, and everyone in her family has played a special role in her upbringing. Volunteering at Ladysmith Primary School, Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Lodge on 4th keep Melissa very busy. Melissa hopes to attend university to pursue a degree in biology.

Jessica KnelsonSponsored by 49th Parallel Grocery and Blooms at the 49thJessica is 16 and in Grade 11. Travelling, playing piano, photography and hiking are a few hobbies Jessica enjoys. When not volunteering with her school, Jessica is studying and maintaining top grades so she may enter York University in Toronto.

Angela StachowSponsored by Ladysmith and District Credit UnionAngela is 16 and in Grade 11. Angela is a team player, and she has played soccer for the last 10 years. At school, she is involved with the Grade 8 leaders, a program that helps Grade 8s assimilate into the high school. Working on her family’s blueberry farm with her three sisters is something she looks forward to every summer.

Keisha DixonSponsored by Jennifer Ostle Notary PublicKeisha is 17 and in Grade 11. Keisha plays competitive soccer and works hard to maintain a high standard in school. Beading and dance are also two of her many hobbies. Keisha plans to enter the nursing program after graduation.

Kayla BolducSponsored by LCU InsuranceKayla is 18 and in Grade 12. Her plans after graduation are to attend UNBC to start on her Bachelor’s Degree. When not working two jobs, Kayla likes to get lost in a good book. She loves animals and volunteering for the SPCA.

Emily WeeksSponsored by the Ladysmith Lions ClubEmily is 16 and in Grade 11. At 16, Emily is already a professional photographer. It is no wonder that she would like to attend the Centre of Arts and Technology to become a photojournalist. Travel is a passion of Emily’s. Her ultimate goal is to work for National Geographic, travelling the world as a photojournalist.

McRae BerrowSponsored by Ladysmith Fire/RescueMcRae is 16 and in Grade 11. McRae has trained in ballet, jazz, modern and hip hop dance. When not dancing, she loves to get lost in a good book or enjoy the ocean, wake boarding and tubing. After graduation, she will be attending BCIT to obtain a degree as an X-ray technician.

Allison CrossleySponsored by Coast Realty GroupAllison is 16 and in Grade 11. Reading and writing are Allison’s passions. Being an editor of a major magazine would be her dream job. Allison’s goal this summer is to compete in a dressage show with her horse, Pepe. Allison spent the first 12 years of her life living abroad in Sweden.

Hana ReinhartSponsored by David Stalker ExcavatingHana is 16 and in Grade 11. Hana has been dancing since she was four and still takes classes twice a week. Hana has been chosen to participate in the Rotary Adventures in Citizenship trip to Ottawa this May. When not volunteering at Stz’uminus First Nation School, Hana is preparing and studying so she may enter Queens University.

Sara BarillSponsored by the ChronicleSara is 16 and in Grade 11. Basketball, gymnastics and shopping are just some of Sara’s hobbies. University and a degree in psychology after high school are in her future plans. Sara loves her job at Sushi Wara.

Samanta De SouzaSponsored by the Ladysmith Rotary ClubSamanta is 17 and in Grade 11. Music is Samanta’s passion. She plays piano and guitar and sings. University-bound Samanta would love to become an art director. Volunteering for her church and community keep her very busy. Samanta’s mom is the biggest influence in her life.

Yvonne HoussinSponsored by Tim HortonsYvonne is 16 and in Grade 11. Fine arts such as singing, jazz band and drama are a big part of Yvonne’s life. Volunteering in school as a Grade 8 leader, organizing events for anti-bullying day, and student council keep Yvonne very busy. Yvonne’s future plans are to become a lawyer.

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For the past 15 years or so, the Ladysmith-Chemainus Orcas Swim Club has been holding a Swim-A-Thon to raise money for the club while having fun in the pool.

And last week, the club held its most successful Swim-A-Thon yet. The club had a goal of raising $4,000 this year, and the swimmers brought in about $5,800 during their event March 28 at the Frank Jameson Community Centre.“Essentially, we’re raising

money so we can continue to keep our swimmers swim-ming in Ladysmith in a com-munity environment at very affordable rates for families,” explained swim club presi-dent Shelley Anderson. “The funds we raise here go to off-set all the expenses and pool fee costs so we can continue to keep it a very affordable sport and keep our kids ac-tive and healthy.”

During the Swim-A-Thon,

each swimmer swims as many laps as they can, up to 200 — so they could be swim-ming as much as five kilome-tres.Anderson says this year’s

Swim-A-Thon is the best one so far, noting one family

raised more than $1,000.The club thanks Safeway

for being so generous with oranges for the swimmers, as well as Roberts Street Pizza, for providing pizza.

This year, there are 63 swim-mers in the club, and about

20 of those athletes are quite competitive.

***The Swim-A-Thon is not the

only recent success for the Orcas.

A couple of weeks ago, the younger Orcas aged six and older participated in the Spring Meet in Duncan, where many swimmers com-peted for the first time.“We had tons and tons of

them; it was an awesome turnout,” said Level 1 coach Aisha Alsop, noting they brought more than 15 swim-mers to Duncan. “They all got to do new things, and we had lots of new kids swim who had never swum in a meet. They loved it.”

Alsop, who coaches the younger swimmers with Lev-el 2 coach Aria MacColl, says Duncan has a great pool to host a meet, and the swim-mers had a really fun time.“It was awesome,” she said.

“We had the biggest numbers we’ve had for that swim meet for a while.”


Access to trailhead at Heart Lake restrictedRoss ArmourTHE CHRONICLE

A logging project tak-ing place close to the Heart Lake Trail is well underway but it is not expected to affect the trail’s corridor specifi-cally.

The harvesting is be-ing conducted by for-estry company Econ Consulting, and access to the trail will be re-stricted up until the middle of May.“The Town of

Ladysmith has been advised that there will be active logging in areas close to Heart Lake trail,” the Town’s Parks, Recreation and Culture Department stated on its Facebook page. “Access to the Heart Lake Trail head will be restricted be-tween 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday to Saturday from March 19 to May 15. Please use alternate routes.”

Econ Consulting’s Erik Hulbek made

a presentation to Ladysmith council in March allaying fears that loggers would be active along the trail’s corridor over the next few weeks.

Nevertheless, there will still be visuals of the logging process present for hikers.“The harvesting plan

calls for protection of Heart Lake Trail cor-ridor itself and also mitigating the impact on view corridors from the town,” Mayor Rob

Hutchins said in an e-mail to the Chronicle.

“The parcel to the south will most likely not be noticeable to hikers from the trail. However, hikers will see some clearing 100 feet away from a portion of the north side of the trail.”

Hutchins says the current plan calls for harvesting six parcels stretched out along the west of the hydro right of way, and the total cut of all six parcels is 8,000 metres.

Two parcels are adja-cent to the Heart Lake Trail — one to the south of the trail is 1.27 hectares, and 827 cubic metres of wood is ex-pected to be harvested. The parcel to the north is 1.79 hectares, with 871 cubic metres of wood to be harvested.

The Heart Lake Trail is on a portion of land not owned by the Town of Ladysmith.“The trail crosses

both a Crown wood lot (the bottom half)

and private managed forest land (the top half — TimberWest) as it makes its way up the side of Stanton Peak,” explained Hutchins.

“Portions of the Crown

wood lot have been harvested in the recent past.”

For more information, contact the Town’s Public Works Depart-ment at 250-245-6445.

Orcas’ Swim-A-Thon most successful yet

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Jade Tomio swims lengths during the Ladysmith-Chemainus Or-cas Swim Club’s annual Swim-A-Thon on March 28. LINDSAY CHUNG

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SIMPSON, Lilian Alice Aug 28, 1928 - Mar 25, 2014

Lilian (Lil) Simpson (nee Kenworthy) passed away suddenly at home in the early morning hours of March 25th, 2014 at the age of 85. She was predeceased by her husband Harold, her parents, six brothers, and one sister.

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Driveway readers to spend billions to buy a new set of wheels

Driveway readers are in the mood to splash out an astonishing $3.6 billion-plus of their hard-earned cash to buy new vehicles this year.This is not some wild, optimistic pre-diction but a solid

forecast based on what our readers revealed in a comprehensive survey conducted on behalf of Black Press by Pulse Research, a company with 30 years of experience in asking the right questions of consumers. In a series of wide-ranging interviews, Black Press newspaper readers from all over the province gave Pulse a comprehensive account of their spending plans. Their intention to spend $53.1 million on fish and chips, $45.8 million on tooth whitening, $13.1 million on tattoos or piercing, $9.1 million on pet toys and $1.9 million on tuxedos, raised some smiles.But the auto spending intent grabbed our seri-ous attention. A massive 123,275 households will take vehicles for a spin and sign on the dotted line. A massive 51,895 will park a new car on their driveway, 32,312 will house a sport ute in their garage, while another 28,395 will opt for a truck out front. Most people surveyed knew what kind of wheels they would be look-ing for and what they were prepared to pay.

The sticker price range for most folks is $25-$30,000. However, premium car sellers will be pleased that 13,708 plan to spend an average of $45,000 on one of their products. Another 7,883 will shell out an average of $64,413 for refined vehicles in the $50-$75,000 price range. In addition, 2,937 more will spend an average of $82,448 on luxury marques. An eco-conscious 11,750 house-holds will fork out more than $30 grand for a hybrid or electric vehicle. Utilitarian minivans top the shopping list at 9,791 homes, with budgets a shade under $30,000.We even discovered that readers would spend another $2 billion on car servicing, preventive maintenance, oil changes and after-market products. Good news for used car sales: 105,750 households are prepared to spend $1.69 billion on pre-owned, nearly new, or whatever the cur-rent parlance is for second-hand vehicles as they used to be called!Last week, Blair Qualey, the president of the New Car Dealers Association of BC, talked about the importance of his industry to this province in his column here about the Van-couver International Auto Show, which runs until Sunday,

Reacting to the Black Press/Pulse report he said: “Customers today are clearly taking advantage of one of the most exciting times in automotive history. Dealers across BC are focusing like never before on creating a better buying expe-rience – a more enjoyable, more informed and

entertaining experience on-site and online. It’s almost as if dealers are putting on mini Auto Shows every day of the week!”He continued: “There are more than 350 new car dealerships across the province, and new ones popping up all the time, making this industry one of BC’s most important. Not only because they generate more than $10 bil-lion annually in economic activity, but also because they employ directly and indirectly, more than 34,000 full-time people in the more than 50 communities that they serve. The buying intent of Black Press readers is terrific news for our members and the BC economy.

“I can hardly wait for the next few years. Buckle up; it’s going to be an exciting ride.”Count on the Driveway team to supply you the best and most current information each week, and on the drivewaycanada site, to help you make the right decision in your car purchase.

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A massive 51,895 will park a new car on their driveway, 32,312 will house

a sport ute in their garage, while another 28,395 will opt for a truck out front.

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