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It’s a Friday night on High Street.No longer can you drop a bowling ball at

the doctor’s office and wait for the sploosh of it hitting the harbour 40 seconds later.

In fact, with the amount of cars lining each side of the street, that ball would be lucky to make it across First Avenue.

Fox and Hounds, the new pub-style res-taurant that opened in December in the old Home Hardware building is packing in the patrons. When the Beantime Cafe across the street has some music playing, the two eateries can combine for a nightlife that hasn’t been seen in downtown Ladysmith since the days of when there were six beer parlours downtown.And while Fox and Hounds may own

Fridays at the moment, it is certainly not alone in riding a cresting wave of good taste in Ladysmith,An informal head count reveals it is one

of three new restaurants to have opened in town in the past few months, with re-ports of two more on the way soon. All this on top of at least five new outlets to have opened since 2013.

Ladysmith Chamber of Commerce man-ager Mark Drysdale said he’s not sure about the reason for this boom in good taste. But he says it can’t be seen as anything other than a good thing for Ladysmith.“I would say certainly the downturn hit us pretty hard, but it’s bounce-back time,” he said. “They seem to be choosing (a va-riety of styles). I don’t know whether it’s good luck or good management. What I get feedback on is the quality of the food and service.”

While the economy may play a role, two other factors could be timing and need. Ricky’s has developed a strong presence as

the local family restaurant, Roberts Street as the go-to takeout pizza staple and there is a plentiful mix of Chinese and fast food places in town.

But with two longtime Ladysmith staples, George’s and Northbrook calling it a day in recent years, and other niches not being represented, investors saw opportunity.

Jane Ivens is a Cedar resident whose kids had gone to school here. She and husband Trevor had opened two successful pubs in Nanaimo, but their hearts were pointed south.“If we wanted to go out somewhere like this, there wasn’t anything in this direc-tion,” she said. “There were a lot of vacant buildings when we started to look. Some-times there’s a domino effect.”

Stelur, the new diner of First Avenue, fits that profile too.

Its owners had a concept in mind, and looked around for the best location before investing on the 49th parallel.“I’ve been in Qualicum and other places and they always just seemed flooded,” Ste-lur chef and business partner Steve White said. “(Ladysmith) just looked like a nice little niche.”

Stelur is attempting to carve out its ter-ritory as the town’s old-style ‘50s diner. Oceans, in the old Barb’s Kitchen location, is a seafood place. D’Franco’s has Mediter-ranean cuisine. The Spice Hut is Indian. Sushi Wara serves Japanese. The Wild Pop-py’s focus is gluten-free and PK’s has a bit of everything.

None were operating two years ago.Their owners are not walking an easy

road. Restaurants are a lot of hard work to operate, staffing is a constant issue and the business is very competitive. Still, ac-cording to the January outlook published by Restaurants Canada, the industry is do-ing well.

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Restaurant boom fills a Ladysmith void while tantalizing local tongues

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Ladysmith canine question barking up three trees

Lindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

Three preferred options have been identified for a fenced dog park in Ladysmith, and Town staff have been given the green light to investigate each.At the March 16 meeting, coun-

cil directed staff to develop plans and determine costs related to developing a fenced dog park at either the BC Hydro property at Sixth Avenue and Methuen Street, the School District 68 École Da-vis Road playing field, and Brown Drive Park.

No time frame was discussed for the process of this second dog park for the town, but, in the mean-time, council authorized changes to a popular off-leash area.

Councillors decided the Upper Transfer Beach off-leash dog area will be redefined to include only the area south of the entrance to the Horseshoe Club driveway, while dogs will be permitted on-leash in the remaining Upper Transfer Beach area.

Appropriate signage will be in-stalled to show the newly-defined off-leash area and on-leash areas in the Upper Transfer Beach area, and signage, split wood fencing and landscaping material will be used to maintain the open feeling of the park scape, and all associated costs for this work will be included in the 2015 financial plan discussions.

Coun. Rob Hutchins had ques-tions about the proposal to put split wood fencing in that area, because he understood that in the past, that proposal didn’t resonate with people who used Transfer Beach Park, and they wanted to keep that area open.“One of the options is to continue to have an off-leash area, but one that is safe and controlled, rath-er than have it open, which has caused some issues with users,” said Clayton Postings, the Town’s director of Parks, Recreation and Culture. “No. 1 is to provide some control areas for dogs and owners and ensure some safety for users.”

Postings told council that so far, the focus of discussions with the Parks and Recreation Commis-sion and members of the public who attended the discussions was on specific locations for a pro-posed park.

Coun. Duck Paterson thought in-vesting in split wood fencing and signage would be a good idea.“I’ve learned we need some kind

of barrier to keep dogs from run-ning on the road,” he said. “And split wood fits that area better than chain link.”As well, council authorized an

increase to dog license fees of $4 per licence, effective in 2016. The additional revenue will be used for the development of a fenced dog park — for construction and sig-nage — and to offset the increase to the Parks operations budget due to the addition of new parks facilities.

Hutchins did not support the in-crease, pointing out that the Town set aside $14,000 for a dog park a few years back when the issue of a fenced dog park came up and didn’t raise the levy at that time.

Paterson told council that the three members of the public who came to the Parks and Recreation Commission for the dog park dis-cussions had no objections to the increase.“I find $4 is so incidental in the

cost of having these wonderful animals, I don’t think anyone will be barking at us,” said Coun. Carol Henderson.

With these changes, the Town’s parks usage bylaw will be changed to reflect that dogs are permitted on-leash in all parks, with the ex-ception of defined restricted areas.

Dogs are not permitted on all playgrounds, sport field playing areas and at Transfer Beach below deKoninck Way, at the amphithe-atre and on the beach front.

Dogs are permitted in control off-leash at Transfer Beach Park in the defined off-leash area above deKoninck Way, as well as Mack-ie Park, Holland Creek Trail and Gourlay-Janes Park.

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But for a sneak peek at all the fun the massive annual country music bash can bring, look no further than your Chronicle.

On April 4, SunFest is pre-senting When The Lights Go Down, a country music appe-tizer in Nanoose featuring the triple threat of Chad Brown-lee, Jess Moskaluke, and Bob-by Wills.

Tickets are worth $40 each, but you have a chance to get yours for free just by show-ing up at the Chronicle office this week before 4 p.m. Friday with a non-perishable food do-nation to the Ladysmith Food Bank. For each item you bring you get an entry into a draw for a pair of tickets.

Riding in with his recent hits Falling Over You, Crash and Just Because, Brownlee is a former top hockey prospect who dropped his stick for a guitar six years ago and has enjoyed great success on the Canadian country charts ever since.

He will be joined by Moska-luke of Cheap Wine and Ciga-rettes fame, and Wills, known for his hit Never Didn’t Love You.

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Does this look like a good spot for you? We can’t get you SunFest tickets, but we can give you the next best thing, a chance to see Chad Brownlee (below), Jess Moskaluke and Bobby Wills in an April 4 SunFest warm-up concert north of Nanaimo for free. ANDREW LEONG FILE PHOTO

Ladysmith man arrested for Chemainus crime spreeJohn McKinleyTHE CHRONICLE

Police are hopeful a one-man crime spree in Chemainus is over with the arrest of a Ladysmith man.

North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP invested more than 1,000 staff-hours into the resolution

of a series of break-ins that have plagued homes and busi-nesses in the Chemainus area since January.

The results of that legwork pointed to one location in Ladysmith and a second in Ce-dar, where police seized evi-dence tied to three Chemainus break-ins, as well as two oth-

ers that occurred elsewhere in North Cowichan.

Tyler Desmond Fong, 31, of Ladysmith, was arrested and Wednesday appeared in Dun-can provincial court where he was charged with five counts of break-and-enter and two counts of possession of stolen property.According to an RCMP media

release, Fong was already in custody when he was arrested for these crimes. He had been on parole for “numerous seri-ous property crimes and home invasion” when that parole was revoked. A Canada-wide warrant was is-

sued and he turned himself in to Victoria to serve the remainder

of his term.“Inspector Ray Carfantan, Of-ficer in Charge of the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP would like to thank the busi-ness owners and residents in the greater Chemainus area for their co-operation and patience during this investigation,” the media release states.


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Sale a threat to Merv’s dream?

Karl YuFOR THE CHRONICLE

Merv Wilkinson’s property may be up for sale, but his legacy is not.

That’s the response from the Land Conservancy of B.C. in response to widespread con-cern about the potential sale of Wildwood Farm Ecoforest to private interests.

The 31-hectare site, located in Yellow Point beside Quennell Lake, is legendary in forestry circles for the sustainable log-ging practices the late Wilkin-son cultivated there since 1938.

Wilkinson sold the property to The Land Conservancy in 2000, with the expectation it would remain in the public do-main.

But now, weighted down with about $8 million in debt, the non-profit land trust is now looking to sell.

In the wake of media atten-tion generated by the proposed sale, director of operations John Shields issued a state-ment on the TLC website last week with a commitment that its promise to Wilkinson will be upheld.“TLC’s proposed sale will protect that legacy; the sale includes a covenant and for-est management plan that outlines how the 32-hectare site will continue to be run the way Merv ran it,” the statement reads.“To ensure due diligence in this regard, TLC is having the proposed forest-management plan reviewed by independent experts in the field.“Although TLC is no longer in a position to own Wildwood, we will protect the property

for the future through a restric-tive covenant on the title. The board of directors and I will keep our promise to Merv.

Many consider Wildwood a prime example of sustainable forestry.“It’s representing what we

could’ve been doing, particu-larly in the Douglas fir eco-system zone, where there’s less than half a per cent left remaining that hasn’t been clear cut or somehow cut, but this shows an example how it could’ve been done sustain-ably,” said Bruce Hepburn, site co-ordinator for Friends of Wildwood, the non-profit organization dedicated to its preservation.

The Ecoforestry Institute Society manages Wildwood. According to spokeswoman Kathy Code, it’s an inalienable property under land conser-vancy bylaws, with restric-tions on who it can be sold to. Wilkinson wanted to keep it public for sustainability educa-tion purposes.

Code said The Land Conser-vancy doesn’t have the right to sell to private interests. “We would be happy if the property was transferred to another charity. To allow it to go into private hands, that’s

no guarantee that any arrange-ment would be held in perpetu-ity,” said Code.

She said the society offered “several hundred thousand dol-lars” to help the conservancy. John Shields, conservancy said it wasn’t an unconditional of-fer, so it wasn’t something his group could accept.

Shields couldn’t identify the potential buyer, but the person worked with Wilkinson and is interested in protecting Wild-wood.“I think as far as the objective public is concerned, they’ll un-derstand that TLC is following up on its commitment to Merv, that it has found, and is work-ing with, somebody who was part of Merv’s crew [and] im-bibed his understanding,” said Shields.

He said due diligence has been done.“We’ve seen the forest man-agement plan that is proposed for Wildwood, which is clearly going to continue Merv’s prac-tices on the site and we think any objective, experienced ecoforester would likely agree with us, that this is a good plan for Wildwood,” Shields said.

The sale would need the ap-proval of a B.C. Supreme Court judge to be finalized.

Supporters of Wildwood Ecoforest worried that may be the case, but TLC says Wilkinson’s vision will be protected

Bruce Hepburn, volunteer co-ordinator for Wildwood, is concerned about the potential sale to private interests of the acclaimed Yellow Point ecoforest created and managed for decades by the late Merv Wilkinson. KARL YU

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Restaurant boom could feed everyonefrom page 1

Thirty-eight per cent of op-erators reported increased revenues in the past quarter, while only 23 percent report-ed declines — the lowest num-ber recorded since the report began in 2011.“You look at the one that’s in our building, they invested heavily in that establishment,” Drysdale said.

That one is Stelur, which transformed the old Chroni-cle office on First Avenue into a scene out of Happy Days. Fox and Hounds invested roughly $250,000 in transform-ing an old hardware store into a version of a British-style pub.

With the Music Hall Food

Company planned for Rob-erts Street and the opening of a new eatery at Ladysmith Marina in the cards, it raises the question of too much of a good thing. Operators have faith that’s not the case.“I think there’s enough pie there for everyone,” White said. His partner, Lurene Haines, agreed, pointing to the variety available.“We were very conscious of that. We made a conscious decision not to compete with existing businesses,” she said.

Ivens feels the same way.“Everyone is different. Every-

one does what they do. We’ve been true to what we are and that’s why it works,” she said.

“You don’t want to live in a

town where there’s only one restaurant. People are going to wonder why. You can’t go out if there’s no place to go.”

The consensus seems to be be more restaurants should mean more people downtown, which should mean more potential shoppers, which should mean more potential eaters — a circle that every-one in town can feed off and appreciate.“I really do believe it’s the be-ginning of a turnaround,” Dry-sdale said.“I think Ladysmith is abso-lutely swimming with poten-tial,” Haines added. “I don’t know why anyone

wouldn’t want to open a busi-ness (here).”

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Businesses on the Ladysmith wa-terfront and elsewhere are feeling uneasy after a brazen thief stared right into a security camera this week, then stole the camera.

Security footage at Ladysmith Mo-torsports shows what appears to be a garden glove-wearing man in a dark hoodie and sunglasses pull up to the rear of the building in a light-coloured sedan at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, approach the camera sta-tioned at the loading bay, and take it.

He then circled around the front of the building in his car, and ap-peared to eyeball the camera there before deciding it was too high to reach, and left.Around the same time that same

morning, two security cameras were also stolen from the nearby Ladysmith Fishermen’s Wharf.

Sarah Asselin said Ladysmith Motorsports spent a nervous night with security on guard, before get-ting a new camera installed — in a higher location — on Wednesday.“It was very worrisome because as soon as we heard we thought they’d be coming back,” she said.

“It makes us nervous because we

have so much stuff, whether we were targeted or it just happened.”

She said the thief seemed to know what he was doing, given his timing and direct approach, while disguising his appearance and covering the plate of his car.

But the likelihood they were spe-cifically being set up for a future robbery lessened somewhat when they heard about the similar hit at the Fisherman’s Wharf, which lost two of its cameras.“It looks like a guy and a girl in a small compact white car with a sunroof. They drive up to the build-ing, guy in a hoodie and gloves gets out of the car and removes the cameras without showing his face,” wharf general manager Ken Bryski posted on Facebook. “It happened at 5:30 a.m. this morn-ing. No visible license plate.”

He later posted that after review-ing the tape, the car was not actu-ally white, but appeared to be the same as the one in the Motors-ports footage, which appeared to be grey or silver. Asselin wants the word out as

much as possible for two reasons: catching this crook, and warning the rest of the community that they could be next.“For other businesses out there,

keep your eyes peeled, and if any-one in the community knows any-thing, please let us know. We have heard of too much theft going on around town, and every bit of info helps.”

Bold thief swipes security cameras on the waterfrontLadysmith Motorsports, Fishermen’s Wharf targeted just before dawn on Tuesday

A security camera at Ladysmith Motorsports captured this image of a thief Tuesday morning, just before he swiped the camera. Ladysmith motorsports photo


The Ecoforestry Institute Society has filed affidavits with the Supreme Court of BC to protect Wildwood Forest in Yellow Point from sale to private own-ers to help satisfy debts owed by The Land Conser-vancy.

“We are acting on behalf of the hundreds of donors who so willingly gave time, effort and money to ensure that Wildwood will remain a sustainable, educational and publicly accessible working forest in perpetu-ity,” Roger Burgess, chair of EIS, said in a press re-lease.

“Selling Wildwood to pay off TLC’s debts is to ignore the wishes of former long-time owner, Merv Wilkin-son.”

TLC has filed court docu-ments of its intent to sell Wildwood to private in-terests. The money would be used to pay down the multi-million debt for which TLC is now under court protection.

EIS has managed Wild-wood Forest for the past 15 years. Sympathetic to TLC’s plight, EIS has of-fered a significant cash donation to help TLC out. TLC has deemed this in-sufficient, favouring a deal

selling to private interests. Wildwood is an inalienable property, which under TLC bylaws, prohibits the prop-erty from being transferred to anyone other than a suit-able charity.

TLC is willing to transfer other properties such as Ross Bay Villa for a frac-tion of its appraised value to its long-term managers. Despite the long-term rela-tionship between EIS and TLC, TLC is not willing to do the same for Wildwood.

Wildwood is a rare pre-serve of old- and sec-ond-growth forest with significant wildlife and non-timber values that at-tracts visitors and forestry experts from around the world.

EIS is the non-profit organization of profes-sional foresters and other experts who have man-aged Wildwood since 2000 with the blessing of Merv Wilkinson, the owner who entrusted the property to TLC that year.

EIS provides educational and professional forestry management services that respect Wilkinson’s world-renowned sustainable for-estry practices. Now, they are working to respect his wishes that Wildwood stay

out of private hands. Selling the property to

private owners is an affront to the hundreds of people who gave more than $1 million in donations and provides no guarantee that the old-growth trees would be managed sustainably or that the educational ser-vices would continue to be available to the public.

TLC says they can protect the forest with a covenant, but this does not guarantee that the charitable purpos-es will be maintained. It requires significant techni-cal experience to enforce an ecoforestry covenant, and EIS is the only organi-zation on the Island with the seasoned professionals and experience to back it up.

“We’ve managed the for-est for 15 years and will continue to do so. This is about protecting Wild-wood for future genera-tions,” said Burgess.

Patrick Canning, lawyer for EIS, added: “When the final donor paid off the mortgage in 2011, TLC de-clared Wildwood inalien-able, and said they’d pro-tect it ‘forever.’ Now they want to sell it even though they acquired it through donations. It’s my opinion

that Wildwood is a discrete purpose charitable prop-erty under the Charitable Purposes Preservation Act and TLC only holds it in trust. They just can’t sell it on the market; it must be transferred to another suitable organization, a charity, if they are unable to keep it. The Ecoforestry Institute is tailor made for this.

“Now that TLC has put the sale before the court, I have asked the court for a hearing. EIS has not di-rectly challenged the Plan of Arrangement to spare creditors, and we still hope to make a win-win deal with TLC, and create the least expense and trouble for creditors.

If there are any Wild-wood supporters out there among the creditors, now would be a great time to step up.”

EIS is committed to op-posing the sale on behalf of Wildwood’s donors and invites the public to dem-onstrate its support to save this rare old-growth forest for its intended purpose.

Kathy Code, commu-nications manager with Ecoforestry Institute So-ciety, submitted this on behalf of the society.

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Stand up for rights, freedoms and true public safety

Editor: With thousands of other Canadians across the coun-

try last weekend, I was proud to rally against Stephen Harper’s so-called anti-terror bill, Bill C-51.

In Parliament, Tom Mulcair and the entire New Demo-crat team are opposing C-51 in every way we can. We’re in good company: concern and opposition to C-51 has come from former prime ministers, former Supreme Court judges and the Assembly of First Nations. Intel-ligence experts say current counter-terrorism laws are adequate, and this bill is actually bad for security. The privacy commissioner says we should stop this bill, and Amnesty International says C-51 is the worst setback for human rights in Canada’s modern history.

Harper’s bill lets security agencies violate basic indi-vidual rights, and it defines threats to the security of Canada so loosely that it lumps together environmental activism with violent extremism.

The Conservatives must not force us to choose be-tween our freedoms and our safety. That’s a false choice — we must protect both. We are a better and freer country because our citizens have the right to speak up.

The women who fought for the right to vote made this country better. The peace activists who fought to keep us out of the Iraq war made this country better. The labour activists who fought for a minimum wage, for a weekend break, for workplace safety — they made this country better. People challenging Canada’s failed Indigenous relationships are making the country better.

They were not terrorists — and we should not sup-port a bill that considers activists a terror threat.

New Democrats agree public safety is a central re-sponsibility of government. I believe if the Conserva-tives truly embraced public safety, they’d be standing up for murdered and missing Indigenous women, for strengthened food inspections, fully prosecuting work-place safety violations, and they’d not be closing our Coast Guard stations. Conservatives are failing badly on the true public safety emergencies in our riding.

Neither will the Liberals stand up for our rights and freedoms: Justin Trudeau will vote to support Harper’s bill.

So it’s up to us! There is nothing stronger than people standing together with a united voice.

We can stop this bill with the determination of the women and men who attended rallies across the coun-try. We can stop it because Tom Mulcair is fighting in our corner — and he’s a tough fighter.

We’ve been here before — and we’ve won. Let’s stand together for true public safety, and let’s stand together against fear, intimidation, and Bill C-51.

Sheila MalcolmsonNanaimo-Ladysmith Federal NDP Candidate

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Hang on to your coupons and keep counting down your Sundays.

Ladysmith Save-On Gas should be back at your service again in about two months.

The popular gas station tucked off First Avenue at the Symonds Street roundabout tempo-rarily closed its doors March 15 to kick off a $500,000 renovation project.According to man-

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On occasion, sometimes after the sun has gone down, I have driven in Ladysmith only to real-ize the graveyard was busier in the fifties than First Avenue is to-day. Especially in the parking lot behind the cemetery.

The older people called it “sparking” in the day.

Loggers, like myself, called it something else. Whatever you called it, it resulted in many early weddings.

World War II ended in ‘45. As a result of blowing up half of Eu-rope and most of Japan into little pieces, countries found them-selves in great need of our lumber to rebuild.

Ladysmith stood surrounded by millions of hectares of merchant-able timber. It wasn’t long before existing lumber mills and the log-ging industry tripled in size and production.

Ladysmith was flooded with people from Western Europe, the Canadian Prairies and the Lower Mainland. Lots of immigrants were young, and it wasn’t uncom-mon to have teenagers between 15 and 20 years of age applying for the many job openings.

The young loggers spread out in all the available hotels. At the bot-tom of Gatacre Street, there was a boarding house where older loggers and mill workers rented rooms. Married loggers rented houses and eventually bought throughout the town.

There were six beer parlours in town, including the Legion. When you get a hundred or more men full of, let’s call them “high-octane energy drinks,” well the downtown just got a whole lot livelier!

Fastball games were greatly supported in those days, with the grandstands holding 400 or 500 people. Television had not yet cast its spell in these parts. As that number grew and televi-sion become a new pas-time, fastball fans gradu-ally diminished.

The local Odeon The-atre had two showings, 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., and it held about 350 people.

The pool hall, located above the Wigwam restaurant, was always busy. Mainly younger people loi-tered in front of the place just to

be part of the action.Another popular entertainment

was the bowling alley on High Street, which today is a Chi-nese restaurant. There were five leagues on six lanes running two shifts, week nights and weekends.

There were quite a few cars around. Still, a lot of people walked everywhere. When you combine the number of people walking up the street after a ball game, those coming out of a show or the bowling alley and the many people coming through town after a hot day at the beach, the beer parlour, the soda and coffee shops were the hot spots in town.

On Friday night starting around 8:30 p.m., we’d all park our cars on First Avenue from the Travel-lers to the Europe Hotel, sitting on hoods and leaning against fenders, holding court with each other. Then, a little after 9 p.m., with a simple nod, we’d all make our way over to the Travellers.

Drinking age was 21 then; how-ever, if you were underage but working for a living, often a blind eye was turned your way.

In the late ‘40s, an organization called Teen Town began holding dances. They supported charities and put on functions for enter-tainment. Suffice it to say these dances were strictly monitored. There was no drinking, no smok-ing, no profanity, and I can’t re-member the last rule. Perhaps it was no fun!

Many of the younger men had cars, and of course, the job situ-ation could not have been better. We all had tailor-made clothes

measured and made at the Trading Com-pany. A man named Tom

Strang measured us up with admired per-fection, tight around the ankles, wide around the knees. We had cross belt loops three inches down from the waist and penny loafers with di-amond pattern socks.

We wore cord jack-ets that came down nine inches below the belt, and always the rat tail comb tucked in your back pocket.

Often, a gold chain hung from a belt loop; on the other end, a small gold knife holstered neatly in a side pocket. (The blade was hardly long enough to clean your

fingernails.)Winter time could be a lot of fun.

In the early ‘50s, we had some really cold winters we called the continental outflow. For many winter seasons, it was like the ice age, with any precipitation becoming snow. And boy, was it ever bobsleigh time! You even built your own sleigh, some which could hold six people and had shock absorbers. One even had a steering wheel.

The city crews would grade Buller Street, as well as other hills, holding back about an inch of snow which would melt in the afternoon sun. After sun down, it became ice.

We would start at the old Eng-lish church between Third and Fourth. Wrapping your legs care-fully around the waist of the per-son in front of you, you were off. Some were thrown aside by Sec-ond Avenue. Others sliced across First Avenue and set distance re-cords by making it to the Comox log dump on the shoreline.

There was no traffic at night, and during the day, some of the older kids would stop cars if nec-essary.

One night, Vic “Cougar” Malli showed up with a pair of skis. No one had even seen skis, let alone tried strapping them on their feet.

Quite a crowd had gathered at the bottom of the hill to witness Cougar and his odd contraptions.

Quickly he was off, a dark sil-houette as he passed beneath each street light. It was noted that the distance between his skis was widening. By the time he passed Second Avenue, the width had become impossibly wide. Suddenly, he vanished into the dark night. Much to ev-eryone’s surprise, a pair of skis suddenly shot past First Avenue without Cougar at the helm.

The crowd bellowed up the hill, “Hey Cougar, are ya all right?!” We made out a few moans and groans, then, “Yeah, I’m okay; I just can’t find my skis!”

Yeah, right Cougar.We also used to skate at

Hannington’s pool, located at to-day’s Coronation Mall. We usually got two weeks of skating in win-ter. At night, we’d build a huge bonfire and skate late into the evening. We were sure Jack At-kinson was going to the NHL be-cause he could skate backwards, though not very well.

What I miss most about those earlier days were the neon lights that adorned every store, ho-tel, theatre and restaurant from Buller to Roberts streets. To-day’s streets are nowhere near

as bright as the downtown side-walks of the 1950s.

There was another major cul-tural change in the second half of the the 50s. Up until then, the big bands were the kings of music, until one day when another “king” arrived on the scene. His name was Elvis Aaron Presley.

When he first appeared on tele-vision, cameramen were instruct-ed to shoot him only above the waist. Religious groups declared he was the devil, and they sought to ban his records.

When he finally made it to the Ed Sullivan Show, where all big names appeared, my dad called Mother in from the kitchen. He said, “Ella”, pointing at the televi-sion, “what the heck is that?”

Mom didn’t know, so I snapped, “That’s the future, Dad.”

Over the years, Aggie Hall had many artists the likes of Buddy Knox, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis all grace the stage.

Dress codes soon changed with the times. Everyone wore tight blue jeans with the cuffs rolled up. The gals wore bobby socks and saddle shoes. They were all expressing their generation.

By now, television was hav-ing an effect on the downtown, and crowds were diminishing, even at the ball games and the theatre. People were starting to spread out. As people were mak-ing good money, they purchased runabouts with high-powered outboard engines, campers and trailers of all sorts.

It was “see ya later! Gone fish-ing!”Ron Delcourt will be 83 next

month and has spent his entire life in Ladysmith. Look for his take on the ‘40s in a future edition.


Remembering life on the 49th before television took over, with a man who lived the era

We all had tailor-made clothes from the Trading CompanyRon Delcourt

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Some of the young people enjoy-ing the ‘50s in Ladysmith included (top) Fern Savard and Ron Del-court; Left: Betty Ann Wicklund (Hemstad), Doreen Holmstrom (Delcourt), Thelma Spik (Schofield), and Anita (Babe) Lyttback. Courtesy ron DelCourt

The Fabulous Fifties


Big Air. As far as sports go, you are unlikely to find a better named event.Athletes hurtle off a ramp and soar

high above the ground, contorting their bodies in unlikely patterns with rare agility and grace.

It was Big Air that supplied the big moment for young Ladysmith freestyle skier Sarah Rocque this winter.

In a season disrupted by poor snow conditions, the 13-year-old Grade 8 student topped all B.C. freestyle skiers in her age group by sailing to a first-place finish in February’s Timber Tour event in Whistler.

It was the highlight of an excellent freestyle season that saw Rocque ski to top-four finishes in three different disciplines. With the season wrapping up last weekend at Silver Star, she is now awaiting word on whether she has qualified to participate in junior nationals.

Rocque has been skiing since before she turned three. If there is any place in the world she’d rather be than a ski hill, it’s soaring through the air with her skis on.“It’s awesome. I love the adrenaline,” she said. “ I don’t do anything super insane. Well, some people might think it’s insane.”

Rocque skied three disciplines this year, including the aforementioned aer-ials. The other two are moguls (where you race down a speedbump-riddled slope as quickly as possible while launching yourself off a few jumps on the way down), and slopestyle (where you perform skateboard-style tricks in a skateboard-style park, on skis).

She finished fourth at Whistler and sixth at Silver Star and Apex in mo-guls, and had a third and two fourths in slopestyle. At this point, she has yet to pick a favourite discipline.

Rocque, who attends Nanaimo Dis-trict Secondary School, practices two days a week on the slopes at Mount Washington and a few more doing dry-land work at Pacific Sport in Nanaimo and some gymnastics training. In the summer, it’s off to camps in Whistler,

including training off a water ramp.She also did a fair amount of snow

training in Whistler this year due to the lack of snow on Mount Washington.

Obviously skiing is a big commitment, not only for Rocque, but for her dad Patrick, mom Amber and sister Sabine as well. But he says it’s one they are happy to embrace because they are, and always have been, a skiing family.

Short term, her goal is to continue to improve under the tutelage of coaches Ian McFadgen, Peter Stubbs and Tan-ya Colin.

Long-term, she’s not afraid to think big.“I’d like to make the B.C. national team and maybe go to the Olympics one day.”

She expects word as early as this week on whether she has been picked to compete at nationals.

Sarah Rocque demonstrates her form in moguls. PHOTO COURTESY ROCQUE FAMILY


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The Mid-Isle Soccer Blue Rebels U13 girls’ soccer team scored big at the year-end festival tournament in Nanaimo earlier this month, winning a silver medal. The team, coached by Marc Marchand and Kathy Richmond, posted a 6-1 win over Nanaimo’s Cameroon team, fol-lowed by a 2-2 tie with Oceanside and a 5-3 win over Na-naimo’s Ghana team.

“It was a fabulous soccer weekend for all, with sunny skies and smiling faces,” says a team repre-sentative.

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Wilderness volunteers take back their forestJohn McKinleythe chronicle

It seems we have an angel of the out-doors among us.A member of the Chemainus Rod and

Gun Club, who wishes to remain anon-ymous, is being credited for organizing the clean-up of a huge pile of garbage on Mount Sicker that left people dis-gusted across Chemainus and beyond.

Three massive piles of garbage — apparently the contents of an aban-

doned or evicted rental home — were dumped at three separate rural Mount Sicker locations in mid-February by what appeared to be a commercial truck.

The incident sparked outrage, and apparently action, as an army of volun-teers was rallied to clean up the mess.

The effort wasn’t anything unusual for the club, which has spent count-less volunteer hours over the years working with the Ladysmith Sports-men’s Club to keep the Ladysmith-Che-

mainus area wilderness clean.“Wilderness will not stay wilderness if there is garbage from one end to the other,” Chemainus Rod and Gun Club president John Holmes said in a media release from North Cowichan, pointing out how children are fre-quently included in the clean-up effort to help instill the value of a pristine wilderness.

Anyone who has witnessed illegal dumping is asked to report it to the municipality at 250-746-3106.

The neat, compacted nature of this illegal dump on Mt. Sicker had residents saying it must have been from a commercial truck. File Photo

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Daughter, Sister, Friend to Many, Wife, Mother, Auntie and Grandma extraordinaire. Bobbie was shy, strong, content and Dad’s comedy sidekick and soul-mate for 55 years.

Raised in Edmonton in a loving family she became a talented singer and pianist and lover of all animals, especially horses and dogs. Bobbie and Leo migrated to BC in the early 60s. They enjoyed years of exploring, boating and RV journeys to the Arizona desert that total over 65 return trips. Mum held several jobs, including many years at Ivy Green Marina, where Dad brags she was the de facto Manager. Bobbie’s volunteerism never wavered throughout her life.

Mum loved popcorn, cold toast, reading in the sun and snapping her chewing gum. She was an avid family archivist and, now we know, a secret shoe shopper! Famous for her legs, fudge and single raised eyebrow – forever assigning comical voices to all creatures: she loved them all.

Easy going, grey-eyed and beautiful, we miss her profoundly.

No service at Mum’s very organized request. Plant a container of pansies or toast her at happy hour - she’d like that.

Leo, Dawn & Leslie

Bobbie (ROBERTA) LOUISE GARNEAU DECEMBER 20, 1938 –

MARCH 6, 2015

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IN MEMORIAM

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

In Loving Memory of my Best Friend...

~PAUL MANKELOW~April 21, 1960 -March 27, 2014

It’s been a long year since you went away. I cry for you,

or is it me? every day. It’s hard here without you.

My life’s not the same. Cancer took you too early

from this life game.I visit your parents; they’re doing OK, but they miss

their son in a terrible way.Your sisters are coping. Janet’s learning to text. I

hope she will learn how to Facebook next.

I talk to you still; I know you’re around. Thanks for

the feathers you left on the ground.

It gives me chills when I think that Sue, asked for a sign of feathers from you.

You were there for me always. I truly was blessed; Because when it comes to

good friends, you were my best.

Every word comes with tear drops. I miss you so much. Oh what I’d give for a hug

and your touch.I would give anything, noth-ing I would not do, if I could only spend a day, an hour, one more minute with you.

Over forty years I was lucky to be your best friend, and you will remain mine until

my life’s end.

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APPLIANCES

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AUCTIONS

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GARAGE SALES

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COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

COMMERCIAL SPACE avail. at Timberlands Mobile Home Park, 3581 Hallberg Rd. Suitable for restaurant or small grocery. Call 250-245-3647.

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TIMBERLAND MOBILE Home Park; 2 mobile home lots for rent at $450/mo; 1 on Family side and 1 Seniors. Call (250)245-3647.

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LADYSMITH: 1BDRM suite. W/D. Heat & hydro. Private driveway. $650/mo. Avail. Im-mediately. Call 250-722-3307

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performances 20. Siddhartha author

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author 27. From a distance 29. Cronies 31. Forty 32. Printing speed

measurement 33. Nutty spread 40. White seedless grape 41. Hillsides 43. Infl ammation of a

bursa 44. Artery 45. Nail polish brand 46. A routine that is hard

to escape 47. Indigo plant 48. Owners 50. Animal fl uids 51. Mustelid in its white

winter coat 52. Communist CLUES DOWN 1. Come into confl ict 2. A collection of things

wrapped together 3. Bath spatter 4. Gunsmoke actress

Blake 5. Direct to a source 6. Cartoonist Capp 7. Somewhat blue 8. 40 weekday periods 9. El Dorado High

School (abbr.) 11. Heartbeat 12. Brit. rutabaga 17. Angle (abbr.) 18. Said as a greeting

or wish 19. Festivals 23. Rita ___, singer 24. Belonging to us 27. Skating jumps 28. Building at 175 5th

Ave. 29. Parts per billion

(abbr.) 30. Atomic mass unit 32. Old Spanish

currency (abbr.) 33. Insistence on

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quality 42. Tossed, potato or

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What’s Happening

OnGoing

NANAIMO-CEDAR FARMER’S INSTITUTE - Cedar United Church Hall. 2nd Thursdays Oct. to June. Visitors welcome. Info: 250-722-3397.

PROBUS CLUB OF LADYSMITH - (for information see www.probus.org), meets every third Wed morning of the month at the new Seniors' Centre Hall, 2nd Ave. and Buller St. Doors 9.30. Call Rob Johnson 250-245-5001 or Grant Bridgeman 250-246-1496.

LADYSMITH MEDITATION - Drop in Wed nights, 7 pm, 281 Dogwood Drive. Meditation lessons, discussion & goodies. Free. 250-245-4102. [email protected]

LADYSMITH HEALTHCARE AUXILIARY GIFT SHOP - is in need of volunteer clerks for our shop at the Healthcare Centre. We are also looking for knitters to contribute to our shops. For more information please call Cathy @ 250-245-2240.

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY? - Kiwi Cove Community Garden is looking for volunteers to grow organic produce for the Ladysmith Food Bank. Please contact Bill Tilland 250-924-5269.

KINSMEN/TRANSFER BEACH PLAYGROUND PROJECT HAS SET UP A FUNDRAISING ACCOUNT - at the Junction Bottle Depot, on Ludlow Rd. in Ladysmith. Take your empties to the bottle depot, funds credited to the Kin. Park Playground account.

NANAIMO/LADYSMITH COMMUNITY BAND - Wednesdays, 6:30 pm, NDSS Band Room. New members welcome in concert and/or dance band. Ted: 250-722-3088. LADYSMITH HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY - New volunteers are welcome. Please pick up application form at the Thrift Store or phone 250-245-5225.

LADYSMITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS - Parent/caregiver

Email items for publica-tion to [email protected] with the subject line contain-ing "What's Happening".This is a free service for non-profit groups that runs as space allows. Please keep length to 25 words or less.

Up Coming

LADYSMITH CAMERA CLUB - “How to Photograph Smoke” with tips and demonstrations by Sean Sherstone and Brad Grigor, both of the Island LEAP photography group. Tues, March 24, 7 pm, Hardwick Hall, High St at 3rd Ave, Ladysmith. Everyone welcome. Non-members $5 drop-in fee. LCC invites new members, novice to pro. www.LadysmithCameraClub.com

LADYSMITH KINSMEN - present a fundraiser for the new Transfer Beach Playground! Alf Carter, long-time local entertainer and his band! Sat, May 2 at the Aggie Hall. Special horn section. Roast beef dinner, refreshments, prizes and YOU help support the new playground. A very fun evening of good food and entertainment. Tickets available at 49th Grocery and Ladysmith Chamber of Commerce or call 250-245-2263 and we'll deliver. $30 each and huge fun!

ST. MARY'S FASHION SHOW- by Nancy's and Top Drawer. 1135 4th Avenue, St. Mary's Hall. March 24, doors 7 pm, show 7:30, Tickets $10 at Nancy's and Top Drawer.

CHEMAINUS SKETCH GROUP - Wed, April 8th, 9:30 am. We are so much more! Join us as we welcome our guest artist, Carolyn McDonald at the Fuller Lake Arena.

CHEMAINUS GARDEN CLUB MEETING - Tues, April 7, 1 pm, Calvary Baptist Church, 3319 River Rd, Chemainus. Guest speaker - Terri Perrin from the “Fine Art of Intention” Feng Shui, who will discuss how Feng Shui applies to our gardens, to choosing plants, and to the energy of our outdoor spaces! Guests welcome. Brag table, $2 drop-in fee, door prize. Come see what we are all about! For more info 250-246-1207.

LADYSMITH CAMERA CLUB - “Forensic Photography” with Constable Dave Giles

of the Nanaimo Forensic Identification Section of the RCMP. Tues, April 28, 7 pm, Hardwick Hall, High St at 3rd Ave, Ladysmith. Everyone welcome. Non-members $5 drop-in fee. LCC invites new members, novice to pro. www.LadysmithCameraClub.com

& children age 0-6 drop-in, Sept to June: Mon - Fri 9:30 am. - noon at Aggie Hall. July to August: Tues to Thurs: 9:30 am - noon. Info: 250-210-0870.

LADYSMITH EAGLES AERIE #2101Meets every 1st & 3rd Wednesday. 7:30 pm Auxiliary meets 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 7:30 pm Eagles Hall.

CHEMAINUS THEATRE COSTUME SHOP - Needs volunteer seamstresses to help build for upcoming shows. Contact Crystal Hanson 250-246-9800 ext. 7117.

SPEEDWATCH/COPS - Citizens on Patrol & SpeedWatch need volunteers. Contact the Community Policing Station at Coronation Mall. 250-245-1118.

HEALING PATHWAY - All are welcome at Ladysmith First United Church ( 232 High St) for Christian meditation and prayerful healing - 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from 6-8 pm. For details call the Church Office 245-2183.

LADIES GOLF - Ladysmith Golf Course, Tuesdays, 10 am. Call 250-245-7313.

TOPS MEETING - Thurs. nights, 4:45 pm weigh-in, Ladysmith Hospital. Call Sandy 250-245-2983.

CHEMAINUS TOPS - Weekly Wednesdays at 5 pm, boardroom of Chemainus Health Care Centre, for information [email protected].

THE ORCAS SWIM CLUB - Ongoing registration. Call Registrar Denise Rae at 250-245-7925.

MOUNT BRENTON POWER & SAIL SQUADRON - Membership meeting. Ladysmith Legion hall. Every 3rd Tues except holidays & July & August, 7:30 pm.

LADYSMITH ARCHIVES - Volunteers required, computer skills an asset, ph. 250-245-0100, 9-2 Mon to Thurs.

LRCA FRIENDLY VISITOR/PHONING TREE PROGRAMS - Now taking new volunteer signups for an upcoming training session. Improve quality of life for shut-in or isolated seniors byscheduled weekly contact. Call Barb at 245-3079.

LODGE ON 4TH FAMILY COUNCIL - Family & friends advocating on behalf of the residents. Next meeting Sept. 18th @ 7p.m. - Contact Judy at 250-245-3438 for location.


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Driveway’s Alexandra Straub will pilot an all-electric Nis-san LEAF in the annual AJAC Eco-Run next week.The all-electric sedan, which is also the prize car provided by the Scrap-It program for our Plug-In to Win contest, will glide silently from the Vancouver International Auto Show in downtown Vancouver next Wednesday. The route, devised by the Automobile Journalists Asso-ciation of Canada, will then take the participating 19 eco-friendly vehicles to Victo-ria via the Nanaimo ferry. On Thursday, the vehicles will be put through their paces on a handling course in Langford to see how versatile they are. The EcoRun concludes that evening in Vancouver.In addition to pure elec-tric vehicles, the Eco-Run

includes plug-in and conventional hybrids, as well as vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells, diesel-fu-elled powertrains and highly efficient gasoline options. There’s no limit to the size of vehicle showcased, as they range from subcompacts to pickup trucks. The participants include the 2015 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell, 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel, 2015 Kia Soul EV, 2015 Ford Focus 1.0-litre, 2015 Acura RLX Sport Hybrid and the 2015 Chevy Volt.The purpose of the event is to inform consumers of these alternative options. These new vehicles are driven in real-world road conditions in order to fully test for fuel efficiency and the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.

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Write to Keith at [email protected]

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Scrap your old gas-guzzler; it’s auto showtimeBritish Columbia’s SCRAP-IT Program has announced a new incentive program aimed at removing high polluting vehicles from our roads, on the eve of this year’s Vancouver International Auto Show. The new incentive allows purchasers of a qualifying new electric vehicle, who scrap their 2000 or older vehicle, to receive a $3,000 rebate. This program is separate from the BC Government’s eco-car incentive scheme, the details of which will be announced at next week’s show. “This is a fantastic program whose ultimate goal is to remove older high polluting vehicles from our roads,” said SCRAP-IT Program CEO Dennis Rogoza. “Vehicles model 2000 or older emit up to 60 times more emissions than later models and electric vehicles have even much lower emissions.”Qualifying electric vehicles are listed on the SCRAP-IT.ca website. As part of this program’s launch, SCRAP-IT has supplied a contest prize car in the shape of a new all-electric Nissan LEAF (see Plug-in to Win contest details right). The LEAF will be on display at the SCRAP-IT auto show booth in the Vancouver Convention Centre West (March 24-29). While eco-cars aren’t the central theme this

year, new executive show director Jason Heard wittily promises“an electrifying show experience with lots of greenery on show!”“You won’t need to go too far to see green… the Green Ride and Drive is at the only entrance

at Thurlow. You can try out one of 14 green vehicles from hybrids to pure electrics and see what makes them tick.” Inside a wide array of green vehicles are parked on Electric Avenue. But there’s lots more to feast your eyes upon this year.“Anyone can add space to a show but we feel we have filled it with new content to deliver a much more rounded experience. The show is about new cars but it has to entertain, be exciting and make you wanting more year after year.”The Super Cars and Exotics are back. On opening night, there will be super cars valued at $15 million on the plaza. Every kid will want to eyeball the 100 per cent electric Big Foot Monster Truck. There are also some sharp looking concepts, such as the Cadillac Elmiraj (pictured above).

This year’s showstopper could well be a 1963 Lincoln Convertible, supplied by Abbotsford’s 360 Fabrication, which is now applying the fi-nal touches to the $1 million dollar restoration (pictured above).Heard is excited about a new display called

Car Culture, which focuses on the vehicles and the lifestyles that drive

them. Feature vehicles are displayed in themed settings, featuring acces-sories and backdrops.Classic Alley offers a stroll back through time while Hollywood

North pays tribute to the cars we see on movie sets around town. Just a sample

of what’s up at the show. The rest of our Drive-way crew (drivewaybc.ca) looks new cars on display at [email protected]

Show Dates: March 24-29, 2015Location: Vancouver Convention Centre WestShow Hours & Pricing: Tuesday, March 24, 5 pm - 10 pm, admission $20*; Wednesday through Friday, Noon - 10 pm, admission $15*; Saturday, 10 am - 10 pm, admission $17*; Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm, admission $17**Discounts for seniors (65+), students with valid ID, children ages seven -12 (except Tuesday), multi-day passes, and family packs. For more information and to purchase tickets: www.VancouverInternationalAutoShow.com.

Visit the Auto Show gallery at DrivewayCanada.ca

2015 Nissan Leaf

‘63 Lincoln convertible by 360 Fabrication

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Electric Bigfoot monster truck

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Lena Birtwistle

Friday, March 187:00pm

49th’s Handcrafted Dinner SausagesWhen it comes to making great sausages there are no shortcuts.We use no fillers, no preservatives; no gluten or M.S.G. and we make and mix all the sausage varieties in store, by hand. We start with our very own fresh beef, pork or chicken; then we add in our own unique blend of the finest herbs and spices*. From there we stuff the mixed sausage meat into natural casings** and finally link, wrap and place them in the counter for you to take home and cook to juicy perfection.

This may be the old-fashioned way of doing things but we think our dedication to making hand crafted, small batch sausages comes through in the taste.

*More information, such as ingredients and nutritional content may be found at your local 49th meat department.

**Natural casing is used in all Dinner sausage. Collagen casing is used in all breakfast sausage to ensure uniformity.

11.00 kg 49949th Own

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Ladysmith Chronicle, March 24, 2015

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