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John Beaton’s: “Turning Back” • 17

“Born Out of This” - A book review • 7

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The Pacific herring are here, and it’s the sexiest time of the year along the east coast of Vancouver Island. Even the Gulls think so! Here they await the arrival of thousands of the ‘silver bullets’ as massive schools make their way up and down the coast of the Salish Sea to spawn in our local waters. When the spawning is over, the adult herring return to their summer feeding areas. Marvel at the event, but take care not to disturb our wildlife while they’re here.

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• Herring can live to the ripe old age of 19.

• East Vancouver Island is the largest spawn area on the west coast. Apparently the herring love it here as much as we do!

• During the annual spawn, herring stop eating ... for up to two weeks!

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• As an important courtesy to our wildlife ... please keep dogs off our local beaches until the herring spawn is over, and the Brant Geese have left the area.

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“Her mother’s spirit is her guide,” Victoria poet Eve

Joseph writes in her endorsement of Christine Lowther’s Born Out of This. Lowther lives gratefully and consciously in Clayoquot Sound and weaves her own words with her late mother Pat Lowther’s poetry in this collection of personal essays.

Part I of the memoir is “Floating Season,” about the author’s love for her own special place on the planet where Lowther, a “lifelong activist” has lived since 1992.

In the first short essay, “The Spawning Grounds,” Lowther describes chum salmon unable to travel up a creek, many of them dead. It is a dramatic foreshadowing in terms of climate change and due to the story she shares in the next essay.

In the early seventies living in Vancouver, Lowther was used to going to Mayne Island with her parents, Pat and Roy, and her sister Beth. On one occasion, her mother wasn’t with them, and the “island ached with our mother’s unexplained absence.” Later, Christine and Beth were told their mother was dead.

Filmmaker Anne Henderson, when making “Water Marks” about Pat Lowther, had Christine and Beth retrace their childhood steps including on

Mayne Island. Christine was fascinated “with uncovering secrets of our past, keenly consumed with learning about my origins.” (The film was made in

2002.).

Pat Lowther’s body was found in Furry Creek on October 13, 1975 and Roy Lowther was charged with her murder on October 31, 1975. He died in prison ten years later.

Christine didn’t want to go to Furry Creek for the purposes of the film but reflects, in her essay, on her mother’s “Notes from Furry Creek” published first in 1977 and more recently included in The Collected Works of Pat Lowther edited by Christine Wisenthal. Christine Lowther acknowledges much of what she learned about her

own family is from Wisenthal’s books about her mother.

Lowther is certain her mother would have loved the wetter, chillier, coniferous forests and abrasive nature of Vancouver Island’s west coast. That’s where Christine lives in a floathouse, a cabin that floats “upon the sea” off Meares Island, in the traditional territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation.

Part II, “Asphalt Season,” is about Lowther’s earlier days in foster homes, attending punk rock concerts in her steel-toed combat boots, and travelling to Europe.

“Merge,” Part III of the collection, includes “A Beautiful Imposition,” where she muses, humorously, on the town of Tofino where she lives in the winter and about the healing nature of poetry.

Poetry helped to heal Lowther’s youth and “nature was the conveyor of the poetry. Together, nature and poem writing conspired to heal me, like an art therapy. Living in a wild place – where every leaf is its own poem – brings process and poetry together.”

As readers we can inspired by the courage with which Christine Lowther has “blundered [her] way out of despair” by seizing the words of her mother, her own and many others “and by pondering the ineffable stars.”

Christine Lowther is one of the featured poets at the Cascadia Poetry Festival in Nanaimo, April 30 to May 3, 2015. www.cascadiapoetryfestival.org.

Mary Ann Moore is a poet, writer and writing mentor based in Nanaimo. Her book of poetry, “Fishing for Mermaids”, was published by Leaf Press in 2014. www.maryannmoore.ca

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) A playful, creative time awaits you because this month is one of the most fun months of the year for you. Get out and have a good time! Accept invitations to party and attend sports events. You want a chance to express yourself and be free to be who you really are. Relations with children will be important. This is also a strong highlight on romance and love affairs. Some of you might have a work-related love affair. Meanwhile, all is not just fun and games because you will work hard at your job due to the fact that you take pride in what you’re doing right now.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) This month is jam-packed with short trips, conversations with everyone, busy, daily errands, as well as increased reading, writing and study. Oy! You are ambitious about what you want to accomplish in your external world, your daily world, and even at home. In the midst of this busy pace, you might also redecorate or renovate where you live. Family conflicts, as well as loving family get-togethers, are both in the picture. It was ever thus. George Burns was right. “Happiness is a large, loving, close-knit family in another city.”

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Although you are focused on earnings, money, cash flow, assets and possessions, now more than any other time in the year, is the time to ask yourself if the things you own serve your needs. In other words, do you own your stuff or does it own you? Are you a slave to your possessions? What you need to do now is gain a better control over your life through what you own. Meanwhile, Mars makes you direct and forthright, while Venus, softens all your communications and helps you earn money. Ka-ching!

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) The Sun has returned to your sign for the first time in 11 months giving you an opportunity to recharge your batteries for the coming year. It attracts favourable circumstances and important people to you. Because the Sun is your source of energy, you will project yourself more forcefully than usual, and make a great impression on others. It also makes you want to talk to others and get your ideas out. Meanwhile, you’re working hard to earn money, and spend it!

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Two times I got frozen in my rear-view mirror - looking forward. Once hooked by the prospects

of happiness (youth and straight teeth), and once doubly hooked when the happiness didn’t appear to be panning out.

Back in the 50s and 60s, with no seat belt laws, you could squeeze as many kids in the backseat of a car as you wanted. So we sat on laps, lots of laps. On one outing, there were seven of us very “new” teenagers in the back seat. I was positioned on a lap in such a way that I could see into the rear-view mirror of the car, but all I could see was one mouth. It was a girl’s mouth. Nice smile, I noticed. Nice teeth. And she looks happy. I was fascinated by that mouth. The smile moved, laughed, opened, closed, and smiled again. Oh my, I realized at last. I have control over that mouth. That mouth is mine! I think I might have felt flattered if I hadn’t felt so stupid. Fortunately, my mouth had not spoken a word. Saved by silence.

Fast forward two decades. I was in my mid-30’s, with two kids, a dusty drafty old house, a paralyzed mother, no career… and I was stuck at a big-city traffic light. Actually, I was stuck at eight unsynchronized traffic lights in an overgrown shopping district. I was certain I was stuck for life.

That’s when I saw it. While adjusting the rear-view mirror, I noticed around my eyes the undeniable beginning of wrinkles. It was the opposite of the teenage euphoria of “I’m IN!” It was the mid-30’s revelation of “I’m on my way OUT.”

I’m quite at peace with grey hair and wrinkles now, as the aging process kindly bestows occasional wisdom. But at that moment? I was part of a generation that never took photos because we figured we would always be young. Surprise!

But it wasn’t the wrinkles that stopped time for me that day at the eight traffic lights. It was the thought that followed: “I’d be a whole lot happier if I didn’t think I was supposed to be happy.” That thought pushed the reset button and reordered my priorities.

The Dalai Lama has the most sincere smile of any public figure in the world, and he smiles while standing on the firm foundation of the teaching that “life is suffering.” When I was 35, residing briefly in my rear-view mirror, I didn’t yet have the comfort of knowing I was in good company. (And I also didn’t know that the Dalai Lama had an escape plan, but that’s not the topic today. Or maybe that’s always the topic….)

Like many of you, I was born post WWII, in the land and time of opportunity and prosperity, in the advertising capital of the cosmos. Upon

entry, we were handed a mandatory belief system. “We had it hard. You have it easy. You have no excuse. You’re supposed to be happy.” There was also a footnote, “And if you’re not happy, buy this.”

I didn’t buy that. You see, I had a grandmother…

My Grandmother Louise was born around 1886, with a difficult childhood, two World Wars and the Great Depression ahead of her. She was close to 70 when she moved in with us, against her will, when necessity called. I was 7. Rest assured, if my grandmother drove a car, and if she had happened to catch a glimpse of the first wrinkles on her face, it would not have led to the realization, “I would be happier if I didn’t think I was suppose to be happy.” I don’t think such nonsense ever entered her mind.

There was one hymn in particular that I liked to play on the piano as a child. It was the last one in the Lutheran hymnal (easy to find) and was in the key of C (easy to play.) If truth be told, I think my grandmother wrote it. Here are some of the words: “I’m but a stranger here… Earth is a desert drear… Danger and sorrow stand, round me on every hand..”

“Earth was a desert drear”, and she knew it. How did we know that she knew it? Because she talked out loud

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to herself. We were privy to her private conversations. My brother and I laughed because our grandmother talked to herself - but ha! Little did we know. Everybody does.

As silent ranting is something we can do anywhere without drawing attention, it has become a global favorite. When I was stuck in the eight traffic light traffic jam, everyone was stuck; everyone had his engine running, and everyone had a rant running. It’s what humans do.

The difference was that my grandmother gave the inner rant an outer voice. She could have written soliloquies for Shakespeare. Her rants were dramatic, sliding from low mumblings to heartily dramatized crescendos. I learned from a master.

In her defense, my grandmother had a certain wisdom that allowed her to rant, and then calmly darn socks, make bone ball soup, and soak yeast in potato water to make coffee cake. There was probably less conflict in her mind than in mine during my traffic light rearview mirror experience. She did what she had to do. And she taught me other things as well – to hang out clothes and cook from scratch, and to eat cereal before bed instead of drink, and play cards (or Sudoku) to pause the rants.

All rants aren’t bad! Inner discourse is a marvelous gift, and can be the medium of solving problems, creativity and discourse. It’s the ranting reruns that can ruin a life, like getting stuck forever in a small town movie theater during a B-rated movie matinee. It’s better for us if the reruns aren’t running us.

Rants are just one of the many things we humans do when we get hooked – when someone pushes our buttons, a situation gets out of control, etc.

Most of the harm doesn’t come from what hooks us but from our reaction. We have predictable options: we shout, we pout, we walk away; we lash out, break down, cry, distract ourselves, overwork or dull down the pain; we withdraw, shut down all systems, or like

my grandmother, we lose ourselves in inner dialog.

Anyway, I moved out of the mirror and on with my life. My two rearview mirror experiences did bring about a sudden jolt of self-awareness, but we can’t plan surprises. We can, however, set the stage for them.

Sometimes it is good to let the rants run. The only long-term escape is self-awareness. We release a rant’s hold on us when we consciously watch it without getting hooked by it, and let it run its course under the gentle eye of acceptance and forgiveness. When we’re awake, we can gather information and insights.

Here are other tips.

For ranting because we’re angry, a young man from Jamaica says he was told to go bury his hands in the earth. When you’re on a roll and way too proud, a native tribe says go tell a giant tree how great you are.

Replace the rant with song, out loud or silently. Not all “earworms” are bad. Attend an Every Voice choir in our community, or Dances of Universal Peace. A local choir director says, “I find I have more songs going on in my head now and far fewer negative reruns.”

I’d like to end with a story that got stuck in my mind, a personal story told by a woman who lost her eyesight as an adult. While addressing a crowd, she told us that when she lost her eyesight,

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she fell into a miserable state of self-pity. In total despair, she said she had to do something. So she tried out a new philosophy: When stuck – just do something!

So she pulled herself out of bed and went to the sink to wash the dishes. When her husband came in, he started to laugh. “Why are you laughing?” she asked. “Because you’re washing the dishes with maple syrup.” She laughed as well, for the first time in ages. She decided to stick to her new life strategy. Don’t stay stuck – do something - and then follow the thread that presents itself.

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I hope this finds you well. This update is short as I have been away and there is not much to report.

OUR COMMUNITY

One of our Area H residents went missing in early February. The individual’s family initiated the search through the Oceanside RCMP Detachment and the Deep Bay Fire Department quickly became the search headquarters. Friends and family, people from across Area H and beyond, and the members of Marine Search and Rescue quickly volunteered and over a three-day period saturated the area with searchers. The Arrowsmith Search And Rescue Unit also joined for several hours on day two but pulled out of the search believing they had ruled out all possibilities.

With the full support and leadership of the Deep Bay Fire Department, the individual’s brother (a RCMP officer from Richmond) and two very close friends (one a member of the Calgary Fire Department, the other a member of a lower mainland search and rescue

unit) led the day three search. This leadership helped focus the search and the individual was found and is now safe. The Oceanside RCMP support was valuable and appreciated.

The efforts of the community volunteers, on day three, directly resulted in this positive outcome. The family is tremendously grateful. The volunteers and the Deep Bay Fire Department have a great deal to be very proud of. This spirit of local volunteerism demonstrates we live in a caring and very strong community.

Social media was used to reach out to as many people as possible. People from across Canada, the USA, Europe, Haiti and Australia responded with help, words of encouragement and prayer. I know of one simple Facebook post that reached 13,000 people in 24 hours, there were many more posts. I am told that an individual recognized the vehicle from Facebook, called it in, and this sighting enabled the remaining volunteers on day three to focus their efforts on a specific area where the individual was found.

Finally, the media response was overwhelming and appreciated by everyone involved. I know I am missing a few, but many thanks to:

• The PQB News, that elected to hold a space open on the next planned edition, if it was needed. They also immediately posted to Facebook.

• CHEK News, who got this on the television news ASAP and continued to report.

• EyesOnBC Magazine, that posted Facebook updates throughout the search and rescue process.

BUDGET

While we are still in the process of finalizing the 2015 budget, at this point, it would seem that Area H will see an approximate 4% increase. Note that, due to publishing timings, I can’t be sure of this. Most of this increase is attributable to:

• The levy to support the Island Corridor Foundation – (passenger railway)

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR

BILL VEENHOF Regional Director, Area H billveenhof.com - ph: 778-424-2810 [email protected]

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2015 Annual General MeetingMarch 5th • 5:30pm Reception • 6:30pm Dinner

at the Arrowsmith Golf & Country Club

RSVP: [email protected] or Betsy (250) 757-8442

2015 LCBA Member TradeshowApril 12TH • at the Qualicum Bay Lions’ Den

(held during the monthly Pancake Breakfast)


BY Gerri Hemphill & Linda Attley

ECHO Players upcoming production and 2015 Festival North Island Zone entry is a rich, funny, bittersweet story about the efforts of an editor and staff of a failing English county newspaper to regenerate their readership. The plot involves bringing a very sweet elderly farm couple, about to celebrate their 80th wedding anniversary, to a post London hotel, treat them to a wonderful dining experience, have them meet celebrities while the staff write up glowing reports accompanied by endearing photos of this event – all guaranteed to increase sales and popularity of the tiny paper. Unfortunately, as the special weekend begins, plans slowly disintegrate: the reporter assigned to cover the event is fired for scandalous activities; his replacement is being wed the morning the old folks are to arrive and the new bride is not happy with the thought of sharing her honeymoon with two centenarians (who aren’t talking to one another anyway) and a fiasco seems inevitable. What to do? What to do?

With a large cast of eleven it promises to be a very entertaining show. The cast includes Scott Murray, Alycia Matthews,

Judy Christopherson, James Matthews, Paul Churchill, Gerry Fraser, Janet Dol, KIim Bellwood, Maureen O’Hearn and Aileen Fabris.

This show runs from April 9th to April 26th. Tickets are available at the Village Theatre Box Office (110 West 2nd Avenue) and 250-752-3522 starting March 24th from 10.00am to 3.00pm Tuesday through Saturday. $19.00 for adults and $16.00 for seniors 65 and over.

ECHOTHEATREPRESENTS:

THE FULL TREATMENTA Fun-filled Comedy

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John Beaton lives in Qualicum Beach. His poetry has been widely published. He served for four years as moderator of one of the Internet’s most reputable poetry workshops and is a Spoken Word performer, a member of the band Celtic Chaos, and a co-organizer of local events, including a community showcase for musicians and Spoken Word performers, the Qualicum Acoustic Café (QUAC). You can find samples of John’s work by searching online for “John Beaton poetry”. To receive a monthly newsletter about local community events organized by John and his family and friends, email him at [email protected]. ~

About this Poem

The road’s a cul-de-sac that curves to swoopalong the sickle spit to the estuary;today that arc encompasses a groupof stone-still shapes, a heron statuary.An aged couple views this sanctuary;he points across the wetland—her eyes follow.She marks the birds and smiles. Her cheeks are hollow.

A crack! A gull has dropped a butter-clamupon the road. It bounces—clackity clack—beside them, then the gull descends to cramit back into its beak and flaps to packit skywards once again, then drop it: smack! No higher than before, the gull repeatsthese drops, not having learned from its defeats.

Approaching the pavement’s end, they hesitate,uncertain whether to venture to the beach—are they too frail? As they deliberatetheir shrinking bounds, the gull emits a screechof failure, then the sea seems out of reach.They turn towards the graven herons once more,crestfallen that they haven’t walked the shore.

The sky is blue. The snowy mountains shineby white-capped straits. The bay is halcyon.Along the beach, straw-colored eggs definethe tide-line, surfeit of the herring-spawn.And, carpeting the sea, the birds go on and on. A flock of sunlit gulls unrollsacross the sky like fleeing herring shoals.

The fishing boats are congregating here,readying their seine-nets and their skiffs,practicing maneuvers with their gear;the glaucous gulls are raucous in their tiffsand far-off cliff-lines echo back the riffsof seal-packs slapping suicidal tails,a drumbeat, summoning the killer-whales.

A squeal! It differs from the sound of seals—the couple stops, aware of something odd,as, overhead, an eagle glides and wheels,then plummets from the heavens like a god...There’s broken shell upon the roadside sod—before it died, the gull had breached its boundsand dined. They turn towards the spawning-grounds. ~

TURNING BACK

For most of the twenty-five years I’ve lived in Qualicum Beach, I’ve jogged along the shoreline to the Little Qualicum estuary and watched the natural dramas of

each season unfold, including eagles killing gulls in flight. At this time of year the Herring spawn attracts the entire food-chain from Herring egg to transient Orca. That’s the setting for this poem. It’s about an older couple who, feeling fragile with age, are reluctant to venture onto the uneven shore-ground. ~

This poem was first published in the 2012 Summer edition of the literary magazine, Able Muse. The thought behind it is that death comes anyway and, even with some risk, it’s better to live life to the full than be over-cautious.

The stanza form is “rhyme royal”, which goes back to some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Each stanza has seven five-beat lines with an ababbcc rhyme-scheme. The beats are mainly embedded in two-syllable units (“iambic meter”), with some variations to avoid the “plodding” effect that can happen when this meter is too uniform. The beats in the first line are:

The ROAD’S a CUL-de-SAC that CURVES to SWOOP

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by John Beaton


• An increase of $20,000 annually to support the Lighthouse Community Centre. This was part of my re-election platform and I felt there was near universal support for this.

• An increase of $5,000 to support Marine Search and Rescue in Area H. This was approved by an Area H referendum in the last election.

LIVING WITH ANIMALS

A few weeks ago, someone hit and killed a deer in front of my house. They left it lying in the road and two dog walkers had to deal with it, (I wasn’t home). Many thanks to the dog walkers. After a call to EMCON, it was quickly cleaned up.

More recently, someone hit and badly injured a young deer, transported it, and then left it to suffer and die in someone’s ditch. Once discovered, Conservation Officers were called and, while they responded quickly, the deer had died by the time they arrived.

A few lessons:

If you kill or injure a deer, please deal with it yourself and do not make it someone else’s problem.

Please do not feed deer. This only creates localized high population densities that then become at risk of being hit.

If you have a dead deer that is in the MoTI right of way, call EMCON at 1 (866) 353-3136.

If there is a seriously injured deer call a BC Conservation Officer at 1-877-952-7277.

RDN GRANTS

The RDN has three programs that offer grants to local community organizations and has several grants for individual homeowners. The first intakes for applications usually happens in the Spring and this email is sent to let you know what they are and to encourage you to apply.

I have found a local resident (with great credentials) who may be interested in helping you to write these applications.

If she is interested, I will advise you of her contact details.

If you think you might meet the conditions of any of these grant, I recommend a quick search of the “A – Z” portion of the RDN web site to get more details.

RECREATION GRANTS

Purpose: To provide funds on a District-wide basis to organizations requesting financial assistance to offer recreation

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communities since 1998. We believe in providing

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programs, special events or projects, which would benefit specific communities or the District as a whole; either youth specific (11-18 years) or to other populations.

GRANTS-IN-AID

Purpose: Non-profit organizations are eligible to apply for grants-in-aid to help fund programs, activities or events that enhance the wellbeing of our community and benefit the residents.

NORTHERN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC GRANTS

Purpose: The Northern Community Economic Development program provides support for economic development initiatives in the City of Parksville, the Town of Qualicum Beach and Electoral Areas ‘E’, ‘F’, ‘G’, and ‘H’. The Program allows the RDN Board of Directors to contribute to eligible projects that advance the Board’s vision for a resilient, thriving and creative local economy.

INDIVIDUAL HOME OWNER GRANTS

There are several grants available to support individual homeowners. You may be eligible for funding to help make your property more environmentally friendly by reducing water and/or energy usage. The RDN offers rebates through the Green Building Incentive Program and the Drinking Water and Watershed Protection Program.

The full scope grants has yet to be determined for 2015 and thus the web sites will be updated in the coming months. ~

LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTREAvailable for RentalsCall 778-424-9900


ISLAND GOSPEL CENTRE“A house of LIGHT in Lighthouse Country”

Sundays - 10AM Worship

90 McColl Road, Bowser, BC (250) 757-8253

WILDWOOD COMMUNITYCHURCH

113 McColl Road, BowserSunday Morning Worship 10:30 am

757-8136

NELSON'S MUSIC STUDIOPiano/Theory Lessons

Parksville/Qualicum AreaBeginners to Advanced

Your Home or OursJohn/Margaret250-954-5895

SERVICES

FIRST RATE MASONARY – Over 15 years experience providing first-rate, creative workmanship within budget and on time! Old brick restoration. All stone and tile work. Fireplace facing. Retaining walls and pavers. Chimney construction, cleaning and repairs. FMI Call Jason Buxton (250) 802-5515.

THE FIX-IT SHOP – Repairs to all makes and models of lawnmowers and ride on lawn tractors, including John Deere. Pick-up and delivery available. Used equipment for sale. Call (250) 702-2191 or email [email protected]

DON’S HOME REPAIR – Plumbing repairs and installations, complete renovations, no job too small. Call Don at (250) 757-8757 or cell (250) 951-8757.

ED’S PAINTING! Experienced professional painter for your home, office and more. Contact Ed at 250-752-0119 for a quote.

Parksville / Qualicum / Bowser - PICK-UP, TUNE-UP AND CLEAN-UP FOR SMALL ENGINE POWERED EQUIPMENT. Riding mowers, garden tractors, etc. Call Ron at (250) 937-0044 or email [email protected]

DOG WALKING & PET SITTING - Union Bay to Bowser, upon availability. References. BORN TO WALK Supportive Canine Care. Certified & Insured [email protected] 250-335-2698

FOOTCARE – HYGIENE Soaking feet, cutting nails, filing calluses, treating dry skin – fingernails, too. Reflexology - one-hour sessions. Services offered from Nanoose to Courtenay. Please call Vikki at (250) 757-9244.

FIREWOOD If you have trees that are dead or dying or need to be cut down. If you use wood to heat your home and cannot do the heavy work. Please call me and there could be a benefit both to you and me. Leave a message for Albert 250-240-3274

LEARNING/CLASSES

HEALTHYLIVING

KOMBUCHA - Make Your Own Kombucha

Workshops offered in Coombs by Joanne

Sales who has been making Kombucha for

over 20 years. joanne@glasswing. com,

www.islandhealing.ca

WORSHIP

OCEANSIDE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH OF LIGHT

Reverend Dianne Burrough at Nanoose Library Centre

2489 Nanoose Road, Nanoose, BC. www.oceansidespiritualistchurch.com

Gatherings on second and fourth Sundays of the month. Doors open at 10:30AM.

Service begins at 11:00AM.

FORRENT

LARGE RV SITES FOR RENT close to Spider

Lake. November to May. $300/month plus

hydro (30/50 amp metered). Sewer and

water connection. 250-619-8047.

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LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTREAvailable for RentalsCall 778-424-9900

COMMUNITY GARDEN IN DASHWOOD?Are you interested in

a garden space at Dashwood Park on Centre Road? Future plots may be available.

We are in the preliminary stages of planning a proposed Community

Garden and you can help make it a reality.

If you are a gardener, or you would like to help organize a Community Garden, please email d.martin248@

yahoo.ca for further information.


Community Event CalendarMarch 2015

LIGHTHOUSECOMMUNITYCENTRE(LCC)-240LionsWay,QualicumBay.FMIHallrentalsCallSheenaMcCorquodale:(250)757-9991.FMIonEventsattheLCCvisitwww.communityhall.ca.

LIGHTHOUSECOMMUNITYCENTREPANCAKEBREAKFAST&FLEAMARKET–SundayFebruary8th-8am-Noon,PANCAKEBREAKFAST-$5or$7.Enjoylivemusic,breakfast,shoppingforatreasure.VolunteersfromtheBowserElementaryPACwillbeservingupbreakfast.

LIGHTHOUSESENIORS#152–March2nd,2015-11:30am.Servingsoup,tea&coffee.Bringyourownsandwichandjoinusat11:30.Newcomerswelcome!FMIcallJoanat250-757-9536.

TAOIST™TAICHIEveryMonday9:30-noonSusanFinlayson250-757-2097

LIGHTHOUSESPINNERS–BringyourSpinningWheelsandfibreandmeettheLighthouseSpinnersattheLCC.Tuesdaysat10:30am.FMICall778-424-1001.

CARPETBOWLING–12:45to3:00pmattheLCC.FMICallLayne(250)757-8217.

AALIGHTKEEPERS-Fridaysat7:00pmattheLCC.FMIcontact(250)757-2300.

BRIDGE–NordinRoom1:00to4:00pmFridayafternoonsattheLCC.FMICall:SheilaSteele(250)757-8307.

LIONSRECHALL–280LionsWay,QualicumBay.FMIonHallrentalsCallBertCarter:(250)240-4538.

QUALICUMBAYLIONSCLUB–Meetat7pm,everysecondandfourthTuesdayintheLionsDen.

LIGHTHOUSECOUNTRYSCRAPBOOKERS–Meet3rdSaturdaymonthlyattheLions’RecHall,9:30am-4:30pm.$10.Doorprizes.FMICallJorgie250-757-8358orShirley(250)757-8384.

FLOORCURLING-Comeplaywithus.Enjoyaperfectsport.Amixedgroupactivityforallages.Easytoplay.Gamesindooronagymfloor,curlingrockssupplied.Plus,greatfriendshipandextrafunevents.EveryMon.andFri.1-3PM.Joinmonthlyorfortheseason,SepttoJun

attheLionsRecHallinlovelyQualicumBay.Worththeextramile.FMIcallFredorLorraine(250)752-0216.Betterwhenshared.Bringafriend.

LIGHTHOUSETRAILSGROUP-Needsyourhelp!FMICall:ValWeismiller:(250)757-9667.

RDNRECREATIONPROGRAMS-Viewrecreationprogramsonlineatwww.rdn.bc.ca/recreation.FMIcallChrissieat(250)757-8118,[email protected](250)248-3252.Pre-registerforallprogramstoavoidprogramcancellation.

LIGHTHOUSERECREATION:FMICall(250)[email protected].

BADMINTON,PICKLEBALL,MINI-TENNIS.Mondays7-9:30pm.Drop-inFee$4.Ages15-80.Beginnerswelcome.LighthouseCommunityCentre–240LionsWayinQualicumBay.SponsoredbytheLighthouseRecreationCommission.FMI250-757-8307orsteelehunt@shaw.ca.

TheQualicumBeachGardenClubmeetsonTuesday,March10,2015at7:00pmQualicumBeachCivicCentre-747JonesStreet,QualicumBeach.SpeakerisChantelCabrera.Topicis“MedicinalHerbs”.Newmembersandguestswelcome.

SpringSundaysatMilnerGardensEnjoytheearlySpringbulbs–crocus,hyacinthe,theirishavestarted,snowdrops.OnSundaysnowuntilMarch29th.TheGardenopensat11amandclosesdownat3:30pm,withthelastentryat3pm.TheTeaRoomalsoopensat11amwithlastseatingforsoupandsconesat3pm.AdmissiontotheGardenis$5.25foradults,studentsare$3.15,Forchildren12andunder,admissionisfreewhenaccompaniedbyanadult.AndMilnerGardensmembersandcurrentVIUstudentswithastudentcardcangetinfree,too.GoogleMilnerGardensformoreinformation,orjustheadonoverthereonSunday,startingat11am.

TuesdayMarch3rd,2015,7:00PM-TheOceansideProstateCancerSupportGroupmeetsatTheGardens,650BerwickNorth,QualicumBeach.Thosenewlydiagnosedoraffected,theirfamily&[email protected]

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GREAT THINGS FROM GREAT PEOPLE

Hall Rentals 250-757-9222 • Tue to Fri 9am - 12 noon

WHAT’S HAPPENINGIN MARCH!

Food available Fridays during meat draw • Closed Sunday

250-757-9222 • website: www.rcl211.ca • email: [email protected]

Men’s Pool Mondays............................................ 6:00 pmMixed Pool Tuesdays............................................ 4:30 pmLadies Pool Wednesdays ...................................... 4:00 pmCribbage Wednesdays....................................... 7:00 pmTexas Hold’em Thursdays .......................................... 7:00 pmMeat Draws - Every Friday at 5:00 p.m. & Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

Mar 5 – LA General MeetingMar 17 – Branch 211 Executive MeetingMar 24 – Branch 211 General MeetingMar 26 – LA Executive Meeting

Mar 14 – Ladies Auxiliary Pie Sale - 11amMar 28 – GIANT MEAT DRAW (Turkeys & Hams) LA Meal Service available

** WHEN FOOD SERVICE IS AVAILABLE, MINORS ARE WELCOME IN THE HALL BUT MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR GUARDIAN AND IS ONLY PERMITTED UNTIL 10 PM **

CLOSED SUNDAYS

This impressive highway tourism sign is a wonderful new addition to our community,

and I’m honoured that three of my photos were used in its creation!

Kudos to designer Sheena McCorquodale, the Lighthouse Country Business Association, and to the Qualicum First Nation for the use of their land for this community project! You guys ROCK!!

You’ll find the tourism sign at the Lighthouse Country Information pull-out at Hwy 19A near Horne Lake Road.

An official on-site ribbon cutting has been tentatively scheduled during the week of March 9th - watch our Facebook page for a confirmed date and time! www.facebook.com/eyesonbc

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On Tuesday March 17, popular local band, Celtic Chaos will perform at the delightful restaurant in Qualicum, Cafe Brie, for a celebration of St. Patrick - Ireland’s patron saint.

A special menu will be available from 5:30pm and reservations are required.

The acoustic performance will start at 7:00pm and includes tunes, stories, songs and laughter as we celebrate all things Celtic.

There will be an intermission for folks to refill glasses, cups and enjoy dessert!

Tickets are $15 and available from new Cafe Brie owner, Donna Mcleod (250-594-2526) and also from Celtic Chaos band members.

Magical Music LOCAL CONCERTS IN MARCH 2015

St. Patrick’s Day —Celtic Chaos at Café BrieTuesday March 17thDinner from 5:30 • Music from 7pmTickets $15pp

Cafe Brie177 West 2nd Ave, Qualicum Beach250-594-2526

March 2015 EyesOnBC Magazine

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