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Storms hurting the needyManna Ministrys Robin Campbell overwhelmed by demand for helpBy BRENDA GOUGHNEWS REPORTER

Most of the snow was washed away, the rain had stopped and there were glimpses of sunshine on Satur-day morning in Parksville, but it was still a gloomy day for Robin Campbell of the Manna Ministry.

Campbell is the front man for the organization within the Parksville Fellowship Baptist Church that helps provide food and clothing to the local homeless,

conducting his charity work out of the Manna Ministry van which is parked near the Rod and Gun pub every Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Campbells smiling face is a welcome sight for many of the communitys less fortunate peo-ple and on January 21, two days after a winter storm pounded the area, Campbell admitted he was feeling overwhelmed. It wasnt because he was busy handing out food and blankets

to the less fortunate in the community. He was upset hearing about how many people, including families with children, had coped through the snow storm with only their vehicles or tents being used for shelter. When asked about what he heard from the people he helps out in the community Campbell admitted it wasnt good.

Im devastated. Even they guys who wanted to work couldnt get into town to shovel snow. When the snow is coming down you think about those individuals who are out there and you hope they have used the emer-gency shelter and when they havent it devastates me, said Campbell.

When it is open, the Extreme Weather Response Shelter in downtown Parksville provides beds, blan-kets, a hot evening meal and breakfast.

Robin Campbell.PQ NEWS FILE PHOTO

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Opponents of the proposed Raven coal mine near Fanny Bay on central Vancouver Island protested Saturday the project and the environmental approvals process. This staged event brought speakers Ken Wu, above at left, from B.C.s Ancient Forest Alliance, and Majority for a Sustainable Society and others. See page A3. NEIL HORNER PHOTO

Rural area taxes face increaseBy BRENDA GOUGHNEWS REPORTER

It is number crunching time at the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) but a detailed picture of the 2012 budget wont be clear until February with adoption of the budget set for March 14.

The RDN board has received the proposed budget

and the numbers presented by staff will see the budget increase by 6.7 percent over last year but several adjustments have been presented that could see the tax rev-enue change drop down to 6.2 per cent.

RDN chairman Joe Stanhope said the biggest increase in the budget comes from

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By NEIL HORNERNEWS REPORTER

Opponents of a proposed coal mine in the Fanny Bay area con-verged on a parking lot across from the Buckley Bay ferry terminal Saturday to make their concerns known.

The event, dubbed Solidarity, not Compliance, was organized by the Comox Valley-based Water Dragon Alliance, a group formed barely a month ago with the express purpose of organizing the protest. They were welcomed by the MC for the event, a Denman Island activist calling herself only Fireweed.

Coal in the ground is a filter, cleansing and purifying the waters of life, she said. Out of the ground, it is toxic.

The event drew about 400 protesters, at least 100 of whom arrived on the ferry from Den-man Island, marching behind a traditional Chinese water dragon puppet. The protesters included Ken Wu, executive director of B.C.s Ancient Forest Alliance, and Majority for a Sustainable Society (MASS) who stressed that coal is a global issue.

Climate change trumps all other environmental issues, Wu said. Wild salmon, old growth trees, everything will be lost if we dont solve climate change. Its the number-one issue facing our planet. Climate change does not respect park boundaries.

In this fight, he said, the burn-ing of coal is a prime target, with fully 70 per cent of the worlds carbon emissions coming from that source.

If you look at the major im-pacts from burning fossil fuels, coal is about the biggest issue there is, he said.

Tria Donaldson, a campaigner for the Vancouver-based Wilder-ness Committee, also spoke.

Its no wonder that communi-

ties all over Vancouver Island are standing up to a proposed coal mine right in their backyards, she said. On top of the health im-pacts, it is also the worst fossil fuel in terms of carbon emissions. Coal mining is a dirty industry that has no place in a climate-friendly Vancouver Island.

She vowed activists would do whatever it takes to stop the pro-posed mine from going through.

We know they want this mine

to go ahead, but you know what? We are not going to let them, she said to cheers from the crowd. What is going to stop this project is all of us standing strong and working together and saying no.

The proposed Raven coal mine project is going through a federal environmental review through the Canadian Environmental Assess-ment Act. To learn more about The Raven Underground Coal Project visit www.theravenproject.ca.

Protesters continue ght against coal

Members of Water Dragon Alliance from Denman Island carry a Chinese water dragon puppet to the site of a weekend protest of the proposed Raven coal mine. NEIL HORNER PHOTO

Pipeline opponents exploited loopholes in review: LunneyBy AUREN RUVINSKYNEWS REPORTER

Nanaimo-Alberni MP James Lunney said the current Northern Gateway

pipeline review will work itself out, despite weaknesses in the process [that] have been exploited by people who are just opposed to it, he told THE NEWS.

He said the public review that started Jan. 10 in Kitamaat Village and could go on for two years, is an environmental review meant to examine what the risks are

and inform us as to decision-making on the project.

The idea is to engage in discussion about the project and for information to be disseminated to the

public.He shares the

Prime Minister and minister of energys concerns there are legitimate concerns about foreign par-ticularly American

foundations funding the activity up here ... to advance certain objectives that may not be in Canadas interests.

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Despite seasonably cold weather last week, at least some local bears are still up and about, as these tracks in the snow in the Qualicum Bay area show most clearly.

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There is an 11 p.m. curfew at the shel-ter (at the Salvation Army Church at 187 Alberni Highway) but stragglers are not turned away. Camp-bell said although it was open during

the recent storm, the emergency weather shelter wasnt filled, because a lot of them chose to stay put.

If you are a tran-sient and you have a camp, you just ride it out. Because there are such extreme condi-tions a person can become confused.

Campbell said the people his ministry try to assist are not alcoholics or drug addicts, they are just people down on their luck.

Some of them have been abused, some have lost their jobs and some have jobs but it is not enough to support their families.

On Saturday, Camp-

bell spent the morn-ing handing out blan-kets and food and he said once again they will need to replenish their supplies.

The Manna Minis-try van is parked on Hirst Avenue across from the Parksville Medical Clinic every

Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and people can bring dona-tions there or drop off much needed sup-plies at the Parksville Baptist Church on Pym St. in Parksville or contact Campbell for pick-up, at 250-248-0845.

Most of the expanded service is in Nanaimo. He admitted the RDN budget is very complicated because they must have a separate budget for each of the 102 services they provide.

He said as it stands now for a $300,000 home in the northern com-munities the proposed tax increase over last year isnt huge. He said for Area E it would be $7, for Area F $1, for Area G $10 and $28 for Area H.

He said the increase is bigger for Area H, which makes up Shaw Hill, Deep Bay and Bowser, because of a new bus route planned for that region.

He said there is a increase to the RDNs tax requisition from Parksville and Quali-cum Beach because both munici-palities will now be contributing to the drinking water and watershed protection service as well as the Northern Community Economic Development Select Committee.

General Manager of Finance and Information Services for the RDN, Nancy Avery said there are some changes being proposed that would lessen the tax burden but she added there is still a lot of work to be done before final figures

will be ready. She said by and large taxes

will likely be lower, overall. For Parksville the tax increase to the RDN is currently at 4.4 per cent and in Qualicum Beach it is at 5.4 per cent.

The RDN provides over 100 different services and each service has to have a separate budget and Avery said they have only just begun crunching the num-bers. She said as it stands, their operating expenses are up about six per cent and some regions will pay more in taxes and others will not. At a budget meeting Jan. 17, board members considered new financial requests to the 2012 budget as well as reductions to

some services and cuts to capital projects. While some of the budget cuts staff recommended were ap-proved by the directors, they still need final approval from the board and Avery said the directors may have second thoughts about some of the items so anything on the spreadsheet now could change.

It was also pointed out that cuts made this year to some capital projects will result in the costs just being deferred until next year.

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They may be small, but theres a foreign army, hel-meted and ready, marching upriver in Port Alberni and

one local environmentalist fears that nothing can stop them.

The force moving slowly up the Somass River estuary, comes from New Zealand and already numbers hundreds of thousands strong.

Rick Avis is a member of the Alberni Valley Enhancement Association, a non-profit group dedicated to the protec-tion and restoration of watersheds in the Alberni Valley. He said he and his team are increasingly concerned about a slowly-moving wave of New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum), which appeared at the estuary and have been reproducing madly ever since.

They were identified about three years ago by a visiting scientist who had experience with them in the Snake River system, Avis said. They are already in the Snake River system and the Colum-bia River up to Yellowstone Park. They are quite concerned about it and they have a working group trying to control it.

In their normal habitat, the snails are preyed upon by a parasite, which steriliz-es many of them, keeping the population in check. This regulatory mechanism is not present in foreign waters though, leaving them free to reproduce at will.

And, Avis said, what a will they have. The snail, he said, is tiny, about two

millimetres in length. However, what it lacks in size it more than makes up for in fertility. Left unchecked, they can num-ber as many as half a million per square metre.

They are parthogenetic, which means a snail doesnt need to interact with a sec-ond snail in order to reproduce, he said. Once you get one, it can reproduce by it-self and then its offspring can reproduce and once you get that they can reproduce wildly and blanket every surface.

The Port Alberni infestation, he said, was the first of its kind in Canada, but if it plays out the same way it has in the United States, it likely wont be the last.

Thats a concern, Avis said, because the snails have no natural predators here, so their huge numbers mean they eat

the food normally consumed by native species.

It takes over a large chunk of the resources available in the water column, Avis said. You end up with hundreds of thousands of snails and not much else. Theres a lot of concern about how this will impact the fisheries resource.

The Somass River, he noted, is home to as many as 600,000 to 800,000 Sockeye salmon that return there to spawn every year.

Avis said its unclear how the invasion began, although he said its likely they were trans-ported on somebodys fishing gear or in the bilge of a boat.

It could have been a com-mercial freighter or a pleasure craft, he said. They are such tiny little things. They could even have come on somebodys hip wad-ers.

The snails, he said, can survive in both fresh and brackish water, so while

they can easily migrate upstream albeit slowly they wont be fouling beaches on the coast.

That said, he stressed there is a possibility they could spread

by other means, much as the so-called rock snot (Didymo-

sphenia geminata), which spread on fishing

gear from a river near Nanaimo to, among other places, Iceland and New Zea-land.

My con-cern is they might go to

eastern Van-couver Island as

well, he said. Because they

need to live in fresh or at most brackish

water, they are not going to spread out on

the beaches like the Japense varnish clam (Nuttallia obscurata) or the ubiquitous Japanese mudflat snail.

However, he said they could spread to east coast estuaries.

You wont see them on Parksville Beach or Qualicum Beach, but you may find them in the Little Qualicum or Englishman rivers, Avis said. What happens is they get onto peoples waders and unless people are disinfecting their waders, they have the potential to move it.

Even if people fishing in infected areas follow this protocol, he added, the snails can still be spread by wild birds such as mergansers.

Its a difficult problem, he said. Here you have a tiny organism that can stand days of dehydration and can repro-duce by itself.

What Avis and his team would like to see, he said, is an education campaign warning people to take care not to trans-port the creatures.

I would like to see better signage and more awareness, he said. Education is the key. You need to say to people that if you transport these things around, you are going to have to live with it.

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I dont think its necessary to hear from 4,500 witnesses on the project and extend the process by an extra year and hear the same kinds of objections, but he also wouldnt want to limit it to single representatives of any specific perspective.

Im not sure about one, I think theres room to hear multiple people [but] there has to be a limit some-where, you run out of new things to say.

There are people, ideologically who are just opposed to the use of oil and fossil fuels, but I tell you the same people expect a lot of services from the government and the money has to come from somewhere.

He said with more people hit-ting retirement age and ongoing discussions about health care and how were going to meet the needs of our population ... we cannot af-ford to ignore our resources, which have a potential to provide the revenue to provide the services.

Asked if he sympathized with people who felt they were un-

fairly called radicals by the Prime Minister for opposing the pipeline, Lunney said theres a range of interests here obviously, there are people who are quite open about saying they dont want this to go ahead at any price regardless of

what the environmen-tal risks are or arent.

Thats a legitimate perspective, but it isnt necessarily a kind of perspective that would trump other inter-ests.

At the end of the day as a government we have an obligation to provide services and we have an obliga-tion to examine how best to use the abun-dant resources were gifted with.

He summed up by suggest-ing the previous NDP provincial governments ideology that extraction was bad, led to such a stringent approval process they basically shut down all the mining in British Columbia and turned us into a have-not province.

I dont think-thats in the pub-lic interest frankly.

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Parksville city council will consider contributing $2,500 as the entertainment sponsor again for the 2012 Beach Festival and Qual-ity Foods Canadian Open Sand Sculpting Competition.

Parksvilles big summer event will kick off July 13, 2012, with the exhibition running to August 12, but the society decided not to undertake the Big Entertainment Weekend again.

Rather than the single weekend with a special stage, sound equip-ment and extra entertainer costs which went over budget, the board decided to focus on smaller scale ongoing entertainment again like buskers in the gazebo.

Despite miserable weather for the sand sculpting opening week-

end, the month long exhibition attracted almost 83,000 visitors last year.

Aside from in-kind contribu-tions like preparing the park, the city contributed $2,500 cash for the first time last year to sponsor the entertainment weekend. Staff will bring a report on the request to councils upcoming budget meet-ings for consideration.

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An overflow crowd gath-ered in the lobby to officially open Hustwick Place on Jensen Avenue in downtown Parksville on Friday.

Lead by the Parksville Lions Club Housing Society on the site of their former 50-year-old one story housing project, the new four story, 33 unit mixed-use project has been occupied since the fall.

Barb Barrett, who lived in the old building on the site, was one of the first to move into the new building and said she loves her clean third story, ocean-view apartment.

She loves the location, within a block of city hall and the library, Thrifty Plaza and many shops and facilities.

The Lions project received around $4 million from the provincial and federal governments, meaning 28 of the 33 residential units are sub-sidized for low income seniors and and people with disabilities, with rent capped at 30 per cent of their income.

The city also waived approximately $274,773 in fees and development cost charges and the regional district waived $109,896.

The building includes ground floor retail, fitting the citys goal of increasing density and mixed-use projects downtown.

Our government is committed to giving a hand-up to those in need, said James Lun-ney, MP for Nanaimo-Alberni, on behalf of the Minister of Human Resources, Skills Develop-ment and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The province places great emphasis on

the creation of affordable housing for seniors in need said Ron Cantelon, MLA for Parksville-Qualicum.

This great addition to our community will go a long way in connecting seniors with quality, affordable housing right here in Parksville, said mayor Chris Burger.

RDN chair Joe Stanhope joked that he went to school in the area 100 years ago and remembers when the prop-erty was open farmers fields.

Former Parksville coun-cillor Dean Hustwick spoke on behalf of the family the building was named after, in-

cluding his elderly father Allen who was mayor for 12 years and was in attendance.

This really symbolizes what my father stands for, I dont think theres a greater hon-our, he said.

For more information check www.action-plan.gc.ca, www.cmhc.ca/housingactionplan or call CMHC at 1-800-668-2642.

Long-time resident loves the viewHustwick Place resident Barb Barrett part of opening ceremony

Representatives of the Lions Club, their housing society and the various levels of government that supporting the effort, cut the ribbon on Hustwick Place on Jan. 20.

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When Tom Davies asked Qualicum Beach council for a statement of support for the proposed Oceanside Health Centre, he received unanimous assent.

That support, said the spokes-person for the Federation of Oceanside Residents Associations, formed a bright spot on what has become a frustrating waiting game.

The Vancouver Island Health Authority seems ready to go on this, but now the holdup seems to be with the Ministry of Health, Davies said. This project needs to get in the ground and get going. Im concerned public sentiment may turn against something that will be a fantastic asset to the community. The sooner it becomes a reality, the sooner it becomes believable.

Davies said his group has been doing a lot of the heavy lifting to make the facil-ity a reality for the past three years and they need to build a broader base of support.

We need that broader base to say to the pre-mier and the minister to say hey, listen, this is really important to Oceanside, so please make this happen, Davies said. Christy Clark, when

she was here, said she hoped to see shovels in the ground by September and here it is Janu-ary.

Davies said the unanimous support for the centre from Qualicum Beach can be added to similar support from the council in Parksville.

Im very, very pleased, Davies said. Their support will be backed up with a letter from Qualicum Beach to the premier and the minister to say council was unanimous in support of the health centre as a foundation to build health services to suit our demographic.

Davies said he has also contacted both the Parksville and Qualicum Beach chambers of commerce for similar letters of support and he expects an answer very soon.

A broader base of community support should shake this thing loose, he said. We believe it is imminent, but weve been believing that since July.

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The City of Parksville will renew the Vancouver Island Regional Library lease for another five years.

Based on current market conditions, they agreed to maintain the same base rent and increase the operating cost to reflect actual costs. It will now include a three percent annual increase for inflation.

This is the third, five year lease with the library since the Parksville Civic and Technol-ogy Centre was completed in 2001.

The library didnt ask for a change in the rental rate, and since the current $14.60 per square foot is a couple dollars higher than comparable prop-erties, the report from city staff recommended renewing at the same rate.

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Its the type of news that one might instinctively shake their head at people dying from ingesting some foreign and illicit drug mixed up in a clandestine lab somewhere.

The simple solution to recent ecstasy deaths in B.C. and Alberta would be: dont do drugs.

Unfortunately, achieving that outcome isnt that simple.The fact of the matter is some teens are going to experiment with

drugs. And for too many, those experiments will lead to a life-long addic-tion.

But if any good can come out of the recent tragedies, it is heightened awareness around drugs, ecstasy in particular.

For some parents, instinctively wanting to shield their children, such news may seem too scary to be posting on your fridge at home or chatting with your kids about.

But the fact of the matter is, it is life.This is what can happen if you put this poi-

son in your body. And its not just such cases of bad batches, laced with lethal ingredients. Even a good batch (if there is such a thing) can turn horribly wrong for anyone. One could easily overdose, have an adverse reaction or unknow-ingly be poisoned with the drug.

So rather than waiting for your kids to find out the hard way, through their own tragedies, a friends or classmates, use this opportunity to educate and create greater awareness with your kids.

Teenagers, being teenagers, you might get the same old, I know, line. But maybe, just maybe, your words could make a light turn on some-where in that know-it-all brain.

Considering the grave dangers of such drugs, it seems worth a shot. editorial from the Vernon Morning Star/Black Press

The years still young, but Im putting my money on James Livingston for Bonehead Title of the Year.

Mister Livingston has penned an article for Wired magazine called Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture Is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul.

Pow! As titles go, thats right up

there with The Leadership Ge-nius of George W. Bush.

Livingston enjoins his read-ers to ignore what the econo-mists, journalists and politi-cians would have you believe Go to the mall and knock yourself out.

Or you could just wait until the Visa or MasterCard bill comes in at the end of the month.

Thatll knock you out.We live in the age of Homo

Consumerensis. Our highest

civic calling is to buy crap we dont need with money we dont have.

Our day of wor-ship is well, every day, really but our High Holy Day is Black Friday, that 24-hour feeding frenzy just before Christ-mas when shopping malls and big box stores slash their prices and, in anticipation, salivating shoppers mass at the doors like hordes of Visigoths at the gates of Rome.

This past Black Friday a shopper in Los Angeles pepper-sprayed fellow shoppers in order to get at discounted X-box consoles.

A riot broke out and blood was spilled over $2 waffle irons in Little Rock, Arkansas.

And a woman was shot near a Wal-Mart in Myrtle Beach,

South Carolina as she carried her goodies to her car.

The insanity continued right up until Christmas Eve, when Nike put its latest line of retro basketball shoes on sale. Police had to be called in more than a dozen

cities, including Charlotte, North Carolina, where shoppers smashed glass doors to get at the product.

Were talking about running shoes, folks.

Somebody once said, The American consumer is not notable for his imagination and does not know what he wants. Maybe not but he wants it now, and money is no object.

Those Nike shoes? Two hun-dred dollars a pair.

Were still talking about run-

ning shoes, folks.There are one or two beacons

of hope in the blitzkrieg of ber-serker bargain hunters.

For one thing, the thrift stores are thriving.

People from all walks of life, unmoved by advertising campaigns to buy fifty-dollar T-shirts, 100-dollar purses and, yes, 200-dollar sneakers, are heading down to the thrift shops to get barely-used goods at a fraction of the mall price.

The proceeds from the thrift stores I frequent go to the local hospital and a womens shelter.

Wheres the down side?Another ray of hope comes

from Elvis Costello. The famed musician (and

husband of jazz diva Diana Krall) made the news recently when he publicly urged his fans NOT to buy his latest CD/DVD compilation.

Why?

Too expensive, thats why.Costello says the price tag

of $200 is either a misprint or satire.

All our attempts to have this price revised have been fruitless, says Costello on his website. Steal This Record.

But if you really want to get a very special CD for your sweetie, Elvis has some helpful advice.

We can whole-heartedly recommend Ambassador of Jazz, says Elvis. It contains 10 re-mastered albums by one of the most beautiful and loving revolutionaries who ever lived Louis Armstrong.

Frankly, adds Costello, the music is vastly superior.

Whens the last time an ad-vertiser advised you to buy his competitors product because it was better?

Finally truth in advertis-ing. Good on ya, Elvis see you down at Value Village.

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Once you get one, it can reproduce by itself.Rick Avis ... A5

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Health centre plan doesnt cut it

In the graveyardof empires

Smart meters are coming soon

Oil ght continuesIn your report on Wayne Mc-Crorys visit, (THE NEWS, Jan. 20) he warned that the Enbridge pipeline could be a huge threat to our environment.

A statement came out of Alberta that they are against the project to ship crude. They would rather build refineries and sell refined oil to the U.S. Confirming my views.

I was heartened the State of Ne-braska has refused transportation of crude over their territory, and thus stalled the Keystone project. If they can, then we can.

I was expecting our provincial government to protect our environ-ment. Was shocked to read that our Premier Christy Clark has recruited Ken Boessenkool to be her chief of staff. He is to assist in the development of Liberal policy.

It is clear by this move which side the of Liberal policy. Mr. Boes-senkool has been a longtime advisor to Stephen Harper and a key lobbyist for the Enbridge pipeline. It is clear by this move which side the provincial Liberals stand.

We know Conservatives are pushing this project. I would like the provincial NDP to state their views. Are they for a one-time job creation, or the long time view of building refineries and develop-ing our economy?

Lorraine Michelmore, president of Shell Canada, has called for a national energy conversation. She states determining which roads are in the national interest, requires a national conversation. She believes a clear and responsible action plan could support sustain-able economic growth in Canada.

Other bad news was the report on Enbridge subsidiaries in the U.S. This report stated that since 2002, there have been more than 170 leaks and spills in their pipelines. The one in Clearbrook, Minn. in 2007, killed two workers and led to a $2.4 million U.S. in fines. The company defense has been that they spill less oil than the industry average.

Patricia MeadowsParksville

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A colourful key bouquet to Oceanside Chev for helping me when I stupidly locked my purse with my keys in the trunk of my car. Even though it was past closing time for you, you took the time to drive to Wembley Mall where my car was and gave me a spare key so I could retrieve my purse. Without your help, I dont know what I would have done...and you did this all at no cost. Now thats what I call cus-tomer service. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Petra TschaunerNanoose Bay

I would like to thank the carrier who delivers in the 400 block First Avenue West, Qualicum Beach for delivering the paper right to my door. The gesture is very much appreci-ated.

Muriel WilsonQualicum Beach

A big thank you to my two snow angels who dug me out after the snow plow came by.

What a great ran-dom act of kindness

That was totally unexpected and so very appreciated.

Thank you!Caroline Waters

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I object to the way the bidding process for the health centre was altered and then not returned for a new request for proposals and bids.

The fiasco from Stanford place goes on. I am very disappointed with our constituencys support of this project. It is time that our MLA supports community im-provement and stops catering to those that have self interest.

This is nothing more than a stopgap knee jerk reaction to some-thing that should be better.

I would ask MLA Ron Cantelon to please ensure that this project of a Health Care Center is stopped forthwith and a fresh look is taken on the needs of the community and ensure that a new bidding process is initiated.

Anything less is absolute igno-rance of community needs and wants. What we need is a hospital similar to Port Alberni. Due to lack of due diligence by VIHA and our MLA we now have a facility for seniors that sends seniors from Stanford Place to the emergency at NRGH and then discharge them on the own reconnaissance to return back to the facility. This is morally and fiscally wrong.

Bob TritschlerSusan Nelson

Parksville

It seems that the assurance that Qualicum Beach residents would not have to deal with Smart Meters being installed before March 2012 was not to be believed.

We got our notification in the mail today from B.C. Hydro that a smart meter will be installed within the next few weeks.

So, whether we like it or not, our present meters will be removed and replaced with wireless devices set to irradiate our homes and businesses with electromagnetic radiation at levels that medical science has now shown to be 10 million times over the safe level of exposure.

Each meter also has a relay

switch containing as much mercu-ry as 500 CFL light bulbs. A house fire involving these meters would require full haz-matt protective clothing for the fire fighters.

BC Hydro claims they are legally operating within the levels sets by Safety Canada Code 6, a code that Health Canadas Dr. John Blatherwick has publicly acknowledged is seriously out of date.

It is astonishing to comprehend the quality of arrogance and dis-regard for the genuine concerns of its citizens that this Liberal

government is capable of. To tell us that we can do noth-

ing to stop them from entering our private property to install devices that could potentially cause det-rimental biological effects to our person is nothing short of neo-fascism.

To download and print your No Trespassing notice for meter installers, readers can go to the website Oceanside Coalition for Strong Communities, BC Energy Plan.

Fern and Laurence WaymanQualicum Beach

I dont know Mr. Graham Good-win, but reading his heartfelt let-ter (THE NEWS, Jan. 20), it appears we may be kindred spirits; cer-tainly like-minded on the futility of invasions in Afghanistan.

Indeed, that country became a graveyard to imperial ambitions for the armies of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Great Brit-ain and the Soviet Union, among others.

On the very day Mr. Goodwins letter was printed, four French soldiers of NATO Forces were as-sassinated and 16 injured by an Af-ghan soldier under their training a stark reminder that Canada still retains a training force of about 1,000 military personnel, after pulling out of combat duty in Kandahar last year.

Mr. Goodwin mentioned that the reference to Rudyard Kipling in my previous weeks letter had inspired him and stated he wrote to Harper and Lunney telling them to get out of Afghanistan. Instead, they extended it for another two years. More blood on their hands. He was not alone in writing to Ot-tawa at that time. In March of 2008 I e-mailed MP Lunney, asking him to read a poem I attached IF... by Rudyard Kipling before voting that evening to determine the withdrawal date from Afghani-stan.

Having no acknowledgment from his office, I will never know if he received or read the Kipling classic which begins: If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...

The poem ends with And which is more youll be a Man, my son!

Kiplings poem was written as a lesson in life for his son Jack, who was killed in the First World War. The great poet and author never really recovered. Mr. Good-wins letter expressed similar sen-timents about his friends mother never recovering after her son was killed.

When will they learn, indeed?Bernie Smith

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VICTORIA B.C.s pro-gram to supply free quit-smok-ing aids is proving popular, with more than 63,000 smok-ers taking advantage since it launched last September.

The program offers up to 12 weeks worth of nicotine patch-es or gum, available once per calendar year to people with active Medical Services Plan coverage. Those who used the program in 2011 are eligible again for 2012, and 4,500 people signed up in the first two weeks of the new year.

Two prescription drugs, Champix and Zy-ban, are also available with costs for 12 weeks

covered for some people under the Pharmacare plan. People can register by calling Health-Link BC at 8-1-1.

B.C. has the lowest smoking rate in Canada, but the health ministry estimates there are still 550,000 smokers in the province. More than 6,000 B.C. residents die each year from smoking-related illness, cost-ing an estimated $605 million in direct health care costs.

With health care costs tak-ing up more than 40 per cent

of the B.C. budget and cost pressures increas-ing as the baby boom generation retires, the province is launching another push to reduce salt consumption.

A new sodium sense tool has been added to the health ministrys website at www.healthy-familiesbc.ca so people can calculate salt intake and find low-sodium menu alternatives.

Sodium is a necessary part of the diet, but the ministry estimates B.C. residents on aver-age consume twice as much as they need.


When Qualicum Beach residents step up to help others in the community, they dont do it for the glory. They generally do it because its just the right thing to do.

However, says Qualicum Beach Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Peter Doukakis, its im-portant to recognize them for their efforts anyway.

To this end, sponsors of the 2011 Qualicum Beach Community Awards are currently huddling together to pick the top three nominees for Citizen of the Year, Outstanding Customer Service, Business of the Year, New Business of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

We have a meeting on Jan. 24 and thats when all the sponsors will get together, Doukakis said. They will bring the top three nominees in the category they are sponsoring and, as a collec-tive, all the sponsors will choose the top three finalists in each category.

He noted there is another category, the Lifetime Achievement Award, but that is being dealt with separately.

The past presidents of the chamber col-lectively look at the list of nominees for the lifetime achievement award, he said.

The deadline for nominations closed on Jan.

13 and while he wouldnt say who has been nominated, Doukakis said the number of nomi-nations this year is on the low side of average.

The average since 2004 is between 35 and 51 nominations, he said. This year we have a total of 42 nominations for 32 different people

excluding the Lifetime Achieve-ment awards.

The three finalists in each category will be on hand at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre on Feb. 15 to see which of them will receive the top honour.

Even though he conceded some of the nominees have been reluc-tant to be recognized, Doukakis said its important for the commu-nity to do so.

I think people need to recognize there are businesses and individu-als that go above and beyond, he said. There are a lot of quiet people in this community who dont necessarily toot their own

horn and its important that community awards recognize those individuals.

They arent doing it for glory or publicity. Its just a commitment they have, but it should be recognized.

The awards night dinner costs $35 each, al-though all the nominees will have their dinners paid for by the sponsors.

Watch THE NEWS for all the latest on the nominees, the awards night and the eventual winners.

PETER DOUKAKIS... important to

recognize those who go above and beyond

Town awards night Feb. 15

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Chicken Cordons568gr

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Tropicana100% Pure & Natural Orange Juice2.63lt

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Tropic IsleCanned Fruit12x398ml

ChristieCookies550gr

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PurexDouble Roll Bathroom Tissue12s

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BounceFabric Softener Sheets120s

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