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Some will be celebrating medals at the Canadian Transplant Games. All will be celebrating the miracle that has allowed them to be there to compete. From July 16-22, Calgary is hosting the Canadian Transplant Association’s sixth annual national championships, and two-time heart transplant recipient Robbie Thompson of Courtenay will be competing in swimming, cycling and perhaps badminton.
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COURTENAY’S TYRONE LARSON demonstrates his creation, GlowMods, which are small glow sticks that sit in the outer rim of a return top (yo-yo), making a glowing circle while spinning. PHOTO BY RENÉE ANDOR
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— commonly known by the name brand Yo-yo — glow as they spin, and give off a circle of light to spectators. “This outer rim here, I decided to pop a glow stick in it,” Larson said as he demonstrated on his return top, adding he first tried the idea at a competition
in December. “So I popped a couple glow sticks… and threw it and everyone was just like — next thing I knew 150 people gathered around.” Caribou Lodge return top company owner Chris Mikulin, who was there at the time, ... see YO-YO ■ A2
The Comox Valley Food Bank has received notice from its landlord, Habitat for Humanity, to vacate its space at 13th Street in Courtenay by Aug. 31. The notice was not unexpected. The food bank has for some time been searching for its seventh location since opening 28 years ago. It operated for 21 years out of a site at Piercy Avenue. JEFF HAMPTON “We’ve got a couple of ideas happening right now, but I can’t really elaborate on them,” CVFB president Jeff Hampton said this week. “If I do get the go-ahead I’m going to keep it quiet for a while longer because when we were going into Cousins Avenue area, when the cat was out of the bag that we were going in, all hell broke loose. We’d like to be a little quieter this time.” Last year, the food bank had hoped to move to Cousins Avenue in Tin Town but the site was inadequately zoned. Off-street parking was an issue. A plea from Habitat explaining the need for both organizations to expand appeared in local newspapers. It garnered two replies. “It was done on a Habitat slant as opposed to the food bank,” Hampton said. “They’re trying to do their build on Piercy Avenue and they want more space. They want to expand their ReStore.” Ideally, the food bank needs about 2,000 square feet in a semipermanent location. The building at 1755B 13th St. is about 1,700 square feet. Statistics indicate the Comox Valley Food Bank’s clientele represents about 18 per cent of the local population. reporter@comoxvalleyrecord.com
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AFTER LOSING CONTROL of this motorcycle, a man was flung from it. PHOTO BY CTV VANCOUVER ISLAND
Motorcyclist hurt Record Staff A man travelling at high speed on Royston Road on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon was airlifted to hospital after he lost control. Comox Valley RCMP reported a 36-yearold local resident was taken to Victoria General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, although he suffered serious injuries to his right leg. Police confirm the shoeless driver was wearing only shorts and a helmet. They do not believe alcohol was a factor, although they feel speed may have been. “I could hear a motocycle flying up the road. And then I didn’t hear the motorcycle flying up the road any more all I heard was him sliding and sliding and sliding,” said witness Todd Elies to media. “He must have been going really fast.”
snapped a photo and posted it on his blog, and from there things grew — fast. “It was getting extreme amounts of feedback, people were going bananas, and next thing I knew I was scrounging some money together and I purchased 60,000 glow sticks,” said Larson, adding that was the smallest order he could get from a factory. “It cost me just about $5,000. It took me a while to get the money together and everyone thought I was crazy.” Initially, he sold GlowMods on eBay and was doing well, but after a suggestion from Mikulin, decided to sell them wholesale to return top stores. He started by calling YoYoExpert, which is based in the United States, and the store said yes. “So I made some up, and I’m selling them in a store, and the buzz is
starting to grow, and then I get contacted by more stores, a store in the U.K. and a store in Malaysia and a store in the Czech Republic, in Prague, and those are like the epicentres in Europe — yoyoing’s way bigger in Europe than it is here,” explained Larson. He made a Facebook page for GlowMods about three weeks ago, and since then he’s had nearly 4,000 ‘likes’ and was contacted by four more stores around the world. Although Larson is happy with how business is going, he plans to keep GlowMods as a side venture, noting that return tops are his passion and a focus on money could ruin that. Larson started playing with return tops only about a yearand-a-half ago after he watched his friend Jason Kirsch take it up. “He came over, he
was almost hitting himself in the face, and I’m like, ‘Get that away from my TV’ and like a month later he came and I saw his, just hand-eye co-ordination go through the roof so that’s what attracted me most of all,” explained Larson. After Larson started, he was quickly hooked and he attends competitions, which he described as intense because there are literally thousands of possible tricks. Right now, he’s looking forward to being
a judge at the 2012 Canadian National Return Top Championship in Calgary. Although Larson laughed when asked how much of a return top community there is in the Comox Valley, and answered it’s likely just him and two of his friends, he wants to spread his love of return tops to people around here. For more information about GlowMods, search for GlowMod GlowThrows on Facebook. writer@comoxvalleyrecord.com
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Trying to make surfing friends – one at a time Scott Stanfield Record Staff
‘God will surf with the devil if the waves are good.’ The phrase was coined by Dorian (Doc) Paskowitz, the Father of Israeli Surfing and a source of inspiration behind Surfing With The Devil, In Search of Waves and Peace in the Middle East, a second book penned by Cumberland author Grant Shilling. The recently-released e-book is the culmination of a journey that began in February of 2009 when the writer/artist/surfer handdelivered a bunch of wetsuits to the Gaza Surf Club in Israel. While delighted with the gifts, the Arab, Israeli and Palestinian club members thought Shilling was crazy to surf in 18-degree water in shorts during their winter. “It was quite a trip to be surfing in the Middle East. Nobody pictures it as a surfing destination,” said
Shilling, a street outreach worker at the Dawn to Dawn: Action on Homelessness Society. Shilling has an interest in acknowledging things before they start happening, such as the emerging surf culture in the Middle East. The sport has its limitations in Gaza, where he notes a shortage of equipment due to the restrictions that are placed on people’s freedom. But despite the political chaos, life goes on in this corner of the world. “People want all the same things that we have,” Shilling said. “They’re kind of enslaved by their own masters and by their socalled enemies. But when you start playing together and having fun together you kind of demystify the enemy ... It’s less about being a political act and just trying to make one friend at a time.” While he realizes surfing
is not the answer to problems in the Middle East, Shilling recognizes that it can build bridges and create what Paskowitz calls ‘moments of peacefulness.’ “My motto on the trip to the Mid-East was fun beats fundamentalism,” said Shilling, whose trip p grew out of a “sense of complete despair” over what’s happening in thee region. “And the only way for-ward is peace. The greatest test percentage of Israelis and nd Gazans and Palestinians, s, they want the same things. ngs. They want peace, they want to raise their fami-lies. A year after his trip too Gaza, Shilling ventured to Egypt to meet the surfing ng Bedouins near Alexandria. ria. Red tape prevented him from bringing Israeli surfer rfer and skateboard champion on Arthur Rashkovan, whom m he had hoped would create ate a bond between Israelis and Egyptians. Like the Gazans, the latter were thrilled with h their new equipment and d contact with the outside world. Shilling undertook a third trip in 2011 to Hunntington Beach, Calif., dururing the 10th anniversary y of 9-11, to speak to surfers ers about using the sport ass a
grassroots peacemaker — a concept he ponders in the book. While in the birthplace of surfing in the U.S., he met a host of characters including a SyrianAmerican Muslim woman who surfs in a ‘burqini,’ a man Surfa known o as tthee Su ing Rabbi, and of course Paskowitz, who is still surfing in his 90s. Doc is credited with introducing the sport to Israel in 1956 when he brought six boards to the country. “When he went there, the Suez crisis broke out and there was a war going on,” Shilling said. Ignoring the objections of authorities, Doc rode his first wave at Tel Aviv. He then gave his first lesson to an Arab life-
guard — and ever since has been trying to bring Arabs and Israelis together through surfing. “I would say the devil in this is the unknown,” Shilling said in reference to the book title. “Once you get to know that person, disaptthat at kind d oof idea dea d sap sa pears. “It’s idealistic, but where’s the political process got us for the past 60 years? Maybe we should try something else. For surfing you could substitute
music, you could substitute art, you could substitute soccer — anything that’s a common ground, a common passion where you get supposedly adversarial people together over a similar passion. You can accomplish a lot.” Thee boo book ca can be found ou d at www.surfingwiththedevil.com. Shilling’s first book, The Cedar Surf, f provides an informal history of surfing in B.C. It was briefly a B.C. bestseller. Both books are available at amazon.ca. reporter@comoxvalley record.com
AUTHOR GRANT SHILLING of Cumberland is seen at top with Dorian (Doc) Paskowitz, the Father of Israeli Surfing. Shilling visited the Gaza Surf Club (also pictured) in 2009. He later wrote a book about his experience.
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One year until Target opens here Record Staff There is only one more year until Comox Valley residents will no longer have to trek to the U.S. to go shopping at Target. The company announced Thursday it will open a store in the Driftwood Mall in Courtenay in the summer of 2013. The announcement follows an announcement in January, when the Minneapolis-based retailer purchased up to 220 leaseholds currently operated as Zellers stores for $1.825 billion from the Hudson Bay Company, which owns the Zellers Inc. subsidiary. Freda Colbourne, media spokesperson for Hudson Bay, told the Record in January that
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Elderly pilot succumbs Record Staff An as-yet-unidentified 74-yearold man has died as a result of injuries arising from the crash of an ultralight plane in the Black Creek area. The man died in a Victoria hospital, Comox Valley RCMP reported Thursday. The plane was heard to lose power, and crashed Saturday night
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On July 16, the Comox Valley Regional District is holding a free information session so people can learn about the electoral area home energy incentive program, aimed at helping residents save money on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The session will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the CVRD boardroom at 550B Comox Rd. in Courtenay. There will be certified energy advisers on hand to provide information on the energy assessment process and rebates for existing homes, new home construction and major renovations. The session is free, but space is limited so pre-registration is required. To register, or for more information, e-mail propertyservices@comoxvalleyrd.ca or call 250-334-6006. The program begins July 23 and runs until year end. The home retrofit program was developed to offset the costs of the two home energy assessments that are required to become eligible for the LiveSmart
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Local butterfly count resuming Comox Valley Nature is renewing its annual traditional of carrying out an annual butterfly count. Butterfly counts as an important index of insect and floral diversity and an excellent way to monitor climate variations and environmental stressors. This is a unique opportunity to learn to identify local butterflies. Although originally planned for June, the butterfly count had to bemoved due to the record precipitation experienced in June. The count will be held this Saturday. Participants should meet at 10 a.m. at the Old Church Theatre on Harmston Street in Courtenay, or at 10:30 at Cumberland Marsh. Parking
is at Jumbo’s Cabin. This public activity is free of cost and is open to people of all ages. Butterflies will be counted and professionally identified by Terry Thormin. Photographer and naturalist extraordinaire, Terry Thormin recently retired to the Comox Valley after 23 years at the Royal Alberta Museum where he curated the entomology collection. Terry has been a naturalist all his life and first became interested in insects in his early teens. Anyone interested in an illustrated insight into the world of Terry should visit www. pbase.com/terrythormin. Comox Valley Nature is a non-profit society affiliated to BC Nature which fulfills its
educational mandate by hosting monthly lectures, organizing weekly guided hikes and undertakes a variety of environmental projects. Founded in 1966, it is one of the oldest environmental societies on the North Island. Meetings and lectures of the Comox Valley Naturalists Society are held on the third Sunday of most months at the Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay. Meetings and guided walks are open to the public, including children and youth. (No dogs on walks, please). New memberships are always welcomed. For more information on CVNS, visit www.comoxvalleynaturalist.bc.ca or contact L. Maingon at 250-331-0143. — Comox Valley Nature
Blood donation will help others Comox Valley residents are urged to help ‘top-up’ the blood supply at their local blood donor clinic before heading off on their summer travels. Canadian Blood Services needs 4,300 more donors across Canada to book an appointment and donate blood between July 16 and Aug. 6. “We need 800 appointments in B.C. booked this summer to keep up with hospital demand, and patients are counting on more people to become blood donors,” said Ed Yee, Regional Director, Donor and Clinic Services. “If you’ve made an appointment, please honour it. If you haven’t made one, please book one today.” With a patient somewhere in Canada needing blood every minute of every day, a constant supply of new blood donations is required. Most often, it takes more than one donor’s unit of blood to save a patient’s life. A single car accident victim may require 50 units of blood and blood products to survive injuries. Increased traffic usually means more car accidents on roadways. Every donor who books and keeps an appointment this summer will provide the additional supply of blood products needed for hospital patients. More reasons why it’s important to book and keep your blood donation appointment this summer: • Only 60 per cent of blood donors honour their appointments. • According to Transport Canada,
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