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good time for me to make that decision, but the riding being divided in half wasn’t the driving Nanaimo-Cowichan MP Jean force in this,” she said. “It started Crowder said she was recently in the fall, when people started reminded there’s never a good asking where I was going to run. That’s never been a question time to leave. And that rang true for the 10-year before, I was always going to run. “When people started asking New Democratic Party Member of Parliament last Thursday morning me, I thought I need to make a (Jan. 23), as she announced she will conscious decision about this. not be putting her name forward And as I thought about it, and thought I’m actually going to be in the next federal election. Crowder told the media spending 63 in 2015 and I thought can I do more time with her family is the another four years? I would be 67 main reason she’s decided to step by 2019.” Crowder supporters say she will down when her term ends, 18 leave big shoes to fill. months from now. “She was very concerned about “I will not be retiring. I will be stepping away from the job as a things, sincerely, not for things Member of Parliament but I fully because it was the right thing to expect to continue to be active in say, but because she meant what my community, working hard for she said,” long-time NDP volunteer the things I believe in,” Crowder Trudy Thorgeirson said. Thorgeirson worked closely with said during a press conference held at her constituency office on Crowder even before she was Ingram Street in Duncan. “It’s hard first elected in 2004, and in many different organizations, not just in to walk away.” Crowder has been chewing on her position as MP. “I started working with her the decision since the fall, but it really hit home during the even before she got onto North Cowichan (council),” Thorgeirson Christmas holidays. “I have three adorable said. “We worked together when grandchildren who live on the I was president of the Volunteer other side of the continent, and Cowichan board, and I was able to with my travel schedule, I simply get her on the board. I think it was don’t see them enough and they’re Toastmasters where we met in the growing up before my eyes and first place. “She was really just a very friendly it’s time for me to make them a person and very easy to work with priority.” The decision didn’t stem from the and get along with. I never found federal decision last year to split her cross, just very pleasant.” Crowder said she couldn’t be her riding into the new NanaimoLadysmith and Cowichan-Malahat- more proud of the work the NDP team has done and she looks Langford ridings. “It was a factor in that it was a See Crowder Page 3 THE CHRONICLE
Twelve-year-old Jason Fisher of Crofton helps gather strings of lights during the Festival of Lights take down work party Sunday, Jan. 26 in Ladysmith. This was Fisher’s first time volunteering for a Festival of Lights work party, and he was volunteering with the Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron 257 Parallel. For more photos from the work party, please turn to page 10. LINDSAY CHUNG
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