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Photo Malcolm Chalmers
Tour de Rock riders roll through Lake Cowichan Tuesday. The riders will wrap up their 1,000-kilometre trek to raise funds for pediatric cancer research on Friday in Victoria. See page 15 for more photos.
Christmas parade returns to the Lake this year Aspen Gainer
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After a seven-year hiatus, the Cowichan Lake Christmas parade will return to the community this year. “It seems like Christmas has been a nonentity in the past few years, but we want a resurgence of it,” says Ron McKenzie, President of Cowichan Lake Chamber of Commerce. McKenzie said that two years ago there was little interest in Christmas celebrations, but things are changing. “What happened last year surprised all of us. Because Santa Claus was here we had well over 200 people and it was fantastic.” And there was even more interest this year.
“We’ve had several people and businesses in town ask about getting the parade back,” says McKenzie. “And we got a number of people asking about bringing back the Christmas tree. We’re going to try it and see what happens.” The festivities will take place the evening of Nov. 29. The parade entrants will marshal at Darling Tire on Neva Road at 5 p.m. and the parade will begin at 5:45 p.m. “Hopefully there will be a number of decorated vehicles and people walking,” says McKenzie. “Santa Clause of course will be the last float.” The parade will continue down South Shore Road to the Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Centre, where at 7 p.m. Santa Claus will commence the tree light-up and meet the children in a Santa’s Workshopstyle Christmas market.
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McKenzie hopes people from the lake If they have floats, we’d like to see them get communities will get involved with the down here. And other royalty from the other festivities, especially by signing up for the communities, because we have the Lady of parade. the Lake here,” says Worsley. “We can have walkers, we can have The most important thing for both organizations, it can be anything. We want Worsley and McKenzie is that this event to make it a big event,” says Katherine will bring the community out to participate Worsley, Coordinator for Cowichan Lake and have a lot of fun. District Chamber of Commerce Visitor “We’ll take sign-up right up until Nov. Business Centre. “Everyone’s welcome.” 26, the Wednesday before the event,” says For McKenzie and Worsley, the bigger Worsley. If you enter the parade, make sure the celebration the better. Many local to tell organizers what type of vehicle you’ll organizations and clubs have already been have and what your float will be. asked to participate including the ATV club, The event is also looking for volunteers the Retreads, Fire Rescue from around the to help in many different ways. lake, cadets who live in the area and more. If you are interested in signing up or Invitations have also been extended to volunteering, stop by the Cowichan Lake organizations from Duncan and Ladysmith. District Chamber of Commerce and Visitor INTRODUCING SONATAPark. You can also call “Schnitzer Steel is one that’s lookingTHE to ALL-NEW Centre2015 at Saywell come on, and other businesses are welcome. 250-749-3244 for more information.
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