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A controversial compassion club in downtown Parksville is one of the RCMP’s priorities, but operators vow to keep serving local members. While the operator says he is not distributing pot out of this location currently, the RCMP have called the Phoenix Pain Management Society, which says it helps people get medical marijuana, “completely illegal,” and Cpl. Jesse Foreman confirmed Friday “we’ll do what we have to do,” in terms of shutting it down if RCMP deem there are illegal activities going on at this downtown Parksville location. “I asked if they had no violent crime or heroine addiction or cocaine to deal with,” said the society’s managing director, Akil Pessoa, after a meeting with Oceanside RCMP last week. He said he went to see the RCMP “of my own volition” after meeting with Parksville Mayor Marc Lefebvre and he said he asked both: “Why are you bullying sick people? That’s my real question. We know that we can help them, we know the country’s going in a direction that will allow them to be helped.” Pessoa said the RCMP “told me we will be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the federal law, as well as having the full weight of the Controlled Substances Act thrown against us. So the scene we’re about to have, if (the mayor) has his way, is little old ladies with arthritic hips handcuffed and thrown into cars. I don’t want to see that in Parksville, it’s just a bad image.” Said Foreman: “If they are selling drugs out there, it’s illegal. If the police chief and mayor are in agreement, it’s a priority of the Oceanside RCMP.” See PESSOA PLEDGES, page A7

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DELIVERING THE HAGGIS: The traditional Haggis was carried in at the 25th Annual Robbie Burns Day celebration at Legion Branch 76 in Qualicum Beach on Saturday. Doing the honours, above from left to right, were Richard Paugh, Bruce Diack, Hellen Waller and Wilma Stevens. For more photos from the event, visit www.facebook.com/PQBNews.

ALPACA MAULED TO DEATH IN ERRINGTON

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Another alpaca has died in Errington after being brutally torn apart and left to die. The owner suspects a dog — or pack of dogs — roaming freely in the neighbourhood. Skye Donald said she returned to her 13-acre property in Errington Thursday afternoon to find her oldest, alpha-female alpaca slaughtered.

“I saw something on the ground that was white, got my binoculars and just had a feeling,” she told The NEWS. “During the brief time we weren’t at home the dog(s) must have come in (to my property) — we saw paw prints.” Donald now has 19 alpacas — one less than last week — nine sheep and chickens on her farm. It’s the second casualty for Donald, who lost an alpaca last year in a similar

situation. “These are dogs — they don’t kill the animal before eating it,” she said. Donald said dogs killing livestock is emotional, stressful and, unfortunately, not an uncommon story in the area. And now she’s calling for change. “I’d like to see some kind of municipal discussion on this. Let’s have a community forum run by the Regional District of Nanaimo to discuss this.” See LOOKING, page A7

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Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay is officially a director on the Island Corridor Foundation board representing the Regional District of Nanaimo. McKay’s appointment was confirmed Thursday at his first board meeting hosted in Nanaimo. According to a news release issued by the ICF, McKay completes the term of former Nanaimo councillor and RDN director Ted Greves. “I’m glad to be on the board,” he told The NEWS. “I really believe in the railway but we have to be patient and let it work through the regulatory process.” The ICF is a federally registered charity established for the purposes of owning and managing the former E&N Corridor on Vancouver Island. The board’s membership is made up of people from the five Island regional districts and 14 First Nations that the corridor passes through. McKay said “there are too many jurisdictions where they’ve ripped up a track and 50 years later are kicking themselves for doing it.” He said he sees “commercial and business opportunities” in the future of rail. “It’s a very expensive proposition to get ships in and out of Vancouver and there is significant congestion,” he explained. “It’s only a matter of time until we see traffic that wants to go across Vancouver Island to Port Alberni, to and from Asia, they have the capacity. I think loading and offloading ships in Port Alberni will be a bid deal, never mind tourism.”

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Qualicum-Parksville Kiwanis Housing Society president Pat Weber, left, accepted a $1,000 donation from Qualicum Beach Lawn Bowling Club president Ken Davies Saturday at the site of construction for the Kiwanis Affordable Housing Project.

KIWANIS AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT

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The Qualicum Beach Lawn Bowling Club exercised some neighbourly spirit Saturday, donating $1,000 to the Kiwanis Affordable Housing Project, a development right beside the club. Construction is well underway and Qualicum-Parksville Kiwanis Housing Society president Pat Weber says he’s “excited” about its progress. “It’s a whole new concept really,” he said. “It’s new for Qualicum Beach.” Weber said the project is expected to be complete this spring. Once finished the Kiwanis Affordable Housing Project will see 34 apartments replace the aging 20-units that were at the site. Twenty-four of the units will be one-bedroom and 10 will be two-bedroom apartments. The new development is meant to provide options for seniors and families with low to

moderate incomes in the area. The previous housing complex was seniors-only. People interested in living in the new units are encouraged to stop by Rodway and Perry to pick up an application. Weber said rent is expected to be around $200 below market rent, however, he won’t know final numbers until the development is closer to completion and all donations are collected. He said the project has been “very well received by individuals” in the community, who have rallied ongoing support since the beginning. The Town of Qualicum Beach has committed to matching all dollars raised up to $250,000. Starting this week, if you want to make a donation to the project, you can shop locally and donate through the “round up for my neighbour” program and donate your Q-points at Qualicum Foods.

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Experts called for moratorium One of report’s authors says it was a mistake to issue licences CANDACE WU news@pqbnews.com

A retired government biologist wants to see Deep Bay’s seaweed harvest halted. Ross Peterson has been calling for a moratorium on the controversial harvest since 2013, when the biological review Seaweed Harvesting on the East Coast of Vancouver Island B.C. was first released. Peterson is part of the team of experts who prepared the review, which has fueled an ongoing debate between those who oppose the harvest fearing environmental degradation and those who support the harvest for its economic potential. He called it “a mistake” for the government to give out harvesting licences in the first place with a “lack of scientific understanding” about the impacts of removing large quantities of seaweed from the beach. In 2007, the Ministry of Agriculture started a pilot project issuing harvesting licences. Seaweed harvesters are after a red algae called Mazzaella japonica, believed to be a foreign species rich in carrageenans — a compound used as a gelling and thickening agent in an array of products from cosmetics to pharmaceuticals. The carrageenan market is estimated to be worth $700 million worldwide. “We’re dealing with a new extractive industry in this province, and from an ecological point of view, our assessment of what has happened elsewhere with this industry shows we should proceed cautiously and understand the ecological nature before (harvesting) licences are issued,” said Peterson. Late last year, the ministry granted Vancouver Island University’s Deep Bay Marine Field Station a contract to study the controver-

sial seaweed harvest and research efforts are now underway. A final report is slated for completion by March 25. But Peterson said the scope and time allotted to the research is “inefficient.” He said “you can’t call it a formal impact study because of its narrow scope and length of time.” While Peterson admits VIU’s research efforts are “a step in the right direction,” he believes the harvest should be completely halted until a long term formal environmental assessment is undertaken — something that could take years. “I’m not faulting their (VIU’s) work, I’m faulting people’s impression that this is more than what it is,” he said, criticizing the government for prematurely issuing seaweed harvesting licences. “A lot of people could have undertaken this (a formal environmental assessment) but apparently that was never a consideration by the province who seemed anxious to get a new industry underway,” said Peterson. “Perhaps it was because of jobs, revenue, I really have no idea … but their decision wasn’t science-based and it should have been.” Bill Veenhof, who represents Deep Bay/Bowser, said he doesn’t want to see the harvest, or VIU’s study, come to a stand still at this point in the game. “I think it’s a huge step forward from where we were three or four years ago,” he told The NEWS. “I don’t think I’d support a moratorium, I want to see the harvest in place while they (VIU) are doing their research.” Project lead Brian Kingzett said a moratorium would defeat the study’s purpose. “We’re trying to study the harvest, and what the effect of the harvest is, if there’s a moratorium there is no point in doing the study,” he said, adding that the harvest is “proceeding cautiously.” Read the full story ONLINE at www.pqbnews.com

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A local member of the Arbutus Toastmasters club, Matt Breedlove, says he is extending a challenge and a welcome to Parksville Qualicum Beach residents to come and speak or hear what’s on people’s minds on Monday, Feb. 2. The annual Toastmasters Challenge is set to start at 6:45 p.m. on Feb. 2 at the Parskville Community and Conference Centre. Toastmasters say club members will

briefly show how Toastmasters can build confidence in speaking and leadership, then open Parksville’s much-anticipated soap box event. In previous years, the annual soap box event has attracted as many as 60 participants and audience members, so people are encouraged to arrive early. Speech topics have included everything from politics to New Years resolutions.) For more information, call Breedlove 250 954-9033 or check our the club’s website, http://arbutus.toastmastersclubs.org/

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Wildflower hasn’t abandoned River’s Edge app Wildflower Marijuana CEO William MacLean says his company has not withdrawn its application to build a medical marijuana facility in the rural River’s Edge community, despite reaching a deal for land within the City of Parksville. The River’s Edge community rallied together in opposition to Wildflower’s plan and delivered a petition with more than 300 signatures on it to the Regional District of Nanaimo, which later sent

a letter to Health Canada supporting the residents, who cited concerns over aquifer, groundwater, traffic and security. “We have not removed our other (River’s Edge) application,” MacLean wrote in an e-mail to The NEWS on the weekend. “We will try one last time to meet with Health Canada, but will have closure one way or another within a couple weeks at the latest.” There was a report in at least one other

media source that Wildflower was going to abandon its plans for the River’s Edge property. Based on that, Lehann Wallace, a Rivers’ Edge resident who led the movement against Wildflower, said she’s “pretty happy about it.” Wallace told The NEWS: “I think that when 300 people are opposed to something in their backyard the magnitude of that opposition really had no other outcome than this.”

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“If they are doing nothing in that building to contravene the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, it wouldn’t be a priority,” said Foreman. Pessoa said despite his surprise at Lefebvre’s position, “I actually have some sympathy for him. I actually feel bad that the whole thing blew up in his face. He was just caught unaware.” But now Pessoa said he wants Lefebvre and the RCMP to “just shake their heads. I hope they realize they’re fighting on the wrong side of history. I hope the whole thing just goes away so we can serve some people, because in the end — not even in the end, we’re currently serving them, we’re going to continue serving them — and in the end we’ll be serving them here.” Pessoa also expressed concern at Lefebvre’s “very high level of deference to the RCMP, which is fine, but they weren’t elected.” Lefebvre told The NEWS “I respectfully told (Pessoa and associates), they were telling me about their non-dispensing services, types of products for different ailments and I fully understand that but we (the city) take our advice from the RCMP and what they are doing is illegal.” “They (the RCMP) said it’s illegal so it’s illegal,” Lefebvre said Friday. “Whatever the RCMP tell me, the city will comply.” Pessoa said Phoenix is not currently dispensing cannabis products through their Parksville branch at 120 Middleton Ave., but re-directing people to its Nanaimo location or finding other ways to help people with “proven medical ailments” get “the medicine they need.” He said he asked Lefebvre and the police: “What are we doing that’s illegal? We’re providing information. It’s

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freedom of association and free speech and we’re just bringing information and education. I’d like to understand what the issue is.” But Lefebvre said that while Pessoa called it “a grey area,” Lefebvre said “If it’s not legal, it’s illegal.” The mayor was asked if his support for the Wildflower Inc. proposal for a medical marijuana growing facility on city-owned property in the industrial park, coupled with his opposition to the compassion club, constituted conflicting messages. “First of all it’s apples and oranges,” said the mayor. “Wildflower would be sanctioned and approved by Health Canada. You won’t be able to go to Wildflower and say I want a few grams of marijuana.” “The sad thing is we’re on the same

side,” Pessoa said. “I don’t want people walking around high all day, I don’t want kids smoking, I don’t want drug dealers in the alley.” Amanda Orum, mid-Island riding organizer for Sensible B.C., met with Pessoa and The NEWS Friday and stressed the idea that the whole province and country is moving towards decriminalizing, but the laws still have to catch up. She pointed to the 2012 Union of B.C. Municipalities’ resolution to decriminalize. “When I hear that our compassion clubs are being threatened, that goes against what our elected ancestors have said.” She also pointed to places like Vancouver where “police have indicated that dispensaries are not a priority.” Jamie Shaw, president of the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries, told The NEWS that compassion clubs “continue to exist for the same reasons they started: there are some very ill people whose lives can be greatly improved by cannabis, and due to the legal status of this plant as a controlled substance, they either can’t access it, can’t access it affordably, can’t access it in a form that works, can’t access it safely, or consistently, or can’t access a safe supply without dispensaries existing.” Said Pessoa: “What I’m hoping is, in the end, (Lefebvre) takes the position of doing the best service for the community he’s elected to serve.” Lefebvre said the only community response he’s received is one e-mail questioning why the compassion club is illegal. Pessoa pledges to be at every Coffee with the Mayor session, Thursdays at 2 p.m. at city hall, for discussion.

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Donald admits the Area F community, which includes Coombs, Errington, Hilliers, Whiskey Creek and Meadowood, has long advocated for less rules than more — but now it might be time to change that. “Is our freedom from rules more important than our freedom to keep livestock?” she asked. “If the community thinks it’s time for a bylaw, let’s get that going.” Donald said she wants to have a conversation about the implementation of some kind of animal control bylaw that would make ‘dogs at large’ an offense. She said this may require dog licensing, but right now there is no bylaw against dogs roaming freely. RDN director Julian Fell, who represents the community, called the ongoing issue “a headache.” Fell said it’s almost impossible to deal with dogs because of the precedents. “The way the law is at the moment a farmer has to catch the dog in the act of actually attacking their livestock,

which is very hard to do,” he explained, adding “there’s also a frustration with identifying the dog itself because a lot of them look alike and tend to bolt when chased and don’t come with licence plates … unless you can identify a dog it’s hard to take action.” Fell said “dogs by nature are predatory and livestock by nature are prey.” But he said the power lays at the provincial level. “The province calls the shots and local government can only do what they allow us to do,” said Fell. “It’s a B.C.wide issue and livestock producers in the Cariboo are just as upset.” Fell said the RDN is fully aware of the frustrations of residents “but it always goes back to provincial legislation.” Optimistically, he said RDN staff have been in conversation with the province about changing legislation to better protect farmers. Janet Thoney, president of the Coombs Farmers’ Institute, sits on the Agricultural Advisory Committee. She says Donald’s story is “infuriat-

ing. This isn’t a one-off event,” she said sympathetically. “We deal with this on a daily basis.” Thoney called the problem “complex,” but said regulations are under review and farmers, like herself, are providing input on behalf of their communities. “Our constant message we are giving all legislative bodies is that the laws seem to put the onus for remedy on the livestock owner, not dog owner, and we’re asking that anytime they look at reviewing or rewriting legislation that focus be changed,” she explained. “The responsibly has to be put on the dog owner, not the livestock owner to build better fences or have better management practices or to run out and take photos of offending dogs, that’s all putting the burden on the livestock owner.” Thoney said she couldn’t speak to what kind of changes are in the works right now, but remains hopeful that farmers like Donald will one day have legislation that protects their livestock and livelihood.

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Re: John Harding’s editorial in the Jan. 15 edition of The NEWS. I am a concerned local citizen and member of Communities to Protect Our Coast and not a paid, full-time employee or tree-hugging anarchist as your term “professional protester” suggests. Several of the citizens heading up our organization originate from Alberta, some with offspring working in ‘the patch’. They are united in our cause because they have chosen to take their heads out of the sand to see the broader picture, something the federal government has failed to do. All energy is cyclic. With the sophistication of modern extraction techniques in Alberta and the United States, oil has been pushed past its ‘sell by’ date leaving it vulnerable to global politics and economics. The cost to the environment is enormous. Canada has no plan ‘B’. As Canadians, we are not celebrating the struggles in the tar sands, there are difficult times ahead for all of us. BILL VINTON Parksville

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The great water depths in the trenches allows for the generation of tsunamis, which can be particularly destructive against low-lying shorelines, as witnessed by events in Japan a few years ago. There is no trench off western North America. The main feature here is a series of laterally moving (transcurrent) faults which run from western California up to the ocean west of Vancouver Island. About 20 years ago, the Candlestick Park earthquake, at magnitude seven, killed or injured about four hundred people. In this area, the earlier quake off Campbell River was considerably stronger, and recently there have been a couple of biggies, of magnitude eight, off Haida Gwaii. None of these caused direct loss of life or significant damage. The probable reason is that western California is composed of young soft rock while British Columbia has a base of hard, igneous and metamorphic rocks which transmit stress in a different way. The waters off British Columbia are probably too shallow to allow significant tsunami development, and even passing ones, like that from the huge 9.2 Alaska quake, which drowned more than 100 people, and then passed down our coast to drown another 12 in California, did little damage here, other than at Port Alberni. In short, we really have had it pretty good and hopefully will continue to do so.

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NOT CONSULTED RE: FACILITY KEEP EARTHQUAKES IN WILDFLOWER Shame on you Parksville city council. PERSPECTIVE Council did not give Craig Bay residents The threat of “The “Big One” is discussed periodically in the press (The NEWS, Jan. 13, for example) but none of these accounts also state that B.C. is one of the safest places to be within the Pacific “Ring of Fire.” The most dangerous parts are where plate tectonics have formed deep offshore trenches. Japan and Chile are examples. During the 20th century, Chile had about 80 quakes ranging from seven to 8.5 in magnitude. These areas also suffer from volcanic eruptions, which can be deadly.

a chance for input into the land sale deal with the company that proposes a medical marijuana facility in the Parksville Industrial Park. This location is within walking distance of the 420 homes in Craig Bay Estates. The city is talking of water shortages — how does that fit into the scheme of all the water usage needed for the proposed marijuana facility? JOAN MCCULLY Craig Bay

MARC LEFEBVRE, Mayor,

JOE STANHOPE Chairman,

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I belong to a lot of charity groups, I might go down if they do something. PAM GELDART Parksville

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There are about 200 members who are benefiting from the classes offered at the Parksville Taoist Tai Chi clubhouse. At an open house event January 25, Richard Botham and Sigrid Kellas explained what the objective of the group is and how practising Taoist Tai Chi can enhance anyone’s life. Sigrid explained that although there are many moves to learn, they have accredited instructors as well as teachers in each class who help people follow the moves. She said it is a form of exercise that even people with limited mobility can do and because all of your senses are engaged, it is fantastic for your health. Richard said people who can’t stand can attend the health recovery classes on Thursday mornings where the moves are done sitting down. There are several classes offered six days a week at the studio. He encourages people of all ages to give it a try and because there are so many moves he said you have to take more than one class to give it a fair shake. In the beginner classes you will explore the principles of the training and its movements and then progress to the continuing classes. The Parksville clubhouse is located at 491A East Island Highway. Email: parksville@taoist.org for more details. Despite the fact that ice hockey is dominated by males these days more women and girls are playing the game in unprecedented numbers. In fact on January 25 a whopping 31 girls age 12 and under got into full hockey gear and enjoyed the thrill of playing Canada’s favourite game at Oceanside Place Arena. The Oceanside Icebreakers female hockey program hosted the free event in hopes of encouraging more girls to try the great game of ice hockey. It took a team of volunteers to get so many kids dressed for the session. The gear was on loan from some of the teams in the female league. Several coaches and mentors spent time with the girls explaining the game, and teaching them the skills needed to play the game. Four year old Lynden Dragani of Parksville was the youngest female on the ice. She recently joined the Hockey Rascals program at Oceanside Place but her dad says there are way more boys than girls in that group. He brought her to the girl’s only session to let her see she isn’t the only gal in town who loves to play hockey. For women who are a bit older, the Oceanside Women’s Hockey League offers a fun league for women of all abilities. Women new to hockey or who do not want to travel to play hockey are encouraged to join the OWHL. On Monday nights at the arena from 7:45pm to 8:45pm there is free youth drop-in hockey for kids ages 13 to 15. Pond hockey is played on the full sheet of ice and is a fun non-contact game for all skill levels. Boys and girls are welcome and no gear is required except a helmet. Skate rentals are free and sticks and helmets are also available.

Ballenas band teacher Rick Robson (middle) was among the fans treated to the amazing rhythms of Latin band Locarno at the Errington Hall Jan. 17. Rick has mentored a lot of talented band students and he was especially impressed with Locarno’s trombone and trumpet section. Rick who spent most the night on the dance floor admitted he wished he could have joined the band on stage but was happy to get a selfie with them.

(left to right) Heather Fraser and Sue Dabbs of Oceanside Hospice were delighted when Wendy Carrier and Jim Reid of the Craig Bay Choristers dropped by Valhalla with a cheque for a whopping $1868. The money will help support the new Oceanside Hospice on-call child and youth bereavement councillor. The Hospice Memory Tree campaign raised more than $10,000 and will go towards bereavement services.

Regine Eder (left) from the Errington Therapeutic Riding Association (ETRA) gladly accepted a cheque in the amount of $1500 from RBC investment advisors Mike Hoskins (middle) and Oliver Sayah (right). The ETRA has been helping improve the physical and mental well-being of people with a wide range of disabilities. Therapeutic riding not only provides exercise, it gives riders a sense of achievement and self-worth.

Neil McCulloch of Glasgow, Scotland grew up listening to his parents quote the poems penned by the country’s best loved bard so it is no wonder he is a frequent speaker at Robbie Burns suppers. McCulloch who calls Qualicum Beach home gave the address to the haggis at the Robbie Burns dinner Jan. 22 at The Gardens retirement home. His ode to Scotland’s notorious national dish was delivered with much enthusiasm.

(Back left to right) Sigrid Kellas and Richard Botham are the co-leaders of the Parksville branch of Taoist Tai Chi. They demonstrated a few of the 108 moves of the practice along with recovery class instructor Cliff Roberts (left) and student Margaret Whitford (right) at an open house event Jan. 25. Whitford who suffered a stroke a year ago says Taoist Tai Chi has helped with her recovery and she does the moves sitting down.

She shoots … she scores. These enthusiastic hockey players spent Sunday afternoon at Oceanside Place bonding and supporting 31 young females who turned out for a free hockey try out. (left to right) Coach Shayna Twamley, four year old Lynden Dragani and 17 year old Ballenas student Erin Pickup who plays with the North Island Impact team practised drills including stick handling, stopping, passing and net minding.

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Producing seeds is fun and ‘empowering’ Most of Sugar Shack Seeds products are cultivated from open-pollinated, nonGMO, non-hybrid plants JESSICA SKELTON reporter@pqbnews.com

You’d think a business owner wouldn’t want her customers to copy her product, but that’s exactly what Lorelie Shoesmith, owner of Sugar Shack Seeds, encourages. The Parksville seed producer and seller said she hopes fellow gardeners also save the seeds they collect from the vegetables grown from her products. “You’re going to get from that one seed, a hoard of seeds,” she said, calling the process “fun” and “empowering.” “It’s a more affordable way to go.” However, Shoesmith also knows that not everyone wants to put in the work of preserving their garden. This is why, and how, she said Sugar Shack Seeds stays in business. Each year, Sugar Shack Seeds produces a large selection of veggie, fruit, herb and flower seeds for customers to choose from. Shoesmith said she has even worked to incorporate not-so-common heirloom varieties, as well as plants that like our climate (making them less fussy and easier to grow) to her catalogue over the past five years. Most of Sugar Shack Seeds products are cultivated from open-pollinated, non-GMO and non-hybrid plants that

Shoesmith grows in green houses and gardens behind her home. As a certified organic master gardener, Shoesmith uses effective micro-organisms, lasagna beds and compost to organically grow her seed plants; however, she hasn’t bothered to get official certification for her operation. “I am a small grower with a deep avoidance of anything that is not natural for my gardens and formal training on how to grow organically … I take great pride in growing this way, and have not been interested in getting the paperwork to become certified,” she explained. “There is a lot of documentation, record keeping, yearly inspections, additional costs … and takes up to 36 months to become certified.” That being said, the Nanoose Edibles seeds that Shoesmith sells through her company are certified organic as that farm has official accreditation. Sugar Shack Seeds also sells products from Crazy Dog Farm (now Boots ’n’ Roots Permaculture Farm), which isn’t certified but helps Shoesmith to offer a larger variety of seeds to her customers. While the gardening side of things happens during certain seasons, Shoesmith said the rest of the year is far from quiet. Running Sugar Shack Seeds is a year-round job filled with planning gardens, picking and cleaning seeds, cataloguing, packaging and labelling products, going to seed events, maintaining a website and blog, taking photos and selling seeds. She even does her own ger-

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Lorelie Shoesmith, owner of Sugar Shack Seeds, kneels in her kale garden. The openpollinated, non-GMO and non-hybrid plants will produce seeds that Shoesmith sells to gardeners. Her company has a large collection of vegetable, fruit, herb and flower seeds.

mination testing to ensure the success of her seeds and will be starting an informative newsletter in the near future. “I love it,” she said of her work. “I’m feeling pretty good about this year.” As Sugar Shack Seeds is a homebased business, Shoesmith mainly sells seeds on her website (sugarshackseeds. com). However, she also said that her seed room — a cool room in her basement filled with products preserved in

sealed envelopes and airtight mason jars — is open for customers to browse by appointment. Anyone interested in picking out their seeds in person can simply email info@sugarshackseeds.com or call 250-951-0601 to book a time. Shoesmith also has a seed rack at KenDor and will be at the upcoming Seedy Saturday on Feb. 7 at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre. The event is from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and admission is by donation.

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Canada Revenue Agency looking for volunteers Volunteers are needed to help file simple income tax returns for people in the community, as part of the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP). To volunteer, individuals must be willing to be affiliated with a community organization and have a basic understanding of income tax. We are also seeking community organizations to host tax preparation clinics in communities throughout British Columbia (B.C.). Volunteers and community organizations

are especially needed on Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and surrounding areas. For more than 40 years, community organizations and their volunteers have offered free tax preparation clinics in various locations including, schools, churches, seniors’ residences, and nursing homes. Community organizations find the CVITP an excellent way to reach out to seniors, students and newcomers to Canada, by helping to complete tax returns for those with modest incomes and

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Love is in the air at the Village Theatre as ECHO Players prepare for its upcoming show The Last Romance. The romantic comedy about finding love later in life will open just before Valentine’s Day. “It’s comedy; it’s touching; it’s about the autumn of people’s lives,” said Alan Clift, the productions lead actor. “Romance can occur at any age.” Set in present-day New Jersey, The Last Romance tells the story of an older Italian-America named Ralph. On an ordinary day, the widower decides to take a different route on his walk and meets the elegant, yet distant Carol in a park. He jumps on the unexpected chance for love and sets about wooing the reserved woman in her 70s with his boyish charm, all while having to deal with the jealousy of his sister, Rose. Ralph’s love of opera is also thrown into the mix — including a story about how he auditioned at the Met in his youth — and a younger version of himself appears onstage during scene transitions to sing excerpts of various arias. “It’s light, but it has some other layers,” said director Thea Stavroff, who lists loyalty, loneliness, aging and being young at heart as some of the themes found within the play. “It was something I could sink my teeth into and work with the actors on.” The Last Romance was written by Joe DiPietro, who is best known for the Broadway hit I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Another of DiPietro’s plays Over the River and Through the Woods was well-received by local audiences when ECHO

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Players staged it a couple of seasons ago. Like many of his shows, The Last Romance promises to deliver a lot of laughs. “There’s so many places where it’s written with so much humour,” said Stavroff. “It’s gentle humour, clever humour; there’s wacky situations that occur.” The four-person cast bringing The Last Romance to life is split 50/50 with new and returning ECHO Players. Long-time company member Alan Clift, who has won Theatre B.C.’s best actor award four times, will bring Ralph to life. In fact, Clift said he and the character have a particular bond. “He’s

80 years of age … same as me,” he said. Clift is excited to be back onstage after a recent bout with cancer. “I got sick; took a sabbatical,” he said. “I’m OK now.” Another long-time ECHO Player, Aviva Fox, will play Carol. She has been with the group nine years. Gwendolyn Flynn, who comes with some acting experience in Campbell River, will play Rose in her first performance with the company. Also new to ECHO Players is Liam Robertson, a 23-year-old opera singer currently based in Nanaimo who has taken on the role of young Ralph.

“I wasn’t sure if I was going to find an opera singer that could pass as a young Ralph,” admitted Stavroff. “He has an amazing deep bass voice that resonates around the theatre.” The Last Romance runs Feb. 12 to Mar. 1, with evening shows Wed.-Sat. at 7:30 p.m. Matinees are on Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $19 for adults, $16 for seniors 65 and over and $10 for students with valid ID. They are available at the Village Theatre Box Office (110, West 2nd Ave., Qualicum Beach and 250-752-3522) Tues. through Sat. from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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A concert featuring two stellar musical acts is part of the opening gala for this year’s Brant Wildlife Festival on Feb. 28. Towers and Trees, an indie-folk collective from Victoria, and Royal Tusk, a five piece pop-rock band out of Edmonton, will be performing at the Parksville Community and Conference Centre in a fundraiser for the 25th annual Brant Wildlife Festival. Megan Olson of Arbutus Events has partnered with Brant organizers to make the festival’s opening night event epic. With Towers and Trees as the head-

liners, the show will have no shortage of Coast has been many years in the making energy, and there will be plenty of room and according to Chalifour, a gifted lyrifor dancing with the PCCC as the venue. cist and performer; in putting their new Towers and Trees materialized from project together the band has undergone Victoria’s music scene a metamorphosis. The music is very dynamic on the strength of their “The music is very infectious live energy, and is what we have evolved dynamic and is what into. I feel like, as a song rich sound and earnest we have evolved into. I writer, this is my shot at song writing. feel like as a song writpainting the ceiling of the er this is my shot at What started out as Sistine Chapel painting the ceiling an exercise in redempADRIAN CHALIFOUR tion for Adrian Chaliin the Sistine Chapel. four, the band’s driving So we have really big force and front man, ambitions with this alhas resulted in a brand new full-length bum and that is why it has taken a lot CD, the majority of which was recorded longer than we thought it would. We in Nanoose Bay and is being released to- are realizing we just want to create the day. biggest, boldest, fullest thing possible The album which is called The West so that it is almost a challenge for us to

create that scale when we are playing it live,” he emphasized. It wasn’t that long ago when Chalifour recorded a handful of his songs in the living room of his apartment with the help of some stellar musicians. That first recording session resulted in the Broken Record EP, a collection of six songs which was released in 2011. A year later, the group went from a near-solo project to an eight-piece indie-folk powerhouse and in 2013 the group’s single Montreal received significant radio airplay. He said the new album has taken a lot longer to produce, but tells a full range of stories and encapsulates the sound they have developed on stage. See EARLY BIRD, page A24

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“There isn’t another Montreal on this album, which is cheeky and groove driven. The new album is a little more emotionally earnest. There are big moments on it and there are high energy moments on it,” he agreed. He said the flavour and themes of where they are going as a band is reflected in the new album. “It is like a breath of fresh air from that push period that went through all of 2013 and into 2014 with our tour, to just stop and take a breath and also just turn inward and find the joy and fulfillment of getting creative again.” 2013 was a tide turning year for Towers and Trees. They earned VIMA and M Awards award nominations and appeared at several of BC’s premier music festivals. They were also finalists in Music BC’s Peak Performance Project which resulted in the band making some important music connections. Chalifour said meeting and eventually working with producer/engineers Alex Aligizakis, a Peak Performance Project mentor, was serendipitous and their collaboration solidified the flavour of the album. Aligizakis honed his production skills in the Vancouver studio scene, but now lays down

tracks for several BC bands in his Nanoose Bay studio. Chalifour said they recorded quite of bit of their new album with Aligizakis. “At first I thought he was a Vancouver cat and it turns out he has a full studio in Nanoose Bay,” he said. “We tracked a big chunk of the album at Electric City Sound in Victoria and we have done a lot of the over-dubs and finish ups at Alex’s place in Nanoose. In meeting Alex and already knowing what the themes of the album were … for me in my head that was kind of an acclamation of knowing that this feels right. “It is amazing when you are tracking vocals and looking out the window at the ocean because it is right on the water.” Chalifour says now they want to share their new music in their live show and the band is looking forward to celebrating their songs as well as the Brant geese at next month’s concert in Parksville. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the music starts at 8:30 p.m. with Royal Tusk as the opening act. The early bird ticket price for the 19 plus show is $20 until Jan. 31. On Feb. 1 they will cost $25. To purchase tickets visit arbutusevents.ca or stop by the PCCC, Soak Essentials, Parksville and ReVived Vintage, Qualicum Beach.

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It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Ernie Harris who leaves behind his (1936-2015) wife Dorothy; children Doug (Maggie) of Qualicum, Gerry It is with great sadness the family announces the (Calanthie) Courtenay, twoJanuary 19, 2015 at passing of Lloyd, on Monday, grandchildren andGeneral six great Nanaimo Regional Hospital at the age of 78. grandchildren. Loving husband of 18 years to Hazel; predeceased Ernie longLena; time father legion to Linda and Lorn; by hiswas first awife member, WWII grandfatherveteran to Derek;ofgreat-grandfather to Katerina (Navy) and and saw a action Atlantic. and Jessica; brotherinto the ErlingNorth and Richard. He resided in Parksville Lloyd will also be missedsince by his1943. nieces, nephews and extended family well as on his Friday, many close friends. A reception willasbe held January 30th, at Branch A1:00pm Memorial Service 49 willLegion, be heldParksville. in Lloydâ€™s honour at 2:00 pm on Thursday, January 29thÂ at the Yates Funeral Chapel, 1000 Allsbrook Road in Parksville with a reception to follow. A private family interment was held on a previous date at (1936-2015) St. Anne & St. Edmund Cemetery in Parksville. It isTowith sadness the family announces sendgreat a condolence to the family please visitthe passing of Lloyd, on Monday, January 19, 2015 at www.yatesfuneral.ca Nanaimo General Hospital at the age of 78. YATES Regional FUNERAL SERVICE & CREMATORIUM Loving husband of 18inyears predeceased (250-248-5859) care to of Hazel; arrangements. by his first wife Lena; father to Linda and Lorn; grandfather to Derek; great-grandfather to Katerina

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Kondors take round one vs Whalers Qualicum Beach comes out ahead in crosstown battle of the high schools with Parksville T YSON TAYLOR sports@pqbnews.com

It was another installment of the cross-town rivalry between the Kwalikum Kondors and the Ballenas Whalers last Thursday night on the hardwood at KSS and it didn’t disappoint. A good crowd turned up to see the senior boys basketball teams going head to head, both looking for the all-important win and the bragging rights that go along with it. After a tough first half for both teams, the Kondors pulled off the 54-42 win in a game that was played close and physical by both sides. “It wasn’t a pretty game by any means,” Kondors coach Butch Gayton said after the win. “You gotta give a lot of credit to Ballenas, they played an excellent game defensively and played a good, physical game. They made life difficult for our team and luckily we were able to put some points up in the second half. We haven’t been in a game like that so far this season, so it’s a learning experience.” Leading the way on the night for the Kondors was Grade 11 Connor Haywood, who poured in 15 points and was a force in the paint for KSS while Grade

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Kwalikum’s Shane Craven flys through the air on his way to the hoop as the Kondors played host to the Ballenas Whalers last Thursday night. The Kondors would go on to beat the Whalers 54-42.

12 Jesse Goring chipped in with 10 points. Aaron Paetku led the charge for the Whalers, putting up 16 points, while Darien Mant had 14 points.

“Kwalikum is a tough team that has been having a lot of success this year,” Whalers head coach Kevin McMillen said. “I thought we competed very well

against them and didn’t give them an easy inch. We came out and played with a lot of toughness and energy, which was exactly what we had to do against

KSS in their own gym.” The game was supposed to take place on Friday night, instead of Thursday, but was moved ahead one day due to no referees being available Friday. “I thought the atmosphere was good, considering the last minute change,” McMillen said. “The fans were very supportive for both teams and it showed with the amount of effort all the players gave out there on the floor. It would have been nice to put up a few more points than we did, just for the entertainment part of things, but the defense was real good on both teams.” The Kondors continued to play well as they have so far this season and will look to continue heading in to the North Islands. “Every game we’ve played, we have the North Islands in mind,” Gayton said. “We’re doing what we can in practice and in games to make sure that when we get there, we’re ready to go. We’ve been building up to it all season and it’s coming up on us here in short time and we’re really excited.” See WHALERS FACE, page A31

VIJHL HOCKEY

Gens still struggling, heading into late season T YSON TAYLOR sports@pqbnews.com

The Save-On-Foods Oceanside Generals played back-toback games against the Comox Valley Glacier Kings this past weekend, looking to gain some ground in the VIJHL standings with just nine games left before the playoffs. After taking a 6-2 loss in Co-

mox on Friday, the Generals were back on home ice Saturday night for the back end of the home and home. On a night the team and its fans paid tribute to longtime equipment manager Andrew Piercy — who is leaving the team after 15 seasons — the Generals lost a close game by a score of 4-3.

“It was a tough game to lose, especially the way we played,” head coach Rob Gaudreault said. “We came out and started strong like we did on Friday night and were right there all game.” “We just couldn’t finish it off tonight unfortunately.” Prior to the game, Piercy

soul of the Generals,” Johnston said. “He’s always happy, always cheering the loudest and was right there to open that gate when you were coming off the ice.” “Everyone that’s ever been involved with the Generals is going to miss him.” See LOOKING FOR, page A30

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was presented with a Generals jersey, complete with his name on the back, from his good friend, former head coach and general manager Dave Johnston. Johnston was on hand with a few of the players from the 2008/2009 VIJHL championship winning team. “Andrew is the heart and

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OCEANSIDE REGISTRATION

Save-On-Foods, Feb. 28 and March 1 T YSON TAYLOR

to the registration. • A special congratulations It’s just about that time of year goes out to the Lamont family, again as in-person registration who won a free family spring regfor Oceanside Minor Baseball istration for attending the Annuwill be available February 28 and al General Meeting, which took March 1 at Save-On-Foods in place in November 2014. Parksville. • Also at the In-person registration 11 If you can’t AGM meeting, a.m. to 2 p.m. wait for the end of Barb Nicoll was OCEANSIDE MINOR BASEBALL February, you can presented with register online the Coach of the and receive an early bird discount. Year award. Just go to www.oceansidebaseUmpire awards were handed ball.ca and click on the “register” out to Leo Ariyama, Spencer Hanbutton. cock and Brandon Nicoll. For the in-person registration, Mike Cochrane also received you can drop by between 11 a.m. a Special Service Award for his and 2 p.m. on both days, Saturday 30 years of volunteer support to (Feb. 28) and Sunday (March 1) to Oceanside Minor Baseball. Coregister for the upcoming season. chrane has done everything from A reminder that, if your child being on the executive board to is new to minor baseball, please being in charge of field operations bring their birth certificate along in recent years.

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Andrew Piercy, left, had his final game with the Save-On-Foods Oceanside Generals this past Saturday night after being with the team for 15 years. Piercy was honored with a Gens jersey, presented to him by former Generals head coach and general manager Dave Johnston.

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With only seven games left in their schedule, the Generals will play three of those games this week, starting Thursday night against the Nanaimo Buccaneers in Nanaimo. Friday night the Generals travel down to Victoria to take on the Peninsula Panthers, the team that Piercy will be joining. Saturday, the Generals are back at home to take on the Saanich Braves. Puck drop is at 7:30 p.m. at Oceanside Place. It’s going to be a jam-packed week with practices and games, but it’s something that the team will look to take in stride. “We played good last weekend, so we’ll hope to keep that up this weekend,” forward Brendan Bilotta said. “We just have to make sure that we take care of ourselves this week. It’s different without a break between the last practice of the week

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before the weekend games.” The Generals are still searching for that elusive first road win of the season, which they’ll have four more chances to do with seven games left on the schedule. “It’s going to be a test this week, for sure,” Gaudreault said. “It’s busy with practice at the start of the week and then Thursday we jump right into the first of three games.” “These guys have been competitive all season and we’re going to be competitive again, regardless of two or three games in a week. All we have to be is more consistent and if we can do that, get everyone getting more consistent things will get better.” You can catch the action on 88.5 The Beach with Dom Abassi as the Generals travel to Nanaimo and the Victoria area on Thursday (7:15 p.m. puck drop) and Friday night (7:30 p.m.).

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DARTS

Four wins separate top darts teams

Competition heats up heading into the final leg of the local season T YSON TAYLOR sports@pqbnews.com

Just four wins separate the top two teams as the District 69 Dart Association heads into its final leg of the season. Dale Simpson and Jackie Anderson, of the Branch 76 Shooters, both played well but it wasn’t enough to overcome Steve Eckhart, who won all of his games, and the Short Sighted Crew, with the final score 25-8 in favor of the Short Sighted Crew. Larry FullDale Simpson and Jackie er, who finAnderson, of the Branch 76 ished with the Shooters, both played well men’s high but it wasn’t enough to score for the overcome Steve Eckhart. week (151) DARTS ASSOCIATION and the season, along with Chad Trouton and Mike Jacobs, all winning five games each, helped the Rocking Horse Ocheholics to a 25-8 win against the QF Straight Arrows. In a battle of the Parksville Legion, the Legion 49 Bristle Bashers got the better of the Legion Arrows by a score of 20-13. Legion Arrows’ Ruth Kovacs was named the ladies high score of the week with 130. For more information and statistics, you can check out the website at http://www.district69darts.com/. Team Wins Legion 49 Bristle Bashers Cutting Edge Dragons Branch 49 Dart Riders Short Sighted Crew Rocking Horse Oche-holics QF Straight Arrows Legion Arrows Branch 76 Shooters

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First doc in Qualicum won the Cup WENDY MAURER NEWS Contributor

For the man who was to become the first doctor in Qualicum Beach, 1898 was a pivotal year. Not only did Campbell Davidson graduate as a doctor from McGill Medical School “Cammy” played hockey for the Montreal Victorias who won the Stanley Cup that year. He and his brother Shirley were well known as “The Davidson Boys” and the Montreal Victorias managed to win the Stanley cup four out of five years, losing in 1896 then winning it back. Campbell’s father, Chief Justice Sir Charles Peers Davidson, was a long time sports enthusiast. Dr. Campbell’s paternal great great grandparents were born in Scotland in the 1770’s and immigrated to Canada. His maternal great great grandparents immigrated from the US and Scotland. Campbell was born on May 22, 1877 in Montreal and died on February 16, 1940. He is buried in the Qualicum Beach cemetery. After McGill, Dr. Davidson was a resident at Montreal General Hospital, then a ship’s surgeon travelling the world. His last ship’s service was with the C.P.R. Ocean Service between Vancouver and the Orient. He was then employed as medical officer of the Rogers Pass construction work in the Rockies. When the Qualicum Beach Hotel was taken over by military authorities during the war as a rehabilitation hospital for returning men, he was appointed to the medical staff. He later became its commanding officer. After the war he settled here with his wife Mary and son Charles & daughter Shirley. Mary Motherwell was a VON nurse at Van Anda Hospital on Texada Island, married Dr. Davidson in Sorrento in 1912. She was born in Quebec in 1878 and died in Qualicum Beach in 1962. Their house and the doctor’s surgery were located at the corner of Memorial & Hwy 19A on the site of what is now the Qualicum Beach Inn. After Dr. Davidson’s death, Mary Davidson moved to a house on East Crescent. Some of Dr. Davidson’s patients still live in Qualicum Beach.

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Mary and Dr. Campbell Davidson with daughter Shirley.

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Dr. Davidson’s home and surgery, Memorial & Hwy 19A.

Dr. Davidson’s obituary ran in The Vancouver Sun, The Daily Province, and the Comox Argus. Each is a source of information about him. “Of United Empire Loyalist stock he was a strong imperialist in outlook, and while he did not readily show his feelings at any time, his deep kindness and sympathy were known best to those who had known him during times of trouble. He seemed an integral part of post-war Qualicum and will leave a memory of community life which will long remain.” “He was a well-loved resident of this district” “The Qualicum Beach branch of the Canadian Legion paraded in full strength and lined the path to the church gate” “The Qualicum Beach schools were closed Monday as a tribute to his memory.”

The information for this column was taken from materials previously compiled by the QB Family History Society & the QB Historical & Museum Society. It is on file at the QB Archives. It is an example of how local families and groups can ensure information is available for future generations. Seeing photos, reading documents and listening to oral histories can help put dates and data found in genealogical research in perspective and give it more meaning. Consider compiling your story and contributing it to the community archives. Photos can be scanned and returned to you. For more information contact your local museum society. Qualicum Beach 250-752-5533, qbmuseum@shaw.ca Parksville 250-248-6966 manager@parksvillemuseum.cca

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The Whalers will now look to a Tuesday night match up with the top team on the Island at the AAA level, the NDSS Islanders. It’s another rare home game for the Whalers this season, with the tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight. “It’s going to be another test for our young team against another quality opponent,” McMillen said. “I was happy with our defensive effort and we are still improving defensively which is kind of scary.”

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