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DRAGONBOAT FESTIVAL takes place July 10-12.
SAVE-ON-FOODS NANAIMO Dragonboat Festival takes place at Maffeo Sutton Park Friday to Sunday (July 10-12). For schedules and events, please visit www. nanaimodragonboat.com.
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Bette Ainsworth, 86 and likely the world’s oldest dragon boat paddler, hops on her son’s Harley Davidson for a picture while trying on part of her team’s theme costume for this year’s dragon boat festival. Ainsworth, a member of Angels Abreast, has competed in every Nanaimo Dragonboat Festival since 2003.
Demons, which formed in 2013 and has gained a reputation as a team to keep an eye on. “We’re having fun, but we’re being competitive and we’re coming out hard,” Sigalet said. He credits Ainsworth
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with getting him started. “Bette Ainsworth is the reason I got into dragon boating,” Sigalet said. “She said ‘I’m going to start a youth team. Do you want to help me with this?’ I steered for that team for many years. I was the
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youngest steersperson in B.C. at one point because I was steering at 11 years old for both youth and adult teams and then I just kept going with it and now I coach.” The sport has grown extensively and become more competitive over the years. There are now about a dozen teams in Nanaimo alone and there’s a movement to get more community involved with the sport by bringing businesses and organizations on board through fundraising or trading, for example meeting space for paddling sessions, Sigalet said. Dragon boating’s oldest and youngest competitors will be at Maffeo Sutton Park with thousands of paddlers and spectators, plus all the vendors and live entertainment expected at Nanaimo’s major festivals, Friday through Sunday (July 10-12) at the Save-OnFoods Nanaimo Dragonboat Festival. For more about this year’s festival, please visit Nanaimo Dragonboat Society website at www. nanaimodragonboat.com.
Smoke from forest fires in Sechelt and the B.C. Interior that has clouded views and coloured sunrises and sunsets since Saturday will be part of life for the foreseeable future. The smoke lifted overnight Tuesday, but B.C. Ministry of Environment is predicting high-altitude smoke will keep skies hazy for at least the next several days. Earle Plain, environment ministry air quality meteorologist, said conditions have improved significantly over most south Island communities. “At ground level, where people are exposed, those concentrations have come down pretty much from Port Alberni all the way down to Victoria,” Plain said. A persistent, high-pressure ridge over the B.C.’s South Coast that has contributed to record-breaking high temperatures will have to break down to allow strong winds to form and flush smoke from the region, but there is no guarantee of that happening any time soon. “There almost looks like there’s something in the works there for the weekend,” Plain said. “Right now we’re seeing some disturbances coming for the north coast and we might see that same kind of pattern slip in here over the weekend, which would be nice, but I guess that’s, like, five days away and you know what long range forecasts are like.” The recent air quality improvement came from marine air flowing in from the south that pushed its way up the Island. Plain said as long as that push continues and northeasterly outflow winds from the B.C. Interior don’t get stronger, the region should continue to experience good air near ground level. “But you’re still going to see that smoke up above,” Plain said. High-altitude smoke has helped keep daily high temperatures to more comfortable levels this week.
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t 86, Bette Ainsworth might just be the world’s oldest dragon boater. Ainsworth is a four-time cancer survivor, going back to 1977 with a bout of skin cancer, two colon cancer occurrences and in 2006, breast cancer. She says the skin cancer doesn’t count. At an international breast cancer regatta at Sarasota, Fla., last year Ainsworth was the oldest paddler out of nine participating countries. “I think it finally got its message,” Ainsworth said. “It’s not going to get me so it may as well quit now.” Ainsworth started as a supporter for breast cancer survivor team Angels Abreast, but her motivation was the loss of her husband, not cancer. They had a power boat, which she couldn’t handle by herself after he died. She feared she might never get back on the water. Then she saw an ad for Angels Abreast. “So I went down and joined them and here I am,” Ainsworth said. She’s been competing since and 12 years ago she recruited an 11-yearold Greg Sigalet. Now 23 and one of B.C.’s youngest coaches, Sigalet guides co-ed team Angels and
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