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The City of Parksville doesn’t seem to share the optimism of provincial government officials and Island Corridor Foundation (ICF) board members when it comes to the re-start of passenger rail service. Under direction from former Mayor Chris Burger, the city stopped making its $858 monthly payments to Southern Rail for crossing rights in October of 2014. The invoices continue to come. This decision came after city council passed a motion in November of 2012, instructing its representative on the Regional District of Nanaimo’s board of directors — Coun. Marc Lefebvre, now the mayor — to vote ’no’ to funding the ICF. That 2012 motion also asked that a third-party “formal performance audit be conducted on all ICF programs and initiatives.” Parksville was out-voted at the RDN board table when it came to the ICF funding question and the performance-audit motion was also defeated by the board. On Thursday, the provincial government issued a news release saying it has affirmed its commitment to provide $7 million to the ICF to support the future of the E&N rail line on the Island. The release said the provincial funds would be released once the province has confirmed that $7.5 million in federal funding is in place and, through a tendering process, that the upgrade work can be completed within the $20.4 million it has budgeted However, Vancouver Island North MP John Duncan, the only Conservative Party MP from the Island, told The NEWS the federal money is “contingent on the province doing their due diligence. If they are good to go, we’re good to go.” See SERVICE TO QB, page A4

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ON YOUR MARKS, GET SET, PAINT: The Old School House Arts Centre (TOSH) in Qualicum Beach saw many artists in action on Saturday during the 23rd annual Grand Prix d’Art painting race. It featured 36 painters spread throughout the town painting en plein air (what they see before them). Visit www.facebook.com/PQBNews for more photos and inside today’s paper (A7) for a story about the event.

LABOUR TROUBLES IN QUALICUM BEACH

Union issues 72-hr strike notice AUREN RUVINSKY

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Qualicum Beach union employees have issued 72-hour strike notice and, while communicating, the two sides are not currently negotiating. The town’s roughly 50 union employees, members of CUPE Local 401, were in a legal strike position as of 10:25 a.m., Sunday, July 26. “They have given some notice that there will be a ban on overtime, but they could also do something more major,” Deputy Chief Administra-

tive Officer John Marsh said before the weekend. “From a management standpoint we have to prepare for the worst-case scenario,” he said, adding they could show up with pickets Sunday morning, but as of midday Monday they were not picketing. “We had a mediator in this morning, but there is no movement yet, no progress,” chief administrative officer Daniel Sailland said Monday afternoon. He said they hope to have news within 24 hours, “but we’re really just taking it one day at a time.”

Employees voted 94 per cent in favour of strike action in early May, after their contract expired in 2013. “We have just finalized the essential service order,” Local 401 vice president Laurence Amy said Friday, adding “we won’t shut Qualicum Beach down, we would like to get back to the table.” But Amy didn’t hide his frustration, explaining that the employer forced a last proposal vote, skipping the bargaining unit and going directly to the members. See TRASH COLLECTION, page A4

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What goes on land and on water? It’s not quite an amphibian, but it’s close. The Qualicum Beach Museum will be hosting a fundraiser where the public can place bets on amphibious boats. These boats are able to go on land and water, and members of the Qualicum Beach Inn staff have volunteered as contestants, coordinator Mary Brouilette said. The 2015 Community Challenge event will be happening at the Rotary Park on Aug. 20. Target shooting with water guns and stone skipping competitions will be available for the public, with bets placed on the amphibious boats and paddle board races for prizes, Brouilette said. Out of the 100 tickets available, 20 have been sold as of July 21, she said. She said the guests will place bets on the boat’s times and not on the race itself. The event starts at 6 p.m. and ends at dusk with dinner being served at 7 p.m. Next year, she said she hopes to make the races an annual event and allow the boats and paddleboards to be open for public participation. A buffet will be offered to guests with all of the food from local vendors, Brouilette said. There will be salmon provided from the local First Nations and dessert from Quality Foods. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased at the Qualicum Beach Museum. All proceeds will go to the Qualicum Beach Museum’s continuing upgrades.

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Residents of Whiskey Creek are getting a $435,000 upgrade to their water system after funding from the provincial and federal government was announced on Monday. The Regional District of Nanaimo will upgrade the existing Whiskey Creek Water System to enhance treatment capacity. Work will include expanding the facility as well as upgrading piping, disinfection equipment, and electrical and control systems. The project will help provide area residents and businesses with improved reliability and water quality well into the future, according to a news release from the federal government. The Whiskey Crteek project will cost $435,800. The provincial and federal governments said Monday they will each cover onethird of the cost ($145,000 each), with the RDN responsible for the remaining costs. “We are proud to invest in projects like these water and wastewater improvements on Vancouver Island that will benefit our community by improving much needed local infrastructure,” said Vancouver Island North MP John Duncan, the Chief Government Whip. “Our Government’s commitment to municipalities, big and small, has never been stronger.

Through the New Building Canada Plan’s Small Communities Fund, we are investing in priority infrastructure projects that have a positive and lasting impact on the quality of life of British Columbia’s residents while helping create jobs and economic growth.” The same announcement Monday included funding for a $790,000 project in Alert Bay, where about one kilometre of outdated sewer pipes will be replaced with modern sewer mains, including the associated tie-ins and sewer connections. When completed, the governments said it will help reduce the village’s sewer system operating and maintenance costs, which were rising due to more pipe collapses, and it will also reduce the handling of excess wastewater volumes resulting from infiltration into the failing system. The projects announced today are among 55 recently approved in B.C. that will collectively receive more than $128 million in joint federalprovincial funding under the Small Communities Fund. The federal government said through a news release that these projects represent important investments in municipal infrastructure that maintain safe, healthy communities. Once complete, the work will significantly improve key municipal services for residents and help boost regional development. — NEWS Staff/federal gov’t news release

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“This is a scumbag move from the employ- cently accepted two per cent annual increases. er and it failed,” Amy said, “90 per cent said ‘no He said that in the case of a full strike the esthank you’.” sential services order would maintain areas of “I’ve been involved in 40 rounds of negotia- health and safety like fire and police services tions over the last 10 years and this is only the and some essential areas around water, the airsecond time I’ve seen this, last time it backfired port and cemetery. also and they rejected it by 94 per cent.” He said the key non-essential item would be “Labour relations in Qualigarbage collection. cum Beach have been fantas“We can’t just leave the bins This is a scumbag move tic for two decades,” Amy said, out attracting rodents,” he said, from the employer suggesting this might partly be indicating the town’s eight exabout new chief administrative empt staff would likely have to LAuRence AMY officer Daniel Sailland “trying get involved. to make a name for himself.” There wouldn’t be an imThe employer clarified that they did take pact on the blue and green bins which are colan offer to the bargaining unit, who refused to lected by the RDN. take it to the members, so they went directly to Marsh admitted they are scrambling to them. sort out the potential strike impact and they Amy said he couldn’t give details but that will keep the public informed as best they can there are “sticking points around wage increas- through the process, encouraging people to es and some benefits issues, but we’re not that watch www.qualicumbeach.com or call the far apart in the scheme of things.” town office at 250-752-6921 if you need assisMarsh said their latest offer was an eight per tance. cent increase over five years and an $1,800 signAs of Monday the only strike action town ing bonus, adding that Parksville employees re- staff were taking was refusing to work overtime.

Parksville-Qualicum MLA Michelle Stilwell was asked to clarify. “We are now comfortable with the assurances we have gotten from the B.C. Safety Authority in regards to the upgrades,” she said, going further in her comments than anything said by Transportation Minister Stone in the news release. The province said planned passenger service for this corridor includes twice daily runs from Nanaimo to Victoria, service to Qualicum Beach on Wednesdays and weekends, and service to Courtenay on weekends and statutory holidays. Despite the opposition to taxpayer funding from communities like Parksville and Quali-

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Finance Critic Nathan Cullen, local candidate Gord Johns talk about election issues near and far AUREN RUVINSKY writer@pqbnews.com

NDP Finance Critic Nathan Cullen passed through last week on a tour of local chambers of commerce. That alone may surprise some people, but heading toward the Oct. 19 federal election, Cullen said the business community is eager to hear what the party has to say. “The openness from main street and Bay Street is unprecedented, their willingness to work with the NDP, the support that we got from the CFIB (Canadian Federation of Independent Business), for our jobs plan, from the manufacturer’s association, from the Canadian chamber, these are not typical NDP validators,” Cullen told The NEWS Wednesday in a conversation along with Courtenay-Alberni candidate Gord Johns. Cullen had just come from a meeting with the Nanaimo chamber and was on his way to the Parksville chamber when he stopped to speak on a wide range of issues from the environment and social programs to job creation, the downloading of infrastructure costs to municipalities and the ferry system. “The lens we’re looking through right now, in the policies we’re announcing from childcare to the small business tax cuts and infrastructure, is through the lens of job creation,” Cullen said, returning to the surprisingly business-oriented theme of the conversation. “There’s a lot of support from small and independent businesses, there’s an openness and a willingness to consider an NDP government,” he said, admitting, “Here’s how I know the game is on — the scrutiny has really picked up, people are taking us seriously.” Johns added that on top of looking strong in national polls, reconfigured for the new local riding boundaries, in the last election, the NDP would have received 41 per cent of the vote to the Conservative’s 43 per cent — a much closer race. And both said they believe that’s due to their bigger picture perspective, which includes business. “We can’t have healthy business if we don’t have healthy communities,” Johns said. “If we don’t have social programs that deliver, to create sustainable communities to support business, the rest of the

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economy doesn’t work.” all investments in oil, gas, coal and all the While touting the importance of their rest. Yet not in Canada.” $15 a day childcare plan (which will pay “The Canadian federal position is more for itself in increased productivity and drawn from 1950, not 2015,” he said, addincome tax) and promises like getting rid ing that the NDP would bring back the of the income splitting tax measures the home retrofit program and shift the $1.3 Conservatives introduced, which Cullen billion in annual oil sands subsidies disaid only helps a portion of the 15 per cent rectly to clean energy. of richest families, they were eager to turn “Let’s get on with it. B.C.’s perfect for to local issues. alternative energy — if you can’t build a “We’ve had a six fold increase in raw log clean energy economy with all that we’ve exports, which they keep telling us they got, wind, tide, solar — and a culture here can’t do anything about,” that supports trying to The lens we’re looking Cullen said. “But 97 per live within our means through right now... is cent of the raw logs that and trying to protect this through the lens of job leave Canada are from stunning environment,” creation B.C., that’s policy, that’s he said, where could NathaN CulleN political will.” you? The NDP would shift Asked about damaging the oil patch — big the federal energy policy away from subsidizing the oil sands, he in his home riding of Skeena — Cullen said. “We need to invest in renewable en- chuckled, “I don’t think the oil patch is ergy, we need to invest in manufacturing reliant on the federal subsidy… this is just to make sure we process, more jobs here free money.” at home. We know business needs a little “And our economy is interconnected,” lift and thats why we talk about our manu- Johns added. “We rely so much on the natfacturing credit.” ural environment for a big part of our econ“The happy coincidence of dealing omy, shellfish and or marine economy… with climate change is, it also helps the the gutting of Canada’s environmental laws economy,” Cullen said. “Global invest- put so much at risk, like the failure to proments in clean energy last year outpaced tect our coast from supertanker oil spills.”

Both spoke of the need for the federal government to focus on the West Coast more than they have. “John Duncan and James Lunney didn’t stand up for coastal British Colombians on transportation, on derelict vessels, on marine traffic control centres, on oil spill clean up plans,” Johns said. “This ferry service needs reform and it needs better funding because funding in the ferry service actually comes back out into the economy,” Cullen said. “If we’re able to get more traffic to places like Vancouver Island we know that brings in tourist dollars and helps support business.” He said the federal government provides subsidies to east coast transportation that they should look at for B.C. Along with having a ferry system that helps show off the coast, Cullen’s worried about the changing ocean conditions and impact on existing industries like shellfish. “The big concern is how much worse it gets — yet another reason we need a climate change strategy,” which he said the NDP has and the Conservatives have proven they don’t. “The world doesn’t move ahead if countries like Canada — with our wealth and intelligence — does nothing.” To address those concerns they want to look at things like changing the Natural Resources portfolio to focus more on value added industries. The far-ranging discussion touched on areas including a fixed proportional representation system being a priority, “so that every vote in the country counts… parties would find themselves working together more, rather than this winner takes all, divide and concur that works for people like Harper but doesn’t work for Canada.” Recently back in the news, Cullen said, “In the event of a minority parliament we’d be willing to be in a coalition to see the end of the Harper government, we’ve been clear and consistent, the Liberals are suggesting they’re not.” “This is a different moment, the level of toxicity and frustration towards this government is very high. Any party that refuses to work together would be punished by the Canadian voters. Canadians are not outrageously partisan, they don’t wake up thinking about parties, they just want good things to happen.”

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Followers of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will have an opportunity to share their input with local politicians next week. On Thursday, Aug. 6 in Parksville Community Park, a booth will be set up for members of the public to mingle with local politicians and discuss the importance of maintaining a public broadcaster. The mingle will run from 4-6 p.m. The event supported by the “Friends of Canadian Broadcasting,” who’s main goal

“is to defend and enhance the quality and quantity of Canadian programming in the Canadian audio-visual system,” according to their website. The event in Parksville is not associated with the CBC, volunteer John Racinskas said. The point is to bring public awareness to “funding (that) has been decaying,” he said. The CBC is “keeping the government honest,” Racinskas said. “You need news media to keep on top of things.” Racinskas said it’s about keeping free-

dom of speech alive and used examples of programs like The Passionate Eye on political and social issues. The mingle is put on by members of the Parksville, Qualicum Beach community. It’s a community event, he said. The event is made up of local volunteers who feel passionate towards saving the CBC. He said the point of the event is not to influence a person’s vote, or to spark candidate debates, but to bring together the community to discuss issues with funding for the CBC and why it is important to

have a national broadcaster. The event is a “grassroots” type of mingle as members of the community organize and run it, Racinskas said. His personal goal, he said, is to raise public awareness and have the issues with CBC’s funding brought up at the next election. He wants to get the politicians to pay attention to the CBC, he said. The federal government currently provides the CBC with about $1 billion in taxpayer funds annually.

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meeting last week: • Fire Chief Doug Banks provided statistics for council from the first six months of 2015 that showed medical calls jumped to 47 from 21 during the same time period last year. “There are times when there are no ambulances in the area,” explained Banks. “They are committed, on calls, so we go in and stabilize the patient.” Mayor Marc Lefebvre picked up on this part of Banks’ presentation. “I have been told by people in the medical community there aren’t enough ambulances in the city,” said the mayor. Chief banks later asked for permission to staff the fire hall with a stand-by crew daily during these extreme fire hazard days. Council unanimously provided the go-ahead.

• Council passed motions that upgraded its cheque-signing procedures and also approved a land swap to adjust property lines on Island Highway and Northwest Bay Road. • Council got behind a request from Communications Officer Debbie Tardiff for the city to be part of the Canada 150 Mural Mosiac program. See more on this story in future editions of The NEWS. • Five vacant properties that have been the source of complaints regarding overgrown grass and weeds for the past eight years were dealt with last week by city council. The city will now clean these properties up and pass along the expense for the job to the property owners. The properties in question are: 421 Morison Avenue and four properties on Moilliet Street — 119, 139, 161 and 173.

Nanaimo artist wins Grand Prix The Old School House Arts Centre (TOSH) in Qualicum Beach saw many artists in action on Saturday. The day started with an art fair and hundreds of people dropped by to watch more than 50 artists in action and enjoy live music by the Maureen Washington Quintett in the TOSH parking lot. John Hofman of Nanaimo who has not missed a single race was the winner of the

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Weather... whether we like it or not “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.”

id Samuel Langhorn Clemens say that? There’s some confusion about it, but if he didn’t, he should have. In any case, something happened on the 25th of October, 1859 (when the man who would become better known as Mark Twain was just 24 years old) which would compel authorities to finally ‘do something’ about the weather. It unfolded off the coast of Wales. A steam clipper by the name of Royal Charter was in the final leg — final day, actually — of a two month voyage from Melbourne, Australia to Liverpool. Five hundred passengers and crew were aboard, desperate to feel some solid earth under their feet. With the green and pleasant promise of England beckoning just over the horizon, spirits were soaring. But the weather was

looking... odd. The barom- dred and fifty souls perished. eter was falling and there Setting sail in the was an unearthly haze in the mid-nineteenth century distance. The captain might was always a crap shoot, no have taken shelter in a near- matter the size or seaworthiby harbour, but he elected to ness of the vessel. There was sail on. no ‘predicting’ of weather. Bad call. Indeed, when a British MP The winds ramped up suggested in the House of from trifling to hurricane Commons that amassing force and sudobservations of denly the Roywind and temal Charter was perature and struggling to other variables survive, the By Arthur Black might one day waves and allow citizens wind driving it to “know the inexorably toconditions of wards the rocks the weather 24 of Anglesey Ishours beforeland. hand” — he was Both anso thoroughly chors were ridiculed the dropped in an House had to attempt to keep the ship adjourn. offshore. The anchor chains Weather prognostication snapped. The crew chopped had not progressed all that down the masts to reduce much from the days when drag and tried to use the Ancient Roman sailors auxiliary engines to get away prayed to Jupiter and Inca from the pounding surf. priests offered human sacriThe ship’s engines roared fices to their rain god, Tlaloc. and the propellers whirled ‘Reading the weather’ was a but inch by agonizing inch matter of hunches, aching the Royal Charter was pum- joints and superstitions. meled onto the rocks and The sinking of the Royutterly destroyed. Four hun- al Charter changed all that.

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Admiral Robert FitzRoy, as chief of the new Meteorological Office in London began a system for collecting weather data at sea. He also instituted a national gale warning system. Admiral FitzRoy even had a new word for all this intelligence-gathering and data distribution. He called it ‘forecasting’. How things have changed in 150-odd years. As I type there is a shiny new four-ton weather satellite called Himawari 8 looping around our planet. The Japanese satellite is light years ahead of current weather satellites, providing detailed information on hurricanes, forest fires, lightning, volcanic activity — it even tracks global pollution. Thanks to technology we know more about weather to come than we ever have. And weather will come — whether we like it or not. At least we’ve bought some time to batten down the hatches. — Arthur Black lives on Saltspring Island. His column appears weekly in The NEWS. E-mail: arblack43@shaw.ca

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he provincial government says it is waiting for confirmation from the feds. The federal government says it is waiting for the province. Just another confusing day in the life of the Island Corridor Foundation. And we’re no closer to passenger rail service on the Island than we were three years ago. B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone pulled the old non-announcement announcement trick on Thursday. If this whole situation didn’t involve tens of millions of taxpayers dollars, it would be hilarious. Stone said “we are one step closer” to a fully operational rail service on Vancouver Island after his announcement on Thursday. What made him say this is anyone’s guess, because there was nothing new, no step closer, within the news release Stone’s ministry sent to the masses on Thursday. “The government of B.C. has affirmed its commitment to provide $7 million to the Island Corridor Foundation (ICF) to support the future of the E&N rail line on Vancouver Island,” said the lead sentence in the release, followed later by: “The provincial funds will be provided to the Island Corridor Foundation once it has confirmed that $7.5 million in federal funding is in place and, through a tendering process, that the upgrade work can be completed within the $20.4 million it has budgeted.” We called the only MP from Vancouver Island who sits on the government side in the House of Commons, John Duncan. He told us the federal money has always been there, “contingent on the province doing their due diligence. If they’re good to go, we’re good to go.” In December of 2014, a Ministry of Transportation official told us the B.C. Safety Authority had engaged a consultant to review the ICF’s upgrade plan. In that same story, Parksville-Qualicum MLA Michelle Stilwell said “safety is my first priority.” While Stilwell told us the government is now “comfortable” with what the B.C Safety Authority is saying about the upgrade plan, nowhere in the news release Thursday does it say the ICF’s plan has been given the thumbs up by the authority. Nowhere in the release Thursday does it say the ICF can actually do the upgrade work for $20 million. The release did say the plan is for service to Qualicum Beach on Wednesdays and weekends. We still don’t believe $20 million will get this service up and running, certainly not north of Nanaimo. — Editorial by John Harding

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QB just right Intended or not, John Harding’s recent editorial about the politics of development in Qualicum Beach exuded a distinct air of condescension. There are a number of people, the majority of Qualicum Beach residents, who have a different assessment of former councillors Dave Willie’s and Mary Brouilliette’s performance, and yes, they have spoken. I may have a high opinion of my own abilities and viewpoints, but if the electorate for which I am holding office, believe differently, then it is upon me to re-evaluate my own competencies and, more importantly, the way I am delivering them to others. Qualicum Beach has plodded along over the years, growing in such a way that this charming little town, which has won many national awards for its appeal on many fronts, is still an enviable place to live, just as it is. Will it grow? Yes, of course it will, but careful, monitored growth (not no growth as some would say) is responsible for having created such a place. I moved here for all the things that Qualicum Beach is, and for many of the things that it isn’t. This is the place that a good many seniors have chosen to live. This is the demographic. Get over it. These are the same people that raised you, fed you, educated you, and in many cases fought a world war, and survived, for you. At what age do we now relegate these folks to irrelevancy? Having witnessed the many games being played over the years, and yes, the petty power plays, they now see the wisdom of patience, quietude and a little beauty in their surroundings. These are the very people who shop locally while you and I hop in our cars and head to big-box stores elsewhere. These are the people who voted in the last municipal election. Maybe it’s the notion of being “dragged” into the 21st century, for our own good, that invoked the ire in us. Not only is it not true, it is arrogance in the extreme. Now, as I head down to the country store to pay my taxes, I hope they haven’t lost my sticky note again. Craig DrummonD Qualicum Beach

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Again this year, as I have for the last 40 or so, it has been very interesting to watch the battle against forest fires in this province. Millions and millions of trees destroyed by fire. And more importantly, by the stupidity of people causing said fires. It’s not a pretty sight. Three cheers to the brave and selfless people who battle these things at the risk of injury and death to themselves. These firefighters really seem to care. Hats off to them. Which brings us to the point of this letter. Where are all the environmental groups and their followers? They seem to be absent on the front lines? I have watched also for the last 40 years or so how the “save the trees” people have run amuck in this province. I have seen reports of people pounding spikes into trees that kill and maim loggers, live in trees to save them, and use lies, propaganda and borderline terrorist tactics. All under the guise of “save the environment.” Where are these people now? They seem to be absent from the fight. I keep looking for the promo photo of David Suzuki holding a fire hose or riding “shotgun” in a water bomber. Surely the Suzuki Foundation could scare up a few helpers to battle the blazes? Where is Paul Watson these days? Grab a fire hose. I thought you cared about trees. Apparently only when it’s convenient and easy and a good photo op? What about PETA, the animal champions? It’s OK to destroy peoples lives and property in the name of animals, but thousands of animals a day are being killed and displaced by these forest fires. Where are they? They could be helping keep the animals safe by doing some real good. And what about all their friends in the Sierra Club? There are thousands of them. With all that help, these fires could be licked in hours? But, no, they seem to be helping out from a very, very safe distance. If these people and groups really cared about the trees, they would be on the front lines putting their actions where there mouths are. Even if they are not capable of being on the front lines due to age, or whatever reason, they could help in a support capacity, could they not? Transportation, logistics? Bringing water and food to the real firefighters? mike Weismiller Parksville

This occurred to me as I passed a couple of people hitch hiking to Tofino with “save the trees” written on their backpack.

grEat consErvation Conservation: the action of preservation, protection, or restoration of the natural environment, natural ecosystem, vegetation, and wildlife. I am so impressed with the conservation officer who looked after the two bear cubs from Port Hardy. It is wonderful to see a person with a moral compass, who did his job as it should have been. I find the Ministry of Environment and the officials dictating orders are too quick to kill when it comes to black bears. Two incidents come to mind. I worked in the remote areas of B.C. and we had a problem with a black bear in camp. We called the conservation office and told them our concerns. Was it a grizzly? No, we said, it was a black Bear. Reply: “go ahead and dispose of it, Black Bears have no economic value.” We lived in Coquitlam for years and a poor little black bear came down from the hills and got stuck in the city. The traffic, the noise, the people gathering to watch it was just too much for the little guy. Up a tree he went and stayed there. The conservation officer was going to tranquilize him but an elementary school was about to let the kids go for the day and the sedative was going to take time to take effect. They blasted the little guy out of that tree. All they had to do was keep the children in the school for an extra 15 minutes but no. Human schedules came first and wildlife had to die. I have a difficult time reconciling a person in an office dictating a kill order to an officer who is on site evaluating the situation. Killing was not warranted. The officer in the field made a judgment call with all the facts in hand. No one in an office has the right to order a kill just because it is expedient in closing a case. That is not the purpose of a conservation officer. The two baby bears deserve a chance to live. The officer on site made the right choice. Well done. Common sense has to prevail when decisions are made. The office should have trusted their officer’s decision. And if the conservation office is still concerned then relocate those bears to somewhere remote and leave them alone. The North Island Wildlife Recovery Association will fatten them up and prepare them to go their own way when they are old enough. And that is the meaning of conservation. elaine Thompson Parksville See LETTERS, page A14

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I’m not from around here so I won’t miss it. ChrIstIna CummIng Port Alberni

I’ve lived here for two years and I’ve never been. amanda moyer Parksville

I never went so I won’t miss it. I’d rather see the Wednesday market instead. rICk Bryant Qualicum Beach

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Eat Fresh is saving water, buying locally ‘People want to know where their food’s coming from’ CARLI BERRY news@pqbnews.com

Eat Fresh Urban Market has come up with a clever way to save water. Since their renovations last year, the market has added a water-collection tank that is buried underground, said Clayton Baker, owner of Urban Market. Baker said the tank has only been empty once this year. “We were out for, I’m guessing, a week and a half (this summer), when we finally got that rain and it filled right back up again.” Baker said normally the roofs of the buildings are funneled into storm drains, but with his rooftops, the rain water is collected into a tank underground, where it is used to water the plants on the property and wash the sidewalks, when water restrictions are not in effect. He said when the tank is full, water is then placed into storm drains, but the tank holds approximately 4,000 gallons. Since Baker has been hand watering

his plants, following the water restrictions, he said there is still water available in the tank. “So we’re still making water go further.” However the water will not be used on produce. “It’s purely for the gardens… any non-food related stuff,” he said. Baker said that since he was already performing renovations on the building last summer, he thought that placing in a tank would be common sense. “It was pretty easy, I was (renovating) it to funnel all into one spot.” He said when the tank is empty the store uses the city’s water supply, but they’ve only been on city water for watering once. “We have 7,500 square feet of roof — it fills up that tank pretty fast.” Saving water isn’t the only thing Urban Market is doing for the community. Baker said he makes an effort to buy as much local produce as possible. “I pulled a report off our computer in our produce department about a week and a half ago and out of the top 10 items, 8 were local. People love local,” he said. He said the corn and garlic that Urban Market sells comes from Errington. Baker also said that he goes to the

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From left at Eat Fresh Urban Market with some local produce are manager Jerry Jaggers, owner Clayton Baker and Sally Baker.

slaughterhouses to ensure the animals are being treated fairly.

“People want to know where their food’s coming from,” he said.

COLUMN

Events in European countries should not be ignored Greece Is the Word . . . is the word, is the word. It’s got groove, it’s got meaning… I’d really like to get the song out of my head. But it’s hard when it’s all you hear about in the financial news. If Greece does eventually default and exit the Eurozone, what will it mean for our investments? Important question, I suppose. But as my mom used to say: “What has it got to do with the price of tea in China?” Still, people worry. Many remember 2008. But what was 2008? In retrospect it was a great buying opportunity — not a time to sell. Events in the Eurozone shouldn’t be ignored. Even conservative investors may have some exposure to European Sovereign debt through mutual funds, ETFs, or even shares of Canadian banks. Generally the exposure would be small;

however, in the case of an international that will be materially impacted by what mutual fund, it could be material. It is happens in the Eurozone. Companies hard to know for sure. You would hope like Starbucks, for example: A lot would that your fund manager is exercising have to happen before people stop drinkcaution. But there are no ing coffee. guarantees. Once you inAlso consider that while the news of the day may vest your money in a mutual seem discouraging, there is fund, you relinquish control good news that gets lost in over individual investment By Jim Grant the noise. Economic numselections entirely to the fund manager. It requires a bers show an improving U.S. bit of a leap of faith. economy. While not as interFor some, a better option esting as anything related to may be to invest in indiwhatever “crisis” may be taking place at a given time, in vidual companies. Running the long run it will have more a diversified stock portfolio of an impact on your investtakes more time, but can be ments. worth the effort. You know We all want to know what is going on what you are invested in, and you have more control over the associated risk. To in the world. But be sure to put it into avoid Eurozone risk, avoid companies context, and not let it derail your invest-

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ment plan. Feel free to contact me at 250-7526010 or jim.grant@raymondjames.ca for a complimentary review of your investment program. — Jim Grant CFP, CIM (Chartered Investment Manager) is a Financial Advisor with Raymond James Ltd. His views do not necessarily reflect those of RJL. This article is for information only. Management fees and expenses may be associated with exchange-traded fund investments. Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual funds. Please read the prospectus before investing. Mutual funds and ETFs are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated. Raymond James Ltd., member-Canadian Investor Protection Fund.

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Control your dog

Cubs were assessed

It’s idiot season again! I don’t remember asking if your dog was friendly, so why are you telling me? Oh yeah, because you have no control over your dog and it’s running all over the beach bothering people. Also, you yelling at it is quite soothing and tranquil to everyone around. My daughter is deaf and special needs and has been laying on the waters edge of Qualicum Beach for 18 years. She couldn’t care any less about the friendliness of your dog. As a matter of fact, she can’t hear you when you tell her. To me it’s something she should not have to worry about. To the crusty old dude who told her care worker to keep my kid away from his yappy mutt, you get the First Idiot award. To the lady who’s dog fought with another dog that was on a leash then ran up and harassed people on their beach blanket, then proceeded to run over, crap beside my daughter, then you asked my wife if she had a plastic bag, you are awarded Second Idiot. Third Idiot has to go to the woman who comes every summer, lets her little black dog run up to every one’s beach blankets everyday, while standing with hands on hips saying absolutely nothing. I once watched your neighbour take matters into his hands and went and got your dog off the beach. The list is endless and will no doubt never end. I find it’s always good to meet the owner so I can forgive the dog.

On the North Island Wildlife Rescue Centre story is a link to comment on questions editor John Harding raised about the rescued bear cubs by Bryce Casavant. I wanted to make a comment that has not appeared in the social media sites about this incident. Casavant did not follow his senior colleagues order to shoot the bear cubs, however he did not cavalierly release them or destroy. Instead, he captured them in order to do a more rigorous assessment of their potential habituation. If these bears were in fact habituated and deemed to be a problem after assessment they could have been euthanized, but at least they were given the opportunity for assessment. For pausing a moment to give the situation the needed reflection, Casavant acted with utmost integrity and responsibility. While the focus of the attention has fallen on Casavant’s suspension, why does his superior who made the call to kill the bears remain in his position without suspension pending the inquiry? What is appalling is that without the social media attention to this situation, this employee would be released of his duties with a black mark on his employment history just for thinking that maybe a life is worth fighting for if there is the chance to make a difference. CandaCe LaTham Surrey

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Local Realtor Rob Ohs has been working hard for months for the challenge of a lifetime — scaling the rugged Andes Mountains in Peru to raise money for the Haven House women’s shelter in Parksville. A Royal LePage Parksville Qualicum Beach Real Estate sales representative, Ohs is travelling with a group of 70 colleagues from across the Island to trek through the mountains to the once “lost” city of Machu Picchu at the end of the famed Inca Trail. Leaving August 14, the group will trek eight days at high altitude, tenting, without running water, electricity or cell service to raise funds for women’s shelters and long-term solutions to family violence in the hiker’s home communities. Ohs set an ambitious goal for himself, to raise $6,000 for Haven House, through the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, but having met it, he is now increasing his goal. One hundred per cent of the funds go to help women and children at risk. Ohs said he’s taking on the challenge because he believes that the foundation, and organizations like Haven Society that runs shelters in Parksville and Nanaimo, are unfortunately a vital necessity for thousands of women and children at risk. Statistics show half of all women in Canada have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16. A woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner every six days on average and 362,000 children are exposed to domestic violence each year.

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Former Parksville resident Jordanna Southall was among VIU’s first students to benefit from the Youth in Care Tuition Waiver program. Graduating in June with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, she has joined B.C.’s Ministry of Children and Family Development as a Child Protection Officer in Campbell River.

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Life has come full circle for Jordanna Southall, who graduated in June from Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Bachelor of Arts in Social Work program. One of the first students to enroll at VIU under the Youth in Care Tuition Waiver program nearly two years ago, Southall has secured a job as a child protection officer with the Ministry of Children and Family Development in Campbell River. “I am really lucky to be able to stay on Vancouver Island,” she said, adding that it was fortuitous the ministry was hiring 100 new positions in B.C. at the time she graduated. The 22-year-old lifelong Vancouver Island resident will bring the perspective of personal experience to her job working with children and youth. She entered B.C.’s care system at age four and lived with the same foster family until she aged out of the care system at 19. Along the way, particularly in a few turbulent teen years before she decided to pursue post-secondary education, she appreciated the support of her social workers. “They were pretty amazing, probably the number one reason I’m successful,” she says, adding she had the benefit of both a caring and supportive foster family along with connection to her biological family just 10 minutes away as she grew up in Parksville. “When I became a teenager I ended up getting

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White Spot is getting something special from the Parksville area this summer with the release of their Celebrate B.C. menu. They’ll be getting brie cheese, a lot of it, from Little Qualicum Cheeseworks. Specifically, 1,953 kilograms of cheese, said Adrienne Thomson, the company’s wholesale and marketing manager. The new White Spot menu offers a variety of foods and wines, all from B.C. companies, according to a news release issued by the restaurant chain. Two of the summer burgers on the menu and one appetizer will offer the brie cheese: the Prawn and B.C. Brie Flatbread, B.C. Beet and Bacon Bigger Burger, and the Gala Apple and B.C. Brie Chicken Burger will be available throughout the summer. Thomson said “It’s a great opportunity for companies in a local setting.” Warren Erhart, president of White Spot, said that Cheeseworks was chosen for it’s “outstanding brie cheese.” He said that the company wanted to find a brie cheese to pair with their flatbread and one of the White Spot chefs loved Little Qualicum Cheeseworks. Erhart said this isn’t the first time White Spot is offering the menu. In previous years, the company has wanted to showcase B.C. products. The reason White Spot uses local B.C. companies is because it’s “fresh,” and a great way to support a local economy,

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he said. In the future, he said he hopes to continue using Cheeseworks products. “The quality of products is outstanding,” he said. Erhart said that the different cheeses that Cheeseworks carries could be offered in a variety of menu items. The only issue with offering local ingredients, he said, is that the company sometimes is unable to supply the product. “There has to be enough product,” he said, which sometimes smaller compa-

nies are unable to produce. Thomson said it gives Cheeseworks and other local companies a chance to reach people on a provincial level, something that they can’t quite do on their own. It also helps increase people’s awareness of locally-grown foods, Thomson said. She said it was White Spot that reached out to Little Qualicum Cheeseworks and thought it was a “good opportunity for all

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The Errington Volunteer Fire Department (EVFD) is celebrating 50 years in the community. T-Shirts will be made to mark the anniversary and will be sold at a celebration event on Sept. 19. The department is holding a logo contest and the winner will have their artwork on the T-shirt. The deadline to submit a design for the EVFD 50th Anniversary T-Shirt is July 31. The logo design must include: the original E.V.F.D. logo, the years of service (1965-2015) and must fit into a 9”x 6” space. The winner will receive a $30 gift certificate from Lefty’s, a family pass to Paradise Mini Golf, an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen and of course, a 50th anniversary t-shirt. Email your entry to: logocontest@evfd.ca. The community celebration to mark the EVFD anniversary will be a fun, action-packed, family affair. An exciting live auction will feature lockers loaded with goodies. One of the items up for grab is a 2014 Fusion Bike donated by Rocky Mountain Bicycles valued at $1000. A fabulous opportunity to visit the newly renovated community museum in Qualicum Beach is coming up. The 9th annual Children’s Museum Day will be held on Saturday, August 15 from 12 to 4 p.m. There will be lots to do at the fun, free, family event. Activity stations will include fossil rubbings, origami, rock art making, paper canoe building, face painting, pony rides and more. The Lighthouse Community Hall in Qualicum Bay is hosting a dinner theatre Saturday, August 1. Scrumpy Theatre from Victoria is presenting the award winning play, Boiler Room Suite. Hall manager Sheena McCorquodale said Scrumpy is a professional theatre group and the evening promises to be a great night out. The dinner theatre starts at 6:30 p.m. and includes a gourmet meal. If you like to make your own food, a cheese maker’s class is being held at the hall on September 17 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Try your hand at stretching the curds into a yummy masterpiece and learn how to make Mozzarella string cheese. You will discover how easy it is to make cream cheese while you sleep. This taste, touch and feel class will leave you with your cheese making kit. The cost is $65. Contact Sheena at 250-757-9991 to reserve a space. Cheryle Cook owner of the Bayside Salon in Parksville celebrated her 16th year at her location this month. Cheryle has been giving free haircuts to people who want to donate their hair for cancer patients wigs. She and stylist Teresa Goldberg have been donating to the Samuel Naylor fundraiser. The three year old Parksville boy has stage-4 brain cancer. Samuel’s parents, John and Marie, have five children; three of whom have serious health issues. They are facing overwhelming expenses due to numerous hospital visits, medications, therapy, travel costs and missed work. Marie has had to move to Vancouver to be with Samuel as he undergoes aggressive chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants. Teresa said she is donating 10% of her summer sales to the cause. Find out more at GoFundMe.com/samuelnaylor.

Cheryle Cook owner of the Bayside Salon in Parksville gave new bride Rebecca Sterling a sassy new haircut on July 14. Cheryle sectioned off parts of Rebecca’s long hair so it can be donated to make a wig for cancer patients. Cheryle offers free hair cuts to people who want to donate their hair to the charity. A head of hair needs to be eight to 10 inches long to be viable and dyed hair is ok. It takes two to three heads of hair to make just one wig.

The Errington Volunteer Fire Department got some new gear thanks to a donation from the Mid-Island Co-op. (left to right) EVFD officers Justin Glendale, Troy Bater, George Klemm and Dave Dahlsted model their new reflective duty officer jackets. They also obtained two pop-up tents for keeping members and bystanders out of the rain while on calls, oil spill clean up kits and mini berms to put under vehicles that are leaking fuel.

Erin Slawson and her sons Tyler (left) and Aiden (right) got an exciting surprise while excavating their property in Errington. After years of digging up hundreds of stones and stacking them for a rock wall, they found an ancient fossil. They took it to the Qualicum Beach Museum where paleontologist Graham Beard identified it. The 70 million year old Trigoniid Bivalve fossilized in sandstone was around when dinosaurs lived here.

Jessey LaFontaine was one of the many amazing local artists at the Old School House Art in Action event July 25. Jessey from WestCoastGourds specializes in one-ofa-kind organic gourd vessels. Each hand carved treasure-trove stained with rich leather dyes tells a story. Jessey embellishes them with gold leaf, shells, precious stones and even fossils such as ammonites. She will be at Milner Garden’s Art in the Garden August 8 and 9.

Sheena McCorquodale was busy creating this painting at the corner of Beach and 2nd Ave. at the 23rd annual Grand Prix d’Art painting race hosted by the Old School House in Qualicum Beach, July 25. 36 painters spread out through the town had three hours to paint en plein air. Sheena lost a bit of time when she forgot her paint brushes at home. She was able to buy some brushes in town and complete her piece by 2 p.m.

(left to right) Leona Uniat, Sally Sellers and Laurel MacNair break for tea after a busy day of volunteering at the St. Anne’s and St. Edmund’s Heritage Tea, July 25. Visitors enjoyed strawberry shortcake and heard stories about the area’s settlers presented by the pioneer players in the little log church which was built in 1894. For those who missed it, the historic church behind Wembley Mall is open for viewing 2-5 p.m. every Tuesday.

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Photog of the Year captures landscapes Kevin McGuinness returned to photography after a 35-year hiatus BRENDA GOUGH NEWS Contributor

Some pieces by Oceanside Photography Club’s 2014 Photographer of the Year will be on display at Café Adagio in Parksville from August 7 to 31. Formerly Arts Café, the restaurant is also a great venue to check out work by local artisans. The upcoming exhibition by Kevin McGuinness intends to capture and define the genre of landscape photography. The Nanoose Bay photographer has only been a serious shutter-bug for four years and he said most of his images come from his travels. “My goal is to photograph the common places and things around us — what we might see

every day but not notice, small details we often pass over”, said McGuinness. The exhibition is arranged around a series of dramatic groupings, each calling attention to a major theme. The human element, our structures and our possessions, is an important part of his work. McGuinness began taking photos and playing in the darkroom during his college days. Back then he said his passion was for black-and-white photography. “When I started I had a darkroom … that was when I was going to college.” After a 35-year hiatus, he returned with enthusiasm and entered the digital world. “I enjoy processing the pictures on the computer. I tweak the photo, sharpen it, add saturation … those are nice things to be able to do but you need a good photo to begin with. You can’t

enhance a bad picture, it will still be a bad picture,” he stated. He said he likes to exhibit photos that have been taken on Vancouver Island and with landscape photography it is the composition and the moment you are capturing. He said his black and white photos have been received well. “It is a medium I prefer. They look classic and traditional. For me they stand out on a wall and they look less like a snap shot. If it is black and white it looks more like a piece of art.” He now uses colour only for emphasis in his work using it selectively, controlling its saturation and often times, completely eliminating it and shooting only in monochrome. McGuinness who joined the Oceanside Photography Club three years ago admitted he was honoured to be selected by members of the group as photographer of the year for his sub-

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Café Adagio on Harrison in Parksville has a new owner. Mark Pack has only been open a month and he intends to keep the eatery as a gallery to exhibit art work by local artisans.

missions in 2014. He said he continues to get a thrill when people buy his work. “When I sold my first photo it was a great feeling that they were going to put it on their wall. It is still a nice feeling that someone appreciated what I did,” he ac-

knowledged. The public is welcome to drop by Café Adagio, 147 Harrison Avenue in Parksville, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. to enjoy the display. Read the full story online at www.pqbnews.com

AT LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY HALL ON SATURDAY NIGHT

Dinner theatre returns with Boiler Room Suite BRENDA GOUGH

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Dinner theatre is returning to the Lighthouse Community Hall in Qualicum Bay on Saturday, August 1. Scrumpy Theatre from Victoria is presenting the award winning play Boiler Room Suite. Hall manager Sheena McCorquodale said Scrumpy is a professional theatre group and the evening promises to be a great night out. The dinner theatre starts at 6:30 p.m. and includes a gourmet meal with locally sourced food. McCorquodale said they have two hall volunteers with extensive cooking experience who will be cooking the gourmet meal. John Fowler has an extensive back-

ground in the culinary world and Polly Bryden also has an impressive foodie resume. She said the menu for the event includes salmon with maple glaze or pork tenderloin medallions with hunter sauce on a bed of wild rice and garden fresh vegetables. “We are pulling out all the stops. We have fresh salmon from Qualicum First Nations so the meal will be incredible,” she said. Boiler Room Suite was written by Rex Deverell back in the seventies when he was a theological student and working with homeless people in Regina. The play is about two skid row winos who have climbed into the boiler room of an abandoned hotel on the Prairies to

seek refuge from winter — and from the world, until it turns kinder. Aggie Rose is a former actress, and Sprugg is a failed poet. Together, they act out their fantasies, trying to bring a little warmth and a little human kindness to each other’s lives. McCorquodale said the language is relatively tame and there is no raunchiness and audiences can expect some high calibre performances from the cast. “These are professional actors performing in an award winning play by an award winning playwright. While the subject matter is serious and really touches home to the bone, there is a lot of comedy involved in it,” she said. Boiler Room Suite is the winner of the 1977 Canadian Authors Association

Award for drama. Rex Deverell set a record for the greatest number of years as a playwright-inresidence in a Canadian theatre (Globe Theatre, Regina 1975-1990). He won a Canadian Authors Award in 1978 for his play, Boiler Room Suite (1978). Making up the cast are Naomi Simpson as Aggie Rose, Mark Carins as Sprugg and Julian Cervello in the role of Peter. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. If you buy a group of nine tickets you will get one free. Tickets are available online or at the Salish Sea Market in Bowser, Georgia Park Store in Bowser, Mulberry Bush Books in Qualicum Beach and Cranky Dog Music in Parksville. Visit www.lighhousecommunityhall.ca.

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Buenos Aires Beatles have been busy in Canada The band also earned a spot in Liverpool’s Beatles Week BRENDA GOUGH NEWS Contributor

A Beatles revival tribute band from Buenos Aires, Argentina that currently calls Parksville home will be performing at The Shady Rest in Qualicum Beach Saturday, August 1. Now & Then has been billed as the next best thing to the English rock band that became arguably the most successful act of the 20th century. The four musicians arrived in Parksville May 12 and since then they have been busy putting their stamp on the repertoire of the legendary rock group and creating their own Beatlemania. The young men who make up the group had never been out of their native country before and after several weeks of touring the province they have been getting rave reviews about their Beatles tribute show. Their manager Gayna Thompson hopes it will be the start of a successful career for her Fab Four. Thompson, the owner of the Chuffin Café in Parksville, made all the arrangements to bring the band to Canada back in the fall of 2014. Ever since they arrived, Thompson has been on the go booking gigs for the band all over Vancouver Island and B.C. Their whirlwind tour has seen them perform a few times in Parksville already and after their upcoming show at the Shady

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Beatlemania is about to invade Qualicum Beach. Left to right, performing as Paul, George, John and Ringo, members of the Beatles tribute band Now & Then will be performing at The Shady Rest pub on Saturday, August 1.

Rest they will play at the Parksville Legion August 15. On August 20 they head to Liverpool, England where John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr started and soon transformed the world of popular music. The group from Argentina won the battle of the bands in the 14th Latin America Beatle week in Buenos Aires. Winning the prestigious contest which gathers the best South American Beatle tribute bands gave them their spot at Beatle

Week in Liverpool and the foursome are just a few weeks away from one of the most epic gigs of their musical careers. Thompson said they will play 10 shows in Liverpool and she agreed that performing on the most important stage any Beatles fan has ever known, playing Beatles music is a dream come true for the 20-something guys. The band mates are hoping Beatle week will be reminiscent of what the original Beatles members experienced back in

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Entering his fourth year at Vancouver Island University, Kyler Bourgeault is looking to help ease the Mariners Golf program into life without top golfer, Matt Haddad, who has graduated. The 22-year-old from Qualicum Beach knows it’s not going to be easy to step in and fill the shoes of the Pac West 2014 male golfer of the year, but he’s up for the challenge. “Matt’s a guy you can’t replace,” Bourgeault said. “But having that chance to step in and show that I can be the guy to lead this team is really exciting. I feel I’ve got what it takes to be that guy for our team and I’ve been putting in lots of work this summer to make sure I can get my game to the next level.” Bourgeault graduated from Kwalikum Secondary in 2011 and was part of a KSS golf team that finished second in the province in back to back years. Though it was tough, he has a different perspective now. “We had a good team in high school,” Bourgeault said. “Not being able to win provincials was tough but looking back on it now, it was pretty cool to get to that point twice.” “Being able to get there and sort of lay down the ground work for the KSS golf program, looking at it today, means a

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Qualicum Beach’s Kyler Bourgeault is ready to step up in a big way for the VIU Mariners Golf team this season. Bourgeault has been working hard on his game this summer in preparation for his fourth season with the Mariners.

lot to me. They’ve got a great thing going and to be there when the ball really

started rolling is a pretty cool thing to look back on.”

Bourgeault had his share of ups and downs last season, like most golfers, but hopes to turn things around in 2015 for the Mariners, as he’ll be one of the more senior golfers on the team. “I thought I played alright last season,” he said. “It wasn’t too bad but it definitely wasn’t where I thought I could have been either.” “I did manage to shoot about an average of 74 out there but I feel like I could do better. As a team, we all need to go as low as we can out there every tournament and I know that I can get that score down there a little more than what it was.” Looking to come away from VIU with a business major, Bourgeault has two more seasons of golf with the Mariners and is looking forward to leaving it all out there. “We made nationals my first season here,” he said. “So that’s the goal, to get back to nationals again before I graduate.” “I think we’ve got what it takes to make it there and we’ve been putting in the work this summer to try and take our games to the next level.” “It’s lots of fun, travelling through the season to all the tournaments and we’d like to make sure that we get that last tournament to travel to with the nationals.”

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After his win against Paul Bzdel, it was only a matter of time before Aubrey “Bam Bam” Morrow was up for a shot at the Canadian Middleweight Championship. The time has come, as “Bam Bam” is slated to fight Oct. 3 in Quebec. The last time Morrow was in the ring, he fought for the Western Canadian Middleweight title at the “Rumble at the Rink” in Nanaimo, May 23. He dispatched a very tough Bzdel on his way to a seventh round TKO, putting him in line for a shot at national champ Francis Lafreniere. “We’ve been in talks since March about this fight,” coach Rich LeStage said. “They liked the last fight Aubrey had and it was just a matter of finding the right show. There’s one in September so they didn’t want to be too close to that one. We got the

call last week just to make sure we’d be available so they could start planning the show.” “Bam Bam” will now have two months to train for his biggest fight. Morrow has been impressive since his return to the ring a little over two years ago. He’s gone unbeaten in his last three fights and has finished his opponents in each of the three fights. “We’re looking forward to this,” LeStage said. “We’ll spend the rest of July starting on Aubrey’s conditioning work. August will be looking to get in a lot of sparring and then September will mainly be training specifically to what we feel should be the right style to beat Francis.” Gloved Up Promotions’ Terry Strawson has watched Morrow climb the ranks since before becoming a promoter. As a friend and fan, Strawson is very pleased to hear the news. “It’s a great opportunity for

Aubrey,” Strawson said. “I’ve been fortunate enough to be around him from early on in his career, even being in his corner for a few of his fights. Aubrey’s got a great chance at winning this bout and I hope that’s what happens for him.” It’s not going to be easy though, as Morrow was well tested by Bzdel. LeStage knows what his fighter is capable of. “It was a tough fight,” LeStage said. “Paul was a tough opponent, he’s been that way for everyone that he’s faced. Going into that last fight, we wanted to send a message by being able to stop Paul (which) even Francis wasn’t able to do. So for Aubrey, he went through that battle and came out after doing something the Canadian Middleweight champion couldn’t even do. That speaks volumes of the type of competitor and fighter Aubrey continues to become.”

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Aubrey “Bam Bam” Morrow, after winning the Western Canadian Middleweight Title, is heading to Montreal in October to fight Francis Lafreniere for the Canadian Middleweight Championships.

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Pee Wee B Oceanside Sharks take second in B.C. Local team runs up against nemesis, but still earns a great, season-ending silver medal T yson Taylor

the Island. From there, the Sharks were off to provincials, looking to have another good showing to finish off their season. The Sharks rolled to victory in their first game against Port Coquitlam by a score of 9-3. Game two saw the Sharks take a bite out of Ridge Meadows to the tune of 14-1. Their third game was much of the same, with the Sharks coming out on top 13-6 against Abbotsford. They would run into their rivals from Saanich one more time, coming out of Photo submitted by sandra Gadd that tough game with an 8-1 loss but a The Oceanside Sharks Pee Wee B Lacrosse Team came away from the Provincials with a Silver Medal, following a tough loss to their rivals from Saanich. silver medal to their name.

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Mason earns silver medal Nanoose Bay high jumper earned a silver medal with a personal best jump in Toronto T yson Taylor sports@pqbnews.com

Add another ‘local medal’ to the tally after Nanoose Bay’s Mike Mason earned himself a silver in the high jump event at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. Mason, a Ballenas Secondary School graduate, finished second to fellow Canadian teammate Derek Drouin. Mason finished with a mark of 2.31 metres, while Drouin had a season-best mark of 2.37 metres to capture the gold medal. Mason, who competed for Canada at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, captured his first and only medal at the Pan Am Games as he competed in his only event there. The 2.31 metres is Mason’s personal best, which he first accomplished at an event back in 2012. Mason’s win brings the total medal haul from Parksville Qualicum Beach area products to three at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, including Parksville’s Kai Langerfeld who earned two gold medals in rowing events earlier in the games. The games wrapped up Sunday with the hosting Canada team winning a record 217 medals.

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Breakers go to nationals

Two local swimmers are going to the national championships T yson Taylor sports@pqbnews.com

Two members of the Ravensong Breakers Swim Team are on their way to nationals in Quebec City starting July 29 and running through to August 2. Megan Romkes and Jack Confortin will be representing the Breakers at nationals after finishing strong at the provincials, which were held in Victoria earlier this month. Romkes captured a gold medal in the 200 metre butterfly event and earned her Olympic trials time in the process. She wasn’t finished there as she captured a silver medal in the 100 metre butterfly event, narrowly missing her Olympic trial time in that one as well. As for Confortin, he was able to rack up three gold medals at the provincials, winning the 1,500 metre freestyle, 400 metre freestyle and the 200 metre freestyle events. Confortin will be bumped up in to a different age group at nationals, as he’ll be celebrating his birthday just before the meet in Quebec City. Another notable local performance at the provincials was given by Camryn Stannard, who won a silver medal in the 200 metre freestyle, a bronze medal in the 200 metre individual medley and a bronze medal in the 200 metre backstroke event.

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Sharing, congeniality was a way of life JILL DAVIES NEWS Contributor

Gordon Lundine is a nonagenarian with a difference. At 92 years old, he is still active and in August will be competing with his team in the B.C. Senior Games hoping to add to the two golds and a bronze medal won in previous years. Gordon is also a mine of information about past times. Born in September 1922 in Port Alberni, Gordon explained that when he was a small boy his mother opened a men’s boarding house for tradespeople. The cost was just 85 cents a day to include dinner, breakfast and a lunch pail. He remembers as a child having his meals around the table with the boarders. He went to the local elementary school which was a single room cabin where all four grades were taught. He left school at 13 for an apprenticeship where he learned quickly and progressed at an unusually young age to carry office and trade responsibilities that led to a long and varied engineering career with BC Hydro. Gordon’s father was the proud owner of a 1926 black and elegant Studebaker car. As a small boy Gordon would often ride with his father and recalls stopping at The Arlington Hotel for water for the car. He remembers well the Rod & Gun and has fond memories of the days they stopped at The Shady Rest. He says that it was a “wonderful place.” Too young to accompany his father to the hostelry, he would instead be taken to the kitchen, perched on a stool and spoiled with the treat of some ice-cream and homebaked apple pie. He recalls that on one of those days out he was introduced by his father to the pioneer Tom Kinkade. “I can see it now” he said, “as clear as a bell. We came up over a little wooden bridge walking through grass that was neck high on me. Tom Kinkade was a tall man with a long pointy beard and a long staff in his hand. Behind him was a native lady. That was Sarah. She was smiling but never spoke. My dad introduced me to Tom and I shook him by

the hand”. On another outing with his father he visited the Butchart family in Victoria and took tea with them on the front lawn of their house. Work had just begun on the disused lime quarry that was to become the now famous sunken garden. He said “They were very English and compared to the loggers seemed very proper and straightlaced”. Gordon says that it was his dad who taught him how to row a boat and bait a hook. He also learned how to hunt, shoot and skin rabbits, deer and grouse for the pot. Gordon remembers well the opening of the paved highway between Port Alberni and Nanaimo. He said “The road went through Coombs and was the straightest stretch of road on Vancouver Island. Lots of people came and raced their fast cars there at all of 40 miles an hour!” The new paved road not only made a difference to Port Alberni. It also impacted on Oceanside, often referred to by the Port Alberni locals as “the other side of the hump”. The climate ‘over the hump’ was perceived by some as being kinder and so land was bought and homes built in Qualicum and Parksville with a daily commute to the Alberni Pulp and Paper Mills. The first gas station with a canopy was built down by the highway in Parksville. The gas was hand-pumped and on rainy days it was the place to go for cover. Reflecting on how times have changed Gordon thought things then were more equal. Status mattered less. “Back then, rich or poor, we shared everything whether it was a fish we’d caught or a deer that was to be butchered”. He said “I can remember when I first came to Qualicum Bay. Everyone would be on the beach in the evening. Tents would be set up above the high water line and at night there would be maybe the glow of 30 or so fires along the beach. People would wander along from bonfire to bonfire and talk to each other. There were clinker boats to rent for fishing. If someone

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Gordon Lundine spoke to The NEWS about his memories of the Parksville Qualicum Beach area.

had a catch they would share it with their neighbours. Everyone was more congenial.” “I think”, he said, “that there was a sense of community then that we now seem to have lost”. Close to the highway, by the Visitor Centre you will find the Craig Heritage Museum now known as Parksville Museum & Archives. This living museum is home to historic buildings from Parkville’s early days together with a host of artifacts and archives. These reflect the daily lives of the Oceanside settlers. There you will find the Craig Holiday Cabin with its memorabilia of fishing and holiday paraphernalia. While there, why not take time to watch the Oral History video presentation recalling the unique stories that shaped Oceanside. References: Gordon Lundine; Parksville Museum; Images & Voices of Lighthouse Country by Rita Levitz & Leah Willott References: Parksville Museum; Parksville … And Then Some; Marjorie Leffler; The History of Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island (Fairwinds)

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