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Cops for Cancer piped up First The 21 riders of the Tour de Rock Cops for Cancer team rolled into Ladysmith Monday, Sept. 28. After a pit stop at Tim Hortons the cyclists were piped up First Avenue to the Ladysmith & District Credit Union, where they participated in some official ceremonies and mingled with the public. Then they headed down the hill,and after a brief stop at the Fox & Hounds Pub, pressed on to the Chemainus Best Western. They were scheduled to be back in Ladysmith that evening for a Red Serge Dinner at the Eagles Hall. Tuesday morning, they were to breakfast at the Chemainus Royal Canadian Legion, then stop in for a visit at Chemainus Elementary School, before heading on to Duncan, the next stop on their tip-totip ride of Vancouver Island, raising funds in the fight against cancer. More in the Oct. 6 edition of the Chronicle. Craig Spence
Thirteen pigs die of mysterious toxin at RASTA sanctuary Sanctuary owner distraught as potbellied pigs die suddenly – postmortems conducted to determine cause of deaths Craig Spence the chronicle
It’s been a horrific episode for a woman who recently moved her animal rescue sanctuary from Alberta to Chemainus, but Lucie Cerny, who runs the RASTA (Rescue And Sancturary for Threatened Animals) at 9233 Chemainus Road, thinks she’s found an antidote for the toxin that killed 13 of her potbellied pigs over four days. When the Chronicle went to the RASTA Sanctuary on Wednesday Sept. 23 a man inside said Cerny was too busy and distraught to do interviews. At that point, information had been released stating that three potbellied pigs had died. By Thursday night five more had died, and another five died after that. But the
latest posts on the RASTA Sanctu- animal refuge in an area which currary Facebook page indicate an rently lacks this support,” says the antibiotic has been found that is RASTA web site. preventing more deaths. “The RASTA Sanctuary offers a “We just finished another round of lifelong safe haven to numerous Atropine injections and everyone farm, as well as other domestic is up and doing well,” Cerny post- animals which otherwise have noed Monday, Sept. 28. where else to go.” RASTA was founded by Cerny in That vision was put in jeopardy as 2001, and operated until recently Cerny worked round the clock to just south of Calgary. In 2013 it determine what was killing her pigs, founded the Potbelly Pig and Farm and as the bills stacked up for treatAnimal Rehoming Network, and in ments, postmortems and burials. 2014 the Farm Animal Rescue & Cerny’s Facebook post on ThursRehoming Movement (FARRM). day, Sept. 24, said, “I’ve had about “Lucie has recently taken on the three hours of sleep in the last monumental task of relocating the three days.” RASTA Sanctuary and all the aniShe went on to describe the mals to Vancouver Island for a bet- stress the sudden deaths of the ter quality of life for the animals pigs was causing. Thirteen potbellied pigs died suddenly at the RASTA Sanctuary as well as to fill a need for farm See RASTA, Page 3 in Chemainus. From the RASTA Facebook Page
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