Comox Valley Echo - January 9, 2015

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SEWER PUMP PLANSDELAYEDNOW.04ANGRY CROTEAU BEACH AREA RESIDENTS GO AFTER ANSWERS FROM CVRD

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This year the Comox Valley Community Foundation will award $200,000 to local chari-ties and students.

“This is a 50% increase over last year and the largest amount the Comox Valley Community Foundation has been able to dis-burse since it was founded,” said Norm Carruthers, CVC Foun-dation President. “To be able to pay such a sizable amount is very exciting for our many do-nors and our directors.”

The majority of the grants will be awarded during the CVC Foundation’s annual Commu-nity Enrichment Awards taking place Thursday, January 15 at 2 pm, at the Comox Recreation Centre.

Then, 20 local charities will be awarded in excess of $118,000 to help them achieve their goals. These organizations fall within one of the fi ve areas of interest supported by the Comox Val-ley Community Foundation and

include Arts and Culture, Envi-ronment and Parks, Health and Welfare, Education and Youth, and Seniors. The CVC Founda-tion has awarded over $1.5 mil-lion since 1996.

“The Community Enrichment Awards ceremony is one of the highlights of the year for the Foundation,” said Carruthers. “We hear fi rst hand from the groups about how these funds impact each organization and the community as a whole. It’s

inspiring!”The CV Community Founda-

tion also administers a number of endowment funds for local or-ganizations whose total awards, disbursed in late 2014, amount-ed to more than $50,000. Lat-er this year $23,000 in schol-arships and bursaries will be awarded to local students. The CVC Foundation also sets aside funds for grant requests that emerge outside of the grant re-view and award cycle.

Currently the Comox Valley Community Foundation has as-sets totalling $5 million. All as-sets are invested in perpetuity so there will be an on-going source of funding for local initiatives.

For further information about the Comox Valley Community Foundation, its mission and how individuals or organizations can participate in enriching life in the Comox Valley visit, the Foundation’s website at www.cvcfoundation.org

Record year of giving for CV Community Foundation20 charities set to receive $118,000 next Thursday in community enrichment ceremony

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BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

ICourtenay’s public li-brary has become a hub of illegal activities and a favourite hangout by people whose interests have nothing to do with books or learning.

It’s a concern raised by true patrons of the library and they have brought this issue to the attention of city offi-cials.

City councillor Doug Hillian raised the topic at Monday night’s reg-ular meeting. He intro-duced a resolution call-ing for a meeting with Comox Valley RCMP Commander, Insp. Tim

Illegal activities aroundcity library draw concernCouncillor Hillian wants to meet with police chief

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Walton to discuss this situation at the library as well as other policing issues.

Hillian said he heard these complaints from residents during the election campaign. Some felt they are los-ing the public library.

“People are active-ly dealing drugs, using drugs within the pre-cincts of the library, cre-ating an atmosphere that is difficult for peo-ple who are going there with their children to make use of the library

services,” said Hillian.As there are no other

public facilities in the downtown area where people, who are either homeless or on the streets, can hang out during the day, the li-brary has become a pop-ular place where they can sit and sleep, said Hillian, or even engage in illegal activities.

Hillian said, while he does not want to deny anyoe access to the li-brary, he has received pleas from people who would like to see this

matter addressed.“I was hearing sug-

gestions that it’s not just a motion to move people along,” said Hillian. “Be-cause where do they go and then what happens? So I think there is an op-portunity for some pro-active community polic-

ing here.”Courtenay council

never got the opportu-nity to meet with Walton since his appointment to the Comox Valley De-tachment last spring. Hillian said his resolu-tion has dual purpose - to meet with Walton and also discuss the situa-tion at the library.

“What I would like to speak to Inspector Wal-ton about is to what ex-tent they can assign the community policing unit to get to know the people in the area, to be there with a presence to help connect people who might be challenged

with services that can help them,” said Hillian.

Council agreed with Hillian and endorsed his resolution.

A s p o ke s p e rs o n from the Vancouver Is-land Regional Library, Natasha Bartlett said there were protocols in place that people who use the facilities are re-quired to follow.

“Our goal is to pro-vide a safe haven for people and the commu-nity,” said Bartlett. “We do have security camer-as located at the branch and our staff will call the police when they see an illegal activity.”

The project team has reached a critical stage in the

liquid waste management planning process and is

seeking the community’s feedback on a shortlist of

service options. Details about proposed effluent

discharge locations, project costs and costs for

participants will be presented at this important open

house event.

Wednesday, Jan 21, 2015 | 4 - 7 pm

Union Bay Community Hall5401 South Island Hwy, Union Bay

Open House Style

Fill out a comment form/survey at the open house and

your name will be entered to WIN one of four 10-visit

passes to CVRD recreation facilities as a thank-you for

your time.

If you can’t make the Jan 21 open house, drop by the

project office (3843 Livingstone Rd) on Jan 22 or 29

(noon to 4 pm) with any questions or feedback.

Learn more at www.comoxvalleyrd.ca/southregionlwmp

Contact: [email protected] | 250-871-6100

OPEN HOUSESouth Region Liquid Waste Management Plan

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BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

The Comox Valley Re-gional District’s Sewage Commission has passed a motion to stop the con-troversial Comox No. 2 Sewer Pump Station from moving any further until they have the opportunity to evaluate reports on the $11 million project.

Newly elected chair of the commission, Manno Theos, presented the mo-tion after hearing angry residents from the Croteau Beach-Hawkins Greenway neighbourhood express their disappointment over the CVRD board’s deci-sion to buy a property on Beech Street for develop-ment of the project.

Residents came out to attend the inaugural Sew-age Commission meeting on Tuesday and they fi lled the boardroom to hear the CVRD’s reasons why they chose this particular site that is located in a resi-dential area and is in be-tween two homes.

CVRD’s senior manager of engineering services Marc Rutten explained the

Comox Pump Station No. 2 is a high priority because of the environmental risk related to the exposure of the current sewage pipe-line along the Willemar Bluff due to beach erosion that was discovered in 2002. The pipeline trans-mits wastewater from the City of Courtenay and Town of Comox to the Comox Valley Water Pol-lution Control Centre.

“The exposure has been temporarily repaired by the regional district by placing gabion baskets over the exposed pipe-line,” said Rutten. “But at the time those baskets were put in place, there was an acknowledgement and recognition that a long-term solution needed to be in place.”

Rutten said there were three technical factors that limited the choice where the proposed pump station could be built. First, it has to be located between Courtenay, Jane Place Pump Station and Goose Spit.

Elevation is the second factor. The pump station has to be located at about

the 12 to 14 metre eleva-tion. If it’s too low or too high, Rutten said, the Jane Place Pump won’t work.

The third consideration was the size of the prop-erty. It must be able to accommodate the pump station.

Bruce Turner of Heuris-tic Consulting Associates, which was commissioned to evaluate properties suitable to build the proj-ect, explained the scoring methodology it used to select an ideal location. Three properties were considered - one located at Mack Laing Park, a va-cant lot on Young Street and the Beech Street

lot. The Beech Street lot ranked the highest.

The process on how the decision was reached is now being made public by the CVRD and is posted on its website.

Rutten said they’re still looking at options as to the size of the station and what it’s going to look like. They plan to involve the community so they can have a better idea of what the form and the character of the building would be.

“Some existing pump stations are quite institu-tional looking but there are examples of other pump stations that look like single family homes,” said Rutten, who added the size would be around 3,000 square feet, would be above ground and not over a single story.

Comox director Ken Grant said he has heard a lot of concerns from resi-dents about the impact the pump station will have on the water table in the neighbourhood, which re-lies mostly on well-water and have their own septic tanks.

Rutten said they can-

not answer that as they have yet to complete a hydrological study on the property and the sur-rounding areas. If there are concerns, he said, they will fi nd a way to mitigate them.

Comox’s Barbara Price asked Rutten if he was confi dent everything could be mitigated if the outcome shows there is a problem.

“Without seeing the re-port, it’s diffi cult to say,” said Rutten. “It’s quite likely that there won’t be any impact to the existing ground water in the area.” The crowd reacted nega-tively to his answer.

Grant also raised the issue of noise and odour.

Rutten said they antici-pated these questions and tried to address them.

“Typically these pump stations are not noisy,” said Rutten. “They are lo-cated well-below ground, covered by concrete ceil-ings and an enclosure on the building on top of that. And for odour there’s some very good technolo-gies in place to control odour.”

Theos said the residents have serious concerns and put forward a motion re-questing staff present the new commission all the reports on the project so they can assess them, and to delay any development of the project for four months.

Typically these pump stations are not noisy. And for odour there’s some very good tech-nologies in place to control odour”

MARK RUTTENCVRD Engineering Services

Sewer pump station project delayed for more study

The Governor Gen-eral’s Academic Medal is the highest award off ered to a high school student, and is based on all grade 11 and 12 courses. The cal-culation is done only after all provincial exams have been marked, so schools will not know the fi nal re-sult until late August.

By this time, the recipi-ent is often off to universi-ty, and the presentation of the award must wait until a break from studies. This

year, Kristen Bystrom placed fi rst in Mark Isfeld Secondary based on her academic average of 95.84 per cent.

The Governor-General Award is always a close competition, and a gap of half a percentage point is considered a decisive margin.

This year, there was a tie for second place to the hundredth decimal, with many others close behind. However, Bystrom’s aver-

age was 1.5 per cent higher than second place, which is an almost unprecedent-ed lead over what has al-ways been a tight fi eld.

Remarkably, the bulk

of Bystrom’s studies were in Sciences and Math-ematics, where marks are not always easy to earn. Add to this the fact that Bystrom was active in fi ne

arts, including a lead role in the Wizard of Oz, and in leadership activities, man-aging her own Destination Imagination Team as a grade 12 student.

Considering all that Bystrom was able to jam into her grad year, for her to maintain this academic average is a stellar achieve-ment and a testament to her organizational skills and personal drive.

Bystrom is currently studying Actuarial Sci-ence at Simon Fraser Uni-versity, and is looking into Co-op education opportu-nities. She has continued her academic excellence at SFU, earning a high enough grade point aver-age to qualify for contin-ued scholarship funding.

The staff of Mark R. Is-feld Secondary congratu-late Bystrom on winning this distinguished award and applaud her contin-ued academic success at the post-secondary level.

A product of Mark Isfeld Secondary, Kristen Bystrom receives the Governor General’s Academic Medal, the highest award offered to a high school student and certifi cate from principal Jeff Taylor.

Isfeld Secondary’s Kristen Bystrom wins Governor-General’s Award for Academic Excellence

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RE: BOIL WATER ADVI-SORY

Perhaps instead of blam-ing BC Hydro, or the Re-gional District, or the Province for our boil water advisory which has been going on for several weeks, we need to start thinking about protecting the water at source.

The expensive part of get-ting water into our homes is the infrastructure required to physically move the wa-ter into our taps and toilets and to keep the bad stuff out of the water that actually gets into our mouths. Some statistics indicate that only 5% of the water that enters our homes actually ends up in our bodies. Most of it is fl ushed away in toilets, used to water lawns and gardens, or goes down the drain af-ter washing dishes, clothes, and vehicles.

The current boil water advisory is a precaution-ary measure because of increased turbidity. This turbidity increase has been assisted by the amount of water that has fallen over the last few weeks that has not stayed in the mountains as snow. The water running down the hillsides used to be contained and absorbed by the vegetation on those hills. With the increased and aggressive logging over the last decade, there is less vegetative cover to assist with water retention, increasing the amount of sticks, leaves, and silt that gets into the water supply.

Victoria recognized this issue many years ago and was successful in buying up the land around their water-shed. Nanaimo is seriously considering the same rem-edy to protect the water for their citizens. It is time for the Comox Valley Regional District to begin negotia-tions with TimberWest and other logging companies who own land and/or log-ging rights around Comox Lake to secure this land for protection of our water sup-ply.

At the very least the Re-gional District should take seriously a proposal called, Comox Lake Watershed Sustainable Use Recreation Area, which was released by the Comox Valley Con-servation Strategy (CVCS) Community Partnership in April 2013. It calls for: a) signifi cant restrictions and changes to permitted land use to end large scale clear cut logging, mining and land development activi-ties; b) the development of a watershed management plan; and c) establishment of an independent water-shed authority tasked with the responsibility to main-tain watershed health.

The proposal is avail-able for viewing on the CVCS Community Part-nership web site at: http://w w w.cvco n s e r va t i o n -strategy.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Comox-Lake-Sustainable-Use-Rec-reation-Area_-Printable.pdf

I invite the City of Cour-

tenay council appointees to the Comox Valley Water Committee to bring these suggestions forward at a future meeting of the Com-mittee.

Pamela MunroeCourtenay

Now that we are done with the season of chari-table giving, it’s time to sit back and ...do something!

Food banks fi ll a gap, charitable giving is good in and of itself but these things are only band aids - as we all know.

But here’s one action that we can take to ensure that the pressure is eased a little on food banks and other charities.

We can ramp up the pres-sure on the Provincial gov-ernment to end the evil claw-back of parental sup-port payments for those on social assistance and dis-ability payments.

This is the provincial Lib-eral government literally taking money from children! Parental support payments belong to the children. The government is not teaching anybody a lesson about tak-ing responsibility for one-self by withholding these payments. They are not preventing abuse of social assistance by doing this.

They are, in fact, ensur-ing that people are stuck in a dark well of dependency by taking away any ability for people to reach a degree of comfort where they can actually see a future.

There are many things that we can do as citizens to make this a more equitable society.

I don’t do nearly enough to try to change things but I am making this my own feeble eff ort to rouse people to pressure Don McRae and Christy Clark and all the rest of the Liberals, to im-mediately end this despi-cable clawback.

Oh I know, the Liberal caucus is “studying” this is-sue, but the next budget will have come and gone before the caucus comes to any conclusion.

Do it now I say - any ex-cuse that it takes time is simply bureaucratic BS.

And while you’re at it, raise the amount of money that people can earn over and above their social assis-tance payments.

These are a couple of simple ways in which we can immediately improve the lives of people who are victims of the lousy eco-nomic system under which we live.

Do it now!Stephen Harvey

Courtenay

I’m reading the article about residents raising a stink about the CVRD sew-er station project. They are appalled that there was no consultation with the resi-dents before the property was purchased.

Well welcome to the poli-tics of Comox Valley. We live on Braidwood Rd. where

property was purchased for assisted housing (shelter) without any consultation with the public until after the deal was done.

What I fi nd most nauseat-ing is mayor Jangula’s hypo-critical comments that “The public needs to hear why this area was selected, what other options or alternatives that could have been used, the neighbourhood has to have input. They have to be heard from.”

Well Mr. Jangula, why wasn’t this approach aff ord-ed to the residents in the Braidwood Rd.? Not one council member showed up after the consultant had a meeting with residents af-ter the deal was done.

I made sure I didn’t vote for anyone on the old coun-cil. It would be nice to hear from one of the new council members re the unfairness of the way this was handled or will they toe the line like everyone else from the past council?

On another note I wish I had of been home when Manno Theos was toadying around our neighbourhood for votes. Don’t come again you’re not welcome!

Paul Locke Courtenay

Happy 2015 !! If you are ringing in the New Year with a resolution, why not make it a healthy one?

Why not start to choose your food ?

Decreasing or even elimi-nating genetically engi-

neered (GE/GMO) food-stuff s from your diet will not only help to reduce your calorie intake, but it will kick start your year on a healthier path.

No need to go 180 degrees tomorrow. Just choose a few items to avoid to start with. Then as you become comfortable with the labels it will become second na-ture.

Start easy as there are only 4 genetically engi-neered crops in Canada: Corn, Canola, Soy and Sug-ar beets. Often unknowing-ly, we ingest GMOs through corn by-products like high fructose corn syrup, citric acid and cornstarch which are found in most pro-cessed foods. By avoiding sodas, sugary cereals and candy, we can cut a huge number of empty calories out of our diet. Opting for fresh fruit and vegetables for snacks or oatmeal for breakfast will ensure that your purchasing dollar support non-GMO produc-ers. Also our fabulous lo-cal farmers are providing us with more choices and fl avours every year.!!

Choosing to eliminate ge-netically engineered foods from your diet means you will be eating healthier, more nutrient-rich foods and getting rid of the junk food that doesn’t help our waist lines anyways. What better way to start off the New Year? For more infor-mation on GE/GMOs, see www.cban.ca

Linda Cheu, Member of GE Free Comox Valley

WHAT A HYPOCRITE

DROP THE GMO FOODS

DO SOMETHING NOW!

Time to protect our waterat the source

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BEEFS & BOUQUETS

lack of zoning, the Comox Valley Regional District, boil water advisories, dog barking, doggie doo, new hospitals, old hospitals to name just a sampling. Our MLA has spiked hair for heaven’s sake. Spiked hair! As my mother used to say, if you can’t find something to complain about you aren’t looking hard enough! Get out there and bitch!

BEST WISHES for a happy new year along with a large bouquet to the doctors and staff of Seacove Medical Clinic. Thank you for your patience and compassion. Your clients are indeed for-tunate to be under your care.

A BOUQUET of shiny com-posites to Jordyn, Dr. Hel-pard and staff who were so caring over the holidays and brought a smile back to my daredevil for 2015!

SEASON’S GREETINGS and God’s richest blessings for the New Year to Scott from Vanisle IT Services. Scott is a businessman with a big heart. He care about keeping costs down for his custom-ers, is very patient and com-passionate when it comes to older, technically-challenged seniors (like me). Thank-you, Scott, you are truly ap-preciated.

BOUQUETS and good kar-ma to the wonderful staff of the Rialto Theater this past Tuesday evening. Thank you so much for setting a chair at the back of the theater for me so that I would not be a bother to others trying to enjoy the rest of the movie. Small courtesies are not for-gotten and it is so nice to see someone willing to help than appear inconvenienced.

A BOUQUET of candy canes to a thoughtful customer, Lorne Barr. At Slegg Lum-ber in Comox, a Santa’s Workshop elf was picking up donations and her car

battery died. Lorne used his jumper cables to get her go-ing and followed her to make sure she got home safe and sound. Thank you for your kindness.

IN THE CV ECHO’s December 2, 2014 article on John Le-ung, there needs to be a cor-rection. For the sake of his-torical accuracy, the subhead would be more accurate to read: He was the last Cum-berlander to be from a Cum-berland Chinatown fami-ly. John Leung was born in Cumberland, B.C., and not in Chinatown. His grandpar-ents lived in Chinatown, and his Mother was the one who was born in Cumberland Chinatown.

NO BOUQUETS for Swiss Chalet. To those of you wishing they would come to town, remember it takes big bucks to buy a franchise. I have been in touch with their head office several times over the past decade and I am sorry to say there was no interest. Now that they have closed locations in Nanaimo and Victoria I would not be surprised if they’ve lost all interest in our island. What we need is a Tim Hortons at the old Chad’s location and a Wendy’s in Comox. If it’s restaurants you prefer, what about an Olive Garden or The Keg or a Milestone’s or Montana’s or Kelsey’s, but located by the new hospital.

FLAT BALLS to the older men’s soccer team. I was at the new turf field on a Sunday about 1:30 with my daughter. We were waiting while her team was warming up to play next. What I heard from those men was disgust-ing, the language foul and the team spirit non-existent! How can grown men behave in such a manner in front of young people or ... anyone for that matter? You men as adults are an example to our young people. Teaching them that another player is a f----ing idiot for not passing

the ball to them or to their feet or even just swearing is UNACCEPTABLE. I am not a soccer expert, however I know respect for any team event is a very important thing. Grow up.

A BIG BEEF to the stupid, stupid girl (young woman) who ran in front of my car on Cliffe Avenue by A&W on Saturday, Dec. 20. It was pouring rain and gusty, not the best driving conditions. I had to stand on my brakes and skid to avoid hitting you. Your long auburn hair would not have looked so great un-der the front wheel of my car. You came very close to serious injury. I’m sure your family would have been dev-astated. In light of recent tragic events that have un-folded in our area involving cyclists and pedestrians, I feel that everyone needs to take responsibility for safe-ty on the roads, not just ve-hicle drivers. I also noticed that there is quite a long stretch of four lanes south of 29th Street on Cliffe with no safe crossing for pedes-trians. Perhaps if the city put a crosswalk somewhere between Anfield and 29th, people wouldn’t have to risk their lives trying to cross. Stay safe.

IN RESPONSE TO THE BEEFdirected to ICBC pertain-ing to driver’s medical re-port for seniors reaching their 80th birthday (Dec. 19, 2014). I am also 80 and coming to 81, and yes, I also agree there should be a set fee, and income tax deduct-ible. My fee was well over one hundred dollars. When I completed the form with my doctor, I also had a full medical, which is covered by B.C. Medical, but not the driver’s medical examina-tion report! Excuse me, but is this not a money grab that is not taxed? Yes, I believe the Superintendent of Mo-tor Vehicles and whoever is involved get their heads to-gether and fix this dilemma.

And yes we (seniors) have to pay this fee every two years thereafter with the medical report. Are we as seniors tar-geted because we don’t fight back? We are on a fixed in-come and have paid our dues in our working years, and on. The examination re-port is mailed to the senior before your 80th birthday.

REGARDS YOUR ARTICLE on the Lorne site as regards the sound attenuation. We had one but the wheels fell off.

A ‘BIG BEEF’ to the continu-ing boiling of water in Cour-tenay!!! We pay taxes to have a safe water system, then ev-ery time severe flooding oc-curs, we have to go through the inconvenience of boiling water or pay for bottled wa-ter. Enough is enough, we need a system upgrade.

A BIG HEARTFELT BOUQUET to the lady who stopped to help when I hit a cat with my car this week. Without hesita-tion, you stopped and picked me up when I was absolute-ly hysterical. You helped me find the owner and stayed until I was calm and able to continue on my way. To the sweet lady whose cat I hit, you were so kind and under-standing in the face of your loss. I am so very sorry. You have no idea how much I appreciate you both. To my son and his friend who came and helped us, thank you. You came to my rescue and I am so proud of you.

ANOTHER EARLY, DARK, rainy night with very poor vis-ibility, once again leaving me wondering why we have such pathetic road markings on all our roads. White lines on the sides show up just slightly better than the yel-low lines down the centre. No reflective paint, and very few cats eyes, if any, down the middle, none at all on the outer edge. Why is this? I re-cently read that water based paint is used, which wears off in a very short time, in-

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IF I READ ONE MORE insipid Bouquet I think I’m gonna throw up! Only two individ-uals are interested in them. The subject of the piece who is usually some schmuck who just did his or her job correctly and the author who feels compelled to shower his or her pearls of wisdom on the rest of us poor mis-guided, uninformed read-ers. Give your head a shake! This valley offers all kinds of opportunities for bitching: Amalgamation, flood con-trol, lack of flood control, Maple Pool, left wing poli-ticians, right wing politi-cians, school boards, teach-ers, bridges, lack of bridges, driving too slow, driving too fast, traffic control, zoning,

stead of spirit based paint. Ridiculous!! Is this some sortof environmentalism gone mad?!? Many parts of theworld use paint containing reflective materials -- surelyin the 21st century we cantake the leap to join them, forsafety’s sake? And in Eng-land, where we came from, cats eyes are used, close to-gether, on virtually all centre lines and road edge lines. Ifit’s a matter of finances, I forone would like MY tax dol-lars to go for highly visibleroad markings, which wouldmake mobility at night, andespecially in winter, so, somuch easier, and no doubtwould save lives too!

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thank you so much and I wish you all a very Happy New Year.

TO THE IDIOT on his motor-

cycle that drove up behind me at the light at 19th and Cliffe yelling the “F” word at me for stopping for the or-ange light, kept yelling the “F”word looking for an es-cape, either over my car or through it, finally took off across the ambulance park-ing lot still yelling the “F” word. Grow up jerk, the or-ange light means stop and the sooner you learn that the safer our roads will be, you are not intelligent enough to be driving anything get off our streets, again GROW UP.

TO THE GENTLEMEN that

helped me put out the fire in my car in the Costco park-ing lot on Friday Jan 2nd. My biggest thanks. I was a little rattled at the time and can’t remember if I thanked you properly. Huge bouquets!!

A HUGE BOUQUET of good

New Year’s wishes to Ian at Speedy Glass in Courtenay. He helped me trouble shoot with a leak in my pick-up truck. On 2 different occa-sions he spent the time and effort and did not charge me!! I will recommend him to everyone I know--thank you IAN!!!

BOUQUET: for the new hos-pital construction site to dis-play Christmas lights on the crane. It shows such commu-nity spirit. BEEF: to the busi-nesses near the new hospi-tal construction site (Crown Isle plaza) choosing not to display outdoor Christmas lights/decor. Thumbs down.

BOUQUETS of beautiful fresh flowers to the person who re-turns my long black winter coat to the upper Courtenay Legion coat closet. It was taken by mistake after the

dinner dance on New Year’s Eve. Your coat is still there and I really need my coat for the winter. Any one who was at the Legion that night could have worn it home, hung it in the closet and not noticed. Please, everyone who was at the New Year’s Eve dinner dance at the Courtenay Legion and wore a black coat, check your clos-et!! Thank you.

THREE WEEKS PLUS of boil-ing water in 2014? What is going on in our watershed? The very well informed CVRD general manger of water services is lost to ex-plain this phenomena which is unprecedented in the his-tory of the Comox Lake wa-ter supply. Will the Province, who are implementing more expensive water standards, investigate the cause of this? Surely it is not solely climate change or heavy rainfall. This is not a Mount Polley disaster, but a rolling, boiling issue which will boil over in-to big bucks for solutions to a problem that has not sur-faced until this year, 2014. Let’s have an independent investigation and find the causes of this and assign the liablities for the cost of fixing the water quality. Writer and long term resident, Frank Carter, outlines the issue well in his letter to the editor. Ask your elected or appoint-ed CVRD rep what they are doing to address this prob-lem! Why should we pay for water quality problems cre-ated most likely by the Prov-ince, who have not protected our watershed?

DAWN TO DAWN would like to wish the Goat FM’s Dave Tymo a warm dry, success-ful 2015 and a huge vote of thanks for weathering the storm of 2014 on Thrifty’s roof to raise food and funds to help the less fortunate in our community! Thanks Dave!

BEEF to the movie theatre and the crummy, dilapidat-ed seats you expect people to pay money to sit on. It’s worth the drive down island where some theatres have cushioned bucket seats! Come on owners, you’re the only theatre in town, make it nicer for your paying cus-tomers. Vote with your feet!

THIS IS A BEEF to Superstore and all those other business-es out there who are flying tattered and torn Canadian flags. Shame on you.

A REALLY HUGE BOUQUET: The Comox Valley Lions Club wish to acknowledge: Sandy of Dulux Paints in Courtenay for the generous donation of paint for the ceiling and walls in our Lions Den, and Midland Tools for the paint-ing tarp. We also thank Chad Rochon (C.H.A.D.Painting) and his friends Rachelle, Andrew, Judy, Ed, Karin and James for assisting with prepping and painting. The Den looks so much bet-ter thanks to your efforts. Special thanks to Mrs. Ra-chon for the fabulous cook-ies. Having the community come out in our time of need, truly was the best Christmas present we could ever have received.

A GREAT BIG BOUQUET to my

Bus Driver Don for mak-ing my morning and chas-ing down the Handy Dart this morning to make sure I got my free coffee that the CVRD were handing out; we caught up and I got my cof-fee, not only that you have gone above and beyond on many occasions in the recent horrific weather that we have been having. Thanks again Don, and the CVRD for ap-preciating your customers you rock!

KUDOS to the Echo for con-tinuing to provide plenty

of NEWS coverage of local events and the opportuni-ty for readers to comment through letters and beefs & bouquets in its columns right through the holiday break. Coverage of events like the Goose Spit polar bear swim, the reasons behind the con-tinuing boil water adviso-ry, the departure of local 19 Wing troops to the Middle East, and the memorial trib-ute to the Lake Trail teacher was extensive both in words and photographs. As for the other paper, all we got was a look back at past events - not a word of actual new news, although they had plenty of flyers. I read that the owners of the Record are buying sev-eral Island papers including the Echo - I hope they appre-ciate how much more com-prehensive the news report-ing is in the Echo, and what an asset the paper is to the Comox Valley.

THIS COMMENT goes out to

the tall fellow with a beard that decided to dump the last month’s garbage in the dumpsters behind the Time Square Complex of Guthrie Road in Comox. You know who you are, you said you used to live here. If you did, you would know that resi-dents pay for the dumpsters to be there and so you drop-ping your trash on us results in added expense for us. So a big, insincere thank you for stealing from us to the liar who’s too cheap to bring it to the city dump! A great example to all! I hope we can someday return the favour!

RUTTED TRAILS to the person, who took my Swix classic blue, black, and silver 130 cm. poles, from the ski rack, at Raven’s Lodge, on December 29th, at 12:30. I was only away from my ski equipment for 5 minutes. Happy Trails, if you do the right thing, and turn the poles into the Lost, and Found, at the Raven Lodge.

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It’s not intended to hurt people or make

unsubstantiated and libelous comments.

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THIS WEEK’S WINNER, DRAWN AT RANDOM FROM SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED UP TO TUESDAY, IS:

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CLEAR CUT around Comox Lake, then you get silt in the water and it is going to cost at least $200 million to clean the water. The public will get stuck with the bill, the for-est company and whoever permitted it will benefit. We have a boil water advisory, it should be a boil the idiots that permitted this advisory.

BEEF to Mayor Jangula

for more broken promises. In 2011 he promised to re-solve the Maple Pool issue, and nothing happened until 2014, when he promised to fix the issue again. Then, on CBC radio the day after get-ting elected, he said that the Maple Pool issue would be fixed by Christmas. It’s still not fixed. How much longer do the residents and owners of Maple Pool have to wait?

MY BEEF is to the store

managers that seem to think they should yell at their em-ployees. I was shopping at one of the stores. I witnessed this manager, she didn’t yell at one employee, she did it to all of them. I have seen her do this a few times before. I feel sorry for employees. La-dy if you can’t handle your job quit it.

BLESSINGS to the couple who took time out to drop off a misdirected airmail card to me last Saturday morning. Thank-you, and may gener-ous things happen to you this year. And may it give me a reminder to ‘play it forward’ whenever I can.

THIS IS A BOUQUET for Jiffy Lube in Courtenay. I have been going there for the last 15 years and I don’t under-stand why anyone would go anywhere else. They’re great. I was in about a week ago and the guys were having a prob-lem with something that just wasn’t working on my car. They called the manager over and Jim had it solved in just a few seconds, then he came over and took the time to ex-plain it to us. I don’t think I have ever been in a shop that has as happy employees as they are. Good job guys, from a very happy customer.

TO ALL MY CUSTOMERS on Cliffe Ave. and Mansfield Dr. I would like to thank you for the cards, gifts and home baking that you gave me this Christmas. I enjoy delivering your papers and your kind-ness throughout the year makes the job fun. I am look-ing forward to another year as your Echo carrier. Again,

Bill Wilson, of ComoxWinner of two classic cheese baskets

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Vancouver Aquarium team, along with DFO offi cers, check log booms at Fanny Bay looking for entangled sea lions

Two distressed sea lions in Fanny Bay rescuedBY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

A team from the Vancou-ver Aquarium and Fisher-ies and Oceans Canada rescued two sea lions with entanglements Wednesday in the Fanny Bay area.

Unfortunately, none of them was the distressed sea lion that was spotted with a severe laceration around its neck near the Fanny Bay docks recently.

Experts from the aquari-um’s marine mammal res-cue centre, led by its head veterinarian, Dr. Martin Haulena, scoured the area in search of “Riptide”, the

name given by Campbell River wildlife photogra-pher Netonia Chatelaine,

who fi rst photographed the animal and reported it to DFO and the aquarium.

However, the team’s en-tire eff orts were not com-pletely in vain because they were able to save two California sea lions.

“Those were done in the water, and neither one of them was the one Netonia has called Riptide,” said aquarium communica-tions advisor Deana Lan-caster. “We try to save as much as we can whenever we’re out here.”

There was an attempt to save a third sea lion but it was unsuccessful. The team also went to Hornby Island to look at other sea lions.


The team from the Vancouver Aquarium and Fisheries and Oceans Can-ada works to disentangle a second sea lion. (Vancouver Aquarium)

Thank You• to the Comox Valley for your Generous Support. Our

2014 “Hope for the Holidays Campaign” was a HUGE success!

• to our Host Locations – your partnerships are so integral to our campaign! Special appreciation to 97.3 THE EAGLE for getting our messages out!

• to our many individual volunteer’s ages 3 – 91 years old, together you helped us cover over 1270 hours of ringing Bells at the kettles!

• to those who sponsored a hamper this year and to our wonderful Grandma who provided baked goodies the entire Christmas season!

• to Rice Toyota for supplying The Salvation Army with a Christmas Cruisor vehicle

If your group or business has been missed, please accept our sincere apologies. We deeply value all of our communitypartners and we thank YOU for your ongoing support!

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The sea lion rescue operation is an ongoing program of the Vancou-ver Aquarium, a non-profi t organiza-tion. Much of its funding is derived through donations and sponsor-ships.

“There are hundreds of sea lions tangled in marine debris on our coast,” said Lancaster. “We will con-tinue doing this project.”

Organizing a rescue is not an easy task because it entails a lot of re-sources and also funding.

“It requires a lot of coordination with the agencies,” said Lancaster. “We need equipment, the drugs, it’s not something we can turn around and do in a day. It requires some time to pull together.”

Lancaster said the aquarium ap-preciates the sightings reported be-cause it assist them in their rescue eff orts.

“They are really important for them to tell us if they see animals that are tangled,” said Lancaster. “We are happy that people care. That’s a great thing.”

Lancaster would like to advise the public to be more careful when toss-ing out and throwing away things. A lot of the animals get tangled in rope, wires, lost fi shing gear and other gar-bage.

Anyone wishing to donate and help the aquarium with its rescue program can go their site at http://www.vanaqua.org/act/direct-action/marine-mammal-rescue.

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Santa’s Workshop extends an enormous thank you to all the Comox Valley community for another very successful Christmas Season in 2014.The “elves” gave out 212 bikes, 599 children from 271 families received gifts and 40 grandparents “shopped” for 115 grandchildren. This is all made possible because of such a very generous and special community. Thank you to the local businesses, individuals,

MEET FRIENDS ATNEWCOMERS CLUB

The Newcomers club is a friendly, warm and welcoming group of women who have resided in the Comox Valley for less than two years. We help women new to the valley feel comfortable, meet friends and learn as much as they can about this wonderful place that is now home. The Comox Valley has so many attractions and opportunities that the monthly meetings are always entertaining and informative! Why not attend the next general meeting which is scheduled for Monday, January 12th. Guest speaker will be Deb Dewar, owner of Packable Travel Solutions. Packables is a store that has everything anyone would need for travel from squishable packable

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The North Island Rhododendron Society (NIRS) will kick off the new year Tuesday, January 13 with one of the club’s most popular programs-its annual panel of gardening experts. NIRS member Nadine Boudreau will keep the questions and answers fl owing with members Paul Wurz, Bernie Guyader, Garth Wedemire and Wolfgang Hoefgen providing answers on various aspects of gardening including, of course, rhododendrons.NIRS meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month at the Comox United Church. Doors open at 7pm with the business meeting starting at 7:30pm. Refreshments are served and guests interested in club membership are welcome.

hosting a special Taize prayer service for Christian Unity on Tuesday January 13th, 7PM at St John the Divine Church on 5th Street in Courtenay. January is a month in which Christians worldwide pray for unity, especially to overcome historical and present divisions that exist between church communities. All are welcome to attend. The service will run about 40 minutes. Taize is an ecumenical community in France which welcomes people from around the world each year for prayer, sharing and communal work. Their distinct form of prayer focuses on simple repetitive chants sung in many languages to encourage unity between nations. The chants are easy to learn and because they are repetitive stimulate a calm prayerful atmosphere. L’Arche Comox Valley holds a Taize prayer service every month on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at St John the Divine and welcome visitors anytime. This month’s service will have this special theme of Christian Unity and they are extending their welcome widely to people whether they attend a church regularly or not. FMI at taize.fr

Support Group is having its monthly meeting on January 20, in the dining room at the Best Western Westerly Hotel, 1590 Cliff e Avenue, Courtenay. Come for lunch at 12:15 (optional, buy your own lunch), meeting starts at 1:30. Keep up to date on the latest info on myeloma and enjoy socializing with others aff ected by the disease.Please contact Sandy at: [email protected] or 250-703-4688 if you plan to attend or for more info.

clothing, accessories, books, guide maps to the luggage to pack it all in. Deb will demonstrate effi cient ways to pack along with many other travel tips. Meetings are held at the Crown Isle Club House, 399 Club House Drive, Courtenay. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the meeting starting promptly at 7:00 pm. For more information email us at [email protected] or check out our website at www.cvnewcomers.net. Your new friends are waiting for you!

local newspapers, service clubs, Shaw Cable and local radio stations for all your wonderful and on-going support. Thanks as well to Chris and Rita Timberley for the location and also to those who took a ‘drop-box’ for toys. We are very fortunate to live in a community where people are so caring and compassionate.All the “elves” at the workshop put in many hours - they are very dedicated people - and all this couldn’t happen without them so Santa thanks and commends all you “elves” for your wonderful eff orts!Many children of the Comox Valley were able to enjoy a happier Christmas because of such community spirit during the season. Thanks to everyone who participated in any way for your individual assistance and for all working together - we are a great community!

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BY DREW A. PENNEREcho Staff

The sun beamed down after a week of seemingly endless rain as K’ómoks First Nation marked the opening of their new band offi ce with a celebration of pride and strength Dec. 12. Feathers fl uttered, danc-ers fl owed and voices sang songs to the throng of dig-nitaries and members of the public who gathered outside on the reserve.

The sturdy and sym-metrical building right on the edge of the estuary will serve as the home for band economic develop-ment and administrative functions as the commu-nity develops its business interests and completes the treaty process with the federal government.

“We’re at a point in history when things are changing,” said elected chief Rob Everson in an interview. “It’s so impor-tant for us to embrace our culture as First Nations people, and this building is a direct refl ection of our culture.”

More than 125 mm of rain had fallen in the pre-vious week, triggering a state of emergency as the banks of the river fl ooded, displacing people from their homes and closing

down some of the main routes through the Comox Valley.

The day before the of-fi cial administrative building opening the rain

continued to fall. But as Calvin Hunt looked up, he was beaming.

“In never gets old,” he said, as the second of two totem poles he carved was

lifted up with a crane and a handful of band members alongside construction workers. “It’s always like they’re coming alive as you see them get moved

into place.”Randy Frank was in

awe, too. Along with Karver Ever-

son, Ali Hunt and Merv Child, he had been men-

tored as a totem pole art-ist by the master carver on the project during the summer.


New Band Offi ce a symbol of pride and strength for K’ómoks First Nation

Ocean and mountains are refl ected in the front windows of the new K’omoks band offi ce on the Dyke Road


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“It’s been awhile that they’ve been in storage,” he said. “It’s pretty spectacular.”

He seemed like he was look-ing at the fi gures on the totem poles with fresh eyes.

“They don’t look that big when they’re laying down,” he said. “It’s phenomenal.”

Karver agreed.“They’re just so much bigger

and more powerful,” he said. “Now they’re kind of more of a monument, you know?”

The blessing ceremony the next morning was meant to prepare the way for positive words and interactions within the space.

The four surviving clans that make up the First Nation - the Sahtloot, Sasitla, E’eksen and Pentlatch - were represented by the sun, whale, thunderbird and bear in the totem poles and representatives from each were brought forward during the fes-tivities.

Wedlidi Speck, a community elder, said their ancestors had once gathered on Quadra Is-land, choosing to build a “Whale House” to bring people from disparate regions together.

“This whale house would be where they brought their spirit, they brought their wisdom and they brought their visions for the future,” he said.


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“Out of that they would come up with ideas for their technology, for their teaching and for their philosophy that they were able to bring out. How they shared territo-ry, how they shared their community experience was all part of what came out of that house.”

KFN offi cials decided to build a modern day Whale House, resulting in the new band offi ce.

The symbols, or crests, on the totem pole will be a source of strength for community members, Speck added.

“When you have your crest with you, you have your strength with you; you have your power with you; you never have to question who you are when you’re standing in the ground that you’re standing,” he said.

“That’s the beauty of coming from a culture like this.”

Everyone was invited to join in as dancers shook their fi sts in celebra-tion and headed into the building, moving in a

clockwise motion around the fi rst fl oor.

Later leaders from First Nations and non-native communities gathered together as part of the blessing of the space.

Paddy Walkus, he-reditary and elected chief of the Gwa’sala-Nakwaxda’xw in Port Hardy said KFN has done a good job of balancing tradition with modern life.

“I really feel they are an inspiration the way they’ve pulled together, the way they’ve worked and achieved so much in the last few years,” he said.

“They’ve progressed all our First Nations people throughout the North Island.”

KFN chief Everson said the band will keep moving towards self-gov-ernance and sustainable development.

“The way to true pros-perity is through eco-nomic development and getting our fair share of resources,” he said.

“The only way to change the social fabric ofFirst Nations is through economic prosperity.”

Enjoy a stellar musi-cian line-up as “Anela & Friends” perform at The Little Red Church in Co-mox, this Saturday at 7:00 pm.

Anela will be joined by Sue Medley, Luke Blue Guthrie, Jim Papp and Os-car Robles Diaz.

Performance organizer Rob Peterson comments: “All locals of the Comox Valley, these are some of British Columbia’s fi nest musicians, all of whom have dedicated their lives to music”.

Headlining the perfor-mance is Anela Kahaimoe. Since arriving in the Co-mox Valley from Hawaii, Anela has established himself as one of Vancou-ver Island’s premium en-tertainers.

Anela will be joined by Sue Medley. Wow, what a musical career, “a road less travelled” as they say, that has taken Sue to the highest levels of perfor-mance in the music in-dustry. Interestingly, the road that began in her teens, led Sue back to the Comox Valley and we are so fortunate to have such

a gifted and experienced musician/singer/songwrit-er, residing back in our home town.

Luke “Blu” Guthrie is another sensational home town musician who will join Anela with his soulful style, poignant melodies and masterful guitar pick-ing.

Another home-town boy taking the stage with Anela is Jim Papp. Jim’s musical roots date back to the early1970’s, when he formed a band “Comox” with Edwin Grieve and Paul Stephens. The band produced a Top 10 Cana-dian hit “Country Hooka”.

On Percussion will be latin specialist, Oscar Robles Diaz. Born in Mex-ico City and a graduate of Classical and Contempo-rary guitar studies at Mex-icos National University.

Performance is family friendly with a concession off ering tea, coff ee, soft beverages and goodies. Net profi t from the con-cession is directed to the Vancouver Island Com-passion Dog program. Net profi ts from the conces-sions is matched by Sun-

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performance begins at 7:00. Tickets at the door $18 Advance tickets $15

available at Bop City in Courtenay and the Red Carpet Boutique in Co-mox. Youth tickets (un-der 19) $8

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Forbidden Jazz Trio re-turns to Zocalo Café for an evening performance on Friday, Jan 9. Featur-ing Jake Masri on trum-pet, fl ugelhorn, & vocals, Mike Eddy on keyboards, Grahame Edwards on bass, & Jeff Agopsowicz on trombone, they appeal to audiences of all ages by performing a wide variety of timeless jazz standards & original compositions. Joining the trio on trom-bone is special guest Jeff Agopsowicz. Jeff is mov-ing on to a new phase in his musical career as he retires in the Comox Val-ley, following many years as a professional perform-er, primarily in the music branch of the Canadian Armed Forces. This jour-ney has also included a variety of civilian perfor-mances.

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Celebrate Courtenay’s centennialat ‘Sid’s Vaudeville Follies’ Jan. 10

The Sid Williams The-atre Society is kicking off 2015 and Courtenay’s 100th birthday with a special production, Sid’s Vaudeville Follies, on Saturday January 10 at 7:00pm.

Show producer Kenny Shaw has put together a true live variety perfor-mance in the style of an old time vaudeville show with a nod to theatre namesake Sid Williams and his penchant for song, dance, and comedic char-acters. Long time resi-dents of the Comox Valley who remember Williams will likely recall hearing about or seeing many of his unique performances during Skattered Skits, an annual fundraiser by the amateur theatre commu-nity which was led by Wil-liams and other communi-ty leaders including Herb Bradley, G.W. Stubbs, and Bob Gibson.

One such well-loved

Williams character was Century Sam.

From the Courtenay & District Museum’s exhibit Out of the Ordinary: Sid Williams, “Century Sam was a character created for the BC colonial centennial celebrations of 1958...Leg-end has it that Century Sam was discovered pan-ning for gold on the Pun-tledge River in late 1957 by two young girls. Sam was a miner left over from the 1858 Fraser River gold rush who awoke from his

near 100-year sleep with the stir of the approaching centennial celebrations. Century Sam showed up everywhere across BC - in parades, on fi lms, wher-ever people gathered to commemorate the cen-tennial.

“As the 1958 centen-nial year drew to a close, Sam was put into a deep freeze where he was to remain until the next cel-ebration. In 1966 he was roused from his sleep to do a nationwide tour for Canada’s 1967 centen-nial. Never left to rest too long, Sam also helped to observe BC’s centennial in 1971.”

Edwin Grieve will play tribute to that beloved character as Century Sid, long lost nephew of Cen-tury Sam, in Saturday’s show.

Joan Collins was Sid Williams’ accompanist for many years and she, along with husband Art, were

key members in the earlydays of Courtenay LittleTheatre and Co-Val Cho-risters. Collins will sup-port a new century char-acter when she performswith Grieve.

“Joan was Sid’s pianoplayer and has all thesheet music he used forhis various characters...Itis my hope that, in a smallway, Century Sid paystribute to the memory andhonour of the Comox Val-ley’s greatest legend,” saysGrieve.

Sid’s Vaudeville Follies ispacked full of some amaz-ing local talent.

A four time BC Coun-try Music AssociationEntertainer of the Year,Kenny Shaw enjoys a welldeserved reputation fordrawing his audiences intoa wacky world of high-powered comedy and mu-sic, innovative skits andhilarious one-liners.


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His performances are liberally laced with crafty impressions, hysterical comedy and incredible musical tributes to favou-rite entertainers.

The Go Dog Go! All Stars Trick Dog Team is a troupe of marvellously clever mutts from West-ern Canada who each per-form 45 specialized tricks and stunts. This one ring dog circus is on a mission to entertain and edify au-diences of all ages. It’s the dogs’ personalities that always make their shows a hilarious crowd favourite!

Standing 6 feet 5 inch-es, ‘Big’ Steve Rossner is known throughout the Co-mox Valley as a magician and, since 2008, as an on air radio host on 97.3 The Eagle.

The incredible musical talents of Rachel Fuller

(saxophone and clarinet), Blaine Dunaway (violin and trumpet), and Rob Petrie (piano) will be on display. Tap sensation Cody Rodgers will knock your socks off .

What would a vaudeville show be without a ventrilo-quist? Papa G and Scruff y are coming to town. It is prohibition in BC in 1919 and women have had the vote for 2 years. Papa G and Scruff y have jumped the train in Victoria and wound up in Courtenay. Hilarity ensues.

The Black Swan Fid-dlers, known since 2005 for warm, exciting, and foot tapping music, have worked hard to hone their Celtic sound. To a mix of reels, jigs, hornpipes, and polkas, they add soulful Irish ballads, French Ca-nadian reels, Canadian ballads, and fi ddle tunes.

Valley Dance is in its

19th year of operation and under the artistic direction of Amanda Rodgers off ers instruction in dance and stage presentation. The focus is on fun, achieve-ment, and success. The Valley Dance crew have a special number prepared for the show!

Swing Set is a popular a cappella jazz quartet, featuring Jenn Forsland, Wendy Nixon Stothert, Michelle Weckesser and Dale Graham. Together these four women repre-sent some serious talent and experience.

7 Story Circus exists to amaze & inspire! Whether high up in the air in aerial silks, cerceau, trapeze or ropes, or defying gravity by way of juggling, balanc-ing, unicycling or stilting, 7 Story Circus pushes be-yond the boundaries of ev-eryday life with incredible skill and artistry.

A fun night Saturday at ‘The Sid’ with Vaudville Follies showSid’s Vaudeville Follies

features songsters, hoof-ers, jokesters, and corny characters that Williams himself would be proud of. This here’s a must see!

Tickets for this centen-

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Purchase in person at the Ticket Centre Tues-

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The Sid Williams The-atre Society’s family fi lm series kicks off the new year with OPEN SEASON on Sunday January 11 at 2:00pm.

Originally released in 2006, Open Season is an animated comedy with life lessons about friendship and responsibility where a domesticated grizzly bear fi nds that there’s more to life than being the star attraction of a mountain town nature show when a fast-talking mule deer of-fers him a crash course in woodland living.

Raised by kindly park ranger Beth since he was a just a cub, 900-pound grizzly Boog is content to spend his days enter-taining Timberline tour-ists and his nights nestled

safely in Beth’s luxurious garage. Boog’s life is about to get much more com-plicated, however, when paranoid hunter Shaw re-turns from a recent foray in the woods with a fright-ened, one-horn mule deer named Elliot strapped tro-phy-like to the hood of his truck. Though at fi rst re-luctant to answer Elliot’s desperate cries for help, gentle giant Boog even-tually frees the thankful creature, who in turn de-cides to teach his hulking friend what it truly means to be free.

The fi lm features voice performances by Martin Lawrence (Bad Boys), Ashton Kutcher (That 70’s Show), Debra Messing (Will & Grace), and Gary Sinese (Forrest Gump).

“A story that balances gentle messages with enough goofy anarchy to please any kid,” writes Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News. And Variety’s Jus-tin Chang says, “though hardly the fi rst animated fi lm to tackle the plight of domesticated animals re-turning to the wild, Open Season is a witty, warmly crafted chestnut.”

Don’t miss this fun and aff ordable afternoon for the whole family!

Admission is pay what you can by donation. There will be popcorn, prizes, and a colouring contest! Colouring sheets can be downloaded at sidwilliam-stheatre.com, picked up at the Ticket Centre prior to Jan.11, or when doors open

at 1pm on Sunday. The fi lm begins at 2pm.

Generously sponsored by the Financial Team of Nicole Deters & Associ-ates, these family fi lms are fundraising events for the Sid Williams Theatre Society.

The Sid was a state-

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COMMISSION MEMBERSAdvisory planning commissions are established in Areas ‘A’ and ‘C’ to provide input and advice about planning and land use management applications.

The Comox Valley Regional District is looking for volunteers to participate in monthly advisory planning commission (APC) meetings. If you are a resident of Electoral Area ‘A’ (Baynes Sound–Denman/Hornby Islands) or Area ‘C’ (Puntledge–Black Creek) and are interested in participating in monthly meetings please submit a letter to the CVRD, outlining your qualifications. More information regarding duties and responsibilities can be found on our website at www.comoxvalleyrd.ca.

Applicants will be required to have basic local knowledge, interest in planning, land use, environmental stewardship, or aquaculture / agriculture, the ability to attend evening meetings, the ability to exhibit ethical conduct and recognize when a conflict of interest may occur. A comprehensive workshop will be provided to applicants outlining the roles and responsibilities of APC members. The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 16, 2015 at 4:30 pm.

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Bowling highlights from Codes Country Lanes:

Monday AM - Arnie Auerbach 237, Roy Brekke 261, Ria Tjart 234, Micki McDonald 258, Dave Stacey 210, Joyce Slater 215, Bob Sharp 234, June Berry 188.

Monday PM - Ben Braun 242, Pat Huntley 181, Christina Wal-lenberg 204, Colleen Torrie 210, Lyle Torrie 202, Erma Wilson 218, Shirley Evans 217, Rick Kroeker 217.

Monday Youth - William Derk-sen 130, Lucas Rye 93, Morgan Grout 98, Lucien Rousseau 118, Brycen Burgess 156, Benoit Rous-seau 68, Celine Rousseau 68.

Tuesday Ladies - Syliva Vandervliet 196, Shirley Mangano 195, Debbie Raithby 177, Brenda Searl 184, Marilyn Shetterly 172, Barb Potruff 256, Laurie McWillis.

Tuesday Afternoon - Garry Pearson 169, Judith Munro 105, George Andrews 171, Ev Andrews 180, Ed Schievink 99.

Tuesday Adult - John Graff 223, Eric McWillis 239, Sharon Shepherd 214, Ian Taylor 239, Steve Robson 230, George Ghinis 200, Bill Brundige 202, Brian Booth 211, Ed Carefoot 207.

Wednesday GA - Yvonne Melan-con 253, Sally Hazleton 167, Bert Brown 216, Gerry VanAchte 205, Betty Gilchrist 204, Andre Melan-con 220, Art Wesner 192, Minnie Frame 184, Laurie Aucoin 240.

Wednesday Adult - Maureen Woodruff 211, Vicki Major 229, SONTINA ESPEY 333, Sandy Nurse 231, John West 227, Deb-bie McCooey 190, Dave Pond 203, Tara Bruer 218, Candace McLellan 209, Dave Stevenson 190.

Thursday GA - Jim Hume 174, Vera Winter 213, Pat King 225, Bob Van Nes 212, Bob Short 263, Pat Chambers 223, Sharon Shepherd 223, Alan Edwards 200, Linda Jeffery 173.

Thursday Adult - PAUL ZORZ 315, Rick Granneman 256, An-drew Stubbing 239, Duwanee Granneman 208, Candace McLel-lan 196, Ed Carefoot 206, George Wedge 205, Chris Roberge 265.

Friday GA - Arnie Auerbach 204, Bernice Clouthier 179, George Andrews 198, Ev Andrews 182, Ickle Brown 245, Bert Brown 235, Joan Lucas 236, Jim Lucas 186, Art Wesner 182, Marj Arnold 171, Gerhard Sorger 236, Minnie Frame 193.

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and Trish Heyland; 4. Irene Smith and Dorothy Branch.

Results for Friday 2nd January (11 tables):

N/S - 1. Art Morgan and George Law; 2. Jean Tait and Evelyn Ware; 3. Jim and Joan Boase; 4. Tom and Betty Thomsen.

E/W - 1. Roy Hagg and Keith Ware; 2. Phil Sandford and Maureen Olafson; 3. Phyllis Taylor and Maureen Taylor; 4. George and Trish Kirk-

wood. Results for Satur-

day 3rd January (10 1/2 tables):

N/S - 1. Phil Sandford and Maureen Olafson; 2. Neil Jackson and Jean Tait; 3. Doug and Penny Poole; 4. Pete and Glenda McGrath.

E/W - 1. George and Trish Kirkwood; 2. Irene Smith and Betty Foun-tain; 3. Roy and Patricia Lowe; 4. Tom Dugdale and Jeanette Baron.

Valley Bridge News

Steven AllanFERRIS

DOB: 1967-04-14172 cms, 84 kgs, Brown hair, Hazel eyesWarrants: Fail to comply with probationBreach of undertakingComox Valley fi le # 2014-16385

Kimberly BROWN

DOB: 1976-05-23188 cms, 77 kgs, Brown hair, Blue eyesWarrant: Breach of UndertakingComox Valley fi le # 2015-187

If you have any information about the whereabouts of either of these two people, call the Comox Valley RCMP Detachment at 338-1321, or Comox Valley Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (1-800-222-8477). You don’t have to give your name and you could be eligible for a cash reward.

WANTED

www.comoxvalleycrimestoppers.bc.ca

Comox Valley RCMP re-sponded to the following incidents between Dec 30 and Jan. 5:

On the evening of De-cember 30th the Comox Valley RCMP entered into a complaint of a disturbance at the Rialto theatre in Courtenay. Staff at the the-atre reported a young man causing a disturbance in-side the theatre. As a result of the investigation an On-tario resident was arrested and is now facing charges of Obstruction, for giving a false name, and causing a disturbance. (2014-16459)

Police attended to a re-port of a male assaulting a bouncer at the Flying Canoe pub, located in the Westerly hotel, in the early morning hours of January 1st. An intoxicated man was arrested and is now facing charges of assault and will appear in court on a later date. (2015-13)

On January 1st a report of a theft of a motor vehi-cle was reported to police. The owner reports doing the right thing by leaving his vehicle at the party lo-cation on Denman Island only to return the next day and found his vehicle miss-ing. Stolen was a Red 2002 Toyota Corolla with BC plate 860TTV. (2015-28)

A report of a theft from a pickup truck was reported on January 1st. At the time of the theft the truck was parked in front of a busi-ness on 8th street in Cour-tenay. Stolen was a Mystery Ranch bag which contained hunting equipment worth approximately $3000.00. (2015-53)

On January 2nd police entered into an investiga-

tion of a man who had been assaulted outside RBC lo-cated on the 1000 block of Ryan road in Courtenay. The man stated that he had just taken funds out of his account and a woman ap-proached him asking for a light for her cigarette. The woman launched a vicious attacked knocking the vic-tim to the ground and tak-ing the money he had just removed from his account. This investigation is con-tinuing. (2015-59)

The Comox Valley RCMP report that on January 2nd they received a report of a break, enter and theft from the Avalanche Bar and Grill in Courtenay. Culprits en-tered the locked area of the restaurant and once inside pried the pull tab machine from the wall. This investi-gation is continuing. (2015-69)

On January 3rd police were called to the Black Creek Tool Rentals for a report of a break, enter and theft. Sometime over night thieves had broken into a shed and stole ap-proximately $10,000.00

worth of tools. If you have information on this theft you are asked to contact Cst.C.Voller of the Comox Valley RCMP at 250-338-1321 or if you wish to re-main anonymous you can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

On January 4th police en-tered into an investigation of a large party that turned into a theft complaint. A party was hosted by a young person on the 2500 block of Tamarack drive in Courtenay and a large num-ber of attendees were pres-ent. In the aftermath of the party the parent, who was unaware of the party until they arrived home, found that almost $10,000.00 in food, jewellery and elec-tronics had been taken from their home during the party.

If anyone has any infor-mation on this crime they are asked to contact Cst. C. Curtis of the Comox Val-ley RCMP at 250-338-1321 or if they wish to remain anonymous they can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Police Blotter


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Congratulations!

Congratulations to Jan Vandenbiggelaar

for being Sales Person of the month for the month of December.

Come in today to see why Jan is the right sales

person for you!

Jan VandenbiggelarThe

BIGGEST

Name in Comox Valley

Car Sales

Many people know the smiling face of Lani Alton - she is a shining light in our community. While liv-ing independently for a number of years now, the funding she receives for her support does not in-clude some very essential services.

Though Lani is confi ned to a wheelchair for her waking hours, and suff ers from the muscle stress and spasticity of cerebral palsy, she does not re-ceive adequate funding for

health services she needs, such as chiropractic, mas-sage therapy, physiothera-py and counselling.

Funds for these ser-vices are generated by a small group of volunteers who form the board of the Lani Alton Society, whose primary purpose is to as-sure that Lani gets the care that she needs and deserves.

This year’s major fund-raising event - the Lani Hootenanny - takes place on Sunday evening, Janu-

ary 11th at the Little Red Church Theatre in Co-mox.

Musical entertainment will be provided by Kel Kelly, Tina Filippino and you, the audience.

The evening will be-gin with a set of original tunes by Kel and Tina, covering everything from travel to love to grandchil-dren. A brief intermission will be followed by Tina’s enthusiastic guiding of a community hootenanny, sharing some songs we all

know, and some we will learn together.

If you have spent any time singing with Tina, you will know that she can bring out the singer in ev-eryone. Lani, who loves music, is really looking forward to singing togeth-er with her community.

The organizers hope to recruit a few new month-ly donors to the Lani Al-ton Society. A pledge of as little as ten dollars per month can make a huge diff erence in the quality of Lani’s life.

Admission to the Hoo-tenanny is by donation.

Everyone is welcome to the Little Red Church at the top of Comox Hill on Sunday, January 11th. Doors open at 6:30, show time is 7 p.m.

For more information, contact Kel Kelly at 250 337 8348 or [email protected]

‘The Lani Hootenanny’ - a fundraiser for Lani Alton

The radical generos-ity of the Comox Valley is at work once again as the community rallies for a friend in need. Last week, Sunday Dennis, a local musician, mother of 3, volunteer and owner of Sock Soiree in Downtown Courtenay was diagnosed with an aggressive and life threatening brain tumor.

Sunday has been given a critical opportunity to have surgery and treat-ment for her condition at UCLA in California. Based on test results there is a

high probability that she has a high grade Gleoma, a fast growing, aggres-sive form of brain cancer otherwise known as Gleo-blastoma. With full bless-ings from her Canadian medical team, she and her husband are headed to the LA this week to enroll in a cutting edge trial at UCLA for this kind of brain tu-mor. However, while the trial will be fully funded, her travel expenses, sur-gery in the US, pre and post operative care and loss of work will not be.

Link to crowdfunding campaign: http://www.youcaring.com/medi-cal-fundraiser/hope-for-sunday-dennis/286076Link to facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-and-Bright-Light-for-Sunday-Dennis/510613112411830Like to Facebook event Saturday: https://www.facebook.com/events/939286122763351/

Last weekend Sunday’s friends launched a crowd funding (online) campaign that has seen incredible re-sults. The family needs to raise $300,000 to cover all expenses for Sunday’s med-ical journey over the next year and last weekend they raised the fi rst $100,000, in only 48 hours. They still have a long way to go to meet all their costs but this is an incredible start,

“The success of our on-line campaign represents the kind of love there is for our friend and her family.” says Shea Wilson, a spokes-person for the family. “Sun-day is a very loving and generous person. She and Jason are completely blown away by this support from their community, and from complete strangers. This support will be what saves her life”.

The community is also

rallying this Saturday Night at the Waverley Hotel for a night of music, friendship, a silent auction and joyful celebration and hope for Sunday Dennis. “Bright Light for Sunday” kicks off at 7 pm and admission is by donation. There is a signifi -cant silent auction as part of this event and folks are also welcome to drop off cash donations at the event as well. Performers include Corwin Fox, Pamela Tess-mann, Marc Atkinson, Kev-in Jay Flesher, Casey Ryder, The Cumberland Brothers, Willowicious, The Moon Band, Helen Austin and other surprise guests.

Visit “Bright Light for Sunday” on facebook for more information about this weekend’s event. Visit “Love and Bright Light for Sunday Dennis” on face-book to stay up to date on Sunday’s progress.

Musicians and community rally for Sunday Dennis


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