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On March 7th police re-ceived a report of a theft of an 18-foot White Clipper canoe from a residence on the 500 block of Andrew Avenue in Comox. The ca-noe is reported to have 3 patches on one side of the canoe. (2015-2888)

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Firm chosen to oversee curling centre renovationBY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

The Comox Valley Curl-ing Centre renovation project is scheduled to get underway in mid-April.

The consultant hired for the project, Bruce Carscadden Architecture, has selected the fi rm that will oversee the $1.9 mil-lion renovation.

At the close of tenders on Feb. 26th, 2015, six submissions were re-ceived with two being deemed non-compliant. The winning tender was from Kinetic Construc-tion, which put forward a bid of $1,480,700, exclu-sive of GST.

The Comox Valley Re-gional District staff will be recommending that board award the contract for the curling centre renovation to Kinetic.

The CVRD’s contribu-tion to the project is upto $1,900,000 with anadditional funding of$100,000 to come fromthe Comox Valley CurlingClub.

The money would beattained through borrow-ing. To comply with theelector assent provisionsof the Local GovernmentAct an alternate approvalprocess was undertakenand completed on June14,2014.

Following that, BylawNo. 327 was approved bythe board in June 2014which authorizes the bor-rowing of funds in orderfor the CVRD to carryout the planning, study,design and constructionof works and facilities inconnection with the capi-tal improvements to theComox Valley curling cen-tre.

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The RCMP will relocate its operational communi-cations centre out of the Nanaimo police detach-ment to Courtenay in No-vember, a move that will aff ect 21 civilian employ-ees.

The change also means the City of Nanaimo and its regional partners will have to review how it de-livers its 911 police calls for residents.

That is because 911 calls are currently answered by municipal staff working in the OCC under police management.

Operators receive emer-gency and non-emergency calls and relay information to police. They also check in with offi cers who are re-sponding to calls.

The RCMP operates three OCCs on Vancouver Island: in the west shore area near Victoria, in Cour-

tenay and in Nanaimo.The RCMP’s decision to

merge the Nanaimo OCC with the one in Courte-nay will make daily opera-tions more effi cient, said Lois Karr, director of the RCMP’s E Division OCC program.

Karr said all 21 employ-ees in the Nanaimo OCC will be off ered jobs at the merged Courtenay cen-tre or given the chance to commute.

She said the move will not aff ect daily police op-erations or residents.

Nanaimo 911 dispatch centre to be relocated by RCMP to Courtenay

An RCMP dispatcher takes calls in the Nanaimo detachment. Photo-graph By Aaron HInks/Daily News

“The service is still ex-actly the same,” she said.

However, Karr said the move will mean Nanaimo and its partners in the central Island

911 operating service will have a decision to make as to where they want the service delivered from and who delivers it.

The RCMP is willing to host 911 services for Nanaimo out of the OCC in Courtenay, she said.

Nanaimo, the Regional District of Nanaimo and the Cowichan Valley Re-gional District are budget-ed to pay $747,000 this year for 911 services out of the Nanaimo RCMP detachment with four full-time city employees and two part-time em-ployees. The RCMP is paid $26,000 for admin-

istrative costs, said Mike Dietrich, manager of po-lice support services for the city.

Dietrich said the city is in talks with a consultant to do a study on options that the city, the CVRD and the RDN can take to provide the 911 service.

The previous Nanaimo council voted 7-2 last year to sign an agreement with the RCMP to keep the 911 call centre for police out of the OCC in the Nanaimo RCMP detachment, partly to safeguard local jobs.

That council rejected a staff recommendation to sign a contract with Vancouver-based fi rm EComm 911 to provide the service, a move the city estimates would have saved $209,000 a year.

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BY DREW A. PENNEREcho Staff

The Village of Cumber-land is leading the Comox Valley in promoting a civic paradigm shift in an ecological direction. On March 9 the community became the fi rst local gov-ernment to adopt a decla-ration of environmental rights, which enshrines residents’ right to clean air, water and safe food in an offi cial document.

Cumberland follows in the footsteps of Lady-smith, Central Saanich, View Royal, Duncan, Saan-ich, Highlands and Sooke in making the move.

“The Village of Cum-berland will apply the pre-cautionary principle that where threats of serious or irreversible damage to human health or the envi-ronment exist, the Village of Cumberland will take cost eff ective measures to prevent the degradation of the environment and protect the health of its citizens where it is fi nan-cially feasible within the current budget,” the dec-laration reads. “The Vil-

lage of Cumberland shall endeavor to apply full cost accounting when evaluat-ing reasonably foreseeable costs of proposed actions and alternatives and will consider costs to human health and the environ-ment.”

This dovetails with the community’s desire to de-velop an environmentally sustainable method of treating liquid waste, re-view the zoning bylaw and bring it up to speed with the Offi cial Community Plan, reevaluate develop-

ment standards, put a greenhouse gas reduction plan in place and create a Perseverance Creek stew-ardship plan, among other initiatives.

The motion, put forward by Coun. Jesse Ketler and passed with unanimous support, follows a blue-print set out by the Blue Dot, a David Suzuki Foun-dation project sponsored by companies like Na-ture’s Path, Roots Canada and Ascenta Health.

Blue Dot says half of Canadians live in areas where they are exposed to unsafe levels of air pol-lution and not 36,000 premature deaths are at-tributed to environmental hazards every year.

Coun. Roger Kishi said the Blue Dot strategy doesn’t seem to include much in the way of advo-cacy at either the provin-cial or federal government level.

Coun. Ketler replied she believes the organization is attempting to build a groundswell of change by getting as many munici-palities to sign on as pos-sible.

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Two households on Denman Island have won the right to move forward with claims the local Is-lands Trust committee unfairly refused to allow them to develop their properties. The landown-ers say they will be seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages related to the administration of their farms, which fall un-der the agricultural land reserve (ALR).

“They have a bit of a treehugger mentality,” said Dean Ellis, 66, a self-pro-claimed “redneck farmer” who has been fi ghting the Island Trust almost since not long after he bought 80 acres of land on Swan Road in 2002. “I haven’t

been able to develop my farm.”

The land is within the Komas Bluff development permit area, and includes 800 meters of coastline. The bluff in question is subject to erosion and is protected by a 50-meter buff er zone.

Daniel and Debra Stone-man, 70 and 60 respec-tively, purchased 22.8 acres of land from Ellis in 2004 and have been wrapped up in the legal dispute ever since. Dan Stoneman says while his land is within the DPA, it is located about two-and-a-half kilometres south of the actual bluff itself.

“This is ALR land - it’s in the reserve, so we should be able to use it for farming,” he said. “What the local trust commit-

tee here has said is, ‘We put a buff er on your prop-erty. You’re not allowed to develop it.’ In 2005 the court determined the buf-fer was unenforceable yet, for the past ten years, the local trust committee has spent egregious amounts of public tax dollars to enforce the buff er includ-ing threats to remove our home.’”

Ellis lost the fi rst round of litigation and is on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in costs, after a judge upheld the validity of Bylaw 111, which gov-erns development in the DPA. Now Ellis and the Stonemans are suing for negligence, public misfea-sance, as well as claiming nuisance and bad faith.

In a Feb. 23 BC Su-preme Court judgment,

justice Laura Gerow noted the Stonemans’ concerns have yet to be properly ar-gued in court.

“One of the reasons given by the plaintiff s for their failure to plead mate-rial facts and provide par-

ticulars of the allegations is that the knowledge re-garding the internal per-mitting process is in the possession of the defen-dants and they have had diffi culty obtaining docu-ments from the defen-

dants,” it reads, and noted both Ellis and the Stone-mans are free to advance their claims.

David Critchley, a Den-man Island trustee for the Islands Trust, said this le-gal quarrel has been drag-ging on for years.

“There is a very lengthy history to this whole thing,” he said. “The judg-es order is they have 90 days to amend their plea.

“This is the second time this has been permitted to them.”

Ellis characterizes the decision as more of a vic-tory than a small step for-ward.

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Denman legal dispute escalates in farming fi ght with Islands TrustTwo landowners win right in court to move forward with claims seeking damages

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Construction of the new Adult Day Program space at Glacier View Lodge will be completed later this spring.

“We are immensely grateful to the many in-dividuals and service or-ganizations in the Comox Valley that provided do-nations to meet the con-struction shortfall. We have reached our fundrais-ing target of $150,000 to help us to build this new ‘home away from home’ for seniors of the Comox Valley attending our Adult Day Program,”said Michal Aikins, Executive Director at Glacier View Lodge.

“The new space will also relieve pressure on the current Lodge and will al-low us to provide a more therapeutic environment for our residents who have diffi culty coping in noisy and busy activity spaces.”

The Adult Day Program provides a social and stimulating day for the client in a safe environ-ment, while the caregiver has some well-deserved

and needed respite time to themselves.

Many caregivers still need to go to work, and manage their other family roles and commitments. It may be the only oppor-tunity they have to go to a caregiver support group to learn how to cope at home.

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(Continued from page 4)

“It’s a complete turnaround for us,” he said. “We can go af-ter the trust and the trustees.”

Ellis says he’s spent over $250,000 on court costs which he wants the Islands Trust to pay, along with punitive dam-ages related to not being able to farm and develop his land prop-erly over the past 10 years.

The Stonemans say they, too, will seek money to cover legal costs as well as punitive damages, claiming the Islands Trust has been improperly at-tempting to protect the envi-ronment.

Critchley noted there’s an outstanding order for costs against Ellis and added the Denman trust committee is very careful with its use of pub-lic funds.

“We’re always concerned about spending taxpayers mon-ey,” he said.

The Islands Trust has previ-ously secured the support of the Union of BC Municipalities to fi ght Ellis and the Stone-mans.

The Echo has attempted to contact the trustees that could be personally on the hook if Ellis and Stoneman win. Tony Law and Louise Bell declined to comment. David Marlor did not respond to a request for comment.

Brian Underhill, Agricultural

Land Commission’s deputy CEO, said they are aware the landowners have concerns about their ability to use their land fully, but acknowledged the need of local trust com-mittees to protect sensitive en-vironmental features in some cases.

“It is a matter between the landowners and the Islands Trust,” he said.

Dan Stoneman said the local committee has been trying to get them to return the property to its earlier state.

“In my opinion they’re trying to send a political message,” Stoneman said. “Who in their right mind sues farmers to re-forest their farmland? Who sues to preserve hazards? Who sues to remove homes on pri-vate stable farmland. It makes no sense.”

Ellis said the Islands Trust has been directing drainage onto his property, which is causing erosion in and of it-self. Justice Gerow noted this is something that can be ad-dressed through the courts.

Perhaps the interesting point Ellis is now pressing is that By-law 111 does not, in fact, protect forest cover, but rather seeks to safeguard environmental fea-tures specifi cally to protect de-velopment.

“Islands Trust is trying to use it to protect trees,” Ellis said. “That’s your loophole.”

Denman legal dispute

The Canadian Forces Snow-birds will, once again, grace the skies over the Comox Valley in preparation for their 2015 air show season from April 10th to 30th.

The Snowbirds’ Spring Train-ing Camp is an annual event that aff ords the team the opportuni-ty to practice fl ying over water, mountains and diverse terrain away from its operational home base of Moose Jaw, SK.

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The Snowbirds will also fl y their offi cial acceptance show, April 28, over the Comox Wa-terfront and will be available thereafter to sign autographs at

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Local student wins full year boarding scholarship at St. Michael’sBY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

With virtually no knowl-edge on making videos, Elizabeth Watson asked a friend to help her learn how to use iMovie.

The 15-year-old Comox teen, a quick learner, got a crash course during a lunch break at school. Whatever she absorbed on that day was enough to provide Watson with the tools she needed to create a video about herself.

The Mark Isfeld student entered it in the St. Mi-chael’s University School’s Best School Year Ever, a video contest for students in North America enter-ing Grades 8-12. Entrants were asked to create a short video introducing

Elizabeth Watson hopes to eventually attend Oxford or Cambridge

themselves, highlighting who they are as students and individuals.

Watson submitted a video because she was looking for a school that off ers Advance Placement courses. She needs these

courses in order to meet the entry requirements to two of the most presti-gious schools in England - Oxford University and Cambridge University.

“I am really keen on tak-ing those courses and I

saw St. Michael’s which is the best in Canada for AP courses,” said Watson. “I saw the contest so I thought I’d give it a shot.”

With limited video mak-ing skills, Watson consid-ered herself a long-shot at winning and said she didn’t really have a strat-egy.

“After I learned using iMovie, I just kind of or-ganized the points I was going to make as the main fact about myself that I was going to talk about and share with the school,” said Watson. “I started it and went with it.”

But it’s easier said than done. Watson had to com-press into a six-minute video the many highlights of her personal life and achievements, and also

answer contest questions.“I went through my life

and picked out the ma-jor points of me that I thought were important for them to know,” said Watson, who talked about her family’s move to Can-ada from England, as well as her passion for soccer

and many extra-curricularactivities. “I spent abouttwo minutes about whoI am and what I’ve done and three minutes of an-swering the questions like why do you think you’d be a good fi t with the school, what makes you want to go to our school and how are you going to make the most of your stay here?”

Much to her surprise, Watson’s video ended up impressing the judges and was selected the winner of this year’s contest, which comes with a grand prizeof a full-year, $50,000boarding scholarship atSMUS in Victoria. Shebeat entries coming fromall over Canada and theUnited States.

(Continued on page 12)

Lizzie is clearly an exceptional student. She’s very smart, she’s a gifted athlete, she’s very personable, and above all else, she’s driven to make the most out of her time in school”

BOB SNOWDENHead of SMU

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www.comoxvalleyecho.comFRIDAY.MARCH 13, 2015 9

On behalf of the project team working on the Comox Valley Regional District’s south region liquid waste management plan (LWMP), I want to thank the community for the letters, emails, phone calls and visits provided over the last six weeks sharing feedback on the four short-listed options for wastewater manage-ment in the Royston/Union Bay area.

We heard from many residents and members of the broader community about the importance of restoring and protect-ing the environment in Baynes Sound, the sig-nifi cance of the estimated costs and the need for the project to move forward.

The community was encouraged to return feedback by the end of February to help inform a triple-bottom-line analysis and risk assess-ment to be undertaken by the public and technical advisory committees and steering committee. That challenging work oc-curred last week over two days and ultimately led to Scenario ‘C’ - discharge off Cape Lazo to the Strait of Georgia - being recommended for refer-ral to south sewer project partners K’ómoks First Nation (KFN) and the Village of Cumberland.

Scenario C would see

wastewater from the area treated at a facility in the south region (location to be determined), then piped across the estuary and through the Town of Comox to the exist-ing Comox Valley Water Pollution Control Centre on Brent Road. There, it would be combined with effl uent from the existing facility and discharged through a single outfall.

This scenario is now with the KFN for review until early April, at which time their feedback will be considered by the LWMP steering commit-tee. The Village of Cum-berland will then also consider their involve-ment and the next steps for their own LWMP pro-cess. If all three project partners agree the Cape Lazo scenario is the best approach, a draft CVRD south region LWMP will be developed and brought back to the public for further consultation this summer.

We expect to commu-nicate a project update through our spring news-letter in May.

Once again - thank-you. Public feedback is a critical part of the LWMP process and we appreci-ate all of those who took the time to share their thoughts.

Kris La Rose, P. Eng.Manager, Liquid Waste Plan-

ning Comox Valley Regional District

I would like to thank reporter Drew A. Penner for the excellent article, “Safety and understand-ing highlighted at Qu-eneesh event” (March 10) featuring Elijah Sulz and Julian Telfer Wan, mem-bers of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program.

Through CHAMP, young amputees like Elijah and Julian are encouraged to adopt the “Winner’s Circle” philoso-phy by accepting their amputations and develop-ing a positive approach to challenges. This year marks the 40th anni-versary of the CHAMP Program, which has pro-vided generations of child amputees, with fi nancial assistance for artifi cial limbs, regional seminars and peer support.

Coverage like yours cer-tainly helps to inform the public of the resources and programs available to child amputees. The War Amps receives no government grants and its programs are possible through public support of our Key Tag and Ad-dress Label Service. Your coverage will go a long way in helping to spread the word.

Danita Chisholm,Executive Director

CHAMP ProgramThe War Amps

I was surprised to read in “Society slams Comox for failing to preserve his-toric Laing homes,”(The Echo,6 March) Mayor Ives’ claim that “inter-pretive panels had been erected to highlight the historic signifi cance of Laing’s work.”

As only one small not very visible sign exists, I leave it to your readers to weigh the substance of the mayor’s other state-ments.

Only a cairn with a brass plaque erected at the direction of then councillor Alice Bullen and friends of Laing will now remain. (This small plaque and the nature panels at Shakesides do not “highlight the historic signifi cance of Laing’s work.”) The fact is that Mack Laing as early as 1927 was one of the fi rst prominent environmen-talists in BC to report the impacts of oil pollution. No friend of the establish-ment, he was always an outspoken conscience. Comox’s anti-environ-mental establishment has sought to erase his mem-ory for the past 40 years. (They almost succeeded until MLHS revived local interest in 2013.)

Contrary to your report,

MLHS fully accepts coun-cil’s political decision, because we belief in the political process, much as Mack Laing trusted in the integrity of the Town of Comox. However, we strongly recommend that seniors wishing to donate to the town, carefully con-sider Comox’s treatment of an elderly Laing’s will and memory.

Whatever decision council has taken, merely refl ects on the town. I fully accept staff ’s posi-tion, particularly since a CAO who cannot balance his budget and promises annual 2.5% tax increas-es for the next 5 years to be borne by joe-average, has found MLHS budget projections to be wanting.

CVN has been around 50 years, longer than most businesses, and has always run a balanced budget, with surpluses.

MLHS proposed a walk-in low-impact public facility that would have paid taxes and contrib-uted to the parks budget at no cost to Comox (see macklaingsociety.ca).

When Comox taxpayers see their taxes increase to pay for parks, they should ask relevant questions of parties who opposed this with a campaign of delib-erate misrepresentations, for their own benefi t.

MLHS will continue its mission to document and advocate for the protec-

tion of the environmental history of the Comox Valley for many years to come.

A $1000 annual literary prize is being established by MLHS to record , celebrate and disseminate the history of Mack La-ing’s values and impact in the Comox Valley.

Loys Maingon (President)Comox Valley Nature

(MLHS coordinator)

I would like to con-gratulate the House of Lords for passing historic legislation which requires the British government to allocate 0.7% of their GDP to Overseas Devel-opment Assistance.

Why this is of such interest to Canadians is that was our Prime Min-ister, Lester Pearson, who in 1969, challenged the developed countries to achieve this level of fund-ing to those countries less fortunate than us. Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Lux-emburg and now Britain have achieved that target.

Unfortunately, despite promises by several gov-ernments, Canada is still below 0.3%.

Perhaps it is time for us to pass such a law in Ottawa and honour the memory of a great man.

Sam WellerVictoria BC

Thanks for inputon sewer system

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ONLY CAIRN REMAINSTHANKS FOR AWARENESS

FRIDAY.MARCH 13, 2015 www.comoxvalleyecho.com10

BEEFS & BOUQUETS

BOUQUET to the person drawing attention to the ‘regular’ drivers who use the disabled parking spac-es around town. Perhaps those responsible for in-stalling signs indicating the space is for handi-capped drivers could fol-low the example I came across at a town in France. The sign which was post-ed alongside the interna-tionally known ‘handicap’ sign, read “If you want to take my space, then take my illness also”.

HOME MADE APPLE PIE for all the “grey hair” guys who volunteer at the Courte-nay Fish and Game Club. You guys are the greatest; all the hard work you do for everyone to enjoy their visit and stay at the lake. One special particular vol-unteer job you recently did is very much appreciated.

A BOUQUET to the Comox Lake Watershed Advisory Committee and CVRD di-rectors. They will solve the drinking water quality and quantity issue. Why the optimism? Well, they are all shareholders in Tim-berwest which is owned by BC pension funds and the BC Government, which is funded by all of us who pay BC taxes. Tax-payers want sustainable taxation and BC Govern-ment and Federal Gov-ernment employees want sustainable pensions - it’s a win/win/win to manage a sustainable watershed. By the way, CVRD directors only control 1% of the watershed water for Co-mox valley water custom-ers. BC Hydro and DFO take 99% of the water. We need to invest in wa-tershed management - not water meters.

MY BEEF is that I go to and from exersize in the morning between 6-7 am and there are people walk-ing their dogs, skateboard-ing or riding their bikes. Is there some reason they cannot wear refl ective gear. It is dark and some-

times rainy which makes it hard enough to see, then you come across a skateboarder or someone riding their bike on the road and it is by chance you don’t hit them, no one wears any refl ective gear. I wonder if a fi ne should be given out to them, I don’t want to hit anyone so please make it easier to be seen.

A HUGE BOUQUET to all the volunteers at Eldercollege that put together last Sat-urday’s lecture. The mock trial was very informative as well as entertaining. Thank you for an out-standing production.

OH GOODIE, another vit-riolic diatribe in defense of those playful lovable pit bulls, who would nev-er ever hurt anyone. But conspicuously absent was a single word of sympa-thy for the harmless com-panion dog that was the latest victim of a pit bull. Sensible people know how dangerous the things can be, and many places have restricted them. It’s okay to blame the breed! They deserve it. Muzzle or ban them. Last week’s writer says her chihuahua mix has a worse temper than those playful pit bulls. If her chihuahua is danger-ous, she can buy a muzzle for it at any of our fi ne local pet stores, and they might even fi nd one in her own size.

OVER MANY YEARS, Co-mox Valley Book Friends, through the generosity of its donors, has been able to have an annual book sale and provide non-profi t groups in the Valley with funds. Groups such as 4Rs, Adult Learning Centre, Therapeutic Rid-ing, Firefi ghters Associa-tion, Ground Search and Rescue, Wheels for Well-ness, L’Arche have been the recipients of the gen-erosity of the kind folks who have both donated to, and purchased from, the sale. Thank you to you all!

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IT IS SAD TO SEE that the only time TARGET has seen a lot of customers is when they are going out of business.

A GREAT BIG BOUQUET to APEX PLUMBING. Twice now we have had a mem-ber of your team come to our rescue with plumbing issues. You have solved our problems with no fuss or bother and have been very respectful towards us. I would recommend this company and its em-ployees to anyone who has plumbing issues. They are amazing! Thanks so much from Black Creek. Our pressure tank hasn’t run better!

BOUQUETS to letter writer S. Smith in Royston, on the state of BC’s Forest-ry Industry and our local situation in logging the Comox lake watershed. It’s not just the BC Lib-erals who have lost their way, but CVRD staff who claimed that logging had nothing to do with the 47-day boil water advisory. They said it was” Glacial Stirring “brought on by vlimate change and rec-ommend that Comox Val-ley tesidents pay $25 mil-lions for DWI or maybe, $70 millions for a water treatment plant. Thank-fully our CVRD directors have some say on this issue,and there are some credible experts on the

WAG. Bouquets to those who are informed and ex-press informed opinions.

11 DOZEN BOUQUETS to all the hockey moms and dads who HAD to endure 3 long nights at a dive motel in Maple Ridge last weekend for our kids tour-nament. Rooms fl ooded, vehicle theft, broken ther-mostats, over-charging, sparse breakfast, lumpy mattresses, disgusting bathrooms. The things we put up with for our kids, right?... Except for the inconsiderate hockey mom who booked it - she was staying at her in-laws house!!! Oh, wait, there’s more... Right across the street was a beautiful new Best Western that was available, $10 less/nt and had a pool! You’d think a teacher would have done 2 min. of basic research for the team’s sake.

BOUQUET to Elaine at Pathfi nder Travel Comox for helping me plan our trip to meet our newest granddaughter. I have al-ways done our own fl ight planning online but this time I was having a real problem trying to coor-dinate 4 fl ights and was ready to pull my hair out. I decided to bite the bul-let and have a travel agent do the work. At this point, I didn’t care what the charge would be. I just wanted it done. To my utter surprise, Elaine got us exactly the fl ights and times we wanted at a low-er price than I could fi nd online. And her charge for doing this work? $36.75 total for the two of us. To-tally worth it!! Thank you again Elaine. You saved me a lot of aggravation!

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BEEF TO THE PERSON who thinks the police should not be questioning people at the Courtenay library. I too spend a lot of time at the library and I applaud the police for doing their regular walk thru’s and speaking to questionable people. I have noticed it is much better now. Too many would come in not to read, but to socialize with others they know and speak loudly with much profanity with no regard to the ones who were wanting to sit quietly and read. So many times I have to get up out of my seat to fi nd another place less noisy. I have com-plained numerous times and am happy for the po-lice presence but we still have a ways to go to have a peaceful library.

SPECIAL BOUQUET to a very

pleasant young fellow who not only stopped but went WAY out of his way to help a young couple who were broke down on the highway to Cumber-land a week ago. It was late Saturday afternoon, on his way home, he ex-amined the moving truck, ordered, picked up and in-stalled the power steering belt, and before you knew it they were on their way. So next time you are in Fountain Tire in Courte-nay say “hello” to Craig.

BOUQUETS to those who

have protested irrespon-sible burners in backyards and beaches. Air quality is important. Thank You. However it seems now we

have a salt water marsh mosquito epidemic. Ae-des Doralis. Will there be a sensible solation i.e. burning some organics, or a very expensive CVRD solution. Never had mos-quitoes or 47-day boil wa-ter before. What a job our CVRD directors have - a big Bouquet to them!

IN MEMORY OF SPOCK & just a bit of Logic ... Upon leaving John’s Supermar-ket I noticed 2 signs. The 1st was “Ancient Forests Forever”. As it IS with the reader & displayer of this sign, trees do not live for-ever. The 2nd was, “No Tankers, No Pipeline, No Problem”. Actually there would be a problem if this situation existed, because how do you, Owner-Of-Little-Red-Car-that-Dis-played-these-Signs, think the gasoline actually got into your tank so you could get yourself home from John’s too?

HUGE FLOWERY BOUQUET to Van Isle Veterinary Clinic, and especially to Dr. de Winter, who has been un-believably helpful with our bulldog. She has helped us care for our dog for three years, and has been un-questionably honest, gen-erous and caring. If any Valley residents are look-ing for a vet, then I highly recommend you give her the opportunity to care for your pet. She’s one of a kind!

A BEEF to a business not only refusing to refund a double charge made by you on my debit card, not bothering to even ask my name and volunteering to look into it, but telling my it was my responsibil-ity to clear it up with my bank. What kind of cus-tomer service is that, not the kind I will be doing any further business with that’s for sure, nor will any of the 10 people I tell who in turn will each tell

10 more. You have a lot of stiff competition in the valley for adult only bev-erage outlets and you re-ally need to up your game. The Bank, by the way, has put an investigator on the doubled charge and who knows what they’ll fi nd. You, yourself, admitted it was not the fi rst time this has happened...so the question is “Just how many people have you ripped off in your 3 years of doing business?

ROTTING TIMBERS to Co-mox mayor and council! On a U.S. dollar it says “In God We Trust”. In Comox we say “In Mayor and Council We Do Not Trust”! Comox mayor and councillors have betrayed the trust Mac Laing placed in the Town of Comox; in the way they have mis-managed his home and eff ects. Signed, an embar-rassed, disappointed and discouraged resident!

A WALLET is found and, af-ter many time-consuming phone calls, returned to its owner. Goodness as-tounds.

TO THE INCONSIDERATE per-son who chose to scrape the side of my car with their white vehicle on Sun-day, March 1 in a marked parking lot, a plague on you! I always centre my vehicle within the marked lines using my tiltable mirrors and I was clearly within the lines. There was no eff ort made on your part to wait for me or put a note on my car. This was obviously a “hit and run”. Neither ICBC nor the body shop were surprised by this dreadful action. It seems that integrity has become a four letter word. My anger is only subdued by the knowledge that Karma will visit you. I will be somehow reimbursed with good energy while you will gain the opposite. Should anyone notice a

white vehicle with dark gry paint on the front bumper or elsewhere, please know that was not a simple ac-cident. The owner of that vehicle was negligent, dis-honest and disrespectful.

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK the gentleman who paid for our breakfast at “The Early Bird” on March 4. You made our day.

BEEFS to the politicians (you’re working for us supposedly) for not pro-tecting or caring about our safety and health. I would like to inform the people of Comox and the Regional District that Rogers telecommunica-tion corporation has been asking people around Tor-rence in Comox whether they would be interested in putting a huge cell tower on their land. This is in a residential district. I have a folder about 5-6 inches thick of the detrimental eff ects of the EMF radia-tion on our health. There have been 1,800 new stud-ies completed in 2012. You can google bioiniative 2012 to fi nd out more. I phoned the town of Co-mox who allowed Telus to put one up on Knight Rd in 2013 but they hadn’t been notifi ed yet and nei-ther had the Regional Dis-trict. Their consultation process doesn’t usually in-clude informing the public and I believe they have a policy, like Hydro, of just imposing these things on us like they did with the smart meters. Please con-tact the town of Comox and the Regional District Area B to inform them on how you feel about this.

A ROAD FULL OF ROCKS and pebbles to the ski teams training on Cameron and Baden road in Royston. Itís great to see an organi-zation that utilizes a neigh-bourhood for practice, but how about thinking of all the people that live in the

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area, walk in the area andhave kids and dogs in thearea, that are being run off their own roads. “ìCautionski practice in progress”signs are great for localtraffi c, I’m guessing thisis so the team membersdonít get run over whilethey have the entire roadtaken over.

It seems these signsdon’t apply to the speed-ing parents picking theirkids up from practice.The road signs also don’tseem to apply while theyspeed down the 30 km/hrone lane section of Cam-eron while they ignore theoncoming traffi c alreadycommitted to the one lanesection. Showing respectfor our neighbourhoodand the people living in itis the least your team cando!

BIG BOUQUET of spring fl owers to the Comox Co-Op, and all the great peo-ple that helped support the Comox Valley Strikers U 14 girls volleyball with their car wash this week-end.

RUST AND LOOSE BOLTS for the driver who scraped my cute little white car while it was parked in a lot a cou-ple of weeks ago. I recently went in for an estimate for doing a quick fi x and it’ll cost me my deductible of $300.00. I can’t aff ord it, so I’ll be carrying your scar for the life of my car. Mis-takes happen, so why not man-up and admit it at the time? Yes, I did the same thing many years ago so I know it can happen, and yes, I left my name and number and paid that per-son’s deductible. I have no guilt. How do you feel?

THANK YOU to the staff at Courtenay Costco for their donations to 888 (Komox) Wing RCAF Association in hosting the Wounded Warriors on their Fund raising run through Co-mox and Courtenay. Your assistance for the event was most appreciated by all who attended.

Reply to “FOUND IT SURPRIS-ING enough that we sold pot equipment in the area across the river. But now I see it on 17th and McPhee and Lake Trail and Wille-mar. Both family areas and school zones. What’s next, demos in parking lots?” Guess what, everything that you are seeing should be in a 19-plus store. ALL of that is NOT for minors to even SEE! Hence the 19-plus smoke shops in the Valley!!

A HUGE BOUQUET and tons of business is wished to Courtenay fl orist, “PURE-LY FLOWERS”. Their unique and artistic ar-rangements are amazing and the fl owers last almost forever! I received a lovely arrangement for Valen-tine’s on Feb.12th and the fl owers are just now begin-ning to droop. The buds all bloomed out exactly as we were told to expect! Well done! Defi nitely our “go to place” for fl owers!

Re DANGEROUS PITBULLS beef in last week’s Beefs & Bouquets. Just been reading the histrionic re-sponse in this week’s pa-per which asks us to look up pitbulls on google, so I did. Yup, dangerous as hell! For instance, offi cial fi gures (CDC) http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-study-breeds-

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“Lizzie is clearly an exceptional student. She’s very smart, she’s a gifted athlete, she’s very personable, and above all else, she’s driven to make the most out of her time in school,” said Bob Snowden, Head of SMU.

Watson, who originally came from Morpeth, Eng-land, is an honour roll student at Mark Isfeld. She spends her time ski-ing competitively, playing soccer and taking photos. Snowden said her sense of humour and enthusiasm for school is what helped make her stand out to the judging panel.

“I’ve never done some-thing like this before. It’s a good experience to just go through the application process and see what it’s like. To be honest, I didn’t even expect to make the cut of 30 let alone win,” said Watson. “It was more of a shock when I heard I was in the top three and then a really big shock when I found out I won because the contest was quite competitive.”

Watson said she’s ex-cited to go to SMU next school year. It’s a giant step for her in realizing her dream of attending Cambridge or Oxford.

“When I nine or ten years old, I wanted to be a spy and join the secret service,” said Watson. “I was reading about all the recruits from Cambridge and Oxford and told my-self ‘that’s cool.’ I was re-ally very interested to be-come a spy. I think it’s a very interesting career. That was then, but now not so much. But I was really inspired to go to school there.”

Watson and the other two fi nalists visited SMUS on Feb. 27 and 28 to meet with students and staff , and to get a sense of board-ing life at the school.

“I hope to make the most of my 2015-16 school year by taking advantage of the classes off ered at SMUS, getting involved in a variety of extracur-ricular activities, meeting new people from around the world, working hard to try and achieve my goals, supporting my friends and community, and, of course, having fun,” said Watson. “Just being part of a

school that off ers so much and encourages its students to reach their full potential makes me re-ally excited to attend the school in the fall.”

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For those people who like to go fi shing at Maple Lake, you can expect to net more rainbow trout this spring.

That’s because the pop-ular angling spot near the Village of Cumberland has just been restocked with catchable-size rainbow trout by Freshwater Fish-eries Society of BC.

It’s an annual ritual conducted by the society, which replenishes lakes with fi sh not only here on Vancouver Island but also in other parts of the prov-ince.

On Wednesday, the so-ciety has increased the number of rainbow trout it released this spring to 3,250 rainbow trout from 2,500.

“This is to account for the additional fi shing pres-sure that the lake has been receiving over the past few years,” said Tristan Rob-bins, the assistant hatch-ery manager of the soci-ety.

“Regional biologists will periodically perform a ‘lake survey’ on the lake to de-termine which species are present, fi sh size, stomach contents of the fi sh, age of the fi sh, etc. They use this data to estimate the total

number of fi sh present in the lake and to determine how many fi sh need to be stocked into the lake in the future.”

Maple Lake is one of the

heavily fi shed lakes on the island. It was fi rst stocked with rainbow trout in 1958. It has been replen-ished with fi sh annually since 1977.

The Fraser Valley rain-bow trout that were re-leased are diploid sterile females and will not re-produce.

“By releasing sterile trout, we can be assured that they will not inter-breed with any wild rain-bow stocks that may be present in the lake,” said Robbins. “Wild fi sh stocks tend to be more ‘genetical-ly fi t’ than hatchery raised fi sh, as they have been ex-posed to natural selection for generations. If there

Society increases fi sh stock released in Maple LakeAround 3,000 catchable-size rainbow trout gives anglers more fi sh to catch

Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC fi sh culturist Tony Andrychuck released 3,000 catchable-size rainbow trout in Maple Lake.

are wild stocks present in a lake, we do not want to dilute the gene pool with hatchery fi sh that have not been exposed to natu-ral selection (eg natural predation).”

The fi sh put all growth into their bodies and typi-

cally put on an inch per month in the warm time of year. They are grown mainly for angling pur-poses.

“Fish that are sterile do not put energy into repro-duction,” said Robbins.

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This Saturday, March 14 get into the Irish spirit early with Vanier Im-prov’s Shamrock Shindig!

This light hearted St Paddy’s day themed show will tickle your funny bone as Improvisation teams from the Vancouver Island region band together to help send Vanier’s team to the Canadian Improv Games Na-tional Tournament and Festival in Ottawa. The Island teams will play together - stepping away from the Canadian Improv games team ver-sus team format, and instead jump-ing into Whose Line is it Anyway style games designed pretty much solely to entertain the audience.

In February, Vanier won the Van-couver Island Improv tournament, and the right to represent the region at the truly national tournament and festival-which hosts teams from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island and everywhere in between.

Competing alongside the nation’s best teams will be the experience of a lifetime for these young perform-ers but while the honour is great, the costs are high. Plane tickets alone are over $800 for each of the 15 students and the 2 chaperones. The show this week is one of the many ways Vanier is trying to raise the money to pay the costs.

The improvisers are thrilled not only about going to the National tournament, but also about getting the opportunity with this Shamrock Shindig show to play alongside their peers, whom they admire so much.

“I am sooo excited to have an im-prov show with other schools be-cause we get to see them do amaz-ing work in the Canadian Improv games but don’t get to perform with them,” explains Sara Kozack, one of Vanier’s team captains. “Everyone from the other teams have unique and awesome talents and it is going to be super cool to get to hang out

and perform with them all”

Teammate Emma Whit-tington agrees that “it will be a blast to watch, teach and play alongside them,” while Sarah Whar-ram points out that “it’s a great chance to learn things from all over the is-land and to hang out with friends that you see may-be 3 times a year”.

So why should you at-tend? In the word of Sarah Wharram, “It’s a

great mixture of all diff er-ent type of improv talent smushed into one - like a big pizza pop of improv!” In other words, it’s a good time you don’t want to miss!

Shamrock Shindig is at 7 pm in the Vanier Studio Theatre March 14. Tick-ets are $10 and available from improvisers, by con-tacting Lori Mazey at lori.mazey@sd71.bc.ca or by buying them at the door while they last.

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Meet award-winning BC book publisher Howard White at a special event hosted by Laughing Oyster Bookshop on Sunday, March 15 at 1:00 pm.

Howard White will be talking about and reading from his father’s two memoirs, That Went by Fast: My First Hundred Years and Milk Spills and One-Log Loads: Memories of a Pioneer Truck Driver (both $32.95, Harbour Publishing).

That Went by Fast and Milk Spills and One-Log Loads, written by cen-tenarian Frank White, sift through White’s many adventures. Born at the start of the First World War and maturing during the Great Depres-sion, Frank White worked variously as a pioneer truck logger, camp own-er, boat builder, home builder, exca-vating contractor, garage mechanic and waterworks operator, among other things. Then in later life he married the sophisticated and well-connected New Yorker writer Edith Iglauer and started a totally diff er-ent way of life consisting of opera, celebrity dinners and world travel.

His ironic observations on the dif-ferences between the two worlds make for fascinating and frequently hilarious reading.

Howard White is the publisher of Harbour Publishing and Douglas & McIntyre, both prominent BC publishing companies. He started editing the Raincoast Chronicles series in the early 1970s and his own books include A Hard Man to Beat, Spilsbury’s Coast, The Acci-dental Airline, Writing in the Rain and The Sunshine Coast. White has been awarded the Order of BC, the Order of Canada, the Canadian His-torical Association’s Career Award for Regional History, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award.

After the reading, White can also answer questions about memoir writing and the publishing industry in BC. Laughing Oyster Bookshop is located at 286 Fifth Street in Cour-tenay. For more information about the event, email loyster@telus.net or phone (250) 334-2511.

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“Wild fi sh will typically stop growing larger once they reach a certain size and they will begin putting much of their energy into creating eggs or sperm so that they can reproduce. Sterile fi sh do not put en-ergy into producing eggs or sperm, so they continue to grow larger and create a ‘trophy fi sh’.”

The society restocks around 80 lakes on Van-couver Island.

And this year, the non-profi t society will be get-ting more funding.

It will receive 100 per cent of the revenues gen-erated from fi shing licenc-es.

The provincial gov-ernment made that an-nouncement recently.

It means the society will receive $10 million starting next month, an increase of about $3 mil-

lion from what it currently receives.

The society has been receiving 70 per cent of fi shing licence revenues for the past 11 years.

The society stocks 800 B.C. lakes, rivers and streams with more than eight million trout, char and kokanee produced from fi ve provincial fi sh hatcheries operated by the society.

Society president Don Peterson, a former B.C. fi sh and wildlife director, said the agreement will al-low the society to increase its investment in recre-ational fi shing.

“It’s unprecedented in the history of fi sheries management in B.C.,” he said at a news conference at the legislature.

“We’re so fortunate to live in a province with such a rich freshwater fi sheries resource.

“We’ve got 20,000

lakes, 750,000 kilometres of streams and rivers and each year 250,000 British Columbians and visitors to B.C. enjoy that resource. It’s what defi nes us as British Columbians.”

Peterson said anglers spend $550 million a year on fi shing and the sport indirectly generates $1 billion a year, when travel and tackle costs are in-cluded.

“B.C. has a world-class fi sheries resource and with careful management and wise investment it will continue to grow and gen-erate economic and social benefi ts on a sustainable basis,” he said.

Steve Thomson, the minister for forests, lands and natural resource op-erations, said the gov-ernment and the society signed a 30-year contract in 2003 to enhance and conserve freshwater fi sh-ing opportunities.

More trout to fi sh in Maple Lake

A short teaser scene will be presented for mem-bers and the general pub-lic on March 17th at 7:15 PM at CLT’s Space (1625 McPhee Ave.) as part of CLT’s monthly More Than a Meeting series.

Courtenay Little The-atre is pleased to invite the community to its March 17th “More Than a Meet-ing,” which will feature a “teaser” (short scene) from its upcoming pro-duction of “Quartet” by Ronald Harwood, directed by Alana Gowdy.

The evening will start with a Meet & Greet at 7 PM, followed by a short meeting and the enter-taining scene.

CLT’s Space is at 1625

McPhee Ave. (entrance is off the fenced parking lot, through the well-marked red CLT door).

For those who wish to join CLT, memberships are available at $15 for in-dividuals, $20 for families, and $5 for students.

“Quartet” will run at the Sid Williams Theatre from April 10th to 18th, with tickets now available at the Sid Ticket Centre, 422 Cliff e Ave., (250) 338-2430 or www.sidwilliam-stheatre.com.

All seats for the evening performances (April 10th, 11th, 16th, 17th and 18th at 7:30 PM) are $22, while tickets for the Sunday matinee on April 12th at 2 PM are $20.

Don’t miss this delight-fully entertaining play, in which four ageing operat-ic stars try to rebuild their relationships and musical gifts. As Sheila Connor states in the British The-atre Guide, “This play will make you feel - happy, sad, compassionate, thought-ful - but it ends with the uplifting realisation that the body might be fading, but the spirit never dies.”

Courtenay Little The-atre is a proud member of Theatre BC and gratefully acknowledges the support of its season sponsors: the GOAT 98.9 FM, Paul Chisholm (RBC Wealth Management) and Jane Denham (ReMAX Ocean Pacifi c Realty).

Four ageing operatic stars, L to R: Wilfred Bond (Phil Henry), Reginald Paget (Tony Arnold), Cecily Robson (Annie Lord), and Jean Horton (Susan Cox) prepare to reprise their renowned quartet from Verdi’s Rigoletto, in Courtenay Little Theatre’s production of Quartet by Ronald Harwood, coming to the Sid Williams Theatre April 10th to 18th. Photo Credit Terry Penney

More Than a Meeting featuresa scene from CLT’s ‘Quartet’

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Hazel Lennox, renowned Storyteller of internation-al repute, cordially invites you to a telling of “Tales of Transformation.” Len-nox has been spinning her tales for over 30 years in Britain, Canada, the US and India. “I’m excited to be telling these stories” says Hazel. “One of them is the tale of the Seven Swans, by Hans Christian Anderson. It’s chock full of intriguing images and metaphors, and I don’t think too many people here have heard it, it’s been lost in time.”

Hazel is a huge propo-nent of storytelling as a wonderful way to let our brains relax and go into a diff erent mode. “Listen-ing to a story is a unique experience, really” she says “Our own imagina-tion makes up the pic-

tures, each person has their own individual ex-perience. Aside from be-ing great entertainment, there are nuggets of wis-dom embedded in the sto-ries that have come down to us through the ages. We each take from the tale what we will, there is no ‘right’ way to glean the wisdom they contain. And they’re loads of fun” she concluded with a laugh.

Hazel is a well known entertainer who takes great delight in sly jokes and satirical comments,

as anyone familiar with the comedy troupe ‘The (fabulous) Ms. Adven-tures’ knows. “ Laughter is a huge gift” Hazel main-tains, “we all need it in our lives and I choose sto-ries that tickle our funny bone.”

Serious Coff ee, on Cliff e Avenue, opposite Drift-wood Mall is graciously hosting this event in the upstairs nook. Admission is by donation, suggested $10. The stories begin at 4 p.m. on Sunday 15th March and will last about an hour. They are stories primarily for adults and older children, it is not a ‘little kid’ event. Please come and support both a local café with satisfying drinks and treats, as well as a local performer. What better way to spend a Sun-day afternoon?

Sunday stories with Hazel Lennox

They are hopeful that they have survived the war. However, this was not to be as on August 4, 1944, the families were discov-ered and the rest lies in the annals of history.

Seventy years later we should not forget the cou-rageous teenage, Anne Frank, who only wanted to write - in her words:

“I want to write, I have to write, I can shake off everything if I write, I can recapture everything if I write.”

And so she did, and her diary has deeply aff ected the million who have read it since it was discovered and published.

The Co-Val Choristers retell her story in a re-spectful, dignifi ed man-ner, honouring all young people who have made a diff erence to our world.

It is a stirring tale of courage and hope echoing Anne’s words:

“I still believe that in spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart - I still be-lieve that someday we will see peace again.”

Tickets for ‘Yours Anne’ are available at the Old Church Theatre box offi ce, open 10 am to 2 pm, Tues-days and Thursdays or by calling 250-334-2992.

Dates for this produc-tion run from March 20-29.

Anne Farnk, her family, the Van Daans and Dussel, make up the eight who went into hidig in a secret annex in Amsterdam, Hol-lod on July 6, 1942.

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SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 71

(COMOX VALLEY)

AUDIT COMMITTEE PUBLIC MEMBERSchool District No. 71 (Comox Valley) is seeking two (2) public members with financial expertise and business knowledge to serve on its audit committee. The appointment term will be from March 2015 to December 2018.

The audit committee is comprised of two (2) Trustees and two (2) inde-pendent public members drawn from the Comox Valley community at large. The primary role of the audit committee is to assist the Board of Education in fulfilling its duties related to governance and oversight. The purpose of the audit committee is to assist the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities for the financial reporting process, the system of internal control over finan-cial reporting, the audit process, and monitoring the school district’s compliance with laws and regulations pertaining to financial operations.

The Committee will meet at least two (2) times a year with the auditor, plus ad hoc meetings as required. Board policy provides financial com-pensation for public members that attend audit committee meetings. Orientation will be provided to committee members.

Candidate Eligibility:

Applicants must have sufficient accounting, senior financial manage-ment or other relevant experience to understand public sector accounting and auditing standards.Applicants will possess an accounting designation (CPA, CA, CGA, or CMA) or have a university degree in a related field.The applicant must not be a current employee or officer of the school district or of any other school district. The applicant must not have a parent, child or spouse currently employed by the district.

Submission of Applications

Qualified candidates interested in serving on the audit committee are invited to submit a letter of interest along with resume and three (3) references by: Tuesday, March 17, 2015; 2:00 pm.

Send To: Russell Horswill, Secretary TreasurerEmail: Russell.Horswill@sd71.bc.caSchool District No. 71 (Comox Valley)607 Cumberland Road, Courtney, BC V9N 7G5

Candidates who are short-listed may be requested to attend an inter-view conducted by the Audit Committee’s selection committee.

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LENTEN PRAYER WORKSHOP

The Church of St. John the Divine will be hosting an introduction to Centering Prayer on March 14 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Centering Prayer is rooted in the contemplative heritage of Christian spirituality. This 20-minute practice is distilled from the teachings of such spiritual guides as the desert fathers and mothers, St. John of the Cross, and St. Theresa. It is designed around a gesture of surrender to the sacred presence dwelling within all life.In this workshop, you will learn about the practice and also have an opportunity to experience it. Local practitioners will share how Centering Prayer can lead to a more present and positive engagement with daily life. You will leave the workshop with all you need to practice on your own or as part of a support group.Everyone is welcome, regardless of previous experience in contemplative or meditative practices. There is no fee and registration is at the door. St. John the Divine is located in Courtenay at 579 5th Street. For more information call 250-871-1540 or 890-3671.

FREE TAX FILINGBY VOLUNTEERS

It’s that time of year again and our group of volunteers will be at the Lions Den (1729 Comox Ave., Comox, 250-339-6232) every Tuesday from 1 pm to 3:30 pm for the months of March and April to E-fi le taxes for seniors, families, individuals, persons with disabilities, students and newcomers to Canada who are eligible for this free service.Our volunteers have been trained by the CRA to fi le very basic income tax returns. Basic eligibility is as follows:Single individuals - up to $30,000Couple - up to $40,000Single with child - $35,000Each dependent - $2,500Interest income less than $1,000Our volunteers are not trained to complete complex returns for individuals who: 1. Report income for self employment, rental income, capital gains/losses; 2. Claim employment expenses; 3. Are deceased or bankrupt.

LIONS CLUBMAGIC SHOW

The Royston-Cumberland Lions Club proudly presents The Magic of Greg Ladret on April 18.Two Matinees are planned for 12:00 noon & 2:00 p.m. at the Lewis Centre, Courtenay.Tickets cost $15.00each or purchase 4 get one free.Proceeds for Special Needs programs at the Lewis Centre.

DANCE TO THE AMIGOS TONIGHT

This March 13th we will be showcasing the live music of the band AMIGOS at the Evergreen Club’s Friday night dance. This band is always a fan favorite playing the songs you love! Dance takes place at Courtenay Recreation’s Florence Filberg Centre downstairs in the Rotary Hall. This dance has bar service for its guests. Dancing is from 7:30pm to 10:30 pm with our usual coff ee and cookie break a 9pm. Evergreen members are $7 at the door and non-members are $9. FMI call the Filberg Offi ce at 250-338-1000

WHAT IS ELDERABUSE?

Abuse is not just about physical attack. “Elder Abuse” refers to the violence, mistreatment or neglect that an older adult may experience at the hands of a caregiver, spouse, family member, service provider, or any other individual.Join us for this important and informative session with RCMP

TELEWORKSHOP ON DEMENTIA

What is the diff erence between dementia and Alzheimer’s disease? It’s a health question on the minds of many local families, as an aging population faces a growing risk of brain disease. And the answer to their question will be available during a free tele-workshop off ered by the non-profi t Alzheimer Society of B.C. on Tuesday, March 17.Titled Understanding Dementia, the tele-workshop provides basic information about dementia and the impact it has on the individual, caregivers and families. Through an exploration of how dementia aff ects the brain and behaviour across the progression of the disease, caregivers will learn what to expect throughout the dementia journey.Tele-workshops are learning sessions designed for family caregivers, but are also open to health-care providers. Participants can ask questions and share with others who are in similar situations.Connecting to the sessions is as easy as phoning toll-free 1-866-994-7745, then entering pass code 1122333 when prompted, or visiting momentum.adobeconnect.com/alzheimerbc and entering as a Guest to listen to and view the presentation online at the same time.For more information on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, which aff ect one in 11 Canadians over the age of 65, visit the Society website at www.alzheimerbc.org.

‘SAMSARA’ FILMON MARCH 20

Comox United Church and the Comox Valley Unitarian Fellowship will present the fi lm “Samsara” on Friday, March 20, 2015 at 7 pm.Described by critics as “Visually breathtaking”, “Spellbinding” and “Remarkable”, Samsara was fi lmed over fi ve years in twenty-fi ve countries, transporting the viewer to varied worlds of sacred sites, disaster zones, industrial complexes and natural wonders.Samsara is the Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life”. The fi lm presents intense images from our world, moving from the most Sacred to the most obscene, from the dramatic to the banal, from a glorious cathedral

MYLELOMA SUPPORT MEETING

The North Island Myeloma Support Group is having its monthly meeting on March 17, 2015 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: bcsandymac@gmail.com or 250-703-4688 if you plan to attend or for more info.

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AARON HOUSESPECIAL MEETINGS

Aaron House Christian Fellowship is excited to welcome you to join with us at our upcoming meetings with Cathryn Nash, pastor at Frontline Worship Centre, Sylvan Lake, Alberta.Cathryn ministers in bold prophetic preaching and intercession. She ignites faith and passion for God’s Word and His Presence as she leads people into a deeper revelation of God’s goodness that causes them to arise to their high calling as His bride in surrender, intimacy and authority.We at Aaron House believe that these meetings with Cathryn are going to give a push for us into revival, personally, corporately for our community. Come believing and expecting to see The Kingdom of God advanced. When: March 14th @ 7:00 PM and March 15th @ 11:00 AM & 7:00 PMWhere: Aaron House Christian Fellowship - 2946 Kilpatrick Ave Courtenay

to a Brazilian jail, from a Buddhist temple to a garbage dump, or a whole night compressed into a spectacular minute of moonlight and shadows moving across a desert landscape.Moving from the frenzy of a California rush hour to the uncompromising stare of an African bushman, from the chaos of the Tokyo subway to the serenity of stars refl ecting in an alpine lake, the fi lm encompasses many aspects of our world that we never see. Your emotions will move from wonder to despair and back to exhilaration, as your mind tries to make sense of it all.The presentation will be at 7 pm Friday, March 20, 2015 at Comox United Church, 250 Beach Drive in Comox. Admission is by donation.

Victim Services to learn how to identify elder abuse, including neglect, bullying, economic or fi nancial abuse, violation of rights, over or under medication, and confi nement among others. Find out how to protect yourself and the older adults in your circle, and what you can do if you suspect someone is being subjected to elder abuse. Monday, March 16th at 2 pm in the Community Room at Berwick Comox Valley. Session is FREE, but seating is limited so call to reserve your seat today at 250-890-2338

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Centennial celebrations for the City of Courte-nay’s 100th birthday con-tinue on March 22 at the Sid Williams Theatre with the third classic fi lm in the Bickle Theatre Originals series, a tribute to the the-atre’s beginnings as a cin-ema when it fi rst opened as the Bickle Theatre back in 1935.

Critically acclaimed and lauded by audiences, Some Like It Hot topped the American Film Insti-tute’s list of the 100 Fun-niest American Movies Of All Time in 2000. Roger Ebert wrote, “”The plot is classic screwball... Wild-er’s 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a fi lm of in-spiration and meticulous craft.”

When Chicago musi-cians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemon) accidently witness a gang-land shooting, they quick-ly board a southbound train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daph-ne, the two newest - and homeliest - members of an all-girl jazz band. Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (Marilyn Monroe) falls for “Jose-

phine,” an ancient playboy falls for “Daphne,” and a mob boss refuses to fall for their hoax!

Nominated for six Acad-emy Awards including Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screen-play, Some Like It Hot is the quintessential mad-cap farce and “one of the greatest of all fi lm come-dies” (The Motion Picture Guide).

“’Nobody’s perfect’ is the last line. Wilder, Lem-mon, Curtis, and Monroe come pretty close.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Admission is pay what you can by donation. Doors open at 6:00 pm, and the fi lm begins at 7:00 pm.

There will be popcorn and prizes! The audience is encouraged to dress up for the evening in 1950s attire or in the late 1920’s period of the fi lm.

Those attending the fi lm will have the chance to en-ter a door prize draw for two tickets plus transpor-tation to see The Book of Mormon in Vancouver on April 12, prize courtesy of Courtenay Recreation and the Evergreen Club.

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Forbidden Jazz Trio returns to Zocalo Café for an evening per-formance on Friday, March 13. Featuring Jake Masri on trumpet, fl ugelhorn, & vocals, Rick Hus-band on guitar, Grahame Edwards on bass, & Tom Tinsley on drums, they appeal to audiences of all ages while performing a wide va-riety of timeless jazz standards & original compositions. Representing more than 4 decades of experience, their unique blend of voice, brass, & strings will weave their collective magic through 2 sets of entertaining music.We invite you to join us for a ca-sual, entertaining evening of jazz. Music commences at 7:00 pm and admission is by donation. The spacious café displays local artwork & the licensed kitchen will offer a supper menu of sweet & savory cuisine plus assorted bev-erages. For more info & reservations, please contact Zocalo Café & Gal-lery @ 250 331 0933, or simply drop by the corner of 5th Street and Cliffe Ave. in downtown Cour-tenay (www.zocalocafe.ca.)

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Bowling highlights from Codes Country Lanes:

Monday AM - Nick Tjart 228, Bob Van Nes 236, Bob Sharp 245, Arnie Auerbach 203, Lynne Da-vidson 200, Gloria Frederick 183, Anna Turcotte 184, Barb Lane 217, Ed Farrant 179, Dave Stacey 231, Heather Abraham 210.

Monday PM - Rick Rodriguez 201, Ivan Ally 236, Bruce Ram 190, Rick Kroeker 260, Rita Grill 197, Bill Tower 264, Lyle Tower 190.

Monday Youth - Ava Friesen 50, Lucien Rousseau 119, Jack Fries-en 84, Celine Rousseau 59, Benoit Rousseau 38.

Tuesday Breakfast - Barb Ran-dall 209, Shirley Mangano 199, Marilyn Shetterly 180, Mary Mac-Arthur 160, Jane Wedge 182, Barb Pottruff 217, Laurie McWillis 210, Fran Patton 150.

Tuesday 12:30 - Ed Schievink 101, Garry Pearson 149, Judith Munro 111, Allison Bennett 134.

Tuesday Adult - John Graff 247, Bill Brundige 218, Cynthia Taylor 198, Gerry Graff 153, Duwanee Granneman 210, Jill Comeau 193, Marlo Duncalf 255, Eric McWillis 221.

Wednesday AM - Grace Coulter 240, Pat Ailles 185, Nick Tjart 237, Ria Tjart 196, Heather Abraham 222, Ed Farrant 136, Sally Hazle-ton 189, Sue Minchin 185, Laurie Aucoin 259.

Tuesday/Wednesday CRA - Carly Buchan 204, Lisa Bruce 150, Daniel Erb 148, Randy Poole 126, Cori Pagnoni 117, Rachel Ander-son 78, Robert Burns 128, Michael Campbell 147, Tiffi nee Nicol 137, Bill Howard 105.

Wednesday Adult - Louise Bun-schuh 200, Bruno Bagdan 235, Te-resa Baranyai 189, Tom Nurse 269, John West 211, Eric McWillis 243, Vicki Major 202, Rick Aker 223, Gord Pottruff 211, Tannis Pond 186, Scott McLellan 244, Ken Bird 220, Rick Granneman 234.

Thursday Golden Age - Kel-vin Davis 208, Bob Van Nes 246, Carolle Allen 225, Bob Sharp 235, Arnie Morrison 217, Pat King 203, Ivan Ally 255, Grace Rodriguez 198.

Thursday Adult - Paul Zorz 275, Andrew Stubbing 223, Alex Bodnar 201, Anna Bodnar 241, Janet But-ler 200, Jessica Giroux 288, Scott Van Achte 257, Steve Robson 268, Ed Carefoot 227, Rose Stenabaugh 224, Aprile Brekke Reidl 251, Scott McLellan 201.

Friday AM - George Railian 195, Gerhard Sorger 226, Joan Lucas 190, Ickle Brown 257, Nick Tjart 226, Coral Tanner 198, Joyce Un-sworth 201, Millie McCharles 173, Jim Bennett 205, Anna Delucry 211, George Andrews 257, Arnie Auerbach 203, Bernice Clouthier 198.

Special O - Joe Grubwieser 219, Mathew Strachin 182, Kris Bradley 162, Trevor Carter 154, Allison Bennett 167, Jamie Bennett 242, Morgan Bell 174, Clayton Heid 214, Jesse Anderson 135, Mike Thames 159.

d’Esterre Duplicate Bridge

Results for Tuesday 3rd March (12 1/2 tables):

N/S - 1. Lloyd and Ber-nice Snyder; 2. Tom Dug-dale and Jeanette Baron; 3. Barb McCrindle and Denise Holst; 4. Dianna Rickson and Howie Co-hen.

E/W - 1. Jack and Carol Bradshaw; 2. Tom and Betty Thomsen; 3. Irene Smith and Cynthia Tree; 4. Colin Park and Bernice Blonarwitz.

Results for Friday 6th

March (9 1/2 tables): N/S - 1. Diane McKin-

non and Ruby Paulson; 2. Jean Tait and Evelyn Ware; 3. Doug and Penny Poole.

E/W - 1. Lyall and Mau-reen Ashbaugh; 2. Grace Whetter and Barb Casey; 3. Karin Franzen and Mar-ilyn Hannah.

Results for Saturday 7th March (11 pairs):

1. Jane Jenssen and Ber-nice Tyson ; 2. Pete and Glenda McGrath; 3. Jean Tait and Neil Jackson; 4. Doug and Penny Poole.

Bridge news

The time is approaching very quickly for the annual Spring Basketball events that occur for young boys and girls in the Comox Valley. With Spring Break in our schools being later this year, all of the pro-grams that usually start in late March and early April will need to start sooner.

THUNDERBALL 2015This Sunday morning

mini basketball league starts in March. T

here is a grade 4/5 league for boys and girls at Qu-eneesh Elementary that begins at 9 am on seven Sundays; a grade 6/7 girls league, and a grade 6/7 boys league at G.P. Vanier that will have three start times each Sunday of the league.

There are lots of coach-es, 15 hours of play time, t-shirts, basketballs, and a chance to have loads of fun.

Sign up night is on Thursday, March 19th at G.P. Vanier for all partici-pants. Come to the Vanier gym any time from 6 pm to 8 pm to register your son or daughter. Forms will be taken to all the elemen-

tary schools, G.P. Vanier, and the Rec. Centers. If you wish a form emailed to you, just contact lar-rystreetcar@gmail.com

The First Sunday will need to be March 22nd. All the grade 4/5’s will meet at Queneesh at 9 am and Coach Blake Tobacca will organize onto teams, and instruct the fi rst prac-tice.

The grade 6/7 girls are to meet at Vanier at 8:30 am to form teams and play. The grade 6/7 boys will meet at Vanier at 10 am.

Further registrations can occur on this day too. The next Thunderball day will be on Sunday, April 19th. Registrations by email are welcome then as well.

RUN AND GUN FOR GR. 8 AND 9 BOYS

Always a popular league on Tuesdays and Thurs-days for boys in grades 8 or 9, and advanced grade 7’s. Held at G.P. Vanier from 7 pm to 9 pm, and all signups can happen the fi rst night of Thursday, April 16th. Expect up to 30 Spring League games!

UNDER 14 AND UNDER 15 BOYS NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL TEAMS

The Camp and Tryouts for this program, spon-sored by Basketball B.C., and coached by local coaches, will be the fol-lowing:

Under 15 Boys (as of Jan. 1st), coached by Lar-ry Street, starts on Friday, March 20th. 5 pm to 9 pm.

It continues on Satur-

day, March 21st from 9 am to4 pm. You can register online with Basketball B.C., or at the gym at 4:30 pm.

Any boy North of Port Alberni can come to this camp.

Under 14 Boys coached by Tony Edwards starts Sunday, March 22nd at 1 pm, goes to 6 pm

It continues on Tues-day, March 24th at 5pm to

9 pm. Register online, or at the gym.

BOYS ELEMENTARY JAMBOREEThe Comox Valley Ele-

mentary School Jamboree for Boys is on Tuesday, March 17th at G.P. Vanier and involves 8 teams.

It begins at 12:30 pm, and the fi nal is at 5:30 pm.

Lots of excitement and fun that afternoon!

Boys and girls spring basketball programs starting

Over 200 local gymnasts and trampoline athletes will have their chance to shine in the 55th annual Comox Valley Gymnas-tics Championships at Courte-nay Recreation’s Lewis Centre on Saturday, March 14, from 9:30am-2:00pm.

This event has a long-standing history in the Valley. First or-ganized in 1960 by recreation director Herb Bradley, this fun championship provides an op-portunity to showcase recre-ational gymnasts’ hard work over the past months.

Bradley’s gymnastics compe-tition philosophy continues to provide the guiding framework

for this popular event: “While I do not approve of a

strict competition or rigid train-ing for your children, a child must realize that to get ahead or achieve a goal in some particular activity he must strive to do his best. I feel a fairly easy compe-tition is good training in this re-spect.”

Come show your support for local recreational gymnasts.

The LINC Youth Centre’s Youth Council will also off er a concession on site.

For more information, please contact the Lewis Centre at 250-338-5371 or email kcollins@cour-tenay.ca.

Recreational gymnasts to show their skills

Olivia proudly shows off her ‘gold’ ribbon at a previous gymnastics championship

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It will be an 8 week clinic providing the participants with swim, bike and run coaching, transition and nutrition tips and a basic training plan.

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The team of coaches will help everyone train and prepare for a triathlon regardless of experience or age.

With the sport of tri-athlon growing, there are more and more events of various distances to try out on the Island.

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Marc Mazzocchi achieved another power-lifting milestone when he won his weight class at the 2015 Winter Classic held at the Richmond Olympic Oval last month.

The owner and head trainer at Titanium Cross-Fit in Courtenay went 8 for 9 in all his lifts in the 93 kilo Men’s Open cat-egory to score a total com-bined weight lifted 612.5 kg, which is a national lev-el qualifying total for the 105 kg weight class.

Powerlifting features three events and Mazzoc-chi’s best lifts were 215kg in squats, 137.5kg in bench press and 260kg in dead-lift.

At the provincials last June, Mazzzochi placed third and also qualifi ed to compete at the national level at the 93kg class.

Mazzocchi scored suc-cess too with athletes that he trains. Kaiya MacNeill-Payeur from Campbell River broke four provincial records and also earned a berth to compete at the national championships.

The Winer Classic was

sanctioned by the BC Powerlifting Association and the Canadian Pow-erlifting Union, the gov-erning body of the sport in Canada under the In-ternational Powerlifting Federation. The rules are strict as it also requires athletes to be tested for drug use.

Mazzocchi will now be preparing for the Cana-dian Powerlifting Union National Championships that will take place in St. John’s, Newfoundland, April 6-11.

The local gym does not only compete in powerlift-ing competitions. Mem-bers are now preparing for the CrossFit Open, which is a qualifying com-petition for the CrossFit Games, the ultimate test of fi tness.

Last year Freddy Berni-er placed 60th in West-ern Canada and narrowly missed going to the re-gionals.

Mazzocchi’s mother Melody also competes and wound up in 26th in the Masters (60+) Division and came close to making

Marc Mazzocchi in powerlifting competition

it to the Crossfi t Games.As well, Mazzocchi said

they also have athletes who compete in many other disciplines including

strongman, Olympic style weightlifting, triathlon, adventure racing, hockey, and baseball.

Local trainer qualifi es to compete at national powerlifting event

DERBY CRUSH - Local roller derby team, the Brick House Betties (in yel-low), invited Whistler’s Black Diamond Betties to the Comox Valley onMarch 8 to play a pre-season scrimmage at the CRI. The teams fi rst metlast season and are well matched. The Brick House Betties have two home games at the CVSC this derbyseason. April 18 will be a local match-up against Campbell River’s RinkMinx. Whistler will be back again May 9 for another “Battle of the Bet-ties.” Check out the dynamic sport of roller derby and don’t miss thesefamily-friendly events. Join the Brick House Betties on Facebook formore info.Photo credit: Imelda May

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Saturday Mar. 7th the weather was warm and sunny with little wind and the Glacier Greens golf course is in good shape again thanks to Wayne Wood and his greens crew. With this great spring weather we have had, the course is much dryer.

Eighty-three players played with some good scores. Here are the re-sults:

HCP 0-101st Low Gross Barry

Norris 71 c/b, 2nd Terran Berger 71, 3rd Darrell Fie-ber 73,

1st Low Net Scott Rob-

ertson 67, 2nd Kevin Hunt 68, 3rd Dave Wacowich 70.

Snips Hole #4 Scott Robertson, #7 Willie Oli-ver, #9 & #10(EAGLE) Barry Norris, #14 Steve Peters

HCP 11-181st Low Gross Rob Egan

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1st Low Net Wayne Ogil-vie 69, 2nd Glen Meeres 70, 3rd Don Cruickshank 71

Snips Hole #3 Ron Mor-rison, #10 Paul Schroeder

HCP 19+1st Low Gross Peter

Leskovich 92 c/b, 2nd Tim Hautzinger 92, 3rd Henry Bonde 94 c/b,

1st Low Net Hank Fort-in 68, 2nd Reg Meeres 69, 3rd Andy Clark 72 c/b,

Snips Hole #12 Armin Reckhard,

John Pringle was the winner of the Ben Gill closest to the pin chal-lenge on hole #15.

No Pot of Gold winners this week.

We have had a great win-ter of golf on Saturdays probably because we live on an island in the Pacifi c. Till next week see ya.

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Another glorious day of golf at Glacier GreensThe Vancouver Island

Mountain Sports Society (VIMSS) has awarded eight Vancouver Island athletes with travel grants for the 2014/15 winter sea-son.

These grants help young athletes to off set the costs associated with traveling off -island for advanced training and competition.

In this way, VIMSS seeks to nurture local emerging athletes and help prepare them for provincial, na-tional and international competition.

VIMSS alumni are en-joying great success in a variety of mountain

sports. Darcy Sharpe (funded in

2011) just won Gold at the Quebec Big Air World cup and Silver at the World Championships; Bray-don Luscombe (funded in 2010) competed in Sochi Paralympic Games and is on the World Cup circuit; Carle Brenneman (funded in 2009) was just at the XGames in Vail; Cassie Sharpe (funded in 2010) won Silver at the World Championships and Teal Harle (funded in 2014) just won double gold at the Canada Winter Games.

VIMSS is pleased to an-nounce the following ath-

letes have been awarded VIMSS grants for Winter 2014/15:

Maja Nymann, Alpine Skier, Campbell River

Ross Lamon, Cross Country Skier, Comox

Alec Stapff , Cross Coun-try Skier, Campbell River

Connor McGrady, Cross Country Skier, Comox

Cole Anderson, Alpine Skier, Campbell River

Madeleine Guimond, Cross Country Skier, Courtenay

Tallon Noble, Cross Country Skier, Courtenay

Clinton Wood, Alpine Skier

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time when our Island ath-letes fi nd themselves trav-elling further to fi nd snow to train and compete on”, said VIMSS Chair Karen Bonell. “With less than ideal conditions it’s even more critical that we con-tinue to help our young athletes with these types of grants.

The annual fundrais-ing Gala event at Raven Lodge is scheduled for April 4th and our goal is to raise $15000 this year”, continues Bonell.

Tickets for the Gala Fundraising event on April 4th can be purchased by

emailing events@vimoun-taincentre.com.

Vancouver Island alpine athletes can apply for a grant from VIMSS each year through the online applications form found at vimountaincentre.com.

There are many alpine sports that qualify for VIMSS grants includ-ing alpine ski/snowboard racing, freestyle skiing/boarding, biathlon, cross country skiing and down-hill mountain biking.

VIMSS owns and oper-ates the non-profi t Van-couver Island Mountain Centre (VIMC) which of-

fers a community venue for meetings, program-ming, team building, along with group accommoda-tions for up to 40 people, full kitchen and dining fa-cilities, amazing views of Mt. Albert Edward, plus the VI Mountain Fitness Centre.

The Mountain Centre is open year round and is lo-cated at Mount Washing-ton at the end of Nordic Road across from Raven Lodge and Strathcona Park’s Paradise Meadows.

Visit vimountaincentre.com for additional infor-mation.

Maja Nymann, Alpine Ski racing courtesy of the Mt. Washington Ski Club

VIMSS awards grants to athletes

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