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KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Police in the Cowichan Valley are alerting residents after a suspicious man approached a 15-year-old Duncan girl on May 12.

The girl was walking along Gibbins Road at approximately 1:30 p.m. that day when she wasapproached by a man in his 30sor 40s driving a silver minivan.He asked the girl her age and if she was into modelling. Whenshe replied that she wasn’t, hetold her to get into his van if shewanted to learn more.

“Our lady did the right thing bycontinuing to walk away,” North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokes-person Cpl. Krista Hobday said.

The man drove away before the girl was able to get a licence platenumber. The driver is described as a Caucasian man between theages of 30 and 40, bald with wire-rimmed glasses.

Anyone who has experiencedor is aware of a similar situationshould contact their local police detachment.

“If you are the victim or wit-ness to this or any other type of criminal offence we urge youto call the police immediately to report the incident,” Hobdaysaid. “A quick response by policeenhances our chances of locating people and vehicles suspected of criminal offences.”

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Police and North Cowichan South End volunteer firefighters were quick to the scene on Wednesday afternoon after a car flipped on the Trans-Canada Highway across from the North Cowichan Municipal Hall just after 2 p.m. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

ANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

Just days after a rally at the Victoria Legislature to protest the importation of contaminat-ed soil into the Shawnigan Lake watershed, the Shawnigan Resi-dents Association and the Cowi-chan Valley Regional District announced that they are peti-tioning the B.C. Supreme Court to halt dirty dirt being dumped onto a local property.

The SRA has filed an appli-cation for judicial review, and is seeking to have the court set aside the decision of the Environmental Appeal Board, which reinforced the legitimacy of a Ministry of Environment permit to allow South Island Aggregates/Cobble Hill Holdings to import millions of tonnes of contaminated soil to gradually fill a quarry they are mining on their Stebbings Road property.

The site is within the Shawni-gan Lake watershed and sits above the lake, with feeder waterways nearby.

The SRA wants the permit revoked.

“We believe that the issuance of this permit and the decision of the Environmental Appeal Board were based on significant errors,” said Calvin Cook, pres-ident of the SRA.

“As a result, we will carry this

fight to the next level,” he said. “The safety of our water and our environment is paramount. The SRA simply cannot stand by in these circumstances and allow five million tonnes of con-taminated soil to be trucked in from elsewhere and dumped in our watershed. The community is overwhelmingly against this landfill.

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CVRD opposing new download schemeANDREA RONDEAU CITIZEN

The Cowichan Valley Regional District is balking at the possibility of having the provincial government download new fire inspection requirements onto their shoul-ders, at what would be a considerable extra cost.

The issue came to the board’s attention at their May meeting when a report from a recent meeting of regional district chairs and chief administrative officers sounded the alarm about the province moving to require regional districts to begin to enforce the Fire Services Act and its regu-lations in unincorporated areas, includ-ing the obligation to provide a regular system of inspection for hotels and public buildings.

The CVRD has nine unincorporated areas that range from Mill Bay to Youbou to North Oyster.

Currently, there is no system in place to do any such thing, and to put one in place would mean manpower and bureaucracy.

“It is an additional cost,” said Duncan Mayor Phil Kent.

“It was collectively agreed on that the scale and scope of downloading onto local governments from the provincial govern-ments far outweighs a regional district’s capacity to support such a significant undertaking,” the report to the board said.

“Transfer of responsibilities without funding or revenue streams to local gov-ernments, along with growth and urban-

ization, are the main drivers of increased local government expenditures,” it con-tinued. “To exacerbate things further, underinvestment in infrastructure and pressures associated with climate change are likely to worsen this problem, unless local governments are provided with more resources or revenue generating capacity by senior levels of government. The CVRD simply does not have the capacity to take on this provincial responsibility.”

The board agreed to send a resolution to the Union of British Columbia Municipal-ities opposing the downloading.

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It takes great care to paint a pleasing cat face so this girl is obeying instructions about being sure to hold still as she enjoys the inaugural Public Market at Lake Cowichan’s town square May 16. Look for similar events there every Saturday until fall. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]


Topping up at the fast charging station for electric vehicles at the Island Savings Centre will remain free the Cowichan Val-ley Regional District board decided last week.

The Island Savings Centre Commission had recommended that the district imple-ment BC Hydro’s recommended user fees for the station, and begin to charge 35

cents per kWh with a $2 minimum effect-ive July 1, but board members rejected the suggestion.

“This is far too soon,” to add a cost to charging up electric vehicles, said Duncan Mayor Phil Kent.

The idea is to encourage people to switch to electric vehicles to help the environ-ment, and a charge would discourage that instead, he said.

The majority of directors agreed.

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LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Rod Allen’s wide background in education has seen him work-ing in everything from rural classrooms to the Ministry of Education.

Now, he’s taken up the job of superintendent of schools at the Cowichan Valley School District, replacing Joe Rhodes, who retired last week.

Starting his career in rural Saskatchewan, Allen went to Lesotho in southern Africa and then returned to Canada to spend 20 years teaching in Smithers, B.C.

He finally left rural B.C. for what he thought was a short-term job at the Ministry of Education.

He stayed seven years.“In government, I found that,

while I loved the job, I wanted to get back. I really miss the kids, I miss the action, I miss the schools,” he said.

“Cowichan has intrigued me for a while. This district is poised on the edge of doing amazing things,” he said.

Having served so long in northern B.C., he is well up on such problems as an increasing call for trades training, how to increase offerings at small sec-ondary schools, how to improve aboriginal student success, how to fit everything into ever-tight-ening budgets and more.

Small secondary schools, academies and trades train-ing can all be looked at under the same microscope. There’s a need for new ideas in all of them, he said.

“What I’ve seen around the province is that some of the greatest innovation is coming out of small rural secondary schools,” he said.

“We used to believe that rural secondary schools had to be helped and compensated for because of their small size. What we see now is that the literature on optimum school sizes is shifting around and the ability of these small schools to be nimble is an asset,” he said.

Traditional wisdom said the larger the school, the greater the menu selection of courses, the better the situation for stu-dents. That is changing.

“As we look into personalized

learning, smaller secondary schools can offer programs that are tailored almost to indi-vidual students.”

Students can spend mornings following a fairly traditional academic timetable but after-noons are around project-based learning, which means getting out into the community and really applying their learning in different ways.

“It’s far easier to do in a small-er community where everybody knows everybody than it is if you’re Burnaby South with 3,000 kids,” he said.

Big schools are starting to div-ide into pods, acknowledging that “students can’t interact well, teachers can’t interact well in communities much lar-ger than a hundred.”

The closeness of a small com-munity can become an asset, Allen said.

“We know learning and rela-tionships go hand in hand. You can’t do one without the other.”

The skills students learn are different, too.

“The periodic table? You can print that off your phone now. That’s not the game. It’s being able to use that knowledge, to

apply that learning,” he said.While districts are moving

towards offering trades and academies, that can still be just part of adding to the menu, he said.

“We have to look at that new ways. That apprenticeship model can be applied to all kinds of learning, getting young people working with motivated, interested experts. That comes down to the community com-ing into the schools, the kids going out into the community. No school has all those experts in place.

“We want to see hands-on learning earlier. Kindergart-en has it, that exploring the environment. But we lose that very quickly in schools.”

He said that the province’s First Nations Principles of Learning are being seen as an acknowledgement that the hol-istic, environment-based way of looking at acquiring learning, prevalent in aboriginal cul-tures, is the way all education should be moving.

Dealing with the many young children who are not ready to start school is a challenge facing many districts but it has been identified as a significant

issue in the Valley.Using adaptable programs has

shown that students can catch up quickly, if they are given the right kind of situation, Allen said.

“The Strong Start program is a piece of the answer. But what is the ecosystem the family lives in? And are there families we are missing with programs like Strong Start? A solution takes everyone in the com-munity,” he said.

Tight budgets have been challen-ging school districts for years andsolving problems often means tak-ing a new vantage point, he said.

“You have to be constantly look-ing at what you are doing. When there were bags of money aroundwe thought we could just buy suc-cess. Ontario tried to do that, but it didn’t work. And a little stress on the system can be a good thing,”Allen said.

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Gas should be $5 a litreI am in total agreement with

K. Beaumont of Duncan that gas prices should be an election issue (Citizen, May 15, 2015).

At $1.22 a litre now, this is a travesty. The price should be at least $5 a litre, in order to encourage conservation, foster innovative ways of weaning ourselves off our addiction to carbon-based fuels, and avert a future planetary disaster. This is already a disaster for many of the species that we have driven to extinction in various ways.

The increased tax portion of such a price should be reserved solely for research and develop-ment into sustainable energy, creating solar farms, etc., and to provide excellent public transit — sorry, Mr. Harper, no stealing it to falsely balance the budget.

This would have the beneficial unintended consequence of get-ting millions of people out there walking and bicycling, therefore reducing health care costs, decreasing road congestion, and improving quality of life for all.

Paul HarrisDuncan

Pursuit questionableRe: May 13 CVRD meetingAt this meeting, Mayor Stone

of Ladysmith sought advice from the CVRD board as to how to pursue a proposal if it had been rejected by referendum.

In the private sector nothing prevents running roughshod over public opinion, but I won-der how his employers would have viewed his apparent dis-regard for instructions from his governing body? Election to public office does not raise one to the status of the gods.

Pat MulcahySaltair

This conservative disillusioned by law change to duck problem

It has been said that we deserve the government we get. When my federal government makes a new law retroactive in order to legalize the illegal activities of a federal agency, I feel compelled to review what I have done to deserve such a government.

I am a small “p”, small “c” progressive conservative. I have been an active member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance Party and the Conservative Party of Canada, serving on pol-itical committees, commissions

and boards of directors. I have felt good about my participation in Canadian democracy.

But when my government is put into power by only 24 per cent of the registered elector-ate and passes laws like the one above, it makes me real-ize that I have been deceiving myself. These factors show that Canada’s “democracy” does not include government by and for a majority of Canadians.

I feel compelled to refocus my efforts on creating a true Canadian democracy. I plan to work only for political parties that allow their MLAs and MPs to represent their constituents, instead of working for parties which make their representa-tives do what they are told to do by their party leaders. I plan to

work toward having the premier of my province and the prime minister of my country elected by a majority of the publicly-elected representatives, instead of being selected from an elite group of the supporters of one political party. I plan to induce Canadians of all political per-suasions (especially those who disdain politics) to help to make Canada a true democracy at all levels of government. “Try it! You’ll like it!”

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It is a little odd that we have so few roads that run east-west on Vancouver Island.

But we think it’s only a matter of time before that changes and we’d like to see Cowichan reap the benefits of any new routes.

We’re not sure how the status quo came about — early settlers travelled more frequently by boat, perhaps, and didn’t want to go to the work of clearing the heavy forest for a public high-way in a pre-car era?

Trains, of course, were also a much more prevalent mode of travel, for both passengers and industry.

Right now, it’s very inconven-ient to have to travel to Qualicum before you can head west to Port Alberni and beyond to Tofino and Ucluelet.

But that’s the only really feas-ible way to get there.

There are logging and indus-trial roads that head into the very rugged territory between the Lake Cowichan area and Port Alberni, but they are impassible in some weather to all, and not a drive many would choose to take at any time of year.

It’s a bit of a mystery why these passes have not been

opened more thoroughly before now. Perhaps it’s because, also rather oddly, there has been comparatively little develop-ment on the west coast of Van-couver Island.

There are the communities of Port Renfrew, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet, but meas-ured against the development of the east coast of the Island, the west is still a little-settled wilderness.

That could also change.But even if it doesn’t, we see

huge potential in having a route pass through the Cowichan Lake area to the west.

Even without the big indus-trial projects the Huu-ay-aht are championing, the route is worth opening up.

Many of the communities around Cowichan Lake have been hit hard in the last 20 to 30 years with the closure of mills and the evaporation of many forestry jobs.

But consider the possibilities if they were not the end of the line, so to speak, but rather a gateway to the west.

Support to upgrade the road to a public highway is the right move. We join the Huu-ay-aht in hoping the “when” is soon.

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Nuclear has a place in power discussion

Remember all of those smil-ing souls that we heard extol-ling the virtues of solar power in the video at ISC a few weeks ago? They were all filmed in some sunny corner of the Sout-western U.S.:

Yuma: 4,015 average annual hours of sunshine; Phoenix: 3,872 average annual hours of sunshine; Tucson: 3,806 average annual hours of sunshine; Las Vegas: 3,825 aver-age annual hours of sunshine; El Paso: 3,763 average annual hours of sunshine.

Cowichan is cozy and warm by Canad-ian standards but records less than half the annual sunshine hours of any of the above, southwestern U.S. locales.

That’s the part that self-serving promot-ers are not telling us.

Yes, solar power does make a contribu-tion; and, its time will come. But, don’t go looking for government handouts that come out of everybody else’s pockets.

When I spoke up at the ISC meeting, I pointed out that the German government was struggling with a huge debt load directly attributable to their alternative energy policy, which reflects in their high power costs.

The high cost of power in Germany is particularly crippling for its lower income population. Power cost for the average German household is approxi-mately U.S. $1,700 per year, against a median household income of U.S. $33,000. So, power takes a big slice out of the aver-age household’s budget.

Another point that is often overlooked or understated: hydro and thermal power plants are intended to operate at steady states. Adjusting operating rates to meet demand (when solar and/or wind power fluctuate) is very hard on the equipment; leading to extended downtimes and increased repair costs.

Remember, we have to look at the whole equation: hydro fulfils some of our needs; renewable energy sources, including solar, will help a bit, too, but we have to leave ourselves open to other technolo-gies that will help fill the gap if we’ve maxed out our hydro capacity and ther-mal is unpalatable.

Thorium fusion is just another technol-ogy that, used in its right way, could be part of our overall energy solution.

Thorium reactors present a small footprint and they are scaleable. In addition, thorium and its daugh-ter products do not yield fissionable materials of military significance. And, spent thorium’s half-life is 200 years as opposed to 10,000, for plutonium, which makes thorium much easier to store.

Choices will have to be made, not all of them simple choices.

We need to educate ourselves to think in terms of a mix: hydro, renew-able energy sources and, I submit, thorium.

In closing, Germany’s leaders are beginning to question their purely political decision to shut down their nuclear capacity.

They sorely need cheap, reliable pow-er to average down their power costs. Nuclear offers that.

At the same time, Japan is strug-gling to replace its lost electrical generating capacity and is concluding that, in the context of small land mass and high population density, nuclear may be their best alternative.

Would that life was simple. We Can-adians have it easy by comparison.

Laurie ThomsonDuncan

Have we learned nothing from the Mount Polley disaster?

During the recent CBC radio interview with the Honourable Mary Polak, I was alarmed to hear about the significant amount of damage that has been done to the parkland immediately to the west of the proposed contaminated fill site in Shawnigan Lake.

Is it true that the Ministry of Energy and Mines will not act to protect the com-munity forest and parklands neighbour-ing the operations of one of their permit holders?

After the incident at Mt. Polley, I did not think that ongoing disregard of compli-ance issues would be tolerated, especially when they impact a public park!

Apparently sending nasty letters to South Island Aggregates is completely ineffective, since the Ministry has been doing that since 2007.

If the Ministry of Energy and Mines cannot get this company to comply with the terms of their mining permit, I don’t see why the public should have any confi-dence that the company will comply with the terms of the new toxic fill permit either.

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poverty”, published in 2012, ranks percentage of GDP spent on cash transfers, tax breaks and services for children and families. Of the top 35 countries ranked, Canada is ahead of eight — below countries like Slovenia, Norway, Italy. (But corporate tax rates are dropping still!)

• Canada is currently under investigation by the United Nations Committee on the Elimina-tion of Discrimination against Women (CED-AW). This in regard to the federal government’s “grave violation” of the rights of Aboriginal women in not investigating the murder and/or disappearance of more than 3,000 women. (The Harper government disagrees with the report, though.)

• Budget 2014 cuts $36 billion from health care in 2015 (doesn’t renegotiate the “Canadian Health Accord”, an agreement between the fed-eral Liberal government and provinces in 2004).

Costs passed on to provinces.• In December, 2014, Justice (?) Minister

McKay informs the House that his department has spent almost $700,000 in legal fees to fight injured veterans’ rights.

• The CTF claims that Canadian corpora-tions “sheltered” about $199 billion in off-shore accounts in 2014, evading approximately $7.8 billion in Canadian taxes. Apparently, they are not “really” breaking any laws, just using avail-able loopholes.

• People like Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin are given Senate seats because they are “good at raising money for the Conservative Party”!

I am glad that Prime Minister Harper insists on calling our federal government the “Harper government” rather than the “Canadian government”.

With any kind of luck, the federal Conserva-tives will go the way of the Alberta Conserva-tives. Enough is enough.

P. WardellDuncan

Broken private borrowing/debt system at fault for poverty, cuts

Re: “Our View” on food programs and poverty May 8

The first documented food bank opened its doors in 1981 in Edmonton, Alberta.

Poverty levels, which include the working poor, continue to grow, calling for more food banks in all areas of Canada.

Use of food banks is the new normal, so the question needs to be asked, how and why did this phenomenon happen?

Up until 1974 the monetary system in Canada was such that government borrowed money from our own Bank of Canada, interest free, to pay for infrastructure (bridges, highways and public buildings such as hospitals and schools) as well as education, Medicare, civil service etc.

The government in power then changed the

system whereby governments from there on in would have to borrow monies from private sec-tor banks (e.g. Royal, TD etc) including inter-national banks and if a government got us into truly dire straits, the World Bank.

Another question is to wonder why none of this has been reported in the media?

Can we liken it to that old aphorism, “If a tree falls in the middle of the forest, who will hear it?”

Again I ask the question why and wonder how this passed by the eyes of the public without notice. So began an era of surplus and deficits and downsizing. By 2012, the government had paid C$1 trillion in interest — twice its pres-ent day national debt. In fact, interest on the debt is now the government’s largest budget expenditure.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, prime minister of Canada, 1935 said; “Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation.” And so it is.

This is serious folks. Our wonderful country is being fleeced while those on the top become richer.

The good news today is that lawyer Rocco Gal-ati (of Supreme Court fame in the Nadon case) of the Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER), a small and low-budget Toronto think-tank has launched a lawsuit which seeks to restore the use of the Bank of Canada to its original purposes remember-ing that the government amended the Bank Act in 1938 and turned the bank into a public institution.

No such amendment took place in 1974, thus the crux of the lawsuit.

Milton Friedman’s radical free-market ideas, putting the creation of credit into private hands and creating debt burdens which would restrict the potential for democratic govern-ments, was one of the first to garner support for this infamous (remember 2008) plot.

Gloria CopeChemainus

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Go back to regional district’s 2013 lawsuit

Seems the $450,000-plus that prop-erty owners paid to a citizen’s asso-ciation to sue a provincial body is money down the drain.

Time to back up and kick start the lawsuit filed by the CVRD on Oct. 11, 2013 and left to moulder

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CVRD board members can pro-tect our water (see Bylaw 2202 passed Nov. 24, 2004). Why aren’t they doing this?

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The Cowichan Valley Regional District board said goodbye to longtime member and former chair Rob Hutchins last Wed-nesday night.

Hutchins moved to become alternate director for the Town of Ladysmith, while Mayor Aaron Stone stepped into the full-time director’s chair.

Hutchins has been on the board for over 20 years and has made an impact fellow directors and alternate directors said.

“He always brought a regional perspec-tive to the table,” said former director Gerry Giles, putting regional interests first, though he considered his own com-munity at all times.

“He championed the pursuit of a collect-ive goal,” she said. “What Rob did over the years benefited us all.”

Hutchins was always considerate and compassionate, Giles said, while at the same time never shying away from making the hard decisions, which could, at times, be unpopular.

One of his greatest strengths was in men-toring those new to public office, giving them the benefit of his experience.

“Rob would make sure that he gave us a sounding board,” Giles said. “Anytime I needed help Rob was there,” from serving as chair to helping to serve a community turkey dinner.”

Former chief administrative officer Frank Raimondo also had high praise for the longtime director.

Raimondo said that over the years he worked with 13 chairs of the board, and Hutchins was in his top five or six best.

Hutchins came to the board “knowing virtually nothing,” he reminisced, but quickly grew into his role.

“I never worried about his commitment” to serve the Valley, Raimondo said.

“Rob, it was great working with you.”Hutchins said his more than two decades

on the board went extremely fast, and he leaves the body optimistic about the future of regional government in Cowichan.

“Thank you very much for the kind words,” he concluded.

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A meandering discussion that started off with water conservation and ended up talking about the cost of developing prop-erty led North Cowichan council to ask for a report on the municipality’s landscaping requirements.

It didn’t take Coun. Joyce Behnsen long to get to the money angle, although her notice of motion started with asking how decorative landscaping worked with water restrictions.

Landscaping requirements for developers seem to be “onerous and expensive,” she said. In drives around North Cowichan, Behnsen said she has seen “a lot of dead plants” alongside various developments and was concerned that plans behind these gardens had not been well thought out.

She said she was also concerned about developers being required to pay for the services of a landscape architect and the cost of irrigation systems.

Scott Mack, director of development ser-vices, said the municipality did have guide-lines around water conservation, and the best kinds of local and low maintenance plants to use.

It’s all about minimizing the need for wat-er, he said, agreeing that while a landscape architect could be expensive, hiring one was a double edged sword because that per-son would know more about which plants would succeed in various locations.

Mack also pointed out that landscapingties in stormwater management, which is an important “integrated approach” that can have several benefits.

Coun. Al Siebring, however, was withBehnsen.

“We don’t want to write policy on anec-dotal evidence,” he said, “but I’ve visitedseveral sites and seen dead plants.”

He suggested North Cowichan might want to take another look at its policy.

Mayor Jon Lefebure reacted quickly.“If I owned a commercial property, I’d

consider myself responsible to see the plants didn’t die. I wouldn’t expect the municipality to do it,” he said.

Siebring immediately said that had not been his intention, either. But he did knowof a case where someone spent $8,000 on recommended plants that were dead with-in a year.

Lefebure said it was still the responsibil-ity of landowners.

“I’m aware of some situations where our staff struggled with developers. It was their failure to do it properly; the developer wasnot committed to watering,” he said.

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Big idea No. 1: co-operativesRob Douglas Roger Hart

This is part two of a series on local economic development in the Cowichan region.

ROB DOUGLAS AND ROGER HART SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN

The gap between the one per cent and the 99 per cent is widening, as the gains made by our parents’ and

grandparents’ generations are slowly chiseled away by senior levels of govern-ment pursuing questionable economic policies and global corporations intent on increasing the bottom line.

This is the story in much of the advanced industrialized world, and Can-ada is no exception. The wealthiest 86 Canadian families now hold the same amount of wealth as the poorest 11.4 mil-lion Canadians combined.

Is this a problem?The evidence demonstrates conclu-

sively that societies with higher levels of income inequality suffer in the long run, with more severe health and social problems.

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lems close to home. A recent report from Island Health found the Cowichan region lagging behind the Island and provin-cial average on a range of social and health indicators, from children in care and need of protection to dependency on employment insurance and social assistance.

So what is the solution?While we argue that a more progressive

taxation system and increased social and education funding will improve the situa-tion, deeper changes to how we organize our economy are also needed to get to the root of the problem.

Around the world, men and women are increasingly turning to the co-opera-tive, a well-established business model that provides us with an effective tool in leveling the playing field and fairly dis-tributing wealth.

Co-operatives are businesses owned and controlled by the people who work there or the people who use their services. And they are democratic, with each member having one vote.

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Often ignored as a business model, co-operatives already play a crucial role in the Can-adian economy. In B.C. alone there are roughly 700 co-opera-tives with assets of over $50 billion and employing more than 13,000 people.

In other parts of the world, co-operatives are the domin-ant economic model.

In the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, which is one of Europe’s wealthiest areas, his-torically characterized by full employment and high wages, co-operatives account for one-third of GDP and support a wide range of value-added industries in textiles, ceram-ics, food products, construc-tion, automotive, and indus-trial engineering.

Like many other jurisdic-tions where co-operatives have grown in importance, Emilia-Romagna’s regional government offers an array of supports to encourage these types of businesses.

The New York City govern-ment recently launched a $1.2 million program to develop employee-owned co-opera-tive businesses, part of a lar-ger effort to reduce income inequality and create good jobs for low-income people.

The program will coordinate education and training resour-ces while providing technical, legal and financial assistance for new and existing co-ops. It will help start up 28 new worker co-operatives, assist another 20 existing co-opera-tives, and support the creation of 234 new jobs.

Local governments in other parts of the U.S. from Wis-

consin to Pennsylvania to California to Mississippi are taking a similar approach with co-operatives.

Could co-operatives be the answer to our economic development challenges in the Cowichan region?

With the CVRD’s economic development function cur-rently under review and the newly elected board eager to explore new ideas, could the co-operative become part of local government’s vision for the regional economy?

The Cowichan region already has a strong history with the co-op business model. The first co-op on Vancouver Island and the first dairy co-op in B.C. — Cowichan Creamery — was founded here in 1895. Today Island Farms car-ries on that tradition under the Agripur umbrella and is one of the only sectors of local agriculture that produces more than we consume in the region. Other co-ops, such as Peninsula and Mid-Island play a leading role in their retail fuels sales while credit unions such as Coastal Community play an important role in our financial industry.

The co-operative has seen resurgence in the CVRD since

the creation of a Regional Co-op Council in 2012. New co-ops have been established in renewable energy, food distri-bution, seniors’ care, and film production, to name just a few.

Could the CVRD allocate a portion of its economic development budget to sup-port the start-up and growth of co-operatives, as other local governments are doing? Could this take the form of a new program to provide financial and technical support for new co-op start-ups and co-op development?

We think so, and argue that our local governments should make co-operative businesses a centre-piece of their future economic development efforts if we hope to address the growing problem of inequal-ity while creating good jobs and sustainable businesses at home.

Rob Douglas is a councillor for the Municipality of North Cowichan and director for the CVRD. Roger Hart is a member of the CVRD’s Economic Development and Environment Commissions. The views expressed here are their own and do not neces-sarily represent those of the CVRD, its Commissions or the Municipality of North Cowichan.

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The CVRD petition to the court asks that CVRD Zoning Bylaw No. 985 be enforced in relation to the SIA property, which would shut down any dumping of contamin-ated soil on the site. Contamin-ated soil treatment and landfill facilities are not a permitted use of the property within the F1-For-

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Cowichan woman ‘stupefi ed’ when earthquake struck Nepal

Cowichan’s Anna Kosa was working for the United Nations in Nepal on April 25 when the earthquake struck, causing widespread devastation. [ANNA KOSA PHOTO]

ANNA KOSA SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN

They told us to watch the birds. It might be animal sense or pure superstition, but some-how the birds could sense the earthquake. A swarm of birds would darken the already ominous sky a moment before the shaking started.

I watched the birds. In unison, they flew up from the trees and formed a big black cloud. The aftershock hit.

April 25, Saturday, 11:56 a.m. I remember when the earth started

shaking. At first, it was a low rumble, like there was a very large plane flying low and close to the ground. But as I looked out the window I saw the buildings outside swaying like grass in the wind. Then, the earth erupted. Think of how it feels to be on a boat, rolling in the waves. I was on a boat about to capsize. That’s what it felt like.

All my earthquake training — drop! cover! and hold! — was erased from my mind as I watched people stampede from the restaurant. I was stupefied and I certainly did not drop, cover and hold, but merely went to the wall away from people, pots and chandeliers. You never know how you’ll react in a situation like this. You can prepare, you can know exactly what to do; yet, when you’re thrust headfirst into the moment of truth you have no idea how you’ll react.

The funny thing is, my office had an earth-quake drill five days before the real one. Of course, everybody treats it as a fire drill and never thinks it will happen any time soon. I was aware that Nepal was expecting the “big one”, and it was always at the back of my mind, but I never thought it would happen while I was there for my six-month placement. But that’s the scary thing; you never know when it’s going to happen. Even now when I am no longer in Nepal, it still feels like the earth is shaking. I know it’s not shaking; however, after having experiencing aftershocks for days on end it’s difficult to adjust to solid, unmoving ground.

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experiences following the earthquake, mostly because I am at a loss for words and I know that people are still living this nightmare. I am fortunate because I was safe with food, water and shelter. My friends are all safe and my col-leagues are all accounted for. For five nights following the earthquake I slept on the ground, being replenished (on the first three days at least) by chips and cookies. But I feel incredibly fortunate because I saw how kind the human heart is. I saw how people come together in a time of crisis and show untainted and unselfish altruistic kindness for another human. I met countless new friends, and there’s no doubt that the people I camped with in the UNICEF building will be my best friends for life. There’s an unspoken bond that is unbreakable when you go through something like this.

I want people to know about Nepal before the earthquake. It seems as though it was a coun-try often overlooked, wedged between China and India, and only talked about in terms of Everest. The international response after the earthquake has been overwhelming, and I talked to one Nepali friend who was humbled and touched by the world coming to help his small, landlocked country.

Everything about Nepal is colourful. The temples. The stupas. The people. Bordered by red cloth, you would see the temples pointed to the sky in the cultural hubs of Patan, Kath-mandu and Bhaktapur Durbar squares. They were places of worship, places where tourists would spend the day milling around and eating on rooftop terraces. They were places where you would see holy men beside young artists sketching the beauty of urban life. I’m using past tense, but these things can be rebuilt and restored.

See COMPASSION, Page 19

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It is the human loss that is truly devastating.

The people of Nepal are the most amazing and compassionate people I have ever met. After the earthquake, my Nepali friends and colleagues were genuinely concerned about my wellbe-ing while they were also going through the same tragedy.

I had one of my colleagues give me the money in his pocket because I was running out and the ATMs weren’t working. Another friend of mine prom-ised to drive me to the airport when I was worried about a fuel shortage. I have so many stories like this.

Five days after the earthquake, I took a walk with a couple of my friends. We saw how life was beginning to return to normal as shops were opening and people were riding their motorcycles down recently empty roads. I was only in Nepal for four short months, so I can’t imagine what it’s like to see such a tragedy occur to your own country, the place where you grew up. Still, there were smiles - smiles that lit up my bleak world on the dark days fol-lowing the earthquake. It made every-thing colourful again.

When I talk about my experiences following the earthquake, I don’t want to remember the fear I felt, or that constant lump in my throat. I want to remember the beauty of Nepal and its

people. I know that one day I’ll be back. On May 12 I heard of another 7.3

earthquake that hit Nepal. This news is absolutely devastating. Keep all the brave people in Nepal in your thoughts and prayers. I will never forget my brave friends who stayed to help with the relief effort, and the millions of Nepalis who are rebuilding their lives while helping others. They are the spe-cial ones — their stories are the ones

you should hear. So as the media moves on, please hold

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Anna Kosa lives in the Cowichan Valley. She returned from Nepal recently where she was working at the United Nations Development Programme in Kathmandu. She had been there since January, and was there when the first devastating earthquake hit on April 25.

Nepal, before the April 25 quake. [ANNA KOSA PHOTO]

Compassion and generosity marked post-earthquake NepalCOWICHAN, From Page 15

Many of the buildings pictured here have been reduced to rubble. [ANNA KOSA PHOTO]


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There were more sparks at the inquest than at the fi reOn Christmas Day,

although by then said to be seriously ill, George Milne was charged with incendi-arism and placed under house arrest.

In an age of wood-en buildings, open fireplaces and poor

firefighting capabil-ities, fire was every frontier community’s worst nightmare.

That which destroyed Walter Akenhead’s two-storey frame building on Victoria Crescent, Nanaimo, Sunday evening, Dec. 5, 1886, created further sparks for its tenant, curios importer, dry goods merchant, grocer and architect(!), George Milne.

At an inquest before Stipendi-ary Magistrate J.P. Planta, stage driver Henry Thompson testi-fied that he and Akenhead’s son were among the first to respond. Upon forcing entry to Milne’s living quarters, they searched each room without finding the smoke’s source until they opened a cupboard beneath the stairs and “the fire burst out in my face”. He threw a can of water at it and retreated.

Thompson said the fire seemed to “come from the floor — it was burning all over. The flame appeared to be in the middle of the stairs.”

Salesman J. Young, hailed by

an excited Mrs. Aken-head as he returned from church, broke in through a window, only to be turned back by thick black smoke. He recalled a strong smell of kerosene.

Mary Ann Akenhead who, with her hus-band and two sons, shared occupancy of

the building, couldn’t recall any unusual smells.

Neither could Walter Jr. who’d helped Thompson try to locate the seat of the fire.

Store owner George Milne said he’d been at Webb’s hotel when he heard the fire bell and he helped volunteers rescue some of his merchandise.

He’d worked in the store that day, with a small fire in the stove, and left about three hours before the fire was detected. He said he had two cans of kero-sene for his own use, stored in the room behind the stairwell cupboard, that his business and household insurance totalled $1,680. Most of his stock was paid for, some of his ledgers were saved and were in the hands of the underwriters.

Mary Akenhead said outright what others were thinking: “Mr. Milne, what a job you have done — you have left us in the street without a hat to our head or a bed to lay on — you

have ruined us.”Milne, who said he was not

well, after being questioned about his whereabouts immedi-ately prior to the fire, and the general state of his premises, was repeatedly grilled about his inventory and its insured value.

A competitor whose adjacent store was also consumed bit-terly estimated the full value of Milne’s merchandise to have been $80! Teamsters and freight clerks testified that Milne had never ordered anything near the inventory that he claimed to have lost. Only firefighter John Scales offered slight supporting evidence with his observation that the store’s shelves “seemed pretty well filled up with tins of stuff”.

It did Milne no good. On Christmas Day, although by then said to be seriously ill, he was charged with incendiarism and placed under house arrest.

Six months later, on the very day he was to go to trial, he died of consumption. His wasn’t the only death in the affair, landlord Akenhead having predeceased him as had George Montgomery whose store was also consumed.

Did Milne burn down his own store for the insurance money? At the Spring Assizes the Hon. H.P.P. Crease said that he owed it to Milne’s memory to state that, “After a careful perusal of the depositions, [I] consider...

they [do] not show any great evi-dence of guilt, and the principal charge against him, told more against the Insurance Com-pany” for not having confirmed

the value of his inventory at the time of his buying a policy than it did Milne.

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Join Us to Learn More!Liquid Waste Management Planning – Amending the Central Sector PlanThe Cowichan Valley Regional District, working with partners the City of Duncan, Municipality of North Cowichan and Cowichan Tribes, is in the process of amending the current Central Sector Liquid Waste Management Plan (CSLWMP) to relocate an existing treated wastewater outfall from the Cowichan River. As part of this review, the CVRD and partners are consulting with community members, stakeholder groups and partners about environmental, technical and cost considerations.

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More About the ProjectWhy is this happening now? Reduced summer water flows in the river, the changing course of the river in the area of the existing outfall, and a commitment to Cowichan Tribes in part of a lease agreement to remove the outfall from the river, are just a few of the factors combining to make this project a priority.

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COMING UP IN COWICHAN

Speaker to talk public ownership of natural resources

The Cowichan Jacobin Reading Group in cooperation with The Joseph Mairs Memorial Committee is inviting every-one to attend a public event entitled Our Wood Our Oil: The Case For Public Democratic Ownership on Saturday, May 23.

Starting at 1 p.m. at the Mercury The-atre, 331 Brae Rd. in Duncan Mitchell Anderson, an author and journalist, will take a look at how we manage our natural resources.

Anderson is a Vancouver-based free-lance writer and frequent contributor to the Tyee. In 2002, the newspaper sent him on assignment to Norway to learn more about their oil fund which current-ly has more than $900 billion in assets. He wrote a 10-part series comparing petrol-eum policy in Norway and Canada which shed light on the question of why Can-ada, with our vast natural resources, has adopted an austerity stance and failed to sustain services for all Canadians.

In addition to his expertise in the realm of oil, he has also cultivated a knowledge and point of view on the question of for-estry practices in B.C. which will also be addressed in his presentation.

“As long as we are cleverly diverted from talking about Canada’s vast wealth and who gets to keep it, we will remain the second richest country in the world

that for some reason cannot afford postal delivery,” he wrote recently.

After Anderson speaks there will be a discussion and question period.

Yoga teachers band together for Nepal aid fundraiser

A group of yoga teachers in the Cowi-chan Valley have teamed up for a fund-raiser for Nepal, which recently suffered its second devastating earthquake in as many months.

The fundraiser will take the form of a morning of gentle yoga hosted by the Forest Yogini Collective on Sunday, May 24 starting at 10 a.m. at the Hub at Cowi-chan Station.

Donations will go to Glasswaters (www.glasswatersnepal.ca). You can donate on the website if you can’t attend the fundraiser.

Attendees are asked to bring a yoga mat and water and to dress in layers. A suggested donation is $20.

There will also be a raffle for two woven willow chairs, and four wellness pack-ages. Tickets are $5 each or five for $20. The draw date is May 24.

May 27 Bike Expo new draw for Bike to Work Week

Cycle Cowichan is adding a new event to Bike To Work Week this year with Bike Expo, on May 27 at the Aquatic

Centre on James Street in Duncan. Along with Celebration Stations

throughout the week, Bike Expo will feature numerous exhibitors including bike shops, bicycle manufacturers, cyc-ling clubs, the RCMP Bike Patrol and other groups that promote cycling in the Valley.

“Cycle Cowichan is excited to promote what the Valley has to offer,” said Alex Haddad from Cycle Cowichan. “Whether it’s commuting, mountain biking, road racing or recreational riding, Cowichan has it all.”

Prizes, mechanical support and refresh-ments will be available for all who come

by. Plus Cycle Cowichan members will be readyto answer any questions or direct visitors whoare interested in more cycling opportunities.

Bike To Work Week takes place from May 25-29 at numerous locations. Events include thealways-popular morning Celebration Stationswhere riders can enter their names for prizesand catch a snack before heading off to work. Also back by popular demand will be the team competition.

For cycling safety tips and general cyclinginformation:

Bike Sense Manual: (www.bikesense.bc.ca/Bike_Sense-Nov 05.pdf )

Bike BC: www.th.gov.bc.ca/BikeBC/links Event information can be found at: www.cycle

cowichan.ca

Youth Connection evening to honour ‘journey to reconciliation’

The Cowichan Regional Anglican Youth Con-nection will be planting gardens at churches in the Cowichan Valley as a legacy to the work ofthe Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

Such gardens are being planted across the country by former students of Indian Residen-tial schools and their families, the TRC, the FirstNations Child and Family Caring Society, KAI-ROS and Project of Heart.

“To prepare their hearts and minds the youthare hosting an evening where we can honour the journey to reconciliation and symbolize that chil-dren will lead us towards a future of reconcilia-tion,” said Alison Stephen in a press release.

The evening event is scheduled for Tuesday,May 26 at 6 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Anglican Church in Duncan.

On Feb. 18 the Namgis First Nation band council hosted an event that acknowledged theplanned demolition of St. Michael’s Residential School in Alert Bay. This was a gathering of chiefs, residential school survivors, and invitedguests. The Duncan evening will feature speak-ers who were at that event who will share their reflections and experiences.

They include Reverend Lincoln McKeon from Alert Bay, Tanya McKeon from Alert Bay and Terry Shepherd from Nanoose Bay.

Cowichan Tribes members and elders have also been invited to attend.

The event is free, but reserve as seat by call-ing the St. John’s Church office at 250-748-9712or email [email protected]

Compiled by Andrea Rondeau, Citizen

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At first glance, it may not seem remarkable that the Cowichan Sec-ondary School Thunderbirds have

qualified for the provincial AAA boys rugby championships this year. After all, the squad makes regular appearances at the tournament, and this is the fourth year in a row that they have made the cut.

When you consider, however, that if not for the efforts of a group of senior players there wouldn’t have been a team this year at all, it becomes much more impressive.

Earlier in the school year, it looked pos-sible that the Thunderbirds might not be fielding a boys rugby team this year. After their previous coaches opted not to run the program again this season after many years at the helm, the players themselves pressed on. Grade 12s Nathan Yu, Amish Dobson, Josh Jones and Ben Iwasyk head-ed up the effort to hold weekly training sessions, and put up posters in the school to summon players to the team, hoping someone would step up.

“We were pretty devastated that we weren’t going to have a season,” Iwasyk, a flanker, recalls. “For many of us, it basic-ally made our high school experience.”

Especially in their last seasons of high school, the seniors weren’t going to let it slip away easily.

“It was hard to see something so great die,” inside centre Yu says.

“It’s our senior year playing Cowichan rugby,” Dobson, a fullback, adds. “It was so much fun the other years, we hated to see it happen.”

From the general camaraderie and team-work to the atmosphere on the bus and being out in the springtime sun, there are many reasons the players were anxious to play rugby again this year.

“It’s something you don’t get with any other sport or in school,” scrum-half Jones relates.

Even as it appeared they might not have a coach to lead the program, the players prepared as if there would be a season.

“We talked to our friends, put up post-ers everywhere, but we still didn’t have coaches yet,” Dobson says. “We wanted to show that we did have players if we could find one.”

“Most of the seniors were trying to organize practices,” Jones says. “We were running them for a while. Then one of the juniors said his coach from the rugby club might be interested. He came down for a practice and said he was interested, and it just snowballed from there.”

Former T-Bird stars Robin MacDowell

and Thomas Kay were among the first to get word of the situation and attended a practice to encourage the players. Mac-Dowell, a former member of the national sevens team, tried to help the boys find a coach, and contacted the Cowichan Rugby Football Club for assistance. Yu also con-tacted Kenton McNutt, who leads junior programs at the CRFC, wondering if he might have some ideas.

Toward the end of January, with the season fast approaching, McNutt, Jake Teufel, Rogi Young and recent Cow High grad Noah Dobson offered their services as coaches.

The T-Birds missed out on tournaments, including the Island sevens and Scrum-fest, and didn’t play any games outside of their league, but they found success in the games they did play.

“I think in a season we have three main goals,” Jones relates. “We have a big rivalry with Kelsey, so to win that game is pretty huge. Then to beat Alberni in the first round of the playoffs, and making it to provincials kind of caps off the year.”

It was a win over G.P. Vanier earlier this month that locked Cowichan into the prov-

incial tournament. Vanier had a strangle-hold on the provincial berth, something Cowichan hadn’t been able to loosen in ages. Needless to say, that victory was a high point of the season so far.

“That was something we hadn’t done in our previous years of high school,” Iwasyk points out. “It was a big personal goal for myself. At the beginning of the year, we didn’t expect to beat them. But we pulled through, and it was a great game.”

The team has improved steadily over the course of the season, shocking some of the players with the level of success. The team is seeded ninth going into the provincial tournament. With a win in the first round this Saturday, they will be guaranteed at least a top-eight result.

“We’ve been able to field a pretty good team this year,” Amish Dobson says. “It’s kind of surprising, when we were without coaches at the beginning of the year; we didn’t get as good a start. In the playoffs, we’re pulling everything together.”

The T-Birds might have a chance to make history this year, and can definitelyput forth the best final result in recent memory.

“As far as I know, no Cow High team has ever done better than ninth place,” Dobsonsays. “I’m not sure of that, but it would be awesome to break ninth place and get in the top eight.”

A top-eight finish is within the team’sgrasp, and the players know what they need to do to achieve that.

“It will take a lot of hard work,” Jonesacknowledges. “We have to practice and work on a lot of things before provincials. If we play as a team and work on the littlethings, we’ll do well.”

Regardless of where they finish, the play-ers have already accomplished so much,just by keeping the program alive andreaching the level they have.

“We’ve come a long way,” Yu says, “froma ragtag group of guys tossing the ball around in the winter.”

Back from the brink Senior players’ dedication keeps Cowichan Secondary rugby alive and thriving

Related stories:» Brentwood, Kelsey ready for AAs /30» Saturday’s first round schedule /30

Senior Thunderbirds rugby players Ben Iwasyk, Amish Dobson and Nathan Yu, as well as Josh Jones (not pictured) were instrumental in keeping the boys rugby program alive at their school this year. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

“We’ve been able to field a pretty good team this year. It’s kind of surprising when we were without coaches at the beginning of the year…In the playoffs, we’re pulling everything together.”

AMISH DOBSON, T-Birds fullback


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After exploding out of the gate to dom-inate their first three games of the sea-son, the intermediate B Cowichan Valley Thunder suffered their first setback of the campaign last Saturday as they were edged 9-8 by the Juan de Fuca Whalers in Langford.

The Thunder had just seven runners on the bench and were without their head coach and several key players, including Tyson Black, who was playing for the jun-ior A Nanaimo Timbermen. They were also unable to call up any midget players

due to the Cowichan midget team being away at a tournament.

Brandon (Skippy) Corby led Cowichanwith three goals, Corwin Trent had twogoals and an assist, and Mathieu Jungscored once and added four helpers.

Kyle Page had a goal and three help-ers, and Steven Robertson also scored. Dallas McLaughlin had two assists, and Liam Clinging chipped in with one. Marc Gagnon got the start in net.

The Thunder have a pair of home tilts atthe Island Savings Centre this weekend, hosting Saanich on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Oceanside on Sunday at 6 p.m.


Riders from the equestrian program at Queen Margaret’s School turned in sev-eral fine performances at the QMS Spring Classic on May 7-10.

Grade 9 student Madison Heisterman claimed four championships on her horse, Hershey Kiss: the pre-green hunter div-ision, CET practice .75m-.85m, modified child/adult, children’s hunter.

Kassidy Keith Ruelle claimed the CET practice .9m-1m championship on Walla-bee, and was reserve champion in the pre-green hunter division on Carlton K.

Coach and 2012 graduate Karlene Neuffer was modified open hunter cham-pion on Bubba, with Emily Cake reserve on Marlow.

In pre child/pre adult, Hailey Gascoigne was champion on Liberty W, while Ste-phen Igbinosa was reserve on Irish Cream.

Hannah Jedrysiak was 2’ hunter div-ision champion on Fine China, who also carried Amelie Du to reserve in the same division.

Ximena Maya Chavez on Altivo and Mac-kenzie Grouhel on Levi shared the long/

short stirrup championship, with LaurenTomio as reserve on Amorata.

Karlie Castle was reserve in Arbutusopen hunter on Del Rio, and ChristineCoels was reserve in modified child/adulton Landmark.

Several riders also received jumperribbons.

Gascoigne on Liberty W was second inpony/child/adult jumpers, Coels on Land-mark was first in Reynolds pony/child/adult amateur and first in Admor child/pony, and Keith Ruelle was first in CWDopen jumpers and first in CWD optional.

Toni Spiteri on Louistik de Brevilwas third in 2’6” jumpers and first in pony/child/adult jumpers. Nicole Goudet See-dorf on King Edward was third in pony/child/adult jumpers and first in mini prix.Miranda Lebeuf on Carivero was first in.85 jumpers and imperial pony/child/adultamateur.

Paulina Echegary Sorondo on Altivowas second in Reynolds pony/child/adultamateur.

Olivia Austin on Lanita was first inSalmond low jumper. Ana Sofia AlbanMadero on Picadilly was second in CWDopen jumpers.

Inter B Thunder suff er fi rst defeat

Schedule for Saturday’s provincial boys rugby games at Brentwood11:30 a.m.: Shawnigan vs TBD (AAA)11:30 a.m.: Frances Kelsey vs Glenlyon Norfolk School (AA)

1 p.m.: Cowichan vs Handsworth (AAA)2:30 p.m.: Brentwood College vs D.W. Poppy (AA)

Riders get the jump at ClassicQueen Margaret’s School rider Christine Coels and her mount, Landmark, compete in the .9m low jumper event at the QMS Spring Classic on May 9. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

Brentwood, Kelsey ready for B.C.’s

Grade 10 student William McDougall goes over the line to score Brentwood’s first try against Frances Kelsey last Thursday afternoon. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]


The battle between two Mill Bay schools last Thursday to determine final seeding for the AA boys provincial rugby cham-pionships was close through the middle of the second half, but a late offensive explo-sion resulted in a 31-9 win for Brentwood College over Frances Kelsey Secondary.

Brentwood held a slight 5-3 edge at half-time, and Kelsey was up 6-5 five minutes into the second half. At the game’s 55-minute mark, Brentwood clung to a 12-9 advantage before turning it on down the stretch.

Brentwood will head into provincials seeded eighth, while Kelsey is seeded 11th.

“It was extremely close for the majority of the game, but our lack of depth result-ed in us losing our way for the final quar-ter of the match,” Kelsey assistant coach Tom Fogarty said. “It was a strong effort from the whole team and it is great to see us get more competitive with the higher ranked schools with every year that this program continues to run.”

All of Kelsey’s nine points came from penalties kicked by fly-half Tyson Black.

Fogarty praised the efforts of head coach Craig Schmidt and Kelsey athletic direc-tor Adam Johnston in helping to resur-rect the Kelsey program, which is about to make its second trip to provincials in as many years.

“We are extremely lucky to have people like this who put in so much of their free time in helping these young men learn and improve on and off the field,” he said.

Brentwood coach Shane Thompson cred-ited much of his team’s success this sea-son to the dedication of the Grade 12s.

“All our seniors have done a good job of committing to the program,” he said. “We’re carrying a lot of momentum for-ward this time of year.”

At the urging of the seniors, all the play-ers came back early from the Victoria Day long weekend to practice on Monday and Tuesday in preparation for the first round of the playoffs.

“For me as a coach, it’s nice when the senior players take that initiative,” Thompson said.

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Sprinter/hurdler Chicago Bains led the CVAC Jaguars to an outstanding perform-ance at the Victoria Track and Field Club’s Dogwood Meet earlier this month.

Bains, one of Canada’s fastest runners in her age group, won four races at the meet: the 16/17 girls 100m and 200m dash and 100m and 400m hurdles. Her training partner, and another star on the national scene, Taryn Smiley, also claimed a pair of gold medals, in the 18/19 100m and 200m.

Fellow Jaguar Denise Roy wasn’t far behind Bains with a silver in the 16/17 200m and a bronze in the 100m. Also in the 16/17 age group, Olivia Burton was third in the 800m. Belle White won a pair of medals in the 18/19 girls division: gold in the 3000m and silver in the 800m.

The girls weren’t the only ones to bring home hardware in the senior age divisions. In the 18/19 boys category, Kabir Bellerose finished first in the 400m hurdles and third in the 100m, Chase Gundersen was second in both the 100m and 200m, and Keiran Marrett-Hitch was first in the high jump. In the 16/17 boys, Brendan Kerwin was first in the 1500m and third in the 800m, Luke Armstrong was third in the 400m dash and 400m hurdles, and Tristan Seibel placed second in the 3000m.

Sion Griffiths dominated the field events in the 14/15 boys division, placing first in shot put, hammer throw and javelin, and second in high jump. Aidan Pacholuk was third in discus. In the 14/15 girls div-ision, Emma Dewit won gold in shot put, Madelynn Pollock was second in the 100m dash and 80m hurdles, and Danae Gendall placed second in high jump.

Matthew Day claimed gold in the 13-year-old boys 200m hurdles. In the same age group, Torren Kaiser was second in the 100m and 200m dash, and third in shot put, Dredyn Fontana was second in the 1200m and third in the 800m, and Joshua Haley was second in high jump.

In the 12-year-old girls division, Aisha Werner was first in the 100m, 200m and 300m dash, and second in the 800m and 200m hurdles, while Natalie Dawson was first in the 200m hurdles and long jump, second in the 200m dash and 80m hurdles, and third in the 100m. Ben Rossouw won the 200m hurdles and high jump and was third in the 200m and 800m, and Mowat Devalk-Zaiss was second in long jump.

Among 11-year-old girls, Margo Blumel was first in the 800m race walk, second in the 1000m and high jump, and third in dis-cus, Jessica Butler was first in the 60m hur-dles, second in the long jump and third in

the 60m, and Madison Porter took bronze in the 60m hurdles, high jump, shot put and 800m race walk.

Elijah Barron took first in the 11-year-old boys javelin and second in shot put and discus, Santiago Erd-ingfitznar was first in shot put and third in 60m hurdles, and Will Hul-ton was third in both the 60m and discus.

Elisabetta Relova-Clegg won gold in the 10-year-old girls discus, and Lauren Lacroix claimed bronze in the 800m race walk. In the 10-year-old boys division, Josh Ketch was first in the 60m hurdles and long jump, second in the shot put, and third in the 60m dash. Evan Mayer was first in high jump and javelin, second in the 100m, and third in the 60m hurdles. Jack Whitney was first in the 1000m, second in the 600m and

third in discus and javelin. Evan Maher was first in the 800m race walk, and Trevin Buckland was second in discus.

Amelia Varga was a force in the nine-year-old girls group, taking first in the 600m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump, second in the 100m, and third in the 60m. Cayle Lauzon was third in long jump.Linden Powers had four golds in the nine-year-old boys division, in the 100m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump, whileEthan Clarahan was second in the 1000mand third in the 100m.

In the 45-49 men’s division, Shane Lauzonwas first in high jump. Dewi Griffiths wonthe 50-59 men’s hammer and javelin and was third in shot put, and Mike Daileywas second in shot put, discus and javelin.Neil Burton won the 55-59 men’s 100m and 200m.

Veteran runners set the pace for CVACs at Dogwood

High jump winner Keiran Marrett-Hetch. [TODD BLUMEL PHOTO]

Rookie long jumper Lauren Lacroix. [TODD BLUMEL PHOTO]


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