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When I was a boy, we had a cat named Wilfred. I don’t know how he got the name.

I suppose someone in his past must have looked at him – at his round, intelligent face; those gazing, Buddhist eyes; his ever-so-gentle cat’s paws; and de-cided he looked like a Wilfred. Wherever the name came from, it stuck, or rather I should say it grew on him, as much a part of his personality as his sleek grey and white fur, his mincing gait and his twitching tail.

Of course, when you say some-thing has grown on someone, or that they’ve ‘grown into it’, you’re really saying it’s grown on you – that you’ve got used to it, come to like it so much, that you won’t let them be any-thing else. Whether or not Wil-fred ever really liked his name, I can’t honestly say. I do know he responded well when it was accompanied by the sound of tinned chicken liver being pried open in the kitchen - a sum-mons enticing enough to actu-ally make him break out of his leisurely, sashaying stride into something approaching a trot.

We knew what Wilfred’s name was, because when he arrived at our doorstep that Christmas Eve, he had a medallion on his collar with WILFRED stamped into it, and an address below that: 28 Buller Street. We natu-rally went there, to see if we could reunite Wilfred with his owner. That was a sad trek, be-cause Nonny fell in love with Willie (or Willy-nilly as we called him in his more boister-ous moods) the moment she set eyes on him; and Willie returned the favour, purring on her blan-ket like a car left running in the drive, waiting for someone to take him somewhere.

Of course we all fell in love with Willie as quickly as cocoa added to hot milk dissolves

– not only because he was lov-able, but because he loved Nonny best of all. So we weren’t too disappointed when we bundled Willie and Nonny into the car and drove down the hill to 28 Buller, only to discover there was no such address – un-less Willie had lived in a gravel parking lot past the last house on the block, which was num-bered 26. Of course Willie might have lived on the Buller Street in Port Moody, or the one in Grandview Manitoba, or… We never checked. We knocked at the house next door, and the neighbour, who didn’t appre-ciate being disturbed at 9 a.m. Christmas Day, said he’d never seen ‘a cat like that’ in his life, and ‘who would name a stupid cat Wilfred anyway?’And that seemed confirmation

enough; Wilfred was ours… if nobody answered the ad in the newspaper, or the wanted post-ers tacked onto bulletin boards around town. When I say ours, of course, I mean Nonny’s. That was clear from the get-go. We heard Wilfred’s plaintive me-owing at the door, watched in astonishment as he darted be-tween our legs the moment it was opened, then caught up to him in Nonny’s room, already on the bed and snuggling up to my sister. “He’s the best pres-ent,” Nonny smiled, and I could see that look in Mom and Dad’s eyes, that anguished look of two hearts breaking at the same time. If it had been up to me, I wouldn’t even have looked for Wilfred’s owners. The finders-keepers rule would have been invoked without qualm. But hey, I was just a kid, and Nonny needed Wilfred like one phone needs another.

Not that he didn’t like our af-fection. He’d rub up against our legs, sit in our laps, play with the fabric mouse, at the end of a string, attached to a willowy plastic pole. But he loved Nonny most of all, and it seemed to me he wanted to absorb as much of her as he could while she was still with us. I think they had a secret pact, the two of them, that he would soak up her spirit like a sponge so she could stay with us a while longer – not her, really, but her memory. That’s what Wilfred became after Non-

ny passed away.Funny phrase, that! “Passed

away.” An excuse of a phrase, really.

So you can imagine how Wil-fred fit into the scheme of things after that. This is going to sound awful, but sometimes the truth’s messy, confused, brutal – having Wilfred with us was like having Nonny die a second time, because our Christmas Cat was old when we got him, and I hon-estly think if he’d had the choice, he would have gone wherever Nonny went. But he still loved and was loved and carried on sashaying through our lives as best he could.

There are moments you can feel yourself growing in this life; moments you realize how small and immature you were the moment before. Not long after Nonny’s passing, I came home to find Mother sitting in the armchair in our living room, Wilfred in her lap. She was hunched over, hugging him awkwardly, and Wilfred didn’t protest or try to squirm free. He sat patiently absorbing my mother’s tears and her inconsol-able, unfathomable sobs… as he was meant to do.

But hey! This is a Christmas story. Time to move on.

Wilfred’s ‘sixth sense’ can only be described as impeccable; his stage presence intuitive as a cruise missile. In my view the most memorable performances require good acting, of course,

but they also hang on a good script – one that lets the pro-tagonist exit stage left at the absolute peak of his dramatic trajectory. Precisely one Christ-mas after Wilfred’s entrance into our lives, he made his exit, wrapped in one of my mother’s most precious silk scarves and packed into a pine box Dad made for the occasion. We bur-ied him in the back yard, under the apple tree Mom and Nonny had planted before my sister’s cancer really took hold. None of us can eat the fruit of that magical tree; one bite and we’d be crying for an eternity. So it lays on the ground, food for the deer, and the crows, and the raccoons, and whatever other wild critters happen to have an appetite in passing.

We knew Wilfred was teeter-ing on the brink, so I’d insisted he sleep with me the night be-fore he went. Weak and disori-ented as he was, Wilfred lived up to his aristocrat’s name right to the end. He climbed up on my chest and settled in, watch-ing me with those mystic eyes of his, those philosopher’s eyes. Watching me intently, as I fell into the trance of asleep.

Who knows what stuff dreams are made of, what hallucinatory juices spike the blood when the muscles are relaxed in the paralysis of sleep. Wilfred’s fa-vorite place, when he wasn’t by Nonny’s side, was on the table next to her aquarium. You can

think of this as a predatory urge if you wish; I honestly think he was such an enlightened cat that he loved sitting there, watch-ing those languid fish shimmy and shimmer past, fully aware that he was resisting his primal urges. You wouldn’t be the first person to call me a idealist and a dreamer; you won’t be the last. Anyway, those fish were swept into the whirlpool of my dream, along with our Christmas tree, and the ornamental angels hung from the chintzy chandelier above our dining room table. It all got concocted into a mag-nificent tree with swirling, fish shaped ornaments, topped by Wilfred, with his angel’s wings flapping for glory, and his me-ows transformed somehow into the most magnificent hosannas, even though they were still just scratchy old meows.

I awoke from that dream just in time to stumble through the dark into our living room. The tree was lit up, its soft glow fill-ing the room. And there under-neath, lay Wilfred, watching me through his mystic eyes, a fallen globe cradled in his paws. I was with him when he departed; he left me with an emptiness so profound, I knew beyond know-ing I would only be able to fill it if I could believe in something much, much greater than my-self - something that encom-passed Wilfred, and Nonny, and me, and Mum, and Dad, and more than words can say.

Wilfred the CatStory by Craig Spence / Illustrations by Diana Durrand

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A Grade 8 - 9 French Immersion program at Ladysmith Second-ary School will need between 30 and 40 students to be viable Nanaimo-Ladysmith

School District super-intendent John Blain told the Chronicle Wednesday, Dec. 16. And the program will be implemented over two years.

The school district has surveyed parents and students to deter-

mine the level of sup-port for a program. A Dec. 8 letter gave them until Dec. 17 to indicate their interest.“If your child is en-tering French Immer-sion Grade 8 or 9 in September 2016, and/or currently in Grade 8 at LSS and attended French Immersion in Grade 7, he/she may indicate interest for Grade 8 or 9 French Immersion at LSS,” the letter said.

The letter said that in “response to a number of expres-sions of interest from parents” Nanaimo-La-dysmith School Dis-trict “is looking at the possibility of offering French Immersion for students in Grades 8 and 9 at Ladysmith Secondary School in September of 2016.”

Blain clarified, how-ever, that the inten-tion of the district is to offer only Grade 8 French Immersion in 2016 and Grades 8 and 9 in 2017. There won’t be a Grade 9 FI

class in 2016 because students in the south-ern part of the district have missed Grade 8.

The ‘core group’ of students entering the LSS program would come from Ecole North Oyster, which became a French Im-mersion elementary school after Ecole Da-vis Road was closed in June, 2014.

Students at LSS, who want to continue in French Immersion after Grade 9, would have to attend at an-other campus, likely Nanaimo Secondary School. It would be

“highly unlikely” LSS could attract the ‘crit-ical mass’ of students needed to support French Immersion be-yond Grade 9, Blain said.

The district hopes offering Grade 8 and 9 French Immer-sion at LSS will bol-ster registrations at Ecole North Oyster, because it makes it easier for students to continue in the program after Grade 7. “I would hope it’s one step closer for them, because it gives them two more years,” Blain said.

The district is also hoping the program will help maintain enrollments at LSS, which is expecting a decline as students return to Cedar Sec-ondary School, which will be reopening in Sept. 2016 after the Board reversed a de-cision to convert it into an elementary school.


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Mayor Aaron Stone made that clear when asked by Rob Johnson during question period at a Dec. 7 council meet-ing, if Ladysmith had received any requests for business licenses to operate a marijuana dis-pensary, and if requests had been turned down, why?“Has council or the town been approached requesting a business license for a marijuana dispensary?” Johnson wanted to know.“Medical marijuana dispensaries are not le-gal,” City Manager Ruth Malli said, “so if we were to get that type of application, we would refer it to the RCMP.”

Johnston then asked if the Supreme Court of Canada had not ruled ingestible mari-juana or marijuana oils legal, which would mean they could be treated the same way as products sold in health food stores or herbal pharmacies?

Stone said that is

not the case. The laws have been changed to treat ‘edibles’ and ‘oils’ the same as dry mari-juana products, which means they can only be distributed through Canada Post by gov-ernment regulated dis-tributors.“So all these dispensa-ries that you see – and of course in the last week they were shut down by the RCMP in Nanaimo – are not legal under the Crimi-nal Code of Canada,” Stone said.

He explained that larger cities with their own municipal police forces are able to skirt the laws prohibiting marijuana dispensa-ries, but that doesn’t make them legal.“Victoria and Vancou-

ver both have taken a

very progressive view on it,” Stone explained.

“But they are munici-pal police forces – the RCMP do not oper-ate in their areas – so they do have a mea-sure of control, unlike Nanaimo, which is an RCMP community.”

Stone said ‘we could get into a debate’ about the appropriateness of allowing dispensaries, but that it’s not really under the purview of communities like Ladysmith, which are policed by the RCMP.

People who want to distribute marijuana seem to be aware of that.“I don’t think we’ve had any applications for business licenses for dispensaries to this point,” he said.“I think some of the

enthusiasm you may have seen for dispen-saries has been quelled a little bit by actions on the Sunshine Coast and in Nanaimo in the last couple of weeks by RCMP.”As for ignoring the

law, and licensing dis-pensaries in spite of it, Stone reiterated that’s not likely. “I can’t speak for other mem-bers of council, but I think we are a pretty progressive group,” he said, “but we also look at respecting the laws of the land.”

Ladysmith Council won’t consider licensing marijuana dispensaries before they are legal in Canada

Spencer AndersonSpecial to the chronicle

Former LSS Princi-pal David Street, who resigned as principal of Woodlands Sec-ondary in May, issued a tearful apology in provincial court Mon-day, Dec. 14.

Street has admitted to stealing approxi-mately $2,320 from the school between November 2014 and March of this year. The money came from graduation fees, donations for school programs, events and fees for school sports over several weeks.

According to infor-

mation read out in court, Street had a safe installed in one of the school’s admin-istration offices and told his staff to store school money there, instead of locking it in a filing cabinet as had been done in the past.

Street told his staff he did not want ac-cess to the safe. But three of his office administrators began noticing that money was missing.

RCMP began an in-vestigation, but Street said only his staff had access to the safe.

Two of Street’s staff, who were questioned by police, decided to

secretly install a mo-tion sensor camera in the office where the safe was stored. Video footage gath-ered later showed Street entering the of-fice and taking money from the safe and filing cabinet seven times between Feb. 25 and March 11.

Sentencing has been put off until the new year. Street read out an emotional apol-ogy to the court, in-dicating he had been dealing with alcohol abuse and a pattern of “self-destructive” behaviour.“I am so very sorry for all I have done. I’m so sorry.”

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The B.C. government’s new training and employment pro-gram for single parents has en-rolled more than 1,300 people since it began Sept. 1.

The program covers tuition, daycare and transportation costs for up to a year of on-the-job training or education towards in-demand jobs for single parents on social assis-tance or disability payments. The benefits can continue for up to the first year of employ-ment, including extension of government-paid dental and other health benefits.

It replaces the previous sys-tem, often referred to as the welfare trap, where single parents would lose their assis-tance payments and benefits

if they went back to school to train for a job.

Social Development Minister Michelle Stilwell called the re-sults of the program’s first four months “a very good sign,” par-ticularly since about 400 of the voluntary participants are not in the ministry’s “expected to work” category because their children are under the age of three.

Of the 1,330 people signed up to the program as of mid-December, 50 are already on the job in construction, retail, health and community service

positions. More than 90 per cent of participants are single mothers, reflecting the fact that women are 90 per cent of the 16,000 single parents receiving income and disability assis-tance in B.C.

“When they come into a WorkBC office, there is an as-sessment that takes place to determine the best path for that individual,” Stilwell said in an interview. “The case manag-ers look at aptitude and back-ground as well as what’s going on in the local job market, and try to figure out how to indi-

vidually map the supports that are needed for that person. It’s a very flexible program.”

When the single parent pro-gram was launched, Stilwell described it as “one of the most significant social program shifts this government has ever introduced.” It came with a fi-nancial commitment of $24.5 million over five years.

The ministry cites research showing children who grow up in an income-assistance fam-ily are up to three times more likely to become dependent on income assistance themselves later in life.

Tom Fletcher is legislative re-porter and columnist for Black Press newspapers.

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T’is the season to set aside our differ-ences, and celebrate the blessings we share. In the Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada it is easier than most other places in the world to do that.

We’re not perfect, but we are toler-ant, reasonable, caring people. As im-portant, we know our shortcomings, although we can’t always find ways of overcoming them.

So the presents we give one another, although we wish we could be so gen-erous all year long; and the meals we provide for those less fortunate, though we’re sometimes grudging at other times of year; and the songs we sing, al-though we may be grumpy in other sea-sons; are all heartfelt and genuine.

If we think of the brother and sister-hood we feel toward one another on Christmas Day as a token of the better world we hope to achieve, and if we dream of expanding those feelings of kindness and caring to every season, and every place on earth, we are cel-ebrating in the true spirit of Christmas.

Your Words“But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight, ‘Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!’”

Clement Moore / From the poem, T’was the Night Before ChristmasHave a

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Donald, a 22 year-old single father, is receiving daycare and other support to allow him to study electronics at the University of the Fraser Valley. He, and 1,300 other single parents are benefitting through B.C.’s news training and employment program for single parents.

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Ladysmith council hasn’t seen to the bot-tom of the barrel yet, when it comes to re-placing garbage cans in the town centre.At their Dec. 7 meet-

ing they put a stop to the installation of new cans, already purchased as replace-ments for the existing receptacles, directing staff to come back with a report on ‘op-tions’ to the Munici-pal Services Commit-tee.

The hiatus caught public works staff off-guard. They had installed about four of 20 new cans, and were hoping to get

most of the remain-ing one’s installed by early in the new year.A replacement pro-

gram was included in the 2015 budget, but the program is on hold. Director of In-frastructure Services John Manson said he still isn’t certain why.

The main reason for replacing the cans was efficiency and savings. The new cans are high vol-ume, which means public works crews do not have to empty them so often. Man-son said instead of emptying the cans a ‘few times a week,’ crews can go around monthly.“There is a savings there,” he said. “It’s

definitely an advan-tage.”

Mayor Aaron stone said Friday, Dec. 18, that he believes the program will get back on track in the New Year, once councillors have had a chance to get used to the new cans.“They just didn’t grasp what the new ones were going to look like,” he said.

“They wanted to see if there were other op-tions.”

Getting to the bot-

tom of the issue will take more than meets the eye, though. The new cans, as well as being wider, are deep-er. They are sunken up to four or five feet below pavement level so they can accom-modate more refuse.

The bags that go into them are so big that civic crews need a back hoe or truck with a hoist to lift them out. Even so, the reduced frequency of collections, results in a significant savings.

Stone noted that the new cans are also proof against crows, people dumping household garbage and odors. “After I thought about it for a bit, and looked at them a bit more, I think it wasn’t so shocking,” he said.

Council delays on new garbage cans

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Jennifer Fernandes de-posits some trash into one of the new, larger garbage cans, being installed in downtown Ladysmith.


Ladysmith swimmer Faith Knelson has done another turn in her ca-reer as an athlete, mak-ing the Canadian Junior National Team at the age of 14.

But she’s not break-ing stroke to celebrate what others might see as a marker, she’s just doing what she loves to do best, and swimming as fast as she can to get as far as she can in an increasingly competi-tive pool.“Right now I’m one of the younger kids on the team, so I’m trying to get up there in the rank-ings so I will be eligible to go to most of the meets,” Knelson said Wednesday, Dec. 16.“For me there

wouldn’t be any mark-ers for where I am in my career – maybe to other coaches there would be a marker, I don’t know – but for me I just try and prog-ress better and better to make myself happy, and to make my coach happy, and to make my club and town proud.”

Most of all, though Knelson is just living her passion. “I don’t do swimming for any other reason than my passion,” she said. “I love being in the wa-ter. There’s really no place I’d rather be at six o’clock on a Satur-day than swimming in a pool.“I just love swimming.

I couldn’t stop if I want-ed, even if I’m 80 years old, it’s probably still what I’ll want to do.”

Knelson has been swimming since she was seven years old. For five of those years she has been with Coach Dusan Toth-Sza-bo of the Orcas Swim Club in Ladysmith.

For a girl her age to be competing at the level Knelson’s at is re-markable; to be turning heads from a town the size of Ladysmith adds to the accomplishment.

In her age group there is only one other swim-mer in all of Canada, who is a ‘tiny bit faster’

than Knelson, Toth-Szabo said. And in the breast stroke there is no-one as fast. She has definitely been noticed by National Junior Coach Ken McKinnon.“At the national age-group championships she won events in free-style, breast stroke, butterfly and IM (in-dividual medley) as well – so overall, a well rounded swimmer, and they really like that,” Toth-Szabo said.

But both coach and swimmer are careful not to push too hard. Knelson puts in ‘only’ six hours per week at the pool. To many that would seem like a lot, but it’s just enough as far as they are con-cerned. Sometimes coaches and swim-mers push too hard in the drive to achieve a competitive edge.“Sometimes being a

National Team mem-ber at the age-group is misleading, because there are coaches that are pushing the young kids at the young age so hard, that’s why they’re so good, but af-ter a certain level – age 14 or 15 – they can’t get any better,” Toth-Szabo explained.“The situation with

Faith is she trains prob-ably half as much as other girls at her age, and she’s still keeping up, and is even better at breast stroke, than others.”

Knelson and Toth-Szabo may come from a small pond, but they are both avoiding the big fish syndrome. It’s

about balance and commitment, and they both think there’s room to improve.“I think that I can prog-ress from this point forward, and that I can get faster, even though I am at a high perfor-mance level,” Knelson said.

The next major event for them could be the Canadian Olympic and Junior Pan Pacific Game trials to be held in Toronto in April. The Junior Pan Pa-cific Games take place in Hawaii in August.

“Even though that’s a meet for 18 and un-ders, we are really hop-ing that she’s going to make it in,” Toth-Szabo said.

Those kinds of aspi-rations are something Knelson has grown into during her seven years of development as a competitive swim-mer.“When I was little, I never really thought I could go anywhere with swimming. I just liked being in the pool, being in the water, the feel of water – I never really thought of it as something I could take on when I was a teenager or older,” she said.“I thought it would

just be a recreational thing. As I progressed I figured out I loved to race, and that I really enjoyed winning, so I pushed myself a lot harder.”And she’s still learn-

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It’s not often that you get to have your place – even an imaginary one – and eat it too, but for Geoff Cram, owner of the Old Town Bakery in Ladysmith, his annual gingerbread house is a delectably edible piece of architecture.

This is the twelfth year – or thereabouts – Cram has been building his annual gingerbread creations at the Old Time Bakery, a tradition that started four or five years earlier when, as a child care worker, he used to build gingerbread houses as an annual activity.

Since transferring the tradition to Old Town Bakery, his works have become bigger, more elaborate and more popular. From small, edible abodes atop one of his display cases, the proj-ects have grown to the proportions of castles.

“Now it’s kind of a personal challenge,” he said.This year’s masterpiece is an invitation to

imagine the inner workings of a sweater factory, which looks for all the world like a candy and icing coated version of the Kremlin.

Gingerbread men, or boys, enter the top of the factory unclothed, and emerge below, sporting brightly decorated sweaters. Watching over the process are strategically placed minions.

There’s more to this illusion than you might be aware of. Cram achieves perspective by layer-ing the scenes, and reducing the scale of charac-ters, architecture and other elements as you go farther back.

But the whole thing is put together without an elaborate plan or drawing. He makes the ginger-bread panels, doctorates them before assembly, then puts it all together on the fly.

What goes into a gingerbread house. In Cram’s case, a lot of everything. Ingredients include: 24 pounds of flour, 8 pounds of butter, four dozen eggs, and four litres of molasses; plus six weeks or so working on the masterpiece as time per-mits; plus a lot of inspiration and a sense of fun.

People love the results, and that’s one of the gratifications Cram gets out of the project. “For us the cool thing was when families started coming in and getting their pictures taken in front of it,” he said.

As for the edibility of the masterpiece, well, that’s not the fate for Cram’s projects. Once Christmas is over, his son will figure out some ingenious way to demolish the structure. “One year he made a catapult of boulders,” Cram said.

Who knows what this year’s implements of de-molition might be? But whatever the means, the job must be done to clear the ground for Christ-mas 2016, and another edible edifice.

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The halls were alive to the sounds of car-oling, and children heading into assem-blies to participate and watch school choirs and plays.

The week of Dec. 14 to 18 – the last before schools closed for the Christmas break, were busy places, as students, staff and parents got into the spirit of the season.

To the left, top down, students at Ladysmith Primary School got a chance to do their shopping all in one location at the Christ-mas Store. PAC chair Jen Gendron helps a student make her se-lection.

On Tuesday, Dec. 15 the school held a dress rehearsal of their Broadway mu-sical, which featured songs and carols for the season.

On Dec. 17 Ladysmith Intermediate students took to the stage for their performance of T’was One Crazy Night Before Christ-mas, which featured sleuths trying to iden-tify the real Santa, and discovering the Christmas spirit in the process.At St. Joseph’s Cath-

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Most people love Frank Capra’s classic Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life and I’m certainly one of them. You finish a view-ing with a deeply satisfying sense that your life really does matter. As a pastor it intrigues me to ask, “Is this story Christian or not?” The an-swer turns out to be both ‘yes’ and ‘no’.

The strongest Christian idea is the central theme that Your life has purpose. “Each man’s life touches so many other lives, and when he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” says the angel Clarence to George Bailey. Without George around, so many things would have been different. We learn that Bedford Falls, for example, would have been Pottersville. George saved his brother’s life when Harry fell through the ice. Harry, in turn would become a war hero, sav-ing the lives of others.

Building on this idea of purpose our lives should also be viewed as a gift. The angel Clarence notes, “At exactly 10:45 p.m. tonight, Earth time, that man will be seriously think-ing of throwing away God’s greatest gift.” The Bible says in Hebrews 2:7,8 “What is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him? You made them a little lower than the angels; you crowned them

with glory and honour and put everything un-der their feet.”

So what ideas or themes don’t line up with true Christian faith? The movie conveys that it is entirely up to George Bailey alone to choose the right thing and follow through. If George hadn’t corrected the mistake in the medica-tions when he worked as an assistant, old Mr. Gower would have died.

Jesus, in contrast, says “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” The great news to every one of us who is exhausted from trying hard to do the right thing on our own is that Jesus offers to give us the power to follow through.

I can’t perfectly follow through on every promise, can’t serve every opportunity with enthusiasm on my own - I need the power that Christ offers. When you watch this classic this year I hope you rejoice with George Bailey as he finds that his life really did have purpose and consider what would be possible in your own life with the power of Christ working through you.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available monthly, space permitting, to faith and philosophical commentators who wish to share their beliefs with the larger community. Views expressed here are not those of the Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle, and we reserve the unqualified right not to publish any submission. If you wish to submit an item, please query the [email protected] or phone 250-245-2277.

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The Town of Ladysmith munic-ipal hall was evacuated ‘as a pre-caution’ Friday morning, Dec. 18, when a strong odor, which may have been natural gas, blan-keted the downtown area.

Ladysmith Fire and Rescue was called and FortisBC, but as of press time the source of the odor had not been identified.

The evacuation of municipal hall was brief, and an advisory was is-sued letting people know there had been no evacuation of the downtown area ordered by emer-

gency responders.The odor was widely reported on

Facebook, along with speculation as to what may have caused it.

It was noted that FortisBC has equipment for detecting and iden-tifying odors, but that no report had been issued indicating what may have caused the smell.“We were wondering if the smell

could have been emanating from someone having fertilizer or ma-nure dumped in their yard,” one person suggested.

Santa did the rounds of Ladysmith Dec. 20, with stops at Brown Drive Park, 4th Avenue and French Street; 4th Avenue and Methuen; Diamond Hall; the Wigwam Restaurant downtown and finishing up at Davis Road School. Joining Mr. and Ms. Claus at the first stop were Isaac, Olivia, Finlay, Harrison and Ethan.

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hide a stash of rum balls, rather than shar-ing and eating them the moment your tin is opened, be sure to find a secure loca-tion, away from heat registers and snoopy pets. And don’t forget where you’ve hidden them.• If you develop a ‘se-

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381 Davis Road 250-245-5113

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Join Us at One Service Only

Sunday, December 27@ 10 am

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Rev Maxine Pirie 232 High Street250-245-2183

www.ladysmithunited.org

Sunday Serviceincluding Sunday schoolat 10:30 amHealing Pathway

1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6-8 pm

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First United Church

1149 Fourth Ave, Ladysmith,

250-245-8221

Lead Pastor Jim & Marlene Raddatz Assistant Pastor David & Lisa Nadon

Christmas Eve Service, Dec 24 at 7-8 pm. Let’s celebrate together.

Christmas Eve - Dec. 24th

Carol Singing 8:30 PM Mass 9:00 PM

Christmas Day - Dec. 25th

Mass 9:00 AMNew Years Day -

Jan. 1st Mass 9:00 AM

St. Mary’sCatholic Church

Mass Times:Sat. 5:00 pmSun. 9:00 am

Father Mel Bayron1135 - 4th Avenue

Ladysmith, BC 250-245-3414

[email protected]

The RockChristian

Fellowship921-1st Ave, Eagles Hall

Ladysmith, BC250-245-4797

www.therockchristianfellowship.caSunday Evening

Services - 6:00 pm On December 27th, we will have a Special Evening of carols, snacks, and more;

at the Ladysmith Eagles Hall,Everyone Invited

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Lions Al Bayes, Wayne Switzer, Jim Masyk, Ron Smith, John Shephard and Mar-cel Deslauriers at the Ladysmith Family and Friends Morning LAFF session dis-tributing hand made wooden toys.

Santa has a whole new group of elves, but they don’t live at the North Pole, they call the 49th Par-allel their home turf, and they are Lions one and all.

Three members of the Ladysmith Lions Club have been hard at work since the summer building about 50 wooden toys, which were dis-tributed Dec. 11 to children at-tending the Ladysmith Family and Frieds (LAFF) Morning Program at Aggie Hall.

President John Shepherd, Sec-retary Jim Masyk and member Al Bayes have been busy at their workshop benches since the sum-

mer making the toys.LAFF Executive Director Jac-

queline Neligan said the gifts were gratefully received. “All year they made wooden toys for our young-est community members,” she said.“Our Lions Club has decided to make wooden toys an annual project,” Lions Secretary Jim Ma-syk said. This is the second year for the initiative, but the first that the toys have been distributed through LAFF.“It all went very well and a lot of

kids went home with a smile on their face,” Masyk said.

Lions make like elvesbuilding toys for kids

50 wooden toys given to LAFF girls and boys

Have you checked to make sure your Christ-mas decorations are safe?

The BC Safety Authority is reminding Brit-ish Columbians to avoid potential accidents by making sure Christmas decorations are in good working order, and being used as intend-ed, according to manufacturer’s specifications.“Aged or worn out Christmas lighting and displays are subjected to cold and wet winter conditions as well as UV from the sun. This can have a deteriorating effect on the light-ing,” said Michael Pilato, BCSA Senior Safety Officer“Lighting should be looked at each year to make sure it is in good working order.”Any lighting with cracked receptacles or

frayed or loose wiring should be discarded the BCSA warns.

Recommendations they have to keep the sea-son happy as well as bright:• Ensure your lights have Canadian safety ap-

proval certification.• Follow the manufacturer’s directions for in-

stalling and using electrical decorations.• Consider switching to energy efficient LED

lights – they produce less heat, which reduces the risk of fire.• Use the right cord for the location - indoor

and outdoor cords are different.• Outdoor receptacles within 2.5 meters of

grade require a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) receptacle.• Never run cords under rugs where people

will walk over them or through doorways or windows where they may get pinched – break-age of pinched wires can cause a fire.• Never use staples or nails to attach cords to

walls or roofs.• Make sure cords can handle the amperage

indicated on your electrical devices, and avoid multi-outlet adaptor connections which can overload your outlet.• Outdoor lights left up year-round will likely

need to be replaced.• Keep lights out of the reach of small children.For additional information about electrical

safety, visit BCSA’s website at safetyauthority.ca

Have yourself asafe Christmas

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Siborne, TrudyMarch 20, 1950 - December 8, 2015

Trudy passed away quite sud-denly on December 8 at Bevan Lodge from complications at-tributed to a long, cruel battle with Alzheimers, at the very young age of 65. She was pre-deceased by her parents, How-ard & Joyce Dalby, and leaves behind her husband Brian, sons Byron (Lisa) and Brett (Terry), two beautiful grandchildren,

Samara and Brennen, and an extended family.

Trudy was born on March 20, 1950 in Ladysmith, BC, where she was raised, schooled and graduated. In 1970, she married Brian, a banker, and thus began a 45-year journey living in places throughout the Prov-ince as well as internationally, including Grand Cay-man, Singapore and Hong Kong. Abbotsford has been home for 24 years, but whenever meeting someone for the first time, she always told them she was from Lady-smith, a great Ambassador for the Town that hosts the annual Festival of Lights parade.

Trudy loved the sun, so numerous Princess cruis-es with Brett, lying on Waikiki or poolside in Palm Springs were her favourite activities. She will be forev-er remembered for her smiles and vibrant personality, which included pinching men and leaving lipstick on cheeks or foreheads. Her greatest joy though was her love for friends and family, especially being “Grans” to Samara & Brennen. She will be missed by all who knew her.

The family would like to extend our appreciation to the staff at Bevan Lodge for their professional car, com-passion and kindness over the last 8 months.

A Celebration of Life was held on Monday, December 21st at 2 pm at The Phoenix located at 33780 King Road, in Abbotsford.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Alzheimer Society of B.C. would be greatly appreciated.

Michael David AlexanderDecember 17, 2015

On December 17, heaven got an amazing angel - Michael David Alexander.Mike leaves a huge legacy and wonderful memories for his wife Carrie, sons Eric and William, his dad Dave (Virginia), sister Tami (Ja-son), niece Taelin and neph-ew Robert along with many extended family and friends. Mike has now reunited with his mom Linda after 15 years.Mike was born in Ladysmith on March 16, 1970. Mike graduated from Ladysmith Secondary School in 1988. Throughout the years Mike spent a lot of time on the wa-ter as a commercial fisherman and apprenticing under his dad for the family business Alexander Construction. In 2006 Mike got hired on at the Town of Ladysmith where you would have seen him along 1st Avenue painting lines or putting up festival lights, a job he very much enjoyed.Mike was a dedicated member of Ladysmith Fire Rescue where he attended countless emergencies and many fires, again a job he loved. He retired as captain after 15 years of service.Mike loved the outdoors and his real love and passion was hunting and fishing. Please join us in a Celebration of Mike’s Life on January 9, 2016 from 2 to 5 pm at the Aggie hall. In lieu of flow-ers, please use that gift to celebrate your family.

“When they built you brother, they broke the mold.”

John Maurice BouthillierBorn in Regina, Saskatchewan, June 2, 1930, passed

away in Duncan Hospital December 9, 2015John was predeceased by his grandson Stephen Bouthillier in 2008. He is survived by his loving wife Dianne, his three children Denise Bouthilli-er, Paul Bouthillier (Irene) and Maurice Bouthillier (Jayne); grandchildren Elaine Bouthillier and De-nise Cnossen (Travis); and great grandchildren Nicho-

las & Myah Cnossen.

He will be remembered for his years of dedicated service with the Credit union in Assiniboia, SK, Es-tevan SK and Ladysmith, BC as manager.

After his retirement he was active with the Che-mainus Hospital Auxiliary as volunteer in the gift shop and coordinator for Meals on Wheels. He en-joyed music and played the organ for patients at Che-mainus Hospital.

He had a heart of gold and a great sense of humour. He is gone - but not forgotten.

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Trudy passed away quite sud-denly on December 8 at Bevan Lodge from complications at-tributed to a long, cruel battle with Alzheimers, at the very young age of 65. She was predeceased by her parents, Howard & Joyce Dalby, and leaves behind her husband Bri-an, sons Byron (Lisa) and Brett (Terry), two beautiful grand-

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The family would like to extend our appreciation to the staff at Bevan Lodge for their professional car, com-passion and kindness over the last 8 months.

A Celebration of Life was held on Monday, December 21st at 2 pm at The Phoenix located at 33780 King Road, in Abbotsford.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Alzheimer Society of B.C. would be greatly appreciated.


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• Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m., International Guitar Night, Cowichan Performing Arts Centre. An inventive evening of contem-porary guitar music from around the globe, IGN is the world’s premier touring guitar festival. “This musical treat has been so popular over the years, we had to bring them back to kick off our 2016 season with a bang,” says Kirsten Schrader, manager of the Performing Arts Cen-tre’s Arts & Culture Division. Tickets: $30, Student $27, Cowichan Folk Guild Member $27, eyeGo $5. See inter-nationalguitarnight.com.

• Jan. 26, 7 p.m., Ladysmith Camera Club presents Buy-ing/Upgrading a Photo Editing Computer, a smart shop-per’s guide to choosing the right hardware, by Brad Grig-or of Turning Point Arts in Saltair. Hardwick Hall, High Street at 3rd Avenue in Ladysmith. Everyone welcome. Non-members $5 drop-in fee. LCC invites new members, novice to pro. www.LadysmithCameraClub.com

• Jan. 31, 8 p.m., The Chemainus Legion’s New Years Party, is running on Eastern Standard time, so will be running from 6 to 9 p.m. Celebrate with the east-coasters. Jan Matthews will be providing entertainment and a light meal will be served at 8 p.m. (11 p.m. EST). Tickets from the lounge 250-246-3133, or call the office at 250-246-4532; $25 per couple or $15 each.

The Celebration of Light raised about $6,500 and collected more than 300 lb. of food for the Ladysmith Food Bank and the Ladysmith Soup Kitchen at the Celebration of Light concert Fri-day, Dec. 18. Included in the lineup were Kendall Patrick, Amelia Thomas, Caleb Burness of the Headless Bettys; and Chris An-dres and his lap steel player from Comox with Mark Noonan of The Chopped Liver Orchestry. Lisa Burness

A good Christmas story is never out of season.

So despite a thermometer that seemed stuck on 30-plus, when the following tale was told to us by the Spiderlady, one of the vendors at the Chemainus Giant Street Market July 4, we think Santa and the Christmas Spiders will add a bit of extra glitter to your Christmas, now that December is here – imagine Christmas in Australia, if you will:A long time ago in Germany, a moth-

er was busily cleaning for Christmas. The spiders fled upstairs to the attic to escape the broom. When the house became quiet, they slowly crept down-stairs for a peek.“Oh! What a beautiful tree,” they said.In their excitement they scurried up

the trunk, and along each branch. They were filled with joy as they climbed

amongst the glittering beauty. But alas, by the time they were through scram-bling up and down the tree was com-pletely shrouded in dusty, grey spider webs.

Santa came along with gifts for the children and was surprised to find their tree covered in webs. He smiled to see how happy the spiders were, even though he knew the family would be heartbroken when they saw the state of their tree.

So he turned the spiders’ webs into strands of silver and gold. The tree sparkled and shimmered even more brilliantly than before and everyone

– right down to the eensiet weensiest spider – had a very happy Christmas Day.

That is why we adorn our trees with tinsel every Christmas.Adapted from a story told by Ann

Smith, of Nanaimo, also known as the Spiderlady at craft fairs and markets in the region. You can find out more about Ann at members.shaw.ca/spid-erlady.

Ann Smith, the Spiderlady, wove a magical Christmas tale for visitors to her booth at the Chemainus Giant Street Market July 4.

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Tammy Leslie, CPA, CGA, CA Ladysmith 250-245-1429

[email protected]

D A Y L I N E R C L U B C A R C A F E

Saltair Station House • 10445 Chemainus Road

A DELIGHTFUL L ITTLE BISTRO

250-324-3777WWW.DAYLINERCAFE.COM

250-245-4726 • 535 First Ave ladysmith

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS& HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Haul out on-site Boat Storage Boat Transportation

Full Service Marine Repair & Maintenance Storage for Vessels & Equipment

Aluminum Fabrication 40,000 lb Hydraulic Trailer

250-714-6206Downtown Ladysmith at Fishermans Wharf

Ladysmith Marine Services

FULL SERVICE MARINE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCEWOOD - STEEL - ALUMINUM & FIBERGLASS


LADYSMITH CHEMAINUS CEDAR DUNCAN

Your Island Community Grocers since 1977

Visit us on the web www.the49th.com

3055 Oak Street1020 1st Avenue 1824 Cedar Road 550 Cairnsmore Street

250-246-3551250-245-3221 250-722-7010 250-748-2412

100% Locally Owned & Operated • We deliver! (See store for details)We reserve the right to limit quantities • Pictures for illustrative purposes only

Open Daily from 7:30 am - 9:00 pm

2015 - Remaining

4 Days of the 12 Days of Christmas

Sale!

From our Family to Yours!We would like to wish a Happy and Safe Holiday Season to all of our staff, customers, friends and family. May we all take a deep breath at this busy time of the year and be thankful for all that is dear to us! From the Richmonds

ONE DAY ONLY

FRESHBrusselSprouts

WEDNESDAYDECEMBER 23

Merry Christmas Everyone! From, the 49th!

FRIDAY, DEC. 25

ONE DAY ONLY

DELUXE BAKED 10 INCH

Apple Pies1.3 kg, limit 2 total

TUESDAYDECEMBER 22

498ONE DAY ONLY

Bacon, Eggs,Hash Browns and Orange Juice375 g Olymel bacon1 doz. 49th medium eggs295 ml Kent O.J.750 g Gold Rush Hashbrowns

THURSDAYDECEMBER 24

896ONE DAY ONLY

FRESHBrusselsSprouts3.70 kg, California #1

LBS

WEDNESDAYDECEMBER 23

3 $5

Ladysmith Chronicle, December 22, 2015

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