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POLITICS

James Lunney resigns from Conservative caucus

Nanaimo-Alberni MP James Lunney announced on Tuesday he is resigning from the Con-servative caucus to sit as an independent, in defence of his religious beliefs and “the con-cerns of my faith community.”

The move was voluntary, Lun-ney said.

The move comes after contro-versy last month when Lunney posted comments on Twitter say-ing that evolution was not a fact.

“(The) decision (to sit as an independent) is entirely my own,” Lunney said in a state-ment. “Given the circling trolls, I do not intend to entangle the most multi-racial, multicultural and multi-faith caucus in parlia-mentary history in my decision to defend my beliefs.”

On Tuesday, his Ottawa office said Lunney would be “unavail-able for the rest of the day,” and that Lunney would speak to the issue after question period in the House of Commons the next day (Wednesday).

In his press release, Lunney alluded to his Twitter comments.

“My remarks were inflated by media, blended with other unrelated but alleged heretical statements and became a top story on national media creating a firestorm of criticism and con-demnation,” he said, adding that “it is clear” other candidates and politicians of faith “(are) going to be subjected to the same pub-lic scrutiny in coming elections.”

Lunney also said he was con-cerned with “deliberate attempts

to suppress a Christian world-view from professional and economic opportunity in law, medicine, and academia.”

Lunney has been an MP for the area since 2000. He has sat as a Conservative since 2003.

EDUCATION

Students’ Union disappointed with budget

The Vancouver Island Uni-versity Students’ Union is “dis-appointed” with a $136.7-million university budget that sees extra fees tacked on to classes of already-struggling students.

The balanced budget for the 2015-16 year was unveiled by VIU on Monday.

The largest investment goes toward faculty and staff, who officials say are critical to achiev-ing the objectives of the univer-sity, which includes promoting student learning and maintain-ing high quality programs.

Salary and benefits alone make up 74 per cent of the budget, totalling more than $100 million.

But the balanced budget means student tuition fees will increase two per cent, and new ancillary fees will be charged for all sorts of classes, from hospitality to trades.

While the student union recog-nizes the funding crunch VIU is under, executive director Michael Olson is unhappy that it means more costs passed on to students.

“It’s concerning,” said Olson, of rising tuition and fees. “It’s really disappointing.”

Classes such as trades, hospital-ity and science will have extra fees, such as additional lab or

equipment costs. The new fees introduced are

similar to those already collected at other universities, said David Witty, VIU’s provost and vice-president academic.

“We work with financial real-ities in the province,” said Witty.

Tuition and fees at VIU remain among the lowest in the prov-ince. Witty calls it a “really solid” budget, which includes investing in several “key areas,” such as supporting enrolment management for domestic and international students, develop-ing new off-grant and cost recovery programming and strengthening First Nations education through a variety of initiatives.

The push to recruit more inter-national students, who bring cultural diversity and increased revenues to the area, continues, said Witty.

VIU’s two main revenue sources are domestic and inter-national student tuition, which makes up 42.6 per cent, and grants and contracts from the provincial government, at 40.6 per cent.

Provincial government grants have steadily decreased since the 1980s, when provincial support in the VIU budget could be as high as 80 per cent.

Boosting domestic and inter-national student enrolment, fostering industry partnerships and growing revenue generation programs are among ways the university will continue to grow. Continuing efforts toward replacing outdated information systems and infrastructure is also a key area of the budget plan.

VIU is working toward funding for its top priority project, a new health and science building edu-cation facility.

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Senior who lost $125,000 may be latest in trend

A Nanaimo senior who lost $125,000 in an online scam may be the latest to fall victim to the growing trend of being digitally duped.

Bilking money from the unsuspecting is nothing new, but it seems scammers are increasingly turning to comput-ers to con. Of the top 10 scams affecting British Columbians, the majority are digital. Those included scams surrounding fake Facebook requests, online dat-ing sites, fake billing and online pricing, according to the recently released list by the Better Busi-ness Bureau. Many victims are vulnerable themselves, with older people being common targets.

“It amazes me how trusting they are in a digital world,” said Evan Kelly, senior communica-tions advisor with the BBB.

“There’s a lot more of this going on and people aren’t com-ing forward because they’re embarrassed about it.”

Such scams are on the rise — and data suggests that report-ed cases are just the tip of the iceberg. Last year, Canadians lost approximately $70 million to scammers, according to the Can-adian Anti-Fraud Centre.

It is a significant increase from the $53-million swindled a year earlier.

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New laws may only be creating culture of speed

Is the province catering to a culture of speeding?

It is curious that the recently released “Rural Highway Safety and Speed Review” specifically seeks feedback on ‘slower-moving’ vehicles.

For anyone consistently driving the speed limit, slow-moving vehicles in the left lane are a non-issue. What is at issue is the one-upmanship of left-lane speeders tailgating to force other speeders into the right lane.

The new focus on the supposed left-lane laggards apparently arises from the feedback in a study for the Ministry of Transportation, which asked par-ticipants “. . . please indicate how frequently you find slower-moving vehicles (in the left lane . . .) to be a safety concern.”

Note that there is no mention of speed limit in this question. In fact, the previous questions regarding speed limit indicted that 42 per cent to 81 per cent of respondents (depending on region) wanted speed limits increased.

So essentially the issue boiled down to asking people who wanted to drive faster than the speed limit whether they were bothered by folks adhering to the speed limit.

Many studies have shown that speeding is a con-tributing factor in 30 per cent of fatal accidents. Notwithstanding the increased risks and stress from speeding many drivers enjoy the feeling of high speed and keeping up with fast moving traffic.

In the U.S. the NHTSA estimates that speed-ing costs society more than $40 billion a year, not including the environmental costs of increased fuel consumption and emissions.

Hopefully enforcement will continue to focus on the real safety problem of speeding and not divert scarce resources to finding the rare driver that uses the left lane inappropriately.

Fred KardelNanaimo

Recent announcement looks a lot like patronage

Re: ‘Minister in city to roll out $2.5B infrastructure plan’ (Daily News, March 24)

There is an old saying, “beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” However in this, especially in this particular case, it’s be aware of B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone bringing the all-too-extravagant gift to Nanaimo.

Still yet it does raise a lot of questions, like where did the B.C. Liberal government acquire the $2.5 bil-lion knowing full well that the B.C. economy still is in a fracking mess?

And just why at this particular time is Nanaimo getting this very extra special treatment?

In all, I do suspect that it’s the same old political patronage game that’s being played yet again, which in turn leads to an early provincial election.

Al MunroNanaimo

Stoplights on parkway were always a bad idea

Re: ‘Island highway shouldn’t have had stoplights’ (Your Letters, Daily News, March 21)

The headline chosen for this letter is remarkably accurate.

If I recall correctly, six months after the Nanaimo Parkway opened they had to lengthen the south-bound left turn at Fifth Street.

Another 12 months later there was another lengthening.

Of course the province didn’t fund the land neces-sary for off ramps, just decades of power consump-tion for traffic and warning lights.

There was no wisdom, let alone common sense hav-ing the flyover at the south end of the parkway and that crossing (on a downhill no less) between Aulds and Ware Roads. Zero common sense having trucks (anyone) stop and start to or from the college hill.

Not much hope of a fix in my lifetime.

Grant MaxwellNanaimo

Why do Nanaimo drivers pay such high gas prices?

A quick check of gas prices this morning shows Comox at $1.139, Ladysmith at $1.149, Vancouver at $1.205 and Nanaimo at $1.209 per litre.

I am just curious why the drivers in Nanaimo are paying the same price as drivers in Vancouver?

Just asking.

Chris Steiner Nanaimo

Promises made during election not being kept

Like most people who voted for Mayor Bill McKay based on his election platform, I have been surprised as he has ripped up each plank of his platform and thrown them aside. There was the promise to inves-

tigate Leadercast. He simply cast that promise aside. There was a promise of transparency. He destroyed that promise with

more ‘in-camera meetings’ than we have seen before. Promise to bring the discussion of the dams to a quick conclusion:

“There is nothing wrong.” Oh, remember the promise to streamline the committees — we are still waiting. I think it is time to censure the mayor for this kind of behaviour.

I want my vote back.

Tim McGrathNanaimo

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Solo album penned on Dad’s guitarSon of infl uential folk guitarist Red Shea releases his debut folk-roots album with a performance at The Vault

AARON HINKS STAFF REPORTER

Scott Shea may be one of the only musicians who doesn’t listen to music.

Shea’s father, the late influential folk guitarist Red Shea, didn’t encourage his family to listen to music and that trad-ition has stuck ever since.

“My dad would come home off the road and he didn’t want to hear any music because he was so sick of music and noise and recording, he just wanted it to be quiet.

“We were never encouraged to listen to music as a kid. Because of that, I just kind of, it became a pattern and I don’t listen to music,” Shea said.

“A lot of times I find listening to music I cringe and I don’t like what I’m listening to and I find it irritates me. If it’s not really good I have a hard time listening to it.”

Not listening to music has given Shea a sound that he says is purely him.

“And it’s a great place to be.”Shea is releasing his first solo

folk-roots album and hosting a release party at the Vault Cafe on April 11 at 8 p.m.

Shea moved to Victoria in 2008 after walking away from a suc-cessful homebuilding business he started in Toronto.

“My wife and I hardly saw each other because I was working so much and I said we can’t live

like this anymore so we decided to move to the West Coast and settle down,” he said.

After spending a few years in Victoria, Shea was inspired to write his first solo album with a guitar left to him by his father.

“I kept looking at it and want-ing to write with it, I kept pick-ing it up and telling myself no I don’t want to get back. But then I said you know what I got to do this because it keeps pulling me back,” he said.

He sat down and penned 50 songs, 10 of which are on his up-coming album. His album launch tour kicks off April 9 in Ucluelet and finishes May 14 in Halifax.

Upright bass player Blake Palm and guitar and mandolin player Adam Dobres will accom-pany Shea on stage.

“Three guys sound like 10,” Shea said.

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“A lot of times I find, listening to music, I cringe and I don’t like what I’m listening to and I find it irritates me. If it’s not really good I have a hard time listening to it.”Scott Shea, musician

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Dancers host reunion for Vesna anniversaryDARRELL BELLAART STAFF REPORTER

Nanaimo’s Ukrainian commun-ity comes together for an even-ing of dance and fun to mark 31 years since the Vesna Ukrainian Dancers formed in Nanaimo.

Ukrainian traditions and cul-ture, and the bonds of family have been the glue that has kept the group active until now.

Organizers are working to locate members present and past to invite them to the April 18 event.

“I’ve been trying to get hold of as many past dancers as pos-sible,” said Jeanne Rudy, former director of the group, which takes its name from the Ukrain-ian word for spring.

With each invitation she emails out, members are asked to reply with answers to a short question-naire, to create a printed testi-mony of their fond memories of their time with Vesna.

The bits of memorabilia will be used to create pages in a scrap book to share and enjoy on the

night of the eventt.The group was formed in 1984

when a core group came together with a common wish to keep alive the culture and traditions of the Ukraine, within a growing Vancouver Island city far from the homeland.

That culture includes the trad-ition of Ukrainian Easter egg making, and the loving care used to make perogies and cabbage rolls by hand, and the close ties of family associated with those activities.

While hand-painted Easter eggs are associated with many east-ern European countries, Ukrain-ian eggs are considered some of the most colourful and intricate in their design.

“In pagan times, eggs were a very powerful symbol of new life,” Rudy said.

“With Christianity, they added the resurrection.”

Traditionally, each egg told its own story, and they were often given to bridal couples at wed-dings, as tokens of good luck, to

symbolize fruitful harvests or as harbingers of prosperity.

The dancers connect young-sters to that history and trad-ition with egg making work-shops, where Rudy teaches the basic principles of egg design, then they are free to create their own designs.

Thread-making and cook-ing are among activities that brought the womenfolk together.

Men and women enjoy music and dance, which are import-ant elements in any Ukrainian celebration.

There will be plenty of dancing at the reunion at the Coast Bas-tion Hotel.

Participants are asked to answer a questionnaire asking their favourite activity, dance and memory as a member, what they like to do now and to pro-vide some photographs to go in the scrap books, to enjoy that evening.

There will be a traditional din-ner, complete with perogies and cabbage rolls.

“Any former dancers who haven’t been contacted, please get hold of me,” Rudy said.

Organizers must have the guest list finalized by April 12.

Tickets are $30, $10 for children.

The event happens April 18 at the Coast Bastion. Doors open at 5 p.m. The public is welcome.

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the $200 necessary to prod-uce the album and create the comeback story of the year after growing “tired of watching her grown son cry in the attic and flush from a hot night at Delta Bingo.”

As such, there’s a spring back in his step and the latest tour has included trips to Ottawa, Montreal and Winnipeg already, as well as Victoria, Vancou-ver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon after Nanaimo.

Sh*t Sucks is also John-ston’s 10th studio album.

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Quirky artist makes comeback thanks to MomSTAFF REPORTER

Hamilton-based artist B.A. Johnston is currently in the middle of a country-wide tour and part of that will see him return to the Harbour City next week.

Johnston will play The Cambie on April 9 in order to promote his new album Sh*t Sucks.

Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Johnston was going strong and performed at many tav-erns and legions across the land as well as a brief stint at the JUNO Awards.

But with the rise of bands such as Nirvana, Johnston was no longer in demand as much as “kids wanted something

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Poetry month in Canada kicks offNAOMI WAKAN FOR THE STAR

This month, poetry month across Canada, for a change, here’s a column about youth and poetry.

What could I tell 30 Grade 12s about poetry in 30 minutes?

“Not much,” I thought, but I was wrong. I didn’t reckon with the talent at NDSS. I decided to discuss haiku-writing by using three haiku that I wrote on the board. They were:

wishing fountain outside the cancer clinic some heads, some tails

- Alice Frampton empty cabin the beached canoe full of leaves

- Devar Dahl overcast morning ripe blackberries out of reach

- Alice Frampton I explained to the students

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Harbour City to be fl ooded with poets for FestHAIKU, from Page 7

There were many other fresh responses to the haiku. These five-liners are called tanka.

In 30 minutes I managed to touch on one of the oldest forms of poetry (tanka) and one of the most difficult to write (haiku).

If we can persuade them to stay around Nanaimo for a few

years, this bright and imagina-tive class will be sure to have added some good writers to the local scene.

Thank you NDSS Grade 12s and teachers Dean Darbyshire and Maryah Bell for having such an eager class, and thank you teacher-librarian Deborah Gra-ham for inviting me to speak to them.

Nanaimo will be flooded with

poets at the end of April and the beginning of May at the Cas-cadia Poetry Festival 3.

The event will be hosted by the university and the museum.

The Cascadia Poetry Festival is an international event which seeks to bioregionally animate and culturally construct Cas-cadia by gathering writers, art-ists, scientists and activists to collaborate, discover and foster

deeper connection between all inhabitants and the place itself.

Over four days the fest fea-tures academic, democratic and performance components, late night readings, a small press fair and several workshops.

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Towers and Trees hit the road with ‘West Coast’STAFF REPORTER

Victoria-based band Towers and Trees is extending its gaze across Canada and putting roots down in Nanaimo as it sets out on a new tour.

The band plays the Buzz Coffee House in the Harbour City on April 12, amongst a handful of other dates in B.C. and Alberta. The group, helped by primary

songwriter Adrian Chalifour, also counts among its members Ben and Andrea Lubberts, Dono-van Rush, Dave Zellinsky and Jesse Bowland.

The indie group first burst onto the music scene in 2012 with their EP Broken Record, which included the single “Montreal.”

The song peaked college and commercial radio’s interest in 2013 and led to the group being

named a finalist in Music B.C.’s PEAK Performance project, which in turn led to a string of festival appearances across the province.

Now the group is armed with a heftier studio offering, West Coast, which is set to debut in April, along with a title track.

“It was important to me that we release this song first, because it ties together what we’re trying

to do sonically and thematically,” Chalifour said in a recent post.

“This album hasn’t been easy to write or bring to life. Most of the songs come from a period of time that I’d describe as a major fault line between two chapters in my life. Closing the book on one chapter of your journey is rarely easy, but it is an essential step towards opening the next.

“For me, this song ‘West Coast’

is about that moment that makes bridging the two chapters pos-sible; that line in the sand called forgiveness, which separates what was from what may be.

“It’s a little tragic but it’s cath-artic, and it’s what gave me the faith to believe in love, even in the midst of losing it.”

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This is necessary to enable air to get into the soil.

You have to remember that the part of the plant above the soil requires carbon dioxide (the so-called greenhouse gas) to

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However to use these chemicals the roots have to have access to oxygen.

The amount varies with the type of plant grown.

Perennials with big, solid root systems or tap roots require less air in the soil than for instance orchids.

Orchids need a very open root ball so the roots can get a lot of air. So dig your clay soil deep and add fibre, which can be your compost as long as it has no weeds or diseased plant material in it. An example would potatoes affected by early or late blight.

If you incorporate this diseased material you will contaminate the growing medium more and more each year.

Another type of filler you can add is peat moss. Make sure that you do not waste your money on “cheap” peat moss it is just like dust.

A good item to use would be farm manure, preferably not in a bag. We have found with bagged manure there is a severe lack of fibre content.

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It can be a very dusty type of material which provides nitro-gen in a short period of time and causes the fertilizers that the plants need to grow to become unbalanced. There are many types of manures in bags these days, but the vast majority suffer from too fine a fibre content to make them useful, particularly

in sandy soils. With the bagged manures you

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better fibre content. It does not matter whether they

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If you use old sawdust bedding this will produce the most satis-

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Another good idea for a clay soil would be to invest in a bag of agricultural gypsum, which you can buy at the farm supply stores.

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A healthy school is a place where students love to learn.

Healthy Schools model to the students how to become healthy people.

They receive messages about

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They teach children to enjoy physical activity because it is fun. They model and teach how to treat each other well so the school is a place where students feel safe and supported, heard and accepted by all.

Across BC, schools are partner-ing with local health services

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A CSH approach involves look-ing at the whole school environ-ment and coordinating healthy school actions across four inter-related areas.

These four areas are Teaching and Learning, Relationships and Environments, Community Part-nerships and School Policies.

In Teaching and Learning, stu-dents are exposed to resources, activities and information both in class and out of the classroom which support learning and over-all wellbeing.

It is not enough just to teach healthy living in the classroom, it has to be modelled throughout the school.

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Emotional well-being to be consideredENVIRONMENTS, from Page 12

This focusses on emotional and social wellbeing as well as the relationships that exist between the physical and social spaces in the school settings.

In order to thrive in a school community, the emotional well-being of each person or relation-ship needs to be considered.

The physical environment of the school should match what is being modelled.

In the classroom, students may learn to choose healthy foods. If the cafeteria, the vend-ing machines and the foods sold in fundraising do not support this learning, the messages are confusing.

A healthy school looks holistic-ally at what is being modelled and taught throughout the school, not just in the classroom.

Community Partnerships are a valuable part of the Comprehen-sive School Health approach.

By inviting parents, students, local community organizations and health partners to sit at the table and work with the schools, the healthy school environ-ment can be achieved and may even extend to the community beyond the school yard fence.

School Policy is the fourth area of CSH.

If the entire school embraces a set of practices, procedures, or policies, it models for the students a high level of commit-ment to the health of those who attend that school. There is comfort and safety in an environ-ment that has a good set of rules that will support the needs of the students.

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M id-Island residents have plenty of craft beer choices in Nanaimo.

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Tasting lounges, to be specific: There are some great ones in Victoria, but Vancouver is turn-ing into tasting room heaven. Walking tours, biking tours, bus toursand even running tours of craft breweries are popping up all over the city.

Only a few of these Vancouver nano-breweries have distribution centers on the Island, making a ferry to the big city a worthy expedition. Vancouver offers several brewery clusters in North Vancouver, around Main Street and in the East Village.

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Bask in the creamy caramel fruitiness and clean bitter finish

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Their four-beer samples are even better value at $6.

The Ode To Citra should be a must have in your flight. The intense tropical notes of the Citra hops will really get your saliva flowing.

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A proposed city budget with a one per cent property tax increase is once again heading back before Nanaimo council for consideration, Mayor Bill McKay said Monday following special committee of the whole meeting focused on the financial plan.

The meeting was called after council was unable to pass a financial plan bylaw in Febru-

ary. In two 4-4 tie votes, council defeated not just the proposed one per cent budget, but also an alternate proposal from Coun. Jim Kipp to prepare a budget with a two per cent property tax decrease.

McKay and most of his fellow council members spent most Monday’s meeting receiving a wide-ranging overview on the proposed plan from city staff and asking questions on the budget.

The mayor said a staff recom-mendation to approve three read-ings of the previously-rejected financial plan will come before council at the next council meet-ing in April.

“All indications from council is that it will pass,” McKay said. “We got no indication that it would not pass,” he said.

Kipp was not present Mon-day, however, councillors Bill Bestwick, Jerry Hong and Bill

Yoachim — all of whom voted against the budget in February — were there throughout the meeting.

Councillors Wendy Pratt, Ian Thorpe and Diane Brennan, who all supported the last budget along with McKay, were also there.

Coun. Gord Fuller was away January and February due to a serious heart attack, but has returned to recent meetings,

including the one held yesterday.McKay said the meeting gave

a city representatives a chance to ask questions and understand different aspects of the budget, as well as air their differences.

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DANIELLE BELL FOR THE STAR

Paying rent or putting food on the table may seem like an unfathomable choice, but for many people in Nanaimo and beyond it is a reality.

The number of people using a food bank in Nanaimo is steadily growing, and it is a similar situa-tion across the country.

Many are families struggling to make ends meet, where having any food, much less healthy food, is a challenge.

“There certainly is a great need in the community,” said Peter Sinclair, executive director at Loaves and Fishes community food bank.

“In talking to clients and see-ing the situations they’re in, money is tight. They’re left mak-ing difficult decisions.”

And they’re not alone.Across the country, approxi-

mately 1.1 million households did not have the money to buy the variety or quantity of food they needed in 2011 to 2012, according to a food insecurity study recently released by Statis-tics Canada.

The number of Canadians turning to food banks for help

has grown from coast to coast, suggesting some households still have trouble literally putting food on the table.

Food insecurity is described in a household as “when one or more members do not have access to the variety or quantity

of food that they need due to lack of money,” according to the study.

Single-parent families with children under 18 were the most likely to have a hard time putting healthy food on the table.

In contrast, couples with no

children were the least likely to experience trouble with food security.

Those who do experience food insecurity are also more likely to suffer poor or fair health, mul-tiple chronic conditions, major depression and a perceived lack of social supports, the study suggests.

The most at risk of not get-ting enough healthy varieties of food are low-income households who rely on government bene-fits, such as child tax benefit or welfare, as their main source of income.Their rates of food insecurity were three times higher than households which had another source of money, the study suggests.

Households with children were more likely to experience food insecurity than those without.

Single parents reaching out for help to feed their families does not surprise Sinclair, who reports families regularly fre-quent the food bank.

In Nanaimo, about one-third of those who visit the food bank are children.

In one month alone, approxi-mately 3,000 people make nearly 6,000 visits to help get food they

so desperately need.Every month, the food bank

distributes more than $110,000 worth of food to people in need.

In Nanaimo, one out of 13 people will visit the food bank at some point.

Sinclair and other agencies are working together to try and feed as many people as possible, through food recovery programs and other initiatives.

Some people also lack cooking skills to best stretch the food they do get, said Sinclair, who would also like to see more com-munity gardens.

Numbers suggest the issue of food insecurity has remained steady over the years, with approximately five percent of children and eight percent of adults living in households with food insecurity from 2007 to 2012.

The highest rate of food insecurity at 36.7 percent — more than four times the Can-adian average — was reported in Nunavut.

From left, Alex Counsell, Simiao Guo and Mark Mai sort through food for the Loaves and Fishes food bank. [DANIELLE BELL/FOR THE DAILY NEWS]

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The B.C. Legislature has released receipts for MLA expenses the first time after a 2012 auditor general’s report flagged a lack of transparency in how the expenses were recorded and disclosed.

The legislatures website now contains total office expenses for each MLA, as well as links

to scanned pages of dozens of receipts for each expense.

Between all MLAs, the disclo-sure represents approximately $2.9 million in expenses claimed between April 1 and Dec. 31 of last year, the Vancouver Sun reported.

The information also covers $7.1 million in constituency expenses billed by MLAs.

Nanaimo MLA Leonard Krog

billed the public for $87,307 to run his constituency office, the bulk of which was for office administrative costs of $71,288.

Nanaimo-North Cowichan MLA Doug Routley’s office claimed $75,401 for his office, including $64,457 for administration.

Parksville-Qualicum MLA Michelle Stilwell claimed a total $68,328 in expenses for her con-

stituency office. Like Routley and Krog, most of the amount ($53,154) was from administrative costs.

This is the first time the items have been publicly backed up by receipts.The legislature has also released receipts for travel expenses claimed by each MLA, including hotel and meal bills, ferry tickets and receipts from other forms of travel.

Krog claimed a total $15,656 for travel, while Stilwell claimed $35,854 and Routley claimed $25,625.

The full documents can be found online at leg.bc.ca under the ‘accountability’ tab of the website. The publishing of the documents puts B.C. in line with other jurisdictions in Canada where full documentation of expenses are published.


Ferry fares take a hike in new increasesSTAFF REPORTER

New fees mean it’ll cost more to take a ferry, light your home and have a beer as of Wednesday, and critics call it another example of government charging more in hidden taxes.

Fees that kicked in: A six-per cent BC Hydro rate increase, a 2.9-per cent hike on ferry fares and liquor price jumps of

between $1 and $6, depending on the product.

“The nickel and diming of B.C. government increases continues, and cash-strapped taxpayers are the ones being treated as April fools,” said Jordan Bateman, B.C. director of the government watchdog agency Canadian Taxpayers Federation, in a press release.

That sentiment is echoed by

Nanaimo economist Raimo Marttala.

“We are being nickeled and dimed to death,” said Marttala, who is an economics professor at Vancouver Island University.

“Other things have gone up continuously — everything — costs have gone up but wages have not even kept up with infla-tion, so if your income is based on wages, your income is not

going up, it has dropped.”He said while the provincial

government “takes great credit” in balancing its books without raising taxes, the average work-ing person faces hidden increas-es at every turn.

The hydro rate increase amounts to approximately $7 a month more for the average home.

Travel aboard BC Ferries will

cost the average a family of four $8.10 more on a return trip.

“Next month, it’s property taxes and likely ICBC,” Bateman said. “In January, it was CPP, EI and MSP. It never ends for taxpayers.”

ICBC is in the final stages of seeking BC Utilities Commission approval for a proposed $36 increase on basic auto insur-ance rates.


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Tessier to be acclaimed as Liberal candidateSTAFF REPORTER

Nanaimo realtor Tim Tessier is set to be acclaimed as the Liberal Party’s candidate in the new federal riding of Nanaimo-Lady-smith on Sunday.

Tessier, a father of three who moved with his wife to Nanaimo in 2007, is from Edmonton, where he worked in sales and marketing for an office equipment company.

He also founded his own train-ing and consulting firm and has volunteered as a coach for youth sports.

Tessier said “it’s time” for him to get involved in public life, cit-ing “the lack of leadership for economic development” as a pri-mary motivation.

A decline in manufacturing and lack of employment is also a major concern, he said.

“I’ve had two of my children try to relocate and there’s just no jobs here.”

Tessier also said he is also concerned with environmental and health care issues.

He was one of two greenlit candidates seeking the Liberal Party nomination in the new riding, but the other candidate has since dropped out for per-sonal reasons.

Local riding president Andre Lemieux said Tessier was acclaimed during a nomination meeting at the Grand Hotel on Sunday.

He said he thinks Tessier’s personal appeal makes him “the kind of person” who will allow the Liberals to win.

Lemieux predicted the party will be able to take advantage of vote-splitting between

the New Democrats and the Greens.

“He’s well-spoken, he’s a hard worker, he will be a fantastic person to represent the riding,” Lemieux said.

Tessier’s imminent candidacy means that the flag-bearers for all four main political parties — the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Greens — have now all been named.


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The first of the improvements includes a $10-million water filtration plant which has been budgeted by council for the next three year’s of the five-year financial plan.

The plant will be used to filter parasites and viruses out of the water during the treatment process and is part of the town’s response to Island Health’s new requirements for water quality.

Under those requirements, a water source cannot exceed 18 days of turbidity in a year.

John Manson, director of infra-structure services, said Holland Lake exceeded that amount for

90 days in 2013 and 23 days in 2014.

But Stocking Lake passed the test at just two days last year and zero the year before.

The two lakes are part of the Ladysmith watershed alongside Holland Creek at the Chicken Ladder.

“We have a pilot project under-way to determine what type of technology we’re going to use

for the plant,” Manson said, “and then design will start in a few months and construction in about two years.”

Further improvement plans include raising the dam at Hol-land Lake for water storage purposes and building a pipeline from Holland Lake to Stocking Lake.

“We’re looking at about $17 million for that but that will also

depend on the amount of govern-ment grants we get.,” Manson said.

The grants will also determine how much the town needs to bor-row for the upgrades.

Ladysmith currently has approximately 9,000 watershed customers and a town report late last year said the system in place could sustain up to 12,000 with-out any upgrades.

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Mid Isle Highlanders win George Smith CupSTAFF REPORTER

Mid Isle Highlanders were crowned U21 George Smith Cup champions on Saturday after a 4-2 victory over namesake rivals Victoria Highlanders in the final.

At a rainy Royal Athletic Park in Victoria, Mid Isle raced into a four goal lead early on via a Jor-dan Degraaf penalty, two goals from Blaze Roberts and a further

strike from Russell Lederer. Attacking midfilder Degraaf

was also awarded the MVP and opened the scoring in the open-ing stages after striker Roberts was fouled inside the penaly area.

Mid Isle’s opponents had fin-ished two points higher in the regular league season prior to cup play, to pip Bill Merriman’s team to the U21 league title.

Merriman was absent Saturday with assistant coaches Drissa Bouare and Larry Stefanek over-seeing the victory.

The win also seals Mid Isle’s third consecutive George Smith Cup.

“We’ve played that team three or four times now this season so we knew what they were about,” said Bouare. “We just told the guys to go out there, press hard,

keep the ball and get it into the box where we can score goals.

“That’s three years in a row now we’ve won the cup and we’ve always played that same way.”

As well as the exploits of Degraaf and Roberts who Bouare confirmed they were key to the team’s success all season, he also praised the wing play of wide midfielder Miguel Banting on the day.

Bouare said Banting’s ability to take players on, as well as his dribbling and crossing skills, cre-ated numerous opportunities for Mid Isle on the day.

With a 4-1 scoreline at halftime, Bouare and Stefanek were then able to rest some of their startingplayers in the second half and bring in players from the bench to get some game time ahead of provincials next weekend.

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A few months ago, Catriona Smith had a football vision com-bined with raising money for a particular charity. On Saturday at Merle Logan Field, all of her plans came to fruition.

Around 40 women came out for a football camp organized by Smith, who brought in various CFL players as coaches to teach

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Harris of the B.C. Lions and ex- Vancouver Island Raider Andrew Smith, Catriona’s brother, who now plies his trade in Quebec with the Montreal Alouettes.

The camp was organized entire-ly by Smith, with a little help from her parents, to raise money for KidSport, a national char-ity that provides opportunities

for children and youth through sports.

“All the money goes towards areas such as registration and equipment so it gets the kids to the stage of a sport they might want to participate in,” said Smith, who predicted approxi-mately $2,000 was raised for the charity.

Smith said the participants were taught basic techniques

which included drills and that resulted in game situations towards the end. Her goal is to run the camp again next year.

“We had a pretty good turnout for the first time,” she said. “I want to raise more awareness for the cause and I’d love for it to be an annual event in Nanaimo.”

Smith says she chose KidSport after looking around at a number of different charities she could

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Man dies after falling from ferryA 45-year-old man, rescued from the

water after going overboard from a B.C. Ferries vessel, has died. The Queen of

Oak Bay departed shortly after 3 p.m. on Monday.

At approximately 4:10 p.m. the man was seen near one of the railings, according to Nanaimo RCMP. A passenger witnessed the man climb over the railings on the deck and fall overboard.

It is not yet known why or how the man fell, or if he jumped, but witnesses reported that he was in the water for approximately 40 minutes. A Zodiac from the ferry managed to pull him from the water. The man was then taken aboard a patrol vessel from the Vancouver Police

Departement and then transported to Lions Gate Hospital. He was subsequently transferred to St Paul’s hospital for treat-ment where he later died. The name of the man has not been released and the investigation has been turned over to the BC Coroners Service.

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