Comox Valley Echo - August 14, 2015

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10.Baybrook demolished in Comox

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04.Arguments erupt over the Valley’s brand

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04.Referendum planned for homeless service

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Village partners with club to create disc golf courseBY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho staff

The drive for a disc golf course to be established in the Village of Cumberland will soon come to fruition.

Council has approved staff ’s proposal for the vil-lage to enter into a part-nership with the main pro-ponent of the project, the Comox Valley Disc Golf Club.

The terms of reference of the agreement have already been defi ned for both parties to endorse.

The plan is for the club to develop a trial 18-hole disc golf course in Coal Creek Historic Park.

The partnership will give the CVDGC the lead in taking on primary course, layout, develop-ment and management responsibilities, with vil-lage staff providing sup-

port and approvals where necessary.

The layout of the course would not cross estab-lished walking or cycling

trail corridors. It would restrict holes to

the periphery of the open “fi eld” area at the south-ern end of Chinatown.

The project will take a phased approach with the fi rst year to be a trial peri-od. After 12 months, staff will assess the course, its impacts and its overall suitability at that location.

Changes and modifi ca-tions could be to address any concerns.

The disc golf structures will be temporary in na-ture and should be eas-ily removed if required.

The materials to be usedshould fi t with a naturepark. It will be funded bythe club.

The village agrees topay for course entranceand overview signage.

Course layout for disc golf course in Cumberland

A vehicle that drove through a fence and dam-aged a farmer’s fi eld was stolen. And the owner didn’t even know it was missing.

Comox Valley RCMP attended to a mischief to property report involving a truck and trailer.

The vehicle crashed through a fence and burned donuts on a farm-er’s fi eld. The police found the truck a short dis-tance from the scene and

stopped it. But the driver and lone occupant fl ed into a wooded area.

The police dog was called to the scene but before it arrived the male exited the woods and was taken into custody.

The truck that was be-ing driven was checked and found to be stolen so recently that the owner was not even aware it was gone.

The suspect was found to have prior unrelated

charges and was found tobe in breach of his previ-ous release conditions. Hewas out past his court or-dered curfew and was in-toxicated by alcohol whichhe was prohibited fromdoing by the courts.

The man is now fac-ing charges of mischiefto property, theft over$5000, possession of sto-len property over $5000and was held in custodypending a court appear-ance.

Police discover vehicle used for mischief spree was stolen; man facing charges

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Grace Verna Blair turns a century old today, August 14. Staff at the Cumberland Lodge celebrat-ed her birthday on Tuesday and surprised her with a cake. Blair was born in Mount Pleasant, Nova Scotia, and travelled across Canada with her husband who was a member of the Cana-dian Air Force. She received birthday greetings from Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, BC premier Christy Clark, local MLA Don McRae and local MP John Duncan as well as from the leader of the opposition.

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BC Housing may buy Washington Inn

BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

BC Housing is quietly in the process of taking over the ownership of The Washington Inn apart-ments on Ryan Road.

No offi cial announce-ment has been made but residents were given notices on Monday and Tuesday of the changes.

“I have confi rmed that BC Housing is in discus-sions about the purchase of the Washington Apart-ments to protect aff ord-able housing for the ex-isting tenants,” said a BC Housing spokesperson via email. “Once those discussions are complet-ed, further details will be made available”.

It’s uncertain how much it may cost BC Hous-

ing but in 2012, the own-ers put it up for sale for $7,750,000.

The purchase wouldn’t include the Mex Pub or the liquor store.

Mayor Larry Jangula confi rmed the inn is on the radar of BC Hous-ing. Like everyone else, it caught him by surprise because BC Housing has been keeping a tight lid on any investments.

“We’re so lucky that this has happened here,” said Jangula.

“It is a positive thing for the Comox Valley. It pro-vides long-term stability in the valley as it will con-tinue to provide aff orable housing.”

Jangula said BC Hous-ing would maintain the inn as subsidized housing, meaning low income resi-

Mayor Jangula calls it a positive for the Valley

Some of the units at the Washington Inn apartments on Ryan Road

dents will continue to pay below market value rents.

“It’s a wonderful thing,” said Jangula.

“If you think about it, what better place to put people in that regard. It

has almost no eff ect on surrounding residences and the homes around there are a distance away from it. It’s been operat-ing in that capacity in the last 15 years.”

The Washington Inn has around 111 units. Many are small in size, averaging 287 square feet each and about half are classed as bachelor units.

It’s not known how

much the rent is now but in 2012 the average rent was $545 a month, inclu-sive of heat and water.

Jangula said the place has the potential to ex-pand by a further 85 units but BC Housing has not indicated if it has any fu-ture plans for the prop-erty.

“There’s a big parking lot in the back and an un-developed area,” said Jan-gula.

“It can be doubled in size and you won’t see the diff erence at all from the front.”

■ It’s also been ru-moured, but unconfi rmed because nobody’s avail-able for comment, that the Salvation Army has been off ered over $400,000 from the provincial gov-ernment to make im-provements to its Pidcock Avenue homeless shelter, as well as adding four or fi ve transitional housing apartments.

CVRD to seek electoral assent to address homelessness


The Comox Valley Re-gional District is propos-ing to hold a fall refer-endum to seek electoral approval for a new service to address homelessness.

The proposed referen-dum date is Nov. 28.

The CVRD does not have a service that relates to providing support for aff ordable housing.

The board of directors has taken guidance from the November 2014 non-binding public opinion poll, where 71 per cent of voters supported a $5 per year property tax to re-duce homelessness, and decided last June to direct staff to develop a new ser-vice establishment bylaw.

The proposed maxi-mum requisition for this service is the greater of $165,000 or two cents per $1,000 of assessed value. The maximum tax levy that could be charged is $6.

The levies collected will be provided to one or more local non-govern-ment organizations based on a board-approved fi ve-year action plan to ad-dress homelessness in the Comox Valley.

The participants would

be City of Courtenay, Vil-lage of Cumberland, and Electoral Areas A (exclud-ing Denman and Hornby Islands), B, and C. The Town of Comox will not be part of the service but will support eff orts to ad-dress homelessness by contributing funds to pro-viders on its own accord.

The projected fi nancial impact on service par-ticipants based on 2 cents per $1,000 are:

• Area A - $19,491.35• Area B -$23,258.48• Area C - $29,816.15• Courtenay - $8,279.73• Cumberland -

$8,928.94If voters approve the

service at the proposed referendum in Novem-ber, it can provide up to $150,000 annually for lo-cal non-organizations.

The question voters will be asked at the referen-dum is:

“Are you in favour of the Comox Valley Re-gional District adopting Bylaw No. 389 being “Co-mox Valley Homelessness Supports Service Estab-lishment Bylaw No. 389, 2015” to establish a ser-vice that would provide funds to one or more local non-governmental organi-zations based on a board approved fi ve-year action

I must say for the fi rst time in a long time, I have some actual hope on this process and I have confi dence on this plan ... I really like what we’re looking at”

LARRY JANGULACourtenay Mayor

plan to address homeless-ness in the Comox Val-ley?”

The referendum will cost $50,000.

The funds would be de-rived from the regional feasibility study fund and will pay for room rentals, legal advertising, voting place, staff , mail ballot voting procedures, voting supplies, ballot printing and legal advise.

Staff has already estab-lished a reference to a pol-icy framework for imple-mentation of this services delivery model. They’ve asked the board to ap-prove it prior to the refer-endum to provide greater public certainty.

The Comox Valley coali-tion to end homelessness had been asked to develop a fi ve-year plan for the

board of directors to ap-prove.

Councillor Erik Eriks-son asked if the coali-tion could be designated to specifi cally be the re-cipient of the funds to be doled out.

James Warren, the cor-porate legislative offi cer, explained that the coali-tion is not eligible because they are a collection of in-dividuals and agencies.

“They are not a society, they are not a corporation and they’re not a legal en-tity,” said Warren.

Courtenay Mayor and director Larry Jangula ap-plauded the eff orts initiat-ed by the CVRD on home-lessness.

“I must say for the fi rst time in a long time, I have some actual hope on this process and I have confi -dence on this plan,” said Jangula.

“I have been critical of it in the past because in my opinion, over a half a mil-lion dollars of provincial money have been spent and we have nothing to show for it. I really like what we’re looking at.”

The committee ap-proved the staff recom-mendation to introduce Bylaw No. 389 to establish Comox Valley Homeless-ness Supports Service and

Proposed referendum for new service scheduled for November 28that electoral approval be sought by way of a refer-endum (assent voting) to

be conducted by the board and to be held on Novem-ber 28, 2015.

Festival Valley brand stirs up arguments at RDBY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff

One of the Comox Val-ley Regional District stra-tegic plans calls for devel-opment or a logo or brand that can be used to pro-mote the region as a festi-val destination.

Festival Valley has been fl oated as a suggested brand that the board would ask the Comox Val-ley Economic Develop-ment Society to build on. But it has drawn strong objections from Comox director Ken Grant.

Grant said the board has gone about this issue the wrong way.

“To me if you’re going to brand something you run a branding exercise and you come up with it,” said

Grant. “You don’t brand it fi rst and then do the ex-ercise. I think we got that backwards. I also think if you put this into our stra-tegic planning the way it is then you’ve already branded it. Staff would then work with branding us as Festival Valley.”

Grant also personally feels Festival Valley is not a good brand.

“That’s really one part of what we are in the val-ley and I think we’re far more than that,” he said.

As well, Grant indicated a proper branding exer-cise would cost around $100,000 and he does not see any urgency to do so.

“I am not really sure that’s a real priority for us,” said Grant.

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(Continued from page 4)“If we’re going to go through

a branding exercise that’s one thing. I don’t think we should just come out and call ourselves Festival Valley and then that’s it.”

Courtenay director Erik Er-iksson believes Festival Valley is a fi tting brand for the Comox Valley.

“We are Festival Valley,” said Eriksson. “We may be more. How many communities are more? Every community has got more. Every community picks what is great about their

community. And one thing that’s great about our communi-ty is we have festivals from Feb-ruary to December. And that’s something to be proud of.”

Courtenay director Bob Wells agrees with Eriksson.

“The current brand Discover Comox Valley, from a marketing perspective, seems a little bit on the lukewarm side whereas Festival Valley is a little bit more crystal clear and gives better focus on anything people can think about,” said Wells. “It’s not that this is going to be the end all be all or it necessarily

has to be forever. But at least it gives us something that kind of galvanizes our community that’s really working towards the tour-ism dollars. So it’s good thing.”

Grant put forward a motion requesting the board to drop the rebranding out of the CVRD strategic plans.

“I don’t think the RDN has any right to brand the valley. If they want to brand the RD that’s fi ne but I don’t think they have any right to brand my community the way they want to,” said Grant. “Hundreds and hundreds of communities call

themselves Festival City, Festi-val Valley. So if you look it up on the internet it’s page after page after page. We are certainly not losing anything by delaying it. If you want to do a rebranding ex-ercise you do it properly, come up with the right catch phrase or whatever it is you want to do and put it in a newspaper. I am not comfortable on the way this has been done. I’m certainly not comfortable calling ourselves Festival Valley because that just eliminates a whole bunch of oth-er things that we are.”

Grant suggested that this be

directed to the Economic Devel-opment Society for a branding exercise rather than the CVRD just “coming out and calling us what you think we should be.”

CAO Deb Oakman said when she presented the strategic plans, she wanted some clarifi -cation on the rebranding issue. And after hearing the argu-ments, she feels a bit vindicated.

“The intent would have beento come back and fl esh that out a little bit more,” said Oakman.

Five directors voted againstGrant’s motion and it was de-feated.

Festival Valley brand stirs up hornet’s nest of arguments at RD

Brent Handy, Redline Aerobatics, arrived in style here in Comox Monday morning and gave mem-bers of 19 Wing a sneak peak of his performance and what more to expect at the Comox Air Show. Brent is currently the Standards Pilot for 431 Air Demonstration (AD) Squadron, Moose Jaw, SK, home of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds. He along with several other exciting mili-tary and civilian performers including the Snowbirds will buzz the skies over Comox, Saturday August 15th. Complete performer details, show schedule and more are online at www.co-moxairshow.ca . Tickets are on sale now at all island Thrifty Foods locations, the Canex and the Comox Air Force Museum.

Take the bus toComox Air Show

BC Transit and the Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) are providing special shuttle bus service to 19 Wing Comox on Saturday, August 15.

The Air Show shuttle service will op-erate from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Buses leave Driftwood Mall Transit Exchange and the Park & Rides at the Exhibition Grounds and North Island College with the drop off at the Air Show gates. han-dyDART is also available for registered customers but space is limited so call early to book a trip.

“The air show is a huge draw for resi-dents and visitors, attracting more than 10,000 people,” said Comox Valley MLA Don McRae. “I encourage people to plan to take the park-and-ride specials to CFB Comox.”

“The special shuttle bus service to the last air show here was a great success, as it allowed thousands of people to avoid sitting in traffi c and searching for park-ing,” said Bruce Jolliff e, CVRD board chair. “Anyone who took the shuttle to

19 Wing last time knows how easy it was to just hop on one of the special shuttle buses and get right to the show – stress-free. If you didn’t take the bus to the air show last time, and wished you had – you have the opportunity to take advantage of the service this time.”

“BC Transit is a proud partner in sup-porting this popular community event,” said Erinn Pinkerton, Executive Director of Business Development.

“Our service provides a fast and effi -cient way for people to spend less time in traffi c and more time at this great event with friends and family.”

Rides on the Air Show transit shuttles are free.

Donations will be gratefully accepted from riders to help support the cost of providing the service. Regular fares ap-ply for all other routes.

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Police investigate homicide at city hall parking lot Tuesday night (Photos: Dean Stoltz/CHEK News)

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Comox Valley RCMP are continuing with their investigation of an inci-dent that involved the death of a man on the night of Tuesday, August 11 near downtown Courte-nay.

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est in the outdoors, and being able to stroll around a green space just outside their doors would benefi t their physical and mental health. At present deer live on that property and wan-der around the neighbour-hood.

Secondly I am horrifi ed about the height of the pro-posed building. The present Berwick building is three storeys high, and to visu-alise something more than twice that height is impos-sible. This is turning of the down-town of Comox into a high-rise city. Is that what we want for pretty “Comox By The Sea”? I don’t think so.

People fl ock to Comox in their retirement because of its pretty views and small town atmosphere. This building would destroy both.

Why not let the highrises be built far back from the waterfront, and leave the town centre to be one or two storey buildings only, so that everyone can enjoy the views.

Also, at the neighbours’ meeting that I attend-ed with the developers I thought they were talking about a fi ve-storey building, not six.

So if the developers just push for the maximum they can, (and it is after all a commercial enterprise,) where will it end? Maybe the next plan will have a seven story building on it! Or 10 or more? Town co un-cil really has to step in here, and set a better standard

for the developers.Liz Naish

Comox

Today I sat on a bench near the center of the dis-play in the gym at the Komoks First Nations. I happened to arrive one minute before the display was opened and was told to take off my shoes. I will-ingly did so and then asked to be smudged before en-tering. As told by one of the 300 volunteers I moved in an anti clockwise direction around the gym taking in the display deeply felt as I slowly walked beside the vamps.

It was a bit overwhelming for me and I noticed the bench just off the center so sat down and just was with the center display. Sev-eral people moved about and around me as they too walked slowly and meaning-ful. Lost in time and space momentarily I felt a pres-ence behind me and one of the volunteers wrapped a button blanket around me as I sat there. This caused me to bring forth deep emo-tional feelings for the mur-dered and missing women represented by patches of cloth all around me. I wept.

Gaining my masculine composure after a few min-utes I removed the blanket and stood up, continuing to walk clockwise to the exit, I deposited the tobacco I had picked up upon entering into the abalone shell and sat down to put my motor-cycle boots back on. Again

I was lost a bit in time and space at the eff ect of being in the midst of such a dis-play.

Some anger surfaced to-wards the Mayors of all the towns in BC who did not ask to sponsor this event. More women have been killed and are missing in British Columbia than any other province.

More women are battered by their spouses in BC than in any other province and the Komoks First Nation is the ONLY place that asked to host this display. Shame. SHAME on the Mayors of every other town in BC.

I signed the guest book and slipped $100 bill into the donation box as this traveling display is not be-ing supported by the gov-ernments of Canada in any-way. I believe in supporting what I love. This is a grass roots people supported statement/movement about our reality.

Mounting my motorcycle and heading off towards home the music I had heard during the walk-through continued playing in my head.

Ann Cameron wrote it well in DAUGHTERS OF COPPER WOMAN when she penned:

We are singing our sor-row

We are singing our griefWe are singing our fare-

well Why did you go?{Excerpt from SONG

FOR THE DEAD}Len Walker

Deep Bay (Bowser)

Obi tua ry -Baybrook : 1923-2015

Died August 6, 2015 in Comox, Medical-Commu-nity-by-the-Sea:

Baybrook, Hamilton Mack Laing’s former resi-dence. Murdered by lo-cal politicians and wealthy NIMBY landowners. De-spite some heavy support (also monetary support) for Baybrook from local, pro-vincial, and national con-servation groups, the Town of Comox, led by the Mayor (a practicing lawyer who decided that none of Bay-brook’s supporting groups had any legal clout), an ex-cavator tore down one of Comox’s valuable heritage buildings. The rationale being, we presume, “let’s take it down now quickly before anyone really gets organized, because once it’s gone, it’s a done deal.” A victory for those who want their views improved and no parking on “their” streets. A victory for the present elected representa-tives of Comox, whose mot-to should be: “It’s all about the money”.

Baybrook is mourned by thousands of citizens of the Comox Valley communi-ties. Shame is to be distrib-uted on an ongoing basis to those responsible, who run businesses in the Valley (something to think about when you need legal work done-maybe use another fi rm?). And something to think about at the next

Comox Civic Elections. A heartfelt thanks go to all Baybrook’s many support-ers including the Mack La-ing Preservation Society, Stephen Hume of the Van-couver Sun, and all those who came out to witness and protest the slaughter, even risking arrest.

J. GouldComox Valley

Dear Mayor Ives and Co-mox Councillors,

Please do not think that the destruction of a part of BC’s heritage is a local is-sue.

Information on the will-ing removal of a piece of British Columbia’s heritage by your town has reached all the way across the coun-try. I live in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and have just read the article thanks to the Canadian Museum As-sociations’ daily Clipping Service on heritage-related matters. ( http://www.van-couversun.com/travel/Stephen+Hume+Wrecking+balls+destroying+heritage+character/11271846/story.html )

Please do not think that me knowing about this will make no diff erence to your town. As it happens my wife and I will be travel-ling through Comox twice next month. We will NOT be stopping for coff ee, gas, groceries or souvenirs as a result of this wanton de-structive practice. Two

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Obituary:Baybrook 1923-2015

people will not make much diff erence I know - but you will never know of all the others who have made this same decision but have not taken the time to let you know.

Eric J. Ruff, FCMACurator Emeritus

Yarmouth County MuseumYarmouth, Nova Scotia

In regards to the pro-posed expansion of Ber-wick:

I am a close neighbour to the proposed expansion and I have several things to say about it.

Firstly I am concerned that the Garry Oak trees may not survive. There are three lovely full-sized trees close together on the property, and the “plan” in-volves removing the tallest and best tree, leaving the two daughter trees, which would surely suff er damage. (Underground parking and other landscaping).

These trees at present provide shade and habitat for birds and mammals, and have to be considered endangered along the BC coast.

If we do not preserve ev-ery single Garry Oak that exists today, we are doom-ing future generations to losing these special trees for ever.

There is an opportunity here for Berwick to turn this lot into a park for resi-dents to enjoy. Just because people get older doesn’t mean they lose their inter-

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know-how and to the in-staller, Cory, who clearly takes pride in his work. We’ll defi nitely be back to Signature West when it’s time for another reno!

ONE DAY OF DRY TAPS to all those who think no one can see your back yards behind your six foot priva-cy fences. I was recently visiting some friends at their two-storey house and from the upstairs win-dows the back yards of the neighbours on both sides and behind them could easily be seen and they all had lush green lawns in their back yards ‘hidden’ by their fences while their front yards were all a nice brown. Another bunch of parents teaching their children that the rules don’t apply to them by breaking the rules them-selves and that it’s okay to cheat. Shame on you.

BEEF to the School Dis-trict and Courtenay coun-cil! We know that kids think they are immortal and they take thought-less chances in traffi c. So why isn’t there a school speed zone in front of Is-feld School? Is traffi c fl ow on Lerwick really more important than our chil-dren’s safety?

TO SANDRA: Special thanks. Loved by all!

I AM WRITING THIS BOUQUET to rectify a MAJOR faux pas on my part. At my friend Jeanann’s memo-rial, I gave her eulogy. In doing so, I totally forgot to include a wonderful lady who played a BIG part in our friend’s life. Wendy was her babysit-ter as a young girl. After Wendy’s parents passed away, Jeanann enfolded her into her family. Wendy was the daughter she nev-er had. When Jeanann was diagnosed with Parkin-

sons, Wendy was there for her every step of the way. Wendy, a practical nurse at St. Joseph’s, was able to help her in ways nobody else could. As well, Wendy took on all the responsi-bilities of my friend’s life - arranging meals, house-keepers, shopping, paying bills, doctor and lawyer appointments, home care - everything! It boggles the mind what she took on selfl essly. Wendy did this, at the same time as working her regular shifts at the hospital, in her qui-et, behind the scenes, un-assuming way.

How I could neglect to tell all the people, who came to remember Jeanann, the important role Wendy played in her life, especially during the 25-plus years she lived with Parkinsons, is be-yond me. I’m noted for my good memory, but I sure missed the boat on that one. Maybe I’ll be needing Wendy’s services too, soon than I thought.

Wendy, you really are shades of our dear friend. You are an angel. You deserve a medal. Thank you, thank you, for all you did for my friend. It was above and beyond the call of duty. You’re the best.

BOUQUETS OF FLOWERS to the organizers of the Fil-berg Festival for putting many chairs throughout the venue. Many of us ap-preciated them.

BRING ON THE NOISE BOYS!! Wow, are we ever look-ing forward to the Air Show this weekend! Just imagine ... no tow planes for at least a whole day! I am giddy in anticipation! Thank you Comox Air Show 2015!

COURTENAY CITY COUNCILLOR Erik Eriksson responds to an item in last week’s Beefs and Bouquets:

To the person who re-ferred to me in regard to the health of the trees in our parks, let me say I share your concern. That is why I voted against the proposed Stage 4 water-ing restrictions. These re-strictions would ban the watering of trees, shrubs and fl owers at any time, anywhere. This could cause our trees and plants to die. I thought these re-strictions were too severe to be called Stage 4. I sug-gested they be a Stage 6. I said at the Regional Dis-trict Board meeting that we should look for other ways to conserve water before we start killing our trees and fl owers. We should be taking a look at our laundry, dishwashers, toilets and showers. With regard to the trees in our parks you proposed the idea of a top dressing of “fi sh soil” or mulch as a way of conserving water while protecting our trees. That is the kind of positive idea I was looking for. So, on behalf of our trees and plants .... a fl oral bouquet to you. - Erik Eriksson

A BIG BOUQUET of Roses to the person who found my credit card, near the Super Store Gas Bar, and turned it into the TD Bank. Thanks for your honesty.

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It fi lled the skies,and it stung our eyes.So now we are all brown, An ugly town.Soon we may have stage

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The miles of fl owers,Soon dead - Thanks to

stage 4 powers.It’s bit of a lie,but only Beefers will cry.All sucked in,By the watering sin.

THE SALVATION ARMY would like to send a lovely bou-quet of fl owers to Comox Coach and Shuttle Ser-vices for providing vans to

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A BIG THUMBS UP to the two male street workers hand-ing out water and snacks to the homeless people beside the church on Fitzgerald last week. Your kindness and compassion brought tears to my eyes. Keep up the good work. You are what is right in this world.

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THE GOOD SAMARITANS. Thank you to the business-es that have the courage, trust and fortitude to con-sider hiring “recovering addicts.” You must have done much soul searching in making your decision to hire individuals that po-tentially could put yourself and your businesses in a compromising situation. You could become a target of risk, negative criticism and judgment that could damage and jeopardize both your business and personal reputation. But, you chose a higher social, ethical and moral con-sciousness - a road that was broader than the ac-cepted public norm. You made yourself vulnerable as you were willing to step out and to expose yourself and your business to an unknown element. It can be a constant struggle for “recovering addicts” to stay ‘clean’ and occasion-ally they may fi nd them-selves regressing and then deeply regretting their damaging choices. Giving the “recovering addict” an opportunity to heal by leading a purposeful and meaningful life while we demonstrate love, com-passion and companion-ship is what we are here on earth to do. Knowing we are helping to save a life by forgiving and support-ing them is what is impor-tant. Let’s give them an-other chance, not judging them, and by giving them a hand up and not a hand out, we show that we, as a community, all care about each other. It is not hav-ing blinders on and walk-ing past the ‘abused and wounded’ but making a conscious eff ort to be part of the solution. Thank you for truly caring.

INSTEAD OF DRAFTING up plans for stage 4 water re-strictions, why don’t those in charge of the water spend the money to up-grade the water infrastruc-

ture instead to access the deep water? People say there is lots of water in the lake. There must be some federal or provincial mon-ey available to assist with the expense. To ask resi-dents to not water trees and shrubs that they have spent a lot of money on to beautify their proper-ties and provide shade, is going to be met with a lot of resistance. Brown grass is one thing, brown dead trees is another.

A VERY BIG BOUQUET to the fabulous fi reworks put on by Quality Foods. The barge was fi nally posi-tioned in the correct place so everybody could see this great show. In the past it was too far to the north & the show was hidden behind trees for some in the condos in front of the Legion. Let’s hope we will see it in the same place next year. Hats off to all those that made this pos-sible.

BOUQUETS to Doctor Charmaine Enns for lead-ership in resolving the 47-day CVRD boil water is-sue. She has identifi ed the basic cause and ordered TimberWest, Village of Cumberland, CVRD to ad-dress the problem before the Fall rains. Rather than point fi ngers, make ex-cuses, blame the weather - these three parties need to work together quickly to resolve the identifi ed problem. The maximum daily fi ne of $200,000 EACH, is an incentive to do the right thing. Thank you, Doctor Enns, for pro-tecting our drinking water.

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AND FLAT TIRES to the Co-mox cyclist who deems it necessary to hose down his bikes after a ride. What is it you don’t understand about Stage 3 water re-strictions? While the rest of us do our best to save

water any way we can, you feel the need to have a shiny, clean bike. I guess by doing it your back yard you thought that no one would notice. Think again! How selfi sh!

QUESTIONABLE HAMBURGER to the Comox Nautical Days decision makers. Firstly, much was com-mendable---a nice mix of food vendors, always spiff y cadets, and the mu-sic in Marina Park was out-standing. Monday morn-ing we tried to park in our friend’s yard on Comox Ave. more than an hour be-fore the parade start time. Apparently the entire re-gion was sealed off , due to Two Events. Do the run-ners really need the entire length and breadth of Co-mox Avenue immediately prior to the parade? These Two Events have been go-ing on for years, but some-thing has changed. People need reasonable access to a parade route if they are expected to attend. What should have been a fun family day turned into an exercise in frustration. If nothing is done, the traf-fi c enforcement crew will be superfl uous. The only events on the main drag will be Cricket Chirping and Tumbleweed Rolling.

I SEE THAT an age-old Co-mox Valley problem has once again reared its ugly head: The Salvation Army has to hire security guards to stop people from riffl ing through their donation boxes. It’s amazing the mental gymnastics some people do convince them-selves that they’re not ac-tually stealing when they take items that have been donated to charity. Over the years, numerous peo-ple have told me there’s nothing wrong with tak-ing these things, as long as thrift store volunteers haven’t actually received them yet. Using that logic,

I’ve decided that at Christ-mas time I’m going to break into these people’s mail boxes and take pack-ages that are addressed to them. But hey, according to them, if they haven’t yet received their Christmas presents and I claim them for myself, it isn’t theft, now, is it.

ONE LARGE LOAD of Bull Manure dumped on Co-mox Valley residents from 10 years of incompetent local city councils. I re-cently found some news-paper clippings from 10 years ago. After spending tens of thousands of dol-lars on studying the local homeless issue, local gov-ernments are no closer to solving it than we were back then. With all the time and money spent on this problem it should have been fi xed by now. Outrageous!

I KNEW when I moved here 7+ years ago that the Comox Valley was a spe-cial place. On this past Fri-day, I was assured it truly was. While shopping at a local department store, buying school supplies to distribute to the less fortu-nate children of my winter home in Puerto Escondi-do, Oaxaca, Mexico, I met a young woman who won-dered why I was buying so many supplies. Shortly after my telling her of my plan, she approached me and handed me some cash to purchase more school supplies for the children of Puerto. I was very grateful and pleased to accept her generosity. Her generosity reinforces my belief that this valley is a great place to call home.

A HUGE MASSIVE BEEF to the jerk that fl icked his ciga-rette out his window last Thursday, I was driving on the dyke road on my way home and a man in a truck in front of me decides to

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I HAVE A VERY LARGE BEEF for those establishments which play terrible loud music, that is so annoying that you can’t hear your-self think or carry on a conversation, particularly in a restaurant. I am not against music, but this is not music - this is noise pollution. I would be all for soft background music that is not loud enough to interfere with normal con-versation. There are cer-tain restaurants and stores that I will not frequent un-til they change their sound system. You know who you are!! My sympathy to all employees of these estab-lishments who have to lis-ten to this noise for many hours, as they will likely end up with hearing prob-lems in later life.

A SECOND Nautical days festival season come & gone and still NO ELVIS!!!! There are MANY of us that are deeply disappointed that Steve Elliott (Elvis) isn’t playing at Nautical Days anymore. It’s just not the same without him! Please bring him back!

fl ick his fi lthy cigarette outthe window. Never mindstating the obvious, whyyou shouldn’t be fl ick-ing your cigarette out thewindow, like I don’t knowmaybe, because it’s superdry and you might start afi re?? But it’s also disgust-ing! But wait, the best partwas I pulled up next tohim at an intersection andI asked him, did you re-ally fl ick your cigarette outthe window? And shock-ingly he denied it!! Andthen proceeded to get an-noyed with me for asking!So please use your headif you’re going to smoke,which is totally ok, justplease! please! please! Dis-card your cigarette buttsresponsibly.


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The historic Baybrook, the original of home of Canadian artist and natu-ralist Mack Laing, is gone.

A demolition crew com-missioned by the Town of Comox tore it down to the ground and turned the iconic home that was built in 1922 to nothing more than mere rubble.

Members of the Mack Laing Heritage Society tried to stop the demoli-tion but were in vain. The RCMP were called in to control the situation.

There were mixed feel-ings while the whole de-molition unfolded. On one side were residents in the nearby area, who were happy to see the old struc-ture go.

At the other end were people who were fi ghting to preserve the heritage home. They were more vocal, expressing sadness and disappointment over the destruction of what they felt was a national treasure.

“There’s tremendous

sadness of the passage of the original Mack Laing house and the other part of my sadness is the igno-rance that has pervaded the discourse in wanting to demolish this,” said the society’s Loys Maingon, who has been strongly ad-vocating the preservation of this property for his-torical, conservation and environmental education purposes.

“This is the only build-ing that I know in the Co-mox Valley that actually qualifi ed for national heri-tage.”

Heritage B.C. and the National Trust for Canada have acknowledged Bay-brook as a heritage site. Both expessed this in re-cent letters sent to Comox council.

Laing was a Comox pio-neer. He was a renowned Canadian ornithologist, naturalist, artist, writer, scientist-collector, teach-er, and environmentalist ahead of his time. He ac-complished much of his work while residing in Baybrook with his wife Ethel. It was built from a

kit house and was situated on a 2.6-hectare piece of waterfront property the town purchased, with the help of the Nature Trust of B.C., for $2.4 million.

Nobel Prize for Litera-ture winner Alice Munro also spent several sum-mers in the house writing her award-winning short stories.

The society felt blind-

sided by the recent devel-opment.

“I don’t know how this whole thing has come to this, particularly when we were elated that now we have the big guns so to speak behind us and in the process of being offi cially designated and here we are,” said MLHS president Kate Panayotoff . “There’s a lot of people here in

tears.”Mayor Paul Ives said

after long consideration about the heritage of the house, council decided to stick with the original intention when the town bought the park to en-hance green space and to improve the natural ame-nities.

“Mack Laing house has some heritage value but

when we had it assessed it was going to cost a lot of money and we didn’t want to saddle the taxpayers with that,” said Ives.

The society’s economic proposal for Baybrook had some merits, said Ives, but in the end, after careful analyses, it wasn’t feasible. A decision was then made in February to proceed with the demoli-tion plan and just preserve the park.

“Structures are one thing, for some people that’s important but it’s the park itself and Mack Laing was a naturalist,” said Ives. “I would think preserving the park and enhancing the park would be what most people would like to see.”

Maingon didn’t agree with Ives’ view about the prohibitive cost to fi x the old home and the burden it would have on taxpay-ers.

“Heritage BC had of-fered to assist in restora-tion costs,” said Maingon, which the society esti-mated will cost around $150,000.

“Other sources of fund-ing were available and had expressed keen interest. There would have been no cost to Comox taxpayers”.


Historic home of pioneer Mack Laing torn downSociety is upset but vows to look at legal options to get iconic house rebuilt

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Despite knowing last March that Compliance Coal Corporation with-drew its application for an Environmental Certifi cate from the British Columbia Environmental Assess-ment Offi ce, they still put the pressure on.

The corporation blamed incorrect information which had been circulat-ing in certain communi-ties as the main reason for pulling the plug on its ap-plication. However, Com-pliance did indicate they plan to continue to pursue the coal project and de-velop it

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CoalWatch, instead of taking a break from their core objective continued to complicate the eff orts of the proponent of the project.

CoalWatch submitted a written request on June 4 that the environmental assessment for the pro-posed Raven Coal Mine Project be terminated by the EAO. Their request was acknowledged and the EAO has taken the next step.

Under the Environ-mental Assessment Act and the Prescribed Time Limits Regulation, the Executive Director under the Act may suspend or terminate an EA if the in-formation required by the Application Information Requirement Guidelines has not been provided within three years.

CoalWatch’s letter to the EAO outlined that the AIR for the Raven Coal Mine Project was issued on June 7, 2012 and that three years following that date, Compliance Coal has not submitted the required information in their Application for Envi-ronmental Certifi cate.

The EAO responded by requesting Compliance Coal provide information on its project plans and its perspective on the con-tinuation of the EA. The EAO requires the informa-tion by August 28.

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There are many reasons to choose a sport with your dog. One of the best reasons is to strengthen the bond you share. The benefits range from general fitness to mental health and are equally shared between you and your pet. Although your dog’s individual abilities need to be kept in mind, the choice of activities with your canine companion are unlimited.

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The society was also prepared to acquire fund-ing for the ongoing main-tenance and operation of the interpretive centre after the house was re-stored. It also planned to use Baybrook as a natural-ist pre-school which resi-dents in the area rejected.

Maingon believes staff misled council with misin-formation that led them to favour demoliton of Bay-brook.

“This was precious and we were told this was irre-trievable,” said Maingon. “The people that wanted to see this demolished for no good reason did so by belittling Mack Laing, who made such a gener-ous gift to them.”

Maingon said the Town of Comox has committed cultural vandalism, much similar to what ISIS has been doing in the Middle

East.When Laing’s wife

passed away in 1950, he moved out of Baybrook and built another home, “Shakesides” which the town inherited and is now known as the Mack La-ing Park. It included a fi -nancial trust of $45,000. Under the terms of La-ing’s will, “the funds will be used for improvement and development of his home as a natural mu-seum, 25 per cent of the cash realized to be used for capital improvements to the dwelling house, and the remaining 75 per cent to be invested by the town, the income earned thereupon to be applied towards the annual oper-ating expenses of a natu-ral history museum.”

The town is preserving “Shakesides” as requested by Laing in his will. Ives said there is still no deci-sion on what they plan to

do with the property.Panayotoff said if the

town followed Mack La-ing’s will they could have maintained and improved Shakesides in the last 33 years.

“Nothing was done and that house is now in dis-repair,” said Panayotoff . “There should be a mu-seum there now but there isn’t one.”

Maingon said the amount of money left in 1982 was equivalent to around $300,000 at that time and is more than enough to set up a natural museum.

The society is not giving up. They intend to look at legal avenues.

“The legal opinion that we just got is that this is a misdemeanor,” said Main-gon. “We will be seeking in court to see this house rebuilt. We have the plans, we have the pictures and it can be redone.”

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The August speakers at the Comox Valley Hor-ticultural Society will be Mervillites Jim Webb and Summer Joy.

Last September these avid gardeners went back for a visit to England, where they’d been living until moving here in 2010, and amongst the various garden adventures they indulged in, they attended the Royal Horticultural Society’s Malvern Autumn Show.

There are a number of huge RHS show events, all with long histories, held throughout the year in England, with the best known probably being the Chelsea Flower Show.

There is an RHS spring show and an autumn show at Malvern, with the Au-tumn event focussing on

fruit, vegetables and fl ow-ers of the season. It is hard for people here to imagine the vast scope and size of this sort of horticul-tural event -- it is truly enormous, jam-packed with beautiful and amaz-ing displays and compe-

titions, and also includes vendors for just about everything related to gar-dening, from all kinds of plants to tools to garden ornaments to handcrafts of all kinds, and fabulous food and drink.

One part of the slide show presentation will feature the amazing giant vegetables competition.

If you have an interest in knowing more about what goes on in the gar-dening world in England, come join us for A Day at the RHS Malvern Autumn Show, on August 17th at the Florence Filberg Cen-tre, at 7 pm.

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Animals are a part of God’s creation and our pets play an important role in our lives.

Come join us on Saturday August 15th at 10:00 a.m. to 11am at St. John the Divine Anglican Church fenced yard at 579 5th Street, Courtenay for the Blessing of the Dogs.

We will give thanks to God for our dogs and bless them. Each pet will be individually blessed. All dogs must be on a leash or in a carrier. Photo-graphs may also be brought to honor dogs that prefer not to travel. Everyone is welcome.

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Comox MFRC Staff Kassandra Dycke (right), Debbie Dwulit (left) and sewing volunteer MCpl Cindy Leduc model dry neck coolers. When wet, the interior beads swell and release a cool refreshing vapour all day.

The Comox Military Family Re-source Centre (MFRC) is selling neck coolers at the 2015 Armed Force Day and Comox Air Show Information Booth to raise funds for their Care Package Project. The Care Package Project enhances the morale and wel-

fare of our service women and men while deployed or tasked away from their homes and loved ones.

Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members from 19 Wing Comox can be deployed overseas or tasked with do-mestic assignments that can last sev-

eral months. These mem-bers are asked to serve in a variety of locations, in-cluding the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere around the globe, depend-ing on the mission. Neck coolers are a popular care package item for those serving in these hot cli-mates.

To ensure the supply of neck coolers and other care package items such as snack foods, toiletries, comfort items and enter-tainment, and personal or seasonal greetings can be sustained for future de-ployments, Comox MFRC Deployment Services has organized volunteers to sew 1000 neck coolers, which will be sold for $10 each or 3/$20 at the Air Show Information Booth, Saturday, 15 August, 2015. All sale proceeds will be in support of the Care Pack-age Project.

The Care Package Proj-ect has been successful due to the generosity of the local community. “Do-nations from individuals and businesses greatly re-duce our need to fundraise to cover the expenses of the Care Package project,”

says Kassandra Dycke, deployment services co-ordinator. “We make sure that every service mem-ber who is away for three months or more receives at least one care pack-age, which is prepared by our team of volunteers. We also support families of deployed members to keep in touch with their loved ones by shipping their care packages free of charge.”

Reducing project costs means deployment ser-vices staff can commit more of their time and resources to delivering specialized services to military families such as warmline calls, childcare and workshops. The staff extends a huge thank you to the following recent contributors: Girl Guides - cookies; London Drugs and Quality Foods Comox - gift cards; Dr J.H. Kim’s offi ce - dental/hygiene kits. They also thank Fab-ricland for donating the neck cooler fabric, and the many volunteers who have donated personal time to sew them.


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If you would like to help with the care package project the Deployment Services staff would love to hear from you.

According to Deb-bie Dwulit, deployment services assistant, “We welcome the chance to broaden our partnerships with individuals and local businesses/organizations that may be able to off er us support through mer-chandise donations, gift cards, discounts or cash. We also gratefully accept items that add a personal touch to our care pack-ages such as personalized greeting cards, messages or artwork from com-munity groups such as schools, service clubs or churches.”

According to Kassandra and Debbie, these con-tents add value to the care packages by making them interesting and exciting for members to receive. Further, they help build relationships between military families and local businesses and organiza-tions.

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The Wachiay Friendship Centre is celebrating its 20th anniversary on Aug. 17.

They are inviting the public to come to the cen-tre and enjoy some of the activities lined up on that day from noon to 3:30 p.m.

It will include dances, refreshments and also a grand opening of its new space.

Vice-president Monica Gooheart said the event will also showcase the myriad of programs and services the centre has been providing over the

years. They include health,

women in business, elder support, FASD support, homeless street outreach program, legal aid and youth drop in centre.

The Wachiay Centre is located at 1625 McPhee Ave.

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formation about the Care Package Project, please contact Kassandra Dycke @ 250-339-8211 Ext. 8310 or Debbie Dwulit @ Ext. 6694.

This project is ongo-ing, year-round, and as-sistance at any time, large or small would be appreci-ated.

The Comox MFRC is a registered not-for-profi t organization operating in the Comox Valley since 1993. MFRC Deployment Services assists deployed women and men with maintaining some con-nection to home while they are away.

Isfeld entrepreneur launchescustom Valley tour company

What if you could design a tour of the Comox Val-ley as unique as you are? From behind-the-scenes-tours of local wineries, crab fi shing, studio tours and local history, Spencer Hay can take you there.

The 19-year-old Comox Valley resident launched recently Genuine Tours Comox Valley, a one-of-a-kind tour company spe-cializing in custom full and half-day tours, de-signed around his custom-ers’ interests and budgets.

“I want to share my ex-periences and adventures in the valley with people from around the world. There is so much to do and see here, so Genuine Tours was designed to provide visitors with fun and memorable experi-ences “ said Hay.

Spencer saw an oppor-tunity to provide a needed service to the visitors in the valley as the area in-creases in awareness and popularity.

“The Vancouver Island Visitor Centre 2014 year-end report indicated a 23% increase in true visi-tors, people who live out-side of the Comox Valley, using the Centre, with the current 2015 year to date

trend showing a 20% in-crease. The largest group of true visitors were from BC, followed by Europe-ans and Albertans.”

Tours are designed to give small groups an in-sider’s view of the Comox Valley, with the help of a local guide.

“Whether you want a fast-paced tour or some-thing more laid-back, we ensure you experience the Valley, the way you want

to,” said Hay. Hay graduated from

Isfeld Secondary French Immersion program in 2014.

Although relatively young, he has been plan-ning to run his own busi-ness for years. After grad-uating from high school, he took a Small Business & Entrepreneur course at North Island College.

In 2015, he blended his interest in outdoor activi-ties and local events with the opportunity to share the Comox Valley’s di-verse landscapes, activi-ties and sight-seeing op-tions with visitors from

around the world and Genuine Tours Comox Valley was born.

His goal is to provide people with hands-on ex-periences: meet artists in their studios; talk with a farmer and fi nd out where your food really comes from; take an invigorat-ing hike; relax on a private beach with a picnic lunch, and more.

The company also fi lls a need for busy locals with visiting friends or family.

For more information, visit www.genuinetourscv.com or call 1-250-702-7512. Discover what Gen-uine Tours can do for you.

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The Comox Valley Air-port will use its Twitter account @FlyYQQ to keep passengers updated about any traffi c delays or issues that could aff ect their fl ights from the Comox Valley Airport the day of the Comox Air Show.

“Twitter provides us with the means to get a message out very quickly to our passengers should the need arise,” said Co-mox Valley Airport CEO

Fred Bigelow. “We invite anyone travelling out of YQQ during the Comox Air Show to follow us on Twitter to stay informed.”

Bigelow noted that ho-tels, shuttle operators, taxi drivers and anyone else planning to access the terminal building dur-ing the Comox Air Show should also follow @FlyY-QQ or search the hashtag #YQQAirShow on Twitter and Facebook for updates.

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Embracing the new, but pride in the pastCourtenay Fire celebrates its centennial with some old-fashioned and high tech projectsBY DEBRA MARTINEcho Staff

The Courtenay fi re de-partment is up with the latest in training and tech-nology.

But members haven’t forgotten the past - all 100 years of it.

Thanks to members who kept department scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and photos over the years - not to mention all the fi re chief incident books dating back to the 1930’s - today’s fi refi ght-ers now have a good his-tory of their department.

And much of it is be-ing shared with the wider community, on a special facebook photo page that daily highlights a ‘this day in history’ moment for the fi re department.

That history is now stored digitally - each scrapbook page was methodically scanned - which has allowed all the new high tech, social me-dia work, including a cen-tennial video on Youtube.

Print hasn’t been for-gotten, though. Scanning all the scrapbook pages and photos also allowed production of a limited edition, centennial book. There are only eight cop-ies left.

Key fi refi ghters behind these history projects in-clude Capt. Greg Lamb and Firefi ghters Deb

McLachlan and Karen Campbell.

McLachlan herself is a major historic milestone for the department as the fi rst female fi refi ghter in Courtenay, joining in 2001.

And Greg Lamb is a second-generation fi re-fi ghter, following in the footsteps of his dad, re-tired Deputy Chief Neil Lamb. His brother Kyle is also a Courtenay fi re-fi ghter.

“Family” is what small town fi re departments are really all about.

And that aspect has been included in the cen-tennial book, along with rescue work, vehicle ac-cidents, assisting BC Am-bulance, and, of course, the biggest fi res over the past 100 years.

“There’s more to a fi re department than just fi res,” said Lamb.

McLachlan said “it was a long process,” sorting through the scans done by scrapbook committee col-league Campbell to pick out what would go in the book.

“Each year seemed dif-ferent ... There was this new gadget, a new tool, a new way of doing things ... just the evolution from then to now.

“I wanted to make sure we hit on everything.”

Some of the biggest fi res of the past include

the Riverside Hotel fi re in 1968, the Mexicana, the Palace theatre, the Royal Bank, Buckerfi eld’s for-mer store, along with mu-tual aid assists to Comox for the Lorne Hotel and Black Fin fi res.

“It was very hard to decide ... just the vari-ety of calls that we did,” McLachlan said.

The task was made easier by retired fi re chief, and Heritage Commission member, Lawrence Burns.

His fi rst project upon retiring in 1995 was sort-

ing out and re-doing the scrapbooks.

Burns, who still serves the fi re department as Chaplain, is also a fount of knowledge and mem-ory about the history of not only the department but of Courtenay, which is also celebrating its cen-tennial this year.

“Lawrence has been great,” Lamb said of the retired chief’s contribu-tions.

The books were pre-pared in time for the de-partment’s gala centennial

dinner in March, attended by 243 guests. McLach-lan said she had excellent help from the local Staples store in getting the print job done in time for the dinner.

Many former and re-tired fi refi ghters came back for the event.

Lamb notes that 293 individuals have been vol-unteer fi refi ghters with Courtenay over the past 100 years, with a com-bined 2,520 years of ser-vice.

“It’s about bringing

back history and appre-ciating the people who served,” he said.

* If you would like a copy of the Courtenay Fire department’s centen-nial book, drop by the fi re hall offi ce. The cost is $25.

* If you would like to ‘like’ or check out the his-tory facebook page please go to: www.facebook.com/Courtenayfi re

* If you’d like to watch the centennial video, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-HtRBG7XWA

Deb McLachlan and Greg Lamb with copies of the fi re department’s centennial book

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The ‘CHHA’ - CV HARD OF HEARING SUP-PORT GROUP • Will be offering their next Speech Reading session this September. ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE IN BY AUGUST 14. Space is limited. If you are interested or want more information contact: Glenda - email [email protected] or Mary - 250 339 4706 7792.

16 SUNDAY

CEMETERY TOUR • The tickets for “A Walk to Remember”, a tour of Campbell River’s Old Cemetery (established 1931) on Hwy 19, are now on sale for $10 each. Join us for a walk through this tranquil cem-etery and meet sinners and saints, the famous and infamous. We’ve uncovered some fascinating and interesting facts about the citizens of Campbell River and we’d like to share them with you. Sunday, August 16th at 10am. Please call Janice 250-203-0585 to reserve your spot. All proceeds are for the Campbell River Genealogy Society.

17 MONDAY

CRIBBAGE • Every Monday night, 7:00, at the Royston Hall, corner of Old Island Highway and Royston Road. No need to bring a partner. FMI: 250-334-1883.LADIES AUXILIARY DROP-IN BINGO • Co-mox Legion Ladies Auxiliary Drop-in Bingo, upper hall. Doors open 6 pm, bingo 7 p.m. All money goes to charities. Free coffee and tea.

18 TUESDAY

COMOX VALLEY WOOD CARVERS • If you are interested in any type of wood carving please join us at the Royston Community Hall every Tuesday from 9:30 AM to 3 PM for a day of carving and learning about carving. No experience necessary. FMI call Al at 250-331-0156 or Jim at 250-339-5350.DUPLICATE BRIDGE • Every Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m., Co-mox Seniors Centre.

19 WEDNESDAY

GETTING TO KNOW DEMENTIA • Free Alzheimer Society of B.C. work-shop, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Aug. 19, The Filberg Centre, 411 Anderton Avenue. Pre-registration required. Courtenay Recreation, 250-338-1000 or Jane Hope, [email protected] ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL ASSOCIA-TION • Holds its Monthly Meetings at 1:00 P.M. in the Upper hall of the Comox Legion on the 3rd Wednes-day of each month. August meeting will be held on the 19th. Guests are more than welcome.

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a perfect pairing with oth-er Centennial fundraising items.

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GOLFNEWS

CROWN ISLE HAPPENINGS!

What a week for the Crown Isle ladies club!

Another one? Are you kidding me? No we are not. Congrats to Anne Sands who got another HOLE IN ONE on # 7 at Crown Isle.

The Tuesday ladies had lots of winners:

1st low gross: Katy Ma-caulay, 2nd low gross: Carol Ayley and Ev Shaw, 3rd low gross: Rosemary Smith

1st low net: Brenda Bar-rigan, 2nd low net: Liz Ellis, Diane Hardie, Anne Sands, Evie MacDonald and KT Thompson, 3rd low net: Margaret Forg-eron, Donna Wilson and Charlene Foster

KPs: KT Thompson on #4, Marlene Horvath on #12

PAR 5s: Liz Ellis, Linda Stickney and Brenda Bar-rigan

BIRDIES: Marilyn Mc-Cusker, Maggie MacLean, Wilma Malan, KT Thomp-son, Mathilde Schneider, and Judy Constantino

Kudos to Rick and Lin-da Glanville, the couples’ champions for the Harold Stevens Trophy.

Lots of the CI ladies were busy golfi ng in the tournaments on the Is-land. Congrats to Dee Horie and Judy Pouliot who placed in the net and gross prizes at the QF Qualicum Memorial Se-nior Ladies’ Tournament. Congrats to Pat Johnson who was drawn for a free entry next year and had a KP and won a skin for her birdie on the same hole.

Though the much need-ed rain fell on the Royal Lepage Ladies’ Tillicum, our CI ladies were not daunted by a little rain! . Kudos to gross winners, Raelene Robertson and May Mitchell, Katy Ma-caulay and Val Dingwall and Ev Shaw and Judy Pouliot, who also won a KP and net winners, Judy Aldcroft and Jan MacFar-lane and Anne Sands and Janet Phillips.

CROWN ISLE LA-DIES’ NINE AND WINE is SOLD OUT again for Aug. 26th. Don’t forget to wear your blingiest out-fi t for the theme Swing With Bling. Our Season Finale is on Friday Oct. 2 at 4 pm shotgun, ben-efi tting Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Wear and think pink!! Four per-son scramble (sign up as a team or individual) in-cludes 9 holes of golf, tee gift, dinner, wine, prizes and $5000. hole in one on each nine. Register now at

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- Submitted by Donna Cunliffe

COMOX LADIES CLUB JULY 28 AND AUG. 4

Comox Ladies Results for July 28th:

The game of the day was count your putts. 1st Low Gross was won by Patti Harris with 29 putts and Linda Diamond won Low Net with 31 putts. Tied for second Low Gross was Nancy Newton and Linda Baker with 30 and Barb Buchanan were tied for 4th with 31. Amber Du-four, Jean Kirby and Grace Coulter were tied for 2nd Low Net with 32 putts.

Bernice Sutherland won the long putt on holes # 3and #12 and Marg Walk-er sunk her long putt on hole #8 and #17. Nancy Newton won closest to the hole on #5and #14which was sponsored by Loo-neyrama. Closest to the bucket was won by Doris Ellis and was sponsored by Keith Gibson; in the creek draw was won by Marg Walker and spon-sored by Jesse in the Pro Shop; Closest to the hole on #7 and #16 was spon-sored by The Tee Box and won by Linda Callender; Linda Baker won the prize donated by Panago for closest to the hole in 2 shots on #9 and #18. Barb Buchanan had a chip in.

Comox Ladies Results for August 4th:

Lorelei Banford scores 90 to take Low Gross hon-ours on Tuesday Ladies Day. Low Net was won by Yvonne Baker with a 69.

Sue Leakey, June Fraser and Nancy Riva tied for second low gross with 93. With a net 70 Barb Bu-chanan was second and Edith Albrecht and Phyllis Taylor shot nets of 72 and 73 respectively.

Grace Coulter, Linda Verdenhalven, Jean Kir-by and Anne Patterson earned jelly bellies for their teams by chipping in the hole.

The two long putts were won by Louella Dooe and Linda Baker. Keith Gib-son sponsored the closest to the bucket which was won by Val Pearce. Linda Verdenhalven had an up and down game as she won the draw sponsored by Jesse in the Pro Shop by hitting her ball in the creek and being the clos-est in 2 shots on #9 and #18, winning the prize do-nated by The Tee Box.

The prize for being the closest to the fl ag on #5 and #14 was won spon-sored by Looneyrama and won with an amaz-ing shot that ended up 2 feet from the hole, then Lorelei Banford won the gift certifi cate for closest to the hole in 3 on #7 and #16 with a brilliant putt of 2 feet. This prize was do-nated by Panago Pizza.

We have had several guests play with the ladies on Tuesday and encour-age others to do so as well. Contact the Pro Shop to be put on the list.

COMOX MEN’S CLUB SUNDAY RESULTS 48 guys played on Sunday morning.

Congrats to Mike Naso winning his semi-fi nal match on the 19th hole.

8 birdies recorded by

Lawry Willis and 5 by Mr. Consistent Marty Peters-en.

A gross 70 for our zero handicapper Nick Usher.

0-14 low gross Lawry Willis 69. Nick Usher 70

15 + low gross Rick Curiston 80, Mike (Slim) Simmons 81

Low Nets Don Ellis 63, Marty Petersen 64, Hank (V12) Verdenhalven 66

Dane Petersen 66, Bill (Bowlzy) Bowles 66, Vic Crisp 67.

KP Prizes 10 KP 0-14 Scott Fraser (Bowlzy Brkfst Comox Pacifi c Ex-press)

2/11 KP 15+ Kevin Loga (Westview Ford Sales)

3/12 Long drive 0-14 Bill Bowles (Men’s Club)

4/13 KP 0-14 Lawry Wil-lis (Men’s Club)

5 KP All Dan Bailey (Browning Karl Fawthor-pe)

14 KP All Dan Buss (In-vestors Group Keith Gib-son)

15 KP 2nd shot 15+ Jack Burgess (Bowlzy Brkfst Comox Pacifi c Express)

7/16 Long Drive 15+ Brad Scheck (Men’s Club)

9 KP All Nick Usher (Rick Siddall Financial Services)

18 KP All (Marty Peters-en (Glacier’s Gutters)

Skins Mark Smith, Dane Petersen, Lawry Willis x 2, Marc Dewinter,

Marty Petersen x 2, Kevin Loga x 2, Mike Sim-mons, Bob Bird, Vic Crisp.

POG 0-14 Marty Peters-en # 18

Deuces Nick Usher x 2, Lawry Willis x 2, Bob Bird, Kevin Loga, Marty Petersen, Jim Eremko, Dan Bailey.

- Submitted by Vic Crisp

This past weekend in the Comox Valley Mens Baseball League: the 4th annual “Happy’s Source for Sports Invitational” was played at Bill Moore Park in Courtenay. The 7 - team, mens baseball tournament fi ttingly had 2 local teams facing off in the fi nals on Sunday evening. The Happy’s Canadians went up against the Comox Valley Indians. The Comox Valley Indians prevailed with a fi nal score of 7-1. Championship Team - Comox Valley Indians (pictured top L - R) Scott Judson, Devin Webster, Adam Berkenstock, Tim Parsons, Dallas Monk; (pictured bottom L - R) Cam McDonald, Colton Tukka, Will Drewry, Bryce Stromquist, Wyatt Strachan, Dallas McDonald (missing from the pic) Bat boy - Dylan Slater, Water boy - Kyle Wade

Indians win tournament


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GOLFNEWS

SUSAN WESTBROOK MEMORIAL TROPHY TWO BALL TOURNEY

We played in teams of two on August 11th for the honour of hav-ing our names engraved on the Susan Westbrook Memorial Trophy. The twosomes were based on combined handicaps and the game was alternate shot (two ball). At the end of the round Pat Rudolph and Joan Brown were the winners with a score of 68.5. Runners up were Lois Westbrook and Marg Cikaluk with 73.

Low gross scores were Trish Heyland and Sally Sloat, Fran Gibson and Magge Milleer, and Pat Lowe and Frankie McCaf-fery with 100.

Low net scorers were Teri Sleigh and Gail Odo (76.5), Maylen Friesen and Bel Brown (79), Linda Lee Root and Rita Dalby

Top: Pat Rudolph accepting winners trophy from Lois Westbrook and Lys McCrone - Joan Brown missing from photo

Bottom: Runner-up Lois Westbrook and Marg Cikaluk with President Lys McCrone

(79.5), Linda Broadbent and Betty Lund (80.5) and Cheryl Bickle and Becky Kenner (80.5).

Fran Gibson and Magge Miller had the lowest # of putts (27) and Maylene Friesen won the KP on hole #10.

COMOX MEN’S WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Results from the very pleasant Wednesday eve-ning of Aug 5th:

1st Low Gross Hcp 0-14: Nick Usher (32), 2nd Dab Bailey (33)

1st Low Gross Hcp 15: Dave Wood (38), 2nd Mike Naso (38 c/b)

Low Nets: Ken Sim-mons (31), Jay Bridges (31), Don Ellis (31),

Dan Bailey (31), Ron Pearce (31).

Skins for Nick Usher, Dane Petersen, Jay Bridg-

es.Deuces for Nick Usher,

Dan Bailey, Terry Chris-tie.

Hole winners and Spon-sor:

#1 KP, Dan Bailey, Co-mox Mens Club

#2 KP, Dave Wood, Westview Fords Sales (Mike Paroshy)

#3 Long Drive, Dane Petersen, Bill Wheeldon Construction

#4 KP, Nick Usher, Thrifty Foods

#5 KP, Terry Christie, Browning (Karl Fawthor-pe)

#7 Long Drive, Russ Rodriguez, Comox Mens Club

#9 KP, Terry Christie, Shilo Painting and Deco-rating

SUNNYDALE TILLICUM GOLF TOURNAMENT

A very popular RoyalLePage Ladies Tillicumgolf tournament was heldAugust 8 at SunnydaleGolf Course under rainyskies. With a total of 114entries the course wasvery busy but played well.

This year’s winner ofthe Royal LePage TeamTrophy for low gross wasthe team of Sally Doblerand Josee Deslauriersfrom Morningstar GolfCourse with a score of 72.They were followed bythe second place team ofKaren Kloske of DuncanMeadows and Bev Byerleyof Sunnydale with a scoreof 77.

The winners of the Ea-gle FM Radio low net tro-phies were Janet Edwardsand Judy Brown fromGlacier Greens with a netscore of 60.



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They were closely fol-lowed by the second place team of Rona Lawson of Sunnydale and Pat Ailles of Comox who had a net score of 64.

The Friday night before the tournament we held an Individual Skills con-test which consisted of a Long Drive, a Long Putt, a bump and run on hole 10 and a Chipping Contest on hole 9.

Many ladies partici-pated and the winner was Barb Dixson. There was a tie for second place be-tween Pat Peden, Chris Frederickson, Maylene Friesen and Patti Har-ris. This was followed by our too popular Wine and Cheese welcoming. Our theme was Bling and many ladies arrived wear-ing all their family jewels!

We thank our major sponsors of Royal LePage and Eagle FM Radio who are very generous spon-sors . We also thank the many volunteers , Noah Koester who put on a top notch magic act, our scor-er John Davis, Comox Val-ley Catering, Aaron and his grounds crew, Robbie in the Pro Shop and all the businesses who donated door prizes. Everyone’s support is much appreci-ated.

A full list of the fi rst 10 net and gross winners.

GrossDobler/Deslaurier 72

Kloske/Byerley 77Rallison/Peden 81Berkely/Walker 82Dafoe/Harris 82Robertson/Mitchell 84Pouliot/Shaw 85Campbell/Strachan 85Macaulay/Dingwall 86Friesen/Friesen 86NetBrown/Edwards 60Lawson/Ailles 64Sheldon/Sheldon 64

Aldcroft/MacFarlane 65Dyke/Henry 66Tribe/Riva 65Harris/Clark 67Sands/Phillips 67Westbrook/Wagenstein

67Coulter/Taylor 67The other winners are:

Early Bird Draw - Mag-gie Miller and Trish Hey-land

Long Drive #7 (0-22 handicap) Colleen Mac-Donald

Long Drive #14 ( 23 plus Handicap) Trisha Harris from Crown Isle

Closest to Pin on hole 3 (0-22 handicap) Carol Dalzel

Closest to Pin on hole 3 (23 plus handicap) Bel Brown

Closest to Pin on hole 10 (0-22 handicap) Karen Vanetta 10 feet 5 inches

Closest to Pin on hole 10 (23 plus handicap) Lu-cille Campbell 14 feet 10 inch

Closest to Pin on Hole 15 (0-22 handicap) Judy Pouliot 7 feet 3 inches

Closest to Pin on Hole 15 (23 plus handicap) Val Pearce 14 feet 1 inch

Closest to Pin on hole 17 (0-22 handicap) Bev Byerley 14 feet l inch

Closest to Pin on hole 17 (23 plus handicap) Ricki Farrell 59 inches

Deuce Pot Winners: Ricki Farrell, Mary Henry, Lys McCrone, Jean Mc-Crea, Trudy Annand, Bev Byerley, Pat Costello, Teri Sleigh

Squiggly Line - Linda Baker

Bling Prize was won by sisters Helen McLaughlin and Val Pearce.

Net winners, Janet Edwards and Judy Brown from Glacier Green with long time Sunnydale member Kassy Cessford

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A pre-fabricated skate-board halfpipe will be temporarily installed in the Village Park in Cum-berland.

Get On Board Youth So-ciety, a non-profi t organi-zation, made this request to the village. It has a ramp that was built for Aborigi-nal Days in K’omoks last

June and currently is in storage.

Parks and Outdoor Recreation Coordinator Kevin McPhedran said the village is still waiting for results of its Canada 150 Grant application and recognizing that there could be a delay in estab-lishing a permanent con-crete skateboard park, the group requested a tempo-rary facility to be set up.

The group and village staff have discussed a lo-cation. They suggested using one of the tennis courts as a temporary site for the ramp.

Village staff recom-mended that it be placed on the west court allowing for the east court, which is in better condition, to still be used by tennis players. The ramp will be on loan to the village.

To avoid confl ict, the village would install a temporary barrier be-tween the two existing courts in order to stop any stray boards or tennis balls from entering into the other play space.

There will be signage posted on-site that pro-vides users with rules and regulations for its use of the spaces. Staff have also

contacted the chair of the Cumberland Skatepark Committee for input on the proposal and it drew a strong endorsement of support.

The village would incur some expenses to install the halfpipe, including lo-gistics and trucking, con-struction of a temporary fence to provide a bar-rier between the remain-ing tennis court and the skateboard feature and temporary signage.

The village would re-sponsible for monitoring the condition of the ramp during its time in the park.

Since it’s constructed out of wood, it may be required to be closed and tarped-over during the wet season to avoid mois-ture damage.


Skateboard halfpipeto be set up atCumberland parktennis court

West tennis court, proposed site of the skateboard halfpipe, has a number of surface cracks making it less than ideal for playing tennis.

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BAUER, Allan “Al”It is with a broken heart that Sandi shares the news of her beloved husband Allan’s passing on June 23, 2015. He was surrounded by his loving family when he went home to be with his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Al-lan’s battle with cancer was short-lived but hard-fought.The family wishes to thank Dr. Mark (Woldnik), and his staff, for their exceptional care and for “going the ex-tra mile”. Thanks also to the compassionate ladies at St. Joseph’s Chemo Department. Many thanks to Pas-tor Peter Jackson of the Black Creek Community Church for blessing Allan, Sandi, and family with his calls, visits, and prayers. Sandi and family will always be grateful to Chris Mur-phy, handyman and friend, for his dedication and hard work. Only because of Chris’ help was Allan’s last year on the acreage manageable.A very special thank you to Allan’s longest and dear-est friend, Rudy “Wood” Whitthoeft, and his dear wife, Chris, for all the years of their love and friendship. Rudy’s last gift of love to Allan was Allan’s beautifully handcrafted urn.Last, but not least, a big thanks to all the friends that Al-lan made in the Comox Valley. He appreciated each and everyone of you. Your friendship meant so much.A Celebration of Allan’s Life will be held by the family in his hometown of Devon, Alberta at a later date.

The Bridge Medical Clinic welcomes Dr. Gabriela Gorea to our staff.

Her practice commences August 4, 2015, and she is now accepting new Family Practice patients!

Dr. Clayton Ham will continue to provide exceptional service to our community. He is also expanding his

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Happy Anniversary to Trudy and Leo Lamothe

Celebrating 60 years on August 20th!

Congratulations with love from your family xoxo

Happy 55th AnniversaryPeter & Rosine Hryko

Love Kathy, Tony, Susan & Families

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS


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Master Baker and a good friend who left us in an un-

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The Members of the 55+ Singles Club

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Some members of council had some concerns about this plan especially the cost to water-proof the ramp and also li-ability issues.

Councillors Gwynn Sproule and Jesse Ketler would prefer the village wait for the result of its grant application which is expected sometime in September.

Overall costs are expected to be less than $1000, which staff indicated can be covered under the village’s current park operating budgets.

The village would be reponsible for providing oversight and maintenance on it while it is on village land and used by the public in partnership with the Get On Board Youth Society, a non-profi t organi-zation that uses board sports, surf, skate, snowboarding to develop social skills.

Kishi wanted to know, since the village won’t own the ramp, who would be re-sponsible for any liabilities.

Manager of Recreation Leah Knutson believes that the society has a year round insurance as it provides not only skate-boarding programs but also snowboard-ing. As well, since the facility will be on village property, it will have coverage.

“Looking at it, it would be on village property, as long as we did our due dili-gence with signage and maintenance, MIA would cover it as part of our recre-ation facility,” said Knutson.

Mayor Leslie Baird liked the idea. “The kids would be very excited about

having this in the village,” said Baird. “Even when we’re successful with our grant, it’s going to take us some time to build and get everything in order. I think this would be a benefi t to the commu-

nity.” Kishi made a motion that the part-nership should be a formal one instead of informal. He requested a letter be drafted clarifying the roles of each of the part-ners.

Knutson said the plan was to install the ramp as soon as possible and asked if they go forward with a formal agreement, would they have to come back to council to approve it.

“Would we be able to do that, have your direction to make it a little bit more for-mal through a letter and be able to install it quicker, because the next council meet-ing isn’t until September, which closes that window down,” said Knutson.

Council found the request reasonable and agreed to endorse the installation of the half pipe.

Skateboard halfpipe going in village park


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