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Residents make strong case against pumping station
BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff
Residents in the Cro-teau Beach-Hawkins Greenway area told the Comox Valley Regional District sewer commis-sion that their neighbour-hood is not number 1 for the Comox Sewer Pump Station No. 2.
That was the message relayed by Mary Lang and Lorraine Aitken, who spoke before the com-mission on behalf of the residents, who packed the CVRD board room on Tuesday.
Their concerns focused on one signifi cant and vi-tal issue - the protection of their drinking water. The Beech Road area re-lies on shallow, drilled and spring-fed water wells.
Residents believe con-struction of a pump station will harm and contaminate their safe drinking water.
They appealed to the newly-elected commis-sion to rescind the previ-ous commission’s recom-mendation of the Beech Street site.
(Continued on page 4)
Commission recommends staff continue to evaluate other potential locations
Croteau Beach area residents packed the regional district board room Tuesday to make their case against sewage pumping station
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Comox Valley RCMP is asking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in a robbery that took place at the lotto kiosk at the Driftwood Mall in Courtenay on Saturday, Jan. 31.
A male jumped the counter, pushed the clerk away and grabbed money from the cash drawer. The suspect fl ed on foot with numerous people trying to catch him. Witnesses said the male brandished a knife to get away.
The male then entered the Target store and took a Team Canada jersey covering his own clothes and then left the store.
The thief is described as being 5’11”, slim, dark hair, stubble face, wearing blue jeans and Lugz.
If you know this suspect you are asked to contact Cst. A. Turner at the Comox Valley RCMP at 250-338-1321 or if you wish to remain anony-mous you can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Suspect in robbery
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They presented a strong case that included a hy-drology study done by hydrogeologist, Dr. Giles Wendling of GW Solutions Inc that supported their concern about the harm this project would cause to their water wells.
As well, they highlighted recent sewage and diesel spills in Ross Bay in Victo-ria and Longueuil, Que re-spectively resulting from mechanical failures of primary back-up pumps, power outages and human errors that contaminated water supplies.
Lang called the selection of the site a “mistake.”
“These are health haz-ards you have to consider,” said Lang. “Our wells are fed from diff erent levels of the aquifer.”
In Vancouver Island, aquifers have been mapped and rated according to vulnerability as indicated on the CVRD i-map, said Lang.
“What you may not know is the aquifer under the Beech Street site is assigned the highest vul-nerability rating possible. According to the guide for vulnerability mapping,
sites with such a high rat-ing need protection from land use activities that pose high hazards, pre-cisely because they have inherently less natural protection.”
Construction exca-vation, Lang said, also threatens to deplete neighbouring wells that currently draw from the underground springs.
The proposed pump station will be around 25 feet deep - essentially two stories underground.
“What happens to the aquifer, to the springs, to surrounding wells, to our drinking water as this pit is dewatered during con-struction?” Lang asked.
The proposed pump sta-tion is a high priority for the CVRD because of the environmental risk posed by the exposed sewage pipeline along the Wil-lemar Bluff due to beach erosion that was discov-ered in 2002.
Lang said they should be choosing a site that is within the boundaries of the communities it would serve, mainly the City of Courtenay and the Town of Comox, which they believe is a stipulation in Sewer Bylaw 2541.
“Siting the sewage treat-ment plant 30 years ago is now a moot point, but just because letters patent were violated then doesn’t mean you have free licence to violate them again,” said Lang, who was referring to the installation of the sewer pipelines on Wille-mar Bluff in 1984 despite opposition from citizens.
“This is where the NIMBY principle actually comes in - we’re saying put your sewage infrastruc-ture, where it belongs: back within your own mu-nicipal boundaries, as per your letters patent.”
Aitken said they’re will-ing to fi ght all the way over this issue but they don’t think it’s necessary. She said they were led to believe there is only one suitable site out of 180 op-tions.
The number was short-listed to four locations - Mack Laing Park, Mac-Donald Woods, Filberg Park and Beech Street.
The three parks were deemed unsuitable be-cause there are covenants that protect them from any developments, leav-ing Beech Street as the only option.
Aitken said they’ve re-
searched other alterna-tives and have come up with viable locations for the commission to con-sider.
They are areas ser-viced by piped water in the Town of Comox and would conform to Bylaw 2541, keeping the sew-age infrastructure within specifi ed boundaries.
They want the commis-sion to fi nd another loca-tion and also involve the community by forming a citizens advisory commit-tee to help with the site selection process.
Director Barbara Price agrees the Beech Street property is inappropriate but she stressed she would not endorse any recom-mendation that would in-volve heritage parks in the Town of Comox.
Director Erik Eriksson commented the situation is turning into an issue on boundaries and jurisdic-tion.
“Comox, which is a jurisdiction of its own, they’re going to say, ‘we’re now going to have this treatment centred in our end,’” said Eriksson.
“And theoretically, be-cause there’s more Cour-tenay voters on the sew-
age commission, we could out-vote the Comox peo-ple and say it’s going in Comox. Well, to me this seems to be kind of a lu-dicrous system, with all these ridiculous jurisdic-tions.
“Just because someone drew an imaginary line, nothing can happen. So I just like to throw in the idea, we need to have an-other look at, seriously look at the governance structure.”
A motion was made, and approved by the com-
mission, to exclude Mack Laing Park, Filberg Park, Macdonald Woods and Baybrook from the list of potential sites for pump station No. 2.
The commission then went on to endorse an amended recommenda-tion that the CVRD con-tinue to evaluate suitable properties for the place-ment of the pump station and not confi ne the search to just the Town of Co-mox. As well, they agreed to a community advisory committee.
Residents make strong case against pumping station
By Michael BrionesEcho Staff
Comox residents will be paying more for water and sewer services this year.
Comox council has ap-proved increases and gave the bylaw for rate amend-
ments fi rst, second and third readings.
But since the town wasn’t able to adopt the rate changes in Decem-ber due to the November municipal elections, the new fees will not be ef-fective January 2015. And
that means ratepayers will be paying a little less this year.
The new rates were based on how much funds are needed to cover the town’s operating costs.
Council endorsed staff ’s proposal to increase the rate per cubic metre from $0.96 to $0.99 for metered customers who use more than 168 m3, increase the rate for residential use over 600 cubic metres from $1.44 to $1.49, add a $30 fee to manually read a meter and calculate a pro-rated billing between nor-mal month-end readings and increase connection fees by two per cent.
When dealing with water rates, staff factors in three
classes of customers: - 84 commercial, indus-
trial and institutional cus-tomers who are billed for metered water at a rate per cubic metre used,
- Over 200 residential customers that are billed based upon their metered use - they pay a monthly minimum of $15 per dwell-ing unit which includes 14 cubic metre of water, plus they also pay the town’s meter rate per cubic me-ter for water used over the limit
- Over 5,500 other cus-tomers, mostly residen-tial, who pay a fl at fee of $327 per year that is in-cluded on their property tax notice.
The town’s major ex-
penditure is the bulk wa-ter it purchases from the Comox Valley Regional District.
And according to di-rector of Finance, Don-ald Jacquest the CVRD is planning to increase its bulk water rates in 2016 from .64 cents per cubic meter to .66 cents and again in 2017 to .68 cents per metre.
To cover these in-creases, council endorsed staff ’s proposal for a $6 increase in the fl at rates - from $327 to $333 in 2016 and $339 in 2017.
As for sewer rates, Jac-quest recommended a $27 hike to residential sewer rate - from $321 to $348, with proportional increas-
es to the commercial, in-dustrial and institutional minimums. Council ap-proved the bylaw for the new rate.
The increase in rate, Jac-quest said, will help cover the CVRD’s sewer requisi-tion, which is 79 per cent of the town’s operating cost this year.
The CVRD has under-taken a major capital ex-penditure for its sewer service and to fund this, it has increased its annual sewer requisition and will continue to do so until 2018.
To cover the yearly in-crease, Jacquest recom-mended sewer rates go up by $27 in 2015 and 2016, $24 in 2017 and 2018.
Comox residents to face hike in water and sewer rates this year
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Comox Valley RCMP responded to the following inci-dents between Jan. 27 and Feb. 2:
On January 27th a report of a theft from a business, located on the 1800 block of Cliff e Avenue in Cour-tenay, was called into police. It was reported that an unknown male walked into the busi-ness when the clerk was not there and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the till. This investi-gation is continuing. (2015-1131)
During the early morning hours of January 28th po-lice entered into an investigation under the fi sheries act in the parking lot of the Driftwood mall on Cliff e Avenue in Cour-tenay. A pickup truck load with a sizeable amount of fresh clams was located along with three males who did not possess a licence or permit to have the clams in their possession. Department of Fisher-ies was contacted and
have taken the lead role in this investiga-tion. (2015-1147)
On January 31st police entered into an attempted break and enter complaint at a business located on the 1800 block of Cliff e Avenue in Cour-tenay. A tenant saw a person with a head-lamp on attempting to gain entry to a room through an outside window. The police service dog attended and a male was tracked and located and is now facing charges of attempted break and enter with intent. (2015-1277)
On January 31st police were called to a robbery that had occurred at the Lotto kiosk in the driftwood mall at approximately 3:45 PM. The em-ployee reported that a male jumped the counter and grabbed money from the cash drawer and then brandished a knife to make his escape. The male then went to the Target store and stole a team Canada hockey jersey. (2015-1291)
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BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff
The pace of construction on the new Comox Valley Re-gional Hospital on Lerwick Road is picking up.
Work is moving smoothly but Graham Design Builders Ltd., the company construct-ing the hospital on Lerwick, wants to have the ability to work beyond designated hours established in the city’s bylaw just in case unforeseen events occur.
The company has managed to adhere to the bylaw re-quirements so far but as work intensifi es, they’ve requested extended construction hours from January to September.
The current ordinance lim-its construction from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Satur-day and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday or statutory holidays.
Concrete work is now un-derway that includes the placement and trowel fi nish of suspended concrete slabs,
which will be approximately, 10,000 square feet or roughly 3,300 square metres each.
The company’s request ex-plained there is potential that due to weather conditions the concrete will not set in time for the fi nishers to complete their work ahead of 10 p.m.
“If this becomes the case, the project will have lights in place to light the work surface and have a fi nishing crew on site to trowel fi nish the slabs,” said senior project manager Bret Miche, in his letter to the city.
“The crews will be utilizing both hand fi nish techniques and ride on trowelling ma-chines. We do not expect this to be the norm but want to be prepared in the event of the exception to our planned work practice.”
Council approved the re-quest but required the com-pany to provide them with the dates the concrete works occurred outside the bylaw requirements.
Builders given extended hoursfor constructionof new CV hospital
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Chamber honours the best of the Valley for the 40th timeBy Philip RoundReports and pictures Special to the Echo
Winners were swept off their feet at Saturday’s Comox Valley Chamber of Commerce Community Awards - and not simply because the theme of the Filberg Centre’s decora-tions was ‘Midnight in Gotham,’ with Batman and his sidekick Robin in the audience.
It was the 40th outing for the prestigious awards, and this year more than 50 businesses, societies and individuals were nom-inated by the public as be-ing worthy recipients in 12 categories.
As reported in Tuesday’s Echo, the award for Citi-
zen of the Year was shared by two people whose de-cades of volunteering in the Valley in very diff erent fi elds the judges found im-possible to split -- Murray Shackel of Merville and Michele Morton of Cour-tenay.
Today we look at the winners in the other 11 cat-egories and what caught the judges’ eyes when they came to assess the nomi-nations.
Chamber president and CEO Dianne Hawkins says the Comox Valley is home to some “pretty amazing citizens and businesses,” and this year’s judging panel had had quite a task in selecting the winners from so many great nomi-nations.
USINESS OF THE YEAR: It was all hands on deck - or should that be body? - when the award for Business of the Year was announced. It went to Level 10 Eurospa - the Valley’s original full-service day spa. When business owner Leanne Boyd stepped up on the stage, she was joined by many of her colleagues from the Courtenay company keen to acknowledge the success. The business first opened under a different name 25 years ago, and quickly grew out of its original premises, mov-ing to its present Cliffe Avenue location in 1995. Today Level 10 has 20
employees - 11 hairstylists, six aestheticians and three receptionists -and the spa also boasts its own range of all-natural, botanical skincareproducts, created by Boyd five years ago and manufactured for her inToronto. Another claim to fame is the salon’s environmental credentials- in 2014 it was certificated as a ‘Green Circle Salon’ for managing all itswaste in an environmentally-responsible manner. Picture shows Boyd,accompanied by some of her colleagues, being presented with heraward by Andy Carter, representing sponsor Thrifty Foods.
AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR: This award went to Hollie Wood Oysters, and our picture shows Hollie and Greg Wood (left and centre) receiving the recognition certificate from award sponsor MNP LLP, represented by Alana Pearson. The Woods started oyster farming in 1994, originally working for Fanny Bay Oysters, and acquired their first lease two years later, working it part-time. In 2008 they became full-time oyster farmers running their own business, and last year expanded further by setting up their own nursery. Working with local hatcheries, they bought and grew 18 million baby oysters for them-selves and for onward supply to other farmers.
NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR: Five organizations were nominated for this award, and the winner was Glacier View Lodge Society, providing complex care to seniors at its residential facility in Courtenay and support programs for its residents, their families and the elderly in the wider community.
The award was presented by Gord Young (left), rep-resenting the sponsors, Pacific Sleep Care, to Glacier View’s executive director Michael Aikins (centre) and board chair Bob Scales (right). The other finalists in this category were Cumberland Community Forest Society and Comox Valley Transition Society.
YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR: The winner of this award was 29-year-old Allison Mackenzie (pic-tured right), who has owned and operated Dark Side Chocolates in Cumberland for the past four years. She now employs three people in
addition to herself; makes a point of using ingredients from other local producers in her truffles; and col-laborates in promotions such as Gourmet Trails and the North Island Culinary Program. Mackenzie has also worked to bring small busi-nesses in Cumberland together, organizing and participating in cross-promotions, business mixers, and special events, and is active in a number of local societies. Pictured on the left presenting the award, representing sponsor Wedler Engineering LLP, is Andrew Gower.
SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR: There was a spring in the step of Lindsay Sterk as he climbed to the stage to receive the Small Businessof the Year award. Perhaps that’s not so surprising, as his successfulbusiness is Pantuso Dance - the Courtenay-based company that offersan extensive tap dance program along with a wide range of other dancestyles, including jazz, ballet and hip-hop as well as musical theatreclasses. Since acquiring the business in 2007, Sterk has grown it to athree-studio centre with more than 400 students. Sterk (right) is pic-tured receiving his accolade from Darren Kardynal, representing theaward sponsor, Glacierview Financial Services
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YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARD: The outstanding work of Maddy Monteiro (pictured left) of raising awareness, generating support and offering help to young people with mental health issues led to her being presented with the Youth Leadership Award by Bill Parkinson, representing the School of Business at North Island College (pic-tured right). Maddy was the founding member of Mark R. Isfeld School’s peer helping program to train teens to reach out and help others within the school who need a sympathetic ear, information, or referrals to counsel-lors in crisis situations. Her work for the cause has taken her well outside the school environment, as she is a leading member of the Kelty Youth Ambassador Program, which has already seen her involved in presenta-tions and workshops in other parts of BC.
CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARD: With nine people nominated for out-standing customer service, deciding who should be short-listed was a tough enough task for the judges. But there was huge appreciation - especially from Cumberland residents at the event -- when the win-ner was announced as Darilyn Keene, the owner of hair stylists Alley Cats. With 30 years of service, Alley Cats is the longest-established business in the village still run by its original proprietor. Keene was judged to have a proven passion for service to her clients and to her community. She is pictured receiving her award from Mikhail Pronick, representing sponsors Axis Heating + Cooling. The two other finalists in the category were Lisa Kavanagh of Apples and Pears Group Daycare and Pieter Vorster of Continual Palingenesis.
PRESIDENT’S MERIT AWARD (RIGHT): Each year the chair of the Chamber of Commerce gets the opportunity to make a personal award to an individual or organization - an award not open for public nominations. This year’s chair, Helen Furgale, chose Bob Scales, who has been a volunteer in the Valley for decades, including a long asso-ciation with the Chamber itself. Other activities have included more than 40 years with the Lions Club, being current chair of the Glacier View Lodge Society, being a board member of St Joseph’s Hospital, and treasurer of the Courtenay Low-Income Housing Society. Receiving the award, he joked with the audience: “The reason I do all this stuff is quite simple - my wife wants me out of the house!” But he added in all seriousness he was pleased to continue giving back to the community and was humbled by the award. Picture shows Scales (right) receiving his certificate from Susan Auchterlonie of North Island College.
NEW BUSINESS OF THE YEAR (RIGHT): Erik (left) and Mary-Ellen
Bergvinson (centre) received the New Business of the Year award for their company CanWest Mechanical Inc.,
based at Moray Avenue in Courtenay. In little more than a year since the
business opened to offer services in industrial and commercial heating, plumbing and sheet metal fabrica-
tion, it has grown to 28 local employ-ees and provides apprenticeship training for new young recruits.
Current projects span the length of Vancouver Island and extend to
northern Alberta. The company is also active in supporting community groups and initiatives, including the
United (mountain bike) Riders of Cumberland, the Canadian Tire
JumpStart program, and the Ride to Conquer Cancer. Presenting the
award on behalf of the sponsors, Presley and Partners, was Eric
Dawson (right).
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP AWARD (ABOVE): Linda Oprica of Ascent Coaching is pictured (centre) being presented with the award for business leadership by Janet Ehrman (left) and Colby Craven (right), representing sponsors First Credit Union and Insurance. In addition to her business and executive coaching work -- which was praised by a number of other award nominees on the night - Oprica is an active Rotarian and former Comox Valley Women’s Business Network ‘Woman of the Year.’ Among many other com-munity activities, she serves as a director and is a past chair of the Comox Valley Airport Commission. The judges’ com-mented that in her professional work Oprica “drives both experi-enced and budding leaders alike to tackle the bigger issues that it’s often easy to shy away from.”
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HERITAGE RECOGNITION AWARD: Comox Valley Child Development Association won the annual Heritage Recognition Award for long-standing businesses or organizations that continue to serve the local commu-nity. The not-for-profit CVCDA has provided programs and services supporting children and young adults with special needs and their families for just over 40 years. Since it was set up in 1974, some 25,000 families have used one or more of its services - with 700 young people assisted last year alone. Pictured from the left, representing the CVCDA, are Arnie Einarson, Donna Lynn Wilson and Pam Crowe, with presenter Tony Hayes (representing award sponsor Vancouver Island InsuranceCentres) on the right.
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Health offi cials and re-gional district workers have begun to dig into the mystery of what caused the strange water quality issues that made life dif-fi cult for local restaurants and raised alarm among environmentalists.
Some of the fi ndings were revealed during the regularly scheduled Co-mox Valley Regional Dis-trict meeting Feb. 4, as politicians tried to get their heads around what exactly happened.
Gary Anderson, a drink-ing water offi cer with Island Health, said con-cerns about turbidity have been heard since the Mid-dle Ages, when the cloudy liquid was seen more as an aesthetic problem than anything else.
“In a nutshell it’s murki-ness or brackish water,” he said. “For thousands of years we didn’t know any-
CVRD probes causes of lengthy boil water advisory
Mike Herschmiller, manager of water services at the Comox Valley Regional District, surveys the extensivebank failure upstream of PerseveranceCreek.
thing about it.”Only in 1989 did turbid-
ity become a treatment objective for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Nephelometric turbid-ity units (NTUs) were ad-opted as a way to measure how safe the water might be. This indirect measure of water quality can raise red fl ags about human safety, but doesn’t tell offi -cials the size of particulate matter or pathogens, for example.
“We’ve moved forward quite a bit,” he said. “The target is 1 NTU.”
Comox Director Ken Grant said the community “got a really black eye over this” and wondered tthe extent to which the boil
water advisory was even necessary.
Staff said that prelimi-nary results from the Uni-versity of Victoria students studying the issue seem to indicate that the turbidity in Comox Lake was due to primarily inorganic in-stead of the more danger-ous organic particles.
But Charmaine Enns, medical health offi cer for the North Island said even if health offi cials had been more lax with standards it still wouldn’t change the fact that something ex-treme took place - and no one can prove what that was yet.
“There was something unique that happened in December,” she said.
(Continued on page 11)
“There could have been a large landslide”
TimberWest offi cials led a Comox Lake Watershed Advisory Group on a tour of the land that acts as a funnel for water towards Comox Lake Oct. 21 during heavy rainfall.
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“That was a sustained elevated turbidity. It’s not just because we have high-er standards.”
Regional district staff produced photos and graphs that showed vast changes in the water-shed, including signifi cant riverbank shifts along a tributary to Perseverance Creek and the turbid-ity abnormality tracked in October and December at the CVRD chlorination station.
Meanwhile the Cumber-land Community Forest Society is looking to ex-pand the amount of forest they are planning to buy, in order to protect Per-severance Creek further from logging and add ad-ditional safeguards to the drinking water system in the process.
“Yes there are standard changes,” Enns said. “But there are source changes as well.”
TimberWest offi cials led a Comox Lake Watershed Advisory Group on a tour of the land that acts as a funnel for water towards Comox Lake Oct. 21 dur-
ing heavy rainfall.By Oct. 27 health of-
fi cials launched the fi rst boil water notice, which lasted until November 5, 2014. The regional district had to shut down the wa-ter intake twice.
Between December 8 and 12, 325 mm of rain hit the upper Comox Lake watershed. That’s about an Olympic-sized swim-ming pool every 2.5 sec-onds.
CVRD offi cials started tracking signifi cant ero-sion along waterways that feed into Perseverance Creek and other tributar-ies. On December 11 the second boil water advi-sory was called into ef-fect, launching daily water sampling which never un-covered any bacteria (al-though protozoa and oth-er microscopic life forms wouldn’t have shown up on the tests that were in place at the time).
CVRD offi cials point out the majority of the water-shed is generally consid-ered hydrologically sta-ble, with thin soils, steep bedrock exposures and minimal stream channel erosion. The coarse sands
and gravels generally set-tle out quickly, with the exception of thick clay de-posits found in the upper Perseverance region.
The CVRD has com-missioned a study to in-vestigate “the causes and sources of turbidity to Comox Lake” and will work with the University of Victoria to probe even further.
The CVRD watershed advisory group has been working since June 2014 on development of a wa-tershed protection plan, which is expected to be completed by June, 2015.
“We still don’t know what happened,” Enns said. “There could have been a large landslide.”
Courtenay Director Erik Eriksson asked if CVRD staff had been reaching out to logging companies to “see about the turbidity issue?”
Debra Oakman replied there’s nothing directly on the agenda right now, but stated the regional district has been in contact with TimberWest in order to set up a meeting some-time in the future to dis-cuss the subject.
CVRD starts probe into causes of lengthy boil water advisory
Signifi cant erosion in feeder to Perseverance Creek
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Cumberland has de-cided to pull out of the re-gional economic develop-ment initiative and forge its own path. The Village feels it’s not getting value for the $45,000 it puts to-wards the Comox Valley Economic Development Society every year and plans to come up with a new plan to promote busi-ness within its borders.
“It’s just frustrating sometimes,” said Mayor Leslie Baird, describing her experience trying to make Cumberland’s voice heard amid those of the fi ve other communities represented by CVEDS. “We’re not going the same way as Courtenay and Comox. We’re not attract-ing seniors. We’re what you would call - diff erent. We’re diff erent from what they are doing and what they want to attract.”
While the 3,400 Villag-er-strong municipality in the hills wants to boost eco-tourism and promote art galleries, microbrewer-ies and small retail while allowing for the establish-ment of medical marijua-
na facilities, CVEDS has a budget of $1.1 million to augment the economic prosperity of more than 60,000 people across the region.
The Village has been an-noyed by what it feels is underwhelming support for community events like Empire Days while not be-ing able to make decisions about how some of the money is spent, since a lack of hotels keeps them from participating in the committee that divvies up the hotel tax.
Baird recalls the strong response during the all candidates meeting before the election last fall when the idea of withdrawing from CVEDS was brought up.
“There was a resound-ing applause,” she said. “The residents were not seeing a benefi t.”
The move follows a ser-vice review of the group, produced in 2014, that came up with 31 recom-mendations for CVEDS improvements.
Coun. Gwyn Sproule,
Cumberland’s director on the regional district, sup-ported that review during a close vote back in 2013 that was key to allow-ing the Village to ditch CVEDS.
“It’s sort of a convolut-ed kind of process,” Coun. Roger Kishi, her alternate on the CVRD board, ex-plained. What’s going on right now at the regional district is they are review-ing the bylaw that estab-lishes the regional district service.”
The CVRD will also be reexamining their con-tract with CVEDS, since the current one will expire this year.
“Basically the stars are aligning for any partici-pants in the economic de-velopment service to with-draw,” he said.
“I don’t think it’s been any secret that Cumber-land’s had concerns with the service that it was get-ting through CVEDS.”
After holding an in-cam-era discussion on the mat-ter Jan. 26 the Village fi red off its Dear John letter to CVEDS, copying Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Co-ralee Oakes, as well as the
other communities that are involved.
Denman and Hornby islands were not included since they already have their own economic devel-opment organizations.
Cumberland “knows that stimulating economic development in the Co-mox Valley is hard work, and that there is a long list of demands placed on the Comox Valley Eco-nomic Development Soci-ety, probably unfairly so,” Baird says in the letter.
“Let us make their job easier, and allow us to withdraw from this ser-vice.”
CAO Sundance Topham said a report on the pro-cess will be brought to council in the coming weeks, and noted it’s up to the province to help set out the next steps for the Village.
“We’re awaiting direc-tion from the ministry in terms of what that process would look like,” he said, adding the letter marks the beginning of Cum-berland’s new journey to independent economic development. “It’s just the fi rst step in the process.”
Meanwhile other mu-
nicipalities are beginning to consider what this will mean for the future of economic development in the broader Comox Valley community.
“Cumberland withdraw-ing from the Comox Valley Economic Development Commission service will mean there is no mandate to promote it,” said Comox councillor and regional di-rector Barbara Price in an email.
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This will mean added costs for the rest of the participants, because while the fi nancial impact will be minor, the remain-ing participants - Courte-nay, Comox and the rural areas - will have to pick up the shortfall, she added.
CVEDS declined to comment for this article, but the board is planning to review Cumberland’s withdrawal letter at its February meeting.
Village wants to drop out of Economic Development
It’s just frustrating sometimes.. We’re not going the same way as Courtenay and Comox. We’re not attracting seniors. We’re what you would call ... diff erent. We’re diff erent from what they are doing and what they want to attact. ”
LESLIE BAIRDMayor of Cumberland
I feel I must take excep-tion to the recent letter from JF Logan regarding the presence of the “ad-dicted and homeless” who have apparently taken over the library.
This sounds to me like more blame the victim thinking.
First of all, how do you know these people are ad-dicted to anything? They are probably just people who need a place to go, since we don’t seem to have any provisions for the homeless in the Co-mox Valley because no one wants them in their neigh-bourhood.
I, too, am a frequent us-er of the library and have never personally witnessed a drug transaction tak-ing place, been harassed or even asked for spare change.
The library is not nec-essarily a refuge for “like-minded” book reading people: it is a resource for everyone in the commu-nity.
I also think it is unfair to assume that these people do not read books or that they steal books, CDs, or DVDs. (anymore than the general population).
I have spent most of my working life in libraries and was taught that “libraries are for everyone”.
I was not aware that there were programs avail-able at the Lewis Centre for the homeless. Where
are they supposed to go? Let’s cut these people some slack.
Nancy O’NeillCourtenay
As someone who has experienced homeless-ness and also is one ‘these people’ who got a start in Canada via the temporary foreign worker program it would be easy to be incred-ibly angered by the senti-ments expressed by JF Lo-gan of Courtenay.
Working as consul-tant with communities on homelessness including the Valley, has toughened me up however as these misperceptions and anti-quated attitudes are sur-prisingly common.
Research at home and internationally has dis-pelled archaic myths about who is homeless and why alongside demonstrating how communities working together can prevent and therefore end homeless-ness. While the assumption may be correct that some people make the choice not to have a roof and four walls surrounding them, this lifestyle choice is ex-tremely rare.
If you are going to make massive generalisations, then the truth is no one wants to be homeless. A truth backed by research.
The government is be-ginning to accept its re-sponsibility in how its
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policies and systems have contributed to the situa-tion.
It now supports plans to end homelessness and the approach of ‘housing first’ as solution. Perhaps it’s time for all of us to look at how we also need to change.
The Comox Valley is known to be a caring and generous community. Ma-jority support in the recent election question on fund-ing homelessness solu-tions highlights this.
Hopefully those whose compassion falls short for our residents troubled by housing will educate them-selves and eventually open their hearts as well.
Now is the time for all of us to gently challenge fear-based beliefs and narrow-mindedness wherever we see it.
To use intelligent infor-mation and provide tangi-ble support for the many people doing their best to create a community where everyone who wants a home can have one.
Amanda RidgwayIgnite Consultancy
Think I will challenge councillor HIllian’s motion: Put on old clothes, buy my first cigarettes in 30 years
and go down to chat up my friends on my sidewalk at my library. Smoke up a storm and maybe even fall asleep inside my library reading the Economist.
Then I will move up the street and loiter under Thrifty’s ‘No Loitering’ sign on my sidewalk until the police come to check me out and move me on.
Our Courtenay coun-cillors have been unani-mous in this poor bashing; marching in step with past councils.
Remember the refusal to allow cheap rental suites on Cumberland road or the Four Square Church’s at-tempt to build social hous-ing, the shelter debacle, the Maple Pool fiasco; those homeless squatters driv-en out of the park, their few possessions put in a dumpster and off to Pid-geon Lake?
New council, same old B.S. right off the bat. So soon, so sad.
Jeff HarbowerCourtenay
Dear Mr. Weber,I am writing to you as
the Chair of the Courtenay School District to ask for a written justification for the removal of two half days a month from the educa-
tion of the children in this school district. As I un-derstand it, the two after-noons a month were orig-inally given to teachers as time to learn about and to incorporate a new Provin-cial curriculum into their classrooms. However, it is now two years later, which ought to have been more than enough time to com-plete this process.
I am a retired teacher with more than 20 years experience teaching in the BC school system. Dur-ing my teaching career, we were grateful for profes-sional development days that did give us an oppor-tunity to look at new and innovative ideas. For other learning experiences, we used time after the school day and summer holidays to expand our expertise and to communicate with others in the field. As the registrar for the Naramata Conference on Special Ed-ucation, I spent 30 years helping to organize a week-end conference to assist educators to access new information and strategies relating to teaching chil-dren with special needs. No student was ever de-nied extended learning time for these professional opportunities.
I have heard that the
typical school day has been lenghtened by a few min-utes to equal the Wednes-day afternoon closures, and my response is: that is a specious justification. A few minutes at the end of the day does not equal two afternoons a month. This is not happening in Van-couver, Surrey, Langley, Richmond or other large school districts where the challenges arising from poverty and multicultural students are much great-er. If not there, then why here?
Parents in the Comox Valley are not wealthy, and for two years they have had to stretch their resources to provide child care for their children every other Wednesday. Child care is not equal to school time, and I am deeply concerned that Valley children, in-cluding my grandchildren, are being shortchanged by their school district.
I am requesting that this letter be brought before the School Board, that it be in-cluded in the minutes of the next meeting, and that the Board provide a writ-ten justification to all of the Valley parents and tax-payers for this misguided policy.
Linda WeinbergAnmore, B.C.
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Email to: [email protected] control, for BC Hydro. Huge swings in infl ows. Never before experienced. Who should share in the cost of the Glacial stirring -it’s somewhat obvious that the Province has con-trol over the reservoir, di-rectly and indirectly - they need to pony up to cover the cost of to fi x what used to be a pristine Co-mox Lake water supply, during winter months.
A LIFETIME of puppy kiss-es to the staff at Pacifi c Coastal Airlines at the Comox Valley Airport for their amazing care trans-porting a rescue dog. Thank you so much for the support and genuine concern.
BIG BEEF to the person who cut the top off the beautiful sequoia (Califor-nia redwood) tree at Cook Creek just before the exit coming from Courtenay. We have been watching this beautiful tree grow for a few years now and we were crushed when just before Christmas we noticed that someone cut the top off it. You know who you are and anyone who saw your Christmas tree knows who you are. SHAME ON YOU!!!
A BIG BOUQUET to Duane and crew at Vancouver Is-land Paving for the excel-lent paving - approaches, driveway and car port. The extra pouring was much appreciated this winter.
A BIG BOUQUET to Shawn at Crockett Tractor Service for the excellent work on the deerproof fencing and gates. The price was very reasonable.
A BIG BOUQUET to Jeff and Dave at Got Gutters for the excellent vinyl siding, aluminum gutters and new down spouts. The workmanship was excel-lent and the many extras
they did are much appre-ciated. They were very meticulous and tidy with cleanup after they were fi nished and the price was very reasonable.
MY BEEF is to all the peo-ple who drive with their handicap card on their rearview mirror. It im-pairs vision! I have a card and consider it a privilege. Am I one of the few who read the letter that came with it saying you are not supposed to drive with it hanging there! I think the police should start stop-ping these people! Abuse the card, you should lose it.
A BOUQUET of snowdrops to all the knitters at Lake Trail School library - “The Woolly Mammoths” - Wednesday evenings 6:30-8 pm and at the Co-mox Library every Tues-day evening 6:30-8 pm. It’s all FREE. Donations of yarn gratefully accepted for our “learners”. What a fun bunch! Need some “cabin fever’ reliever? FMI: 250-339-1240.
I AM A TIMES COLONIST car-rier. I deliver the paper six days a week. My beef is with the other carri-ers who took some of my tips. Shame on you. I hope you are looking over your shoulder, because I will be watching you. Maybe you should try earning your own tips the honest way. I work hard for my tips and count on them this time of year.
BIG BEEF to all the land-lords in the Comox Valley for keeping on increasing rents yearly. It’s just about greed and getting rich overnight. Is it any won-der why so many home-less people are living on the streets in this day and age. How devastating and shameful. It’s like once again going back to the
dirty 1930’s. Every year rents go up, food goes up, taxes. But the beef is the low income government cheques do not go up. I was talking to one home-less man. I said, sir, can you not fi nd work at all, and he looks at me and said, Oh sure, oh sure? There are all kinds of free volunteer jobs but not pay-ing jobs and it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. To get work today I for one believe the Comox Valley will become the big ugly city of Vancou-ver. Many more homeless people will come and you can sure bet your greedy dollar on that.
A HUGE BOUQUET to Dale from the Town of Comox for returning my iPhone last week. Thank you as well for returning it right to my front door! We are lucky to have kind and helpful people in our com-munity, like you!
ON MONDAY, January 26th at 9:40 P.M. I was in Su-perstore buying a few gro-ceries. As I was unload-ing my basket I realized that I had left my wallet at home. While explaining this to the check-out clerk and saying I would return the items to their original locations, a young woman in line behind me off ered to pay for my groceries. She insisted that she be al-lowed to pay, with the pro-viso that I pass the favor on. Her name is Kirstin, and I - and now several others that I’ve passed her kindness on to - am very grateful to her.
A BOUQUET OF ROSES to Kari of CIBC, Crown Isle, for your patience in trying to resolve the issues with VISA. Finally done! Much appreciated.
REMINDER to those walk-ing or cycling in the dusk to wear bright clothing.
Was almost on you be-fore I even saw you early one morning on my way to work. This applies to all walkers and cyclists on busy roads and not so busy neighbour roads (As-pen area). Thank you.
BIG BOUQUET to “Fred” the seagull for some great en-tertainment. While sitting at Midas waiting for my car to be repaired I noticed this seagull that landed just outside the building and then without any hes-itation wandered into the shop just like he owned the place. It was so funny, he walked around, hopped on the equipment and kept a watchful eye on the guys as they worked. I had to ask the manager just who this seagull was and was told that he’s been coming around daily for a couple of years and now will get quite close to the guys de-pending on what kind of food they have brought for him that particular day. He laughed and said there was even some talk about a facebook page for him. Kudos to Midas and their employees for look-ing after Fred and thanks to Fred for a few laughs while my car got fi xed.
JUST A QUICK thumbs up to GOT GUTTERS. I had a small job that I called three gutter companies and the only one that re-plied was Got Gutters. They came out and gave me a good quote, then proceeded to do the job in a professional and timely manner. It’s really nice to deal with people who know what they are do-ing!!
A HUGE BOUQUET of smiles, hugs, and “Bear necessi-ties” from the kids at Li-ons Valley View Estates, who now have new friends to love, thanks to Brett Harrison. Your kindness DOES make a diff erence.
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BEEFS & BOUQUETS
MY SON AND I were sitting in a restaurant, waiting for our meal. I was fl ipping-through newspapers to occupy myself, while we waited. I was reading the “Beefs and Bouquets” col-umn, where a contribu-tor was saying that he thought the recent rash of “Bouquets” from res-taurant patrons who had anonymously had their restaurant bills covered by strangers was a) prob-ably untrue and a cheap form of advertisement for restaurants, as the restau-rants are generally named, in the “Bouquet”, but b) - if this really IS happening - socially inappropriate, as there are others who are more in-need of food than the average restaurant pa-tron. “Fair enough”, think I. “Anything is possible, and any perspective wor-thy, in this world.” Soon afterwards, our meals are brought to the table, we eat them, relax a bit, and then go to pay the bill... but GUESS WHAT? SOMEONE HAD COV-ERED OUR BILL! It felt like Christmas had come again: I was amazed, and came-over all blush-y. The waitress also informed me that it had been the older couple sitting beside my son and I, who had cov-ered the bill, for us. In amazement, I said “That’s funny: the entire meal, I thought they were judging me, because my son was too messy and loud!” This goes to show that YOU NEVER KNOW. Thank you, kind couple, both for not judging us, and for giving us an unexpected gift. We may not be starv-ing in a gutter, but we are not well-off , and your gift was very appreciated. (I DO regret, however, that I must insist on keeping the name of the restau-rant in which all of this oc-
curred, unnamed. I don’t want to give the cynics of the world any loopholes to relish.)
DEAR CALL ME CYNICAL: Yes you are in error, and it is too bad you have such little faith in the people of the Comox Valley. I per-sonally pay for someone else’s table in a restaurant at least once a month, and I know of other people who do the same. I feel sorry for you, that your trust in your fellow human beings is so pathetic.
DEAR CYNICAL, you may indeed, be suspicious when you hear about peo-ple who anonymously pay for someone’s meal. But it defi nitely happens and I know because I am some-one who does it! Some-times I buy the person behind me in the grocery line a treat, sometimes the cashier when she looks tired, sometimes the per-son behind me in a Tim Horton’s drive-through. I have also been on the re-ceiving end of a free meal at a restaurant. You fi nd it hard to understand why people would do this when they could be giving their money to people who “re-ally need it”. First, who’s to say who “really needs it?” You can’t know that, unless you have access to this person’s bank ac-count details. And, chanc-es are, the people who are giving their money away in this way, are ALSO giv-ing to the homeless, the food bank, to other vari-ous charities locally and globally. Giving is a way of life and I for one, do not restrict my generos-ity to what you may con-sider poor people. Giving makes me feel good and it makes others feel good and that’s why I do it. I also hope that the person
on the receiving end does pay it forward, perhaps to someone who is really needy, but if not, that’s okay too - because random acts of kindness act like a domino eff ect - you never know where it will end up! So, my cynical friend, you may feel suspicious when you read about generous acts, doubting the sin-cerity of the writer, but wouldn’t it make you feel better about the world to give the person the ben-efi t of the doubt and be glad that there is kindness and generosity of spirit out there? It exists and I sincerely hope YOU re-ceive an anonymous gift someday and have cause to thank the person in the Bouquets.
TO THE PERSON who insists on driving your Moped up the Lerwick road side-walk. I know how scary driving on that busy road can be. But do you not realize how dangerous it is for the people walking on the sidewalk? Not to mention that it is illegal. If you are too afraid to drive on the road maybe you should be walking. It’s bad enough when we have to share the sidewalk with a pedal bike.
BOUQUETS of Human
Rights to the letter writ-er who claims to speak for the “majority” of li-brary users - your view of the homeless, vulner-able HUMAN BEINGS in our community is more of a threat to myself and my children than the less fortunate among us. The judgement, fear and in-timidation in your letter is what is disgusting, not the situation at the library.
BEEF to all the traffi c beefers! First off , it’s traf-fi c, get over it. If I read
one more “when is some-thing going to be done about (insert lame traffi c whine here)” I am going to scream! Here’s when it will get done, when you get behind the wheel and drive defensively. This community, province, country has bigger fi sh to fry than chasing down ve-hicles that you don’t like their driving.
A BIG BOUQUET to Finner-
on Hyundai for the experi-ence they provide in buy-ing a new car. I have been in about 10 car dealerships over the past two months looking to buy a new car. I can say that the best experience I had was in Finneron Hyundai. If you are also in a car buying mood please do yourself a favor and try them out. It was more of a helpful experience rather than an adversarial one that hap-pens too often in the car industry today. Thanks again for making the car shopping experience a positive one.
IN THE COMOX VALLEY THERE ARE 104 REGISTERED SPECIAL OLYMPICS athletes and 74 volunteer coaches/support persons. Each and every one of them would like to say thank you to the mer-chants and community members who stepped up to help make our Christ-mas dinner and dance such a success. Turkeys donated by QF, the West-erly, LCol Clint Mowbray CO of 442 Squadron Comox, Lori Zacharias and Rob & Kristin Thib-ert were delicious. Door prizes donated by Boston Pizza, Island Pizza and Wendy’s thrilled our ath-letes. Thanks to Karensa Blerot, John’s Indepen-dent Grocer, Walmart and Target for donations that allowed us to get all those
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Marine Harvest Cana-da’s Marsh Bay farm is the fi rst salmon farm in North America to attain Aquacul-ture Stewardship Council (ASC) certifi cation.
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Royston Community Club and Hall will host the 2nd Annual Spirit Bear Swim this coming BC Family Day, February 9th, 2015 at 11am.
All communities and families are welcome and festivities begin at 11 am at the Royston waterfront on Marine Drive at Roys-ton Road. There will be a
Grand Prize for Best Out-fi t, and Best Team Spirit, lots of Runners Up and Door Prizes including Swim Passes donated by Comox Valley Recreation Facilities. Fresh Royston Coff ee, Hot Chocolate and Tea on site, with DJ and MC King Tutt supply-ing all the “Splish Splash” tunes.
This event follows an-other successful Com-munity “Breakfast with Santa” in December, as well as community “meet and greet” block parties and is an opportunity for many local residents to share and celebrate the growing spirit of the Roy-ston Community with the whole Comox Valley.
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The LINC Youth Centre will be host-ing a concession with all kinds of aff ordable goodies.
Regular fees will ap-ply to squash and the Wellness Centre. We ac-knowledge the fi nancial support of the Province of British Columbia to bring you a free and fun way to spend the day together!
For more informa-tion, please call The Lewis Centre (250) 338-5371.
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The dragon is set to enter the Comox Valley.
The world champion-ship dragon dance team of Taiwan is coming to the valley for the Lunar New Year Festival to be hosted by the Comox Valley Multicultural Society on Feb. 24 at the Native Sons Hall.
The Jhuo Lan Dragon Dance Team will travel to three cities only in Canada and it includes a performance here in Courtenay and in Vancouver and Toronto.
Event organizer Jin Lin said they are excited to bring this traditional dance which will share not only the Asian cul-ture but also celebrate the 100th year birthday of
the City of Courtenay.“This is a must see
performance,” said Lin. “Do not miss it.”
This will be Jhuo Lan’s inaugural performance in Canada. The team will perform four of their world famous dragon dances.
The dragon dance is a Chinese tradition and is believed to hold magical powers as well as the authority to control nature. The dragon is a symbol of success and power in Asia.
The act of dragon dances demonstrates these properties and delivers blessings to all. After years of evolution, today’s dragon dances combine elements of contemporary artistry in materials as well as shapes and traditional
characteristics in martial arts and movements. “Bursting Dragon” is a
special Hakka tradition in which dragon dancers must dance in the mid-
dle of exploding fire-crackers in Miaoli, Taiwan. In passing shown this significant cultural ritual, the drag-on dance team from National Jhuo Lan Experimental Senior High School has not only trained countless dragon dancing perform-ers, but also created a great number of inspir-ing dragon dances, such as The Warrior Dragon, the Lotus Dragon, the Dragon of Glory and the
Dragon for the stars.With their beautiful,
fluorescent dragon per-formance, Jhuo Lan dragon dance team is going to illuminate Courtenay’s Lunar New Year Festival.
The event will cover culture, entertainment and food.
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The Jhuo Lan Dragon Dance team from Taiwan will help celebrate the Lunar New Year here in the Comox Valley and also celebrate Courtenay’s 100th birthday celebration.
Enter the dragonAsian cultural dance to highlight Comox Valley’s Lunar New Year celebrations
Comox Valley resident Sunday Dennis, her fam-ily, and “Team Sunday” (the community team sur-rounding them) have been blown away by the incred-ible community support and kindness that has been extended to Sunday as she battles an aggres-sive and life threaten-ing form of brain cancer called Gleoblastoma. Di-agnosed December 31st 2014, Team Sunday has been raising signifi cant funds in order for the fam-ily to seek highly special-
ized treatment and care in the US.
Remarkably, cash dona-tions, special fundraising events and silent and on-line auctions have raised over $300,000 in just one month! Sunday is recov-ering from her surgery in LA and is on her way back to Canada for treatment while she waits for the next steps in an exciting treatment trial at UCLA.
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love has made it possible for them to pursue a medi-cal path that could help save Sunday’s life.” says Shea Wilson, a spokesper-son for the family. “There are still many expenses to come and hurdles to over-come but this is an amaz-ing start.”
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“Jason and Sunday are also aware that there are other families in need just like them, right here in our own community and they really want to share some of the radical gener-osity that was shared with them.”
With the blessing of of Jason and Sunday, Team Sunday is launching a new online auction on Febru-ary 4th with the proceeds being shared equally be-tween the Sunday Dennis
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Details on Sunday’s journey and opportuni-ties to donate can be found at http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/hope-for-sun-day-dennis/286076. or at Bright Light and Love for Sunday Dennis on face-book.
The Silent Auction for Heather and Sunday launched at NOON Feb-ruary 4th and runs until Valentines Day. Visit the auction here: http://sun-dayandheather.eflea.ca/view
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Have you recently moved to the Comox Valley and have very few, if any, acquaintances, family members or friends? Being new to an area how do you fi nd out what your new community has to off er? How and where do you get a good recommendation for a doctor, dentist, hairstylist, meet friends and learn more about this wonderful place that is now home? An excellent starting point would be the Comox Valley Newcomers’ Club. The Newcomers’ club is a friendly, warm and welcoming group of women who have resided in the Comox Valley for less than two years. The club currently off ers 25+ activities for their members, some being co-ed. An individual can become involved in anything from hiking,
SEND A SINGINGVALENTINE CARD
Once again a Forbidden Plateau Barbershop Quartet will surprise a loved one on February 13 and 14 with a rose, a Valentine card and sing two or three love songs.They will visit homes, schools, all workplaces, restaurants, seniors’ homes and hospitals unannounced in Comox, Courtenay or Cumberland.Cost is $40 and all monies collected are donated to the Comox Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group.Surprise your special lady or man and book your time and place early by ringing Al at 250-339-3668.
LADIES CLOTHINGEXCHANGE FEB. 7
Ladies! If you have stocked your closets with wonderful fashions, but it’s time to upgrade, swap or sell, join in Comox Recreations fi rst Ladies Clothing Exchange on February 7th, 9 to 11am at Comox Community Centre. The registration fee to sell your goods is only $5 per table and it’s free to come in and shop! We will see you there!
CYCLING SAFETYDANCE FEB. 21
The Comox Valley Early Childhood Educators Community is hosting a “Cycling Safety Dance” on Saturday Feb 21, 7 pm at the lower Elks Hall in Courtenay. This event is being held in memory of Paul Bally who lost his life while cycling. Paul’s wife is an early childhood educator and it is her wish that proceeds go towards developing cycling safety educational materials for preschool age children. The educators will work closely with the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition to produce the materials.We invite everyone to come and support this very worthwhile cause. Music will be provided by “Collective Whole”. Tickets are only $10 each and can be purchased at the door or by e-mailing Charlene at [email protected]
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WOMEN TO HEARFROM JILL NELSON
Comox Valley Women’s Connection are hosting a Luncheon featuring Jill Nelson’s “Fun with Excercise”.Jill specializes in working with 55 plus but everyone is welcome. Our guest speaker will be Julie LeGoff and her topic is “Search for Love” and our singer is Karen Usipuik.Please join us for a fun fi lled luncheon at The Crown Isle Resort. on Wednesday, February 11th. Lunch will start at 11:30am. (Doors open at 11am.)Please e-mail reservations to [email protected] or call Rose at 250-337-5491.
MYSTERY ATGENEALOGY CLUB
Comox Valley Genealogy Group meets Tuesday Feb 10th - from 7 p.m.- 9 p.m.Topic for this month’s meeting will be: “The Mystery and Search for Donna Gray”.Location: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1901 20th St. Courtenay. Come and hear how this mystery was solved. Speaker will be Barb Page.Guests and new members welcome. FMI..Marlene 250-334-3080. Web Site...http://www.cvfamilyhistory.org/
MYELOMA SUPPORT MEETING The North Island Myeloma Support Group is having its monthly meeting on February 17, 2015 in the dining room at the Best Western Westerly Hotel, 1590 Cliff e Avenue, Courtenay. Come for lunch at 12:15 (optional, buy your own lunch), meeting starts at 1:30. Please contact Sandy at: [email protected] or 250-703-4688 if you plan to attend or for more info.
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Susan Sinclair, M.A. Aud (c), Registered Audiologist and owner of the NextGenHearing Center, will be speaking at the February meeting of the ‘CHHA’ - CV Hard of Hearing Support Group . The meeting will as usual be held at the Tsolum Building ( behind Lewis Center near tennis court) on February 12. We are looking forward to hearing from this talented lady described as being particularly passionate about meeting the communication needs of her clients, through the latest technology in hearing aids, accessories and assistive listening devices. Following her presentation, Susan is planning for a ‘question and answer’ session. We do hope to see you there. Meeting starts at 10 am. New members, family and friends, most welcome. Hope to see you there! FMI call Glenda 250 338 7792.
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For a number of years, the North Island Rhododendron Society (NIRS) has exchanged garden tour visits with a sister group on Whidbey Island in the San Juan Islands. The 2014 exchange was hosted by Whidbey Island and involved eight unique gardens that ranged from old established rhodo gardens to an unusual “kettle” garden. For the February 11 NIRS meeting, local members Barb and Brian Staton have put together a selection of images from the trip whittled down from more than 300 images.NIRS meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month in the Comox United Church, 250 Beach Avenue with doors opening at 7PM and the meeting starting at 7:30PM. Refreshments are served and guests interested in membership in the group are welcome.
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bridge and book club, to music makers, biking, gardening and stitching. Why not attend the next general meeting which is scheduled for Monday, February 9th to fi nd out more! The February meeting will feature a presentation by Jane Murphy, President & CEO of St. Joseph’s Hospital. Ms. Murphy will update us on the building progress of the new hospital. Monthly meetings are held at the Crown Isle Club House, 399 Club House Drive, Courtenay. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the meeting starting promptly at 7:00 pm. For more information email us at [email protected] or check out our website at www.cvnewcomers.net. Your new friends are waiting for you!
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A rip-roaring jour-ney through six decades of popu-
lar music is the theme for this year’s ‘Have a Heart’ fundraising dinner-show in Courtenay being pro-moted by Strathcona Sunrise Rotary Club.
Staged close to Valen-tine’s Day each year, the upcoming three evening performances are slated for Thursday-Saturday, February 19-21, at the Florence Filberg Centre.
This year, the show’s musical director Gloria Herauf has scripted an original storyline that sees Fritz, a fictional Roxy Theatre stage door man-ager, having memories of
They are all working SO hard. The bottom line is that we all really want a quality show to enter-tain everyone ...”
GLORIA HERAUFMusical Director
We anticipate that over the three days nearly 750 people will enjoy both an excellent dinner and a fun production that is sure to entertain”
KEITH CURRIESunrise Rotary president
‘THROUGH THE STAGE DOOR’
Showstopper with heart - and voicesRehearsals in full swing for Strathcona Sunrise Rotary’s big Valentine fundraiser
past performances jogged by chance encounters and by fading posters of shows staged there from the 1920s to the 1980s.
As Fritz (played by Dale Erhart) reminisces, he and the other 21 cast members bring his memo-ries to life in a fast-paced, exuberant revue ranging from the Broadway fol-lies through the jazz age to jukebox, spanning the glory years of the great stage musicals and on to ABBA.
Titled ‘Through the Stage Door,’ the show fea-tures 38 songs in all - so-
los, groups and full chorus numbers - and numerous costume changes to repre-sent the different eras.
Coordinating the chal-lenge of getting all the costumes right are Glayne Axtel and Sharon La-londe, with lots of help from friends. The scale of their task can be appreci-ated from the fact that one of the singers, Jackie Lam-beth, has no fewer than nine changes of outfit as the decades roll by.
In addition to the cos-tumes, there are scenes that require all the men in the cast to look younger,
so all will be having their hair dyed for the perfor-mances - while the women are either having their hair coloured or being fit-ted with wigs. As a result, on the night many in the audience may have a hard task recognizing some of the local performers, despite knowing them as friends or colleagues in their day-to-day lives.
The show requires many set changes, too, and the creation of those all-important scenic back-drops is being led by Her-auf’s husband, Les, who
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The show’s musical director, Glo-ria Herauf, takes the performers through their paces at a rehearsal.
Jackie Lambeth (left) pictured re-hearsing a song-and-dance routine with Ross Griffith-Cochrane.
It’s Ken Newman on the piano leading six of his co-performers in singing ‘Making Whoopee’ - pictured stand-ing from the left are Mike Stewart, Ross Griffith-Cochrane, Rhett Wade, Scott Agur, Bruce Walkey and Walter Jordan.
Musical director Gloria Herauf (far left) coaches six of the performers - from the left, Laurel Erhart, Maggie Enwright, Patty-Forbes King, Carol Jennermann, Dana Klassen and Jackie Lambeth.
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has dedicated his dou-ble garage as a scenery-building workshop.
Gloria Herauf says that putting on a show of this scale is a huge team effort, with many people working hard behind the scenes to support the enthusiastic performers on stage and the small orchestra that will accompany them.
The Comox Valley has a long history of musical theatre staged by a num-ber of societies, and that tradition expanded fur-ther when the Heraufs re-tired to the local area from Saskatchewan in 2007.
Retirement didn’t result in Gloria putting her feet up - music ran through her veins from an award-winning career in musical education, theatre and composition, and she was in no mood to stem the flow.
On arrival in Comox, she quickly became in-volved with the United Church, where - in addi-tion to playing the piano for services - she is musi-cal director for the Beach Street Players, many of whom are church mem-bers.
Six years ago the Play-
ers staged their first public performance at the West-erly Hotel, successfully raising enough money for a new church piano. The enthusiasm generated led to another show, and for the past four years they have teamed up with the Strathcona Sunrise Rotary Club to stage even more ambitious dinner-show productions that have gone on to raise tens of thousands of dollars for lo-cal causes.
Strathcona Sunrise Ro-
tary Club president Keith Currie is excited to see the production coming to-gether so well. “This is an all-new show for 2015 and like past performances, I am sure it will be a sellout on all three nights,” he says.
“We anticipate that over the three days nearly 750 people will enjoy both an excellent dinner and a fun production that is sure to entertain - and at the same time help us raise a lot of money for great projects.”
Rotarian Richard Clarke, who is leading the club’s involvement in organizing the event, says last year’s Have a Heart dinner-show raised $25,000 and it would be fantastic if they could do that again.
He notes that this year a key beneficiary will be L’Arche Comox Valley, which - through its ‘I Be-long!’ campaign - is rais-ing money to build a new multi-purpose residential, day activity and outreach centre on Grieve Avenue in Courtenay for people with development disabil-ities. In addition, projects being progressed by the Strathcona Sunrise Ro-tary Club will also share in
money raised at the event, as will Comox United Church for its community support programs.
Tickets, including the dinner by Plates Catering, cost $50 for the Thursday event and $55 for Friday and Saturday’s perfor-mances. They are avail-able from the Blue Heron bookshop on Comox Av-enue, and the Benjamin Moore House of Color on Fifth Street in Courtenay.
On each evening, dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m., followed by the two-act show starting at 7:30 p.m. with a fundraising auc-tion/raffle during the show interval.
Gloria Herauf is bub-bling with enthusiasm for this year’s show as she and the cast continue with their regular rehearsals at the United Church.
“They are all working SO hard,” she says. “The
bottom line is that we all really want a quality show to entertain everyone, but the fun and joy of mak-ing music is as important to me as putting the show on.
“We didn’t start re-hearsing until January 6, but it’s really coming together well. We’re do-ing all kinds of things this year that are pretty cute - I think the audience will love it.”
The show features plenty of surprises, including a musical number using walkers. From the right foreground toleft background are Carol Jennermann, Maggie Enwright, Valetta Nixon, Jackie Lambeth and Dana Klassen.
If I were a rich man...Mike Stewart puts his heart into the role of Tevye from ‘Fiddler on the Roof’.
A real showstopper with heart
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The deadline for submis-sion of entries is May 17th, 2015. Please mail them to 480 2nd St Courtenay BC V9N 1C1 or e-mail to [email protected].
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Vancouver Island Premier League regular season play wrapped up this past weekend with Upper Island Soccer Asso-ciation’s Riptide on top in four of eight divisions, winning the
U14, U15, U16 Girls and the U15 Boys.
Going into the weekend both the U15 and U16 Girls secured fi rst on the backs of a very strong seasons.
The U14 Girls and U15 Boys needed to win their last game. In an exciting game against Cowichan scoring late the U14 Girls went on to a 3-0 win to overtake Saanich Fusion FC to
win the league by two points. A convincing 5-0 win over
Cowichan from the U15 Boys secured their lead to win the league by three points over Gorge/Lakehill.
Teams now turn their focus to league play downs starting Fe-burary 14/15.
Game times and locations can be found at www.riptidesoccer.ca.
VIPL Riptide take four League Championships
The U14 Girls won their last game to take the league championship
The U15 Girls won their league championship on the back of a strong season The U16 Girls also had a strong season to win their league championship
The U15 Boys also had to win their last game to take the league championship
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BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff
The Comox Valley Mi-nor Hockey Association is supporting the idea of a fan-free weekend to elimi-nate the problem of spec-tators abusing on-ice of-fi cials and players during minor hockey games.
It has become such a se-rious issue the Vancouver Island Amateur Hockey Association is considering this action. This was the message of president Jim Humphrey to all affi liated associations on the island including the Comox Val-ley.
CVMHA president Win Hunter said the valley is not exempt from this type of abusive behaviour stemming mostly from parents.
“We do have this prob-lem as well,” said Hunter. “It’s threatening our game and it’s got to stop.”
Hunter said there were
occasions where he had to ask a spectator to leave for abusing the offi cials. And when the spectator refused to leave, Hunter had to stop the game until the person left.
On-ice offi cials can be as young as 12-years-old and are still learning how to offi ciate. To become a tar-get of abusive comments said Hunter only discour-ages them and makes it diffi cult for the valley as-sociation to recruit future referees and linesmen.
“You talk to any par-ent of a young referee or a linesman, in our asso-ciation and many others, they’ll tell you this is just awful,” said Hunter. “Peo-ple sit in the stands and they get emotional. It’s unacceptable.”
Should the VIAHA proceed with its fan-free weekend proposal, the mi-nor hockey games would be restricted only to play-ers, on and off ice offi cials,
team offi cials, MHA presi-dents, game supervisor, VIAHA offi cers and staff .
Referees would be in-structed not to start games until all spectators have left or to stop the game should spectators access the arena during the game.
Should spectators re-fuse to comply, the refer-ees would have the teams leave the playing surface, thus cancelling the game. If the game was to be can-celled, VIAHA would con-duct an investigation to determine the affi liation of the spectator(s) and rule accordingly.
“The abusers are prob-ably only one per cent of the people that come and attend the game,” said Hunter. “Ninety-nine per cent of them are fi ne. They’re enjoying the game and they’re not yell-ing and screaming at any-body. But to get their at-tention, you’ve got to ban
the many in order to get the message through and change the culture.”
The majority of the is-land minor hockey associ-ations are supporting the spectator-free weekend. The VIAHA is reluctant to pursue this direction but feels it might be necessary to discourage abuse from parents and other hockey fans.
“They understand that the vast majority of par-ents and other fans are supportive and positive toward players and game offi cials,” Humphrey said.
“However, a very small minority feel they have the right to verbally abuse and harass young men and women, frequently little older than the play-ers in the games they are offi ciating.”
The institution of spec-tator-free weekends could occur during upcoming minor hockey playoff s, he said.
Local minor hockey supports VIAHA’s fan-free weekend proposalDrastic action aims to send a message to stop verbal abuse of offi cials and players
Twenty--four Comox Valley runners competed with 480 others in the sec-ond of the Island Series races at Cobble Hill last Sunday (Jan 25th). The weather was cloudy, damp and about 10 degrees, in other words a perfect day for a fast 10 km run. And run fast they did.
First place overall, and fi rst place in his very com-petitive age group (30-34) was claimed by the CVRR’s very own Derek
Vinge, with an awesome time of 32:46.
First place fi nishes in their respective age groups were also accomplished by Vince Brotherston (50-54), Roger Plamondon (55-59), Roslyn Smith (65-69) and Ken Richardson (70-74).
Placing a very close sec-ond in his age group (60-64) was Wayne Crowe. Danny Keyes completed the medals for the day with a third place fi nish in
the 55-59 age group. Just out of the medals,
but with great times, were 4th place fi nishes by Les Disher (60-69) and Mar-ion Bryan (40-44) and a 5th place fi nish by a very delighted Sheila Van Gis-bergen.
The Road Runners next Island Series challenge is the Cedar 12K taking place just south of Nanaimo on February 8th.
Complete results can viewed at CVRR.ca.
CV Road Runners set the pace
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There’s still time to register a team for the 2015 Herb Bradley Chal-lenge which takes place on Mount Washington, Sunday, February 15th.
Over the years many Vancouver Island busi-nesses and families have supported this annual event by entering a team for a fun day on the slopes.
The Herb Bradley Challenge (HBC), named after the founder of the adaptive snowsports in the Comox Valley, is Vancouver Island Society for Adaptive Snowsports’ (VISAS) main fundraiser. Proceeds from this event support adaptive snow-board and ski programs for 500+ participants each season.
“This fundraiser,” said Brian Gorman, organizer of the 2015 HBC, “pro-vides the dollars to run our Winter Sports Festi-val, the racing program, and upgrade our adaptive
ski and snowboard equip-ment.” With the gener-ous support from Peter Gibson and his team at Mount Washington, VI-SAS’ program has grown to be one of the biggest in western Canada, off er-ing people with physical, cognitive or developmen-tal disabilities, the op-portunity to get out each winter and have fun on the slopes and trails.
“To join in the fun on February 15th just round up three people willing to attach themselves to skis or snowboards and navigate down a gentle slalom course” added Gorman. “No experience is required.” The entry fee is only $300 and includes lift tickets for the day and lunch, and includes a charitable donation. “Each team will be al-located one of our smiling students for the race. And the team closest to their guesstimate time is the winner,” added Gorman.
“The short race takes place in the morning and you have the rest of the day to enjoy the mountain experience.”
Are you a business owner looking to reward employees with a team building experience on the slopes? Want to get together a group of friends and family to sup-port a great cause, then consider entering a team in this year’s Herb Brad-ley Challenge.
For more information on the Herb Bradley Challenge contact Brian Gorman at (250) 218-6335, email: [email protected].
For additional informa-tion and/or to download a HBC registration form, just click onto www.visasweb.ca. And check out VISAS’ exciting promotional video on its homepage, join VISAS’ Facebook page, and view highlights from this year’s festival at VISAS’ Flickr.
VISAS’s Herb Bradley Challengefund-raiser set for Sunday, Feb. 15
Scenes from the previous Herb Bradley Challenge Fundraisers.
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COMOX VALLEY PUB LEAGUE MIXED DARTS
THE DART BOARD
Comox Valley Duplicate Bridge Club results:
Monday, January 26A1. Jack Bradshaw -
Carole Bradshaw 2. Slava Simice - Bar-
rie TurnhamB1. Glen Parsons -
Dave Proctor2/3 Roger Lucas -
Mark LawrenceBob Dugas - Dave Liv-
ingstoneThursday, January 29A1. Dave Proctor -
Glen Parsons2. Darryl Pippin -
Mark LawrenceB1. Dave Proctor -
Glen Parsons2. Darryl Pippin -
Mark LawrenceC1. Darryl Pippin -
Mark Lawrence2. Daphne Welsh -
Karin FranzenOur club is located
on Nordin Street across from the Comox Mall under the newly reno-vated Museum and Art Gallery.
We off er guaran-teed partnerships, so if you’re visiting or your regular partner is away, make sure you come out to play anyway. If you don’t have a regular partner, I’m sure you’ll meet one.
Our Website is www.
cvdbc.com and our email is [email protected]
For more information, please contact Linda Marinus at (250) 338-2544.
D’Esterre Duplicate Bridge re-sults:
Results for Tuesday, Jan. 27 (10 tables):
N/S - 1. Phil Sandford and Maureen Olafson; 2. Tom Dugdale and Jeanette Baron; 3. Clark Graham and John Petz-inger; 4. Daryl Pippin and Mark Lawrence.
E/W - 1. Dianna Rick-son and Evelyn Ware; 2. Colin Park and Grace Whetter; 3. Daphne Welsh and Ann Cook; 4. Doug Poole and Trish Heyland.
Results for Friday, Jan. 30 (8 tables):
N/S - 1. Phil Sandford and Maureen Olafson; 2. Chuck and Lorraine Hodson; 3. Jim and Joan Boase.
E/W - 1. Daphne Welsh and Karin Franzen; 2. Grace Whetter and Betty Fountain; 3. Peter Hard-ing and Pat Cutt.
Results for Sunday, Jan. 31 (13 pairs): 1. Tied, John and Lynn Godfrey, Doug and Penny Poole; 2. George and Trish
Kirkwood; 3. Neil Jacksonand Jean Tait; 4. Tied, HarveyPiercy and Ann Cook, Keithand Evelyn Ware.
Bridge club news
CODES COUNTRY LANES
Bowling highlights from Codes Country Lanes:
Monday AM - Ed Farrant 141, Arnie Auerbach 222, Georg Railian 191, Roy Brekke 221, Gloria Fred-erick 172, Arnie Morrison 253, Pat King 229, Bob Van Nes 211, Barb Lane 218, Nick Tjart 202.
Monday PM - Rick Rodriguez 258, Grace Rodriguez 234, Erma Wilson 235, Rita Grill 179, Barb Boyce 160, Ivan Ally 203, Lucille Smith 180, Rick Kroeker 229, Bill Tower 232.
Monday Youth - Celine Rous-seau 67, Benoit Rousseau 58, Lu-cien Rousseau 101, Morgan Grout 70, Jack Frisen 104, Ava Friesen 85, Brycen Burgess 245, William Derksen 136.
Tuesday Brekkie - Marilyn Shetterly 157, Jane Wedge 215, Barb Potruff 170, Laurie McWil-lis 202, Fran Patton 214, Brenda Searl 187, Pat Fish 167, Joyce Boon 168.
Tuesday 12:30 - Garry Pear-son 124, Judith Munro 121, Al-lison Bennett 109, George An-drews 154, Ev Andrews 221, Ed Schievink 89.
Tuesday Adult - Eric McWillis 256, Liz Royer 181, STEVE ROY-ER 304, Ed Carefoot 268, Ross McWillis 238, George Ghinis 215,
Brian Booth 262, Cynthia Taylor 230, Jill Comeau 200, Bill Brun-dige 215, Sharon Shepard 192.
Wednesday 9:30 - Gerry Va-nAchte 200, Grace Coulter 191, Pat Ailles 182, Betty Gilchrist 180, Ria Tjart 214, Leona Miller 176, Dave Stacey 235, Heather Abra-ham 226, Paul Riley 179, Andre Melancon 227, Laurie Aucoin 227.
Tuesday/Wednesday CRA - Brian Mitchel 178, Daniel Erb 145, Dave Roberts 143, Leona Wagner 139, Linda Christie 138, Larry McCooey 157, Clayton Heid 145, Karen Slater 128.
Wednesday Adult - Wayne Wil-son 224, Scott McLellan 223, Ken Bird 229, Rick Granneman 223, Bruno Bagden 240, Melanie Owen Johnes 210, Tom Nurse 260, San-dy Nurse 234, Brian Booth 290, Tannis Pond 196, Dave Pond 205, Al Gavel 216, Sontina Espey 239, Debbie Raithby 223, Gord Potruff 232, Brenda Arabella 211.
Thursday Golden Age - Alan
Edwards 197, Grace Rodriguez 201, Rick Rodriguez 255, Bob VanNes 247, Bob Sharp 203, Ar-nie Morrison 227, John McLean 243, Linda Meers 199, Vicki Bailie 198, Kelvin Davis 192.
Thursday Adult - Lorne Sutcliff 275, Janet Butler 210, Paul Zorz 233, Anne Bodnar 223, Jordan Austin 220, Darrell Funk 210, Kev-in Gurnham 197, Lorne King 268, Duwanne Granneman 205, Can-dace McLellan 218, Rose Stenen-baugh 248, Stve Robson 251, Ed Carefoot 204, Aggie Aucoin 226.
Friday 9:30 - Bert Brown 220, Roy Brekke 233, Ji Bennett 223, Anna Delucry 211, George Sand 217, Nick Tjart 216, Ev Andrews 222, Joyce Unsorth 229, Minnie Frame 223.
Special O - Rose Fletcher 150, Jamie Benntt 181, Randy Bates 163, Gary Thompson 174, Trevor Carter 159, Clint McColl 188, Mi-chael Campbell 202, Clayton Heid 176, Marilyn Shetterly 170, Linda Cade 181, Mathew Strachin 190.
His near-record mile alone would have made for a notable night, but Cam Levins wanted to go one better.
The distance runner from Black Creek, won the mile at the New York Armory Track Invitational on Saturday night, post-ing a world-leading time for this season that was just shy of the Canadian indoor record.
Less than 30 minutes later, he won the two-mile race, overtaking Olym-pic silver medallist Galen Rupp of the U.S. on the fi nal lap.
The 25-year-old, who won bronze in a thrilling 10,000-metre race at last summer’s Commonwealth Games, ran three minutes 54.74 seconds in the mile just missing Nate Bran-nen’s Canadian record.
Double gold for Levins
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