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The Comox Valley RCMP are looking for suspects, who they believe maliciously set fi re to a house in Headquarters Road in Courtenay.
Courtenay fi refi ghters and Mounties responded to a report of a residential fi re and possible explo-sion at around 11:51 p.m. on Monday.
Enroute to the scene, fi re chief Don Bardonnex said, about two blocks from the burning house, a distraught woman fl agged him down and indicated she was inside the house when the fi re happened. The woman was not in-jured but Bardonnex said she was in distress.
“There was an incident that happened at the site but we’re leaving that at the hands of the RCMP,” said Bardonnex.
Fire crews proceeded to the structure fi re and
encountered fl ames com-ing out of the front win-dows and front door of an old wooden cabin located across the Comox Valley Seniors Village. Around 21 fi refi ghters were on hand to battle the blaze, which they suppressed in less than an hour.
Residents from nearby homes were evacuated and no one was injured.
The RCMP, after talking to the sole occupant of the house, who managed to
escape the fi re unscathed, said the evidence shows this was a targeted attack.
“The suspects are known to the residents of the home,” said Don Sin-clair, RCMP’s media liai-son offi cer.
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The house, according to Sinclair, is notorious for criminal activity that in-volved drugs. Neighbours have raised concerns about this.
“I know that’s there’s a lot of drugs, people are coming and going,” said Jenn Oppel, who lives nearby. “It’s gross and I kinda wish those buildings weren’t there anymore.”
(Continued on page 4)
Headquarters Road house destroyed by deliberately set fi re Monday night
Flames and smoke rise from house destroyed by fi re Monday night (Photo courtesy CHEK News)
Police say fi re at Courtenay home was deliberately setArson suspects known to the woman living in cabin on Headquarters Road
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Oppel said she is not upset the house burned but considers the incident serious because somebody could have been hurt. She wished the police did something about the criminal activity that goes on in that residence.
“The police don’t really go in there to investigate unless something gets burnt,” said Oppel.
The City of Courtenay should have condemned the place, Oppel added.
“They’ve been there for a long time
and they’re gross,” she said. “It’s kind ofan eyesore whenever I walk by them allthe time.”
Justin Hallworth, who works at the se-niors village across the street was alsoglad to see the house meet a fi ery end.
“It’s the last one to go and hopefullythat’s the end of the neighbourhoodnow,” said Hallworth.
Anyone with information on this crimeis urged to contact the Comox ValleyRCMP at 250-338-1321<tel:250-338-1321>, or anonymously via Crimestop-pers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Arson suspected in house fi re
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mo
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and
can
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ase
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r ad
vert
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ses
onl
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$1,
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l dis
coun
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r is
valid
on
the
purc
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g or
leas
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t inc
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f sel
ect n
ew 2
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$1,
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of $
750/
$75
0 N
CF
cash
and
$25
0/$
250
deae
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rtici
patio
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ffer v
alid
Mar
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1-31
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5. O
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s ba
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on s
tack
able
trad
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dolla
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ffer i
s av
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ble
to e
ligib
le c
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s fo
r a li
mite
d tim
e on
app
rove
d cr
edit
only.
The
dis
coun
t will
be d
educ
ted
from
the
nego
tiate
d se
lling
pric
e be
fore
taxe
s. A
pplic
able
to N
issa
n C
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CF)
con
tract
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ly th
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bven
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NC
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ance
, lea
se o
r NC
F st
anda
rd fi
nanc
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tes.
Not
com
bina
ble
with
fl ee
t dis
coun
ts a
nd n
ot a
pplic
able
to c
ash
purc
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buy
ers.
Offe
r no
t elig
ible
for p
rogr
am p
rote
ctio
n. C
erta
in c
ondi
tions
app
ly. † O
ffer i
s ad
min
iste
red
by N
issa
n C
anad
a Ex
tend
ed S
ervi
ces
Inc.
(NC
ESI)
and
appl
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to a
ny n
ew 2
015
Mic
ra/V
ersa
Not
e/S
entra
/Alti
ma/
Juke
/Rog
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r mod
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(eac
h, a
n “E
ligib
le M
odel
”) le
ased
and
regi
ster
ed th
roug
h N
issa
n C
anad
a Fi
nanc
ial S
ervi
ces
Inc.
, on
appr
oved
cre
dit,
betw
een
Mar
ch 3
– M
arch
31,
201
5 fro
m a
n au
thor
ized
Nis
san
reta
iler i
n C
anad
a. E
ligib
le o
nly
on le
ases
thro
ugh
NC
F w
ith s
ubve
nted
rate
s. O
ffer r
ecip
ient
will
be e
ntitl
ed to
rece
ive
a m
axim
um o
f six
(6) s
ervi
ce v
isits
(eac
h, a
“S
ervi
ce V
isit”
) for
the
Elig
ible
Ve
hicl
e –
whe
re e
ach
Ser
vice
Vis
it co
nsis
ts o
f one
(1) o
il ch
ange
(usi
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onve
ntio
nal 5
W30
mot
or o
il) a
nd o
ne (1
) tire
rota
tion
serv
ice
(eac
h, a
n “E
ligib
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ervi
ce”)
. All
Elig
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Ser
vice
s w
ill be
con
duct
ed in
stri
ct a
ccor
danc
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ith th
e O
il C
hang
e an
d Ti
re R
otat
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Pla
n ou
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in th
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gree
men
t Boo
klet
fo
r the
Elig
ible
Veh
icle
. The
ser
vice
per
iod
(“S
ervi
ce P
erio
d”) w
ill co
mm
ence
on
the
leas
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nsac
tion
date
(“Tr
ansa
ctio
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ate”
) and
will
expi
re o
n th
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rlier
of:
(i) th
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te o
n w
hich
the
max
imum
num
ber o
f Ser
vice
Vis
its h
as b
een
reac
hed;
(ii)
36 m
onth
s fro
m th
e Tr
ansa
ctio
n D
ate;
or (
iii) w
hen
the
Elig
ible
Ve
hicl
e ha
s re
ache
d 48
,000
kilo
met
ers.
All
Elig
ible
Ser
vice
s m
ust b
e co
mpl
eted
dur
ing
the
Ser
vice
Per
iod,
oth
erw
ise
they
will
be fo
rfeite
d. T
he O
ffer m
ay b
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grad
ed to
use
pre
miu
m o
il at
the
reci
pien
t’s e
xpen
se. T
he E
ligib
le S
ervi
ces
are
not d
esig
ned
to m
eet a
ll re
quire
men
ts a
nd s
peci
fi cat
ions
nec
essa
ry
to m
aint
ain
the
Elig
ible
Veh
icle
. To
see
the
com
plet
e lis
t of m
aint
enan
ce n
eces
sary
, ple
ase
refe
r to
the
Ser
vice
Mai
nten
ance
Gui
de. A
ny a
dditi
onal
ser
vice
s re
quire
d ar
e no
t cov
ered
by
the
Offe
r and
are
the
sole
resp
onsi
bilit
y an
d co
st o
f the
reci
pien
t. O
ffer m
ay n
ot b
e re
deem
ed fo
r cas
h an
d m
ay n
ot b
e co
mbi
ned
with
cer
tain
offe
rs N
CES
I res
erve
s th
e rig
ht to
am
end
or te
rmin
ate
this
offe
r, in
who
le o
r in
part,
at a
ny ti
me
with
out p
rior n
otic
e. A
dditi
onal
con
ditio
ns a
nd li
mita
tions
app
ly. A
sk y
our r
etai
ler f
or d
etai
ls. ≠
Rep
rese
ntat
ive
sem
i-mon
thly
leas
e of
fer b
ased
on
any
new
201
5 R
ogue
S F
WD
CVT
(Y6R
G15
A
A00
)/20
15 P
athfi
nde
r S V
6 4x
2 (5
XR
G15
AA
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VT tr
ansm
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on. 1
.99%
/2.9
% le
ase
AP
R fo
r a 6
0/60
mon
th te
rm e
qual
s m
onth
ly p
aym
ents
of $
258/
$38
2 w
ith $
0/$
0 do
wn
paym
ent,
and
$0/
$0
sec
urity
dep
osit.
Firs
t sem
i-mon
thly
pay
men
t, do
wn
paym
ent a
nd $
0 se
curit
y de
posi
t are
due
at l
ease
in
cept
ion.
Pric
es a
nd p
aym
ents
incl
ude
freig
ht a
nd fe
es. L
ease
bas
ed o
n a
max
imum
of 2
0,00
0 km
/yea
r with
exc
ess
char
ged
at $
0.10
/km
. Tot
al le
ase
oblig
atio
n is
$15
,491
/$22
,914
. Thi
s of
fer i
s on
ly v
alid
from
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ch 3
- 3
1, 2
015.
$50
0 N
CF
leas
e ca
sh a
pppl
icat
ed o
nly
on th
e 20
15 P
athfi
nde
rS V
6 4x
2 (5
XR
G15
AA
00) C
VT tr
ansm
issi
on. C
ondi
tions
app
ly.
$31
,748
Sel
ling
Pric
e fo
r a n
ew 2
015
Mur
ano
S F
WD
CVT
(LX
RG
15 N
A00
). C
ondi
tions
app
ly. *
*MS
RP
sta
rting
from
$29
,998
for a
201
5 N
issa
n M
uran
o S
FW
D (L
XR
G15
NA
00) e
xclu
ding
Fre
ight
and
PD
E ch
arge
s an
d sp
ecifi
c du
ties
of n
ew
tires
. M
odel
s sh
own
$36
,348
/$48
,368
/$45
,248
Sel
ling
Pric
e fo
r a
new
201
5 R
ogue
SL
AWD
Pre
miu
m (
Y6D
G15
BK
00)/
2015
Pat
hfi n
der
Pla
tinum
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AA
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2015
Mur
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Pla
tinum
AW
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us C
ash
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nclu
ded
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odel
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*±
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eigh
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0/$
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nditi
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g le
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100)
whe
re a
pplic
able
, app
licab
le fe
es (a
ll w
hich
may
var
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regi
on),
man
ufac
ture
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bate
and
dea
ler p
artic
ipat
ion
whe
re a
pplic
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are
incl
uded
. Lic
ense
, reg
istra
tion,
insu
ranc
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d ap
plic
able
taxe
s ar
e ex
tra. L
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offe
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re a
vaila
ble
on a
ppro
ved
cred
it th
roug
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issa
n C
anad
a Fi
nanc
e fo
r a li
mite
d tim
e, m
ay c
hang
e w
ithou
t not
ice
and
cann
ot b
e co
mbi
ned
with
any
oth
er o
ffers
exc
ept s
tack
able
trad
ing
dolla
rs. R
etai
lers
are
free
to s
et in
divi
dual
pric
es. D
eale
r ord
er/tr
ade
may
be
nece
ssar
y. V
ehic
les
and
acce
ssor
ies
are
for i
llust
ratio
n pu
rpos
es o
nly.
Offe
rs,
pric
es a
nd fe
atur
es s
ubje
ct to
cha
nge
with
out n
otic
e. O
ffers
val
id b
etw
een
Mar
ch 3
- 3
1, 2
015.
°B
ased
on
full-
line
bran
ds (t
hose
sel
ling
both
car
s an
d tru
cks)
on
a ro
lling
12 m
onth
yea
r ove
r yea
r ret
ail s
ales
vol
ume
basi
s. *
War
d’s
Larg
e C
ross
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ity M
arke
t Seg
men
tatio
n. M
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Pat
hfi n
der v
s. 2
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and
2014
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ge C
ross
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ity C
lass
. Offe
rs s
ubje
ct to
cha
nge,
con
tinua
tion
or c
ance
llatio
n w
ithou
t not
ice.
Offe
rs h
ave
no c
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View of the vehicle fi re near the Comox dam. The vehicle inadvertently parked on to top of a smoldering campfi re that should not have been placed on the road. Courtesy of the Cumberland Fire Department.
Vandalism near damworries Hydro, CVRD
A recent rash of vandalism and irre-sponsible behaviour near the Comox dam has BC Hydro and the Comox Val-ley Regional District concerned.
These activities include shooting and knocking down signs, and placing fuel on the ground and igniting it.
This took place in early March beside the Comox dam and the source of the Comox Valley’s drinking water supply.
As well, a vehicle caught on fi re after inadvertently parking on top of a slow burning campfi re that was placed on the road the night before.
“Vandalism unfortunately occurs from time to time but this may be the worst I’ve seen at our Comox Dam facilities, in-cluding an accidental vehicle fi re, in my
15 years of involvement in terms of near-misses,” says BC Hydro spokesperson, Stephen Watson.
“Near our yellow gate that provides entry into the picnic area a vehicle ac-cidently parked over an old but still hot campfi re on the access road and it caught on fi re, with resulting fl ames reaching the fi r trees above. Two trees will need to be removed as the fi re damage was substan-tial. “We’ve had signs pulled down by a vehicle, signs shot out with a shot-gun, and we’ve had reports of people using some form of fuel placed on the ground near the river or thrown in the air to be ignited. These incidents are a risk for public safety.
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“For BC Hydro and emergency responders it takes up resources, time, money and can also im-pact the environment. More importantly it’s a risk to our hydroelectric operations should a forest fi re be caused from these activities, and it’s close to the direct withdrawal of water for the Comox Val-ley’s domestic water con-sumption. It is a lack of respect of property and social values.”
BC Hydro says it scooped up and correctly disposed of the remnants of melted plastic, steel, tires, fl uids and contami-nated soils.
BC Hydro also says that on March 11, a person was seen walking across the fl oating log boom in the reservoir immediately up-stream of the dam that prevents debris from en-tering the spillway gates. The individual was asked to get off the boom given the risk of falling into the cold water and potentially having the current draw them towards the gates.
“For public safety, par-ticularly immediately up-stream of our dams and intakes, people need to stay away from the water fl ows and obey signage,” adds Watson. “Although that may have been missed given the recent sign van-dalism.”
BC Hydro is replacing the warning signs that were damaged or de-stroyed.
“The CVRD is very disappointed in hearing about these activities,” says Dave Leitch, CVRD’s senior manager of water and wastewater.
Vandalism near dam worriesBC Hydro, CVRD
“We have our commu-nity watershed advisory group, we’ve gone through challenging times with the turbidity issues in the lake, and the broader com-munity awareness of the importance of protecting our watershed is probably never been higher.
“And yet we have these types of incidents take place. It just doesn’t make sense. Materials can leach into the river, and the thought of that forest buf-fer area around the river catching on fi re is worry-ing.”
Both BC Hydro and the CVRD wanted to bring these issues to the com-
munity’s attention in the hopes it will prevent fu-ture vandalism and cre-
ate broader awareness for good watershed steward-ship.
BC Hydro and the CVRD collaborated in having drinking water signage placed on BC Hydro property for public education. Some of these signs were recently vandalised.
Shot-gun shells litter the ground beside the Comox Lake reservoir, be-side and upstream of BC Hydro’s Comox dam.
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Develop your strategy to succeed in BC’s competi-tive and changing tour-ism industry with two of Canada’s most infl uential tourism leaders.
NIC Tourism and Hos-pitality Management stu-dents are inviting Nancy Arsenault, the managing partner of Tourism Café Canada and Marsha Walden, the CEO of Desti-nation BC, to talk tourism at a special Collaborate to Compete reception, after Tourism Vancouver Island’s Pro-D Day event on Wednesday, March 25 at the Westerly Hotel and Convention Centre.
“These are nation-ally recognizable tourism professionals,” says NIC tourism and business fac-ulty Harley Elias. “Most tourism operators simply don’t get access to these decision makers. It speaks highly of our tourism students to be able to se-cure both women for this event.”
· Nancy Arsenault is a managing partner in Tourism Café, a boutique tourism training and de-velopment company with public, private, and not-for profi t clients across Cana-da. The Canadian Tourism Commission calls Nancy one of Canada’s tourism “thought leaders.” In her 30-year career in tourism, education, and recreation, she has supported small businesses and provincial and federal governments in their strategic plan-ning.
· Marsha Walden, the CEO of Destination BC, is now rolling out BC’s high-ly publicized three-year corporate marketing strat-
egy. Before starting with Destination BC in 2013, she worked with the BC Lottery Corporation, and BBDO, one of Canada’s largest advertising agen-cies.
“Nancy will speak on how tourism businesses, like those here on the North Island, can collab-orate to have a stronger presence in the industry,” said Tammy Price, NIC’s student event manager.
Tourism Vancouver Is-land’s Tourism Pro-D Day is a day-long event for Vancouver Island tourism professionals. For more information on the Tour-ism Vancouver Island Pro D Day, visit www.tvitour.ca.
Participants can chose to attend both events for $79, or attend the recep-tion only for $20 in ad-vance, or $25 at the door.
The reception is a class project in NIC’s second-year Convention and Spe-cial Events Management (THM 203) course and part of NIC’s focus on applied learning in all its programs.
Admission includes tapas, a small tradeshow, and networking opportu-nities with industry repre-sentatives, regional busi-ness operators, and NIC tourism students ready to enter the industry.
The reception starts at 3:30 pm. To book your ticket, contact registration coordinators Brianna Fau-cher or Kayla Pedscalny at [email protected] or call 250-334-5292.
For more information, or to book a tradeshow table, email tourism@nic.
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Comox Valley RCMP re-sponded to the following incidents between March 10 and 16:
On the evening of March 10th police were called to a single vehicle collision on the 3300 block of Royston road. The investigation re-vealed that a single vehicle with only one person in it went off road and collided with a tree. The woman was taken to hospital and due to the seriousness of her injuries was airlifted to Victoria General hospi-tal. The investigation into the cause of the collision is still under way. (2015-3046)
Police were called to a theft of propane cylinders from the Royston Mini Mart sometime over the night of the 12th of March. Unknown suspects broke into a locked storage cage in order to take them. (2015-3156)
During the early morn-ing hours on March 14th police were called to a sus-pected motor vehicle colli-sion. Upon arrival a vehi-cle was located stopped a short distance from where a concrete garbage can had been hit and a street
sign was knocked over. A female driver was located in the suspect vehicle and was subsequently issued a 90 Immediate Roadside Prohibition after failing a roadside screening devise. She was also given a ticket under the motor vehicle act and had her vehicle towed and impounded for 30 days. (2015-3208)
Sometime during the early morning hours of March 15th unknown van-dals threw a garbage can lid through the double paned glass window at the old McConochie’s store on 5th street in Courtenay.( 2015-3260)
On the night of March 15th a theft from a resi-dence was reported to po-lice. The victim reported that someone entered the unlocked residence, on the 2500 block of Copperfi eld road in Courtenay, and stole her purse. Police ask home owners to lock their doors and lock out crime.(2015-3287)
A suspicious fi re was called into police during the early morning hours of March 17th. The wit-ness stated that the fi re was at a residence on the 4600 block of Headquar-ters road in Courtenay. This investigation is on-going. (2015-3339)
City of Courtenay declares May 17-23 Public Works Week;special open housefor kids and adultsBY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff
The City of Courtenay has proclaimed May 17-23 Public Works Week.
The event will coincide with National Public Works Week that is ob-served in North America where public works op-erations are celebrated and opened to the public for tours.
The city’s new superin-tendent of public works, Trevor Kushner, who was introduced to council on Monday, said a one-day event will be held at the Courtenay public works yard on May 22.
“Essentially what we’ll do is we set up stations at public works and we in-vite school-aged children and the public to come in and to demo the equip-
ment and to see what we do,” said Kushner.
“One of the great aspects is, we all know everyone sees the equip-ment out in the commu-nity but this way they get to put a face in the name to the people who are running the equipment.
“At the end of the day it’s about the community and it’s about the opera-tions staff that do a job 365 days a year to make the community safe.”
This will also be a great opportunity to educate the citizens on where tax dollars are spent and in-spire the next generation of local engineers, public works managers, special-ists and front line staff .
This event will also coincide with the city’s centennial year celebra-tions.
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BY DREW A. PENNEREcho Staff
The Comox-Strathcona Regional Hospital District is ever more focused on transitioning the commu-nity to life with a new hos-pital and it has the 2015 budget as proof.
The $122 million fi nan-cial plan, supported by di-rectors during a March 12 meeting, will tax residents at the same rate as last year while continuing to pay out signifi cant chunks of cash for the North Is-
land Hospitals Project.But district offi cials say
the budget includes sup-port to extend the life of St. Joseph’s General Hos-pital.
“The facilities still have to run for at least a cou-ple of years,” said Wendy Byrne, manager of fi -nancial planning for the Comox Valley Regional District, referring to the $866,177 to be used for equipment and projects, which have been approved by the Vancouver Island Health Authority (Island
Health). “We get the approved
list of capital projects from VIHA. We have a set amount every year we ear-mark for those projects.”
In fact, this year’s fund-ing request fell well be-low the annual allocation of $1.85 million, and will be funded completely through taxation.
The remaining $983,923 has been added to the 2015 budgeted contribution to the future expenditure reserve - although Island Health says it will likely
ask for some of the money once its own fi nancial plan is in place.
The regional hospital district is responsible for chipping in 40 per cent of the cost of projects, which it does not have a hand in determining.
For 2015 that means supporting deck and se-curity upgrades, helping fund a $10,000 awning replacement job and pay-ing $20,000 for an air conditioning reno in the transitional care unit at St. Joseph’s.
The hospital district is also helping the hospital get new IV pumps, a lab-oratory centrifuge and a pharmacy refrigerator.
But the biggest project currently underway is the Eagleview Building En-velope improvement . So far $275,000 of the es-timated $360,000 price tag has been covered, and the regional hospital dis-trict is pitching in another $34,000 in 2015/16.
The envelope, or build-ing exterior, is a crucial piece of infrastructure,
Byrne explains.“You don’t want it leak-
ing,” she said. “You don’t want water to get in. You don’t want the elements to erode and cause dam-age.”
Meanwhile, contribu-tions to the North Island Hospitals Project are on-going.
In the upcoming months of 2015 alone that will mean an April 1 payment of $37 million, a July 1 pay-ment of $28.2 million and an Oct. 1 payment of $21 million.
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Eriksson doesn’t give up on putting the kibosh on repainting bridge
BY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff
Courtenay council de-bated at length an idea fl oated by councillor Erik Eriksson to replace the Fifth Street Bridge.
Eriksson put forward a resolution that council withdraw its funding ap-plication for New Build-ing Canada Fund - Small Communities to recoat the aging bridge.
“This bridge to me is not just a Courtenay bridge, this is a Comox Valley bridge,” Eriksson said. “I don’t think it’s totally right for us to decide for the entire Comox Valley
the future of that bridge.”The idea of a new bridge,
Eriksson explained, would be a great vision for the community. “It would be a mark of pride as it will en-hance our downtown and it will connect our parks with our river and it will be a good move.”
Councillor Doug Hillian sought clarifi cation on Er-iksson’s resolution as he felt it was out of order be-cause council has already approved the funding ap-plication that was submit-ted before last month’s deadline for repainting and resurfacing the bridge estimated to cost $2.2 million. It will help extend
the life of the bridge by another 50 years.
While Hillian agrees with Eriksson’s vision and the cosmetic reasons for a new bridge including the ability to accommodate other modes of transpor-tation more eff ectively, he simply can’t support it.
“I just don’t see how we could in good conscience, particularly given the continual concerned that gets expressed about the expenditure of taxpayers money at this table go seeking tens of millions of dollars for a project that we can accomplish for $2.2 million,” said Hill-ian. “I just consider this as a waste of council’s time. The decision has already been made.”
Chief Administrative Of-fi cer David Allen advised that if council decides to withdraw its funding ap-plication, there could be serious implications. He explained if Courtenay is granted funding and withdraws it, the possible repercussions down the road are if the city applies for a grant again, it might fi nd itself at the bottom of the list for approval as they have wasted the time and eff ort people spent processing the applica-
tion. He said he has seen it happen to other munici-palities.
“Extending the life of the bridge is an eligible expenditure, however re-placing or upgrading the asset must be substanti-ated. We cannot substan-tiate replacement or up-grade when maintenance of the asset will suffi ce,” said Allen. And that’s the criteria for the grant.
“Furthermore our road network including bridges has an unfunded accumu-lated amortization of about $37.3 million. One third of the $2.9 million to extend the life of the Fifth Street bridge by 30 to almost 50
years is a much wiser ex-penditure than choosing to incur a hundred per cent of a minimum of $30 plus million or half that for a new bridge. And it also arguably put our bor-rowing limit in a diff erent category.”
Eriksson argued coun-cil has only discussed one option and insisted that an alternative should be reviewed.
“The community de-serves to have a proper look at getting a new bridge,” said Eriksson. “Tens of millions of dol-lars, I challenge that right off the bat. That bridge in Victoria cost $15 million
and is four times as longas our bridge. So it justdoesn’t compute. Thereis access to funding. Thisbridge is unsafe, unsightlyand is not a credit to ourcommunity.”
Councillor Bob Wellssaid he and his childrenencountered close callswith cyclists while walkingthe bridge. He said mostof the cyclists don’t ridetheir bikes on the road.
Allen said it might beunsafe for cyclists but ar-gues the whole structureof the bridge is sound.
“It won’t stay that way ifwe don’t paint it or if wedon’t maintain it,” he said.
The debate turned cha-otic in the end as severalmotions were put on thetable and there was uncer-tainty on protocols councilneeded to follow. Allen hadto refer to the city’s poli-cies and procedures book-let to get a better handleon the situation.
Council did not endorseEriksson’s resolution butagreed on a motion to tableit, meaning that it be post-poned indefi nitely. MayorLarry Jangula, councillorsManno Theos, Wells andEriksson voted in favourwith Hillian, Rebecca Len-nox and David Frisch op-posing it.
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HERE’S THE BEEF!! Is it re-ally that necessary for per-sons to drive “THAT” fast, through Petro-Canada’s parking lot to get to the McDonalds! I witnessed a poor landscaper almost be-ing hit by a silver Kia. Yup, I can’t understand how you did MISS the woman by about a foot, as she was wearing the biggest neon safety vest I’ve ever seen. Where is the sign that says “Drive through to McDon-alds here...on Petro’s lot?” I am sure you didn’t see it either, at the rate of speed you were going. Did ya know the gas station has outside cameras? More often than not I wish there was a cop there at all times, the city could make some bucks ticketing these driv-ers that can’t SLOW down to get their “Clown” food!
There seems to be no re-gard for the signs “clearly marked” that Petro has posted. We gas patrons, DESERVE A BREAK TO-DAY! Slow down people before your “Fries” go fl y-ing ... when you do even-tually hit and injure some one. They don’t call it the “SPEED THROUGH LANE”!
KUDOS to Scott Mont-
gomery for bringing the is-sue of workplace bullying in SD#71 to the forefront. Thank you for standing up for those of us (and there are many) who are too afraid. This needs to be a wake up call for anyone is a position of authority. And how dare the school trustees not respond to him! We elected them to represent the community and they have an obliga-tion to listen to all and any concerns. I think the list of trustees who did not re-spond to Scott should be published so we can all be sure not to re-elect them. Seems to me we’ve spent a lot of time discussing/teaching how not to be bullied. Time to do some work on not being a bully. It always starts at the top.
A BOUQUET to Bill Mor-
rison on his observations on the herring fi shery. Na-tives on Haida Gwaii and on Port Alberni inlet have the same views. What else has happened since the fabulous 50’s/60’s - well the DFO removed the seal cull that was in eff ect from 1913 and BC Hydro accidentally wiped out the species that used to be caught in Tyee Pool. Were there sea lions in
the early 60’s? No doubt there were seeping septics and huge log booms, but the Estuary was teeming with big Springs. Progress and good intentions have messed things up, on the way.
A HUGE BOUQUET to the skating instructors of the Comox Valley Regional District Ice Quest pro-gram. These young adults are so kind and patient as they work with little people to support them as they learn a very challeng-ing new skill. Thank you so much for all your hard work. Our children are very fortunate to have you teaching them.
A HUGE BOUQUET of Tim Hortons coff ee and lucky Roll up the Rim to Wins, for the kind random act of kindness from a gentle-man in a white truck with Alberta licence plates. Your kindness truly made my day. Thank you ever so much :)
A FIELD of spring wild-fl owers to Chuck’s Trucks for their excellent Island Auto Spa service. I took my Toyota Corolla there for an internal and exter-nal cleaning. To my hor-
ror, they discovered an infestation of rats, with a large, well-established nest on the air fi lter, a glove box full of chewed items and droppings through-out the messy interior and the trunk. The car is rarely used and had been out-side all winter, hence the colony of unwanted pas-sengers. Derek and Tim were so understanding of my fears of my fears about the diseases these crit-ters can carry and worked for two days to disinfect everything with hospital-grade cleaners. Derek even replaced the air fi lter with a new one, ran disin-fectant through it, twice, and power-washed the en-gine. With this ghastly job having been managed so very professionally, I was expecting to pay a high fee for the service. But no, it was extremely reasonable.
My car looks brand new. On top of all that, Derek and Tim were gracious and informative and my whole experience with them was a delight. What an outstanding, local ser-vice!
Thank you, Derek. Thank you, Tim. I will recommend your work to everyone needing vehicle cleaning.
SAVE TB REACH
END VOTE-SPLITTING
More Beefs and Bouquets
With the approach of a federal election, people in our riding are again faced with the decision of vot-ing for the candidate they prefer or voting strategi-cally. The Conservative incumbent, John Duncan, represents 45.8 percent of voters. That means 54.2 percent of us did not vote for him. It’s a great ar-gument for proportional representation, where everyone’s vote actually counts.
In the meantime, how do we choose? The Con-servative government ig-nored the wishes of the majority of British Colum-bians when it approved Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project. We are faced with the prospect of massive oil tankers plying some of the most danger-ous waters in the world. And the evidence is con-clusive that they’ll be car-rying a product that has to be left in the ground in or-der for us to avoid climate catastrophe. In these circumstances, our best chance for turning this around is to vote for the candidate most likely to defeat the Conservative. Historically, that means voting NDP. There’s no guarantee of the out-come and it’s a choice we shouldn’t have to make.
Another option is for the parties with similar interests to work together to avoid the vote-splitting that brought the Conser-vatives to power. That
option is every bit as dis-tasteful as voting strate-gically. The parties don’t appear to be prepared to do that so it’s up to us to do what we can to ensure that we elect a represen-tative who refl ects our values and who supports changing our electoral system to proportional representation.
Terry RobinsonCourtenay
Five years ago Cana-da started new program called TB REACH, that funded tuberculosis de-tection programs in re-mote and poorly served areas. Areas like we are now sending our CF-18s.
TB REACH was Can-ada’s own program; we are its only funder. It has proven itself enormously successful at detecting TB and preventing the spread of this ancient, ter-rible disease. The funding of TB REACH has now come to an end with no sign it will be renewed. The irony is that 5 years of TB REACH has shown it be inexpensive and ef-fective, while ten years of costly war against Isla-mist radicals in Afghani-stan has produced at best inconclusive results.
Perhaps Minister Par-adis thinks we can no longer aff ord TB REACH. Perhaps this government prefers spending tax dol-lars on bombs.
Nathaniel PooleVictoria BC
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Condensory, Dove Creek and Burns Roads on these mornings between 9 and noon. Thank you for driv-ing slowly and watching for our runners. We will attempt to interfere with your progress as little as possible while keeping ev-eryone safe.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, Drew A. Penner and the Echo, for putting a write-up about my desk in your pa-per. It is home and every time I look at it I smile and am thankful it is back. So many people asked, did I get it back; I smile and say yes with happiness on my face.
A BOUQUET of yellow roses to all the knitters at the Comox Library lounge Tuesday evenings! What a group! Super seniors take note - all ages are welcome and refreshments are free. Check them out - I did and it’s a great bunch!
A HUGE BOUQUET to the staff at the Union Bay Credit Union. Special thanks to Rhonda and Gracie for the extra help with the pass-ing of my wife. Also spe-cial thanks to the staff at the Union Bay Market.
OUR BEEF is aimed at this Drivers Medical that we seniors have to endure. We don’t mind the fact that every two years (for some it is every year), we get notice in the mail that we must take this exam or risk losing our licence. Fine! But the price is out-rageous. We are on fi xed income and some Doc-tors are charging nearly $200. For some of us, that defi nes whether we eat or not for the next month or two. Getting old is hard enough. A little compas-sion please. Why can’t this charge be at least below $100 for everyone?
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY baby girl Melissa, March
11, 1979. Wishing you good health, happiness and peace of mind as you enter your 36th year. I’m so proud of you, I wish you knew how much I love you. I pray you never expe-rience the pain I live with, caused by the absence of you and your sister in my life. It’s time to break the cycle, or God forbid, it carries on to a fourth gen-eration. Please do some soul searching, ignore the rumours, and honeybee, please get in touch with me. Love always, Mom xoxo.
BEEF to the lady race car driver speeding through Crown Isle about 1 pm on March 17. Just because you drive a black Cadillac Esca-lade (I know it was a black Cadillac Escalade because all I could see in my rear view mirror was the grill of your SUV all the way up Idiens), doesn’t mean that you own the road. What were you thinking when you passed me on Sussex Drive in front of the park? I was cautiously doing the speed limit as there were workmen and pedestrians on the road, but you must have been doing eighty!! What were you doing blasting your horn all the way to Crown Isle Drive - alerting people that they had better clear the way for you? Give your head a shake!!
A HUGE BOUQUET to Dr.
Bruce at Van Isle Veteri-nary Hospital for all the compassion and care you showed our Golden Re-treiver Elie on his last day with us. You were there for him when we fi rst got him in 2003 and you guid-ed us on his last day to send him over ¨The Rain-bow Bridge¨ in the end. Because of you he lived out his 14-Plus years as a happy boy, and you gave us the peace to say good-bye to him in the end. To us you are the best Vet in
the city of Courtenay Dr. Bruce, and we want to say a Huge Thank You for all you do and have done for all our pets (kids). Thanks again!
THIS IS A HUGE BOUQUET to chef Andrew and the res-taurant staff at the Wester-ly Hotel. Our cancer sup-port group meets there for lunch once a month then, when the restaurant is closed for the afternoon, the hotel lets us use their facility to hold our meet-ing. This month our meet-ing fell on St Patrick’s Day so I asked chef Andrew if he could bake a batch of cupcakes with green icing for me to distribute to the members for their des-sert. Though it was short notice, he said he could do this for us and that I could pay for the treats when we were there for lunch. When we went to settle our bill, the waitress told me that chef Andrew had told her they were “on the house”. Everyone enjoyed the cupcakes immensely. The dining room staff are always so accommodat-ing to our group but this was extra special. I hope the hotel management realizes what assets they have in their restaurant. Thank you chef Andrew and staff .
BEEF to the weed removal
company. Every single day of all hours 6,7,8,9 pm you guys call and ask us if we want your service and we say no we aren’t interest-ed and please stop calling, and you guys keep calling. We feel like we are being harassed. What does one have to do to get the weed people to stop calling?
IT SEEMS THAT BIKERS are more important than high school students in Co-mox. As there is no side-walk, every school day numerous students who attend Highland Second-ary school must walk in
the bike lane on Guthrie Road between Anderton and Nootka streets. This is a busy road and at noon especially many students can be seen walking - sometimes fi ve across up the street to buy lunch at McDonalds. I drive this road often and rarely see a biker. Why isn’t the biking lane turned into a sidewalk if the city can-not take some of the road allowance to make this much needed walk to give the kids more protection?
BOUQUETS to the Cameron Road-Baden Road neigh-bourhood for allowing our Strathcona Nordics Junior and Masters ski teams to use your neighbourhood as a roller ski practice area for the past fi ve years. The few houses and little traf-fi c has made it a safe area for our group to train and practice, especially this winter when the mountain has been closed. Six of the youth skiers you have seen training there recently, are now in Thunder Bay at Cross Country Ski Na-tionals. We wear high vis-ibility clothing and have signage up when we are in the area, and try to keep off the road when vehicles are passing. If any neigh-bours have any comments or input on our usage of this area please approach one of our friendly coach-es when you see us there. Thanks for the waves from many of the neighbours.
BEEF TO A ROAD full of rocks. I could not believe what I was reading. I assume you live in this neighbourhood as I do. You have brought forth two separate issues. The fi rst one is about the young ski club. Shame on you for singling them out. We have a number of dif-ferent people using our lovely neighbourhood for the very reason of it be-ing so quiet. Not all the walkers, ATV, new drivers learning to drive as well
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as the little munchkinsriding their bikes all overthe road live in our neigh-bourhood. It won’t killyou to slow down or evenstop for them. I would farrather have the skiers onour road than the ATV do-ing mach 10 to get to thetrails. Some from our ownsubdivision go too fastdown the road. Do youknow how hard it is thesedays to get kids out ofthe house and away fromtheir gadgets. I welcomeany activity that gets kidsout in the fresh air. I havenever seen anyone runoff the road. The road iswide enough for everyoneto use. These kids need asafe area to practice.
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GOLD MEDALS to the resi-dents of Anderton Ave from 1st Street to 5th. Ev-ery year the distance run-ners of Vancouver Island invade your streets and for two mornings in a row make it inconvenient for you to park your cars and access your homes. The Comox Valley Road Run-ners and all our guests totally appreciate your co-operation and support in advance for our upcoming 5K race on the morning of March 21st (Sat) and Half Marathon on March 22nd (Sunday). We invite you to come out and join us to cheer on the 600+ runners in both races. Bouquets also to all who need to use the Piercy,
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and reassure her that he was grateful for their com-ments and would fi x it. The skateboarder is now sporting protective head gear; congratulations, Boston Pizza for setting a great example to kids in so many ways.
THANK YOU, Thank you, Thank you to the person who found my Mazda keys at Costco on the 8th of March and turned them in. I shudder to think in the wrong hands I could have been looking for a car also.
A BEEF with North Island residents for sending re-cord tonnage to CVRD to landfi lls in a number of consecutive months 2014. According to CVRD graphs July, August, Sep-tember, October were new consistently high dump trips, despite composting, roadside kitchen wastes, recycling by the Provincial program, increased fees. Once again our CVRD di-rectors have a huge chal-lenge - a Bouquet to Di-rectors who will shape our future. Increased user fees and education don’t seem to be working.
MY BEEF is about the hor-rible drivers in Comox. A stop sign means “come to a FULL stop” not just slow down then go. Speeding in school zones, turning left on double solid lines, not merging when your lane ends, parking in fi re/bus spots are just the tip of the iceberg. The RCMP are non-existent in Co-mox. Just sit at a 4-way in-tersection for 10 minutes, no-one in this town stops let alone has half a clue about right of way. Every single time I drive in Co-mox I see people commit-ting driving off ences. The school zone LED signs that show your speed are absolutely useless unless there’s an RCMP offi cer there to give people a nice
big fi ne...the bigger the better. The RCMP need to start clamping down on these drivers before they kill someone.
IN RESPONSE to the Roy-ston resident complain-ing about the Strathcona Nordics skiers using their neighbourhood for roller skiing practice, we’d like to apologize for any inconve-nience they may have ex-perienced. With the lack of snow on local mountains it’s been challenging fi nd-ing venues appropriate for our training. The Cam-eron/Baden Road area is one of the best areas we have for our ‘dryland’ roller ski training. We’d be happy to work with local residents to fi nd ways that we could continue to use the area while minimizing disruption to the local res-idents. Please contact Tim McGrady at 250-897-6412 or meet with our coaches at one of our weekly train-ing sessions.
THREE THINGS every pit bull owner will say when their dog attacks you: First, before it bites, “Don’t worry, he’s friendly.” Sec-ond, while he’s biting you, “He’s never done that be-fore.” Third, while you go for shots and stitches, “I’ll make sure it doesn’t hap-pen again.” Those are, of course, all lies. It’s been said the breed is being dis-criminated against. So? We discriminate against lots of things. We dis-criminate against loaded guns. We discriminate against drunk drivers. We discriminate against se-rial killers. To see what hundreds of stitches look like on an eight-year old, google Chilliwack Girl Pit-bull Photos. Best quote? “A pit bull is just a man-made mistake.” Nobody needs a pit bull.
A STANDING OVATION to ev-ery one who came out and supported the candidates
of the 60 Minute Toast-masters speech contest. Congratulations to Mela-nie Bagley who took the coveted prize and who will move up to the next round in the North Island Area contest March 21st. Every one is welcome to attend any of our meetings in the Comox Valley.
BOUQUETS to the Cum-berland Fire Department, Scouts Canada, Girl Guides, Jennifer Steven-son and the residents for their Hike for Hunger in Cumberland. The food and money collected was donated to the Pantry at St. George’s United Church in Courtenay. We were overwhelmed by the response. Thank you so much.
BIG BOUQUET to Megan and Hannah at John’s Indepen-dent Grocer in Comox. They are always willing to assist with a smile. Lots of seniors shop there and we often need some help or a bit more time. Thank you for going that extra mile, thank you for your gener-ous smile, thank you for doing all this with style!
THIS TIME A BOUQUET sim-ply won’t do! Your re-sponse to our request for donations was incredible. We wish to thank everyone who donated items, came in to shop, and those who discovered us for the fi rst time. An entire fi eld fi lled with daff odils to all of you. We also enjoyed hearing your “hospital stories”. Talk about a win-win situ-ation! We truly do live in the Best of all Places. - Thank You Comox Valley and its citizens from The Saint Joseph’s Auxiliary Thrift Shop volunteers.
I LIVED MY ENTIRE LIFE in Cumberland until just re-cently and was proudly in-volved in the Cumberland Heritage Fair for close to ten years. On February
21st I returned to Cumber-land with family to take in the Heritage Fair and was heartened to see a large crowd and lots of booths. After seeing familiar faces and sharing many hugs and handshakes, I was asked to look towards the master of ceremonies. Be-fore I knew it, the speaker said my name and asked me to come to centre stage. I was both surprised and honored to receive a Life Membership from the Historical Society. I was lost for words but warm with appreciation for be-ing recognized for some-thing I truly enjoyed par-ticipating in. My sisters (May Gee, who remains in the Valley and Joyce Lowe, who passed away) also re-ceived Life Memberships from the Historical Soci-ety for their contributions. Just as I returned back towards the crowd I was asked to return to centre stage to receive another award, a Life Membership from the Museum Soci-ety. I was overwhelmed. The weekend was a proud moment for my family. A warm thank you with many bouquets to all the people I’ve had the plea-sure of knowing, working with and those who have supported me during my time in Cumberland. I have wonderful memories and pride for being from Cumberland. Thank you all for making me feel spe-cial.”
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dy to Bernard for donating his big screen TV to Op-tions Day Program. You made us all super happy so thank you.
I AM LOOKING for the person who was walking their dog Feb 16th at the Comox Lake Dam park-ing lot. You reported that there had been a bonfi re in the parking lot and was concerned your dog could have been hurt due to their
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I say right on, good for you to get out and exer-cise. We all have to give and take, be a little bit more tolerant. As for the parents I am sure now that they know to go single fi le in the narrow part and not butt in when its not their turn and slow down every-thing will be fi ne. There are people in this subdivi-sion that could learn from this. I also give a bouquet to the coaches and the taxi Moms and Dads for tak-ing time out of your busy lives to get your kids to practice.
LOTS OF FOUR LEAF CLOVERS
to the group of individu-als participating at the St. Paddy’s Day Curling Funspiel. The Comox Val-ley Sports and Social Club has been helping KidSport raise money for the past 3 years. The group on Satur-day was fun, and generous. Shannon Lee Meyers who donated half of her 50/50 winnings (over $80), and many other generous sup-porters contributed to raise over $500 for kids to play sports in the Comox Valley. A special thanks to Scott Peterson who donat-ed an extra $100 for the Kids. You guys are awe-some!
BOUQUETS to the CSRD hospital board for collect-ing $29 million for a down payment on our share of the $240 millions for the $600 million North Island Hospitals. North Island property taxpayers will only have to borrow $211 million. No sense whin-ing about the P3, it’s the only option when the Pro-vincial Government owes $64 billion to lenders, and it’s growing. P3’s are the way of the future. Get over it folks, who thinks that Governments can do everything while cutting taxes.
A HUGE BOUQUET to the manager of Boston Pizza in Courtenay whose recent response to a customer concern was an example of the best in management principles. When my elev-en-year-old granddaughter and her nine-year-old sis-ter left a note “to the man-ager” commenting on the fact that the skateboarder featured on their color-ing sheet/menu was NOT wearing a helmet, the man-ager not only immediately pulled the off ending im-age but phoned my grand-daughter (who had left her phone number) that same evening to speak with her
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Mystery writer signing books at Laughing Oyster
Author George Mer-cer will be in Courtenay at The Laughing Oyster Bookshop on Saturday, March 21 from 1-4pm to sign copies of his debut novel Dyed In The Green.
Mercer, who hails from Newfoundland but cur-rently resides in North Saanich, has just released his fi rst mystery-suspense novel as part of a six book series of the same name. Dyed In The Green is the fi rst fi ction series of its kind about Canada’s na-tional park wardens and the challenges they face protecting this country’s iconic special places.
While the fi rst novel is set in Cape Breton High-lands National Park, the series will follow the main characters across Canada with each novel set in a diff erent national park in-cluding Wood Buff alo in the Northwest Territories, Jasper in Alberta and Gulf Islands National Park Re-serve in British Colum-bia. Mercer plans for the series to come full circle with the last book set in Newfoundland and Cape Breton.
Mercer, who worked for more than three decades as a national park warden and park ecologist, re-leased Dyed In The Green just prior to Christmas. Self-published and distrib-uted, the book is available in independent bookstores across Canada.
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Through fund raising, 888 (Komox) Wing President Jack Shapka presents a check for $300.00 dollars to Randy James, the work experience coordinator at the Mark R. Isfeld Secondary School. 888 Wing makes this donation annually to the Mounted Police Camp, an excellent community project for young Canadians.
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BY DREW A. PENNEREcho Staff
The Comox Valley Re-gional District plans to begin burning landfi ll gas by the end of the year, in a bid to reduce its environ-mental footprint and fall in line with BC environ-mental regulations.
It has selected an open candlestick fl are system, at a cost of $255,158 USD ($321,287 CDN), to deal with the estimated 22,000 tonnes of methane pro-duced annually by the Comox Valley Waste Man-agement Centre.
“We don’t currently col-lect gas from the landfi ll,” said Marc Rutten, general manager of engineering services for the CVRD. “It just goes into the atmo-sphere as methane.”
Perennial Energy, a West Plains, Missouri-based company that won the contract through a competitive process, says the equipment complies with the US Environmen-tal Protection Agency’s requirements for non-as-sisted fl ares.
The move comes as the regional district is work-ing on a comprehensive $10.6 million eff ort to shutter the existing the current garbage dump and move forward with a $21.6 million expansion at the Cumberland site.
A landfi ll fl are is consid-ered a “temporary solu-tion” to meeting the Min-istry of Environment’s landfi ll gas regulations, a 2008 piece of legislation requiring operators of gar-bage dumps of this size to collect, destroy, use or sell the emissions by 2016.
“That’s the purpose of this project,” Rutten said.
“We’ll be collecting gas in the future and fl aring it - which is much better for the environment.”
Generally landfi ll gas works out to about 45-58% methane and 35-45% carbon dioxide. Ex-perts say landfi ll gas that doesn’t get fl ared off has an outsized ability to pro-mote the greenhouse ef-fect in the atmosphere.
EBA Engineering Con-sultants Ltd. has begun looking at other ways to use the methane, includ-ing selling the gas into the existing gas pipelines grid, generating power through micro turbines or reciprocating engines, producing heat, setting up a combined heat and power system, or convert-
ing the emissions into compressed natural gas or liquefi ed natural gas.
“We’re hoping for some benefi cial end use of the gas we collect,” he said. “If we’re not fl aring it we’ll be using it to generate elec-tricity, or put into Fortis’s gas system, or something like that.”
The regional district chose the open candle-stick fl are system - instead of a covered fl ame design - because it gives offi cials more control over meth-ane burning levels.
While the regional dis-trict reports both designs can be “problematic to bird populations” and points out that “fl ares that are sporadic in operation can cause harm to birds if they
use the fl are as a perch,” it says it’s confi dent our feathered friends won’t be adversely aff ected at the Cumberland landfi ll.
“These types of fl ares don’t normally have an impact on birds,” Rutten said, noting Pacifi c North-west Raptors Ltd. could expand their scarecrow scheme that’s already in place at the dump to deal with any problems that crop up. “They can focus their eff orts on any part of the landfi ll.”
Currently there’s no good data on birds in-jured or killed by methane burners, according to the CVRD.
On top of the fl are sta-tion, the regional district is preparing to install 19 vertical and two horizon-tal landfi ll gas collection wells and a gas collec-tion header system in the soon-to-be decommis-sioned waste site.
A $45.3 million solid waste budget, which fo-cuses on Phase 1 of Camp-bell River and Comox Val-ley dump closures, has been approved in principal by the Comox Strathcona Waste Management board and is now set for ratifi ca-tion.
“Closing these land-fi lls is essentially putting a big plastic tarp over it - although it’s a lot more sophisticated than a tarp,” he said, referring to the geo-membrane material meant to direct precipita-tion away from contami-nates underground.
“From within that tarp you’re going to collect gas and continue to remove methane.”
The Cumberland land-fi ll add-on is expected to open in 2017.
The Comox Valley Regional District is moving forward with a plan to fl are landfi ll methane generated at the Cumberland dump site.
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The passion and drama of a musical genius rocks the stage in Amadeus: Dances With Wolfgang coming to the Sid Wil-liams Theatre on March 27, part of the theatre society’s 2014 - 2015 Blue Circle Series.
The music of Mozart and Queen’s Freddie Mercury meet in this incredible balletic journey to stardom performed by Ballet Victoria. The ballet follows the tumul-tuous career of one of the world’s most famous composers; his unbridled talent torments and consumes him in this
poignant ode to the artist that features classical and contemporary choreog-raphy.
A choreographer employs the body of his dancer as an instrument. Ballet Victoria artistic director and choreog-rapher Paul Destrooper chooses the genius of Mozart and Mercury as his inspiration to do that and more as dancers’ legs become piano keys and a feather becomes a baton. Mozart’s music will blend with selections from Freddy Mercury as Matthew Cluff dances the lead role of Amadeus and
Andrea Bayne becomes his muse.
Destrooper has chosen to blend the music of the two masters as he feels their lives, though lived centuries apart, had many parallels. Both were no-toriously innovative, both were incredible showmen and both continued to work though at a time when they knew death was at hand. “The pag-eantry with which both lived lends itself well to the drama of dance,” said Destrooper, “This bal-let is about raw passion, about lives with fl air, it is dramatic but as always,
has the light touches of humour Ballet Victoria is known for.”
Now in its 12th season, Ballet Victoria is an inno-vative company dedicated to originality and uses narrative, humour, depth, and classical and popu-lar cultural references to create works that attract a diverse audience. De-strooper choreographs to well known classical and popular music in ways that allow the dancer’s movements to tell a story and gives audiences a familiar connection to each show.
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Ballet Victoria returns to The Sid
This past weekend (March 13 &14), local couple & competitors John Burke and Doreen Thompson competed at the 53rd UBC Gala Ball Danc-eSport competition in Vancouver. With over 200 competitors entered in the weekend events, they placed 2nd in Senior 3 Pre Championship Ballroom and 3rd in Senior 2 Pre Championship Ballroom. The couple’s next competitions will be the Canadian Close DanceSport Champion-ships in Calgary April 3rd & 4th and the 23rd Annual Island Fantasy Ball May 2nd & 3rd at the Beban Park Social Center in Nanaimo. For more information on where you can get tickets for the Island Fantasy Ball check out www.islandfantasyball.com
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Destrooper and his team of twelve profes-sional dancers perform at various venues through-out the province, provide community and school outreach, and collaborate within the artistic com-munities of professional music organizations. The company has presented over 60 new works. Prin-cipal dancers are Andrea Bayne and Matthew Cluff .
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Island stop on Ballet Vic-toria’s tour of Amadeus: Dances With Wolfgang.
Tickets for this Blue Circle Series performance are $44 for members, $49 for general public, $34 for students and groups of 10 or more. Members can add this show to a 4 or more pack for just $34. Purchase in per-son at the Ticket Centre Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm, by phone 250.338.2430, or online at sidwilliamstheatre.com.
Ballet Victoria returns
Steve Elliott’s “How Great thou Art” - The Sacred and Inspirational Songs of Elvis Presley is coming to the Sid Wil-liams Theatre tonight.
Born in Nanaimo, this multi -award winning vo-calist and performer will bring us the “Gospel side” of the King in a two hour concert, that will inspire and move you.
Elvis was brought up in the small religious town of Tupelo where his mother took him to church faith-fully. Here, Elvis would discover his voice and knowledge of Gospel mu-sic that would shape his life forever.
Of course, his career took him in a diff erent direction but he never forsook his faith and he longed to inspire people in the only way he could ... through song!
Elvis recorded three full Gospel records and they still continue to sell today in the millions.
“I feel that this too is my true inspiration as a singer ... You cannot fake these songs,” says Elliott.
“When I perform them, I really feel connected to God and my audience. People really appreciate the way he put such pas-sion into them. I really feel blessed to be able to do this for a living.”
Expect to hear those wonderful songs like, “He Touched Me”, “Crying in the chapel” and fast Up-beat Songs like, “Swing Down Sweet Chariot” and “By and By”.
Of course, the audience is always anticipating those big powerful Songs like “Walk on”, “How Great Thou Art” and “ American Trilogy.”
“Elvis never had the opportunity to perform a full Gospel concert, and I know he would have want-ed to.”
This is a must see for any true Elvis fan
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Steve Elliott performs Elvis gospel tunes Friday night at The Sid
Steve Elliott performs Gospel songs of Elvis
Fiddle Fest is a tradition here in the Comox Valley. For 15 years, the young fi ddlers of Fiddlejam have had an annual spring weekend of concerts, mu-sic workshops and a rock-ing Contra dance, all at the Big Yellow Merville Hall.
The main entertainers this year are the Foggy Hogtown Boys, in con-cert at 7:30pm on Friday, March 20th (www.foggy-hogtownboys.com).
The Foggies will also lead musical workshops on Saturday, March 21st. Workshops, at $5.00 each, will be from 10:30am to 2:30pm. The Band mem-bers will teach fi ddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo and bass to all comers, beginners included, with some jamming thrown in for fun. Doors open at 10:00am. The hall will be open all day so you can even use the kitchen to make your lunch.
Saturday night, at 7:30pm, join those frantic Foggies, along with Fiddle-jam, for a $10.00 “whoop
it up” Community Contra dance with June Cannon calling the moves. Come early for a Contra lesson. Youth are $5.00 and there is a special family rate. All are welcome to come and dance and meet friends, old and new. Contra dances will be taught on the spot.
The Big Yellow Merville Hall is right on the Old Island Highway, between Campbell River and Cour-tenay. Friday concert tick-ets at the door are $20.00 adult and $10.00 youth. In advance at Long & Mc-Quade, Courtenay; Blue Heron in Comox; and The Music Plant, Campbell River. Saturday dance tickets are at the door.
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Helen Austin’s young son Charlie at his fi rst-ever Fiddle Fest
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Mary Reed and Gail Neuls are very ex-cited to exhibit their paintings in their home studios Mar. 21st and Mar. 22nd. (Sat. & Sun. ) from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. both days.
Gail has a very unique way of expres-sion that compels the viewer to discover depth and vision. She begins with di-rect transcriptions from nature, usually through photographs and, without losing all reality, allows the process to evolve. The experience is captured in a decora-tive manner with vibrant rich colors and lots of line.
Having completed 2 very large com-mission paintings inspired her to con-tinue in this direction with another very large painting to be unveiled at the tour.
Gail is most anxious to share this newexperience.
Mary has lived and painted most of herlife in the Comox Valley and received allher art credits from North Island collegeover a period of 9 yrs. and has won sev-eral awards.
Mary is a realistic impressionist paint-er who loves art in a number of subjectsfrom people, animals, and landscapes.Mary just fi nished a series of landscapescapturing the fi ltering light and the beau-tiful colors found in Paradise Meadows.
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By Pippa Ingram
On March 25, 1911 one of the worst factory fi res took the lives of 146 young, poor immigrant women at the Triangle Factory in New York.
This tragic incident was made even more horrifi c due to the lack of basic safety standards that should have been in place.
Emergency exit doors were barred and stairways were blocked trapping garment workers within.
After 100 years the garment industry still ap-pears to ignore the rami-fi cations of poor safety procedure and horrifi c conditions continue as showed by the 2012 in the Tazreen Fashion factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
It was the “deadliest factory fi re in the nation’s history” with at least 117
people confi rmed dead in the fi re, and 200+ injured.
TheatreWorks’ upcom-ing production, Threads of Change, is set to tell the heartfelt tales of the young and courageous women in the Triangle Factory debacle and will be launching their origi-nal performance in May, 2015.
The cast consists predominately of women who will share the stories about how their united struggles, both before and after the tragedy, over-came their cultural and economic diff erences.
Their bonding and the support they gained by their eff orts was instru-mental in forming the International Ladies Garment workers Union and were signifi cant in advocating change in legislative laws for safety standards.
TheatreWorks will be commemorating the an-niversary of the Triangle Factory Fire by reenact-ing the strike that was a long and drawn out hardship for the garment workers but was sup-ported by Unions and the suff ragettes.
Theatreworks cast and family will be striking in remembrance on March 25 at 5:00.
Look for the costumed procession on 5th Street and Cliff e Ave. or near the Bridge at Lewis Park.
Feel free to honk and acknowledge the bravery of the young women and remember the sacrifi ces they made to better their working conditions.
For further information about the production, contact [email protected] or www.the-atreworksonline.com
These young women - still in their teens most of them - were workers in the Triangle Factory.
Remembering the womenof the Triangle factory fi reTheatreWorks plans original productionand will ‘strike’ March 25 in remembrance
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The Comox Valley Art Gallery/TIFF Winter Film Series concludes this Sun-day, March 22 at 5pm with ‘Trick or Treaty?’.
This provocative documentary is a fi t-ting fi lm with which to place director Alanis Obomsawin alongside the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Hong Sang-soo, and recent Cannes champion Nuri Bilge Ceylan, for Trick or Treaty? truly proves Obomsawin a master of the art form.
Alanis Obomsawin has spent decades chronicling the state-sanctioned indig-nities and injustices visited on First Na-tions communities, creating a remark-able body of work driven by equal parts outrage and compassion.
Trick or Treaty?, Obomsawin’s most recent feature documentary, shines a light on the most important document in the history of Canada’s First Peoples: the infamous Treaty 9, a 1905 agreement in which First Nations communities sup-posedly relinquished sovereignty over their traditional lands - a precedent that is routinely invoked whenever govern-ments are challenged about rights issues involving Aboriginal communities.
Against the backdrop of numerous key recent events, such as Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike and the rise of Idle No More and other youth-oriented Aboriginal movements, Obomsawin
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interviews a string of legal, his-torical, and cultural experts - as well as people whose forebears were present when the treaty was signed more than a century ago - about the corrupt genesis of Treaty 9.
The deeper Obomsawin digs, the more disturbing the revela-tions. It gradually becomes clear that the printed copy of the trea-ty is not the only valid version.
Even more startling, the First Nations signatories themselves were not able to see the writ-ten treaty until decades after the signing, and then in a language they didn’t understand.
As powerful, provocative, and important as any of her previ-ous fi lms, Trick or Treaty? once again demonstrates why Obom-sawin is one of Canada’s most vital cinematic voices.
Tickets are $13, $12 for CVAG members, available at the CVAG Gift Shop, 580 Duncan Ave, Downtown Courtenay (6th and Duncan) and at the door if avail-able (Door: cash only, exact change appreciated).
To purchase tickets over the phone call CVAG at (250) 338-6211. All screenings are at the Rialto Theatre on Sundays at 5:00pm (Driftwood Mall - 2665 Cliff e Ave, Courtenay).
For complete Film Series in-formation visit our website at www.comoxvalleyartgallery.com or follow us on Twitter @CVAG-Film for updates and news.
Trick or Treaty
Words and verse, emotion and intensity, this Friday afternoon the public will get a chance to hear and see the fi -nalists chosen for the Comox Valley Poet Laureate Search.
The CV Community Arts Council event, being hosted by the Courtenay Library, will lead off with a reading by noted author Linda Rogers, a former Victoria poet laure-ate and a member of the jury selecting the local poet.
Rogers says she found the range of local poetry submis-sions striking.
“I am excited to see the diversity in poetry that repre-sents the Courtenay area,” she says.
“From street to formal, stage to page, their voices form a choir. I’m thinking of your fi rst poet laureate as a conductor and hope everyone will join in the celebration and lamentation, whatever is needed.”
A total of 15 poets have submitted their work to the contest, which carries an honorarium of $1000 and the chance to open for Shane Koyzcan at his sold-out show at the Sid Williams Theatre on Tuesday.
“All the candidates have very strong applications,” says
Poet Laureate fi nalists performing FridayHopefuls will read/perform their works today at Courtenay Library
Josie Patterson, a young song-writer and spoken word artist who has joined Rogers, rapper Eric Ettinger and North Island College English Department chair Anne Cumming on the jury.
“I’m excited to see what the fi nalists are like in perfor-mance.”
Patterson said she believes “poetry outreach in the com-munity, especially as far as youth are concerned, is es-
sential.”She said that in addition to
quality of writing and perfor-mance, she is looking for the candidate who has the best “motivation and ideas towards poetry in youth, and giving them a voice.”
She called the contest “such an amazing opportunity” for writers of verse. “I am so grateful to be a part of this.”
The Linda Rogers reading begins at 3:30 p.m. Friday,
followed by the fi nalists begin-ning at 5:30 p.m.
The winner of the Comox Valley Poet Laureate Search will be announced at the Koy-czan show Tuesday evening.
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In the face of continued vandalism, deteriorating pathways and spreading moss, Cumberland has voted an action plan for improving its main cem-etery into play. The Village council selected a series of recommended and option-al projects to complete in 2013 - totaling $47,000 - which it hopes will inspire pride and respect for a locale treasured by many, while preparing a space for future burials.
“We tried to pick out projects that will give that bang for the buck, seeing as council has so many other priorities and there’s limited funding,” said Ra-chel Parker, deputy corpo-rate offi cer. “We’ve gone for the ones that we see had the best value.”
In 2014 the Village set $50,000 aside in a reserve for cemetery work. A 2014 cemeteries master plan was produced as a guide for the development of the facility, located along Minto Road. After ear-marking $10,000 to cov-er a certifi cate of public interest for the Chinese and Japanese cemeteries, and another $3,000 for a Chinese Cemetery survey, the Village was left with $37,000 to play with.
It came up with a list of recommended projects in-cluding planting 25 trees, opening new interment areas and putting $5,000 towards a 25-year perpet-ual care fund.
Parker said tidying up the perimeter should be the fi rst plan of attack, since discarded concrete and garbage has sullied the community facility in recent years.
“We think it’s a good in-vestment just to clean that up,” she said. “I think it’s really important for the public to see the Village is making an investment in the cemetery and I think that’s a good fi rst step.”
Village politicians and staff are seeking ways to put a stop to the destruc-tive use of ATVs and trucks in the cemetery, which, like much of the Village, is
Village begins sprucing up fi nal resting spacesCouncil votes on fi rst step of cemetery master plan implementation
The history of Cumberland is etched on its tombstones.
just a few burnouts away from a recreational trail network.
“We have a little bit of vandalism every year,” Parker said. “We have trucks go through there and tear up the grass.”
On top of supporting the slew of recommended projects, such as survey and design work, install-ing (but not connecting)
an underground irrigation system and developing marketing materials such as a brochure and an on-site kiosk, council voted for a basket of optional projects - costing an extra $10,000.
This includes top dress-ing roadways, installing natural or “green” burial area border landscaping and paying a security com-
Cumberland hopes people will be inspired to care more about their cemetery and avoid causing damage to the property with trucks or ATVs.
Empty bottles and concrete slabs dot the Minto Road cemetery pe-rimeter.
pany to lock the cemetery up at night.
Coun. Jesse Ketler said all this extra love invested into the cemetery will have a big impact.
“Cleaning it up will
probably decrease vandal-ism,” she said. “If we’re spending more time there and putting more eff ort into it, it will show that we value it.”
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Coun. Sproule applaud-ed the work of staff to look at the $338,000 in suggested work and pick out the most important elements to get started on.
“I think you’ve done a really good job, because there are so many things in the plan,” she said. “And we’d like to do them all, but you’ve looked at
what we have left in the budget and picked those out. Those are doable and really important.”
Sproule says she’s glad the Village is shining a light on something that has remained largely in the background.
“We haven’t really done much with our cemetery for so long,” she said. “It’s almost been invisible until we got this cemetery mas-ter plan.
“And I think it’s a grow-ing place.”
Mayor Leslie Baird said she’s pleased the projects are moving forward.
“I think you’ve covered many of the items we were wanting to look at,” she said. “I know when we were doing the process and doing the master plan there was a lot of concern that we would do the plan and not implement any-thing.”
Village sprucing up cemetery
BY DREW A. PENNEREcho Staff
Patrick Hayes taps away at his laptop in the brightly lit Red Tree Café. From Tin Town in Cour-tenay, the 32-year-old is in the midst working on reams of code for High-wire Press, a digital con-tent and hosting company based in the Silicon Valley region.
“There’s a whole sexy world of venture capital-ists, billionaires and tech entrepreneurs,” Hayes said, recalling the environ-ment he witnessed over three-and-a-half years - as well as the reality of the daily grind. “It’s good work, but it’s not glori-ous.”
Provincial politicians and the local business community are looking for ways to harness the potential of developing a vibrant tech sector in the Comox Valley.
The jobs are lucrative, there is little environmen-tal impact - at least on the surface - and the allure of promoting yourself in a re-gion at the forefront of the digital sphere is strong.
Hayes and his wife de-cided to leave the San Francisco rat race behind when they began planning for a baby, not wanting to raise their child in the city.
The computer systems analyst’s story mirrors that of many technol-ogy industry workers who have either continued their digital jobs from a new home in the Comox
Valley or started compa-nies from the comfort of this picturesque Eastern Vancouver Island locale.
Following an industry roundtable last year, the Comox Valley Chamber of Commerce has now announced it will hold a North Island tech expo in the Comox Valley this fall, as it seeks to shine a light on the technology-based business community.
The October 23 event will feature a guest speaker and highlight local fi rms, as organizers attempt to add gas to the Valley’s tech sector engine.
“This is an industry that isn’t necessarily front and centre, but technology af-fects every single one of us every day,” said Dianne Hawkins. president and CEO of the Comox Valley Chamber of Commerce, adding the organization has identifi ed the tech sec-tor as a key area to focus on. “There’s little pods of things happening all over the place.”
That’s something Hayes would generally agree with.
“I suspect there’s a lot more people working in tech here than we realize,” he said. “The thing about high tech stuff is it’s be-coming more and more like you can work from anywhere.”
And he thinks the key to building a strong tech sector will be for local governments to continue to focus on quality of life issues.
“For people who can work wherever they want,
if you can make this an attractive place to work, they’ll come,” he said, adding that will mean focusing on making the community more “liv-able” through densifi ca-tion, public transit devel-opment and protection of natural features.
Another key component could be local govern-ments adopting open data policies to spur innova-tion, he added.
Courtenay councillor Bob Wells, who moved to the Comox Valley for the very quality of life reasons pointed to by Hayes, said the City is has begun im-plementing new software systems that will make the community just that much more high tech.
“The City of Courtenayhas actually developed anasset management soft-ware program,” he said. “Ithelps them look at all theirprojects.”
Perhaps most strikingis his personal story ofleaving behind a top postavailable in Calgary to en-joy the pace of life the Co-mox Valley has to off er.
He ran the internet de-partment for Shaw Cablefor six years but ultimatelydecided to build a techsupport business here, in-stead.
Now the Chamber ofCommerce wants to drawattention to all the playersthat have been growing thetechnology scene and saysits fall expo will be the per-fect vehicle through whichto do it.
“I’m just really excitedabout the opportunities,”Hawkins said. “It’s timefor our community to seewhat we have.”
I suspect there’s a lot more people working inßtech here than we real-ize. ... It’s becomig more and more like you can work from anywhere.”
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“Take the Pledge: Tap Into Water” is the theme of World Water Day, March 22, 2015. Considering the extended Boil Water Advisory in December/January, and the potential drought conditions this coming summer, many people are think-ing a lot more about water.
Consider also that the provincial gov-ernment is in the fi nal stages of enacting a new Water Act which will have further impact on our watershed.
The population of the Comox Valley is 68,000. How many of those 68,000 people realize that our community does not own its own watershed?
“We go to the sink, open up a tap, fl ush the toilet or step into a shower: and out VOILA! Out comes the water. But where does our drinking water come from?
And how can we protect it?” says Linda Saff ord of CV Water Watch.
On Saturday March 21, a “Meet & Greet” educational session, sponsored by CV Water Watch and the CV Council of Canadians, will be happening between 11 am and 4 pm in the park at the Courte-nay courthouse, on England Avenue.
There will be people who have worked on local water issues to talk with; there will be tables with information, and the materials and opportunity to write let-ters. We invite you to take a few mo-ments to stop by and learn how you can help to ensure there will be water for our children and their children, for seven generations to come.
Bring your empty plastic bottles - we will recycle them!
Celebrate Water Day on March 21
Highland extendsdeadline for itsInternationalBaccalaureate Program
Highland Secondary School is extending the deadline for their Interna-tional Baccalaureate (IB) Program.
“We have had a number of applicants for Sep-tember of 2015,” reports Andrew Black, the IB pro-gramme coordinator, “but we do need more in order to have the programme run next year. We are encouraging students and parents to take a closer look at IB and the many advantages it off ers the university-bound stu-dent.”
Highland’s two year IB program - now mov-ing into its fourth year - provides an opportunity for students who wish to excel academically and who wish to attend col-
lege or university after high school.
In fact, IB coursework includes university level content, providing an excellent foundation for future academic success.
Students may opt to take the whole IB Diplo-ma or to select individual course options, choos-ing the courses that best suit their interests and aptitudes.
IB English, French, History, Biology, Chem-istry, Math, Art, Theatre and Theory of Knowledge are all on off er, taught by specially trained teachers!
Students may easily combine IB courses with regular BC course off er-ings.
All IB students earn a BC Dogwood graduation
Grade 12 IB students at a recent retreat to the VIU Deep Bay Marine Research Centre. Jack and Noah are preparing to do a night beach seine to sample and identify marine life.
certifi cate in addition to their IB credentials.
According to Mac Gold, a 2014 IB graduate now studying at UVic, “In every one of my courses I have seen at least a glimpse, if not the en-tirety, of what we will be studying.
“The issues students are having in university with concepts, I’ve had explained to me one on one with my high school teachers; I think that makes a massive diff er-ence. I have literally seen every topic in my univer-sity courses within IB.”
Students report that the most diffi cult transitions they face when they move to post-secondary educa-tion are the challenges of eff ective self-discipline and time management.
The IB Diploma Pro-gram provides students with a solid background in these areas.
“Life after high school becomes largely about knowing how to balance time, whether that be with university or a job,” said Gold.
“You reach a point in your life where you need to know how to manage large workloads over ex-tended periods of time. I think IB really helps with that; when I and some
other students made a video about IB last year the most repeated praise for IB from students was its time management development. I think that students taking one course, or all six, will fi nd that this will help them signifi cantly with their future.”
Most importantly, IB encourages students to widen their perspectives and to learn how to think deeply about local and global issues.
“I think that although IB teaches students more about each specifi c subject it also teaches you how to think critically and how to think about a topic from all angles,” reports Gold.
“That kind of mind set is valuable not only in school and post-second-ary, but also in life. I think many people feel more able to give their full edu-cated opinion on issues of large controversy because of this kind of mindset development.”
For more information, check out the IB Program tab on highland’s website or contact Andrew Black, the IB coordinator, at [email protected]. Check us out on Face-book at www.facebook.com/HighlandIB.
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Courtenay Elementary School celebrated the beginning of their ab-original carving project this Tues-day.
The school had a special ceremo-ny led by Andy Everson to bless the logs that will be turned into the cen-terpieces of the school’s garden gate project.
All 185 students squeezed into the school’s outside covered area to watch as Andy Everson conducted the ceremonial blessing of the logs.
This included singing, drumming, and brushing the logs with cedar boughs.
The ceremony ended with the lead carver on the project, Karver Everson, joining his uncle in spread-ing eagle down feathers on the logs, which represent peace.
The entire project has been funded by a grant from Artstarts in Schools, a non-profi t organization that aims to bring professional artists into BC schools.
The logs were generously donated by Western Forest Products.
Grade 5 and 6 teacher Heidi Jung-wirth, who is leading the project and originally put in the grant applica-tion, described the event as emo-tional and moving:
“Having all the kids watching intently as Andy’s chants echoed through the outdoor space made all the work we’ve been doing very worthwhile”.
Already the students have all worked with John Powell to learn about K’omoks art styles and tech-niques and with school district staff
to learn the story of Queneesh, and the totem that goes with it.
Between now and June the young-er students will be selecting and painting an animal, which will be displayed as part of the new gates for the school community garden.
The older students will also be more directly involved in paint-ing and fi nishing the poles being carved.
The school is planning to com-plete and unveil the entire project on June 22nd as part of the com-munity’s celebration of National Ab-original Day.
They are confi dent that this proj-ect will be an ongoing symbol of what is possible when the commu-nity comes together to support chil-dren.
Andy Everson performs a log blessing ceremony at Courtenay Elementary with the help of students Alexzander, Josalyn, and Jade and their teacher Heidi Jungwirth
Courtenay Elementary begins carving project with a blessing
Stephen Harper pro-motes the new trade agreement with the Euro-pean Union by describing it as the most compre-hensive trade agreement ever signed and points out that it’s with the largest integrated market in the world.
He tells us that it’s about much more than removing tariff s.
It’s also about govern-ment procurement, regu-lation, professional and industry standards and investment rules.
Yet most of us know
little about this agreement and others that the gov-ernment is negotiating.
“Will they benefi t those of us who live and work on Vancouver Island? What will their aff ect be on jobs, our local economies, our local governments and on our environment?” asks Alice de Wolff , chair of the Comox Valley Council of Canadians.
“Are We Being Sold Out? Jobs, Trade and the Economy” is an evening of information and discus-sion co-sponsored by the Comox Valley Council of
Canadians and the Camp-bell River, Courtenay and District Labour Council.
It will take place in Courtenay on Thursday, March 26, 7 PM in the Ro-tary Room at the Filberg Centre.
Three speakers will stimulate the discussion.
Ellen Gould is a long-time trade and policy researcher who is par-ticularly watching a new agreement called the “Trade in Services Agree-ment”.
She is based in Powell River and is associated
with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Brenda Sayers is the spirit behind the Hupac-aseth First Nation’s court challenge to the Canada - China Foreign Investment Protection and Promo-tion Agreement, and has toured the country talking about First Nations con-cerns about trade.
Alice de Wolff is a long time trade activist and is the current chair of the Comox Valley Council of Canadians.
The event is open to the public.
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Plaque on ‘Walk’ dedicated to mom
Walk of Achievement ceremony: From left to right, Cumberland Mayor Leslie Baird, CVRD chair Bruce Joliffe, Courtenay Mayor Larry Jangula, Comox Mayor Paul Ives, recipient Louise Carvalho, and Walk of Achievement committee member Jackie Green.
While Louise’s list of accomplishments when growing up is almost too long to list - including winning the top award for Highland grads - she is modest and gives all the credit to the Valley’s pub-lic education system. And her mother.
She noted that her mother gave up working as a Registered Nurse in order to be home for her and her brother. Her en-thusiasm and support for
everything her children did was “infectious”.
She said her mom and dad “egged us on con-stantly” and “visited us everywhere”.
“I have a family support I wouldn’t trade for mil-lions of dollars,” she said.
Louise also mentioned the many inspiring public school teachers in her life.
“Those teachers made a huge impact in my life,” she said. One, in particu-lar, Tim MacKinnon, who
The plaque is installed now, right in the pavement on Fifth Street, in front of the Rattan Plus store.
It’s one in a series in the Comox Valley Walk of Achievement, honouring local residents who have gone on to make their mark in the world.
But this plaque is par-ticularly special for its re-cipient. Louise Carvalho, a former Highland Second-ary student, has dedicated the award to the memory of her mother, Sheila, who passed away last year.
Louise was honoured with the induction into the Walk of Achievement on Dec. 21, just before Christ-mas, on one of her visits home from France, where she now lives.
Proud father Dr. Lui Carvalho and brother Si-mon were among the large crowd of friends, former teachers and employers who came out to honour the outstanding student, accomplished lawyer and even better human being.
Louise works as an in-ternational lawyer and has served in such postings as Legal Advisor to the Euro-pean Union on Economic Development in Kosovo followed by three years as Legal Advisor to EULEX, the European Union Rule of the Mission in Kosovo. For two years she worked in Brussels for OPCW, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which earned the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
And she has recently begun working in Geneva with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research which earned the Nobel Physics Prize in 2001.
While her practice is International Adminis-trative Law, Louise has found that when she takes time to work within the community she has had extraordinary experienc-es and made wonderful friendships.
And that’s mainly why she was inducted into the Walk of Achievement, ac-cording to committee member Dave Durant.
He noted that while in Kosovo, for instance, Lou-ise organized events and fundraisers to help or-phans.
“You have chosen to be selfl ess. It’s for that rea-son that we are honour-ing you today. You under-stand what it means to be inspired ... and you are inspiring to all of us,” he said.
spoke at the induction,taught her how to writeand instilled a love of dra-ma and public speakingskills.
She didn’t forget an ear-ly employer, either. MikeMcLaughlin, former own-er of the famed Old Houserestaurant, was presentand thanked for allowingher to learn the value ofservice by working there.
“Ted Holekamp - thefi rst one to make me feellike a lawyer ... not only tobe one, but to be cool atthe same time,” she said.
Louise chose the phrase“A world without borders”to go on her paver stone.
“We all have a tendencyto erect borders. We’reconstantly throwing upthese silly borders. If youhave a border you want toget rid of - stamp it out,”she said.
She noted that theaward, while in her name,is “truly a communityachievement.”
* A memorial mass forSheila Carvalho is beingoff ered on Sunday, March22 at 10:30 a.m. at theChrist the King Churchin Courtenay. All are wel-come.
Sheila Carvalho - the Walk of Achievement plaque is dedicated to her by recipient Louise Carvalho
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Tuesday Adult - Duwanee Granneman 217, Ross McWil-lis 233, George Ghinis 247, John West 232, Ed Carefoot 254, Ian Taylor 195.
Wednesday 9:30 - Art Wesner 190, Ria Tjart 194, Marie Israel 245, Heather Abraham 191, Pat Stauffer 186, Paul Riley 204, Pat Ailles 178, Bert Brown 191.
Tuesday CRA - Leona Wagner 134, Cori Pagnoni 155, Daniel Erb 146, Lindsay Clayton 123, Brian Mitchell 161, Carly Buchan 125, Gary Scavarda 92.
Wednesday CRA - Karen Slater 124, Clint McColl 157, Michael Campbell 184, Larry McCooey 183, Tiffi nee Nicol 178, Jessica Anderson 114, Russell Enright 123, Lyle Farnham 96.
Wednesday Adult - Matt Casa-vant 224, Chad Kelly 232, Tannis Pond 217, Dave Pond 203, Al Gavel 228, Mike Espey 251, Sonti-na Espey 252, Ross McWillis 217, Ken Bird 288, Rick Granneman 216, Bruno Bagden 246, BRIAN BOOTH 325, Tom Nurse 243, Rose Stenabaugh 192.
Thursday GA - Vera Winter 207, Bob Van Nes 230, Bea Tomkinson 192, Mina Putnam 224, Barb Casey 207, Bruce Ram 172, Doro-thy Broadbent 164, Grace Rodri-guez 249, Ivan Ally 213, Linda Meers 211.
Thursday Adult - CANDACE McLELLAN 300, PAUL ZORZ 308, ANDREW STUBBING 317, Ed Care-foot 224, Lorne King 220, Jordan Austin 226, Lindsay Henwood 152, Darrell Funk 164, Jessica Davies 165, Jessica Giroux 278, Scott VanAchte 258, Rick Kroeker 263, Janet Ellis 190, Kevin Gurn-ham 189.
Friday GA - Arnie Auerbach 207, Ickle Brown 219, Bert Brown 220, Ken Scavarda 214, Roy Brek-ke 206, Jim Bennett 230, Gerhard Sorger 209, Joan Lucas 192.
Special O - Zach Z 140, Morgan Bell 173, Jamie Bennett 174, Matt Cadwell 191, Mary Wells 174, Colin Wells 186, Paul Riley 183, Trevor Carter 153, Marilyn Shet-terly 178, Allison Bennett 162.
CV Bridge ClubThursday “play and
Learn” sessions will be held again on March 26 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at the Lion’s Den in Co-mox.
Play hands and discuss the bidding, play and de-fense after each hand.
The cost is $5.00 and if you have any questions please call Jack Bradshaw at (250) 703 - 0397.
Monday, March 9, 2015A 1/2 Bob Dugas - Bar-
rie Turnham1/2 Jack Bradshaw - Car-
ole Bradshaw3 Sharon Hysert - Di-
anna RicksonB 1 Glen Parsons -
Dave Proctor2 Barbara Morris -
Howard CohenC 1 Tom Dugdale - Jea-
nette BaronThursday, March 12,
2015A 1 Allen Hopwood -
Lorraine Gargan2 Marilyn Hannah -
Jane Cunningham3 Carole Bradshaw - Di-
anna RicksonOur club is located on
Nordin Street across from the Comox Mall under the newly renovated Museum and Art Gallery.
We off er guaranteed partnerships, so if you’re visiting or your regular partner is away, make sure you come out to play any-way.
If you don’t have a regu-lar 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 Mari-nus at (250) 338-2544.
D’Esterre Duplicate BridgeResults for Tuesday,
10th March (11 tables):N/S - 1. Jack and Carol
Bradshaw; 2. Tom and Betty Thomsen; 3. Phil Sandford and Vic Vlaj; 4. Dianne McKinnon and Joan Erickson.
E/W - 1. Dick and Lynn Sangster; 2. Tie, Karin Franzen and Ann Cook, Dianna Rickson and Ev-elyn Ware; 4. George and Trish Kirkwood.
Results for Friday, March 13th (13 1/2 Ta-bles):
N/S - 1. Tom Dugdale and Dianna Rickson; 2. Phil Sandford and Mau-reen Olafson; 3. Dianne McKinnon and Ruby Paul-son; 4. Lyall and Maureen Ashbaugh.
E/W - 1. Bob Dugas and Paul Bozenich; 2. Peter and Glenda McGrath; 3. Dick and Lynn Sangster; 4. Denise Holst and Betty Fountain.
Results for Saturday, 14th March (8 1/2 tables):
N/S - 1. Jean Tait and Denise Holst; 2. Dianne McKinnon and Ruby Paul-son; 3. Doug and Penny Poole.
E/W - 1. Irene Smith and Betty Fountain; 2. Harvey Piercy and Ann Cook; 3. Jack and Carol Bradshaw.
Bridge club news
Golfi ng newsGlacier Greens, Sat-
urday Mar. 14th - The weather at 8:30 was rain and wind so a lot of golf-ers stayed home. Some came out and then went home, but 35 stayed and played.
The rain and wind stopped just as they start-ed. Good for those who stayed, here are the re-sults:
HCP 0-161st Low Gross Terran
Berger 73, 2nd Chris Ka-lnay 74.
1st Low Net Dave Wa-cowich 68 c/b, 2nd Willie Oliver 68.
Snips Hole #8 Chris
Kalnay, #9 Dave Wacow-ich, #16 Dave Brooker.
HCP 17+1st Low Gross John
Pringle 85, 2nd Ken Doll 91.
1st Low Net Len Doyle 66, 2nd Nick Mykitiuk 71,
Snips Hole #2 Nick Mykitiuk,.
No Pot Of Gold winner this week.
Winner of Ben Gill chal-lenge closest to the pin on hole #15 was Wayne Ma-bee. Remember get your entry in for the Shootout.
We have been lucky with the weather this winter. Till next week, see ya.
- Submitted by Ron Carter
The Ice returned from a successful provincial championships with a 2-2 record, identical to last year.
In the opening round game Isfeld faced a much taller Charles Hays Rain-makers team from Prince Rupert.
After trailing 16-13 at the end of the fi rst quarter the Ice were outscored 22-11 in the second.
Had it not been for a tough shooting second quarter Isfeld would have been even closer to the Rainmakers, fi nally losing 62-49.
Davis Malton lead all scorers with 15 on 5-9 3-point shooting while Nic Xylinas added 11 and Noah Kaefer chipped in with 12.
Xylinas was the team’s leading rebounder with 11.
In game number two Is-feld faced a tough, quick McNair Marlins squad from Richmond.
After being down just 7 in the fi rst half ( 38-34) the Ice ran out of gas and lost 77-58.
The struggle against McNair was rebounding. Whereas the night before against Charles Hays the Ice outrebounded the taller Rainmakers 43-40 McNair owned the glass outrebounding Isfeld 47-34. Of those 47 rebounds 20 came on the off ensive glass. That lack of defen-sive rebounding proved to be too much to overcome. Nic Xylinas and Noah
Kaefer led the team with 28 each.
After an evening of soul searching and an early morning practice to cor-rect the issues from the day before the Ice faced a tough, physical and much bigger LV Rogers team from Nelson.
Playing with a renewed commitment to the de-fensive glass the Ice out-rebounded the Bombers 38-30 winning the game 60-52.
Davis Malton led the team in rebounding with 10 and chipped in with 14 points for his fi rst double double at the tournament. Xylinas and Kaefer each scored 22.
This win set up a Sat-urday showdown with the upset minded Dawson Creek Penguins.
The previous night Daw-son Creek had dismantled
Fraser Valley number 4 Charles Best 77-48.
After a poor shooting fi rst half in which the Ice found themselves down 27-24 and outrebound-ed 22-15, Isfeld staged a rally in the third quarter outscoring the Penguins 14-6 and posting a 5 point lead.
In the 4th quarter the Ice continued their hard work on the glass and timely shot making to beat Dawson Creek 55-42.
In the second half the Ice held the Penguins to 15 points and kept them off the glass by outrebound-ing them 22-11.
Isfeld fi nished 22-11 for the season with their sec-ond straight trip to the 3A provincials.
After struggling before the Winter Break with a 3-3 record the Ice closed out the season going 19-8.
Ice senior boys go 2-2 at provincial tourney
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Cassie Sharpe knows what a turnaround is all about. After a mishap in a New Zealand pipe last fall where she suff ered a broken collarbone, the 22-year-old Comox native has been fi ghting her way back to contention in the international arena. She hit the gym hard and made use of the knowledge and technical support of Ca-nadian National Halfpipe Team trainers to improve her game.
Picking up a silver at the FIS World Freestyle Ski & Snowboard Cham-pionships in Austria this year wasn’t enough for Sharpe. She pushed her-self to master the left cork nine and pulled the trick off for the fi rst time in competition at the SFR
Freestyle Tour’s Ski Half-pipe World Cup Finals in Tignes, France. Oh, and she also won gold in the process. The Echo caught up with Sharpe over a trans-Atlantic email con-nection to get a sense of what the win felt like from behind the goggles.
Q: First of all, congratu-lations on your big gold. How does it feel to have clinched the top spot in that competition?
A: It feels incredible. All the hard work and hours I’ve put into following my dream are paying off in a big way.
Showcasing what I can do in a big contest like SFR World Cup Finals was a truly special thing for me.
Q: What do you think were the key aspects of
your training that helped prepare you for this vic-tory?
A: All the time I’ve spent cross training really has a lot to do with my success. Gym, airbag, biking, tram-poline - it’s all fun, but its all hard work. Also my in-vitation onto the Canadian National Halfpipe Team
has made a huge impact. Having world-class coach-es Trennon Paynter and Marc McDonnell has been game changing.
Q: Tell me about what it was like for you to throw down that left cork nine for the fi rst time?
A: It was so nerve wrack-
ing. I was at the top of the halfpipe playing through all the possibilities of what could happen. I felt like I’d trained it enough on the trampolines and air bag that it would come around to my feet. I was confi -dent, but that doesn’t take away from all the nerves.
Q: What was going through your mind when you dropped into the pipe in the fi nals? Like, what were you focused on?
A: When I’m at the top, standing there, staring down the center of the pipe with coach Trennon, looking at the huge crowd, I’ve got the world’s big-gest butterfl ies. But as soon as I get the go-ahead from the starter, I start my music and fi st bump my coach. I’m ready. I’m in my own zone. Once I drop into position above the pipe, everything fades away except the task at hand. It’s truly a calm in the chaos.
Q: What’s next for Cass-ie Sharpe?
A: I’m in France now un-til the 22nd competing in a charity event put on by France’s Marie Martinod for ELA [l’Association eu-ropéenne contre les leu-codystrophies]. It’s an all girls event, which I think is something so impor-tant - to come together as women of the sport and put on an incredible show!!
Then I’m back home to Comox for a couple weeks, then onward to Whistler for WSSF (World Ski and Snowboard Festival) for the last competition of the season.
Cassie Sharpe says winning gold at the SFR World Cup Finals was a “truly special thing” for her.
Calm inthe chaosQ&A: Cassie Sharpe reveals how she got over the’world’s biggest butterfl ies’
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