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Council working toward a 4-5% tax increaseLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

It’s that time of year again when Town of Ladysmith staff and council have to make some important decisions about taxes, fees, projects and priorities, and council’s financial plan discus-sions continued April 14 with a look at water and sewer fees.

Every year, the Town charges water utility fees, and those are used to fund water operating costs.

Staff is recommending that council increase the quarterly water base charge by $1.05 and increase each step by $0.05, ef-fective for the third-quarter bill-ing. As well, staff recommends council include a policy in the

2014-18 Financial Plan to in-crease the water rates, by by-law, by $1 to the quarterly base charge and increase each step by $0.03, effective each year on Jan. 1.“It’s not a radical amount, but

increasing year after year, we’ll be able to pay for some of these projects and put some money aside,” said Erin Anderson, the director of financial services.

This increase works out to $0.35 a month extra for 3,400 us-ers, noted Mayor Rob Hutchins.

Staff is also recommending council increase the water parcel tax by $20 per year to $130 per parcel, which works out to $1.75 a month.“It is a very reasonable price for

a precious resource,” said Coun.

Gord Horth.Both of these increases were

supported by council.Council also supported increas-

es to the sewer utility fees, while the sewer parcel tax will see no change and stay at $269 per quar-ter.

Sewer utility fees will increase by $1 a month to $15, effective for the third-quarter utility billing. A policy of increasing the sanitary sewer rate monthly charge, by bylaw, by $1, effective each year on Jan. 1, will also be included in the 2014-18 financial plan.

In terms of property taxes, noth-ing is set in stone yet, as council and staff work to find an increase that everyone can live with.

When council and staff first started discussing the financial

plan in late March, they were looking at a property tax in-crease of about 3.14 per cent, and Anderson says that with some general capital projects moved forward, it’s now around 3.65 per cent.

Anderson says the Town’s bud-get is increasing $265,223 from last year to this year.

The Town’s current policy is to shift the tax burden away from major industry (Class 4). Coun-cil wants to reduce the share of property tax paid by Class 4 by at least two per cent over the years 2015-18.

At the April 14 meeting, coun-cil also decided it wants to con-tinue with the current policy of the residential (Class 1) tax in-crease being no more than five

per cent after new construction figures and the Class 6 (com-mercial) increase being no more than half the residential class increase. Council also directed staff to increase the reliance on Class 8 (recreation/non-profit) by the amount of the assessment increase.

Councillors said they would be comfortable with a residential tax increase of four per cent but no more than five per cent.“It’s important to note that with-

in this budget, where it stands now, this is not providing new services — it’s just maintaining,” said Horth.

The Town’s financial plan must be approved by May 15, and council will make more decisions in the coming weeks.

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In brief Rotarians help Mayans produce foodLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

In February, John and Mary Mulrooney travelled to Guatemala to volunteer at a women’s centre on behalf of the Ladysmith Rotary Club, helping the women develop a garden, handing out bags filled with school supplies, and finding out about courses the local club funded to help the women improve their lives.

The Mulrooneys shared a slideshow presenta-tion that ties together the various groups from Van-couver Island that went to Guatemala this winter

— Ladysmith, Chemainus, Qualicum and Nanaimo – two weeks ago, sharing pictures of the women they worked with and the other Rotarians they worked with and explaining how much of a difference the Ladysmith Rotary Club is making in the Central American country.

When they went to Guate-mala, Mary took a week’s worth of Spanish lessons in Antigua, the former capital city, where they also have a three-day Rotary Fair, which she and John were able to visit.“People who came to it

were from Central Ameri-ca, and they were trying to find Rotarians that would take on and partner with them,” explained Mary.

“There was no problem finding projects.”

The Mulrooneys went to Guatemala to do the work the Rotary Club chose to use its District Community Grant for. The club raised $2,500, which was matched by the Rotary District Com-munity Grant, and John ex-

plained that their role was to bring opportunities to Mayan families in Guate-mala.

John and Mary worked in a little town called San Lucas Tolimán on the edge of Lake Atitlan. John says the scenery is beautiful, and the lake looks beau-tiful, but the lake has no exit, and that is one of the issues facing the Mayans who live there.“The water doesn’t leave the lake, so everything goes into it, so that means it isn’t purified by a river flowing out and taking stuff out,” he explained. The native Mayan women wash their clothes to a great extent, traditionally, they would wash their clothes in the lake. That was no problem when they were a small population, but now, that’s a significant problem.”

A big project the Mul-rooneys worked on while in Guatemala was to work with a women’s centre to set up a garden. The wom-en’s group was given the use of a garden by a local Catholic parish that was impressed with the work they were doing.“This land was given to the women for their use,” explained John. “There are challenges with it — heavy rains will come, and they will flood it, and when it floods, that’s the end of your season. They start sometime in May, so that will be end of the produc-tion for 2014. We don’t know what’s going to hap-pen next year. The land be-longs to the local Catholic parish, but the people in the parish were impressed with what these women were doing, so they said

‘you can have this section of land for your use, and maybe you can have it af-terwards if we see you are using it well.’”

The Rotarians worked to help the women learn how to produce a garden.“The purpose of the gar-

den was to produce food for their use and to sell maybe to bring them some income, but the main pur-pose was to get them into the whole idea of sowing vegetables and growing a greater variety of food that has nutritious value,” said John. “They were tradition-ally always growing maize, and their staple diet is tor-tilla, but there isn’t a lot of nutrition in a tortilla.”

John and Mary hope the garden at the women’s cen-tre might be a model for some of the women in the future.

Thirty women in Guate-mala have been working in the large garden, and pro-duction continues. John and Mary say that, since they’ve been home, they have heard of food from the garden being distribut-ed away from the women’s centre.

The women themselves came up with what they wanted in the project and presented it to the Rotari-ans. They started off with a massive project that would be about $12,500 U.S., ac-cording to John, so they had to simplify it.

One of the things the women wanted was access to information and com-munication and working with a computer, so the Rotary District Community Grant bought a computer and printer for the women, and they also helped pro-vide school supplies for children.

The women’s centre hosts educational courses, and the Ladysmith Ro-tary Club is paying for the courses, which are taught by Mayans and include baking for market, cook-ing for market, computer use, crafts for market, ad-vanced weaving, backstrap weaving, health care, first aid, agriculture, family planning, and crocheting for market.“It’s really marvelous the

way they want to learn,” said Mary.

Mary feels the women are developing skills and devel-oping confidence by being part of these projects that are supported by Rotary.“We see growth in the

women,” she said, “With the gardening, maybe this will rub off, we hope,” she said.

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Students sharingpresentations May 1

Chemainus Secondary School will be opening its doors to the public to view students’ inquiry personalized projects and presentations Thursday, May 1.

Senior students will present their projects from 9:30-11:30 a.m., and junior students will make their presenta-tions from 1-3 p.m.

Some of the projects include soap making, wood burning, hand scarf sewing, stop motion videos, jew-elry making, cellphone charging bicycles, and PE games.“Students are both anxious and excited to share their knowledge with staff, peers, parents and community mem-bers,” according to a press release.

Everyone is welcome. Coffee and refreshments will be sold all day.

Ladysmith Library hosts Poet Laureate

The Ladysmith Library is hosting author Naomi Wakan Tuesday, May 6 at 2 p.m.

During this free literary event, Wakan will read from her recent book of memoirs, Some Sort of Life, and discuss her poetry and the art of memoir writing. Wakan is a prolific author from Gabriola Island who was recently awarded of the title of Nanaimo’s first Poet Laureate.“She is an entertaining speaker who brings sen-sitivity, intelligence and humour to her topics,” states a press release from the library.

No registration is required. For more infor-mation, call the Library at 250-245-2322.

NLSF looking for sale items

The Nanaimo Ladysmith Schools Foundation is planning a Giant Garage Sale for Saturday, May 24 and could use your help.

If you would like to donate items to the sale, you can arrange to drop off items between now and May 10 by contacting Gord at 250-758-2438 or [email protected].

John and Mary Mulrooney from the Ladysmith Rotary Club brought back these scarves made by Mayan women in Guatemala, which they sell and then use the proceeds for purchasing school supplies and shoes for children in Guatemala. LINDSAY CHUNG

Chemainus Secondary School extended its Earth Day celebrations to a whole week, and students took part in a variety of activities last week to raise aware-ness of the importance of taking steps toward conservation and sus-tainability every day. In left photo are, from left, Zach Diewert, Mitchell Hinton, Hunter Loscer-bo and Jacob Frankel outside the school grounds. At right, Tay-lor Shelton (left) and Hannah Westhaver pick up trash along Willow Street. LINDSAY CHUNG

Chemainus Secondary School students clean up their neighbourhood on Earth Day


Gabriola man cycling for local RCM-SARStaff Writerthe chronicle

This Sunday, a Gab-riola Island resident will be cycling around the island to support Ladysmith’s Royal Ca-nadian Marine Search and Rescure (RCM-SAR) Unit 29.

Seventy-two-year-old Ian Waymark is em-barking on a 100-kilo-metre bike ride around Gabriola Island Sunday, May 4 as a fundraiser for RCM-SAR Unit 29’s new rescue boat. A week before the ride, he had already raised more than $2,100.

Waymark joined the Ladysmith and District Marine Rescue Society and RCM-SAR Unit 29 this year, and when the members started rais-ing money to equip the new rescue boat, he decided he could cycle around the island and pass out pledge forms to members of the boating community. He hoped to raise $500.

Waymark’s fundrais-ing bike ride is com-bining two of his pas-sions.“Boating has been

my passion for many years, and promoting and teaching safe boat-ing has added greatly to what I put into boat-ing and to the pleasure I get out of it,” he said in a press release. “Cy-cling has become a new passion for me, and although not fast, I like to go the distance.”

Waymark has been

trying to ride two or three times a week on Gabriola with a regular group of cyclists who share his passion for being on two wheels, and some members of his cycling group will ride with him for moral support as he hits the steep hills on May 4.

There is still time to support Waymark’s fundraising ride, and you can pledge by e-mailing [email protected]. Tax re-ceipts are available.

Ian Waymark is cycling around Gabriola Island to raise money for Ladysmith RCM-SAR. Photo Submitted

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COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULECouncil Meeting Monday, May 5th, 7:00 p.m. No Municipal Services or Council Meeting on Monday, May 19th due to the Victoria Day statutory holiday.

Mayor’s Open Door* – City Hall Thursdays, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

City Hall (410 Esplanade) Business Hours Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.Corner of Trans Canada Hwy. and Roberts St. except statutory holidays*Please check the website (www.ladysmith.ca) or call City Hall at 250.245.6400 to confi rm times.

HOLIDAY CLOSURESCity Hall, Frank Jameson Community Centre, Development Services and Public Works will be closed Monday, May 19, 2014 for the Victoria Day statutory holiday.

FIRST QUARTER UTILITY BILLS DUE MAY 28Utility bills for January to March have been sent out. They are due by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28. If you have not received your bill, or have any questions about it, please call 250.245.6414, ext. 6206.

2014 PROPERTY TAX NOTICESProperty Tax Notices for 2014 will be mailed out in late May. If you have not received your notice by the end of May, or have any questions regarding your property taxes, please call 250.245.6414, ext. 6206.

PAY YOUR UTILITY BILLS AUTOMATICALLY WITH OUR PRE-AUTHORIZED DEBIT PROGRAM (PAD)To sign up all you need to do is fi ll out the form available on our website: www.ladysmith.ca or at city hall, 410 Esplanade and return it to us with a void cheque. We will advise you that your payment plan is set up. After that, your account will be debited on the bill’s due date. You will still receive your quarterly utility bill by your choice of mail or e-mail. To receive your bill via email, please email your request to [email protected] with your Utility Account number.

GARBAGE / RECYCLING COLLECTION – YOUR GARBAGE COLLECTION DAY IS CHANGING!Following the Victoria Day statutory holiday on May 19, 2014, your garbage pick-up day will be moving forward by 1 (ONE) day. If you need a new schedule you can pick one up at City Hall or the Frank Jameson Community Centre. You can also fi nd your schedule on the Town’s website at: http://www.ladysmith.ca/our-services/garbage-recycling

PEERLESS ROAD RECYCLING CENTRE –RENOVATED SITE NOW OPENThe newly renovated Peerless Road Recycling Centre is now open for business and has expanded the list of acceptable items. To view the list, please go to http://cvrd.bc.ca/DocumentCenter/View/62889. Peerless Road hours from April 1 – October 31 are Wednesday to Sunday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., excluding Statutory Holidays.

WATERMAIN FLUSHING APRIL 11 TO JUNE 30, 2014During this fl ushing period, water users may experience some discolouration of the water supply. Should this occur, running a cold water tap for a short period will help to restore water quality to normal.Any residents dependant on medical equipment using water, please call the Department at 250.245.3995 for fl ushing dates in your area.May we suggest that residents take this opportunity to clean the screens on faucets and the pressure-reducing valve (where the water enters the house), which should normally be cleaned at least once a year.If you have any questions regarding the fl ushing program, please contact the Public Works, Utilities Department.We are sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your cooperation during the fl ushing process.

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ZONING BYLAW UPDATE PROJECT The project to review and update the Ladysmith Zoning Bylaw is nearing completion. Watch for a public meeting on the proposed new Zoning Bylaw coming soon.

The aim of the Zoning Bylaw Update project is to:

Lay out clear, technically sound regulations Be consistent with the Offi cial Community Plan Implement ideas and principles from the Ladysmith Sustainability Vision and Community Energy Plan Support economic development

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Nanaimo-North Cowichan MLA Doug Routley was at Ladysmith Intermediate School April 25, giving a speech to a small group of captivated students. Rout-ley discussed and was asked questions on a variety of top-ics, including gas prices, hunt-ing, education and politics itself.

With gas prices skyrocketing up and down the Island since the Easter weekend, Routley admitted he is “essentially powerless” when it comes to keeping them down.“Sometimes we can put for-

ward a private member bill, which is essentially our own idea for a law, but they very rarely pass,” he said. “Govern-ment is like steering a ship. But steering the ship isn’t the only thing. There is the wind, the tide and the storm as well. If we want to change some-thing, it takes a lot of organiza-tion and a lot of avenues to go down. Some argue if we were to try and make gas prices cheaper, more people would burn more of it. There is no simple answer.”

The education topic was bound to come up and duly did, following more strike ac-tion by B.C.’s teachers as well as the recent uproar of change

in the Ladysmith zone.“There is so much criticism

of schools and we’re see-ing more students choosing home school. We try not to contribute to that,” said Rout-ley. “Even though teachers are not supported enough and they have a struggle, they still produce an excellent service and students get an excellent education. Working together, you guys create excellence. If we want a safe, secure, thriv-ing education system moving forward, we have to add to education and we’re not doing that right now. We have to add to it, that’s our message.”

Routley admitted that he wasn’t interested in politics

from the get-go prior to be-coming a Member of the Leg-islative Assembly in Victoria, but was “interested in justice.”“We as human beings have a natural sense of what is right and what is wrong,” he said.

“My father’s politics are not always the same as mine, but he’s open to debate and if I can convince him that I’m right, then that’s OK. We as human beings deserve to govern our-selves, and you will all get a vote. When we go to the polls, the government that wins has the confidence of the people. If you vote me in and then I do the opposite of what I’ve said I’ll do or what you’ve asked, I deserve to be kicked out.”

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This is the second of two columns ad-dressing what I see

as the greatest threat to the B.C. environment in our lifetime.

The Alberta oil industry’s Northern Gateway plan is to export bitumen to Asia via tankers from the B.C. coast. Under no circum-stances should we allow that to happen. A bitumen spill at sea could destroy our coastline, together with the fish and wildlife that de-pend on it, for hundreds of years.

My first column discussed the light oil spill by the Exx-on Valdez and the terrible toll it took on the Alaskan habitat and fishery. It also gave proof that a bitumen spill would be far worse. A bitumen spill would be almost completely unre-coverable because it would sink and stay on the bottom of our seabed.

The solution that is best for Canada is to build a re-finery in Kitimat. I am pro-moting and backing this solution. It will convert the bitumen to very light fuels that would float and evaporate if ever spilled. There are other enormous benefits:

There will be a major re-duction in greenhouse gas-es. We will use new cutting-edge Canadian technology in our refinery. It will be so

clean that in combination with oilsands extraction there will be less CO2 than in the huge conventional oilfields and refineries of Iraq and Nigeria. In other words, the Kitimat refinery will neutralize the extra greenhouse gases gener-ated in Canada’s oilsands. This refinery will be built in Asia if not in Kitimat, and if so, it will emit double the CO2 of our new design. This is the reason that An-drew Weaver of the BC Green Party is in favour of a Canadian refinery.

An Asian refinery will also generate 100 train cars a day of very dirty coke (much fouler than B.C. coal) which will be subse-quently burnt in the atmo-sphere to create power. The Kitimat refinery will not result in the production of any coke. As we all live on one planet, it is far bet-ter for the global environ-ment to build this refinery in Canada.

Construction of the refin-ery will create 6,000 jobs in B.C. for five years. Op-erations at the refinery will result in more permanent jobs than any project has ever created in B.C. with approximately 3,000 direct jobs. These will be highly-paid permanent jobs. These jobs will be available for the life of the refinery, which should be in excess of 50

years. In addition, there will be thousands of other jobs created in spinoff local petrochemical companies and in indirect employment throughout the province.

The Canadian and pro-vincial governments, lo-cal regional districts and municipalities, and many First Nations, will share in billions of new tax dollars each year.

Unfortunately, our Cana-dian oil companies are not interested in building a new major refinery. They are fo-cused on extraction, which is more profitable than re-fining. One of them chal-lenged me to spearhead the refinery myself, so I am doing that. We have a solid business plan and as a con-sequence, Chinese banks and other institutions are prepared to lend us most of the funds required to build the greenest and most effi-cient refinery in the world. We are currently moving ahead with engineering design and environmental work.

We will also build a safe pipeline from Alberta to the refinery, with the ac-tive participation of First Nations. Modern pipelines can be built and operated safely. Leak data is avail-able for everyone to see on Canadian and U.S. gov-ernment websites, and it proves recently-construct-

ed pipelines are not leak-ing. Furthermore, some of the best pipelining compa-nies in the world are based in Canada.

In addition, we will build a fleet of new tankers, pow-ered by LNG rather than Bunker C oil, to transport the refined products to Asia. This way, we know the tankers will be state-of-the-art and as safe as possible. The fleet will be owned by a company based in B.C. so it cannot shirk its legal liability if there ever is a spill at sea.

Let me be upfront about my biases. I am for creating thousands of good perma-nent jobs in B.C. I am for creating billions of new tax dollars for government cof-fers. I am for reducing the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. I am for build-ing an oil pipeline that will never leak. I am for build-ing a modern tanker fleet that carries only refined fu-els that float and evaporate if spilled. I am against ship-ping bitumen in tankers.

If you agree that we should not put bitumen in tankers, please contact your local MP and say so. The Canadian government makes a decision on North-ern Gateway next month.

David BlackDavid Black is the ma-

jor owner of Black Press.

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Re: hiking trails damaged by quads (April 15)

I too have hiked in the Heart Lake area for over five decades. Since retiring eight years ago, I made an ef-fort to hike the Lake loop trails weekly. I also see dam-age in some of these areas. However, in my opinion, Mr. Szasz seems to suffer from tunnel vision regarding “quads and ATVs.”At Heart Lake, there is considerable damage caused mostly by trucks and SUVs. The Town of Ladysmith installed a gate, which should have cut off access. In a short time, its cemented gate post was pulled out. The vehicle used weighed several times more than any ATV.

Signs, with phone numbers to report violators, placed in areas like these should make a difference. Respon-sible people will not hesitate to report destructive and inconsiderate behavior. Bad actors know their actions can be reported as quickly as it takes to make a call.

On one of my regular morning hikes, on the trail along Heart Lake, I noticed that some people had backed a pickup into the edge of the water. There was a boat in the back of their truck. As I was watched, my cell-phone rang. I talked on the phone briefly and carried on down the trail. By the time I walked over there, they were gone. They saw me watching and then phoning and decided to fish elsewhere that morning.

Two years ago, in order to access some of the moun-tains I used to hike, I bought an ATV. Like many hikers I know, I previously had a negative attitude towards them. Since then, I have travelled with other ATV “youngsters” like myself all over the backcountry be-hind Ladysmith. The ATVers I know love the woods as much as any hiker. They are very knowledgeable about the forests. Many of them have worked most of their lives there. They feel very protective of these lands and would not knowingly damage them.

Carman BodalyLadysmith


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”Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it ought to be.”

Don Quixote is con-sidered “either the wisest madman or the maddest wise man in the world” as he sees the good in people and in life, even (or es-pecially) when others don’t, and with lines likes this, it’s hard not to root for the valiant knight-errant.

He’s a dreamer and an optimist, and he sees things different-ly than most others as

he strives to “dream the impossible dream” in the musical Man of La Mancha.

Man of La Mancha is the final production of Ladysmith Little Theatre (LLT)’s 2013-14 season, and it’s a wonderful celebra-tion of the escapism that live theatre can bring. The production brings together so many familiar faces from other LLT pro-ductions, there’s a lot of humour, wonder-ful singing and great characters.A play within a play

set in a Spanish prison during the inquisition, Man of La Mancha is the music-filled story of Don Quixote, his servant Sancho, and the lady of his dreams, a prostitute named Aldonza whom he calls Dulcinea. Miguel de Cervantes, a poet, playwright and tax collector, is impris-oned, and when the

other inmates put him on trial, Cervantes de-fends himself by en-gaging the prisoners in his fantasy, even assigning them parts in his story of Don Quixote.

There’s a lot of great music in Man of La Mancha, and the cast is full of talented sing-ers. Everyone does a fantastic job, and Elizabeth Herman, who plays Aldonza (or as Don Quixote sees her, Dulcinea), particularly stands out with her operatic voice. Torry Clark, as the Innkeeper also has a great voice.

Every actor is very talented, and they all do a great job of bring-ing this show to life. Some of my personal favourite performers are Bill Johnston as Miguel de Cervantes, Alonso Quijana and Don Quixote; Charles Harman as Sancho and Bill Young as the

Padre.There are a lot of

funny moments, and the actors shine at not only delivering comedic lines but also physical com-edy and facial expres-sions. But there’s also some drama, and the musical offers a little bit of everything and something for every-one.

LLT’s production of Man of La Mancha features one incred-ible set that is turned into a prison, an inn and a church at dif-ferent times in the story and even has a drawbridge, and the costumes are amaz-ing and colourful.

This musical has been revived on Broadway four times and has been running successfully for the past 50 years, and watching the LLT put it on, it’s easy to see why it has been so popular. Man of La

Mancha is adapted from Dale Wasser-man’s non-musical 1959 teleplay, I, Don Quixote, itself in-spired by Miguel de Cervantes’s seven-teenth-century novel, Don Quixote.

LLT’s production is directed by Mort Paul, while Bonnie Stebbings offers mu-sical direction, and Anne McInulty-Gogo worked on the chore-ography.

If you want to catch LLT’s production of Man of La Mancha, it continues until May 18, with evening per-formances, matinees and dinner theatre nights. Pre-sales have been very busy for the theatre, and they encourage people to reserve their tickets early.

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Spelling Bee spells F-U-N for LSS actorsLindsay Chungthe chronicle

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spell-ing Bee is sure to spell fun when Ladysmith Secondary School stu-dents bring this Tony Award-winning musi-cal comedy to their stage later this week.

In The 25th Annual Putnam County Spell-ing Bee, which begins Thursday, May 1, six

“young people in the throes of puberty,” as the musical’s website describes them, vie for the spelling champion-ship of a lifetime. “There is also audi-

ence participation, so that will make use of our improvisational skills, which is one of the reasons we chose the play,” said drama teacher Bill Taylor. Approximately 25

students and five adults are involved in the show.

The students chose the musical in the fall, and they’ve been rehearsing the mu-sic and the play and thinking about it since the middle of January. They began rehearsing on the stage at the end of February.

This show is directed by senior drama stu-dent Keauna Miller, who is also starring in the play.“The play was select-

ed by our senior drama students — they want-ed to do it,” said Taylor.

Taylor feels there are many reasons The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a great choice for the spring musical.“The musical brings

together a wonderful live band with wonder-ful ensemble singing numbers, and it fea-tures a comedic script,” he said “I think people will have a lot of fun at the show.”

The students play a big part in the musical, not only on the stage, but off.All the lighting, co-

lours and set design have been done with the students.“The adults are there

to support the stu-dents achieve their inspiration,” said Tay-lor. “That’s why I love doing musicals here. It’s extra-curricular and all done on volun-teer time. It’s a teach-ing theatre, so it’s all about the students learning and growing in whatever aspect they’re interested in.”“For this type of pro-

duction, there are no grades; they’re not get-ting anything out of it except the joy of per-forming and being part of a group ensemble performing something together — it’s a won-derful thing to do,” he

added.The musical brings

together many people from inside and out-side the school.“Our pianist is a pro-

fessional vocal coach, and we have a commu-nity volunteer helping with costuming,” said Taylor. “The type of training students are getting here with our volunteers and staff is very high level. It would be difficult to find this experience in the area at no cost. It’s a great opportunity for students to gain some skills they can bring to many aspects of their life.”

The musical features participation from stu-dents in every grade.“This has been a very

dedicated cast,” said Taylor. “They had us rehearsing on Good Friday all day, and they asked us to rehearse all day this Saturday and Sunday and Fri-day late. We’ve put in 45 hours of rehearsal in the last two weeks. That’s pretty good when it’s all their own time they’re putting in to do it.”

Miller is excited to be directing The 25th An-nual Putnam County Spelling Bee for a vari-ety of reasons.“I love that it’s an en-

semble cast so we get to show off all of our students, and I love that it’s about a group of misfits coming to-gether because I feel like everyone can re-

late to that,” she said. “Even though it’s set with middle school kids, the problems they’re facing are re-latable to high school kids and adults too.”

Miller says being both director and ac-tor is really challeng-ing but also really re-warding.“I’ve been in the act-

ing role before, so it’s nice to be still explor-ing my talent and skill set and also to try a

new role and see the show as a whole in-stead of myself in it,” she noted.

Miller is really im-pressed with the cast and crew for this mu-sical.“We have a really great

group of students who are willing to be here so often,” she said.

“It’s great. We have people here from the improv team that I’ve worked with for four years now, and then people who’ve just come in, so you get to see the range of talent we have in the school. I’m a senior student, so I’ve seen these peo-ple since Grade 8, and it’s great to see the stu-dents grow.”

Miller says the musi-cal is very funny, and people shouldn’t be put off by the words

“spelling bee” in the title.“I think you really

grow to love the char-acters in the show,” she said. “It’s heart-warming.”

Miller is very grate-ful for the experiences she’s getting at LSS.

“I’m so thankful that our school and our teachers have afford-ed us these opportuni-ties,” she said. “They’re working so hard and not getting paid, as well as our community volunteers. It’s a com-munity effort, and I’m really glad Ladysmith is a place where this can happen.”

Ladysmith Second-ary School presents The 25th Annual Put-nam County Spelling Bee May 1-3 and May 8-10. Shows start at 7 p.m., and the doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tick-ets are $10 for students and seniors and $15 for adults, and they are available at Sala-mander Books and at the main office at LSS. Tickets can also be purchased at the door.

Thanks to the gener-osity of the LSS Parent Advisory Council, the school is able to of-fer discounted tickets on “Family Thursdays.” For Thursday night shows, tickets for fam-ilies are all discounted at the student price of $10 each.

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When Team BC competes at the 13th annual National Ab-original Hockey Cham-pionships near Montre-al, Que., the name on the back of one player’s jersey will be a familiar one to Ladysmith and the Stz’uminus First Nation — Harris.

Earlier this month, Darian Harris, a 5’7”, 160-pound forward from Stz’uminus First Nation was chosen as one of 20 aboriginal youth to play for Brit-ish Columbia at the na-tional championships, which take place April 27 to May 3 in Kahn-awake, Que.

The 15-year-old took part in tryouts for Team BC at the beginning of April in 100 Mile House. One hundred and 31 youth from across B.C. tried out for the male and fe-male teams.

Harris, who has friends on the team, says it felt really good to make Team BC.

It was a goal he had set for himself after be-ing cut last year.“I tried out last year,

and I got cut last year, so that motivated me

to make the team for this year that came up,” he said. “Last year, when I got cut, they said I needed to get bigger and get more strength on me, and when they did the first cuts this year, they said I did exactly what they told me to do.”

Team BC’s first game at the nationals is to-day (April 29) against Saskatchewan.“I’m excited and ner-

vous at the same time,” Harris said a couple of days before leaving for the tournament.

Harris says he doesn’t really know much about the coach-es, but they seem really good, and he knows two players — Keenan Eddy, who played on his team last year, and Darryl Coon from Port Hardy.

The team has only had one practice as a team, but Harris was headed to Vancouver to meet the team for another practice late last week.“It was really fast-

paced,” Harris said of their first practice. “It was good.”

Harris will spend one week in Montreal with Team BC, and he says he is most looking for-

ward to meeting new people and new team-mates and getting to know the coaches bet-ter.“It should be just a

good experience going to Montreal and play-ing hockey there,” he said.

Harris has spent this year playing hockey at the Pacific Coast Hock-ey Academy (PCHA) in Victoria.

He is one of 17 elite Vancouver Island Mi-nor Midget hockey players training with the PCHA through its first year in operation. He and his teammates spend a minimum of 12.5 hours each week honing their skills on and off the ice. Harris spends Monday and Wednesday mornings studying Grade 10 math, science, Eng-lish and socials at the WestShore Centre for Learning and Train-ing. Tuesday, Thurs-day and Friday morn-ings, meanwhile, are spent completing as-signments either from home or at the rink, he said, and the remain-der of his week is de-voted to hockey.

When Harris returns from the National Ab-original Hockey Cham-

pionships, he and his PCHA team will com-pete in the Challenge Cup in Vancouver.

Harris says the PCHA season is going really well.“I’m enjoying it,” he

said. “I’ve met a lot of new people and differ-ent teammates.”

Harris feels he’s im-proved a lot from last year to this year.“I feel like I just know

where the puck is more and all that stuff,” he said. “And I’m still learning too because our season ends in June.”

A former member of the Cowichan Valley Bantam Tier 1 AAA Capitals, Harris has been playing hockey since he was a little boy, and he’s been on rep teams since he was in novice hockey.


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SIMPSON, Edith Ellen (Mollie) (Nee: Blaney)

Mollie was born on July 8, 1926 in Milestone Saskatchewan and she passed away on April 21, 2014 in Chemainus Health Care Center. She is predeceased by her parents George and Hazel Blaney and her husband Duncan Simpson. Mollie is survived by her sister-in-law Eleanor Draper of Burlington Ontario and her children Paul (Lee), Peggy, Patti, Peter (Edine) and Perry (Cheryl). She is also survived by her grandchildren Erin (Brad), Kyle, Jessica (Terry), Michael, Jacob, Amanda, Melissa, and her great-granddaughter Caeleigh. She will be missed by her many nieces and nephews, also her many friends and neighbours.

Mollie and Duncan married in 1949 in Toronto and 3 years later moved to the Queen Charlotte Islands. In 1956, with 3 children, Mollie and Duncan moved to Ladysmith, where they had 2 more children. She and Duncan were involved with the Ladysmith Kinsmen and Kinette club. After Mom retired, she became involved with the Ladysmith Cancer Society and her Quilting club.

Mollie’s family would like to thank Dr. Fergus Kennedy and the staff at Chemainus Health Care Center and Ladysmith Home Care for their wonderful service.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Cancer Society. A Celebration of Life will be held at 119a Forward Road, Ladysmith on Saturday May 31, 2014 from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

BRICKER, Walter FredrickJanuary 24, 1931 - April 19, 2014

Passed peacefully surrounded by his beloved wife and children at his side on April 19, 2014. Walter was born in Port Elgin, Ontario on January 24, 1931. He was proud of his pioneering family history. He met his beloved wife Dorothy of 53 years in Ontario and they moved their family west in 1981. Walter

enjoyed sharing all his children’s accomplishments with friends over coffee.

He is survived by his wife Dorothy; children Marsha (Albert), Scott (Katherine), Ed (Sharon), Bob (Kat) and Cathy (Brian); 13 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren; brothers John and Ed, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life was held on Saturday, April 26th at 1:00 pm at Assembly Hall, 1724 Vowels Rd., Cassidy, BC.

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Darren VandergriftLADYSMITH’S 49TH PARALLEL

Darren has been a member of the 49th for about 3 and a half years. He was a pretty good bet to do well as he is one of a lengthy list of Vandergrift’s that have worked at the 49th. His sister Dianne worked here as did his brother Greg and his Father Will is actually our Store Manager for the location. Darren started, as many stock clerks do, cleaning the meat dept. He then came onto the grocery fl oor as a part time clerk and is now a relied on full time employee capable of running the grocery crew when called on and can write shelf orders as well. Darren is an active member of Ladysmith Search and Rescue, out in the night, helping people lost or hurt. He is an avid mountain biker who enjoys cross country trails as well as the “big jumps and drops” of a Whistler bike park. Darren is also a big fan of music and if he isn’t at work He is usually “plugged in” to his i-pod.

Thank you for all your hard work and for sharing your time and talents with us.

Please enjoy a meal on us @ the 49th cafe

At the 49th, one of our

core values is that “we value our employees

and work as a team.”We also recognize our

employees for their “efforts” and it is in this regard

we ask your help in selecting our “employee of the month”!

Thank you for all your

Spring on BeautifulVancouver Island

49th is Proud to be Island Owned and Operated

MJB

Ground Coffee

Regular, Fine, French or Morning Roast

250-300 grams, limit 4 total

2/$5 Decaf orColumbian

2/$6

Knorr

SidekicksPasta, Rice,

Potato, AsianPouch, limit 6 total

96¢

BC Hot House Grown

Tomatoeson the Vine

2.82 kg

128lb.

Value pak, 19.82 kg

899lb.

Fresh Canadian Grade ‘AA’ or BetterPrime Rib

Grilling Steak

Documents

Ladysmith Chronicle, April 29, 2014