Parksville Qualicum Beach News, May 25, 2012

BRENDA [email protected]

There was an emotional plea to save child and youth care worker posi-tions during a special meeting to adopt the 2012/13 preliminary budget for School District 69 (Qualicum).

After the board adopted the budget they took questions from the pub-lic and Thea Stavroff, a child and youth care worker was brought to tears when she spoke about the need for the positions in the schools.

No fi nal decisions have been made about cutting the jobs according to Gillian Wilson, director of instruction for the district, but she said there is potential for youth care workers to be eliminated. She said it will be based on need and currently they are looking into increasing counseling at middle schools.

Superintendent Jim Ansell said job cuts in this area have nothing to do with budget cuts.

School district employee says the students will lose out if trustees cut jobs

AUREN [email protected]

There appears to be a lot of support for backyard chickens in Parksville.

Seven members of the gallery spoke at Wednesday’s town hall style council meeting at Ballenas

Secondary School, and the closest to opposition was a man who said he supported the idea, but the city had to do their research and make sure they plan for the negative as-pects including noise, smell, pred-ators and irresponsible owners.

What will come fi rstParksville to look into allowing chickens in yards

Youth care workers at risk in district

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JUMP ROPE FOR HEART: Mikenna Baillie leaps over a skipping rope during the Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation at Arrowview Elementary School on Wednesday.

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Premier Christy Clark in Parksville todayThe premier of B.C. will be

in Parksville Friday evening for a local Liberal constituen-cy association fundraiser.

She will be appearing and speaking at The Beach Club Resort at approximately 5:30 p.m.

The event itself is an invi-tation-only affair and is not open to the public. — NEWS Staff

Family Day set for Sunday, May 27Qualicum Beach’s Family Day is this Sunday (and the QF fi reworks

show is Saturday night at around 9:30 p.m.) There will be plenty to do for the whole family. Watch THE NEWS for coverage.

Public development meeting in QBThe town of Qualicum Beach hosts a public meeting on their Vil-

lage Neighbourhood Plan and its impact on the offi cial community plan, on Monday, May 28 at the Civic Centre, 7 p.m. — NEWS Staff

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Campfi res left burningAUREN [email protected]

There were no campfi re-caused wildfi res over the long weekend, but that was mostly luck according to Donna Macpherson, fi re safety of-fi cer with the Coastal Fire Centre.

“We were rather disap-pointed,” she said of the fi ve campfi res their patrols found, dangerously aban-doned in mid-Island campgrounds.

“It’s troubling how many people don’t under-stand how to put out a fi re,” she said, suggesting that previous generations were more familiar with wood stoves and fi replaces.

“It can and does happen here,” she said, pointing out that even while it was a wet week-

end in a wet region, they did recently have a 2.5 ha. wildfi re near Courtenay.

There have already been 50 improperly ex-tinguished fi res found in the Coastal Fire Centre this summer.

They ask people to extinguish fi res the way their fi refi ghters do, put wa-ter on it, then spread it out and break it up looking for heat and coals, then pour

water on it again and repeat until it is cold.“As soon as the water evaporates, the fi re

starts back up,” she said suggesting that some people just throw the dishwater on it as a last thought as they rush to leave.

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The rivalry between Qual-icum Beach and Parksville is set to continue with the up-coming Bike to Work Week campaign.

Organizer Jim Swanson said the City of Parksville and the Town of Qualicum Beach have challenged each other to see which commu-nity can get the most riders to take part in their commu-nity ride.

“We have two rides, a ride with the Qualicum Beach mayor and council on Mon-day, May 28, and a ride with the Parksville mayor and council the next day,” Swan-son said. “We came up with the idea of having a little challenge between the two communities.”

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Jim Swanson, Gord Byers, mayors Teunis Westbroek and Chris Burger and John Fair are gearing up for the Bike to Work Week challenge between Qualicum Beach and Parksville.

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As the head of the B r o o m b u s t e r s team that has battled Qualicum Beach broom to the mat, Joanne Sales was surprised to have Parksville

run away with the inaugural Golden Loppers award.

That’s what happened though when the Broombusters and THE NEWS organized a community broom cutting contest on the long week-end.

To say Sales is disappointed would be a mistake, however.

“We had 16 people show up and some of them even stayed for an ex-tra hour. Two cut broom for an extra hour,” a delighted Sales said. “There was one person from Qualicum Bay, a couple from Coombs, a couple from Qualicum Beach and the rest were from Parksville. There haven’t been volunteers from Parksville be-

fore, but now it feels like Parksville is fully engaged.”

S a l e s said the

team was able to clear 90 per cent of the broom from one hill and the whole side of a hill at the Parksville interchange by the weigh scales dur-ing the campaign.

Although she conceded the cut only amounted to a nibble at the sea of yellow broom that is choking Vancouver Island’s highways and by-ways, she said the key is to accentu-ate the positive.

“You have to look at what’s being saved, rather than what’s being lost to broom and look at what else we

can rescue,” she said.Qualicum Beach, she added,

stands as an example of what can be done by committed community vol-unteers.

“Qualicum Beach had tons of broom in 2006,” she said. “We had to cut it with a chainsaw and now there’s not enough broom to have a community cut. That’s our goal for Parksville.”

This year’s inaugural competition also drew some business support. Besides THE NEWS, Jim’s Gym got on board, offering free gym passes to volunteers and Parksville Phys-iotherapy, besides cutting broom themselves, offered some free sore muscle ointment.

Sales said the prizes will be award-ed at this Saturday’s cut, slated to run from 10 a.m. to noon at the Parksville Visitor Centre.

With the success of this year’s

competition — which was organized at the last minute — Sales sees the opportunity to grow the event into something much bigger next spring. It could, she said, be a festival where not only do people have a good time, but also accomplish something at the same time.

“I can’t see it getting as big as Family Day, but Broom Days could be more of an event next year,” she said. “There could be an education-al component, where the hogweed people come in to show what it is and what to do about it, and a sec-tion where the kids could come and cut under supervision.”

And while it’s likely any such event would take place in Parksville — where the broom is at its worst — she is confi dent the Parksville con-tingent won’t be able to walk away with the Golden Loppers quite so easily in future.

I can’t see it getting as big as Family Day, but Broom Days could be more of an

event next year.JOANNE SALES

Parksville steps up to bustBroom busting challenge met, says Joanne Sales

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A strong contingent from Parksville cut a small mountain of broom at the weigh station on Saturday.

BROOM BUSTING

Piles of cut broom on the side of the highway may pale in comparison to the bright yellow blooms of the living plants, but Broombusters head Joanne Sales it is far better than the alternative of just giving up.

Sales said the piles are chipped by high-ways crews, but they need to dry prior to this being done. However, she said while they may present somewhat of a fi re haz-ard, the live plants do as well.

“It’s still better than having a fi re hazard the length of Vancouver Island,” she said. “Living broom is also a fi re hazard because it has an extremely high oil content.”

She said the response to the cuts should be better this year than in years past.

“Last year there was a change in who was in charge of chip-up and this year ev-erything should go more smoothly,” she said.

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He said it is part of a staff review process they do every year when they assess student support services. He said staff have met to assess needs and currently they feel there would be better support for students by having full time counsellors on hand.

“People close to the work make the decision. We have to decide where we get our best bang for our buck. Do we maintain a full level of coun-seling or maintain youth care worker positions,” he said.

Stavroff said she wasn’t ask-ing the board to protect her job, rather to protect students.

The youth care worker, who has spent 20 years assisting troubled youth, said many stu-dents in middle school are go-ing through a confusing time and it is the ones who fl y un-der the radar who youth care workers are there for.

“Their eyes are open to the world at that age. They expe-rience confusion, depression and anxiety. What will be there for the kids when their support is eroded,” Stavroff asked.

Trustee Barry Kurland, a former middle school teacher assured Stavroff that the issue

will be looked into. He said he is still haunted by the student suicides that occurred when he was a teacher.

“It’s not over yet. I am going to do what I can. If we have middle schools we need youth support workers,” said Kur-land.

Board chair Lynette Ker-shaw said she was surprised to learn that the positions may be cut and said Stavroff made

some valid points.She stressed however that

even though they have ap-proved the budget, it doesn’t mean it is set in stone and can’t be changed especially when it comes to child welfare.

“There are few things I need to look into. Who is funding the child and youth care work-ers? Where does the money come from? “

Ansell said the budget doesn’t become fi nal until Feb-ruary so changes can me made up until then.

A grant of $511,000 from the learning improvement fund put into education funding by the government through the enactment of Bill 22 is money Ansell said that can be used to add support where there is a signifi cant gap of meeting the needs of students.

“It is additional support to ensure that the best possible learning environment exists in classrooms,” he stated.

The funding will be allocat-ed once it is determined where the money can best be used as a benefi t to classes and Ansell said that perhaps the money could be used to pay for child youth care workers.


District chooses councillors

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Thea Stavroff says students may fall through the cracks and the consequences could be dire.

STEVEN [email protected]

School board trustee Ross Milligan wants his counter-parts at School Distirct 69 (Qualicum) to tour the existing track at Ballenas Secondary.

He suggests that, and more pride in the facility, will lead to improvements being made.

His comments Tuesday night, however, were chastised by trustee Eve Flynn, who said past school boards — of which she was a part — made deci-sions that sent resources else-where than to track improve-ments at the school.

Milligan was commenting

on ongoing, informal, talks between school district, mu-nicipal and user group rep-resentatives about creating a sports complex of some kind in the area. The goal, he stated, would be to come up with a track or facility that could host bigger events.

“The track is poorly main-tained at BSS,” he said, noting the fi eld area is “ugly.”

He suggested the district look into what it would cost to fi x it up.

“Now is not the time to pay $2.5 million for a whole new sports complex,” he added, referring to a 2009 report that

recommended options, in-cluding upgrading existing fa-cilities, or building a new com-plex outright.

When asked, Milligan pointed out there’s no time-line to any of this, adding he’s making the comments to see if there’s any interest or desire to proceed.

Trustee Barry Kurland said people need deep pockets to make it happen, and the dis-trict should ask other levels of government for input — even-tually.

Milligan said a trustee tour of the BSS track would be a good place to start.

Track upgrade remains stalled

Trustees want more say on Family Place

SCHOOL DISTRICT 69 (QUALICUM)

SCHOOL DISTRICT 69 (QUALICUM)

STEVEN [email protected]

It’s a complicated structure, but School District 69 (Qualicum) trustees say they want in, anyway.

Tuesday night, trustee Ross Mil-ligan expressed concern the board of education didn’t have represen-tation on the steering committee overseeing the new Family Place building in Parksvile.

Milligan said he wants a trustee on that committee, to at least get more information about the $7.1 million facility.

Trustee Eve Flynn wondered if it’s a trustee’s place to appoint themselves to a group that does not include elected offi cials — only representatives of the various gov-ernment ministries involved in its construction and development (education, children and family development, and health).

Milligan said, however, he felt

the board has to be better informed on what’s going on.

“I know Bernice (Hannam, school district secretary treasurer) has played a role,” said trustee Lynette Kershaw. “But she is retir-ing.”

She agreed with Milligan that the board should know more.

“It’s a complicated structure,” said superintendent Jim Ansell, noting he could look into the re-quest.

He did add Family Place is not being built with school district funds, it does fall outside of the district’s jurisdiction and there are some confl ict of interest issues should the district get involved.

Kershaw said the school district is providing manpower, resources and more to the fi nal building, so they should have some input to the steering committee.

Staff will report back later.

PARKSVILLE — Student enrol-ment in School District 69 (Quali-cum) is down only three full-time equivalents as of April, 2012.

Typical losses at the secondary

level (down 18), coupled with a small boom in Errington Elemen-tary School (four) and 16 more CEAP students has kept enrolment numbers stable. — NEWS Staff

Student enrolment here on even keel

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Politicians are going to have to do things differently if the 1.7 million eligible voters who failed to cast ballots in the last provin-cial election are ever going to get engaged in politics, says Adrian Dix.

The fi rst step in that change, he said, is to avoid throwing mud at opponents in negative advertising campaigns.

The leader of the opposition made the comments at a special fundraising dinner for local NDP candidate Barry Avis at the Qual-ity Resort Bayside in Parksville Friday May 19.

Dix said he is committed to taking the high road in next year’s election campaign, not-ing however that not all parties share his view.

“In the last seven months, the Liberal party and its allies have spent between $2 and $3 mil-lion on running personal attack ads against, well, me,” Dix said to the sold-out gathering of over 200 supporters.

“In October they ran a nega-tive ad against me on the web

and in December they ran an-other one and set up a new web-site called risky-something and in January they did a $1.5 mil-lion ad campaign against, well, me and in the byelection cam-paign they ran some of the most vicious ads ever run in British Columnbia.”

Dix said the increasingly

common response to such a campaign would be to respond in kind, but he stressed he has no plans to do so.

“A lot of people think the way to respond to negative ads is to run negative ads ourselves,” he said. “The reason we are not go-ing to do this is very simple.

“First, 1.7 million people

didn’t vote in the last provincial election. We are not going to bring anybody back to politics by deciding the winner of an election is the person with the best ad agency to run the nas-tiest negative ads. We need to bring people back to politics and that means offering some hope that change will happen.”

As well, Dix said the politics of division seen in the United States and, increasingly, in Can-ada, make it virtually impossible to come up with solutions to the very real problems facing the province.

“If we are going to address health care issues we can’t be at war with health care work-ers. If we are going to address educational issues, we can’t be fi ghting with teachers,” Dix said. “The problems of our time ... in-volve multiple layers of govern-ment and the community and business and labour and if we continue to engage in divisive politics, it will be impossible to deal with these very challenging issues of our time. So I say we want to do things differently. We are going to roll differently.”

PROVINCIAL POLITICS

NDP will roll differently, says party leader DixNew Democratic Party leader says voter engagement a high priority prior to the provincial election in 2013

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Adrian Dix says negative political advertising needs to be thrown out, among other things, if B.C. politicians are going to welcome back the 1.7 million eligible voters who did not vote in the last B.C. election.

QUALICUM BEACH — Adrian Dix will be at the Civic Centre in Qualicum Beach on June 9 for the B.C. NDP Upper Island Regional Conference, which is open to the public.

The regional conference for upper Vancouver Island, Powell River and the Sun-shine Coast is a day-long, interactive conference to look at the province’s future.

The 9 a.m. meeting is open to anyone who would like to attend, at a cost of $30. Sponsored tickets are available for students or for people who are underwaged by e-mailing Lena Shilling-ton at [email protected]

To register, visit www.bc-ndp.ca/events or call 1-888-868-3637 x 236. — NEWS staff

Adrian Dix will be back here June 9

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The discussion was sparked by a letter from Holly Tillotson asking council to allow people to keep a small number of egg laying chick-ens within the city.

“Chickens are an integral part of a backyard ecosystem that in-cludes using most kitchen com-post as a food source along with some garden/grass clippings, pro-duction of fertilizer for the garden, production of eggs which are truly locally grown reducing transporta-tion costs and the carbon footprint substantially,” the letter said.

“We were just wanting to keep a few chickens to have our own eggs,” she told THE NEWS.

The benefi ts would be numer-ous including chickens being “ex-cellent consumers of garden pests such as bugs and slugs, and can be used to keep weeds in check,” as well as providing learning experi-ences for children.

Lana Harach with the local 4H poultry club was the fi rst to speak, touting the benefi ts including get-ting eggs much fresher than the av-erage 30 day old commercial eggs, cutting down on waste and envi-ronmental impact and providing youth with a chance to learn about gardening, animals, self reliance and food security.

She said that raising four chick-ens would allow children to join 4H which she sold as a valuable expe-rience where she learnt everything from public speaking to science.

Councillor Marc Lefebvre said he was nervous about the idea until he talked to public health of-fi cials and councillors in Nanaimo where they allow it, who convinced him it is a good idea.

Coun. Sue Powell said she worked on an industrial chicken farm when she was younger which was a disturbing experience and she stressed that the Island’s lim-ited food production makes raising urban chickens a good idea.

Adam Schug said he is not a farmer or expert, but addressed some of the myths, suggesting the waste doesn’t stink as much as that of other urban pets and can be used as compost and that small groups of birds are much less susceptible to disease than large industrial op-erations.

While several people cautioned against roosters and suggested lim-iting the number and planning for dealing with the end of chicken’s life, everyone appeared support-ive, including the mayor and four of fi ve councillors present speak-ing in favour.

Council asked staff for a report on bylaw options weighing the pros and cons.

Tillotson invites everyone to join the Backyard Chickens In Parksville Facebook page at www.facebook.com/groups/263651297002346/.


Noise and stink debated

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Some citizens of Parksville want to be able to keep a few chickens to supply them with fresh eggs.


Parksville council is looking for more details to make a de-cision about resident only parking areas.

There are cur-rently small sections of eight city streets with “resident parking only” signs, but the city doesn’t have a de-cal system to identify resident vehicles so they cannot enforce the signs.

With a trickle of complaints to the city about people parking on residential streets, council is feeling pres-sure to do something even though most who spoke at Wednes-day’s council meeting said it doesn’t seem to be a problem and would rather it was left as-is.

Mayor Chris Burger said he was torn, he “would love to leave well enough alone,” but they do have to ad-dress the complaints.

Staff presented three options: remove the signs; implement a decal purchase program and create enforceable resident only parking areas, or; to leave the signs with the understand-ing they will not be enforced.

“The resident only signs we now have are similar to a placebo; they look like they mean something, but in reality they have no legal impact,” states a staff report to council.

Most of the resi-dents who spoke were from Gerald Place and Jenkins Place across from Ballenas Second-ary School where the problem of students parking on residential streets led to the fi rst council-ordered signs.

The residents said that since then the school has helped deal with the issue, but chief administrative offi cer Fred Manson

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and the staff report point out they do get complaints from some of the other areas with those signs, specifi cally around Springwood school and park.

Councillors Peter Morrison and Marc Lefebvre both asked staff for

more details about the complaints and whether they could ban park-ing from just one side of a street or other options targeted specifi cally to the problem areas.

Staff was asked to bring more details back to a future meeting.


Parking details sought

Meeting allowed more inputAUREN [email protected]

Several dozen people at-tended a town hall style coun-cil meeting Wednesday night (May 23) at Ballenas Second-ary School as part of council’s efforts to engage the commu-nity.

“I think it was very success-ful,” said mayor Chris Burger.

“The format allows a lot more to and fro during the actual deliberations,” he said, pointing out that the public is always given a chance to speak, but it is mostly at the end of the meeting and only allows questions from the au-dience and not a lot of consul-tation and questions back and

forth with council.The different meeting for-

mat was also held to mark Lo-cal Government Awareness Week, May 20-26.

The agenda was intention-

ally light, allowing more time on each issue and much of the gallery was clearly there about the possibility of allowing peo-ple to keep egg laying chickens in the city.

Council has held several meetings at Knox United Church, Craig Bay and Bal-lenas in the past few years, which usually follows a less formal format.

Burger said that while noth-ing has been scheduled or dis-cussed, he’s pretty sure council agrees it was a valuable move they will likely do again in the future.

For more on council check the city website at www.parks-ville.ca.

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Parksville mayor Chris Burger (centre) with councillors Marc Lefebvre and Sue Powell at their town hall style meeting at Ballenas Secondary on Wednesday.

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We love the idea of the City of Parksville allowing people to raise and keep chickens in their yards — it’s happening in larger places, like Victoria — yet we’re sure the idea will

probably ruffl e a few feathers around here.But, it shouldn’t.Anything that helps people better feed their fami-

lies — either through controlling your own quality or by saving money — has to be a good thing. Not only can it help in this manner, but rasing chickens is also a small way of teaching people — especially young people — about where our food comes from (‘it comes from the grocery store’ is not the answer we’re looking for).

In a small way, this idea can help people under-stand the food chain, how we produce it, how much we consume and the steps that must be taken to feed people.

Of course, it all has to be done right and moni-tored closely as there are a few issues that need to be addressed.

One is the potential smell. Can’t be worse than French Creek these days, but joking aside, owners must be responsible and keep their yards clean. The city’s unsightly premises bylaw would be put to good use here.

That same level of responsibility must also in ef-fect when it comes to noise — and this is probably the biggest issue facing this proposal currently be-fore city council. Not many people living in the sub-urbs love the incessant, early-morning crowing of a rooster. If they did, they’d own a farm.

Now, while there are benefi ts to getting up early and getting lots done, few people will cotton to the idea. So, the noise issue could make or break this deal.

Here’s where the city is going to have to step in. These back yard chicken coops cannot be breeding grounds and rooster hangouts. So, put into effect some anti-rooster laws. Or at least limit their use. Maybe make it a seasonal, tourist thing — like the Capistrano swallows.

– editorial by Steven Heywood

Egg-cellent idea

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ROE? STINK AGAINThe cause of this stink that is being emit-

ted from the French Creek Sewage Plant area has got to be investigated a little further.

I walk the beach all the time and found the herring roe gone by the fi rst week in May. There is no smell along the beach now and no trace of herring roe either.

The smell most defi nitely comes from this facility because we only smell the stench when we are near the plant.

The beach has a passing grade, whereas the sewage plant doesn’t even come close.

I and the rest of the public don’t need to be treated like mushrooms, thank you.

PADDY BROWNParksville

AIRPORT BIG ENOUGHWow! By a wave of the wand of words

Coun. Bill Luchtmeijer has created a new regional airport. I think we already have one and it is South Nanaimo.

He is quoted as saying that “the facility has a regional benefi t,” but does not sub-stantiate that claim. Just because Qualicum airport is near other small communities be-sides Qualicum Beach does not qualify that we all benefi t from it.

Stating that the town is not an airport ex-pert, as though he is an expert in determin-ing expert abilities is about the most ego centric voice I have heard over and above some higher up politicians.

I am curious how councilors would allow one member to get away with such ill con-ceived ideas.

If this is the way governance is going I

suggest that the citizens need to pay atten-tion to this expertise as it will soon lead ev-eryone into debt.

I have lived in this community for over 35 years and there is not one single benefi t I have had from the airport. If anything I have had the horror of the 6 a.m. fl ight sounding like to is coming through my bedroom, the never ending buzzing of small planes over-head on lovely clear summer days, as they enjoy their fl ight and the rest of us are in-fl icted by the droning.

That there is also a helicopter site that is more annoying than the small plane owner is something that everyone who wants to grow this airport should have the pleasure of experiencing and living with.

I am appalled that any other member of a municipal government would even enter-tain any more air noise.

There are many communities which are working towards lessening human noise not increasing it and I would support such a no-tion.

PAULINE LISTE Errington

ALL ARE JUST AS BADI take issue with one of the recent letters

knocking the NDP and Liberals and praising the Conservatives.

I started some research on fi nancial per-formance on all parties and found them all to be far from excellent.

The surprising facts are that the present BC government has doubled the provincial debt that the government of the 1990s in-curred over the same length of time — 10 years.

I would have thought that after they sold many of our assets we would have been ahead.

We are facing a provincial debt load of $66 billion in 2014 to 2015 the way things are going. To me the 1990s looked pretty good!

WILLIAM MARTIN Parksville

PROOF IN THE TESTINGA few weeks ago I saw the BC Salmon

Farmers Association respond negatively to a letter asking for independent testing of your farmed salmon. Now two of the farms have tested positive for the highly contagious IHN virus, resulting in the ordered killing of stocks.

Without any proof they place the blame of these outbreaks entirely on wild fi sh, while deceptively proclaiming IHN won’t harm wild salmon.

Those studies they quote were done on adult salmon, yet they don’t mention nu-merous studies showing IHN to be deadly to juvenile wild salmon.

While world-leading labs are confi rming a myriad of European strain diseases from store-bought BC farmed salmon, they not only deny those fi ndings as well, but arro-gantly still refuse independent testing!

Why don’t they accompany the fi sh to the lab, just to make sure there’s no hanky panky going on? If these fi sh are as squeaky clean as claimed then there should be no prob-lem. The public and wild salmon deserve to know!

ANGELA KOCHQuadra Island

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VIEWS IN THE NEWSWe asked: Should Parksville allow backyard chicken coops?

Sure. Maybe not in densely populated

areas, but in the more rural parts I think it’s a

good idea.

ANNE KLOKParksville

Parts of Victoria do it. I think it’s a possibility.

Why not be as self-suffi cient as possible?

HEATHER TAYLORParksville

I think so. It would be good for around town and help stop having to bring everything in

from out of town.

BRITTNEY HERBERTParksville

I don’t think so. They are pretty messy, smelly and noisy,

especially the roosters.

RICK BARBERParksville

Government ContactsPROVINCIAL:

TEUNIS WESTBROEKMayor,Town of Qualicum Beach

Town office: 250-752-6921e-mail: [email protected]

JAMES LUNNEY,MPNanaimo-Alberni

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FEDERAL: QUALICUM:

CHRIS BURGERMayor,City of Parksville

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parksville.ca

JOE STANHOPEChairman,Regional District of Nanaimo

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PARKSVILLE: RDN:

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EASY ANSWERWatching the struggles the lead-

er of the National Philistine Party is having with controlling the budget, I think Stevie needs some help in making more appropriate budget-ary decisions.

He seems to be trying to save money by cutting such items as coast guard, environmental pro-tection, science, including the Bamfi eld Marine Station, and belt tightening on public enquiries.

It seems to me he could cancel those destructive cuts in one fell swoop by signing off on Canada’s subservience to the U.S. military agenda. Just cancel the whole F-35 acquisition and call back the thousand or so troops we have cur-rently helping in the occupation of Afghanistan and his budgetary problems will disappear.

If your readers would like to join me in this matter, I cordially invite them to join us every Tuesday at 4 p.m. near the junction of the Island and Alberni Highways. We have lots of signs to share.

JOHN OLSENErrington

YUCK YELLOWNeil Horner’s call to battle the

Broom (THE NEWS, May 18) is a plea for help voiced all over this Island.

It’s a cry echoed since 1850, when befuddled Scot immigrant Walter Calhoun Grant paid a visit to Hawaii and spotted nature’s nastiest plant there. Recognizing them as the same weed native to Scotland, he decided to bring some plants back to Vancouver Island and introduce them here.

Their beginnings here were in Sooke. On their fi rst blooming the winds spread the seeds all over this Island, with heaviest infestation at higher altitudes.

My own effort to rid my hiking trail near Port Alberni of the nox-ious weeds included cutting them off at the base with shears and a saw. After which I thought I’d killed thousands of the invasive yel-low weeds. But one year later the growth beside the trail of Yuck Yel-low had at least doubled.

The only way to rid our Island of Natures nasty plants is with mech-

anized power equipment such as front end loaders equipped with chokers to uproot them. And, to prevent regrowth, the millions of bushes must be taken to remote areas and burned before seeds can recirculate and proliferate with the winds. But the only group capable of carrying out such a huge project is the provincial public works de-partment. But “sorry, no budget.”

So, good luck to those Island residents trying to stall the the nev-er ending spread of beastly broom plants. And if your nearness to this weed brings allergies such as sore throat and sneezing, try lorata-dine.

HAROLD HAMILTONPort Alberni

EMOTION RULEDThe commentary from Black

Press regarding PST and HST in your May 18 issue states that the HST exercise was benefi cial in that it showed that B.C. citizens have power.

While I agree with that, I believe that the process of voting out the HST also uncovered a major fl aw in our democratic system; people vote on emotionally charged issues without considering the full impact or the bigger picture.

We wield the power to overturn government decisions; that power comes with considerable responsi-bility.

I do not believe that a single one of us had all the information about the repercussions and full impact to business owners, the province and to the economy in general, to be able to make an informed deci-sion.

Anais Nin said, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

The vote to get rid of the har-monized sales tax appears to have been made emotionally, based on individual experience and resent-ment about how it was introduced, not because the overall merits — or lack thereof — were considered or analysed.

That to me is a sad state of af-fairs and an abuse of our power.

KRISTIN NICKELLSParksville

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If a tree burns in the forest, will any fi re de-partments respond?

That’s a question the Regional District of Nanaimo opted to tackle at Tuesday night’s monthly board meeting, with the preferred an-swer being yes.

The concern involved whether or not area fi re departments could respond to forest fi res outside their service area, if requested to do so by the ministry of forests. Up to this point, such a move was not permitted.

However, board members voted unani-mously to authorize all RDN volunteer fi re de-partments to respond at any time to Ministry of Forests requests for assistance outside or inside their boundaries.

REGIONAL DISTRICT

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Temporary discolouration while the different sources of water are being mixed in the system.

Higher and/or lower chlorine taste and odours in different regions of the peninsula.

A slight decrease in water hardness.

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The Town of Qualicum Beach intends to provide assistance to the Qualicum Beach Downtown Business Association by issuing a licence of occupation for non-exclusive right to enter onto, occupy, and use a portion of sidewalks along streets in the Village neighbourhood for local businesses to place, use, maintain and operate a sidewalk sale on Saturday, May 26, 2012 between the hours of 9:00 am to 9:00 pm. This use is conditional on no items being placed on the curb side of the sidewalk and maintaining at least six feet of unobstructed walkway. The Licence permits occupying a portion of sidewalk for a licence fee of $1.00, which is less than its market value for the one-day term.

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I guess we can safely assume we have sur-vived another winter and what passes for spring in these parts. I remember clearly as a child, my summer began on Fire-cracker Day or as our political masters

called it, Victoria Day. May 24 was much more than an exciting hol-

iday with a great ending. It also marked the beginning of summer, of

donning short pants and possibly new running shoes, of rooting out the stash of marbles and beginning the marathon and myriad games we played. It meant long evenings after dinner watching or playing pick-up baseball games and the eagerly awaited shrill whistle of the horse-drawn chip wagon.

For our younger readers, I must describe these wagons.

They were the original fast food outlets, about the size of a modern SUV, small and hellish-ly hot for the poor man inside surrounded by a deep vat of boiling fat for chips, a grill to cook hotdogs and a pop-corn oven. The wagon also had a small locker with a limited supply of soft drinks sitting on a block of fast-melting ice.

The whole opera-tion was surrounded by a strong unforgettable odour consisting of old horse and his natural functions, frying chips, popcorn and grilled hotdogs, all harassed by a heavy collection of fl ies. I consider myself lucky in that they were not banished as unsanitary until long after I grew up. They were an indelible experience.

We all know that time and distance soften the ugly parts of our memories.

The childhood days I remember so fondly took place in the deepest part of the so-called Great Depression. There were few women in the workforce so an unemployed breadwin-ner meant no medical or dental care, no new clothes and sometimes, for some, no food ex-cept in the breadline at the religious charities. Small problems like a broken pot handle or a ripped pair of pants can be catastrophic when you have no money.

I’ve often wondered why childhood memo-ries linger so long and strong compared to to-day when last summer’s activities are a distant, dim memory if recalled at all.

Perhaps young minds are less cluttered with old experiences and like a clean blackboard have lots of room for new stuff.

William Shakespeare had something nice to say about summer and a special lady when he wrote the following sonnet: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and temperate: Rough winds do shake the dar-ling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”

I think most women would feel good about themselves as the subject of such a little mas-terpiece.

We don’t hear lyrics like that from most of to-day’s over-hyped musical performers.

In deference to local real estate values, I no longer wear shorts in public and some might say that I lost my marbles years ago.

Harvey Dorval is a regular NEWS columnist.

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Time softens our memories NEIL HORNER

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There’s a very good reason why those yellow fi sh are painted on Ocean-side storm drains — a reason that was hammered home this week when sev-eral dead coho salmon fry were found in Garden Road Creek.

Faye Smith, the head of the local Streamkeepers group, said the baby fi sh were noticed on May 21 by a resident walking beside the tiny watercourse, which is essentially a roadside ditch.

Smith believes the fi sh were killed by something either thrown in the stream or spilled elsewhere and then allowed to run into the creek.

“What happened I think was that either something went down a storm

drain and went down Berwick or some-one tossed old fertilizer when they threw out that old potting soil — which we found right under the caution, salmon at work sign.”

When Smith went to investigate, she found 30 dead trout, two dead coho fry and one that was still alive — but barely.

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“I’m glad, I guess, that Coho did get up there and were start-ing to use that creek,

but the fact that they’re dead is disap-pointing on so many levels.”

Last summer the Town of Qualicum Beach hired a vacuum truck to clean out the sediments accumu-

lating in the many excavated pools and Streamkeepers moved the fi sh out of the way.

“We counted hun-dreds of various sized Cutthroat trout. As part of the fi nishing

touches to last sum-mer’s work, we added a bit of spawning gravel near some of the pools because our fi sher-ies biologist, Dave Clough, mentioned Coho might fi nd there way up there.”

Smith said her group plans to con-tinue to monitor the creek. She said she is unsure exactly how much damage was done or how long it will take the creek’s fi sh stocks to recover.


Creek’s fi sh stocks will be monitored: Smith


If poachers are able to buck up and haul away a giant cedar tree in a provin-cial park parking lot, there’s something very wrong with the B.C. parks system, says Richard Boyce.

The Errington fi lmmaker and envi-ronmental activist was among the fi rst people to discover the remains of the 800-year-old giant in the Carmanah Walbran Valley.

“I went for a hike to the Carmanah-Walbran Valley in March and I was in the parking lot of the provincial park. On the top of an embankment there was a massive nine-foot red cedar stump, freshly cut, with all kinds of de-bris in the parking lot and several large chunks of wood that had been bucked up laying nearby.”

Boyce phoned BC Parks, along with the contractor for the park and the 1-800 number for reporting poachers.

Boyce said he was told that poach-ers had attempted to cut down the tree earlier, but had jammed their chain-

saw bar and left the area. The tree was deemed a hazard by parks staff, who completed the job, leaving the enor-mous stem to rot and return to nature. The poachers returned and cut up the downed tree and hauled it away.

“If you get caught poaching wood there is a signifi cant penalty, but they obviously felt they could do whatever they wanted and were not scared that they were going to get caught,” Boyce surmised. “It’s outrageous.”

Boyce reported his fi nd to the Wil-derness Committee.

Commenting on B.C. Environment Minister Terry Lake’s suggestion that it would be fi nancially irresponsible to suggest all areas of B.C. could be pro-tected, Boyce said this may be true, but this theft was particularly blatant.

“I understand B.C. is a very large place but in a park, right in the parking lot of a provincial park?” he said. “That’s just offensive.”

He noted the poachers would have had to use a signifi cant amount of heavy equipment to process the log.

Boyce noted the Wilderness Com-mittee has posted a $5,000 reward for anyone with information leading to the arrest of the poachers responsible.

In the meantime, Boyce said the theft shows the need for the provincial government to hire more staff for BC Parks.

“I think they should immediately start reinstating the cutbacks and the people who used to enforce the laws in this province,” he said.

“This is a sign that the forests are not protected.”

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“Both mayors have agreed to get involved.”

He noted that because Parksville has a higher popu-lation than Qualicum Beach, the winner will be deter-mined by the percentage of residents who take part.

The Qualicum Beach ride is slated to start at 4 p.m. from the start of the Dolly-mount trail next to the Le-gion on Veterans’ Way, while Parksville’s ride will kick off

at 4 p.m. at the Community Park gazebo on the water-front.

“Council is excited to pro-mote cycling in our commu-nity with the ride to Rath-trevor and look forward to participating along with our residents,” said mayor Chris Burger. “It’s an opportu-nity for all of us to get some physical activity and also in some small way, reduce our carbon footprint.”

Swanson and Parksville council invite the public to join them for that ride and to cycle more in general as part of the provincial Bike to Work Week (May 27 to June 3).

The contest will also in-clude a second challenge to see which community can get the most civic employees taking part.

The winner will be an-nounced at the community ride at Little Qualicum Chee-

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before the start of the event. The Ride with the Mayor registration will start at 3:30 p.m. at the start area. Civic employees are asked to con-tact their team leader to reg-ister. All registrants will be covered by ICBC’s insurance vocwerage for Bike to Work Week participants.

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ERRINGTON — An Err-ington resident returned home after spending four days away to fi nd his house had been ransacked and his guns stolen.

Oceanside RCMP Cor-poral Jesse Foreman said the unknown culprit or culprits pried open a base-ment window at the home

on Dobler Road. Once inside they sprayed food items and smashed holes in several walls and stole several items, including loose change, a 40-inch RCA fl at screen TV and a Yamaha stereo amplifi er.

Foreman said the thieves also broke into a secure gun cabinet and made off with four fi rearms, including one

handgun.“Any time that weapons

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The Oceanside RCMP and Forensic Identifi cation Section are actively investi-gating this occurrence.

Due to noises heard by neighbours in the area, Fore-

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Anyone with informa-tion regarding this crime is requested to contact the Oceanside RCMP at 250- 248-6111 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

— NEWS staff

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It was an emotional moment for Regional District of Nanaimo chair Joe Stanhope Tuesday night, but even more so for Maureen Pearse.

Pearse, who has served as the RDN’s chief electoral offi cer, was attending her fi nal board meeting prior to her retirement at the end of May.

Just prior to the meeting’s close, Stanhope surprised Pearse with a large bouquet of fl owers and a hug, thank-ing her for her many years of service.

Also retiring this month is Nancy Avery, the manager of fi nancial ser-vices, who is leaving the RDN next month. Avery has been an employee since 1991.

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QUALICUM BEACH — The pro-posed 49-lot residential area next to the Qualicum Beach Middle School will go to the public twice, before town council considers approving the project.

Council voted Wednesday morn-ing at a special meeting to advance the project to the next step — enabling a public information session Thurs., May 31, 6 p.m. at the Civic Centre to proceed. The owners of the property had missed a chance to do it earlier.

The vote also put into motion a Mon., June 11 public hearing on the same thing, 7 p.m. at the Civic Centre.

The project’s main issues include af-fordable housing, fees, green space and trails. — NEWS Staff

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PARKSVILLE — Provincial environ-ment minister Terry Lake was at Rathtrev-or Park in Parksville Sunday, May 20 to un-veil a high-tech way to donate to children’s programming in B.C. parks.

The text-to-donate program will allow people to text BC-PARKS to 45678 to donate $5. The dona-tion will be added to the person’s next cell phone bill and all the money will go to sup-port children’s pro-grams in the parks.

For example, Learn to Fish, sponsored by the Freshwater Fish-eries Society of B.C., is a children’s program currently offered in some provincial parks. Information about both text-to-donate and Learn to Fish and lots more is available in BC Parks passports.

“The BC Parks pass-port program and Text to Donate are good examples of what we’re doing to con-tinue to attract young families to B.C.’s pro-vincial parks,” Lake said. “We are thankful to have partners like the visitor centres and the Freshwater Fish-eries Society working with us to introduce a new generation to the province’s spectacular outdoors.”

The passport pro-gram, introduced last year, allows children to collect six stamps or stickers to win a prize. Passport hold-ers can choose from more than 200 parks or visitor centres prov-ince-wide. The idea is to collect six stamps from one or more pro-vincial parks during 2012 and earn a Jerry the Moose pin, and earn another, differ-

ent pin, the following year. Also, for every six unique visitor centre stickers, the reward is an environmentally-friendly water bottle.

Parksville-Quali-cum MLA Ron Cante-lon was enthusiastic.

“With the camping season upon us, it’s great to have some-thing fun for families to add to the adven-ture and I plan to make my fi rst text donation today while visiting Rathtrevor Beach Pro-vincial Park.”

The program has been a boon to local visitor centres, said Donna Andres, with the Parksville Cham-ber of Commerce and Visitor Centre board.

“We’re very appre-ciative of BC Parks’ ef-forts and this oppor-tunity to participate in its passport pro-gram. In particular, it helps bring visitors to

our visitor centre so that we can tell them about all the wonder-

ful things they can do in our community.”

— NEWS staff


A letter of concern about dangerous play-ground equipment will be taken into ac-count by the City of Parksville and Lions club.

“We have staff trained in risk man-agement and, if through our normal review process, or if something is dam-aged, we deal with it,” said chief administra-

tive offi cer Fred Man-son.

THE NEWS received a letter to the editor from Lori Evans, sug-gesting that the orca in the Lions’ Ventureland water park in Commu-nity Park is slippery and “a defi nite hazard that is in need of some serious 20-year up-grading and fi nancial attention.”

Manson said they do periodic reviews of everything in their

system from play-grounds to sidewalks and buildings, with safety as a top prior-ity.

He said they have removed or fl agged off playground features in the past that were found to be dangerous or in need of repair.

The Ventureland equipment is pur-chased by the Parks-ville Lions Club and donated to the city once it is installed

and spokesperson Duane Round said all the equipment is CSA (Canadian Standards Association) approved with safety as a major factor in their choices.

He said the orca has been there since before he got involved 13 years ago and he will bring it to the at-tention of the club as part of their longer term considerations, pointing out they re-place and add new

equipment as funds allow.

He said they do their best to design for safety, but things do get slippery when wet.

Parks superinten-dent Peter Crawshaw added that they have specifi c playground safety certifi ed inspec-tors who check weekly and people should let the city know about any new dangers on any public property.

Neither Round or Manson were aware of any previous com-plaints specifi cally about the orca.

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It’s offi cial: the name of this summer’s Qualicum Beach Downtown Business Association street market is the Qualicum Beach Uptown Summer Market.

The name was announced Thursday, after the QBDBA board selected Michelle Brown’s contest entry as the winner. That moniker is only the beginning of a project that organizers hope will continue to grow.

On Wednesday, project spokesperson for the QBDBA, Katherine Wilk, told THE NEWS she was pleased the town coun-cil that morning approved this year’s market location. It will take place on Second Avenue, where

the majority of downtown busi-nesses are located, between Me-morial and Primrose avenues.

“It was all or nothing,” she said, noting town council had asked if another location could

be chosen. “This is the down-town location and we are start-ing here and hope to expand it in the future.”

The QBDBA brought coun-cil multiple letters of approval, signed by area businesses — a fact the council cited for their approval of the market.

Wilk said they will be hiring a market co-ordinator to help attract vendors and businesses. She added they are hoping to get around 40 confi rmed for each of the nine evenings of this sum-mer’s markets. They will start July 5 and then run each Thurs-day evening from 6 to 9 p.m. un-til August 30.

“We want to bring people to this town,” Wilk told council,

“and it’s something to do in the evening.”

The QBDBA will enlist the ser-vices of local Citizens on Patrol to take care of barricades and traf-fi c control, lessening the event’s impact on the town’s bottom line. They also addressed safety concerns by contacting the local RCMP — who stated they had no issues with the event.

Mayor Teunis Westbroek credited the QBDBA with their level of planning, adding it is a good example of collaboration.

“I don’t think you’ll be disap-pointed,” said QBDBA member Tom Pope.

The market actually began last summer and was met with limited success.

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Linda is living a comfortable retire-ment. She has a hefty pension, re-ceives Old Age Security and CPP, RRIF and annuity income, and has a non-registered investment portfolio.

She has been told that dividend-paying stocks are good investments and offer some tax relief through the dividend tax credit.

That sounded like a good idea. But then seemingly out of the blue the government start-ed clawing back her Old Age Security based in part on her grossed up dividend income. It turns out the dividend tax credit isn’t even con-sidered when the government decides how much of her OAS she gets to keep.

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Ed’s another story — a reformed day-trader who still had something left when he gave up trying to speculate on the next big thing (though he did fall off the wagon to pick up some Facebook). To his credit he made some brilliant in-vestment decisions during the last bull market, but has had trouble holding on to his gains during corrections. But now he wants to invest responsibly — in things that are more conservative. The problem is, however, that he has capital loss carry-forwards from his days as a stock market guru and would like to put them to use.

Then there is Jennifer — a widow with no children of her

own, but one stepson who will receive her in-vestment portfolio after she is gone. If Jennifer had her druthers, her estate would pay all the investment taxes after she is gone — rather than her paying them now.

It turns out they can all have their druthers. Using a recently developed process, investors

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Instead — when, how, and if you pay taxes can be your decision, and can be based on your individual circumstances.

Linda can have her dividends taxed primarily as capital gains, thereby helping to preserve her Old Age Security.

Penelope can invest in a bond portfolio with the bulk of the taxes deferred to a time of her choosing.

Ed can invest in safer investments, but elect to have in-come characterized as capital gains.

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PARKSVILLE — The Van-couver Island Health Author-ity is hosting open houses to share information with the public about the Oceanside Health Centre they are cur-rently building beside Trillium Lodge in Parksville.

Aiming to open in June 2013, the long requested facility will offer urgent and primary care. Staff will be on hand to answer questions about the centre and its services.

The next scheduled drop-in sessions are Monday, June 4,

2-8 p.m. at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre and Tuesday, June 5, 2-8 p.m. at the Parksville Community and Conference Centre. For more check www.viha.ca/about_viha/building_for_health/oceanside.htm.

— Submitted by VIHA

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Health centre open houses in June

PARKSVILLE — They say a good, hard rain is like having an extra 10 cops on the beat and that certainly appears to have been the case on the

Victoria Day long weekend in Oceanside.

RCMP Corporal Jesse Fore-man said while there were sev-eral fi les opened, it was an un-

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STEWART THOMAS WEBB

Dad passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 19, 2012 in the Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, BC at the age of 81 years. He was predeceased by his wife Shirley; parents Thomas and Edith Webb; and brother Walter. Dad is survived by daughters Debra and Sheila; sons Glen (Jeannine) and Bruce; and precious granddaughter Gabrielle. He is also survived by his sister-in-law Sheila Campbell (George), nephews Grant and Robert Campbell and Tom and Grant Webb. Dad was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on January 28, 1931. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba in 1952. Dad and Mom were married on September 19, 1952 and lived in Winnipeg until they retired to Qualicum Beach, BC in July, 1993. Dad worked for Imperial Oil for many years followed by the Province of Manitoba (Department of Industry and Commerce). Dad was a 50 year member of Sturgeon Creek Masonic Lodge. Many summers were spent at the cabin in Pickerel Lake, Ontario before moving to BC. In retirement, Dad devoted a great deal of time and effort developing his yard of which he was very proud. He also spent time volunteering at Milner Gardens. Dad especially enjoyed conversations with his morning coffee group, referring to themselves as “The Flat Earth Society”. The family is sincerely grateful to all who attended to our Dad at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (Emergency), BC Air Ambulance Service and Royal Jubilee Hospital (ICU) for their exceptional care.

In keeping with Dad’s wishes, there will be no service.

Flowers are respectfully declined. Those who wish may make donations to a charity of one’s choice. YATES FUNERAL SERVICE & CREMATORIUM

(250-248-5859) in care of arrangements.

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HARRISONMargaret ‘Peggy’ Anne

October 29, 1926 – May 17, 2012It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Margaret on May 17, 2012 at the age of 85. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband George of 64 years. Margaret was predeceased by her daughter Penny. She is survived by husband George, their son Robert, grandchildren; Kimberly and Andrew, great-grandchildren; Antonio and Alexandria, son-in-law Don and daughter-in-law Karena. Margaret served in the British Army “ATS” during WWII. Immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1953 where she had a 30 year career in real estate in the Scarborough area. Margaret and George moved to Parksville/Qualicum in 1989. She was an avid tennis player until her 80’s, played in the Scarborough Bluffs Club, Qualicum, Springwood and others. Margaret was a member of the Anglican Church while in Canada, attended the Presbyterian Church in Britain and helped run the bulletins and assist in the offi ce.

A Memorial of Margaret’s Life will be held on Friday, June 22, 2012, St. Edmund’s Church,

Parksville at 1:30PM. In lieu of fl owers, donations can be made in her

name to St. Anne’s/St. Edmund’s Church.

YATES FUNERAL SERVICE & CREMATORIUM (250-248-5859) in care of arrangements.

Gone one year but not forgotten.

Remembering your wonderful laugh, your love

of the church and the outdoors, your

love of dogs & your dedication as

a nurse. Missed very much,

Meg & John.

Jean Nicholson

Neil Murison January 21,1987-May 25, 2007 How much we miss you being hereWe really cannot sayThe ache is deep inside our heartsAnd never goes away.....

Hope you have a good ride today sonHope you have a good ride today sonLove from Mom,Dad & LindsayLove from Mom,Dad & Lindsay

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NOTICE TO THE RESIDENTS OF DASHWOOD RE: PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF RURAL AGENCY STORE

The Liquor Distribution Branch invites community input on a request to establish a Rural Agency Store (RAS) at the Meadowood Store in the community of Dashwood.The intent of a RAS is to provide liquor service in rural communities and tourist destination resorts, in order to give people in these communities better, more convenient access to beverage alcohol products. RAS’s are established in rural communities where it is too small to operate a Government Liquor Store.RAS’s will be established, where there is a suitable business i.e. an existing independently-owned full service general grocery store. Only one Rural Agency Store authorization in a community is permitted.

Written comments will be accepted until June 18, 2012. Your submissions may be used by the LDB in the decision process.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

IN THE ESTATE OF LUCINDA ROMA

SOCHA, DECEASED LATE OF PARKSVILLE, WHO DIED NOVEMBER

20th, 2011. Creditors and all others having claims against the Estate of LUCINDA ROMA SOCHA, are hereby notifi ed pursuant to s. 38 of the Trustee Act, that particulars of their claims and any se-curity held by them, should be sent to the Ex-ecutor of the said Estate, c/o the Solicitor for the Estate at the address set out below, on or before the 30th day of June, 2012, after which date the Executor will distrib-ute the Estate among the parties entitled to it, hav-ing regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.THOMAS & COMPANYBarristers, Solicitors &

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LEGALS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

IN THE ESTATE OF DWAIN RICHARD

MCNABB, DECEASED LATE OF PARKSVILLE, WHO DIED DECEMBER

5th, 2011. Creditors and all others having claims against the Estate of DWAIN RICH-ARD MCNABB, are hereby notifi ed pursuant to s. 38 of the Trustee Act, that particulars of their claims and any se-curity held by them, should be sent to the Ex-ecutor of the said Estate, c/o the Solicitor for the Estate at the address set out below, on or before the 15th day of July, 2012, after which date the Executor will distrib-ute the Estate among the parties entitled to it, hav-ing regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.THOMAS & COMPANYBarristers, Solicitors &

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

BUILDING SUPPLIES

Rebar For SaleResidential & CommercialENQUIRIES WELCOME

Fabricating & delivery available if required.

CALL NORM ATHarbor West Steel

anytime 250-954-5704

FREE ITEMS

FREE: 2 coffee tables with matching end tables, you pick up. Call (250)752-1104.

FREE DROP OFF: Oil, batter-ies, scrap metal. We pay $Cash$ for unwanted Cars & Trucks. Call anytime. Norms Towing & Salvage (prev. of Bull Dog Auto) 250-757-8911 or 250-954-7543.

FREE UPRIGHT piano, you pick-up. (250)752-1104.

‘L’ SHAPED computer desk, dresser, 2 composters. Call (250)821-0991.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

COASTAL MOUNTAIN FIRE-WOOD & Logging. Stock up now! *Clearing. *Downed trees. *Wood Spiting Services Call 250-468-9660. 1-866-768-8886 (Nanoose).

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MEDICAL SUPPLIES

MOBILITY ISSUES? For Sale: GoldTech Lift Chair $400. Aquatec Bath Lift $800. Evolu-tion Walker $200. Used, in great condition. 250-248-2305

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

DESKTOP TOWER(eMachine W98), Laptop (Compaq WXP, Printer (Canon MP 240) all for $200; Large glass patio table, 4 chairs & umbrella, $200. Please call Arch 250-607-8149

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/news-paper?

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

PARKSVILLE, 1 acre, walking distance to Wembley Mall. 1363 sq ft split level home w/2 bdrms, 1-1/2 bath, partially fi n-ished basement. 24 x 32 ft shop w/carport & covered RV storage. Lrg garden. Mature fruit & nut trees. $449,900. Call 250-947-5432

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MORTGAGES

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RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

ERRINGTON, shared acreage (working farm) ground fl oor duplex. 1 bdrm w/wood heat. Shared laundry. Storage space avail. Carport. Pets OK w/approval. $500/mo + util. Avail Jun 1st. 250-248-0295

ERRINGTON- 1 bdrm, private entrance. Available July 1. $500 + utils. Refs req’d. Call (250) 954-0191.

PARKSVILLE- RENO’D 2 bdrm apt, free storage & park-ing, quiet bldg, heat/hot water incld. Avail June 1st. $800. 250-248-3350.

DOWNTOWN QUALICUM- 1 bdrm + den condo, completely reno’d, covered parking, large patio, granite counters, stain-less appls. Avail June 1. $950. NS/NP. Call (250)752-3419.

VILLAGE GREEN ESTATES

317 Village Way, QB1 bdrm apts, $750. 2 & 3 bdrm townhomes, $950 to $1150. 5 appls, F/P, patio. N/S, sm pet ok. Quiet adult community. Close to town. Offi ce hrs Tuesday’s: 4pm-7pm.

250-240-2816.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

FURNISHED ONE and two bedroom units available. Pet Friendly! All utilities Included. Phone 250-248-6532.

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

COMMERCIAL SPACE for lease in Parksville area. (250)468-7895, Pat.

DOWNTOWN QUALICUM Beach, 680 sq/ft. warehouse, complete with mezzanine area $600 p/m. Call 250-954-6881

COTTAGES

PRIVATE 1 bdrm beach cabin, self-contained, 20 mins north of Qualicum. N/S, N/P. Weekly $500. Call (250)757-2094.

PRIVATE 1 Bdrm Cottage close to Englishman River Falls, Suitable for 1 person, N/P, N/S. includes hydro cable and internet. $650/m. 250-248-8384.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

COOMBS- 1 BDRM sxs du-plex, deck, fenced yard, #5-1027 Virigina Rd. $580+ utils. (250)248-2285.

FOR SALE BY OWNER

RENTALS

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

COUNTRY SETTING North Qualicum. Upper Duplex, 1 bdrm, FS, References NS, No dogs. Avail. Immed. $675/mo. 250-594-5950.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR RENT

COOMBS, QUIET 1 bdrm RV, incl. util’s., walk to Coombs. $450 p/mo, 250-240-1445.

MOBILE HOMES & PADS

10 MINS to Qualicum Village, quiet mobile home park, 2 bdrm, 1 bath, recently reno’d, F/P, enclosed porch, nice gar-den, $675 mo. Call Robert 1-250-954-4018.

HOMES FOR RENT

3 BDRM, 2 bath Rancher. New home, 15 mins from downtown Qualicum. W/D, F/S, D/W, fenced yard, patio and double garage. N/S, small dog ok with approval. $1200/mo + utils. Avail June. 1. Call 604-290-4290.

COOMBS- 3 bdrm home on .5 acre, beautiful mtn views, home is on 1 level w/ many features incls 7 appls. Wood fl ooring, 1.5 bath, garden, greenhouse, patio area. Pets cons. [email protected] $1300 +hydro. (250)590-4778.

ERRINGTON. 1-BDRM Home. 15 mins to Parksville. Peace-ful, forested location. No pets, No smoking in house or on grounds. Must have reliable transportation. 3 ref’s req’d. First & last month’s rent. $750./mo + utils. email your in-formation: [email protected]

please refer to our website:www.parksvillerealestate.comto view our rental properties

RENT YOUR HOME!Owner & Tenant

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View current rentalsOn our website:

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250-248-10711-888-243-1071

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Ron LimerManaging Broker

Val LambertProperty Manager

21 - 826 W. Island HwyParksville, B.C., V9P 2B7

Wendy Hofforth, Property ManagerRental Properties

Nanoose Bay/Parksville/Qualicum Beach

For current rentals please check my website:

www.vanislandrealty.com124 Craig St., P.O. Box 460Parksville, B.C. V9P 2G6Toll Free: 1-866-386-2735

e-mail: cbpropertymanage [email protected]

WHISKEY CREEK- 1100sq ft, 3 bdrms, lower level of house, 4 appls. NP/NS, $750/mo + utils. Call 250-752-0501.

OFFICE/RETAIL

DOWNTOWN PARKSVILLE, 800 sq ft, ground level retail space for lease, great location, 124 Middleton Ave., $600 mo + triple nets & HST. Call 250-248-3142 or 250-905-2526.

Retail / Professional Space for Lease

in the village Qualicum Beach.

from544 sq.ft to 1427 sq.ft.phone 250 248 6504

Garage SalesGarage Sales

GARAGE SALES

BOWSER - 170 Sunshine Place - (off of Palm Pacifi c) Saturday, May 26 (8:30 - 1) Two family sale, with some-thing for everyone.

BOWSER- 4823 Ocean Trail. Sat, May 26, 8:30am-1:30pm. Canadian antique furniture: Pine kitchen table & chairs, mahogany dresser, students desk, rocking chairs, wash stand, doll house w/furnish-ings, fi shing gear, wood carv-ings and household items. (250)757-9527.

COLUMBIA BEACH, 545 Dal-matian Dr., Sat. May 26 (8-2) Downsizing, Lots of stuff!!

COOMBS- 2052 PIERPONT Rd, Sat, May 26, 7am-? Lots of toys, bedroom suite, dog pen.

EAGLECREST, 900 Royal Dornoch Dr. Sat. May 26th (8 - 1). Bathroom reno & house-hold items, fi shing gear, records, & other collectables.MULTI-FAMILY garage sale Satur-day, May 26 at 493 Pioneer Cres-cent, Parksville (Pioneer Garden Estates) 8 am - noon. No early birds. Cancelled if raining.

NANOOSE: 2930 Dolphin Dr. Moving out of the Country must sell everything. Ongoing garage sale from now to May 31st.

NANOOSE BAY- 2494 Parker Way (off Powder Point Rd & Parker Rd) Sat, May 26, Sun, May 27, 8am-3pm. Huge Downsizing Sale! Tools, lum-ber, table saw, garden hoses, barbecue, VCR tapes, house-hold items, etc.

NANOOSE BAY- 3333 Dol-phin Dr, Sat, May 26, 9am-2pm.

NANOOSE BAY, Harlequin Cres. May 26, (10 - 2). Neigh-bourhood sale! Something for everybody! Large variety!

(N. NANAIMO). Large Gar-age/Estate & Pottery Sale. 6285 Groveland Drive, Sat & Sun, May 26 & 27, 9am to 3pm. Big Garage Sale with lots of handmade pottery dish sets from local professional potter. Selling contents of house including single bed, antiques, tools, lamps, garden tools and much, much more. No early birds!

PARKSVILLE, 1209 Island Hwy, (East side of Heritage Plaza @ the corner of Arbutus Rd. & Isl. Hwy) Sat. May 26th (9-1). Lots of parking, watch for signs “Great Stuff”. Some-thing for everyone! No Early Birds. If it rains, sale cancelled

PARKSVILLE, 161 Shelly Rd., Sat. May 26th (8-?) Strata Sale! Furn., gardening tools, table saw, boy’s bike, quilting, household items & much more

PARKSVILLE, 17 Sylvan Cres. Fri. May 25 (12-4) & Sat. May 26 (8-4) Boating, fi shing, tools, misc.

PARKSVILLE- 327 EAST Stanford, Sat & Sun, May 26 & 27, 8am-4pm. Tools, mechani-cal, drywall, painting & materi-als, household, fi shing gear.

PARKSVILLE- 465 Pioneer Cres, Sat, May 26, 10am-3pm. Too much to list!

PARKSVILLE, 690 Temple St.,May 26th (8-2). Multi-fami-ly, Tree Peonies, Bamboo, ret-ro dresser, chinese window screen, ranger canopy, drop safe, & lots more!!

GARAGE SALES

PARKSVILLE- 731 Doehle & neighbours, May 26, (9-3) May 27, (12-4) Downsizing!

PARKSVILLE: 757 Ermine-skin Ave., Sat., May 26, 8-12:30. Variety of indoor & outdoor items including, toys, books & more. Rain or shine!

PARKSVILLE (Estate/Garage Sale in the house), Temple Store down Bay St., 2 blocks left to 337 Willow St., Fri, (May 25) & Sat (May 26), 8:30am-3:00pm. Too many items to list.

PARKSVILLE. Multi-family sale. Sat. May 26, 8am-noon. 385 Heath Ave. Sponsored by Pioneer Crescent Neighbour-hood Residents’ Assoc.

PARKSVILLE TAOIST Tai Chi Society 7th Annual Gar-age Sale & Plant Sale! 1395 Pintail Drive (off Johnstone), Qualicum Beach. Sat, May 26 8am - 1pm. Household items, books, plants and much more...

PARKSVILLE, UNIT 11-1260 Fair Rd., (commercial ware-house), Sat, May. 26, 10am-3pm. Construction related items. Tools, building materi-als, boats and much more.

QUALICUM- 897 Hilliers Rd, South, Sat, May 26, 8am. Freezer, desk, 883 Sportster, travel trailer, black stove, 70sq ft cermic tile.

QUALICUM BEACH, 135 Garden Rd. E. Sat. May 26 (8-1)Cedar strip canoe, ocean Kayak, cedar sauna, audio equip. misc.

QUALICUM BEACH, 214 Hoylake Rd.W. Fri. May 25th. (1 -4) Sat. May 26th, (9 - 3) Tons of stuff!! Tools, house-hold, misc, jewelry, end tables, clothes, books, dishes, new stuff, more tools!!!!

(QUALICUM BEACH) 281 Fern Rd. E at Eagle Mini Stor-age, Sat, May. 26th, 9am-12pm. No early birds please!

QUALICUM BEACH, #3-148 Fern Rd. E. Sat. May 26 (8-2). Moving sale! Dbl Bed box spring & frame, misc. tools, furn., cabinet hardware.

QUALICUM BEACH- 431 West Crescent, Sat, May 26, 8:30 til noon. Multi-unit sale. No early birds! Park on road (no parking lot parking).

QUALICUM BEACH, 5386 Is-land Hwy, Sat. May 26th. (9 - ?) Something for everyone!!

QUALICUM BEACH, 89 Hilli-ers Rd. Sat. May 26 (8-4) & Sun. May 27 (9-12)Huge multi-family & fi shing business mov-ing sale! Commercial & sports fi shing gear, nets, etc., Boat, motors, forklift, large train set, hsehold ...too much to list.

QUALICUM BEACH (Eagle Crest)

540 Mashie Close.

Sat. May 26 (8:30-12) Mov-ing Sale! Major auto. tools,

carpentry, garden, elec.w/less mower, furn.,

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THE BLUFFS - Qualicum, off Eaglecrest Drive. Parade sales. Sat. May 26, 9am-3pm.

WHISKY CREEK, 3549 Cro-cus Rd. Sat. May 26 & Sun. May 27, (10-2) Hobby, garage & household items, treadmill.

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The 18th annual BC’s Best Baseball Tournament is in the books, and as always, the players didn’t disappoint, as some 200 of them took to the fi elds up at Springwood Park in search of that special zone.

Parksville’s Quality Foods Royals opened the 11-team tourney Friday afternoon with a plucky 4-3 win in eight innings over the North Delta Blue Jays.

“We played quite well that game,” Royals’ skipper Dave Wallace surmised after. Nic Annau got the start and worked six solid innings. Yuki Takahashi pitched the last two to pick up the win.

Back at it that evening against the Okotoks Dawgs, the two teams were knot-ted 7-7 after six innings “and then they hit the ball and we

made a couple mistakes,” and the Dawgs scored seven unanswered runs in the top of the seventh to win 14-7.

In game three Saturday morning, Bryan Pawlina

pitched six strong innings and the Royals beat the Van-couver Cannons 2-1. It was the right hander’s second start of the season and fi rst in a month.

“He’s a senior that’s going to be counted on to throw a lot of innings for us (but) he’s been dealing with some in-fl ammation in his shoulder,” said Wallace.

Mackenzie Parlow, Clarke Ohman, TR Doty and Liam Joyce, he added, “all swung the bat very well.”

Saturday evening’s game against the Victoria Eagles, said Wallace, “was a nail biter ... we came out on the short end of a 23-4 score ... it wasn’t pretty,” he chuckled.

“The fi rst three games we played quite well,” said the veteran coach, “but the fourth game was the other end of the spectrum.

“Everything that could go wrong went wrong. We did not play well — we were very weak in all aspects of the game,” he said.

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Busby drops four-round decisionJAMES [email protected]

It’s no big secret that in sports, as in life in general, there are certainly never any guar-antees.

For local boxer Brandon Busby, an off night has cost him a shot at a title.

For now.In action at Cascades Casino Hotel and

Convention Center in Langley May 11 as part of a 14-fi ght amateur boxing card put on by Compsport, Busby was part of an elimina-tion bought with the winner earning a shot at the BC Super Middleweight title.

“It was a good card, great fi ghts ... just not so great for our guy,” longtime Oceanside trainer and manager Richard LeStage sur-mised.

Busby’s bought went the full four rounds, and he lost on points.

LeStage, who came just short of guar-anteeing a Busby win in the pre-fi ght story, said his boxer, the lone amateur in his stable, was poised, focussed and ready to go in the dressing room before the fi ght.

“He lost the decision ... he lost the fi rst three rounds, the fourth was debatable,” he said.

He noted the turning point might have come in the fi rst 10 seconds of the fi ght when Brandon got caught “with a really big right hand, and it kind of threw his game off. You know what, he had an off night,” said Le-Stage.

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See OFF NIGHT, page A41

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Island fi nals in ParksvilleJAMES [email protected]

The anticipation has been building and it all comes together this Saturday as some 150 players of all levels ranging in age from 5-50 take centre stage at the Parksville Curl-ing Club for the 2012 Vancouver Island Tae-kwondo Championships.

Parksville Taekwondo Academy is hosting the big annual event (this is the fi rst time it’s ever been held here), and there will be nine other clubs in the mix, including Errington Taekwondo School.

According to PTA director, instructor, and 4th Dan Black Belt, Brett Fee, competition commences at 9:30 a.m. with medals being presented all day.

ERRINGTON — From the desk of Guy Gavin comes a reminder that Arrow-smith Mountain Bike Club (AMBC) is getting ready for its 18th annual Hammerfest DH Mountain bike race on June on Island Timberlands forestlands at the end of Err-ington Road in Errington.

This is, he points out “the longest running DH moun-

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A favourite with Vancou-ver Island DH racers, Ham-merfest DH typically attracts about 150 riders from as far away as the Vancouver Low-er Mainland.

AMBC is seeking local volunteers to help for the day of the race.

The organizers need three drivers with Class 4 drivers license (or similar) to drive our 15-passenger shuttle vans and we need three drivers with standard Class 5 drivers license to drive cube trucks to shuttle bicycles. They also need about fi fteen volunteers to serve as mar-shals at various stations on the racecourse to be on the

lookout for fallen riders. Anyone interested in vol-

unteering for this one-day event is asked to contact Guy at [email protected].

Please include your name, phone number(s) and your preferred volunteer duty and someone will get back to you.

— NEWS Staff See CLUB EXCITED, page A42


“In boxing if you have an off night you’re going to get punched in the face. Honestly, I was surprised, but again re-ally think it was getting caught by that big right hand ... he was just never really able to get go-ing after that.”

“It’s a learning experience,” said the longtime cornerman and one-time boxer. “There’s two things that happened in that fi ght: One, Brandon had an off night, and two, I wasn’t able to get him going. When a fi ghter loses everybody thinks he loses alone and people for-get that’s (not the case) — my job is to get these guys going when they’re not going, and I wasn’t able to do that until the fourth round.”

Busby, 21, joined LeStage’s camp a few short months ago. The pair only had four rounds together in the ring going into the fi ght, and one of those rounds was only 15 seconds.

Brandon, 6’, 168 pounds, went into the fi ght as the top-ranked super-middleweight amateur in B.C. His oppo-nent, Kalic Taylor from Surrey’s Ocean City Boxing, was unde-feated at 6-0 and the current middleweight champion and

moving up a class.“You can’t always tell how

badly a fi ghter’s hurt,” said Le-Stage, explaining how when Busby came back to the corner after the fi rst round “the fi rst thing I asked him is “how you feelin’,” and he said ‘It hurt, but he can’t hurt me,’ ... a punch that big that early in the fi ght; I just think it threw his game off.”

Between the third and fi -nal round LeStage said he told Busby “the only way you beat this guy now is by knock-ing him out, and that kid did everything he had in him to knock his opponent out. Bus-by went at him as hard as he could; caught him in the last

20 seconds of the round and hurt him, but the other kid was smart enough to run away ... too little too late.

“I think what Brandon had planned on going in and do-ing, he was now playing catch-up. But you know what, a loss will now get him other people that will fi ght him.”

NEXT UPBrandon has been invited

back to Langley June 22 for a bought on the same card of the tittle fi ght, which is the main event while his pro stablemate ‘Shotgun’ Shane Andreesen is booked to bang on ESPN’s Fri-day Night Fights June 29 on the American side of Niagara Falls.


Off night lands punches to the face

PARKSVILLE — Nine young boxers answered the bell this week as an opportunity arose with short notice.

Genesis Boxing head coach Rick Rae and nine of his stu-dents are down Island in Victoria today for a sanctioned tour-nament hosted by Capital City Boxing.

The tournament is being held at the Leonardo Centre; weigh ins are at 4:30 p.m. and bouts start at 7 p.m.

“This is a good sized event,” said Rae said.Making the trip down Island and representing Genesis are

Tony Segui, 13; 14-year-olds Ben Curet, Noah Chupa, Joshua Jai, and Marcos Segui, along with Matthew Sherlaw, 15, Brad Rachek, 16, Matthew Jai, 17, and Brenden Le Brocq, 18.

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“But you put it behind you and move on to the next game. We’ve got a young team this year,” the always pragmatic Wallace pointed out, add-ing, “we won (the tournament) last year (for the fi rst time in history) but we knew we weren’t go-ing to be winning it this year.”

The Royals closed out the tourney Sunday with a 4-3 loss to the White Rock Tritons.

It was a very well played game though — we bounced back from a very poor performance and fi nished the tournament with real a solid

game.”Monday’s playoffs started out with rain and

grounds crews scrambling. Start times had to be delayed and both morning semi-fi nal games were moved from Inouye-Wallace Field to Ro-tary Field where the Dawgs beat the Mariners 4-3 in eight innings in one semi. The Abbots-ford Cardinals beat the Victoria Eagles 3-1 in the other.

In Monday’s fi nal, moved back to Inouye/Wallace Field, Abby out-duelled Okotoks 1-0.

“There were some very well-played games over the weekend,” confi rmed Wallace. “The teams were all very competitive.”

“The tournament was great again this year,” Royals’ General Manager Scott Rodway con-fi rmed, adding, “the caliber of play was up to the caliber we’ve seen in the past.”

In the bigger picture, the tournament con-tinues to be a big pre-tourist season boost to local businesses as evident by the 80-plus hotel rooms rented out, for starters.

“It has a positive economic impact on the community, no question.”

DIAMOND BITSRoyals’ ace Clayton Isherwood was away

with the Canadian junior national team bound for the Dominican Republic and the team’s an-nual spring training and multiple games against Central American players from the MLB acad-emies.

GAME ONThe Royals resume BC Premier Baseball

League league play this Sunday with a double header in Victoria against the Mariners, and return home to Springwood Park the following Wednesday (June 1) to take on the Nanaimo Pirates (6 p.m. start) in what will be their only home game for a couple weeks.


Tourney has positive impact here

Club excited to host Island event“And we also have a new

division this year that we’re looking to showcase, it’s called Chanbara,” said the sec-ond generation local taekwon-do master.

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The old barn will be some busy with three competition rings running at the same time — there are three events in all: poomse (forms), sparring and chanbara.

— THE NEWS


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The 16th running of the Quality Foods Qualicum Beach Triathlon (aka the QBT), is fast approaching, and organizers are looking for a few good men and women to help out.

“And we also want to let people know that for the fi rst time they can register online,” committee member Sandie Wassbauer said this week, adding they are hoping people will take advantage of this pa-perless way to sign up.

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Race pack pick-up goes Sat-urday, June 23 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., and a new Tri BC rule this year requires all participants to show a valid ID.

Sponsored by the Tri-Ath-letics Society, the QBT features something for everyone, from the full meal deal for adults, which is 400m swim (16 laps of Ravensong), 18km bike, and 5K run on the trails behind

RAC, to the Youth (12-17) who do a 200m swim, 9 km bike and 2.5km run; to the Minors, aged 8-11 (100m swim, 4.5km ride and 1km run) and of course the TiniTris (one width of the pool with a short bike ride across the parking lot and a small run to the fi nish line).

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Anyone interested in volun-teering for the 2012 QBT can email [email protected].

— THE NEWS

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Second Section ARTS & LIFE

BRENDA GOUGH PHOTO

One of the original settlers from the Salvation Army colony that settled in Coombs. Bert Topliffe joined French Creek Community School Principal Stella Shanks and former school teacher Marguerite Cross for the official ceremonies including cutting the cake for the school’s 100th birthday.

Party to celebrate a busy century BRENDA [email protected]

The French Creek Community School in Coombs threw a 100th birthday party last weekend and on

Saturday, May 19 members of the community turned out in a

big way to celebrate.A large crowd was on hand

for the offi cial ceremonies that included kind words from many politicians who attended the event.

Several former students and teachers were on hand to take a walk down memory lane and

some donned period costumes for the occasion.

The little school with the big heart has stood the test of time and has touched many lives in the community.

The school which has been faced with the threat of closure on a few occasions has had a

profound impact on many peo-ple.

Bert Topliffe went to the school as a young boy. One of the eldest living members from the fi rst colony of families to settle in Coombs, Topliffe still resides in the area.

He along with current school

principal Stella Graves and a for-mer teacher Marguerite Cross had the honor of cutting the birthday cake.

• See more photos from the event inside on page B6

100TH ANNIVERSARY OF FRENCH CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL

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ECHO Players’ produc-tion of Dancing at Lughnasa brought home some awards from the Theatre BC Festival in Courtenay held May 18.

Producer Lesley McVey was happy to announce that Ian Taylor took home the award for Best Set Design.

Alistair McVey got the award for the Best Performance by an

Actor in a Supporting Role. The production also received cer-tifi cates of merit for ensemble acting and notable perfor-mance by a female actor went to Vicki Barta.

The winning production at the festival was Courtenay Little Theatre’s Waiting for the Parade, which will to go to the provincial Mainstage Festival in Kamloops on July 4.

ECHO Players will be ending

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The 200 people who attended the seventh annual Mosaic Youth Talent Showcase presented by the Rotary Club of Parksville at Knox United Church in Parksville May 19 were treated to an amaz-ing night of entertainment.

There was a wide range of lo-cal talent on stage during the event that supports rising stars in the community.

Local country singer Beth Ma-rie Anderson produced the show, which included scholarships for those who performed.

It is the second year the 25- year-old has produced Mosaic and she said she agreed that each performer brought their A-game to the stage and the whole night really showcased the growth of the show.

“I am very excited for next year and hope to showcase the talent that couldn’t fi t into the program this year,” said Anderson.

Emcee Erick Gow provided plenty of humour during the show and was outstanding with pianist Nico Rhode when the pair performed a one-act skit called 15 Minutes.

From dancing to singing to musical theatre the local per-formers in the youth talent show-case are names to watch out for.

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Esme Liddicoat, who recently completed her first year of the Voice Diploma program at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, performed a classical piece at the Mosaic talent showcase.

Sixteen-year-old Chloe Ellston (right) and 13-year-old Sidney Ellston of Parksville make up the music duo Lemon Tree. The sister act performed two original songs.

Nicholas Atkinson will perform at the Performing Arts BC pro-vincials May 27 to 31 in Nanaimo.

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Local fi bre artists and producers are organizing the second annual 100 Mile Fleece and Fibre Fair this weekend and are inviting everyone to see what can be done with locally made clothing and material.

“It’s great for anyone look-ing for alternatives to poly-ester and petroleum based clothing and materials,” summed up Karen Miller, one of the volunteer orga-nizers.

Last year the fi rst local fair of its kind was a huge success, standing room only, she said and this year they have even more tables and vendors from up and down the Gulf Islands and Vancou-ver Island.

The use of local fi bres from a variety of sheep, lla-ma, alpaca, angora rabbits and others is an increasing trend shown through the popularity of things like the 100 mile diet, where people

buy food produced as close to home as possible, Miller pointed out.

Organizers say buying locally produced clothes or making them yourself saves carbon by not shipping them from China, uses little or no chemicals to clean other than soap, and no animals are killed.

Their fl eece needs to be shorn each year to keep the animals healthy.

There will be yarn and fi nished products for sale, displays, demonstrations and family friendly hands on activities to show how local fi bres can be transformed from “fl eece to fi nish” by lo-cal artisans.

Along with hand spinning and fl eece judging demon-strations, everyone who at-tends the free event will be entered in a draw for a bas-ket of vendor’s goods.

The fair is this Sunday, May 27 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Bradley Center on the Port Alberni High-way between Parksville and Coombs. Call Miller at 1-250-758-1303 for more in-formation.

The Thursday Spinners organizing the fair also in-vite interested fi bre artists to join them there every Thurs-day except holidays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Fibre of all sorts will be on display this weekend at the Bradley Centre in Coombs.

DEEP BAY — They’ve been called evocative, interesting and sometimes beautiful. Now, the annual Mayworks Festival is organizing a tour to see Bill Friesen’s sculp-ture garden in Deep Bay so people can add superlatives

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Well known blues artist Gerry Barnum will be play-ing throughout the after-noon and food and refresh-ment will be available, along

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The intimate venue at The Soundgarden in Coombs will be the setting for an unplugged concert featuring local vocalist Shelley Beeston on Saturday night.

Beeston, who has been the lead singer for the rock band Baby Jane for 15 years, will per-form original tunes unplugged with Vancouver musician Rob-ert Pegg.

For those who attended the March 10 grand opening at the Soundgarden and enjoyed the performance by Beeston and Pegg, the concert will offer an-other opportunity to check out the talented duo when they take to the stage May 26 at 9 p.m.

Beeston and Pegg have been playing and managing bands together for over 20 years …their latest collaboration being Baby Jane.

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Tickets for the show are $15 and can be purchased at the Coombs General Store, and at The Shoe Inn in Qualicum Beach.

The Soundgarden is lo-cated in a former church an-nex turned music hall on the Coombs fairground property and since it opened back in March it has been a popular place for musicians to hang out and connect with other music lovers in District 69.

Several stellar concerts have occurred at the venue and there is quite a list of talent lined up for future performances.

The Soundgarden is pre-senting Up-Close and Personal with Wil on Saturday, June 2.

Wil is the consummate tour-ing musician, developing his expansive roots-rock sound while building a dedicated fol-lowing for his famously intense live shows.

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His song Roam has become the fl agship anthem for Travel Alberta’s wildly popular Re-member to Breathe ad cam-paign. Most recently, Wil was commissioned to write the theme song Ride for this years’ 100th anniversary of the Cal-gary Stampede.

Wil is also in the line-up for the second annual Kulth Festi-val, which runs July 20 to 22 at the Coombs Rodeo Grounds.

Early festival tickets are $65 plus HST for Saturday and Sunday. Tickets go up to $75 for the month of July and will cost more at the gate. For informa-tion on where to purchase tick-ets visit www.thekulth.ca.

When the Kulth returns for its second year it will showcase the very best in British Colum-bian talent, bringing together electronic, folk, reggae and Is-land music.

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Vancouver band The Boom Booms brought their Latin-soul-funk-rock-reggae vibe to a sold out house at the Errington Hall May 18. The crowd-pleasers had the dance floor jammed.

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Dwyer has played with almost everyone on the jazz scene and his current sextet, hand-picked from the West Coast jazz scene will be performing music from his CBC Radio 2 com-missioned Canadian Songbook Project.

Asked to re-imagine his favourite Canadian songs, Dwyer turned to the music of Joni Mitch-ell, The Guess Who and Ian Tyson among others to create an innovative new suite of composi-tions.

Dwyer, who recently won the 2012 Juno for contemporary jazz album of the year, said the group has about 10 gigs lined up for the sum-mer and will be performing at festivals around Canada including Kulth.

He said their arrangements of pop music is a good fi t for the local festival and he is looking forward to it.

“It’s going to be a good summer for the group. The Kulth festival is a decent gig … it will be fun,” he said and added he wanted to support the event because it is something different for the area and takes a lot of work to get going.

Dwyer’s sextet will also be performing in the upcoming Vancouver International Jazz Festival next month.

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Dwyer at Kulth


The ducks have left Arrowview Elementary, but the students learned many valuable lessons.

A joint project of Mrs. Spen-cer-Dahl ‘s Grade 1 and Kinder-garten class and Mrs. Stahley’s Kindergarten class hatched two batches of duck eggs and nursed them through their early life.

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The students did everything from candling the eggs, to feed-ing and bathing the ducklings, she said, until they started to get too big and smelly for the class-room and went to live on the hobby farm of one of the stu-dents recently.

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MacKenzie Anderson helps nurse the Arrowview Elementary ducks as part of a recent class project.

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QUALICUM BEACH —Myriad, a superb new jazz trio from Toronto will be per-forming at Music on Sunday May 27 at The Old School House (TOSH).

Myriad was an accident. Chris Donnelly, Dan For-tin, and Ernesto Cervini had never played together until a few substitutions and a twist of fate put them on stage together for the fi rst time in late 2010.

Since then, the trio has been making music in ev-ery jazz club in the greater Toronto area. The band is a true collective. Each mem-ber acts simultaneously as a leader and a sideman.

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PARKSVILLE — In a joy-ful celebration of song and spring, Island Bel Canto Singers will open the show for the Island Soul Choir’s Mornin’ Stars a-Risin’ con-certs in Parksville on June 2 and 3.

The 20-plus voice wom-en’s choir from Nanaimo, led by Lionel Tanod and accompanied by Sharon Sinclair, is delighted to be performing on the same stage as Island Soul Choir, a 100-plus voice choral phenomenon co-directed by Brian Tate and Karla Mundy.

Island Bel Canto Sing-ers have a wide-ranging repertoire — from clas-

sics to folk, show tunes to jazz and contemporary to world music.

One of their choices for the Island Soul Choir con-certs will feature a song composed by Brian Tate called Klee Wyck, a haunt-ing piece about artist Em-ily Carr.

This year the choir is celebrating 15 years of bel canto (beautiful singing in Italian).

It all started in August 1997, when 17 women re-sponded to a local ad for singers in a new women’s choir. Their spirit of team-work, coupled with the in-spired leadership of their director Irene Thompson,

saw the choir grow in both size and popularity over the next three years.

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Island Bel Canto Sing-ers welcomed their current leader, Lionel Tanod, in 2005. Tanod has expand-ed the choir’s repertoire and has built connections with many other musical groups in the community. He was a key fi gure, along with a number of choir members, in the creation of the Nanaimo Sings! choral festival in 2008, that involved 14 community choirs in a three-day fes-tival.

Many accompanists have supported the choir over the years, including Elaine Ursulack, Sharyn Andruski-Collins, Gillian Guy and Rie Okamura.

Since 2002, they have been truly blessed to have Sharon Sinclair as their ac-companist.

Throughout the years, the choir continues to thrive as a result of ev-eryone’s commitment to teamwork and choral ex-cellence. This is, beyond a doubt, a group of women who truly love to sing and have fun together.

To help mark their spe-cial year the Island Bel Canto Singers are thrilled to be invited to participate in the upcoming Interna-tional Kathaumixw Choral Festival in Powell River, July 3 to 8.

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Island Soul Choir welcomes the Bel Canto Singers

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The Island Bel Canto Singers open the Mornin’ Stars a-Risin’ concert in Parksville June 2 and 3.

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That festival is, coinciden-tally, celebrating its fi fteenth anniversary.

Island Bel Canto Singers regularly perform two con-certs at Christmas and one in the spring in Nanaimo.

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To learn more about the upcoming Island Soul Choir concerts on June 2 at 7:30 p.m. and June 3 at 2:30 p.m. at Knox United Church in Parksville, visit www.islandsoulchoir.com or call Laurene at 250-248-2097.

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COOMBS — There are still some spaces left in the free jug band music classes for ama-teur musicians at the Arrow-smith Hall.

If you like skiffl e songs like Rock Island Line by Lonnie Donnegan, or jug band stan-dards from the ‘60s including Walk Right In by the Rooftop Singers and can already play an instrument, this is a chance to learn songs in the jug band style taught by the local musi-cians from the band, Phil Har-monic’s Jug Band Orchestra.

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The classes end on June 28 and from July 13 to 17 from 10 a.m. until noon, a free in-tensive program will bring to-gether all the instruments and players who wish to arrange and perform the songs.

After this, those who wish can make their own arrange-ments to continue playing in groups. Through the grant that is funding the project, there will be enough instruments to

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A dozen years ago, Neil Teplica and Dave Freeman wrote the book, 100 Things to Do Be-fore You Die, which inspired the making of the popular fi lm The Bucket List. Included on their list were such things as going to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Carnival in Brazil, the Run-ning of the Bulls in Pamplona, and — of course — the World Cow Chip Throwing Champion-ship in Beaver, Oklahoma. The popularity of the book and movie led to the publication of a va-riety of parallel lists. Sadly, Dave Freeman died suddenly at age 47 after falling and suffering a

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As Robert Burns so wisely ob-served, “The best laid schemes of mice and men go often awry.”

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snowboarding, write memoirs — there are lots of possibilities.

One that I hear with regularity is a desire to read the Bible from cover to cover and this is not exclusively from spiritual seekers. It is arguably the most infl uential book in our culture. I still remember, as an undergraduate, seeing an Eng-lish professor — an atheist — explode in frus-tration at the class, saying, “How do you expect to understand English literature without know-ing the Bible?” Agree with it or disagree with it, ignorance of its contents puts one at some dis-advantage.

Have you ever wanted to read the whole Bi-ble? Here are a few hints. Though it may sound counter-intuitive, it is not always best to start at the beginning. Depending on your purpose, it is sometimes advantageous to start in Mark’s Gos-pel, three quarters of the way through the Bible. Second, there are lots of plans that can guide you through the entirety of the Scriptures in as little as 90 days, so take a look online. Finally, do not be afraid to use some solid local resources. At the risk of seeing my colleagues inundated with work, ask one of the local pastors to sug-gest a reading plan. My guess is that they will be more than delighted to help.

The Rev. Phil Spencer, St. Stephen’s United Church, Qualicum Beach.

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COMOX — The Comox Val-ley Airport Commission and the Comox Valley Community Arts Council are seeking sub-missions for the 2012 Art and Culture Program at the Comox Valley Airport. This year’s exhi-bition will run from the fall of 2012 to spring of 2013.

In this call for submission, the airport is seeking two and three-dimensional art pieces that are representative of the

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Comox Airport seeking art entries

PARKSVILLE — Internation-al Coin Collectors (ICC) will be making a stop in Parksville at the Sunrise Ridge Waterfront Resort (1175 Resort Drive), on Tuesday, May 29 to Saturday, June 2.

Show hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Satur-day. The ICC will be purchas-ing coins, paper currency, gold and silver on behalf of their global network of collectors, dealers and refi neries. This special event is free and open to the public.

ICC spokesman Mark Coo-per said, “We hope to spend at least $250,000 while we are in

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cash in. We buy a lot of class rings, mismatched earrings and broken necklaces. Just a small handful of gold can add up to hundreds of dollars very quickly.”

Traveling from small towns to large cities, the ICC hosts hundreds of events each year.

While meeting one-on-one with each guest, the ICC spe-cialists review, research and evaluate the items and will make an offer to purchase all gold coins, silver coins made before 1965 and paper money printed prior to 1934.

For details, visit www.inter-nationalcoincollectors.com.

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MON - THURS: 9:30 - 5:30 FRI: 9:30 - 7 SAT: 9:30 - 5:30 SUN: NANAIMO 11 - 5 VICTORIA 12 - 5

DEMIstationary sofa

now only

reg $1659

$999

VAIL recliner

reg $689 · now only $399

ANDERSON recliner


PINNACLE recliner


CALVIN renew leather recliner


5 DAYS ONLY: MAY 24-28!

THE WEEKEND SALE

SAVE 10%-70%ON SELECT FLOOR MODELS

Pay No

Interestfor

12 Months!*


Locally owned and operated byDean & Maria Kormylo

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When it’s on sale at Sears, it’s on sale at Sears Parksville. Why make the drive?When it’s on sale at Sears, it’s on sale at Sears Parksville. Why make the drive?182 Harrison Ave.Parksville248-6137 Mon.-Sat. 9:30am-5:00pmSunday 12:00pm-4:00pm

HOMETOWN STORE

Offers in effect Fri., Sept. 30 until Sun., Oct. 2, 2011 (where open). Ask for details. *Minimum purchase requirements apply. Offer does not apply to Special Purchases, deferral/installment billing fees, protection agreement, delivery or installation charges. Excludes accessories, Jenn-Air® and GE Café major appliances and items with prices ending in .88 or .97. **Offer does not apply to ‘great quality, priced right. everyday’ items with prices ending in .97, clearance priced items, Special Purchases, mix & match sleep sets, Tempur-Pedic® sleep sets, deferral/installment billing fees, protection agreements, delivery or installation charges. †Qualifying items that are part of one transaction may be combined to total $1500 or more. ††Receive 4, 5 or 10 points per $1 spent at Sears. Point calculation is based on the standard earning of 1 base point per $1 spent on every transaction. Sears Club Points do not apply to taxes or delivery charges. ‡Delivery service must be purchased in order to receive rebate. Some restrictions apply. Ask in store for details.

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SAVE $100

29999SEARS REG. 399.99

BROIL KING® gas grill. Sale price ends Sun., May 27, 2012

*ALL REG. PRICED PATIO FURNITURE & GAS GRILLS ON SALE!

SAVE $155

94498AFTER DISCOUNTSEARS REG. 1099.98 PAIRSALE 1049.98

WOW24988

GREAT PRICE

SEARS REG. 499.88SAVE 50%

YARD PROTM

3-in-1 self-propelled mower. 22" deck. Powered by Kohler engine. Smart choke and easy pull starting systems.

718 436 214

7136214

Kenmore®/MD HE laundry pair. 4.1 cu. ft. top-load washer. #213927 cu. ft. dryer. #61292

10%**SAVE AN EXTRA

OFF OUR LOWEST TICKETED PRICE

R2684 CC054F5 A M1 2621392

EVENT EMPLOYEE PRICING

ON *ALL MAJOR APPLIANCES

40,000 total BTU

400 sq. in. AREA

2 BURNERS

PLUS, receive a

FREE†

CRAFTSMAN hat (#94035) with purchase of any tractor

99997POULAN® lawn tractor. Single cylinder Briggs & Stratton engine with Fender Shift.

SAVE $400

189988REG. 2299.88CRAFTSMAN®/MD

yard tractor. Briggs & Stratton Platinum engine. Hydrostatic transmission. Sale price ends Thurs., June 7, 2012

25% LONGER LIFE BRIGGS & STRATTON PLATINUM ENGINE SERIES IS QUALIFIED TO 25% LONGER LIFE***.

718 460 266

7160266

718 460 271

7160271

24HP

42" DECK

6" RADIUS TURN

10.5HP

30" DECK

FRI., MAY 25 - SUN., MAY 27

IF IT’S AVAILABLE AT SEARS, IT’S AVAILABLE AT YOUR SEARS HOMETOWN STORE

SALE PRICES START FRI., MAY 25 & END THURS., MAY 31, 2012, unless otherwise stated, while quantities last. Look for the ENERGY STAR® logo. It shows that the product meets ENERGY STAR specifi cations for energy effi ciency. *These savings offers exclude items with prices ending in .97 and clearance priced items. **Offer cannot be combined with Sears associate discount. Ask for details. Applicable taxes will be charged. ***When compared to the expected life standards of a Briggs & Stratton Intek with XRD engine. †Offer available in store only, while quantities last.

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60266

60271

90906

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WOW GREAT PRICE

24988

PLUS, receive a

FREE†CRAFTSMAN hat(#94035) with

purchase of any tractor

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Parksville Qualicum Beach News, May 25, 2012