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National titles, world championships, Paralympics gold - Michelle Stilwells athletic career has been full of rsts.

She added another Sunday afternoon during her homecoming in front of more than 100 supporters at the Parksville Community and Conference Centre.

Stilwell is the rst person to ever receive the key to the city of Parks-ville, presented to her Sunday by Mayor Chris Burger on Michelle Stil-well Day.

Im so proud to call this beautiful place home, Stilwell said in an emotional speech. Its been so special for all of you to share with me in this journey and completely overwhelming to have so much support from all of you here.

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Parksville residents have mixed opinions on the proposal for a mixed use development on the east side of the city.

Many of the standing-room-only crowd at councils regular

meeting last week appeared to be there for the public hearing deal-ing with a proposal for two proper-ties totalling 0.8 hectares (2 acres) at Highway 19A and Shelly Road. The development would require rezoning and an ofcial commu-nity plan (OCP) amendment.

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There was some opposition, but it appears backyard hens are coming to Parksville.

Im for this, Ive heard only a few opposed and many for it, Coun. Carrie Powell-Davidson said during a regular council meeting last week.

Councillors Peter Morrison and Marc Lefebvre agreed that they have heard some opposition but mostly support. Coun. Al Grier on the other hand said hes now surveyed almost 200 people and none of them want the bylaw.

Were opening a whole can of worms. We cant enforce the bylaws we have now, he said, adding that it might lead to the need for another bylaw officer, which he wouldnt support.

He said over 50 people approached him at the Knox Fall Fair to tell him to stand his ground against the bylaw which would allow people to keep up to four hens on properties over 1,000 sq.m (0.25 acre), around double the citys average lot size.

He repeated his point from previous debates on the issue that the problem is people dont like to complain about their neighbours. They dont want the chickens, but will not speak out against them.

He said people wanting chickens are very selfish and it shows a lack of respect for their neighbours.

Mayor Chris Burger said he believes responsible owners could keep chickens without disturbing the neighbours.

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John Ebell and Jacqueline Cormie show off some organic produce at the Qualicum Beach Farmers Market on Saturday.

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The crowds teeming into the Qualicum Beach Farmers Market on Saturday left with more than just fresh fruits and vegetables. They also left with an education about B.C.s burgeoning organic sector.

The education campaign came as the B.C. Minister of Agriculture Norm Letnick issued a proclamation in Victoria, declaring Sept. 22-29 as Organic Week in the province.

The proclamation acknowledges the impor-tant contribution the organic food sector makes to the well-being of B.C. and the choices it pro-vides B.C. consumers.

The proclamation, which was cried aloud by Qualicum Beach town crier Len Mustard, en-couraged British Columbians to attend their local fall farmers market or food retailer and celebrate the valuable contributions of the organic sector during Organic Week. The B.C. organic sector is varied and includes field crops such as grains and seeds, livestock, dairy, vegetables, fruit and berries, and spice and herb producers.

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Its that wide variety, said Kris Chand, who runs Blue Heron Farm, that makes the organic sector unique.

The organic sector is the only sector na-tionwide that is embedded in the community, Chand said. No other agricultural sector gets so close to the people. We encompass all aspects of agriculture, whether it be grain, beef, pigs, eggs, chickens,vegetables or wine.

Chand said he was heartened by the strong and positive response shown by shoppers at Sat-urdays market.

I think this has hit a nerve, Chand said. Peo-ple are very interested in organics.

That perception was shared by Jacqueline Cormier, who runs Horizon Heritage Farm in Qualicum Beach. She said people were eager to learn about what was organic and how farmers used organic methods to deal with their crop is-sues.

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Actually, it seems luck really hasnt played much of a role in Stilwells success. More like hard work and discipline, as evidenced by more than 1,400 days of two-a-day training sessions leading up to the 2012 Paralympic Games in London this summer, where she won a gold medal in the 200M and silver in the 100M races.

In total, Stilwell has four gold medals and one silver from three Paralympics Games and ve gold and two silver from world champion-ship events.

I put everything I had into preparing for these (2012) Games, said Stilwell, stopping at times to dry some tears, something many in the crowd Sunday also had to do. If you want to compete at the top level, its not easy. It takes strength, determination and a solid plan.

Stilwell, the world record holder in the 100M, 200M and 400M events, was a favourite for the high-prole 100M event in London, where she placed second and took home the silver. She said she felt considerable stress being the fa-

vourite and struggled with expectations but the conclusion I came to is expectation is a luxury.

Stilwell also hinted shed be back for another try at the podium as the Olympic and Paralym-pic Games shift to Brazil in 2016. Clearly, she still has that athletes competitive drive.

I wouldnt be a true competitor if I was hap-py with this, she said, showing off her silver medal from the 100M event and making refer-ence to her top spot in the record books. I may have not been that day, but Im still the fastest in the world.

Stilwell was also presented Sunday with the Queens Diamond Jubillee Medal and she made a presentation herself as part of the RBC Olym-pic team - a $5,000 donation to the Wheelchair Race Series Society, the organization in which she rst started racing.

Stilwell, 38, broke her neck when falling backwards off a piggyback from her boyfriend when she was 17.

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Parksvilles Paralympics gold medalist Michelle Stilwell was presented Sunday with a key to the city and the Queens Diamond Jubillee Medal on Michelle Stilwell Day at the Parksville Community and Conference Centre. Pictured above with Stillwell are Kelly Bissell, North Island regional president for RBC (left) and Mayor Chris Burger.

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Server Olivia Wassbauer joins Fish Tales owners Phil and Rachel Pascoe in urging local residents to donate their bottles and cans to help a server who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.

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Helping an injured friendQualicum Beach restaurant owners urging locals to donate their empty bottles and cans to a fund that will help a server seriously injured in an accident recentlyNEIL [email protected]

Theres no question that Qualicum Beach restauranteurs Philip and Rachel Pascoe care about their customers, but they say they also very much cares for the people who serve them.

When Philip heard that one of their servers was badly injured in a motor ve-hicle crash recently, he sprang into action to help.

The owner of Fish Tales Cafe said he

has kicked off a bottle drive to help in-jured Bowser resident Veronica Traplin, who remains in critical condition in Vic-toria.

Basically, we have one of our ladies who is a server who got in a bad motor-bike accident and we wanted to help raise some funds, he said. It will be quite a while until shes better, so we want to help her with her recovery. Rachel agreed.

Its tough on them, so if theres any

thing we can do to help, we will, she said. The couple have set up an account at

the Qualicum Beach bottle depot, so any-one who would like to drop off bottles, cans and other recyclable materials can do so, with the money collected going into a fund to help. As well, recyclables and other donations can be dropped off at Fish Tales Cafe. The bottle depot will be open this Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to take donations.

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Where did500,000 Ldisappear?Parksville resident likely wont have to pay $1,900 water billAUREN [email protected]

While the question remains of what happened to over half a million litres of water, Parksville city council may not charge the resident for it.

Last week, John Whitehouse explained to coun-cil that his 77-year-old mother sold her house after his father died and she moved into a retirement home, but then she got a surprise.

Lawyers for the new owners notified White-house of a bill for the final six-month billing cycle of $1,900 for the use of 541 cubic metres (541,000 litres) of water, almost enough to fill Ravensong pool.

By comparison, individuals in Parksville use an average of 58 cubic metres per billing cycle.

To make it even more of a mystery, White-houses mother wasnt even in the house for much of the September-February billing period in ques-tion.

She spent most of October and part of Novem-ber in the hospital and then moved out, leaving the house vacant, but there were still friends and neighbours taking care of the house who would have noticed a tap running, he pointed out.

Whitehouse immediately searched for but couldnt find any signs of a leak and pointed out that the outside taps were still turned off for the winter from the inside.

Ive had nothing but help from everyone with the city, he said of his next step, outlining numer-ous conversations he had with various staff and the mayor.

Director of finance Lucky Butterworth con-firmed all the facts of the story. The city reviewed past bills which were consistently low and they did a meter reading a month after the problem came to light and found just four cubic metres had gone through since the mystery period.

The city has a policy under which people can apply for relief if they get a high bill due to a leak between their house and the city main, but that only counts if a leak is actually found.

Council unanimously voted for staff to bring back an option to treat Whitehouses situation as a leak and forgive the balance of the bill above the propertys three year average.

Worried about setting a precedent, they will re-quire documentation of the occupants absence, which Whitehouse said will not be a problem.

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Young families need a place to liveParksville residents generally supported a proposed small-

lot development at the corner of Despard Avenue and Corefield Street, during a public hearing last week.

Im in favour. Weve talked for years about encouraging young people to stay on the Island, said Caroline Waters, who suggested the smaller lots would be cheaper and attract families to the area.

Increased traffic was the strongest concern about the propos-al which would require official community plan and zoning amendments and a new small lot residential zone.

I have no objections, young families need a place to live, said Lauren Campbell, a neighbour of the property. Council will consider the public comments when the item comes back for the statutory process in the near future. - NEWS Staff


Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on Monday, October 1, 2012 at 7:00 pm at the Civic Centre, 747 Jones Street, Qualicum Beach, BC, to receive representations from all persons who believe their interest in property to be affected by the proposed amendments to Town of Qualicum Beach Land Use and Subdivision Bylaw No. 580, 1999, described below. A copy of the bylaw and associated documents may be inspected at the Municipal Offi ce of the Town of Qualicum Beach, 201 660 Primrose St., Qualicum Beach, BC, between the hours of 8:30am and 4:30pm Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays, from September 21, 2012 to October 1, 2012.

The owners have applied to amend the Land Use and Subdivision Bylaw (zoning) to allow a 3-lot subdivision on a large residential lot at 266 Mill Road, legally described as: Lot B, Plan 2005 (DDE25975), Block 11, DL56, Newcastle Land District.

The proposed amendment, Town of Qualicum Beach Land Use and Subdivision Bylaw No. 580, 1999, Amendment (266 Mill Rd) Bylaw No. 580.69, 2012 will:

Change the zoning from Residential 14 (R14) to Residential Small Lot 1 (RSL1). This will adjust the setbacks to permit a small-lot confi guration with a narrower frontage. Also, a carriage house (suite over detached garage) would be a permitted use as an alternative to a secondary suite or garden suite.

Change the subdivision district from D (minimum lot size of 700 m2) to J (minimum lot size 500 m2).

If you are unable to attend the Public Hearing you can submit your written comments at the Municipal Offi ce no later than 1:00 pm, October 1, 2012 to ensure their availability to Council at the Public Hearing. Submissions made to Council will form part of the public record and will be published, including on the Towns website.

Submissions received after the close of the Public Hearing will not be considered by Council.

For further information regarding the bylaw amendment, please contact Luke Sales, Director of Planning, at the Municipal Offi ce of the Town of Qualicum Beach, 201 660 Primrose St., Qualicum Beach, BC at 250.752.6921 or email [email protected].

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Rather than expensive fertilizers, she said she builds up her soil with one ingredient only sheep manure.

On hand at the event was Parksville-Qualicum MLA Ron Can-telon, who said hes in favor of getting organic farms certified.

People need to have the proper understanding, he said. Farms have to go the extra mile to get that certification and we should recognize it.

Maria Chand of Blue Heron Farm is well aware of just how many extra hoops are involved to maintain certified organic status.

I follow the guidelines of the Canadian standards, so there

are lots of things I have to keep track of, she said. I have to use certified organic feed and they inspect my farm once a year and look at how much I sold in terms of units and pounds. Then they make comparisons with my notes of how much I plant. They want to know where I plant, my crop rotations, if I take the tem-perature of my compost. Once you have a system, its not so bad and its helpful to have a lot of information from year to year.

Wayne Osborne of Omega Blue Farm said his poultry is or-ganic but he has opted not to get certified, as he believes that by doing so he would actually lower the quality of his produce.

We dont use pesticides or herbicides, antibiotics or hor-mones and, most importantly with modern organics, we dont use genetically modified organisms (GMOs). However, I pro-mote heritage poultry and I use a more traditional organic ap-proach and the bureaucracy has a problem with that.

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Elaine Hofer spoke rst at the public hear-ing, warning she had a long list of objections, including the fact the development was too close to the agricultural land reserve (ALR) land across the street. She also said there is a glut in the residential market and she sug-gested the plan is against the citys OCP and recent strategic plans which call for the city to curtail strip development along the highway.

Charna Macfie agreed with the objections and added parking concerns.

This particular development may be a good development, but I think its in the wrong location, she said, agreeing with peo-ple in previous debates who said it should be closer to downtown.

While several agreed it would be nice to see it closer to downtown, others spoke in favour of the current location and the devel-opment in general.

We have a downtown that stretches from the orange bridge past Moilliet Street, said Parksville and District Chamber of Com-merce executive director Kim Burden, add-ing that this project would bring more peo-ple to that area of town to shop in the new stores.

I cant say more strongly that Id support development on this empty lot, said Caro-line Waters.

Bud Shelly, owner of the neighbouring ALR land, said he also has concerns about parking, but hes generally in favour of the proposal, which he said fits with the exist-ing commercial properties along that side of Stanford Avenue.

The current zoning accommodates 80 per cent of this proposal, said property owner Bruce Alexander. The rezoning is for the residential component.

He pointed out the property is only 1.5 km from city hall, an easy walk to the city core.

Council will consider the public com-ments when the item returns to begin the statutory process.

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THATS A LOT OF PIES: The Salvation Army Food Banks Major Rolf Guenther, left, receives 500 pizza coupons from Parksville Panago owner Alex Sivenkov, centre, and manager Cody Salter after a successful weekend event. Panago donated a coupon for every pizza sold, totalling 320, and topped the number up to match the number of current food bank clients.

Are food banks that rely on charity a realistic and long-term solution to the problem of hunger in Canada?

Thats a question Parksville-Qualicum KAIROS spokesperson Hans Kratz will be posing when the group presents a special free public forum at Parksvilles Community and Conference Centre on Thursday, Sept. 27 from 7-9 p.m..

Entitled Thirty Years of Food Banks: Charity or the Right to Food, the event will feature an address by UBC Professor Emeritus Graham Riches, re-cently retired director of the UBC School of Social Work and an authority on food security, welfare policy and human rights.

Riches will lay out the issues, then open the ses-sion for comments and questions from those at-tending. The issue, Kratz said, is an important one for District 69 residents.

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When government MPs headed back to Ottawa after their summer break this week, they went with the intention of keeping Canadas economy on track.

However, Nanaimo-Alberni Conser-vative MP James Lunney has a couple of projects of his own he wants to see ap-proved in the House of Commons.

Speaking from the lobby of the House on Wednesday, Lunney said he has had a

busy summer in the constituency, but hes pleased to be back in the nations capital to push his private political agenda.

Im glad to be back, he said. Its been a busy summer of getting out and about in the riding. I attended the Crabfest that almost happened in Parksville, as well as Canada Day and a literacy fundraising ball hockey game in Port Alberni, a fund-raiser for an airport employee fighting cancer and other events in the riding.

Lunney said he plans to work with

his Conservative colleagues to push their economic agenda over the next few months, but he has a few plans of his own.

Were back on the agenda of trying to keep Canada competitive, keep taxes low and work to create jobs and stimulate the economy, Lunney said. On a personal level, Im working on the Coast Guard is-sue in Tofino, because I want to see that maintained for the future, along with my own private members bill for a national Vitamin B Day.

ty nets that the Government must address? he asked.

He noted that Canadas first food bank opened 1981 in Edmonton as a temporary measure to offer food assistance to those in need. Today, charita-ble food banks across the country are feeding over 850,000 people per month, and the demand con-tinues to grow.

This May, during a 10-day mission to Canada, the UNs Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, found that 900,000 households or 2.5 million Canadians are food insecure.

This is a country that is rich, De Schutter said, but that fails to adapt the levels of social assistance benefits and its minimum wage to the rising costs of basic necessities, including food and housing.

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AT: Nanoose Library Hall, 2489 Nanoose RoadON: Thursday, October 4, 2012TIME: 7:00 pmThe applicant is requesting to amend the liquor primary licence to increase the patio occupancy load from 20 patrons to 38 patrons to comply with the LCLB liquor regulations. The Rocking Horse Pub has a seating capacity of 38 patrons on the patio although the current Liquor Primary License permits 20 patrons. No external changes are proposed for the patio and no changes are proposed for the occupancy load inside the pub.The purpose of this Public Hearing is to receive comments concerning the amendment to the liquor licence.This application to amend the existing Liquor Primary Licence for the Rocking Horse Pub and other relevant documentation and information may be viewed until Thursday, October 4, 2012 at the offices of the Regional District of Nanaimo at 6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo, B.C. on any regular business day between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, with extended business hours on Wednesdays from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, excluding public holidays.

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There are definite signs of promise for the economic future of our district.

While private and public development is not a panacea for all economic stagnation, its an important and positive indicator. Of

late, we have reported on more than a few announce-ments that boost our spirits:

the public health centre being built just south of Parksvilles downtown core is already creating good-pay contraction jobs and the staff who will fill this facil-ity once it is open will be well paid.

a sign of openness from Qualicum Beach council which told us, and more importantly anyone who may consider doing business there, that this beautiful town wants to retain its charm but will still listen to unique, out-of-the-current-box proposals. Sometimes percep-tion is as important as reality.

big things happening at Wembley Mall in Parks-ville. Save-On-Foods building a new store and a na-tional icon, Canadian Tire, moving into the current Save-On-Foods store. Can you say loads of good jobs?

Quality Foods adding to the new southern hub of Parksville started by the health centre with a new flag-ship store.

The direct and indirect positive effects of these proj-ects and other residential, public and retail develop-ments cannot be ignored. First and foremost is jobs. Employment breeds employment - if you have a good job at the health centre, for example, you will spend a good chunk of your pay cheque at local stores, which secures the jobs in those locations.

Without trying to be rude, we have to ask those who would be opposed to private, retail development this question: will you work at the bakery counter until youre 100?

And to those who want to protect the environment, both locally and globally: is it not better to burn less fuel and shop locally?

Admittedly this a simple view, and there are many more factors to consider when looking at individual developments, but we ask that you allow us some basic optimism today. editorial by John Harding

commentaryReasons foroptimism

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DONT BE FOOLEDSo now Ron Cantelon thinks raw log ex-

ports are bad for B.C.? (THE NEWS, Sept. 7).Give me a break!! MLA Ron Cantelon is a

member of the government who promotes this raw log export travesty.

Where was Ron Cantelon when people from the forest, shing and tourism indus-tries, along with the general public gathered on the summit between Port Alberni and Parksville/Qualicum in 2006 to count log-ging truck after logging truck loaded with logs for export, standing side by side ex-pressing objections to the BC Liberal gov-ernments policy on escalating B.C. raw log exports?

Ron Cantleon did nothing but defend the raw log export as a good thing when scien-tists, environmentalists and the grass roots community said they were not against log-ging, never have been against logging, and were in fact ghting for a sustainable forest industry so that every generation can have forest jobs.

Where was Ron Cantelon when Order of Canada recipient eco forester Merve Wilkin-son came up with the prescriptions for sus-tainable logging?

Scientists and environmentalists have long urged government to log sustainably and produce lumber and value added prod-ucts in B.C. from private and public forest lands.

Ron Cantelons response up until now has been that log exports are good for B.C.

Has Mr. Cantelon nally realized the de-mise of the forest industry caused by his government or is this pre-election talk?

Ron Cantelon and the Liberals caused the loss of many forest industry jobs because of taking the easy way out going for short

term gain that resulted in long term pain. How galling for Mr. Cantelon to do an

about face and speak like it is his idea that raw log exports are criminal.

I hope the public will not be fooled by Ron Cantelon.

RONDA MURDOCKParksville

LOOKS LIKE A DUCKYour new editor, John Harding, has writ-

ten his editorial of Sept. 14 entitled Char-acter not in danger in QB, although the changes made so far in our OCP by the Gang of Three councilors sure hasnt helped in my and many others opinions.

Coun. Brouilette recently advising that she doesnt belong to this gang, is similar to Mike Wansink who claimed in the press before the election that he was not part of a candidates group as a mayor candidate, but then got caught sending out instructions to a certain group of candidates.

If it walks, talks, thinks and acts like a duck, Im still pretty sure that its a duck.

Its time for Qualicum Beach to grow up means nothing to me grow up to be what ... for who?

Qualicum Beach has had a good devel-opment plan for many years, including the good, bad and ugly years, by mainly us-ing the quality-of-life survey sent out to all households.

But just wait Im pretty sure that they will come up something else.

DOUG TAYLORQualicum Beach

EXPENSIVE FACELIFTOnce again I dont know whether to laugh

or to cry.

I am informed that a consultant has been retained to look into giving the former bus garage in downtown Qualicum beach, a facelift, of sorts at a possible cost of up to $400,000! Now this is just plain stupidity.

The property was purchased for an ex-orbitant amount over its appraised value, landscaping and sidewalks were retrotted at further taxpayer cost and there are/were a few ideas oating about, such as a town square, arts center, green space that will no doubt mean a tear down of the structure.

So now we want to spruce it up and then, because it might actually blend into the dis-tant vista, we will have to put lights on it to see it? Taxpayers, its time we look at the bu-reaucracy. It is certainly out of control!

ALLAN CLARKQualicum Beach

NEW ROAD NEEDEDI would like to offer my support for the

proposed coal mine near Buckley Bay. I am condent that the mine review pro-

cess is thorough and scientic, and that if the mine is approved it will be a great ben-et to the mid-Island and to the provincial treasury.

My primary concern with the mine is the increased trafc on Highway 4 to Port Alber-ni. This is a great opportunity to complete a new connector from the Island Highway to Port Alberni through the Horne Lake area.

Perhaps the construction of this road should be a condition of the mines approval.

JIM CAMERONParksville

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VIEWS IN THE NEWSWe asked: Would you like to see the season of the Craig Street Market extended?

Yes, it might be nice

to extend it past when

the tourists go home.

DIANNA BURILLParksville

No. It was long

enough, but we could

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A big bouquet of bright yel-low roses to

thank THE NEWS for s p o n s o r -ing tickets to Brian Jacksons last perfor-mance as the Victoria Symphonys Principal Pops Conductor.

My husband and I were the lucky recip-ient of the tickets and enjoyed the show im-mensely.

EILEEN P. FRASERQualicum Beach

A big bouquet to Monk the artist. What a

great expe-rience for young and old alike. I am an 82- year-old who started to paint two years ago.

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letters

WHY THE THREAT?

The front page article in THE NEWS on Sept. 18, entitled, Mine Seeking Support reports a pre-sentation by Don Berkshire, the project man-ager of Compliance Coal to the Parksville and District Chamber of Commerce, in which he attempts to garner support from the local busi-ness community for the proposed Raven Coal Mine.

His objective was to counteract the negative publicity and press reporting which to date is not that favourable.

The sole justication he offered to the com-munity was the economic benet the mine would bring to the area by creating 350 new jobs and furthermore he claimed that the av-erage salary of the miners, with benets, would exceed $100,000 dollars.

He neglected to qualify his statement with the fact that the miners represent only a portion of the total workforce a comparison to simi-lar ventures would put the gure in the order of 20 per cent.

As well,only those miners actually operating the machinery at the coal face would command the high salary.

The province will receive no economic ben-et from royalties because the coal rights are owned by Compliance Coal.

Compliance Coal continues to assert their product is a metallurgical coal whereas all the analyses indicate it that it is in fact a thermal coal.

Recently, the depressed state of international coal markets has caused Australia, the worlds biggest exporter of coal, to abandon the de-velopment of two major coaleld areas which would have produced a coal which would have had far superior coking properties to that of the Raven coal.

The statement that Compliance has spent $15 million dollars to date on environmental studies is of questionable validity.

This gure may represent the total outlay on the property, but to my knowledge most of the $12 million paid by the Japanese and Korean partners for their 40 per cent share was spent on drilling a series of exploratory boreholes.

I am puzzled why Mr. Berkshire feels it nec-essary to include in his presentation the im-plied threat to those who might seek to delay the mine that the developers have very deep pockets and we are not going away.

Does he fear that the view of Oceanside res-idents who oppose the mine because of legiti-mate environmental concerns might indeed prevail?

HERBERT SULLIVAN Qualicum Beach

GET ALL ON BOARDI continue to read about Raven Coal Mine

and their approval process particularly their desire to explain the project and get folks on side.

And after ve years, they are still at it.I would like to offer a few suggestions to John

Tapics, the president and CEO of Compliance Coal (the senior co. of Raven).

Contact the Mine Workers Union and agree to a voluntary certication, also the Teamsters (to haul all that coal to Port Alberni), the Long-shore Union in Port Alberni (to load all that coal), and the First Nations in the communities affected and get them on side.

Not just with jobs, but with positions running the Co. and perhaps even a nancial position in the Co. Like perhaps a 25 per cent interest.

This would accomplish a number of things.It would ensure well paid, (with benets)

qualied (trained, experienced, safety oriented) workers.

Show the public that you are here for the long haul and want to be here as long as the First Na-tions have been here.

The business community loves folks who make and spend their high wages.

Government loves the taxes from those high wages.

And most importantly, all of the above would go forth and lobby local, provincial and federal governments about the importance of getting on with your project.

GERARD JANSSENQualicum Beach

ENJOY THE FLOWERSA handful of nettles to the person(s) who

stole our royal blue pot complete with azalea from our front yard. We are seniors and it is not easily replaceable.

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At this meeting the Board will consider passing a resolution to provide the Boards recommendations to the BC Liquor Control and Licensing Branch to approve the proposed amendment to the existing liquor licence for the Fairwinds Golf Course clubhouse. The applicant proposes to amend the current liquor licencing for the

clubhouse from a 198 patron food-primary licence and a 58 patron liquor-primary licence to a single 256 patron liquor-primary licence only in order to comply with recommendations from the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch. There are no proposed changes to the hours of liquor service or business operation due to the proposed amendment.All persons who consider their interest to be affected by the proposed amendment to the liquor licence shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person, by a representative, or by written submission. Written submissions must be received at the Regional District office by 4:00 pm, Monday, October 1, 2012 and will be circulated to the Regional District of Nanaimo Board Directors prior to the meeting.For additional information on this application please contact the Regional District of Nanaimo, Planning Department during any regular business day between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, with extended business hours on Wednesdays from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm,excluding public holidays.

The Board of the Regional District of Nanaimo at its regular meeting to be held Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 7:00 pm in the Board Chambers of the Regional District of Nanaimo Administration Offices, located at 6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo, BC, intends to consider a proposed amendment to the existing liquor licencing for the Fairwinds Golf Course located at 3730 Fairwinds Drive in Electoral Area E and legally described as Lot 1, District Lots 8, 30 and 78, Nanoose District, Plan 48585, Except Part in Plan 51142 (see map below for location).

Notice of Board Intent to Consider anAmendment to a Liquor LicencePL2012-103 - Fairwinds Golf Course

For more information on this application, please contact the RDN Planning DepartmentPhone: 250-390-6510 or 250-954-3798 or toll free in BC 1-877-607-4111

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The D69 Community Justice Select committee will be meeting in November to consider applications for this program. The City of Parksville, Town of Qualicum Beach and Electoral Areas E, F, G and H raise up to $9,000 to support organizations which help to increase the safety of their community. Examples include, but are not limited to, Citizens on Patrol and Speedwatch. Application forms can be obtained from the Regional District of Nanaimo offices or from the Regional District of Nanaimo website.

Grant applications will be considered from organizations which:

1. Are non-profit and provide programs and services that help increase the safety of their community.

2. Are local in nature and can be identified with the specific community.

Please submit completed applications to the attention of Tiffany Moore, Regional District of Nanaimo, 6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6N2 until 4:00p.m., Friday, October 12, 2012. Phone 250-390-4111 or 1-877-607-4111 (Fax 250-390-4163).

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Anxiety is a cluster of bodily reactions to a cue, either internal or external. Anxi-ety involves the release of cortisol into the

bloodstream, with accompanying symptoms of increased heart rate, tensed muscles, shortness of breath, and most of all, a sense of impending danger.

Anxiety is a warning that something is wrong and needs to be changed, challenged or avoid-ed. It serves the all-important function of keep-ing us safe.

Anxiety is dangerous when it becomes chronic: high blood pressure, foggy or irrational thinking and reduced im-mune system functioning, among other things.

Our bodies werent built for chronic anxiety. Witness the number of combat veterans returning with PTSD, a more ex-treme anxiety disorder.

I did a little research into the comments people have made to articles on my website. Thirty-six people made di-rect reference to anxiety in their comments. Ill refer to just three.

Maria wrote, This is my exact issue and I struggle with it daily: to stay or go. I have decided to have a sepa-rate place, one in city (condo) and one in country, as every evening my anxiety level rises when I hear the rst crack of the beer can.

Maria is reacting to an external cue, the sound of her husband opening a can of beer.

This spells danger. She reduces her anxiety by going to a separate safe place.

However, if his drinking proves chronic She is already facing what she may have to do.

Joanna responds to an internal cue: my indiscretions while blacked out have forced me to lie to my love and my

friends and hide secrets Im terried will come to light someday.

I cant sleep half the time and suffer from chronic anxiety. And yet, after my shift, that glass of wine is so inviting.

The impending danger causing her anxiety is that she will be exposed. She medicates with al-cohol as a stopgap measure.

Syd speaks of her partners anxiety: I was in a one-year relationship with a wonderful manHe calls himself a functional alcoholic In ad-dition to the drinking he has severe anxiety that he refuses to medicate or seek therapy for, which

is probably a large part of why hes drinking The impending danger for this man is the unknown about

the future. What would happen if he got out of the cycle of anxiety

and drinking? Does he have past trauma he is afraid to face? Is he afraid to face a career decision (he is a new PhD) which might force him to move far from home?

Contrary to what Syd believes, her partner does medicate his anxiety, but he does it with alcohol. And that has created its own set of problems.

In all 36 comments there was reference to a chronic situa-tion involving actual or potential chronic anxiety.

All 36 expressed fear about a relationship. (It is also true that all 36 involved alcohol as either the problem or attempt-ed solution, but thats another matter.)

Clearly, if you nd yourself becoming anxious, do some-thing to change yourself or your situation so the anxiety does not become chronic. Remember, the anxiety is there to alert you to change, challenge, or avoid something.

You can reach Registered Psychologist Dr. Neill Neill at 250-752-8684 or through his website www.neillneill.com. He is a regular NEWS columnist.

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