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We’ve been putting together Best of the City for more than a decade, and yet we never seem to run out of ideas. Just when we think we’ve written about anything and everything to do with Nanaimo, the city surprises us by adding a new attraction, a new eatery or a new festival to keep us all entertained.

Take our local legends story, for example. As a reporter, I wrote about some of our shadier stories for this and other News Bulletin publica-tions several times over the years. But never did I find out that the Nanaimo Museum has the

rope and black hood from the city’s final hanging. Some people might want to hide that history, but it’s as much a part of the city’s past as the ori-gins of the Nanaimo bar. And based on the popularity of the museum’s ghost walks, residents and tourists agree. Check out Tamara Cunning-ham’s story on local legends on page 14.

That’s not to say that we don’t have a

lot of new things happening in Nanaimo. On our list for the first time is The Buzz Coffee House, which opened last year with the goal to create a homey atmosphere and the best coffee around. It doesn’t hurt that the Dufferin Crescent coffee shop regularly hosts musicians.

Or check out Frankie’s Modern Diner in the north end, with its focus on fresh, local ingre-dients – another newcomer to the community that shot up to the top of our Best Restaurant Overall list.

What else is new? Well, we’ve got a new park – just last month, the City of Nanaimo purchased additional land for Linley Valley Cottle Lake Park. Greg Sakaki takes a look at what makes this green jewel so important to preserve. And even though beer is nothing new, the popular-ity of local craft brews is on the rise, so we sent Karl Yu on a fact-finding mission.

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Families and athletes from across the province will descend on Nanaimo

between July 17- 20 for the 2014 B.C. Summer Games.

It will be a boon for sports fans as there will be a wealth of sporting events to check out. A majority of events will take place in the Nanaimo area, with some box lacrosse taking place at Parksville and towed water sport events, like water skiing, at Quamichan Lake near Duncan.

All venues are open to the public, all events are free of charge and Jeff Lott, Nanaimo 2014 Games president, said all the venues are in good shape. While events can be viewed at places like Serauxmen Sta-dium, residents in the West-wood Lake area will be able to pull out their lawn chairs and watch the triathlon.

“The running area is along the trail that goes along West-wood Lake and the triathlon is actually going out into the neighbourhood, which is just

a short distance down the hill and off to the left, so that’s going to be pretty exciting for having a front-row seat,” Lott said.

Residents will be informed about the days the triathlon takes place and any traffic changes that will occur.

“Traffic will be somewhat restricted, but we’ll try to min-

imize that to the best of our ability [and] we’ll give people lots of notice,” Lott said.

Long Lake will also be a good place to watch the competi-tion, as canoeing and kayaking will be amongst the events tak-ing place there.

“There’s one group that is going to be launching its boats at the Long Lake Inn from the

dock and the local rowing club has its docks on the other side of the lake, so that’s going to be a hectic place and a great place to go and watch some activities,” said Lott.

In addition, there will be Paralympic and Special Olym-pic events as well, according to Barry Sparkes, the games’ director for sport.

“[Special Olympic events] will be blended right in with the swimming and the same with the track-and-field, it includes Special Olympics there as well,” Sparkes said, adding that Paralympic events will include equestrian and swimming.

Sparkes recommends check-ing out events as the best in B.C. will be in town for the games.

“These are almost the elite junior athletes in the prov-ince,” he said. “It’s part of the development process, the summer games ... they’re all young people between the ages of 12 and 17. They’ve been selected by their zones within their sports and there’s some very, very good competi-tion in all those sports and age levels.”

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Best of the City 2014 – RESULTS: SHOPPING & SERVICE

Best Auto Servicing1. Bavarian Auto2. Kal-Tire3. Nanaimo Toyota

Best Banking Institution1. RBC1. TD/Canada Trust2. Coastal Community

Credit Union3. CIBC

Best Pet Supply Store1. Bosley’s2. Pet Smart3. Oliver’s

Best Bike Shop1. Oak Bay Bikes2. Arrowsmith Bikes3. Pacific Rim Bicycle

Best Carpet Cleaners1. Citrus O2. Classic Care3. Sears3. Terry’s

Best Catering Business1. Spice O Life

Catering2. 2Chefs Affair3. Mrs. Riches

Best Customer Service1. Home Hardware2. Thrifty Foods3. Costco

Best Day Care1. Jolly Giant2. Katie’s Korner3. Boys and Girls Club

Best Furniture Store1. The Brick2. Dodd’s Furniture2. La-Z-Boy Furniture3. Flying Fish

Best Electrical Contractor 1. Den Mar Electric2. Mazzei Electric3. Houle Electric

Best Financial Planner1. RBC2. Investor Group3. Sun Life

Best Floor Covering Store1. End of the Roll2. United3. Home Depot

Best Second-Hand Store1. Value Village2. Salvation Army3. Funk Your Fashion

Best Gas Bar1. Mid-Island Co-op2. Chevron3. Superstore

Best Home Building Supply Store

1. Home Depot2. Slegg Lumber3. Home Hardware

Best Insurance Agency1. Hub City Insurance2. BCAA3. Western Financial

Best Lighting Store1. Mclaren Lighting2. Home Depot3. Illuminations

Best Flower Shop1. Turley’s Florist2. Thrifty Foods3. West Coast Classic

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Best Sewing Notions Store

1. Fabricland2. Snip ‘N’ Stitch3. Serge and Sew

Best Outdoor Garden Centre

1. Art Knapp Plantland2. Green Thumb

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Best of the City 2014 – RESULTS: SHOPPING & SERVICE

Best Marine Supplier1. Harbour Chandler2. West Coast Marine3. Anchorage Marina

Best Massages1. Breze Salon2. Knead Massage

Therapy3. Maffeo Salon

Best Music Store1. Fascinating Rhythm2. HMV3. Long and McQuade

Best Housewares/Linen Store

1. HomeSense2. Flying Fish3. Home Outfitters

Best Paint Store1. Home Depot2. Benjamin Moore3. Cloverdale Paint

Best Travel Agency1. Flight Centre2. Around the World

Travel3. Marlin Travel

Best Place to Buy a Used Vehicle

1. Galaxy Motors2. Nanaimo Toyota3. Steve Marshall Ford

Best Place to Get a Tattoo1. Black and Blue2. Tranceformations3. Electric Umbrella

Best Place to Get Tires1. Kal-Tire2. Cedar Tire3. Big O Tires

Best Place to Shop1. Woodgrove Centre2. Downtown Nanaimo3. Costco

Best Plumbing and Heating Business

1. Archie Johnstone 2. Norm’s Mobile

Service3. Marshall Plumbing

Best Roofing Company1. Blake Erickson

Roofing2. Milne Roofing3. Vanderleek

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Best Sporting Goods Store

1. Sport Chek2. Canadian Tire3. Kirby’s

Best Place to Buy Books1. Chapters2. Literacy Nanaimo3. Coles Books

Best Store to Buy Tools1. Midland Tools2. Home Depot3. Canadian Tire

Best Vitamin/Health Food Store

1. Island Naturals2. Charlie Brown’s3. Fuel

Best Wine-Making Store1. Wine Kitz2. Urban Wine Cellar3. Rainy Crick U-Brew

Best Tile Store1. City Tile2. Cornerstone Tile3. Home Depot

Best Toy Store1. Kool N Child2. Toys R Us3. Treehouse Kids

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BY GREG SAKAKI

T here are a lot of ways to have fun on four wheels – just ask anyone who’s a member of a car club in Nanaimo.

The Harbour City offers a lot of differ-ent ways to shine up and show off any type of automobile, with numerous car clubs in the region.

“There’s the Ford clubs, there’s Chevelle clubs, there’s Cadillac clubs, there’s British car clubs, then you have your specialty car shows,” said Ken Tamburini, who likes to bring his 1969 Mercury Cougar to the weekly A&W Cruisin’ the Dub gatherings at North Ridge Plaza.

There are auto enthusiasts and col-lector cars in any city, but it’s espe-cially noticeable on Vancouver Island, Tamburini said.

“On the mainland, there’s so many people, it’s so congested, you never see it. Nobody would take their vehi-cles out,” he said. “But here, yeah, you see it. Small-town feeling, big-time show.”

The parking lot outside the fast-food restaurant becomes a car show every Wednesday night during the summer.

A&W offers a free root beer for anyone who participates.

“And then that entices you to go into the A&W and have a burger and some onion rings. That’s what I did tonight,” said Tamburini.

Motorists bring lawn chairs or wan-der around and chat.

“We’re sharing knowledge on the cars, making them better, more drive-able, quicker,” said Ryan MacLeod, who brings in his modified drag-racer 1979 Chevrolet Malibu. “It keeps every-body in the same loop.”

They talk about the cars they brought, the cars they left at home, other cars they’ve had over the years, maintenance, parts, restoration, modifica-tion.

“And stories,” said Tam-burini. “Because there’s 50 years of stories in those cars, right?”

Sometimes even more than 50 years. Brad McLuskie, past-president of the Nanaimo chapter of the Vintage Car Club of Canada, loves driving his 1950 Ford F1 pickup truck hot rod.

A vintage vehicle is gener-ally defined as one 25 years or older, but anyone can join the club.

“They don’t even have to have a car, just car interest,” McLuskie said.

His group has a clubhouse at Nanoose Bay and they get together to share information, participate in

shows, or just go for a drive. The cruis-ing is McLuskie’s favourite part, he said.

“We did a cruise [this month] that was 17 of us that just wound through all these outer roads and the rural roads,” he said.

Some car club mem-bers drive farther than others. Cathy Gislason, chairwoman of the local chapter of the Old Eng-lish Car Club, was getting ready to leave this month on a 3,000-kilometre road trip through B.C. and into Alberta with club mem-bers. She drives a 1966 Austin-Healey Sprite and her husband drives a 1966 Sunbeam Tiger and they join in the motorcade at the Empire Days parade every year. Club members participate in other car

shows in the area, and put on their own Brits on the Beach car show in Ladysmith every summer.

The Old English Car Club has regu-lar meetings, too, but “it’s not really a meeting,” said Gislason. “It’s just kind of, ‘Let’s get together with our cars,’ and we go and we have a picnic. We usually talk about cars; people stop and talk to us.

“For me it’s the social aspect. Lots of people know lots of things about these cars and they have a passion for it.”

Sharing that passion, finding that like-mindedness, is a reason MacLeod enjoys bringing his Malibu to the cruise-ins.

“Everybody likes the cars,” he said. “It keeps us all together. It’s sort of like our cult following: we get together, talk cars and have fun.”

Tamburini said he’s been enthusiastic about cars his whole life. He’d drive them, race them, beat up on them and have fun in them, and when he bought his ’69 Cougar, it was every bit as cool a car as he remembered.

“When I brought it home, it was like being back in 1985…” he said. “It was like bringing you back to your youth again.”

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The city’s major car show each year is the Nanaimo Marine Festival’s show and shine on Commercial Street during bathtub weekend. This year’s car show is scheduled for July 26-27.

New this year is the Mid Island Hot Rod Association’s first annual show and

shine and family day, set for Aug. 17 at Arbutus Meadows equestrian centre at Nanoose Bay. The event will include entertainment, live music, pony rides, food and a beer garden and proceeds will benefit Nanoose Community Services.

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Ask anyone in Nanaimo who’s ever gone camping off-Island and they will tell you it’s more than just a couple of bucks, especially if it involves towing a trailer.

Fortunately for Nanaimoites there is Living Forest Oceanside Camp-ground and RV Park, a 21-hectare campsite with spec-tacular ocean views located within city limits.

“We’re in the city, but not in the city,” Living Forest park manager Rob Littlejohn said. “It’s still forested, so you feel like you’re out the city, but really, you’re five minutes from downtown.”

Living Forest Oceanside Campground and R.V. Park has been in operation since 1994 and features more than 300 campsites, including 250 full-service RV sites.

The campground was picked Best Local Camp-ground in the News Bulletin’s

annual Best of the City Sur-vey – an award it has held for over five years.

“When we opened up it was a quarter of the size and it didn’t have any of the facili-ties,” Littlejohn said. “We’ve grown a lot over the years ... My grandpa initially had the property in the ’70s.”

There is no shortage of features at Living Forest, including onsite kayaking and canoeing, a large laun-

dromat, showers, basketball and hockey courts and wireless Internet access. The camp-ground also has a large games room that includes a pool table, shuffle-board, card tables, kitchen, fireplace and leather couches.

“I think we got the most services and I would think we got the best location,” Little-john said. “We get tons of local people come out. Lots of people from the Island and lots of people from Nanaimo.”

Living Forest is constantly looking for ways to improve the campsite and the experi-ence for its customers.

“Unlike most places we improve every off-season,”

Littlejohn said. “We’re are actually just putting in a cou-ple of new bathrooms.”

This past off-season, Liv-ing Forest spent plenty of time and money improving the individual campsites and landscaping around the campground.

“We do our best re-gravel and re-rock,” he said. “There are a lot of places that are owned by people who are just sitting on [the property] until they retire and then they’re going to sell it or for one reason or another they’re not continuing to maintain it, they’re just col-lecting the income and riding it out whereas we’re actively always trying to make it bet-ter for our customers.”

Camper and Gabriola Island resident Lynn Smith said she’s enjoyed her stay at the campground.

“We like it,” Smith said. “It’s nice. It’s clean. We really like it.”

Smith, who’s a first-time camper at Living Forest, acknowledged the landscap-ing work at the campsite.

“The landscaping is beauti-ful and the views are great,” she said.

For more information, to to make a reservation, please visit www.livingforest.com.

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It was more than two decades ago and Rhonda Lambert was looking for a career change.

At the time, she was working at one of the swimming pools in Ladysmith and she began raising concerns about her health due to the exposure to pool chemicals such as chlorine.

“I was looking at a change,” Lambert said. “You always think that swimming is this healthy thing, but it isn’t.”

That’s when an environmentalist ecologist suggested she find a career that had lower health risks. So in 1992 Lambert decided to open Island Natural Markets, a store that sells a wide vari-ety of natural products.

“We don’t just want to sell people products, we want it to make a differ-ence for them,” said co-owner Casey Mitchell, who joined the staff in 1999.

Island Natural Markets, which is located in the city’s North End on Metral Drive, was named Best Vitamin/Health Food Store in the News Bulle-tin’s annual Best of the City survey.

“In winning an award like that, it’s us [Mitchell and Lambert] that earned the picture but it should be all the staff that should be in the picture because with-out them we wouldn’t be here today,” Lambert said.

Island Natural Markets offers every-

thing from organic foods, groceries, vitamins and supplements as well as body products, gluten-free products, household and houseware products. Lambert and Mitchell also buy a large selection of their products from suppli-ers from all over Vancouver Island.

“We want to incorporate as much Island based businesses as possible,” Mitchell said.

“We’ve been able to do a lot of local sourcing,” Lambert added. “We’ve got several bodycare products that are

from the Island.” During its 22-year history in Nanaimo,

Island Natural Markets has seen its fair share of challenges, including increased competition and economic downturns, but the philosophy has always been about customer service and product knowledge.

“Product selection has always been revamped to the latest products that are out and staff are trained to help people make decisions with their buy-ing,” Lambert said. “You’re not going

to a store where there is no staff and you’ve just maybe read your latest Dr. Oz and you’re not sure if it really some-thing you need.”

According to Lambert and Mitchell, one of the main reasons for Island Natu-ral Markets’ success and longevity has been because of the staff’s frequent training on all its products as well as global and consumer trends.

“That’s what’s seen us through some of the difficult times is keeping focused on what we specialize in and what we’re about,” Lambert said.

“A lot of people associate gluten free with healthy,” Mitchell added. “Well, some gluten free products can be loaded with sugars and empty calories. So, we work really hard so that we have good choices and good alternatives. Some gluten free stuff is just crap, but it is gluten free so people have this thing about it.”

Island Natural Markets is located on 6560 Metral Dr. Visit www.islandnatural.ca for more information about the com-pany and for store hours.

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Best People-watching Spot1. Swy-a-lana Lagoon2. Maffeo Sutton Park3. Woodgrove Centre

Best Place for Birthday Parties1. Brechin Lanes2. Jumping Jiminy’s3. 4 Cats Art Studio

Best Place for Kayaking1. Newcastle Island2. Long Lake3. Departure Bay

Best Place to Meet for Coffee1. The Buzz Coffee

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Best Place to Mountain Bike

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Best Fitness Centre1. VI Fitness2. Nanaimo Aquatic

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Best Place to Walk Your Dog1. Westwood Lake2. Colliery Dam Park3. Neck Point Park

Best Place to Watch Birds1. Buttertubs Marsh2. Morrell Sanctuary3. Neck Point Park

Best Romantic Parking Spot1. Departure Bay2. Piper’s Lagoon3. Westwood Lake3. Neck Point Park

Best Local Campground1. Living Forest Oceanside

Campground2. Brannen Lake Campsites3. Nanaimo Lakes

Best Place for a Picnic1. Neck Point Park2. Piper’s Lagoon3. Newcastle Island Provincial Park

Best Place to Swim Outdoors1. Westwood Lake2. Nanaimo River3. Piper’s Lagoon

Best Place to Walk, Jog or Hike1. Westwood Lake2. Waterfront3. Neck Point Park

Best Playground1. Beban Park2. Oliver Woods3. Maffeo Sutton Park

Best Yoga Studio1. Moksha Yoga2. Om Town Yoga3. Red Door Yoga

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The best way to get to parts of Nanaimo awash in beauty is on the water.

Exploring Nanaimo’s shorelines is best done from a kayak or stand-up paddle board, either of which can get you close to shore quietly without disturbing wildlife or drowning out nature’s subtle soundtrack with motor noise.

John Kimantas, owner of Nanaimo-based Wild Coast Publishing and author of numerous kayaking guides for the West Coast, says Newcastle Island is the obvious choice for local kayak forays, but often overlooked by locals.

“There aren’t many cities that have a provincial park like that just sitting out in the harbour,” Kimantas said. “The great thing about it is, once you’re out in the area, you can walk around or lie on the beach. There’s just so many things you can do there.”

Richard Antonchuk, owner of Alberni Outpost Outfitters, says paddling the east shore of the island, where there are no houses and few other signs of

human presence, leaves an impression much like paddling Vancouver Island’s west coast.

Kimantas says a rewarding side trip while paddling around Newcastle is Jesse Island, which features the only paddle-through cave formation in the Gulf Islands.

“It’s a private island, but the shoreline is just spectacular,” Kimantas said.

Paddlers who chart a course north-ward are rewarded with Pipers Lagoon Park and Neck Point Park, which offer up visual feasts of rugged rock shore-lines and cliffs, marine wildlife and spectacular views of historic Shack Island, where fishermen built small cabins that have been maintained and used as recreational getaways since the 1930s.

“There is a great run you can do down Nanaimo River,” Kimantas said. “If you launch at the [Island Highway] bridges, you can just meander your way down the current and go into the [Nanaimo River] estuary and then pop out wher-ever you want – and that’s a beautiful and safe stretch, too.”

The Nanaimo River brings paddlers out to Jack Point Park with its eroded sandstone shorelines and views of Nanaimo. People looking to build their core strength and get out on the water with a minimum of equipment are turn-ing to stand-up paddle boards, now

commonly known as SUPs.“There is no doubt it’s the up and

coming,” Antonchuk said. “It’s popular. We just had our demo days on Long Lake and we had probably more inter-est in the stand-up paddle boards than we did in the kayaks.”

SUPs are light, easy to carry – they weigh less than seven kilograms – are stable and are relatively easy to learn how to balance and manoeuvre.

“One thing we do notice, though, is it is very much a warm weather sport,”

Antonchuk said.SUPs will go most places you’ll see

kayaks and they’re great for exploring inland shorelines, such as Westwood Lake.

“Kayak fishing is getting to be a very big sport right now and really starting to catch – wouldn’t you know it, down in the States it’s happening already. SUP fishing is starting to catch on and it’s going to catch on here too,” Anton-chuk said.

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Best Bakery1. Nanaimo Bakery2. Columbia Bakery3. Cobbs Bread

Best Breakfasts1. Ricky’s All-Day Grill2. Tina’s Diner3. Tania’s

Best Chicken Wings1. Oxy Pub2. Simon Holt3. Old City Station

Best Deli1. Nesvog’s2. Thrifty Foods3. Nellie’s Dutch Deli

Best Desserts1. Nanaimo Bakery2. Mon Petit Choux3. Dairy Queen3. Mrs. Riches

Best Place to Buy Produce1. Thrifty Foods2. Save-On-Foods3. Country Grocer

Best Place to Buy Seafood1. Seadrift Market2. Thrifty Foods3. Superstore

Best Family Restaurant1. White Spot2. Ricky’s All-Day Grill3. Frankie’s Modern Diner

Best Fish and Chips1. Trollers2. Pirate Chips3. Mrs. Riches

Best French Fries1. Pirate Chips2. McDonald’s3. New York Fries

Best Hamburgers1. Mrs. Riches2. White Spot3. Frankie’s Modern Diner

Best Restaurant Overall1. Frankie’s Modern Diner2. Asteras3. Simon Holt

Best Lunches1. Delicado’s2. Gabriel’s3. Frankie’s Modern Diner

Best Steak1. The Keg2. Bold Knight3. Beefeater’s Chop House

Best Martini1. Acme Food Co.2. Modern Cafe3. Firehouse Grill

Best Mediterranean Food1. Asteras2. Zougla’s3. Aladdin’s Cafe

Best Nachos1. Gina’s Mexican Cafe2. Baby Salsa3. Delicado’s

Best Kids Restaurant1. White Spot2. Montana’s3. Mrs. Riches3. McDonald’s3. Ricky’s All-Day Grill

Best Fast Food1. Wendy’s2. A&W3. Delicado’s3. Subway

Best Sunday Brunch1. Longwood Brew Pub2. ABC Country Restaurant3. Frankie’s Modern Diner

Best Sushi1. Nori Sushi2. Firehouse Grill3. Tomo Sushi

Best Pasta1. Milano’s2. New York Pizza3. Boston Pizza

Best Patio Restaurant1. Cactus Club2. Simon Holt3. Penny’s Palapas

Best Vegetarian Food1. Thirsty Camel2. Rambas3. Powerhouse Foods3. Gabriel’s Cafe

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By Tamara Cunningham

From haunts to hang-ings, this coastal com-munity has its share of campfire stories.

While Nanaimo is best known for its chocolate sweet treat and annual Bath-tub race, the darker side of the city’s history has also seen its share of attention. The haunted Beban man-sion was featured on Creepy Canada in 2003 – an episode that’s garnered more than 9,000 YouTube views – and the Nanaimo Museum’s lan-tern tour on local stories like the Flying Dutchman and Kanaka Pete sold out last year, prompting organizers to triple the number of tours.

We put together a few of the city’s stories.

Nanaimo’s last hanging

Early in the morning on Aug. 25, 1913, a black hood

was pulled over the face of prisoner Henry Wagner in the yard of Nanaimo’s provincial jail house. He would be the last man hanged in the city.

Wagner, known as the Fly-ing Dutchman, had been raiding coastal communities and escaping by motorboat until his crime spree led him to a Union Bay store in March that year. There, he was confronted by two police officers, one of which was shot and killed in a gun fight during the robbery. Wagner was tried and sentenced to capital punishment.

On the day of his execution, people gathered outside were quiet and subdued, according to a Daily Free Press article. An “ominous scaffold” was in the corner of the jail yard connected to the ground by a gangway and from the centre beam hung a coil of rope.

“Whilst the Salvation Army officer intoned the Lord’s Prayer, the leg straps were quickly adjusted and the black cap was pulled down over the wretched man’s face, shutting out his last

glimpse of life,” the reporter wrote.

More than a century later, the Nanaimo museum still has what’s thought to be the black hood and the rope used to hang the Dutch-man and staff members take people to the site of the old hanging yard, which its cura-tor believes was on Skinner Street between the back of 235 Bastion St. and Club 241.

Gallows Point

After an infamous river-side chase and the first jury

trial under English Law on the West Coast, two aborigi-nal men were executed on Douglas Island.

On Jan. 17, 1883, two young aboriginal men from Cowichan and Nanaimo were hung after being found guilty of shooting and killing a shepherd with the Hudson Bay Company.

Governor James Douglas wanted to establish law and order in the new colony of Vancouver Island and after the murder, sent a ship from Victoria to apprehend the two suspects. One of the men, the son of a Nanaimo chief, ran. He was tracked in the snow to what is now called Chase River, where he was captured and arrested. Both men were tried on the deck of the SS Beaver and hung that same afternoon.

The site of their execution, on what’s now Protection Island, is called Gallows Point.

Beban House

Nanaimo’s Beban House has become a well-known

haunt in the Harbour City, with stories of faucets turn-ing on by themselves and unexplainable sounds.

Lee Mason, a former tenant of the old mansion, recalls hearing a ball bounce down the stairs while she worked late at night – but thought she imagined it when she couldn’t find the ball. While former Tourism Nanaimo executive director Mark Drysdale still can’t explain how his cat escaped a locked room at Beban House, let alone how it failed to set off the building’s alarms.

“It’s a very, cool, cool old house with lots of history and if it had some ghosts, all the better for it,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any question that Beban was and probably still is the most well-known haunted estab-lishment in Nanaimo.”

The log house was built in 1930 by Frank Beban, a wealthy sawmill owner who owned 160 acres of land at North Field. The $25,000 mansion is considered a rare example of rustic-style architecture and is protected under the municipal heritage designation bylaw.

Kanaka Pete

On Dec. 4, 1868, four bodies were found in the home of

a Nanaimo coal miner.Police launched a manhunt

to find Peter Kakua, a coal miner of Hawaiian descent also known as Kanaka Pete, who had been missing from the home. He was found sitting beside a fire on New-

castle Island and taken into custody, where the details of the multiple murder came to light.

After learning his aborigi-nal wife was leaving him and returning home to find her packing up her things with his child and in-laws, he left and later, came back intoxi-cated. When a fight ensued, Kakua said he grabbed an axe and swung indiscrimi-nately until he collapsed in exhaustion. He was charged with the murder of his family and found guilty in a Victoria court room. He was returned to the gaol under the Bastion in Nanaimo and executed in March 1869.

Being of neither Caucasian

nor First Nations descent, Kakua could not be buried in any of the city’s cemeter-ies and was instead interred on his last place of freedom – the east side of Newcastle Island.

Thirty years later, the Van-couver Coal Mining and Land Company unearthed Kakua’s coffin as they dug for a new coal mine. Kakua was rebur-ied in another unmarked grave.

“That’s a big campfire story on Newcastle Island – that he still haunts Kanaka Bay,” said Aimee Greenaway, interpreta-tion curator for the Nanaimo Museum.

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Aimee Greenaway, interpretation curator for the Nanaimo Museum, holds what’s believed to be the black hood and the rope used to hang the last prisoner at Nanaimo’s provincial jail house. The building and its hanging yard was beside the old municipal hall on Skinner Street.

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Nanaimo might be best known for the Nanaimo bar but for those into aquatic recreation, the city

is just as popular for diving.The late Jacques Cousteau was said

to have referred to Nanaimo as second only to the Red Sea in terms of the best temperate water diving in the world and there are plenty of good dive spots off the shore, including three artificial reefs.

According to Nanaimo diving instruc-tor Ed Singer, the HMCS Saskatchewan was sunk in June 1997 and the HMCS Cape Breton and an old British navy tugboat followed suit in 2001 and 2005 respectively, offering some spots for divers to visit.

“Since then, they’ve become world famous. There’s been lots of media here doing stories on them – both print media and television – and it’s actually gotten Nanaimo and British Columbia, in general, the rec pro-grams, to a point that we’re listed, quite often Top 2 in many categories, if not Top 1 for dive destinations in the world,” said Singer.

Nanoose Bay, north of Nanaimo, has a number of great dive spots, accord-ing to Raymond Richer, master scuba diver trainer, who points to Madrona Point, Tyee Cove and Dolphin and Wall

beaches as dive sites of interest.“Dolphin has two or three walls

there, lots of bow kelp, lots of kelp there, so you get lots of schools of fish in there, so it’s nice to see, especially when you get clear sun and the visibil-ity’s just amazing,” Richer said, adding that Neck Point Park and Clark Rock are also spots of note in Nanaimo.

For Shirley White, scuba diving and technical diving instructor, Nanaimo has both boat diving accessibility and shore diving. There is a lot of diverse sea life you can see at sites like Madrona Point, she said.

“At Madrona Point, there’s a wall there and you can often see octopus and wolf eels, warbonnets and the sea

lions like to go right by us because they’re going into Craig Bay to fish, so they cut the corner and zip past us all the time, so we see sea lions quite a bit.

“There’s something there for every-body, so regardless who I’m diving with, I can do a dive there. You can do two or three dives a day there and still not hit the same spot,” White said.

Unlike other popular diving destina-tions in the world, Nanaimo isn’t a tropical environment, something div-ers should be wary of.

“The water is colder than tropical places of course and it varies from year to year what the water tempera-ture is, just based on the currents and the overall weather patterns,” White said.

“The height of summer, you’re going to be 13 or 14 C at depth. On the sur-face, it’s going to be a lot warmer but we don’t dive very much in the really shallow waters – you’re always down around probably about 15 metres deeper, so it’s a little bit cooler down there,” she said.

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Bavarian Imports Auto Repairs Ltd. defends its 2013 Best of the City

crown for Best Auto Servicing and it is something that ser-vice manager and part-owner Klyntt Rogers takes pride in.

Bavarian Imports offers auto maintenance and amongst the services offered, air con-ditioning repair, alternators and batteries, brakes, clutch replacement, computer engine analysis, diesel fuel injection, electrical and electronics systems, engine rebuilding, exhaust and muffler systems, gasoline fuel injection, heater repairs, oil changes, steering systems and transmission.

As the Bavarian in the name implies, it specializes in BMW, Volkswagen and Audi brands, but it also works on all makes and models, whether domestic or other imports.

While Rogers and his workers take their work very seriously, a good workplace environment is one of the reasons it has the reputation it does.

“We do our thing and we have a lot of fun doing it,” Rog-

ers said. “There’s five of us who work here at the shop and we have a lot of fun and get the job done.”

The auto service business opened in October 1996, co-founded by Bill Short and Harry Schild, and boasts a century worth of combined experience with a no-nonsense approach.

Ninety per cent of its busi-ness is through word-of-mouth and Bavarian has a commit-ment to good customer ser-vice, according to the service manager.

“We basically just treat every-one the same and that’s how we’ve always done it. Men, women, it doesn’t matter to us, it’s all the same,” said Rog-ers. “Rule of thumb is just do what’s needed and don’t do what’s not needed and they will come back.”

The majority of Bavarian Imports’ clientele is repeat business, said Rogers, with some customers that have been coming since the begin-ning.

Similarly the staff has remained the same since the business opened.

Rogers said he loves helping and serving people, whether they are in a good or bad frame of mind.

“You have to [realize] that most people, when their cars

do break down they are upset. They don’t know what’s wrong with it. They’re on a tow truck, they’re from Tofino or wher-ever they’re from, of course they’re not going to be happy but you make it right,” Rogers said.

As mentioned, Bavarian

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“The main thing, and most people really like and want, is the factory warranty mainte-nance servicing,” explained Rogers. “They come in and it

keeps up with the normal fac-tory maintenance.”

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It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve been to The Buzz Coffee House the feeling should always be

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Scott Henderson said of his custom-ers. “I want them to feel comfortable enough that when they walk in that door they feel right at home.”

Perhaps it’s that philosophy that helped earn The Buzz Coffee House the Best of the City’s Best Place to Meet for Coffee.

“It’s a great feeling,” Henderson said about the award. “It’s amazing.”

The idea to create The Buzz Coffee House, which has been at its present location on Dufferin Crescent for just over a year, came nearly a decade ago when Henderson and his wife, Kara, felt that Nanaimo lacked an authentic cof-fee shop.

“We found that there wasn’t a coffee shop in Nanaimo that we really liked. There were too many inconsistencies. You’d go into a coffee shop and have a cup of coffee and it would be great. Then the next time you go in and have a cup of coffee it’s terrible,” Henderson said.

At The Buzz Coffee House it’s all about community and supporting other local businesses. The Buzz serves up

coffee from Britannia Beach’s Galileo Coffee Roasters and North Vancouver’s Moja Coffee and many of their baked goods come from Village Bakery in Qua-licum.

In addition to supporting local busi-nesses, The Buzz also hosts a variety of community oriented events, such as live music and book launches. They also have plenty of local art around the store that is available for purchase,

with 100 per cent of the sales going to the artist.

“Our vision statement is community,” Henderson said. “Whatever happens in here, if it doesn’t suit community, it won’t happen.”

Employees at The Buzz Coffee House are regularly trained and are taught early on about the importance of high-quality customer service.

“It’s easy to forget when you’re in the

customer service industry that the cus-tomers are the ones that are actually paying you,” Henderson said. “What they need to realize is that it’s still the customer that pays them. I don’t pay them, the customer pays them. Every time somebody comes in here, some-body pays them.”

While The Buzz Coffee House has taken home the Best of the City’s Best Place to Meet for Coffee, Henderson knows that the shop must remain focused.

“I think for us, we need to remember that you can go from glory to the bot-tom of the pile pretty quickly by losing focus and vision,” Henderson said. “We gotta stay on top of it because there are lots of places that were busy five years ago and now are closed. There were lots of places that were clean and now are dirty because they let their stan-dards down.”

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By GreG Sakaki

Nanaimo Astronomy Society members might care about the best of the city, but they care even more about the

best above the city.The astronomy club is quite active in

Nanaimo, meeting monthly between Sep-tember and June.

“We have a nuclear physicist and we have kids, and everybody in between,” said Bill Weller, a member of the society. “All it takes is an interest in learning a little bit about the sky.”

He said he’s seen a burly, blue-collar guy shed tears at seeing Saturn’s rings for the

first time, and it’s motivating to be able to share those sorts of things and see those sorts of reactions.

“Even with our little tele-scopes here, you can see the ice cap on Mars, the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter,” said Weller. “Everything that Galileo saw.”

Chris Boar, society president, said most of the public has never seen a magnified view of the planets and the stars.

“If you show people the sun through a solar telescope and they can see the flares coming off the side, they can’t believe it,” he said.

Even for members who star-gaze regularly, there are rare phenomena such as Venus transiting in front of the sun a couple years back, or the recent blood moon.

“There’s these astronomical events that you only tend to get to see once or twice in a lifetime. It still generates excite-ment,” Boar said.

The society’s regular meetings include presentations on a vari-ety of subjects; a recent topic was the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Club members also get together for special-event view-ings, and hold occasional pub-lic viewing sessions on clear nights, usually at Maffeo Sutton Park. Society members some-times get together for star par-ties on dark new-moon nights and they have a ‘dark site’ they go to on the outskirts of town.

A few years ago the astronomy club expressed interest in a ‘dark sky project’ at Westwood Lake, with hopes of eliminat-ing light pollution in the area. The project is still on the club’s radar, Boar said, but there have been some logistical problems with getting street lights turned off.

“We’re losing the dark sky,” he said.

Maybe that makes it more worthwhile to take the time to look up, now.

“People, I think, become dis-engaged from nature and the surroundings they’re in because they’re just engrossed in their electronic devices all day,” Boar said. “So it’s nice to get away from … the hustle and chaos and just relax and look up at the stars and see what’s up there.”

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ASTRONOMY DAY at the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library is July 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Nanaimo Astronomy Society will bring a collection of telescopes and will set up displays and make presentations.

NEXT MEETING for the society is its annual general meeting on Sept. 25, 7-9 p.m., at the Beban Park social centre.

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Best of the City 2014 – WINNER: best restaurant overall

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The saying ‘if you built it, they will come’ might work well for a feel-good

baseball story, but Nanaimo restaurant owner Frank Nac-carato knows it takes more than the venue to fill the seats at a restaurant.

“Nanaimo is a tough mar-ket and there are a lot of the same kinds of restaurants,” Naccarato said.

After owning a popular franchise restaurant, Nac-carato decided it was time to start fresh in the same loca-tion and opened Frankie’s Modern Diner last Septem-ber.

“We saw an opportunity to switch it up and do some-thing that is popular in other areas but not as popular in Nanaimo,” he said.

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for as long as we’ve been around,” Naccarato said. “You can only reinvent it so many ways and part of our mission is to give you that comfort food that you crave and love, just like grandma used to make.”

After only being in business for a little more than nine months, Frankie’s Modern Diner has been selected as the Best of the City’s Best Restaurant Overall.

“It is a nice surprise to be recognized for all our hard work,” Naccarato said. “I’ve never worked in a restaurant where we get such great feedback and people appre-ciate what we’re doing and how we’re doing it and the way we’re going about doing it.”

Naccarato, who’s back-ground is Italian, explained that he wanted to create a restaurant that went back to the basics of cooking great food.

“I remember mom’s lasa-gna, mom’s meatballs, mom’s tomato sauce and how simple and how good it was,” Naccarato said. “Mom didn’t cook with 17 things. She cooked with basic ingre-dients and made them fresh and made them with love and that’s what we try to do here at Frankie’s.”

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locally grown ingredients as it can. Naccarato said that the eggs come from Lady-smith, while the meats come from Abbotsford. They get their baked goods from vari-ous places on the Island.

With more people becom-ing aware of what they’re eating, Naccarato said that Frankie’s recognizes the importance of gluten-free options and organically grown foods.

“I think it is the important thing,” Naccarato said, about being aware of people’s glu-ten sensitivities. “Organic food is growing and knowing what you’re eating is grow-ing.”

Naccarato said he is proud of how hard all of his staff members have worked since the restaurant opened in September and the Best of City award reflects their efforts.

“They say if you work hard enough it will come,” Nac-carato said. “Me and my team have never worked so hard to get this place open and get it going and keep it going.”

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The Longwood Brew Pub began packaging beer in bot-tles four years ago to test the market.

It did very well, prompting the opening of the off-site Longwood Brewery on Box-wood Road, something brew-master and brewery partner Harley Smith said is a route many brew pubs are taking.

All the beers served are ones that people will be familiar with in Nanaimo, Smith said. There are five core brands that have been rebranded for mar-ketability: Stoutnik (Russian imperial stout), Steam Punk (Dunkelweizenbrau), Berried Alive (raspberry ale), The Big One (India pale ale) and Extra Ale (Longwood ale).

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The Longwood Brewery has a large capacity and Smith said it can brew 5,000 hectolitres a year, which should carry it for a few years before it needs to expand.

Across town, Wolf Brewing Company is at full capacity. There is a waiting list and everything that is brewed is already pre-sold, according to head brewer Kev Ward.

“We decided that it was time to expand, so we’ve got a brand new brewhouse and new tanks all being hand-built up in the Okanagan. We like to keep everything as B.C. as possible – grain, hops, everything, and that includes getting our tanks built as well up in Okanagan by a fellow named Ed Ripley, who’s a really excellent fabrica-tor,” Ward said.

In addition to the Okanagan, Wolf Brewing will expand its

space on Old Victoria Road, allowing it to double its floor size and triple capacity and add a tasting room.

Ward, who originally hails from Liverpool, England, has been on the job for about a year and changed all the recipes. Wolf Brewing still uses old-school techniques in its brewing.

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At the moment, Wolf brews four beers – Golden Honey Ale, Red Brick India Pale Ale, Ran-noch Scotch Ale and Black Tail Porter – but it will be able to bring on an additional three beers thanks to expansion.

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An extra special bitter ale is on the way as well as some one-off beers that are being kept under wraps, Ward said.

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More tea drinkers are going pinkies up for a British tradition.

Afternoon tea – with its tiered treats and delicate fin-ger sandwiches – is seeing a revival, according to tea mas-ter Daniela Cubelic owner of Victoria’s Silk Road Tea.

Whether it’s the tea houses in London or Vancouver Island, more people are tak-ing to the ritual than they used to thanks to the growing popularity of tea and desires for experiences that help slow down hectic lives, she said.

“Everything is becoming so fast-paced in our lives that people are craving an anti-dote to that and afternoon tea is the ultimate antidote,” Cubelic said. “You sit there, you drink tea, you have scones and various treats. It’s not something you can accomplish quickly.”

The tradition is believed to have started in the early 19th century by the Duchess of Bedford, who had an idea for a snack between lunch and dinner. It became a special

occasion and influential on British society, even going as far as to change women’s fashion, according to Cubelic, who says looser tea dresses were created so women could eat without the restraint of corsets. More than a century later, afternoon teas are still considered a luxurious and

special affair. At Nanaimo’s Grand Hotel

– one of the few places in the city that offers afternoon tea – operations manager Susie Sirri has seen parents take children out of school so they can join their grandmother or people in the workforce block off time to enjoy the after-

noon tea service. “It’s an indulgence. It’s an

afternoon indulgence. You take time out of your day and say this is for me,” she said.

Sirri waved over a waitress, who rolled an antique tea cart over to a window-side table and opened a chest full of neatly-stacked teas to

choose from —all from the same supplier as the Fairmont Empress Hotel, Sirri said as she selected a peach apricot black tea she promised would be delicious.

The table was set with delicate tea cups, plates and small saucers of jam. The house-made black currant scone and Devonshire clotted cream arrived first, followed by a two-tiered tray of small open-faced finger sandwiches, tiny cakes and shortbread.

There is something very charming about being able to take time to sit back, relax and enjoy the indulgence of afternoon tea, Sirri said.

“Sort of like yoga for your mouth,” she said, chuckling. “Everything is better over a cup of tea, right?”

Afternoon tea is offered at the hotel Sunday to Thursday, beginning at 1:30 p.m, and costs $24.95 a person. Reser-vations are required.

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Carol Marcan, guest services for the Grand Hotel Nanaimo, takes a break to pose with a cup of tea. The hotel is one of the few establishments in the city that offers afternoon tea – an English ritual of dainty cakes, finger sandwiches and scones.

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Nanaimo’s natural beauty is here to stay.

Parkland protec-tion was foremost in many people’s minds this past spring as the City of Nanaimo moved to purchase a huge chunk of land to expand Lin-ley Valley Cottle Lake Park.

If all the sales go through, 91 hectares will be added to the park, more than doubling its size.

“It’s a beautiful piece of land,” said Mayor John Rut-tan. “I’m just personally very excited. I think it’s a great acquisition.”

The park made headlines in recent weeks, but the proj-ect actually represents two decades of work.

Preserving Linley Valley has been an initiative of Nanaimo and Area Land Trust since the mid-’90s.

“When we were asked by someone from the city, ‘How much of this valley do you really think you want to save? We said, ‘All of it,’” recalled Gail Adrienne, executive director of NALT.

The city, with help from the land trust, purchased Linley Valley Cottle Lake Park in 2003, and then in 2010 the Province of B.C. designated an adjacent parcel as pro-tected coastal Douglas fir habitat.

Now, these additional prop-erties bring the sum to more than 240 hectares of continu-ous preserved green space in the valley.

“All of these things have been one leading to another and it’s very nice to see,” said Adrienne.

City council voted 8-1 in favour of proceeding with the recent property deals, which would add up to $7.6 million.

The mayor said the mun-cipality needed to seize the opportunity to preserve the land now, with real estate development advancing on other areas of the valley.

“It’s the last large woodland-wetland wild area. We have a lot of parks in Nanaimo, but they’re not like wilderness parks,” said Joanne Jonas-McRae of Save Linley Valley West, a citizens’ group that petitioned for the cause for three and a half years. “This is why [people] come here. They don’t come here to have more subdivisions.”

Jonas-McRae walks the trails often. She sees dog

walkers, families, picnickers and bird watchers.

Joggers and mountain bik-ers also take to the trails, and of course, countless non-humans. Dozens of species of birds have been counted in the area, as well as beavers, deer, squirrels, rabbits, frogs and cougars.

Some of the parkland property sales will take a few months to finalize, and the city will take possession of the land piece by piece, with the last sale expected to close around the end of November. A public park planning process likely wouldn’t start until 2015, said Richard Harding, the city’s director of parks and recre-ation.

City councillors, when discussing the parkland purchase, called it the last undeveloped green space in Nanaimo, an iconic park and a Central Park.

However people view it, they can take heart knowing now that at Linley Valley Cot-tle Lake, they’ll always have a place to play.

“We’re totally thankful to the City of Nanaimo for coming on board with this,” Jonas-McRae said. “I think it’s the most wonderful thing they’ve ever done.”

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Did you know you prob-ably walk past hidden treasure every day?

A treasure hunt can be just the right touch of added moti-vation for people who need a reason to get out for a hike or bike ride.

Geocaching is a sport enjoyed worldwide and with more than 800 geocaches in and around Nanaimo, there are plenty of trails leading cache hunters to the city’s most beautiful parks and into its more interesting urban nooks and crannies.

“Some people are obsessed with this. They do this 24-7,” said Bob Simpson, a long-time Nanaimo geocacher.

Simpson, an avid cyclist as well, often plans rides around geocache locations. One never knows where on a ride Simpson will hop off his bike, disappear behind a rock or hollow log and come up with a little box filled with odds and ends, such as but-tons, pencil stubs and other strange bits together with a small log book and, with a

“Eureka” glint in his eye, say something like, “I knew there was a geocache around here.”

Geocaching started in 2000 when hand-held GPS units became widely avail-able. Prior to then, Simpson and his wife, Dorothy, were already into earth caching, the sport geocaching evolved from.

“We do geocaching self-ishly,” Simpson said. “We use it to find the cool places because people put geo-caches in cool places.”

If a geocaching map shows a string of caches, Simpson knows they’re hidden along a mountain biking or hik-ing trail. A cluster of caches might indicate a particularly scenic or interesting spot.

“There’s a reason why people put geocaches there,” Simpson said.

One rule of geocaching is that geocachers can only hide caches within a certain distance of where they live, so cache maps that can be downloaded with smart phone apps are a bit like a locals’ guide to must-see loca-tions.

Allan Wilson pulls a plas-tic waterproof box out of a hollow in a Gary oak tree at Pipers Lagoon Park. Wilson chose the spot for the cache, and named it “Blinky” for

the navigation lights marking dangerous rocks it overlooks.

Wilson, 18, has been geo-caching since 2008 and found his first cache near a beach just a couple hundred metres away. He opens the box and finds a geocoin – think of it as a travelling garden gnome – stashed with other goodies.

“It like a travelling coin that travels from geocache to geo-cache,” Wilson said. “It has a special tracking number on it and you can log its travels online.”

Sometimes caches are found by “muggles” – non-geocachers – who might steal them or maybe just write off-colour remarks in the log books, but most muggles are respectful of caches they stumble upon.

It doesn’t take much to get into geocaching. Smartphone apps can be downloaded for as little as $8 and are plenty accurate enough to find caches. GPS units precise enough to register cache hiding locations can run upwards of $100.

“That’s how most new geocachers get started, with their smartphones,” Wilson said.

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When it comes to light-ing, one Nanaimo store shines above

the rest. Mclaren Lighting has won

first place for Best Lighting Store for the seventh consec-utive year for the News Bulletin’s Best of the City contest.

The secret to land-ing a spot in the limelight? Employ-ees say it’s a large showroom, cus-tomer service and knowledg-able staff.

“The first thing would be our customer service ... people get the one-on-one, they don’t have to wait to get the help that they need,” said assistant manager Deb-bie Ethier, who explains that associates are passionate about lighting and love help-ing people with it, including designing house plans.

Homes can be a big invest-ment for people and associ-ates at Mclaren can help

create layouts for lighting up interior spaces, suggest sizes and locations for fixtures and talk about what’s new, she said.

General manager Craig Finnigan, whose father helped open the first store in Victoria in 1960, says associ-ates care about customers and their service is beyond what people might normally expect.

The store gives people that ‘wow’ experience, he said, adding that whether people shop for a bulb or an expen-sive light, they get an equal level of service.

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Linley Valley Cottle Lake is the flavour of the day in Nanaimo, but there are plenty of other places to enjoy a day at the park.

Maffeo Sutton Park, along the downtown waterfront, is a hub of activity all summer as it hosts major festivals and community gatherings.

It features Swy-a-lana Lagoon for splashing

around, a seawall, occa-sional live music, a crab-fishing pier, grassy space and views of the harbour.

Bowen Park provides some green space not far from downtown, plus a community centre, an out-door pool and places to play tennis, beach volley-ball, disc golf, lawn bowling and other sports. There are also trails and a duck pond.

Beban Park is more sports-focused, with two arenas, an indoor pool, sports fields, equestrian rings, pitch-and-putt golf, a lawn bowling green, a BMX track and a small trail system. There is also a community centre and fair-grounds on site.

Up in the north end of Nanaimo are the McGirr Sports Fields and May Rich-

ards Bennett Pioneer Park, two sports-focused parks.

Westwood Lake Park is one of the prime destina-tions for a day at the beach and features a six-kilometre loop trail for walkers and joggers.

Piper’s Lagoon and Neck Point Park, both in the Hammond Bay area, are natural parks with trails and seaside views.

Plenty of places to play in Nanaimo parks

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BY CHRIS BUSH

Wherever point A starts and point B ends, you can probably get from

here to there on a bicycle.If you’re an inexperienced

cyclist intimidated by riding in traffic, but want to get into cycling, chances are you won’t even have to ride on a road to get where you’re going and the trails also help cyclists travel the road less taken by connecting with designated cycling routes that help limit exposure to motor vehicle traf-fic.

From Lantzville to Cedar and most points in between, Nanaimo has more than 130 kilometres of paved and gravel cycling trails and paths – with several main trails that con-nect through Nanaimo’s major parks – that will get you nearly anywhere you want to pedal.

New riders developing stam-ina and cycling skills can ride from central Nanaimo to the north-end malls and beyond on the E&N Trail, avoiding

steep hills and road traffic. The paved, eight-km, multi-use trail follows the E&N Railway’s gentle railroad grade and is a major commuting and fitness route for cyclist, runners and pedestrians.

The city has announced plans to extend the trail through to points in south Nanaimo. The E&N Trail already links up with a route to Bowen Park and the 3.5-km Harbourfront Walk.

More advanced riders can mount up on the Nanaimo Parkway Trail. Its mix of easy grades, winding turns and steep climbs and dips offers a good workout as the trail undulates along its 20-km north-south route from Wood-grove Centre to the Cedar Road interchange.

Rewards of riding this trail include the views along the route, especially through Col-liery Dam Park. For a more challenging workout, combine the Parkway and E&N trails for 28-km loop.

You don’t need a mountain

bike to ride Nanaimo’s parks. Westwood Lake, Bowen, Col-liery Dam and Neck Point parks all have trails suitable for hybrid bikes and begin-ner riders, but remember that almost all park and city trails are multi-use and shared by walkers and joggers, moms with strollers and children, and dog owners and their

pets, so check your speed, give people room, stay safe and enjoy the outdoors.

For advanced riders who want to rip up some single track – or beginners who want to learn how – Nanaimo’s outlying areas have plenty of dedicated mountain biking trails all within about a 15-min-ute drive from downtown. Link up with experienced riders who know their way around through Nanaimo Mountain Bike Club at http://nanai-momountainbikeclub.com.

For those who like long recreational rides and social-izing over coffee afterward, Slowspokes cycling club was formed in 2011. The club is always looking for new mem-bers.

“Slowspokes is always will-ing to accept new riders,” said Allen Henderson, club spokes-man. “We have a dedicated sweep and a ‘no drop’ policy. It is our goal to have riders stay in their comfort zone while they develop their fitness and skills. Some of our rides do

include ‘bonus loops’ where the faster riders can have a sporty ride, then regroup with the more leisurely riders. We often ride new and interesting routes, some of them in other towns.”

Nanaimo’s department of Parks, Recreation and Environ-ment also offers programs for entry level cyclists.

“We do have introductory mountain bike courses, Intro to Bicycle Riding and Road Safety in the spring and fall and cycle camps in the sum-mer,” said Deborah Beck, city recreation coordinator. “We also organized the heritage bike ride in conjunction with Bike to Work Week through the city’s culture and heritage department.”

A brochure of Nanaimo’s multi-use trails and bike routes is available from Nanaimo Parks, Recreation and Envi-ronment’s Bowen and Beban park facilities or download an online brochure by visiting http://bit.ly/1ppCtai.

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Marnie Law, left, and Sandra Wroe, of the small, but growing, Bike and Bite Girls cycling club, check out crafts and goodies at the Cedar Farmers Market. Nanaimo’s Cedar and Yellow Point areas offer dozens of cycling routes along rural roads and through the region’s parks.

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Paths and trails help cyclists ride from one end of town to the other without ever ending up in traffic

SLOWSPOKES – www.slowspokes.ca.

GREATER NANAIMO Cycling Coalition – http://thegncc.org.

MID-ISLAND Velo Association – http://bikeracing.ca.

NANAIMO MOUNTAIN Bike Club – http://nanaimomountainbikeclub.com/new.

PHIL’S MAPS – Display and download Nanaimo and mid-Island mountain bike trails at www.island.net/~pmcgarri/.

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St. Paul’s Anglican Church is on a new mission – expan-sion.

The historic church is preparing to launch a major fundraising campaign this year to create a new Centre for Ministry and Community Service.

For decades, the parish on the corner of Church and Chapel streets downtown has served its congregation and offered hall space for com-munity groups to meet.

Now, with the hall needing major renovations, church members are looking to cre-ate a larger, more universally-accessible meeting space and rebrand it as a community facility.

The work, estimated to cost more than $3 million, follows on the heels of roof repairs as well as efforts by other long-standing churches to preserve their own buildings as local landmarks, including St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church and St. Andrew’s United.

“It’s very exciting,” said Archdeacon Brian Evans of

the rebuild. “Hopefully we are able to raise all the funds required and we will be mov-ing ahead in the very near future.”

St. Paul’s is among a trio of historic churches whose members are working to ensure the buildings remain local landmarks and commu-nity gathering places.

St. Paul’s has roots stretch-ing back 152 years into the history of the Harbour City. In June 1862 the doors of its first building opened – a beautiful wooden edifice with a tall, graceful spire ships could see as they entered the harbour, say records kept by the church.

When a fire in Nanaimo’s business district razed the building, a new concrete hall and church was built in the early 1930s. Not many people know the site was the birthplace of the Loaves and Fishes Food Bank or that it harbours stained glass win-dows in memory of promi-nent figures like Nanaimo’s first mayor, according to Evans.

But the church’s history has caught up with it. Leaks had been damaging the integ-rity of the building, prompt-ing a $300,000 re-roofing project last year and now the church’s parish hall needs a major face lift, from electrical

work to new insulation. Other historic churches are

also undergoing revitalization work.

St. Andrew’s United, a 121-year-old building on the corner of Fitzwilliam and Wesley streets, started in 2010 to generate $750,000 needed to repair and reno-vate the church. New metal shingles have been put on the roof, and the church hall has a new ceiling, paint and wood work. Members are now looking to expand the choir loft and repair a floor that’s in bad shape, accord-ing to property manager Gay-lord Merkel.

“It’s such a big building ... but we are keeping it together so far,” he said.

Members of St. Peter’s, on Machleary Street, are slowly chipping away at their reno-vations, including redoing the bell tower and ensuring Big Frank – a clock that’s chimed since Nanaimo’s early coal mining days – con-tinued to tick.

“Slowly we are trying to maintain the building itself. I mean it’s a landmark here in town ... and a lot of the fami-lies that have helped to build Nanaimo were members of this church,” said Debbie McMillan, St. Peter’s adminis-trative assistant.

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archdeacon Brian Evans of St. Paul’s anglican Church stands in front of the stained glass windows in the his-toric downtown church. Evans, hopes to see the church raise funds to transform the parish hall into a new, larger community centre.




BY NICHOLAS PESCOD

Over the past 120 years Nanaimo has transformed from a coal mining town to a mill town to

a more urbanized area and while plenty of events, buildings and people have come and gone from the Harbour City, the Vancouver Island Exhibition has remained a con-stant year after year.

The Vancouver Island Exhibition country fair, also known as VIEX, is back in the Harbour City for the 120th straight year.

President and main stage direc-tor, Don Boyd, said that while the event has been around for more than a century, the focus has remained the same throughout the years.

“Trying to make sure that we have a good product to put out,” Boyd said.

When VIEX was created back in 1894, it was designed as way to show off the best local farmers and to edu-cate people about the importance of agriculture to the community.

However, over the years the event has become more than just a place to educate the public about life on the farm – it’s become a place that show-cases all exhibits such as cat shows, roller derby, an international logging competition, pumpkin carving, gold miners and more.

Boyd explained that VIEX, which has drawn much more than 15,000 people for a number of years, has had to incorporate a lot of different exhibits in order to maintain the pub-lic’s interest.

“We’re trying to make sure that we have a good product to put out so

that people will want to come,” Boyd said. “It’s challenge to keep interest. After a 120 years of getting 15,000 to 20,000 people to an event is a feat in itself.”

Throughout the years, VIEX has faced plenty of chal-lenges. In recent

years, getting volunteers has always been an issue for organizers. A few years ago VIEX brass pushed for the approval of a new $1.8-million Agriplex to replace their existing facilities.

But despite its issues with volun-teers and new buildings there is always one challenge each year that organizers have no control over.

“Weather is always a challenge,” Boyd said. “That is always a worry.”

Over the years there have been plenty of noteworthy musicians to perform at VIEX. Recent musicians to perform at the event include The Trews, Aaron Pritchett, Dallas Smith, Robyn and Ryleigh, Bobs and Lolo, Braeden Marshall, Prism, The Ker-plunks, Alan Frew, Default, Carli and Julie Kennedy, Mikaila Tombe, Hope King, Valdy and Damian Marshall.

Boyd, who wouldn’t reveal any

upcoming musical acts for this year’s event, said that there will be some newer showcases at VIEX.

“This year we’ve brought in a few different things,” Boyd said. “I think everyone will be excited to see what those things are.”

VIEX takes place Aug. 15-17 at Beban Park fairgrounds. For more information, please visit www.viex.ca

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ABOVE: Vancouver Island Exhibition showcases Nanaimo’s agricultural history, but over its 120 years, the fair has grown to incorporate other activities, including a popular midway with rides and games. TOP: Signs point the way to the variety of agricultural displays and activi-ties at the VIEX.

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New economic opportunities for

Nanaimo will officially take flight Mon-

day (June 24) as WestJet begins regional

direct flight service to Calgary from

Nanaimo Airport.

On board the inaugural flight – after

a brief ceremony at Nanaimo Airport –

will be Nanaimo Mayor John Ruttan and

a delegation of mid-Island dignitaries,

travelling to Calgary to use the occasion

as an opportunity to pitch Nanaimo to

the Alberta business community and

enhance interprovincial economic devel-

opment.Ruttan will be accompanied by several

Island representatives, though the num-

ber was reduced from the original 30

delegates due to severe flooding in Cal-

gary’s downtown core, which has closed

many of the areas the group intended to

visit. Southern Alberta was struck with

heavy flooding due to torrential rains

late this week. At least 12 communities

have declared a state of emergency as

rivers flood their banks.

The mission is expected to continue in

a reduced capacity in a bid to support

WestJet and forge new economic oppor-

tunities.“We feel, with reason, that there is a

fairly strong interest in Alberta but spe-

cifically in Calgary for the business com-

munity there in looking at Nanaimo,”

said Ruttan. “There are already a num-

ber of investments that are Calgary-

based in the Nanaimo area but there are

also more and more people who want

to live on central Vancouver Island and

commute to the oil sands ... all in all it’s

a great opportunity.”

The cost to send each delegate for the

two-day trip – Team Nanaimo is expected

back on June 26 – is about $1,200, which

includes $440 for the return flight and

$438 for two nights at Calgary’s Delta

Bow Valley Hotel.

Sasha Angus, CEO of NEDC, said

despite the challenges posed by the

flooding, there remains a great interest

on both sides to pursue business inter-

ests.

“A lot of our meetings were with Cal-

gary Stampede, Calgary Tourism. Stam-

pede is the week after so a lot of those

guys are going to have their hands full,”

said Angus. “Despite that, since this ser-

vice has been announced I can’t even

count the number of local companies

that have approached us and mentioned

how much business they do in Calgary

and how much this will benefit them.”

WestJet announced its new Nanaimo-

Calgary service in February. Initially, the

air carrier will operate one flight a day

from each city, leaving Calgary at 11 a.m.

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The District of Lantzville

is 10 years old and the mile-

stone will be celebrated with

an open house on Tuesday

(June 25).Traditionally a coal min-

ing area, Lantzville was part

of the Regional District of

Nanaimo, with its own direc-

tor on the RDN board, until

2003, when the community

decided to incorporate, with

six councillors and a mayor

as the governing body.

Mayor Jack de Jong, who

has lived in the community

for 20 years, said residents

felt at the time that there

were some issues that could

be addressed better as an

incorporated community,

such as access to sewer

systems and water.

The district is not com-

pletely autonomous; due to

the community’s small size,

the RDN still handles bylaw

enforcement and building

inspections and permits, he

added.The population of Lantz-

ville is about 3,650 and

includes about 1,550 homes.

De Jong describes the

district as a bedroom com-

munity for Nanaimo, with a

large number of working pro-

fessionals living there and 98

per cent of the tax base com-

ing from residential.

He said over the past

decade, the population has

remained relatively stable,

with the population actually

decreasing about two per

cent between 2005 and 2010.

Some key accomplishments

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adding a sewer system about

five years ago for 550 resi-

dences in lower Lantzville

– prior to that, everybody

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was on septic systems – and

adding trails, the most sig-

nificant of which is the trail

along the E&N railway track,

completed in 2011.

“Our biggest challenge was

to find water,” he said.

Nanaimo city council

decided Monday to proceed

with finalizing a water supply

agreement with the district.

“It allows us to provide

some relief, we have some

hardship cases,” said de

Jong. “This allows us to move

forward.”Of the city’s 1,500 homes,

900 are on the community’s

water system, which is at

capacity, while the remaining

homes are on private wells.

Other accomplishments

include the establishment of

a farmers’ market in the com-

munity last year – de Jong

joked that if it grows much

more, the district will have

to find a bigger venue.

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Lantzville celebrates 10 years

Idistrict formed

to tackle sewer,

water issues in area. Jack de Jong, Lantzville mayor, holds

an invitation to an open house at the

district office where early arrivals

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It’s extremely rare to catch sight of a gnome, but getting a glimpse of their domiciles is getting easier

these days.And apparently Nanaimo’s gnomes

contract out construction to Charlie Pickard, a retired engineering proj-ect manager who worked overseas, including Czechoslovakia, where he lived with his family from 1979 to 1982 and was first introduced to gnome lore by a local man, who thought Pickard’s young children might enjoy them.

The man presented Pickard with a book detailing the 1,000-year history of gnomes in Europe. Then the two men created a little gnome home out of twigs, moss and pebbles in the woods.

“Come the weekend – he had two kids, I had two kids – we took them there,” Pickard said. “We told them, ‘Guess what? The stories you’ve been reading? Well, now we’ll go find a gnome home, eh.’”

The men spun the tale leading the children to the gnome home, mak-ing sure they kept a safe distance to avoid disturbing the gnomes sleeping inside. Gnomes are nocturnal.

“Well, to this day, I still couldn’t believe my daughter’s eyes,” Pickard

said. “She couldn’t say a word.”Pickard, now 71, needed a hobby

and it happens, according to his ver-sion of gnome history, that 15 male gnomes from a clan in England’s Black Country, arrived in Nanaimo in 1854 as stowaways aboard the Princess Royal. They formed a colony in what is now Morrell Nature Sanctuary, but

only in the last couple of years have their homes become visible. A new colony has started in Neck Point Park and word has it gnomes have colo-nized Cathedral Grove Park, although no official sightings have been reported.

Pickard builds and installs gnome doors with wood from mill operator

Mike Gogo and blessings from the Morrell Nature Sanctuary and the city.

Pickard said he gets plenty of posi-tive feedback from people who spot gnome doors in the parks who often leave offerings at the doors, such as pennies, dimes, quarters, shells, little action figures, buttons and even glit-ter sprinkled on the ground around the entrances.

Some gnome doors even get deco-rated for Christmas.

Since people can buy gnome doors from Pickard, more gnome colonies are spreading in private properties around town. Pickard spends sale proceeds on better woodworking equipment.

“It’s just magic because you know it will always be there,” Pickard said. “For me it’s just to know that people get some happiness … So I enjoy doing this.”

To learn more about gnome folklore and Pickard’s gnome homes, please visit his website at www.charliesbird-houses.com or Google ‘gnomes in Nanaimo.’

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Charles Pickard, the man gnomes around Nanaimo have contracted to build the entrances to their homes, like this one in Neck Point Park, does a quick check for weather damage, such as wood warping or peeling paint.

ICharlie PiCkard places doorways on trees, with space to leave treasures.

For me it’s just to know that people get some happiness.“

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nanaiMo MuSeuM hosts Pioneer Cem-etery Tours on second and fourth Thursdays in July and August at 1:30 p.m. Discover the stories buried in B.C.’s third-oldest cemetery. Cost is $10 per person; registra-tion required. Call 250-753-1821.

Canada: day 1 exhibit at Nanaimo Museum until Sept. 1 explores first steps, impressions and experiences as a newcomer to Canada. Museum open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 250-753-1821.

Mid iSLand Hot Rod Association inaugural show and shine Aug. 17 at Arbutus Meadows in Nanoose Bay.

aStronoMy day at the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library is July 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Nanaimo Astronomy Society will bring a collection of telescopes and will set up displays.

Music SuMMer ConCert

series at Maffeo Sut-ton Park on Wednes-days in August, from 6-7:30 p.m., and Tuesdays in July and August, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. On Wednes-days in July, from 6-7:30 p.m., concerts are held at Bowen Park amphitheatre. Call 250-756-5200.

CaMiLLe MiLLer play the Queen’s on June 27.

SCott WeiLand plays the Spice Lounge on June 27. For tickets, please call 250-754-8550.

ian tySon plays the Port Theatre on June 28. Call the box office at 250-754-8550 for tickets.

Head of tHe Heard with The Wild Roman-tics play the Queen’s on June 28.

HoLLy MCnarLand plays the Dinghy Dock Pub on July 7. Tickets are $20 and includes ferry ride.

Art reConCiLinG SeLf

by Connie Watts at Nanaimo Art Gallery’s VIU campus location (500 Fifth St.) until Sept. 6. Mixed-media show that recasts and

re-imagines northwest coast traditions. Artist’s talk Sept. 6 at 2 p.m. Gallery is open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Call 250-740- 6350.

eXiStentiaL SeLf Wisdom, they say, comes with age. An exhibit at Nanaimo Art Gallery’s downtown location until Aug. 9. Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 250-754-1750.

DAncE infrinGinG danCe Fes-

tival July 3-6 at Maffeo Sutton Park and Van-couver Island Confer-ence Centre, alongside Save-On-Foods Dragon Boat Festival. Four-day festival of cultural and contemporary dance. Most events free to attend. Visit www.crim-soncoastdance.org.

sports tiMberMen Senior a

LaCroSSe at Frank Crane Arena (Beban

Park) or Junior A Lacross at Frank Crane or Nanaimo Ice Centre. Call 250-740-1377. www.tmen.ca.

nanaiMo PirateS baseball at Serauxmen Stadium at 355 Wakesiah Ave. (near Nanaimo Aquatic Centre). www.ballcharts.com/pirates.

ParadiSe iSLe Seniors’ Drop-in Centre hosts pool and cribbage tournaments with soup and sandwich, noon Tuesdays and Thurs-days at 201 Albert St. Call 250-754-9566.

FEstivAls nanaiMo draGon

boat feStivaL July 3-6 at Swy-a-lana Lagoon. www.nanaimodragonboat.com.

SiLLy boat reGatta July 13, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Annual fundraiser for Nanaimo Child Development Centre, teams build boats from reycled materials and then race at Swy-a-lana Lagoon. Free for spectators.

nanaiMo Marine feStivaL and Great International World

Championship Bathtub Race July 24-27 at downtown Nanaimo, Maffeo Sutton Park and Departure Bay beach. Sail past parade July 26 at 10 a.m.; QF Festival of Lights fireworks July 26 at 10 p.m.; Bathtub Race July 27. www.bathtubbing.com.

vieX 2014 Aug. 15-17 at Beban Park fair grounds. Agricultural displays, Midway and entertainment.

Cedar farMerS’ Market (at the Crow and Gate Pub), Sunday, beginning at 10 a.m.

LantzviLLe Market (7113 Lantzville Rd.), Sunday, beginning at 1:30 p.m.

nanaiMo boWen road Market (at Beban Park), Wednesday, beginning at 4:30 p.m.

doWntoWn nanaiMo farMerS’ Market (Pioneer Waterfront Plaza), Friday, beginning at 10 a.m.

niGHt Market (Diana Krall Plaza), Friday, from 4-8 p.m. Most downtown businesses open late Friday.

NEWS BULLETIN fILE

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