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A controversial compassion club in down-town Parksville is one of the RCMP’s priorities, but operators vow to keep serving local mem-bers.

While the operator says he is not distribut-ing pot out of this location currently, the RCMP have called the Phoenix Pain Management Society, which says it helps people get medi-cal marijuana, “completely illegal,” and Cpl. Jesse Foreman con� rmed Friday “we’ll do what we have to do,” in terms of shutting it down if RCMP deem there are illegal activities going on at this downtown Parksville location.

“I asked if they had no violent crime or hero-ine addiction or cocaine to deal with,” said the society’s managing director, Akil Pessoa, after a meeting with Oceanside RCMP last week.

He said he went to see the RCMP “of my own volition” after meeting with Parksville Mayor Marc Lefebvre and he said he asked both: “Why are you bullying sick people? � at’s my real ques-tion. We know that we can help them, we know the country’s going in a direction that will allow them to be helped.” Pessoa said the RCMP “told me we will be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the federal law, as well as having the full weight of the Controlled Substances Act thrown against us. So the scene we’re about to have, if (the may-or) has his way, is little old ladies with arthritic hips handcu� ed and thrown into cars. I don’t want to see that in Parksville, it’s just a bad image.”

Said Foreman: “If they are selling drugs out there, it’s illegal. If the police chief and mayor are in agreement, it’s a priority of the Oceanside RCMP.”

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DELIVERING THE HAGGIS: The traditional Haggis was carried in at the 25th Annual Robbie Burns Day celebration at Legion Branch 76 in Qualicum Beach on Saturday. Doing the honours, above from left to right, were Richard Paugh, Bruce Diack, Hellen Waller and Wilma Stevens. For more photos from the event, visit www.facebook.com/PQBNews.

ALPACA MAULED TO DEATH IN ERRINGTON

Another murderous dog attackCANDACE WU [email protected]

Another alpaca has died in Err-ington after being brutally torn apart and left to die. � e owner suspects a dog — or pack of dogs — roaming freely in the neighbourhood.

Skye Donald said she returned to her 13-acre property in Errington � ursday afternoon to � nd her oldest, alpha-female alpaca slaughtered.

“I saw something on the ground that was white, got my binoculars and just had a feeling,” she told � e NEWS. “During the brief time we weren’t at home the dog(s) must have come in (to my property) — we saw paw prints.”

Donald now has 19 alpacas — one less than last week — nine sheep and chickens on her farm.

It’s the second casualty for Donald, who lost an alpaca last year in a similar

situation. “� ese are dogs — they don’t kill the animal before eating it,” she said. Donald said dogs killing livestock is emotional, stressful and, unfortu-nately, not an uncommon story in the area. And now she’s calling for change.

“I’d like to see some kind of mu-nicipal discussion on this. Let’s have a community forum run by the Region-al District of Nanaimo to discuss this.”

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The Qualicum Beach Lawn Bowling Club ex-ercised some neighbourly spirit Saturday, do-nating $1,000 to the Kiwanis Affordable Housing Project, a development right beside the club.

Construction is well underway and Quali-cum-Parksville Kiwanis Housing Society presi-dent Pat Weber says he’s “excited” about its progress.

“It’s a whole new concept really,” he said. “It’s new for Qualicum Beach.”

Weber said the project is expected to be complete this spring.

Once finished the Kiwanis Affordable Hous-ing Project will see 34 apartments replace the aging 20-units that were at the site. Twenty-four of the units will be one-bedroom and 10 will be two-bedroom apartments.

The new development is meant to provide options for seniors and families with low to

moderate incomes in the area. The previous housing complex was seniors-only.

People interested in living in the new units are encouraged to stop by Rodway and Perry to pick up an application.

Weber said rent is expected to be around $200 below market rent, however, he won’t know final numbers until the development is closer to completion and all donations are col-lected.

He said the project has been “very well re-ceived by individuals” in the community, who have rallied ongoing support since the begin-ning.

The Town of Qualicum Beach has committed to matching all dollars raised up to $250,000.

Starting this week, if you want to make a do-nation to the project, you can shop locally and donate through the “round up for my neigh-bour” program and donate your Q-points at Qualicum Foods.

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Qualicum-Parksville Kiwanis Housing Society president Pat Weber, left, accepted a $1,000 dona-tion from Qualicum Beach Lawn Bowling Club president Ken Davies Saturday at the site of con-struction for the Kiwanis Affordable Housing Project.

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Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay is officially a director on the Island Cor-ridor Foundation board representing the Regional District of Nanaimo.

McKay’s appointment was confirmed Thursday at his first board meeting hosted in Nanaimo. According to a news release issued by the ICF, McKay completes the term of former Nanaimo councillor and RDN director Ted Greves.

“I’m glad to be on the board,” he told The NEWS. “I really believe in the railway but we have to be patient and let it work through the regulatory process.”

The ICF is a federally registered charity established for the purpos-es of owning and managing the former E&N Corridor on Vancouver Island. The board’s membership is made up of people from the five Island regional districts and 14 First Nations that the corridor passes through. McKay said “there are too many jurisdictions where they’ve ripped up a track and 50 years later are kicking themselves for doing it.” He said he sees “commercial and business opportunities” in the future of rail. “It’s a very expensive proposition to get ships in and out of Vancouver and there is significant congestion,” he explained. “It’s only a matter of time until we see traffic that wants to go across Vancouver Island to Port Alberni, to and from Asia, they have the ca-pacity. I think loading and offloading ships in Port Alberni will be a bid deal, never mind tourism.”


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PARKSVILLE UNCORKED STARTS FEB. 19

Pouring some passionCANDACE WU [email protected]

B.C.’s craft beer industry is hopping. And Parksville is hosting an event to celebrate

the intoxicating new market. Twenty-one beer vendors showcasing up-

wards of 80 different brews and ciders from around the province will take to Tigh-Na-Mara next month for the city’s much anticipated Un-corked Wine and Food Festival.

“There’s no other beer event like it in Parks-ville,” said Tigh-Na-Mara director of food and beverage Bryan Stokes. “It’s very unique.”

Parksville Untapped is set for Thursday, Feb. 19 kicking off four days of local beer, wine and culinary compliments.

Stokes said it’s an exciting time for craft breweries in the province, who are seeing a ma-jor popularity shift from big-name national brands to small-er, more intimate “mom and pop shops” like Phillips and Wolf Under Water.

“Craft breweries are about individuals with a real passion for beer,” he said, noting many of these small businesses are expanding expo-nentially as British Columbians are demanding more craft beer.

According to Agri-Food Canada, some na-tionally-brewed beers have seen a decline in sales while there has been a spike in local and regional favourites. Agri-Food Canada estimates 10 million Canadians drink beer and approxi-mately 21.9 million hectoliters (one hectoliter equal two kegs, or 12 24-packs) are produced each year. This makes beer the number one al-coholic beverage in the country in terms of both production and consumption.

It’s safe to say Canadians love their beer. Stokes said because small scale breweries

“aren’t hooked on mass production” it enables them to offer a unique array of options — fla-vouring their beers with anything from cinna-mon to citrus.

“It’s incredibly exciting,” he said. “I mean, just the variety of beers that are available now.”

Asked about his favourite, Stokes said, after much deliberation “Stanley Park amber ale … I’m a traditionalist and love simple ingredients.”

He said the great thing about events like Un-tapped is the ability to give craft breweries a stage to promote their products.

“Two years ago Moon Under Water came and there was this buzz about the brewery,” he ex-plained. “It’s a great opportunity for breweries to get their name out there.”

Untapped will feature gastro-pub style food to compliment the various different beers and ciders on site. The menu is still under construc-tion, but Stokes said the culinary aspect will be created by Tigh-Na-Mara and Beach Club chefs

as well as many local food ven-dors.

As for entertainment, Co-mox Valley musician Luke Blu Guthrie is set to perform all night.

There are 400 tickets for the event at $55 each and Stokes said it usually sells out. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All proceeds will go to Variety Children’s Charity.

Untapped is part of the seventh annual Parks-ville Uncorked Wine and Food Festival which takes place Feb. 19-22. On Friday, Feb. 20 the Swirl Gala will be hosted at the Beach Club Re-sort featuring a selection of more than 100 dis-tinct labels from wineries across the province. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are $75.

On Saturday, Feb. 21 the Beach Club and Tigh-Na-Mara will set the stage for a food and wine imbibed evening offering specially pre-pared and paired dinners: the Beach Club part-nered with Quails’ Gate Winery to offer a six-course dinner at $149 each and Tigh-Na-Mara partnered with See Ya Later Ranch to offer a five-course meal for $129 each.

On Sunday, Feb. 22 the festival ends with Bubbles and Brunch at both the Beach Club and Tigh-Na-Mara who will offer a la carte brunch.

For more information about Parksville Un-corked or for tickets visit www.parksvilleun-corked.com or call 1-800-760-2008.

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Tigh-Na-Mara food and beverage director Bryan Stokes pours up a couple of pints in anticipa-tion of the Parksville Untapped event next month.

PARKSVILLE UNCORKED STARTS FEB. 19

Pouring some passionCANDACE WU [email protected]

B.C.’s craft beer industry is hopping. And Parksville is hosting an event to celebrate

the intoxicating new market. Twenty-one beer vendors showcasing up-

wards of 80 different brews and ciders from around the province will take to Tigh-Na-Mara next month for the city’s much anticipated Un-corked Wine and Food Festival.

“There’s no other beer event like it in Parks-ville,” said Tigh-Na-Mara director of food and beverage Bryan Stokes. “It’s very unique.”

Parksville Untapped is set for Thursday, Feb. 19 kicking off four days of local beer, wine and culinary compliments.

Stokes said it’s an exciting time for craft breweries in the province, who are seeing a ma-jor popularity shift from big-name national brands to small-er, more intimate “mom and pop shops” like Phillips and Wolf Under Water.

“Craft breweries are about individuals with a real passion for beer,” he said, noting many of these small businesses are expanding expo-nentially as British Columbians are demanding more craft beer.

According to Agri-Food Canada, some na-tionally-brewed beers have seen a decline in sales while there has been a spike in local and regional favourites. Agri-Food Canada estimates 10 million Canadians drink beer and approxi-mately 21.9 million hectoliters (one hectoliter equal two kegs, or 12 24-packs) are produced each year. This makes beer the number one al-coholic beverage in the country in terms of both production and consumption.

It’s safe to say Canadians love their beer. Stokes said because small scale breweries

“aren’t hooked on mass production” it enables them to offer a unique array of options — fla-vouring their beers with anything from cinna-mon to citrus.

“It’s incredibly exciting,” he said. “I mean, just the variety of beers that are available now.”

Asked about his favourite, Stokes said, after much deliberation “Stanley Park amber ale … I’m a traditionalist and love simple ingredients.”

He said the great thing about events like Un-tapped is the ability to give craft breweries a stage to promote their products.

“Two years ago Moon Under Water came and there was this buzz about the brewery,” he ex-plained. “It’s a great opportunity for breweries to get their name out there.”

Untapped will feature gastro-pub style food to compliment the various different beers and ciders on site. The menu is still under construc-tion, but Stokes said the culinary aspect will be created by Tigh-Na-Mara and Beach Club chefs

as well as many local food ven-dors.

As for entertainment, Co-mox Valley musician Luke Blu Guthrie is set to perform all night.

There are 400 tickets for the event at $55 each and Stokes said it usually sells out. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All proceeds will go to Variety Children’s Charity.

Untapped is part of the seventh annual Parks-ville Uncorked Wine and Food Festival which takes place Feb. 19-22. On Friday, Feb. 20 the Swirl Gala will be hosted at the Beach Club Re-sort featuring a selection of more than 100 dis-tinct labels from wineries across the province. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are $75.

On Saturday, Feb. 21 the Beach Club and Tigh-Na-Mara will set the stage for a food and wine imbibed evening offering specially pre-pared and paired dinners: the Beach Club part-nered with Quails’ Gate Winery to offer a six-course dinner at $149 each and Tigh-Na-Mara partnered with See Ya Later Ranch to offer a five-course meal for $129 each.

On Sunday, Feb. 22 the festival ends with Bubbles and Brunch at both the Beach Club and Tigh-Na-Mara who will offer a la carte brunch.

For more information about Parksville Un-corked or for tickets visit www.parksvilleun-corked.com or call 1-800-760-2008.

Craft breweries are about individuals with a real

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Standing atop Arbutus Toastmasters’ famous soap box, Matt Breedlove calls upon all brave local speakers to join him in accepting the Toastmasters Challenge on Monday, Feb 2.

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A local member of the Arbutus Toastmas-ters club, Matt Breedlove, says he is extending a challenge and a welcome to Parksville Quali-cum Beach residents to come and speak or hear what’s on people’s minds on Monday, Feb. 2.

The annual Toastmasters Challenge is set to start at 6:45 p.m. on Feb. 2 at the Parskville Community and Conference Centre.

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Wildflower Marijuana CEO William MacLean says his company has not with-drawn its application to build a medical marijuana facility in the rural River’s Edge community, despite reaching a deal for land within the City of Parksville.

The River’s Edge community rallied together in opposition to Wildflower’s plan and delivered a petition with more than 300 signatures on it to the Region-al District of Nanaimo, which later sent

a letter to Health Canada supporting the residents, who cited concerns over aqui-fer, groundwater, traffic and security.

“We have not removed our other (Riv-er’s Edge) application,” MacLean wrote in an e-mail to The NEWS on the week-end. “We will try one last time to meet with Health Canada, but will have clo-sure one way or another within a couple weeks at the latest.”

There was a report in at least one other

media source that Wildflower was going to abandon its plans for the River’s Edge property. Based on that, Lehann Wal-lace, a Rivers’ Edge resident who led the movement against Wildflower, said she’s “pretty happy about it.”

Wallace told The NEWS: “I think that when 300 people are opposed to some-thing in their backyard the magnitude of that opposition really had no other out-come than this.”

Asked about her stance on Wildflower potentially opening a medical marijua-na facility in Parksville’s industrial park, Wallace said “I think it’s a win-win … it could be a win for Parksville and it’s defi-nitely a win for Rivers’ Edge.”

Earlier this month, Wildflower made a $20,000 non-refundable deposit to the City of Parksville for an $870,000 parcel of land in the industrial park.

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SEAWEED HARVEST IN BOWSER/DEEP BAY

Experts calledfor moratoriumOne of report’s authors says it was a mistake to issue licencesCANDACE [email protected]

A retired government biologist wants to see Deep Bay’s seaweed harvest halted.

Ross Peterson has been calling for a moratorium on the contro-versial harvest since 2013, when the biological review Seaweed Harvesting on the East Coast of Vancouver Island B.C. was first re-leased.

Peterson is part of the team of experts who prepared the review, which has fueled an ongoing de-bate between those who oppose the harvest fearing environmental degradation and those who sup-port the harvest for its economic potential.

He called it “a mistake” for the government to give out harvesting licences in the first place with a “lack of scientific understanding” about the impacts of removing large quantities of seaweed from the beach.

In 2007, the Ministry of Agricul-ture started a pilot project issuing harvesting licences. Seaweed har-vesters are after a red algae called Mazzaella japonica, believed to be a foreign species rich in carrageen-ans — a compound used as a gell-ing and thickening agent in an ar-ray of products from cosmetics to pharmaceuticals. The carrageenan market is estimated to be worth $700 million worldwide.

“We’re dealing with a new ex-tractive industry in this province, and from an ecological point of view, our assessment of what has happened elsewhere with this in-dustry shows we should proceed cautiously and understand the ecological nature before (harvest-ing) licences are issued,” said Pe-terson.

Late last year, the ministry grant-ed Vancouver Island University’s Deep Bay Marine Field Station a contract to study the controver-

sial seaweed harvest and research efforts are now underway. A final report is slated for completion by March 25.

But Peterson said the scope and time allotted to the research is “in-efficient.”

He said “you can’t call it a for-mal impact study because of its narrow scope and length of time.”

While Peterson admits VIU’s research efforts are “a step in the right direction,” he believes the harvest should be completely halt-ed until a long term formal envi-ronmental assessment is under-taken — something that could take years.

“I’m not faulting their (VIU’s) work, I’m faulting people’s impres-sion that this is more than what it is,” he said, criticizing the govern-ment for prematurely issuing sea-weed harvesting licences.

“A lot of people could have un-dertaken this (a formal environ-mental assessment) but apparent-ly that was never a consideration by the province who seemed anx-ious to get a new industry under-way,” said Peterson. “Perhaps it was because of jobs, revenue, I really have no idea … but their de-cision wasn’t science-based and it should have been.”

Bill Veenhof, who represents Deep Bay/Bowser, said he doesn’t want to see the harvest, or VIU’s study, come to a stand still at this point in the game.

“I think it’s a huge step forward from where we were three or four years ago,” he told The NEWS. “I don’t think I’d support a morato-rium, I want to see the harvest in place while they (VIU) are doing their research.”

Project lead Brian Kingzett said a moratorium would defeat the study’s purpose.

“We’re trying to study the har-vest, and what the effect of the harvest is, if there’s a moratori-um there is no point in doing the study,” he said, adding that the harvest is “proceeding cautiously.”

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Donald admits the Area F commu-nity, which includes Coombs, Err-ington, Hilliers, Whiskey Creek and Meadowood, has long advocated for less rules than more — but now it might be time to change that.

“Is our freedom from rules more im-portant than our freedom to keep live-stock?” she asked. “If the community thinks it’s time for a bylaw, let’s get that going.”

Donald said she wants to have a conversation about the implementa-tion of some kind of animal control by-law that would make ‘dogs at large’ an offense.

She said this may require dog li-censing, but right now there is no by-law against dogs roaming freely.

RDN director Julian Fell, who rep-resents the community, called the on-going issue “a headache.”

Fell said it’s almost impossible to deal with dogs because of the prece-dents.

“The way the law is at the moment a farmer has to catch the dog in the act of actually attacking their livestock,

which is very hard to do,” he explained, adding “there’s also a frustration with identifying the dog itself because a lot of them look alike and tend to bolt when chased and don’t come with li-cence plates … unless you can identify a dog it’s hard to take action.”

Fell said “dogs by nature are preda-tory and livestock by nature are prey.”

But he said the power lays at the provincial level.

“The province calls the shots and lo-cal government can only do what they allow us to do,” said Fell. “It’s a B.C.-wide issue and livestock producers in the Cariboo are just as upset.”

Fell said the RDN is fully aware of the frustrations of residents “but it al-ways goes back to provincial legisla-tion.”

Optimistically, he said RDN staff have been in conversation with the province about changing legislation to better protect farmers.

Janet Thoney, president of the Coombs Farmers’ Institute, sits on the Agricultural Advisory Committee.

She says Donald’s story is “infuriat-

ing. This isn’t a one-off event,” she said sympathetically. “We deal with this on a daily basis.”

Thoney called the problem “com-plex,” but said regulations are under review and farmers, like herself, are providing input on behalf of their com-munities.

“Our constant message we are giv-ing all legislative bodies is that the laws seem to put the onus for remedy on the livestock owner, not dog owner, and we’re asking that anytime they look at reviewing or rewriting legislation that focus be changed,” she explained.

“The responsibly has to be put on the dog owner, not the livestock own-er to build better fences or have better management practices or to run out and take photos of offending dogs, that’s all putting the burden on the livestock owner.”

Thoney said she couldn’t speak to what kind of changes are in the works right now, but remains hopeful that farmers like Donald will one day have legislation that protects their livestock and livelihood.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1Looking for new legislation

Pessoa pledges to keep serving“If they are doing nothing in that

building to contravene the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, it wouldn’t be a priority,” said Foreman.

Pessoa said despite his surprise at Lefebvre’s position, “I actually have some sympathy for him. I actually feel bad that the whole thing blew up in his face. He was just caught unaware.”

But now Pessoa said he wants Le-febvre and the RCMP to “just shake their heads. I hope they realize they’re fighting on the wrong side of history. I hope the whole thing just goes away so we can serve some people, because in the end — not even in the end, we’re currently serving them, we’re going to continue serving them — and in the end we’ll be serving them here.”

Pessoa also expressed concern at Lefebvre’s “very high level of deference to the RCMP, which is fine, but they weren’t elected.”

Lefebvre told The NEWS “I respect-fully told (Pessoa and associates), they were telling me about their non-dis-pensing services, types of products for different ailments and I fully under-stand that but we (the city) take our advice from the RCMP and what they are doing is illegal.”

“They (the RCMP) said it’s illegal so it’s illegal,” Lefebvre said Friday. “Whatever the RCMP tell me, the city will comply.”

Pessoa said Phoenix is not currently dispensing cannabis products through their Parksville branch at 120 Middle-ton Ave., but re-directing people to its Nanaimo location or finding other ways to help people with “proven med-ical ailments” get “the medicine they need.”

He said he asked Lefebvre and the police: “What are we doing that’s ille-gal? We’re providing information. It’s

freedom of association and free speech and we’re just bringing information and education. I’d like to understand what the issue is.”

But Lefebvre said that while Pessoa called it “a grey area,” Lefebvre said “If it’s not legal, it’s illegal.”

The mayor was asked if his support for the Wildflower Inc. proposal for a medical marijuana growing facility on city-owned property in the industrial park, coupled with his opposition to the compassion club, constituted con-flicting messages.

“First of all it’s apples and oranges,” said the mayor. “Wildflower would be sanctioned and approved by Health Canada. You won’t be able to go to Wildflower and say I want a few grams of marijuana.”

“The sad thing is we’re on the same

side,” Pessoa said. “I don’t want people walking around high all day, I don’t want kids smoking, I don’t want drug dealers in the alley.”

Amanda Orum, mid-Island riding organizer for Sensible B.C., met with Pessoa and The NEWS Friday and stressed the idea that the whole prov-ince and country is moving towards decriminalizing, but the laws still have to catch up.

She pointed to the 2012 Union of B.C. Municipalities’ resolution to de-criminalize.

“When I hear that our compassion clubs are being threatened, that goes against what our elected ancestors have said.”

She also pointed to places like Van-couver where “police have indicated that dispensaries are not a priority.”

Jamie Shaw, president of the Cana-dian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries, told The NEWS that com-passion clubs “continue to exist for the same reasons they started: there are some very ill people whose lives can be greatly improved by cannabis, and due to the legal status of this plant as a con-trolled substance, they either can’t ac-cess it, can’t access it affordably, can’t access it in a form that works, can’t ac-cess it safely, or consistently, or can’t access a safe supply without dispensa-ries existing.”

Said Pessoa: “What I’m hoping is, in the end, (Lefebvre) takes the position of doing the best service for the com-munity he’s elected to serve.”

Lefebvre said the only community response he’s received is one e-mail questioning why the compassion club is illegal.

Pessoa pledges to be at every Coffee with the Mayor session, Thursdays at 2 p.m. at city hall, for discussion.

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It takes a Keane eyeI’ve long harboured an unnatural loathing

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You don’t know Walter Keane? Sure you do. He’s the guy who polluted our visual space with those wretched paintings of sau-cer-eyed waifs back in the ‘60s. Inexplicably, those paintings of children — with eyeballs so big and moist the kids looked like extra-terrestrials — sold like hot-cakes. Not in high-end art galleries for sure, but just about everywhere else. And I use the term ‘paintings’ loosely. They were posters really, cheaply produced and run off in the hundreds of thousands. Wal-ter Keane was a slicker business-man than he was an artist. He discovered that an awful lot of people would pay good money for dreck. “They don’t care if they’re getting an original,” he gloated. “They just want something they like.”

And Walter Keane filled that void — with posters, postcards — even refrigerator mag-nets, all festooned with kids whose eyes were on permanent high-beam.

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Keane’s wife, Margaret who did the actual painting. Walter just marketed them and pock-eted the profits. The only kind of ‘artist’ Walter was, was ‘con’.

What’s more, he kept his wife Margaret in the dark, almost literally. She was confined to a tiny art studio in their home where she churned out the paintings in a miasma of turpentine fumes. Keane convinced her that there was no market

for what he called ‘lady art’, so he made sure that she painted his name, not hers, on the orig-inals.

Not to put it too finely, Keane was a bully and a crook. As time went on and demand in-creased, Keane became increasing abusive, insisting on more and more ‘product’ from an already traumatized Margaret.

But wait... there’s a Hollywood ending.Against all odds, Margaret, accompanied by

her daughter, escapes the clutches of Walter and flees to Hawaii where, even-tually, the scales fall from her nor-mal-sized eyes and she realizes she’s been cheated and defrauded by her mate to the tune of millions of dollars.

She finds a lawyer and she sues. They end up in court in a landmark case called Keane vs. Keane. Walter, who by now thinks he is invincible, represents him-self, browbeating Margaret, belit-tling witnesses and boasting of his

painting prowess and expertise. He insists that he, not Margaret, is the artist who produced the paintings in question.

The judge looks at them both and, Solo-mon-like, announces “I’m giving both of you a canvas, some paint and a brush. You have one hour to produce a painting.”

Margaret duly turns out yet another waif with eyes the size of hockey-pucks and Walter...

Busted! Margaret wins; Walter goes down for fraud and slander.

Frank Zappa said “Art is what you can get away with.” Maybe so. But bad art? That’s some-thing Walter Keane couldn’t get away with.

— Arthur Black lives on Saltspring Island.His column appears Tuesday in The NEWS.

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A couple of random thoughts that didn’t quite grow up to be full-� edged editorials:

• � ere are people in our province, many of them in the media, who are geographical-ly challenged. Or perhaps this is just a pet

peeve being vented because we have the spot to vent.We do not live in the Paci� c Northwest. Time and time

again, we hear references to this part of the world — Van-couver, Victoria, Vancouver Island — being part of the Pa-ci� c Northwest.

Our Paci� c Northwest is Prince Rupert or Haida Gwaii or maybe the Yukon. � e Paci� c Northwest being cited on radio and TV by the geographically challenged refers to the United States. Seattle and Portland are in their Paci� c Northwest.

While on the topic, Toronto is not in Eastern Canada. It is in Central Canada. Halifax and Moncton are in Eastern Canada.

Enough said.• Imagine a minor hockey game with no spectators

allowed.� e Vancouver Island Minor Hockey Association, fed

up with abusive language � ying from the stands directed at o� cials and players, is considering a parent-free week-end for all minor hockey games on the Island.

It’s a drastic move, but it also demonstrates how serious the powers that be in minor hockey consider this problem.

For most sane people, it’s di� cult to imagine a man in his 30s or 40s or older yelling profanities at a 13 or 14 year-old o� cial. Unfortunately, it happens in hockey rinks all over this country, probably every weekend of the season.

� e downside to this drastic measure? � e vast major-ity of parents, grandparents and friends who attend the games of the young people do not engage in this kind of inexcusable behaviour, and they will be punished because of the acts of the idiot few.

We applaud the Vancouver Island Minor Hockey Asso-ciation for � oating this idea. � ey haven’t said it will hap-pen for sure, but it’s out there now and undoubtedly a top-ic of discussion at the rinks.

We want to believe Oceanside Minor Hockey Associa-tion parents are a well-behaved lot, but there are always a few bad apples around to spoil it for the rest. If the specta-tor-free dictum is employed, we’re willing to wager these bad apples will be twitching and screaming anyway from the lobby.

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• � ere are people in our province, many of them in the media, who are geographical-ly challenged. Or perhaps this is just a pet

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While on the topic, Toronto is not in Eastern Canada. It is in Central Canada. Halifax and Moncton are in Eastern Canada.

Enough said.• Imagine a minor hockey game with no spectators

allowed.� e Vancouver Island Minor Hockey Association, fed

up with abusive language � ying from the stands directed at o� cials and players, is considering a parent-free week-end for all minor hockey games on the Island.

It’s a drastic move, but it also demonstrates how serious the powers that be in minor hockey consider this problem.

For most sane people, it’s di� cult to imagine a man in his 30s or 40s or older yelling profanities at a 13 or 14 year-old o� cial. Unfortunately, it happens in hockey rinks all over this country, probably every weekend of the season.

� e downside to this drastic measure? � e vast major-ity of parents, grandparents and friends who attend the games of the young people do not engage in this kind of inexcusable behaviour, and they will be punished because of the acts of the idiot few.

We applaud the Vancouver Island Minor Hockey Asso-ciation for � oating this idea. � ey haven’t said it will hap-pen for sure, but it’s out there now and undoubtedly a top-ic of discussion at the rinks.

We want to believe Oceanside Minor Hockey Associa-tion parents are a well-behaved lot, but there are always a few bad apples around to spoil it for the rest. If the specta-tor-free dictum is employed, we’re willing to wager these bad apples will be twitching and screaming anyway from the lobby.

— Editorial by John Harding

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Should parents be banned from watching minor hockey?

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DIFFICULT TIMES AHEAD IN ENERGY

Re: John Harding’s editorial in the Jan. 15 edition of The NEWS.

I am a concerned local citizen and member of Communities to Protect Our Coast and not a paid, full-time employ-ee or tree-hugging anarchist as your term “professional protester” suggests.

Several of the citizens heading up our organization originate from Alberta, some with offspring working in ‘the patch’.

They are united in our cause because they have chosen to take their heads out of the sand to see the broader picture, some-thing the federal government has failed to do.

All energy is cyclic. With the sophisti-cation of modern extraction techniques in Alberta and the United States, oil has been pushed past its ‘sell by’ date leaving it vul-nerable to global politics and economics. The cost to the environment is enormous. Canada has no plan ‘B’.

As Canadians, we are not celebrating the struggles in the tar sands, there are dif-ficult times ahead for all of us.

BILL VINTONParksville

COMMUNITY SHOULD SUPPORT PHOENIX

I hope the community will support Phoenix Pain Management Society.

There are people in our community who are suffering and dying of diseases that cannabis medicines are being shown to treat or cure in the scientific literature (MS, Parkinson’s, epilepsy, arthritis, cancer, Alz-heimer’s, hypertension, IBS, Crohn’s, anxi-ety, depression...).

This medicine has been in use for mil-lennia and it’s impossible to overdose on cannabis (the parts of your brain that con-trol breathing and heart rate are the only areas in the body that have no receptors for cannabis compounds).

The federal MMPR program restricts access to concentrates and products that people can use effectively for medicine, in-stead only allowing people to buy the raw product to smoke (not nearly as effective for most conditions). Most people don’t

have the means to turn this into edible me-dicinal products.

Having access to affordable cannabis medicines is people’s right and has been recommended in Canada since the LeDain Commission. It’s not an exaggeration to say that for many it’s a matter of life or death.

I hope people will contact the city and the RCMP and ask them to allow this soci-ety to provide education and access to can-nabis medicines for people in need.

Our society in general is becoming much more aware of the usefulness of cannabis as a medicine, and realizing that it is not something that is harmful or easy to abuse, unlike alcohol, tobacco or prescription meds. Colorado’s success since increasing access to cannabis is a case in point.

Bringing these medicines into the light of day is one way to reduce the stigma and reduce the appeal to younger people who think it’s a recreational drug and not a medicine.

Cannabis isn’t so cool when Grandpa is using it for his arthritis.

The bottom line is that people should have a safe place to discuss whether can-nabis is an option for their conditions, and the government is not currently providing that for us.

Would the RCMP rather these activities continue in the black market with abso-lutely no accountability, or will they allow a safe grey market until government policy catches up with what a majority of Canadi-ans want?

CORY PAHLParksville

KEEP EARTHQUAKES IN PERSPECTIVE

The threat of “The “Big One” is discussed periodically in the press (The NEWS, Jan. 13, for example) but none of these accounts also state that B.C. is one of the safest places to be within the Pacific “Ring of Fire.”

The most dangerous parts are where plate tectonics have formed deep offshore trenches. Japan and Chile are examples. During the 20th century, Chile had about 80 quakes ranging from seven to 8.5 in magnitude. These areas also suffer from volcanic eruptions, which can be deadly.

The great water depths in the trench-es allows for the generation of tsunamis, which can be particularly destructive against low-lying shorelines, as witnessed by events in Japan a few years ago.

There is no trench off western North America. The main feature here is a series of laterally moving (transcurrent) faults which run from western California up to the ocean west of Vancouver Island. About 20 years ago, the Candlestick Park earth-quake, at magnitude seven, killed or in-jured about four hundred people.

In this area, the earlier quake off Camp-bell River was considerably stronger, and recently there have been a couple of big-gies, of magnitude eight, off Haida Gwaii. None of these caused direct loss of life or significant damage.

The probable reason is that western California is composed of young soft rock while British Columbia has a base of hard, igneous and metamorphic rocks which transmit stress in a different way.

The waters off British Columbia are probably too shallow to allow significant tsunami development, and even passing ones, like that from the huge 9.2 Alaska quake, which drowned more than 100 peo-ple, and then passed down our coast to drown another 12 in California, did little damage here, other than at Port Alberni.

In short, we really have had it pretty good and hopefully will continue to do so.

JIM DRUMMONDQualicum Beach

NOT CONSULTED RE: WILDFLOWER FACILITY

Shame on you Parksville city council. Council did not give Craig Bay residents a chance for input into the land sale deal with the company that proposes a medical marijuana facility in the Parksville Indus-trial Park.

This location is within walking distance of the 420 homes in Craig Bay Estates. The city is talking of water shortages — how does that fit into the scheme of all the water usage needed for the proposed marijuana facility?

JOAN MCCULLYCraig Bay

LettersQUOTABLE:

“So the scene we’re about to have... is little old ladies with arthritic hips, handcuffed and thrown into cars.”

AKIL PESSOA, see story page A1

VIEWS IN THE NEWSWe asked: Do you have plans to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday?

Definitely, I love

watching them, I’m

rooting for Seattle.

Go Hawks!

JENNIFER SWITZER

Parksville

I belong to a lot of

charity groups, I

might go down if

they do something.

PAM GELDART

Parksville

Not this year, I don’t

have time to follow

them.

DELANE JOHNSTON

Qualicum Beach

You better believe it,

I’m a big Seahawks

fan.

TAMARA MARTELLA

Nanoose Bay

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(Back left to right) Sigrid Kellas and Richard Botham are the co-leaders of the Parksville branch of Taoist Tai Chi. They demonstrated a few of the 108 moves of the prac-tice along with recovery class instructor Cliff Roberts (left) and student Margaret Whitford (right) at an open house event Jan. 25. Whitford who suffered a stroke a year ago says Taoist Tai Chi has helped with her recovery and she does the moves sitting down.

She shoots … she scores. These enthusiastic hockey play-ers spent Sunday afternoon at Oceanside Place bonding and supporting 31 young females who turned out for a free hockey try out. (left to right) Coach Shayna Twamley, four year old Lynden Dragani and 17 year old Ballenas student Erin Pickup who plays with the North Island Impact team practised drills including stick handling, stop-ping, passing and net minding.

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Regine Eder (left) from the Errington Therapeutic Riding Association (ETRA) gladly accepted a cheque in the amount of $1500 from RBC investment advisors Mike Hoskins (middle) and Oliver Sayah (right). The ETRA has been helping improve the physical and mental well-being of people with a wide range of disabilities. Therapeutic riding not only provides exercise, it gives riders a sense of achievement and self-worth.

Neil McCulloch of Glasgow, Scotland grew up listening to his parents quote the poems penned by the country’s best loved bard so it is no wonder he is a frequent speaker at Robbie Burns suppers. McCulloch who calls Qualicum Beach home gave the address to the haggis at the Robbie Burns dinner Jan. 22 at The Gardens retirement home. His ode to Scotland’s notorious national dish was deliv-ered with much enthusiasm.

� ere are about 200 members who are bene� ting from the classes o� ered at the Parksville Taoist Tai Chi clubhouse. At an open house event January 25, Richard Botham and Sigrid Kellas explained what the objective of the group is and how practising Taoist Tai Chi can en-hance anyone’s life. Sigrid explained that although there are many moves to learn, they have accredited instructors as well as teachers in each class who help people follow the moves. She said it is a form of exercise that even peo-ple with limited mobility can do and because all of your senses are engaged, it is fantastic for your health. Richard said people who can’t stand can attend the health recov-ery classes on � ursday mornings where the moves are done sitting down. � ere are several classes o� ered six days a week at the studio. He encourages people of all ages to give it a try and because there are so many moves he said you have to take more than one class to give it a fair shake. In the beginner classes you will explore the principles of the training and its movements and then progress to the continuing classes. � e Parksville club-house is located at 491A East Island Highway. Email: [email protected] for more details.

Despite the fact that ice hockey is dominated by males these days more women and girls are playing the game in unprecedented numbers. In fact on January 25 a whopping 31 girls age 12 and under got into full hockey gear and enjoyed the thrill of playing Canada’s favourite game at Oceanside Place Arena.

� e Oceanside Icebreakers female hockey program hosted the free event in hopes of encouraging more girls to try the great game of ice hockey.

It took a team of volunteers to get so many kids dressed for the session. � e gear was on loan from some of the teams in the female league. Several coaches and mentors spent time with the girls explaining the game, and teach-ing them the skills needed to play the game.

Four year old Lynden Dragani of Parksville was the youngest female on the ice. She recently joined the Hock-ey Rascals program at Oceanside Place but her dad says there are way more boys than girls in that group. He brought her to the girl’s only session to let her see she isn’t the only gal in town who loves to play hockey.

For women who are a bit older, the Oceanside Wom-en’s Hockey League o� ers a fun league for women of all abilities. Women new to hockey or who do not want to travel to play hockey are encouraged to join the OWHL.

On Monday nights at the arena from 7:45pm to 8:45pm there is free youth drop-in hockey for kids ages 13 to 15. Pond hockey is played on the full sheet of ice and is a fun non-contact game for all skill levels. Boys and girls are welcome and no gear is required except a helmet. Skate rentals are free and sticks and helmets are also available.

Submissions are welcome.Telephone Brenda Gough at 250-248-1188 or email: [email protected]

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(left to right) Heather Fraser and Sue Dabbs of Oceanside Hospice were delighted when Wendy Carrier and Jim Reid of the Craig Bay Choristers dropped by Valhalla with a cheque for a whopping $1868. The money will help support the new Oceanside Hospice on-call child and youth bereavement councillor. The Hospice Memory Tree campaign raised more than $10,000 and will go towards bereavement services.

Ballenas band teacher Rick Robson (middle) was among the fans treated to the amazing rhythms of Latin band Locarno at the Errington Hall Jan. 17. Rick has mentored a lot of talented band students and he was especially impressed with Locarno’s trombone and trumpet section. Rick who spent most the night on the dance floor admit-ted he wished he could have joined the band on stage but was happy to get a selfie with them.

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You’d think a business owner wouldn’t want her customers to copy her product, but that’s exactly what Lorelie Shoesmith, owner of Sugar Shack Seeds, encourages.

The Parksville seed producer and sell-er said she hopes fellow gardeners also save the seeds they collect from the veg-etables grown from her products.

“You’re going to get from that one seed, a hoard of seeds,” she said, calling the process “fun” and “empowering.” “It’s a more affordable way to go.”

However, Shoesmith also knows that not everyone wants to put in the work of preserving their garden. This is why, and how, she said Sugar Shack Seeds stays in business.

Each year, Sugar Shack Seeds produc-es a large selection of veggie, fruit, herb and flower seeds for customers to choose from. Shoesmith said she has even worked to incorporate not-so-common heirloom varieties, as well as plants that like our climate (making them less fussy and easier to grow) to her catalogue over the past five years.

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As a certified organic master gardener, Shoesmith uses effective micro-organ-isms, lasagna beds and compost to or-ganically grow her seed plants; however, she hasn’t bothered to get official certi-fication for her operation. “I am a small grower with a deep avoidance of any-thing that is not natural for my gardens and formal training on how to grow or-ganically … I take great pride in growing this way, and have not been interested in getting the paperwork to become cer-tified,” she explained. “There is a lot of documentation, record keeping, yearly inspections, additional costs … and takes up to 36 months to become certified.”

That being said, the Nanoose Edibles seeds that Shoesmith sells through her company are certified organic as that farm has official accreditation. Sugar Shack Seeds also sells products from Crazy Dog Farm (now Boots ’n’ Roots Permaculture Farm), which isn’t certi-fied but helps Shoesmith to offer a larger variety of seeds to her customers.

While the gardening side of things happens during certain seasons, Shoe-smith said the rest of the year is far from quiet. Running Sugar Shack Seeds is a year-round job filled with planning gar-dens, picking and cleaning seeds, cata-loguing, packaging and labelling prod-ucts, going to seed events, maintaining a website and blog, taking photos and selling seeds. She even does her own ger-

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“I love it,” she said of her work. “I’m feeling pretty good about this year.”

As Sugar Shack Seeds is a home-based business, Shoesmith mainly sells seeds on her website (sugarshackseeds.com). However, she also said that her seed room — a cool room in her base-ment filled with products preserved in

sealed envelopes and airtight mason jars — is open for customers to browse by appointment. Anyone interested in pick-ing out their seeds in person can simply email [email protected] or call 250-951-0601 to book a time.

Shoesmith also has a seed rack at Ken-Dor and will be at the upcoming Seedy Saturday on Feb. 7 at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre. The event is from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and admission is by donation.

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Love is in the air at the Village Theatre as ECHO Players prepare for its upcom-ing show The Last Romance. The romantic comedy about finding love later in life will open just before Valentine’s Day.

“It’s comedy; it’s touching; it’s about the autumn of people’s lives,” said Alan Clift, the productions lead actor. “Romance can occur at any age.”

Set in present-day New Jersey, The Last Romance tells the story of an older Ital-ian-America named Ralph. On an ordinary day, the widower decides to take a differ-ent route on his walk and meets the ele-gant, yet distant Carol in a park. He jumps on the unexpected chance for love and sets about wooing the reserved woman in her 70s with his boyish charm, all while having to deal with the jealousy of his sister, Rose.

Ralph’s love of opera is also thrown into the mix — including a story about how he auditioned at the Met in his youth — and a younger version of himself appears on-stage during scene transitions to sing ex-cerpts of various arias.

“It’s light, but it has some other layers,” said director Thea Stavroff, who lists loy-alty, loneliness, aging and being young at heart as some of the themes found within the play. “It was something I could sink my teeth into and work with the actors on.”

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Towers and Trees, Royal Tusk play at Brant FestivalVictoria band recorded most of latest album in Nanoose Bay

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A concert featuring two stellar musi-cal acts is part of the opening gala for this year’s Brant Wildlife Festival on Feb. 28.

Towers and Trees, an indie-folk col-lective from Victoria, and Royal Tusk, a five piece pop-rock band out of Edmon-ton, will be performing at the Parksville Community and Conference Centre in a fundraiser for the 25th annual Brant Wildlife Festival.

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Towers and Trees materialized from Victoria’s music scene on the strength of their infectious live energy, rich sound and earnest song writing.

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“There isn’t another Montreal on this album, which is cheeky and groove driven. The new al-bum is a little more emotionally earnest. There are big moments on it and there are high energy moments on it,” he agreed.

He said the flavour and themes of where they are going as a band is reflected in the new album.

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“It is amazing when you are tracking vocals and looking out the window at the ocean be-cause it is right on the water.”

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To send a condolence to the family please visit www.yatesfuneral.ca

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

Lloyd John Magnussen(1936-2015)

It is with great sadness the family announces the passing of Lloyd, on Monday, January 19, 2015 at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital at the age of 78.Loving husband of 18 years to Hazel; predeceased by his first wife Lena; father to Linda and Lorn; grandfather to Derek; great-grandfather to Katerina and Jessica; and a brother to Erling and Richard. Lloyd will also be missed by his nieces, nephews and extended family as well as his many close friends.

A Memorial Service will be held in Lloyd’s honour at 2:00 pm on Thursday, January 29th at the Yates Funeral Chapel, 1000 Allsbrook Road

in Parksville with a reception to follow. A private family interment was held on a previous date at St. Anne & St. Edmund Cemetery in Parksville.

HARRIS, ERNEST (ERNIE)June 26, 1922 – January 22, 2015

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Ernie Harris who leaves behind his wife Dorothy; children Doug (Maggie) of Qualicum, Gerry (Calanthie) Courtenay, two grandchildren and six great grandchildren.Ernie was a long time legion member, veteran of WWII (Navy) and saw action in the North Atlantic. He resided in Parksville since 1943.A reception will be held on Friday, January 30th,

1:00pm at Branch 49 Legion, Parksville.

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR (Parksville)Our mid-size Strata Property Management Services Company has an immediate opening for a Financial Administrator to join our team on a full-time contract basis. Qualifications include: Completion of Level II CGA or CMA or recognized equivalent and 3 years applied general accounting experience. Primary duties include: Completing monthly bookkeeping; performing all phases of accounts payable; preparing and analyzing monthly/financial statements and devel-oping annual budgets. The successful candidate will possess: a high level of computer literacy including proficiency in Microsoft applica-tions and Simply Accounting software; strong administrative & time management skills; proven ability to multi-task to deadlines and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Please send your resume and covering letter to: [email protected] by February 3, 2015. We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Broda Invacare HTR5500

Tilt, recline, removable wings,

adjustable leg rests, neck rest cushion,

removable shoulder bolsters, lap tray.

Roho seat cushion. In excellent condition.

$800 OBO 250-752-8260

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

INFORMATION

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BC FreshwaterFishing Regulations

SynopsisPlease call Annemarie 1.800.661.6335 or email:

fi [email protected]

BENEFIT GROUP - Do you or someone you know suffer from a disability? Get up to $40,000 from the Canadian Govern-ment. Toll-free 1-888-511-2250 or www.canadabenefi t. ca/free-assessment

DID YOU KNOW? BBB Ac-credited Businesses must pass a comprehensive screen-ing process. Look for the 2014 BBB Accredited Business Di-rectory E-edition on your Black Press Community Newspaper website at

www.blackpress.ca.You can also go to

http://vi.bbb.org/directory/ and click on the 2014 BBB

Accredited Business Directory

IF YOU WANT TO DRINK, that’s your business. Want to STOP, we can help. Alcoholics Anonymous. 1-800-883-3968

DEATHS


INFORMATION

Disability Benefi tsFree Seminar

Speakers: Dr. Alison Bested, on

ME/FM, CFS, other

Julie Fisher, Lawyer, Long-Term Disability

and CPP

Annamarie Kersop, Lawyer,

Injury & No-Fault Benefi ts

Date: Mon. Feb.9, 2015

at 7 pmWhere: Hyatt Regency

VancouverRSVP: 604-554-0078 oroffi [email protected]

NEW to the area? Call for your FREE package of info, gifts & greetings.

Bev: 250-248-4720 PVAnn: 250-248-3390 QB Pat: 250-248-7119 NANOOSE

New Program: Plus 50 . You don’t have to be new to the

Oceanside area to receive a visit from

Welcome Wagon! You just have to be

over the age of 50! Contact Pat.

The most Famous Baskets in the World!

www.welcomewagon.ca

DEATHS


LEGALS

NOTICE IS hereby given to Geoffrey Malcolm That household goods stored at Oceanside Storage Inc. locat-ed at 1270 Alberni Hwy. Parksville will be disposed on Feb. 12, 2015 unless the out-standing account is settled prior to this date.

PERSONALS

MEET SINGLES right now! No paid operators, just real peo-ple like you. Browse greetings, exchange messages and con-nect live. Try it free. Call now: 1-800-712-9851.

LOST AND FOUND

FOUND SET of Ford keys in Columbia Beach (corner of Dalmation Drive) (there for a while). Call the News 250-248-4341 to claim.

TRAVEL

TIMESHARE

CANCEL YOUR Timeshare. No risk program stop mort-gage & maintenance pay-ments today. 100% money back guarantee. Free consul-tation. Call us now. We can help! 1-888-356-5248.

TRAVEL

RESORT RENTAL in Hemet, CA. Brand new one bedroom cottages with full kitchen, bath, queen bed, and living suite. Luxury Resort. goldenvillage palms.com or 866-916-1316.

RV LOT rentals $8.95 a day. 362 days of sunshine, pets, events, classes, entertain-ment. Reserve by 02/14/2015. www.hemetrvresort.com. Call: 1-800-926-5593

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

DEALER REQUIRED- earn $8,000 to $10,000 cash per month servicing 100 snack boxes in your area. Your in-vestment $15,000.00, some fi -nancing is available. 1(604)930-6040.

WORK FROM Home & Oper-ate a Mini-Offi ce outlet, fl exible hours. Free on-line train-ing.www.freedom-unlimited.info

PROFESSIONAL/MANAGEMENT

HELP WANTED

HEAD (EXECUTIVE) Chef is needed to join our great team at Micky J’s Bar & Grill (Arrow-smith Golf & Country Club) in North Qualicum Beach. A highly skilled individual who works well with others, a keen knowledge of inventory man-agement and is experienced in producing large buffets/ban-quets. Red Seal Certifi cation and experience in both sides of the Food & Beverage Indus-try would be helpful. Superior wages and benefi ts and many other perks including a world class area to live. Please email:[email protected].

OFFICE ASSISTANT needed at Arrowsmith Golf & Country Club. Looking for a cheerful, team-oriented individual with accounting knowledge, data-processing skills, willing to learn new systems and work with public in a hand-on situa-tion when required... knowl-edge of Microsoft Offi ce pro-grams including Publisher. Please email:[email protected].

MEDICAL/DENTAL

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONis an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online train-ing you need from an employ-er-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-888-528-0809 to start training for your work-at-home career to-day!

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FINANCIAL SERVICES

ARE YOU $10K Or More In Debt? DebtGo can help re-duce a signifi cant portion of your debt load. Call now and see if you qualify. 1-800-351-1783.

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.

1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com


PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: It’s That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is not an issue. 1.800.587.2161.

TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or

604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca

HOME CARE SUPPORT

Affordable TLC Senior Care. 250-607-7151. Website: senior care parksville.com

MEDICAL HEALTH

KIM’S PROFESSIONAL Mo-bile foot care nurse. Serving Parksville to Qualicum Beach.(250)752-7554, (250)741-6970

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

COMPUTER SERVICES

BUYDENS COMPUTERS PC Repair & Personal Tutoring.Call Kevin @ 250-240-7372.

DRYWALL

Taping/ Texturing/ Painting.Reno & Repair Specialist. 30 years of fast friendly service. Wayne 250-752-4658 QB

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The Sharp Design Landscaping Group- Call 250.248.3835

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GARDENING

OCEANSIDE Lawn & Garden.Pruning, Hedge trimming &shaping, tree cutting, trimming.Mowing, gutters. Call(250)240-1116.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

WAYNE’S HAUL-AWAY &Snow Removal. Bondable. Call 250-752-1639.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

FULL SERVICE plumbingfrom Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50off your next job if you presentthis ad. Vancouver area. Call1-800-573-2928.

PAINTING

A STROKE ABOVE PaintingLTD- Liven up your space witha splash of colour! A goodpaint job beautifi es & addscharacter & personality to yourhome. Commercial & Residen-tial. Interior/Exterior. WCB.Insured. Dave, 250-240-2310.

POIRIER PAINTING: Resi-dential / Commercial. Fully in-sured, Guaranteed Workman-ship, WCB, Call Dan at #250-240-3528.

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Black Press

TOLL FREE 1-855-310.3535

fax 250.248.4655 email [email protected]

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTSFAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

ALL YOU NEED IN PRINT AND

ONLINE

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Your Community,

Your Classifi eds. 1-855-310-3535


To send a condolence to the family please visit www.yatesfuneral.ca

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

Lloyd John Magnussen(1936-2015)

It is with great sadness the family announces the passing of Lloyd, on Monday, January 19, 2015 at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital at the age of 78.Loving husband of 18 years to Hazel; predeceased by his first wife Lena; father to Linda and Lorn; grandfather to Derek; great-grandfather to Katerina and Jessica; and a brother to Erling and Richard. Lloyd will also be missed by his nieces, nephews and extended family as well as his many close friends.

A Memorial Service will be held in Lloyd’s honour at 2:00 pm on Thursday, January 29th at the Yates Funeral Chapel, 1000 Allsbrook Road

in Parksville with a reception to follow. A private family interment was held on a previous date at St. Anne & St. Edmund Cemetery in Parksville.


It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Ernie Harris who leaves behind his wife Dorothy; children Doug (Maggie) of Qualicum, Gerry (Calanthie) Courtenay, two grandchildren and six great grandchildren.Ernie was a long time legion member, veteran of WWII (Navy) and saw action in the North Atlantic. He resided in Parksville since 1943.A reception will be held on Friday, January 30th,

1:00pm at Branch 49 Legion, Parksville.

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR (Parksville)Our mid-size Strata Property Management Services Company has an immediate opening for a Financial Administrator to join our team on a full-time contract basis. Qualifications include: Completion of Level II CGA or CMA or recognized equivalent and 3 years applied general accounting experience. Primary duties include: Completing monthly bookkeeping; performing all phases of accounts payable; preparing and analyzing monthly/financial statements and devel-oping annual budgets. The successful candidate will possess: a high level of computer literacy including proficiency in Microsoft applica-tions and Simply Accounting software; strong administrative & time management skills; proven ability to multi-task to deadlines and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Please send your resume and covering letter to: [email protected] by February 3, 2015. We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

MULTI-POSITIONING WHEELCHAIR

Broda Invacare HTR5500

Tilt, recline, removable wings,

adjustable leg rests, neck rest cushion,

removable shoulder bolsters, lap tray.

Roho seat cushion. In excellent condition.

$800 OBO 250-752-8260


INFORMATION

Advertise in the 2015 - 2017

BC FreshwaterFishing Regulations

SynopsisPlease call Annemarie 1.800.661.6335 or email:

fi [email protected]

BENEFIT GROUP - Do you or someone you know suffer from a disability? Get up to $40,000 from the Canadian Govern-ment. Toll-free 1-888-511-2250 or www.canadabenefi t. ca/free-assessment

DID YOU KNOW? BBB Ac-credited Businesses must pass a comprehensive screen-ing process. Look for the 2014 BBB Accredited Business Di-rectory E-edition on your Black Press Community Newspaper website at

www.blackpress.ca.You can also go to

http://vi.bbb.org/directory/ and click on the 2014 BBB

Accredited Business Directory

IF YOU WANT TO DRINK, that’s your business. Want to STOP, we can help. Alcoholics Anonymous. 1-800-883-3968

DEATHS


INFORMATION

Disability Benefi tsFree Seminar

Speakers: Dr. Alison Bested, on

ME/FM, CFS, other

Julie Fisher, Lawyer, Long-Term Disability

and CPP

Annamarie Kersop, Lawyer,

Injury & No-Fault Benefi ts

Date: Mon. Feb.9, 2015

at 7 pmWhere: Hyatt Regency

VancouverRSVP: 604-554-0078 oroffi [email protected]

NEW to the area? Call for your FREE package of info, gifts & greetings.

Bev: 250-248-4720 PVAnn: 250-248-3390 QB Pat: 250-248-7119 NANOOSE

New Program: Plus 50 . You don’t have to be new to the

Oceanside area to receive a visit from

Welcome Wagon! You just have to be

over the age of 50! Contact Pat.

The most Famous Baskets in the World!

www.welcomewagon.ca

DEATHS


LEGALS

NOTICE IS hereby given to Geoffrey Malcolm That household goods stored at Oceanside Storage Inc. locat-ed at 1270 Alberni Hwy. Parksville will be disposed on Feb. 12, 2015 unless the out-standing account is settled prior to this date.

PERSONALS

MEET SINGLES right now! No paid operators, just real peo-ple like you. Browse greetings, exchange messages and con-nect live. Try it free. Call now: 1-800-712-9851.

LOST AND FOUND

FOUND SET of Ford keys in Columbia Beach (corner of Dalmation Drive) (there for a while). Call the News 250-248-4341 to claim.

TRAVEL

TIMESHARE

CANCEL YOUR Timeshare. No risk program stop mort-gage & maintenance pay-ments today. 100% money back guarantee. Free consul-tation. Call us now. We can help! 1-888-356-5248.

TRAVEL

RESORT RENTAL in Hemet, CA. Brand new one bedroom cottages with full kitchen, bath, queen bed, and living suite. Luxury Resort. goldenvillage palms.com or 866-916-1316.

RV LOT rentals $8.95 a day. 362 days of sunshine, pets, events, classes, entertain-ment. Reserve by 02/14/2015. www.hemetrvresort.com. Call: 1-800-926-5593

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

DEALER REQUIRED- earn $8,000 to $10,000 cash per month servicing 100 snack boxes in your area. Your in-vestment $15,000.00, some fi -nancing is available. 1(604)930-6040.

WORK FROM Home & Oper-ate a Mini-Offi ce outlet, fl exible hours. Free on-line train-ing.www.freedom-unlimited.info


HELP WANTED

HEAD (EXECUTIVE) Chef is needed to join our great team at Micky J’s Bar & Grill (Arrow-smith Golf & Country Club) in North Qualicum Beach. A highly skilled individual who works well with others, a keen knowledge of inventory man-agement and is experienced in producing large buffets/ban-quets. Red Seal Certifi cation and experience in both sides of the Food & Beverage Indus-try would be helpful. Superior wages and benefi ts and many other perks including a world class area to live. Please email:[email protected].

OFFICE ASSISTANT needed at Arrowsmith Golf & Country Club. Looking for a cheerful, team-oriented individual with accounting knowledge, data-processing skills, willing to learn new systems and work with public in a hand-on situa-tion when required... knowl-edge of Microsoft Offi ce pro-grams including Publisher. Please email:[email protected].

MEDICAL/DENTAL

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONis an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online train-ing you need from an employ-er-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-888-528-0809 to start training for your work-at-home career to-day!

PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

ARE YOU $10K Or More In Debt? DebtGo can help re-duce a signifi cant portion of your debt load. Call now and see if you qualify. 1-800-351-1783.

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.

1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com


PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: It’s That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is not an issue. 1.800.587.2161.

TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or

604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca

HOME CARE SUPPORT

Affordable TLC Senior Care. 250-607-7151. Website: senior care parksville.com

MEDICAL HEALTH

KIM’S PROFESSIONAL Mo-bile foot care nurse. Serving Parksville to Qualicum Beach.(250)752-7554, (250)741-6970


COMPUTER SERVICES

BUYDENS COMPUTERS PC Repair & Personal Tutoring.Call Kevin @ 250-240-7372.

DRYWALL

Taping/ Texturing/ Painting.Reno & Repair Specialist. 30 years of fast friendly service. Wayne 250-752-4658 QB

GARDENING

The Sharp Design Landscaping Group- Call 250.248.3835

MEDICAL SUPPLIES MEDICAL SUPPLIES


GARDENING

OCEANSIDE Lawn & Garden.Pruning, Hedge trimming &shaping, tree cutting, trimming.Mowing, gutters. Call(250)240-1116.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

WAYNE’S HAUL-AWAY &Snow Removal. Bondable. Call 250-752-1639.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

FULL SERVICE plumbingfrom Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50off your next job if you presentthis ad. Vancouver area. Call1-800-573-2928.

PAINTING

A STROKE ABOVE PaintingLTD- Liven up your space witha splash of colour! A goodpaint job beautifi es & addscharacter & personality to yourhome. Commercial & Residen-tial. Interior/Exterior. WCB.Insured. Dave, 250-240-2310.

POIRIER PAINTING: Resi-dential / Commercial. Fully in-sured, Guaranteed Workman-ship, WCB, Call Dan at #250-240-3528.

Your community. Your classifieds. C O M M U N I T Y N E W S M E D I A

Black Press

TOLL FREE 1-855-310.3535

fax 250.248.4655 email [email protected]

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTSFAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

ALL YOU NEED IN PRINT AND

ONLINE

bcclassifi ed.com

Your Community,

Your Classifi eds. 1-855-310-3535

ParksvilleQualicum News

Deadlines for the

Tuesday, Feb 3rd newspaper.

All classified display and word ads – Thursday, January 29th,

by 4pm.


It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Ernie Harris. Predeceased by his wife Dorothy (Dot) in 2011, Ernie is survived by his children Doug (Maggie) of Qualicum, Gerry (Calanthe) Courtenay, two grandchildren and six great grandchildren.Ernie was a long time legion member, veteran of WWII (Navy) and saw action in the North Atlantic. He resided in Parksville since 1943.A reception will be held on Friday, Jan. 30th, 1pm

at Branch 49 Legion, Parksville.

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Qualicum Beach comes out ahead in crosstown battle of the high schools with Parksville Kondors take round one vs WhalersHIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Gens still struggling, heading into late seasonVIJHL HOCKEY

T YSON [email protected]

It was another installment of the cross-town rivalry between the Kwalikum Kondors and the Ballenas Whalers last Thursday night on the hardwood at KSS and it didn’t disappoint.

A good crowd turned up to see the senior boys basketball teams going head to head, both looking for the all-important win and the bragging rights that go along with it. After a tough first half for both teams, the Kondors pulled off the 54 -42 win in a game that was played close and physical by both sides.

“It wasn’t a pretty game by any means,” Kondors coach Butch Gayton said after the win. “You gotta give a lot of credit to Ballenas, they played an ex-cellent game defensively and played a good, physical game. They made life difficult for our team and luckily we were able to put some points up in the sec-ond half. We haven’t been in a game like that so far this season, so it’s a learning experience.”

Leading the way on the night for the Kondors was Grade 11 Connor Haywood, who poured in 15 points and was a force in the paint for KSS while Grade

12 Jesse Goring chipped in with 10 points. Aaron Paetku led the charge for the Whalers, putting up 16 points, while Darien Mant had 14 points.

“Kwalikum is a tough team that has been having a lot of success this year,” Whalers head coach Kevin McMillen said. “I thought we competed very well

against them and didn’t give them an easy inch. We came out and played with a lot of tough-ness and energy, which was ex-actly what we had to do against

KSS in their own gym.”The game was supposed

to take place on Friday night, instead of Thursday, but was moved ahead one day due to no referees being available Friday.

“I thought the atmosphere was good, considering the last minute change,” McMillen said. “The fans were very supportive for both teams and it showed with the amount of effort all the players gave out there on the floor. It would have been nice to put up a few more points than we did, just for the enter-tainment part of things, but the defense was real good on both teams.”

The Kondors continued to play well as they have so far this season and will look to contin-ue heading in to the North Is-lands.

“Every game we’ve played, we have the North Islands in mind,” Gayton said. “We’re do-ing what we can in practice and in games to make sure that when we get there, we’re ready to go. We’ve been building up to it all season and it’s coming up on us here in short time and we’re really excited.”


The Save- On- Foods Oceanside Generals played back-to-back games against the Comox Valley Glacier Kings this past weekend, look-ing to gain some ground in the VIJHL standings with just nine games left before the playoffs.

After taking a 6- 2 loss in Co-

mox on Friday, the Generals were back on home ice Satur-day night for the back end of the home and home.

On a night the team and its fans paid tribute to longtime equipment manager Andrew Piercy — who is leaving the team after 15 seasons — the Generals lost a close game by a score of 4- 3.

“It was a tough game to lose, especially the way we played,” head coach Rob Gaudreault said.

“We came out and started strong like we did on Friday night and were right there all game.”

“We just couldn’t finish it off tonight unfortunately.”

Prior to the game, Piercy

was presented with a Generals jersey, complete with his name on the back, from his good friend, former head coach and general manager Dave John-ston.

Johnston was on hand with a few of the players from the 2008/ 2009 VIJHL champion-ship winning team.

“Andrew is the heart and

soul of the Generals,” Johnston said. “He’s always happy, al-ways cheering the loudest and was right there to open that gate when you were coming off the ice.”

“Everyone that’s ever been involved with the Generals is going to miss him.”

TYSON TAYLOR PHOTO

Kwalikum’s Shane Craven flys through the air on his way to the hoop as the Kondors played host to the Ballenas Whalers last Thursday night. The Kondors would go on to beat the Whalers 54-42.

See LOOKING FOR, page A30

See WHALERS FACE, page A31

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Qualicum Beach comes out ahead in crosstown battle of the high schools with Parksville Kondors take round one vs WhalersHIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Gens still struggling, heading into late seasonVIJHL HOCKEY


It was another installment of the cross-town rivalry between the Kwalikum Kondors and the Ballenas Whalers last Thursday night on the hardwood at KSS and it didn’t disappoint.

A good crowd turned up to see the senior boys basketball teams going head to head, both looking for the all-important win and the bragging rights that go along with it. After a tough first half for both teams, the Kondors pulled off the 54 -42 win in a game that was played close and physical by both sides.

“It wasn’t a pretty game by any means,” Kondors coach Butch Gayton said after the win. “You gotta give a lot of credit to Ballenas, they played an ex-cellent game defensively and played a good, physical game. They made life difficult for our team and luckily we were able to put some points up in the sec-ond half. We haven’t been in a game like that so far this season, so it’s a learning experience.”

Leading the way on the night for the Kondors was Grade 11 Connor Haywood, who poured in 15 points and was a force in the paint for KSS while Grade

12 Jesse Goring chipped in with 10 points. Aaron Paetku led the charge for the Whalers, putting up 16 points, while Darien Mant had 14 points.

“Kwalikum is a tough team that has been having a lot of success this year,” Whalers head coach Kevin McMillen said. “I thought we competed very well

against them and didn’t give them an easy inch. We came out and played with a lot of tough-ness and energy, which was ex-actly what we had to do against

KSS in their own gym.”The game was supposed

to take place on Friday night, instead of Thursday, but was moved ahead one day due to no referees being available Friday.

“I thought the atmosphere was good, considering the last minute change,” McMillen said. “The fans were very supportive for both teams and it showed with the amount of effort all the players gave out there on the floor. It would have been nice to put up a few more points than we did, just for the enter-tainment part of things, but the defense was real good on both teams.”

The Kondors continued to play well as they have so far this season and will look to contin-ue heading in to the North Is-lands.

“Every game we’ve played, we have the North Islands in mind,” Gayton said. “We’re do-ing what we can in practice and in games to make sure that when we get there, we’re ready to go. We’ve been building up to it all season and it’s coming up on us here in short time and we’re really excited.”


The Save- On- Foods Oceans-ide Generals played back-to-back games against the Comox Valley Glacier Kings this past weekend, looking to gain some ground in the VIJHL standings with just nine games left before the playoffs.

After taking a 6- 2 loss in Co-

mox on Friday, the Generals were back on home ice Satur-day night for the back end of the home and home.

On a night the team and its fans paid tribute to longtime equipment manager Andrew Piercy — who is leaving the team after 15 seasons — the Generals lost a close game by a score of 4- 3.

“It was a tough game to lose, especially the way we played,” head coach Rob Gaudreault said.

“We came out and started strong like we did on Friday night and were right there all game.”

“We just couldn’t finish it off tonight unfortunately.”

Prior to the game, Piercy

was presented with a Generals jersey, complete with his name on the back, from his good friend, former head coach and general manager Dave John-ston.

Johnston was on hand with a few of the players from the 2008/ 2009 VIJHL champion-ship winning team.

“Andrew is the heart and

soul of the Generals,” Johnston said. “He’s always happy, al-ways cheering the loudest and was right there to open that gate when you were coming off the ice.”

“Everyone that’s ever been involved with the Generals is going to miss him.”

TYSON TAYLOR PHOTO

Kwalikum’s Shane Craven flys through the air on his way to the hoop as the Kondors played host to the Ballenas Whalers last Thursday night. The Kondors would go on to beat the Whalers 54-42.

See LOOKING FOR, page A30

See WHALERS FACE, page A31

Arrowsmith Agricultural Association & Coombs Fair

Special aGM NoticeNotice is hereby given to all members that the monthly meeting of the Arrowsmith Agricultural Association will be held on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7:30 PM at the Coombs Fairgrounds, 1014 Ford Road, Coombs. Notice is also hereby given to all members that a SPECIAL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Arrowsmith Agricultural Association will be held on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 8:30 PM at the Coombs Fairgrounds, 1014 Ford Road, Coombs, to approve minor amendments to the Bylaws of the Association.

New members welcome. 250-248-4458


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With only seven games left in their sched-ule, the Generals will play three of those games this week, starting Thursday night against the Nanaimo Buccaneers in Nanaimo.

Friday night the Generals travel down to Victoria to take on the Peninsula Panthers, the team that Piercy will be joining. Saturday, the Generals are back at home to take on the Saanich Braves. Puck drop is at 7:30 p.m. at Oceanside Place.

It’s going to be a jam-packed week with practices and games, but it’s something that the team will look to take in stride.

“We played good last weekend, so we’ll hope to keep that up this weekend,” forward Brendan Bilotta said.

“We just have to make sure that we take care of ourselves this week. It’s different without a break between the last practice of the week

before the weekend games.”The Generals are still searching for that elu-

sive first road win of the season, which they’ll have four more chances to do with seven games left on the schedule.

“It’s going to be a test this week, for sure,” Gaudreault said. “It’s busy with practice at the start of the week and then Thursday we jump right into the first of three games.”

“These guys have been competitive all sea-son and we’re going to be competitive again, regardless of two or three games in a week. All we have to be is more consistent and if we can do that, get everyone getting more consistent things will get better.”

You can catch the action on 88.5 The Beach with Dom Abassi as the Generals travel to Nanai-mo and the Victoria area on Thursday (7:15 p.m. puck drop) and Friday night (7:30 p.m.).

Looking for road winVIJHL HOCKEY

Save-On-Foods, Feb. 28 and March 1

Sign up for local minor baseball

OCEANSIDE REGISTRATION


It’s just about that time of year again as in-person registration for Oceanside Minor Baseball will be available February 28 and March 1 at Save-On-Foods in Parksville.

If you can’t wait for the end of February, you can register online and receive an early bird discount.

Just go to www.oceansidebase-ball.ca and click on the “register” button.

For the in-person registration, you can drop by between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on both days, Saturday (Feb. 28) and Sunday (March 1) to register for the upcoming season.

A reminder that, if your child is new to minor baseball, please bring their birth certificate along

to the registration.• A special congratulations

goes out to the Lamont family, who won a free family spring reg-istration for attending the Annu-al General Meeting, which took place in November 2014.

• Also at the AGM meeting, Barb Nicoll was presented with the Coach of the

Year award.Umpire awards were handed

out to Leo Ariyama, Spencer Han-cock and Brandon Nicoll.

Mike Cochrane also received a Special Service Award for his 30 years of volunteer support to Oceanside Minor Baseball. Co-chrane has done everything from being on the executive board to being in charge of field operations in recent years.

TYSON TAYLOR PHOTO

Andrew Piercy, left, had his final game with the Save-On-Foods Oceanside Generals this past Saturday night after being with the team for 15 years. Piercy was honored with a Gens jersey, presented to him by former Generals head coach and general manager Dave Johnston.


In-person registration 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

OCEANSIDE MINOR BASEBALL


With only seven games left in their sched-ule, the Generals will play three of those games this week, starting Thursday night against the Nanaimo Buccaneers in Nanaimo.

Friday night the Generals travel down to Victoria to take on the Peninsula Panthers, the team that Piercy will be joining. Saturday, the Generals are back at home to take on the Saanich Braves. Puck drop is at 7:30 p.m. at Oceanside Place.

It’s going to be a jam-packed week with practices and games, but it’s something that the team will look to take in stride.

“We played good last weekend, so we’ll hope to keep that up this weekend,” forward Brendan Bilotta said.

“We just have to make sure that we take care of ourselves this week. It’s different without a break between the last practice of the week

before the weekend games.”The Generals are still searching for that elu-

sive first road win of the season, which they’ll have four more chances to do with seven games left on the schedule.

“It’s going to be a test this week, for sure,” Gaudreault said. “It’s busy with practice at the start of the week and then Thursday we jump right into the first of three games.”

“These guys have been competitive all sea-son and we’re going to be competitive again, regardless of two or three games in a week. All we have to be is more consistent and if we can do that, get everyone getting more consistent things will get better.”

You can catch the action on 88.5 The Beach with Dom Abassi as the Generals travel to Nanai-mo and the Victoria area on Thursday (7:15 p.m. puck drop) and Friday night (7:30 p.m.).

Looking for road winVIJHL HOCKEY

Save-On-Foods, Feb. 28 and March 1

Sign up for local minor baseball

OCEANSIDE REGISTRATION


It’s just about that time of year again as in-person registration for Oceanside Minor Baseball will be available February 28 and March 1 at Save-On-Foods in Parksville.

If you can’t wait for the end of February, you can register online and receive an early bird discount.

Just go to www.oceansidebase-ball.ca and click on the “register” button.

For the in-person registration, you can drop by between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on both days, Saturday (Feb. 28) and Sunday (March 1) to register for the upcoming season.

A reminder that, if your child is new to minor baseball, please bring their birth certificate along

to the registration.• A special congratulations

goes out to the Lamont family, who won a free family spring reg-istration for attending the Annu-al General Meeting, which took place in November 2014.

• Also at the AGM meeting, Barb Nicoll was presented with the Coach of the

Year award.Umpire awards were handed

out to Leo Ariyama, Spencer Han-cock and Brandon Nicoll.

Mike Cochrane also received a Special Service Award for his 30 years of volunteer support to Oceanside Minor Baseball. Co-chrane has done everything from being on the executive board to being in charge of field operations in recent years.

TYSON TAYLOR PHOTO

Andrew Piercy, left, had his final game with the Save-On-Foods Oceanside Generals this past Saturday night after being with the team for 15 years. Piercy was honored with a Gens jersey, presented to him by former Generals head coach and general manager Dave Johnston.


In-person registration 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

OCEANSIDE MINOR BASEBALL

PQB HISTORYFor a look back at life in ParksvilleQualicum Beach, tour the Qualicum Beach Museum,587 Beach Road, Qualicum Beach

qbmuseum.net

WENDY MAURERNEWS Contributor

For the man who was to become the � rst doctor in Qualicum Beach, 1898 was a pivotal year. Not only did Camp-bell Davidson graduate as a doctor from McGill Medical School “Cammy” played hockey for the Montreal Victo-rias who won the Stanley Cup that year. He and his brother Shirley were well known as “� e Davidson Boys” and the Montreal Victorias managed to win the Stanley cup four out of � ve years, losing in 1896 then winning it back. Camp-bell’s father, Chief Justice Sir Charles Peers Davidson, was a long time sports enthusiast. Dr. Campbell’s paternal great great grandparents were born in Scotland in the 1770’s and immigrated to Canada. His maternal great great grandparents immigrated from the US and Scotland. Campbell was born on May 22, 1877 in Montreal and died on February 16, 1940. He is buried in the Qualicum Beach cemetery.

After McGill, Dr. Davidson was a resident at Montreal General Hospi-tal, then a ship’s surgeon travelling the world. His last ship’s service was with the C.P.R. Ocean Service between Van-couver and the Orient. He was then em-ployed as medical o� cer of the Rogers Pass construction work in the Rock-ies. When the Qualicum Beach Hotel was taken over by military authorities during the war as a rehabilitation hos-pital for returning men, he was appoint-ed to the medical sta� . He later became its commanding o� cer. After the war he settled here with his wife Mary and son Charles & daughter Shirley. Mary Motherwell was a VON nurse at Van Anda Hospital on Texada Island, mar-ried Dr. Davidson in Sorrento in 1912. She was born in Quebec in 1878 and died in Qualicum Beach in 1962. � eir house and the doctor’s surgery were located at the corner of Memorial & Hwy 19A on the site of what is now the Qualicum Beach Inn. After Dr. David-son’s death, Mary Davidson moved to a house on East Crescent. Some of Dr. Davidson’s patients still live in Quali-cum Beach.

Dr. Davidson’s obituary ran in � e Vancouver Sun, � e Daily Province, and the Comox Argus. Each is a source of information about him. “Of United Empire Loyalist stock he was a strong imperialist in outlook, and while he did not readily show his feelings at any time, his deep kindness and sympa-thy were known best to those who had known him during times of trouble. He seemed an integral part of post-war Qualicum and will leave a memory of community life which will long re-main.” “He was a well-loved resident of this district” “� e Qualicum Beach branch of the Canadian Legion parad-ed in full strength and lined the path to the church gate” “� e Qualicum Beach schools were closed Monday as a trib-ute to his memory.”

� e information for this column was taken from materials previously com-piled by the QB Family History Society & the QB Historical & Museum Society. It is on � le at the QB Archives. It is an ex-ample of how local families and groups can ensure information is available for future generations. Seeing photos, read-ing documents and listening to oral his-tories can help put dates and data found in genealogical research in perspective and give it more meaning. Consider compiling your story and contributing it to the community archives. Photos can be scanned and returned to you. For more information contact your local

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First doc in Qualicum won the Cup

PHOTO COURTESY OF QUALICUM BEACH MUSEUM

Mary and Dr. Campbell Davidson with daughter Shirley.

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Dr. Davidson’s home and surgery, Memorial & Hwy 19A.

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Competition heats up heading into the final leg of the local season

Four wins separate top darts teams

DARTS


Just four wins separate the top two teams as the District 69 Dart Association heads into its final leg of the season.

Dale Simpson and Jackie Anderson, of the Branch 76 Shooters, both played well but it wasn’t enough to overcome Steve Eckhart, who won all of his games, and the Short Sight-ed Crew, with the final score 25-8 in favor of the Short Sighted Crew.

Larry Full-er, who fin-ished with the men’s high score for the week (151) and the sea-son, along with Chad Trouton and Mike Jacobs, all winning five games each, helped the Rocking Horse Oche-holics to a 25-8 win against the QF Straight Ar-rows.

In a battle of the Parksville Legion, the Legion 49 Bristle Bashers got the better of the Legion Arrows by a score of 20-13.

Legion Arrows’ Ruth Kovacs was named the ladies high score of the week with 130.

For more information and statistics, you can check out the website at http://www.dis-trict69darts.com/.

Team Wins

Legion 49 Bristle Bashers 315Cutting Edge Dragons 311Branch 49 Dart Riders 287Short Sighted Crew 269Rocking Horse Oche-holics 241QF Straight Arrows 219Legion Arrows 212Branch 76 Shooters 128

The Whalers will now look to a Tuesday night match up with the top team on the Is-land at the AAA level, the NDSS Islanders.

It’s another rare home game for the Whal-ers this season, with the tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight.

“It’s going to be another test for our young team against another quality opponent,” Mc-Millen said. “I was happy with our defensive effort and we are still improving defensively which is kind of scary.”

Whalers face NDSS Islanders

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS


Dale Simpson and Jackie Anderson, of the Branch 76 Shooters, both played well

but it wasn’t enough to overcome Steve Eckhart.

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