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Police are not going to reduce roadside counterattack checks, despite a recent court ruling.

After a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled last week that the most severe of B.C.s new impaired driving penalties infringe on peoples constitutional rights to a fair trial, Public Safety Minister Shirley Bond announced police in the province wont impose the toughest of the new roadside penalties until drivers are given a way to appeal the results of a failed breath test.

But E Division RCMP Supt. Norm Gaumont says little will change.

It is his most ambitious project yet, and acclaimed saxophonist/composer/band leader Phil Dwyers new CD has been getting rave reviews since its release at the end of October.

Changing Seasons is a compelling violin con-certo that bridges the jazz and classical worlds in seamless fashion.

THE NEWS is still looking for peoples penny collections, as part of our ongoing Pennies for Presents campaign.

Bring in your copper coins to THE NEWS offi ce in Parksville and well tally them up, exchange them for bigger cash denominations, and donate our collective fundraising efforts to the Society of Organized Services and the Salva-tion Army.

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VANCOUVER Police are not going to reduce roadside counterattack checks, despite a recent court ruling.

After a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled last week that the most severe of B.C.s new impaired driving penalties infringe on peoples constitutional rights to a fair trial, Public Safety Minister Shirley Bond announced police in the province wont impose the toughest of the new roadside penalties until driv-ers are given a way to appeal the results of a failed breath test.

But E Division RCMP Supt. Norm Gaumont says little will change.

We will absolutely not be reducing counterat-tack roadside checks, Gaumont said. Nothings changed here. We still dont want people to drink and drive. Lets keep up the good work.

There was a 40-per-cent drop in alcohol-related vehicle deaths in the first year of the new penalties.

In his ruling, Justice Jon Sigurdson said the increased penalties for blowing in the warn range of 0.05 to 0.08 per cent, are permissible. But drivers who blow in the fail range above 0.08 should have a chance to challenge the decision if their vehicles are impounded for 30 days and they face thousands of dollars in administrative penalties, Sigurdson said.

Gaumont said police will revert to the old road-side impairment rules, which means impaired drivers can still face a 90-day administrative driving prohibition if they are charged.

The newer penalties are more strict, allowing police to give drivers with a blood alcohol reading in the warn range a three-day driving ban, a $200 administrative penalty and another $250 fee to have a drivers licence reinstated. Drivers can also have their cars impounded for three days and be billed for towing and storage.

For roadside readings of 0.08 per cent or higher, police have been imposing a 90-day driving ban, a $500 fine and impounding the vehicle for 30 days.

That suspension can cost a driver $3,750 for such things as towing, storage and a mandatory respon-sible driver course.

Holiday road checks still onDespite impaired driving court ruling, police still looking for drunk drivers

The Society of Organized Services opened its toy shop on Monday. Theresa Antolick of Royal LePage Realty, left, helped fi ll the bookshelves with $1,175 in hand-picked paperbacks from Mulberry Bush book stores. SOS Christmas program co-ordinator Renee Caulder says the shelves were full but since they will empty out fast this week, donations are still being accepted. Call the SOS at 250-248-2093 for details. SUBMITTED PHOTO

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BC DEFICIT GROWS

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VICTORIA Ex-pected revenues to the B.C. government fell by $303 million in the second quarter of the fiscal year, due mainly to instability around the world, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon said recently.

The drop in rev-enues will make it more difficult to meet the governments tar-get of balancing the budget by 2013. Falcon said he will wait until January, when the finance ministry has to finalize its next budget, to see if that target can still be met.

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VICTORIA The Insurance Corp. of B.C. is applying for an increase to its man-datory basic vehicle insurance for 2012 to help cover an in-crease in claims and a decline in investment income.

ICBC president Jon Schubert said the corporations bodily injury claims have jumped, contribut-ing to a $200 million increase in overall claims in the first nine months of 2011.

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Science World Exhibits at Ballenas Secondary School in Parksville Dec. 10 included some bug stations, where participants got to see the critters that live in area ponds. BRENDA GOUGH PHOTOS

Science world scientist Kristin Lee was on stage presenting science projects in a humorous way.

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Aaron Grant of Cool as Ice was demonstrating ice carving.

Kiefer Penman, 5, from Parksville (wearing green camo hoody) and Shelby Holt, 11, from Parksville, took part in a rocket launcher project.

Natural science included lessons about birds of prey like owls from NIWRA.

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Thousands of pennies sure are heavy. So, NEWS employee Sandi Wells used a truck and cart to carry over the coins to Coastal Community Credit Union to convert into larger denominations recently. PETER MCCULLY PHOTO

Pennies rolling inPARKSVILLE The pennies

keep rolling in and to date, The News has received $2,330 in copper coins from our readers.

Great job!Still, theres a way to go to reach

our goal of $5,000 in this years Pennies for Presents campaign.

The News is collecting pennies all of December, and will donate the proceeds evenly between the Society of Organized Services and

the Salvation Army. These two local organizations use the cash to ensure families and children have enough food and support through the holiday season and well into the new year.

Pennies as well as other cash donations can be dropped off at The News office on Middleton Avenue in Parksville during office hours.

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By NEIL HORNERNEWS REPORTER

When members of the Quali-cum Beach Volunteer Fire Depart-ment joins up with Arrowsmith Search and Rescue, Oceanside residents can expect good things to happen.

Thats doubly true when both town staff and members of the community rally to their cause, as was the case on Nov. 26 when the groups joined forces for their annual Christmas food drive in support of the Salvation Army Food Bank.

Spokesperson Barry Blair said the food drive volunteers were able

to collect 7,241 pounds of non-per-ishable food items and a whopping $1,734 in cash.

These, he noted, were well over the amounts collected in the 2010 campaign.

In addition, numerous toys were collected for the Society of Orga-nized Services.

We would like to express our thanks once again to the residents of Qualicum Beach for their gener-osity, he said.

Thanks also need to go out to Qualicum Foods, Dollys Home Hardware, Baileys in the Village and Home Building Centre for their continued support of the food drive.

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By AUREN RUVINSKYNEWS REPORTER

The Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation is ac-cepting donations this holiday season toward the proposed Oceanside health centre.

We received our first dona-tion and so now the account is open, said foundation presi-dent Maeve OByrne. The first donation is always the most challenging.

The donation is for equip-ment, but OByrne said dona-tions can be general or towards anything within their mandate, including equipment, renova-tion, education and research.

She points out they are still accepting donations for the expanded Nanaimo Regional General Hospital emergency room but they have opened the Oceanside account, as they promised to the community and MLA Ron Cantelon.

People who want their tax deductible donation to go spe-cifically toward the proposed Oceanside project need to make

that clear when they donate.Asked what would happen

to the donations if the health facility isnt built, OByrne said they would have to go back to the donors and ask them what to do with the money.

I know at this time of the year many of us donate to hos-pital foundations and charities and so I am hopeful that Ocean-side residents might keep this in mind, local resident Steve Anderson e-mailed THE NEWS.

Although the centre is not built yet, it would let the pow-ers that be know that we are willing to support a medical centre in our area.

Nearly 22,000 donors have given over $34 million to the foundation since 1991, includ-ing $2.7 million in 2010/11 alone.

For more information, or to donate, call toll-free from Oceanside 250-947-8212, e-mail info@nanaimohospitalfounda-tion.com, check online at www.nanaimohospitalfoundation.com or stop at their office in the NRGH front lobby.

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A young man takes part in the CEAP program (for home-schooled children) play they developed with Thea Stavroff. The play was held at Qualicum Beach Elementary School. BRENDA GOUGH PHOTO

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Major Rolf Guenther of the Salvation Army knows that when it comes to helping Oceansides less fortunate, every little bit helps. For this reason, he was delighted to accept decorated cans of pennies and hand-made Christmas cards from the students at Qualicum Beach Elementary School. Here, Jackson Nowak, 7, makes the donation. NEIL HORNER PHOTO

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Dave Kasprick is hoping the public gets behind his effort to raise money for the Nanoose Bay Commu-nity Cupboard.

The owner of the Red Cod Forge is holding a Christmas studio open house on Saturday, Dec. 17 where he will be donating the proceeds from the sale of his original forged star fish sculptures to the local food band. Kasprick has created quite a few of the one-of-a-kind metal pieces which he will sell for around $25 with all of the money going to the local food bank.

He said he will do-nate 10 per cent of the proceeds from any of his other pieces sold

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Kasprick is a true black-smith artist and when he is forging metal in his studio he prefers to use traditional tools to hammer, bend and cut and he is constantly striving to add even more historic tools to his work-shop.

He said if he makes a little extra money this weekend he will put it into his line shaft that he is put-ting together to make his shop more authentic. For those who dont know what a line shaft is, Kasprick said it is a big power hammer. He also has a grinder and a power hack saw that all run off one common shaft just like is was done in the old days.

The equipment I have

is from the turn of the century. It is from 1902 and I want to get it up and run-ning so my shop lives and breathes art. I dont want a plasma cutter. I want my shop to have some life in it, admitted Kasprick.

Blacksmiths work by heating pieces of wrought iron or steel until the metal becomes soft enough to be shaped with hand tools, such as a hammer, anvil and chisel. Heating is accom-plished by the use of a forge fueled by propane, natural gas, coal, charcoal, or coke.

There is an increasing interest and revival in the art of blacksmithing and Kasprick said he finds the craft very rewarding. An artist from an early age,

Kasprick began working with clay and drawing wildlife with pen and ink. The interest to heat steel in order to mold and ply it like clay became the focus of his art when he built his first forge in 2002.

The farrier was here doing horseshoes. I made a forge that evening after watching him. It was just like working clay. After I built my own forge my shop grew. One day someone said you have a blacksmith shop here.

That started his foray into the steel medium and ever since he has been continually practicing the ancient art and credits a metal artist in Nanaimo for mentoring him.

Working with iron takes practice and a keen eye for metal and Kaspricks hand forged work is mostly done with recycled steel.

Through this medium, he incorporates marine themes with coastal wildlife to create abstract and freeform steel sculptures. His works range from small one dimensional pieces to two or three dimensional sculptures, gates, railings, and functional art for use in the home and garden.

You are invited to the forge to see Kaspricks sculptural works of art at the Red Cod Forge, 2155 Spur Place in Nanoose Bay.

The open house Dec. 17 runs from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Artist uses blacksmith techniques from early 1900sCONTINUED FROM PAGE A8

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In this frenzied Christmas shopping season, as consumers hurry from store to store seeking the perfect gift for everyone on their list, there appears to be a port in the storm.

Gift cards are wildly popular. Theyre easy to send in the mail or stuff in a stocking. They show at least a semblance of thought

was given to the recipients desires yet still empower that recipient to get something they truly want.

Canadians spend about six billion dollars a year on gift cards. A sur-vey last year by Maritz Research suggested almost half of Canadians were hoping to find a gift card under their Christmas tree.

Theyre also popular with retailers. Statistics Canada says more than 80 per cent of large Cana-dian retailers offer gift cards.

For those shoppers still having a hard time making a decision at the gift card display, the credit card gift card issued by a number of banks seems like the perfect solution. But beware the fine print. Theres lots of it. Most of which works against the consumer.

Gift cards issued by retailers are regulated by provincial consumer laws. In B.C., that means they cant have expiry dates and consumers cant be charged fees to acquire or maintain the cards.

But bank credit card gift cards are regulated by Ottawa, which has yet to act to protect consumers against extra fees or expiry dates. Those fees can quickly chip away at the full value of the gift card.

And if the card does expire, the bank will gladly issue a new one for a substantial fee, plus a cancellation fee equal to the balance still on the card.

It all adds up to make a credit card gift card seem more a gift to the banks than the recipient. Its time the federal government bring the rules for those cards in line with those that apply to retailer gift cards.

editorial from the Burnaby News Leader/Black Press

Im sleeping with a woman in Corsica.Not from Corsica in Corsica. Whats more, her husband is in bed with us. He doesnt suspect a thing.

Its complicated.For one thing, I am not

worse luck actually in Cor-sica myself.

I am in snow-bound Canada, typing at a kitchen table with a scarf around my neck. But my avatar, my Doppelganger, my other self, is down there in Cor-sica, enjoying the ocean breeze thats wafting through the open window and over the, er, three of us.

Its like this: once upon a time I had a radio show called Basic Black that ran on the CBC the Canadian Broadcasting Corpo-ration. One day a slick-looking dude from the PR department

buttonholed me in the CBC cafeteria.

Wed like to do some advertising for your show, he purred.

Swell, I said.We were think-

ing of T-shirts, he said.

Okay, I said. What would you

like on the T-shirt, he asked me.

Uh the name of the show? I guessed.

He shook his head sadly, as if he was dealing with a slow-learning Labrador.

Well need more than that, he said.

We kicked it around for a while.

He rejected the idea of snappy slogans, funny quotes or

a staff photo. My coffee was

getting cold.How about I

draw a cartoon of myself, I sug-gested.

Perfect, he said.

Thats how we ended up with 147 cartons of Basic

Black T-shirts emblazoned with a cartoon head depicting a bald guy with a big nose and a strag-gly beard grinning crookedly above my scrawled signature.

The cartoon is laughably amateurish and looks, if I may say so, unlike any human alive.

Everybody says its a perfect likeness.

That was my first embarrass-ment everybody who saw the gargoyle Id scrawled immedi-

ately knew it was me. But worse it became

(unlike any of my books) an im-mediate best-seller.

We couldnt keep it in stock. In a matter of weeks the Basic Black T-shirt was showing up on the torsos of loggers in Prince George, wheat farmers in the Prairies, secretaries on Bay Street, oyster-shuckers in Lunenburg and (I know I saw the photo) on a co-ed quartet of skiers schussing down the side of a mountain near Invermere, B.C.

Who, aside from ski boots, ap-pear to be wearing nothing BUT their Basic Black T-shirts.

Well, thats the thing about this garment it only comes in one colour (black, natch) and, as an extra cost-cutting measure, the PR department decided we would order it in just one size:

Extra Large. If youre built like Arnold

Schwarzenegger (or, for that matter, like an Amazon with breast implants) its a perfect fit. Otherwise, youve got pyja-mas.

Thats how I came to be sleep-ing with that woman in Corsica.

Im wearing my Basic Black T-shirt to bed tonight, she wrote on a postcard.

I suppose, technically, Im sleeping with hundreds of wom-en right now, when you think about it. Thousands, maybe.

Well dozens, for sure. But its no bed of roses. The husband of that Corsican

correspondent I mentioned? I hear that hes wearing

me too.I told you its complicated.

Arthur Black lives on Saltspring Island

Who gets this gift?

Been there, done that ... got the T-shirt

Its time the

federal government

bring the rules for those

cards in line

The curling conditions were once again fi rst rate.John Milroy ... A37

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Dont forget what happened here

This is what you call transparency?

Process followed

An insult to QB

I feel compelled to respond to your recent articles and editorials regarding the removal of the elected Mayor of Qualicum Beach as the

towns regional district representa-tive.

I found the muscles flexed by the four newly-elected council members to be absolutely classless, cowardly and inappropriate.

I will not debate the notion that someone other than the mayor should be the appointed representa-tive.

There was nothing to stop the council members from discuss-ing appointments in an in-camera meeting. To blind-side the mayor in a well-attended public meeting, however, was insulting to the community and to the mayor.

It appears that the council members went out of their way to em-barrass Mr. Westbroek and to collectively take command of council. My sense is that the new council members should probably have shown to courage to run for mayor rather than council if that was their intent.

In an interview, Councillor Brouilette said the main reason for the move was to improve the relationship with the regional dis-trict. What utter codswallop.

The move has fractured any notion of a team of elected repre-sentatives and, in my opinion, damaged the relationship with the regional district and, more importantly, the voters of Qualicum Beach.

This is hardly the type of change we voted for and I wonder just who really is calling the shots for this gang of four?

Howie HambletonQualicum Beach

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A big bouquet to wonderful Darlene of Dashwood for rescu-ing our escape artist Schnauzer from the Old Island Highway and bringing her home safe and sound.

Marianne and John Hodges

Qualicum Beach

Kudos and more kudos to all the very caring and always cheerful ladies and gentlemen for VIHAs home support pro-gram. We will be for-ever grateful for your much needed help.

May you always walk in sunshine.

Mary and Albert Rasker

Qualicum Beach

We would like to thank the people from Big Qualicum River and Dunsmuir for their help when our rescue dog bolted dragging her leash in the bush. She re-turned after 32 hours, leash chewed, wet and hungry.

Thank you again!Dorothy Peter and

ShadowQualicum Beach

I would like to thank the lady behind me on Friday morn-ing at the Kris Kringle fair who had an extra ticket of admission and offered it to me.

Andrea PetrieParksville

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December 5 was a sad day for municipal politics in Qualicum Beach.

The palace coup led by council-lors Brouilette and Luchtmeijer has almost guaranteed a dysfunc-tional council for the next three years. That will be Qualicum Beachs loss.

Their explanation that they were elected on a platform of change is specious to say the least. They were elected to replace three councillors who chose not to run again. I do not believe they were elected with a mandate of change, and I certainly did not vote for a platform of change.

If change was perceived as a driving force in the election, then the councillor candidates should have been much more transparent in their respective platforms.

Furthermore, if the voters of Qualicum Beach wanted change, the electorate would have insti-tuted change at the top the mayoralty candidates. But no, the voters elected Mr. Westbroek on his platform of stability.

I sincerely hope that voters have a long memory.

Rick NeugenbauerQualicum Beach

Although your paper on Decem-ber 9 provides extensive coverage of the appointment of a municipal director to represent Qualicum Beach on the regional district, nowhere is there an actual refer-ence to what the law actually says. It may be instructive for your read-ers to know this . Section 784(1) of the Local Government Act states:

After the first appointment under 777(1) (e), each municipal director is to be appointed at plea-sure by the council from among its members.

In other words after the first RDN Board was set up, the munici-pal directors to the Board are to be appointed by the council. This is what was done this past week in Qualicum Beach.

Brian PeckfordQualicum Beach

I cant believe we have just come through an election, and the majority of voters supported the re-election of Teunis Westbroek only to see an elected council bent on marginalizing the position of mayor, and running our town as they see fit.

The action by council on De-cember 5 was not only an insult to the elected mayor but an insult to the 60 per cent of voters who sup-ported his re-election.

If these actions by council are an example of what residents of Qualicum Beach can expect we are

in for a long three years.Mr. Dutton (THE NEWS, Dec. 9)

was apparently overjoyed with watching Democracy in action on December 5.

What we really witnessed was the failure of this council to vote reflecting the will of the majority of Qualicum Beach residents.

John JohnstonQualicum Beach

ed Qualicum councillors huddled recently, were they working on transparency? Or, is this where they hatched their plan to subvert the will of the voters by removing one of the key roles of a mayor, to represent the town on external governing bodies?

Instead they appointed the one member of their group with no legislative experience, Dave Willie.

This isnt about a so called platform of change, this is about trying to undo the overwhelming choice by electors of Teunis West-broek as our mayor.

What changes can we expect next? Will they now re-open the OCP for Parksville-style develop-ment? Will they undo the water agreement and force a huge bor-rowing referendum so that devel-opers can be assured of unlimited population growth for Qualicum Beach?

We have elected three business-men and a retired banker to our council, should we expect other-wise?

J. HillQualicum Beach

There was a lot of talk during the recent Qualicum Beach mu-nicipal election about a need for transparency.

When three of the newly-elect-

Its going to be a long three years

Its a garbage glutRecently I have noticed that the

garbage cans on the beach have been removed.

Apparently they were removed due to numerous individuals using them to dispose of their household garbage because they can not, or will not, store their garbage for the every two-week pick up. And this is necessary because there is not the staff nor the budget for a weekly pick up.

How much garbage does one house make now that there is food waste and general recycling that cant wait for pick up? So now there are no garbage cans on the beach and very few if any in and around Qualicum Beach.

Also I have noted that the small garbage receptacles on the Me-morial Golf Course are used for garbage and the deposit of dog waste bags. As one lady explained it when she was challenged about putting her dogs waste in the golf course receptacles: it is my right, I pay taxes.

Maeva LowenQualicum Beach

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No sleigh for naughty MP

As a youngster my favourite Yuletide tune was All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth and always enjoyed sing-ing the line ...to with you Merry Quith-Myth.

I soon realized that for many the festive season is truly about myths: those who figure the entire nativ-ity story to be merely Hebrew myths and fables, and delighted kids who believe in the myth of Santa Claus.

Id best not offend those Bethlehem believers, and rather concentrate on San-ta right now hes busily checking on whos been naughty and whos been nice in these financially uncertain times.

Maybe he should lighten the load on his magical sleigh, and not visit those ridings where some naughty MPs live.

For example, hed not go to Halifax, as Peter McKay has been naughtily less-than-credible about his Cormorant capers.

Rudolph would not be guiding Santa

towards Parry Sound-Muskoka, where Tony Clements naughty G20 largesse was way beyond any childs Christmas wish-list.

There would be no jingle bells heard in Whitby-Oshawa, where Jim Flaherty was elected after his mythical promises of balanced-budgets and financial prosperity, naughtily disregard-ing global meltdowns.

The Grinch would ban Santa from Calgary where the Harpercrite-In-Chief s parliamenta-ry victory was boosted by his naughty elec-tion scare tactics, and phony promises to lower taxes once the budget was balanced.

Transparency and accountability pledges disappeared like melting snow in May, when only 24 per cent of eligible voters gave the Tories the major-ity they craved.

Maybe if Santa re-ally didnt visit those ridings whose MPs are so obviously disin-genuous, the gullible electorate would wake up and take a lot more notice of the myths they receive in the guise of government policies from Ottawa.

Bernie SmithParksville

ramblings of the tin foil hat crowd seem like the theories of Einstein.

So, I would suggest that Mr. James Lun-ney, if he really wants to represent me and all Canadians of his riding, that he please get his own brain.

Of course, when you see him roboti-cally mouthing the inane, illogical, and hypocritical Conser-vative talking points about almost any is-sue of substance, then you realize that he would have to grow a spine in order to sup-port one in his skull.

Steve LombardoBowser

Obviously Nanaimo-Alberni MP James Lunney, doesnt get it (THE NEWS, Dec. 6). Large scale grow-ops in residential areas is a product of cannabis (marijuana) prohibition, not the God-given plant (see the first page of the Bible) itself.

Further, contrary to Lunney, the major-ity of British Colum-bia citizens favor legalizing and regulat-ing the plant.

Cannabis pro-hibition has run its course. Its over. All thats left is the formalities whether or not prohibitionist want to accept it.

Stan WhiteDillon, Colorado

War on pot is already lost

Crime stats problematic

According to our MP James Lunney, crime statistics have not gone down despite empirical evidence to the contrary (THE NEWS, Dec. 6).

In fact, he claims that they are not only going up, but that this fact is being deliber-ately hidden through the manipulation of what we can only assume are un-known conspirators that must surely be harbouring a hidden liberal or socialist agenda.

After all, the Con-servative government of Stephen Harper can never be wrong on any issue, no matter that some of what they propose is hap-pening in Canada is so unbelievable that those myths wouldnt be able to survive without the CPR hand wringing and pant-ing blasts of hot air that pours forth from an indignant and self-righteous Conser-vative caucus on an almost daily basis.

Listening to the musings and expla-nations of MPs like Peter Kent, John Baird, Peter McKay, Tony Clement, and of course Stephen Harper, makes the

Deal with the biggest need

I was appalled to see fellow Canadians living in the condi-tions so publicized lately at the Attawa-piskat reserve. How can this happen in a land so blessed as Canada?

I have followed closely the many in-terviews and debates among tribal elders, politicians, bureau-crats, educators, etc. and I begin to see the glimmer of how these things happen.

Nearly all the talking heads fail to understand that there are three levels of crisis on the reserves, the immediate, mid-term and long-term problems. The imme-diate concern is that people are living in unheated shacks and tents in the middle of a Canadian winter wilderness.

Concentrate on the immediate and life-threatening problem. Leave all the rest for now.

The blindingly ob-vious thing to do is he-licopter in pre-fabri-cated trailer homes. A generator will supply electricity for heating and septic tanks will look after sewage. If the army can send in water purification units to earthquake ravaged countries, surely they can fly in mini-versions of the same into reserves.

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Health Canada - Adults over the age of fi fty should also take a daily vitamin D supplement of 400 IU. Breastfed, healthy term babies should receive a daily vitamin D supplement of 400 IU.

Vancouver Island Health Authority If vitamins were ranked in order of importance, vitamin D would be #1.... everyone over age 1 to get 600IU per day and anyone older than 71 years to get 800IU per day.

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MAYORChris Burger .......................................................... 250 954-4661

COUNCILLORSAl Greir .............................................................250 248-1285Marc Lefebvre .................................................250 248-2292Peter Morrison .................................................250 240-4050Bill Neufeld ......................................................250 954-2063Sue Powell .......................................................250 951-1082Carrie Powell-Davidson ...................................250 954-3758

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At the December 5 inaugural meeting, the 2011-2014 Council was sworn in, witnessed by friends, family and the media. Council portfolios and appointments to boards, commissions and associations were approved by Council at this meeting. In the photo, left to right: Councillors Bill Neufeld, Carrie Powell-Davidson, Peter Morrison, Mayor Chris Burger, Councillors Al Greir, Sue Powell, Marc Lefebvre. A copy of Mayor Burgers inaugural address may be found on the Citys website at http://parksville.ca/cms.asp?wpID=403

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Online Resident Satisfaction SurveyTheres a resident satisfaction survey on the Citys website open until January 15. Questions are the same as those asked in the 2008 resident satisfaction survey and the more comprehensive resident survey in 2010. This survey will assist staff and Council to evaluate services offered by the City and obtain the communitys input regarding service priorities. We encourage residents to take a few minutes to complete this online survey;we do value your input.

2012 Council Meeting DatesPursuant to Section 127 of the Community Charter and Council Procedure Bylaw, 2003, No. 1386, a schedule of dates, times and places of regular municipal Council and Committee meetings for 2012, is posted on the City notice board at the Civic and Technology Centre, 100 Jensen Avenue East, for viewing during regular offi ce hours 8 am to 4 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays. The meeting schedule may also be viewed on the Citys website.

McMillan Street Progress UpdateWindley Contracting is installing the infrastructure to convert overhead utilities to underground at a later date and also for street lighting and street trees prior to placement of curb, gutter and concrete sidewalks. Once the east sidewalk is fi nished, work will begin on the west side, leaving one continuous sidewalk corridor at all times. Drivers and pedestrians are encouraged to be patient and attentive to traffi c control personnel, this will help to ensure a safe environment for workers and travellers.

City Seeking ADP and APC MembersThe Advisory Planning Commission and Advisory Design Panel each have openings for a new member. This community service work does not receive remuneration. Please send applications to Gayle Jackson, Director of Community Planning, PO Box 1390, 100 Jensen Avenue East, Parksville V9P 2H3 (250 954-4660). Applications will be accepted until January 6 at which time Council will make the appointments.

The APC advises Council on matters respecting land use and community planning that are referred to the Commission by Council. Applicants with experience in land use planning, architectural design or related fi elds would be an asset, although not a prerequisite (24 month term).

ADP advises Council on design matters associated with specifi c development applications. Members are expected to have design experience and qualifi cations. Some members must be architects, landscape architects or individuals with a design related degree or experience in universal design. Preference may be given to residents; all interested individuals are encouraged to apply.

Loose DogsThe City will respond to complaints of loose dogs where the dog has been captured or in the control of a member of the public. We do not respond to calls where a dog is loose as the dog is seldom there when we arrive at the location. The public should call the bylaw compliance department at 250 954-3080. If there is a concern for animal welfare, contact the Parksville-Qualicum SPCA (250 248-3811). The SPCA has the authority to investigate and take action to protect the welfare of animals.

Notice to Dog OwnersDog tags for the calendar year 2012 are available for purchase in person at City Hall. Bylaw 1284 requires that all dogs over the age of six months be licenced. By January 31 - spayed/neutered $20, not spayed/neutered $30. After January 31 - spayed/neutered $25, not spayed/neutered $35.

Notice to BusinessesExisting business licence holders may now renew for the 2012 calendar year. Fees are due by January 31. Payment may be mailed or paid in person at City Hall. Business Licence Bylaw 1991, No. 1079.1 requires that all businesses obtain a valid licence if carrying on business in the City.

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Snow Season is Upon UsThe City monitors road and weather conditions throughout the winter months. When snow and icy conditions are forecast, crews and equipment are prepared and when it snows, crews are dispatched to clear roads on a priority basis. The Citys fi rst priority during and after a snowfall is to clear major arterial streets (such as Island Highway, Alberni Highway) as well as access to emergency services such as the RCMP, fi re hall and ambulance station. Clearing collector streets (such as Temple, Pym, Hirst) is the second priority. Once conditions have stabilized on these priority routes, crews will begin to clear residential streets. Should we experience continued snow, it may take crews longer to reach residential streets.

You can helpThe Citys website has a section on snow and ice with guidelines for plowing of streets, clearing of sidewalks, how residents can best prepare for a snowfall and how to help when it snows.http://www.parksville.ca/cms.asp?wpID=356We hope you will take a few minutes to review.

December 15 Advisory Planning CommissionDecember 15 Coffee with CouncilDecember 19 Council and Committee of the WholeDecember 26 Offi ce closedDecember 27 Offi ce closedJanuary 2 Offi ce closedJanuary 4 CANCELLED Council/CommitteeJanuary 5 Coffee with CouncilJanuary 12 Coffee with CouncilJanuary 16 Council and Committee of the Whole

The public is encouraged to attend Council and Committee of the Whole meetings held on the fi rst and third Mondays of the month at 6 pm. The public is welcome to observe the meetings of any advisory committee. Please refer to the Citys website for agendas and to confi rm times and dates.

Its the Holiday Season!Council and staff of the City of Parksville wish you and your family, a Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous 2012.

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Attorney Gener-al Shirley Bond is coming off another busy week, announcing new sher-iff and clerk training for B.C.s constipated court system.

Then Bond joined Premier Christy Clark to introduce B.C. to another kind of sheriff, the former Los Angeles district attorney best known for busting up one of the biggest nests of crooked cops in U.S. history.

Richard Rosen-thal went on to clean house as independent monitor of police forces in Portland and Denver, and now he takes on B.C.s troubled police patch-work, which has been losing the publics confidence, along with the courts.

Bonds other min-istry, Public Safety and Solicitor General, announced its senior officials had selected the next commanding officer for the RCMP in B.C. It is unprec-edented for a province to do that, but as B.C. gets ready to sign a new 20-year contract with the federal force, Bond and Clark are trying to demonstrate that they, not Ottawa, are now wearing the pants in this relation-ship. Well see.

As the police and court legs of B.C.s

justice system were being strengthened, Auditor General John Doyle released his latest report on the shaky third leg, cor-rections. In a master-piece of understate-ment, Doyles office headlined its news release Opportuni-ties for improvement in community correc-tions.

You have likely heard about the overflowing B.C. jail system, where even segregation inmates are now being doubled up, as the long wait continues for a new jail in the Okanagan.

But as Doyles report sets out, nine out of 10 convicted adult offenders arent in custody. Theyre on house arrest or probation, many with court-ordered conditions to report their whereabouts, stay away from their victims, stay sober and complete various rehabilitation pro-grams.

Many are violent. There are current-

ly 24,000 of them, an all-time high and an increase of 28 per cent in the past six years.

As with the jail population, a larger proportion have mental illness as well as addiction. And Doyle found that only about a third of them actually complete the

programs they are supposed to take to prevent re-offending.

Corrections branch officials say their program for male spousal abusers has a success rate of up to 50 per cent. Thats a pretty good result for an awful crime, the second-largest catego-ry of offenders after impaired driving. But that success rate only applies to offenders who actually complete the program.

Doyle found several cases where convicted

abusers breached their orders to stay away from a spouse, and were not returned to court. There are undoubtedly more, but B.C.s 450 proba-tion officers cant

keep all the files up to date, much less pun-ish every breach of conditions.

Training hasnt kept up either fewer than half of current probation of-ficers have completed the ministrys anti-spousal abuse course.

The NDP deplores all of this and has decades of practice doing so. The part about offenders not completing their re-habilitation reminded me of Dave Barrett in the late 1960s.

In his autobiogra-phy, Barrett tells how he got into politics because prisoners in B.C. jails werent able to complete vocational programs. Barrett was a social worker at the old Haney Correc-tional Institution.

By 1970 he was Opposition leader, demanding that the W.A.C. Bennett gov-ernment shut down Haney, by then notori-ous for trades training that prisoners werent locked up long enough to finish. Each inmate

was costing B.C. more than $4,000 a year, a huge sum wasted, Barrett thundered in the legislature.

Today, Doyle cal-culates B.C. jails cost $71,000 per inmate per year, or $194 a day. Community supervi-sion spending works out to $7 a day.

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COURTENAY The search for missing 81-year-old William Fisher of Port Hardy ended Dec. 6 when his body was discovered in his overturned car by passing motorists on High-way 30 near Port Alice.

Fisher was well off his expected route of travel and well outside of the search area.

He was reported missing to Comox Valley Ground Search and Rescue on Dec. 3 after fail-ing to return to his home in Port Hardy after a medical appointment in Campbell River two days earlier.

Some 30 members of CVGSAR alone devoted more than 600 hours over Sunday, Monday and Tuesday morning in the search.

SAR teams from Campbell River, Parksville, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Tofino and the Comox Valley combined efforts to walk the distance of Highway 19A from Campbell River to Port Hardy twice, scouring every ditch, embank-ment, gully and body of water in between.

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The next time you run into Bob Burkosky and the B.C. Maid, theres a good chance hell have his hand up in what looks like a friendly wave.

You can feel free to wave back if you like, because he is actually friendly, but hes not really waving hello. Hes got his hand on a metal wire thats stretched deep, right down near the bottom and hes feeling for fish.

You can feel them, he said. Its like playing a piano. You can feel it bounce on the bottom and you pull it in a bit. The lingcod will fight a little bit, but their main strategy is to open their mouths like a big funnel, so the drag from a good-sized one is huge. You can really feel the weight.

The gang troll hes working has 10 hooks in all, so by the time hes done, thats a lot of drag.

Sometimes a small, eight-pounder will grab one of the hooks and then a great big, 40 pound fish will bite him, he said. Theyll eat just about anything. Youll pull one in and it will barf out a tentacle of a huge octopus and you have to wonder how on earth it got close enough to pull an arm off an octopus

that big.What happens to those fish once they

get on board has changed dramatically since the Dashwood-area resident began fishing the B.C. coast some 30 years ago.

After 30 years of bashing every fish over the head, now Im babysit-ting them, he said. Ill wake up in the middle of the night and hear the pumps going and Ill be able to go back to sleep, knowing everythings good and the fish are OK.

Rather than killing the lingcod, Burkosky makes a point of keeping them very much alive. He had to retrofit the boat to do it, installing dual pumps to circulate seawater through the holding tank, but he said it was worth the cost and effort.

Its for the Oriental market, he said. They prefer a live product over frozen. I started doing it about nine years ago. Its a relatively new thing.

The B.C. Maid can carry 4,000 pounds of live fish, smallish for a fish boat. However, with only about 30 boats dealing in live lingcod on the whole coast, Burkosky has been able to find a niche.

Its a rewarding life, but a tough one and sometimes dangerous.

It can go from heaven to hell in just one day, particularly in Hecate Strait, he said.

He tells a tale of waking up to an enormous crash one night while working someone elses halibut boat. The boat had hit a rock and was badly holed.

Everything was thrown around, every dish fell and the skipper banged his head. I looked around and saw the panel of bilge pump switches and as I looked they went red, red, red. I thought, this is not good. Thats cold water.

He took over the wheel and as the crew tried to stuff pillows into the hole, Burkosky raced for shelter.

The water was right up to the crank-shaft and it went over that and then it started throwing water around and I realized I wasnt going to make it by going slow, so I opened her right up and that got part of the hole out of the water, although it was still leaking quite a bit.

Finally, the dark crescent of the beach took shape in the blackness. Burkosky didnt slow down.

We hit the beach and went up so far we had trees on either side, he said. When the tide went down we patched her up and pulled her off the next day. We even kept our catch.

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There are a lot of uncom-fortable things women do to make themselves look better, including having their eye-brows waxed.

If you are one of those who want a perfectly shaped brow, you can have the procedure done for free at the Synergy Day Spa in Parksville if you

bring in a donation to the food bank.

Owner Rhiannon Whitney if offering free brow waxing on Wednesday, Dec. 14 and 21 for anyone who brings in a non perishable food item. Ap-pointments must be booked in advance for the service, which normally costs around $15. So far Whitney said she has had a great response from the public.

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