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One down, 22 to go.Week one of the VIJHL regular season may

not have gone exactly as planned for Oceanside’s Save on Foods Generals, losing their regular season opener 9-0 in Victoria to the Cougars last Thursday, then dropping their home opener 4-2 to the Saanich Braves Saturday night, but the season is long and the young charges are willing to do what it takes to keep improving.

Throw the fi nal score of Saturday’s game out the window and the game-day package was amped as promised.

With this team at the helm there’s only one thing to say: Go Gens, go!

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The earthquake that was felt Friday by many Island residents should serve as a wakeup call, says a geoscience expert with Simon Fraser University.

The quake, now classifi ed as a 6.4 magnitude event, was centred off the coast of Vancouver Island, just over 80 kilometres offshore from Port Alice.

Simon Fraser University geologist Brent Ward said while the event didn’t appear to cause

any signifi cant damage to build-ings or infrastructure, it stands as an example of what can happen to communities situated on the so-called ring of fi re on the Pacifi c Rim — and he warned it’s time the people who live there to take the threat seriously.

“This is a great wake up call,” he said in an interview Friday. “It’s something that should make every-one realize we live in a tectonically active area.”

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On Sunday Sept. 18 hundreds of thousands of Terry Fox support-ers will participate in the annual fundraising event that has raised millions for cancer research over the past 31 years.

Terry Fox inspired millions upon millions of people, not only when he attempted to run across Canada with an amputated leg to

raise money for cancer research, but in the decades following his death as yearly runs are held across the country to keep his Marathon of Hope alive.

Organizers are hoping for an even bigger turnout this year, but only you can make that happen. It’s not too late to sign a pledge form to lend a hand — and a dollar.

Terry’s fi ght continues

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The driver of an SUV involved in a col-lision with a motorcy-clist on Highway 19A at Corfield Street in Parksville Sept. 8 has been ticketed for the mishap.

Oceanside RCMP Sergeant Darrell Robertson reported the driver of the 2008 Nissan SUV made a left turn in front of a 2011 Harley David-son motorcycle being driven by a 62-year-old man visiting from Germany.

The motorcyclist was not injured in the resulting crash.

The driver of the Nissan, a 78-year-old Parksville man, was issued with a traffic ticket for failing to yield while making a left turn.

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All shook up: The earth moved Friday for many people on Vancouver Island, and one geoscientist says the experience should serve as a wake up call

There’s a whole lot of shaking going on

Oceanside residents got a brief taste of what it would be like to be in a major earthquake Friday. Rather than run outside, experts say seeking close cover to protect your head from falling objects is likely the best survival strategy. Here, Peggy Sidbeck shows how it’s done.

By NEIL HORNERNEWS REPORTER

The earthquake that was felt Friday by many Island resi-dents should serve as a wakeup call, says a geoscience expert with Simon Fraser University.

The quake, now classified as a 6.4 magnitude event, was centred off the coast of Vancouver Island, just over 80 kilome-tres offshore from Port Alice.

Simon Fraser University geolo-gist Brent Ward said while the event didn’t appear to cause any significant damage, it stands as an example of what can happen to communities situated on the so-called ring of fire on the Pacific Rim — and he warned it’s time the people who live there take the threat seriously.

“This is a great wake up call,” he said in an interview Fri-day. “It’s something that should make everyone realize we live in a tectonically active area.”

To this end, he

said, people should make sure they have an earthquake kit, containing everything they would need to survive on their own for at least 72 hours.

“You’re going to be on your own for several days after a large quake,” he said. “You’ll need water,

food, flashlights and warm clothes.”

Friday’s quake was originally classified as a 6.7-magnitude event and three tremblors, a 6.7, a 6.4 and a 6.6 were reported in the same area at the same time, preceded by a much smaller, magnitude 2.1 quake about four

hours earlier, also in the same area.

However, Ward said this could be the result of initial confu-sion as the data rolled in from different parts of the globe.

“When I first looked at the U.S. Geo-logical Survey site it had it as 80 kilometres

deep and a magni-tude of 6.7, and now it has changed to 6.4 and shallower. When it first happens, it is picked up by a bunch of seismometers and the initial calculation of its size and where it is, gets better as more and more sta-tions report. In the

first few minutes or hour or so, it kind of moves around a bit.”

Ward said there’s currently no way to tell if the shaker was a precursor to some-thing larger, noting that, with the scien-tific knowledge avail-able to date, this can only be determined in hindsight.

“You don’t really know it’s a precursor until you get a bigger one later,” he said. “That’s the problem. Because so much work was done on the Japanese quake, they noticed there were a couple of small earthquakes that were precursors, but we get little ones all the time, so whether it’s a pre-cursor or just a small earthquake remains to be seen.”

The quake, he said, was a relatively minor event, noting the larg-est one measured in the area — the 1946 earthquake centred under Buttle Lake, had a magnitude of 7.4 and caused exten-sive damage in Cour-tenay and Comox.

By NEIL HORNERNEWS REPORTER

The earthquake that rattled many nerves on Vancouver Island Friday was by no means an isolated event.

In fact, the earth’s

crust is constantly in motion, with trem-blors large and small taking place virtually all the time.

Most of these earthquakes are very small, noticeable only with sensitive scien-tific equipment, but

larger shakes take place almost on a daily basis as well.

On the day that Vancouver Islanders found the earth mov-ing under their feet, seismographs across the globe measured a great many other

quakes as well.Just one hour after

the Vancouver Island incident for instance, the Aukland Islands south of New Zealand were rocked by a 5.9 quake and, four hours later residents of Guam felt a 4.6. Three

hours after that, a 4.6 struck off the Kamchatka Penin-sula in russia and, two hours later, the Kermadec Islands to New Zealand’s north were hit by a 4.8 event. Two hours after that two different shakers,

a 4.7 and a 4.8 were recorded off the coast of Japan.

In fact, over 120 seismic events, large and small, were recorded across the globe on that same day.

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RCMP Sergeant Darrell Robertson said witnesss were unclear why the Ford Focus left the road half a kilometre east of the park.

The woman, the lone occupant of the vehicle, regained consciousness upon arriving in Victoria.

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“There were a lot of chimneys that broke off and fell into or beside the houses,” he said. “A lot of brick buildings were dam-aged and there were numer-ous landslides and liquifac-tion as well.”

Liquifaction occurs when loose, sandy soil takes on the properties of a liquid during prolonged shaking, causing buildings and other struc-tures to tilt or sink.

He noted as well that scientific evidence gathered about an earthquake on Vancouver Island in 1700

indicates it was a whopping 9.0 event.

It may have been relative-ly small, but the quake was disturbing enough to many people who felt the ground move at

The tremblor, struck at 12:40 p.m. and lasted for 15 to 20 seconds, was felt strongly by Bowser resident Gail Carr.

“I was sitting at my com-puter and the whole house shook — the floor, the roof, everything,” she said. “even the hanging plant was mov-ing in the kitchen.”

Carr ran outside and re-mained there as she waited to see if more quakes would come.

Qualicum Woods resident Myrett Drummond also felt the shaking.

“The desk and chair were going in a small circle,” she said. “I’ve got a fan with hanging controls and they were swinging a bit, too, but not wildly.”

Ward said the shaking was caused by a crustal quake.

“That is a quake that oc-curs in the North American

crust,” he said. “That’s be-cause the Juan de Fuca and Explorer plates are being pushed underneath the edge of North America and the contact between those plates is kind of stuck, so pressure starts to build up. It’s not sliding freely, so every so often you get a rupture in the rock.”

Friday’s quake did not result in any sort of tsunami activity and, once people’s nerves calmed down, life in the Central Island returned to normal.

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Don’t leave things until the ground is shakingBy NEIL HORNERNEWS REPORTER

One tip that Simon Fraser University geoscientist Brent Ward has for fami-lies preparing for an earthquake on Van-couver Island is to get a communication plan in place.

“You want to have a way for the family to get together because cell phones won’t work,” he said. “You need a family plan.”

That’s because, he said, earthquakes can happen at any time and if one happens during a working day, children are likely to be at school while many parents will be at work.

He said having an out-of-province contact can also prove invaluable.

“Phone calls out-side the area are more likely to go through,” he said. “You might want to have a friend or relative in the Interior or in Alberta

you can call and leave messages with, so you can tell them where you want everyone to meet.”

British Columbia’s Provincial Emer-gency Program (PEP) suggests any family plan take a number of factors into consid-eration, including where to find safe exits from both your home and neighbour-hood, a pre-arranged meeting place to reunite family, des-ignating a person to pick up your children, should you be unavail-able, contact people close by and out of town, health insur-ance information and places for your pet to stay.

All adult fam-ily members should also be sure to know the location of fire extinguishers, water valves, electrical panels, gas valves and floor drains.

Each family should also make an emer-gency kit, which includes items such as water, food, flash-lights, a can opener, cash, keys and a first aid kit. For more in-formation visit www.getprepared.gc.ca.

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Nominations for qualifi ed candidates will be received by the Chief or Deputy Chief Election Offi cer at the offi ces of the Regional District of Nanaimo, 6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo, B.C. between the hours of 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, the fourth (4th) day of October 2011 and 4:00 p.m. on Friday, the fourteenth (14th) day of October 2011 and during that period the nomination documents shall only be received on regular offi ce days and hours. Nomination documents may be obtained at the Regional District of Nanaimo Administration Offi ce during regular business hours.

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An elector may request that personal information respecting the elector be omitted from or obscured on the list in accordance with Section 63 of the Local Government Act until 4:00 pm, Friday, October 14, 2011.

An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the list of registered electors may be made in accordance with Section 64 of the Local Government Act until 4:00 p.m., Friday, October 14, 2011.

An objection may only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector of the Regional District and can only be made on the basis that the person whose name appears has died or is not qualifi ed to be registered as an elector of the Regional District of Nanaimo.

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When the World Wildlife Refuge in Errington held a family day on Saturday, there was no shortage of critters to enjoy. Here (clockwise from top left)While many were fascinated with the larger animals, Cody Whittaker 6, was enthralled by this small caterpillar. Volunteer Jim Walker dressed as a bear while Rosemary Davenport was a raven and German student Martina Buhrmester was an eagle. Alex Weir and daughter Lyv, 18 months, were able to take a bear home with them — al-though it was a stuffed one they won. Ducks take a cooling shower at the pond. Jason Jensen with Jewel, 7, Troy, 3 and Anika, 2, watch the ducks and turtles in a pond at the Wildlife Centre. Terri Lowden and son Jeremiah, 16 months, check out some of the pond life. NEIL HORNER PHOTOS

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OCP hits new snagProcess set back by change in consultants

FRED MANSON... Process should

go ahead with a new consultant on board

By AUREN RUVINSKYNEWS REPORTER

The City of Parks-ville is looking for a new official commu-nity plan consultant and is now hoping to complete the year and half-old process by the end of 2012.

After a key mem-ber of the HB Lanarc Consultants’ team that was working on the Parksville project left, the city cancelled the contract by mu-tual agreement.

Coincidentally, the city recently received approval for a Fed-eration of Canadian Municipalities grant for $81,400, but receiv-ing the full value is contingent on a con-sultant being in the lead roll. If staff take the lead they could only claim 10 per cent of it.

That grant, and the fact that, as chief administrative officer Fred Manson put it, “We simply do not have the capacity to

do this with staff,” led council to vote unani-mously to begin an expedited process to hire a new consultant.

The new consultant will have access to the work that Lanarc has done since the long talked-about process officially began in May 2010, as well as continuing the planned work.

The new grant will be added to the exist-ing budget of $135,000 and the OCP update — which the city has always stressed didn’t have a deadline and would take as long as it needed to take — is now expected to be completed around the end of 2012.

Most councillors expressed support

for the process and said they were happy things are still mov-ing ahead, if slower than expected.

Coun. Al Greir pointed out that it was because of these kind of unforeseen delays that he was originally against the OCP update, but he did support continu-ing, since the process is well underway.

He also said he’d heard from some members of the two public committees working on the update that they feel other members’ focus is too narrow.

Director of Com-munity Planning Gayle Jackson, who works with the com-mittees, countered that they are quite polarized but fairly balanced, leading to a lot of lively and productive debate.

Nobody at HB Lanarc was available for comment but prin-cipal planner Mark Holland who was heading the project, is no longer listed on the company website.

For more, visit the city’s website at www.parksville.ca.

Health hurdle fallsThe slow creep towards comple-

tion for the much-anticipated Oceanside health centre just picked up the pace, says MLA Ron Cantelon.

The Parksville-Qualicum repre-sentative said a capital committee meeting of the Regional District of Nanaimo gave approval last week to a multi-million dollar funding request for the project.

“They asked for $14.4 million, more or less,” Cantelon said. “It was unanimously approved.”

The measure still has to go to

the committee of the whole and then the regional board as a whole, but Cantelon said he’s confident it will go through.

“It has been a long time com-ing,” Cantelon said. “Assuming a positive result (at the RDN) we hope we will have the province’s go-ahead at about the same time.”

After that, he said, the bricks and mortar work begins.

“It will be hammering nails and digging holes and building things,” he said. — by Neil Horner

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By BRENDA GOUGHNEWS REPORTER

On Sunday Sept. 18 hundreds of thou-sands of Terry Fox supporters will par-ticipate in the annual fundraising event that has raised millions for cancer research over the past 31 years.

Terry Fox inspired millions upon mil-lions of people, not only when he attempt-ed to run across Cana-da with an amputated leg to raise money for cancer research, but in the decades follow-ing his death as yearly runs are held across the country to keep his Marathon of Hope alive.

Locally there will be a Terry Fox Run at Rathtrevor Park in Parksville starting at 10 a.m.

Cathie MacKenzie with the Regional District of Nanaimo’s Parks and Recreation program said last year the event brought out

350 people and raised almost $10,000.

In 2010 Canadians donated $28 million to cancer research by participating in 800 Terry Fox Runs and 9,000 school events.

MacKenzie said she’s been involved with organizing the Parksville Terry Fox Run for the past six years and contin-ues to be impressed with how Terry has inspired so many people to raise money for research into the disease.

“Year to year everyone has been touched by cancer in some way. It’s tough… but Terry’s message is one of hope,” said MacKenzie.

The Terry Fox run in Parksville is geared towards all ages and abilities and has a 10 a.m. start. You can run or walk a 3.3, five or 10K route. Reg-istration begins at 9 a.m. at picnic shelter number two at Ratht-

Terry Fox run slatedLongstanding fundraiser has raised millions of dollars for cancer research

Terry Fox has inspired millions of people to raise money for cancer research. SUBMITTED PHOTO

revor Park.MacKenzie encour-

ages participants to register ahead of time at www.terryfox.org in order to get pledges of support on line.

The National School run day will be held Wednesday, Sept. 28.

Two things that kept Terry going during the long dif-

ficult days in 1980: the dollars donated for research and the sup-porters who encour-aged him along the way.

“Even if I don’t fin-ish, we need others to continue. It’s going to keep going.”

— Terry Fox July 10, 1980.

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Summer may be of-fi cially over, but don’t tell that to the weather man, or the Oceanside residents who listen to him. With hot, dry conditions prevailing, many of the more active people in the area headed out to places such as Spider Lake, to get in some last-minute paddling fun. The nice weather is expected to turn into more seasonal showers on Saturday.

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SPCA volunteer Pamela McCready helps Jean Forbes and pet Nevin paint some paw prints at Paws for a Cause Sunday. (right) Honorary parade marshall Phil St. Luke gets a high fi ve while walking a friend’s bloodhound. Janice Booth’s yellow lab, Maxie (bottom), shows winning form in the ever-popular bobbing for wieners contest. NEIL HORNER PHOTOS

Paws cause draws dogsBy NEIL HORNERNEWS REPORTER

Community Park in Parksville went to the dogs Sunday as the SPCA held their annual Paws for a Cause fundraiser.

The event, the biggest fundraiser for the shelter, which receives no govern-ment funding, was well-attended, both by two-legged and four-legged participants.

Walkers were given

words of encourage-ment by Parksville acting mayor Chris Burger and Qualicum Beach councillor Mary Brouilette be-fore honorary parade marshal Phil St. Luke led a parade of dog owners on a tour along the beach and through town.

“In Qualicum Beach and area we are all dog-lovers,” Broui-lette said.

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Public Notice is given to the electors of the City of Parksville that nominations for the offi ces of:

Mayor [1]and

Councillors [6]will be received by the Chief Election Offi cer or a designated person at the City of Parksville offi ces, 100 Jensen Avenue East, Parksville, BC from9:00 a.m. Tuesday, October 4, 2011 to 4:00 p.m., Friday, October 14, 2011 (excluding statutory holidays and weekends).

Nomination documents are available now from the Chief Election Offi cer or a designated person at the City of Parksville, Civic & Technology Centre, 100 Jensen Avenue East, Parksville, BC during regular offi ce hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday excluding weekends and statutory holidays.

2011 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONSNOTICE OF NOMINATION

QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE

A person is qualifi ed to be nominated, elected and to hold offi ce as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria:

• Canadian citizen;

• 18 years of age or older;

• resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are fi led;

• not disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding offi ce.

Note: There is no requirement for a candidate to be a resident or own property in the municipality.

LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORS

Beginning October 4, 2011 until the close of general voting for the election on November 19, 2011, a copy of the list of registered electors will, upon signature, be available for public inspection at the City’s Administration Department, Civic & Technology Centre, 100 Jensen Avenue East, Parksville, BC during regular offi ce hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday excluding weekends and statutory holidays.

An elector may request that their address or other information about them be omitted from or obscured on the list of electors.


An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the list of registered electors may be made in accordance with the Local Government Act until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 14, 2011. An objection must be in writing and may only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector of the City of Parksville and can only be made on the basis that the person whose name appears has died or is not qualifi ed to be registered as an elector of the City of Parksville. Objections must be submitted to the Chief Election Offi cer.

FURTHER INFORMATION may be obtained by contacting Lynn Kitchen, Chief Election Offi cer [250 954-3060] or Amanda Haywood, Deputy Chief Election Offi cer [250 954-3070].

Lynn Kitchen

CHIEF ELECTION OFFICER


September 13, 2011 City News and Views www.parksville.ca

How to Reach Council

You will fi nd It’s Your City in the PQB News on the second Tuesday of the month with a copy provided on the City’s website. We are committed to

improving communications with our residents and you can help byproviding feedback, comments or suggestions.

September 15 Advisory Planning CommissionSeptember 15 Coffee with Council September 19 Council and Committee of the WholeSeptember 22 Coffee with CouncilOctober 3 Council and Committee of the WholeOctober 6 Coffee with CouncilOctober 10 Thanksgiving - offi ce closedOctober 13 Advisory Design PanelOctober 13 Coffee with CouncilOctober 17 Council and Committee of the WholeOctober 20 Advisory Planning CommissionOctober 20 Coffee with Council

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 City’s website for agendas and to confi rm times and dates.

City Services

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MAYORActing Mayor Chris R Burger ............................................250 954-4661

COUNCILLORSAl Greir .........................................................................250 248-1285Marc Lefebvre .............................................................250 248-2292Teresa C Patterson ......................................................250 954-9488Susan E Powell ............................................................250 951-1082Carrie Powell-Davidson ...............................................250 954-3758

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City Dates

Over the past few months, the City was fortunate to employ fi ve enthusiastic post-secondary students. Annie Syrotuck, David Ross, James Karras, Kris Taekema and Melany Wright (left to right in photo) spent their summer working in the Community Park, keeping the grounds and facilities clean and safe for the enjoyment of residents and visitors. When asked what they liked the most about summer employment with the City, they mentioned learning new skills (such as irrigation), working with the permanent City crew and the opportunity to speak with visitors to the park, especially during summer events. Annie, David, James, Kris and Melany are now all at VIU for studies in music, business, computer, science and wildlife conservation. Thanks for the great job and all the best in your future studies.

Back to School They Go!

Water Conservation Level 1 Now In EffectEven numbered addresses may water on even numbered days and odd numbered addresses may water on odd numbered days (every other day frequency). As with all conservation levels, the watering times or window to water is 6am to 10am and 6pm to 10pm. Level 1 allows a total of six hours allocated watering per day.

October 20 at 10.20amMark your calendars and don’t forget to register for the second annual Shakeout drill. The Great BC ShakeOut drill conducted in January 2011 was a huge achievement,

with more than 470,000 registered participants and a positive understanding of the importance of earthquake awareness and emergency preparedness. Now scheduled for the third Thursday in October, BC and the Yukon join California, Idaho, Nevada and Guam in conducting a mass earthquake drill at the same time on the same day. For information updates, resources and to register to participate on October 20, go to www.shakeoutbc.ca.

Coffee with CouncilThe coffee pot is on again - sessions resumed this month on Thursdays from 2 to 4pm. Please check the City’s website to confi rm dates. If you are not able to make a Coffee with Council session, please call Acting Mayor Burger directly at 250 954-4661.

City Venues for HireThe City has three great venues for small functions such as weddings, birthdays and picnics - two gazebos (in the Community Park and at the foot of McMillan Street by the Beach Club end of the boardwalk) and the newly constructed picnic shelter in the park. Facilities can be booked free of charge by calling 250 954-3070.

Dedication of New Fire Hall Renovations to the Parksville Fire Hall are coming along quite nicely. Parksville Volunteer Fire Department members will host a celebration in October to dedicate the new fi re hall and provide an opportunity for residents to tour their new digs. We’ll let you know as soon as the date is confi rmed.

2010 Annual ReportThe City’s 2010 annual report is now on the website under the quicklink Financial Reports. The report highlights the goals and accomplishments of the City and includes reports from the mayor and chief administrative offi cer as well as fi nancial statements and auditor’s report.

Fall Wood Chipping ServiceHere’s the pickup schedule for the City’s wood chipping program. Full information is on the City’s website and if you have questions, please call 250 248-5412. • Oct 12-14 - north of Hwy19A; north side of highway

between Dogwood and Wright • Oct 17-19 - south of Hwy 19A; south side of highway

between Moilliet and Church; both sides of Moilliet. • Oct 20-21 - east of Moilliet to Corfi eld; north and south

of Hwy 19A; both sides of Corfi eld • Oct 24-26 - east of Corfi eld; north and south of Hwy

19A; resort area to City’s eastern boundary

Election 2011Local government elections will be held November 19. The City’s website (Elections Info quicklink at parksville.ca) has complete election details that include information for candidates as well as requirements to vote in a municipal election. Nomination packages are now available from the Administration Department. Beginning October 4, nominations that have been fi led will be available for public inspection. As well, beginning October 4 until the close of general voting for the election on November 19, a copy of the list of registered electors will be available for public inspection at the City’s Administration Department.

LED Lighting - Your Comments WelcomeLight emitting diodes (LED) technology is a relatively new lighting system for municipal applications and is currently being reviewed by many municipalities as a means to reduce energy consumption as well as future maintenance requirements. LED lighting technology presents possible savings as it uses less energy to produce the same amount of light as well as longer bulb life. There are other criteria to review when considering changing streetscape lighting, such as personal preference.

The City borrowed an LED luminaire (light) from Phillips Lumec for a trial and for a limited time, the LED luminaire is installed on Jensen Avenue East, in front of the main entrance to the Parksville Civic and Technology Center. Please have a look and compare the LED luminaire to the other existing high pressure sodium luminaires on Jensen Street. We are interested in your comments which can be provided through the general contact form on the City’s website. As well, additional information will soon be provided on the lamp standard.

McMillan Street ProjectReminder to motorists/pedestrians that work on the McMillan Street upgrade is now underway. Traffi c delays during construction may require some patience and traffi c control persons will be onsite to assist. The businesses accessed from the McMillan corridor along Morison, Harrison and Memorial are open and will be accessible throughout the project. Information presented at an open house in August is on the City’s website at http://www.parksville.ca/cms.asp?wpID=388


COMMENTARYCOMMENTARY

Sometimes, just a small amount of effort can make a big, big differ-ence in the life of you and your family, although that fact is not al-ways obvious until the chickens come home to roost and you realize

you didn’t do what was needed to be done.That isn’t — or at least shouldn’t be — the case with the need for

Oceanside residents to make some very basic preparations for the even-tuality that the earth moves, the water rises, the woods burn, the wind howls or some other form of natural disaster makes its presence felt.

Unlike the case in so many situations, we have been warned, and not just once, that we need to ensure our families are as prepared as they can be for any surprise. Certainly, Friday’s earth-quake off the coast of Vancouver Island should make it clear — if it isn’t clear already — that yes, we do live in an active earthquake zone and yes, we really ought to make sure we’re ready, should the big one occur.

That’s not to say people should go about their business in fear and trembling, or even make a proactive dash for the hills before it can happen. However, making sure everyone in your family knows where to meet in the event of a disaster and collecting the items necessary for an emer-gency earthquake kit doesn’t take a lot of work, really, and the benefits, should things go south all of a sudden, are huge.

If you haven’t done it, put down the newspaper for a few minutes and do it now. Nobody was expecting Friday’s earthquake but it came. The wise will see that as a word of warning and take heed.

— editorial by Neil Horner

Do you read the obits in the paper every day? I do — and not just to see

who I’ve outlived by twenty-four hours.

I read them because … well, because you just never know.

Obituaries are inherently fascinating info-nuggets when you think about it.

An obituary is a soul’s farewell note to everybody and everything he or she has ever known.

It’s accompanied usually by a photo of the deceased — a photo which the deceased probably didn’t choose and wouldn’t have approved of.

You’d think it would be a cultural tradition to spend a great deal of time and thought composing one’s personal obitu-ary, but in fact very few of us ever write our own.

We’re too busy or we’re

uncomfortable with the morbidity of the idea — or perhaps we secretly believe that we’ll never die.

When we do shove off, the job of penning that farewell note falls to a mate, or next of kin. Or worse of all, to some anony-mous cub reporter whose duties include the Joe job of spinning a few coherent lines about the stiff under the sheet in the morgue.

Still, newspaper obituaries can be utterly charming in their artlessness.

Often they’re trite; occasion-ally they’re sublime and every once in a while they can evoke a distinct thrumming pang in the cardiac region of the thoracic cavity.

Which brings us to Buncy Johl.

Odd name, that. East Indian, I’m guessing, since the newspa-per tells me his second name is

Singh. The photo that

accompanied his obituary in the newspaper last week shows a pleasant-looking, middle-aged man, balding, with an easy smile, wearing what looks like a track suit.

And right under the photo, about four and a half inches of 10-point agate type summing up Buncy’s 50 years on the planet.

About an inch and a half into the obit you learn that Buncy was, among other things, a musician.

He played in the B.C. rock band Soul Addiction. I’m guess-ing that he and the boys spent more than a little time enter-taining at the Strathcona Hotel because the obit salutes the hotel owner and “the Strathcona family” for special thanks.

I’m also guessing that Bun-cy’s final number was not an easy listening tune because his

death notice especially praises the staff at the Intensive Care Unit at Royal Jubilee Hospital.

What struck me was the way the obituary unconsciously reflects the giant cultural tossed salad that is Canada.

It mentions Buncy’s parents, aunts and uncles, most with Asian names like Gurmit and Ajit and Joginder — but also a sister Rita, nieces Erin and Robyn and brother-in-law Wayne — names that could have come straight from a three-storey mansion in Forest Hill or a clap-board farmhouse near Primrose, Alberta.

If Buncy’s forebears hadn’t emigrated to Canada a couple of generations ago, his smiling face would probably never have appeared in a Canadian newspa-per and you and I would almost certainly never have heard of him. But his forebears did come here. And became Canadians. And cross-pollinated with the rest of us mongrels. And gave us Buncy.

He touched a lot of people,

this Buncy Singh Johl. In fact, the obituary says “There was no one who crossed Buncy’s path and was not touched by his magnetic personality, unwitting smile, and loving, compassion-ate and forgivable nature.”

And that includes Brad, the hospital parking attendant who is thanked in the obituary for his loving support.

Curious, how much you can infer from simple newspaper death notices.

They’d never qualify as ‘light’ reading, even when the subject is a warm and lovely guy like Buncy. But they can be illumi-nating. Even, on very rare occa-sions, funny.

When a newspaper to which Rudyard Kipling subscribed mistakenly published an an-nouncement of the writer’s death, Kipling (who was also born in India) dashed off a note to the editor.

It said: “I just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.”

Buncy would have loved that.

Heed the warning

Time to bid a fond bon voyage to our friend Buncy

“Nobody was

expecting Friday’s

earthquake

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“ ”Who else is going to speak for them?

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Fletcher sings the same old song

Actually, NDP should change

Lots of homes available in QB Ideology unimportant

Following the recent edito-rial in this paper regarding upcoming vacancies on the

Qualicum Council, I asked myself, “what should we be looking for in prospective council members?”

Here are my suggestions:• A commitment to a totally

open decision-making process that builds trust among members of the community, since trust is the primary social capital and the es-sential component of community well-being.

• Commitment to development that respect nature, demonstrates sustainable planning and building practices, and builds a town with a living center surrounded by compact and accessible neighborhoods.

• A vision of the new economy, one that stresses local goods and services, energy efficiency, meaningful employment for young people, and, above all, an emphasis on quality of life, not on expand-ing our material consumption.

• Last but not least, a commitment to the beautiful: high quality building design, street-scapes with character and human scale, the absence of visual pollution, and, everywhere, a recognition of the splendid natural setting.

Liberal, Conservative, New Democrat — it doesn’t matter to me. What matters is the commitment to make decisions based on

community values inherent in the points above.Lets make sure we listen carefully and make our voices heard.

Andrew BrownQualicum Beach

Feature LetterFeature Letter

A big bucket of Shame on you’s to the senior I witnessed pulling into the Quali-cum Foods parking spot, and then pro-ceeding to hit the car beside you! I watched you get out of your car and walk away and proceed to shop, like nothing even hap-pened.

Bad, bad, bad!Lisa Hewer

Qualicum Beach

I would like to ex-tend a huge thank you to the Staff of Coastal Community Credit Union in Qualicum Beach. This wonder-ful group held a bake sale and donated the proceeds of over $200 to help me raise money in support of my commitment to grandmothers in Africa who are rais-ing their orphaned grandchildren due to HIV/AIDS.

Thanks also to everyone who donated to my ride.

Maureen GrovesQualicum Beach

Bouquets of roses to Dr. Hugh Fletcher for allowing Oceans-ide Communities for Quality Education to have an information booth at the Show & Shine in Qualicum Beach at the Beach Cottage.

Mirella TrozzoQualicum Beach

BouquetsBrickbats

I am responding to D. Gardner’s letter (THE NEWS, Sept. 6) only be-cause of the tone of his letter and of the attack on Frank Horner.

I support Frank Horner’s views regarding development in the town of Qualicum Beach. D. Gardner is obviously in favour of the develop-ers.

There are plenty of homes on the market in the town of Quali-cum Beach for people who wish to move here without the develop-ment of more homes and adding to the problems of sewers and water by expanding the town’s limits.

Teunis Wesbroek has been a conscientious mayor and has kept the boundaries within the existing capabilities of the town’s utilities.

Qualicum Beach is unique, a wonderful place to live and is a well run municipality but it does have its limitations.

When you go to a professional sporting event or to a live concert the doors close when the tickets are sold out. The same principle applies in this situation.

Either purchase an existing household or find another location.

Helene McIntoshQualicum Beach

Listening to Minister Kevin Falcon on the evening news about how the “rejection of the HST will cause huge unexpected deficits,” I found it interesting to note that here we go with the spin again.

The inferred guilt should be on those that cast the HST out in the streets.

I suggest, however, that the guilt should be placed on the spin doctors and the Liberal govern-ment, who wanted to improve their poorly projected budget for an upcoming election by getting a $1.5 billion handout from the federal government.

The Liberal government knew the risk and yet took it, hoping it would fly as without the added dol-lars the true budget deficit would have to be revealed.

Kevin Falcon should run the tapes back and see what his gov-ernment said in what timeline and what was done.

This government thought it could pull the HST off and they would have, if Bill Vander Zalm had not come forward and said enough is enough.

Mister Falcon shouldn’t dare pass on the responsibility to those that rejected the HST. The current deficit is his government’s fault, not theirs.

By the way, I voted to keep the HST in the recent referendum, as it was then at least a known quan-itity.

Man up, Mr. Minister, and do what you have to do.

Bob TritschlerParksville

This letter is in regards to the letter entitled, The NDP doesn’t have to change (The News, Sept. 9).

C. Pahl writes some notable and biased misinformation on federal government mismanagement. While Canada does have debt, this debt is proportionally much less than that of other G8 countries. We can thank the former Liberal government with Paul Martin as Finance Minister for this benefi-cial state.

However, the recent increase of debt is not entirely caused by the current Conservative government.

It was the NDP and the Liber-als who insisted that the minority Conservative government go into greater debt to bail out Chrysler and General Motors and to spend

billions more on make-work infra-structure projects.

The NDP need only look into the mirror to see who is responsi-ble for the latest increase in debt.

Anthonie den BoefNanoose Bay

The rather vitriolic comments on the HST outcome by Parliamen-tary reporter Tom Fletcher in (THE NEWS, Aug. 30) and his obvious dis-like of the NDP or anything social-ist in nature, indicate an attitude more suited to Tea Party North than to objective reporting.

Adrian Dix had good cause to “crow” about the reversal of this misbegotten scheme, since it was poorly prepared, and rammed through with lies and casual dis-

Falcon overlooked some key points

dain for the electorate; any Leader of the Opposition would have failed his job had he not worked hard to defeat it.

Fletcher’s complaints about the problem of funding pensions — and his hinted criticism of the growing sense of entitlement — actually ran into bad luck with the same-day reporting of huge pay increases awarded to senior management figures in a whole raft of government jobs.

Unfortunately he had nothing to say on the core problem bedev-illing all government programs today — the privatization of pub-lic debt, which is steadily driving into default every nation which ever adopted it.

Corruption and bad luck aside, from tiny Iceland to the mighty U.S.A., whole economies are now collapsing from the un-payable interest on their accumulated, un-

payable, excessive interest-induced debts.

Why did Canada abandon debt funding from its own bank? It is the best-kept secret in politics.

Perhaps Mr Fletcher could be induced to research and report on this disastrous process.

It may be more enlightening than his perpetual griping about socialist attitudes, since the world is suffering far more from rampant capitalism.

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The reason for the rush

Give me a break!This smart meter

fiasco is as bad as the stupid ferries that the NDP brought to us years back.

I learned from a meter reader that Hydro is bringing teams of workers from the U.S.A. to begin installing en masse this October.

And I found out why there is such a rush to get these things installed.

Ask Hydro and see if they will tell you the truth.

Each and every one of the new meters that have been purchased, if not installed by Jan. 1, 2012, will be illegal in Canada!

Reason why? Be-cause we have a new law coming into effect and it is to protect the public from mercury.

Every smart meter contains a tilt switch which is operated by mercury.

So Hydro messed up buying all those almost obsolete meters and has to get them hooked up to our houses before the new law takes effect.

This is the way the public is really treated by those who have power over us.

Len WalkerBowser

Thanks to all the people from our neighbourhood over the years and espe-cially when we had to move into The Gardens.

So many dear souls put themselves out to help us.

Thanks to my dear friends who were always there for us and who now have our beautiful border col-lie. She is too big for The Gardens.

Thanks also to our wonderful handyman and his wife team who still come to our res-cue when needed.

I can’t forget a mar-vellous “do any job” Filipino friend who takes on everything from gardening, car cleaning, housekeep-ing.

And the list goes on ...

About two weeks ago I had another fall, this time near the Royal Bank in Quali-cum Beach.

A very kind young man jumped out of his truck or SUV and, along with the help of other bystanders, helped me to get back onto my feet.

Another friend saw what had happened and took me back to my car.

We are now settled into our new home, a comfortable suite on the fourth floor of The Gardens in Qualicum Beach.

The staff and residents alike have been very kind and welcoming.

So here’s a huge bouquet of thanks to you all from both of us.

Qualicum Beach is truly a lovely place to be, with so many beautiful people who live here.

Angela and David Eyre

Qualicum Beach

At last the won-derful maple tree on the bank below the old boys’ school and various buildings that replaced it is no longer at risk.

Wild clematis, a deadly parasite grow-ing on the tree and strangling it, has been removed — at least for now.

That tree is a unique maple, in that its roots mimic the branches on the tree that we see.

The downside is that the branches that die cause the match-ing root below to put the tree at risk, par-ticularly the branches at the top of the hill that are only in sand and clay.

My two hefty sons and their friends yanked all this year’s clematus off this week.

The town’s staff brought a tarp and dragged the debris through my gate and to the dump.

Now the top-of-the-hill’s roots are no longer at risk — for now.

More sky light shows through than has through the many years I’ve been here. It’s a picture of per-fect health.

Joan GreavesQualicum Beach

For instance, the overthrow of the democratic govern-ment of Jean Aristide in Haiti was a terrible mistake and a dis-grace to Canada.

Paul Martin should be charged as a war criminal because of it.

The invasion of Af-ghanistan to support the Bush administra-tion’s theory that the Taliban government of that country was somehow responsible for the 9/11 bomb-ings was also clearly illegal.

Canada should have supported the Taliban’s offer before the war to send Osa-ma bin Laden for trial at the international court in Europe, instead of kowtow-ing to the Americans’ proclaimed crusade in Afghanistan.

However, the Libyan civil war will be the most disastrous for Canada.

Both Canada and Libya are net export-ers of oil, in compe-tition on the world market.

The problem is, Libyan oil is much cleaner than our tar-sands crude.

Colonel Gadaffi is popular among many Libyans, especially the poor, because of his redistribution of the country’s wealth.

Women are more free in Libya than any other Muslim country excepting Indonesia.

The opposition there appears to be in rebellion to gain control of the oil and money rather than for democracy.

Whoever wins, the majority will despise Canada for our par-ticipation, especially those who lost rela-tives and friends to Canadian bombs.

Jim ErkiletianNanaimo

It’s been roughly eight years since the Coast Guard silenced most of the foghorns on our West coast lighthouses. I seem to recall that this was going to save them $75,000 per year in maintenance costs.

Of course, the main reason they used to justify this move was the increas-ingly widespread use of GPS devices.

But here’s the part of their logic that I just don’t understand: this same Coast Guard still feels it’s neces-sary to have all their visual aids to naviga-tion in place to this day, and, presumably, well into the future.

Even with more widespread use of GPS, the Coast Guard maintains its system of day markers, cardi-nal buoys, lighthous-es, etcetera.

So, on the one hand they seem to be saying that regardless of GPS usage, and the amazing capa-bilities of a properly functioning GPS unit onboard the boat of a knowledgeable user, it is necessary to have these aids to naviga-tion in place.

On the other hand, they appear to be say-ing that these aids are only necessary when visibility is good.

When visibility drops and the fog rolls over you so fast you think someone stole the bow of your boat, well, then you’re sup-posed to rely on your GPS and only your GPS.

If you ask me, there’s something ass backwards about this thinking.

Glen FarroughTofino

This town is truly special

Chivalry, courtesy, consideration and kindness are very much alive in Quali-cum Beach.

My husband and I have met so many lovely people here, especially since his stroke and my falling episodes.

Tree now a healthy one

Stay out of foreign wars

No good can come to Canada from par-ticipating in foreign civil wars.

Regardless of which side wins when the guns fall silent, outsiders who got involved will be justly hated when the war is over.

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Acting Parksville mayor Chris Burger and Qualicum Beach councillor Mary Brouilette kick things off. (Left) Left Nicholas and Caroline Baker show off their lab, Rollo, which has been trimmed to look like a lion. (bottom) Partici-pants are eager to start bobbing for wieners.

Paws pound park pavementCONTINUED FROM A8

She also thanked the many volunteers who helped put the event together.

Burger’s comments echoed that theme and he thanked everyone for not only being there, but for caring.

“Who else can speak for the ani-mals?” he asked.

At press time, orga-nizers were still tally-ing up the totals, but Garda Rowe conceded the number of par-ticipants and the total they were able to raise was down this year, although she couldn’t say by how much.

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about a ballpark fig-ure of about raising $10,000 this year,” she said. “I think that’s down from last year, but it seems all the events this year are down.”

However, Rowe said the still significant number of dog owners and other participants enjoyed themselves in Sunday’s spectacu-lar weather and the number of additional games and demonstra-tions on tap resulted in people sticking around longer than in the past.

In particular, the popular bobbing for

wieners event drew many laughs, as the participants strained at their leashes to get at the tasty treats and, when finished, to see if there was anything left in the bowl next door.

“It was a successful event with a lot of en-thusiasm,” Rowe said. “The Paws n’ Wheels group certainly put on an entertaining show.”

The next fundrais-er for the SPCA will be the annual book sale and flea market, slated for Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at Wembley Mall.

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The Oceanside Animal Hospital is looking to expand, adding to their surgi-cal and post surgery services.

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The addition to the building on Memorial Avenue in Parksville would accommodate post-operative care services including an indoor hydrotherapy pool.

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The review panel looking at BC Hydro rates recommended that one way the util-ity might save money would be to change the definition of self-sufficiency. Currently that means having enough domestic clean electricity sup-ply even in low water years.

The B.C. Clean Energy Association was supported by University of Victo-ria climate scientist Andrew Weaver, who wants B.C. to continue to develop its unique clean energy resourc-es. That will reduce BC Hydro’s reliance on the open electric-ity market, and help to reduce demand for further coal and natu-ral gas generation.

Weaver says people still skeptical about climate change should check out the current state of Arctic sea ice. It has retreated drasti-cally again this sum-mer and may reach an even smaller size than it did in 2007, which

was the biggest melt since satellite records became available in 1979. The five greatest ice retreats have been in the past five years. The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centre reported Sept. 6 that both the North-west Passage through Canada’s Arctic and the sea route north of Russia “appear to be open.”

Another supporter is Judith Sayers, a former chief from Nuu-Chah-Nulth territory on Vancou-ver Island, who now teaches aboriginal law at the University of Victoria. She talked about how a small hydro power project near Port Alberni allowed her people to learn business, with a light footprint on land recovering from a century of industrial logging. And she said that more than half of the First Nations in B.C. now have some interest in a power project.

Association president Paul Kariya explained how critics, notably the NDP’s John Horgan, manipu-late rate figures to cre-ate an impression that independent power is hugely overpriced.

One out of three proposals never makes it to produc-tion. B.C.’s second wind farm, the Dokie project near Chetw-ynd, went broke, then was taken over and completed by Plutonic Power Corp and Gen-eral Electric.

Here’s an indica-tion of how quickly the clean energy field is evolving: This year Plutonic merged with Magma Energy Corp., which has geothermal assets in Iceland and Nevada. The merged company, Alterra Pow-er Corp., has backed away from the vast Bute Inlet run-of-river proposal on the B.C. coast, but its nearby East Toba and Mon-trose river generators and the Dokie wind farm have performed better than expected.

The Bute project won’t go anywhere un-til the North Ameri-can power market changes dramatically. Currently the market is low, due mainly to an abundance of cheap natural gas and government-subsi-

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Horgan claims private investment is a nefarious scheme to create a “parallel generating system” for private profit. That seems to be his key criterion for accept-able small hydro: as long as nobody makes a profit.

Professional environmentalists claim rivers have been destroyed. Their fa-vourite villain, Ashlu Creek near Squamish, has been running smoothly for nearly two years, its crit-ics silenced. A new run-of-river cluster around Harrison Lake has energized two re-mote native villages.

I’ve seen these things, from construc-tion stage to mature operation. If that’s your idea of devasta-tion, you should get out more, and ac-quaint yourself with the history of logging in particular.

And if you’re going to insinuate that this is political corrup-tion, as Horgan does, you need a better case than the flimsy one he has presented so far.

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Animal hospital before human clinicCONTINUED FROM A13

In the report to council, staff said the building’s parking is beside, instead of be-hind the building, so the four metre setback “does not appear to

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The Dashwood area resident has been happily cancer free for many years but the treatments she under-went left her with Lymphedema, making her hand and arm very swollen and uncomfortable. Creating her artwork helps to keep her arm mobile and ease some of the pain, she said.

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Caregivers who are looking out for people with early stage memory loss can attest to the feel-ings of isolation that come with the job but a new social program in the Oceanside area may help to ease their burden.

Minds in Motion is a fitness and social program designed for people diagnosed with early stage memory loss from Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia and the people who spend time with them.

Central and North Vancouver Island Support and Educa-tion Co-ordinator for the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia Jane Hope said partic-ipants will enjoy light exercise conducted by a certified fitness instructor, followed by activities or games and social time in a relaxed atmosphere.

She said it doesn’t have to be the spouse of someone with Alzheimer’s who can benefit from the sessions, it can also be a friend, a son or

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“We hear over and over how isolated caregivers become. This allows them to have a social venue and improves their quality of life,” Hope said.

The Provincial Administrative Co-ordinator the the Alzheimer Society of BC agrees adding the sessions she has facilitated in the Vic-toria area have been invaluable. Mariaana Hudson said many great friendships have come out of the ses-sions.

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While the Minds in Motion program is brand new to this area, Hudson said is has been running in 13 communities in the province with rave reviews from those participating. The program being offered in the Oceanside area is a partnership by the Seniors at Risk Integrated Health Net-work, Oceanside Place and the Alzheimer Society of BC. It is funded throug the Vancouver Island Health Authority, Con-tinuing Care Services and the BC Ministry of Health Services.

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Words can’t describe the journey riders on the Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock experience.

The emotion, the physical endurance and fatigue is often only understood by the people who lived through it.

When former riders want or need to talk about their journey, they often turn to their former teammates for a sym-pathetic and under-standing ear.

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Kokesch joined the Tour in 2009, initially inspired by his grandchildren, but the two-week event’s cause – raising money for childhod cancer research – became ap-

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2007 was the 10th an-niversary of the tour and included 10 mem-bers of the public who made a significant contribution to the event over its history.

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“The camarade-rie was incredible,” McDonald said. “The large, non-police pres-ence made us bond better.”

That camaraderie helped McDonald weather the emotional strain of meeting chil-dren with cancer and sharing their stories with others.

Money raised from the Tour de Rock also supports Camp Good-times, a summer camp with medical support that allows children suffering from cancer to attend.

Riders meet chil-dren of all ages in various stages of the disease — from fully recovered and cancer free to palliative — in all communities the

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dealing with a more personal story – his baby daughter was born with Costello syndrome, with the nasty side effect of making her more suseptible to child-hood cancer.

McDonald was close to former tour training co-ordinator Penny Durrant, whose duties he took over as training director. In his leadership role, McDonald sees his job to prepare new riders for the physical challenge of the ride so that they can focus and prepare for the mental one.

Kokesch, who is also a trainer with the Tour, is proud that re-search, with support from fundraisers like the Tour de Rock, in-creased survival odds for childhood cancers to four-out-of-five.

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Public Notice is given to the electors of the Town of Qualicum Beach that nominations for the offi ces of:

Mayor - one (1) to be electedCouncillors - four (4) to be elected

for a 3-year term (December 2011 to December 2014), will be received by the Chief Election Offi cer or a designated person, as follows:

Town Hall, Town of Qualicum Beach, #201-660 Primrose Street, PO Box 130Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1S7 Fax: 250.752.1243

during the Nomination Period, from 9:00 am Tuesday, October 4, 2011 to 4:00 pm Friday, October 14, 2011. Nomination packages, including required forms, are available for pick-up at Town Hall during regular offi ce hours, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays).

2011 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONSNOTICE OF NOMINATION


ELECTOR QUALIFICATIONS

LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORS


VOTING OPPORTUNITIES

A person is qualifi ed to be nominated, elected and to hold offi ce as a member of Town Council if they meet the following criteria:

• Canadian citizen; • 18 years of age or older; • resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are fi led; • not disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding offi ce.

Note: You do not have to live or own property in the Town of Qualicum Beach to run for offi ce.

RESIDENT ELECTORS:

• age 18 or older; • a Canadian citizen (landed immigrants and corporations are not eligible); • a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day of registration; • a resident of the Town of Qualicum Beach for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and • not disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or be otherwise disqualifi ed by law.

NON-RESIDENT PROPERTY ELECTORS:

• age 18 or older; • a Canadian citizen (landed immigrants and corporations are not eligible); • a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day of registration; • a registered owner of real property in the Town of Qualicum Beach for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; • not entitled to register as a resident elector; • not holding the property in trust for a corporation or another trust; • not disqualifi ed by any enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualifi ed by law; and • if more than one person owns the property, only one of the owners may register and that person must have the written consent of the majority of the other owners. (Note: Registration and Consent forms are available at Town Hall. Non- resident property electors may only vote once in Qualicum Beach, regardless of the number of properties they own.)

Beginning Tuesday, October 4, 2011 until the close of general voting for the election on November 19, 2011, a copy of the list of registered electors will, upon signature, be available for public inspection, at Town Hall, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays).

If requested by an elector, the list of registered electors may be amended in order to protect the privacy or security of the elector. This means the address or other information of the elector will be omitted or obscured on the list that is made available for public inspection or provided to candidates. Requests to omit or obscure information may be made in writing to the Chief Election Offi cer, Town of Qualicum Beach, 201-660 Primrose Street, Qualicum Beach, BC, V9K 1S7 and must be received before September 27, 2011.

Any objection to the registration of a person on the list of registered electors must be made in writing by a person eligible to be registered as an elector, no later than 4:00 pm on Friday, October 14, 2011. Objections can only be made on the basis that the person whose name appears has died or is not qualifi ed to be registered as an elector of the Town of Qualicum Beach.

General Voting Day November 19, 2011 and Advance Voting opportunities on November 9 & 16, 2011 will be held at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre, 747 Jones Street, Qualicum Beach, BC between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm. Mail ballot voting will also be available for registered electors with a physical disability, illness or injury that affects their ability to vote at another voting opportunity or who expect to be out of Town on general voting day and at the times of all advance voting opportunities.

MORE INFORMATION Visit www.qualicumbeach.com or contact:

Trudy Coates, Chief Election Offi cer, 250.738.2202, [email protected] Heather Svensen, Deputy Chief Election Offi cer, 250.738.2207, [email protected]

ADVANCE ELECTOR REGISTRATIONAre you eligible to vote at the November elections in Qualicum Beach? Is your name on the current list of electors?

If you are not sure, you can fi nd out by calling or visiting Town Hall located at #201-660 Primrose Street, Qualicum Beach or telephone 250.738.2202 or 250.738.2207. Town Hall is open from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays).

Advance elector registrations will be accepted at the Town Hall until September 27, 2011. With the exception of registrations in conjunction with voting on advance voting days or general voting day, elector registrations will not be accepted during the period September 28, 2011 to November 19, 2011.

All new elector registrations must either (a) produce to the election offi cial at least 2 documents that provide evidence of the applicant’s identity and place of residence, at least one of which must contain the applicant’s signature, or (b) produce to the election offi cial at least 2 documents that provide evidence of the applicant’s identity, at least one of which must contain the applicant’s signature, and make a solemn declaration as to the applicant’s place of residence within the meaning of section 52 of the Local Government Act.

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More on HCG dietIn response to com-

ments made by retired doctor War-

ren Bailey about my article, The HCG Diet: Fat or Fiction, I would first like to say that it is good to see you are continuing your education by never missing an article of Medicine 101. Impres-sive!

For someone who claims to have no training or experience in weight loss man-agement, he is pretty familiar with the 500 cal/day menu. By the detail he provided, it sounds like you know a lot about the outdated Dr. Simeons’ HCG diet.

Regardless, thanks to Dr. Bailey for raising his concerns about the HCG diet. I couldn’t agree with him more.

I too believe that a 500 calorie a day diet is unnecessarily extreme. I hesitated over incorporating the HCG diet protocol as laid out by Dr. Sim-eons because it did not seem to fit with my principles.

I do not promote virtual starvation as a remedy for obesity. Without divulging every detail, you may recall that I am using a modified protocol with my patients.

Other physicians who are using the HCG diet protocol are discovering that 500 calories a day is not a requirement for suc-cessful outcomes.

Dr. Alex Martin of Hollywood, CA, is more in favour of 1000-1200 calories per day. Current under-standing suggests the HCG hormone triggers the hypo-thalamus to help the body access stores of energy.

So, the patient is surviving on the food from a low calorie diet (though not as low as 500 calories per day) along with the energy produced from what is in storage.

One wants to feel good while get-ting the fat cells to shrink. In the book, The Best Diet You’ve Never Heard Of, by Dr. Connie Odom, she ex-plains how the modi-fied HCG diet protocol is working for people and tries to alleviate any safety concerns doctors may have in using this strategy.

If losing weight was so easy, everybody would be doing it. The fact is that thousands of Canadians struggle with weight manage-ment and some are at their wits end.

Most allopaths tend to fall back on “eat less, exercise

more,” and leave these patients with a guilt complex and an over-sized sense of failure.

Medical weight management is com-plex. When it comes to weighing the risks of health complica-tions associated with obesity against the possible benefits of the modified HCG diet protocol under a physician’s supervi-sion, choosing the program looks pretty good.

So far my patient’s are not disappointed.

Diet plans can be good, but the addition of the HCG hormone has given my patients even better weight loss. They report satiation, good energy levels and smaller clothes sizes.

The weigh-ins and waist circumference measurements speak for themselves.

Where is the science to support that HCG is a valu-able addition to a diet plan? The only answer I have is “they are in process” and I would be happy to ac-cept any funding and proposal to conduct a scientific study that definitively clarifies the question.

With enough time and resources, we just might come up with something.

— Dr. Tara Macart owns Opti-Balance

Naturopathic Medicine in Qualicum Beach with her husband Jonathan.

By Dr. Tara

Macart

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Breastfeeding challenge In celebration of National

Breastfeeding Week, mothers and babies are invited to a breastfeed-ing challenge at the Parksville library on October 1.

They will join hundreds of women in Canada for this fun chal-lenge to see which community has the most breastfed babies.

Mothers, babies and other family members are invited to a half-hour

story time at 10:30 a.m. to 11, and the official breastfeeding count starts at 11 a.m. at the library.

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LifeLifeArts&Church duo spread musical word

Just one more gigbefore school

Retired no more, pianist puts skill to use

Pianist Ron Klusmeier has come out of retirement to help spread musical community, in conjunction with Rev. Andrew Twiddy at St. Anne’s and St. Edmund’s Church.


The pastor of St. Anne and St. Edmund’s

Anglican Parish in Parksville and the for-mer music director at Knox United Church have spent the sum-mer making music together and the two have put together a musical program for the fall that is sure to have the angels sing-ing.

Whether you are Anglican or not, the ministry’s new music program is a great opportunity for all people in the commu-nity who love to sing and the partnership between Reverend Andrew Twiddy and local musician Dr. Ron Klusmeier is a collaboration the duo hopes will renew spirituality in the community.

Klusmeier made an attempt at retire-ment two years ago after 13 years with the Music Ministry at Knox United Church in Parksville and more than 50 years as a church musician, but somehow Twiddy convinced him there was an opportunity to do something new in the community — and the partnership was formed.

“After retirement I missed the congre-gational connection. While I find working alone at composing and arranging in my studio very fulfilling, there is just nothing like gathering togeth-er with singers and musicians to bring the music to life and Andrew was a very convincing friend,” admitted Klusmeier when asked how the Reverend brought him

on board.Twiddy said they

met for coffee and a connection was made.

“I had a vacancy in our music position and I asked Ron if he could give me any pointers about finding or training local musi-cians,” Twiddy said. “The more we talked we both realized there was an opportunity to make something new. Ron is a real luminary in the world of church music and has an international reputa-tion. We are blessed to have him and I think

we have a partner-ship that we are both excited about.”

Exuberance abounds as the pair discuss their musical vision for the parish and when accused of having way too much fun on their project the two didn’t dis-agree.

“We are having fun. We wrote our first piece together just a couple of weeks ago. I put some lyrics and Ron put some music together and we sang it on a Sunday morn-ing. I have never

worked so hard in the summer, but I have never felt so rejuve-nated by my summer’s work. It’s all good,” admitted Twiddy.

He said they are especially interested in reaching out to those who may feel in need of musical and spiritual community and may be interested in exploring or recon-necting to a spiritual tradition.

“Our goal is to be accessible to the spiri-tually and musically inquisitive as well as working with those

who are used to being part of a faith commu-nity,” Twiddy said.

There are three music programs at the parish they want the community to know about.

The Sunday morn-ing Drop-in-Choir program under the direction of Klus-meier at St. Edmund’s goes from 9 to 9:40 a.m. It is an open in-vitation to those who are spiritually and or musically inquisitive to join the parish on a drop-in basis to form the choir for the 10

a.m. service.“All they have to do

is show up Sunday for the 9 a.m. rehearsal. We are hoping people who maybe don’t have a current Sunday morning connection will be interested. It’s a delightfully infor-mal gathering of sing-ers,” said Klusmeier.

An eight-week program facilitated by Klusmeier, Twiddy and David Young, called Heritage Hymns and Sto-ries, will be held on Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. starting in October.

It is aimed at reach-ing people who love the old classic hymns as well as those who are adventurous for new material.

“My career has been based on con-temporary music and words but we also rec-ognize the traditions that have brought us to where we are and we try to honour that in these special sessions,” Klusmeier said.

Those who join the group can listen or sing along to the clas-sic hymns of the past and learn the stories of how they came to be written.

“David and I do organ and piano. We love playing together. Andrew jumps in there too with guitar, penny whistle and keyboard.”

Twiddy said he feels that this pro-gram may be able to reach people who love the old classic hymns as well as those who are adventurous for new material.

“We want to try out something that hasn’t been done perhaps in their experience be-fore. I feel what Ron and I can do together is offer both of these ways of approach-ing music,” Twiddy added.

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It is back to school for local singer song writer Bonnie Fon-taine, but before she immerses herself in her music studies, she is going to take to the stage at the Errington Farmers Market on Saturday, Sept. 17.

Fontaine said she will perform some cover tunes as well as some of her original songs. The Errington resident describes her musical style as a combination of every-thing.

“I love a lot of different styles…jazz, blues, folk, alterna-tive and Celtic. That is pretty much me in a nutshell,” she said.

Fontaine, who plays guitar, has asked violinist Falon Smith to join her on stage and admits it will be very impromptu performance.

“We’ve performed together at the market before. We will throw something together and it will be fun. Having her on stage with me will make it a little more colourful,” Fontaine said.

Fontaine has col-laborated with many different musical art-ists over the years and speaks fondly of the time she was in an all women’s band called Clayoquot Sound.

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Bonnie Fontaine to play farmer’s market


Sunday at Three which starts Sept. 18 is an informal ecumenical gathering led by Klusmeier and some of his musical friends. It features music composed by Klusmeier with words by his writing partners from around the globe including Walter Farquharson, Fred Kaan, Shirley Erena Murray, John Oldham, Ruth Duck, and Brian Wren.

“It is a mix of singing and stories that fo-cuses on making music. There are a number of musicians that join me on organ, piano, guitar and bass. It has been a very popular gathering for people who are interested particularly in new songs for worship. It is all material that I have written and Andrew is an active partici-pant,” Klusmeier explained.

The music is drawn from the nearly 800 hymns and songs Klusmeier has composed. He has hundreds of selections published by over 75 denominations and publishing companies worldwide.

Planning is also underway for the Dec. 20 Christmas Cantata which Klusmeier wrote with Walter Farquharson and it will be combin-ing the musical resources of St. Edmunds with other churches.

Klusmeier said they are inviting a number of others and they will have one presentation in Nanaimo at Trinity United, and one in Parks-ville but it will draw on singers from all of the churches.

He said they want to be open to collaborative projects with other churches in the area in a way that is somewhat new for our community.

“I think too many churches become isolated and a bit stifled and by sharing their resources by doing collaborative projects I think we open ourselves up to a healthier sense of commu-nity,” Klusmeier said.

Choir rejuvenatingCONTINUED FROM A29

Rev. Andrew Twiddy and pianist Ron Klusmeier are teaming up.

Dance to the sound of the Highlands

You don’t need a drop of Celtic blood to enjoy Scottish music and dance.


You don’t have to be Scottish to enjoy Scottish Country Dancing and on Wednesday, Sept. 14 you may just find your foot tapping to the irresistible rhythms of the music if you attend the Oceanside Scottish Country

Dancers open house.Beginners and

experienced dancers are encouraged to join the fun annual event from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Qualicum Beach Com-munity Hall.

Dorothy Young who is president of the dance club is inviting people to bring some soft soled shoes and have a good time.

She said Scottish Country Dancing is enjoyed the world over, from Japan to New Zealand and its steps and movements strike a chord in the hearts of young and old alike.

A Scottish country dance is a form of social dance involv-ing groups of mixed couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns according to a predetermined choreography. While the dance is steeped

in tradition with its roots in the courtly dances of the Renais-sance, most modern day participants are not Scottish, just lov-ers of dance.

“It’s a great way to get a bit of exercise, both physical and mental, but most im-portantly it is about having lots of fun and meeting new friends,” said Young.

Dance instructor Rita Gibson concurs.

“It is energetic dancing. You get a good cardiovascular workout and a very good workout for your brain as well,” Gibson said.

“We do a lot of laughing,” said Gib-son “usually when you mess up.” And Young wholeheartedly agrees saying, “You laugh or you cry and we choose to laugh.”

Young and Gibson explain that you are switching partners and counting all the time.

“You may lose your partner in the beginning and find him at the end. It is a progressive dance. Everybody is moving all the time, up and down the set, you are continually moving, said Young.

Gibson said some dances have their own music and for other dances they choose the music but it has to fit the dance.

She added there are over 10,000 dances in existence and a lot of them have been around for centuries.

“Some have been handed down by word of mouth. The Royal Scottish Coun-try Dance Society (RSCDS) was started in 1923 to promote the dance as the Scot-tish do it so the old dances wouldn’t be lost,” said Gibson.

If you like to dance and want to give it a try you can come alone or with a partner to learn some jigs, reels and strathspeys.

Jigs and reels are in quick time while the strathspey is more slow and grace-ful.

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Members of the club will lead you through some easy Scottish country dances but if you are unsure there is no pressure to join in.

“If they want to try it they are welcome. We will do simple dances with wonderful music,” said Gibson who has been teaching the basic class for 10 years.

She adds they will also do two demos so they can observe what they can aspire to.

She said no partner is required so you cer-tainly won’t be left sitting on the sidelines and no experience is necessary.

“It’s not regulated. That is why it is so much fun. You have a good time and try your best but if you flub it is not the end of the world.” Gibson said.

In fact she said it’s hard not to dance to the music of the stirring reels and haunting strath-speys.

The traditional soft soled shoes required for the dance are called Ghillies but Young said all you really need to begin with are any soft soled

shoes.She said most dancers do eventually enjoy

the thrill of dressing up in a kilt or ball gown for special occasions, particularly the men.

“It is hard to get men out to try it but once they do they are more enthusiastic than the women. It usually takes them about five years to get the bug, and then they want a kilt,” said Young.

Both dance enthusiasts agree a lot of the attraction has to do with the wonderful music and the social aspect of the dance.

“There are classes all over the Island. You just carry your shoes everywhere,” said Gibson.

The Oceanside Scottish Country Dancers Club was formed in 1984. The Club meets regu-larly for social classes on Wednesday evenings at the Qualicum Beach Community Centre. The beginner’s class starts at 6:30 p.m. followed by the advanced class at 8:10 p.m. For more infor-mation visit www.oceansidescd.net.

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“We did a record-ing at Ocean Studios of original music and all the proceeds went to the protection of Meares Island. We toured Vancouver Is-land during our years together. What was neat about that was we practiced in Tofino and people lived on little islands and we would take boats out to them and work on our songs and harmo-nies while our kids played,” she recalled.

She said when they played at Expo 86 she got to walk past James Brown every day.

In 1999 she per-formed with a local group called Express-soul and began recording a CD of original songs entitled Stirring.

“I tried to incorpo-rate some of my musi-cal diversity in the CD Expresssoul which really was about expressing one’s soul. It was wonderful to work with a collabora-tion of many great artists,” she said.

Back in June, Fontaine performed at Nanoose Bay Art in the Garden and over the summer she has been busy teaching voice at the music centre.

Fontaine who has been attending VIU where she is majoring in voice in the Bach-elor of Arts program said finding a balance between her family life and her studies can be crazy at times but there is no turn-ing back now.

“I am trying to take things in stride. I am going to learn as much as I can about music because I love music. It has always been my passion and I keep going back to it,” she said.

Currently Fontaine teaches voice lessons because as one of her instructors told her, “if you practice what you learn you stay fresh.”

After Fontaine gets her degree she will teach music full time and she said for those people who think they can’t sing, she doesn’t agree.

“I think that every-body has a voice. If you can talk you can sing. It is just a matter of learning how to use your voice. It is

a matter of learning what your range and pitch is. Articulation is important as well as breathing control and learning how to use your diaphragm.

“The more you be-come aware of these things you can learn how to sing. It is re-ally not impossible for anybody… it is just a matter if they want to,” she said.

The bandshell at the Errington Farm-ers Market will also feature performances by David Malek and John Hamel Saturday, Sept. 17.

The last day for the market, which runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. will be Saturday, Sept. 24.

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Some clients have asked me what it means when

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Not exactly. The Federal Reserve usu-ally decides a couple of months ahead of the new fiscal year how much cash it needs to print for the next 12 months — much of it simply to retire old bills from circulation.

Once it makes that estimate, it sends its annual order over to the Bureau of Engrav-ing and Printing.

Those bills enter circulation through a pretty simple process.

Banks are required to keep money in a reserve account with the Fed.

When people cash cheques or take money from the ATM, those banks replenish their cash supply by getting currency from a Federal Reserve branch, with the amount debited elec-tronically from the bank’s reserves.

The amount of cur-rency in circulation can vary from day to day and season to season.

More people want cash during the holi-days, for example, or on the weekends.

Although the stock of currency in circu-lation has increased

dramatically over the years, there is no im-mediate evidence that the bureau is working its printing presses overtime or has any plans to do so.

So what do eco-nomic commentators mean when they say the Fed might choose to “print money”

After all, even Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has used similar language before, explaining in a 2002 speech — when he was a governor on the Federal Reserve Board — that “the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that al-lows it to produce as

many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.”

Bernanke also not-ed that John Maynard Keynes once semi-seriously proposed, as an anti-deflationary measure, that the gov-ernment fill bottles with currency and bury them in mine shafts to be dug up by the public.

In practice, the

term “printing money” is often used as shorthand for what economists call quan-titative easing.

Typically, major monetary-policy decisions by the Fed are made by setting a target for the fed-eral funds rate — the interest rate at which banks lend to other banks — and then buying or selling gov-ernment securities to achieve that goal.

But as the tar-geted federal funds rate nears zero the Fed may be forced to look at other options to fight off possible deflation.

Japan has found itself facing similar problems in recent

years.Quantitative eas-

ing is an attempt to increase the money supply by buying more and more assets from banks without regard to an interest-rate target.

The Fed doesn’t need to print more currency to do that; it can simply happen electronically, as the banks are credited with more money in the accounts they keep with the Federal Reserve.

The Fed can do this as much as it wants, but it could face two potential problems.

For one, it’s possible that those reserve accounts will keep growing with-

out stimulating any economic activity.

Alternatively, the Fed could increase the money supply by too much, resulting in inflation.

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is pleased to have this opportunity to better communicate our role.

Through this new series of articles chamber staff and board members will share their positions and commitment to an approach that fosters community building.

We believe in the fundamental phi-losophy that a strong community creates and supports a strong local economy.

In order for the chamber to be suc-cessful we believe three things must happen.

First, we must com-municate our role so that you can better un-derstand our commit-ment and capacity to support and address

community building needs.

Secondly, we will engage key stakehold-ers and actively listen to their positions so that we can truly sup-port the community’s agenda as a whole.

And lastly, we will strive to strengthen relationships with these key stakehold-ers, including commu-nity groups, local and regional governments, as we recognize each groups abilities and view limitations as op-portunities for future collaboration.

To gain a better understanding of the chamber’s role and commitment, please take a few minutes to review our guiding values and approach-es to community building.

This approach is not new, it is however something that we believe is appropriate for the community and includes the fol-lowing principles:

Respond to the community’s agenda based on an inclusive strategic plan, as op-posed to any one spe-cific groups agenda.

Emphasize creat-ing an environment in which business can last, as opposed to starting businesses alone.

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Understand that success is measured by social, cultural, political and economic im-pacts, as opposed to economic impacts alone; and

The solution is an inclusive

sound institutional founda-tion, strategic direction, and informed action, as opposed to spending money and increas-ing debt.

We hope this provides you with a better understanding of the Qualicum Beach Cham-ber of Commerce and, more importantly, how we view our role within the northern part of the regional district.

The chamber is currently in the process of preparing for our strategic planning as we set goals and positions for 2012 and beyond.

We recently attended a meeting with 15 other island chambers of commerce and have committed to being part of a working group that will, through the BC Chamber of Commerce, advocate on behalf

of Vancouver Island in order to voice the Island’s needs to government.

We encourage all business-es and area groups to share their visions and strategies, so that collectively, we can ensure our goals are in support of, and in alignment with, the long term sustainable develop-ment needs of this amazing region.

Our staff and board welcome your feedback and encourage all stakeholders to work together as we develop an inclusive and comprehen-sive community building strategy.

Peter Dukakis is the president of the Qualicum Beach Cham-

ber of Commerce and is a regu-lar contributor to this column.

Long-term thinking needed locallyCONTINUED FROM A33

Craig Street event a hitThe crowds turned out in force for the weekly Craig Street market this summer, leading to its steady expansion into the downtown core. NEIL HORNER PHOTO

By AUREN RUVINSKYNEWS REPORTER

The successful Craig Street Market in Parksville has wrapped up for the year and is already looking forward to another big season next summer.

“It went very well,

everything I heard from the vendors and the businesses was positive,” said Kim Burden, executive director of the Parks-ville and District Chamber of Com-merce which runs the weekly Tuesday evening markets.

He said that not only does he get a lot of positive feedback directly from people who attend or work at the market, but at a recent Vancouver

Island-wide chamber meeting he was hear-ing a lot of compli-ments from other communities.

“People really ap-preciate the vibran-cy,” he said pointing out that they expand-ed over the summer reaching a maximum of about 140 vendors.

He said they hoped for the increase in vendors — topping out at about 100 last year — so when they applied for permis-

sion from the city in the spring they asked to include the pos-sible expansion onto Middleton Avenue, leaving it open-ended.

While it’s too early for exact details Burden said the market, known as the “Summer by the Sea Street Market,” will definitely go ahead again next summer much as it was this summer.

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Dawe to speak on sustainability

The Mid-Island Sustainability and Stewardship Initiative has scheduled a public forum on Conservation, Sustain-ability and Vancouver Island’s Green Gateway on Thursday, Sept. 22 at VIU’s

lecture theatre in Nanaimo, starting at 7 p.m.

The event will feature a keynote address by Neil Dawe, the president of the Qualicum Institute, who will give

a talk on, Our Sustainability Dilemma: why the harder we work the behinder we get.

The event is free, with admission by donation.

Weekly market grew as word got around

NOTICE OF NOMINATION PERIOD2011 Local Elections

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of Electoral Area E (Lasqueti Island) of the Powell River Regional District that nominations for the offi ces of:

1 Director for Electoral Area E (Lasqueti Island) of the Regional Board

2 Trustees for the Lasqueti Island Trust Area of the Islands Trust

for a 3-year term commencing December 2011 and continuing until the general local elections in 2014, will be received by the Chief Election Offi cer or Deputy Chief Election Offi cer during the following period:

9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 until4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 14, 2011

The nomination documents shall be delivered to:

• Deputy Chief Election Offi cer, Melinda Auerbach,Main Road, Lasqueti Island, (250-333-8898) or:

• Chief Election Offi cer, Pat Christie, Powell River Regional District, 5776 Marine Avenue, Powell River, B.C. (604-483-3231, collect), fax (604-483-2229) 8:30 am - 4:30 p., Monday – Friday, excluding holidays


A person is qualifi ed to be nominated, elected, and to hold offi ce as a member of local govern-ment if they meet the following criteria:

• Canadian citizen, 18 years of age or older;

• resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the daynominations papers are fi led; and

• not disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, orholding offi ce.

NOMINATION PROCESS

Nominators: Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two duly qualifi ed electors of the jurisdiction which the candidate is being nominated to represent. Nominators must be eligible to vote in the jurisdiction that the candidate is being nominated to represent.

Nomination Documents are available from Melinda Auerbach or the Powell RiverRegional District (addresses above) or from the Regional District website atwww.powellriverrd.bc.ca. The nomination documents shall state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to suffi ciently identify the candidate. The nomination documents shall be signed by the candidate.

At the time of fi ling the nomination documents, the candidates shall also fi le with the Chief Election Offi cer or designate, a written disclosure, as required under the Financial Disclosure Act. The Regional District does not charge a nomination deposit fee.

Nominations Close at 4:00 p.m. on Friday October 14, 2011 and Candidates will be declared at that time. In the event that there are fewer candidates declared than there are to be elected for any offi ce, the nomination period for any such offi ce(s) will be extended to 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 18, 2011.

Delivery of Nomination Documents

Delivery of Nomination Documents may be by hand, mail, facsimile or other delivery service. Nominations cannot be submitted electronically. Originals of faxed nomination documents must be received by the Chief or Deputy Chief Election Offi cer by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 21, 2011 or the nomination is deemed to be withdrawn.

* * * * *

IN THE EVENT OF AN ELECTION BY VOTING BEING NECESSARY, general voting day will be Saturday, November 19, 2011. Registration of all electors will take place at the time of voting.

FURTHER INFORMATION on the foregoing maybe obtained by contacting the Chief Election Offi cer at 604-483-3231 (collect).

Patricia Christie, Chief Election Offi ce

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Date: Friday, September 23, 2011 Time: 11:45am - 1pm (presentation to begin at noon) Location: Qualicum Beach Civic Centre

To RSVP or for information on upcoming dates please phone

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(CVIJOBS), a non-profit society that provides work and career-related servic-es to residents of the Parksville/Qualicum Beach area.

To add your name to the guest list and reserve your spot at this popular event, call the Career Centre at 250-248-3205 or email [email protected].

Limited general seating will be avail-able on a first come, first serve basis after 6:45 p.m.

Those who at-tend will be entered into a draw for an opportunity to win either Sean Aiken’s One Week Job book or a DVD copy of the movie on the evening of the event.

The screening of Aiken’s documentary, One-Week Job, is the highlight of the Ca-reer Centre’s Career Week, which runs from from September 26 to 30.

This year’s theme is “Discover Your Pas-sion.”

Take advantage of the workshops and activities offered this week to start the journey to discover your passion and the possible careers that await you.

It is never too late to take action. More information on Career Week is posted in the workshop section on The Career Centre’s website www.career-centre.org.

— Submitted by The Career Centre

Not all the booths at this year’s Coombs Fair involved agriculture or produce. Some of them, such as Sally Whibley’s Smart Fit Wholistic Fitness booth, had a more light-hearted and colourful theme. Whib-ley offers hoop dance classes as well as yoga and nutrition plans at her Errington outlet.

NEIL HORNER PHOTO

HOOP HELP

PARKSVILLE — Mark your calendars! The Career Centre, with sponsorship from Coastal Com-munity Credit Union (CCCU), will host a free screening of the documentary “One Week Job” with at-tending author and project founder Sean Aiken at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Septem-ber 28 at the Parks-ville Community and Conference Centre.

An open question period and book sign-ing opportunity with Aiken will follow.

This exciting eve-ning session is a must see for anyone who is interested in discov-ering their passion or still doesn’t know what they want to do when they grow up.

Youth counsellors, employment consul-tants and families are encouraged to take part in the event.

“We are excited about the opportunity to bring this special event to the communi-ty and work with the event sponsor Coastal Community Credit Union,” said execu-tive director of the Career Centre, Cyndy Ireland Bresden. “We often see individuals in career transition and this movie may inspire them.”

The Career Centre is a project of The Central Vancouver Island Job Opportuni-ties Building Society

Youths urged to discover their passion

Milner in a jamAt this time of year, when the fruit is ripe,

many Oceanside residents are canning like crazy and making as much jam as they can be fore they can’t take the heat in the kitchen.

The many volunteers at Milner Gardens and Woodland are also working hard to get their preserves on the shelf, but they need some help from the community to get that task done.

They are asking anyone who has extra fruit to consider donating it, as their jam supplies are getting low and they need the fruit on hand to make more.

Similarly, they are looking for donations of small canning jars to put the jam in — with the highest need being in the three-ounce (125 ml) and six-ounce (250 ml) sizes.

Please contact Carol at [email protected] if you can help or call 250-752-8573 to arrange a dropoff time.

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A “Celebration of Life” will be held on Saturday,

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Village Way, Qualicum Beach (1:30 - 3 pm)

In lieu of fl owers, any donations can be made in Patricia’s name to the Palliative Care Ward at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.

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Albert Charles SharmanBert was born in Winnipeg on April 28th, 1916 and passed away at The Gardens in Qualicum Beach on August 26th, 2011.He will be sadly missed by his loving wife Celia, his chil-dren Joanne (Lorne), and Charlie (Leona), his grandson Scott (Alex) and great-grandson, Elliot, as well a broth-ers-in-law Ernie (Wyn), Gord and their families.Bert served in the Canadian Airforce during WWII, and enjoyed a 40 year career with The Hudson’s Bay Co. Northern Stores. He and Celia retired to the West Coast in 1983.

A small family service was held on August 31st

at St. Anne’s Anglican Church, offi ciated by Rev.

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by the ladies of the church.

Special thanks to the caring nurses and staff at The Gardens for making Bert’s last days comfortable.

NANAIMO & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONAnnual General Meeting

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CHAPELL, Allan CreggJuly 2, l936 - Sept 3, 2011

It is with great sadness that we an-nounce Al’s death after a brief ill-ness following surgery. Surrounded by his family and favorite music he died peacefully under the wonder-ful care of ICU, Royal Jubilee Hos-pital, Victoria, BC. He is survived by his wife Teresa, his children, Sheree (Da-vid), Shawn (Cathy), Scott and his four grandchildren. We raise a glass in his honour to a life lived with courage & pas-sion. Al’s spirit lives on in those that knew and loved him.

Many thanks for your thoughts and prayers during this diffi cult time. Service will be held in Ontario.

The Town of Qualicum Beach gives notice, pursuant to Section 26 of the Community Charter, that the Town intends to sell land, located in Hermitage Park, at the intersection of Savary Drive and Valdez Drive, legally described as PID 000-006-661, Lot 4, District Lot 78, Newcastle District, Plan 39855, with a civic address of 849 Savary Drive, to Klobchar Construction Inc. for a sale price of $180,000.

The Town has retained an approximate 3 metre wide stat-utory right of way along the southern boundary of Lot 4, for the passage of the public and for maintaining utilities between Valdez Drive and Jones Street.

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Annual General MeetingDate: September 28, 2011

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The Regional District of Nanaimo has casual employment opportunities for an Aquatic Maintenance Worker and an Arena Maintenance Worker in the Recreation Services Department in Parksville.These positions will be of interest to individuals who are looking for an opportunity to positively contribute to a dynamic and innovative work environment.Visit our website at www.rdn.bc.ca for a complete job

posting and job description.

Employment Opportunity forAQUATIC MAINTENANCE WORKER

Competition No. 2011-61

ARENA MAINTENANCE WORKERCompetition NO. 2011-62

(Casual Positions)

CARRIERSCARRIERS Needed in

your area.

CURRENT ROUTES AVAILABLE:

Call The News at 248-4341 ext. 260The Parksville/Qualicum Beach NewsThe Parksville/Qualicum Beach News is is

looking for a responsible person to deliver in your area! looking for a responsible person to deliver in your area! Anyone who is interested in making some extra cash and Anyone who is interested in making some extra cash and

getting a little exercise at the same time is asked to call getting a little exercise at the same time is asked to call The News The News circulation at 248-4341, ext. 260. circulation at 248-4341, ext. 260.

Routes are temporarily covered. We are looking for Routes are temporarily covered. We are looking for permanent carriers for these routes.permanent carriers for these routes.

Chartwell Rte #618 - 138 papers Arson, Aquarius, Cantebury, Cardinal, Kensington, Lancaster, Lynx, Pelorus,

Sunrise & Windsor

Parksville Rte #112- 58 papers

Leviers Rd, Martindale Rd, Stanford Ave E. & Wain Rd.

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

Courses Starting Now!Get certifi ed in 13 weeks

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HELP WANTED

ASSISTANT OFFICE Manag-er. Must be able to multi-task in busy trade show offi ce. Good computer skills - Mac friendly an asset. Should have excellent customer service skills. 3 month trial, leading to permanent position. 35 - 40 hour work week in Parksville, $17.00 p/hr to start. email re-sume to: [email protected] or send to File #21 c/o The News #4-154 Middleton, Parksville, BC, V9P 2H2

Bodyworks Fitness for women

will be starting classes soon. Now accepting

resumes for instructors 162 Morison Ave.,

Parksville 250-248-3346

We are still hiring - Dozer & excavator operators required by a busy Alberta oilfi eld con-struction company. We require operators that are experienced and preference will be given to operators that have construct-ed oilfi eld roads and drilling locations. You will be provided with motels and restaurant meals. Competitive wages, bonus and transportation daily to and from job sites. Our work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Call 780-723-5051.

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

DELIVERY PERSONS

PHONE BOOKS

Mature persons with car or truck to deliver Canpages Telephone Directories to Nanaimo, Parksville, Quali-cum, Ladysmith and Che-mainus.

Opportunity also exists for:

FUNDRAISER

CANPAGESPHONE BOOKS

Clubs, Charitable Organiza-tions, Schools / Church Groups, Sport Teams or Individuals!

EARN MONEY delivering the Canpages Directories in Nanaimo, Parksville, Qualicum, Ladysmith and Chemainus. No selling in-volved. Call, fax or visit online for more info.

PDC LogisticsTel: 1-800-663-4383 Mon.- Fri. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Fax: 1-604-420-4958 orVisit: www.pdclogistics.ca

DELIVERY POSITION, part-time for farm operation. Must have Class 3 with air. Fax re-sume to: 250-752-6277.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

at: STANFORD PLACE CARE

CAMPUS:Licensed Practical Nurses: Casual positions (must have current registration & First Aid/CPR certifi cate.) Care Aides:Casual positions available (must have current registra-tion)Please forward resume to:-Human Resources, 250 Craig St., Parksville, BC, V9P 0A7

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

INSULATOR TRAINEE, $11- $20/hr depending on exp. Must have drivers license & able to work in crawl spaces & attics. Job is based out of Parksville. Fax resume to 250-248-4952.

LEMARE GROUP is cur-rently seeking the following positions:• Log loader• Second Loader• Hoe chucker operator• Hook tender• Chaser• Processor• Off highway logging truck driver• Line loader Operatorfor the North Vancouver Is-land area. Full time union wages. Email resumes tooffi [email protected] or fax to 250-956-4888.

MEDICAL OFFICE ASSIST-ANT Permanent part-time po-sition available at a busy after hours clinic. Minimum require-ment MOA course. Please fax resume to 250-248-2128 or drop off at 154 West Memorial Ave., in Parksville.

PART-TIME EXPERIENCED maintenance person with me-chanical background. Knowl-edge of equipment mainte-nance and equipment operation required. This is a seasonal position for busy farm operation. Wages nego-tiated upon experience. Please fax resume to: 250-752-6277.

The Lemare Group is currently seeking a heavy duty me-chanic for the North Vancou-ver Island area. Full time, un-ion wages. Email resume to offi [email protected] or fax to: 250-956-4888.

HOME CARE/SUPPORT

WANTED, LIVE-IN caregiver for elderly woman. Duties in-clude giving insulin shots, dis-pensing meds., light house keeping & meal prep. $9 p/hr, guaranteed 40 hrs/wk. Email: [email protected] or fax to: 250-757-9305

MEDICAL/DENTAL

MEDICAL OFFICE Trainees needed! Hospitals & Dr.’s need medical offi ce & medical admin staff. No experience? Need training? Career training & job placement available. 1-888-748-4126.

TRADES, TECHNICAL

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIAN required in a very busy Gener-al Motors dealership. We offer a Health Benefi ts plan, mod-ern well-equipped facility, great training& above average compensation! If interested call or email Jasyson Kowal-chuk 306.331.7766 [email protected]. Echo Val-ley GM Fort Qu Appelle, SK.

HELP WANTED Journeyman or Apprentice Heavy Equip-ment Technician, Kindersley, SK. Extremely busy indepen-dent shop. Wage based on education and experience. Benefi ts package. Fax 306-463-4822 or email [email protected].

PERSONAL SERVICES

ART/MUSIC/DANCING

ORGAN & KEYBOARD LESSONS: In your own home - on your own instrument! Call Keith Clarke, 250-743-9669

FINANCIAL SERVICES

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PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

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IF YOU own a home or realestate, Alpine Credits will lendyou money: It’s That Simple.Your Credit / Age / Income isNot an issue. 1.800.587.2161.

FITNESS/EXERCISE

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HOME CARE SUPPORT

ANGELS HOME CARE CER-TIFIED, INSURED MARCIA250.594.7777

MEDICAL HEALTH

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

BOOKKEEPING SERVICES for small business, reasonablerates, ref avail - get organized,call 250 752 3833 today.

CLEANING SERVICES

BACHELOR’S ANSWER. Housecleaning, laundry, iron-ing, mending, shopping, er-rands, cooking & baking 250-248-4283Carleen’s Clean & Green Housecleaning with an eye for detail. Home (250)594-8812 or Cell (250)240-4017.IF YOU are looking for a re-liable house cleaner to cleanyour home, please call me!Qualicum Beach area, excel-lent refs and many years exp.Call 250-752-4342.NOT ENOUGH time in yourday? Clone yourself-house-hold cleaning, garden cleanup,errands, etc. ReasonableRates. Call 250-248-0449.

DRYWALL

FOR ALL your drywall andpainting needs, reno’s and re-pairs. Textured ceilings, spraypaint. Call a pro, no job toosmall. Phil 250-954-1859.

GARDENING

WES-COAST YARDBIRDSLawns, gardens, yard clean-up, large dump. Pressurewashing, Irrigation. Tree Prun-ing, Topping, Removal. Pleasecall 250-752-9444.

RENTALS

WANTED TO RENT

LADY PENSIONER Dutch - Canadian looking for small house or cottage. N/S, N/P, good ref’s. Love gardening, prefer Parksville. Not over $600250-248-8458

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO FINANCING

COME TO the right place Buy a used car the easy way, get fi nanced and Drive Home Now. We deliver to BC & Al-berta www.DriveHomeNow.com

FREE CASH back with $0 down at Auto Credit Fast. Need a vehicle? Good or Bad credit call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599 www.autocreditfast.ca. DLN 30309. Free Delivery.

WANT A vehicle but stressed about your credit? Christmas in August, $500 cash back. We fund your future not your past. All credit situations ac-cepted. www.creditdrivers.ca 1-888-593-6095.

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO FINANCINGCARS

2006 DODGE Magnum RT, white. 32,000 km, warranty un-til Jan, 2013. $22,500. 250-468-1410

TOP DOLLAR Paid! Want To Buy Junk Cars & Trucks for cash. 1-250-954-7843.

VTRUCKS & ANS

CASH BUYER of junk cars and trucks. Over the phone price quotes. 1-250-954-7843.

DODGE RAM Royal B250 V8 Camper Van. Power steering, Power Brakes, 2 way fridge, propane stove. Complete with lots of goodies! Call for more info: 250-951-9925

LOOKING for Subsitute Carriers! Gas Included with Routes!Call Becky @248-2545


ESTATE CLEARANCE SALE

#1397 Gabriola Drive Craig Bay, Parksville

• Mon, Tues, Wed. Aug 12, 13, 14 10am-3pm.

Fine quality furniture and household items, car-pets, lamps, pictures & much more.

Hosted by SmartMove Services

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QUALICUM. 187 Valdez Ave. Sat. Sept. 17, 9:30am-3pm. Tools, Toys & Trinkets.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

HANDYPERSONS

OCEANSIDE HOUSE and home for repairs maintenance and pressure washing. Pete, (250)927-2641.

SMALL JOB Specialist. Expe-rienced Contractor. At home or business. Small jobs a Specialty. Reasonable rates. Professional workmanship. Refs. Dave: 250-954-7877.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

ALL TYPES of hauling. Small loads, garden waste, construc-tion debris & junk. Ron 250-757-2094 or 250-228-1320

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

TODD THE BUILDER. Renos, plumbing. Commercial offi ces; Custom homes. 250-752-1121

HOME REPAIRS

By The Bay Home Repairs and Sheet Metal

Eavestrough repairs and cleaning, custom copper and repairs, aluminum and siding

repairs. Roof repairs.25 yrs exp.

Seniors discount - free est

Call 250-650-6253

LANDSCAPING

GB SERVICES. Your one stopLandscape Company. Design & installation. Decks - FencingWalls - Pavers Water Features Irrigation. References. Senior Discounts. 250-390-3855.

MISC SERVICES

WAYNE’S SMALL ENGINES 2 and 4 cycle and other motor-ized things. Servicing S. Quali-cum & Hilliers. Some mobile service avail. 250-752-1639

& MOVING STORAGE

2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on lo-cal moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)951-0010.

PAINTING

A STROKE ABOVE Painting. Commercial & Residential. In-terior/Exterior. WCB, liability insurance. All jobs warranted. See what we can do! Dave 250-248-0335, 250-240-2310.

POIRIER PAINTING, Resi-dential/Commercial. Fully in-sured, Guaranteed Workman-ship, Free Estimates. Call Dan 250-240-3528. WCB insured.

PLUMBING

LEAKY PIPES? Dripping taps? Call Hudley Plumbing for all your plumbing needs Big or Small. Call 250-248-6678 ask about our fall hot wa-ter tank specials.

TELEPHONE SERVICES

A FREE telephone service - Get Your First Month Free. Bad Credit, Don’t Sweat It. No Deposits. No Credit Checks. Call Freedom Phone Lines To-day Toll-Free 1-866-884-7464.

WINDOW CLEANING

GLASSY TOUCH Window cleaning. Committed to quality service & results. Free est. Let the Sun Shine in! Call Roger 250-468-7731

PETS

PET CARE SERVICES

CAT SITTING: I’ll care for your cherished feline(s) in my clean, quiet, loving home (no cages). Now accepting book-ings. 7 day minimum stay. Long term rates available. 250-740-5554

Call 310.3535

BUYING - RENTING- SELLING

Call us today to place your classifi ed ad

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

APPLIANCES

WANTED DEAD OR

ALIVE$$ CASH PAID $$for NEWER FRIDGES, STOVES, WASHERS,

DRYERS etc.

BELLEVUE RECONDITIONED

APPLIANCES Sales & Service. FULL WARRANTY.

Large Showroom 1040 BELLEVUE ROAD

Parksville 250-248-8251

ESTATE SALES

ESTATE SALE. Moving. Everything must go. (Sept. 16th-18th, 9:30am-2:30pm) by appt only. Call 250-752-1054.

FREE ITEMS

NORM & SONS are still doing free tow-aways of unwanted vehicles/scrap metal pick-up. Will pay $$$ for newer models. Call 250-752-3022.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

SEASONED FIREWOOD Vancouver Island’s largest fi re-wood producer offers fi rewood legally obtained during forest restoration, large cords, fast delivery. Help restore your for-est, Burndrywood.com or 1-877-902-WOOD.

GARAGE SALES

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

BUILDING SALE... “Rock bot-tom prices” 25x40x12 $7350. 30x60x15 $12,700. 35x70x16 $15,990. 40x80x16 $20,990. 47x100x18 $25,800. 60x140x20 $50,600. End walls included, doors optional. Pio-neer Steel Manufacturers Di-rect 1-800-668-5422.

CAN’T GET up your stairs? Acorn Stairlifts can help! No obligation consultation. Com-prehensive warranty. Can be installed in less than 1 hour. Call now 1-866-981-6591.

DO-IT-YOURSELF STEEL buildings Priced to Clear. Make an Offer! Ask About Free Delivery, most areas! Call for Quick Quote and Free Brochure 1-800-668-5111 ext. 170.

DOLLS, collectables, also folding adult wheel chair $75. 250-954-0204

SHOPRIDER PATHFINDER scooter, canopy, grocery tote. Used twice. New $5400. ask-ing $4200. 250-248-8886

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

GUNS WANTED: I want to buy your guns. Call (250)468-7533.

TOOLS

SAWMILLS FROM only $3997 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw-mills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

Call 310.3535

YOUR COMMUNITY, YOUR CLASSIFIEDS

REAL ESTATE

ACREAGE

82.8 ACRES, 300’ lakefront, S Cariboo. Beautiful, pastoral, private, rural setting. Borders crown land. Adjacent 80+ acre parcel available.

www.bchomesforsale.com/view/lonebutte/ann/

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

Start your own Bridal Shop approx 130 dresses below replacement costs. Free Bride maids samples + fl ower girl & boys tuxe-dos. Asking $45,000. Will consider offers on Grad dresses. Phone 250-757-9733 evenings & lv msg.

COMMERCIAL /INDUSTRIAL

1250 sq.ft. commercial ser-vice bldg for rent. Offi ce and reception area + shop. New modern industrial site. $1250 per mo. Lease available. Call 250-248-3850

MORTGAGES

Mortgage Help! Beat bank rates for purchases and refi -nances, immediate debt con-solidation, foreclosure relief, and equity loans. Free, fast, friendly, private consultations.

Call 1888-685-6181www.mountaincitymortgage.ca

RECREATIONAL PROPERTY

RARE OPPORTUNITY: wa-terfront property on beautiful Jim Lake, .83-acre with 360 sq ft insulated cabin, located near Green Lake/Watch Lake (70 Mile House). Rare privacy, only three lots on the lake, good fi shing for rainbows to 10 lbs, nice swimming, surround-ed by crown land. Great trails for hiking, ATV and snowmo-bile. Seasonal 10-km back road access in 4x4 or pick-up. FSBO. $230,000. 250-395-0599. (Please see bchomesfor-sale.com/70mile/frank.)

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

COOMBS: 2 bdrm, bright loft apartment, 4 appls, W/D, utils incl, avail now, N/S, N/P, $950 mo + dam dep, 250-937-9945

OCEAN SANDS RESORT on Rathtrevor Beach. Fully fur-nished 2 bdrm condos in-cludes utilities, cable, phone and internet. Available Sept 1. $1100/mo. (250) 954-0662 .

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

PARKSVILLE New 1 BDRM Parks-ville new 1 bdrm suite on private acreage in Forever Green Estates, W/D, F/S, N/P, N/S, hardwood fl oors, $750/ mo includes hydro & cable. Available immediatley 250 954-9588

PARKSVILLE: 2 bdrm, newly reno’d apt, Avail. immed. Heat, hot water included. $800/mo. Call (250)248-3350.

PARKSVILLE – BRIGHT & spacious 2 bdrm. D/W, W/D option. Near schools, beach. downtown & on bus route. $825. Oct. 1st. 250-248-8592.

PARKSVILLE furn condo, w/d internet, full kitchen, gas f/p, phone, 2 TV’s NS/NP, clse to town $1050/mo incl all utils. avail Oct 1. 250-954-8316

PARKSVILLE CONDO- 2 bdrm, d/w, free lndry, 2 car spaces, nice, $890. Avail immed. Call 250-248-0786.

QUALICUM BEACH: Down-town, 1000sf, 2bdrm, 1 bath, lrg living room & deck, $1000. Avail. Oct. 1st, 1 year lease, NS/NP. 2 refs. 250-240-0549, 250-752-3241, 250-752-7904.

QUALICUM MANOR Apts, 1 block to all amenities. 2 bdrms (896 sq ft), excellent cond, bal-cony, in quiet civilized environ-ment, patio, parking, storage locker, NS/NP. Available Oct 1. $895/mo. Please call Bill (250)752-6997.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

FURNISHED ONE and two bedroom units available. All utilities. Phone 250-248-6532.

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

PARKSVILLE, 800 sq ft shop w/ attached offi ce, great loca-tion, easy access to Island Hwy and (surrounding roads), suitable for small business or personal use. Avail immed, $600 mo + utils, 250-937-9379

COTTAGES

2 bedroom, furnished, beach front cottage, downtown Parksville, Available until June 1/2012. Suit quiet people. $850 utilities included. N/S N/ P. References required. 250- 248-3171.

COTTAGE, LIKE new 2 bdrm, f/s, n/s, n/p. Propane f/p. $850 Also avail. 10 x 20 storage unit After 6pm 250-752-4773

PARKVILLE. 2-BDRM cottage on acreage, 504 Church Rd. $850. (250)228-3177.

SELL IT FAST WITH CLASSIFIEDS!

Call 310.3535

RENTALS

COTTAGES

QUALICUM Beach: 1 & 2 bdrm fully furnished cabins / townhouses for rent $800-$950/mo incl ALL util. @Riverside Resort. 400 yrds to beach. No smoking. Pets OK. 1/2 mo. deposit required. 250-752-9544; drop in to view daily at 3506 West Island Hwy. www.MyRiversideResort.com

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

PARKSVILLE- LOWER du-plex, 2 bdrms, clean, near City Hall. F/S, W/D, ample parking, back yard. Absolutely no pets & no smoking. $750. (250)954-0193.

PARKSVILLE, rural main fl r character home/bed/den/nsnp. porch/laundry/cable/55+single $750. 250-248-9648

RENOVATED 2 bdrm suite in Parksville. Close to town & beach. Avail. end of Sept. $850/mo. Call 250-954-7088

MISCELLANEOUS FOR RENT

1000 SQ FT storage/workshop 1060 Shearme Rd .,Coombs. $400/mo. 250-248-0102

HOMES FOR RENT

ERRINGTON: 2-BDRM clean house w/yard, in quiet man-aged mobile home park. Avail Oct. 1, $900/mo. Call Manager at 250-240-7008.

ERRINGTON. NICE 2-bdrm rancher. Garage, woodland acre, pets considered. Electric & wood heat, excellent spring water. N/S. Ref’s please. $1100./mo. 1(604)462-8239.

ERRINGTON. PRIVATE, fully furnished 1100 sq.ft 2 bdrm cottage on 5 acres. W/D, dish-washer, loaded kitchen & high-end beds, full bath, etc. $1100 + hydro. NS/NP please. Refs req’d. 250-248-4992

OCEANFRONT Beachcomber Nanoose- 2 bdrms partially furnished, fabulous views, walk on beach, 5 appls, wood F/P, laminate fl rs. Kayak, fi sh, golf. $1500. 250-468-1608.

PARKSVILLE: 2-BDRM loft home, large yard, 5 appl’s, long term lease option. New paint, great home. $1145 + utils. Call (250)248-6629.

PARKSVILLE 3BDRM main fl oor of house. Walk to school. $1250. inclds utils. (250)468-2000.

PARKSVILLE, LARGE 3 bd, 2 bath, W/D, D/W, F/S, with separate 2 bd, 1 bath base-ment suite, W/D, F/S. Large lot with garage. Pets considered, N/S. $1850. Avail Oct. 1st. Call Wayne @ 250-954-8503.

RENTALS

HOMES FOR RENT

PARKSVILLE, 4-5 bdrm, 2 bath, almost 3000 sq ft, all appls, big dbl garage + RV prkng, huge fully fenced yard, lrg garden area, many fruit trees, great location on water side of hwy, borders Foster Prk & blocks from Wembley Mall. Pets OK on approval. N/S. $1550 + utils. Avail immed. 250-954-2254

PARKSVILLE, Downtown up-graded 2 bdrm home. Suitable for mature individuals. Close to beach w/garage & fenced yard. Avail immed. $900 + util.N/S, N/P. 250-247-8704

PARKSVILLE. NEWLY reno-vated, fully furnished, beautiful sea view home. 2-bdrm, 1.5 baths. Private & quiet. 5 appl’s, wrap-around deck, beach access, stone fi replace, ample parking. NS/NP, Year lease. $1200./mo. Ref’s req’d (250)586-8844, (250)240-9575

PARKSVILLE: NEWLY up-graded 3 bdrm rancher, quiet street, gas fi replace, 5 appls, fenced yard. $1200/mo, incls water & sewer. Avail now. Call 1-604-986-3877.

Parksville, Nice 3BRM, good location, sorry no dogs, N/S. Long term tenant preferred. $1150/m 250-248-8384 or 250-954-5234

PARKSVILLE, SHARED acreage, country living yet close to beach, schools, shop-ping. Spacious 4 bdrm, 3.5 bath, all appls, fenced yard, $1800 mo + utils, avail Oct. 1, 250-937-9379.

PARKVILLE. 1-BDRM luxury suite on acreage. $950./mo inclds hydro. (250)228-3177.

PARKVILLE. 3-BDRM house, 657 Turner Rd. $1000./mo. (250) 228-3177

QUALICUM BEACH- 2 bdrms+ den, 2 bath, attached garage, walking distance to beach, downtown, Heritage Forest, no yrd work or mainte-nance. $1200+ utils. NS/NP. (250)738-1021.

QUALICUM BEACH large 2bdrm townhouse, 1200sqft 2bath, 3appls, lrg private deck & patio, sm pet ok. $850 + strata. Oct. 1. 250-752-4258.

QUALICUM BEACH spacious bright 4Bdrm duplex. Walk to all schools, shops, pool & beach, great neighbourhood, 2.5baths, 3appls, back deck, front balcony, carport, private fully fenced yard, pets nego-tiable, avail. Sept. 15 or 30 $1150. Call (250)752-7404, 250-951-1290.

QUALICUM VILLAGE: 2 bdrm. $1050/mo. Available now. Call (250)752-1111.

RENTALS

HOMES FOR RENT

WATERFRONT COLUMBIAbeach area. Fabulous view 3bdrm, 2-1/2 bath, 6 appls, dblgarage. Lease avail.$1600/mo. 250-334-3126 or250-218-3162

WHISKEY CREEK. 4-Bdrm fenced yard, nice deck, $1200mo + utils, N/S, N/P, avail Oct.1, call 1-250-753-7834.

ROOMS FOR RENT

NANOOSE BAY: waterfrontfamily oriented home. 3 fur-nished bedrooms, wholehouse privileges, ns, np, utils& cleaning incl. $550, $650 or$750. Call 916-747-3198 cell.

RV PADS

QUALICUM Beach. Long term, $375/mo. (excl. hy-dro, cable). 250-752-9544. Riverside Resort.

PARKSVILLE AREA- RV pad. Wooded site. $425/mo, in-cludes utils. Available now.250-228-4097.

STORAGE

MORE SPACE FOR LESSStorage Containers Currently available:

8’ x 20’ $105. + taxes. Open storage for RVs,

cars, boats, trailers: $40. + taxes for fi rst 20’ $2 each additional foot.

250-248-7100.

SUITES, LOWER

1 BDRM bachelor, FrenchCreek. Single occupancy only.N/S, N/P, private ent. Inlc Util.& TV. $600/mo. 250-752-1259

ERRINGTON- BRIGHT com-fortable 1 bdrm, F/S, W/D, allutils incl, Non-smokers only!$750 mo. Avail Oct. 1.(250)248-7050 before 8pm.

LOWER LANTZVILLE. De-tached cottage/suite on water-front property, all utils includ-ed. $750/mo. Avail Oct. 1. Call250-390-4897, 250-713-4897.

PARKSVILLE, 1 bdrm, 1 bath,private entrance, basementsuite, huge fully fenced yard,lrg garden area, many fruittrees, great location on waterside of hwy, borders FosterPark & blocks from WembleyMall. Pets OK on approval,N/S. $675/mo. Avail immed.250-954-2254

PARKSVILLE - (WHISKEYCreek) Self contained bache-lor, $550. NS/NP. All incld’d,wireless internet and satelliteTV as well. (250)752-9793.

•SERVICE DIRECTORY• Parksville/Qualicum Beach •SERVICE DIRECTORY•

GET READY FOR YOUR OCTOBER SERVICE

DIRECTORYDelivered to over

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CONTRACTORS

FREE ESTIMATESGuaranteed WorkmanshipGuaranteed WorkmanshipCall 250-951-0504Cell 250-951-1423

Cam CossCONTRACTING

Bobcat, Excavator, Dumping Services & Gravel Deliveries

up to 5 yds. General Contracting, Construction,

Concrete. Driveways, Drainage, Irrigation.

WCB INSURED

Toll Free: 1-800-841-3766

250-752-8403

FREE ESTIMATES

Construction - Remodeling

• ADDITIONS • SUN ROOMS

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• WINDOWS/DOORS• CUSTOM MILLWORK

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Students from Mexico, In-dia and across Canada started the new Master of Arts in Sustainable Leisure Manage-ment program at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo.

“I heard about this on the Internet,” said Erin Heeney from New Brunswick. “I just completed a degree in sports studies and was thrilled to find a Canadian university offer-ing this kind of program. It’s one step closer to my PhD.”

Plans to establish VIU’s lat-est master’s program evolved two years ago when VIU was designated as a World Leisure Centre of Excellence by the World Leisure Organization (WLO), a UN affiliated non-governmental agency.

Only the second site with this designation — after one in the Netherlands — it is in recognition of VIU’s dedica-tion to the advancement of international scholarship, graduate education, research and service focused on in-novation and sustainability in leisure, recreation and tourism.

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By James Clarke PQ NEWS SPORTS

One down, 22 to go.Week one of the VIJHL

regular season may not have gone exactly as planned for Oceanside’s Save on Foods Generals, losing their regular season opener 9-0 in Victoria to the Cougars last Thursday, then dropping their home opener 4-2 to the Saanich Braves Saturday night, but the season is long and the young charges are willing to do what it takes to keep improving.

Throw the final score of Saturday’s game out the window and the game-day package was amped as promised.

Local band Leadfoot set the stage when they laid down some high octane beats at the Generals’ tail-gate party that afternoon, braving the heat for the cause.

In keeping with the community-owned junior hockey club’s commitment to its grass roots, a dozen or so wide-eyed young players with Oceanside Minor Hockey were part of the big opening night ceremonies, marking the spot where the players emerged, banging their sticks on the ice with much gusto as each player on this year’s Generals’ team was introduced via spotlight in a blacked out arena. Those same young-sters took centre ice in the first intermission for a shoot-out.

Jessie Kelly, 7, served up a soulful version of Amazing Grace then belted out the national anthem and marked the start of another season with the team. Local Save On Foods manager Bruce Brown dropped the opening puck.

At home against the

Braves in front of over 700 fans, the Generals played hard but came up short.

Saanich took the crowd out early when they scored 86 seconds into the game. The Generals responded by going to the Saanich net in waves, but Braves’ ‘tender Tanner McGaw was tough to beat.

Oceanside out-shot Saanich 11-5 in the open-ing frame and 30-29 on the night.

The two teams played to a scoreless tie in the second period until 19:39 when Taylor Gray knotted it up 1-1 off a Luke Tully feed.

The Braves scored at 3:37 and again at 5:55 of the 3rd to go up 3-1, the games’ second star, returning spark-plug Kyle Yamasaki, cut it to 3-2 at 14:04, but that would be as close as they’d get.

Kolding Larson took the loss in net both nights for Oceanside, but Dubyna wasn’t about to throw his returning starter under the bus.

“Not at all. I thought he was good in both games... he wasn’t the reason we lost either of them. He responded after the big loss against Victoria and he bounced back with a strong game — he gave us a chance to win Saturday.”

DOWN ISLAND on Thursday for game one of the regular season, Victo-ria scored two unanswered goals in the first period, three in the 2nd and four in the 4th. The hosts out-shot Oceanside 38-21. The Generals were 0-for-6 with the man advantage in their first meaningful game of the campaign, and the ‘Cougs 6-for-11.

“Overall I was really happy with the work ethic and competitiveness that the team showed,” said Dubyna. Asked if nerves might have played a part in some of the play Dubyna conceded that with eight rookies playing their first two regular season games it’s bound to happen, “but

I think too even the vets, I mean they’re playing with different players on their line.”

Returning forward Lu-ciano Somerville from Port Alberni led by example both games said Dubyna.

“He played hard with a lot of energy,” he said, add-ing the line of new Gener-als Connor Enright, Riel Gibson and Joel Issigonis were also consistent.

As for the big open-ing night presentation, Dubyna said from where they were standing it was great fuel for sure.

“Overall it was an amaz-ing night. Minus the loss everything went perfectly,” Generals’ GM and head of

hockey operations Dave Johnston said Monday.

“There was definitely an event at Oceanside Place Saturday night, and that’s exactly our goal, to create that environment on a weekly basis.”

“I think it created an exciting atmosphere for sure,” agreed Dubyna, “And unveiling the new jerseys in front of the community... the guys were proud to be part of it and are looking forward to continuing to create an atmosphere like that.”

“It feels good,” Dubyna said easily when asked how it felt to get his first regular season games under his belt as head coach. “It’s

a good first step... it’s the beginning of the process.”

Asked what he told his players at Sunday’s practice Dubyna said “we talked about continuing to focus on getting better every day...

“Tons of energy,” he answered quickly when asked what he liked the first two games. “I really like the chemistry and the energy that we have.”

GAME ON The Generals are in

Campbell River Friday night to face the Storm and return home to ‘The Place Saturday to take on the Co-mox Valley Glacier Kings. Puck drops at 7:30 p.m.

Generals struggle in opening week

Gens’ forward Dylan Haugen (above) and the rest of the team played hard but came up short against Saanich on Sat-urday. Rookie forward Conor Enright (right) and his linemates created plenty of scoring opportunities with their speed.

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CORRECTION — Further to our story on Wanetta Beal complet-ing three Penticton Ironman’s in un-der 72 hours, we ran the combined distances when detailing the single

Ironman distances. For the record, an Ironman is a 3.8 km swim, 180 km, bike 42.2 km run, which means over the three days Beal swam 11.4 km, cycled 540 km, and ran 126.6 km.

By James ClarkePQ NEWS SPORTS

High school football marked its return to these parts Satur-day as the hometown Ballenas Whalers battled the visiting Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers from Surrey in pre-season junior varsity action.

The AA Whalers are a young team this year, and it was trial by fire in a 21-7 loss to a strong AAA team that has been together for years.

“That group of kids (from LT) were back-to-back Gr. 8 provincial champions... I was very impressed with our boys,” said Whalers’ skip-

per Sean Hines, who was on the sidelines helping out. “I thought they played with great heart and intensity and I’m re-ally looking forward to seeing their progression throughout the season.”

Starting quarterback Josh Bouchard put up a 25 yard strike to Scott Childs in the back right corner of the end-zone in the third 3rd quarter for the Whalers lone TD.

“Josh put it up right where it had to be and like a good receiver Scotty went up and attacked the football... it was a great catch in coverage (and) he had to drag his toe to keep it in bounds — it was awesome,”

chuckled Hines, adding “Scot-ty’s a fantastic receiver and he put the first one of the 2011 season on the board for us.”

Scott and Josh, it should be pointed out, pulled duty last week as they were called up to suit up for the varsity Whalers first of four preseason games, played out Friday at NDSS in Nanaimo. The Whalers won 43-28.

As for Saturday’s JV game, “It was a chance to knock some rust off, and for a lot of kids — probably 12-15 — that was their first experience of high school football,” pointed out Hines.

JV Whaler Scott Childs, above straight-arming a Panther for more yards after catch, hauled down the team’s fi rst touchdown of the season, a highlight reel grab in coverage in the back of the end zone.

JAMES CLARKE PHOTO

Whalers preseason struggle

SEE WHALERS ON A43


OCEANSIDE — From the desk of Kebble Sheaff a reminder ‘the Ramble’ is back.

Slated to start and finish at Hugh Fletcher’s spread in Errington Sept. 18, the eighth annual cross country mountain bike race that winds its way through the backcountry between Errington and Mt. Arrowsmith is always changing, and this year is no different.

Sheaff said this year’s course is 50 km in length — 30 km less than last year’s race, one of the most gruelling on record.

Also, for the first time, “we are intro-ducing a less than a full lap category. There is a climb that we used last year that the less than full-lap people will not ride up... (that) climb took me one hour last

year.”The ‘easy lappers’

will ride a flatter route past the climb.

“It will be one of the shorter Rambles, but one of the best courses with lots of fun single track,” said the longtime local MTB booster. “We try to have a different course every year... we expect the winning times to be under four hours, which is fast for a Ramble.”

Registration gets underway at 8 a.m. and the race starts at 9.

The cost to enter is $40 and all riders must have a club membership. If they don’t have one, they can buy a one-day licence for $10.

As always, “we could use a few volun-teers as well.”

Anyone able to help out can email Liz at [email protected].

Newest JV Whalers’ head coach Mike Di Giacomo, who takes over this year from longtime coach Anthony Wall who has moved to the Mainland, said he’s thrilled with the team he’s inherited and is looking forward to the upcoming campaign.

“It felt good to get that fist game under our belts,” he confirmed, adding “we’re a younger team with a num-ber of kids that were playing their first game so that’s kind of cool... beyond that it

gives us a chance to put play-ers here and there and see what we have. For an exhibi-tion game I thought we did pretty darn good actually. I’m excited, we have a really good bunch of young men.”

Mike, retired, moved here from the Mainland in the summer of 2010 “for the lifestyle basically.”

Asked how he came to sign on with the Whalers, Mike said “actually Jeremy (Conn) and Sean (Hines) come highly recommended

by Patrick Waslin the presi-dent of football BC, who is a very good friend of mine. Sean and Jeremy are great guys; they’re devoted to the program and to the kids.”

No stranger to the game and a great addition to Whal-er football, this is Mike’s 19th consecutive season coaching youth football. He joined the JV Whalers last year as an assistant coach, and spent the previous 17 years coaching at the com-munity level — 12 of those

were with the Nanaimo Redmen, and a couple years each in Cloverdale, Langley, and Abbotsford where he was an assistant when the Falcons won a provincial title. That was 2008, and the following year he led the team back to the champion-ship game as head coach, a heartbreaking 7-3 loss to the Coquitlam Chargers.

“Controversial loss,” he chuckled. “I have it, but I still haven’t watched the game film.”

Ramblin’ back

Whalers looking forward to seasonCONTINUED FROM A42

Parksville Jr. varsity football team took to the fi eld at Ballenas Secondary School Saturday for a preseason tilt against the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers. JAMES CLARKE PHOTO

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By JAMES CLARKEPQ NEWS SPORTS

She never stops it seems, and at 83, it’s a safe bet Hildegard Buschhaus would still give the energizer bunny a run for his money.

Oceanside’s most decorated elderly athlete added 10 more medals to her collec-tion after capturing six gold, one silver and three bronze in Track & Field at the recent 2011 BC Seniors Games.

The Kootenay’s marked Hildy’s 17th consecutive Sr.’s Games — she started her assault on the big annual competi-tion back in 1995 in Osoyoos when she powered her way to gold medals in the 5K and 10K Speed Walk-ing event as well as the 800m run and a

silver in 1500m.“I was 67,” she

chuckled when The News caught up with her this week.

“I’m not as strong,” she said easily when asked how she feels now physically com-pared to back then. “I have a little bit less air...”

Hildegard, who is part of two world record relay teams for Women’s 80-plus — one in the 4x100m and the other the 4x200m — was one of 75 Dist. 69 standouts recog-nized at a reception at Oceanside Place this year as part of the first annual RDN Performance Recogni-tion Program open to athletes and dancers of all ages.

In Trail at the Seniors Games Aug. 16-20, Hildy said “there were not too many ladies in track and field from Zone 2, only three, but I was the only one that got medals.”

The BC Seniors Games is an annual, multi-sport event hosted by a different BC community each year. They are one of they largest games organized within B.C. with approximately 3,500 participants aged 55+ from all over the province.

Hildegard, who moved to Oceanside from Germany with her husband Gunter in 1974, competed in 10 track and field events at the games, from Triple Jump and the running events

through to Hammer Throw.

Making her results even more impressive is that she came down with bronchitis the end of May “so I only had 10 days to train... can you imagine that,” she laughed.

The mother of three, grandmother of 12 and three time great grandma said the conditions in Trail were hot (28, 29) and dry “but there was a slight breeze.”

What keeps you go-ing back, we asked.

“When you rest, you rust,” she said with a smile.

“This is a woman in her eighties,” marvelled longtime Oceanside track and field coach Kim Long-muir, adding that over the years Hildegard has come out to the track behind BSS and worked out with an OTFC coach.

“What an incred-ible role model for the youth in our track and field club,” said Longmuir. “And an ambassador for our community.”

Hildegard does it again

Hildegard Buschhaus, 83, assumes the starting position weighed down with the medals she won at the recent BC Seniors Games.

JAMES CLARKE PHOTO

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This year’s trio of Chris Vander-stoep, Glenn Howell and Margaret Howell won all seven of their games in a decisive victory for Zone 2.

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