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Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons says all points of view need to be heard prior to any de-cision on a massive private dock project at a local prop-erty owned by Lululemon bil-lionaire Chip Wilson.

“I hope the province takes into consideration the con-cerns of local residents and that the process is one in which the First Nations have an opportunity to be involved,” Simons said at a Sechelt and District Cham-ber of Commerce meeting January 23.

Wilson, a co-founder of the apparel manufacturer Lululemon Athletica, has ap-plied to build a 2,498-square-foot dock and two breakwa-ters, each over 3,100 square feet, off a property at 11329 Sunshine Coast Highway in Middlepoint, between Half-

Growing opposition to billionaire’s big dock project

MLA Nicholas Simons says he doesn’t expect a quick decision on the controversial dock project. Rik JeSpeRSeN photo

moon Bay and Madeira Park.“I don’t see this as some-

thing that’s going to be ap-proved very quickly, that’s for sure,” Simons said.

The decision is in the hands of the Integrated Land Management Bureau, which is under the jurisdiction of B.C. Forests and Lands Minis-ter Steve Thomson.

At its regular meeting Jan. 22, the Board of the Sunshine Coast Regional District ac-cepted a committee recom-mendation to forward to the provincial government a list of concerns and conditions about the proposed dock de-velopment.

Among the concerns are possible encroachments on setbacks from neighbouring properties, the threat posed to the dock by windy weath-er, possible harmful effects on marine ecology, and that the proposal “does not re-main sensitive to views and impacts on neighbours.”

The SCRD noted it has received 10 letters of concern about the dock project from neighbouring property own-ers, and that the Egmont/Pender Harbour area Advisory Planning Commis-sion does not support the application.

Shíshálh Chief Calvin Craigan was quoted Jan. 22 as saying that the dock project would have to be approved by the Band before it could go ahead.

Craigan said the First Na-tion’s property rights have been infringed on for gen-erations and the shíshálh will have jurisdiction over the Sunshine Coast foreshore once a reconciliation agree-ment with the provincial gov-ernment is ratified.

“I don’t think the Sechelt Nation is going to let any-thing happen without ap-propriate consultation,” said Simons. Rik Jespersen

British Columbians will celebrate Family Day on Monday, February 9, 2015 with free activities offered by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD).

The SCRD is offering the following free activities on Family Day:

Public Swimming at the Gibsons & District Aquatic Facility from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., at the Sechelt Aquatic Centre from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., and at the Pender Harbour Aquatic

Free events for Family Day& Fitness Centre from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Free public skating will take place at the Gibsons & Area Community Centre from 1:45 - 3:15 p.m.

The SCRD is also offering on February 9 free access for families to the Dakota Ridge Winter Recreation Area. Due to the nature of the road to Dakota Ridge, access will be restricted to four-wheel drive vehicles with chains. “We recommend that families

carpool in order to maximize our parking area,” says Carolyn Mortensen, SCRD Park Services Manager.

The YMCA is also providing a day of outdoor fun for your family at Camp Elphinstone from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

The SCRD office on Field Road will be closed on February 9 and transit will be operating on a Sunday schedule. Submitted

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Q: How many officers are there on the Sunshine Coast?

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in the community. Two First Nations Policing officers liaise between the RCMP and the Sechelt Indian Band, and 2 Traffic Services officers focus on keeping our roads safe. Supervisors of the various units in the detach-ment work to ensure efficient delivery of police resources across the Sunshine Coast.

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‘A silly comparison’(re “LNG gets thumbs

down”, the Local Jan.22)Panelist Dr. Eoin Finn pres-

ents a confusing story on the dangers of LNG shipping. While his statement of the comparison of the thermal equivalent of an LNG tanker contents being equal to 72 nukes is more or less cor-rect, so would be the thermal equivalent of a shipload of stove wood.

It is a silly comparison, since there is no way an LNG tanker could explode and liberate the whole thermal value of the cargo.

A simple search on Wiki-pedia explains that there have been no explosions in-volving LNG tankers. There have been some explosions involving shore facilities or production plants. The writer of this letter is a professional chemical engineer who was involved in consulting work on LNG plants in Arzew, Alge-ria and cryogenic gas plants in Thailand and Utah.James E. Leeper

‘Biodiversity window dressing’

(Open Letter to Dave Lass-er, Ops Manager Sunshine Coast Community Forests , copied to the Local)

On the Sunshine Coast Community Forests (SCCF) web site, under ‘Forest Stew-ardship Plan’, I read the fol-lowing high-level statement: “Biodiversity will be man-aged on landscape and stand levels within the CFA tenure area.” Further to that state-ment I have a few questions which I hope you can clarify. When referring to ‘managing’ biodiversity, what models does SCCF use in assigning a metric to biodiversity levels within your operating areas? Biodiversity should include all of the ‘environmental ser-vices’ that an intact forest provides. To that end, does SCCF know the carbon se-questering levels provided by each of the forests that are

It’s time for someone exceptional in your community to be considered for the province’s highest honour - the Order of British Columbia - which recognizes outstanding achievement and distinction in a

variety of fields. Since its inception in 1989, the Order of

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for equality (2011) • Dr. Robert Thirsk, astronaut, mechanical engineer and

physician (2012) • George Bowering, First Poet Laureate of Canada and

historian (2004) • Ellen White, social activist and medicine woman (2011) • Diana Krall, jazz vocalist and pianist (2000) • Trevor Linden, NHL hockey player & humanitarian

(2003)“For 26 years, we have recognized the outstanding

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British Columbians are encouraged to consider the exceptional citizens in their communities and nominate an individual for appointment to the Order of B.C. Any B.C. citizen can submit a nomination.

An independent advisory council, chaired by the Chief Justice of British Columbia, will consider nominations, and successful nominees will be recognized at a special ceremony hosted at Government House.

Any resident of B.C., or former long-term resident, who has demonstrated outstanding achievement, excellence or distinction in any field of endeavour benefiting the people of the Province or elsewhere is eligible to be nominated. Fields of endeavour may include community leadership, business, labour, industry, volunteer service, professions and other occupations, arts, sports and others. Federal, provincial and municipal elected representatives are not eligible for appointment to the order while they remain in office. A person may not be appointed to the order posthumously unless the Advisory Council recommends the appointment to the Lieutenant Governor in Council before the person’s death.

Nomination forms and submission instructions are available by email: [email protected], telephone (250) 387-1616 or online: www.orderofbc.gov.bc.ca/. All nominations must be submitted to the Honours and Awards Secretariat office in Victoria by March 6, 2015.

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about to be logged? The SCCF statement

sounds all good and fine, however there appears to be no scientific rigor applied. When Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) looks at SCCF’s logging operations they all occur in heavily logged out watersheds where a certain amount of biodiversity ex-isted pre-logging (the base-line), and then over time bio-diversity levels have declined as forest and vegetation was lost due to industrial-scale logging. The Sunshine Coast’s natural legacy (biodiversity) is the image that is promoted to attract visitors, and new residents. Local tourism is a solid, long-term industry. Un-fortunately, there is a clash of interests between the com-petition of these resources. One is sustainable approach, the other, a rip and ship ap-proach. ELF senses that some of the SCCF statements regarding biodiversity are mere window dressing, since they’re not backed up with 3rd party models or studies. Ross MuirheadElphinstone Logging Focus

Harper ‘selling fear’Every security company

shill knows that before they can sell a security system they must first sell fear. They must convince the buyer that they live in a danger-ous world and that there are nasty people just waiting to steal the accumulation of their hard work before they can be sold the salve for their fear: the security system. For only X$ per month they too can buy ‘peace of mind’.

Stephen Harper’s re-elec-tion bid has taken a page out of the security sales manual. He is selling fear to Canadi-ans in order to re-package himself and his government as the salve, the ‘peace of mind’ Canadians want and need! [Not to be confused with actual peace.]

Harper is telling Canadians that radical Islamists have

declared war on Canadians and that we have reason to be fearful of threatened ter-rorism. Even though Canada already has ample laws to deal with such criminal acts, Harper intends to introduce new and improved anti-ter-rorism laws. Those laws are more about selling Harper’s re-election than they have to do with actually protecting Canadians.

Harper is also selling fear at the community level and is offering up a re-elected Conservative government as the salve that gives peace of mind. The latest Conserva-tive Party mailer, crafted in the PMO and sent to every home in every Conserva-tive held riding across the country, localized with the photo-shopped image of the respective Conservative MP, is a case in point. It reads: “What’s being done to help keep my family safe?” and “Our government is commit-ted to helping make commu-nities safer.” Really?

Despite statistics that show violent crime is signifi-cantly decreasing in Canada and despite statistics that show we live in more peace-ful times internationally, we are being sold fear. Why? For Stephen Harper’s re-election. That’s crass!Jef Keighley,Halfmoon Bay

‘Too much ranting’Roberts Creek resident

Frank McElroy’s letter (‘Con-trary to Democracy,’ The Lo-cal, Jan. 22) was very gener-ous with advice for the Town of Gibsons.

I have attended numerous Gibsons Council meetings over the past several years, always as an observer (and I should make it clear that I am a resident of Area E, Elphin-stone). Perhaps Mr. McElroy was at those meetings? What I observed was one anti-George person speaking at every meeting, at most if not all Inquiry periods, usually prefacing her questions with

a political preamble. On one particularly distressing occa-sion, I was present when one opposed to The George stood during the second Inquiry period and spoke (ranted) against the project. When he was told his time was up, he kept on ranting. He was challenged by a Councillor, then by the Mayor, and again told his time was up, but he wouldn’t stop or share the mike or time with anyone else. The mike was turned off, he continued yelling, was asked to leave which he final-ly did. One of his supporters followed him out, shouting with her fist raised “just wait until November.”

Mr. McElroy indicates that Council supports The George. What I observed was Coun-cil consistently saying they were waiting for reports on the project’s impact on the aquifer, the economics, the current health of the har-bour, and so forth. Being open-minded until all infor-mation is received not “pro-George.” This is the unbiased approach elected officials should take towards a major project in their community.

I would like to invite the people from Roberts Creek, Area E and Area F who pay their taxes to the SCRD to attend meetings at the Field Road offices so they have a point of comparison. They could also use any “face to face” time allotted to them to inquire about concerns they may have for issues impact-ing their areas. I suspect the SCRD must be quite happy to have their resident taxpayers focusing on what’s happen-ing in Gibsons rather than on what’s going on in their areas.

It’s high time for the resi-dents of Area E, F and Rob-erts Creek to respect the Council elected by the resi-dents of Gibsons, and allow the Town’s residents to speak for or against their Council’s decisions and proposed leg-islation. Celia Fisher, Elphinstone

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Invitation to Public Consultation & Visioning Workshop

• What do you value about Sechelt as a community? • What would give the new neighbourhoods a sense of “place”? • What would make this neighbourhood work as a part of Sechelt?

You are invited to a public workshop to help inform the vision for the 400-acre East Porpoise Bay site.

Join us for a variety of creative, participative exercises aimed at addressing issues that will help us frame our community’s needs.

The Seaside Centre Saturday, 7 February 2015

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The business group that will help develop the former Silverback property in East Porpoise Bay is taking a fur-ther step in getting public participation in shaping the project.

Sechelt Sustainable Com-munity Properties (SSC Properties Ltd.) has issued an open invitation to a “pub-lic consultation and vision-ing workshop” at the Seaside Centre in Sechelt on Feb. 7. The event will run from 1 pm to 4 pm.

“Through newspaper ads and our website we’ve been asking for and collecting the ideas and concerns of the community for the last few months and this is the cul-mination of that,” said SSC’s Vice-President of Business Development, Werner Hof-statter.

“It’s a way for the public

Public input sought for large developmentwho haven’t had a chance to hear what we’ve been hear-ing to help us fit it together and really move forward with something that belongs to ev-erybody,” Hofstatter said.

Questions the organizers are asking participants to consider include, “What do you value about Sechelt as a community?” And, “What would make this neighbour-hood work as a part of Sech-elt?”

Hofstatter said a Squamish company, Rockandel & As-sociates, will help facilitate the workshop with a unique method called “graphic re-cording.”

“These are people who are expert in listening to conver-sations, getting the essence of those and putting them down in imagery simultane-ously, so people can actually use the images to help for-

mulate ideas and brand new combinations nobody ever thought of,” said Hofstatter.

The 170-hectare (420-acre ) property, located south of Sandy Hook, had been dubbed Silverback by the previous owner, Porpoise Bay Developments. The company had proposed 1,600 building lots and a golf course, which were never developed.

SSC Properties paid $11.75 million for the property in 2014,

Principals in the company include Hofstatter, former Sechelt mayor John Hender-son, Clark Hamilton, Rob Barrs, Randy Knill, Glenn Hafey, and Mark Sager.

Hofstatter said that, using ideas from the workshop and other sources, he hopes to present some design guide-lines for the property to Sechelt Council this spring. Rik Jespersen

Environment Minister Mary Polak says the recycling system under Multi Materi-als B.C. (MMBC) is a work in progress she hopes will be improved.

Communities all over the province are complaining about the long list of pack-aging items that are not ac-cepted for recycling, she told a group of Liberals in Sechelt Jan.23.

“It’s not lost on us,” she said. “It does not fall on deaf ears...we are absolutely look-ing at this.”

Her comments came at an invitation-only lunch with 20 Liberals at Lighthouse Pub, after Vel Anderson of Gib-sons made “a presentation” by showing Polak a number of the items not accepted

Minister hears recycling complaints

by MMBC - including books, paper towels, plastic shrink wrap, zip-lock bags and gar-bage bags.

And Sunshine Coast Re-gional District chairman Gar-ry Nohr told the minister that he gets constant complaints about the MMBC system, ri-valing complaints about the ferry system.

Said Polak: “Don’t think we (the provincial government) have washed our hands of it. There is more we need to do.”

However, in a later inter-view, Polak was unable to say how the government would be able to change MMBC - a non-profit organization sup-ported by the industries that create the packaging - other than through persuasion. The government, in effect,

provides certification for MMBC but does not control how it operates, she said.

Polak said she hopes the system will improve over time. Also she said people may have thought previ-ously that some items were being recycled when they were actually being sent to the landfill, and they are now surprised because MMBC is being strict about what it will accept.

Those attending the lunch included Gibsons Mayor Wayne Rowe, SCRD Area A (Egmont and Pender Har-bour) director Frank Mauro and Nohr.

The Liberal government has designated elected mem-bers to act as “political bud-dies” to non-Liberal ridings in an effort to improve future electoral chances. Polak is the buddy assigned to Liberals in the Powell River Sunshine Coast riding held by Nicholas Simons of the NDP.

John Gibbs

Environment minister Mary Polak, left, got complaints about the MMBC recycling regime at her lunch with local Liberals. John GiBBs Photo

The first Sunshine Coast Drag Racing Association (SCDRA) general meeting of 2015 will be held Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 7pm, at the Davis Bay Community Hall.

The SCDRA will also hold its general elections at this meeting.

Sechelt Council has ap-proved six dates for the drag racers to use the airport, in-cluding two dates for racing open to the public: May 24

SCDRA: Start your enginesand August 9. Test and tune dates for members are: April 5, May 23, June 21 and Sep-tember 13. Submitted

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Sechelt’s new Water Re-source Centre was to be vir-tually fully operational and processing the district’s sew-age on its own, following the scheduled shutdown of the old Ebbtide St. treatment plant on Jan. 28, according to project manager Paul Nash.

Nash told District Coun-cil in a Jan. 21 update that sewage had been trucked in from the Dusty Rd. collection facility earlier this month to serve as “seed sludge” to test the systems of the Water Re-source Centre (WRC). The water exiting the plant was cleaner than that coming out

New plant now processing Sechelt sewage

Environment minister Mary Polak, on the left, visited Sech-elt’s Water Resource Centre to look at sewage treatment on Jan. 23. She posed with Sechelt councillors, from left, Alice Lutes, Doug Wright, Darnelda Siegers, and Noel Muller. Photo SubMittED

of the old plant, said Nash.He said that earlier this

month, the WRC had been hooked up to the sewage sys-tem and began doing a share of the treatment work along with the Ebbtide plant.

The virtually odourless treatment process operates on about one-quarter of the electrical energy that the Ebbtide plant required.

Plants grown in an in-fa-cility greenhouse and which will help clean the effluent at a secondary stage are sched-uled to become part of the treatment process during the week of Feb. 2.

“We haven’t got the plants in yet. They’re a few weeks away,” Nash told Council. “The Water Resource Centre can meet its performance require-ments without a single plant being installed. They help the efficiency of the process and the ultimate capacity of the treatment plant, but in terms of the water quality, we can achieve that without them.”

A membrane system pro-viding a third stage of treat-ment, and which will screen particles down to a size of 20 nanometres (20 billionths of a metre), is scheduled to be brought on line on Feb. 13, he said.

The bio-solids that are re-moved in the process will be used by Salish Soils as part of the company’s production of compost.

Nash said the $25-million WRC construction project, built by Ontario-based Maple Reinders, is right on budget and will officially come to an end March 13.

The development has re-quired 2,095 cubic metres of concrete and has taken 20 months and 75,000 man-hours to build, with only two lost-time days, said Nash.

The project has been the subject of intense debate since its inception, with crit-ics arguing the technology wouldn’t work and that its

purported advantages over conventional sewage-treat-ment technologies were over-blown.

Residents in the immediate vicinity were also incensed that the WRC was being built beside the Ebbtide plant property rather than in east Porpoise Bay, as the district had originally planned.

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FortisBC and the Business Improvement Areas of B.C. (BIABC) are teaming up once again to promote energy conservation during “Turn Down the Heat Week” Feb-ruary 1 to 7, 2015.

On the Sunshine Coast, a number of businesses in the Sechelt Downtown Business Association will turn down the heat at work and at home and wear sweaters to help promote energy conserva-tion. They will also collect sweaters and other warm clothing items to be donated to the Salvation Army.

For the last two years, the campaign – in a couple dozen communities – has collected more than 10,000 sweaters, twice the original campaign goal, and those were donated to local chari-ties in need. Sechelt last year collected 638 sweaters, and is aiming for 950 this year. Submitted

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“I thought I was going to hear, ‘we need more resi-dential care beds!’ That isn’t what I heard,” Isobel Macken-zie told a standing-room-only meeting at the Sechelt Band Hall Jan. 20.

“Housing was the number-one issue,” Mackenzie said. “Closely followed by trans-

Housing for seniors a top issue, advocate says

portation, and income sup-ports.”

Mackenzie, appointed last April as the province’s first-ever Seniors Advocate, said that many seniors are con-cerned about eventually run-ning out of income, and the implications that would have for their housing.

“Another thing I heard,” she said, “Was, ‘I’m very afraid I’m going to run out of money. And as a consequence of running out of money, I’m going to run out of choices. And as a consequence of run-

ning out of choices, I’m going to find myself in residential care, and that’s not where I want to be.’”

Mackenzie said that al-though many seniors own their homes and are mort-gage-free, that doesn’t pay the bills.

“Your day-to-day living isn’t determined by how much your house is worth, it’s by what your income is.”

Mackenzie said she might recommend to the govern-ment that it subsidize pay-ment deferral programs similar to property tax defer-ral system. That could help senior homeowners pay for house repairs or other major expenses.

“You shouldn’t be forced out of your home into assist-ed living because you can’t af-ford some of the repairs and maintenance for your house,” she said.

Rather than going to the expense of moving cash-strapped seniors into as-sisted living, it could be more cost effective for the govern-ment “if they subsidized you to a lesser degree in your own home,” said Mackenzie.

About 20 per cent of B.C.’s

seniors are renters, and the low increase in the amount of rental accommodation outside of the Lower Main-land and southern Vancouver Island is a problem. That’s a fact the government is “go-ing to have to come to grips with,” said Mackenzie.

“The private sector is not going to come in and build condominiums that can be rented out the way they’ve done in the Lower Mainland.”

The Advocate’s mandate is to make recommendations to the provincial government on behalf of seniors, but she noted that she cannot force the province to act.

But, Mackenzie said, “I am a very impatient person,” and she is committed to being heard.

Mackenzie expects to be making the first of several recommendation-packed reports to the government soon.

She also said the limits to her powers also extended to one other chronic issue she heard about repeatedly up and down the B.C. coast:

“I cannot fix the ferry sys-tem. That is not in the man-date.” Rik Jespersen

Police ReportRoyal CanadianMounted Police

Break & Enters / ShopliftingEarly on January 21, a theft

occurred at a business in the 5500 block of Wharf Avenue, Sechelt. Three male suspects ran into the store, grabbed several bags of chips from the rack and then fled on foot. All the males were described as being late teens, ranging in height between five foot ten and six feet. One male was wearing a black hoodie and red balaclava, the sec-ond wore a grey hoodie and a brown plaid shirt and the third male, a light coloured sweater and jeans. One of the staff threw a cup of tea on the third male, staining his sweater. Police recovered one of the stolen items as well as the third suspect’s stained clothing. Police are reviewing surveillance footage. Anyone with any information about this theft is asked to contact RCMP, reference file 15-389.

On January 23, a break and enter to a building near Sinku Drive and Skupa Avenue, Sechelt, was reported after a passerby noticed lights on when the building should have been closed. Police at-tended and located a group of teens inside the building. Several of the teens fled the scene, but police detained a few of them. Police found some damage to the door and locking system. The matter has been referred to the Youth Liaison and First Nations Community Policing officers.

Police incidents report January 20-27

Thefts from vehiclesSometime between Janu-

ary 1 to 7, a thief stole a Husqvarna faller’s chainsaw, model 372XP from the back of a truck parked in the 5700 block of Sutherland Road, Halfmoon Bay. The saw is a newer model, had the initials “E.B.” written on the top and a special steel bar attached to it. Police caution residents that items such as chainsaws and power equipment are very appealing to thieves, and should be removed from vehicles if possible. Residents should also record serial numbers and model informa-tion for their valuable equip-ment, as this key information can increase the chances of items being returned, and charges being laid against those responsible.

On January 20, a possible break and enter in progress to vehicles parked in the 4800 block of Laurel Avenue, Sechelt, was reported after witnesses saw a female try-ing to gain entry in vehicles. It appears the female did en-ter at least one vehicle and cause significant damage to the interior as well as take a number of items. The suspect was identified and police re-covered most of the stolen items. The file is still under investigation.

Overnight on January 24, a thief gained entry to a vehicle parked in the 5700 block of Surf Circle, Sechelt, and stole a plastic bag with loose change and a USB adapter from the glove box. Police lo-cated the empty bag and the USB adapter jammed into the gas tank of another ve-hicle parked nearby. A second similar incident was reported after a thief gained entry to an unlocked vehicle parked in the 5600 block of Trident

Avenue, Sechelt, and stole a purse that had been left in the glove box. The black “Coach” purse contained a brown “Fossil” wallet and other per-sonal items and identifica-tion. The owner later found the contents of her wallet, except the cash, buried near a ditch along Sechelt Inlet Road.

Traffic IncidentsOn January 22, a two ve-

hicle collision occurred in the 1100 block of Roberts Creek Road, Roberts Creek, after the first vehicle tried to pass a second vehicle. The first ve-hicle merged back in the lane behind the second vehicle after failing to make the pass successfully, and then when the second vehicle slowed down, the first vehicle was unable to slow down in time to avoid a collision. The driver and one of the passengers of the second vehicle were tak-en to hospital for assessment but the driver of the first ve-hicle was unhurt. The driver of the first vehicle was issued a Violation Ticket for Follow Too Closely.

Serious CrimeA male in Madeira Park re-

ported that during the night of Thursday January 22, a male known to him shot at his truck near the intersection of Francis Peninsula Road and Warnock Road. No one was injured, and there is not be-lieved to be any ongoing risk to the public, however any-one in the area at the time who heard or saw anything suspicious is asked to contact Cst Mohr with the General In-vestigations Section, at (604) 885-2266. Anyone with more information wishing to re-main anonymous can also contact Crimestoppers.

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Tracey TherrienChief Librarian,Gibsons and District Public Library

On January 27th Canada celebrated Family Literacy Day. At the Gibsons Library we celebrated by inviting families to drop by the library to play and learn together. We provided board games, craft projects, puzzles and snacks to keep everyone’s energy up. The message of Family Literacy Day stresses the im-portance of taking time every day to read or do a learning activity with a child. These simple activities are crucial to a child’s development. Even

just 15 minutes a day can im-prove a child’s literacy skills dramatically, and can help a parent improve their skills as well.

Literacy goes beyond a per-son’s ability to read and write, literacy is the skills you need to live your life at any age; skills such as math, financial literacy and digital literacy. At the Gibsons & District Public Library we aim to help people with literacy skills daily. Whether it is hosting programs for new immi-grants, encouraging people to learn new skills through our knitting group, conversation classes, computer training, or providing programs for children from babies to teens, or simply borrowing a great

book to read and share with a friend, we have something for everyone.

This year at the library we are welcoming back our student computer tutor, Ian. He is here to help everyone brush up on our digital lit-eracy skills. If you need help navigating your tablet, smart phone, signing up for a twit-ter account or downloading a library ebook, Ian is here to help!

To book an appointment with Ian and to find out more about library programs and services drop by the library, visit our website: gibsons.bc.libraries.coop or call us at 604-886-213. Remember all library programing and ser-vices are free.

January 29 Celebrating community and culture potluck dinner, shíshálh Longhouse, Sechelt, 5:30pm, $10 per person, $25 family of four, reservations at 604-431-7555 or [email protected] 30 Grant Olsen, live music with dinner, Roberts Creek Legion, 6-7:30pmJanuary 30 Artesia coffee house, local musicians Brison Geue, David J. Taylor, Anna Lumiere and Serena Eades, Arts Centre, Sechelt, 8pm, $10January 31 Dance with Jim Taylor, Seniors Activity Centre, Sechelt, 7-10 pm, members $10, non-members $15 January 31 Baffle of the Bands, with Bits of String, The Country Boys, the Midds, FatFish Creek, Bold Kelly and Muffdusters, fund raiser for improvements to the hall, Roberts Creek Hall, 8pm, $15January 31 CD release with Ken McBride, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 8pm, $20January 31 Northern Convergence, sublime vocals and wild electronics, Gumboot Cafe, Roberts Creek, 8pm, $10-$20January 31 Dance with Playback, hits of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Gibsons Legion, 8pm, $5 members, $10 guestsJanuary 31 Railtown Sound System, a seven-piece dub reggae sound crew, with dj sets by The Funkdealer, Roberts Creek Legion, 9pm, $7 members, $14 guests February 1 John Reischman & The Jaybirds, bluegrass, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 2pm, $20 advance, $25 at the doorFebruary 2 "Return of the River", a documentary look at a community’s efforts to remove dams, part of the Green Film Series, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 7:30pm, by donationFebruary 3 A tasting and guided tour of olive oil with the Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Company, Sechelt Library, 2- 3:3pm, free but you must pre-register at 604-885-3260 or [email protected] 5 "Return of the River", a documentary look at a community’s efforts to remove dams, part of the Green Film Series, Arts Centre, Sechelt, 7:30pm, by donationFebruary 6 "Love is Strange", part of the Queer Projections film series, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 7:30pm, $8.50 at outonethecoast.ca, $10 at the doorFebruary 7 Annual Bob Marley birthday bash, with the Hoolicans, Randeesh, Mz Jeevious and DJ Nils, Roberts Creek Legion, 9pm, $6 members, $12 guestsFebruary 7 Five Alarm Funk, nine-piece party band, Roberts Creek Hall. Fundraiser for Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival, 9pm, $25, available at Laedeli, MELOmania, Strait Music and at coastjazz.comFebruary 7 Heritage Tea on “Main Street”, tea, music and heritage displays, by the Sechelt Downtown Business Association, 5699 Cowrie St., Sechelt, 2-4 pm

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in1993 and her MS and PhD at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in1999.

Dr. Larson’s Topic will be “Dust to Dust: The Life Cycle of Stars”:

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ties of interstellar dust and how local dust changes our view of the distant universe. Progress on current research to map the location of dust clouds in our own Milky Way Galaxy will be presented.

Check out the Sunshine Coast RASC site at: http://www.coastastronomy.ca/ for contact and schedule infor-mation. Submitted

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The Annual Gibsons Land-ing Jazz Festival winter fund raiser is being held at Rob-erts Creek Hall on Saturday, February 7th with doors opening at 9:00pm. The band Five Alarm Funk is back and in full frenzied force.

Five Alarm Funk is Vancou-ver’s own 9-piece afro-funk orchestra. For more than ten years the band has brought their relentless grooves to clubs and major festivals across Canada. Intense horn lines and percolating afro-beat guitar combined with the interplay of four percus-

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sionists create an unstoppa-ble dance party. To describe it as a sexy wall of sound would be an understatement. Rhythm, funk, jazz, reggae and blues all packed into a tight sonic thud. These guys are a prime example of an act that makes playing a show look like fun.

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After 5 years they are back at the Roberts Creek Hall and tickets are going fast. The cost is $25 in advance from Strait Music in Sech-elt, MELOmania in Roberts Creek and Laedeli in Gibsons. The 20th annual Gibsons Jazz Festival June 19-21st is pro-duced by the Sunshine Coast Jazz and Entertainment So-ciety. More information from www.coastjazz.com.

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The Coast Cultural Alliance presents the first Artesia Coffee House of the year on Friday, January 30th at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt. We are bringing out the grand piano to start off the year and are featur-ing a great line-up of local musicians.

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A grand piano at the Artesia Coffee Housewe look forward to his new compositions.

Next up David J. Taylor, a multi disciplinary artist, re-cord producer, audio engi-neer, singer, songwriter per-forming on guitar and piano. David has now added visual artist to the list and has a piece in the Friends of the Gallery Exhibition currently showing in the gallery.

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Breaking the dams and setting a river free

What are the possibilities when a community comes to-gether to make change for the better? In the film Return of the River, First Nations, envi-ronmentalists, government, industry and community members work together to set a river free and bring hope for the future. Return of the River opens the spring season of the Green Film Series on Mon-day, February 2 at the Gibsons

Heritage Playhouse with a second showing on Thurs-day, February 5 in Sechelt at the Sunshine Coast Arts Cen-tre, both showings at 7:30 pm. The Wood Duck Bus is scheduled to bring people from Madeira Park to the Sechelt screening.

With stunning photography and historical background, this film follows a community effort to bring down the dams

on the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula in Wash-ington State. The river is the ancestral home of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, who wit-nessed firsthand the impact of two dams on the river and its legendary fish runs. The tribe led the campaign to take the dams down and a century later they are watching their dream come true.

Co-directors John Gussman and Jessica Plumb who spent four years filming this story state, “Return of the River of-fers a story of hope and possi-bility amid grim environmental news. A discussion will follow the film including an update on Site C dam.

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A busy Medical Clinic in Gibsons is hiring an experienced Bookkeeper/Payroll clerk on a permanent part time basis.

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and regeneration, death and rebirth. The next 2 New Moons to come are in Aquarius and Pisces and both at 29 degrees with the Pisces New Moon a Solar Eclipse occurring just hours prior to Spring Equinox and will culminate with the 3rd Lunar Eclipse of 4 on April 4th constituting a rare tetrad – its own 4-beat rhythm of thunderous proportion. Yes, these are powerful signs synchronizing with pivotal times. The purpose of the double Aquarius New Moon beat is to illuminate and awaken.

In this dawning Age of Aquarius, humanity is experiencing a collective wake-up call. It is saying: hey you multidimensional beings, souls incarnate, now is a good time to set aside for a precious moment or two your interests, attractions, daily duties and distractions and come to an even fuller realization yet that our planet is undergoing an evolutionary crisis and you can and ideally will do something about it.

Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 20)Dreams and visions of

greater harmony in your closest relationships are dancing in your mind. Yet, the music comes to a sudden halt when the sobering realities involved are acknowledged. Yet once they are the music can begin to play again. The key to opening the first door is to be aware and let the significant others in your life know that you are aware and willing. This is how to say ‘I love you’ in action.

Taurus (Apr 20 – May 21)Shifts and changes in the

world are influencing your public and professional life. Likewise, these outer changes are quite possibly shaking your personal life. A third scenario includes social activities of late cutting in on your home and professional life. In any case, the emphasis on your public and professional life is receiving fresh activations now.

Gemini (May 21 – Jun 21)Delving into philosophical

reams is stretching your perspectives. It is likely this will lead you out of familiar territory. At worst, this may leave you feeling rather overwhelmed and even lost. Positively, you will experience fresh inspirations available for creative self-expression. If you are really fortunate, you will undergo a heart opening that will produce a deep sense of communion.

Cancer (Jun 21 – Jul 22)Sometimes it is better to

be silent, to listen more or perhaps to meditate or to research more than express, like now. Outer circumstances triggering inner realities or the other way around are activating a kaleidoscope of new perceptions. Digesting all of these will take time. Meanwhile, the prospect of making key investments for the future is leading you to learn more.

Leo (Jul 22 – Aug 23)Invitations and perhaps

a push and prod or two are prompting you to reach out. Habitual modes of perception and interpretation are changing and rather quickly as a consequence. This presents a challenge to see yourself and the world and in the world in new ways. The more flexible and willing you are the easier it will be.

Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22)The emphasis now

is upon improvement. Since these are core Virgo characteristics, the tasks implied should feel quite familiar. While the focus may

well be upon work, health and lifestyle; your closest personal relationships and home and family probably also require your deepened determination to be and do better yet.

Libra (Sep 22 – Oct 22)A creative, inventive and

innovative cycle continues. Entertaining yourself and others with new perspectives and possibilities is implied. Themes of healing are also woven into the plot and these are linked to the body/mind matrix. This holistic approach to health emphasizes the convergence of body, mind/attitude, emotion/balance and overall energy flow. Aim for synthesis to get your mojo going.

Scorpio (Oct 22 – Nov 21)A good deal of shifting and

shaking and stimulating and awakening is keeping you busy close to home. Beyond your residence consider that home is where your heart is, literally. This is a call to weave imagination and inspiration to create an atmosphere of peace and calm and sacred

intent You are being invited to a union of hearts and a communion of souls.

Sagittarius (Nov 21 – Dec 21)Rare and penetrating

insights are igniting your mind. These may even be the inspiration of profound perceptions illumined by poetic verse. Yet, they are also causing you to dig deeper and to clear away old, limiting, perhaps inherited and/or socially conditioned beliefs and self-concepts. Beyond the debris and dust that this process may produce, sublime beauty awaits your recognition. Some call it soul.

Capricorn (Dec 21 – Jan 19) Some investments are

certainly better than others. While at other times the value and reward comes from clearing the clutter and closing old accounts, as in ‘less is more’. With less ‘busyness’ you can devote more time to what truly feels important. This is a call to cultivate new commitments worthy of your time and testimony to your spirit

seeking genuine balance, harmony and intimacy.

Aquarius (Jan 19 – Feb 19)An atmosphere of new

beginnings both within you and in your world should be apparent by now. The time is right to see through and beyond familiar perspectives. Exploring new opportunities and trying new angles is implied. This is also a call to invest more time and energy into your personal life. Aim to deepen bonds with the one(s) you love.

Pisces (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

An inner awakening is underway. Beyond simple dreams, this impulse is destined to awaken you to realities in the material realm. Yet, it is also moving you to expressions of love and kindness and healing too. While these will likely be directed to others, they are also meant to include you. Although perhaps difficult, a spiritual initiation is taking place within and for you.


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