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Forum focused on domestic violenceJennifer FeinbergThe
Progress
A shocking number of Chilliwack families try to deal with the
impact of domestic violence every year.
Many are not aware of the full range of specialized services out
there to assist with this particular kind of relationship and
intimate partner abuse.
A Community Forum on Domestic Violence is set to remedy
that.
The forum starts at 7 p.m. on Oct. 30 at Chilliwack City Hall,
and is part of the annual Purple Light Nights awareness campaign
held every October.
Through education and aware-ness we can diminish the nega-tive
effects of domestic violence in our communities, and ensure the
community is aware of resources available to help, said RCMP Cpl.
Harinder Kheleh, one of the event organizers.
We are excited to have Angus attend our forum this year to talk
about breaking the silence and being more than a bystander.
BC Lions alumni Angus Reid will be there to talk about the Be
More than A Bystander campaign, which seeks to understand the full
impact of mens violence against women. The program by Ending
Violence Association BC and BC Lions breaks the silence around
violence by providing tools, and practical ideas on how to
communi-cate that violence and abuse is not acceptable.
RCMP, as well as other partners, community charities and social
ser-vice providers with Purple Light Nights committee will be
address-ing the crowd.
The forum will be held at Chilliwack City Hall, 8550 Young Road,
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., doors opening at 6:30 p.m.
Four people are vying for the mayors chair in Chilliwack and 17
are running for the six seats on council, following the close of
nominations Friday in the 2014 municipal election.
Fourteen people are letting their names stand for the seven
seats available on the Chilliwack school board.
And in Cultus Lake, five people are seeking the two seats
avail-able to Chilliwack voters.
Incumbent Chilliwack mayor Sharon Gaetz faces three
challeng-ers: Raymond Cauchi, Cameron
Hull and Jason Kramer. In the last municipal election, Gaetz won
by acclimation.
Only one incumbent wont be seeking re-election for city
coun-cil: Ken Huttema. All the rest Sue Attrill, Jason Lum, Stewart
McLean, Ken Popove and Chuck Stam are seeking re-election.
Theyll be joined on the ballot by some familiar and some new
names.
Seeking election on council this time around are Phill Bruce,
Brigida Crosbie, Brenda Currie, Gerry Goosen, Kim Harder, Dick
Harrington, Michael Kha, Chris Kloot, Patti MacAhonic, Phillip
Maxwell, Sam Waddington and Richard Williams.
On school board, all but Doug McKay is seeking another term. Dan
Coulter, Silvia Dyck, Walt Krahn, Heather Maahs, Barry Neufeld and
Martha Wiens have all declared their candidacy.
Theyll be challenged by Ben Besler, Karen Conway, John-Henry
Harter, Karen Jarvis, Paul McManus, Marion Mussell, Harold Schmidt
and Rob Stelmaschuk.
The five people vying for com-missioner seats on the Cultus Lake
Park Board are Scott Allinott, Darcy Bauer, David
Renwick, Malcolm Shanks and Carlton Toews.
The list of nominees is still unofficial. The chief elections
offi-cer will be working to confirm the list in the coming
days.
The brand-new Electoral Area H director position for FVRD has
attracted three candidates including: Taryn Dixon, Maxwell
Newhouse, and Rolf Soth.
For Electoral Area E, its Orion Engar facing off against Leanne
Herrick.
For more on candidates who have provided information to The
Progress, go www.theprogress.com and click on the elections 2014
tab.
The election race is on in Chilliwack
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Four challengers for mayor, 17 for city council and 14 for
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It is not with fondness that Garry Ewen looks back on his
education in the public system.
It was 13 years of underlying rac-ism, classroom struggles, and
feel-ing culturally muted every time he walked through his schools
doors, says the Sto:lo native.
[Classmates] would say things about natives and drinking, or
natives acting like gangsters, or aboriginal people being dirty or
homeless, which was completely not the case for most of us, says
Ewen, now 33.
You have to have tough skin in order to be an aboriginal in
school, because often youre the only one in the class.
By the time hed finished Grade 12 in 2001, still requiring two
cours-es for graduation, hed had enough. Ewen quit, becoming yet
another of Chilliwacks unsuccessful aboriginal graduation
numbers.
His story is not an anomaly. Statistically, B.C.s public
educa-
tion system has failed aboriginal stu-dents for decades.
While both Chilliwack and the province have seen improvements
with aboriginal graduation rates over the last few years, there is
still a sig-nificant gap separating First Nations youth from the
rest of the student population.
Its a chasm that Tyrone McNeil, president of the First Nations
Education Steering Committee, says will remain if schools dont make
curriculum more culturally relevant for aboriginal students.
In too many ways, the public edu-cation system is irrelevant to
First
Nations students. They dont see themselves in that regard.
Theyre detached from the curriculum.
And that, he maintains, leads to continued failure.
In the 2012-13 school year, 59.4 per cent of aboriginal students
in B.C. graduated within six years of starting Grade 8, according
to a min-istry of educations annual report. Comparatively, 83.6 per
cent of all students completed in the same time frame.
In Chilliwack, 56.7 per cent of aboriginal students graduated,
com-pared to 78 per cent for all students. Thats an improvement
from 45.4 per cent in 2009-10.
There has been a significant amount of change in terms of
out-comes for First Nations education in the public system. We
acknowledge that, but its not nearly enough, says McNeil. Its too
slow.
Ten native bands are represented in Chilliwack. From those,
1,885
First Nations students attended Chilliwack schools last year,
amount-ing to approximately 16 per cent of the total school
population.
The school district has tried for years to make inroads into
becom-ing more inclusive for its aboriginal students.
It formed an aboriginal advisory committee in 1994 which is
still run-ning, and includes both educators and representatives
from the local First Nations communities.
In 1998, it started teaching Halqemylem to kindergarten classes
to help revive the regions fledgling native language. It was the
first school district in B.C. to do so.
When the ministry of education approved aboriginal-centric
courses in 2008, including B.C. First Nations Studies and English
First Peoples, the school district committed to offering them.
In 2010, Chilliwack school dis-trict entered into a four-year
Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement, the first of its kind
thats become a template for other school districts to follow.
In an emailed statement to The Progress, assistant
superintendent Rohan Arul-Pragasam didnt speak specifically to the
aboriginal issue, but said the collective goal is to focus on all
students and to ensure that we have appropriate, timely,
coordinated continuum of interven-tions to support all students,
espe-cially those vulnerable students that have the potential to
drop out from school.
Not enough, says McNeil.Aboriginal students are still
encumbered by racism and negative predispositions in public
schools.
Too many teachers, too many school staff, expect our kids not to
do well thats an expectation, says McNeil.
The systemic racism and bias thats prevalent in Canada, its
still thriving. Theres all kinds of efforts battling it, but the
undertows of it is still just as strong now as it was 10, 15, 20
years ago. And that plays out in classrooms every day.
Aboriginal kids are struggling, says McNeil. Teachers dont
know
Katie BartelThe Progress
Changing the curriculum isnt enough. The public school mindset
needs to change.
Thats the sentiment of Chilliwacks aboriginal communi-ties with
regards to the provincial public education system.
Because aboriginal culture is more about hands-on learn-ing,
many native youth dont accli-mate well to sitting in a desk,
read-ing from textbooks and listening to lectures for hours. They
need physical interaction.
Having an instructor that
explores different avenues for edu-cation, visually, audibly,
hands-on, really exercises your brain in a way that you can better
grasp the con-cept, says former Chilliwack sec-ondary student Garry
Ewen, who dropped out of the public system just shy of
graduating.
Ewen struggled with understand-ing math all through school. He
fell behind in the primary grades and never caught up. It wasnt
until he went to Seabird Island College, sev-eral years after
quitting high school, that he found math success.
Everybody has different learn-ing styles and some schools dont
cater to that, says Ewen. At
Seabird College, the teachers do textbook work, but they also
use visuals and hands-on. I got to grasp some of the concepts in a
different learning method.
When the B.C. Ministry of Education approved the English First
Peoples curriculum in 2008, after more than 10 years of working on
it, there was celebration among the Chilliwack aboriginal
communi-ties.
English First Peoples is the equivalent to English language arts
but with a Sto:lo focus.
Finally, there was a language
Are our schools failing aboriginal students?
Most people had negative opinions about my people and I was
already facing my own issues at home, says Elia Julian, who
graduated from Chilliwack secondary in 2011. I didnt need that at
school.
JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
Aboriginal kids are struggling, says Tyrone McNeil, president of
the First Nations Education Steering Committee. Teachers dont know
how to relate to them or communicate with them. JENNA HAUCK/
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course relevant to who they are.
But today, unlike B.C. First Nations Studies 12, which was
approved
around the same time as EFP, and offered at all high schools
last year, only one school offered English First Peoples Chilliwack
secondary.
School district offi-cials say it comes down to student
interest. If not enough students sign up, the course cant run. But
Tyrone
McNeil, president of the First Nations Education Steering
Committee, says several students hes talked to werent aware the
course exists.
Too many of them havent been asked if theyre interested in
tak-ing it. They havent been given the opportunity.
It boils down to knowl-edge and support.
Thats all our kids need a little bit of encouragement, a
teach-er that expects them to do better, expects them to do well,
to pass, to come in every day, says McNeil.
But that lesson isnt passed on to our kids often enough.
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how to relate to them or communicate with them.I dont know if
theyve given up over time, or if
they were never interested from the start.Elia Julian didnt want
to find out.The 21-year-old Skwah native spent years denying
her First Nations existence in Chilliwack schools. She couldnt
control her ethnicity or her skin colour, or the negative thoughts
people associated with her people, but she could control how much
they knew about her.
Instead of embracing her native roots, Julian told people she
was Hawaiian.
Most people had negative opinions about my peo-ple and I was
already facing my own issues at home, she says. I didnt need that
at school.
The oldest of six, Julian didnt grow up with her parents. She
was shuffled through six different homes many unstable.
Concentrating on school was not easy.
Most aboriginal students do face different strug-gles more so
than simple adolescence, she says. Sometimes the struggles that
First Nations students face are things that are out of our
control.
Even though Julian had access to aboriginal sup-port workers and
an aboriginal room at Chilliwack
secondary, she still felt misunderstood and pre-judged by some
of her teachers and principals.
Knowing that were not expected to succeed is frustrat-ing and
really hard to swallow, says Julian, who graduated on time in 2011.
It makes it really hard to want to push to do great.
The cost of con-tinuing to fail First Nations children and youth
educationally is exponential.
A 2010 report, Investing in Aboriginal Education: An Economic
Perspective, conduct-ed by the Centre for the Study of Canadian
Living Standards, estimates that $39 billion in costs will be
incurred on the Canadian economy by 2026 if education is not
improved for First Nations. On the flip side, if the educational
gap is closed, the economy could be boosted by $115 billion over
the 20-year period from 2006 to 2026.
If the status quo continues, the whole scenario of dependency
thats been put on us continues, says McNeil. Do they want to
sustain First Nations dependency on Canada, or do they want to
assist us to be thriving and a positive reflection of Canada?
Despite the system, some aboriginal youth and adults are
achieving success elsewhere.
Last June, 13 years after he should have gradu-ated from the
public system, Ewen finally obtained his graduation credentials
thanks to Seabird Island College.
The on-reserve college offers a dual-track educa-tion program
that enables students to achieve their Dogwood completion while
working towards an employable trade or other such profession. Since
opening in 2010, enrolment has continued to flour-ish. Last year,
approximately 115 mature students obtained their Dogwood through
Seabird Island College.
Education is life-changing and its generationally life-changing,
says Diane Janzen, education manager at Seabird Island Band and
former Chilliwack school trustee.
When a student doesnt graduate, its not about their failure; its
about our failure, our inability to provide education thats
relevant.
When Ewen finally received his official ministry of education
transcripts in the mail for his Dogwood completion, the normally
chatty man was rendered speechless.
Even though hed taken college courses over the years, it was his
Dogwood that gave him an ultimate sense of achievement.
I was just like, Oh! Wow!
Retooling school to make it matterSCHOOL from page 3
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The status quo cannot continue, says Tyrone McNeil, president of
the First Nations Education Steering Committee. JENNA HAUCK/ THE
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The deep dive in crude oil prices in recent weeks has so far
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But one petroleum industry expert pre-dicts more relief from
pain at the pumps is coming soon for Lower Mainland motorists.
You guys are on the verge of a pretty siz-able drop in the
retail price there, said Jason Parent, the Ontario-based
vice-president of consulting for MJ Ervin and Associates.
He said the current average price of $1.30 per litre of regular
gas in Metro Vancouver as of Friday down from a midsummer plateau
of around $1.42 should continue to drop to $1.25 or lower.
In Chilliwack, price dropped to $1.14 over the weekend.
Crude oil prices have fallen about 15 per cent from their July
levels but the drop for retail
gas has been barely eight per cent.
Weve seen some of that passed on at the pump but not quite all
of it yet, Parent said.
Crude oil makes up only about half of the cost of a litre of
gas, but he said the sharp decline, plus the typi-cal seasonal drop
in gas prices as summer driv-ing season ends, should translate into
more sav-ings for drivers.
If youve got a sus-tained downward move-ment in crude prices
as we have you will see that passed on for the most part,
eventu-ally.
TransLinks diesel bus fuel costs may also drop with lower crude
oil prices.
Spokesperson Cheryl Ziola said its also possi-ble lower gas
prices will encourage more driving and result in TransLink
collecting more fuel tax from the 17 cents a litre it levies, at
least over the short term.
But cheaper gas can also cut into transit
ridership if more pas-sengers take their cars instead.
And Ziola cautioned trends of better fuel effi-ciency, slower
growth in vehicle ownership and people driving less are forecast to
continue to push down TransLinks fuel tax revenue over the longer
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Large grocery stores are the only retailers eli-gible to add a
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take effect in the spring of 2015.
To qualify for a space to sell alcoholic bever-ages, stores must
have at least 929 square metres (10,000 square feet) of floor space
and groceries as 75 per cent of their sales, Justice Minister
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The restrictions are designed to exclude gen-eral merchandise
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minis-try statement. Eligible stores will be permitted to create a
store within a store with separate cash registers and staff, or
co-brand with liquor stores outside their exist-ing facilities.
The government plans to maintain its cap on the number of liquor
stores, with 670 private stores now in operation. Liquor stores are
currently restricted to relocating no more than five km from their
original loca-tion, but that restriction is being lifted so a
licence can be sold or moved any-where in the province.
That would allow exist-ing government or pri-vate liquor stores
to relo-cate in partnership with grocery stores, while maintaining
the regula-tion that no two liquor outlets can be closer together
than one km.
Big-box stores excluded from liquor sales
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MERTIN NISSAN8287 Young Road, Chilliwack, BC
Tel: (604) 792-8218CHILLIWACK
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Jeff NagelBlack Press
The provinces deci-sion to allow heavily for-tified medical
marijuana production factories to be built on top of good
agricultural farmland isnt sitting well with municipal
politicians.
Several Lower Mainland cities wanted the new commercial pot
producers that are being licensed by the federal government to be
relegated to indus-trial land, arguing the high-security buildings
would be a better fit there.
Instead, the pro-vincial government decided over the summer they
will be allowed to be built on farmland, including in the
Agricultural Land Reserve.
The main concession from the province is that theyll be taxed at
the industrial property tax rate not at the lower agricultural
rate.
Langley Township Mayor Jack Froese said one concern now is that
cities will end up paying more for police to moni-tor sleepy
agricultural roads for criminals that may be attracted to the new
pot ventures.
We really need to ensure the safety of our residents, he said,
add-ing there are also impli-cations for the environ-ment,
infrastructure and roads.
The province has tabled proposed guide-lines for local
munici-palities to regulate the new marijuana produc-ers and has
asked for comment on them.
Froese said cities are now seeking the stron-gest possible
protec-tions.
We want to deal with things like setbacks, hedging and air
qual-ity, he said.
Richmond Coun. Harold Steves insists its senseless to waste the
best farmland in Canada on highly forti-fied bunkers that could
have been placed in industrial zones.
This is not soil-based agriculture, he
told Metro Vancouvers Oct. 10 board meeting. Its not even
green-house-type agriculture like you get in Delta and Richmond.
Its totally
enclosed.Burnaby Mayor
Derek Corrigan argued they will be twice as bad as greenhouses
and will detract from
the cooperative spirit of local agriculture.
If a marijuana opera-tion becomes your next door neighbour, its
cer-tainly not going to be a
very collegial relation-ship, Corrigan said. Youre not going to
be borrowing each others tractors.
Some cities have
sought legal opinions on whether they can ban marijuana
produc-ers from ALR land despite the provinces decision, but
Froese
said he doesnt believe that would be viable because pot
produc-ers would be protected under B.C.s Right to Farm Act.
Marijuana bunkers called waste of best farmlandCities want
safeguards but cant keep pot out of ALR
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Credit for fit familiesThe federal Conservatives deserve credit
for recognizing that child-
hood fitness is an issue and that sports activities are
expensive.But lets face it, the doubling of the tax credit for kids
under 16 from
$500 to $1,000 is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to
getting kids active and fit.
Now, parents can get back up to 15 per cent of their childrens
reg-istration or membership fees at tax time but its really just a
gesture and an acknowledgement that the original $500 tax credit
was far too low, especially if you have more than one child in more
than one sport.
What sweetens the pot slightly is that the maximum credit
actually works as a refund of $150, meaning that families whose
incomes are too low to benefit will get some help, although they
have to spend a lot to benefit a little.
Cynics will argue that the Tories are just buying votes with
vot-ers own money in advance of a federal election a year from now.
But peoples memories arent that long and the refund or tax credit
isnt worth that much.
What would make a difference would be a national fitness
strategy to encourage families to make health and fitness a
priority. Currently, this is left up to the cities to do, with some
encouragement from pro-vincial or regional health authorities, and
other non-profit agencies.
Whats missing is a culture of active living because everybody is
so strapped for time, people drive everywhere and sitting in front
of a screen all day is seen as the most-productive way of getting
things done.
Could a pan-national strategy address more issues over a long
time-frame? Absolutely, and its not just kids who could benefit
from incentives to employers and agencies to get everyone moving
and being healthy.
Canada needs more direct action to raise Canadians fitness IQ,
and the federal government should be a leader in this.
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RAESIDE
VICTORIA Three years ago, long-time chief and band
admin-istrator Sophie Pierre sought an extension of her term
leading the B.C. Treaty Commission and gave a warning. The federal
and pro-vincial government should start taking this long and costly
effort seriously or shut er down.
Last week Pierre wound up her sixth and final year as chief
com-missioner on a slightly more hope-ful note. This year, the
Tlaamin Nation in the Powell River area and the Yale First Nation
in the Fraser Canyon had their treaties proclaimed by Ottawa.
They join the Maa-nulth First Nations on Vancouver Island and
the Tsawwassen First Nation in leaving behind the Indian Act and
the courts to get on with self-gov-ernment. Tsawwassen in
particu-lar has moved ahead aggressively. Its shopping centre
development near the ferry terminal is one of the largest
commercial projects
in the province right now.All of these treaties were nego-
tiated despite multiple overlap-ping territorial claims
around
them, and similar progress has been made with the Tsimshian
First Nations on the North Coast and elsewhere.
The need for aboriginal people to work out their overlapping
claim issues between themselves was
the focus of the commissions 22nd annual report. In it, for-mer
chief commissioners Miles Richardson of the Haida Nation and Steven
Point of the Sto:lo Nation added their influential voices, urging
aboriginal commu-nities to consider them shared territories, rather
than clinging to ancient tribal rivalries.
Another hopeful sign is that after seven years of commissions
and studies, the federal govern-ment has finally given its
nego-tiators a mandate to negotiate fisheries. This is the main
reason why the Tlaamin waited five long years for Ottawas blessing
after their treaty had been hammered out.
This years landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Canada,
recognizing Tsilhqotin Nation title in the remote Nemiah Valley,
has also got the attention of Victoria and Ottawa. Pierre noted the
flurry of activity by Premier Christy Clark in seeking
recon-ciliation, which will culminate this month with a formal
apology for the hanging of Tsilhqotin chiefs 150 years ago.
Pierre said this court ruling should destroy any lingering
thoughts that this issue is not of the utmost importance, and
pro-vide the necessary investment,
both financial and time commit-ment, to reach satisfactory
con-clusions.
Thats the good news for B.C.s thorniest historical problem, the
lack of treaties across most of the province.
Its also becoming clearer that the Tsilhqotin ruling is unique.
Its unlikely to be repeated by most other First Nations, even if
they are willing and able to spend the years and millions to enrich
lawyers in pursuit of it.
Heres the bad news. As of this year, the B.C. Treaty Commission
has paid out $627 million to First Nations to support treaty
negotia-tions. Most of that is in the form of loans, which are to
be repaid out of the cash settlements that Ottawa contributes to
settle mod-ern treaties.
Pierre acknowledges that some communities are close to
com-pleting treaties, but their debt has climbed to near what
Ottawa
is offering. This would leave them free but broke.
Others are just spinning their wheels with no real hope of
achieving a treaty, Pierre said. The commission is calling for an
exit strategy for these commu-nities, starting with loan
forgive-ness that would allow them to pursue economic activity.
There are First Nations, Westbank and Osoyoos promi-nent among
them, which are thriving without treaties. Haida and Klahoose have
developed successful forest products busi-nesses as they move
toward self-government.
Federal and provincial govern-ments must recognize the
suc-cesses, and the failures.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black
Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: [email protected]
Time for the truth in B.C. treaty talks B.C. VIEWS
TomFLETCHER
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We are currently facing two piv-otal moments in public education
in British Columbia.
Firstly, we have just ended a lengthy strike that will bring
five years of labour stability and an opportunity to rebuild
relation-ships and strengthen our educa-tion system. Over the past
several months there has been a focus on what was wrong with the
system rather than what is right. Now is the time to shift that
focus back to what we all have in common suc-cess for students.
British Columbia has one of the best education systems in the world
because of fabulous teachers, administra-tors and support staff.
Yes, there are still challenges to overcome. There will always be a
need for increased funding and staffing. But our education system
should
not be defined by the challenges. It should be defined by our
willing-ness and ability to work together to overcome them. Success
is a team effort and it is now time for us to once again work
together as a team.
The second pivotal moment will occur on November 15, the date of
local trustee and municipal elections in British Columbia. On this
day you will have an opportu-nity to elect the women and men who
will lead and oversee pub-lic education in your community. School
trustees working in their communities with education part-ners and
parents provide focus and direction to help realize the educational
aspirations of students throughout the province. Public education
is everyones business. It is the engine that will determine
the success of our province. Our future employees, leaders,
parents and citizens will come from todays classrooms. November 15
is your opportunity to select the individu-als in your community
who will advocate for that future, and who will determine the
directions to guide this critical public invest-ment.
Public education is always excit-ing and challenging in British
Columbia. When I see students in our classrooms supported by
dedicated teachers, administrators support staff, and trustees, I
see the future.
Working together with a clear focus on what is best for student
ensures that the future will be bright.
Teresa RezansoffPresident,British Columbia School Trustees
Association
Working together for a better future
While walking around Sardis Park on the morning of Thursday, Oct
9th, I was very upset at the large numbers of fish in the
shal-lows, slowly suffocating. The water was teeming with hundreds
and hundreds of fish, all gasp-ing for air, some with their heads
stuck out of the water trying to stay alive. It was a very
distress-ing sight. Large numbers of fish seemed to be congregating
by the only source of fresh water that comes into the pond, but
that trickle of water bringing in fresh water and new oxygen into
that stagnant pond was not enough to save them. As I walked around
the pond I saw one of the regular Great Blue Herons that hunt at
the pond, and I was thinking that she sure choose the wrong fishing
spot this morning, as all the fish in the entire pond were at the
other end.
My first thought was that they
were poisoned by something get-ting into the water. I tried to
call the City of Chilliwack but it was too early, so all I could do
was leave an email with the Parks department. I did get a response
to my email by way of a press release. It advised the reason for
the fish kill was no oxygen in the water due to low water levels. I
certainly had noticed that the water levels are the lowest that I
have seen in the past 20 years, and I know Im not the only person
to have noticed how dirty the water has been looking in the pond
the last year or two. I used to see the oxygen bubblers going on a
regular basis in the pond, which seemed to keep the pond much
cleaner, but have not seen them on in few years, plus the fresh
water that comes into the pond is just a trickle.
I appreciate nature and really enjoy all the wildlife that this
little
park brings to our neighborhood. I certainly dont like animals
suf-fering for nothing. Its not just the waste of all these fish,
its also all the other animals that depend on them for food. I
thought our parks were being managed and cared for, so we share
these areas with the local wildlife, but it seems this one is not.
With all the headlines in the papers these days regarding the
environment and the popula-tions of animals in the world that have
declined in half in the past 40 years, I think we should be more
proactive in protecting fish, wild-life and the environment.
I walked around the park tonight, amazing... all I saw was one
small dead fish. If you were not at the park this morning, you
would have no idea that anything even happened there. Our City
certainly did a very speedy clean up of all the dead fish...
Liz Oberholtzer
Proactive effort needed to protect pond fish
No government protects environmentRe: Oil protest a slip-
pery slope for cities (B.C. Views, Oct. 7).
Tom Fletchers analy-sis of jurisdiction regard-ing pipeline
expansion and oil distribution in B.C. ignores one impor-tant fact.
I have one postal address and one primary residence, one planet
on
which to live.I also am governed by
three political jurisdic-tions that are supposed to manage the
common good on behalf of all. None do so. I pay taxes and idealize
that some official somewhere will handle environmental issues in
sustainable
ways. Not so.Such leaders are situ-
ated within non-govern-ment organizations who also want money.
No wonder I am an alienated citizen, disgusted with public sector
overexpen-ditures and irresponsi-bilities regarding basic
survival.
I do vote! And I am delighted that some new faces and names are
appearing on ballot lists. My hope is that other vot-ers will
listen to these unknown candidates. Somewhere among them are future
leaders who will help guide us to a more viable Canada.
Betty Donaldson
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There is more to pumpkins than pie, says Brian Minter
Pumpkins are often a childs first introduction to horticulture,
and from their early history in the Americas to their future in
space gardening research, they deserve a little more credit than
just being a Jack OLantern. For home dcor, especially for
Thanksgiving displays, its hard to beat pumpkins combined with corn
stalks and hay bales.
All pumpkins are indigenous to America and were grown along with
corn by native Americans, making them one of the first companion
crops. Members of the cucurbitaceae family, their close relatives
are watermelon, gourds, squash and cantaloupe.
Recently a flurry of new pumpkin varieties has being developed.
A bush-type variety, called Spirit, which has vines that only
spread about three feet, delights pumpkin grow-ers with limited
space. It is prolific, much like a zucchini, and harvesting a dozen
or more ten to fifteen pound fruits is not uncommon. For more
adventur-ous growers, there are various strains of the Atlantic
Giant available. They are bred for size. The winning entries in the
World Pumpkin Confederation Weigh Off now exceed 1200 pounds! You
would need a chain-saw to carve these monsters and a shovel and
wheelbarrow to clean them out. They also look ugly. A much nicer
giant is Prizewinner which averages 90 to 100 pounds and actually
looks
like a pumpkin.On the sweeter side, smaller
is better. Sugar or pie pump-kins are the traditional varieties
for pies. Grown from seed stock imported from China, Stokes Seeds
Canada has introduced a series of small varieties like Sweetie Pie.
Considered a delicacy in China, these minia-
ture pumpkins fit nicely in the palm of your hand. They average
only five ounces in weight, mea-sure about three inches across and
about one inch deep - real giants! They are very attractive because
of their
deep ribbing and can be dried like gourds for neat table
decorations. A white and orange striped variety, called Pumkemon,
and a white one, called Baby Boo, cook up nicely too.
White pumpkins are all the rage, and varieties like Lumina and
the larger New Moon and Full Moon are all over websites like
Pinterest as the latest and greatest. Flat ribbed varieties, like
Cinderella, are hot too and very unique.
Little Lantern, School Time and Orange Smoothie will be of
interest to young pumpkin growers. They measure only five to seven
inches across, but they really produce lots of little,
five to eight pound fruits in eight weeks. They make great pies
too. The tiniest is PeeWee which is about the size of a softball
and makes great table dcor.
Pumpkin seeds, which are very high in vitamins, are a deli-cacy
in the Middle East. With the development of two new varieties,
Tricky Jack and Lady Godiva, there are now hull-less seeds, which
can be eaten like peanuts when lightly roasted. From Japan comes a
new edible seed variety called Kakai. Its awesome, and its fresh
seeds are sweet and nut-like.
We all know about those scrumptious pumpkin pies. Another
delicious pumpkin dish is made by baking or steaming pumpkin meat,
then seasoning it with butter, salt, pepper and molasses. Pumpkin
bread and pumpkin cookies stuffed with raisins are popular
favourites. In the Caribbean Islands, one of the staple foods is
pumpkin soup.
The Land Pavilion in Epcot Centre at Disneyworld, Florida, is
experimenting with pump-kins as a food source for space
expeditions. Trained upward along ropes, the vines grow about
thirty feet high and are loaded with perfect ten to fifteen pound
pumpkins. It is nice to think that the Jack OLantern we carve on
Halloween to keep the evil spirits away has a great his-tory and an
even brighter future. Lets hear it for pumpkins!
BrianMINTER
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Scene ProgressThe ChilliwackJennifer
Feinberg
Dylan Coulter and Calvin Baker in the Canadian premiere of
Birdsong at UFV Theatre
Storytelling from the trenches at UFVBirdsong promises to be a
pow-
erful and poignant play.Thats how the new production
opening this week at UFV Theatre set in the First World War is
being described.
The month of October marks the 100th anniversary of trench
warfare and UFV Theatre is hon-oured to present the Canadian
premiere of a new adaptation of Birdsong, Oct. 15 to 26.
It records the tragedy, the remarkable history and surpris-ing
humour of the Great War through songs, music, movement and
theatrical performance.
I cant tell you how excited we are to be presenting the Canadian
premiere of this wonderful adap-tation, said director Raina von
Waldenburg, who teaches at UFV. This is an outside-of-the-box piece
of theatre, and Im convinced that our unconventional approach will
make the story fresh, alive and powerful for audiences.
Its based on Sebastian Faulks best-selling novel, and written
by
playwright Rachel Wagstaff.As the guns of war echo, the
audience joins Stephen Wraysford and his fellow soldiers,
huddled in trenches and holes, trying to find ways to shake off the
monot-ony of war and remember family. Injured at the Somme,
Wraysford flits between past and present as he struggles to recall
those final romantic days before the war
when he fell in love with a beau-tiful, but already-married
young woman named Isabelle. In their heart-rending story set
against the crumbling of their whole world and in the strong bonds
of friendship between the young soldiers, we get a sense of all the
real-life heartbreak that forever marked the world.
We have multiple actors play-
ing the same character, every actor playing multiple roles,
unorthodox staging and a whole lot of surprises in store, said von
Waldenburg, who is one of North Americas foremost proponents of the
Grotowski Method, a decid-edly physical approach to theatre.
But believe me, people shouldnt have any difficulty fol-lowing
the action: these young actors are brilliant at finding ways to be
expressive and clear. This is storytelling at its finest.
Birdsong runs Oct. 15 to 26 with evening performan