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Village offi cially legendaryBY MICHAEL BRIONESEcho Staff
Its going to be legend-ary.
Thats the word Cum-berland council has decid-ed the village will
use for the descriptor for the new entrance sign that will be
located on the Inland Is-land Highway.
But the vote was not unanimous.
Councillor Gwynn Sproule was the only one who was against it.
Although Mayor Leslie Baird didnt visibly indi-cate whether she was
in favour or opposed, her ab-stention still counted as an affi
rmative vote.
Sproule reiterated her objection to the word leg-endary as she
feels it is not worthy of the Village of Cumberland. She called it
trite and light.
Cumberland has a real-ly long history and I dont think legendary
does it any favours, said Sproule.
As a rebuttal, councillor Jesse Ketler provided coun-cil
articles and passages
After another debate on contentious word, Cumberland picks sign
design
The sign shape chosen by Cumberland residents
that included a Globe and Mail article that quoted former mayor
Bronco Moncrief stating that he had legendary support for Japanese
families. The Dunsmuir family and Gin-ger Goodwin have been
described as legendary as well as the villages well-
known sports teams, art-ists, funeral processions, mountain bike
trails, tidal waves on Comox Lake and takings from No. 4 Coal
Mine.
I think, it [legendary] does reference history appropriately and
it does bring into the forefront the
things that are current in Cumberland, said Ketler. Historic, on
the other hand, is overused and un-imaginative. It doesnt re-ally
capture all that Cum-berland has to off er.
Sproule acknowledged there were speci c events in Cumberland
that were
legendary like the sports teams, but it still does not qualify
the village as leg-endary.
I cant see the village as an entity can be leg-endary, said
Sproule. I do agree with certain characters from history or maybe a
baseball team but you cant call Cumberland legendary can you?
Ketler answered back that when people read the word legendary, I
dont think, in their mind, they will quickly invalidate the history
of Cumberland.
Councillor Roger Kishii said they have already spent so much
time debat-ing this topic and he feels there are other daunt-ing
and pressing matters council needs to address. He pointed out that
Cum-berlands history is well-represented in the signs that are
already in place in the village and voted in favour of legendary.
He added he also wanted to see the word welcome in-cluded in the
sign.
Residents were given a chance to give their input through an
online survey on the villages website and also the Currently
Cumberland facebook page. Hard copies were also made available. A
poster of the two sign de-signs was displayed at the Post Offi
ce.
The consensus was split, as there was support for legendary and
support for the use of historic but of the two designs, the
asymmetrical one was endorsed by 57 per cent of the respondents of
the survey.
Council approved the residents choice.
Staff will now request Scott Designs to nalize the design. Once
thats done, the project will be put to tender.
Council has budgeted $40,000 for the project, which is to be
drawn from the villages development amenity funds. It will pay for
site preparation, en-gineering drawings, sign production,
construction and site clean up.
Goodbye,ruby Tuesday
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started.
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ruby red banner, is no more.
We are continuing to publish our Friday edi-tion, though, and it
will continue to have plenty of news.
And, of course, our web site at www.comoxvall-eyecho.com will be
updat-ed continuously, as well as our facebook page (as soon as the
editor remem-bers how to do it) along with our Twitter feed.
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As the City of Courte-nay celebrates its cente-nary, its elected
leaders are grappling with issues like the restoration of the
bridge at the bottom of Fifth Street and the need to equip re
ghters to protect an expanding community.
Turns out the very same issues were also on the council agenda
almost 100 years ago, and as Mayor Larry Jangula remarked at
Mondays council meeting: The more things change, the more things
stay the same. Or to put it another way, what goes around comes
around.
Presenting the Heritage Advisory Commissions annual report to
coun-cil, advisory committee member Judy Hagen and chairman
Lawrence Burns outlined its work over the past 12 months,
highlighting a series of information panels put together featuring
events, activities and develop-ments over the ten de-cades since
the City was incorporated.
A century on, City faces similar issues
Jointly titled A Walk Through Time, the panels will be displayed
at vari-ous events and locations through 2015, and can also be
viewed online un-der the Heritage tab in the Community section of
the City of Courtenays website at www.courte-nay.ca
Burns said as volun-
teers had researched possible content for the panels, they had
looked through records such as council minutes and local newspapers
to see what the hot issues of the day had been in each decade.
They had found, for ex-ample, that in the 1918/19 municipal
year, Council was expressing concern
about the deterioration of the bridge over the river - a
predecessor of the cur-rent Fifth Street Bridge - and were calling
on the government to replace it. Back then some of the wooden
planks form-ing the deck were miss-ing and there were fears horses
would fall through if more rotted away.
Burns said the issues with the current bridge were not quite the
same, but he noted the council was again in the process of seeking
government support to maintain it. And he got laughs when he
alluded to recent pro-posals for a new pedes-trian and cycling
bridge, noting it was proposed to use planks for the deck of that,
and he thought its proponents might heed a warning from
history.
And when it came to the issue of equipping re ghting teams - the
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where it had come from in the past.
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Comox. This program will commence on Monday, April 20, 2015 and
should be completed by Friday, May 22, 2015. All work will take
place from Monday to Friday between 8:00 am and 4:30 pm.
This program may result in temporary but harmless discolouration
of the water. Should this occur, running a cold water tap for a
short period will help to restore water quality to normal. Where
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BY PHILIP ROUNDSpecial to the Echo
BC Hydro is warning the Comox Valley is now entering uncharted
ter-ritory that could impact public water supplies this summer.
Not once in the past 50 years have records shown anything like
the condi-tions now being noted around Comox Lake, from which ows
the water sup-ply for all of Courtenay, Comox and some sur-rounding
rural areas.
Around 40,000 resi-dents and businesses rely on supplies piped
and treated by Comox Val-ley Regional District, but sourced from BC
Hydro, which manages the lake.
BC Hydro spokesper-son Stephen Watson told the Echo the past
several months had been a tale of weather extremes. There had been
record-setting storms, but also prolonged dry periods and most
no-tably a record low snow-pack on the mountains.
At one snow measuring station at an elevation of 1,600m - as
high as the peak of Mount Washing-ton - no snow at all had
accumulated since mid-January.
That set the rst alarm
bells ringing, as the slow release of water from the melting
snowpack is usu-ally vital in keeping Comox Lake topped up for
several months a year, especially in prolonged dry periods.
BC Hydro itself is by far the biggest user of water from the
lake, drawing on it to turn the turbines at its power generating
sta-tion further down the Pun-tledge.
But in April, much ear-lier than usual, it began conserving
water and has since been operating the power station at about a fth
of its full capacity. The consequential reduc-tion in electricity
supplies has been made up for cus-tomers with power drawn
through cables under the Georgia Strait from the Lower
Mainland.
The April water in ows into the reservoir were low, only 65 per
cent of av-erage, Watson explained. For May, given the dry start to
the month and the very low snowpack, water in ows are now setting
new (low) records.
Currently about 11-13 cubic metres a second is entering the
reservoir, which is the lowest weve seen for this time of year in
about 50 years.
Late last week the res-ervoir depth was 134.9 m and slowly
dropping, but that is only half a metre below what is considered
full.
So, people might ask, whats the problem? The numbers make it
look as though there is almost limitless water available.
While its true there is a lot of water, most of it can-not be
tapped. Huge vol-umes can only ow from the lake by gravity - at
least until a multi-million dollar deep-water intake pumping system
can be installed.
The lowest surface level at which bulk water can be extracted is
around 131 metres.
And if dry weather con-tinues the surface level could sink
pretty rapidly.
The key indicator is the residual water supply fore-cast, from
May to Septem-ber, is showing just 44 per cent of normal, Watson
noted. This is uncharted territory.
BC Hydro is respon-sible for managing water from the lake for
all ap-proved users, including ows down the Puntledge River to
ensure healthy sh habitat and even oc-casional water releases for
recreation.
Such releases include those for the annual multi-day kayak
paddle festival at the end of May, when normally there is so much
water around it is being
deliberately spilled over the dam at the lake.
With due discretion on what could be extremely low water
conditions this summer, all parties came to the conclusion that the
multi-day Puntledge Paddle Festival and the multi-day water release
for chinook smolts will not happen this year, said Watson.
This is the rst time this has occurred since a water use plan
was agreed between many parties and implemented in 2004.
He added: Unfortu-nately, with low precipita-tion, the record
low snow-pack, and the dry forecast ahead, the water condi-tions
are quickly moving to extreme. We are seeing water in ows into the
res-ervoir similar to July, not early May.
Watson said BC Hydro would likely maintain its current low
discharge of about 15-16 cubic metres a second from Comox dam, and
run the generat-ing station at about 20 per cent of capacity, for
the weeks and months ahead.
Such a ow would still keep sh habitat covered, even if it would
not pro-vide the powerful bursts of water to help sweep smolts out
to sea, aimed at giving them a better chance of surviving preda-tor
seals.
Operational adjust-
ments will be made as needed, he said. BC Hydro will continue
work-ing with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in the coming weeks to
discuss upstream in ows, Pun-tledge River ow con-ditions, and any
minor adjustments that may be provided to optimize salmon
out-migration.
The general manager of engineering services with Comox Valley
Regional District, Marc Rutten, told the Echo they were in frequent
contact with BC Hydro about the situation as far as it might impact
public water supplies.
The situation was be-ing closely monitored, but as yet there was
no need to move away from basic Stage One water restric-tions that
are in constant force.
The Comox Valley wa-ter system actually takes a very small
percentage of the total water available at this time of year,
although consumption always in-creases as the summer months
progress -- and that is when the real im-pact will be felt.
They were very aware of the signi cance of the weather patterns
and low to almost non-existent snowpack, so were liais-ing
constantly with BC Hydro to keep abreast of the issue and its
possible implications.
Valley enters uncharted territoryWater warning over low snowpack
and unusual weather
Aerial view of Comox dam area
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Charlene Gray, Execu-tive Coordinator for Co-mox Valley
Childrens Day Care Society, received the Kay Britton Mentorship
Award at the 44th An-nual Conference for Early Childhood Educators
of BC, held May 1 in Rich-mond.
This provincial award recognises leaders in the eld who inspire
and guide other Early Child-hood Educators (ECEs) in their
professional de-velopment.
Ms. Gray is an active and highly regarded mem-ber of many local
commit-tees, which include:
* Early Years Inter-Agency Committee
* Comox Valley Early Years Leadership Table
* Early Years Steering Committee for school dis-trict SD #71
* North Island College, ECE Advisory Group
* Comox Valley Child Development Association - Ethics
Committee
Her experience as a past Director of Provincial Conference was
instru-mental in organising the rst regional conference for ECEs,
held in Nanaimo on February 28th. Ms. Gray is an executive mem-ber
of the ECEBC and her portfolio has included:
* Director of Confer-ence
* Director of Profes-sionalism
* Advisory Committee for the $10 a Day Child Care Plan; and
* An Ethical Journey Guide
The Ethical Journey promotes ethical practices and attitudes to
early care and learning profession-als. It is a four-part series
that guides participants on a journey of ethical discovery and
awareness. Ms. Gray has co-facilitated this highly regarded
edu-cational series 12 diff erent times all over the Island.
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FREEGarden Advice
Whats newfor 2015?BY ELLEN PRESLEYAnderton Nursery
One of the fun things about gardening is trying new plants. Here
are a few wonderful new additions to try this year.
The long blooming Sal-vias seem to be putting on a splash this
year. One of the most striking is bi-col-or Salvia Hot lips which
is de nitely an eye catcher with spikes of white ow-ers that form a
unique kiss shaped lipstick red marking on the end. It is a zone
7-9, so may have to be protected from a harsh winter.
When you crush the foli-age or brush past the plant an aroma of
black currant is emitted. The blooms at-
tract hummingbirds, bees, birds and butter ies, yet the deer
usually leave it alone.
This compact, carefree plant grows 3 feet tall and wide and will
bloom from early Spring through to late Fall. It is a great choice
for containers, mass plantings or used in the rock garden.
The award winning Sal-via coccinea Pink Jewel is usually only an
annual in our part of the world, but is a wonderful choice. It was
consistently rated su-perior or above average by AAS judges because
of its early and generous ice-pink ower blossoms that continue to
bloom from Spring to Autumn.
This easy care dwarf
compact plant grows 10-20and owers from seed.
All salvias love sun and need good drainage.
Hummingbirds and bees are attracted to this sweetheart of a
plant and it is drought and heat tol-erant.
Ideal in garden beds, borders and containers and also makes for
great cut owers. The lovely pale pink blossoms look fabulous in the
cottage garden. Zone 7-10.
Like the super hero, this new variety is de nitely an
overachiever - Salvia nemorosa Blue Marvel is a long blooming
perennial that grows only 10-12tall but the gorgeous bright blue
owers are ultra large.
Zone 4-7, it is very har-dy and by removing faded blooms, you
will encour-age this little beauty to continue blooming from early
Summer to Fall. It is both deer and rabbit resis-tant.
You could match the blue of Salvia with the amazing annual
Gaza-
nia Kiss Orange Flame which has striking blooms of dark orange
with brown centers that have a touch of blackened red at each petal
base.
The sunny yellow edges de nitely make this ower pop wherever you
put it. It is only 8-10, loves a sunny hot location and is a great
choice for xeriscaping.
Good in containers, mass planted, or used as a ground cover.
All Gazania are deer re-sistant and will bloom all Summer.
Often grown as an an-nual, Verbena Bonairensis is an herbaceous
perennial from South America.
Unusual slender wil-lowy stems grow 2-4 feet high producing
tightly clustered orets of laven-der- purple owers, which bloom
from June to frost.
Although the branches are slender they are strong and do not
need staking. It prefers moist, well- drained soil and attracts
butter ies and bees.
(Continued on page 7)The award winning Salvia coccinea Pink
Jewel
One of the most striking is bi-color Salvia Hot lips
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(Continued from page 6)
The distinctive shape makes an architectural statement - lovely
when mass planted with grasses to give a tranquil setting. Loves
full sun and is great as a cut ower, in the cot-tage or wildlife
garden. Zone 7
Penstemon Red Rid-ing Hood originates from the Rocky Mountains
and South Western United States. Beautiful bright red tubular owers
on long stems....everything a hummingbird could hope for and you
will be happy with its upright habit and long lasting color. It is
ex-ceptionally winter hardy (Zone 3), long owering, and has a
proliferous ow-er count. Fantastic for the perennial borders, rock
garden or to use in cut ower displays. It grows 18-22 high, loves
full sun and attracts butter ies and other pollinators. Re-ally
easy to grow and re-quires little maintenance once established. All
Pen-stemon are deer resistant.
A very unique Phlox on the market is Phlox panic-ulata Sherbert
Cocktail . This is a mid- size phlox at 18-24 and has large
clusters of fragrant ow-
Whats New
The amazing annual Gazania Kiss Orange Flame
ers. What is unusual is the blend of colors within each bloom of
ivory, soft pink and creamy yellow. The yellow- green buds emerge
out of chocolate maroon bracts, opening into owers with
green/yellow edges and soft pink or white centers. The breeder, Jan
Verschoor of the Netherlands, has cre-ated an amazing plant with
exceptionally good form and texture as each bloom is densely
packed
with orets of overlap-ping petals. It is the rst phlox with
yellow in its ower. Phlox attract both hummingbirds and but-ter ies
and are great as a cut ower. All phloxes are very easy to grow and
maintain.
Another variety of Phlox which is so striking is the Phlox
subulata Snow ake . It is a ground cover that forms a mound of
snowy white owers. It is a bright
white that really stands out. Use it as edging, in a mixed
container or in the rock garden. It only grows 2-4, is easy care
and great to help control erosion. It is both evergreen and deer
resistant.
There are many more exciting new varieties on the market to add
to your garden this year. Have fun trying something new to create
your own little par-adise. Happy Gardening. A very unique Phlox is
Sherbert Cocktail
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granted limited competi-tion in the Valley from a second taxi
company, Am-bassador Taxi Services, as an opportunity to spur
improvements.
When it broke the mo-nopoly, the PTB noted it
had received numerous complaints from both businesses and
individu-als of excessive wait times, unreliable and poor ser-vice,
and that many peo-ple submitting evidence in support of
competition
felt another taxi provider would have a positive impact with
improved customer service, vehicle conditions, and reduced wait
times.
(Continued on page 9)
BY PHILIP ROUNDSpecial to the Echo
The new owner of the biggest and longest-estab-lished taxi
company in the Comox Valley is invest-ing in new vehicles and a
commitment to improved customer service and reli-ability.
Comox Taxi has been bought out by Jotinder (Joti) Gill, who also
owns the Oceanside Taxi busi-ness in the Parksville/Qualicum area
and has a part-share in another taxi venture serving Nanaimo.
The purchase of the lo-cal company was only -nalized in March,
but Gill has wasted no time in implementing his plan to improve
services.
The local manager and offi ce supervisor at the companys McPhee
Av-enue base in Courtenay, Joleen LeChasseur, said four new
eco-friendly Toy-ota Prius hybrid cars were already in service and
two more were on order.
And, she added, the new owner was clear that his company must
not only off er clean and reliable ve-
hicles, but also timely ser-vice and a good all-round customer
experience.
The dispatch service ful-ly operational but still in transition
to enhance the service, with LeChasseur training those involved and
leading by example by helping answer the phones to demonstrate how
she wants the job done.
She acknowledged there had been some issues with local taxi
services in the past - issues highlighted publicly in a BC
Passen-ger Transportation Board (PTB) ruling last year that
Joleen LeChasseur, the local manager for Comox Taxi, with one of
the Toyota Prius cabs the new company owner Joti Gill has
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Hybrid taxis ag new owners pledge of better service here
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Although ownership has changed, the Comox Taxi business name has
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BY DREW A. PENNERSpecial to the Echo
As he rounds the bend on the connector to Cum-berland, Jason
Uglanica has a big smile on his face. The founder of the Guer-rilla
Food Company has set out for a delivery run around the Village,
pro-viding frozen meals made with gourmet ingredients to eagerly
awaiting cus-tomers.
Mainly I just want to feed people better, he says. Food builds
com-munity and community builds food.
Along with the one-two punch of head chef Chris-topher Matthews
and sous-chef Jake Galbraith, Uglanica is doing his best to concoct
delicious meals that take advantage of the quality food and
veg-etables available in the Comox Valley and on the Island.
Its really good to have a couple guys that share that vision, he
says, not-ing the company even butchers meat in its down-
Guerrilla Food Co. improves food security one TV-dinner at a
time
Guerrilla Foods products are now available at Cumberlands Seeds
Food Market.
town Courtenay kitchen. They both have lots of practice curing
meats.
Guerrilla Foods seeks to provide TV dinners for people who love
to cook and has generated a con-siderable groundswell of enthusiasm
around their eff orts in the process.
They dont want to use the processed crap, he
says, of his customers, pic-turing the stressful situa-tions he
helps get families through on a daily basis. They dont have enough
time to prepare it com-pletely themselves - ones got soccer
practice, ones got piano lessons.
That gives them that little bit of a break.
Because Guerrilla Foods
isnt a typical restaurant with short-order service, this has
allowed Uglanica to aff ect the local food chain in a really
interest-ing way.
Were not a service restaurant; You cant just come in and order
some-thing to be made on the spot, he says, noting the exibility
this ensures around experimenting with local ingredients, many of
which are season-al. It gives us a certain amount of grace to
use
things diff erently, to not be on demand. The way things work on
the Island not everything is always available.
Uglanica says hes com-mitted to sticking to his guns, and turns
out hes the type of guy who walks the talk. Take the Guerrilla
Foods shepherds pie, for example. Uglanica refuses to look beyond
Vancouver Islands shores for the sig-nature lamb cuts.
(Continued on page 11)
Mainly I just want to feed people better. Food builds community
and community builds food.
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Our lamb is not going to come from New Zea-land, he says.
Chemai-nus is the farthest weve gone for our lamb so far.
That means Guerrilla cant off er the dish right now, and
customers wont be able to get it for a few weeks - but he says its
worth it.
Uglanica knows that by staying loyal to local producers, a whole
host of Vancouver Island busi-nesses gain the all-too-rare
opportunity to get ahead, hopefully building more infrastructure in
the process.
While there are plenty of organic and small-time producers on
Vancouver Island, many dont have the necessary equipment to
maximize their return on investment.
They do the best with what they can, but acquir-ing adequate
refrigeration and cold storage facilities can be a challenge.
We like to get as much as we can as it comes out
of the ground, he says, la-menting the quantities of vegetables
that end up as pig feed, resulting in less revenue for local
produc-ers. They get hit hard, because if their vegetables dont
sell theyre either sitting on them or theyre composting them.
Uglanica hopes with each TV dinner he sells the community will
be one step closer to being able to purchase great food at
af-fordable prices.
The more food that we keep here instead of sending off -Island I
think will help bring the prices down, he said. Promot-ing having
what we make kept here is extremely im-portant for me.
The company has par-ticipated in a variety of local functions,
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We were planning on doing a pizza place anyways, he said.
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With everything Guerrilla Foods has going for it right now it
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cate over the past decade to have such a facility in place.
However, there is a sig-ni cant part of this story that was
missing in the re-cent cover page and article in the Comox Valley
Echo of April 17, 2015.
Not mentioned was the fact that both St. Josephs Hospital and
St. Josephs Hospital Foundation were also valuable partners with
the Hospice Society, Is-land Health and Ministry of Health in
making the reality of this facility a pos-sibility.
Indeed, the Hospital Foundation, over the past 8 years, raised
an addi-tional $240,000 alone - no small amount indeed.
And where did this fund-ing come from? Well, there were
contributions from individuals whose fami-lies and friends had been
touched by death; by many who realize that with an aging community
there is a need; by Churches and or-ganizations within the Val-ley
whose members have or are dealing with life and death issues; and
by a va-riety of fundraising activi-ties facilitated by the St.
Josephs Hospital Founda-tion and many community groups.
The Comox Valley is rich in many ways, and I think it is vital
that we realize the totality of the contribu-tions that have been a
part of enriching the lives of so
many both in good times and in those when we and our family
members strug-gle the most - and that is in in being separated by
illness and death from those whom we love most deeply.
It is important that we acknowledge and recog-nize the
contributions of so many - the Hospice So-ciety; Island Health;
Min-istry of Health; St. Josephs Hospital; St. Josephs Hos-pital
Foundation; the in-dividuals, churches, orga-nizations and
businesses within our community; and the Diocese of the Catholic
Church who have permit-ted this Palliative/Hospice facility to be
built on land connected to The Views. Thanks to everyone.
Marion LadeComox Valley Resident
Regarding the proposed monstrosity for the rebuild of the Lorne
Hotel, it es-capes me as to how this plan is, in any way, similar
or reminiscent of how this grand heritage building stood from its
birth.
This was such a land-mark in Comox & totally t in with the
seaside a-vour of the town. Just how this new concep
t is supposed to mimic that, is beyond my under-standing &
leaves me to-tally bewildered.
Mona Wile Comox
If you think the workers who look after you at St. Josephs will
be looking af-ter you at the new hospital you may be mistaken.
We think it is time that the community was made aware that the
workers at St. Josephs hospital have no guaranteed work at the new
Comox hospital when it opens. Many in the com-munity have assumed
that we will just all move over to the new hospital and St. Josephs
staff have had to explain as best they can to patients and visitors
that this is not the case.
So far no one from Is-land Health has entered into any serious
discus-sion with the St. Josephs staff and their representa-tives
regarding staffi ng the new hospital and what the future holds for
those of us currently employed at St. Josephs. Over a year ago the
trades and main-tenance and housekeep-ing workers were told that
their work would be priva-tized at the new hospital and they would
not have jobs. They were also told that they would be assist-ed. So
far the only assis-tance has been the recent advice to the trades
and maintenance workers that they should market them-selves.
The time to discuss a plan is now. Island Health needs to tell
us how the work will be organized in
the new hospital and how many workers with what quali cations
will be re-quired. If some of us need training to be quali ed for
work that is diff erent from what we are doing now that needs to be
planned. In the absence of informa-tion and planning a lot of us
will leave if we can nd work elsewhere. How will St. Joes continue
to pro-vide care up to the tran-sition? How will the new hospital
be staff ed?
The mushroom method of keeping us in the dark and feeding us the
type of nutrients used in mush-room cultivation is not conducive to
good health care, now or in the future.
Anyone concerned about the welfare of the workers and patients
at St. Josephs and the working conditions at St. Josephs now and
staffi ng of the new hospi-tal in the future is invited to contact
Island Health to express those concerns. Maybe that will help to
get things moving.
If you have an opinion about contracting out of food services,
you might want to mention that as well.
The Island Health web-site lists the following con-tact
information: PHONE: 250.370.8699 TOLL-FREE: 1-877-370-8699 EMAIL:
[email protected].
Barb BileyChair, Comox local
Hospital Employees Union
In reporting on the Courtenay Council debate to explore a GE
Free Pur-chasing Policy, a few de-tails deserve further
scru-tiny.
The executive of the CV Farmers Institute wrote, admitting that
the Farm-ers Institute, as a whole, has decided it would not take a
stand on genetically modi ed produce or prod-ucts.
Still, the writers go on to make a vague reference to
far-reaching consequenc-es - which kind of looks like taking a
stand.
And given how the may-or re ected on the letter publicly, thats
how he took it, too.
Then, while invoking the strength of the organiza-tion, the
letter is signed off only as expressing the views of the executive
- not the 100 or more mem-bers, as the mayor sug-gested.
Of the 445-500 farms here in the Comox Valley, the few farmers
who grow GE corn locally are not prohibited from continu-ing their
practice under the proposed purchasing policy. The vast majority -
well over 400 - of other conventional and organic farmers who do
not rely on genetic engineering tech-nology could, however, bene t
from the proposed policy, since buying local is
the easiest way to ensure GE free produce and prod-ucts. Is that
a far-reaching consequence that is bad or is it actually good for
our local economy?
Courtenay taxpayers share of the Comox Valley Economic
Development Society (CVEDS) budget is about $400,000 a year. CVEDS
prioritizes agricul-ture, promotes a green and clean environment,
and highlights the growing or-ganic sector.
The economics of hav-ing policies which com-plement each other
is the SMART way to govern. The use of our tax dollars for a GE
Free Purchasing Policy would help make the big CVEDS price tag
worthwhile. The sky isnt falling. Its opening up with
opportunity.
Ronna-Rae LeonardCourtenay
As a resident of the Co-mox Valley and a former member of the
St. Josephs Hospital Foundation, I was extremely pleased to see
that our Valley, with a population in excess of 66,000 people, is
soon to realize the importance of a Palliative/Hospice facility
within its midst.
We are grateful that the Hospice Society has worked extremely
hard and been a strong advo-
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BEEFS & BOUQUETSA BOUQUET OF OUTBOARDS to
the tall guy who works at Parker Marine. Your kind-ness and
understanding went a long way to making an old mans day. Youll
never know how much it meant to him. THANK YOU!
THANKS to Yellow Truck Septic, our Liquid Waste Management
system func-tions, as built. It has been in service for over 3
de-cades. It costs about 100 bucks a year to maintain. Wondering
why our area CVRD Directors continue to ignore this low cost
solution to human pollu-tion?
I SYMPATHIZE with the
writer who found an ER nurse at St. Joes to be rude and
condescending. I think Ive met that same nurse, and once
encoun-tered a similar specimen of Tyrannosaurus Nurse in Medical
Day Care. Maybe they just dont like seniors. Most nurses are great,
but maybe St. Joes should ro-tate their jobs more often, especially
older nurses, so they dont come to think of their department as
their own little empire to be ruled with an iron st. But the writer
was lucky to be seen quickly by the doctor. Last time I was in
their ER -- sent there by my family doctor -- I was admitted, then
waited more than three hours be-fore a doctor or nurse even spoke
to me.
A BOUQUET to the gentle-man who found my mo-bile at Rotary Park
and turned it in to the kiosk at the mall. I appreciate your eff
orts of getting it back safely to me.
MY BEEF FOR THE WEEK: I read the beef and bou-quets from time to
time and noticed a few articles on pit bulls. Being a proud owner
of a beautiful, kind,
intelligent pit bull really bothers me to see people trying to
ban this breed. I do understand people have their own opinions but
se-riously keep them to your-self. When I was 3-years old I was
attacked by a small dog, but heaven for-bid that a little dog would
be considered a vicious animal but pit bulls are au-tomatically
pegged to be the worst animal. German Shepards, Rottweilers, and
other big dogs are just as aggressive when trained to be, so again
my ques-tion is why this breed. My vicious pit bull is cuddly,
lovable, well trained and is amazing around children. People get
this idea of being untrustworthy and destructive from people
training and ghting pit bulls to their death. So my nal statement
about this discussion is, Its how YOU train your animal not how the
breed is interpreted. If you train your animal to be vicious, bite,
bark, ght, ect thats exactly how your animal will behave. This
article is written for all the proud pit bull owners out there,
that love and care for their dog!
A HUGE GARLAND of Sham-rocks and Lotus owers and thank yous to
Blarney and Spice, their team of volunteers, their sponsors and the
sold-out crowd for a fabulous May Day Magi-cal evening in support
of Dawn to Dawn and home-less citizens of the valley. Their support
is very much appreciated and will help Dawn to Dawn continue its
housing program.
THE WORLD OWES ME A LIV-ING, NO IT DOES NOT. In most of the
world if you dont work you dont eat. We are fortunate to live in a
coun-try that has many pro-grams to provide income. I am on CPP
disability and they were very helpful. But if I had not saved I
would
be in trouble providing ba-sic needs. The private in-surance
companies tried everything not to pay, hoping I would die. Just
because your ancestors had a tough life doesnt mean you can use
that as a crutch and not make an ef-fort to adjust and be a good
citizen. Let us be thankful for where and how we live. Canada is
not perfect but I would not want to live any-where else.
MANY BRIGHTLY COLOURED bouquets to the local busi-nesses who
helped out with Ladies Night at Cen-tral Builders this year.
Thrifty Foods, Grains Bakery, Roots the Salon, Rattan Plus, Sun
Kissed Beauty Bar and Relay Rentals all kindly donated to the
event, helping us raise money for Y.A.N.A. and NUKOs Comox Val-ley
Learning Centre. As well, Streamline Quality Paintworks and
Peaceful Hearts donated their time and did great demos for the
ladies. We would also like to thank all of our staff who
volunteered to help out with the night. Lastly, we would love to
thank the ladies who came out to the event; your smiles and
compliments made the night a fun and positive experience.
MY PARTNER HAS WORKED hard at turning an ugly yard into a
showcase of beautiful owers. Why people think its OK to steal owers
is beyond me, including a father who did it right in front of his
little girl. This month weve had tulips, daff odils, and today a
giant allium was picked, right when it came into full bloom. Maybe
its time to install video cameras or barbed wire. Shame on you
vandals. - Disgusted in Courtenay.
TO ALL WHO MADE the Car Wash Fundraiser for Tia
Lawrence a huge success, THANK YOU! A special thanks to all the
volun-teers who washed cars and donated baked goods, to Westview
Ford for facili-tating and everyone who came out for a car wash and
a hot dog. It was a great day and over $1700 was raised for
Tia!
TO ALL THE DEAREST ladies
I have volunteered with at the Colpo clinic, thank you so very
much for your ded-ication, professionalism and team spirit over the
many years. I will miss my Tuesdays with all of you.
GENEROSITY and kind-ness comes in diff erent packages. This very
heavy package was in the form of 2 truckloads of gravel do-nated to
the Comox Valley Food Bank by Cumberland Sand & Gravel. It was
then hauled by Kevin from K&L Trucking and spread by Nik
Wiesselmann of Niks Concrete Finishing who used his Bobcat to nish
the job. While we usually encourage the donation of nutritious
contents for our popular hamper program, sometimes infrastruc-ture
also needs attention. Buckets of thanks to all who made this
donation happen!
THE SOROPTIMIST Interna-tional club of Courtenay would like to
thank the fol-lowing for their support of our Dream It Be It career
support for Girls: Sid Wil-liams Theatre, Packables, Quality Foods,
Superstore, Johns, and Costco. Our YES YOU Can Mentoring Day has
received wonder-ful support for a number of years, Thank You.
BOUQUETS to BC Hydro for adjusting Comox Lake water releases to
react to changes in the watershed. Thanks so much to those informed
folks who write letters, attend public meet-
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regional directors, Mr. Jo-liff e, Mr Nicholl and Mr. Grieve for
your strongly worded support at the CVRD board meeting this week in
favor of maintain-ing the current parks de-partment regulations
re-garding greenways in the valley. Thanks speci cally for your
emphatic rejec-tion of the proposed ATV use on the
Royston-Cum-berland Greenway and your unanimous agree-ment that it
should re-main for recreational and non-motorized use only. The
local walkers, cy-clists and horseback rid-ers thank you very much
for protecting the only greenway we have in the south end of the
whole valley - compared to over 10 in Courtenay, Comox and
immediately north of town. Now how about get-ting title on the wood
lot land and the Timberwest land adjacent to the green way and
having that des-ignated greenway too?
WHATS WITH the CVRD? They want our money for a homeless
initiative but refuse to tell us what the money will be spent on.
They tell us they are not obligated to record their proceedings or
votes for the public. What happened to the provincial audit that
was completed almost a year ago. Why do they not have a
responsibility to taxpayers to be transpar-ent and accountable. Is
this the Comox Valley or Communist China?
A BIG, COLOURFUL bouquet
to the kind hearted lady who was parked beside me at the Spit
one night after dark. I was having a hu-man moment, was clearly
very upset and you tapped on my car window to make sure I was
alright. I didnt express it at the time, but I was truly touched by
your compassion and ap-
preciated the gesture. In a world of disconnected passers-by,
thanks for be-ing human too...hugs to you!
BIG BEEF to all the cyclists on Headquarters Road who ride two
abreast. You are the ones breaking the law, as said in the Motor
Vehicle Act section 183, 2, D: A cyclist must not ride abreast of
another person operating a cycle on the road way. Stop feeling
entitled and taking up the entire road. You are making it harder
for cars behind you to pass, espe-cially when there is anoth-er car
coming at the speed limit of 80km/h or faster as some people speed
on the busy Headquarters Road. A motor vehicle weighs a lot more
than a bicycle and they can not maneuver as quickly as a bicycle
can. So please cy-clists follow the rules of the road before there
is an accident!
I FULLY AGREE with the Courtenay councillors and city staff that
they do not have the scienti c expertise or knowledge to make any
decisions on the GE issue and it would be a waste of time and
re-sources to make an an at-tempt to do so. However I think that
they may have no choice in the matter as they have already
commit-ted themselves to being in favour of this resolution and
committed the city to take some sort of action when their
representative Ronna Ray Leonard voted in favour of the initiative
at the BC Union of Munic-ipalities meeting in 2013.
TO THE SWEET BOY on Noot-
ka Street that brought in everyones garbage cans - you are an
awesome kid and your random act of kindness didnt go
unno-ticed!
A BOUQUET for Oscar! All the employees at the Courtenay Canadian
Tire Store are helpful, but Os-car deserves to be singled out
because he goes that extra mile for his custom-ers. He did that for
me recently and it was very much appreciated!
BIG SIGN BEEF to whom-
ever designed/imple-mented our combined city welcome sign (only
one!) posted on our new highway. The Welcome to Comox, Courtenay
& Cumberland sign on our highway is not only way too far from
our actual exit on the highway off ramp coming into our city, but
it is very small! I understand that signs are expensive, but this
is the one and only shot you have to an-nounce they are
approach-ing our beautiful Comox Valley! First impressions are
lasting impressions... many people have actu-ally missed our exit
off the highway as it is not well-lit or well announced. Place an
airplane out by the highway to announce our valleys air base, or
place a large hiking/skiing sign or statue to show any poten-tial
investors, visitors, etc, Hey, you wanna stop by here because our
Comox Valley is the best place on earth! I dont know about you, but
when it comes to signage, Nanaimo and Parksville beat us hands
down...
POSTER BEEFS to those people who are adver-tising huge signs on
the highway; not signage for directions, rather, just commercial
ads! Driving into Nanaimo along the highway are many, many
advertising signs that not only catch your attention but take your
attention away from the road! In this day and age when we are
enforcing more atten-
tion on our driving, such as, no hands phoning, tex-ting,
eating, or searching for lost item on the oor of the passenger side
oor, shouldnt we be as respon-sible when it comes to un-necessary
advertisements along a busy highway just to sell a burger or day of
golf? It seems that some ministry of transportation offi cials feel
this is worth the distraction...
TO THE PERSON in the sil-ver Mazda sedan, who just after 7 a.m.
on Saturday May 9 was throwing beer cans into Millard Nature Park
out the window of their car on An eld. There is simply no justi
able reason for doing so. Either youre just a really trashy,
disrespectful person, or you have a serious alco-hol problem youre
trying to hide by littering your cans, so either smarten up
litterbug or get some help alcoholic. Next time I wont be so
shocked and Ill shoot video instead of just calling out to you to
have you look at me in your sideview, throw one more can and take
off . Jerk.
A HUGE BOUQUET of multi-cultural owers to Jin Lin and her
amazing team of volunteers from the Co-mox Valley Multicultural
Society for bringing in the Impressive Dance troupe from Taiwan.
These in-credibly talented universi-ty students gave us a var-ied
and entertaining night of dance and musical the-atre that ran the
range of beauty, tragedy, comic, and athletic prowess. The
beautiful girls and hand-some young men changed their costumes
throughout the evening and explained what each dance repre-sented.
The audience real-ly enjoyed the show and it was a great cultural
expe-rience. Another wonderful
HERES HOW IT WORKS!Our weekly feature, Beefs and Bouquets, is
intended to be a light-hearted forum for you, our readers, to
express brief views on issues and events in your lives.Its not
intended to hurt people or make unsubstantiated and libelous
comments.Names wont be published with the beefs and bouquets;
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THE COMOX VALLEY CHIL-DRENS Choir would like to throw heaps of
owers off the stage to many mem-bers of our community- with thanks
for a fantastic choir year! To all the vol-unteer parents who
helped in myriad ways: thank you! To all the family & community
members who attended our concerts: thanks! To the many citi-zens
who supported our fundraisers: thank you! To each and every
talented singer: thanks! To other musicians, choirs & choir
directors who have helped us build our community pro le and
included us in your events: thank you! And nally, to our volun-teer
Board of Directors who run the choir as a so-ciety: THANK YOU! We
look forward to making more sweet music with the children in the
fall!
A BEAUTIFUL BOUQUET of peaceful paths to the three
way to celebrate Courte-nays Centennial Celebra-tions. Thanks
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Turning clay into beau-tiful hand-crafted objects is a specialty
on Denman Island, and nine unique venues will be showcasing
extraordinary local talent this weekend, May 16th and 17th.
An incredible variety of exciting forms, styles and decorative
techniques makes this communitys annual spring pottery stu-dio tour
a cultural high-light in the region.
From stunning wood- red vases and hand-painted casseroles, to
beautiful, one-of-a-kind coff ee mugs and decora-tive sculpture for
home and garden, there is something to be found on this special
tour to suit every taste!
The sculpture of a young Pan sits cross-legged with ute in hand,
ready to play under the towering r trees that surround LeBaron
Studio.
Forest nymphs beckon, and a new bevvy of clay goddesses holds
court in the company of mythical animals.
Potter Bentley LeBaron dwells in that magical place between the
worlds where tawny dragons rule supreme and shiny black ravens
taunt long-whis-
kered cats! Other recent ceramic
works include a mag-ni cent polar bear, and elegant, smoke- red
pots.
LeBaron has hand-bur-nished some of his vessel forms to result
in a shiny, nished surface without any glaze application
whatsoever.
The showroom at Beardsley Pottery is also highly acclaimed for
the vast array of forms and decorative techniques that can be found
there.
Exciting new pieces by Scott Beardsley on dis-play over the tour
week-end include large platters and lidded casseroles embellished
with carved and/or bas relief gures circling the rims.
Chocolate brown vases overlaid with a beautiful turquoise and
taupe-col-ored crawl glaze are also recent additions.
Garnet Beardsleys steady hand paints the most delicately
detailed underglaze drawings.
Her rolling mountain and forest vistas adorn lidded pots, mugs,
vases and casseroles alongside her trade-mark chicka-dees.
Exploring Denman Island over the tour week-
Tour the pottery studios of Denman
Denman Island potter Bentley LeBaron with Pan
Photo by Fireweed
end is a lot like a treasure hunt!
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CROWN ISLE LADIES PIN DAY
On yet another gorgeous day in the Comox Valley, a full
contingent of Crown Isle Ladies played a PIN DAY with low gross,
low net and putts recorded.
Points were also amassed for the Club Team Championship be-ing
held at Storey Creek on June 8th. Check this column next week for
the girls who will be rep-resenting Crown Isle at Storey Creek.
AND THE WINNERS ARE:
1st low net: Katy Macaulay 67 2nd low net: Mathilde Schneider 70
3rd low net: Eileen Wallis 72
1st low gross: Dee Horie 78 2nd low gross: Sue Fulkerth 85 3rd
low gross: Sheila van Gisbergen 87
Lowest putts: Jenny Steel 30 2nd lowest putts (tie): Helen Flynn
and Sandy Dudley 31
KP#4: Dee Horie and KP#12: Anne Kostiuk
The birdies were busy on the course today with Katy, May, Helen,
Ma-thilde, and Rosemary all sharing the pot.
PAR 5s were won by Linda Stickney and Judy Constantino.
A great group of ladies went to Arrowsmith Golf course. Pat J,
Judy C,Judy A, Anne S, Jan M, Julie T, Evie M., Gwen R., Val D and
Selma Cole all sup-ported the Field Day. Congrats to Selma who just
got married in Morro Bay California this winter! All of the ladies
had a won-derful time and brought back some prizes!
Some Crown Isle ladies golfed in the Mothers Day Tournament at
Comox Golf course. Dee, Katy, Jenny, Sandy L, Sheila V, Judy P, Ev
S, and Audrey C again brought home
some loot. Our Crown Isle ladies are something else!
Kudos to Sandy Linhart who is organizing the Match play for
Crown Isle with Storey Creek, Gla-cier Greens, Sunnydale, Myrtle
Point and Comox all participating. In the rst match play, Crown
Isle won 2 of 3 matches against Glacier Greens. Well done
ladies!
The Dawn Coe Jones play for handicaps 15 and under got off to a
won-derful start with Raelene Robertson from Crown Isle winning low
gross out of 24 ladies. Others who took part are Judy, Katy, Dee,
Sheila, Carol and Sue.
Dont forget to wear bright golf attire for the rst Spring Into
Golf la-dies night at Crown Isle on May 27th. Should be a fun lled
evening of golf, food, wine and prizes.
The Q School for the PGA Tour Canada was a rip roaring sucess
with all the participants raving about the Crown Isle fa-cility,
golf course and the surrounding Comox Val-ley. Are you kidding me?
Of course they would be raving - what more could you want in a
town!
Many thanks to all the tireless volunteers.
- Submitted by Donna Cunliffe
SUNNYDALE TUESDAY LADIES GOLF CLUB
Now that the recently aerated greens have re-covered and the
fairways are manicured, the gals scores are dropping quick-ly, and
its still very early in our gol ng season.
Tuesday, May 12th was the rst day the ball was played as it lies
and it didnt seem to negatively impact scores. Teri Sleigh shot a
Low Gross of 86 and claims she left putts
on the green. Vicki Bom-bini was the Low Net win-ner with
70.
Other Low Gross win-ners were Lois Westbrook (89), Lori
Appleyard (92), Linda Broadbent and Trish Heyland (93) and Joan
Brown (94).
Low Net Runner Ups were Becky Kenner (71), Sandra Galloway (72)
and BarryAnn Bury, Kathie Raid and Fran Shaw (73). Sandra Gallaway
had the Lowest Putts of the day with 26 while Lois West-brook
recorded the Lon-gest Putt on #9.
KP winners were Dar-lene Clark (Rob Speer Pro Shop Hole #10),
Barb Dixson (#15), Chris An-nand (#5 2nd shot for 25+ Hcp).
Six of us participated in Zone 6 Match Play in Comox last week
and 1/3 of our team won their matches. We are current-ly canvassing
with our members to resurrect club Match Play.
Hopefully, more people will be involved in Match Play both at
our own course and in the Zone 6 competitions.
Finally, 9 Hole Ladies Golf will commence next
Tuesday, May 19th at 9:00 am. Newcomers and mem-bers are all
welcome.
THURSDAYNIGHT LADIES GOLF CLUB
Sunnydale Thursday Night Ladies May 8th was the start of our
season. It was a great evening with a good turnout. Welcome to the
new ladies, Les-lie, Wendy, Peggy C and Colleen. Hole prizes were
given to: Maylene Friesen for longest drive on #6. Diane Bowley won
longest putt on #9.
Coral Tanner had the most shots out of the sandtrap on #2. Wendy
Christie was closest to the pin 3rd shot on #5. Mari-lyn Curley,
Jenny Lavery and Irma Derkson were closest to the rock on #4.
Corinne Innes was clos-est to the pin 2nd shot on #3. Louise Smiley
and the lowest putts and Erica Roy was the most honest golfer.
Weekly prize winners:Robs Pro Shop -
Corinne InnesBoston Pizza - Maylene
FriesenFluids Bar & Grill -Di-
ane BowleyGreat Canadian Oil
Change/Car Wash - Mo-nique Walker
Investors Group Janet Gee/Locals Restaurant -Coral Tanner
Investors Group Keith Gibson - Mary Lynn Dou-binin
Jo Klassens Grill - Peg-gy Ferguson & Cathy Hamilton
Michaels Off Main - Marilyn Curley
Panago Pizza Comox -Jenny Lavery & Wendy Christie
Plates Eatery - Cheryl Sellers
Rhodos Coff ee - Peggy Cummins
Subway - Leslie BirdUnion Street Grill - Col-
leen RobsonWhistle Stop Pub - Ar-
denne LarrisonSocks - Deb McMahonGolf Glove - Fran
Wright- Submitted by Mary Lynn
Doubinin
GREAT DAY FOR GLACIER GREENS MEN
On Saturday May 9th ninety-eight players took advantage of a
great day of sunshine, no wind and warm temps. It was a great day
of golf. The course is in as good a shape as the
weather and the scoreswere the same.
HCP 0-11 1st Low Gross: Jeff Ed-
wards 74 c/b, 2nd FabianMcCarty 75 c/b, 3rd Ter-ran Berger
75.
1st Low Net: Carl Web-ber 65, 2nd Rod Cobham67, 3rd Dave Osborne
69.
SNIPS: # 3 & # 17 CarlWebber, # 6 Jeff Edwards,# 7 Darrell
Fieber, # 14Terran Berger, # 15(POG)Mike Berger.
HCP 12-171st Low Gross: Wayne
Ogilvie 78, 2nd Mike Pol-lock 79, 3rd Gilles Raiche80.
1st Low Net: WallyBerger 63, 2nd GaryMacGregor 65, 3rd RossDowe
66.
SNIPS: # 2 & # 17 Wal-ly Berger, # 6 Gilles Ra-iche, # 10
Jim Larocque,# 11 Steve Blacklock, #12(POG) Keith Allan, # 16Wayne
Ogilvie.
HCP 18+1st Low Gross: Henry
Bonde 80, 2nd Joe Dun-ham 88 c/b, 3rd GlenMeeres 88.
1st Low Net: John Hol-ley 64, 2nd Doug Mann 65c/b, 3rd Reg
Meeres 65.
SNIPS: #4 Gary Wood,#6 Henry Bonde, #7 ElmoGuinan, #10 Dave
Char-trand, #12 (POG) LenDoyle, #17 Dave Buckley-Jones
Saturday was Bill Chi-kis 85th Birthday. Con-grats Bill.
Remember its tee timestill 8:30 then reverse shot-gun. Remember
its justa game and have fun, tillnext week see ya.
- Submitted by Ron Carter
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEN AT COMOX GOLF
50 golfers played 9 holesof Stableford on a pristineWednesday
evening withthe following results.
1st Dave Wood (25 pts),2nd Jim Slater (23 pts), 3rdBill Wheeldon
(22 pts)
4th Martin Hegg (22pts), 5th Dave Wheeldon(21 pts), 6th Ken
Loga(21pts)
Hole Prizes:(Continued on page 19)
THE POPULAR 5 MAN SCRAMBLE FORMAT was played at Sunnydale on
Sunday morning, April 26th, with a spot in the Zone 6 Final
Scramble to be played at Glacier Greens on the line. The team of
Jon Hu-isman, Doug Rushton, Silvio Albertia, Jim Johnson and Bill
Armstrong were victorious and will represent
Sunnydale Golf Club the next weekend. Prizes were awarded from
40 Knots Winery ($20.00 Gift Certifi -cate), Rob Speer Pro Shop
(sleeve of balls) and Car Star (shirt). Regular Golf resumes on
Sunday morn-ing - Breakfast at 7:30 and a Shotgun Start at 8:30
a.m. - Submitted by Dan Woods
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#12 Long Drive 0 -16 Nick Usher, Mens Club
#13 2nd shot (All) Rob Burrows, Westview Ford Sales
#14 KP(All), Brodie Hornstein, Mens Club
#16 Long Drive 17+ Ken Simmons, Mens Club
#17 2nd shot KP 17+ Darren Lloyd Jones,
Thriftys#18 KP (All) Ken Loga,
Mens ClubDeuces shot by Terry
Christie #14, Ken Loga #18
Snips achieved by Rob Burrows #17, Jim Slater #12,
Terry Christie #14, Bill Wheeldon #15, Ken Loga #18
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An impressive selec-tion of stately vases, serv-ing platters,
and unique square plates with curved sides will also be found in
Dennis showroom along-side large mixing bowls in earthen tones, and
small dessert dishes decorated with an exciting new pur-plish blue
glaze.
Master potter Gordon Hutchens, Hanne Chris-tensen, Shirley
Phillips, Dante Ambriel and Marjo Van Tooren are also look-ing
forward to welcoming visitors between 10 am
and 5 pm daily both Satur-day and Sunday.
Pick up your free map to the self-guided adventure at the
Buckley Bay ferry booth, or at the Denman Arts Centre gallery where
a special exhibition will feature examples of work by each of the
artists par-ticipating on Denmans 28th annual tour! Maps are also
available on the island at Abraxas Books, the General Store, and
the Denman Craft Shop.
For a colorful sneak preview please visit
www.denmanpottery2015.blog-spot.ca
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In anticipation of their upcoming June exami-nations in Speech
and Drama administered by Trinity College London, a talented group
of local young performers are de-lighted to share parts of their
repertoires in a spe-cial performance on Tues-day, May 19th at
Courte-nay Little Theatres Space
(1625 McPhee Avenue, Courtenay).
Members of the public are warmly welcomed to this More than a
Meet-ing, beginning at 7 PM with a social time, a short meeting at
7:15 PM, fol-lowed by the Speech Arts performances.
What do we mean when we say Speech Arts?
Most people mistakenly think that it is the art of making
speeches but modern Speech Arts has evolved from what was known as
elocution years ago to a combina-tion of voice and acting
training.
Two local Speech Arts instructors, Eleanor Phil-lips and Val
Macdonald,
work with young students to develop their speaking voices and
acting skills through the use of po-etry, prose, monologues,
improvisation, mime, and other techniques.
The Comox Valley is known province-wide for its excellent Speech
Arts program, as students participate in the local North Island
Festival of Performing Arts, with top achievers going on to the
Performing Arts BCs pro-vincial festival.
This year, the provin-cials are being held in Powell River from
May 26th to 30th.
Several of the students who are performing on May 19th are also
com-peting at provincials in Speech Arts, including So-phia
Johnson, Kaya Hund, Annemarie Taylor, and Monique Collins, plus
Jes-sica Wood and Bokyung Kim who will be observ-ers.
Audience members will be thoroughly entertained by the wide
range of ma-terial in this one hour pre-sentation.
Admission is by dona-tion at the door for this popular
event.
For more informa-tion about Speech Arts instruction, contact Val
Macdonald at [email protected]
Local Speech Arts student, Kaya Hund, will portray Lucy van Pelt
from Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown as part of her performance at
Courtenay Little Theatres More than a Meeting on Tues. May 19th.
(Photo by Tim Penney).
Talented speech arts students performat Little Theatres More
than a Meeting
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