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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

We started out once a week, and now were going back to where we started.

The Tuesday edition of the Comox Valley Echo, the one with the 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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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* 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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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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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-

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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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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 introduced to the fl eet.

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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, including the Enough Art Lets Eat show at the Comox Val-ley Art Gallery and the Cumberland Community Forest Societys Persever-ance Party for the Forest (where they won the chili cook-off ).

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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 mightbe hard to remember theyre justbarely two years old. But with Ug-lanicas drive, it will be interesting to see what they do next, and the extent to which their contribution to the food community helps usher in change.

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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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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!

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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.

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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?

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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; however, we do need your full name, mailing address and tele-phone number for verifi cation purposes.Each week someone will win a 2 Classic Cheese Basket Meals from Dairy Queen. Have fun with this!

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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!

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www.comoxvalleyecho.comFRIDAY. MAY 15, 2015 17

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!

Winding down Tom Dennis meandering

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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.

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FriesenFluids Bar & Grill -Di-

ane BowleyGreat Canadian Oil

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Michaels Off Main - Marilyn Curley

Panago Pizza Comox -Jenny Lavery & Wendy Christie

Plates Eatery - Cheryl Sellers

Rhodos Coff ee - Peggy Cummins

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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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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).

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