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On The Rocks Climbing Gym in Campbell River hosted an ‘Endless Summer Beach Climbing Party’ event on Feb. 1 to raise funds for the KidStart Mentoring Program. The evening included beach volleyball, a barbecue and ‘night climbing’ - individuals donned head lamps and climbed in the dark. The event raised $655.
Ian Graham, On the Rocks owner/man-ager, said the goal of the fundraiser was to give young people in Campbell River the opportunity to experience recreational activities like climbing.
“Through The John Howard Society of North Island’s KidStart program, young people can gain access to activities that they might never have the chance to try otherwise. The confidence and trust that are an integral part of climbing are valu-able qualities that hopefully these youth will develop,” said Graham.
Graham went on to say that developing such positive qualities can help youth move forward in many areas of their lives.
KidStart is a volunteer-based mentoring program that connects caring adults with children and youth ages 6-18 for three hours of recreational fun per week. This award winning program is funded solely by donations, fundraising, and gaming funds.
Each child in KidStart has experiences that indicate their need for support. The loss of a family member, challenges at school, or stresses at home are all reasons that a child will be identified as needing a supportive adult friend.
“We are grateful to On the Rocks and the climbers who participated in this fund-raiser. Their generosity - and the generos-ity of everyone supporting KidStart - is making a significant difference in the lives of local children and youth,” said Steve Ayers, Campbell River KidStart Manager.
To find out more about KidStart, con-tact Campbell River KidStart Coordinator Tara Jordan at 250-286-0611 or [email protected].
On the Rocks Climbing Gym helps KidStart
Photo submittedIan Graham (left) from On the Rocks Climbing Gym and Dan Clements (right) from Outdoor Addictions present a $655 donation cheque to Leanne McIntee from The John Howard Society of North Island.
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The number one volume deal-er in Campbell River is over-stocked again with used car inventory and will be selling used cars and trucks for as low as seventy-seven dollars and up Saturday, March 8, 2014. Rain or shine.
Steve Somerset, General Sales Manager for Bill Howich Chrysler, announced plans to hold the 22nd Annual used car and truck event with used vehicles starting at seventy-seven dollars and up Saturday, March 8, 2014. According to Mr. Somerset, sales from the last few months have resulted in an extra amount of used cars and trucks. “In the last few months we have increased our used inventory at a tremendous rate. Now we need to reduce the number of cars and trucks on our lot. During this seventy-seven dollar sale every used car and truck will be sold for hun-dreds to thousands below the original price.” Mr. Somerset said, “Our customers should find these prices as low as auc-tion prices in many cases.”
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Here, every used car and truck is on sale. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED AND NO BIDDING. It’s the perfect opportunity to get a goodquality used product at the lowest price possible, includ-ing cars for only seventy-seven dollars. All cars and trucks will be on display at 2777 North Island Highway, Campbell River. At 8:30 a.m. all vehicles will be opened so that buy-ers may inspect the vehicles for one hour before the salebegins at 9:30 a.m. Whomever is sitting behind the wheel at 9:30 a.m. when the prices are DRASTICALLY REDUCED on the windshield will be given first opportunity to purchase the vehicle at the DRASTICALLY REDUCED price. This innova-tive approach to selling used vehicles will make it easy and quick for anybody in the mar-ket to own a good used car or truck at a very low price with no hassle.
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“Since we are a local business, we would like to give back to the community,” Mr. Somerset said. “We would rather allow local people to buy these vehi-cles than wholesale them at an auction.”
Any questions can be direct-ed-to 1-877-280-9555 or 250-287-9555. Bill Howich Chrysler opens at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 8, 2014, and the sale starts at 9:30 a.m. SHARP! Buyers must be 19 years or older with a valid driver’s license.
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There’s much to look forward to in the com-ing summer fishing season around southern BC but one of the potential highlight features is the return of sockeye salmon to the Fraser River. Note the caveat of the word potential, for there are no sure bets when looking ahead with sal-mon these days and this cautionary perspective seems to apply especially to Fraser sockeye in the past couple of decades. However the recently released 2014 forecast is of a size that even if it only came in at half the projections we would still have some good fishing for these prized salmon.
The phrase “Fraser sockeye” gets used in the media as though they are one monolithic stock but the reality is that there is a lot of complexity built into those two words. That should come as no surprise given the enormous area sock-eye inhabit in this watershed and there are over eighty individual sockeye stocks that comprise the Fraser aggregate. Each of these is categor-ized for management purposes in four main run-timing (entry into the river) groups – Early Stuart, Early Summer, Summer and Late.
One distinctive feature of sockeye salmon is what is called cyclical dominance, which means that, all other factors like marine survival notwithstanding, not every year generates the same abundance of fish. This relates to another distinctive feature of this salmon species as most stocks spend a year or so rearing in a lake before migrating to sea and it is thought the lake environment can’t sustain a large number of sockeye fry each and every year, needing a few years of lower demand - less sockeye fry - for the lake ecosystem to recover its maximum
productivity.The majority of sockeye stocks
are four-year old fish when they mature, although there are some age-five’s and a few age-three’s, notably the Harrison River stock which unusually has evolved to rear in the river without a lake residency before migrating to sea, in effect a year early.
This background is useful to consider when thinking about the 2014 forecast because perhaps more importantly than with any other salmon species the brood year has big implications for the return year and of course 2010 was a special brood year, that of the “big-gest return in a 100 years” as it was frequently described in the media then.
Because on their homeward journey some Fraser sockeye migrate through the southern side of Juan de Fuca Strait and are caught in US as well as Canadian waters, management of these fish is one of the cornerstones of the joint Pacific Salmon Treaty. Thus DFO staff work in conjunction with Salmon Commission staff when making determinations about these fish and one key piece of information is the pre-sea-son forecast.
Before looking at the 2014 forecast it is worth having a quick look back at the 2010 fore-cast and what actually occurred. These forecasts are given a percentage probability that the run size will be below a certain number so the higher the possible return number of fish the higher the probability it will be less than the amount given.
The pre-season forecasts are given a range of probabilities all the way from 10 per cent (low number of sockeye) to 90 per cent (very high number) but for pre-season planning purposes the 50 per cent probability number is used.
In 2010 the 50 per cent prob-ability number for the aggregate (all run-timing groups) was about 11.5 million sockeye and the 90 per cent probability number was nearly 29 million. As we found out, nature beat the one in 10 odds
and easily exceeded even that very large amount, with the run-size (catch plus escapement) estimated in-season at 34.5 million sockeye. Fishermen of all kinds had a bonanza, with a commercial catch in Canada alone of 10.45 mil-lion sockeye.
So, to the 2014 pre-season forecast. At 23 million sockeye the 50 per cent probability forecast is more than twice the 2010 forecast at the same level, with the 90 per cent probability number this year estimated at 72.5 million! At this upper end the calculations start to range out-side of those encountered before and so the con-fidence level in the predictions must be a little less than usual, however there’s many decades of experience by those who develop the forecast and the data is the data…
The starting place for the 2014 pre-season forecast is the spawning grounds in 2010, with between 15 and 16 million sockeye assessed in the escapement estimates. Conditions were favourable with good egg-to fry and then fry-
to-smolt survival, about 55 million from Chilko Lake alone. The smolts from the dominant age-four maturing sockeye migrated out in 2012, with the leading indicators suggesting favourable conditions in the critical first few months at sea.
The coho and pink salmon from around the southern BC coast that went to sea in 2012 and returned in 2013 did well overall, in the case of pink salmon very well - a record return to the Quinsam River, the biggest return in over 50 years to the Squamish and a 26 million pink return to the Fraser to cite but a few examples. Coho were proportionately less strong but clearly the 2013 return year was the best in some time and broadly showed the rebuilding trend for these salmon is continuing. It seems reasonable to hope that the young sockeye fared as well as these other salmon species and we can only fur-ther hope they then found decent feeding on the high seas.
It’s worth mentioning that Fraser sockeye aren’t the only stock that has a strong pre-season forecast, for the return to the Stamp/Somass watershed near Port Alberni might be very large as well. There was a record return of jacks, pre-cocious males, in 2013, the number of which is often taken as an indicator of how a given year class survived in the first months at sea. Alberni Inlet might be a place to go to catch some early summer sockeye before the Fraser fish start to show.
It’s early days yet and fishermen shouldn’t let their expectations get too out of hand, all the same if the pre-season forecasts come in even remotely on target the summer of 2014 could be one to remember!
2014 could be the year of the salmon
Humanity’s incomparable degrada-tion of our planet’s environment con-tinues unabated. Despite the inevit-able severity of the consequences, we seem incapable of stopping the process, even though the causes have been exhaustively documented by a consensus of many scientists from multiple disciplines and the media have publicized the alarms in lurid detail. So we know what we’re doing wrong. Why, then, don’t we change our behaviour? This perplexing ques-tion is being answered by the psychia-trist and writer, Iain McGilchrist.
McGilchrist’s book is The Master
and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. The title is derived from a story told by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). Neitzsche’s story recounts a small but prosperous realm that is ruled by a wise master who governs his people with selfless devotion. As his realm prospers and expands, the master realizes he needs emis-
saries to communicate with its distant parts. So he carefully selects and trains his representatives so they can be entrusted with this special duty. Eventually, however, the most clever and ambi-tious of these emissaries becomes contemptu-ous of the real master, begins presenting him-self as him, and finally usurps power. With
the master deposed, the people are incompetently ruled, tyranny replaces
wisdom, and the realm soon collapses in ruin.
McGilchrist’s uses Nietzsche’s story as a metaphor to illustrate the recent dominance in Western culture of the left hemisphere of our brain (the emissary) over the right hemi-sphere (the master). As the influence of the West spreads to the entire planet, the characteristics of the left hemisphere, as identified by the latest neurological research, are amplified to global proportions. The escalat-ing environmental damage of climate change, ocean acidification, species loss, water shortage, soil exhaustion,
resource depletion and ubiquitous pollution may be sufficient to
See Grigg on page 6.
Of Two Minds - Part 1 of 3: The Divided HemispheresShades of GreenRay Grigg
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Anatomically, the thinking part of our brain, the cerebral cortex, is composed of two structurally and functionally distinct hemispheres connected by a collection of neurons known as the corpus callosum — just a few million neurons that have the contradictory function of both linking and separating the two hemi-spheres. Both hemispheres process language, imagery, reason and emo-tion, but they do so differently, inte-grating these differences to give our conscious thinking the impression of seamless awareness.
The right hemisphere understands language imaginatively, symbolically and metaphorically. Thus, it is the seat of poetry, music, creativity, aes-thetics and intuition. It gives us our sense of beauty, mystery, empathy and humour. It is able to accom-modate ambiguity and paradox. It can process innuendo, subtlety and irony. It is comfortable with the implicit and nuanced. Because the right hemisphere can accommodate uncertainties, contradictions and unresolved complexities, it tends to
be wary, critical, fluid and open, con-stantly in search of interconnections, patterns and meaning as it gathers insights and places them in perspec-tive. It tends to understand immedi-ately and holistically, possessing an integrating function able to grasp the context in which details belong. As the recipient of direct or primary sen-sory experience — “presentation” — the right hemisphere is more closely connected to reality than the left hemisphere, which receives experi-ence through indirect or secondary input — “representation”.
The left hemisphere specializes in the literal and explicit meaning of language, in being logical, pre-cise and detailed. It focuses on the present and immediate. Its strength is in manipulation and control, with interest in identifying and completing tasks. Such short term goals make it inherently optimistic. Its attention is localized, without the perspective that understands how those tasks fit into a larger design — it is better at solving problems than pondering the strategic wisdom of addressing those problems.
McGilchrist argues that the vital-ity and viability of cultures are very
much determined by the relationship between these two hemispheres. When Western history has held them in functional equilibrium, then phil-osophy, creativity, art, learning and practical accomplishments have all flourished. When the left hemisphere is dominant, then this history has exhibited signs of being rigid, dog-matic, narrow, fragmented, discord-ant and even self-destructive.
That we live in a culture domin-ated by left hemisphere thinking, according to McGilchrist, warrants close examination. The narrow and rational way it functions tends to habituate behaviour. Its literal inter-pretation of language tends to rigid-ify thinking into dogmas, routines, simplicities and certainties. Without a grasp of context or a sense of per-spective, this mode of thinking has difficulty plotting broad strategies and initiating major changes. A prob-lem that requires a paradigm shift in understanding and behaviour is extremely challenging for this hemi-sphere because it lacks the breadth to comprehend outside the confines of its limited capabilities.
When these two hemispheres are in balance, according to McGilchrist,
cultures flourish — classical Greece and early Rome being prime examples. Since the Renaissance ended about 500 years ago, McGilchrist contends, left hemisphere dominance has been rapidly increas-ing. He cites particularly dramatic increases in its predominance dur-ing the 16th century’s Reformation (a literal reading of the Bible); the ascent of objectivity during the 17th century’s Age of Science (empirical evidence as the measure of know-ledge); the extolling of reason during the 18th century’s Enlightenment (a rational mind as the only legitim-ate means of understanding), the staggering material advances of the 19th century’s Industrial Revolution (the translation of reason into mech-anization) and, finally, the incred-ible ingenuity of the 20th century’s Technological Age (the marriage of science and machines with its prolif-eration of novel products).
So this brings us to the present, to an exploration of the pressing environmental problems we now face, and to an exploration of why our style of thinking makes these problems so difficult to solve. Next week, Part 2 of 3.
On Saturday, March 8, at Timberline Secondary School, the North Island Highland Dance Association will be hosting the 36th Annual Highland Dance Competition.
Come out and support some of our talented local dancers as well as provin-cially and nationally ranked dancers from all over the Island.
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FMI: 250-218-1688.COMOX GLACIER WANDERERS • Join the Wanderers every Tues. to Fri at the South East end of the Comox Mall, near Travel Agent. Walk starts at 9 a.m. sharp. Experience the picturesque Filberg Park, Mac Laing woods, beach town of Comox etc. FMI: Karen Fraser 250-890-0608KNITTING FUN AT THE COMOX LIBRARY • Our new kitting group, A Good Yarn: Knitting & Crochet Circle, warmly invites people of any age and ability to join our weekly meet-ings at the Comox Library, 1720 Beaufort Ave. on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. Attendance is free and no registration is required. For more information please con-tact the library at 250-339-2971, [email protected], or visit the website at: www.virl.bc.ca.DROP-IN, ONE HOUR MEDITATION • Drop-In meditation, every Tuesday 7PM sharp, Ocean Resort in Oyster Bay, $$donations to CV and CR food banks, 250 792-3165.ROYAL PURPLE DROP-IN BINGO • Every Tuesday night, 7 p.m., at the Elks Home on Sixth St.COMOX VALLEY WOOD CARVERS • If you are interested in any type of wood carving please join us at the Royston Community Hall every Tuesday from 9:30 AM to 3 PM for a day of carving and learning about
carving. No experience necessary. FMI call Al at 250-331-0156 or Jim at 250-339-5350.CUMBERLAND LEGION BINGO • Every Tuesday night, guaranteed 22 games per night. Doors open 6 p.m., first game 7 p.m. Come out and support your community.COURTENAY LEGION • Every Tuesday: Fun Euchre 1:30, Pub Darts 7:00.BABY TALK • Courtenay Lewis Centre, Tuesdays, 10-11:30 a.m. All families with infants aged newborn to six months wel-come. Socializing, support, refreshments, guest speakers and resource library. Free drop-in, no registration required. FMI: Chris, 339-0194VANCOUVER ISLAND BRAZILIAN EMBROIDERY STITCHERS • Meet every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Black Creek Community Hall. Please bring a bag lunch. FMI: Darlene 897-1345.
NORTH ISLAND DISTRICT MPRA • Do you receive a pension from The Municipal Pension Plan? The next North Island District MPRA meeting will be: Mar. 5th at 12:00 noon, at the Comox Legion, 1825 Comox Ave. A $5.00 lunch will be served. Our guest
speaker is the Emergency Planner for C.V., who will talk on Emergency Preparedness for Seniors. For further information, con-tact Graeme at [email protected] or Claude at (250-339-2313). RSVP for lunch please. We’re always looking for new members, please fell free to join us.TOPS (COURTENAY) • 9am-11:30am every Wednesday, St Georges United Church, 505 6th St., Courtenay. TOPS is a non-profit support weight loss group. We are one of many in Comox Valley. FMI: 250-331-0276 [email protected] tops.orgCOURTENAY LEGION • Every Wednesday: Drop-in Darts 1:00, Masters’ League Darts 7:30.COMOX VALLEY NEEDLEARTS GUILD • Meets at Berwick Comox Valley Retirement Residence, 1700 Comox Avenue, 7:00-9:00pm, every Wednesday. New members are welcome; we do crossstitch, canvas-work, Hardanger, Huck embroidery, etc., bring your stitchery! Call FMI 250-334-0935.
COURTENAY LEGION • Every Thursday: Crib & Gucci 6:30, Men’s Darts 7:00. FMI: Courtenay Legion office at 250-334-4322.
THERAPEUTIC RELAXATION PROGRAM FOR PERSONS WITH CANCER IN THEIR LIVES • Thursdays, 3-4 p.m., Nursing Centre, 615 10th St., Courtenay. Free. Sponsored by BC Cancer Foundation, BC Cancer Agency, Pacific Therapy and Consulting. FMI: Diane Davies 250-338-2700.THERAPEUTIC RELAXATION PROGRAM FOR PERSONS EXPERIENCING CHRONIC PAIN OR ILLNESS • Thursdays, 1:15-2:30 p.m., Nursing Centre, 615 10th St. Free. Sponsored by the Nursing Centre. FMI: Diane Davie 250-338-2700.TOPS BC 4893 COMOX • Meets on Thursdays at Comox United Church 250 Beach Ave., from 1:00-2:30. FMI: Margaret 339-9858.COMOX VALLEY SCHOOLHOUSE QUILTERS GUILD • Meets every Thursday, from 9 A.M. till 9 P.M. at the Cumberland Cultural Centre (Buchanan Hall). For further information please contact - Carol 871-6671 or Nerissa 941-1809.
COURTENAY LEGION • Meat draws every Friday, 5-7 pm.
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PEARL ELLIS GALLERY • In Comox pres-ents: “Diversity in Action” - A Show & Sale by Ablaze Metal At and Brenda Chalifoux- from Feb 18th- Mar 9th. Open Tues - Sat from 10 am - 4 pm, Sun 1 - 4 pm, Closed Monday. Free Admission. Located at 1729 Comox Avenue. FMI see www.pearlellis-gallery.com or see our virtual gallery on our web site or our Facebook pageMEDITATION CIRCLE • Every Tuesday morning, 11-12. We are a healing con-sciousness, sending light to troubled areas to effect peaceful change in our world, praying for those who are struggling, heal-ing ourselves and raising our vibration in the process. Everyone welcome - no meditation experience necessary. No charge. FMI call 250-334-9412.JUST BY CHANTS • Mystic Valley Voices, universal chanting community, meets 6:45-8:30 pm every Tuesday at the Little Red Church (house), 2182 Comox Ave.
Courtenay Legion this Sunday, March 9. Chili with a bun avail-able for $5. Phone the bar at 250-334-4911 for detailsMEAT PACK BINGO • The Royston-Cumberland Lions Club is hosting a meat pack Bingo every Sunday at the Cumberland Hotel from 1-3 pm. There will be a total of 10 games at a cost of $1 per game, with a maximum of two cards, plus a 50-50 draw. Once a month there will be one game on the 10-game card for a mega-pack at a cost of $2 for this one only. All are welcome to come and support us, must be 19 years and older, all pro-ceeds used in the community. FMI: Lion Mary or Bob at 250-334-3014.
CRIBBAGE • Every Monday night, 7:00, at the Royston Hall, corner of Old Island Highway and Royston Road. No need to bring a partner. FMI: 250-334-1883.LADIES AUXILIARY DROP-IN BINGO • Comox Legion Ladies Auxiliary Drop-in Bingo, upper hall. Doors open 6 pm, bingo 7 p.m. All money goes to chari-ties. Free coffee and tea.
THE COMOX VALLEY FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP • Are looking forward to a most interesting and informative meeting when Wayne Schaad presents “BLACK SEA
GERMANS FROM RUSSIA - Crimean Trip 2012”. Meeting to be March 11, at 7 pm in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1901 20th St. Courtenay. New Members and Visitors welcome FMI contact Marlene 250 334 3080,N O RT H I S L A N D RHODODENDRON SOCIETY • For its Tuesday, March 11 meet-ing, the Society (NIRS) will take a plunge into botanical history to hear about the evolution of rhododendrons and why they developed unique species in so many different locations. Research scientist Dr. Glen Jamieson is a keen botanist and grower of hardy rhododen-drons and tender vireyas. He is also the current editor of the Journal of the American Rhododendron Society (JARS). The club holds its meetings at the Comox United Church, 250 Beach Avenue on the second Tuesday of each month. Doors open at 7 pm followed by a business meeting at 7:30 fol-lowed by the presentation.
CANADIAN HARD OF HEARING ASSOCIATION • March meeting of the local CV Branch will be held at the Tsoleum Building Courtenay (behind Lewis Center Ctny- near tennis court) at 10 am March 13. Mike Fournier from Emergency Response will lead a round table discussion on ‘Meeting your Hearing Needs in an Emergency’. FMI call Mary 250 339 4706.
COMOX LEGION • Meat draws every Friday, 3 p.m. Open to all Legion members and signed in guests.COURTENAY LEGION SUPPER AND DANCE • Friday, March 7, enjoy a delicious meal of Roast Beef Dip on a Bun and Dixie’s famous Potato Frittata. Come for the Meat Draw at 5 and stay for supper at 6:30. It’s only $6 for a delicious heart-warming meal with friends. Legion membership is only $60 a year for military and non-military members and we welcome you to join us today. Legion members and bona fide guests are always welcome. COMOX LEGION DINNER AND DANCE • Comox Legion presents “Red Skelton” impersonator Al Greenwod, opening for Kenny Shaw on Friday, 7 Mar in Upper Hall. Doors open at 5:30, dine at 6:30 on ham and scallop potatoes, show at 8 all for $20 per person until close of business on 5 March.
FATHER INVOLVEMENT NETWORK DADS AND KIDS MOVIE NIGHT • Since June 2006, a group of community members have gathered to promote and provide FREE father friendly activities throughout the Comox Valley. Consider this your invitation for all dads and their kids to join the next big event at the Evergreen Lounge in the Courtenay Filberg Center on Saturday March 8th. It runs from 5:30-7:30 pm and will be a riot! We will be watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 with Hotdogs supplied by Thrifty Foods in Courtenay. This event is open to all ages. So black that date off and join us for a fun filled evening! We also have our regular FREE Floor Hockey Night every Tuesday of the month at the Courtenay Elementary school |gym from 6:00 - 7:00pm. For more information on these events please contact Justin Ethier - Father Involvement Network Coordinator - 250-334-2477OPEN JAM • With Pete and Jamie from the Jagsters at the King George Hotel in Cumberland every Saturday from 3 to 6.AFTERNOON JAM • With Gord Kruger and “The Amigos”. Enjoy a lively afternoon of dancing and relaxing with Gord Kreuger and his band every Saturday, 2pm to 6pm in the Courtenay Legion Lounge. 367 Cliffe Ave., Courtenay. [email protected] Maureen Watson, 250-334-4322COMOX VALLEY FARMERS MARKET • 9-12 every Saturday, Native Sons Hall, down-town Courtenay. Come for the freshness, stay for the fun! FMI: Mkt. Mgr. Vickey 250.218-0321 or or www.comoxvalley-farmersmarket.com & keep in touch on Facebook.COURTENAY LEGION • Meat draws every Saturday 2-5 p.m. in the lounge.COMOX LEGION • Meat draws are held every Saturday 3 p.m. plus Ace of Spades draw.
COURTENAY LEGION • Every Sunday: Crib 1:00, Gucci 1:30, $5 Sunday Supper 4:00. It’s only $5 for a delicious home-made meal. Bring your favourite friend or fill up a table! Birthday parties welcome! Legion members and bona fide guests. FMI: Please contact the Courtenay Legion office at 250-334-4322.LEGION BRIER GATHERING • Enjoy the finals of the Tim Horton’s Brier at the
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Developed by Arrow Gonsalves, owner of Heart Drum Beat - Taoist Yoga and Healing Services the forum embraces the principle that the health of society begins with the self. Gonsalves saysthe goal is to strengthen and encourage Comox Valley residents in their individual process of health and ultimately their level of societal awareness so that a greater vibrancy of community may also take place.
Each monthly session features 6 area Experts in fields related to Individual, family, community or societal health.
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Meditations for Organ HealthTopics are 20 minutes in length and can be delivered
as either a lecture, demonstration or participatory train-ing. Each month a rotating rolster of experts gathers to represent a wide variety of topics ranging from individu-al health to societal philosophy.
The event is sponsored by Heart Drum Beat - Taoist Yoga & Healing Services. Catering Sponsors, Pacific Smoked Salmon Ltd. and Rawthentic Eatery will provide delicious and healthy snacks... there will have a break mid way through the forum, as well as a short time to mingle after.
There is a small fee to attend, $7.00 advance and $9.00 at the door, making the forum affordable, and still sus-tainable to purchase production related equipment and marketing materials moving forward. Space is limited, so pre-registration is encouraged.
The Experts Forum is held on the second Sunday every month at The House of Now, 536 Fifth Street in down-town Courtenay.
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