Tuesday, March 18, 2014 www.ladysmithchronicle.com Serving Ladysmith, Chemainus and area www.chemainuschronicle.com Chronicle The Since 1908 Publications Mail Agreement No. 40010318 $ 1 (plus GST) 13070 Thomas Road, Ladysmith www.littlevalleyrestorations.com CONTACT US TODAY (250) 245 3022 Collision repair you can trust ICBC Valet Accredited repair facility All insurance companies accepted Member of the Quality Assured Collision Group Highlanders third at Surrey Mayor’s Cup Ronald brings Timeline to Chemainus P. 10 P. 13 Alternative Approval Process now closed Lindsay Chung THE CHRONICLE About 30-40 people showed up at Ladysmith City Hall Friday, March 14 at 2 p.m. to deliver a box full of signed Elec- tor Response Forms before the deadline in the Town’s Alternative Approval Pro- cess (AAP) for the Couverdon boundary expansion process. Mary Marcotte, the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) director for Area H (North Oyster/Diamond), ad- dressed the crowd before going inside City Hall with Ladysmith resident Carol Henderson and a box with more than 1,300 signed forms, which indicate that the eligible elector is opposed to the boundary expansion. “It is my very great honour to be able present these petitions to the Town of Ladysmith on behalf of the concerned cit- izens who’ve gone out and campaigned and who have made the democratic process work,” Marcotte said, standing on the steps of City Hall. “It was a real grassroots community agenda here to ensure that we have a say in what hap- pens to the future of Ladysmith. At first, it felt like a real David and Goliath kind of thing, a real midget trying to take on a giant, but I found pretty soon, I had a ton of giants, and they were all standing there beside me working together, and, in fact, they were standing in front of me. “It’s not something that was driven by anybody. There were concerns, very le- gitimate concerns, and I think that we’re ensuring that democracy takes its place.” Ladysmith council has accepted an ap- plication from TimberWest/Couverdon Real Estate — the real estate business of TimberWest — to extend the Town of Ladysmith boundary to take in 700 acres (283 hectares) of lands owned by Tim- berWest/Couverdon. The lands lie to the west of the Town boundary, stretching from north of Grouhel Road to Malone Road, and are undeveloped. This idea was first introduced to the community in 2008. Council has three key criteria for its consideration of the proposal: • Acquisition of approximately 500 acres of watershed lands (both Stock- ing Lake and Holland lake) to protect the drinking water that supplies the Town, the Diamond and Saltair and the proposed service to Stz’uminus First Na- tion. These watershed lands are not part of the lands being considered for the boundary extension area; they would be owned by the Town, but would remain outside the Town’s boundaries in CVRD Electoral Area G (Saltair). • Viewscape protection of the forested hills behind Ladysmith. These lands are not part of the boundary extension area. • The future development of the bound- ary extension lands must be consistent with Provincial Smart Growth Practices and supportive of the Town’s Sustain- ability Vision. Couverdon’s application was accepted by council Jan. 8, triggering the AAP. Through the AAP process, if less than 10 per cent of municipal electors submit an Elector Response Form — in Lady- smith’s case, that would be 623 — the boundary extension request will be deemed to have the approval of the elec- tors, and the proposal may proceed to the Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development for consideration. If the application does not get elector ap- proval, council will then decide whether to take the question to the Town’s voters in a referendum. For the purpose of conducting the AAP, the number of electors was calculated as 6,226. About 30-40 people gathered outside Ladysmith City Hall to deliver signed Elector Response Forms March 14. In front are CVRD Area H Director Mary Marcotte (left) and Ladysmith resident Carol Henderson, who delivered the box of forms to Town staff. LINDSAY CHUNG HOME GARDEN & BUSINESS SHOW Fri, March 28 - 2-8 pm Sat, March 29 - 9-3 pm Aggie Hall, Ladysmith
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Alternative Approval Process now closedLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE
About 30-40 people showed up at Ladysmith City Hall Friday, March 14 at 2 p.m. to deliver a box full of signed Elec-tor Response Forms before the deadline in the Town’s Alternative Approval Pro-cess (AAP) for the Couverdon boundary expansion process.
Mary Marcotte, the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) director for Area H (North Oyster/Diamond), ad-dressed the crowd before going inside City Hall with Ladysmith resident Carol Henderson and a box with more than 1,300 signed forms, which indicate that the eligible elector is opposed to the boundary expansion.“It is my very great honour to be able present these petitions to the Town of Ladysmith on behalf of the concerned cit-izens who’ve gone out and campaigned and who have made the democratic process work,” Marcotte said, standing on the steps of City Hall. “It was a real grassroots community agenda here to ensure that we have a say in what hap-pens to the future of Ladysmith. At first, it felt like a real David and Goliath kind of thing, a real midget trying to take on a giant, but I found pretty soon, I had a ton of giants, and they were all standing there beside me working together, and, in fact, they were standing in front of me. “It’s not something that was driven by anybody. There were concerns, very le-gitimate concerns, and I think that we’re ensuring that democracy takes its place.”
Ladysmith council has accepted an ap-plication from TimberWest/Couverdon Real Estate — the real estate business of TimberWest — to extend the Town of Ladysmith boundary to take in 700 acres (283 hectares) of lands owned by Tim-berWest/Couverdon. The lands lie to the west of the Town boundary, stretching from north of Grouhel Road to Malone Road, and are undeveloped.
This idea was first introduced to the community in 2008.
Council has three key criteria for its consideration of the proposal:• Acquisition of approximately 500
acres of watershed lands (both Stock-ing Lake and Holland lake) to protect the drinking water that supplies the Town, the Diamond and Saltair and the proposed service to Stz’uminus First Na-tion. These watershed lands are not part of the lands being considered for the boundary extension area; they would be owned by the Town, but would remain
outside the Town’s boundaries in CVRD Electoral Area G (Saltair).• Viewscape protection of the forested
hills behind Ladysmith. These lands are not part of the boundary extension area.
• The future development of the bound-ary extension lands must be consistent with Provincial Smart Growth Practices and supportive of the Town’s Sustain-ability Vision.
Couverdon’s application was accepted by council Jan. 8, triggering the AAP.
Through the AAP process, if less than 10 per cent of municipal electors submit
an Elector Response Form — in Lady-smith’s case, that would be 623 — the boundary extension request will be deemed to have the approval of the elec-tors, and the proposal may proceed to the Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development for consideration. If the application does not get elector ap-proval, council will then decide whether to take the question to the Town’s voters in a referendum.
For the purpose of conducting the AAP, the number of electors was calculated as 6,226.
About 30-40 people gathered outside Ladysmith City Hall to deliver signed Elector Response Forms March 14. In front are CVRD Area H Director Mary Marcotte (left) and Ladysmith resident Carol Henderson, who delivered the box of forms to Town staff. LINDSAY CHUNG
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In brief CVRD’s new Peerless Road Recycling Centre is already earning accoladesLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE
Innovative upgrades have turned an old incinerator building into B.C.’s newest and most comprehen-sive recycling centre.Almost a year after the upgrades
began, the new Peerless Road Re-cycling Centre at the south end of Ladysmith has opened, and the fa-cility accepts 650 different items for recycling, the majority of which are taken free of charge.“This state-of-the-art facility of-
fers Cowichan Valley Regional Dis-trict (CVRD) residents the broad-est range of recycling options in the province of British Columbia,” CVRD Chair and Ladysmith Mayor Rob Hutchins said during the offi-cial opening March 12.
For two decades, an old batch in-cinerator stood on this site, which created 45,000 cubic metres of bot-tom ash that had to be dealt with.“It was in the days when we chose
to burn almost everything and any-thing as garbage,” said Hutchins.
“Thankfully, our times have changed, and thankfully, through thought-ful design and planning, we have transformed this facility from a former batch incinerator into this wonderful facility that is the heart of this new drop-off depot. The old incinerator ash was enclosed in an engineered cell that forms the base of this new drop-off facility. Per-haps more importantly, 125 tonnes of metal that was buried in that ash was separated and recycled and made into rebar. It’s estimated that we’ve saved $8 million by contain-ing this bottom ash and sealing it as a foundation here rather than ship-ping it off-site. Clearly, we have lived up to the concept of reduce, reuse, recycle.”
This new facility embraces a num-ber of other natural elements.
Locally-sourced wood — includ-ing timber felled on the site — was used in construction, and locally-processed food waste will be used to nourish native, drought-tolerant grasses, bushes and shrubs planted around the site.
Providing residents with conve-nient local access to a wide range of recycling options is an important part of the CVRD’s Zero Waste man-date, explained Hutchins.“Each of our recycling drop-off de-
pots are extremely valued, and as a result, they are busy,” he said. “Their popularity has grown significantly over the last few years. At the previ-ous location here, a busy day would see 400 [people], and we’re antici-pating we’re going to see much more of that in the future. User-friendly facilities such as this have created a recipe for success, making the CVRD a provincial leader in waste diversion, and we are that much closer to our Zero Waste goal.”
A big part of the site concept was to make it as quick and convenient as possible by creating a one-stop
drop, explained Bob McDonald, the CVRD’s manager of Recycling and Waste Management.“You come in and there’s one op-
tion where you come into the free side and you just leave through this exit; you don’t have to go through the scales,” he noted. “It’s a chore to recycle, so we want to make it as quick and easy as possible.”
The site has 21 grade-separated bays for larger drop-offs. McDon-ald says that is more than what is needed right now, but they needed to make the site that big to contain the ash. He expects it won’t be long until these 21 bays are needed, as the Bings Creek site has 16 bays and has been expanded five times in 12 years.
The main building is a covered area for free drop-offs that uses the old incinerator building and expands on it. The front end of the building is a public bottle drive area where different charity groups and community groups can host bottle drives, and there is also a Free Store, where items that were dropped “The idea is a one-stop drop; whatever you have, bring it here and you’ll find a home for it,” said McDonald.
This $4.2-million project was made possible thanks to $1.68 million pro-vided through the federal Gas Tax Fund. The CVRD provided the re-maining funds.
Before cutting the ribbon to help officially open the new site, Na-naimo-Alberni MP James Lunney highlighted some of the innovative design at the recycling centre and called it a model for other commu-nities.“This is the kind of thing that co-
operation between different levels of government can do,” he said. “It’s hard for local municipalities to do projects like this on their own, but I think what we see here is that, again, as funding has been made available, people have been able to come up with better ideas on how to manage our waste.“There’s energy in our products,
there’s energy in our waste, and get-ting higher value out of that waste and reusing it is ultimately how we build sustainable communities, so I’m very pleased and proud the fed-eral government is able to partner with the CVRD to make this project happen.”
This facility is already receiving ac-colades. It was recently nominated
for an award of engineering excel-lence by the Association of Consult-ing Engineering Companies of Brit-ish Columbia, according to Hutchins.
The new Peerless Road Recycling Centre at 10830 Peerless Rd. is open Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. From April 1 to Oct. 31, it will be open Wednesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The CVRD is carbon neutral for 2013
The Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) has achieved carbon neutrality for 2013.
As a signatory to the BC Climate Action Charter, the CVRD has been working to meet its commitments to be carbon neutral in its operations, and the CVRD has been actively reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through implementing its Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan by:
• Switching fuel from high carbon source heating systems to high efficiency electric heat pumps in several of its facilities.• Working with
Cowichan Energy Alternatives to supplement diesel fuel with local-produced biodiesel in selected fleet vehicles.• Identifying energy
conservation measures in all major CVRD facilities (recreation centres, central office and community and fire halls) by completing detailed audits.
In 2013, the total CVRD operational GHG emissions were 1,674 tonnes of CO2e as a result of the daily business of the CVRD (including operating recreation centres, managing and maintaining parks, solid waste collection and disposal, water management, emergency services, planning and bylaw enforcement and corporate operations).
GHG emissions are created by burning carbon-based fuels to heat and power buildings, as well as powering vehicles and machinery.
The CVRD was able to balance its 2013 carbon emissions with community-based offset projects.
These included organic waste diversion from the landfill to local composting facilities, and supporting a community fuel-switching project at The Hub at Cowichan Station.—Submitted by CVRD
Features of the new Peerless Road Recycling Centre include, in top photo, the refurbished incinerator building which now serves as “the heart” of the new drop-off facility; and 21 grade-separated bays such as these in the middle pho-to. Above Nanaimo-Alberni MP James Lunney (left) speaks during the grand opening, as CVRD Chair Rob Hutchins looks on. LINDSAY CHUNG
Russ ArmourTHE CHRONICLE
Ladysmith council is on the verge of finaliz-ing its grant-in-aid out-goings to local not-for-profit organizations.
This year, coun-cil has a budget of $100,000 for grant-in-aids, which is lower than last, and has al-ready received grant requests of up to $187,457 in total.
At the March 3 regu-lar council meeting at City Hall, the mayor and council went through a first round of what they believed to be reasonable grant allocation.“The funding comes
from taxpayers,” said council’s director of finance Erin Anderson at the meeting. “The purpose is to assist projects through fi-nancial assistance.”
The deadline for grant-in-aid applica-
tions was Feb. 28.Thus far, council
has tabled more than $70,000 of its bud-get, including $12,000 set to go to the Fes-tival of Lights Soci-ety and $5,000 to the Ladysmith and Dis-trict Marine Search and Rescue Society. Both of those orga-nizations are set to receive the maximum they requested.
Coun. Steve Arnett made a motion at the meeting to pull four separate applications from the Ladysmith Resources Centre from the discussion, totalling $46,500, due to the fact those sub-missions from the same organization would take up such a large percentage of the budget, if all grant-ed.
As a result, Arnett felt as though a more detailed discussion on the Resources Cen-
tre’s requests should be its own individual item at the next meet-ing.Also postponed from
discussion this time around was a request of $24,207 from the Ladysmith Food Bank, which Coun. Gord Horth says is a “great organization but not local government’s re-sponsibility. We need to make cuts, and Area G (Saltair/Gulf Islands) and Area H (North Oyster/Diamond) of the CVRD need to start stepping up.”
One of the new appli-cations to council this year was a request of $1,500 from Ladysmith Primary School’s Par-ent Advisory Council (PAC) to go towards a hot lunch program, but that bid seems set to fail, with the major-ity of councillors vot-ing for zero funds to be sent to the PAC.“I believe the School
District, who provide education, should start stepping up if the kids are hungry so it’s easier for them to learn,” said Coun. Duck Paterson.
Like Paterson, May-or Rob Hutchins and Horth also signalled intent not to send any money LPS’ way.
Councillors Bill Dry-sdale and Jill Dash-wood didn’t agree but look set to be outvoted.“I would’ve supported
$1,000. If families are supported with food, then the children are able to learn better,” said Dashwood.“It should be funded
by the parents,” said Drysdale. “But I was willing to recognize that funding and pro-vide $500.”
Drysdale was also all for sending as much money to the Marine Search and Rescue as possible, despite much deliberation around the council table.“They are one of the
busiest marine search and rescue stations on the Island, so I think we should try and help them out,” he said.Arnett agreed.“They go out under
any conditions and put their lives at risk. The level of professional-ism there is extraordi-nary.”
On the same night, council set the trol-ley rental donation at $3,000, with rental pricing being $100 an hour and $75 an hour for non-profit organi-zations.
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The Town of Ladysmith and the Ladysmith RCMP recently treated volunteers from the Ladysmith RCMP Community Policing Station to lunch to thank them for their years of service and dedication. The station, which was located at Coronation Mall, closed down after 14 years, and the Town and RCMP wanted to show their appreciation for their work. DUCK PATERSON
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A two-day hearing involving a dispute between the Snuneymuxw First Nation and Nanaimo school district concluded Wednesday, March 12 in Victoria.
The judicial review centres around the school district’s deci-sion to close Cedar Community Secondary, Woodbank Elemen-tary and North Cedar Intermediate schools as part of its 10-year facili-ties plan, with Snuneymuxw assert-ing that the school board breached its legal obligation to include the First Nation in the decision-mak-ing process. Doug White III, lawyer and former Snuneymuxw chief, said it was unacceptable that ab-original people not have a say in the education of their children.“If the judge agrees with us, which he should, then what he will do is set aside those decisions that they made and direct that we have a proper conversation between the school board and Snuneymuxw about the critical issues that we’re all faced with, about the education of our kids,” said White.
The legal action was filed last
year while White was chief but it is still considered a priority and has the support of the current admin-istration, according to Coun. Bill Yoachim.“It is still very important and it is still being supported by the pres-ent day chief and council,” said Yoachim. “Our children are a pri-ority for chief and council and the treatment of the school district is unacceptable, so this is a cause we unanimously decided to carry for-ward as well.”
White said the school district ar-gued Snuneymuxw students repre-sent a small number in the school system, and claims the band was acting in bad faith.
In an e-mail, spokeswoman Don-na Reimer said the school district did invite Snuneymuxw to partici-pate in the consultation process and it has invited the First Nation to work with the district as it tran-sitions students and families.“The district believes its consul-tation for the 10-Year Enhanced Facilities Plan was thorough and appropriate,” Reimer said.
No timeline was given on when the judge’s written decision would be released.
Jeff NagelBlack Press
An alliance of busi-ness groups opposed to the new Multi Ma-terial BC (MMBC) recycling system are demanding the prov-ince halt the planned May 19 launch and go back to the draw-ing board.
MMBC, an industry stewardship group, is poised to take re-sponsibility for curb-side blue box collec-tion — with more containers and ma-terial types collected than before — while charging businesses for the recycling of the packaging and paper they generate.
But it’s been in a bit-ter fight with small business groups that complain they are set to pay punishing-ly high fees, which will then be passed on to consumers.
The battle took a new turn Monday, March 10 when the Canadian Federa-tion of Independent Business and eight other associations launched a cam-paign in B.C. news-papers and online at rethinkitbc.ca to am-plify the pressure on Victoria.
CFIB provincial af-fairs director Mike Klassen predicted job losses and some business closures as a result of the MMBC regulations and fees.“This is public pol-icy run amok,” he said. “We are asking British Columbians to talk to the B.C. government to push the pause button on its reckless and red tape-laden program.”
B.C. Agriculture Council vice-chair Stan Vander Waal said farmers can’t readily stop packag-ing strawberries and blueberries in plas-tic clamshells, be-cause retailers insist that’s what consum-ers want.“We have to wear the cost,” he said, adding MMBC fees will cost his Chilli-wack farm $60,000
to $100,000 a year. “It goes directly against growing agriculture.”
Canadian News-paper Association chairman Peter Kvarnstrom, who is publisher of a paper in Sechelt, warned the new system will be “catastrophic” to B.C. community and daily newspa-pers, resulting in job losses in an already challenged industry and reduced service to communities.
The opposition groups say they sup-port the aim of the program — to make generators of pack-aging pay to recycle it — but they dispute the fees and say mul-tinational consumer goods firms like Uni-lever and Walmart control MMBC and are manipulating it to their benefit, not that of local busi-nesses.
Most of the fees for container waste are double or even quadruple what businesses in On-tario pay to a similar agency.
Newspapers say they face a $14-mil-lion-a-year bite out of their operations because of the 20 cents per kilogram they will pay on newsprint, com-pared to less than half a penny in On-tario.
They contend a high proportion of newsprint is already recycled in B.C. through blue boxes.
Kvarnstrom said newspapers are considering options to create their own newsprint collection system – a move that could also deprive MMBC of newsprint revenue and under-mine the program’s viability.
Magazine industry reps also warned small B.C. maga-zines will pay not only for their own paper recycling, but will also effec-tively subsidize big U.S. magazines like Harper’s or Vogue that will be exempt from MMBC fees on
magazines mailed into B.C.
Printers predict some orders will shift to presses in the U.S. or Alberta to skirt the fees, costing jobs in B.C.
MMBC managing director Allen Lang-don said MMBC’s higher fees are be-cause they fully fi-nance the program and ensure service for multi-family apartments and ru-ral depots, in con-trast to Ontario’s more limited focus on single-family homes.
He said B.C.’s suc-cessful container deposit system also means there’s less recyclable material left here for contain-er stewards to col-lect and sell, so fees have to be higher to cover the system costs.
Langdon said no business is forced to join MMBC, add-ing groups like the newspaper industry are free to develop their own system.“If they think there’s a better way, I think it’s important they put it forward.”
Environment Min-ister Mary Polak said most business-es are exempt from the fees if they have under $1 million of retail sales, generate less than a tonne of material or operate out of a single retail outlet, while genera-tors of one to five tonnes per year pay flat fees of $550 or $1,200.
She said property taxpayers will save money because MMBC will now pay for recycling col-lection that local municipalities previ-ously paid.“The City of Rich-mond will save $1.5 million a year, Nanaimo will save just over $900,000 a year and the list goes on,” Polak said.
“This is about shifting the costs from the property taxpayer to the people who pro-duce the packaging and printed paper.”
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Business alliance to battle MMBC recycling fees
Shoppers face higher prices through hidden feesJeff NagelBlack Press
New recycling costs imposed by Multi Material BC (MMBC) will ulti-mately hit consumers through hidden price hikes, critics say.“The public is largely unaware of the money that will come out of their pocket and ultimately go back to man-ufacturers,” said Corinne Atwood, ex-ecutive director of the B.C. Bottle and Recycling Depot Association.
Unlike existing deposit-refund sys-tems in B.C. on cans or electronics
— which are subject to audits and transparent reporting — Atwood said MMBC can do what it wishes with its revenue, without accountability.“It’s a licence to print money,” she said.Atwood has lobbied for years to ex-
pand the deposit system to include milk cartons and other containers, from hair spray canisters to detergent bottles.
She argues the refunds offered would ensure a high rate of recycling through depots, as with beverage cans now.“If you put deposits on things initially the consumer would pay a bit more, but the people who bring it back will
get their money back,” she said. Instead, she said MMBC’s non-refund-
able fees on packaging generators will inflate prices with no recourse.“With a hidden fee you don’t know
what it is and there’s no opportunity to get that back — then you’re genuinely taking money out of families’ pockets.”Atwood said she believes the govern-
ment likes the new system because if MMBC fees drive retail prices higher, the province will collect more sales tax.
Existing bottle depots may be threat-ened because MMBC will also collect refundable beverage containers, she said, adding school teams and com-munity groups that depend on bottle drives to raise money may also lose out if there’s less to collect.
Other recyclers say they’re also los-ing out under MMBC’s system.
The agency recently announced a consortium of waste firms that will handle the processing of containers that are collected.
Urban Impact Recycling was one of the bidders that wasn’t selected and CEO Nicole Stefenelli said her firm will now have to restructure and po-tentially shed jobs as a result.
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My mother taught me how to remember
which way to move the clocks at Daylight Savings Time with the phrase “Spring ahead; fall back.”
I look forward to springtime.
I do not look forward to losing an hour’s sleep when all my clocks, watches and electrical devices “spring ahead.” But I’ve realized that the way we adapt to Day-light Savings Time par-allels the way we adapt to all change.
To make a change, we
first need awareness, like when we realize it’s time to spring ahead.
When we recognize our need for change, we can take own-ership of our problems.
In this case, I go about the house reset-ting any clock that won’t spring ahead automatical-ly, from the watch on my wrist to the clock on the microwave.
I reset those clocks be-cause once we become aware and take ownership, we re-quire external help to
make change.I don’t usually need an
alarm clock, but when Daylight Savings Time
arrives, I do. I could insist that I don’t need to set that alarm — I wake up on time every other week of the year — but it takes about a week to adjust my morning rou-tine to the new time. During that week, the alarm clock keeps me from sleep-ing in, and
once it goes off, I pour myself an extra cup of
coffee. This extra cup of cof-
fee helps me through the third stage of any change: the need to mourn my loss.
Any change involves loss, and every loss must be grieved.
I am grieving the loss of that hour of sleep this week, but another cup of coffee gives me the extra energy I need to effectively spring ahead into Daylight Savings Time.
I have discovered that while everyone wants progress, no one really wants to change, and resistance to change is the barrier that keeps us from making effective change.
What has kept you from changing before now?
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The CVRD is hoping that the saying “if you build it, they will come” will apply to recy-cling after completing major upgrades to the Peerless Road Recycling Centre at the south end of Ladysmith.
Driving up to the site, which celebrated its official opening March 12, it looks larger, easier to navigate and cleaner than any other recycling centre I’ve ever been to. The site features 21 drop-off bays and accepts 650 individual items, the majority for free. According to the CVRD, it is the newest and most comprehensive recy-cling centre in B.C. And hopefully making it easier and more enjoyable for people to recycle will make people recycle even more.
Bob McDonald of the CVRD says this jurisdiction is one of the leaders in waste diversion, and these upgrades at the Peerless Road site should go a long way to maintain-ing that status.
It’s a one-stop drop-off, and waits and lineups are expected to be lowered because there are two scales instead of one. Once you go through a scale, you can go to the free area or the pay area where you drop off items such as lumber. If you only need to use the free drop-offs, you don’t need to go through another scale, so it’s easy to leave. There’s a free store and a community bottle drive area where local groups can collect and sort bottles for fundraising bottle drives, which seem like great additions. There is more indoor space, and there are public washrooms.
When it comes to reusing and working towards Zero Waste, the CVRD isn’t just talking the talk; it has incorpo-rated a number of green features into the new site.
There seem to be a lot of positives here.—Lindsay Chung
YOUR WORDS“Clearly, we have lived up to the concept of reduce, reuse, recycle.”
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Sending Grade 7s to LSS not sitting well with parent
Editor:
Re: Ladysmith Secondary School principal Dave Street’s letter in the March 4 paper
Thank you, principal Street for enlightening me about the ad-vantages of enrolling my daugh-ter in high school when she is just 11 years old. Why wouldn’t I take advantage of having her work with teacher specialists in all of the core disciplines, use technology, volunteer in the community, participate in ath-letics and create relationships? I’m not a professional educator and thought she was doing that in elementary school, so thanks again for enlightening me.
Thinking back to my high school years, I imagine a host of other opportunities that await her exploration in high school:
• experiment on the edge of school property between classes
• experiment at high school dances
• open her eyes earlier to ado-lescence fashion
• hear great stories about the weekend parties
• explore new areas outside town with buddies that already have their driver’s licence
Now, that’s an environment I can imagine for my Grade 7 child!
I agree with Principal Street that we’re lucky to have such a great high school and I appre-ciate his enthusiasm, but I’m not ready for my daughter to be part of the experiment of in-troducing Grade 7s. Other than rural or isolated communities (one- or two-room schools), no one has been able to give me ex-amples of other districts in B.C. that place Grade 7s with senior high school kids.
Let’s not sell this as an op-portunity when SD68 chose to ignore community needs and is just avoiding upgrading space for elementary kids at the long-neglected south end of their dis-trict.
Grant DoveyLadysmith parent
It’s clear council intends Ladysmith to double in size
Editor: I’ve been wondering for a few
years now (usually around the time I get my sky-rocketing prop-erty tax bill) why the Town has been building a sewage plant to service 18,000 people, when our population is 8,328.
This is, the mayor tells us in his community update published in the Chronicle of March 11, “the largest capital project ever under-taken in the Town of Ladysmith.” We’re also constantly reassured that, with “water system improve-ments” (wait, don’t put your wal-let away yet) we will have the potable water resources to serve a population of 18,000. It’s pretty clear that the town council in-tends Ladysmith to more than double in size. Maybe they’re hop-ing to create a ridership for the
bus service?If the consultation process
around the proposed Couver-don boundary extension seems sketchy, it’s probably because they don’t want us to interfere with their schemes; they only want us to pay for them until the rest of the population gets here.
Ann RogersLadysmith
Boundary extension not viable for town
Editor: Before any consideration of any
boundary extension of the Town of Ladysmith, there needs to be a feasibility study of the last 10 years:
1. Of all the new homes built — i.e. how many residents in each new home, their age, their education, the number of their dependents and where these de-pendents live
2. A population graph, as I ask why, with so many of these
homes adjacent to the Davis Road School, the school board felt the need to close that school
3. The average age of the whole workforce that is still present in Ladysmith — i.e. sawmill work-ers, transport drivers, teachers, health care staff, physicians, tradespeople, etc., etc.
4. The number of empty busi-ness buildings
As Ladysmith, to my mind, is treading the same path as other communities, i.e. Qualicum, where the average age of that community population is too high to be viable.
It is obvious to me that this town council of Ladysmith is much too interested in the tax dollars from new residence homes, where the interest, to my mind, should be in keeping a young workforce at home. Also, I do not understand how voting on a boundary exten-sion for the Town of Ladysmith protects watersheds.
Vera M. RobinsonLadysmith
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Quilter Jan Donaldson has opened her first showroom and studio in Chemainus. Some of her signature pieces include stagewear for musi-cians, such as these jackets and shirts. Photos submitted
Eliza FaulknerSpecial To The chronicle
Jan Donaldson is a self-proclaimed gypsy.
After discovering her love for quilt-making, she quickly began selling her wares to magazines, dignitaries and mu-sicians all over North America.
For three years, she had a TV series called Jan Donaldson’s Quilted World, and she has since travelled all over Canada selling her wares at festivals and farmers markets.
Her appliquéd clothing has been worn by CBC’s Holger Petersen, blues musi-cian David Gogo and Latin guitarist Os-car Lopez (to name a few).
For 35 years, Donaldson has been liv-ing off of her one-of-a-kind creations. This month, she has opened her first showroom and studio on Willow Street in Chemainus. Donaldson tells Island Style about her creative process, her new shop and how her creations have even saved marriages.
What is your business and what in-spired you to create what you do?
I’m a clothing designer, quilter and hand-stitch fibre artist. Jan Donaldson Designs is the name that I go by.
I was inspired to do this when I was getting out of a marriage and living on a farm in Quebec. I looked at what I loved to do and I decided I would become a professional quilter. Within a year, I did my first show in Montreal called Salon des Metiers D’Art. It is the biggest show in North America!
After the show, I sold some designs to Better Home and Gardens, and from there, I sold designs to the Canadian gov-ernment as official gifts for visiting dig-nitaries. I was then offered my own TV series called Jan Donaldson’s Quilted World. It was shown all over the country for three years. What kind of training do you have
or are you self-taught?I’m 100 per cent self-taught. I actually
flunked Home Ec. in high school!
I’ve taught myself all about clothing design by just doing a lot of it. It’s won-derful not to be influenced by anybody. I write my own rules! In the early days, I would stare at a blank piece of paper un-til something came to me. Now design-ing is just second nature.
What kinds of materials do you use and where do you make your pieces?
I sew with all kinds of fabrics, but for clothing, I use mostly cottons. For hand-stitching and appliquéd wall hangings or jackets, I use a lot of silks, velvet and glitzes. I have thousands of metres of fabric in my new studio and I use what-ever speaks to me in the moment.
Tell us about your new showroom in Chemainus
I just moved into my new studio and showroom, which is on Willow Street in Chemainus. It’s a sewer’s dream studio! I moved in here four months ago after be-ing home-based for the past 20 years. It’s great to be in a retail space again.
What are some of your favourite designs and styles right now?
Right now musicians’ stage wear is my favourite. I’ve always loved and sup-ported live music and now I can com-bine that love with my business. I create one-of-a-kind shirts and jackets for mu-sicians around the world. Many of them
are people I meet at various music festi-vals across B.C. and Alberta. It feels so good to be able to create a unique look for each performer. When looking for new ideas, what
do you do?Ideas just come to me. My brain is in on
creative overdrive all of the time. My mu-sicians’ stage wear was inspired by a line of music-inspired fabrics that one of my fabric reps had available. My new wool capes were inspired by a musician friend who I saw wearing fleece capes. I don’t like fleece so I started making capes us-ing some wool plaids that had been given to me. They are beautiful, classic and el-egant!
Who are your customers mostly?Because of the stage wear line, many
are musicians. I also have a huge fol-lowing of women due to the ladies’ and kids’ lines that I have made for many years. Women come and buy something for themselves, their children and their grandchildren. It’s cool to think that I’ve created for three generations of families!
I also do a lot of custom wall hangings. One couple loved their wall hanging so much that when they split up, it was the only thing they fought over. They shared it for a while and eventually, it got them back together!Where are your products sold?I sell my pieces at different venues, mu-
sic festivals, and farmers markets in B.C. and Alberta and also in my new studio in Chemainus. I also wholesale my hats to some wonderful stores around Canada. This year is my 35th anniversary of my business,and I’m hoping to drive across the country to different music festivals and reconnect with some of my custom-ers and fans from my old TV series.
What is the price range?The price range is very broad. Any-
where from $9 for a neck cooler to $9,000 for a 14-foot-wide stitched wall hanging. The musicians’ stage wear ranges from $75 to $250, and hats are $14 to $20.
To learn more about Jan Donaldson De-signs, visit www.jandonaldson.com.
Lindsay Chungthe chronicle
Ladysmith’s emer-gency responders were called downtown Tues-day, March 11 when a pickup truck crashed into Appetit Food For Thought at 534 First Ave.
A 1999 Ford F250 slammed straight into the building at 2:05 p.m., according to Ladysmith RCMP Staff Sgt. Dave Herman.“The driver was in-
terviewed, and he was going northbound on First Avenue and was slowing to pull into a parking spot on the west side when he en-countered a medical problem allegedly and was unable to stop,” said Herman.
The driver and his wife were both wear-ing seatbelts, and the impact of the crash was severe enough to deploy both airbags, according to Herman.
Both people were taken to the Ladysmith Community Health Centre for assessment of minor injuries, and the truck was towed, according to Herman.
The Ladysmith RCMP has followed up by recommending an ad-ministrative review of the driver’s licence, he explained.
***Technology came
in handy recently when texting helped Ladysmith RCMP members make a con-nection with an autistic
man who was causing a disturbance at the grocery store.
Herman says that on Tuesday, March 4 at 4:24 p.m., Ladysmith RCMP received a com-plaint from the manag-er of the 49th Parallel Grocery Store stating that a man wearing a bike helmet was in-side the store drinking chocolate milk, ketch-up and mustard with-out paying for them, and the male was be-ginning to throw things around the store and refusing to respond to the store managers who were attempting to deal with him.
Three RCMP mem-bers attended the lo-cation and found the male, who is described as approximately six-feet-six-inches and weighing more than 300 pounds.“He was in a highly au-
tistic state and refused to respond to police of-ficers’ attempts to com-
municate with him,” said Herman. “Howev-er, through some imagi-native work on the part of some of the younger members, he did re-spond to text messages. Through texting, they were able to start a line of communica-tion. Once that was established, members were able to open up a dialogue with this man, and they were able to establish a relation-ship and subsequently assist him in obtaining the medical assistance that he required.”
Police later learned that this man is very in-telligent and is a savant, who is very skilled at music and mathemat-ics, explained Herman.
***A co-ordinated re-
sponse by officers from six RCMP units led to the quick arrest of an armed robbery suspect in Ladysmith March 4.
Shortly before noon, Ladysmith RCMP re-
sponded to a report of an armed robbery at a floral shop on First Av-enue.
Initial information in-dicated that a man had entered the business, brandished a knife and demanded cash from a woman working at the shop. The suspect fled the store on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Multiple RCMP units were working in the Ladysmith area at the time of the robbery, including South Is-land Traffic Services, Nanaimo Police Dog Service, Nanaimo Fo-rensic Identification Section, and the Island District General Inves-tigation Section. The Ladysmith Detachment, with support from the RCMP Operational Communication Cen-tre, co-ordinated these additional resources as they searched for the suspect.
Efforts paid off short-
ly before 1 p.m., when an officer with South Island Traffic Services spotted a man match-ing the suspect’s de-scription in the Dia-mond area. Additional officers flooded the
area, and a secure perimetre was estab-lished. RCMP Police Dog Services began tracking the suspect, locating him a short time later hiding un-der the sun deck of a
residence on Grouhel Road.
Twenty-eight-year-old Joshua Lee Morgan of Ladysmith was arrest-ed, taken into custody and charged with one count of armed robbery.
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An elderly driver and his wife were taken to the Ladysmith Community Health Centre for assessment after hitting Appetit Food For Thought on First Avenue Tuesday, March 11. Lindsay Chung
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Ronald celebrates CD releaseLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE
Vancouver singer-songwriter Chris Ron-ald calls his latest al-bum “a labour of love,” and he’s looking for-ward to sharing that labour with local mu-sic fans this weekend.
Ronald will cel-ebrate the release of his third album, Time-line, Saturday, March 22 at the Willow Street Café in Chemainus.
Ronald emigrated from his native Eng-land to Canada in 2002, and his music has been described as a meeting of Brit-ish roots and North American folk, with detectable influences including Neil Young, Paul McCartney, and Don McLean, to name just a few. In live per-formances, Ronald also draws on his abil-ities as a storyteller and multi-instrumen-
talist who plays guitar, harmonica and uku-lele to deliver a show that can be enjoyed by all ages, according to his biography.
Ronald worked with producer and multi-instrumentalist John MacArthur Ellis (Jer-emy Fisher, The Be Good Tanyas, Barney Bentall) on the album, which was released earlier this month.
Ronald says the al-bum’s 11 tracks range from a real stripped-down singer-songwrit-er feel to a full-band sound.“It’s roots, but it goes
off on a couple tracks to a bit of country, a bit of bluegrass; it’s kind of exploring in
that folk/roots genre,” he said. “They’re songs that were writ-ten in the last two years that are reflect-ing on real life chang-es.”
The song “Twenty Little Stars” is dedi-cated to the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting, while “The Busker” is all about Ronald’s experiences busking.“This album was funded 100 per cent by singing and busk-ing over the last year or so,” said Ronald, adding with a laugh:
“I even paid some of my session musicians with a $5 bill right from my busking.”“It’s a labour of love,”
he said.Timeline is dedicat-
ed to Ronald’s parents, who are still back in the U.K., for all their love and encourage-ment over the years. The album is avail-able through Band-camp and iTunes.“It feels good,” Ron-ald says of actually having a finished al-bum in his hands. “It’s like there’s always some mountain to climb. There are all these mountains to climb to get it in its physical form, and then you realize there are all these other mountains to climb to get it out there. I’m sending it out for re-views, and I’ve dab-bled in songwriting contests. It’s a relief that it’s actually done, but it’s kind of daunt-ing that we might not get this into the hands of many people — but not for lack of trying. “But at the end of the day, it was a real goal of mine, to work with a top producer and some top play-
ers and do something that’s the absolute best I could do. I kind of made the decision two years ago that music had to play a much larger part in my life, and this is basically the culmina-tion of that decision.”
When Ronald brings his Timeline tour to the Willow Street Café on Saturday, March 22, he will be joined by Bryon Thompson from Mill Bay, who is a member of the Bryon Clayton Thomas trio.“He’s a really good
dobro and mandolin player and has a re-ally great voice,” said Ronald, who met Thompson at a Victo-ria Folk Music Society retreat.
Thompson will play an opening set at the Willow Street Café and then join Ronald for a few tunes.
Ronald is excit-ed to perform in Chemainus, as he’s built up a relationship with Willow Street Café owner Phil Ma-vis during past tours to Vancouver Island.“This is one of their first attempts at doing a three-course meal with a show,” he said.
“They’re really sup-portive of the arts and see the value of live music.”
Dinner starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance for a three-course meal and mu-sic or $35 at the door. Tickets for the music only are $10, and they can be purchased at the Willow Street Café. Call 250-246-2434 for dinner reser-vations.
Vancouver’s Chris Ronald brings his new album, Timeline, to the Willow Street Café
Vancouver’s Chris Ronald celebrates the release of his third CD, Timeline, Sat-urday, March 22 at the Willow Street Café in Chemainus. PHOTO SUBMITTED
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Cracking Canada’s small car conundrumGENEVA, Switzerland - Small cars are huge here in Europe, if not in size certainly in numbers.Everywhere you turn, it seems there is either a Ford Fiesta or an Opel Astra (the General Motors subsidiary) about to cross your path. If it is not those examples, there are any number of other similar sized economy cars from the likes of Citroen, VW, and Peugeot buzzing by. Micro cars such as the tiny Smart, with which we are fa-miliar, and even smaller vehicles zip into roadside parking spots where previously only a motor-cycle would park.My two-prong mission at the Geneva Motor Show was to view small cars we might see sometime soon and others we never will see but wish we could! Then ponder whether small cars will ever catch on here in the way they have in Europe.There was something familiar about the first car I encountered in the giant Palexpo show buildings. Ah yes, a European version of the trusty Honda Civic – Canada’s hottest seller in that market segment. I am sure Honda Canada would sell more if they resembled the very hot Type R concept, which is destined to be a racer. Yes, the new North American Civic is sportier than the last generation but the Euro versions always seem that bit sharper in design.Next up was the Mazda Hazumi hatchback, expected successor to the current Mazda2 and
likely to adopt the same numeric moniker. The concept vehicle has an all-new 1.5-litre SKYACTIV-D diesel engine. Citroen no longer sells in North America though periodically we hear rumours of a return by the French manufacturer and its home rivals, Peugeot and Re-nault. Their lines are so different to the often indistinguishable small cars we get. Some of the French creations are positively funky and I found myself gaw-ping at such an example in the new Citroen C4 Cactus. It’s designed to challenge the likes of the Ford Focus and the VW Golf. It uses lightweight materials ex-tensively, including an aluminum hood, which means it sips gas. The rubberized pads along the side would be perfect for people
who regularly have close encounters with garage doorframes!General Motors looks to penetrate the difficult younger buyer marked with its Opel/Vaux-hall Adam. It’s dressed up in interesting colours but it’s what is under the hood that makes it really interesting. It has a variety of bigger engines as options but its smallest engine is a new 1.0-litre, three-cylinder gas engine, mated to a six-speed manual trans-mission, with the pulling power of 1.6-litre power plant. Fuel consumption is expected to be a miserly 4.5 L/100 km (combined city highway). It may show up here in some form but right now GM has more than its fair share of small cars.
So far, I’ve looked at econo cars at the lower end of the market. No point in me offering price details because all Euro cars are substan-tially more expensive than the same examples sold here in Canada.Finally, I cast a close eye over the Audi S1, which is a hot sportback version of the popular A1.It comes with a 228hp 2.0-litre turbocharged gas engine capable of hitting 100 km/h in less than six seconds. I will reveal it will sell for more than $40,000 in the UK. It’s fast, it’s a premium offering and I’ll eat my hat if it shows up here.All of the above have great fuel economy going for them and most are competitively priced. The common keys to their success likely come down to two key factors. Impressive fuel consumption numbers matter because fuel in Europe is substantially more expensive than here. And Europe is crawling with folks going about their daily duties on often far less land and road space.While there is a greater acceptance of smaller vehicles in our cities, people outside urban areas have more ground to cover and so are tempted by larger vehicles, especially as a first family vehicle.And the truth is that the advances in fuel saving technology means there’s not a massive difference between the econo-cars and small family sedans. And perhaps a bigger factor is for “an extra $20 a month, madam, you could have the roominess and utility of this car.” A line heard in most dealerships, most days. And the sales people are not wrong.
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In the game
U13 Girls third in SurreyStaff WriterTHE CHRONICLE
The Mid-Isle Soccer Club’s U13 Girls Highlanders fin-ished third in a prestigious soccer tournament this past weekend.
Two victories on Sunday, March 16 gave the High-landers a third-place finish in the Surrey Mayor’s Cup.“The girls played very well,
we had some bad luck on Saturday but bounced back to get two great results on Sunday,” Mid-Isle coach Kathleen Nicholls said in an e-mail.“This team has been de-veloping well over the course of the season, both as a group and as individ-ual players, and that really showed through this week-end.”
The girls finished with seven points after two wins, one loss and one shootout loss.
The Surrey Mayor’s Cup is B.C.’s premier youth soc-cer showcase tournament, open to all Canadian and American soccer Clubs. This year, more than 200 teams competed in all divi-sions of the three-day com-petition.
Cowichan LMG Pringle makes it back into the Jackson Cup nal
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Second annual 5-A-Side Club Championship coming up
The Mid-Isle Soccer Club is hosting its second annual 5-A-Side Club Championships April 4-6 at Forrest Field in Ladysmith.
This year, the divisions will be: U8-9 Mixed, U10-11 Mixed, U12-13 Mixed, U14-15 Mixed, U16-18 Mixed and Coaches/Parents.
It costs $15 per player in all divisions, and each player will play a minimum of four or five games, receive a team T-shirt and earn a chance to win prizes.
All participants must be registered BC Soccer players, and teams consist of seven to 10 players (three girls minimum on U12 to adult teams).
Players may only play for one team for the duration of the tournament.
This is a fundraising tournament for the U21 Men’s Highlanders team, and Highlanders players will act as referees for the tournament and will operate a concession at Forrest Field.
For more information about the tournament, contact Cheryl Merriman at 250-722-3288 or [email protected].
Drop off your completed T-shirt order form, along with registration cheque, to Frank Jameson Community Centre by Thursday, March 27.
Fuller Lake skaters to present “A Blast From The Past”
The Fuller Lake Skating Club is presenting its ice skating show Friday, March 28 at 6 p.m. at the Fuller Lake Arena in Chemainus.
The show’s theme will be “A Blast From The Past.”
Watch next week’s Chronicle for more information about the show.
The Mid-Isle Soccer Club’s U13 Girls Highlanders nished third in the prestigious Surrey Mayor’s Cup tour-nament, which was held March 14-16. KATHLEEN NICHOLLS
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Cowichan LMG Pringle is back in the Jack-son Cup soccer final for the fourth time in five years after beating Bays United Liquor Plus 2-0 in overtime Friday, March 14 at Victoria’s Hampton Park.
The big match-up for the title against Saan-ich Fusion will take place Sunday, March 30 at 2:30 p.m. at Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park, as Cowichan goes for its third championship in four years.
Cowichan made it to the semi-finals by com-pleting a Jackson Cup sweep of Div. 2 Island Soccer League clubs in the first three rounds of the comvvvpetition with a 5-2 win over Saan-ich Fusion Div. 2 March 8 at the Ladysmith Turf.
Connor Crichton got it going for Cowichan in the quarterfinal at 15 minutes off a Tyler Hughes corner. Dan Cato converted a header on a nice set-up from Hughes and Ben Robson made it 3-0 at 39 minutes.“We were kind of all over them and looking good,’’ said Cowichan coach Glen Martin. “We had a lapse on the last play of the half.’’
But Crichton restored the three-goal lead again quickly after the break and completed the hat trick in the 60th minute. Saanich scored
once more after Martin inserted some overly enthusiastic subs into the game and they forgot about defence.
LMG has only lost three games all season — two against Bays United Liquor Plus and one to the Fusion.
Connor Crighton has cranked up his offensive game for Cowichan LMG Pringle. ANDREW LEONG
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Koorn, MartinusAugust 8, 1935 – March 8, 2014
Martin Koorn passed away peacefully in Nanaimo General Hospital with his loving wife and family by his side.Martin was predeceased by his father Martinus Koorn and his grandson, Alex Bernstein. Martin is survived by his devoted wife of 56 years, Jelly, his daughters Elizabeth Bernstein (Ralph) of Port
Alberni, Sandra Koorn (Ken) of Nanaimo and son Martin Koorn (Catherine) of Royston, grandchildren Brandon Bernstein (Kyla), Warren Bernstein (Diane), Kristopher Bernstein (Shaylah), Laurel Koorn (Dave), Mitchell Koorn, Cheyenne Miller and two great grandchildren, Makenna and Beckett Bernstein.Martin is also survived by his sister Elisabeth Nieuwenhuis (Evert), his brother Robert Koorn (Ineke) and his 105 year old mother, Elisabeth Koorn, all residing in the Netherlands.Born in den Helder, Netherlands, Martin immigrated to Canada in 1957 with his wife, Jelly. After settling in Port Alberni in 1963, Martin began his 37 year millwright career with MacMillan Bloedel at Alpulp and later at the Harmac Pulp Mill in Nanaimo where he later retired.Martin loved his family and always tried to do right by them, he loved boating, especially in the serene and natural ruggedness provided by the Barclay Sound and the Broughton Archipelago. In retirement, Martin found joy in stock investing and travelling with his wife, always making new friends along the way.Martin was a life member of the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron, having been a Commander in Port Alberni and a founding member of the Mount Brenton Power and Sail Squadron in Ladysmith.A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at the Nanaimo Yacht Club (400 Newcastle Ave., Nanaimo) from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
FITZGERALD, Josephine Latitia December 31st, 1909 – March 1st, 2014
Predeceased by her husband William James (1902 – 1954); son John Ernest; parents Ernest and Lila Ross; sister Mary and broth-er Robert. Survived by daughters Margaret E. Cass and M. Sha-ron Fitzgerald; son W. Ross Fitzgerald (Cath-erine) and daughter-in-law Anne Fitzgerald; 11 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, 10 great-great-grand-children, 1 niece and 3 nephews.
Born in Stauffer, Alber-ta, raised at her parents homestead at Fort Saskatche-wan and in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. Moved to Victoria, BC in 1944 and then to Ladysmith, BC in 1990. Josephine, our matriarch, loved her family. Al-ways known for her great preserves, she was a fantas-tic gardener, an accomplished artist and a tremendous seamstress. In her later years her daughter Sharon was her primary caregiver and constantly strived to make her mother’s quality of life as full as possible. Sha-ron’s level of care was the prime reason that Josephine attained 104 years of life. For this, the family will be forever grateful to Sharon. Since September 2012 she was a resident at the Chemainus Health Care Centre. The Family truly appreciates the loving care and com-passion she received from all of the Centre’s wonderful staff.
A graveside service will be held at Royal Oak Buri-al Park in Victoria, on Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 at 12:00 noon. Reception to follow at 775 Middleton Street, Victoria, BC.
A Celebration of Life will be held at Transfer Beach Park on Saturday, June 21st, 2014 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. There will be a brief service at the amphithe-atre at 11:30 am followed by a gathering at the large shelter.
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• If you missed see-ing Ladysmith musi-cians Skellig, David Bitonti, and Kendall Patrick and the Head-less Bettys perform at the Dinghy Dock Pub in December, you have a second chance this weekend!
Ladysmith On The Dock Part 2 — an acoustic concert se-ries featuring Skel-lig, David Bitonti and, Kendall Patrick and the Headless Bet-tys presented by Got Pop? — will take place Saturday, March 22 at 7 p.m. at the Dinghy Dock Pub at 8 Pirates Lane on Protection Is-land. Tickets are $20 and include round-trip ferry fare and the show. Tickets are available from the artists, at the Dinghy Dock Pub and online at www.ticket-zone.com.
For a ferry schedule, visit www.dinghydock-pub.com.• The Chemainus
and District Chamber of Commerce is hold-ing its Annual Gen-
eral Meeting Tuesday, March 25 at 5:30 p.m. at the Seniors Drop-in Centre on Willow Street.
The meeting will be-gin at 5:30 p.m. for net-working, then there will be a welcome and introductions at 6 p.m. Guest speaker Bob Cringan from the Chambers Groups Insurance Plan, will speak about extended health benefits op-tions for business owners and their staff, plus new group RRSPs, from 6:15-7 p.m., and the business meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
Snacks, coffee and tea will be provided.
This year, the Cham-ber is looking for some new directors who are interested in making the business commu-nity prosper — at least two, but three would be welcome, accord-ing to Chamber co-ordinator Jeanne Ross.“We are especially
looking for business people outside the core of Chemainus,
as we want to serve our entire area from Saltair to Crofton, but anyone with an inter-est in moving our area forward is welcome,” she says.
For more informa-tion, contact Ross at 250-246-3944 or [email protected].• Ladysmith and
District Credit Union (LDCU) recently opened its newest sub-sidiary, LDCU Finan-cial Management Ltd. Nick Symons, who grew up in Ladysmith, is the new Investment Specialist. You can meet Nick at 320B First Ave.• The Ladysmith
Chamber of Commerce, Ladysmith Downtown Business Association, Global Vocational Ser-vices and Dynamic HR Solutions present their next employment sem-inar Wednesday, April 16 from 7-9 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion at 621 First Ave. The topic for the evening will be Employee Re-tention and Attraction.
RSVP to [email protected] and put “Ladysmith employer forum” in the subject line, or call 250-597-1901.• The Ladysmith Mu-
seum will be opening soon! The museum at 721 First Ave. will be
open as of Saturday, April 19 from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Sat-urday. The museum, which is now fully wheelchair-accessible, will be open Mondays on long weekends only.• Vancouver Island
University (VIU) is
becoming the second post-secondary institu-tion in B.C. to offer a Bachelor of Arts Major in Visual Arts.
This is the only de-gree of its kind on Van-couver Island, accord-ing to a press release from VIU.
Professor Pamela Speight, co-chair of VIU’s Visual Art depart-ment, says the Visual Art Minor has been very popular at VIU, and many students in recent years have been asking for a BA Major in the discipline. Visu-al Art programs have been offered at VIU for more than 35 years, she adds.
The BA Major in Vi-sual Art, offered at the Nanaimo campus, offers students the opportunity to com-plement their degree with courses in other disciplines including Business, Marketing, Theatre, Biology, His-tory, Psychology, An-thropology, Education, Science, Media Studies and Creative Writing, to name a few.“With the BA Major in
Visual Art, students are required to take a few more electives, and they can take them
in courses that would expand their visual art career,” says Speight.
Students pursuing the new Major will also find three new courses added to the Visual Art curriculum: Art Careers/Curatorial Practices; Advanced Studio: Multi-Disciplin-ary; and, offered in the second year of imple-mentation, Art of West Coast First Nations.• The Ladysmith Ma-
rina will be hosting a garage sale to support Ladysmith Royal Ca-nadian Marine Search and Rescue Unit 29 Saturday, June 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There is a $5 seller fee per table/space, and sellers are asked to bring their own table or tarp. All sale items must be ma-rine-related, and no hazardous materials will be accepted. All unsold items must be removed at the end of the sale.
There will be hot dogs, chips, pop and coffee, and all pro-ceeds will be donated to the marine search and rescue volunteers.
Sign up at the Marina Office or call 250-245-4521.
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Ladysmith Community Gardens Society and The Ladysmith Library co-hosted a ‘Library Talk’ Feb. 11 with Rose McCully speaking on Orchard Mason Bees. McCully spoke to a packed house and gave a lively talk, according to a press release. The talk was the second in The Community Garden’s Edible Gardening Series. All talks are generously supported by community venues and by local businesses and the Ladysmith and District Credit Union. Visit http://ladysmithcommunitygardensociety.weebly.com for details and for the growing list of sponsors. PHOTO SUBMITTED
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One minute you have a perfectly good Blue Box recycling program. The next, something new and rather questionable is being put in its place. And they thought they’d get away with it right under your nose, without telling you or asking your opinion.
That’s defi nitely not democracy in action.
The BC Government, elected by us to represent our best interests, has decided to offl oad the costs of recycling to big multi-national corporations. To implement this new plan, they’ve set up an association that doesn’t really seem to hold the environment, local jobs, or the municipalities that run the Blue Box program, close to its heart.
Perhaps that’s why some of our local elected offi cials are using the word “scam” to describe how the new program is being set up. It’s also perhaps why several of BC’s municipalities refuse to jump on board.
That’s gotta tell you something.
Now it’s your turn to let Premier Christy Clark know what you think. Contact her today to say that dismantling an already-working recycling program to replace it with something that few people think will be as good, is a bad idea.
What’s going on here?
Email Christy Clark at [email protected] or call 250-387-1715. For more info, visit RethinkItBC.ca. #RethinkItBC.
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