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Jennifer Craigan, wife of shíshálh First Nation Chief Calvin Craigan, has died after a long illness.
Mrs. Craigan passed away Thursday March 5.
She and her husband had been married for more than 50 years and had four chil-dren together.
“They truly were best friends,” shíshálh Cultural Director Candace Campo said of the couple.
“She was a very loving, devoted mother and wife,” said Campo. “She had a back-ground in business and man-agement and uniquely, she also had a captain’s licence
Wife of shíshálh chief passes awayfor operating sea vessels. She had an infectious laugh that could be identified any-where.”
Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons, who worked for the shíshálh for 10 years before enter-ing politics, said he was sad-dened to here of Craigan’s passing.
“I join residents of the Sun-shine Coast in offering my condolences to Chief Craigan and his large extended family and community on the loss of Jenny, well-loved mom, grannie, auntie, sister and spouse,” said Simons.
Chief Craigan’s regular
twitter feed, devoted mostly to band business, said on March 6: “All silent for a few days as I grieve.”
Funeral services are to be held Saturday, March 14, at the Band’s longhouse in Sechelt.
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Anne Stuart’s letter in the March 5th Local, regarding the Supreme Court case on assisted suicide has prompt-ed me to write and add my personal experience, espe-cially as I have so recently experienced the death of my mother to breast cancer.
My mother was 85, and she was a vibrant, intelligent, lively woman who loved life. Even when she went rapidly downward in health a month before her death, she still em-braced life as best she could. But then the progression of her disease made that impos-sible for her. She spent her every waking moment strug-gling for breath as the cancer had spread to her lungs and caused fluid to accumulate, restricting her ability to breathe.
She lost abilities one by one and as she did we did our best to help her and support her. As it became evident she was in such a state we con-tacted North Shore Pallia-tive Care and they came and helped us with options. The best option for my mother seemed to be at North Shore Hospice, and she agreed, and so we moved her in there.
There, she received the finest care we could possi-bly imagine, but her health continued to deteriorate and soon she was suffering all the time. When we, her children, would visit she would beg us to end her misery. This is not the first time I have had a relative beg me to end their lives in such a situation. If you have never been in that situa-tion I ask you to try and imag-ine it for yourselves, with someone you care dearly for. Imagine the pain, imagine the helplessness, the feeling of betrayal that comes with being unable to help a loved one end their suffering.
Imagine being that person yourself, your every wak-ing moment a torture, being helpless, the people caring
for you unable to find a way to ease your suffering.
All the care in the world could not ease my mom’s suffering. The only thing that could was heavy sedation, where my mom would be effectively removed from be-ing in her body.... except not always. She would end up struggling to get comfortable and not know how to help herself. It was horrifying to witness and you could under-stand why all she wanted was an end to her suffering.
My mother could get no help from us, nor her doc-tor and care providers, who were hesitant to help her transition to her new reality. So she stopped eating as it was the only power she had left to her.
It took her 2 weeks to die that way, in a slow long slide to oblivion that was inevita-ble and difficult for everyone to witness and be a part of.
When I think about how we would help our beloved pets when we knew they were ready... why can’t we do that for each other? This fear that having an assisted sui-cide protocol in place would be tantamount to murder is ridiculous and unfounded. Of course there will be checks in place. Of course it is a last resort.
I did not want to lose my mother. But when she said she was ready to go, the pow-erlessness I felt to help her left me feeling I was hurting her and letting her down.
I would not wish my mom’s own “torture”, as she described it, to happen to anyone. Assisted suicide is a compassionate, thoughtful avenue for us to explore and I, for one, am glad the Su-preme Court recognized that. Kerrianne Ferrier, Gibsons
Garden suites: troubleGibsons Council calls them
‘suites’, (the Local, Feb. 26) al-though their proposed plans clearly show stand-alone houses to be built in home-
owners’ own yards. Council promotes them as
“mortgage helpers”, but if I need help paying my mort-gage, how can I afford to build another house and pay another mortgage? If I es-cape bankruptcy on that ven-ture, now I must collect rent --- and quite a high rent for a brand new dwelling. Do high rents improve housing avail-ability in Gibsons? Because it will be an expensive rental unit it may be slow to rent, with few takers, producing no revenue for a long time. When and if I find a tenant, I must now pay higher income tax on the revenue, and my hugely increased property assessment means that my town tax rises too.
On top of that, my yard is mostly gone and I have to keep my curtains up or blinds down for much of the time, as does my tenant. I for one would not be comfort-able sitting in my remaining bit of yard or looking out of my window at people 15 feet away who must pay me a level of rent every month that prevents them from ever sav-ing to buy their own proper-ty. I would not enjoy that feel-ing, even if I closed the blinds.
I think the garden suite idea is just that --- a pleas-ant idea to pass the time in a council chamber. David Kipling, Gibsons
Drop daylight savingDaylight saving time is
unhealthy, unnecessary and unwanted. Anyone agree? Should we have a referen-dum?Nancy Leathley, Sechelt
Family to family help Mental illnesses are chron-
ic disorders whose onset and acute phases are stress-ful and traumatic for every-one involved. Those who are ill struggle with mood, anxiety and delusions; family members struggle with guilt, grief, fear and isolation. The health system offers some
help to those who are ill, but the family is usually left to cope alone as best they can.
The BC Schizophrenia Soci-ety – Sunshine Coast Branch can help. We are so pleased to be offering “Family to Fam-ily”, a free, intensive, 12 ses-sion program presented by family members, for family members.
“Family to Family” gives participants the tools to un-derstand the symptoms of Mood, Anxiety and Psychotic disorders, and to empathize with those experiencing them. Treatment, commu-nication, advocacy and self-care are among the topics that are covered. Participants learn from and give sup-port to each other within the structure of this well- tested program, and become em-powered to deal more con-fidently with their own par-ticular situation.
Classes will be held Tues-day evenings, 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m., starting March 31 and ending June 16, at Arrow-head Centre in Sechelt. The course is free, but class size is limited, so early registration is advised. To register please call Donna at 604-885-9705 or Fran at 604 885 5956.. Donna Motzer, BC Schizophrenia Society – Sunshine Coast Branch Sechelt
Illiterate litterers! Memo to all car and truck
drivers who can read:An open window when
driving on any Sunshine Coast highway, roadway or back road is not for tossing out your unwanted items. The side of the road is NOT A GARBAGE CAN!
Oh yes.... For those who can’t read, would someone please read this, to them.Gene Pelly, Sechelt
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I have returned from speaking at the Compost Council of Canada’s conference March 3 in Toronto. I was asked to give a presentation about alternatives to mandated curbside collec-tion of organic food scarps, for rural, remote, First Nations and ferry access communities.
No rural community, if following the Zero Waste Hierarchy and the Principals of Zero Waste, should even consider imple-menting curbside food scarp collection, for the bear and critter problems alone. If we are to have authentic Zero Waste in our community, taxpayers must be aware of how authentic Zero Waste actually works.
Starting with mandated curbside collection is not how au-thentic Zero Waste works. Mandated curbside collection in areas like ours is Waste Management, not Zero Waste.
So it begs the question: if local regional governments are spending taxpayers’ dollars to implement Zero Waste but are not following the principals of how Zero Waste actually works, then what kind of Zero Waste are taxpayer’s getting?
The biggest architect of fake Zero Waste is of course the Metro Vancouver Regional District, that desperately wants garbage incinerators, up to six of them, in communities like ours, not theirs, and who are targeting First Nations commu-nities to host these insane burners. Rather than implementing actual Zero Waste into their Solid Waste Management Plan, they have chosen to steal the ZW brand and bastardize it for their own garbage burner agenda, wasting taxpayers’ money on their staff -run Zero Waste Committee and their national Zero Waste Council farce.
Metro Vancouver had a rep at the conference I spoke at and there it was, in black and white, Metro’s fake Zero Waste for all to take in. This follows the old saying “if you tell a lie long enough, you eventually start to believe it”.
Most communities have young green (as in inexperienced) fresh out of college idealists, who know nothing or very little about how Zero Waste Community Action Planning actually works; they mostly just know how to spell Zero waste. Us-ing taxpayer’s dollars to drag Zero Waste out over the past 10 years, are Sunshine Coast residents and taxpayers getting Zero waste for their investment or they just getting waste manage-ment with a very expensive Zero Waste veneer?
So, this brings us back to the Sunshine Coast and our region-al government. We, as directors at both Zero Waste Canada and the Zero Waste International Alliance, have been asking, no begging, our regional government to adopt the earlier ver-sion of the ZW Hierarchy, 5.0 and now the newest updated ver-sion, 6.0.
So far our regional government has refused to even con-sider adopting the Zero Waste Hierarchy. Are they choosing to follow Metro Vancouver’s lead and greenwash/rebrand Zero waste as something that it is not?
This is not difficult. There are not two versions of Zero Waste. Government cannot try to reinvent the wheel here, us-ing taxpayer’s money to try and do so. Zero Waste is like being pregnant. You either are or are not. There is no middle ground, no shades of gray. Buddy Boyd, Gibsons, Zero Waste Canada
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The familiar red and grey building of the Home Hard-ware that has been on Wharf Ave. for more than 20 years will soon be turning Rona blue, white and yellow as the lumberyard and home build-ing supply business changes hands.
Russ and Tess Jones, own-ers of the Rona store in Ma-deira Park, have bought the multi-acre yard and business from Home Hardware fran-chisee Bob Knight and part-ner Shirley.
The property itself is sepa-rately owned and was pur-chased by Jones in another
Rona expands south to Sechelt
transaction.“We’re creating a new
brand on the Coast called Coast Builders Rona,” Russ Jones said shortly after the sale was announced March 3. “The core of the business is supplies and solutions for the contractors that are renovat-ing and building homes on the Coast. And the two loca-tions we’ll have are Madeira Park and Sechelt.”
Jones, who has lived on the Coast with his family since 2011, has been with Rona for more than 30 years. He had risen to the role of B.C. opera-tions manager before he set
up the Madeira Park outlet, becoming the first-ever Rona employee in Canada to buy his own franchise.
There will be no job losses at the Wharf Ave. location as a result of the change of own-ership.
“I’ve had an opportunity over the last couple of days to meet with the good men and women that work there and they will all be placed in similar roles to what they’re doing today. And we’ll hon-our their pay,” said Jones.
All existing contractor ac-counts also will continue with the new company, al-though new documents will have to be signed.
The property makeover is all going to happen quickly, following a brief closure at the end of this month.
The final day of business as a Home Hardware will be Fri-day March 27. The store will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday for inventory and branding and cosmetic changes.
“We’ll be open for business Tuesday morning (March 31) at 7 am,” Jones said.
Rik Jespersen
The Wharf Ave. property will undergo a makeover with Rona branding under the new owners. Rik JespeRsen phoTo
The print version of the Feb. 26 Local Weekly mistak-enly named Michael Fawcus as a former board member of Sechelt Innovations Ltd.
As Mr. Fawcus writes: “I have never been formally in-
Correctionvolved with nor employed by Sechelt Innovations Ltd, al-though I have, as an individ-ual, publicly expressed sup-port for the formation and continued efforts presented by SIL and those individu-
als currently and previously involved with the organiza-tion.”
The person who should have been named in the arti-cle was Chris Fawcus. The Lo-cal Weekly regrets the error. w w w . t h e l o c a l w e e k l y . c a
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After nearly three years of collaboration, consultation and planning, organizers have released The Progress Plan, a wide-ranging proj-ect focusing on issues fac-ing women on the Sunshine Coast.
More than 100 women and men, including politi-cians, key participants and supporters, were on hand to take part in the launch event March 5 at the Sechelt Band Hall.
Progress Plan launched at Sechelt event
Some of the key players honoured at the Progress Plan launch included (left to right): Michelle Morton, Anne Titcomb, Pat Hunt, Christabelle Kux-Kardos, Christina Younghus-band, Marj McDougall and Betty Baxter. RiK JeSPeRSen PHoTo
“Building the Progress Plan was a superb example of community engagement and community building,” said Pat Hunt, co-chair of the Community Resource Society, which drove the project along with the Sun-shine Coast Community Services Society, and which was funded by $300,000 in grants from Status of Women Canada.
Hunt noted that the fed-eral money was crucial to the
project’s success.“The three years has given
us an opportunity to explore the issue of economic well-being for women along the Sunshine Coast. And have the real opportunity to have you involved and have your voices heard,” she said.
The Progress Plan is de-scribed as “a community plan for women’s economic well-being along the Sunshine Coast.”
“Women and men experi-
ence life differently,” the proj-ect’s executive summary said. “By looking at the Sunshine Coast through a ‘gender lens,’ this Plan provides valuable insight into the concerns and economic development pri-orities of local women.”
An initial survey was con-ducted in 2012, and the same questions were asked again in a second survey in 2014, for a total of 533 unique re-spondents. Although they were focused on women aged 19-to-45, organizers gathered information from women of all ages, in all walks of life and in all areas of the Coast, through work-shops, “key informant inter-views, advisory group con-sultations,” and “action group evaluations.”
Through these processes, a set of key concerns became apparent, said the project’s manager, Michelle Morton:
“There are five intercon-nected areas that women identified: transportation; jobs; elder care; child care and belonging,” Morton said.
A series of speakers at the launch referred to examples of problems met by women in all five of the identified areas, with some of the most
striking difficulties found in the mix of family and work-ing life.
“It is estimated that there are only 550 registered and licenced childcare spaces available for over 3,000 kids aged 0-12 years,” Morton said.
“Higher wages that reflect the true cost of living here would help attract and retain younger working families. The 2015 Sunshine Coast liv-ing wage is now estimated at $19.25 per hour,” she said.
Morton then quoted local economic researcher Michael Goldberg, “who estimates that the living wage could actually be three dollars an hour less if we had an afford-able child care system in B.C.”
While going into daunting detail on the difficult issues women face, the Progress Plan also provides dozens of recommendations to help meet the challenges locally.
More information is avail-able on the Community Re-source Society’s website at www.communityresource.ca. Hard copies are available at the society’s offices on Trail Ave. Rik Jespersen
As stewards and users of natural areas on the South Coast, the Sunshine Coast Conservation Program in-vites you to join us and the Ruby Lake Lagoon Society for a fusion “citizen science” workshop and dialogue to introduce new resources for the public on endangered species conservation.
Conservation workshopThe event takes place on
Sunday, March 22 at the Iris Griffith Field Studies and Interpretive Centre from 11:30am to 3pm. Registra-tion is required: for informa-tion on the Sunshine Coast session and to register go to: http://tinyurl.com/ku9u8qr.
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On March 3, a shoplifter was reported at a business in the 5700 block of Teredo Street after staff witnessed the female suspect grab a tip jar from the counter and flee the premises. Police were called and one of the staff members followed the sus-pect and managed to detain her until police arrived. The suspect was arrested and charges of theft are being rec-ommended.
On March 4, police and the Auxiliary Coast Guard attend-ed to a report of a small row boat adrift in the waters off the 7700 block of Redrooffs Road, Halfmoon Bay. The 10ft boat was found empty with the oars in lock posi-tion. A grid search of the area was negative and no reports of missing boaters or boats have been received. The boat has been recovered and is be-ing kept for 90 days as found property. Owner may claim with detailed description, reference file 15-1319.
On March 4, a resident reported a large dead reptile in a playground in the 5700 block of Kwatamus Avenue, Sechelt. The Conservation Office Service was called, at-tended, and seized the rep-tile which was described as a 4-foot long albino python-like snake.
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The District of Sechelt is looking to refund parcel taxes levied in error under bylaws for sewer services and down-town beautification between 2002 and 2014.
Frontage Tax Bylaw 204, 1993, enacted to improve ap-pearance of Cowrie Street with decorative streetlight standards and underground hydro lines, expired in 2008. Parcel taxes under this by-law continued to be charged to properties fronting onto Cowrie between Wharf and Shorncliff from 2009 to 2014. Approximately $210,000 in Bylaw 204 parcel taxes were levied during that period.
In January 2002, Sewer Par-cel Tax Bylaws No. 223 and No. 224, 1994 were repealed with the adoption of a new Bylaw. Parcel taxes continued to be charged under the repealed bylaws up to 2014 on prop-erties in sewer service areas in the West Sechelt and West Porpoise Bay neighbourhoods, totaling about $352,000.
“The District apologizes to the property owners im-pacted by these oversights. Reports on the situation are coming forward to Commit-tee at the earliest opportunity and Council will be asked to consider recommendations on the return of these funds at our next regular meeting,” said Mayor Bruce Milne.
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A lot has been happening as we continue our community engagement to find the best potential uses for our Property in East Porpoise Bay!
On Feb 20th, we visited with the Chatelech Grade 11 and 12 students. The level of enthusiasm and creativity of the over 80 students that took time away from their lunch break was impressive, to say the least! They shared about 150 amazing ideas with us – including such innovative suggestions as a small goat cheese farm, a café/pizzeria and an outdoor adventure park.
Don’t forget to join our "Name the Neighbourhood" contest! Submit your suggestions on our website.
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Talk of The Town
Wayne Rowe Mayor, Town of Gibsons
Maintaining core services is a top priority for the Town of Gibsons. During our past term, we began implement-ing strategies to ensure the viability of key assets like water and sewer infrastruc-ture. A new report released by the Town entitled “To-wards an Eco-Asset Strat-egy” describes some of the pioneering ways in which we will continue doing this – in ways that can potentially save money, maintain infra-structure quality, preserve our natural heritage and ul-timately, offer an example to municipalities across North America.
The Town’s view is that sound and responsible management of our assets requires that we consider not just engineered infra-structure but also forests, topsoil, aquifers, foreshore and creeks, wherever these provide services on which the Town relies. And we are doing just that.
We have North America’s first natural asset policy, which directs the municipali-ty to consider the role of natu-ral assets within their overall asset management strategy. Moreover, beginning with the Gibsons Aquifer, which provides water to the major-ity of our residents, we have pioneered an approach that is resulting in key natural assets getting measured and managed in the Town’s asset management plan.
Our new report describes how we are now mapping all eco-assets, not just the aquifer but also White Tower Park, which manages storm water run-off, our beauti-ful foreshore and potentially other areas. We are calcu-lating what it would cost us to replace the eco-asset if it ever failed, and develop-ing objectives and manage-ment systems to preserve the asset and its services for future generations. Then, we are placing these assets in the Town asset manage-ment plan with the other infrastructure that provides the services that keep our standard of life so high here. Once they are in the Plan, they get managed in an inte-grated manner by Town staff
working in partnership with the community.
The results speak for themselves. The Gibsons Aquifer costs us only $28,000 per year in monitoring costs versus hundreds of thou-sands we would have to pay for a treatment plant, hook-ups and maintenance. We are embarking on research for White Tower Park but by all accounts, this area is man-aging storm water at a small fraction of what a new storm water system would cost.
The real beauty if that if we take care of these eco-assets – which cost the town noth-ing up front – they will nev-er depreciate, never break down, and save us money in operating expenses. And all these positives do not take into account the myriad of other hard-to-quantify but very real benefits such as beautiful places to walk and do sports, and which keep tourists coming back to our region.
And these multiple bene-fits combined with low costs make for good strategy. You can find the complete Eco As-sets Strategy document here: www.gibsons.ca/eco-assets
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Seniors housing is the fo-cus for a series of workshops and presentations sponsored by the Seniors Housing Study Group, a community-driven effort aimed at informing Sunshine Coast residents about options in housing and
Seniors housing eventcare for older adults.
Next on the agenda is a tour of Greenecourt, a long-standing project of the Li-ons Seniors Housing Society aimed at seniors with in-comes below $31,500. The talk and tour, led by seniors
housing advocate Sue Jackel (at 604-885-2348), takes place Wednesday March 18, 1-3 pm. Meet at the Lions Greenecourt Hall, Medusa Street above Ocean Avenue. Submitted
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• Sample tasting stations from the Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Company, Starbucks (they have something new and exciting to taste), Sunshine Coast Winery and Sechelt Golf Club
• Enjoy a casual walking Fashion Show featuring exciting new spring fashion ideas
• Visit interactive stations, SWISH ladies Wear scarf ‘school’, get a signature nail done courtesy of PerfectioNails, visit Harbour Air, Arbonne, and PGA professional Instructor Tara Roden
• Meet our new Chef, Gordon Clendenning and taste his special desserts made especially for this evening
• Meet Tara Roden, PGA of Canada Golf Professional and CanFitPro expert. Register for a special ½ day clinic with Tara scheduled for Friday March 20 or Saturday March 21 and get your game in shape for Spring!
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At a time when we cel-ebrate spring through Asian New Year, Persian New Year and other festivals, there’s a wide gulf between our community – with its broad acceptance of various cul-tural norms – and the kind of narrow-minded, intolerant terrorist threats that have advanced in recent months around the world.
Last month, our com-munity demonstrated once again how different cultures can beautifully engage one another to create one of the liveliest and most welcoming places to live. People of Chi-nese, Korean, Filipino and a variety of other backgrounds kicked off the Year of the Goat in our riding. The celebration was the fifth annual event of its kind, attracting over 500 people.
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John Weston MP, West Vancouver, Sunshine Coast , Sea to Sky Country
Over 100 volunteers par-ticipated in staging the event which I initiated over 5 years ago to ensure that our com-munity is known as a wel-coming place for tourism, investment and visiting stu-dents. It helps all parts of our riding – whether it’s the Sun-shine Coast, Bowen Island, Whistler or the North Shore – stay engaged with the Pa-cific Rim.
The incredible nature of this event is that no one is excluded. People of these cultures want to share their music, their history, and their cuisine with people of differ-ent backgrounds.
Meanwhile, people who seek to impose their own be-liefs and cultures by violent means simply miss the point: we are stronger when we cel-ebrate our differences rather than go to war over them.
We in the House of Com-mons have been focussing on that distinction as we look at Bill C-51. Knowing that free-dom of expression and secu-
rity are co-dependent, we are seeking to establish a healthy balance between them.
Another aspect of spring is that we are preparing for taxes. Please look for the “Tax Guide” that I will have sent to your door for some practical tips on how to reduce your taxes. Speaking of which, I’m proud that our Conservative Government has reduced tax-es over 180 times since tak-ing office in 2006. One in par-ticular I note is our efforts to help Canadian families enrol their kids in sports activities by doubling the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit and mak-ing it refundable; this change has been implemented in time for this year.
I want to close by offering to coming to your home, your neighbourhood, your club or even your favourite coffee shop to meet with you and a group of friends and learn more about the issues im-portant to you. Please send an email to [email protected] to schedule your “coffee gathering”.
In December of 2014 EON Building Systems of Roberts Creek announced a fundrais-ing initiative through crowd funding to raise funds for Habitat for Humanity. After an article was published in the Local in the December 4th issue Habitat for Hu-manity Sunshine Coast con-nected with EON to discuss the use of the funds that were coming in for local Habitat projects.
The crowd funding cam-paign goal was to raise enough money to give Habi-tat for Humanity an EON por-table factory for their own use. Since the campaign did not meet the goal required
EON donation to Habitat for Humanityfor habitat to get its own fac-tory, EON donated the raised funds directly to Habitat's local Sunshine Coast affiliate for use in their current proj-ect, which is a planned com-munity for fourteen families, the Sunshine Coast Village, located in Wilson Creek.
Even though the current project will not use EON’s innovative concrete build-ing systems, due to the fact that all the planning is in place for this project, the two companies have had discus-sions about using this in-novative building technique in future projects. Habitat is always looking for ways to build more efficiently, using
cost effective materials and techniques which will pro-vide decent affordable hous-ing for its families. EON’s on site, portable factory concept would make it ideal for Habi-tat’s volunteers and families to take active roles in con-structing these homes, and will reduce costs. The energy efficiency and durability of these homes would make them ideal for Habitat home owners.
Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast gives their thanks to EON. We look for-ward to further discussions regarding future builds for our families. Submitted
“A presentation that doesn’t quickly get to the point is a train bound for no-where,” says PJ Reece. “Who wants to climb aboard a train headed for nowhere?”
Reece is one of three ex-perienced presenters from Morningstars Toastmasters who will teach a workshop on Presentation Skills for Small Business. The work-shop will be of benefit to business owners, profes-sionals, artists, writers, and employees—anyone who de-pends on having their mes-sage heard and understood.
This workshop will be held on March 18 from 5 to 6:30 pm at the Chamber office in Sunnycrest Mall. It is free for Chamber members or $10 for non-members. Please register in advance on the Gibsons Chamber website (www.gibsonschamber.com) or call 886-2325.
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With the low snowpack levels this winter, many peo-ple are asking how the mild winter will impact the re-gion’s water supply heading into summer.
So what is ‘snowpack’ first of all? Snowpack is stored frozen water in our moun-tains that slowly melts dur-ing the late spring and early summer feeding our water-sheds. The deeper the snow-pack, the longer supply of water is assured. Once the snowpack melts completely we must rely on rainfall and lake levels to maintain our water supply.
The snowpack feeding the mountain lakes that provide the majority of the Sunshine Coast’s municipal water sup-ply is typically fully melted by early July, requiring the water system to be depen-dent on accessible stored water (ie through lake dams and groundwater aquifers) and rainfall during the sum-mer dry season. The depth of snowpack will dictate the timing of this dependency and influence when the re-lease of flow from behind the dams will be needed.
As noted, once the snow-
Winter snow and summer waterpack is depleted, the water system becomes dependent on water storage and rain-fall. Reservoir storage levels will lower during drought periods and replenish with rainfall. During prolonged periods of drought, such as what was experienced in 2012, reservoir storage can become depleted, which is why the SCRD has a Drought Management Plan. This regu-latory plan outlines various times for outdoor water use. Outdoor water use, most no-tably sprinkling, is the num-ber one consumer of water in summer. The Drought Man-agement Plan consists of four progressive stages of water restrictions:
Stage 1 (Normal) – Sprin-kling between 7:00 am and 9:00 am and 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm, three days a week.
Stage 2 (Moderate) – Sprin-kling between 7:00 am and 9:00 am, two days per week.
Stage 3 (Acute) – Ban on sprinkling. Water by hand-held containers only.
Stage 4 (Severe) – Complete ban on outside water use.
We have only reached Stage 4 once in the Regional Water System, and this was during a year with higher
than average snowpack. Fortunately, Chapman Lake responds quite rapidly to rainfall compared to many other water systems, gaining over half a metre of storage per rainfall day. Timely rain-fall, combined with reduced consumption, is the key to our ability to maintain wa-ter service levels during the summer dry season.
For this reason it is nec-essary to begin conserving water now so we can gradu-ally adjust to less water-consuming habits, rather than shock therapy from a natural disaster. Think of conserving water like a diet. It is far easier to reduce your consumption over time, than to drastically cut consump-tion all at once. So try to do something that saves water this summer. It can be big or small, but every action helps. Replace an old toilet, cut back on your lawn sprinkling or establish a drought-resistant plant in your garden. For more information on water conservation tips, please visit our website at www.scrd.ca/Water-Conservation.
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Popsicle bridge-building contestWanna break something? The Popsicle Bridge Contest is here for its fifth year. On March 29th at the Indian Band Hall at noon the fun begins and at 2pm the bridges get crushed! There are categories for all ages. Prize money and bragging rights are on the line so see if your bridge measures up or come as a spectator. Pick up a kit from GBS or Rona and get it together. Amazingly these bridges can resist 500, even 800 pounds. So if you want to break something come and try to break the record. Submittedw w w . t h e l o c a l w e e k l y . c a
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March 12 Sunshine Coast Skating Club’s annual public performance, Gibsons community centre, 6:30-8pm, $2March 13 The Organics, live music with dinner, Roberts Creek Legion, 6-7:30pm, tips appreciatedMarch 13Women’s mixer and fundraiser for author and filmmaker Dianne Whelan’s plan to travel the Trans-Canada trail in 500 days, Gibson’s Public Market, 7-9pm, $30March 13 Supernovae and the Mystery of Dark Energy with Dr. Chris Pritchard of the University of Victoria, Arts Centre, Sechelt, 7:30pm, by donationMarch 13 Coffee house, local talent including Kenneth Norman Johnson and Ashley Hautala, School of Music, Madeira Park, 7:30-10pm, suggested $10 donationMarch 14 Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea, refreshments and costumed entertainment by Grandmothers and Grandothers and Driftwood Players, fundraiser for Stephen Lewis Foundation, Sunshine Coast Botanical Gardens, West Sechelt, 2pm, $40March 14 Met Opera: Rossini’s La Donna Del Lago, Ravens Cry Theatre, Sechelt, 10am, $24, seniors $20March 14 St. Patrick’s Day potluck, with Coast String Fiddlers, Gibsons Seniors Society, Harmony Hall, 686 Harmony Lane, 6pm, bring a dish to share, $5March 14 Foggy Hogtown Boys, St. Bart’s Church, Gibsons, 8-11pm, $20March 14 Spring opener with Jack & G Band, Gibsons Legion, 8pm, Members $5, guests $10March 14 “My Father’s Voice”, an evening of jazz standards and original songs with Jill Conway and Anna Lumiere, Gibsons United Church, 8-10pm, $15March 15 Master gardener Sheila Watkins on “success with seeds”, Botanical Garden, West Sechelt, 1pm, by donationMarch 17 St. Patrick’s Day celebration with “Irish for a day”, Roberts Creek Legion, Irish stew at 6pm, music at 8:30, members $7, guests $15March 18 Seniors housing talk and tour, Lion’s Greenecourt Hall, Medusa St. above Ocean, 9:30-11:30amMarch 18 Workshop on presentation skills, Gibsons Chamber of Commerce office, Sunnycrest Mall, 5-6:30pm, free for members, non-members $10, register at 886-2325March 18 Opening reception for a show by Suzy Naylor (“A fool’s journey”) and Roberta Mauel (“Garden”), Arts Centre, Sechelt, 7-9pmMarch 21 Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea, refreshments and costumed entertainment by Grandmothers and Grandothers and Driftwood Players, fundraiser for Stephen Lewis Foundation, Gibsons United Church, 2pm, $40March 21 Bob Evans, guitar and vocals, School of Music, Madeira Park, 7pm, $25
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Group size: 6 to 8 golfers per session.
PROGRAM DETAILSShort Game:
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PROGRAM # MONTH DATE TIME SESSION
ONE MARCH FRIDAY 20 9:30am - 1pm MORNING & LUNCH
TWO MARCH FRIDAY 20 12pm - 3:30pm AFTERNOON & LUNCH
THREE MARCH SATURDAY 21 9:30am - 1pm MORNING & LUNCH
FOUR MARCH SATURDAY 21 12pm - 3:30pm AFTERNOON & LUNCH
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(Sugar shack, or la cabane à sucre, Sechelt Indian Band Hall, March 8, 4-8pm)
Plan on attending this wonderful inclusive fam-ily event hosted by Sechelt’s own francophone commu-nity when it comes around next year. You’ll know you’ve come to the right place by the smell of delicious fresh-baked tourtiere (a mildly-spiced meat pie) wafting on the wind, and by the hordes of small kids running amok.
While we on the west coast celebrate nature in late win-ter by taunting our eastern relatives with shirtsleeve-and-blossom photos, most of Canada is still blanketed with the white stuff and more or less officially depressed. The maple sap harvest and tradition of sugar shack fes-tivities is nothing less than a celebration of the blood of the forests as it starts to flow again after a deep, deadening freeze. Don’t let the campy mac jackets, the cheerful live music and overall bonne hu-meur trick you into taking this lightly. It’s an earth cele-bration of the most profound sort.
This year the Cabane fell on March 8th, the first day of the Spring time change, and the grassy lawns around the Sechelt Indian Band Hall were dry and sunny and bouncing with children. In-side, the many tables were decorated with tins of maple syrup and laid with crudites, including squareish blobs of a grey substance. This was creton, a country pate so de-licious that I was tempted to scoop the leftovers into a dis-posable cup and take it home.
Traditionally, the sugar shack was an outbuilding containing a wood stove. There the maple sap boiled for hours, often attended overnight by entire families. The cuisine that fuelled such an effort sprang from late winter larders: ham, baked beans, potatoes, and break-fast foods like eggs and pan-cakes, everything made bet-ter by a splash or a dousing of syrup.
This year’s Cabane had enough mapley sweet things
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to keep the children in mo-tion for hours. Students of the Ecole du Pacifique per-formed a charming tradi-tional dance. And then they raced back outside to play on the lawns in the spring-like air. It is a rare treat to attend an event that is truly designed for families, but the Sugar Shack knocked it out of the park. When we finally dragged my small daughter away from the maple taffy ta-ble where she and the other kids used popsicle sticks to gobble syrup poured onto ta-bles of snow, she summed it up perfectly: I could lick this stick forever.
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Children eagerly scoop up maple syrup as it hardens on a snow-covered table at Sechelt’s inaugural Sugar Shack celebration. NaNCy PiNCombe Photo
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Question: What are the laws around the operation of motorized scooters by senior citizens on public sidewalks and roadways?
Answer: Anyone in down-town Sechelt or Gibsons will likely see numerous people using motorized 3 or 4 wheeled scooters or mo-torized wheelchairs to get around town. These scooters are actually classified as pe-destrians, and as such, peo-ple operating them need to
follow the same rules of the road that a pedestrian would, including the following:
• They may operate on sidewalks, or on the roadway if the sidewalk is not reason-ably passable
• If there is no sidewalk, they should operate on the extreme left side of the road-way, facing traffic
• Marked crosswalks should be used whenever possible
• At controlled intersec-tions, they should proceed only when the pedestrian walk signal is active
• There of course will be exceptions in some cases, meaning a scooter opera-
tor has to deviate from the normal pedestrian route. This might occur where a road hazard or construction would still allow for a pedes-trian to use a sidewalk, while a scooter operator would have to utilize the roadway to safely bypass the hazard. The sidewalk may appear fine, but it could be that there was a large pothole at one end, or the access from the other end was blocked by a vehicle, forcing the scooter onto the roadway. These are the sorts of things drivers might not see when they are getting frustrated at a scooter oper-ating on the shoulder of the road when it seems like there
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is a useable sidewalk on the other side.
Police recommend that scooter operators ensure they are clearly visible to drivers when operating on roadways, and use lights, reflectors, or other high-visibility devices if appro-priate. When on sidewalks, operators should also travel at the same speed as other pedestrian traffic. Vehicle drivers are encouraged to al-low scooters plenty of space, and to show patience to-wards them. That 30 seconds you take to slow down and move over will likely be very appreciated by the scooter operator.
It’s no secret that Canadian winters can be cold, but did you know that you shouldn’t idle your car to warm it up? It’s true! The best way to warm up your engine in the cold is to gently drive.
You’ve likely been told that it’s important to let your en-gine run for a few minutes be-fore driving away, and years ago that was true. Older cars did need a bit of time to warm up because the carburetor
Winter driving: idle no morecouldn’t always get the right mix of air and fuel into the engine when it was cold. But carburetors were replaced by fuel injectors starting in the 80s, so unless you drive a car that is more than 30 years old, it’s time to change your bad habit.
Not convinced? Here are a few facts about winter idling:
• Today’s fuel-injection technology relies on sensors to supply fuel to the engine
and these sensors adjust to temperature, so you should only need a maximum of 30 seconds of idling before driv-ing away.
• Idling for more than 10 seconds uses more fuel than restarting your engine, and it gets you zero kilometers per litre.
• If you’re worried that you need to heat up your engine oil before driving in the win-ter, don’t. Modern synthetic
motor oil can flow at temper-atures as low as -40 degrees Celsius.
• When your engine is cold, the fuel injectors supply it with more fuel. Idling your engine, therefore, forces it to operate in a very inefficient, fuel-rich mode that can cause excessive engine wear and damage components includ-ing the cylinders, spark plugs and exhaust system.Submitted
Planning on going away for Spring Break this year and would like to add some effec-tive and safe remedies to your first-aid kit to have on hand for you or your children? For
minor conditions and inju-ries you can effectively use homeopathic remedies for many situations that arise while traveling. Depending on where you will be, some-times medical attention may not be readily available and also by taking homeopathic remedies you can potentially prevent a condition from es-calating. Homeopathic rem-edies act quickly and are safe and gentle to use for adults
and children. Here are a few to consider:
Arnica 30c- first remedy after accidents and injuries from falls for bruises and swelling, or for physical over-exertion and over-straining. Aconite 30c- shock, panic, fear and restlessness after an injury or accident or for an-ticipation for those who have a fear of flying. Gelsemium 30c- is also helpful for fear of flying when lethargy be-comes the dominant symp-tom accompanying the fear. Arsenicum Album 30c- is effective for food poisoning. Hypericum 30c- is helpful in relieving pain from inju-ries to parts rich in nerves, such as crushed fingers and toes. Apis 30c- is useful for insect bites when there is much swelling and redness. Ledum 30c- is also used for insect bites to prevent swell-ing. Cocculus 30c- is used
for motion sickness, either during or right before trav-el if you know that you or your child are prone to mo-tion sickness where nausea, vomiting and dizziness are experienced. Ruta 30c- ef-fective for injuries of torn and wrenched tendons, split ligaments of joints and for bruises of bones.
Homeopathic remedies can be found at most phar-macies and health food stores and are compact and easy to travel with. Homeo-pathic remedies are individu-alized; however, in most first-aid and minor conditions the same remedy applies to ev-eryone. Take up to 3-5 doses (1-3 pellets) of your chosen remedy 20 – 30 minutes apart as soon as you or your child experience symptoms. Once there is improvement of the symptoms then there is no need to continue taking the remedy. However, do not continue to take the remedy if there is no improvement after 3-5 doses.
If the condition is serious or becomes worse it is ad-visable to seek medical at-tention as soon as possible. However, homeopathic rem-edies can be taken before if medical attention is not im-mediately available to help prevent symptoms from get-ting worse. Also, if even mild symptoms persist beyond your trip, seek professional help.
Canteris Hartley, DCH, HMC has been a practicing homeo-path for over 15 years and practices in Gibsons, BC. For more information visit www.coasthomeoapthy.com
Family caregivers of peo-ple with dementia are often called the invisible second clients for good reason.
As many Sechelt families have found, their roles as informal caregivers are criti-cal to the quality of life of the person they care for, who generally require increasing levels of care.
“Without caregivers, peo-ple with dementia would have an increasingly poorer quality of life and would need residential care more quick-ly,” explains Kerri Sutherland, a Support & Education Co-ordinator for the non-profit Alzheimer Society of B.C.
The support, though, can come at a cost: caregiver ex-
Care for caregivershaustion. That’s why the So-ciety is bringing its free Fam-ily Caregiver Series to Sechelt on March 14, 21 and 28.
The workshop helps care-givers learn strategies to care for someone with dementia and to take care of their own health, to ensure they are prepared, and to continue to provide care to their family members.
The series runs from 1 to 4 p.m. on three Saturdays at St. Mary’s Hospital’s board-room, 5544 Sunshine Coast Highway. Pre-registration is required. For information and to register contact Kerri Sutherland at 604-984-8348 or e-mail [email protected]. Submitted
"I have met the most incred-ible people volunteering with Hospice,” says Denis Fafard, board member and active volunteer with the Sunshine Coast Hospice Society.
“This work calls upon the listening skills I have, and I’m constantly challenged to be present to what’s right in front of me,” says the former teacher.
Coast Hospice’s new vol-unteer orientation runs from April 10-25 in Davis Bay. It’s an intense two-weeks, filled with learning about the re-sources available to those who are palliative or grieving on the Sunshine Coast, meeting some of the medical support team, touring Shorncliffe and the two-bed hospice unit, and exploring how to support and
Looking for listenerscompanion those who are terminally ill or grieving the death of someone.
If you are a good listener, and can accept and compan-ion people wherever they are on their journey, perhaps Hos-pice is the volunteer opportu-nity you are looking for.
“I come home knowing that that I’ve made a difference and that my time has mattered,” says Fafard. “It’s not about ‘helping’ someone else, it’s about being of service.”
Coast Hospice volunteers are currently companioning about 100 people on the Sun-shine Coast.
For more informa-tion, call Coast Hospice at 604.740.0475 or go to www.coasthospice.com. Submitted
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RE: THE GEORGE MARINE HOTEL & RESIDENCES UPDATE
It has been several months since I last communicated with the community and now is the time to let you all know how we are progressing.
A concern that we all hold with the George Marine Hotel & Residences is whether there will be any impact on the aquifer and whether a structure can be built on top of it. We retained a geotechnical engineer and a hydrologist to undertake a series of investigations and under the supervision of the Town of Gibsons numerous test holes were drilled to accurately determine the elevation of the aquifer so that the design of the building ensures there will be no impact. We are pleased to report that the results of the analysis indicates that the hotel will not have an impact and in a quote from the geotechnical engineer, “From a geotechnical viewpoint, the subject site is considered to be suitable for development of the type proposed, and the Gibsons Aquifer is envisaged to not be negatively impacted by the proposed development provided that the recommendations in this report are incorporated into the design and construction”. As a result of the analysis we have already made minor changes to the underground hotel/condominium parking plans to ensure the design reflects the recommendations.
Another change that we have made with the hotel is the mezzanine level which we had originally proposed as a spa. Our proposal now includes a health and wellness centre which, if approved, will become only the second such facility in Canada. It has been my desire from the start of this development process to create a destination facility that will attract visitors to the Sunshine Coast throughout the year and not just four months of the year. Along with the health and wellness component of the hotel we are still incorporating a conference facility that can accommodate up to 300 individuals for dinner, also sizing for local events. The hotel itself will not be able to provide sufficient rooms on its own for the guests, thus there will be spin-off benefits to the motels and B & B’s throughout Gibsons and its neighbours.
This development will be a catalyst for business growth in Gibsons and further up the Coast but the benefits will be most noticeable to the merchants of Gibsons. The Lower Village has been struggling over the past several years and it has expanded to the Upper Village as well, as is noticeable when looking at the empty storefronts. With the increase in the number of tourists on an annual basis, the opportunity will exist for more businesses to expand as well as the creation of new businesses in Gibsons. While we know there is support for our proposal with the way it has been designed, there are those that also support the hotel but would like it to be smaller, with fewer rooms and services. Our hospitality consultant and my own experience had led us to the program that includes condominiums, conference facilities, health & wellness, hotel rooms, restaurants and of course the marina. If we are to attract visitors throughout the year, it is necessary to ensure the facilities are incorporated into the hotel that not only keep them comfortable for their first visit, but we want to provide an atmosphere and services that will make them want to come back and tell their friends as well. This critical mass is important, thus the facilities program has resulted in the design that will be a first for the Coast and most importantly a stimulus for Gibsons. While similar facilities, or larger, are being proposed for Sechelt, this development will be unique as a true waterfront facility.
One area that we have not overlooked is the creation of exhibition space within the hotel for local artisans to display their works. This space will be directly adjacent to the public plaza and outside the breakout rooms of the conference facility. I have been a strong supporter of the arts community since moving to the Sunshine Coast and given the level of talent that we have on the Coast I felt it important to provide a space for the artists to share their works with the thousands of visitors.
An added feature that we are currently contemplating is the introduction of a pedestrian only commuter ferry service. As it is our intent to bring the majority of convention visitors by boat instead of the car, the result will be vacant parking underneath the hotel which could be used by commuters. For the boaters, we will be relocating the fuel dock from Hyak Marine slightly to the south which will accommodate the small cruise boats bringing the conventioneers to the hotel and if successful the commuter ferry vessel as well.
Finally, the hotel and residences will also result in the completion of the waterfront walk that will be connected to the central plaza of the facility. Access from the plaza will be provided by a grand staircase to the waterfront, or for those that do not have full mobility, an elevator will be available to transport people from one level to the next. To increase the amount of animation along the waterfront we have proposed from the start of the development process to create a waterfront restaurant that will be elevated above the water and it will have a large plaza between it and the waterfront walkway. This area can be used for kiosk sales or as a viewing platform for those that want to rest along the water’s edge.
With this development, comes Development Cost Charges that will improve the Town’s infrastructure, a substantial tax contributor, new employment, spin off benefits to the business community and the transformation of the harbour walkway and cleaning up the waterfront.
It is my hope that the community will support the proposal that I have submitted to the Town of Gibsons and if Council decides to hold a public hearing in the future to hear the voices of the residents, please remember what this proposal can bring to the Coast and voice your support.
Guest instructor – Oliver Tubb,PGA of Canada instructor and PGA Tour Canada memberCall the Golf Shop at 885-2700 for details and to register
Spring Break Junior Golf Camp
Week of March 16
Golf TipsBarrieMcWha Life Member, PGA of Canada
Golf is a game that can be played as young as 7 or 8 years of age, and continue to be played into old age, nine-ty-something for sure! It re-quires learning a motor skill no different that walking or riding a bike.
Did you know that golfers live up to five years longer on average, as determined by a study conducted at the Karalinska Institute in Swe-den? The study on golfers living longer, which was pub-lished in Scandinavian Jour-nal of Medicine & Science in Sports, is based on data from 300,000 Swedish golfers and shows that golf has beneficial health effects. Golfers have a
lower death rate regardless of sex, age and social group.
A round of golf is 10,000 steps or about a 5-mile walk. Fitness experts estimate you’ll burn roughly 1,500 calories during a four-hour round. That’s 825 calories more than if you ride in a cart, which clocks in at 675 calories. So no matter how good or bad your play, if you walk or ride you can at least get some exercise and calorie burn out of your round!
It is a safe social environ-ment as well as a pleasant environmental experience. Who wouldn’t enjoy recre-ating in nature, conversing with old friends and meeting new ones. Friendships be-come motivational especially as we age and need a push to get out and be active. The golf course becomes a meeting place even when the weather
is ‘sub-par’.Golf keeps one mentally
active as it requires concen-tration, calculations, prob-lem solving. Studies show that people who engage in regular physical activity and have proper nutrition sleep with less interruptions and report sleeping soundly. Get-ting sound sleep helps a per-son’s health in a number of ways, and golfing is one activ-ity that can help you obtain a better night’s sleep.
The lowest death rates were found in the group of players with the lowest hand-icap. Maintaining a low hand-icap involves playing a lot, so this supports the idea that it is largely the game itself that is good for the health.
(Barrie McWha is the gen-eral manager of the Sechelt Golf Club and a life member of PGA Canada.)
It’s time to get your team together for the 2015 April Tools Wooden Boat Chal-lenge at Pender Harbour’s Millennium Park! On April 25, the 14th annual spring festival will pit teams of up to four in a three-hour boat-building frenzy followed by a lap around the govern-ment wharf that may or not see all contestants remain-ing afloat. But in fact it’s a little more complicated than that… Boat builders will not get a chance to see their con-struction materials, nor will they know the racing ‘twist,’
April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge
until one hour before they first lay saw to wood! In past years they have had to build a boat from a sonotube or without the use of screws or with more plastic sheeting than wood. It’s different ev-ery year and this year’s ideas are as devilishly entertaining as ever. But no one but the organizing committee will know the secret until 10 AM April 25. First prize is $700, second $400 and third $250! Entry fee is $160 per team or $140 if received before April 1 and all team members will receive a T-shirt along with
the building materials.April Tools is a whole com-
munity event and the high school races are a thing of their own! Members of the organizing committee or the high school shop teachers will help the teens slam to-gether boats after school, and the kids will show their stuff in the highly competitive tro-phy race followed by the wet and wild ‘fun’ race.
The little kids will not be left out! They will have hulls and wood blocks to hammer into mini-boats that they can then paint, decorate and float in a wading pool. There will be face painting, craft ac-tivities and this year will see ‘really little kid boatbuilding’ with foam hulls, paint and press-in decorations. All kids’ activities are free.
So get that team together! Entry forms may be printed from www.apriltools.ca and can be sent with the entry fee to April Tools, Box 65, Ma-deira Park BC V0N 2H0. For more information call Jackie at 604-883-0539. Submitted
Around the world, utiliza-tion of solar power has been growing at an exponential rate, as efficiency of photo-voltaic panels improves and costs decrease. In BC, solar powered communities are a real, viable and urgently nec-essary alternative to the Site C Dam, as well as the North-ern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines. Sunshine Coast residents are eager to inves-tigate options: several homes already have rooftop arrays of pv panels installed, most grid-tied, some off-grid.
The Gibsons Green Team and Sunshine Coast in Tran-sition are hosting a public meeting on Saturday, March 21, 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the Gib-sons & Area Community Centre to explore the devel-opment of a local Solar Coop-erative. It will provide an op-portunity to discuss exciting possibilities for solar projects on the Coast, have a look at
Solar energy on the Sunshine Coastpv panels and ask questions of electrical contractors.
Lee Ann Johnson, former Gibsons Councillor with de-cades of experience in the co-op sector, will facilitate the meeting. Joanna Zilsel will provide a summary of current solar initiatives in BC, outline challenges to overcome, and highlight potential solar op-tions for our community. Ju-lie Clark, SCRD Sustainability & Education Coordinator, will give a ‘big picture’ overview
of how a solar cooperative aligns with the SCRD ‘We Envision’ sustainability plan. Matt Hutchings, Dennis Ol-son and Wayne Slingerland - local electrical contractors with decades of experience in alternative energy systems – will discuss current issues and answer questions.Submitted
AnnouncementsAlanon/Alateen for friends and families of alcoholics. Meetings Monday - Friday. Call 604-886- 4594, 604-885-0101, 604-886- 9059, 604-883-2882.
Mosaic Market at Davis Bay. Jewelry, furniture, gifts, Watkins products, beach ware, paint- ings. A browser's paradise. Call 604-740-8140.
Too much turkey and pie this Christmas? Need help to get rid of those extra pounds? TOPS (Take off Pounds Sen- sibly) will help. Sechelt Activity Centre, Trail Ave, Wed 6:00pm, 604-747-4755. Gibson's Frank West Hall, 1224 Chaster Road, Thurs 6:30 pm - 604-886-2683. First meeting is free.
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GaraGe SaleSBIG GARAGE SALE: Holy Family Church Hall, 5700 Nick- erson Road, West Sechelt, Sat- urday March 14th, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. GREAT BAR- GAINS.
FreeOld travel trailer 24 ft, could make good flat deck trailer. Small old motorhome 22 ft. Both not suitable for living in, but good for storage or small shop. Ready to move. 604- 886-2464.
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Wanted Looking for someone with fenced yard to day-sit 2 small dogs. Call 604-885-7002
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Found: Child's bike on Davis Bay seawalk, Feb. 18th. Call 604-885-7722 to ID.
Found: Hearing aid at Life Labs in Sechelt on Jan. 22. Call 604-885-9035. If no answer leave msg or drop by to ID.
Found: Parts kit near Davis Bay seawall. To ID call 604- 885-4707.
Lost: Jeep car keys with re- mote door opener, in West Se- chelt February 14th. Call 604- 885-4853.
Lost: Men's dark grey pre- scription sports sunglasses, in small black drawstring bag, at Langdale ferry terminal or on 10:20am ferry, on Monday Feb 16. Call 604-741-7228.
Lost: Volkswagen keys with FOB, in Pender Harbour area, keys have bright green and orange on them. Call 604-989- 5295.
Metal Detecting Services. Call 604-839-3597.
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for several reasons. First it marks the last official week of winter. But the really big and exciting news is that Uranus will form its 7th and final exact square with Pluto. By now, this pivotal aspect has been addressed numer-ous times over the past sev-eral years and it is among the top messages delivered by many astrologers all over the world. Basically, the con-junction or seed event began in 1965.
Among its core themes is a gender and sexual revo-lution destined to produce changes regarding our at-titudes towards both. Look-ing to the world we can see many positive and many outright negative examples. The final aspect has a way of pushing the issues and themes implied to the sur-face to be cleared or reinte-grated in preparation for the next phase. So we can ex-pect some major themes and issues, and events linked to this gender equality and sex-uality purification process to hit the headlines.
The New Moon on March 20 is a Solar Eclipse that oc-curs at the final degree of Pisces or what can also be regarded as the omega point of the entire Zodiac. The official moment of Spring Equinox occurs 13 hours later. Two weeks later we will experience the 3rd of 4 Lunar Eclipses comprising a rare tetrad. These power-ful signs which are simply parts of a much larger series of omens of change indicate that we live in very complex and troubled times but that changes are fast approach-ing. It is within our indi-vidual and collective will to resolve these issues but we had better increase our ef-forts and now.
(Read more about it in my Newsletter – sign-up is free on my website.)
Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 20)Everyone is experiencing
pressures to overcome past patterns and rhythms and activate new ones, not least of all you. However, as much as you may want to be ready, you may not be. Perhaps you have yet to realize what the issue is, what you are meant to overcome. Themes of sur-render and sacrifice versus denial and avoidance seek balance with virtues of vi-sion and courage.
Taurus (Apr 20 – May 21)Sometimes the challeng-
es we face remain hidden, lurking perhaps within our body or our subconscious or as basic as the basement of your home. To resolve the situation or bring about the solutions you seek, these hidden elements must be identified, brought out into the open, exposed to the light. Resolve is required and
getting distracted by others is the surface challenge to overcome.
Gemini (May 21 – Jun 21)You have entered a time
when you are meant to fur-ther define and activate what makes you special, tal-ented and/or able. It will re-quire that you step through and beyond casual attitudes and perspectives. Commit-ment is a key word. This may be a time of graduation or of promotion. Ending and completion is the other side of the story. This is a call to rise to the occasion.
Cancer (Jun 21 – Jul 22)Family and/or relation-
ship interests, responsi-bilities or concerns are demanding more of your focus. These may be requir-ing a more empathetic ap-proach than usual. Balancing your time with an emerging learning curve is also im-plied or at least the prospect of and thoughts or investiga-tions into it. Investigations and investments with long term considerations are wo-ven into this plot.
Leo (Jul 22 – Aug 23)Deep thoughts and reflec-
tions regarding your overall sense of security and per-haps that of others are run-ning through your mind. These may literally touch into realities linked to birth and death and rebirth too. Taking initial steps in new directions is ideal but may be more challenging than anticipated. Yet the times are calling for adaptation to an accelerating flow of change.
Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22)Shifts and changes on re-
lationship fronts are rolling in. Circumstances of late have possibly revealed some wounds and blind spots. At worst you feel hurt and confused. However, with the right attitude you can embrace these experiences as opportunities to grow, to become more mature, to deepen intimacy and/or in-crease the likelihood of in-creased relationship success to come.
Libra (Sep 22 – Oct 22)Making deliberate efforts
to produce and ensure a healthy flow continues. This is a call to weigh options and analyze less and take more decisive action. As usual, cooperation and diplomacy remains important. How can you get the attention you want and still perpetuate harmony? Opportunities for expansion on all relation-ship fronts remain strong and will through to late sum-mer.
Scorpio (Oct 22 – Nov 21)Some very real shifts close
to a very active imagination woven with intuitions to in-novate is yours to enjoy now. This cycle will continue for about 2-3 weeks yet. It in-cludes the prospect of ex-pansion yet based on care-fully calculated risk. It also requires investment and/or perhaps payment of dues. Surrender of certain habit patterns is also implied and these are linked to sex and relationships.
Sagittarius (Nov 21 – Dec 21)A time of new begin-
nings continues. In certain respects this may feel like a gestation phase. Questions of truth, ethics and prin-ciples are beating stronger than ever in your heart. An experiential and experimen-tal approach may work best and wait about six months before making deeper com-mitments if possible. Yet a steadily rising state of new responsibility and power is emerging.
Capricorn (Dec 21 – Jan 19) You have entered a cycle
of mixed blessings. On one hand it speaks of opportu-nity, returns and abundance. However, there are certain relationships or patterns that may be beginning to dis-solve. Handled well, you will move on to new experiences and away from involvements or expressions that have served their time and feel richer for them, literally and figuratively.
Aquarius (Jan 19 – Feb 19)Replacing the old with the
new is linked to perceptions.
The changing flow of time is pushing you to new perspec-tives and approaches. These may still yet be in their learning and experimental stages. In some respects, this is a time of returns for past efforts. Yet, you may be on catch-up mode as well. All amidst an expansive time, you may feel pulled in a few directions.
Pisces (Feb 19 – Mar 20)A process of entering
new territory continues. This may be literal but also symbolic. These new steps and perspectives point to new horizons of experience. Letting go of long standing rhythms of activity is part of the plot. Although you should have reason to feel confident, the task may re-quire extra efforts and faith-ful follow through.
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NEW! DIAMOND FOREVER SERIES 5” ENGINEERED HARDWOODREGULAR $7.99 /SQ.FT – SALE $3.99/SQ.FT.
GLAZED PORCELAIN 12”X12” - REG $2.39/SQ.FT. – SALE $1.49/SQ.FT.
NEW VINYL TILE 8 COLOURS 16” X 16” AND 12” X 24” STONE LOOK REG $3.49/ SQ.FT. – SALE $1.99/SQ.FT.
Peruvian Walnut
$3.99/sq.ft.
$1.49/sq.ft.
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Natural White Oak
$3.99/sq.ft.
$1.49/sq.ft.
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$3.99/sq.ft.
$1.49/sq.ft.
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Introducing the durable Diamond Forever Hardwood Collection! It’s one of the most ideal engineered fl ooring for today’s busy life, easy to care for and highly resistant to the scuffs
and spills of everyday. With it’s ecological qualities, the Diamond Forever Collection offers the best of both worlds by combining jaw-dropping look with an extremely tough, hard-wearing surface. Not only is it FSC Certifi ed, it has a limited
Lifetime Residential Finish Warranty, as well as a 10 year limited Light Commercial Finish Warranty.
Collection! highly resistant to the scuffs e best of both worlds by combining
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ROLLER SHADES, FAUX & REAL WOOD50%OFF Window Coverings!
