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Submit your event: eMail: [email protected] • fax: 285-2236 • drop-off: 701 Cape Mudge Rd. The Regulars Day by day • Quadra Legion - Now open Fridays and Saturdays at 4:00pm Saturday, November 10 • Every Monday - Badminton, 7:30 Cape Mudge Hall - Film Show Presented by Sierra Quadra Q.C.C. - Parent and Tots 9:30 am - noon Q.C.C. End of Suburbia at 7 pm Escape from Suburbia at 8:30 pm • Every Tuesday - Smile Makers Kidz Klub Q.I. Bible Church from 2:4 -4:15 pm Sunday, November 11 - Kalina Folkdancers -QCC, 7:30 to 9:30 pm, Sept.to Apr. - Remembrance Day Service Quadra Legion - Sketching group at Firesign Studio 10 am-12:00 pm Please be seated by 10:45 am sharp, Luncheon after service, Social at 5 pm - Al-anon meeting, 7.30 pm at the Childrens Centre Monday, November 12 • Every Wednesday - Moms and Babes 11 am - noon Q.C.C. - Garden Club - Guest speaker from Linnea Farm Q.C.C. -Community Lunch noon Q.C.C. Support local food producers and learn to ‘grow your own’. 7pm - Badminton, 7:30 pm Cape Mudge Hall Tuesday, November 13 • Every Thursday - Parent and Tots 9:30 am - noon Q.C.C. - Quadra Quilters Q.C.C. - Isle Sing 3-4:30 pm Q.C.C. upstairs, use South entrance 9 am - 2 pm - Prayer Meeting, 7:00pm at Quadra Island Bible Church Saturday, November 17 - 7-9:30 PM: Life drawing sessions at Firesign Studio 285-3390 - An Evening with Shane Philip - playground fundraiser Q.C.C. • Every Friday - Free Pool, Darts and Shuffleboard at the Legion 4 pm to 1am 7 pm • Every Saturday - Legion Meat Draw 5:00pm to 6:30pm Friday, November 16 - Peace Vigil, Noon, Q.Cove Post Office - Flu Clinic Q.C.C. • Every Sunday ‑ Sunday Service QI United Church 10:30 10:30 am -1:00 pm - Family Worship Service 10:30am Quadra Island Bible Church Friday November 23 - Buddhist Meditation 10:00 am Upper Realm - Christmas Craft Fair Q.C.C. - Sunday Celebration, Centre for Positive Living - 900 Alder St. C.R. 10:20 - 11:20 am 4-9 pm • 1st and 3rd Wednesday - Food Bank 1-2 Community Centre - Banff Mountain Film Festival Campbell River Tidemark • 3rd Sunday of Month - Raw Food Pot Luck 5 - 7pm 285-3827 7pm • Last Saturday - Bonus $50 cash draw or gift certificate. Quadra Legion 6:30 pm Saturday November 24 - Christmas Craft Fair Q.C.C. Next Deadline: Monday, November 19th 2007 10 am - 3 pm Santa arrives at noon on the firetruck!
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Shane Philip [email protected] Action Images * Michael Desjardins www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 3 IslanderDiscovery Island Forum Issue 408 November 9th, 2007 Say your piece: eMail: [email protected] • fax: 285-2236 • drop-off: 701 Cape Mudge Rd. Published bi-weekly and distributed free throughout the Discovery Islands by: Discovery Islands media & publishing PO Box 280 Quathiaski Cove, Taxes and TFLs B.C. V0P 1N0 Tel.: 250 285-2234 Fax: 250 285-2236 701 Cape Mudge Rd. Dear Sir Filed with the Discovery Islander Office hours: Mon-Thurs 10-4pm Perhaps in this slower time of the year Quadra To: CBC Radio Victoria email: [email protected] residents may have a few minutes to consider the I listened with interest to this morning’s story implications of two events which have transpired Publisher/Editor: Philip Stone about the lack of first nation consultation when over the summer. As many will know B.C. Assessment Westrn Forest Products private land was removed Staff Reporter: Tanya Storr completed a comprehensive re-assessment of all Area from their TFLs. In my view, the latest move by J properties this past summer. My contacts at the Printing: Castle Printing 285-3695 the province to permit removal of WFPs private assessment office assure me that the total assessed value lands without compensation is a sell-out of the © Discovery Islander 2007 All Rights Reserved of properties in Area J will rise significantly as a result public interest. Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of this process. They have found many properties for of the contributors and do not represent the which structures and improvements have not been As a Biologist, I was the District Habitat views of the publisher. previously assessed. Hence in addition to valuations Officer for the Fish and Wildlife Branch of the increasing due to the demands of the real estate Ministry of Environment, Campbell River, for Agreement # 1408585 market, many Quadra residents will find the assessed most of the 1990s. As such, I was responsible value of their properties very much higher than in for the management and protection of fish and previous years. wildlife habitat on TFL private lands. Working in conjunction with the Ministry of Forests, those Printed on recycled paper We have also been advised that Area J will become lands were managed to the same standards, as crown part of a new Regional District. One with a much TFL land, for fish and wildlife habitat, biodiversity, Discovery Islands smaller total assessed value than its predecessor. As this Media and Publishing timber sustainability, and other non-timber values. new Regional District will ultimately grow to provide After removal from the TFL, in terms of fish and a similar range of administrative services, it will require Subscriptions available wildlife habitat, these lands are subject only to the a budget similar to the former one. The mayor of Gold Federal Fisheries Act and 2 arcane sections of the $30.00* for 6 months River, to his credit, has recognized that spreading the .00* BC Wildlife Act that protect eagle and heron nest $50 for 12 months (* includes GST) administration cost over a smaller asset value base will trees. The companies are free to maximize short result in higher, per property, tax charges. Call 250 285-2234 for details term shareholder returns at the expense of non- Hence exists the need to increase taxes, coupled timber values. with an up to date assessment in one area of the new Submission Guidelines The timber companies placed these private Regional District. You will note that other areas Items for publication are welcomed on subjects lands in TFLs because they received inducements of the district have not had recent comprehensive of interest to the Discovery Islands community. or compensation from the province for doing assessments. Area J will then bear more of the tax Please help us by following these guidelines: so. There may be good and justifiable reasons for increase than other areas in the new District. • Please print handwritten material clearly. removing private land from a TFL. But, in a quid • Electronic items sent by email & must be saved In a system focused upon equality, tax rates in area pro quo world, the company should be compensating as Word or rtf formats. Please spell check in J should drop next year to ensure that Area J residents the Province for this removal, either in cash, or Canadian English. Sorry no floppies. are not paying a greater proportional share of the preferably, in land or restrictive covenants. Forest • No MS Publisher, WordPerfect files or graphics in total tax burden. Once all property assessments in the Minister Coleman was recently quoted as saying that Word files please. Send imported graphics separately. District are up to date, regional district wide rates can WFP had paid stumpage on the timber harvested • Please use the title of the item as email subject be adjusted to reflect the level of service in each area. from the WFP lands that are being removed. The & send multiple items in separate emails. Not that tax equality can ever be achieved. Minister is misinformed, stumpage is not paid on • Please don’t send original irreplaceable However, the taxing administration has a golden private TFL land, only the provincial timber tax material, make a trip to a copier first!! opportunity coming to extract a disproportionate which is an entirely different matter. If the Minister • Please remember to caption & credit photos amount of new tax revenue from Area J residents, is this badly informed about stumpage, is he in a and artwork. Don’t write on the back of photos owner’s and renters alike. It may be worth your reader’s position to make decisions about removal of land use labels or Postits™. while to watch their new tax assessment(s) closely and from TFLs? This decision does not pass the “smell” pay attention to the formation of the new District and test and needs to reviewed in public. While every effort is made to include all items to its initial tax policy. Sincerely; submitted, errors and accidental omissions do occur David Alger Regards and the Discovery Islander should be only one part Quadra Island of your publicity efforts. M. Gouge Articles, letters and artwork are all welcome for publication in ‘Island Forum’ Opinions & endorsements expressed herein are those of the contributors and do not represent the views of the publisher. Next Deadline If you would like to see an alternative point of view represented submit something yourself. We reserve the right to edit for space and content. 7 pm. Monday, November 19th Next deadline 7pm November 19th www.discoveryislander.ca 4 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 I should like to make the following Quadra Island Public Service Announcement Re: Killing our Thank You! Cancer Rate, On behalf of the Wild Salmon We, the Fire Dept., would like to give a huge thank-you to Quadra Foods, Environment, And Wolves, Cougars Gotta love those anti-fish farmers— Heriot Bay Tru Valu, and Schnieders And Bears Of gonna save the wild salmon by grilling it Meats for their donations to us for our Future Planning on the bbq. How about some marmot Halloween evening at the Bay hall. We Regarding cancer and our Quadra Island burgers to go with that? And some are grateful to the Island’s business’ and environment on Quadra Island: While spotted owl roasted with a nice wild to Schnieders. Thank-you to all who resently researching Quadra Island rice stuffing? came by in costume, chatted, ate, drank history, in Campbell River Public I’m all for protecting wild salmon. hot choc. to warm up and supported Library, I read a book from the library Re: Their Official But come on folks, by killing it and this evening. We will see you next year! shelves titled ‘Edge of Discovery ~ A Community Plan eating it? Before the poor guy even gets Sincerely, QIVFD History of Campbell River District’ a chance to reproduce? I don’t think so. As residents of the island since the by D.E. Isenor, E.G. Stephens, and I’ll stick to such radical ideas as cleaning Smashing Pumpkins? last ice age, their voice has never been D.E. Watson. This book describes up spawning grounds and consuming heard in the formulation of human It is usually a pleasure to drive by a geological survey conducted on the farmed product. OCPs. It has always been what people at this time of year to view the creative Quadra Island during 1914, when Bruce Banta needed. How people needed to sell handiwork of the island pumpkin carvers, geologists surveyed a 1.5-mile wide off their acreages to newcomers to and then to watch the faces change as they band of limestone running from Open finance their retirement or help out Many Thanks regress back to nature This year just as the Bay to Granite Bay. They analysed their offspring. Or how they needed faces were beginning to take their place samples from this limestone band and To all who aided in finding my little affordable housing for seniors or young many were pushed off and smashed. found a significant deposit in Granite dog Muffin. Special thanks to Debbie families so the school can stay open. The good news, I saw a family today Bay containing 27.5% radioactive Mortimer who picked her up, took her Never a thought was given to the choosing an honoured place for their uranium. A mining company staked a home and cared for her overnight. You pressure of thousands more residents jack-o-lantern today. Don’t let the party claim, and planned to build a uranium are a very special lady. on wildlife. Just keep growing has been poopers win, if you haven’t placed your mine in Granite Bay. This mine did not Thanks again the mantra. pumpkin please do, there’s lots of space eventuate, due to uranium discoveries Joy Fowler . Bev elsewhere in Canada. The majestic predators of Quadra would not assert their right to claim all After reading this account I of the island, but merely to maintain immediately thought of Quadra their place on it. But even the best Island’s cancer rate. Exposure to game management cannot protect radioactivity causes cancer. Quadra them from human over-population, residents who blame the pulp mill for which seldom over-takes us in one Quadra’s cancer rate may be better to fell swoop, but incrementally through blame Quadra’s natural radioactive innocuous steps. rock. In 1914 when Quadra’s geology was surveyed, not so much was In 2007 it’s 2700 people and let’s say known about radioactivity. Perhaps thirty years later it will be 10,000, the the matter was given little attention, population of Saltspring Island today. then forgotten about. Are there other How many cougars and wolves live on areas of radioactive rock on Quadra Saltspring now? Answer: zilch. Squat. apart from in Granite Bay’s limestone? Nada. Zero. Are some of us living on radioactive Clearly what is needed is not Land? Drinking radioactive water? Do wildlife management, but human any of Quadra’s aquifers run through management. Not stewardship, but radioactive rock? Some Quadra wells studentship. have too much boron or too much Therefore the OCP for the arsenic to be potable. Do some Quadra Predators of Quadra Island calls for a wells have too much radioactivity? limit on people. And in the same spirit Quadra residents can have their water of exclusivity, their hearings are closed analysed, but does that analysis include to human input. a Geiger counter reading? Quadra property owners should perhaps take Tim Murray Geiger counter readings of their land, Quadra Island, BC and their well water. Also, people who go caving in Q-Beans Granite Bay limestone caves should bear in mind that they could be Coffee exposing themselves to radioactive rock. Quadra Island’s radioactive rock is a factor in future planning. Only organically grown, fair-trade coffee. Kiosk opens at 6:00 a.m. Greg Ross daily at the Q-Cove ferry terminal.
www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 5 Dear Mr. Liseth, Never Again Wild Salmon Unite BC This is partly in response to your letter Dear Editor, and also to several requests I have had Dear Editor, from others to elaborate on the issues I just walked through the Quadra surrounding TimberWest’s corporate Last weekend in Port McNeill I forget the total collapse of the east coast Island cemetery. There’s a plaque in the activities on our island. back commemorating 58 war veterans. attended a protest walk against open [cod] fishery. In spite of all the evidence, 58 brave men most of whom fought in net fish farming. One remarkable government and industry are refusing I am in complete agreement with you WWll and WWl. I was surprised to see thing about this event was that it to listen. that the large areas of mature forest land on Quadra Island are a defining feature that one had served a long time ago in was organized by a logger. My guess This coming together in Port McNeill of our island home. The management of India and ‘Afghanistan’. is that it was attended by about 100 of loggers and environmentalists, the timber resources and conservation people, many of them loggers and their ordinary people who are very concerned The most recent war represented of the parkland have the potential to families. is just the beginning. What can you was Korea. I was a toddler then. I barely give people economic, recreational and I’m kind of in awe of Alexandra do? Join public protests, write your remember. I remember my dad though, environmental benefits indefinitely. WWll - air force. He was compelled to Morton, the noted scientist from MLA. Remember this issue when you serve to stop tyranny, to stop the war. Simoon Sound whose work with whales vote. More info - want to help? www. But personally I don’t believe that the ‘Never again’ he was told. ‘Never again’ has been wisely acclaimed and who friendsofwildsalmon.ca or call Roberta management of the TFL lands on Quadra would we be asked to give the supreme has more recently been studying and at 285-2061. Island by TimberWest are benefiting everyone equally. The lion’s share is going sacrifice of our loved ones. Thousands writing about the damage done by fish Roberta Robson gave their lives, for peace, willingly for farms in the Broughton Archipelago. to a group of ‘anonymous’ shareholders us. Well, there she was walking beside me in thousands of miles from here. the pouring rain through Port McNeill. Now Canada is again at war. Canadians TFL 47 may have been the very model Some points made by Ms. Morton are killing and being killed, participating Editor, Discovery of sustainable silviculture under previous during her speech following our walk in a U.S. led war for control of the world’s tenureholders but today it is under the through town were: Islander oil. History will undoubtedly show this management of a self-professed ‘real estate Sir; to be true. Peaceful Canadians have been • Wild salmon are the backbone company’ whose income trust corporate sucked into going to war once again and of the whole ecology of the coast. The I must take Phil Stone to task for structure demands that they plunder our ancestors are mocked. Did they give whales, the bears, the wolves, the eagles, publishing an unsigned, unacredited irreplaceable timber even below market value their lives in vain and for a lie? ‘Never the trees themselves. Life on the coast is letter damming the TFL logging to satisfy shareholder returns. To add insult again’ we were told. sustained by the salmon. on Quadra island. Who is this ‘3rd to injury TimberWest are one of the major generation Quadra Islander’ who slams purportraitors [sic] of raw log exports. Soon no one will be left that truly • Fish farms are placed in the most our logging pratices & the decimation remembers WWll, the brutality of it and sensitive areas where the little smolts What happened recently near Jordan of animals & threats to eco-tourism? the reasons our loved ones gave their lives, from all the rivers are forced to go past River with Western Forest Products that we might live in peace. Standing up them. Sea lice abundance near fish farms Does he/she exist? What possible being permitted by the government to to the USA during Vietnam honoured has been shown to be 30,000 times reason could there be to not want (or sell a huge swath of TFL to an urban our fathers and the sacred promise made higher than natural levels (Raincoast require) a signature on a letter? developer for millions of dollars could easily happen on Quadra Island. them. Research). Sea lice can kill juvenile fish The TFL (#47, formerly #2 has even at low levels (Watershed). This Remembrance Day let’s insist that existed since 1953, taking effect in The issue is not one of historical forest Canada’s involvement in the war against • Industrialized fish farming has 1985. It is the largest reason that management but current and future control Afghanistan end. It not only lends George negatively effected the tourism industry. Quadra Is. retains a rural character. over our public lands. Our community Bush credibility, it destroys our own and is Farms regularly use acoustic harassment ten acre stump ranches & estates do should wrest control of this land from the actually prolonging the conflict. devices to scare away marine mammals. not represent a rural community; the provincial government and TimberWest Whales no longer frequent parts of woodlots & farms do. so we can truly discuss our island’s future Lets’ insist our elected officials and not have it dictated to us by a faceless the Broughton since the advent of fish The TFL harbours & build a great return Canada to its historical role of corporation and racketeering government farming. population of game while preserving peacekeeper. It’s time to stop offering up whose bottom lines are making profit for • The government is being dishonest. lakes & watercourses, all varieties of our own children for needless sacrifice and people who don’t live here. selling our ancestors short. The opposite It is leading people to believe that it is vegetation, & the unique rock features of war is peace. Let’s stand up for it - ‘Lest possible to have both open net fish of the limestone belt. As for the unsigned letter, what does that really matter? Our home is what We Forget’. farming and wild salmon. Ms. Morton Arne Liseth made it very clear that you can have is being discussed here, and I don’t just K C Cudmor only one or the other, not both. Don’t mean Quadra. - Philip Stone Heriot Bay
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www.discoveryislander.ca 6 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 Re: Appeal To Stop The Carving Eschew the cheap tricks of ‘leaders’ Up Of The CSRD Dear Premier Campbell, a considerable conflict and one that Here’s the deal: warrants review by your Cabinet and/ Before wasting any more time, or a Judicial Review. in order for you to act and act The mechanisms that cultures energy or money on the proposal In closing, I must say that it is a pity effectively in the world that actually once invented to channel emoting by Stan Hagen to split our Comox that the rural areas of our Province are is (as opposed to the picture of into group-cohesiveness are now Strathcona Regional District in two being so mistreated and so ignored by the world that people such as and carve up our services in a most twisted into caricature, using your Government. In a country where yourself are made to buy into), inequitable manner, I wish to advise the sophist art of advertising to people like my Dad’s cousin, Charles that: you must see for yourself, sans robotize your being, and you will Burton Wylie, gave his life for the babysitters, mercantile profiteers 1. Minister Chong’s directive in find it painful to even just see the democratic freedoms we enjoy today, and compromised idealists, the her July 13/07 letter to our Regional dynamics for yourself. You are being we cannot stand by and allow tyranny bones of the world and the blood District was made without consultation of this sort to prevail. trained to fill roles of audience or and without due process, as required that is, now leaking away, and you performer that have economized, in Finally, whilst we elected officials by law. must come to own your conscience the modern sense, your very heart, have been told that we cannot speak rather than being moved by guilt, 2. Our Board has not been given of the accumulating, unavoidable cost and as long as you are persuaded of shame and fear. an opportunity to express our views of this duplication of services, I can tell life’s essential seriousity (fear helps officially through a vote at our Board you that we would be much happier if You are going to have to eschew here) your foolish heart will be table and our constituents have not such monies were spent on delivering the cheap tricks of ‘leaders’ and restrained and you are manipulated. been offered a voice in how their grant funds for the long-awaited experts, and act on your own With the grip of tension that holds local government will be delivered in sewage systems, or making significant initiative, and you are going to have you to institutionalized ideals so the future. There is NOT majority improvements to our hospitals or to come to some kind of realization tight, your catharsis will be, will support for this proposal at our Board building a new community center for or with the public or the Union of BC of how your own human being is have to be messy and violent and the 5,000 people in my area who don’t those inhibitions won’t dissolve Municipalities. have a hall to meet in. Wouldn’t it be a part of life, aw opposed to the without some damage being done. 3. The arbitrary decision to “split” refreshing if Government at all levels myth of identity such as is taught into two Regional Districts at the would just focus on delivering good you and sold you as a member So it’s either lose - lose or a nice Oyster River presents extreme hardship services to the people they serve at a of the very cheap euphemism of paint job. for our CSRD services and properties decent price instead of creating havoc ‘community’ or ‘society’. Language Good luck that span both sides of the Oyster and disharmony? matters here because you have Piper Son River. As Director for the Oyster I trust that you will do the right been persuaded to accept concepts River/Oyster Bay settlement areas, thing and call a halt to the splitting of that are both nonesensical and I firmly object to not being properly our Regional District. If this were, as serving of a hierarchical classism consulted on this and the proposal to Stan Hagen told me, “the best thing he’s within which authentic emotion is I am looking for allow water and fire services to be extra ever done,” I’d hate to see the worst! suspicious, is judged less pleasant the right person(s) to territorialized to a new Comox Valley Yours sincerely, than made up, cosmeticized and Regional District whilst most of my Brenda E. Leigh, Director help me develop Little electoral area services are relegated to Oyster Bay-Buttle Lake (Area D) stylized emoting. Eden (Cortes Island) the Strathcona area further north. This Comox Strathcona Regional District into the gardening doesn’t make any sense when so many community concept I services are shared by the two electoral have envisioned. I hope areas on both sides of the River. This to find a single, couple will impose difficulties with proper or family to live at Little representation of taxation for those services. Furthermore, we have a 1,538 Eden and help me with: acre farm in my area that spans both General maintenance sides of the river and, as it presently and repairs stands, will be governed by two entirely different jurisdictions—this makes no Carpentry projects sense at all. North Islander Gardening maintenance 4. To expect that rural property $ * and development owners will pick up 53% of the cost of Special from... Orchard care this split while having only 37% of the 85 population is an unjustified raid on the DOWNTOWN CAMPBELL RIVER If you’re interested tax base of rural property owners. contact me at by I wish to advise that I have asked s email: lucretia@ Dale Wall of Community Services to uniserve.com whom I can appeal this ridiculous and Fanny Bay Restaurant - Lounge - Spa arbitrary split. I recognize that he is North or by phone at: both engineering the “split” while, at 250-935-0221. the same time, acting as Inspector of Municipalities. This is, in my opinion, www.coasthotels.com www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 7 Honourable Ida Chong Area I Regional Director’s Report Minister of Community Services and Minister Responsible for Seniors’ November 9, 2007 by Jenny Hiebert And Women’s Issues now most of you are aware of the Earlier in the process the Ministry of Community proposed division of the Comox Services approved a restructure-planning grant, applied Strathcona Regional District (CSRD) for by the CSRD, in the amount of $95,000. These funds Dear Minister Chong, intoBy the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) in the were used to cover costs associated with the planning I am writing to request of you the release north and Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) phase of division and included special board meetings, of the full report, including cost implications, in the south. The division is to take place at the Oyster CSRD management consultant to assist in meeting on the restructuring of the Comox Strathcona River. What follows is a brief recap of the scanty bits timelines, the independent services analysis, and legal/ Regional District. of information that have been released to the public. accounting costs. If the division continues, Phase Two- On July 13 Minister of Community Services, Ida The Transition Phase will start January 01, 2008. With less than two months before the Chong, forwarded a letter the CSRD announcing the Increasingly, I am asked, “What can we do to stop Regional District is due to be divided in two, division. This was done without any consultation. this?” The only action left to put a stop to this unnecessary there is a need for the public to have as much Minister Chong mandated that the creation of these division is a FIRESTORM OF OPPOSITION! The information as possible about the implications two new regional districts be completed by December provincial government needs to hear from taxpayers and practicalities of such a split. 31, 2007. The division will be made possible by new opposed to the division of the CSRD. Your elected The executive summary of the report by Letters Patent that will include the transfer of assets representatives are doing everything possible to reverse and liabilities from the CSRD to either the proposed the directive but active public participation is needed Meyers Norris Penny is posted on the Comox SRD or CVRD. Minister Chong outlined a number immediately. There are only seven weeks left until this Strathcona Regional District website, and of directives that must be met in the newly formed division is to take place, which obviously includes the discusses establishing a corporation to deal Comox Valley Regional District. These included a busiest holiday season of the year. Please give some time with the joint services which it is felt cannot Growth Management Strategy and the development to this issue—today. Letters should be sent to be divided. of the regional water system, both of which were Premier Gordon Campbell at [email protected] However according to this summary, the already being developed under the auspices of the and PO Box 9041 Victoria BC V8W 9E1 CSRD. No directives were given for the SRD. regional districts would have no control Copy letters to: over the board and taxpayers would “lose The Ministry of Community Services engaged the Honourable Ida Chong, Minister of Community some influence in that the corporation’s services of Doug Allen to lead the process on behalf of the ministry. The services of Meyers Norris Penny Services at [email protected] and PO Box 9056, management would be insulated from LLP (MNP) were engaged to prepare an independent Victoria BC V8W 9E2, them.” analysis for the more complicated regional services Honourable Stan Hagen, Minister of Tourism, Sadly it appears that the move to split (IE: regional solid waste and corporate support [email protected] and PO Box 028 Parliament the Regional District is compounding services.) After the October Committee of the Buildings, Victoria, BC V8V 1X4. Whole meeting, the Board of Director’s “rose” on problems. Claire Trevena at [email protected] the Executive Summary of the MNP report, which and 908 Island Highway Campbell River, BC V9W Firstly there was the complete lack of outlines various recommendation options. It can be 2C3. consultation about your Ministry’s intention read on the CSRD website www.comoxstrathcona. to split the District. This has been followed by ca. Also, copy the CSRD Board at administration@ rdcs.bc.ca the imposition of a new level of bureaucracy I was among the director’s that was in favor of – a corporation – to deal with those areas releasing the ‘unavoidable costs’ as outlined in the For local press contacts please refer to Director Jim integrated in the current Regional District. MNP report, however, the majority of Director’s Abrams Report found in this Discovery Islander. And this entity seems to have been taken did not agree. Therefore, that information cannot Feel free to contact me about this or any other out of the hands of locally elected officials, be divulged. It is a significant number and I rather concerns at 935-6488 Monday through Friday 9:00 given to a board and “insulated…from undue suspect that if you don’t think this is an important am to 4 pm. (No early morning, late night or weekend political influence.” local issue now you will when the actual costs are calls, please.) If you get the answering machine try released. The Board and Province will continue my cell phone -- 202-6488. You can also email me at Further the executive summary provides no division and service delivery discussions on November [email protected] anytime. indication of the cost of this new corporation 22. This meeting will be “in-camera” and any further Respectfully Submitted by or the cost of the split. information the Board votes to “rise and report” on Jenny Hiebert will be made public at that time. With little more than six weeks until the —Regional Director split is affected I would hope the Minister, in the spirit of transparency, will provide both the complete report and the full costing so residents can feel confident that this process will be beneficial. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely Claire Trevena, MLA North Island
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November 9, 2007 by Jim Abram
have three main topics to report on in this The CSRD’s 149 services were examined in detail Despite strong objections from local governments issue and I will try to keep them as brief as with an eye on the following objectives: across the province, two recent Union of BC possible. a) determine the most cost-efficient service delivery model Municipalities (UBCM) resolutions and a meeting with I a delegation of the UBCM executive, Minister Chong during the transition period and post-transition, has stated that she will not change her mind, that the split Official Community Plan b) arrive at an estimate of the “unavoidable costs” will go ahead early in 2008 regardless of the costs. associated with the restructure, (OCP) - Public Hearing #2 - This is where your action is required, AND ASAP! c) determine the most practical means of addressing Please give this issue some of your time today. I strongly Wed., Nov. 14th at 6:30 pm asset, liability, and reserve transfers, and believe that public input is essential, and it’s needed right now. After the last public hearing on October 10th, I d) determine the impact of the restructure on CSRD Write to Premier Gordon Campbell at Premier@gov. carefully reviewed all of the comments submitted and management and staff. bc.ca and Parliament Buildings, Victoria V8V 1X4 met with the other Electoral Area directors to discuss If that sounds to you like a complex undertaking, how we might proceed. I had a number of ideas that -- and please cc the CSRD Board at administration@ it was. You can read the executive summary of the rdcs.bc.ca and myself at [email protected] I put in writing and that were discussed at a special 168 page MNP report on the CSRD web site, www. meeting of those directors. We all agreed that changes comoxstrathcona.ca. That summary, however, does Write short, focused letters to the editors of the local needed to be made and that we would then need to NOT include the “obvious unavoidable costs” identified press (see bottom for email addresses). return to a public hearing to present those changes. by MNP because the Board has not chosen to make Please forward this email to all of your contacts. I personally feel that most of the concerns expressed those public. But I can tell you that the costs are beyond The CSRD Board has never endorsed the division. have been dealt with and that the current proposal is your wildest imaginings! My original most conservative This is an arbitrary exercise of provincial power, without about as good as it can get. I am convinced that we guesses prior to seeing the report were ridiculously low. precedent in BC. CSRD is the intended guinea pig, and CAN buck the demographic curve and keep our young And MNP recognizes that even more ongoing costs will it’s going to be an expensive waste of taxpayers’ funds families here, create a society that can care for the elderly be identified as a transition moves forward. And by the unless it can be stopped. There are so many good things and promote everything that is sustainable... those way, I voted in favour of releasing all of the costs publicly that your tax money could pay for instead! Please take were and are my goals in this exercise. I think that this , as did the other eight rural directors. action today. If you don’t feel this is important at this proposed OCP will provide some of the tools to help MNP recommends the creation of a shared services time, you certainly will when you see the actual costs. us move forward and revitalize our island. There is still corporation as the least costly service delivery model “Big Island” press contacts: more work to do, but this is the first step and we need for some of the services that we currently deliver, Comox Valley Echo: [email protected] to take it and move on. if the CSRD split were to happen. One of the real Comox Valley Record: [email protected] I look forward to a full house on Wednesday, disadvantages of this model is that taxpayers would Gold River Record: [email protected] November 14th, from 6:30 to 8:30 at the Community likely lose all influence in the corporation’s management CR Courier Islander: [email protected] Centre. The changes have been posted on the Comox because it would be insulated from them. With a services Campbell River Mirror: [email protected] Strathcona Regional District (CSRD) web site (www. corporation, there could well be a loss of political comoxstrathcona.ca ) for your review and I delivered oversight, with non-elected “directors” outweighing the large maps to the Community Centre for your viewing. elected directors. In my opinion, this is privatization of Lucky Jim Mine All mail boxes have received a flyer, notifying you of local government service delivery and decision making. the hearing. I will also place a stack of flyers at each These shared services, such as solid waste management, I went to the Lucky Jim Mine with the flat deck Post Office for those that do not receive “junk mail”. have been incredible success stories for local government delivery truck and driver on October 16th to deliver all Notices will be placed in all of the local media to insure and have eliminated all costs to the taxpayer on their of the materials that I mentioned in my last Discovery full notification of the population. property taxes. So, why would we divide the regional Islander report. With the materials successfully in place, district in the first place? The economies of scale are I was able to then set in motion the organizing of the working in our favour with the current model. generous volunteers for the assembly project. We will be going to the site on Saturday, November 3rd to assess the Proposed CSRD split The CSRD is already the most cost-efficient, work that needs to be done, the tools that we need to do I have not mentioned much about this proposal effective, and fully functional local government that we the job and set up a work plan. Then the work begins on prior to this simply because we really had no idea about have available to us. So why the division? -- That’s the one of our few heritage sites on the island!. any of the details. Now I have a bit more to report on. multi-million-dollar question! There is still a need for a few more volunteers to In July, without any prior consultation, the BC If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Can it be improved? Of help us out. If you are interested, please contact me at Ministry of Community Services advised the CSRD course it can. Will I support improvements? That is one the numbers listed below. that it would be split into two. The boundary between of my personal goals in being a part of local government. the two smaller regional districts has been assumed to Any of the good initiatives in the provincial directive, So, for now, that is about all I have time for. Feel be the Oyster River. This split would have significant like a mandated growth management strategy for the free to call me between the hours of 8:30 am and human, financial, and physical asset implications for Comox Valley, could proceed without a split. 7:00 pm, Monday through Friday (not on weekends, folks!) at 285-3355, or you can fax me at 285-3533 or CSRD. The Board decided to undertake a detailed The only justification for the split is a purely political you can email me anytime at [email protected]. analysis of the impacts of this direction, and engaged one, and the province should be held accountable for com , or by mail at Box 278 in the Cove, V0P 1N0... the reputable accounting/auditing firm Meyers Norris committing to spend the kind of money that they will Lots of choices! Penny LLP (MNP) to assist in the analysis, anticipating need to spend to satisfy certain individuals’ political Respectfully submitted, Jim Abram that MNP’s independence would result in conclusions whims. This will all come out once the Board releases Director, Discovery Islands - Mainland Inlets Area J that are sound and reasonable. the information. www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 9 Ferry Math: Same Service for Twice the Price by John Sprungman, Chair, Ferry Advisory Committee
you bought ferry ticket the cash fares and the cost of prepaid What this means is that by April What Can We Do? books in the last week, you tickets. Cash fares have gone up an 2011, the prepaid fares will be at least As I said at the meetings may have noticed that they average of about 43% while tickets twice what they were in 2003. on Saturday, it appears that the costIf nearly 10% more than they did in have increased 64%. During the same Those hikes are a best case scenario, government is following the business October. period, the rate of inflation in B.C. has because the price caps are now tied to concept of raising the price until net BC Ferries just hiked the cash fares been 2% a year. the Vancouver Consumer Price Index. revenue from sales ceases to increase. and the ticket books by the same dollar Frequently we hear that the ticket If annual inflation exceeds 2%, fares In other words, they won’t put in more amounts which resulted in about 4.8% books amount to a “huge discount” will be proportionately higher. If fuel tax revenue into BC Ferries until they more on Quadra and Cortes cash fares for local residents. The fact is that costs significantly exceed this year’s have squeezed every dollar they can and increases from 7.7% to 10.5% for 10 years ago this month the NDP price per barrel, more fuel surcharges out of ferry users. Even then they may prepaid tickets. government then in power suddenly can be added. try to cut back the service before they There was supposed to have been a raised the price of all fares by almost provide any more funding. 4.4% price cap on the November 1st 50%. The public reaction was sufficient The damage they will do to our increases, but BC Ferries is arguing to get a mediator appointed, and Plastic Over Paper... communities in the meantime is a subsequently the ticket book prices that they didn’t take full advantage of The other big upcoming change is topic the FAC Chairs keep stressing, were rolled back to their previous the previous four years’ worth of caps that the paper ticket books are going but it is hard to quantify when FAC levels as a “concession” to residents of and that they are entitled to make it to be replaced by plastic cards which members are all volunteers and we ferry-dependent communities. The cash up now. will simplify ticketing for BC Ferries. have no funding to do studies or prices were never reduced. These surprise fare hikes have been Having a card will be necessary to surveys. Most of our evidence is applied in the same fashion across all When the Liberal party won a get the current prepaid rates. How anecdotal, and this government is 22 minor routes. The Ferry Advisory majority, one of their stated agendas this will play out in terms of cost and more impressed by bound volumes Committee Chairs will be meeting was to “eliminate political interference” convenience to ferry users remains to of statistical analysis (i.e., corporate with Ferry Commissioner Martin Crilly in the running of BC Ferries. They be seen. annual reports). turned the Crown corporation into and BC Ferries’ money managers in As cash fares have risen, the It is important that individuals B.C. Ferry Services Inc., supposedly a Nanaimo next week to find out how percentage of travelers using ticket and businesses write to Minister private company but still 100% owned BC Ferries can get away with this books has increased. BC Ferries’ of Transportation Kevin Falcon by the Province. They wrote the Coastal under its contract with the provincial President & CEO David Hahn has and let him know how fares are Ferry Services Contract, telling BC government. commented more than once that affecting you. (Email: Minister. Ferries what service to provide and how when ticket book use exceeds 90%, it [email protected]. Mail: Crilly has promised us a session much government money they would is hardly worth it to have two kinds of Hon. Kevin Falcon, PO Box 9055, which he says will require an put into it. understanding of “Grade 12 math or fares and BC Ferries might as well do Stn Prov Govt, Victoria, B.C., V8W better.” Having attended both of the Despite saying they are arm’s away with the prepaid ticket books and 9E2). You can copy your messages to ferry meetings organized by North length from their own creation, the have one cash fare for everyone. He’s North Island MLA Claire.Trevena Island MLA Claire Trevena on Quadra Ministry of Transportation is still said that the savings from not having (Email: claire.trevena.mla@leg. and Cortes last Saturday, I don’t think calling the shots on a lot of decisions to print, distribute and handle all that bc.ca. Mail: Claire Trevena, MLA, people’s feelings about fares are going to that directly affect ferry users. paper would make it viable to give Room 201, Parliament Buildings, assuaged by algebraic equations. In June, the government refused everyone the lower fare. Victoria, B.C., V8V 1X4, and to me (Email: [email protected]. The arithmetic from our point of to increase the service fee it pays BC BC Ferries’ Chief Financial Officer Ferries to make up the difference Mail: John Sprungman, PO Box 30, view is fairly simple. Rob Clarke will be present at the Manson’s Landing, B.C., V0P 1K0.) between cost and revenue on routes next Ferry Advisory Committee In March 2003, just before the which have never been and, by the meeting from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. provincial government turned BC MOT’s own admission, never will Friday, November 30 at the Quadra Ferries’ into a quasi-private company, be self-supporting. The government Community Centre to tell us how the Deck Shelter a book of 10 prepaid passenger tickets signed off on a new contract with card system will work. (& Ferry) Returning for the Quadra ferry cost $22.70. Today BC Ferries for 2008-2012, keeping FACs have been involved a lot it costs $40.50. The same tickets for the the annual service fee for the minor The Queen of Powell River is of discussion of the card idea. Our Cortes ferry were $34.50. Now they routes at the same level it was in due back from refit this weekend if objections to BC Ferries’ original cost $54. 2003. everything worked properly when they conditions for card use stopped them Ten Quadra car-and-driver tickets put it all back together this week. There Based on BC Ferries’ projected from implementing the program were $83.70. Now they are $145. The was a lot of discussion between the FAC costs for the next four years, the Ferry nearly two years ago. Hopefully, I same book for Cortes was $120.70 in and BC Ferries about the replacement Commissioner has already authorized will be able to report on the details 2003. Today it costs $190. vessel, the Bowen Queen, not having a further increases of 4% next April of their current plan prior to the Nov. deck shelter. We have been assured that Over that time, there has been a 1st and 7.1% annually for the three 30 meeting. next time it will. steady erosion of the difference between following years. www.discoveryislander.ca 10 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 News and Events
Submit your event: eMail: [email protected] • fax: 285-2236 • drop-off: 701 Cape Mudge Rd. At Explore in Quadra Legion Quadra Island Quadra Legion Lounge open Runners Local Friday and Saturday at 4:00pm. November Complimentary pool tables, darts Sundays at 8 am. Meet at the Remembrance Explore Feature Artist Ann and shuffleboard. Meat draws support junction of Heriot Bay Road McLean presents original works in Quadra Island based non-profit and Rebecca Spit Road. Anyone Day Service Watercolour and Acrylic Quadra organizations every Saturday 5:00pm to welcome! Annual Remembrance Day Service Landscapes and Poetry. Nov 6 – Dec 6:30pm. New and established members at the Quadra Legion on Sunday 1 Open Tues to Saturday11 – 5pm with guests welcome. See you at the November 11, 2007. Please be seated by Legion! Aerobics 10:45m sharp. The Ladies Auxiliary will Musicians Open House and Enjoy a refreshing, well rounded host the luncheon following the service. body workout with Marion. Evening social 5:00pm; Potluck dinner Wanted Concert Low impact cardio, strength 6:00pm with Honours and Awards training upper and lower body, core to follow. Everyone is welcome and Song Performance Club 2nd and 4th John and Ann Toelle invite you conditioning and stretching to the beat families with children are encouraged Wednesday of each month beginning to an Open House and Concert at of great music. Improve your fitness. to attend. November 14, 7:30- 9:30 at the West the new West Road Yoga studio, 680 Road Yoga Studio on Industrial Way. Industrial Way. Get more energy and be part of a fun group class. This is a place where musicians can Come have a tour and listen to some FREE WOOD join together and play for each other. great music. Performances by Sunday Everyone welcome. Suitable for Whether you are an experienced Dennis, Kent O’Neill, John Toelle and beginners. Classes are Mondays and A miracle has happened. The Free performer or beginner wanting to gain special guest Erik Lunde. Thursdays from 6:00- 7:30pm at the Wood program is happening, starting confidence in song presentation, this is Community Centre. on Monday, November 12. the group for you. All ages and levels Studio open at 6:30. Concert by donation at 7:30 Saturday October 7:00- 7:30pm will be focused on The combined efforts of Paul welcome. Please bring some songs and 20th. Seating on the floor. Bring your stretching and relaxation. Drop in $ 7 Bishop, Casey Goldmond, Grant come and see what we can make of this. cushion or festival chair and a beverage incl. stretching. For more information Hayden, Bruce Bjornson, Marie $5 drop-in. Contact person John Toelle of your choice. call Marion at 285 2895 Sutherland and Steve Moore have 285 3783. made it happen. Here’s how it works. The wood is free and available for single parents, elders on a fixed income, folks on welfare or unemployment insurance or individuals and families trying to get by on a minimum wage. In short, if there’s a need, you qualify. Simply call Steve at 285-3323 for an appointment. He’ll meet you at one of the wood stacks and help you load your vehicle. If you don’t have a vehicle, arrangements can be made. In order to help as many people as possible, supplies may be limited to each person depending on overall demand and special needs. So call after Monday, November 12 and get you name on the list. First come, first serve. Steve is available until December 18 at 285-3323. Someone else will take over for the holidays until January 10th. Ring Found!! Did you loose your gold wedding band in the Heriot Bay store parking lot back in September? If so please call Jennifer to describe and claim your ring. 287-0680
www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 11 Multi-Instrumentalist Cultural Committee Presents Shane Philip Pianist Bruce Vogt Raising Money for The Quadra Island Cultural Committee is pleased to announce an 8:00 pm concert by the distinguished the QCC Playground Canadian pianist Bruce Vogt on Saturday Dec 1st, in the Quadra Island Community Centre. The Shane Philip is beating his drum, strumming performance will be preceded by a 7:15 pre-concert his guitars, and blowing his horn - or rather, his chat by Mr. Vogt. didgeridoo to help raise funds for the Quadra Community Centre Playground. The multi-talented Among the elite of Canadian pianists, Bruce one-man band plays the QCC on Saturday, Vogt is a unique and dynamic performer who November 17 at 7 p.m. with all proceeds are going appears regularly in concert and on CBC within to the playground. Canada, and has impressed audiences in England, the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Bulgaria, “It’s one of our first instruments ever. It comes Japan and the Czech Republic as well. from Australia and it’s where all the wind instruments came from. This is where it all began and all it is, is Born in Ontario, Bruce Vogt completed his a big hollow tube - very simple!” said Philip of the initial studies with Damjana Bratuz and Anton didgeridoo. “The didgeridoo and the drums, they’re Kuerti. Later he studied in the United States, very tribal, very primal, very ancient instruments. I England, Switzerland and Italy, working with a combine that with a very modern electronic kick number of celebrated musicians including Gyorgy drum. I’ve heard some people say ‘Hey that’s like Sebok, Louis Kentner, Fou Ts’ong and Dario de techno, that’s almost like techno folk’. And it’s kind Rosa. of true. It’s the old meets the new, the modern meets In 1999 Bruce Vogt and Japanese Viola player the ancient. I’ve described it as just groove music, Yumiko Yamamoto were awarded the Kyoto rhythm music.” And, he says, his music tends to get Baroque Hall Award of excellence for the best people on their feet. concert of 1998, the Kyoto Daily speaking of “Within the first two or three beats I see people their “wonderful sympathetic music making and begin to tap fingers, move their heads and before exquisite technical polish”. Bruce and Yumiko long, their up dancing. It’s very primal. There’s released a CD:Centre of Harmony: Music for Viola something about the didgeridoo that just kind of and Piano, and toured BC together in 2004. gets people going,” said Philip. “The music is the first Of a recent performance while on tour in thing that hits them, especially the didge because of Germany Bruce’s playing was described as “technical its deep vibrations and the strong bass frequencies. perfection paired with emotional expressiveness... I dance with my entire body when I play - I’ve got compositions from Mozart, Chopin and Liszt my left foot going, my right foot going, my legs, resounded with seldom-heard perfection...What is my voice, my hands. I think it’s the type of music apparent in his playing is the joy he takes in giving where people can really let go. Kind of like the style to others what he has so dazzlingly mastered”. of music, there’s no style of dance with it. It’s just all His repertoire is extremely diverse, encompassing over the place.” music from the sixteenth century to the present; His music is also literally all over the map, he has championed the music of contemporary incorporating African drums, Australian didgeridoos, composers, as well as commissioning a number of and Hawaiian folk guitars as well as rock-inspired new works. vocals. In addition to his career as a piano soloist, “I think that, as a writer, and I think most writers chamber musician and recording artist, Bruce Vogt would say the same thing, you’re just basically is also a Professor at the University of Victoria. influenced by everything in life, everything you Known for his personal warmth and outstanding listen to, everything you see,” he said. “I don’t want teaching skills, he makes himself available as much to put any kind of limitations on myself by saying as possible for master classes, workshops, festival ‘Yes I’m going to be a rock singer’ or ‘I’m going to be adjudication and lectures. His generous offer to a reggae singer’ because then it eliminates all those provide a pre-concert chat at 7:15 will highlight other possibilities. And really, I don’t think there’s these skills as he discusses the music of Liszt, a category for music that has didge and drums and Debussey, and Schumann that he will be playing in a slide guitar - it’s really a combination. Maybe it’ll the 8 pm concert. We hope as many concertgoers as start a category of its own.” possible will take advantage of this opportunity to Join Shane Philip in raising money for the learn more about the music and enjoy the bounties Playground on Saturday November 17 at the of our concession. Quadra Island Community Centre. Sidney Tickets are available in advance for $17 at Williams is opening the show, which starts at 7 the usual outlets-- Quadra Crafts, Heriot Bay; p.m. sharp and goes until 9 p.m. Hummingbird Office and Art Supply, Quathiaski Ticket prices are $10 single, or $25 family Cove. and the Music Plant (619-11th. Ave., purchased at the door. There will be a concession. Campbell River) or at the door for $20. Youths 16 For more information, call the QCC at (250) and under are admitted free when accompanied 285 - 3243 by an adult. www.discoveryislander.ca 12 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 Quadra Rec. Island instrument Quadra-Circle Update makers show Dancing Halloween Fire Works at Blenkin their stuff Field was lots of fun, thanks to the following volunteers: Phoenix Fire On November 10th the Island Signs, Doug Edwards, Ron Miller, Luthier’s Guild will host a show at the Rod Mclean, Mike Stoughton, Jaime Nanaimo Art Gallery. The Guild is a Eley, Dick Whittington, Mckenna loosely knit group of musical instrument McLean, Fred Jiles, Terryl Bertagnolli, builders from Vancouver Island and Murray Johnson, Gregg Hewitt, Dave outlying coastal communities. Members Stark and Philip Stone. It just wouldn’t build guitars, fiddles, double basses, happen without donations from: acoustic guitars, electric guitars, banjos, Comox Strathcona Regional District, mandolins and more. The display is at Jim Abram, Isle Tech Auto, Quadra the Nanaimo Art Gallery located at 150 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, B.C. Adult couples are invited to Credit Union, All Clear Septic, Nole participate in a series of dance Creek Sawmills, M.M. Johnson Ltd., There will be 15-20 builders attending lessons aimed primarily at beginners. Heriot Bay Tru Value, Viken Disposal, and up to 50 instruments on display. Quadrate Ventures Ltd., Hummingbird Local guitar maker, Richard Pielou, The emphasis is on enjoyment. The Office Supply, Sutil Construction, www.richguitars.com, of Quadra Island, lessons will include elements of Q. Cove Auto Repair, Dr. Kellerhals, will be attending and exhibiting several swing, ballroom, jive and country, Discovery Forestry, Peoples Drug Mart, acoustic guitars including his new depending on the wishes of the Ellen Russell, and Heriot Bay Inn. ‘Green Man’ cutaway. It will be a rare group. For more information, Pianist Bruce Vogt opportunity to see so many high quality Thank you so much for creating another contact the dance leaders, Barry & instruments at the same time. The show fine event to celebrate the “turning of Sharron Hatelt, at 285-3144. The Smile Makers the wheel” into the dark winter time. starts at 10:00 am and will be open until 8:00 pm. Admission is free and classes will be on Tuesdays from Kidz Klub “Shake it Up” with Shane Philip there is plenty of parking in the area. 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. at the Community at the Community Centre, Saturday, Hey kids! Smile Makers Kidz Klub For more information, visit the Islands Centre starting on Oct. 30th and November 17 starting at 7 p.m. Tickets Luthier’s’ Guild website at “http:// ending on Nov. 27th. Admission is back at Quadra Island Bible Church. are $10 or $25 for a family. Bring the www.islandsluthiersguild.com”. is by donation. Remember all the games, snacks, crafts, whole family and enjoy dancing to stories and fun? Well it starts again Shane’s unique music, while supporting on October 23rd. Get ready for fun fundraising for the playground in every Tuesday after school, from 2:45 Blenkin Park. Thank you in advance, to 4:15. Our theme this fall is “Playing Shane for doing this benefit! Any one WATERFRONT HOME on God’s Team”. Kidz Klub is free for want to bake? Call 284 3243. kids in kindergarten through grade 6. Call 285-2020 with any questions. Industrious artists and crafts people FOR RENT are bent over their work benches and potting wheels, this week, striving Next Yoga Session to make the perfect product for the Beautiful, newly built, two story, waterfront home on Heriot Community Centre’s Christmas Bay Rd. Available immediately. Two bedroom, 2.5 baths, huge with Ann Toelle Craft Fair, Friday, November 23 from deck overlooking Rebecca Spit. State-of-the-art appliances, November 6 through December 13. 4:00-9:00 and Saturday, November 24 incl. washer/dryer, radiant floor heating, vaulted ceiling, semi Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 a.m. to 10:30. from 10:00-3:00. Come for supper on furnished. Lots of light, beautiful view of Drew Harbor. Friday and lunch on Saturday, as the Everyone welcome! eating treats will be just as yummy as The 6 week, 12 lesson session of the crafts. “Kringles Kitchen” will serve traditional Hatha Yoga will give you tortilla chicken soup, as well as lasagna, an introduction to some basic standing, chili, caesar salad and fresh bread and sitting, inverted and relaxation poses. sweets. Santa is coming at noon on A precision oriented method; Saturday on the big red fire truck. There this yoga seeks to develop flexibility, is just no end to the fun. strength, stamina and concentration in If talk about Christmas hasn’t hurt a balanced way. your ears, think on to January, February My Yoga Teacher Training is and March to any classes, workshops ongoing with an Iyengar Certified or events you want to lead or organize Teacher in Seattle. Come feel your and make sure they are booked. The energy, strength and health! Winter/Spring schedule is filling up fast and work on the next Recreation Located in our new studio upstairs Minimum one year lease. Personal and financial references brochure is in progress. at 680 Industrial Way. Session cost required. Good credit a must. $1,000 per month. Cheers, $138. Missed classes can be credited Sandy Spearing, Contact Vibeke Pederson at Discovery Islands Realty for to next session. Please phone to register. QCC coordinator 285 3243 viewing and lease arrangement. Phone: 285-2800. Ann at 285-3783. Owners will be on island Nov 22-26.
www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 13 www.discoveryislander.ca 14 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 15 Studio Tour ‘08 December Open Grow Your Own Emergency Quadra Island artists are invited House & Sale at After the long cool summer, the Reception Centre to register for the annual Quadra autumn colours are outstanding with Island Studio Tour ‘08 which will take Firesign Art & leaves still clinging to the trees - a Open House. place June 7th and 8th. Serious artists harvest rainbow of pleasure on these A big ‘thank you’ is owed to all working in any medium can display Design colder days. It is beautiful looking the volunteers (35+) who came out their work at their own studio, another Firesign Studio will open its doors through the fog and seeing the golden at 10 am on a beautiful sunny day artists studio or at the community for the month of December with light of many bright leaves. A gentle to set up a Reception Centre and centre. Artists can also be part of the paintings by Nanci Cook and Perrin warning: in 2006 we were surprised practice the role(s) they would play “Year-Round” self-guided studio tour Sparks, cards, prints, amber jewelry, by an early cold snap accompanied by in an emergency. Thank you also brochure. Application forms and more workshop gift certificates and other over a foot of snow. Plants succumbed to the Campbell River members of information for both events can be gift items! Perrin will paint 20-minute to a fast, colder than normal, change of ESS who came to help us and train picked up at Hummingbird Office portraits at our opening reception on temperature. So, remember that now volunteers. It was a busy morning Supply or phone 285-2628 to have them December 1 and 2. Tour the B&B! Call is the time to winterize before it is and after a good lunch we were e-mailed. The deadline for applications 285-3390 too late. Frozen pipes, irrigation parts delighted to see so many varied is November 30th. and hose nozzles broke when we all individuals come through the door thought there was time ahead to drain to role play evacuues. Pets were them. The unseasonably frigid winter taken care of, injuries treated and temperatures damaged any thing with accommodation, food and clothing water content including tender plants. found for those who needed it. It is time to lift the summer bulbs - the We were unable to find the begonias, gladiolas, unprotected purple pills needed by an evacuee dahlias and any non hardy plants but he made it through until the that may still be out in the cool night fire was out. Good information temperatures. You will enjoy them came out of the day re fine tuning next year if you look after them now. our set up. One message that came Here is to a mild winter when it snows through loud and clear was that only long enough to have fun and not you do need to have both a list of be an inconvenience on the roads. the medications you need and a few Monday at the Community days supply with you if you have to Centre we welcome a guest speaker be evacuated. As we do not have from Linnea Farm on Cortes pharmacy service on the island after Island. ‘Growing your own’ is a very hours, in an emergency we would appropriate topic in this new era have to order medication from a 24 of sustainability. Buying produce hour pharmacy in Campbell River, locally is the buzz in the media. assuming you know the correct At the book store, we find the new name and dosage, and find some Vancouver produced ‘100-Mile way of getting it here. Carry a Diet’. An increasing stream of medication list in your wallet and it similar books educates us about our is always there if you need it. long distance food habits and the Although we have signed on need to change our attitude toward many volunteers we do need more where our food is grown. The world as we may have to staff a centre market will not stop, but we can for 24 hours per day for up to improve the ‘greenness’ our food three days. If you are interested supply by taking responsibility for in finding out what is involved, our own needs. Come out and learn check Emergency Social Services more about organic farming, soil on-line or contact our ESSD, Judy amendments and the increasing Hagen. If there was an emergency number of old varieties of food on Quadra, I know many, many of seeds now available in British you would come to help but each Columbia. Support your local person needs to be interviewed and farmer! then trained on the spot before Join the garden club in this you can help. It makes it so much discussion at the Community easier if you have some training Centre Monday November 12th, beforehand. Training is on-going 7pm. Annual membership is $10 from September - May, usually which gives a discount at many local one Saturday morning a month nurseries. Drop Ins $2. If you have any for two hours. It is not a huge vegetables you would like to display or time commitment although there seeds to share please bring them along. are other one day courses you may We share plants, magazines, seed wish to take as well. A great way catalogues and garden knowledge. to learn new skills and use the ones New members welcome. you already have.
www.discoveryislander.ca 16 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 Quadra Quilters Two Great Films Marathon. Saturday, November 10th, QCC A somewhat wet and miserable weekend was the END OF SUBURBIA starting at 7 pm perfect weekend for this year’s Quilters Marathon. ESCAPE FROM SUBURBIA starting at 8:30 From 9.00am on Saturday until 9.00pm 35 quilters pm. and 12 helpers got things humming along. With 29 hardy souls back there to quilt on Sunday again from End of Suburbia - Suburbia, and all it promises 9.00am to 4.00pm 12 quilts were completed and the has become the American Dream. But as we enter other 28 were taken home for the finishing touches. the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to Thirty quilts have already been completed this year by emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. quilters in their own time for the children . We also With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End had many visitors this year, including qilters from off of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and island and visitors as well as locals. It all flows together its prospects as the planet approaches a critical so well it appears effortless but numerous quilters put era, as the global demand for fossil fuels begins in many hours soliciting fabrics, choosing patterns and to outstrip supply. What does Oil Peak mean for making up kits, each of which has the fabric needed North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the for completing one quilt top. A big “Thank You” to coming years, how will the populations of suburbia all concerned. react to the collapse of their dream? The food is always something we look forward Escape From Suburbia - In Escape From to during each marathon and we again owe a debt Suburbia, director Greg Greene once again takes of gratitude to the Van Orden sisters, Joan, Barb us “through the looking glass” on a journey of and Ricarda who worked in the kitchen all weekend discovery – a sobering yet vital and ultimately ensuring a never ending supply of coffee, tea and positive exploration of what the second half of goodies as well as heating and serving soups for lunch. the Oil Age has in store for us. Sara Child and Meilling Alps eased aching muscles Through personal stories and interviews we with massages and many others came by to quilt, iron examine how declining world oil production or hand sew binding and labels. has already begun to affect modern life in Thanks go in no particular order to Asia Moir, North America. Expert scientific opinion is Barb Frank, Barb Round, Pat Lomas, Hilary balanced with “on the street” portraits from an Stewart, Patricia Robison, Margaret Hussain, Karla emerging global movement of citizen’s groups Thomson, Margaret Vogel, Debbie Baier and Jean who are confronting the challenges of Peak Oil McMullen. You all made it easier for the quilters. Steve in extraordinary ways. in the produce section of Quadra Foods provided some The clock is ticking. Escape From Suburbia asks wonderful apple boxes to store our fabrics. The whole the tough questions: Are we approaching Peak community contributed by supporting the bottle return Oil now? What are the controversies surrounding donation at TruValue Heriot Bay Store which went our future energy options? Why are a growing to support the Marathon. Kent and the staff at Tru number of specialists and citizens skeptical of Value Heriot Bay store are also to be sincerely thanked these options? What are ordinary people across for their Spirit Board which provided delicious breads, North America doing in their own communities etc for the marathon. A great community event and to prepare for Peak Oil? And what will you do as I am sure the children undergoing cancer treatment energy prices skyrocket and the Oil Age draws to at BC Childrens Hospital and staying in Ronald a close? Sierra Quadra is presenting these films. McDonald House will love their special quilt whenever Donations towards expenses appreciated. they receive it.
www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 17 Friday Flicks Presents B.C.O.A.P.O. Branch #91 Away From Her Quadra Island November 16th - QCC I hope you enjoyed your Halloween party on Wednesday, because on Thursday, if you happened to Doors - 7:30 Showtime - 7:45 go to the BC Ferries ticket booth to purchase a ticket Adm: $5.00 - $4.00 stu/snr to use the “Luxury Cruise” ferry to get to the Island you must have had a nasty shock when they told you how much it was going to cost you, well never mind, it will cost you even more in April and again next November and again and again and again in the coming years, at this rate, at least, we will not have to worry about Line Ups, because no-one will be able to afford to live on this, or any other island. No one will be able to do business on the island if it means you have to transport goods. In the summer we will not have the tourists in the numbers that we have now, they will defiantly be thinking twice before paying the ferry cost You might ask. What is the big deal? Seniors travel “The Nietzchean maxim about the strong man free Monday through Thursday., Yes. But our car’s do forgetting what he cannot master is what this film not, our children and grand children do not. brings to mind.” AWAY FROM HER is a deeply impressive and intelligent film about Alzheimer’s Just the other day I was talking to my grand disease starring Julie Christie and directed by the daughter who happens to live in Port Coquitlam I Canadian actor-turned-director Sarah Polley, who at asked her if she was going to come and spend a age 28 has shown remarkable maturity and flair with weekend with me? Her reply was “I can’t afford the her adaptation of an Alice Munro short story, The Bear ferry fare,” and she works 2 jobs. So I ask you. How can Came Over the Mountain. the young people who have to commute to work every day .going to be able to afford to live on the Island? Christie is outstanding as a woman succumbing to early-onset dementia. She plays Fiona, married to There has been a lot of talk of late about affordable retired academic, Grant (Gordon Pinsent). They live housing. I think that before we build the house we in a house in the remote wilderness. As she starts to should make sure there is somebody to live in it forget the names for simple things, and put pots and No I do not have any “Quick Fixes” for this pans away in the fridge, the gradual obliteration of problem or any suggestions about what we should do her memory begins. about it, but I am, with the rest of Ferries Advisory But their story is more complicated than this. Fiona Committee, open to any suggestions, providing it is has painful memories of their marriage, particularly a within the Law. period when Grant made free with beautiful young The FAC has a meeting with BC F Nov students. Forgetting these lapses is another masculine 30th11:00am at the community center. It is open to prerogative of which the now greybearded Grant has the public for about the first _ hour, any one that has availed himself. For Fiona it has not been so easy. So questions or comments for when Fiona appears to accept her condition, and BCF should give there name to a FAC member even tells him, enigmatically, that there is “something prior to the meeting, delicious in oblivion”, Grant feels an obscure anger at her and at himself. Our activities day is well attended, but there is still room for more. If you are not getting your exercise In the care home, Fiona develops a crush on fellow outside in the garden now the weather is getting worse, patient, Aubrey. The nursing staff assure Grant these come along and join us at the Legion Hall at 10:00am childlike switches of attention and loyalty are to be Wednesdays for Armchair Aerobics, Followed by expected, but Grant is deeply hurt. “He retreats into Carpet Bowling and finish the day with a song with a gruff blankness; his face has the impassive, leonine our “Sing along” group. quality associated with Alzheimer’s sufferers.” Grant wonders if he has ever, in all their decades together, The Computer Club will be meeting Nov known his wife. Alzheimer’s has made explicit to him 15th.10:00 am at my house. the fear that his wife has always had a secret, secluded For membership contact Bob Brown (President) identity which will be forever unknown. For Fiona, Tel# 285 2907 the awful truth is that perhaps Alzheimer’s has been Annette Kulcheski (secretary) a kind of liberation, not merely from memory but Tel# 285 2207 from the self: all those decades of habit and precedent which coerce us into accepted ways of behaving and Cliff Hand {Treasurer} feeling. Tel#934 5814 “An outstanding film, a film for grownups, and a - Bob Brown promise of brilliant future work from Sarah Polley.” (President Branch 91 BCOAPO) (The Guardian) www.discoveryislander.ca 18 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 Legendary Family Entertainer Drop In Yoga with Ann Toelle Fred Penner Starts Wednesday evening November 6 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Cost $12.00. Studio open at 5:15 you to Perform in Support of Quadra Children’s Centre are welcome then. Come re-balance after your day! This Traditional Hatha Yoga will give you a foundation of standing, sitting, inverted and of his many contributions, which also include relaxation poses. A precision oriented method; this over a dozen albums, Fred Penner has received yoga seeks to develop flexibility, strength, stamina and the Order of Canada, two Juno awards and concentration in a balanced way. numerous other honours. My Yoga Teacher Training is ongoing with an An appearance by Fred Penner is guaranteed Iyengar Certified Teacher in Seattle. to be a lively event-- who can resist the prospect Located in our new studio upstairs at 680 of singing along with Fred to favorites like “The Industrial Way. Please wear tights or shorts. For more Cat Came Back”? With a spirited mix of music information or questions phone Ann 285-3783 and comedic routines, even the most serious of grown-ups will want to join in on the fun. The show begins at 6:30, with doors opening Time for Lunch at 6:00. For those coming from off-island, there Quadra Island’s Community Lunch has will be a free shuttle to the school from the 6:15 started up again. Mark every Wednesday on ferry from Campbell River and back to the 9:00 your calendar and come to the Community ferry to Campbell River. Centre at noon to meet your neighbours and Tickets are $15.00 for adults and $10 for eat a delicious meal. children under 12. (Kids two and under are The lunch will happen weekly on Wednesdays free). Tickets can be purchased on Quadra at through to next spring. If you already know Hummingbird Office and Art Supply and the how special this occasion is, bring a friend who Children’s Centre; and the Music Plant and doesn’t know about it yet. The more the merrier. The evening of November 29th, 2007 will Kidlets in Campbell River. Also watch for tables The lunch is supported by a donation box, and is be filled with laughter, song and storytelling, as in front of Quadra Foods and Heriot Bay Store made possible by many generous volunteers. beloved family entertainer Fred Penner brings during the weekends before the concert. For his considerable talents to Quadra Island. This more information, please contact the Children’s special performance, to be held at the Quadra Centre at (250) 285-3511. Elementary School gymnasium, is in support of Proceeds from this performance will benefit the Quadra Children’s Centre. the non-profit Phil Thompson Memorial For over 25 years, Fred Penner has been Daycare Society—commonly referred to as engaging audiences with his skill, warmth and the Quadra Children’s Centre— which has absolute trust that what he does can make a provided child care services for the families of difference in children’s lives. Generations of Quadra Island since 1986. Using an innovative, children across North America, many of whom child-centered learning approach, the Centre’s are now starting families of their own, have fond childcare/preschool program (for children memories of watching Fred magically emerge 2 1/2 to 6 years old), after-school program from a hollow log and into “Fred Penner’s (for children 6 to 12) and summer recreation Place,” his hit television show which ran for 12 programs have enriched the childhoods of seasons and nearly 900 episodes. In recognition hundreds of local residents.
www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 19 RCMP Request Dates Changed Charitable A Magical Information February 3-8, 2008: Dates Changed Donations – Success! for Firesign Studio’s Painting Holiday, On October 25th, 2007, Quadra On behalf of the Quadra “Chasing the Light”, with Perrin Keeping it Local Island RCMP responded to a Elementary School and its Parent Sparks in the quiet fishing village complaint of a break and enter on Savvy investors know they come Advisory Council we’d like to thank of La Manzanilla, Mexico www. Hyacinthe Bay Rd. Several items were out ahead – way ahead – when they everyone who contributed to making firesignartanddesign.com. Phone noticed to have been stolen from the donate stocks to registered charities this spooktacular fundraiser such a Nanci 285-3390 for more information. residence including the following: rather than making a cash donation success. We raised over $3500 towards Painting from live models each day, of the same dollar value. So donors creating a new playground for the North Face back pack, 2 hand combined with the local plein-air who want to reap the maximum tax school and had a lot of fun at the same saws, a tent, sleeping bag, 28 speed landscape, Perri’s daily demos and benefit actively seek out charitable time. This success is greatly due to mens mountain bike, splitting maul, instruction will get you painting better organizations that make it easy for them the generosity of the many businesses axe, Fuji 6 MP digital camera and than ever! What a great way to enjoy to donate stocks. willing to support our event, together charger, electric meter AC/DC, Mexico and paint away your winter For Quadra Islanders this means with the ongoing commitment of the 2 deep cycle 6 volt batteries, 4 fly blues! fishing rods, Fujimon binoculars, donating to larger, off-island causes parents and volunteers who strive to Seiko wrist watch, 2 Stihl chainsaws, Seasonal Discounts because no Quadra Island organization make our school community better. black 4.5 HP mercury outboard, is set up to accept these donations. My THANK YOU to all our sponsors Firesign B&B is now offering grey 10’ inflatable Zodiac, IBM suspicion is that, as a result, Quadra and raffle prize donators: seasonal discounts and Winter computer, 36” TV, DVD player, Island charitable organizations are Monthly Rentals are available through Whiskey Point Estates, Heriot 3 leather coats, Craftsman electric losing many thousands of donation mid-April. Think of Firesign as a Bay Tru-Value, Tsa Kwa Luten Lodge, mitre saw, 25L outboard gas tanks dollars every year. And people who home-away-from-home when friends Whiskey Point Resort, Kidlets, Quadra with hoses and fittings, 12V BMW might prefer to donate locally are and relatives drop in-a delicious full Credit Union, Quadra Island Kayaks, battery, Maccolough chain saw, blocked from doing so. breakfast is served! M.M. Johnson Ltd., Quadra Island electric wood router, 6-12V battery Smaller registered charities can choose Tours, Taku Resort, Coastal Spirits. charger, Craftsman socket and wrench to compete for donations with the larger Rockview Resources, Quadra Builders, set, HP colour printer, machete organizations, but the extra paper work Intersport, Shaw Chiropratic, Claire and various pairs of footwear and Local Internet is both a hassle and an expense. Perhaps a Trevena, Quadra Foods, Hummingbird, clothing. better solution in a community like ours Peoples Drug Mart, Tony Marmol, RCMP are requesting that if Q.O.S. is to consider creating a Quadra Island Cape Mudge Boatworks, Isle Tech, you have any infomation about this Community Foundation to handle that Quadra Island Medical Clinic, Ross or any other case, please call the Quality of Service administrative function on behalf of all McPhee Contracting, Quadra Station, Quadra island RCMP at 285-3631 or Would you like to know your rating the island’s charitable organizations. That Quadra Storage, Wired Electric, Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS for your Internet Quality of Service ( way every little charitable organization Performance Pilates, Island Cycle, QOS ) connection? wouldn’t have to ‘go it alone.’ Cst. Gregory Young Dogwood Pet Mart, Discovery islander, Go to http://myspeed.visualware. Individuals could make their Merle Norman, J. Johnson Notary Quadra Island RCMP com/ donations (cash or stocks) to the Public, Colshan Holdings, Heriot Bay Q.I.C.F. and the Q.I.C.F would oversee Inn, Rita Vitringa, Walcan Seafood Wait for the “Internet Speed Test” both the processing of donations and Ltd., DNT Paintless Dent Repair, image box to bring up the “Click to their distribution to the recipient Hungry Eye. start MySpeed” start option. Click and specified by the donor (i.e. the Phil wait until the “Working” notification Forgive me if I have missed anyone, Thompson Memorial Day Care Society, finishes. your support is appreciated. the Quadra Island Seniors’ Housing Then, at the bottom of the Society, etc.) This is the way the Victoria And of course a huge thank you “Connection Summary” results image, Foundation (www.victoriafoundation. to John Kaplan and his ‘thrillusion’ select the “Click here for detailed bc.ca) works. crew, as well as all who came out to analysis” and read your results. the event. If anyone is interested in working Email your ISP name and Q.O.S. on establishing such a foundation, From your Quadra Elementary results to Discovery Islander at news@ please contact me (I’m in the book). Parent Advisory Council discoveryislands.ca — Carol Gray
www.discoveryislander.ca 20 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 Mountain Films Make Annual Call Legion Adventurous west coasters have During his attempts at riding the trail, Membership one bright spot to look forward to he reflects on the erroneous ways in Did you have a good time at the while waiting for the snow to pile up which our society keeps clear-cutting its Halloween dance at the Legion? The and bring the switch from summer to forests and how he feels about this. On a Quadra Legion is not only a place winter sports - the annual return of the lighter side is ‘Great Day for Climbing’ for service men and women, veterans Banff Mountain Film Festival World directed and produced in the USA by and memories but plays a vital part Tour. Every year at the beginning of Stephen Burgess. in our wider community too. With November the Banff Centre in Banff, The complete lineup of films will Remembrance Day this month there is Alberta hosts its world renowned film be known in the coming week or two no better time than becoming a member festival bringing filmmakers, writers as the main Banff Festival wraps up and supporting your local Legion. and adventurers from every corner of and awards presented and selections The process is easy: Complete an the globe to celebrate the very best in made. One thing is certain, there will application and submit it directly to mountain adventure films. Awards are as always be a strong line up of films the Bartender with the annual dues of given in a variety of categories and once about adrenaline sports, mountain $39.50 or mail it to the Branch with a the festival is complete a dedicated staff culture and environmental concern, to cheque or money order to P.O. Box 129, of road warriors hit the highways and keep the audience informed and on the Heriot Bay, B.C. V0P 1H0. Questions, flyways to take the best movies screened edge of their seat. in Banff all over the world from Austria call our Membership Chairman (Carol to Argentina and from Iceland to India. The local stops for the Banff Ann) at 285-2609. Mountain Film festival World Tour More than 195,000 people attend All applications require a proposee include Campbell River on Friday, approximately 480 screenings annually and a seconded. Legion members are November 23rd, Quadra Island in about 275 locations. glad to endorse the applications of Community Centre on Saturday people they know then applications Amongst the films on this year’s November 24th and Courtenay’s Sid go before the next general meeting for tour is ‘Trial & Error’ a Canadian Williams Theatre on Sunday November approval. After approval is obtained, production directed and produced 25th. Tickets for the Campbell River the new member information is by Bjørn Enga featuring mountain and Quadra Island screenings are submitted to Dominion Command biker Ryan Leech. This 8 minute available from the Tidemark box office for preparation of a membership card. short follows Leech as he sets out to at 287-7465 and for the Courtenay ride a very challenging trail in the show at the Sid 250-338-2430. Pay your annual dues and you’re coastal mountains of British Columbia. good to go every year.
www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 21 New Research Finds One in Three Kindergarten Children Not Ready for School: What Does This Mean for Quadra Parents? by Lisa Scalapino 10 Questions to ask ecent studies of Quadra focusing specifically on outside of the when looking for a Kindergarten children and home settings.] quality preschool or their cohorts throughout If looking for child care, for example, childcare setting SchoolR District 72 found that one parents should be aware that there’s 1. Is the preschool/child care in three children in our region is not a difference between “baby sitting” setting licensed? What experience, ready to learn when they start school ( environments and high quality child education and training in early 2007 University of British Columbia, care environments that stimulate childhood development do the Human Early Learning Partnership). development and enrich learning. Young children who are not ready teachers or caregivers have? can not do simple things we take for 2. Do children play inside and granted. They may not be able to Where some early childhood outside every day (weather make friends, take turns, put on their programs use “free play” to fill time, permitting)? shoes, hold a pencil, or follow simple adept early childhood educators are 3. Is there a large play area where directions. On the surface these skills intentional about their use of play. children can build things, run and sound simple enough to remediate, Such teachers will be attuned to a jump? but surprisingly a child who’s a step child so that when the play becomes behind in Kindergarten often struggles frustrating, they will step in and extend 4. Do teachers get down on the throughout his/her school career. the play. They may pose challenging floor and play with the children? To quote UBC’s Dr. Clyde questions and encourage children to 5. Is the room warm and inviting? Is Hertzman, “Development during the learn from one another. They may the children’s work displayed at an eye 0 to 5 years has lifelong implications for experiment with a solution and inspire level for 3- and 4-year-olds? children to do the same. The child who health, well-being, and competence.... 6. Are there building blocks, toys, was once ready to quit in frustration, and much of this development is items for pretend play, art supplies, may respond with glee and renew his exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, puzzles, reading and writing engagement in the all important work to reverse later in life.” The research materials, games? shows that the best time to help young of child’s play. When a parent sees such 7. Do most of the children seem children is BEFORE they get to teachers in action, she will know that happy and involved in the activities? school. this is an early learning and care setting worth further consideration. They should not have to sit and So what do these results mean for listen to the teacher for long periods To find out more about the hallmarks Quadra parents? It means that those of time. decisions parents make about whether of quality early learning and care 8. Is there time for teachers to read their child should be in preschool, in environments, contact PacificCARE to children as a group and one-on- child care, with grandma, or at home at 1-888-480-CARE (2273) or go to one each day? with mom or dad—do matter. It www.pacific-care.bc.ca. Time spent matters because that setting becomes a now will matter not just today or 9. Do teachers tell the child what major part of their child’s early learning tomorrow or next year. Time spent behavior is expected in positive experience during the most critical on quality early childhood care in words? “Remember to walk into phase for human brain development preschools, childcare centres, and in our classroom” is better than “No and for establishing a good physical home settings matters for a lifetime. running.” and emotional foundation for the Understanding the Early Years is 10. Are parents encouraged to drop years ahead. [I’m suggesting adding funded by Human Resources and Social in at any time throughout the day? something like this sentence to bridge Development Canada, www.hrsdc. Parental involvement in a child’s to the next section in a way that can gc.ca. Lisa Scalapino can be reached at education is critical to the child’s be inclusive of all the settings before 285-2314, [email protected]. future success. Adapted from www. powerofpreschool.com. 1UADRA )SLAND -EDICAL #LINIC /PEN -ONDAY TO &RIDAY AM NOON PM PM $AILY 7ALK IN #LINIC PM -ONTHLY 3ATURDAY AM #LINICS &OR !PPOINTMENTS www.discoveryislander.ca 22 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 Halliday’s Viewpoint by Steven Halliday Chasing the Yields
the last week, the Chief Executive Canadian financial institutions have always operated salaries), so like all investors they naturally look for Officers of two Wall Street powerhouses in a much more prudent manner than their US investments that do better. Sub-prime mortgages fit the were given their walking papers. Stan counterparts when it comes to lending, which is why bill wonderfully – securities backed by real estate that O’NealIn of Merrill Lynch and Charles Prince of we have no sub-prime crisis in Canada. That is not to paid a better than market return – so everyone jumped Citigroup have both fallen on their swords over the say, however, that the big banks are squeaky clean. Like on the bandwagon, chasing the yields. Now they are mounting losses suffered by their employers as a result their US counterparts, Canadian banks have invested stuck with paper they can’t sell, or if they can sell it, a of forays into investment territory that were foolhardy heavily in their brokerage subsidiaries, and this in turn substantial discount will apply. So in the investment to say the least. Unlike their respective shareholders has bolstered their bottom lines dramatically over the past world a lot of big players are staying on the sidelines who have suffered enormous drops in the value of their decade or more. These subsidiaries are not as restricted because a) they are prudently avoiding an unstable shareholdings, O’Neal and Price will not suffer; both in their investment activities as are their parent banks, marketplace, or b) because they are now illiquid and exit with parting handshakes well into the 8 or 9 figure and consequently most have invested in ABCP to some in trouble. In either case, the effect is the same and range – in the case of O’Neal, as much as $150 million extent, and many are today either writing down the value credit becomes harder to obtain because prudence has after only 4 years in the position. Losses for 2007 at of these investments, or at the very least reclassifying them returned as a byword. And about time, too. Merrill Lynch are projected to reach $7 billion, while to “non performing” or junk status. The extent of the The planet presently stands at one of the watershed Citigroup is taking a hit of about $11 billion to write dollars involved is unknown, but in August 2007 all of the moments in its economic history – the balance of down non-performing assets. Other less prominent major financial institutions in Canada met in Montreal economic power is shifting from the west to the east, financial houses in America and Europe have come and agreed upon what is known as the Montreal Accord. and as it is occurring the USA is behaving metaphorically clean recently, disclosing that they too had become In this accord, the “majors” have committed to supporting as if it were Nero fiddling while Rome burns. As asset imprudently greedy by investing in paper related to brokerages and traders holding large amounts of ABCP values decline, economic indicators flash red and their the now infamous “sub-prime” mortgage market. by not calling their loans for the next few months, in the government spends money as if they were in surplus Apparently Canada’s big banks prudently avoided hope that the crisis will go away or at least moderate in the rather than exacerbating the worst deficit such investments, and are thus on much firmer in history, the US Federal Reserve again ground. Or are they? lowered interest rates in an effort to stimulate The actual vehicle that Merrill, Citi and others “...the USA is behaving the economy. In other words, they’re telling invested billions of dollars into are instruments Joe Blow to add to his existing debt load some called Asset Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP). new, cheaper credit so he can buy some more Marketed by many companies/investment groups, metaphorically as if it were Nero imported toys he doesn’t need…at a time these securities were actually bundles of high when his job at Chrysler/Ford/GM/XYZ yielding, high risk US residential mortgages that fiddling while Rome burns.” Homebuilders is about to go down the toilet. have become known as sub-prime loans – sub- And undoubtedly, some company out there, prime in the respect that the borrowers often still chasing the yield, will lend Joe some more were unqualified and the underlying security money (at today’s unrealistically low rates) to overvalued. As interest rates steadily rose in the US, near future. This, I believe, is a pipe dream, and the losses assist him in going bankrupt that much more quickly. the borrowers often defaulted as the payments on their will soon have to be recognized by the parents of these Can somebody please explain the rationale behind this mortgage exceeded their capacity to pay. As more brokerages - the banks themselves - and the losses could irrational behaviour? Anybody? be substantial. The Montreal Accord was an attempt to and more defaults occurred, investors who purchased The impact of the credit crunch we are now avoid a “credit crunch”, that is, the drying up of available securities backed by such mortgages realized that entering will be twofold. The availability of credit credit, and it has worked for the moment. But at the street they were not secure at all, and attempted to sell their to the consumer will be reduced as lenders tighten level there is a much higher consciousness of risk, and it is positions. Unfortunately, the whole market had wised up their credit standards in view of an uncertain far harder for anyone to get a loan that is “unusual” in any up, and there were no buyers for the paper. Worse, economic future, and the Bank of Canada will respect than it was a year ago. The entire marketplace is lenders who were accustomed to selling off such loans eventually be forced to lower rates to tame our dollar very wary at the moment, which is understandable given to fund new ones soon found that investors no longer against its sinking US counterpart. The Bank of the chaotic state of the world’s largest economy. wanted to buy their paper, and have since pulled back Montreal recently forecast a mid-term outlook that sees dramatically in their lending. Some large holders of There is a very simple reason why the problem the Canadian dollar at $1.10 vs. the greenback, which such paper have had their credit was cut off, and several has come about…there is simply far too much money of course bodes poorly for our exporters. Alternatively, Central banks have had to offer assurances of liquidity to looking for a home. What I mean by this is that the rapidly rising energy costs will further fuel inflationary the market - in the case of the USA, actually intervened world is awash in liquidity, and everybody is out chasing pressure, forcing the Bank to raise rates. Either of these in the marketplace by cutting interest rates when such the same thing, which is the highest yield on investment scenarios predicates difficult times for investors, either a cut was ill advised. The only big losers (prior to Citi they can make. To institutional investors, current in equities or guaranteed investments; caution and and Merrill coming clean) were mortgage companies market yields such as GIC’s or residential mortgages liquidity are in order. If one chooses to chase the yield, and regional banks in the US, but now the unravelling are simply too low to excite them (or more likely too one best be prepared for a bouncy ride ahead…it’s been is starting to spread. small to generate the returns needed to justify enormous unrealistically easy up to now. www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 23 From our School Board Trustee
York writer Lionel achievement contracts and the scope of Trilling has said that testing that they necessitate. There is concern human beings have that there has been a narrowing of focus of “theNew moral obligation to be intelligent”. Given the achievement, and thus, a narrowing of how blessings of intelligence and the opportunities we define good education. For example, the of education, we might ask what the role of arts, which not only have a proven positive schools is in guiding young people to use their correlation to achievement in basic learning but intelligence wisely in the service of a fully also a central role in expressing our humanity human life, one that embraces physical, social, and creativity, are virtually never mentioned in emotional, and spiritual health to the extent that achievement contracts. Social responsibility Sunny 4.78 acre property in quiet area. This is possible for any given individual? goals tend to relate to the microcosm of the comfortable 3 bedroom modular has many updates This is a question which is asked and answered school environment rather than larger world- including a new roof, laminate flooring and more on a daily basis in small practical ways in thousands citizenship/global concerns. there is room for all your furry friends with a 3 of classrooms around British Columbia. Through School Planning Councils and stall 800 sqft barn with large loft. Certainly, not everyone is in agreement; the Parent Advisory Committees, parents have the mandate of public education which issues from opportunity to be part of local school planning, the Ministry of Education may not wholly reflect thereby feeding into district achievement the values of all the populace, although one contracts; they often express their investment hopes that there is a reasonably close alignment in their children’s schools by working to broaden between what parents and children want from the focus, raising both learning concerns and public schools and what they receive. global/environmental issues that are a natural There have been some striking changes in and right part of education. Although there is the direction of education in the last six years. considerable pressure to articulate specific goals, Each of British Columbia’s 60 school districts educators also work intensively to maintain a must now produce an achievement contract broad lens, providing students with experiences annually, a public document which articulates its which develop practical abilities, creativity, commitment to improving student achievement critical thinking capacity, and a broad range of in the following year. These contracts have other life skills. evolved province-wide with goals in three Where the “accountability agenda” is taking basic categories: literacy, numeracy, and social us is still moot. The Ministry of Education would responsibility, reasonable enough categories have us believe that students are receiving better in themselves. Fulfillment of the literacy and educations, and I think that for many students, numeracy commitments is measured, by and this is true, although I’m not convinced that large, by results in district tests, province-wide improved education is linked only or primarily to Foundations Skills Assessment tests, and final achievement contracts. Many factors contribute grades in government exams. Social responsibility to improvement, including increased research on does not lend itself to testing and is measured learning, more focussed and skillful teaching, through such means as numbers of discipline and the support and expertise of learning referals and student/parent checklists. specialists and educational assistants. For many reasons, there is contention Ultimately, we must ask ourselves what our in educational circles around the value of goals for an educated populace are. Certainly, we want our citizens to be literate, numerate, and socially responsible in the broadest sense. We want them to be able to apply these skills in their navigation of a complex society, their search for gainful and satisfying employment, and their creation of healthy relationships. Even more, I hope they will feel the moral obligation to be intelligent, to use this gift to express their humanity in all the life-affirming opportunities that will inevitably present themselves over a lifetime. Until next time, Helen Moats www.discoveryislander.ca 24 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 What’s in a Mosaic? n this one, a memory of the Chinese Johnson has entitled it "Water Table, 2007". There few choice pieces from celadon green bowls, and labourers who long ago lived in bunkhouses is an extraordinary variety from pieces of thick- fragments of a design called "Chinese swamp on a bench beside the B. C. Packer's walled Asian transport containers, to well-known with Circle and Dragonfly motif ", as identified canneryI in Quathiaski Cove. They came up from folk designs on thin-walled cups and bowls, to by Grant Keddie, archaeologist, and expert in Chinatown in Vancouver each year to handle the plates with Western transfer designs in the oriental this field, at the Royal British Columbia Museum. heavy machinery of the canning process. And style, made in England. At center in this mosaic is Artist Denise Johnson says that the geometry of Japanese fishermen came up from Steveston to fish a treasured find: a cameo head of Queen Victoria, her work is that of the sunflower, and the solar for cod in this area, and drop anchor each night in a shard of a container for toothpaste, popular in system: "fractiles", and that this cosmic energy Quathiaski Cove. Often the Japanese went ashore the 1890's, with the words "for beautifying and guides the flow of her work in mosaics. "I just fit to visit friends with houses in the Cove. Women preserving the teeth." Two of these were found in in the pieces like a jig-saw, each piece dictating from Cape Mudge village worked in the cannery an archaeological dig under the site of the Jubilee where the next should lie". In this mosaic, she has while their men fished for the company. During Hospital in Victoria; and one went down with the let the pieces tip up slightly against each other the canning season they stayed in temporary Titanic a n d across the face of the work like ripples on water. shacks along the shore. Most temporary structures Denise is a Nova Scotian, born in Halifax in 1969. protruded over the bank on posts. This mosaic She arrived in Quathiaski Cove two years displays the jagged remains of plates, bottles ago aboard the 50 ft. schooner, "Mystic and bowls used by early cannery workers: Star", with skipper Rory and three thrown overboard, or smashed or little children. They are presently discarded from bunkhouses on the berthed at Manson's Landing on bank south of the main cannery Cortes Island. Her workshop buildings, and now softened and is amidships, and just how textured by leaching out of the she manages to produce bank and washing back and her unique mosaics in forth on the sand. Ginger pots shards of glass under and tiny amber-green opium these circumstances, is bottles once protruded out a mystery. The French of the bank, amongst the side of Denise's family mud entangled tree roots, hails from Chetticamp, but little remains now to Cape Breton, where her distinguish what later in the mother was part of the 60's and 70's became a pot hooked-rug production hunters site. The last cannery for which the women of to be built in Quathiaski Cove this little village became was B. C. Packer's. It burned down famous. Presently, the village in 1941. The Japanese fishermen is widely known for Gampo were uprooted and relocated from the Abbey. Denise Johnson has a west coast of North America when war rich background in both crafts and with Japan broke out in the Pacific. The old Buddhist thought. In her modest way, cannery days came to an end for the native people she says she got her idea for producing art who worked there, and eventually for the men of i s from necessity, using thrown away materials, European origin who owned and operated these shown in the present seeking beauty and value from disposable historic canneries along the coast. Despite the fact exhibit at Royal British Columbia Museum.. objects, "Something beautiful from nothing". that the beach gravel at this site is in the process Most of the pieces are blue on white patterns laid Her mosaics have been shown on Quadra Island, of being turned over to a depth of four feet and on by transfer paper in the firing, portraying tiny and neighboring islands, and some have been barged off to clean up the pollution from the old exotic plants houses and parasols: These were purchased to hang in Island homes. She calls cannery site, chips of ceramic ware bearing delicate Asian designs but on chinaware made in England. this work of art: " Quadra Water Table 2007". brush strokes and charming motifs can still be and beloved by the Victorians who were smitten Observing each element of the whole, you feel found along the shore. Bruce Jordan, who lives with "chinoisery" after the opening of Japan and the excitement of discovery that must have been closest to the old trail and beach gave his collection China to the West. Most delightful are the heavier part of the treasure hunters' pleasure upon finding of Asian detritus to artist Denise Johnson who he pottery pieces with elegant soft brush strokes these pieces of decorative history as they jutted met while she was wandering the beach in search perhaps indicating bamboo or berried branches or out of the bank or swirled around half-sunk of sand-rubbed glass for her mosaics. Using what colourful blossoms, likely from some local pottery rocks, brought in by the low tides of early May Bruce had collected, she created this mosaic for on the Asian mainland and brought here by ship and June. him. It is 18 inches in diameter. Artist Denise filled with wine, peanut oil or sauces. There are a - Joy Inglis www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 25 MISSING/LOST VACATIONS FOR RENT ACCOMMODATION LOST PET- CECIL CAT TWO CABINS FOR RENT, COMPANY COMING? Y O G A H O L I D AY I N Firesign 10 yr. old beloved cat lost centrally located. Rent by week B&B has Tourism BC approved MEXICO or month. Call Sunday Dennis since Oct. 16th/07—neutered accommodations for your family and Take a Yoga Holiday in Mexico for details 285 - 3197 or email at friends in our cozy and comfortable male, South end- 366 Sutil Rd. this winter with Brenda Dempsey. [email protected] 3-bedroom B&B with separate guest White & Black, will be scared, Yoga, Meditation & Qi Kung will entrance, kitchenette, living room, has never left home, before. inspire your days followed by beach Internet and cable TV: your friendly Please call Ruth or Martin, & town excursions in sunny La FOR RENT home away from home 285-3390. 285-3801, or dogfish1@telus. 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This is Rear bedroom, centre bathroom SPACE for lease at Quathiaski at 285-3811 a part time position with potential and kitchen. Dinette and 2 swivel Cove on Quadra Island. Would be for full time. chairs. Micro. Sleeps six. rear axle air suitable for office, yoga studio, or AT MOTIF DESIGN we lifts, fibreglass front and back caps provide decorating and sewing Qualifications include self- artists sudio Approx.1000 square and siding. very good condition. services. We sew curtains, motivated, organized, fast paced ft.. $400 Also smaller office space 250-285-2030, cell 250-203-0750. bedspreads, pillow cases and do and a team player. Previous office for rent. Call 285-2569 for more upholstery projects. Hours are 11-5 experience along with MS Word, information. FOR SALE 1997 CADILLAC Tuesday to Saturday. Call 285-2626 MS Excel, Internet and Email would DEVILLE 4 door sedan $8,000 or visit us at The Upper Realm in be an asset. No phone calls please. Dark metallic blue, mileage Quathiaski Cove. Apply by fax to: 250-285-2532 93,530 km (58,116 miles). Electric COMMERCIAL SPACE or email to: tkllodge@connected. windows, remote trunk, locks etc... FOR LEASE Q-COVE APPLIANCE REPAIR bc.ca. Blue leather interior, exceelent We are now a full service appliance condition. great car to drive. Mickey Prime ground-floor storefront repair facility for all of your domestic Deadline for applications is and Gloria Smith 250-285-2030, space in Cove Centre, Quathiaski November 25. appliance needs at affordable cell 250-203-0750. Quadra Island. Cove, between People’s Drug Mart rates. We are a new and used parts and Quadra Medical Clinic. depot for all appliances and carry 750 sq.ft. in well-maintained a good selection of quality rebuilt How To Submit Your Classified Ad modern building; unit has own appliances. All come with one-year warranty on parts and labour. Free electrical service, air-conditioning, delivery for most of Quadra. Call In 3 Easy Steps own washroom, finished walls, 285-3425 or cell 202-3425 suspended ceiling. Excellent location, plenty of parking. 1 - Write or type up your advertisement with a heading PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICES Suitable for retail store, gallery, From Art prints for home or office to and double-check your contact details: phone number and/or professional offices, salon, or other family portraits and weddings. Ask email are correct. service business. about digital workshops/tutorials. Call Various lease terms available. Philip Stone at 285-2234 or email: For more information, contact [email protected] 2 - Stop by our office at 701 Cape Mudge Rd. anytime or Check out my online gallery at: Reggie at 285-2281. at Hummingbird Art and Office Supply during their opening www.quadraisland.ca/photography hours with your ad and $10.00 (that’s $9.43 plus 57¢ gst) in cash or cheque (sorry no credit cards) for up to 40 words. Longer ads are charged at $9.43/column inch. If the D.I. office is closed use the secure mail box by the door. Payment is required at time of submission please. Ads may be faxed to 285-2236 or emailed to [email protected] with /NLY PER ISSUE INCLUDES '34 payment following a.s.a.p.
3 - Sit back and wait for the calls!! Questions call 285-2234 or email [email protected] www.discoveryislander.ca 26 Discovery Islander #408 November 9th, 2007 Classifieds For Quathiaski Cove FOR SALE STORES November 9-23 WOMEN’S WET SUIT, AMPED ON NUTRITION 09 05:18 4.0 13.1 BareFit 7mm wet suit size 7-8, - Quadra Island’s Health Food Friday 09:44 3.4 11.2 new/unused. retail $400 priced at Store and Deli. We carry vitamins, 15:19 4.0 13.1 $250 firm. Call 285-2573, please supplements, alternative groceries 23:03 1.1 3.6 leave a message. and more. Energize yourself with 10 06:00 4.1 13.5 our delicious, organic vegetarian deli Saturday 10:27 3.5 11.5 delights. Combining what you need 15:34 3.9 12.8 BIZ OPPS with what you want. 23:16 1.0 3.3 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Open 10:00 am - 6 pm every day 11 06:42 4.2 13.8 Explore is for sale as a turn key operation, except closed Sundays and Mondays Sunday 11:21 3.6 11.8 285-3142 15:52 3.9 12.8 23:45 1.0 3.3 12 07:24 4.2 13.8 established gallery and gift shop featuring REAL ESTATE Monday 12:40 3.7 12.1 regional artists and artisans, books, music, 16:14 3.9 12.8 and clothing, located on beautiful FOR SALE 653 Heriot Bay Rd. 13 00:18 0.9 3.0 Quadra Island. Over 15 years Very Cozy 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom Tuesday 08:08 4.2 13.8 serving the local community and with many updates. Drop by this 13:44 3.7 12.1 its visitors. Prime business location well maintained home or phone 16:39 3.8 12.5 in stable commercial plaza near 285-3626 Quathiaski Cove ferry terminal. 14 00:53 1.0 3.3 Lease may be assumed by qualified Wednesday 08:54 4.2 13.8 buyer. This is an ideal opportunity BUYING OR SELLING 14:59 3.7 12.1 17:01 3.7 12.1 for an owner/ operator or couple A HOME OR BUSINESS looking for a lifestyle change. ON QUADRA ISLAND? - 15 01:31 1.1 3.6 Serious inquiries invited. checkout the exposure you can get at Thursday 09:41 4.2 13.8 Contact Kelly Maddison at (250) www.quadraisland.ca/real_estate/ ~1,000 unique visitors a month all looking 16 02:14 1.3 4.3 -285-3293 for real estate on Quadra. Listing packages Friday 10:29 4.2 13.8 start at only $49.95. A must for sales- 17 03:02 1.5 4.9 The Landing by-owner and an asset for realtors. Call Saturday 11:13 4.2 13.8 285-2234 or email: info@ 19:28 3.1 10.2 Neighbourhood Pub quadraisland.ca for more 20:48 3.1 10.2 FOR SALE details. 18 03:56 1.7 5.6 Sunday 11:52 4.2 13.8 19:49 2.7 8.9 23:12 3.0 9.8 19 04:52 2.0 6.6 Monday 12:26 4.3 14.1 20:19 2.3 7.5 Established Pub business on Quadra 20 00:52 3.2 10.5 island for over 30 years. This is an Tuesday 05:47 2.3 7.5 ideal opportunity for an energetic 12:56 4.3 14.1 and ambitious couple to own their 20:48 1.8 5.9 own business. Present owners wish 21 02:07 3.5 11.5 to retire. Wednesday 06:39 2.7 8.9 The Pub has a great location on the 13:24 4.4 14.4 water at the B.C. ferry dock. Pub 21:15 1.4 4.6 has Liquor Primary License with $ISCOVERY 22 03:13 3.8 12.5 seating for 114 and an off-sales Thursday 07:28 3.0 9.8 endorsement. The building has 13:54 4.4 14.4 been attractively maintained and 21:41 0.9 3.0 the equipment has been maintained 0UT YOUR BUSINESS 23 04:14 4.0 13.1 to industry standards. Longterm IN THE SPOTLIGHT Friday 08:17 3.3 10.8 building lease available. Offered 14:27 4.5 14.8 at $395K $ISPLAY #LASSIFIED !DS 22:14 0.5 1.6 Information packages available /NLY PER ISSUE to qualified inquiries. Call Joe Duprey at 250-285-2700 or Email #ALL [email protected] '34 EXTRA
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