Discovery Islander ISSUE 572 Serving the Discovery Islands since 1992 March 21, 2014 Seniors Housing Receives The Heart Of Quadra’s Parks Regional District Grant Is Saved!!! Islanders have been waiting for this fabulous news. On March 10, the sale agreement between the Province and Merrill and Ring was finally signed. Octopus Islands and Small Inlet Marine Parks are now linked as one park system. It’s been a long time coming. In 1995, 405 hectares of land owned by Merrill and Ring were identified for protection by a Provincial land use study. In 1996 when Octopus Islands Park was expanded and Small Inlet Park created the government committed to acquire this land because it lies between the two parks. In 2001, a tentative agreement fell through. When Merrill and Ring began selling off their properties on the coast in 2010, the government was persuaded to renew negotiations and a timber cruise and land survey were completed in 2011. Almost exactly two years ago in March 2012 an agreement for sale was drawn up. Continued on page 9

Jim Abram and several Seniors Housing Directors

he fifth home at Seniors Housing has Tru Value stores in the Cove and Heriot Bay The Society appreciates every bit of financial been occupied for three months by a have been great supporters of the Quadra Island help it gets from the community. If you have Tvery appreciative senior. Next month, community. The staff at both Tru Value stores been thinking of making a charitable donation work will be begin on the landscaping near the have donated last year’s proceeds from casual on Quadra, the Senior Housing Society would new unit. When the grass starts to grow, the dress Fridays, and additional money raised for appreciate your consideration of our project construction phase of this new home will be charity at their 2013 Christmas party. Again this year. Tax receipts are available. Please mail completed. The Board of Directors continues to thanks to this neighbourly business for their donations to Quadra Island Seniors Housing, Box manage the five-unit property, to pay down the one percent donation to local charities. Seniors 535, Quathiaski Cove, V0P 1N0. There are now debt as much as possible, and to discuss future Housing’s number at both Tru Value stores is nine tenants at Seniors Housing. We appreciate plans for Seniors Housing. 275, if you are deciding which local charity to the caring that allows islanders to remain on The Society would like to thank all of our support. A huge thank you to the staff of both Quadra as they age. local grocery stores, and thanks to managers benefactors for their continuing support of the If you would like eventually to live in our Seniors Stuart and Darcy. You are helping us pay down housing project. Recently, $7000 was received Housing complex, the Society encourages you the mortgage debt. thanks to Jim Abram and the Regional District, to fill out an application and have your name who approved our application. The Regional A donation in memory of Len Lakberg was added to the wait list. To apply you must have District received the funding from VIHA to received a few months ago. Dear friends of Len been a resident of Quadra Island for the last promote healthy communities and to help with thoughtfully considered that Seniors Housing two years. Also you must be at least 65 years housing. Thanks to Jim, for again supporting the was a nice way to recognize his life and passing. old. If your partner or spouse is under 65, but seniors housing project. The Regional District- Len was an important figure in our community you meet the age requirement, this is acceptable sourced grant was used for early construction and this donation helps future seniors remain on for application. To receive an application form costs of the fifth unit - the timing of the grant was the island. Thank you. please phone Heather at (250) 285-2553. much appreciated. Read the DI online: www.DiscoveryIslander.ca Discovery Islander ISLAND FORUM Say your piece - eMail: [email protected] or drop-off at 701 Cape Mudge Rd or at Hummingbird

Fight Back! We need a Big Change! We are not the Support our local Water Taxi, Now the Ferry Protest buses they have fooled you again. They Not BC Ferries. Enemy! have come home, the badgering are nothing without you, and we I’d like to get a few things straight As a foot passenger, you can is over it’s clear the old way of don’t need to speak to those who over the recent upheaval with fight back by boycotting BC conducting the politic is over. do not listen to sensible ideas. BCF. ferries and supporting a local It’s doubtful any influence on the Give yourself some dignity, and business. The Water Taxi runs Crew, like myself have had overlying primeval governance ignore them. at 4.30 P.M. and 5.25 P.M. on friends, neighbours and relatives we suffer under with only 2000 We need a Big Change! weekdays. It will get you home not quite understand the “free” people showing up at the protest sooner and send BC Ferries a To achieve a life without a blatant ferry travel pass for crew. will amount to anything. We still message that we are angry. ignorance imposed upon us we “Education time”, its not FREE live here, and I observe with a have to alter our government to we are taxed on the FULL PRICE Anonymous Quadra resident. sickening feeling, reason plays no one of proportional representation not the “club price” (Experience (Not associated with the water role with the philosophy of those so people begin to be socially Card) rates. taxi.) who run BC Ferries. engaged once again in a civic, Remember… Full Price rate The State must have it’s broad-minded outlook to have a is $32.65 for a car & driver Thoughts on the profit, at the expense of our say in our survival in the coming Experience Card rate is $20.15 entrepreneurial spirit. Those who the “Dubious Age” for a car & driver Please educate run the state emulate the people Ferry Protest The NDP have the right model, yourself on the facts! who run the philosophy of the How often do we take the but will never do any thing about Great Game, while feeling very Second, believe it or not we are opportunity that is offered it unless elected. I’m yawing cleverly social with us knowing on board strictly for your safety -- to step out of our limited already. individual lives, our zone of day they are doing the right thing and well being, parking cars is to day familiarity, and join with with the people whom they aspire The only way to effect it is when what we do in our spare time in a mass of fellow Islanders in an to impress. Without reason, the Voter Turnout drops below order to maximize everyone’s experience of shared solidarity. they are evoking the God of 50% and legally it automatically travel plans (sorry to those that Pure Stupidity. It’s going to be kicks in. It’s an eye-opener, and get winged). Joining our voices, sharing our interesting [for] our future. frightening for a politician to Last but not least, all crew are thoughts, expressing outrage and consider one who is beyond Todd Stone ought to be charged ALSO getting stung by these acknowledging our humanity. persuasion has a vote without with criminal malfeasance in imminent changes but are bound Many of us took the time, acting having to do anything. A Citizen! upon initiative and frustration at his dereliction of public duty by company policy and protocol being continually exploited by for ignoring the reasons of Imagine relying on apathy for a to do our jobs. Keep in mind that the men in grey, the corporate mismanagement of the BC Ferries vote of confidence for ourselves. we are islanders as well! pirates to emerge from our for which the BC Taxpayer, or is Quite a few options are available Your Neighbour! Island homes and march on the it just the Political State is on the on how one may achieve this by legislature. There to raise our cry hook for. It’s still money from the people who want to feel good against the grey walls of power. Public Purse. again about being here. NEXT DEADLINE Trumpets may have been Honourable Government? May your coffee/tea be good. more appropriate, for nothing FOR THE DI We as a people mean nothing, Hugh McNab is Monday, March 31st noticeably crumbled and who just as the natives did to the Read Island. [email protected] even knows if anyone inside Great Game 200 years ago meant bothered to listen. Yet they will nothing, a cultural genocide still Kudos have to listen, for we kindled being played out and denied, Major kudos to Jim Abram and a fire in our hearts. We were and now us natives as well. Michael Stahnke for the fabulous Have an opinion to share? there to be seen -- an undeniable “Well, welcome to the club”! The job they did organizing the rally Submit your letter community of coastal dwellers, astute natives will say, and thank at the legislature. Thank you for to the DI by email: doing this together. And we goodness they are still here. Are all the energy and time you put [email protected] will do it again and more until we publicly apathetic, or just into this event which was fun and they listen and make favourable sensible in saving our sanity when PREFERRED energizing. This really was a changes to their life-sucking confronted with the God of Pure Quadra rally. On site organization Regular ‘ol mail with ferry policy. Stupidity. (tent, loud speakers etc), rally a stamp to Box 280 Much gratitude goes out to Jim So what to do? banner, 2 bands, 5 of the speakers, in the Cove and all the other organizers. MC and media rep and 1/3 of the Don’t miss the next opportunity. I’d boycott any meetings with BC If it’s too long it may Ferries, and by doing so it reveals participants all from Quadra. Too be chopped! John Cleasby their sham. Showing up means bad other islands didn’t take up the challenge the way we did. Please be concise Page 2 Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Read the DI online: www.DiscoveryIslander.ca Discovery Islander ISLAND CALENDAR Submit your event info or news item - eMail: [email protected] or drop-off at 701 Cape Mudge Rd or at Hummingbird

MONDAY Friday, March 21 - Parent & Tots, QCC, 9:30 am - 12 pm - John Reynolds entertainer extraordainaire Herons reserve 250-285-3322 - Sing For Pure Joy! QCC, Room 3, 3:00 - 4:30. All Welcome. Saturday March 22 - Weight Watchers, QCC, 6 pm - 7 pm - Sierra Quadra presents Dan Lewis & Bonny Glambeck, QCC 7:30 pm - Drop-in Badminton, Cape Mudge Gym $2/player Q? [email protected] Sunday, March 23 TUESDAY Wolak-Donnelly Duo, clarinet/piano, classical/jazz, Q.C.C. 2:30 pm - Yoga with Trinity, QCC #3, 5-6:30pm- Tuesday March 25 - Al-Anon Meeting, Quadra Children’s Centre, 7:00 pm - Quadra Island Cemetery AGM, Quadra Legion, 8:00 pm - Folkdancing, 7:30 to 9:30 pm, QCC, Sept 17 to end Apr, 285-3298. Friday & Saturday March 28 & 29 WEDNESDAY ‘Love Letters ‘ at Quadra Legion, Doors: 6:30pm / Curtain: 7:30pm - Yoga with Trinity, QCC #3, 10-11:30am Friday, March 28 - Parent and Babes 11 am QCC - Friday Flicks presents Blue Jasmine doors 7:30 show 7:45 pm QCC - Free Firewood, Behind Q.C.C., 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 2 - Reiki Share for all levels, Studio 6 Upper Realm, 1-2:30pm - Mid-week After-School Meditation, Studio 6 Upper Realm, 3-4 pm Free Money, small seminar room, 11:30 a.m. to Noon, Q.C.C. - Hand-drum Circle, Upper Realm, 7:45 - 9:15 pm Friday, April 4 - 1st & 3rd Wednesday Food Bank,QCC 1 - 2 pm - New stage party! HBI Pub four great local bands 9 pm $10 cover THURSDAY Wednesday, April 9 - Parents & Tots, QCC, 10:00 am - 12 pm - Quadra Island Conservancy AGM Room 1 Q.C.C. - Yoga with Trinity, QCC#3, 5-6:30 pm Thursday, April 10 - Quadra Singers, Quadra Legion 6:45 p.m - QISES AGM, Eco-Centre 7 pm - Prayer Meeting, Quadra Island Bible Church, 7 pm Sunday, April 13 - Drop-in Badminton, Cape Mudge Gym $2/player Q? [email protected] - Geshe YongDong & Geshe Chaphur 11 am - 1 pm, Upper Realm, Q. Cove FRIDAY Saturday, May 3 - White Light Essences & Guided Meditation, Studio 6 Upper Realm, 1-2:30 pm - Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre, Annual Dinner and Art Auction - Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 pm Quadra United Church Friday, May 9 - Live bands in the HBI Pub 9:00 pm Boom. Slam Poetry Evening with Duncan Shields HBI Pub SATURDAY - First Saturday of month - Local Food Market at Quadra Legion from 10-2 pm NEXT DEADLINE: MONDAY, MARCH 31ST, 2014 - Winter Market & Bazaar 10 am to 2 pm Quadra Community Centre - Quadra Legion Meat Draw 5 pm - Open mic with Mo. 9:00 pm HBI pub SUNDAY - Family Service, Quadra Island Bible Church, 10:30 am - United Church, 10:45 am unless advertised, Sept 15 to end Jun, 285-3163. - Quadra Sunday Painters, 11 am - 2 pm, 285-3390 - Buddhist meditation, Upper Realm, 10 am. Source: Government of Canada Government Source: island marine centre Best Prices ANYWHERE on Marine Supplies Recreational • Commercial • Industrial INQUIRE ABOUT OUR PRE-SEASON SPECIALS! Gift Certificates Available

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Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Page 3 iscovery slander Music, Yoga & Quadra Circle D ISSUE I572 Come Walk March 21, 2014 Meditation Home Meals With A Doc Publisher/Editor: The above mentioned activities Only $5 per meal for Island seniors, Join a health professional from Philip Stone take place at Spirit Books, Upper anyone too ill or tired to cook the Quadra Island Medical Clinic The D.I. is published every two Realm, in Q. Cove. or recovering from hospital stay. for a walk around Rebecca Spit weeks and is distributed throughout Tasty, nutritious meals (including each Monday at 10 am. from the the Discovery Islands Yoga with Trinity continues every Monday from 5 pm to 6:30 pm. food preferences, allergies, special boat launch parking lot. All island CONTACT US Come relax and enjoy. Suggested diets) specially made by Gowlland residents (and visitors) welcome, donation is $5. Harbour Resort’s Chef. Meals can rain or shine. Phone 250-285- eMail: [email protected] be reheated or frozen for later. Pick 3540 for more information and to There is a hand drum jam every Tel: 250.285.2234 up at Quadra Community Centre provide a contact number in case Wednesday night from 7:45 pm PO Box 280, Quathiaski Cove Wednesdays 11:30am – noon or of cancellation. Come walk for fun to 9:30 pm. We have extra drums BC V0P 1N0 arrange delivery. Order by Sunday and for health: see you there! Office: 701 Cape Mudge Rd if you don’t have one. Suggested noon: Marie: 285-3950 or Lynda: donation is $5. Hours: Mon-Thurs 10 am - 4 pm 285-3205. There is an acoustic instrument QISES jam every Friday night from 8 pm Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the contributors and to 10 pm. Bring your guitar, your Plans Video are not the views of the publisher. voice or flute or drum or whatever Drivers and join in. Suggested donation Monitoring is $5. Needed Submission Guidelines Quadra Circle Transportation System Items for publication on subjects Also, every Sunday at 10 am, there Program still needs volunteer Quadra Island Salmon of interest to the Discovery is a Buddhist Meditation. drivers from the Cove and South Enhancement (QISES) has applied Islands community are welcome. Come, sit, breath and relax with us. End. If you live in or near either of for funding for a trial phase of Please help us by following these those areas and have some time to a video counting system for simple guidelines. spare, please call Diana or John at Village Bay Lakes. QISES plans • Text articles do not need to be to modify the current fence at attached in a file. Simply send the 285-3630. text in the body of an email. Village Bay Creek by installing a • Please use Canadian spelling. video monitoring system to safely provide accurate data on salmonid • Please use the title of your item Gilakasla Quadra Island as the email ‘subject’. Welcome to an Evening passage into the Village Bay Lakes watershed, and to allow fish • Please remember to include with Nuyumbalees Outdoor Club credits and captions for photos passage 24 hours a day. and other artwork. Cultural Centre Upcoming Events Our first phase of this project is to • Please print had-written On Saturday, May 3rd, community With spring arriving this week, we test video monitoring and counting material clearly. members, business leaders and are very excited about the 2014 equipment, power supply, and local stakeholders will join with summer trips. On Sunday, March volunteer maintenance of the While every effort is made to the Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre 30th, we will hold our planning system and analysis of the videos include all items submitted, errors for the Annual Dinner and Art meeting for the summer schedule and accidental omissions do occur. during the 2014 adult returns of Auction. Held at the Quinsam at 5:00 pm in room 3 (upstairs) at Chum and Coho into Village Bay Recreation Hall in Campbell River, the Community Hall. We already Lakes. We are very grateful to Subscriptions the evening offers a traditional have many excellent suggestions have found assistance and bona Gift Subscriptions are available seafood buffet, performances by for hiking and kayaking trips, but fide rental of equipment through for delivery in Canada by mail. local artists, and both a silent and we still need to hear what you InStream Fisheries Research Inc. .00 live auction featuring the works would like to do this year. It’s $60 for 12 months for this phase, and consulting from of artisans from throughout the also important to know what Mark Wunsch of Green Coast Local Voluntary Subscriptions region. All proceeds benefit the outdoor education and training Media. with Islander-Benefits Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre opportunities would be helpful for $30.00 for calendar year which celebrates the culture, you. You can either e-mail your We expect the video system to improve safety - limited volunteer Find more details online: language, and traditions of the suggestions in advance or bring Kwak’wala, Laich-Kwil-Tach and them to the meeting. access to site means usually solo www.DiscoveryIslander.ca K’omoks Peoples. visits, boat access, accuracy - The meeting will also include a sometimes the current fence must Cocktail Reception: 5:00 Dinner: potluck dinner and an opportunity Copyright 2014 be opened due to otter presence, 6:00pm Program & Auction: to socialize, so please bring All Rights Reserved and sometimes it has been opened 7:30pm something to share. Since we are or vandalized, and community meeting upstairs, finger food and Tickets $85.00 (Members $75.00), support - everyone wants the NEXT DEADLINE crock-pot dishes will be best. We Tables of 8 - $600 salmon to be able to get where they will have juice and water available. 7 pm, MONDAY For more information, to purchase want to go! For more information about March 31 tickets, or to learn about some Please feel free to direct questions, the Club, visit the webpage at of the exciting sponsorship comments, etc. to QISES through qioutdoorclub.org. To join, for publication opportunities available, please call their website, or to Lauren at contact Darcy Mitchell at darcm@ Friday, April 4 250-285-3733 or visit nuyumbalees. [email protected] or 250- telus.net. com. 285-2787. 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Sea Soil & Memoir Writing Policing Survey QICSS AGM Two-session Memoir Writing The Quadra Island RCMP The AGM for Quadra Island Fish Compost Workshop; April 5 & 6, 12:30 Detachment is requesting Conservancy and Stewardship Fundraiser to 5 both days; Manson’s Hall, assistance in evaluating police Society will be held on April 9, services being provided within Students in grades 4 & 5 from Pioneer Room; $86 for both 7:30pm room 1 at Community the community. Your feedback Quadra Elementary School are sessions; (250) 935-0347 and ask Centre. Come and hear about our can be provided by filling out joining forces with a group of for Susanna activities and successes for this an online survey which can be grade 8 students from Quadra past year. Anyone wishing to get accessed through the link below. Island that attend Phoenix Middle Cemetery AGM more involved with conservation This anonymous survey will help School in a Spring Fundraiser. will be held on Tuesday, March of special areas on Quadra should assess the level of satisfaction from They are taking orders for Sea 25th, 2014; 8:00pm at the Quadra attend. Call Ken at 2580 for more the community as well as provide Soil and Fish Compost to support Legion. All community residents information. an opportunity for suggestions student field trips (Victoria for the are welcome. on improvements. The survey will elementary students and Quebec be made available until April 15, for the middle school students). Literacy Free Money 2014 and may be accessed through Sea Soil and Fish Compost are The last free money distribution the online publications of the Benefits great additions to your garden. of the Winter season takes place Discovery Islander, the Tideline Thank you to everyone who on Wednesday, April 2 just before has submitted their annual Orders taken can be picked up at and the Gumboot. the community lunch from 11:30 subscription to the D.I. The Quadra Elementary School on If you do not have access to am to Noon in the downstairs Islander Benefits cards should be Saturday, April 5th, between 11 the internet, please feel free to small seminar room. mailed out with information on a.m. and 2 p.m. You can pay for attend your local library or the local Benefits very soon. your orders when you pick it up. A single books of your choice is Quadra Island Detachment for a available with $10 on page 100 This year Islander Benefits will The Fish Compost sells for $10.00 paper copy of the survey. Once for single individuals. Families be supporting our local island per bag. completed, surveys can be can take two books. This eight returned at your preference to a Literacy programs. A portion of The Sea Soil sells for $12.00 per year old program exists because local library or the Quadra Island the proceeds from the DI annual bag. of the generous nature of Quadra RCMP Detachment no later than subscriptions will be donated Students will be taking orders, Islanders. April 15, 2014. to Quadra Literacy and Cortes Literacy Now. however you can also order by Every cent donated to the Free Thank you for your assistance phone or e-mail Money account at our local and feedback on policing in your Another great reason to support 250-285-2770 or masumicanada@ Coastal Credit Union goes to community. your local press, get great savings gmail.com Quadra Islanders in need. Please supporting local businesses and now donate. Call Steve for more info at www.research.net/s/Quadra_ helping contribute to these very

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Enclosed is a cheque for $30: Discovery Islander, PO Box 280, Quathiaski Cove, V0P 1N0 250-285-3293 Payment by credit card may be made online using PayPal™ at www.discoveryislander.ca * includes: DI, card & taxes Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Page 5 Love Letters Free Firewood Kids’ Mini Clayoquot between Melissa Gardner & Dry, free firewood at the Andrew M. Ladd III, as read by Community Centre has come to Yoga Camp Summer: Julie Rigby & John Nursall an end. The remaining firewood is Kids’ Mini Yoga Camp April 18-20 too wet to burn. on Quadra: (Actually it is a Yoga 20 Years After Eavesdrop on 50 years of hopes Sierra Quadra is delighted to However, there are two options. and SMOOTHIE camp!) and ambitions, dreams and welcome Dan Lewis and Bonny One is to buy firewood from local disappointments, victories and This camp will combine the Glambeck back to the island with suppliers: Shawn at 285-2177, defeats ...all that has passed beautiful practices of yoga and their presentation, Clayoquot Keith at 285-2722, Billy at 285-3714 between Melissa and Andrew mindfulness with the fun, delicious Summer: 20 Years After. Their or Vaughn at 285-2975. throughout their entangled, but and healthy practice of smoothie Tofino–based conservation group, separate, lives. The other option is to contact making! Clayoquot Action, focuses on the March 28 & 29 at Quadra Legion, Steve Moore at the Wednesday Class time: 12:45-2pm each day. need to fully protect Clayoquot Community Lunch between 12:30 Sound’s globally rare temperate Doors: 6:30 / Curtain: 7:30 Investment: $55/child for the pm and 1 pm. If you have a vehicle, rainforests and to recognize the Tickets: $10 @ Hummingbird & weekend. Works of H’Art Steve can take you to a different rights of the region’s Nuu-chah- location near by on private land Early Bird: $50 if registered by nulth First Nations. where some dry wood is still March 1. available. Smoothie recipe booklet included. John We were able to distribute 22 cores Only 15 spots so sign up soon at of wood this year before running the QCC. Reynolds out. Donations are needed to at the HBI keep this program going next The Heriot Bay Inn is delighted Winter. Money to keep everyone that singer, songwriter and warm, regardless of income, can comedian John Reynolds is singing be deposited in the Free Wood Quadrapalooza and storytelling in Herons on Account at our local Coastal Credit March 21. Reynolds was born Union. Dan’s and Bonny’s presentation 2014 closes Sierra Quadra’s highly in Belfast Northern Ireland; he We have been successful for the Quadrapalooza is putting out the successful 2013 / 2014 Speaker worked with the Irish Rovers for most part these last eight years, call for volunteers, and especially Series. For more info see the full over 20 years. Acclaim for the but these last few weeks have been organizers, to get in touch and article in the previous Discovery Irish Rovers is lengthy and well difficult. documented, and includes two help plan this year’s Quadra Island Islander, or go to the Frontpage of Juno Award nominations. If anyone out there has any dry Arts & Music Festival. Check out thegumboot.ca. wood for low income Quadra the website, www.quadrapalooza. Dan and Bonny will be at the This $39 two-course dinner show Islanders, please call Steve at 285- com, and/or email us at info@ Quadra Community Centre will leave a smile on your lips, a 3323. quadrapalooza.com - We will be heart brimming with Canadian- on Saturday March 22. Their holding our next planning meeting presentation begins at 7:30pm, Irish song and stories, and in early April - look for notices supremely satisfied tastebuds. John Cortes Radio and doors open at 7 so you can around town, on Facebook, and on sample our great desserts, coffee Reynolds is a local treasure of a Drop in and tune out The Gumboot. and tea. Admission, as always, is by performer; reserve your seat by 89.5 fm calling the Inn 250.285.3322. Spread the Music! donation.

John Reynolds - Herons, Friday, March 21 Entertainer extraordinaire - 2-course dinner $39 New Stage Party - HBI Pub, Friday, April 4 4 great local bands: Du y Live, Iron Pyrites, Loud Lips, and the Hal Douglas Blues Band - 9pm $10 cover Open Mic with Mo - Saturdays Dining hours: Open Every Day 8 am - 7 pm Herons/Inn: 285.3322 Pub: 285.3539 Page 6 Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Geshe YongDong Speaks Not one, but two Tibetan Buddhist Lamas are From Quadra to coming to Quadra Island. Geshe YongDong and Lama Geshe Chaphur will e speaking on Quebec City! “Channels, Breath & Chakras.” On April 22, six Quadra Island youth will embark on a one week cultural journey to These two Lamas will explain and demonstrate Quebec City. Their language skills will be put how one can use your vital breath to awaken to the test as they explore the arts, history and your energetic body to wisdom, light and culture of the region. The trip is the culmination compassion. Tibetan religious traditions have of three years of French immersion studies been performing these practices known as the and will certainly be memorable as they are Tsa Lung Tigle as part of their spiritual training travelling with 23 grade eight classmates. since the tenth century. The group has been fundraising to help with Now these ancient and effective teachings are the trip costs so you may have seen them at the available on Quadra Island from 11 am to 1 pm Winter market selling wreaths, baked goods and on Sunday, April 13th at Spirit Books, Upper kindling. Thank you to the market organizers Realm, Q. Cove. who made space available on market days for Suggested donation is $10 but donate whatever them to sell their goods. Your encouragement you can afford. Call Steve or Danielle at 285- and generosity is appreciated. Their latest 3323 or e-mail us at [email protected] for fundraising effort was a hotdog sale outside the more info. Tru Value stores in Q Cove and Heriot Bay. It was a wet and cold Saturday but that didn’t stop generous Islanders from stopping by and buying a hotdog and a raffle ticket or two. Thank you to Tru Value for graciously donating hotdogs and

At the HBI buns to make this day a big success!

Learn Something New at UofQ: March 27 On behalf of Anna, Bailey, Ben, Jaci, Kashike Grow Chickens for Fun (and Dinner) with and Tommy - Thank you Quadra Island for all Robyn & Shane Mawhinney; you do to make this island such a great place for

children to grow up! Green Building, Design and Consulting April 3… Young, Dumb and Diving on the Quadra Island B.C [email protected] 250 589 0207 Coast: Big Geoduck Stories with Aldis Hart. HBI Pub education starts at 7pm. Free! John Reynolds, former Irish Rover and entertainer extraordinaire takes the stage in Join Herons, March 21. You’ll leave this show with the right Crew a heart full of Canadian-Irish song and stories. Event includes a two course set menu. 6 pm Job Fair seating, $39. Reserve 285-3322. For positions at A new stage deserves a party! HBI Pub April Point Resort & Spa and Painter’s Lodge celebrates and dedicates the new “Steve Friday April 4th, 2 pm–6 pm Willey Stage” with FIVE BANDS: Duffy Live, At April Point Resort & Spa Iron Pyrites, Loud Lips, PEEL and Hal Douglas Blues Band. April 4th; $10 cover; music at 9pm. Are you looking for a fun place to work? A place where you can work with dynamic Always good times at the Hibbie! people in a beautiful setting? We are full-service seasonal resorts, offering competitive wages, flexible hours, travel Boom. Slam Poetry Evening with a Vancouver opportunities and more. Transportation is available for staff during the season from April Point Slam Poetry Master Duncan Shields and other Resort & Spa to Painter’s Lodge Vancouver poets: May 9 in the HBI Pub.

Attention Poets: jump on stage, join the slam… Positions available include: call the Inn to get on the mic. 250.285.3322. Front Desk Clerks, Night Audit, Dining Room Servers (Morning and Evening), Pub Servers, $10/door. 9:00pm Bartenders, Banquet Servers/Bartenders, Bussers, Dishwashers, Prep Cooks, Cooks, Dock/ Valdy is a Canadian Folk Icon and master Cooler Attendants, Marine Center Guest Services, Room Attendants, Laundry Attendants, of country, folk, rock and blues musical Night Cleaners, Fully-Certified Fishing Guides, Fully-Certified Zodiac Guide, Esthetician, Massage storytelling. He’s performing at a dinner show in Therapist, Baker/Pastry Chef, Head Chef, Host/Hostess. Herons at the Heriot Bay Inn May 10. Seating Come and see what April Point Resort & Spa is all about. Light refreshments and Resort tours at 6pm; tickets are $55, and include tasty two will be available. course dinner. Hope to see you there!

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Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Page 7 Permaculture Rebecca Quadra Circle QISES Spit Broom News AGM Group Put Thursday, April 10, 2014 Anyone interested in learning Friday Lunch Program: Thank you to on your activities calendar. more about and/or being involved Update Judy O’Dell and Kris Wellstein for their Our annual broom pull will be QISES is having its Annual in the newly formed Discovery hilarious enactment of the fractured happening again at the Spit this General Meeting which is Islands Permaculture Group, fairy-tale:”Guilty Looks and the Tree May some time. open to all interested parties. please respond by email to Beers” recently. There will be a financial permaculture.perspective@gmail. This is a heads up. Those seeds Making an Advance Directive is the report, summary of the past com with an “add me” in the do keep sprouting and growing topic on March 21 at 12:45pm with year’s activities and you subject line. and we do understand now that speakers, Betty Doak and Pat Peterson. they are very long lived, maybe 30 can meet and question the You’ll then be notified of upcoming Having a written statement now for years. This will be our 9th year of existing board members. The info and meeting opportunities for your doctor and family about what doing this work. meeting starts at 7PM at the this innovative, education based, medical care you do and don’t want is Eco Center, 2050 Hyacinthe community group. We are doing well keeping ahead important in case you are unable to Bay Road. of those flowers and preventing speak for yourself in the future. Betty seed drop. and Pat will soon offer a short course on Memberships are now due how to make your Advance Directive. for 2014, for new members Last year forty-three person hours and renewals. Individual $10, Ripple Rock were spent pulling broom. Thanks Join us Fridays at 11 am for armchair Family $15, Sustaining $100 Commemorative to a grant from the SRD, twelve exercises with Ann Lawrence, and Life Membership $1000. of those hours were paid work for followed by lunch at noon, then the Mail to QISES, Box 413, some islanders, including a student. presentation. 1281 West Road (Lower Q-Cove. Walk Level at Quadra Bible Church). March The Museum at Campbell River That was definitely a help. I’d like to send a big thanks to all the 28 features John Walton reading a QISES is looking for a is offering a hike to the lookout selection of humourous stories. For treasurer-in-training. Some at the end of the Ripple Rock volunteers who gave their time and energy to our little gem of a park. information or to arrange a ride call book keeping experience Trail in commemoration of the Karen at 285-3477. would be an asset but 56th anniversary of the Ripple As a result of working with some not absolutely necessary. Rock explosion. On April 5, borrowed broom pullers we’ve Quadra Circle’s Housing Committee Grants application, some 1958, at 9:31am, the blast, using gotten rid of everything that can’t meets this week with planner, David coordination with DFO and 1400 tons of explosives, was the be pulled by hand. That should Rousseau, who helped develop the Q other like bodies, and day- largest man-made non-nuclear make for easy work this season. Cove Village Plan in 2012. He will assist to-day tallying of incoming explosion in history. Ripple Rock us to strategize next steps to realize our Please feel free to do a bit of and outgoing monies are was an underwater, twin-peaked vision of a Seniors Supported Living pulling whenever you’re out for the primary duties. Benefits mountain in the Seymour Narrows Residence and affordable and market- your walk but PLEASE DON’T include working with a of the Discovery Passage, a part priced housing in Q Cove. To volunteer CUT youngish plants. They will fabulous group, including of the marine trade route from or for more information contact just re-sprout and become very board members and other Vancouver and coastal points Maureen:285-2221. hard to deal with. volunteers, and (optionally) north. Only 2.7 metres (9 feet) Transportation Program: welcomes the field work. underwater at low tide, it was a This year MIEKE CODDINGTON volunteer drivers for seniors, marine hazard, described by the will be organizing our annual Volunteers are the basis of particularly in the Q Cove and south- who we are and what we explorer George Vancouver as “one work party. As usual it will be on end area. Trips are pre-arranged to suit of vilest stretches of water in the a w/e before or after Mothers Day, do. We’re actively seeking your availability. For details call Diana volunteers for educational world.” The Ripple Rock explosion to be announced. Do make a note at 285-3630. was seen throughout Canada, on your calendar. Riki 2640. Mieke outreach, membership list live on CBC Television. It was 3178 Seniors Outreach: Marie Sheran and coordination, fund-raising one of the first live coast to coast her team offer seniors friendly visits and opportunities, and of course, television coverages of an event information on useful resources. Call stream work. The latter in Canada. This marine hazard 285-3950. includes stream assessment, habitat restoration, drought- was responsible for the sinking of Quadra Home Meals: For $5 per meal proofing activities, fry more than 20 large vessels and at Island seniors, care-givers and anyone trapping and fall salmon least 100 small boats. The hike, dealing with illness or recovering from counts, along with data with guide Ross Keller, offers a surgery can order tasty, nutritious meals reporting and mapping. We fantastic view of the challenging prepared specially for the program by also carry out hiking and boat- waters of Seymour Narrows. the Gowlland Harbour Resort Chef. access only trips to potential Keller will talk about Ripple Rock Food preferences, allergies and special fish streams, including the as well as various other aspects of diets are accommodated. Meals can be amazing Village Bay and Main this wonderful trail. The hike takes reheated or frozen for later use. Pick Lakes feeder streams, to check place on Saturday, April 5, from them up at the Community Centre on for fish presence and habitat 9:00 am to 1 pm. The cost is $20 Wednesdays between 11:30am and quality. per person. Please pre-register 12 noon. If needed, the meals can be with the Museum at 287-3103. delivered by our volunteers. To order For more information or Space is limited. The group will by Sunday noon call Marie:285-3950 or to add your name to the View of Seymour Narrows, showing meet at the trailhead on Highway location of drilling site for exploding Lynda:285-3205. volunteer list, contact Frances 19. Ripple Rock Brown at 2827. Page 8 Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Waterfront Acreage The Heart Of Quadra’s Parks 5 acres of waterfront with a home on south end of Quadra. 500 feet of water- Is Saved!!! front with good access. Zoned It was also in March 2012 that the Kenny, Judy Leicester, Ken for 2 dwellings but currently Save the Heart of Quadra Parks Roxburgh, Jeannette Taylor, Susan home to 1000 sqft home in committee was formed and began Westren and Mark Wunsch. work on fundraising, to show great shape! It was Judy, however, who kept potential funders how important Asking $589,000! the dream of the park alive and this area is to islanders and to she who initiated the Save the make our own contribution to Successfully selling real estate on Quadra Island since 1995 Heart of Quadra Parks fundraising the purchase price. In just a project. For more than a decade, few months (May to November she maintained the connection 2012) the campaign on Quadra Heidi Ridgway between the island, the company ® raised a remarkable $200,000. Your Resident Quadra Island Realtor and Parks. It was her energy How amazing all of you are who 250-285-2217 tel and commitment which carried contributed large and small cell the committee through the first 250 202-2217 amounts of money, who gave [email protected] months of fundraising. your energy and time and who made so many donations in kind, Thanks to Claire Trevena and Jim www.QuadraIslandRealEstate.com all of which made this a successful Abram for their political support campaign. Very recently, Vancity and to Sierra Club BC for so much Savings Credit Union contributed publicity. BC Parks Acquisition $34,000 for a current total of just and Conservation Branch deserve over $234,000. kudos for making this happen.

Save the Heart of Quadra Parks They persevered through all of could not have happened the frustrating negotiations and without the co-operation of the failed funding attempts and finally Quadra Island Conservancy and succeeded in putting together an Stewardship Society, co-operation immensely complicated multi- which allowed contributions to be partnered deal. tax deductible. The society received There will be a formal celebration and documented all donations and with the Minister of the will issue tax receipts. Environment on March 25 in Committee members were Robyn Victoria. An island celebration is Budd, Ray Grigg, Geraldine being planned for April or May.

Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Page 9 Quadra Salmon Yoga with March 2014 News Trinity Gogolin QISES thanks Frank Delph of Quadra Marine Give yourself a gift this spring, with the Services for overhauling and tuning-up of its healing practice of yoga. Classes will focus on outboard motor. QISES uses the boat and meditation, stretching and strengthening of the motor to access the counting fence on Village body (asana), breathwork (pranayama), and Bay Creek and to survey potential and known deep relaxation. Inviting Yoga into our lives is fish streams in the Village Bay/Main Lake water a great way to embrace Health and Happiness system. This provides us with information body, mind and soul. All levels welcome, and data to determine the health of the modifications and guidance provided. New entire system. It seems from this past year’s Private and Quiet comers Welcome! observations that the system is very healthy Classes are at The Quadra Community Centre indeed. in room # 3. QISES is still in need of a treasurer. Training Tuesdays 5-6:30pm, Wednesdays 10-11:30 am, will be provided. This position is backed up and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm. by two fine volunteers; a monthly book keeper and annually, a professional accountant. Please Cost is $12 drop in, or $10 for 3 classes or more. consider if you have any aptitude and/or desire Contact Trinity with any questions at to help a worthy organization. You will be 250.203.4529 joining a great group of volunteers. • 5 rugged acres at Bold Point Check out our newly rebuilt web site at http:// • Short walk to this beach www.quadrasalmon.ca and follow the links, or • Shared drilled well just Google Quadra Salmon. Thanks to a lot Very well priced at $134,000. of work by Leslie Ann Hart and Janis McLean Poetry Workshop this past month we have an up-and-growing Visit our office for our site. Also thanks to Deb Cowper for her help complete catalogue of listings with Jan Zwicky at the beginning of this project. If you have Cortes Literacy Now is so happy to announce a information which you think should be included Poetry Workshop with renowned poet, essayist, in this site, please contact us. musician, and philosopher, Jan Zwicky. And finally, how about the good news regarding Please join us at Manson’s Hall, in the Pioneer the possible record setting sockeye runs Room, on Saturday, April 12, from 1 - 3 pm. The later this year, also about this year’s herring 250-285-2800 workshop is free to attend, though donations run. Stay tuned for more good news. will happily be accepted and will benefit the Lit Al Beattie Now program. Vice President The workshop will include some exercises, so QISES New Patients Welcome! please bring a pen and paper. Also, look for a poem to bring along that you are drawn to: no Dr. Joseph Gris more than 30 lines, published in a book by a Dr. Paul Elphick reputable press, and think ahead of time about DISCOVERY ISLANDERS why you like it. No fancy vocabulary is required Family Dentistry in the poem. Contact Susanna at (250) 935-0347 or SHOP [email protected] to RSVP or with any Book an questions. See you there! LOCAL appointment today We Cater To Cowards 250-285-3000 Have a Wonderful Holiday Season and Happy New Year Spring is time to get your boat JOIN TODAY here! and motor tuned up • Forum for Island businesses. Get 15% off (labour) with your Islander-Bene ts Card. • Coordinating island promotion. We have Used and New Outboards for Sale. • Low annual membership dues All used outboards come with a 6 month Guarantee Call Frank for an appointment today FOR MEMBERSHIP INFO and be ready for some smooth Sailing and Peace of mind on the Water. www.DiscoveryIslandsChamber.ca uadra O Marine Services 250-202-2853 eMail: [email protected] Fast, Reliable, and Reasonable Rates. [email protected] Page 10 Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Pitch A Play! Hakai Theatre Quadra is “springing into fall”... and Science & Community we’d love you to pitch the perfect play for production next November! It could be your Engagement own, or it could be well known. All we need are a couple of passionate paragraphs: on the Central Coast With the help of many talented Quadra Preschool Program 1) What’s the play about? Islanders, we have been building the Hakai For 2.5 to 5 years 2) Who will direct it? Program on the Central Coast since 2010. It (Toilet training not required) 3) What cast does it call for? combines education and research that focuses on coastal waters and the forests and rivers that 4) What drives you to do it? feed them. Quadra Kids 5) Why will Quadra love it? We want to tell our Quadra neighbours about school age program Let’s plant a play this spring... and dig the drama our off-grid field station on Calvert Island 125 For 6 to 11 years next fall! km north of Port Hardy, our large network of partners including universities and First Find us online Email us your theatrical thoughts before April Nations, and our community based initiatives quadrachildrenscentre.weebly.com 30, 2014: [email protected] for fostering leadership, technical capacity and local science. 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. You are invited to a presentation and discussion Monday to Friday Our Radioactive at the Quadra Community Centre on March 24th at 7:30. 250-285-3511 Please inquire about government subsidies Ocean — Funded! Eric Peterson and Christina Munck Quadra has done it again! Sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to fund the testing of website: www.hakai.org email: [email protected] our waters for radioactive drift from Fukushima. We reached our goal of $600 on March 11th with the help of a $210 donation from an anonymous friend in Seattle. The sampling kit will arrive in the next few weeks. The sample will be collected and shipped back; then it will be analysed at the lab in Woods Hole. Watch the DI later this spring and summer for an announcement that the results have been posted on line.

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Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Page 11 I come from Family History, A Trio Concert in Memoir, & Biography: Gorge Hall, Quadra Island Violinist Calvin Dyk seems to enjoy Gorge Hall A Writing Workshop (Cortes Island) as resonance box. A concert on I come from the shorelines of Do you need some inspiration and a few March 8 was his 16th stage appearance here, this tricks of the trade to get you started on a time together with Carmen Hollett, piano and stones and rocks that scald my long-thought-of writing project? Enroll in a Geoff Leader, French horn. feet with heat from the sun. nonfiction writing workshop and retreat on Cortes for the weekend of April 5 & 6. The From the rolling waves of green workshop, offered by Cortes Literacy Now, and blue that awaken during winter runs both afternoons, from 12:30 - 5:00 each day. storms. The instructors, Jeanette Taylor and Annette I come from the tress, whose roots Yourk, have a diversity of experience and a collaborative style that makes their hold them captured and trapped in workshops engaging and dynamic. every corner that doesn’t house a Annette Yourk is a graduate from SFU’s road or pathway Writing and Publishing program, and holds an instructors’ diploma in adult education. The trio started resonating with a presto from I come from the safety of unlocked She has many years of experience writing Concerto in D by Telemann. Calvin’s elegant, light doors and low crime rates. and editing, and has created and taught spiccato introduction of the theme contrasted coursework to a range of learners. Jeanette beautifully with the powerfully penetrating Taylor is an historian who has four nonfiction sonority of the Horn, the two differing sounds From the smiles and waves of small books in print, including Tidal Passages, A miraculously glued together by the wonderfully town familiarity, History of the Discovery Islands. Her current adaptable virtuoso pianist, Carmen Hollett. All project is a history of the Victorian era on three musicians later concerted again in the famous From the scrapes and of twigs, Vancouver Island, told through one man’s trio for these instruments by Brahms, just before bush whacking through the forest experience. Both instructors belong to a the intermission. Here, the power and weight of the collective called The Scribes, Comprehensive horn occasionally masked Brahms’ finer romantic where I can’t get by car. Writing Services, where you’ll find their blog: nuances, although much was reintroduced by The Writers’ Study. the malleable expressionism of the piano and the From imagination, which brought me Taylor and Yourk inspire and motivate their elegant dynamic diction of the violin. The Brahms the only social life I had as a child. students to write. “This course has changed trio certainly was the core piece of the evening. my life,” wrote Janet Frost, following a course A number of smaller excerpts and songs, used as I come from board games during in 2013, “and I like the resulting joie de vivre.” program fillers, were, however, at least as enjoyable. power outages and thunderstorms “This is a survey course,” says Taylor. “We A wish to hum along was perceptible when Calvin that light up my dark room. provide an overview of the key aspects of a and Carmen played “Dark Eyes’ and “Dr. Zhivago”, writing project, from concept planning to and, may be, in the bellicose strutting scene from story structure, writing craft and publishing Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”. A movement from I come from the goblin tree, whose options.” Dvorak’s “Four Romantic Pieces” was infectiously thick gnarly branches have been beautiful for amateur players among us, as was Participants delve into these subjects through climbed on many occasions. a sicilienne by M. von Paradis. There was one discussion, class exercises and an out-of-class great sounding modern rhythmic exercise for assignment. They’re invited to come with a horn and piano, by V. Nelhybel. In a movement I come from festivals with cake project in mind, or in process, as the focus for from J.S. Bach’s second Sonata for Solo Violin and bright lights and captivating these activities. “At the end of the workshop,” Calvin displayed masterfully meditative transitions dancers. says Taylor, “our students are well launched between double stops and single tones on single into their writing.” bow strokes, a superb exposé for string students. I come from the Powell River Queen, The fee for the upcoming class is $86.00, Overall, the playing was wonderful. How nice which includes a binder of materials to guide my only link to school, friends, and to hear strong and warm piano phrases that do continuing work. The workshop will be held not overwhelm either the instrument or our modern entertainment. at Manson’s Hall, in the Pioneer Room. hall! And Calvin extracted some marvelous Register in person at the Cortes Island mystic tones from his strings that raise the From hours of adventures on the Museum on Friday and Saturday afternoons questions: Did he get a superior violin, a new pages of novels. or at the Campbell River Art Gallery Tuesday bow, or is he still getting better? to Saturday afternoons. You can register The concert concluded with two nice trio I come from the island of hippies through the latter with Visa or MasterCard at arrangements of songs by the hornist, Geoff and rednecks. 250-287-2261. Leader: One is called “If ” and the other “Here’s that Contact Jeanette Taylor at 250-285-3651 or rainy day”. In deed, it rained when we entered the I am a part of the tribe [email protected] for more hall and when we came out again (plus the rest of details, or Cortes Literacy Now coordinator the day), but spring was in the air on the way home. - Sammi Elliott Susanna Bonner at 250-935-0347. Dietrich Schwarz Page 12 Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Friday Blend Of Classical and Jazz at Community Centre Flicks! Quadra Cultural Committee many competitions including the Wolak and Donnelly have just presents an unusual blend of Royal Conservatory of Music, released their first recording PRESENTS classical and jazz, performed the Glenn Gould School, the “Common Ground.” Commented on piano and clarinet with the Polish All-Wind Instruments Kerry Doole of tandemnews.ca: addition of technical brilliance, Competition, and the University “one of the freshest-sounding new Blue Jasmine musical imagination and a of Indiana. John Terauds of the groups we’ve heard in a while.” - March 28th - QCC captivating stage presence, and Toronto Star remarked: “control Fresh and funny, virtuosic, artistic, Doors 7:30pm 7:45 Showtime then throw in a few surprises...you and a smooth, elegant expressivity serious and sonorous, don’t miss won’t find a more entertaining way are what make Wolak shine.” this Duo! Admission $5 stu/snr $4 to spend a Sunday afternoon than Tickets for the Wolak/Donnelly Don’t miss the last Flick of the with the Wolak/Donnelly Duo at Duo are available at Hummingbird season Friday, March 28th. This the Quadra Community Centre on Office and Art Supply in Q. Cove, is your last chance till next fall to Sunday, March 23 at 2:30 pm. at Works of H’Art in Heriot Bay hob nob with island cinephiles, New generation musicians, Kornel and at the Music Plant in Campbell enjoy the small island-big screen Wolak (extraordinary clarinettist River. Advance tickets are $17; experience, and surrender and Quarteto Gelato alumnus) and $20 at the door. Students 16 and to Friday Flicks’ infamous Chris Donnelly (pianist, composer under are admitted free with an concession. and creative improviser) have adult. Visit www.wolak-donnelly. teamed up to present a musical com for more information, or call blend that spans the genres, from 250-285-2580. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A Canadian-born pianist and Major to Oscar Peterson’s classic composer Chris Donnelly holds Hymn to Freedom. They’re a Masters of Music Degree in Jazz funny, they’re virtuosic, they’re Performance and currently teaches passionate! Wolak and Donnelly at the University of Toronto. have captivated audiences across His first recording “Solo” was Canada. nominated for a Juno Award and Holding a Masters of Music, for Best Recording of the Year and Polish-born Kornel Wolak Best Keyboardist of the Year from performs solo and with many the National Jazz Awards. “...one chamber groups and orchestras of Canada’s best-kept secrets,” said across North America and Europe. Raul d’Gama Rose from All About He holds performance prizes from Jazz.

Cate -the great- Blanchett scooped the Oscar for Best Actress for her lead role performance of Jasmine - a dysfunctional, martini- swigging Manhattan socialite whose life unravels financially and emotionally when her scammer husband leaves her and takes all the dough with him. She moves to San Francisco and sets up house with her blue-collar sister. Ginger is sympathetic - to a point - while Jasmine, under the influence of powerful anti- depressants, tries to put her life back together while on a roller coaster ride of dating, learning about work, and finally counting on herself. Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Page 13 Read the DI online: www.DiscoveryIslander.ca Discovery Islander REGIONAL DIRECTOR’S REPORT By Jim Abram

appy Saint Patrick’s solidarity with other communities together. First of all, Wendy, my North Island. My speech included Day!!! A green beer that said they had to do it on a wife and “co-conspiritor”. I would my “virtual guest”, the Premier, Hwould go good right Saturday and because they had have never made it through this where I played her damaging now! I have been doing media all to miss the March 11th event in without her support and care, not comments from our 2008 morning and it will continue the Victoria due to work, or whatever. to mention that she is the one who recording to the entire crowd It was being done for you and for recorded and located the Christy rest of today re: ferries and also I am so totally proud of this me and for all of our families. The Clark tape that has rocked the our protest on Saturday. community. You never cease to people who were there should Province! She also transcribed amaze me. As the MC of the rally Saturday, March 15th be applauded for their tenacity it into type so I could send it to I was on the steps and able to see local rally and courage and willingness to Stephen Hume and allow him to out over the entire crowd in all I would like to thank all of the be out in such ugly weather to do his perfectly timed article in directions and it was phenomenal people who came out in the express their views to the media. the Vancouver Sun on Monday the to see all the signs and people and very stormy weather to exercise If you know one of them, thank 10th, just before the rally. feel all of the energy. You were their democratic right to them personally for being there Next is one of the best organized fabulous. You kept the energy up protest actions of government on your behalf. I know there was people whom I have ever met. for almost three hours and that is that will harm them and their inconvenience. My daughter Michael Stahnke. He organized just unheard of. You were “on the road” province. I am very sorry for and her family (including two about everything: from tents and and at the rally for more than 12 the inconvenience that BCFS kids) sat in the line for two hours signs and the band and the buses hours. So, all I can say is thank you caused all of the people waiting while things got sorted out. The and helping to get that Christy so much for making Quadra Island in line by delaying the sailing important thing is that our issue Clark tape into digital format, and, such a force to be reckoned with. unnecessarily. I am sure I will get got knocked up a number of pegs and, and, etc. He was incredible The government knows we are the some folks thinking, “No, it was and got major media coverage for and we all owe him a huge dept of leaders. the protesters who delayed the three days on TV, radio and in gratitude. sailing!” You would be right to a print. The government will see that I also must mention the incredible degree. Some people didn’t feel this is not going to go away. Just I also need to thank Pat and Rex amount of energy that the coast they should have to pay, since remember folks, we need to stick Lowes as head ticket sales and wide organizing team (of which we have done this a number of together through thick and thin. arrangers; Susan Westren as I was a part) put into this event. other times and never had to pay. We are winning this battle! poster maker and distributer; We had weekly conference calls We also never had to pay to go Gloria Rolfson for arranging the for hours at a time and countless and watch the fireworks from March 11th Ferry rally sign painting workshop and all emails and three Facebook pages a packed boat on Canada Day. in Victoria of her crew of volunteers; Ruth that we were all managing. We had The only thing that has changed Once again, I need to say “Thank Amiabel for getting us one of the the Sunshine Coast and most of the is that between then and now You!”, to all of the people who took buses donated through the senior’s islands in the mix. They had pretty the BCFS has tightened up the an entire day out of their life to organization and BCFMWU, Terry good turnouts from most areas. It system for various reasons. But travel to Victoria and join in with Hooper for helping with signs and was really tough for the Sunshine there was still discretion and it the roughly 2,000 “neighbours” for getting people onto the buses; Coast people to get to the rally, was not used in favour of sailing that gathered there to protest the Teresa Reimer for painting the but they did it at great expense. I with people who had not paid. draconian measures of the BC long, Defend our Marine Highway made some new friends during this That is BCFS prerogative. The Government regarding our ferry sign; Geraldine Kenny, Heidi and journey and we now have more protest was arranged at the last service - our Marine Highway! Christy at Hummingbird and Chris allies to work with in the future. minute on Friday and not paying Quadra Island had the largest at the Java Shack for fundraising And there will be more to come! and ticket sales. fares was not the focus. The focus contingent of people and had the Q. Cove Sewer was; put the ferry system back most speakers. It was an incredible I also need to thank the Howlin’ I met with staff last week to discuss in Highways, roll back the fares, show of strength and resolve on Dogs for their stellar performance the progress being made on the stop the cuts and don’t mess with the part of our people and all of the on the steps of the Legislature and various parts of the sewer issue. the seniors’ discount. It certainly others who attended. The weather for keeping the ‘tempo” up with Things are moving along. The 5 turned into something else with was fantastic, the speakers line-up Smokey adding his talents. The lots along Green Rd. are the first security people, dogs and RCMP was world class and the performers speakers also deserve a big hand to be coming into the system very being called in. After what we were absolutely wonderful. and that would be, Liah Windrim soon. Shortly after that we will went through, I was advised The organization came off and her sister and friend (they be going to referendum on the by BCFS management to file a beautifully and we were officially also knocked the crowd out with addition of the other properties complaint, concerning the over congratulated for the event by the their singing and playing), Cam that are proposed to be added to reaction of BCFS management in Sargent-at-Arms of the Legislature Pirie for his great “big business” the system. I believe that will be in this instance. I did this on Sunday and told it was the best organized case, Sehleeah Scheevers for late spring / early summer. There the 16th. and well behaved events he had her speech on behalf of young will also be a boundary adjustment witnessed. families, Ruth Amiabel on behalf This protest was being done on to the area along Industrial Way at of seniors’ , Michael Boulet, Chair behalf of all coastal residents We all owe a great deal of thanks the request of the landowners in of the Campbell River Chamber of and on behalf of our provincial to the team of Quadra folks that that area. At this time there are no economy. It was being done in helped to make this all come Commerce, Claire Trevena, MLA, Page 14 Issue #572 March 21, 2014 plans for them to get the sewer, so they should be removed from the service area. There is a small adjustment being looked at for Pidcock Greetings Islanders, Rd. also. I know this is an abbreviated version of all of the work that we have been doing on this, but better to tell you something than nothing. Ferries have pretty much eclipsed all else, even though I am still dealing with all the issues, I just have not had time to report back to you about what is going on. Solid Waste Function (garbage!) So, up until now we have been running our landfills and all other programs like recycling ast week was a good one for Us vs. made this event a success. Halfway through the strictly on the “tipping fees” (the fees collected BCFS inc. Our demonstration on the Howlin Dogs playing ‘Goin Up The Country’, a at the landfill). Now the Greater Board of LLegislature Lawn was important, fun and message was sent from the Parliamentary Office the Comox Valley Regional District (the two successful. And, a special treat, 100 of us were of the Sergeant At Arms, congratulating us for combined boards of SRD and CVRD), that held hostage for two hours on Saturday aboard our fantastic demonstration. runs the function, tells us in the north that the Powell River Queen. Both of these events If you were there, you couldn’t have missed we all must start to charge on our taxes for garnered front page news and top of the hour TV our centrepiece, a beautiful twenty-four foot this function for a long list of reasons, the news. banner exclaiming “DEFEND OUR MARINE first of which is they are not getting enough My job for the March 11th demonstration was HIGHWAYS”, the work of Quadra Island artist revenue from tipping fees because people are to arrange and set up the physical aspects at the Teresa Reimer. diverting more garbage through other means Parliament Buildings and to organize people, (ironic, eh?). So we have had some very heated Our presence in Victoria caused this previously signs, buses etc. on Quadra Island. I don’t thank discussions over this topic. I am adamantly recalcitrant government to respond, the first God that I didn’t have to do it all, I thank Pat opposed to paying on our taxes. This function crack of a door we will force open or break Lowes, Gloria Rolfsen and Terry Hooper, all of can be run differently and cost less and we down. We established momentum, we united the whom told me to butt out, they would handle could avoid this taxation. But the SRD does communities of our common cause, and we had tickets, donations, signs and buses, which they not carry enough votes to out-vote the south. fun together. That’s why we were successful. did far better than I ever could. They in turn So, this year’s budget will see a large chunk of enlisted the help of others. Thank you all. What happens next? It’s already happening. The money going into the function from taxes. I city of Prince Rupert published a report on the Heidi, Christy and Chris sold bus tickets voted against this along with a number of other economic effects of the government’s unrealistic and kept records for us at the Java Bay Cafe, directors and will vote against it again every plans, the UBCM is completing a similar coast Hummingbird and the Java Shack, and the staff time it comes up. According to the financial plan wide study. Christy Clark is in hiding, the at our Credit Union recorded all donations. the number of tax dollars will increase every government will be forced to justify what they Thank you. year into the future. You will hear more about are doing and why they are doing it, which they this later. The way our community comes together when can’t do because it makes no sense. we need each other is amazing. There was no Ok. I have to stop here… Feel free to call For Islanders who are computer savvy – how other community that united the way we did me between the hours of 8:30 am and 7:00 about this – every morning when you sit in front for this event. The generosity of people making pm, Monday through Friday (please, not on of your computer, send a quick email to BC donations and the generosity of our Chamber of weekends, folks!) at 285-3355, or you can fax Ferries, also send it to their facebook and twitter Commerce allowed the March 11 Demonstration me at 285-3533 or you can email me anytime pages and cc it to the email, facebook and twitter to happen. Your donations enabled us to reserve at [email protected] or by mail at Box 278 accounts of Christy Clark and Todd Stone, the and pay for two buses, sound equipment, tents, in the Cove, V0P 1N0... Lots of choices. Minister of Transportation. Please pass this plan chairs, sign materials, tickets and posters. In Please do not use my residential phone number on to your friends, let’s make this a campaign, addition to your donations, it is your trust that for SRD calls. All business calls should be on those people would love to hear from us daily. we organizers would responsibly use the funds 285-3355. Many thanks! Ask for a reply. that is a true gift. Thank you. Respectfully submitted, Over the past two months I have had the For a month Ruth Amiabel worked on securing a Jim Abram Director, opportunity to work with Wendy and Jim Abram. bus, finally convincing the executive of the Council Discovery Islands - Mainland Inlets Their commitment to our community and to of Senior Citizens of BC to get one. As a result, (Area C), SRD our Island is extraordinary. It seems impossible a bus was donated to us by the BC Ferry Marine that two people can accomplish what they do. It Workers Union. Thank you. The driver of this bus is 100% thanks to Wendy that empress Christy HEAT PUMP SPECIALIST was up at 1:00 am to get to our terminal by 7. Clark is exposed and discredited. In addition to Commercial & Residential Another bus was donated to us by the BC the March event, which was very involved, Jim Plumbing, Heating & Gas Fi ing Federation of Labour, our champions of fairness has all his other commitments at the Regional • Installations, Repairs & Renovations and social justice. Thank you. District and beyond, and now he has this issue. • Boilers & Hot Water Heating • Furnaces & Heat Pumps Quadra Islanders and Denman Islanders filled Certainly there are other people working on it, • Solar & On-Demand Water Heaters but Jim is the most involved and has made this • Wood Stove Installations twice as many buses as any other community. One quarter of the 1000 demonstrators in a major issue not just on the coast but in every Call or Email Brent Victoria were from Quadra. Two bands and five regional district in the province. We are very 250-202-1150 of the speakers were from here. The combined fortunate that Jim and Wendy are members of [email protected] our community. Thank you both. Licensed-Bonded-Insured enthusiasm and music from all who were there www.r4mechanical.com and the well thought words of every speaker Michael Stahnke Issue #572 March 21, 2014 Page 15 DATE TIME PST m. ft. 21 03:29 2.9 9.5 CLASSIFIEDS Friday 09:05 4.5 14.8 SHOPS GARDENING PRODUCE 16:02 1.4 4.6 WAYPOINT SIGNS BALANCED SOIL FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORTED 23:00 4.4 14.4 Signs, Picture Framing and simple HEALTHY GARDENS AGRICULTURE ON 22 04:24 3.2 10.5 Engraving at Waypoint Signs beside Certified horticulturist Ryan QUADRA Saturday 09:46 4.3 14.1 Quadra Builders. Tues-Thurs, Nassichuk wants to help you get There are a few spaces left in 16:56 1.3 4.3 9-noon/1-4pm. 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Listing with photos only communication skills. appliances. 10% Seniors discount. $49 for 3 months. Please submit your resume to Please call 250-285-3425 www.quadraisland.ca/real_estate Michelle McElroy, at applyadmin@ or cell 250-202-3425. Call 250-285-2234 for more info walcan.com, by April 15, 2014. Page 16 Issue #572 March 21, 2014