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The World Comes to Pender Harbour 5Th Anniversary LOOCALLYCALLY OWWNEDNED & OPPERATEDERATED TThehe HHARBOURARBOUR IIndependentndependent VVoiceoice ooff PPenderender HHarbourarbour & EEgmontgmont AUUGUSTGUST 22009009 ssinceince 11990.990. SSPIELPIEL ISSSUESUE 222424 The World comes to Pender Harbour 5th Anniversary ROOSENDAL Farms 2 August 21 – 23 WeWe supportsupporort locallocal prproductsoductts Open daily until 8 pm School of Music, Madeira Park, BC www.penderharbourmusic.ca | 604.989.3995 12887 Madeira Park Road • (604) 883-9100 Tickets available from: Harbour Insurance, Madeira Park; Sechelt Visitors Centre; Gaia’s Fair Trade Gifts, Gibsons; by phone or through our website. INDIAN ISLE CONSTRUCTION ˚ Excavating ˚ Drainfi eld ˚ Sand & gravel ˚ Land clearing & demolition If you’ve got rock, we’ve got the hammer. Three sizes of rock hammer for all your rock needs. 25 years experience Page 2 DON WHITE 883-2747 Harbour Spiel EDITORIAL HARBOUR @#$%^&*~!!! redux By Brian Lee everything as far back as my last Th e Independent Voice back-up to an external hard drive — of Pender Harbour & This month I took about mid-June. Egmont since 1990 some great photos. As you read this, the data is I snapped more (hopefully) getting recovered by the Harbour Spiel he is published than 250 shots of the manufacturer in Toronto. T monthly by Paq Press © 2009. BC Bike Race passing Circulation is 2400, Egmont to They’re trying to extract the Halfmoon Bay. Th e Harbour Spiel is over a newly built, 60 1,000 photos and 4,000 words of 100% locally owned and operated, foot bridge spanning Anderson Creek. writing I lost. published without the assistance I went out with Tom Barker aboard If it sounds familiar, it’s be- of federal, provincial or regional the BC Navigator on a beautiful day for cause a similar event occurred last government grants. the Malaspina Regatta. I wrote a nice February. That time all the data was Available at the following locations: feature about it too. recovered the next day and with • Bathgate’s General Store • IGA • Bluewaters Books • Mountainview Service I took photos from shore and by three days to go and a new computer, • Copper Sky Gallery & Cafe • Oak Tree Market • Garden Bay Pub • Pier 17 boat (once in the afternoon and again in I carried on. • Halfmoon Bay General Store • Visitor’s Info Centre (M. P.) the evening sun) of that fl oating apart- This time, I literally started EDITOR ment building that anchored for a day over, scrambling to fi nd all the Brian Lee. outside Pearson Island. people who had sent me stuff in the On top of that I had some nude past three weeks while getting a new CONTRIBUTORS pics of Tara Reid and an interview with computer operational. Th is month we thank: Kathy a sasquatch. Immediately I thought about Bergman, Beth Callahan, Eric Graham, Th eresa Kishkan, Carole All that done and mostly laid out pushing back the deadline but it was Logtenberg, Shane McCune, Jim — with a full week to fi nish. out of the question. Rutherford, Nolan Sawatzky and Alan You see, a friend’s stag landed on A holiday was planned to start Stewart. Cover photo: Doug Foster. the weekend before deadline and I was the day after the issue hit the mail ADVERTISING: pretty sure that was going to knock out and if I jeopardized that somebody a few brain cells so I got the tough stuff Reserve by the 15th of the month. would inject me with bleach while I Our advertisers make publication of out of the way early. slept. the Harbour Spiel possible — please I’m rarely happy with every detail I had no choice but to put in say thank you, and support our com- when I ship off the issue to the printer fi ve long, stressful days through the munity, by supporting them. each month so I was really looking for- hottest week of the year. COLLECTIONS: ward to fi nishing the Spiel at a relaxed All the while, I endured the pace and refi ning the pesky details that excruciating irony that if I wasn’t so make me wish I had another day. unusually organized, I wouldn’t have It was sizing up to be a really good lost so much work. issue. I won’t do that again. But you won’t get to see it. I arrived home Sunday night dehydrated and peppered with paintball CONTACT: welts to fi nd a “manufacturer’s defect” Brian Lee had obliterated my computer’s hard RR #1 , S. 4, C. 1, drive. Madeira Park, BC With fi ve days left to go, I’d lost V0N 2H0 (604) 883-0770 [email protected] www.harbourspiel.com Thanks to everyone who helped out this month and apologies for any lost submissions. August 2009 Page 3 SPIEL PICKS FIFTH ANNUAL S. C. WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL - JULY 31 TO AUG. 3 Presented by the Halfmoon Bay and Pender Harbour Coast Guard Auxilia- ries, Pender Harbour’s newest festival is in its second year at the Madeira Park Marine wharf location. Come out on the August long weekend to see wooden boats of all varieties from sail to fi sh to tug. There will also be various maritime pre- ightseeing sentations, pancake breakfast, games for the kids, music, awards and a seafood S dinner on Saturday night at the P. H. Community Hall. Admission: $2. hine Coast To ns urs Su SIXTH ANNUAL GARDEN BAY SHOW AND SHINE - AUG. 9 Come out to the grounds at Garden Bay Pub to take in one of the most delectable assortments of classic cars to be found anywhere. Opens at noon and admission is free. Arts and crafts, BBQ and hot cars. with regular schedules to: FIFTH ANNUAL P. H. CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL - AUG. 21 TO AUG. 23 Princess Louisa Inlet & The Chamber Music Festival is celebrating its fi fth year with an origi- Skookumchuck Narrows nal piece especially commissioned for the Harbour Suite.” Enjoy the Inlet scenery The festival kicks off with a free concert on Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. called from either the protected “Chamber Music Doesn’t Bite.” This year the festival offers special pricing cabin or the outside deck. for students 18 and under. As always, there is also a discount for a weekend passes. Tickets may be purchased online, by phoning (604) 989-3995, or by www.SunshineCoastTours.ca visiting Harbour Insurance in Madeira Park. 1-800-870-9055 FARRINGTON COVE LOTS OTHER LOTS: 4830 12177 Sinclair Highway Bay 101 Rd. S 50 ft1+ tiered acre waterfront and 390 lotfeet with of beachfront dock and pool &$850,000 treatment plant $499,000 12177 Highway 101 S 43001+ Francisacre and 390 Peninsula feet of beachfront Rd. Level building& shared site on treatment protected plantwaterfront area $499,000$424,900 4300Lot #4 Francis Irvines Peninsula Landing Rd.Rd Level19+ buildingacres with site Mixal on protected Lake semi-waterfront, waterfront area fully treed $424,900 $289,000 Lot #2 12229 Highway 101 3 acres of westerly ocean view with mature trees 3 acres of westerly ocean view with mature trees $249,900 Toll Free 1.888.740.7355 5485 Wharf Road, Box 65, Local 604.885.2434 Sechelt BC [email protected]@ dccnet.com V0N 3A0 www.realestatessunshine.ca The time is Page 4 Harbour Spiel NEWS Kleindale residents upset about planned herbicide application Plans to use two herbicides in September. using the “basal bark” method where Kleindale to control undergrowth in “There’s no way we can allow it is dribbled onto the stem of trees, reforested areas has some downstream this,” says Robi Petraschuk. intended to avoid spray drift. residents seeing red. Petraschuk owns Malaspina Colin Buss of Sonora Forestry Sonora Forestry of Campbell Ranch and has a licence to pull water says their plan is defi ned by the Inte- River informed fi ve water licence directly below one of the proposed grated Pest Management Act and the holders in the area that they are pre- sites. chemicals used are all governed by paring a fi ve-year forest vegetation “I have no objection if they want strict criteria for their application. management plan on behalf of Weyer- to cut but I don’t want them spraying Buss says there is very little like- hauser Hardwoods. anywhere that could get in the water lihood of contaminating groundwater. Part of the plan will see the that comes into my house.” “I’ve done testing myself — I’ve application of herbicides Vantage Vantage Forestry has as its active actually oversprayed dry streambeds Forestry and Release, produced by ingredient glyphosphate. with glyphosphate and then done DowAgro Canada, “to control the Glyphosphate is also the ac- sampling when the rains came and the natural vegetation in competetition tive ingredient in the common weed amount of herbicide is measured in with planted trees.” killer Roundup. A diluted solution parts per billion,” he says. Residents received a letter and will likely be applied with back pack “In western Canada there’s one map showing two sites above Men- sprayers. lab that can do it because most labs acher Road and three sites near the The second herbicide planned can’t even measure that small.” Malaspina substation that could for use, Release, has as its active receive the applications as early as ingredient triclopyr and is applied 4836 Sinclair Bay 13034 Hassan 4310 Sea Otter 3 level3 level home waterfront on waterfront home &with dock, Over 1 acre private waterfront, 2 level executive waterfront home swimmingshared dockpool andon 502nd ft legallot lot rancher & boathouse with prime South West exposure $2,395,0001,450,000 $1,499,000 $1,149,900 12760 Mainsail 12177 Hwy 101 N.
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