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Saturday, March 5 MONDAY - Walk Away from Racism, CR Community Centre, 10:30 am to 1:30 pm Parent & Tots, QCC, 9:30 am - 12 pm Sunday, March 6 Low Impact, 8:30 am, QCC - Denis Chang Manouche Quartet, Swingin’ gypsy jazz will get your toes Yoga with Josephine, Room 3, QCC, 10 am -12 noon tappin’ at the Quadra Community Centre. 7:00 pm Karate, 4 pm, QCC Monday, March 7 Sing for Pure Joy! Room 3, QCC, 3 - 4:30 pm, All welcome. - Q. Cove Sewer Expansion Area Meeting 7 to 9:00 pm QCC Alcoholics Anonymous, Quadra Children’s Centre 7 pm Friday, March 11 1st Monday - Quadra writers group, 7 - 9 pm 285-3656 - Secrets of Clayoquot Sound: adventure, ecology & threats. QICC 7:30 pm - Hal Douglas and Friends 7:00 - 10:30 pm Kameleon Food & Drink TUESDAY Gentle Yoga Flow with Marnie, Vitalis 9 am - 11 am - Ian Tamblyn sings, Upper Realm, Q. Cove 7:30 p.m. $10 Cover Quadra Children’s Song Circle, Room 3, QCC3 - 4 pm Monday, March 14 Caregivers Support Group 10 am QCC - Garden Club presents Des Kennedy 7pm QCC Intermediate Yoga Flow with Megan, Vitalis 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm Sunday, March 20 Al-Anon Meeting, Quadra Children’s Centre, 7:30 pm - Radical Reels Extreme Sports films, Tidemark Theatre, CR 7 pm Folkdancing, QCC, 7:30 pm, Sept 21-Apr 26 Friday, March 25 - Vancouver Intl Mountain Film Festival, Tidemark Theatre, CR 7 pm WEDNESDAY Yoga with Carol Foort 9:30 am, QCC Saturday, March 26 Parent and Babes 11 am QCC - Powerful 7:30 pm QICC Climbing Wall Teens 4:00 pm QCC Monday, March 28 Yoga with Carol Foort 6:15 pm, QCC - Transition Island initiative meeting, everyone welcome, 7 pm QCC Climbing Wall Family 6:30 p. QCC Tuesday, March 29 U of Q! HBI Pub, 7 pm, free - Quadra Island Cemetery AGM 8:00pm at the Quadra Legion Hand-drum Circle, Upper Realm, 7:45 - 9:15 pm Wednesday, April 6 1st & 3rd Wednesday Food Bank,QCC 1 - 2 pm - Free Money, 11:30 a.m. to Noon, before Community Lunch, Q.C.C. Lifedrawing sessions, Firesign Studio, 7 - 9:30 pm Nancy, 285-3390 Sunday, April 10 Annual Beach Cleanup THURSDAY Gentle Yoga Flow with Marnie, Vitalis 9 am - 11 am Parents & Tots, QCC, 9:30 am - 12 pm Karate 4:00 pm QCC Next Deadline: Monday, MARCH 14th, 2011 Climbing Wall Kids 2:30 pm QCC Intermediate Yoga Flow with Megan, Vitalis 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm Prayer Meeting, Quadra Island Bible Church, 7 pm Drop in games and wing night, Legion, 7:00 pm.

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Finnished Then Who Are the Sheep? with Flicks! It seems someone has struck Shepherds use an implement with Not sure who John Anderson is a nerve with the Regional a very long handle and an irregular but his promotion/ description of Director. The revealed rumour shaped “hook” at the end for the the “ House of Expanding Love” that the Gowlland Views proposal purpose of hooking individual in the last issue of the Discovery was being “shepherded” through sheep and steering them in the Islander, was about as revolting as the SRD process could have some required direction. The implement the film itself. My wife ( ‘a born depth to it. I endeavoured to is known as a “crook”. shake the Strathcona Regional in Finland, Finn’) and I decided If you see anyone manipulating his District logo off the 21st June to take in this ‘comedy’ last Friday, flock accompanied by his “crook”, 2010 SRD Staff Report on this thinking we might experience a that may be the person we’re issue, as it read as if written by the bit of Finnish culture, as well as looking for. my wife’s wish to experience some applicant. Regards, of the Finnish dialogue that she Mr. Abram leaves no doubt was born into. What a disaster. his involvement is restricted to A.J. Elwood Describing the garbage in this ensuring due process is followed movie as “Divorce, Finnish Style” and the public are kept informed – is an absolute insult to the Finnish a commendable contribution. people and a mis-guided and sad Who then is shepherding Sustainable portrayal of life in Finland. The the application through the depth of ‘dialogue and content’ in process? The application appears this film was a shade less than a Greed??? to be capturing an abundance of Dan Brown’s letter in the last DI simple scratch in the surface of official support. reality, to say the least, complete about Sustainable Development with repetitive profanities and Anything I have read from the sounded like some shill for a pseudo sexual fantasies. There SRD and Jim Abram renders developer trying to pull a fast one. are idiots in every country that the Official Community Plan Sustainable is an adjective which try to emulate the “ American” (OCP) meaningless – why have means to keep going over time. success story when it comes to an OCP? Many people have And in the last 25 years it has big time sex, violence and human been generous with their time and referred a lot to ecosystems as they emotional exploitation for the talent establishing a framework for get trashed by greedy developers ‘viewing’ pleasure of others the future responsible development and takers – the avatars of our and this so-called film fit right of Quadra Island, only to find time. His lot, DL208, is zoned in...... fortunately, the video the plan devised is a mould to be forestry and should be managed machinery eventually broke down reshaped by public officers remote for the long-term sustainable which confirmed our wish to from the island’s environment forest ecosystem. Instead, it simply get up and walk out in for the benefit of visiting seems like Dan Brown and his disgust...... carpetbaggers. employer are trying for a fast one- off development of 50 lots on a If this is the quality to be expected Shepherd and shepherding may property which is only zoned for 3 by the adverts for “Friday Flicks”, not be commonly used words or 4 lots. I can only think that this we won’t waste our 10 bucks in Canada, as it is related to the reflects their attempt to sustain hoping for some meaningful occupation of caring for sheep. It their greed. ‘international’ films...... began about 6,000 years ago around the Middle East and Michael Mascall ...... tama filmi ei mainosta oikeaa spread to Eurasia, parts of Europe elamantyylia suomessa...... and Scotland, but never to North Baden & Ulrika Cross America.

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4 Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 Unsustainable Development Voting as a The “ Sustainable Development to protect 50% of lot 208 as type of development gaining Beforelast he leaves, resort Gordon Update” published in the last greenspace or parks is harder to approval from the Regional Campbell did us one more favour: D.I. sets a new standard for comprehend. The plan shows Board. he asked Stephen Harper to give green spin, and deserves a only 20% designated as park. Our existing sustainable the Federal go-ahead for oil tanker reality check. These types of Approximately 35% of the development plan is Rural One travel down the coast. Tar sand proposals set out to maximize remainder has already been designation. A family living on a oil to Prince Rupert and then, to a the economic return to the clearcut. If the intention is to 10 acre lot typically leaves about beach near you. Coming soon! owner, yet must be palatable to attempt to protect the remaining 80% of the land in its natural Previously, he has endeared the community. Since there is a balance with conservation state, with enough cleared for himself to those on the coast by potential for millions of dollars covenants, this would be quite a house , garden and driveway. encouraging the lice-breeding fish in profit to Mr. Schellinck unworkable. They can have their own well farms that kill the baby salmon. should the plan be approved it’s This proposal is in conflict with and septic field without conflict. And, of course, he sold the fresh easy to understand the public almost every element of our They can heat with wood water of our coastal rivers to relations incentive. O.C.P., despite rather creative without air quality issues. There General Electric by way of run-of- It is now routine for developers claims to the contrary. One is no need for surveyed wildlife river leases to Plutonic Power. to include greenways or park obstacle to the developer is the corridors, costly sewer and Oh yeah...... he sold BC Rail and designations in their rural existing silviculture designation, water infrastructure, excessive BC Hydro, gutted the BC Utilities development proposals. These so we are being asked to regulation, high taxes or even Commission and appointed some are not high-minded gifts to the accept a new “ Comprehensive Regional District planners. idiot dupes to his Green advisory community- they are bargaining Development Zone”. This could We have experienced steady but group to endorse the carbon tax chips used to solicit higher be applied not just to lot 208, measured growth in the 40 years rip-off. He oversaw the debt density or other concessions. but anywhere on Quadra Island, I’ve lived here and our present debacle of the Olympics and sold The claimed commitment and would permit almost any zoning would allow hundreds the Fast Ferries for less than scrap more homes to be built in the metal value. future without any increase Did I mention the huge cost in zoned density. There is no over-run of the convention centre need for a subdivision of this and the 500 million dollar ‘slow type on Quadra at this time, ferries’ that are tied up in Nanaimo and certainly nothing to justify because they are not fuel efficient? such radical changes to our community plan- all the benefits Gordo still leads the BC LIberals, go to the developers. Once the the free-enterprise party, the party forest is gone the houses will of ‘good business’, the ones who be there forever. Perhaps this have brought you the greatest debt is what Mr. Bowen means by load in provincial history and the sustainable. HST while doing so at the expense of the economy, the people and Sincerely the environment. And while he George Murdoch Lot 208 Before it was owned by Lot 208 After it was traded to is still here, we are obliged to refer Rick Schellinck Rick Schellinck to him as the Honourable Gordon Campbell. It is a record George W. Bush would envy. While all this was happening, we were entertained with the Olympics, the Canucks and cheap Chinese-made goods from your new local Walmart. The Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times- Colonist were busy elsewhere, too, so don`t blame yourself. Tragically, the CBC is so bloody stupid, they just don`t know what is going on in any area of Canada and so there is no hope there, either. The Opposition? AWOL. Ya know, folks, I am starting think that it may be up to us...... J. David Cox

Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 5 AREA C DIRECTOR’S REPORT February 18, 2011 by Jim Abram o here we are at the end of The SRD will do its best to do source of information concerning communities and how to have a February with spring only the same for all of the upcoming the proposal. Don’t miss it! better relationship, pre-treaty. weeks away. We made it meetings. The participation and Monday, March 7th (7 to Near the end of the month I will through another winter! And it interest by our staff has been S 9:00 pm @ Quadra Island be attending a forum in Victoria has been quite a busy one and I phenomenal in these Quadra Community Centre) - Q. for all Chairs, Vice-Chairs and see no slowing in the upcoming Island issues and we have certainly Cove Sewer Expansion Area Administrators from around months. I hope that you will been getting more than our fair Meeting. Extremely important! the province. (for those of you read on, as we have a number of share of attention from all of them. who missed it, I was elected the important meetings coming up It is very heartening to have my Wednesday, March 9th (7:00 Vice-Chair of the SRD in Dec. on the island in the next two or efforts to make this happen finally pm Quadra Island Community 2010). We will be discussing the three months. I have been posting come to fruition. The regional Centre), Financial Plan necessary legislative changes that the dates, times and places in district gets its share of criticism presentation by staff and overview need to be made to make regional the last two reports that I have from all quarters, mainly because of 2011 work plan for Area C. This districts function better. written and made mention that they are “government”, and no one will explain the budgeting process there would be meetings in the including me, has any great love of and show you where your local In between all of the above we near future on the specific topics government. In my opinion, it is government tax dollars are used. have our regular committee with the dates to be announced time for that to change at the local Thursday, March 17th - (7pm meeting days, our regular in a previous report. (see reports level.. at the SRD level anyway. at the Fire Hall), Quadra Island board meeting days and our in the Discovery Islander and the They work for us and they are Safety Committee... Questions extraordinary Comox Valley Gumboot for Jan. 17th, Jan. 31st doing their best to try to interpret about roads, ferries, emergency Regional Solid Waste committee and Feb. 14th). And in spite of our needs and carry them out as services? This is the place to meetings to deal with the latest all of that, at the meeting that was quickly as possible. I believe they discuss those issues. version of the Solid Waste just held on Thursday, February are actually putting in more time Management Plan, which will 24th, the first speaker got up and in Area C than all other areas Wednesday, April 27th - (7pm at effect us all, and the regular complained that no one had been combined! the Community Centre), Public meetings of the Comox Strathcona notified of the meeting! Ironically, Hearing for the Timber West Regional Hospital board meetings. he was the first to arrive at the So here are the dates to watch rezoning application for the dry- I’ll be at all of them on your meeting! Not sure how he found for: land sort. behalf! out! I have no idea what else I am Wednesday, March 2nd (6 to 9 pm For those that are interested, I am going to end here, since I supposed to do to keep you, the at the Maritime Heritage Center I have just returned from need to get packed and out the public, informed. I have to depend in CR) - Pacific North Coast two province wide forums in door to get to Vancouver. Feel free on you to inform yourselves, Integrated Management Area Richmond and Vancouver. The to call me between the hours of by reading what is written and town hall meeting (PNCIMA). first was put on by the UBCM 8:30 am and 7:00 pm, Monday attending where you think it is This is not sponsored by the SRD as an annual event to get all of through Friday (please, not on appropriate. but I am their representative on the rural directors, like myself, weekends, folks!) at 285-3355, this initiative and it deals with together to discuss issues that need or you can fax me at 285-3533 the marine planning of our coast. to be addressed at the provincial or you can email me anytime Public Meeting Notices They are looking for input from level, that will impact us at the at [email protected] , or by local level. - Please mark on your calendar! communities. mail at Box 278 in the Cove, V0P 1N0... Lots of choices. Thursday, March 3rd (7:00pm The second one was the PNCIMA At the meeting that was just forum to discuss marine planning held on Feb. 24th at the School, @ Quadra Elementary) - Please note my new email address. Schellinck Public Meeting Re: on all of the waters from the south I managed to get our top four of Quadra to the Alaska border. Respectfully submitted, staff from administration, finance, DL 208 application (Gowlland Harbour Views). This is a public It is a very important process and Jim Abram engineering and operations to representatives from all sectors sit information meeting sponsored Director, Discovery Islands - attend so that you would get the at the table, including the Federal, by the applicant and is your best Mainland Inlets (Area C), SRD best possible information available. Provincial and First Nations governments. I leave tomorrow for another Province wide forum in Vancouver, called the Community to Community Forum. I was instrumental in putting this annual forum in place with the UBCM and the First Nations Summit. All local governments and all First Nation governments are invited. The intent is to deal with issues outside of the treaty process that effect our individual

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Quadra Island Newcomers to Quadra Meditation Retreat Cemetery Agm Buddhist meditation retreat with Robert Island Welcome Beatty at the Quadra Community Centre April Tuesday March 29th, 2011; 8:00pm at the New to Quadra? The Discovery Islands 15, 16, 17. Contact Don McEachern, Box 36, Quadra Legion Chamber of Commerce and local businesses Quathiaski Cove or [email protected]. welcome you with a gift bag. Please contact 15th Annual Judy at 285-2150. Walk Away from Racism New Playground in Saturday, March 5th 10:30am to 1:30am Listening & Dialogue: Blenkin Park C.R. Community Centre, FREE, Family Event Wildlife-Human Hey Dads, come for some male bonding whilst erecting the new playground in • Live Multicultural Entertainment Interactions Blenkin Park. A playground company • Complimentary Snacks & Beverages Mark your calendars; March 4, 5, & 6, 2011. supervisor will lead the construction crew. It’s Saturday, April 2nd and 3rd and • Face Painting & Children’s Activities Friends of Cortes Island Society is hosting we will give you lunch as a bribe! If you can • Welcome and Walk begin at 11am this community workshop to further commit to the weekend or part of it, please understanding of our interactions with local Join in the Fun, Celebrate Diversity and be phone 285 3243. entertained, while making a statement that all wildlife. Guest speakers from across coastal discrimination should end! BC will be discussing human interactions [email protected] 250 830-0171 with our large carnivores: cougar, wolf & bear. Speaker list and workshop location A Big Thank You TBA later this month on the Cortes To readers who have made a supporting Tideline - www.cortesisland.com. Questions, contribution to the DI and always to our New Screen suggestions, contributions - please call loyal advertisers - it helps keep the ink Friday Flicks is excited to announce that Sabina @ 250 935 6467. flowing. we have purchased a new projection screen for the Community Centre. Measuring 16 feet wide (that’s 4 feet wider than the old one), the new screen opens and closes automatically using an electric motor. The acquisition was made possible by a generous grant-in-aid from the Strathcona Regional District. Our sincere thanks to Area C Director Jim Abram who went out of his way to endorse the purchase and make the grant happen. Friday Flicks would also like to thank Sierra Quadra for their generous contribution toward the screen. If all goes smoothly, the new screen will be operational in time for the screening of Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie on March 4.

Did You Love Mamma Mia? Now is your chance to get involved. We are looking for past Quadra Players, set builders, dancers, constumers, actors, play writes and anyone interested in theatre. We want to form a governing board/committee to help this creative process grow. Interested? Come Wednesday March 16th 7pm Quadra Community Centre Rm. 1. Or email Lisa at [email protected]. Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 7 Ian Tamblyn Free Chimney Haig-Brown Transition Sings Writer in Ian Tamblyn, one of Canada’s Sweeps Starting in the Winter of 2012, Town Island legendary folk singers, is coming Residence Are you watching oil prices climb free Chimney Sweeps will become to perform on Quadra Island. Ian The Museum at Campbell River and wondering what is going to available on Quadra Island. hails from Ottawa, Ontario and is pleased to be presenting the happen when gasoline prices spike Home safety is very important and comes back to Quadra after 25 2010-2011 Haig-Brown Writer in again and fly over $2 a litre? or $5? the burning of wet wood, which years. He played at the Loving Residence Patricia Robertson on What would you do if gas was $10 often happens at this time of the Oven around 1986 and so I said, Saturday, March 5, from 1-3pm. a litre? year, presents a danger if regular “Ian, you gotta come back to chimney sweeps are not done. No less an organization than the Quadra every 25 years.” And he International Energy Association said, “Yes.” So come hear him sing The Free Wood Associatin in says production of conventional and play guitar at Spirit Books in co-operation with Master Sweeper crude peaked in 2006. No matter the Upper Realm at Quathiaski Gabe Aston are offering this what your views are, there remains Cove at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, service next year provided we can some undeniable facts, the Earth March 11, 2011. The cover is $10. raise $1,000 by January 2012. So is only so big, there’s only so far there is $488 in the Free Wood Ian Tamblyn was voted the best much oil and we are using it up at Association account at the Quadra songwriter of the year (2010) by exponential rates of consumption. Coastal Credit Union. So we are the Canadian Folk Music Awards. almost half-way there. Sooner or later the cheap oil party He has written nearly 2,000 songs is going to come to a crashing and recorded 32 albums since Please consider putting a donaton halt. The question is, what are we 1976. A selection of 15 CD’s will in the Free Wood Association going to do as a community to be be available at the gig. account next time you go to the prepared? Credit Union so your neighbour’s Now is the time to see him and friend’s houses will be free Patricia will be giving a talk Other communities have because the next time he comes from any possible fire damage. entitled ‘Storying Up: Why We asked this question already and to Quadra is 25 years from now Need Stories’. Robertson says developed plans to prepare for the in the year 2036. We have a firm Call Steve Moore at 250-3323 “Human beings are storytellers. future. Notably Totnes in England commitment on that but that’s a for more information or call Gabe In our information age, stories which in 2006 began down the long time to wait. So check the Aston at 250-204-5228, who are more than ever vital!” The path toward what has become time and date above and climb can sweep your chimney now for talk will examine how stories known as a ‘Transition Town’. those 17 staris to hear the heavenly just $75 plus tax. But next year, affect our lives and why it matters Since then, following the model music in the Upper Realm. depending on the generosity of which stories we choose to tell. developed in Totnes, hundreds Quadra Islanders, it could be free! Patricia Robertson’s fiction has of communities all over the been nominated for the Ethel world have begun to draft and Wilson Fiction Prize, two “An elegant journey. Des Kennedy is a fresh, wise, witty voice in the world of garden implement transition strategies. National Magazine Awards, the writers and an innovative activist for the preservation of the natural world.” Journey Prize, and the Pushcart Here on Quadra we already —Brian Brett, author of Trauma Farm Prize, among others. She has have seen some initiatives from published two collections of short ICAN, Sierra Quadra, Emergency des kennedy’s memoir is now available. stories, The Goldfish Dancer: Preparedness and others that fit Stories and Novellas and City of into the main pillars of post-peak- Orphans, and her stories, poems, oil preparedness: food security, essays, and articles have appeared energy self-sufficiency, financial widely in Canadian literary stability and social re-balance. magazines and newspapers. She If you would like to get active and is also the co-editor of Writing be a part of preparing Quadra North: An Anthology of Island for the future, come to a Contemporary Yukon Writers. brain-storming meeting at the Robertson currently teaches at Quadra Community Centre on Yukon College in Whitehorse. Monday March 28th 7 pm to hear The cost for the talk is $6.00. To and contribute more. Look online reserve a seat, please call 287-3103 at: www.quadraisland.ca/transition

www.greystonebooks.com 8 Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 Free Money IWD Welcoming Visitors 2nd Annual The next Free Money Quadra Island This year is the 100th Anniversary Visitors’ Binder 2011 PAC Compost distribution is at the Quadra of International Women’s Day Community Centre on celebrated around the world. Production of the 2011 edition Fundraiser Wednesday, April 6th from On Quadra we celebrate with a is underway! Visitors to Quadra for “ArtStart” at Quadra Island find out what’s going on, 11:30 a.m. to Noon, just before potluck for women on March 5, Elementary. $10.00 per 30 L where to go, and what to do. the Community Lunch. 6 p.m. at the QCC. The Merville bag. Pick up and Pay at Quadra Grannies will present info on If you belong to a non-profit Elementary Parking Lot March Most of our clients are single group that welcomes drop-ins, parents, elders on fixed income, the Steven Lewis Foundation’s 12 & 13 P/U Time 12:00 to 3:00 support of grandmothers in visitors, and just-plain-interested pm. Advance Orders in by Mar folks unemployed due to the folks, please get in touch for a current economic depession Africa. There will also be a free-listing in the Calendar of 4th. Pay at P/U (cash or cheque and islanders struggling in report from a Carihi student Events in the binder. You may only) part-time jobs with the lowest who launched an anti-bullying wish to invite more people to Contact: masumi@connected. minimum wage in all of Canada campaign at school. Of course participate in your group activity, bc.ca or 250-285-2770 (i.e. $8 an hour). the food and socializing is for fun, for help, or simply to superb so bring delicious food, introduce them to, and include Orders also taken by Quadra The Free Money distribution plate and cutlery, your mother, them in, our local island culture. Elementary School Students happens on the first Wednesday sisters, daughters, women friends, Whether it’s a weekly bike ride, of every month from November joy and laughter and join in or spontaneous hikes, a play Firesign Events to April. the fun. More info at 285 2272. group for kids, more players Firesign has Spring Drop-in, From May to October, the for ballgames, volunteers or Classes, and Workshops tourists kick start our local participants in an activity, you’ll Wednesday evenings 7-9:30 at QICSS and reach seasonal residents and Firesign Studio offers drop-in economy and most islanders sessions in drawing, painting, are able to manage well, but the summer visitors this way to let Gowlland them know what’s happening and still life, figures, plein air and winter months are very difficult, invite them to participate. creative explorations. Bring your as any store owner will tell you. Harbour Views own work or play with something The Quadra Island Conservancy Contact Susan by March 30 at This is the fifth year of the new. Grant Fuller comes to and Stewardship Society [email protected] or 2556 to program and thanks to the Quadra to teach Saturday (QICSS) would like to clear be included in the free listing. drawing classes beginning March generosity of Quadra residents, up some public confusion about 26. And on March 28-April 1 we have been able to distribute QICSS and the Gowlland Clive Powsey instructs 5 days over $l5,000 to needy fellow Drum Jam Harbour Views development We are jamming Wednesdays “Light and Atmosphere in islanders. proposal. QICSS has not had at 7:45 p.m. Most of our regular Watercolour Landscape”. Please Anyone short of cash is any official discussions with the drummers are currently experiencing call Nanci 250-285-3390 or email: [email protected] . www. welcome to pick up a book for proponents of that project. The “withdrawal symptoms” because firesignartanddesign.com each and every human being you proposed development is not drumming in a circle has it’s positive are supporting at home. compatible with our mission addictive qualities, especially the to preserve and enhance the “high” when all the drums become A ten dollar bill is on page 100 just “One Drum.” Thanks... of each book selected. quality of the human and natural to all who braved the nasty environment. We also do not If you have a hand drum just weather on Feb 26 to come out One can contribute to the believe that covenants should be sitting somewhere at home, why and join us in celebrating the free money program by placing used purely to enable developers not swing into action and come joy of our marriage; you helped on down to the Upper Realm money in the Fee Money to gain variances from zoning make it a truly happy occasion. in Q. Cove on any Wednesday A special thanks to Shawn and Association account at the local bylaws. If the covenants for Coastal Credit Union in Q. night. If you don’t have a drum, no Elizabeth at Kameleon for the the Gowlland Harbour Views problem, we can supply you one Cove. For more information, delicious food and outstanding proposal become available we for the evening. There is a $5 drop service and to DI Publishing for Call Steve Moore at 250-285- will analyze them and make in fee to help pay for the rent. printing our full announcement. 3323 comments at that time. Call Steve at 285-3323 for more Cheers always, Ken Roxburgh for QICSS. information. Bruce & Deb Banta

Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 9 BC Shellfish Festival 2011 Carbon, Copper and At the HBI The BC Shellfish Festival is extremely pleased Expand your brain with awesomeness at to announce the lineup for the Chefs’ Dinner Clayoquot Sound UofQ in the HBI Pub. March 9: music on Friday, June 17, 2011 at the historic Filberg Friends of Clayoquot Sound are coming soon FUNdamentals (no instruments, just Lodge & Park. This year’s dinner will bring to a town hall near you! Dan Lewis and Bonny rudiments) with Mo Davenport. 7 pm. It’s free! in chefs from far and wide with a passion for Glambeck of Tofino will be touring British preparing sustainably raised shellfish to treat Columbia coastal communities this spring Music all weekend in the HBI Pub. Fridays… 200 guests to a truly authentic taste of the West with a presentation called Secrets of Clayoquot go karaoke krazy with “big bad Blake”; Coast. This year’s lineup includes: Sound, to draw attention to the need to finally Saturday evening Open Mic with Mo; Sunday protect the area’s rare temperate rainforests. afternoon… country jammin’ with Steve Robert Clark, Executive Chef, C Restaurant, Trayler. Watching and participating puts a grin Vancouver Garrett Schack, Executive Chef, The pair are seasoned naturalists and from ear to ear. It’s free! Vista 18, Victoria Andrew Springett, Executive expedition sea kayakers who have paddled most Chef, Black Rock Resort, Ucluelet Andrew of the BC coast. They will share stories about Second Annual Senior’s Housing Classical Stigant, Executive Chef, Crown Isle Resort, their many adventures at home in Clayoquot Event: Calgary Philharmonic’s principal Courtenay Richard Verhagen, Raven Street Sound, and show images from some of BC’s cellist Philip Hansen performing and speaking Market Café, Salt Spring Island Belinda Jones, leading outdoor photographers. “People believe Monday March 7. (NOTE: date change to Gatehouse Bistro, Cumberland the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Monday to support Cultural Event on Sunday). Reserve is a park,” said Glambeck. “However, Speaker Series event; $49/pp includes three Chefs have been paired with a BC shellfish course dinner and $10 donation. grower and their product to bring their it is not. Not only is there continued cutting of combined creations to guests. Every course will Clayoquot’s magnificent ancient forests, now Pisces Party Saturday March 5 at the HBI be expertly paired with a BC wine and served Imperial Metals wants to put in an open-pit open mic night! Celebrate yourself and pisces outdoors along the banks of Baynes Sound. copper mine!” everywhere. Prizes for Pisces and cake too! Tickets go on sale March 15. Join them for an unforgettable journey through 9:00pm in the Pub. It’s free! We are also excited to announce our music the natural beauty and splendour of Clayoquot Academy Awards after party hosted by lineup for the Festival Day, June 18 at Comox Sound. Learn about the ecology of the region’s Millionaire Vanity Fair at the Heriot Bay Inn Marina Park. Hitting the main stage with globally significant rainforests, and the Saturday April 9. Lights, Camera, Murder with be local Comox Valley artist Luke Blu industrial threats to that ecology. “Clayoquot’s your host Sarah Bible. $49.00 includes meal Guthrie, followed by Nanaimo bluegrass band forests store more carbon per hectare than and an evening of adventure! Reservations 285- Skagway and finally headlined by Vancouver’s almost any other forest on Earth,” said Lewis. 3322. With room $99.00. Blackberry Wood. “There are ways forward that can protect the forests while supporting healthy communities”. Dinner Jazz makes the lights sparkle, the Also on hand to judge our BC Oyster colours brighter and the company more lovely. Shucking Championships and Comox Valley Don’t miss this entertaining, informative, and Noelle Maffin Trio is getting jazzy in Herons at Best Chowder competition will be CBC’s Don inspiring presentation. Catch the show at the the Heriot Bay Inn, and so should you, Sunday Genova and Global TV’s Nathan Fong. Quadra Island Community Centre on Friday, March 20th. Reservations recommended: March 11. Door and refreshment at 7:00 250.285.3322 x 259. More information about the festival and all the pm. Showtime is 7:30 pm. Admission is by events taking place can be found on our website donation. Fresh local oysters… baked to perfection at www.bcshellfishfestival and our FB Page at with your choice of tantalizing house-made www.facebook.com/BCShellfishFestival. For more information check out http:// sauces. Pump up your Tuesday evenings clayoquot.tumblr.com/. with delectable oysters. 4 for $7 or 6 for $9. Thursdays; enjoy burger/fries for half price! In the HBI Pub (after 5pm) Humans at the Heriot Bay Inn. Friday March 25. This high energy Vancouver band will keep you dancing with indie electro, soul and pop. 10.00 at the door includes a drink ticket.

10 Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 Adventure and Extreme Sports Film Double-Header Bottled Water Free Day aster, steeper, higher, deeper – celebrate the and mountain culture this local show is hot - March 10 thrills and spills of winter and plans for on the heels of the main event which takes Here are a few of the many problems associated summerF fun with a double dose of action. place in Vancouver February 11-19, 2011. An with bottled water. Catch the steepest and deepest in high- eclectic mix of world-class climbers, skiers, paddlers, and outdoor environmental activists Bottled water is 2000 times more energy adrenaline outdoor sport films when the intensive then tap water. For example, 2011 Radical Reels Tour comes to Campbell share their inspiring stories in the week long festival in Vancouver which then takes to the approximately 3.4 megajoules to manufacture River on Sunday, March 20, 2011. Hurtle the packaging, bottle and cap of a one-litre down steep untouched powder, feel the road visiting Campbell River at the Tidemark Theatre on Friday, March 25th. plastic bottle. It also takes 3 liters of water and cold spray of stomach-dropping kayak first 1/4 litre of oil to produce 1 liter of bottled descents, fly high with the world’s wildest Some of the films to screen are: Australis water BASE jumpers, and much more in extreme which tells the story of a group of skiers who mountain sports. Growing out of the famous came of age under the spotlight of competition Approximately 2.25 billion liters of bottled Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, and now have reinvented themselves as free- water are sold in Canada every year . This Radical Reels screens the best in action sports ski mountaineers, pushing the boundaries of means that about 215.68 million kilograms filmmaking, audience-tested and programmed the sport on an expedition to the Antarctic (475.49 million pounds) of plastic are used to for maximum excitement. The Radical Reels Peninsula; and The Architect that tells the bottle water every year. That is more than the Film Tour touches down in Campbell River story of one legendary week on Ben Nevis weight of 1328 empty Boeing 747 airplanes! on Sunday, March 20th starting at 7 pm at the in 1960 when Jimmy Marshall and Robin Over 25% of bottled water sold in Canada is Tidemark Theatre. Smith climbed six first winter ascents on packaged tap water. consecutive days, including the mini Alpine-route, Orion Face Studies have found that much of the bottled Direct. They also made the first water for sale contains huge amounts of one-day winter ascent of Point Five bacterial contaminants, and some contain Gully, went for a long walk and got organic chemicals (such as industrial solvents arrested over an incident with some and chemicals leeched from plastics) and dominoes! Exactly 50 years later inorganic contaminants (such as arsenic). One Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner current study found 38 pollutants in 10 of the pay tribute to Smith and Marshall biggest bottled water brands. by setting out to repeat all the routes In Canada 25% of bottled water sold is that were climbed in that famous reprocessed tap water. Much of this week. reprocessed water is sold by PepsiCo The Vancouver International (Aquafina) and Coca Cola (Dasani). These Mountain Film Festival show comes companies believe that water should be treated Amongst the line up is Second Nature, to the Tidemark Theatre on Friday, March like a commodity, privately owned and bought described as “an exploration of the abstract 25th, 2011 starting at 7 pm. and sold for a profit.Nestle one of other major and the extreme” by its filmmakers. This film wholesalers is presently lobbying the BC follows three vintage suit clad skateboarders Both events are hosted by Wild Isle government to oppose local or regional water as they test the limits of the human body Productions with support from Wilderness control and for first-come first-served access to on the roads of California’s High Sierras. Trekking, Quadra Island Kayaks, Strathcona water rights. Taking to the snow the latest flick from the Park Lodge and Outdoor Vanisle. For tickets Demand water as a public trust and a human right! legendary crew at Teton Gravity Research, and information: call the Tidemark Box Office Light the Wick is about sparking the flame and at 250-287-7465. Admission for each show March 10, 2011 will be Canada’s second watching the world’s most talented and well- is $20 for adults $18 for youth, students and Bottled Water Free Day. Join the Canadian rounded skiers and riders blast off. If you’re seniors. Ask about a double-header deal for Federation of Students, the Canadian Union of an adrenaline junkie or a armchair adventurer both shows: $35 for adults and $30 for youth, Public Employees, the Sierra Youth Coalition, you’ll love the high paced action of the Radical students and seniors. Development & Peace and Polaris Institute to take Reels show, Sunday, March 20 at the Tidemark. For more information, suggested programs action to ban the bottle and reclaim public water. The following Friday, March 25th the and links to the festival and film web sites visit TAKE THE PLEDGE NOT TO DRINK adventure continues when the Vancouver www.wildisle.ca or call Philip Stone at 250- BOTTLED WATER WHERE TAP International Mountain Film Festival comes 285-2234 email: [email protected]. WATER IS AVAILABLE. to town. With more emphasis on big climbs Enjoy the shows! www.bottledwaterfreeday.ca

Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 11 Youth Leadership Program Sing For Combats Racism Pure Joy! In January 2011 Citizenship and Immigration “The only thing better than singing is more Canada earmarked nearly a million dollars singing” to quote Ella Fitzgerald. Mamma to create a youth leadership program in Mia has come and gone from Quadra Island Vancouver. The program will fuel the city’s fight but there are so many songs to sing! Join Mary against racism. Dennison in Room 3 at the Community Thanks to the great environment, British Centre on Mondays from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Columbia has always been one of the most Songs, chants and rounds are taught in the popular provinces to newcomers. The traditional method of call and response. No diversity is flourish in the lower mainland and written music is used - just the desire to raise expanding around the province. With diverse our voices in harmony and build community languages, ethnic backgrounds and cultures, through song. $56 for the Winter Term. curiosity is growing and opportunities for Sliding scale available by request. sharing are increasing. . British Columbia is I will be attending a Community Choir so multicultural and unique, it is important Leadership Training Retreat in Victoria to deepen the strength of understanding of during the first week of February. A blissful diversity and ensuring that this knowledge week of work-shops, song-sharing and crosses all ages and cultures. Youth are certainly singing! New songs to share with you when I an important group to help promote harmony come home! among different races, as well as to fight against racism in the province. Children’s Song Circle begins on Tuesday 250-285-2217 February 8th from 3:00 - 4:00. “Last year when I was watching the Olympic Games on TV, I was really impressed by how Please call Mary @ (250) 285-3764 or e-mail youth volunteers from different backgrounds at [email protected]. could work together so well, so happily. Sing you there! After a year, the government is going to give more funding to youth to help increase inclusion and decrease racism. This action is really encouraging in 2011,” says Vienna Seniors Social Lunches Yeung, the project coordinator of Campbell Seniors are invited to come as participants River Multicultural and Immigrant Services or helpers to the weekly Social Lunch, an Association. opportunity to enjoy some company on the Executive Director Rachel Blaney says, “I grey winter days. We especially encourage always see youth coming to our organization those who seldom get out perhaps because of to provide help. They are creative; they have disability or lack of transport, and newcomers dreams; they have a kind heart. But the most to the Island, to come and join us. People important thing is, they express themselves who feel a bit overwhelmed by the bustle directly, they tell the truth.” and numbers at the Wednesday Community Vienna continues, “They are eager to fight lunches may prefer the relative quiet and against racism and bullying. One time I saw intimacy of the Friday lunch, though some some of them help the Youth 4 Diversity attend both. Transport can be arranged. ( coordinator, Moss Dance, to prepare materials Omit bit re helpers) for the Human Rights Day. They were so Lunch is on Fridays at 12 noon, preceded energetic and excited to help. And from time by armchair aerobics exercises at 11.30, in to time, some ideas popped up in their mind, the basement of the Bible Church on West they would say it loudly. I remembered I had Road. It is organized by Quadra Circle, a the same energy like them when I was in high committee of the Quadra Recreation Society. school. But I gradually lost this energy when I The Circle appreciates the generosity of the did not get the recognition from anyone. The Church in donating the use of their space youth give me hope again.” Contact Joan at 3377 or Karen at 3064. Everyone knows “Youth are our future pillars”, but how many people can truly understand the deep meaning of this sentence? If we don’t provide them support; if we don’t help them build a strong base, how can they become strong and useful pillars in the future? How can they have the power to fight against racism? Join Youth 4 Diversity at the 15th annual Walk Away from Racism on Saturday, March 5th - 10:30am at the Campbell River Community Centre. For information, please contact Multicultural Services Association at 250 830-0171 or [email protected]

12 Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 Force of Nature: Help Us Help You Powerful: Energy B.C. Ambulance Service The David Suzuki Movie Our dedicated team of almost entirely resident for Everyone On Friday, March 4, the Friday Flicks licensed paramedics along with a crew of highly Challenging where our energy comes from and Film Club on is presenting the new Sturla trained first responders from Quadra Island who profits from it can seem a little eccentric… Gunnarsson documentary Force of Nature: Fire Department, are standing by 24 hours After all, not everyone has solar panels bolted The David Suzuki Movie. A special aspect a day 7 days a week to assist the residents of above the doorstep. Green economy educator of the program is that the subject of the film, Quadra Island in any medical emergency. To David Chernushenko does, and they generate Dr. David Suzuki will be in attendance to help us better serve you and your family we ask more than enough energy to go around. So introduce the film and to answer questions that residents clearly display their address so why can’t he share it? New technologies mean afterward. that it is easily visible from the road so that we that energy security is within our grasp, but may respond to your needs as timely as possible. harsh resistance is still being met. Debunking For any ‘NON-EMERGENCY’ questions or some of the spin of the big energy lobby, David information you can contact Quadra B.C.A.S. embarks on a global journey to discover what a at 285-3900 or come and say hello to our sustainable future might actually look like. members at any of our Quadra community Join Sierra Quadra for this film on Saturday, events. (For emergencies dial 911) March 26th at 7:30 pm, QICC (For medical related questions and info dial the Nurses Hotline at 811) Discovery Islands Emergency Preparedness Association helps support our emergency services. If you would like to assist call 250- 285-2297 Living in a

Canadian icon, David Suzuki has narrated Classical World countless documentaries but has never at the Heriot Bay Inn been subject of one, until now. A Special Philip Hansen, the Calgary Philharmonic Presentation at the 2010 Toronto International Orchestra’s Principal Cellist, has inspired Film Festival and winner of the Cadillac audiences on four continents with concerts People’s Choice Documentary Award. that cross an array of genres. Sunday March Gunnarsson’s (Such a Long Journey, Rare 6 Hansen brings inspired music and an Birds) latest offering begins at a sold-out speaking engagement in Vancouver, where enlightening discussion entitled “Living in a Suzuki is addressing climate change. The Classical World” to the Heriot Bay Inn. This speech is riveting and the documentary second annual classical event is in support could easily remain bound to Suzuki’s words, of Seniors Housing and will include a small resulting in something very much akin to silent auction. An Inconvenient Truth. But it’s here where Philip Hansen, the Calgary Philharmonic Gunnarsson’s film becomes truly unique. The passionate environmentalist’s legacy lecture is Orchestra’s Principal Cellist, has inspired entwined with candid interviews in which he audiences on four continents with concerts reflects on his life and shares deeply personal that cross an array of genres. As a performer stories, revealing a side previously unseen. of baroque music, Phil has played in concert Doors open at 7:30 with the show starting the suites by J S Bach for violoncello at 7:45 at the Quadra Community Centre. solo on several occasions, employing the Your Complete Tickets are available at the door $8 regular and rare cello piccolo. Under his leadership as its Home Building Specialists: $7 seniors and students. artistic director and cellist, the USA-based from concrete to cabinets ensemble fEARnoMUSIC performed coast-to- coast, earning accolades and support from major • Project Management foundations for that group’s innovative projects. • Commercial & Residential Buildings • Renovations Among prizes and honours awarded • Custom Homes & Additions as a student, Phil was twice selected to • Qualified Journeyman Carpenters participate in the prestigious Piatigorsky High Performance Wall Systems Seminar for Cellists, providing for intensive Certified Installers study with Yo-Yo Ma and William Pleeth. This Heriot Bay Inn Speaker Series event is $49/seat, which includes a three course Free Estimates - Phone dinner and a $10 donation to Seniors Housing. Reservations in advance please, call 250.285.3322. Fax 285-3573 Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 13 SAFETY NOTICE With the resumption of logging in the Gypsy Jazz - Denis Chang new year I am reminding islanders of the Gypsy jazz fans will find it hard to keep their “It’s a happy music, » said rhythm guitarist Ivan important signage to be found in active toes from tappin’ when Denis Chang tunes up Garzon of the Denis Chang Quartet. Director logging areas. his guitar and starts to bebop at the Quadra Jeannette Charland of the Arts Centre, Community Centre on Sunday, March 6th Richmond, Québec confided to Caroline If you come upon a rope across a forestry at 7:00 PM. Known as “the Godfather of the Bouchard of La Tribune, that in her search for road with a sign reading “DANGER - Montréal Gypsy jazz scene,” Chang will give us music to break winter: “This is exactly what we Active Falling. Do Not Enter without his own unique approach to swingin’ Manouche need, a sunny music for the first concert of the clearance”, DO NOT lower the rope jazz with the Denis Chang Manouche Quartet. year to give us energy.” Critic Dan Bolles from and proceed! Preferably, take an alternate Following in the footsteps of Django the publication Seven Days, from Burlington, route. If you must, carefully determine the Reinhardt, the grand master of Manouche Vermont, promises Chang’s concert will be “... faller’s location by the sound of his saw jazz who developed the style of combining just about the finest display of swingin’ Gypsy and approach warily, gain his attention and a chromatic Gypsy flavour with the “swing” jazz you’ll ever have the chance to hear. Really.” obtain permission to go through. articulation of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, Chang Well I say, bring on that swingin’ sunshine! honed his skills playing with best of European Advance tickets for the Denis Chang If you do lower the rope, you assume liability Manouche jazz guitarists such as Fapy Lafertin, Manouche Quartet are available at the and please then re-attach the rope for the Ritary Gaguenetti, and Rindo Winterstein. usual outlets: the Music Plant in Campbell safety of your fellow man. However, inspired by composers in Jazz, River and on Quadra at Quadra Crafts and Thank you Classical and Contemporary genres alike, Hummingbird Office and Art Supply for $17. Arne Liseth Denis Chang has developed his own style and Door prices are $20. Students 16 and under performs at Jazz festivals around the world are admitted free when accompanied by an with such guitar greats as Stochelo Rosenberg, adult. For more information, visit Chang’s Stéphan Wrembel, and Wawau Adler. website at denischang.com or telephone: Juggling Classes 250-285-2580. Remember the great energy of the Quadra Island Jugglefest and Juggle Club? Well Laura, one of the original instigators, is back and is teaching juggling classes again. Classes for Garden Club News Learning to Juggle and for Contact Juggling Sissinghurst, Great Dixter, and the Lost will be held in Campbell River at the Solace Gardens of Heligan. If you recognize these Studio at 964 Shoppers Row. It’s an easy walk names you are likely a gardener. Instead from the ferry, and a discount of 30% is being of travelling to Britain to explore these offered to help with the ferry travel for any internationally famous gardens, enjoy them Quadra Islanders wanting to join in. at the garden club through Des Kennedy’s Learning to Juggle will run from 6:15 to humourous artist’s eye. On Monday, March 7:45 pm, from March 17th to April 28th (7 14th 7 pm at the community centre, Des will Thursdays), and is for families or individuals Denis Chang is a well-respected teacher of the take us through some of Britain’s greatest wanting to have fun and get some great Manouche jazz technique, producing tours of gardens, both private and public, including exercise for body and mind while learning the the great performers and organizing workshops many estates of the National Trust. Always basics of manipulating 3 objects. Cost is $100 for students to take advantage of their joyful and fresh with his presentations, Des has per person, $160 for 2, and $200 for families of knowledge and talent. His instructional books been a guest speaker on Quadra several times, 3-5 members. Each group must have at least and DVDs are sold all over the world. and he is sure to take us again, on an exciting journey with his stories. one adult (or responsible teen) participating. Denis recorded his first solo guitar album Contact Juggling will run from 8:00 – 9:00 pm. “Nature Boy” in 2008 followed by “Deeper His books, including the latest, The Way of Contact juggling is a mesmerizing movement Than You Think” in 2010. In 2008, he was a Gardener (a memoir) will be autographed that involves rolling a ball over hands and arms invited to perform with the legendary Les Paul and available for purchase Monday evening. in a graceful and magical style. Cost is $100 per at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City An accomplished novelist and satirist, as well person. and in 2009, Chang received the “Entrée en as a celebrated gardening writer and speaker, Scène” Award by Loto-Québec and the “Prix Des has been three times nominated for For questions or to register please call Laura Résidence de la Bourse Rideau” in Quebec the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Appleton-Jones at 250-204-9566. City. Humour. He has also been active for many years in environmental and social justice issues, including co-organizing the civil disobedience campaign in Strathcona Park in 1988 and getting arrested at Clayoquot Sound in 1993. If you need a laugh and something to warm you up during our winter weather, be sure to attend this talk. Bring a friend - even if they are not of the gardening kind. . If you are lucky enough to have flowers blooming in your garden, please bring a bouquet for the show and tell table. Extra seed catalogues or seeds - bring them to share. Cost is $10 at the door, unless you are a member.

14 Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 From Your School Board Trustee n my column towards the end of last school The decision to provide 18 months term, I mentioned some of the changes implementation lead time for reconfiguration in the air that would potentially affect has been well received, as it provides Istudents from the Discovery Islands, whether opportunities for planning, staffing, creating they are attending schools on Cortes, Read, new school cultures, and preparing for or Quadra Islands, or Phoenix, Carihi, or farewells. The SD72 staff, and especially EDM (late French Immersion programme) in Assistant Superintendent Jim Ansell, did Campbell River. a great job of planning and consultation, as Quadra parents will testify, and the outcome has been very positive. 1. All Day Kindergarten The first major change will take place in September of this year, six months from 3.ParentConnect now. All kindergartens throughout School A less major change which will already District No.72 will convert from half to full be affecting students of middle and day, becoming “all day kindergarten’s” (ADK). secondary schools, and their parents, is a Much planning and teacher inservice, both student demographic and record software within the district and with community program called Connect; there are student, partners, is currently taking place to prepare for parent, teacher and administrator Connect the coming transition. components. All student records are now held in the Connect location, and unless parents phone Phoenix or Carihi and request a printed 2. Reconfiguration report card, they must access report cards by The second major change will begin in going online. The information and potential for September of next year, 2012, and will have parent-teacher communication now available an impact on a greater number of students through ParentConnect is tremendous: from and families. Most elementary schools will daily attendance to assignments, daily schedules convert to Kindergarten - grade 5 (exceptions to textbooks, it’s there. StudentConnect in a minute); Phoenix and Southgate will provides students the same information and become grade 6-8 middle schools, and Carihi capacity for communication with their school and Timberline will move to a grade 9-12 and teachers. configuration. The reconfiguration decision was I won’t get into the controversy of “good or made by the Board of Education in response bad”. Of course, it’s clear to me that there are to two factors: declining enrollment at Carihi some losses, but parents and children can either and Timberline, which affected the richness request a paper copy or print out the report and variety of possible course offerings, and card themselves to show to proud grandparents, increasing enrollment at some of the Campbell and once everyone gets the hang of it, it will River elementary schools, which would have be a rich source of information. Parents require raised them beyond their capacity within the their student’s PEN (personal educational next few years. The decision was educational, number), obtainable from the school or their not financial. child, and can enter ParentConnect through The exception to the K – 5 elementary www.sd72.bc.ca or the school website. The configuration will be Quadra Elementary. initial setting up requires that you choose a Because some families may feel their children password, but subsequent visits to this secure are not ready to make the daily trip to site should become relatively straightforward. Campbell River, students will have the choice Although report cards for elementary students of either staying at Quadra School for Grade are still printed out and sent home, the 6, or enrolling in town. This will present some elementary ParentConnect site is in place, and parents with a dilemma, but having the choice parents are welcome to enter it. If you have available will also reassure those parents who questions, phone the school secretary who are of mixed minds. Sayward School has will be able to answer your questions directly operated this way for some years now, with or track down the answer for you. If you have students having the option of remaining in configuration questions, please phone your Sayward or making the daily bus trip to CR. school principal. Of course, the reconfiguration decision will not I trust this information will help you to affect either Cortes or Surge Narrows Schools. understand some of the larger changes The location and status of Grade 6 late French emerging in SD72. Immersion will soon be determined; the one Until next time, thing I can say is that there will continue to be Helen Moats a late immersion programme. 250 285 3560

Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 15 Seniors Housing News Quadra Island Seniors- OPEN HOUSE: Everyone is Welcome. Seniors Housing is hosting two dates to B.C.O.A.P.O.-Br. 91 show off the latest duplex - if you have not The last Arctic air, with snow, that never will be working on Resolutions for the been inside a finished suite now is your seems to go away, has been very hard for our B.C.O.A.P.O. Annual General meeting chance. Wednesday March 2nd 2:30 to Seniors, in the last month or so. Some of the which will be held in June, in Agassiz. We 4:00pm and Sunday March 6th 1:00 to Seniors have been actually stranded, in the will be sending delegates to speak on our 4:00pm. If neither of these dates work for areas where they live. This has been a worry behalf at the meeting, the resolutions are a you - call Val at 2841 to arrange a viewing. for the Executive and members, and the benefit to all Seniors, in the Province. POST CONSTRUCTION: The Board is families of the Seniors. Lets hope this is the Our April 6, meeting will be an Easter busy fundraising. In addition to a mortgage, last of Winter, and Spring bulbs continue to Party, with fun. On March 23rd we will the Board needed to secure interim pop up. be attending the North Island Regional financing, and are now working to pay down Our General meeting for March will be Meeting, in Black Creek at Halbe Hall, the debt. Join us in the next few months for on Wed. Mar. 9th/11, we will finally have meeting starts at 11:00 a:m. The speaker will some fun activities. our “Earthquake Shakedown”, by Sharon be Shirley Cruickshank from V.I.H.A. who UPCOMING EVENTS: On Monday Clandenning, and Colleen Swanson. Come is in charge of Residential Care, so have your March 7th (note date change), the Heriot at 10:00am for a Book Browse, coffee and a questions ready. Lunch will cost $5.00 call Bay Inn is dedicating one of their speaker chat. Our speakers will start at 10:30am. We Ruth @3801 if you would like to attend, or if series to Seniors Housing as a fundraiser. you need a ride, to any of our events. Phil Hansen Cellist will give a speaking Our Wednesday activities, should start up and musical performance over dinner. An again soon call Ann @3325, for Armchair enthusiastic educator of music, Phil is aerobics or Carpet bowling, call Peter @3237 on the faculty of the Academie Musicale for walks. For membership in our friendly Internationale in Provence, France. He group call Chris @2207 or Ruth @3801. was a guest of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as artist-in-residence and teacher On Sat. March 5th visit the second Senior to China’s top young musicians. Among duplex which is completed. Tours between prizes and honours awarded as a student, 1and 4. by Val Barr & Jeanne Stoppard. “We Phil was twice selected to participate in the would like to give a big Thank-you.’ to Philip prestigious Piatigorsky Seminar for Cellists, Stone & staff, for doing such a great job in providing for intensive study with Yo-Yo Ma printing our articles regularly all year. and William Pleeth. For reservations call the HB Inn 285 3322. On Saturday April 16th 8pm, John Toelle is pulling together local talent, including Smooth Edge, for an old style Quadra coffee house. Come out and celebrate the completion of our two duplexes. The Seniors Housing Society will be acknowledging all of the great tradespeople who have helped support this project with their generous donations of labour and materials. So mark April 16th on your calendar and watch for more info as this evening extravaganza develops. APPLICATIONS: To live in Seniors Housing you must be 65 years and older. The housing is for Quadra Seniors who, for many diverse reasons, need to change their Top Shelf accommodation. It is intended for Seniors of Feeds Inc. low to moderate income. If this is of interest to you in the next five years, we would like to hear from you now. There is room to build one more duplex on the property and we are talking with BC Housing. A list of potential tenants helps our application for a grant. If you are interested in adding you name to the list, call Jeanne at 285 2835 evenings. This information is confidential and does not require a commitment on you part.

16 Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 DATE TIME m. ft. 04 05:53 4.7 15.4 Quadra Island Man Survives Friday 11:55 2.6 8.5 17:24 4.3 14.1 23:41 1.8 5.9 Christchurch Earthquake. 05 06:18 4.6 15.1 (a Discovery Islander exclusive) This earthquake lasted all of ten many cars, and several buses full Saturday 12:26 2.4 7.9 seconds, yet became a national of people. Very very few brick, 18:12 4.4 14.4 NZ disaster with a death toll of stone, or concrete buildings ne week ago I was sitting 06 00:17 2.1 6.9 around 200, and a serious-injury escaped serious damage. Sunday 06:43 4.6 15.1 on the ground floor of toll of hundreds more. If you want Wooden buildings mostly the huge downtown 12:59 2.1 6.9 to know approximately how much survived intact. Christchurch 18:59 4.3 14.1 Christchurch public library, three- damage an earthquake can inflict has a population of 430,000 O 07 00:52 2.3 7.5 storeys high, thoroughly enjoying in ten seconds, take a cardboard and is New Zealand’s second- my studies of New Zealand box into your hands, and pretend largest city. The church in the Monday 07:07 4.5 14.8 writing, at 12.50pm on Tuesday it is a multistory building full photographs recently had its 13:33 1.9 6.2 22 February. I was about to log of people. How much damage 100-year old steeple rebuilt 19:46 4.3 14.1 on to a Canadian website when can you inflict on the box in after years of fund-raising for 08 01:28 2.6 8.5 I, and the hundreds of others in two seconds? Now, imagine ten the project. Now, the church Tuesday 07:31 4.4 14.4 the library, felt and heard a deep seconds of damage. is virtually destroyed and its 14:09 1.8 5.9 rumble followed immediately by 20:36 4.2 13.8 Earth’s sudden thrust throwing 09 02:04 2.9 9.5 everyone out of their seats or off Wednesday 07:54 4.3 14.1 their feet and onto the floor. No 14:47 1.7 5.6 one remained standing and no 21:31 4.1 13.5 one remained in their seats, such 10 02:42 3.2 10.5 was the power of the massive jolt. Thursday 08:16 4.2 13.8 Imagine standing on a rug which 15:29 1.6 5.2 is suddenly pulled out from under 22:37 4.0 13.1 you, or from under your chair. The 11 03:26 3.4 11.2 library ceilings began to cave in, Friday 08:41 4.1 13.5 and its huge windows shattered, 16:16 1.6 5.2 sending long shards of glass 23:57 4.0 13.1 everywhere. Patrons grabbed their laptops and books and fled outside 12 04:23 3.6 11.8 and shied well away from all the Saturday 09:13 4.0 13.1 downtown multi-storey buildings, 17:12 1.6 5.2 which were disintegrating around 13 01:23 4.1 13.5 us throughout the inner city. This Sunday 05:48 3.7 12.1 happened, unfortunately, during 10:05 4.0 13.1 the lunch hour, and downtown 18:17 1.5 4.9 Christchurch was crowded with Most of the damage to buildings new steeple lies on the ground. 14 02:26 4.2 13.8 office staff, students, and tourists. and properties resulted from Many old churches and historic Monday 07:44 3.7 12.1 People were hit by falling masonry, Christchurch’s being built on stone and brick buildings in WWW.QUADRAISLAND.CA TIDES AND WEATHER | LINK TO 11:33 3.9 12.8 some were killed, and others were a muddy, sandy swamp, which, Christchurch suffered total 19:24 1.5 4.9

when vibrated by the ‘quake, made collapse and will not be rebuilt, (PST) buried alive. I saw one Toyota Rava 15 03:09 4.4 14.4 mud and water well up and into despite very much time and buried beneath a brick wall which Tuesday 08:49 3.5 11.5 buildings and over roads, causing funds being spent on restoring in one second flattened the Toyota 13:06 4.0 13.1 extreme damage. This is known as them after last year’s(2010) into a 18-inch-inch-high pancake. 20:23 1.4 4.6 Nobody was in the vehicle. ‘liquefaction’. Most brick and stone September’s major ‘quake here. buildings collapsed, flattening 16 03:43 4.5 14.8 Yes, it certainly is reassuring Wednesday 09:34 3.2 10.5 to live on our solid granite 14:21 4.1 13.5 island, Quadra, where an 21:14 1.4 4.6 earthquake would shake us 17 04:13 4.7 15.4 up, but would likely not inflict Thursday 10:14 2.8 9.2 much damage or injury, due to TIDES BAY HERIOT 15:29 4.3 14.1 our solid geological foundation. 22:01 1.5 4.9 British Columbia fortunately is not directly on the Pacific 18 05:43 4.8 15.7 Rim of Fire, as are New Friday 11:53 2.4 7.9 Zealand, California, Japan, and 17:33 4.5 14.8 Indonesia. 23:47 1.7 5.6 I’m looking forward to returning home to Quadra Island; our stable, solid, Canadian rock island, with its relatively harmless storms and snowfalls. Greg Ross Discovery Islander #494 March 4th, 2011 17 by Ruth Powell Sunrise on the Salish Sea

n the last kilometre of Sutil puppy mill. Griswold, a chow mix, Gentle undulations slip silent to shore Road there are 7 rescued dogs. was rescued the evening before he lightly lapping with damp lipped kisses If one can judge from the was due to be euthanized because then they retreat flustered to core south end of Quadra, Islanders are his family was having a new baby. into stuccoed flirtatious swishes I making a small difference to the Despite their rough starts, all huge problem of unwanted dogs Brash young wind he skips and he dances these dogs have become loving Across his mother’s freshly waxed floors by opening their hearts and homes companion animals because their to a shelter or rescue dog. I know Dimpling and creasing glimmering glances new owners were committed On the blue reflecting sheen he adores that many other Islanders have to doing whatever was needed taken rescues into their homes, in order to rehabilitate them, Father Sea heeds a deep distant beating too. For example, one man told psychologically and physically. me he’d returned from a holiday in Which pulses fresh life to its own tune They were lucky. Huge numbers Chest rises and falls with quickened breathing Mexico with two pups he’d found are not so lucky and at best abandoned in a ditch and I know Seduced by the swoon of distant lady moon languish in shelters, at worst many others are proud of their are euthanized. 171 000 dogs chosen pals from the SPCA. Yawning sun sees the soft bed and he lingers and cats in Canadian shelters Stretching to burrow himself back inside He’s tickled a wake by feathery fingers Reluctantly he rises, pushing covers aside

Mother sky embraces her favourite child Snuggling him in, she feels such elation She smiles down on the beauties so wild Of her pure and talented family’s creation

These Sutil Road dogs have all in 2007(70% were cats, 30% But her spoilt child shakes up the wondrous dream been rescued from desperate dogs) were euthanized. British By blatting a tantrumed, graceless scree conditions, some by breed specific Columbia shelters have slashed By smearing the once magnificent scene rescue organizations such as the their euthanasia records since that She silently sheds tears on Salish Sea. Okanagan Collie Rescue who time, by proactive spay/neuter saved Dante. Dante’s a rough collie campaigns and by educating who was saved from a hoarding people about their responsibilities by Michael C. Lee situation where he had spent most to their pets. Efforts are made of his young life with many other to match people and pets collies in crates in a basement, lessening the amount of returns. lying in their own feces, feet The problem of course is not scalded by urine. A border collie the shelters (which incidentally rescue group in Oregon rescued receive no public funding in BC) Kameleon Food HEALTH & BODY Lucky, an aussie/border collie but people who off-load their who had been tied out in a field responsibilities to the shelters. & Drink and neglected after the owner’s Responsible owners will spay Tapas Bar and Music Night HEALTH TIP #8 mobile burned down. Some were or neuter their pets, and will with Hal Douglas and Friends THE UNWANTED VISITORS unclaimed strays like Buddy, a provide them with exercise, Kameleon will be presenting Is your body healthy enough to border collie/heeler mix, who companionship, and training to a night of tapas and music defend itself against bugs, bacteria, ended up at the Fort McMurray ensure that they become good on Friday, March 11th. The viruses and diseases when they come SPCA and Lucy, a starving, ‘citizens’. If you wish to take on menu will consist of selected a calling? pregnant sheltie mix from a farm these responsibilities do think of dishes in the tapas style. Drink There is no better time than now outside of Lethbridge. A caring giving a home to a cast-off dog specials will include sangria to build and keep your immune person rescued Babe, a Quadra or cat at the SPCA, or from other and margaritas. Dinner system strong for fighting off these stray terrier/beagle mix, and found rescue shelters or from internet will be available from 5:00 unwanted pests. him a forever home. Sprite, a breed rescues. There are so many p.m. Hal Douglas and Friends The best immune boosting product smooth collie had spent her life waiting for a forever home, will provide music for the is the Asian Mushroom. producing litters of puppies for a waiting…. waiting…waiting. evening. 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