Issue 371 June 9, 2006 Discovery
.ca CommunityIslander News and Events from Quadra Island, Cortes Island and the Outer Discovery Islands
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Eagle fishing in Okisollo Channel, by Philip Stone www.discoveryislander.ca Ferry Schedules Campbell River - Quadra Island Crossing Time: 10 minutes
Leave Quadra Island 6:15 am 3:05 pm †7:05 am ** 4:00 pm 8:00 am 5:00 pm 9:00 am 5:50 pm 10:00 am 7:00 pm 11:00 am 8:00 pm 12:00 pm 9:00 pm 1:00 pm 10:00 pm 2:00 pm *11:00 pm
Leave Campbell River 6:40 am 3:30 pm †7:30 am 4:30 pm 8:30 am 5:25 pm 9:30 am 6:15 pm **10:30 am 7:30 pm 11:30 am 8:30 pm 12:30 pm 9:30 pm 1:30 pm 10:30 pm 2:30 pm *11:30 pm
Quadra Island - Cortes Island Crossing Time: 45 minutes Leave Quadra Island Leave Cortes Island † 9:05 am † 7:50 am **11:05 am 9:50 am 1:05 pm 11:50 am 3:05 pm **1:50 pm 5:05 pm 3:50 pm 6:45 pm 5:50 pm
* - Fridays and Saturdays only. † - Daily except Sundays. ** - Tuesday sailings are for Dangerous Cargo - No passengers. For More Information Stop in at the Quadra Island Tourist Info Booth on Harper Rd. next to the Quadra Credit Union. Pick Up A Copy of the Guide to the Discovery Islands and the Quadra Island map-brochure
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Submit your event: eMail: [email protected] • fax: 285-2236 • drop-off: 701 Cape Mudge Rd. D a y b y d a y Friday, June 9 - Nanci Cook Reception Explore 7 - 9pm Friday-Sunday, June 9-11 - Quadra Island Trout Derby Village Bay Lake Registration Friday 6 pm to Sunday noon Monday, June 12 - Geoduck Aquaculture Public Hearing Q.C.C. 6 - 8 pm Thursday, June15 - Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Workshop Q.C.C. In addition the proposed bylaw may be viewed on the regional district website at www.rdcs.bc.ca. 7 pm Saturday, June 17 - Opal, Mango & Abstractions perform Aroma Cafe 7:30 pm Saturday -Sunday June 17 & 18 - Quadra Island Quilt and Garden Tour Various locations 10 am - 4 pm. • Thursday - Monday, June 18-22 - Mixed Media Painting workshop Firesign Studio with Jeanne Krabbendam, 285-3390 Blaine Smith Painting & Contracting The regulars will be back next issue, there was just Serving all your residential and commercial needs. a bit of a squeeze this edition as you can see. Minor Correction: Tanya’s report on the ambulance service ����������������������������������� should have been under the banner ‘Island Report’ ��������������������������������� ������������� Island Calendar online: www.discoveryislands.ca/news ��������������������
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www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 3 May Day 2006 Dedication given by Sandra Spearing to Jim Abram Every year we dedicate May Day to a government for changes in laws in order to person who has contributed greatly to give us more local control. He has worked our community over the years. This year hard against government cutbacks to get we honour someone who has dedicated us the services that we need. He strongly his life to Quadra over the past 18 years as protests any and every unfair or misguided our hardworking and committed Regional government action which affects our Director, Jim Abram. community, AND he offers more acceptable Jim’s main theme is local control over solutions. Jim’s is a voice that gets attention local issues—people having a say in what in Victoria and Ottawa – and that has made goes on in the place where they live. He a huge difference for us. has helped to positively direct community Jim’s dedication is hard to measure, but energy into resolving the issues that here’s an example: recently he was 5 days confront us. Jim’s leadership has helped in intensive care waiting for transfer to us work together - in spite of diverse Victoria for heart surgery: and he spent his philosophies and interests - to make Quadra time talking to all the doctors and nurses a great place to live. His vision has always about their opinions on location of the new been that of helping Quadra to be a vital, hospital! Well, thankfully our superman is sustainable and healthy community – now, now assisted by some new bionic parts, and and for our children. we hope that he’ll be working with us and In addition to working for Quadra, Jim for us for many years to come. has acted as chairperson of the Regional And because no one in public life can do Board, and served 9 years on the executive what they do without a strong, supportive of the Union of B.C. Municipalities. This partner, I’d like to call Wendy and Jim Abram has allowed him to lobby the provincial to the stage to receive this plaque.
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Submit your event: eMail: [email protected] • fax: 285-2236 • drop-off: 701 Cape Mudge Rd. ���������������� Cook At Explore Need Childcare? Bake Sale Thanks Strapped for Child Care on ��������������������� Explore proudly presents New Thank you to all who Evenings & Weekends? ������������������������� Works by Local Artist Nanci Cook. contributed to the Ladies June 1st - 29th please join us at Would you like to meet with Auxiliary Branch 154 Plant and Nanci’s reception Friday June 9th other parents to brainstorm creative Bake Sale! The individuals who 7 - 9pm, everyone welcome! solutions to this problem? Call Lisa donated their energy digging Scalapino, Project Coordinator, and potting up plants, yippee! ����������������������� Understanding the Early Years, The Quadra Garden Club for 285-2314. ������������ donating their stock of treasures and Betty Thompson for keeping �������� Is This Ring the plants and eager gardeners For You? organized and on the ball. ������� My father-in-law, Jack McGowan The Bake Table laden with is a retired lapidaries. He made a ring scrumptious pies, cookies and ������ for someone with a precious stone. cakes was a melt in your mouth ��������������� Unfortunately he has dementia extravaganza of variety – thanks ������������������ memory loss, and he can’t remember *to all the Bakers for donating ���������������� who he made it for. We would really their goodies*, you’re the Tops! ��������� like to find this owner, who ordered Thanks Quadra! this many years ago. It was someone Most of all we want to thank ������������ at the Quadra market, behind the the people of Quadra for their The QI Salmon Enhancement ��������������������������������� Society and Heriot Bay True Value credit union. Owner may call Sheri support and enthusiasm. Cheers: Store would like to thank Quadra for @ 923-2876 to describe stone. The Ladies Auxiliary #154 �������������������������������� their generous support at our May Day concession. Though we were all ���������������������� rookies at slinging burgers, you helped make it a huge success. A portion of the profits are going toward May Day 2007 with the balance paying for much of the badly needed new roof on the QI Salmon Enhancement’s Extension Centre/ Hatchery building.
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Ph: 285-3221 Cortes Toll Free:1-877-585-3221 www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 5 To the Editor: discovery Senior Land Officer, This letter is in response to the article “All I would like to respond to application I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Child 141182 and 141183, i.e., the Geoduck Islander Care”. Upon first glance I was expecting a cute Aquaculture license off the South tongue and cheek article about the adventures Issue 371 June 9th, 2006 Shore of Rebecca Spit and the two in childcare but after the first, second, and sites in Open Bay. Both are off Quadra Published bi-weekly and distributed free throughout the third read, it became apparent that I had Island. Discovery Islands by: serious problems with the tone of this letter. Discovery Islands media & publishing I feel it undermines parents and their ability First of all, these two areas, Open Bay and Rebecca Spit, are the two PO Box 280 Quathiaski Cove, to effectively parent (teach) their children. jewels of our island environment and B.C. V0P 1N0 I am writing this letter on behalf the tourist economy. To industrialize Tel.: 250 285-2234 Fax: 250 285-2236 of myself and other parents who choose to raise our children without knocking the these areas would be to make it less 701 Cape Mudge Rd. excellent child care that we have available on of a draw for local nature lovers and tourist dollars & therefore cause Office hours: Mon-Thurs 10-4pm Quadra if we so need or choose it. “That’s not because they’re bad parents, it’s just because increased unemployment on our email: [email protected] they’re not teachers trained in early childhood island. Publisher/Editor: Philip Stone development.” As a working parent, I am upset Secondly, it is totally against our and insulted by this suggestion that parents Official Community Plan to have Staff Reporter: Tanya Storr are unable to effectively raise their children. commercial/industial operations in Cartoonist: Bruce Johnstone Parents are smart enough to do their own front of residential neighbourhoods. Printing: Castle Printing 285-COPY research and raise their own children. I also Factories are not generally build right have a problem with lumping all parents and in front of suburban city homes, so © Discovery Islander 2006 All Rights Reserved parenting techniques into one “Snapshot of why should it be any different for Opinions expressed in this magazine Parents and Children at a Play Group”. In fact, island residential homes? are those of the contributors and do not I don’t believe we can define either child care For example our current zoning for represent the views of the publisher. or parenting with only two examples. AC-1, access 1, does not allow shellfish Agreement # 1408585 I also object to the misuse of research in this tenures. Clearly Geoduck Aquaculture article. The research is meant to be reassuring must apply for and be granted rezoning Printed on recycled paper that child care is THE place for your child and by our Regional District before a on the surface it looks so but look a little deeper license or tenure can be granted. Discovery Islands and think a little harder. Ask yourself a few Thirdly, an environmental danger Media and Publishing questions. The children that “spent more time is possible. Harvesting is done with in co-operative play with peers” and “have better “a wand which expels high pressure Subscriptions available peer relationships”. How do they interact with water” and “liquifies the sand substrate others of different ages? From child to adult? .00* aroung the geoduck” according to $30 for 6 months What are their social skills as adults? Also, in $50.00* for 12 months (* includes GST) Geoduck Aquaculture. This is done regard to the children who “tend to score better at the very bottom of the ocean Call 250 285-2234 for details in tests of social and emotional development…” apparently. Sea creatures and their When were these tests taken? As the child habitats could be disturbed or perhaps Submission Guidelines comes out of child care and enters kindergarten, “liquified” or even killed by these high years later in high school or even later as an Items for publication are welcomed on subjects of pressure water wands. adult? I think questions like these help figure interest to the Discovery Islands community. Please out what values are directing the research. In the fourth place, it would be help us by following these guidelines: undemocratic and foolish to ignore • Please print handwritten material clearly. Institutionalized learning came into popularity the duly elected Regional District in • Electronic items sent by email & must be saved as during the industrial revolution to create able these matters. According to our Prime Word or rtf formats. Please spell check in Canadian factory workers. Do we still have those values? Minister, democracy & local citizen English. Sorry no floppies. Obey, accept hierarchy, follow orders without input is what Canadians are dying for • No MS Publisher, WordPerfect files or graphics in question? Children develop at different rates, in Afghanistan, so we cannot very well Word files please. Send imported graphics separately. why put this pressure on young children to deny democracy at home. Unless, of • Please use the title of the item as email subject & conform to what some people armed with course, we want to admit that pushy send multiple items in separate emails. “reports” say they should know or do at such corporations really rule the roost and • Please don’t send original irreplaceable material, and such a time. We know ourselves and what democracy is just a useless facade. make a trip to a copier first!! we need, why do we not trust children to know these things about themselves as well? Finally, I must say that I am prepared • Please remember to caption & credit photos and artwork. to donate considerable time and energy Don’t write on the back of photos use labels or Postits™. I believe that as a community we need into preventing this industrial take to support child care AND parent care. Not over of our precious island waters. As While every effort is made to include all undermine the parent’s confidence in raising a retired teacher, I have the time for a items submitted, errors and accidental their children. I believe that child care is a sustained campaign. And I, of course, omissions do occur and the Discovery support to parenting, not the alternative as am not the only one, as you can see Islander should be only one part of this article suggests. If the problem is a lack from your mail. In any case, I hope it your publicity efforts. of education on behalf of the parents then will not be necessary to do do. maybe we need more programs dedicated Next Deadline to doing just that. Sincerely Yours, th 7 pm. Monday, June 19 Audrey Neri Steve Moore. www.discoveryislander.ca 6 Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 GeoDucks update Geoduck Meeting Sir: Where: Quadra Island Community I have been receiving a number of Centre letters, emails and calls from people When: 6 pm - 8 pm, Monday, June 19 concerned about applications for geoduck What: Public Meeting on Geoduck leases below Rebecca Spit and in Open aquaculture application Bay. Who: The Integrated Land Management After discussion with Jim Abram and Bureau (part of the Minsitry of Agriculture myself, the Province’s Integrated Land and Lands) Mangement Bureau has agreed to hold a public meeting on Quadra to discuss Other key facts: th Preschool Program the issue. That’s going to be on June 12 * The site is only under application, no between 6pm and 8pm at the Community adjudication has been completed and we For 2.5 to 5 years Centre. are at the beginning of the application (Toilet training not required) This will be an opportunity for people to process. air their concerns, see what has happened * The public are encouraged to in other communties and I hope, hear from send comments to the Integrated Land Quadra Kids the proponents. Management Bureau’s Nanaimo office at I also requested, and the Integrated 250 751-7220 or be heard at the upcoming school age program Land Management Bureau agreed, that public meeting. they continue to take comments about the * Geoduck aquaculture is not new and For 6 to 11 years proposal for 15 days after that meeting. an example of how it is being conducted in If anyone has any questions about this B.C. can be seen off of Savary Island. Cost $3/hour (3 hour min.) or any other problems, do not hesitate to * British Columbia’s seafood industry call my office at 287 5100. is a vital element in both the economic Yours success of the province and the social fabric Claire Trevena of numerous coastal communities. MLA, North Island May Day 2006 Thank You! Thank you and hugs to all the amazing May Day Volunteers. You make this community great! A special thanks to the local businesses for contributing box lunches and to all of those who bid and bought them. $1,150 was raised for next years May Day. Tsa-Kwa-Luten • Quadra Foods • Audreys Organic Produce • Nikos Sushi Yellow Dog • Peoples Drug Mart • Heriot Bay Tru- Value • Amped On Nutrition April Point Resort & Spa • Heriot Bay Inn • Lovin Oven Fermentations • Aroma • The Landing Pub Sonya Thompson Coordinator Quadra Island Community Centre
www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 7 Some of the kids who have had the surgery Max had are rendered mute for many Thanks and Update from Rose Family months. Max required many more months of physiotherapy to get walking well again, and Dear Islanders; he worked very hard at it. He never did recover I am writing to extend my heartfelt thanks Steroid therapy was commenced within his right handedness and his left side is now to all of you who have supported and helped us an hour of Max’s admission, to reduce the dominant. these past few years, and to give you a not so brief swelling and pressure in his skull and lower the After giving Max a few weeks to recover re-cap of our journey with Cancer. risk of stroke. The next step, after MRI imaging, from his brain surgery, full cranio-spinal As most of you will know our family has been and a lumbar puncture (spinal tap), entailed a radiation treatments began. through some difficult times. 6 hour emergency brain surgery to remove a tumor the size of a small orange. Without these treatments the doctors told Three years ago our beautiful son Max was us the tumor would return and Max’s battle diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. A dark The doctors told us that it was a very with Cancer would be over within months. He cloud passed in to our lives that, until then, had fast growing and aggressive tumor, and had was to be given a maximum lifetime dose of been relatively idyllic and care free. The silver probably only been in Max for three months radiation over a six week period. It was an all lining that lay concealed in that cloud was the or so. After lab analysis the tumor was or nothing effort. identified as a type of “primitive neuro ecto true appreciation of how great it is to be part of The radiation treatment process involved a community such as ours. dermal tumor”, or “PNET” known as Medulla Blastoma. immobilizing Max face down on a form fitting We never would have made it through our gurney and clamping his head into a mask terrible ordeal without the help and support Statistically speaking, about four in a million assembly that was molded to fit his skull. This given to us by so many Islanders. boys will get this type of Cancer and roughly mask/helmet assembly enabled the radiation half that number of girls. It was described to to be administered very precisely in order to We thank you, friends, we will be grateful us as a sort of “genetic hiccup”, but no one, not forever. minimize damage to the brain. He was given two even the most learned specialist has yet been small tattoos, one on the neck and one on the Max’s tumor was detected at an eye able to determine why they occur. Scientific back. These were used as orientation points for examination in Campbell River one morning. study and research continues. laser alignment to make sure that the treatments By that evening he was admitted to Children’s We were shocked to learn that the build up were identical each session. Hospital in Vancouver. of pressure in Max’s brain related to the tumors It must have felt horribly claustrophobic to Needless to say nothing has been the same growth could have caused a major stroke at be clamped in place every day, but Max was a for us since that fateful day. any time, possibly leaving him profoundly brain model patient throughout. Treatments were Our ophthalmologist in Campbell River, Dr. damaged. Thanks to the eye exam we didn’t every day for six weeks. The ensuing radiation Caravalo is now one of our family’s greatest heroes. have to wait for our son to have a major stroke sickness and radiation burns behind Max’s ears (In their wisdom our current provincial government to find out he had cancer. were terrible. has opted to no longer fund eye exams.) After a longer than expected recovery from One image from the radiology lab that sticks Max needed immediate aggressive and intensive surgery in the Intensive care unit we were left in my mind to this day is the room that stored treatment to kill the tumor in his brain. If we knew with our dear seven year old, paralyzed on his the various white plastic moulds of people’s then, what we know now, we may have caught right side and barely able to speak. He needed body parts similar to Maxie’s facemask/helmet. things a month or so earlier, but the symptoms special physiotherapy to learn to breathe and Here an arm, a leg there, several different masks, were very subtle and the tumor a fast grower. swallow again. large and small. So many different shapes, sizes and parts all neatly arrayed in a large room ready for each patients visit. ���������� Concurrent with the commencement of ���������� his radiation treatments Max began a year long ����������������������� course of, as his oncologist described it, “heavy ������ duty” chemo. ����������������������� Only 15 or so years ago the type of tumor Max had, more often than not, was a death ������� sentence, or the treatment side effects so ���������������������� severe as to be almost as bad as the disease. The ������� treatment could leave kids profoundly brain ���������������������� damaged and, often deaf. Thanks to the constant advances of modern medical science and the continued efforts ��������������� �������������� of medical research professionals Canada’s ������������������ ������������ children’s odds of surviving such illnesses are �������������� �������������� constantly improving and the side effects of treatments moderated. Across the different ������������ medical disciplines advances are being made. If ����������������������� you can Support the Canadian Cancer Society, ������ ������������������ and/or Vancouver Children’s Hospital you can’t �������������������� do any better with your money. ������������������ Through our experiences in the past �������������������� ������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������� years we developed an understanding great ���������������������������� appreciation of the unrelenting efforts of www.discoveryislander.ca 8 Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 Medical professionals all over the world to improve the treatment regimes for all forms Grade 6 Picnic of Cancer. Thank You In our son’s case we agreed to enter a The Quadra Island Grade 6 class would study on the latest, theoretically improved, sincerely like to thank the owners, management treatment. and staff of Heriot Bay Tru Value for the Max could have been picked at random for incredible food platters and the fabulous cake the new treatment, or, if not chosen receive that they prepared (and delivered!) for the the “conventional” treatment. As it turned out annual Grade 6 Picnic. Kudos to Sherry for our name did not come up and Max received the spectacular presentation! Special thanks the most current “orthodox” treatment. We to Walcan for the generous (and delicious) also signed a release so that the tumor tissue donation of the smoked salmon. removed from our son could be used for Once again we are truly amazed at the research purposes. generosity of spirit and financial support given There are ongoing studies of treatment to us by these two local businesses. Time after regimes, and all information is shared time, and year after year they have been there globally in the oncology community. The top to support our School in whatever endeavor children’s oncology professionals in the world we undertake. are connected electronically and constantly A big thank you to all the parents who took assessing, reviewing and developing treatment the time to join us, volunteered to help, and Experiencing Life In Christ; Sharing Christ In Life techniques, and strategies. especially to Kim for all the hard work cleaning Max and I recently returned from our up. THANK YOU all for making the Annual Pastor Roy (Sherree) Zimmerman latest check up at Children’s Hospital .While Grade 6 Picnic such an enjoyable event. in Vancouver we stay at Ronald McDonald 1281 West Road Karen Lakberg, Chair House. “The house that love built” This house Worship Service: 10:30 am is a soft place to land for sick kids and their Bible Study: 9:30 am families and is valuable beyond words. The Fax: 285-2035 staff and volunteers are great. How to Identify Email: [email protected] 285-2020 Max was pleased to see a young friend of Statistics Canada Box 161, Quathiaski Cove his from the north coast who was in town for his leukemia treatments. The two boys Enumerators enjoyed catching up and playing the latest Edmonton, AB – As staff for the 2006 video games at the house. Census conduct follow-up operations by The next morning held a long day in the contacting households across the country hospital for both of them. by telephone or at the door, Statistics Canada reminds Canadians to ask for ID A trip to the hospital for Max now consists before they provide personal information of a battery of tests that require us to visit to anyone. Procedures are put in place so many of the different labs, clinics, and wards that Canadians can confirm the identity that make up Children’s Hospital. of the Statistics Canada employee at their First order of the day is the insertion of door. the dreaded intravenous line, so necessary All census staff going door-to-door for the administering of radioactive markers, prominently wear an identification card for kidney and liver tests, as well as MRI with their picture on it. The card has Your Complete imaging, not to mention the various blood been authorized by the Chief Statistician tests required during the day. The I V line Home Building Specialists: of Canada, Ivan P. Fellegi. Canadians are is inserted with the greatest of skill and from concrete to cabinets encouraged to check the photo before tenderness but remains one of the hardest giving out any personal information. To moments of the trip for Max. He hates IVs. • Project Management confirm the identity of census staff on the The only thing worse was the nasal gastric telephone, respondents should ask for the • Commercial & Residential Buildings tube (NG tube) that Max had to endure for person’s name and ID number and call the • Renovations months when he needed to be fed that way Census Help Line at 1 877 594 2006 to to keep his weight up. • Custom Homes & Additions confirm the identity of the caller. The kids get so ill from the treatments • Qualified Journeyman Carpenters Approximately 25,000 people are that they just can’t eat, and some of the drugs High Performance Wall Systems employed across Canada as crew leaders affect their taste buds to the point that the and census enumerators for the 2006 Certified Installers poor souls don’t even enjoy their favorite Census. Statistics Canada hires people to foods. work on the census under the provisions We were told that in the early days, less of the Statistics Act and the Public Service than 20 years ago, children would waste away Employment Act. More information about before they could be cured, so techniques were census jobs is available by going online at Free Estimates - Phone developed to keep them as robust as possible. www.census2006.ca or calling toll-free 1- to be continued next edition... 800-862-6381. Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Fax 285-3573 www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 9 B.C. Declares Gun Amnesty in June Neighbourhood VANCOUVER, BC - British Columbia’s surrenders a firearm during the month of June,” Emergency police departments hope to make homes across said Attorney General Wally Oppal. “However, Preparedness Program the province safer by declaring a BC-wide Gun Crown Counsel will resume charging under On June 15th 2006 at 7 pm, there will be Amnesty this June. sections 91, 92, 93 and 95 as of July 1.” a Emergency Preparedness Workshop held With the cooperation and assistance of Police would like all unregistered guns to be at the #1 Fire Hall, 844 Heriot Bay Road. the Ministries of the Solicitor General and the turned in, even imitation and pellet weapons. Attorney General, B.C.’s police departments will Other dangerous weapons such as registered The Neighbourhood Emergency run the program from June 1 to June 30. The firearms, pepper spray and knives will also be Preparedness Program is designed to provide amnesty gives residents of B.C. who possess accepted under the amnesty. the information, training and skills necessary documented or undocumented weapons that for individuals and neighbourhoods to be have not been used in a criminal offence the “The vast majority of firearms owners are law self-sufficient after an disaster. opportunity to turn in guns and ammunition to abiding citizens. However, circumstances change their local police force without being charged. – a parent may pass away – and their relatives Experience has shown that, after a may not want these firearms in their possession. disaster, it may take three days or more “During the month of June, British The amnesty provides a safe and easy way for for emergency services(e.g. fire, police, Columbians have the opportunity to surrender people to dispose of weapons while ensuring their unwanted, unregistered or illegal firearms that they don’t fall into the wrong hands or hurt ambulance) to reach many neighbourhoods and ammunition,” said Central Saanich Chief somebody in an accident,” said Hames. and individuals. In areas that are isolated Constable Paul Hames, President of the British or have limited access, it may take even Columbia Chiefs of Police. People who possess these weapons are being asked to phone their local police on the non- longer. “This amnesty is another tool in the fight emergency line listed in their area phonebook. The first part of the Neighbourhood against gun violence,” said Solicitor General John Police will go to their residence to receive the Emergency Preparedness Program is Les. “Removing guns from circulation will enhance weapon. It is important that residents do not designed to teach individuals and thier public safety and reduce the risk of these weapons transport these weapons themselves. falling into the hands of criminals.” families to become personally prepared. Most of the weapons that are turned in They will learn to: Minimize exsisting “In support of this police initiative, I will be destroyed while some may be given to have directed the B.C. crown prosecutors to hazaards around the home Store emergency museums. Residents are urged to contact their supplies Act quickly and appropriately refrain from charging anyone who voluntarily local police for further information. when any emergency strikes Be prepared to evacuate the home or neighbourhood Feel Canadian Cancer more confident because they are prepared Society April Campaign and self susfficient Tanya Storr People that have completed this On behalf of the Canadian Cancer Society B.A. English I would like to thank the residents of Quadra individual portion of the program will island for their contributions to this year’s have the opportunity to take part in a campaign. Once again you have shown that you workshop that teaches you how to organize Freelance Writing are generous and caring individuals. Without themselves into Neighbourhood Emergency your support the Cancer Society could not Preparedness Teams. This will be held at a & Editing continue its fight against cancer. later date which will be decided at the end Your generous contributions this year was of the first workshop. $6,782.00. A special thanks to Mary Dennison This Program is put out by the Northern who has once again organized the canvass in Communities Emergency Program and your area. Her support and dedication over the years is much appreciated. The Cancer Society the Quadra Island Community Safety 285-3937 relies heavily on volunteers like Mary. Committee [email protected] Sincerely, Jeanelle Fisher - Residental Contact Dawn Ross 285-2147 for more Campaign Coordinator information
www.discoveryislander.ca 10 Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 be purchased in Campbell River at the Visitor Annual Trout Derby Quadra’s 2006 Quilt Centre, Serendipity in the Garden, Willow Point Come and join the fun and try for the big and Garden Tour Market and Ladybug Greenhouse. They remain one at Quadra Island’s 41st Annual Trout Derby only $12.00 per person and all the profits June 9-11 2006 at Village Bay Lake. There are two remaining gardens to outline for the 2006 Quilt and Garden tour. This years benefit Quadra Island. Mark June 17 and 18th Registration starts Friday 6 pm until Sunday theme of a Passion for Colour will be reflected on your calendar. Call Bev 285-3897 for more noon with final weigh in at 3 pm Sunday at the in these lovely gardens. The garden of Terry and information bridge. Adults $10.00 and children 15 years and Chris Phillips is organised like a formal country younger $5.00. garden with small hedges outlining the organic There will also be registration prizes, hidden vegetables. They also have a variety of fruit ������������ weight 50/50 draw and lots more! Fresh water trees and berries. The mulch paths lead you fishing licenses are not available on Quadra passed flowers and shrubs all tucked against island so make sure you pick one up while in a mossy bluff. Joy and Bill Bird’s oceanside ����������� Campbell River. If fishing is not for you come garden cascades down through the forest and ��������������������������������� on up anyway with friends and family and relax rock. Paths lead down through a rock garden at the lakes - enjoy a burger or hot corn on the to a forest garden with rhododendrons and �������������������������������� cob. The concession stand will be available all other shade loving plants. You can view the weekend. ocean from the deck lined with potted plants ������������������������� This year there will be a new draw called or travel down the path through the gate to ����������������������������� ‘Go Fishin’’, purchase a number of your choice the shore. The Quadra Quilters have been busy for $5.00 and you will have a chance to win completing their colourful quilts which will be ��������������������������� $200.00 cash. You can purchase your number in displayed in 8 of the gardens. ��������������������������������� advance at Island treasures or during the derby Come out and buy a ticket to support weekend. The draw will take place at the final your community and enjoy some of Quadra’s ������������������������������ weigh in on Sunday June 11th. most diverse and beautiful gardens. Use the ������������������������ We are pleased to announce this year’s experience to inspire your own Passion For proceeds will be going towards Cops for Kids Colour. with Cancer’.. So please come out to support Tickets for this year’s tour are available �������������������� this great cause and have some fun at the same at these locations on Quadra: On Root, time. Hummingbird, Explore, Heriot Bay Store, Heriot ������������������ Hope to see you there! Darlene, Laurel and Sally Bay Inn, Tsa kwa Luten, April Point and on the �������������������� days of the tour at the Tourist Booth. Tickets can
www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 11 Sorensen - MAcDonald Remembering Report Released Rose Gates: Born in Lomnitz, Goerlitz, On Regional Enterprises Ltd. germany, March 14, 1932. Died Campbell River, May 3, 4;15 pm Erik Sorensen mini-excavator District Directors’ Goodbye Omi, You lived in Germeny, Remuneration Need a little digging? Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Ontario The Comox Strathcona Regional District Give us a call and Alberta. You lived here the longest. you came to Canada on the ship Columbia in the (CSRD) board of directors has accepted 285-3906 1950s. You were mother, father, grandfather and the recommendations of an independent grandmother. You told me your story: A man consulting firm on compensation for directors’ 203-3906 (cell) once worked hard for gold hoping to take it work on a variety of committees as well as at with him when he died. When he did the gold the regional district board table. fell back to Earth. We love you Omi. The board had contracted Chris Green & Thank you O.A.P. and others for your Associates to conduct a review of remuneration heartfelt condolences earlier this year. The review has determined that increases in annual remuneration are warranted for directors, as well as for board and Mixed Media Painting committee chairs, and has also recommended Workshop at Firesign reductions in some of the per-meeting pay. The consultants surveyed 11 BC municipal Studio and regional governments to gain a comparison Vancouver artist Jeanne Krabbendam is of information around annual compensation, coming to Firesign June 19-22 to teach her remuneration for meeting attendance and unique layered painting process. Jeanne uses chairing, and expense reimbursement. Several paint, photographs, paper and wax to create months ago, the firm completed compensation beautiful mixed media paintings that tell a story. projects which were adopted by both the town Great for all skill levels, come for as many days as of Comox and the city of Courtenay. you can! www.firesignartanddesign.com or call The results of the independent review Nanci to register 285-3390. Local discounts. concluded that CSRD directors from municipalities earn about $1,800 lower than Slo-Pitch Round-Up their counterparts at other regional districts Hello again softball fans! The annual and recommended an increase. invitational tournament was held on the May The consultants acknowledged the dual long weekend and consisted of 32 teams. The role being performed by electoral area Silver Bullets were the winners of A division, B representatives as directors for the regional division went to the InterSport Dodgers, with district and elected officials for their local Good Times taking C division and the Quadra constituents. When the CSRD electoral area Rowdies capturing D division. directors’ remuneration was compared to that Quadra Island’s own Master Batters were of municipal councilors it showed unequal the proud winners of the most sportsmanlike compensation for the EA representatives. The team trophy. review showed electoral area representatives earned about $3,904 less than similar regional Here’s a league recap since the tournament: district and municipal elected positions. The Diamond Junkies knocked off the Master Likewise, comparing the CSRD board chair ���������������������� Batters 20-5. A superb defensive effort from Sleeman’s Special Blend gave them a 6-1 win remuneration with surveyed regional district ������������� over Chris Rendall’s Chuckers. Special Blend chair and comparable mayor remuneration ������������������������ were then promptly annihilated 20-5 by the levels showed that the regional district chair’s Custom-Fabricated Sheet Metal Diamond Junkies. pay was below average. The consultants based Call Shane Hedefine their recommendation for increases in part on The Master Batters put a scare into the the principle that the work of both rural and �������� Rowdies taking a 5-5 tie into the final inning urban elected representatives is becoming but the Rowdies scored five runs in the top to more diverse and time-consuming and there escape with a 10-5 win. CHET CHADWICKBOX 503 QUATHIASKI COVE should be a level field when determining BRITISH COLUMBIA VOP 1NO A confident Master Batters team headed remuneration levels for comparable elected PHONE 250 285 3980 into their next game but a more determined official positions. CELL 250 203 3056 Chuckers prevailed with a 19-6 victory. The The consultants recommended changes to rivalry between the Diamond Junkies and the allowances for committee and commission Rowdies heated up in a controversial 14-11 meetings and public hearings, which have Junkies’ win. not been increased since 2001. The last AND FABRICATING The league and all players would like to time a remuneration review of this type was express their thanks to all those who show up conducted was in 1997; the only changes since FAX. 250 285 3970 to umpire the games. It’s a thankless job and that time have been cost of living increases. [email protected] your help is greatly appreciated. See you all at Design, Fabrication, Shop and Mobile Welding the ball parks. www.discoveryislander.ca 12 Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 Aquaculture committee: Quadra Is. Farmers’ Island Music MLA report Market & Bazaar Blues, folk and alternative music featuring Much of my work in June is going to be taken Opal Blue, Mango and the Abstractions is Spring has sprung & it’s time to start up with fish farms – in the North Island and around coming to Quadra’s Aroma Cafe on Saturday the province. thinking about the Farmers Market & night, June 17 at 7:30 p.m. Cover is only $4 for Bazaar again! Who knows what treasures teens and $7 for adults and $15 for families i.e., The reason: I was appointed, along with a number are to be found there! We look forward to cheaper than the price of a movie in town. of other NDP and Liberal MLAs, to the Special Opal Blue, Quadra’s mother of the blues, will Legislative Committee on Aquaculture. welcoming back old friends and meeting new! be playing original home grown songs from We’ve been holding some meetings in Victoria her up-and-still coming CD. Opal may weigh over the last few months, and our last one, at the The Market takes place on every in at less than 120 pounds and appear to be beginning of June, was in Vancouver. Saturday between May 6 and September white in colour in a dim light but if you close But now the committee is getting on the road, 30, 10 AM til 2 PM behind the Quadra your eyes the voice sounds something like to see for itself what is happening in our waters and Credit Union. Aretha Franklin. If you have not heard Opal sing solo, this is your big chance because when in our coastal communities as well as to hear from Parking for Market customers is off she becomes famous, it will be a $30 cover at people who live and work in those communities and Green Road - the Credit Union parking lot whose lives are impacted by aquaculture. the door. is for the use of their customers only, while Mango is an amazing development of group Our first road trip through much of June takes us doing business at the Credit Union. to the Central and North Island and the Central Coast. folk music on Quadra Island. What the Milton We are expecting to return, in the autumn, to those Please do not bring your dog to the Road Trio is doing for Jazz, Mango is starting to areas where the demand to participate in the public Market. We have recieved numerous do for local folk music. Again, all the songs are hearings has been high. Later this year we will also complaints from both vendors & market written by Sunday or Shea (both guitar players) be going to Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlottes as well as visitors about the doggies, both leashed with the backing of Jason & Steve on congas & taking the Committee to Vancouver and Victoria. & unleashed, so we’re going to have to drums & Maureen Fox on the bass guitar. The songs are celebrating children & a mother’s bow to the majority and really discourage We are effectively taking the Legislature on the love and grandmothers and our wonderful road; we get to see a cross section of the industry, canine presence. Thank you for your Salish sea and this rock we live on. some of the problems and some solutions. And when cooperation in this matter. people present to the committee at each stop, those Last but not least is the Abstractions, hearings are part of the public record. Of Special Interest to Vendors! Campbell River’s new alternative music teen sensation. They are appearing for the first time The Committee was established as a Committee Set-up starts at 8 AM. Please use the Green Road entrance. The gate will be on Quadra Island. This increasingly popular all of the Legislature which means it reports back to the male teen group has fans on Quadra and a girl unlocked shortly before 8AM, ensuring House as a whole, not just to the government. The friend or two as well. So look for a full house Official Opposition was given the task of chairing plenty of time for you to set up. The fee is on Saturday night, June 17 at the Aroma. the committee and it is a challenge which we were still a low, low $4.00 for adults, and $1.00 Come early for a good seat. Doors open willing to accept. for kids! Due to the limited space we at 7:15 p.m. Munchies & speciality drinks As the Opposition, people are aware of the NDP’s have available to us, all vendors must be are always available at the Aroma. A special position on fish farming; during the election we talked residents of Quadra & the Outer Islands. thanks to the Aroma for hosting local island about many ideas, including a transition to a closed culture. Aroma doesn’t charge rent and gives containment system. For more information, please contact: Dalyce 285-3180, or Linda 285-3952. the performers the entire door. Call Steve at This Committee gives us the opportunity to 285-3323 for more information. further explore this, and many other ideas - to listen to communities, listen to experts, listen to the industry and try to find solutions which will work for people in B.C.. We have been given until the end of next QUADRA CREDIT UNION May to come up with a report on what we have heard and seen. CURLY EASTLAND BURSARY Our mandate is very tightly defined. The Committee Scholarship funds are available to members and to is to look at the economic and environmental impacts of the aquaculture industry in B.C.; its impact on our the children of members of Quadra Credit Union. coastal and isolated communities. Applicants must be grade 12 graduates or mature We are also to examine sustainable options for students planning post-secondary education. aquaculture – trying to balance economic goals with environmental needs, and how aquaculture, wild Applications forms are available fish and the marine environment impact each other. at the Quadra and Cortes Offices. And finally our job is to compare B.C.’s regulatory regime with other provinces and other countries. Completed applications will be The issue of aquaculture is huge so we will be accepted via mail, drop off, focusing on finfish aquaculture – not working on the or fax (250-285-2225) and opportunities or problems in the shellfish industry. must be received at the Many people are concerned about what will come from this Committee: if they are in the industry they Quadra Credit Union by are worried about jobs; if they are July 4, 2006 at 5:00 PM. www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 13 On the Big Island Vancouver Island MusicFest offers up another stellar year in the Comox Valley Vancouver Island MusicFest has conjured up On the top of the name recognition list at this be disappointed. Clinton Fearon and the Boogie another stellar line up of music for their 12th years festival is the legendary Steve Earle. Earle Brown Band bring on the reggae and Los Rastrillos anniversary festival in the beautiful Comox Valley. is a songwriter, activist and rogue who has lived adds some funk to that reggae, shakes it around From folk-rock legend Steve Earle and the soul R&B first-hand the trials and tribulations of the musical and spits it out again with classic latin flair. and gospel sounds of Mavis Staples to the heavy -and American - life. Having dedicated the past Father-son team Salil Bhatt and Vishwa Mohan weight jazz of Howard Johnson, the slinky world many years of his life to human rights activism, Bhatt (inventor of the Mohan Veena) will amaze fusion of Tasa and the African pulse of Mighty Popo Steve represents the legacy of American folk audiences. Vishwa Mohan is one of the only living and Urunana Rw’Abadatana – this years line up is rock as a vehicle for social change and freedom masters of the Indian Raga. sure to stir the musical soul and leave fans inspired of expression. His songwriting has stood the test Want some punk? How about former “Slits” by the true magic of music. of time and his new material continues to inspire lead singer Ari Up playing Vs. Dubblestandart, This July 7-9th crowds descend on the Comox new generations of Earle fans. “This is an artist you and Austrian Dub Band? How about the folk- Valley for what has become one of the Pacific must listen to…Steve pulls no punches and gives pop of Po’Girl or the Gospel of Linda Tillery? Northwest’s premier roots music festivals. Over 8000 me much hope…If I were a rock star, I would be How about dark accordion torch music from visitors a day come to enjoy 6 fully programmed Steve Earle,” says filmmaker Michael Moore. Geoff Berner, or the warped vocal stylings from stages pulled together by Artistic Director Doug Cox Another big coup for this year’s festival is Mother? Do you like urban-soul fused with and a band of more than 1000 volunteers. Mavis Staples. Staples possesses one of the most traditional African music from Montreal? Then MusicFest offers music lovers an amazing recognizable and treasured voices in contemporary you might want to check out H’Sao. There truly array of musical genres from Bluegrass and R&B music. From her early days sharing lead vocals with is something for every musical taste at Vancouver to punk, reggae, world beat and jazz. Add to this her groundbreaking family gospel group, The Staple Island MusicFest. on-site riverside camping, interactive kids activities, Singers, to her storied solo recordings, Mavis Staples For details on this summer’s line up check out instructional workshops and food and crafts and is an inspirational force in modern popular culture the website at islandmusicfest.com and find out you have a total festival experience - unrivaled on and music. A veteran of the music scene for over 40 more about this “gem in the crown” of Vancouver Vancouver Island. years and a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee, Island music festivals. Staples is responsible for blazing a rhythm & blues “Programming this festival is a really exciting trail while never relinquishing her gospel roots, Advance tickets are on sale now and at experience – there are no rules about who or what influencing artists from Bob Dylan to Prince. a discounted price only until June 30th at a works for a festival like ours. I am really proud of what Vancouver Island Ticket Outlet near you or by we have developed here in the Comox Valley and The world music at Vancouver Island MusicFest calling toll free 1-866-898-8499. Or order online by what it says about the openness and receptiveness of 2006 is mind blowing. From the Indian jazz-fusion clicking the “green box” on the Vancouver Island our community,” says MusicFest AD Doug Cox of Tasa to the funk engine of Grupo Fantasma MusicFest website www.islandmusicfest.com. – dancers and world music aficionados will not JULY 7~9, 2006 › Comox Valley Exhibition Grounds
Steve Earle ¨ Sonny Landreth Peter Yarrow Jerry Douglas Mavis Staples ¨ Jerry Douglas Band Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary) Grupo Fantasma and many more!
MusicalA Master peace Sonny Steve Landreth Earle Tix Savings Deadline...June 30 Six Stages › Kidzzone › On-site Camping › Workshops www.islandmusicfest.com Ticket Info: Call the Sid at 338-2420 or check our website for other Vancouver Island outlets. www.discoveryislander.ca 14 Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 Pacific Salmon Teen Summer Campbell River is Foundation Announces Art Classes Your Canada Day Conservation Projects The Campbell River Art Gallery has summer Destination! VANCOUVER, May 29, 2006 – Pacific Salmon cartooning classes for teens. This emerging art form is fast becoming popular with young Vancouver Island’s Canada Day Destination, Foundation (PSF) is pleased to announce that 87 north of Victoria, is being hosted by the salmon conservation projects in B.C. received grants artists. Join instructor Katherine Douglas as she takes you through the basics of cartooning with community of Campbell River. With a dozen worth $480,076 for the 2006 spring funding round. satellite events, there is definately something The total value of the projects is over $3.3 million. an emphasis on Japanese Manga and Anime. Cartooning: Manga Foundation begins June for everyone this Canada Day in Campbell The Campbell River region received $17,010 in 6-27 on Tuesday evenings from 6-8pm. Manga River and the highlight being the Quality Foods grants made possible through partnership funding means “whimsical drawings”. “Festival of Lights” Fireworks at dusk. This is a from TimberWest, PSF fundraising dinners and “family” orientated day with organized events auctions, local fishing derbies, and private donations. We will cover such techniques as gesture for children, teens, adults and seniors! Core funding is also provided through Fisheries drawing, body and facial proportion, contour and movement, as well as clothing and drapery For the kids, get involved with the Huck and Oceans Canada’s (DFO) Salmon Conservation Finn Small Fry Fishing Derby starting at 9 Stamp program where $1.00 of the $6.42 annual fee rendering. History and story telling will also be explored. Katherine will be offering an am at the Discovery Fishing Pier and then be from saltwater recreational anglers and $10.00 from sure to check out Campbell River’s Childrens commercial fishing operators is directed to PSF for additional set of classes in July on Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 10am-noon. All Festival from 10 am till 4 pm at the Tyee Plaza salmon conservation work. The available funding Downtown! “Salmon City Jam & Skate Comp” from DFO’s conservation stamp for the 2006/2007 supplies are included in the cost of $50 for members and $60 for non-members. To register, is the happening place for the teens with local year is $389,573. Now, salmon conservation groups bands, top skaters, food & prizes - located at from the Campbell River region will be able to call 287-2261 or drop by the gallery at 1235 Shoppers Row. Nunns Creek Park. Contact Boardwalk Skate implement 4 conservation, recovery, and education Shop for information at 250-287-8698. projects and leverage their funding for a total project value of over $400,000. In Willow Point, the Finals for the Shoreline Tour Campbell River’s Arts Society’s Carving Contest will be taking “We had a fantastic response to our call for place at Frank James Park right on the proposals for this funding round and we hope Gardens waterfront; don’t miss Willow Point’s Cake that this will continue with the fall round of There is a garden for every taste, from Cutting Ceremonies and the Campbell River applications,” says Dr. Paul Kariya, Executive conservative to eccentric, in the upcoming Pipe Band at 1pm. Back downtown at Robert Director for the Foundation. “Pacific Salmon Campbell River Art Gallery’s tour June 10 and Ostler Park (Foreshore), there is activities for Foundation works in partnership with the 11. Organizers promise everything from a cliff everyone to enjoy! Check out the HSBC & Eagle community, government and industry to restore top garden with mature plantings and sweeping 97.3 FM Canada Day Music Stage with live, local salmon habitat, and these proposals show that sea views to a character garden with banana bands, Pier Street Farmers Market “Family Fair the health of salmon is a key issue for so many trees and prehistoric sculptures. Market”, the Canada Day Multicultural Food Fair, communities throughout the province.” Antique Car Parade and “True Colours” Canada The 10 private gardens on the tour are The funding comes from PSF’s Community Day Parade (applications on line at
by Steven Halliday The Joy of Reading all me stupid, any distraction, such as a book, to mystery, charm and good manners, - the Royal Navy’s 6th rate, 24 gun but am I the last help pass the time. I mean, most of which, over three decades, we frigate - HMS Surprise. In a custom person to hear of the time they stare into space, have ourselves become citizens.” of the Royal Navy of the day, Aubrey of Bill Hicks? I presumably lost in their thoughts, The relationship of Aubrey was able to keep his best men with C certainly hadn’t and I’m not sure whether to him as he moved from command and Maturin of course takes k n o w n o f admire them for their ability to self- center stage in the novels, but the to command, such as his coxswain, him prior to last week, when entertain or to feel sorry for them. description of their relationships bosun, surgeon and of course his an internet blogger that I read I know there are many people for with others, each in their unforgettable lifelong personal on occasion referred to him in whom reading is a chore, not a independent lives, is the most servant, Preserved Killick. O’Brian a posting. Hicks, an American pleasure, and it is unfortunate that compelling aspect for me. Aubrey, ensures the reader appreciates stand-up comic, satirist and social the joy of reading escapes them. a giant of a man who has been in Aubrey’s relationship with his critic was apparently frequently Luckily, mine was a reading family, the Royal Navy since he joined men, and better understands life th compared to Lenny Bruce, Richard starting all of us very young, and as a pre-teen midshipman, and in the harsh world of the 18 Pryor and Sam Kinison. Like his I am now one of those readers who truly exults in wild weather, century, particularly that of the contemporaries, he too is dead, who can literally lose themselves hard sailing, and battle, lives in a Navy. Incredibly hard work for years passing on at age 33 in 1994. I was in a good book for hours on end, world dominated by the Navy and on end, eating horrid food most struck by the following excerpt often frustrated when a good its rigid discipline and traditions. of the time while suffering under from a Hicks live performance, book ends. In that vein, I’d like to Maturin, on the other hand, is a the reality of corporal and capital though it must be necessarily share a book (or rather, a series landlubber who only becomes punishment; the lot of the idler or censored. ”I was in Nashville, of books) that I can recommend familiar with the sea late in life; a waister, able seaman or mate, was Tennessee last year. After the show, unequivocally as the finest I have thoroughly educated and cultured not a life for the meek. But there I went to a waffle house. I’m not yet read, notwithstanding the many man, who (in the vexingly mixed- were times of joy, glory and riches proud of it, I was hungry. And I’m more I have yet to encounter. up jargon of the day) is not merely as well. O’Brian paints very vivid eating, I’m alone and I’m reading Many, if not most people, have a surgeon, but is also a physician, pictures of life ‘twixt the decks and a book, right? Waitress walks over seen the epic 2003 movie Master which the reader will learn, was fore and aft of the mainmast, as well to me: “Hey, what you readin’ and Commander: The Far Side of of immensely great importance as thrilling descriptions of “guts and for?” Is that like the weirdest the World, starring Russell Crowe. to seamen’s well being of the glory” in the heyday of England’s (censored) question you’ve ever Far fewer are familiar with the day. He is also a British spy, with naval sail power. heard? Not what am I reading, novels upon which the movie a passionate hatred of Napoleon Peter Hitchens, writing for the but what am I reading…for? Well, is based, authored by Patrick Bonaparte and what he was UK’s Daily Express: “I envy those damn it, you stumped me. Why O’Brian (1914-1999). The movie doing to Europe in the very early who have not yet discovered the do I read? Hmm…I guess I read is, in fact, based upon at least 2 of 1800’s. In many ways I have wonderful books of Patrick O’Brian. for a lot of reasons, but the main the novels contained in O’Brian’s become convinced that Aubrey They have a whole new world to one is…so I don’t end up being magnificent and sprawling saga and Maturin must have had some discover. This is no mere sea story. a (censored) waffle waitress! spread over 20 serial novels; the influence on Gene Roddenberry It is history as it must have felt. It But then, this trucker in the next movie’s title contains the title of when he conceived his characters is a description of an enviable, free booth gets up, stands over me both the 1st book in the series and Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. and courageous way of life, with its and goes: “Well, looks like we 10th. Set during the Napoleonic Spock, of the original Star Trek. pains and pleasures so lovingly and got ourselves a reader.” What the Wars of roughly 1799 to 1815, But O’Brian writes historical clearly described that the reader (censored) is going on here? It’s and beyond, the books follow the fiction, not science fiction: his soon feels he or she is taking part not like I walked into a Klan rally lives and voyages of Captain Jack characters must have significantly in them.” I definitely could not in a Boy George outfit, damn it, Aubrey, RN, and his best friend and more depth than Roddenberry’s, have put it better. I can further it’s a book! shipmate Dr. Stephen Maturin, a and indeed they do. O’Brian’s recommend an easy introduction I too travel relatively frequently physician whom Jack persuades weaving of fictional high drama to the series, in an earlier O’Brian for work, and consequently spend to join ship in the opening pages into factual historic events and novel called The Unknown Shore, a fair amount of time waiting in of Master and Commander. What locations is totally flawless. which is clearly a precursor to airports. I also travel alone, so follows is literally the story of their The books are not restricted the Aubrey/Maturin saga, though spend a fair amount of time eating lives as they lived it, on a seemingly to either the sea or Europe – written some 20 years prior. If by myself in restaurants. I never, daily basis, for nearly the rest of much of the intrigue occurs on you like that one, you’ll fall for the never travel without a supply those lives. As one critic for the UK land, generally after Maturin is rest. And if you, like me, prefer the of reading material, and it never paper The Observer put it – “We conveyed to some point on the company of a good book, I can fails to amaze me to see people aficionados scarcely feel them to planet by Aubrey in a succession recommend no better companion spend literally hours waiting/ be novels at all. They are a world of of vessels, but most notably on than the works of Patrick O’Brian. eating/drinking, without having their own, one full of excitement, Aubrey’s most beloved vessel Bon voyage. www.discoveryislander.ca 16 Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 Island Report by Tanya Storr Quadra Ambulance: Dedicated to Training Excellence Donations Welcome to Help Crew Meet Training Goals
ny islander who has benefited from Quadra’s emergency medical Aservices (EMS) can attest that we are fortunate to live in a community with such well-trained and dedicated emergency personnel. Quadra Ambulance is an integral part of the EMS, along with the Quadra Island Volunteer Fire Department (QIVFD), RCMP, and Quadra ferry. In an interview at Fire Hall #1, where the ambulance currently shares space with the QIVFD, Unit Chief Dawn Ross and Acting Unit Chief Trina Hallam shared their thoughts on training and other topics of importance to the Quadra Ambulance. The crew currently has 10 paramedics (Dawn Ross, Hugh Ross, Trina Hallam, Jodie Quadra Ambulance and crew. L - R Trina Hallam, Dawn Ross, and Harold Jonasson. Duncan, Melissa Fraser, David Hilling, Earl Photo by Tanya Storr. Lowe, Chris Mann, Deb Seymour, and Harold Dawn encourages crew members to train Trina stated that she understands free Jonasson,) with two more soon to come on and upgrade their certification to the PCP. training is a thing of the past, but working for board (Jeannie Schweitzer and Kim Murray). However, their training is not funded and usually a rural ambulance station makes accessing Harold Jonasson is one of the original crew requires travel and accommodation costs as training more difficult. Not only does a rural members. Betty Doak, David Smith, and Alan well as tuition. paramedic have to go away to school, but he or Bromley were also involved in founding the More crew members want to upgrade, Dawn she doesn’t bring in nearly the same income as ambulance service in 1984. Quadra paramedics noted, yet the difficulty is finding the funds to paramedics in urban stations. are employed by the BC Ambulance Service. do so. PCP training costs approximately $3,500. Quadra Ambulance members receive $2/ Dawn observed that for a small station, Travel and living away from home costs are hour pager pay when on their 12-hour shifts Quadra’s ambulance crew is very well additional. and are paid an additional sum per call. During trained. Acting Unit Chief Trina Hallam has her EMR some shifts there are no calls, while at other “The minimum requirement is Emergency and is currently applying to the PCP program times there are may be eight calls in a weekend. Medical Responder (EMR) Training and a Class 4 offered through the Justice Institute of BC. On average, the station receives approximately driver’s license. The highest ticket is the Primary Parksville is the closest training location. Trina is one call every 1.5 days. Care Paramedic (PCP) Certificate. Four of us looking into student loans and bursaries to help Dawn and Trina are the only Quadra have the PCP.” pay for the course and associated costs. paramedics who don’t have additional paid
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The paramedics work own space to train and debrief. a Neighbourhood Emergency in pairs, and Dawn tries to And right now we can’t hire Preparedness Planning FOR RENT schedule those who are not as from off-island because we don’t Workshop will be held at RETAIL STORE/OFFICE experienced with someone who have overnight accommodation QCC on Thursday June 15 at 7 - for rent in the Yellow has a higher level of training. for crew members,” said Dawn. SPACE pm. This workshop will focus Dog Plaza Phone 285-2880 Islanders can assist Dawn stated that the latest on individual emergency ambulance crew members with word from the BC Ambulance preparedness and all islanders their training costs by making a Service is that Quadra will have are encouraged to attend. REAL ESTATE donation to the Quadra Island its station within two years. Dawn said it’s very BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY First Aid Society. Donations may “We look forward to that important that people come - CAFE AROMA be made at the Quadra Credit day and encourage islanders to to the workshop. She pointed Established clientele, Licensed, 1,200 Union. write or phone our MLA, Claire out that our biggest potential square feet, 2 patios, Internet + “We welcome all donations, Trevena, to voice support for disasters are a large scale wireless, Satellite music connection Fully equipped (list available on large or small. Angela Burns Quadra’s ambulance station. forest fire or an earthquake. request), Easy access to suppliers raised $2,000 in pledges for us With our call volume increasing A severe windstorm that Located at Village Square, Quadra when she completed the Spit every year, we really need our knocks out power for several Island, Unique on Quadra Island to Spit Swim. Other people own facility,” Dawn said. days would also require the 2 minutes from ferry to Campbell have made donations that we Dawn and Trina agreed community to pull together, River, Room for expansion appreciate” said Dawn. she said. By appointment only, $75,000 will that it takes dedication and consider offers Dawn mentioned that there commitment to be a paramedic. “We do this already on Call Josée 250-285-2404 for more are always courses available that It can be hard to be on call Quadra but not in an organized information. For pictures log on to allow paramedics to improve when you have a family, and way. I think it will be easy for www.quadraisland.ca/real_estate/ their skills, hence the ongoing you need to be physically fit and Quadra to work on emergency for_sale/cafe_aroma/ need for training funds. have excellent people skills. preparedness because we are BUYING OR SELLING In addition to formal training, Dawn said despite the long a neighbourhood oriented the crew meets every Monday hours and part time pay, she community.” A HOME OR BUSINESS night for in-house training loves what she does. Representatives from ON QUADRA ISLAND? - and information sharing. the Northern Communities checkout the exposure you can get at “I grew up on Quadra and www.quadraisland.ca/real_estate/ They debrief calls, discuss our patients are usually people Emergency Program ~1,000 unique visitors a month all new information from the BC I know. It feels good to help and the Quadra Island looking for real estate on Quadra. Ambulance Service, and do people in my community. You Safety Committee will be Listing packages start at only $49.95. some training on a specific don’t get that same personal in attendance. A second A must for sales-by-owner and an topic. contact working in an urban workshop will take place at a asset for realtors. Call 285-2234 or “Last week we focused station.” later date on neighbourhood email: [email protected] for emergency preparedness. more details. on diabetes,” said Trina. “It’s Trina echoed Dawn’s important to review and keep thoughts, adding that being a things fresh in our minds.” paramedic on Quadra is more Dawn mentioned that the than just a job. crew is looking forward to “People who are willing to the day when they have their work in emergency medical own ambulance station. The services are very community ambulance station was included oriented. I feel that all the EMS in the plans for the new fire hall, providers on Quadra work however the provincial funding together very well as a unit to via the BC Ambulance Service give excellent service.” has not yet come through to build the facility. Quadra Ambulance is always interested in hearing from
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www.discoveryislander.ca 18 Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 Island Tides Classifieds Pacific Daylight Time For Quathiaski Cove ACCOMMODATION HELP WANTED ���������������� June 9 - 22 09 02:31 4.0 13.1 COMPANY COMING? Firesign ���������������������� CAMPBELL RIVER ART Friday 10:50 1.0 3.3 B&B has Tourism BC approved GALLERY has an opening for ����������� 17:50 3.8 12.5 accommodations for your family and a permanent part- time (25 hours friends in our cozy and comfortable ���� 21:32 3.5 11.5 weekly) Gallery Assistant to teach ������������ 3-bedroom B&B with separate guest children’s classes, manage the gift ������� 10 02:58 4.0 13.1 entrance, kitchenette, living room, shop and office assistance. Applicants Saturday 11:16 0.8 2.6 Internet and cable TV: your friendly must have a strong art background, Healing Spa 18:32 4.0 13.1 home away from home 285-3390. excellent writing and communication ������������� www.firesignbandb.com 22:12 3.6 11.8 skills and office experience. Send ������������� resumes and cover letters to: 1235 11 03:32 4.1 13.5 ������������� For more information on Shoppers Row, Campbell River, B.C. Sunday 11:46 0.6 2.0 Vacation Accomodation visit: V9W 2C7 by June 9th. 19:13 4.1 13.5 www.quadraisland.ca and www.discoveryislands.ca Yellow Dog 22:53 3.7 12.1 RV PARK HOST/ Trading Company 12 04:12 4.1 13.5 ATTENDANT Monday 12:21 0.4 1.3 STORES Bulk Foods & Baking Supplies 19:54 4.1 13.5 EXPLORE has so many unique Tsa-Kwa-Luten Lodge is seeking an Open Mon. - Fri. 23:40 3.7 12.1 gift ideas! Beautiful sweaters, individual(s) from mid June to mid 11 am - 5 pm September to perform the duties of 13 04:56 4.1 13.5 jewelry, Bilz rockfish and a huge Saturday 10 am - 5 pm Tuesday 12:59 0.4 1.3 selection of Quadra Artist art cards. RV Park Host/Attendant in exchange Buy as much as you want, A great variety of books and CD’s, for an or as little as you need. 20:37 4.2 13.8 ocean view site at our RV Park. special orders are welcome. Local 14 00:41 3.7 12.1 The RV Park host/attendant duties 285-2867 artists featured monthly. Open Mon. Walk or drive around behind Wednesday 05:45 4.0 13.1 – Sat 10-5pm include Q-Cove’s ‘ Old Yellow Dog’ Plaza welcoming guests and answering 13:40 0.5 1.6 questions. 21:20 4.2 13.8 OPEN MONDAYS 15 02:06 3.6 11.8 Interested individuals or parties IN THE COVE! Amped on Thursday 06:41 3.8 12.5 Nutrition and Explore will be open should apply by email to The Paint������������������� Lady Mondays starting June 5th for your [email protected] or by ����������������� 14:23 0.6 2.0 summer shopping convenience. fax to: 250-285-2532 or by mail to: ������������������������������� 22:03 4.2 13.8 ������������������������ Amped hours Mon - Sat 9am- 7pm P.O. Box 16 04:57 3.4 11.2 460, Quathiaski Cove, and B.C. V0P. ������������������������������������ take out available 11am - 6.30pm Friday 07:47 3.6 11.8 Explore hours Mon - Sat 10am ����������������������� �������������������� 15:06 0.9 3.0 – 5pm. FOR SALE ��������������������������� 22:46 4.2 13.8 �������� FOR SALE - 1990 mazda Van. ���������������������� 17 06:14 3.0 9.8 SERVICES Good 4-wheel drive vehicle. $2,900. ����������� ����������� Saturday 09:06 3.3 10.8 CUSTOM T-SHIRTS. For more information call Gail or 15:50 1.3 4.3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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shirts. Great way to promote your Journeyman Carpenter 2 business. Printed right on Quadra (interprovincial certification) 3 18 07:12 2.5 8.2 FOR SALE - Mirrored glass case 4 Sunday 10:44 3.0 9.8 by professionals. Call 285-2626 for and 2 porcelain antique dolls made by 5 price list. Emily Hart. Emily won an international 6 16:35 1.7 5.6
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electric start O/B 200 hrs $600.00 1 �Design services available❖ 6 Tuesday 08:49 1.6 5.2 selection of quality used washers 20 HP Mercury tiller control 50 hrs 14:18 3.2 10.5 and dryers. All appliances come with never in salt water $400.00 Both 18:13 2.7 8.9 1 year warranty on parts & labour. have standard legs and have been Free delivery on Quadra. Call 285- checked over recently 285-2282 21 01:11 4.3 14.1 3425 or cell 202-3425 Wednesday 09:33 1.2 3.9 WANTED 15:42 3.5 11.5 TWO BOYS STONE 19:10 3.2 10.5 MASONRY Wanted Postal Historian? Collector Specializing in stone arches, interior seeks envelopes bearing postmarks 22 01:46 4.2 13.8 features, walls, exterior facades, and mail from the Discovery Islands Thursday 10:15 0.9 3.0 driveway pillars, stone walls, (Quadra, Cortes, Stuart, Read, Sonora, 16:48 3.8 12.5 fireplaces. New to Quadra Island keen Redondas, Thurlows, etc) from 1893 to get to work! Call 285-3811 or email: to present day. Call Peter Smith at Link to tides & weather [email protected] 285-3612 www.quadraisland.ca www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #371 June 9th, 2006 19 Bottle Returns for the Month of June will be Donated to Quadra Elementary Parent Advisory Committee (P.A.C.)
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