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Issue 388 February 2, 2007 Discovery

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www.discoveryislander.ca discovery Islander Spring Issue 388 February 2nd, 2007 Published bi-weekly and distributed free throughout the Discovery Islands by: Mortgage Discovery Islands media & publishing PO Box 280 Quathiaski Cove, B.C. V0P 1N0 Special Tel.: 250 285-2234 Fax: 250 285-2236 701 Cape Mudge Rd. �� Office hours: Mon-Thurs 10-4pm email: [email protected] From now until February 28, 2007 Publisher/Editor: Philip Stone Quadra Credit Union is offering significant Staff Reporter: Tanya Storr Printing: Castle Printing 285-3695 rate discounts on new mortgage loans. © Discovery Islander 2007 All Rights Reserved Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the contributors and do not represent the Fixed rates as low as 5.35%* views of the publisher. Agreement # 1408585 CreditMaster®… …first class rates and terms. Printed on recycled paper …the last mortgage youʼll ever need. Discovery Islands Media and Publishing We offer safe and secure investments with Subscriptions available a good rate of return. $30.00* for 6 months We offer the satisfaction of knowing that $50.00* for 12 months (* includes GST) Call 250 285-2234 for details your investment is put to work right here in the the Discovery Islands. Submission Guidelines Items for publication are welcomed on subjects We offer instant RRSP loans, and issue instant RRSP of interest to the Discovery Islands community. receipts for a fast and hassle free transaction. Please help us by following these guidelines: • Please print handwritten material clearly. Your RRSP information is provided to you every • Electronic items sent by email & must be saved as Word or rtf formats. Please spell check in month with your account statement. Canadian English. Sorry no floppies. *APR is 5.291% for a 3 year term. Discounted rate applies to new mortgage funds only, some terms and conditions apply. • No MS Publisher, WordPerfect files or graphics in Word files please. Send imported graphics separately. • Please use the title of the item as email subject & send multiple items in separate emails. Contact us today for more information. • Please don’t send original irreplaceable material, make a trip to a copier first!! • Please remember to caption & credit photos and artwork. Don’t write on the back of photos use labels or Postits™. Quadra Island branch Cortes Island branch While every effort is made to include all items 657 Harper Rd. Sutil Point Rd. submitted, errors and accidental omissions do occur and the Discovery Islander should be only Quathiaski Cove Manson’s Landing one part of your publicity efforts. P.O. Box 190 V0P 1N0 P.O. Box 218 V0P 1N0 250-285-3327 250-935-6617 Next Deadline 7 pm. Monday, February 12th �� www.discoveryislander.ca 2 Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 Island Calendar

Submit your event: eMail: [email protected] • fax: 285-2236 • drop-off: 701 Cape Mudge Rd. The Regulars D a y b y d a y • Quadra Legion - Now Open Fridays & Saturdays at 3:30 pm until 1:00 am Friday, February 2 • Every Monday - Badminton, 7:30 Cape Mudge Hall - Friday Flicks presents - A Simple Curve Q.C.C. • Every Tuesday - Kalina Folkdancers -QCC, 7:30 to 9:30 pm, Sept.to Apr. Admission: $5.00, $4.00 stu/snr 7:45 pm - Sketching group at Firesign Studio 10 am-12:00 pm - Blues Jam Cafe Aroma - Al-anon meeting, 7.30 pm at the Childrens Centre 8:15 to 10:30 pm • Every Wednesday -Yoga 9:30 am and 7:00 pm Community Centre Monday, February 5 - Community Kitchen 12:00 noon Community Centre - O.C.P. Q.Cove and Heriot Bay Steering Committees Q.C.C. - Badminton, 7:30 pm Cape Mudge Hall 6:45 - 8:45pm • Every Thursday - Prayer Meeting, 7:00pm at Quadra Island Bible Church Tuesday, February 6 - 7-9:30 PM: Life drawing sessions at Firesign Studio 285-3390 - Quadra Community Association Cafe Aroma 7pm • Every Friday - Yoga 9:30 am and 4:00 pm Community Centre • Every Sunday - Sunday Service QI United Church 10:30 Wednesday, February 7 - Family Worship Service 10:30am Quadra Island Bible Church - Free Money Q.C.C. - Buddhist Meditation 10:00 am Upper Realm 11:45 am - Sunday Celebration, Centre for Positive Living - CRCC 10:20 - 11:20 am Sunday, February 11 - Geshe Yongdong on “Training the Mind” Upper Realm • 1st and 3rd Wednesday - Food Bank 1-2 Community Centre 11 am • 3rd Sunday of Month - Raw Food Pot Luck 5 - 7pm 285-3827 Monday February 12 • Last Saturday - Bonus $50 cash draw or gift certificate. Quadra Legion 6:30 pm - Des Kennedy - slide show on his trips to Ireland Q.C.C. 7pm Next Deadline: Monday, February 12th 2007 Thursday, February 15 - O.C.P. South of Heriot Bay & Southeast Island Steering Committees. 6:45 - 8:45pm Q.C.C. Friday, February 16 - Friday Flicks Red Lights Q.C.C. 7:30pm Saturday, February 17 - Introduction to Emergency Social Services Firehall #1 10am - noon Island Calendar online: www.discoveryislands.ca/news For links to the latest weather, tides, currents and marine weather forecast log on to www.QuadraIsland.ca Discovery Islander February 12th

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Gorge Harbour, Cortes Island. Photo by Philip Stone www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 3 Thank You Liberating Our Gifts A ‘Drunk’ A heartfelt, huge THANK YOU !!! to all the Through Story volunteers and to the Heriot Bay Store for making Inject a burst of creative energy and renewal into your - Look Again the PAC January Bottle Drive such a great event. new year in a workshop with writer and storyteller Margo 954 dollars were raised in support of our teachers McLoughlin. “Liberating Our Gifts Through Story” takes and students at the Quadra Elementary School. place on Sunday February 11 from 1:00 - 4:00 at the A Nurse in-training in the 40’s PAC encourages parents to be a part of the school Quadra Community Centre’s upstairs meeting room. The community - this is the environment that is shaping workshop, sponsored by the Campbell River Art Gallery, A Mother of four in the 50’s your child every day. will be followed by a reading from McLoughlin’s newly A single Mom in the 60’s released CD of Jataka and Buddhist tales at 7:00 pm. A working Mom in the 70’s Margo’s workshop will appeal to both writers and visual artists who want new ideas for ways to access their A Grandmother in the 80’s Tidal Energy creativity as a means to express the stories of their lives. Margo uses folktales from around the world as a catalyst A lonely Senior in the 90’s Open House for sharing stories. “The emphasis of these workshops,” says A ‘Burden’ to the system in 2000. There will be a public information meeting McLoughlin, “is on renewal, reﬂection and dialogue. The folktales are the spark that gets the dialogue going.” Look again. from 11.00 am to 4.00 pm on the 10th of February at the Quadra Community Centre to discuss a Margo, a former Comox Valley teacher, has a lifelong proposed tidal generating project in Canoe Pass, passion for storytelling. She established the Museum at Anonymous Surge Narrows. On hand will be a number of people Campbell River’s puppet theatre program several decades involved in the project such as the turbine developer ago and has since traveled throughout Canada, the US, proponent Thor Petersen and others. There will be a Europe and Africa to collect and share tales. Her short power point presentation and a question and answer stories have been featured in numerous publications, period following. Refreshmnets will be served. including “Shorelines,” the 1995 anthology of Discovery PHOTOGRAPH CONTEST! Islands writing. The Discovery Islands Chamber Margo recently of Commerce needs a new picture completed a degree at the for their Quadra Island Visitors Guide! Bullying Harvard Divinity School, Enter your photo to win $100! The Farmhouse would like to invite the public where she studied Sanskrit Contest will run until March 1, to the following discourse: Bullying - a presentation and Pali, the language 2007! All submissions must be high for children and parents Wednesday, February 7, of the earliest Buddhist resolution and reﬂect 2007 7:00pm, 777 Smiths Road, Quadra Island, teachings. This led to work “QUADRA AT ITS BEST”. RSVP 285-3926. with the Fetzer Institute, This presentation will include a discussion whose mission is to enable For more details on physical, verbal, relational, reactive and cyber community transformation phone Madlyn Andres 285-2422 bullying. What to do if you are a victim, perpetrator through a greater awareness or email [email protected] or a witness. of the connection between mind, body and spirit. Inspired by her work there, Margo recorded a collection of Buddhist folktales on the theme of generosity. Proceeds from this new CD support the MettaDana Project, an education and public health program in Burma. The February 11 workshop will be followed by readings from Margo’s recently released CD of Buddhist and Jataka tales, at the Quadra Community Centre at 7:00 pm. “Every culture passes along its collective wisdom through stories,” says Margo. “There is no better way to teach about the power of generosity and the truth of karma than through story. Myths, legends, parables, folk tales-every kind of story-offer guidance that’s rich with suspense, drama and metaphor. With the moral lessons hidden within the plot, we‚re affected and even changed by stories without really knowing it.” “You‚ll be captivated by Margo’s gentle but dramatic style,” says CR Art Gallery director Jeanette Taylor. To register for the “Liberating our Gifts Through Storytelling”Workshop at Quadra Island Community Center, at $25 per person, call Campbell River Art Gallery at 287-2261 or e-mail [email protected]. Registration is not required for the reading of Buddhist tales, which follows at 7:00 pm, at a suggested donation of $5.

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Submit your event: eMail: [email protected] • fax: 285-2236 • drop-off: 701 Cape Mudge Rd. New musical Geshe YongDong QCA Meeting Geshe Yongdong, a Tibetan The next meeting of the Quadra Cortes coming to Buddhist Monk, will be speaking on Community Association is Feb 6 at the topic “Healing Meditation” at the Cafe Aroma 7pm. All meetings are Cinema Club Quadra Upper Realm, Q. Cove at 11 a.m. on open to the public. Main topic; OCP Cortes Cinema Club presents films “The Ballad of Rainbow Snow”, Sunday, January 21. The suggested Review process. at Manson’s Hall every Tuesday night written on Gabriola, tells the story donation is $10 or whatever you can until March 6. Doors open at 7 pm, of a boomer, from her Barbie-doll afford. We will be welcoming Geshe Drop In to Draw show starts at 7:30. childhood. through hippie life on a YongDong back from his trip to Feb 6 Who Killed the Electric Car? Gulf Island, big city success and then India. Call Steve or Danielle for more and/or Paint at retreat back to the simplicity of island information at 285-3323. Fascinating documentary about life. Well, “simplicity” may not be Firesign Studio alternative methods of powering accurate since her needs are no longer Nanci Cook is hosting informal automobiles which examines the simple. Lots of fun is poked at the Friday Blues Jam drawing/painting sessions Tuesdays disappearance of the electric cars boomer generation’s need to have it all. Sessions mornings 10AM to noon. We get which were introduced in 1996. This show may be about you or some together to motivate and support each Feb 13 Mrs. Henderson Presents of your friends!!? Coming March 3rd At the Upper Realm 6:00 pm other. When the weather improves we Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins to the Community Centre. Friday’s, $10.00 drop in fee / no will go out to paint, but for now we set headline this British comedy about appointments necessary. Learn up still life or work on other projects a widow who starts the first nude OCP Review to Improvise / Workshop. Learn ($4 drop in). On Thursday nights, burlesque theatre in London during The OCP review is focused on Blues with experienced teacher / 7:00 to 9:30 PM, Firesign Studio offers the war. She may be a widow but residential develompment of the musician. figure drawing/painting sessions with a she is by no means going to spend live model ($15 drop in). Call Nanci southern half of the island. We have Melody & Chordal Instruments the rest of her life playing bridge. 285-3390, www.firesignartanddesign. The Windmill Theatre becomes four steering committees focusing only. Call for more info 285-2168 com (Contact Nanci if you would like her game. on the creation of four local area or 285-2569 plans. These include: Quathiaski a modeling job) Cove, Heriot Bay, South of Heriot Bay, and the Southeast of the Island. �� Each committee is comprised of Quadra Island residents who have donated their time and knowledge of the island to the greater good of the community. They have met several times a month to create a draft plan, which will be presented to the public in March. All meetings are open to residents interested in working on the local area plans. Each group have agreed to aim for a consensus and value each person’s opinion. The meetings in February are for the various steering committees to share their local area plans with each other and offer suggestions. These plans will then be presented to the community at a public meeting in March. February 5, 2007 at the QCC in the main hall from 645-845. Meeting �� with Q.Cove and Heriot Bay Steering Committees �� February 15, 2007 at the QCC in �� the main hall from 645-845. Meeting with South of Heriot Bay and the �� Southeast of the Island Steering Ph: 285-3221 Cortes Toll Free:1-877-585-3221 �� Committees. �� www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 5 2007 Child Care Cuts Museum at Campbell Seniors’ News on Quadra Island River BR. 91, B.C.O.A.P.O. On Jan. 5/07 Linda Reid, BC’s Minister of Writer’s Workshop at An excellent turnout was in evidence at the State for Child Care, announced devastating January meeting despite the cold weather. The cuts to child care programs in BC. Those cuts Heriot Bay Inn new president David McQuade welcomed will greatly affect Quadra Children’s Centre. The Museum at Campbell River, in three new members, all long time residents of Quadra Children’s Centre currently receives celebration of Heritage Week 2007, is Quadra, Anne Faryon., and Bob and Gwen a small but critically important operating offering a writer’s workshop at the Heriot Early. grant from the BC government Child Care Bay Inn on Quadra Island. Myrna Kostash, Operating Funds (CCOF) grant. Starting the current writer in residence at the Haig- The entertainment was a most interesting July 1/07 these funds will be reduced by Brown Heritage House (a program managed slide show presented by Shirley Duncan 27%. by the Museum), will give this one day featuring scenes from a recent vacation in As most members of our community workshop on Saturday, February 17 from 10 Portugal. It certainly set many members know, Quadra Children’s Centre has always am until 4 pm. This workshop is designed to thinking again of travel and of warmer struggled to keep our doors open to provide for writers wanting to hone their writing climes. high quality child care and education that skills, share literary approaches and engage th is affordable and accessible to families on in critical analysis. No doubt a few good Tai Chi commenced on Wednesday 17 Jan Quadra Island. The Centre has been able to stories will be told along the way. at 10:00 am, followed by carpet bowling. stay afloat through the generous donations of Myrna Kostash is a leader in the genre of The Tai Chi was well presented by Annie individuals in our community and our endless creative non-fiction. She is a fulltime writer Strong, who gave explanations of the hows and fundraising activities. with an extensive resume, having numerous whys of this form of Tai Chi to several members The BC government expects the reduction books in publication including The Next who were in attendance for the first time. Prior in our CCOF grant to be made up “by Canada: Looking for the Future Nation‚ to the start of carpet bowling, the local M.P. increasing parent fees.” Currently a family and The Doomed Bridegroom: A Memoir‚. Catherine Bell, dropped in to share a coffee with a 4 year old child has to pay $525 per She has written articles for such diverse month for full time care. That is $6,300 magazines as Chatelaine, Saturday Night before heading for the Community lunch. per year! Higher fees will put quality child and Canadian Geographic, as well as written Our next general meeting will be on care out of reach for many families and their radio dramas, television documentaries and Wednesday February 7th at the Royal Canadian children. If a parent can’t afford to pay more, theatre cabarets. Her essays and articles have Legion commencing at 10:00 am. As usual they may have no choice but to stop using appeared in many anthologies. She has also at this time of the year, the men of the Quadra Children’s Centre. Thus not only is taught extensively and served on numerous organization will be providing a Valentine the Centre having a 27% reduction in their literary competition panels. government funding but it is also losing 100% lunch – well anticpated by the opposite gender! The cost of the one day workshop is February will be a happily busy month. On of the income from that family. $55.00 and includes lunch at the Inn. An Friday 16th a number of members will be There is the potential that the Centre would open mic writer’s night will take place at ultimately have to close its doors due to the the Inn from 7pm - 9 pm the night of the joining to have supper out together and then cuts to child care. These cuts are even more 17th. Space in the workshop is limited so on to the Tidemark Theatere for a presentation inexcusable when the BC government has please register early by phoning the Museum of the musical ‘Oliver’. announced a projected surplus of $2 billion. at 287-3103. Campbell River is fortunate Members who have not yet contacted Hilda Let’s not let the government get away with to host a writer of Kostash’s status. This is van Orden for tickets, please do so as soon as an excellent opportunity for local writers these cuts. We need to let them know that as possible at 285 - 3458. a community we value our child care centre! to join Kostash for a writing retreat‚ at the th Here are a few ideas that you can do: historic Heriot Bay Inn. Kostash likes to On Tuesday Feb. 20 this branch will host pose the questions Why tell the Truth?‚ and the Regional meeting at Quadra Community 1. Attend the Town Hall Meeting on Feb. Why make it Up?‚. Join her to explore the Centre. Members from nine branches, from 6 in Campbell River at Christian Life Daycare answers! 445 Merecroft St. Doors open @6:30 Meeting Port Alice, to Texada to Fanny Bay will be starts at 7:15pm attending. Preparations are well under way. One of the interesting items on the agenda 2. Tell Premier Campbell that with or without federal funds you hold him will be a discussion on how best to celebrate accountable for the crisis in child care and the accomplishments of the B.C.O.A.P.O. as it’s time to make a commitment to build we reach our 75th anniversary. the quality child care system that children, A reminder to members old & new, Tai Chi families and communities need. Contact him at 10:00am and carpet bowling at 10:30 am at [email protected] every Wednesday except the first Wednesday 3. Tell Carole Taylor, BC’s Minister of in the month, and Peter Gregg and Lloyd Finance, that she has the money to restore McIlwain meet every Sunday at the boat launch child care funding in the 2007/08 budget she at Rebecca Spit at 11:00am for a walk around will table on Feb. 20. Contact Carole Taylor at [email protected] the Spit. For more information on BC’s Child We are always please to welcome new Care Crisis visit the Coalition of Child Care members, anyone interested can contact David Advocates of BC website: www.cccabc.bc.ca Author Myrna Kostash or Elaine at 285 - 2627. www.discoveryislander.ca 6 Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 Book Workshop Missions Geshe YongDong Free Money Geshe YongDong will be speaking Free Money is available just before & Small Press Fair Conference 2007 on “Training the Mind” on Sunday, the community lunch on Wednesday, Calling all writers, poets, artists February 11th at 11 a.m. in the at Quadra Island February 7. Come from 11:45 a.m. or and designers! The Campbell River Upper Realm at Q. Cove. noon. Every year there is a free money Arts Council will be holding a Book- Bible Church Our mind can be our best friend distribution just before thanksgiving, Making Workshop on February 18 February 23rd-25th come, be a or our worst enemy. It all depends Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter from 10 am to 4 pm at the Sybil part of Missions Conference 2007 on how we “Train the MInd.” An to help our fellow islanders get through Andrews Cottage, 2131 South Island at Quadra Island Bible Church. untrained mind can be a little wild the winter. If you would like to help, Highway. Gwen Kushner will be leading Missions conference this year will be & crazy & angry & depressed. money can be deposited in the Free the workshop. The day is intended to a time when we celebrate “Missions on A trained mind is calmer, more Money Association account at the introduce the art of hand-made books. the Coast”. Our theme this year is “Let peaceful, even contented a good deal Quadra Credit Union. Each participant will leave at the end of the His Light Shine” with special guests of the time. Come learn about a way Steve Moore gives his personal day with a completed book. from Coastal Missions and Esperanza. of training that mass of brain cells promise that every cent collected will There is an entire field of possibilities Come prepared to share in the games, sitting on your shoulders. activities, meals and special meetings. go to those who come on Wednesday. to making your owns books. Contents can Suggested donation for the two The fun kicks off with “Family night” There are no overhead costs, no labour range from: poetry, prose, photographs, hour session is $10 or pay what you 7:00 p.m. on Friday when there will be costs, nothing but “giving to everyone collage, short stories, children’s stories, etc. can. Call Steve or Danielle for more special camp snacks, games and a skit. who asks” as that guy from the new You are only limited by your imagination. information at 285-3323. Saturday starts with breakfast at 8:30 testment recommended. The Book-Making Workshop has a a.m. Don’t miss the potluck supper on cost of $55.00. All supplies will be provided. Saturday evening at 5:30 p.m. Each Register early so you won’t be disappointed. of those meals will be followed by HUMMINGBIRD Please call the Arts Council at (250) 923- presentations from our special guests. 0213 for more information and to register Q-Beans �� The fun wraps up on Sunday morning for the Book-Making Workshop. with two sessions; one at 9:30 and the The Arts Council will also be holding a Coffee other at 10:30. Come for the entire All Your Office Small Press Fair on March 10 - location and weekend or for whatever portion you School & Art details to be announced soon. This will be can. We look forward to seeing you Supply Needs an opportunity for all local writers and artists there. For more information call the Faxing to display and/or sell their books. church office at 285-2020. Only organically grown, fair-trade Colour & B/W Photocopying Call the Arts Council for more coffee. Kiosk opens at 6:00 a.m. Mon-Fri 9 to 5 Sat 10-4 information and to reserve your place. Blues Jam daily at the Q-Cove ferry terminal. Tel: 285-3334 • Fax: 285-3331 Tonight, yes tonight, Friday, Free Wood? February 2nd, 2007 from 8:15 to Thanks to several volunteers, free 10:30 p.m. (or latter) there will be wood will be available next winter.There a Blues Jam at the Cafe Aroma. will be a 12 by 24 foot wood barn located The Blues Jam is hosted by the just north of the fitness center on West Hal Douglas Blues Band, which Road. Where you now see an old blue/ includes Dave Blinziner Jr. on organ green school bus is where it will be. & vocals, Steve Moore on drums, Connie Cooper has donated the Adam McGuffie on bass and Hal land and with her newly acquired Douglas on lead guitar and vocals. carpenter skills will build the shelter Special guests include you, our friend for the wood. Casey Guldemond, Matt on sax, John Toelle on harp and Paul Bishop and Steve Moore have Steve Trayler on guitar & vocals. volunteered some wood. Players get in for free. The The only missing piece is an cover for listeners is just $5. estimated $1,750 to build a long lasting Sandwiches & drinks & treats are wood barn. Money can be donated to available. Call Steve at 285-3323 the Free Wood Association account at for more information. the Quadra Credit Union starting next week after February 4, 2007. For more Robert Evans information, call Steve at 285-3323. The intention is that folks who run Fine Woodworking out of wood would limit themselves to a posted two weeks supply so that others 202 - 9478 could avail themselves of the service. Experienced shipwright Of course, one could back a second or with expertise in fine third time if necessary. woodworking looking for Isn’t it wonderful how our small home renovation community volunteers help make projects Quadra such a beautiful place to live! www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 7 Friday Flicks Tonight: energy & Maori Dance Theatre The Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre will be climate A Simple Curve performing haka, the generic term for the vibrant change 7:45 February 2nd, Q.C.C. traditional dance of the Maori peoples, on Saturday, Feb. 24 . at 8pm at the Quadra Community Centre. film fest Set in the thrilling, blue-green Slocan Henare Tepwai, an acknowledged master of the art Valley of the Kootenays, B.C. director of haka, was asked on his death-bed “What is the Aubrey Nealon’s debut feature, A SIMPLE art of performing haka?”. His reply: “The whole CURVE, is a father-son coming-of-age story. body should speak”. The haka is a composition THANK YOU Caleb lives in a mountain paradise, with emerald played by many instruments; hands, feet, legs, body, to all our volunteers lakes and acres of plush forest; a sacred, unspoiled voice, tongue, and eyes all play their parts, blending Eden that his father, a conscientious objector, together to convey in their fullness the messages for making the first found when he fl ed America and the Vietnam War. ofchallenge, welcome, exultation, defiance, or Despite the wide-open spaces, Caleb is a small-town Energy and Climate contempt. More than any other aspect of the Maori kid who is running out of room, people and time. culture, this complex dance is an expression of the Change Film Fest passion, vigour, and identity of the Maori race. It is, The story starts gently and grows more compelling at its best, the soul expressed in words and posture. a great success! as it glides along like a master woodworker’s plane. Relationships are given real respect, explored with Carol Anderson • Joyce Baker care and never reduced to sappy emotionalism. It is Louella Baker • Robyn Budd also bright with comic ambushes and well-placed Sandy Bullivant • Alan Burnett zingers to lift the serious subtext and take the viewer Nicole Burnett • Rod Burns along a real-life curve that leaves us well satisfi ed. Lilith Cleasby • Lynn Conall Deb Cowper • Carol Foort Next at Friday Flicks Ray Grigg • Lisa Marie Gruger Deb Hughes • Martha James Rowan Kehn • Garnet Kehn Red Lights The professional dance company of Kahurangi is Lannie Keller • Geraldine Kenny Friday, Feb 16th, Q.C.C. Noel Lax • Richard Leicester trained in New Zealand at the Takitimu Performing Adm: $5.00 - $4.00 stu/snr Arts School, which specializes in the instruction and Des May • Maureen McArdell preservation of Maori culture. Kahurangi, which Michael McIvor Doors 7:30 – Showtime 7:45 means “cloak of heaven”, uses narrative, chanting, Elaine & Dave McQuade It’s summertime, and Antoine and his wife, age-old martial arts, and powerful songs to present Julie Mellanby • Louise Mercer Helene are on the road, traveling through the South various aspects of their unique indigenous culture. Edith Muller • Theresa O’Brien of France to pick up their two children from camp. Most of their songs are part of the history and David Rousseau • Ken Roxborough Things do not start out auspiciously. Antoine is fabric of Maori life, bridging past and present. In Joan Sell • Jean & Michael Stahnke annoyed that Helene was late meeting him after beautiful grass and beaded costumes, the dancers, Chris Thompson • Claire Trevena work, and the heavy traffi c tries his patience. He who have elaborate skin markings, perform haka decides to take a back road detour, and this doesn’t with an intensity which springs from ethnic pride Susan Westren • Susan Wilson and personal conviction. Marcy Wolter • Carol Woolsey sit well with Helene. By the time they stop for a brief rest at a bar, they are sniping at each other. Hours Anyone who has witnessed Maori dance has Annette Yourk later, when they reach a second stop, the atmosphere experienced an unforgettable awakening of the & everyone who just pitched in! in the car has further soured. heart and senses. You won’t want to miss the rare Discovery Islander Twenty minutes later, Antoine returns, but return visit of this exciting dance troupe from New Heriot Bay Store Helene is gone. In her place is a note informing Zealand. Advance tickets are on sale at Quadra Hungry Eye him that she has decided to take the train. Panicked, Crafts, Hummingbird, and The Music Plant in Quadra Foods Antoine rushes to the nearest station, but misses her Campbell River; adult - $17, family (parents and Joe Tremblay, Strathcona Toyota by seconds. So he drives to the next station, but is dependant children)- $40. Tickets will be available too late. at the door at $20/$45. For information call 285 3632. For a fi lm that starts out slowly, Red Lights then becomes tight, taut and unpredictable, generating more tension than a high wire act without a net. When the whole story has been told, viewers will recognize a kind of karmic symmetry to events, but the chief pleasure is in getting to that point. The “red lights” in Kahn’s dissection of marital discord and paranoid masculinity are as much metaphorical as literal. The settings are rich in symbolism and off-screen narrative events add to Antoine’s disintegrating state-of-mind. There’s considerable ambiguity in Red Lights. And in an outstanding performance, Darroussin bravely lays bare the tormented nature of the fi lm’s nominal hero. www.discoveryislander.ca 8 Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 BC’s First SAFE Certified Volunteers Needed Companies Recognized for Emergency Vancouver , B.C. – (January 19, 2007) – The first B.C. forestry companies to become SAFE (Safety Preparedness Accord Forestry Enterprise) Certified Companies were As islanders, we are a group of individuals who recognized today at the Truck Loggers Convention know how to take care of ourselves in emergencies in Vancouver. Premier Gordon Campbell joined such as this past winter’s storms. A day’s power outage the BC Forest Safety Council and WorkSafeBC is nothing although a week’s may be somewhat more in acknowledging the 16 companies who have taxing. However, it is very possible and even likely that successfully completed comprehensive independent there may be future emergencies (earthquake, interface safety audits to achieve SAFE Certification under the fires, toxic spills, etc.) where we may have to evacuate SAFE Companies initiative launched at last year’s a large number of people from an area of the island. Truck Loggers Convention. Who will provide food and temporary accommodation Among the first recipients of SAFE certification for them until it is safe to return home? How will in BC out of over 5000 eligible companies is Quadra family members locate one another? Where will they Island’s Sitka Siliviculture. get the necessary information and support they need? In Canada, planning and providing care for evacuees “We have a great, hardworking and fun crew who and emergency response workers is called Emergency are committed to doing the job safely, efficiently with Social Services ( ESS) excellent quality.” said Sitka’s Jennifer Temple at the �� award ceremony. Emergency Social Services are those that are provided �� short term (72 hours) to preserve the emotional and �� physical well being of evacuees and response workers in emergency situations. Physical needs are met and the Custom-Fabricated Sheet Metal ESS workers also supply emotional support, help people Call Shane Hedefine contact loved ones and provide accurate and timely �� information about the disaster situation. For an ESS team to respond appropriately, preplanning and training are essential. Training in BC is done through the Justice Institute. Here on Quadra we are beginning to start our planning and have already located some potential Reception Centres. We are ready to move onto detailed planning and training. However, we need volunteers who would be willing to work in a Reception Centre in one of the above fields and help plan our response. On Saturday, February 17 at 10 am, Brian McConnan, the acting ESS Director for Northern Sitka Silviculture’s Paul Agnew and Jennifer Temple Vancouver Island will present an Introduction to ESS recieve their SAFE certification from BC Premier for all those who feel they can volunteer some time Gordon Campbell. to help their community in a crisis with particular reference to Reception Centres. The meeting will last “We focus on communicating safety information to approximately 2 hours and take place at the Fire Hall on our employees in understandable terms and we recognize Heriot Bay Road. The volunteer time commitment is and reward individuals who approach safety with a not huge although there will be training times scattered proactive attitiude. We pride ourselves on keeping it throughout the year. If you already have some training simple, keeping it safe and leading by example.” added in ESS, we would love to hear from you. If you would partner Paul Agnew. like to know more about ESS, check out the ESS web “The success of these companies in achieving site at http://accsss.jibc.ca/ess100/ or contact Eileen certification in just one year is a sign of their Mackay at 285 3194. Every one has a skill to offer commitment to safety,” says Premier Campbell. or one they want to develop and we need them all. “Forest safety is everyone’s priority and we all share Please volunteer. Preschool Program the same goal of having zero fatalities in the forest For 2.5 to 5 years industry. We will continue that commitment to (Toilet training not required) forest safety in 2007.” Developed by the BC Forest Safety Council, in conjunction with industry and WorkSafeBC, SAFE Quadra Kids Companies is an initiative to develop, certify and annually school age program audit the effectiveness of safety programs in all forestry companies. Certified companies benefit from reduced For 6 to 11 years injuries and lost time, and are eligible to receive an annual Cost $3/hour (3 hour min.) rebate on their WorkSafeBC assessment premiums. To find out more about the SAFE Companies program including profiles on the certified companies, visit the Council’s website at www.bcforestsafe.org or call toll free to 1-877 741-1060. www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 9 Sorensen - MAcDonald The Inconvenient Truth Enterprises Ltd. About “The Inconvenient Truth” Erik Sorensen mini-excavator Al Gore makes an impressive, but flawed 4. Lastly, Gore loses credibility in his presentation. contention that we can reduce our impact to zero Need a little digging? 1. For one thing, he does not make the point if we individually opt for greener alternatives. His Give us a call that reaching Kyoto targets would be impossible exact words: “We have the ability to do this. Each without a reduction in the population. You cannot one of us is a cause of global warming, but each of 285-3906 feed such an unsustainably high population without us can make choices to change that with the things chemical fertilizers and large-scale energy-hungry we buy, with the electricity we use, the cars we 203-3906 (cell) agriculture. drive. We can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero. The solutions are in our 2. Secondly, he completely neglects the fact that hands. We just have to have the determination to in all likelihood peak oil has already occurred globally make them happen.” This is absurd, since it implies and natural gas supplies will be exhausted sooner that a human doesn’t need to consume in order to than gasoline becomes practically available. I think survive. No matter how “green” a human is, he will he should give more thought to the implications of still convert potable water to waste water, consume this on climate change considering what types of biomass (harvest plants and/or animals), produce energy are most likely to be exploited next (nuclear, waste, etc. You can be a vegetarian with “a diet for burning wood for electricity, corn/sugar cane for a small planet” but if you checked out the January ethanol, coal) and what is the capacity of these 07 issue of National Geographic you would realize energies to meet present usage levels. Imagine that vegetarian consumers are causing vast areas of the deforestation and acid rain caused by using precious Amazonian rainforests to be mowed down wood and coal for electricity after oil and natural for soybean farming. Enjoy your tofu. Or you can gas are extremely scarce. Or all the nuclear waste buy into Jack Layton’s plan and drive a “green” car, from trying to power electric cars. Obviously there retro-fit your house, recycle your garbage or erect are no technological fixes that can allow economic solar panels(made of plastic) and windmills (lots growth to occur much longer. I think Gore needed of material involved there too). But you are still Rob Wood to make the point that the population is growing going to be a consumer. And while you are doing Design faster than conservation technology could ever your part as a “green” citizen and cutting back your grow and since all people must consume in order consumption in accord with their prescriptions, Jack �� to survive—I haven’t met an economist who would and his Green Party rival Elizabeth May want to add �� dispute that—no technology will allow for perpetual 300-400,000 new consumers—immigrants-annually �� human population growth on earth. to build up Canada’s population to 40 million. �� 3. Thirdly, what about habitat loss? Is climate Reduce our ecological footprint as individuals, but �� change all we care about? Most biodiversity is near increase our numbers so that aggregate consumption �� the equator, not the poles. How many species’ remains high. Make sense? �� extinctions have so far been due to climate change The real “inconvenient truth” is that our religion �� compared to how many have been due to wild habitat of Economic Growth, which is predicated on loss caused by the growing human population? population growth and high consumption, will Biodiversity performs about 33 trillion dollars in negate any efforts to stop climate change or solve Tanya Storr free and vital services to the human race annually, B.A. English any other environmental problem. Economic from cleaning our air and water, replenishing our growth and Kyoto don’t mix. Economic growth Freelance Writing aquifers, creating our topsoil, cycling nutrients, and biodiversity don’t mix. And to graft a “Green” & Editing pollinating flora, isolating atmospheric carbon, agenda onto a political party that is committed to preventing erosion, and providing genetic diversity. Economic Growth is an exercise in self-delusion, Without these services our “economy” would die. contradiction and futility. Neither Gore, nor 285-3937 Biodiversity gives ecosystems the resilience they need Layton, nor May, nor Dion, nor anyone leading [email protected] to cope with changes and fluctuations. Biodiversity any major environmental organization will speak is humanity’s most about this truth. important insurance Custom Homebuilding policy. The blatantly So what is the solution? The solution is the evident manifestations establishment of a “steady-state” economy that of global warming would maintain constant stocks of wealth and oelle Construction Ltd. are surely startling, people at levels that are sufficient for a long and good dramatic and life. The conversion of natural wealth through the Commercial • Residential frightening, but economic process should be low rather than high, biodiversity loss caused and always within the regenerative and absorptive John Toelle by human impact will capabilities of the ecosystem. The alternative is a be, as biologist Neil growing economy, and unlimited growth on a finite 285-3783 Dawe of the Qualicum planet is an impossibility. Institute puts it, “the Tim Murray, final nail in our Quadra Island www.jtoelle.com coffin.” www.discoveryislander.ca 10 Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 Recycled Emissions from the Climate Change Film Festival Annette Yourk ell, we did it. A community center where the beaches are still lined with black oil and the of a tiny elite to the immense will of the people. filled with people watched ten films herring are gone. Our own Provincial and Federal In December’s MOTHER JONES magazine, the Won climate change and survived. I’m Gov’ts are interested in lifting the moratorium on the article “The 13th Tipping Point” examines 12 here to tell you what I came away with. exploration, development and extraction of offshore pending environmental catastrophes and tipping I was blown away by the depth and breadth of oil and gas, and building a gateway pipeline from point #13 – social will. We can turn on a dime when scientific inquiry on global warming. Research Alberta to the coast. we know we have to. from countless disciplines illustrates the fabulous Our Provincial Gov’t also supports coal fired The Climate Change Film Festival was a potent connectivity of our planet’s systems, and reveals the power. Two proposals are currently on the table. call to awareness and action. Scientific data, personal terrifying connectivity of their breakdown. I now Coal-fired power plants, the largest source of testimony and compelling film footage drove home have a clear understanding of how polar ice sheets mercury pollution, provide 50% of US electricity. the message that facing climate change is a moral are connected to ocean currents, are connected Forty-five states have issued statewide mercury imperative. We need to access every bit of human to hurricanes, are connected to temperatures, are advisories. In Appalachia, mountains are being ingenuity and cooperate in unprecedented ways. connected to phytoplankton, are connected to blown up at a rate of 24 million tons for 4 million More community dialogue could capitalize on the the Amazon basin, and so on, and so on... If the tons of coal. In the process, large amounts of toxic momentum begun by the films. An online message vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we sludge must be stored in man-made lakes, streams board could facilitate sharing resources, ideas, have about ten years of business-as-usual. Then are buried, and flooding ensues. driving. Letter writing campaigns could overwhelm the forces of global warming escalate. Irrevocably. I was surprised that the major use of oil is in and mobilize public officials. These few ideas are a Disastrously. agriculture, from the production, shipment and drop in the bucket, but if we all act on a few ideas, I know that sounds radical, but in the last 50 use of large machinery, chemical fertilizers and and a few more... “The nature of tipping points is years atmospheric levels of CO2, the main heat- pesticides, to harvest and shipment of food. Cuba that they happen dizzyingly fast.” trapping gas in our atmosphere, have risen sharply. embraced industrial agriculture and imported 80% Everything we hold dear exists because of the In the last ten, CO2 levels approach a vertical rise of its food until the USSR collapsed, halting 80% of atmosphere, and we are conducting an experiment on the graph. Temperatures correspond with this its oil imports. Then the US threatened to cut trade of unprecedented scale on the only one we have. spike. Already ocean temperatures have increased, with countries who exported to Cuba. Every patch Human development isn’t about having more, it’s hurricanes have almost doubled in number, duration of arable land was turned to organic agriculture. about being more. As uncomfortable, as difficult as and intensity, the 10 hottest years recorded have been Cooperative gardens and rooftop gardens were this knowledge is, I hope I won’t go back to sleep. since 1991, and the poles are melting, faster than cultivated throughout cities. Cubans learned how Knowledge is the first step. Action is knowledge scientists anticipated. to work with nature. They had no choice. If the empowered, and the antidote for despair. Why haven’t these events been headline news? rest of the world waits till we have no choice, it will (Information, data, quotes drawn from: An Because powerful people profit from business-as- be too late. Inconvenient Truth (available locally), The Day the usual, influence government and media, and care A friend once said to me “If everyone grew a Water Died, Hurricanes on the Brink, The Power nothing for the common good. Case in point: the garden it would start a revolution.” I believe he’s of Community, Kilowatt Ours and Out of Balance biggest company in history – ExxonMobil (aka right. If we do things the way we have always done DVDs), and www.motherjones.com/news/feature/ Esso). In the face of worldwide scientific consensus, them, we will get what we’ve always gotten. With 2006/11/13th_tipping_point.html ExxonMobil bankrolled a handful of skeptics the status quo we have destruction of land and and institutions to insist that climate change was species, polluted air and water, global warming. a manufactured event. It was a tactical offensive Why couldn’t our Governments subsidize clean, facilitated by subservient media and key players in renewable energy instead of subsidizing the fossil the Whitehouse. Their lie, “the jury is still out on fuel industry? climate change,” bought them ten years of public Since the beginning of humankind, people were apathy. tiny compared to the earth. Destroying the integrity Then there’s the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Since the of the planet was unthinkable. Now we see that spill and its public charade “clean-up,” Exxon has one species can grow so large it has the potential to made over $200 billion in profits, over ten billion destroy its source of life. In this sad reality, I see a in the second quarter of 2006. Yet they refuse to fortunate parallel. If we can tip the balance of life on compensate the people of Prince William Sound, earth, we can summon the courage to tip the power

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www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 11 Halliday’s Viewpoint Apollo Redux by Steven Halliday have a confession to make… wife and I we had several cylinders All joking aside, I results, such as those produced by the I’m a hypocrite. Here, in running all the time as we are back into have become a very conscious of Apollo space program in the 1960’s. Ithis very space, I’ve criticized, property improvement mode. Between my carbon production, and will That program, willingly taxpayer cajoled and crowed on the subject, but emissions from our equipment and certainly do whatever I can to reduce. funded at a time when the country now a confession is necessary – I am, the smoke from two burn piles we Unfortunately, in the “developed was at war (albeit an unannounced and have been for some time, a CO2 were almost bacchanalian in our world” activities that produce carbon one) consumed billions of tax dollars junkie. Like most people, I started out CO2 production. Is there anyway emissions are woven into the fabric of to put a man on the moon in just seven small – only 4 cylinders. Now, I’m up that we could accomplish the same our society, and the mindset required years. However, it is estimated that to 21 cylinders, and may add a couple result, that is cleared land, without to make significant reductions has for every dollar the US government more in the near future. While I’ve producing so much in the way of not yet developed to the point where spent they recovered $7 in economic realized for some time that my habit emissions? I suppose we could get action is undertaken. In the USA, benefits from all of the spin-offs is worse than average, seeing Al Gore’s some livestock to chew their way for example, businesses may purchase associated with the program. One An Inconvenient Truth made me start to through the undergrowth, but that a full sized Hummer (getting about site I viewed lists hundreds of specific think about it as an addiction. Then won’t do much good for the tree limbs, 6-8 miles per gallon) and write off the products and processes that flowed I read Ray Grigg’s recent Shades of stumps and rocks that all have to be entire purchase price, because the Gross to the consumer and industry after Green column titled Counting Carbon moved or removed. I suppose we Vehicle Weight is high enough to earn development by NASA, ranging from and was horrified to learn my frequent could berm up the mess, and have a it “commercial” status. Fuel-sipping computer developments to medicine flying must be counted as part of my few more lumps on our land, but we Honda or Toyota hybrid vehicles, or to foods. The space program also carbon addiction – it seems on my already have a bunch of berm courtesy even the new Ford hybrid models, do demonstrated (in a dramatic and flight to Cuba alone I was responsible the major initial clearing, so that won’t not qualify for this tax break, so the courageous fashion) the truth of the for about 1.2 tonnes of CO2 entering work. And as to flying, Ray’s article US Federal Government is sending old adage “where there’s a will there’s the atmosphere, each way! So they say points out that ships are far more out exactly the wrong message, even a way”. The time has come for all the first step in curing an addiction is inefficient than airplanes – the Queen though their Chief Executive has countries to band together to solve acknowledging you have one…OK, Elizabeth II puts out almost 4 times acknowledged “America’s addiction to the carbon problem, with the same I’ve done that. Now what? as much CO2 crossing the Atlantic as oil”. So Mr. Bush, someone familiar sense of urgency Americans assigned The cylinders I refer to are does an aircraft making the same trip. with addictions, has also taken the first to Project Apollo. Indeed, a much the number of engine cylinders I own, Driving (with multiple passengers) step in breaking the addiction. But, greater sense of urgency is necessary, from weed whackers to automobiles. produces far less CO2, but come on again, now what? because much more is at stake than just This past weekend, between my now…drive to Cuba? One significant problem facing us the humility of coming in second in a is that alternatives to your standard race to the Moon…we’re talking about gasoline/diesel burning vehicles are the survival of the planet here. few and far between, and you will Meanwhile, back on the Halliday pay a significant premium to own hobby farm, we probably will look at NOTICE OF PARCEL TAX ROLL REVIEW PANEL one. New fuels, such as hydrogen, some greener methods of keeping the will see acceptability issues due to vegetation under control. Just the other Electoral Area “J” Streetlighting Service high acquisition costs and a lack of day, Norma and I were discussing having The Comox Strathcona Regional District has prepared the 2007 parcel filling stations. Of course, western a heifer, a couple of hogs and some tax assessment roll as required by Section 202 of the Community consumers, on the whole, will respond chickens on the property, though the Charter. Owners of properties located in the service areas may view positively to new developments in basis for the discussion wasn’t landscaping. the roll at the regional district office in Courtenay during regular office environmentally clean transportation, That conversation came about after my hours. but only at the right price. Are you, doing some research into the prevalence personally, willing to pay $70,000 of “industrial farming” as the major source The parcel tax roll review panel will meet on February 22, 2007 at or more for a cleaner running car? of our proteins, a practice I can assure you 9:00 a.m. in the committee room of the Comox Strathcona Regional Not too many hands went up for is utterly repugnant and certain to kill District, located at 600 Comox Road, Courtenay, B.C. to hear requests that question, I’m sure. How about your appetite for meat once you’ve seen that the roll be amended. $100,000? You can count me out at the mechanics. But, unlike most urban In order for a request to be considered by the panel, it must be in those prices, as well as the vast majority inhabitants, it is certainly within our reach writing and received at the above address at least 48 hours prior of my social cohort. For most of us to end our dependence on that particular to the sitting of the parcel tax roll review panel. it is a case of having a conscience far food chain, and if having some critters Enquiries can be made by calling Mary MacDonald, recording secretary stronger than our wallets are thick. around to help keep the place spruced up at 334-6033. Cost is a significant barrier to also helps cut down our carbon emissions, then I’m game for having some manure Beth Dunlop almost all alternative energies, and that principle holds true for most great on my boots. To paraphrase Apollo Collector astronaut Neil Armstrong, it would Comox Strathcona Regional District changes in history. But if public will represent “one sticky, stinky step for man, 600 Comox Road is strong the expenditures for research one giant leap for mankind”. One very Courtenay, B.C. V9N 3P6 and development will be tolerated by taxpayers, sometimes with remarkable small step, anyway. www.discoveryislander.ca 12 Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 Island Report by Tanya Storr ‘Run of River’ Power Project Slated for Headwaters of Toba Inlet

n recent years the BC Government has tasked BC Hydro with actively seeking proposals from Independent Power Producers (IPPs). Successful applicants have signed Electricity PurchaseI Agreements with BC Hydro, guaranteeing a market for the energy they produce. One such IPP, Plutonic Power Corporation, is poised to construct a major ‘run of river’ project at the headwaters of Toba Inlet. According to Plutonic Power’s website, the corporation specializes in “green energy non-storage (run of river) hydroelectric projects.” These projects divert a portion of the water from a river into an underground pipe called a “penstock” that runs close to the river. Water in the penstock is fed through a turbine in a powerhouse to generate energy, and is then returned to the river “without altering the existing fl ow or water levels.” Plutonic Power is planning to construct run of river electrical generation projects on East Toba River and Montrose Creek in the Toba Valley. Combined, the two systems will produce an estimated 233 megawatts He added that the penstock along the East Toba “There are big waterfalls adjacent to where the (MW) of power. According to Plutonic Power, 233 River will be just under 5 km long, and the Montrose powerhouses will be located on both rivers, and MW is enough electricity to meet the annual energy Creek penstock will run for approximately 4 km parallel our research indicates that fi sh can’t get beyond that needs of more than 77,000 homes. to the river. In order to divert the water, 3 meter-high point.” Electricity generated by the East Toba River and inflatable weirs, or barriers, will be used on both The project encompasses a huge area of land Montrose Creek Project will travel by a transmission projects. Each barrier will hold back enough water to that includes traditional territories of the Klahoose, line stretching 148 km from East Toba River to ensure the collection pipe remains submerged, while Sechelt, and Sliammon First Nations. Plutonic Power BC Hydro’s new substation at Saltery Bay on the still allowing the river to fl ow over the top. has been in dialogue with representatives from the Sunshine Coast. “The advantage of a rubber dam is that you can three First Nations, to seek support for the project Knight Piesold is the consulting engineering fi rm defl ate it during the spring melt. This allows gravel to and set up working relationships. for the project and the general construction contractor migrate down the stream, which is important for the Klahoose members, whose main community is is Peter Kiewit & Sons. Sam Mottram, an engineer fi sh bearing areas below,” Mottram said. located in Squirrel Cove on Cortes Island, expressed with Knight Piesold, described the scale of the project He stated that both hydro projects will be situated a range of opinions when Plutonic Power held a in a telephone interview from Vancouver. in non-fi sh bearing sections of the rivers. Fisheries public information session on Cortes in January “Once it’s built, East Toba will be the biggest run surveys have been conducted on East Toba River and 2006, as recorded in articles on www.cortesisland. of river project in the province,” he said. Montrose Creek. com (The Tideline). Blaine Smith Painting & Contracting Serving all your residential and commercial needs. ��

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www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 13 Some band members raised concerns traditional territory, and Klahoose will The project also hinges on acquiring about the wilderness values and eco-tourism consent to and not impede, hinder or the land tenure from the Integrated Land ACCOMMODATION potential of the Montrose Creek area being dispute the construction or operation of Management Branch, a water license COMPANY COMING? Firesign impacted by the run of river project. Others the project.” from the Water Stewardship branch, and B&B has Tourism BC approved spoke of the potential economic benefits and authorization from the Department of Kathy Francis, a negotiator for the accommodations for your family and employment for band members. Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). Klahoose, confirmed in a January 29, 2007, friends in our cozy and comfortable An article entitled ‘Rivers of Riches’ by phone conversation that the First Nation The water license and DFO 3-bedroom B&B with separate guest Arthur Caldicott in the January/February is in the final stages of negotiations with authorization require that the hydro projects entrance, kitchenette, living room, 2007 issue of the Watershed Sentinel notes Plutonic Power. She was unable to speak meet minimum in-stream water flow year Internet and cable TV: your friendly that the East Toba River area has been logged about the details of the negotiations due to round to sustain biological habitat. home away from home 285-3390. in the past. The Montrose Creek area, a confidentiality clause. “All indications are that once we have www.firesignbandb.com however, remains in a wilderness state and She did say that some Klahoose band the Environmental Certificate all else will has been the site of eco-river tours offered by members have already received employment fall into place,” said Mottram. a company based in New York. WANTED related to the East Toba River and Montrose He added that the general contractor Just over one month ago, on December Creek Project. has started to conduct interviews with job Wanted Postal Historian? Collector seeks 21, 2006, Plutonic Power issued a press “Construction hasn’t started yet, but applicants and will begin training sessions envelopes bearing postmarks and mail from release stating that it had “executed a term there has been some employment for band soon. the Discovery Islands (Quadra, Cortes, Stuart, Read, Sonora, Redondas, Thurlows, etc) sheet” with the Klahoose First Nation on the members. They were working on studies East Toba and Montrose Creek Projects. For more information about Plutonic from 1893 to present day. Call Peter Smith that had to be done to gather information Power Corporation and the East Toba River at 285-3612 The press release states that “Klahoose for the project,” said Kathy Francis. and Montrose Creek Project, visit www. will receive cash payments from Plutonic Engineer Sam Mottram said if all FOR SALE during construction of the Project and for required permits and agreements go through, plutonic.ca 1978 Ford F250 4x4, 400 cu. the first 35 years after completion, and an construction should start in April 2007 and Arthur Caldicott’s comprehensive engine. Heavy duty rear suspension, annual royalty on revenue thereafter.” continue through 2010. An environmental study on run of river projects is available 155,000kms. Well maintained, It goes on to say that “Plutonic will be assessment certificate from the Ministry of from The Watershed Sentinel at www. $3000 FIRM. 923-4997 entitled to access the project site through Environment and the Ministry of Energy Klahoose Indian Reserve #1 and Klahoose & Mines is pending. watershedsentinel.ca 1991 Mazda MPV van. 4x4 NOTICE OF 2007 REGIONAL DISTRICT MEETINGS 200,000 km on vehicle. Needs REGARDING THE PROPOSED 2007– 2011 FINANCIAL PLAN new head gasket, good condition otherwise, good rubber, alloy rims. Notice is hereby given that the public is invited to attend the following meetings: Asking $400 obo. Call 285-3527 COMMITTEE/COMMISSION DATE TIME LOCATION HONEY new crop - fireweed and Committee of the Whole Tuesday, January 30th 9:00 a.m. CSRD Board Room 550 B Comox Road, wildflower honey now available from Courtenay, B.C. Link’s Apiary. 633 Cape Mudge Rd. 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Free estimates call Michael 11:49 3.3 10.8 We are accepting resumes for the at 203-9810 or 285-2904 13:35 3.3 10.8 following positions: 16:55 3.8 12.5 Front Desk Clerk 23:56 1.2 3.9 Chambermaids and Laundry STORES 04 06:49 4.3 14.1 Dining Room Servers, Bartenders 14:08 3.0 9.8 and Bussers AMPED ON NUTRITION 17:40 3.7 12.1 Kitchen Line Cooks, Prep Cooks - Quadra Island’s Health Food 05 00:08 1.5 4.9 and Dishwashers Store and Deli. We carry vitamins, Monday 07:17 4.3 14.1 Apply by fax: 250-285-2532 or by supplements, alternative groceries 14:36 2.8 9.2 Email: dining@capemudgeresort. and more. Energize yourself with 18:30 3.5 11.5 bc.ca our delicious, organic vegetarian deli 06 00:29 1.9 6.2 delights. Combining what you need Tuesday 07:44 4.3 14.1 with what you want. Open 10:00 14:57 2.5 8.2 am - 6 pm every day except closed 19:28 3.3 10.8 DATA PROCESSING Sundays 285-3142 CLERK Tsa-Kwa-Luten Lodge, 07 00:51 2.3 7.5 Wednesday 08:07 4.2 13.8 the Oceanfront Resort at Cape 15:19 2.3 7.5 Mudge is seeking a conscientious SERVICES 20:42 3.2 10.5 individual looking for part time data processing/bookkeeping work. WILL SEW curtains, home 08 01:09 2.7 8.9 A reliable and organized individual decor items, small upholstery jobs Thursday 08:23 4.2 13.8 looking to work one or two days per (specializing in chairs). We also 15:56 2.1 6.9 22:19 3.2 10.5 week on a permanent basis would custom sew clothing for that special be the ideal candidate. Applicants occasion. Motif Design at the Upper Phone: 285-3197 09 01:17 3.0 9.8 must have previous experience Realm 285-2626. Friday 08:33 4.1 13.5 with Microsoft Word and Excel. 16:46 1.9 6.2 No phone calls please. Apply by TWO BOYS STONE 10 00:14 3.4 11.2 fax to: 250-285-2532 or email MASONRY Saturday 01:13 3.3 10.8 Specializing in stone arches, interior Yellow Dog to: [email protected] by 08:49 4.1 13.5 features, walls, exterior facades, Trading Company February 10th, 2007. <388> 17:45 1.7 5.6 driveway pillars, stone walls, fireplaces. Bulk Foods & Baking Supplies New to Quadra Island keen to get 11 09:15 4.0 13.1 to work! Call 285-3811 or email: Open Mon. - Fri. Sunday 18:45 1.5 4.9 [email protected] 11 am - 5 pm 12 04:11 3.9 12.8 THE QUADRA LEGION Saturday 10 am - 5 pm Branch 154 is recruiting for the Monday 06:19 3.8 12.5 Buy as much as you want, 09:49 4.0 13.1 Bar Manager position. This is Q-COVE APPLIANCE REPAIR or as little as you need. a permanent part-time salary Now doing repairs to all makes and 19:41 1.3 4.3 position with opportunity for models of automatic washers and dryers. 285-2867 13 03:52 4.0 13.1 Also new & used parts depot for all your Walk or drive around behind growth. The desired individual Q-Cove’s ‘ Old Yellow Dog’ Plaza Tuesday 07:24 3.8 12.5 appliance needs. Affordable rates. We would have previous experience 10:37 4.0 13.1 carry a good selection of quality used 20:31 1.1 3.6 or qualifications. Serving it washers and dryers. All appliances come Right Licensee Certificate will with 1 year warranty on parts & labour. 14 04:02 4.1 13.5 be necessary but not to apply. No Free delivery on Quadra. Call 285-3425 Wednesday 08:04 3.8 12.5 phone calls please, send resume or cell 202-3425 12:17 3.9 12.8 to P.O. Box 129, Heriot Bay, and 21:17 0.9 3.0 B.C. V0P 1H0 or fax to: 250-285- 15 04:28 4.1 13.5 3490 Attention: HR Committee. CUSTOM T-SHIRTS. Thursday 08:38 3.7 12.1 Get your logo screened onto T-shirts. 13:56 4.0 13.1 Great way to promote your business. 21:58 0.8 2.6 Printed right on Quadra by professionals. 16 04:56 4.2 13.8 Call 285-2626 for price list. Link to tides & weather Friday 09:17 3.5 11.5 www.quadraisland.ca 14:59 4.1 13.5 www.discoveryislander.ca Discovery Islander #388 February 2nd, 2007 15 Bottle Returns for the Month of January will be Donated to the C.R. Comets Running Club

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