ISSUE 520 Serving the Discovery Islands for 20 Years - since 1992 March 2, 2012 Coastal Community Credit Union Donates Through Quadra Legacy Fund
his year we will be donating insight and recommendations as to which community groups across Vancouver $44,000 to 11 community groups proposals best meet the needs of your local Island through our Coastal Spirit Fund Tacross Quadra and Cortes Islands communities. Branch Investment Program, which through the Quadra Legacy Fund. The recipients for 2011 were: Old Farm empowers our employees to make funding Coastal Community believes in making a Community Garden, Quadra Children’s decisions based on the needs of their visible and meaningful difference in the Centre, Quadra Circle, Quadra Island Fall local communities. Other Community communities we serve, and in order to Fair, Quadra Island Recreation Society and Investment programs include Fundraising build healthier Island communities it is Discovery Island Emergency Preparedness Fridays, Employee Volunteer Program, important that our funding dollars remain Association, and on Cortes Island, Cortes Scholarships, and Young Entrepreneur local. We are pleased to partner with local Island Museum & Archives Society , Cortes program. community groups that work hard each day Community Health Association, Cortes Our Commitment to the communities to make a meaningful difference in each of Community Radio Society, Cortes Island we serve is not only important to our our communities. Emergency Services, Southern Cortes employees and our members and clients, To ensure that our funding allocations Community Association, and Old School but it is a part of who we are at Coastal best meet the needs of our communities, House Art Gallery. Community. By being leaders in building Coastal Community looks to our regional In addition to our Quadra Legacy Fund, healthier communities, and making Community Connection Councils, which Coastal Community will donate additional those meaningful and visible differences, are made up of members from your funds through a number of community Coastal Community believes we have the community. Our councils provide us with programs including over $131,900 to 49 opportunity to enrich peoples’ lives. Museum Book Sale and Fundraiser Running out of good books to read? The Museum at Campbell River has the answer. The 7th Annual Used Book Sale and Fundraiser is coming up soon from March INVITATION TO TENDER #0203-2012 3 – 7, and judging by the donations coming in, the sale will have a treasure trove of FOR JANITORIAL SERVICES reading material filled with a broad range of FOR QUADRA ISLAND BRANCH subject areas, from mystery to adventure to history, both fiction and non fiction. This Vancouver Island Regional Library is seeking Tenders from qualified janitorial service year we have a large selection of geography contractors to offer janitorial service to the New Quadra Island Branch Library located and travel books, along with biographies, at 654 Harper Road, Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island, BC. The Quadra Island Branch is crafts and Canadian authors. Sale runs from approximately 3,200 sq. ft. in total size. noon to 4:00 p.m. all days. Tenders must be delivered to the Purchasing Department, Vancouver Island Regional Donations to the sale are still very Library, Central Services, 6250 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6M9 prior to welcome! Drop your previously loved 3:00 p.m., Local Time, Friday March 9th, 2012 the “closing date and time”. books off between noon and 5:00 p.m. A site visit to view the area of work is mandatory. The mandatory site visit is scheduled Tuesday to Sunday from now until March at 10:30 a.m., Friday, February 24th at 654 Harper Road, Quathiaski Cove, Quadra 1st at the Museum (preferably at the back Island. Bidders not attending the site visit will not be allowed to submit a Tender. entrance off 4th Avenue). Please note the Museum is closed on Mondays. Invitation to Tender documents are available by contacting Elisa Balderson, Purchasing Phone: (250) 729-2307 or email: [email protected]. Please state Tender Number We gratefully accept all donations but and provide your Name, Phone number and Email address. no encyclopedias, school texts, romance novels, Reader’s Digest or magazines. The lowest or any Bid will not necessarily be accepted. The Vancouver Island Regional Library reserves the right to accept the Tender which it deems most advantageous.
2 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 Submit your news or event info, editorial runs free: email: [email protected] drop off 701 Cape Mudge Rd. or at Hummingbird
MONDAY Friday, March 2 Parent & Tots, QCC, 9:30 am - 12 pm - Kinfo - HBI Pub music 9pm Low Impact, 8:30 am, QCC Saturday, March 3 Yoga with Josephine, Room 3, QCC, 10 am -12 noon - Winter Market Q.C.C. 10 am-2 pm Karate, 4:30 pm, QCC - Cheese-making workshop 1 - 4 pm at Perrywinkle Cottage 692 Cedar Dr. Sing for Pure Joy! Room 3, QCC, 3 - 4:30 pm, All welcome. - Celebrate International Women’s Day Q.C.C. 6 pm Weight Watchers, QCC, 6 pm - 7 pm Alcoholics Anonymous, Quadra Children’s Centre 7 pm Wednesday, March 7 Mandy’s Movielicous night in the HBI Pub 9:00 - Free Money, 11:30 a.m., Seminar Room, Q.C.C. 1st Monday - Quadra writers group, 7 - 9 pm 285-3656 Saturday, March 10 - Steven Page, singer-songwriter, guitarist QCC 8:00 pm TUESDAY Monday March 12 Spinners 10:00 am – 12:00 QCC - Garden Club presents Ryan Nassichuk on Cover Crops 7pm QCC Quadra Children’s Song Circle, Room 3, QCC3 - 4 pm Tuesday, March 20 ZUMBA- QCC- 6-7 pm Al-Anon Meeting, Quadra Children’s Centre, 7:00 pm - VIRL New branch opening Folkdancing, QCC, 7:30 pm, Sept 21-Apr 26 Saturday, March 24 - Ladies Auxiliary Garage Sale Quadra legion WEDNESDAY - spOIL and On The Line 7:00 pm QICC Parent and Babes 11 am QCC Tuesday March 27 Food Bank 1-2:00 p.m. (1st & 3rd Wed of every month) QCC - Quadra Island Cemetery AGM; 8:00pm at the Quadra Legion UofQ Pub education from your Neighbours. HBI pub 7:00 pm Wednesday, March 28 Hand-drum Circle, Upper Realm, 7:45 - 9:15 pm 1st & 3rd Wednesday Food Bank,QCC 1 - 2 pm - Learn to Play- Play to Learn Workshop 6:30 – 8:30 at the Literacy Centre, Quadra Elementary THURSDAY Saturday, April 14 Parents & Tots, QCC, 9:30 am - 12 pm - Ladies Auxiliary Plant & Bake Sale Karate 4:00 pm QCC Next Deadline: Monday, MARCH 12th, 2012 Prayer Meeting, Quadra Island Bible Church, 7 pm Drop in games and wing night, Legion, 7:00 pm. Sound Spirit Kirtan - QCC - 7-8pm - By Donation FRIDAY Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 pm Quadra Children’s Centre Fridays – Live bands in the HBI Pub 9:00 pm SATURDAY “Fun Ride” Easy to Moderate bike ride 10:30 am Aroma Cafe Quadra Legion Meat Draw 5pm Open mic with Mo. 9:00pm HBI pub SUNDAY Family Service, Quadra Island Bible Church, 10:30 am Quadra Sunday Painters, 11 am - 2 pm, 285-3390 United Church-11 am, first Sun. of month-12 noon, 285-3163. Buddhist meditation, Upper Realm, 10 am.
Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 3 ISSUE 520 MARCH 2, 2012 Shopping Apology For Dear Editor Golf Course The Friends of Strathcona Park Local Is (FOSP) have been fighting Damage for approximately seven years against government Everything As most community members moves to allow a high-impact are aware, significant damage This letter is in response to commercial operation into the was sustained to the golf course Mimi Smienks article on the Bedwell Valley in Strathcona in January. The damage was 100 mile diet. I would like to Park. invite everybody down to the caused by a dirt bike and an other end of Q.Cove shopping ATV riding over the recently When the Strathcona Park plaza where we at Amped on planted fairways and greens. Master Plan didn’t allow the Nutrition have been going out Three youths were identified proposed commercial activity, of our way to support the local as having committed the the government changed the farmers for the last four years damage and they have recently Master Plan. with lovely LOCAL ONLY participated in a restorative When 80 - 90% of people organic produce from Dirt justice process where they attending a hastily contrived Co, Tera Nova, Topcliff Farm, admitted to their actions. As government “consultation” Emily + Sam’s garlic, Granite part of the process, the three process spoke against it, the Bay apples and Mimi’s garlic. youths prepared an apology government went ahead. letter to the community. Another shop that comes When the Strathcona Park into the 100 mile concept is This letter is in regards to Public Advisory Committee Evangelines Island Treasures. the damage that was done (appointed by government) Evangeline carries LOCAL on January 9th, 2012 to the opposed it unanaimously, the ONLY Quadra and Cortes golf course. We would first government still went ahead. made creations. In order for the like to say how sorry we are The Friends of Strathcona 100 mile concept to survive, to the directors and all the Park have been fighting issues the community needs to be people who put all their time similar to this one since a more supportive. and effort in on fixing up and former government chopped making this course. People need to start shopping the park in half in 1987 and locally more so the demand When we rode our bikes opened the park up to extensive meets the supply. through the course, it was not high-impact commercial Barbara Mindell our intention to do the damage. operations. FOSP won that We were just riding our bikes battle, and the governent was through at night. We know it is forced to reverse its actions Dear Editor, still no excuse. after a major public blockade To the people of Quadra Island, in 1988. Beverley and I would like we would also like to say to express our sincere thank The fight to create a real park sorry. We have been in contact you to the Quadra Island didn’t end with the blockade. with the RCMP, Directors, Volunteer Fire Department, A few years later, when a park and some members of the for their outstanding administrator turned park land community, and are in the professionalism and skill. The over to a logging company to makings of making a restitution fire that consumed our garage/ construct a logging road, FOSP of how we can help in our workshop on January 22nd fought it in court. community to make it right. was thankfully kept contained When a mine illegally flew Again, we are truly sorry. in order to prevent spread engineering crews into several to surrounding structures To our parents, we are sorry alpine lakes in the park to and property. Watching that we lied to you about what prepare plans to siphon water the volunteer force led by we did that night. from the delicate lake systems Capt. Sharron Glendenning Submitted by for hydro power, FOSP fought Copyright 2012 reminded us how the Shane Worth - Quadra RCMP again. community of Quadra Island on behalf of those concerned Obviously, it takes more is truly something special, and than a set of boundaries to how truly fortunate we are to create a park. To be effective, live here. MONDAY, MARCH 12 the boundaries must have Mike Arseneau 4 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 Painting Cruise With meaning, and meaning doesn’t come Annual General without work. Before the 1988 blockade, BC Artist Gaye Adams there were around 250 mining claims in Meeting Of The Campbell River Art Gallery and Strathcona. Whole valleys in the park had Mothership Adventures are thrilled to been logged with government approval. Centre For announce that renowned B.C. artist Gaye Entire watersheds had been dammed Adams will be leading a painting cruise on to provide hydro power for commercial Spiritual Living the beautiful Columbia III May 27-May 30. purposes. Creeks were polluted, fish were Participants will have the opportunity killed, lakes were strewn with garbage, all Campbell River to paint some of the most beautiful and by commercial operations approved by The Board of Trustee’s of the Centre for remote coastal locations in B.C. with provincial governments. Spiritual Living - Campbell River will be instruction and guidance from Adams. Drawing boundaries on a map doesn’t holding the elections of its Trustee’s at the Adams is a master pastellist and member of create a park. From 1911 to 1988, AGM on March 11, 2012 at the Willow the Oil Painters of America who has won Strathcona was essentially a commercial Point Hall. Sunday Celebration starts at awards at the international level and had park. In 1988, people finally began to 10:30 am, 11:30 am there will be a Pot images featured in numerous publications fight to give park boundaries some real Luck followed at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm around the world. meaning. People wanted a real park, not a the AGM and election the the Board of Adams will be working in oils, her commercial enterprise. Trustee’s. Everyone welcome to hear the favourite ‘plein air’ medium, but pastellists, Most of the mining claims in the park Annual General meeting however only watercolourists and acrylicists are most have now been extinguished. There is members may vote. welcome to take part in this exciting currently only one operating mine, and Following the end of the AGM there will painting cruise. Coaching will be geared to it will eventually close. Commercial be a video of Dr. Kenn Gordon’s address the experience level and personal style of logging in the park has stopped. Lakes at Centres for Spiritual Living first elected each artist. Adams will work with students are no longer being dammed. These leadership in New Orleans. United Centres to help them find strong design elements activitiies, so damaging to the park, didn’t for Spiritual Living and International within the landscape, because she feels that just stop on their own, and they weren’t Centres for Spiritual Living have integrated learning to simplify the landscape and distil willingly stopped by governments. It to be ONE after a 50 year split. Dr. Kenn it down to its important elements is the key took a huge amount of hard work and the Gordon is the co-pastor of Centre for to successful field work. arrests of many dedicated people to force Spiritual Living Kelowna and served as Daily demonstrations and lively government to change direction. The President of the International Centre of conversation around all things art-related battle continues. Spiritual Living since 1999. In 2005 he was will punctuate each glorious day aboard In December, the present provincial named Minister of the year and received the Columbia III. The Columbia III is a government approved a permit for a high- his Doctorate of Humanities, and is now stunningly luxurious 68’ vessel featuring impact commercial dude ranch operation the Spiritual Leader for the integrated gourmet food passengers rave about in the Bedwell Valley. Centre for Spiritual Living. The Centres for years afterwards. The annual coastal for Spiritual Living’s goal is to empower This operation is totally unsuitable to painting cruise is one of the seasonal 100 million lives in the world. Dr. Kenn highlights for Mothership Adventures, a west coast rainforest valley. It will Gordon is also teacher to Jill Brocklehurst, harm the park in many ways. The park which provides a wide variety of exciting Spiritual Director of the Centre for coastal adventures on the Columbia III. belongs to the public, and the government Spiritual Living Campbell River. shouldn’t have the right to give the Bedwell The scenery participants will get the over to serve the commercial wishes of a About the Centre for Spiritual Living chance to see is unparalleled – artists will high-impact private operation. Campbell River see stunning landscapes daily. FOSP will fight this in court. A motivated At the Centre for Spiritual Living Campbell For more information about Adams, and very capable lawyer has been hired. River, we teach spiritual tools to enhance visit www.gayeadams.com. To learn A win will create a valuable precedent in personal lives, thereby making the more about the Columbia III and law. The park is worth it. Please donate at: world a better place. We are a non-profit Mothership Adventures, go to www. friendsofstrathcona.org organization with the mission to awaken mothershipadventures.com humanity to its spiritual magnificence. These are my own thoughts, and I’m The three-night painting cruise with Gaye We offer an on-going variety of classes Adams leaves from Campbell River and writing this plea on my own, although I’m online and in-person. We gather as a also an executive member of FOSP. costs $1,650 per participant. For more spiritual community every Sunday for information, contact the Campbell River Karl Stevenson Celebration at the Willow Point Hall 10:30 Art Gallery at 250-287-2261, curator@ Royston a.m., Meditation at 10:00 a.m. For more crartgallery.ca or check out www. information visit http://campbellriver.csl. crartgallery.ca org Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 5 REGIONALArea C DIRECTOR’S REPORTby Jim Abram ello to all, on this glorious, sunny give them added information in making Another Notice! - Regional “spring” day (in spite of the their case to their superiors. Just the fact Solid Waste Management Htemperature and NW wind). Let’s that he is willing to meet once again after hope we are finished with the worst of I sent him all of the info he requested is Public meeting winter! promising. I am going to remain optimistic - Thursday, March 15th, 7 - 9pm at the Nothing has slowed down in my world of and will fill you in after the meeting. Community Centre local government. Actually the pace has Please, please, please attend this meeting! quickened. That is a good thing as far as I Meeting with the This is the 5 year review of our Plan am concerned, since I like things to happen and your input will help to shape which and to see results. We are nearing the Minister of Transportation direction the Waste Management Plan will “results” stage on a number of fronts. I will be having a private meeting with go. Do you want more recycling? Do you So let’s get started with the most Minister Blair Lekstrom on Monday the want to see your rates go up annually for immediate. 27th at 11:30 am to discuss our never tipping fees at the landfill??? Do you want ending battle to get ferries under the to see a Waste to Energy plant (incinerator) umbrella of Highways and to lower the in the Campbell River area??? These are Meeting with Minster fares. I have met with Blair a number of some of the issues that will be discussed in Responsible for Connectivity times and will be meeting with him again detail. The consultants and staff will make in March with the group of coastal regional a presentation and then take questions. As I mentioned in my report of Feb. 13th, district chairs. We will also be meeting This is your opportunity to be heard. Please I was to meet with the Minister to discuss with the Premier at that time also. We will don’t let it slip by. connectivity on our island. I met with be discussing the same topics and also her on Jan. 20th and also had the benefit the entire report that was prepared by the of having officials from Network BC at Ferry Commissioner. As a group, we have Quathiaski Cove the meeting also. They are the part of the been developing a response paper to the Local Area Plan ministry that deals with connectivity in recommendations of the Commissioner. The Local Area Plan will be before the general. So, I got to have two meetings We are making our own recommendations board soon and a public hearing date will rolled into one. It went very well and I feel based on what our communities want. The probably be set for May or June. We have that both the Minister and the Network government is going to make some sort of been waiting a long time for this to go BC officials will be doing their best to decision in the next few months, I am sure. through the proper process and we are just support us in their conversations with This is why we are putting this amount about there. There will be plenty of notice Telus. They cannot force Telus to serve us, of effort into this issue and keeping the given and I hope the entire community will but they certainly can give them a strong pressure on them right now. Our group attend. recommendation. I presented them with represents 70% of the population of BC, so the same business case materials that I I think the government will be taking this I need to prepare for travel to my meetings provided to Telus. discussion fairly seriously. This could be in Victoria so that is about it for this our last shot at making substantive changes report. Feel free to call me between the to the Ferry system prior to an election. hours of 8:30 am and 7:00 pm, Monday Meeting with Telus - through Friday (please, not on weekends, Connectivity folks!) at 285-3355, or you can fax me at 285-3533 or you can email me anytime As I discussed in my report of January Notice! at [email protected] , or by mail at 16th and February 13th, I met with the Public meeting on 2012 Budget Box 278 in the Cove, V0P 1N0... Lots of General Manager for Vancouver Island at - Monday, March 12th, 7pm at the School choices. You can also view my website Telus in Victoria on January 9th. Please at www.jimabram.com refer to those reports for details so that The SRD will be holding a public meeting, I do not need to repeat them here. I am at my request, to discuss the upcoming financial plan for the coming year. This is meeting with him again on Monday the Please do not use my residential phone a very important meeting to attend so that 27th at 8:30 am for a full hour to go over number for SRD calls. All business calls you can get the details of the budget for the business case and the possible “build should be on 285-3355. Many thanks! out” of our island. This will give them a the next year right from the staff who have Respectfully submitted, good idea if there is enough business to be prepared it. A short presentation will be had to warrant spending the dollars they given and then the floor will be open to Jim Abram will need to spend to connect us up to high questions and answers. The meeting will take place at the Quadra Elementary School Director, Discovery Islands - Mainland speed internet, island wide. I will also be Inlets (Area C), SRD going over the possible questions that the at 7pm on Monday, March 12th. Please public will need to be asked in a survey to attend and be fully informed by our staff. 6 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 Quadra International Ladies Auxiliary Free Women’s Day Garage Sale Island Come and celebrate Quadra Legion Br # 154 Ladies Firewood International Women’s Day are putting on their yearly Free Firewood is available Cemetery on Quadra on Saturday March Garage Sale on March 24th. If every Wednesday at 1 p.m. 3, 6pm at the Community you are interested in renting a right after the Community AGM Centre. All women are invited table for $5.00 Lunch. Tuesday March 27th, 2012; ! Potluck dinner followed Just drive your vehicle or a 8:00pm at the Quadra Legion Please contact Chris Dyson @ by laughs, learning, art and 250-285-2207 or Barbara Frank @ friend’s pick-up truck to the entertainment. Bring your 250-285-3714 Get your tables early. rear doors of the Quadra friends and meet new ones. Community Centre at 1 p.m. NEXT DEADLINE Please bring your own dishes, We will meet you there and cups and cutlery so that no one help you load up. FOR THE DI has to clean up! Admission by Ladies Auxiliary If you can’t come at this time is Monday donation please, to cover hall th or cannot find a vehicle, call March 12 rental. See you there, women! Plant & Bake Sale Send in your submissions Our plant and Bake sale is Steve Moore at 285-3323 for [email protected] coming up on April 14/12 an alternative arrangement. In Zumba some cases, we can deliver. fax: 250-285-2236 or drop it off If you have any plants to donate at Hummingbird or our office at when you are cleaning up the 701 Cape Mudge Rd. Dance flower garden we would much Zumba dance fitness classes appreciate them. Contact Barb will be offered every Tuesday Frank @ 250-285-3714 night at the Community Centre starting at 5:45 and running until 6:45. (*NOTE the start time of 6:45 that went into the Hungry Eye is incorrect*) Come out and have fun dancing your booty off! Newcomers to Quadra Island Welcome New to Quadra? The Discovery Islands Chamber of Commerce and local businesses welcome you with a gift bag. Please contact Judy at 285-2150.
Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 7 Heriot Bay Cheese-Making Harbour Report Workshop on Quadra Phase 4 of the new Heriot Bay Harbour Join Mimi Smienk of Open Bay Farm Improvement Project has now been on Saturday, March 3, 1pm to 4pm at completed under budget and on time. Perrywinkle Cottage (692 Cedar Drive) The project manager, Harbours employees, for an introduction to soft cheese- Lee Roberts, Fraser River Pile Driving and making. With local fresh cow’s milk, the board members who put so much time Mimi will demonstrate the steps involved on this project deserve a great deal of credit. in making creamy soft cheese. Amanda Phase 5 which involves reconfiguration of Stewart-Webb will join us to discuss the docks will proceed later this year when her adventures in hard cheese-making. funding and a successful bidder is in place. Participants will also enjoy a sampling In order to maximize safety and minimize of cheeses from the islands and locally congestion the board requests that made artisan bread. Workshop fee is everyone respect and obey the posted signs. $45 and includes a take home sample of Please be patient as it will take some trial and the soft cheese made in class. Limit 8 error to get this facility running smoothly. participant. To register call Carol at 250- 285-3664. As some of you may have read in a previous D.I. we now have a historic vessel at our dock, unfortunately the owner of this vessel along with two others have not fully paid their moorage and electrical power fees. In addition the most derelict of the three is now at a mooring in Heriot Bay. We the tax payer have already paid to have all oils and toxic materials removed and are now paying to have it pumped so that it will not sink and cause a boating hazard. The Harbours Board lobbied to have this boat removed on the F.R.P.D. Barge but was turned down by a government bureaucrat because there was no money available (???). The remaining two boats are presently moored on the wave attenuator at the H.B. Dock pending the outcome of a number of legal actions which once again will cost us taxpayers thousands of dollars. The Harbours Board has gone through some stressful times with all these issues on our agenda, particularly as we are volunteers, and we hope that you the public will support us in our efforts to make our two harbours secure, safe and friendly places for commercial and pleasure boating. - Pete Calverley
8 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 spOIL and Workshop with the Winter Market at the Haig-Brown Writer- Community Centre Saturday, March 3rd 10am-2pm On The Line in-Residence Tired of the rain? Need a break? Come on The award-winning documentary spOIL out to the Winter Market. Enjoy a terrific is the result of a Rave (a Rapid Assessment Trevor Herriot assortment of local artisans. Visual Expedition) to the Great Bear The Museum at Campbell River is offering Woodworking, jewellery, books, soaps, Rainforest by the International League of a unique opportunity to participate in a all of your favourite things under one roof. Conservation Photographers. The seven writing workshop with the 2012 Haig- Rain or shine! world-renowned photographers and three Brown Writer-in-Residence Trevor This week, Judi MacMillan (Sew Much videographers focused their energy and Herriot. More) has all the accessories your heart cameras on this pristine region in response On Saturday, March 3, from 1:00 pm – 4 desires, handbags, scarves, jewellery, to the plans by Enbridge Inc. to build pm, Herriot will lead a workshop with a jackets, dress up spring! a pipeline for heavy crude oil from the focus on ‘Nature Writing’. The workshop Alberta tar sands across British Columbia will take place at the historic Haig-Brown Fascinating Fascinators. Join Lime Soda to the coast of the Great Bear Rainforest. House. This is a wonderful opportunity Photography and Lydia for a fun modern day portrait with old fashioned flair. All In On The Line, filmmaker Frank Wolf and to learn writing techniques from a skilled props to dress you in style! Fascinators for his friend Todd McGowan undertake a master of nature writing. sale too. low-tech trip along the proposed route of Trevor Herriot is a prairie naturalist and the Enbridge pipeline, making investigative writer. His latest book is ‘Grass, Sky, Sarah Gregg Granger of Heart and Soul pit stops along the way. Wolf gives voice Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Home Care has openings for 2 foot care to the citizens whose lives will be upended Grassland Birds’ (HarperCollins, February, sessions on Saturday or you can book an by the project - some are ambivalent, 2009). His writing has appeared in the appointment (250-204-7648) for a later most are opposed, all are fearful. Wolf ’s Globe & Mail, Canadian Geographic, date. documentary is brilliantly structured: his and several anthologies. He has written Treat yourself and get those fancy feet trip through the relatively unspoiled land of two radio documentaries for CBC Ideas ready for Spring! two provinces is a literal, slowly cumulative and is a monthly guest on CBC Radio Rave reviews on the yummy lunches, demonstration of what exists now, and Saskatchewan’s Blue Sky. what could be ruined tomorrow. His casual, delicious soups and baking. Or just sip a detouring trek is an act of witness and Trevor’s blog, “Grass Notes” cup of coffee or tea. Best price on Quadra! (trevorherriot.blogspot.com) discusses exposure that the corporate media aims to Spend your Saturday surrounded by friends some of the stories and issues he addresses minimize. Here are the land and its people; and handmade items. Come on out, much in his books. He lives in Regina with his here will be the natural and human costs of more to see! wife Karen and their four children. the Tar Sands. Set up is 8 am. Tables are $10.00. Need The cost for the workshop is $45.00 . Caitlyn Vernon, Coastal Programs more info? Michele@250-285-3747 or Please call the Museum at 287-3103 to Campaigner for the Sierra Club BC, will [email protected] talk about the Enbridge Northern Gateway reserve a place. Numbers are limited. Joint Review Panel Hearings and answer questions on the project. This Sierra Quadra event will be on Saturday, March 24th. Please note that it starts at 7:00 pm with doors open at 6:30 pm.
Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 9 Quadra Island Library Get Your Upper Realm Yoga Branch closes March Spirit Books offers courses in Music and Spiritual Renewal five nights a week. 10th with new branch Seeds Ready!! Now, we present yet another new course: The Second Annual Fall Fair is coming! Vinyasa Yoga with Kai. These Vinyasa opening on March 20th I hope that everyone is still enjoying based yoga classes will take place in the NANAIMO, February 27, 2012 – the immense satisfaction of eating from Meditation Room of Spirit Books in the Customers of the Quadra Island Library their gardens, although the last squash Upper Realm at Q. Cove on Sunday and Branch will soon be able to enjoy their new has just gone and we are on the last box Tuesday nights from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. library at Cove Centre, Quathiaski Cove. of potatoes! What better motivation to There is a $5 drop in fee. Everyone is The current library branch will be closed get going on growing for next winter… welcome. Call Kai at 250-850-9245 or Steve starting on Sunday, March 11th. The and of course for the Fall Fair. As you at 250-285-3323 for more information. In new branch opens in its new location on are considering your spring planting, be addition, hand-drumming is Wednesday Tuesday, March 20th. thinking about what you will enter for Nights at 7:45 p.m. Drums are provided if fruits and vegetables…and please do take “Quadra Island customers are encouraged you don’t have one (call Steve at 285-3323). up the Giant Pumpkin Challenge. To to borrow as much material as they wish Meditation is on Thursday nights at 7:30 grow a real whopper, world champion before the library closes at the end of p.m. with Dave Ashton at 285-3871. Quadra giant pumpkin you need to start planning the day on Saturday, March 10th,” says Unplugged, a guitar & other acoustic now. All contenders should be sourcing, Timothy Skye, Library Manager. “Loan instruments jam, is on Friday Nights at wheeling and dealing for a secret giant periods have been adjusted and fines will 7:30 p.m. but they are taking a break for a pumpkin seed supplier. The olympian not be assessed.” couple of weeks. So call at Pat at 285-2807 training begins with barrow after barrow to find out when they start up again. There The new 3207 sq. ft. facility will be slightly of ‘soil ammendment’. I must admit that is also a Buddhist Meditation on Sunday more than three times the size of the I have been eyeing, with envy, the lovely Mornings at 10 a.m. Monday night is still present 1024 sq. ft. branch with room for new poly tunnel that has arisen on my available if you have a book club or a music more books, CDs, DVDs, newspapers, route to Heriot Bay…will they take up the group or a spiritual course to offer. Call magazines and six public computers. challenge and baby a giant along? Don’t Steve at 285-3323 to book the book store. When the library re-opens on Tuesday, forget to make sure the door will be big March 20th, all library materials will enough! We know from history that the remain as a fixed collection for six months. Community Garden is quite capable of A date for the official grand opening of the producing a good sized contender. So, Free Video Exchange new branch will be announced in the next as you wander in your garden with the The Free Video Exchange needs more few weeks. promise of sun, greeting the garlic poking videos. I know you have been planning to up through the winters’ mulch, do consider watch that old VHS or DVD video again. The new facility will provide a welcoming, what you can grow and show this fall! But let’s face it sometimes watching a video airy and bright, fully-accessible community once is enough. So why not donate the space with large windows, and room for an Carol Anne Caulfield, on behalf of the movie to the Free Video Exchange at the expanded collection. Community Garden, Upper Realm in Q. Cove. And while you at Fruits and Vegetables Committee for it, take some videos home that you haven’t Quadra Island Fall Fair seen yet. Help yourself. The three shelves of videos are at the top of the stairs. We are Cortes Radio strictly on the honour system but if you can donate more videos than you take home Drop in and tune out it is much appreciated. We are happy to 89.5 fm note that the number of DVD’s is slowly increasing. Any questions, just ask anyone is Spirit Books or call Steve at 285-3323
10 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 Friday Free Money Quadra Free Money needs your help. Free Flicks Money is available 6 months a year Literacy from November to April, usually on WASTE LAND the first Wednesday of the month, News VANCOUVER March 9th just before Community Lunch. We The Learn to Play – Play to ISLAND REGIONAL have just enough money for March Learn Workshop will be held LIBRARY Brazil, UK, USA 7. However, we have almost on Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 – DISPOSAL OF Rated G – doc. no money for April 4th. - 8:30 in the Literacy Centre ASSETS After years of re-creating Please, please make a donation to the at Quadra Elementary. This The Vancouver Island famous paintings out of trash Free Money Association Account in make and take workshop is Regional Library’s Quadra and other discarded material, our local Coastal Credit Union. We based on Susan Munzer’s story Island branch is currently the Brazilian-born artist, Vik need about $500 by April 1. Every baskets and felt board stories. accepting bids for items of Muniz, returned to his home cent goes to Quadra residents in need. There will be a demonstration furniture currently surplus country to photograph the of the many ways to tell a story The generosity of Quadra Islanders to requirement. Closed bids garbage pickers who scavenge and participants will make a is truly a miracle. Think of the will be accepted until 5:00 the world’s largest landfill, felt board and felt characters Community Lunch, the Food Bank, p.m., March 2, 2012. Please Jardim Gramacho. Filmmaker to dramatize a story with their Free Firewood, Free Chimney address the enveloppe to Lucy Walker opted to tag little ones. This workshop Sweeps and much more. We the attention of the Library along and take his project will be of interest to parents, haven’t missed a Free Money Manager, Vancouver Island one step deeper by drawing grandparents, caregivers and Distribution in five years, despite the Regional Library, 1240 Muniz’s models into the early childhood educators. fact that three of these years we have Shoppers Row, Campbell picture. Walker’s interest in Childcare is provided. The been in an economic recession. River, V9W 2C8. Please drop her surreal new environment, materials for the workshop are by the Quadra Island branch (7,000 tons of garbage are However, Free Money is still supplied, so please preregister (Heriot Bay) during open received daily), and the people available at 11:30 a.m., just at the Literacy Centre (across hours to view the items for who inhabit it, sweep her away. before the Community Lunch, the hall from the Kindergarten on Wednesday, March 7th in the class at Quadra Elementary) or sale. Those with winning bids While Muniz is focused on downstairs seminar room at the email robin.quadraliteracy@ will be contacted after March the end result of his portraits, Quadra Community Centre. gmail.com. 2 and must pick up the items Walker’s team goes off to between Monday, March Individuals are welcome to take one discover the real lives of his six 12 and Friday, March 16 by book of their choice containing a models, giving us rare insight appointment. into the compelling stories $10 bill. Family members (or people behind the haunting portraits. supporting others) can take two As compelling as these stories books, each containing a $10 bill. are, the film grows stronger Dog and cat food are also available. still when mesmerizing the For more information, call audience with wordless Steve Moore at 285-3323 sequences of the garbage pickers at work, and capturing the otherworldly feel of the place. During these scenes, “Waste Land” feels more like art than just another film about art. It’s an eye-opening experience for First World audiences. And a testament to the redemptive power of beauty. Alcoholic Anonymous ~ Quadra Island Chapter meets 8 pm Friday at Quadra Children’s Centre, West Road. Everyone Welcome. Call 250-202-6049 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 11 It’s Only Fair How to improve We Give A Heads Up!! your garden soil The 2nd Annual Quadra Island Fall Fair is set for September 9th, 2012. On Monday March 12th, 7pm at the This year’s theme – Rural by Nature Community Centre, island resident Ryan Nassichuk, will give a talk on west coast We’re planting this seed early so you can cover crops, often called green manure. mark September 9th on your calendars, For the last year, Ryan and his partner and also to remind exhibitors that some Jessica have been gardening a previously exhibits may need lead in time. ‘Now’ fallowed piece of land called Valdez might be a good time to count backwards Farms, on the south end of Quadra. They from September 9th. Will you need two are already producing healthy vegetable months or seven to grow, knit, quilt or crops. Ryan’s talk will discuss the use of write your Exhibit entry? cover crops for building and maintaining Reminders will be posted here and on soil fertility in vegetable gardens. To see Facebook. (Quadra Island Fall Fair) their progress on the farm, complete with For people who would like to get involved photos of Quadra’s seasonal challenges, in this year’s Fair, contact Sioux @ 2516 or check out Ryan’s blog at On the blog, Leslie @ 3727. Ryan lists many species of cover crops including buckwheat, clover, phacelia, We’re looking forward to working with oats, peas, tyfon, vetch and what he calls our community on this fun event again this “ the undisputed king of west coast cover year. crops Fall Rye”. Come to the meeting and learn from a connoisseur of winter green. You will hear about Ryan’s techniques for improving your soil structure and tilth. Also watch for future workshops offered at the farm on the topics of ‘how to grow’. Ryan is a certified horticulturalist, who along with his partner, Jessica, have made Quadra their new home.
For the show and tell table, bring some spring flowers: crocus, hellebores, Japanese plums, forced forsythia. Can anyone pick a bouquet of daffodils for the meeting? Share your extra seeds or seed catalogues. Drop ins welcome $2 at the door or buy an annual membership.
12 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 The (Ongoing) Crisis in Childcare amilies across BC and Canada are • Quality child care is early learning; across BC into consideration, we will likely facing a crisis in childcare, things • High quality early years programs have no option but to close our doors. Fare going from bad to worse. There promote healthy development; The Quadra Children’s Centre has greatly is a shortage of regulated spaces, fees are appreciated the community’s support in high and the early childhood workforce • Children and families need, and have the the past and we are asking for it again. is underpaid with many early childhood right to, quality care and learning; and Please take a few minutes and endorse the educators leaving the field to earn a living • Current policies and approaches are not Plan at www.ecebc.ca wage elsewhere. working. Thank-you, In BC there are licensed child care spaces The highlights of the Plan include: Dee McPhee for only about 20 per cent of children. That • New legislation….a BC Early Care and Quadra Children’s Centre is only 1 in 5 regulated spaces! Learning Act The cost of childcare is high often being • A new home for child care in the Ministry the second highest cost for a family after of Education housing. The provincial median monthly cost for infant/toddler care is $875; for • A new role for Boards of Education preschool care, ages 2.5-5 years is $665; • The development of Early Years Centre and for school-age care is $300. Unlike Networks other community services, childcare is • Enhancing Kindergarten and Grade one primarily a user fee system. The fees families pay account for 70-80% of a child • Strengthening School-age Care and care centre’s revenue. The remaining Family Child Care revenues come from small government • Developing the Early Childhood grants and fundraising. It can cost a family Educators’ workforce as much or more to pay for childcare from birth to school-age entry as it does to pay • Lower fees - $10 per full day/ $7 for half day and free for families with a yearly Your Complete for university degree program. There are Home Building Specialists: no RESP’s (registered education savings income of less than $40,000 from concrete to cabinets plan) for childcare! Quadra Children’s Centre fully supports • Project Management this plan and is asking the Quadra Early Childhood Educators who generally • Commercial & Residential Buildings have 2 years of college- training are Community for their support too. Yes, • Renovations underpaid and typically have no health or this plan is ambitious and it may take a • Custom Homes & Additions pension benefits. After 5 years of working generation to come to fruition and we need • Qualified Journeyman Carpenters in the field approximately 50 per cent leave to start now so future families can have a High Performance Wall Systems the field to find better paying jobs. system which supports them. Certified Installers Here in BC two non-profit grassroots Quadra Children’s Centre has been organizations, the Early Childhood affected by full school day kindergarten. Free Estimates - Phone Educators of BC and the Coalition of We know that if the BC government rolls Child Care Advocates of BC have come out a plan for 3 and 4 year olds without together to propose to our government an taking our Centre and Centre’s like ours Fax 285-3573 innovative and ambitious way forward in terms of the childcare crisis. The Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning is in response to BC’s implementation of full school day kindergarten for 5 year olds as well as to the promise made by our government of some form of pre- kindergarten programming for children age 3 and 4 along with the crisis’ facing childcare as mentioned above. The Plan is built upon well-established research that clearly shows that: • Public spending on the early years is a wise social and economic investment;
Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 13 Jazzalele!!! Quadra Island Take two jazz musicians, add two At the ukuleles… and you get Jazzalele. You get Seniors the sunny sounds of the ukulele ringing out classic and Latin jazz with Hawaiian -BR. 91-B.C.O.A.P.O. HBI flavour. The B.C. Old Age Pensioners are DATE CORRECTION to February 17 The cozy, relaxed atmosphere of theHBI’s celebrating their 80th founding DI: Saturday March 3 Jazzalele Uke Fireside Lounge is the perfect venue to Anniversary. We were instrumental along Duo - in the Fireside Lounge. 7:00pm, enjoy an evening of sunny jazz. Jazzalele with Tommy Douglas in acquiring the $15.00. Ukulele lessons, Sunday. will be performing at the Heriot Bay Inn first Old Age Pension, to help Seniors be Beginner, intermediate or advanced, Saturday March 3 at 7 pm. $15 at the door able to survive. In June we are celebrating $20.00. Check on our www.heriotbayinn. for the evening performance. at Convention, meeting in Agassiz and com for workshop details. Hear their staying at Harrisons Hot Spring. Our amazing music at www.jazzalele.com Branch will be sending delegates, to Two nights stay at the Sandman Inn and vote on Resolutions which the branches 2 tickets to the Canucks! Watch the all over the Province send in, decisions games and WIN BIG! HBI Pub. A winner will then be sent to Federal, Provincial every game is entered to win this grand & Municipal Govts. “Everyone should prize drawn March 17. Must be present know, the squeaky wheel gets the most to win. grease”. UofQ: Where learning in a Our next meeting on March 7th @ neighbourhood pub is surprisingly Jazzalele is Anna Lyman, Mexican- 10:30 am, our guest speaker will be enlightening. Mar 7 • frameless origami American Jazzista and recording artist, and Pharmacist Colleen from Peoples Drug steel sailboats with Brent Swain; Mar Steve Sutton, a Victoria-based bassist and Mart, to discuss medications. Following 14 • heat your house well with the ukulele player. Anna is a festival favourite, the meeting will be a Pot-Luck lunch right firewood with Billy Dubois HBI and when she’s not onstage she enjoys and to celebrate a dear ladies 90th Pub. 7:00pm. March 21st, 7pm: Tracy teaching voice and ukulele. Birthday,Guess Who? And she still looks Tomlinson; Cigar Box Guitars, the like a spring chicken.’ making and the music! March 28th, 7pm: To sample what you’ll hear Saturday, Lunabelle Loiseau-Tremblay; Coastal March 10, visit www.jazzalele.com March 14th we are attending The North Plant Ecology. Island Regional Meeting in Cumberland, It’s a weekend to revel in the ukulele, Live Music at the HBI - Friday March because Sunday you can learn or expand lunch will be served for $5.00. please pay 9th… Ray Bennet and Friends; March your ukulele knowledge at one of three Christine Dyson, by March 7th. We have 16th… Buddy Mac “one-man classic workshops. “The voice of the ukulele will many excursions planned with the bus country singer”. Saturday nights; open bring you happiness and delight your lady Lee. Also we will soon be working at mic with Mo. Toe tappin’, foot stompin’, friends” according to instructor Anna the Tourist Information Centre. sweet dancin’ every Friday and Saturday Lyman. Never played or just beginning to On February 17th, we attended the night. HBI Pub. Your extended living play the uke? The beginner’s workshop will room! teach you simple chords and how to easily celebration presentation of Halbe Hall move from one chord to another, and there Deed, to Black Creek Seniors Br.126, Enjoy Canadian favourite VALDY and a will be some ukuleles available to borrow. from the School Board No. 71. It was delicious three course meal in Herons. attended also by hundreds of people Saturday March 17. $55.00. Seating at The intermediate workshop will help you despite the terrible stormy weather, 6:00pm., reserve now! 285-3322 get more excitement and pleasure out of attendance included some of the Halbe your ukulele, including making bigger Savour the Flavours of “Around the family, and some of the students who sounds with smaller efforts, the Hawaiian World in 90 Days” in Herons and the attended Halbe Hall school. turnaround, and an introduction to the HBI Pub! 1st week: Hong Kong; 2nd Hawaiian Triplet strum. Phone Christine Dyson @2207, about week: Thailand; 3rd week: Malaysia; 4th week: Indonesia. Specials available after The advanced workshop is aimed at membership in our happy group, and also about Wednesdays activities. If any 5:00pm Monday to Thursday. April... “Extreme ukulele for experienced players” flavours of Africa & the South Pacific. and will include chord melody techniques, Seniors need transportation call Ruth fingerpicking tabs, and moveable chords Amiabel @ 3801. among other techniques. For more details We would like to Thank with love to Sally about the workshops, check the events and Bill Bradshaw, Shirley Saunders, and page at heriotbayinn.com. the Legion members who help us set Workshops are $20 each; please reserve in up for our special meetings. Valentine advance by calling the Inn at 250.285.3322. decorations were great at our last meeting. 14 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 Lasqueti Invasion Returns (for the discerning that is...?)
To all discerning, consenting adults who Doors open at 6:30, dinner at 7 pm. like to get their funny bones tickled, Showtime 8:30. Cost is $15 per adult, here is an invitation to an evening of tickets sold only the night of the event at Titillating Variety. The Tsk Tsk Revue is a the door. cabaret style show conceived in the wilds of Lasqueti Island to aid the condition Followed by dancing to the beats of DJ known as “bushed”. It also provides a Holmes stage for the group of local performers Adults only due to risqué subject matter. who sometimes want to play dirty. After Dress to impress and express. Interpret as five annual November shows on Lasqueti you will. Island, five different shows that provoked FMI [email protected] by celebrating sensuality and comedy, the wacky revue is touring to a venue near you. The Tsk Tsk troupe comprises twenty lively, strange, hilarious, and talented singers, dancers and actors conspiring to tickle your funny bone and fancy. Meet Billy Blackfoot of rapping fame. Experience Super Wet Nurse. Get teased by temptress Tlulah Moon. Witness Big Love. Fall for a Gerry Can CanCan girl or a Backwoodz Boy. Get lost in Madame JoJo’s croon. Shake Harry Palms hand. Peak under the Woodsman’s Kilts. Also expect to see some guest stars from your own community. This is contemporary commentary and entertainment cultured in this crazy world in the way of old school burlesque. According to the dictionary Burlesque is a comically exaggerated imitation of something. The words absurd and striptease also come up in the definition. If you need to laugh and want to be part in the Making Of Fun, then please join us at the Quadra Legion on Friday March 30, 2012. Quadra’s own Kosmic Kafeteria Catering is pleased to offer up a pre-show dinner. For $25 you get a sexy three course meal starting with pureed winter squash soup with lemon grass and red curry, followed by Bourbon-glazed breast of chicken, Garlic and herb crusted roast potatoes, Maple Dijon carrots, Green beans amandine, Island-made artisan bread and topped with Chocolate pots de creme! Dinner by reservation only. To reserve call Linda Gray @250-285-2171 no later than Monday March 26.
Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 15 Get ‘Around the Point’ Steven Page Solo Concert Join DI editor Philip Stone Saturdays at 1 pm, repeated on Quadra, March 10 Tuesdays at 10 am on CKTZ songwriter and guitarist, 89.5 Cortes Community Radio Craig Northey. Northey was for a round up of news on the a founding member and one Discovery Islands and further of the principal songwriters of afield. This week’s guest Don the Vancouver alternative rock Staniford on salmon farming. band the Odds who toured extensively in the 1990’s, If you have a news story idea or including as an opening act would like help recording your for the Tragically Hip and the own item, interview, music Barenaked Ladies. Craig has etc... on Quadra Island contact written/co-written musical Philip Stone at 250-285-2234 or scores for movies such as email [email protected] “Brain Candy” and “Dog See you on the radio! Park,” and themes for several television series, including “Kids in the Hall,” and “Corner Quadra Gas.” He has collaborated and toured with such artists as Unplugged Rosanne Cash, Wide Mouth Mason and Colin James. Twice Every Friday Night, there is a in the ‘90s, Craig Northey was strictly acoustic jam, mainly Steven Page, former lead- Steven continues to compose nominated as songwriter of the involving guitars, singing, hand singer for The Barenaked new material for himself, as year. Craig’s first solo album drums and flutes, etc. Ladies, known for his heart- recently recorded on his first “Giddy Up” was released in The music ranges from blues felt lyrics and up-beat song solo album “Page One,” and for 2003. to folk to pop tunes and even writing, is giving a solo concert several stage productions at the With talent of this calibre, funk. Some of the evening also on Quadra Island, Saturday, Stratford Festival. His song, Steven Page and Craig Northey has original songs written by March 10th at 8:00 pm, at the “A Different Sort of Solitude,” on Quadra will be a sell-out Quadra Islanders. Quadra Community Centre. was featured in last year’s film so get your tickets early. Since re-directing his career in “French Immersion,” and was Come sharpen your group 2009, he has been playing solo Tickets are $20 advance at musical skills in a relaxed, nominated this year for a Genie Hummingbird Office and Art acoustic shows and recording Award. informal atmosphere. It’s the with a variety of guests and Supply in Q. Cove, and at the first step before going on stage musical collaborators. Last Joining Steven Page on the Music Plant in Campbell River. or performing at a local music August, he had the honour of Quadra Community Centre For more information, visit festival. singing at Jack Layton’s funeral. stage will be his long-time stevenpage.com or call 250- The time is 7:30 p.m. every friend and co-writer, singer- 285-2580. Friday at Spirit Books upstairs in the Upper Realm at Q. Cove. There is a $5 drop-in fee. Call Tim at 285-2314 or Pat at 285- 2807 for more info.
16 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 Folk Troubadour Valdy coming to the Heriot Bay Inn
Revel in an evening of musical Singer of the Year and Folk storytelling with a “master of Entertainer of the Year), a total country, folk, rock and blues”, of seven Juno nominations and enjoy a delicious three and four Gold albums to his course dinner prepared by Chef credit. His recent CDs include Catherine Berg and her skilled “Contenders”, a collaboration team. Seats are $55 each; with friend and fellow singer/ seating begins at 6 pm. Please songwriter, Gary Fjellgaard, call the Inn 250.285.3322 to with whom he has an absolute reserve your seat. blast touring, and a solo release, “Viva Valdy: Live at Performing since the 60’s, Last”, a two-CD package, one Valdy has sold almost half a live, one studio, with a total of million copies of his 13 albums, 25 tunes, and a lyric booklet. has two Juno Awards (Folk
The musical magic of Valdy is “one of the best evenings of coming to the Heriot Bay Inn entertainment Confederation for a dinner show Saturday Centre has ever seen....a man of March 17 in Herons. formidable talents” according Valdy is a Canadian folk to the Charlottetown Evening institution whose performances Patriot. do not disappoint. He is
Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 17 Community Kitchen - a necessary pleasure; a practice in devotion. By Annette Yourk class, which wraps up just as preparations for lunch are on the home stretch. Relaxed yogis bring their equilibrium downstairs and feed their bodies, as do construction workers who also take lunch here when they can. “It’s fantastic, amazing,” says a woman who is on Quadra for a 6 week bike mechanics course. “It’s an opportunity to meet people and actually talk to them and get to know them a little.” A fellow student adds “I meet people here and there on the island, and then I see them at Community Lunch and can sit down and chat and make a real connection.” Another of my table companions came in for lunch after working on firewood; a volunteer initiative, spearheaded by Steve Moore, to provide free firewood to those It’s Wednesday, high noon, when I step bringing music into the list of ingredients who need it. through the doors of the Community that make the Community Kitchen a recipe Centre and into the bustle and buzz of “There were fifteen of us and six chain saws for success. As John says, “Eileen and I – this going all morning out there behind the Community Kitchen. The line-up snakes is our thing. We have to do it. There’s just no around the perimeter of the main hall. At community center. There’s a lot of work other way to put it.” Over the years, others, getting done. Normally I don’t come here first sight it’s daunting, but the Community too, have shared their gift of music here. Kitchen team (roughly 15 people) is one for lunch, it’s not part of my routine, but efficient unit. They’ve been hard at work I find a seat and my by-happenstance lunch I’ve really enjoyed it today.” since 8:30am moving through set up, food companions are two friends, two people Jack Mar is a member of “The Pack,” a prep, cooking. A few minutes of line-up newly met, and one complete stranger who cycling group that takes regular Wednesday chit-chat and I’m at the menu board, faced is eager to talk about CK. rides. “We used to ride after work, but with the difficult choice between three “Some people come for lunch because it’s a in winter it’s too dark, so we head out at delicious soup options. Eeny, meeny, necessity,” he says, “and they get the social 10am and come around for lunch here and miney… spicy beef and kale chile. benefit as well. Other people come for donate. There can be anywhere from two I scan the tables for a minute or two, the social aspect, and that is also a human to fifteen of us. We all like to support this.” holding my warm bowl in cold hands. As necessity.” Jack scans the room. “I really cherish the usual, the crowd is a socio-economic cross This weekly repast is an authentic sampling Community Kitchen.” section of our island population. It also of who we Islanders are. Interactions Community Kitchen is one of the success represents every age and stage of life from outside one’s predictable social orbit are stories of Quadra Rec Society’s programs. infants to elders. inevitable. Stretching may be involved, if Sandy Spearing, centre coordinator, Eileen Sowerby and John Kragen are you’re willing, and we know how beneficial has watched the Community Kitchen at their usual places – piano and guitar, stretching is. Just ask the Wednesday yoga
18 Discovery Islander #520 March 2, 2012 evolve over its eight years of for baby clinic and food bank smoothly. Ann Greg, Barrie Time to operation, yet remains in awe (1st and 3rd Wednesdays). Calverley, and Linda Bell of its success. On alternate Wednesdays, have been steady on for eight Get “I don’t totally get why it’s so the daycare children and years. Young people have also magic. Somehow the formula caregivers dine out at volunteered over the years Onboard... just works and it has total buy Community Kitchen. Quadra helping with setup, clean up, in from the community.” Circle arranges informative food prep, and soup cooking. Now booking talks that take place at 1pm, Garnet Kehn was the first The idea began with the Food after lunch. Another initiative young soup chef. Eamon Space for 2012 Bank. The organizers realized a came to fruition last Autumn Simmons is the current fruit and greater need in the community with the Quadra Community veggie artist. There is generosity than their services could Lunch Cookbook, a collection practiced in spades here. provide. Sandy retells the story. of many of the delicious soup Community Kitchen captures “We put out the word that we recipes and yummy baked the essence of community and were thinking of a soup kitchen goods from eight years of reflects what the Community and expected two or three to community lunch. Karen Gair, Centre strives for. This is what turn up for the meeting. Thirty Lynda Bell, Jan Brettnacher, building community is all people came. The time was Mia Frishholz and Donivee about; an idea springs from right, and so was the sentiment. Laird joined forces to collect, a need identified. The idea record, and publish this “As Terry Peebles and I is brought into focus with a momento of “soup for the soul”, discussed the idea we realized vision that exceeds the need. available at the Community it wouldn’t work in our small The vision is nurtured by a Centre. community. There would be dedicated few, whose numbers too much stigma attached. “Community Kitchen works as grow. An infrastructure is in The nurse at baby clinic joined a cooperative, but it has its own place to provide support and the conversation and talked organic style of accomplishing make it a reality. about Community Kitchen that. People come, take It’s almost one o’clock. I’ve in Campbell River. In this responsibility in an area, and checked in with friends, program meals are prepared give it their all. They hold it talked to strangers, and and frozen in serving portions, together for several months or enjoyed watching the day care which are then distributed. I years and when they need to children who participate so Information packages scooped the name, but not the pass the baton, another lovely sweetly. I’ve caught snippets concept. Then we twigged on person steps forward,” says are now available for of conversation, made plans, the 2012 editions of the idea that lunch could be Sandy. While some might play filled my belly, and relaxed the annual Guide to paid by donation.” a stronger coordinating role at in the casual comfort of it all. times, there is no “manager”. It’s the Discovery Islands, Several programs and activities I’ve warmed my hands and, by all considered important work. now intersect with Community extension, warmed my heart. Quadra Island Map, Kitchen. Physiotherapy John Parkyn and his wife Trudy Cortes Island Map and happens every Wednesday, were dedicated volunteers and internet advertising. with a noon to one lunch break. John has remained steadfast Wednesday is also the day in keeping set-up running If you’re a new business and would like to receive information on these invaluable marketing opportunities: Call Philip Stone at 250-285-2234 or email [email protected] Some Space Still Open CALL TODAY!!! Material due by March 2 For more information look online at: www.discoveryislands.ca/ advertising
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