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4 Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 www.discoveryislands.ca/news Surge Narrows Day Camp Island Calendar United Dance Church Is pleased to •Every Thursday-Jam with Moe, Landing Pub August 10, Sat. Surge Narrows announce: YOUTH FOR PEACE Community Reunion Dance. •Every Friday Night – Ron Hadley Jazz Pianist TsaKwaLuten Lodge Virtues Day Camp July 29 to 6 to 9pm Bluegrass/Folk/Rock music August 2 for youth ages 8-14. by “The Good Old Boys” 8pm. $25.00 per person. Please •1st Friday of every month-Open stage @ Yak Shak Coffee House Murray Hall, Surge Narrows ask about scholarships and 7:30-10pm family rate. July 6, Sat. To register or for further -Farmers Market NITRS Pancake Breakfast Q Credit Union Quadra information please call 9am-1pm Sailblazers 285-2141 or register at the July 7, Sun Quadra Market July 13. Our -Potluck picnic Rebecca Spit The Sailblazers dinghies will funding Partner is Human 12noon-3pm, welcome choir from Belgium be available on Sundays at the Resources And Development -Scala Youth Choir Community Centre Spit in the summer. Anyone Corporation. 7:00pm interested in having the use of them can call Frank Wallace at July 14, Sun. 285-2297. -Kirtan Singing Concert Community Centre 7:30 pm Meditation Class July 23, Tues. Quadra Island -Alfredo Gormezano Performs Community Centre Free 8pm Farmer’s All are Welcome August 10, Sat. Market 7:00 pm Friday -Surge Narrows Community Dance Surge Narrows July 19th 8pm Our Farmer’s Market is held rain or shine from the beginning ROOM #3 of May to the end of September, Community Centre, every Saturday from 10:00 am Quadra Island to 2:00pm behind the Credit Island Calendar is a list of on island events. Please submit seperately for Union. the Island Calendar and News & Events or indicate in your submission if you would like your event placed in both. Following the text order Vendors must be from Quadra exactly as above for email submissions is appreciated (month, date, or the outer islands. Setup day, title, place and time), use the title as your email subject. Thank you. charge is $3 for adults and $1 for kids. Bring your own table. Dancers, drummers, jugglers, Roasters of Fine World Coffees musicians etc. are very welcome Coffee Specials $12.50/lb - this is our village green! Please have dogs on leashes. - by an authorized this week Bolivian- Note that the Credit Union Full bodies and full dark roast flavor- parking lot is for their representative of organic, shade grown and fair trade customers only! Farmers next week Sant Thakar Singh Mexican-Chiapas Market parking space is on A smooth tasting coffe showing buttery and nutty character. Green Rd. Come and join us to www.santmat.ca Organic, shade grown and fair trade. make the Market the best it can be. Information: Dalyce 285- Toll Free Village Square • Quadra Island 3180, Pauline 285-2076, Linda 1-877-566-9849 Organic, Fairtrade & Bird Friendly Coffees www.roasted-coffee.com 285-3952

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www.discoveryislands.ca/news Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 5 A Book Study Pancake Breakfast Quadra Seniors Uncovering the philosophy behind Tired of Cooking? North Island Hi’. Everyone--especially experienced Science of Mind Therapeutic Riding invites you to their citizens-- We Seniors have been busy as This is a 7-week course beginning 1st Annual Pancake Breakfast to be held Bees as usual-- On June 26th, we , 21 of our Tuesday evenings, July 9, 2002. Come join Sat. July 6th, 2002 from 9:00 a.m. to 1: Seniors drove to Gold River, and boarded Jill in a study of the “Edinburgh Lectures on 00 p.m at the Farmer’s Market. Come on the U-Chuck 111, for a wonderful, day trip, to Mental Science” by Thomas Troward. These down, eat lots and support NITRS. Yuquot ( Friendly Cove) Nootka Sound, West writings are known to have had a profound Coast of , which belongs effect on the development of spiritual Run Around Fun to Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations. In metaphysics, in particular that of the New 1992 a gathering was held to commemorate Tuesdays at 10:00 am meet on the fi elds Thought Movement, of which the teaching the meeting of Chief Maquinna, Captain of the community centre for some outdoor known as Science of Mind is Troward’s most Vancouver and Captain Bodega Y Quadra in fun. Let your kids run free! Bring balls, boats, direct legacy. 1792. Representatives from Britain and Spain kites or whatever you have! Bring a picnic. were welcomed by the then hereditary Chief His writing is a combination of intuitive Suited for kids 2-7 years old but all ages Ambrose Maquinna, who offi cially opened oriental mysticism fi ltered into a Western welcome. Shine only! FREE. Starts June 18. Yuquot to international visitors. The Uchuck pedantic writing style. Troward thoroughly Phone Jennifer @285-2429 or check out the 111 is an converted Minesweeper, is a very digested all of the sacred books of the summer rec guide. comfortable ship with 2 decks, the bottom oriental religions and had studied all of the deck has , many nooks, to enjoy a snack. Our bibles of the world, including the Koran, specialty on the day of our trip, was delicious Hindu scriptures and books of Raja Yoga. Exploring Quadra Hikes Curried Chicken Soup, Chili, and a selection Having a copy of the book is not Quadra Islanders and visitors are invited of Sandwiches, with the muffi ns and cookies necessary although recommended. If you to join the Sierra Club on their “Exploring , coffee, Hot Chocolate, etc. and the smiles of are interested, please call Jill for more Quadra” hikes. the two friendly ladies behind the counter, information 285-2804. Join us on Sunday July 14th for a hike to our trip was sure to be a success. Despite the Main Lake & Yeatman Bay. rain which fell upon arrival at Friendly Cove, greeted by the old Fog Horn, we headed to 2002 Summer This is a moderate hike starting from a talk with a very pleasant aboriginal guide the Surge Narrows Road, following old road Marquerita James, Director of Culteral & Programs grades to the beach & camping area at the Heritage Resources, which was held in the Please, pre-register for Summer Programs. northeast corner of Main Lake. From here we Catholic Church , inside striking Totems, Starting July 11 - Baking Bonzana, July can walk the portage trail to Yeatman Bay. including an Eagle,hovered over us , and 12 - Carfty Day, July 15 - Rollerblades & This route to Main Lake is through mature the walls where graced with painted glass Scooters, July 16 - Miniature Golf & Miracle second growth forest with occasional old windows, donated in 1957, by Spain. I Beach, July 17 - Sushi, Sushi, July 18 - Drop- growth Douglas Fir and large Cedar. This felt during our tour, that the ghosts, of in Outdoor Volleyball, July 19 - Knitting for is an all day hike of around 6 hours with Chief Maquinna, Captives John. R. Jewitt, Beginners, July 22, 24, 26 - Sign Language plenty of time to enjoy the many points of ( the knife maker) and Tomlimson ( the for Beginners, July 22-25 - Tennis, July 23 interest along the way. Hikers should meet sailmaker) where with us the whole time, - Drop-in Soccer, July 25 - Homemade Lip at the Heriot Bay Store Parking Lot at 10: on the walk. ( Especially after reading about Balm, July 29 - Homemade Candy, July 30 00 am to carpool. Bring a lunch and water, their experience in Hilary Srewarts book, - - Horseback Riding, August 1 - A Soapy wear good hiking/walking shoes. Dogs are The Adventures and Su fferings. of John. R. Experience, August 6 & 7 - Belly Dancing, discouraged. For more information contact Jewitt. Our next Trip to East Thurlow Island, August 8 - Mountain Biking Madness, August Richard at 285-2922. is on Jult 23rd, There maybe a trip to Mt. 9 - Horseback Riding, August 12 - Comox Mark your calendar for our remaining Washington in August. Picnics planned at Water Slide & Wave Pool. hikes this summer. All times are listed and Halbe Hall, at Black Creek, on July 18th, at For more information on summer the meeting place is at the Heriot Bay Store 12:oo am and on the Rebecca Spit on Sept recreation programs call 285-3243, between parking lot. 5th 10:00 a:m -- See you at the Tourist 8 am - 2 pm, Monday to Friday. Recreation is Sunday, August 4 Small Inlet/ Waiatt Bay Booth during the Summer- Contact people for everyone, so come out and join the fun. Start time: 9-30am. are Ruth 285-3801- Bob Lasby 285-3501-- Bob Brown- 285- 2907-Jean 285- 3740 Janis Meier Summer Recreation Sunday, September 8 Shellalligan Pass Trail Coordinator Start time: 10-00am.

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Phone 285-COPY BOX 336, HERIOT BAY, B.C. VOP 1H0 6 Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 www.discoveryislands.ca/news Alfredo Gormezano adra Hom Performs July 23 Qu e intenan Alfredo Gormezano (right) is multi- Ma ce instrumentalist, singer and dancer of different folkloric styles. Alfredo performs music playing the Doumbek and Frame Drum (known as Tar, Daf, Bendir), the Turkish Saz, the Persian Tar and the Kyrgyz Komuz (string instruments). He also sings in Turkish, Tajik and Kyrgyz, and creates his Carpet Care own “Prayer Song” using infl uences from Professional Carpet & Upholstery Central Asian, Sufi , and Native American Cleaning • Deodorizing • Stain Removal music. • Scotch Guard™ • Truck Mounted & Alfredo’s background includes over 22 Portable Units for Every Situation years of training in the music and dances of the Middle East and Central Asia, including Pressure Washing Residential & Commercial • Algae & Dance Orientale (commonly known as “belly Moss Removal • Repaint Preparation • dance”), and folkloric dances from Iran, the Siding • Driveways • Equipment Cleaning Caucasus, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and North Africa. Garden Tour Thank Quality Workmanship at Alfredo will be appearing with local Affordable Prices. dancer Sarah Boyes and other local You! Call Monty performers on Tuesday, July 23 at 8pm at A big thank you to all who took part in the Community Centre. Tickets are $10 for 285-2140 making the 2002 Quadra Island Quilted no GST no PST adults, $4 for children and will be sold at Garden Tour a successful event. Quadra Crafts and Explore Gallery or at the door for $12 and $6. A billet is still being Special thanks to the gardeners who sought for Alfredo for two (possibly three) opened their gardens for the Tour, generously nights. If you would like to billet, volunteer giving of their time and talent: the Eastlands, or work the concession please call Michelle Phillips, Renda, Rye, Marisi, Lessard/Kragen, 285-2294. Baker/Grigg, Vieux/Thompson, Drahanchuk, Doolittle and Wallace. Thank you to the members the Quadra Drum and Dance Island Quilters Guild who provided over 60 quilts for display in the gardens and Workshops thank you to those Guild members who volunteered to to be sitters for the gardens with Alfredo and quilts. Gormezano Thank you to the Quadra Seniors who Alfredo will be teaching Middle Eastern sold tickets at the Information Booth on and Central Asian rhythms on both the tour days, Muriel Krook and Grace Whitley frame drum and the doumbek. Attention and coordinator, Jim Thomson. will be given to the playing of these And thank you to all the Garden Tour rhythms on other types of drums, as well. volunteers who contributed in so many All levels of experience are welcome, as different ways: Nancy Allwarden, Val Barr, this will be a multi-level class designed to Joan Blackmer Bingham , Julie and Mal give something of interest to all who come. Campbell, Candace Holmes, Eileen Mackay, This workshop will be held on Monday, July Nancy McDonald, Darrell and Marjorie Rye, 22 in the evening. Please call Michelle at 285- Dirk Van Der Minne, Heather Van Der Est, 2294 to register or for more information. Hilary Stewart, Hilda Van Orden, and Carol Alfredo will also be holding a dance Woods. workshop. He has knowledge of a variety of Our appreciation also goes to the Quadra folkloric styles and often teaches refi nement outlets selling tickets for the Tour: Explore of hands/arms/hips in the Dance Orientale Gallery, Village Gifts, April Point Lodge, tradition. Bring your requests. Please Heriot Bay Store and Heriot Bay Inn. call Michelle at 285-2294 a.s.a.p. if you are Lastly, a big thank you to all the garden interested in this workshop to work out a lovers who came to view the inspiring time that suits those interested. Cost for displays. each workshop is on a sliding scale of $30 to $50 depending on what you can afford. Thanks to everyone the 2002 Garden Please keep in mind that travel expenses are Tour has been a great success raising just quite high to bring him here. over $5,600.00 for the Community Centre Addition Project! www.discoveryislands.ca/news Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 7 RCMP Report File # 2002-382 The Quadra Island RCMP is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a stolen rowboat and a stolen kayak which occurred between June 14th and June 18th, 2002. The theft occurred in the Drew Harbour area. The rowboat is described as a 6ft white fiberglass with a wooden rubbing strip around it, stainless steel “u” bolts and a built in fl otation system. The kayak is described as a 10 ft white plastic with a blue rope. The name’s KEOWEE and AQUATERRA are written on the kayak. Any person who has any information is Marlena's Salon asked to call the Quadra Island RCMP @ 285- 3631 or Crimestoppers @ 287-TIPS (8477).

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8 Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 www.discoveryislands.ca/news Quadra Quilters pattern, but the bird is in fl ight with its A big thank you to all the Quilt Guild beak into some fl owers. It is immediately UA RA members who gave so much help in surrounded by pink fabric with a variety of D preparing the quilts for the garden tour, other colours around that. The bird itself is FOODS working in the gardens and selling raffl e in various greens, with a deep pink throat. tickets. The following is a poem and message Each square is approximately 9.5”x9.5” to be read carefully (with apologies to Our raffle quilts were won by the SPECIALS THIS WEEK from Fri, July 5 to Thurs, July 11 Edward Lear) following while quantities last The Owl and the Hummingbird First prize “Transportation Quilt”-Wes Burgess, Campbell River, BC PRODUCE The Owl and the Humming-bird went to the quilt-show Second Prize- - “Quillow”-Nancy Wersching, California in a beautiful Island garden. Campbell River, BC 98¢lb They’d gone as two squares, Sweet Nectarines with the Quiltmaker’s wares, Mexican wrapped in a fi ne plastic tote. Organic Mangos Quadra Writers Win! 98¢ea. The quilts, don’t you know, looked at the squares just below, Carrie Bridges won fi rst prize, $100, for B.C. Fresh Green or Red and sang with the summer breeze, prose fi ction, for her story “The Rose” Leaf Lettuce 58¢ “Oh lovely pair, (look for it in a future edition of the ea. Discovery Islander). oh pair, our love, GROCERY What a beautiful pair you are, Steve Moore received an honourable Reg. Dark & Light you are, you are. mention for his poem “Inner Revolution” Hot price .98 What a beautiful pair you are!” There is Sunlight Maxwell House $1 hidden in your Heart 300g Hummer said to the Owl Waves of laughter Coffee “You elegant fowl, buried in your breast how charmingly neatly you’re sewn. Real Foods - Natural & Organic Oh let us get married, for too long have we Take the pick-axe Corn Thing .99 tarried. of selfl essness $1 ea. But how can we live on our own? Take the hammer On our own? Our own? of fearlessness Hot price How can we live on our own?” & break down the pain/memory/concrete wall, Kellogs 700g One stone at a time .28 Rice Krispies $3 ea. Alas, before Owl could reply they were both taken, on the sly, After the hard work, blood, sweat & tears to the land where Taken-things go. take a rest All flavours Watch the breath .69 Later that night, Nanna woke with a fright, Mexi Snax $2 ea. for there at the end of her bed Notice the pain dancing was a turkey, most willing, to sell for a shilling, The Light coming in Chips 397g the squares it had taken that day, & laughter shaking the bones DELI those squares it had taken that day. Smoked Slavery is just another word for playing it safe 99¢ Building walls against pain Nanna wouldn’t pay Sandwich Ham 100g and decided, you know, Keeping Light out Sliced or Vacuum Packed that new squares she would sew. & the laughter in Which is why on the Island New Zealand - white or regular she’s still sewing, by hand, Revolutionaries take the risk, Cheddar Cheese .39 new squares by the light of the moon, The Berlin Wall fell $1100g by the light of the moon, the moon, with cops & soldiers & rifl es MEAT still sewing square by the light of the moon. all around Family Pack - Rib or Tenderloin End Freedom is just another word for courage in the face of pain .29 The quilt blocks, which are the subject Liberation is just another word Pork Chops $2 lb of the poem, really are missing. If anyone for breaking out of mind prison fi nds them, or knows their whereabouts, Family Pack - boneless , skinless they could be returned to The Colour Wheel Revolution is just another word .99 in Quathiaski Cove, with no questions Chicken Breast for a hole in the wall $4 lb asked. The owl is set in a midnight blue where The Light comes in fabric surrounded by a plain red “barn & the laughter goes out! Open Every Day 9 am - 9 pm door”. Outside that is a cream fabric with circular fl owers printed on it and there are 658 Harper Rd. • 285-3391 triangles in the corners. The horned owl is sitting on a branch. The hummingbird is harder to describe because it is a random www.discoveryislands.ca/news Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 9 TUTORING AND Harlequin Winter Range Threatened EDITING SERVICE The Wilby Shoals off the resident and seasonal The effect an offshore wind Essay/Exam Help south end of Cape Mudge is one populations of birds. Many turbine farm would have on of the most signifi cant biological, require the abundant resources bird populations is a chilling Document Editing recreational, archaeological here. Others pass through the prospect to consider. This and small boat corridors in the area, or nest in the old growth habitat cannot be replaced, Tanya Storr, BA English Georgia Strait. forests which line the cape. and the beautiful Harlequins [email protected] The use of this extreme high This is a large species list, which and other species cannot be *reasonable rates* value zone for a private, for includes large populations relocated to other areas, as the profi t, industrial wind turbine of sea ducks, gulls, birds of applicant’s consultants will no CALL 285-3937 farm is a classic case of the right prey, herons, shorebirds, and doubt suggest. project in the wrong location. songbirds. Some are rare or As the area borders a lightly threatened species. Wilby Shoals is the shallow populated northern wilderness table top at the south end The Harlequin Duck, an and is washed continuously of Quadra Island where the extremely beautiful and precious with tidal currents, the constant LOOKING nutrient and oxygen rich sea duck, is one of the species culling of resident and migrating waters of threatened by this project. birds by collisions with the for an affordable enter Georgia Straight. It’s land Harlequin Ducks, designated massive and night lit towers way to advertise? boundary is the shoreline of in Canada as a Species of Special and their whirling blades Cape Mudge. The south seaward Concern, use Wilby Shoals as a would probably go largely end is marked out by the “Black signifi cant Winter Range, and a unrecorded. This ad - only $17 Can” and the Red Bell Bouy off seasonal staging area. Indeed, Also unique to this site, many call 285-2234 the lighthouse. the winter populations of extra hundreds of marine birds Harlequin Ducks on Wilby Shoals (ie. many species of sea ducks for more info Wilby Shoals has always been of interest to is one of the highest (per km) in and gulls) come home to Wilby fi shermen, with more than 350 northern Georgia Straight, and Shoals at nightfall to “roost for sport fi shing boats counted on likely in the province. the night” after spending the some Sunday afternoons. Before Scoters and other sea day foraging in other marine that, it was used by salmon ducks arrive in huge numbers locations, (such as the swift hand trollers, who built shacks in the fall, and huge rafts of fl owing tidal river of Discovery below the Cape Mudge cliffs. mixed species begin to form Passage, or the quieter waters of And before that, it was used by in various parts of the shoals. Willow Point or Shelter Point). First Nations who left evidence While many hundreds remain Surf Scoters return of canoe runways, butchering throughout the winter, others continuously in fl ocks for the stones and petroglyphs along disburse throughout the region last few hours of the day, and the full run of the cape. to populate other foreshore join the huge rafts already in Herring, needlefi sh and other regions such as Shelter Point. place at Francisco Point and species have spawned here. Like the disappearing other areas of the shoals. They Killer Whales pass through wild salmon, these biological also ride out the storms on the the shoals, along with seasonal wonders have been using this shoals, and sometimes fly to populations of seals, sea lions spot and these migration routes regain positions lost by drifting and otters. for possibly 10,000 years. Wilby in the wind, tide and waves. You Shoals is the narrow opening in can image the carnage in a 50 As a recreational asset, it is knot southeaster. probably worth hundreds of the bottom of the northern millions. As a biological asset, Georgia Strait funnel. It is the Is this the future you want for it is priceless. beginning of the inside passage Quadra Island? to Alaska, and everything Sincerely, One of the greatest assets of marine goes through or past Wilby Shoals is the signifi cant the shoals. The Friends of Cape Mudge

10 Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 www.discoveryislands.ca/news www.discoveryislands.ca/news Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 11 Concern About Decreased Medical Dear Islanders As most of you know already Dr. Francis Services On Quadra is closing his practice in mid-August. Unfortunately at this time there is no As many people will already be aware, on-call stipend for local GP’s and/or lobbying doctor to replace him. Quadra Island is about to see a drastic for a subsidized doctor’s salary, either of I regret that I am unable to accept any change in the local availability of medical which would improve the attractiveness of new patients as my own practice is full care to residents. Dr. Jim Francis is leaving Quadra as a place to practice. Approaches but there are doctors at both Quinsam and Quadra in August, and Dr. Angela Burns is are also being made to Campbell River Alder Clinics who are taking new patients. I planning an extended leave. At the moment, medical clinics to measure interest in also realize there are many rumours in the it appears that there are no replacements expanding their clinic services to a location community regarding my own departure. for either doctor. The ability to attract or locations on Quadra. Other options or I would like to take this opportunity to doctors to the Island has been severely approaches may become evident. clarify a number of concerns. reduced with the elimination of the on-call We will need as many people with time, Firstly, my family and I have been stipend for local GP’s. Apparently, we are strong voices, organizational abilities and planning extended travels for some time considered to be close enough to Campbell writing skills to help in this effort to maintain and it is true that we will be leaving Quadra River Hospital that having local doctors the availability to Quadra Islanders of a full- Island for an indefi nite period of time. on call is unwarranted….If you don’t think time medical practitioner. An informational I have been advertising since February for that this situation will greatly affect you or meeting will be planned, hopefully for late a doctor to replace me but thus far have not people you know, consider the following: July, to organize support and lobbying had any inquiries. Although people often think Having no local doctors at all will defi nitely activities. By then we should know more that Quadra Island represents an idyllic place increase ferry traffi c, line-ups, and overloads. facts and possibilities. Please watch for to practice, the truth is that most doctors do It will seriously affect the ability or desire announcements about this meeting. To not relish a solo practice, or the amount of of many residents to live here, especially get involved, please call one of the people time on-call, in a small community. families with small children and seniors listed below: Discovery Island Health Society has with limited abilities or transportation; Betty Doak, Quadra Island Ambulance voiced its concern about recruiting a some people may have to move off the island 285-3590 [email protected] due to concern about the health effects of doctor to Quadra. Additional government decreased access to medical attention. Murray Johnson, Fire Chief funding may be necessary to attract a new Lack of local doctors may very well be 285-2281 [email protected] doctor or doctors. This process will need refl ected in loss of laboratory services and Danielle Girard, Discovery Islands Health a strong group of dedicated people to be the viability of the local pharmacy. This is a Society 285-3328 effective. Anyone interested in joining this huge step backwards in the progress of the collaborative effort can contact Betty Doak Quadra Island Community in becoming less at 285-3590 or Danielle Girard at 285-3328. dependant upon travel to Campbell River to We encourage you to get involved in this meet our everyday needs! To Dog Owners , important task. Having no doctors on call, even if we Apparently dog owners in the Quadra In the unlikely event that no replacement have one or two working offi ce hours, will Loop area believe that non-dog owners are can be found for my practice I will give my defi nitely increase the number of calls to missing something in life so they “program” patients at least 2 months notice before the Ambulance Service; many of these their pets to venture into our yard leaving closing the clinic. This notice will be in the also become First Responder calls for the us deposits of all shapes and sizes so we can form of another letter to the Islander and a Fire Dept. Every time our only ambulance step in them, or even better, smell them as notice will be posted in my offi ce. leaves the island with a patient, the rest of we sit on our deck. I will be taking my usual summer holidays you are that much further from emergency Therefore, unless this invasion of privacy during July and August, and Dr. Alice Suiker medical help… Night call-outs for the ferry stops, dogs will be trapped with SPCA traps will be working for me in my absence. will increase, no doubt eventually paid for and sent to several SPCA pick-up points in Please refrain from calling Linda at the by you. the province (Atlin, Bella Coola, Fort St. clinic, as she has been fl ooded with calls. A group of concerned people have begun John and Cranbrook) for possible collection. As soon as a replacement has been found to explore various short-term and long-term Thank you for being responsibile for your I will be notifying you. options to address the impending lack of own dog’s crap. I appreciate your understanding and medical service on Quadra. 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12 Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 www.discoveryislands.ca/news Be Wary Of The Name

www.discoveryislands.ca/news Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 13 Dear Islander readers; Dear Editor; • CNC Router There was a mistake made in the My name is Rosie Johnson and I have report of the “Town Hall Meeting” just graduated from Grade 6 at Quadra • Cabinets published in the last issue. As the Elementary School. At the end-of-year Director for Area J, I explained the awards ceremony last week, I was presented • Millwork difficulty that we had getting anyone to with the Legion Award for academic • Plastics send in their name to the administrator achievement from the Quadra Branch of in Campbell River to be considered the Royal Canadian Legion. I would like to • Carved Signs for the Ferry advisory Committee. No take this opportunity to thank the Legion names were sent in during the month people very much for this honour, for the Richard Pielou ph/fax 285-2065 of advertising that took place. I then generous cash prize, and for supporting explained that I called a meeting Quadra School this way for many years. I at the Community Centre to elect a will put the $250 scholarship to good use! committee of four people plus myself Respectfully, Rosie Johnson as the Director for Area J. Only four people showed up and I didn’t due to a delayed flight from Vancouver and a missed ferry. Three of those people said they would allow their names to stand. Dear Editor So I took the issue to the Ratepayers The signal crayfi sh is a recent introduction Your Complete meeting hoping to get a fourth person to the Village Bay Lake chain. Great !! More Home Building Specialists: on the committee. I asked numerous feed more bait and something else to fi sh from concrete to cabinets times for nominations after explaining for you might say, but there are always the time commitment and I could not complications with introductions especially ¥ Project Management get anyone to volunteer. After a long on an island. In the U.K. when this species ¥ Commercial & Residential Buildings pause, Bob Brown volunteered and was ¥ Renovations was introduced the crayfi sh plague wiped elected by acclamation. there were no out local populations of the white-clawed ¥ Custom Homes & Additions other nominations and there was no ¥ Qualified Journeyman Carpenters crayfish . It is currently against the law ballot since only one person was willing to return a signal crayfi sh to the water if Certified Installers to stand in addition to the other three caught in Britain. Who knows if the lakes High Performance and myself. has a crustacean that will be affected by this Wall Systems The article for some reason reports introduction? Building a better Quadra Island that Bob Brown and Bill O’Conner were I know I’m defi nitely affected by another elected that night. This is incorrect. recent arrival; the european slug Arion Free Estimates The names that were put forward to the ater. Phone & Fax Regional District were: Terry Hooper, Bob Brown, Noel Lax, Michael Stahnke This creature has been creeping steadily and your Director, Jim Abram. northward and now has conquered the bulk 285-3583 of the island. There is a place near me where This is your Ferry Advisory I can shudder at the sight of hundreds of Committee for the Quadra Island slugs, consuming several times their own portion of the Quadra/Cortes/Campbell weight nightly. It seems to be approaching River Ferry Advisory Committee. plague proportions. Thank you to all who allowed their The recent extirpations at the lakes name to stand. include tall white bog orchid, wild ginger, Sincerely and Western Painted Turtle . If you have a Jim Abram noteworthy arrival or departure on Quadra contact Steve Mooney [email protected] Director, Area J, CSRD Steve Mooney

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He returned Tone of the most disturbing elements (July 2002), and in it he salutes the prescient to the USA to die a broken and forgotten man has been the erosion (or suspension) of certain genius of a 18th century social commentator by after 15 years in Europe, and is buried in New civil liberties in the United States and other the name of Thomas Paine. I thought I had never Rochelle, New York. countries as a consequence. Unfortunately, our heard of Mr. Paine, and in reading the various Paine dreamed of a perfect democracy, proximity and common interests has resulted quotations attributed to him I remained ignorant something not yet achieved by any nation on in many of these democratic setbacks spilling until I reached the following snippet – “These earth. For the majority of my life I have felt that over the border, and will likely impact you in one are the times that try men’s souls…”, written we in Canada have achieved the closest possible form or another sometime soon. For example; during the American Revolution of 1776, at example of a perfect democracy, probably the my senior staff and I have for many years which point my memory clicked in. In reading main reason I am so proud to call myself a provided a valuable service to the community further it became crystal clear that Paine was a Canadian. We’re not perfect by any means, but by “guaranteeing” passport applications for man of incredible empathy, whose respect for I can’t think of a better example. Therefore, it any client that we have known personally for fellow man was almost considered heretical peeves me somewhat to see our government’s two years or more. As the list of sanctioned at the time, so deep were his feelings. In fact, emulation of the actions of another country, guarantors is not a wide fi eld of occupations, Thomas Jefferson borrowed heavily from almost completely without public consultation. we perform this service on a very frequent basis. Paine’s inspiration in drafting the Declaration In fact, it is a matter of some concern. As the But no more. of Independence, using his broad ambitions as War on Terrorism enters it’s 11th month, there As a result of a direct request by Mr. Tom a source of a framework. How’s this for a vision is no end in sight. But you can be assured there Ridge, Homeland Security Director of the U.S.A. of a properly functioning government - “When are many more tools remaining in the political to the Canadian government, Canadian bankers it shall be said in any country in the world, my toolbox that remain unused, but will be put are no longer fi t to act as guarantors. To those poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress into play the longer this situation stretches on. of you who need to travel frequently I need not is to be found among them; my jails are empty Not a day goes by that there are not “credible” mention the hassles one now encounters when of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are threats, and no matter the potential source trying to fl y by air, again a direct result of our not in want, the taxes are not oppressive…when steps will be quickly taken to legislate an end to respect of US requests. Returning to banking, these things can be said, then may that country it, domestically and internationally. Living next we have now implemented new policy regarding boast its constitution and its government.” These door to the biggest target of the day means that money laundering and terrorist financing words from a pamphlet entitled (appropriately) we must co-operate to the best of our ability - in activity, a process legislated by Ottawa (after Common Sense. Very powerful words written fact it is an obligation. But in co-operating it is due consultation with Washington) containing by a man who had admittedly failed in every crucial that we not blindly adopt the fl avour very serious penalties for failure, which has cost prior venture in which he engaged in his British of the month in matters that impact on social the industry millions upon millions of dollars to homeland, immigrating to America with pennies justice and the charter guaranteed freedoms we implement. The legislation contains, in my view, to his name, and possessing only the most basic enjoy in Canada. Already in the United States some serious negative implications for consumer of an education. As Lapham relates, he made a there is a growing dismay at the speed with privacy, or erosion of civil liberties, if you will. big impression in colonial America, so much so which they are seeing the erosion of some basic that none other than Benjamin Franklin referred I agree that steps must be taken, serious civil liberties – best not to let it happen here in to him as “my political adopted son.” He went the fi rst place. Thomas Paine’s writings came at steps, to eliminate or at least diminish the threat on to write three pamphlets, all of a common of global terrorism. But should one worry that a time of horrendous warring in the USA, which theme, being the good of the common man. may have made him yearn for a just society that the tampering with several hundred years worth Unfortunately he was driven from the United of sweat and blood spent fashioning the world’s much more. I only hope that the latest “War States by the ensuing ascension to power of on……” does not make us yearn for the one we most advanced democracies should be taken the very men whom he despised, the moneyed lightly? Time will tell. once had, imperfect as it is.

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Part III - Healthy Communities, theme was a play from India about forests as if they were your brothers and sisters. being destroyed and turned into polluted Healthy Children. 2. In giving you life I have given you cities. A group of kids from Beijing are using hildren depend on adults to look after responsibility, freedom and limited resources. paintings and songs to promote a ‘green’ them. They have to live in unhealthy C Olympics. Rose-Iris Eugene was sponsored by 3. Steal not from the future; honour your children and dangerous situations even though they a Canadian family to come to the conference. by giving them chances and longevity. didnât cause those situations. Children She fl ew from Haiti to Victoria alone. Rose is 4. Implant in your children a love of nature. are also at greater risk of absorbing toxic tall and no-nonsense. She works as a volunteer substances in the air, water or food because 5. Remember that humanity cannot recreate at a communal asylum for women and children they breathe faster, and eat and drink more in life that has been destroyed. who are homeless, sick, abandoned or elderly. proportion to their body weight than adults, She does everything from changing diapers and 6. Set up community groups to prevent making them more vulnerable to a range of brushing hair to planting gardens and trees. impending catastrophes. environmental health hazards. Children also 7. Throw out all arms which cause spend more time in the outdoors than adults A family from Pender Island could not irreversible destruction to life. and spend more time smelling, touching and stay in the university residence because the tasting. An adult may walk across a chemical brother and mom had severe environmental 8. Be self disciplined in small details of your life. illnesses and couldn’t stay in places chemical sprayed lawn, a child will play on it. 9. Set aside time in your weekly day of rest to cleaning products were used. They stayed Today, almost one third of the global be with the world rather than use the world. in their bus. They talked about being like burden of disease can be attributed to the canaries in the coal mines. They know 10. Remember that you are not the owner of environmental risk factors. And over 40% of when there are toxic chemicals being used the land, merely its guardian. this burden falls on children under fi ve years because they get very sick. They had lots of (Reference: United Nations Environment old. It doesn’t seem fair that adults are not ideas about healthy and safe alternatives to Program - Teen Planet Magazine) doing more to protect children. We are going chemical products. to be in charge of the future, so adults need Joaquin of Manila, Philippines attends to be more responsible and provide us with a A GREAT BIG thank you to Mitlenatch Field Lourdes School of Mandaluyong City. Her healthier future. Cleaning up the world seems Naturalists and the Society of B.C. Naturalists school follows the ten commandments of like a huge, impossible job, but cleaning up for helping me get to the conference!!! ecology. our community sounds possible. If everyone Thanks also to Quadra Recreation Society cleaned up their community, cleaning up the 1. I am the Lord who has created heaven and for recommending me to the conference world wouldn’t seem so impossible. earth. You are my partner in creation. Take selection committee. The fi rst children’s presentation on this care of the air, water, earth plants and animals Rowan Kehn

16 Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 www.discoveryislands.ca/news IslandIsland ReportReport Wind Farm Proposal Generates Concerns by Tanya Storr

f a proposal by Sea Breeze Energy Inc. as it eliminates the need for “redundant The company’s construction plan entails goes ahead, Wilby Shoals off the south transmission facilities.” a permitting period of one year, followed by Iend of Quadra Island will be the site of The $150 million project would initially a two year “pilot stage” program consisting a wind farm designed to generate enough involve harnessing energy generated from of the installation of approximately 50 electricity for 200,000 homes. 50 wind converters, with the possibility machines, combined with beta-site wildlife A group of south end residents are of installing additional “windmills” in research. Depending on the results of the voicing opposition to the proposed offshore subsequent years. wildlife research, more towers would be development, citing concerns about its installed over the following eight year Chaplin said actual dimensions of the period. potential effects on the environment, tourism, wind converters are “product specific”, marine and air navigation, aesthetics of the but he confirmed that the top of each The wind converter towers would be area, and property values. wind converter’s blades would reach an installed using jack barges. Each tower As the fi rst step in the process of siting approximate total height of 280 feet above would be inserted into a steel socket buried a wind farm on Wilby Shoals, Sea Breeze the water, with the length of the blades in the ocean fl oor. The “footprint”, or base of Energy Inc., a newly formed Vancouver-based stretching 180 feet in diametre. The blades each tower, would be 12 feet in diameter. “green energy” company, has submitted an would centre on a hub located on a tower Chaplin affi rmed that the Quadra Island application for an 1100-hectare Crown land approximately 190 feet above the water. proposal is in the “very opening stages”. As (foreshore) lease to Land and Water BC. Spacing of 650 feet between machines part of the lease application, the proposal The proposed lease area stretches from is considered adequate by present must go through BC’s environmental Cape Mudge out to the red can buoy, over international industry experience. assessment process. That process involves to the green can (also known as the black According to Sea Breeze’s lease liaising with agencies including the Regional can) buoy, and back to Francisco Point. application, the transmission wires District; First Nations; Department of “This was determined to be the primary transporting electricity from the wind Fisheries and Oceans; Canadian Coast site in the local area, due to favourable converters will require connection with Guard; BC Ministry of Water, Land, and Air water depth and wind speeds. We need a shore based sub-station. Chaplin said it Protection; and Transport Canada. to situate the wind converters out in the has not yet been determined whether this Officials from Sea Breeze met with open water where offshore breezes are sub-station would be located on Quadra or representatives of the Cape Mudge Band on most advantageous,” said Sea Breeze on the Campbell River shoreline. He added June 28 to discuss the wind farm proposal. communications consultant Carl Chaplin in that the sub-station would require an area Chaplin said the meeting was positive and a telephone interview from the company’s the size of a city house lot. the two parties agreed to maintain an open Vancouver offi ce. Chaplin said Sea Breeze intends to use dialogue. Cape Mudge Band Manager Brian According to Sea Breeze’s lease “state of the art, very slow moving” wind Kelly was unavailable for comment as the application, the site’s close proximity to converters, each rotating at 15 rpm and Discovery Islander was going to press. Campbell River is another important factor, producing a noise level of approximately Chaplin noted that Sea Breeze will hold 30 decibels. HUMMINGBIRD OFFICE & ART SUPPLY All Your Office School & Art Supply Needs

Mon-Fri 9 to 5 Colour & B/W Sat 10-4 Photocopying Tel: 285-3334 Faxing Fax: 285-3331 www.discoveryislands.ca/news Discovery Islander #269 July 5th, 2002 17 public information sessions on Quadra and Hydro for use in the grid. If that option isn’t in Campbell River later in the summer, but available, the company will seek alternate Top 10 Reasons to no defi nite dates have been set. buyers for its electricity. A number of residents on Quadra’s “We have not entered into formal south end are raising concerns about the negotiations but our preference is to sell advertise in the magnitude of the proposed development power to BC Hydro here in Canada. Fifty and its potential effects. Gordon and Martha turbines would generate enough electricity James have joined with other residents to to power approximately 200,000 homes. Discovery form a committee called ‘Friends of Cape Once the power goes into the grid it Mudge’, dedicated to preserving Cape becomes business and fi nancing as to who Mudge and Wilby Shoals area from large is buying and selling, but there is no doubt scale commercial development. the wind farm would increase the power Islander supply to Vancouver Island.” “We are totally supportive of the Community News and events from Quadra, Cortes and the Outer Islands concept of wind-powered electricity and Martha James questioned the necessity any alternative to fossil fuels. Our problem of generating more power for Vancouver with this proposal is that the siting is totally Island. “I don’t understand the need for more unsuitable for a huge industrial project like power when BC exports power to Alberta, this,” said Gordon James. Washington, Oregon, and California,” she “Wilby Shoals is an environmentally stated. sensitive area with a large wintering Regional district director Jim Abram population of Harlequin ducks and scoters,” described the wind farm proposal as a Gordon continued. “There are at least two “totally hairbrained scheme involving •reaches all islanders heron nests and several eagle nests on the developers who are ignorant of local south end. The rich kelp bank on the outer conditions working to make a quick buck.” edge of the shoals is a herring spawning He said the proposal does not comply • affordable ground.” with foreshore zoning or Quadra’s Offi cial He went on to say that he fi nds it hard Community Plan policies on sensitive • frequent ad discounts to imagine people wanting to sport fi sh, ecosystems, lands subject to erosion, etc. kayak, or canoe in the shadow of the 38- If Land and Water BC decides to grant storey-high wind converters. The possible a lease to Sea Breeze for the wind farm, • effective effect on property values also has south end Abram affi rmed that the company would residents concerned. have to apply for rezoning from the regional “This is really frightening to all the people district. • increase your sales who will have their view impacted by these Abram added that he has serious towers,” said Gordon. concerns about the wind farm’s potential • free professional design Chaplin acknowledged that some people to affect marine and air navigation. may fi nd the wind converters unpleasant “There is signifi cant boat, airplane, and to look at, but said that Sea Breeze has helicopter traffi c in that area. On foggy days • includes web ad no evidence that the wind farm will lower with low cloud cover, small aircraft follow property values. the shoreline along the south end of the • supports local press “The wind farm may even increase island,” Abram noted. property values as people living in the He went on to say that the proposal area see there is lots of power available confl icts with the area’s tourism interests, • two week life span and green power being generated. I have and the wind farm’s proposed site is “one sympathy for people concerned about of the hottest sport fi shing areas on the BC • makes great fire starter viewing the wind farm, but if we don’t do it coast.” this way someone else will generate power Abram also raised concerns about the for Vancouver Island by building fossil fuel audible and visual impact on residential burning plants,” he said. properties at the south end of the island. We can help with ad Chaplin stated that Sea Breeze is “under Chaplin said Sea Breeze Inc. is interested the clear understanding from BC Hydro in public feedback regarding the wind farm design and then deliver that Vancouver Island needs more power proposal. For more info or to have your or there will be brownouts.” He added that name included on the Sea Breeze mailing your message directly to in providing an alternative power supply list, write: Box 393, Station A, Bentall Centre, to Vancouver Island, the company is most Vancouver BC, V6C 2N2. Tel: (604) 717-6405, everyone in the interested in doing so with no emissions. fax: (604) 669-6331, e-mail: info@SeaBreeze Discovery Islands Sea Breeze Energy has also applied Energy.com. for wind farm sites off Gabriola Island, To voice your opinion on the proposal, call today Ucluelet, James Island, Saanich, and three contact: Environmental Assessment Offi ce, Lower Mainland locations: Roberts Bank, Box 9426, Station Provincial Government, Boundary Bay, and Sturgeon Bay. 2nd Floor, 836 Yates St., Victoria BC, V8W Chaplin said the company hopes to sell 9V1. 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