LLOCALLYOCALLY OOWNEDWNED & OOPERATEDPERATED HARBOUR TThehe iindependentndependent vvoiceoice ooff PPenderender HHarbourarbour & EEgmontgmont JJuneune 22015015 ssinceince 11990.990. SSPIELPIEL IIssuessue 229494 40 Seasons PENDER HARBOUR COMMUNITY HALL presents music and entertainment AAllll TTidesides for all ages: Sunday, June 7, 2 to 6 pm cconsultingonsulting & ddesignesign POTLUCK, POPCORN AND POP Call Adam Thomsen – 604.885.8465 Bring a dish to share [email protected] plus $2 donation. PRIVATE MOORAGE PERMITTING SERVICES Children under 10 must It seems imminent that Pender Harbour private, com- have adult supervision mercial, and group moorage permit applications will be accepted in the near future. Don’t get caught in the Contact Tess bottleneck of dozens of applications going in at the @ same time. Have your application package together 604.883.0024 to sign up and ready for submission the day it opens! ONCE APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED · Waterfront owners will be able to build or rebuild the LIVE MUSIC moorage system of their dreams. · People with expired foreshore licences will be able to apply for renewals. · Property owners will be able to increase the value of OPEN their property with a moorage tenure in their name. · Illegal moorage system owners will be able to become compliant and not have to worry about unwanted visits from authorities. MIC Call for a free and confi dential consultation. We stand apart from the rest by selling the very best! RRob:ob: 4545 yyearsears eexperiencexperience Finding the right cut can be tricky. AskAsk ourour meatmeat departmentdepartment — they’llthey’ll know.know. BBob:ob: 3388 yearsyears eexperiencexperience 8883-910083-9100 OOPENPEN DDAILYAILY • 88:30:30 aamm - 7 ppmm Like us on Facebook OOpenpen uuntilntil 8 ppmm FFridaysridays & SSaturdays.aturdays. @ Marketplace IGA Madeira Park DDenton:enton: 8 yyearsears eexperiencexperience Page 2 Harbour Spiel editorial HARBOUR Bringing Seasons out of the closet SPIEL By Brian Lee tained a profound mystery. I fi xed on the album cover for I have a confes- clues and for 40 years I held that im- sion to make — I like age. The Independent Voice of Pender Seasons in the Sun. But in researching Jacks for the It’s a lonely thing Harbour & Egmont since 1990. story on page 14, nothing I found to say publicly be- matched what I had imprinted. The Harbour Spiel is 100 per cent locally owned cause it only sold 13 and operated and published monthly by Paq This was Pender Harbour before Press © 2015. Any unauthorized reprint or use million copies and is cable, so I guessed my sister probably of this material is prohibited. the biggest selling single by a Cana- didn’t get the third copy off the press. dian. EDITOR Sure enough, after some lengthy Ever. Brian Lee internet sleuthing, I found it. But it’s a song people hide their The album was a 1976 K-Tel CIRCULATION (2,500) fondness of for fear of ridicule. compilation called Terry Jacks and The Harbour Spiel is mailed to all addresses According to the liner notes in The Poppy Family: between Egmont and Middlepoint (1,410) and Terry Jacks’ recently released retro- available by paid subscription and for free at a spective CD, people either loved or variety of locations on the Sunshine Coast: hated the song since its 1973 release. • Coast Copy • IGA Wilson Creek • Copper Sky Gallery & Cafe • Oak Tree Market “One DJ in New York (who • Earth Fair Store • Painted Boat Resort • Emelle’s Madeira Bistro • Pearl’s Bakery didn’t like the record and was tired of • Garden Bay Pub • Pier 17 • Gibsons Building Supplies • Royal LePage Sussex Realty getting so many requests for it) de- • Halfmoon Bay General Store • Roberts Creek General Store cided to have a contest. • IGA Madeira Park • Sechelt Public Library “If more people hated the record CONTRIBUTORS than liked it, he would throw it off the This month we thank: Frank Mauro, Shane Empire State Building. McCune, Sandra McLean and Jan Watson. “If more people liked it, he I distinctly recall puzzling over Cover: Kerry Waghorn painting from Terry Jacks would personally cover his car with Y’ Don’t Fight the Sea record cover. the expressions of the pretty lady and records and drive around New York the guy with cotton candy hair who ADVERTISING for a week. was missing so many shirt buttons. Please reserve by the 15th of the month prior to “Later, this DJ was credited for With Seasons scratching away publication. Advertisers make publication of the having the fi rst vinyl rooftop.” on our old turntable, I pondered what Harbour Spiel possible — please say thank you, Around here, Jacks is better and support our community, by supporting them. drama so concerned them. known for trying to pass off his Fruit Despite the sad musical clues SUBSCRIPTIONS of the Looms for proper swim attire at and theories gleaned from Gunsmoke The Harbour Spiel can be delivered monthly by the Pender pool. mail for $60 per year (includes GST). plots, I never solved the riddle. But I was lucky enough to have a Album covers must have been CONTACT sister six years older than me. my thing at the time because the other Not only did that mean girls old Paq Press record I remember fi xating on was 4130 Francis Peninsula Rd. -- By appointment only. enough to have boobs occasionally Kiss’s Love Gun: Madeira Park, BC dropped by the house, it meant my V0N 2H1 fi rst experience with music was angsty [email protected] 1970s teen girl pop. www.harbourspiel.com And the fi rst song that survived (604) 883-0770 my developing memory was Seasons. Up until that point, music had been the Carol Burnett Show theme or JULY ISSUE MAILS hits from my grandpa’s accordion. JULY 2 Seasons was different. To my infant mind, the song con- I didn’tdid solve l that h one either. i h June 2015 Page 3 It ain’t real spiel picks if it’s not in the Spiel. RAINCOAST CHRONICLES 23 BOOK LAUNCH: June 3, 4 p.m. Join publisher Howard White and guest editor Peter A. Robson as they celebrate 40 years with the release of their new book, Raincoast Chronicles DDIDID YYOUOU KNOW?KNOW? 23: Harbour Publishing 40th Anniversary Edition (Harbour Publishing). In RC “Buyer beware” generally 23, guest editor Peter Robson brings together West Coast history and folklore, applies to real estate transactions poetry, recipes and over 100 photos from Harbour Publishing’s catalogue in but sellers must disclose latent defects (not discoverable through honour of Harbour’s 40th anniversary. The presentation and book signing will ordinary due diligence) to take place at the P. H. School of Music on Wednesday, June 3 at 4 p.m. prospective purchasers. 12TH ANNUAL PENDER HARBOUR BLUES FEST: June 5, 6 & 7 It’s three days of blues that keeps getting better every year. This year (604) 883-2029 marks a dozen years for Blues Fest and promises to be the best ever with the likes of The Boom Booms, Jim Byrnes, Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, Lloyd Jones, Paul Pigat, Murrray Porter and Gary Comeau. COMFORT EGMONT DAY: June 7 The biggest day of the year in the Sunshine Coast’s northernmost town, FOOD Egmont Day is a very social event featuring a fi shing derby, parade, games, CATERING canoe races, BBQ, scavenger hunt, cake walk, dinner, dance and more. Bring your friends, your family and your cash because Egmont Day is the Coast’s best kept secret and they don’t take Visa. Events A CELEBRATION FOR SENIORS: June 15 large or small. A great day of food, fun and frivolity to celebrate your senior years. Starts at 10:30 a.m. at the P. H. Community Hall. Doug Davis 604.740.2077 toon WWee ddelivereliver GGRAVELRAVEL · SSANDAND · TTOPSOILOPSOIL 12543 Warnock Rd. Madeira Park BC, V0N 2H1 Phone: 604.883.9771 Cell: 604.741.2665 Page 4 Harbour Spiel news Town hall meeting focuses community frustration over DMP Over 300 people packed into my provincial or federal government A petition opposing the DMP the Pender Harbour Community Hall provides, I can help unelect them,” “due to the lack of meaningful on May 2 for a town hall meeting to said David Pritchard, former owner of consultation with the residents and gather input on the controversial dock Fisherman’s Resort in Garden Bay. property owners of Pender Harbour” management plan for Pender Harbour. “I don’t vote for the Sechelt Band has been circulated widely since the The meeting was hosted by the and they are totally unaccountable to town hall meeting on May 2. P. H. Advisory Council and the P. H. us. I understand the background of this The petition had to be sub- and District Chamber of Commerce but the overriding issue for me is really mitted by May 20 at which time who have combined efforts to form the constitutionality of this and I hope it contained approximately 2,000 a “dock management plan working that it will be challenged very seriously signatures. group.” if we go much further.” The DMP working group hosts The working group aims to help Some speakers asked how or to a website with information about the inform residents about the DMP while whom they could donate money to aid DMP as well as a list of questions organizing a unifi ed response to the in the opposition to the plan. compiled from a number of meet- province, including circulating a peti- Len Lee of the chamber of com- ings on the subject at www.pender- tion opposing the draft document. merce said the working group has harbourdockplan.com. The meeting was moderated enough funds for currrent activities.