DISCOVERY ISLANDER ISSUE 557 Serving the Discovery Islands since 1992 August 9, 2013 Canadian Navy training tenders HMCS Moose & HMCS Cougar tying up at the Heriot Bay dock this past week. Save the Heart of Quadra Parks A Reprieve All is not lost. Thankfully there is cause for at least a small celebration. Just before 3 pm on August first, the Province was able to make at a new offer to purchase the land that lies between Small Inlet and JAZZthe Octopus Islands Marine Parks. This was a deadline set by Merrill and Ring, after which they would look at any offers made by other parties while the property has been on the market. POINT Thanks to the determination and perseverance of the staff at BC Parks Acquisition Branch, a new partner has been found to TUESDAYS AT 6:30 PM TH join with us in this complex multi-party deal. They have been as ALL SUMMER UNTIL SEPT 10 committed as we have been to making the park acquisition happen. FEATURING: Claire Trevena, Sarah Cox of Sierra BC and George Clark of BC AUG 13TH: JAZZBERRY JAM Marine Parks AUG 20TH: THIEVIN BROTHERS Forever Society all had meetings with Minister Mary Polak during AUG 27TH: DAVE ASHTON TRIO July and Jim Abram had conversations with Deputy Ministers. SEPT 3RD: ROCKLAND ROAD Then, on July 29, Stephen Hume published a terrific article in the Vancouver Sun (http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story. html?id=8723348) which ignited a lot of other press interest. Our park had three days of coverage on All Points West, 2 articles in the 250-285-2222 | WWW.APRILPOINT.COM Times Colonist and a radio interview on Victoria CFAX. http://www.timescolonist.com/province-has-until-thursday- to-buy-quadra-island-park-land-with-community-raised- funds-1.565557 http://www.timescolonist.com/b-c-government-makes-last- minute-bid-for-provincial-park-on-quadra-island-1.567923 It’s clear that all the political pressure that was brought to bear on the government through the letters written and the last few days of media coverage played a big part in expediting the last minute offer. Thanks goes to all who wrote letters or added their names and comments to the Sierra BC website action and to all of those who contacted the government in other ways. At last count the letters totaled close to 600. The new offer from the Province will go forward with any other offers Merrill and Ring have received and will be considered by their board over the next few weeks to a month. It’s likely there will be further negotiations. We are left waiting again with baited breath and crossed fingers and the hope that Judy Leicester’s legacy will become a reality. Susan Westren Help Keep our Community Strong Shop Local All Year Long! Page 2 Issue #557 August 9, 2013 Read the DI online: www.DiscoveryIslander.ca DISCOVERY ISLANDER ISLAND CALENDAR Submit your event info or news item - eMail: [email protected] or drop-off at 701 Cape Mudge Rd or at Hummingbird MONDAY Friday, August 9 - Parent & Tots, QCC, 9:30 am - 12 pm - Live music with Iron Pyrites - HBI Pub music at 9 pm no cover - Weight Watchers, QCC, 6 pm - 7 pm Saturday, August 10 - 1st Monday - Quadra writers group, 7 - 9 pm 285-3656 - Susy Stevenson’s 60th - dance with Duffy Live Quadra Legion 8 pm TUESDAY Friday, August 16 - Al-Anon Meeting, Quadra Children’s Centre, 7:00 pm - Quadra Doubles Tennis Tournament - info 250-285-2580 or 3678 WEDNESDAY Saturday, August 17 - Parent and Babes 11 am QCC - BBQ Fundraiser, Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre, 4pm $25 - 250-285-3733 - UofQ - HiYa education from your neighbours. HBI pub 7:00 pm Sunday, August 18 - Regular texas hold’em poker night 7:30pm at the Legion - Hike to Mt. Seymour; qioutdoorclub.org - Hand-drum Circle, Upper Realm, 7:45 - 9:15 pm - Grand Opening Quadra Ambulance Station 840 Heriot Bay Rd 2-4 pm - 1st & 3rd Wednesday Food Bank,QCC 1 - 2 pm - Town Hall re: Heriot Ridge Public Service Tower application Q.C.C. 7pm THURSDAY Monday - Tuesday, August 19 & 20 - Parents & Tots, QCC, 10:00 am - 12 pm - Auditions for ‘GREASE’ Quadra Legion 6 pm - Prayer Meeting, Quadra Island Bible Church, 7 pm Wednesday, August 21 FRIDAY - Paddling Mine/Main Lakes; qioutdoorclub.org - Unplugged Guitar/Singing Jam 7:45 pm Upper Realm Friday-Monday, August 24-26 - Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 pm Quadra United Church - Backpacking to Landslide Lake; qioutdoorclub.org - Live bands in the HBI Pub 9:00 pm Saturday, August 24 SATURDAY - Live music with Ten Times Bigger party band, Quadra Legion 9 pm $10 - Farmers Market & Bazaar 10 am to 2 pm by Credit Union Mondy, August 26 - Quadra Legion Meat Draw 5 pm - Next Deadline for the Discovery Islander - Open mic with Mo. 9:00 pm HBI pub TH SUNDAY NEXT DEADLINE: MONDAY, AUGUST 26 , 2013 - Family Service, Quadra Island Bible Church, 10:30 am BC FERRIES PHASES OUT PREPAID PAPER TICKETS ON - Quadra Sunday Painters, 11 am - 2 pm, 285-3390 HORNBY ISLAND - Buddhist meditation, Upper Realm, 10 am. AND CORTES ISLAND ROUTES Prepaid paper tickets valid for payment until December 31, 2010 D.I. SCHEDULE HEAD’S UP!!! TO ACCOMMODATE A SUMMER BREAK THE NEXT DEADLINE FOR THE DI WILL BE AUGUST 26 Nancy Allwarden Michael Lynch Vibeke Pedersen of Canada Government Source: Quadra Island Quadra Island Assistant 250-285-2800 250-285-2422 250-285-2800 Visit our office for our complete catalogue of listings Homesteading - Next Generation - Nearly 25 acres, partially cleared - Two year-round creeks - Close to Granite Bay dock - $325,000. Issue #557 August 9, 2013 Page 3 Read the DI online: www.DiscoveryIslander.ca DISCOVERY ISLANDER ISSUE 557 - AUGUST 9, 2013 ISLAND FORUM Publisher/Editor: Philip Stone The D.I. is published every two weeks and is distributed throughout Home Calls Doctor to Quadra the Discovery Islands CONTACT US Dear Quadra Rachel, who was intrigued and the primary care that would eMail: [email protected] Islanders: immediately called the number have prevented an emergency Tel: 250.285.2234 on the poster. Once we had Over the past eleven years since has been withheld from the PO Box 280, Quathiaski Cove arrived in Victoria on our way I’ve been coming to Quadra patient due to cost. I have BC V0P 1N0 home, she received a call from Island I’ve met many of you always been delighted that we Office: 701 Cape Mudge Rd the sellers and decided to drive as neighbors, community can serve almost all comers Hours: Mon-Thurs 10 am - 4 pm back to look at the property. members and in my role as a at QIMC. Canadians had the By an incredible stroke of luck, locum physician at the Quadra wisdom years ago to develop Opinions expressed in this magazine she happened to meet Dr. are those of the contributors and Island Medical Clinic. Now I a single payer, universal health Erika Kellerhals on the ferry to are not the views of the publisher. am planning to begin a fulltime care system that we still haven’t Quadra. medical practice on Quadra. matched in the U.S. The MSP Submission Guidelines This is to introduce myself to That very morning, Dr. system here is not at all perfect, Items for publication on subjects those of you whom I haven’t Kellerhals had made a but it works pretty well for of interest to the Discovery almost everyone and that is an Islands community are welcome. yet met. decision to open a practice on Quadra and was hoping to incredible gift you all give each Please help us by following these I was born and raised on Long find a partner to practice with other as Canadians. simple guidelines. Island, New York, but did here. Rachel immediately • Text articles do not need to be my Family Medicine training So, when Dr. Kellerhals asked attached in a file. Simply send the offered me up as, at least, a text in the body of an email. in northern California and me a year ago if I might want temporary practice helper! It • Please use Canadian spelling. practiced there from 1989 until to move to Quadra and take is still amazing to recall the • Please use the title of your item recently. I first came to Quadra over the clinic here, I was surprising synchronicity of all as the email ‘subject’. from California in August very tempted. At that time, those events. The short story • Please remember to include 2002 on a family sea kayaking unfortunately, I was unable credits and captions for photos is that we bought the house vacation with my partner, to make a full time move and other artwork. and I began regular, summer, Rachel Tolmachoff, and our here. My younger son, at age • Please print had-written working-vacations on Quadra. material clearly. two sons. 18, was not quite ready to be Since 2003 I have done locums fully independent and I was Rachel and I were awestruck While every effort is made to for Dr. Kellerhals and, later, committed to a practice in include all items submitted, errors by the beauty of this place and for both Dr. Kellerhals and California. I thought long and and accidental omissions do occur. quite taken by the friendliness Dr. Graham when he joined hard about my decision, but of all the people we met here. her practice. I have deeply had to tell Dr. Kellerhals that Subscriptions On that trip, I learned that the enjoyed working at Quadra it just wasn’t going to work for Gift Subscriptions are available doctors then on Quadra, Dr.