comox valley record, april 19, 2016

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NEWSDon McRae leaving politics

It’s with a bit of regret that Comox Valley MLA Don McRae has decided to step down from politics when his term ends in May, 2017. There’s no major crisis behind his decision. He simply wants to spend more time with family and friends in the community he loves.

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Hospital parking fees will stayA plea from north Island communities for

support in their bid to eliminate parking fees at new hospitals being constructed in Camp-bell River and Courtenay was rejected at the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities conference earlier this month.

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ARTSMonday Bunch show and sale

The Pearl Ellis Gallery is presenting the annual spring show and sale by the Monday Bunch, a group of local artists, opening April 19 and running until May 8.

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Mighty String Thing at the SidLegendary Commander Cody guitarist Bill

Kirchen is leading a talented group of ‘six-string slingers’ on to the Sid Williams Theatre stage on April 21.

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SPORTSTough draw for Comox Valley United

Local men’s soccer team to meet top-seeded Pegasus FC in Surrey in first round of single knockout Province Cup competition.

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Fish and game club busyThe Courtenay and District Fish & Game

Protective Association is hosting a spring gun show and making plans for their annual out-door show.

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Important for seniors to file taxes B.C. Seniors Advocate is reinforcing the

need for seniors in the province to file tax returns, even if they think they do not make enough income to file.

“There are many subsidies available to seniors that are based on income tax informa-tion,” said Isobel Mackenzie. “If seniors don’t file their taxes, low-income seniors in partic-ular may be giving up opportunities to access subsidies which can make significant differenc-es to their lives.”

The importance of filing taxes was high-lighted in a recent case where the Federal Gov-ernment found that 83,000 Canadian seniors, 13,000 of them in B.C., did not receive Guar-anteed Income Supplement (GIS) payments for up to seven years because they did not file income tax for one or more years. The Federal Government is now fixing the problem and making retro-active payments to these low-in-come seniors. “GIS is a key support for the lowest income seniors,” said Mackenzie. “These are seniors living on $17,300 annually or less, however to receive this GIS, you must file an income tax return.”

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Mackenzie stresses it is important for seniors to know that there is help available to prepare income tax returns and it is free of charge for low-income seniors. Throughout the province there are Volunteer Income Tax clinics host-ed by local community agencies. Volunteers, many of whom are retired accountants, receive training from the Canada Revenue Agency and are aware of all recent changes and relevant tax issues affecting seniors. Each year over 10,000 tax returns are prepared through this program. A full list of free income tax services available in all communities in B.C. is available by calling the Office of the Seniors Advocate at 1-877-952-3181.

Earth Day fundraising concertJoy District is headlining an all-ages fund-

raising concert on Saturday, April 23, 7 p.m. at the Lower Elks Hall, in conjunction with Earth Day.

The Island-based band is among the artists who support the Jellyfish Project — a global coalition of musicians committed to promoting environmental awareness. Tickets are $10, available at the onethirtythree skateboard shop, Riders Pizza and Trousers. Admission is free for those 12 and under.

MLA McRae stepping away

It’s with a bit of regret that Comox Valley MLA Don McRae has decided to step down from politics when his term ends in May, 2017.

There’s no major crisis behind his decision. He simply wants to spend more time with family and friends in the community he loves.

“It’s been a very interesting and enjoyable job and experience,” McRae said. “I find it so ironic that you run to represent the Comox Valley, and sometimes you’re lucky enough to be in Cabinet, and yet those two jobs take you out of the Comox Valley so very much.

“My wife (Deanne) has been phe-nomenal for seven years. My old-est daughter (Gracie) has never not known me not in politics, and the youngest daughter (Chloe) was born after I got the job. Being the MLA,

you don’t get to be here very much. I miss my community.”

Sharing the news well ahead of term’s end enables the Liber-al Party and the electorate to become acquainted with new candidates who will run for office.

McRae has informed Pre-mier Christy Clark — who was saddened but under-stands why he is leaving — and his caucus. But at 46, he has plenty of time ahead in the workforce.

“I still have a lot of work left in me.”Before entering provincial politics,

McRae had served on Courtenay city council. He had also spent 15 years teaching at Vanier Secondary, where he attended high school. He hopes to continue his employment with the Comox Valley School District, from where he took a leave of absence in 2009 when first elected MLA.

He also hopes to help some of the larger education groups.

“Maybe have a better conversation with government,” he said. “I find

right now the education community has a lot of good people in it. They have some very important issues. I

think education is very good at talking to education, but when it comes to talking to government…after my seven years on the job, I wouldn’t mind helping them have a better conversation with gov-ernment.

“It can be a very confus-ing sector,” he added, noting Comox Valley issues can differ

significantly from other B.C. school districts. But he realizes many dis-tricts are in declining enrolment.

“Sadly, for the last 40 years, there’s been so much politics intertwined with education. I think every group, whether it’s the boy scouts or the mining industry or education, they need to make sure that government is aware of their issues, good and bad, and put forward their case in the best way possible. If they want some help doing that, it’s something I’d like to consider on top of my teaching posi-tion.”

■ Busload for the Bank A few residents from Berwick Comox Valley paid a Friday visit to Valley View Elementary, where students collected items to help ‘Fill the Bus for the Food Bank.’ Residents, Berwick staff, teachers and kindergarten students — who engage in an inter-generational program with Berwick residents — gathered in front of the bus, which was quickly filling up with food. Mark Isfeld Secondary and Berwick also collected non-perishable items for the cause.

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Comox council approved a 2.7 per cent residential tax increase per annum at Wednesday’s com-mittee of the whole meeting as part of the third draft of the 2016 - 2020 financial plan.

The business/com-mercial tax rate will increase by 1.7 per cent.

The motion was carried unanimously (Coun. Barbara Price was absent) and will be brought forth to the next regular coun-cil meeting for fourth reading.

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Richard Kani-gan, the town’s chief administrative officer, said in his discussions

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Following a ques-tion by Coun. Russ Arnott, Kanigan noted about seven or eight companies took

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Don Jacquest, director of finance for the town, explained one reason the town only received two applications could be due to the nature of

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Woolgatherers connect with refugees

A passion for knitting and the fibre arts has connected Lois Harvey and fellow Comox Valley Woolgathers with new-ly-landed Syrian refugees.

In February, Harvey’s hus-band Derrick - one of the lead Red Cross volunteers for the reception centre welcoming more than 150 government-as-sisted refugees in Victoria - told Lois women and girls were keen knitters but lacked supplies.

“We didn’t realize they knew how to knit, but they just need-ed wool,” said Lois.

A fellow Red Cross volunteer, who was also a past member of the Woolgathers (a local guild of knitters, weavers and spinners), helped to canvass all the thrift shops in the Comox Valley and purchased every available yarn.

“Within a week, we had

donated 12 boxes of fibres,” added Lois, who said the Wool-gathers collected yarns and nee-dles to share.

The donated wool and sup-plies were taken to Victoria and passed to 55 moms, daughters and one boy who eagerly started knitting scarves, vests and hats for their families, she noted.

“There’s lots of international connections within our group; members go around the world looking at spinning, looms, and yarn.”

The knitters could be seen everywhere in the hotel as they chatted with friends, waited for appointments and entertained their children, she explained.

“The Woolgathers were pleased to play a small part in easing our new Canadian families into their lives here on Vancouver Island. Knitting is an international language that unites knitters around the world without the need for words.”

For more information, search The Woolgathers, Comox Valley, Vancouver Island on Facebook.

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Ancre Heights is a First World War battle honour awarded to the 102nd Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, which fought in the Battle of the Somme. The battalion — formed and trained in Comox before shipping off to France in 1916 — was known as the North Brit-ish Columbians.

The memory of these soldiers is being kept alive by a motor-cycle riding club named after the Battle of Ancre Heights. The group — a local chapter of the Canadian Army Veteran Motor-cycle Units (CAV) — consists of about 17 veterans in the North Island. Members gather at least once a month during the riding season, starting in April.

“We ride together for the sake of seeing other veterans and supporters, to talk about the old days, and have a good time,” said club president Fred Den-ninger, aka Ranger Fred, who is

among the few Canadians who have attended the U.S. Army Airborne Ranger School, thus the nickname.

Other members of the Ancre Heights executive include Bone Digger (vice-president), Mr. PEI (sergeant-at-arms), Grave Dig-

ger (road captain) and Gunz (treasurer).

A CAV member needs to be a veteran of the army, navy, air

force or RCMP, though the orga-nization includes non-veterans called supporters.

Denninger is a retired chief warrant officer who spent eight years in the infantry as a sniper/reconnaissance patrolman, 26 years as an air force Search and Rescue Technician (SAR Tech), and three years as an army CIMIC (Civil-Military Co-oper-ation Team) field operative. He is also an Afghan war veteran.

“Most of our veterans have 20 years-plus in the forces, but some not, and we take current serving members,” Denninger said. “We support anything that veterans support.”

Support includes events such as Boomers Legacy, a charity named after Andrew ‘Boomer’ Eykelenboom, a Comox soldier who was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in 2006.

But the big thing is to gath-er as civilians, to support one another and — as Denninger said — to have a good time.

Drop by the Comox Museum to learn more about the 102nd Battalion. An exhibit runs the duration of the year.

Members of the Ancre Heights motorcycle riding club gather outside the Comox Legion. The group is named after the WW1 battle honour bestowed upon the 102nd Infantry Battalion. PHOTO BY EarlE COuPEr

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There appears to be a large gap between residents of north and south Vancouver Island on the issue of pay parking at hospitals.

And that has left north end poli-ticians feeling somewhat betrayed by their southern counterparts.

A plea from north Island communities for support in their bid to eliminate parking fees at new hospitals being con-structed in Campbell River and Courte-nay was rejected at the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Commu-nities conference earlier this month.

“It’s extremely disappointing,” Quadra Island-based Strathcona Regional Dis-trict director Jim Abram said. “I think a lot of people there don’t understand the dynamics of the north Island. It was a very poorly thought-out move.”

Abram is the elected local represen-tative for the Discovery Islands — a sprawling collection of rugged islands and remote inlets stretching northeast from Campbell River onto the mainland.

His constituents — and those in neighbouring communities like Gold River, Tahsis, Port Alice and Sointula — will be served by the new $274.5 million, 95-bed hospital opening in late 2017 in Campbell River.

Abram said the difference between these people and the people in the south Island is that in the north many people have to drive four or five hours on a dark logging road or aboard a ferry to get to their hospital. Often, their incomes are lower and their options fewer.

“Then they have the stress of maybe not being able to go back home,” he said, adding the additional issue of feeding a parking meter is something they don’t need.

Saanich councillor Judy Brownoff said she is sympathetic to the situation in the north but for her it’s a question of how to best use health-care dollars. Parking is an expensive service. Free parking means parking maintenance will take money away from actual health services.

“It’s a difficult situation,” she said. “I’d rather the dollars go to health care than a parkade.”

That reflects the position of Island Health.

In a February interview, Island Health corporate director of logistics and opera-

tions James Hanson told Black Press parking fees are necessary in order to provide parking services since Island Health will always pick health care over parking when it comes to setting budget priorities.

“If we didn’t have parking fees, we would have to take it out of patient care money,” he said. “It’s that simple.”

Courtenay and Campbell River will join Royal Jubilee, Victoria General, Aberdeen, Gorge Road, Saanich Pen-insula, Nanaimo and Priory as Island Health facilities charging fees. They will also be implemented at future facilities like the planned Cowichan District Hos-pital replacement.

Fees at the new hospitals are expect-ed to mirror those of existing hospi-tals down-Island — typically between $2.25 and $2.75 for the first two hours, and $1.25 for each additional hour. B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake has informed the regional district that offi-cials intend to proceed with the fees, but Abram said residents have yet to give up the fight.

“This kind of thing should never be happening in this day and age,” he said. “It is difficult to say what we will do next, but we are going to do something. This is sick.”

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An annual ceremony paying tribute to fallen workers and their families is coming up later this month.

On Thursday, April 28 at 10 a.m., the City of Courtenay, WorkSafeBC and CUPE 556 will hold a flag-raising ceremony at the Simms Park Pavil-ion in Courtenay to mark the Day of Mourning. This event honours workers who have been killed, injured, or suf-fered illness as a result of work-related incidents.

Paige Knapman, occupational health and safety adviser for the City of Cour-tenay, said the event is an important reminder of the need to remain vigilant on workplace safety.

“This Day of Mourning is an opportu-nity for both employers and employees to remind themselves of the reasons we work so hard on safety,” noted Knapman. “Our workers are our most important asset, and at the end of the day we all need to do everything we can to ensure they can go home to their loved ones.”

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There’s a strong movement afoot, led by the B.C. Federation of Labour, to raise this prov-ince’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.

On the surface, having the lowest mini-mum wage in Canada, when our provincial government boasts that our economy is one of the best performing in the country, makes no sense and is the height of unfairness. It says that the rich are getting richer, on the backs of working-class citizens.

While it would be great if everyone could make more money, it’s not as simple as argu-ing that people making $10.45 an hour need more money to pull them out of apparent pov-erty.

Pushing the minimum wage up to $15 in one fell swoop, as the B.C. Fed is asking for, could have unintended consequences. Would it force small businesses to lay employees off, or worse, shut down due to the higher cost of labour? Or would they simply raise prices sig-nificantly to cover the additional cost?

Either move could potentially have a net negative effect on the economy, with either fewer people working or goods becoming less affordable for those at the bottom end of the wage scale.

According to the B.C. Fed, about 6.4 per cent of workers in our province make minimum wage, with more than half of those women (63 per cent) and 10,000 of them seniors. That 6.4 per cent equates to about 120,000 people. But many of those are young people in their first job, for example, or bar and restaurant servers for whom tips can raise their income substantially – although bar servers’ lower minimum of $9.20 per hour cuts into that. The question is, does it make sense to increase the minimum wage more than 40 per cent at one time for a relatively small number of workers, when the consequences could force all of us to pay more for goods and services? It’s anybody’s guess how such a move might play out here in B.C., and how long it would take to have an effect.

Certainly no one wants to see poverty con-tinue to be a growth industry.

The need for the government to move more quickly on raising minimum wage is less about the optics of the national rankings and more about allowing more workers to gain more buying power. The province should set the goal of getting to $15 an hour, but do it in a way that allows business to adjust on a more gradual basis. -Black Press

Minimum wage fairness needed

B.C. NDP leader John Horgan dis-tanced himself as best as he could from the federal party’s decision to dump moderate leader Thomas Mul-cair and spend the next couple of years debating the far-left crackpot-tery known as the Leap Manifesto.

“It’s a document that I don’t embrace personally,” Horgan told reporters at the legislature. “I believe there are elements in the document that make sense, and there are ele-ments that make no sense in British Columbia.

“So we won’t be proceeding under any Leap Manifesto in the next 12 months under my leadership.”

Horgan didn’t specify what part of the manifesto he likes. Presum-ably it’s not the part about tearing up Canada’s free trade agreements, converting food production to local agrarian collectives or unilaterally dismantling our energy industry and replacing it with community-owned windmills and solar panels.

It can’t be the demand to stop all pipelines, because while the B.C. NDP doesn’t like oil, Horgan is in favour of natural gas exports to Asia. In general, that is. He’s now on record with the federal regulator that he’s against the Petronas-led Pacific

Northwest LNG project with a termi-nal at Prince Rupert.

The Leap Manifesto is the brain-child of anti-capitalist Toronto author Naomi Klein, with support from Greenpeace and the Sierra Club. Its campus-radical cluelessness is per-haps best summed up by the format, which consists of 15 “demands.”

Here’s demand number six: “We want high-speed rail powered by just renewables and affordable public transit to unite every community in this country – in place of more cars, pipelines and exploding trains that endanger and divide us.”

This demand effectively declares all of rural Canada irrelevant. By even considering it, the NDP risks doing the same.

Here’s number 11: “We must expand those sectors that are already low-carbon: caregiving, teaching, social work, the arts and public inter-est media.”

And how will “we” pay all these state-funded ballerinas and bloggers? Financial transaction taxes, increased resource royalties (until resource industries are killed off), a “progres-sive” carbon tax, and that old standby from the Occupy tent, higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy.

It’s hard to tell now, but the NDP was created to give political power to industrial workers. Horgan was asked if the party’s effort to win back industrial workers could be ham-pered by this potential lurch to the urban left.

“The difference between my hard-

hat and the premier’s hardhat is that my hardhat has union labels on it, and hers doesn’t,” Horgan replied.

As this statement was being made, the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council was meeting in Victoria. Its president, Tom Sigurdson, would use that event to host B.C. Liberal cab-inet ministers and blast Horgan for opposing Pacific Northwest LNG.

In the 2013 election, then-NDP leader Adrian Dix made a mid-cam-paign decision to come out against the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion. Since then the NDP has opposed construction of the Site C dam on the Peace River. Horgan is in favour of hydroelectric power, you understand. Just not this project at this time.

Perhaps the most stunning thing about the federal NDP’s fling with the Leap Manifesto was that it was staged in Edmonton. It came as a direct rejection of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who faces the grim reality of an oil and gas slump.

Notley has promised a carbon tax and the end of coal-fired power generation, moves that no NDP gov-ernment has proposed, much less implemented.

Her own pretending-to-be-green party ignored and betrayed her.

Horgan wandering around in a hardhat is looking like a tougher sell every day.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @

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Kudos to Community Justice Centre

Dear editor,I was recently involved in

an incident at Quality Foods in Comox.

Although I truly believe my action was caused by a med-ical condition, it in no way negates that I walked out of the store without paying for merchandise. I was shocked and ashamed by my action.

I am fortunate that Quality Foods and their security elect-ed to send me to the Commu-nity Justice Centre for the resolution to my actions. I had never heard of the Jus-tice Centre so was not sure what to expect the process would be.

My first appointment was with a gentleman who thoroughly explained how the process works and what would be expected of me. He then arranged a meeting with a three-person panel, an observer and the security officer from Quality Foods. Through this meeting a reso-lution was agreed upon.

What I am most impressed by is that everyone at the Community Justice Centre is a volunteer who gives of their own time to help resolve issues such as mine. They are most professional and respectful in their approach and actions. I cannot express enough how fortunate we are to have this centre in our community - thank you to all of the Community Justice Centre volunteers.

I am very much aware of the cost to business, commu-nity and consumers when theft occurs - everyone pays. Therefore, please accept my apology and I hope that I can give back through volunteer-ing in our community.

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Some questions for Tom Fletcher

Dear editor,I had hoped Tom Fletcher’s

recent opinion piece entitled “Why be so cheap with the poor?” was going to be a seri-

ous discussion of why income assistance and disability rates are so low that people in B.C. are going hungry and living on the streets. Instead, most of the column was used to criticize the NDP and unions, and to justify the BC Liberals taking away the annual bus pass when they increased disability rates from $906 a month to $983. He used the words ‘cheats,’ ‘deadbeats’ and ‘varmints,’ and although he attributed them to a premier who hasn’t been in power for 20 years, he says that most of the policies put into affect by that pre-mier remain today.

Fletcher says he intends to find out how many disabled people decided to take the $77 increase and pay for tran-sit only when they need it. Perhaps he can ask them how often they stay home because they needed the money to buy food and pay bills. And people on disability often do need their transit pass to go to jobs, not, as Fletcher says, mainly for shopping, medi-cal appointments and social activities.

Fletcher says there are sound reasons for making a person who is applying for assistance look for work for five weeks before they get their $610 a month, an amount they are not allowed to supplement with any work. Maybe he can find out how many of them became home-less during that waiting peri-od, and how many of them go to bed hungry.

The column has a quote from Faith Bodnar of Inclu-sion BC, who said the govern-ment equalized poverty for people with disabilities in BC. The mean-spirited Liberals are not only equalizing pover-ty, they are enforcing poverty.

Ellen RainwalkerCumberland

Beech Street not right for pump station

Dear editor,I am writing with regards

to the ongoing saga of the future pump station most recently being proposed for a site on Beech Street. This decision follows on the heels of the decision not to proceed with the planned Croteau

Road site. I have many concerns

about this spot, not the least of which is that it is smack dab in the middle of a quiet residential neighbourhood which was previously consid-ered and rejected. I have yet to hear any reasonable and valid reasons not to expand the existing Courtenay pump station. I’ve heard costs men-tioned as the main (only) reason and, in my mind, this is not a reason to exclude this site. The money wasted on surveys and reports by board and Sewage Commission members could have been put towards the more appropriate site, the Courtenay pump station.

I think what resonates with me the most is that this board and commission is sim-ply not listening. I thought this might be because there are so (too) many councils and districts involved, but having dealt with Comox town council on a singular issue, I have found they don’t listen to what the majority of their residents want either.

I was doing some much-needed house cleaning a few months ago and came across a newspaper clipping from the Times Colonist from Jan. 23, 1973. It was an article about my father, John Tribe, as he attended his last council meeting before retir-ing. He was the administrator for the Municipality of Saan-ich, and I think some of his words at that time could be applied today.

He spoke of “preserving local government for the little man” and also said “the local council is the last bulwark of our civilization – once you’ve lost the basis of the communi-ty, you’ve lost it all.” All wise words by a wise man.

Clearly this is what’s hap-pening in the Comox Valley. The people are not being heard. This happened with the Lorne project where the MAJORITY of the residents of Comox were against the proposed project and it’s hap-pening again with the pump station.

It’s time to listen to the res-idents, the taxpayers and the community! If you choose not to – shame on you!

Barb TribeComox

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Another message that was introduced was the slogan “keep it yellow“.

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mize your use of water”, explains the new im-plant to our rainy (note not rainforest) Comox Valley. We went for a walk in her now local neighbourhood in east Courtenay. She com-ments further – “People here [in the Comox Valley & Canada in general] complain about the rain but the rain is amazing! We don’t

know how fortunate we are”. Yet, is this fortune respected?

With extended pe-riods of drought, in-creasing temperatures and the risk of fire widespread, the idea to move her family to Can-ada began to form. She has no regrets about the move but observes that a lot more can be done here to conserve water.

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Jeremy Lyster won the Governor General’s Bronze Medal at NIDES/Navigate). PHOTO suBMiTTed

Jeremy Lyster has been awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Bronze Medal for 2015 from Navi-gate NIDES. This medal is award-ed annually to the student who achieves the highest grade point average upon graduation from sec-ondary schools in Canada.

As an active member of his school community Lyster devoted much of his senior years as team captain for the Navigate NIDES VEX robot-ics team, working to achieve both regional and provincial honours, including an invitation to the US Open Robotics Championships.

Lyster is passionate about history and participated in the School Dis-trict 71 Heritage Fairs from Grade 5 to Grade 12, receiving several honours, including being sent to the provincial championships to com-pete in Grade 5 before becoming a mentor and judge for the yearly

event as well as a judge for the regional competition in Port Alber-ni.

Lyster has also earned a junior black belt in karate. He was also a member of the Highland concert and stage bands for five years and attended the Challenge Program for School District 71 for four years. In addition to his already busy sched-ule he volunteered more than 500 hours to with Courtenay Recreation working with children.

Lyster has been captain of the Dragon Riders youth dragon boat team in the Comox Valley for three years.

Lyster’s teachers have described him as thoughtful, mature, hon-ourable, well-mannered, articulate and wise beyond his years. He is currently attending North Island College pursuing a career in com-puter science.

Robotics teams rise to the challenge at regional championshipsIt was an exciting home-

coming for the nine Vancouver Island robotics teams, who were definitely making the news at the recent Pacific Northwest Regional Championships.

Sixty teams from B.C., Alber-ta, and Washington State gath-ered at the BCIT campus to compare their skills at robotic programming. In the world of student robotic competitions, it’s the largest of its kind, involving 10,000 teams in 750 tourna-ments worldwide.

For those not familiar with the scene, imagine the excite-ment of a gymnasium divided into five competition courts, a skills court, and a practice field,

each whirring with machines that will prove the capabilities of their builders.

Each team has brought their best design to demonstrate to a panel of judges how they can apply their cooperative learn-ing skills to achieve a partic-ular goal. Add the attention of live broadcast, large media news coverage from CBC, the Province, and Global TV, and the excitement of parents and peers, and you’ll start to feel how challenging it would be for these students (and their robots) to perform well under pressure.

In each 12’x12’ competition court, the robotic sport of “Noth-

ing But Net” was underway, as robots competed to slingshot foam balls into nets using var-ious configurations of proxim-ity sensors, motors, gears and pneumatics. There were also bonus points for those who could lift a competitor’s robot off the ground.

The Pacific Northwest Regional Championships has two divisions, the A Division, which was made up of 24 teams, and B Division which was made of up 34 teams, all from B.C.

The NIDES/Navigate teams B, C, E, F, G, H and J teams par-ticipated in the B Division and had their best season to date, taking home six trophies in all.

Teams 7842F and 7842B won the top team Championship Alliance, 7842F won both the Excellence Award and the Robot Skills Award, 7842B won the Design Award, 7842H won the Build Award.

Although the Navigate teams 7842A and 7842D were the highest ranking teams from B.C. in the A Division, placing third and fourth in regulation play, they were knocked out in the semifinals. Winners in this division go to compete in the upcoming world competitions.

Team 7842 will be hosting a VEX Worlds Party on April 22-23 at the Tsolum School Campus of NIDES/Navigate to

watch and follow the 450 high school teams participating in all five divisions at the Worlds.

These events will be live streamed on five video screens beginning at 8:30 each morning to late afternoon and all inter-ested students and adults are welcome to attend.

For Navigate teacher Stew-art Savard, it was exciting to see the passion these students have for their achievements and STEM subject areas (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). “Our teams did exceptionally well, and this was our best success in terms of results. It was a great way to end the season.”

Highland team off to world championships

Highland students Judd Foster and Daniel Beaule are off to Louisville, Kentucky after being crowned cham-pions of the Provincial VEX Robotix Championship in Delta earlier this year. They are one of eight teams, out of 37 individual teams that par-ticipated, who will advance to the World Championships on April 19-23.

Last summer competitors were given a set challenge to create their robot around, giv-ing them the full summer and beginning of the school year to fashion a robot meeting the specifications.

This year’s challenge was named “Nothing But Net”. Participants built robots to score foam balls into a net.

At the beginning of a match, robots are programmed to score balls for 15 seconds autonomously, without any driver control.

Following the autonomous round, robots drove around the court scoring balls into a net for one minute 45 seconds. Extra points are awarded if a

partner robot is lifted off the court.

“One of the most difficult things (about creating the robot) was designing and planning where everything was going to be,” said Foster. “A lot of thought needs to go into how to keep the robot as small as possible, because a lot of ideas just don’t have enough room to work.”

While Beaule has been part of the VEX robotics team at Highland for the past four

years this was Foster’s first experience in being part of an organized team. This is the first time for both to compete in such a high-level champi-onship.

“Since teams in the Worlds are from all around the world the competition will be a lot tougher,” said Foster.

“There are lots more teams in other parts of the world, with lots of resources and many more minds working on a single robot.”

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Domestic violence a tragic reality in the Valley

“You’ve reached 911, Is this call for fire, police, or ambu-lance?”

“Police. He’s doing it again. It sounds bad this time.”

It could be a neighbour, making the call. It might be a child. Sometimes it’s the victim, herself.

It’s a scenario played over far too often, in every community.

The issue is domestic vio-lence and the Comox Valley is not immune.

In 2014 there were 132 spou-sal/partner assaults filed in our community. In 2015, there were 151.

That’s an average of nearly three reported cases per week – and while the victims were not exclusively women, they accounted for the vast majority.

Several triggersConst. Keeley Deley is the

domestic violence co-ordinator for the Comox Valley RCMP. She said that while no two cases are identical, there are several prevalent triggers to domestic violence incidents.

“There are a few things that could be the cause of what is happening in the home,” said Deley. “One of the things could be alcohol, or past history of abuse, or being abused. There could be stresses that are financial, children bringing on extra stress, lack of employ-ment bringing on extra stress. There are so many triggers, but those are some of the things that come to mind as reasons people get (into conflict).”

Deley said the primary goal of the RCMP when answering

a domestic violence call is to diffuse the situation.

“If it’s getting to the point that the police are needed to intervene or to assist in some way, that’s what we are here for, before it gets to the point of an assault taking place or someone getting hurt.”

The RCMP are trained to make an on-the-spot decision as to the best way of diffusing the situation.

“Each file, or each incident, the RCMP officers are going to make judgement calls along the way as far as the investigation is concerned. Our key objec-tive is that the offence that is happening does not continue happening. So if that means separating the parties and bringing one to a safer place, that’s what we will do. Some-times one of them is arrested and taken out of the home. But the key objective is that the situation does not continue and that it is safe for everybody.”

A safe havenThat’s where the Comox Val-

ley Transition Society comes into play.

The CVTS was founded in 1987 and in 1992 Lilli House - a safe house for women and children trying to escape abu-sive relationships - was opened.

Currently Lilli House has 14 beds in nine bedrooms. The CVTS receives an average of 1,500 crisis calls every year and houses, on average, 300 women and children annually.

“Lilli House has become... over the years, we have more and more nights when we are full,” said Anne Davis, program director at CVTS. “In 2015 we were actually full, or over full, for 302 nights.”

“Part of the issue is that peo-ple are staying longer, because there is nowhere to go, other than back to their abusive

situation, which is not a good option,” said Heather Ney, executive director of the CVTS. “There is no affordable housing, no supportive housing, particu-larly for single women, but also for women with children. So that’s where the biggest pres-sure is on Lilli House.”

Every year, in mid-April, the Comox Valley Transition Society carries out the annual Purple Ribbon Peace Begins at Home campaign with the sup-port of other organizations and individuals in our community.

“This is our sixth year doing the Purple Ribbon Campaign, and it’s all about awareness,” said Ney. “We are trying to build awareness about domes-tic violence, broadly and then specifically the particulars of the Comox Valley.”

The RCMP works intimately with the various facilities avail-able for people in need.

Deley had high praise for the Comox Valley Transition Society.

“We work very closely with the Transition Society, and they are a wonderful group of resources we have in the Comox Valley that work very hard to ensure that anybody that needs a safe place to go can reach out and find a safe place to go. They are a great partner that we work with.”

Say something This year, the Transition

Society is profiling the province of B.C.’s Say Something Cam-paign during the Peace Begins at Home period of April 10 -23.

The Say Something Cam-paign addresses domestic vio-lence against women from a different perspective. Whereas many campaigns work with the female victims of domestic vio-lence, the Say Something Cam-paign puts the onus on men, to take a proactive approach.

“Men in peer relationships need to be models and mentors to each other,” said Ney. “They need to speak out and say ‘that was a sexist comment. That’s not OK,’ or ‘when you say you pushed your wife last night because you were mad at her, that’s not OK.’ Men need to be standing up to the plate. I think women are working over-time to try to keep themselves and their children safe, but it takes the whole community.

Women alone can’t do it,” Ney said.

“So the Say Something Campaign is a ‘be more than a bystander’ campaign. It’s time for the men to step in and come alongside the women... and challenge their peers.”

The challenge is out there. Rather than join in on the cat calls on a construction site, say something. Imagine if that was your daughter being whistled at.

Domestic violence can be committed in many forms. All forms of violence can have a serious negative impact on a victim’s health and well-being.Women are predominantly at risk of violence. It happens in all cultural, religious, ethnic and racial communities, at every age, income group and social class. However, those who experience various oppressions and lack the most options are more vulnerable to ongoing experiences of violence and abuse. For example:• Women with disabilities;• Women living in poverty or who are homeless;• Immigrant and refugee women;• Aboriginal women;• Women of colour;• Senior women and young women;• Women living in rural or remote settings;• Pregnant women.No culture condones violence. Although there may be different religious and cultural interpretations of men’s power over women, anyone who claims violence is ‘normal’ in a particular culture is misrepresenting it.

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toward women is a growing trend.“I went to a really good presentation by the B.C.

Lions a couple of years ago, who have been speaking to the high school kids around the province about being more than a bystander,” said Davis. “One of them talk-ed about how having taken the training and becoming really aware of the issue, when he went back to the locker room, he couldn’t be quiet anymore, when there were derogatory comments made about women. He said he had to speak up and say something, and so did the other teammates who had taken this training. He said that over time, the conversation changed in the locker room.”

More resources needed for menNey said one of the areas that needs improvement

is services to men who are seeking help in a proactive form – men who recognize they have anger issues and want to do something about it before it becomes a crim-inal issue.

“Those services are woefully inadequate,” she said. “The only way there is any help, or training or support is if they get charged and convicted, and are mandated to take a relationship program. It would be nice if we were able to supply some service and be more proac-tive, to men who voluntarily want to help themselves.”

With that in mind, the CVTS has started a support group, specifically to address that issue. This is a free service and the group meets weekly. For more informa-tion on that service, contact the CVTS at 250-897-0511.

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Students strove to achieve new belts at the Sunday wrap-up of the five-day Batizado and Brazilian Cultural Festival. PHOTO submiTTed

brazilian cultural festival big successDuring the last week in

March, the Comox Valley’s local capoeira group wel-comed the world to their first Batizado and Brazilian Cultural Festival.

Graduada Carnauba from Atlanta, Georgia, kicked off the five-day festival with workshops for children and adults at the Axé Capoeira Comox Valley Academy on 5th Street in Courtenay.

Thursday, workshops moved to the Comox Rec Centre to accommodate the increasing number of stu-dents flocking to the Valley to partake in the event.

Students were treated to a workshop with Mestre Eddy Murphy of Macau, China (a part of the Portuguese empire until late 1999), and enjoyed a high-energy roda afterwards.

By Friday, all of the spe-cial guests and students had arrived, including Grão Mestre Barrão (Recife, Bra-zil), Murphy, Contre-Mestre Camara (Phoenix, Arizona), Contre-Mestre Tigrão (Cal-gary, AB), Contre-Mestre Barrãozihno (Vancouver, BC), and Contre-Mestre Testinha (Victoria, BC).

The founder of Axé Capoeira, Grão Mestre Bar-rão, led the evening’s roda, and all guests were formal-ly welcomed.

On Saturday, 150 students (including 60 children), were busy in workshops all day at the Comox Rec Cen-tre. The group then put on a top-notch show to a sold-out crowd at the Sid Williams Theatre, showcasing tradi-tional Afro-Brazilian danc-es and, of course, capoeira.

The event concluded on Sunday with a Batizado and Troca de Corda at the Native Sons Hall, where stu-dents played with Mestres and Contre-Mestres to earn their first belts, or to grad-uate to the next belt level.

Staging this international event, and hosting so many of Axé Capoeira’s leaders, was made possible by the

hard work of Graduada Ali-cia Fennell, the leader of Axé Capoeira Comox Valley, and her students, as well as many parent volunteers who selflessly gave time and energy to the event.

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Chances are if you are a baby-boom-er and you hear the opening sentence above; your brain will immediately fol-low with the world famous boogie-woo-gie guitar line played by Bill Kirchen of Commander Cody fame.

It is easily one of the most recogniz-able guitar parts of all time and the man who invented it will be at the Sid Williams Theatre on April 21 as part of the inspired collaborative ‘six-string-

slingers concert’ entitled ‘The Mighty String Thing.’

Austin’s Bill Kirchen will be there along with Nashville native Mark Stuart who has toured as guitarist for Steve Earle, Stacey Earle, Steve Forbert and Freddy Fender among others.

Canadian guitarists will include string genius Kevin Breit whose musi-cal talents have landed him stints with everyone from kd Lang to Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Lou Reed and yes, even Celine Dion among others.

Montreal’s Cécile Doo-Kingué has been compared to artists as wide ranging as Tracy Chapman and T-Bone Walker; she’s a masterful blues guitarist and a stunning singer/songwriter who is final-ly starting to gain notice worldwide as one of Canada’s great talents.

Rounding out the group are two local

players whose careers have seen them jam with the likes of folks from Jimi Hendrix to Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. From stints with Long John Bald-ry to hosting a jam in NYC in the hazy 60’s; Cumberland’s Doug Cox and Powell River’s Sam Hurrie have both had very colourful careers and are excited to add the Mighty String Thing to their lists of musical experiences.

“The point of the String Thing is for us all to get together and have fun on stage trading licks and sharing songs along with stories,” says Cox. “It isn’t going to be a serious, staid show like so many of the guitar-in-the-round tours... we are going to have some fun!!”

The show is a co-presentation of the Sid Williams Theatre and VI MusicFest. Advance tickets are recommended and are available at the Sid box office.

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The luck of the draw isn’t always good luck.

Such was the case for Comox Valley United on April 5 in Victoria when BC Soccer held the Adult Pro-vincial Cup draw.

United will face top-seed Pegasus FC of Surrey in the first round of the Province A Cup on Saturday, April 23 at 4 p.m. at Newton Athletic Park in Surrey.

Both teams finished second in their respective leagues: United in Div. 1 of the 10-team Vancouver

Island Soccer League and Pegasus in the Premier Division of the 12-team Van-couver Metro Soccer League.

United is making their Province Cup debut. They went 12-3-3 this season with 39 goals-for and 21 goals-against. Pegasus posted a 16-2-4 record with 69 goals-for and 26 goals-against.

The 16-team, sin-gle-knockout competition quarter-finals go April 30-May 1 with semifinals May 7-8 and the final May 14 at Westhills Stadium & Goudy Turf in Langford.

There are four other VISL teams in the tourney, and the luck of the draw means only two of them will advance to the second round.

Saanich Fusion will meet Nanaimo United while third-seed Cowichan will

take on Bays United in a rematch of the April 3 Jack-son Cup final.

Cowichan scored twice in overtime to claim their fourth Jackson Cup in the past seven years. The Bays won their first Jackson Cup in 2013.

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Both have drawn Lower Island Women’s Soccer Association opponents for their April 23-23 first-round games: the Revolution will take on Saanich Fusion FC United while the Outlaws will meet Nanaimo United

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Freestylers make podium at B.C. championshipsMount Washington

Alpine Resort hosted the provincial Timber Tour and Super Youth Freestyle skiing com-petition – the BC Freestyle Champion-ships – from March 31 to April 3.

The Mt. Washing-ton Freestyle Ski Club was joined by clubs from Whistler/Blackcomb, Vancou-ver, Apex, Silver Star, Big White, Sun Peaks and the Yukon as well as two athletes from the provincial mogul team.

More than 120 ski-ers competed in the third and final in a series of provincial freestyle events. The event included one official training day and three contests, Slopestyle, Moguls and Big Air. There were two tiers of ath-letes: the Timber Tour (ages 13-18) and the Super Youth (ages six-13).

This competition was originally slat-ed to take place at another resort, how-ever plans changed and with less than six weeks to prepare, the crew at Mount Washington, along with coaches and par-ent volunteers, put in countless hours of hard work and pulled off a hugely successful event.

“It couldn’t have happened without the support of Don Sharpe and his crew from Mount Wash-

ington Alpine Resort, the parents, the vol-unteers from other hills, and the moun-tain staff (liftees, park crew, groomers, security, food and beverage, all resort employees),” reported MWFC president Roy Krejci.

The weather was spectacular with tem-peratures reaching into the mid-teens and clear visibility

throughout. All the Mt. Washington Free-style Ski Club ath-letes skied well, with three Super Youth landing on the podi-um: Catrina Krej-ci (U14) Slopestyle bronze; Monique Vinnedge (U10) Big Air gold; Angus Heys (U8) Big Air bronze.

The club also had three Timber Tour athletes on the podi-um: Brandon Playford

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Mei Pond, a Mt. Washington Free-style Ski Club alumni now on the provincial mogul team, took gold in the Moguls U18 contest. Many of the host club athletes achieved personal

best scores and had loads of fun.

“A big thank you to all our club support-ers for an amazing event, what a week-end, what a silent auction! Thank you all for the donations,” a MWFC spokesper-son said.

“Special thanks to our sponsors: Mount Washington Alpine Resort, Life-style Metal Ventures, Woodgrove Chrys-ler, Archie Johnstone Plumbing and Heat-ing Ltd., Vancouver Island Insurance Centres, Mount Sick-er Lumber Company, Ski Tak Hut, and Bea-verTails Pastry.”

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will also have a strong focus on position spe-cific play, CORE and strength training, and game strategy compo-nents.

In addition to the i n d o o r g a m e , a th le tes will also have the o p p o r -t u n i t y to learn and play outdoor volleyball on the grass. Playing both indoor and out-door really assists the skills and knowledge of the game.

Stevens has five years of CIS (univer-sity) playing expe-rience, five years of coaching Team BC (including Canada Games), assistant

coached at Camosun College, many years of club and high school coaching, and many years of indi-vidual athlete train-

ing/development. There will be a

strong collection of coaches facilitating the camp. Both cur-rent and former uni-versity athletes, all

of whom attended this camp at some point in their vol-l e y b a l l c a r e e r s , will be

providing their exper-tise and enthusiasm.

The camp is $150 which includes a T-shirt. There are 40 spots available in

each session and both sessions are already filling up so register soon. You can register your son/daughter by contacting Stevens at [email protected] or by calling 250-339-0434. A regis-tration form will be e-mailed to you with all of the pertinent information.

“This camp is a great opportunity to further your vol-leyball development, meet some new peo-ple, and have a great time,” said Stevens. “Be sure to register soon!”

There have been plenty of happy campers at the annual Comox Valley Volleyball Camp over the past 12 years. PHOTO submiTTed

❝ It is really exciting to offer this well-established camp for the 13th year in a row. ❞

brian sTevens

The Courtenay and Dis-trict Fish & Game Protec-tive Association will hold a Spring Gun Show on Sun-day, May 1 at the main hall from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Admittance is $5 for men 19 and over; women and youth are free. Food and beverages will be available while you view the near-ly new or gently used in sporting, hunting and some historical firearms and asso-ciated equipment.

It is a buy, sell and trade show with an assortment of nearly new to antique. The show is a great opportunity to find a starting firearm for a novice hunter such as a son or daughter or grand-child.

More and more young peo-ple and women are express-ing interest in the shooting sports and this could be the opportunity to find an eco-nomical firearm.

Several shows are held throughout the year on Vancouver Island. Any-one interested in gun show information can contact

Rick McClure at 250-703-0223.

Outdoor ShowJune is just around the

corner and so is the Cour-tenay and District Fish & Game Protective Associa-tion’s 24th annual Outdoor Recreation Show on June 4-5.

This popular family com-munity event is generously sponsored by 97.3 the Eagle, Quality Foods and John’s Your Independent Grocer. Admission and parking is free, we just ask for food bank donations.

We welcome interest-ed exhibitors to fill out the

exhibitor application form on the website at www.cour-tenayfishandgame.org and mail to PO Box 3177, Cour-tenay, BC V9N 5N4, Attn: Outdoor Recreation Show with the required fee no later than May 1 to ensure a space. Only $100 per space for both days.

The fish and game club’s Spring Gun Show is set for May 1 in the main hall at the clubhouse. PHOTO submiTTed

Outdoor Show invites exhibitors to apply by May 1

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JAMES, June Margaret (nee HUNTLEY)June 29, 1923 – March 22, 2016

June was born in Manchester, England, and spent a happy childhood and youth there. During World War II, she served in the RAF as an aircraft mechanic, where she met Norman Peter “Bob” James on the same crew. After the war, she trained in Early Childhood Education, and she and Bob were married in 1951. They spent many years travelling with postings at various RAF stations, finally settling in the beautiful Comox Valley in 1969.

June loved small children and will be remembered for setting up and running several daycare centres, including one for under 3 year olds and the Child Development Centre. She was a lifelong volunteer in many different capacities. She and Bob spent many happy hours at d’Esterre Seniors’ Centre in Comox, becoming life members. In later years, quilting became June’s passion, and she greatly enjoyed the company of her many quilting buddies.

Mum was a very dedicated and loving wife, mother and grandmother, and will be dearly missed and fondly remembered by Bob, her husband of 64 years, her children Linda (John), Steve (Benita), Mike (Lynne), daughter-in-love Donna, grandchildren Lisa (Micah), Amy (Scott), Neil, Lindsey, Brittany (Justin), Briana (Mike), Brandon (Lacey), and great-grandchildren Josiah, Annalise and Jax.

The family would especially like to extend thanks to Dr. Susan Hunter for being an exceptional family doctor and friend. Thanks also to all June and Bob’s Berwick friends and staff for the 7 happy years Mum and Dad spent there, and much appreciation to the dedicated staff at the Comox Valley Seniors’ Village for all their kindness.

A Celebration of Life for June will be held in Comox May 28, 2016. Further details will be announced.

Say not in grief, “She is no more,” but live in thankfulness that she was.

Today is full of memoriesHappiness and tears.Of birthday celebrationsWe’ve shared through out the years.

And though we always miss youthe endless joy you brought, warms our hear with gratitudeAnd fills our every thought

Where ever you are restingWe hope you can see how precious and uplifting your memory is to us.

We feel that you are with usIn everything we doSo we will celebrate your birthdaybut spend it missing you

In Memory on your BirthdayMom we can not send you a birthday card but

would still like to send our wishes.

Love you forever, Claudia and Natalie, Grandchildren: Yani, Chris, and Connor, Great- grandchildren : Rachel and Daniel

Catharina Meyer DeleeuwApril 18, 1953- September 26, 2015

Lawrence Adam Wenninger

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Lawrence Wenninger April 11, 2016 after a brief stay at St. Joseph Hospital in Comox. He was born in Denzil Sask. 81 years ago. He had COPD for 14 years. He leaves behind his wife Willy and family in BC, Alberta, Winnipeg & Hamilton.

No service by request.

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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ANNIVERSARIES

Happy 60th AnniversaryLeighton & Jocelyn

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CARDS OF THANKS

The Courtenay and District Fish & Game

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LOST AND FOUND

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CUSTODIANSThe CVRD is seeking two part-time custodians (night) to join our team.

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April 25, 2016

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The Hope Standard, a once a week, award winning community newspaper has an opening for an editor/reporter.

Reporting to the publisher, the editor/reporter will be instrumental in guiding the overall strategic direction of the Hope Standard. The successful candidate will possess above average leadership skills, will be a strong communicator, pay attention to detail and can work under pressure in a deadline driven environment.

This person will have the ability to perform editorial tasks and contribute to the editorial content both in print and online. Strong design skills with knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop and iMovie are required.

The editor will have a passion for, and is comfortable with, all aspects of multimedia journalism including diverse writing capabilities and advanced photography and video skills. You have a track record of turning around well-written, fact-based, concise, well-produced content quickly, for posting online immediately—with collateral (text, photos and video). You have demonstrable skills in all aspects of web journalism and a strong grasp of social media best practices (Twitter, Facebook, etc.).

Candidates should have a diploma/degree in journalism, or a related fi eld.

The Hope Standard is part of Black Press, Canada’s largest privately held, independent newspaper company with more than 150 community, daily and urban newspapers in B.C., Alberta, Washington State, Ohio and Hawaii.

Those interested should email a resume, writing samples and a cover letter to:Carly Ferguson, [email protected]

Deadline for applications is5:00pm Sunday April 24, 2016.

Thank you to all who apply. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Editor

The Comox Valley Record has a full time employment position available for an Ad Controller/Receptionist. As Ad Controller, the position requires an extremely organized individual with an uncanny ability to pay attention to details whether big or small. Booking advertising which includes classifieds, print, online and flyers. Accounting skills are required for balancing of cash reports, and bank deposits. This is a team environment and you must be able to work with numerous interruptions and yet stay focused and adhere to deadlines. As receptionist, you will be acting as the first point of contact for clients by phone and at the front counter while maintaining a high level or professionalism and customer satisfaction. Your responsibilities will be answering phone calls and re-directing to the respective departments, handling and re-directing mail and a variety of other duties. Knowledge of Excel applications on a Mac platform are also a requirement.We offer a great working environment with a competitive remuneration and a strong benefits package.Black Press is Canada’s leading private independent newspaper company with more than 170 community, daily and urban newspapers in Canada and the U.S. and has extensive digital and printing operations.Please email your resume with cover letter by Thursday, April 28, 2016, to: Chrissie Bowker, Publisher, [email protected]

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The Village of Cumberland invites applications for a Summer Student - Public Works/Parks position. The detailed job description is available at cumberland.ca

Applications will be received until 4:00 p.m. on Friday April 22, 2016.

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4552 Cumberland Rd., Cumberland

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Next to the Airport

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