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FRIDAY July 13, 2012 A division of Vol. 27 No. 56
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COURTENAY’S TYRONE LARSON demonstrates his creation, GlowMods, which are small glow sticks that sit in the outer rim of a return top (yo-yo), making a glowing circle while spinning. PHOTO BY RENÉE ANDOR
Yo-yos good return on investmentRenée AndorRecord Staff
A 27-year-old Courtenay man’s idea to make return tops brighter is now being sold around the world.
Tyrone Larson created Glow-Mods, which make return tops
— commonly known by the name brand Yo-yo — glow as they spin, and give off a circle of light to spectators.
“This outer rim here, I decid-ed to pop a glow stick in it,” Lar-son said as he demonstrated on his return top, adding he first tried the idea at a competition
in December. “So I popped a couple glow sticks… and threw it and everyone was just like — next thing I knew 150 people gathered around.”
Caribou Lodge return top company owner Chris Miku-lin, who was there at the time,
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Food bank has cutoff for movingScott Stanfield Record Staff
The Comox Valley Food Bank has received notice from its land-lord, Habitat for Humanity, to vacate its space at 13th Street in Courtenay by Aug. 31.
The notice was not unexpected. The food bank has for some time been search-ing for its seventh loca-tion since opening 28 years ago. It operated for 21 years out of a site at Piercy Ave-nue.
“We’ve got a couple of ideas happening right now, but I can’t really elaborate on them,” CVFB president Jeff Hampton said this week. “If I do get the go-ahead I’m going to keep it quiet for a while longer because when we were going into Cousins Avenue area, when the cat was out of the bag that we were going in, all hell broke loose. We’d like to be a little quieter this time.”
Last year, the food bank had hoped to move to Cousins Avenue in Tin Town but the site was inad-equately zoned. Off-street park-ing was an issue.
A plea from Habitat explaining the need for both organizations to expand appeared in local newspa-pers. It garnered two replies.
“It was done on a Habitat slant as opposed to the food bank,” Hampton said. “They’re trying to do their build on Piercy Avenue and they want more space. They want to expand their ReStore.”
Ideally, the food bank needs about 2,000 square feet in a semi-permanent location. The building at 1755B 13th St. is about 1,700 square feet.
Statistics indicate the Comox Valley Food Bank’s clientele rep-resents about 18 per cent of the local population.
JEFF HAMPTON
Continued from A1snapped a photo and posted it on his blog, and from there things grew — fast.
“It was getting extreme amounts of feedback, people were going bananas, and next thing I knew I was scrounging some money together and I purchased 60,000 glow sticks,” said Larson, adding that was the smallest order he could get from a factory. “It cost me just about $5,000. It took me a while to get the money together and everyone thought I was crazy.”
Initially, he sold GlowMods on eBay and was doing well, but after a suggestion from Mikulin, decided to sell them wholesale to return top stores. He started by calling YoYo-Expert, which is based in the United States, and the store said yes.
“So I made some up, and I’m selling them in a store, and the buzz is
starting to grow, and then I get contacted by more stores, a store in the U.K. and a store in Malaysia and a store in the Czech Republic, in Prague, and those are like the epicen-tres in Europe — yo-yoing’s way bigger in Europe than it is here,” explained Larson.
He made a Facebook page for GlowMods about three weeks ago, and since then he’s had nearly 4,000 ‘likes’ and was contacted by four more stores around the world.
Although Larson is happy with how busi-ness is going, he plans to keep GlowMods as a side venture, noting that return tops are his passion and a focus on money could ruin that.
Larson started play-ing with return tops only about a year-and-a-half ago after he watched his friend Jason Kirsch take it up.
“He came over, he
was almost hitting himself in the face, and I’m like, ‘Get that away from my TV’ and like a month later he came and I saw his, just hand-eye co-ordi-nation go through the roof so that’s what attracted me most of all,” explained Larson.
After Larson start-ed, he was quickly hooked and he attends competitions, which he described as intense because there are liter-ally thousands of pos-sible tricks.
Right now, he’s look-ing forward to being
a judge at the 2012 Canadian National Return Top Champion-ship in Calgary.
Although Larson laughed when asked how much of a return top community there is in the Comox Val-ley, and answered it’s likely just him and two of his friends, he wants to spread his love of return tops to people around here.
For more informa-tion about GlowMods, search for GlowMod GlowThrows on Face-book.
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Motorcyclist hurtRecord Staff
A man travelling at high speed on Roy-ston Road on a motorcycle Thursday after-noon was airlifted to hospital after he lost control.
Comox Valley RCMP reported a 36-year-old local resident was taken to Victoria General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, although he suffered serious inju-ries to his right leg.
Police confirm the shoeless driver was wearing only shorts and a helmet. They do not believe alcohol was a factor, although they feel speed may have been.
“I could hear a motocycle flying up the road. And then I didn’t hear the motorcycle flying up the road any more all I heard was him sliding and sliding and sliding,” said witness Todd Elies to media. “He must have been going really fast.”
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Trying to make surfing friends – one at a timeScott Stanfield Record Staff
‘God will surf with the devil if the waves are good.’
The phrase was coined by Dorian (Doc) Paskow-itz, the Father of Israeli Surfing and a source of inspiration behind Surfing With The Devil, In Search of Waves and Peace in the Middle East, a second book penned by Cumberland author Grant Shilling.
The recently-released e-book is the culmination of a journey that began in February of 2009 when the writer/artist/surfer hand-delivered a bunch of wet-suits to the Gaza Surf Club in Israel. While delighted with the gifts, the Arab, Israeli and Palestinian club members thought Shilling was crazy to surf in 18-degree water in shorts during their winter.
“It was quite a trip to be surfing in the Middle East. Nobody pictures it as a surfing destination,” said
Shilling, a street outreach worker at the Dawn to Dawn: Action on Homeless-ness Society.
Shilling has an interest in acknowledging things before they start happen-ing, such as the emerging surf culture in the Middle East.
The sport has its limita-tions in Gaza, where he notes a shortage of equip-ment due to the restric-tions that are placed on people’s freedom. But despite the political chaos, life goes on in this corner of the world.
“People want all the same things that we have,” Shilling said. “They’re kind of enslaved by their own masters and by their so-called enemies. But when you start playing together and having fun together you kind of demystify the enemy ... It’s less about being a political act and just trying to make one friend at a time.”
While he realizes surfing
is not the answer to prob-lems in the Middle East, Shilling recognizes that it can build bridges and cre-ate what Paskowitz calls ‘moments of peacefulness.’
“My motto on the trip to the Mid-East was fun beats fundamentalism,” said Shilling, whose trip grew out of a “sense of complete despair” over what’s happening in the region.
“And the only way for-ward is peace. The greatest percentage of Israelis and Gazans and Palestinians, they want the same things. They want peace, they want to raise their fami-lies.
A year after his trip to Gaza, Shilling ventured to Egypt to meet the surfing Bedouins near Alexandria. Red tape prevented him from bringing Israeli surfer and skateboard champion Arthur Rashkovan, whom he had hoped would create a bond between Israelis and Egyptians.
Like the Gazans, the latter were thrilled with their new equipment and contact with the outside world.
Shilling undertook a third trip in 2011 to Hun-tington Beach, Calif., dur-ing the 10th anniversary of 9-11, to speak to surfers about using the sport as a
grassroots peacemaker — a concept he ponders in the book.
While in the birthplace of surfing in the U.S., he met a host of charac-ters including a Syrian-American Muslim woman who surfs in a ‘burqini,’ a man known as the Surf-ing Rabbi, and of course Paskowitz, who is still surfing in his 90s. Doc is credited with introduc-ing the sport to Israel in 1956 when he brought six boards to the country.
“When he went there, the Suez crisis broke out and there was a war going on,” Shilling said.
Ignoring the objections of authorities, Doc rode his first wave at Tel Aviv. He then gave his first lesson to an Arab life-
guard — and ever since has been trying to bring Arabs and Israelis together through surfing.
“I would say the devil in this is the unknown,” Shilling said in reference to the book title. “Once you get to know that person, that kind of idea disap-pears.
“It’s idealistic, but where’s the political process got us for the past 60 years? Maybe we should try something
else. For surfing you could substitute
music, you could substitute art, you could substitute soccer — anything that’s a common ground, a common passion where you get sup-posedly adversarial people together over a similar passion. You can accom-plish a lot.”
The book can be found at www.surfingwith-
thedevil.com. Shilling’s first
book, The Cedar Surf, provides an informal his-tory of surfing in
B.C. It was briefly a B.C. bestseller.
Both books are available at ama-zon.ca.
AUTHOR GRANT SHILLING of Cumberland is seen at top with Dorian (Doc) Paskowitz, the Father of Israeli Surfing. Shilling visited the Gaza Surf Club (also pictured) in 2009. He later wrote a book about his experience.
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There is only one more year until Comox Valley residents will no longer have to trek to the U.S. to go shopping at Target.
The company announced Thursday it will open a store in the Driftwood Mall in Courtenay in the sum-mer of 2013.
The announcement follows an announce-ment in January, when the Minneapolis-based retailer purchased up to 220 leaseholds currently operated as Zellers stores for $1.825 billion from the Hudson Bay Company, which owns the Zellers Inc. subsidiary.
Freda Colbourne, media spokesperson for Hudson Bay, told the Record in January that
Target had 220 stores to choose from.
“They may take them all; they may take less,” she added.
Fisher told media the announcement is the first wave in stores that will be converted, with 15 in total across B.C.
Founded in 1670, Hudson’s Bay Compa-ny is a conglomerate that operates the Bay, Zellers, Home Outfit-
ters and Fields stores. Competing against
other discount retail giants, Target oper-ates in nearly all of the United States offer-ing “trend-forward” merchandise at low cost, as opposed to the traditional concept of focusing on low-priced goods.
Target also announced it will open its Canadian headquar-ters in Mississauga,
Ont. In September, the company will announce a second wave of store sites, added Fisher.
In addition to the Driftwood Mall loca-tion, other Zellers stores on the Island slated to convert to Target include Discov-ery Harbour Shopping Centre in Campbell River, Nanaimo North Town Centre and Tilli-cum Mall in Victoria.
Beginning Sunday night, BC Hydro will increase the discharge from Comox Dam by about 50 per cent and keep it at that level Monday through Fri-day next week to con-trol the Comox Lake Reservoir level.
BC Hydro advises the public to be cau-tious of the Puntledge River during those days.
BC Hydro is cur-rently releasing about 32 cubic metres per second from its Comox Dam. The water dis-charge below the dam will increase to about 45 m3/s by Monday morning.
BC Hydro will then bring down the river flow to 32 m3/s out of consideration for week-end recreation.
It is likely river flows will be increased again, with caution sig-nage, for the following week during weekdays to help move water out of the reservoir (Comox Lake). Tubers should be cautious of the high-er-than-normal river flows.
As of late Thursday morning, the reservoir was at 135.05 metres and slowly rising, and was only about 25 centimetres from free-spilling over the dam.
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A NEW LOUNGE is available to make waiting more pleasant for Harbour Air customers in Comox. PHOTO SUBMITTED
Harbour Air offers lounge
Erin HaluschakRecord Staff
At nearly double the size of their past waiting lounge, Har-bour Air’s Comox base now has a new facility for guests, filled with leather chairs, refresh-ments and more space to protect travellers from the weather.
Andrew McMillan of Harbour Air explained the new facility, which arrived on-site at their departure facility at the Comox Marina about a month ago, helps guests with their comfort and relaxation prior to their flight.
“People have made note we’re here for the long haul,” said McMillan, who added
there have been a tre-mendous amount of people making the com-mute on the Comox-Vancover route.
He noted rather than taking the ferry, there are many people using the seaplane service to travel back-and-forth to Vancouver for medi-cal appointments.
“You can be back by 1 p.m. the same day,” he noted.
With both the Otter and Beaver planes available to guests (depending on passen-ger loads), McMillan said that guests can now travel between Comox and Vancouver in comfort in as little as 45 to 50 minutes.
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Elderly pilot succumbsRecord Staff
An as-yet-unidentified 74-year-old man has died as a result of injuries arising from the crash of an ultralight plane in the Black Creek area.
The man died in a Victoria hos-pital, Comox Valley RCMP reported Thursday.
The plane was heard to lose power, and crashed Saturday night
into some treetops about 100 feethigh, RCMP said earlier. The pilotfell from the plane, landing on theground below.
He was taken to the hospital in Campbell River, then airlifted toVictoria General Hospital.
The pilot’s name will not be released out of respect for the family,Comox Valley RCMP stated Thurs-day. The cause of the crash is stillbeing investigated.
Renée AndorRecord Staff
Comox Valley waters are filled with big chi-nook salmon lately, according to local fish-ing guide Steve Veloso.
After a day out on the water with his business, Island Pur-suit Sport F i s h i n g , V e l o s o decided to go out for fun to see if he could catch a big c h i n o o k s a l m o n w i t h a n o t h e r local guide, C h r i s Steinbach, after they’d been hear-ing rumours of big fish Saturday.
“We just kind of went out for fun to see what we could do about this, jokingly saying, ‘We’re not accepting anything less than a 40-pounder,’” said Velo-so. “Within four min-utes of fishing — boom — 44-pounder.
“So this thing hit like a truck and ran and ran to the point where we thought it was a halibut when it started to come up. And then it porpoised by the boat, we saw that it was a very big chinook, and of course, excitement, and we netted it and hooting and hollering.”
Veloso said he’s never heard of a 40-pound chinook being caught in the area in his life-time — which is just 24 years — but his family owns Portuguese Joe’s
Fish Market and he’s been fishing for most of his life.
Normally, a big chi-nook is 30 pounds, and that doesn’t happen very often, according to Veloso, adding this year is proving different.
“We caught the 44, followed after that with a 33-pounder, and I got a 30 the day after, and my friends were catch-ing a 30, and these are all big fish that you only see a couple guys get a year,” he said.
“ T h e y ’ r e becoming pretty reg-ular.”
He said the best shoreline in the area is near Kitty Coleman, Seal Bay N a t u r e Park and the Lazo
area generally — and he wants to promote the Comox Valley as a fishing destination.
He noted other areas are more known for fishing — like Camp-bell River — but the Comox Valley area has been more consistent this year.
“Campbell River, they’re on the map, and Langara (Island), and the West Coast, but so far, Comox has been the most consistent
spot all year,” he said, adding Campbell River charters have been coming into Comox Valley waters to fish lately. “They have been coming down our way, and it’s like an hour and a little bit run for
them, and it’s only half an hour for us.”
He noted reasons could be the large her-ring run this year, as herring are bait fish for salmon, or possibly a small change in the migratory run, with more fish going along Vancouver Island’s east coast instead of
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Where: Guthrie Rd between the intersections of Aspen Rd and Anderton RdStart: July 4th, 2012Anticipated Completion: July 31St, 2012Working Hours: 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
BC Hydro is making system improvements on Guthrie Road between the intersections of Aspen Road and Anderton Road. The work requires the installation of underground infrastructure and is required to meet the growing demand and increase system resiliency in the area. This is a continuation of work that was started last summer.
The work will result in delays for traffic along Guthrie Road between the intersections of Aspen Road and Anderton Road. When possible, plan an alternate route to avoid delay. To ensure the safety of workers, we remind drivers to reduce their speed in construction zones.
We appreciate your understanding while we undertake this work and apologize for any inconvenience.
For more information please contact: BC Hydro Community Relations, Vancouver Island Phone: 250 755 4713 Email: [email protected]
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Village agrees to go blueRecord Staff
Following a Blue Communities presen-tation from Linda Saf-ford on behalf of local branches of the Van-couver Island Water Watch Coalition and the Council of Cana-dians, Cumberland council resolved Mon-day to move towards eliminating the sales of bottled water at con-cessions.
Council’s decision also includes vending machines or Village facilities where tap water is available.
Coun. Kate Green-ing, who does not have a problem with bottled water, opposed the motion.
The coalition and council suggest bottled water represents a pri-vate takeover where corporations bottle and sell water at exorbitant rates.
The groups have also asked other Valley municipalities to recog-nize water as a human right, and to promote publicly owned and operated water and wastewater infrastruc-ture.
Council voted in favour of the former and an amended ver-sion of the latter with wastewater removed. They resolved to lobby senior levels of govern-ment to invest in water infrastructure funding and to build new sys-tems.
Coun. Conner Cope-man opposed the reso-lution, which will be forwarded to the Fed-eration of Canadian Municipalities.
“I believe we’re going to restrict ourselves,” he said.
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invited to an official opening of Cumber-land’s off-leash dog park Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Village Park.
GRAND MASTER SERVES Comox Valley Freemasons recently provided and served a lunch of ham and scalloped potatoes for the Sonshine Club at St. George’s United Church. Murray Webster (centre), the Grand Master of all B.C. and Yukon Freemasons, was one of the servers.
HELPING HANDS Strathcona Sunrise Rotary Club members help spruce up Camp Gilwell with desperately needed repairs for Scouts Canada.
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On July 16, the Comox Valley Regional District is holding a free information ses-sion so people can learn about the electoral area home energy incentive program, aimed at helping residents save money on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The session will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the CVRD boardroom at 550B Comox Rd. in Courtenay. There will be certified energy advisers on hand to provide information on the energy assessment process and rebates for existing homes, new home construction and major renovations.
The session is free, but space is limited so pre-registration is required. To register, or for more information, e-mail [email protected] or call 250-334-6006.
The program begins July 23 and runs until year end.
The home retrofit program was developed to offset the costs of the two home energy assessments that are required to become eli-gible for the LiveSmart
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You can fight greenhouse gasesEstuary plants examined
The next Experience the Estuary activity this Sunday will be a plant identification walk at the confluence of the Puntledge and Tsolum rivers.
This outing is part of the series of events co-ordinated by Proj-ect Watershed Society, part of the 2012 Keep-ing it Living campaign raising awareness for the protection and res-toration of the Cour-tenay River (K’ómoks) estuary. The influence of the estuary’s brack-ish waters extend upstream to encom-pass the lower portion of these rivers.
The outing will be led by Barb Whyte of the K’ómoks First Nation, a registered aboriginal agricultur-al wildcrafter with a medical background.
Meet at 1 p.m. at Riverside Park on Anderton Avenue in Courtenay (near the outdoor fitness equip-ment across from the Florence Filberg Cen-tre). From there, par-ticipants will carpool to the start of the walk. The trail is rough and may be wet if it has rained.
The walk is by dona-tion ($8 to 10 sug-gested) with proceeds going to the Keeping it Living 2012 cam-paign. Pre-registration is required as numbers will be limited.
Contact [email protected] by July 13.
The 2012 Keeping it Living finale Day of the Estuary on July 28 is fast approaching — with opportunities to Experience the Estuary with children’s events, nature walks, a flotilla across the estuary, and indoor displays; and the Art for the Estu-ary silent auction and competition, prints and posters, and draw prizes.
Visit the Keeping it Living website at www.keepingitliving.ca for more information on the day, to view the art, and to bid online for it.
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TERRY THORMIN LEADS A bug walk.
Local butterfly count resumingComox Valley Nature is
renewing its annual traditional of carrying out an annual but-terfly count.
Butterfly counts as an impor-tant index of insect and floral diversity and an excellent way to monitor climate variations and environmental stressors. This is a unique opportunity to learn to identify local but-terflies.
Although originally planned for June, the butterfly count had to bemoved due to the record precipitation experienced in June.
The count will be held this Saturday. Participants should meet at 10 a.m. at the Old Church Theatre on Harmston Street in Courtenay, or at 10:30 at Cumberland Marsh. Parking
is at Jumbo’s Cabin. This public activity is free of
cost and is open to people of all ages. Butterflies will be count-ed and professionally identified by Terry Thormin.
Photographer and naturalist extraordinaire, Terry Thormin recently retired to the Comox Valley after 23 years at the Royal Alberta Museum where he curated the entomology col-lection.
Terry has been a naturalist all his life and first became interested in insects in his early teens. Anyone interested in an illustrated insight into the world of Terry should visit www.pbase.com/terrythormin.
Comox Valley Nature is a non-profit society affiliated to BC Nature which fulfills its
educational mandate by host-ing monthly lectures, organiz-ing weekly guided hikes and undertakes a variety of envi-ronmental projects. Founded in 1966, it is one of the oldest environmental societies on the North Island.
Meetings and lectures of the Comox Valley Naturalists Soci-ety are held on the third Sunday of most months at the Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay.
Meetings and guided walks are open to the public, including children and youth. (No dogs on walks, please). New member-ships are always welcomed.
For more information on CVNS, visit www.comoxvalley-naturalist.bc.ca or contact L. Maingon at 250-331-0143.
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Comox Valley resi-dents are urged to help ‘top-up’ the blood sup-ply at their local blood donor clinic before heading off on their summer travels.
Canadian Blood Ser-vices needs 4,300 more donors across Canada to book an appoint-ment and donate blood between July 16 and Aug. 6.
“We need 800 appointments in B.C. booked this summer to keep up with hospital demand, and patients are counting on more people to become blood donors,” said Ed Yee, Regional Director, Donor and Clinic Ser-vices. “If you’ve made an appointment, please honour it. If you haven’t made one, please book one today.”
With a patient some-where in Canada need-ing blood every minute of every day, a constant supply of new blood donations is required. Most often, it takes more than one donor’s unit of blood to save a patient’s life. A single car accident victim may require 50 units of blood and blood prod-ucts to survive inju-ries.
Increased traffic usu-ally means more car accidents on roadways. Every donor who books and keeps an appoint-ment this summer will provide the additional supply of blood prod-ucts needed for hospi-tal patients.
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more people have died on Canada’s roads in the last 50 years than the number of Cana-dians killed in both world wars.
• Road traffic inju-ries are the second leading cause of death for young people aged five to 25.
• According to the Canada Safety Council website, almost half of all road fatalities and about 40 per cent of serious injuries occur on undivided rural roads.
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