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Light Up boasts biggest paradeLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

For many people in (or from) Ladysmith, the Christmas season hasn’t started until they’ve been to Light Up.

Last Thursday, the Christmas sea-son started in spectacular fashion when thousands of people came to town to celebrate Light Up and the beginning of the Festival of Lights.

Duck Paterson, a town councillor and member of the Ladysmith Kins-men Club who emceed the event, says this year’s parade was the larg-est parade ever at Light Up. There were 76 entries, but many had mul-tiple vehicles, and he figures there were more than 100 vehicles in total in the parade, which is sponsored by the Ladysmith Kinsmen Club.“It was quite impressive,” he said. During the parade, Paterson

passed on apologies from Cumber-land Ready Mix, as they were unable to bring their cement truck down this year because they were so busy.

Paterson was impressed that Spick & Sons Projects Ltd. came all the way from Powell River to bring their truck with all the lights and trees to Ladysmith just for the parade.

Paterson estimates about 15,000 people were at Light Up this year, down from the 22,000 to 23,000 that came last year. The weather may have played a factor.

Greg Edwards, vice-president of the Festival of Lights Society, feels Light Up was a spectacular night.“The crowd was awesome as usual,

we had new entertainers that were spectacular, and everyone seemed to love the parade,” he said. “It was great to see the smiles on the young folks’ faces and on the older folks as well.”

Edwards is thankful to everyone who helps make Light Up a success.“To our fantastic sponsors, the

Ladysmith and District Credit Union for the fireworks and to all

of Ladysmith and all the folks and businesses who donate to us to help make it possible, we greatly appreci-ate them,” he said. “They make it ex-tra special, and we appreciate them deeply for what they do for Festival of Lights and for the community.”

Edwards says they had even more volunteers than in recent years.“Once again, the volunteers outdid

themselves in helping this festival be the success it is,” he said.

Cliff Fisher, the president of the Festival of Lights Society, thought it was a really good night.

He was pleased with the amount of buses that came, and he says the craft fair was busier than previous years. Fisher also believes the new entertainers, VestaFire, got a lot of the younger people interested.“There were a lot more LEDs in the

system this year, and they sparkled when the lights went on,” said Fisher.

“The fireworks were superb. They changed it around this year in their sequence. We’re really proud of that, and I think the Ladysmith and Dis-trict Credit Union is very proud of that because they sponsor it.”

Fisher feels we got lucky with weather, as the rain mostly held off, and he says traffic flowed smoothly in and out of town. “The parade was spectacular,” he

added.Fisher and Edwards are both leav-

ing the Festival of Lights Society this year, and Fisher says the society is now looking for new people to get involved for next year’s Light Up.

Fisher has volunteered with Festi-val of Lights for seven or eight years.“What really strikes me is how

people in the community, you don’t even know them and sometimes you don’t even see their faces, they just handle something, they just join in,” he said. “The community gets in-volved and makes it happen. It’s just so much a part of the community.”

The lights will now stay on until the second weekend in January.

This truck from Spick & Sons Projects Ltd. came all the way from Powell River to participate in the Kinsmen Parade during Light Up Nov. 27 in downtown Ladysmith. This year parade featured more than 100 vehicles and was the largest one yet. For more photos from Light Up, please turn to page 15. EDWARD MCCREA

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Communication, education key for StoneLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

Ladysmith’s new mayor is excited to move forward on is-sues that will make the community he loves even better.

Aaron Stone, who will be turning 40 this year and was success-ful in his first bid for municipal politics in November, was sworn in as Ladysmith’s new mayor Monday, Dec. 1. “The main reason that I ran for mayor is that it wasn’t because I wanted to be mayor as much as I wanted to serve Ladysmith,” he said. “I grew up here, I love this community and I believe that the difference I have, just in being younger and coming up through a different time gives me a different per-spective on things that we can do here and what the potential is, while still under-standing that there are some real hard issues to deal with.”

Stone says he felt that with his personal-ity, his public speaking abilities and his abili-ties to connect people in a way that’s maybe a bit more modern than what has been done in the past, he was prob-ably better suited to being a mayor than a councillor.“It really came down to what role I felt I could best fill for the community,” he said.

“I felt that I’m 40 years old this year coming up, I have time and energy to give to the community in terms of where I am at my stage of life, and I felt if I started now, it would give me an opportu-nity to sort of take on

the challenge while I still have the energy for it to become accli-mated to the level of work that’s involved.”

Stone realizes that people seem to expect information from the town in a different way, and he is eager to connect and com-municate in different ways.“I’ve always been able

to find out the infor-mation I wanted by just asking, but people expect a different sort of communications plan and strategy in today’s times, espe-cially the core group of people who need to be reached more on a mu-nicipal level, and that’s the younger people,” he said. “The people under 50 years old ex-pect a different way of being informed, and the use of social media is a big piece of that, as well as just focus-ing on pushing it onto people’s plates so they have the information.”

Stone is really ex-cited about the council that is coming in and the diversity he sees around the council table, with three new councillors (Carol Henderson, Cal Fradin and Joe Freisenhan), two incumbents (Steve Arnett and Duck Pater-son) and former mayor Rob Hutchins. “The reality is differ-

ences of opinion and differences of per-spective will lead to decisions that provide strong governance and strong perspec-tive,” he said. “It is not a criticism to pre-vious councils at all, but it’s very clear to me in talking to differ-ent people, both the new and the existing council that have been

re-elected, that there is a strong willingness to work together, but coming from differ-ent perspectives, and I think that’s a really valuable tool and will lead to a strong term for all of us.”

In terms of priorities, Stone feels there are some house-cleaning items that need to come onto the front burner right away.“We need to resolve

issues that have been kind of bandied about in the community for too long, variances and some of the other pieces,” he said.

When it comes to larger goals, he feels the top three priori-ties he spoke about while campaigning are still high priorities — transparency and com-munication from City Hall, reinvigorating downtown Ladysmith and beyond, and wa-terfront development.

With City Hall, Stone would like to see coun-cil meetings online so that they can be streamed, he would like to see the Town get information out to the public as soon as it is reasonably able to, and he would like to see town hall meetings that may have a dif-ferent look than what people have seen in the past.

“I’ve talked with our First Nations coun-cil, a couple members, about doing joint town hall meetings a couple times a year where we have one in Ladysmith where the whole com-munity’s invited from our First Nation and from Ladysmith and we say ‘let’s all get to-gether and talk about our plans together’ and be able to connect our communities on a broader piece than just the two councils connecting,” he said.

“As a spinoff from that, we need to up the en-gagement level on cul-ture and celebrations and things like that so that when we have our Light Up or we have our Ladysmith Days, that Stz’uminus First Nation is front and centre as well. And from an arts and culture piece, in terms of installations in Ladysmith, you wouldn’t walk through Ladysmith and think we have a rich First Nations past, and I’d like to see that get upped as well. And that will take time, but I think the pieces that all go into that and incorporating the re-sources and co-opera-tion on things like the Waterfront Area Plan will only really show its true value when we

connect the culture piece and the art piece to it as well.”

When it comes to the business environment, Stone thinks more in terms of reinvigora-tion than revitaliza-tion. He’d like to get the energy back onto First Avenue and be-yond and start moving the yardsticks for busi-ness development.“That doesn’t mean

that the mayor and council are now going to be tasked with de-veloping businesses in Ladysmith, but what it does mean is that we need to engage the businesspeople, the leaders that we have here, the Cham-ber of Commerce, the Ladysmith Downtown Business Association, to put plans out there that can be supported by council as a re-source and how those opportunities will look, they will have to take shape, but if we’re all on the same page when it comes to eco-nomic development and tourism develop-ment, there’s a much greater chance of suc-cess,” he said.

Stone thinks the wa-terfront could very well be the most im-portant issue, although he believes these ele-ments have to happen on parallel tracks.“I see the next year

being the year of the waterfront plan be-cause I think we need to look at the frame-work we have in place that provides a solid jumping-off point and

bringing it back to the community to find out what the vision really is,” he said. “I think that’s probably going to be the most public piece that we see over the next year.”

Education is a key for Stone, and he’d like to see council offering a primer for the public that summarizes all the documents those sitting around the council table must di-gest when it comes to something like infra-structure issues.“It’s our responsibility

to make sure people are informed and not to take away people’s desire for certain amenities or tax cuts or whatever it is they feel they desire from their local government, but so that they un-derstand what the re-alities of the situation are,” he said.

Stone says he would like to be known as a mayor who is acces-sible.“I feel passionate

about so many things that I feel I can bring a real broad perspective to what can be attrac-tive as a place to live, a place to visit and a place to stay and play. I hope that makes me more accessible to people, that they feel they can talk to me and be straight with me and understand that we may not always agree, but I’m willing and ready to hear that feedback, especially if it’s delivered in a re-spectful and construc-tive way,” he said.

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You can sponsor a breakfast

Ladysmith Family and Friends (LaFF)’s annual Breakfast With Santa is taking place this Saturday (Dec. 6) at Aggie Hall, with the first seating from 8-10 a.m., and the second seating from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Tickets are $8 each and are available at the Frank Jameson Community Centre. Children under the age of two get in for free.

LaFF has had great support form the community already, but sometimes, a family wants to attend but can’t afford to, and there is an opportunity for individuals and businesses to sponsor a breakfast for other people for $6 per person.

If you can’t afford a ticket but would like to attend the breakfast, please contact Jacquie Neligan with LaFF at 250-210-0870.

LaFF’s Breakfast With Santa is sponsored by the Ladysmith Rotary Club, the Ladysmith and District Credit Union and community members.

Christmas Walking Tour this Saturday

The ninth annual Chemainus Christmas Walking Tour takes place this Saturday (Dec. 6) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The tour features tastings and treats, music and entertainment, door prizes and a grand prize draw.

Dine for Destiny

The Saltair Pub is hosting a Dine for Destiny fundraiser Saturday, Dec. 6 from 1-4 p.m. For $20, you can get a beer and a burger and help raise money for Destiny Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya.

While you are at the pub, you can bid on a variety of silent auction items donated by area businesses and take part in a 50/50 draw.

Money raised will go towards the Cowichan/Chemainus Valley-based Destiny Initiative, which enables Destiny Children’s Home to continue providing its children with a safe and comfortable living environment.

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This Friday, it’s a chance to slow down and soak up the Christmas spirit dur-ing the third annual Old Tyme Christ-mas and Candlelight Walk.

From 5-8 p.m., there will be many activities for the whole family inside and outside busi-nesses in downtown Ladysmith.

Turn black the clock and experience the warmth and magic

of a 1920s Christmas, with everything from roasted chestnuts and caroling to horse and carriage rides.

Learn how to make candle lanterns dur-ing a workshop at Antique Addict from 5-7 p.m. and then join the elf stretch and the Candlelight Walk, which leaves from Antique Addict at 7 p.m.

Take in the Live Na-tivity Scene near the chess board from 6-7 p.m. You’ll be able to

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riage rides from the library parking lot and enjoy the sounds of choirs caroling along the street.

Santa will be at the 49th Parallel parking lot from 5-8 p.m.Warm up by the out-

door fires at the li-brary parking lot and at Ladysmith and District Credit Union.

Throughout the evening, the trolley will be running to get you from one end of First Avenue to the other.

Volunteers from Oceanview Commu-

nity Church will be offering child mind-ing services upstairs at the Legion, and they have a lot of fun activities planned. There will be five craft tables, and the room will be decorat-ed and music will be playing. Bill Young will be reading sto-ries to the children at 5:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

There will be many activities inside the downtown busi-nesses, including crafts, games, story time, letters to Santa and more, and many businesses are of-fering treats and in-store specials.

Look for maps at downtown busi-nesses to show you where all the activi-ties are or search for Old Tyme Christmas and Candlelight Walk on Facebook.

Stores will be open for late-night shop-ping until 8 p.m. so that you can check all your gifts off your Christmas shopping list.

Find the elf on a shelf during a scav-enger hunt in par-ticipating businesses while you stroll up and down First Av-enue and our side streets, and you just might win a prize.

Following Old Tyme Christmas, the late-night shop-ping continues, with many downtown stores staying open until 8 p.m. on Dec. 12 and 19.

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New research conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has shown that the common blood pressure drug verapamil completely reverses diabetes in animal models. Now, thanks to a three-year, $2.1 million grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, UAB re-searchers will begin conducting a potentially groundbreak-

ing clinical trial in 2015 to see if it can do the same in humans. The trial is scheduled to begin early next year and has come to fruition after more than a decade of research efforts in UAB’s Comprehensive Diabetes Center.

The trial will test an approach different from any current diabetes treatment by focusing on promoting specialized cells in the pancreas called beta cells, which produce insulin the body needs to control blood sugar. Several studies in the past have cured diabetes in the early phases, but failed during the human clinical trials. “None of the therapies are actually addressing the underlying cause, namely the destruction and loss of insulin-producing Beta cells,” said Dr. Anath Shalev, director of the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center.

UAB scientists have proven through years of research that high blood sugar causes the body to overproduce a protein called TXNIP. Too much TXNIP in the pancreatic beta cells leads to their deaths and prevents the production of insulin, which contributes to the progression of diabetes. But UAB scientists have also uncovered that the drug verapamil, which is widely used to treat high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat and migraine headaches, can lower TXNIP levels in these beta cells — to the point that, when mouse models with established diabetes and blood sugars above 300 milligrams per deciliter (16.6 mmol/L) were treated with verapamil, the disease was eradicated.

While other tests have struggled with the transition from animal models to human mod-els, Dr. Shalev said this one could be different because of its target. “TXNIP is extremely well-conserved across species, almost identical in rat, mice, and human,” she said. Most of the other tests focused on the auto-immune system, which is drastically different between humans and mice, according to Dr. Shalev.

The human clinical test, which is being labeled, “the repurposing of verapamil as a beta cell survival therapy in type 1 diabetes,” will begin in early 2015. It will be a double-blind study, with 52 participants between the ages of 19 and 45 that have been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes within three months. . Half will be given placebo and half will be given verapamil. They will take one tablet orally once daily. The study will last one year.

Fernando Ovalle, M.D., another director of UAB’s Comprehensive Diabetes Clinic and co-principal investigator of the study, said “Currently, we can prescribe external insulin and other medications to lower blood sugar; but we have no way to stop the destruction of beta cells, and the disease continues to get worse. If verapamil works in humans, it would be a truly revolutionary development”.

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Stz’uminus First Nation Councillor Tim Harris (far left) drums during a traditional Blanketing Ceremony for outgoing Ladysmith mayor Rob Hutchins and his wife Susan Nov. 25 at the Ladysmith Maritime Society Welcome Centre. The ceremony was part of an evening celebrating the completion of a Water and Sewer Servicing Agreement between the two communities. Please see next week’s paper for more. Lindsay Chung

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New format for Festival of TreesLindsay Chungthe chronicle

The fourth annual Festival of Trees in Chemainus will have a dif-ferent format this December.

The Festival of Trees, which is sponsored by Chemainus Gar-dens, took place at the pavilion at Chemainus Gardens in the past, but this year, the trees will be displayed inside the sponsors’ businesses in Chemainus between Dec. 5 and Dec. 20. People will pick up passports at the Chemainus Gardens Info Cen-tre at Chemainus Village Square and then go around to each partici-pating business to get a stamp and then vote on their favourite tree for the People’s Choice Award. Once people have gotten all the stamps on their passport, they can enter a draw to win one of several donated merchant prizes.

Chemainus photographer Daphne Carlyle will judge the 10 trees this year.“Because the community has sup-

ported us so well, we have given the sponsors the opportunity to put the trees up on display in their place of business,” explained Festival of Trees coordinator Margaret Perry.

Passports can be picked up at the Chemainus Visitor Centre and at the Chemainus Gardens Info Cen-tre at Chemainus Village Square, starting Friday, Dec. 5. At the Chemainus Gardens Info

Centre at Chemainus Village Square, people can bid on silent auction items and make a donation to Kid-Sport Cowichan while picking up and dropping off their passports.

There will be a poetry compe-tition once again this year. The theme for this year’s competition is

“Christmas Magic.” The competition is open for children and youth liv-ing in Chemainus, Crofton, Saltair and Ladysmith, and there are three age categories: six to nine, 10 to 13, and 14 to 17. First place only will be awarded in each age group.

Poetry submissions will be ac-cepted from now through to Dec. 12. Submissions must be signed by the author, and the author’s name, age and phone number must be printed on the reverse. Poems can be sent by fax to 250-246-2491 or mailed to Poetry Mailbox, c/o Chemainus Gardens, Box 367, Chemainus B.C., V0R 1K0.

Future Shop has donated the priz-es for the winners, and Susan Mar-tin is facilitating the competition once again this year.

This year, the Festival of Trees will be supporting the non-profit or-ganization Kidsport Cowichan. “All the money from the silent auc-tion, trees and financial donations goes to KidSport Cowichan,” ex-plained Perry. “We believe in sup-porting children and families, and sport is a very positive thing.”

Kidsport Cowichan is a communi-ty-based volunteer-managed char-ity that provides grants for children living anywhere from Ladysmith to Mill Bay to participate in a season of sport. Funds raised locally are distributed locally to cover the reg-istration fees associated with play-ing organized sports.

The Festival of Trees grand finale will take place Saturday, Dec. 20 at 9:30 a.m. at Chemainus Village Square, featuring the presentation of donations, the passport prize draws, the announcement of the poetry competition winners and the presentation of tree plaques.

Dave Dunn (left), Jim Delcourt and Chris Saunders sell hot dogs and collect food donations outside 49th Parallel Grocery in Ladysmith during the Kinsmen Hot Dog Sale and Food Drive Nov. 15. This year, the Kinsmen raised $1,500 and more food than they ever have. Delcourt thanks 49th Parallel Grocery, the Sporstman Hotel, Dan Hunter Denturist, Farmer Ben’s Eggs, the Ladysmith Am-bassador Program and everyone who donated food and bought hot dogs for their support. Lindsay Chung

Hard work in high school pays off — just ask Keauna Dodd.

Dodd, a top graduating stu-dent from Ladysmith Second-ary School last June, received a full tuition President’s En-trance Scholarship for High School Students to attend Van-couver Island University (VIU) in Nanaimo for the 2014-15 school year.

The potential value of the award is between $20,000 and $25,000 over four years. The scholarship is renewable each year for a maximum of five years, based on academic per-formance.

Dodd, who is currently en-rolled in VIU’s Bachelor of Arts program, is among 23 first-year students to receive entrance scholarships to VIU for this academic year.“We’re proud to support our

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nities at VIU.”While attending Ladysmith

Secondary School, Dodd led a school-wide campaign for the elimination of violence against women. She also directed a musical production in her se-nior year and travelled across Canada to study French.

Dodd is excited about pursu-ing her post-secondary educa-tion at VIU’s Nanaimo campus because it’s close to home. She hopes to get involved in Nanai-mo’s community theatre scene and VIU student productions and eventually wants to pursue a career in acting.

VIU introduced the awards program in 2008. Scholarships are issued in three categories: top graduating students from Vancouver Island and Powell River high schools, top gradu-ating Aboriginal students and scholar athletes.—Submitted by VIU

LSS grad earns scholarship

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Once upon a time, it only h a p p e n e d on Saturday m o r n i n g s

— mini-cartoons during the commercial break, urging kids to follow the rainbow to a bowl of sug-ary cereal.

Now, with dedicated youth television chan-nels, the barrage of food advertising directed at children is non-stop.

Health advocates like the Heart and Stroke Fund and Toronto’s medical officer of health have called for bans on food advertising to chil-dren.

They point out that just watching two hours of television a day can equal seeing 20,000 com-mercials per year. Over 50 per cent of those ad-vertisements will be for food.

And according to an Ip-sos-Reid poll, more than 80 per cent of parents

want limits placed on the advertising of junk food and drinks to chil-dren.

That’s why NDP Leader Tom Mulcair committed to banning food adver t i s ing directed at children.

He said: “Good nutri-tion is smart public policy, and we know that eating more nutritious food means that Canadians live lon-ger, better lives. We’ll put the power to make healthy food choices back in the hands of par-ents.”

I know that our com-munities are dealing with an epidemic of obesity.

Along with the concerns about physi-cal health, the mental health of children dealing with weight issues is a growing concern.

When Alvena Little Wolf-Ear of Nanaimo went public with her story of bullying,

the nine-year-old revealed that many taunts were associated with her weight, as well as her First Nation heri-tage.

Quebec banned adver-tising to children over 30 years ago. And today, it has the fewest children with obesity in Canada.

Voluntary regulations haven’t worked.

While some major junk food companies stopped using television ads for marketing to children in 2007, the overall volume of ads hasn’t declined according to a study released in the journal Obesity in July 2014.

And some of the adver-tisers that stopped tele-vision ads now use other advertising methods, like sponsoring school food programs, to ensure chil-dren see their products day-in and day-out.

That’s why a national ban on food advertis-ing directed at children makes sense. Countries like Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom have already done it.

If we act now, not only will we have healthier children, who will be less likely to suffer from chronic diseases like heart disease and dia-betes, but we will also prevent a future public health crisis.

The Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the prov-ince’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, PO Box 1356, Ladysmith, B.C. V9G 1A9. For information phone 1-888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

“Big Lar” (a baseball dream)Editor: The young man quickly finished his lunch and couldn’t

wait to get to the park. Finally, the big game, and, who knows, he might even get to play. Yes, it was a great day for baseball. Not a cloud in the sky, and the infield grass was perfectly trimmed.

As he entered the clubhouse, the old manager was al-ready waiting for him.

“Where ya from?” Casey asked. “Chemainus,” he proudly replies. Stengel just shook his head and mum-bled “never heard of it.”

Quickly, the new player put on his flannel uniform and headed to the diamond. Along with plenty of laughter, the smell of popcorn and hot dogs filled the air.

Casey yells, “Hurry up boy, they’re already on the field warming up.” After a few warm-up laps, “Joltin’ Joe” comes up and asks “What’s your name, big guy?” With a nervous smile, the younger says, “Larry.”

The game flew by quickly. The sun was disappearing behind the left field bleachers. Just then, the umpire yells out “Last inning, boys.”

Casey looks down the bench and calls to Larry, “Grab a bat; you’re pinch hitting for ‘The Babe.’” Larry ner-vously walks to the on-deck circle and scans the huge crowd. They seem a blur, but for a second, he’d thought he’d seen a middle-aged couple that looked like his par-ents.

After taking two 97-mph fastballs for strikes, Larry outguessed the pitcher and hit a slow curve to right for his first hit. As he gets to first, ‘Stan the Man’ says, “What’s your name, son?” With a huge grin, the young man says “Everyone calls me Big Lar.”

Larry felt a big pat on his back from the first base coach, and when he turned around, his old friend Son-ny says, “You’re gonna love it here.”

Ted Puska Sr.Ladysmith

Stuff-a-Truck helps food banksEditor: On Dec. 8-12, the Stuff-a-Truck event sponsored by

Juice FM (formerly Sun FM) will be at the Save-On-Foods store in Duncan from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. When you go there to buy for yourself, remember the needs of others and pick out something to donate to them. Stuff-a-Truck donations will be shared with five food banks in this area. Don’t forget that everyone needs those personal products such as toilet paper, shampoo, shaving cream and razors, feminine supplies, toothbrushes, toothpaste and diapers. The Food Bank buys only food and depends on you to supply these extras. You will be thanked and will feel good.

We are looking for volunteers to help at the truck for a couple of hours gathering the donations, thanking the people and sorting the items. Call Caroline at 250-245-2426 for more information.

Food Bank recipients often try to give something back to the Bank. One senior woman brings herbs and veg-etables from her garden as her way of paying back. One woman has helped on the committee working for home-less people. Some young men help by carrying groceries for seniors. Many others offer help in some way.

Caroline H. DavidsonLadysmith

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Pickell celebrates completion of � rst kids’ bookLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

This summer, Lady-smith’s Colin Pick-ell realized just how much support he has in the community when he launched a successful crowd-funding campaign to release his first chil-dren’s book.And now that the

book has been print-ed, he’s ready to cel-ebrate with everyone in Ladysmith.

Pickell, who man-ages the 49th Café, is just days away from receiving the physical copies of his hardcov-er book Who Will Tuck Me Into Bed?, which features illustrations by Amanda Key, a re-cent graduate of the Vancouver Island Uni-versity graphic design program. The book, which started seven years ago as an idea Pickell had while he was putting his son to bed, was complet-ed after Pickell sur-passed his goal of rais-ing $7,000 through the crowdfunding web-site Kickstarter in ear-ly July. Who Will Tuck Me Into Bed? is being sold as an e-book and as a hardcover book.

Pickell is celebrating with a book launch party Sunday, Dec. 14 from 7:30-9 p.m. at 49th Café. “For me, because my

Kickstarter campaign was so public and I was asking people for their support, I re-ally wanted people to come together both to see the finished product, and to thank them for their sup-port,” he said. “It will be casual, just drop-in, and there will be cof-fee, tea and snacks. Amanda is going to be there, and we will be signing books.”

Pickell will be able to hand-deliver the Kickstarter rewards to his supporters at

the book launch, and everybody is wel-come.“The Kickstarter

campaign made me realize the kind of support I have in this community, and it will be neat to hand out the Kickstarter re-wards in person,” he said.

Earlier that day, Pickell will be read-ing Who Will Tuck Me Into Bed? at Aggie Hall as part of a story-telling matinee party for children hosted by Ladysmith Family and Friends (LaFF) from 2-3:30 p.m.

The idea for Who Will Tuck Me Into Bed? came to Pick-ell about seven years ago, when his oldest son was a baby. One night, when he was snuggling him and singing him a lullaby, an image came to him that made him laugh

—  what if he were an opera singer, and he didn’t know how to soothe his son to sleep because all he could do was belt out operas? From there, Pickell created a fam-ily of characters, and he wrote the book off and on for many years, making a conscious effort to write the book about two and a half years ago.

Pickell says the moment when his Kickstarter campaign reached its funding goal was amazing.

“I think of myself as a positive person, but I honestly did not know if I was going to make it or not, but there was this incredible push in the last few days,” he said. “There was this incredible relief and celebra-tion and knowing we were going to be able to go ahead with the project. It kind of sur-prised me somewhat that an idea I had come up with one day had grown to this and I was able to raise the funds. It was really an incredible feeling.”

Once the Kickstarter campaign was suc-cessful, Pickell and Key were able to map out a plan for the rest of the book, and they started making a task list.

In late September, Pickell and Key start-ed meeting, and Key would send him drafts of her illustrations.“It was pretty cool —

I would show my boys, and they would see something that didn’t make sense to them,” said Pickell.

Key sent Pickell the final proofs on Oct. 31, and after going back and forth for a few days, they had the book to the print-ers, a company called PrintNinja, on Nov. 5 so they could guaran-tee a delivery of Dec. 7 in time for Christmas.

The book is cur-rently on sale as a pre-

order on the website www.tuckmeintobed.com as a hardcover

book and as an e-book.

Pickell hopes to

have physical copies for sale locally at Sala-mander Books before

Christmas, and books will be sold at 49th Café after Dec. 14.

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Blues guitar virtuoso David Gogo will be performing this Satur-day (Dec. 6) at In The Beantime Café.

Gogo has amassed a worldwide fanbase and an impressive list of accomplishments over the years.

He has earned four Juno Award nomina-

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Gogo has released 13 albums to date and has

been a guest on a num-ber of recordings.

He’ll be performing solo when he comes to Ladysmith, and tickets are $35 for dinner and the show or $20 for the show only. Dinner be-gins at 6 p.m.

***This Sunday night

(Dec. 7), local church-es will present the 28th annual Christmas Festival of Choirs at

Bethel Tabernacle in Ladysmith.

The music begins at 6:30 p.m., and dona-tions for the Christ-mas Cheer Fund will be accepted.

***The Chemainus Sec-

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The dancers will be performing Wednes-day, Dec. 10 and Thurs-day, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. at the school. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors or $20 for a family of four (two adults and two stu-dents/seniors).

Tickets can be pur-chased at the CSS front office or at the door.

During the dance showcases, there will be a raffle, as well as a bake sale, and audi-ence members will have a chance to win a door prize each night.

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Improv shows starts Dec. 4Lindsay Chungthe chronicle

It may be one of the longest-running theatrical shows in our area. It’s definitely one of the most playful.

It’s Ladysmith Secondary School (LSS)’s annual improv show. The 15th annual show, Mission Improvable, runs Dec. 4-6 and 11-13 at the school.

About 50 students are in the show.

Every year, the students are challenged to come up with a theme, and Jennifer Lanbie chose this year’s spy theme. Lanbie is emceeing the show and also stage-managing the show with Lauren Bush.“Improvised theatre and the

way we practise it is storytell-ing; it’s improv for the purpose of storytelling rather than ex-ploring a character,” explained drama teacher Bill Taylor. “One of the guiding principles is you say yes to offers from your teammates. The stories are not pre-planned; they evolve in the moment based on audience par-ticipation and the team. We take much of our guidance from the Canada Improv Games, which we also participate in.”

The show features students from Grade 7-12 who are do-ing everything from sound and

lighting to choreography and set painting.“For me, this theatre is an edu-

cational theatre, so in the end, it’s important to me that the students are really engaged in the process of creation,” said Taylor.

The shows will feature musi-cal cameos by LSS alumni, in-cluding Ryan McMahon, The Wild Romantics, Kerry Ryan, David Bitonti and Stephanie Humphreys.“It’s a really nice place to come

and support our youth as they engage in a very theatrical pro-cess,” said Taylor. “In the past,

people have found it very play-ful and funny and good for all age groups. There’s a real com-munity feel.”

Parents Aisha Alsop and Kim-berley O’Donnell  have been volunteering to help with the shows, as has Natasha Sharpe.

The shows take place Dec. 4, 5 and 6 and Dec. 11, 12 and 13 at LSS. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and shows start at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $7 for students and seniors and $10 for adults, and the price of admission includes pie and coffee or tea. Tickets are available at Salamander Books and at LSS.

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Ladysmith Secondary School students present their spy-themed im-prov show, Mission Improvable, Dec. 4-6 and 11-13. Lindsay Chung

The holiday season is fast ap-

proaching, and on behalf of the Seniors Office of the Ladysmith Re-sources Centre As-sociation (LRCA), I would like to wish everyone a healthy and happy holiday season.

On Friday, Dec. 12, the Handy-Dart bus will be on display in the parking lot on the lower level of the Ladysmith Resources Centre from 1-3 p.m.

Since October, the HandyDart service has been available for door-to-door shared transit service for people with per-manent or tempo-rary disabilities that prevent them from using fixed-route transit.

The bus is only available on Tues-days and Fridays at present. The toll-free number to call for more enquiries is 1-855-748-1230.

Anyone from the community is welcome to drop by the Resources Centre at 630 Sec-ond Ave. to have a look at the bus and talk with the driver.

The Salvation Army is sponsor-ing a Christmas Delivery Program Christmas Eve 2014 this year for seniors in the com-munity who are shut in or would otherwise be alone at Christmas.

If you would like to be included in the program, you are required to fill in a consent form.

Enquiries can be made at the LRCA or by phoning Kar-en Addison at 250-668-4521.

On Friday, Jan. 15, the Seniors Of-fice will be host-ing an Information Session on Brain Health and the Ten Warning Signs of Dementia, which will be presented by Jane Hope.

Jane is the Sup-port and Educa-tion Co-ordinator,

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The Information Session will be held at the Eagles Hall from 1:30-3:30 p.m., and there will be refresh-ments and door prizes.

The session is open to the public in Ladysmith as well as the seniors.

For more infor-mation or to regis-ter for the session, please call Barb at 250-245-3079.

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LSS senior girls second in B.C.

Don BodgerFOR THE CHRONICLE

Talk to anyone about Larry Irving and the response is the same.

Great guy. Extraordi-nary volunteer. A man with a heart of gold who would do any-thing for the better-ment of baseball in the

community and a huge fan of the game at the local level.

The valley lost a true sporting legend when Irving died Saturday,

Nov. 22. He was 71.A celebration of life

for Irving was held

Nov. 29 at the Mount Brenton Golf Club.

In lieu of flowers, brother Lynn Irving of Chemainus suggested people consider do-nating blood to the Red Cross in Larry’s memory.

Larry needed several transfusions, Lynn said, during his final six months as his ill-nesses intensified.“The biggest disap-

pointment in his life the last year was he couldn’t get to the ball-park,’’ said Lynn. “He wasn’t healthy enough to stay.’’

Tributes have been pouring in from ev-erywhere, particularly

Larry Irving covered all the bases

Last year’s induction into the North Cowichan-Duncan Sports Wall of Fame was a proud moment for Larry Irving. He received his commemorative plaque from Wall of Fame member Tanya Clarke-Young and North Cowichan committee chair Ruth Hartmann DON BODGER

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Ladysmith Secondary School (LSS)’s senior girls’ volleyball team is the second-best in B.C.

The 49ers have re-turned from the pro-vincial championships, held Nov. 26-29 at Brentwood College, with silver medals.“The girls peaked at

the right time and had their best tournament of the year,” said coach Stephen Epp. “They left absolutely every-thing they had on the floor in the final, but we just came up a lit-tle short. All of them did an amazing job all weekend. I am ex-tremely proud of them as a team.”

Ladysmith played Pa-cific Academy in the championship and fell 25-19, 25-10, 25-23.

Kelsey Hutt and Shelby Dorman-Banks were named to the First All-Star team, and Marika Grubac was named to the Second All-star team.“We fought through a

lot of injuries this year including some that occurred at the provin-cials, but none of them

ever used that as an ex-cuse and kept pushing themselves,” said Epp.

“Robyn Bishop was on crutches between our playoff matches but managed to play every set of the event on one leg.”

Ladysmith made it to the championship game by beating DP

Todd 25-27, 25-10, 25-19, 28-30, 15-10 in the quarterfinals and then defeating York House in the semifinals.“Our semi-final win

was huge for us, knock-ing off the No. 2 ranked team in the tourna-ment,” said Epp. “They outsized us, but the girls played phenom-

enal defence the entire game. Taylor Ellis had a huge game for us in the semis and finished the game with the final kill to take the fifth set 15-13.”

In the round of 16, Ladysmith beat Prin-cess Margaret 25-15, 25-21, 25-17. LSS went undefeated in pool play, beating Hatzic 25-22, 28-26, defeating St. Pats 25-12, 21-25, 15-10 and winning 25-15, 27-25 against Selkirk.

Ladysmith had gone into provincials ranked fourth in B.C. after winning the North Is-lands and the Islands.

Team members are Robyn Bishop, Shelby Dorman-Banks, Emery Urquhart, Kelsey Hutt, Taylor Ellis, Marika Grubac, Elise Keep-ing, Shayleen Magnan, Gabby Knoop and Mad-eline Hayton.

The Ladysmith Secondary School 49ers celebrate their silver medal at the B.C. AA Senior Girls Volleyball Championships. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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through social media, since Irving’s efforts were so well-known and he touched the lives of so many.

Rob Watt, a past player of his and cur-rently an assistant coach at Mt. Olive University in North Carolina, was among them.“Larry Irving, you are a true ambassa-dor of baseball and I cannot honestly sit here and believe the opportunities that I have had with this sport would not have been remotely pos-sible if it weren’t for you,’’ Watt wrote in a Facebook post.“I was saddened to hear the news of your passing but re-lieved to know that you will never miss a game. You can watch them all from any

seat in the house! Only a true baseball fan will understand when I say this: ‘Your steps into that Hal-lowed Cornfield are well deserved and your spot amongst the greats has been reserved.’ Wish I had the chance to tell you, ‘Thank You.”’“He was one of the all-time great guys,’’ said Ernie Mansueti, North Cowichan’s director of parks and recreation. “He was in it for all the right reasons.’’A program created

by Mansueti led to the ultimate tribute to Irving when he was inducted into the North Cowichan-Duncan Sports Wall of Fame last Novem-ber at the Cowichan Golf and Country Club.

Irving was shy in

the public spot-light, but the honour meant the world to him.“He was having a nervous breakdown a couple of weeks before,’’ said broth-er Lynn. “He got all stressed out.’’

Once Larry got in front of the crowd and started to talk about his passion for baseball, he was fine.“He did a pretty good job up there,’’ said Lynn. “When he got down from up there, he was beam-ing. It was a big day in his life.’’

Longtime fellow umpire and friend Roy Price said Larry was known for his baseball jargon. For example, he called a home run a gopher ball because players had to “go for’’ the ball.

“Larry, his dedica-tion was something else,’’ added Price.

“He just totally loved the game. Nothing made him happier than to sit up there and watch kids play.’’

Ted Puska Sr. of Ladysmith wrote a great short story about Larry and be-ing reunited with his old buddy Sonny Col-linson, who died dur-ing April 2013.

Lindsay Chungthe chronicle

Every swimmer earned at least one new personal best time, and club records continued to fall, as the Ladysmith-Chemainus Orcas competed at the Island Pacific Cup swim meet Nov. 7-9.

Eight members of the swim club travelled to Saanich for the meet, and each swimmer had a best time in at least one event, and there were many high-lights.

Thir teen-year-o ld Faith Knelson con-tinued her winning ways, earning seven gold medals, one sil-ver and one bronze. Her golds came in the 100m butterfly, 100m freestyle, 200m breast-stroke, 100m back-stroke, 100m breast-stroke, 50m freestyle and 50m breaststroke, while her silver medal came in the 50m but-terfly, and she earned her bronze medal in the 400m individual medley.“Every single event

was a new club re-cord,” noted coach Du-

san Toth-Szabo.Thirteen-year-old Ai-

leen Humphreys won two silver medals and one bronze, and she had nine best times. She finished second in the 100m individual medley and the 50m breaststroke and was third in the 100m breaststroke.

Fourteen-year-old Pamela Little swam a best time in all of her events.

Hubert Wong, who is

also 14, had best times in all of his events and also set a new club re-cord in the 50m breast-stroke, shaving 0.43 seconds off the record he set just weeks ear-lier.

Toth-Szabo was im-pressed that 12-year-old Chantal Green-halgh had best times in every single event, while Morgan Hum-phreys, who is 16, had best times in all but one event, and

he made a final in the 200m breaststroke, where he finished eighth.“He had a really good

meet,” said Toth-Szabo.Tw e l v e - y e a r - o l d

Noah Herle had four best times during the meet, while 15-year-old Cecilia Johnson earned a new personal best in the 50m back-stroke.

Overall, Toth-Szabo was impressed by the club members’ perfor-mances — especially because they had been practising really hard for that meet. “That was the first

so-called bigger meet, with teams from all over the Island, some teams from the Main-land and a team from Oregon,” said Toth-Szabo. “Overall, even though they supposed-ly were tired, they did a bunch of best times, so it was pretty good.”

Humphreys says he felt really good about the Island Pacific Cup.“I got mostly best

times, so that was good,” he said. “When-ever I go to meets, I try to meet new people, so making new friends

is always great — and seeing old friends too.”

Humphreys feels freestyle is his stron-gest stroke.

Greenhalgh was hap-py because she got a best time in her 50m butterfly.“I never liked it before,

and now I’m getting to like butterfly,” she said, adding she thinks it is because she is doing it more in practice.

Greenhalgh has been swimming with the Or-cas for six years.“When I was really lit-

tle, my grandma decid-ed to put me in swim-ming lessons, and I did all my lessons so then she decided to put me in swim club,” she said.

“I like swimming be-cause I get to hang out with my friends.”

Humphreys can’t remember when he started swim-ming, but he swam his first two years in Ladysmith and then moved to Nanaimo. When he moved back to Ladysmith two or three years ago, he joined the Orcas. He likes swimming for the Orcas because he likes making new friends.

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or cliff 49. Nothing 50. Bangladesh capital 55. Ground up corn 56. Measure of disc

storage density 57. Smart ___: irritating 59. Persian dialect spoken

in Afghanistan 60. Former CIA 61. Spanish auxilliary

verb 62. ___ Titanic 63. Teensy 64. Banana genus

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“snow” in Welsh 4. Unhearing 5. Heavenly body 6. About heat energy 7. New Jersey capital 8. Steel rope 9. Selling 10. Eurasian land rail genus 12. Point midway between

S and SE 14. Disfi gure 19. Sound unit 23. Volt-ampere 24. Mentally deranged 25. TV taping device 26. 4th Caliph of Islam 27. Musician ___ Lo Green 28. Golden state (abbr.) 29. Importune 34. A recess in a wall 35. Honorable title (Turkish) 36. Hairy coat of a

mammal 37. Small amount 39. Arc of spectral colors 40. Oval 41. Gym fl oor padding 42. Used of tobacco 44. Overnight case 45. Volcanic craters 46. Tangerine grapefruit

hybrid 47. Military leader (abbr.) 48. Enlarge a hole 51. Express pleasure 52. Bivalve mollusk 53. Philippine Island, city

and harbor 54. Unreturnable serves 58. Malaysian Isthmus

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LADYSMITH DOWNTOWN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION - meets on the third Thursday of each month, 7:30 am upstairs at the Legion. This dedicated group of business owners discuss everything business-related in Ladysmith from partnerships with organizations, upcoming events, business strategies and tips, website performance and sometimes, a guest speaker.

CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT GROUP - meets 3rd Mon of each month 5:15-6:45Ladysmith Community Health Centre - 1111-4th Ave, Room 101www.chronicpainsupport.ca 250-667-5587

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FEATURING ✶ Skellig ✶ Dead Byrds ✶✶ Ryan McMahon ✶ Elf Song ✶

✶ Kendall Patrick and the Headless Bettys ✶✶ Chris Andres ✶ Little Nectar ✶

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STROKE RECOVERY GROUP: Survivors and caregivers meet every Thursday at 11 am in the basement Activity Room of Bethel Tabernacle, 1149 Fourth Ave. Programs include exercises and tips for managing activities. Call Ken or Flo 250-245-8199.

BINGO - LADYSMITHEvery Wed - 6:30 pm, Doors 5 pm, St. Mary's Church Hall. Info call 250-245-3079. Sponsored by Ladysmith Resources Centre Association

HAR VEST HOUSE FOOD BANKChemainus. Friday, Info call 250-246-3455.

BINGOChemainus Senior Drop-in Centre. Mondays, 6:40 pm. Info: Murray 250-246-9968.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH Volunteers needed. 250-245-1118.

MEALS ON WHEELS Ladysmith meals delivered Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. Volunteer drivers needed. Call Pearl: 250-245-3844.

LADYSMITH LEGIONMondays, crib, 7 p.m. Meat draws: Saturdays 2 - 5:15 pm, Fridays 4-6 pm, Sundays 3-5 pm, Darts: Wednesdays, 7 pm, Line dancing: Thursdays 9-11 am, Fridays: pool, 8 pm,250-245-2273.

CANADIAN FEDERATION of UNIVERSITY WOMENNanaimo branch. Meets 4th Monday of each month. St. Andrews Presbyterian. 7 pm. Karen: 250-756-9508.

BINGO Every Fri, 6:45 p.m., Chemainus Legion branch #191. Doors open 5 p.m.

WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY SUPPORT GROUP - 3rd. Wed. of the month, 6:30 - 7:30 pm, Inn on Long Lake, 4700 North Island Hwy. Nanaimo. All welcome

CHEMAINUS SKETCH GROUP - Painting and sketching group meet on the 2nd Wednesday of the month. New members welcome. 250-246-3118

BORN HEALTHY - a program for pregnant women and new moms. Check out “Born Healthy Ladysmith” on Facebook or call Kate at 250-245-3079 (the LRCA). Wednesdays from 10-1:30 with drop-in office hours for one-on-one on Mon and Tues from 10-1:30.

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Photos by, clockwise from toP left, stacey crossley, allan tichborne, lindsay chung, edward mccrae, lindsay chung and teresa mckinley

Clockwise from top left, the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue float makes its way through the parade; a truck travels down First Avenue during the parade; Debra Hopkins knits during the craft fair at Aggie Hall; the fireworks display sponsored by Ladysmith and District Credit Union closes the night with a bang; four-year-old Luca Craverio from Victoria enjoys his spaghetti dinner at the Eagles Hall in what has become a tradition with his grandma; and one of over 100 vehicles that made this year’s parade the biggest one yet lights up the street.

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