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SD68 askedto consider8-12 FrenchImmersion

Craig Spencethe chronicle

Plus s’il vous plaît.Nobody’s saying a full 8-12 French Immersion

program at Ladysmith Secondary School is feasible, but a presentation from the Ecole North Oyster community has given trustees and staff at Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District pause for thought.

In fact, SD68 hasn’t even decided if a Grade 8-9 FI program at LSS will fly. The district surveyed students and parents in December to determine the level of support for a program, and staff will be presenting a recommendation to the Board by late February or early March, Superintendent John Blain told SD68’s Education Committee Wednesday, Jan. 6.

But representatives of Ecole North Oyster urged the district not to rule out a full program, which they argued will: solidify enrolments at Ecole North Oyster; help LSS draw more students, and recover from an anticipated decline in enrolment when Ce-dar Secondary School reopens in the fall; and make it easier for students in the southern end of the dis-trict to access an increasingly popular and benefi-cial program.“When there’s a secondary program, you will get more kids enrolling at the elementary level,” parent Cheryl Onciul told the committee.

A presentation prepared by her, another parent Carrie Segreto, and by Ecole North Oyster teacher Belinda Harrison projected ‘potential’ enrolment of 75 students by 2020.

If a full program isn’t offered, they said, it will be more difficult to draw students into the Ecole North Oyster-Ladysmith Secondary French Im-mersion stream, and retain students who do enrol. Even at the kindergarten level parents are looking down the road to see if it goes all the way to gradu-ation and a ‘double dogwood’

By Grade 8 the choice becomes even more stark. “There’s little incentive for Grade 8 students to go to LSS then switch to NDSS (Nanaimo District Second-ary School),” Onciul said. Some would opt to send their children straight into French Immersion at NDSS; others to drop out of the FI program altogether.

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What better place to slide than Symonds Street hill. Brothers Brendon, 13 and Ethan, 11, took full advantage of the first snowfall in Ladysmith and the Central Island Jan. 5, hurtling down what is arguably the best to-bogganing hill anywhere. More photos on page 3. Craig SpenCe

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Chemainus Foods in receivershipCraig Spencethe chronicle

A popular grocery store, that has served residents of Chemainus for de-cades is closing its doors.

Last week Chemainus Foods an-nounced a price reduction on remain-ing items in the store and customers were notified that the business, oper-ated by Michele and Greg Riley was in receivership.“Sadly we must tell you Chemainus

Foods is closing,” the Riley’s said in a letter to the community.“Market place changes have finally

caught up to us and while we have tried to develop ideas that would keep

the doors open we’ve not been suc-cessful.”

The Rileys were especially con-cerned for their staff. “Closing a store and losing a job is tough for everyone,” they said. “We know this will be a diffi-cult time for our staff who have served us and the community well.”

Chemainus Foods received the Chamber of Commerce Retail Busi-ness of the Year Award in 2012.“We will miss you and will also miss being a part of the various community events,” the Rileys concluded. “We are really sorry there was not a better out-come.”

The feelings were returned by shop-pers at the store Thursday, Jan. 7,

many of them not aware Chemainus Foods was in receivership.“I just don’t want to see them go, and nobody I talk to wants to see them go,” said Jeanne Newton, who lives in Crofton, but has been shopping at Chemainus Foods for about 25 years.

“We shop here all the time.”“It’s an institution in the town,” said

Gail Myles, a resident of Chemainus for about eight years. “We’re going to miss this store.”

She pointed out that the town centre of Chemainus is being redeveloped, and the loss of Chemainus Foods will be a setback to that initiative. “It’s an eco-nomic indicator in my mind,” she said.

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RCMP ask forinformation on collision

RCMP are asking for witnesses to a serious accident Jan. 6, at the intersection of Highway 1 and Fisher Road in Cobble Hill, to contact South Island Traffic Services at 250-416-0352.

A preliminary inves-tigation indicates a black Ford F350 flat deck truck, traveling south, turned left at the Fisher Road intersection into the path of a north bound, white BMW sedan.

The two vehicles col-lided and as a result caught fire.

A 20 year-old female passenger in the BMW was transported to hospital and remains in critical condition as a result of the crash.

The RCMP report says there are indications alcohol was a contribut-ing factor to the acci-dent. No names have been released.

Programgives rebates for new wood burning stoves

Money is available through the Cowichan Valley Regional District to replace inefficient, polluting wood stoves with more efficient, environmentally friend-ly units.

The Wood Stove Exchange Program, funded in 13 communi-ties by the B.C. Ministry of the Environment, helps homeowners by providing a $250 rebate when a new wood-burning, pellet or natural gas stove is purchased and an older model retired.

New emissions-certi-fied wood stoves burn one-third less wood; and reduce smoke and particulates entering the atmosphere by 70 per cent or more, says a ministry media release.

The funding will also be put towards educational materi-als and workshops in communities to better inform residents on clean wood burning technology.

It may not be competition for Hockey Night in Canada, or Knowledge Network’s Hope for Wildlife, but Ladysmith council has asked for a report from staff on the pros and cons of providing a live internet feed of its meetings.

If the idea gets the nod, and council does go live, online, they will be up for a ratings war against the Municipality of North Cowichan, which live-streams its meetings in the Wednesday after-noon slot already.

Council looks to air meetings

Commuters on their way to work may not have been too appreciative of the accumulation of snow on the streets of Ladysmith Jan. 5, but youngsters were quick to get into it, and onto it, with anything that would slide. No major accidents were reported as a result of the slippery streets, although traffic was slowed south-bound on the Trans Canada Highway when a car slid out of control into the front yard of house.

From Page 1North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefe-

bure, who is also a Chemainus resident, agreed the closure is not a good economic signal. “We don’t like to lose any business down there,” he said.

But he added that Chemainus Foods has faced stiff competi-tion since 49th Parallel Grocery opened its outlet in the Chemainus Village Square.“It’s very unfortunate, but I think people anticipated that it would be difficult for both businesses to survive,” he said.

With the old firehall across the street slated for demolition, and a

new branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library planned for the space, he anticipates there will be lots of interest from new businesses in the Chemainus Foods location.

But loss of business in the com-mercial cores of many Island communities is an ongoing issue, which projects like the Chemainus redevelopment project are intend-ed to counter.“We still believe we have to con-tinue to redevelop the downtown,” Lefebure said. “It’s something we have to continue to work on in a supportive way.“We also have to encourage our

citizens to shop locally.”

Chemainus Foods closingCustomers were sad to hear Chemainus Foods is in receivership and closing

From Page 1Segreto pointed out that French Immersion continues to grow in popularity.

“It’s the way of filling our schools; offering French Immersion programs wher-ever we can,” she said.

Her comments echo information from a recently released Insights West poll commissioned by the Canadian Parents for French and La Fédération des fran-cophones de la Colombie-Britannique. “French is a huge hit in Canada’s most western province,” the advocacy groups said.

Their poll showed that 70 per cent of British Columbians support Canada’s two official languages; and 66 percent believe French is an integral part of the Canadian identity. It also showed British Columbians “see big benefits in multi-lingualism,” with 93 per cent saying they believe it is an important skill to have, and 75 per cent agreeing that speaking French opens “social, career, and cul-tural opportunities.”

Blain, who has said in the past that an 8-12 French Immersion program at LSS is ‘unlikely’, seemed to open the door a crack. “If there were a need and the ability to look at a senior program, we will take a look at that when it comes up,” he said.

In a followup interview next day Education Committee Chair Stephanie Hig-ginson said the Board will have to wait and see what’s in the staff report before making up their minds on how a French Immersion program at LSS will roll out, but she said the Ecole North Oyster presentation has added a perspective to the discussion.“I think that they presented some real strong information as to why it should be 8 to 12,” she said.

A call for French Immersion8-12 heard by school district

Owners of more than 360,000 properties throughout the Vancouver Island Region are be-ing issued their 2016 assessment notices, which reflect market value of their homes and proper-ties as of July 1, 2015.“The majority of residential home assessments

within the region are shifting between minus 5 per cent to plus 10 per cent compared to last year’s assessments,” says Regional Assessor Reu-ben Danakody of BC Assessment.“Notably, a robust real estate market over the past year resulted in assessment increases for many properties in the Vancouver Island Region.”

That was the case for single family residential properties in the Cowichan Valley, where prop-erty values were up:• Town of Ladysmith $299,300 from $285,400• North Cowichan $320,200 from $312,000• Duncan $254,200 from $245,100In the City of Victoria single family residential

assessments jumped to $547,200 from $524,200.BC Assessment tracks property data through-

out the year.‘Typical changes’ in assessments for commer-

cial properties on the Island were a bit lower than residential numbers, between minus five and plus five per cent.

There was no difference detected in the chang-es of either residential or commercial and light industrial property values between urban and rural areas.

Overall, the Vancouver Island Region’s total as-sessments increased from $164 billion in 2015 to $170 billion this year. A total of almost $2.2 bil-lion of the region’s updated assessments is from new construction, subdivisions and rezoning of properties.

BC Assessment has launched a newly-enhanced website at bcassessment.ca that includes more details about 2016 assessments, property infor-mation and trends.

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RCMP talk man downafter six hour standoff

It took RCMP about six hours to persuade a distraught man, wield-ing a knife, to come down from a second story roof in Chemainus Thursday, Jan. 6.

The incident began at about 4 p.m. in a block bounded by Oak and Pine streets, below Maple. The man had been alone in a sec-ond floor residence, above a com-mercial space.

North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP responded to the call and request-ed help from neighbouring de-

tachments to cordon off the area. Crisis negotiators were brought in along with the RCMP Emergen-cy Response Team.“We were concerned for the safe-ty of our members, as well as this individual’s safety, and safety of the public,” said Insp. Ray Car-fantan.“It all ended very well,” he added.The man, in his early 30s, was

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Revenues from the International Student Education program at Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District are projected to be $3.9 million in 2015-16, up from 2.7 million in 2011-12.

That’s one of the pieces of information SD68 staff and trust-ees have to consider in a review of ISE, pro-duced by Mike McKay of Hadrian Education-al Consulting.

His report offers ‘ob-servations and recom-mendations’ on:

• Alignment of the ISE program with the district’s core purpose and strategic direction;• Financial and re-

lated operational reali-ties;• Confirmation of

ISE’s benefits beyond revenue generation;• And the Impact of

ISE on district opera-tions;

Since 2011 the num-ber of ISE students has climbed from 216 to 313, a 45 per cent jump. Included within that number is a sharp-er rise in the number

of elementary ISE en-rolments, which have jumped from five to 45.

The families of sec-ondary ISE students pay $12,000 per year for their children to at-tend; elementary par-ents $13,000.A revenue and ex-

penses model, based on 225 secondary and 20 elementary stu-dents, pegs total rev-enues at $3.3 million, expenditures at $2.6 million. What is called ‘net unallocated reve-nue’ is $567,000 in that scenario.

Added district staff-ing accounts for $1.3 million of the district’s expenditures in that model. Other costs are ISE department staff-ing and ISE supplies and services.

In 2015-16 Ladysmith Secondary School was attended by 8 per cent of secondary ISE students; 25 per cent attended Dover Bay Secondary; 24 per cent Wellington; 14 per cent Nanaimo District Sec-ondary School; 15 per cent John Barsby and 14 per cent Woodlands.

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RCMP and the Vancouver Island Health Authority are warning people who use street drugs to exercise ‘extreme caution’ due to a “significant increase in non-fatal overdoses in Nanaimo.”

Toxicology tests conducted by the coro-ner’s service in Victoria have determined that fatal overdoses have occurred there, involving batches of mixed drugs including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines and in one case, fentanyl.

Similar incidents have happened in the Nanaimo area, including a possible death. The RCMP and VIHA want to alert people who use drugs to the risk.

“The Nanaimo RCMP urges all users of drugs to exercise extreme caution,” said Constable Gary O’Brien, spokesman for the Nanaimo RCMP.

“Officers experienced in the distribution of street level drugs are working collabora-tively with our provincial partners to iden-tify the source of these drugs.”

Users in Victoria have told authori-ties they thought they were only using one drug, when in fact they were us-ing mixtures that increased the risk of overdose.

“In addition to the mixture of drugs, the drug supply may include fentanyl however that requires further testing,” said Dr. Paul Hasselback, Island Health’s medical health officer. Fentanyl is a syn-thetic drug, considered much more po-tent than heroin.

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Your Words“It’s an institution in the town. We’re going to miss this store. It’s an economic indicator in my mind.”

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Editor:My holidays would have

been a tad quieter and more pleasant had there not been two hours of fire works going on in Area A of the Regional District of Nanaimo.

So I looked up the noise by-laws and was informed that fire works are excluded by the RDN.

Given there are at least two commercial fireworks retail outlets in Area A, this does not surprise me. However, profit making aside, it might be time to revisit the noise by-laws and reconsider the fireworks exemption.

Fireworks are not a harm-less, fun filled family event. They cause many pets to quiver in terror, bolt from their homes and subsequent-ly get lost or killed. People with Post Traumatic Stress

Disorder don’t do well with fireworks displays, especial-ly if they are unscheduled and unadvertised. Those with migraines don’t do any better. Many small children are frightened of the noise and woken from sleep, never mind all the adults whose sleep is disrupted, many of them shift workers.

Fireworks don’t do much for the well being of wild life; nor do they promote fire pre-vention.

I suggest the regional dis-trict directors re-visit the fire-works exemption and insti-tute some regulations. It is suggested they be restricted to ‘hallmark events’ such as New Year’s Eve. If so, no-one needs to set off fireworks for more than 15 minutes prior to midnight and 15 minutes after. If one has that much money to ‘burn’ try donating it to the food bank or your fa-vorite charity.

There should be no private fireworks displays during pe-riods of drought – forget July 1, the August long weekend or Labour Day, unless its in a large park with the fire de-partment close by or out on the water.

Halloween, well lets keep it from 7 to 8 p.m.

It may have been a rural tradition to play with fire-works at any time of the year, but times have changed. It is 2016 and its time to acknowl-edge much of what was once rural is now pretty suburban. Neighbourhoods of an acre or less are not rural farms.

Might I suggest the district directors have a look at re-stricting fireworks so that everyone can have a little peace and quiet and keep pets and humans safe. A per-mit to ‘play’ with fireworks at home, might be an idea.

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Two bells found and all’s wellCraig Spencethe chronicle

Okay, so I’m dog cra-zy. Especially when the dog happens to be our beloved Sophie, a golden retriever, who keeps us entertained 365 days of the year, and then some. So please forgive me if I tell a seasonal Sophie tale about ringing in the New Year in her exuberant, inimitable fashion.

My partner Diana walks Sophie each morning through the trails of Wul’aam Park in Chemainus, which is just a hop, skip and a jump from our house on two legs, half that dis-tance on four. It’s ac-tually a misnomer to call Sophie’s dashing up and down the trail a ‘walk.’ She plung-es in and out of the forest, races ahead and back, urging her plodding humans on.

We decided it would be good policy to at-tach a bell to Sophie’s collar, to alert any deer, cougar, bears,

hares or squirrels in the vicinity of the canine whirl-wind in their midst. The first bell we tried was a Christmas decora-tion Di picked up at the 49th Parallel General Store, and fastened to Sophie’s collar with a twist tie; that went missing the first time out, no doubt snagged on a bush or branch.

The next day, So-phie was doing her usual scramble through the under-brush, until part way through the walk she returned to Diana, the bell proudly clamped in her mouth, her eyes bright, tail held high. Amazed, we congrat-ulated ourselves on having such a smart pooch, even as we set our minds to finding a more secure jingler to hang from her collar.

Our son Ian found just the thing – an of-ficial bear bell with a Velcro strap designed to attach to the back-pack of a hiker to add a little dingle to his step. A couple of days later,

Diana tried it out for the first time; Sophie returned from one of her forays with no bell

– even a skookum at-tachment, meant just for hiking, couldn’t stand up to her plung-ing and ferreting.

Oh well!All was not lost,

though. On Tuesday, Jan 5, more than a week after her au-dible accessory went missing, Diana and Sophie were enjoying their morning outing.

“I was walking up the trail,” Diana said,

“when I heard a bell ringing behind me,

and thought it must be someone else’s dog, so I turned and stepped aside, only to see Sophie coming up with her bell in her mouth.”

She’s not called a retriever for noth-ing, I suppose. Now if only we can figure out a way to get her bell as attached to her collar as we are to her, it would never get lost again.Actually, our latest

strategy is to attach the bell to Diana rather than Sophie... so far it seems to be working.

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There’s no shortage of ideas at the Waterfront Gallery, not since The Short Show went up Jan. 2. Running to Jan. 21, the exhibit celebrates all things short, which – it turns out – is a pretty long list.

Imagine short stops, being caught short, short-legged pets, the state of being short of cash, the consideration of all things that are short-lived, the short end of the stick, feeling short-circuited, or perhaps the sense that last summer felt too short…Artists were challenged to interpret

“short” and how it manifests in their lives or in their art, in a show spon-sored by the Ladysmith Health Food Store.

Patt Scrivenner, an island artist with a studio in Parksville, was opening night speaker. A regular on display at the Waterfront, she’s a prolific, mixed-media artist who paints almost daily and hosts workshops.

She uses strong colour and design, creating vivid abstract paintings with rich tactile surfaces.

Scrivenner explained how her com-positions are built up in layers and may include texture gels, text such as dictionary pages, altered photographs, handmade papers, old maps, sheet mu-sic and vintage papers.

The desire to create has been a strong passion in her life, Scrivenner said. She has taken many art classes and found working experimentally and intuitively has allowed her emo-tional responses to guide her art.

Raised on a farm near Carrot River, in northern Saskatchewan, she exhib-its a love of nature and solitude in her work. As a child she spent many hours painting, drawing and doing crafts.

In 2014 she received her signature status (AFCA) with the Federation of Canadian Artists.

The Waterfront Gallery is operating on its winter schedule: Tuesdays to Sundays, noon to 4 p.m. More info at ladysmithwaterfrontgallery.com

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The Waterfront’s Short Show on to Jan. 21Patt Scrivenner’s No shortage of words was one of the pieces on display in The Short Show at the Waterfront Gallery in Ladysmith.

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Producers of the Chemainus Classical Concerts series had some bad news, quickly fol-lowed up by some good, to announce for their upcoming January performance.

Antoine Joubert, who was scheduled for the spot, “has suffered a concussion and has had to postpone to another season his concert featuring the Chopin Etudes planned for Jan. 17.”

But classical music lovers will not be denied their January hit. The good news is that pianist Bruce Vogt has agreed to step in to replace Joubert with a concert rescheduled to Jan. 24, 2 p.m. at St. Michael’s Church in Chemainus.“Mr. Vogt delights audiences

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Singers – especially those with the ability to sight read music – are invited to join the Camerata choir at its Wednes-day, Jan. 13 practice.

The Camerata Singers, a community choir for men and women in Nanaimo, is gear-ing up for the Spring session,” says a release.“The choir consists of local

men and women who are en-thusiastic about singing a va-riety of music from classical to folk, to spirituals, and who have fun doing so.”

Lindsay Suddaby will con-duct the spring session, which culminates in a final concert in early May. Recently wel-comed as conductor, she has a Bachelor of Music, specializ-

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Practices are held at St An-drews United Church on Wes-ley St. in Nanaimo from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. Several choir members travel from the Ladysmith area on a regular basis. For more information phone Chris at 250-390-9240 or Lynda at 250-591-2544.

Camerata choir invites singersThe Camerata Singers are inviting people who want to join them to their Wednesday, Jan. 13 practice.

Vogt steps in for Joubert Jan. 24Chemainus Classical concert rescheduled from Jan. 17 after accident

Bruce Vogt will perform at St. Michael’s Church in Chemainus Jan. 24


Quake alert system workedJeff NagelBlack Press

The mild earthquake that shook Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland Dec. 29 pro-vided a real world test of an early warning sys-tem developed by UBC researchers that could help B.C. residents sur-vive a deadly quake.

Thirteen seconds be-fore buildings began to shake at 11:40 p.m. Dec. 29, research engineer Kent Johansen already knew what was coming and that their system works.“It worked like a

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His computer emit-ted a rumbling noise

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Johansen resisted the temptation to wait for the seismic data flow in and instead bounded upstairs to his wife and seven-year-old daughter. He had enough time to get them both under a table before the shaking started.

If a much bigger earth-quake someday strikes, the system would sound sirens at schools

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– the recent 4.7 magni-tude quake wasn’t large enough.

TransLink is also studying the feasibil-ity of adding a warning system to close the Pat-tullo Bridge in the event of a quake or dangerous high winds.

More schools, includ-ing several in the Fraser Valley, are being outfit-ted with the technology and are expected to come online soon, join-ing the initial 61 sites that have received the UBC technology since 2013.

Johansen hopes to ex-tend the same warning system to anyone via apps on smart phones and other alert meth-ods. He’s already ex-perimenting with a text message system and automated Twitter ac-count (@EEW_BC) to beam out alerts, though he stresses he doesn’t know how much warn-ing time is lost in trans-mission and reception.

Even a few seconds warning could allow surgeons to put down scalpels and lab techs to turn off gas burners.

Johansen also thinks of workers in ware-houses and shoppers in big box stores where

products are piled high on the walls above them who might get time to step away from the danger.

Ground motion sen-sors that consist of small accelerometers are buried underground at each detector site.

They detect a quake’s primary waves (P waves) that usually cause no damage and arrive twice as fast as the slower shear waves (S waves) that break windows and cause walls to collapse.

The first sensors to de-tect a quake’s incoming P wave – and not other sources of vibration like heavy trucks – re-lay their data to UBC’s Earthquake Engineer-ing Research Facility, which sends an alert throughout the net-work and sounds sirens at alarm sites. (Animals that act strangely just before a quake are also thought to be sensing the P waves.)

How much warning there will be before the shaking starts depends on how far away the quake’s epicentre is and the proximity of sen-sors to detect it.

The closest sensor to the Dec. 29 quake was in Victoria and Johan-sen figures an extra six seconds of warn-ing would have been gained had a sensor been positioned closer to the epicentre, which was east of Sidney.

A massive subduc-tion quake 100 kilome-tres off the west coast of Vancouver Island would offer the most time – potentially 60 to 90 seconds for Metro Vancouverites.

That type of monster quake could rip along the Cascadia subduc-tion zone all the way from Haida Gwaii to Oregon.

For that reason, re-searchers would like to have sensors on B.C.’s north coast and even offshore, but there are military sensitivities be-cause the devices can also detect passing sub-marines.“There’s a cave off somewhere in the Hai-da Gwaii where they like to come up with submarines and hide in,” Johansen said. “The Americans are con-cerned about having data transmitted un-filtered from there. So that’s a problem. But even something on the west coast [of Vancou-ver Island] can give us lots of warning.”

He hopes to see a much broader network of sensors over time, as well as many more alarm sites.“If I had my way they’d be in all schools and we’d add even more sensors,” Johansen said.

“Two seconds here and two seconds there – it all saves lives. To me, if it can save one, we have to do it.”

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Last Word for January 12, 2016

• Jan. 17, 9 a.m., Take Down the Lights. What goes up, must come down. So volunteers are needed to help take down the dazzling display that has glittered over Ladysmith since the Festival of Lights Light-Up night Nov. 26. Pickup trucks and bucket trucks gratefully accepted. Call 250-245-5888 or 250-245-2263 to volunteer, or meet at the 49th Parallel Gro-cery parking lot. Hot lunch will be provided courtesy of Ladysmith Fam-ily & Friends. More info at ladysmithfol.com

• Jan. 17, Sky Valley brings its funky modern jazz arrangements to the Crofton Hotel Pub. The quartet is led by bassist Alan Wardroper with saxophonist Patrick Byrne, pianist Frank Huether and drummer Ran-dall Miron. The band plays a mix of jazz standards, Latin and a few origi-nal tunes. The Jazz at Crofton series takes place Sundays, 2 to 5 p.m. Musicians are invited to join in a jam session during the last hour. The pub is at 1534 Joan Ave. Admission is $10. For information, call 250-324-2245 or visit croftonhotel.ca.

• Jan. 21, Comedy night at the Music Hall Food Co. with Sophie Buddle. Show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets $15. Visit musichall.ca or Facebook for more upcoming events.

• Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m., International Guitar Night, Cowichan Performing Arts Centre. An inventive evening of contemporary guitar music from around the globe, IGN is the world’s premier touring guitar festival. “This musical treat has been so popular over the years, we had to bring them back to kick off our 2016 season with a bang,” says Kirsten Schrader, manager of the Performing Arts Centre’s Arts & Culture Division. Tick-ets: $30, Student $27, Cowichan Folk Guild Member $27, eyeGo $5. See internationalguitarnight.com.

• Jan. 26, 7 p.m., Ladysmith Camera Club presents Buying/Upgrading a Photo Editing Computer, a smart shopper’s guide to choosing the right hardware, by Brad Grigor of Turning Point Arts in Saltair. Hardwick Hall, High Street at 3rd Avenue in Ladysmith. Everyone welcome. Non-members $5 drop-in fee. LCC invites new members, novice to pro. www.LadysmithCameraClub.com

• March 14-24, Art Camps at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. During Spring Break the Nanaimo Art Gallery offers a series of Art Camps (each four or five sessions) at its Art Lab, including: Yvonne Vander Kooi, explor-ing ideas about art, learning and creating using traditional and contem-porary approaches to sculpture, painting, video, and photography.; and Carole Brooke, inspired by the work of Ron Tran, who likes to “change the way we see ordinary things by placing them in a different setting.” The camps cost $100 each, materials are included. For more informa-tion, or to register, call 250-754-1750.

The Last WordChronicle

A lot of people, espe-cially from the left side of the bleachers, cel-ebrated when Stephen Harper and the Conser-vative government went down to defeat.

But Donald Gutstein, an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser Univer-sity’s School of Commu-nication, will be offering his views on what the defeat of Harper really means in a presentation to the 14th Annual Jo-seph Mairs Memorial at St. Mary’s Catholic Church Hall Jan. 24 at 1 p.m..

He will ask: Did the ideals of ‘Harperism’ go down with their founder too?

Gutstein’s recent book, ‘Harperism’ explains the fundamental transfor-mations which occurred during Stephen Harper’s years as prime minister.

Joseph Mairs was a coal miner who died at Oakalla Prison Farm Jan. 20, 1914. He had been serving a 16 month sentence after having been arrested during the bitter coal miners’ strike, which started at the Extension Colliery at Ladysmith in Sept. 1912.

St. Mary’s Church is located at 1135 Fourth Avenue, Ladysmith.

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