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� e family of missing 81-year-old James Roberts from Qualicum Bay is still searching.

� e o� cial search was called o� Sunday, Feb. 7, but family and friends are still searching and the RCMP and Arrowsmith Search and Rescue are actively following leads, said Robert’s daughter Corinne Redgate.

“We’re in regular contact with them, I don’t want people to think they just walked away,” she said, with several cases of police respond-ing quickly to check on leads.

Roberts, who su� ers with dementia, went missing around10:30 a.m. � ursday, Feb. 4 from his home near the Lighthouse Com-munity Centre. � e search e� ort peaked on Saturday with a record 62 search and rescue personnel from across the mid-Island combing the area with the help of a helicopter, dogs and horses.

At the end of the week there were about 10 family and friends regu-larly involved, delivering posters across the region and checking areas.

“� ere are preparation kits for earthquakes, but not for losing a loved one,” she said, admitting it is hard on the family, but they are “trying really hard to keep upbeat, it’s easy to get down,” she said, but that doesn’t help. “� e outpouring from the community has been out-standing,” she said of all the volunteer help and donated services.

� e family urges people to remain vigilant, checking their own prop-erties, more than once, and reporting any tips at all, no matter how small they seem, immediately to the RCMP. She said the best tip they’ve received, an older man on the side of the Alberni Highway, wasn’t very useful when they received it three days later. She pointed out that peo-ple should co-ordinate with the family or police before searching since there can be private property and safety issues. � e best way to get in-volved is through the ‘Finding Jim Roberts’ Facebook page.

Roberts is described as Caucasian, 6’2”, slender with short grey hair, last seen wearing blue jeans, a green jacket, brown and white hat and glasses. Anyone with information should call the Oceanside RCMP at 250-248-6111.

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CUPE 401 employees of the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) voted in favour of a Memorandum of Agreement for a five year collective agreement on Feb. 5.

According to a VIRL news release it was settled with the assistance of a mediator on Jan. 14 and the VIRL’s 38 member board of trust-ees ratified the collective agreement at their Jan. 25 annual general meeting.

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There are 42 fewer union members in Parks-ville after employees of the Quality Bayside Re-sort voted to de-certify.

The employees were members of the Unite Here Local 40 for as long as anyone can remem-ber, but things soured recently.

“How this came about . . . it’s always been a union-run hotel, but basically it came down to no shop stewards in place and there was a lot of slandering and bullying going on in the workplace,” said cook Jessie Mayrhofer of inter-nal struggles between employees and the local shop stewards.

“People were paying $40 a month for this

union and nobody was coming up and defend-ing us,” he said, which led to the de-certifica-tion process.

According to Unite Here Victoria Area Steward Teresa South, staff filed a petition to de-certify on Dec. 15 and voted on Dec. 23, but “challenges at the vote,” led to the box being sealed until Jan. 8 when the votes were counted and formally ac-cepted.

Asked what that means for the employees, South said:

“They’re screwed, pretty much. It was a seri-ously dumb move on their part.”

School district wants public input on budget The public is invited as the School District 69 Board of Education

hosts a preliminary meeting on the 2016-17 budget Thursday, Feb. 18.The meeting, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Winchelsea Place Li-

brary in Parksville, will follow two meetings for district staff earlier in the day. The session will provide a review of the year to date for 2015-16 and provide a general overview for 2016-17 budget.

“The initial meeting is to articulate where we are at this point, and to identify what we believe to be the challenges for the coming year,” said Rollie Koop, SD69 superintendent.

The funding formula for next school year will be announced by the Ministry of Education in mid-March, after which a detailed bud-get will begin taking shape, said Koop. There will be additional op-portunities for public input as the board deliberates the draft budget in April. — NEWS Staff

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In La Belle Province, it is known as La Route Verte — the Greenway.

It’s a sprawling 5,300-kilometre collection of designated roads, cycle paths and bike lanes that the National Post called a “cultural, histor-ic, environmental, and artistic tribute to Que-bec,” and National Geographic proclaimed the world’s best cycle route.

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A local dementia advocate has be-come one of the first Purple Angel Am-bassadors in the province.

“I have been inducted as a Purple An-gel Ambassador from the official Purple Angel Dementia Awareness movement in the UK,” local resident Deanna Breuker said waving her certificate.

“It’s a true honour and I see this as yet an-other opportunity to ad-vocate and bring aware-ness of dementia and the epidemic.”

Breuker, who works with a dementia day program in Parksville, is working on establishing a similar program in Qual-icum Beach, which she points out has the oldest population in the country, and therefore many people suffering with de-mentia.

The organization was founded by Nor-man and Elaine McNamara in England af-ter Norman was diagnosed with dementia in 2008 at age 50. They aim to improve

awareness and understanding of demen-tia around the world, according to their website (www.purpleangel-global.com).

Breuker said, she like other Canadi-an ambassadors, is emulating their UK counterparts by working on a national dementia strategy.

She is also working with other local groups on various initiatives like pam-phlets and a decal system “to make peo-ple living with dementia feel more com-

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She said that while she is still in talks with the Town of Qualicum Beach about the possi-bility of using a town- owned house, she is confident the day pro-gram “is actually going to happen now regard-

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Bill Veenhof calls the situation ‘an accident waiting to happen’GREG SAKAKI Nanaimo News Bulletin

Not every ship in the sea is seaworthy, and therein lies the problem.

The issue of derelict vessels was float-ed in the House of Commons last week as Sheila Malcolmson, NDP MP for Nanaimo-Ladysmith, introduced a pri-vate member’s bill to amend the Canada Shipping Act.

“This is a desire to see a solution to a long-standing problem,” she said.

Bill C-219 is intended to simplify the process for dealing with derelict vessels by putting the issue under the jurisdic-tion of the Canadian Coast Guard. Cur-rently, Malcolmson said, the approach is scattered.

“If it’s a hazard of navigation, you call the coast guard; if it’s an environmental site, you call Environment Canada; if it’s

on Crown land, you phone the provincial government,” she said. “It’s so frustrat-ing for people and it means everybody points a finger at someone else.”

Derelict vessels are a problem in Nanaimo. Edward Dahlgren, Nanaimo Port Authority director of operations and harbour master, said the port deals with about 10 wrecks a year at a total an-nual cost of anywhere from $25,000 to $250,000.

Already in 2016, the port authority has “binned” four vessels, he said, even taking care of a wreck at Gabriola Island’s Pilot Bay, outside harbour limits, because the board decided it was the right thing to do.

“So we incurred the cost to salvage it, bring it into the harbour, lift it out of the water, truck it to the port facility and then crush it,” he said.

Sometimes dealing with a derelict vessel is even more onerous. Dahlgren pointed to one high-profile example a few years ago, a wreck on Protection Is-land, that he said has cost the port more than $200,000 including legal costs of a

continuing lawsuit. The binning process involved consultation and environmen-tal surveys, then a lot of work.

“We had to manually move oysters, bring a barge in, load an excavator, care-fully break the vessel up, put it into bins, remove it, rake the beach, go over the beach by hand and then put the oysters back,” Dahlgren said.

The port authority’s role wouldn’t nec-essarily change if Malcolmson’s bill be-comes law, though Dahlgren said having clarity about responsibility is beneficial.

He’s hoping ports will receive finan-cial assistance — dollars spent dealing with derelict vessels, he said, are dollars that could be better spent on harbour improvements and community initia-tives. But Bill C-219 doesn’t specifically address funding, beyond strengthening language in the shipping act about track-ing down a wreck’s owner. The owner of a derelict vessel is supposed to be respon-sible for its removal, but if the captain has truly abandoned ship, the bill tends to get paid with tax dollars and port fees.

“The problem is funding,” said Bill Veenhof, Regional District of Nanaimo chairman. “To clean up these vessels costs money, and who’s paying for it?”

As the region’s Area H representative, Veenhof sees the problem first-hand in Deep Bay, where there are numerous derelict ships at anchor. He said “abso-lutely,” Malcolmson’s bill is useful, as it’s federal leadership on a federal problem. Right now he’s the one getting the phone calls, pretty much every week.

“Those boats — you’d have to see them to truly believe them,” Veenhof said. “They’re certainly on the very fringes of what you would consider acceptable.”

The coast guard monitors the situ-ation there, regularly pumping out the boats that are starting to sink.

“Because it costs so much, the coast guard, bless their souls, are targeting the vessels that are the most dangerous, the most problematic,” said Veenhof. “From what I’ve heard, we haven’t had a signifi-cant spill. We’ve had an odd one. But it’s an accident waiting to happen.”

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Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on Monday, February 22, 2016 at 7:00 pm at the Qualicum Beach Council Chambers of the Municipal Of� ce, 660 Primrose Street, Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, to receive representations from all persons who believe their interest in property to be affected by the proposed amendments to “Town of Qualicum Beach Land Use and Subdivision Bylaw No. 580, 1999” listed below. A copy of the bylaw may be inspected at the Municipal Of� ce of the Town of Qualicum Beach, #201 – 660 Primrose Street, Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, between the hours of 9:00 am and 4:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays.

Amendment Bylaw No. 580.82 (Qualicum Commons)If Bylaw No. 580.82 is adopted, “Town of Qualicum Beach Land Use and Subdivision Bylaw No. 580, 1999” will be amended to permit health service of� ces as a permitted use on the subject property (Qualicum Commons), de� ned as follows:

“health service of� ce means the use of premises by health care professionals in which the provision of physical, mental, or emotional health services are provided on an outpatient basis and include chiropractors, dentists, optometrists, physicians, dental hygienists, dental technicians, denturists, dieticians, licensed practical nurses, massage therapists, midwives, naturopathic physicians, nurses (registered), nurse practitioners, occupational therapists, opticians, physical therapists, psychologists, registered psychiatric nurses, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, and acupuncturists, and other health care and social service practitioners including counsellors and herbalists.”

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In the 1970s and early 80s, Eyre said, there was a burgeoning hobbyist com-munity of people who or-dered the first generation of personal computers.

At that time, the parts arrived unassembled, in-cluding circuit boards full of resistors, capacitors, coils, transformers, ICs, 7400 log-ic, and memory chips.

“You couldn’t just plug it in and start using it,” said Eyre. “The bag of extras needed to be dealt with. There were plenty of elec-tronics and hobbyists mag-azines that showed you how to use the latest gadgets. It was all so much fun and you had to be interested in, and skilled at, many practical subjects.”

The modern Raspber-ry Pi unit is a small, hand-held circuit board to which almost anything can be at-tached to create a function-ing portable device with a computer, phone, camera, reader, television, or combi-

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make it do anything you want,” said Eyre.

“Working together and sharing skills like this can lead to community-based projects on a bigger scale, such as solar electric pow-er and heat, wind turbines, electric vehicles, LED light-ing, motors and generators.”

Devices like the Raspber-ry Pi and Arduino unit are supported by open-source software, making them es-pecially affordable, said

Eyre.The kick-off meeting is

scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 20, from 10 a.m. to noon at TLC.

A second meeting has already been scheduled for Feb. 27, and Eyre hopes the electronics gatherings will become a weekly event.

“I’m seeing if we can drum up some interest,” he said. “If I get enough inter-est, we’ll keep it going.”

To register or for more info, call the TLC at 250-947-8258 or visit www.oblt.ca/tlc.

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South agreed Local 40’s steward for the area has been on sick leave for a year and a half, and “instead of replacing her they made me do the job of two people, so I couldn’t be there very often because I still have the lockout in Nanaimo” (at the Nanaimo Golf Club).

“I wasn’t there very often, so that made them mad, and then I assigned shop stewards and they didn’t like one of them,” she said indicat-ing there were personal conflicts complicating things.

She said the de-certification means the con-tract she bargained last summer is immediately void.

Kimberly Petraroia, the owner’s wife, said the hotel is not currently for sale, and that they plan to invest in the hotel.

“It’s a family owned busi-ness and it needs some TLC, its an older building, but the staff know, even in the past, when things start improving within the hospitality industry, our

family’s very giving towards employees, so it’s not like oh no! We’re not decreasing anything, if anything we’re trying to improve it for them.”

Mayrhofer said there are mixed emotions among employees, which come with any change, but “after the transition people think this will be a good thing.”

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First responders, the Coroners Service and Avalanche Canada all note that the majority of the 17 snowmobilers in the Mount Renshaw Alpine Recreation Site near McBride had prop-er rescue equipment with them when the ava-lanche hit.

The groups also said “that the impressive effort made by those on scene to rescue them-selves and others undoubtedly prevented the loss of more lives,” according to a joint news release.

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Bars in trouble these daysNobody cares what you’re drinking; they won’t even notice

I’ll just come right out and say it: I love bars.I love the watering-hole camaraderie, the

dim lights, the clinky glasses and the plinky music — the whole-refuge-from-home, far-from the-madding-crowd wombi-ness of the bar experience. I love it.

Which is weird because I don’t drink.

Used to. I gave up drinking years ago after one too many miserable morning-afters involving a con-versation punctuated with several repetitions of “OH MY GOD I DID WHAT?”

I still go to bars though and have a fine old time. Why not? Ordering alcohol isn’t mandatory, the cof-fee pot’s always on and there’s a raft of non-be-fuddling liquid refreshments to be had — cola, ginger ale, fake beer,or my fave: cranberry juice and soda with ice.

Stirred, not shaken.Do I feel like a delicate orchid surrounded by

hearty two-fisted boozers? I do not. Here’s a tip for anyone who cringes at the idea of sipping a sarsaparilla in a forest of shot glasses and beer mugs:

Nobody cares what you’re drinking.They won’t even notice!As for the bartender, she’ll be delighted to

be asked to serve up something other than the usual rye-and-coke or Molson Lite.

Besides, your bartender can use all the busi-ness she can get.

Bars are in trouble these days. Statistics Can-ada says bar revenues have declined a whop-ping 35 percent in the past 15 years.

Why? Tougher drinking and driving laws for one thing. It is very expensive and incon-venient to tie one on, try to drive home and be

pulled over by the cops. If you blow over .08 where I live, you will be fined $500, your car will be impounded for four weeks and your li-cence yanked for three months. You will also be enrolled in a mandatory responsible driving course and the steering column on your car will

be graced with an ignition interlock system which will ensure that you can’t start your car if you’ve been drinking. Oh, and those last two items — the driving course and the interlock thingamajig — will cost you a further two grand give or take a loonie.

Not stupid enough to drink and drive? You’re still going to get ding-ed. It costs a bomb to spend the eve-ning throwing back shots at a bar. Waking up with a bloated head and

a dehydrated wallet is just too, well, expensive.There is one other reason old-fashioned bars

are on the endangered species list: cell phones.Seems like only yesterday folks used to meet

up at the pub to have a couple of beers, shoot the breeze, discuss the news, maybe make plans to take in a movie or a hockey game. Actually, physically getting together with friends was the point. Now those same folks get together on-line. They also have ice floe-sized flat screens on their living room walls and Netflix on their browsers. And who needs to go downtown to meet in a bar when your best friends can send you Instagrams of what they ate for dinner?

Brave New World — all of us hunched over our pixilated campfires developing dowagers’ humps as we stare like zombies into the glow. Alone. Together.

Jeez. It’s enough to drive a guy to drink.— Arthur Black lives on Saltspring Island. His column appears weekly in The NEWS.

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Reporter J.R. Rardon’s ongoing series about art and the way it is being sold has been revealing.

Last Thursday’s second part of the three-part series explored the proliferation of art on

display, and for sale, at local cafés and restau-rants.

From the Sandbar Café in Qualicum Bay to the Court-yard in Qualicum Beach to coffee shops in Parksville, art from local talent is on the walls and for sale. Aside from the annoying little info/price tags, the works add much to a business. It seems to be a win-win situation for the artists and business owners.

Adding to those locations are other businesses like Qua-licum Art Supply and, most prominently, The Old School House in Qualicum Beach and The MacMillan Arts Centre in Parksville, two important not-for-profit places that have a mandate to feature art, among other functions.

It’s difficult to see where this leaves room for private gal-leries dedicated to one or a few local artists.

As Rardon has explained in his series, the Internet has also played a role in the changes to the ways people view and purchase art. There really is no substitute for enjoying art with the naked eye, but if you have found an artist you like, it’s possible through the web to scan many of his/her works and perhaps purchase one, sort of sight unseen.

The proliferation of the Internet in the sale of art raises many issues. The first that comes to mind is the protection of copyright. We can understand how an artist would be less than thrilled to see pictures of his/her art being shared all over the web without a penny going into his/her wallet.

It brings back memories of the 1990s when Napster changed the music world. This file-sharing site allowed people to gather music from others without purchasing a CD. The recording companies — caught flat-footed and be-hind the curve when it came to the emerging power of the Internet — lost their collective minds. They sued, and won, but the battle was already lost, the Genie out of the bottle.

While we would like to see private, job-creating galler-ies, perhaps that day is behind us in all but the largest of cities.

Like people and businesses who sell any other product, those who create art and want to sell it have to adapt to new realities. This might not bode well for private galleries, but it’s difficult to find a television repair shop these days, too.

It’s our hope the talented people of this region who create art will always have a place to display and sell their work, regardless of the location.

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AmAlgAmAtionRe: the possible changes to munici-

pal boundaries in the future (The NEWS, Feb. 9).

Oh my. Such an obvious political trial balloon by our wonderfully transparent municipal leaders.

Would the local politicians please quit messing with things that are not broken? Are they perfect, no, but I would suggest, to the largest percentage they are work-ing well for the majority. However, the al-ternate changes indicated in the article to those electoral boundaries are certainly worse, from a standpoint of dipping into our pockets — enough already.

I know a number of our local politicians personally. Wonderful people as individu-als, unfortunately as a collective they can’t agree on how to fix what they already have to deal with. Potentially looking to fund that ineptness with a tax grab from people who chose, I would suggest very willingly, to live in Area G, warts and all. We certainly did 20-plus years ago — it is very cost ef-fective and sufficiently rural without being remote.

While the story did not suggest there are politicians in Parksville and Qualicum Beach seeking to grab parts of Area G for their municipalities, those councils must learn to work together putting their own houses in order, showing effective and pro-fessional stewardship for their electorate as a whole, leaving personal agendas and special interest favours off the discussion table, before looking for a tax grab from their neighbours next door.

Brian CullingworthParksville

trudeAu’s deficitSo just who is Gerald Butts? I am guess-

ing the majority of Canadians do not know that he is an old Justin Trudeau university buddy who is now the senior political ad-viser to our new prime minister and has had serious input into almost every policy Trudeau campaigned on in the recent elec-tion.

Butts was the principal author of former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s bank-rupting green-energy policies. It was his

idea for a “positive message” that helped McGuinty win in Ontario and Trudeau throughout his own campaign borrowed McGuinty’s victory speech, that voters had “rejected the politics of division.”

I believe Butts is an anti-energy environ-mental activists who is OK with running deficits which is why Ontario continues to struggle to reduce it’s debts and has been downgraded by Moody’s to “negative.”

What should be of concern to Canadians is that Trudeau campaigned on running “modest deficits” to finance infrastructure and social programs and what happened in Ontario could soon plague the entire coun-try. Since 2005/06 Ontario’s net debt has almost doubled and is now close to 300 bil-lion and the Ontario government has never made a secret of its desire to have the feder-al government bail them out.

Trudeau has finally admitted his budget will exceed $10 billion in deficit. So much for his pre-election promise to Canadians. The National Bank just recently said the deficit could actually reach ninety billion by the end of Trudeau’s term. When you see the disaster in Ontario with the ballooning debt and crumbling of manufacturing be-cause of the “green” energy policies pushed on the province by Gerald Butts Canadi-ans have just cause to fear Justin Trudeau’s leadership.

gerald hallNanoose Bay

goose cull neededRe: the geese cull in Parksville.This story is never going to go away. What

some people fail to realize is that in the not-too-distant past geese were a relatively rare thing to see in these parts at least until man, once again in all his wisdom, interfered.

Let’s introduce some geese for the hunt-ers, wouldn’t that be nice, they thought. Well, these geese were not migratory and lo and behold now we have geese everywhere.

I love geese, especially when I see them flying south for the winter. However, they are wreaking havoc on local wetlands, caus-ing problems for local flora and fauna.

Perhaps they would have eventually pop-ulated the area naturally, but at least they would leave for the winter. This is one of the

few human caused disasters that can possi-bly be corrected, so let’s do it.

Maybe sometime in the future when in-troduced species have ruined our natural environment forever, man will stop interfer-ing with nature.

george olmsteadParksville

goose cull supportMy husband Gary and I own and operate

Pacific Rainforest Adventure Tours and we very much support the goose cull.

In doing some research, I found that in the early 1970s, the British Columbia Fish and Wildlife Branch and partnering orga-nizations embarked on a program to intro-duce a non-native, hybrid subspecies that have led to at least 15,000 resident Canada Geese on the east coast of Vancouver Island.

These geese do not migrate and they are destroying the native plant species in the estuaries of the Englishman and Little Qual-icum rivers, which is also destroying the habitat for all the other species, including salmon.

In contrast, we do not agree with a cull of the black tail Columbian deer on Vancou-ver Island as they are indigenous and the Ministry of Environment population trend statistics show that the deer population has drastically declined from 200,000 in the 1980s to approximately 55,000 today.

ronda murdoCkParksville

greAt grAd showWhat a great experience it was attending

the Ballenas Class of 2016 Fashion Show on Feb. 10. The energy, excitement and enthu-siasm of all the participants was contagious.

Any fears of how the next generation will deal with the problems of our world have been totally erased after the display of the effort put forth by the students of the gradu-ating class of 2016.

Congratulations on such great teamwork in hosting such an enjoyable event.

Cathryn BoltonQualicum Beach

Views in the NewsWe asked: What do you think of a bicycle trail the length of the Island?(see page A4)

I think it’s a great idea, sound’s great!

ROWENA COOKParksville

Good idea, you see lots of cycling

groups around.MARK HRABCAK

Parksville

It would be good, I’d use it to explore.

JESSICA CARTWRIGHT

Parksville

As long as it doesn’t squeeze out cars,

great.ELOI VAZParksville

LettersQuotAble:

“They’re screwed, pretty much, it was a seriously dumb move on their part.”

teresa south, see story page a3

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Based on 34 years of living in that country, I can state that Americans love their country and they wear that love on their sleeves, in public display, and I know it has rankled many deep-ly when President Barack Obama dons the role of apologist-in-chief, going around the world constantly apologizing for what he interprets as America’s misdeeds.

Trump, on the other hand, openly declares his belief that America’s greatest days are yet to be achieved and, if elected, he will lead the way.

Despite the silly tales of ‘guns in the street,’ the vast majority of Americans are not only law-abiding, they also believe deeply in obedi-ence to law. Therefore, it pains them deeply that millions of illegal — and that is the key word — immigrants are not only allowed to remain in their country, but are reaping huge finan-cial and social service rewards for their actions which clearly violated the country’s laws. Trump strongly declares this to be wrong — and multi-tudes of American voters believe he is right.

Millions of Americans deeply believe that the greatest threat to their liberty is the runaway and still-escalating power of their own government and they believe the Second Amendment giving them the right to “keep and bear arms” was put into the U.S. Constitution to give citizens some control over their government. Trump under-stands this and the electorate responds in kind.

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Bareroots: yoga, nutrition and bear education

Many of you may have heard that “markets go up and down and to be pa-tient and calm, the markets will come back up over the long term.”

This is definitely easier said than done and remember the other factors that may be affecting your level of comfort.

Markets are cyclical and some people consider declining markets such as we are experiencing to be buying opportuni-ties and refer to some investments being ‘on sale’.

This may be true, but, unless you have more cash to invest, you only see your funds declining and do not have the op-portunity to add to your investment at a lower cost.

Turbulent markets can lead people to make emotional decisions that can cloud investment decisions. Unless you are making regular withdrawals from declining investments, carefully consider your op-tions. Fully guaranteed in-vestments such as GICs may seem like a safe haven, but in the last few years the in-terest earned is less than in-flation. If most or all of your investments are in GICs, and you are maintaining your lifestyle using the interest earned only, your principal is maintained. If you

are withdrawing capital annually, you may have to make some ad-justment to your investments to last the rest of your life, including any health issues and other unforeseen occur-rences.

— For further informa-tion, Carol Plaisier, CFP®, Investment Advisor with Hol-lisWealth, a division of Scotia Capital Inc. & Insurance Advisor with HollisWealth Insurance Agency Ltd. can be reached at the HollisWealth

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After 26 years, Crystal McMillan has a pretty good sense of her business.

A lover of health, bears and a yoga teacher in the Iyengar tradition for more than 25 years, McMillan found a way to bring her loves together in her Bar-eroots Natural Health and Yoga Centre in French Creek.

“My vision was to bring together my three loves, my commitment to nutrition, yoga and Bear Smart,” she said.

Along with about 25 yoga classes a week with a number of instructors, Mc-Millan encourages people to consider the importance of nutrition to their health.

As a registered nutrition consultant, McMillan said she sees a general lack of understanding about nutrition and healthy eating in modern society.

Along with selling numerous aids to healthy living, McMillan does private counselling, looking at people’s current health, medications and historical infor-mation and consulting “on the best way to bring the body back into balance.”

“I look at overall health, not just symp-toms, but the underlying causes,” she said.

She can then give recommendations, which she said often start with things as simple as eating more whole foods.

“Proper diet is a huge part of health,” she said, adding she is also a big propo-nent of supplements and super foods.

She said currently tumeric is “certain-ly the number one super food,” explain-ing the many powerful properties of the ginger-related curry spice, including be-ing a powerful anti-inflammatory.

She said she often talks about health tips, like tumeric or the latest natural

health advice, which she works to stay current on, during her yoga classes and is also happy to chat with customers who drop into the store.

“People are taking their health into their own hands, trying to address the underlying causes more,” she said of what she sees as a positive swing towards natural health in recent years.

“It’s a growing way of life, but it’s not

new, that’s where we came from, it goes back to Hippocrates, ‘let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’.”

While McMIllan encourages a natural health approach, she works closely with other health professionals and points out that some issues are best dealt with by pharmaceuticals or mainstream doc-tors.

She also wants to bring that increas-ingly broad approach into her shop, making Bareroots a hub for health with more of the workshops and other medi-cal consultants she already provides.

And McMillan’s love of health and nature combined in a completely differ-ent way, leading her to found Bear Smart B.C. to consult and educate the public and government on bear conflicts.

Still executive director, McMillan works with various provincial govern-ment departments, First Nations, munic-ipalities, school groups and individuals to reduce bear-human conflicts.

McMillan donates one percent of the sales from Bareroots to Bear Smart and has done things like write the bear haz-ard assessment for Qualicum Beach — as a local example — and serves on the pro-vincial bear working group.

For more information stop by 891 Island Highway West, check https://bareroot-snaturalhealth.com/ or call 250-954-2273.

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Have you been thinking of simplifying your lifestyle and moving to an easier home to care for? We are hosting a free very informative seminar on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 1:00pm at the Parksville Travel Lodge (424 W. Island Hwy, Parksville) to help you explore the many housing options available in our community.

Perhaps you have been thinking of downsizing to a smaller home, patio home or condo, independent seniors living or assisted living and simply do not know what is available. We want to help you explore your options so that you can make an informed decision when determining your next step. There will be a variety of guest speakers, professionals in their field, discussing everything from possible home choices (such as Emerald Estates & The Gardens), moving (with Karen’s Transitions Made Simple, experts on seniors relocation), and available financing options (presented by a financial professional).

Most of us are not aware of the many affordable housing choices available and avoid making any decision as it may seem overwhelming. We are here to provide information, current market conditions, show you some of the choices and let you know there is help every step of the way. This event will be hosted by Karen Roberts; Seniors Real Estate Specialist. Coffee & cookies will be served.

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QF set to expand in VictoriaThe new store in View Royal makes it 13 for the company that started in Qualicum Beach

Quality Foods, which began in 1982 as Qual-icum Foods in Qualicum Beach, expands their award-winning grocery shopping experience in the Greater Victoria region in just a few short weeks.

One of three founding part-ners, Ken Schley, said through a news release he believes the time is right for a move into View Royal.

“We’re very excited to ex-pand our unique brand of grocery retailing to residents of View Royal and the sur-rounding communities,” said Schley. “Eagle Creek Village is destined to be an active hub for the area, and we’re thrilled to be the grocery store for this vibrant multi-use development.”

The Island-owned grocery company opened its QF WestShore location in Langford, its first foray into the Capital Regional District, in July 2014.

“The western communities have welcomed us with open arms, and we couldn’t be happier with the relationships we have established in the community so far,” said Schley.

Quality Foods has a well-established pres-ence on Vancouver Island with 10 stores north of the Malahat, and another in Powell River. The new 45,000 square foot QF View Royal location positioned on Helmcken Road raises the store count to thirteen. Schley said that it may poten-

tially appeal to residents beyond the western communities.

“With our close proximity to Victoria Gener-al Hospital, we feel that a more diverse group of people will have the opportunity to experience our unique brand of grocery retailing, and hope-fully continue to shop with us over time,” he said.

“We will have all of the same features avail-able to shoppers that has made our Langford

store an award-winning shop-ping destination. With the additional mezzanine floor which will be home to A Step Above, our signature store within a store featuring the best in kitchen, home decor and giftware.”

Thursday, Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. is the selected time for the offi-cial ribbon cutting and opening doors to the general public. A

special sneak preview evening, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, has been set aside for seniors aged 65-plus and those with mobility issues to beat the crowds and experience the store beforehand.

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artist and teacher peggy burkosky of Qualicum beach will perform a painting demo for the decosmos fine arts society on thursday.

Ballenas theatre stages Little Shop of HorrorsJ.R. [email protected]

The Ballenas Secondary School Musi-cal Theatre’s annual spring production has everything an audience could want in a musical: a lovestruck couple, sing-ers and dancers, a psychotic dentist and power tools.

Oh, and a man-eating plant.A cast of nearly 40 students will show-

case the off-Broadway cult classic Little Shop of Horrors, a comedy horror rock musical, at the school’s Whalebone The-atre Feb. 24-26 and Feb. 29-March 2.

“We did Grease last year, and this is sort of like the dark side of Grease,” said Doug Campbell, the school’s theatre teacher and director. “I love the songs in this show. The music has that sort of be-bop, 1950s feel.”

Campbell said the choice of Little Shop was actually made four years ago, when Justus Limpright, who plays the lead character, Seymour Krelborn, came into the Ballenas theatre program.

“I did this show 10 years ago at a school I taught at previously, and I saw (Limpright) playing Seymour four years ago. To me, Justus just owns the part of Seymour.”

Seymour is a nerdy, orphan employee

in the downtrodden, Skid Row flower shop of crusty Mr. Mushnik, a role shared by Brendan Arkwright and Marc Robert-

son Ricard. He is secretly in love with co-worker Audrey (played by Juliana Cook and Emma Deering), but she, in turn,

is dating the abusive and sadistic den-tist, Orin Scrivello (Katja Kiefer and Alex Balinski).

When Seymour finds an exotic plant at a Chinese florist during a solar eclipse, he names it Audrey II and brings it to Mushnik’s shop, where it becomes a popular attraction and boosts traffic and sales to the struggling business.

But the plant feeds only on human blood and flesh, and uses Seymour’s de-sire for Audrey, financial success and a stable family life to manipulate the con-flicted young man into a series of choices with disastrous consequences.

“It’s like a parable, a lighthearted satire on the evils of greed,” said Camp-bell. “It’s like the Faust (bargain with the devil) story. Seymour doesn’t deserve his fate, but he succumbs to greed and he pays the price.”

The story is driven by its songs and characters, including a Greek chorus made up of Kyra Anderson, Lily Fanyeck, Mia Murray and Madison Poole. Ostensi-bly street urchins, they strut the stage in spangled dresses while alternately nar-rating the story and providing backup vocals.

Other students appear in a substantial troupe of backup dancers or as backup singers, complete with the flowing robes of a gospel church choir.

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seymour (Justus limpright) holds the body of his beloved audrey (emma deering) in front of the giant plant audrey ii during the climactic scene in the ballenas secondary school musical theatre production of little shop of horrors.

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Painter to demo work at The MAC Thursday, Feb. 18J.R. [email protected]

When Peggy Burkosky attended the exclusive Fab-riano in Acquerello wa-tercolourist conference in Italy last April, she was as-sailed by conversation in a veritable Babel of different tongues. But the art proved a universal language.

“You would see all these artists working on the street

en plein air,” said Burkosky. “A lot of them either didn’t speak English or didn’t speak it well, so you’d try to use hand signs and gestures to communicate. Finally, they’d pull out a cell phone and say, ‘Facebook?’ They can say that.”

Burkosky should find an easier time communicating Thursday, when she dem-onstrates her watercolour techniques and tools at the monthly meeting of the De-Cosmos Fine Arts Society at the McMillan Arts Centre. She will be part of a group

including Brenden Wood of Vancouver’s Tenline Arts Supplies and Bonnie Lucht-meijer, who distributes the ink, brushes and paper fea-tured in the demo through her Qualicum Art Supply.

It will be part painting demo, part art supply show-case, featuring the new, Golden Qor watercolours, the old-style but newly re-leased Kazan Gold brushes, and the very old-school Fabriano hand-made paper from the Italian city of the same name.

“If you work in waterco-

lours, you want that good, hand-made paper,” said Burkosky. “When you get serious about your art, you look for the good stuff.”

Burkosky’s work is seri-ous enough that she was sought out to enter a piece in the International Water-color Society’s conference in Fabriano, which is known as The City of Paper and which has a history of paper-mak-ing dating to the 12th cen-tury. The annual event drew 720 paintings, representing 39 countries.

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“We’ve got almost 40 kids in the cast,” said Campbell. “The script didn’t call for that many, but I found roles for them.”

At the centre of all the activity is Audrey II, a belligerent, trash-talking plant portrayed by a series of ever-larger prop plants Campbell was given by a professional theatre company in Vic-toria.

In a technical rehearsal held last week, the students dove into their roles with relish. Lim-pright and Deering sold the parts of the star-crossed couple and carried the musical num-bers with a remarkable degree of maturity. Arkwright and Kiefer had hilarious moments camping up the parts of Mushnik and Scrivello,

respectively. And the sheer numbers in the cast boost the scale of the songs and large pieces to good effect.

“The cartoony characters are fun for the kids,” Campbell said. “But the relationships are real, which lets the audience identify with them.”

All tickets for the musical are $10, and are available only at the door on show nights. Campbell cautions that the Ballenas produc-tions “have become quite popular the last few years” and that would-be audience members should be sure to arrive early to ensure seating.

Little Shop of Horrors will play Feb. 24, 25, 26 and 29, and March 1-2, beginning at 7 p.m. each night.

Large cast lifts musical

Artist embraces teaching “The city was plugged full of

artists,” said Burkosky, a mem-ber of IWS. “You could see them painting in the streets, in the museums, attending symposiums. It was fabulous, and a great networking op-portunity with people who are international masters from the entire watercolour world.”

Originally educated and employed in commercial design, Burkosky moved to Vancouver Island from Van-couver with her husband Bob Burkosky, a commercial fish-erman, and turned her focus to fine art. The couple has pub-

lished a book, Cooking Fish and Brewing Tales, featuring his stories, recipes and Peggy’s watercolour seascapes. Orig-inally published in 2012, the book had a second printing in 2015.

She is a founding member of The Old School House Arts Centre, where she teaches a regular series of popular art courses.

Burkosky specializes in watercolour, though she also works in acrylic and charcoal. Her subject matter varies from seascapes, landscape and city-scapes to portraits and florals.

“I like to paint beautiful

things,” she said. “I’m not into the shock value. I like showing the beauty of our world.”

A display of Burkosky’s work is on exhibit in the Gal-lery at Qualicum Art Supply, 206 First Ave. West in Quali-cum Beach. Hours are 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays.

For more on the artist, visit peggyburkosky.com.

The DeCosmos Society meeting and demo will run from 1-3 p.m. at the McMillan Arts Centre. Guests may at-tend the demo for a $5 dona-tion; be aware seating may be limited.

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Thomas Harvey PidcockAPRIL 9, 1919 - FEB 8, 2016 Tom is survived by his loving wife of 70 years, Phyllis, his brother, Richard, his son, Brian and daughters, Bonnie (Brian) Chappell and Leslie, 7 grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.Tom was born in Craig ower anor, ictoria and spent his early years in Oyster River. He joined the RCAF in 1940 and served as a wire-less operator/gunner in Coastal Command, in Iceland and the United Kingdom. While post-ed in Dundee, Scotland, he met and married the love of his life, Phyllis.Upon their return to Canada, Tom completed a Bachelor of Education at UBC, and later a asters of Education through Western Washington. He taught in Port Alberni, before entering school administration. He was a principal in Alberni, Quesnel and Prince George before retiring in 1984. During his teaching years, Tom coached soccer teams and was very in-volved as a Boy Scout Leader. Tom and Phyllis were avid square dancers and for 58 years, twirling their way all over the country, and in many parts of the world. They were faithful members of the Northern Twist-ers, and the Sand Dollars.Phyllis and Tom retired to Parksville in 1990, where they built their dream home. They spent many happy years there before Tom’s health required him to move into The Gardens at Qualicum Beach, where Phyllis later joined him. They celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary there, last August.Tom was a good and kind man, a wonderful husband, father, grandfa-ther and great grandfather. He had an unforgettable sense of humour and we all will miss him very dearly. The family is forever grateful for the exceptional care and attention that Tom received during his time in The Gardens.A service to remember Tom will be held at St Columba Presbyterian Church, 921 Wembley Street, Parksville, on Tuesday, Feb 16th at 2:00. A reception in the church hall will follow.

MALCOLM MEAD-MILLERSunrise: November 18th, 1935

Sunset: January 14th, 2016Malcolm was born in his parents’ Ucluelet home in the middle of the night. He passed away in his daughters Qualicum Beach home in the middle of the night after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. A home loving man and a night owl to the very end.He was predeceased by his parents Ken and Sheila Mead-Miller, sisters Barbara (Alf) Beck and Molly (Ivan) Halvarson and son-in-law Takashi Ikeda.

He is survived by Sharon, his wife of 52 years. Also son Darren (Trudy), and daughter Melanie. Missing him are grandchildren Kigen, Alexandra, Raegan, Andrew, Sarah, Jayden and former daughter-in-law Judith. Also survived by brother Michael Mead-Miller (Judy) of Ucluelet and sister Sheila (Howie) Hambleton of Qualicum BeachMalcolm was a successful businessman in the Tofino/Ucluelet area for many years. Sharon and Malcolm travelled extensively to the Middle East, the Far East, the South Pacific and to Europe. They also spent many happy days at Melanie and Takashi’s home on the Island of Hawaii. In the early 1990’s they moved to sunny Bowser and settled into a quiet lifestyle. Malcolm had his workshop and loved to tinker. His patience in repairing mechanical things is legend and he was very good at it. He loved going out for lunch and coffee and picking up the paper and having a laugh at the Georgia Park Post Office.His humour and kindness affected strangers, acquaintances and loved ones alike.He will be missed. By many.Special thanks to Doctor Marlene Van Der Wyde; the homecare nurses from the Oceanside Medical Centre and the staff at the Oceanside Hospice Society for their professionalism and their caring ways.

A celebration of his life will be held under the Marquee at 478 Village Way, Qualicum Beach on September 24th, 2016 at 2pm with light refreshments.

James (Jim) Harrie SMITHSeptember 10, 1930 – February 5, 2016

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Jim at NRGH on Friday, February 5th, 2016. Jim loved his family dearly and is survived by his loving wife of 62 years, Joyce; sons, Ron (Carol), Grant (Barb), Glenn (Marg) and Greg (Nathalie); grandchildren, Logan (Kyrie), Graham, Devon, Genevieve, and Janelle. He will also be truly missed by his brother, Buck (Mamie Anne), many cherished friends and extended family members. Jim was predeceased by his parents, Ernest and Mary and sisters, Margaret Smith and Kathleen Workman.Jim enjoyed many active years with the Masonic Lodge, Shriners, and Eastern Star. He will always be remembered for his gentle nature, his love for gardening, and his commitment to service based organizations. The family extends a special thank you to all of the doctors and hospital staff who cared for Jim during his illness

A Celebration of Life will be held in Jim’s honour at 2:00 pm on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 at Yates Funeral Chapel, 1000 Allsbrook Road in Parksville.

Flowers are gratefully declined by the family. Those wishing to honour Jim’s memory may do so by making a donation in his name to the BC & Yukon Eastern Star Cancer Project, c/o Mrs Jean Pifer, Grand Secretary OES, 68 – 9208 208th Street, Langley, BC V1M 2M9 or Nanaimo Regional District Hospital Foundation, 1200 Dufferin Crescent, Nanaimo, BC V9S 2B7.

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John Newton GUNDERSONSeptember 9, 1939 – February 8, 2016John passed away peacefully in his home on Monday, February 8, 2016. He leaves to mourn his passing his beloved wife of 46 years, Linda; daughters, Cher-yl (Richard) Gunderson-Kishi, Jennifer Gunderson; grandson, Trey Gunder-son-Kishi; sisters, Joyce, Jessie, Quee-nie, and Vera; many nieces, nephews, extended family members and close friends. John was predeceased by his parents, Mary and Nils Gunderson.John spent his career in the logging in-dustry working in the Port Hardy area for

over 40 years. He was an avid golfer and could of-ten be found at the Qualicum Memorial Golf Course. John enjoyed his many friends both on and off the course. A loving husband and father, his family al-ways came fi rst. His girls and his grandson were the light of his life. He will be greatly missed.Those wishing to honour John’s memory may do so by making a donation in his name to Heart & Stroke Foundation Donations Department, 1212 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6H 3V2 or the Canadian Cancer Society, Attention: Donor Services, 565 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4J4.

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Thomas Harvey PidcockAPRIL 9, 1919 - FEB 8, 2016 Tom is survived by his loving wife of 70 years, Phyllis, his brother, Richard, his son, Brian and daughters, Bonnie (Brian) Chappell and Leslie, 7 grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.Tom was born in Craig ower anor, ictoria and spent his early years in Oyster River. He joined the RCAF in 1940 and served as a wire-less operator/gunner in Coastal Command, in Iceland and the United Kingdom. While post-ed in Dundee, Scotland, he met and married the love of his life, Phyllis.Upon their return to Canada, Tom completed a Bachelor of Education at UBC, and later a asters of Education through Western Washington. He taught in Port Alberni, before entering school administration. He was a principal in Alberni, Quesnel and Prince George before retiring in 1984. During his teaching years, Tom coached soccer teams and was very in-volved as a Boy Scout Leader. Tom and Phyllis were avid square dancers and for 58 years, twirling their way all over the country, and in many parts of the world. They were faithful members of the Northern Twist-ers, and the Sand Dollars.Phyllis and Tom retired to Parksville in 1990, where they built their dream home. They spent many happy years there before Tom’s health required him to move into The Gardens at Qualicum Beach, where Phyllis later joined him. They celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary there, last August.Tom was a good and kind man, a wonderful husband, father, grandfa-ther and great grandfather. He had an unforgettable sense of humour and we all will miss him very dearly. The family is forever grateful for the exceptional care and attention that Tom received during his time in The Gardens.A service to remember Tom will be held at St Columba Presbyterian Church, 921 Wembley Street, Parksville, on Tuesday, Feb 16th at 2:00. A reception in the church hall will follow.

MALCOLM MEAD-MILLERSunrise: November 18th, 1935

Sunset: January 14th, 2016Malcolm was born in his parents’ Ucluelet home in the middle of the night. He passed away in his daughters Qualicum Beach home in the middle of the night after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. A home loving man and a night owl to the very end.He was predeceased by his parents Ken and Sheila Mead-Miller, sisters Barbara (Alf) Beck and Molly (Ivan) Halvarson and son-in-law Takashi Ikeda.

He is survived by Sharon, his wife of 52 years. Also son Darren (Trudy), and daughter Melanie. Missing him are grandchildren Kigen, Alexandra, Raegan, Andrew, Sarah, Jayden and former daughter-in-law Judith. Also survived by brother Michael Mead-Miller (Judy) of Ucluelet and sister Sheila (Howie) Hambleton of Qualicum BeachMalcolm was a successful businessman in the Tofino/Ucluelet area for many years. Sharon and Malcolm travelled extensively to the Middle East, the Far East, the South Pacific and to Europe. They also spent many happy days at Melanie and Takashi’s home on the Island of Hawaii. In the early 1990’s they moved to sunny Bowser and settled into a quiet lifestyle. Malcolm had his workshop and loved to tinker. His patience in repairing mechanical things is legend and he was very good at it. He loved going out for lunch and coffee and picking up the paper and having a laugh at the Georgia Park Post Office.His humour and kindness affected strangers, acquaintances and loved ones alike.He will be missed. By many.Special thanks to Doctor Marlene Van Der Wyde; the homecare nurses from the Oceanside Medical Centre and the staff at the Oceanside Hospice Society for their professionalism and their caring ways.

A celebration of his life will be held under the Marquee at 478 Village Way, Qualicum Beach on September 24th, 2016 at 2pm with light refreshments.







John Newton GUNDERSONSeptember 9, 1939 – February 8, 2016John passed away peacefully in his home on Monday, February 8, 2016. He leaves to mourn his passing his beloved wife of 46 years, Linda; daughters, Cher-yl (Richard) Gunderson-Kishi, Jennifer Gunderson; grandson, Trey Gunder-son-Kishi; sisters, Joyce, Jessie, Quee-nie, and Vera; many nieces, nephews, extended family members and close friends. John was predeceased by his parents, Mary and Nils Gunderson.John spent his career in the logging in-dustry working in the Port Hardy area for

over 40 years. He was an avid golfer and could of-ten be found at the Qualicum Memorial Golf Course. John enjoyed his many friends both on and off the course. A loving husband and father, his family al-ways came fi rst. His girls and his grandson were the light of his life. He will be greatly missed.Those wishing to honour John’s memory may do so by making a donation in his name to Heart & Stroke Foundation Donations Department, 1212 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6H 3V2 or the Canadian Cancer Society, Attention: Donor Services, 565 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4J4.

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JUTTA IBISThe Family of Jutta Ibis is sad to announce her passing on January 26, 2016 in Nanaimo, BC.

Jutta was born in Klingenthal, Saxony, Germany on July 19, 1943. In the 1950s she and her family immigrated to Canada. Jutta moved to Prince George, BC, with her husband, Fred Ibis in the late 1960s. While in Prince George they raised their three children. After Fred retired in 1995, they moved down to Qualicum Beach and later Parksville, BC. She is predeceased by her daughter, Heidi Mae, her mother Margaret, her father Eric, and her husband Fred. She is survived by her younger brother Joachim, her three children, Carolyn, Philip (Christina), Monica, and grandson Aaron.She will be especially missed by her friend of 51 yrs, Emma Lechner.We would like like to thank Floor 5 and the Palliative Care staff at the Nanaimo General Hospital for taking good care of Jutta. Also a very special thanks goes out to Dale and Jill Dichrow for all the help that they provided us during this hard time.

As per request, there will be no service.In lieu of fl owers, it is requested that a donation be made to the Canadian Mental Health Association at cmha.ca

MARY (MANT) MORLEYWith sadness we announce the passing of

Mary (Mant) Morley Feb. 10, 2016 Mary was born March 5 1920. She was a long time resident of Qualicum Beach. Her parents arrived in Qualicum in the early 1900’s where they established a dairy farm. She married Earnest (Art) Arthur Morley of Coombs BC. They had five children, ten grandchil-dren and many great grandchildren.She was predeceased by her husband Art and two son’s Gilbert (Gib) and Phillip (Pip). She has three surviving daughters Mary-Lou Warren, Donna-Lee Gibbens and Cynthia Anne Donahue.

Mary passed away peacefully at home with her daughters present.

A memorial tea will be held on Thurs. Feb. 18 from 1 to 3pm at

Christian Fellowship Centre, 825 Village Way Qualicum Beach.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation to St. Stephen’s United Church lunch program. 150 Village Way Qualicum Beach B.C. V9K 1L1

ANNUAL GENERALMEETING

Monday, March 21, 2016 • 7:00pmHall #1 at 960 Errington Road, Errington

• Financial Reports• Department Updates• Election of Directors

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To vote at the AGM, you must be a SocietyMember for 30 days prior. Membership is open toErrington residents and property owners. Annual Membership is $1.00. For more info, contact the fi re dept. at 250-248-5601.

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The AA senior girls North Is-land tournament has come to a close with both local teams earning their way to the Island tournament this weekend.

Hosted by Kwalikum Sec-ondary School, the North Is-lands kicked off last Thursday with the Ballenas Whalers and Kwalikum Kondors looking to move onto the Island tourna-ment, which starts this Thurs-day.

Both the Whalers and Kon-dors played well throughout, as did the majority of teams, but it was the Whalers who contin-ued their strong play this sea-son to come out on top, while the Kondors finished third.

That means both teams move onto the Island champi-onship.

“It was a good tournament,” Ballenas coach Bryan Spray said. “We could have lost both of our games, that’s how tight these teams are in this league. They never quit, even when they were down on the score-board, they never quit.”

“Our defense was what kept us in our games we played and we managed to hold teams down just enough to get back in there and put them away. The girls handled themselves very well and showed a lot of heart not breaking when they were down.”

Earning a bye in the first round of the tournament, the Whalers took on the Wellington Wildcats (Nanaimo) with a spot in the finals on the line.

The Wildcats took a lead on the Whalers, forcing them to come from behind to earn a shot at first place in the tour-

nament. The Whalers did just that, setting up a meeting with the Isfeld Ice (Comox).

“The girls just battled all weekend,” Spray said. “They came to compete and they did that, they never gave up. Even with the score in the other team’s favour, they came out

and battled it out.”“It was satisfying to see them

play the way they did, I’m very proud of them. All the games between the top four teams in this tournament were close, no-body had an easy game at all.”

The Whalers were down 56-51 in the fourth quarter to the

Ice, who were looking to deal the Whalers their first league loss of the season.

It wasn’t in the cards on this day; however, as the Whalers charged back from behind to close out a first place win by a score of 62-59.

Grade 11 Makayla Hoey once again led the charge for the Whalers on the offensive end, as she’s done much of the season.

Hoey scored 12 of the Whal-ers 22 points in the fourth quar-ter, leading the team to victory on her way to earning North Island tournament MVP hon-ours.

“She’s an incredible player,” Spray said. “She’s worked very hard with the game of basket-ball and it shows. She’s a spe-cial athlete and I suspect she’ll be moving onto play basketball at the post-secondary level.”

“She brings the level of play of her teammates to a different level and all the girls on our team work very hard together,” Spray said.

“This is a team that’s very de-termined and they’ve got a lot of heart. I’m hoping to see that same level of compete at the Islands. Our goal is to not lose until we come across a team that’s better than us, it’ll hap-pen at some point but we’re not going down without giving it a good battle.”

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Makayla Hoey goes hard to the hoop in AA North Island Tournament action. The Ballenas Whalers claimed first place in the tournament, with Hoey earning tournament MVP honours.

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The Save-On-Foods Oceanside Gen-erals earned a split last week, beating the Nanaimo Buccaneers Thursday and los-ing to the Campbell River Storm Friday.

That leaves the Generals — with two games remaining in the regular season — facing a wild card game against the Saanich Braves on the horizon to see which will make the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL) playoffs.

Following their 4-2 win over the Buc-caneers, the Generals were on the road to take on the Storm, losing 7-3.

“I thought we played great the first 20 minutes in Campbell River,” head coach Brad Knight said. “Shots were close in the

first, I thought the kids hung in there and skated well. We took four straight penal-ties in a row and Campbell River scored on each power play. That’s the definition of a team that’s in first place and they made us pay. We let it get away and lost our nerve a little bit, hopefully we’ll be able to correct that before we play against Saanich.”

Sitting three points behind the Braves, the Generals still have an outside chance at moving into eighth place in the stand-ings and could host the wild card playoff game if they finish ahead of the Braves.

“We’re going to focus on getting ready for that game,” Knight said. “We know we’re going to face Saanich and the chances of playing in their rink are there,

which we’re fine with.”“We’ve beaten them on their ice and

they’ve beaten us on ours. I think we’ll use the last couple of games to make sure everyone gets some ice time, evaluate our guys a little more and pick the best lineup we can put forward for the game against Saanich. We just need to play with confidence and play like we want to move onto the playoffs.”

The majority of the Generals’ wins have come on the road this season, far surpassing the two wins combined over their last two seasons.

“We play well on the road, we have all year, we’ve won in Saanich and I don’t see any reason why we can’t do it again,” Knight said. “It’s not a rink that we’re

uncomfortable playing in, we know we can skate and we’ve got the skill to beat them.”

“Sure, we’re lacking the experience most of the teams in the league have but that’s fine with me. We’re going to be al-right, these guys are learning every time they step on the ice and I think we’ll be just fine.”

In the meantime, the Gens’ last two regular games take place this Friday and Saturday night. They are back on the road taking on the Peninsula Panthers on Fri-day (7:30 p.m.) and will close the regular season at home against the Victoria Cou-gars at 7:30 Saturday night.

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parksville qualicum beach news, february 16, 2016

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