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NUTCRACKER’S NEW MODERN TWIST A BIG HITNutcracker princess Yui Watanabe gets the unruly mice in order during Ballet Victoria’s delightful rendition of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Nutcracker’ at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre on Saturday, Dec. 12. The presentation was new for Cowichan Valley fans of the ballet, but it hit all the right notes, pleasing large enthusiastic crowds that included many children. For story and more photos, see page 18 and check out cowichanvalleycitizen.com for a full photo gallery.[LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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Storm cancels Chemainus Christmas eventSARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

Chemainus’s 10th annual Little Town Christmas was cancelled as result of another windstorm that walloped the Cowichan Valley over the weekend.

The event was slated to run “rain or shine” according to an information poster around town but it didn’t say anything about the wind.

The Saturday storm wasn’t as bad as the one on Thursday,

Dec. 10, according to a BC Hydro official.

Spokesperson Karla Louwers said at its peak on Saturday about 2,000 customers in the Val-ley were without power.

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sets of outages,” she said. “The first at about noon on Saturday.”

Workers had things fixed before 8 p.m. for most customers.

“And then we saw another gust in between 10 and 11 p.m.,” Lou-wers said.

It was unfortunate timing for the linemen.

“Crews were winding down to head home and we saw the next gust then,” she said.

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KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Just days after starting their new lives in Canada, the first refugees from the Syrian Civil War to arrive in the Cowichan Valley admitted they felt fright-ened about what was ahead of them — until they met their sponsors from the Mill Bay Bap-tist Fellowship.

“She felt safe in those three days,” interpreter Jihan Abou El Arab said, translating the words of 29-year-old refugee Faten Dekhan. “She felt the difference from where she was before.”

Dekhan arrived in the Cowic-han Valley on Dec. 7 along with her 58-year-old mother, Aisha Jafar, and her nine-year-old son, Mohammed Alnaddaf. The Mill Bay Baptist Fellowship is spon-soring the family for their first year in Canada.

They used to call Homs, Syr-ia, home. When the war reached Homs, they left for the capital city, Damascus. When the war reached Damascus, they moved to a small village between Damascus and the border with

Lebanon. Finally, they fled across the border into Lebanon, and spent the last two years living with Dekhan’s brother in Beirut.

“So basically, they ran from one spot to another spot into Lebanon,” Abou El Arab said.

Both women are widows: Jafar’s husband died of a heart attack, and Dekhan’s husband was killed in bombings during the war. They have arrived in Canada with only each other. Virtually all their possessions had to be left behind.

“Everything is gone,” Abou El Arab said. “Absolutely gone. They basically came with their clothing and her wedding ring, and everything else is gone.”

When they began the process of leaving Lebanon as refugees a year ago, the UN agency they were working with said there were several countries they could have ended up in: Can-ada, Australia, Sweden, Nether-lands. They didn’t choose Can-ada, but happened to fit all the criteria that Canada was look-ing for. Canada’s commitment to welcome 25,000 refugees pro-

vided more open spots than the other countries had, as well.

“All the rules Canada put to adopt refugees, they fit every-thing,” Abou El Arab related.

Mohammed, who would have been starting Grade 1 in Syria before his family left, was a top student in Lebanon.

His favourite subject is sci-ence, and he is also looking for-ward to starting piano lessons and soccer.

There are few concerns that he will keep up with other stu-dents his age once he gets start-ed in school.

“I think Mohammed is a very bright boy and he will catch up very fast with the language,” Abou El Arab said.

Dekhan, who has some train-ing in nursing, is hoping to fur-ther her education in Canada, while also adjusting to a new home.

“She’s hoping the community will accept that and adopt them as one of them,” Abou El Arab said. “She is hoping she will be adopted by the culture here, and she is actually wishing she will be part of this community.”

Cowichan’s fi rst Syrian refugees feeling ‘safe’

Syrian refugees and new Canadians Aisha Jafar, Faten Dekhan and Mohammed Alnaddaf speak to the media during a press conference at the Cowichan Intercultural Society last Thursday. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

MARCEL AUBIN, the presi-dent of the Cowichan Intercultural Society board, shared some of his Anishnaabe First Nations culture with the Cowichan Valley’s first family of Syrian refugees following a press con-ference at the CIS offices last Thursday.

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“I FELT a need to welcome the Syrian family in a gentle and respectful way.

I HAD offered the cedar bough and a tobacco tie.

THE SIGNIFICANCE of cedar is to help with purification and protection.

I EXPLAINED that the cedar bough would offer them this protec-tion for their time here as well as for friends and family back home. I had

recently learned that their last place of resi-dence being Lebanon is known for their abun-dance of cedar trees so I thought the bough was fitting for that reason as well.

THE TOBACCO tie holds prayers for their family and loved ones. I

explained that the tobacco tie can be used to pray with or offer back to mother earth.

THROUGH OUR inter-action I learned that many of their customs are similar to ours and they seemed quite hon-oured to receive as was I to be in their presence.”

A First Nations welcome for Syrians

Marcel Aubin, right, explains the significance of his gifts through interpreter Jihan Abou El Arab.


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Majority favour Sunfest move: meetingLEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Although moving Sunfest to a new location at Meade Creek affects the Cowichan Lake area directly, lots of residents in other parts of the Valley have been following the story, too.

One of these is Marty Gol-iath, owner of White Spot Restaurant.

He joined the supporters of the move who flocked to the microphone at a public hearing at Youbou Hall Monday, Dec. 7, which aimed to give regional directors a last chance to hear the public on the subject before it comes to the CVRD table on Jan. 13.

Goliath said he’s been involved with Sunfest for many years and wants to see it continue, as it benefitted business widely across the Cowichan Valley but that wasn’t all.

Many people really enjoy the experience of volunteering and learning new skills at such a big event, he said, adding that young people who started out as volunteers have actually been hired for jobs at Sunfest in sub-sequent years, helping them pay for their schooling.

“People love this. I know it impacts a lot of people. We all benefit, I know I do, and we need this as a community,” he said.

By the sound of the audience of about 250 people, most of the

crowd supported the idea of moving the big country music festival to a property its owners are calling Lake Town Ranch, but a vocal group of opponents still wanted one more chance to speak to a Cowichan Valley Regional District panel that included Youbou director Klaus Kuhn, Honeymoon Bay director Ian Morrison and North Oyster director Mary Marcotte, plus regional district staffers Mike Tippett and Rob Conway.

Also on hand to answer ques-tions were Lake Town Ranch’s

Greg Adams and Jennifer Kay.Some of the newest updates

about the project included the assurance that only 15 days per year would be allocated to fes-tivals, instead of the 30 origin-ally requested by the developer. There is also a provision that three unused days can be car-ried forward one year.

Another new point is that music must stop during a quiet time of 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. each day of a festival, Tippett said.

But most of the audience had come to hear what the people

had to say to back up the 82 letters received up to the time of the pub-lic hearing. It was the last chance to get anything on the record.

Many opponents, led by John Harmon and Jack Peake, called for independent studies of such subjects as forest fire risk, known criminal activity, traffic, other sim-ilar festivals, effects of sound, and water problems. Harmon said he hoped to see something like a saw-mill with permanent jobs on the site.

The crowd listened to a variety of views, but tempers in the hall frayed after the first hour and a half.

When one man stood up and said he had moved to the area for the quiet lifestyle and asked if allowing Lake Town Ranch would be jeopard-izing the area’s reputation, a voice from the audience yelled, “Sit down. It’s a three-day event!”

Others joined in briefly but Kuhn rebuked them for being disrespect-ful and then said bluntly that he would be making his decision “for the majority of people in Area I. I act for my people.”

A representative from Coulson Flying Tankers — famous for their Martin Mars water bomber — said his outfit’s location at Sproat Lake was just over the mountain from

Meade Creek and he could effi-ciently mobilize forest fire fighting equipment from there.

Several speakers said they were concerned about the effect on the environment but Denis Martel of the Wilderness Watch group stepped up and said that the group was actually supporting the proposal.

Former CVRD chair Joe Allan pointed out that the property next to the site was already zoned heavy industrial, so if people were con-cerned about noise and other prob-lems, they could still be facing them from operations on that land.

By 8:50 p.m., they finally got around to the positive comments and a line of people quickly formed at the mic right out to the door.

Lake Cowichan Coun. Bob Day quoted a 1991 report that called for establishment of a destination resort and possibly a theme park to help boost the economy of the area. He was also one of several who said that to keep pining for a new forest industry boom at Lake Cowichan was to court continued disappointment.

Tourism is the doorway to the future, and events like Sunfest will bring a lot of people to Cowichan Lake, he said.

White Spot restaurant owner Marty Goliath is one of many business owners who feel they benefit from Sunfest. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

Lake Cowichan town councillor, Bob Day, waves a study from 1991 that called for a destination resort in the area. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]


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SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

An extra 150 sailings have been added to the three major ferry routes linking Vancouver Island and the mainland this holiday season.

The extra sailings begin Friday, Dec. 18 and will run through Sunday, Jan. 3.

The bulk of the boats, 100 extra sailings, will be going back and forth between Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen as that’s the busiest route, but an additional 40 sailings will also run between Departure Bay and Horseshoe Bay as well.

The Duke Point-Tsawwassen run will see a handful of extra trips, on Saturdays only, during the expanded service time.

Christmas Day and News Years Day sailings will be reduced, however, due to historically low demand.

According to a press release, Wednes-day, Dec. 23 is expected to be the busiest

pre-Christmas travel day and Sunday, Dec. 27 should be equally busy as folks try to get home.

The only way to guarantee a spot on a given vessel is to purchase a reservation and, even then, weather has been known to cancel sailings this time of year, so be prepared for anything.

“While arriving early at peak times is often recommended, selecting a sailing at non-peak times is an alternative strategy that can reduce wait times at terminals,” said a BC Ferries press release.

Walking on is an option but parking lots at the various terminals are expected to fill up fast so consider public transit.

Customers with questions can call 1-888-BCFERRY (1-888-223-3779) or visit www.bcferries.com for schedules and to see a chart of the typically busiest sailings. Both are good resources for travellers to find information.

Extra sailings added, but ferry users must plan ahead

Make reservations or travel on an off-peak sailing, suggests BC Ferries. [CITIZEN FILE]


Dogs deserve to get a second chance, too

Re: The SPCA has outlived its usefulness

We were absolutely outraged at the uneducated letter from Kristi Davis about Aslan, the dog rescued from Ladysmith.

We have been rescuing dogs for over 27 years and have NEVER had an aggressive, unpredict-able rescue dog. Yes, they have come to us extremely trauma-tized and very timid, but, within a short time of receiving love, nourishment and feeling safe, they blossom into incredibly loving and exceptionally loyal companions.

Dogs don’t cheat, lie or steal. They don’t care where you live, what you look like, how you dress. They are not judgemental nor critical. They only want to give you unconditional love and be loved by their humans.

That is all they ask for. Simple, isn’t it?

Think of the service dogs who protect us in the military and police and therapeutic dogs who help the disabled, veterans and emotionally fragile people. Habitual prisoners, who usual-ly don’t trust anyone, are now training dogs in jail, and, per-haps for the first time in their lives, are receiving love. Both the prisoners and the dogs get a second chance in life!

Yes, we are also very aware of the homeless (our own son, of his own volition, lives on the streets) and food banks, needy pensioners which is why we also donate to the food banks, to thrift shops. We do that as well.

Kristi Davis, you could learn something from animals! Per-haps you should go volunteer at the SPCA to educate yourself. You might be surprised.

Richard and Joan GordonLadysmith

SPCA deserves respect, not derision

In response to Kristi Davis’s letter saying the SPCA has outlived its usefulness, I 100 per cent disagree.

In respect of the dog, Aslan, who was thankfully rescued by the SPCA, Ms. Davis questions if saving the dog was the right thing to do given the medical costs to save Aslan. She also questioned why the dog was saved thinking that he was being put through unnecessary suffering to save his life.

I understand that Aslan has turned the corner and is happily healing in his new foster home. Many folks have come forward willingly with donations to pay for Aslan’s vet expenses which

have been fully covered. All of this has made a difference in one dog’s life so that he can know love and compassion rath-er than the dismal life he knew before he was rescued. This is all very positive and a direct result of the amazing staff, vet-erinarians, and community that all came together to help Aslan.

I really have to wonder where Ms. Davis got the idea that the SPCA “already has millions of the public’s money that we must give them involuntarily” to help animals, and I think she should check her facts. The SPCA is primarily funded through voluntary donations by people who care about the welfare of animals. The province did fund $5 million to the BC SPCA in 2015 to help with infrastructure

upgrades, but other than that, the province has not contributed to the SPCA as far as I know.

The professional staff at the SPCA do an amazing job of helping animals with the less than adequate legislation they have to work within. Until the day comes when animals are no longer neglected and abused by people, we need the SPCA to continue speaking for the animals. We should be thank-ing the SPCA staff, and feeling fortunate that they are there working hard in the background to fight for the animals, rather than hearing the negativity that was outlined in Ms. Davis’ letter disrespecting the SPCA.

Linda ProwseCrofton

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Gee, what a surprise that a former deputy minister recommends that they get

rid of the pesky whistle-blower and move all the jobs under the government muzzle.

It’s really tough not to be cyn-ical about the goings-on at the Ministry of Children and Family Development. Everyone seems to agree that it is drastically understaffed and underfunded. How did we get to this state of emergency, without someone stopping the avalanche along the way? It took the B.C. govern-ment turning a blind eye and a deaf ear deliberately and repeat-

edly to the needs of the young people in care and the social workers who try to do a halfway decent job of looking out for them, though their caseloads make it all but impossible.

While it’s nice that Children and Family Development Minis-ter Stephanie Cadieux has said that her government does plan to increase resources for the ministry, we doubt it will be the $100 million Representative for Children and Youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says is needed to keep up with the caseload.

It’s taken years to get here, with the Liberals firmly at the

helm. Over many of those years Turpel-Lafond has been the only champion youth in care in this province have had. She’s been the persistent and unflinching canary in the coal mine, even though her reports have no doubt made her unpopular in the corridors of power.

As that public voice, Tur-pel-Lafond is essential.

One can only imagine how much would ever get out to the public should Bob Plecas, that former deputy minister, have the recommendations in his recent report adopted. Plecas is a highly respected, long serv-

ing, former civil servant, but perhaps it’s a problem that he’s too familiar with the backrooms and closed-door meetings of the legislature.

His suggestions would lead to the public being granted some-where between scant and no information. His suggestion that an internal “contrarian” and a ministry spokesperson could do the same job that Turpel-Lafond is doing is dangerous nonsense that will see the responsibility for terrible mistakes buried along with the bodies.

The idea that an all-party com-mittee of MLAs could be briefed

on child death and serious injury cases and that opposition MLAs would then take up the oversight and criticism role is a total non-starter. Let’s be honest here, when have the majority Liberals ever taken anything the minority opposition MLAs have to say seriously, let alone ser-iously enough to make changes?

While some of these recom-mendations may be good for the ruling government, we don’t think they’re good news for those who are caught in this broken system. And they’re the ones who are most important, aren’t they?

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CITY OF DUNCAN PUBLIC WORKS ANNUAL FOOD/TOY DRIVE – DECEMBER 14 – 18, 2015

The City of Duncan Public Works Crew will be picking up donations of non‐perishable food items for the local food bank on December 15th, 16th and 17th, 2015. We will also be collecting donations of unwrapped toys again this year! You can choose to donate food, or toys, or both.

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The City of Duncan Public Works Crew will be picking up donations of non‐perishable food items for the local food bank on December 15th, 16th and 17th, 2015. We will also be collecting donations of unwrapped toys again this year! You can choose to donate food, or toys, or both.

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SPCA does great work in our community

Re: SPCA needs to be put downI find it difficult to believe anyone could

be so mean-spirited. The way we treat our animals is the mark of a civilized society.

An animal which has been abused or neglected still has the right to live.

Our own pets have all come from the SPCA and without exception have adjusted perfectly to the family. I am sure Aslan will be a loving pet in the right home. The SPCA does so much good work in our community, it should not be discounted.

Ed WhiteCobble Hill

SPCA doesn’t take money involuntarily

Response to letter from Kristi DavisAs an animal lover and pensioner I

resent being told that this poor dog does not deserve to be rescued.

Since when is it necessary for the public to give the SPCA money involuntarily? As far as my experience has shown they are always extremely appreciative of any sum donated.

Whether or not this poor dog is able

to be saved and find a forever home is of course a huge question. However I believe every creature should be given a second chance.

I believe the SPCA does a fabulous, and often thankless job, which should be applauded not run down. They most definitely have a place in our society especially since animals cannot speak for themselves.

Jen WatertonDuncan

SPCA needed so long as humans mistreat animals

In answer to Kristie Davis’s letter re: SPCA

The SPCA will outlive its usefulness when humans stop putting animals in danger and distress.

Like humans, animals feel fear, pain, hunger, distress, loneliness and love.

What animals do not have is the power of speech, reasoning and common sense, giving humans power over them.

Not all, but many of the “vulnerable humans in our society” put themselves there because they did not use their power of speech, reasoning and common sense. We share this world with animals and birds and I think they deserve their share of our taxes and charity.

Gandhi quote “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its ani-mals are treated.”

Daryl DoskocilGlenora

Write to everyone to prevent Shawnigan ghost town

The permit to allow the dumping of tons and tons of contaminated soil in Shawnigan Lake’s watershed is incomprehensible. What could Mary Polak and Christy Clark possibly be thinking? A resulting ghost town is only a matter of time, and the water table actually affects a much wider area.

I would like to ask everyone to please write to the federal government to ask them to stop this immediately! Justin Trudeau, Hunter Tootoo (Minister of Fisheries and Oceans), and Catherine McKenna (Minister of Environment and Climate Change).

We need your help desperately.

Sally CowlishawShawnigan Lake, future ghost town

Thank you to a wonderful community,

We would like to express our sincerest thanks for the outpouring of love and support shown to us since Brayden Gale’s tragic accident. Our loss has touched many, and the community has come to our side; from the generous support of our coworkers at the CVRD and Crofton Pulp Mill as well as countless friends and family. So many thoughtful and car-ing individuals, you have all touched us in heartfelt ways.

We would also like to thank the bystanders at the scene for everything they did and tried to do for Brayden, and again thank you to the all the emer-gency service personnel for your efforts and support.

Brayden will never be for-gotten, nor will the support that we received from our community.

Thank you all so much.

Laura Robertson, Duane Gale and familiesCowichan

Thank you for the community support

A holiday message to menI am sending this message today as a

reminder that we are heading into a time of year that often causes old hurts to surface. It is very common for men to choose to isolate and not ask for help.

I am asking you to consider reaching out to local organizations such as churches, mental health, etc. for their support.

This is also a time of year where holiday cheer is shared. I would invite you to consid-er the impacts of excessive alcohol and food on your health and well being. I would invite you to connect with family and friends and to enjoy the special moments near a warm fire — sharing stories, etc. Please remember that how you treat yourself is how you treat others. So be gentle and look for the simple joyful moments. Take care of yourself! All the best of the season! Here’s to a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2016!

Grant M. Waldman executive directorWest Coast Men’s Support Society

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last week...wait now, before you fire off that critical email, we got rid of our oil/wood boiler and use propane only as a backup for electric heaters. Okay? Hope so, because nobody said a carbon buster’s job is easy.

Anyway, I jokingly asked Gary, the gas fitter, if he knew that his job would inevitably become extinct. Instead of being pissed off, he smiled and said “Yes, I know”.

I guess he was listening to politicians and scientists at that Paris Climate Conference last week. At the same time, a Sun-cor oil sands mechanic got con-siderable publicity when he also admitted the need to phase out his fossil fuel job and transition to renewable forms of energy — wow, this in Fort McMurray!

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energy will not be easy and cannot be abrupt. So we all have very big jobs, but with very big benefits. Our non-carbon future will be sustainable and likely more democratic, more social, and, certainly, more healthy — a big deal in Cowichan according to our regional medical officer.

We need to help each other change our way of thinking. If we treat fossil fuel users that live in our community as we now treat smokers that come into our homes — kind but stern — then we will succeed.

If we phase out our use of gasoline or home heating fuel, corporations will fear the finan-cial risk of digging or drilling expensive fossil fuels out of the ground. So I am transitioning my energy into supporting alternatives to fossil fuels.

For example, a group in Cow-ichan is setting up a public solar energy project. Citizens would finance locally-produced,

non-carbon solar energy, and make money. They could lease roof tops from fellow citizens, or maybe build small solar “farms” like mine near Maple Bay. Inter-ested? Email [email protected]

Instead of exporting energy jobs to Alberta and Texas, we

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Old Baldy Mountain, as seen from the waters of Shawnigan Lake. [SUBMITTED]

SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN

The Cowichan Valley Regional District can boast another 100 hectares of parkland thanks to the acquisition of the top and western slopes of Old Baldy Mountain.

Money raised to purchase the Shawnigan Lake fixture came from funding through the CVRD’s Electoral Area B (Shawnigan Lake) Community Parks function, aug-mented by a community-led fundraising campaign.

It’s great news for those communities hoping to see the area maintain its rural landscape.

The CVRD said the land was acquired with the understanding that the regional district intends to maintain the lands as a natural park with trails for the use and enjoyment of local residents and visitors to Shawnigan Lake.

“Over the years Old Baldy Mountain has been subjected to logging, along with threats of resort and housing development proposals,” Shawnigan Lake director Sonia Furstenau noted.

“The community of Shawnigan Lake can celebrate knowing that this beautiful backdrop to the lake captured in the works

of renowned artist E. J. Hughes will be pro-tected in perpetuity.”

Now that the CVRD owns the property, the Shawnigan Lake Parks Commission in concert with local trail advocates will set out to assess and map the mountain, formalizing accessible trails, “including a focus on environmental enhancement work to restore areas impacted by past activities,” said a press release.

Furstenau said conservation of the mountain contributes to the overall water-shed protection objectives for Shawnigan Lake, “and signifies the true direction the Shawnigan community wants for its future.”

The total cost of purchasing the two properties that make up the new park was $1.5 million — $75,000 of which came through community donations.

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“The community of Shawnigan Lake can celebrate knowing that this beautiful backdrop to the lake ... will be protected in perpetuity.”

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Louwers said five line crews and one tree crew were put to work in the Cowichan Valley.

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The Cowichan River, swollen with recent torrential rain, floods Lake Cowichan’s Saywell Park right up to the parking lot. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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A Lynn Road residence in Tofino has sold for $3.162 million.

The 9,600 sq. ft. luxury home marked the highest reported residential sale in Tofino’s history, besting the town’s former record of $2.3 million set by another Lynn Road residence earlier this year.

The buyers are from Alberta.The home was listed by Engel & Volkers

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The terrible case of the tight-fi sted carpenter

“Husband gets jail for ‘callous’ neglect of wife” —Times-Colonist, December 2015.

It was said, at the time, that James H. Gilchrist com-

mitted suicide while grief-stricken by his wife’s death.

Police, in fact, were convinced of it, druggist C.H. Bowen having reported that a man of Gilchrist’s description had purchased 10 grams of strych-nine to, he said, rid himself of a cat. When last seen, the missing carpenter was walking rapidly towards Macaulay Point, and officers concluded that Gilchrist either took the poison, drowned himself, or both. Despite inten-sive efforts, however, they’d been unable to find a body.

Making matters worse, the Gil-christs’ Victoria West neighbours found themselves in charge of the couple’s three children. Appar-ently the Gilchrists were an odd couple. English, they’d “lived in Victoria for many years, being notable for their mutual devotion in their married life, carried to an extreme that had won for them a reputation of mild eccentricity. They were inseparable, and each found complete happiness in the society of the other. When the

children came — for there are three in the little family so suddenly bereft of both father and mother — they were the constant companions of both parents whenever they appeared in public, Mr. Gilchrist invariably carrying the youngest...”

Curiously, when police examined their Craig-

flower cottage, they were aston-ished to find not a comfortable home but one “fitted with a scant-iness common only to the living places of the very poor” — this, despite Gilchrist’s having enjoyed steady employment at high wages. Apparently the carpenter had been “economical even to penurious-ness in his daily life,” often walk-ing several miles to work in the worst of weather rather than pay a few cents carfare.

A search of the house turned up few cooking utensils or articles of furniture; even the children slept on mattresses on the floor for want of bedsteads, and the few blan-kets were thin. “What disposition Gilchrist could have made of his money is accordingly puzzling the western suburb almost as much as the mystery of his fate,” it was reported.

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NOTICE TO ELECTORS WITHIN THE COWICHAN RIVER WATERSHED AREA OF AN ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS OPPORTUNITY FOR CVRD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT BYLAW NO. 3930[Cowichan River Water Management Service]

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD), proposes to adopt “CVRD Bylaw No. 3930 – Cowichan River Water Management Service Establishment Bylaw, 2015 “.

BYLAW SUMMARYIf adopted, Bylaw No. 3930 will allow the CVRD to requisition up to $600,000 per year to provide management of water quality and quantity in the Cowichan River Watershed. The maximum cost to residential property owners within the proposed service area with a residential property assessed at $100,000 would be approximately $9.13 per year, as set out in the table below. The complete bylaw is available for review at the CVRD of ce, located at 175 Ingram Street in Duncan BC, during regular of ce hours, Monday to Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, excluding statutory holidays. A copy of the bylaw is also available on the CVRD website at www.cvrd.bc.ca.

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ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS AND ELIGIBILITYThe CVRD may adopt this bylaw unless at least 10% of electors within the regional district indicate that a referendum must be held by submitting a signed Elector Response Form to the CVRD of ce no later than 4:30 pm, Wednesday, December 2, 2015. The Elector Response Form must be in the form established by the CVRD, and only those persons who qualify as electors of the whole of the City of Duncan; the whole of the Town of Lake Cowichan; and those portions of the District of North Cowichan, Electoral Area B – Shawnigan Lake, Electoral Area D – Cowichan Bay, Electoral Area E – Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/Glenora, Electoral Area F – Cowichan Lake South/Skutz Falls, and Electoral Area I – Youbou/Meade Creek that are within the boundaries of the proposed service area are entitled to sign. Electors may qualify as either resident electors or as non-resident property electors, as follows:

Resident Elector – You are entitled to submit an Elector Response Form as a resident elector if you are age 18 or older on the day of submission, are a Canadian citizen, have lived in BC for at least six months, and have been a resident in the proposed service area for the past 30 days or more.

Non-Resident Property Elector – You are entitled to submit an Elector Response Form as a non-resident property elector if you are age 18 or older on the day of submission, are a Canadian citizen, have lived in BC for at least six months, have owned and held registered title to a property in the proposed service area for the past 30 days or more, and do not qualify as a resident elector. NOTE: Only one non-resident property elector may submit a response form per property, regardless of how many owners there may be.

If less than 10% (2,992) of the area electors submit an Elector Response Form, the bylaw will be deemed to have the approval of the electors and the CVRD Board may adopt the bylaw. For the purpose of conducting the alternative approval opportunity, the number of area electors is calculated at 29,916.

Elector Response Forms are available from the CVRD, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC V9L 1N8, Phone 250.746.2500 / 1.800.665.3955, e-mail [email protected] OR on the CVRD website at www.cvrd.bc.ca.

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NOTICE TO ELECTORS OF ELECTORAL AREAE – COWICHAN STATION/SAHTLAM/GLENORA OF AN ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS OPPORTUNITY FOR CVRD SERVICE AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3956NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District proposes to adopt "CVRD Bylaw No. 3956 – Electoral Area E – Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/Glenora Critical Location Streetlighting Service Amendment Bylaw, 2015".

BYLAW SUMMARYIf adopted, Bylaw No. 3956 will allow the Cowichan Valley Regional District to amend "CVRD Bylaw No. 2141, Electoral Area E – Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/Glenora Critical Location Streetlighting Service Establishment Bylaw, 2000", to increase the maximum requisition limit from $3,000 up to $7,000 annually. Costs to residential property owners are set out in the table below. The purpose of the increase is to recover 2014 installation costs for four (4) lights; and assist with operation and maintenance costs, including BC Hydro fees. The complete bylaw is available for review at the Cowichan Valley Regional District office, located at 175 Ingram Street in Duncan, during regular office hours, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays. A copy of the bylaw is also available on the CVRD website at www.cvrd.bc.ca

ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS AND ELIGIBILITYThe Regional District may adopt this bylaw unless at least 10% of electors within the service area indicate that a referendum must be held by submitting a signed Elector Response Form to the Regional District office no later than 4:30 pm on Monday, January 25, 2016. Elector Response Forms must be in the form established by the Regional District, and only those persons who qualify as electors of the service area are entitled to sign. The service area includes all of Electoral Area E – Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/Glenora/that comprises the Critical Location Streetlighting Service Area. Service area electors may qualify as either resident electors or as non-resident property electors, as follows:

Resident Elector – You are entitled to submit an Elector Response Form as a resident elector if you are age 18 or older on the day of submission, are a Canadian citizen, have lived in BC for at least six months, and have been a resident of Electoral Area E – Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/Glenora/for the past 30 days or more.

Non-Resident Property Elector – You are entitled to submit an Elector Response Form as a non-resident property elector if you are age 18 or older on the day of submission, are a Canadian citizen, have lived in BC for at least six months, have owned and held registered title to a property in Electoral Area E – Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/Glenora for the past 30 days or more, and do not qualify as a resident elector. NOTE: Only one non-resident property elector may submit a response form per property, regardless of how many owners there may be.

If less than 10% (340) of the service area electors submit an Elector Response Form, the bylaw will be deemed to have the approval of the electors and the Regional District may proceed with adoption. For the purpose of conducting the alternative approval opportunity, the number of service area electors is calculated as 3,397.

A copy of the bylaw and Elector Response Form is available from the Cowichan Valley Regional District, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC V9L 1N8, Phone 250.746.2500/1.800.665.3955, e-mail [email protected], OR on the CVRD website at www.cvrd.bc.ca

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Described as being 35 years of age, six feet tall, with sandy hair and mutton-chop whis-kers, Gilchrist undoubtedly was the man seen walking toward Macaulay Point. Sgt. Hawton, Special Officer Johnston and Constables Red-grave and Walker concentrated their efforts in that area.

The following day they revealed a new — and shocking — theory for Gilchrist’s disappear-ance. Rather than being grief-stricken, it was now thought that “fear of prosecution for neg-lect of [his wife] during the serious illness that caused her death led the husband and father to either make away with himself or secrete him-self. As the facts come to light, it is apparent that Gilchrist had cause to fear, for from the information he has received Chief Sheppard has about made up his mind that if the man turns up alive, he will place him under arrest.”

It had been learned that Gilchrist had refused to allow his wife a doctor during her last, fatal birth as she lay hemorrhaging. Only when a neighbour noticed the Gilchrist children carry-ing bloodied bedding from the house had a doc-tor been called; too late for Mrs. Gilchrist.

Whatever the case, Gilchrist was gone, although it had been learned that he wasn’t the man who purchased the strychnine, that indi-vidual having notified the authorities.

Days passed without sign of the missing carpenter and police remained undecided as to whether he’d fled to escape prosecution or had done away with himself. The mystery was solved when his body was recovered from Juan de Fuca Strait and a coroner’s jury ruled sui-cide “while temporarily insane”.

And with James Gilchrist’s death the mystery of his money went unanswered. Fortunately for his children, relatives in England were said to be in comfortable circumstances.

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STUDENTS OVERFLOW WITH XMAS GENEROSITYThese students — all members of the District Student Advisory Council — are getting ready to pack all the generously donated warm clothing and toiletries they’ve collected this fall into new backpacks for distribution to less fortunate teens around the Cowichan Valley. This effort is always one of the highlights of the year for the council.[LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]


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For more information on the survey, including alternative methods of participation, visit cvrd.bc.ca/survey or call the CVRD Recycling Hotline at 250.746.2540 or toll free 1.800.665.3955.

A survey will be distributed and attached to your Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) curbside tote on December 18, 2015, to obtain feedback regarding the curbside collection program in your area.

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The Cowichan Valley is one of the most desirable areas in Canada, and yet,

for thousands of people in our community, this is not the best place to live. The gap between the richest and the poorest in our communities continues to grow.

Every day in the Cowichan region children arrive at school hungry. There are kids who don’t have suitable outer-wear for the winter months. There are teens who face mounting social and emotion-al pressures at school and at home.

There are pregnant women who don’t receive proper nutri-tion during their pregnancy. There are elderly who need support so they can continue to live independently in their own homes and remain connected to their commun-ities. United Way Cowichan works year-round to ensure programs and services are available and have funding so these needs can be met for those most vulnerable in our community.

As the largest non-govern-

ment funder in the region, the agencies we support rely heavily on their United Way funding. Over 20 programs are currently funded by United Way Cowichan and those programs impact 25,000 Cow-ichan residents — that’s one in three people! The reach and impact that each donation has, is impressive. Our commun-ity, the wonderful Cowichan Valley, becomes stronger and healthier with every dollar donated. All donations stay local, assisting those who need it most in the Cowichan Valley.

We are nearing the end of the annual community campaign and we need your help to hit

the goal. There is still time to donate.

Make a donation by Dec. 31 to receive a Charitable Donation Tax Credit for 2015. An added incentive for first time donors is the First-Time Donor’s Super Credit. First time donors can qualify for a one-time 40-54 per cent federal tax credit for donations that are over $200, up to a max-imum of $1,000. This is in addi-tion to the provincial credits available.

Donations can be made online: www.cowichanun-itedway.com, or at the office (1 Kenneth Place in Duncan — the lower level of city hall). If the door is locked, you can drop your envelope through the mail slot, as we will be collecting mail until the end of the year.

Remember, this isn’t a United Way campaign; this is the campaign for your community. Please help us in building a healthy, strong, resilient community, right here in the Cowichan Valley. Because “Together, we are possibility”.

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The community needs your helpGIVING THE BOOT TO MD

Crofton firefighters Shelby Kelly, left, and Blair Johnson brave a wet, windy day at Russell Farms Market to collect donations for their annual boot drive to raise funds for the firefighters’ charity, muscular dystrophy. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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In 2015, the Shawnigan Alli-ance Church celebrates its 12th year of inviting the com-munity to enjoy an outdoor live production of the Christ-mas story.

The group uses a trio of scripts so the productions are never the same as last year.

What makes this special family entertainment is the inclusion of live animals in the production. And, children can visit them after the show, too.

Performances are scheduled for Saturday, Dec 19 at 6 and 7:30 p.m.

The drama unfolds outdoors, no matter if the night is rainy or dry, so dress warmly.

There is some bleacher-style seating but a lot of folks end up simply standing to watch

the show, too. Inside the church, members

of the congregation are offer-ing homemade cookies and hot chocolate and carol sing-ing while downstairs there are crafts for the kids to make and take home.

The church’s Deb Gammer is delighted at all the enthusiasm for the production.

“Every year, we have around 100 volunteers who all grab an end, serving and showing the community the story of Christmas,” Gammer said.

“This year the script is our third in the trilogy and it’s the fourth time we have performed it,” she said.

“This is great fun every year and we invite our community free of charge. Come spend Christmas with Shawnigan Alliance Church.”

Live nativity always a treat MOON ADDS MAGIC

This superb image by Lake Cowichan photographer Ken Karpick, which shows a full moon shining through the hole in the centre of the recently raised totem pole in Ts’uubaa-asatx Square, drew a lot of praise at the recent town hall meeting. [KEN KARPICK PHOTO]

Mary, Joseph and Jesus are always central figures in the live nativity scripts at Shawnigan Alliance Church. [CITIZEN FILE]


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The choice of a safe travel speed depending on the driving environ-ment can be as varied as the

number of drivers on the highway. I can recall responding to an injury crash on an icy divided highway where both the ambulance and I were using the left lane and all emergency warning equipment. Even with the urgency of the situation, travelling at 95 in the posted 110 km/h zone seemed to be appropriate to both of us. This was clearly not the case for other drivers as we were passed a number of times by vehicles using the right hand lane.

2016 will see the first introduction of variable speed limits (VSL) on high-ways in British Columbia. Slated for implementation on segments of the Sea to Sky, Coquihalla and Trans Canada highways, the speed limit will be shown on electronic speed signs that can be changed remotely based on existing weather conditions. Data for the chan-ges will be gathered through pavement and visibility sensors installed in these highway segments. Operations staff with the Ministry of Transportation and Infra-structure will use the data to change the speed limit displayed to one that is appro-priate for safety.

Experience with VSL elsewhere indi-cates that it is generally well received by

drivers and results in a safety improve-ment. VSL are especially effective if variable message signs indicate why the change has occurred. One draw-back appears to be a tendency to create greater speed variance between vehicles. Another issue is that to remain effective, speed enforcement needs to be sufficient to maintain compliance.

Perhaps highway segments with VSL would be an ideal opportunity to intro-duce time over distance automated speed enforcement as well. The danger presented by conventional enforcement methods increases as VSLs decrease. Automated enforcement could increase compliance and maintain uniformity in application without increasing risk.

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Little Pandora joins the minions in a twist on tradition that proved really popular with the younger folk attending the ballet at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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Minions? A hockey faceoff?It was not your grandmother’s Nutracker onstage at the

Cowichan Performing Arts Centre Saturday, Dec. 12 but Ballet Victoria’s take on the Christmas classic delivered everything that counted, and more to the big crowds.

BV’s artistic director Paul Destrooper appeared before the curtain to start the event and explained that he and the troupe had put their own spin on the famous story, calling it The Gift of the Nutcracker.

The major difference was that there was no nutcracker hero, but the audience, lost in the magic, hardly noticed.

We were served up all the famous music and a lot of the famous choreography from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite but Destrooper followed the example of the com-poser, who had wanted to please the children of his day.

Hence the inclusion of a hockey game played with candy canes instead of sticks and the insertion of yellow-shirted minions instead of Russian soldiers for the trepak dance.

But the company also knew there would be many trad-itionalists in the crowd, bringing their grand-daughters, clad in their best. And, sure enough, there was as much satin, lace and velvet in the audience as there was onstage.

All the beautiful dances were there, with costumes as swooningly romantic as any prospective princess could wish. For the adults, Destrooper included a delightful jazzy number, based on Dave Brubek’s song, Take Five.

The dancing ranged from graceful and sprightly to powerful and bringing a couple of the minions out into the lobby afterwards for photos with young fans was a master stroke.

But Ballet Victoria’s real gift to the audience was creat-ing a fresh Nutcracker for a new century without losing that beloved connection to the past.

Nutcracker del ights

The traditional Spanish gypsy dance is performed with bravura by Ballet Victoria’s Jessie Gervais. For more photos see cowichanvalleycitizen.com [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

Andrea Bayne is a beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy in this production that mixes modern with traditional. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

The roses dance with Dew Drop Princess Risa Kobayashi in the graceful Waltz of the Flowers. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

Andrea Bayne and Jessie Gervais are Princess Elba and Jack Frost in Ballet Victoria’s ‘The Gift of the Nutcracker’. [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]


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In an unusual but timely presentation, the Cowichan Symphony Society is pre-senting the magical Christ-mas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, in four per-formances set for Wednesday, Dec. 30 and again Saturday, Jan. 2 at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. both nights.

This family show is being presented at the Christian Reformed Church at 930

Trunk Rd. in Duncan.The leading role of Amahl

will be sung by the Valley’s Reuben Broadway.

He has been studying voice since 2008, winning many awards and has been marked as one-to-watch provincially in musical theatre as well.

Broadway has been seen locally in the role of Gav-roche in Les Misérables at the Chemainus Theatre Fes-tival, and is currently playing Michael Hobbs in Elf at the

same theatre.Amahl and the Night

Visitors is a one hour sin-gle-act opera originally writ-ten by Gian Carlo Menotti. It

was commissioned by NBC television and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on Dec. 24, 1951where it was broadcast live on television from that venue as the debut production of what became the renowned Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Tickets for the show are available through the Cowic-han Ticket Centre by phoning 250-748-7529 or at the door at a cost of $40 for family of four, $18 per adult or $5 per child.

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LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Tenor Ken Lavigne brings his Old Time Christmas Radio Show to Chemainus United Church Dec. 19 and 20.

His golden voice and gracious style are a wonderful throwback to the glamorous days of the radio crooners, and the concept of a live-on-the-air show is a nat-ural fit for Lavigne.

The pride of Chemainus, he has charmed his way into the hearts of concertgoers across North America with his exciting blend of classical tenor sound and mod-ern style.

With his spectacular songs and entertaining stories, Lavigne embodies the spirit of the under-dog: audacity, tenacity and ultim-ately triumph.

Audience favourites include: O Sole Mio, Funiculi Funicula; Nessun Dorma, Be My Love, Loch Lomond, Danny Boy; Hallelujah, Bring Him Home and more.

He has also released a Christ-mas album, Comfort & Joy, which offers his take on many well-known songs of the season.

Recognized early for the out-

standing timbre of his lyric tenor voice as well as the ease and agility with which he sings, Lavigne’s career has taken him as a soloist to Carnegie Hall but also, through the successful tenor trio, Romanza, throughout Can-ada and the United States for hundreds of concerts.

The Ken Lavigne Christmas Old Time Radio Show is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 19 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 20.

Advance tickets are $32 for

adults, $18 for students. At the door, you’ll play $37

for adults and $18 for students, so don’t wait. Get those seats nailed down now by calling 250-246-3592 or get them at 49th Parallel Grocery and General Store, Chemainus Foods and Chemainus and Ladysmith United Churches.

This event is also trying to help the food banks, so please bring a non-perishable food item when you arrive at the concert.

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The Cowichan Symphony Society is bringing Handel’s Messiah to the Cowichan Per-forming Arts Centre stage on Monday, Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

The world’s most popular ora-torio will be performed by the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Vox Humana Choir and four super soloists so get your tickets now to enjoy a seasonal classic.

The music of Handel’s Mes-siah has universal appeal and has become associated with the holiday season despite cover-ing both the birth and death of Jesus.

The beautiful arias and energetic choruses are great favourites with a wide variety of people and performances such as these are a cause for celebration.

Messiah is special because, unlike most of the choral and operatic work of its time, its melodies are still widely recog-nized, partly because it’s won-derful to sing.

To the chorister, whether in a formal performing ensemble

or in an audience participatingfrom a seat in the hall, Messiah is very special at Christmas.

Who can resist the excitementthat always accompanies thefirst few notes of that wonder-ful chorus, And the glory of theLord, or resist the urge to trythose high notes in the showerthe next day?

Then, of course there is thetender music that accompaniesthe birth of the baby and no onecan ever resist the Hallelujahchorus.

But that’s not the end, andthere is lots more, includingsuch solo selections as ThePeople That Walked in Dark-ness and I Know That MyRedeemer Liveth.

Joining the performance aresoprano Lucia Cesaroni, mez-zo-soprano Susan Platts, tenorZach Finkelstein and baritoneJustin Welsh.

So, if you’ve been looking for achance to hear Messiah live, this is your opportunity.

Tickets are $40 for adultsand are available at the Cow-ichan Ticket Centre or call250-748-7529.

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Ken Lavigne brings his ‘radio show’ to Chemainus this weekend. [CITIZEN FILE]


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Two senior writers from Duncan and Chemainus have been selected as winners of the inaugural Cedric Literary Awards.

The idea was to offer prizes of $3,000 awards to unpublished authors aged 50 or better.

And, in front of a packed house at a special reception held in Victoria last week, Margitta Maud, 76, of Duncan, won for her creative non-fiction work, Out of Darkness, and Joel Scott, 75, of Chemainus took home an award for his novel, Arrow’s Flight.

A total of 168 entries were received from across the province and rounding out the Cedrics are: Irene Lynxleg, 75, a Vancou-ver First Nations writer for her short story Keesis’s Trimble Park Diary and Susan Braley, 59, of Victoria for her poetry col-lection, The Imminence of Fracture.

The Cedric judges loved Maud’s work.“This is a non-fiction memoir written in

the third person that reads like a novel. Paddy — the main character — has a har-rowing experience in his youth, and flees Ireland with an uncle to live with another uncle in England. From there, he learns how to train dogs and many other things. We loved how the writer uses dialect in the writing that is clear and also relevant to the story. We felt invested in the story

and the main character from the get-go with use of very descriptive writing and superb details,” they raved when sending out notice of the winners.

They also enjoyed Scott’s opus, saying it “is a well-written series of vignettes about characters all living in the same small coastal town — all unique and living believable lives. The book builds a convin-cing world and it was enjoyable to get a glimpse into each life.”

Organizers of the event are pleased with how it’s all come along.

“With no history to draw upon, we’ve cre-ated a spectacular beginning to the Cedric Literary Awards,” said Peter Dale, chair of Betterthan50 and founder of the writing competition.

“We have demonstrated what inclusive-ness really means by embracing writers from every region of B.C., including First Nations writers,” he added.

Scott wrote his book to keep alive the memories of a special trip: he circumnavi-gated the globe with his wife and son in the late 1990s.

“I took some of the actual details about the sailing and put a plot into it and made a story. Offshore sailing offers an inter-esting background to work with,” he said from his home in Chemainus.

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Asked how he came to enter the Cedrics, Scott said it was simple:

“They put ads in some papers and I just hap-pened to run into them so I submitted my book. It’s nice to get the $3,000 prize and get 10 cents an hour for writing it.”

But there was more adventure in his back-ground than could be contained in one volume.

“I’ve written a couple more. It’s now become a trilogy. My goal is to emulate the chap who wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He called itan increasingly ill-named Galaxy Trilogy, since it now includes five books.”

Maud is still “very excited” that she won the award.

“I’m still pinching myself. At the ceremony, I hadn’t even had a drink but, when they called my name, I went into some sort of zombie state. I was overwhelmed.”

She’s grateful that her friends were able to help her. “Thank heavens they were there to poke me and say: it’s you, it’s you, go up, go up!”

She’s been a Valley resident for a decade since deciding to leave Victoria for a place with space for horses, and is a prolific writer.

She hasn’t always finished what she’s started.“I’m one of those people who paint and write

stories. This is about German shepherds. I have a German shepherd myself and I love animals. This is about how a dog can get into your soul.

“I’ve probably been writing since I was 12. Then, finally I decided I should finish something. I did and I submitted it. Of course, I wasn’t expecting anything but I was proud that I had finally tried to do something with my writing.”

Maud had previously grouped herself among the legion of people who “don’t think what they do is good enough for awards.”

Now, however, she’s going ahead.“I see there’s a little short story contest in

Duncan. I’ve submitted some stories and we’ll see what happens in that one.”

Cedrics’ executive director Veronica Osborn is putting out the challenge.

“The next call for submissions will be Feb. 1, 2016, and I look forward to seeing even more entries next year,” she said.

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Terry shared a couple stories about his career, and how he was drawn to educat-ing and helping others. We all had lunch together and we had great conversation at our table.

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But wait! That’s just the first awesome happiness example from Terry in that 30 minute presentation!

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Hockey fans came out in force to check out the B.C. Hockey League’s first entry from Wash-ington state in 20 years as the Cowichan Valley Capitals played host to the Wenatchee Wild last Friday night.

They were rewarded with more than just a glimpse of the BCHL’s newest team, however, as the teams played to a hard-earned and thoroughly entertaining 2-2 deadlock.

“There was a lot of curiosity about the new team,” Capitals head coach Bob Beatty said. “We had a pretty good crowd, and I don’t think they went away disappointed.

“I thought it was a very excit-ing game. It had a great pace to it. Both teams had lots of scoring chances.”

After a scoreless opening per-iod, the Wild got on the board first with a powerplay marker three minutes and two seconds into the second frame. The Caps tied it up with a powerplay goal from Luke Santerno at the 1:37 mark of the third period, and that’s when the fans finally got to cover the ice with stuffies for the team’s annual Teddy Bear Toss.

Play resumed after an extended break to clear away the toys. The Wild pulled ahead with four min-utes and 43 seconds remaining in regulation, but Adam Osczevski made it even with a controversial effort exactly a minute later.

The teams played five minutes each of four-on-four and three-on-three overtime, but it didn’t change a thing. Still, Beatty was pleased that his team was able to dig deep and score late to force overtime.

“We had chances to put it away, too,” he noted. “In an out-of-div-ision game like that, you can open up and try to put it away.”

Cowichan goalie Storm Phan-euf was brilliant, making 47 saves on 49 shots, while his Wenatchee counterpart, Garrett Nieto, made 30 stops. Beatty was willing to consider the performance as one of Phaneuf’s best of the year.

“I think it was one of them,” he said. “He played some outstand-ing games early in the year that built some confidence in him and the team.”

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“There were some mistakes, from a coaching perspective, cer-tainly,” he said. “But I don’t think anybody would have left that game feeling ripped off.”

The same couldn’t be said about the Capitals’ next outing, an ugly 7-3 loss to the Trail Smoke Eaters on Sunday afternoon.

Beatty was at a loss to what happened between Friday night and Sunday afternoon.

“That’s really a good question,” he said. “We’re going to go over the video and try to get some

answers. It was a real stinker, and I’d like to know what happened.”

When the teams played in Trail on Nov. 13, the Caps crushed the Smokies, but the tables were turned in the rematch.

“We beat them 6-1, but it didn’t feel like a 6-1 game,” Beatty said of the November game. “We cap-italized on our chances and they didn’t. It was the opposite this time.”

The Caps were down 4-0 after the first period and had given up seven straight before Luke San-terno finally solved Trail goalie Bailey MacBurnie with less than five minutes to go in the second.

Connor Russell, on the power-play, and Ayden MacDonald scored in the third, but the game was long gone by then.

It didn’t impress Beatty that his team managed to score three times even after the game was clearly out of hand.

“Nobody’s getting a badge for that,” the coach said. “I can tell you that right now. There’s a cer-tain standard we need to meet, and we didn’t meet that. They aren’t going to change that rule in hockey that you need to play at least 60 minutes.”

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The Cowichan Valley Wrestling Club’s youngest athletes continued to set an example for the rest of Vancouver to fol-low at the club’s own Cougar Invitational meet earlier this month.

“The elementary division of the Cougar tournament continues to grow, as other Island teams are following the CVWC’s lead in promoting wrestling among ele-mentary-aged youngsters,” elementary coach Rick Bryan said.

The elementary divisions attracted 54 wrestlers from 17 schools, an increase of nine athletes over last year’s numbers.

Cowichan Valley wrestlers collected 17 gold medals at the event. In the girls’ classes, the club saw first-place finishes from Danielle Doherty (Duncan Christian School) in the 1B division and Chloe Fos-ter (Drinkwater) in 3B.

In the boys’ classes, gold medals went to Carter Zuback (Queen of Angels) in 1B, Hayden Quast (Drinkwater) in 1C, Dylan Stalzer (Palsson) in 2A, Zach Simon (Q of A) in 2B, Darren Doherty (DCS) in 3A, Levi Peters (Drinkwater) in 3B, Chaas Mearns (Lake Cowichan) in 4, Jacob Fraser (Cobble Hill) in 6A, Dylan Battye

(Tansor) in 6B, Aidan Mischook (George Bonner) in 7A, Caleb Fraser (Cobble Hill) in 7B, Brady Gregson (Tansor) in 9, Kai Poole (Q of A) in 10, Bennett Telfer (Q of A) in 11A, and Kalon D’Fantis (Q of A) in 11B.

Loryn Roberts (Q of A) in 1A and Lau-ra Nguyen (Drinkwater) in 2B won silver medals in the girls’ classes, as did Connor Gregson (Tansor) in 2B, Owen Weld (Q of A) in 3B, Dylan Weaselhead (Q of A) in 5, Aidan Charlie (Bonner) in 7B, Ben DiLalla (homeschooled) in 9, and Ethan Maxwell (Q of A) in 10.

Bronze medals in the girls’ classes went to Olivia Shafer (Drinkwater) in 1A and Alexis Joe (Q of A) in 3A, and in the boys classes to Nick Rota (Bench) in 2B, Nathaniel Worral (DCS) in 3B, Lyle Samp-son (Q of A) in 4, Judah DiLalla (homes-chooled) in 5, Derek Seward (Q of A) in 6B, Max Wolf (Q of A) in 7B, Charlie Vincent (homeschooled), in 8, Josh Joe-Campbell (Q of A) in 9, and Aidan Dyer-Price (Drink-water) in 10.

Three more wrestlers finished fourth in their respective boys’ classes: Tyrone Chadwick-Murphy (Q of A) in 5, Max Jim-my (Q of A) in 8, and Connor Hengstler (Q of A) in 10.


After his team’s first loss of the Van-couver Island Soccer League season, Cowichan LMG head coach Glen Martin was pointing the finger of blame squarely at himself.

“It was the worst coaching game I’ve ever had,” he confessed. “We weren’t pre-pared. We weren’t motivated. Our offen-sive formation didn’t work, and I didn’t change it. We pushed for the win on the road instead of the tie. This one’s on me.”

Cowichan was beaten 2-1 by struggling Gorge FC at Hampton Park last Friday, dropping their record to 11 wins, one loss and two ties.

Just a day earlier, the team had 20 play-ers out to their first training session at the new Williams Field turf on Sherman Road, but looking back, Martin feels he didn’t use that session wisely.

“Ninety per cent of the team made the training sessions,” he noted. “But we didn’t work on anything for the game. We didn’t go over the game plan; we didn’t work on defending corner kicks.”

Not practicing corner kicks, in partic-ular, came back to haunt the team. The decisive goal was scored on the last play of the game — a corner kick.

“Everybody knew it was the last play of the game,” Martin said. “The ref knew, the players knew, the The defeat marked the first time in seven years that Cowichan had lost to a team in the bottom half of the league, which weighed heavily on Martin.

“This bothers me more than losing in the provincial semifinals last year,” he said.

The game marked the LMG debut and first-ever senior game for 17-year-old goal-keeper Nate White, who was filling in for the injured Sam Hutchison. None of the blame for the loss could be placed at the feet of the goalie, Martin insisted.

“He played unbelievably,” the coach said. “He made some great saves. He was up to the task. Neither of the goals were any fault of his.”

Though no fault of White’s, Martin said the opening goal was “the worst goal [he

had] ever seen.” White had the ball in a goal kick situation, but decided to send a slow-roller to a defender instead. He could have played the ball back to White for a re-kick, but decided to wait for it to come out of the 18. Former Cowichan player Kevin Jones came in and stripped the ball from Barry, firing it at the Cowichan net. White made the initial save, but Cam Stokes was there to bury the rebound.

“We were off to a terrible start 10 min-utes in,” Martin said. “We basically spot-ted them a goal.”

Gorge was up 1-0 at the half, but Cowichan tied the score 30 seconds into the second half, which may have done more harm than good.

“The guys were thinking, ‘It’s 1-1; we’re gonna get them now,’” Martin said.

Cowichan shooters hit the post three times, causing further frustration.

“We weren’t clinical in finishing and had a bit of bad luck,” Martin said.

Still hoping to salvage a victory rather than just live with a draw, Martin brought in two non-defensive wingers with his last two substitutions, a move he would later regret.

“We gambled to win the game, but we should have settled for a tie,” he said.

With the defeat now in the rearview mirror, all Martin can hope for is that his team can learn something from it and pre-pare better for next time.

“We bring out the best in other teams,” he said. “We should know better.”

Still in first place in Div. 1, Cowichan now holds a six-point lead on the next two teams, Comox and Saanich, both of whom won their games last weekend in the final minute of play. The team has a break until Jan. 16, when they resume the season on the road against Nanaimo. The first game on the new turf is set for Jan. 23.

“It was the worst coaching game I’ve ever had. We weren’t prepared. We weren’t motivated. This one’s on me.”

GLEN MARTIN, Cowichan FC head coach

Coach takes blame for LMG’s fi rst loss this year

Cowichan players take to Williams Field for their first practice on the new turf, a day before their first loss of the 2015/16 VISL season. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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CVWC wrestler Dylan Battye, top, grapples with an opponent in a match at the Cougar Invitational at Frances Kelsey Secondary earlier this month. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]


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Lane Michasiw had a rough outing in the Cowichan net, allowing seven goals on 21 shots. The Caps did manage to limit the Smokies to just two shots in the third period while firing 14 at the Trail net.

Also over the weekend, the Caps traded forward Rhett Willcox to the Alberni Valley Bulldogs for future consider-ations, and in a separate deal,

received defenceman Sam Jones from the Penticton Vees, also for futures.

BCHL rookie Jones, who was born in England and grew up in Penticton, has played 27 games this year, accumulating four assists and 19 penalty min-utes. Willcox had three goals, six assists and 23 penalty min-utes in 17 games with the Caps after he was acquired from Trail on Oct. 16 for defenceman Mitch Stapley.

T h e 1 8 - ye a r - o l d Jo n e s arrived in Duncan on Monday morning.

“We’re looking forward to get-ting him in the lineup,” Beatty said.

The Caps will be on the road Wednesday and Friday for div-isional games against Nanaimo and Alberni. They return home Saturday against the Prince George Spruce Kings, their last game before the Christmas break.

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Eston Unrau scored 35 points to earn game MVP honours, leading the Cowichan Secondary Thunder-birds to a 90-64 come-from-behind victory over the Dover Bay Dol-phins as the T-Birds won their own Welcome Back Senior Boys Basket-ball Tournament for the first time in six years.

The T-Birds trailed the Dolphins 34-26 partway through the second quarter before turning things around and going on a 64-36 run for the remainder of the game.

“We had some nervous energy to start, and were a bit sluggish,” head coach Lucky Walia acknowledged. “We found our rhythm, though. Dover Bay is a good team — we will see them a few more times this year in league play, and play-offs. Hope-fully, we keep improving from now to then.”

Cowichan hadn’t won the Wel-come Back Tournament since 2009, with a particularly strong squad led by Steve McKinnon, Jordan Pendlebury, Daniel Hobden and Mitch Knippelberg.

The victory bodes well for the

rest of the high school basketball season.

“Winning the tournament feels great,” Walia said. “it helps with our confidence, and gives us a nice jumping off place for the rest of our season. We played better each successive game, which is what you hope to see, especially early in the season.”

Cowichan started the tournament with a 69-56 win over Duncan Chris-tian, then got by Lambrick Park 62-59 in the semifinals.

T-Birds guard Humza Khan was named tournament MVP, and team-mate Noah Charles was named to the tournament all-star team. Rounding out the field behind Cowichan and Dover Bay were Lambrick Park, Nanaimo District, Wellington, Belmont, Claremont and Duncan Christian.

The T-Birds will play in Oak Bay’s tournament next weekend, and their first-round opponent will be Lambrick Park, who they beat by three points in the semifinals last weekend.

“They are a nice team, and will definitely be happy to get one back against us,” Walia said.

WILD NIGHT, From Page 26

Trades send Willcox to Dogs, net rookie D-man

Unrau, Khan guide Thunderbirds to Welcome Back win

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Cowichan’s Andrew Derocher and Duncan Christian’s Matt Brandsma leap for a rebound early in the Welcome Back Tournament opener, won 69-56 by Derocher’s T-Birds. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]


It is with great sadness weannounce the passing of Rattan Kaur Parhar onSunday, December 13, 2015 with her family by her side. Born to her late parents Shyam Singh and Mungo Kaur on May 20, 1928 in Daroli Kalan, Punjab, India. Predeceased by her husband Bhulla Singh and her brothers; Santokh Singh (Harbhajan Kaur), Mohan Singh, Kishan Singh and sister Gurbachan Kaur (Gurdara Singh). Lovingly remembered by her family; children, Surinderpal Singh (Kuldip Kaur), Jasbir Kaur (Bhupinder Singh), Parminder Kaur (Jeevan Singh), Daljit Kaur (Nirmal Singh) and Harjeet Kaur (Balvinder Singh); 11 grandchildren; brother Mohinder Singh (Davinder Kaur) and sister in law Harbhajan Kaur.Our mother was a strong, kind, caring, gentle soul who would do anything for her family and others. She was an honest, hard worker and always faced adversity with a smile and a positive outlook. The pride and joy of her life were her grandchildren, which she had a hand in raising and shaping. Her personality and generous demeanor made people gravitate towards her and her infectious smile won over people’s hearts. She became everyone’s grandmother. The family would like to thank the CDH second floor north/south nursing staff for their excellent care of our mother and as well as, Dr. Glaude, Dr. McDonald, and Dr. McLeod, for their never ending compassion, commitment, and care.

A Celebration of Life will be held at H.W. Wallace Cremation and Burial Centre, 5285 Polkey Road on Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 10:30 am, followed by Cremation Service at Paldi East Indian Crematorium. Final prayers will be held at Paldi Sikh Temple at 1:00pm.

Online condolences may be offered at www.hwwallacecbc.com

Rattan Kaur Parhar

NEEN - Amy JoanMay 6, 1940 – December 2, 2015

With her family by her side Amy passed away peacefully

after a brief but hard fought battle with cancer. Amy was born in Hazelton, B.C. and is survived by her sons, Scott and Cory (Stacey) of Duncan, daughter in law, Bonnie of Ladysmith, grandchildren, Jackson, Charlotte, Kaydence, Natasha (Barrie), Kyle, Brianne, Kayla, Deliah, Maile and Madyson, sisters, Val (Richard) of Calgary, Judy of Prince Rupert and also nieces, nephews and cousins. Amy was predeceased by her husband, Jack Neen, son, Richard Neen, mother and father, Hazel and John, her brother, Richard and special friend, Miller. Amy was an avid gardener and a friend to many people. She enjoyed her scratch tickets and trips to the casino. Amy’s favourite place was always at home with her family. The family would like to thank the many Doctors, Nurses and Care Aids that cared for Amy. There will be no service at Amy’s request. In lieu of flowers please make a donation to a charity of one’s choice.

I would like to inform my patients that I will be retiring from full time medical practice on January 10, 2016. Dr. Neil Heard will be providing continuity of care for patients in my practice at the Valley Medical Clinic after that date. Dr. Heard is a well qualified and experienced physician certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all my patients, many of whom I have known since my arrival in the Cowichan Valley in 1982, for the privilege of assisting with their health concerns over the years and to wish them all the best of good health in the future.

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Helen Jaynes Helen, 93, died peacefully on

December 1, 2015 at St. Michael’s Hospice in New Westminster, BC. Helen was born to Wilem and Jacoba Dogterom on April 25, 1922 in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Helen is preceded in death by her siblings, Marjorie Little, Tom Dogterom, Cory Dogterom, Jan Dogterom and Leonard DogteromShe moved to Duncan in around 1942 when she married Bill Jaynes.

Helen contributed for many years to the Jaynes Hardware business on Station Street and was a long time employee of the Bank of Montreal. Bill and Helen divorced in 1975. She is survived by her son Philip Jaynes (Scott Crank) of New Westminster, B.C. , daughter Lorna Jaynes (Bruce Cates), and grandchildren Jessica Jaynes Bruno and Jordan Bruno of Fremont, CA, sisters in law Erma Dogterom of Lethbridge, AB and Marge Dogterom of Bozeman, MT, along with numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.

Pursuant to Helen’s wishes there will be no service.

Since, as an environmentalist Helen loved nature, those who wish to make a donation in her memory are encouraged to donate to the Somenos Marsh Society, a local conservation and wildlife protection organization that Helen cared about and supported.

www.somenosmarsh.com

Passed away peacefully on December 10, 2015 at Cowichan District Hospital in Duncan, BC. Lovingly remembered by her husband Frank, sons Ian (Kim)

Brown and David (Deanna) Lewis; grandchildren Tyler and Daniel

Brown, Christopher and Melissa Lewis and sister Isobel Quinn. A service will be held at a later date. Flowers are gratefully declined. Those so desiring may make a donationto BC Children’s Hospital.

Lewis, Elizabeth “Betty”1931 ~ 2015

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531 CANADA AVENUELast Thursday, Friday,

Saturday of every monthDec 17, 18 & 19

10am-5pm.Stocked up & replenishing

throughout Sale!

*KIWANIS FLEA MARKET*

EVERY SAT. FROM 9AM TIL 2PM. Girl Guide Hall:

321 Cairnsmore St. For info phone

Gloria at 250-746-9678 or Dave at 250-746-3616

QUALICUM NORTH 1900 Ashling Rd. (Meadowood area). Year End Sale Dec 18 - 20 (9-5). Massive combined 3 estate sales in 1. (Worth the drive!!). Vintage audio, 2 fl at screen TVs, tools galore, Har-ley Davidson stuff, antique & contemporary furn., linen, bed-ding, pots, pans & much more. See our website for photos at:www.estateliquidators.ca

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

ROMANCE Your ChristmasLocal BC Adult Retailer

Shop Online Now & Receive 25% OFF! www.shagg.ca

SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw-mills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.


MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

WANTED Scandinavian Furniture

from 1950s/ 60s and accessories; and L.Ps Call 250-380-7022

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE#2 - 1015 Trunk Rd.

Completely updated with new appliances and

hardwood fl oors.Price: $250,000

Phone: 250-748-5839

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

APARTMENT BEDROOM for rent in Lake Cowichan. $400,inclusive. Call (250)749-3378.

COWICHAN BAY. 1-br condowith patio. Unfurn $800, fur-nished $850. Jan 1. No pets.250-245-0835, 250-246-4999.

DOWNTOWN CHEMAINUS-upper suite, 2 bdrms, $850+utils. No pets. (250)797-0879.

LOVELY 2 bdrm suites in sen-iors oriented building, CentralDuncan. Heat incld. NS/NP.$800. Please call ResidentManager at 250-732-0342.

MUST VIEW Mountain View Terrace Estates

3420 Auchinachie Road ----------------------------

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Resident managers on site CALL NOW 250-748-3321

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

SHOP FOR RENT1000 sq.ft. heated fl oor. Compressor available.

250-748-3736 or 250-732-4407

HOMES FOR RENT

3-bdrm house on acreage; 5appl; fi replace; s/w exposurew/mountain view. $1,650/mos.Available Jan. 1/16; lease &references. 780-971-2115

LAKE COWICHAN- 2 bdrm,close to town, nice yard, deck.NP/NS. Refs req’d. $850/mo +hydro. Avail Jan 1st. Call after5pm (250)537-7503.

SHARED ACCOMMODATION

DUNCAN: ROOM availablefor F/T working person, quiethome. $450 inclusive. Call(250)715-7115.

ROOM MATE wanted. Toshare large furnished 2Bdrmapt. Quiet Sr., smoker. Avail.now. $550/mo. neg. Call &leave mess: 250-597-4392.

TRANSPORTATION

CARS

1996 MERCEDES BENZ E320- fully equipped, recenthead work, well maintained.$3500. (250)701-1918.

MARINE

BOATS

BOAT; FIBERGLASS approx40’ (37’x10’ 11” Beaver glasshull), Perkins diesel engine(6.354 Industrial). All newquality refi t near completion.Finish to your personal specs,commercial or pleasure. AeroMarine Progress Report avail.Great winter project. Largeshop availability negotiable.Will consider trades. Please serious enquiries only! Call (250)743-4392.

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posted online at Used.ca.

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classifieds!

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®/™The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. *Based on the 2009-2015 Global Automakers of Canada (GAC) Sales report. †Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2016 Elantra L Manual/2016 Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD/2016 Accent 4-Door L Manual with an annual finance rate of 0% for 84 months. $0 down payment required. Cost of borrowing is $0. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination charges of $1,695/$1,895/$1,595. Finance offers exclude registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and dealer admin. fees of up to $499. Fees may vary by dealer. Financing example: 2016 Elantra L Manual at 0% per annum equals $85 biweekly for 84 months for a total obligation of $15,627. $0 down payment required. Cost of borrowing is $0. Finance example includes Delivery and Destination charge of $1,695. Finance example includes Delivery and Destination charge of $1,695. Finance example excludes registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and dealer admin. fees of up to $499. Fees may vary by dealer. Delivery and Destination charge includes freight, P.D.E. and a full tank of gas. ΩHoliday bonus of up to $2,000/$1,500/$2,000 available on all new 2016 Elantra L Manual/2016 Accent 4-Door L Manual/2016 Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD models. Price adjustments applied before taxes. Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available offers. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required. ◊Leasing offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Motor Finance based on a new 2016 Tucson 2.0L FWD with an annual lease rate of 1.49%. Biweekly lease payments of $138 for a 60-month walk-away lease. Down payment of $0 and first monthly payment required. Total lease obligation is $17,940. Lease offer includes Delivery and Destination charge of $1,795. Lease offer excludes registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and dealer admin. fees of up to $499. Fees may vary by dealer. $0 security deposit on all models. 20,000 km allowance per year applies. Additional charge of $0.12/km. ♦Prices of models shown: 2016 Elantra Limited/2016 Tucson 1.6T Ultimate AWD/2016 Santa Fe Sport 2.0T Limited/2016 Accent 4-Door GL are $27,544/$41,394/$42,444/$19,444. Prices include Delivery and Destination charges of $1,695/$1,795/$1,895/$1,595. Prices exclude registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and dealer admin. fees of up to $499. Fees may vary by dealer. Fuel consumption for new 2016 Elantra Limited (HWY 6.7L/100KM; City 9.7L/100KM); 2016 Tucson 1.6T Ultimate AWD (HWY 9.3L/100KM; City 11.6L/100KM); 2016 Santa Fe Sport 2.0T Limited (HWY 9.7L/100KM; City 12.9L/100KM); 2016 Accent 4-Door GL (HWY 6.3L/100KM; City 8.9L/100KM) are based on Manufacturer Testing. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). †◊∆♦ΩOffers available for a limited time and subject to change or cancellation without notice. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited. Visit www.hyundaicanada.com or see dealer for complete details. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

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HWY: 9.7L/100 KM CITY: 12.9L/100 KM

HWY: 9.3L/100 KM CITY: 11.6L/100 KM

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HWY: 6.3L/100 KM CITY: 8.9L/100 KM

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