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This custom-made mo-torcycle caught the eye of spectators young and old with its skel-etal appearance during Saturday’s Ladysmith Show and Shine car show on First Avenue. Please turn to page 18 for more photos from the Show and Shine and from Friday night’s Rod Run.

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How do you stay excited and passionate about your work after more than 30 years?

For Jo and Vic Duffhues, the secret lies in variety.

The Duffhueses own JoVic Pottery, and, together, they create functional stoneware, raku pottery, clay art and more at their Shell Beach Road studio.

Jo and Vic have been creating pottery together since 1979. They’ve been living and working in Yellow Point since 1992, and they have been mainstays at the annual Arts on the Avenue one-day art festival. This

year, they are the guest artists at Arts on the Avenue, which takes place this Sunday (Aug. 26) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. along First Avenue.“Our work, it has an incredible variety to it,

but it’s what makes us have fun out here,” says Jo.

The Duffhueses both enjoy raku pottery because it is unpredictable.“With raku firings, you don’t really know

how it’s going to turn out, which is part of the excitement,” said Jo, noting there is a 40-per-cent or more failure rate in raku.

With raku, pots come out of the kiln at 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, and they go through an intense post-firing cycle that

brings out different colours in the glazes and also creates crackling, black lines where smoke blackens parts of the pots that don’t have glaze on them.“It’s a really interesting thing; with raku,

we actually hope for a crackle with the glaze,” explained Jo. “We look for that because we want to see that contrast. It’s always been true with modern technology with electric kilns that you can end up with a rather bland product if you are not care-ful; whereas, potters of eons ago relied on ashes and fire and didn’t know what they would get, so you have that excitement. “Vic and I try to recreate that excitement

in our electric kilns with three glazings. We

find it especially powerful with raku when we still don’t know what we’re going to get after doing this for 30 years. There’s that element of surprise.”

After more than 30 years making pottery, Vic and Jo are both still very passionate and excited about their art — and they feel that may be because they never let themselves get bored.“It’s always experimenting,” said Jo. “It’s

really a love affair with clay.”“I think of it as many years ago, Jo and I

entered into a relationship with clay, and as with any relationship, you have to keep it interesting,” added Vic. “We do so many

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New Terry Fox Run volunteers needed

Ladysmith community service co-ordinator Anita McLeod wants to see the Terry Fox Run get a much-needed leg up from the community.

McLeod, who has served as the key organizer for the town’s Terry Fox Run for more than two decades, is on the search for local residents who may be interested in carrying on that torch in the coming years.“If we can recruit people to build a

community committee for next year, I would be very happy with that,” she said. “It needs to be owned by the community again for that stature to be regained because it’s certainly something people feel an emotional tug to.”

The 2012 Terry Fox Run takes place in Ladysmith on Sun., Sept. 16 at the Frank Jameson Community Centre (FJCC). Entry is by dona-tion, and there is no minimum pledge amount required. The run start time is moving back to the morning, and registration begins at 10 a.m., with the run to follow at 11 a.m.

Participants complete the 2.5-kilo-metre loop as many times as they wish within the two-hour time frame. Registration will be left open at the start of the run for those unable to

make it right at 11 a.m.Last year, Ladysmith’s event had

122 participants and 18 volunteers. Collectively, a total of $3,055 was raised.“There is no doubt that the event

will once again be successful, but what my hope has been was that it would grow again to some of its for-mer prominence in the community,” McLeod said.

While organizing the run is not an onerous task, McLeod wants to see a co-ordinator in place by spring to be able to send for expenses-paid training in Vancouver and be ready to start co-ordinating by June.A limited number of Terry Fox

T-shirts are now available for sale at FJCC for $17.“It’s a very intriguing graphic design;

I think people will like the shirt,” McLeod said.

There is still time for interested parties to sign up to volunteer at the event. Anyone interested in volun-teering can contact McLeod at 250-245-6427 or [email protected].“The Terry Fox Run is nothing with-

out volunteers,” McLeod said. “You probably have a special place in your heart for Terry, and if you’d like to participate in a way that’s more meaningful for you and the rest of the community, come on out.”

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Preschool fosters memories

Over the years, the small build-ing beneath the First United Church on High Street has had many names. More than half a century ago, it was known as the Ladysmith Kindergarten. After that, it became the Ladysmith Nursing School.

Today, it is known as the Ladysmith Preschool, but one thing that hasn’t changed is that with each passing year, dozens of young minds are nurtured and fostered between its aging walls.

Preschool supervisor/manager Sharon Barker has been with the school full-time for the last eight years but fondly remem-bers a practicum she completed there back in 1981.“It really hasn’t changed much

since then,” she said.The preschool first was estab-

lished in 1973, when a group of local parents got together to bring pre-kindergarten educa-tion to Ladysmith.

They found a location, sought out volunteers and donations and began collecting teaching materials for the school.“The community support has

always been there,” Barker said.Since then, the small staff has

worked hard at keeping the pro-

gram affordable and accessible to all. Due to declining enrol-ment, the school is currently staffed by two employees.“When I first started, for the

first few years, we always had a waiting list,” Barker said, not-ing there has been an under-standable increase in available daycare with parents having to both stay employed in today’s economy.

Diane McMahon and her husband Barry (a Ladysmith Kindergarten graduate) sent their son Ryan to the preschool in the 1980s.“It was good constructive early

education, and it was a con-trolled learning environment,” Diane said. “At that time, there wasn’t LAFF and Strong Start and the early education oppor-tunities there are now. It was the beginning of realizing that the earlier you can access education for children, the better — the more comfortable they’ll feel.”

B r e a n n H e n d e r s o n i s a Ladysmith Preschool graduate who attended in the early 1990s. “My mom said the first day she

dropped me off, I was like, ‘bye mom’ and let her leave,” she recalled.

She decided to send her son and daughter there after get-ting positive feedback about a nephew who attended.

“My kids love it there; they love both Sharon and Vickie,” she said. “They love the dress up and how the toys don’t stay the same all year; every month, they switch out the toys, and they learn different themes for the month.”

She added that it is not all fun and games, however.“When my son started pre-

school, he had no inclination to write anything at all, and by the end, he was writing his name and other short words,” Henderson said.

Barker noted that as time has gone, learning outcomes have become more advanced for today’s toddlers. “We’ve incorporated more of

the kindergarten skills into our program that normally they would be learning in kindergar-ten,” she said. “It’s nothing that we haven’t always done; we just have to put more focus on it.”

She said her experiences at the preschool have been incredibly rewarding.“Every day is a fun day; there

are always those children that make you laugh and do funny things,” she said.

Ladysmith Preschool offers a three-hour morning program from 9 a.m. to noon. Registration for the fall is now open. For information, call 250-245-4712.


Cooler overnight temperatures have b r o u g h t t h e f i r e d a n g e r r a t i n g i n Ladysmith down from extreme to high.

Marg Drysdale, fire information officer with the Coastal Fire Centre, says lower weekend tempera-tures, combined with a storm system that swept through the region, have caused the rating to go down f r o m l a s t w e e k ’s extreme rating. If the forecasted tempera-tures for this week keep to the late teens, the trend could con-tinue.

“If we have a pro-longed period of cool-er weather, the rating will slowly start to go down,” Drysdale said. “How much is completely based on geography and on how much cooler it is.”

T h e f i r e d a n g e r rating is calculated using a geographic algorithm and sev-eral scientific factors, with one being very low, and five being extreme.A t p r e s s t i m e

Monday afternoon, Ladysmith’s rating sat at four (high).“ I t ’s b a s e d o n a number of different aspects of fire science, from the initial spread index to the buildup index to moisture codes,” Drysdale said.

Those numbers are recalculated on a daily basis. Overnight recovery can occur when cooler tem-peratures are present. Some of the signs are

morning dampness in grass or on wind-shields.“ T h a t m a y b u r n

off during the day or warm up during

the day, but if they have i t aga in the next night, it’s good for fire behaviour,” Drysdale explained.

“It will dampen the fire behaviour.”

With the September l o n g w e e k e n d a p p r o a c h i n g , Drysdale said i t ’s

crucial for people to abide by campfire rules and, if permit-ted, to use them with extreme caution at all times.“ I t h i n k p e o p l e assume that because they’re in a grate, that they’re not going to go anywhere; however, if you get a light wind on it, it might spark up,” she said.

Campfires should be kept to regulation size (a half-metre high by a half-metre wide or smaller) and should be properly extin-guished.“That means water, s t i r r ing and actu -ally being able to put your hand into the [extinguished] fire and it be cool to the touch,” Drysdale said.

“It’s called cold trail-ing, and it’s what our crews do on a fire.”

Within the Coastal Fire Centre jurisdic-tion, there is currently no campfire ban, but

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The Coastal Fire Centre, one of six regional wi ldland fire centres operated by the B.C. Forest Service ’s Wildf ire Management Branch, is responsible for more than 12.8 mil-lion hectares, includ-ing Vancouver Island and the mainland.

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Eighty-two-year-old Muriel Copp says if she could have gotten down near the stage at the Transfer Beach Amphitheatre to dance while Kendall Patrick was playing during Ladysmith Days, she would have.

But instead of danc-ing, she presented the Ladysmith-born, Nanaimo-based sing-er-songwriter with a bouquet of flowers just before her set last Sunday evening.

Copp, who lives in Ladysmith, tries to go to all of Patrick’s s h o w s . S h e s a y s she can’t think of a favourite song because she likes everything Patrick does.“I like all her music

because I feel it,” she said. “ I don’t s ing along. On Sunday, I saw all the young kids dancing, and I wanted to dance too. I said to Kendall, ‘would you be embarrassed if I danced?’ and she said no, she would have danced with me. “What I noticed was t h e r e w a s s u c h a bridge between gener-ations. All the seniors were all tapping their toes, and the younger ones were doing their thing … she’s touching all of us. I don’t sing along, but I listen. If we could’ve got down there, we would’ve danced because it got through to us.”

Copp was a house-keeper in the hospital and was there the day Patrick was born.“I said to [her father]

Jimmy ‘when I heard that first cry, I knew she was a star,” she said. “I like her singing. She’s a wonderful girl, beautiful and talented, and she’s going to go a long way, I know. She has a beautiful singing voice, and she writes all her own songs.”

Copp says she gave Patrick the bouquet of flowers because “that’s what you do.”“It was a little bouquet

but big thought,” she said. “I wanted to give her that. I wanted her to know how impor-tant she is.“She’s special. Her

looks are special, her voice is special, her tal-ent; she’s very kind and loving. She’ll always give you a hug.”

When Patrick heard the announcement that one of her biggest fans wanted to give her a gift right before she started her set, she actually thought it was going to be Amy, who always goes to all her shows, and she was surprised when Copp started walking toward her carrying flowers.“I was surprised, but

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Singer-songwriter Kendall Patrick receives a bouquet of flowers from one of her biggest fans, Muriel Copp, right before her performance last Sunday during Ladysmith Days. Copp was helped to the stage by Patrick’s father, Jim.

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Ciara Stewart, volun-teer resources co-ordi-nator with Canadian Blood Services, says they are looking for

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In-clinic volunteers help with the blood donor clinics that come through Ladysmith every eight weeks.“We’re looking for in-

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“Basically, if you are a people person, it’s a great volunteer oppor-tunity for you.”

In-community volun-teers spread the word about the importance of blood donation, often through informa-tion booths at commu-nity events. By partici-pating in these commu-nity events, volunteers can help recruit new blood donors and pro-mote upcoming clinics.

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Fire officials say a quick response and the time of the incident prevented the fire from getting out of hand.“We were lucky we got there quick,” said fire chief Ray Delcourt. “It moved through the vehicle, went through the bush and started to move

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Helicopter crews were also called in to help douse the flames.“The key thing for us right now is the fact that it was early in the morning,” Delcourt said. “If

that fire was even around noon, we could have had a totally different result. It would’ve grown a lot faster, a lot more out of control.”

With the Coastal Fire Centre rating at high, Delcourt said it is increasingly important for residents to take more care and use common sense when conditions are dry and volatile.“One thing we’re seeing is people throwing their ciga-rette butts out on the highway

— we’ve had a rash of bark mulch fires, more than we’ve ever had before this year,” he said.


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Ladysmith Air Cadets S o r e n T h o m p s o n , Nathan Fuller and Walker Gisborne are making their mark as three of the 1,100 B.C. Air Cadets receiving training at Albert Head Air Cadet Summer Training Center near Victoria.

They were selected to attend training by their local Squadron 257 Parallel Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron (RCACS), w h i c h p a r a d e s i n Aggie Hall.

Thompson spent his summer attending the three-week Basic Survival Course and was selected as the Most Improved Cadet. T h i s aw ard t akes into account overall improvement in the areas of performance, participation, attitude, conduct and team-work skills.

Thompson achieved the Basic Survival qualification and will be able to assist with the implementation of survival training as part of his local squad-ron program.

Fuller completed the three-week Basic Aviation Technology and Aerospace Course. He acquired a founda-tion in aerospace, air-port operations and aircraft manufactur-ing and maintenance, reinforcing aspects he has experienced in the local Air Cadet pro-gram at 257 Parallel RCACS.

Gisborne is under-going the six-week Drill and Ceremonial Instructor Course and is learning the impor-tance of profession-alism and excellent deportment and how to perform in differ-ent parade positions. The course is designed to develop the skills

required for a drill instructor role within the home squadron.

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The B.C. government’s emergency committee on timber supply has

produced its report, but it leaves many of the big ques-tions unanswered.

Can the Burns Lake saw-mill, destroyed by fire last winter, be given enough timber to rebuild? It’s like-ly, committee members concluded, if areas that are currently considered “mar-ginally economic” are har-vested.

With nearly half the pine in that region dead from beetle infestation, and much of the better timber already cut, that means harvesting areas that would produce only about two-thirds of the vol-ume that is currently con-sidered economical to log.

Will eight more sawmills have to close once the bee-tle-killed timber becomes too degraded to cut in the next few years?

Committee members hold out hope that extending the cut to less economic tim-ber stands can reduce this impact as well. But with the

current cut far above his-torical levels to maximize beetle-kill harvest, some industry contraction seems inevitable.

All this depends on ade-quate forest inventory and investment in replanting, fertilizing and provision of additional roads and power l ines that would allow access to timber and poten-tial bioenergy development. And that is where the politi-cal fight lies ahead.

The timber supply com-mittee delivered a unani-mous report, despite the harsh divisions between the B.C. Liberal and NDP mem-bers who serve on it.

NDP forest critic Norm Macdonald, vice-chair of the committee, agreed it did good work during the seven months it toured affected areas of the Interior. But he said the roots of the prob-lem go back a decade, to when the B.C. Liberals start-ed reducing support for for-est health just as the beetle epidemic was spreading.

Ten years ago, the gov-ernment removed the obli-gation for the province to reforest areas affected by

disease and fire. This was not only at the peak of the epidemic, but it was one year before devastating wildfires raced through the Interior in the summer of 2003.

“In 2002, the government removed its obligation to replant those areas and cut the budget by 90 per cent,” Macdonald told me. “The three-year budget that’s in front of us is keeping on the downward slide, and it’s not what people in communities are saying is the answer. So that has to change.”

The opposition, the audi-tor general and various for-est experts have been blast-ing the government for the degraded state of the timber inventory, at a time when environmental changes have been sweeping.

Steve Thomson, minister of the newly-amalgamated forests, lands and natural resource operations min-istry, points to the urgent efforts to upgrade the gov-ernment’s detailed picture of the state of the forests, so it can consider new cut-ting, planting and fertilizing efforts. But there’s no deny-

ing that he came to the job in a crisis that will take more spending in the future, and he will have a hard time finding it as Finance Minister Kevin Falcon looks to balance the books for the 2013 election.

If nothing else, the pine beetle epidemic has forced the B.C. government to con-sider some of the intensive forest management that we hear about in Scandinavia, one of those places that supplies B.C. with wood furniture.

And i t has prompted renewed interest in offer-ing new forest tenures to aboriginal communities with unresolved resource claims. Under current law, the government can only award new forest tenures to aboriginal communities. So part of the committee’s pro-posed solution is to “expe-dite negotiations” with the Burns Lake First Nations to give them a chance to har-vest some of the marginally economic forest areas that remain.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers.

The Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the prov-ince’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with docu-mentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby Street, Nanaimo, B.C., V9R-2R2. For information phone 1-888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

We thought you might be interested in hearing about former Chronicle editor Mitch Wright’s latest move. Mitch left the Nanaimo News Bulletin Aug. 10 for a communications job in Victoria. Here is

a taste of his goodbye column:My first stories for Black Press were about spraying

for gypsy moths, a province-wide nurses’ strike and a psychic fair.

I rolled into Ladysmith on a Thursday night, leaving a five-month hitch in Prince Rupert covering sports, and unpacked some bare necessities through the night and into the morning. I reported to the Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle office sometime around noon on Friday and was handed those three assignments, as well as a photo assignment the following day.

I didn’t really know what I was getting into, having reported almost exclusively on sports until then.

But that was that. Ladysmith became my home.I took over as editor about 18 months later and spent

four years in that job, bounced to the Goldstream News Gazette for a couple years and then back up-Island to the News Bulletin. I’ve been here for going on six years, almost five as editor. But as you read this, I have left working full-time in newspapers behind.

It’s been almost 14 years since I turned my little black pickup off the Island Highway into Ladysmith, my first real glimpse at the beautiful seaside town despite spend-ing most of the past six years in Nanaimo, attending classes at what was then Malaspina University-College.

I am leaving full-time newspaper work to switch to communications at the University of Victoria.

There are parts of this industry I won’t miss at all, and far more aspects — and people — that I will. But after 14 years, it’s time to take on a new challenge and open some doors on potential new opportunities. And in reality, I’ve accomplished most of the goals I set out with (other than maintaining a full head of hair).

We wish Mitch all the best as he embarks on his new adventure! — The Chronicle

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After 10 years of competitive swimming, many tough practices and close races, I think back and realize I didn’t enjoy swimming just for the swimming aspect, but also for the people I was able to meet throughout the years.

Many of these people helped and supported me in some way — whether they were a coach, parent, community member or a friend, they were there, even if I did not realize it at the time, to help with my technique, bottle drives and swim-a-thons.

Without their dedication and support, I probably would not be swimming today, so thank you to the coaches: Scott Flood, Jennifer LeBlanc, Nick Templman, Tony Theriault, Dusan Toth-Szabo, Bev VandenDungen and Melody Smythies (high school swimming).

A huge thank you to all the board members over the years for the Ladysmith-Chemainus and Nanaimo Riptides swim teams, and to all the sponsors who sup-ported these two teams.

I especially want to thank my mom, who was my personal alarm clock for those early-morn-ing practices, my taxi driver and greatest supporter.

Kara DeClark

Ladysmith

Editor:

We stopped in Ladysmith for a lunch break on Aug. 5 on the way back from a holiday up-Island, and while we were eating, a hit-and-run driver crashed into our minivan parked on First Avenue, rendering it undriveable.

While the experience could have soured us on your town, it had the opposite effect, thanks to the good people of Ladysmith.

We are especially grateful to

Patti and Lillianna, to Janet at Royal Lepage and to the people at Salamander Books and The Worldly Gourmet, who offered us and our young children a cool place to wait while we were stranded.

Thanks all of you for making a trying experience a lot less unpleasant.

We will continue to stop in Ladysmith on our up-Island ven-tures — although we may not park on First Avenue again!

Pat Coppard and Mark

Reuten

Victoria

Editor:

If planning to vote NDP for the first time:

Firstly, the facts. B.C. has a AAA credit rating, is a “have” province and has the second-lowest basic income tax rate in Canada. Barry Gibb wrote a song called Don’t Throw it All Away.

Secondly, the reality. Why would you never take back a former spouse from a previous divorce to recreate the nightmare but are willing to do it to change the gov-ernment?

As B.C. is a business investment province and investment does not agree with NDP governments, can the NDP guarantee that you will not get a layoff slip from your place of employment if in fact they become government?

Joe Sawchuk

Duncan

Swimmer thanks everyone who has helped her out

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Bob Dendoff sent us this photo of the crowds checking out the cars during the Ladysmith Show and Shine along First Avenue this past Saturday — crowds that included the A&W bear. If you have any photographs that you would like to share with Chronicle readers, please send them to [email protected].

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Vic first became interested in pottery through Jo.“Jo had taken it up as a hobby,

and as newlyweds, we did everything together,” he said.

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But that all changed when Vic and Jo, who were living near Lindsay, Ont., at the time, attended a workshop in Waterloo, Ont., and saw mas-ter potter Mick Casson.“He made these huge vases

and pitchers, and what really intrigued me was he had such enthusiasm and passion,” said Vic. “I’d never seen anyone so excited about their work, and I thought ‘I want to be a potter.’ In the next week, I made more pots than I had in a year.”

That was about 33 years ago. Jo and Vic have been making pottery together ever since. “I think the real privilege for

us is we can do this together,” said Vic.

Unlike Vic, Jo always want-ed to work in clay.

She recalls that in high school, her fine arts teacher

always promised her students that if they got an A on a proj-ect, they could try the potter’s wheel. Jo created a handmade quilt and got her A, but her teacher just handed her a lump of clay with no instruc-tion, and when she tried the wheel, the clay flew right off.

When Jo was in her twenties, she found a potter in Ontario who gave private lessons, and she started taking lessons.“I loved it so much that I had

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“To me, it’s just instinctive. I don’t think I can escape it if I wanted to — and I don’t want to.”

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The festival kicks off with The Martys fea-turing Joan Wallace at 11 a.m. and will continue well into the evening. The lineup includes locals such as Al Eskelson of Cat’s Meow and Alex Watt of the Alexander Group.

Other performers hail from around the Island a n d t h e m a i n l a n d , including Phil Newns and Hot Velvet Jazz, Twango and the event headliner, RazzMaJazz, a Dixieland-style group.

C V C A S h a s a l s o partnered with the Chemainus Legion to make it a dual-venue event. From 5-7 p.m., there will be wine tast-ing and a burger bar at the Legion.

Local wineries will be selling samples of their finest wines to the live music of Duncan’s Laura Cardriver on piano, fol lowed by Chemainus’ George Robson on saxophone. Attendees will have the option of staying for the music or returning to the festival.“People can go pick

up their burgers and come back to the park and keep enjoying the music,” Wachs said.A New Orleans-style

parade is being planned as well.“It ’s going to be a

beautiful day under the trees,” Wachs said.

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Wachs jested that any attendees not into jazz music may find them-selves converted by the end of the day.“I love all kinds of jazz

— there’s a real liveli-ness to the music, and it’s a music that arose out of people who were in situations of great difficulty in their lives, and this music arose as that drive to live,” Wachs said. “People were determined to be happy even though under the circumstanc-es, they had every rea-son to be unhappy.”

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Admission for those able to attend is a sug-gestion donation of $15, which includes the whole day and a souvenir program. The donation money will be used to subsidize the cost of the musicians, Wachs said.

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With his “emotionally hypnotic” songs, Mike Alviano is a singer-songwriter who has captured the attention of music lovers from coast to coast.

For more than 10 years, Alviano, who is from Kitchener, Ont., has taken his brand of honest, heartfelt, alt-country, acoustic, folk-pop and slightly experimental songs on the road, touring throughout Canada and across the Atlantic into Europe.

A n d h e ’ s b r i n g -ing those songs to Ladysmith this Sunday night (Aug. 26) as the final performer in the Ladysmith Resources Centre Association (LRCA)’s Concerts in the Park series.A quiet, soft-spoken

man of few words, Alviano prefers to let

his music do the talk-ing. His heart lives on the road, and he has embraced a l i fe of touring, adventure and travel, playing shows

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Circus is called “a straightforward, sim-ple collection of easy l i s ten ing acoust ic pop songs inspired by Mike’s high school influences such as Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams and Tom Petty. An exciting, live-ly and mature depar-ture from his usual

fo lky roots sound, Circus moves from the uplifting Dusty Road to the haunting Around the Bend.”Alviano has been

working on these two projects off and on for about two years, and he will be playing music from these albums and his previous releases during the final show of the Concerts in the Park series this Sunday night at the Transfer Beach Amphitheatre.

The show starts at 6 p.m., and admission is by donation. All money raised goes to the LRCA, which has been hosting Concerts in the Park since the begin-ning of July, and is put directly into commu-nity programming.

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Arts on the Avenue in Ladysmith hits its stride this weekend on year 14 of this downtown arts show and sale event.

For one day, Sun., Aug. 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the main street of Ladysmith is transformed into a day for all ages to enter the arts world in the community.

From White Street to Gatacre, the tents, tables and awnings and all the wares of local artists, not to mention the strolling viewers, are the vis-ible conversions of the core of First Avenue for this day.

What is less visible are the months of orga-nization by many that have gone into making this event a success. A committed, hard-working committee within Ladysmith exists behind the scenes to bring this venue to fruition each year.

Ladysmith Arts Council president Kathy Holmes’s eyes light up at the mention of the event.“It’s a great place to meet the artists, ask questions, create a personal connection with the artists and find a treasure or two from both emerging and established artists from this area,” she says. “The art is all juried, which means it goes through a quality control pro-cess that creates a high stan-dard for the show.”

The event was started 14 years ago by a group of local artists and art appreciators who wanted to promote fine arts in the community.

It has expanded and grown since, and now Ladysmith receives visitors from around the Island and the Lower Mainland for this event. There are local internationally-known artists participating, such as Michael Dean and Jack Fisher. The guest artists this year are the JoVic Pottery artists Josee and Vic Duffhues, who have participated in the event for each of its 14 years.

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expanded culinary arts sec-tion that offers local high-quality artisan foods. The culi-nary delight products all meet the Vancouver Island Health Authority health standards rules.

Musical entertainment, busk-er-style, will be interspersed throughout the venue, offer-ing a sound menu for your ears and spirit.

Musical artists include Alice Maundell on saxophone; Fred Worelley on guitar, play-ing 1950s and 1960s music; Graham Hartley on guitar and bongo drum, playing Latin and African music; Dan Miron play-

ing bluegrass guitar; and Henry Locke on guitar.

There will be a Creative Corner for children at the Ladysmith and District Credit Union parking lot with approx-imately eight entertaining art and craft activities for youth.A reminder that, in order for

the event to be safe and fun for all, no dogs — not even the teacup variety — are allowed at this event, and the dog enforcement officer will be present to ensure that this is strictly enforced.

Sponsors of Arts on the Avenue include Ladysmith and District Credit Union,

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Rotary International. This event would not be possible without the generous contri-bution of these businesses.

In past years, 4,000 to 5,000 participants have attended this event. Parking will be at high demand, so foot traffic is appreciated.As the hearty and vigilant

organizers move closer to the delivery of this year’s Arts on the Avenue extravaganza, no doubt next year’s plans are already beginning to unfold.

Like the rise and fall of the tide, this venue is an inevi-table, and much-loved, part of the Ladysmith landscape.

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Last year’s Arts on the Avenue put smiles on many faces. This year’s one-day festival takes place Sun., Aug. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.


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Precious MetalsCars and motorcycles line First Avenue for annual Show and Shine

First Avenue was filled with various makes and models of cars and motorcycles — and crowds of curious on-lookers — for the annual Ladysmith Show and Shine car show this past Saturday. Pictured clockwise from top left: a mother takes a photograph of her daughter beside one of the cars; car owners lifted the hoods to show off their engines; the Friday night Rod Run gets the thumbs up; vehicles fill the parking lot of the Ladysmith A&W before departing on the Rod Run Friday night; Candice Blackney and her son Jacob discover all the things they like about one of the cars lining First Avenue; and Harry Black shows off his 1913 LaFrance Fire Truck, which was a huge hit with spectators.

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Having experienced the rigours of national and inter-national competition two years in a row, you could say Rhianna Pettapiece’s baseball career is nicely rounding the bases.

Just last month, Pettapiece returned home from the senior women’s nationals with a silver medal, after she and her Team BC teammates were defeated by Ontario in the finals.

But for Pettapiece, home base will always be the grounds at Chemainus Ball Field, where her love of the game played out from the age of four.“I’ve played there most of my

life,” she said.Pettapiece, now 18, got

her foundation with the C h e m a i n u s B a s e b a l l Association as a pitcher and first baseman. After years of game devel-

opment, she played on the Cowichan Valley Mustangs Midget AAA for one year, then moved on to practise with the junior Pirates pre-miere league in Nanaimo for a season.“Before I went to nation-

als, I had never played with women; I was just always on the guys’ team and that was that,” she said. “It was pretty much just me and the guys.”

However, her love of the game has taken her to plac-es like Cuba, with Team Canada’s junior women’s

team, and Spruce Grove, Alta., where this year’s nation-als took place July 25-28. Out of six games played, Team BC won four.“It was definitely an inter-

esting game; we went into that game having beat all the other teams, and so it was really tough,” she said of the final match. “We had barely beat Ontario in the round robin, and coming back, they stepped it up and did really well.”

Pettapiece has helped coach clinics at the Chemainus Ball Field but has since moved away to university in Victoria.

Pettapiece says she hopes to play for Team BC again next year and has her sights set on the Team Canada senior women’s team.

“I absolutely love the sport — it’s kind of my absolute pas-sion,” she said.

“It’s something that I’ve loved ever since I was a kid, and it keeps getting better.”


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• LorneLaFleurof theCowichanValleyMustangs Club has justreturnedfromQuebecCityafterhelping coach the B.C.MidgetAAAteamattheBaseballCanada2012MidgetChampionshipsAug.16-20.JoininghimontheteamwasLadysmith’sDevonGeary.AfterwinningtheirfirstgameagainstQuebec6-3,B.C.beatAlberta5-4.OnSaturday,theyshutoutNovaScotia6-0andbeatP.E.I.2-0.B.C.beatQuebecCity4-3onSundaytoadvancetothefinalandwonthesilvermedal,losing4-1toAlbertainthechampionshipgame.

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Rhianna Pettapiece makes contact with the ball during a match at the Senior Women’s Na-tionals in Spruce Grove, Alta., held July 25-28.

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Sliding into second at nationalsChemainus graduate Rhianna Pettapiece is the Chronicle’s August Athlete of the MonthNiomi PearsonThe ChroniCle

Ladies heat up the links at Mt. Brenton course

The weekend’s hot weather cooled slightly, but the action heated up as golfers hit the links in Chemainus for the 11th annual R a m s a y L a m p m a n Rhodes Mount Brenton Ladies Amateur Golf Tournament this past weekend.

Shel ly Stouffer of Fairwinds won first low gross with a two-day total of 145. Janine K o s m e n k o o f B e a r M o u n t a i n w a s s e c -ond with a two-day total of 157, followed by Karen Kloske of March Meadows (163), Georgina Hermans of Cottonwood (164), Judy Hook of Morningstar (166), Darleen Michell o f M o u n t B r e n t o n

(167), Donna Doucett of Morningstar (169), Susan Miller of Olympic View (172), Connie Hang of Point Grey (174) and Sue Ovans of Cordova Bay (178).

In the low net race, f i rst p lace went to Mount Brenton’s Susan Hughes, who finished with a two-day total of 143. Second place went to Janet Ruest of Cordova Bay with a 146, followed by Lorrie Brooks of Cordova Bay (146), Gerri Elchuk o f M o u n t B r e n t o n (146), Kathy Matilpi of Mount Brenton (147), Melanie Iverson of Salt Spring (147), Grace Predy of Cowichan (148), Suzanne Jones of Alberni (148), Bobby Piety of Cottonwood (148) and Ann Frame of Arbutus Ridge (149).

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APPLIANCES

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STEEL BUILDING - Huge clearance sale! 20X24 $4,658. 25X28 $5,295. 30X40 $7,790. 32X54 $10,600. 40X58 $14,895. 47X78 $19,838. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca.

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Ladysmith: $397,000. 463 Battie Dr. 3 bdrm, 3 bath, 2794 sq.ft. home. Level entry, can be suited. Numerous up-grades. 2 gas fi replaces, BBQ hook-up. Mature garden, in-ground sprinklers. Immaculate. Ph: 250-245-8840 or email: [email protected]

HOUSES FOR SALE

$469,900. 507 Louise Road, Ladysmith. 5+ bdrm, 3 bath, 3690 sq. ft. Oceanview, level entry, sunlit bsmt, suite poten-tial, dbl. garage. 250-246-0159

LADYSMITH. NEW 3 bdrm/3 bath home ready to move in. Open concept, beautiful kitch-en, lots of tiling. Includes all appliances. Landscaped. New Home Warranty. $339,900 1124 Gilson Pl. 250-741-0353 or 250-714-2746.

LADYSMITH. NEW 4 bdrm/2 bath with legal 1 bdrm suite. Many upgrades. Includes 11 appliances. Fully landscaped, New Home Warranty. $369,900. 1120 Gilson Pl. 250-741-0353, 250-714-2746

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210 BULLER- 2 bdrms, 750. Call Ardent Properties, (250)753-0881.www.ardentproperties.com

Chemainus: Lockwood Villa, well kept bldg, (2) 1 bdrm $625, incl. heat & hot water, avail. now & Aug. 15th, sm pets welcome. Call Karen 250-709-2765.

FOR RENT: SEPT 1ST EX-EC@THE CRK, LADYSMITH, 1200SF CNDO, NS, 2BD 2BA, FP, SPA, HT, POOL, GYM, SEC PKG, STOR RM, OPEN FLR PLAN 604-414-7802 OR 7801 $1100/M WOULD CON-SIDER RENTAL PURCHASE.

Ladysmith: 1 & 2 bdrm suites from $700/mo incl. heat & hot water, ocean views, complete-ly renovated, on trolley route, small pets ok. 250-668-9086.

LADYSMITH. LARGE 1 bdrm suite available immed. Close to town and incls fridge, stove, W/D. $635/mo + utilities. Call 250-741-0353, 250-714-2746 or [email protected]

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

1800 SQ FT Commercial/light industrial unit in modern strata complex with highway expo-sure in Duncan area with front offi ce. Lrg front & rear 16’ overhead doors. Ample out-side storage area. Avail Sept 1. Not suitable for high traffi c business. 1-250-658-4336.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

LADYSMITH 2-BDRM lower duplex. Laundry. N/S. $750.+ utils. (250)245-2079.

LADYSMITH 2-BDRM upper duplex. Laundry. NP/NS. $950.+ utils (250)245-2079

MOBILE HOMES & PADS

SALTAIR: 2 bdrm mobile on our property. Very quiet area. NP/NS, ref’s. $800 mo + util’s. Avail immed. (250)246-2296.

HOMES FOR RENT

Ladysmith: 3 bdrm, 45+, N/P, $739 + utils, incl. appliances, quiet area. Call Greg 250-245-8914.

LADYSMITH- 4 BDRM. Com-pletely reno’d 1/2 duplex, all newer appls/carpet/hardwood fl oors/windows. Some ocean views, 1,500sq ft, $995 mo. (250)888-2202, 250-245-5251.

Ladysmith: 4 bdrm house, close to all schools, incl. wa-ter, sewer, garbage. Hydro not incl. Avail. immed. $1100/mo + damage deposit. lv msg. 250-245-4869.

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LADYSMITH. APPROX 1600 sq ft 4bdrm/2bath. New home on quiet street. Incls all appli-ances. May consider small pet. $1500/mo + utils. Call 250-741-0353, 250-714-2746, [email protected]

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LADYSMITH: BRIGHT 1bdrm, 1000 sq ft, level entry, insuite W/D, full kitchen, small patio, priv ent, off street prkg, immac cond, NS/NP, utils incl’d, $750. Avail immed. 250-245-0205. [email protected]

YOUBOU: 1 bdrm, furn/un-furn, garden, N/S. $600 incld hydro. Call 250-217-1173.

TOWNHOUSES

Ladysmith: First month’s rent free! 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 5 new appls, close to schools and rec centre, very clean, N/S, avail. now, $950 + utils, ref’s and damage deposit required. 250-245-1230, 250-713-8288.

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2007 CUSTOM Chev HHR. Excellent condition. Loaded. White. 119,000 km, mostly hwy driven. On-Star. $11,900 fi rm. 250-755-5191.

OFF-ROAD VEHICLES

2008 NISSAN Xterra. Excel-lent condition. 93,000KM. No accidents, loaded & new tires.$16,900 (250) 713-8424

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Cassidy: Multi-family yard sale, Sun. Aug 26, 10 am (weather permitting). Timber-lands Pub parking lot (corner of Hallberg and Timberlands Rd.).

Ladysmith: Estate Sale - everything must go! Sat. Aug. 25 & Sun. Aug. 26. 438 Walk-er Ave. 10 - 4 pm. No early birds. 2003 Ford Focus, bed-room suite, exercise equip-ment, electronics, lots of household items.

Ladysmith: Sat., Aug 25th, 8 - noon, toys, household item, furniture, exercise equip. 1041 Fifth Avenue. (garage on Symonds St.)

GARAGE SALES

Ladysmith: 1185 Elliott Way (end of Shellbeach Rd./Bren-ton Page Rd.) Super Garage Sale. Sat. & Sun. Aug. 25 & 26, 9 am - 6 pm. Antiques, 6 Gone With the Wind lamps, ta-bles, 2 parlor sets, beautiful antique chairs, new toilets sinks and faucets, Greco in-dustrial painter 490 like new. Art - many originals, new clothes, antique and modern kitchen ware, glass ware, large amt of pond liner, many free items. No early birds.

Ladysmith: 289 Fourth Ave. Extension. Aug 25 & 26, 9:30 - 2. Good stuff, books galore.

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$254,900 Charming 4bdrm ocean view home on French Street with large fenced level back yard completely

$299,900Rural Charmer, meticulously maintained 4 bdrm Ladysmith home, with a new roof, windows, heat pump, insulation and more. Situated on .25 acre of beautiful landscaping and mature fruit trees.

$469,900Spectacular Ocean View 3 bedroom (each with an ensuite) 2169 sq ft home. With hardwood floors, 9 ft ceilings, gas fireplace and a wrap around deck all sitting on a beautiful private yard.

$189,900WHAT A DEAL!

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with separate shop. Great condition!

$369,900Ocean View & SuiteExtensively renovated 5 bdrm, 3 bath home with mortgage burner suite. Close to golf, shopping, restaurants.

$240,000Beautiful Patio Home

2 bdrm, 2 bath, recent updates, located in a quiet adult complex near parks and Trolley service.

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FREE CHILDREN’S SUMMER HALF DAYCAMP - August 20-24 at Cedar United Church. Games, stories, songs, drama, crafts, puppets. For ages 5 - 12 years, 1-4 daily. Phone Cindy 245 - 5778.

NANAIMO/LADYSMITH COMMUNITY BANDNew members welcome in both concert and/or dance band. Rehearsals are Wednesdays at 6:30 pm at Dover Bay School band room. Contact Ted, 250-722-3088 for more info.

NEW CEDAR TOE-TAPPIN’ FIDDLE GROUP for beginners ages 9 - 99. A few violin rentals are available, or dust off your old violin

stored in the closet. Fridays, starting Sept. 7, 3:30 - 4:30, phone 245 - 5778

CEDAR GUITAR GROUP for beginners, ages 9 - 99 held at Cedar United Church. Fridays, starting Sept. 7, 2 - 3 pm, phone 245 - 5778.

LADYSMITH CAMERA CLUB - will feature “Forensic Photography, Part II”, a fascinating

glimpse into the use of photography in modern police work. Presented by Constable Dave Giles of the Nanaimo Forensic Identification Section. Tues, Aug 28, 2012 at 7 pm, Hardwick Hall, High St at 3rd Ave in Ladysmith. Everyone welcome. Non-members $5 drop-in fee. LCC invites new members, novice to pro. www.LadysmithCameraClub.com

One Day Art Show & Sale

Sunday, August 26th10 am to 4 pm, 1st Avenue

Demos, Music, Artisan Food & Kids Art

2012 Guest ArtistJoVic Pottery

Ladysmith, BCwww.artonavenue.com

100% Locally Owned & Operated

We deliver! (See store for details)

We reserve the right to limit quantities

Pictures for illustrative purposes only

Visit our Website: www.the49th.com

Prices in effectMonday, August 20 to

Sunday, August 26, 2012

CEDAR STORENext to Cedar Plank RestaurantOpen Daily7:30 am to 9 pm 250-722-7010

550 Cairnsmore StreetOpen Daily8:00 am to 9 pm 250-748-2412

DUNCANThe OldBruce’s Store CHEMAINUS

Next to the Ferry DockOpen Daily8:00 am to 9 pm 250-246-3551

LADYSMITHBeside the Liquor Depot

Open Daily7:30 am to 9 pm 250-245-3221

Enter to WIN!

at any 49th Parallel location

12 x 284 12 x 284 ml tins, limit 4ml tins, limit 4

559999

Campbell’s SoupsCampbell’s Soups

Tomato Tomato or Cream or Cream ofof Mushroom Mushroom

SunRypeSunRype

100% Juices100% Juicesand Blendsand Blends

1.36 litres. Limit 41.36 litres. Limit 4

119696

AnniversaryAnniversaryGive-A-Ways!Give-A-Ways!

One of two One of two 51” Samsung Plasma HDTV’S -51” Samsung Plasma HDTV’S -

Plus 15 - 49 second Plus 15 - 49 second Shopping Sprees to give away!Shopping Sprees to give away!

BBQs - Umbrellas - BBQs - Umbrellas - Coolers and more!Coolers and more!

Every $49 order (excluding tobacco and Every $49 order (excluding tobacco and lottery) will get you an entry.lottery) will get you an entry.

Draw date is September 7thDraw date is September 7thEnter as many times as you want at any 49th Enter as many times as you want at any 49th

location. See stores for detailslocation. See stores for details

Paradise IslandParadise Island

Cheddar Cheddar CheeseCheese

Medium, Marble, Mozza, Aged. Approx. 400 grams

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