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When you think of agriculture on Vancouver Island, maple syrup may not be one of the first things that comes to mind. But Gary Backlund of Ladysmith and his family are changing that.

Gary, his wife Teesh and their daughter and son-in-law Kather-ine and Devan Banman own Back-lund’s Backwoods, a managed forest overlooking the Ladysmith Harbour that is a little more than 72 acres. The family has been tapping bigleaf maple trees and producing maple syrup since 2001. Since then, they’ve been educating people through books, presenta-tions, workshops and an informa-tive website, and they also help organize the annual Bigleaf Maple Syrup Festival in Duncan, which is taking place this weekend.As far as Gary knows, maple tap-

ping on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands began in the late 1800s on Galiano Island.

Gary and a few other Vancouver Islanders tried tapping for the first time in 2001 when they took the Master Woodland Manager compo-nent of the Small Woodlands Pro-gram of BC in 2001.“When we bought this property, we

looked at what we’d use this prop-erty for, and we thought forestry, so we had professional foresters and government foresters look at the property,” he said.

The foresters suggested the Back-lunds cut down the maples and grow more Douglas fir, but they also said it is hard to get rid of ma-ples, Gary recalls.“So we thought if nature wants to

grow maple here, we’ll embrace ma-ples,” he said. “We tried milling ma-ple and all things maple. Once we

started tapping, we were hooked.”In 2002, Forest Manager Harold

Macy invited five participants from the Master Woodland Manager Pro-gram — including Gary — to help him establish a commercial maple syrup industry on Vancouver Island. They set up an evaporator, which was borrowed from the University of Saskatchewan, at the UBC Oys-ter River Research Farm north of Courtenay. There, Gary says they collected about 1,000 litres of sap, gave workshops and held open houses.

Gary recalls that when he was tak-ing the Master Woodland Manager program, Macy brought in a little bit of syrup for them to try. He was skeptical, but when he tried it, he thought it tasted great.

Gary came home, and they tapped three trees and ended up with 40 li-tres of sap in 36 hours.“We had beginner’s luck,” said

Gary. “We really liked it. It’s just like checking the mail or checking e-mail; you never know what’s going to be here. It’s great to be outside at this time of year.”

In 2004, Gary and Katherine pub-lished Bigleaf Sugaring — Tap-ping the Western Maple. The book was edited by Teesh, and a second edition was published in 2012.

In 2004, the Backlunds also re-ceived an Agroforestry grant to set up a demonstration project in the Ladysmith area.

By this time, more than 300 peo-ple on Vancouver Island were har-vesting and making maple syrup, according to Gary. More than 1,000 trees were tapped, and well over 10,000 litres of sap were harvested.

The first annual Bigleaf Maple Syrup Festival was held in 2008 at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan.

Seven-year-old Braden Whyte came up from Duncan to check out the new Chemainus Skate Park Sunday (Jan. 31) with his grandparents. For more information about the skate park, which is now open, two months ahead of schedule, please turn to page 4. LINDSAY CHUNG

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• On Jan. 11 at 11:59 a.m., the Ladysmith RCMP received a re-port of various power tools, some still in the box, and assorted household items lo-cated abandoned in the bushes near 3800 block of South Oyster School Road. These items were seized by police for safekeeping.

No one has come forward to claim these items so far.

Please call the Ladysmith RCMP at 250-245-2215 if you believe these items be-long to you. • On Jan. 12 at 4:11

p.m., the Ladysmith RCMP received a re-port of one truck hit-

ting two parked ve-hicles on Buller Street near First Avenue.

Witnesses and the driver of the truck pro-vided police with state-ments, which indicated the 58-year-old male driver of the truck had no use of his brakes and was using only the emergency brake handle to control his vehicle. The male driver subsequently lost control of his ve-hicle, striking the other parked vehicles.

The vehicle was towed and the driver was issued a violation ticket for driving an improperly-equipped vehicle.

No injuries resulted from this incident. • On Jan. 14 at 8:25

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at approximately 4:30 a.m. inside a similar vehicle. • On Jan. 14 at 9:20

a.m., the Ladysmith RCMP received a re-port from a female who had been hitchhiking on Chemainus Road towards Ladysmith.

The female was given a ride from a male in a small blue pickup truck, possibly a Ford Ranger. The male driver attempted to grab the woman’s leg and refused to allow her to exit the vehicle. The female victim managed to jump out of the vehicle as it slowed down near the highway, and she ran to safety.

The vehicle contin-ued southbound on the highway.

The driver is de-scribed as approxi-mately 45 years old with grey hair and a goatee, medium build with rough and worn-looking hands.• On Jan. 26, the

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Security recordings indicate an incident happened on Jan. 23 at approximately 4 a.m. Images are being ex-

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If you have any in-formation about these crimes or any other ones, please contact the Ladysmith RCMP Detachment at 250-245-2215 or CRIMESTOP-PERS at 1-800-222-8477.

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The festival grew out of a remark Katherine made in 2007. The Backlunds had been asked to do a talk at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in October 2007. Gary, Katherine and Teesh did a presentation and talk, and afterwards, Katherine started talking to Aimee Greenaway, who was the centre’s curator at the time, and said they should start their own festival. Green-away was quickly on board, and more than 2,000 people came to the inaugural festi-val in 2008.

Today, the Backlunds have sold more than 3,000 copies of their book. Gary says they are selling more and more books now to people in Cali-fornia, Oregon and Washing-ton, and bigleaf maple syrup seems to be taking off. Anchor Brewing Company

in California has created a BigLeaf Maple Autumn Red beer using bigleaf maple syr-up — including some from the Backlunds — and the Backlunds will be featured in the APTN series Moose Meat and Marmalade. Epi-sode 11, which will air in mid-March, was filmed in the Cowichan Valley, includ-ing Backlund’s Backwoods.

On Vancouver Island, ma-ple syrup production typi-cally takes place in January

and February. Generally, the tapping season runs from the time the leaves come off the trees until the new spring buds are ready to burst, explains Gary.

Sap is collected by drill-ing a short hole into the tree and tapping a tapered pipe

— known as a spile — into the opening. Sap is pushed into this hole and out the spile into a collection buck-et. The sap is then collected from the buckets and boiled to evaporate off water to increase the sugar level to the point where it becomes maple syrup.“The really good trees will

produce more than 200 litres of sap over a tapping season, so two months or so,” said Gary. “Really poor trees

will give you half a cup. We found the really big maples usually don’t give much sap. You want a younger tree that is growing vigorously. Trees near streams or in moist ar-eas seem to produce better.”

Gary says that one of the first questions people ask him is if tapping hurts the tree. According to a gov-ernment study on bigleaf maples, there are no dis-eases or insects that hurt the growth of bigleaf maple trees, he explained.“It’s a very hard-to-kill tree,

which is nice because the eastern maple is a very frag-ile tree; it’s suffering from climate change and acid rain,” he said.

At the Backlunds’, trees are tapped, and sap flows

into 16-litre buckets. Gary says that in a good day, a 16-litre bucket will be filled. It takes three full buckets to make one litre of syrup.

When I visited the Back-lunds late last week, they had pulled out their taps because the weather wasn’t cold enough. But they had been getting sap out of the trees about a week earlier. They’ve had two sap runs so far this season, and Gary says it’s been good but not fantastic.“We’re hoping for a great

one if it gets cold again,” he said. “Last year was the worst, and the year before was the best. Ideally, you should have a cold snap then a warming trend and some sunshine. Here, we get these little mini winters and mini springs, and we can get as many as five runs in a sea-son — that was two years ago; we had five sap runs.”

Gary says that when they have a good sap flow, they have to collect sap at least every three days.

Once the sap is collected in the jugs, it’s taken to an evaporator. Gary fills the evaporator with sap and builds a fire underneath it so that it will boil. To make syrup, they boil the water out of it and get to a point where it is 66-per-cent sugar.“It’s very simple; there are

no additives to syrup, just sap,” said Gary.

Gary has to be very careful when the sap is in the evapo-rator — he doesn’t want to boil it so much that it goes dry because that will scorch the bottom of the pan and give the syrup a burnt taste. So he takes it to the kitchen stove and watches the last little bit as it goes down. Gary’s evaporator will boil 60 litres of sap, but he has also built a small evaporator for smaller quantitates.

The Backlunds will be at the eighth annual Bigleaf Maple Syrup Festival this weekend at the BC Discov-ery Forest Centre in Dun-can. There will be tapping demonstrations in the forest, Powerpoint presentations about topics such as how to make maple syrup and how to build an evaporator, and there will be vendors sell-ing maple syrup and maple-flavoured products, such as maple soaps. There is also a syrup competition, which the Backlunds have entered.

The festival takes place Saturday, Sunday and Mon-day (Feb. 7-9) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $8 or $6 for children aged three to 12.; children younger than two are admitted for free.

To learn more about tap-ping and bigleaf maples, vis-it www.blmaple.net.

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Ladysmith dancers to perform at Port Theatre

Ladysmith’s Rhythm Dance Academy is one of 20 dance groups from Vancouver island taking part in Dance Odyssey

‘15 this weekend in Nanaimo.

Dancestreams Youth Dance Company, a registered charity, was formed nearly 30 years ago to provide enriched training opportunities for teen dancers Island-wide. Talented young dancers from a variety of communities and dance schools come together every Sunday from September to May to work with professional choreographers and guest teachers from all over Canada.

The company also strives to bring the dance community together by sponsoring a performance at Nanaimo’s Port Theatre every February.

This year, a record 20 dance groups, hailing from Victoria to Port McNeill, will grace the stage together during Dance Odyssey ‘15 Saturday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo.“The event has grown to be one of the highlights of the dance season, due to the congenial, supportive and non-competitive nature of the show,” Dancestreams Youth Dance Company states in a press release.

“The program includes everything from classical ballet to modern, jazz and hip hop to national dance and tap — all of it top-notch youth talent!”

During the day, dancers will have the opportunity to take master classes with guest teacher Lesley Telford. Telford danced with Netherlands Dans Theater I, where she was a part of the creation of many works by resident choreographer Jiri Kylian and also worked with choreographers such as Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Crystal Pite and others.

Tickets for Dance Odyssey ‘15 are $22 and are available by calling 250-754-8550 or online through www.porttheatre.com.

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The idea of build-ing a skate park in Chemainus first came up in 1997, and last week, it became a concrete reality.

The Municipality of North Cowichan announced Jan. 28 that the Chemainus Skate Park was open at 2970 Severne St. (the site of the former Chemainus Elemen-tary School) — two months ahead of schedule.

The 7,500-square-foot park is made up of a combination of street-style terrain — features found in ur-ban landscapes such as railings, stairs and ledges — and tradi-tional skate park fea-tures such as banks, pockets and hips. It was created to ac-commodate BMX bikes, scooters, inline skates, skateboards and users of all abil-ity levels.

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North Cowichan’s director of parks and recreation, says the first petition for a skate park came in 1997, and the big-gest struggle over the years has probably been finding a loca-tion for the park.

In 2013, School District 79 returned the old elementary school site to North Cowichan. Commu-nity meetings were held, and despite concerns from home-

owners about noise, crime and other wor-ries, the elementary school site received enough support. Community mem-bers were brought together for a design input session last spring, and the Sever-ne Street site became the official location.“We worked with the kids to come up with the design,” said Mansueti. “There was a user group co-ordi-nated to have input

in it, and the result is what we have here today. The park has been designed for all ages and all abilities.”

Mansueti says be-ginners might find it hard to get onto the park right now be-cause it’s so busy, but once it settles down after the initial ex-citement, there won’t be any problems navi-gating the park.“It’s very, very busy the first week that it’s been open,” he noted.

Mansueti says the park was completed ahead of schedule be-cause New Line Skate-parks Inc. was able to devote all its time to the Chemainus Skate Park because the rest of the country is suf-fering from snow and freezing weather. The weather didn’t affect construction much, as the construction firm was able to work through the rain.“The park was fin-ished two months ahead of schedule, and we couldn’t hold back the users. As soon as the concrete was dry, they were in,” North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure said in a press re-lease. “We commend New Line Skateparks Inc. for a job well done. They provided the lowest tender of the five proposal responders, coming in at $308,542. Com-bined, the park de-sign and construction costs fit within the al-located park budget of $350,000.”

The idea for the park was first brought to council in 1997 by RCMP Officer-in-Charge Sergeant Don Butler. He proposed a park as a means of enhancing public safety and providing youth with recreation options.

The Municipality of North Cowichan will host a grand open-ing at the Chemainus Skate Park Friday, March 6 at 3 p.m. The event is open to the public and will include a ribbon cut-ting, demonstrations, prizes and vendors.


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Ladysmith council took the next steps to-ward resurrecting the Town’s Board of Vari-ance during the Jan. 19 council meeting.

At the meeting, coun-cil directed staff to advertise for three in-dividuals to serve on the Town of Ladysmith Board of Variance.

Criteria considered for potential appoin-tees will include: pub-lic or private-sector experience in the deliv-ery of public programs and services; practical experience in research, analysis, land use planning, architecture, landscape architecture, building design and construction, engineer-ing, law or local gover-nance; being a resident and respected member of the community; be-ing a member of a com-munity organization; and being a business owner.

The Board of Vari-ance receives applica-tions for minor vari-ances. It is one of two routes a property own-er can take, as they can apply for a Develop-

ment Variance Permit through council or apply to the Board of Variance. The Board of Variance’s decisions are final and cannot be appealed. Ladysmith’s Board of Variance has not met since the late 1990s or early 2000s.

During the Jan. 19 meeting, council pro-ceeded with the first three readings of the Town of Ladysmith’s Board of Variance By-law and also directed staff to include $5,000 in the 2015-2019 finan-cial plan to cover costs associated with the Board of Variance. As well, council directed staff to arrange for the development of Board of Variance Guidelines to outline the board’s role, mandate and re-sponsibilities.

Council first con-sidered updating the Town’s Board of Vari-ance Bylaw Jan. 5 but referred the issue to a future meeting be-cause it wanted more information around definitions and word-ing that could be in-cluded in the bylaw. At that time, council and staff also spoke about the possibility of de-

veloping a set of guide-lines for the board.

In her report to coun-cil on Jan. 19, Sandy Bowden, the Town’s di-rector of corporate ser-vices, explained that al-though there are many examples of Board of Variance guidelines available, it is not ad-visable to simply copy another municipality’s guidelines. Staff rec-ommends that a con-sultant be engaged to develop the guidelines and also recommends pursuing training for board members and appropriate staff.

The guidelines that will be established will address some of the concerns raised by council on Jan. 5.

Council had asked if the Town could de-velop a definition for

“minor variance” and “undue hardship,” and staff has discussed this with the Town’s solici-tor, who advises that this cannot be done. “The Board must

consider each applica-tion on its own mer-its,” Bowden wrote in her report for the Jan. 19 meeting. “What is minor in one circum-stance may not be

considered minor in another.”

Staff also recom-mended amending the bylaw to state that pro-ceedings of the Board of Variance are open to the public and that the notification area for Board of Variance hearings be expanded to within 60 metres of the subject property, which is the same as the notification area for Development Vari-ance Permit applica-tions.

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The conversation around mental health is changing

in Canada. Social media is providing a platform for more people to talk about the consequences of poor mental health and what it means for individuals, families and communities.

It is clear that we need a federal response to the challenge of improving mental health outcomes in Canada.

Since the Conservative government decided to unilaterally limit the in-dexing of its payments to the provinces for health care, there are fewer dol-lars for the current health systems to introduce new programming and thera-pies.

And the federal govern-ment is facing its own mental health crisis — the alarming number of sui-cides among active mem-bers of the armed forces is a great concern. That’s why

the NDP asked the House of Commons to increase in-vestments in mental health services for C a n a d i a n Forces mem-bers.

Health care on First Na-tions reserves is also pro-vided through the federal government, not provincial health systems. The situation there is equally dire — the suicide rate among First Nations youth is four times that of the rest of Canada.

And in Nunavut, the rate of suicide is an astonish-ing 40 times higher among Inuit youth than the rest of the Canadian population.

That reflects the lack of ac-cess to mental health ser-vices in the North and in Canada’s other remote com-munities. And the difficulty in providing c u l t u r a l l y -relevant care — something health re-searchers have

determined is important for effective mental health services.

But it isn’t only in re-mote communities that mental health services are needed. I have raised the issue of bullying and its effects on the mental health of children here in our own communities. Hearing about a young girl

who wondered that if she died would that make the kids at school happy con-vinced me that we need to do more.

One option is a national suicide prevention strate-gy, developed through the co-operation of the federal government with the prov-inces, territories and First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Since only one-third of Canadians who need men-tal health treatment can access services, we need to increase access. Yes, that will cost money, but the cost to our country’s economy of untreated mental illness is approxi-mately $50 billion a year.

You can urge the federal government to do more for mental health services by sending an e-mail to the Minister of Health at [email protected] or sending her a letter at House of Commons, Ot-tawa, Ont., K1A 0A6.

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Ladysmith Secondary School dancers put on a great show

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After reading about the dance showcase at the high school on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, I thought what the heck, I would like to see this.

Well, I was blown away by the talent! What a great show these young people put on, a tribute for sure to their dance instructors and teacher.

I, for one, really enjoyed the evening and would like to say “Thanks” to the many performers and, not to be left out, the support people with lighting and music, as the whole evening went like clock-work.

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How would you like you and your loved ones to be cared for at the end of life? How do we make our com-munity the best possi-ble place to live when our families are chal-lenged with advanc-ing illness or bereave-ment?

Cowichan Valley Hospice is hoping the community will help answer these ques-tions. To do this, it is leading a community consultation on end-of-life care, through a series of public meet-ings and a survey that will be available on-line and distributed in public locations.

Local residents are invited to participate in a conversation about end-of-life care experiences and a vi-sion for the future of hospice palliative care in Cowichan.“Good hospice pallia-tive care is whole per-son care,” Cowichan Valley Hospice states in a press release. “It is based on a plan for care defined by the dying person in the context of their whole life, including physi-cal comfort, relations with family and friends, concerns about mean-ing and existence. The care team may include family and friends, general practice and palliative physicians, nurses, home care

workers and counsel-lors and volunteers who offer emotional and spiritual support. Hospice palliative care includes care for the bereaved.”As Cowichan Valley

Hospice describes it, hospice palliative care is an approach to care, not a place. We need choices for where peo-ple will be cared for at the end of their lives, and those choices that are very limited in the Cowichan region, ac-cording to Cowichan Valley Hospice.“I hope that as many

residents as possible will participate in these discussions and survey opportunities so that all of us togeth-er are able to develop the end-of-life care that our community needs now and into the future,” MaryAnn Deacon, chair of the Cowichan Valley Hos-pice Board, said in the release.A community meet-

ing will be held Wednesday, Feb. 11 at the Ladysmith Eagles Hall from 6:30-9 p.m. Meetings will also take place Feb. 10 in Lake Cowichan, Feb. 16 in Duncan and Feb. 17 in Shawnigan Lake.

Anyone who is un-able to make the meet-ing but would still like to participate can contact Cowichan Val-ley Hospice at [email protected]. The online survey will be available soon.

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The Town of Ladysmith is now accepting applications from candidates for nomination as Director on the Nanaimo Airport Commission for a three-year term.The applicant must possess the following qualifi cations:• extensive professional experience with executive leadership accomplishments in business, community organizations and/or government;

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Dan Currall (left) and Dale Gisborne from the Ladysmith Resources Centre Association’s Dad’s Drop-In served hot dogs outside of 49th Parallel Grocery in Ladysmith on Saturday, Jan. 31 to raise money and awareness for the Ladysmith Soup Kitchen. The Dad’s Drop-In raised $560.65. “It went very well,” said Gisborne, who is a facilitator of the Saturday morning program. “I’d like to thank 49th Parallel and Doug Stephens from Mile Zero Motorsports for their support. It’s a little short of what we were hoping for, but it will support the soup kitchen for one month, and I think that’s a good thing.” Lindsay Chung

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Sisters searching for ‘Marco Polo Ties’Niomi PearsonFor the chronicle

It may not have been a part of her child-hood repertoire, but at 53 years old, Ma-rina Sacht is playing a real-life game of Marco Polo.

Treading new waters in search of his-tory, culture and family ties, Sacht, along with her sister Adriane Polo are prepar-ing to retrace parts of the infamous 24-year, 24-kilometre journey of the famed explorer in 2016.

Sacht and Polo, also known as the Polo Sisters, were born into the Polovic family in Slovenia (former Yugoslavia) during Communist rule. Sacht still remembers the stories of her late father Stane before the family escaped to Canada in 1967.“We lived in an apartment building on

the border of Italy and at night, we’d go up on the roof of the building and you could see the lights of Venice,” she said.

“Our dad used to tell us about how we were related to Marco Polo and the Polo family. I’m pretty sure I’m related, but what the relation is and how far back we’ll be able to trace it … who knows.”

Sacht said the idea of tracing the Polo family roots came while reminiscing about her father on his birthday last July. Sacht, a photographer and editor/pub-lisher of Ladysmith’s Take 5 Publications, and Polo, a filmmaker in North Vancou-ver, had been searching for a project to take on together now that their children have grown.

This June, they will take a four-week trip to Venice to connect with long-lost relatives and conduct preliminary re-search and interviews before embarking on the full journey next year. The re-search will include visiting Marco Polo’s home in Venice, the Marco Polo Museum, as well as Korcula, which is said to be Marco Polo’s place of birth.“It will broaden our horizons, and it

will strengthen our family ties as we dig into our past,” said Sacht. “Hopefully we’ll come out of this knowing a little bit more about ourselves and about our future.”

Marco Polo’s journey from Venice through the Silk Road trading route to China took place in 1271, alongside his father and uncle, all merchant travellers. While not the first European to reach China, Marco Polo was said to be one of the first to leave a detailed chronicle of the journey, which provided other Euro-peans of that time an introduction to the East.

The Polo Sisters plan to start their ver-sion of Marco Polo’s journey in Italy and make their way through Israel to Turkey and through the Pamir mountain range to China and Mongolia, then loop back along the coast to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Istanbul and back to Italy.

The trip will span 20 countries, six seas, two deserts and the Pamir moun-tain range. During this time, the women will recreate as many parts of the origi-nal journey as they can, such as going through the desert via horse or camel.“We may not retrace the exact route as

he did for obvious reasons; for example there’s parts of Iran I don’t want to go into,” said Sacht.

Sacht says one of her biggest hopes

is to inspire and connect with women, particularly those who are still being op-pressed in the countries they encounter.

She notes that while Marco Polo’s journey has been recreated in the past by men, she is not aware of any women who have completed the journey and looks forward to providing a different perspective.“I think it’s going to be a life-changing

trip for us,” she said. “Would I be heart-broken if there was no relationship be-tween me and Marco Polo? No. That’s part of the question that drives this, but it’s not all of it.”

The entire journey, named Marco Polo Family Ties, will be filmed and produced in a two-part documentary series pro-duced by Sea to Sky Entertainment.

The sisters are currently crowdfunding online to fundraise the $15,000 needed to offset the cost of video and sound equipment for the journey. To donate, visit www.indiegogo.com/projects/mar-co-polo-family-ties.

To learn more, visit www.marcopolo-familyties.com or e-mail [email protected].

Sisters Marina Sacht and Adriane Polo are preparing to retrace parts of Marco Polo’s journey from Venice through the Silk Road trading route to China. They will also be try-ing to find out if they really are related to the famed explorer. Photo Submitted


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Whether you’re just beginning to take pho-tography seriously or you’ve been practis-ing the art for years, there’s always more to learn.

The Ladysmith Cam-era Club invited award-winning Nanaimo photographers Ken Meisner and Inge Riis McDonald to speak at its monthly meeting Jan. 27 at Hardwick Hall. The guests’ two-part presentation, “Be-come a Better Photog-rapher,” offered the audience tips on evalu-ating photographs and provided insight on how photos are judged for competitions.

Riis McDonald stud-ied at the New York In-stitute of Photography in the 1990s, and she imparted some of what she’d learned there us-ing slides of her own work. The photogra-pher, originally from Denmark, said that in 2011, she challenged herself to take a new photo every day to share with family and friends. She encour-aged photographers to ask themselves if their image is achieving its objective of showing an idea or commu-nicating a message, mood or feeling, and said they should con-sider whether it is suf-ficiently creative. “We may wish to in-

form, influence, enter-tain or simply record something that moved

us,” she said. “A good photo has a clearly identifiable subject or theme.”

She explained that according to the New York Institute of Pho-tography, the three guidelines for great photography are:

“Know your subject/theme; draw attention to and focus on the subject; and simplify your image.” “A good photo is

about something,” she said, and she suggest-ed that photographers consider what origi-nally caught their eye. She used an example of a group of dancers in colourful costumes on a street and showed how by cropping and focussing on a single, swirling skirt, the pho-to made much more impact.“One should include

only the elements that tell the story.”

Riis McDonald also discussed the impor-tance of filling the

frame, the placement of the subject within the frame (using the rule of thirds, though she admitted that

“rules are made to be broken”), and how photographers can take advantage of lead-ing lines. Regarding framing, she demon-strated how one can effectively use natural elements, like silhou-etted trees or splashing water, to “frame” the subject. She stressed that “a good photo-graph is a simple pho-tograph.” “We are not trying to

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When capturing photos of people, for example, the photo should give some clue to the person’s charac-ter, life or experience.

For Meisner, photog-raphy is both a passion and a way of life. The long-time member of the Foothills Camera

Club in Calgary said that one can learn much about photogra-phy via judging it. He explained how the Ca-nadian Association of Photographic Arts sets its criteria for compe-tition scoring. Photo-graphs are judged for their technical qual-ity, composition, and impact. A top score would be 30.“When evaluating

photographs, judges should start with two positive comments

before offering a way to improve the image,” said Meisner.

Both speakers ex-pressed the role that subjectivity plays dur-ing judging.“One should never say

‘I like’ or “I don’t like” when evaluating an im-age,” said Riis McDon-ald.

Next month’s presen-tation Tuesday, Feb. 24 at Hardwick Hall at 7 p.m. will be on the sub-ject of night photogra-phy. All are welcome.


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Cedar 12k starts SundayNiomi PearsonFOR THE CHRONICLE

The third leg of an Island-wide running series takes place this Sunday (Feb. 8) in Cedar.

The 2015 Frontrunners Island Race Series is comprised of eight races of varying lengths, from 5K to 15K. The Cedar run is an atypical 12K distance that is predominantly on pavement. It features plenty of rolling hills and gorgeous country views.“It’s a relatively tough course,

but there’s no flat courses around Nanaimo,” said John Durkin, race director.

The race both starts and ends at North Cedar Intermediate School at 2215 Gould Rd. Rain or shine, it gets underway at 11 a.m. For those who anticipate to take longer than an hour to an hour and a half to complete the course, there will be a 10:30 a.m. start time.

The current record for the overall men’s course is Jim Finlayson with a time of 37:11 Lucy Smith holds the women’s record with a time of 42:06. Dur-kin said the only competitor to come close to Finlayson’s time (within a few seconds) was Si-mon Whitfield from Victoria.“Nobody’s challenged them in

recent years,” he said.Vancouver Island Runners’ As-

sociation president Cathy Noel

said the goal for 2015 is to get more runners to the start line.“The Island Series is extremely

well run, and the running and walking community is very wel-coming to participants of all abilities. As event participation ranges from 250 to 800, each race of the series has a small town feel,” she stated in a news release.

According to Durkin, just un-der 500 participants came out to last year’s event, and they are anticipating similar numbers this year.

In addition, approximately 50 to 70 volunteers come out every year to the Cedar 12K to help make it happen for the partici-pants. Durkin says they are well known for having the most fun at the water stations during the race.

“I hear from runners all the time that our course marshals cheer the loudest,” he added.

The awards include an over-all men and women category, a masters division and individual awards by age. To be eligible for the overall awards, one must be registered in at least five of the eight races.

For more information on the series or to register, visit http://vira.bc.ca.

Registration up to race day costs $30 per adult and $25 per student. All registration fees on race day are $35. Proceeds from the series will be donated to this year’s Charity Partner, the Victoria Hospitals Foundation.

To volunteer for the Cedar 12K, call John Durkin at 250-741-8838 or e-mail [email protected].

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Income Taxes will start on March 3 and run Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

It is a free program run by the Ladysmith Resources Centre where volunteers do the intake and the tax forms. This program is for people with an income less than $30,000 a year for singles and $40,000 for couples.

If you have any questions regarding this program, you can call Barb at 250-245-3079.

The Seniors Office of the Ladysmith Resources Cen-tre Association is open five days a week, with someone in the office from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

If you need information about programs for seniors, general information regard-ing seniors’ issues or help with forms, please drop in at 630 Second Ave. or give us a call at 250-245-3079.—Submitted by Sharen Newton, Ladysmith Se-niors Office

LSS senior girls power forward to North Island Playoffs Feb. 12-14Niomi PearsonFOR THE CHRONICLE

The Ladysmith Sec-ondary School senior girls basketball team has had its highs and lows this season, but as the 49ers power for-ward to the playoffs, there are plenty of positives in their court.“The girls are having

fun. They may not be on the winning end of things all the time, but they are improv-ing and getting better, which is what we like to see,” said coach Daryl Rodgers. “The last three games have been close.”

This year is the first in several years that LSS has had a senior girls’ basketball team. Rodgers says they are hoping to build on the momentum and grow the program in the coming years.“When there’s no team for the [young-er] kids to look up to, then it’s hard for them to get into it,” he said.

During their final regular game of the season Jan. 27, the 49ers played hard but came up short in a 74-33 loss to the Kwali-cum Kondors.

Highest points scored for the 49ers included Darby Rae with 12 points, and forward Marika Gru-bac with 11 points.“We definitely strug-

gled; their pressure

got to us,” Rodgers said. “We’ve had a few injuries lately, which hasn’t helped.”

Despite the loss, the 49ers hold the last seat going into the North Island playoffs in Parksville Feb. 12-14.

The team will take a break this week to fo-cus on exams before practising for the play-offs.

Rodgers said the

girls will be working on defensive tactics like not turning the ball over to prepare for the tournament.

Guard Alexa Wilson says she’s looking for-ward to participating in the playoffs.“We just want to play

as best as we can even if we’re not going to win,” she said. “We still want to put our best foot forward.”

Kelsey Hutt (7) throws a pass to Darby Rae (4) during the last game of the reg-ular season against the Kwalicum Kondors on Jan 27. NIOMI PEARSON

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BUD HAYNES & Ward’s Fire-arms Auction. Saturday, March 7, 10 a.m., 11802 - 145 St., Edmonton, Alberta. One Man’s Collection, store disper-sal, case lots, ammo, etc. Consign now. Catalogue w/pictures online. Phone 403-347-5855 or 780-451-4549; www.budhaynesauctions.com; www.WardsAuctions.com.

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1988 WILDERNESS 30’ Fifth wheel. Needs some TLC. $4995. obo. To see: 405 Selby Street. Call (250)618-6800.

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

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

LADYSMITH MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT GROUP Meets on the 1st & 3rd Friday of the month 1:30 pm basement of Ladysmith Resource Centre.

LADYSMITH CELE BRA TIONS SOCIETY Ladysmith Days. Ladysmith

city hall, on 3rd Tuesday of every month, 7 pm 250-245-2263. www.ladysmithdays.com

DAD'S GROUP - Drop In Breakfast - Program of the Ladysmith Resources Centre Association. 630 - 2nd Ave., Upper Floor, Saturdays, 10 - noon. 250-245-3079.

ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP Meets 2nd & 4th Tuesdays. Call Jane Hope, Alzheimer Society of BC at 250-734-4170.

COWICHAN VALLEY HOSPICE Emotional support for those facing a life threatening ill-ness, family and friends and for those grieving the death of a loved one. 1-888-701-4242. Group, telephone & individual support available.

NORTH OYSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETYEngraved bricks fundraiser. Info call Bob Handel at 250-245-0919.

LADYSMITH AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY - urgently requires volunteers as Museum hosts, also, the archives need interested people to assist with research etc. 250-245-0100.

LADYSMITH SALTAIR GARDEN CLUB - Every third Thursday 7 pm, St Johns Anglican Church, 314 Buller St. Garden meetings June, July, August. New members welcome. $15 membership. Join the "growing" group.

LINE DANCINGChemainus Seniors Drop In Centre. Tuesdays, 10 - 11 a.m. Jo Kelly: 250-245-1185.

AL-ANONMeets Tuesdays, 7:30 pm downstairs at Ladysmith Resource Centre Association.

FOL IS GEARING UP... BELIEVE IT... FOR ANOTHER YEAR AND WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOME MORE HELP. We are very fortunate that when we have the work parties we have volunteers but we really would like to get some folks out who would be willing to be on the committee to help plan the 2015 Light Up program. The more minds the easier the task. Festival meets the Third Thursday of each month at 7 pm and the meetings usually run about 1.5 hours. The meeting is at the FOL building next to the Ladysmith Cemetery. If you’re interested please contact Duck Paterson at 250-245-2263 or email duckwon@shaw.


LADYSMITH CHEMAINUS CEDAR DUNCAN

Your Island Community Grocers since 1977

Visit us on the web www.the49th.com

3055 Oak Street1020 1st Avenue 1824 Cedar Road 550 Cairnsmore Street

250-246-3551250-245-3221 250-722-7010 250-748-2412

100% Locally Owned & Operated • We deliver! (See store for details)We reserve the right to limit quantities • Pictures for illustrative purposes only

Open Daily from 7:30 am - 9:00 pm

Bloooms Direct Line 250-245-3344

Give Her Butterflies for Valentine’s Day…One Dozen Long-Stemmed Red Roses

Rekindle the romancethis Valentine’s Day with a breathtaking display of your affection.

Cedar - Ladysmith - NEW! Chemainus - Duncanwww.the49th.com

Saturday, February 14!

3DaySale

Friday, Saturday

& Sunday

February 6, 7, 8

Cream, Whole Kernal or Peaches & Cream.398 - 341 ml tinsLimit 12 tins total

3DaySale

Green GiantCorn

$1

3DaySale

680 ml tin,Limit 4 total

Thick & Rich

Hunt’sPastaSauce $1

$1DaySale

398 ml tinsLimit 12 tins total

3

AssortedDelmonte

Fruit

Hidden inside

49th Valentine Cakes

are 10 Lucky Tickets for a chance

to win a Diamond Ring (Appraised at $2,150)

Contest starts Tuesday, February 10th until Sunday, February 15th, or until stock lasts!The 10 lucky ticket holders will all have a chance to win the Diamond Ring!

9 of the 10 ticket holders will each receive a $20.00 - 49th Bloooms Gift Card.Also 40 boxes of Hershey’s Pot of Gold Chocolates to be won in hidden cake prizes.

See stores for details Draw will take place on Monday, February 16th, on location at our Chemainus store.

Enter at any 49th store.

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ComingSoon!

StartsFeb

10th!

$2,00000 DIAMOND RING GIVE-AWAY!

ladysmith chronicle, february 03, 2015

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