The Flagstone Denman’s Village Voice

October 2017 Volume 22 Issue 10

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Denman is in for a very special treat on October 27th, when Bethany Ireland’s P!ano G!rls will give a recital called “Water and Wings” at the Community Hall.

The P!ano G!rls, fourteen pupils in total, range in age from 5 to 10 years old, and have been working with Bethany all summer in preparation. Bethany says the idea for P!ano G!rls was a long time in the making; she’s been dreaming and scheming about teaching these special girls since she held them as babies. As the mother of two sons, she gets a lot of “boy time,” and has relished this opportunity to spend time with her sons’ friends, forging a connection with Denman’s future generation of women, and using music as a tool to enrich their lives and encourage their creativity. Doors open at 6:30, and the show kicks off at 7:00 with a performance by Paddy O’Connell’s piano students. “Water and Wings” will follow, featuring a performance by

each of the girls and a big number to close out the show. Admission is by donation, with all proceeds going towards the Jason McDonald Music Education Scholarship. This fund will help pay for lessons in music for Denman students.

“Water and Wings” promises to be an unforgettable event—heartwarming and heartfelt, uplifting and empowering. You won’t want to miss it. So come out and enjoy music made by some of Denman’s youngest talents, and help support their ongoing musical education.

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1 Rebecca Nykwest Water & Wings

2 Index

3 Danni Crenna Creative Threads Conspiracy

4 Laura Busheikin Islands Trust Notebook

5 Eli Hasan Halloween Dance

6 Edi Johnston Bill Engleson

Earthquake Preparedness Local Writer Reading

7 Harlene Holm DCLTA - Affordable Housing

8 Various Writers Letters

9 Cindy Critchley Riane da Silva

Hunting Season Denman Works AGM

10 Dr Ron Wilson Slug Blume

Good News re Exercise Reconciliation Next Steps

11 Kate Janeway Bill Engleson

Apple Festival/Farm Crawl 200 Words or Less

12 Sponsor Don Luckett Arts Denman Page

13 Various Writers R & W Local Stories Cont'd

14 Continued

15 Karl Goodwin Cartoon

16 Sponsored by ReMax Kids Page

17 Max Rogers Agriculture Matters

18 Continued Garden Club News

19 John Millen This Place

20 Union Bay Credit Union Sponsor

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Creative Threads Conspiracy Oct 20 - 22 at the Community Hall By Danni Crenna

Creative Threads Conspiracy is in its 6th year and is doing well. Many classes are full (some are overfull) and we have over 90 participants from Denman, Vancouver Island and the lower Mainland.

We are missing Carole Vosburgh and the Wearable Art Show this year due to ill health, and are hosting instead something called a "Trunk Show" which has nothing to do with elephants or old luggage. As most quilters know, a "trunk show" is an historical replay of a quilter's personal history with samples of her/his work throughout a usually long and illustrious career. This year's Quilter is Anne Hall who will also be teaching the "Prismatic Star" as show on your left. The trunk show will happen in the Back Hall on Saturday October 21st at 7:00 pm and all are welcome. Admission is free, as is a peek at what people are doing in their classes all over the Community Hall during this 3 day event.

There is still room for more people to sign up in many of the classes so take a look at the website and register online or give me a call at 335-0198

www.creativethreadsconspiracy.com

Donna Millen proudly presents, Denman Island's Knitting Circle. Knitting starts Monday October 2 at 2 pm in the Activity Centre Lounge beginners to expert knitters. $3 drop in fee. Everyone welcome. Great coaching from patient experts.

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Trustee Notebook By Laura Busheikin

A Vision for Denman Downtown/aka the Village “Keep Denman weird” is a bumper sticker, but could it also be a planning principle? This was one of the questions discussed at the four-day intensive planning project known as the Denman Island Downtown/Village Charrette, Sept 6 – 9th. This event brought 21 Masters of Community Planning students from Vancouver Island University to Denman Island to look, learn, study, listen to Islanders, and then, based on all that, create proposals. This write-up reflects what I heard; a bigger, more formal report will be produced later this fall. There were two sessions inviting the public to share likes, dislikes, values, hopes, and fears. It soon became clear that downtown/the village is well-loved. We appreciate our two halls, our Medical Centre, our retail and food-service outlets, playground and sports field, the school, trails, green spaces, Arts Centre and outdoor sitting areas. We like the aesthetic, which reflects the decentralized, organic way this area has grown. No one is calling for sudden, dramatic change. We want to make sure the things we love are protected, while enhancing connectedness to each other and to our loved places and spaces.

But we have things that bother us, and we have dreams and ideas. We worry about traffic and pedestrian safety. In the summer especially, parking is a source of stress. As well as making the roads safer, people would like to see the area be more welcoming to pedestrians. We’d like to see better physical accessibility. The current trails, with their gravel surfacing, are difficult for many people with mobility challenges. Few of the buildings are accessible. Another goal is cultural accessibility, which (to me) means that everyone, regardless of race, income level or economic status, physical ability, age, and level of weirdness should feel welcome. Many of us have thoughts about the vacant or under-used properties in the downtown. There’s a sense of lost potential; what wonderful things could happen here?

“Wants” include a public toilet, visual markers of First Nations’ history and relationship to the Island, a covered outdoor seating area, more public art, more/better pedestrian trails, especially to and from the ferry, more renewable energy, green infrastructure, an electric car charging station, less concrete, more natural materials, and better knowledge of and protection for the natural ecosystem.

Also, the community’s need for affordable, attainable, accessible and seniors’ housing came up repeatedly. Water and septic were recognized as limiting factors for housing, services and businesses.

The students, aided by their professors, Dave Witty, the

VIU Provost and Vice President (Academic), and Michael von Hausen, a planning and urban design specialist (who just published a book about planning downtowns for small communities), put all this input into their creative cauldron and cooked up five different draft designs. Here are some of the ideas: Boardwalks throughout downtown to provide beautiful, environmentally friendly and accessible pedestrian access;

A tiny-home project on the current EMCON lot; A “Moonlight Grove” forest area at the current Rawganique site, with trail network and sheltered sitting/gathering area and night life pub/live music venue to compliment the community hall across the street;

Night-time fairy lights on tree stumps; Tiny-to-small infill housing (cottages) tucked in next to the Community Hall and elsewhere; Centralized rainwater catchment for the downtown area; A natural wastewater treatment facility (used all over the world – see best practices) Attractive traffic-calming features, such as art painted on the road (for instance, depicting Denman’s history) and innovative rumble strips that allow bits of earth to remain exposed; Semi-private/secret paths and gardens tucked away behind buildings and connected through a trail system; Replacing the concrete barrier outside the school with a boardwalk;

A produce-stand for local products; Limiting angled parking to only one side of Northwest Road;

Trails connecting the Medical Centre and the ferry; A public toilet, shower, and possibly laundry facility (next to the Community Hall);

Covered outdoor areas…and more….

The question remains as to how any or all of this could get done, if indeed enough of us want it. Some of these proposals could be achieved by community groups, by downtown/village property owners individually or working together, or by various governing agencies. The Denman Island Local Trust Committee (LTC) will be discussing possible next steps at its next meeting, October 3, at 9:30 am, in the Activity Centre. A big thank you to Vancouver Island University, the planning students and their leaders, and to all the Islanders who attended the public events and/or talked with the students in their travels around Denman.

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Don Johnson 250-338-8822 www.ableandreadyseptic.ca ableandreadyseptic@shaw.ca

be offering snacks, movies, and music to the little ones, just have them bring their jammies and something to sleep on in case you are having too much fun on the dance floor to make it home before their bedtimes.

We will also be offering a Swing Dance class from Jason Lee Kirch of ValDance in Courtenay for those who have always wanted to learn the proper moves for the flapper set. The class will be from 3:30-5:30 on the day of the dance, and will cost $10 a person. It is for beginners and folks who already have some experience alike, as you will learn a great foundation and some special moves to make your mark on the dance floor. You can learn some great new dance moves with different partners, and be ready to cut up the rug for the night.

The show is $20 in advance, or $25 at the door, or $5 for students at the door. and promises to be a treat. Tickets will be at Abraxas and the General Store soon.

Getting dressed up is strongly encouraged - as your tickle trunk must have something that fits the theme?!?!

Otherwise, it is Halloween - so just go crazy with it! Can’t wait to sweat it out with all of you on the dance floor.

Bruce JolliffeDirector

Baynes Sound – Denman/Hornby Islands (Area ‘A’)

bjolliffe@comoxvalleyrd.ca

Tel: 250-335-1275

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Spookeasy Halloween Dance Saturday October 28th

Hey there Denmanistas… just checking in to let you know about this year's Gatsby Style Halloween. We are swinging it in a Depression era style with our Spookeasy event. We will be going full flapper with a 6 piece live swing band named The Palace Band from Errington. They bring us an assortment of swinging classics and originals, with some saucy dance numbers thrown in to boot. They were born as the house band of the infamous yearly Vaudeville events that help to fund that funky town’s musical event season at their community hall. They now wander the region getting folks grooving to the tunes of our parents and grandparents. They played with us at a Speakeasy event in Cumberland and made people go crazy. They will be doing 2 sets to keep it fun and swanky. Denman’s own Whiskey Tango Foxtrot will be tempting you with some Vintage Remix jams remixing and reconfiguring Swing, Blues, and Soul tunes, with some unreleased tunes from the upcoming full album coming out in 2018. DJ Eliazar will do his thing between other folks sets, and some special guests to boot.

The show is licensed, and will also be all ages, but we have other options for you if you just want to boogie down and not have to watch the kids. There will be babysitting services at the Seniors hall for free, though tipping your babysitter is always encouraged:) We will

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Karaoke Fundraiser July 23rd. This year's Kosmic Karaoke at Bruce and Lee Andra's will take place the evening of July 23rd at 8pm after the potluck. Robin and Step will be again o To get to this great event you take Nth. Central Rd. that's opposite the graveyard, drive to the end and follow the signs. See you there!

Karaoke Fundraiser July 23rd. This year's Kosmic Karaoke at Bruce and Lee r adults is $10 or what you can afford. The aim is to raise $2000. To get to this great event you take Nth. Central Rd. that's opposite the graveyard, drive to the end and follow the signs. See you there!

chargers, dust mask and money? • secured your appliances and mitigated potential

hazards? Do you know:

• how to turn off propane, water and power? • that the local emergency radio station is the Eagle-

97.3? • who your neighbourhood coordinator is or does

your neighbourhood need one? • what and where a Reception Center is and that it

can provide you with your emergency needs for 72 hrs. once you register?

• your local ESS team is looking for volunteers and FMI contact Gloria Michin 335-0730

More information is also available at www.gov.bc.ca/PreparedBC or at www.shakeoutbc.ca

Remember failing to plan is planning to fail, so don't be scared ~ be prepared!

Shake Out BC will happen on October 19th and your local ESS team hopes Denman Islanders will use this reminder to become aware and prepare for any potential disaster you might be forced to deal with. Earthquakes, forest fires and even a tsunami are all possible on Denman and the more you do ahead of time, the better prepared you will be. Thinking about how to be prepared, if you aren't at home and are driving is also worthy of your time, do you have a grab and go bag in your car and have you:

• made a plan for family members, domestic and farm animals?

• arranged an out of province phone number for family to call to check in?

• enough food and water for at least 72+ hrs? • medications, glasses, flashlight, whistle, rain gear,

First Aid kit, gloves, portable radio, cell phone

Shake Out. Don't Freak Out. Register Now at www.ShakeOutBC.ca

October 19th,2017

edi johnston for Denman Island Emergency Support Services

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bill Engleson, Author, Reading and Book Signing Courtenay (October 21, 2017) — Denman Island author, Bill Engleson, will be reading excerpts from (and signing copies of) his latest book, Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul, at the Courtenay Branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library, 300 Sixth Street on Saturday, October 21st from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Engleson’s second book, unlike his gritty debut novel, Like a Child to Home, is a mostly whimsical, occasionally embarrassing collection of humorous literary essays which explore the many ludicrous facets of an urban life force-fed into a small rural outpost. Most of the essays first saw life in Denman Island’s flagship monthly journal, the Flagstone. From pretty much the first moment Engleson set his fastidiously soft spirit on the rough and tumble shores of Denman, he was compelled to seek answers to a most vexatious question: “Why am I here?” Each essay served to slowly reveal to him and his community that there may not be an actual answer.

Nevertheless, if Jack Hodgins, author, and winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s award for Literary Excellence in 2006 and an Order of Canada inductee in 2009 is any judge, and he, without a doubt, is, Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul is a delightful read. As Hodgins says: “The chapter titles tell us much. “Turnip Love.” “Up and Down the Garbage Chute.” In fact, the Table of Contents alone may put a smile on your face that will last the whole time you are reading this book…except when you catch yourself laughing out loud. Bill Engleson is lively, entertaining, wise and full of surprises.” So, come on out and meet Bill in person at the stunning Courtenay Library on Saturday October 21st from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. For further information, call the Courtenay Library at (250) 334-3369 or visit their website at

http://virl.bc.ca/branches/courtenay

For even more information, check out Bill’s website/blog at www.engleson.ca or his publisher Silver Bow Publishing’s link http://www.silverbowpublishing.com/confessions-of-an-inadvertently-gentrifying-soul.html

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Letters

Editorial Policy Views expressed in the Flagstone do not necessarily represent those of the editors. Letters and all other material submitted for publication may be edited for length, style, obvious factual errors and bad taste. Please write with respect for your fellow citizens. We reserve the right to refuse to publish potentially libelous material. Each writer is requested to edit his/her own work for brevity, so that we can include as many submissions as possible. Please include your full name and phone number (phone number will not be printed unless requested).

Denman Community Land Trust Association → Affordable Housing Update Submitted By Harlene Holm for the DCLTA Denman Community Land Trust Association (DCLTA) is dedicated to creating affordable housing for low-income earners on Denman Island. Housing projects undertaken by DCLTA are designed to suit the size of the land parcel, the nature of the neighbourhood, the environmental values, the location and, when not in conflict with DCLTA’s mandate, donor’s wishes. DCLTA’s current project will create 8 units (4 duplexes) of seniors’ affordable housing. Since 2014, the DCLTA board and many community volunteers have worked to move this proposal forward. (For details please visit our website denmanaffordablehousing.org.)

September was a busy month for DCLTA and the proposed Seniors’ Affordable Housing Project.

* On September 6th, DCLTA submitted an application to amend the Denman Island Land Use Bylaw to obtain the changein zoning needed for the project.

* On September 13th, DCLTA’s Bylaw Amendment Committee met with Ann Kjerulf (Trust Northern Office, RegionalPlanning Manager) and Marnie Eggen (Trust Planner for Denman) on the land and discussed details of the project and thenecessary bylaw amendment.

* Also on September 13th, DCLTA made a presentation at the Trust Council quarterly meeting, held this time on DenmanIsland. The Council is made up of the 26 local trustees from the 13 major islands which comprise the Trust area. DCLTA’spresentation emphasized two steps the Trust Council could take in support of affordable housing initiatives: 1) amend theTrust Policy Statement to include recognition of the need for affordable housing as part of a diverse and healthycommunity, and 2) create a model affordable housing first policy for local trust committees to consider adopting in orderto fast track applications for affordable housing projects.

* On September 17th, DCLTA sponsored a Community Information Meeting. While we have consistently provided thecommunity with project updates, this meeting is a formal step in the bylaw amendment application process. The meetingpresented the proposal, invited questions, comments and gauged community support for the project. Fifty-one residentsattended and expressed support for the proposal. Owners of a neighbouring lot expressed concerns about potentiallaneway traffic, their wish to continue to use the lane to access their property and the need to evaluate water availabilityfor the ‘village’ area.

* On September 22nd, DCLTA hosted its sixth annual Phantom Ball. We set a new non-attendance record! As always,those who had nothing to wear, caused quite a stir. The free champagne (Veuve Clicquot) for all who attended added tothe festivities. Special guest D. Trump was conspicuous by his absence. However, rumour has it that Harry Potter dancedthe night away beneath his invisibility cloak. Thank you to all who bought tickets. For a modest fee, we will neither nameyou nor comment on your rather shocking behaviour at the gala.

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OPEN LETTER TO DFO and FLNRO

—WHERE IS THE BAYNES SOUND SHORE LINE HEADED?

I expect the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and our provincial Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources (FLNRO) must have a reasonably good idea of what shellfish aquaculture is looking like on the eastern shore of Baynes Sound these days. But if they don't know what it looks like on our beaches these days, then why don't they? And if they do know, then why are they allowing this anarchic destruction of the intertidal zone? (With apologies to Denman’s honourable anarchist community: Pyotr Kropotkin would not approve of what is happening on our beaches.)

I assume our local DFO and FLNRO offices accept responsibility for this remarkably rapid and dangerous degradation of the foreshore on one of the richest and most ecologically important estuaries on the south coast: Ongoing reconfiguration of the foreshore to create high berms, embedding of vertical bars of reinforcing steel into public swimming and boating beaches, accelerating proliferation of poorly fastened plastic devices of various kinds, including a rapid increase in horizontal and vertical netting, growing piles of plastic industrial waste, ever heavier vehicles (now up to 5 tons) compacting sensitive foreshore habitat, and so on. Are they also using pesticides in our waters? They'd tell us if they were,

Editorial Policy Views expressed in the Flagstone do not necessarily represent those of the editors. Letters and all other material submitted for publication may be edited for length, style, obvious factual errors and bad taste. Please write with respect for your fellow citizens. We reserve the right to refuse to publish potentially libelous material. Each writer is requested to edit his/her own work for brevity, so that we can include as many submissions as possible. Please include your full name and phone number (phone number will not be printed unless requested).

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wouldn't they? What caused the sudden and mysterious die off of our Red Rock Crabs?

Shellfish tenure holders are now being left to their own devices to define "farm practices" between the low and high tide lines on our public beaches. In the process, they are ignoring their conditions of licensing with impunity. All this, thanks to the “streamlining” introduced by the rogue Harper regime and their erstwhile Liberal allies in Victoria. Ever fewer of these empowered “farmers” on our beaches live here; it appears fewer still give a damn about the longer term health of the Sound. With government support, they disregard the safety and well-being of all others while actively diminishing the options of any other users of this shared space and resource. Want to come on a kayaking holiday on Denman and slalom through the rebar stakes? Want your children to swim or board there? Does anyone expect other marine species might thrive in this artificial beach monoculture of luxury export products that our governments have promoted so vigorously?

I’ll be talking to audiences around the south coast this fall, about a book on the history of the Strait of Georgia. This travesty on Baynes Sound will figure large in my public talks as another truly frightening example of our tradition of "regulatory capture" here in BC. Another rapacious industry, subsidised but otherwise virtually uncontrolled by government. Another industry that appears to spend far more on slick advertising (and political

contributions?) than they do on environmental safeguards. Another industry that demonstrably does NOT have the public's interest at heart. Back to DFO. Don’t they have a mandate to protect our marine environment? And our public interest? It would be awfully useful to have DFO's (and FLNRO's) explanation about what exactly is going on here on Denman’s western shore. I am hardly the only citizen / tax payer / voter who doesn’t understand it, at all. I was born on the Strait of Georgia and have lived by it all my life and I've never seen anything like it. Except perhaps that cocktail of deadly complex organic compounds--PCB s, dioxins and furans and so on--that were spewed into the sea for so long by our old pulp mills, before they were FINALLY forced to clean up their act. How many people died prematurely because of that? Will people have to die from the uncontrolled practices of shellfish growers on our beaches before something is done about it?

Thank you for publishing this letter. I look forward to DFO and FLNRO giving careful consideration to this issue, and discussing it with us in public forums. Not more glib denials of responsibility and passing of the buck to other deniers please, but some cogent and thoughtful explanation of what exactly is going on, and why, and how our interests will be protected. I encourage all of us on Denman, and on the western shore of Baynes Sound, to solicit this explanation from our governments. Then let’s resolve this mess before it’s too late. Howard Stewart

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Deer Hunting Season 2017 Cindy Critchley for Wildlife Advisory Committee

The 2017 season on Denman and Hornby Islands opens October 5 and runs until December 10. The B.C. Hunting Regulations Synopsis can be found online. This is a brief summary of some of the information that applies to Denman Island.

Although hunters are required to obtain the permission of the land owner before hunting on private land, it is in your interest to make your boundaries obvious. ‘No Hunting/No Trespassing’ signs may be purchased at the Denman Island Hardware Store.

A few points from the Hunting Regulations Synopsis: - hunting at night is illegal.- a Gulf Islands Special Licence and $100,000 insuranceto cover public liability and property damage is required- it is illegal to discharge a firearm on a public road(within 15 metres from the middle) and to hunt within100 metres of a church, school building, school yard,playground, dwelling house, or farm building that isoccupied by persons or domestic animals.- no hunting of upland game birds (grouse, pheasant,quail) is permitted on Denman Island.All regulations apply to island residents as well as tovisitors.Note: Denman Island Provincial Park, now has somesigns prohibiting motorized vehicle use.

Please report infractions to the conservation officer at the RAPP line: 1-877-952-7277 (number listed in front section of Denman phone book) The WAC keep records which can assist the conservation officers and sometimes result in extra patrols, so please also give one of us a call: Mike Nestor, Peter Karsten, Dennis Forsyth, or Cindy Critchley. If possible to do so safely, note the licence number or take a photo.

For your safety, wear bright clothing and consider avoiding areas that you believe may be used by hunters during this season.

Denman Works submitted by Riane daSilva

www.engleson.ca

Denman Works manages the portion of tax dollars that are returned to Denman Island from the Regional District for economic enhancement on the island. There are tight rules around what this money can be used for, and it may not be awarded to individuals or private companies. Through the Community Program Grants, many island non-profits have been awarded grants to assist with their projects that clearly demonstrate an economic benefit to the island. Through the Resource Centre, located in the Activity Centre, Denman Works offers visitor and new resident information, maintains a Job Board with employment opportunities, keeps contact names and numbers to help fill odd jobs, provides assistance with employment/economic enhancement support and services, runs workshops throughout the year for skills development, maintains several websites with information relevant to Denman Island, and various other economic enhancement activities. If you have any questions about our services and how we can assist your own economic enhancement, please drop by or call the Resource Centre Tuesdays and Thursdays between 12-4pm.

Denman Works is holding our Annual General Meeting at 7pm on Tuesday, October 17th in the Lounge of the Denman Activity Centre (formerly known as the Senior’s Hall). We are looking for some new board members. If you have interest in the economic well-being of Denman Island and you have some time and energy to spend on this - we would love to have you. It's important to note that all of Denman Works activity has as its starting point the Denman Island Official Community Plan - the document developed and approved by Denman Islanders that expresses the collective vision and values of our community.

Please consider joining the board. Younger Denizens are particularly encouraged, though we are happy to accept all who are interested. If you have any questions or are interested in knowing more, please send an email to Society Manager, Riane daSilva at denmanresource@gmail.com or call the office at 250-335-3170.

Throughout the year Denman Works sponsors workshops thatbenefit individual businesses and/or artists. Cost for these co-sponsored (with DICES) workshops is kept low so as to be accessible to all interested participants. If you need further subsidy please contact us directly and we can arrange it with you. Saturday, October 21 from 11am-2pm we will offer "Introduction to Social Media for Small Business". Saturdays from November 4 to December 2, we will offer "Introduction to Bookkeeping" from 11am-2pm for each of those 5 weeks. Also in November we will offer "Selected Irrigation Topics". More information about these workshops including where/how to register can be found at www.dices.ca

It is important for any organization trusted with the stewardship of public money to get regular feedback from its constituents.

Denman Works continued Starting in November, we will begin the process of

reaching out to you, the Denman community, to get your feedback on the work to-date of Denman Works. We anticipate taking plenty of time to reach as many Denman residents as possible. Please watch the Flagstone, the Grapevine, and Facebook, for more information about this exciting opportunity.

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Finally some good news about exercise By Dr Ron Wilson

What you say. Haven't I been telling you all along that exercise (that is being physically active) is good for you? You are right. But here is the new twist. A study was just published in the esteemed journal, The Lancet. It looked at over 130,000 participants from 17 different countries and followed them from 2003 through 2010. What they found was not new, that is that being physically active was beneficial. In fact for those who did 150 min/week of moderate physical activity (breathing harder but able to carry on a conversation) resulted in 28% lower mortality and a 20% lower incidence of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, strokes and heart failure). What is new is that ALL TYPES of Activity produced the same benefit. That means that it doesn't matter whether you are out doing a brisk walk or inside vacuuming or gardening, that doing this amount of activity produced the same positive benefits.

It used to be that we got our physical activity from doing our daily chores. But with the advent of technology, we spend less and less of our time on these chores. So now we need to get our activity during our leisure time. However, if you are still a low tech kind of person and

active in the garden you don't need to go to the gym or hit the road to get your activity. I have been encouraging you to get a pedometer (yes we still have them at the clinic) and wear it throughout the day to get an idea of how much you actually do. You may well be surprised. For those wearing a pedometer a goal to aim for is 10,000 steps a day. However, the biggest gains are to be made by doing some activity rather than none. So if you are not a regularly active person, even by doing short bouts of 10 minutes at a time, you will gain some benefits (and they are many). At the other end of the spectrum, by going beyond 150 minutes you can gain greater benefits right up to a total of 750 min/week. After that you may as well take it easy. I would also add that doing a bit of strengthening activities twice a week would round out your program.

As you know, on Denman we are collectively trying to get to the moon! This of course is my way of trying to motivate people to be active. So just be sure to keep track of all you do and join in our quest to reach the moon. We are currently at 80,000 kms, so only 300,000 more to go.

The Next Steps by Slug Blume

A group of islanders have been meeting about what it would look like to host a series of community talks, workshops and movie screenings to explore indigenous and settler relations, histories and present-day realities.

we are working towards developing a (as yet un-named) Reconciliation Coalition here on this Island we call home in the Salish Coast. Our success will hinge on public interest to help create what directions this work will take in the unfolding months.

To start with we are excited to host a Talking Circle, gently facilitated to create space for this community to share some perspectives.

We are excited to bring you our ideas and had a space booked and a date set.After meeting yesterday we’ve decided to postpone our first public gathering so that we may further educate ourselves to ensure we do our best to create genuinely accessible, welcoming and constructive conversations about these sensitive topics.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for a future date later in October, or early November.

Hoping all enjoy the coming weeks as summer makes way for autumn, in the ever-cycling flow of the seasons

please connect with one of us maxine. mmatilpi@telus.net rriane@yahoo.com laura.busheikin@gmail.com ron. rawilson33@gmail.com slug: thebroomforest@gmail.com)

Haircuts By Riane $25 in your home Seniors' Discount

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Apple Fest + Farm Crawl Submitted by Kate Janeway for the GPA

The Growers and Producers Alliance invites you come celebrate the season with our Apple Fest +Farm Crawl on Saturday October 7th. This is a fun, family friendly event, with something for everyone. Events start at the Farmers Market at 9:30am, and run until 12:30pm at the Market. From 12:30-4:30 participate in our inaugural Farm Crawl by attending guided talks at three unique Denman Farms!

Guided talks and a Q&A with the farmers are offered at Orkney Farm, Tree Eater Nursery and the Permaculture Orchard at Ruby Slipper Ranch. Lone Pine Farm, Piercy Farm, Corlan Vineyard, the Denman Island General Store and East Cider Orchard are also highlighted on the Farm Crawl, and will be open that afternoon for self-guided tours or drop in events. Times of the guided talks, locations, and a map are provided upon purchase of a ticket ($5-$10 on a sliding scale) at the Famers Market on the morning of October 7th. Join us for an educational and entertaining afternoon Farm Crawl! Orkney Farm Built in 1897 by Tom Chalmers, Orkney Farm is one of just a few remaining heritage farms on the island. Over the years the farm has produced cream and turnips and had herds of sheep. Tommy Isbister and his wife Winnie, who ran the telephone exchange out of the house for many years, raised 10 children in the farmhouse, some of whom still come to visit the farm and its current caretakers Naomi and Ian Elliot, today. In 1971 the Elliots, Clarks and Boothroyds bought the current 75 acres from the Isbisters and renamed the farm Orkney Farm in honour of its heritage.

From early on Orkney Farm has raised beef cows and more recently also sold pork raised from weaner pigs. On the guided tours, Naomi will show visitors the heritage orchard of apple and pear trees with varieties such as Grimes Golden, King, Gravenstein and Bosc, the stunning hay barn which is probably more than a hundred years old and share a little of the farming techniques practised at Orkney Farm.

TreeEater Farm and Nursery Peter Janes has been experimenting with a rare form of grafting that uses native crabapple, Malus fusca, as an apple rootstock that can survive both severe drought and flooding. During the talk, Peter will discuss the pros and cons of this technique and approach. Beyond apples, TreeEater Farm is an exploration of all the stranger kinds of fruits that are possible to grow on the south coast. Some of the species that stand out, of the hundreds of trees being grown and propagated on the farm, are persimmons, mulberries, hardy kiwis, autumn olives, almonds and heartnuts. Come see the persimmon harvest at TreeEater!

The Permaculture Orchard at Ruby Slipper Ranch Dylan Gale will be discussing some of the design elements that he and his partner Emily Guinane have taken into consideration in designing their newly planted orchard. From the consideration of ecological aspects of light, wind, water and soil, to the more human aspects of aesthetics, efficiency and marketing, the tools of permaculture offer an inspiring framework for farm design. Their vision to have a holistically managed permaculture orchard as a part of their future livelihood and as a food resource for Denman Island will guide the discussion, in which Dylan will highlight management techniques such as herbal sprays, haphazard mulching and interplanting. These are just a few of the pillars of holistic orcharding that Emily and Dylan are experimenting with. The tour will include a look at newly bud-grafted apple trees, seedling chestnuts, an ecosystem-based vegetable garden, and a tiny house!

In 200 words or less By Bill Engleson www.engleson.ca

“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.” Henry Ward Beecher A spate of vandalism on the recent, cruelly maligned 150th Canada Day Weekend engendered a wide-ranging debate on the relative merits of anarchism. The conclusion seemed to be that anarchy, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

I’m good with that. I feel the same way about Canada. In my eye, Canada is one of the most civilized countries on earth. Oh, it has its warts, which, I’m happy to report, are not caused by frogs. You can see I am getting myself into trouble here. Some of you think I am being politically incorrect. No sirree, I am not. I am merely repeating what one with limited sensibility might call an old wives tale. And yes, there I go again, walking the dull razors edge of my limited wit. Canada’s not perfect. It has a horrendous history of racism, segregation, and cultural genocide. That’s why we are habitually apologetic. We have crossed the line innumerable times. Like the contrite whack-a-moles that we are, our interim politicians pop up with embarrassing regularity to apologize for our sins.

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Totally Modernized and Improvisational LogCabin with Barb Mortell

Strip Piecing Process with Anne Hall

Amish Block Party with Mavis Reynolds

Introduction to Weaving: Table for Two withIsabelle Fusey

Introduction to Calligraphy with Suzanne Cannon

Egg Basket Appalachian Style with CynthiaMinden

Classic Socks with Paddy O'Connell

Tinctorial Cartographies with Anna Heywood-Jones

Felted Slippers with Sussanna Czeranko

Felted Critters with Christine O'Neill

One Day Rug Hooking for Beginners with ValGalvin

Arts Denman is extensively supported under the Arts & Culture section of www.denmanisland.com in addition to their own site at www.artsdenman.org. Be sure to check them out for all the upcoming 2017/18 events!

Arts Denman News...

While Global Warming paradoxically might bring frost on the pumpkins, October is sure to heat up with dancing in the Hall & Creative Threads galore.

CONCERTS DENMAN @ the Denman Island Community Hall

CREATIVE THREADS CONSPIRACY 2017

Friday, Saturday & Sunday October 20th to 22nd – with classes starting from 9 a.m.

Classes/Workshops 9 a.m.- Noon + 1-4 p.m.daily.

Saturday Dinner at Guest House Bistro, 6 p.m.followed by Wearable Art Show - Sr.’s ActivityCtr.

More info. @ www.creativethreadsconspiracy.com

This year’s lineup includes…

Pet Portraits with Anne Mathers

Square Pegs, Round Holes with Ionne McCauley

Foundation Tree with Carol Piercy

This season’s second event is the The Spookeasy Halloween Dance… with the Palace Band & Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Saturday, October 28, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

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Conclusion Of Valerie Raoul's Story CARS I developed an unfortunate reputation for being late

for meetings because of car problems. Not only did I frequently underestimate Phyllis’s hunger for fuel, her battery was unreliable. The BCAA regularly came to my rescue. Several times I locked the keys in the car, and once I reversed without looking and sent Phyllis over a concrete barrier, making her a prisoner. It took four strong students to release her. The first Christmas presents I received in Vancouver included BCAA membership renewal, starter cables, a small metal box with a magnet containing a spare car-key, and a detailed map of the city. The last item was because I had resorted several times to the police for help to find Phyllis, who was parked on one of many tree-lined streets that all looked the same. We finally traded Phyllis in for a bright orange 1972 Volkswagen camper that took us on many adventures (car #5). Since the license plate began with PET this van became known as “Pet”. Like Phyllis, she definitely had a life and will of her own. “Pète” in French means “fart” or “backfire” or “blow-up” - but English prevailed, and Pet soon became as much part of the family as our matching orange and white spaniel. We mourned for her when she finally had to be scrapped. Where do all the dead cars go? I don’t believe in an afterlife for humans, but I am haunted by the ghosts of vehicles past. Our new car (#6) already has a name: Coccinelle (Ladybug) , because of her black and red colours. I feel a real affinity with her, as she obligingly tells me where she is, unlocks the doors all by herself, instructs me on where to go and how to get there, and even reminds me where the charging stations are if her range gets low. She is a KIA “Soul” (SOUL). I dare to hope that this soul-mate will be our final car – may she have everlasting life! PS: Anyone who would like a test drive can get in touch

with Yvon. And no, we are not being paid by KIA!

Hero Worship By Stewart Goodings

We entered the bedroom of the simple casa particular in Santa Clara, Cuba. A wooden cupboard, a sagging double bed, two small side tables and flowered curtains that barely cushioned the sun's rays.

“Comrade Che slept here, you know.” intoned our host in strongly accented English.

“Really” we replied, keeping our smiles to ourselves. We'd already been told by another host that Che had slept in his guest bedroom. Rather than imagining that Ernesto 'Che' Guevera slept around a lot, we preferred to believe that Cubans were so proud of their revolutionary hero that they wanted to appropriate his memory wherever possible.

Santa Clara is the sleepy little town in the centre of Cuba where Che and a handful of revolutionary colleagues ambushed a train filled with Batista's soldiers. They won a decisive battle that was the beginning of the end for the long-time Cuban dictator. Che of course became a hero not only to Cubans but to the marginalized and dispossessed all over Latin America, and the world. Having slept in the same room he once graced, I felt a strange affinity to this charismatic figure.

There is a massive statue of Che in a huge square on the outskirts of Santa Clara, and as I got my picture taken near one of the soldiers guarding the statue, I started to think about how different societies celebrate and remember their revolutionaries...this, of course, is worthy of a Ph.D thesis but in this short piece, let me share a some thoughts about the way we commemorate a few who have brought cataclysmic changes to their societies.

Let's start with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Intellectual founder of the Soviet revolution, Head of the new Soviet Government from 1917 to his death in 1924, revered patriot, and icon of Russian history. Lenin has his own tomb, right in Red Square. His body was embalmed right after his death, and he has been a must see item on tourist visits to Moscow ever since. A few years ago, I was there in Moscow, pacing across the cobblestones of Red Square, and I waited in a very long line, mostly of Russians with smattering of Westerners, for a 30 second tour of his body, which was enclosed in a glass container in an underground chamber not more than 100 metres from the walls of the Kremlin. Armed soldiers stood at each corner of the chamber, and we were hurried along. No photographs of course. And no talking either. Viewing Comrade Lenin was serious business. In 1924, the best Soviet scientists had been called into action, and even today, 90 years after his death, he looks not bad.

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In the aftermath of the break-up of the Soviet Union, there was widespread destruction of monuments to some of the old Soviet heroes, but Lenin was often left alone. And especially in smaller towns and cities across the vast stretches of Russia, statues of Lenin can still be found presiding over innumerable squares and parks. Mao Tse-Tung is another revolutionary hero who has retained the respect, if not the full affection of his descendants. In1949, Mao led the Communists to victory, and united China as it had not been united in hundreds of years. As with so many dictators, his 27 year reign was brutal, uncompromising and pretty effective. Let's not forget that the economic and political colossus that is China today was an impoverished and divided state in the same year that Newfoundland joined Canada's Confederation.

Mao's Mausoleum is in Tiananmen Square, and his body is another embalmed masterpiece, based on the Russian technique, and his remains are daily on display for the admiration and curiosity of the Chinese people, and their tourist visitors. Mao had wanted to be cremated, but his successors knew that his body would be more valuable as an enduring symbol of the Communist Party.

I remember going there and watching the lines of Chinese people waiting patiently from very early in the day to enter Mao's building. His little Red Book, “Quotations from Chairman Mao” was a must-have in the 60s, and it remains a best seller in China, and required reading in the schools. His iconic face is everywhere including over the main gate of the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square.

Conveniently, his disastrous Cultural Revolution is forgotten in China, recalled mainly in novels by Westerners, such as Madeleine Thien in her “Do Not Say We Have Nothing.” Similarly, the brutal events of 1989 in the square where his mausoleum is located have also been conveniently swept under the Communist Party rug.

This is characteristic of many historical figures. Their edges are smoothed out. Their real history is highly nuanced, but what lasts over the years tends often to be a more simplified story.

So I've given you three revolutionary heroes of the past century: Che Guevera, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and Mao Tse-Tung.

Now I want to share someone who is my personal revolutionary hero, Lester B. Pearson, our former Prime Minister.

What, I can hear you say, “Mike Pearson, a revolutionary?” Not possible, he's Canadian for one thing, he spoke with a perceptible lisp, and he wore bow ties. And

where's his mausoleum? Pearson is buried in the MacLaren Cemetery in

Wakefield, a small village just north of Ottawa, in the Gatineau Hills. His stone memorial is in plain lettering, black and grey and about 3 feet tall, not unlike the other grave markers in this simple country cemetery. His grave is on a small rise, looking towards the nearby hills and lakes. Anyone can walk to this plot of ground which serves as his final resting place. No mausoleum, no armed soldiers to guard it, no embalmed body.

But look around you, and you will see the impact of this remarkable revolutionary. The flag of Canada. Universal health care. The Canada Pension Plan. A tradition of peace-keeping for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize. A bilingual and multicultural society, which emerged from the Royal Commission he created. And a society firmly based on gender equality, which blossomed from another royal commission he set up on the Status of Women.

All this he accomplished in a mere five years, all the while leading a minority government.

Schools have been named after him. There is Pearson International Airport in Toronto. The Lester B Pearson College in Sooke, part of the United World Colleges. The Pearson Peace-Keeping Centre in New Brunswick.

But perhaps the tribute that would have pleased him the most is that the students of Carleton University named their pub “Mike's Place”.

Full disclosure here. In my youth, I met Mr. Pearson a few times. His Government had also created the Company of Young Canadians, an agency to combine community development with the youth activism of the Sixties. I worked for the CYC for four years, and actually wrote the speech which Pearson used in the House of Commons when he introduced legislation that created the CYC. Back then, I was a semi radical guy, not the buttoned-down bureaucrat I later became. But whether I had met Pearson or not, I would still be an admirer.

Leonard Cohen starts off one of his poems “There are some men, who should have mountains to bear their names to time.” Pearson is such a man. I've walked past the embalmed bodies of Lenin and Mao. I've had my picture taken in front of Che's statue. But nothing compares to standing quietly in front of the grave of a former Prime Minister, Mike Pearson, and remembering a decent, and oh so Canadian revolutionary hero.

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Agriculture Matters By Max Rogers

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Agriculture Matters By Max Rogers

Drought Conditions May Continue

Well, that was a long, hot summer and September has been dry right up to the fifteenth when I am writing this. I was talking to Larry Berg and complained 2017 was supposed to be a La Nina year and wet. Larry said, “Maybe this is the new wet.” I found that comment a bit sobering.

My pastures are bleached golden and have been for some time but my flower garden did well with minimal watering from the bathwater from our deck tub. One of the reasons for that is that I have several varieties of tough old cottage plants and some that are one short step away from being wildflowers.

I have been spending more time enjoying my flower garden. We sit out on the deck first thing in the morning and drink our coffee and watch the birds and the flowers. We serve black-oil sunflowers and have a large number of red-breasted nuthatches. We counted seven at one time in September plus many other song birds. Sitting and watching the garden really showed me which flowers the pollinators like best and one of them was the sprawling and untidy pink mallow.

Pink mallows are perennials. Some people say they are short-lived but mine must be eight years old if they are a day and still going strong. They like full sun and get by on the least bit of water. They provide masses of cut blooms for the table and fill the garden with colour. Mallows come from a big family which includes hollyhocks and hibiscus.

Mallow sylvestrus has a smaller purple bloom with pretty veins of darker purple. Sylvestrus means of the forest or wild. It is a very tough plant as is the pink mallow. I love hollyhocks but they are a bit prone to rust, especially in a wet summer. By planting some of these hardy shrubs you can cater to the pollinators, fill your garden and house with pretty blooms and save on water. Another tough character I love to have in my flower garden is any sort of Michaelmas daisy. They are also perennials and come in varieties from 12 inches tall to the five footers I have in my border. They come in white, blue, deep purple or pink with golden centres. They usually bloom from August to October and provide a lot of fall colour for very little effort. Mine didn’t start blooming until September this year because it was so darn dry. My garden becomes mad with insects of a bewildering variety all feasting on the Michaelmas daisies in September. The plants like full sun and will do well in a clay or a sandy soil where other plants would have a

difficult time. If you pinch back the tall varieties at Midsummer, they will be bushier and not need staking. Michaelmas daisies are easy to propagate by seed, by cuttings and by root division. All these techniques work best in the spring. Anyone who would like some root divisions of my plants should call me and I will be happy to share my plants with you. Brown-eyed Susans, purple cone flowers and yarrow are all wild flowers and tough as old boots. The purple cone flowers do like more water than the others but they have such long-lasting and showy flowers that I feel they are worth it. Yarrows come in a variety of colours including gold and cherry red and the flowers cut and dried make a wonderful tea for chasing away a cold.

A flower garden would be kind of naked without sweet peas and mine did well despite the great heat. That is because they are all old-fashioned varieties. Most of them came from West Coast Seeds Old Spice mix which I bought years ago and have been growing on for seed since. A garden might be able to have too many sweet peas but I have never seen such a thing. Now, on to the vegetable garden. We took part in David Scruton’s potato challenge last spring. David wanted to do this as a community-building exercise so the Garden Club agreed and bought organic seed potatoes from Across the Creek Nursery in Pemberton for $4 a pound delivered to Courtenay. I planted 2 lbs of Russian Blue potatoes and was surprise to get 26 pounds back. I grew them in a bed of sandy loam without a great deal of care. The only problem is the Russian Blues are very prone to scab and I am not crazy about the insipid flavor.

In the bed next to them, I planted Ama Rosa Fingerling potatoes and they had no scab at all. They are a very pretty pink colour inside and I won a First Prize with them at the Blackberry Fair. The five-dollar first prize went a long way to paying for the seed potatoes as they were $7 a pound! I am also not crazy about their texture as they fall apart when cooked and they are not as tasty as the Red Chieftain potatoes or the unknown variety of yellow-fleshed potato we also grew. The bed of potatoes that did best for us as far as pounds of potatoes produced was a mixed bed of Chieftains and yellow potatoes that we grew in sandy loam with a thick cover of dry maple leaves as a mulch. They didn’t need to be watered as often and the leaves kept all the potatoes from getting sun damage. The only problem was we had a bit of vole damage in all the potato beds but it was worst in the leaf-mulched bed. Vole damage isn’t too serious as long as you have some hens to boil the damaged potatoes up for. Pigs will also eat cooked potatoes.

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The Denman Store

(your community store for over 100 years)

Thanksgiving (Monday Oct 9 hours) Store Open: Noon - 4 pm Post Office Closed

The Halloween tradition continues. We will be having pumpkins on the porch this year. Please bring your pumpkins down to the store and we will display them. We will be handing out treats on the porch from 5 pm to 6:30 pm.

Mike Lindsay Denman Art Wall Artist of the Month: Maureen Drew

Delightful staff that are a treat to deal

with. Ghoulish boss who thinks that you

mend a broken jack-o'-lantern with a

pumpkin patch.

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The Garden Club will meet for an evening of Garden Talk. Come prepared to talk about what worked, what didn't and what you want to achieve next year. We will be meeting at 7 PM at the United Church Hall on October 18.

Come for snacks and coffee and the best gardening experts on Denman. We have a garden-centric raffle, 3 tickets for $5. Bring samples of plants that puzzle you or pests you cannot identify.

$3 for a drop in or only $10 to join for the year. We have an exciting year of field trips, gardening lectures and garden parties so come join the nicest group on Denman Island. This is your club so if you want us to organize a gardening course or workshop, we will do our best to make it happen.

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Denman Forests – 20 Years On Part Two – The Outcome by John Millen Last month This Place told how in 1997 a third of Denman Island was purchased by 4064 Investments Ltd. run by a gyppo logger, Mike Jenks, who immediately started clearcutting. At a meeting in Victoria the Premier Glen Clark had encouraged the protesting residents of Denman to pursue the establishment of a Community Forest as an alternative to seeing all that land clearcut. The Denman Community Forest Cooperative was incorporated as an early step in seeking a community forest. But that was not the only centre of resistance to 4064’s plans. The Local Trust Committee adopted bylaws requiring logging practices to conform to the principles of ecoforestry. Denman Conservancy Association (DCA) started to negotiate with Mike Jenks the terms of Conservation Covenants which his purchase contract required him to place on the Komas Bluff and Railway Grade Marsh.

DCA also launched their Legacy Project with the aim of purchasing (or otherwise protecting) nine of the most ecologically valuable properties in the 4064 ownership. First priority was the Chickadee Lake parcel which consisted of the eastern half of the lake and adjacent old forests.

Despite these and other attempts to hinder him Jenks’ logging continued unabated into the first years of this century. Herb Hammond’s work on an ecoforestry Plan for the island was disrupted in midstream by 4064’s purchase of the land. Recognizing that the opportunity for practicing ecoforestry was slipping away Herb advised that Community purchase of the land would still be desirable even if the land had been logged, as it would rapidly regenerate the forest. By heroic fundraising efforts including gaining the pledged support of major funding agencies DCA was able to offer Jenks the appraised value of the Chickadee Lake parcel. However the offer was refused.

Some of 4064’s land had already been logged by Weldwood in the previous 20 years and these blocks were available for purchase as well as the blocks where 4064’s logging was completed. Parcels that were purchased privately included the land that was donated to form the Morrison Marsh Nature Reserve, the block on which Coho Housing is situated and a large part of the late Ella Day’s estate, notoriously negotiated and signed with Mike Jenks over the hood of his pickup truck. Later (in 2005) DCA purchased the Central Park block. The Local Trust Committee’s bylaws intended to restrict logging were challenged in court by 4064 and in 2001, despite vigorous defense and appeals by Islands Trust, they were declared invalid. Islands Trust does not have the mandate to

regulate forestry activities. Ignoring the requirements in his purchase contract to

put a conservation covenant on the Railway Grade Marsh, Jenks proceeded to log that area. DCA asked the vendor John Hancock to enforce their contract but instead that power was delegated to DCA who did commence legal action against 4064. The immediate effect of DCA’s suit was to put legal constraints on the sale of many blocks of 4064 land, all those that were adjacent to the Komas Bluff and the Railway Grade Marsh.

By the end of 2004 Mike Jenks had extracted most of the value of his share of 4064 Investments. The land holdings of 4064 were by then essentially owned by his partner. In December Hans deVisser came to Denman Island representing the silent partner of 4064 and seeking how the value of the remaining logged land could be realized. Unanimously the community told him that 4064 would have to settle the case with DCA before they could make any progress. The settlement with DCA took until the end of 2006 to complete. It included placing Conservation Covenants on the Railway Grade Marsh and the Komas Bluff and, in compensation for the trees removed from the Marsh, the transfer to DCA of the 157 acre property now known as The Settlement Lands. At that time the 4064 lands were sold to a land development company led by Henning Nielsen.

The Community Forest Coop was wound up and some of its residual funds were donated to support the purchase of Wildwood, the ecoforestry property of ancient Merv Wilkinson. Merv had come to Denman Island twice offering support and council in the tense days of struggle.

The development company, new owners of extensive lands on Denman Island, eventually arranged a land and residential density swap with the Provincial Parks Department. The rezoning for the swap had to be approved by the Local Trust Committee, thereby requiring support from the whole community. Finally in 2010 the Denman Provincial Park was established as well as an extension to Boyle Point Park.

So it is all settled now? Not quite: there are three parcels of crown land with conservation status (and no residential density) that have no agency responsible for their management and there is still the need for a Management Plan for the Provincial Park.

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Community Events Listings Sponsored by Union Bay Credit Union

Monday October 2 at 2 pm in the Activity Centre Lounge, Denman Island's Knitting Circle. (page 3)

Tuesday Oct 3 @ 9:30 am in the Activity Centre Denman Island Local Trust Committee meeting

Friday October 6 at the Guest House, art opening for Katrina Meglic with Snake River Cathouse band playing music.

Saturday October 7th from 9:30 am starting at the Farmers' Market, Apple Festival and Farm Crawl (page 11)

Thanksgiving (Monday Oct 9 Denman Store hours) Store Open: Noon - 4 pm Post Office Closed

Tuesday, October 17th at 7pm in the Lounge of the Denman Activity Centre, Denman Works Annual General Meeting (page 9)

Wednesday Oct 18th @ 7 pm in the United Church Hall , Garden Club meeting (page 18)

Thursday Oct 19th Shake Out BC (page 6)

Friday Oct 20th to Sunday October 22nd 9 am to 4 pm in the Community Hall, Creative Threads Conspiracy (page 3)

Saturday Oct 21st from 2 - 4 pm in the Courtenay Library , Reading by Denman Writer Bill Engleson, (page 6)

Saturday Oct 21@ 10 - noon in the Old School , Islands Trustee office hours

Monday October 23 @ 7pm at the Guest House, Joel Fafard playing music $15 advance tickets.

Friday Oct 27 @ 6:30 in the Community Hall, Water & Wings Concert (page 1)

Saturday Oct 28th in the

Community Hall, Spookeasy

Dance (page 5)

November Flagstone Deadline

Friday October 20th

denmanflagstone@gmail.com