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Ladysmith man charged with manslaughterStaff WriterTHE CHRONICLE

Fifty-year-old Trevor George Meers of Ladysmith has been charged and is in custody following the death of a 55-year-old woman in Ladysmith on Tues-day, Feb. 3.

The woman, who is not being identified at this time while investigators work to complete next-of-kin no-tification, died following an altercation at Campers Corner RV Park on the Trans-Canada Highway at the

south end of Ladysmith.Police officers and BC Ambulance Service para-

medics had received a 9-1-1 call just before midnight on Feb. 3 reporting a physical altercation between a group of people at the residence. “Despite the efforts of first responders, the woman died at the scene,” the RCMP stated at the time. “In-vestigators are treating her death as an apparent ho-micide.”

Meers has now been charged with one count of manslaughter in relation to the woman’s death, the

RCMP reported in a press release sent out Feb. 5.Meers has been remanded into custody pending his

next court appearance, which is set for Tuesday, Feb. 10 via video conference. “As this matter is now before the courts, no fur-ther details will be released,” Island District RCMP spokesman Cpl. Darren Lagan stated in the press re-lease.

On Feb. 4, police stated in a press release that Meers was known to the deceased woman, and there was no evidence to suggest there is any risk to the public.

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Community recognizes LSS volleyball teamLadysmith’s senior girls’ volleyball team is a Nanaimo Sport Achievement Awards finalist for Sports Story of the Year

Town will move forward with fenced dog park discussion

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Lindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

There is a desire for a fenced-in dog park in Ladysmith, and the community is willing to help find a location.

That was the message Ladysmith resident Robin Maxted brought to council Feb. 2. He also presented a petition signed by 562 people that urges council to try to come up with a long-term solution for a fenced-in, off-leash dog park in Ladysmith.“I’m certainly willing to help, and there’s quite a few

of us, if there’s anything we can do to help you guys, in terms of a committee or just looking at different op-tions,” he said. “There’s a real need in the town that I think this [petition] demonstrates, and there’s a lot of support for making this happen.”When he addressed council, Maxted shared an article

from Campbell River from last year that shows that the city’s fenced-in off-leash dog park has been such a success that it’s overcrowded and they’re looking at setting up a second park.

Maxted also told council that the fenced dog park in Cumberland is “extremely popular,” and Chemainus has now designated a back ball diamond for this winter as a temporary dog park. “When I moved here two years ago, I was really sur-prised at just how many people have dogs in this com-munity when I walk around,” he said. “A fenced-in en-

vironment is a great meeting place for the community. It’s positive for socializing dogs, and it reduces dog ag-gression.”

Coun. Duck Paterson asked Maxted if he thought dog owners would pay a little more for their dog tags to help cover the cost of fencing in a park, and Maxted thought that was a good idea.“I think so,” he said.Coun. Rob Hutchins noted that the community has

expressed a desire for a fenced-in dog park numerous times in the past.

Hutchins explained that there was an effort to have a fenced-in park at Kin Park in the past, but there was a fair bit of opposition. Then, about two and a half years ago, the issue of a fenced dog park came up again, and council put $14,000 into the budget and directed the Parks and Recreation Commission to look at options, he noted.

There was an idea to put a fenced-in dog park on the west side of Captain Tristan DeKoninck Way, but there was significant pushback from people who did not want to see that area fenced, he explained.“So it’s not that we haven’t tried; it’s finding a location that meets the needs of everybody,” he said.

Maxted told council that this petition started with a community Facebook discussion during the municipal election campaigns in the fall, and through that discus-sion, people have shown the most support for three

sites — at Transfer Beach, Brown Drive Park or the ball diamonds at Dogwood Drive if the ball diamonds get moved up to the Forrest Field area, which is part of the Town’s long-term plan.

He assured council that at other off-leash parks, dog owners keep the parks clean.“The spaces in Cumberland and Campbell River are really great, but even in Chemainus, since they des-ignated it a temporary off-leash park, there’s lots of people there, and people really take ownership of it; they pick up after their dogs,” he said. “And if some-one sees someone not picking up, they’ll probably give them a piece of their mind right away. The big concern is there’s going to be dog waste and everyone seems to worry about that, but there really isn’t a lot.”

Hutchins wondered whether it would be suitable to invite Maxted and the fenced dog park champions who approached council before him to be part of a discus-sion with the Parks and Recreation Commission about fenced off-leash dog parks and possible locations

Councillors agreed, and council voted to refer the matter of a fenced dog park to the Parks and Recre-ation Commission, with a request to invite citizens such as Maxted and those who approached council be-fore him about dog parks to have a converation about the issue.“This has been of great interest to our community for quite some time,” said Hutchins.

Niomi PearsonFOR THE CHRONICLE

Their season may be over, but the Ladysmith Secondary School 49ers senior girls’ vol-leyball team has served up one more victory following its sec-ond-place win at provincials in late November.

The team is a finalist in the Nanaimo Sport Achievement Awards for Sports Story of the Year and will be honoured dur-ing the organization’s 10th an-nual awards gala Friday, Feb. 13.“It’s pretty cool for the girls to not only finish second at pro-vincials but also be seen from a community perspective as well,” said coach Stephen Epp.

“Within the Nanaimo-Ladysmith region there’s been a lot of suc-cesses — to be recognized as one of the top stories of the year puts them on that scale.”Also in the running for the

2014 Sports Story of the Year title is the B.C. Summer Games, held in Nanaimo from July 17-20, and the World’s Longest Street Hockey Game, achieved by Youth Sticking Together in mid-August.

The 49ers’ road to provincials began with a fourth-place fin-ish at the Camosun Chargers Sr. Girls’ Volleyball Tournament in October. In addition to be-ing the top Nanaimo-Ladysmith district team at the tournament, Ladysmith’s Kelsey Hutt was chosen as an All-Star.

By mid-November, the team had volleyed into third place in the province, and after win-ning both the North Island and Island titles, the 49ers advanced to the B.C. championships at Brentwood College seeded in

fourth place.Epp credited talent and team-

work as the keys to the team’s success.“It was an interesting season because seven of them were Ce-dar students last year,” he said.According to Epp, the 49ers

had a lot of injuries during the season, but the biggest chal-lenge for a lot of them was the transition from Cedar Commu-nity Secondary School after its closure.“As Grade 12s, that can be pret-ty difficult,” he said. “But the school did a really good job of welcoming them in and rallying around their push for provin-

cials.”Becoming a finalist in the

Nanaimo Sport Achievement Awards has given the girls a well-deserved pat on the back as they approach what will be the final weeks of high school for some members of the team.“It’s a good opportunity to re-flect back on the competition that they had,” said Epp.Award finalists include:Male Team Athlete of the

Year — Victor Blasco, soccer; Cody Chartrand, baseball; Mar-shall Cook, football.

Female Team Athlete of the Year — Bronte Fitzsimmons, soccer; Leanna Gildersleeve,

volleyball; Kesa Van Osch, curl-ing.

Male Individual Athlete of the Year — Matt Haddad, golf; Braxton Clark, judo; Hunter Mc-Gill, BMX.

Female Individual Athlete of the Year — Erin Burrett, cross-country running; Marian Stewart, bathtub racing; Carey Mark, cycling.

Male Junior Team Athlete of the Year — Zach Diewert, baseball; Johnnie Grais, la-crosse; Cole Virtanen, football.

Female Junior Team Ath-lete of the Year — Kelsey Hutt, volleyball; Shaelynn Ross, la-crosse; Kalia Van Osch, curling.

Male Junior Individual Ath-lete of the Year — Reid Della-Rosa, swimming; Peter Morch, swimming; Sebastian Sulyok, motocross.

Female Junior Individual Athlete of the Year — Shirin Anjarwalla, golf; Madison Heis-terman, track; Faye Tuck, wres-tling.Masters Athlete of the Year

— Derek Steel, cycling; James Scantland, swimming; Eilene Mitton and Zorka Smith, curling.

Partners of the Year — Sar-ah Kedves and Lucas Pallard, figure skating; Graydon Robb and Pat Thompson, badminton; Martin Barakso and Tim Schri-jver, rowing.

Team of the Year — Mid Isle Highlanders U21 men’s soccer; VIU Mariners women’s soccer; VIU Mariners women’s volley-ball.Junior Team of the Year —

Dover Bay LazerHawks cross-country running; Barsby Bull-dogs AA varsity football; Upper Island Storm U18 girls’ soccer.

High Performance Coach of the Year — Bill McWhinnie, basketball; Anup Kang, soccer; Robert Biernacki, jiu-jitsu.Grassroots Coach of the

Year — Bob Saunders, athlet-ics; Rob Stevenson, football; Megan Conway, gymnastics.

Sport Administrator of the Year — Norm Thibault, cyclo-cross; Joyce Mark, canoe/kay-ak; Shawn Swanson, lacrosse.Official of the Year — Terry

Ryan, swimming; Jacob Burnley, soccer; Bill Mercer, BMX.

Sports Story of the Year — Ladysmith 49ers senior girls’ volleyball; B.C. Summer Games; World’s Longest Street Hockey Game.

The Ladysmith Secondary School 49ers senior girls’ volleyball team, seen here after winning the silver medal at the provincial championship, is a � nalist for Sports Story of the Year at the Nanaimo Sport Achievement Awards. The awards will be presented Friday, Feb. 13 PHOTO SUBMITTED

Lindsay Chungthe chronicle

Later this month, Na-naimo-Cowichan MP Jean Crowder’s private member’s bill regard-ing derelict vessels will be debated in the House of Commons.

Crowder has been pushing for legisla-tion that would offer a permanent solution to the question of who is responsible for tak-ing care of abandoned vessels and docks, and she’ll take one step closer to reaching that

solution when the bill is debated Feb. 26 in Ottawa.

Looking for support for the bill, Sheila Malcolmson, the Na-naimo-Ladysmith fed-eral NDP candidate, addressed Ladysmith council Feb. 2.

Bill C-368 will desig-nate the Coast Guard as a receiver of wrecks and require them to take reasonable steps to contact the owner and will also make regulations on the removal, disposition or destruction of der-elict vessels, accord-ing to Malcolmson. It is intended to give the Coast Guard the regu-latory power to take action before a der-elict vessel becomes a hazard.

On her website, Crowder explains that “the current regu-latory regime is not serving our commu-nities, and this has been reflected in the complaints lodged with the constituency office of the Mem-ber of Parliament for Nanaimo-Cowichan. These communities depend on tourism, which is threatened by the growing num-ber of derelict and abandoned vessels present in the water or beached in the inter-tidal zone. While major environmental dangers from derelict and aban-doned vessels are dealt with swiftly by the Ca-nadian Coast Guard, many are left to sim-ply rot away and leach chemicals into the sur-rounding environment. If an abandoned and derelict vessel is not a major environmental concern and is not pos-ing an obstacle to navi-

gation, there is usually no action taken.”

She says the private member’s bill aims to obligate the govern-ment to act when der-elict vessels are aban-doned; strengthen the requirements relating to derelict vessels and wrecks by ensuring regulations are made to establish measures to be taken for their removal, disposition or destruction; and designate the Cana-dian Coast Guard as a receiver of wreck and require receivers of wreck to take reason-able steps to determine and locate the wreck’s owners.

Malcolmson was the chair of the Islands Trust Council for 12 years and worked with council to try to ad-dress this issue.“We have worked to-

gether, and Ladysmith council has been a par-ticular leader on this issue of no-man’s-land jurisdiction around

derelict vessels,” she said.

Malcolmson told council that aban-doned boats and docks are a problem all up and down B.C.’s coast.“We’ve got an increas-

ing number of fish-ing boats abandoned; we’ve got an increasing number of fiberglass vessels reaching their life’s end; we’ve got increasing intensity of storms that’s creating more boats washing up,” she said. “And it has become clear that the federal jurisdiction around this was de-signed more for a time of piracy where the laws are very protec-tive of people’s boats and no one can kind of just move in and take one over.”

Malcolmson feels optimistic that the up-coming debate means this is a good opportu-nity to urge that there be support for a per-manent solution.“To me, the fact there

is going to be debate in the House of Com-mons does mean some extra urgency and gives the issue still more of a highlight,” she said.After hearing from

Malcolmson, coun-cil voted to write a strongly-worded let-ter to Crowder and to Minister of Transport Lisa Raitt conveying support for Bill C-638 to resolve the environ-mental, economic and navigational hazards posed by derelict ves-sels. “I want to thank you

for your advocacy on this and bringing this not only to our table but the other munici-palities,” said Coun. Rob Hutchins. “I’m re-ally hopeful that this bill will see the light of day and be supported by the government and actually make a differ-ence in our communi-ties.”

Crowder introduced Bill C-368 in the House of Commons Dec. 1. She had previously introduced a private member’s bill to deal with derelict vessels in June 2011, but it stalled at first reading, so she re-introduced the bill late last year.


Derelict vessel bill will be debated in Ottawa

Ladysmith council is supporting a private member’s bill by MP Jean Crowder to address the issue of derelict vessels such as this one in the Ladysmith Harbour. The bill will be debated in the House of Commons Feb. 26. Linda Brown

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Following seven years of research, plan-ning and dedicated community engage-ment around the issues of homelessness and affordable housing, a new organization has grown out of the work of the Regional Afford-able Housing Director-ate (RAHD), a commit-tee of Social Planning Cowichan. The new-ly-named Cowichan Housing Association is guided by the commu-nity-directed vision of being a “co-ordinating body for affordable housing resources and services in the Cowichan Region, with a primary focus on the prevention of home-lessness,” according to a press release from Social Planning Cowichan.“This marks a new

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said in the release. “Through the contribu-tions of many individu-als and agencies over the past seven years, we have gained a great-er understanding of the issues and we have developed a number of programs to serve members of our com-munity who are facing a variety of housing-related challenges. In establishing the new society, we are moving closer toward the goal of developing more af-fordable housing units in the region.”

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lished as a commit-tee of Social Planning in 2007. In its early years, RAHD devel-oped several bench-mark reports, such as Inadequate Shelter in the Cowichan and a Regional Housing Strategy. Recently, RAHD has expanded operations into such programs as Ready to Rent, a small rental as-sistance fund, hosting workshops on tenants’ rights, Homeless Ac-tion Week — Day of Services, and produc-ing a Street Survival Guide for people fac-ing homelessness.“Through the work

that is already happen-ing in the community, and the complimentary programs we offer, the regional safety net for homelessness preven-tion has been growing stronger,” said Region-al Affordable Hous-ing co-ordinator Joy Emmanuel. “However, there is still a great deal of work to do.”

Social Planning Cowichan states that the Cowichan Housing Association will contin-ue to build on the work that has already taken place and will work to

identify new ways to provide and assist with obtaining more afford-able housing in the re-gion. Activities led by the RAHD will become part of the new hous-ing society, and RAHD will continue to be an open table where in-terested stakeholders can stay informed and provide feedback on CHA’s activities.

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Premier Christy Clark’s push to “re-engineer” the B.C.

education system is mov-ing ahead aggressively in B.C.’s 25 post-secondary institutions.

One of the first tasks for Andrew Wilkinson in his new role as advanced education minister was to outline the shift in operat-ing grants for colleges and universities to in-demand occupations. By 2017, a quarter of the money for post-secondary institutions will be directed to areas where labour force surveys forecast a need.

This was greeted with some alarm when it was announced last year. Simon Fraser University presi-dent Andrew Petter at first downplayed the coming skills shortage as “relatively small” and warned against pushing post-secondary in-stitutions into a “zero sum battle for dollars.”

Petter has since come on board, as his approving comments were featured in the ministry’s Jan. 26 news release detailing the shift. He and others have

been assured that in spite of Clark’s rhetoric, suggest-ing trades training is in and university is out, the news for SFU and other universi-ties isn’t all that bleak.

Wilkinson is completing a province-wide tour of all post-secondary institutions this week, and I reached him at his visit to Thomp-son Rivers University in Kamloops.

“The response to this has generally been pretty good, because the students are putting this pressure on institutions themselves,” he said. “Some of the in-stitutions are … shrinking things like teacher educa-tion and putting more ef-fort into the science-based, quantitative fields that are often related to these in-demand occupations.”

The surplus of teacher graduates has been notice-able for some time, but that’s largely a function of oversupply, much of it in urban areas. In the Cariboo, for example, teaching jobs are projected to have the highest number of openings by 2022, followed by nurs-ing and retail and whole-sale trade managers. Then come heavy duty mechan-ics and electricians, but

also paraprofessional jobs in legal, social, community and educational services.

Province-wide, it’s part of a broader demographic shift to fewer children and more retirees. In fact the government started this targeted funding a decade ago with health care, forc-ing universities to produce more doctors, nurses, lab techs and so forth.

The retiring baby boom is expected to account for more than half of the open-ings in the next decade, which will expand the skills demand across most fields, beyond the trades training for the anticipated lique-fied natural gas industry and other high-demand in-dustrial areas such as truck driving.

Wilkinson notes that of the ministry’s $1.9 billion budget, about 60 per cent goes into general post-secondary education, for introductory courses that students take when they are seeking a career path, through undergraduate studies to professions.

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Key to this shift is mea-suring the performance of courses offered at colleges, universities and techni-cal schools. Each year, the ministry surveys about 30,000 graduates to find out whether their studies helped them find a related job.

The results are available on a website that breaks them out by institution and general study area. To find it, do a web search for “BC student outcomes” and select the “executive dash-board” to check the results for courses and schools in your region.

The site provides charts showing the percentage of students who land relevant jobs. Not surprisingly, it tends to be higher for tech-nical programs and lower for fine arts.

It also shows grads’ aver-age wages, a sobering but useful bit of information for high school students and their parents.

Tom Fletcher is legis-lature reporter and col-umnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc E-mail: [email protected].

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“The purpose of the campaign is to celebrate the amaz-ing work that is already being done to create more hu-mane communities throughout B.C. and to encourage animal lovers in the province to help save even more animal lives,” says Lorie Chortyk, general manager of community relations for the BC SPCA.

Each week throughout 2015, the millionacts.ca website will feature a new act of kindness for animals — partici-pants can choose to do one act or challenge themselves to do more.

“Every act makes an incredible difference for the animals,” says Chortyk. “Our goal is to inspire as many ‘kindness ambassadors’ as possible to help us reach one million acts.”

Chortyk notes that the weekly challenges will be some-thing that everyone can easily do, regardless of age or whether or not they currently have a pet. Examples of the acts of kindness range from switching to cage-free eggs or sharing a shelter animal’s profile with friends to emailing local MLAs to encourage their support for ani-mal issues. The acts will be tallied and updated monthly on the millionacts.ca website and will include acts of kindness for abused, injured, neglected and homeless animals carried out by the BC SPCA.

“The BC SPCA was created in 1895 by a small group of caring individuals who had the courage to take a stand against animal cruelty and abuse,” says Chortyk. “What better way to celebrate the vision of our founders than to carry on their legacy of compassion with this cam-paign?”

Sign up now at millionacts.ca and share the link with your family and friends. If one kind act can change the life of an animal forever, imagine what a million acts will do! — Submitted by BC SPCA

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A teacher and businessman from Chemainus has put his name in the run-ning for the federal Conservative nomi-nation in the new Cowichan-Malahat-Langford riding.

Jeremy Smyth of Chemainus an-nounced his inten-tions to run for the Conservative nomina-tion on Jan. 30. The Conservatives have not yet announced their official candi-date, and Smyth ex-pects we may have a better idea when the nomination race starts and who is in when the Conserva-tives hold their AGM Saturday, Feb. 21 from 3-4 p.m. at the Mill Bay Community Hall. “I have a vested in-terest in the future of this beautiful part of Vancouver Island and believe strongly that voters here deserve to be represented by a Government Member of Parliament,” Smyth said in a press release.

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February 1955

All children in this school district who were born in 1949 will be eligible to receive the new Salk Vaccine for polio this year, provided their parents register them, public health authorities announced this week.

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February 1985

Ladysmith volunteer firefighters will be paid for false alarm callouts.

Council agreed to the request to pay $1 a man for responding to a false alarm, effec-tive Jan. 1.

In 1983, local firemen dealt with seven false alarms, and in 1984, eight.Alderman Brownlow asked that the num-

ber of paid false calls be limited to 20 per year, but could not solicit support from council.“If that problem ever arose,” Ald. Mulroney countered, “it could be dealt with at that time.”

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With Cedar school conversion work halt-ed, the Nanaimo-La-dysmith school board voted to delay closing Woodbank Elementary and North Cedar Inter-mediate schools dur-ing a meeting Jan. 31.

The Cedar Com-munity Secondary School closure, and its subsequent conver-sion to an elementary school, were part of the district’s 10-year facilities plan. Dis-placed students would have populated the new school come September. However, in mid-January, the newly-elected board voted to stop work at the school for 90 days (beginning Feb. 9) to allow for further facili-ties plan consultation,

necessitating a motion to keep the schools open for another year.“When we decided to

enter into this 90-day consultation, it meant that the school, how-ever it turns out, won’t be ready for 2015, so we need a place for those kids to go to school and so that is why we rescinded the bylaw for another year and then we will, at that time, depending on what decision we come up with, deal with that appropri-ately at the time,” said Steve Rae, school board chairman.

There have been changes since the plan was introduced in June 2013, accord-ing to Rae. South Wel-lington Elementary closed, with many of its students going to Chase River Elemen-

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roughly about 270-plus kids that are left, that are between North Oyster and Woodbank, so we need to keep them open for this year so that the kids in those schools have somewhere to go,” said Rae.

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The Town of Ladysmith is affirm-ing its commitment to the health of residents and the community by signing the Declara-tion of the Right to a Healthy Environment.

In urging council to sign the declaration during a presenta-tion on Jan. 19, Denis Hughes told council that the declaration was inspired by David

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tries in the world have Healthy Environment Rights for their citi-zens, and Canada is not one of them,” he told council. “Canada has the third-largest freshwater supply in the world; we’re right behind Brazil and Rus-sia. Every day in Can-ada, over 1,000 water advisories are in place.”

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Donna Hemingson joined Hughes in en-couraging council to adopt the declaration.“All living beings, hu-

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“This means a right to clean water, clean air to breathe and healthy soil to grow nourish-ing food. As council-lors and managers of our community, I know you have the most dif-ficult job of budgeting and finding the means to support the needs of all aspects of our community. We need jobs, we need devel-opment, we need the dollars to support the social and physical infrastructure … We need a healthy envi-ronment to produce healthy, life-filled chil-dren.”

She noted that the Town of Ladysmith has a sustainability strat-egy and a vision report that outline eight key pillars of sustainability, and she sees that as fit-ting well with the pro-posed declaration.“I see all of this as be-

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“I write as if I’m sit-ting across the table from someone, hav-ing coffee with them.”

Writer Shelley A. Leedahl of Ladysmith is candid and open when she writes about her experienc-es, and that’s certain-ly the case with her latest book, a collec-tion of creative non-fiction essays called I Wasn’t Always Like This. This is Leedahl’s 11th book, and it fea-tures essays written over the past 16 years, including one written since she moved to Ladysmith last April.“All of my work, no matter what the sub-ject matter, is really about the same thing, that most tender and resilient creature, the human heart,” she said. “Although I do write and publish in many genres, I’m re-ally finding that cre-ative nonfiction has become my favourite. First of all, you can in-corporate poetry and a degree of fiction. I just find it so easy to establish a voice.”

Leedahl decided which essays to include in this col-lection through dis-cussions with her publisher at Signa-ture Editions. She says they looked for themes, and in this book, readers will find essays about travel, relationships, a long marriage, ma-jor life changes, phys-ical changes, mental health, gardening, and the writing life.

Why did Leedahl de-cide to publish this collection now?“I’ve lived over half my life, and I have been fortunate to enjoy a number of diverse experiences and travels,” she said. “At this point in my life, I live alone; it feels somewhat like a time of reflection.”

Many of these piec-es have been previ-ously published in an-thologies, magazines or newspapers. Some have been broadcast on CBC Radio Sas-katchewan and some

have won writing awards in Saskatch-ewan.“It just felt like, OK, it’s time to gather these things and share them with a wider audience,” said Leedahl.

Leedahl feels her essays are kind of a mirror.“Realism is impor-tant to me,” she said.

“I’m trying to capture the place and time in which I live. It’s just like watching a realis-tic film I guess. I don’t call this a memoir be-cause it’s not my life story. These essays focus on particular moments I’ve experi-enced in my life. It’s certainly not a retro-spective.”

Leedahl is promot-ing her latest book in both traditional ways such as bookstore, library and school readings, and non-traditional ways such as home salons.

Home salons in-volve Leedahl com-ing into somebody’s home, reading one of her essays and then passing around a bowl of questions both loosely and spe-cifically related to the reading, prompting participants to share their stories.“I really like the idea

of having interac-tive events,” she said.

“I’m really interested in people’s stories. I think everyone has an interesting story, and we’ve become a society where we interact much more with our cellphones than we do with the people around us. So, this is just trying to revitalize the good old-fashioned art of

conversation. I think the salons have been successful because people are in a com-fortable setting, and they’re given permis-sion not only to share their stories but also to feel.”

Leedahl held her first home salon in January in Roberts Creek and felt it was a very transcendent evening that was beyond her expecta-tions.“It was a really en-riching event, and it went a good hour and a half longer than we’d anticipated because people just wanted to talk,” she said. “They wanted to share and laugh. And the dynamic will be different each time, and I’ll use different essays as prompts. Because I’m really open — it’s an inti-mate and frank col-lection of essays — I think when I begin by reading one, it al-most makes them feel much more comfort-able about sharing personal matters as well.”

Leedahl writes in many genres, and her work has appeared in numerous antholo-gies.

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Leed-ahl has also lived in Calgary, Medicine Hat, Sechelt, and Edmonton. She now makes her home in Ladysmith.

In addition to liter-ary writing, she works as a freelance writer, editor and writing in-structor.“I try to live my life

with a sense of awe, and I hope that comes across in my work

as well,” she said. “When one moves as frequently as I have, back and forth be-tween Saskatchewan, B.C. and Alberta for the last few years and now settling here permanently, it’s easy to experience awe because even though these are all neigh-bouring provinces, the landscapes are so different.”

Leedahl is finding that she’s filled with awe all the time in Ladysmith, especially when she finds her-self on the trails or near the water.“I’m just enjoying so much creating my own new community here,” she said. “This is a fantastic place to live for anyone seek-ing inspiration. I’m rather fond too of go-ing down to the great coffee shops with my pen and paper and books.”

Leedahl will be reading from I Wasn’t Always Like This Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. at the Ladysmith Library at 3-740 First Ave. She will also be signing books Satur-day, Feb. 28 from 1-3 p.m. at Salamander Books at 535 First Ave. in downtown Ladysmith.

Before leaving on a three-week tour of Alberta and Saskatch-ewan in March, Leed-ahl is going to offer a writing workshop. Leedahl will offer a 90-minute workshop Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. in her Ladysmith home.

The focus for this particular workshop will be poetry, but she will be offering workshops focussing on writing fiction and creative nonfiction in the future. For price and details, anybody who is interested is invited to contact Leedahl at [email protected].

If anyone is inter-ested in purchasing a signed copy of the book from Leedahl, they can contact her by e-mail at [email protected]. Books are also avail-able at Salamander Books.


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Orcas medal at RegionalsLindsay ChungTHE CHRONICLE

As they get ready for the AAA Provin-cials next month, La-dysmith-Chemainus Swim Club members Faith Knelson and Ai-leen Humphreys are hoping to keep up the momentum after strong performances at the regionals.

At the Vancouver Is-land Regional Short Course Champion-ships Jan. 23-25 at Saa-nich Commonwealth Place, Knelson and Humphreys, who are both 13, had many strong swims.

Knelson had new per-sonal best times in al-most all her swims and won five medals. She took 11.13 seconds off her time in the 400m individual medley to finish first with a time of 5:14.25. She also won the 200m breast-stroke after improv-ing her time by 5.40 seconds and finishing in 2:34.74. In the 200m freestyle, Knelson fin-ished first with a time of 2:11.42, taking 1.34 off her previous best time. Knelson also won the 200m backstroke, improving her time by 5.96 to finish in 2:29.59.

As well, Knelson fin-ished second in the 100m freestyle with a time of 59.15, and she improved her time in the 400m freestyle by 12.79 seconds on her

way to a sixth-place finish in that event.“We kind of trained

right through it and didn’t taper,” said Knelson. “Our prac-tices lately were pretty harsh, so these were paying off. I had personal bests in ev-erything, and Aileen swam well too. I think it was a pretty good meet. I really enjoyed seeing myself excel in the 200m breaststroke

— it’s one of my big-gest accomplishments in 2015, taking six sec-onds off.”

At the meet, Hum-phreys finished second in the 100m breast-stroke with a time of 1:19.24 and was also second in the 50m breaststroke, finishing

in 36.65.Humphreys took

third place in the 200m breaststroke with a time of 2:49.86, and she finished eighth in the 400m individual medley with a time of 5:37.28. She also reached the finals in the 50m butterfly, 200m individual medley and 50m backstroke, fin-ishing 10th, 11th and 12th, respectively.“I though it was a very

exciting, very fun meet,” said Humphreys. “I saw a lot of old friends. I fixed my dive and pull-out in breaststroke, which my coach was worried about.”

Earlier in January, Knelson was selected to take part in a three-day SwimBC prospects

camp in Vancouver.The top age-group

swimmers in B.C. were selected based on their previous results, ex-plained Toth-Szabo.At the SwimBC Se-

nior Circuit Jan. 17 at the UBC Aquatic Centre in Vancouver, swimming against swimmers of all ages, Knelson won the 100m breaststroke in 1:14.59 and was first in the 50m breaststroke with a time of 34.22. She also finished seventh in the 200m breast-stroke with a time of 2:48.12 and was 28th in the 50m freestyle after finishing in 34.54.

During the camp, Knelson and the other swimmers did test sets, and race analysis was

done to examine how they swam, their tech-niques and how they prepared.

Knelson says she really likes the team she’s on, the Team BC junior team, and she thought the camp was hard but really good.“I took a lot of knowl-

edge from it,” she said. “There were things I had to critique in my swimming that I think helped me a lot. I en-joyed the camp; it was fun.”

Humphreys and Knelson will both com-pete at the AAA Provin-cials in Surrey at the beginning of March.

Humphreys says her goals for the near fu-ture are to finish first in a breaststroke event and improve her dives and turns.

Knelson says she needs to work on her turns as well.“I’d like to see myself

go under 1:10 in 100m breaststroke — that would be a very big accomplishment,” she said.After the provincials,

Knelson will compete at the Canadian Trials April 1-4 in Toronto.“It’s pretty close for

breaststroke to make the national junior team,” she said. “My goal is to make finals at the Canadian Trials, and I’d be more than ecstatic if I made the Canadian junior na-tional team.”

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Thelma Irene Batie October 6,1919 - February 1, 2015

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved “Nini” on Sunday February 1, 2015 at The Lodge on 4th.Predeceased in 1995 by her husband, Tom “Tuber” Batie, she is survived by her much loved and loving son, Mike (Ann), cherished grandchildren: Jill and Steven (Jean), adoring niece, Lynne McNeil and many other nieces, nephews and cousins.A lifelong Ladysmith resident, “Nini”s” greatest loves were swimming, preferably at Transfer Beach, Garth’s and Jenny’s, Sproat and Cowichan Lakes, watching golf and tennis on TV (Roger Federer has lost his biggest fan, bar none!), music, and her family. A visit to her home would often conclude with a gift of a loaf of her famous Finn Biscuit.Our heartfelt thanks to the staff at NRGH and LaRosa Gardens and especially to Dr. Fergus Kennedy for his exceptional care and friendship over the years!

A Memorial Tea will be held at the Ladysmith Legion hall on Saturday, February 14, 2015 from 1 to 4 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Ladysmith Hospital Auxiliary or

The Ladysmith Royal Canadian Legion would be truly appreciated.

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