Cheques should be made out to Comox United Church, with “Refugee Fund” on the Memo Line at the bottom, and can be mailed to Comox United Church or dropped off at 250 Beach Drive, Comox, V9M 1P9.   Email any questions to cvrefugees@yahoo.ca or look at our website, www.cvrefugeesupport.blogspot.com or find us on Facebook at “CV Refugee Support”.

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The exhibit will be hanging during the month of March, with artists as far as Saltspring Island and Alert Bay.

The gallery is located at 2781 Dunsmuir Avenue in Cumberland and is usually open Tuesday to Saturday 11 to 4:30 pm. To confirm call 250-400-4099.

www.correalice.com

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Participant fee: $15 per participant (includes handouts).Jeryl has a degree from the Master Food Preserver Program from the Home Economics Department at Washington State University.

To register for any of LTNC’s classes, please call LTNC’s Project Coordinator, Angela Konkin, at 250-334-3168 or email at laketrailvision@gmail.com

Alternatively, registrants can go online to LTNC’s website (www.laketrailconnect.ca), download our online class registration form and mail it to LTNC’s office at the following address:
805 Willemar Avenue
Courtenay, BC   V9N 3L7

Please note: We accept either cash or cheque to register for any of LTNC’s classes. Please make cheques payable to: Lake Trail Community Education Society. LTNC will promptly issue receipts for payments received.

LTNC is a registered non-profit society. Its mission is to contribute to a safe, healthy and sustainable neighbourhood that supports the success of students, families and community members by increasing the links between school and community. It is also an organization that celebrates a vision of Lake Trail School at the neighbourhood’s heart.

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Specifically, the “Begradigung” (named after the doctor who discovered its power) is a technique of aligning the spine without physical manipulation.    It was documented to help thousands of people with conditions ranging from chronic back pain and sciatica to leg pain and poor posture.The reports said that many of the people for whom the Begradigung gave relief had exhausted every available conventional medical treatment.

When Rauber moved to Black Creek, she opened Helarion Energetic Alignment to offer this technique, as well as other holistic healing (acupressure, Reiki, healing touch) to people and horses on the island. Her reputation has spread throughout the Comox Valley and Campell River over the past 15 years, but old German connections are still talking about Rauber.

Recently, Rauber returned from a two-week trip to Hesson (60 km from Frankfurt), where she was requested by a clinic owner who knew of her reputation and German training.

Rauber was there nearly two weeks and treated more than 25 people who had a variety of symptoms.  While most of these clients were aware of the Bedagradigung, they waited through the holidays for Rauber’s trip to be coordinated, hearing of her reputation from the clinic owner.

“This widely accepted treatment in Europe can bring relief to people and animals, yet most people in North America have never heard of this type of spinal alignment,” says Rauber.

She adds, “I am pleased to make a difference, since many clients see me as a last resort, since they don’t know about my energetic alignment until they talk to others in the area, who fortunately tell them about me.  They figure they have nothing to lose but pain, since the treatments are not very expensive and are non-invasive.  Then ‘wow,’ they’re walking differently and feeling better.  It’s very rewarding.”

Rauber provides treatments by appointment at her home office in Black Creek or at Singing Waters in Campbell River, as well as Rosewood Garden on 11th Street in Courtenay.  She also  makes barn calls to help with horse issues—ranging from gait problems to temperament changes that can result from discomfort or pain.

In the fall, she donated her time to the Therapeutic Riding Society for a mare who would have to be retired if she had not responded so well to Rauber’s treatment.  She is still in their program and doing well.
FMI: www.EnergeticAlignment.ca.

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Participant fee:
- $10 per person, per hike
- $15 per family, per hike

Additional note: This is a family activity. Youth ages 16 and under must be accompanied by at least one adult. Please wear proper footwear.

To register for any of LTNC’s classes, please call LTNC’s Project Coordinator, Angela Konkin, at 250-334-3168 or email at laketrailvision@gmail.com

Alternatively, registrants can go online to LTNC’s website (www.laketrailconnect.ca), download our online class registration form and mail it to LTNC’s office at the following address:
805 Willemar Avenue
Courtenay, BC   V9N 3L7

Please note: We accept either cash or cheque to register for any of LTNC’s classes. Please make cheques payable to: Lake Trail Community Education Society. LTNC will promptly issue receipts for payments received.

LTNC is a registered non-profit society. Its mission is to contribute to a safe, healthy and sustainable neighbourhood that supports the success of students, families and community members by increasing the links between school and community. It is also an organization that celebrates a vision of Lake Trail School at the neighbourhood’s heart.

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The generous support of local sponsors allowed the organizers to drop the admission price back to $5 and they believe you’ll receive so much inspiration from the day’s events; you’ll be planting by March 4th.   A wonderful array of panelists and speakers are scheduled and, along with the dozens of knowledgeable vendors, associations and educators, the Seed Exchange and the social activities guarantee a day well spent. Robin Tunnicliffe of Feisty Field Organic Farm and co-founder of Saanich Organics is the keynote speaker for 2012.  Tunnicliffe has been farming certified organic vegetables near Victoria, BC for the past 12 years.  She leases a total of 1.5 acres in two parcels, and makes her living selling vegetables to restaurants, grocery stores, farmers’ markets and through a vegetable home delivery program.  Robin holds an MA in Food Policy from the University of Victoria.  She serves on several boards of directors, including USC Canada, UBC Farm and The Islands Organic Producers’ Association. She has recently co-authored a book about her work with Saanich Organics called “All the Dirt: Reflections on Organic Farming” and will be describing how she and two other organic farmers set up a local small producer distribution network.

The popular Garden Panel will again answer questions from the audience about everything from building your soil, to propagation, to growing local and exotic varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers and other gardening- related topics.  The panel will include Megan Halstead (Halstead Farms), Connie Kuramato (Gardens to Go), Simon Toole (Good Earth Farms) and Jennifer Waller, an avid amateur gardener  with a background in ethno-botany.

Other speakers include: Peter Janes, an orchardist and plant propagator from Denman Island. His brief 20 minute presentation will highlight some of the best practices and biggest hurdles in the cultivation of fruit and nut trees. He will also review some of the most successful and least appropriate edible perennials he’s observed in our bioregion in hopes of increasing the successes of local growers.   Janes will be joined by Jonathon Schut of Budding Landscapes to describe backyard permaculture design.

Transition Town Comox Valley will host a panel of Project Leaders who will present interesting hands-on projects related to food security in the Comox Valley.  These are opportunities for folks to get involved with others in exciting projects beyond their back yard.  Lake Trail Neighbourhood Connections will help you get children involved in the garden.  A full schedule of events is at www.comoxvalleygrowersandseedsavers.ca – look for Seedy Saturday 2012 on the menu.   The Comox Valley Growers and Seed Savers exist to conserve and preserve our local plant diversity by encouraging and supporting public participation in growing heritage and non-hybrid food crops and other plants.

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Project advisors include the BC Touring Council and the Centre for Sustainability. ArtsBC is also working in conjunction with arts organizations in host communities around the province to present this project.

Locations/Dates – Face-to-Face Semesters – Upcoming Dates

Vancouver Island Region – Register http://www.artsbc.org/resources/professional-development/sustainability-semesters

• Community: Courtenay
• Host Organization: Comox Valley Community Arts Council
• Venue: Florence Filberg Centre, 411 Anderton Ave
• Saturday, April 28, 2012 from 9:00 to 5:00 PM
• Sunday, April 29, 2012 from 9:00 AM to Noon

FMI: Info sheet: ArtsBCsustainabilitysessionsInfoSheet

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“This area is full of musicians and we wanted to engage their participation,” says Lori Kenney, an Arts Council member who founded the TAC and has participated every year. “The Arts Council is about all the arts, so opening up the challenge to include another art discipline should stimulate even more people to participate.”
The entry criteria are not exactly strict.“We want to leave it as open to the imagination as possible, but entries to this main category should be able to create sounds that someone, somewhere might consider music,” said Dallas Stevenson, executive director at the Comox Valley Community Arts Council. “As visual art is in the eye of the beholder, music too is open to interpretation.”

A second category, with lesser prizes, allows for even more open expression – any sort of art from any sort of trash. And there are categories for youth (18 years and under).

Deadline for entries is April 3 and the show is to run April 5 – 28 in CVCAC’s Muir Gallery, on Anderton Avenue, next to the blue bridge in Courtenay.  The show opening is set for Thursday, April 5, the day before the Easter long weekend.

“Creative-mind gears are already whirring,” said CVCAC president Jamie Bowman. “I expect this will top even other years, when I have been amazed by the absolute genius of submissions.

“This is a chance to make a statement, through art, about the masses of trash our society creates and to be inspiring in dealing with it creatively.”
In Trash Art, artists “innovate, embellish, assemble, reuse, re-invent, salvage and or construct objects for the home environment with recycled materials,” said Kenney.

The idea is to repurpose discarded items and make them into something beautiful and meaningful, ranging from cute to strange to whimsical to unusual. All submissions must be constructed from materials recycled from a previous use.

Although a fundraiser for the Muir Gallery, There are a variety of prizes available to be won for categories, including
•    Best Use of Materials,
•    Best General Trash Art Entry
•    Musicality, Best Functioning Piece
Trash Art fits well with the Arts Council’s mandate to “facilitate and animate the arts in the Comox Valley … promoting the Comox Valley as a creative and dynamic arts-producing centre.”
Forms and more details are at www.comoxvalleyarts.org. To make alternate arrangements for drop off, contact CVCAC at 250-334 2983 or at info@comoxvalleyarts.org . Out-of-town submissions will be received anytime before the April 3 deadline by mail, courier etc.
The works will be for sale at the gallery.

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It appears as if someone is letting down the team.

When we elected you it was on the understanding that you were a strong member of our Upper Island team and would speak for us in Ottawa.
Remember, John Boy, we’re all for the coal mines, the natural gas wells, the much-needed fighter-bombers, the scrapping of the long gun registry and the long-form census, for busting up the money-grubbing unions, and for putting away those young grass-smoking punks in those prisons you promised us. Also remember, Johnnie, none of us cares a jot about the environment, water pollution, air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, clean energy, marine life, or our grandchildrens’ future.

Well now someone (we suspect your corporate handlers) is mailing out flyers under your name that  give the impression that you have gone soft and are siding with those socialist, left-wing, bleeding-heart tree-huggers that have been clogging up our island for too long.

We still believe in you, John Boy, and our team feels that it is simply a matter of you not reading or screening these misleading flyers. Please take a look at what they are saying and then have a behind-the-doors chat. Maybe request that they stop sending them; after all, some of our local commies may get restless when they discover that your handlers are using their taxes to do so.

We must admit that we did feel a tad uneasy about the gushy sounding flyers and to feeling as if we hardly knew ye, Johnnie.

I remain,
your devoted defender and team member

- Lou Cassivi

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