A&E column: Written word takes centre stage in Cowichan this week; artist opens studio

Artist Jennifer Lawson is opening her studio this weekend for people to take a look at her latest work. (Submitted)
What’s going on in Cowichan arts and entertainment

A teacher-librarian in Nanaimo was fired in 2019 for checking out an age-inappropriate graphic novel to a student. The discipline agreement was published Wednesday, April 21. (News Bulletin file photo)

Nanaimo teacher-librarian fired for checking out too-graphic graphic novel to student
Aria Pendak Jefferson cuddles ChiChi, the family cat that ran away two years ago in Ucluelet. The feline was missing until Courtney Johnson and Barry Edge discovered her in the parking lot of the Canadian Princess earlier this month. Aria and her parents were reunited with ChiChi in a parking lot in Port Alberni. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)

An Island girl’s wish is answered as her cat came back
B.C. cannabis workers look for pandemic pay ahead of provincial budget

B.C. cannabis workers look for pandemic pay ahead of provincial budget
Ambitious all-season mountain resort proposed near Chilliwack

Ambitious all-season mountain resort proposed near Chilliwack

Vancouver Island Connector and Tofino Bus is putting a 41-passenger electric bus through its paces in a three-month trial run between Nanaimo and Victoria. (Photo submitted)

Electric bus on trial run serving Victoria-to-Nanaimo route
FILE – The Instagram app is shown on an iPhone in Toronto on Monday, March 19, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy

Judge acquits B.C. teen boy ‘set up’ on sex assault charge based on Instagram messages
Kai Palkeinen recently helped a car stuck on the riverbed near the Big Eddy Bridge. While the car could not be saved, some of the driver’s belongings were. It’s common for vehicles to get stuck in the area due to significantly changing river levels from Revelstoke Dam. (Photo by Kai Palkeinen)

“I just sank a car’: Revelstoke resident tries to save vehicle from the Columbia River
“People still imagine steel-framed mobile homes on blocks, but we offer a very typical, traditional looking home — you wouldn’t even know it was built modular,” says Chris Anderson, general manager of Iconic Island Dwellings in Courtenay.

4 Solid reasons to choose an Iconic modular home
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    FILE – NDP Leader John Horgan, right, and local candidate Mike Farnworth greet one another with an elbow bump during a campaign stop in Coquitlam, B.C., on Friday, September 25, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

    B.C. won’t be using random individual road stops to enforce travel rules: Safety Minister

    In this image from NASA, NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity lands on the surface of Mars Monday, April 19, 2021. The little 4-pound helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin Martian air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. (NASA via AP)

    VIDEO: NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet

    Vancouver resident Beryl Pye was witness to a “concerning,” spontaneous dance party that spread throughout social groups at Kitsilano Beach on April 16. (Screen grab/Beryl Pye)

    VIDEO: Dance party erupts at Vancouver’s Kitsilano Beach to the dismay of onlookers

    Rainbow trouts thrashing with life as they’re about to be transferred to the largest lake of their lives, even though it’s pretty small. These rainbows have a blue tinge because they matched the blue of their hatchery pen, but soon they’ll take on the green-browns of their new home at Lookout Lake. (Zoe Ducklow/News Staff)

    VIDEO: B.C. lake stocked with hatchery trout to delight of a seniors fishing club

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    News
    Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, walks down the street with an acquaintance after leaving B.C. Supreme Court during a lunch break at her extradition hearing, in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, April 1, 2021. A judge is scheduled to release her decision today on a request to delay the final leg of hearings in Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rich Lam

    B.C. judge grants Meng Wanzhou’s request to delay extradition hearings

    Lawyers for Canada’s attorney general had argued there is no justification to delay proceedings in the case

    Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam speaks during a technical briefing on the COVID pandemic in Canada, Friday, January 15, 2021 in Ottawa. Tam says new information on COVID-19 and variants prompted the National Advisory Committee on Immunization to suddenly cancel its planned update on who should get the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

    AstraZeneca advice from national panel delayed by new data on COVID-19 and variants

    NACI is made up of vaccine experts who volunteer to make non-binding advice on how vaccines should be used

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    Sports
    San Jose Sharks center Patrick Marleau (12) attempts a shot on Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner (90) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Monday, April 19, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

    NHL: Virus protocols not ‘relaxed’ for vaccinated players

    In the U.S., roughly 40% have had one dose and 25% are fully vaccinated

    Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Craig Roh and Jake Thomas sack BC Lions quarterback Mike Reilly after he recovers his own fumble during CFL action in 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

    CFL pushing back start of season nearly 2 months due to COVID-19

    The season is now scheduled to be 14 games

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    ”It was an angry welcome for Cowichan-Ladysmith MLA Jan Pullinger when she arrived in Lake Cowichan Monday to open her constituency office. She was greeted with some of her long time supporters calling her a ‘liar’. Left to right, Jan Pullinger, Director of Area I, Lois Gage, school trustee Rolli Gunderson, school trustee Pat Weaver, Save our School Committee Chairperson, Tara Daly.” (Lake News/April 17,1996)

    Flashback: Garbage, geography and tragedy

     

    The Cairnsmore Gardening Group are holding their 10th annual plant sale online. Send an email to get the list of plants starting April 10, 2021. (File photo)

    Get list of plants for Cairnsmore sale starting April 10

       

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      Obituaries

      Rosaire Parenteau

      Apr 13th, 2021

      Marion ‘May’ McPheators

      Apr 10th, 2021

      Roger Elwood Lamont

      Apr 7th, 2021

      Jan Hendrik ‘John’ Wikkerink

      Apr 6th, 2021

      Gurmej Singh Dhami

      Apr 5th, 2021

      Thomas John Adby

      Apr 2nd, 2021

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      Entertainment
      William Belleau of Esk’etemc has been cast in a new Martin Scorcese film, Killers of the Flower Moon. (photo submitted)

      B.C. Indigenous actor cast in Martin Scorsese film alongside DiCaprio, De Niro

      William Belleau was also in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Blackway, The Killing and Frontier

      Chemainus Art Group creates mural mosaic to celebrate a joyful spring. (Photo submitted)

      Art group members celebrate a joyful spring in Chemainus with surprise mosaic

      Each of 33 squares pushed together into one mural

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        A native-to-B.C. wild queen bee (bombus melanopygus for those in the know) feeds on a periwinkle flower. (Submitted/Sarah Johnson, Native Bee Society of BC)

        B.C.’s wild bees need messy gardens to survive

        The year-long nesting period makes habitat a primary concern for wild bees

        (Photo by Mojpe/Pixabay)

        Canadian kids extracting record amounts from Tooth Fairy

        Our neighbours in the U.S. receive slightly less from Tooth Fairy visits

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          Aquatic Centre procedure nit-picking

          I don’t understand why this process should be so nit-picking and demeaning.

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            Feds need to focus on COVID

            That is not their prerogative and not their right.

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              Secrets and Lives Interview with Ron Neale

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                Mike Saysell grew up in Lake Cowichan, and now he's the proud store manager of Thrifty Foods Duncan.

                ‘It’s a great team and a great job. I’m one of the lucky ones.”

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