Community

A group of 25 fund-raising Lake Cowichan Secondary School students gathered $1,200 for World Vision, earlier this month.

Months of hard work paid off at Palsson Elementary School, Tuesday, April 12, when students put on two great performances of “Sing Your Own Song;” a musical play written by the school’s music teacher Theo Lassche.

The most recent book written about the Cowichan Lake area was authored by Bill Gibson, whose highly interesting and meticously researched book, Rails to Roads and the Million Dollar Camp – The Story of Gordon River, is now in its second printing. Released in February (see February Gazette article), it sold out soon after.

Breathing new life into older art pieces, local artist Trudy Kungold Ammann received an Award of Honour during the Cowichan Valley Arts Council’s 41st Fine Art Show, earlier this month.

With snowy images of the not-so-distant past still fresh in Cowichan Lake area residents’ minds, a youth group was on-hand last weekend to remind people of the excitement associated with racing down Stone Avenue in hand-built soap box racers.

With six performance dates set to begin May 5, the cast and crew of Cosi – the Kaatza Lakeside Players’ latest play – are veering closer and closer toward opening night.

Although his name appears in the paper less frequently than when he served as mayor (until 2008), it doesn’t mean Jack Peake has kept still.

The Associaion of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities (AVICC) has endorsed the Town of Lake Cowichan’s resolution for revitalization tax exemptions.

Before the appearance of Lake Cowichan’s first bonafide restaurant, a lady named Mrs. Allen operated a small eatery in the village known as The Shack. For a couple of years during the summer months, she eked out a living selling ice cream and “afternoon tea” from The Shack. It was a tough go, since there were few residents who could afford to waste money on such delicacies. By 1917, the business and Mrs. Allen were gone.

The Cowichan Watershed Board will convene at Cowichan Lake, Thursday, April 7, for a public meeting at the Cowichan Lake Education Centre, at 5 p.m.