Support the Chapman Creek Five

It's party time in Roberts Creek! This Saturday night, the Robert's Creek Community Hall welcomes the Sunshine Coast to a benefit concert and dance to raise funds for the Watershed Legal Defense Fund. There will also be a Live Services Auction with the opportunity to bid and out-bid on such items as 'A night at a beautiful B&B.' 'Two hours of with an Accountant.' 'Two hours of quilting lessons for beginners (yeah, Three Ducks on a Roof in Egmont!). The event is also a celebration of the uniting of the Coast from Port Mellon to Egmont over an issue that affects us all - logging in our watersheds. Here are the details:

"Winning the Watershed Benefit"
Saturday, July 28, 2007
7:30 pm
Roberts Creek Community Hall
featuring
The Billy Hillpicker Band
Trudy Diening Groupl with Graham Ord & Blaine Dunnaway
Dance 10 pm - midnight with Fat Fish Creek

The Chapman Creek Five lost their bid to block Western Forest Products' injunction in the BC Supreme Court on the 17th. You can read the Coast Reporter story here or you can read the details on the 'Protect Chapman Creek Watershed' website. The next hope to prevent WFP from moving ahead with its logging rested with the SCRD assuming the role of a Board of Health. It did so on early this week and accepted public submissions on both Monday and Tuesday. As a result of these exemplary submissions, the SCRD in this adopted role issued a 'stop work' order against WFP; however, the motion was too late. After punching through the logging road into the watershed, WFP headed straight for the watershed portion of its cutblock and brought the trees down. You can read the details here. We are all waiting to see what decisive action the SCRD undertakes next.