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Demand up, donations down: charitiesTough season for service providers

Roszan HolmenErin McCrackenNews staff

Many Victoria charities spent the final days of their Christmas fundraising campaigns hoping to see more financial donations under the tree.

Times have been tough at the Salvation Army, which, as of Wednesday, had generated more than $142,000 of the $250,000 it was hoping to raise at its red ket-tles in the Capital Region before Christmas Eve.

Donors have also been feeling the financial pinch and giving less this year.

“Their dollar has to stretch fur-ther just like everybody else’s,” said Kyla Ferns, the Salvation Army’s special projects officer.

Kettle donations pay for 1,500 Christmas food hampers for Greater Victoria families, up from 1,200 last year as well as other programs and services.

Mustard Seed staff and vol-unteers also have their fingers crossed.

“We have a long way to go to reach our goal,” said Brent Palmer, director of the Victoria’s Mustard Seed food bank.

With 7,000 people coming through food bank doors every month, up from the 4,000 people who needed food 10 years ago, the pressure is on to keep the shelves full and programs going.

Oak Bay firefighters Jon Popham, left, and Kyle Beaumont do rooftop drills from the aerial ladder outside the fire hall on Monterey Avenue. Firemen working Christmas Day will do drills like this one as they do any other day of the year.Sharon Tiffin/News staff

(Not) home for the holidaysBusiness as usual for those who work on Christmas

Ryan FlahertyNews staff

While many people will spend Christmas Day with friends and

family, opening presents and sharing meals, there’s a group of dedicated individuals for whom the holiday is just another day at the office.

Working Dec. 25 may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for emergency responders, transit officials and others who work on the holiday, it’s just part of the job.

“It’s just a regular work day here for us,” said Oak Bay Fire Chief Gerry Adam. “In fact, when I was younger I enjoyed coming to work, because the house was kind of wild with the young kids – it kind of got you out of the house for a while, and you came home and dinner was ready.”

On Christmas, instead of starting their shift at 8 a.m., the five firefighters who will be

working that day are permitted to come in an hour later, giving them more time with their families in the morning. And those members who have small children are often looked out for by colleagues who don’t.

“Guys who have no kids at home will come in early and relieve the guys that do,” Adam said.

It’s the same story at the Oak Bay Police Department.

“It’s common practice here when we’re selecting our holidays,” said Sgt. Ray Maxwell. “We look and see who has young children and who doesn’t. Those

with young children, we usually leave the Christmas period available for them to select a couple days off.”

For those who are working, there’s always a few members of the community who ensure that everyone gets a little taste of Christmas. Gifts of cookies, candies and chocolate are frequently dropped off at police headquarters for the officers on duty, Maxwell said.

“There’s always a lot of citizens looking to fatten us up.”

PLEASE SEE: Transit drivers, Page A3

PLEASE SEE: Charity donations, Page A3

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Fear itself may be enough to control mammal populations: study

Natalie NorthNews staff

The results of a study on spar-rows may provide good news for those who want the region’s deer population controlled without a cull.

Predators lower the population of their prey, not just by killing them, but by scaring them.

It’s a conclusion made by a team

of researchers who believe behav-ioural data collected on song spar-rows in the Gulf Islands could be applied to predator-prey interac-tions of all kinds and used to man-age their populations.

“The fear of falling victim to a predator can also have significant effects and affect the number of babies you have,” said Michael Clinchy, adjunct biology profes-sor at UVic and co-author of the study. “This can be as important as direct killing in reducing prey numbers.”

Over the past 10 summers, Clinchy, along with University of Western Ontario biologist Liana Zanette and UVic grad students, used electric fencing and fish

netting to fully protect sparrow nests from nat-ural predators such as owls and raccoons, on Portland Island and sur-rounding Gulf Islands. Through speakers hung in trees, one group of birds were subjected to recorded predator calls and sounds, while sounds of non-preda-tory animals such as geese played for a second group of song spar-rows.

Clinchy and Zanette observed the birds via video and learned those exposed to predator sounds produced 40-per-cent fewer off-spring than the control group.

These birds also spent more time guarding their nests and less time feed-ing their young, which also reduced their num-bers.

“It’s the first time in any study of wild birds or mammals that fear alone has been shown to unambiguously affect birth and survival and

thus the individuals in wildlife interactions,” Clinchy said. “Basi-cally, we think that this kind of fear effect is going to be pervasive on wildlife.”

Clinchy links his work to the management of elk populations in Yellowstone National Park in the

U.S. and doesn’t rule out the pos-sibility that deer in Greater Victo-ria could be controlled using the same principle.

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone in the mid-1990s, the elk population decreased by 50 per cent – a reduction far greater than what the wolves were capable of killing, Clinchy said.

“It’s the fear itself that’s really responsible. If you can simulate that, you could have effects in reducing the deer population.”

The study, Perceived predation risk reduces the number of offspring songbirds produce per year, was published in the December issue of Science magazine.

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Michael Clinchy

Controlling deer control possible, researcher says

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“We have a city to feed,” Palmer said. The charity is short by $500,000 of the $1.2 million it hoped to raise in November and December, a hefty chunk of the $2 million it needs every year.

Many Christmas charities and non-profits, however, are on track to meet-ing their goals.

C-FAX Santas Anonymous Society is doing well.

Its 12-hour radio fundraiser, called Miracle on Broad Street, raised $240,000 last Friday, exceeding expec-tations.

For others, such as Black Press’ Christmas charity campaign, Pennies for Presents, donations to date are down slightly from last year.

“But we’re flooded with coins right now, which is fantastic,” said Pennies committee chair Kyle Slavin. “We can always use more.”

In 2010, Pennies for Presents raised $12,000. As of Wednesday, the total had yet to be calculated. Slavin, how-ever, predicted the total could wind up close to last year’s amount.

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It’s not just police and fire officials who punch the clock on the 25th. B.C. Transit buses in the Capital Region will continue to run on a holiday schedule. Roughly 300 operators will be working on the holiday and operations manager Kerry Gauvin says many of them actually look forward to their shift.

“They get a real feel-good

feeling from driving on Christmas morning,” he said. “There are a lot of people trying to get to family members, who have no other way to get there … or sometimes they just get people that ride the bus because they’ve got nowhere to go. They may just ride one bus, then get on another bus, and that same operator may see them later on in the day get back on the bus again.

“A lot of operators get some

satisfaction out of that.”The Guardian Pharmacy on

Oak Bay Avenue is one of a handful of local businesses which will be open on Christmas. Owner Fitim Hajrizaj says closing up shop on the holiday would be doing residents a disservice.

“People have to go to the hospital, and hospitals may not have all the medication people need, so it’s very important for a pharmacy to be open,” he said.

This will be the first Christmas since Hajrizaj and his brother purchased the pharmacy. They’re hopeful that by next year, they will have employees that can work the holiday, allowing them to spend the day with their family, who live in Burnaby.

This year, they’ll have to be satisfied with a whirlwind visit.

“We’re going to close earlier on (Christmas), and hopefully there will be a ferry. We can stay

overnight and come back in the morning,” Hajrizaj said.

That’s just the way it is for those who work on Christmas. But if it means that everyone else can celebrate the holiday in comfort, it’s a worthwhile sacrifice, said Adam.

“That’s just the nature of the beast, that’s the service we provide,” he said. “We just hope it’s a quiet Christmas.”

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Transit drivers enjoy relaxed schedule, holiday spirit on Christmas

Three new collective agreements have been signed, representing 11 bargaining units in Greater Victoria, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

On Dec. 14, the Greater Victoria Labour Relations Association ratified agreements with bargaining units for the District of Oak Bay, the City of Victoria and Victoria Police Board (CUPE 50), the Township of Esquimalt (CUPE 333), the District of North Saanich, the District of Colwood, the District of Metchosin and the Town of Sidney (CUPE 374), the Greater Victoria Public Library Board (CUPE 410), West Shore Parks and Recreation, and the Capital Regional District (CUPE 1978).

The agreements include two-per-cent annual wage increases, as well as “a few minor improvements to benefits,” according to a press release published by CUPE.

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Oak Bay staff get slight raise in new deal

Oak Bay’s newest police

constable, Julie Chanin sits in one of

the police cars at the station on Monterey

Avenue.Sharon Tiffin/

News staff

Charity donations down across the Capital Region

ON THE SMILE PATROLOak Bay PD’s newest constable is loving her new gig

Ryan FlahertyNews staff

One of the brightest smiles in Oak Bay these days belongs to its newest police offi-cer, and considering her previous career choice, that should come as no surprise.

Before becoming a cop, Const. Julie Cha-nin went to school to become a dental hygienist.

“It was working with people and health care, helping people, and I liked that aspect,” said the Cowichan Valley native.

“But I knew it wasn’t a job that I could see myself doing for 30 years, so after I gradu-ated from dental hygiene school I applied for the RCMP.”

The interest in oral health is one explana-tion for that grin, but there’s a more relevant one: she loves her current job even more.

“There’s a good feeling in the building, and I’ve been very welcomed by the staff and my co-workers. The transition has been very smooth,” said Chanin, 39.

Making the move from the RCMP, with whom Chanin spent the past 11 years, to the Oak Bay department, was prompted by a few factors.

At the top of the list was a desire for a more geographically stable job within the law enforcement community.

“I have a four-year-old son, and my step-son did five different schools in five years,” Chanin said. “I’ve seen the impact of that,

and my son, Sam, is starting school next year. It’s not like the RCMP was trying to move me or anything like that, but I really see the importance of stability and family and put-ting roots in your community, and this is exactly what that is.”

Chanin met her husband Russ, a Mountie himself, when she was in Port McNeill and he was stationed a ferry ride away in Alert Bay.

Shortly after the two married, Chanin transferred to the West Shore detachment, where she remained until learning that a position in Oak Bay was available. “Oak Bay is the best of all worlds,” she said. “It’s small-town policing, yet in a city, and there’s an excellent amount of resources.”

It also doesn’t hurt that she’s been reunited with Oak Bay Chief Constable Mark Fisher, her former boss.

“I was quite upset with Oak Bay at the notice that (he) was leaving the West Shore,” Chanin joked.

Fisher is extremely pleased to have Cha-nin on his team once again.

“She brought a great skill set to the table and her age was a factor as well,” he said. “The fact that she’s younger and she only has 11 years police service, she’s some-body we’ll see in Oak Bay for a long time to come.”

As for the notion that the department hired a woman to counter any negative publicity

that came in the wake of complaints of gen-der discrimination made by another female member, Const. Jennifer Gibbs, Fisher said that simply isn’t the case.

“She was the best candidate by far, regard-less of her sex, and she came with a whole bunch of training and experience which is very applicable to the type of work we do in Oak Bay,” he said.

Chanin says any past problems in the department had no influence on her deci-sion to apply for the job.

“My understanding is that there were issues that did come to light and that they’ve been addressed, and change is in the air,” she said. “So that really had no bearing one way or the other.”

As for the job itself, Chanin’s philosophy on policing is simple.

“When it comes right down to it, it’s about problem solving, and doing whatever you can to make people feel safe in their com-munity,” she said.

“And I’m pleased to say that Oak Bay is very friendly, very happy, and I’m very for-tunate to be here.”

Which makes it pretty easy to understand why she seems to always be flashing those pearly whites.

“I’m smiling every day on my way to work, and I’m smiling on my way home.”

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“The fact that she’s younger and she only has 11 years’ police service, she’s somebody we’ll see in Oak Bay for a long time to come.”

– Chief Const.Mark Fisher

Laura LavinNews staff

More than 90 youth will arrive in Victoria from across the province to spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s attending the B.C. Youth Parliament.

“We had a large number of applications this year. We had a substantial waiting list by our

standards,” said Dora Turje, BCYP registrar.

“It’s good to know that a lot of people heard about it and were interested in joining.”

The Youth Parliament is in its 83rd year and is open to youth between the ages of 16 and 21. It is a non-partisan, non-denominational service organization that creates service projects to help improve the lives of young people.

It also organizes regional youth parliaments for participants aged 14 to 18, and held in various regions of B.C. The sessions give more youth experience in and education about debating and parliamentary procedures.

One of the events is the British Columbia Youth Parliament.

The young people participating represent all areas of the province. “It doesn’t match directly with the electoral districts in the legislature, but it’s proportional,” said Turje.

Fifteen youth from Vancouver Island will participate in the session, which began in 1924 as the ‘older boys parliament.’

Every year youth meet in the legislative buildings in Victoria and debate a variety of legislation that outlines projects that BCYP will then run throughout the year.

In addition, private member’s resolutions are introduced, giving members the ability to debate any issue they choose, while still participating in a practical lesson on the parliamentary process.

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Say pleaseJulia Newcombe,

10, attracts a crowd as she feeds her

pals dog treats during the Windsor

Park Dog Group’s annual Christmas

get-together, Sunday at the park and

pavilion. Julia has been a part of the

group since she was about a year old.Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Teens meet for annual youth parliamentDelegates to assemble from across the province

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Courtesy Oak Bay Archives

The shorelines rimming Oak Bay have for many decades been popular with residents looking to spend time at the waterfront.

At the turn of the 20th century, families living in the most settled areas of the soon-to-be incorporated municipality near Oak Bay Avenue enjoyed taking a trip south to Shoal Bay, now McNeill Bay, to enjoy a dip in the water.

The older photo here, circa 1905, shows May Munson, nanny to the Burrell family, supervising children at low tide on Shoal Bay, with Ander-son Hill and McMicking Point in the background.

The Burrells – father, Frank was office manager for Pemberton and Co. real estate in downtown Victo-ria – lived in a home called Summer-dyne at the corner of Oak Bay and Monterey avenues. Munson would take the children in a horse and cart down to the beach to explore or for picnics.

The bay area became a popular spot for summer camps and recre-

ation. Artist Emily Carr built a one-room cottage near Shoal Bay and fre-quently used the scenery as a sub-ject for her paintings.

Around 1925, Shoal Bay was renamed McNeill Bay, in honour of the early Oak Bay settler William Henry McNeill.

As captain of the SS Beaver, McNeill scouted suitable locations on the southern tip of Vancouver Island for a site to replace Hudson’s Bay Com-pany Fort Vancouver. Working with company chief factor James Doug-las and others, they established Fort Victoria in 1843.

Fort McNeill, on the north tip of Vancouver Island, is also named for the sea captain.

Today, homes rim the entire fringe of McNeill Bay on the opposite side of Beach Drive, and on the water side of King George Terrace.

The picturesque area continues to be a popular stopping place for Oak Bay residents and visitors alike.

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Oak Bay: Then and NowDon Descoteau/News staff

In the above photo, circa 1905, nanny May Munson supervises the Burrell family children at low tide on Shoal Bay, now McNeill Bay. Anderson Hill (left) and McMicking Point (right) are in the background. Unlike at that time, the coastline is rather developed today, as the bottom photo shows from the same vantage point.

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The Seattle Times runs a photo feature in their weekend magazine called Then And Now (Black Press does something similar in the Oak Bay News and Goldstream News Gazette). It’s a simple idea, two photographs taken of the same view, one historical and the other contemporary, showing the differ-ence in the view over the years. The changes can be quite shocking.

Having survived another round of elec-tions, I was thinking the next time we head to the polls, our newspapers might run a Then and Now set of photographs of election candidates.

The first could feature the candidates’ press mug shots, the image of themselves they use for publicity. The second would be a photograph we’d take during the campaign. I think read-ers, and voters, would at the very least be amused by the fact that often our politicians are misrep-resenting themselves, at least in a visual sense.

Wouldn’t it be a bit of a shock to realize that youthful visage you’re voting for is actually a rather older, certainly more wrinkled, weather-beaten and battered figure.

The other issue with candidates and their photographs is the shock-ingly bad quality of so many of them. The photographs that is, not the candidates.

In the interests of improving our views of our potential leaders, here’s a few tips for veteran and aspiring politicos regarding their photographic portraits.

First, invest in the local economy and jobs market and hire a profes-sional to take your portrait. This isn’t just a sneaky way of picking up extra work on the side for myself

and photographer col-leagues. It’s just that it is obvious that so many folks running for office have sim-ply asked a friend, family member or possibly a pass-ing stranger with a camera phone to quickly snap a photo of them.

That seems the only logi-cal explanation why media outlets are frequently supplied with images of women and men who are out of focus, have tree

branches and more growing out of their head, deep shadows hiding their eyes and sport a skin colour that resembles nothing in nature.

You would think people who, in many cases, are investing a large amount of time and a not-incon-sequential amount of money in a bid for election would realize that a simple, clear portrait might go a long ways toward establishing a positive identity in the minds of vot-ers. Especially since we’re living in a very visual world.

Think about it. There’s an elec-tion looming. You’re planning to vote, but like too many of us you

haven’t made it to an all-candidates meeting. So, you’re flipping through your local community paper, check-ing out the candidates’ ads and the newspaper stories about the elec-tions.

There are photos of each of the candidates, and let’s say you’ve narrowed the choices down to two individuals. One looks back at you, is in focus, nicely dressed and has a pleasant expression. The other photo shows the person looking off into the upper left hand corner of the page, biting their lip and with one eye that appears to have twitched when the photographer snapped the shutter.

Who are you going to lean toward voting for?

Sure, I can hear you thinking we should be worried about the issues, not looks. You’re right. The reality is we do make choices based upon appearance.

My advice to anyone considering a run for office in a future election is simple. Invest in a nice portrait with a professional photographer. Wear a clean shirt, comb your hair, check your makeup. If you can’t smile without looking like you’re in pain, then just relax and look directly at the camera.

That way, even if you don’t make it into the electoral office of your dreams, you’ll at least have a pho-tograph you’ll be happy to send to your mom for Christmas.

• Don Denton is photo supervisor for Black Press South Island.

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OUR VIEW

Vanity advice for future candidates

‘The reality is we do make choices based upon appearance.’

Let’s give peace a fighting chance

The word peace has been commodified over the last few decades to the point that it’s relatively meaningless to many people.

Talk about peace and people will sing a refrain from John Lennon’s anti-war anthem released way back in 1969. The symbols of peace are also well known, though they’re now more likely to be used to dress up a handbag or designer shirt than an actual, earnest plea for calm.

But this weekend, as we warm to the spirit of the holidays, it’s a good time to renew our commitment to the idea of peace.

The past decade has been marked by one of the longest wars in our nation’s history. Canadian troops have pulled out of conflicts in Afghanistan and the U.S. has finally pulled back from its controversial invasion of Iraq.

For years, diplomacy has taken a back seat to a show of force. But recent history tells us that might is not the best way to put an end to violence. Sometimes, just having the eyes of the world on you can be enough to compel aggressors to choose a more peaceful tack.

Look at the events of this year’s Arab Spring. The best outcomes occurred when citizens themselves, many times with little more than just observation from other nations, became aware that there is a better way to exist than under the oppressive thumb of authoritarian regimes.

Peace is the will of the masses. We just need to recall what happened in 1914, on the Western Front of the First World War. The fires of the Great War were stoked by rival governments. But on the ground, amidst the death and the mire of the trenches, the common men who did the fighting chose to do something that seems more remarkable with every year that passes.

On Christmas Eve, there was an agreement to stop shooting. They were enemies but also humans with families and traditions of song and celebration. Those first soldiers who crept from their fortified positions, in direct opposition to their commanders’ orders, were incredibly brave.

For a few hours or even days in some places, there was a stop to the killing and irrational hatred. And then, perhaps reflecting the naïveté of hope as well as the passing of the season, the fighting resumed as it had been before.

Peace will take courage and the resolve of all of us to make that change.

Don DentonA thousand words


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LETTERS

We should be our brother’s keeper

It is fortuitous that ’tis the season we dust off Dickens’ most beloved villain, Ebenezer Scrooge.

I say fortuitous because Scrooge reminds us to choose between our conflicting natures: we can be cynical and selfish or we can realize we are our brother’s keeper. It is my Christmas wish that Canada would choose the latter, because we have been notoriously cynical lately.

I wonder how many Canadians are aware that CIDA is the only federal department with a frozen budget? Millions of dollars of aid to the world’s poorest are being withheld in the name of austerity, although Canada’s aid commitment is far below that of nations who are struggling with much greater fiscal troubles. You can almost hear Scrooge saying: “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?” Such appears to be Canada’s attitude to the world’s poor.

This is not just a wishful, Tiny-Tim thinking of a unique Christmas goose. Several programs that Canada has fully supported in the past have proven to be accountable, cost- effective and show proven results. Programs such as the Global Partnership for Education and the Global Fund to fight TB, AIDS and malaria. But it is

easy to turn from the world’s poor, as they have no voice in Canada.

We like to think we are being financially pragmatic, but as Dickens reminds us, “mankind is our business,” and we don’t know the length of burdensome chain we carry, forged of the bones of the silent legions that are passing beyond help.

Scrooge had a glimpse of a future where children die because of his inaction and his own name is cursed, and this is the path we are on.

The entire world is watching us; which Scrooge shall we be?

Nathaniel PooleVictoria

Effort, talent and work will be rewarded

Prosperity is quite distinctly a ground up process, not top down; millions of people bartering, trading, creating, selling and working to better their individual lives.

A fellow named Dunsmuir came out to Vancouver Island from Scotland as a paid employee to manage coal mines and became one of the 10 wealthiest men in the world during his lifetime.

Bill Gates started in his father’s garage and became one of the 10 wealthiest men in our contemporary world.

I am sorry to say I knew a very wealthy Victorian who

owned a museum and a hotel who died penniless in a care facility. Huge corporations die just as small companies replace them.

What a pity that the Occupy movement bemoans the wealth of others. There will always be those who make more money than you do. Effort, talent and work will be the end results of an individual’s life. If you think governments will better your life, think again. Prosperity starts with individuals, not collectivization. Governments redistribute wealth, they don’t create it. I suggest a great Christmas read to my fellow Victorians: The Rational Optomist by Matt Ridley

Please note: I do not believe a life spent accumulating wealth is necessarily a life well spent.

Patrick SkillingsVictoria

Monarchy should pay its own way

I hope that Canada becomes a free and sovereign dominion of its own. The best time for this would probably be when the Queen and Prince Charles die of natural causes.

In the meantime, I feel that as one of the richest families in the world, they should pay for their royal visits out of their own pockets; airfare

(Canadian Forces), hotel, food, security and the extra police costs, especially in a recession.

People who claim to be true supporters of the royal family can send cash, cheque or money order to Buckingham Palace on top of mandatory taxes.

I hope for a peaceful, lawful separation from Britain some day.

We can still be friends, but a foreign head of state is not a great idea, because we have different values.

Sean MurrayVictoria

School boards still skirt fee issue

The article about former trustee John Young getting school boards to quit charging fees is misleading.

Many of the classes do still have fees attached.

The district gets around the law by calling the classes electives and declaring them options. I think this is exactly what Young was fighting against. Still many students are not able to take classes because of costs. This is discrimination.

The new rock wall climbing class at Stelly’s secondary school costs students $1,000 each. That’s not within many parents’ budgets. And it was built with public funds. That’s very unfair.

Mac ProctorSidney

Kudos to the advocates and families of people with developmental disabilities who have spent countless hours trying to get their concerns heard. Now if only similar attention could be brought to the many other neglected social concerns in B.C.

Some changes have been made at Community Living B.C. Some new funding has been generated. It’s a testament to the effective advocacy of family members and supporters, and they know the hard work isn’t over yet.

Other community members should be so fortunate. Plenty of British Columbians have needs as great as those being served by CLBC, but without the organized network of families and advocates to help them bring their issues forward.

Parents of children who have a developmental disability are rightly upset when their child finishes

school at 19 only to learn there are no programs available for them due to long waiting lists. A child sits at home losing many of their learned skills. A parent ponders whether to quit a job to care for their adult children. It’s a terrible thing.

But it’s certainly not just young people with developmental disabilities experiencing such a cruel reality. Who stands up for those other children?

Who, for example, organizes public opinion for the 500 or so children who leave B.C.’s child protection program at age 19 every year with no consistent family connection or support? Who advocates for a better day for all the young people who live through trauma and abuse, and then shuffle through multiple foster homes, only to find themselves abruptly on their own in a world nobody

prepared them for?Who speaks for aging family

members caring for a spouse with Alzheimer’s disease with virtually no support for the caregiver? Who stands alongside the family member

ashamed to talk publicly about their child’s stigmatized illness – mental health, addiction, brain injury?

So many issues face British

Columbians after years of pared-down social support. We need a social strategy that addresses all those needs, not one that merely puts out the biggest fire.

We applaud the hard-won successes of community-living advocates, but needs are needs. We are a better society and spend less money to boot when we provide the supports people need, regardless of what label they carry.

Research has told us many, many times that when we

invest in prevention and intervention services, we spare ourselves vast expenses a few years down the line on crisis care for people who have poor health, more involvement with the police and justice systems, less education and lower incomes.

We absolutely support the need to have adequate community supports for people with developmental disabilities, but we can’t stop there.

For anyone facing difficulty in daily functioning, it makes good economic sense to provide the support people need to be healthy, engaged members of their community.

Shane Picken is president of the Federation of Community Social Services of B.C., which represents 137 community social service agencies. Dave Stigant is chair of the Board Voice Society of B.C., a non-profit that represents the viewpoint of B.C.’s volunteer boards of community-based social services.

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Shoes go walking from rec. centreA thief may be walking a mile in another man’s

shoes, after a black Timex watch, a $600 pair of prescription glasses and a pair of size nine and-a-half brown shoes were taken from an Oak Bay Recreation Centre pool change room.

“(Thieves) will grab whatever they can,” said Oak Bay police Deputy Chief Kent Thom.

The items were not secured in a locker. Police are reviewing surveillance footage of the Dec. 12 incident to try and get a suspect description.

No clean theft from laundry roomOn Dec. 13, police were called about a laun-

dry room door and lock set in an apartment building in the 2100-block of Cadboro Bay Rd. that suffered about $200 in damage. The laundry coin-operated machines, which are sometimes targeted by thieves, were not tampered with, police say.

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Last year Coats for Kids col-lected and distributed 3,500 coats to children and families in Greater Victoria.

This year, the program was cancelled until a group of con-cerned community members, unaffiliated with any charity or non-profit organization, took it upon themselves to fill the void.

“(The cancellation) left a gap in access to warm coats for many families, and particularly children, who would normally get up to 120 coats donated through their school, or a community centre,” said Rose Henry, who is helping with this

year’s collection. “Beyond the gener-

ous giving at this time of year, a coat is one of the basic needs for people and without this program it will increase the need on the existing commu-nity services, like the food bank,” she said.

“We’ve heard from other community services that cloth-ing donations have dropped over the last several months.”

The group is asking for dona-tions of coats, gloves, hats, shoes, socks or any winter or waterproof gear which will be distributed to those in need.

“Our target for this campaign

is to exceed the 3,500 coats donated last year and bring aware-ness of this much needed program to continue no mat-ter what happens,” Henry said.

New or used items can be dropped off at the Victoria Anti-Violence Project

at the University of Victoria, building B027; Hip Baby Cloth-ing, 104A-560 Johnson St.; and in the carport at 222 Langford St. or at the Blanshard Commu-nity Centre, 901 Kings Rd.

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Getting organizedVi Beresford peruses the 2012 calendars at Ivy’s Book Shop on Oak Bay Avenue. The items are always a popular gift idea for Christmas.

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The idea of shopping locally – and supporting your community – is never more prominent than at the holidays. But when shopping locally can also save you money, well, it doesn’t get much better than that!

Peninsula Co-op supports both its members and the greater community through the fi nancial success of its service stations, home heat-ing and grocery store.

In mailboxes just in time for Christmas, Peninsula Co-op mailed $5.7 million in rebates. This year member-owners received a rebate on petroleum and home heating purchases the equivalent of 5 cents a litre, a 5% rebate on all food centre purchases and a 4.7% rebate on gas centre convenience store purchases, notes Ron Heal, Peninsula Co-op General

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Imagine Victoria in the 1920s – the Empress Hotel, the clock at city hall and Michael Jackson’s Thriller ringing out through the air at the stroke of midnight.

Ballet Victoria’s Cinderella & the Fairy Tale Ball encom-passes it all. While still the classic love story generations have enjoyed, it’s also a pro-duction that pays homage to the Capital City and contem-porary comedy when the time is right.

“The story is still very much the Cinderella story, but based here,” said Ballet Victoria artistic director Paul Destrooper.

For this, his third year stag-ing the show, Destrooper also tweaked some of the plot details. The prince character, for example, is now an actor looking for his leading lady.

“The stepsisters and mother want to be rich and

famous,” he added. “When-ever we do a story, we put in these little flavours of what’s current. It’s contempo-rary, but at the same time it’s very traditional.”

Adding much of that flavour is the character of Z Snap, the dressmaker, an over-the-top role based on reality televi-sion fashion designers.

“It’s basically taking these characters and making cari-catures of the present time,” Destrooper said. “It doesn’t look like a dusty old ballet.”

Geoff Malcolm, a latecomer to the art of ballet via musi-cal theatre training as a youth, was a perfect fit for the role of Z Snap given his natural abil-ity for portraying characters, Destrooper said.

“Because I grew up in the-atre and it was always a part of my life, I do get to play some of these cooler charac-ters,” Malcolm said. “I get to be a little more flamboyant.”

Malcolm, who also works periodically in non-speaking

operatic roles, sees Cinderella as an ideal ballet for first-time audiences.

“This is a great way to bring people into that because there is such a defined story, so their appreciation for the art form can grow, but there is still a very clear story.”

It’s a show the kids will love and their parents will take something different away from, Destrooper added.

“If you love ballet and truly understand the art form, you are going to be delighted by the level of technique: the choreography, the challenges and the musicality that is exposed,” Destrooper said. “But in the end it is a fairy tale about fighting adversity and finding success.”

Cinderella & the Fairy Tale Ball runs Dec. 27 through 29 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 30 at 2 p.m. at the Royal Theatre. Tickets start at $25 and are available by phone at 250-386-6121 or online at www.rmts.bc.ca.

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Louise Rose and friends highlight a music-inspired Christmas Day community cel-ebration on Sunday at 11 a.m. at First Metropolitan United Church.

The lively service will fea-ture Louise Rose, her Open Door and Good News Choirs, and her jazz combo of Bryn Badel, trumpet, flugel horn; Barbara Callaghan, percussion; and Casey Rider, bass, joining organist and music director Fran Pollet and the First Met Choir.

All told, some 50 singers and musicians will be raising the rafters for an informal Christ-mas morning service.

In addition to the traditional favourite sing-along carols, many African-American and

Latin-inspired carols will be performed, including Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy and the poignant Sweet Little Jesus Boy.

The musical feast will also include Rose’s improvisations, as she presides over First Met’s beautiful nine-foot Bald-win grand piano, first played by her mentor Oscar Peterson when it belonged to the Victo-ria Symphony.

Afterwards, volunteers will be serving a Christmas Day lunch to the inner city commu-nity in the First Met hall.

First Met is located at 932 Balmoral Rd. at Quadra Street. For more details call 250-388-5188 or visit www.firstmetvic-toria.com.

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A look back at modernismUniversity of Victoria employees Cameron Northover, left, and Mark Hovey help to hang a new exhibit at UVic’s Legacy Art Gallery. The show, The Emergence of Architectural Modernism II: UVic and the Regional Aesthetic in the late 1950s and 60s, showcases Victoria’s post-war urban landscape. The show runs until Feb. 26.

First Metropolitan Church takes on Tolstoy’s cobbler

First Metropolitan church, 932 Balmoral Rd., presents Martin the Cobbler, an adaptation of Where Love Is, There God Is, a short story by Tolstoy. The intercultural and intergenerational ensemble tells a story of hope and compassion. Performances are Dec. 23 and 24 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation; all proceeds to Our Place. Call 250-388-5188 for information.

Island Music Awards call for submissions

The producers of the Vancouver Island Music Awards remind Island musicians to submit music they’ve released in 2010 or 2011, to be considered for nomination. Deadline is Dec. 31. The ceremony will be held April 21 in Victoria. For details, visit www.islandmusicawards.com.

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1. Prevent holiday weight gain by planning ahead – Cre-ate a plan to ease anxiety and help you stay on track between parties and events. If eating at restaurants, check their menu online beforehand to map out what you’re going to order.

2. NEVER go to a party hun-gry – We often eat faster and more (of the wrong things) when we’re hungry. Eat a balanced breakfast, lunch and snacks on the day to avoid overeating at the party.

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Note: Celebrate the new year at Sea Cider with its annual Wassail open house Jan. 15, with cider, food, and dancing.

3. Can’t resist pumpkin lattes? – Give yourself permission to rel-ish the special foods you have only during the holiday, but don’t let a 300-calorie slip turn into a 3,000-calorie blowout; once you’ve had that slice of cake, get back to eating healthfully.

4. No time to exercise – Dust off the old pedometer and strap it to your belt. As you run around for your Christmas shopping, you may be surprised how quickly those steps add up. For weight maintenance, aim for at least 5,000 steps a day; for weight loss, 10,000 steps a day.

5. “I’ll be good starting in Janu-ary” – Vowing to diet come Jan. 1? Knowing there’s a restrictive eat-ing plan on the horizon encour-ages you to binge now because you anticipate giving them up. Instead, aim for balance now.

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Oak Bay Beach Hotel offers sneak-peek to the publicWith the Oak Bay Beach Hotel set to offi cially

open to overnight guests in fi ve months, owners Kevin and Shawna Walker are welcoming visi-tors to come tour a new show suite this holiday season.

The suite shows off the hotel’s standard gue-stroom features, such as coffered ceilings, spa bathrooms with oversized soaker tubs, views, heated fl oors and shower rooms, solid mahoga-ny entry doors, premium in-room soundproof-ing, and fl oor-to-ceiling windows. Designed in a traditional English country manor house-style, suites are outfi tted with fi replaces, custom mahogany furniture, fi ne linens and duvets.

Historically, the Oak Bay Beach Hotel was the talk of the town for

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Set to open in May 2012, the new six-storey hotel will feature 20 private residences and 100 combination vacation suites/hotel rooms, full-service spa, seaside mineral pools, the return of The Snug, a restaurant and dinner theatre, and round-the-clock butler, concierge and valet ser-vices.

Visit the show suite, in the on-site sales offi ce at 1175 Beach Dr., Dec. 26 to 31, from 10 a.m. to

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La-Z-Boy ownership welcomes new additionsWhile a few new owners have joined

Vancouver Island’s two La-Z-Boy Furni-ture Galleries, their faces will be perfectly familiar to those who have visited in re-cent years.

When one of the two founding part-ners chose to retire recently, several long-time members of the management team embraced the opportunity to take the next step into ownership.

Joining founder Anthony Gray at the helm of La-Z-Boy are David Younger, Rita Roorda, Kim Lichtensteiger and Dana Wright, all keen to take their next step with the company.

“We’ve all been together for a long time,” Wright says, pointing to shared values and a commitment to the staff and community as key to their success.

Through the years, La-Z-Boy’s repu-tation for both service and impeccable quality has become well-known, though today’s furnishings may hold a few sur-prises for those who haven’t shopped

in a while. With actress Brooke Shields as their spokesperson, “we are not your dad’s recliner anymore,” Wright notes.

For those looking to update their de-cor without replacing anchor pieces, La-Z-Boy is also the place for accesso-ries, artwork, pillows, throws and more. Unsure how to put it all together? Take advantage of the store’s award-winning, complimentary in-home design service.

A strong proponent of giving back both locally and internationally, Van-couver Island La-Z-Boy stores have em-braced the micro-fi nancing work of Op-portunity International, offering loans to budding entrepreneurs in Columbia to help them work their way out of pov-erty. “One of our staff brought the idea forward and it became apparent that we could do more,” Wright says, noting one project where they helped build a school in Columbia.

Efforts in Haiti are focused on helping mothers with young children, while right

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Junior curling provincials in Victoria

Travis PatersonNews staff

For the Josh Hozack rink, the mis-sion is simple: win the junior provin-cials at home in Victoria next week and qualify for nationals.

Team Hozack, along with Team de Jong, are the two home rinks who qual-ified for the 2012 junior boys provin-cials at the Victoria Curling Club next week, Dec. 27 to 31.

Both are highly capable of winning B.C.’s this week. Each competed in Sep-tember’s Cloverdale Cash Spiel, part of the 2011-12 World Curling Tour series of pro tournaments, though neither made the money round.

But it’s team Hozack that holds an edge as the favourite. They came oh so close to winning the 2011 provin-cials last year, only to lose in the final. Going into this year’s provincials, they just happen to be tied for first in the Tuesday night super league, where both teams play in search of higher competition.

“We’ve played well against some good teams in the Tuesday league,” said Todd Troyer, coach of the Hozack rink. It’s no small task to lead the super league, home to the Jody rink, which qualified for men’s provincials on Sun-day with a win over Victoria’s Neil Dan-gerfield rink at the Island playdowns in Campbell River.

The success is wel-come but not a surprise for the Hozack rink, which started the season early. “We’re more confident and prepared than ever,” Hozack said. “There isn’t much ice in the summer, so we were up at Kerry Park as early as July and went to Vernon for a week-long camp in August. Our goal is to go to nationals. We believe we can.”

As skip, Hozack throws last with team members Zac Capron at lead, Nolan Reid at second and Corey Chester at third. It’s the final year of junior for 20-year-olds Hozack and

Capron, though Chester (19) and Reid (18) will remain eligible.

“Playing at home feels great. It just makes you want to win it even more,” Hozack said.

When they’re not curling, Hozack, Capron and Chester study accounting

at Camosun College. Coin-cidentally, coach Troyer is a chartered accountant with downtown firm Nor-gaard Neale Camden.

Two home teamsTeam de Jong is also

known as the Wenzek rink, as third Daniel Wenzek calls the shots, though Cameron de Jong throws the team’s last rocks. Thomas Thi-erbach leads and Sanjay Bowry throws second. The team is coached by Donald McMullen.

No girls teams from the Victoria club qualified for provincials this year, also running in Victoria next week.

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Hozack rink aims for gold

Travis Paterson/News staff

Josh Hozack and team are at home for the junior curling provincials in Victoria Dec. 27 to 31.

Curling sked■ Round robin:Tuesday, Dec. 273:30 p.m.Wednesday, Dec. 28 9:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 2910 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 309 a.m.■ Tiebreakers:Friday, Dec. 301 and 4:30 p.m. (if necessary)■ Playoffs:Saturday, Dec. 31semifinal 9:30 a.m. and final 1:30 p.m.

Travis PatersonNews staff

Ty Jones’ incredible scoring run has not only picked the Saanich Braves up by the col-lar and dragged them to second place in the South division of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League, it’s resurrected his hockey career.

The captain is considered the league’s MVP heading into the Christmas break. Needless to say, he’ll be representing the Braves when they host the VIJHL All Star Classic on Jan. 15.

It’s quite the turnaround for Jones, who was released by the Cowichan Valley Capitals to start the B.C. Hockey League season.

Once he found his junior B stride, Jones scored 44 points in 15 straight games from Oct. 5 to Dec. 10. Jones, who turns 19 on Dec. 29, is available to sign a permanent card in the BCHL but isn’t moving unless it’s the right fit.

“Jones isn’t just getting calls from BCHL teams every day, but he’s getting calls from NCAA schools too,” said Braves coach Brad Cook.

Last week, scouts from Elm-ira College in New York, an NCAA Div. III hockey program, attended Braves practice and talked at length with three play-ers.

“Jones is a player we proba-bly wouldn’t get if it isn’t for the shortened BCHL rosters this year (down to 21 players). Peo-

ple are realizing our league is an untapped resource. It’s one of the better junior B leagues in Canada.”

The Braves all-star selections include veteran forward Sam Johnston and 16-year-old rookie sensation Jack Palmer, who’s eighth in league scoring – a ben-efit from playing with Jones. Rookie defencemen Jaden Schmeisser, who’s playing full time with the Victoria Grizzlies, and veteran Hayden Long have also been named to the all-star team, along with goalie Tanner McGaw.

The VIJHL All Star Classic is Jan. 15 at Pearkes Arena, pros-pects at 1 p.m., skills compe-tition at 2:30 p.m. and all-star game at 3:30 p.m.

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BCHL roster cuts make Jr. B betterHoliday break

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Grizz’ resume play Dec. 30 at

home against the Alberni Bulldogs. Sharon Tiffin/News staff

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Oak Bay runners push new heights with UVic VikesTravis PatersonNews staff

University of Victoria Vikes runner Dylan Haight is one of three Vikes who will represent Canada at the world university games cross coun-try championships next spring.

Lodz, Poland is hosting the Inter-national University Sports Federation games in April, with the race on April 14.

Vikes associate coach Keith Butler, who worked with Haight at Oak Bay High, will lead the Canadian coach-ing team.

“(Butler) being named head coach is a show of the work that he’s put into this program and how he’s estab-lished himself as a coach within the CIS,” said head track coach Brent Fougner on the Vikes’ website. “He’s going to do wonders for our pro-gram.”

Vikes Stephanie Trenholm and Cliff Childs have also qualified for the race.

Haight made the choice to attend UVic two years ago after a standout high school career and now another Oak Bay High running prospect is doing the same.

National 400-metre specialist Brendon Restall

committed to the Vikes for the fall of 2012.

At the junior level, Restall is a 200m, 400m and 800m specialist, having raced the 400m at the 2011 World Youth Athletics Champion-ships in France.

The Grade 12 student is easily the favourite to win the 400m again and this spring will help Oak Bay compete for gold in the 4x100m and 4x400m relays. At university, however, Restall will be making the switch to the 800m, a challenging blend of pace and tactic.

“I haven’t really done many 800s, so I’ll slowly transition to the 800,” Restall said.

“For now, I’m keeping with the 400m for the next while. (The 800m) is a whole different type of race, getting your mind around that is an adjustment. It’s twice the distance I’m used to and it’s such a continuous amount of speed. I feel like in the future it’ll be an excel-lent event for me to compete in.”

Coach Fougner is big on Restall’s ability beyond the CIS level.

“He’s someone who has the potential to go on beyond the university level to perform at the national level in the 800-metre distance. He’s also going to be a

someone who is likely going to set some records in the CIS.” [email protected]


Brendon Restall will suit up for the Vikes in 2012.

Vikes running ahead

Glanford’s great eightsThe Glanford Mavericks are the city’s top

Grade 8 girls basketball team having defeated the Pacific Christian Pacers in the recent city final, 53-30.

It was a packed house at PCS for the game. The Mavericks outscored the Pacers 18-6 in the last frame to win.

“We avenged our only loss of the season, also to PCS,” said Glanford coach Derek Brooker.

Calli McMillan-Beaucamp led all scorers with 33 points for the Mavericks while Cassandra Devries’ work on the weak-side boards earned her 11 points for the Pacers.

The previous meeting was a low scoring affair going to the Pacers 36-31.

Provincials for Grade 8 girls basketball is by invitation, with Glanford looking forward to attending the March 8-10 tournament in Pitt Meadows.

The Mavericks went 8-1 in league play and earned a berth in the final with a 53-17 playoff victory over Bayside middle school. The Pacers (9-0) defeated St. Michaels University School in the other playoff.

Earlier this month, Glanford won the Mark Isfeld Tip-Off Tournament in Comox.

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Sports statsSpeedskating

Short track results from Esquimalt Speedskating Club

Port Coquitlam, Nov. 19Ben Weir: 1st in 1,500m; 3rd in 1,000m; 4th in 500m.Kelly Cayford: 2nd in 1,500m; 2nd in 400m; 4th in 200m.Cameron Nawosad: 2nd in 1,500m; 4th in 500m. Ian Phillips: 1st in 1,500m; 3rd in 1,000m; 2nd in 777m; 2nd in 500m. Maple Ridge, Dec. 11Ben Weir: 3rd in 1,500m; 3rd in 1,000m; 2nd in 500m. Kelly Cayford: 2nd in 1,500m; 2nd in 400m; 4th in 200m. Cameron Nawosad: 1st in 1,500m; 3rd in 500m; 1st in 200m.

WrestlingEsquimalt Dockers results from

Abby Invitational Wrestling tournament, Dec. 17

Junior boysDaniel Norwood - 57kg, GoldJordan Merrick - 120kg, SilverMitchel Keeping - 66kg, Bronze

Senior girlsKasha Solley (female)- 60kg, Silver

Senior boysTyson Atkinson - 100kg, GoldAngel Castillo - 66kg, GoldAndrew Heels - 60kg, GoldKevin Lingenfelter - 60kg, BronzeChris Dube - 84kg, BronzeMohammed Abubakar- 84kg,SilverMario Sanchez - 84kg, GoldDarien Lyons - 74kg, Bronze

Middle school boysCole Martin (Gr. 8) - 70kg Silver (Rockheights middle school)

HockeyVictoria Hockey League

Standings GP W L T PtsSharks 16 12 3 1 25Stars 17 11 4 2 24Stingers 17 10 4 3 23Knights 18 9 7 2 20Tritons 18 8 7 3 19Lions 17 6 7 4 16Brewers 17 0 12 5 5Rangers 16 0 12 4 4Recent scoresBrewers 0 Sharks 1 Knights 3 Rangers 2Scoring leaders GP G A PtsTrevor McNeil 16 22 19 41Pat Papaneu 17 14 26 40Jess Patterson 17 16 14 30Rich D’Appolonia 18 16 9 25Tom Lundrigan 17 12 13 25

Hockey for the holidays

Ten-year-old hockey fan Keegan Small brings Christmas

cheer to Bear Mountain Arena last week during the Victoria

Grizzlies and Cowichan Capitals game. While the BCHL and WHL are on holiday hiatus,

TSN is showcasing the world juniors on television beginning

Boxing Day. Sharon Tiffin/News staff

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Micksch Hanno Winfred

passed away with family by his side on December 8, 2011. He was surround-ed by his belongings and memories that decorated his cozy apartment at the Comox Valley Seniors Village. He is preceded by his wife, Kathrin Flüg-ger of Aumühle, Germany (1978).Lovingly nicknamed O.H. (Onkel Han-no), he was an independent man of few words who enjoyed spending his leisure time reading and researching,

but lived for family gatherings at his brother and sister-in-law’s home in Oak Bay, Victoria, British Columbia.Born in Hamburg, Germany, November 18, 1925 to parents Johann Georg and Annemarie (Sladeck) Micksch, Hanno was raised the eldest of two sons in the village of AumÜhle.Hanno and his wife, Kathrin, relocated to Caracas, Venezuela in 1955 where he pursued a career as an import administra-tor. He later moved into optical sales, working for the Veneopt Company, owned by Gerd Ellerbroek, husband of his cousin, Marlies (Micksch) Ellerbroek.Upon retirement in 1991, Hanno moved to Canada to be closer to his brother Hans Hubertus (Peter) Micksch, sister-in-law Renate (Buchholz) Micksch, and nieces, Stefanie, Annette and Julie. He lived happily in the municipality of Oak Bay, Vic-toria from 1991 to 2011. Biking and walking were part of his daily routine and he was a well-known fi gure about town on his vintage 1940s bicycle.Struggling with health issues, Hanno moved from Victoria to Courtenay in April 2011 to be closer to family. He was im-pressed by the warmth and caring attention of new friends including the health care professionals who improved the quality of life during his fi nal year. Hanno’s family would like to thank all of the kind individuals at Casa Loma, Comox Valley Seniors Village and St Joseph’s hospital that made him feel welcomed and at home in the Comox Valley.Honouring Hanno’s last wishes, “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust” Hanno’s ashes will be scattered by family in a nature park of their choice.Condolences may be sent to [email protected] and will be forwarded to the surviving family.

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OAK BAY NEWS - Friday, December 23, 2011 www.oakbaynews.com • A17This Weekend’s

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Page 44 week beginning December 22, 2011 Real Estate Victoria OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY/AGENCY

403-827 North Park St, $249,900Saturday Dec. 24 & Dec 31 1-2Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLarry Lineham, 250-661-7809 pg. 5

1959 Fairfi eld Rd., $859,000Saturday Dec 31st & Sunday Jan 1st 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalMaggie Thompson, 250-889-5955 pg. 10

1001 Foul Bay Rd, $860,000Saturday Jan 8 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith 250 388-5882 pg. 15

10 Helmcken RdDaily noon-4 (exc Dec 25, 26th & Jan 1)Pemberton Holmes David Hale 250 812-7277 pg. 2

5149 Cordova Bay, $1,249,900Saturday Dec 31st 1-3Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyBob Krueckl 250 477-5353 pg. 8

4942 Cordova Bay, $1,049,000Wed Dec 28, Sat Dec 31 & Wed Jan 4 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdKevin Starling 250 889-4577 pg. 24

5-881 Nicholson St., $549,000Saturday Dec 31 12-2DFH Real EstateWendy Herrick 250-656-0131 pg. 6

608 Fairway AveCall for Open House HoursCentury 21 QueenswoodChuck Meagher 250 477-1100 pg. 7

304-611 Brookside, $219,000Thursday & Friday 1-4Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124 pg. 12

3818 Trailhead, $249,900Saturday & Sunday 12-4Pemberton Holmes LtdNancy Vieira 250 384-8124 pg. 26

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Standing in front of a canvas bathed in the light of a floor-to-ceiling window, a solitary figure listens to unheard music on her pink headphones.

Liz Dailey is one of the few artists tak-ing advantage of available drop-in time at the visual arts studio in the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, now open for four months in the recreation centre.

Having the space to herself is a luxury, but Dailey would prefer if fellow artists started benefiting from the resource sooner than later.

“I would just really love to see other art-ists here,” she said. “There’s a real energy when other artists get together and I miss that. There are very few places that give people that opportunity and this is one of those places.”

Dailey, a retired high school art teacher from Ontario, works in a range of mediums. She first read about the centre when she moved west in August. “I was just blown away that this had been built,” she said, not-ing the affordability of rental.

“It’s a great idea because they’ve taken the arts and put it beside the rec (centre).”

Similar to purchasing a recreation pass, once artists have registered for an orienta-tion they can buy single drop-in studio vis-its at a cost of $6.50 for adults. Discounted punch cards are available at $51 for 10 visits or $120 for 25, and an unlimited use pass runs $100 for three months, $175 for six

months or $300 for the year. The studios include storage for tool kits

and oversized canvases.While the visual arts studio has had a

slow start, across the hall the ceramics stu-dio is bustling.

In addition to regular classes, the ceram-ics studio has drop-in time and includes the use of wheels and the kiln. “When we opened in September, people were waiting to use (the ceramics studio),” said Tom Sev-erson, visual arts programmer for the arts centre. “But since we’re only three months old, some people are just now realizing we’re here.”

Severson said he expects more people will use the visual arts studio as they find out it’s available.

One way the word is getting out is through professional development series – including workshops on grant writing and income tax filing for artists – put on by the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria.

“Just by talking with people, I’m getting people interested already,” said Dailey, who volunteers with the arts council, which is also sponsoring an artist in residence pro-gram.

The council also manages the centre’s art gallery and display spaces.

Learn more about the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria at www.cacgv.ca or visit the district of Saanich website at www.saanich.ca/parkrec/recreation/ceda-rart.html for a run-down of classes and stu-dio spaces available at the arts centre.

[email protected]


On the hunt for artists


Retired high school art teacher Liz Dailey works in the visual arts studio in the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill. Dailey pays a nominal fee to use the space and would love to have more artists working alongside her.

Visual artists slow to warm to Cedar Hill studio space


PHILANTHROPY The Victoria Foundation & Black Press Working Together – how philanthropy

shapes our community

The Victoria Foundation:75 years of giving - highlights of a milestone year

The story of The Victoria Foundation began 75 years ago in a soup kitchen - the Sunshine Inn on Pandora Avenue. The man who ran it, Burges Gadsden, knew this community could be improved by an organization that would support charities across all sectors. So in 1936, during the darkest days of the Depression, Gadsden founded The Victoria Foun-dation, Canada’s second community foundation (after Winnipeg).

Since then, the foundation has granted more than $100 million to thousands of charitable organizations. It now manages assets of more than $180 million – making it the sixth largest of 180 community foundations in Canada. Here are some highlights of the Victoria Foundation’s 75th anniversary year:

2011 marks the 75th anniversary of the Victoria Foundation. The donors of yesterday had the same vision as those who give today – to make our community stronger and to support causes that matter. Over 75 years, our endowment has grown, and as an organization, our ability to affect change has grown. Thank you donors and thank you Victoria, for counting on us for 75 years. victoriafoundation.bc.ca

Premier Sponsor

January – Foundation launches 75th anniversary website

View the interactive timeline at75yearsandcounting.ca Feb. 2 – Grants honour Victoria’s Chinese Canadian community

The foundation gives $75,000 for four projects to protect and support Chinese his-tory, culture and art. Later in the month, another $26,000 is granted to preserve the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Associa-tion’s historical documents collection.Feb. 4-13 – Victoria Film Festival: Con-templating Victoria

The Festival honors the foundation’s 75th with a showing of 10 films from the archives that reflect life in Victoria.April 10 – Launch of the Victoria Circle

The Victoria Circle welcomes 97 people who have communicated their intention to make a future gift to the community through their estate plans.April 10-16 – Victoria Foundation steps up for National Volunteer Week

The Foundation supports Story Theatre’s production of Stepping Up, a play for young people about the benefits of volunteerism.May 1 – Every Step Counts in 10K

A 75-member foundation team enters the Times Colonist’s 10K road race. Mem-bers include participants and volunteers from one of the foundation’s programs, Every Step Counts.May 31 – Local students grant $17,500

Over 100 participants from Victoria Foundation’s seven Vital Youth high school programs present grants totaling $17,500 to 16 charitable organizations.June 11 – Foundation friends celebrate 75th

A 75th gala features keynote speaker Tim Brodhead, CEO of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, and Canadian come-dian Rick Mercer. Sept. 12 – Victoria Symphony premieres orchestral work honoring the founda-tion

The Victoria Symphony premieres High Tower, by Victoria-based composer Anthony Genge. The work was commissioned by a former Honorary Governor of the founda-tion, the late Jane Rogers, in honor of the community contributions of the Victoria Foundation and those of her late husband, former Lieutenant Governor Bob Rogers.Sept. 26 – Vital Youth welcome the Gov-ernor General

Members of the foundation’s Vital Youth

program greet the Right Hon. David John-ston and his wife on their inaugural visit to Victoria. In honour of the visit, the City of Victoria contributes $5,000 to its Governor General’s Youth Legacy Fund held at the foundation.Sept. 29 – Study demonstrates high level of arts economic activity

The first economic activity study on arts and culture in Greater Victoria is released. Funded by the foundation, the study shows the sector generated total economic activity of $170 million in 2010.Oct. 4 – Vital Signs community report card released

The foundation issues its sixth annual Victoria’s Vital Signs report showing that Victoria residents are concerned about the cost of living but love the natural amenities of their community.Nov. 7 – National Philanthropy Day Awards

Foundation board member Deirdre Roberts is awarded the Generosity of Spirit Award at the National Philanthropy Day awards.Nov. 11 – World premiere of Mary’s Wed-ding

Foundation donors supported the com-position of the World War I-based opera Mary’s Wedding for Pacific Opera Victoria.Nov. 15 – 18 – Victorians rise to the 75-Hour Giving Challenge

Fifteen charitable organizations with endowment funds managed by the foun-dation raise more than $140,000 in 75 hours. The foundation contributed another $75,000 in matching funds.Nov. 19 – Victoria’s Youth Vital Signs released

The Victoria Youth Vital Signs report is launched at TED-X Victoria. It’s the first time it’s released as a stand-alone report. Nov. 28 – Foundation awards $800,000 in community grants

This latest round of grants brings the foundation’s annual total to more than $9 million. Dec. 20 – New fund brings history full circle

The first organization to receive a grant from the Victoria Foundation becomes the most recent one to create an endowment to be managed by the foundation. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Victoria, origi-nally the Victoria Boys’ Club, establishes a $100,000 fund.

Rick Mercer and board celebrated 75 years of the Victoria Foundation on June 11.

Victoria’s Vital Signs®, an annual community report card sponsored by Island Savings, was released Oct. 4 showing cost-of-living has become the top issue for Victorians.

Victoria’s Youth Vital Signs®, sponsored by the TELUS Victoria community board, was released Nov. 19 at the TED-X Victoria conference.

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