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Chris Jones, GardenWorks Colwood store manager, is working on a display showcasing two patio setups for the Victoria Home Expo this weekend at West Shore Parks and Recreation.

Home experts gather on West ShoreCharla HuberNews staff

Decorating a patio for spring can be daunting when perusing all the options available.

The team from GardenWorks hopes to help people learn to create the best patio with the space available. GardenWorks is among those offering expertise at the Victoria Home Expo at West Shore Parks and Recreation.

In a 10-foot by 10-foot booth, Chris Jones, Colwood store manager, will display two patio setups.

“If you have a condo, that space will show you what you can do,” she said, explaining that people with larger areas to work with can just add to the ideas. “With the love of outdoor living people are spending more time on their patios entertaining. Around here there are many people living in condos or houses with

small yards.”The patio display will showcase an edible

patio loaded with potted blueberries, strawber-ries, herbs, citrus fruits and olives. The other option on site will be a modern contemporary patio with beautiful pottery filled with foliage and flowers.

Please see: Home expo a ‘one stop shop’, Page A11

Combined services is a start

Daniel PalmerNews staff

As discussion around amalgamation grows, regionalized services are increasingly seen as a good place to begin implementing the idea.

Across the Capital Region there are four police departments, three RCMP detachments, 14 fire departments and a transit commission dominated by urban representatives.

During the half-hour drive from North Saanich to downtown Victoria, three separate 911 call centres are responsible for emergency dispatch.

“We could, in theory, dispatch for the whole peninsula by adding one more console to our (communication) centre, but there seems to be a fear to push the discussion,” said Victoria police Chief Const. Jamie Graham, a vocal proponent for a single regional police force.

Please see: Leaders support discussion of amalgamation, Page A3

Police and fire demonstrate integration works in CRD

Louis Bockner News staff

Chainsaw sounds echoed across Langford Lake yester-day and today (April 11) as city crews began a project to upgrade beach accessibility on the southeast side of the lake.

The move left some residents shocked and upset.

“I am disgusted,” said Mari-anne Thomas, who has lived on the lake for the past 13 years. “It’s a disgrace and if I would have known I would have tried to get as many people as I could together to say ‘let’s stop this.’”

The most angering part for Thomas and fellow resident Sandy Bell was the removal of several large trees that stood on the shore of the lake near the boat launch.

“I’m kind of shocked actually, because I came home yesterday and all these trees were down,” said Bell.

Coun. Lanny Seaton said the motivation behind the project is to create a friendlier atmo-sphere for families by putting in flush toilets, picnic tables and a playground by low-ering entire area of the beach, a feat he describes as impos-sible without the removal of the trees.

“If we don’t take the trees down we can’t go on with the project,” said Seaton.

Bell said she finds that hard to believe.

“I’m disappointed because I wonder if there could have been a more creative solution that didn’t involve cutting down these old trees but still allowed accessi-bilities to families,” she said.

The largest of the trees, a Douglas fir, was 43 inches across at its base and estimated between 100 and 200 years old.

Seaton says smaller trees removed along the lake’s board-walk was to increase visibility for police and bylaw officers who, he added, often respond to complaints of young people

drinking while sitting on the structure. These “riff raff” as one of the men working on site called them are one of the rea-sons why families don’t find the

beach an inviting place to be.

Another aspect of the issue that bothered both Bell and Thomas was the suddenness with which the project was carried out.

Seaton said that at a public Legion meet-ing in 2008 more than 1,000 people voted for more beach accessibil-ity throughout Langford and that although the

plan had been to wait until 2015, they had money in the budget and decided to act on it.

“We had an opportunity to get it done and we got it done,” Seaton said.

The project follows similar ones already completed in Glen Lake Park that create infrastruc-ture aimed at children and par-ents.

The request for proposals on the project opens Monday and closes April 29. [email protected]

Tree cut riles residentsSafety, appeal drive renovation at Langford Lake

Louis Bockner/News staff

Trees come down at Langford Lake to make way for a more appealing and accessible park. Visit www.vicnews.com/neighbourhoods/west_shore/ to see the plan.

Military members stranded with demise of ferry serviceCharla HuberNews staff

Hundreds of military personnel will soon be looking for a ride to work.

The Victoria Harbour Ferry Com-pany will be stopping its service route from Colwood to Esquimalt on April 19 at 5 p.m.

“They indicated they were not finding it to be financially viable,”

said Capt. Jenn Jackson, CFB Esqui-malt base public affairs officer. “These 200 people will need to find a new way to get to work. Travel to and from work is the individual’s responsibility.”

Jackson lives in Esquimalt and doesn’t use the service, but has spoken to those who do and some are considering cycling or carpool-ing when the service [email protected]

“If we don’t take the trees down we can’t go on with the project.”– Lanny Seaton

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Several integrated police units operate in the Capital Region, including the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team,

a homicide investigation unit and a domestic violence unit, the latter formed in the wake of a 2007 murder-suicide case in Oak Bay.

But the units rely on a shared funding model, which presents an inherent

problem each year as budget evaluations begin and cities look for cost savings.

“As has been shown recently (when VicPD pulled one of two officers from the domestic violence unit), if I don’t think it’s working well for me, I’ll pull out and that leaves the other agencies in a lurch, which isn’t fair,” Graham said.

Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins, an opponent of municipal amalgamation, has shepherded a year of frustrating negotiations around regionalized police services, both with the B.C. Justice Ministry and the Victoria Police Board. (In June 2012, Esquimalt was forced to stick with VicPD services despite its desire to save money by contracting the township’s policing to the RCMP).

But as Victoria and Esquimalt near completion of a framework policing agreement, Desjardins is singing a decidedly more optimistic tune, in hopes other municipalities will buy in.

“If we are able to reach an agreement, then there’s a huge opportunity to go forward and be a model for further regionalization,” she said.

The fear is that every municipality outside Victoria and Esquimalt would lose service and pay more under a regional police force. But Graham said the framework agreement may be able to woo other municipalities with an easy cost-sharing template that would prevent ballooning property tax bills.

“There is also this never-ending fear, I think most unfairly, that if we become a regional force, other officers will be sucked into the downtown core to deal with problems, but that’s simply not true,” he said.

While Victoria struggles with its disproportionate expenses brought on by core-city syndrome, the region’s fire departments use mutual-aid agreements to balance and co-ordinate coverage across the region.

“If there’s an issue, we call each other up and have that discussion,” said Lt.-Insp. Brad Sifert of the Victoria Fire Department.

Sifert and other fire prevention officers hold monthly meetings to discuss recent fires and public safety issues, an example of playing well together, he said.

In 2011, Colwood and View Royal inked a progressive automatic aid agreement, where resources are shared without having to go through formal request channels. The model could prove viable for other adjacent municipalities in the future, Sifert said.

Victoria-Beacon Hill MLA Carole James said the community-led discussions around regionalized services and amalgamation is long overdue.

Last week, she threw her support behind Amalgamation Yes, a grassroots group dedicated to a non-binding vote on amalgamation to gauge public support on the issue.

“It’s long overdue to give the public a

voice in all of this,” James said. “There have been discussions about the cost savings … but nothing based on best practices or facts.”

Liberal MLA Ida Chong and Green Party leader Jane Sterk have also said they support a discussion on amalgamation, as long as the majority of the population is in favour of it.

Desjardins, who counts herself among the naysayers for the time being, said municipalities will likely fiercely oppose taking on debt from other communities, but anything that saves money is going to be an easier sell.

“If there’s ever been an opportune time to have this discussion, it’s likely to be in the next little while,” she said.

Consistent transit fundingcritical: commission chair

While emergency service providers dance around regionalized services, the jury is still out on the best way to make the Victoria Regional Transit Commission more accountable to taxpayers and the outlying municipalities.

Right now, the commission is made up of seven municipal politicians who are appointed by the B.C. transportation minister. Both Saanich and Victoria have two elected officials each on the commission, while the remaining three positions are filled by mayors and councillors from other Capital Region communities on a rotating basis.

Last August, an independent review panel recommended changes to the

urban-weighted commission, including opening the door to Capital Regional District control of transit or expanding to nine appointed members.

“As we move forward to big investments like rapid transit and so on, we need very broad community support before we engage in that kind of expenditure,” said Susan Brice, commission chair.

Regardless of the governance model, she said, the commission must be able to rely on steady funding beyond property tax revenue to create a functional regional transit system. “Just having another representative on the commission will not increase the dollars. You can put any level of service out there but you have to find ways to fund it.”

Brice will hold talks with transportation ministry staff next week to discuss options for the commission. Meanwhile, B.C. Transit is expected to make public its short-term recommendations to improve rapid transit by the end of April.

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Daniel PalmerReporting

Don Denton/News staff

Victoria police Chief Const. Jamie Graham supports the idea of an amalgamated police service for Greater Victoria.

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Steps to amalgamation1. Preliminary: At least two municipalities approach provincial government with intention to study amalgamation.2. Committee: Local governments form a committee to oversee preparation of a restructure study and manage public consultation.3. Study: Province hires consultant for formal restructure study. Report would offer objective information on financial impacts, implications for local services and political representation, etc.4. Decision: Local government committee chooses whether or not to hold a referendum on amalgamation. A simple majority vote to approve amalgamation, in each affected municipality, would be needed to move discussion forward.5. Implementation: Province pays for transition board to restructure local government and adopt best practices. Local governments would remain intact during this period, which could take several years.

– Province of British Columbia

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Thanks to a sizeable donation from the curler-driven Sandra Schmirler Foundation, the Victoria Hospitals Foundation is well on its way to raising the $120,000 it needs to buy three neonatal incuba-tors for Victoria General Hospital.

An all-day radiothon held last week at the Hotel Grand Pacific brought in $107,771 in public dona-tions and those from multiple organizations.

Event organizers hoped the buzz surrounding the 2013 Ford World Men’s Curling Championships, which wrapped up Sunday in Victoria, would help spur donations. The late Sandra Schmirler was a three-time world women’s champion and four-

time Scott Tournament of Hearts Canadian cham-pion.

The Schmirler foundation chipped in $60,000 to the incubator funding drive, outpacing their previ-ous two donations to the Victoria group of $24,000 in 2006 and $30,000 in 2009.

“We exclusively fund neonatal intensive care units,” said Chris Atchison, vice-chair of the Schmirler foundation. That point is reflected in the foundation’s slogan, “Champions start small.”

Grants go towards servicing the needs of criti-cally ill or premature babies, he said.

Other large donations included $12,500 each from Telus and the Children’s Health Foundation, $10,000 from the Sidney Shriner’s Club #42, $5,000 from Peninsula Co-op and $1,000 each from the Royal Bank of Canada and Golf for Kids.

The Vancouver Island Health Authority deter-mined the money would be raised for the VGH after the hospital identified the need for new incu-bators as a priority.

“(The incubators) are expensive, highly tech-nical units and are obviously important to these little guys’ lives,” says Rod Dewar, past-chair of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation.

The three incubators will be used for an esti-mated 500 babies placed in the intensive care unit every year at VGH, out of a total of 3,000 delivered annually at the hospital.

[email protected]

Foundation scores big for neonatal unit

Aging Sangster elementary school will get a $2.1 million seis-mic upgrade.

Four classrooms, several walls and a portion of the roof will be reworked as part of the project. During constructions students will relocate to other areas of the school. The work is to begin this summer and be complete by Octo-ber.

“As a father and a teacher, I can say there is nothing more important than having a safe

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The school has capacity for up to 215 students spanning kinder-garten to Grade 6. The school was built in phases from 1957 to [email protected]

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Many pundits point to Oak Bay-Gordon Head as a key battle-ground riding on the South Island for the B.C. Liberals, in their fight to retain power in the province.

While a lot of water has flowed under the bridge in four years of governing since the 2009 provincial elec-tion, a look back at the results from that vote show that two other Greater Victoria rid-ings had even closer races.

The two Liberal can-didates in those races, however, are gone.

Murray Coell is retir-ing after four succes-sive terms as Saanich North and the Islands MLA, and Robin Adair has been replaced by Rishi Sharma in Saan-ich South.

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Edward HillNews staff

The leafy neighbour-hoods of Oak Bay-Gor-don Head are poised to be a key provincial election battleground for Greater Victoria, featuring a poten-tial three-way race between NDP-Liberal rivals from 2009 and a high-profile B.C. Green Party newcomer.

In a region domi-nated by the B.C. NDP, last election veteran B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Ida Chong held her seat by 561 votes, slightly more than two per cent, against NDP hopeful Jessica Van der Veen.

The four-term MLA faces Van der Veen again, and Green can-didate Andrew Weaver, a headline-making cli-mate scientist from the University of Victoria.

Neighbourhood vot-ing polls from 2005 and 2009 indicate the Liber-als and Chong retained support in areas like Ten Mile Point, Uplands, Cadboro Bay and McNeill Bay. NDP support remained strong in Gordon Head and Mount Tolmie, and made inroads into neighbourhoods of Oak Bay. The Greens remained minor play-ers.

Whether Weaver and the Greens become a factor in this riding is the question. UVic political science profes-sor Jamie Lawson said the dynamic is a puzzle in an electoral area

that is largely white collar, holds some of the wealthiest postal codes in the city and has large population of seniors.

Weaver could play the spoiler for the NDP and split the vote to re-elect Chong for a fifth term – the race could be a “war between the non-Liberal parties and the centre-left,” Law-son said.

On the other hand, Chong could fall victim to the flagging fortunes of a party beset with scandals and which has seen many of its senior cabinet minis-ters abandon ship.

“Ida Chong may face a meltdown by the Liberals. If that’s true, those (Liberal) voters may sit on their hands, or will chose between NDP and Greens,” Law-son said. “Voting Green isn’t as scary for a pro-market voter who might usually vote Lib-eral, but who believes climate change exists.”

It seems less likely for B.C. NDP sup-porters to migrate to Green, as the NDP vowed shut down the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, what Lawson calls the “lit-mus test” for provincial environmental plat-forms.

“For what reason would a NDP voter vote Green?” he

asked. “They might because they know who Andrew Weaver is, or they like what (Elizabeth) May does federally, but other-wise they’ll get a (NDP) candidate in govern-ment to make sure the Enbridge deal doesn’t go through.

“(Van der Veen’s) party is against Enbridge, is going to spread the carbon tax and is a party that is going out of its way to reassure businesses. You could see votes going to the NDP.”

Oak Bay-Gordon Head candidates – including B.C. Conser-vative Party newcomer Greg Kazakoff – offi-cially launched their 21-day campaigns [email protected]

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Capital Region ridings is exactly the same as in 2009.

The five reigning MLAs are out to defend their seats and 2009 runners-up Jessica Van der Veen (Oak Bay-Gordon Head) and Gary Holman (Saanich North and the Islands) are back for another try.

2001 B.C. election results:

Victoria-Swan Lakex-Rob Fleming (NDP) 13,119Jesse McLinton (Lib) 5,754David Wright (Green) 2,628Robert Savage (Reform) 174

Victoria-Beacon Hillx-Carole James (NDP) 13,400Dallas Henault (Lib) 6,375Adam Saab (Green) 4,106Saul Anderson (Ind.) 319

Oak Bay-Gordon Headx-Ida Chong (Lib) 11,877

x-Jessica Van de Veen (NDP) 11,316Steven Johns (Green) 2,330

Saanich Southx-Lana Popham (NDP) 11,697Robin Adair (Lib) 11,215Brian Gordon (Green) 1,664Doug Christie (WCC) 235

Saanich North/the IslandsMurray Coell (Lib) 13,136x-Gary Holman (NDP) 12,878Tom Bradfield (Green) 3,223

Esquimalt-Royal Roadsx-Maurine Karagianis (NDP) 11,514Carl Ratsoy (Lib) 6,579y-Jane Sterk (Green) 3,664

Juan de Fucax-John Horgan (NDP) 11,520Jody Twa (Lib) 6,866James Powell (Green) 1,749x - running in 2013y - running in Victoria-Beacon Hill

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Thanks to a sizeable donation from the curler-driven Sandra Schmirler Foundation, the Victoria Hospitals Foundation is well on its way to raising the $120,000 it needs to buy three neonatal incuba-tors for Victoria General Hospital.

An all-day radiothon held last week at the Hotel Grand Pacific brought in $107,771 in public dona-tions and those from multiple organizations.

Event organizers hoped the buzz surrounding the 2013 Ford World Men’s Curling Championships, which wrapped up Sunday in Victoria, would help spur donations. The late Sandra Schmirler was a three-time world women’s champion and four-

time Scott Tournament of Hearts Canadian cham-pion.

The Schmirler foundation chipped in $60,000 to the incubator funding drive, outpacing their previ-ous two donations to the Victoria group of $24,000 in 2006 and $30,000 in 2009.

“We exclusively fund neonatal intensive care units,” said Chris Atchison, vice-chair of the Schmirler foundation. That point is reflected in the foundation’s slogan, “Champions start small.”

Grants go towards servicing the needs of criti-cally ill or premature babies, he said.

Other large donations included $12,500 each from Telus and the Children’s Health Foundation, $10,000 from the Sidney Shriner’s Club #42, $5,000 from Peninsula Co-op and $1,000 each from the Royal Bank of Canada and Golf for Kids.

The Vancouver Island Health Authority deter-mined the money would be raised for the VGH after the hospital identified the need for new incu-bators as a priority.

“(The incubators) are expensive, highly tech-nical units and are obviously important to these little guys’ lives,” says Rod Dewar, past-chair of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation.

The three incubators will be used for an esti-mated 500 babies placed in the intensive care unit every year at VGH, out of a total of 3,000 delivered annually at the hospital.

[email protected]

Foundation scores big for neonatal unit

Aging Sangster elementary school will get a $2.1 million seis-mic upgrade.

Four classrooms, several walls and a portion of the roof will be reworked as part of the project. During constructions students will relocate to other areas of the school. The work is to begin this summer and be complete by Octo-ber.

“As a father and a teacher, I can say there is nothing more important than having a safe

place for students to learn,” said Don McRae, Minister of Educa-tion. “This upgrade to Sangster elementary is part of the most comprehensive school seismic upgrading program ever under-taken in British Columbia and will keep students safe for generations to come.”

The school has capacity for up to 215 students spanning kinder-garten to Grade 6. The school was built in phases from 1957 to [email protected]

Sangster elementary gears up for big one

Pizza party

Jesse Plested, front, and Jaewon Lee prepare a large lunchtime order at Panago Pizza at Westshore Town Centre.

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Charla HuberNews staff

Mobile X support workers are still trying to find West Shore drug users to help.

It’s been one year since the Mobile X support workers began offering services to the West Shore. While they don’t keep a strict tally, the numbers remain the same as the year before for the support workers work out of a minivan with a cellphone and travel across Greater Victoria.

They drive to any location to meet clients and provide them with free syringes, crack pipes and condoms.

“It’s extremely hard to con-nect with people on the West Shore,” said Brittney Johnstone, support worker with Victoria AIDS Resource and Community Service Society.

When working downtown Victoria the support worker explains drug use is visible and it’s easier to locate possible cli-ents, on the West Shore most of it occurs behind doors.

The support workers do have some West Shore clients, but most come into Victoria to pick up supplies.

“Right now our main focus is the West Shore,” Johnstone said adding there are no other simi-lar services offered on the West

Shore. “We have more of a connec-

tion with Sooke than the West Shore,” said Johnstone adding in Sooke they deal with a couple of individuals who pick up sup-plies and distribute them to a group of people. “We are happy we are getting them the supplies they need, but we would like to meet them face-to-face and talk to them about safety.

“We are non-judgemental and just want to give people what they need.”

The Mobile X is available from 9 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Monday to Friday. For more information or to book a visit call [email protected]

Support workers continue outreach to identify West Shore drug users


Sara Wilson and Brittney Johnstone, Mobile X support workers, deliver clean needles, crack pipes and condoms to people who request the service.

Metchosin has $5,500 to spend on grants in aid among the 15 groups seeking funding. Council faces requests from Board of Cem-etery Trustees of Greater Victoria – Little Spirits Garden for $7,500 to the $200 sought by Intermunicipal Advisory Committee on Disability Issues. Belmont secondary prom committee, Juan de Fuca 55-plus centre and Vancouver Island South Film and Media Commission seek unspecified funds. Other groups include: Cowichan Energy Alterna-tives ($1,200), Crisis Intervention and Public Information Society of

Greater Victoria ($900), Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse for Canada Day celebrations ($3,000) Greater Victoria Bike to Work Week ($500), Hans Helgesen Parent Advi-sory Council ($1,500), Metcho-sin Equestrian Society ($1,000), Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts ($500), Metcho-sin Preschool Society ($2,000) The Laren Society: Journey from Inside Out ($2,000) and West Shore Arts Council ($1,250).

Metchosin plans to make deci-sion on grants in May.

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Charging stations are pop-ping up across the region including several on the West Shore.

Still, Marti Martin-Wood chooses to charge her car at home.

Martin-Wood lives in Metchosin where one public elec-tric station exists and another is scheduled to be installed in the village core by the end of May.

“I have used the one at the com-munity house once,” said Martin-Wood. It’s easier to do at home, she added, even though a full charge can take 18 hours.

“The problem with the charging stations is they take about four hours, so you need an appoint-ment or something to do in that time,” Martin-Wood explained.

Though she hasn’t used the charging stations much, Martin-Wood still thinks they are a good idea.

“We will go and park at the charging station and then take the dog for a walk or go for a hike,” Martin-Wood said.

At West Shore Parks and Recre-

ation parking spaces designated for electric vehicles only. The lot was redesigned to add five parking spaces plus the two con-verted for electric charging. How-ever, when the parking lot is full of cars, gas-fuelled vehicles are parking in the electric car only spots. The stations and signage were installed in February, but due to an installation error they were not activated until April 5.

“They have been used by non-electric vehicles but we are hop-

ing now that they are working we hope people respect that,” said Colwood Mayor Carol Hamilton.

Colwood also installed two sta-tions at the Park and Ride at West Shore Parks and Recreation and at city hall.

A charging station at City Cen-tre Park has been operating since the end the March. The station works on a card system and so far it hasn’t been used said Lang-ford parks manager Mike Leskiw.

The charging station parking is

reserved for electric vehicles only and Leskiw said patrons respect that and no gasoline-powered cars have parked there.

The Metchosin Community House also added additional parking spaces when it added the charging station in March.

Metchosin plans to add signage to both charging stations explain-ing the purpose, but initially will not police who parks.

“If we notice difficulty and complaints then we will install

more signage,” said Lisa Urlacher, Metchosin corporate officer.

Metchosin selected charging stations with long enough cables to stretch and reach an electric vehicle not directly beside the station.

The Royal Bay Bakery also has a long cord that can reach the vehicles so a gasoline-powered vehicle wouldn’t have to move to accommodate an electric vehicle.

Bakery owner David Grove charges his own electric vehicle at the bakery five or six times a week. He has repeat custom-ers who bring their vehicles to charge, often from out of town from places including Pender Island and Mill Bay.

“I know a courier who stops by for lunch and a quick charge,” said Grove. “You get about 25 kilometres of range for a one hour charge.”

Grove has never experienced a parking lot too full to accommo-date an electric vehicle.

“I have not had that happen yet, but it will come up,” Grove said. “I think having a designated spot is a good idea, but I don’t think people should get fined for parking in it. They could just get issued an information ticket.

While the West Shore gets used to seeing electric vehicle only parking spots, Grove thinks it’s something that should be eased in,”much like handicap parking spaces were.”[email protected]

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As the B.C. NDP launched its election campaign last week with a package of income tax hikes, higher than those in the B.C. Liberals’ election budget of February, a third party leader confirmed his own plan to increase personal and business income tax rates.

It’s not readily apparent from his recently released “fiscal framework” document, but B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins told me his plan to phase out B.C.’s carbon tax does indeed include raising income tax rates that were lowered to make the carbon tax “revenue neutral.”

I reached Cummins in Prince George, where he was continuing his aggressive courtship of northern B.C. with an announcement that federal gas tax revenues would be redirected to a new fund for locally determined road improvements. Earlier he vowed to study the deplorable state of northern ambulance service.

Cummins has more good news for the north: that’s where a regionally phased elimination of the carbon tax would begin.

It’s also the area of thinnest population, meaning the impact on the B.C. treasury would be less. This is, after all, a tax budgeted to bring in $1.2 billion in the current year.

The B.C. Conservatives continually remind people that the

carbon tax falls disproportionately on rural, remote and particularly northern folks who face long

distances, long winters, and public transit options ranging from slim to none.

This has ceased to be much of an issue for the urban B.C. majority, who are focused on bridge tolls, ferry fares and the like.

The B.C. Conservatives decry the population decline of rural B.C., with international immigration almost exclusively going to big cities, while temporary foreign

workers increasingly fill agricultural and industrial jobs in the Interior.

The party’s still-evolving platform echoes the NDP’s call for more skills training and increased completion rates for trade apprentices.

Cummins is in favour of the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline and the massive buildup of infrastructure needed to add liquefied natural gas to B.C.’s energy export mix. He sees that enormous industrial expansion as the path to shift population growth beyond the south of the province.

Cummins is surprisingly cool to one industrial project, the proposed Site C dam on the Peace River, calling himself undecided. He also sounds skeptical about the B.C. Liberal plan to extend B.C.’s electricity grid and use that to develop further independent power.

This sounds to me like political

positioning rather than economic analysis. An anti-Site C independent candidate has significant support in Peace River North, creating a three-way struggle for a key B.C. Conservative target.

The B.C. Conservative platform also totals up the billions in long-term electricity contracts with private power producers and suggests the price for this clean energy has been set too high. This is another echo of the NDP’s vague position.

So if the B.C. Conservatives are gung-ho on oil and gas and think the carbon tax is a mistake, do they think there should be any effort to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions?

Cummins sidestepped that question, preferring to talk about conventional air pollution, whether it’s in the Fraser Valley or as a byproduct of a northern industrial boom.

As a long-time former Reform and Conservative MP, Cummins is acutely aware that the urban media will leap with extra vigour on any perceived gaffe of the right wing. Should a Conservative let slip that he’s skeptical about global warming, or worse, express a rustic view on social issues, all hell would break loose.

The B.C. Conservatives have started with the most detailed, costed platform of any party. Don’t count them out.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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Time for a voteon amalgamation

Amalgamation shouldn’t be a scary word.No one is taking an eraser to the Capital

Region map and removing the borders that separate your municipality from those of your neighbours.

Often the discussion around amalgamation tends to drift towards the hypothetical best-case scenario (or worst-case scenario, depending on who you ask) of creating one municipality that spans from Sooke to North Saanich.

Talk of such a drastic change usually derails any objective discussion.

That’s why the concept needs to be reframed. We need to get away from arguing about hypothetical borders and specific solutions and focus on studying amalgamation as a positive step for our region.

Amalgamation Yes is taking the right approach by focusing on getting a referendum question onto the 2014 municipal election ballot. Put the question to the residents of the 13 municipalities and see if there’s an appetite to explore the option of amalgamation.

Municipalities have nothing to lose by asking the question.

The overarching goal of amalgamation is to save money by finding efficiencies in service delivery and by removing redundancies.

What ithe end result would look like in Greater Victoria is still unknown.

Proponents and opponents can point to Halifax or Abbotsford or Toronto and pick and choose their facts to back up their positions. But until we have a case study that properly examines the ins and outs of amalgamation as it relates to Victoria, no interest group, organization or politician can offer a definitive solution.

Until something concrete happens, the conversation isn’t going to move forward in a meaningful way.

Instead, people will continue to speculate about the potential successes and hazards of amalgamation, without a sound understanding of its local impact.

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A fiddler on the roof –sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little community of West Shore, Belmont sec-ondary school is producing Joseph Stein’s hit musical, Fiddler on the Roof.

Fiddler is based on sto-ries by Sholem Aleichem which tells the struggles of a poor Jewish milkman, Tevye, and his family, liv-ing in a ghetto in Tsarist Russia. Tevye is faced with trying to keep their old traditions alive while his daughters, who rebel these customs, claim that the world is changing. News is spreading about other Jew-ish villages getting orders of eviction, and this edict

soon reaches Anatevka, their beloved village.

“It has been fun these past few months, but as we get closer to the show, the tension is going to start to build,” states a proud Brett

LaPorte, who plays the role of Tevye. “I have a lot of faith in everyone who is in this production. We are all a bunch of great, energetic people and you can expect to see an outstanding per-formance from this group.”

I enjoy working with LaPorte, along with the rest of the cast, which is full of unique and talented people. I have really grown attached to this musical and the people involved with it. Since we all share the same passion, we get along very well. As we spend more and more time together rehearsing, we grow closer as actors and as friends, much like the

villagers in Fiddler. “There are opportunities

for a large ensemble cast, which allow for a variety of large ensemble songs and dances as well as opportu-nities for solos and duets,” said our teacher and director, Melissa Young, when I asked her why she chose to produce Fiddler on the Roof. “Above all, at the heart of the show, is a really great story. It rings true for me because my grandma grew up in a similar village to Anatevka and dealt with the same types of problems.” Young’s hard work and dedication always pays off. She’s an inspiration to me and the

rest of the cast. Another great contribu-

tor to the production is Mandart Chan; assistant director and conductor. Chan is head of the music department at Belmont sec-ondary.

“Working on a musical, especially one like Fiddler on the Roof, is a different, and great experience,” he said. “It’s a good change of pace from what I’m used to doing with my music pro-grams.”

Fiddler on the Roof is a piece with something for everyone. It has a genuine story that makes us appre-ciate all the things we have nowadays. We are so lucky

to be able to live in a time and place where we don’t have to worry about facing the kind of problems that they faced in Anatevka. This musical is a great way to honour the people who lived through those times.

The show will be at the Isabelle Reader Theatre at Spencer middle school, 1026 Goldstream Ave., from May 15 to 17 at 7 p.m. and May 18 at 2 p.m.

Tickets are available at the front office of Belmont secondary, 3067 Jacklin Rd. for $10 for students and $12 for adults.

– Nik Neral is a Belmont secondary school student

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Re: Children troop to fire hall to say thank you (News, March 29)

Thank you for helping and supporting our school by writing and videoing what happened. We had a bottle drive and raised about $4,984.

Now we have money for Katrina and her family. Maya Wightman, Grade 5

View Royal elementary

Re: Christy ponders what action to take (Editorial cartoon, March 22) says it all regarding Premier Photo-Op’s response to the Dyble report on the Liberal government’s Multicultural Strate-gic Outreach Plan.

Premier Clark is shown think-ing to herself that she should “… Deny direct involvement … Deny

knowing what’s going on under my nose … blame Dix … “It’s as if cartoonist Ingrid Rice had access to the B.C. Liberal speaking notes.

Commencing in December 2011, officials from three groups – the Premier’s Office, the Liberal caucus and the B.C. Liberal Party – met to forge the outreach plan.

Clark is responsible and

accountable for the operations of her Premier’s Office, she chairs the Liberal caucus and is Liberal party leader. Yet she professes to know nothing of activities of her officials and has signed the re-nomination papers for John Yap, her minister who resigned after Dyble exposed that Yap was directly involved in the sleazy

affair.Any British Columbians who

believe that she, like Hogan’s Heroes character Sgt. Schultz, “knows nothing,” probably also believe that there are fairies danc-ing at the bottom of their gar-dens.

May 14 cannot come soon enough.

We have a Liberal Party in denial of successive scandals.

A Green Party that refuses to cost the promises in their plat-form – and a B.C. Conservative Party in perpetual internal dis-putes.

It’s time for a positive change. Ron Faris

Saanich

Re: Greenhouse gas leaks from Pacific Carbon Trust (B.C. Views, April 3)

Tom Fletcher’s column perpetuates factual errors that fail to inform any debate regarding a carbon neutral government.

When The Nature Conservancy of Canada purchased Darkwoods in 2008, our expensive, long-term commitment to the conservation lands began.

From the outset, revenue from car-bon sales was seen as critical to sup-porting this stewardship effort. With-out the possibility of carbon sales, NCC could not have undertaken a project of this size and scope. Yet, those facts are conveniently over-looked by Mr. Fletcher.

Independent evaluations were not based on the possibility of NCC clear-

cutting the property, but rather on what would have happened had NCC not acquired Darkwoods. The alternative was acquisition by a market-based buyer and being inten-sively logged and subdivided. The difference forms the basis for carbon valuation.

Mr. Fletcher asks, rhetorically, if NCC would have logged Dark-woods. “Legally, it could not,” he writes.

On the contrary, NCC does log the site. We operate a small, sustainable harvest based on conservation values.

In fact, overall our ownership of Darkwoods has resulted in a $13-mil-lion economic benefit to the commu-nity, to date.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada spent three years developing the

project and exercised due diligence at every step, while working with various industry experts. The project is certified under the Verified Carbon Standard; a standard that ensures a carbon project follows internationally-recognized protocols and has tangible environmental benefits.

Without revenue from forest carbon, the long-term protection of this 55,000-hectare property would be in jeopardy. The proceeds from the carbon sales went back into the long-term stewardship of Darkwoods – for the sake of nature and the people of British Columbia.

Tom Swannassociate regionalvice-president, B.C.

Nature Conservancyof Canada

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Before he was plastered all over the Disney Channel, Calum Worthy spent years on stage at Isabelle Reader Theatre.

The 22-year-old is best known for his leading role as Dez on hit Disney show Austin & Ally.

The Claremont grad is in Victoria for a few days to rehearse and perform with students in the Sooke School District’s Pro-gram for Academic and Creative Enrichment (PACE) program.

Fans of the show are recognizing him on the street.“It’s really cool I always have some connection with the fans

like we went to the same school or something,” Worthy said. “When girls recognize me it’s fun. I felt so awkward in middle school and high school. I am still dorky and awkward, but now it’s less awkward and dorky.”

Honouring his roots and the community he grew his talent in, Worthy has a role in PACE show And the Winner Is! that starts tonight in his old stomping grounds. The show runs for 10 days and Worthy will be in the first four shows, April 18 to 21.

Worthy says his comfort on the stage stems from the tender age of three months old.

He landed the role through his mother Sandy Webster-Worthy

who founded PACE nearly 30 years ago. She has a degree in the-atre and directing.

“I was born in January and was in the (PACE) show in April,” Worthy said. He continued throughout his school years. “PACE gave me an opportunity to get comfortable on stage. I really feel PACE was the best opportunity I had to hone my talent.”

He said participating in the variety shows enabled him to practise singing, dancing, comedy and hosting.

When he is shooting Austin & Ally in front of a live audience each week, it brings him back to his stage days with PACE.

“On Austin & Ally there aren’t multiple shoots, if you don’t get it the first time then that is a problem,” he said.

Worthy also spend five years studying at a children’s profes-sional acting school on weekends in Vancouver.

At age nine, Worthy landed his first lead role in a BBC minise-ries I was a Rat.

“The best advice I was ever given was you shouldn’t try to book the role, you should make it the hardest decision for them not to book you,” Worthy said.

Even with a passion for acting, Worthy still hones his craft and trains with coaches to improve his skills.

“My mom even coaches me over Skype.”[email protected]


Sandy Webster-Worthy, PACE director, often coaches her son Calum Worthy for upcoming acting auditions over Skype. Worthy lives in Los Angeles and stars in the show Austen & Ally.

PACE is performing its spring show, And the Winner Is!

The fast-paced musi-cal variety show spans genres from movies to Broadway musicals and American Idol to American Bandstand. Hundreds of students from kindergarten through Grade 12 will perform at the Isabelle Reader Theatre, 1026 Goldstream Ave.

Show dates are April 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 27 at 7 p.m. with 2 p.m. matinees offered April 20, 21 and 27.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. They can be purchased at the Westshore Learning Centre, 814 Goldstream Ave. or by calling 250-391-9002.

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Anti-reflective coating: This feature helps eliminate annoying reflections and the “ghost” images some people see. AR coated lenses actually transmit more light for clearer vision. These lenses can help people who drive at night by reducing glare from oncoming headlights.

Photosensitive lenses: These special lens materials “darken” when you are exposed to different intensities of outdoor light. The brighter it is outside, the darker the lens becomes. This lens works best when you are outdoors and therefore is not the best sunglass for driving.

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Scratch protection: A clear coating that helps protect plastic lenses from scratches and other superficial damage. This option is pretty much mandatory for just about anyone wearing plastic or high index lenses. There are different scratch resistant coatings available depending on the level of protection a person needs.

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Summer gardening can be done anywhere, explained Jones, add-ing that collapsable planters can be used for potatoes and toma-toes.

“They can be folded down and stored dur-ing the winter,” she said. “But, you can grow vegetables in any-thing.”

Staff at the show will talk to people about planning seasonal or year round patin set ups. “In the winter blueberry plants are very colourful,” Jones said.

The ideas at the home show can also be extended for people with more space to work with, adds the store manager.

More than 500 home improvement experts are already booked for the 2013 Victoria Home Expo. Over 300 exhib-its, Design Theatre and numerous ‘mega booths” are slated to

fill the three rinks at West Shore Recreation Centre April 19 to 21.

“Our mission is to have the most com-plete selection of home products and services at one location on Van-couver Island for three days in 2013” said Doug Hope, president, Evergreen Exhibitions. “We will have the new-est from up to 500 decorating, designing, renovation, building, and home improve-

ment experts from every field imaginable. The show also includes many green exhibits. We are confident that the show will be the ultimate one-stop shop for Victoria and island home owners.”

The show runs from April 19 to 21. Doors are open Friday from 1 to 9 p.m., Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $5. [email protected]

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Students at Colwood’s David Cameron elementary want West Shore residents to donate scrap metal in order to raise money for extra curricular activities.

“The money we raise through this scrap metal drive goes directly to students so that they can enjoy music, go on field trips, play sports and have up-

to-date computers,” said Fern Smythe, president of the Par-ents Advisory Council.

The drive runs through the month of April and residents can drop off metal to an on-site collection bin at the school on April 20 and April 27. Smythe says the school can also arrange for pick up.

Residents can also bring metal directly to Schnizter Steel, 307 David St., and donate it to

the schools account (#Davi80). Schnitzer Steel is giving the

school premium pricing for all scrap metal through the month. Acceptable items include cars, lawn mowers, bed frames and more. Smythe says the fund-raiser teaches kids the power of recycling and helps to clean up West Shore as a whole.

For more information call Fern Smythe at [email protected]

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Grade 4 students from Colwood’s David Cameron elementary stand in front of the school’s sign to promote the scrap metal fundraising drive. The drive runs through the month of April with on-site collection bins set up at the school on April 20 and 27.

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Coffee, cake, and con-versation will be served at the View Royal Read-ing Centre’s 70th anni-versary this weekend.

The centre, founded in 1943, is in its third location – the previous being the basement of town hall – and holds the honour of being Greater Victoria’s lon-gest running library.

“There ain’t nobody in town who’s got a library that old, espe-cially one that is run by volunteers,” said vice chair Brenda Sunter a

20-year volunteer at the centre.

In 2007 the library changed its status to reading centre to get more funding but the following year the gov-ernment changed poli-cies resulting in funding being cut all together. Since then the centre has been kept open by 40 volunteers, dona-tions from patrons, and local and provincial grants.

The centre’s chair, Doreen Jackman, says that despite the eco-nomic hardships they still manage to keep over 25,000 books on the shelves and offer a personal service that is harder to find in bigger institutions.

“At a small library like this we know our patrons and we know their tastes,” she said. “The larger libraries aren’t quite like that.”

She encourages all ages to come meet the staff, eat cake, drink coffee and celebrate 70 years of reading during the house April 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1497 Admirals Rd., suite 103b in the Admirals Walk shopping centre.

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With The Beatles piped into her headphones and a paintbrush in hand, 52-year-old Cindy Walsh dabs watercolours onto her latest work in the Garth Homer Centre.

Behind her, Dolores Wilkinson, 79, peruses a book of funny ani-mals with community services worker Alison Webb. Standard morning activities for the day centre for adults with develop-mental disabilities.

Only a few decades ago Wilkin-son and Walsh would have been a rare breed – the life expectancy of people with Down syndrome and other cognitive impairments was considerably lower than the gen-eral population.

They are members of the first cohort in history of developmen-tally disabled adults reaching their senior years in large num-bers, a phenomenon forcing the provincial government to rethink how it cares for a population that is aging and vulnerable.

“Now we are into the first gen-eration of people with develop-mental disabilities who are get-ting old,” says Mitchell Temkin, CEO of the Garth Homer Society. “We believe community inclusion and acceptance has helped life span increase. It’s a baby boomer generation … and there’s lots of them.”

The Garth Homer Centre, for one, is trying to take a leadership role in how service providers adjust to the wave of aging adults that is yet to be accounted for through government funding.

Now with 30-plus clients between age 50 and 80 in day pro-grams, last May the centre hired

Phemie Guttin, a registered nurse, as its first director of geriatric services.

“I suspect the number of (senior) clients will grow quickly,” Guttin says. “This is happening in a lot of sites. We never had a sig-nificant number before, it wasn’t on the radar.”

Much like the regular popula-tion of adult clients, senior clients engage in art, reading and writ-ing, cooking, a drama program and music therapy – programs to keep them mentally and physi-cally engaged.

Cognitively disabled people age like anyone else – they become frail, medical costs go up and some, especially people with Down syndrome, get early onset

dementia. As their clients age, Garth

Homer staff, caregivers and the facility will need training on car-ing for the elderly and the infra-structure to match, but it’s not clear where the money will come from.

Temkin says developmentally disabled people reaching old age has presented a quandary for government – agencies like Garth Homer are funded to deal with disabilities and not geriat-rics, while the health care system doesn’t pay for people with dis-abilities.

A simmering problem is that perhaps a quarter of disabled people in B.C. are cared for by their parents at home; parents

who are part of the grey wave of retiring baby boomers.

“Kids are aging as parents are aging. If you’re the sole support and you reach an age where you can’t care anymore, it’s a scary place to be as a parent,” Tem-kin says. “It’s a big problem and there is a policy vacuum. …When the system was created, nobody thought about people getting old.”

Community Living B.C., the Crown agency that provides funds and services for people with developmental disabilities, projects it will see 300 clients each year for the next four years reach age 55 and older, adding to the thousands that exist now.

A government review of CLBC

in 2011 laid out a “12 point” plan to improve service for its clients, including creating an aging client strategy. The plan offered $144 million in new funding to meet demands of an overall growing client load.

“Everyone recognizes that (funding) won’t meet the full demand,” said David Hurford, spokesperson for CLBC. “A gap is there with respect to demand, but the government said more funding is coming with the imple-mentation of the 12 point plan.”

The set of plans for CLBC is expected to be rolled out in upcoming months, Hurford said, which includes an aging strategy and funding protocols between the Ministry of Health and Minis-try of Social Development.

A key component for the CLBC aging strategy is developing a care plan with families and par-ents to ensure their disabled adult child has clear continuity of support.

“Families looking after children have to worry about their mom and dad aging. It is a two-fold issue,” Hurford says. “If mom and dad become frail, we provide the supports to individuals and their aging parents.

“The key is to approach fami-lies and ask what they want, and how to facilitate what they want. We don’t come at them with a program.”

Hurford says the issue of aging clients has been on the CLBC’s radar for about five years, but it was the accidental death of a 76-year-old client in the West Shore in 2011 that prompted a deep review of its services for seniors. The B.C. Coroners Ser-vice made a number of recom-mendations to improve the safety of seniors within CLBC programs.

“That situation required a close look at aging people in CLBC care. It was a turning point for us,” Hur-ford said.

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Dolores Wilkinson, 79, and community services worker Alison Webb read through a book of ugly animals at the Garth Homer Centre in Saanich. Wilkinson is among the first generation of people with a developmental disability growing into old age.

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Fish & Bird has enjoyed a lot of success and attention since releasing the album – two Western Canadian Music Awards nominations (2011 and 2012), three official invites to the International Folk Alliance Conference, major Canadian folk festivals, rave reviews and international attention, and the top most frequently played album on Galaxie’s Folk/Roots channel for 2011.

The future is even more promising though, as the band is touring the UK next fall after being picked up by an agent at Folk Alliance.

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The new album will be recorded on Mayne Island at Fiddle Head Studios. The yet to be titled album will be released in early 2014, and the band will be breaking out some new material on this tour.

Hear Fish & Bird along with Dougal Bain McLean and Seattle’s Impossible Bird, a duo featuring Nick Drummond, former frontman and songwriter for Seattle band The Senate and Victoria native fiddler Tyler Carson, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Upstairs Cabaret. Tickets are $14 and are available at Sitka.

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With its mild climate, lush parks, the Pacific Ocean hugging its shorelines and even the occasional palm tree, Victoria is Canada’s closest comparison to a tropical paradise.

Perhaps that’s why a familiar Hawaiian instrument, the ukulele, has seen a resur-gence in popularity as of late.

“There’s been a growing ukulele commu-nity in Victoria,” said Paul Laverick, a man-ager at Larsen Music and organizer of the fourth annual Victoria Ukulele Week.

“There’s a lot of young people playing it now. I think it’s the social aspect of playing and singing together.”

Running April 18 to 28, Ukulele Week has been so successful partly because the uku-lele is so easy to learn and play, Laverick said.

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people who play are usually up for a bit of silliness.”

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on April 26.Shaw will also be running his own work-

shop on April 27, which concert goers can attend for free.

A decent ukulele costs about $40, but the top-of-the-line instruments can cost $1,800, Laverick said.

“It’s a nice thing to carry around with you,” he said. “I got stopped the other day on the way to work, someone saw my uku-lele and asked me to play Happy Birthday for their friend. … I definitely know people who have ukuleles stashed in every nook and cranny, so there’s always one to have around.”

The week culminates in the annual Uke Mass Love-In finale concert, where last year about 250 people filled Market Square with the sweet sounds of the ukuleles in unison.

The free event takes place April 28 between 1 and 3 p.m. at 560 Johnson St., and Laverick hopes to break last year’s attendance record.

“We’re also doing a beginner workshop where you can show up at the music store with nothing and we can provide you with an instrument there to have a feel and try a few chords,” he said. “Otherwise, I would suggest keeping one on your person at all times during the week.”

For a full listing of events, visit larsenmu-sic.ca or call 250-389-1988.

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Paul Laverick, among a wall full of ukuleles at Larsen Music on Cook Street, will be teaching a ukulele beginners class during Ukulele Week which runs April 18-28.

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Colwood’s Church of the Advent brings the dynamic duo of Don Thompson and Phil Dwyer for its next concert in the popular Jazz Vespers series.

Two of Canada’s pre-eminent musicians celebrate 30 years of musical friendship with a new recording and series of per-formances on the south coast throughout the middle of April, including the April 21 concert in Colwood.

Thompson is a respected jazz artist known for his award-winning recordings as well as work with jazz giants such as Jim Hall, George Shearing, John Handy, Paul Desmond, Boss Brass and Lenny Breau. He has won Juno awards and is known as a highly respected music educator and it was as such that he met Dwyer at the Banff Centre in 1982.

Qualicum Beach resident Dwyer is well known and respected as a pianist, saxo-phonist, arranger, composer, entrepreneur and educator. Many of the highlights of his career have occurred working alongside Thompson in settings ranging from their telepathic duo setting to big bands and orchestra. Dwyer also received critical recognition recently for his award winning orchestral recording Changing Seasons. He also toured in 2012 across the country with his innovative Canadian Songbook project.

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Rugby Canada’s Langford factory is now producing a full line of products.

The nation’s locally based rugby pro-gram held its first annual awards dinner at the Westin Bear Mountain on Satur-day.

Of the dozen award winners, seven were players who’ve trained regularly with the under-20 and senior national teams at Rugby Canada’s Centre of Excel-lence at City Centre Park in Langford.

It’s all part of Rugby Canada’s newly established development model, with players coming through the provincial channels and into the under-20 and senior national programs at the COE.

Tyler Ardron was named the men’s 15s Player of the Year.

He is quick to attribute his success to the amount of time he’s spent on the Island in the past few years. For Ardron, a former McMaster Marauders CIS rugby player, it’s meant relocating to Langford full time, twice.

“When I came out in 2012 I didn’t know where to live,” Ardron said. “Now there’s about 10 of us who live in Langford. And it’s starting to catch on (with the com-munity), people recognize me now.”

Though the men’s and women’s national programs have been more-or-less based in Victoria for over a decade, having players living in Langford is a new phenomenon.

Next for the COE is a dormitory to

house players for short and extended training camps, though Ardron was unsure about staying there over the long term.

“I don’t know how that will change things but it will be very helpful to play-ers coming here for the first time.”

The 21-year-old captained Canada to second place at the 2012 Americas Rugby Championship hosted in Lang-ford back in October. Since then he com-pleted a full semester towards his eco-nomics and finance degree at McMas-ter University in Hamilton and is now back in Langford, continuing his stud-ies online, while preparing for a massive summer schedule on Canada’s sevens

and 15s teams.Ardron’s 15s Player of the Year coun-

terpart is Maria Samson, a second rower from Calgary.

Eleven of the trophies are brand new. Prop Hubert Buydens, a former Cast-away Wanderers player, won the resur-rected Canadian Shield, the national 15s Player’s Player of the Year award, as voted on by his teammates. The Cana-dian Shield was last awarded in 2006-07, shared between World Rugby Cup vet-erans Morgan Williams and Pat Riordan, who both played club rugby in Victoria.

Also winning awards on Saturday were Jen Kish and John Moonlight win-ning the respective women’s and men’s sevens Player of the Year trophies.

Bianca Farella and Lucas Hammond were named the respective Young Player of the Year (under-20) awards. Coach of the Year awards went to Chris Sil-verthorn (male) and Jen Ross (female). The Match Official of the Year is Andrew McMaster and the Provincial Union Award went to the Federation de Rugby du Quebec.

Volunteer of the Year Award went to Dean Kittleson of Calgary, Alta.

“The players will get their recogni-tion, so it’s really important to recognize everyone that makes the game happen, the volunteers, referees and administra-tors,” said Gareth Rees, manager of the men’s 15s team.

“(The awards dinner) is something that can become an annual event.”

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Fitzgeralds will return to GrizzliesSchool upgrades force triplets to postpone NCAATravis PatersonNews staff

The ice may be out at Bear Mountain Arena but there is already reason to look forward to the Vic-toria Grizzlies 2013-14 season in the B.C. Hockey League.

Namely, the return of the Fitzgerald brothers.BCHL fans should rejoice the Grizzlies’ are retaining the ser-vices of arguably the league’s most electric line of siblings Myles, Leo and Gerry.

Few lines bring highlight reel plays and competitive drive the

likes of the Port Alberni trio.Their play carried the Grizzlies to first in the

league for a good stretch of the season and, when an injury ended Gerry’s season, the Grizz’ season seemed to hit the injury reserve too – though the team bounced back to play two full playoff rounds.

The fact the Fitzgeralds are returning to Col-wood in September instead of entering Div. 1 of the NCAA to the Grizzlies is due to some missing pieces in their education to date.

After their breakout year in 2012-13 it’s clear the bros were ready for Div. 1 this September. The yhave a scholarship deal with the Bemidji State Beavers, but not until 2014-15.

“They’re Div. 1 calibre players, there’s no ques-tion about that, they just have to make themselves Div. 1 post-secondary eligible,” Bestwick said.

“Their focus hasn’t been academics. They’ve been given that opportunity now to focus on aca-demics while they play their last year of Jr. A hockey. I’m certain that they comprehend the value of the opportunity they have and I’m sure they’ll be successful,” Bestwick added.

Many Div. 1 hockey programs showed interest in the brothers, but the best offer so far is from the Bemidji State Beavers, who are willing to give all three a chance together. Bemidji is also willing to wait while the brothers upgrade their marks at Camosun College in the fall and winter semesters.

As for the Grizzlies, it will be hard for Bestwick to repeat the magic of this season. The esteemed coach, with help from Craig Didmon, overhauled the Grizzlies’ depleted roster last summer and cre-ated a league contender.

The club never recovered from a series of game-ending incidents against the Chilliwack Chiefs on Jan. 17.

“Unfortunately for us (that) debacle with Chilli-wack significantly impacted our uniform in rela-tion to suspensions,” Bestwick said.

From Jan. 17 onward the Grizzlies players were suspended a total of 33 games, including one to Bestwick.

“We’re very proud of what we accomplished, we also know we came up short getting the league title. We came up short of getting to the Coastal final and beyond. And when you don’t win your last game I think you’re always disappointed,” Bestwick said.

“We’ll make some changes, yes, but I don’t fore-see ever making as many as last summer.”

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Like it or not, the Victoria Cougars are settling for silver for the second year in a row.

The Cougars lost 4-1 to the Richmond Sockeyes in the gold medal final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup in Comox on Sunday.

Matthew Ho scored the only goal of the first period to put the Cougars up 1-0 and goalie Evan Roch held the Cougars in it with some good saves and some luck.

But the luck ran out as the Sockeyes scored three goals in the second period to chase Roch. Michael Herringer, a Victoria Royals prospect, came in to replace Roch, though the Sockeyes scored once more. Jeremy Hamagu-chi, Jake Roder, Liam Law-son and Rudie Thorstenson scored for the Sockeyes.

The Castlegar Rebels took home the bronze medal with

a 5-4 comeback win over the host Comox Valley Gla-cier Kings. The Glacier Kings went up 3-0 early on goals from Sheldon Brett, Tyson Rennie and Nick Tupper. But the Rebels came back with five straight goals, from Jamie Vlanich, Kody Disher, Vlanich again, Erik Alden and Travis Wellman. Glacier King Rylan Ball scored the only goal of the third period but the Gla-cier Kings couldn't draw even.

The Sockeyes, which three weeks ago won the Pacific Junior Hockey League title, went a perfect 4-0 in the Cyclone Cup provincial Junior B hockey champion-ship.

The Cougars finish 2-2, hav-ing defeated the Kootenay league champion Castlegar Rebels 1-0 and tournament host Comox Valley Glacier Kings 6-1.

The Sockeyes had the Cou-gars’ number all weekend,

winning 5-2 in their round robin game on Friday and then 4-1 in the final.

The Sockeyes now advance to St. Malo, Man., this week for the Keystone Cup, West-ern Canadian junior B hockey championship.

“(Victoria) is a good team

and our guys had to play real hard,” said Richmond head coach Aaron Wilbur.

The Cougars graduate sev-eral players from its core, including captain Brody Coul-ter and assistant captain Sam Rice.

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Victoria Cougars goalie Evan Roch, Richmond Sockeyes forward Jeremy Hamaguchi, No. 8, and Cougars defencemen Graham Zagrodney, No. 24, look for the puck during the gold medal final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup provincial junior B championship on Sunday.

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The St. Michaels Univer-sity School Blue Jaguars

brought the Gareth Rees Boot Game trophy home with a 10-5 win over the Oak Bay Barbarians in high school rugby play last week.

The close-scoring game was played at Oak Bay with high winds making for an unpredictable kicking game.

Flanker Zach Khan scored the try for St. Mikes. Dowit Workie converted the try and also notched a penalty goal.

Oak Bay's Matt Carson scored his team's only try.

The win is a bit of an upset for St. Mikes. Oak Bay is

much bigger, and is led by a core of provincial level play-ers, Tyler McDiarmid, Conor McDiarmid, Jack Nyren and Morgan Tate (scrum half) in the backs and Evan Cam-bridge in the back row of the scrum. Which goes to show St. Mikes is also going to be a force among boys rugby high school teams this year.

But instead of running with the bigger schools at the AAA level, St. Mikes has chosen to play within their numbers at the AA level, though they'll play cross-over games with AAA teams in the city's high school rugby league. It should give St. Mikes a fighting chance when it comes time for pro-vincials.

The decision to play at the AA level is due to St. Mikes’ lack of physical size more than its lack of numbers, coach Ian Hyde-Lay said.

“This year’s team is tiny, they more than punched over their weight class (Wednesday).

“It will wear on them, we have eight games coming up, and it’s going to be an issue keeping them ready.

“We have some guys who are at the provincial level in terms of talent, but are in dif-ferent situations.”

The boot game was St. Mikes’ second win of the sea-son, having earlier defeated the Claremont Spartans 28-5.

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Oak Bay Barbarian Conor

McDiarmid is tackled by St. Michael’s

University School’s Mark Kiggundu with

Dawit Workie in support during the Boot game

at Oak Bay High School last

week. Michael’s won 10-5.Sharon Tiffin

News staff

St. Mikes boot Barbs

St. Mikes, Oak Bay qualify for rugby sevens provincialsTravis PatersonNews staff

The renowned Shawnigan Lake Stags rugby pro-gram reared reclaimed its dominant form winning the Vancouver Island Seven Aside Rugby Championships at UVic’s Centennial Stadium on Sunday (April 14).

The Stags won the Radu Shield in the final, 31-7 over the St. Michaels University School Blue Jaguars.

Saanich Police sponsored the tournament, as the Shield is named for Saanich Police officer Roy Radu, a former captain of Canada’s 15s team.

The Oak Bay Barbarians finished third, defeating G.P. Vanier 19-15 in the third-place game.

The top four teams, Shawnigan, St. Mikes, Oak Bay and Vanier all qualify for the high school boys rugby sevens provincials at the University of B.C., April 27 and 28.

Brentwood finished fifth, Cowichan was sixth, Shawnigan Lake’s B squad was seventh and Lady-smith was seventh.

The Glenlyon Norfolk School Gryphons took down the Pacific Christian School Pacers 24-12 for ninth place.

Over 1,200 visit for Scrum Fest Schools from far and near scrummed down in the

Spartan Scrum Fest earlier last week, from Thursday to Saturday at Claremont secondary.

The fifth annual Scrum Fest featured 30 high school teams in the senior and junior boys divisions. The event drew approximatley 1,200 visiting players, coaches and parents said organzier Phil Ohl, coach of the Claremont Spartans.

This year’s tourney included a middle and elemen-tary school clinic and jamboree with instruction from UVic Vikes coach Doug Tate and B.C. Sevens youth coach Shane Thompson.

A high schoo. players clinic was put on by mem-bers of Rugby Canada’s men’s team.

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FRICTION CRANE OPERATOR

PCL Constructors West-coast Inc. is accepting resumes for the operation of a 230T Lattice Boom Friction Crane for the new Johnson Street bridge project in Victoria, BC. Cer-tifi cations, qualifi cations & experience in a Friction Crane are required.

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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

IN MEMORIAM

MAY 11, 2013 The GVHPA (Greater Victoria Horseshoe

pitching Association est. 1935) will be having a

MEMORIAL DEDICATION FOR PAST MEMBERS.We are seeking contact

information on past members, or their families

to attend this event.If you are or know someone who should be there, please call Sam at 250-727-7879 for

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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

COMING EVENTS

COMMUNITY Living Resource Fair 2013. Learn more about services for children, youth and adults with developmental disabilities, April 22, 3 to 7 pm, Spectrum Community School, 957 Burnside Rd. Contact commun i t y l i v ingresource [email protected] for more info

St Patrick’s Church CWL2060 Haultain St.GOOD USED

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LANGFORD MOBILE home in Seniors Park, upgraded interi-or, fully furnished, A/C, fenced yrd, shed & workshop. PRICE REDUCED to $35,000. Call 250-590-2450.

OTTER POINT RV Trailer Park. 40’ park model trailer (no pad fees) 3 slide outs + 30’x52’ lot, fi nished deck & shed in new condition. Open to offers. Call 306-290-8764.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

ESQUIMALT- LRG 2 bdrm, $995 *1/2 month free*, W/D. 55+. NS/NP. (250)385-7256.

QUADRA, 11TH fl r view, 1 bdrm, D/W, new lam fl ooring, N/P, N/S, $975. 250-361-9540

SAANICH- 55+ furnished 2 bdrm, balcony faces Swan Creek, 5 appls, in-suite W/D. $1100, utils incld 250-479-5437

SOOKE- TOP fl oor corner, ocean front 2 bdrm condo. Fresh paint, clean, new kitch-en fl oor. NS/NP. $850 mo. Call Cornelia 250-391-8484.

COTTAGES

2 BR Waterfront Cottage. Beautiful water views, N/S, Ref’s Req’d $900/m + utils. . 250-642-2015

METCHOSIN- 1 bdrm coach house. Avail June 1 or sooner. $750mo inclds cable, W/D. Utils not incld. NS/NP. Call (250)478-8438.

RENTALS

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

MILL HILL area- 2 bdrm on bus route, W/D, nice yrd/porch, priv, sm shed. N/S sm pet ok. $1000 negotible w/yard work. (250)475-2303.

UPTOWN AREA, 5 bdrm, 1/2 Duplex, avail now, $1650 mo. Call Harj at 250-686-8847.

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$675. BRIGHT, 1 bdrm. Spec-tacular views, 5 appl’s, picture windows, wood fl rs, 8-9’ ceil-ings, lrg acreage. 15 mins to Langford. N/S. (250)733-2151.

COLWOOD 2 level, furnished 1 bdrm. 5 appls. $900. inclu-sive. NS/NP. 250-380-0700.

COLWOOD- BRIGHT, quiet 2 bdrm, $1100 incls utils, D/W, shared lndry, A/C, int hookup, N/S, N/P. Ref’s. 250-391-7915.

ESQUIMALT, 2 bdrms, har-bour views, sunroom, $910. Avail immed. (250)474-4453.

SOOKE: 2 bdrm, 1 bath, stun-ning ocean views, shared laundry, pets cons, $750 mo. Avail May. 1. (778)352-1618.

TILLICUM/ BURNSIDE area: 3095 Irma Street. 2 bdrm, $875./mo inclds utils, share laundry. Call 250-588-8885.

UPTOWN- Large 1 bdrm, ground level. Private yard & deck. Share laundry. $850 in-clusive. (250)386-0531.

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BRENTWOOD BAY, bright 3 bdrm, 2 bath. Gas F/P, D/W, own lndry, large deck & yard. NS/NP $1500. (250)589-9997.

NORTH SAANICH: 1 bdrm, 900 sq ft, ocean views, lrg deck, lrg dining room. $900, all inclusive. Shared laundry. Call (250)656-9621.

TOWNHOUSES

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WANTED TO RENT

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RECREATIONAL VEHICLESFOR SALE

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1969 CHEVY Pickup, 350 Au-tomatic, headers, dual ex-haust, runs mint, excellent condition, 60,000 miles. A must see to believe, asking $6000 obo. (250)893-9817.

2008 TOYOTA TACOMA 4x4- mint, 65,000 km, 4 doors, au-tomatic. Asking $26,700. Call (250)655-6558.

UTILITY TRAILERS

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A conflict-of-interest complaint against Pre-mier Christy Clark for her role in the 2003 sale of BC Rail assets has been dismissed.

Saskatchewan law-yer Gerald Gerrand reviewed the com-plaint made by Abbots-ford South MLA John van Dongen after he quit the B.C. Liberal Party last year.

In a 40-page decision released last Wednes-day, Gerrand found that Clark had no way to benefit personally from the sale, and that her decision to absent herself from 2003 cabi-net discussions did not demonstrate a real or perceived conflict of interest.

Clark said Wednes-day she is relieved that the report is out, put-ting to rest what she described as “rumours, gossip and nasty untruths” about her conduct as education minister a decade ago.

“It’s cleared the air on this,” Clark said. “For me it’s proof that anybody can say any-thing, and it doesn’t have to be true for it to be hurtful, and it doesn’t have to be true for it to be reported again and again and again.”

Gerrand was harshly critical of some of van Dongen’s accusations, noting that they arose nine years after cabinet meetings that van Don-gen attended as agri-culture minister.

Van Dongen’s com-plaints about Clark’s dealings with a lobby-ing firm representing one of the bidders for BC Rail are “replete with suspicion and innuendo,” Gerrand wrote.

BC Rail conflict complaint rejected

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