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Spencer middle school is collecting scrap metal of various kinds as a fundraiser for a student trip during spring break. In 2015 the students are off to Australia and New Zealand. Among the students making the trek next year, along with school librarian Christine DoSouto (front, second from left) are (in bin, from left) Tanner Brown, Jenna Mayburry, Jordan Oatman, Tyler Hardy; (front, left) Micheal Patrick, Miranda Cyr and Esteban Bermudez.

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Scrap metal to help foot travel billAngela CowanNews Gazette staff

This spring break, 40 students and parents are travelling to Australia and New Zealand with Spencer middle school teachers Christine DoSouto and Yvonne Clark.

They’re hoping scrap metal will help foot the bill.

To fundraise for the 15-day trip, the

school is collecting everything from household appliances and stainless steel to copper and aluminum. Items can be dropped off anytime at the bin located outside the school, 1026 Gold-stream Ave., until the end of February.

DoSouto and Clark have been taking students from Spencer and Belmont High on trips around the world for the last six years, “to provide students with a better understanding of the world

and to see different cultures firsthand,” DoSouto says.

Past trips have included sojourns through Egypt, China, Costa Rica, Japan, Peru and Europe.

A drop-off bottle drive at Spencer will also take place Saturday, Jan. 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For more information, email DoSouto at [email protected].

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Sewage, transportation top the list for three largest West Shore municipalities

Don DescoteauNews Gazette staff

Sewage treatment has been a major issue for some years around Greater Victoria.

West Shore municipalities will continue to play key roles in 2015 in determining a solution to the challenge, but to varying degrees, depending on where you stand.

Colwood was the first municipality in the Capital Region to consider going with its own treatment system and had that decision approved by the CRD board back in March.

But with the location of a regional treatment plant up in the air after the Town of Esquimalt rejected the use of McLoughlin Point as a main site, the conversations have seen the West Shore figure in a potential west side solution.

Colwood Mayor Carol Hamilton, whose municipality only has about 25 per cent of its residents on sewer, expects the game may change somewhat with the region’s largest municipalities still without a treatment plant site.

“Wastewater management is going to take up a considerable amount of the priorities this year,” she said. “We have deadlines to meet.”

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Wishing and hoping: West Shore Mayors talk 2015With new

faces on council and a brand new four-year term ahead, Colwood Mayor Carol Hamilton is look-ing forward to re-igniting some projects in 2015.

“One thing that’s likely to get underway this early spring is a community garden setup at city hall,” she said. “We’re hoping it will work in conjunction with the elemen-tary school across the street. The city will be providing the space, and they’ll take care of the rest.”

Also in the works is a possible donation of computers to get the Goldstream Food Bank linked in to the Santas Anonymous online database and better provide for West Shore families.

“We have a number of computers that are being replaced over the next short while at the city, and there may be an opportunity to refurbish one or two to donate to the food bank.”

The wastewater management situation is obviously top of mind for the Colwood mayor, as it is for many West Shore resi-dents, and transportation improvements are a constant refrain as well. There’s a new energy around the council table and lots to be done, she said. But Hamilton is hoping for at least a couple days of quiet to enjoy the holidays with her family.

“I’m looking forward to maybe squeezing in a couple of days of my feet up, and look-ing at the Christmas lights.”

Newly elected View Royal Mayor David Screech isn’t asking much for himself this Christmas, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a wish list for his town.

“To find a solution to the

sewage treatment issues, that would cer-tainly be my number one wish,” he said. “The best case scenario would be to find a good plan that fell within the existing bud-gets, that it was embraced and that it was

found soon. That would be the ideal sce-nario.”

Though sewage is at the top of the list, Screech also has hopes to see the fund-ing come through for improvements to the Island Highway, especially the Mackenzie Avenue/Admirals Road interchange – that busy intersection isn’t in View Royal, but “certainly affects us,” he said.

Aside from the one key issue of sewage, View Royal is a little bit like that person on your shopping list who already has every-thing, mused Screech.

“There are so many good things going on. I feel that we’re very fortunate in terms of what we’ve been able to accomplish in the last few years.”

John Ranns’ hopes for 2015 aren’t much dif-ferent than this year or likely future ones.

The newly re-elected long-time mayor of Metchosin said his municipal-ity’s rural life-style is great

how it is and his mandate is is all about staying the course.

“The more development occurs around us, the more the people who enjoy this lifestyle enjoy what it is,” he said. “It’s a community very high on volunteering, very high on community pride and very high on determination to preserve and protect this lifestyle and it is my job that I nurture that.”

The lifelong Metchosin resident of 67 years said the district is in good shape, with no debt, reserves in their coffers and the ability to pay in full as they move for-ward on municipal projects – an enviable position for any municipality.

Improvements to both Metchosin and William Head roads are on the radar, but could be the last two major road infrastruc-ture projects the municipality will consider in the near future.

A bike loop around Rocky Point, Kanga-roo, Lindholm and Happy Valley roads that will allow cycling without crossing traffic is on council’s to-do list as well.

Even in the face of the ‘A’ word, council will keep constant vigil on protecting their way of life, Ranns said.

“One of the most significant things hap-pening is the renewal of amalgamation. You

cannot amalgamate a rural body into an urban one – rural gets eroded, it’s a given,” he said.

“No one says they are going to rip down the condos and put farms up, they don’t have to worry about that, but we have to worry about (the opposite) in the rural community. We have to always be on guard to protect the rural.”

Being mayor of the fastest-growing com-munity in B.C. doesn’t leave one a whole lot of free time.

L a n g f o r d ’s Stew Young plans to do his best, however, to take advan-tage of those rare opportunities to relax in 2015.

“I’d like to do a little more salmon fish-ing,” he says, adding his favourite spot is off Beechey Head near East Sooke. “I don’t really golf, but I like watching sports and going fishing.”

He’ll be front and centre at Westhills Stadium in Langford next April when 12 of the best women’s sevens rugby national teams, host Canada included, are here for IRB Women’s Sevens World Series matches. It’s a run-up to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Young likes to get down to Cabo San Lucas for up to two weeks during the year to relax. While he’s out of town, he’s never away from his phone.

“I like to stay connected, I enjoy that,” he says.

When in Mexico, he checks in with the folks running a charter boat donated by Alpine to allow the locals to earn revenue and provide employment through offering whale watching and fishing tours.

Having sold his souped-up 1964 Chevy Impala, the hot rod enthusiast’s next proj-ect is a 1969 Chevelle SS small-block, simi-lar to the 1970 Chevelle owned by his son, Stew Jr. “That’ll be a driver,” dad says of the project, which he expects to be completed sometime next summer.

On the work front, the mayor’s busy polit-ical career has seen the Alpine Group CEO leave the day-to-day running of its various divisions to his “great managers and staff,” who include his children.

The multi-faceted company, like most

businesses, continues to work its way out of the recession, he says, and is branching out with such new revenue sources as a marine sales and service outlet in Langford and a soil sales division.

With plenty of projects on the go in Lang-ford, Young is excited about the coming year in the city, with such things as the new Belmont secondary, the new swim-ming pool and YM-YWCA near Westhills, mountain bike facilities on Bear Mountain and various residential projects all due for completion in 2015.

“With everyone back on board (council-lors), we’re full steam ahead,” he said. “I hope we’ll be out of the blocks faster than maybe some of the other areas.”

Ken Williams is sworn in and ready for a fruit-ful 2015.

The film and TV music com-poser, who in December took the reins of the rural commu-nity from Jane Mendum who stepped down after two terms, looks forward to another prosperous year in the Highlands and across the region.

“My hopes for our country is to improve the economy,” Williams said. “And my goal is to ensure the continuity of fairness, respect and evenhandedness that High-landers have come to appreciate from their local government.”

The opening of the east fire hall in April and the new community hall, which awaits finishing touches on the stage and the arrival of new furniture, are two dates he patiently awaits as 2014 comes to a close.

With 2015 around the corner, the mayor said groundwater protection and the com-plex issue of secondary accommodation are at the top of his to-do list.

“Most of my goals have to do with my new role,” he said. “I’m excited about being mayor and (want to) do everything to lead the people along with council … in making great decisions,” he said. “(We will) con-tinue building our resilient rural Highlands and hopefully everyone in the region will realize their dreams.”-with files from Don Descoteau, Arnold Lim and Angela Cowan

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New, bigger space allows up to 600 drop-in clients per monthArnold LimNews Gazette staff

WorkLink is on the move. The burgeoning employment

society that services the West Shore to Port Renfrew re-opened the doors at their new 3179 Jack-lin Road home Monday, leaving a Sooke Road location where the employment programs were running out of room, said Work-Link executive director Janice Booth.

“Worklink is very excited to be in our new location,” Booth

said. “We know without a doubt we will better serve our clients at our new location. We outgrew our previous Sooke Road facility where we had served our West Shore clients for over 20 years.”

She said WorkLink takes over a 7,000-square-foot facility, leaving the 4,300-square-foot location behind to better serve approxi-mately 1,500 case-managed job seekers a month. Up to 600 more can drop in on any given month.

“This community is growing so fast and we need to be able to grow to meet those growing needs. In our old building we weren’t able to accommodate all the needs of the clients coming in,” said community co-ordina-tor Jen Harrison.

“We were often using our lunch room as a way to swap off

into a board room every once in a while and this will finally be a space where we can house our programs.”

Funded under a Work BC con-tract, the provincially-funded program now lives on a popu-lar bus route providing quicker transportation, and has an ele-vator, an expanded research centre, larger group rooms and more private client meeting rooms.

“We try to connect people with meaningful employment and we have been serving this community for 35 years,” Har-rison continued. “This is the best suited building we have ever had to be able to accom-modate employment services in the West Shore.”[email protected]

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Jennifer Harrison, left, and Randy Waldie tear off a sign revealing the WorkLink Employment Society sign at their new location on Jacklin Road.

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The region has until 2020 to stop pumping untreated sewage into the ocean, according to the federal mandate. The original provincial deadline was 2018.

“That sounds like a long time, but really it’s only three years,” said View Royal Mayor David Screech, who sees dealing with the sewage issue as the No. 1 priority.

Langford Mayor Stew Young acknowledges treatment is coming to the West Shore in some form. He is growing frustrated with money continuing to be funnelled to the project by his taxpayers and those in other jurisdictions, with little concrete results to show for it. He figures the project cost is bound to go higher than the original $792 million.

“We need to make sure we stick to a budget and (if it goes higher), the politicians need to be a part of that discussion,” he said.

Outside of sewage, transportation is the other key issue facing West Shore municipalities.

Young doesn’t normally drive in the traffic gridlock that grips the Trans-Canada Highway daily during the work week like many of his city’s residents, but he is keen on reducing the problem.

One of his hopes for 2015 is

that the province will locate a ministry office in Langford – closer to where many employees live – possibly as a pilot project to remove some vehicles from the main road to town.

“All I need is one (office) to show them how well it could work,” Young says. “Private companies do that, why can’t government?”

He remembers being told around 20 years ago that locating government offices away from Victoria’s downtown core would be difficult due to the frequency of couriered paperwork between sites. The advent of email takes that excuse out of the conversation, he says.

Island Corridor Foundation executive director Graham Bruce recently described to Langford council the ICF’s plans for renewed rail service on the Island, plans that don’t initially include a main stop in the city.

Coun. Lanny Seaton was flabbergasted that a service to Victoria wouldn’t have Langford as a main stop, but Bruce assured council that a commuter service would be considered at a later date.

Screech believes that rail service should be a key ingredient to solve transportation issues on the West Shore.

“In terms of the growing

congestion and the backup of traffic, the need for a commuter rail and different ways to start moving people from the West Shore to downtown (is a high priority).”

View Royal has to start looking at the broader transportation picture, he said. “I’m a big believer that we need a regional transport authority, so that we have a more cohesive plan in place.”

Meanwhile, recently announced transit service expansion in Langford and Colwood is a good initial step in reducing traffic congestion, Hamilton said. Her municipality plans to do a review of transportation and traffic patterns.

In the rural jurisdictions of Metchosin and Highlands, different issues are on the front burner.

In Highlands, Mayor Ken Williams and his council are concerned with groundwater protection and a growing number of secondary suites, while Metchosin Mayor John Ranns expects to keep working toward maintaining the rural lifestyle residents there have grown to love.

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Passenger rail needs teamwork

Previous excitement around the potential to gain commuter rail service from the West Shore in to Victoria was dampened recently when Langford council received an update from Island Corridor Foundation executive director Graham Bruce.

The ICF’s plans call for passenger trains to eventually run from Nanaimo to Victoria in the morning, returning before the end of the business day.

To simply reverse the direction of the previously cancelled morning service isn’t enough to make this service relevant, as Langford councillors pointed out last week to Bruce. The most pressing need for more mass transit options is clearly from Mill Bay south, not Nanaimo, and plans for passenger service to Victoria should take that into account.

Are there too many players in this equation to create a business plan for passenger service that makes sense? Perhaps. The ICF, Southern Railway and Via Rail come to the table with differing levels of commitment.

Southern Rail clearly wants financial help to repair its tracks. Via Rail, which cancelled its Dayliner service several years back, isn’t keen on throwing more money at a losing proposition, but is still the operator of choice.

The ICF sees passenger service as a key ingredient to the long-term success of the project, but we fear it’s being hamstrung in its efforts to institute a better commuter system by the massive costs involved, and the need to partner with groups that are motivated by different goals.

If the ICF wants buy-in from the West Shore municipalities that could be most affected by passenger service, it needs to involve them more in the planning stages of such a service. Otherwise it comes off as nothing more than another private company offering its version of a transportation option to Victoria.

The Island doesn’t need some romantic notion of rail travel as the motivation to help address today’s transportation challenges. It requires taking into account where the main problem areas are so that common-sense decisions can be made to make it happen.

I recently travelled across Canada with David Suzuki Foundation staff, from St. John’s to Victoria and up to Yellowknife. Besides our Blue Dot Tour evening events featuring some of Canada’s best-known musicians, writers, artists and thinkers, we also took part in many community events and discussed environmental stewardship and treaty rights with Indigenous people.

We visited places that lack access to clean water in a country that boasts having an abun-dance of the cleanest water in the world. We met people trying to protect their communi-ties, wildlife and habitat from fossil fuel development and pipeline projects. We joined more than 1,000 people in Toronto for a celebration of local food, music and nature during the Homegrown Park Crawl. We took part in nature-themed scavenger hunts with schoolchildren.

It was a lot of work that included many serious discussions, but it was also inspiring and fun. It’s empowering to know that so many people share the understanding that our health, well-being and survival depend on clean air, fresh water, healthy food and the natural diversity that makes it all possible. More than 460 volunteers joined us on the tour and tens of thousands of people attended events and signed postcards and a pledge of support for the right to a healthy environment.

It’s also been empowering to see people of all ages and backgrounds on Burnaby Mountain near Van-couver standing against pipeline

development and oil sands expan-sion, the Tahltan Nation and allies protecting the Sacred Headwaters in Northern B.C. from Imperial Met-als’ proposed Red Chris mine, and hundreds of thousands taking to the streets around the world for events

like the Peoples’ Climate March.

But we can’t go on stamping out small fires when they keep igniting again and again, and when an inferno threatens us all. When I look back, I see many battles we thought we had won rearing up again — including stopping

major dam projects in Brazil and Canada, keep-ing oil exploration and

tankers from threatening fragile West Coast ecosystems and preventing clear-cut logging in old-growth forests.

We’ve been so focused on indi-vidual projects that we’ve failed to realize these battles reflect funda-mentally different ways of seeing our place in the world. And it is our deep, underlying worldview that determines the way we treat our surroundings.

That’s why I embarked on the Blue Dot Tour with the Foundation and Ecojustice. To resolve the seri-ous environmental issues we face in Canada and beyond, we need peo-ple from across the country and all walks of life to join together to make protecting the people and places we love a priority. We’ve been asking people to advocate in their com-munities for recognition of the right to clean air, water and food by all levels of government — and, ulti-mately, in the Constitution’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Local-level organizing has

already been incredibly success-ful. Municipal declarations of the right to a healthy environment have now been adopted by Rich-mond and Vancouver, B.C., The Pas, Manitoba, Montreal (preceded by its borough of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie), Quebec, and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories — all thanks to citizens of those communities working together. More than 11,000 volunteers have signed up and simi-lar efforts are now underway in 30 communities.

More than half the world’s nations, about 110, have constitu-tional rights to a healthy environ-ment. It’s time for Canada to join them. Research shows the benefits go beyond protecting the environ-ment and human health to strength-ening the economy by stimulating innovation, diversification and com-petitiveness, and reducing health-care costs. It’s not about slowing progress or stopping development; it’s about ensuring those occur in the best ways possible, reducing environmental degradation and ensuring that the long-term needs of citizens are prioritized over short-term corporate profits and political ambitions.

Together, we’re beginning a national conversation about the future of Canada and the impor-tance of caring for each other and the things that keep us alive and healthy: clean air, fresh water, nutri-tious food and diverse ecosystems.

You can join by signing the pledge or by getting involved where you live to take this movement to the next level. Visit bluedot.ca/join-us/ for tools to help you bring this initiative to your community. With contributions from David Suzuki Foundations Senior Editor Ian Hanington.

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The most common negative human-deer interactions include garden damage and car accidents, the latter of which can often turn fawns like these two into orphans.

Deer residing throughout the South Island municipalities have recently received attention due to garden damage and car accidents, said Kari Marks, manager of the BC SPCA Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre in Metchosin.

“BC SPCA Wild ARC is opposed to culling of urban deer when it is inhu-mane and/or there is no scientific justification for lethal measures,” she said in a release. “Culling is a costly, temporary solution, and Wild ARC instead encourages communities to adopt non-lethal, long-term strate-gies.

She offers five “simple, humane and effective options.

•Don’t feed the deer. Feeding encourages them to remain in the area, and can create dependency.

•Fence yards. Deer are not likely to jump a fence if they can’t see through it to the other side.

•Install deterrents throughout the property. Motion-activated lights, sprinkler systems and banging pots and pans will all deter deer, who spook easily.

•Landscape with “deer-proof” plants. Deer love to eat narrow-leaf evergreens, daylilies and tulips, among others, and so should be avoided. Instead, plant fragrant, prickly or poisonous options like daffodils, lavender and rhododend-rens in the yard.

•Follow the speed limit, especially during early morning hours or dusk when visibility is low. Respecting traffic laws will result in fewer deer-related accidents.

Westside Solutions looking for input

Westside Solutions are in need of public engage-ment.

The five geographically connected communi-ties in Langford, Colwood, View Royal, Songhees Nation and Esquimalt hope meeting the objectives of the Westside Solutions Project will include a strong turnout for open houses across all five com-munities starting Jan. 14.

The project’s mandate, looking at a solution to wastewater treatment and resource recovery, includes ensuring clear and concise information on the problems and possible solutions, an evalu-ation of innovative technologies for a proposed treatment facility(s), and delivery of an economi-cally and environmentally viable solution.

Colwood City Hall on 3300 Wishart Rd. hosts the first West Shore meeting Jan. 14. For a complete list of meetings, visit https://www.crd.bc.ca/west-side-solutions. All meetings are from 5 to 7 p.m.

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Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca MP hopes to revisit Pathway ProjectProgram helped youth gain employmentArnold LimNews Gazette staff

Key issues are top of mind in 2015. With an election year on the horizon,

Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca MP Randall Gar-rison said the upcoming federal election is big news, but added local issues including programming closures at the Pathway Proj-ect are among initiatives he hopes to revisit in the coming years.

“The best part of Pathway was it took kids who might end up costing society in terms of welfare or justice costs and got them back into school or jobs and (had) a high success rate, for a very modest invest-ment,” Garrison said. “Working to help get

kids on track to make something out of their lives, it was inspirational and I will do my best to get it back.”

The West Shore youth employment ini-tiative lost its funding earlier this year and remains on Garrison’s radar alongside national security in the face of the attacks in Ottawa, long waits for employment insur-ance, the crisis around declining killer whale populations and increased environmental issues including the potential for increased tanker traffic. The MP said the public could even see a federal election as early as April; Garrison confirmed he has been nominated and will be running again

“That is going to be the main federal story,” Garrison said. “We have seen some moves in just the last week in trying to restore funding to some of the things (the government) cut, in veterans affairs in particular, maybe acknowl-edging (the government has) gone too far.”

Federal investments including naval

base and ship construction in Esquimalt, the Craigflower Bridge shared by Saanich and View Royal as well as improvements on the E & N Railway, pushed the total fed-eral investment in Garrison’s riding as the highest of any MP in Canada. Building on that he said raising the minimum wage and finding more locally affordable childcare are two other issues he hopes to track moving forward.

“As an opposition member we have a pretty good record here on getting federal spending,” Garrison said.

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Grabbing a pump-kin spice latte I keep moving, pretending to text and trying to not make eye con-tact. I am comfort-able with the rou-tine that keeps me from being exposed as who I really am: The Lunchtime Loner.

First block is the prime texting time, when I scram-ble to find someone to spend lunch with. Responses shoot back stating, “Busy,” or “going to the mall with friends.” But where does that leave someone with few contacts to start with? Wan-dering the halls, where you initi-ate the formula for not looking like a loner. This system exists to help students like me to not feel lonely at lunch.

I do not just speak for myself here. When you see solo stu-dents walking past you once, then yet again, the evidence is prominent that they have nowhere to sit.

You see, sitting by yourself in the school foyer is social sui-cide. All the popular kids will see you and laugh and point, whis-pering, “They must not have any

friends.”What could Bel-

mont do to fix the lonely hearts of these students? With the teacher’s strike long over, instructors are not bound to rules for-bidding lunchtime activities and pro-grams. There are very few happening

throughout the year, examples being The Gay Straight Alli-ance, dodge ball intramurals or the math club. But if you’re not passionate in any of those few things, where does that leave you? Wandering with your latte.

Occasionally, external help needs to be brought it and you must go to the adults. It’s tough to admit that sometimes I have to call up a parent and we meet off-campus for lunch, because when everyone is busy and you need your daily social interac-tion, you can almost always count on a parent or guardian. In some cases, parents work full-time. But that’s where you get creative and go to classrooms of teachers with open-door poli-cies, or hit up some adult friends from other social or sports

groups.When the school year started

and Belmont students began to get to know each other, the assessment of my classmates started for a lunchtime hangout candidate. Effort is made to be open and friendly, just as I would want to be treated if the situa-tion was reversed. It’s habit now to put in the extra time where other students wouldn’t have to, because they have a large friend group, something I wasn’t blessed with.

The next time you see some-one by themselves between 11:50 a.m. and 12:40 p.m., walk-ing in a straight line on their second lap, maybe you’ll under-stand the importance of the sim-ple question; “Hey, want to grab a pumpkin spice latte?” Join-ing them could make the differ-ence and be just what someone needs to veer away from their “loner status” and move toward becoming a typical Belmont stu-dent with a happy lunchtime routine.

So branch out, take risks and don’t be afraid to talk to a Lunchtime Loner. We are, in fact, almost like everyone else.Jessica Williamson is a student at

Belmont secondary.

Jessica Williamson

New Year shindigs around town West Shore residents have plenty

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The Loghouse Pub hosts the 2015 New Year’s Eve Bash for $20, featuring a live performance from Pulse Radio.

Olympic View Golf Club gets in on the action with a three-course dinner for $45 at Forester’s Bis-tro & Bar. A glass of champagne is included in the 5 - 8 p.m. sitting

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Also making news the week of Dec. 26, 2004: Langford Mayor Stew Young and Colwood Mayor Jody Twa are reluctant to support a new affordable housing plan that offers little benefit to residents in their municipalities.

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Also making news the week of Dec. 26, 1994: Saanich resident Wayne Tiffin is counting his blessings after a 30-metre tree

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of a regional committee on incorporation are fine with boundary proposals put forward by the province, while Langford members are not. The plan would see parts of the Highlands excluded, give Colwood all of Colwood Lake Estates and add a small area of Triangle Mountain that was previously in Langford.

Also making news the week of Dec. 26, 1984: Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre staff plan to meet with local sporting groups to gauge interest in constructing an all-weather field on the site.

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Sometimes, you have to kill your darlings. Whether it’s a favourite quote, a line

from a story or a photograph that held special meaning, the cutting room floor is filled with ‘darlings’ that for one reason or another never made it into the paper. Here are three photographs from 2014 that never made the cut, but find me looking back to time after time.

Shooting concerts is one of my favou-rites. Often limited to two or three songs in the photo pit before being ushered out, I knew I had at most fifteen minutes to get a good shot of Billy Talent perform for thou-sands of fans at Rock the Shores 2014.

I hadn’t actually followed the group much growing up so I didn’t know what to expect when they took to the stage and proceeded to bring a raucous group of music fans to their collective feet with their previous hits.

Despite the fact the band doesn’t quite have the same following they did maybe a decade ago, the performance was one to remember and I didn’t even need all three songs to snap one of my favourite concert photographs for 2014.

Later in the year, traversing the terrain of Vancouver Island with my camera as sup-port crew for the 2014 Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock proved to be an experience almost as indelible as riding in 2013. However, on this day, one of my favourite Tour de Rock photographs was precipitated by unfor-

tunate events that prove the more than 1,000-kilometre journey that raises money for childhood cancer victims is one fraught with uncertainty.

Racing past the pack of riders in my vehi-cle, I saw a small hill, steeped in fog and beautiful light on the way to Tofino. I hoped it would make a nice photograph. I pulled over a few kilometres in front of the pack, parked and ran back approximately a kilo-metre to a nice spot where I knew they would pass in a few short minutes.

Ten minutes passed and I was still wait-ing. With no Tour de Rock riders in sight

after 20 minutes, I knew something was wrong, and that sentiment was quickly veri-fied when an ambulance zoomed past me toward the riders.

I didn’t know then, as I patiently waited for this photograph, that the West Shore RCMP’s Steve Wright and Matt Pidgeon had been involved in an accident that ultimately cost Wright the ability to ride the rest of the tour.

The remaining riders eventually cleared the hill to continue their journey, short two of their number; this is the photograph as the somber team crested the hill.

Riding for the ALS Cycle of Hope along-side a group of 11 others proved to be another life-altering experience, made more so by a touching moment between Karen McGinn and Corinne Boback. McGinn has ALS, which has already claimed much of her speech, strength and ability to walk. Boback, a family friend, helped organize the community ride in honour of the mother of three, who said she prepares herself for the inevitable by making as many memories as she can so family and friends ‘have some-thing to remember.’

I snapped this photo shortly after Boback completed the 70 km leg of the ride, meet-ing McGinn at the finish line. No words were shared, and everything that they needed to say to each other was said in a single black and white photo that stands as one of my favourites of 2014.

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Pics from the cutting room floor...

Left, Billy Talent frontman Benjamin Kowalewicz screams into the mike with his usual vigour at Rock the Shores 2014. Right, the riders of Tour de Rock continue on after Steve Wright and Matt Pidgeon are involved in a crash. Arnold Lim/News Gazette staff

New Year’s at 10 p.m. for the kids

Get out your noise makers and party hats; City Centre Park is host-ing their 6th annual family New Year’s party at Eagle Ridge Centre, with a midnight cel-ebration at 10 p.m. for the kids.

The evening’s activi-ties, hosted by Play-zone, will include crafts, face painting, ice skating, fire pits, snacks, door prizes and much more.

Tickets are $19.95 each, $69.95 for a family of four and $17.50 for additional family mem-bers. Children under two are free.

The evening begins at 7:30 p.m. at 1089 Langford Parkway.

For more informa-tion, call City Centre Park at 250-391-1738.

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Karen McGinn, left, shares a moment with friend Corinne Boback following the ALS Cycle of Hope Community Ride in Kelowna.

Favourite shots from 2014 include concerts, bike rides and emotional moments

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Memorable stories reaffirm how fortunate I am to do what I doArnold LimNews Gazette staff

Looking back over my archive for 2014, I have many fond memories of the sto-

ries I have covered, and more importantly, the people I have met working as a photo-journalist for the News Gazette.

While there are more than I can count or fit into a column, as the year winds down, a handful of indelible memories stand out for me. They include meeting Kristine

Chamberlain and her eight-year-old daugh-ter, Savannah.

On May 29, they met me at Colwood elementary, where they had begun fund-raising to purchase wheelchair-accessible playground equipment for four wheelchair-bound students at the school including Savannah, who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy.

She couldn’t access the sand-based play-ground. Hearing the conviction in Kristine’s voice, as she explained how her daughter was unintentionally excluded from activi-ties, really hit home for me.

The love she shared with her daugh-ter as they embraced, the way she held her and communicated with her without words, and how badly she wanted the best for her daughter, touched me and I couldn’t help feeling for her.

As a photographer, my goal is always to make people feel when I take the photo-graph, and this simple shot is one of my favourites from 2014. I only need to see this photo to help me remember their love and I still look back to this when my spirits are low.

There isn’t a day that goes by I don’t feel lucky to do what I do, but on another day in late July, I remember not feeling quite so fortunate after being called out to an acci-dent scene July 29.

An elderly lady driving in a parking lot had hit a parked car and proceeded to run over a curb and hit a young girl who was walking along the sidewalk with her mother.

When I arrived on the scene with my camera, a friend of the elderly lady saw me taking photographs and ran out to confront me, meeting me with a seething diatribe, claiming I “profit off the misery

of others,” before driving away and loudly calling me a “cockroach” sev-eral times in front of police officers, firemen and people that had gath-ered nearby.

When people get hurt, I don’t want to be there any more than any-one else, but I am doing my job and can’t shy away from it just because people don’t understand or agree with what I am doing.

It wasn’t long after that I was afforded the opportunity to ride in the ALS Cycle of Hope in August, and later I participated as a photo-grapher for the Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock.

Raising money and awareness for families affected by ALS and cancer provided more career highlights for me. Having ridden the Tour de Rock in 2013, I appreciated the journey more so than when I rode it, and meeting the great people along the way afforded me the opportunity to see and quietly appreciate the strength and resiliency of children and fam-ilies that I sometimes don’t see in myself.

Over the many years as a photojournal-ist, I have learned being a documentarian doesn’t mean you can’t or won’t feel along the way, just because you are there to be a witness.

In fact, I understand now it may take more to confront the emotional ups and downs during an eventful year than not. I’m grateful for this year, which gave me many of those moments. I can’t wait to see what 2015 has in store.

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Meeting inspiring and dedicated people on the West ShoreAngela CowanNews Gazette staff

When I first joined the ranks of the News Gazette in the summer as a temp, I was excited to broaden my writ-

ing experience and gain some stability after freelancing for several years.

When that temporary position swiftly turned permanent, I began to realize the opportunity I had been given to help spread awareness about some wonderful initiatives in the com-munity, and meet the inspiring people leading the way.

One of my very first assignments was talking to Susan Kerr of the B.C. Children’s Cancer Parents’ Asso-ciation, as she and Dave Saunders accepted a $5,000 donation from

Coast Capital Savings. Susan’s own son had gone through cancer at a young

age, and talking to her about her countless hours of work left me emotional and speechless.

I’ve since had the good fortune to speak to other moms and families who have benefitted from Susan’s impas-sioned efforts, and every one of them have said, in one form or another, “She’s an angel.” From my experiences with her, I wholeheartedly agree.

Several months later, as the weather turned and the cold started to creep in, I wanted to do a story on the local animal shelters and the challenges they face.

Pam Saddler co-founded Broken Promises Rescue three years ago with a focus on helping animals that had been abandoned, were difficult to adopt or had medical issues. Broken Promises quickly became known as the “last chance” for animals from all over B.C.

Pam spends nearly every waking hour fundraising, arranging veterinary care, flying animals in from high-kill

shelters around the province and finding foster and “forever homes” for her charges.

The time and effort Pam puts in to help these creatures who have no voice of their

own is amazing. People like her who dedicate their lives to helping our less fortunate furry friends deserve much more recognition than they receive.

One of the most recent impactful meetings I had was when Bruce Brown, a retired staff sergeant with West Shore RCMP, came into the office to share dozens of pho-tos from a recent humanitarian trip to Haiti.

He, along with Langford Fire Chief Bob Beckett and sev-eral other West Shore residents, have started a years-long process to overhaul the Divine Hands Orphanage in Port au Prince.

As picture after picture flashed by, Bruce told me how these kids had no electricity, no security and practically no food when the group arrived. With thousands of dol-lars donated from West Shore communities, the volun-teers were able to bring in power, buy and install a fridge and stove, build a dining room, construct dorms for the teenage boys and replenish the larders with hundreds of pounds of flour, sugar, beans, rice and other staples.

The pictures were both heartbreaking and uplifting. I lingered on one photo longer than the others: a smiling little boy on crutches. Not only did he lose both parents in the 2010 earthquake, Bruce tells me in his soft-spoken voice, he lost his left leg just above the knee and most of his right foot.

It’s impossible for five people to fix the whole country, but there are 53 kids who now have refrigeration, an actual roof over their heads when they study and a safe place to call home.

I feel so blessed that I’ve been able to hear these stories and do my small part to help several very worthwhile proj-ects. This job often drives home the awareness that there is nothing too small or ordinary to be grateful for, and I’m looking forward to the new year and its promise of more inspiration to come.

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Reporters’ notebooks: dateline 2014

Arnold Lim/News staff

Kristine Chamberlain and her eight-year-old daughter Savannah at the playground at Colwood Elementary school.

Arnold LimReporting

Angela CowanReporting

Photo by Bruce Brown

Langford Fire Chief Bob Beckett presents a new sink to three of the kids at the Divine Hands Orphanage in Port au Prince.

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Despite enjoying a break-through period of consistency that he hasn’t enjoyed for almost two years, Matt Sharpe, 23, is once again looking to crack the national triathlon team.

Earlier this month Sharpe, of Saanich, lost his Triathlon Can-ada carded status. It’s a blow, as

he loses the funding, but it’s not that unexpected, and certainly not enough to keep him from chas-ing his dream of competing at the Olympics.

“I didn’t have much of an oppor-tunity to perform and there were a limited number of cards so the math just didn’t work, which is understandable,” he said.

“In the past I’ve shown success when I can train fairly consistent and I’m currently having a break-through period of consistency that I haven’t seen in almost two years. There are good signs.”

Sharpe does have an opportu-nity to receive the funding again if he can perform in early season

races in February and March. And he’s confident he can.

He’s in a training group along-side 2014 Commonwealth Games triathletes Ellen Pennock (a for-mer Saanichite) and Sarah-Anne Brault, part of a crew under new coach Jamie Turner, the highly praised New Zealander that Tri-athlon Canada brought in last year.

Based out of Victoria, the group’s swimming blocks are run in Crystal Pool.

The commute is insignificant, Sharpe said, as the troupe leaves for Wollongong, Australia in Janu-ary, where Turner was previously based. They’ll actually meet up with a fellow group of Turner’s

athletes called the Wollon-gong Wizards.

“It’s something we’re excited about, meeting up with people on the same plan,” Sharpe said.

The stint down under will make-or-break their seasons, and could be the turning points in their careers.

Pennock, 22, and Brault, 25, have goals of their own, as both are looking to improve despite being unable to fin-ish the Commonwealth tri-athlon (one third of start-

ers didn’t). That race Saanich’s Kirsten Sweetland won silver.

But triathlon is like that. There are too many variables to worry about winning every race, though there are the obvious standouts, such as Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

For Pennock, 2015 is all about the Grand Final in Chicago, her final year in the under-23 category. The former UVic Vikes cross coun-try runner came to Saanich from Calgary and won the 2011 CIS rookie of the year. Her departure from school to focus on triathlon was going well until she broke her collarbone at the Commonwealth Games in July.

“I wasn’t recovered enough to train until October,” Pennock said. “Initially it was only two weeks until I was walking. There was too much pain, I just walked for a good five weeks.”

By October she was in the pool, granted, she started with fins, doing a one-arm side stroke.

“It will take time to gain the strength back in the pool but I expect to be on track this year,” Pennock said.

“In triathlon you choose your own coach and take a lot of own-ership of your career. I wanted to race elite but I might just focus on

the U23.”For Brault, originally out of Que-

bec City, there is an expectation to compete at the 2015 Rio de Janeiro Test Event, Aug. 1-2. It’s an Olympic qualification but it’s not the only chance to qualify for the 2016 Rio Games.

“Triathlon Canada will look at all your races but you know the Rio Test Event is likely the Olympic race course so that’s very invit-ing,” Brault said. “But really, quali-fying goes until 2016.”

The key thing is showing you’re capable, says Sharpe, who had hoped for more in 2014 but instead settled for a year of inju-ries and setbacks.

It kept him from repeating his promising campaign from 2012 when, as a 21-year-old, he earned top-10 finishes in the open cate-gory of the International Triathlon Union, though still eligible to com-pete at the U23 level.

“For the time being family will help me continue to train, which isn’t ideal but with the investments I made last year and the proximity to the Olympics, it would be fool-ish to just give up on it now.

“It’s consistency. You can’t drop off.”

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Triathletes Sarah-Anne Brault, left, with Matt Sharpe and Ellen Pennock at Crystal Pool, where they train in a Triathlon Canada group coached by Jamie Turner.

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Lance has been a carrier since the year 2000, delivering close to 100 papers every Wednesday and Friday.

Lance is also involved in the Special Olympics, participating in floor hockey, soccer and track & field.

When asked what he likes most about delivering the Goldstream Gazette, Lance says, “It gets me out and I like having conversations with people. I love doing my job.”

Congratulations Lance on being “Carrier of the Month” and for always delivering your papers with a smile.

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One word to describe the real estate market on the West Shore and around Greater Victoria in 2014? Sta-bility.

Which is not a bad thing, says Victoria Real Estate Board presi-dent-elect Guy Crozier. Seeing year-over-year increases in unit sales has shown continued confidence in the housing market, which also happens to be a leading indicator of economic well-being in a region.

“It actually started in the sum-mer of 2013, but for 2014 we saw 12 months of increases in sales over the year before,” Crozier says. “It shows the market really firmed up. Whatever corrections there were (in 2013) over the previous year or two have definitely subsided.”

House prices remained relatively consistent through the year, as did interest rates, a key factor in deter-mining affordability, he says.

Adding to the stability of the mar-ket, Crozier adds, was the strength at all levels of the marketplace, from first-time home buyers up to people looking for more high-end homes.

One transaction often relates to another in real estate. When first-time buyers purchase a home, the seller is often moving up or scaling down into a different property, and up the line it goes.

“Each market strengthens the next,” he says. “When the market gets tough, it’s often because we don’t have as many first-time buy-ers moving into the market.”

The West Shore continues to see healthy sales of properties in multi-home developments, Crozier says.

Combined with strong bare-land purchases in the Happy Valley corri-dor and on Bear Mountain, it points to a market with a lot of confidence, he adds.

As far as who’s buying out here, Crozier says the breadth of choice available for home buyers; from condos and townhomes to new and pre-owned single family detached homes; attracts everyone from first-time purchasers to families to retired folks.

He notes that unlike the Greater Vancouver market, which sees a higher percentage of international migration, people who move to the Capital Region to retire are more

likely from within B.C. or from other provinces in Canada.

“They may have experienced Vic-toria at some time in their life and when it comes time to retire, they think of Victoria,” Crozier says.

Older newcomers are buying properties across the board, he adds, but location is very important to them. “People want to move to areas where they’re close to a vil-lage, where they can walk to get a coffee or groceries or a neighbour-hood pub. (And) it seems every time the clock turns another five years, that (retiree) demographic is more active than (people) the same age five years before.”

As for 2015, Crozier sees much of the same scenario happening with the overall market, with interest rates expected to remain low and area home prices not likely to vary much from current levels.

“We’re kind of in the middle of a cycle,” he says. “Our market grew from 2001 to 2009 and prices went up 150 to 160 per cent on average. That happened in from ‘88 to ‘94 as well, (and both times) the market corrected a little bit. Then it stays flat for five to seven years; I think we’re in the middle of that period. The market needs to breathe for a while.”

[email protected]

Q: HOW CAN I BETTER SHOW MY

HOME IN JAN?

HomeFinderFind a place to call home

BUYER’S TIP | Make sure you view at least three homes before making a purchase choice

Selling your home dur-ing traditionally slower real estate months can be chal-lenging, but here are a hand-ful of tips to help navigate your home sale during the winter.

If it’s cold outside, make sure it’s warm and cozy inside. Nothing makes visi-tors feel better than getting out of the cold, so ensuring stepping into your home is a warm and fuzzy experience can go a long way.

It’s colder and wetter this time of year so If your entrances or walkways are icy or slippery, take the time to make the home safe and easily accessible. Clear the way so entering and enjoying the home is as simple and carefree as possible.

There is also less daylight in the winter so ensure the safety of your visitors, espe-cially in the later afternoon and evening, by lighting side-walks and driveways. Keep-ing interior lights on as well can make your home a bea-con of light in the darkness.

Clear your home of any unwanted fall foliage or gar-den waste. Any unraked fall leaves or congestion in the gutters? A clean and clear exterior can help you and potential purchasers move on from 2014.

Do you have a home-buying or selling

story to share? Email ddescoteau@


To advertise in Home� nder,

contact Christine Scott at: cscott@


» 306/355

» 348/437» 3,301/3,554

NET UNCONDITIONAL SALES/ TOTAL, DEC. 2013

NEW LISTINGS /TOTAL, DEC. 2013

ACTIVE RESIDENTIALLISTINGS / TOTAL, DEC. 2013

GREATER VICTORIA MARKET UPDATE »MONTH TO DATE DEC. 22/14 COURTESY VICTORIA REAL ESTATE BOARD

Real estate steady and sure in 2014Continued health expected in 2015 for residential market


The abundance of real estate signs like this one on Goldstream Avenue in Langford are a good indication of the health of the housing market on the West Shore and the Capital Region.

The Hemlock

DUE TO THE HOLIDAY SEASON SHOW HOMES ARE OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. WE WILL RE-OPEN JAN 3RD 2015.

Located at 1025 Gala Court just off Happy Valley Road. Mike Hartshorne* DFH Real Estate Ltd. (250) 889-4445 or get info at:

www.KatiesPond.com * PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORPORATION

PACIFICGOLD HOMES LTD.

HOMES FROM $424,900 incl. net GST

The HemlockThe Hemlock

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One word to describe the real estate market on the West Shore and around Greater Victoria in 2014? Sta-bility.

Which is not a bad thing, says Victoria Real Estate Board presi-dent-elect Guy Crozier. Seeing year-over-year increases in unit sales has shown continued confidence in the housing market, which also happens to be a leading indicator of economic well-being in a region.

“It actually started in the sum-mer of 2013, but for 2014 we saw 12 months of increases in sales over the year before,” Crozier says. “It shows the market really firmed up. Whatever corrections there were (in 2013) over the previous year or two have definitely subsided.”

House prices remained relatively consistent through the year, as did interest rates, a key factor in deter-mining affordability, he says.

Adding to the stability of the mar-ket, Crozier adds, was the strength at all levels of the marketplace, from first-time home buyers up to people looking for more high-end homes.

One transaction often relates to another in real estate. When first-time buyers purchase a home, the seller is often moving up or scaling down into a different property, and up the line it goes.

“Each market strengthens the next,” he says. “When the market gets tough, it’s often because we don’t have as many first-time buy-ers moving into the market.”

The West Shore continues to see healthy sales of properties in multi-home developments, Crozier says.

Combined with strong bare-land purchases in the Happy Valley corri-dor and on Bear Mountain, it points to a market with a lot of confidence, he adds.

As far as who’s buying out here, Crozier says the breadth of choice available for home buyers; from condos and townhomes to new and pre-owned single family detached homes; attracts everyone from first-time purchasers to families to retired folks.

He notes that unlike the Greater Vancouver market, which sees a higher percentage of international migration, people who move to the Capital Region to retire are more

likely from within B.C. or from other provinces in Canada.

“They may have experienced Vic-toria at some time in their life and when it comes time to retire, they think of Victoria,” Crozier says.

Older newcomers are buying properties across the board, he adds, but location is very important to them. “People want to move to areas where they’re close to a vil-lage, where they can walk to get a coffee or groceries or a neighbour-hood pub. (And) it seems every time the clock turns another five years, that (retiree) demographic is more active than (people) the same age five years before.”

As for 2015, Crozier sees much of the same scenario happening with the overall market, with interest rates expected to remain low and area home prices not likely to vary much from current levels.

“We’re kind of in the middle of a cycle,” he says. “Our market grew from 2001 to 2009 and prices went up 150 to 160 per cent on average. That happened in from ‘88 to ‘94 as well, (and both times) the market corrected a little bit. Then it stays flat for five to seven years; I think we’re in the middle of that period. The market needs to breathe for a while.”

[email protected]

Q: HOW CAN I BETTER SHOW MY

HOME IN JAN?

HomeFinderFind a place to call home

BUYER’S TIP | Make sure you view at least three homes before making a purchase choice

Selling your home dur-ing traditionally slower real estate months can be chal-lenging, but here are a hand-ful of tips to help navigate your home sale during the winter.

If it’s cold outside, make sure it’s warm and cozy inside. Nothing makes visi-tors feel better than getting out of the cold, so ensuring stepping into your home is a warm and fuzzy experience can go a long way.

It’s colder and wetter this time of year so If your entrances or walkways are icy or slippery, take the time to make the home safe and easily accessible. Clear the way so entering and enjoying the home is as simple and carefree as possible.

There is also less daylight in the winter so ensure the safety of your visitors, espe-cially in the later afternoon and evening, by lighting side-walks and driveways. Keep-ing interior lights on as well can make your home a bea-con of light in the darkness.

Clear your home of any unwanted fall foliage or gar-den waste. Any unraked fall leaves or congestion in the gutters? A clean and clear exterior can help you and potential purchasers move on from 2014.

Do you have a home-buying or selling

story to share? Email ddescoteau@


To advertise in Home� nder,

contact Christine Scott at: cscott@


» 306/355

» 348/437» 3,301/3,554

NET UNCONDITIONAL SALES/ TOTAL, DEC. 2013

NEW LISTINGS /TOTAL, DEC. 2013

ACTIVE RESIDENTIALLISTINGS / TOTAL, DEC. 2013

GREATER VICTORIA MARKET UPDATE »MONTH TO DATE DEC. 22/14 COURTESY VICTORIA REAL ESTATE BOARD

Real estate steady and sure in 2014Continued health expected in 2015 for residential market


The abundance of real estate signs like this one on Goldstream Avenue in Langford are a good indication of the health of the housing market on the West Shore and the Capital Region.

Shopping for a new home? Discover local open houses at OpenHousesVictoria.ca

www.vreb.org

Visit REALTOR.ca or download the REALTOR.ca app to your phone.

EXPLORE CURRENT OPEN HOUSE SHOWINGS BASED ON:• District • Date of open houses• Property type • Price of property• Number of bedrooms/bathrooms

OpenHousesVictoria.ca is a service provided by the Victoria Real Estate Board, an association of REALTORS®. REALTOR.ca includes

map and print directions and the option to

sort by current open house listings.


December 26 - We’re open Boxing Day!9:00am – 6:00pm at all locations

Our 24 hour stores will be open at 9am and will remain open.

December 31Closing at 6:00pm

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December 31Closing at 6:00pm

January 1 - CLOSEDHappy New Year!

Our 24 hour stores will be open at 9am and will remain open.

Specials in Effect from Friday, December 26th to 6pm Wednesday, December 31st, 2014

1599On SaleOn SaleOn SaleOn SaleOn SaleOn SaleOn Sale

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Each

Strip Loin Strip Loin Strip Loin Grilling Steaksor Roastor Roast

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